Dana Softball Team Opens Season Sunday

reprinted from the Dana News, June 1949
The recently organized Dana Softball team journeyed to Ridgefarm Sunday only to come home on the tail end of a 3 - 2 count. Maurice McCullough pitching for the locals, allowed only 3 hits while striking out 6 but his teammates couldn't produce the run needed to tie. Dana short stop, Royce King, hit a 4 bagger with catcher Don Haase on base, for the two Dana runs. White, Strubinger and Pearson each gathered one for the winners with the bases empty.
The Dana team will go on to Montezuma Monday night to play an exhibition game under the lights with the W.R.O.W team.

Winter Ride

Nancy McMahon out for a pony ride with her father, Maurice McMahon, c. 1950's.

A young Nancy visiting the pony.

Hoosier Originals

A recent Land Patent Search turned up some interesting results. I found the original land purchase when William McCullough moved to Indiana from Tennessee in 1837. Family always said they were from the Brazil, Indiana area, which is partly true but the land is actually in Putnam county. William purchased up to five patents and two of his sons, West and Thomas bought more just down the road.
It was also interesting to google map the location and see what it looks like now. Martin Van Buren is listed as the US President on the document and Millard Fillmore on some of the others. so it looks like the McCulloughs have been Hoosiers almost since the beginnning.

John Campbell-Stolen by Indians

Found this story on ancestry.com not sure if it's documented or just oral tradition. This would be around 1814 in Vigo County, Indiana.
John and Nancy Campbell moved form Lancaster, Massachusetts to Lake George, New York before 1800. They then decided after a few years to move to Ohio, and then Virginia, and then Indiana. All along the way, they were having children born. In 1812 the family stayed in Indiana after the death of wife and mother Nancy. Probably all the travelling killed her. The family were the first settlers in Vigo County, Indiana. After two years there, John's son, John Jr. was stolen by a group of Indians passing through. It was the greatest sorrow of John's life. He searched for him for many years, until he had found him. The boy of 14, had been traded form tribe to tribe, and at some point married an Indian. The son was happy with his life, and John was satisfied, so he left without him.

Obituary: Louisa Stokesberry

Mrs. Louisa E. Stokesberry, 90, of Route 1, Clinton, died at the Dana Convalescent Home in Dana at 8:30 a.m. today following an extended illness. Mrs. Stokesberry was born March 10, 1870 at Paxton, Ill., and was a member of the Center Methodist Church. Surviving are three daughters; Mrs. Geneva Campbell of Route 1, Dana, Mrs. Alice Sargent of Woodburn, Ore., and Mrs. Dorothy Helt of Route 1, Clinton; three sons, Chester and Donald of Indianapolis, and Ernest of Cincinnati, Ohio; 13 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; one brother, William Farrington of Clinton; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Botner of St. Bernice and Miss Lila Farrington of Route 3, Clinton. The body was taken to the First Funeral Home where funeral arrangements are pending.