Randolph County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1914 (part 1 of 20)

Biography

Thomas Addington, Sr., was born in 1778; married Tamar Smith in 1807 (who was born in 1786). He died in 1839, aged sixty-one years, and she died in 1845, aged fifty-nine years. They moved to W^y^^ county, Indiana, in 1807, three years before Wayne was a county, and nine years before Indiana was a state. There were then only three counties in Indiana territory, viz., Knox,- Clark and DearborU' They came to Randolph county, Indiana (Sparrow creek), in 1834. He and his wife rode horseback from North Carolina to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1807; they had during their lives thirteen children^,

Rev. R. Brandriff, Piqua, Ohio, was born about 1800; he became, a preacher very young, and, in 1822, was appointed to the Greenville circuit by the annual conference, in session at Marietta, Ohio, September, 1822 ; his colleague was Moses Crume, arid the presiding elder was Alexander Cummins, and the circuit belonged to the Miami district. In 1822 the Greenville circuit included all of Preble and Darke counties, Ohio, all of Randolph and part of Wayne county, Indiana.

Mr. Brandriff states the matter thus : "We traveled from Chenoweth's, in Darke county, Ohio, to a brother Canada's (William Kennedy's), a few miles from Winchester, from there to Winchester. Winchester was then right in the woods, a very new place. My recollection is that there were two streets running at right angles, and on the northwest corner, was a log house, at which I preached. I think the name of the man was Odle, at any rate he was father-in-law of George Ritenour, at whose house we preached on the Mississinewa, near Deerfield. From this place I went to Sumwalt's, on White river. The good people had blazed the trees from Ritenour's to Sumwalt's, and I followed them as my road. From this place I went to Hunt's, and from Hunt's I followed an Indian trail to the East fork of White river, as there were no roads in that direction. When I arrived at Whitewater, I found a farm and a kind family who entertained me. I made their acquaintance, obtained permission to preach in their house, formed a class and had it as a regular preaching place. The family was one by the name of Williams. Insco Williams, the painter and proprietor of the Bible Panorama, which was so celebrated many years ago, and which was burned at Philadelphia, was a son of this family, and so also was Doctor Williams, now of Kansas. From here we went to Wiggins', or New Garden, or iMewport, as since called. From there we went to New Paris, and preached in the house of John Cottom, who has since been a resident of Winchester. I will only add here that I am the first Methodist who ever preached in Richmond, Indiana. It was in the summer of 1822; some brother on the Oxford circuit, which I was then traveling, made the arrangements. They had heard of the boy preacher, and desired that I should visit them. A friend entertained me. I preached in a small school house, and was astonished at the interest the good Quaker took in me."

Simeon Brickley, Maxville, was born in 1822, in Preble county, Ohio; came to Randolph county, Indiana, in 1843; married Eliza Ellen Mclntyre; had four children, including two married daughters. Mr. Brickley was a farmer, a Methodist and a Republican ; he was also a lime-burner, owning a

Splendid lime quarry on the banks of and on the bed of White river; he burned as many as eighteen to twenty kilns in a single year, from 600 to 800 bushels in a kiln. The other kilns in the neighborhood were smaller. There were three sets of kilns - Brickley, Mclntyre, McNees.

Stephen Clayton, born in 1788, in Maryland; married Mary Chiven's; came to White River about 1822, entered 120 acres of land west of the "Boundary;" he had eight children; seven grew up. He died in 1834, and his wife in 1859.

James Clayton (brother of Stephen), born in Maryland in perhaps 1798; came to Randolph county in 1822; married Abigail Way (sister of Paul W. _ Way) ; they had no children; he lived many years on his farm west of Winchester, afterward moving to Winchester, to Middleboro, and finally to Newport, where he died some years ago. His wife died at Winchester, in January, " 1880, while on a visit there.

Thomas Clevenger, White River, was the son of Jonathan and Sarah ^^Clevenger, of Warren county, Ohio, both of whom died in 1870; he was the - third of ten children and was born in 1816, in Warren county, Ohio, and moved to Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1829; married Mary A. Clarion, in 1839; moved to Randolph county, Indiana, one mile from Arba, in 184*5, 3-nd to White River township, five miles east of Winchester, in 1863, where he resided for years.

The Coatses

John Coats, the first of the name in Randolph, was the son of William Coats, one of the three brothers emigrants from Scotland, above named. William Coats was the son of Philip Coats, of Scotland, and a sister of William Coats was the mother of Rev. John Coats, of Coatsville. William Coats . had a large family, at least seven of whom came to the northwest from Carolina, as follows: John Coats, William Coats, Joseph Coats, Hepsy (Wright), was born in Carolina in 1786; married Sally Wright,, daughter of Thomas Wright, in 1807 (she was born in 1789) ; they came to Ohio soon afterward, and, in 1 819 moved upon White river, Randolph county, Indiana. John Coats and Thomas Wright, his father-in-law, lived for awhile near Covington, Ohio, upon what are now the famous and valuable stone quarries at that place. While residing in that region the Indians were troublesome. There was a fort not far off, and they moved into it for safety, the mother leading one child by the hand and carrying the other at her breast.

were emptying meal into a barrel. An old Indian came into the house. He said nothing, coming in unobserved, till he reached the middle of the room. Sis hunting knife had slipped around in front, and, as he undertook to move it back upon his hip, they thought he was going to kill them. The children were lying on the bed, and the v^^omen forgetting all about them, ran wildly past the Indian out of the house. Recollecting the children, they rushed back, and, seizing them, ran with the whole group, five in all, to the shelter of the fort. Mr. Wright coming home in the evening found them there, and was much surprised at the fact. The Indian was peaceable and intended no harm.

These families came to Dadke county, perhaps in 1809, and lived there during the war of 1811-13, undergoing the manifold hardships and dangers of that- perilous time. Messrs. Coats and Wright removed, in 1819, to Randolph county, Indiana, and, in process of years, their descendants became very numerous in that whole region, as well as elsewhere. John and Sally Coats were the parents of fourteen children; seven were born before their emigration to Randolph county, Indiana, and seven afterward.

John Coats entered eighty acres of land three miles east of Winchester; he was a farmer. and a chair-maker. At one time he held the office of justice of the peace, and his jurisdiction extended at first to Fort Wayne, and possibly, to the northern limit of the state. Mr. Coats was county commissioner during several years. In religious connections he was a Friend; in politics, in ojden time, a Whig, and in later years, a Republican. His death occurred in 1878, he being ninety years old; his wife had preceded him three years, her death taking place in 1875, and her age being eighty-six years. Twelve of their children grew up and were married and had families. All the sons and all the sons-in-law but one were Republicans. A reunion of the connection was held in the sixties at the family homestead, at which about 300 descendants of John Coats were present. Several other like gatherings have since taken place, with the attendance of hundreds of children, grandchildren, etc

A.t a reunion held near Harrisville, in the summer of 1882, at the request of Rev. John Coats, of Coatsville, nearly two hundred of the connection were present. William and Joseph Coats, brothers of John Coats, Sr., did not reside in Randolph county. These reunions are annual afifairs and are attended by hundreds.

Benjamin Cox, White River township, born in North Carolina about 1785, moved to Ohio in 1806, and to White River, east of Winchester, in the fall of 181 7; he married Ann Rhoads and had eight children - William, John, Ruth, Ann, Patience, Lydia, Mary, Benjamin. He entered land on White river and lived there till he died (in about 1852), sixty-seven years of age; he was a recorded minister among Friends; his work was acceptable and useful; his wife died in her sixty- third year; while her husband was absent on a religious mission in North Carolina (he was gone about three months). Mr. Cox also taught school, having taught the first school in the settlement, about 1820 probably.

Littleberry Diggs, White River township, was born in South Carolina in 1893; he was the son of William Diggs, Sr., and a brother of William Diggs, Jr., called "Old Billy Diggs." L. Diggs married Lydia Way, in South Carolina in 181 1. He emigrated to Randolph county in 181 7; his wife died in 1827, and he married Hannah Mendenhall, March 11, 1841, dying himself in 1846. He had eleven children, eight by his first wife and three by his second; his second wife lived a widow forty-six years, residing with Isaiah P. Watts, her son-in-law, in Winchester, and died 'September 20, 1892.

Henry Edwards, White River township, was born in Guilford county. North Carolina, March 2, 1795; married Polly Hamilton, October 18, 181 5; came to Wayne county, Indiana, in the fall of 1821, and to Randolph county in the spring of 183 1 ; died at the residence of his son, Hamilton Edwards, November 6, 1881, aged eighty-six years; six months and two days. He had been married sixty-six years, and had resided on his homestead fifty years ; he was the father of eleven children. He was, in early life, a Whig, and later an Anti-slavery man, and still later a Republican; in religion, a Friend, and in occupation a farmer.

Mr. Edwards was buried in the Friends' cemetery, at White River meeting-house, in the presence of a large and sympathizing assembly. The discourse was delivered by Rev. Nathan Butts from the text, "When a few years are gone I shall go whence I shall not return." - ^Job. xvi, 22.

Jacob Fisher, White River township, was born in Pennsylvania in 181 1; came to Randolph county, Indiana, in 1826; married Delila Ruble, in 1837; had a large family of children; resided on White river, some miles west of Winchester, and died some fifty years ago.

John Fisher, White River township, came froni Pennsylvania to Ohio, and from Ohio to Randolph county, Indiana, in 1824,; he had fifteen children; twelve lived at home at one time, a rather lively, wide-awake family, one would think. Mr. Fisher has been dead more than seventy-five years; he was a Methodist; his children have mostly moved away to the West; he lived in White River township near White river.

Cox), and afterward, Mary Pickett; he had fourteen children, eleven grown, eleven married. A. Gray entered eighty acres of land in Randolph county; moved to Iowa in 1845, ^^'^ died there in 1875. He was a farmer by occupation; in religion, a Friend; in politics, a Whig, an Abolitionist and a Republican.

Simon Gray, White River township (son of A. Gray), born in 1826 in White River; married Nancy Smith, in 1846; has had four children. He is a farmer, and a thriving business man; his residence was burned down a few years ago, but he has built another fine dwelling. S. Gray is an enterprising and influential member of religious society and of the community; he is a Friend.

Stephen Harris, born in North Carolina in 1 787 ; married Hannah Mace (who was born in 1784); came to Randolph county, in 1831, and settled east of Winchester two miles. He bought land of Samuel Cox, 160 acres for $223, entirely unimproved. He resided there nearly all the rest of his life, but died at Cherry Grove at the house of his son, William Harris, with whom he had made his home for a time. His death occurred in 1857, in his seventieth year; his wife died near Farmland in 1864, aged eighty years and three months. She, too, was residing with her son William.

Mr. Harris was a farmer, steady, sober-minded, thoughtful, industrious, upright; he was an Abolitionist and Ant'i-slavery Friend, and altogether a worthy citizen and a valuable member of society; he had five children - Benjamin, William, David, Henry, Stephen. They were all Friends and all Abolitionists, and all lived to be grown and married; they were every one born in North Carolina, and came with their father to Randolph county-

When Stephen Harris came, in 1S31, some of the settlers were as follows: Benjamin Cox, Joshua Cox, Isaiah Cox, Simon Cox; Thomas Ward, an old man, grandfather of the present Thomas Ward; Joseph Moffitt, sonin-law of Thomas Ward; Thomas Pierce, brother of Burgett Pierce, still living near Deerfield; John Cox; John Coats, an old man, father of Joseph Coats, late of Union City, Ind. ; William Coffin, an old man ; Joel Ward, brother of Joab Ward; Zachariah Hiatt, Jonathan Hiatt. These all lived east of Winchester. John Walker and Harrison Rawson had been old settlers, but they went with the Mormons.

Jonathan Hiatt, father of George Hiatt, was born in North Carolina about 1 770 ; married Rachel Williams in North Carolina ; moved to Virginia before 1805; came to Champaign county, Ohio, in 1810, with eight children,

He was a farmer, and he settled near White River meeting-house, east of Winchester, in March, 1818, entering half a section of land; he died in 1836, sixty-six years old, and his wife in 1871, aged eighty-one years, in Wabash county ; he was a Friend, a Whig and a strong anti-slavery man ; an active temperance man, a good scholar and an estimable citizen, with good reputation and highly respected. ^

Henry D. Huffman, White 'River, was born in 1803 in Virginia; came to Ohio and to Randolph county in 1820; he married Eliza A. McNees, in 1831, and 'Mary J. West in 186^; he had thirteen children; was a farmer and teacher, and entered 160 acres of land just east of the Twelve*Mile boundary; he was prominent as a teacher in that early time, having had many of the children of the pioneers under his tuition. At one of the Old Settlers' reunions, held at Winchester some years ago, when he was about seventy years old, a class was formed by him from among the members of the association, -his old "school boys," and had a "spelling bout," which excited much interest and considerable merriment. Mr. Huffman died iii 1876, in his seventy- third year.

Barnabas Hunt, White River, was born in North Carolina in 1798; came to Ohio in 1804. While there his father had his property taken because he would not join the army in 181 2. They came to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1816. Barnabas married Hannah Lewis, daughter of Evan LewiSj in 1817; his wife was born in 1802; they moved to Farmland (three miles south of it) in 1.847. He had three children. By occupation, he was a farmer; as to religion, a Friend ; in politics, a Whig, an anti-slavery rpan and a Republican. He died in 1874, being seventy-five years, two months and twenty days old.

George Johnson, born in Virginia in 1818; came to Randolph county in 1833; married Charlotte Cook, 1845; no children; moved to Winchester in 1873 ; farmer; Democrat; and a member of the town council two years.

Endsley Jones, White River, born in North Carolina in 181 o; came to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1816, and to Dunkirk, Randolph county, in 1831; rtiarried Lydia Wright, daughter of (Hominy) John Wright and sister of Solomon Wright (Cabin creek) in 1837; has had four children; bought forty acres of second-hand land; was brought up a Friend, but joined the "New Lights;" was an Abolitionist; was an active stockholder in the Underground Railroad ; once had a narrow escape from being murdered by a slave-holder in search of slaves.

Mrs. Endsley Jones - Lydia (Wright) Jones - was the daughter of John (Hominy) Wright, the youngest but one of fifteen children. Her father brought eight children with him to this county; four had come before, two married and two unmarried. Lydia was born October 5, 1817, three weeks after her father got here, September, 1817. Her father was born in. 1775, and died in 1851, aged seventy-six years. Her mother was born in 1777, and died in 1867, ninety years old, being strong in mind and memory as long as she lived.

Nathaniel Kemp, born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1813; came to Montgomery county, Ohio (near Germantown, Ohio), in 1824; married Margaret Byles, in 1835; came to White River, Randolph county (Kemp place), in 1841 ; bought 200 acres; has owned 690 acres, but it is now distributed among the children or otherwise disposed of.

In his prosperity he was energetic for the public good, and Randolph county will long have reason to remember Mr. Kemp as an enterprising, publicrspirited citizen ; he was a Whig, and a Republican.

Isaiah W. Kemp, White River, was born in 1839 in Montgomery county, Ohio; came to Randolph county in 1841 ; married Molly Wysong, and afterward Ellen Hippenhe.imer, in 1875. Mr. Kemp enlisted in Company H, Eighty- fourth Regiment; was appointed first sergeant, promoted first lieutenant and mustered out first sergeant with the regiment. Mr. Kemp was an active, thorough-going farmer and business man, and stood high among his fellow-citizens.

William Kennedy, White River, was born about 1797, and married Nancy Tharpe in 1814; they had no children of their own, but raised, partly or wholly, fourteen children; they came to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1816, and to Randolph in the spring of 181 7.

Reminiscences - Nancy Tharpe Kennedy. "My husband Xvent to Cincinnati to enter land (160 acres), and I had to stay here in the woods, all alone, miles and miles away from any white people, being only a girl of seventeen years. My husband was an orphan boy, but God kept his promise. The Indians were very thick in the vicinity. They were constantly passing to and fro. The principal trail was three-fourths of a mile south of us. I used to . be afraid, for I was just a girl of seventeen years old, and they were painted all up like fury. They were very kind, however, and we were kind to them. We would give them bread and meat, and they would be satisfied. One day one of the Indians asked my husband, 'What is your name?' 'Kennedy.' 'Well, Kennedy, no Indian ever kill you- - you kind to Indian.' I have seen great numbers of Indians. Sometimes squaws would ride along on their nice ponies. Squaws would never walk. I have known twenty or thirty Indians to pass at one time. There was one Indian who often stayed with us; he was very kind and civil. I never saw an Indian drunk in my life. Some of the Indians were white and fair.

Elisha Martin, White River, was born in 181 2, in Butler county, Ohio; married Susan Kelly in Cincintftti, in 1831 ; came to Randolph county in 1832; settled first on Salt creek, and in two years moved southwest of Win- /:hester. They had nineteen children.

John Martin, father of Mrs. Mary A. Reeder, Winchester, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1 773 ; he came to Warren county, Ohio, before 1794; was a soldier in the United States army in the Western Indian wars, being with St. Clair and General Wayne in 1794 and 1795, and with General Harrison at Tippecanoe and the Thames, in 181 1 and 1813, and with Colonel Croghan, at Fort Stephenson; he came to -Randolph county in 1822, settling one and a half miles southwest of Winchester on White river; he was a great-hunter, a regular pioneer, and when settlements became too thick he left and went to Missouri (1833) ; he died in 1839.

Robison Mclntyre, White River, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1786. He removed to Butler county, Ohio, in 1807, and came to Randolph county in 1819. In 181 3 he married Mary Taylor, who was born in 1787. They had eight children, seven grown and married. He came to Maxville in 1825, and laid out the town in 1832, which, however, was recorded in 1850. He was raised a Presbyterian, but in the West he joined the Methodists. He was an active and prominent man in the community. He died in 1871, in his eighty-sixth year, and lies buried in the Maxville cemetery. His wife died in 1854, aged seventy-two years.

Hiram Mendenhall, Unionsport, born in North Carolina in 1801, moved to Clinton county, Ohio, in 1806, and to Randolph county in 1837. He married Martha Hale in 1820, and they had ten children. He went to California in 1850 and died June 30, 1852, while on the way home from the Golden Land beneath the setting sun. He was a millwright and a miller. He built two mills and his brother, Nathan Mendenhall, built one also, where one of Hiram's mills had burnt down. The whole family were ingenious and seemed to be machinists by n'ature. Hiram Mendenhall always had two shops, a v/ood shop and a smith shop, and did his own repairing. He was led away by speculative notions at one time and was persuaded to start a "community" at Unionsport, between 1842 and 1846. Eight or ten families joined in. the movement. It continued only two or three years, ending disastrously to the parties engaged, especially to Hiram Mendenhall, who bore much, perhaps most of the expeiise of the experiment. He was a strong and earnest Abolitionist, being the one who was selected to present the famous petition to Henry Clay at Richmond, Indiana, asking him to emancipate his slaves. The design had been to make the request in a quiet, unobtrusive manner; but, when asked when he would receive the petition, Mr. Clay told them to present it in public. They did so and he employed the occasion to make what seemed to the anti-slavery men present a cruel and causeless attack upon Mr. Mendenhall and the opinions he represented, though, doubtless, the pro-slavery partisans regarded Mr. Clay's address to Mr. Mendenhall as only a richly merited and well executed castigation for what they called his ill-timed impertinence. But years have fled and joined the ages before the flood and Henry Clay and Mr. Mendenhall were summoned on the self-same day by the Judge of the living and the dead, before His dread tribunal, to give an account of their stewardship and now there is at length, after so long a time, "no slave-hunt in our borders, no slave upon our land." The Abolitionists and Mr. Mendenhall as their spokesman were extensively condemned for their supposed impudence in making their presentation in public; whereas that was Mr. Clay's own work and intended, doubtless, to enable him to make a more severe attack upon Mr. Mendenhall and the Abolitionists in general. Hiram Mendenhall was at one time an extensive landowner, being possessed of more than one thousand acres of real estate in Randolph county. The unfortunate, though brief, socialistic experiment greatly weakened his financial ability and he went to the land of gold to renew his waning fortunes, but death claimed him for its own and what availed gold, or houses, or lands ? Afar from the spot of his nativity and the home of his manhood, on board ship in the Gulf of Mexico, Hiram Mendenhall took the last look upon the scenes of earth and plunged alone into the great unseen! His wife long survived him, dying, still a widow, August 5, 1880, aged seventy-nine years one month and twentyfour days, having outlived her unfortunate husband more than twenty-two years." Henry Clay and Hiram Mendenhall died on the same day, June 30, 1852,. the one at his home at Ashland, Kentucky, the other among strangers on board a homeward bound ship in the Gulf of Mexico, falling a victim to the dreadful cholera on his journey to his home and his friends. It pleased the haughty politician, in the day of his power, to browbeat the despised Abolitionist in the time when the name was a by-word and a reproach; but the stern logic of fact has vindicated the obscure petitioner and removed the obloquy from his name and proved that, though negro property had been sanctioned and sanctified by two hundred years o£ legislation, yet it could not stand tK^ test of reason and truth and was obliged to succumb to fate. As has been stated, he died of cholera on board a steamer on his homeward voyage in the Gulf of Mexico, near Key West, on the coast of Florida. He died June 30, 1852, said to be the- same day on which Henry Clay . expired. A son who was with him on the ship at his deaith survived.

Moi-gan Mills, 'VVIiite River, born in Ohio in 1794, married Rebecca Di'iver, sister of Jacob and James Driyei:,-in 1812, They emigrated to White River in 1821, two" year^ after Mr. Sample came here. Mr. Mills" settled at first neai-' Sampletown, but, as soon as the lancis across the boundary were put into market, Mr. Mills, with hundreds of others, crossed the boundary into the new purchase in 1823. He had twelve children, eight grown. He was a farmer and belonged to the Christian (New Light) church sixty-four years. Falling from the platform of a railroad train at Farmland and bursting his skull in the fall, he died of the injury six weeks afterward. His death took place April 3, 1878, aged eighty-four years four months and five days. His wife, Rebecca Mills, died in 1872, aged seventy-seven years seven months . and sixteen days.

The Pucketts, White River. There were eight brothers of the Puckett family and seven of them were Quaker preachers, all except Joseph. Their - names were as follows : Joseph, Isom, Thomas, Zachary, Daniel, Benjamin, Richard and James.

The five first mentioned emigrated to Indiana, the first four coming in Randolph county and Daniel settling in Wayne county. They are all dead many years ago. Joseph and Isom came in 1819 and Thomas and Zachary in 1820.

Joseph Puckett was born in 1784, in North Carolina. He married Mary Garrett. They came to Clinton county, Ohio,, in 1817,^ and, two years afterward, to Randolph county. He entered land after they came. An interesting incident occurred in connection with the entry of his land showing that officials are friendly and accommodating in some eases, at any rate. He went on foot to Cincinnati and when he got there, he found that the quartersection of his choice overran so much that he lacked ten or fifteen dollars of having money enough to make the entry. There he was, a poor stranger, on foot, alone in Cincinnati, knowing not a single person in that city, and utterly at a loss what to do. The clerk who was doing business . in the receiver's oflice, learning his dilemma,. , said to him, "You need not go back without ypur land; I will lend you the money myself," and he did, and. Mr.- Puckett got the certificate for his lanci and went on his homeward way rejoir- ing. Of course he sent the money in payment of the loan as soon as he could raise it, which, however, was not a very easy task. Mr. Puckett had ten thildren, eight boys and two girls. All of them lived to be grown and married: The children were these: Tyre T., Welcome G., Benjamin, Micajah, Sylvania, Levi, Francis, Joseph, Phebe Ann and Thomas.

The Pucketts were all Friends and those that lived to the ^time of the "Separation" went with the Anti-slavery Friends. They were originally Whigs and became Republicans. The Pucketts came first to Ohio but preferred Congress title to military title and came on to Randolph. They settled near Dunkirk, entering one hundred and sixty acres apiece, paying each eighty dollars down.

Isom Puckett was one of ten children. His mother's father was Daniel Taylor, who died when one hundred and five years old. The names of the family to which Isom Puckett belonged were these: Richard, Benjamin, Isom, Betty, Anna, Zachariah, Thomas, Joseph and James. The Puckett brothers, four of whom settled in Randolph county, all entered land in White River.

Joseph Puckett, Sr., brother of Isom and Daniel Puckett, died in 1836, and his wife in 1846. He was a Friend, anti-slavery, and in early times a Whig. His son Benjamin was a physician of the Botanic school and achieved a good reputation as a practitioner, being, for many years a leading physician in Winchester.

Joseph Puckett, Jr., Winchester, was born in 1825 -in Randolph county, being the son of Joseph Puckett, Sr. Pie married Eliza Ann Muckey in 1 85 1. Mr. Puckett was a farmer's son and was brought up on the farm. He learned the carpenter's trade, following- that business for several years. He afterward became a merchant and still later was appointed United States revenue officer, holding the position four years. He adopted the fruit-growing business and practiced it for ten years, after which he was appointed cashier of the National Bank at Winchester and served in that capacity for five years, leaving it in 1878. When young, he was an Abolitionist and since the rise of the Republican party belonged to that organization.

James Pursley, White River, was born in 1807 in Virginia and came to Indiana (Randolph county) in 183 1. He was twice married. His first wife was the mother of seventeen children; his second of five. Twelve of the children lived to be married. He died many years ago.

Jesse Pursley, White River, born in 1775, in Virginia, was in the war of"i8i2; came to, Indiana about 1830; resided in Union and Franklin counties several years; came to Randolph county in 1833. He was twice married.

His first wife was Winny Yardley and, the second was Nancy May, the latter dying in 1877, seventy-six years old. He had fourteen children by his first wife and ten by the second. Fourteen lived to be married.

Jesse Reynard, White River, son of Solomon Reynard, was born in 1819, in Randolph county; married Anna Diggs, daughter of William Diggs of White River and also a native of Randolph county in 1842 and had seven children. He was an Abolitionist and a farmer, a Wesleyan and a Republican. He owned two hundred and seventy acres of land and resided east of Buena Vista. He was an intelligeftt, substantial citizen.

Solomon Reynard, White River, was born in North Carolina in 1788; came to Clinton county, Ohio, with his parents in 1805; married Rachel Green in 181 6, who was born in 1799; emigrated to Randolph county, Indiana in 181 7; settled on Eight-Mile creek, four miles west of Winchester. He had ten children and died in 1861 about seventy-three years old. He was an Abolitionist and a Republican.

William Robinson, White River, born in Washington county, Indiana, in 1 81 6; Randolph county, 1822; married Mariam Hill, daughter of Benoni Hill in 1838 and afterward Ruth (Test) Bundrant; ten children, none married but two. He resided four miles east of Winchester ; farmer, Friend.

Walter Ruble, White River, was born in Tennessee in 1790; moved to Clinton county, Ohio, in 1802; married Sarah Wright in Clinton county in 181 1 and was married twice afterward. He had eleven children.

Durant Smith, White River, was born in Jones county. North Carolina, in 1802; was taken by his parents to Stokes county, North Carolina, in 1808; married Elizabeth Keyes in 1825, who was born in 1806. Th^y fame to Randolph county in 1829 and settled at first on the farni where he continued to live until his death (fifty-one years). His wife died in the fall of 1879. They had been married fifty-four years. Their family consisted of twelve children.

John Starbuck, White River. His parents resided in Surry county, North Carolina, and he was born there. They came to Virginia in 1823 and to Randolph county in 183 1. He married Beulah Garrett; had nine children, and died in 1850. His widow is living, with her son. Welcome Starbuck, east of Buena Vista.

Leroy Starbuck, White River, son of John Starbuck and brother of Walter and Welcome Starbuck, was born in 181 7, in Stokes county. North Carolina, moved to Virginia in 1823 and to Randolph county in 183 1 ; married Mary Johnson in 1847, ^"^ has one child born in 1850. He was a Republican; a farmer, owned one hundred and sixty acres of land east of Buena

Randolph Turner, White River, was born in Virginia about 1788; married Elizabeth Heaston, daughter of Abram Heaston and sister of David Heaston; moved to Tennessee in 181 8; kept a hotel at the foot of Cumberland mountains ori the west side near Crab Orchard; went to Alabama in 1826 and died in 1828. In Alabama he was a farmer. They had seven children, three of whom came to Randolph county. Mrs. Turner, widow of Randolph Turner, came to Indiana in 1833 with her father, Abram Heaston, bringing three children. She lived with her father till he died and then with her son, William Turner, until she died in 1861, being at the time sixty-five years old.

Paul Way's family, seven in number ; John Way's family, seven in number; Armsbee Diggs and wife; John Moorman and family, six in number; and George Wilson and family, numbering five - a company of twenty-seven persons in all, came to Indiana in 1817. The Ways started from South Carolina in the fall of 181 6 and the company arrived in White River March, 1817, snow ten inches deep. [Note - John Moorman and George Wilson stopped on Greensfork, southwest of Lynn.] Snow fell on them at the top of the Blue Ridge and there was snow all the v^ay to White River, melting off in April. They crossed the Ohio on the ice at the foot of Main street, Cincinnati. They came by Richmond, Newport, Williamsburg, Cherry Grove (Brocks and Frazier lived near Cherry Grove) ; from, Cherry Grove the route was through the woods with no track for fifteen miles. John Way; father of Jesse Way, stretched a tent and the family lived in it all summer,

William Way, Sr., White River, born in 1756, came to Randolph county, in the spring of 1817. He had ten children. He settled below Winchester. He was a Friend, a Whig and died in 1839. Several of his children were somewhat noted. Paul W. Way, county agent, surveyor, hotel-keeper, etc., died in Winchester; John Way, blacksmith, died in Winchester; Henry H. Way, physician, died in Illinois; Matthew Way died in Carolina; Hannah, wife of Tarlton Moorman, mother of twelve children, died in Carolina in 1877; Abigail, wife of James Clayton, died at Winchester in 1880, eightythree years old ; Lydia, wife of WilHam Diggs, died many years ago ; Mary, mother of Dr. Beverly, of Winchester.

John Way, father of Jesse Way, Winchester, blacksmith, was born in North Carolina; married Patience Green in North Carolina and they came to Randolph county on White river in the spring of 181 7. They had seven children.

John Way was a blacksmith in South Carolina; a farmer from 1817 to 1830 and a blacksmith from 1830 to the end of his life. He entered one hundred and sixty acres five and a half miles west of Winchester and lived there till 1830, then moved to Winchester and died there in 1856, his wife dying also in 1858. He was a Friend, Whig, Abolitionist, "Republican.

Paul W. Way came to White River in 181 6. He was a famous man, active and prominent. He was county agent, county surveyor, many years, etc., etc. He surveyed the town jjlat of Winchester, laid out the state and county roads, etc. He was justice of the peace, farmer, hotel-keeper in Winchester, etc. Many an old lawyer and judge remembers the times at Paul Way's tavern. Paul Way died in 1856, age, seventy-one years. He was a' Whig, an active, enterprising citizen, and greatly esteemed among his felfow-townsmen and by the public at large. He had four children.

William Way, Jr., brother of H. H. Way, emigrated to Randolph county in 1817; moved to Newport (Fountain City), Indiana, and many years afterward to Wisconsin. He was twice married; had several children and died in Wisconsin at a ripe old age. He was a Friend, a Whig, an Abolitionist, an anti-slavery Friend and a Republican. He was throughout his life a farmer and possessed the esteem of his fellow-citizens.

Jacob' A. White, White River, was born in 1793, in Rockingham county, Virginia. He came to Preble county, Ohio, marrying there Mary Neff, sister of Heni-y H. and John Neff. Mr. White emigrated to.. Randolph county about 1822. He had ten children, all of whom were grown. He died in November, 1848, having been taken in a buggy, a few days before his death, to the polls to cast his vote for General Taylor and being in the fifty-fifth year of his age.

David Wysong, White River, was the- son of Valentine Wysong. He was born in Virginia in 1799 and came with his father to Randolph county in 1817 or 1818. He married Eliza Irvin, daughter of John Irvin. They had twelve children.

Abigail (Way), wife of James Clayton, lived for many years west of Winchester, some years in Winchester, also at Newport (Fountain City), Indiana. Her husband, James Clayton, died at Newport. Mrs. Clayton was a woman of high intelligence, sterling integrity and firm devotion to principles. She had no children, though she had been married more than fifty years.

John Conner, Winchester, was born near Atlanta, Georgia, in 1801. He came to Cincinnati in 1814, and learned the tinner's trade, marrying in Greene county, Ohio and moving to Randolph county, in 1831; kept store awhile wiUi his brother, William Conner. John Conner rented forty acres of land near Lynn; moved to Winchester in 1835 and to Portland in 1840, living near the latter place on a farm south of the -Big Salamonie river and in 1857 returned to Winchester. He began in 1835 to carry the United States mail from Winchester to Fort Wayne and continued that employment till 1861. Enlisting in the army in the fall of 1861, he died near Atlanta, Georgia, in 1863, in sight of the place at which he was born. Mr. Conner had three children; his wife dying in 1874 by, a collision with a railroad train at the age of seventy-nine years. Mr. Conner was an old-time Democrat but he became a Republican in i860. His Hfe was one of great and peculiar hardship, transporting the mail over the northern route, mostly on horseback, through mud and frost, fording and swimming creeks at times in the earlier period, sleeping in the woods one night each trip between Winchester and Fort Wayne. For a few years he carried loads of silver for the entries of land at the Fort Wayne Land Office. In some cases, thousarfds of dollars were taken at one trip. Edward Edger, then postmaster of Deerfield, "stated that at one. trip in about 1837, Mr. Conner had two thousand dolars (in silver) stowed away in his mail bag."

Hannah (Mendenhall) Diggs, Winchester. Her great-grandfather's name was Mordecai Mendenhall, living in North Carolina. The whole connection were millers and millwrights and he among the rest. ' Her grandfather, Stephen Mendenhall, was born about 1750 and raised thirteen children to be grown and married. He came to Richmond about 18 14; moved to Clinton county,, Ohio, soon afterward and died there about 1822. Her father was Nathan Mendenhall. He was born in North Carolina (Randolph or Guilford county) in 1773; came to Highland county, Ohio, in 1806; moved to Clinton county, Ohio, and remained in that county till 1837; came in that year -to Randolph county and settled near Unionsport. He was married in North Carolina to Ann Harlan, who was born in 1772. They had nine children.

Hannah (Mendenhall) Diggs was born in 181 1; married Littleberry Diggs in 1841 and has had three children. Her mother's name was Harlan, who was the daughter of Enoch and Edith Harlan, North Carolinians. His father was William Harlan, son of Ezekiel Harlan, son of George Harlan, son of James Harlan. Enoch Harlan had ten children, born between 1770 and 1792. Rebecca (Harlan) Hampton, daughter of Enoch Harlaii and aunt of Hannah Mendenhall.

The ether children of Enoch Harlan were: William, born October 6, 1771, died 1844, aged sevent}'-three years'; Anii, born October 19, 1773, mother of Hannah Mendenhall, died 1857, aged eighty-four years ;. Nathaniel, born October 9, 1775, died 1824, aged forty-nine years; Jonathan, September 7, 1777, died 1846, iaged sixty-nine years; David, born January 2, 1780, died 1 87 1, aged ninety-one years; Solomon, born February 13, 1782, died 1869, aged eighty-seven years; Hannah, born March 20,' 1784, died 1842, aged fifty-eight years; Enoci, born February 26, 1786, died 1866, aged eighty years; John, born May 9, 1790, died 1876, aged eighty-six yeai-s; Rebecca, born August 3, 1792, living in Iowa, aged eighty-nine years. [1882.]

Solomon Harlan, a son of Enoch Harlan, and uncle of Hannah Meiidenhall, born February 13, 1782, had children as follows: Rebecca Ann, John M., Dp,vid Faris, William Foster, Rachel Fallis, Jonathan, Solomon Haynes and Jane Faris.

Emily Jane Harris, Winchester, wife of Dr. J. M. Harris, died at Winchester January 15, 1881, aged fifty-two years; she was bom in 1829, being the daughter of David and Jane Hampton. David Hampton came from Ohio (Warren county) to Randolph county in 1818. They had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. Emily Jane was one of the students at the first opening of Earlham College, near Richmond, Indiana.

Abram Heaston, near Winchester, was born in Germany about 1755; came tp America and to Virginia before he was grown; married Matilda Short; emigrated to Randolph county in 1833, settling fliree miles south of Winchester, and purchasing land. He was jiearly seventy years old when he came to the west, and died in about a year (about 1834) ; his wife died in Virginia ; he had seven children. Five of them came to Randolph county, viz., Evelina, David, Samuel, Elizabeth and Virginia; he was a farmer and a tanner, and followed the business of a tanner till he came to this county ; he was a Presbyterian and a Democrat. Abram Heaston was the maternal grandfather of William Turner, formerly residing near Salem, now near Camden, Jay county, Indiana.

Anna Maria Baker (Butterworth, Moore), Winchester, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 181 3; in 1832 she married James Butterworth,. who was an Englishman, having been born in that country in 1810; he was a mechanic, and removed from Baltimore, successively to Pittsburg, Dayton, Richmond, and finally, in 1836, to Winchester; they had four children, who all lived in Randolph county, three of the four being residents of Winchester.

Mr. Butterworth was killed in 1845 by the bursting of a cannon. It had been used by one of the parties in the campaign of 1844, and had Been taken arid spiked and hid by the other party in a straw stack; and, upon being fqimd several months afterward, in the efiforts by Mr. Butterworth to "unspike" the gun, it exploded, and Mr. Butterworth lost his life. His widow married Mr. James Moore soon after, in 1846, with whom she lived till his .death, in 1875; she then resided in Winchester with her son-in-law, W. W. Canada, Esq., who married her youngest daughter, Carrie E. Moore.

Harvey Patty, late .of Winchester, was boirn in Ohio ; came to Randolph county in 1835; married, first, Mq^tha Jane Armfield, 'and then Malinda Mauisby; he had five children; his first wife died in 1848, and he died in 1856. He kept store in Huntsville; afterward he moved to Winchester and kept the Franklin House hotel; he finally went to Economy, and, while he was preparing to go to Kansas, he fell sick at Economy, and died there in 1856. He was an early Abolitionist; had been a Whig, was a strong temperance advocate, and every way an estimable and excellent man.

Ernestus Putman, father of Mrs. Edward Edger, was a resident of V^irginia, working at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, during the war of 1812, and came to New Madison, Darke county, Ohio, from Washington City, in . 1 819 ; he was the father of ten children.

Mary (Martin) Reeder, Winchester, was born in 1798, April 16, in Hamilton county, Ohio; she was married, in Warren county, Ohio, in 181 5, to David Reeder, who died in 1821; she came to Randolph county in 1822. Mrs. Reeder resided in Winchester over sixty years. Every house now standing in Winchester had been built sipce she came to the town. She lived all that time on the same lot, on South Main street, on the same premises with her son, Martin A. Reeder. The building east of Riley Hiatt's hardware store was (part of it) , built about the same time that Mrs. Reeder settled in the town.

Peter Reinheimer, Winchester, was born in Schiiylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1S15; came to Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1837, and tb Germantown, Indiana, in 1838, and to New Paris, Ohio, in the same year; took a horseback trip to Philadelphia in November, 1839; returned to Centerville, Indiana, in March, 1840; married Elizabeth Irwin in 1841; went to New Paris. Ohio, in 1840, and moved to Winchester, Indiana, in 1865.

Nathan T. Butts was born on the 25th day of July, 1838, in Randolph county, Indiana. His parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Butts, came to Indiana frona Ohio in 1834. Mr. Butts was elected to the Legislature of Indiana in- 1872 and was an earnest worker in the^cause of temperance. The "Baxter

Liquor Law" was prepared by Mr. Butts and Mr. Baxter, representative irom Wayne county ; the local option clause in this law was the work of Mr. Baxter, himself, hence it took the name of Baxter, rather than Butts. It was sometimes known as the "Baxter-Butts Bill." Mr. Butts was chairman of the Committee on Temperance and made the most effective speech of any in favor of his temperance bill, and it was due to him, more than anyone else, that the bill became a law.

James Clayton, born in Kent county, Maryland, August 8, 1819, was the son of Stephen and Mary Clayton, who located in Randolph county in 1820. The former died iii 1834, the latter in 1858.

William H. Demory, a colored man, was the son of John and Sarah Derhory, was born in Guilford county. North Carolina, July 4, 1826. His father and mother were slaves. His mother obtained her freedom from her master when she was eighteen years of age. His father remained in slavery until 1826, when he ran away and came to this state and county. His escape was fraught with many exciting incidents; at one time he was captured but succeeded again in regaining his freedom. Mr. Demory paid a great deal of attention to horticulture. He had a good education, having been educated in Oberlin College, Ohio.

David Heastori, son of John and Mary Heaston, was born in Virginia February 3, 1792. His parents moved to Montgomery county, Ohio, when he was nine years of age and entered the land now occupied by the National Soldiers' Home, near Dayton.

Amos Hall was born in Clinton county, Ohio, September 4, 1839. ^'^- Hall was identified with the county as the superintendent of the infirmary, an account of which' is given elsewhere.

Elias Kizer was born in Virginia in 1800, and came to Randolph county in 1821, locating near the present site of Stone Station. In 1831 he removed to his farm, north of Winchester, where he remained until his death, in 1867. In 1824 he married Margery Ward, to whom were born three sons, Thomas W., Henry and Caleb. Mr. Kizer was one of the early pioneers of the county, and for more than forty-five years was prominently identified with its development and improvement. He took the contract for carrying United States mail between Winchester and Fort Wayne; sometimes he made the, trip himself, but more often he hired someone to do it for him. Mr. Kizer kept a hotel in Winchester for a number of years. He served the county as commissioner and was a "Jackson Democrat."

Station, in Ward township, and was a prominent citizen of this county in its pioneer period and later history. In 1831 the family removed to the farm north of Winchester, now owned by the subject of this sketch. Here the latter passed the days of his boyhood and youth, attending the school in the winter, and working on the farm during the remainder of the yean When a young man, he became a clerk in the store of Jesse Way, at Winchester, and at a later date embarked in the retail grocery trade for himself. Two years later he engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he continued for three years, resuming the grocery business at the end of that time. Subsequently he became a farmer and grain dealer, following this enterprise until 1878. He is a competent business man, and by a life of energy and activity has acquired a comfortable fortune.

At various times in his life, Mr. Kizer has been called to occupy public positions of honor and trust. Toward the close of President Fillmore's administration, he was appointed postmaster at Winchester, but was displaced by Pierce, the successor of Fillmore. In business he is prompt, energetic and honorable, and has won many friends, among whom he is highly esteemed. He was one of the first members initiated into Winchester Lodge No. 121, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been for years a prominent Odd Fellow.

Although not himself a church member, he has contributed liberally to the support of churches in the community, while his private and public life has been moral and upright. He has been married - ^first, to Miss Susannah Way, daughter of Jesse Way, Esq., on the 4th of January, 1846. Ten children came to bless this union, six of whom are now living. His wife died January 15, 1874, and on the 4th of January, 1876, he wedded Miss Ann Rebecca Weaver. Within five years, however, he was again called to mourn the death of a devoted and loving wife. She fell a victim of consumption on the i2th of January, 1881. On the 22d of December, 1881, he was united in marriage at Lawrence, Kansas, with Mrs. Alice M. Allen. Mr. Kizer was closely identified with the management of Fountain Park cemetery. No man could have been more devoted to the interest of any organization than he was in Fountain Park. Mr. Kizer was a very popular man, known perhaps as well as any man in the county, and his burial was attended by the largest number of people ever assembled for a similar purpose in Fountain Park.

David Lasley was born in Pennsylvania, April i, x8oo. He was the oldest of a family of eleven children. They moved to Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1814 and to Randolph county in 1819 and purchased the farrti south of Winchester, wliere he lived tintil his death. He was father of Daniel Lasley, county superintendent of public schools, for six years. He married Hannah Parker in the fall of 1827.

Other prominent early citizens were George Hiatt, ElwoodHiatt, Job Hinshaw, Edmund Hinshaw, Eli Haworth, John W. Jarnigah, Joshua M. , Johnson, Peter Lasley, Jacob Lasley, Philip Lykins, William Monks, Tarlton Moorman, Stephen Moorman, Robinson Mclntyre, Henry T. Mclntyre, Joseph Monks, Thomas McGuire, ^yre T. Puckett, Calvin Puckett, Nathan Puckett, John Pickett, John Richardson, William Ruble, Nathan Reynard, Walter Starbuck, William Starbuck, Charles Summers, Andrew Smith, Simpson Scott, John Tisor, John Van Pelt, Edward Wright, David Wysong, Harvey Wysong, and scores of others whose names we have not been able to learn.

Washington township contains about forty-four squares miles, being eight miles north and south' and five and a half miles east and west,. The southern part lies upon Greensfork and its two main branches and various smaller ones, and the north part upon the headwaters of White river and Salt, Sugar, Sparrow and Eight Mile creeks. The valley of Greensfork is a fine body of land, excellent and fruitful from the very first opening of the country; and, by the industry and thrift of the early settlers and the activity of their successors, that region has become the very garden of Randolph county. In fact, the whole townhsip is a flourishing and prosperous region. The settlement of Washington was next after that of Greensfork. The first occupation of Greensfork was during 1814. It is not certainly known that any settlers came into W^ashington township in 18 14, though two entries of 160 acres each, both made by the same person, were made in 1814, one in May and the other in October. Seven entries were made in 1815 by five persons, in the order named : Curtis Clenney; Obadiah Harris, John Ozbun, Paul Beard and George Frazier. Whether these came first, and, if so, which one, is not now known.

The names of the principal pioneers of Washington township will appear in the following list of entries, made up to August,, 1827, though, of course, this does not determine the dates of settlement, nor the actual settlers, as they may have been here either before or after the entry, or not at all.

'dren). In Greens fork there are 49 Bowens, and others still occur with great frequency. Other names, moreover, that were very frequent in pioneer days, have nearly disappeared.

Washington Entries

The preponderating religious element at the first settlement of the township was Quaker. A large body of the pioneers belonged to the Friends, and, in a short time, two meetings were established, viz., Lynn and Cherry Grove,, which have been maintained in a vigorous and prosperous existence to the present time. Other societies, ^ also, found early footing in that region. Methodist "circuit riders" threaded the whole country, proclaiming redemption through a crucified and risen Savior. A Presbyterian church existed in 1846, and for some years before and after that time, called Liberty church. Other churches have been formed and maintained vvith a more or less vigorous growth for many years past at Bloomingsport and Carlos and Pleasant Hill.

Bloomingsport. - This town is the second oldest in the county, having been laid out in 1829. Though so old, its growth was never rapid; still, considerable business has been done at the place. The proprietor of the town was Nathan Hockett. Alfred Blizzard built the first house. Mr. Beeson kept the first store. Dr. Paul Beard was the first physician in the region. There was no physician in Bloomingsport for many years. Dr. Gideon Frazier lived in the village a long while ago. Other physicians have been Dfs. Gore, Strattan, Kemper, Good, Coggeshall, etc. Merchants have been Messrs. _ Beeson, Comfort, Ballard, Budd, Hyatt, Wright, Coggeshall, Hockett, etc. There have been a potter's shop, a wheelwright's shop, a saw-mill and a gristmill, There have been two churches - Methodist and United Brethren. The latter has been abandoned.

Bloomingsport, like most of the interior towns in the county, is much decayed, and its business has greatly decreased. It is finely located in the midst of an excellent country, and many active and enterprising farmers reside in the region.

Lynn. - The town was laid out by Daniel Freestone in 1847 and later in 1850 was replatted by Philip Brown. It is located about one-half mile frorn. the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad and is today one of the progressive towns of the county. When the railroad was built a half a mile to the west another town. was built up near the depot which for a time interfered somewhat with the growth of the town, proper, but of late years the old town has become a fixture and today it is in a flourishing condition. It has all kinds of business represented there and supports a bank as well. It is situated in a very rich fertile district and is supported by a progressive class of people and contains many beautiful homes and churches. The high school at Lynn is not only a credit to the town but to the county as well. It has a population of 1,200.

Rural. - Location, Sections 9 and 16, on the Richmond & Grand Rapids railroad between Winchester and Lynn. The towa was started about 1870, on the completion of the railroad from Richmond. Rural has one church andstore and elevator conducted by Ernest Study. There is no pike, and not even a cross-road, but only an ordinary public road crossing the railroad. The village is so healthy that no physician can live there. The distance to the nearest graveyard is four and a half miles.

Snow Hill. - There is a locality called Snow Hill about three miles north of Lynn, on the pike toward Winchester at the crossing of an east and west road. There used to be a store at that point but there never was any town. The store has been long discontinued.

Hawkin's Station. - On Grand Rapids railroad, not incorporated in sections 16 and 21, one mile south of Rural and three miles north of Lynn; there is a switch and a station and a cattle-pen from which to load stock, but no

Other sign, of a town. It is sometimes called Snow Hill Station because its location is the nearest railroad point to (old) Snow Hill and one iftile west of the point that formerly went by that name.

Springboro. - Curtis Beals, proprietor. Location, southeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 29, township 19, range 14, between Bloomingsport and Winchester, northwest of Lynn four miles (supposed to be Joseph- Gess) ; twenty-eight lots; recorded February 15, 1834; town extinct.

West Lynn. - On the railrSkd, west of Lynn. Benjamin Hunt, proprietor; seventy-four lots. The town was laid out in 1873 by Benjamin Hunt on the Richmond railroad, half a mile west of Old Lynn. There is but little growth at the new station, the business, of which there is considerable, clinging with much tenacity to the old town. »

James Abshire was born August i, 1777; canie to the West early; was in the Indian wars, being once three days without food except black-havi^; settled in Randolph county, northwest of Cherry Grove meeting-house in abovit 1 82 1, and resided there till his death in 1868, a very aged man, ninetyone years old. He had a large family some of whom and among them two of his sons, Isaac and Berry, are still living in the same neighborhood. [1882.]

James Abshire was in pioneer days a famous hunter and in later life he, delighted greatly in recounting his adventures with the wild creatures of the forest. Once in hunting near a pond, he heard some animal rustling among the bushes. Watching for the creature, as he sat there rifle in hand, out peered the head of the beast, when lo! it was a bear. A bullet from the trusty weapon suddenly put an end to the life of the savage monster and added one more trophy to those already gained by the veteran hunter. His acquaintance with the woods was thorough and extensive and he knew the haunts of every herd of' hogs in the region and wheii a settler wished to find his porkers all he had to do was to go and ask old Father Abshire and the locality would be pointed out at once, or the stalwart hunter would set out as a guide to the identical spot where that particular herd had its habitat and its lodging-place.

Mr. Abshire spent his youth among the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia. At the age of twenty-three he married Elizabeth Overholtz. Soon aftervyard he emigrated to Preble county, Ohio, his goods being brought through the forests in a one-horse wagon. October 8, 1812, he enlisted in the United States army under Capt. Richard Sloan, Sixth Regiment, Fifth Brigade, First Division Ohio militia. They "were stationed on the frontiei at Fort Nesbitt, in the vicinity of Eaton, Preble county. He served till April 8, 1 81 3. Once, while on a scout, he was lost arid lived on nothing but black- Kaws for three days.

In the winter of 1821, he moved with his family to Randolph county, settling one mile northwest of Lynn on the west side of Mud creek where stood a dwelling having neither floor, windows nor doors. Arriving in the night, during a severe snow-storm, they , built huge fires and . camped out. The next day the house was made habitable and they took possession of their domicile. In the spring they made their clearing and before long set out an orchard which is living yet, In 1828 he moved to the farm upon Which his residence continued till his death, in 1868, at the ripe age of ninety-one years. His children were eight - Aaron, Nancy, Mary, Chloe, Isaac, Abner, Elizabeth, James B.

Travis Adcock, south of Lynn, east of the Johnson schoolhouse entered the first piece of land in that region in May, 1814, shortly after Thomas, Earker came into the woods west of Arba; but when Adcock moved to that wilderness we do not know. He may have come the first on Greens fork. He was one of the first jurymen (in 1818). He had his name changed, for some reason, from Adcock to Emery. ,

James Barnes was born in Wayne county, Indiana, in 181 7; came to Randolph county in 1841 ; married Harriet Mullen in 1838; has had eleven children. His father was John Barnes, who came to Wayne county near Randolph line in the spring of 1817.

William Barnes was born in 181 5, in North Carolina. He came to Wayne county, Indiana, in 181 7. He married Sarah Hogston in 1834 and moved to Randolph county in 1837, first to Greensfork township and then to Washington township. They had six children living. He was a farmer, a Methodist and a Democrat.

Joseph Baxter was born in 1787 in Pennsylvania; came to Ohio and in 1824 to Randolph county, near Rural. He married Sarah Pegg in 1829. They had six children. Joseph Baxter, Sr., died in 1863, seventy-six years old. He was a Democrat in politics. Mrs. Baxter's father, John Pegg, entered land in Randolph county, November 7, 1816, and probably moved here about that time. The entries do not always, however, determine the time of settlement. The entry was made sometimes months, possibly years before, and sometimes not till months or even years after the settlement ; and not seldom it was the case that the person who made the entry never effected a settlement at all.

dolph county, Indiana, in 1817. He was the son of Dr. Paul Beard who emigrated to this county at that time and entered land near Lynn meeting-house. Paul Beard, Jr., married Mary Cox in 1833. They had nine children. Their names are Levi, Ezra, Ann, Asa, Eunice, Louisa, Lindley, Ruth, Henry. Lindley joined the Sixtieth Indiana Regiment in his eighteenth year. Mr,. Beard was an elder in the Society of Friends and a Republican. His wife was also an elder. They resided on the farm entered by Paul Beard, Sr., near Lynn meeting-house for Fri|nds.

Benjamin Bond was born in North Carolina in 1797; came to Wayne county, in 181 1 ; niarried Ellen Goldsmith in 1827; she taught the first school in Milton, Wayne county, Indiana. They have had nine children, all sons ; six lived to be grown and all the six were soldiers in the Union army in the war of 1861. Samson was in a Minnesota regiment and was discharged for disability. Hezekiah was in the First Minnesota and died in Salisbury prison.. Benjamin was in the Eighth Indiana and in the Third Cavalry ; died in five months in the service. Pelatiah was a member of the Eighth Indiana (three months) , and in the Forty-first Indiana ; served three years and one month. Daniel was in the First Minnesota and served in the Eastern army ; was captured at Petersburg in 1864 and spent many sad and weary months in various prisons - Libby, Andersonville, etc. - escaping at last from the guard upon a march from one prison to another; he served four years in all. Edward, in the First Minnesota Heayj' Artillery, served nine months.

Daniel Bond, brother of Pelatiah, was an enterprising and successful teacher. He taught three years at Spartanburg, several years in Westfield, Hamilton county, besides other places.

Benjamin Bond came to Randolph county in 1834; entered forty acres of land on Sparrow creek; moved afterward to Washington township in 1837, and to Minnesota in 1854, returning to his old farm in Randolph county in 1857.

"I was born in Orange county. North Carolina, in 1783, and am now more than eighty-five years old. I was shifted from place to place when 1 was a child and got no learning. I determined to leave Carolina and came to Elkhorn, in Ohio, near Westville, six miles from Richmond, Indiana, in 1803. In 18 12 I volunteered ' in the United States army. We set out for Detroit but the march wa-s countermanded between Dayton and Piqua and we were ordered back to the fi^ontier. Our regiment was stationed at Whitehead, two miles above Williamsburg, Wayne county, Indiana. We~ had to scout all the time but were in no battle. I was up Greensfork to the Beard settlement. A deer-lick was found on Paul Beard's land and I have often shot deer there. I was a soldier three months and twenty days and was honorably discharged. I bought my land February 13, 181 7, before Randolph was a county."

[Note. - The tract book gives Curtis Clenney's entry as being January 17, 1815; two years before he dates the transaction himself and before Itidiana became a state. One would suppose Mr. Clenijey would be correct. Perhaps he is, but the figures are as here stated.]

"The first year I packed my meat thirty miles on my back. ' Breadstuff was scarce enough. Salt was $4.00 a bushel and wet at that. I could tell many hardships but I forbear. Most of the pioneers are gone. Ten years may perhaps see the last aged head laid low in death and behold the last pioneer pass on to his reward. May God prepare us for His glorious rest! Amen!"

Mr. Clenney was born in North Carolina in 1783; came to Westville, Ohio, in 1803; entered the United States army in 181 2; served three months and twenty days and was honorably discharged ; entered his land southeast of Lynn, January 17, 1815, and moved to it soon afterward. Twelve children werie born to them, ten of whom grew to manhood. He remained among men, indeed, to a ripe old age, even to fourscore years and ten. Mr. Clenney was a Baptist, belonging to the Concord church of that faith in Wayne county.

W. A. W. Daly, ex-sheriff of Randolph county, Indiana, was born in 1833, in Preble county, Ohio; came to Randolph county in 1843 > joined Company B, Ninetieth Indiana Regiment (Fifth Indiana Cavalry), enlisting August 25, 1862 ; was captured July 31, 1864, released March, 1865, and mustered out in June, 1865. He married Mary Hinshaw in r857; has had nine children. He held the office of sheriff of Randolph county ior four years (1874- 78), discharging the duties of his position with honor to himself and to the satisfaction .of the community.

James Frazier came from North Carolina to Clinton county, Ohio, in 181 1 and to Randolph county in 1817, settling one mile east of Lynn. He entered 160 acres of land at Cincinnati. His wife's maiden name was Susanna Stanley. She was born in North Carolina in 1767 and he in 1772. He died in 1822, about five years after coming here. They had ten children, all of whom were born before Mr. Frazier came to Randolph and seven of whom came with their father to the county.

Jacob A. Hinshaw came with his mother, Phebe Hinshaw, to Washington, south of Lynn in 1832. She entered land where Jacob A. Hinshaw lived. J. A. Hinshaw married Peninnah Scott in 1845 ^^^ had eleven children. He was raised a Friend but afterward joined the Methodists.

Joshua M. Johnson was born in 1831, in Randolph county; married Amanda Pegg, daughter of Reuben Pegg and had thirteen children. Hfe is a blacksmith and a farmer. He was postmaster twenty-seven yea,rs. , Two of his brothers are New-Light preachers - George and Isaac.

Ruth (Moody) Johnson was the wife of William Johnson, of Johnson's Station. She was a recorded minister among Friends after about 1858. She traveled through Ohio and Iowa and elsewhere as a preacher. In 1862 she pursued her work of faith and patience throughout seventeen counties in Iowa, mostly among Friends and she was ever3rwhere received with kindness and in Christian love.

Isaac Moody was born in Grayson county, Virginia, in 1790; came to Ohio in 1814; married Mary Heaston, from Pennsylvania, in 1823; emigrated to Randolph county in the same year and settled near Lynn, east of James Frazier's. He had only two children and was a "Body Friend." He was in early times a Whig and in later years a Republican. He lived a farmer and died in 1865.

Samuel Moody was the father of Isaac Moody and the grandfather of Ruth (Moody) Johnson. He was born about 1760, in Pennsylvania (or Virginia). His father came from Ireland. Samuel Moody came to Ohio in 1 814 and to Randolph county, Indiana, in 1821, near Lynn. His first wife was Jane Cox and his second wife was Jane Cadwallader. He liad four children; was a Friend and a farmer. He died in Ohio in 1825, about sixtyfive years old.

John Moorman was born in Richmond county. North Carolina, March 23, 1760; married Rebecca Diggs about 1783 and came to Randolph county, in 1816. They had ten children.

John Moorman, Jr., son of John Moorman, Sr., was born in Carolina in 1807 and was brought to Randolph county, Indiana, by his father, in 1816. He married Agatha Butler and they had two children. He died in 1866, aged fifty-nine' years and she died in 1875, ^t the age of sixty-two years.

Thomas Phillips came in 1821, being bom in about 1790; he died in 1872, about eighty-two years old; he was an intelligent and enterprising citizen, an enthusiastic Republican, an ardent Methodist and a friend of every good work.

The ThornburgsTof Washington. - The Thornburgs have been and still are numerous in Randolph county. A strong branch of the family settled in Stoney Creek township and another in Washington. Those who resided in the latter township in pioneer times were Nathan, Edward and Isaac. Nathan had four children - Isaac, Jesse, Nathan and Ann. The Thornburgs there were all Friends and went with the anti-slavery branch in the "Separation" of 1843.

William Engle, a farmer and dealer in real estate, was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, December 13, 181 1. He is the son of Isaac and Sarah (Price) Engle, and is the ninth of a family of eleven children. His. father was the son of Robert and Jane Engle and was born in New Jersey, March 15, 1773. His mother was the daughter of Thotrjas and Hannah Price and was born in New Jersey, March 17, 1774. His parents moved to Warren county, Ohio, in the year 1825, where they remained until their deaths.

Moses Lasley was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, April i, 1810. He is the son of Peter Lasley, who was born in Pennsylvania; his mother, Christina (Carnes) Lasley, was a native of Maryland. Mr. Lasley, with his parents, settled in this, coupty in, 1819. He was married March 28, 1833, to Margaret Johnson who was born in Virginia August 12, 1812. ; her father, Henry, and mother, Agnes (Umphres) Johnson, were natives of Virginia. They hav^e had born to them four children. (59)

Greensfork Township. - Greens fork is bounded north by Wayne and White River, east by Ohio, south by Wayne county and west by Washington. It was first settled in April, 1814, and, with White River, first ciPeated in 1 81 8. Its size as it now exists *s about forty-seven sections, seven miles north and south and six and a half miles 'from east to west, besides the ^'pocket." It includes the head-waters of Nolan's and Green's 'Forks, of Greenville creek, and a little of the head of Dismal creek. The land was originally heavily timbered, but iarms now cover it everywhere, only forest enough i)eing left for farm use,

The first settler was Thomas W. Parker, April, 1814, on fractional section 32, town 16. Other settlers in 1814, so far as now known, were: John W. Thomas, summer of 1814, entered land July 21, 1814; Clarkson Willcutts,. Ephraim Bowen, .Ephraim Overman, James Cammack, Eli Overman, Jesse Small, John Peelle, Obadiah Small, John Small had the Thomas Hough place north of Spartanburg, 1815., John Cammack, near Arba, came in 1816. John James settled between 1816 and 1818. Reuben Clark settled near the toll-gate, north of Arba, in 1819. John Mann moved to near Gilead in 1820; Thornton Alexander (colored), northeast of Spartanburg, 1822. David Semans, Windsor Wiggs, Sr., William Locke purchased the Dan Comer place north of Spartanburg in 1828. Stephen Barnes, various places, 1830; F. G. Morgan, Thomas Middleton", Joseph Shaw, Abner Cadwallader,' Thomas Cadwallader, John Randle, Harrison Anderson, J. W. Clark, W. Taylor, west of, Spartanburg, 1836. In 1828 there were near Spartanburg as follows : David Bowles, Willson Anderson place ; George Bowles, widow Moore place ; Henry Bailey, on the McKim iplace ; Stanton Bailey, Moorman farm; Cornelius Overman, Crist farm; William Osborn, Ben Elliot farm; -Philip Hockett had lived on the Sam Middleton place; Richard Corbett, on his old place; widow Small, Hough place; James Jaekson's place had been settled; William Arnold, Frederick Fulghum. The above account is as full as it can now be made, but of course there were many more.

Many of the sections are fractional, since the old boundary intersects the townships in angular direction from north to south, and fractions are formed on both sides of the boundary line. The surveys both west and east from the meridians each way are made to the boundary. There are about forty-seven square miles and about thirty thousand acres in the whole township. The entries in succeeding years were more rapid, since, by 1840, nearly the whole county had been taken up.

Greensfork is occupied by a population largely noted for industry and thrift, for quiet, -peaceable habits and general morality and good order. For many years no intoxicating drinks have been sold openly within its limits. Its schools maintain a high grade of excellence and it has an unusual proporton of churches and church members. There are at least seven churches in the township, occupied by the various denominations. The churches are Friends, at Arba and Brown ; Methodist Episcopal, at Spartanburg ; Disciples, at Spartanburg and Gilead ; United Brethren, at Pinhook and in the west part of the township. Two of the schools of Greensfork are of a superior grade ' - the township school at Spartanburg and the Union Literary Institute at Edgewood in the east part of the township. Greensfork was entered between 1814 and 1839, inclusive. First settlement was made in Greensfork; first entry occurred in WajTie.

Arba. - Henry Cammack, proprietor; recorded October 30, 1855; fourteen lots. The town must have been greatly enlarged since its first platting, since the dwellings extend a long distance on both sides of the pike running through the place, there being probably thirty or forty residences within the limits of the village. It is in the southern part o'f the township. William Fulghum had the first store. Noah Turner had the first smith shop; Isaac Parker had a wagon shop ; William Parker had a harness shop after awhile. Friends' meeting-house (a pole cabin) was built in 181 5, about forty years before the town began. The first grist-mill was established by Parker & Wright. They owned a saw-mill also. The first meeting-house in the county was at Arba - -built by Friends. The first school was taught in that house by Eli Overman. The earliest settlement in the county was in the region around this town and a splendid region it is, truly. The country is rich, the farmers are wealthy. The dwellings are neat and many of them elegant; the society is good and the general tone of morals and manners is of a high character. The place has always been noted, in fact, for its strict standard of temperance and sobriety. The region was settled largely by Methodists and Friends; and their teachings and practice have maintained a superior standard of intelligence, morality and thrift.

Newburg (Spartanburg) - William McKim, proprietor; location, section 10, township 16, range i, on the "Quaker Trace," Moorman Way, county surveyor; twenty lots. Streets: North and south, Main street, four poles wide; east and west, street three poles wide. Plat made 1832; recorded February 18, 1833.

Spartanburg (includes the above) - William McKim, proprietor; fiftyfive lots. Streets : North and south, Mill, Main, Sycamore ; east and west. First, Second; recorded October 28, 1834.

McKim's First Addition. - William McKim, proprietor; seven lots; recorded November 17, 1848.. The town is located on section 10, on the old "Quaker Trace," four miles north of Arba and three and nine-tenths miles south of Bartonia, on the Arba pike. It was laid out in 1832 by William McKim. Of course, £verything was new, and the whole country was "in the wpods." Most of the houses were cabins and all was rough and primitive. Spartanburg has grown from a "huddle," with a few log cabins among the beech trees to a thriving country village in the midst of a beautiful, fertile and highly improved region. The town stands on a fine rising ground, overlooking a splendid country. The school building is a two-story brick, suit- able for. a township high school, with ten fine schoolrooms, two recitation rooms, etc. Two Sunday schools are in operation and regular religious services in each of the churches. An Odd Fellows lodge and a Knights of Pythias lodge are in the village. A large trade is carried on in hogs, grain, flaxseed, wagons, reapers, plows, etc. No saloon has existed in the place ^f or years.

. Altogether, Spartanburg is a fine little town. When first laid out, the name of the place was Newburg but for some reason it was changied to Spartanburg. It is one of the few interior villages in Randolph which is having a vigorous and solid growth. There is one hotel, two churches, a graded school, one smith shop, one wagon shop, three stores and bank and a brisk business is maintained.

Nathan Arnold was born in North Carolina in 1 783 ; married Elizabeth Horn, daughter of Jeremiah Horn, in North Carolina, in 1804, and died in the same state in 1826.

Elizabeth Arnold, widow of Nathan Arnold, was born in North Carolina in 1785; came to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1827, and afterward to Randolph. She had eleven children. Seven came with their mother. She died October 28, 1851, aged sixty-six years. Mrs. Arnold belonged to the Friends.

Stephen Barnes was born in Johnson county. North Carolina,' in 1793, and his wife, Cidna, in 1790. They had seven children, all born in Carolina, their names being Rebecca, Abington, Maria, Samuel Allison, Sarah, Henry, Adolphus. - All are dead. The family left North Carolina in 1828 and came to Wayne county, Indiana, two and a half mil6s south of Bloomingsport, and in 1830, into Randolph county. In 1833 they settled at Spartanburg. Here Mrs. Barnes died in 1854 and her husband in 1864.

Ephraim Bowen, Sr., was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1769; emigrated to Mason county, Kentucky; married Hannah Hall in that state; came to Greene county, Ohio, in 1795, seven years before Ohio became a member of the Union.' and arrived at Randolph county, October 22, 1814, the day he was forty-five years old. He was the fourth settler in the wilds of Randolph. He brought six children with him and two were born afterward, making eight in all. The children were Nancy. James C, Jane, Squire, Rebecca, Hannah, born before coming to Randolph; and Rachel and Ephraim L., born in this county. Nancy, born in 1799, married Robert

Thomson; had six children; James C, born in 1801, fourteen children; Jane, 1803, married Joshua Small, several children; Squire, 1805, thirteen children; Rebecca, 1807, fourteen children, married .David Semans; Hannah married James Harrison, five children ; Rachel married William Davis, several children; Ephraim L., twice married - Ruth Dwiggins, Anna Jane Corbett, eight children.

Ephraim Bov/en entered the northeast quarter of section 28, township 16, range i. He was perhaps the first justice in Greensfork. He died in 1858, at eighty-nine and his wife in 1849.

James C. Bowen, Greensfork, son of Ephraim Bowen, was born in Greene county, Ohio, in 1801, and came to Randolph county, in 1814, being thirteen years old. He grew up in the woods and married Elizabeth Jeffrey in 1829. They have had fourteen children.

James C. Bowen's wife died in 1879, sixty-eight years old. He was justice of the peace nine years. He was Methodist in religion and a Democrat in politics. He lived within half a mile of the spot where his father settled in the forest.

Many curious things are told by Mr. Bowen, Mr. Parker and other pioneers, many of which have been already given and many more might be related. In the pole cabin meeting-house at Arba there was no place made for fire. They would burn wood into coals in a heap outside the cabin and then carry a mass of coals into the house upon a kind of hand-barrow, partly covered with dirt. Thomas Parker used to care for the house and burn the wood into coals and when Friends had come to meeting, they would help carry the "fire-place" inside the house, laden with a mass of living fire.

In early times, there was a distillery above Arba, south of William Horn's. It was owned by Elihu Cammack's uncle, Amos (Cammack). Considerable whisky was drank at gatherings and as a natural result many got "groggy" by its use.

In the pigeon roosts, one locality of which was near Spartanburg, the trees were loaded with nests, built of sticks, somewhat like baskets swung to a limb, the inside being beautifully lined with soft and tender moss.

Pigeons would live on mast and hogs also would keep fat nearly the year round, during the fall and winter upon the mast and in the summer upon wild pea vines which grew two or threS feet high, and as thick as thick clover. Hogs would run in the woods and grow wild. The old ones would be marked and then the whole drove running with these old ones would be claimed by the same owner. But where none in a herd were marked the herd belonged to nobody and any person might kill such. They would fatten

Thomas Cadwallader was born in 1795 and came to Greensfork township, Randolph county, about 1830, in company with his brother Abner, settling in the woods. Abner died many years ago but Thomas lived on, a steady, quiet, humble, thankful life for fifty-two years, upon his little farm where first he pitched his tent under the "shadow of the beeches." He was all his life a mernber of the Society of Friends belongiiig at Arba. He departed this life at his residence near Arba, Sunday, April 23, 1882, in his eighty-seventh year. The funeral services were held at the Arba Friends' meeting-house on Tuesday following his "death. '' They were in the simple and impressive style common among the Quakers. His aged companion survived him. They had been married nearly or quite sixty-five years. He was born during the second term of Washington's administration arid was old enough to vote for James. Monroe at his first election. His biirth occurred the same year with Wayne's treaty with the Indians at Fort Greeriville, Ohio, 1795, so that his life measures the whole interval since the po^yer of the savage tribes over the great Western valley was broken by the master hand of Gen. Anthony Wayne.

Mr. Cadwallader lived all that long earthly life in the fear and love of God and his happy spirit rests, doubtless in the heavenly mansions. His brother Abner, father of Hon. Nathan Cadwallader, of Winchester, came as stated above with his brother Thomas, but did not very long survive, dyine in middle life.

John Cammack, Arba, was born in South Carolina ; moved to Randolph county, in the fall of 1816, one-half mile west of Arba. He died in 1832, having had twelve children; seven were boys and five were girls.

William Mitchell Campbell, stock-buyer and farmer, was born in Haniil-, ton county, Ohio, in 1818; married Mary Ann Rude in 1840; removed to Middleboro, Indiana, in 1844; to Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1848; returned to Middleboro, Indiana, in 1849 '> changed his residence to Randolph county, one and a half miles north of Lynn, in 1850; moved to Winchester in 1856; to Greensfork township in i860; and to Spartanburg in 1863. He has had six children. He was sheriff of Randolph county three terms. Mr. Campbell volunteered July 13, 1861, in the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry, Company C, being commissioned Second Lieutenant and receiving afterward promotion as Captain of Company I.

William T. Qhenoweth, born in Maryland in 1802, came to Ohiain 1838, and to Greensfork, Randolph county, Indiana, in 1840; married Keturah B.

Murray in 1825; had twelve children - ten boys and two girls. He was a steady, thoughtful man, quiet, reliable, discreet, economical; enterprising and successful. In politics he was a Whig and a Republican. He was not a church -member, but inclined to the Baptists. Mr. Chenqweth died in 1876,' seventy-four years old.

James W. Clark, Spartanburg, was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1828. His father died in 1835 and his mother returned in 1836 to the home of her father, Hezekiah Cartwright at Spartanburg. He lived on the Frank Morgan place. Mrs. Clark went upon the Hough place. J. W. Clark was then eight years old. The village was then very sinall. Where the Disciple church stands was at that time a buttonwood pond, the size of a town lot. He was married in 1854, to Mary E. Moore, daughter of Elymas Moofe.

Reuben Clark came from Pasquotank county, North Carolina, to Franklin county, Indiana, in 1807, nine weeks and three days on the road, coming two hundred miles to the mountains. Route, Ward's Gap, Poplar Camp, Furnace, New River, Abingdon, Wythe Court House, Crab Orchard, Nicholasville, Lexington, Nelson's Tavern, General Gaines' plantation, twenty miles from the Ohio, crossing at North Bend, near General Harrison's home. Two families came, besides two young men and an ~old soldier - fifteen in all. . The men walked all the way, except three miles. They had two one-horse carts. Mr. Clark had nine children. He moved to Randolph county in 1819, north of Arba, near the toll-gate.

Frederic Fulghum, Arba, born in North Carolina, in 1 799 ; married Piety Parker, sister of Thomas Parker; came to Arba in 182 1 ; had nine children; died in 1879, aged seventy-nine years ten months and twenty days. He was a Friend, a Whig and a Republican; he left South Carolina on account of slavery, having had an estate of slaves left him by his uncle, Frederic Bunn; but he would have nothing to do with the estate, and never even went to see about it.

Orpha Griffin (widow of William Griffin) came to Randolph county, Indiana, in 1830; married Job Elliot in 1836; had four children, and died in St. Joseph county, Michigan, about i860.

Aaron Hill (son of William Hill) was born in 18 10; came to Randolph county in 1823; married Piety Arnold in 1832; his first wife died in 1853, his second wife was Rachel Horner (in 1859), and she died in 1880. Mr. Hill moved to Wayne county, a short distance south of Arba. He had a saw-mill, run by water-power, and he bored a hole and fixed a box so that when the box would get full the wheel would go a little, and that would start a hominy pounder, and thus the pounder would go, by starts, all night.

When his father came to Richmond, in 1816, there was only one frame house in the place. Mr. Aaron Hill said : "The first school I ever attended was in a hewed-log cabin, at Richmond. On the north, and also on the east side, a log was left out and the opening was closed with greased paper. My father lived one year on the county line east of the toll-gate," which stands south of Arba, and after that west of Arba. Of our family of nine children, two only were born in Randolph. I was thirteen years old when my father became a pioneer in thiscounty." He stated further: "Deer used to go in droves, ten or fifteen, or even more in a drove. They were more abundant than sheep. They had paths leading to ponds for water, and in these haunts the^poor creatures were often shot by the remorseless hunter. Possums, porcupines, ground hogs, turkeys, pheasants and what not were all over the woods. Pheasants would make the forests fairly shake with the strange noises made by their "drumming" on the logs. My father had one ox and one horse, and worked them together as a team. They were very stout, pulling through the swamp and sometimes breaking a stay chain. The ox alone would pull equal to two horses, plowing roots 'like the nation.' He would plow corn and eat both rows as he went, unless he was muzzled."

William Hunt, Arba (son of Barnabas Hunt), was born in 1822, in Wayne county, Indiana: married Eda Fulghum, daughter of Frederic Fulghum, in 1843; came to Randolph county in 1844, and had eight children; was a farmer and a Friend; was a Whig, and a Republican; was an Antislavery man, but remained with the "body."

William M. Locke, Spartanburg, was born in 1805, in North Carolina; married Wealthy Middleton in 1827, and afterward Sarah Middleton, sisters of Thomas and Samuel Middleton-; two children; Randolph county, 1828, living first on Daniel Comer's place; went back to North Carolina until 1831 ; then to Spartanburg 1831 to 1836.

John 'Mann, Spartanburg, was born in Pennsylvania in 1805; came to Ohio when a boy, and to Randolph county, Indiana, in 1820. He entered 120 acres of land lying southwest of Spartanburg, near Gilead meetinghouse, walking to Cincinnati for the purpose. He was married in 1836, by James C. Bowen, justice of the peace, and had ten children. One son, Isaac, was drowned in the service during the war of the rebellion.

Samuel H. Middleton was the son of Benedict Middleton, who was born in Virginia about 1867; was a farmer; moved afterward to North Carolina; had a family of eight or ten children, and died in 1840 in Carolina, aged seventy-three years.

Randolph county, viz., Samuel H. Mid.dleton, Thomas Middleton, Hannah (wife of William Locke), Anna (wife of John Tharpe), Ailsey (wife of Endsley Moore). The wife of Benedict Middleton was a Baptist, and died in Carolina in 1808, seventy-three years of age.

Samuel H. Middleton was born in 1794, in Virginia. He went with his father to North Carolina in 1798, and" came to Richmond, Indiana, Christmas Day, 1826. They brought, six children, two having died in Carolina, coming in a two-horse wagon, and were five weeks on the road. His brother, Thomas Middleton, came with him part of the way, and finished the journey by steamer down the Ohio to Cincinnati. The Middletons were of English descent. The Tharpes were of Scotch descent. The father of Jeremiah Tharpe's wife was a Quaker and a slave-holder. Near the time of the Revolution, that society became convinced that slave-holding was a sin, and they passed a resolution that their members should free their slaves or be disowned. - Francis Clark, father of Mrs. Tharpe above, freed all his slaves, twenty-one in number.

, Jeremiah Tharpe, father of Mrs. Samuel H. Middleton, died in Carolina in 1808, having had eight children, as follows: Eli, Jonathan, John, Jeremiah, Nancy (Kennedy), Ursula (Wheeler), Christiana (Middleton), Mildred (Thornburg). The children all became grown, and all -were married. They all came to Indiana during the time from about 1812 to 1830, several of them settling in Randolph county.

Thomas Middleton was born in Guilford county. North Carolina, in 1799; he married Margaret. Webb in 1825; he came to Whitewater, Indiana, in 1826, and to Randolph county in 1830. The company from Carolina consisted of four families, and they werfe forty-two days on their journey. The families were those of Mordecai Hiatt, Eli Kersey, Thomas Middleton and Samuel H. Middleton.

Isaac Mann came from Pennsylvania, and settled very early (perhaps in 1816) on the Harrison Anderson farm below Spartanburg. He had seven children, and died in 1847, ^^ old man.

Malachi Nichols, WasTiington township; born North Carolina, 1804; came to Randolph county in 1816 (near Arba) ; married Sarah Mann, 1825; had ten children; died of cholera, 1849.

Ephraim Overman was the fifth settler in Greensfork township, and in Randolph county as well. He came in the fall of 18 14 from Randolph county, North Carolina, and was the next settler after Ephraim Bowen. He came, probably in November, 1814, and he lived in a "camp" for some time in the fall of 181 5. He had five children, all boys - Jesse, Eli, Ephraim. Silas and Reuben.

His brother, Nathan Overman, had ten children, seven sons and three daughters. Their names were Joseph, Reuben, Cornelius, Abner, Isaac, Jason, Zebulon, Mabel, Mary, Rebecca.