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In 1833, John Dryer became the second settler of Rountree Township, locating on the farm later the property of August Carriker, on sec- tion 10. When he and his family decided upon their location. they built a rude shelter of poles that served them until something more per- manent could be put up. The latter. when com- plete, was very primitive. comprising but one room, that answered as parlor, bedrooms. dining-
room, and kitchen. The floor was made of puncheons as was the custom in those days when any floor was put in, some of the pioneers living for years with dirt floors. From 1833 to 1840, there appears to have been no permanent settlers in Rountree Township, but the latter year brought William Hefley, who entered land in the southern part that he sold to Wiley Lipe four years later. In 1842, Wilson Carriker was added to the pioneers, and he entered the farm later the property of Jacob Miller.
Following the Hefley's and Lipe's, in 1842, came Nelson Carriker, and in 1844, William Tan- ner, John Ridenhour and Nicholas Ridenhour. About 1846, Alfred Carriker, George Carriker, Allen Lipe, Wiley Lipe, and Henry Nusman, located in the township. Soon after them Noah Lipe came and built the first frame house ever built in the township, all the inhabitants hav- ing lived in log cabins prior to this time. The first school taught in the township was by Wes- ley King. It was a subscription school and was taught in a log cabin near the southwest corner of the township. A schoolhouse was erected in this district in 1847, both for school purposes and that of religious worship. The first religious denomination represented in the township wor- shiped in the above mentioned house and was of the Methodist denomination.
Another schoolhouse was built in 1847, on the farm of Tilman Hefley.
The first frame school house was built in 1861, it was what was known as the Hazel Dell schoolhouse, and by that name is known today.
CHURCHES.
Peter Cartwright began preaching in Round- tree Township as early as 1842, in the dwellings or in the groves. A Methodist Church was or- ganized by him in 1843, in a cabin in section 30. Besides Reverend Cartwright, the following ministers preached there in an early day : Rev- erends Frost, Trotter, Wilderman, and Wiley. The members who organized this church after- wards aided in the organization of the Mont- gomery Church, in Butler Grove Township, and the Rountree Church ceased to exist, a few of the members going to Burk's Chapel.
The Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized about 1868, at the East Fork schoolhouse by Rev. J. B. Croner, and in 1872 this congregation built a churchhouse. Among its early members were: Martin L. Walcher,
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James W. Huffman, George C. Carriker, Julia M. Walcher, Arbina Carriker, Esther Huffman, Daniel Carriker, M. F. Howard, Thomas Sor- rells, Amanda Sings, Leah Walcher, and others. Among the early ministers were: J. B. Liven- good, L. C. Grosclose, G. W. Hamm, M. L. Walcher, Epheram Kitch, and William Schaffer.
Burk's Chapel was organized in 1868, by Rev. John Chapman, in the East Fork schoolhouse. Until 1872 they worshiped in the Lutheran Church, and later they built a churchhouse. Among the ministers who preached in the chapel in an early. day were: B. B. Roads, James Stubblefield, J. W. Lapham, E. H. Hamil, and C. B. Howard.
PIONEER EVENTS.
The first birth in Rountree Township was that of Laura Dryer, a daughter of John Dryer, born in 1836, two years after the family located in the township. The first recorded marriage was that contracted between Peter Cress and Cather- ine Nusman, in the fall of 1836, Justice William Marks, of Hillsboro, performing the ceremony. The first death was that of Catherine Nusman, wife of John Nusman, who died in 1846.
EARLY ROADS.
The early roads of Rountree Township were like those of other sections of Montgomery County, running in all directions, and inter- secting others, none being laid out definitely, but made by the pioneers who sought to reach their destination by the shortest possible route. The first road that deserves the name, was that which runs from Rountree to the village of Irving, although it is not so much traveled as some of the others. The Taylorville road was laid out through Rountree Township at an early date, and for years was the leading thorough- fare for the early settlers. Other roads were laid out running east and west through the township. On the road west of Zion Church there is a bridge over a stream known as Squir- rel bridge, so named because the squirrels were so plentiful in the early days and nearly ruined the bridge by gnawing the timbers.
There were no very early mills in this part of the county, the settlers having to go to Cress Mill in Butler Grove Township, and the Fogle- man Mill south of Hillsboro. In 1842, George Carriker erected a small horse-mill on his farm near Shoal Creek. and conducted it for eight
years, doing as large a business as the capacity of his mill would permit. In 1850 Mr. Carriker sold his mill to Nelson Lipe, who moved it to his own farm further east, where it stood as a landmark for many years. For some years the use of the mill was afforded to anyone who wished to supply the horse-power to grind his meal. Portable steam sawmills were operated as early as 1848, by Noah and Allen Lipe, and a fair amount of lumber was sawed for several years. Later Robertson and Southworth bought these mills and moved them to Fillmore Town- ship.
PECULIAR CONDITIONS.
We have said that this township was a pecu- liar one, and have stated some of its peculiar- ities. It is further peculiar in the precision with which developments have been made. It has a town hall, church (Zion) and school in almost the precise center of the township. Then in the four corners of the township are schoolhouses with one between each of these in as orderly manner as the laying of marbles for the old- time game. Such regularity is nowhere else to be found.
In parts of the township in an early day there was much water to be encountered, and in places the trails went for long distances through water, especially after the spring rains. It is stated that the doctors, when called to attend the sick, had to be guided by the north star to maintain their course, and instances are related of certain physicians, who, after following the north star until a light would appear, would approach only to be told that they were far off their intended track.
During the time when the Grange was a prominent factor in the financial affairs of the people. as well as in politics, a strong organiza- tion was maintained in that township. It was known as Grange No. 764. Edward Miller, a man of splendid ability, was its master, and Miner Gowin was its secretary. Mr. Miller was quite prominent, and was given a state deputy- ship for the purpose of organizing Granges. but he was too much occupied with his farming work to do very much in that line. He essayed to break into the state legislature, but the people failed to respond to his desire with the neces- sary support. Mr. Gowin was sent to the county legislature for several terms, and was a most useful member. It is pleasing to be able to
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state that Mr. Gowin is still living, being one of the oldest men in the county.
TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS.
Those who have served the township in some of the most prominent official positions may be here mentioned.
The assessors of Rountree Township have been as follows: M. S. Gowin, 1873; F. M. Os- born, 1874-1875; C. Wyekoff, 1876; John Keiser, 1877, 1880, 1889; A. P. Cline, 1878, 1879; Tom Miller, 1881; R. H. Cline, 1882 ; H. H. Warnsing, 1883; William Shore, 1SS4, 1885, 18SS; John W. Chapman, 1886, 1887, 1892; Robert Wolters, 1890, 1891, 1893, 1904, 1906; Albert Rutherford, 1894; R. B. Warnsing, 1895, 1902, 1903, 1912, 1913; Charles Carriker, 1896, 1897; Albert Holi- day, 1898; J. H. Maxiner. 1899, 1901; Edward Hilt. 1900; Joseph Cruze, 1905; C. E. Brown, 1907, 1908; A. E. Satterlee, 1909; Frank Tester, 1910. 1911 ; John G. Brumtjen, 1914, 1915.
The collectors of Rountree Township have been as follows: Alfred Miller, 1873; B. B. Bowles, 1874-1875; H. H. Warnsing, 1876, 1878 ; F. McNaughton, 1877; M. E. Gowin, 1879-1880 : John McCallum, 1881-1886; D. H. Strider, 1882, 1889-1890; E. L. Doerr, 1883-1884 ; George Wat- son. 1SS5; Robert Wolters, 1887-18SS; William ยท Shore, 1891; W. T. Chinn, 1892-1893; J. W. Chapman. 1894; Charles Westphal, 1895-1896; Thomas Nantkes, 1897-1SOS; Hyman Gottlieb, 1899-1900; George Herselman, 1901; Alvin Chausse, 1902; Hyman Faeth, 1903 ; R. J. Livin- good, 1904-1905 ; Hyman Dewerff, 1906-1907 ; D. J. Warnsing, 1908-1909: C. E. Brown, 1910-1911; William Folkerts, 1912-1913; Edgar Chausse, 1914-1915.
The highway commissioners of Rountree Township have been as follows: W. A. Peck. 1873-1874: T. M. Scherer, 1873-1874-1875; John Mills, 1873 ; Jacob Weller, 1874-1875-1876 : Frank Walters. 1875; George Watson, 1876, 1878-1879- 1880-1881-1882-1883; Mark Miller, 1876-1877 ; N. M. L. Single, 1877-1878-1879-1880-1881-1882; George Vanhorn. 1877; John F. Kerr, 1878-1879- 1880-1881. 1SS3; Mayfield Truitt, 1882-1883; John Keiser, 1884-1885; D. H. Strider, 1884- 1885-1886; William Gragg, 1884: Alexander Sims, 1885-1886: H. H. Warnsing, 1886-1887- 1888, 1904-1905-1906; John McCallum, 1SS7- 1888-1889-1890-1891-1892; Fritz Theen, 1887- 1888 ; Christopher Sides, 1889-1890-1891 ; Peter Lohr. 1889; William Pereboom, 1890-1891-1892; Hyman Fesser, 1892-1893; Edward Shore, 1893;
Thomas Nantkes, 1893-1894; John Durston, 1894-1895-1896; William F. Handshay, 1894-1895- 1896; J. W. Chapman, 1895-1897; Jesse Livin- good, 1896-1897-1898; Henry Altman, 1897-1898- 1899; Noah Sipe, 1898-1899-1900-1901-1902-1903; Charles Westphal, 1899-1900-1901 ; Richard Hueschen, 1900-1901-1902; Hyman Theen, 1902- 1903-1904-1905-1906-1907-1908-1909-1910; Joseph Long, 1903-1904-1905; Peter Best, 1906-1907- 1908-1909-1910-1911, 1915-1916; Edgar Chausse, 1907-1908-1909-1910-1911-1912; M. L. Warnsing, 1911-1912-1913; Charley Heim, 1912-1913-1914; Thomas L. Bost, 1913-1914-1915; Walter Web- ster, 1914-1915-1916; George Calame, 1916.
The following have served Rountree Township as justices of the peace: A. B. Van Hooser, 1873 ; Joseph Watters, 1873, 1878, 1881 and 1885; Henry Freidmeyer, 1877 and 1881; I. S. Ewing, 1877; William Gragg, 1885; Frederick Miller, 1889; Robert Wolters, 1889, 1893, 1897; Henry W. Warnsing, 1890-1891, 1897; R. B. Warnsing, 1901-1909; James Mollahan, 1902; Arthur E. Satterlee, 1907 ; Benjamin C. Kessler, 1911: C. E. Brown, 1913; Louis Singler, 1915; Edward Chausse, 1915.
The following have served Rountree Township as constables : Alexander P. Cline, 1877 ; Eras- tus Shore, 1877 ; Lewis A. Carraiker, 1878; Reu- ben H. Cline, 1880; Louis P. Muller, 1881; Archi- bald M. Ridenhour, 1883 and 1889; Fred Heim, 1885; Columbus Elliott, 1885; Edward Hilt, , 1886; Fred Warnsing, 1SS9; Charles H. West- phal, 1891; George H. Hershelman, 1894; R. B. Warnsing, 1894; Christian Drew, 1897; Lewis Heim, 1898; Robert Zimmering, 1900; Theodore Westfall. 1901; Jacob B. Warnsing, 1901; R. J. Livingood, 1908: George Broye, 1909 and 1913; Robert L. Weber, 1913.
The town clerks have been as follows: Louis Singler, seven years; James Hilt, two years ; Louis Fesser, two years; Frank McNaughton. three years; Louis Miller, two years; George Watson, two years ; Charles Carriker, five years ; Williford Chinn. one year ; Curtis Hammond, three years; William Truitt, two years ; Charles Bost, four years; L. W. Estabrook, four years; John Fredmeyer, two years; Charles Miller, one year : Ed Safford, one year, and John Keiser, two years.
The justices of the peace have been as follows : Joseph Watters, twelve years; A. B. Nanhooser, two years ; Henry Freidmeyer, four years ; W. M. Gragg, three years; Robert Wolters, twelve years ; H. H. Warnsing. ten years ; R. B. Warn- sing, twelve years; A. E. Satterlee, one year ;
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C. E. Brown, two years; Louis Singler, one year, and B. C. Kessler, one year.
H. H. Warnsing, John Keiser, and R. B. Warnsing each served for long terms as school treasurer, the latter being the present occupant- of the office.
Those who have served as supervisors have been as follows: Henry Freidmeyer, six years ; Alfred Miller, one year; Minor Gowin, two years ; John Keiser, two years ; Maryfield Truitt, eight years; William Shore, two years; Robert Wolters, eight years; Thomas Nantkes, two years ; Luke Weber, six years; Jesse Livengood, two years; Richard Henchan, four years; and Louis Singler, who is the present official.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
WALSHVILLE TOWNSHIP.
REASONS FOR AGRICULTURAL SUPREMACY -- BOUN- DARIES-NATURAL RESOURCES-EARLY SETTLERS -PIONEER INCIDENTS-WALSH VILLE VILLAGE- CHURCHES- INCORPORATIONS- SCHOOLS- OLD SETTLERS - WALSHVILLE RECOLLECTIONS - WALSHVILLE REMINISCENCES-BITS OF WALSH- VILLE HISTORY-PROMINENT SETTLERS-WALSH- VILLE POLICE MAGISTRATES-WALSHVILLE TOWN- SHIP OFFICIALS-TOWN CLERKS-ASSESSORS- COLLECTORS- TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONERS- JUS- TICES OF THE PEACE- CONSTABLES- SUPER- VISORS.
REASONS FOR AGRICULTURAL SUPREMACY.
The southwestern township in the county ranks as one of the best for farming purposes. With the exception of small strips of timber along the eastern and southern borders, the soil is a rolling prairie and is of fair fertility. In age Walshville Township is nearly as old as Hillsboro and Hurricane, which are classed as the oldest. The township has but one small vil- lage within its limits, and its proximity to Mt. Olive, Litchfield and Sorento, makes it almost impossible to support a town unless local developments or industries are organized and operated. The western and better parts of the township are peopled with German farmers who
care little for any but farm life, and in farm- ing they succeed admirably.
BOUNDARIES.
Walshville Township is bounded on the north by South Litchfield Township; on the east by Grisham Township and a part of Bond County ; on the south by Bond and Madison Counties ; and on the west by Macoupin County. It con- tains thirty-six square miles, or 23,040 acres of land. The name of the township was taken, when it was divided under township organiza- tion, from the village of that name,, called after Michael Walsh who platted it. The town- ship is drained by Lake Fork on the east with its tributaries, Grove Branch near the center and other streams in the southwestern part. At one time there was quite a lot of valuable tim- ber along the streams, consisting of elm, cotton- wood, oak, hickory, sycamore and other vari- eties. This has nearly all been cut off how- ever, and what remains is only the cullings after years of lavish extravagance, and lack of sensible conservation.
NATURAL RESOURCES.
Numerous borings have been made in the town- ship for coal, and while several unfavorable re- ports have been circulated to the effect that they were unsatisfactory, we believe that most of them show good workable veins of coal, and in time they will be mined. A strong flow of gas was found in the southeastern part of the town- ship several years ago, and more recently when boring for coal or oil in the village of Walsh- ville, another strong flow of gas was found, and had to be shut off to proceed with the oil pros- pecting. That there is both coal and gas seems to be without doubt. As to oil, it may be said that oil bearing rock was found in Walshville, but so far as information can be obtained, there is no evidence of quantities sufficient to justify working. The large crops of grain, as well as the stock raised for market finds a ready market or shipping point at either Walshville on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, or at MIt. Olive or Litchfield just outside the town- ship. In an early day the old St. Louis road ran diagonally in a southwest direction across the township, but the incoming of the railroads and the platting of the farms according to the modern principles of surveying has made the
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diagonal road a thing of the past, and also decimated their value as commercial highways.
Walshville Township has always been re- garded as a stronghold of Republicanism in poli- tics, and has also been known as a township of churches, having so many that some have gone to decay for lack of sufficient support. During the Civil War, Walshville Township furnished more than her share according to population of the boys who braved the dangers of shot and shell in defense of their country, and many were either killed in the struggle or brought home with them the scars and effects of wounds or contracted diseases.
EARLY SETTLERS.
The first settlement made in the township was on the Lake Fork, on the eastern part of the township. Nicholas Voyles located on the farm known as the Cameron farm, later owned by Mrs. Hodges, George H. Webster, and which is now the property of Thomas Barlow, Mel- cboir Fogelman located on the Josiah Greene farm now in the name of Fred Boyd, just east of the Lake Fork bridge and a hundred yards north of the present highway. Here the first white child born in the county, John Fogelman, made his appearance. This child grew to man- hood here, and was the first constable the com- munity ever had, and was afterward the sheriff of the county. Mr. Fogelman was a blacksmith and his shop was the first in the township. William Stevens a son-in-law of Mr. Voyles was the third man to locate on the Lake Fork, com- ing about two years after Voyles and Fogelman, Others soon joined this settlement, and some three miles further south, Elias Baker entered land in the fall of 1819, but later returned to his native state of Georgia and his son, James remained on the land for many years, The farm later became the property of John Kirk- land, and was known as one of the best loca- tions in the southern part of the township.
Austin Grisham entered land in section 24, near that of Mr. Baker. This farm has been owned by the Grisham family for a great many years, James Grisham becoming the owner from his father Austin. and after his death the larger part of it was sold to other parties, one of his sons, however still lives on an adjoining farm. At one time the wolves were so numerous in the timber near the Grisham and Kirkland farms. that the inhabitants had to take turn about in
keeping them from killing their stock and many a pig that was intended for the families of these settlers was carried off and eaten by the raven- ous brutes. In an early day the Potawattamie Indians had a camping ground near the Gris- ham farm, and many evidences of their encamp- ment have been found in the form of arrow points in the vicinity.
James Jordan, a Baptist preacher, was one of the most prominent of the early settlers of the township. He came here in 1820, entering land in section 28 and going to work to improve it. At the same time he gave the people religious services. We say gave, for compensation in those days for the services of a minister was not permissible, and would not have been in keeping with the ethics of the early settlers. Mr. Jordan was the first preacher to locate in the township and preached the first sermons ever delivered in the township. In 1825 Mr. Jordan sold his farm to Jonathan Voyles, and it has since been known as the Lindley farm. Mr. Jordan moved a little further east into Grisham Township where he located on what has since been known as the William Jordan farm. In 1826 J. W. Garrison located in sec- tion 25 on what was afterward known as the Brune Miller farm. About the same time Thomas Evans located on the Robb Mound, later just west of there, and the Robbs getting possession of the mound, it has since borne their name, though the Evans descendants still own land adjoining the mound. Joseph Dokes, John and Joseph Evans came into this settle- ment in 1826 or prior thereto. In 1828 Robert Kirkland located in section 15, and this choice farm has remained in the Kirkland name till only a very few years ago, and we believe is still the property of relatives by marriage to the family.
In 1840 a settlement was made in the northern part of the township when John Simpson and John King bought land about where the town of Walshville now stands, Mr. Kingston also located here about this time and attempted to establish a town and opened a store and secured a post office calling the place Mt. Kingston, but a few years later Michael Walsh by more systematic effort proved that he had the longest pole and the persimmon of town building fell into his lap, and to him the credit belongs of fathering the only town that the township lays claim to.
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PIONEER INCIDENTS.
Walshville Township had no very early mills, though they were to be found not very far away. . The trading in the early day was largely done- at Edwardsville and St. Louis, so that the St. Louis and Edwardsville road was a noted high- way. In 1842, so far as the accounts show, the first school was taught in the old Baptist Church southeast of town by a man named Emil Clowson. The second school taught was on the Hoisinton farm in a cabin built for the purpose. Some of those who wielded the birch there were Winfield Hix and Henry Havens. The first frame schoolhouse built in the town- ship was where the town of Walshville was afterwards laid out. It was built in 1850. One of the first elections held in the township was held in 1850 for the election of a justice of the peace, when Irvin Cory was elected and John Fogelman was elected a constable. Irvin Cory filled the office for several terms, and William M. Towell became his successor. The first cemetery in the township was that near the John Kirkland farm and is to this day known as the Kirkland Cemetery. Among those to be buried there at an early day were Peggy Gar- rison and a daughter of John Wood. The first marriage solemnized in the township was by Reverend Jordan when he united James Jor- dan, son of John Jordan, and Elizabeth Grisham daughter of Austin Grisham, in marriage. The first preaching in the township, as above stated, was by Reverend Jordan. His first services were held in his own residence, later in the home of Elias Baker and in the last place the Rev. Peter Cartwright organized a church, which was for a long while one of the promi- nent Methodist Episcopal churches in this part of the county. This church was organized in 1824. Later the services were held in the home of Jacob Holbrook. Mt. Carmel Church was organized and a house of worship built, and this and another church in Bond County drew the members toward their better locations, and this old country organization ceased to hold ser- vices. The Baptists organized a church at an early day, and we have asked Rev. C. E. Cline to tell something about that in a brief article which will be found further on.
WALSHVILLE VILLAGE.
In 1850 there was a storeroom erected on the site of the village of Walshville, by L. D. Smith,
possibly with no thought of ever securing a village, as Mt. Kingston had already been started. Smith is said to have conducted his store for three years, then selling the business to a Mr. Bowers. Mr. Bowers did not hold it long, soon selling it to Chapman & Kennedy, and they in turn sold it to Michael Walsh. Now Walsh had an eye for the future, and he was not slow in laying out the town, which he did in a thorough manner. The original town laid out by him contained sixteen blocks of eight lots to the block, and that the public might have all the accommodations that they needed, a wide plat or street was laid out all around the whole site. Mr. Walsh gave his own name to the vil- lage, and soon Mt. Kingston became a thing of the past. During 1850, John King, who had before this time owned in part the land on which the town was platted, built the first house in the town. I. Irwin put up the second store about this time which he conducted for about three years. Dwellings were building in the meantime, and in 1855, Seymour & Kline built a storehouse and put in a stock of merchandise. Mr. Kline sold his interest to Eli DeShane, and soon afterwards DeShane bought out the other partner and for a while ran the business alone. Mr. Walsh had sold his store to Mr. King some time before this, and a little later Hodges & Sanders, and Blevins & Denny, and Hodges & Boyd, all owned and operated mercantile busi- nesses, and later W. A. Kingston, George D. Taylor, William M. Towell, Towell and A. E. DeShane. Isaac Smith. Charles Hodges, Lausau & Johnson. Kingston and Engelman, Fred Karnes, and A. B. Copeland and Barlow and Son also A. T. Strange all owned and ran stores at different times in the village. Mr. Mar- burger also ran both a store and lumber yard for awhile. Walshville was in the days of its prime a good grain buying station, and much stock was bought and sold here. Among the men who dealt in the various lines mentioned were Charles Tolle. George Gorin, George Mc- Pherson. John Missimore, James A. Garrison, and several others. The first physician in the town was Doctor Green. who married a daughter of Jonas Whitesides. He was here only two years. Doctor Williams followed him, and for awhile was the only physician south of Hillsboro. Drs. Samuel Denny, John Wadkins, Luke C. Stoddard. Nathan Jayne, String, E. F. Newberry, Ambrose Barcroft. M. S. Davenport, John T. Koen, Victor B. Barcroft. Otto Hauser. Edwards, and others were each located in the
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