Mounts, Indiana

In 1806 Thomas Sharp, Luke and William Wilcy, settled a short distance south of Owensville. The Wileys afterward moved down into Posey County, and one of them was lost ina storm and froze to death. Thomas Sharp remained here until his death, which occurred about sixty years ago. John Sharp, aged family now living. Mathias and Smith Mounts came to this territory about the same time. Smith Mounts, located in Section 24, Tp. 3, R. 12, where he resided until He was with Gen. Wayne, in the Indian wars, and at Tippecanoe. He was a fine marksman, and spent much of his time in hunting, during the first years of his settlement here. Of his family of eleven children, Smith and Thomas A., both residents of this township, are the only ones living. Garrard Mounts was quite a prominent man in the county; was an officer of militia, and at ove time county commissioner: He died in 1882. None of Mathias' Mounts' children are living in the county.

Passage source: History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.

The town contains five churches; the General Baptist and Regular Baptist are frame buildings, and the Cumberland Presbyterian and the Methodist are brick, all neat and well furnished houses of worship. The present two and a half story brick school-house was erected in 1876, at a cost of nearly $8,000. It has four rooms, two in each story. The school is graded and employs four teachers.

Passage source: History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.

_ or lakes situated in the northwestern part of the Township near the Wabash River, into which they have an outlet. They contain an abundant supply of good fish. The principal streams are the Wabash River at the north, Indian Creek and its affluents in the east, Black River, Martin's Branch and Obion Oreek in the south and Maumee Creek and its tributaries in the western and central portion of the township. These streams drain the lands and furnish a good supply of water for stock but among the very first arrivals was Thomas Montgomery, the pioneer of that numerous family now in Gibson County. Thomas Montgomery was the youngest of seven sons born to Hugh Montgomery, in Virginia, all of whom served in the Revolutionary War. In 1793 he emigrated to Kentucky, settling near Mt. Sterling, in the county that was afterward called in honor of his cousin of the famous David Crocket. In 1805, he left Kentucky and emigrated to the Indiana Territory, settling in the wilderness on the banks of Black River, in the southeast quarter of Section 13, Township 3 South, Range 12 West, where he built a rude log cabin and made his permanent home. He was a man of great endurance, was six feet in height, a great hunter, and one well fitted to endure the trials and hardships incident to pioneer life. His children were five sons, Hugh, Joseph, Thomas, Isaac, Walter, and three daughters, Polly, Jennie and Patsey. Hugh died in Kentucky, while a boy. Joseph, Thomas, Isaac, Polly who married Smith Mounts, Jennie the wife of Capt. Jacob Warrick, and Patsey whose husband was Robert McGary, were all country. Walter married Nancy Roberts after coming to the county and settled on the old place with his father. A year or two later Samuel Montgomery, a brother of Thomas Montgomery, the pioneer, emigrated to Indiana with his family, consisting of his wife and nine children, and settled just south of his brother in the same section. His wife's name was Polly McFarland, whom he married in Kentucky. The names of their children were Polly Swope, James, Robert, Benjamin, John, Samuel, Rachel Mounts, Dorcas Stone and Katie Alcorn.

Passage source: History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.

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