BlockWhite River Township (part 3 of 3)
Part 3 of 3 of the account of this township in Past and Present of Randolph County, Indiana : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914. 351 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
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The chapter
351 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Past and Present of Randolph County, Indiana : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
The Dunkirk society body went with the anti-slavery Friends and the meeting went down before that body dissolved its organization and meetings were again established in this community in 191 2 at which time the society purchased the nearby school house and converted it into a church. The meeting is at this time thriving and prosperous.
This church was located about a mile southeast of Spartanburg and was built about 1825. The society was discontinued about 1840, or perhaps sooner. The cemetery remains but seldom anyone is buried there at this time.
Hardshaw was located in Stoney Creek township one-half mile north of the Neff school house. It was sometimes called "Thornburg." It was established before 1831 and was laid down about 1834.
Cabin Creek
Cabin Creek was commonly known as Cedar and is located three miles southwest of Farmland and was established in 1834. In 1843 it went mostly anti-slavery and continued as such until that society disappeared and a new meeting called Cedar was organized at the same place in i860. The present one was built in 1881.
Poplar Run
Poplar Run is located five and one-half miles southwest of Farmland and was organized in 1846 after the "separation." The leaders were Mark Diggs, John Diggs, Henry Moorman, Eli Townsman.
The first building was built of logs, the second a frame building was built in 1856. In 1883 the old church was abandoned and a new one built just across the road north from the old one. This church was remodeled only a few years ago and is now one of the most modern of the county.
Buena Vista is located one-half mile east of Unionsport and was built about 1870 by a union effort of all classes and was given into the charge of Friends. There was no society in connection with the meeting house but Friends from abroad made appointments for a time. Their meetings, however, were discontinued and the church has been re-built and is now owned by the Christians. The Friends church formerly stood about the middle of the burying ground. It was built by Thomas Gillum in 1850.
Provenance
Text from Past and Present of Randolph County, Indiana : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.