Washington Township

Washington Township

HE first old settlers in Washington township were John Kaddon, Henry and Madison Collins, old James Harrison, Benjamin Stafford, ,Tr., William Pomroy and John Crooks. Afterwards came . John Secman, our first Greene county Sheriff. Old Bailey Johnson, the sheriff of Sullivan county, done the business for Greene county before Mr. Seeraan's time. Kext came Peter Harrington, John and Edward Goldsbcrry and Jacob Pitzer,the onelegged man.

Creeks And Branches

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

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

John Crook was born in Jefferson county, Kentucy, and married Susan Winer, and they had three children wdien Mrs. -Crook died. Afterwards -he married Miss Mary Stafford, a j sister to Benjamin Stafford, and they had nine children, five boys and four girls. Aaron Haguman was born in the Indiana Territory, in what is now Floyd county! in 1814. lie came to Greene county in 1825, and married Miss Nancy Crook, daughter of .John Crook, our old Sheriff. Mr. Haguman and wdfc raised eight children, five boys and three girls. The old man died in 1864, and was buried at the old Stafford cemetery, just east of Marco.

Samuel Plummer was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, and married Kebecca Evans. They had three children, two girls and one boy. Mr. Plummer died about thirty years ago on Licking river. The son, Mr. Alexander Plummer, was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, and came from there to Owen county, Indiana, about 1825, and then to Greene county in 1880, Avhere be married

Miss !Nancy Plummer of another family of that name. Alexander Plummer first settkd in Fairplay township. Mrs. Plummer had ten children and raised seven of them to be grown* Mrs. Plummer died and the husband married Mrs. Mary Rollison some years since. They live on the Marco and Bloomfield road five miles from Bloomfield. Mr. Alexander Plummer has been our County Surveyor for near twenty years past, and he has made more farms and rolled more big log heaps than any other man of his age. He has also killed more deer than anybody except old Emanuel Hatfield. He has a bear's tooth and a pen-knife fifty years old.

Ambrose Rollison, a farmer fifty years ^ld,^was born in Morgan county, Ohio, and married Sarah Bpencer. They had ten children, seven boys and three girls, and they live on the Marco and Bloomfield road.