Shelby County Indiana History & Genealogy, Courthouse records, Adoptions, Dorothy Law

Petition for Adoption

Dorothy Law,
minor

Flora McPherson,
petitioner

State of Indiana
Shelby County         SS

In the Shelby Circuit Court May Term 1920

In The Matter of the Petition of Adoption of Dorothy Law, a minor
Flora McPherson Petitioner

            The undersigned, your petitioner, Flora McPherson, respectfully represents and shows to the Court that she is desirous of adopting as her child and heir at law, Dorothy Law, a female infant child who was four years of age on the 4^th day of December 1919.
            That said infant child is now a resident of Shelby County, Indiana and is not the owner of any property real or personal.
That Lillie Law the mother of said infant child is dead, and that her father Arthur D. Law is now living and resides in Washington Township, Shelby County, Indiana and his Post Office address is Flat Rock, Indiana R.R.#1; and that said father is consenting to such adoption.
            Your petitioner further shows that she is a resident of Shelby County, Indiana and her Post Office address is Flat Rock, Indiana R.R.#1; that said petitioner has property of her own and also has an interest in real estate in Shelby County, Indiana and that she is able to properly care for, support and educate said child and furnish her a good home. That petitioner has no other children and is able to afford the best of care to said child. That the father of said child is the brother of this petitioner and is in poor health and is the father of other children and that he is poor and financially unable to properly care for all of his said children, and therefore willingly consenting to have this petitioner to adopt the said child Dorothy Law.
            Wherefore Petitioner prays the Court that such order of adoption of said infant child may be made and that after said adoption the said child shall take the name of Dorothy McPherson according to law. Flora McPherson

            Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June 1920

Albert F. Wray

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State of Indiana
Shelby County         SS

            I, Arthur D. Law, being duly sworn upon my oath say that I am the father and only surviving parent of Dorothy Law mentioned in the foregoing petition, and that I have read the foregoing petition and being fully informed of the contents and purpose thereof hereby consent that the said Dorothy Law, my child, may be legally adopted by the petitioner Flora McPherson by the order of the Shelby Circuit Court as the child and heir at law of the said Flora McPherson and that said Court shall make said order of adoption as provided by law. Arthur D. Law

            Subscribed and sworn to before me t his 4th day of June 1920

Albert F. Wray

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