Wayne Township (part 2 of 3)

.Mr. Williams was what might be called one of the pioneer citizens of Western Kansas, and at the date of his removal to Junction (Sty, that p^int was the farthest point west on the Kansas Pacific Railway (the first railway in the State), which had then barely reached thit place. To a large extent. Junction City was the principal shipping point for supplies to New Mexico, Colorado and the Western borders. During his residence here he held various positions of elective trust, and was recognized among the leading citizens. During his identity with the State of Kansas iu its early history, the position in which he was placed gave him an acquaintance with many of the prominent and leading frontiersmen who liave become famous and are now widely known, among them being Kit Carson, James Bridger, James B. Hickock, John Harvey, Blunt, and others of equal note; and a useful store of knowledge was acquired by not infrequent mingling with the various tribes of Indians who inhabited the western border of Kansas, and now occupy the Indian Territory. Mr. Williams may fairly be called a Western man. He has traveled largely through the Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and all the Territories lying east of the Rocky .Mountain range, and is familiar, from actual observation, with that country in its general outline. He imbibed largely of that spirit of daring and love of adventure which characterizes the citizens of the West, and has often run dangerous risks to gratify this propensity. Once, with a few companions, he traveled a number of miles in the saddle to witness a pitched battle between the Cheyenne and Kaw tribes of Indians, and was one of two while persons who witnessed the pitched fight between the Otoes and the Kiowas at a later date. Since his removal to Union City, he has practiced his profession very successfully, while he has established himself firmly in the estimation of all who know him, and is counted among the best citizens.

Stony Creok includes parts of Townships 19 and 20, Range 12 east, as also some sections in Range 13, embracing in all twenty-nine and one-half sections; iive miles north and south except Section 7, near the southelist corner and five and one half miles east and west, and containing about l(i,9!i() acres. It takes the lower course of Little White River, of Stony Creek and of Cabin Creek and a part of tlie valley of White River. The sections are as follows: Township 19, Range 12, Sections 1 to 5 and 8 to 12, inclusive; Township 20, Range 12, vSectiona 21 to 29 and 32 to 30, inclusive; Township 19, Range 13. Section 0; Township 20, Range 13, Sections 19, 30 and 31,

Of these, thirty-nine entries were of 80 acres, two for 100 acres, one for 128.04 acres, one for 118,80 acres, one for 41.03 acres, one for 40.20 acres. Thus it wll bo seen that the entries containing a fine body of land, and being well .settled with sub- I stantial improvements. The surface is level or rolling, heavily I timbered at first, but now mostly cleared. The streams are per- , manent, affording abundant water and considerable power for I machinery, especially upon Cabin and Stony Creeks. The mill I upon Stony Creek near AVinisor is thought to have been the fifth I mill in the county, perhaps, as follows: Sample's Mill, Sample- ; town; LeWallyn'd Mill, on Mississinewa, near Ridgeville. : Jessup's Mills, on Greenville Creek, below Spartansburg; I Jere Cox's Mill, on AVhite River, east of AVinchester; AA'indsor j Mill, on Stony Creek, just above its mouth. The mills in Stony I Creek Township, ot-. Stony aud Cabi.; Creeks, have always beeu i and still are important ai.d valuable.

! The tow! ship co: tains several pikes - AVindsor & AVinchesj ter, north part of the township; Farmland pike, south of Farmi laud; Losantsville pike, south from AA'indsor pike, and perhaps I others.

1 The place and the time of the first settlement in the township : cannot now be determined with absolute certainty. It has been I claimed that John Thornburg, near AA^indsor, was the first settler, [ and that the time was 1823. Both of these would seem to be I errors. John Thornbiurg did not come before about 1825, and ; when he came he found a considerable number of settlers already i in the county. His son, Armfield Thornburg, a sprightly old 1 ]uan residing at AVindsor, who was a lad several years old when his ; father came to the county, states as follows: AVhen my father : came to Randolph County and settled near AVindsor in 1825, the I following settlere were already on hand: John Castine and Solo- I mon Hobaugh, his son-inlaw. and Jolm Coons, all of whom came in 1822; David A'^estal, who had been elected Squire, Josei^h Rooks and Abraham Clevenger, all of whom came in 1823 ; i John Connor in 1824, George AV. Smithson in 1825. I Note. - Isaac Branson came before all these, and hi.s widow i says ho came iu 1819. He sold out to Joseph Rooks, and must have been there and sold out to Joseph Rooks and moved to Nettle Creek before this time.

Probably, either David A'^estal or Isaac Bran.son was the first , actual bona fide settler, and Branson moved away soon, first to i Nettle Creek and not very long afterward to Delaware County, and \ David Vestal sold out after several years to John Thornburg, and I moved away to White Lick, below Indianapolis, in 1831, and I died there. The Thornburgs, Job, Joab and John, all came in ; 1825, the first two of whom are living yet where they settled. I Others came soon after, among whom were Randolph Smullen and AVilliam Moore in 1820, and perhaps others.

Some of the persons named as early settlers were only "squatters," and moved on into the woods before the advancing wave of settlement. Lemuel Vestal came in 1825, and with him John Demory, a freeman of color from Carolina, of whom mention is made elsewhere; Vestal undertook to build a mill near Windsor, I as told in another place. Others may be mentioned as follows: ; John Hines and Paul Reagan in 1826; AVesley Terrell in 1827; 1 Amos Smith and Benjamin Garretson in 1828; Solomon AVright i in 1829, John Bond and Andrew G. Dye in 1831. Still others I had already or did soon come, to wit: John Holloway, AA'illiam [ Holloway, Jonathan Finzer. John Clevenger, Jonathan Clevenj ger, John Diggs.

j Jacob McNees settled near Georgetown in 1829 ; Isaac Amburn I came in west of Georgetown in the same yeai'. Others had doubtj less taken up their residence here, of whom no account has been i obtained.

within its limits. Cedar and Poplar Run Mpotings are both in Stony Creek, and very many of the honored pioneers of that section worshiped in these sanctuaries, and now lie awaiting the "Archangel's trump" in the humble inclosure of the dead which are near those sacrod places of humble waiting upon the Spirit of the Lord. In life they spent their years in quiet industry and patient and sincere obedience to the guidance of the voice within; now for those earnest, steadfast souls, faith has been changed to sight and struggling prayer to triumphant praise. The first school in the township was' taught in 1820 by Moses Hodson, then a young man, still living, but young no longer, his home being in Delaware County, four or five miles from Windsor. The schoolhonse stood between Joab and John Thornburg's. There were perhaps twenty pupils. Armtield Thornbnrg, that tells the story, was one of them.

Solomon Wright tells some (jueer tales " out of school " concerning the pupils and the teachers of " auld lang syne." one in particular, how the girls on the last day of school tore down the dirt back-wall of the stick chimney belonging to the cabin schoolhouse, and scattered the clay all over the ])uncheon floor..

Like other new and pioneer regions, Stony Cn-ek has its traditions of odd and queer things taking place amid the mighty shadow of the giant forest. Of one early settler it is related that he had a family of fourteen children, and that another settlor, a neighbor, going in early jane morning found on the hoai-th a huge kettle of corn meal mush, and that while he sat there the youngsters crawled out from the straw upon the cabin floor one by one, and, taking each a jjewter plate, went singly to the smoking mush for a bountiful share, aud partook joyfully of a hearty breakfast, Btit what difference does it make? Those tales told of eaily times ai-e, many of them, fabrications, and more are greatly " stretched" from the original fact. But even if true as told, who cai-osf It is to be feai-ed that, if their eflfominate descendants were thrown into the same hard and rough condition, they would do even not so well as that; that they would have neither root over their shiftless heads, straw to crawl out of nor a kettle of mush to eat from, pewter jilate to handle it on, nor spoon with which to cany it to tlieir mouths.

Stony Creek is bounded north by Monroe, cast by White River and West River, south by Nettle Creek, west by Delaware County. In politics, Stony Creek is strongly Reitublican.

There have been only two towns within the bounds of Stony Creek Townsl^p, and one of these has long been extinct. The two are AViuddor and Georgetown, the latter " winked out " long years ago. (Neff Post Office is also in this township, but it

Wiuilsor. - lMcation. Section 29. Town 20, Range 12, on Winchester & Muocie pike, at the Delaware County lino; Joseph Bond, surveyor; John Thornburg, proprietor; recorded January 30, 1S;]2; forty lots; sti-eets are, north and south, MulbeiTy, Oak; east and west. Main. First addition, Smith & Dye's, Jere Smith, Stephen Dye, proprietoi-s; Jere Smith, surveyor; twenty lots; recorded September 7, 1837. Second Addition, Roece's, Thomas W. Reece, proprietor; eight lots; recorded August 9, 1877. Distances: Bloomingsport, twenty miles; Doerfield, twenty miles; fairview, ten and a half mUes; Farmland, live and four-fifths miles; Huntsvillo, thirteen and one-third miles; Linn, twenty-ope and four-fifths miles; Losantsville, nine and a half miles; Morristown, two and a half miles. The town was laid out by Joseph Tliornbnrg in 1832, during what may aptly be termed the " era of tf)wn-platting," tiince many of the villages in Randolph were projected not ftir from that date. Wihdsbr seems to have been aspiring, and to have had high prospects as well, for only iive years after the record of the first survey of forty lota, twenty liiore (half the original number) 1 were ahno.'ced to the growing town by Smith & Dye. thus afford - ing fl-esb room to spread beyond the ol-igipal liiuit. And it is ! undoiibtedly true that, had the old order of business continued I to prevail, Windsor might today have been an important and i prosperous inland town, fiut the sad fact, sad for Windsor and ; its ambitious denizens, can neither be ignored hOr changed, so I the fates declared, and who can successfully rebel against fate ? I If there had been power in the beginning of railroad construc- I tiou, to have drawn the Bee-Line route south of the river, instead of locating it on the north side through the unknown wilderness, thou, indend, might AVindsor have come to be, not, indeed, like its illustrious namesake in a foreign island kingdom, a palatial residence for Her Majesty, the English Queen, but a wide-awake, bustling, prosperous commercial and manufacturing center, known and noted throughout the county and the region. But men cannot lose what they never had, so Windsor has not lost the greatness which she never possessed. And her people, instead of mourning over fancied iinrealized possibilities, may be sincerely thankful that life, health and substantial comfort, and the means of solid happiness they still possess eiiually with the poojjle of the proudest metropolis on the footstool.

The first l)usiness in Windsor was a shoeshop, by Isaiah Templin, and a small store by a man from Richmond, name forgotten. Soon was set up a smith shop by Andrew Kaajjp. The mill by John Thornburg was built in 1827. There was no other on White River bul Judge Sample's and Cox's Mill, east of Winchester. There was also another shoo shoj). The first wagon shop was by Willianr Ludworth. Windsor at one time had a large business, having three good stores and a grocery, and other things to match, The activity of tho place began some years before the town was recorded. It proved its right to be by its actual being. Business is like beauty - it is its own excuse for being. The merchants have beeu Garretson. Joseph and Moses Cranor, a good stock; Stephen Dye, groceiT, with a good stock; Chandler, a big busines.s, with two clerks; Andrew G. Dye, a nice stock; Pennington, Lindloy ThombiU'g, John M. Terrell, Nathan and Joel Thornburg, Joseph Johnson and A. M. Dye, Ai-mtield Thornburg, twelve years; William Davis, J. J. Clayton. The first hotel was built by George Helm, from Pennsylvania, some years after the town started. That hotel was bui-ned in 1856, and has never been built again. Helm had put up a dwelling-house, and he sold it to Cranor, for a hotel; Cranor sold to Aimfield Thornburg, he to Kinard, he to Andrew Dye, and so on to the present time.

The blacksmiths have been (as is usual) numerous: Messrs. Knapp, Templin, T. W. Thornburg, Oliver Beck, A. J, Dixon, Davison, Hikus, Sudwortk The wagon shops have been, Messrs. Sudworth, George Dixon. Physicians: Drs. Davisson, FaiTOW, Chenoweth.

Present business: There is a goodly number of houses and business rooms, and. were the place to fill up to its capacity of f m'nishing facilities for work, it would even now be an active, busy town. But. the real basiness is now small enough. There are two smith shops, one dry goods store, two millinery shops, one wiigon shop, one shoe shop, one tan yard, one saw-mill (water and steam), one grist mill (water and steam), one physician, a good one, one post office, two churches (Methodist and Christian), one schoolhouse, one lodge of I. O. O. F., thirty to forty houses and 134 people (census of 1880).

The Postmaster is AVilliam Davis. The previous incumbents it would take too much time to tell. The first one, however, was Benjamin Garretson. Others have been Messrs. Kinard, Thornburg, etc. Thornbui-g held the office twelve years.

The mi5st flourishing era for Windsor was just before the railroad was built, about 1850, though it kept a considerable amount of business till since the war. A good store was burned in 1S78, owned by the Thornburgs. Windsor is a quiet, orderly town, with a people disposed to good things, and it seems a pity that the tide of fortune has kept so sternly against their commercial future.

The town is located on the west side of Stony Creek just above the mouth, and exactly on the county line, that being the western limit. It stands upon the pike running from Winchester to Muncie, nearly midway between the two, and it is connected by pikes to Winchester, Farmland, Maxville, Muncie, Losantsville, Union City and most of the outside world generally. A very large and important bridge crosses Stony Creek just east of the town. It was washed away, bnt has been rebuilt in a still more substantial manner than at tir.st.

Georgetown. - J. M. McNees, proprietor; C. S. Goodrich, sun-eyor; location, Section 24, Tcwn 20, Kange 13, on Windsor pike, one mile west from Maxville; eighteen lots; recorded April 24, 1840; streets, north and .south, Washington; east and west, Main. The town is located on the Winchester & Windsor Turnpike, one mile west of Maxville. It was laiil out in the year 1835 by John AI. McNees, and occupies land on the south side of White River. H. D. Huffman kept the first store in 1835. J. M McNees kept hotel in 1835, and years before. Emsley Humphries had a smith shop. Lewallyn ke])t the last store in 1853. The merchants there at various times were Messrs. Huffman, Clayton, Cunningham, Marine, Miller & Ford, Lewallyn. The smiths have been Messrs. Humphreys, Harris, Segraves. J. M. McNee.s^ kept hotel fourteen years. There werti never more than six houses in Georgetown. The village is now wholly extinct. Several of the old lots are owned and built on separately, but there is no town. Dr. Keener resided there as a physician, as also Dr. Marine. How there should have been any town at all, or the hope or prospect of any, is a nr^-stovy. since Maxville was within a mile or even less than that. The record of the plat of the latter appears not to have been made until 1850, but the town itself was estai)li8hed many years before - as far back as about 1830. Though probably Max villo and Georgetown commenced their race for life not far from the same time, aud it may have been the hope of each one of the rival " embryo cities," that she should outstrip aud rival, or even swallow up the other. But old Father Time has been too mighty alike for both. Georgetown has already been numbered among the things that have been, and the other also, lingering on [)erhai)s some years longer in appearance^ has lost well-nigh all the reality and activity of business life.

When these towns - Maxville, Georgetown and Windsor - stood on the gi'eat thoroughfare between the East and the AVest, where scores, or even hundreds of ti-a\elers; where hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of aiiimals, in immense droves and herds, passed daily; where thronging emigrants wore constantly pressing eagerly westward, westward, always westward, there seemed a prospect that all three, especially the former and the latter, might iind room and business for a substantial or oven a vigorous gi'owth; but when the rail track was laid, and the steam whistle set up its roar, and the engine began to roll, a woe was I>ronouncod u])on all towns, no matter how ambitious or aspiring, which lay away from the path of the "iron horse."

Neff. - ls a post office and store on the Losantville pike, north. There is no town, not even a " four corners." It is just one house and a store. The post office and the store were estab- lished some twenty-five years ago. The store appears to be doing a snug countrv business. Residents in the vicinity are William Clevinger, Wi'lliam Hewitt, John C. Clevinger, William Gilraore. The country around seems a fertile, prosperous region. The store is located on Section 10, Town lU, Range 12, two miles west of Pleasant View, and five miles north of Losantville. It is now kept by Alfred Cantield, who is also Postmaster. Some of the persons who have kept store there have been John Terrell, Avila

Isaac Amburn was the son of Samuel Amburn; he was born in Carolina in 1789, and he married Rebecca Hodgson, who was born in Virginia in 1795. They came to Ohio in 1810, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1829. They were the parents of ten children, all of whom have been married and had families. They are as given herewith: Mary, five children; Elizabeth, eleven childi-en; Samuel, ten children; Catharine, ten children; Jacob, eight children; Hester, one child; Hannah, nine childi-en; Rebecca, seven children; Cynthia, six children; Rachel, six children. Grandchildren, seventy- three. Isaac Amburn resided with his son Samuel till his death, September 23, 1881, he being ninety-two years old. He was buried at Union Cemetery, south of Windsor, the funeral being attended by a largest of the kind that ever assembled ii resided in this region fifty-two years.

Samuel Amburn was born in 1765, in Pennsylvania; moved to North Carolina, married Elizabeth Jones, who was born in 1761, as also a second wife. He had eight children, and died in 1860, aged ninety-five years. They came to Stony Creek Township in 1829. He was somewhat in years when ho moved into the forests of Ston}^ Creek Township, but ho dwelt there more than a generation, and fell asleep at last with almost a century of years resting upon him. The Ambitfu family seems to be long-lived, his son Isaac dying at the age of ninety-two.

Samuel Amburn. Jr., was born in 1818, in Ohio; came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1829; married Maria Smith in 1840; has had ten children; is a farmer; owns 240 acres of land; is a prominent and successful man of business and an active and influential citizen. When he moved to the county, William Moore, John Holloway, William Holloway, Joab Thornburg, Amos Smith, were already here. William Dixon and Jothro Hiatt came when Mr. Ambm-n's people came, in 1829. He had to go three miles to school when he was a lad, and thought it no hardship, often having to " wade the flats" k-noe deep. Wading the water in coon hunting, etc., through the woods was nothing but fun.

Joseph Bond, son of Samuel Bond, was born in North (Carolina in 1779; married Rachel Horold, born in 1781, in 1802; came to Wayne County. Ind., in 181 1, and to Randolph County, Ind., mouth of Cabin Creek, in 1839. They had twelve children, eleven grown, ten married, five now living. He died in 1840, and his wife in 1842. They were farmers and Friends. He was a steady, raild-tompered. genial, Christian man, beloved by all who knew him, and his record is on high. His father, Samuel Bond, was born in North Cai'olina in 1753, and his mother, Elizabeth Beals Bond, in 1755.

Zimri Bond, brother of John H. Bond, was born in Wayne County, Ind., moved to Randolph County, Ind., and afterward to Kansas, the latter movement being made in 1872. He died in Kansas in 1877. having had five children. He had a fine farm on Cabin Creek, but he went to .stock-buying, etc., and failing in business, lost his farm, and like hundreds of others, moved on farther West to the region of cheap lands. Ho was an Anti- Slavery Friend, an Abolitionist, an Underground Railroad operator and a Republican. His family have returned to Randolph County to the region of their former homo. His widow is an intelligent and active Quaker lady,' who is trying in meekness to serve the Lord in purity of heart and to train up her orphaned family in the fear and love of God.

1836, and to Stony Creek in 1838, and they have resided on the place ever since. They had ten children, four girls and six boys. All grew up and were married, and six are living now. IVIr. Butler died in 1861, and Mrs. B. is living still, sixty-nine years old. They belong to the Christian Church. She has seven or eight great-grandchildren, and resides north of Pleasant Grove Church, in Stony Creek Township.

John Diggs was the brother of Mark Diggs, who is also dead, and of William Diggs, who is still living. He was bom in Carolina August 8, 1802. He came I'rom Carolina to Randolph County, upon White River, in 1821, and settled on Stony Creek in 1827. He had five children, and died January 22, 1863, aged sixty years five months and fourteen days. His wife, Catharine Diggs", died October 29, 1807, aged sixtytluree years six months and thirteen days. He was a prominent and respected member among the Friends, and was buried in Poplar Run Cemetery, as is also his wife who s^irvived her husband move than four years. He was a AVhig, an Abolitionist and a Republican, but he remained with the " Body of Friends " at the " Separation," not deeming the alleged reasons for dividing the " Body " sufficient to justify the coiirse pui-sued by the Anti-Slavery Friends.

Joseph Hewitt, born of Irish parents, came to Ross County, Ohio, in 1808; married Sally Putnam in 1831; came to Randolph County in 1841, and has had ten children, all gi-own and man'ied, and nine living still. He now resides at Fai-mland. and is o farmer and stock-dealer. His children are: Catharine (Gilniore). has seven children, lives near Nefif, Ind. ; liucinda (Thomburg), has seven childi-en, resides in Randolph County, Ind.; Sophia (Adkins). has eleven children, lives in Missouri; Sarah Ann (Oakson), has seven children, lives in Farmland; Marion, has seven childien, lives near Neff; Philip, has seven childi'en, lives in Missouri; William, has thi'co children, lives neai- Neff; Joseph, Jr., has six children, lives in Delaware County, Ind.; Peter Owen, has one child, lives in Farmland; Mary (Mclntyre), dead.

Ml'. Hewitt is a man of good judgment, and has been gi-eatly confided in by his neighbors, being often cliosen as arbitrator in disputes, as administrator in the settlement of estates, etc. He has been for many years, and is still, an active and nxemplaiy church member and Christian worker.

William Hewitt was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1840; came with his parents t« Randolph County, Ind. , in 1841 ; married Margaret E. Helm, of Henry County, Ind.. in 1861. and they have thi-op children. He owns 270 acres of land, and carries on farming extensively and successfully. Ho is a Methodist and a Republican. He enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Indiana; had blM'ding at the Imigs, and was discharged after nine months' service, on account of disability, and he has never been hearty sinco. His brother, Jo'^oph, was in the same regiment and company (Company K, Thirty-sixth Infantry), and he was discharged, too, for loss of hearing.

Hosea Lamb was bom in North Carolina, and came to Richmond before it was laid out as a town; cleared the ten acres on which Richmond was first built, and entered 160 acres in Nettle Creek, but settled in Stony Creek. He had nine children; was a farmer and a Friend, and died in 1855. His wife died in 1877, being a very old woman, and having lived a widow twenty-two years.

Restore Lamb, son of Hosea Lamb, died in 1878, aged about sixty years. His brother Isaac was accidentally shot and killed while duck-hunting. A gun was handed to him, muzzle foremost. It was dropped, and the gun went off. He was shot in the breast, causing his instant death. This sad casualty took place more than twenty years ago.

Joab McNees was bom in 1781; lived in Tennessee; came to Randolph Co., Ind., settling in Stony Creek, near Georgetown, in 1829, and married Saraii McCollom in 1803. They had sixteen children, twelve grown and ten mairied. He moved eleven to Randolph County. Mr. McNees died in 1833, aged fifty-two years. His wife was bom in 1783, and died in 1870. aged eighty-seven years. She lived a widow thirty-seven years. A rather remarkable life - thirty years a wife, the mother of sixteen children, and thirty-seven years a widow!

[Note. - The wi-it«r of these sketohes knew a woman who was a wife at fifteen, lived with her husband sixty years, was the mother of nineteen children, raising about twelve, lived a widow eighteen years, and died at the full age of ninety-three years.]

John M. McNees, born in Tennessee in 1805, married Mary Ann Greenman in 1825 (who was born in 1801); came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1829; entared eighty acres of land, and lives on it still. Mr. McNees laid out Georgetown, one mile west of Farmland, in 1835, and kept hotel there fourteen years. There was very much travel on that road in those times, wagona, and men on horseback, and droves of horses, passing west; and, after some years, great droves would pass eastward. Sometimes 70<J or 800 head of cattle would go by ill a single drove. Georgetown never got to be much of a town. There never were more than six houses. The village is now totally extinct as such. Four houses stand there yet, but the lots are town lots no longer. Mr. McNees is a farmer, though now getting too old to perform much labor.

William Merryweather was bom in England; emigrated to America and settled in the State of Delaware, but came to Randolph County in 1842, and resides there still. His wife also is a native of England. They have five children. Mr. Merryweather ovms 2CK) acres of land, being an excellent fai-mer, an estimable citizen, aad an intelligent and worthy man, nearly seventy-two years old. Mr. Merryweather and his wife are highly esteemed among their acquaintances for integrity and solid worth.

Henry Moore was bom in Wilmington, Del., in 1804. He came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1816; married Mary Wright in 1831 (who was born in 1808), and settled in Randolph County in 1838, buying 160 acres of land in Stony Creek Township. He was a farmer, a Friend, a Whig, an Abolitionist and a Republican. He was the father of five children, and died in 1879, leaving a widow to mourn his loss, as also several children.

George Mooro was the brother of Hemy Moore, being born in 1806, and he emigrated from Delaware, on the Eastern seaboard, to Randolph County, in 1839, manying Mary Hiatt in the same year. They have five children. Mr. Moore and his wife are an excellent and worthy couple, and they are thrifty and prosperous, he being the owner of 200 acres of excellent land. He was in early days a Whig, and has been, since 1856, a Republican.

Reuben Medlar was born in Pennsylvania in 1812; married Elizabeth Medlar in 1836; came to Montgomerj- County, Ohio, in 1837, and to Stony Creek, Randolph Co., Ind., in 1840. He made the journey from Pennsylvania in a one-horse wagon in twenty-one days. The cost was as follows: Toll-gates, $5,594; other "expenses, $28.52. They have had thirteen children, and six of the number are now living. Mrs. Medlar died in 1874, in her sixty- first year. Mr. Medlar. is a thriving farmer, owning 210 acres of fine land in that fertile region; belongs to the Reformed (German) Church, and in politics is a Democrat.

Joseph Rooks was bom in 1772, in Kentucky; came to Ohio; married Elizabeth Jackson, moved to Randolph County, Ind., about 1822, with fourteen cliildren - five boys and nine girls.

[Mrs. Patsy Branson, of Muncie, Delaware Co., Ind., says Joseph Rooks had fourteen children in family, all at home at one time, and that she ate dinner there with the whole group of fourteen children.]

Mr. Books was tall and stout, and veiy strong. His standing weight is said to have been 220 pounds for sixty yeai-s. He was a giant in strength, and his boys were the same way.

The children were John, Uriah, Thomas, Samuel, William (five sons), Hannah, Sarah, Maiy, Charity, Phtebe, Rebecca, Betsey, Sibyl, Lydia (nine daughters). Joseph Books and his family moved to Missouri in 1839. He died in Northwestern Missouri in 1869, aged ninety-seven years. His wife died August 17, 1880, aged ninety- four years. He cleared up two farms in Randolph County. First he settled on the Clevinger farm, east of Neff, and then on one northwest of Neff, in the forks of Little White River and Stony Creek. He owned there 300 acres. He sold out in 1838; moved to Missouri in 1839, and became a large land-owner in that State, having been said to be in possession, at one time, of 100 eighty-acre lots. Some odd stories are told of Mr. Rooks and his family, whicli fart, indepd, is not very strange for so immeuso a family in tlioso hard old times. But what matter ':' Among these enfeebled generations it is impossible even to imagine what, in those rough and rugged days, was undergone, without oven thinking it to be anything curious or unusual. They were at least not effeminate nor helpless. They boldly hewed their fearless way, nigged and stern, through trouble iiud difficulty appalling to gentler times. All honor to their heroism! The Indians else had still roamed the wilds over the ground where now fertile farms shine in beauty, and maguiiicent cities rise in gorgeous splendor to rejoice the sight.

Amos Smith was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 171)9, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in IS'i'J; married Margaret Thornbm-g in 1830, and has had five children. His wife died in bSTlt, aged seventy-six years, and the bereaved husband now lives with his son-in-lnw, George Clevingor, on the AVindsor pike. He originally entered eighty acres. He belongs to the Christian (New-Light) Church. His race is almost run, yet he stands waiting in patient, e,xultant hope the issuing of the linal order, "Open the crystal gates and let my faithful servant enter in!"

A large number of the aged veterans, settlers in this region in " auld lang syne," still linger on the .shores of mortality, feeble. deerp[>it, but mostly cheerful and patient, awaiting in joyful hope the welcome summons, "It is enough; come up higher!"

Ira E. Smithson is a native of " Old Virginia," the proud " Old Dominion." the haughlv "Mother of I'l (-sianits." Ilic land of the "F. F. Y.'s." He was born then. I.i 1^10. Diit he ]rU his native soil and emigrated to Clinton OmiU. (Mno, th;it ol.ltim:^ half-way house to weary emigrants, tli;it [jlaco for thousands, whence again, a fresh start being tuk(Hi. pushing their onvvai'd way toward the setting sun, a liual halt would at length be called in the fruitful Hoosier land. And from tnin ton County, once more resuming the impati(>nt line of marrh. they stopped not, they stayinl not, till they had found llirir o\<[- time friends in the v.-oods of ]tandoli)h. In 1S:V.), tlus hiKrr tri]) WHS accomplished, and this was tlie la.st march; for hither he had come to stay. And stav ln' did: and for full forlv v.^ars Randolph County has furnislu'd this j.ilgrini a (imnicilr; 'aiKl. though his wife has gone on before, and some ni Ins have passed "within th(> vail." thi^ aged vi>tcran still t.-m irs among men in the " laud of fhe dving." Mr. Sinilhson in.ivn.-d Mary More in Ohio, and he h;is been the falherof nine rliildivn His wife is dead, and he. a feeMe old man. an oeto-..n.iii;in, mains on the earth, residing with his son on the old lioincst<':i.l. His son Ira was born in Ohio in \H2U; came with his parents fn Randolph County, Ind., in bS:3»; is married, and has six eliil^ d)vn. Ho is a farmoi and a Republican, and belongs to I he Christian (New-Lighf) Chunrh.

William Stanton was born in North Carolina in 1812. marrying Sarah Farlow, and afterward Rachel Leonard. He has had twelve chikhwi, six of whom are slill living. The family came to Randolph County, Ind., in ISC.l, arriving at last, safe', after many troubles and "hardships. ;i( .M-.jk l»'igg-'. in SriUo Creek Townshiji, tieein" fvoui tin' SihiIIhih to "ri a\\av from slavervan.l the war. S.)ine rrn.ini-tvn.va iVo,u"lns lips appear undeV that h.'a.ling in this work,

Is.nic Thninliuig was born in ITTr), in North Carolina: came to Higliiand Counlv, Ohio, in IS R), and to Randolph Conntv. Ind,. Ill is:!i). He married Rebecca Hodson in IT'JiJ, and had twelve children, nine grown and married. .Vine were sons and three daughters. Thev were as follows: Jolm, dead, had eleven ehildren; Joab. living." has had nine children; Elizabeth, dead, six children; Joseph, dead, ton ehildven; Job. living, seven children; JLirgaret, dead; Isaac, Jr., dead, five children; Edwjird. living, twelve children: Alexander, living, nine children: Jonathan, dead, eleven ehildren: Thomas Wesh-v. .lea<l, six <rliil<lrei,. Is;iac Thornburg settled two miles east of Vvindsor; entered ICd acres of land; died in ISC.li, aged eighty-niiK- vears. He- v\as ,( Friend, a Whig, ;in anti-shivery man, a Reiu/blican; an vwrllent, careful, gentle, mild, faithful man. ftfav the world s,.,. many like him as the ages roll. His second wife wav^ Mar\ Ann (Bunker) Ring. He is said to have h:ul ovei- four hundred de-

Joab Thornburg was born in 1795, in North Carolina; came to Ohio in bSl I ; maiTied Elizabeth Holloway in Xorth Carolina, on Christmas Day. 1817: came to Stony Creek, Randolph Co.. Ind.. in IS'jri, entered eighty seres of land, and has resided there ever since - iifty-seven years. They have had nine children. He is a farmer and a Friend: was a Whig and an Abolitionist, and is a Republican. The aged couple are feeble, but not more so than -would be expected, considering their age. There is something veneralde in an ancient homestead, hallowed by the loves, the joys, the sorrows, the dear, the sad. the holy remembrances of almost sixty years of family life. Those who spend their lives in changing from place to place, having never a home, but only a temporary abode, occupying, in their whole lives upon earth, not a foot of land which they could call their own, know little of die real substance of home life. They live, indeed; their children grow u|) to full stature; but their residence is only half a home. He siu'ely has abundant cause for rejoicing whose lot is cast where he can dwell from youth to old age, in a dear and blessed spot, to which sweet and precious memory clings with a close and perpetual tie. Let it be the ambition of every family to acfpiire that excellent earthly blessing, the ownership of a -permanent homo.

William Arinfield Thornburg, Windsor, was born in North Carolina in 181<i. and came to Randolph County, Ind., in ISli"): m;irriod ALaria Clevinger in ISS-",, and has had twelve children - fen grown and man-ied. and nine living now. One. a son, resides at, Union Citv. two in Illinois, five in or near Windsor, and one four miles southeast oi Windsor. He was brought up a Friend, but has br!,,nged mostlv to the Methodists or Fnited Brethren. In i.olitical faith lie w"as a AVhig, and is now a Rejiublican. His business has bei-ii largely farming. Ho has sold C-oods twelve years, and ke].t a hotel at Windsor and at Williamsburg; ope"rated a mill south of Windsor, and now resides in that town. Mr. Thornlwrg and his worthy companion seem thus far to have m;ule their cheerful way through the hardsliips of th.^ii' time, and to be passing peacefully onward toward that v.li,.n<v no travdn- iVinins," and toward the blissful man-ioiis pr,. pared ..ii lii-li fn,- the faithful, trustful, obedient

3g to Rantlled on stony Creek, two and a hall miles .s,, ill h , if \\ iii,|s,ii'; w.is chosen Justice of the Peace vei V s,,on aiii 1 : -,.|d out to .loin, Thornburg about 188(lor 1S;!1. iuu\ left the c.Muily in the latter year, moving to White Lick, below liicliaua|iolis. at which place hi' is understood to have died. They had live children at the time of removal. Ho was kind, genial and ob'iging. and his wife was an excellent woman.

Solnmon Uriel, i was liorn in ( ireeu County, Tenu., on Holston lliver. in IsnJ; came to Clinton Countv, Ohio, with his father, in ISO!-. an,l to Uandolpl, County, Ind., in 1817. His father moved here in 1M7 or 1S|S, but Solomon came sooner. (See reminiscences. | Paul W ., John and Henry H. Wav, and some of the Diggses, had come already. His uncle, "\\"illiam Hiiworth, and ;dso one of his older bro"thers, had preceded him to Kandolpli. and Solomon anvl still another brother came bv tliem.r.hes, ^^ilh one horse betw(-en them, all the way froni Clinton Coiiiiix, Ohio. Returning after some months to Ohio, he liiiall_\ ace.ai p.mied his father to his futm'e home, probably in 1^1 1, and for idiout sixty-live years the Hoosier State has reckoned him as one of her worthy denizens. Jesse Green, John Ballerger. Sumner Lee. Thomas Gillum and others came in com- pany from Ohio, and spttlod on Whiti' Kivor. Solomon's father took np his abode on what has sinco been known as the Brooks farm, two and a half miles west of Winchester. He married Margery Diggs in 1824, fifty-eight years ago. She was for many years of her later life much afHicted and very feeble, and, in the spring of 1881, she exchanged a habitation of clay for the ; obes of celestial beauty in the heavenly mansions. They were the p.u'ents of ten cliildren. eight of whom survive - George W. , ten children, resides near his father's; Hannah (Garrett, ITiornburg), sis children, resides in Iowa; Mary (Clayton), no children, lives near her father's home; William, liv«s near home, has twelve children; Lydia (Dick), lives near homo, no children; Rachel (^Hunt), lives nine miles south, eight children; John, resides near his father's, five children; Fanny (Taylor), resides at Fort Wayne, one child. Solomon ^Vright moved to Stt)ny Creek Township many years ago (lS2y), and still resides near the mouth of Cabin Creek. Ho is eighty years old, but is strong and vigorous. His wife was an invalid, having become wellnigh helpless. She died in the spring of 1881, having filled the measitre of her days and gone Lome to the mansions ])repared on high. Solomon AVright is in religion an Anti-Slavery Friend; in politics, a Henry Clay Whig and a modern " Liberty man," and still later a Kepublicsin. His first vote was given for John Qnincy Adams, and his last for James A. Gai-field, fifty-six years having intervened between the.first vole and the last. He seems strong and vigorous to last long enough to vote for several Presidents more; still, only God knoweth, and Friend AN'right is fourscore years old !

SAMUKL AMBUKN. The subject of this sketch is one of the subslantioJ fnrmers ami citizetia of Randolph County. He is the son of Isaac and Kehecca (Ilodgen) Amburn, and was born in tllinton County, Ohio, November 18, 1818. He is the third of a family of nine children, of wlmm three are now living ; his father was born in North Carolina June 4, 1789, and his mother wjis born in the same State September lu, 17il5; his parents removed from North Carolina to <'linton County, Ohio, and came to this Stale in the year 1828, and located in this county. At that time there were but few improvements in the part of the county where they settled, the nearest neighbor being three miles distant. Samuel was busily engaged assisting his father to clear a farm from the wilderness until he was twenty-two years of age; his father being in very limited circumstances rendered Samuel's career as a youth peculiarly trying ; his life was bcstft with hardships more severe than most sons of pioneers ; his father being a hard worker and not given to speculation, believed that what he obtained in the way of property ahould be secured by the severest labor. Samuel's education was almoH entirely neglected, and what little he did obtain was in a subscription school, where he paid his tuition by cutting and splitting rails. At the age of twenly-two, he bought forty acres of unimproved land situated one mile east of where he now resides, and set to work making a farm of his own. He wa.s married to Maria Smith, daughter of Amos and Margaret Smith, of this county, August 27, 1840. After marriage, he and his wife settled on the forty acres he had previously purchased in the woods ; lie is now owner and proprietor of 280 acres of excellent land, with 175 acres under a high slate of cultivation : his farm is one of the most beautiful and best improved in the county, being of an excellent quality of soil, gently rolling and tolerably well watered. Mr. Amburn has been eminently successful as a farmer, accumulating property very rapidly, and provided comfortable homes for five of his children. Mr. and Mrs. Amburn are the parents of ten ohiUlren, eight of whom are now living - Amos W., born Juno 24, 1841 ; Elizabeth J., l)orn June 2!>, 1843; Isaac L., born April 1, 184C; I.ydia M., born July 25, 1848; John K, born November .3, 1850; Enos I.., born June 28, 185:! : Francis M., born February H, 1851) ; Anthony W., born March 16, 1858: Rosa J., born October 4, 18lil ; Mariha A., born June 18, 18(il. Seven of their children are married, and comfortably situated in life. His son, Isaac L., enlisted in the Eighty-fourlh Indiana Regiment, in the fall of 18G1 ; he remained in the service for about si.t months, when his fatlier took him home, he being under age, seventeen, and not able for active service. Mrs. Amburn is an acceptable and honored member of the Christian Church. Mr. Amburn usually affiliates with I he Democratic party, but does not always draw party lines in casting his vole for county officers ; he has always voted for Gen. Thomas Browne, a stanch llepublican, for Congress and other offices. Mr. Amburn is pleasantly situated, having erected most cx< ellent and cnniforlablc buildings. His dwelling house is a beautiful twosi cry brick, and a model in architectural beauty and convenience, situated on a commanding eminence, surrounded with beautiful shmle trees. He has been a most industrious, enterprising and liberal-hearted citizen, surrounded with iin abundance of the necessaries and luxuries of life. Leads n quiet and frugal life, and is an honored citizen of the county.

FIIANCIS M. AMBUUN, farmer, P. 0. Windsor, was born February 9, 1850, in Randolph I'ounty, Ind. He was married to Matilda A. Myers, Juno 3, 1874, who was born April 17, 1855. Her father, Henry Myers, was a native of Pennsylvania, and deceased in 1863, in this county. They have four children - Roy L., born September 80, 1874 ; I'eriy 0., born January 4, 1877 ; Nellie May, born January 5, 1878, and Jossie A., born August 17, 1880. Mr. Amburn is a member of I. O. 0. F., No. 517, Windsor Lodge ; was educated in the common schools of the county, and is an energetic, industrious farmer.

JOHN H. I30ND, farmer. P. 0. Farmland, born in North Carolina, December 6, 1807; he emigrated to Wayne County, Ind., in the fall of 1811, where he was married to Emily Hoclcett, in September, 1828. Mr. B. came to this county in 1831 and settled on the farm where he now resides. He cleared the farm by his own industry, and soon made it change from the wilderness to that of a beautiful home. His wife was born April Vi, 1811, in North Carolina, and immigrated with her parents to Wayne County, Ind., about the year, 1815. Mr. B. ia of (Quaker descent and a member of the Church of Friends. He has held the office of Township Trustee, to which he was elected in 1840 ; owns a good farm of 120 acres of land ; Republican in politics, and is kind, generous and of undoubted integrity.

ALBERT CANFIELD. merchant and Postmaster at Netf, this county, was born in Cambridge City, Wayne County, Ind., August 19, 1862. He is the son of Silas and Susan (Graham | Cantield, and is the third of a family of five sons, four of whom are now living. His father was born in the town of Rending, Steuben County, N. Y., March 22, 1817. His mother was born near the Natural Bridge, in Virginia. His father came to this State in the fall of 1845, and settled in Cambridge City, and was married to Susan Graham in the year 1848. After marriage they settled in Cambridge City, where they rema'incd until their deaths. His mother died June 16, 1859, and his father November 8, 1879. Albert lived with his parents in Cambridge City unlil the fall of 1863, when he came lo Randolph County and made his home with A. N. Thornburg until he was twenty-one years of age. While here, he was engaged in working on the farm during the spring and summer, and attending the district schools in the winter. In 1878 and 1874, he made his home with Judge W. R. West, of Anderson, his uncle, for the purpose of attending the Anderson High School. While in attendance at this school, he applied faithfully to his studies and advanced rapidly. After leaving the high school, he engaged in teaching in the common schools of Madison County for four months. At the expiration of his term of school, he engaged with a publishing house of Indianapolis as traveling salesman. He served this house acceptably for about six months, <vhen lie acted as traveling agent for about one year for two other firms. At the expiration of this service, he returned to this county and wns engaged as a teacher in the public schools during the winter for about two years, and working on the farm during the spring and summer. In the spring of 1878, he engaged in a general mercantile business al Neff, this county, with Jan)e3 Dougherty as partner, under the title of Dougherty .t Co. This co-partnership continued until January 20, 1879, when Mr. Canfield bought Mr. Dougherty's interest and has been alone in the business ever since. Mr. Canfield carries a well-selected stock of goods, embracing dry goods, groceries, hardware, boots and shoes, etc., and docs a thriving business, his annual sales amounting to about $12,000. Netf is one of the best, if not the best, country business points in the county. Mr. (!. was appointetl Poslrnosler at Nefrinl878, and has held the office ever since. He was married to mt-H Naomi M. Branson, daughter of Joseph B. and Catharine (Miller) Branson, of this county. May 1, 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Canfield are acceptable and honored members of the Christian Church. Sir. C. is also an honored member of Windsor Lodge, No. 517, 1. O. O. F. He 'S a stanch and active Republican, an energetic and frugal l)usiness man, a genial and affable gentleman, and ho and his good wife are favorites in the circle of their friends, and have a bright future before them.

NELSON T. CIIRNOWETll, physician, Windsor, born in Darke Countv, Ohio, October 8, 18;J7 ; he went to Illinois in 1857, from there hack to Ohio in 1858, where he enlisted in the Eleventh Ohio Infantry, and afterword served as Captain in Company E, Sixty-ninth Infantry. After the war. ho came In Wayne County, Ind., and entered the Miami Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1800. from which innlilution he graduated, with honors, in the following year. He located at Windsor, in this county, in 18(iS, and was united in the holy bonds of wedlock to Laura E. Haynes. iVIarch 25, 1869. The Doctor's father, Thomas F. Chenoweth, wos born in Ohio in 1808, and at this date is still living and quite active for oii« of his age. Dr. C. was educated in the common schools of Ohio, which were good at thai lime. He also attended a seminary and graded school, which more fully developed his mind and ability. In early manhood, he followed, successfully, farming and teaching. The Doctor ia nctively engaged in the practice of medicine, which annuallv reaches $2,<X)f). He was a charier member and first Noble Grand of Windsor Lodge, No. 517, I. 0. 0. P., and is W. M. of F. & A. M., Farmland Lodge, :10S. He is Republican in politics, a courteous gentleman, a skillful physician and an esteemed citizen. Two interesting children bles.sed his marriage union - Flora, born January .30, 1870, and Thomiis W., April 13, 1872.

PHILIP K. DICK, farmer and miller, P. 0. Farmland, born November 2:1, 1H24. in the Stale of Ohio: he came to this county in the spring of 1848. His father, Philip, was a native of Virginia, where he was born February 22, 1795; deceased in Ohio, 1877. Mr. Dick was married the first time to Peggy Wallace. who was born August 12, 18:12, deceased March 18, 1870. Seven children, living, blessed this union - Mary E., born July 12, 1851 ; Nancy J., Fcbruarv 25,18.53: B.arbara E., February 10, 1855; Mariha V., November 30, J85.8'; William L., March 6, 1861: Francis M., January 28, 1864, and Robert 1!., June 4, 1867. He was married the second time to Lydia Wright, who was born March 30, 18:13. Mr. D. was educated in the cnnimon schools of Ohio, and has been a close student from boyhood. He has held the offices of Township Treasurer, Afsessor and Justice of the i'eace, giving entire satisfaction to his constituency. He is a member of the church of Friends, and on energetic worker in the leinperanoe cause. Mr. D. owns a good farm of 120 acres of land, and a half-interest in a grist-mill on Cabin Creek, which has a capacity of fifty bushels of grain per day. His brother, Francis M. Dick, was in the war for the Union; he enlisted in Company K, One Hnudred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Infantry, serving through the war.

JOHN E. HEICKES, born in Adams County, Penn., May 14, 18.30; he came to this county in April, 1868. His father's name was Emanuel Heickes, and was born in Pennsylvania October 12, 1785, died there 1802. Mr. Hickes

.Dia, who was born Miiy '22, 1820. Arista, George C, Cora J. und rseison i\i. lie was eaucaieu in me common scliools of his native State, ami hns gained much information by observation and traveling. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry and the Third Artillery. He had charge of the rebel President's baggage while a prisoner at Fortress Monroe, and carries letters of recommendation from Gens. Butler, Ord and Miles. He is a member of the United Brethren Church, also of t. 0. 0. F., No. 1, of Fort Monroe, and is Republican in politics. He was tlie Postmaster of Windsor for three ye.ars. Notary i'liblio for four years, and collects claims for soldiers and private citizens. He is considered to be a trustworthy citizen and those who have business in his line will find him prompt in discharge of whatever may be intrusted to his care. His address is Windsor, Ind. .S.VMUEL HUPP, farmer, P.O. Parker, born May 5, IS-Jf), in Virginia; he came to Ohio in 1!!30, to Delaware County in 1852, and from thence to this county in 1876. He was united in marriage to Mary Watt, who was born in the State of Ohio, December 10, 18-SO. Mr. Hupp received a common school education, and is a great friend to that cause. The fither of Mr. Hupp, Emanuel, was in the war of 1812, and deceased in Ohio, about 1830. .Joseph Walt, the father of Mrs. Hupp, was a native of Kentucky, where he was born 1805, and is still living at this date. Mr. H. is a member of the M. B. Church, and Parker Grange, So. 404. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising ; owns a farm of eighty acres of fertile land, .and seems contented in his chosen occupation. .Nine children blessed this union - Emily E., married, born .July 4, 1803 ; Florence B., married, born .July 24, 1850; .Mary A., married, born January 8, 1800; Martha E., married, born .January 7, 18li2; Caroline, born tDctober 10, 1864; William E., February 28. 18t;6 ; Nora A.. April (>, 18157; Charles W., .January, 1870, and .Joseph W., December 20, 1874.

William

of his regiment with the < battle of Lovejoy, and was until the close of the war, r. and .Mrs. .Merryweathet lendanls at the meetings <: r. M. is a stanch Republici nany years as juror.

well situated, being surrounded by all that is necessary to make them comfortable and happy. They are honored and useful nieinbers of society, and are well known throughout the county for their unlimited hospitality.

Mr. Merryweather has an excellent memory, and takes great delight in recounting his experience in his younger days, both in England and the United States.

.lACOB R. MILLS, farmer, P. 0. Farmland, horn December 18, 1853, in this county. He was married, April, 1872, to Mary Robinson, who was born July, 1866. This union has been blessed with four children - Mipnie N., born March 8, 1874; Joseph, March 21, 1876; Dovie L., March 9, 1878, and Olatie, born March 8, 1882. Mr. Mills had the advantages of the common schoola and improved them as much as was in his power. He is Republican in politics, and engages in farming and buying poultry.

JOHN N. MOORE, farmer, P. 0. Farmland, 'lorn April 12. 1834, in Wayne County, Ind. His father, Henry W. Moore, was originally from Delaware, where he was born in 1804, came to Wayne County in ISIO, from thence he settled in this county in the year 1837, with his family. Mr. Moore was united in the holy bonds of matrimony, the first time to Eliza Hubbard, September 10,18:38; the second lime to .Sarah I'. Hubbard, sister to his first wife, July 13,1878. He was educated in the common schools of Wajne and Randolph Counties, and has followed Ihe occupation of farming from boyhood. He is of German and English descent, owos a well-cultivated farm of 127 acres of land. Republican in politics, and is a worthy member of the Friends Church. Mr. Moore had three children by his first wife - Henry H., born August 15, 18V.I ; Mary E., August 21, 1862, and Charity E., May 22, 1864. He has two children by his present wife - Lulu M., born April :J0, 1877, and Onie C, August 26, 1878.

JOHN OZBU T, Farmland, born May 19, 1828, in (his county. His father John, w.as orginally from North Carolina, where he was born about 1795. Mr. Ozbun wa-s married to Miss C. Hockeit, who was born August 28, 1835. Mr. Ozbun received a good common school education, consi.lering the early disadvantages of the pioneer period. Ho has seven children living - Lydia J., Lindley M., Emma, Eli, William C, Charles II. and Wesley. He has followed teaching school for a number of years during the winter season, farming in the summer, and a minister in the Church of Friends. He is considered an honest, upright, true man and friend.

JOHN H. ROGERS, miller. Farmland, born August 19, 1851, in Columbus. Ohio, and came to this county in the winter of 1809. He was united in marriage to Nancy J. Dick, October 21, 1871. .Mr. Rogers was educated in the gratlcd and common schools of Ohio, and is a man of good mind. He has followed milling during life, and is considered to be a good one. He is a member of the Friends Church and an enterprising citizen in all the noble works of manhood. He is a member of the firm of Rogers & Dick, proprietors of the flouring mill, situated on Cabin Creek. His parents were born in England, his f.Uher, Edward, about 1832; his mother, 18:50. His father came to Ohio from England in 1849, to Olumbus, Ohio, .and deceased in La Porte County in 1859. Ilis mother lived in this county till 1879, when death removed her from these e.^rth ecenes. Mr. Rogers has four interesting ohiIdi"en - Alonzo E., born December :iO, 1872 ; Gertrude M., May 2, 1875; Edgar A., August 9, 1877. and Mary E., October 4, 1879. Those who call on the firm of Rogers & Dick will find them attentive to business, and courteous to customers.

ELIZABETH SA:\IPLE, farming, P. 0. Windsor, was born December 4, 1808, in Adams Couuty, Penn. She was married to John B. Sample January 17, 18:;ii, who was born in 1791 in Pennsylvania, deceased August 28, 1854. They had six children - Sarah E., born November 20, 1836 ; John A., January 1,18:;8; James B., June 9, 1841; Adam, December 25, 1843; William F., October 31, 1846, and Harriet N., December 17, 1850. Mrs. Sample sent one son to the late war, John A., who enlisted in the One Hundred and Twentyfourth Indiana Infantry. She is of German descent ; a Presbyterian ; owns a farm of fifty-one acres of good land, manages it well, and is a woman of sterling integrity.

ISA.\C J. SMITH, farmer, P. O. Windsor, was born December 3, 1832, in this county. His father, Amos Smith, was born in Virginia June 28, 1799 ; immigrated to Ohio, and from thence to this county in 1827 ; he died October 9, 1882, at the advanced age of eighty-three vears. Mr. Smith was married to Sarah .M. Miles August 18, 1859. She was born June 24, 1840, and was of ;. kind and loving disposition. The union was a congenial one, and Ihe years of wedded life pa.ssed happily until September 27, 1880, when death entered Ihe home circle iind took from its midst the amiable and beloved wife. Mr. Smith ileeply feela his loss, and the exit of that pure life from the stage of action which had rendered his home so pleasant has tilled his mind with sorrow. She was a con.sistent member of the Methodist Church, and was beloved by .all who knew her. Mr. Smith was educated in the common schools of early days, but has made good use of this in business and in the accumulation of property. He owns 381 acres of valuable land, and engages extensively in buying and selling stock; he frei|uently has on hand fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. He is an ardent Republicin, a member of the A., F. & A. M., No. ;W8, of Farmland, and an enterprising, courteous gentleman. The mother of the subject of this sketch died .November 3, 1879, at the age of seventy-eight years.

HENRY STUDEBAKER, Farmland, was born July 3, 1842, in Miami County, Ohio ; he c^ime to this county in the spring of 1873, and was married I.. \l...y Barnes Febr.i:iry 10, 18U2. Mrs. Studebaker was born in Clinton I ii.n uli.o, January 20, 1840. They have one child, Edgar Q., born July I" Mr. Studebaker was educated in Ihe graded schools of Troy an.'

I ' 'Hiin, which were the best in the county at that time. Ho has been 'ii-M^;' i ill the manufaclurc of woolen poods, and for seven years last past has l.ci-u Ihe proprietor of th<! Hon ring-mill where ho- now resides. Mr. Studebaker was in the i.:vvy du.ing Ihe war for the Union, taking part in tue famous Red Kiver expedition. He was assigned to the gunboat Mound City, and afterward to the Neosho. His father, John StudebaltW, was originally from lime to Mary C. Horn, February 17, 185-2, who was born May 8, 18;14, deceisei April IG, 1800 ; the second time to liis present wife, originally Mary E. Townsend, September 23, 1869, born April 3, 1842. Four children blessed the first union - William E., born .March 28, 1853, deceased in infancy; .Juli.an 0., born August 8, 18.d5, died April 22, 1882; Wilson E., bora December 18. 1857, and Luther B. F., September 2, 1801. Two children blessed the second maTriagc - John E., born July 1, 1871, and Sarah E., October 8, 1874. Mr. Symons had two brothers in the war for the Union - Joel, who served in the Fifty-ninth Indiana Regiment, and Benjamin F., who served in llie Kifiyfourtb. He was educated in the schools of pioneer days, and has followed the occupation of farming. He was reared under the kind iniluence of the Quaker Church, to which lie belongs. He owns a good farm of sixty-five acres of land, and is at present Justice of the Peace of the township in which he resides, having served one term before.

JOSHUA SWINGLEV, farmer, P. 0. Windsor, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, February 2, 1835, and came to Ihis county in the fall of 1853. His father, Peter Swingley, originally came from Virginia, where he was born in 1810, deceased in Clinton County, Ohio, in 1842. Mr. Swingley was united in marriage to Judith A. Thornbarg February 6, 1857, who was born May 9, 18311. Mr Swingley received a common-school education, and has devoted his lime exclusively to farming and stock-raising. He is a member of the Christian Church aud of the I. 0. 0. F., No. 5V7, of Windsor. He owns a well-cultivated farm of 100 acres of land, valued at $60 per ncre. Republican in politics, and an esteemed citizen. They have four children living - Josephine, born September 5, 1860; John W., September 0, 1802; Martha J., February 10, 1808, and Edith, July 28, 1870.

WILLIAM TERRELL, farmer and minister, P. 0. Windsor, born July 13, 1829, in iStony Creek Township, this county. He was married the first time to Rebecca Th'orubure, November 22, 1849; two children blessed this union - Lucinda J., born December 8, 1850, and John W., November 19, 18-52. Mr. Tcrrill was united in marriage the second lime to Mary A. Thornburg, March 27, 18.50; she was boru December 12, 1S38. 'Tfieyliave eight children living - Margaret E., born October 22, 1858; Sarah E., May 10; 1801 ; George E. S. January 18, 1806; -William, May 30, '1869; Susannah J., May 30, 1871; .Mary M., May 7, 1873, and Delia, May 30, 1875, and Lydia E. C. December 20, 1878. Mr. Terrill was educated in the old lof? schoolhouse of pioneer days, and for a number of years engaged in farming. He has been a devoted minister of the Christian Church for twcnty-si.\ years aud has devoted much of his time to building up the denomination of his choice. He is a member of Whitney Lod J;e, No. F. & A. M. His father, George Wesley, was of English descent, came to lliia coiinty in 1828, deceiised 1878. Mr. Terrill is an active Republican; owns a valuable farm of 171 acres of land, aud is hospitable and kind

JOB THORNBURG. This venerable pioneer of Randolph County is the sou of Isaac and Rebecca (llodgen) Thornburg, ami was born in Guilford County. N. C, September 29, 1801. He is the fifih of a family of twelve children, of whom three are now living ; his father was born in Pennsylvania July i, 1773, and mother in the same State July 24, 1773. They moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, where they wore married, add remained until the year 1811, when they moved to Clinton County, Ohio, where they remained until 1827, when they came to this oounty and remained until their deaths; his mother died July 24, 1832, and his father June 28, 1802. Job lived w^lh his parents on the farm until he was twenty-five years of age, when he, with a hrolber, removed to Indiana, and settled in Randolph County, .\fter living with his brother for about one year, he returned to Ohio, and was united in marriage with Lydia Smith, daughter of James and Atlantic Smith, April 17, 1826. He and his wife returned to Indiana the following October, when he entered eighty acres of the farm upon which he now resides. He has spent the best portion of his life in clearing a farm from the unbroken i-flrest. No oile but those who have had the experience fully realize the amount of toil and hardship connected with the development of this country. The subject of this sketch has accomplished more of this kind of work th.m most men of this age ; he early learned ^the lesson which insures success to every young man - industry and frugality;-. - These qualities being leading motives in his life, he rapidly accumulated property. He ha.s been the owner and proprietor of 437 acres of land, with about 300 acres improved. This land is eioelleut in quality, and well adapted to stock-raising as well as grain ; he has disposed of all of his land, deeding it to his children and otherwise, with the exception of fifty acres. He is the father of ten children as follows : Atlantic, born January 18, 1820 ; Abijah, born February 8, 1828. deceased January 3, 1848; Jonathan J., born April 2, 1830 ; Thom-as, born May 7. 1832, deceased October 28, 1846 ; James, born .March 27, 1834; Ana. born September 19, 1836 ; Edward R., born December 4. 1838, deceased September 13, 1807 ; Tilnias, born November 27. 1840 ; Isaac D., born October 28, 1842; Rebecca, born September 3, 1845. His living children are all married and comfortably situated in life. Job's early education consisted of about three months' schooling, in the old pioneer log schoolhouse, with greased paper for windows, puncheon floor, hewed benches, etc. Notwithstanding the primitive condition of the schools, he has a fair common school education. He and his wife were raised members of the Society of Friends, and have ever remained faithful to their adopted church. Mr. Thornburg has served this county a.s juror more or less for thirty years. In politics, he is a stanch Republican, and has always affiliated with that party ever since its organization ; he w.as a Whig, and strongly anli-slavciy in sentiment. At the death of his father there were over 400 direct ami indirect descendants of the family, and but three Democrats in all of that uumber. Jlr. Thornburg makes his home the most of the time with his son, Tilnias, and has done so ever since the death of his wife. He is tolerably well preserved in health for one of his age, with the exception of a partial deafness caused by a slight .stroke of paralysis, he seems to enjoy life very well ; he has had a remarkable constitution to endure the toils and hardships of such a long life ; he takes great delight in recounting hia experience of pioneer times, aud, having a clear and distinct memory of these limes, his accounts are calculated to interest every one : he has been a useful man, both to society and the church ; a kind husband and an affectionate father, and honored and respected by all who know him.

Lydia Thornburg, was born April 2, 1830. He is the third of a family of ten children, seven of whom are living ; he was raised on a farm, and received a limited education , from the common district and subscription schools, which were very inferior, and open but a short period during the winter season ; his youthful experience did not diftcr materially from that of most boys of pioneer 'imes. He and his brother assisted their father (who was a very hard-working man) to clear a large amount of land from the unbroken wilderness. He was united in a first marriage, to Hannah Holloway, April 24, 1861. She waa a most amiable Christian woman, and shared the joys and sorrows of life with her husband until 181)9, when the fell destroyer removed her from the embrace of her loving family and kind friends. As fruits of his first marriage, Mr, Thornburg is the father of nine children, of whom six are living as follows : Lydia J., Mary L., Benjamin P., Sarah E., Martha A., Job 8., Ellis, William and Rebecca E. He was united in ft second marriage to Nancy Meier, September 7, 1871. His present wife, a most estimable and worthy lady, is the daughter of David and Nancy Morris, and was boru in Fayette County, Ohio, July 27, 1829. She was previously married to John F. Meier, of Clinton County, Ohio, April 15, 1858 ; her first husband died in Ohio March 13, 1868; he was a man of the strictest integrity, a devoted husband and an honored citizen. Mrs. Thornburg received a limited education in the common schools of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg are owners and proprietors of an excellent farm situated in Stony Creek Township, consisting of 240 acres, of which 180 are in a good state of cultivation. This farm is beautifully located and well improved, being supplied with excellent buildings, au exact representation of which is given in this work. Mr. Thornburg gives attentive attention to tlifl raising of blooded stock in addi- alwas acted iind voted with the Republican party, ari(i has always manifested a deep interest in the welfare of the party. His excellent wife is a lady of rare executive ability, and has been of great service to her husband in the management of his business. They are both excellent citizens, surrounded by all of the necessaries and comforts of life, and valuable member." of society.

Thomas Wallace

JOAH THORNBURG, farmer, P. 0. Neil; born in North Carolina in 1795 ; he was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Elizabeth Holloway, December 25, 1817; she was born September 17, 1794, in the State of Virginia. They have live children living - Tohn L,, Isaac, Asenath, Elisha and Jonathan T. Mr. T. was educated in the schools of North (^^arolina and was reared under the mild andgentle discipline of the Friends of that county, his aged companion have traveled life's pathway as members Church, and at this advanced date are waiting the summon whom they have served so faithfully to call them to rest. The winier s s may beat fiercely above the grave so soon to claim them, the gentle r; springtime fall upon their narrow earthly home, the beautiful flower; green sward of summer grow upon the mound raised above them, yet all will not effect the purity of their devoted Christian character which leave behind as an example to those who -follow after fheiii. THOMAS WALLACE.

parents to Miami County, Ohio, about the year 1814, where no icoiuuu uu.i. the year 1838, when he came to this State and county. He was the third of a family of nine children, of whom three are now living. His parents were both born and raised in Tennessee. He lived on the farm with liis parents until he was twenty-one years of age. Having ' comparatively no opportunity of attending school, his education was very meager. After he came of oge, he worked out by the month on a farm until the year 1836, when he was united in marriage to Frances Hays, daughter of James and Catharine Hays, of Miami County. Ohio. This union took place on December 30. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wallace lived in Ohio for about three years, when they moved to this county and settled near Windsor, where Mr. Wallace entered eighty-eight acres of land, being a portion of the farm where Mrs. Wallace now resides. They continued to live here until the death of Mr. Wallace, which occurred February 7, 1870. They were the parents of but one child, James Newton Wallace, who died at the age of two years. Mr. Wallace was an acceptable member of the M. E. Church, and remained faithful until death. In political preferment he was a stanch Republican; although he never sought for any office, he took a deep interest in the welfare of the party. He was a most industrious and frugal man, and accumulated properly very rapidly. He developed a fine farm from the unbroken forests. He was quiet and retiring in his habits, but a man who had strong convictions on all current topics, and did fearlessly what ha conceived to be his duty. Thus lived and passed away an honored and useful

FiiANcEs W.VU.ACB, widow of Thouias Wallace and daughter of James and Catharine (Summly) Hays, waa born in Miami County, Ohio, September 24, 1814. She is the t'hird of a family of five children. Her father was born in South Carolina, August 31, 1780, anJ her miHher was born iiiN'ortli Carolinn in t lie year 17'J2. Her parents removed to Miami County, Ohio, about the year ISOH, and remained Ibere unfil the death of her mother, which occurred March, ISIH. Her father came to Indiana in the year 1851, and made bis Iiomewilh his children until his death, which occurred September 10, 187J, Mrs. Wallace lived at home in Ohio until she was twenty-one years of age, engageil in the various and mulfiplied duties of a farmer's daughter, when she was united in marriage with Thomas AVallace, Her education is very limited, having hut poor opportunities of attending school in herearlier life. Mrs. Wallace has been deprived the pleasure of raising any c war and died in hospital at Chattanooga, May 28, IWo, He served his country well until his death. Mrs. Wallace is owner of 368 acres, of which 100 acres arc in a high state of cultivation. Slie disposes of her land (o tenants, but keeps the management in her own hand. She has been an acceptable and honored member of the M. E. Church for thirty-tive years She has been an industrious woman all her life, parsing through many hardships without a murmur. She is endowed with strong intellectual faculties and a remarkable memory. She looks after her business in detail, and is possessed with extraordinary executive ability. She is beloved as a neighbor and friand and will ever be honored by all who have known her.

WILLIAM WRIGHT, Farmland, was born September 17. 1831, in this county. He was married to Rebecca A. Thornburg, who was born July 25, 183-5. They have eight children living - Fanny R., born March 29,1850; Solomon M.'. January 6, 1804 ; Roily R., March 6, 1800; Elizabeth M. H.. March 24, 1808; Leoto 0., March 9, 1871; Edward E., April 0,1874; Noah V., February 14, 1880. and Bertha A., April 1, 1881. He was educated in the common and graded schools of the Slate. He b.is followed farming and stockraising, and was in the hardware and grain trade at Fiirudand fir some lime. He was Township Trustee one term, bein^ elected in 1800. He owns a good farm of 307 acres of land, worth $00 per acre. Is f

JOHN D. WRIGHT, farmer, I>. 0. Farmland, was borji March 0, 1837, in this county. His father, Solomon R., was originally from Tennessee, where he was born in 1801 ; from thence settled in this State about the year 1818. Mr. Wright was united in marriage to Miss Lydia A. Jackson, who was born September 28, 1847. Five children hle.ssed this union, of whom four arc living - Eva M.. born October 15, 1860; Everett E., October 19, 18U9 ; Maud E., February 27, 1873, and Lydia A., January 20, 1875. He was educated in the common schools of the State, attending Liber College one term. He is of CJuaker descent and a member of that church. Mr. Wright has followed farming and stock-raising from boyhood, and owns a fertile farm of 179^ acres. Republican in politics, and an honest, industrious citizen.

GEORGE W. WORL, farmer, P. 0. Neff, was burn August 80, 1830, in Wayne County, Ind. His father, Robert Wori, was born in Kentucky about the year 1810. He immigrated to Wayne County at an early date, and deceased on the road to California in 1852. Mr. Worl was united in marriage to Lyda A. Ripley July 19, 1857. She was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, August 1, 1841. Mr. Worl was educated in the common schools of this State, and is a gentleman of good information and intelligence. He was elected Township Assessor in 1871, serving two terms, and Trusteeof Stony l?reek Township in 1876, in which capacity ho al'^o served two terms''of two years each. In both of these offices he was noted for his ability .and fidelity, which fully demonstrated the fact of the confidence and esteem^in which he was held by his neighbors. He, with three brothers, served in'the war for the Union. He enlisted in Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry, serving through the war, and being wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. He is s member of j the Christian Church, the A., F. & A. M. Lodge, No. -308, of Farmland, a Rej publican in politics, and a gentleman of the best social standing. Four chil- I dren have blessed the uiarriaie - Mary E., born M»y 0, 18.58 ; Emma A., March 23, 1804; William M., May 22, 1867, and Ulysses S., September 28, I 1872.

milos long, north to south, and four and a half miles wide oast ! to wosl It lios whonv west oF tho Twclve-Milo boundary, and thp land was sm-v,.v.'d'ul).mt 1S20 or 1S21. It inclmlos piirts of township, when ho first moved to tho county, had one old horse only, and tha horse diet! in a few days, which left them in a bad condition. The man cut his knee \tith his frow while splitting clapboards for his cabin, and was laid helpless on the jnmcheon lloor for six weeks. His wife and her brother improved the season by making several barrels of sugar, which sto'xl thorn in good stead to give in exchange for corn during the summer.

In a scope of two miles scjuare there were owned but two wagons. One day, six hor.ses were hitched to one of these wag ous to go to mill. Twelve bushels were loaded in, and off tho teams started. The horsos would not pull together, got fast in a big mud-hole, and stoppod. Six men unhitched each a horso, took each a sack of wheat and away to the mill, leaving the wagon to got out of the mnd when it got u " good ready." Thus did the hardy pioneers of Nottle Creek brtively push their way, and some of thorn still survive to look back upon those rough and troublesome times and those awkward ways.

Isaac Branson was in Nettle Creek in 1824, in the time of tho " Falling Timber," since one settler relates that her sister at that time was at Isaac Branson's, and that Mr. Branson's horso was hemmed up in the stable, but not hurt.

Nettle Creek Town.ship is a fine rolling country, well adapted to all kinds tif farming. It is in the southwest corner of the county. The only pike is the Windsor & Hagerstown pike, north and south, through Losantsville. There is but one town. Ljsantsville, or, as it was called at first. Hunt's Cross Roads. Nettle Creek is Republican in politics by a moderate majority, when State iind National lines are drawn. As to religion, Methodists, Discijdos, Friends, Christian. United Brethren, Bajjtists, etc., are represented. Tho first sermon in the region was preached at Thomas Burroughs", by Rev. Bowen, a Methodist. Tho people generally wont to West River. Thomas BuiToughs died in 1825, and his funeral was preached in his cabin by Henry Mossburg. The Baptist fleeting- House on the county line was built in 1825. A Methodist Moeting-House was built not twentv rods nwav. in 1840. The'tirst schoolhouse was built in 1833." School was taught in it in 1833 -34 by Mr. Evans. Tho next school was managed by Cornelius Murray and his sister. From these small and awkward beginnings, the township has slowly made a substantial growth, till now her school advantages compare favorably with the other townships of the county.

There are several churches in the township. There is no railroad anywhere within easy reach. Winchester. Hagcrstown. Richmond "and Muncie are the places at which *he people of Nettle Creek must reach the railroads. Yet they might be worse off, since good pikes reach out to all these towns, and the farmers and 'business men of that region, instead of being obliged to hitch six horses to twelve bushels of grain, and then after getting their wagon mired, to carry their load off to the mill on the backs of the six horses, as of old, can now take almost any quantity they please and proceed pleasantly, easily and safely to the market of their choice in their own, or in adjoining counties. Nettle Creek is perhaps more purely agricultural than any township in the county, and the valley of the Little White Eiver is truly a splendid region. As the traveler passes north from Losantsville on the good and . irviceable pike that cvtends through the township, his eye beholds with delight the beauty of the landscape, displaying a splendid scopo of country ro?rued from the domain of th - original forest and subdued by the tireless industry of her stalwart farmers. Although much of the surface lies high enough for natural drainage, much, also, stood in need of human help in this respect; and in the last few years the modern system of tile drainage has been brought greatly into use, and the farming interest of that region has been largely strengthened and enriched by tha; means.

In early times, like many primitive communities, some roughness of manners and actions prevailed, but latterly the community has become fully the equal of the rest of the county in those things that tend to enlighten and elevate and refine the feelings and sentiments of the community. In religious things there is considerable variety of opinions and practice. In an early day, the Baptists established a large influence in that part of the county, and they have maintained to this day a larger following in that township than elsewhere in Randolph. In fact, the Baptist element, which holds in the county at largo a strong, prominent and controlling position, has, for some roa-ion, found in Randolph County but a meager support; and, outside of Nettle Crook, that branch of the Christian body has found but few adherents. It has been suggested, with how much justice we know not, that the " Discii)les," so cillod, who are essentially and intensely Immersionists, and in many other respects like the Baptists propar, have in this region absorbed the Baptist element into their own body. Wo do not declare it as a fact, but give the statemant as a theory proposed by some to account for the unusual fewaess of the number of Baptists hereabouts, compared with many other portions of the country.

It is seen by the statement just given that the settlement of the township was very sparse before 1830. In fact, the west part of the county in general had but few occupants before that date. A small number had made a beginning upon AA'hite River and Cabin Creek, but not many were even there, and away from those streams the cabins and the clearings were truly " few and far between."

Nettle Creek Township is bounded on the north by Stony Creek Township, on the east by West River Township, on the south by Wayne County, and on the west by Delaware County.

Politically. Nettle Creek has a K?publican mijority, though the Damocratic element is strong and active, and now and then, through dissensions in the Rapublican ranks, thoy manage to slip in one of their sort into soim of the local offices.

Palirn Tim'icr Pos-/ O/^cc - No town (perhaps) Section 35, Town 19, Range 12; two miles northeast of Losantville, in the neighborhood of Hicks K. Wright's late residence. The name has been given from the fact that nearly sixty years ago a terrible tornado prostrated miles and miles of timber, falling, as'it did, in a douse, hoap=!ci-up, impenetrable mass, and lying for many years upon the surface of the earth, an utter barrier to passage or communication across or among its overthrown treetrunks. That mass of prostrate tree-trunks, entangled for years with shrubs and new- grown saplings, has for two generations disappeared from sight, and a single name, as above, is its only existing memorial.

Flfiningubni-g. - Location, northwest Section 23, Town 19, Range 12; forty lots; Reuben Hunt, Robert W.Butler, proprietors; recorded March 31, 1837. Distances: Four miles north of LosantsviUe; five miles northwest of Huntsville; one mile southwest of Pleasant View. This town seems to have been among the oldest in the county, but whether it ever existed except on paper, or whether any business was ever done there, we are unable to say. It is utterly extinct, and even the n.ame seams to be wholly lost. It is to be pre.^iumed that at least a log cabin, .^tore and a blacksmith shop were there, but we have obtained not ih.o slightest outside information

Losanfsvillo. - Location. Sections 3, 4, 9 and 10, Township 18, Range 12 east; twenty-eight lots; Howard Hunt, proprietor; recorded Febru.ary 22, 1851 ; streets, north and south, Cambridge; east and west, Main.

Distances; Arba, eighteen and ono-half miles; Bloomingsport, ten and one-half miles; Fairviow, twenty miles; Farmland, thirteen and one-half miles; Huntsville, eight and one-half miles; Lynn, foui-teen miles; Union City, twenty-eight miles; Windsor, seven and one-half miles; Winchester, seventeen and one-half miles; Rural, fourteen and one-half miles; Richmond, twenty-fom- miles; Muncie. seventeen miles; Hagerstown, eight and ono-half miles. LosantsviUe (at first called Hunt's Cross Roads) was laid out in 1851 by Howard Hunt. Its " antiquities " are as follows: Mr. Denny had a log-cabin store; Bright Uisk resided there in 1834, and had a grocery in 1842, and perhaps sooner than that. Howard Hunt had a grocery and a hotel in 1850. Moses Shores built a grocery at the southwest corner of the main crossing. Lemuel Wiggins bought him out, and he in turn sold bis establishment to Samuel Burroughs and AVilliam Hendricks. However, Mr. Wiggins continued his residence at the place, and for twenty years has kept hotel at LosantsviUe, besides owning and running a store mure than once, the last time for iivo or six years. William Cbambor.s had a cabinet shop. Tliouias Jones also worked at the sam-j bnsinuss afterward. Honry Blazer, Lewis Ketz, JoLn Sutton, AMlliain Bradlield, William McCoUom, Charles Shaffer have had smith shops. A post offipe was established nearly twenty-five years ago. The Postmasters have been Me.s.sr.i. Wig::;ins, Hendricks, McGollom, Canada. D. Wiggins, L. Wiggins. Mills Hunt, Esq., is a resident of the town, having been an inhabitant of the county more than fifty years. Losantsvillo is not extensive in the line of inhabitants. There are only eleven dwelling-houses. The present business may bo described chiefly thus: - Oue store, hotel and po.st office, Lemuel Wiggins; one smith shop, John Sutton; one shoemaker, William Horn; one grocer, William McCollom; one wagon shop, William McCollom; three physicians. Messrs. Borry, Frank and Lowe; one schoolhouso. one lodge (I. O. O. F.), one Porter's Temperance League, one Baptist Church, one Methodist Episcopal society, one Christiaa (New Light) society, both the latter occupying a public hall for their religious servicas.

Pleasant View. - Location, in Nettle Crook and Stouv Creek Townships, upon Sections 11, 12, 13 and 14, Township 10, Range 1'^ east, Mark Diggs, proprietor. Number of lots not stated. No plat recorded so far as known; laid out in 1815 i. Being situated in two townships and four sections, its location is more extensive than its business. There has been a small amount of business from the beginning of tho town. Mr. Davison had a saw-mill; William Kennedy had astore; Hiram Diggs also had a store; Mr. Cai'ay had a smith shop in IS.jG; Solomon HauscoTii started a furniture store, as also an undertaker's shop, in ISTit), and it has been continued ever since; the latter business with them has become very o.\tonsive, the most so the proprietors claim of any of the kind in R:iudo!ph County. They make their own work and furnish coffins for at least ISO buryings per year. Tho merchants in Pleasant View have been ile.ssrs. Konnedv, Diggs, Wright, East, McNees, Kelly, Moore, Btiti's, Lumpkin & Bro., Ross & Hanscom, ]\rac3 (whose store was blown up with powdei*), Jessup. Hanscom. jossup & Carter. E. Carter it Son, G, AVright.

The physician has been Dr. Frank, in 1870. Tho smith shops have been run by Massrs. Johnson. Carev, Bowers, Snuth and Bobisou. Wag>m shops, J. W. Paschal,' Lamb & Willi.ams. Saw-mill, Mr. Davi.sou and other.s. Cabinet and undertaker's sho|), Mr. Hanscom.

Present buainnss: Oue store, G. Wright; one smith shop, Mr. Bowers; one wagon shop. Lamb & AVilliaras; one savv-mill, Davison: one undertaker. JMr. Hanscom; one post office, name, G.jod View, Postmaster, G. Wright; oun schoolhouse. Everything at this town is on a small .scale. There is one pike, and the railroads were so far away as to hide the wonderful train, smoke, roar and all from the sirfht and sound of tho villagers. Bui. iu the sjn-iug.if 1SS2,the I., B. & W. road was laid through thi southern part of the partion extending east and west, connecting Columbus, Indianapolis, etc., and running near Losantsvillo, and not very far fi-om the town with the pretty name, Pleasant View. AVhethor tho proximity of this line of road will help or hinder this aspiring little hamlet, time, tho great rovoaler. will unfold. Till then, let us wait in patience the revelations of the future. A. thrifty and pros])Broiis country region surrounds the town.

Biography

John Burroughs lived southwest of Losantsville. He was born in Virginia in 1793, came to Warren County. Ohio, in 18t)8, moved to Fayette County, still again to Randolph County, Ind., in 1822. Ho married Martha Chambers (who was born in 1790, in Wilkes County, N . C), in 181G. They have had twelve children, ten of whom have been married. One died in Florence Prison, Jesse Burroughs. Mr. Burroughs died in 1802, sixtynino years old. His widow is still living with her son, south of Losantsville; she is about eighty-tliree years old, yet she is active and cheerful, and her memory is fresh concerning old things. Some reminiscences are given by her as follows: " The 'Fallen Timber' was two years after we came here (1824). Plenty of Indians were still at Muncie, Yorktown, Smithfield, etc. While living in Fayette County, oiu" folks went twice (in tho spring and in the fall) into a fort at Elkhorn Creek. My youngest brother was born in that blockhouse. The tornado did but little damage where we lived. The body of the storm was farther east. John Burroughs' father, Thomas BuiToughs, cami when we did Samuel BuiToughs was the first white child born iu Nettle Creek Township, May 20, 1823. He died eighteen years ago (in 1803)." Aunt Patsy Branson, novi' of Muncie, Ind., widow of Isaac Branson, who were pioneers of Stony Creek, and afterward of Nettle Creek, says that Mr. Bui-roughs' paoplowere the only settlers in the region when thoy planted themselves in Nettle Creek, and that they used to hear the dogs bark and the roostei-s crow at Mr. Branson's through tho woods several miles.

Jonathan Canady was born in North Carolina in 1821, came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1820, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1810. He married Susan Moore, and has had fourteen children; twelve of them are grown and eight are married; eight have taught school, two ara attorneys, and one is a Justice of the Peace They are an active and intelligent family and are Republicans.

Martin L. Canady was bom in Randolph County, Ind., in 1848; married Sojihronia E. Noll in 1809, and they have three children. He is a farmer and teacher, having taught school thirteen wintois. He taught the first school that ever was held in Losantsvillo (in 1878), for it seems that ambitious little town never till 1878 rose to tho diginity of possessing a school. The Township Trustees in that year, taking pity on her desolation, eroctod a neat and commodious school building, and now the as piriug Losantsvillans need not be obliged to submit to tho humiliation of forever being bouud to dance attendance upon an old-fashioned or even upon a new fangled country school.