A historical sketch of Johnson county, Indiana, Part 16

Author: Banta, D. D. (David Demaree), 1833-1896
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, J.H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 186


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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF JOHNSON COUNTY. 159


CHAPTER XXI.


UNION TOWNSHIP.


The political township of Union is co-extensive with the Twelfth Congressional township in the third range. The township is well watered. The North Fork, South Fork, Middle Fork and Kootz's Fork of Stott's Creek, flow westerly, partly through and out of this township, and draining into the White River. Moore's Creek takes its rise in the northeast part, and runs into Young's Creek to the east. The table lands lying upon the divide between the head-waters of the Stott's Creek and the Youngs Forks Creek tribu- taries, and also between the North, South and Middle "Forks," are level, and at the time of the settlement of the county, were extremely wet.


These table lands are the true highlands of the township, and from their level to White River the fall is great. Hence, the streams flowing westward, have, during the lapse of ages, cut deep channels through the soils and clays, and the high banks left on either side, have, by the action of rain, frost and other agencies of nature, been molded into hills and knobs, which are now gen- erally known as broken lands.


Some time in 1823, Bartholomew Carroll moved from Kentucky by the way of the Three Notched Line road, then newly cut out, and found his way through the brush to the South Fork of Stott's Creek, and settled in Section 34, where John Vandiver afterward built a mill. Carroll had a family, consisting of his wife, three sons, William, John and Samuel, and two girls. The grandfather of his children lived with him-a very aged man, who died, it is said, when he was one hundred and ten years old. Bartholomew Carroll was a genuine backwoodsman. He spent his time in the wilderness hunting game and wild honey. The country about him was well stocked with all kinds of game, common to the country, and an experienced bee-hunter could take honey in vast quanti- ties. It is said that Carroll would sometimes have as many as 100 bee-trees marked in the woods at a time.


There is some uncertainty as to the time when many of the pioneers moved into Union Township. It is next to impossible at this time to get the names of all who came in or the time when they came. In fifty years, much that was at the time of in- terest sinks into oblivion.


Growing upon the farm entered by Peter Vandiver is a beech


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tree, bearing in its rough bark, this date : "16th October, 1826." Strother Vandiver, then a good sized boy, cut this inscription in that tree, to commemorate the day of his father's arrival upon the eighty- acre tract which he immediately entered. With Vandiver, when he moved from Mercer County, Ky., came his old neighbors John Garshwiler, Joseph Simpson and Mrs. Christina Garshwiler. These settled over on the east side of the township. The same year, Thomas Henderson, living at the Big Spring, notified Simon Covert that a family had moved into the woods some miles to the west, and proposed they should go and see who it was. Taking their axes with them, they at length found Mrs. Gwinnie Utter- back, a widow, with a family of eight sons-Corban, Laban, Henry, Hezekiah, Perry, Joseph, Elliot and Samuel, and a daugh- ter, Rebecca, encamped by the side of a log, a little south of the present site of Union Village. Joining their help with the boys, Henderson and Covert soon had a cabin of poles raised and a shelter provided for the family. These are all who are now believed to have made settlements that year.


In 1827, George Kepheart moved to the township, and settled in Section 23, and the same year, Alexander Gilmer settled in the northeast corner.


In 1828, there was growth. Nearly 2,000 acres were entered this year by twenty-two men, and at least ten or twelve moved in. Peter Zook and Samuel Williams and Henry Banta, stopped in the Vandiver neighborhood ; Jacob List and Philip Kepheart located near the east boundary line of the Congressional town- ship ; Benjamin Utterback moved near to his sister-in-law, who came in the year before, while Adam Lash and James Rivers moved farther to the north, and John Mitchel still further out, but toward the northwest corner of the township. Jesse Young located on the northwest quarter of Section 27.


Rock Lick was a famous resort for deer during the early times. There was not probably in all the county a deer lick that equaled it. For miles and miles in every direction, run-ways led to it. Jesse Young, who had settled on the Nineveh in 1825, and who was much of a hunter, visited this place, and was so impressed with the enormous mast crops produced by the groves of white oak timber growing thereabout, that he determined to make his home in the neighborhood. Accordingly, some time before he moved, he drove his hogs to the oak forests, and built a camp not far from the lick. Here he hunted, tended his hogs and read his Bible and Young's Night Thoughts. With these two books he was quite familiar, and in his old age it was his habit to interlard his discourse with apt quotations, especially from the last-named work.


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Young was a strict observer of Sunday, and on one occasion it is said he lost his reckoning, and kept the Jewish Sabbath instead of the Christian. The next morning he went into the woods, and killing a deer, brought it into camp. Soon a party of hunters came by, and finding Young engaged with a deer newly killed, they reminded him of his Sunday principle. But he vindicated him- self by assuring them that he had kept the day before, which was Sunday. A re-count of the time convinced him that he was mistaken, and after disposing of his venison, he turned into camp and kept the rest of the day as sacred.


Young carried a large-bored and far shooting rifle, which he affectionately named " Old Crate." At the time he went to the Nineveh, a white deer was known to range the woods in the west and southwest parts of the county, and every hunter was natur- ally anxious to secure that particular game. But this decr became exceedingly shy, and it must have been two or three years after it was first seen before it fell a victim to a ball from " Old Crate." Young killed it, firing from a great distance.


Another of the successful hunters of Union Township was Robt. Moore, who afterward was elected to the office of Associate Judge.


In 1829, ten more men with their families moved into Union. Robert Moore and Joseph Young into what afterward came to be known as the Shiloh neighborhood, and William Bridges, John James, near Vandiver's place, and Willliam Kepheart, James Vaughan in the Utterback neighborhood, and Henry Graselose, toward the northwest corner. Peter Bergen and Andrew Car- nine moved into the east side adjoining the Hopewell neighbor- hood. About the same time John Mullis settled near Rock Lick.


The next year, Garrett Terhune settled at the Three Notched Line road, near Vandiver's. Gideon Drake moved out to within a mile of the Morgan County line. Bennett, Austin and William Jacobs moved up to the north side. Nicholas Wyrick settled on the North Fork of Stott's Creek, and David and Cornelius Lyster moved over to the east side.


By the close of this year, about forty families were living in the township, as now constituted, and on the 5th day of July previous. Union Township was organized by an order of the Board of Jus- tices. As then bounded, it was much larger than it is now. One tier of sections now on the south side of White River was attached, and two tiers extending the entire west side of Frank- lin, and two sections out of the southwest corner of Pleasant. From time to time, however, changes have been made in the boundary lines of the township, until they have been reduced to the Congressional township lines.


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In 1831, Isaac Knox, John McColgin and Joshua Hammond, who were Virginians, settled in the northwest corner on the North Fork of Stott's Creek. Willis Deer and Wesly, his brother, and John L. Jones settled near Mrs. Utterback ; John Henderson to the northwest of them some miles ; George Kerlin and Peter Shuck on the east side of the township, and Garrett Vandiver not far from the present site of Bargersville, while Serrill Winchester and Jacob Core moved into Jesse Young's vicinity.


The next year, Jacob Banta and Samuel Throgmorton moved in, and in 1833, Daniel Newkirk, the gunsmith, Peter D. Banta, Peter Banta, David Demaree, John Knox, John Gets, Joshua Landers and, probably, Jesse Harris, Peter Voris and John Shuck.


The families moving into the North Fork neighborhood were nearly or quite all Virginians, but all the others, with but few exceptions were Kentuckians. Garrett Terhune was New Jersey born but moved from Kentucky. Jesse and Joseph Young, Gideon Drake and Robt. Moore were from Ohio. Out of more than seventy families referred to, three-fourths were from Kentucky.


The growth of the township was slow, but those who came, came to stay, and the work of improvement went on. In 1828, Peter Vandiver built a horse-mill, the first mill in the township, which was run night and day, and supplied the country for a great distance around with bread. In 1832, George Kerlin put up a horse-mill, which was long a place of general resort for grinding wheat and corn. About 1834, John Vandiver built a mill on the South Fork of Stott's Creek. where Carroll had settled, and in about two years after, John Young built one lower down on the same stream, and Thomas Slaughter put one up near Rock Lick, on the Middle Fork.


Up to the introduction of underground draining, the level lands of Union Township were not esteemed as of very great value, but since the era of ditching has set in, there has been a great and wonderful development in everything that goes to make up the welfare of a people.


The township has ever been remarkable for the absence of gross violations of law. But one murder has ever occurred with- in its precincts, and that was the murder of Peter T. Vannice, in 1863, by a stranger to the place whom Vannice employed on his farm. Taking advantage of his employer, he shot him down in his own door-yard, and then robbed him of his money and fled, with a gun, up the Three Notched Line road toward Indianapolis. George F. Garshwiler and some others gave pursuit, and on over- taking the murderer near Greenwood, he turned aside and shot himself dead.


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CHAPTER XXII.


CLARK TOWNSHIP.


The territory now organized into Clark Township originally formed a part of White River, and, from 1829, when Pleasant was organized, up to 1838, it formed a part of that township. In the last-named year, Clark Township, with boundaries as at present, was set off from Pleasant, and the name was bestowed by virtue of the Clark family, which settled, at an early day in its history, in the northern part of the township.


This township was the youngest of the sisterhood of townships in Johnson County, and was unfavorably located for early settle- ment. Sugar Creek touches upon the southeast corner, and Leatherwood and Flat Creek, having their sources near the north boundary line, flow southward and unite their waters in what was known as the Great Gulf, in the early years of the county's his- tory, and from the south side of the gulf, the waters of Little Sugar flowed down to Big Sugar. In the west side, and well up toward the north boundary, Whetzel's Camp Creek, or, as it is now called, the Hurricane, takes its rise, and sends its waters creeping down to Young's Creek, at Franklin. All these, ex- cepting Big Sugar and Little Sugar, for a few miles above its mouth, were sluggish streams. The traveler on the Jeffersonville Railroad will observe, a mile south of Greenwood, quite a cut through a ridge of land. This ridge extends eastward from that point, and into Clark Township a distance of nearly, or quite, eight miles from Greenwood, where it bends to the northeast and, running parallel to Sugar Creek, ends in Shelby County. All of Clark Township north of the south line of this ridge is high ground, and here did the work of settlement take its firmest hold in the beginning. The banks of Sugar Creek, being drained by that stream, afforded comparatively dry sites for cabins, but nearly all the rest of the land of the township, excepting the high ground in the north, was exceedingly wet and swampy.


In 1820, as we have seen, Daniel Loper built a cabin at the crossing of the Great Indian Trail and Whetzel's Trace, in Pleas- ant Township. Shortly after, Nathaniel Bell entered the land at the crossing, and, some time in 1821, Loper moved back on the Whetzel Trace, to Whetzel's old camp on Camp Creek, where he made the first permanent home that was made in the township. How long he remained here is not known. John Varner, an old


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man who lived with him, died in his cabin within a short time after it was built, and Loper, with the assistance of Peter Doty and Nathaniel Bell, buried him in a walnut trough. Not long after, Loper disappeared, but no one knows where he went. A deserted " Loper's cabin," seen by Thomas Walker in Hendricks County some years after he left, gives rise to the surmise that he may have gone there. The circumstances attending the death and burial of John Varner, and Loper's disappearance shortly after, gave rise to a belief current among the first settlers that Loper was a murderer. After he left, his place was a great camping-ground for travelers, and the more superstitious sort sometimes told of seeing ghosts of the murdered dead. But, from all that can be learned, it would seem that Loper was a thriftless frontiersman, and, becoming disturbed by the encroach- ing settlements at White River, Blue River and Sugar Creek, moved away.


At a very early time, John Ogle moved into the southeast cor- ner-some authorities say as early as 1821, but others put it a year later. In 1822, a settlement was made on the east side of Sugar Creek, in Shelby County, by Joseph Reese, John Webb and some others, and, attracted by this, a few men came quite early into Clark Township, on the west side of the creek. In 1822, William and John McConnell moved in, and I think that John Ogle did not come until the same year.


It is extremely difficult, at this time, to ascertain with any degree of certainty, the dates of arrival of the first and subsequent settlers ; but, next after Loper's cabin, and the Sugar Creek settle- ment. pioneers began moving upon the highlands in the north. The first one to go in was Hugh McFadden, and the second, Glen Clark. Both were here in 1825, and the probability is that both came that year. In 1826, there moved into the settlement thus begun. John L. McClain and Alexander Clark, from Kentucky, and three Hosiers, Robert. Jacob and Abraham. The next year, James and Moses McClain and Robert Ritchey came in from Ken- tucky, and Moses Raines, from Virginia. The year after, Jacob McClain. from Kentucky, and the year after that, Thomas Clark and Thomas Robinson, Kentuckians, and Edward Wilson and Samuel Billingsly. North Carolinians. In 1832. David Justice, Abraham Jones, Matthias Parr and James Kinnick. from North Carolina; and, in 1833, Andrew Wolf, George Wolf, Tennesseeans, and all those mentioned above, save the few Sugar Creek settlers, and David Parr and John Fitzpatrick went into the neighborhood of Loper's old cabin. In 1834, there was quite an influx of immigrants : Allen Williams, John Tinkle, Robert Farnsworth,


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David Farnsworth, Henry Farnsworth, Aaron Huffman and Daniel McLean, Tennesseeans, and Henry White, Ellis White, Joseph Hamilton, Henry Grayson and Taylor Ballard, Kentuck- ians, and Charles Dungan, a Virginian ; John Eastburn, a North Carolinian, and Oliver Harbert, born in Dearborn County, Ind., moved to the township in 1834.


Clark Township was now filling up quite fast. The following persons are believed to have moved in during the year 1835, to wit: Joseph Hamilton. Theodore Vandyke, John Wheatly, Lyman Spencer, Parker Spencer, Caleb Davidson, Conrad Mc- Clain, Thomas Portlock and Samuel McClain ; and James Will- iams, David McGauhey, John Harbert and James White, followed the next year, while James Magill, David Mc Alpin and Jacob Halfaker came in 1837.


In May, 1838, Clark Township was organized, and it was ordered that the elections be held at the house of Jacob Hosier.


The Leatherwood Schoolhouse, erected on the land of Charles Dungan in 1838, was the first one built, and scholars came a distance of three miles through the woods to attend the first school taught therein by a Mr. Fifield, who was a Christian preacher, and, by courtesy, addressed as " Doctor." The first church was organized by the United Brethren, under the leader- ship of George Rubush and William Richardson. The first blacksmith-shop was opened by John Wheatly. The first tannery was started by Allan Taylor, and he and Henry Byrely opened the first store.


The swamp, known to the early settlers of the county as the Great Gulf, and through which Jacob Whetzel cut his road when he came to the country, but which road was found to be untravers- able. was long regarded as irreclaimable. Water stood in it save in the driest times of the year, and it was covered by immense forests of timber and dense thickets. The greater part of the Gulf was entered by Jacob Barlow in 1834-35, but no attempt was made to drain, or otherwise improve it, until about 1853. In that year, John Barlow, his son. moved into the Gulf, and entered upon the work of clearing and draining, and has made of it one of the best farms of the county.


In the early settlement of the county, the Gulf was a famous game resort, and, as the country came to be cleared off, this was the last place the wild beasts left. Another celebrated game resort was the " Windfall," across the Marion County line, and, as late as 1840, hunters were in the habit of organizing a " drive" of deer from one to the other place, while the sharp-shooters stationed on the run-way between, brought down the game.


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In 1854, a deer was shot and killed between Barlow's house and barn, and, in the same year, a catamount, in broad daylight, chased his hogs, and, in their fright, they ran into the dwelling- house for protection. The same summer, forty-seven wild turkeys came feeding close around the house, and, in 1856, a wild turkey made a nest within fifty yards of the house, and brought out a flock of young ones. As late as 1860, a man became lost in the woods on the lower end of the Gulf, and was compelled to lie out overnight.


But a great change has taken place in Clark Township. The timber has been cleared away, and the natural drains opened.


In 1865, Thomas Campbell and John Dean, Irishmen, moved in and bought wet lands, and at once began the work of drainage on a more extensive scale than theretofore practiced. Since then, about thirty Irish families have moved in, and the work of ditching has been rapidly carried on by both native and foreign born, and such changes made as warrants the belief that Clark Township in a few years will rank as one of the wealthiest townships in the county.


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CHAPTER XXIII.


NEEDHAM TOWNSHIP.


Since the foregoing historical sketch has been written and placed in the hands of the printer, the County Commissioners have, in pursuance of the authority conferred by statute law, di- vided Franklin Township into two parts and organized the east part into a new township by the name of Needham. The new township contains a fraction less than thirty-five sections, leaving to the old a fraction over that number. This act of the board was done on the 16th of March, 1881, and at the same time the voting precinct of the new township was established at School- house No. 9, near the residence of James Tilson.


The following appointments of officers for the new township were also made, to wit : William Clark, Township Trustee ; John Owens, Justice of the Peace; David Keay, Constable, and Lloyd Adams, Assessor.


Needham being the ninth township organized in the county, the board gave it that as its number in the numerical order of townships, and it was assigned to District No. 2 for Commissioners' purposes.


An account of the land purchases, first settlers, and other matters local to the township, will be found in the chapter on Franklin Township.


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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF JOHNSON COUNTY.


POPULATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY BY TOWN- SHIPS.


1870.


1880.


TOWNSHIPS.


Native.


Foreign.


Total.


Total.


Blue River


2415


158


2573


2718


Edinburg Town


1650


149


1799


1815


Clark ..


1418


56


1474


1343


Franklin.


5406


204


5610


*5929


Franklin City.


2539


168


2707


3115


Hensley


1658


10


1668


1734


Nineveh


1642


8


1650


1682


Pleasant.


2153


17


2170


2572


Union ..


1460


6


1466


1480


White River


1730


25


1755


2089


Total.


18366


19547


* Includes what is now Needham Township, the division being made after census was taken.


INDEX.


Adventures, Hunters ..


.63, 64,65


Agent, County


31, 32, 74


Allowances by Board of Commissioners ... 71. 73 Anecdotes. 116, 118, 119, 152, 157, 158, 161


Appraisers of Real Estate.


105


Attorneys, District


105


General


101


66


Prosecuting


104


Baptist


66, 67, 115


Battle, Indian.


127, 128


Bartholomew County Settled 19


Beaver Ponds.


IO


Berry, Richard


.19, 20, 108


Bell, Nathaniel.


.. 39, 46, 48, 114, 139, 151, 152


Big Spring, The.


22, 37


Burkharts, The


.. 22


Burial, Primitive.


.. 47, 109, 164


Board of Commissioners


.30,31, 70, 75 105


Board of Justices 70,75


Blue River Township, 20, 30, 32, 35, 36, 65, 67, 108, 109, 110.


Bluffs of White River. 10, 25


Brandywine Creek-Origin of Name .. 11


Camp Creek


10, 44, 47, 48, 151, 163


Campbell, John


.21,108


Carroll, Bartholomew 41


Clark Township ..... 20, 41, 73, 151, 163, 164, 165


Clark's, Gen. Geo. Rogers, Campaign ..


7


Clarke, Marston G., Befriends Geo. King .... 27


Clearing Lands.


51, 54, 58, 124, 125


County, Johnson, Organic Act, 27; Origin of Name, 28; First Officers, 28; Government Organized, 29 ; Topography, 49; Primitive Condition, 50; Conduct of Business, 70;


Revenue, 73, 74; Divided into Commis- sioners' Districts, 75; Names of Public Offices, 101, et seq.


Counties, Contest for Organization of ..


24


County Treasurer's Report ..


73


Court, first meets at John Smiley's;


33


Constitution of.


33, 82


Court House-First one built, 32; Second, 74;


Third, 80; Fourth, 81.


Court House Destroyed by Fire. 80


85, 86,89 Courts, Scarcity of Business in. Rapidity of Trials in .. 85


Court, Probate-Established, 84; Abolished, 85


Common Pleas- " 85; 85


Commissioners Locate County Town ..


.. 31


Board of 70, 105


Corn Planting.


55


Covert, Simon, Settles near the Big Spring .. 37


Covert's Creek ..


116


Congressional Representatives.


101


Customs of Early Lawyers


80


Deaths, first in the County ..... 109, 115, 118, 130 Deer-Numerous, 63; Dangerous when Wound- ed, 64; The White Deer, 161; Last one Killed, 166.


Deer Licks.


.23,24, 160


Delaware Indians


9, 16, 17, 127, 128, 129


Durbin, Amos, First Settler in Nineveh ...


.. 22


Drift Wood, Indian Name of.


... 19


Edinburg


.35, 80, 110, 111, 119


Educational.


.. 67, 115, 118, 119, 138, 153, 165


Elections.


29, 114


Emigration to the State


15, 19


Examiner, Franklin.


79, 89,96


Financial Distress


76


Finch, F. M


84,86


Fish, Abundance of.


10


Franklin


24, 31, 32, 66, 80, 116, 117, 118


Franklin Township.


20, 22, 37, 38,66


Franklin College.


119


Freshet, Great.


78


Game, Abundance of ......... 8, 18, 24, 45, 46, 165


Governors and Lieutenant Governors ......


100


Ginseng.


68


Grand Jury, First


33


Gulf, Great.


10, 44, 45, 165


Hardin, Judge


42, 52, 58, 147


Hard Times.


118, 123


Hensley, Richardson


40, 155


Hensley Township ..... 20, 40, 41, 73, 155, 156, 157 Herriott, Samuel ..... 23, 29, 31, 44, 61, 74, 87, 157 Hicks, Gilderoy 88


Honey Creek, Origin of Name


10


Hopewell Neighborhood.


.. 37, 117, 118


Hospitality, Instances of ..


.34, 114, 160


House Raising


61


High Waters ..


.53, 78


Hurricane Creek, 10; Origin of Name, 44.


Hurricane, Track of.


24


Hunting ..


45, 63, 64, 160


Indiana, Admitted as a State and Popula-


tion of


15


Indian Trail ..


.8, 19, 20, 22, 39, 108, 114


Indians Alarm Whetzel's Camp


9


Indians, Delaware .........


.9, 16, 17, 127, 128, 129


Boundary Line of .......... .15


INDEX.


Indian Murder at the Bluffs


14


Indians, Moral Condition of.


17


Nosey's Tragical Death.


17


Religious.


.65, 66, 78, 115, 165


66


Miami Occupation.


1€


Indian Towus and Camps.


18, 45, 127, 156


Indianapolis Laid Out


20, 24


Insect Life.


50


Internal Improvements.


80


Jail, in lieu of, Prisoner chained to a Stump, 32


' Contract for Building. 33


.Judges, Associate.


28, 29, 82, 84, 104


Circuit


81 to 85, 104


Common Pleas


85, 105


Probate.


85,104


Jurors in Early Times .


72


Justices Transact County Business.


75


King, George ......... 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 37, 88, 116


Ladd and the Murdered Man 11


Lands, Purchases of


21, 24, 35, 36, 38, 40


Lawyers.


86 to 99


.6


U. S., at Work


19,20


Legislature, Members of.


103


Lick Creek, Origin of Name 22


Little Turtle, Speech of 16


Life in the Woods


60


Log Rolling.


55,60, 61, 124


Lost in the Woods


43


Loper, Daniel


23, 33, 39, 46, 86, 151, 163


Manners and Customs.


.63, 86, 123


Markets


.67, 68, 69, 135


Methodism


.. 66, 67


Mills


23,48, 116, 118, 139, 146, 162


Moving


.51, 52, 53, 54, 108, 113


Moore's Creek, Origin of Name .. 22


Murders.


12, 112, 162


Mussulman, Henry


63, 157, 158


"New Purchase," The


15


Neal, Richard, an expensive citizen.


71


Nineveh Creek, Origin of Name. 22


Nineveli Township, 19 21, 22, 32, 36, 37, 113, 114, 115.


Needham Township


71


Officers, First Appointed


28


First Elected


29


Names of.


.100 to 107


Obstacles in the Settlers' Way ..... 50, 51, 54, 123 Pioneers ... 48, 60, 64, 76, 82, 85, 86, 123, 125, 126 Population, 15, 29, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 73, 76, 77, 78, 168.


Poverty of Early Settlers 51


Plank Roads. 79


Pleasant Township, 20, 39, 40, 66, 73, 151, 152, 153, 154, 168.


Presbyterianism .. 66, 67, 153


Prices


.68,69


Prisoners, Indian, pass through the County ... S


Physical Condition of the County .........


.50, 51


Railroads


80


Records Lost


31


Resurectionists.


47


Roads, Bad Condition of ..


51


Cutting Out, 39, 62, 78, 116, 117, 152, 155, 159.


Running for the Bottle.


63


Recorders' Names.


106


Senators, State


102


Settlements-On White River, 12; In adjoin-


ing Counties, 19; In Johnson County, 21 ; On Blue River, 22; In White River Town- ship, 23.


Settlers, Poverty of ..


51


Sickness


58,59


Social Life.


62


Supervisors.


71


Surveyors, Names of.


107


Sugar Creek Neighborhood ..


37


Sugar Creek, Supposed Origin of Name ... 11, 45


Swamp Lands


51


Squirrels ..


.55,129, 156


Snake Stories


57


Schools.


78


Smiley, John


23, 29 30, 31


Slater, John.


95


Secretaries of State.


101


Sheriffs.


100


Trace, Whetzel's


.9, 10, 39, 44, 52


66


Berry's


19


Madison's


Trail, Indian.


8, 19, 20, 22, 39, 108


Timber.


24, 38, 49, 50


Tipton's, John, Journal.


20


Tipton, John, Kills a Deer.


20


Treasurers of State, 101 ; Of County, 106.


Tolling


60


Turbulence


65, 111


Union Township, 20, 41, 66, 73, 159, 160, 161, 162


Varner's, John, Death and Burial


47


Weddings


62, 119


Wild Turkeys.


64, 156, 166


Wick, Judge.


82


Woodruff, Joab ..


.30, 113


Woodruff Will Case.


86


Whetzel, Jacob.


.9, 10, 11, 44


66


Cyrus


.17,117


Whisky


30, 33, 47, 63


Wild Animals.


.46, 55, 56, 64, 132


White River Township, 20, 23, 30, 32, 38, 39, 67, 122 to 150.


White River


10


Williamsburg


115


Young's Creek, Origin of Name


23


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