The weather finally prettied up a bit, so I was able to haul in another box of goodies from our storage building. What a treat to find these old receipts from the early 1900’s. I like the one from the telephone company the most.
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| A 1910 telephone receipt – can you imagine? |
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| Shrout, Piper & Shrout burial receipt. I can’t make out the last number in the year, but it’s from the 1910’s. |
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| Owingsville Cemetery receipt. I like how they used the words “Cemetery Sexton.” I don’t know if that is still used or not but I don’t think I’ve ever heard it around here. |
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| A receipt from the coal yard in Owingsville. The Dawson family owned the coal yard which was located about where the health department is now. You can see its location on the old maps of Owingsville that I’ve linked to here on the blog. |
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| Kimbraugh & Son receipt from 1911, I’m assuming from their drug store. |
From the Journals of William Burl Kincaid, Jr. 
I loved seeing these receipts and thinking about our family and community life in another era. In recent months we have attended an Episcopal Church several times here in Indianapolis and they have two sextons on staff. In some places, the work of the sexton still includes oversight of the church cemetery, but generally it has transitioned to oversight of buildings and grounds. The Episcopalians have such interesting names for things!
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