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 94

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Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
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HENDRICKS COUNTY,

INDIANA.

HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA.

J OB HADLEY .- The following is a rec- ord of a man who has passed his long life ever mindful of his duty to his fel- low-men-a sincere believer in the prin- ciples of the Christian religion, he has made it a study to practically carry out its teachings. Always a friend of education, he and his equally self-sacrificing wife were the real founders and originators of the attempt to educate the help- less colored slaves who were freed by the great Civil war. Unlike many of the abolitionists whose efforts were made on the platform and through the northern press, Job and Tacy Hadley, both prominent members of the Friends' church in Indiana, left their comfort- able homes to inaugurate a system of teaching the ignorant colored refugees in the military camp at Cairo, without other reward than the consciousness of their well-doing; and, by their unselfish efforts, interested others of their rela- tives and others of the Friends' church to con- tinue this noble duty. Their names and labors deserve permanent record on history's bright- est page.

Job Hadley is a grandson of Joshua and Ruth (Lindley). Hadley, and is a son of Joshua and Rebecca (Henshaw) Hadley. (See sketch of Hadley family). Job Hadley was born in

Chatham county, N. C., second month, ninth day, 1816. He received more than a common education for his day and passed two years at the Friends' boarding school, now Guilford's college, N. C., as a student and teacher. He earned the money to secure these educational advantages by trapping and teaching school when he was about twenty-one years of age. He was one of the first students of Guilford and one of the first to study arithmetic and algebra in that institution. One of his class-mates was Dr. Alfred Lindley, of Minneapolis, who be- came a man of wealth and position and the benefactor of Earlham college of Richmond, Ind. He attended school at Guilford for a few months and then became an assistant teacher, occupying this position for three sessions. He was one of the early contributors to the found- ing of this institution, which has now become a college. It was the only educational insti- tution in the South that maintained itself dur- ing the war. During the ninth month of 1839 he came to Indiana and taught school three years in Morgan county, married in that county Hannah, daughter of Joseph Draper. and they had one child, who died an infant.

In 1842 Mr. Hadley settled in Hendricks county and engaged in farming on eighty acres

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of land in Clay township, having earned the money with which .to purchase this land by. teaching. He cleared up this farm, and by thrift added to it until he owned 240 acres. His wife died three years after his marriage, and he then married Tacy, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hendricks) Burgess. He met his wife at the yearly meeting at Rich- mond, Ind., both being on the committee for raising funds for Earlham college, and were' married at her home in Ohio. Thomas Bur-" gess, father of Tacy, was from an old Penn- sylvania family of English descent-the grand- father having moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia, and having settled in Campbell coun- ty after the war of the Revolution, there passed the remainder of his days, dying an old man, and his wife lived to be more than one hundred years old. Thomas Burgess moved to High- land county, Ohio, where he settled among the pioneers in 1813, and finally became a substantial farmer. In his old age he moved to Harveysburg, Warren county, Ohio, and died two years later at the age of seventy-four years. He and wife were the parents of eight children: Elizabeth, Joseph, Jesse, Moses, Mary, Tacy and Martha, twins, and John T., all born in Virginia except the youngest, who was born in Ohio. Joseph Burgess and wife were devout members of the Friends' church, and the family were noted for industry, intel- ligence and sterling worth. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hadley settled on their farm in Clay township, where they resided until they moved to their present farm in Union town- ship, four years since. This farm was origi- nally very swampy and consisted of prairie and woods, but Mr. Hadley spent a large amount of money in drainage and has converted it into a fertile farm of 295 acres, Mr. Hadley was county surveyor from 1846 to 1852, and six- teen years later was elected for two years more. During the vacancy he was frequently

called upon by the county court to lay out roads, divide estates, etc. He also taught two terms of school in Clay township.

Mr. Hadley has always been interested in the anti-slavery cause and the advancement of the colored people of the south. When at Guilford, N. C., he organized a Sunday-school for freed colored children-the laws of the state preventing the education of the slave- and for nine months, assisted by Harriet Peck of Rhode Island and Emily Hubbard of Lewis- boro, N. C., members of the Friends' church, taught a class of free colored people in a brick school-house, as the use of the college build- ing could not be obtained. This school was finally stopped by the popular excitement against it. The class contained pupils of all ages, from small children up to the adults of forty years. Mr. Hadley was also the leading spirit in a committee of Friends who got up the last memorial asking for the emancipation of the slaves in the state by the legislature of of North Carolina. Satisfied that the colored people could learn, and feeling that great con- cern for the education of those that had been slaves, and encouraged by the leading memn- bers of the Friends' church in Ohio, Mr. Had- ley and his devoted wife offered their services for the noble cause of educating the colored contrabands of the war, but now freedmen. They called upon Gov. Morton at Indianapo- lis and received a recommendation for their services, for the christianization and education of the colored refugees of the army. This endorsement of their cause afterwards proved very valuable. On their way to the front they met Levi Coffin, of Cincinnati, at Odin, Ill. Mr. Coffin was a famous abolitionist, anti- slavery agitator and philanthropist, who had been regularly appointed by the Friends' church of Cincinnati for the same work. He was also president of the Cincinnati Freedmen's Aid mission, and bore credentials to that effect.

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It is said of him that he had previously assisted in the escape of 3, 100 slaves on the underground railroad. Mr. Coffin was also in regular standing in the Friends' church and had its official sanction, while Mr. Hadley, to- gether with Addison Hadley, Addison Coffin and Dr. Foster Harvey, had been disowned by the Mill Creek (Hendricks county) monthly meeting, ostensibly for insubordination against the regulations of the church, but really be- cause they were among the first of the Friends (there being a schism between the conserva- tive and liberal Friends) to establish the pro- gressive wing of the Friends' church in In- diana.

Well, to resume the narration: The three Friends who had met at Odin, proceeded to Cairo and called upon Gen. Tuttle, who was in command at that point; they stated their case to him and he replied, "You can go on and relieve the suffering, but a negro cannot learn." Mr. Hadley replied, "Well, we will try." On arrival at Cairo they were assisted by Captain Rogers, the chaplain of the camp of the colored refugees, who numbered about 3,000 contrabands of war, who had been freed by the government. Directly out of the depths of slavery, they were of all colors, ages and sizes, and a greater unwashed and tatter-de- malion gang it would be hard to find. Many of the able men and women were at the front of the army engaged in various kind of work, and many of those in the camp were feeble men, women and children, some of whom were nearly white. They had to be scrubbed with soap and water before they were decent enough to attend school. The Freedmen's Aid commission of Cincinnati, and other chari- table orders, especially the Friends, provided clothing, which was distributed by Mr. and Mrs. Hadley. Their rations were supplied by the government. Capt. Rogers furnished a dwelling house for a school, called the motley

.crowd together, and, addressing them, explained the object and the benefits of education. Point- ing to Levi Coffin, he said that he was so full of goodness that it ran out of his shirt sleeves. Mr. Coffin also addressed the meeting; prepar- ations were also made by Capt. Rogers, which occupied about ten days. In the meantime Mr. and Mrs. Hadley visited Memphis and other points, inspecting army hospitals and camps of colored refugees, and reporting their condition to the benevolent society. On re- turning to Cairo they found the school attended by about 100 pupils of all shades of color, ages and sizes. Finding the need of assist- ance great, they sent for Hannah Hadley, their niece, to join them. It was difficult to obtain good order among these contrabands, as they were entirely unaccustomed to disci- pline of this kind, and it is hinted that the discipline of Job Hadley was maintained at times, when there was too much turbulence, by the judicious use of the raw hide, which was much against his wishes. In nine weeks they taught many of these colored people to read and write. A premium was offered for the best reader, and one hundred Bibles and Testa- ments were presented to the best scholars.

After this useful and efficient service to the oppressed, Mr. and Mrs. Hadley returned home. They had been the pioneers and mis- sionaries of this cause, and now the way was open for the education of the black, their ad- vice was much sought by parties interested in the great move. They advised that more teachers be sent for, for the education of these people, and that colored teachers be trained; that a system of education might be estab- lished among themselves, and this idea was carried out by Gen. Buford, of Helena, Ark. This self-sacrificing work was done gratui- tiously for the sole purpose of doing good to the helpless colored people and for the cause of Christianity, and was a bright beacon-light to

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the pathway of the humble contraband of war. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley rightly believed that the education of the colored people would be the means of the material advancement of the race. Gen. Fisk, in one of his public speeches, stated that the Cairo school was the inspira- tion of his work in founding Fisk's. university for the colored people. At Cairo was the first real school for the education of the colored race established by western people, and was the forerunner of all the excellent institutions of learning that are now rapidly advancing their education and condition. Mr. Hadley also has now under consideration a plan to devote the income of his farm of 295 acres in the future, circumstances permitting, to the founding of a training school for worthy and needy children, without regard to sect or color.

To the marriage of Job and Tacy Hadley were born three children-Martha, Ezra and Cyrus-who all died in infancy. They have, however, reared from the age of five until twenty-one years of age and started in life with $1, 500, Sarah C. Appleby; they also took, to rear, a brother and sister of this young lady, but these two children died at the respective ages of seven and fourteen years. They also reared, from the age of three years, Jesse H. Blair, son of Judge Blair, assisted him to obtain an education and established bim in his profession, which kindness he has requited by becoming one of the leading attorneys of Indianapolis.

ISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE HADLEY FAMILY .- This is one of the oldest, most substantial and conservative families of Hendricks

county. For generation after generation its male members have been prosperous farmers, noted for their steadiness of character and ad- herence to the Friends' church. The progen-

itor of the family in America was Simon Hadley, who was born in Ireland. Tradition says that he came to America as a stow-a-way on a vessel bound for Philadelphia. He set- tled in Bucks county, Pa., and became a wealthy and influential man of considerable note, and it is said he was a slave-owner, and was accustomed to deal out the rations to his slaves himself. He was a lover of fine horses, of which he kept quite a number. He was finally found dead in his stable, some persons believing that he was robbed and killed by one' of his servants for the money which he carried upon his person. Some believed that he was "kicked to death by one of his fine horses. He was a land-owner in Bucks county, Pa., and a very influential member of the Friends' church.

One of his sons, Joshua, the founder of the branch of the family with which this notice is most concerned, settled in North Carolina as a pioneer, and there married Patience Lindley. They became the parents of Simon, born fifth day, third month, 1737, and mar- ried Bridget Foote; Mary, born twenty-ninth day of third month, 1739, married Benjamin Pickett: Jeremiah, born twenty-third of fifth month, 1741; Joshua, born twenty-third of fifth month, 1743, married Ruth Lindley; Joseph, born fifth of tenth month, 1745, mar- ried a Cashatt for his first wife; Deborah, born fifth day of twelfth month, 1747, mar- ried Mincher Litler; Hannah, born twenty- sixth of second month, 1749, married Jesse Johnson; Catherine, born twenty-fourth of ninth month, 1752, married Thomas Halliday; Lydia, born twenty-fourth of eleventh month, 1756, married Samuel Halliday.

The following are the names and ages of Joshua and Ruth (Lindley) Hadley' children: Sarah, born the seventeenth of eighth month, 1762, married Eli Newlin for her first husband, and Jeremiah Pickett for her second husband;

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Thomas, born the tenth day of twelfth month, . 1763, married Mary 'Newlin; Simon, born sixth day of the tenth month, 1765, married Elizabeth Thompson, who was born eighth day of the seventh month, 1770; Joshua, born twenty-fourth day, first month, 1767, died when about six years old; William, born twentieth day, twelfth month, 1768, married Sarah Clark; John, born twenty-third day, twelfth month, 1770, married Lydia Harvey; a second daughter, born the twentieth day of tenth month; 1772, died in eight days, un- named; Ruth, born fourteenth day, tenth month, 1773, married Hugh Woody; Mary, born fifteenth day, tenth month, 1775, married Nathaniel Edward; Jeremiah, born sixteenth day, tenth month, 1777, married Mary Horn- aday; Jonathan, born ninth day, ninth month, 1779, married Ann Long; Jacob, born first day, third month, 1781, married Phoebe Pickett (second wife); Joshua, born thirteenth day, twelfth month, 1783, married Rebecca Henshaw (second wife); Catherine, born thir- teenth day, sixth month, 1787, married Jesse Dixon; Joseph, born thirteenth day, sixth month, 1787, married Mary Henshaw; Pati- ence, born seventeenth day, sixth month, 1789, married Benjamin Pickett.

Simon Hadley, Sr., and Elizabeth Thomp- son were married fifth month, tenth day, 1787, and they were the parents of fourteen children: Martha, born fourth month, fourteenth day, 1788, died tenth month, eighteenth day, 1847; James T., born seventh month, sixteenth day, 1789, died second month, twenty-seventh day, 1871; Ruth, born third month, fourteenth day, 1793, died tenth month, twenty-eighth day, 1797; Joshua T., born first month, twen- ty-eighth day, 1793, died tenth month, four- teenth day, 1841; Sarah, born twelfth month, twenty-seventh day, 1796, died first month, eighth day, 1877; Elizabeth, born first month, fourth day, 1799; died twelfth month, twenty-

second day, 1858; Simon, born ninth month, twenty-third day, 1801, died third month, eighth day, 1872; Elenor, born ninth month, fifth day, 1803, died third month, thirtieth day, 1806; John T., born twelfth month, thirteenth day, 1805, died seventh month, twenty-fifth day, 1857; Mary, born second month, twenty- second day, 1808, died eleventh month, nine- teenth day, 1880; Thomas T., born fourth month, twelfth day, 1810, died tenth month, thirteenth day, 1884; Jeremiah, born sixth month, second day, 1812, died seventh month, fifth day, 1814; William T., born seventh month, fifteenth day, 1814, died eleventh month, seventeenth day, 1889. This is the genealogy of the race of Hadley unto the pres- ent generation.

After Joshua Hadley, the second Joshua of this record, had married Ruth Lindley, he set- tled on land in Chatham county, N. C. Of his father, Joshua, nothing further is known. Joshua and Ruth lived in a log cabin with a dirt floor, and their furniture was of the most primitive description and home make. Joshua was a very industrious man and a good man- ager. He built a grist-mill, which he ran for many years; he also raised and dealt in fine horses and flourished exceedingly, becoming a man of wealth for his community, and owning a large tract of land. He was a man of marked characteristics, sound judgment, and a practi- cal business man. He was well known in his county, as he kept a mill which was frequented by settlers from miles around. Old John New- lin of Chatham county, N. C., a well known, wealthy Quaker, of high character, knew Joshua Hadley well, and in a conversation with Addison Hadley, of this county, told him that "Joshua was not as intelligent as some, was a great hand to sleep, but was always wide-awake on a trade." He was a man of strong will power, sturdy of frame, stout built and of powerful physique. His wife, Ruth,

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was a woman of much gentleness and kindness of heart, and when people had come a long distance to mill, she would always have some refreshments for each, especially for the boys who rode miles on horseback, bringing a two- bushel sack of corn to be ground. Her virtues are still remembered by her descendants. She was a woman of much intelligence, and it is related that the afternoon after the birth of her son Jacob in the morning, which was dur- ing the Revolutionary war, that she was taken on a sheet in the yard, to hear the cannonad- ing at the battle of Guilford, forty miles away. The Hadleys were among the prosperous people of that part of North Carolina. They owned no slaves and some of them were very out-spoken in their anti-slavery views. Ruth Hadley died at about fifty years of age from over-exertion and heat. Joshua lived to be over seventy years of age, and left his children all a good property. He was a stanch ad- herent of the Quaker church and brought all his children up in the faith. After the death of his first wife, he married a widow Hiatt, who died two years after. He afterward married Jane Henshaw, but there were no children by either of these marriages.

William T. Hadley, son of Simon and Elizabeth (Thompson) Hadley, was born in Chatham county, N. C., seventh month, fifteenth day, 1814, on his father's farm, on which, for two generations, his family had been engaged in agriculture. He received a limited common education, learning to write a plain hand and the common branches neces- sary for the transaction of business. His father, Simon, had come to Hendricks county, Ind., in the fall of 1829, and settled on the land where Mrs. Ruth Hadley now resides. Here Simon Hadley, assisted by his sons, cleared up an excellent farm of 253 acres, still retained in the family. He was a Quaker, an upright, hard-working farmer, one of the pio-

neers of Hendricks county, and one of the first members of the Hadley family to settle in this county. William T. Hadley married Beulah Hunt in the eleventh month, twelfth day, 1837, and they had two sons-Tillman, born fourth month, thirteenth day, 1839, and died first month, seventeenth day, 1888; Daniel, born first month, thirteenth day, 1843, and died eighth month, second day, 1865-a soldier in the civil war in an Indiana regiment, at Har- per's Ferry. Mrs. Hadley died first month, twenty-third day, 1843, and Mr. Hadley, tenth month, first day, 1843, married Ruth Woody, the daughter of John and Mary Holliday Woody.

John Woody was from an old American family, born tenth month, fourteenth day, 1777, in Orange county, N. C. He was the son of James and Mary (Laughlin) Woody, who were old settlers in North Carolina. John Woody and wife were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth, James, Catherine, Hannah, Mahlon, Mary, John, Ruth, Eleanor and Samuel. Mr. Woody came from Orange county, N. C., to Parke county, Ind., in 1829, was one of the pioneers of that county and became a substan- tial farmer. He and family were all members of the Friends' church, and in that faith he died on his farm in 1856. He voted the whig ticket and was an honest and respected man. After marriage Mr. Hadley settled on the old homestead, where he resided until his death. Politically he voted the republican ticket. He was a hard-working man of high character and reared a respected family of children, as follows: Harriet S., born January 20, 1846; Martha T., born June 20, 1848, died Decem- ber 25, 1864; Mary E., February 2, 1850, died December 21, 1869. Harriet S. mar- ried William C. Stanley, and to them have been born seven children, now living: Luna O., Elda R., Mervin T., John W., Arthur W.,

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Alva W., and Sarah E: Mary Elizabeth mar- ried Elias M. Hodson, February 15, 1868, and to them was born one son, Horace M. (For marriage of Tillman Hadley, see sketch of Hannah Hadley.) Mrs. Ruth Hadley's grand- children married as follows: Luna O. Stanley married Elma Maxwell, and they have one daughter; Elda R. Stanley married John F. Soots, and they have two children; Julia V. Hadley married Arlendo Cox, and has three sons. Horace M. Hodson, son of Mary Eliz- abeth (Hadley) Hodson, married Lula M. Prichett, and is the father of one child.

Mrs. Ruth Hadley, our subject, was born in Orange county, N. C., October 20, 1827, and was seven years of age when she came to Indiana with her parents. The journey was made by means of a four-horse wagon and a carriage over the mountains. Mrs. Hadley is a woman of Christian virties, a member of the Friends' church, and has been throughout life a devoted mother and a woman of patient in- dustry.

ANNAH HADLEY, of Hendricks county, Ind .- Joshua Hadley, the grandfather of Hannah Hadley, was born the thirteenth of the twelfth month, 1783, in Chatham county, N. C. He was the son of Joshua and Ruth (Lindley) Hadley, and married Rebecca Hinshaw of that county. To them were born Mary, Zeno, Nathan, Job, Susannah, Asenath, Ruth, Mor- decai, Addison and Esther, all born in Chat- ham county, N. C. Mr. Hadley, like his father, was a member of the Friends' church, and in 1837 moved to Hendricks county, Ind., and settled in Liberty township, two miles north of Clayton. He was reluctant to leave his old home, but was finally induced to do so by his wife and his son Nathan. He prospered after coming to this county, and finally owned

a large tract of land. He died in 1843, be- loved by all who knew him. Nathan Hadley, son of above was the father of Hannah Had- ley, and was born January 19, 1813, in Chat- ham county, N. C., on his father's farm. He received a good education, and, like nearly all his brothers and sisters, taught school for a while. He came to Hendricks county, Ind., in company with his brother Zeno, in 1832, making the journey with a one-horse wagon, and on the way sold North Carolina whet- stones, and in this way paid expenses. They both worked at farm work for a while and then each of them bought land.

Nathan Hadley returned to North Caro- lina in about two years and married Olive New- lin, by which marriage there were born three chil- dren: Lida, Hannah and David. In 1837 he re- turned to Indiana and brought his family, consist- ing of his wife and one child, and settled on 160 acres of land in the woods, clearing this up by hard labor. He was a very strong man, weighing 250 pounds in his prime, and reaching 300 pounds in later life. By thrift and good man- agement he became the possessor of 500 acres of land. He was an active man in county and political affairs, and was a strong advocate of the anti-slavery cause. He was a wide reader for his day, and well versed in history, especi- ally so in anything pertaining to the anti- slavery cause, voted the know-nothing and free soil tickets, and was one of the original repub- licans of this county. He was a man of strong mental concentration, and fixed his mind so firmly on matters interesting him as to forget all else. On one occasion, when about forty years of age, he went to mill horseback, and, being greatly interested in the free soil ques- tion then agitating the people, he left his horse tied to a post, his grist in the mill, and walked home completely absorbed in his sub- ject. On reaching home he was asked why he was walking, and not until then recovered his

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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