Greene County, Indiana - Chapter 31, 1875

(TJr'HE first old settlers in Washington township were John H-addon> Henry and Madison Collins, old James Harrison. Benjamin Stnrtbrd, Jr.. William ]*oniroy and John Crooks, Afterwards came John Secman, our first Greeue county Sheriff. Old Bailey Johnson, the sheriff of Sullivan County, done the business for Greene county before Mr. Seeraan's time. Next came Peter Harrington, John and Edward Goldsbcrry and Jacob Pitzer,the onelegged man,

Black creek heads Up in the Goose pond and marsh, and was named for the dark color of its clear water, being the color of dark glass. Buck creek was the place for all the old hunters to kill deer, but is not the Buck creek of Stockton township. Black marsh, Buck creek, Goose pond and Dog island are common household words among old settlers. Morgan prairie was first called the Hockett prairie, and was owned bj' the Dixons. The old settlers raised good cotton crops for many years at the George Morgan big farm, west of Paw-paw bend on White river. Roll' ing prairie and Half-moon « f Four* mile prairie are prairies in and about Swit7, and Lyons stations. Where Marco now stands was the old Indian camp ground, sixty years ago.

Mr. John Haddon first settled on the Morgan prairie and afterwards he killed his mother neai' Carlisle while he was drunk, and then ran off to Texas. Henry Collins was the fathef of Elisha Collins, and died several years ago in Hlinois. John Seemau first settled in the bottom close to Buck creek. The first elections were held at old Benjamin Stafford's on the old Stafford farm.

John Crook was born irv Jefferson county, Kentucy, and married Su?an Winer, and they had three children when Mrs. Crook died. Afterwards he married J»Ii.?s iNfary Stafford, a sister to Benjamin Stafford, and they had nine children, five boys and four girls. Aaron Haguman was born in the Indian-a Territory, in what is now Floyd county; in 1814. He came to Greene county in 1825, and married Miss Nancy Crook, daughter of -John Crook, our old Sheriff. Mr. Haguman and wife raised eight children, five boys and three girls. The old man died in 1864, and was buried at the old Stafford cemetery, just east of Marco.

Samuel Plummer was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, and married Kebecca Evans. They had three children, two girls and one bovi Mr. Plummer died about thirty years ago on Licking river. The son, Mr. Alexander PTummer, was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, and came from there to Owen county, Indiana, about 1825, and then to Greene county in 1830, where he married

Miss l^ancy Plummer of another friniil}' of that r.ame. Alexander Plummer first settl-ed in Fairplay township. Mrs. Plutomer had ten children and raised seven of them to be grown. Mrs. Plummer died and the husband married Mrs. jMary Rol- Hson some years since. They live on the Marco and Bloomfield road five miles from Bloomfield. Mr. Alexander Plummer has been otir County Surveyor for near twenty years past, and he has made more farms and rolled more big log heaps than any other man of his age. He has also killed more deer than anybody except old Emanuel Hatfield. He has a bear's tooth and a pen-knife fifty years old.

Ambrose Rollison, a farmer fifty years -old, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, and married Sarah Spencer. They had ten children, seven boys and tbree girls, and they live on the Marco and Bloomfield road.