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Neighbor Finds a Deed That Rewrites a Family: The Callahan Secret

Neighbor Finds a Deed That Rewrites a Family: The Callahan Secret

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Neighbor Finds a Deed That Rewrites a Family: The Callahan Secret

A county utility worker opened a meter box in Bracken County, Indiana on December 9, 2019 and found a 1961 land deed nailed inside - signed by Raymond Arthur Callahan "also known as Raymond Arthur Briggs." How did a deed folded into a metal box for nearly sixty years point to a hidden child and a family address that appears on a death certificate decades later?

In this episode, we follow how a neighbor’s photograph, a quick search of the Bracken County Register of Deeds, and a death certificate pulled from 1994 begin to change everything a family believed about itself. What did the deed and the death certificate reveal, and who in the family already knew?

Person: Raymond Arthur Callahan, also known as Raymond Arthur Briggs
Date: June 1961 (deed); December 9, 2019 (discovery); December 1994 (death certificate)
Location: Bracken County, Indiana; Millhaven (address on death certificate)
Event: 40-acre family conveyance deed found folded and nailed inside a meter box

- The deed was folded twice and nailed to the interior panel of a meter box with a single roofing nail.
- The deed transferred a forty-acre parcel from Raymond Arthur Callahan to Sylvia Briggs and was classified as a family conveyance.
- The deed was dated June 1961, seven years after Raymond’s 1954 marriage to Marie.
- The 1960 census listed a child named Carl Briggs as a dependent in Sylvia Briggs’s Bracken County household.
- Raymond’s 1994 death certificate listed Dennis Callahan as the informant and gave a Millhaven address associated with the Briggs Family Trust.

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