Shelby  County  Indiana
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Hoover

Celesta Thomas Hoover, Evangelist, postcard from the 1920s

The  Daily  Courier Edinburgh, Johnson County, Indiana Saturday, November 22, 1930 ---------- SHELBYVILLE  COUPLE  SAID TO  HAVE  STOLEN  WIFE ---------- Suit for $10,000 Damages Filed by Man Who Says Wife's Affec- tions Were Taken. ----------           Shelbyville, Ind., November 21. --- Alienation of his wife's affections is the charge entered by  John Pancake,  of near Jasper, Ind., in a suit filed in the Shelby circuit court today against  Charles E. Hoover, Jr., and Celesta Hoover,  residing on east Jackson street in this city.  Mr. Pancake demands judgment of $10,000 as damages for the loss of his wife.           The plaintiff sets out that he and his wife were married April 23, 1927, were living happily together, and says his wife was devoted to him.  He charges that in 1928, the defendants, without his knowledge began to show his wife numberous marks of kindness and affection and by their artifice won her regard.  Mr. Pancake states clandestine meetings were held, mostly at the home of the defendants, between them and his wife, and that they employed Mrs. Pancake in their home in order to have these meetings.           Mr. Pancake asserts that the affair became now in the neighborhood and caused him much shame.  He says that on March 5, 1930, his wife told him she cared nothing for him, that she had more regard and affection for the defendants and would not live with him any longer.  He says she left him and went to the home of the defendants. Contributed by Russell G. Thompson

The  Daily  Reporter
Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana
Thursday, May 1, 1919
Page 1
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GIRL  IS  RETURNED
TODAY  TO  HER  MAMMA
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Daisy Belle Hoover Leaves her Home
in Shelbyville Without Consent
of Her Parents
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          Miss Daisy Belle Hoover,  whose homeis in Shelbyville, was sent to her home from this city today upon request of her mother*, who came here after the officers had located the young girl at the home of her friend,  Mrs. John Fuller,  on Pierson street.
          Miss Hoover is 16 years old and left her home without telling any one of her intentions causing concern and uneasiness.  When Mrs. Hoover was talking to her daughter today before they left for him[home?] and remarked to her that she need not try any more such capers as the officers in any town would locate her.
          "Oh, maybe not,"  Miss Hoover said,  "I'll color my hair."  She has brilliant red hair.
Contributed by Russell G. Thompson
*Note from Russell:  Celesta Hoover (nee Thomas),  my grandmother's sister who died in Shelbyville on April 24, 1938.

The  Jasper  Weekly  Courier
28 Jul 1911
Page 6
Only 17;  Weds Third Time
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          Shelbyville July 18 - Though only 17 years old , Mrs. Mary Luther,  the bride of  Gary Smith,  here, has been one of the principals three times in a wedding ceremony.   She was divorced only last week from  Andrew Luther, to whom she had been twice wedded.   The first time she and Luther plighted their troth at Greensburg, through the aid of the girl's mother,  Mrs. Charles Hoover  who assisted them in obtaining the wedding license.   The girl was then only 14.
Contributed by John Addison Ballard

The  Shelby  Democrat
Thursday, November 16, 1905
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          Miss Katherine Hoover  spent Sunday and Monday with Indianapolis friends.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Shelbyville  Daily  Democrat
Tuesday, July 18, 1899
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          Misses Ella Hoover  and  Jane Hilligoss, of Shelbyville, who are visiting in this city, spent Sunday in Seymour.-----Columbus Republican
Copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Daily  Democrat
Shelbyville, Ind.
June 6, 1892
Page 4
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          Miss Jennie Hoover  is now engaged at  McCarty's  Dental rooms.
Copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Shelbyville  Daily  Democrat
Monday, May 6, 1889
Page 1
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ADDITIONAL  LOCAL.
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          Mrs. Louis Hoover  and  Mrs. A. J. Ensminger  went to Kentucky to day to visit relatives.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

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