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B |
Barkman, Chalmer |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Beavers, Elzia |
brick wheeler as per 1950 census |
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Beavers, Loyd |
machine operator as per 1950 census |
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Blair,Price |
as per 1930 census |
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Bowling, Alfred |
laborer |
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Branaman, Alva |
yard man ("laborer"?) |
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Branaman, Damon |
brick setter as per 1950 census |
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Branaman,
William T. |
Founding Board of Directors 1904; third
largest stockholder at that time. |
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Branaman, Truman |
hacker as per 1950 census |
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Brown, Bee/Ber |
lacker as per 1950 census |
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Brown, Carl |
lacker as per 1950 census |
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Brown, Cecil |
truck driver at the plant as per 1940 census |
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Brown, Frank |
laborer as per 1930 & 1940 census |
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Brown,
Harry |
machinist in
1930 |
C |
Callaway, Therman |
brick wheeler as per 1950 census |
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Chapman,
Charles |
burner at brick
plant in 1915; wife Delia A. |
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Clark,
Howard
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Superintendent of the plant in
1930 at the age of 58.
Resided with wife Clennia at 162 Main St. in Medora |
D |
Darkis, Troy L. |
former owner of the Medora Brick Plant site
after it closed. Worked at the plant as a young man. Donated much
of the site in Dec. 2017 to non-profit group - Medora Brick Plant and
Historical Sites, Inc |
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Davis, Ansell |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Davis, Donald |
truck driver as per 1950 census |
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Dixon, Alva |
laborer as per 1930 census; Superintendent as per 1940 census |
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Dixon, Harold |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Dixon, Howard |
mechanic as per 1940 & 1950 census |
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Dixon, Howard Jr. |
brick setter as per 1950 census |
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Durham, Gilbert |
as per 1930 census |
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Durham, Perry |
as per 1940 census, brick wheeler as per 1950 census |
E |
Eglen, Winfield |
truck driver as per 1940 census |
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Earl, Franklin |
laborer |
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Eastin, Herbert |
kiln fireman as per 1950 census |
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G |
Gallion, Stclair |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Gray, Bernard A. |
Superintendent of plant from 1968-1992. Began
working at the plant in 1946 as a high school student then full time in
1951. |
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Gray, Ralph |
Worked at the plant beginning in 1925 as a
laborer and later (after 1940 sometime) became Surperintendent. Wife was
Doris. Father
of Bernard A. Gray and Erridine Gray. |
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Gray, Erridine |
Brick plant salesman as per 1950 census,
salesman at the plant for 23 years son of Ralph Gray,
brother of Bernard A. Gray d. age 44 1969 |
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Greathouse, Alonzo |
laborer as per 1940 & brick setter as per 1950 census |
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Greathouse, Clifford |
as per 1930 census |
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Greathouse, Helen |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Greathouse, Lester |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Greathouse, Lonns |
as per 1930 census |
H |
Hall, John |
pieces work as per 1950 census |
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Hamilton, Isaac |
laborer as per 1950 census, married to Gertrude Darkis |
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Heller, John W.
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Purchased the Medora Plant in 1925. His
son James P. Heller followed as President of the company beginning in
about 1946. |
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Heller, James P.
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President of Medora Brick Plant and the
Jackson Brick & Hollowware Co. 1946 through 1970's when the Jackson Co.
was still operating and then Medora until its closing in Jan. 31, 1992.
James Heller (1909-1999). |
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Heller,
Mildred Inez Gossman |
Wife of James P. Heller. Passed in
2011 in
Brownstown. (1910-2011) |
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Hill, Edwin Ross |
brick tosser as per 1950 census |
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Hill, Ross |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Hook,
Fred N. |
brick burner in 1915; wife
Ella |
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Hubbard, Clarence |
fireman (brick burner?) as per 1950 census |
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Hubbard, Roy |
laborer as per 1930 census, brick wheeler as per 1950 census |
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Hughes, D.M.
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occupation farmer/
investor who was the largest stockholder at the plants founding in 1904.
Board member in 1908. |
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Hughes, Delbert |
truck driver as per 1950 census |
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Hughes, Emerson |
brick wheeler as per 1950 census |
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Hughes, John |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Hughes, Nin (Nineva) |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Hughes, Oscar |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Hunsaker, Doyle |
truck driver as per 1940 census |
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Hunsucker, Josiah L.
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Founding Board of Directors 1904. Board
member in 1908. |
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Hunsucker, Henry S. |
laborer as per 1930 & 1940 census Son of Robert below |
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Hunsucker, Robert H. |
laborer as per 1930 & 1940 census; worked at plant 27 years, died. at 73 in
1952 |
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J |
Jackson, Curtis
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perhaps he worked at
the plant - listed as a
'brick maker' |
K |
James Keiser |
25 years there |
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Johnson, Carl |
truck driver as per 1950 census |
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Johnson, Melvin |
truck driver as per 1950 census |
L |
Lambert, Certus ( Lambret?) |
brick setter as per 1950 census |
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Lambert, Hubert |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Lane, Clauselle |
kiln fireman as per 1950 census |
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Lane, Everett |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Lane, Herbert |
hacker as per 1950 census |
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Lockman, Erastus |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Lonsberry,
Henry |
as per 1910 census |
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Lonsberry, Johnas |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Lonsberry, Robert |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Lutes, Ford |
laborer as per 1940 census |
M |
Medora Shale Brick Company |
The original name of the company operating the
Medora Brick Plant. |
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McMillan,
C.C. |
Board Member in 1908; bookeeper for the plant
as per 1910 census |
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McMillan, Roland |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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O |
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P |
Parker,
Samuel |
Known to be the Superintendent of
Brick Plant in 1910 at the age of 30.
born ~1879 married for seven years with child, Florence age 4. He was from
Ohio. Wife Eliza parents, 31, born in Ohio 1878 from England, Daughter
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Peck, Lew |
as per
the 1910 census
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Perrin, Riley |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Phillips, Earl |
kiln fireman as per 1950 census |
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Phillips, Murrel |
machine operator as per 1940 census |
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Plummer, Jerald (Jerry) |
truck driver for 15 years |
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Poor, Ralph |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Pray, John |
laborer as per 1930 and 1940 census |
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R |
Ray, Forrest |
coal hauler as per 1950 census |
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Reynolds, Earnest |
brick wheeler as per 1950 census |
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Reynolds, Ellis |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Robertson, Joseph |
President of both the Medora Brick Co. and the
Jackson Brick & Hollowware Co. of Brownstown ~1922-1940. Purchased
the Medora plant in partnership with John W. Heller in ~1922. Joe
would have been 44 in 1922. Wife Bessie B. and daughter Carolyn born in
~1921. |
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Rudder, Elmer
E. |
a foreman at the plant in 1914; again in 1920
perhaps other years inbetween. Sparksville based railroad section crew forman. Maternal great
grandfather to this website's creator, Steve Graves. |
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Russell, John |
Moved from Seymour to work at the plant in March 1909. |
S |
Shepard, Charlie |
laborer as per 1940 & 1950 census; worked there 1920s-1950s |
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Shepard, George Arthur "Oss" |
a foreman as per 1930 & 1940 census |
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Shepard, Harold |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Shepard, Harry Kenneth |
worked at the plant until 1942 |
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Shelton, Charles E. |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Shelton, Frank |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Shelton, Irvin |
hacker as per 1950 census |
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Shelton, John W. |
laborer per 1940 & hacker in 1950 census; a John Shelton appears in the 1910 census |
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Shelton, May |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Shelton, Virgil |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Sherrill, Jerome |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Sons, Nick |
1910 census. Brother in law to Henry Lonsburry |
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Sons, Alvie "Perk" |
laborer |
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Sons, Frank |
as per 1930 census |
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Sons, Willie |
laborer as per 1940 census |
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Smith, Everett |
truck driver |
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Smith, Frank |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Smith, H.M.
|
Board of Directors 1908 |
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Smith, Orville |
brick setter as per 1950 census |
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Smith, Taft |
as per 1930 census |
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Stegner, Hubert |
truck driver as per 1950 census |
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Sutherland, Alva |
Age 27 in 1910 - engineer at the plant - keeping
equipment running. |
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Sutton,
John H. |
Founding Board of Directors 1904 |
T |
Taylor, George |
feet and ankles crushed at plant - Nov. 6 1916 Seymour Tribune |
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Temple, Albert |
brick wheeler as per 1940 & 1950 census |
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Tomsberry, Henry |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Turney, Jennings |
brick wheeler as per 1950 census |
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Trautman,
Cornelius V. |
Founding Board of Directors 1904 and second
largest stockholder at that time.
Occupation:
miller.
Board member in 1908. |
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Trueblood, Francis |
truck driver as per 1940 & 1950 census |
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Trueblood, Virgil |
as per 1910 census |
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W |
Watts, Clarence |
laborer as per 1930 & 1940 census |
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Watts, James |
laborer as per 1930 & 1940 census |
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Watts, Virgil |
truck driver as per 1940 census |
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Wayman, Henry |
rock fell on him according to Mar 20, 1913 Seymour Tribune article |
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Weaver, Carroll |
as per 1930 census |
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Weddle, Henry |
laborer as per 1930 census, brick burner as per 1940 & 1950 census |
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Weddle,
William |
kiln fireman at brick
plant in 1915; wife Laura |
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Weddle, Victor |
kiln fireman at the plant as per 1940 & 1950 census |
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Williams, Charlie (ey) |
laborer as per 1910 census |
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Williams, Clarence |
brick wheeler 1930 census onward |
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Williams, William S. |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Williams, Wm. (Willie) L. |
laborer as per 1930 census son of Wm. S. |
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Wineineger, Millard |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Wesner, Caroll R. |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Woods, Daniel W. |
laborer as per 1930 census |
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Woods, David |
laborer as per 1910 census |
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Woods, Gary |
laborer as per 1910 census |
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Woods, Lewis |
laborer as per 1930 census |
X |
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Y |
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Z |
Zollman, George W.
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Founding Board of Directors 1904 |