Tetersburg, Indiana

McKinsey settled also in the southern districts, and was joined a few months later by his son, John, Jr., who made the first improvements on the farm, later owned by John Straley. Allen squatted a short distance south of Tetersburg, and was the first cobbler in the township, a trade at which he worked for a number of years. Holmes secured land near the western border of the county, and was one of the early teachers in the township schools. Cooper settled on the southern county line where the village of Ekin stands, and served as the first justice of the peace in Jefferson township. A son came to the county in company with his father, and lived here for fifteen or twenty years. Mills settled in the south part of the township, and was always known as a good citizen and a Quaker. He afterward removed to Liberty township. Robert Smith located near the village of Goldsmith, and Loke located near Tetersburg, where he built the first blacksmith shop in the township. He later removed to the Western states.

Passage source: History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914.

Among the settlers of 1838 and 1839 were: Levi Dunn, who stopped in the southern part; Abram Ploughe, south of Tetersburg; John Williams, a Virginian; Charles Winders, who located in the south; James and Joseph Goar, who entered land near the southern boundary. Joseph Goar was one of the first associate judges of Tipton county.

Passage source: History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914.

Near 1840 a few settlements were made north of the Indian boundary, in the Miami reservation, the settlers obtaining permission of the Indians to make temporary improvements. The first of these pioneers was George Teter, who squatted near the present site of Tetersburg, where he remained for seven years, waiting for the land to come into market. He was a native of Virginia. Eli and Asa Teter, sons of the above man, came in about the same time and were joined by George Phares, also from the Old Dominion.

Passage source: History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914.

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 Jefferson Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.