PETITION FOR ADOPTION
TIPPECANOE COUNTY
FEBRUARY TERM 1873

The State of Indiana }
Tippecanoe County }

PETER J. COOK petition for adoption } In Common Pleas Court
of AMMA ELDORA HEYWARD } February Term 1873

PETER J. COOK respectfully petitions the court as follows. He respectfully asks to be permitted to adopt as his child one AMMA ELDORA HEYWARD who was two years old on the 28th day of September 1872. Your petitioner says that said AMMA ELDORA HEYWARD has no property either personal or real that she has a father living in Delphi [in Delphi crossed out] in Carroll County in the state of Indiana that she has no mother living. He respectfully asks that the said AMMA E. HEYWARD may be adopted by him and her name changed to AMMA ELDORA COOK.
Respectfully submitted

PETER J. COOK

Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 3d day of March 1873

WILEY S. VAN CAMP
Notary Public