Cass County, Indiana - Chapter 48: Jackson Township, 1913

Jackson township is situated in the southeastern comer of the county, is six miles long and five miles in width, embracing an area of thirty square miles, or nineteen thousand, twoi hundred acres; the greater part of which lies in congressional township 25 north, range 3 east. The township is watered and drained by Deer creek, which flows from east to west through its entire width, with the soulh branch extending from near the southeast corner and emptying into the main stream west of the center of the township. These are creeks of considerable size and in an early day afforded water power to run mills. Jackson township is marked by no striking topographical features, the general surface being level except in the southern portion it is somewhat undulating and along the wftler courses. Originally it was covered with a growth of heavy timber condsting of black walnut, poplar, oak, ash, beech, maple, elm, etc., and a dense undergrowth of small bushes and vines along the creeks, all of which has yielded to the woodman's ax, and only here and there are left a grove of native timber. Where, seventy five years ago, all was an irapenetratable forest, the only occupants being wild animals, reptiles, and Indians, today is occupied by as fine and well improved farms as can be seen under the sun, which produce luxuriant crops of all agricultural products adapted to a temperate climate, with herds of the finest stock of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.

Jackson, like the townships to the west, formed a part of the great Miami Indian reservation and was not thrown open to settlement until other parts of the country were occupied and improved. The first white man to settle in Jackson township was James Dixon, in April, 1841. He located in the southeast quarter of Section 13, on what has since been known as the Sprinkle farm, on the north side of Deer creek.

The following November, Richard Gaiter Howard, who had previously lived in Noble and Harrison townships, settled is Section 16. Howard was a great hunter and as the deep forests were advantageous to his calling he hesitated not to sell his claims in the older townships and settle in the new.

Probably Mr. Howard was the greatest hunter and trapper Cass county ever produced. He was an energetic and thrifty man and purchased three of the best farms in Jackson township and paid for the same by furs and peltries, which he caught in the wilds of Jackson and sur- rounding country. Although a rough backwoods hunter, yet he was a devoted Christian, being at first associated with the Christian or Disciples church but later with the Universalists. The first religious meeting in the township was held at the house of Mr. Howard. He lived to a ripe old age and died at the home of his son, Nelson, east of Lincoln in 1882. He was the son of John and Margaret (Gaiter) Howard, and was born in Kentucky in 1803 j moved with his parents to Ohio where they died, when in 1831, Richard located in Cass county and became the Daniel Boone of this county. He was married in Ohio November 7, 1824, to Mary Charles, a daughter of James and Ann Charles, who* came from Ireland. He was the father of the following children: Nelson Fisher, bom 1825, died 1883; Andrew Charles, bom 1828, died 1899; John Tipton, 1830-1888 ; Margaret Jane and Marie Ann, twins, bom 1813, the former, the wife of Henry A. Bickell, now a resident of Jackson township, and the latter living in Kansas ; and Jerusha, born 1838, died 1874.

During the year 1842 the following pioneers were added to the colony in the forests of Jackson : Israel Bickell, who settled in section 21 ; David Flynn, in section 20; Jacob Myers in section 28; David Kemp, John Flynn, David Bickell, Henry Bickell and William Frush in diflferent parts of the township. In 1843, David McCauley located on the present site of Galveston; Elza Garrett, also William Stanley, Isaac Windom, James Bell, William Dale, in section 28; Daniel Fickle in section 32; Christian Howdyshell, Wm. Murphy and James Wind in other sections.

Settlers began to locate in this township several years before it was formally opened to settlement and the land placed upon the market by the government, which was not until the year 1847. The following are some of the earliest land entries in 1847 : Isaiah Nail in section 3 ; James Stanley in section 5; N. S. Moon in section 10; N. Jump, section 18; Chi^istopher Howdyshell and Henry Newman, section 19 ; Wm. F. Speece, Israel Bickell and R. S. Mc Williams in section 21 ; Joseph Graves, section 22; Wm. H. Sprinkle, section 30; George Gwinn, section 32; J. Rodabaugh, section 33. In 1848 the following entries, to wit : Samuel Dollarhide, section 6; Thomas Logan, section 7; Hezekiah Frush, section 8; Isaac Flynn, section 8; Levi Bickell, James Bell in section 10; A. A. Emsley, Wm. Frush, Nelson F. Howard, section 17 ; Chas. Jump, section 18 ; Geo. Sprinkle and A. J. Forgy, section 20 ; I. V. Canine, section 21 ; Daniel Terfinger, section 28 ; Caleb Hyatt and Daniel Kemp, section 20.

The township was laid out by the commissioners on March 5, 1845, but not formally organized until June 6, 1847, and soon after an election was held at the cabin of Peter Frush at which a Mr. Thomas acted as inspector. The first trustee was Richard Howard and the first justice of the peace was Daniel Kemp. (See Com. Ree. 2, page 490.)

The first industry was a sawmill erected about 1845 on Deer creek by Caleb Hyatt. It was run by an old-fashioned water wheel and while only a small affair yet did quite a business and manufactured lumber for the neighborhood for a number of years. About 1846 John Sprinkle built a sawmill northwest of Galveston on the south branch of Deer creek. He operated it for several years and sold out to other parties. Hiram Price ran the mill for a time ; John Hicks purchased the mill and added a com cracker attachment and ground corn meal. The mill was operated until about 1866 when it was closed down.

A steam sawmill was built by Jacob Hite about 1860 on the southeast comer of section 25, three miles west of Galveston and locally known as saw town.

The pioneers of Jackson township were not unmindful of the value of education and long before the township was organized they took measures to instruct their children in the rudiments of an education. The first schoolhouse was built about 1844, on the farm of Wm. Stanley. This was the usual type of the pioneer round log cabin, everything made of wood and not a nail or other metal article, or even glass was used in its construction. There was, however, a stone fireplace with stick and mud chimney and oiled paper windows. John M. Jackson was the first teacher in this primitive temple of learning and well did he wield the birch, for in those days a teacher's eflBciency was estimated by the number of scholars he whipped each week.

The second schoolhouse was a hewed log building erected near the site of Galveston about 1845 and Samuel Lambert and Daniel Kemp were the early teachers. There were only three schoolhouses reported in the township when the new law became operative in 1852. In 1854, four schools were reported and the following year eight.. These were all hewed log buildings.

Prior to the adoption of the new constitution in 1852, and even for some years after, there was but little or no public school fund and each district or neighborhood erected its own school buildings, hired their teachers and paid them by subscriptions, but gradually the school system was evolved until in the seventies the trustees assumed entire control of the township schools and placed the schoolhouses at equal distances throughout the township. In 1877 Jackson township had eleven schoolhouses : No. 1 at Galveston ; No. 2 located in the S. E. y^ Sec. 29 ; No. 3 on the S. E. corner of N. W. 14 Sec. 36 ; No. 4 on the S. E. comer of the N. E. 1/4 Sec. 13 ; No. 5 on the S. E. 14 Sec. 19 ; No. 6 on the west side of Sec. 22 ; No. 7 in the center of Sec. 10 ; No. 8 near the center of Sec. 6 ; No. 9 near Lincoln ; No. 10 in the S. E. 14 Sec. 24 ; and No. 11 in the N. E. 1/4 Sec. -5. These schools had been located by the neighborhoods to please individuals of influence and the trustees took steps to arrange them systematically and at the same time to recognize the growing importance of Galveston and Lincoln as educational centers ; and in 1900 there were only seven schools, four having been abandoned, being Nos. 2, 4, 5 and 6 as enumerated above. No. 3 was moved north one-half mile to southeast comer of Sec. 25 ; No. 10 moved east one-half mile to the southwest corner of Sec. 18; No. 8 to the southwest comer of Sec. 6; No. 7 to the northeast comer of Sec. 9 and No. 11 was not changed. Since the improvement of roads, making travel easy, the schools have been still more consolidated and today there are but three schools outside of Lincoln and Galveston, they being Nos. 3, 8 and 7 ; all the others are aban doned, and four wagons are employed by the township to haul the scholars to the central schools at a cost of $2.50 per wagon per day, and the trustee reports the consolidation of the schools as eminently satisfactory from every viewpoint. The school buildings are all' substantial brick structures; the one in Lincoln 'consists of two rooms and was erected in 1889. There are five teachers employed outside of Galveston and an enumeration of 335 pupils of school age. Galveston employs eight teachers and 160 pupils reside within the town limits, making 485 in the entire township with a corps of 13 teachers.

The first school in Galveston was taught in an old log house that had been used as a residence, located southeast of the town, on the Ramsey or Lewis farm, by William McGaughey, about 1845. Some of the otheV early teachers were : Daniel Kemp, Jacob Fox, Henry Bruner, Mannington Fickle, Dr. Alford, Iren Eaton, Miss Hathaway and Henry Kirkpat- rick. About 1865 a new frame schoolhouse was erected at a cost of $2,500 and George Gates was the first teacher in the new building. He was an excellent teacher, with long experience. He still lives in Galveston and in 1907 his old pupils of fifty years ago organized a society and hold annual reunions at the home of Mr. Gates, now an octogenarian yet as bright as when he wielded the birch sixty years ago. In 1883 a new brick schoolhouse was erected by Mahlon Bell as trustee at an expenditure of $6,000 and one of the first teachers in the new building was Moses Lairy now judge of the state appellate court. In 1911 this building was superseded by the present commodious two-story brick structure, fitted up with all modem improvements and representing an expenditure of $27,000.

The school board as now constituted consists of F. H. Thomas, president ; W. S. Sines, secretary, and Dr. J. F. Cornell, treasurer. Galveston has a complete system of graded schools up to and through a four-year course in the high school. The latter is a commissioned high school, and the past year had an attendance of nearly 100, with an enrollment of 258 in all the grades. Prof. I. S. Hahn heads the school and is ably assisted by seven other teachers and Qalveston and Jackson may take just pride in her system of public schools which have been gradually evolved from the first round log cabin schoolhouse of seventy years ago, with a term of two or three months where only the three branches were taught, up to the present high school building with a graded course and a nine months' term of school where the student can, at his home, receive an education equal to a college course of fifty years ago.

The pioneers of Jackson township were devout Christians and we find them holding religious meetings in their cabins as soon as two or three could be gathered together in one meeting place.

It is reported that the first religious meeting in the township was held in 1842 in the cabin of Richard G. Howard, the great hunter, and Elder George "Smith of the Christian church oflBciated. In the following year, Rev. Doolittle of the United Brethren denomination held meetings in private houses in the midst of the almost impenetrable forests. The Methodists, however, were the first to form an organization, in the later forties.

This was the first church organization in the township, the exact date, however, and the charter members are not obtainable. A log church was erected about 1849, on land donated by George Sprinkle, but the deed was not executed until June 3, 1857, when he conveyed one acre of ground situated in the northwest comer of the southwest ^ Sec. 20 to John Kemp and James Atwood, trustees of the church. About this time the old log church was replaced by a frame house of worship which continued to be occupied until Lincoln and Galveston grew and erected churches^ - when it was abandoned and finally torn down about 1886 and nothing remains to mark the spot where the first church in Jackson township stood, except the cemetery which is still maintained and is known as the Sprinkle graveyard.

This is the oldest religious society in Galveston and was organized in 1856 by Revs. Fletcher Thomas and Eli iSoover with the following charter members : Daniel Myers, Allen Crissler, Crole Crissler, Noah Ault, James Cooper, Wm. Ault, Jesse Ault, Elizabeth Christler, Jane Christler, Jacob Emerick, Elizabeth Emerick, Mary McCree, G^o. Weaver, Richard Swank, Jane Swank, Mrs. Geo. Weaver, Katharine Myer, Delilah Cooper, Simeon Bunger, David and Lewis Davidson and families. Meetings were held in the schoolhouse until 1857 when a commodious frame church 40x50 feet was erected in the western part of the village at a cost of $900. This old frame building was replaced in 1901 by the present handsome brick church with an expenditure of $5,000.

A Sunday school was instituted in 1858 which has been maintained to the present time and has been a great aid in building up the church. A Ladies' Aid Society and Young People's Christian Union are also in successful operation. The church has made a steady growth and is wielding a mighty influence for good in the community. The present membership is 151.

This organization was first known as the Walton class but the name was changed in 1887 to **0tterbine," commonly known in the neighborhood as ** Seven Foot" church. The organization was perfected in the spring of 1881 in what is known as Simpson schoolhouse, the Rev. Evans ofSciating, with the following seventeen charter members: Adam and Sarah Surface, John Bechdol, sister Bechdol, J. E. and Sarah Farley, J. S. Paulina and Lulu Simpson, W. H. H. Simpson, A. J. Tritt, Paulina Tritt, Curtis Martin, MoUie Martin, H. M. Gatrel.

Meetings were held in the schoolhouse until 1887 when a neat frame house of worship was erected on the northwest corner of the south half of the northwest ^4 Sec. 4, Jackson township. The original cost of the building was $800.

A Sunday school was instituted at the time of the church organization and later a Ladies' Aid Society, both of which are doing noble work in the Master's cause. The active church membership in 1912 was 65.

The existence of Methodism in Galveston has been coeval with the town itself. It came with the first settlers and has shared the joys and sorrows, the successes and reverses of the people.

Rev. Bums was probably the earliest Methodist missionaiy in this vicinity, long before Galveston was laid out. The first meeting of Methodists was held in the Kemp cabin, two miles west of Galveston, on the creek in 1845 and Rev. A. B. Rule first held meetings here when Jackson township was an unbroken wilderness.

From this humble beginning the work was carried on by the ever faithful and irrepressible itinerant Methodist preacher, who often proclaimed the riches of the gospel to the tune of the woodman's ax. Irregular meetings were held in the settlers' cabins until about 1853 to 1855 when a Methodist class was organized by Nathan Shackleford. The charter and early members of this class were Benj. F. Binney and wife, W. H. Harbert and wife, Mrs. Marie Strock, Jacob Fox and wi*e, Mrs.

Ramsey, Mrs. Anna Radabaugh, Mrs. Scott, A. B. Rule, Geo. W. Davis and wife. Meetings were held at private residences, in the old log schoolhouse and later in the frame schoolhouse, and after the United Brethren built their church in 1857 or 1858, the Methodists often occupied that church, until 1874 when the congregation became strong enough to erect a temple of worship of their own. This was a brick structure, 36x54 feet, with a lofty spire and represented a capital of $4,345, with a seating capacity of 350. The society rapidly increased in numbers and influence. The church walls have echoed with those old-time revival songs that inspired many a devout Christian to shout to the world His message of good tidings of great joy.

The material progress of the church was such that in 1889 it was made a station and has the undivided service of a pastor, and in 1899 the church building was remodeled and modernized and the church took on renewed energy and was working in perfect harmony when on August 8, 1901, a disastrous fire completely destroyed their handsome and commodious house of worship.

No disaster, however, could chill their ardor, but from the ashes and debris of the former structure has arisen a new edifice far eclipsing the old in beauty of design. The cornerstone of the new church was laid September 29, 1901, by Rev. L. J. Naftger, of Kokomo, and was dedicated to the triune God, February 9, 1902, by Rev. W. D. Parr, D.D., assisted by Rev. T. J. Johnson and the pastor, Rev. Arthur Gates.

The present new church is constructed of stone and brick with an auditorium 38x55 feet and a lecture room 22x30 feet, connected with the auditorium by a rolling door, giving a combined seating capacity of 500. The cost of the new church complete was $9,500. The church is prosperous and has a membership of 175.

Pastors who have served the congregation are: N. D. Shackleford, 1853; J. C. Layton, W. K. Hobach, James Black, C. E. Disbro, M. Wayman, Chas. Martindale, J. S. Ramsey, W. H. Smith, A. J. Lewellen, J. H. McMahan, Thos. J. Elkins, H. C. Clingle, A. J. Carey, W. M. Van

Prior to the year 1865, the Baptists never held any meetings in Galveston. In that year Father Hewit L. Thomas and his two sons, Meredith H. and William H. Thomas with their families located in the town and soon after united with the Deer Creek Baptist church, but in the spring of 1866 through the efforts of Father Thomas, a few of the faithful began to hold meetings in the schoolhouse of the village with Rev. B. R. Ward as their minister. In November, 1867, Rev. Ward and family moved to Galveston after which meetings were held regularly until July 12, 1868, an organization was perfected; Elder Ward acting as moderator; Wm. Thomas, clerk; John Emeiy and M. H. Thomas, deacons, with the following charter members, in addition to the above : Catherine

Emery, John and Mattie J. Cook, Pauline Morgan, Annie Hensley, Nancy Speece, Sarah and Susan Frush, Ann Thomas, Harriet A. Thomas, H. L. Thomas, Charlotte Thomas, Sallie B. Boring, B. R. Ward, Rebecca Ward, Kate M. Eisenbrey, Mollie Cook, M. J. Eisenbrey, Mollie A. Lytle, Phoebe Weigle, Sampson L. Ward, Geo. Silvers, Nancy Silvers, James Read and Nancy Read. On August 29, 1868, a Council composed of delegates from the churches at Bunker Hill, Deer Creek, Logansport, Sharon, Antioch and Alto formally recognized the new church. Steps were at once taken to erect a house of worship and a building committee was appointed with Hewit L. Thomas as its leader. During the summer of 1869 a substantial brick church was built costing, including furniturCi $4,503.75. The church was dedicated on the first Sunday in January, 1870, by the Rev. Hariy Smith, of Indianapolis, assisted by the pastor, B. R. Ward. The church has prospered and the congregation has gradually increased in numbers, requiring a larger building, and in 1903- 4, the old church was replaced by the present handsome brick and stone house of worship at an outlay of about $14,000. The dedicatory sermon was delivered by Rev. Myron W. Haynes, of Chicago.

A Woman's Missionary and Ladies' Aid Societies were formed many years ago and have been actively maintained. The church has a membership at present of 147 and is a potent factor for good in the town and surrounding country. Of the original charter members but two remain, Mrs. Harriet Thomas and Pauline Morgan (1911).

The Universalists of Galveston and vicinity held occasional meetings in schoolhouses and halls for some years but in 1894 an organization was perfected, the meeting being held in the furniture store of John Thomas and Rev. J. Prosher, oflBciated. The following persons signed the charter roll: John Thomas, Alvin Hill and wife, Elias Young, Alvin Laird, John Betts, John Mcllwain, John Bigger, Joseph Walker. From this small beginning the church prospered and in 1896 the present neat little brick church was erected at a cost of nearly $10,000. The congregation has steadily grown and now numbers 90.

The following pastors have administered to the spiritual wants of the congregation: Rev. J. B. Prosher, 1894; Rev. D. A. Patrick, 1895-05; Rev. H. C. Beckett, 1905-1912.

This church is an outgrowth of, or rather the successor to, Sprinkle chapel, the latter having been built a mile and a half to the southwest of Lincoln long before that town was laid out. After Lincoln began to grow, school and other interests located there on the railroad, steps were taken to organize a class and erect a church. Some of the early members were James Baker, C. H. Sprinkle, Mrs. Catherine Stauffer and hus- band, Michael Bell. The records show that on May 1, 1858, A. Howard deeded lots Nos. 67 and 68 in the town of Lincoln to the trustees of the church but the church building was not erected for some years later; probably the later sixties or early seventies, a neat little frame church edifice was built and Sprinkle chapel was abandoned and torn down. The Lincoln class prospered and in 1906 a larger building became necessary and the present handsome church made of cement blocks was erected at a total cost of $6,500 and dedicated December 23, 1906, by Rev. Wm. Amoss.

The pastors of the Walton church also serve this congregation and Rev. Wm. Amoss is the present pastor. The trustees at this time are: Michael Bell, Jacob Pearey and Charles Peck.

Jackson township was heavily timbered and a long distance from Logansport and the early settlers suflfered great hardship, especially when sickness and death entered the pioneer cabin, and he had to be content to bury his dead in rude boxes in the virgin soil under the dense forest trees that covered that township in 1841.

This is said to be the oldest burial ground in Jackson township. It is situated about one-half mile southeast of Galveston in the northwest 14 Sec. 34.

Daniel C. Flynn entered this land in 1848 and Thos. H. Hansberry bought it October 27, 1848. On May 12, 1853, Hansberry sells to Wm. Ramsey and in the deed reserved one-half acre as a burial ground - and in all subsequent deeds this reservation has been made, but this burial ground has never been conveyed to any individual, trustee or corporation. It was used as a burial ground years before the land was entered.

This graveyard is located on a knoll on the east side of the road but prior to 1849 the interments were made on the west side of the wagon road and the first burial was the body of Jacob Myers in the winter of 1843. He was a hunter and lived just west of Galveston on the old Fickle farm. This was a heavy wooded country and abounded in bears, wolves, deer, mink and other wild animals. Mr. Myers went south to Wild Cat creek on a hunting expedition, where Kokomo now stands and purchased some ** tanglefoot.'' That and the excessive cold overcame him on his return, three miles from home where he froze to death in the depths of the forest. His dog came home alone, which aroused the suspicions of his family and they instituted a search ; the dog pointing the way and Mr. Myers was found, covered with sleet and snow, frcJzen to death, and was buried in the woods, about twenty rods west of the present cemetery on the west side of the road. Here also were buried, two of the McCombs family and Sarah, wife of Joseph Walters prior to 1849. Quite a number of other interments were made here but when Mr. Hansberry bought the land in 1848 or 1849 he set apart the beautiful knoll, the present cemetery site, and some of the persons buried west of the road were removed, but many still sleep in their original forest graves, oblivious to the tread of the plowman.

This graveyard is now enclosed by a wire fence in the midst of an open woodland pasture field, grown up with weeds and vines and sadly neglected as are the majority of the small pioneer burial places in Cass county. It is now seldom used and most of the people in. this neighbor- hood have lots in the new cemetery north of Galveston and many removals have been made, but there are probably two hundred graves remaining. We copy the earliest inscriptions on markers :

George and Byron Knight, who were killed by the Lucas brothers, while resisting arrest by United States ofScers during the Civil war are buried here.

Robert L. Mc Williams, on July 1, 1850, deeded to the commissioners (rf Cass county Yo acre out of the E. i^ of the N. E. i/4 Sec. 21, Jackson township for a burial ground. On December 14, 1888, the heirs of B. L. McWilliams platted an addition adjoining the above grounds on the east, and James McWilliams now controls the sale of lots in this addition. This is a very old burial place, probably the first white person buried in the township, lies in this graveyard. It is finely located on the south bank of Deer creek on the edge of an open woodland, is fenced and has some evergreen trees and good monuments but is poorly kept at this time, 1907. The road used to run along the nortji side of the grounds but has been changed, and is now reached by a private driveway, a quarter of a mile east to the road running south to Galveston.

First burial was William Dale in 1843. Mr. Dale cut his foot with an ax. His brother went to Logansport, eighteen miles distant for a doctor. It was dark when he reached there and it was impossible to find their way back along the Indian trails after night as there were no regular open roads and not a half dozen houses between Logansport and Galveston. The messenger was thus compelled to stay all night in town and by daylight next morning the doctor and messenger started for the long journey through the forest to Mr. Dale's cabin; but before their arrival Mr. Dale had bled to death. He was the first white man to die in the township and the first buried in McWilliams' cemetery. ^

About the same time Daniel Bickel and Mr. Frush were buried here. A son of Peter Frush, 1848, and daughter of J. and M. Dixon, 1850. This is the resting place of many old pioneer families as the Bickels, Graves, Sperrys, Winns, Frushes, Logans and Dixons. Soldiers : G. W. Manes, Company H, Twenty-ninth Indiana ; William Speace, Company H, Ninth Indiana; died, 1894.

On June 3, 1857, George Sprinkle deeded to John Kemp and James Atwood, trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, one acre of ground in the N. W. comer of the S. W. 14 Sec. 20, Jackson township, for church and burial purposes. Again on January 16, 1874, Wm. H. Faris, of Hamilton county, Indiana, conveyed to the Cass county commissioners a strip of land 3x13 rods on the east of the above tract, and on April 4,

1859, George Sprinkle deeded to the trustees, Nearey Jump, Samuel B. Sprinkle, Andrew Wiseman, Joseph M. Weaver and George Sprinkle, one acre adjoining the above mentioned tract for the use of the Sprinkle graveyard and the Methodist Episcopal church. A church was erected here but it was abandoned and torn down when the Lincoln church was built. This is a large cemetery, well located on a bluff, on the west bank of the south fork of Deer creek, near where the old Sprinkle sawmill stood in early days. The grounds are interspersed with evergreen trees and has some fine monuments.

Ursula Foster Campbell about 1850; Emma, wife of J. Elder, 1851; Wm. P. Campbell, 1851 ; Sarah, wife of Daniel Bell, 1855 ; Major Daniel Bell, November 7, 1874 ; age 86. This was the anniversary of the battle of Tippecanoe in which he bore an honorable part.

Joseph Gray, on September 27, 1888, deeded to the board of commissioners of Cass county, a tract of land about 7x12 rods in the N. E. ^ of section 24, Jackson township, for a burial ground. This little burial ground is beautifully situated on the north bank of Deer creek and south of the road. It derives its name from the Patterson family, who lived near by. The ground was appropriated for burial purposes about 1844. The land was then owned by Hugh McHenry, a speculator who did not live in the township. Many years later Joseph Gray bought the land and conveyed the cemetery to the county. The ground is now (1907) nicely enclosed by a wire fence in the edge of an open woodland; is neatly kept and has a few good monuments.

About 1850 the wife of John Kemp was buried on the N. E. ^ section 25, Jackson township, on the farm since owned by Joseph Gray. There were probably two or three other interments made here in an early day. No markers were ever erected to indicate the place but Freeman Dagget, now deceased, and J. W. Stauflfer remember the circumstances and the exact location of the graves but the occupants of these solitary, unmarked

April 2, 1875, Galveston Lodge No. 225, I. 0. 0. F. for the sum of $1,666.66 purchased three acres of land in the S. E. corner of the N. E. 1/4 section 28, Jackson township, of Jacob S. Garretson, for a burial ground.

November 8, 1892, Matthew Miller, A. J. Shirley and Jacob Collins, trustees of the I. 0. 0. F. lodge platted this ground. There is a new addition on the north that^ is now being improved by the association. This cemetery was managed by the trustees of the Odd Fellows lodge until April 3, 1901, when on petition of Z. U. Loop and others it was incorporated and known as the I. 0. 0. F. cemetery. In September, 1907, on petition to court the name was changed to the ** Galveston Cemetery Association," and is now incorporated under the state laws.

The ground is maintained as a lawn cemetery, there being no banking of lots or graves permitted, but a uniform level grade, so that it can be mowed and kept as a lawn. No trees are permitted to be set out on the lots but the association sets trees along the driveways. The lot owners are taxed each year, usually $1.00, and the association mows the entire grounds every week during the summer or as often as is necessary to keep the grass in a neat appearance, which would be impossible to do if lot owners were permitted to bank up their lots or graves or were intrusted to keep their lots mowed neatly. Now there is uniformity and system in the improvements and caring for the lots. This is undoubtedly the most beautiful and best kept cemtery in Cass county and has the reputation of being the nicest in the state. There are some very large and fine monuments that compare well with those in Mt. Hope in Logansport. The driveways are graveled and rolled, the gutters cemented, cement walks leading: through the center and cement steps leading up to the elevated circle in the center of the grounds. The trustees expect to sell the lots in the new addition at such a profit that a permanent endowment fund will be created which, in time, will be sufficient to mow the lawn and care for the whole cemetery without taxing the lot owners as is now done, and thus the upkeep of the cemetery will be provided for for all time.

Prior to 1840 when the Indians were the only occupants of Jackson township, there was an Indian village on Deer Creek and they had a burial ground near the west line of the S. E. l^ of the S. E. 14 Sec. 16 north of Deer Creek, and on the east side of a ditch or creek in that locality and about half a mile north of the Mc Williams cemetery. Mahlon Bell says he remembers the graves, but they are unmarked and the ground is being farmed regardless of the Indian braves lying beneath the plowman 's feet.

The Odd Fellows cemetery laid out in the seventies has been transferred and is now managed by the Galveston Cemetery Association and , the present I. 0. 0. F. cemetery, consists of a new plat of ground adjoining their old cemetery on the west.

August 18, 1898, Rachel E. Garrettson deeded about eighteen acres of land in the S. E. 14 section 28 to Freeman Daggett, J. A. Robinson and John Bitler, trustees of the I. O. 0. F. lodge. No. 225, and on May 27, 1904, the trustees plat this ground. This is a beautifully laid out cemetery, on the lawn plan, a circle in the center, with curved drives but not now fully improved.

Doctors are so intimately associated with man's entrance into the world, and often with his exit, are so identified with the daily life of the people, and aid in making history as no other class of citizens, that history would not be complete without a brief notice of the medical profession.

Since the coming of the white man into the wilds of Jackson township in 1841 there have been over thirty doctors located within its border from time to time, and they will be mentioned in alphabetical order.

Dr. Thornburg Baldwin was probably the first doctor to locate in this township. He came to Galveston in 1853, less than a year after it was laid out and three years before any railroad was completed into Cass county. He was one of the old-time country doctors, whose knowledge of medicine was gained from practical experience at the bedside. Hef was bom in Ohio in 1820, was a soldier of the Mexican and Civil wars and died at Galveston in 1900, leaving a widow still living.

Dr. John S. Beall, born in Ohio in 1828, attended the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical School in 1853 and 1855, practi<;ed in Illinois in 1863 at Walton, and in 1867 located in Galveston, where he continued in practice until his death in 1895.

Dr. Michael Bitler, bom in Pennsylvania in 1813, attended one course of lectures at Cincinnati Medical College, practiced medicine in Galveston from 1868 to 1875, mov,ed to Arcanum, Ohio, where he died some years later. He wasj married to Elizabeth Van Trees in 1833, and had nine children. He was a surgeon in the Union army.

Dr. Samuel Bitler located in Galveston in 1870 and practiced three years, then one year at Walton, and moved to Howard county and soon after became paralyzed and was in the Soldiers' Home at Dayton. He partially recovered, moved to Arcanum, Ohio, then to Elwood, Indiana, where he is doing a little oflBce business. He was bom in Ohio in 1840, married to Salina Campbell and had three children. Mrs. Bitler died and he remarried.

Dr. J. Frank Cornell, one of the leading physicians of Galveston at this time, is a native of Cass county, born in Deer Creek township, February 9, 1870. Educated at Marion and Valparaiso normal schools, taught several terms of school, was superintendent of schools of Cass county one term and then studied medicine and attended the Indiana Medical College and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, in 1902, and since then he has been in active practice at Galveston. He was joined in marriage to Berlind D. Williams, November 7, 1900, and they have two children.

Dr. Samuel Carr. Some time in the fifties there was an erratic doctpr by name of Carr, who lived on a farm east of Lincoln. He was an herb doctor, gathered his remedies in the woods and manufactured his own medicines and did quite a business for several years. He sold out about 1860 and moved to Nebraska. He was married and had several children.

Dr. D. K. Fickle came from Clinton county, Indiana, about 1863, and practiced in Galveston and Walton. He resided here for several years and married Bebecca High, of Tipton township. Some years later he abandoned his wife and profession and became a rover, and when last heard from was working on a United Fruit Company vessel sailing between Boston and the West Indies about ten years ago.

Dr. James C. Loop, one of the first doctors to locate in the south part of the county, was bom in Ohio in 1825, attended medical lectures at Cincinnati in 1850, and soon after settled in Cass county, and about 1854 located in Galveston, where he became a leading physician and citizen until his death in 1900. He gave some attention to law and was admitted to the bar. He was an ardent Democrat and his party honored him by sending him to the legislature in 1884. He was a hunter and often went to the wilds of Wisconsin to hunt. He was united in marriage to Sarah Wirts^ of Virginia in 1844, by whom he had ten children. Two of his sons. Dr. Z. U. and William M. Loop, followed their father's profession.

Dr. Z. U. Loop, son of the above-noticed James C. Loop, was born in Indiana in 1851, and a few years later came with his parents to Galveston, where he has spent practically his entire life. In 1882 he graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine and has been engaged in active practice and mnriing a drug store in Galveston to the present time, although in the past year has somewhat retired and is president of the Galveston Bank. The doctor has been twice married, his present wife was Mrs. Laura A. Darragh, and they have three children. Dr. Loop has affiliated with the Democratic party, but is liberal in his views and is a worker in the cause of temperance and all moral reforms.

Dr. William M. Loop, also a son of Dr. James C. Loop, was bom in Ohio in 1848, attended one term at the University of Michigan in 1870, but graduated from Indiana Medical College in 1874. He engaged in practice with his father at Galveston, then in Deer Creek, Carroll county, until his death in 1898.

Dr. H. H. Miller was bom in Brooksburg, Indiana, in 1871, educated at the State Normal School at Terre Haute and graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1897, and the same year opened an office in Galveston, where he has built up a lucrative practice. He was treasurer of the town board two terms. He was united in marriage in 1902 to Miss Elsie M. Thomas, of Galveston, daughter of F. H. Thomas, and they have one child.

Dr. J. B. Moore, born in Indiana in 1841, practiced medicine in Galveston from 1871 to 1874, charter member of the Cass county medical society, moved to Kokomo, where he lived for many years. In 1905 he moved to Seattle, Washington, where he died in 1907, and at his request his remains were cremated and wafted by the breezes of the Pacific to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Dr. Thomas F. Marshall, born in Pennsfylvania in 1827, attended the medical college at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1850, located at Lewisburg, Miami township in 1851, where he married Mary C. Eaton, and about 1853 or 1854 moved to Galveston, where he had an extensive practice until his death in 1866. He has one son living near Galveston and a daughter, now Mrs. James W. Hill, of Logansport.

Dr. Thomas J. Maxwell is mentioned by Helm as a practicing physician of Galveston prior to 1886, but we can find no trace of such a man, and it may be that this doctor was Thomas P. Marshall by an error of the printer.

Dr. Robert H. Ross, now in active practice in Galveston, was born in Virginia in 1858, educated in Westfield College, Maryland, and from Indiana Medical College in 1879, practiced at Bennetts Switch, Cassville and Kokomo, and in 1908 located in Galveston. The doctor has been twice married, his present wife being Mary 0. Campbell.

Dr. J. S. Smith, bom in Camden, Indiana, in 1855, graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1882, and at once located in Galveston and has been in continuous practice to the present time. He married Anna Jump, of Jackson township, and they have three children. The doctor served on the United States pension board from 1897 to 1903.

Dr. L. A. Simmons was born in Deer Creek township, Cass county, in 1850, and educated in the Logansport and Kokomo high schools. He attended the Indiana Medical College, located in Galveston in 1876, and some years later moved to Kokomo, and in 1907 went to Florida. He was married in Missouri to Susan Hull and they have several children.

Dr. James B. Tennell attended the Eclectic Medical College, Indianapolis, in 1893, practiced two years in Ohio, member of the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Society, wajs located for a time in . Galveston, had ill health and mental ailments, sent to the Cass County Infirmary until room could be made for his admission to Longcliff, but he died in the county infirmary December 31, 1910, aged seventy-seven years, an honorable but unfortunate man.

graduated from the Laporte (Ind.) Medical School in 1849, practiced at Lebanon, and Camden, and in 1852 moved to Jackson township on a farm and did a little practice, but soon turned his entire attention to farming. He was an upright, well-educated citizen, who enjoyed tilling the soil better than dosing out medicine, with all its trials and responsibilities. He died in 1907.

Dr. Williams, according t(^ Helm, was a practicing physician in Galveston during the sixties or early aoventies, and some years later Dr. Whitesides was engaged in practice at Galveston.

Dr. Joseph H. Waldron, born in Iowa in 1871, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, in 1896, licensed to practice in Cass county in 1897, and located at Galveston. He was connected with a patent medicine outfit of questionable character and moved on to greener pastures.

Dr. David C. Barnett is a Cass county production, being born near Georgetown in 1839, and was educated in the public schools of the county. He studied medicine with Dr. Newland, of New London, Indiana, and practiced at Young America, Onward, Eokomo and HemJock, Indiana, and for some years past has been in active practice at Lincoln. His wife was Virginia Stevens and they have six children.

Dr. Levi Lennpn, about 1890, engaged in practice at Lincoln, but moved to Nebraska and later returned to the land of his nativity. Deer Creek township, relinquished professional work and is now a respected and influential citizen of Deer Creek township.

Dr. H. N. Parrott, born in Fountain county, Indiana, in 1867, came to Cass county in 1897, licensed to practice at Lincoln, where he remained until 1901, and moved to Burnettsville and later to Terre Haute. He married a Miss Myersin 1898, and they had two children when living in Lincoln.

Dr. James 0. Ward, born in Clinton county, Indiana, in 1844, graduated from Miami Medical College in 1867, and same year located in Galveston, where he practiced until 1869, when he moved to Peru, where he is still a leading physician of that city. He served for many years on the United States pension board. He was united in marriage to Amelia B. Clements, who died in 1910, leaving two children.

Dr. John B. Wills was born in Union county, Indiana, in 1853, came to Cass county in 1865, attended state normal school at Terre Haute, graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1880 and at once located in Lincoln in active practice ; served as trustee of Jackson township in 1886, and in 1891 moved to Franklin and then to Indianapolis, where he is now engaged in the drug business. He was married in 187& to Flora E. Campbell, of Deer Creek township, and they have several children.

Dr. M. S. Watkins, brother of A. P. Watkins, practiced for a short time in Lincoln, but left many years ago and is now reported to be living in Terre Haute, engaged in other pursuits.

When the white man first settled in Jackson township it was a wilderness, and nothing but Indian trails along which they traveled from village to village.

was the Marion and Delphi road extending through the southern part of the township from east to west. Other roads followed Indian trails until the country became improved, when the roads as a rule were straightened and placed on section lines until today Jackson township has roads on nearly every section line or half section line, with seventeen miles of stone roads and twenty-four miles of graveled roads, in addition to the township line roads on the north,. south and east, which are also graveled, so that her people can ride with ease and comfort, with farm wagon, buggy or automobile, to any section of the township without having their patience tried by sticking in the mud or a breakdown over corduroy roads of pioneer days.

This is a flourishing little town of seven hundred inhabitants, situated near the, southeast comer of the township, on the Pennsylvania Railroad and Indiana Union Traction Company's interurban line, seventeen miles from Logansport and eight miles from Kokomo.

The town was laid out in May, 1852, by James Carter, who had previously purchased the site, employed a surveyor and platted fortyfive lots on the southeast quarter of section 28, township 25, range 3 east. There has been several additions laid out since that time to accommodate the increasing population. At the time Mr. Carter laid out the original town a dense forest covered all that region except here and there a clearing. There was no railroad throu^ the township, but there was a prospect of a road being built and Mr. Carter was wise enough to anticipate the coming of the railroad to his paper town in the woods. The first house to be erected was a hewed log structure built by Qeorge Bell on the lot where F. H. Thomas now resides. In thi« log house he opened a general store, the first business house in Galveston. Prior to this, however, Thomas K. Hansberry kept a small store on his farm about one-half mile southeast of Galveston, who was evidently the first merchant in the township.

The second merchant in Galveston was Thomas Calhoun, who came soon after the town was laid out and built a log house on the east side of the railroad and sold goods for a time.

The next business firm, and a more pretentious one, was that of B. 0. Spencer & Co., who were afterward succeeded by M. B. Knowlton. Mr. Knowlton was identified with the business interests of Galveston for over twenty years, was township trustee and later moved to Logansport, where he died many years ago. B. 0. Spencer was a prominent merchant of Logansport. Other early merchants were James Thornton and John Turley, also William Floyd, George Davis, George Williams, Jerry Sutton, Martin Adams, David Culver, E. P. Myers, Felix Graham, Marshall Ellis and Dr. H. Z. Leonard.

The earliest artisans were Michael Garrigan, blacksmith; Samuel Woodington, carpenter ; Mr. Fox, plasterer ; Samuel Buzard and Daniel Myers, jacks of all trades.

Mr. Kjiowlton, father of Charles and M. B. Blnowlton, built the first mill in Galveston. It was destroyed by fire. He rebuilt the mill and started a flouring mill which blew up in 1870, killing BoUin Tucker. Another grist mill was built and operated by Mr. Forest. It was burned and never rebuilt.

About 1856 Mr. Lamb built a sawmill which was operated by him^ B. L. King, Shewman and others ; it was changed into a pump factory and finally ceased operations, and since the surrounding timber has been largely cut off the mills have all been closed. The last owners were M. H. Thomas and son.

In 1870 Qalveston was incorporated as a town, but the incorporation was abandoned a few years later as a useless appendage for as smidl a village as it was at that time ; but as time progressed the town grew and was incorporated again in 1904. The first town election was held December 28, 1904, resulting in the election of the following officers:

During the year 1905 Joseph Vernon, under the direction of the town board, established a grade for the principal streets and ordered their improvement by grading, graveling, cement curb and fiddewalks, and the following streets were improved : Griffith, Washington, Howard, Jackson, Syracuse, Main, California, Deer Creek, Water, North and Lincoln, with 2.61 miles of cement sidewalks. In 1905 W. H. Sprinkle was granted a ten-year franchise to construct a system of waterworks. This plant has a twenty-four horse power engine that gives ample pressure for fire purposes. The town has twenty-five fire hydrants paying fifteen dollars each per year, and with the volunteer fire department the town is as well protected against fires as any city. Water is taken from deep wells and is of pure quality for private consumption. Galveston lies forty feet above the bed of Deer Creek that flows along the north edge of the town, affording ample drainage for the system of sewerage that has just been completed at a cost of six thousand seven hundred dollars.

Recently the town granted the Interurban Traction Company a franchise to extend electric wires along the streets and soon Galveston will have a complete electric light system.

The present business is represented by one drug store kept by A. J. Funk, two general stores by F. H. Thomas, successor to his father, Meredith H. Thomas, who started in business here in 1865, and J. H. Burton, successor to J. H. Thomas ; two groceries by George W. McCoy and WiUard Burrows, general hardware by S. P. Bevington, agricul- tural implements, Bell Bros. ; stove and tinshop, W. H. Shirley ; harnessshop, John Eisenbrey; two elevator companies that shipped last year 874 carloads of grain, stock and other farm products; furniture store and undertaking establishment and planing mUl kept by John Thomas ; lumber yard by Galveston Lumber Co. ; three livery stables, two restaurants, jewelry store, garage and automobile dealer, three blacksmith and repair shops, three barber shops, two millinery stores, one hotel, one weekly newspaper, Galveston Leader, edited by S. E. Thurston j five physicians, Z. U. Loop, J. S. Smith, H. H. Miller, J. P. Cornell and R. H. Ross; one dentist, "W. E. Garritson; two veterinary surgeons, D. Sinager and S. 0. Goodrich; two banks. The Conwell Private Bank, established in 1900, with a capital stock of ten thousand dollars; president, G. W. Conwell ; cashier, Lyle Brown ; deposits amount to one hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.

First State Bank, organized June 7, 1912, with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars, all held by local men; president. Dr. Z. U. Loop; cashier, H. Z. Carey; deposits amount to seventy thousand dollars.

Great interest is taken in education and the town and Jackson township conduct a joint graded commissioned high school, which is noticed elsewhere. The present school board is composed of F. H. Thomas, president; "W. S. Sines, treasurer, and Dr. J. F. Cornell, secretary.

Galveston has a magnificent high school building, erected in 1910 at a cost of twenty-seven thousand dollars; four beautiful brick churches of elegant design; also electric lights, waterworks, improved streets and sidewalks; and above all, a saloonless town, makes Galveston an ideal place to live and bring up a family of children free from the blighting influence of the saloon, yet surrounded by all the luxuries of a city except that which is degrading. Galveston remonstrated the saloons out of existence in 1908, since which time each remonstrance circulated has been renewed by increased majorities, showing its citizens are progressing.

The Galveston postoflSce was raised to a third-class or presidential office in October, 1911. The postal receipts for the last fiscal year were two thousand three hundred dollars. Three rural mail routes, Nos. 13, 14 and 15, established in 1903, distribute daily mail to the farmers in all the surrounding country, something that the pioneers of seventy-five years ago never dreamed of. The present efficient postmaster is Frank R. Morrison.

In 1903 the Home Telephone Company of Logansport established a telephone exchange in Galveston which is connected with the Logansport exchange, so that patrons either in Galveston or the farmers in the surrounding country can communicate not only with each other but also with any subscriber of the Logansport exchange.

The telephone and the automobile have annihilated time and space. These modern conveniences with free rural mail delivery have put the farmer in touch with the outside world in salient contrast with the monthly mails over mud roads of seventy-five years ago.

toe members in that vicinity to work as a lodge. A charter was granted May 25, 1859, and the first oflScers were: James D. Loder, W. M.; Alexander Murphy, S. W., and Dr. T. Baldwin, J. "W. Bro. Murphy was the leader in the lodge for sixteen years. He was bom in 1822 and died in 1886. The lodge owns and controls the hall in which they meet. The present oflBcers are ; C. N. Hyatt, W. M. ; Prank Coulter, S. W. ; Carl Logan, J. W.; N. W. Graves, treasurer, and C. E. Faucett, secretary. The lodge is prosperous and has a membership of ninety.

Galveston Lodge No. 225, I. 0. 0. F., was organized July 8, 1861, with the following charter members : Q. *W. Harness, T. F. Marshall, S. B. Sprinkle, J. Martin, George W. Guinn, C. Griffith, D. A. Gassaway, Francis Long, I. "W. Chapin.

The lodge owns its hall, having built the third story over F. H. Thomas' store and occupied it until 1909, when they sold it and built their present hall, being the third story over the T. J. Johnson building, at a cost of two thousand three hundred dollars.

Present officers are: Hugh H. Klepfer, N. G.; A. G. Roller, V. G.; A. L. Robertson, recording secretary; John Bitler, financial secretary; J. A. McClain, treasurer.

The lodge erected a hall at an outlay of fifteen hundred dollars. The present membership is seventy-eight, officered as follows : Thomas Johnson, sachem; Truman Armstrong, senior sagamore; Walter Gabriel, junior sagamore; D. L. Klepfer, chief of records.

Amity Lodge No. 362 was organized a number of years ago. They own their hall and are in a prosperous condition, as is also Union Banner Temple No. 185, of Pythian Sisters.

Daniel Pratt Post No. 50, G. A. R., was organized March 23, 1882, by Conrad J. Stanley, of Kokomo, with the following charter members: James M. Bell, Henry M. Garritt, George W. Oden, Josiah M. Waddell, John W. McClammer, George W. Weaver, Simmons Ramsey, Dr. H. C. Gemmill, S. B. Wallace, Reed Shewman, William Murphy, A. Merrell, G. W. Stevens, G. W. Emeiy, A. H. Thomas, J. H. Bigger, J. H. Phillopy, David Culver, B. L. King, S. W. Hart, J. Shewman, H. W. Marsh, P. W. Wagoner, H. B. Rule, M. Conk, William R. Davis.

This was a creditable musical band consisting of twelve members, organized in April, 1876, with W. E. Baldwin as leader. For many years this band, with occasional changes, was a favorite in all the surrounding towns, but finally disbanded.

Galveston City Band was organized in the fall of 1912. It is composed of nearly twenty members, and under the leadership of L. 0. Goodrich is maMng rapid progress and will soon be equal to or superior to the old Thalian band.

The town of Lincoln is situated in the north central part of Jackson township on the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Indiana Union Traction Company's trolley line, running from Logansport to Indianapolis. It was laid' out by Andrew Howard and "Williamson Wright in May, 1852^ before the railroad was built through the town, although the survey had been made. The town was named for Theodore Lincoln, who was a surveyor and laid out the town near the center of section 17. Several additions have since been made to the original plat. Soon after the town was laid out, or probably before, Williamson Wright built a large sawmill and did an extensive business, as this was a heavily timber^ country, and there has always been a sawmill at the place until in recent years it has been abandoned on account of scarcity of timber. Mahlon Bell was about the last to operate the sawmill.

The first store was built by Williamson Wright and operated by Abner Flint. John Ingram, James Baker, Howard Shanks and Mahlon Bell were early storekeepers.

The first physician to locate here was Dr. H. C. Lester. He afterwards moved to Logansport, became afflicted mentally and died in LongcliflE asylum, July 16, 1898.

The present businesses of the town consists of two general stores conducted by W. A. Devinney and Devinney & Fitzer; hardware and implement store by 0. M. Shirley; grain elevator by Watkins & Gripe. The latter firm also handle coal, live stock, etc.; one blacksmith shop by James Cassingham; two barber shops by Willard Gore and Winfield Elkins.

Dr. D. C. Bamett looks after the health of the town. A fine brick school building contaioing two rooms furnish ample educational advantages, and a handsome new Methodist church where regular services are held supply spiritual food, and rich, well improved farm lands that surround the town provide abundant material food, with much to spare, which is shipped out to the general market by A. P. Watkins & Co.

A postoffice was established at Lincoln in March, 1856, soon after the railroad was completed, and J. N. Ingram was the first* postmaster. The present postmistress is Mrs. Cora Burks. One rural mail route.

No. 15, established in 1903, rxms out from Lincoln, which is a great convenience to the surrounding farmers. The present population is reported to be about two hundr^.

Jacob Myers, in 1843, became lost in the forest while out hunting, and was frozen to death a mile or two west of Galveston. (See cemetery notes.)

About forty years ago a highly respected family by the name of Kirkpatrick lived south of Galveston. Mr. Kirkpatrick was a justice of the peace. Mra Kirkpatrick, in a temi)orary mental depression, threw her body head-first into a rain barrel.

On May 11, 1908, Robert M. Catterman shot and killed James T. Brown on the latter 's farm north of Galveston two miles. Cotterman was a tenant and a dispute arose between tenant and landlord about the vacation of the farm, and Brown attacked Cotterman with' a club, when he shot Brown with a shotgun, killing him instantly. Cotterman was tried for murder in the circuit court, but was acquitted.

In 1844, when Jackson township was a veritable howling wilderness, Mrs. T. J. Edwards was left alone one night in their cabin home just south of Deer Creek and miles away from any other habitation. She was in a delicate condition and the howling of wolves around the cabin all night so frightened her that she miscarried and died from the effects. There were no roads or bridges in the township at this time and her parents rode thirty-five miles on horseback to attend the funeral. They ferried the bodies across Deer creek in a canoe, and these were the first burials in the Patterson cemetery. Mrs. Edwards was a sister to Joseph and Samuel Gray, and the husband, T. J. Edwards, is still living in Wisconsin in advanced years (1908).

Mrs. Nellie Tumpaugh, daughter of Caleb' Sprinkle, near Lincoln, in a despondent mental state, threw herself and two small boys from the interurban bridge across Deer creek into the creek, April 28, 1913, and she and one boy were drowned. The other escaped by wading ashore.

The biographies of the following residents, many of whom are dead, have been published in Helm's History in 1886, and will not be reproduced here, as they can be found by reference to that work:

Vearey Jump, son of Vearey and Nancy (Briton) Jump, was bom in the state of Delaware in 1812 and settled near Lincoln in Jackson township in 1843, when there was not a dozen houses in the township, and those were made of round logs. He was a man of energy and was always on the **jump," and no man in the township did more to clear the forest and develop the township and change a dense forest into fertile fields than Mr. Jump. He lived to a ripe old age, and while he was a modest man and never pushed himself forward, yet he exerted a quiet and lasting influence in the community where he lived for over sixty years. He died in 1903 at the age of ninety-one. He was married in Hamilton county, Indiana, in 1839, and had four children, only two of whom are living, William Jump, born in 1843, and now living on a farm near Lincoln, and Annie (Jump) Smith, residing in Galveston.

Elias Young is the oldest resident now living in Jackson towncdiip, being in his ninety-sixth year. He is a native of Pennsylvania, where he was born November 12, 1817, came to Cass county in 1850, settled at Circleville, Tipton township, and in 1850 moved to Galveston. He was a tanner and shoemaker until age compelled his retirement, and he is now cared for in the Odd Fellows' home at Greensburg, Indiana. He was twice married and has one son, Francis M. Young, living at Bunker Hill, and Edward, residing in Galveston, and a daughter, Ida Young, of Eokomo, Indiana.

Mr. Young is a remarkably well preserved man of his age and can remember the entire history and development of Jackson township from a wilderness with wild animals the only occupants, through the various stages of development up to its present high state of cultivation. Mr. Young believes in the ultimate triumph of good over evil and that all will be saved.

Daniel Terflinger was a pioneer of Jackson township and early in 1848 made an original entry of the southeast quarter of section 28, township 28, just north of Galveston. This was virgin forest untouched by the hand of man. He came to Fort Wayne, and down the *' raging canal" to Logansport, and walked through to his forest home. He carried his rifle, which defended him against wild animals and afforded a means of securing game, his principal sustenance. The deadly malaria claimed this sturdy settler in 1851, but bis widow survived and and lived to be eighty-eight years old. They were the parents of three sons and eight daughters, only four of whom are now living. One son, Benjamin F., was a member of the Seventy-third Indiana Regiment and died in the service of his country. The second son, Jonah V., was a Union soldier in the Twenty-fifth Ohio Regiment, and at the close of the war settled down on the original homestead, but his occupation was teacher and minister. He was married to Miss Laura Beckett in 1873, and they have two children, Fannie (deceased) and Dr. Fred W. Terflinger, now superintendent of Longcliff Insane Asylum.

Daniel Terflinger, grandfather of Dr. F. W. Terflinger, was of German descent. His father served in the Revolutionary war under General Greene and died in Seneca county, Ohio, in 1860 at the advanced age of one hundred and four years. In religious matters the Terflinger family were divided between the United Brethren and the Methodists. The original tract of land entered by Mr. Terflinger, Sr., has never changed hands, but is still owned by descendants of the original purchaser.