This week's discovery is personal... usually we aredigging around in the lives of historic personages who have distinguished themselves in some out of the ordinary way. But recently the papers of my great grandmother Sarah Lavinia (Eby) Baile were donated to the society's collection and seemed too interesting to just box up and put away. They were the receipts of her life in Warrensburg from 1867 -until her death in 1911(and letters from her friends and family back in Preble County, Ohio. Many biographies in the 1881 History of the County include roots from that area. )
This receipt is representative of the of the collection. Three items of interest: 1. The receipt is for payment on work on her business house at the corner of Holden Street and Culton Street (full receipts for construction of building also in the collection)
2. The reverse side engraving shows Johnson County Today (1880s) and 50 years ago.
3. The slip of paper documents the real estate business of John Gaty, land agent.
There are hundreds of documents in the collection and some place businesses that have not been found in the city directories and other ephemera of the time.
What a lot of great things to find out about my widowed Great Grandmother, who joined her daughter, Nancy Jane Roop (and many of her other Dunkard offspring in Johnson County after the close of the civil war. )
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