Re: Dorthy & Howard Pancake
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Re: Dorthy & Howard Pancake
ernie nichols 4/02/05
I'm not well acquainted with this Pancake family; but I did do some research in Ancestry.com's Historical Newspaper Collection and found some references to Howard Pancake in the Hillsboro, Ohio "Press Gazette" that may help you.
Friday, July 5, 1940:
"Howard Leroy Pancake asks for a divorce from Lissie Marie Pancake on the grounds of her gross neglect of dutyand extreme cruelty.The plaintiff says that his wife has failed to perform her marital duties; has an ill temper and has continuously nagged him.The parties were married on October 22, 1935 and have one child, aged four years."
June 27, 1941:
"The following actions have been dismissed for want of prosecution: . . . Howard Pancake vs. Lizzie Pancake . . ."
April 9, 1943:
Howard, age 34 of Bainbridge R. R. 2,and his sixteen year old brother, Eugene, were arrested for breaking and entering.
Friday, October 8, 1943:
"Howard Pancake was found guilty of grand larceny by a jury in a trial held Monday before Judge McDowell.He was sentenced to serve one to seven years in the Ohio Penitentiary and has been taken to that institution to serve his sentence.The crime of which Pancake was found guilty was stealing clothing, provisions and War Savings Stamps, all of the value of $53, from Chester Carter of Brushcreek township on March 28."
July 28, 1944:
"NOTICE OF HEARING FOR PAROLE.London, Ohio, July 15, 1944.No. 80721--Howard Pancake, a prisoner now confined in the LondonPrison Farm, London, Ohio, admitted from Highland County, convicted September 1943 of the crime of Grand Larceny--Case No. 3547, and serving a sentence of 1 to 7 years is eligible for a hearing before the OHIO PARDON AND PAROLE COMMISSION, on or after September 1, 1944.OHIO PARDON AND PAROLE COMMISSION.By A. K. Chenowith."
Friday, July 27, 1945:
"Pancake Brothers To Face Grand Jury
"Two men were arrested in Greenfield over the weed-end by Sheriff F. F. Gustin on affidavits signed by Ward C. Hixon, who gave his furlough address as the home of Millard Watson, Greenfield, R. R. 1.
"Virgil Pancake, 35, alias Raymond George Clark and Raymond George Pancake, Peebles R. R. 2, and Howard Leroy Pancake, 25, Bainbridge R. R. 2, brothers, were taken into custody and respectively charged with fornication and with assault with intent to kill.Both entered pleas of not guilty when arraigned before Greenfield Mayor Forest Woodmansee.
"Virgil Pancake was held to the Highland County grand jury under $1,000 bond, and his brother, Howard, under $500 bond.Neither provided bond and both were committed to the county jail."
Friday, September 28, 1945:
"Cases Continued
"The cases of Howard Leroy Pancake and Perry Gray were continued.
"Pancake was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of assault with intent to kill on Ward Dixson on July 19.Dixson is now in the U. S. Army and could not be present to testify before the grand jury.At his request the case was continued."
Friday, April 27, 1951, page 6:
"Four Persons Hurt in Mishap"
"Four persons were injured in a two-car wreck on Rt. 41, five miles south of the Ross-Pike County line.
"According to the state highway patrol, Clarence Cook, 31, Hillsboro Rt. 4, had parked along the side of the road, had set out flares and was changing a tire.Ralph Van Meter, Greenfield, topping a rise in the road, stopped when he reached the parked vehicle of Cook, but Howard Pancake, following the Van Meter auto, was unable to stop in time.He swung around the Van Meter car and crashed into the back of the Cook auto, bouncing it into a ditch.
"The Pancake car caught fire and burned completely.Damage to Cook's car was moderate and the Van Meter car was not struck.
"Pancake received a knee injury and bump on the head; Mrs. Dorothy Pancake suffered multiple lacerations on her lip and on knee; Louise Pancake, 14, sustained abrasions on her arms and legs, a 21-month old baby, Susie Pancake, was uninjured; John Sherwirk, 84, Bainbridge Rt. 2, another passenger in the Pancake car, received multiple lacerations on the forehead, nose, legs and right forearm and a sprained back."