Lakeville, Indiana

Just south of Lakeville are several small lakes, the largest of which are called Pleasant and Eiddle's lakes. The ground around them is quite miry and muck}'. One of them is said to be quite deeji. Along the east part of the township a ridge runs across it. It is mostry a black, sandy soil. The Turkey creek road follows this ridge, through the township and along it are some very fine farms. On sections 6 and 8 have been found a great many Indian relics. Among other curiosities discovered by the removal of the surface of the earth are round holes dug in the ground and nicely walled up with stones in the shape of a common kettle. Some of them have been found to be four or five feet in depth. For what purpose they had been made the people of the neighborhood are unable to surmise. A great many arrowheads, tomahawks and other things of like nature have been found here and in other parts of the township, thus bringing to our minds that but a short time ago another race^of people inhabited this region, perhaps no less industrious in their way than the people who have just come and taken possession of the country.

Passage source: History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880.

The township contains but one village, - Lakeville. It is a pleasant little village, located about the center of the township, and contains several hundred inhabitants. The people are kind, intelligent and social. Although they have no railroad, a large business is carried on by the merchants. The village contains two good country stores, a drug and hardware store, a hotel, a couple of shoe-shop and three or four blacksmith shops, a saw-mill and grist-mill, - all doing well. It has also two'churches, with a good school, while three M. D's attend to the afflicted in the town and vicinity.

Passage source: History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880.

Tlie first church was built in ISiS, bj the Methodists, under the pastorship of Eev. Lawson Munson. It was built of hewed logs, on section 3-i, one mile north of LakevilJe. This served for a place of worship until the present church was erected in Lakeville. The old house is still standing, and is occupied by a family for a dwelling liouse. The J\[. E. church building in Lakeville was commenced in 1857 and finislied in 1S5S. The trustees were John and James Moon. Hubbard Henderson, Martin Page and William Biglow. Mr. Harrison was the first traveling minister sent to this circuit. This was in 1839, and about the time that the society was organized. Tliey tlien held their meetings in private houses, and among their members were Hubbard Henderson and wife, Milford Leonard and wife, George Hardy and wife, John D. Roberson and wife, John Price and his sister. Their first class-leader was George Hardy. They have now about 50 members in their society. As this is in the same circuit as Sumption's Prairie, for a list of their ministers see sketch of that Church in the history of Greene township.

Passage source: History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Union Township - it names this place 20 more 20 times.