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From: Matt Verona <>
Subject: ** info. overload part 2 **
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 02:48:14 -0600

hi Regine,
I have more great news -- I received another package from Ms. Louise Clamme of
the Blackford County Historical Society. She made several copies of
obituaries
for my WILLIAMS ancestors from Emile WILLIAMS' family. Emile WILLAUME
was my g. grandmother Alexina's younger brother. The obituaries were
loaded w/
lots of detailed information, and (with the previous info from Gustave
WILLAUME's obituaries) I have pieced much of the puzzle together.
I am SO GLAD that many of my ancestors lived / died in Indiana, since there
is a state law there that requires each county to record newspapers on micro-
film.
;==)
BTW, I now know (from Emile WILLAUME's obituary) that Emile & family
moved to Kansas for some reason, shortly after 1900, which explains why
I couldn't find that family in the 1910 Blackford County Indiana census.
The next time I visit the Clayton Genealogy Library, I will hopefully find
Emile and all of his children in the 1910 Kansas census. I should also
find most of his children's families in the 1920 Kansas census. There is
a good possibility that we have living WILLIAMS relatives in Kansas ;==)

I will let you know when I finish the 1910 Madison County census copies.
I am literally swimming in family history information right now. I have also
started creating a family tree for my Belgian ancestors. It's getting pretty
complex...
ttyl,
MV
P.S. Emile WILLIAMS' obituary mentions that he and his wife visited
friends & relatives in Belgium several times--the last trip was in 1927.
I wonder who they visited, and what port their ship left from (NY?).
He must have been fairly well off to be able to travel like that.
what do you think?
P.S.S. Louise Clamme also sent me an excellent article from the
Hartford City News-Times (1996), that discusses the history of the
American Window Glass factory in Hartford City. The factory was
the largest glass factory in the U.S. around 1900, and the second
largest in the world (the largest was in France) and employed 600+
glass workers!
This explains why so many Belgians immigrated to the Blackford
Co. Indiana area in the 1890s and early 1900s.

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