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MADISON M. MOODY. Many years have been added to the cycle of time since the Moody family was founded in Delaware county, and no better citi- zens than they have been numbered among the residents of this portion of Indiana. They came from the Old Dominion state of Virginia, the birth- place of Madison M. Moody, whose natal day was the Ist of November, 1828, and he was born in Giles county. His father, John Moody, long numbered among the prominent agriculturists of Liberty township, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, in 1779. He was there married to Elizabeth Guthrie, of Scotch descent and a native also of Virginia, born in 1787, and they became the parents of thirteen children, all of whom are now deceased with the exception of Madison M., the twelfth child in order of birth. The father had been previously married, and by that union had one son In 1836 Mr. Moody, Sr., made the overland journey to Dela- ware county, Indiana, where he entered about five hundred acres of land in the woods of Liberty township, the present home of his son Madison. He erected a little log cabin and began at once the arduous task of clearing his land, and with the passing years he succeeded in clearing about seventy-five acres. He was an excellent business man and a true and worthy citizen, and Delaware county numbered him among her honored early pioneers.
In 1837 Madison M. Moody came with the remainder of the family to Delaware county, Indiana, and resided on the old homestead until 1852, when he joined a company bound for the Golden state of California, making the journey on horseback. He remained on the Pacific slope until 1860, thence making the return journey and residing on the old homestead until 1867, when he assumed the superintendency of the county farm and continued in that position for three years and a half. He then resided in Muncie, but later resumed his old position of superintendent of the county farm, and for nine years longer he continued to discharge its duties,
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returning at the close of that period to the old Moody homestead. Here he has ever since lived and labored, operating two hundred and fifteen acres of rich and fertile land, of which he has cleared about sixty acres. This is one of the most valuable homesteads in Liberty township, located on section 32, and in addition to its cultivation and improvement Mr. Moody has also been interested in many of the projects that have advanced the welfare of his township and county.
He married, in 1865, Sarah Baird, who was born and reared on a farm in Jay county, Indiana, and two sons, Milton G. and Robert A., have been born to them. Mr. Moody upholds the principles of the Republican party, and during one term he represented his party in the office of assessor of Delaware county. He is the oldest member of Selma Lodge, I. O. O. F., and is a valued member and a trustee in the Methodist Episcopal church.
JOSIAH P. BARTLETT. Among the first families to establish their home within the wilds of Delaware county were the Bartletts, and to John Bart- lett, the great-grandfather of Josiah, belongs the honor of being the progenitor. With his wife Sarah and their four sons they made the over- . land journey from their native state of Virginia to Indiana and inscribed their names high on the roll of the honored early pioneers of Delaware county. En route they stopped for a short time at Marion, Indiana, and arriving in Delaware township John Bartlett bought sixty acres of his son William, which he had entered, on which he erected a little log cabin home and began life in true pioneer style. He ended his days on the old home farm which he had cleared and cultivated, and his name should ever be honored and revered for the part he took in paving the way for future development in Delaware county. His political affiliations were with the Democratic party.
Among the four sons who accompanied John and Sarah Bartlett on the overland journey from Virginia to Indiana was numbered Elijah Bartlett, who was born in the Old Dominion state and reared to mature years on the old homestead farm in Delaware county, Indiana, receiving his educational training in its old-time log school houses. In Delaware township he was married to Mary Mann, a member of one of the prominent pioneer families of the county, and they became the parents of eleven children, of whom two are now deceased. Elijah Bartlett cleared and developed a farm in Delaware township, and he, too, gave his political support to the Democratic party. He held membership relations with the Grange and with the Methodist Episcopal church.
Of the eleven children born to Elijah and Mary Bartlett, Warner J. Bartlett, a deceased farmer of Delaware and Liberty townships, was the eldest son and second child in order of birth. He was born in the town- ship of Delaware, and there reared on the farm which his father had cleared and cultivated. His first agricultural labors for himself were performed on the old homestead farm there, but later he removed to a farm of forty-
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eight acres in Liberty township, which he cleared and improved. He won for himself an enviable reputation as a promoter of good roads, having built two miles of pike road and also built a ditch one and a half miles long. On the 6th of February, 1868, Mr. Bartlett married Susan C. White- hair, who was born in Virginia March 22, 1849, a daughter of Josiah and Lucretia Whitehair, also of Delaware county pioneer fame. Mrs. Bartlett was reared in Liberty township, and by her marriage became the mother of five children, two sons and three daughters: Josiah P., Sarah Anderson, Mary L. Zehner, Nettie L., and one who died in infancy. Mr. Bartlett was an active worker in local politics, voting with the Democracy, and he was a member of the Grange and of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Josiah P. Bartlett was born in Delaware township December 5, 1868, and was twenty-one years of age when he left home and entered the railway service as a telegraph operator, which he had learned at Selma. He con- tinued in that capacity for about seven years, and in 1899 became identified with the Buckeye Pipe Line Company as an operator, from which he was transferred to the position of an engineer. He later severed his relations with that corporation to enter the services of the Indiana Pipe Line Com- pany, and is now serving as their gauger in Selma.
Mr. Bartlett married, April 19, 1893, in Albany, Indiana, Lizzie G. Barger, who was born in Randolph county, this state, a daughter of Napoleon B. Barger, a deceased farmer. She was but six years of age when she came with her parents to Delaware township, and in its public schools she received her educational training. Her grandparents were numbered among the prominent and early settlers of Randolph county. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett built their pleasant and attractive home in Selma in 1905, and there they extend a gracious and warm-hearted hospitality to their many friends and acquaintances. Mr. Bartlett upholds the principles of the Democracy where national issues are involved, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity and of the Methodist Episcopal church.
WILLIAM BAILEY, the squire of Selma and a native son of Henry county, Indiana, born April 16, 1847, has long been identified with the business interests of this city. His father was a carpenter and cooper in Henry county, but was born in Ohio, from whence he journeyed when a young man with his father, Elias Bailey, to Indiana, and established their home in Granville, Delaware county. The senior Mr. Bailey was also a cooper by trade, and he continued the occupation until his life's labors were ended in death. After remaining in Delaware county a short time the son removed to Henry county, and was there married to Sarah Ann Davis, who was also an Ohioan. She was left an orphan in early life and went with her adopted parents to Henry county, where she was reared to mature years, and there her two children, William and James, were born. She was called to the home beyond when but twenty-two years of age, and after- ward, in Muncie, Mr. Bailey married Emma Sutton, a native daughter of 24
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Delaware county, by whom he had seven children, one son and six daughters.
Mr. Bailey continued his work as a cooper and carpenter until 1865, when he opened a sawmill in Blountsville and continued its operation for three years. During the following five years he was the proprietor of a mill in Perry township, and from there he removed to Desoto and con- tinued his milling interests until his life's labors were ended in death. He was first a Democrat but later supported the principles of the Republican party and cast his vote for its first presidential nominee, Fremont. His fraternal relations connected him with the Odd Fellows order, and he was a member of the New Light Christian church. His death occurred at the age of seventy-two years.
William Bailey was working in his father's cooper shop in Parker, Randolph county, when the Civil war was inaugurated, and in 1863 he offered his services to his country, enlisting in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Company B, with which he served until the close of the conflict. During that time he participated in many of the hard-fought battles of the war, including the Atlanta cam- paign where he was under fire from the 7th of May until the 7th of September, was in Hood's invasion, and was in the engagements at Nash- ville, Columbia, Franklin, Tennessee; Wise's Fork, North Carolina; on the Neuce river, and many smaller skirmishes. He was wounded at Columbia, Tennessee, by the concussion of a shell and was rendered unconscious for about five hours and was nearly buried alive while in that condition. He suffered throughout the entire period of his enlistment the hardships and privations of a true soldier. During his absence in the army his father had moved to Blountsville, and after his return Mr. Bailey joined him there and for six years as partners conducted a sawmill. In 1871 he severed the partnership and moved with his family to Delaware county, where for nine years he was the proprietor of a sawmill in Perry town- ship, and during the following four years was engaged in the same occu- pation in Selma. In 1884 he opened a grocery store in this city, which he conducted in connection with his sawmill for three years, but at the close of that period, in 1887, he closed his milling interests and devoted his entire attention to his grocery store until 1894. In the meantime, in 1890, Mr. Bailey had opened a hotel in Selma, and he continued as its proprietor until 1897, when he severed his relations with that occupation to enter upon his four years' term as the postmaster of Selma.
On the 8th of August, 1869, Mr. Bailey was united in marriage to Margaret Bowman, who was born in Delaware county, but reared in Henry county, the daughter of John S. and Elizabeth Bowman, who followed agri- cultural pursuits in both counties. The father came to Indiana from the Old Dominion state of Virginia, and was the only Union man in his family during the war. Six children, two sons and four daughters, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey: Arlin J., Merlin M. (deceased), Edna May,
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Etta (deceased), Lucy and Elsie. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Bailey has supported the principles of the Republican party, and as its representative he has been honored with many of the leading offices of the township. During seven years he served as the justice of the peace of Perry township, for a number of years held the same office in Selma, was for six years the deputy prosecutor, and was a deputy treasurer both in Perry and Liberty townships. He has been an active worker in politics. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1868, having filled all the offices in the subordinate lodge and encampment and represented both branches of the order at the Grand Lodge several times. He is also a member of Williams Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Muncie, Indiana, and of the Methodist Episcopal church.
FRANCIS HITCHCOCK, prominently identified with the farming and stock-raising interests of Liberty township, is a well known citizen of the community and a representative of one of the pioneer families of the county. His birth occurred on the 15th of July, 1826, in Harrison county, West Virginia. His father, Lucius S. Hitchcock, was born in Springfield, Mas- sachusetts, but when about twenty-two years of age he left the place of his nativity and journeyed to West Virginia, where he was married to Sarah Markwell, a native daughter of that commonwealth, and they became the parents of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, of whom Francis was the fourth child and fourth son in order of birth. Mr. Hitchcock, the father, had learned and followed the tanners' trade in West Virginia until his removal to Ohio, where he followed farming in Clinton county. In the early year of 1848 he came to Indiana with a part of his family and located in Delaware township, Delaware county, here purchasing a farm of eighty acres. Erecting a little log cabin home, he succeeded with the passing years in clearing his land from its heavy growth of timber and placing his fields under an excellent state of cultivation. He gave a life- long support to the principles of the Republican party, and the death of this well known Delaware county pioneer occurred when he had reached the advanced age of ninety-four years.
Francis Hitchcock was taken by his parents to Ohio during the early years of his life, there receiving his educational training, and in 1852 he joined the family in Delaware county, Indiana. Purchasing him a farm of eighty acres in Liberty township, he succeeded in clearing a part of the place and resided there for six years, when he traded with Henry Hamilton for his present homestead. The farm contains one hundred and fifteen acres of rich and fertile land, nearly all of which he has cleared and placed under cultivation, and in addition he has bought and sold other lands in the county. He has many business interests, but he is devoting himself principally to farming and stock raising on his valuable homestead in section 4.
Mr. Hitchcock married, in 1857, Eliza Campbell, whose birth occurred
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in Delaware county, her father, Samuel G. Campbell, having been numbered among the earliest of its pioneers. This union has been blessed by the birth of one daughter, Mary C., the wife of Samuel S. Williams, a farmer of Liberty township. Mr. Hitchcock is an impartial voter, supporting the men rather than party principles. He is a member of the United Presbyterian church.
SAMUEL GRAHAM CAMPBELL was a pioneer settler of Delaware county, having migrated from Virginia to this part of Indiana in 1831. A Yankee schoolmaster turned farmer, sagacious and forceful, he did yeoman's service in the work of reclaiming the wilderness and upbuilding the state. He died at his home in Selma on March 4, 1873, in his seventy-sixth year. He was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, October 30, 1797, a son of Isaac and Hannah (Moore) Campbell, being one of a large family of children. He was of the so-called Scotch-Irish race, sprung from Scotch ancestors, whose home for a generation or two before coming to America in the eighteenth century was in the north of Ireland.
Whether Isaac Campbell was an immigrant or the son of an immigrant is not known to the present writer. As shown by records on file in Wash- ington, D. C., he was a soldier in the War of 1812, enlisting in Capt. Wil- liam Gates' company, United States Artillery, April 15, 1812, for a period of five years. His wife, Hannah, had died about four years previous to that date. She was a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Campbell) Moore, her father being a son of Hugh Moore and his wife Jannet Morrison. Her mother was a daughter of Samuel Campbell, who came from Ireland in boy- hood with his parents, Henry and Martha (Black) Campbell, in 1733, and settled in Windham, New Hampshire, then a part of Londonderry. This Samuel Campbell married Mary Jameson, and was a man of prominence in Windham, being one of its first teachers, and an elder of the church; he is also on record as town clerk, selectman, member of important committees, and as a soldier of the Revolution, although at an age when he would seem to have been legally exempt from military duty. His daughter Sarah, long surviving her first husband, Robert Moore, whose sudden death was caused by accident in a wrestling bout, became in 1777 the wife of John McConihe, a thriving farmer of Merrimac, New Hampshire. Isaac McConihe, one of the two sons born of this union, half brother of Hannah Moore, wife of Isaac Campbell, was a Dartmouth College graduate, eminent as a lawyer and judge, residing in Troy, New York, where many of his descendants remain, while other representatives of the family are living in Princeton, Illinois.
For some years in his late youth Samuel Graham Campbell lived with his grandmother as a member of the McConihe household, his father receiv- ing money for his services. Here doubtless was fostered that love of learn- ing and those habits of study which resulted in his fitting himself for a teacher and going to Virginia to engage in that vocation. He taught suc-
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cessive terms of school in Botetourt, Montgomery and Giles counties, Vir- ginia. In the latter county, at the age of thirty-two, December 1, 1829, he married Elizabeth Going, and in 1831 with his wife and first-born child came to Indiana, making the journey in a two-horse wagon and bringing all their movables. Arriving in Delaware county, Mr. Campbell rented a log cabin and a patch of cleared land for a temporary home. The next year he bought in section 16, Liberty township, a tract of school land covered with a heavy growth of timber, chiefly oak, hickory and walnut. Here he built a log house, which was occupied by the family a number of years, and was the birthplace of eight children, all but the eldest child. The good wife, being a true helpmate in frontier farming, as ready to milk the cows as to make the butter, toil and shrift indoors and out, bore their usual fruit. In process of time the greater part of the land was cleared, a frame barn was built, and the log house replaced by a larger one of brick. At the time of Mr. Campbell's death, March 4, 1873, he was the owner of two hundred and ten acres of land, most of which was well improved.
A Whig in his early manhood, Mr. Campbell was a Republican from the formation of that party. He served several years as justice of the peace and as a member of the school board, and was recognized as a leader in the community in which he lived.
Mr. Campbell's wife, Elizabeth Going, died February 21, 1882. She was born in Giles county, Virginia, March 29, 1804, a daughter of David and Susanna (Williams) Going, both, so far as known, natives of Virginia. Several of her brothers and sisters settled in Indiana, and here after her father's death her mother's last years were passed.
Of the nine children born to Samuel G. and Elizabeth Campbell, seven lived to adult age, namely: George, born September 22, 1830; Eliza, March 22, 1834; Martha Jane, May 11, 1835; William Harrison, June 9, 1838; James Madison, March 16, 1840; Mary, June 2, 1842; and Samuel G., April 30, 1844. Sarah, born November 12, 1832, died May 14, 1844, and Elizabeth, born June 27, 1846, died at the age of three years. These children were educated mostly in the public schools of Selma or Muncie, or both. Mary, who was a lifelong invalid and tenderly cherished, was fond of books and writing, and continued her studies at home, often busying her- self with her pen. She died October 29, 1874.
George Campbell, the eldest son, like his father, began active life as a teacher, his example in this line being followed by his younger brothers. During the Civil war he served three years as a member of Company D, Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, being honorably discharged at the close of his term of enlistment, early in 1865. From that time until his death he made his home in Harrison township, being engaged in carpenter- ing and farming. He married Sarah Amanda Snydow, a native of Vir- ginia, and had seven children, namely: Edward E., Charles S., Marietta, George W., Samuel S., Eliza and Annie E.
William Harrison Campbell, the second son, taught winter schools
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and the rest of the year engaged in farming from the time he was twenty- one until his enlistment, July 19, 1861, in Company K, Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. He was mustered into service as orderly sergeant, was promoted to rank of second lieutenant, afterwards being commissioned first lieutenant of his company. With his comrades he took part in the battles of second Bull Run, Gainesville, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettys- burg, where he was wounded in his right hand. On October 27, 1863, on account of physical disability he was honorably discharged and came home to recuperate. After his recovery he visited New England, spending some months among his kinsfolk. After that he worked at farming on the parental acres in Selma until February, 1865, when he went to Newton, Iowa, where for a few months he was clerk in a dry goods store. The fol- lowing three years he was engaged in the dry goods business at Anderson, Indiana, and since that time, with the exception of a part of two years spent in South Dakota, he has occupied the old homestead and carried on the farm. He married in March, 1876, Nancy Clyne, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Wilcox) Clyne, of Perry township, and they have three children-Thomas Clyne, Harriet and Mary. He has always been a Repub- lican in politics and cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln. Fraternally he is a member of S. J. Williams Post, G. A. R.
James Madison Campbell in his youth and early manhood alternated teaching with farming and carpentering. Younger than William Harrison, he enlisted at the same time and in the same company and fought in the battles above enumerated, also at Mine Run and in several engagements in front of Richmond, his only wound being received from a speeding bullet which knocked off a thumbnail. During a part of his term of service he was on detached duty in the engineer corps. After his honorable discharge at the end of his term of enlistment he resumed farming in Liberty town- ship, and the following year, accompanied by his father, visited relatives in New England. Going to South Dakota in 1880, he was one of the first set- tlers of Aurora county. Plankinton, where he secured a tract of Govern- ment land, became the county seat, and when the county was organized he was appointed county treasurer, the office being confirmed to him at the first election. In 1884 he returned to Liberty township, his former home. Here he died April 23, 1891, survived by his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Walling, and four children-Annie W., Grace, Ethelyn and Albert Porter. His widow, who was born in Muncie, Indiana, a daughter of Wil- liam and Mary (Hamilton) Walling, died August 17, 1891.
Eliza, third-born child of Samuel G. and Elizabeth Campbell, died December 5, 1901. She was the wife of Francis Hitchcock, a sketch of whose life appears in this work, and the mother of one child, Mary Hitchcock.
Martha Jane Campbell, next younger than Eliza, was the second wife and later the widow of James Orr. She died February 20, 1906.
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Samuel G. Campbell grew to manhood on the home farm and for several years followed farming in Delaware county. He then removed to Blackford county, where he bought a farm and carried it on for a number of years. He now resides in Muncie. His wife, Louisa Keefer, daughter of George Keefer, was born in Randolph county. Five children have been born to them, namely: George, Merle, Frank, Clyde and Chester.
SAMUEL V. JUMP, M. D. Perhaps no person who ever lived in Dela- ware county was more closely associated with its early history or more prominently identified with the more recent prosperity of the community than Samuel V. Jump. He was born in Kent county, Delaware, June 22, 1822. His father, Isaac Jump, was a good and pious man, a minister of the Methodist church, and his death occurred in 1832. In the following year his widow, with her daughter Elizabeth and sons Samuel and Raymond, moved to Indiana and purchased a farm near Richmond. The eldest son, Charles, had married and settled in Wayne county one year previously, and a daughter, who had also married, took leave of her mother's family after accompanying them as far as Ohio, in which state she located with her husband.
The removal of the family to Indiana was probably due to the request of Dr. Jump, who had thus early formed a favorable impression of the resources of the Hoosier state and was intent on the move either with or without his relatives. He worked at home during the summers and attended the district schools during the winter months, and on reaching his sixteenth year he went to Franklin county, Indiana, and worked in a stone quarry. While thus employed the lad saved his earnings and was thus able to attend school at Richmond, taught by James N. Poe, for about two years, when he began alternating teaching with his attendance. He was a student in the Friends' school at Richmond, taught by Barnabas C. Hobbs, for two terms, teaching during the winters, and after completing the course in that school he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. John Pritchett, of Cen- terville, Indiana. He pursued his studies under the guidance of this able preceptor until October, 1847, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended a course of lectures at a medical college. In 1848 Dr. Jump located in New Burlington, Delaware county, where he very quickly built up a successful practice, which increased in both volume and importance as the years added to his experience and popularity. In 1858 he left his practice in the care of a competent physician and attended a second course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College, graduating at the end of the course and returning thence to New Burlington and resuming his practice.
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