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VIGO COUNTY
INDIANA
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Books Used for the Vigo County Project

GREATER TERRE HAUTE AND VIGO COUNTY, Closing the First Century's History of City and County, by C.C. Oakey. Chicago/New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES, Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, by H.W. Beckwith. Chicago: H.H. Hill and N. Iddings, Publishers, 1880.

HISTORY OF VIGO COUNTY, INDIANA, With Biographical Selections, by H.C. Bradsby. Chicago: S.B. Nelson and Co., Publishers, 1891.

THE POUND AND KESTER FAMILIES
John Hunt - 1904

THE HISTORY OF NORTH WASHINGTON
Published in 1904

Other Sources

"A Short Sketch or Biography of the Ancestry and Lives of the Yeager Family for One Hundred and Fifty Years Back," by William Henry Harrison Yeager, written in the year 1888 or 1889.

Notes dictated by Frances Ann Morgan sometime before 1913 to a granddaughter in TN and retyped in 1996 by: Dennis Nicklaus - (remove "nospamPlease." from e-mail before sending)
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Some biographical information provided by descendants: Charlene Talbot; Dennis Bell; James C. Donnelly; Kim Holly - 1999

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Deb Murray
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