Application  for  Adoption
of

Clarence  Wessel


Shelby County Probate Court 
No. 5678 

Box 849



In the Matter of the Adoption and Change of Name of Clarence Wessel, a minor

To the Honorable Judge of the Probate Court of Shelby County

            Your petitioners, Elmer Slifer and Margaret Slifer, his wife, inhabitants of Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana, respectfully show that they desire to adopt as their own a minor aged five years, one month and three days on the 11th day of April, 1920, the child of Clara Meyer, the reputed father of said child being August Wessel; said child having been voluntarily surrendered to the Bureau of Catholic Charities and Social Service. They attach hereto the written consent of the said, The Bureau of Catholic Charities and Social Service.
            Your petitioners are possessed of sufficient means and have the ability to bring up and educate said child properly.
            Your petitioners pray that such proceedings may be had as are required by law and that the Court may by its order approve such adoption and declare said Clarence Wessel to be the child of your petitioners and that the name of Clarence Wessel be changed to Clarence William Slifer.

            Dated the 16” day of December 1920                 Elmer F. Slifer             Margaret Slifer

Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 16” day of December 1920
            Gordon Thurston

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ENTRY  OF  ADOPTION
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            It appearing to the Court from the petition of  Elmer Slifer and Margaret Slifer, his wife, residents of Shelby county that they desire to adopt Clarence Wessel, a minor child not theirs by birth and that the name of said child may be changed to  Clarence William Slifer, said child being five years of age on the 11th day of April, 1920 and said petitioners having produced the written consent of the Bureau of Catholic Charities and Social Service to such adoption and change of name, and the Court having examined Margaret Slifer, the wife of said petitioners, separate and apart from her said husband, the Court is satisfied from such examination that said Margaret Slifer of her own free will and accord desires such adoption and the Court being satisfied of the fitness and propriety of such adoption and of the ability of said petitioners to bring up and educate said child properly.
            NOW, THEREFORE, The Court orders that such adoption be and is now made and that from this date the said Clarence Wessel, minor child, to all intents and purposes is the child of said Elmer Slifer and Margaret Slifer, and it further orders that the name of said child be and is now changed from Clarence Wessel to Clarence William Slifer as prayed for in said petition.

STATE  OF  INDIANA,  SHELBY  COUNTY

PROBATE  COURT
 
CONSENT  OF  THE  BUREAU  OF  CATHOLIC  CHARITIES  AND  SOCIAL  SERVICE

            The undersigned, The Bureau of Catholic Charities and Social Service, represent that Clarence Wessel, a minor child at the age of five years one month and three days, has been voluntarily surrendered to them by the parents of said minor. They hereby consent to the adoption of said child by Elmer Slifer and Margaret Slifer, his wife of Shelbyville, Shelby County and State of Indiana. They also consent that the name of said child may be changed.

                        The Bureau of Catholic Charities and Social Service
By R. M. Wagner
Ass’t Director


Transcribed by Barb Huff

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