A portrait and biographical record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind. : containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all of the presidents of the United States, and biographies of the governors of Indiana, Part 109

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Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
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Perry R. Tulley never returned to Mary- land, but has lived in Guilford township, Hen- dricks county, since he was nine years of age. He was reared a farmer and received an excel- lent education, and was married in Hendricks county, October 16, 1879, to Miss Mary P. HE CHRISTIE FAMILY, of Hen- dricks county, Ind., is one of the most estimated and substantial fami- lies of the county, well known for the Hiatt, daughter of Jesse and Achsah H. (Rey- nolds) Hiatt, formerly of Richmond, but for many years residents of this county. This happy union has been blessed with the birth of integrity of its members and their sterling

three children, named Viona, Jennie E. and Jesse, all now attending school, and being well educated. Mr. Tulley has shown himself to be a gentleman of extraordinary business sa- gacity and tact, and his farm now comprises 220 acres, improved with a large brick dwell- ing and also a substantial frame house, and all necessary farm buildings, and is under a high state of cultivation; he also owns a large-sized new elevator at Plainfield, and for the past fif- teen years has been in the grain trade; he is likewise sole proprietor, at the same place, of a creamery that cost $5,000 to erect, and he has given every evidence of his unfailing fore- sight in business affairs, being also largely en- gaged in buying and selling live-stock. His : residence in Plainfield is a handsome two-story frame, elegantly furnished, from which he and family dispense a liberal hospitality. He is immensely popular as a republican, and at the fall election of 1894 was elected county treas- urer by a majority of 1,774. He is a member ! of the Friends' church, and of McCanty lodge, No. 352, I. O. O. F., in which he has passed all the chairs and which he has represented in the grand lodge of the state; also a member of K. of P. lodge, No. 50, and was formerly an active Mason, but is now non-affiliating, for the reason that his lodge has surrendered its charter. Mr. Tulley is a self-made man, in the usual acceptation of the term, having him- self made every dollar of which he is possessed, and the high esteem in which he is held is am- ple evidence that his extraordinary business abilities and social qualities are fully appreci- ated by his fellow-citizens.

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worth, and is an old colonial family of Scotch Irish stock. The name of the original founder of the family in America is unknown. It is known of him, however, that he was educated in England for a Catholic priest and that his convictions being strong against that religion, he came to America in order to enjoy religious liberty, and settled in Virginia. It said that he married a lady of refinement in Philadelphia, Pa., and that the only offspring was James Christie, the father of William, who was the original pioneer and founder of the branch of the family in this county. James Christie, when quite a young man, enlisted in the Con- tinental army and served seven years, or dur- ing the entire period of the Revolutionary war. He married on the James river, in Virginia, Sarah Lemon, and settled in Franklin county, Va., where he lived until 1803, when he moved with all his family to Lincoln county, Ky., and the next year to Shelby county, where he taught school until his death, which occurred at the home of his son, Israel.

James and Sarah Christie were the parents of ten children, named as follows: Mary, Christina, William, Sarah, James, . Israel, Isaac, Hulda, Elizabeth and John. It is prob- able that Mary, the oldest child, was born about 1783. She married Evan Miles in 1 800, and died at New Marion, Ind., March 15, 1833, the mother of eleven children: Sarah, John, William, Enos, Elizabeth, Jesse, Levi. Isaac, Nancy, Susannah and Hezekiah. Chris- tina, the second child of James, married Abra- ham Lewis, of Ripley county, Ind. Of Wil- liam, the third child, a full sketch is given be- low. Sarah, the fourth child, married Jesse Miles, in Shelby county, Ky., August, 1807, and moved to Indiana in 1814. Mr. Miles was ordained a Baptist minister in 1829. and preached in Indiana and Wisconsin, and or- ganized churches. He moved to Wisconsin in 1843, lived to be eighty years old, and died in

1870. His wife, Sarah, died in 1881, aged ninety-two years. James, the fifth child of James, was born May 13, 1790; his first mar- riage was to a Miss Lewis, in 1812; she lived but a short time. They had one child, Hulda. He married Elizabeth Herring, October 23, 1795. Her children are as follows: Louisa, Nancy, James, William, Elizabeth, Mary J., Isaac L. and Preston. The sixth child and third son was Israel, who was born in Frank- lin county, Va., September 5, 1793. His father moved to Lincoln county, Ky., the same year, and the next year to Shelby county, Ky. He married Elizabeth Cook, December 19, 1815. He lived in Davis coun- ty. Mo., until his death, January 21, 1873, in his eightieth year. He and wife were the par- ents of fifteen children. They all lived to marry. Isaac, the seventh son of James, married Susan Cline. He died in Missouri. There were three children: Lemon, William and Elizabeth. Hulda, the eighth child of James, died when young. Elizabeth, the ninth child, married Hosea Dunn. John, the youngest and the tenth child of James, was born December 8, 1801. He married Eliza- beth Brockly; settled in Indiana, Switzerland county, where he died December 8, 1876, and he and wife were the parents of ten children.

William Christie, the oldest son and third child of James, was born August 25, 1786, in Virginia, and was sixteen years old when he moved with his parents from Virginia to Ken- tucky, and had but little chance to gain any education, but learned to read and write by his own efforts. He first acquired a fair knowl- edge of law, and was a wide reader of the Bible, and well versed in the general topics of the day. He married, at the age of nineteen years, August 15, 1805, Sarah Miles, who bore him one child, Mary, and died about one year after marriage. Mary, the daughter, married William Vaughn and moved to Illinois, where

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she died in 1857. On the 20th of February, 1810, Mr. Christie married Elizabeth Miles, a cousin of his first wife. He enlisted in the war of 1812, and served as captain of a pack- horse company. After his return he lived in Kentucky on a farm, and held some local of- fices. He moved to Indiana, in the fall of 1836, and located in Hendricks county. He first stopped at the house of John Pierson, and afterwards purchased the old homestead, on the Rockville road, of John Stephenson, where he lived until his death. To Mr. and Mrs. Christie were born eleven children: Belinda, June 4, 1811; Lemon, October 28, 1812; Eliz- abeth, August 7, 1815; John, January 6, 1817; James, June 26, 1818; Sarah, January 3, 1820; William, April 11, 1822; Elisha, March 16, 1824; Isaac, February 1, 1826; Israel, February 24, 1828, and Eleanor, August 31, 1832. His wife, Elizabeth, died on the first day of August, 1833, and on the 19th of Feb- ruary, 1834, he married Elizabeth Rodgers. The family is now one of the most extensive in Hendricks county, as all the children, ex- cept one, settled in this county, and seven of the original family are still living. When this sketch was written the number of grandchil- dren was forty-four; great-grandchildren, 127 (living 103); great-great-grandchildren, two. Total number of descendants, 202; living, 156.

William Christie, at the of eighteen years joined the regular Baptist church, and for over seventy-three years discharged his duties as a church member, and died May 30, 1878. Politically he was a Jacksonian democrat. John Christie, the second son of William, was born January 6, 1817, in Shelby county, Ky., and came with his father to this county in 1836. He became a farmer and married Lu- cinda Bush, December 27, 1842, in Hendricks county, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hor- ton) Bush. To them were born eight children. After marriage Mr. Christie settled on the land

where Thomas J. Christie now lives, then all in the thick woods. This first eighty acres is supposed to be the first entered in Hendricks county, and by a Mr. Tinston. The children are as follows: William, James T., Thomas J., Sarah E. (died about a year old), Lemon M., John W .. Franklin D. and George W. After about two years William Christie moved to his father-in-law's farm, William Bush be- ing one of the pioneers of Hendricks county and owned at one time about 400 acres. Mr. Christie remained on the farm until 1865, when he moved to the homestead now oc- cupied by his two youngest sons, George W. and Frank, and here spent the remainder of his days. He died November 8, 1887, aged seventy years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Christie were members of the Regular Baptist church. He was a man of good business ability, and accumulated about 700 acres of land He was self-educated and had by study and the read- ing of good books gained a substantial educa- tion.

Thomas Christie was born January 15, 1847, and was brought up a farmer, attending the Danville public schools, and also a short time at the State University. He then taught school in Marion township, one year in

and then made a business trip to Louisiana with stock. He married, September 30, 1874, Mary J. Kreys, daughter of George and Za- relda (Gabbert, Kreys. Mr. Kreys was born in Maryland, of sturdy German stock, the founders of the family settling in Maryland, near the Mason and Dixon line, in old colonial times. He came to Indiana and married, near Columbus, and to himself and wife were born six children: Philip, Mary J., Ida, William, Caroline and George. Mr. Kreys' family set- tled near Stilesville, where he became one of the early merchants. He is now an aged man and settled on his farm near Stilesville. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Christie settled on

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their present farm. They are the parents of three children: Virginia, Paul and Luano. Mrs. Christie is a member of the Christian church, and Mr. Christie a practical farmer and stock-raiser, and is extensively engaged in dairying. He has a fine farm of 400 acres of land and has erected a tasteful and attractive residence, and has one of the most pleasant homes in the county. The surroundings evince taste and cultivation. The descendants of the Christie family may well take an honest pride in its sterling qualities. The founders of the family in America have been prominent and patriotic, and its members have been in every war that has been fought to establish and pro- tect the Union. We have no family in the county which ranks higher in the respect of the people.

J AMES POLK CHRISTIE, with his residence in Groveland, Putnam coun- ty, Ind., is a son of Lemon and Eliz- abeth (Pierson) Christie, and is a de- scendant of James Christie, a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Lemon was a son of William Christie; William was a soldier in the war of 1812. Lemon Christie was born in Kentucky, October 28, 1812, and came to Hen- dricks county, Ind., in 1836, with his father's family. He married the year previous, in Shelby county, Ky., Elizabeth Pierson, and they were the parents of eight children, as follows: John W., Henry L., Mary, Sarah, James P., Lillian H., Amanda and Jennings, who died in infancy. Leonard Christie first settled south of New Winchester, on what is known as the Dead Sea road, but subsequently moved one and one-quarter miles south of the Rockville road, on the Hadley road, where he cleared up and improved 120 acres of land, and where he spent the remainder of his life, dying May 21, 1851, an adherent of the Bap-

tist church. Politically he was a democrat and 'was one of the early justices of the peace and performed the marriage ceremony for many of the pioneers. He was for many years a clerk in John Hogan's store, at New Winchester, and did a great deal of business for the early set- tlers, and was widely and favorably known as a good and useful citizen.

John Polk' Christie, our subject, was born on the old homestead in Marion township, Hendricks county, Ind., February 2, 1843, and received a good education by attending Prof. Skull's school, a well known school of the early days. He was reared a farmer and developed into a fair mechanic for all practi- cal purposes for home work. Mr. Christie after his marriage settled in Putnam county, near the line of Hendricks county, where he resided for twenty-two years, and where he acquired a farm of 300 acres. October 7, 1893, he settled upon his present place, a fine farm of 403 acres, which he has made entirely by his own good management and industry. Mr. Christie married, October 1, 1871, Miss Sarah L., daughter of Franklin and Catherine (Martin) Underwood, and by this union two children were born: Leonard R. and Kate C. The grandfather of Mrs. Christie was John Underwood, a brother of Nathan Underwood, whose sketch appears in this work. John Underwood married Rebecca Radford and they became the parents of seven children, viz .: William, Franklin, Charlotte, Sally, Eliza- beth, Kate and Ellen. Franklin Underwood, father of Mrs. Christie, was born in Kentucky, and was brought to Decatur county, Ind., at the age of nine years by his parents. He first married in Putnam county and his family con- sisted of Rebecca, Sarah and Clarissa, who died aged eleven years. He married for his second wife Ellen Christie, by whom he had one son, Marshall C.

James P. Christie and his family are mem-

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bers of the Regular Baptist church, and politi- cally he is a democrat, but takes no active interest in politics so far as seeking or holding public offices is concerned. He is conserva- tive in his views, a wide reader of books, and is one of the progressive and esteemed citizens of Hendricks county.

HE UNDERWOOD FAMILY .-- Among the prominent families of Put- nam and Hendricks counties are the Underwoods. The ancestor of the Underwoods in America was of Welsh birth,

but intermarried with the Scotch-Irish.

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family is one of the oldest in America, although the name of the progenitor of the American Underwoods is unknown to his descendants. The grandmother of Joseph and Nathan Un- derwood, however, was left a widow, it is be- lieved, in Pennsylvania, with five children, viz .: John, Nathan, Jacob, Polly, who mar- ried a man by the name of Yont; and Phœbe, who married a man by the name of Hanley. Mrs. Underwood married for her second hus- band a man by the name of Hansbury, who also died. She then left Pennsylvania, going to Kentucky, by the way of the Ohio river, with members of the Hansbury family, and taking her children. She was among the early settlers of that state, and located in Shelby county. The Indian troubles at the time often forced the settlers to seek shelter in the neighboring forts, and on one of these oc- casions John Underwood and one of the Hans- bury boys were captured by the savages. John was jerked off of the fence by his hunting · shirt, and was laughed at in the face by his captor. He remained several years among the Indians, but was well treated, and in after years was often visited by them. On this oc- casion the Hansbury boy gave out on the

march, and was taken aside by two of the In- dians, and, as he was never seen again, it is supposed they killed him. All three of the Underwood boys who came west with their mother cleared up good farms and reared large families. Mrs. Hansbury lived until eighty years of age.

Nathan Underwood was a boy when he came to Kentucky with his mother; he cleared up a farm of 229 acres, although he was a weaver by trade. John was a shoemaker and Jacob tanned the leather. They were all hard workers and lived to be well-to-do men. Na- than Underwook married Betsey Wright, of Virginia, and they were the parents of four- teen children, viz .: John, Ann, Assenoth, Obediah, Betsey, Phœbe, James, Hannah, Harrison, Nathan, Mary, Joseph, and two that died in infany.

I THAMER HUNT, one of the pioneers of Hendricks county, and a native of Indiana, comes from an old American family of English descent, his grand- fathers, both named Hunt, having been dis- tantly related. Eleazer Hunt was a farmer of North Carolina, was grandfather of our subject, and the father of nine children, viz .: Ithamer, Zetrick, Asher, Sole, Stephen, Zimri, Hiram, Jonah and Beulah. Mr. Hunt was a life-long resident of Guilford county, N. C., where he died at about eighty years of age. He was a Quaker, and a man in comfortable circum- stances, owning a good farm. Asher Hunt, father of our subject, was born in Guilford county, N. C., was reared a Friend, and mar- ried Jane Hunt, daughter of Abner and Mary (Starley) Hunt, a very distant relative, and to Mr. and Mrs. Asher Hunt were born eight chil- dren, five of whom were born in Guilford county, N. C. Mr. Hunt and his family, on

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coming to Indiana, entered land in Sullivan county and made a farm of about 200 acres, and lived there about sixteen years, when he came to Hendricks county and settled on the farm now occupied by our subject. He bought 160 acres, much of which was in the woods, about twenty acres only being partly cleared, and here he spent the remainder of his days, dying in his eighty -fourth year. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were members of the Friends' church, and he was an honorable, industrious pioneer citizen, respected by all who knew him. The , children by his first wife were Abiline, Eri, died. Ira, Rhoda, Anna, Ithamar, Mahala and Me- linda. By the second wife-Abigail Foster, whom he married in Sullivan county, Ind., and where his first wife died-he was the father of one child, Martha J.

Ithamer Hunt, our subject, was born March 17, 1822, in Sullivan county, Ind., and was reared among the pioneers. He was about fourteen years old when he came to Hendricks connty, Ind., and married, at the age of twen- ty-five years, Frances J. Bush, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Norton) Bush. Mr. Bush was from Kentucky, was one of the pioneers of Hendricks county, Ind., and a substantial farmer. He reared three children, Lucinda, Pleasant and Francis J., and died at fifty-three years of age, an honorable and upright citizen. After marriage Mr. Hunt remained on, and after a time bought, the home farm in Marion township, to which, by thrift, hard work and economy, he has added until he has owned 800 acres, giving his children all but 216 acres, which he retains for a home. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were born nine children: Eri, Eliz- abeth, Henry, John, Angelina, Perry, Rosa, Clara, Elmer and Thomas, born in Hendricks county. In politics he is a republican. Mr. Hunt has always prospered, by dint of perse- vering energy and good management, and has accumulated a handsome property.

I SAAC WEST, of New Winchester, Ind .; one of the venerable pioneer citizens of Hendricks county, Ind., was born November 14, 1803, in Wayne county, Ky., and is .a son of Alexander and Sarah West, of one of the colonial families of South Carolina. The children, remembered, of Alexander and Sarah West, are as follows: Ma- linda, Zura, Isaac, Carter, George, Archie, . Isabel and Harriett. Alexander West first "moved from Kentucky to Hendricks county, Ind., and subsequently went west, and there

Isaac West, our subject, was deprived of all educational advantages in his youth, and was early compelled to obtain his own living. He married, in Wayne county, Ky., Polly, daughter of George Turner, and in 1827 came to Indiana, settled in the woods one mile south of New Winchester, and entered sixteen and one-fourth acres of land in 1829, and it is probable that he is the only living man in this section who lives upon the land that he en- tered. Commencing life upon this settlement with no means, he, by hard work, honesty and economy, succeeded in clearing up a fine farm of 2643 acres, and still owns 2243 acres. In his religious connections he is a member of the Missionary Baptist church, and politically he has always been a stanch democrat. To Isaac West and wife have been born eleven children: George (who died young); Zura, Hannah, Sarah J., Harriet, Rhoda, Polly A., Moses, Captain I., Narcissus and one who died in in- fancy. All through his life Mr. West has been noted for his honesty and integrity, has been held in the highest esteem, and now at the advanced age of ninety-two years, and with a residence of sixty-eight years in the same locality, it is befitting some mention should be made of so long and useful a life.

Captain Isaac West, the second son of Isaac and Polly West, was born December 21,

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1843, on the homestead .. He was educated in the common schools and was reared a farmer, his present occupation. He married Rebecca A., daughter of James and Lucy (Miller) Flyn. Mr. Flyn is of Scotch-Irish extraction, his great-grandfather having come from Ireland and settling in Kentucky. Mr. Flyn was born November 11, 1807, in Kentucky, came from Clark county, that state, to Marion township, Hendricks county, Ind., and was among the early settlers, becoming one of the prominent farmers and owning some 500 acres; he died at the age of seventy-seven, August 11, 1885; politically he was a democrat and in religion was a member of the Missionary Baptist church. His family consisted of the following children: Michael, Martha J., John D., Moses T. (who served in the late war), Angeline, Rebecca A. and Mary C. To Captain and Mrs. West have been born one son, Oliver Raymond. Mr. and Mrs. West are members of the Missionary Baptist church, in which Mr. West has filled the office of deacon for some years. He is one of the practical farmers of Marion township, and is greatly esteemed and respected by his friends and neighbors.

J AMES M. BARLOW, one of the sub- stantial farmers of Washington town- ship, an old soldier of the Civil war, and an experienced educator, was born in Washington township, Hendricks county, Ind., September 13, 1845. His father was Har- vey R. Barlow, who married Sarah J. (Smith) Barlow. He was from an old American family, of Irish and Dutch descent, and came from Georgetown, Ky., and settled in Washington township, Hendricks county, Ind., in 1827, with his father, Enoch Barlow, when but nine years of age. Enoch was a carpenter and . joiner by trade, and a farmer and original pio- neer, and well known. His wife was Jane | president for honorable and gallant service in 51

Seller, was a leader in the Presbyterian church, 'and was a preacher in the first Baptist church of this county, and was foremost in establish- ing Sunday-schools. She died in 1850, June 16, aged seventy-six years. Mr. Barlow was the first one buried in Washington township. He died in 1837. Harvey R. Barlow entered land in what is now known as Lincoln town- ship, and was one of the very first settlers of Washington township, having no neighbors nearer than five miles. In politics he was re- publican and abolitionist. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he was an elder many years. He reared a family of five children: James M., Ruth A., Myra A., Harrison S. and Harvey M., all born in Hen- dricks county, Ind. Mr. Barlow lived to be fifty-four years old and died, August 5. 1872, on his farm.

James M. Barlow, our subject, received his education in the common schools, learned farming, and became expert in this business. On April 30, 1864, he enlisted at Indianapolis, in company H, One Hundred and Thirty- second regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, and served until September 7, 1864, and was honorably discharged at Indianapolis on ac- count of expiration of .enlistment. He was in the battle of Atlanta, July 20, 1864. His regiment, however, was not in that battle, but himself and two comrades who wanted to en- gage in the fight went from Nashville and took part. About 300 soldiers, who, like Mr. Bar- low, wanted to engage in this battle, were as- signed to an Ohio regiment. Mr. Barlow's uncle, N. D. Smith, was first lieutenant of company A, Fifty-third Indiana, and engaged in this battle, and Mr. Barlow intended to join him, but was unable to do so. Mr. Barlow and twenty-three others of his regiment, who took part in the battle at Atlanta, received a testimonial and certificate of the thanks of the

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the Atlanta campaign. Mr. Barlow was six- teen days and nights in this campaign, with little rest from continual marching, often forced, and was in an almost continual skir- mish, suffering greatly from exposure. At a stockade near Stevenson, he was with a detail of thirty men guarding a railroad bridge and here suffered from malaria caused by bad water. Mr. Barlow was in hospital but ten days, and served actively as a soldier all the time during his enlistment, was very much broken down, and on his return home was completely disabled, and has been unfitted for much labor since his service to his country. Out of fifteen men from the neighborhood from which he enlisted, called the "White Lick Neighborhood," himself and one other were the only ones discharged from the service, or lived to return. The others were either killed or died of disease.

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Author: Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co. Number of Pages: 1080

Author:
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1080