It is possible that one of my Delaware Co., (Washington Township), Indiana ancestors, Henry Hazelbaker, was one of several whose name appeared in the "Muncietown Telegraph" as having a letter "remaining" in the Wheeling Post Office in 1841. (How I wish I had his letter!).

Wheeling -

Aldrich, Martin
Joseph Atkinson
George Atkinson
John Adsit
James Boxell
Catharine Cline
Jacob Clapper
James Chenoweth
Seth Chandler, Esq.
Henry Hazelbaker*
Frederick Ice
William McCormick
Moses Maceever
Daniel Mallott
John Reek
Charles Shaw
Willard Swain
Jeremiah Showalter
James Turrell
John Turrell
William Underhill

Mystery - Thirty years later, I did find "my" Henry Hazelbaker on the 1870 USA Federal Census with the postoffice given as "Muncie." Henry Hazelbaker, 63, (PA), wife Lear (OH), with ?grandchildren John Hazelbaker, 7, and Frances E. Johnson 8, children born in IN. Next door was evidently their son, Henry J. Hazelbaker 33, (OH), wife Lucinda 30, (OH), children, "M" (male), Rosetta, Mary E., Susan and Orville O., children all born in Indiana.

My other families - Samuel and Henry Sweany, Jacob Jones, Christopher Grymes ("Grimes"), Thomas Beouy, Caroline (Mrs. Levi) Petty, and Tamar (Corn) Furnish were their neighbors in 1870.

On the 1900 census, however, these same families were again said to be in the district of "Wheeling." Can anyone shed any light on this? To further confuse the issue, some of the birth and death data on these families states "Gaston" or "New Corner."

Are all of these areas close to each other, as I don't believe the families moved at all during those years.