John C. Hale ^{1 2}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Attica, Fountain, IN. ³ The 1850 census recorded John C. Hale, miller, 40, living with wife Harriet M., 39; daughter Amelia J., 10; son William H., 8; daughter Ann Eliza, 3; son Charles, 2; and daughter Julie Hale, 4 months. Also in the home is Catharine Kinesley, 11. John's land was valued at $5000, a high amount. He and his wife were born in Maryland and their children in Indiana. Kinesley was born in Ohio.

2. Census in 1860 in Shawnee Township, Fountain, IN. ⁴ The 1860 census recorded John C. Hale, farmer, 50, living with wife Harriet A., 49; William H., 18; Ann E., 13; Charles, 11; and Mary L., 8. The parents were born in Maryland and the children in Indiana. The post office was Robroy.

3. Census in 1870 in Shelby, Macomb, MI. ⁵ The 1870 census recorde John C. Heal [sic, census taker mispelled name], farmer, 60, living with wife Harriet, 59; son Charles, 22; and daughter Mary, 17. The parents were born in Maryland and children in Indiana. John's land was valued at $1200 and personal estate $750. The post office was Montmorecy.
Next door is John's son Henry Hale, 28, living with his wife Mary, 28; son Charles, 3; and daughter Gracie, 8 months. Everyone was born in Indiana except Mary in Ohio.

4. Census in 1880 in Shelby, Macomb, MI. ¹ The 1880 census recorded John C. Hale, farmer, 70, living with wife H. A., 69; son Charles, farmer, 30; daughter Mary L., 25. The parents and their parents were born in Maryland. Their children were born in Indiana.

5. Newspaper: Indianapolis News: Supreme Court Case for John C. Hale and Charles Hale, 21 Feb 1881, Indianapolis, Marion, IN. ⁶ SUPREME COURT
The following cases were decided Saturday, February 19, 1881:
SUIT TO QUIET TITLE
7105. Isaac N. Talbott vs. John C. Hale. Tippecanoe Circuit Court. Reversed. Niblack, C. J.
Suit by Isaac N. Talbott against John C. Hale and Charles Hale, to recover the possession of and quiet the title to a certain piece of real estate in Benton county. The court made a special finding on the facts. The land had at one time been sold at sheriff sale on a judgment with relief from valuation and appraisement laws. Among other things the special finding was that the land was sold without first being appraised.
(1.) So much of the special finding as asserts that the land in suit was sold without appraisement was not sustained by any evidence, either oral or written. The return of said sheriff to the execution upon which the sale was made did not state whether or not the land was appraised before it was sold, and nothing was disclosed on that subject by any of the other evidence at the trial.
(2.) The regularity of the proceedings by the sheriff should have been presumed, in making the special finding, until the contrary was shown.
(3.) It devolved upon the party attacking the sheriff's sale, to show in some way that there had been no appraisement.

John married Harriet Ann Martin. (Harriet Ann Martin was born in 1811 in La Plata, Charles, MD.)