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Location: Adams Township, Hamilton County, Indiana |
Coordinates: 40°07'50"N 86°08'15"W |
Wikipedia Article |
Resources |
Book: Growing Up with Bakers Corner - S1, Book Details - Ordering Information |
"Bakers Corner Memories" - Our Home Town 1 July 2002, Part 2 - Doc2006.pdf |
Bakers Corner School |
See Photos Below |
Growing up with Bakers Corner - S1, pages 27, 28, 53, 57, 63 to 71, 74, 98, 112, 119 to 125, 128, 167, 215 |
Bakers Corner Wesleyan Methodist Church |
Address: 1083 E 236th St, Sheridan, IN 46069 |
Growing up with Bakers Corner - S1, pages 17, 26, 29, 73, 110, 118, 130, 148, 155, 166, 167, 182, 189, 190, 217, 220, 221, 222 |
NEW BOOK DETAILS LIFE IN SHERIDAN AREA S5, |
The new book,
"Growing Up With Bakers Corner: Mary Elizabeth Wilson a Hamilton County
Indiana Life," provides a glimpse of nearly 100 years of history from
one rural-Sheridan woman's life. In 1907, a baby girl was born near the bustling little crossroads called Bakers Corner in central Indiana. Mary Elizabeth Wilson Stewart Robbins (1907-2003) grew up, was educated, married and raised her children in and near that town as the town lived on. One must use imagination to see what Bakers Corner was like in the early years of the century: a busy world in itself. The two-story C.B. Jones store which also housed the telephone exchange, the tall brick school which had two well-filled rooms, a gas pump outside the store busy servicing Model Ts and one of the best sorghum mills in the Midwest--all thriving. Mary Elizabeth's memoirs re-create this world with tales of scores of individuals from families still in the area. Her sketches cover farm, church, two-room school, and customs of everyday life in real detail. Two of her relatives, great-niece Ellen Swain, now an archivist at the University of Illinois and granddaughter Carol Longenecker, the minister of the Bakers Corner Wesleyan Church who lives in a hundred-year-old family home, took over 1,200 pages of her memories and edited them into this lively, enjoyable and educational memoir. The 240-page book, which has over 60 photos of early days in western Hamilton County, can be ordered from Hawthorne Publishing or from Rev. Carol Longenecker at 317-758-6213 |
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S1 | Longenecker, Carol Lee Stewart and Ellen D Swain, editors. Growing up with Bakers Corner: Mary Elizabeth Wilson, A Hamilton County, Indiana, Life. Carmel, Indiana: Hawthorne Publishing, 2010. RobbHaas Bk3384 - (ISBN: 978-0-9841456-3-8) - (Hawthorne Publishing, 15601 Oak Road, Carmel, Indiana 46033 (317) 867-5183) | |
S2 | Photo, Bakers Corner 8th Grade Graduation, abt 1894. Acc000352 - | |
S3 | Obtained from Ellen Swain, August 2010 | |
S4 | "Bakers Corner School" - http://www.slicesoftime.net/Photographs-Pages/Photo-u/US%20Named/USBaCoSc.html - Shows an image of the back of the 1913 photo listing the names of the students - it also states "Opened 1913" | |
S5 | www.SheridanNews.net | |
S6 | News Article: "Local Farm is Home to Sweet Tradition" Pickett Sorghum Farm, By Dale Robbins - www.sheridannews.net, 1 Sept 2004. Doc4367.pdf | |
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8th Grade Graduating Class Abt 1894 Grace Foulke ID0015, Front row, 2nd from right - S2 |
Bakers Corner School, 1895 Minnie Hodson ID0712 Back row, 6th from left - to right of teacher - S3 |
Bakers Corner School, 1896 Minnie Hodson ID0712 3rd Row from bottom, 6th from left Looking to the left Marvin Foulke? ID0107 Above Minnie to her left? - S3 |
Bakers Corner School 1899 |
Bakers Corner School "The Little Room" 1913-1914 Mary Elizabeth Wilson ID0181 Front Row, 4th from right |
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