A Sad Case.
A young girl named Flemming went from Michigan City to Jackson Center several weeks ago, and secured work in the family of Philo Carter. One day last week the girl gave birth to a child, which is alive and well. The disgrace nearly drove her crazy, and it is said that on two occasions she attempted to smother it to death. Failing in this the girl Saturday took a big dose of poison, dying during the afternoon. She had formerly lived in Valparaiso, and before she expired, gave the name of a prominent citizen of Valparaiso as her betrayer, and swore that a young man named Grant Williams is the father of the child. There is great excitement over the affair and prosecutions are apt to follow. The unfortunate victim was buried at Jackson Center Sunday.
Source: The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; June 9, 1887; Volume 4, Number 10, Page 1, Column 5.
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Efforts to fully identify this young woman and her child have not been successful. Note that Miss Fleming may have been buried in the Carter Cemetery in Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, given that she was employed as a domestic servant by Philo Carter.
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A Grant Williams has been identified as Grant Ulysses Williams [Find A Grave Memorial No. 209346860]. Grant appears appears in the 1880 Federal Census enumeration for Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, as Grant U. Williams. In this census, Grant is noted as a 13 yeas old born in Indiana and attending school. He is listed as the son of Louis Williams, age 55.
According to genealogy data, Grant Ulysses William was born in 1866 in Indiana, the some of Lewis William (b. 1825 - d. 1897) and Keziah M. (Moore) Williams (b. 1826 - d. 1883). On February 4, 1888, in Pulaski County, Indiana, Grant married Harriet B. Williams; this union resulted in the birth of at least three children (Florence M. Williams, Charles L. Williams, and Lucille G. Williams). Grant U. Williams died in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on July 2, 1911, and was buried at Mount Auburn Memorial Park ion Cook County, Illinois.
A young girl named Flemming went from Michigan City to Jackson Center several weeks ago, and secured work in the family of Philo Carter. One day last week the girl gave birth to a child, which is alive and well. The disgrace nearly drove her crazy, and it is said that on two occasions she attempted to smother it to death. Failing in this the girl Saturday took a big dose of poison, dying during the afternoon. She had formerly lived in Valparaiso, and before she expired, gave the name of a prominent citizen of Valparaiso as her betrayer, and swore that a young man named Grant Williams is the father of the child. There is great excitement over the affair and prosecutions are apt to follow. The unfortunate victim was buried at Jackson Center Sunday.
Source: The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; June 9, 1887; Volume 4, Number 10, Page 1, Column 5.
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Efforts to fully identify this young woman and her child have not been successful. Note that Miss Fleming may have been buried in the Carter Cemetery in Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, given that she was employed as a domestic servant by Philo Carter.
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A Grant Williams has been identified as Grant Ulysses Williams [Find A Grave Memorial No. 209346860]. Grant appears appears in the 1880 Federal Census enumeration for Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, as Grant U. Williams. In this census, Grant is noted as a 13 yeas old born in Indiana and attending school. He is listed as the son of Louis Williams, age 55.
According to genealogy data, Grant Ulysses William was born in 1866 in Indiana, the some of Lewis William (b. 1825 - d. 1897) and Keziah M. (Moore) Williams (b. 1826 - d. 1883). On February 4, 1888, in Pulaski County, Indiana, Grant married Harriet B. Williams; this union resulted in the birth of at least three children (Florence M. Williams, Charles L. Williams, and Lucille G. Williams). Grant U. Williams died in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on July 2, 1911, and was buried at Mount Auburn Memorial Park ion Cook County, Illinois.
A Sad Case.
A young girl named Flemming went from Michigan City to Jackson Center several weeks ago, and secured work in the family of Philo Carter. One day last week the girl gave birth to a child, which is alive and well. The disgrace nearly drove her crazy, and it is said that on two occasions she attempted to smother it to death. Failing in this the girl Saturday took a big dose of poison, dying during the afternoon. She had formerly lived in Valparaiso, and before she expired, gave the name of a prominent citizen of Valparaiso as her betrayer, and swore that a young man named Grant Williams is the father of the child. There is great excitement over the affair and prosecutions are apt to follow. The unfortunate victim was buried at Jackson Center Sunday.
Source: The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; June 9, 1887; Volume 4, Number 10, Page 1, Column 5.
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Efforts to fully identify this young woman and her child have not been successful. Note that Miss Fleming may have been buried in the Carter Cemetery in Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, given that she was employed as a domestic servant by Philo Carter.
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A Grant Williams has been identified as Grant Ulysses Williams [Find A Grave Memorial No. 209346860]. Grant appears appears in the 1880 Federal Census enumeration for Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, as Grant U. Williams. In this census, Grant is noted as a 13 yeas old born in Indiana and attending school. He is listed as the son of Louis Williams, age 55.
According to genealogy data, Grant Ulysses William was born in 1866 in Indiana, the some of Lewis William (b. 1825 - d. 1897) and Keziah M. (Moore) Williams (b. 1826 - d. 1883). On February 4, 1888, in Pulaski County, Indiana, Grant married Harriet B. Williams; this union resulted in the birth of at least three children (Florence M. Williams, Charles L. Williams, and Lucille G. Williams). Grant U. Williams died in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on July 2, 1911, and was buried at Mount Auburn Memorial Park ion Cook County, Illinois.
A young girl named Flemming went from Michigan City to Jackson Center several weeks ago, and secured work in the family of Philo Carter. One day last week the girl gave birth to a child, which is alive and well. The disgrace nearly drove her crazy, and it is said that on two occasions she attempted to smother it to death. Failing in this the girl Saturday took a big dose of poison, dying during the afternoon. She had formerly lived in Valparaiso, and before she expired, gave the name of a prominent citizen of Valparaiso as her betrayer, and swore that a young man named Grant Williams is the father of the child. There is great excitement over the affair and prosecutions are apt to follow. The unfortunate victim was buried at Jackson Center Sunday.
Source: The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; June 9, 1887; Volume 4, Number 10, Page 1, Column 5.
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Efforts to fully identify this young woman and her child have not been successful. Note that Miss Fleming may have been buried in the Carter Cemetery in Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, given that she was employed as a domestic servant by Philo Carter.
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A Grant Williams has been identified as Grant Ulysses Williams [Find A Grave Memorial No. 209346860]. Grant appears appears in the 1880 Federal Census enumeration for Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, as Grant U. Williams. In this census, Grant is noted as a 13 yeas old born in Indiana and attending school. He is listed as the son of Louis Williams, age 55.
According to genealogy data, Grant Ulysses William was born in 1866 in Indiana, the some of Lewis William (b. 1825 - d. 1897) and Keziah M. (Moore) Williams (b. 1826 - d. 1883). On February 4, 1888, in Pulaski County, Indiana, Grant married Harriet B. Williams; this union resulted in the birth of at least three children (Florence M. Williams, Charles L. Williams, and Lucille G. Williams). Grant U. Williams died in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on July 2, 1911, and was buried at Mount Auburn Memorial Park ion Cook County, Illinois.
Gravesite Details
No tombstone is known to mark the burial location of Miss Fleming in any Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana.
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