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county. Maryland, a portion of which he made his homestead and called it "Constant Friendship." He was largely engaged in agricultural pursuits. and while he was never chosen to fill any official position. he was held in high esteem in his county, and his counsel was sought and respected. His in- fluence for good in the community in which he lived and moved has been a source of commendable pride in his multitude of descendants. He died full of years and honors, on his homestead. "Constant Friendship." in the year 1750. and was buried in the county cemetery near where the Montgomery county court-house now stands. He died testate. His will bears date of September 27. 1750. and was admitted to probate in the office of the Register of Wills of Frederick county. Maryland. October 20, 1750. This will is an interesting and unique document. drawn in the quaint manner of that time. The opening paragraphs are as follows :
"In the name of God, Amen. 1. John Haymond, of Frederick county. carpenter, being in good health of body and of sound mind. and perfect mind and memory, praise be therefore given to Almighty God. do make and ordain this, my last will and testament, in manner and form following, that is to say :
"First and principally, I recommend my soul into the hands of Amighty God, hoping through the merits, death and passion of my Savior, Jesus Christ. to have full pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and inherit everlasting life. and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried."
It appears from this will that the first John Haymond was quite a large slave-hedder. for he "gives and bequeaths" a large number of slaves, named "Cesar." and "Jenny, " and "Poll." and "Nell." and "Fillas." and "Lucy" and "Robin." and "Sampson." and "Sall," and "Diner," etc .. to his wife and six chil.Iren.
The first Jolm Haymond, thus departing this life in the year 1750. left surviving three sons. Nicholas. Calder and William, and three daughters. Hannah. Ann and Mary. The daughters married and moved to the West. but all trace of them and their descendants has been lost to the Haymond family of Shelby county. Nicholas Haymond, the eldest son, died at the be- ginning of the Revolutionary war, about the year 1776, leaving two children. of whose subsequent history nothing is now known to the Haymond family of Shelby county. William Haymond. the younger son, born about the year 1,40. settled in Virginia. in that part which later became West Virginia, and reared a large family. His descendants have become a multitude and have ie und homes in nearly every state in the Union.
Calder Haymond, the second son of the first John Haymond. is the son armed whom the interest of this narrative now centers, because through him have descended the Haymond family of Shelby county. Calder Haymond was born about the year 1734. His wife's name was Eleanor. He lived the greater part of his married life near Fairmount, in Monongahela county, Vir-
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ginia. Very late in life, even as he approached the age of four score years. he emigrated to western Ohio, following thither his son. John Haymond, who had preceded him to the far West about the year 1810. Still later Calder Hay- mond followed his son. John. further west. into the Indiana Territory, and he is related to have died in the western part of what is now Franklin county. about the year 1817. while waiting for the formal opening of government lands in what afterwards came to be Rush, Shelby and Decatur counties. During his life in Virginia he and his family were old-fashioned Wesleyan Methodists. His home was known as a place of generous hospitality in all the country around. and was ever a resting place for the pioneer circuit riding preacher, as he made his rounds over many a weary mile of appointed terri- torv.
Three sons were born to Calder Haymond, also a number of daughters. but the Haymond family of Shelby county have no knowledge of these daugh- ters, no trace of them in marriage or in subsequent life. The three sons of Calder Haymond were : Edward, Thomas and John. Edward was born about the year 1755. He was reared in Virginia, but at the beginning of the Revo Intionary war he enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment and attained the tank of major. He is supposed to have fought in the battle of Saratoga when Bur- goyne surrendered. He took part also in the battle of Monmouth. It is re- lated that he served five years in the Revolutionary Army. The date of his enlistment is shown by the records of the War Department at Washington to have been August 26, 1776. At the age of sixty-three years, in 1818. he made an application for a pension. He died at the age of sixty-nine years in the year 1824. while on a visit to his old home in Virginia. He had emigrated in the latter part of the eighteenth century to Ohio, married and reared a family there, numbering five sons: John. Elijah, William, Calder and Ed- ward, whose descendants are scattered now throughout the Union.
Thomas, the second son of Calder Haymond. was also a soklier in the Revolutionary war. Ile is supposed to have accompanied General Clark on his western expedition, and to have been present at the capture of Fort Vin- cennes. It is not known how long he served in the army, but it is known that after leaving the army he entered the ministry and continued in that pro- fession until his death, about the year 1800. He is not known to have left any children.
John Haymond, of the third generation. youngest son of Calder Ilay- mond. was born in Virginia. April 7. 1773. He was married to his first wife. Dorcas Holt, in Virginia. December 3. 1793. She was born in Virginia, May 10, 1767. Of this marriage five children were born: Nancy, Eleanor. Elizaleth. Thomas J. and Dorcas. This first wife died December 29. 1805. and was buried in the family cemetery in Virginia. John Haymond married for his second wife Mary Hollenbeck. December 18, 1806. She was a rative
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of Virginia, born January 9, 1784. Of the second marriage were born ten children : John, Calder, Milly, Hannah B., Harriett, Casander. James (. Sarah Jane, Alfred 11. and Roanna. John Haymond caught the inspiration for the West while yet comparatively a young man. He emigrated to western Ohio about the year 1810. He tarried here only until indiana Territory wa- opened up for settlement. . As early as 1812 he was joined by his father, Cal- der Haymond, and together they proceeded westward and settled in the north- west part of what is now called Franklin county, Indiana, at a point near the West Fork of White river, possibly near to what are now the villages of Laurel or Metamora. Here, about the year 1817, as heretofore related. Cakler Haymond departed this life, waiting with his son for the opening of the country further to the west. Finally Indian treaties were concluded. by which. about the year 1818. the Federal Government acquired title to all the territory included in Shelby county. In the year 1822, or earlier. Jolm Ilay- mond and his son, Thomas J. Haymond. had made tours of inspection into the territory comprising Shelby county, and we find that on March 12 and 1.1. 1822. Thomas J. Haymond entered one hundred and sixty acres of land. on the east boundary of the county, and on June 5. 1822. his father, John Hay- mond. entered a quarter-section of land. also on the east boundary of the county. Changes were made afterwards by which Thomas J. Haymond. the son, established his home just across the Shelby county line, in Rush county. while John Haymond, the father, acquired the quarter-section on a corner of which the town of Wallron now stands. On this farm, on August 21. 1831. John Haymond died, in the fifty-ninth year of his life, and here he was buried in the family graveyard. His second wife, Mary Hollenbeck, died on this homestead farm. February 29. 1836, and was buried by her husband's side in the family graveyard.
All of the children of John Haymond's first marriage came with him to Indiana, where they all married. All the children of John Haymond's second marriage were reared, through youth, to manhood and womanhood in In- diana, and for the most part in Shelly county. They all married and settled for the most part in Shelby. Rush and Decatur counties. In this sketch we have hardly space to follow the lives of John Haymond's daughters. But we know that these ten daughters all married "well-to-do" and honorable men. and their sons and daughters and descendants have become honorable and useful citizens in our great republic, and the blood of John Haymond flows in the veins of a great multitude of people, bearing divers names, and settled in many more or less widely separated sections of our great country. Of the five sons of John Haymond, Calder Haymond, born October 16, 1868. never married, and died January 17, 1848. on the old homestead farm, and he was buried in the family graveyard near his father's grave. John Haymond. Jr .. born in Virginia. September 12. 1807. married Margaret Cummin- and set-
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tled at old Middletown, on the Michigan road, in Shelby county. He died April 9. 1840, leaving three children surviving him, one of whom is Joseph . 1. Haymond. the Waldron banker.
James C. Haymond, born April 10, 1820, in Franklin county, Indiana. married and settled in the homestead farm in Shelby county. Ile reared a family of eleven children. He was successful in the acquisition of property. and dying February 20, 1893. leit a large estate. Many of his children live in Waldron and vicinity. Alfred Il. Haymond, born in Shelby county, July 7. 1826, was reared on the home farm. He married Minerva Knight. and there were born to him of this marriage two children, one of whom. Everett Haymond, is a succesful farmer residing at Waldron. Everett Haymond has represented Shelby county, as a Representative, in the Sixty-fourth General Assembly. Alfred H. Haymond, a late resident of Waldron, departed this life June 29, 1887.
Thomas J. Haymond. the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Virginia, September 1. 1800. He accompanied his father in the migration. first to Ohio, and later to Indiana. He was the only son of John Haymond's first marriage. Thomas J. Haymond was married to Mildred Ballard, born in Virginia, but carried to the West and to Indiana in the great tide of migra- tion which filled the first quarter of the eighteenth century. This marriage occurred about the year 1824. He settied then on the farm he owned until his death, on the west edge of Rush county, two miles east of Waldron. . it the date of his settlement on this farm, the country was yet almost an un broken wilderness. Game of all kinds was abundant, including the wild turkey, the grey and black squirrel, the pheasant. occasionally a deer and a bear. Thomas J. Haymond was a resident of Waldron at the date of his death, which occurred August 31. 1879. Thomas J. Haymond's children were: Nathan B., born June 3. 1827, died August 15. 1831 : Mary J., born March 10. 1829, died June 25. 1853: Hadley, born April 18. 1833. died May 22. 1833: John N., born June 1, 1831, died March 18. 1891, leaving four chil- dren surviving him: Elijah G., born April 16. 1834. died August 8. 1895. leaving three children surviving him: James W., born February 5. 18,7. died March 28. 1890, leaving ten children surviving him: William W., born Au- gust 4. 1841, died March 20, 1866, having never married: George L. Ilay- mond. born November 26, 1843, died December 21, 1907, leaving two children surviving him : Margaret E. born May 8. 1846, married to Will P. Green, and living now in Sacramento. California : Douglas N .. born April 18. 1851. died August 20, 1855, and Sarah, born February 27. 1857, died November 12. 1887, leaving one child, and Themas L. Haymond, the sixth of Thomas J. Haymond's children, was born on the Rush county farm. May 15. 1839. This narrative discloses the fact that Thomas J. Haymond had born to him. on his Rush county farm, twelve children, of whom, today, only two survive.
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the subject of this sketch, Thomas L. Haymond, and a sister, Mrs. Margaret E. Green, of Sacramento, California.
Thomas L. Haymond is therefore of the fifth generation of the Hay mond family in America, the genealogy being: John Haymond, born, we may presume, in the early years of the eighteenth century: Calder Haymond, born in the year 1734: John Haymond, born in the year 1,73: Thomas J. Haymond, born in the year iSco, and our Thomas L. Haymond, born in the year 1839. The writer of this narrative has worked out the genealogy of the Haymond family at greater length and with fuller details than is usual in biographical sketches, because it is rare that the history of an American family can be traced back through so many generations, with unbroken continuity. and with so much fullness and completeness, as in the case of the Haymond family : and this rarity makes it unique and interesting.
Thomas L. Haymond grew to manhood in the Waldron country. He was a young man of excellent intellectual endowment, and at quite an early age became a teacher in the public schools around Waldron. In 1861, at the age of twenty-two years, he relinguished his school work, in order that he might answer his country's call for soldiers. He and John Raynes, a friend of his young manhood. were the first from the Waldron neighborhood to, re- spend to this call. They enlisted for three years, or during the war. When mustered into the Union Army, they were assigned to Company K, of the Eighteenth Indiana Infantry, and to the Southwestern Department. Our Thomas L. Haymond was promoted for good conduct to first lieutenant ; was detailed and was acting adjutant of his regiment, with the rank of captain. Captain Haymond, as he shall be known henceforward, served on the staff of General H. D. Washburn through the siege of Vicksburg, throughout the further campaigns of the department. His service in the Union Army con- tinned throughout the Civil war until the rebellion of the Confederate states was crushed and the Union was restored. At the close of the war he returned to his home in the Waldron country and resumed teaching for his vocation. He taught. however, for only a short time. After his marriage to Ann E. Grubb, February 26. 1865. he took up agricultural work, living on a farm for two years, at the end of which period his wife died, leaving a babe, which died at the tender age of six months. He now turned his attention to a gen- eral mercantile business, which he carried on in the village of Waldron until failing health compelled him to retire from it. He married Sarah A. Powell for his second wife. Of this marriage one child was born, which died when only three months oldl. In later years, through the administrations of Presi . dent Harrison and MeKinley, Captain Haymond was employed in the United States Postal and Revenue Service.
It should be noted that three of Captain Haymond's brothers were sol- diers in the late Civil war : James W .. as first lieutenant in Company M. Forty-
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fifth Indiana Cavalry Volunteers, in which he served from the early part of the war to the close thereof: William W .. who enlisted and served in Com- pany MI of the Third Regiment Indiana Cavalry, and George L., who was a member of Company A. Seventy-sixth Regiment, Indiana Infantry.
Captain Haymon I has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana since March 6. 1869. He has been a member. for many years, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a past commander of Jack Flynn Post at Waldron. Captain Haymond has always inclined toward the quiet, studious life. His is the inquisitive and reflective mind that is gratified in the solution of problems in science, philosophy and theology. He has filled the later years of his life with wide readings in fiction and history, and among the poets and philosophers. He has something of the gift of poetry himself and has occasionally put a poetic effusion in print. Our space will not permit many or full quotations. The following verses give us an intimation of his poetic talent :
A BIT OF PHILOSOPHY.
"Our deeds travel with us from afar. From them the future, dim, is cast. The true impressions of our past Show us today what we really are."
THE OLD MILL POND AT THE PICAYUNE MILLS.
"The old pond lies at the foot of the hill, high and steep: Its quiet waters seem today like a lamb asleep. The rift of the creek runs a stone's throw away. And seems like a thing that is gone astray.
Sounds, all familiar, echo 'round the hill below, And make me think of something I have always wished to know.
The happy days of boyhood are from me forever gone.
Yet I hold sweet recollections of the old mill pond.
"The old pond seems a mirror of the happy days of yore, When I waded in the shadows of the tall sycamore. A girl's bright face reflected upon its quiet tide Brings back to me the sweetness of a being glorified : The image of an angel in its look of tenderness. With graceful poise and bearing as awaiting a caress; Sweet memories of youth, now forever passed beyond, All reflected from the waters of the old mill pond."
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SOME EIGHTY YEARS AGO.
"Ilow wondrous are the changes. Since eighty years ago: When girls were medsey dresses And the boys were pants of tow ; When shoes were made of cowhide. And socks from homespun wool. And children did a bali-day's work, Before they went to school."
Captain Haymond has done considerable writing in prove, notably a sketch of the Haymond family of Shelly county, and "Pioneer Life in Shelby County."
Captain Haymond has attained the ripe and honored age of three score years and ten. The long years rest light upon him. His figure is still erect. and his carriage shows much of the vigor of manhood. His bearing and de- meanor are those of a man who has found this life a pleasant pilgrimage, and the world more merry than sad. Captain Haymond is a man whom it is al- ways pleasant to meet, and with whom it is pleasant and instructive to discuss the questions of the day. Whik Captain Haymond's life has been passed almost wholly within the limits of the "Waldron" Country." his service in the Federal Army, during the Civil war, consideral le travel, employment in the Government Civil Service, extensive reading, close observation of men and things, all have contributed greatly to widen his view of the world and of human life and destiny. His life has been a useful one. His youth was full of energy and enthusiasm, employed largely in the acquisition of knowledge. and then in the imparting thereof, as a teacher of the younger generation. He employed four years of his early manhood in fighting the battles of his country : again he took up the teacher's vocation: later he became a farmer. and last a merchant. His life has been a beautiful union of activity with read- ing. study and reflection. He has never been a recluse, but has kept himself ever in close and helpful touch with the world around him. He has been and is a fit companion of those men whose lives have been "a commerce of good words and works."
WILLIAM G. MCFADDEN. M. D.
Among the professional men who have figured in the history of Shelby county from time to time none achieved a higher measure of success or at- tained greater eminence than the physician and surgeon whose name appears
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at the head of his sketch. Dr. William G. McFadden, whose birth occurred in Center county. Pennsylvania, on the 22d day of April. 1834. was of Scotch-Irish descent and combined in his personality was much of the cour- age, integrity and Christian fortitude which have long characterized his na- tionality. He was a son of Hugh and Isabelle, and a brother of James Mc- Fadden, and was not more than four years old when his family moved to In- diana, and settled in Shelby county, the parents being among the early pioneers of Sugar Creek township, where his father purchased land and improved a farm. The Doctor's early experiences in a new and undeveloped country were not conducive to a high order of educational discipline notwithstanding which he advanced in his studies as far as the country schools could take him and later spent three years in Franklin College, the discipline thus received being afterwards supplemented by a course in Hanover College, where he completed his literary training with an honorable record.
Selecting the medical profession for his life work. Doctor McFadden spent two years in the medical department of the University of Michigan, and then entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he finished his professional studies in 1856, at the carly age of twnty-two yars. Shortly after his graduation he began the practice of medicine at his old home in Sugar Creek township, two and a half miles north of Boggstown, and within a comparatively short time gained the confidence of his neighbors and friends and secured quite a lucrative professional business for one of his age and ex- perience. In the course of a few years confidence in his ability increased to such an extent that he had practically little opposition in his part of the county. He maintained his residence in his native township until the year 1875. when he removed to Shelbyville and purchased a lot on North Harrison street, where he erected what at that time was the largest and costliest and most luxurious home in the city. On an adjoining lot he built a fine office which was equipped with everything required in the practice of his profession and being thus per- manently and comfortably located he addressed himself to his chosen calling with marked success, taking an active part in public matters, in the meantime becoming one of the city's most enterprising men of affairs.
During the trying period preceding the Civil war. when party feeling ran high throughout southern Indiana. the people of Shelby county were greatly divided in sentiment and for several years section prejudice and ran- cour appeared to dominate the public minds. A number of men, among whom were not a few of the leading citizens, proved Inkewarm in their loyalty to the Union, others were more outspoken in favor of the South, while many not only favored secession, but took an active part in disseminating their views and gaining adherents to the cause from their neighbors and friends. In this critical period Doctor McFadden took a firm stand for the government and during the exciting campaign of 1860. when slavery was the paramount
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issue and excitement rose to a high and dangerous tension, he was fearless and untiring in his efforts to stem the tide of disloyalty and bring his fellow citizens back to their allegiance to the Union. On the night of February 16. 1861, at a mass meeting held in Boggstown, the most notable assemblage of the kind in the history of the county, the question of union or disunion was fearlessly discussed. and to ascertain the sentiments of those present on the subject, a set of resolutions declaring unequivocally for a dismemberment of the Union and the formation of a Southern Confederacy were presented and duly considered. Doctor McFadden, who was present as the avowed cham- pion of the government, took the floor and in a forcible and ringing speech set forth every phase of the question and the danger which might attend too pre- cipitate action in favor of the South : he insisted up m the sober second thought and begged further delay ere voting on the matter, but notwithstanding the unanswerable arguments adduced and the impression which his speech made, he was unable to overcome the predominant sentiment of the meeting. the res- olutions being adopted with but few dissenting voices. Although defeated and considerably discouraged. the Doctor did not lose heart, and from that time forward labored unremittingly for the cause he had so much at heart. and it was through his influence that many wavering and undecided men were won from their political heresy and their loyalty to the Union strengthened and confirmed.
Some time after the meeting referred to Doctor McFadden tendered his services to the government and was commissioned by Governor Morton sur- geon of the Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry, in which capacity he went to the front and was soon actively engaged as one of the field surgeons of the Fifth Army Corps. At the battle of Chickamauga he acted as surgeon of the First Brigade, Third Division, Third Army Corps, and on Sunday afternoon of the second day's fight, while caring for the wounded, had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the enemy. He was temporarily paroled ten days later to look after the wounded Federal prisoners until the latter were exchanged. when he was removed from Chattanooga to Richmond, Virginia, where for three months he was confined in Libby prison. Being exchanged at the end of that time he rejoined his command and after serving through the Atlanta campaign and receiving his discharge at the expiration of his period of ser- vice, returned home and resumed the practice of his profession, which he con- tinned until retiring from active life in the year 1903.
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