Important years & events

1990 - Present

1990 - 1991
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1990

Painting: Woodcarver, String Along

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1990

Stage

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1990

Donated hand-signed reproduction “Elegance”

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1990

Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center at Eisenhower Medical Center auction.1

1. “Star Art” The Desert Sun, April 11, 1990

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1990

Stage: Thunder Bay, Canada

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1990

Stage: CIBA, San Francisco Auditorium

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1990

Stage: San Jose Medical Center

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1990

Stage

https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/red-skelton

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1990

Stage: Orange County Center for the Arts2

2. Poster

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1990

Press

Interview. Fox Cities of Wisconsin Area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHaes1B9b7g
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1990

“Freddie’s San Francisco Weekend” “Freddie San Francisco Bound” “Red’s Birthday Guests” “Laughter, the Best Medicine” “The Virtuoso” “Freddie in Atlantic City” “Freddie’s Memories of Hawaii”

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1990

San Francisco celebration

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30
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1990

Art: “Red Letter Day” Addi Galleries, Reno.4

4. Program

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1990

Stage: “Paint the Town Red”, Kansas State University.

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1991

Painter: Winter Wonderland, Conducting Beethoven’s Fifth, My Thanks, Maestro

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1991

Stage: “An Evening with Red Skelton” Nutter Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio1

1. Program

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1991

Stage: Arizona State University2

2. Program, Sundome

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1991

Circle Star Center 03/09-10/1991

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1991

Stage

La Crosse Center, Wisconsin

La Crosse Tribune, Apr 21, 1991

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1991

Award

Graduation Speech.

https://youtu.be/CtIQewp_WmE
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14
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1991

Salina, Kansas trip.3

3. DVD, Jim Johnson

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1991

Stage: Merriville, IN

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1991

Birthday party and Grand Hollywood Opening. Beverly Hilton Hotel.4

4. Schedule of Events, Center Art Galleries-Hawaii, May 10, 1991

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1991

Stage: Caesars

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1991

Art: “Red Letter Day” Addi Galleries

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1991

Press

Ball State University press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jlJIPWAbc
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1991

Stage

Norsk Hostfest, Minot, North Dakota.

The Bismarck Tribune Fri, Oct 04, 1991 ·Page 38. The Minot Daily News, Oct 16, 1991.

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1991

“Winter Wonderland” “My Thanks” “Conducting Beethoven’s Fifth” “Maestro” (Memorandum, Center Art Galleries-Hawaii, Oct 17, 1991)

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1991

Stage

Beede Auditorium, Antioch (CA) High School.

Ebay

1992 - 1999
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1992

Painting: Love Thy Neighbor

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1992

Palace Theatre, Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland, OH.1

1. program. playbill

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1992

Stage: Toronto

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1992

Art exhibit, 70th birthday.

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1992

Stage: Deer Creek Music Center

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1992

Stage

Fox Theatre, Detroit, MI

Detroit Free Press, Sept 13, 1992

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7
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1992

Death

Died: Nina Davis Cook (wife of Doc Lewis), Corpus Christi.

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1992

Death

Died: Marion Skelton (Brother Chris’ wife), Los Angeles, CA.2

2. Flossie Price, Lawrence County Historical Society

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1993

“Another Day” Porcelain plaque1

3. Performance Magazine

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1993

Painter: The Banker, Up and Away, No Place to Go

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1993

“Red & Freddie Both Turn 80” porcelain plaque1

1. Armstrong

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1993

A Gift of Love flyer.2

2. Addi Galleries

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1993

“Reno Red” “Big Red”

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1993

Stage:3 09/10-11/1993

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1993

Stage

An Evening with Red Skelton, O'Keefe Center. Frank Leone. Art release "Up and Away". 80th Birthday.

Ad

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1993

Mason

Award of Gold, Grand Lodge of Indiana. Presented in Battle Creek, Michigan

VSC, Dec 26, 1993

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1994

Series 10 “The Traveler” “The Politician” “The Barber” “The Noble”

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1994

Painting: The Traveler, The Noble, The Politician, The Barber

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1994

“Independence Day” Porcelain plague1

1. Armstrong

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1994

Interview

Walter J. Brown Media Archives, Georgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvXGh0-1jz0
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24
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1994

Stage

10/24-25/1994 Fox Theatre, Detroit. Marcel Marceau gives Red one of his prints.

The Northern Light, Aug 1995

Toronto Star

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1995

“Facelift” New paint for the Vincennes Welcome Sign.1

1. VSC Jan 27, 1995) 05/13/1995 Travel: Visit to Amatgosa Opera House. ((“On with the Show” The Amargosa News, by Jim Dougherty, June-July, 1995

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1995

“Gourgas Medalist”2 Scottish Rite honor.

2. Performance Magazine

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1996

Painting: The Cellist, Big Red

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1996

Video interview with Betsy Baytos at Ranch Mirage home.

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1997

Bronze “Clem Kiddlehopper”

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1997

Bronze “A Tribute to Freddie”

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1997

Art

Red Skelton: An Inside Peek. Interview with Red Skelton about his art and career by Addi Galleries.

VHS

https://youtu.be/ILnoAUE-T3Y
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1997

Blood disease1

1. “Red Skelton: I’m lucky to be alive!” by Roberta Ostroff, Globe

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1998

“A Tribute to Red Skelton on his Birthday” Hosted by Mrs. Red Skelton, 3 Ring Circus Gallery & Gifts1

1. Poster

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1999

Colleen Blankenship sculpture “I Love You”

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Red Skelton TV ad for Dr. Cooperman Eye Center.

The Los Angeles Times 15 Dec 1995, Fri ·Page 55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqs51bpye8k
2000 - 2020
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2001

Colleen Blankenship sculpture “Freddie’s Trophy” “Two Seagulls Gertrude and Heathcliffe”

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2006

Museum

WTHI Ch. 10 and WVUT Ch. 22 news reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWWGrnpSVk
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2014

AATH

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2014

Palm Springs Legends, McCallum Theatre. Tom Mullica as Red Skelton.1

1. McCallum, 2014 Winter

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2014

9th Annual Red Skelton Festival. Phase II 06/06-07/2014

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2014

Circus Day Parade, Peru, IN

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2014

Paoli Festival Parade

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2015

10th annual Red Skelton Festival. Dan Barth's Medicine Show, Karen and Brian Shoemaker, Beth Sutton Cummins (Ventrilquist)

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2016

Exhibit – Red Skelton for President

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2016

Clowning with Red

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2016

Brian Hoffman, Brian and Rhonda Shoemaker, Freda Burke-Hula Hoops, Melissa Rose Zeimer-Folk Singer, Triple Threat Dance Team, ComedySpotz Jack “Flapjack” Masters-Red Skelton and the Masons.

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2016

Festival

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2016

Linton Freedom Festival Parade

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14
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2016

Festival

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14
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2016

Indiana Historical Marker at Red’s Birthplace.

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2016

Brian Hoffman, Old Time Radio, Dan Barth Medicine Show, Tumbleweed Tumblers, RT Arty.

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2016

Indiana Bicentennial Torch Reley

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2016

Gift of Giving: Ike Murphy

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2017

Exibit

Red Skelton for President: Make America Funny Again! - March 31, 2017

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2018

Gift of Giving: Generous Spirt

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2018

Carol Burnett receive the America's Clown Award

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2018

13th Annual Festival. John Pate, Stephanie Holman, Clown Band

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2019

Exhibit

Red Skelton's Year of the Pledge. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Red's Pledge.

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2019

Event

Flag Day at the Red Skelton Performing Arts Center with the American Legion and Randy Hedden. Mass saying of the Pledge of Allegance.

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2019

Event

14th annual Red Skelton Festival. Brian Hoffman, Annette Bochenek, and JJ Jones (Mime).

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2019

Exhibit

Red Comes Home. Exhibit of Red Skelton visits to Vincennnes.

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2019

Original musical "Goodnight and God Bless" performed by Premier Arts at the Lerner Theatre in Elkhart, Indiana

Program

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2019

The Gift of Giving: Lothian Skelton donation.

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2019

“The Year in Review” Photo of Mark Kratzner and Anne Pratt looking over Van Bernard file donation.1

1. VSC, Jenny McNeece, Dec 21, 2019

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2020

Exhibit: We Dood It.

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2020

Exhibit: Red Skelton for President 2020.

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2020

Museum closed to the public due to Covid-19

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2020

Delivery of Red Skelton video collection

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2020

Museum opens with Covid-19 restrictions.

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2020

“Museum to celebrate Skelton’s 107th birthday”1 107 cupcakes to visitors and a photo contest to Skelton sites.

1. VSC, Jill Erwin, July 16, 2020

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2022

Family

Died: Valentina Skelton Alonso. Palm Desert, CA.

Desert Sun

2021 - Present
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2021

Dan Barth Medicine Show

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2021

When Red Was Richard exhibit

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2021

Rube Tube book talk

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2021

Indiana Humanities One State/One Story program

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2021

The Year We Left Home book talk

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2021

Red’s Roaring 20’s Party

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2021

Rotary gift to pay for new theater projector.

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2021

Exhibit: Airwave Anniversaries

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2021

Dinner with Lothian Skelton. Donates Reliquary Relic

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2021

Brian “Red Skelton” Hoffman and Bob “Mr. Puppet” Abdou perform.

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2021

Red Skelton Parade & Red Skelton Festival

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2021

Mayberry Man

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2022

Exhibit: From Pencil to Pixels (Indiana Historical Bureau touring exhibit) 03/14-04/11/2022

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2022

Exhibit: Laughing Stalks 05/22-09/04/2022

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2022

Red Skelton Festival 06/11-12/2022

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2023

Museum

Lothian Skelton presents the Scottish Rite Masonic Gourgas Medal that Red Skelton received on July 14, 1995. She also gave the 33-degree rings that were given to Red in 1969.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsJo2NpveAw
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2023

Museum

Lothian Skelton remarks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_QW_OWiXxw
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1878

Birth

Joseph Elmer Skelton

Old Cathedral Records
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1879

Richardville vs. Skelton: Newton Skelton does not claim Joseph as his son.

J. H. Massey, Justice of the Peace, Knox County
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1880

Joseph Richardville Home: Lawrence County, Allison, IL.

Old Cathedral Records
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1881

Birth

Christopher Albert Eheart (Step-uncle)

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1898

Joe Eheart, High School baseball team, Ghosts

Daviess County Democrat April 23 1898
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1900

William Cochran shot stepson Chris Eheart

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1900

Age 19 Home: 111 W. South, Washington, Indiana.

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1900

Valparaiso University. Botany class.

Student Account Ledger 1899-1900. Prof. M. L. Weems roll book.
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1900

Marriage

Chris Eheart weds Catherine in Gibson Co., Indiana.

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1900

J. Eeart touchdown

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1901

Joe Ehart alocutionist, amateur night.

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1903

Joe Ehart International Electric Workers meeting in Indianapolis.

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1903

Baseball umpire

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1904

Joe Ehart (electrical worker) manage of ball club.

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1904

Chris Eheart wife drank poison and cannot recover. Acid burned and disfigured face and neck.

Waukesha Freenman, July 7, 1904
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1904

Divorce

Chris and Catherine Eheart

Lewis Library
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1905

Home: J. Eheart, 314 Lyndale av, Vincennes, Indiana. Lineman

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1905

Home: J Eheart, 111 W. Lyndale, Vincennes, IN

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1905

Home: J Eheart, 111 W. Lyndale, grocer 202 W Lyndale

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1905

Marriage

Skelton to Ida M. Fields

Index to Supplemental Records Marriage Transcript
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1905

Marriage

Chris Eheart and Mary E. Graig.

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1905

Birth

Uncle, (Denny) Raymond James Ishmail Erheart/Eheart, Vincennes, IN

Index to Birth Records 1882-1920 (other dates 08/15/1904, 05/20/1905)
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1906

Marriage

Skelton to Ida May Fields

Old Cathedral Records
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21
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1906

Baptism

Joseph Ismael Skelton

Old Cathedral Records
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1907

Birth

(Brother Chris) Eheart, Vincennes, IN

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1908

Eheart Bros grocers, 202 Lyndale, Vincennes, IN

"Ehart Brothers Open New Store" Vincennes Capital
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1910

Birth

Uncle Paul Skelton

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25
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1979

Baptism

Joseph Skelton

Old Cathedral Records

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