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" I had myself, wife and five children to feed. That would be thought pretty hard these times. Nevertheless, we never suffered from hunger. I was considered a good shot. In a few hours I could bring in venison or turkey. We also had plenty of milk and butter. So we passed through the season safely. When we first moved here, Delaware and Pottawatomie Indians were plentiful. They were quite friendly, and would often come with their squaws and papooses to stay all night with us. They had a trading house within a half mile of where I now live. In early days we had grand times at log rollings. When we got our ground ready for rolling, we would invite our neighbors to the frolic. Choosing our captains, they would in turn choose their hands, and at it we would go. If ever you saw logs come together, it was about that time. Before we commenced work we had to take a little of the 'critter!' It is not worth while to say we did not feel what we drank, for that was what we drank it for ! We had none who might be called drunkards, but such a gathering nowadays might all be counted as drunkards. Such was the custom of the country at that time. Oh, what a thing custom is when rightly considered, whether good or bad.
" The year after we moved to the Territory, delegates were elected for the purpose of forming a State constitution. Counties were then laid off and established. Before Monroe County was organized, an election was ordered to choose three Commissioners, a Clerk and a Sheriff. B. Wood- ward, Michael Buskirk and myself were elected Commissioners. We proceeded to organize the county. We purchased a half section of land, where the court house now stands. We laid off the public square, and had a court house and jail built thereon. Lots were surveyed and sold, bringing a considerable revenue. We were now ready to hold court, and the county machinery ready for action. It now became necessary to have a School Commissioner. I offered my services and was elected.
" In order to put the school in operation, it became my duty to sell all the sixteenth sections to the highest bidder. By this means, a large fund was raised, and the school placed upon a firm basis (I have to make long strides on account of my records being burned up). In the year 1832, I offered for the Legislature (Lower House), and was elected. I served my time at $2 per day, and boarded myself. Finding that there was not much money in such warfare, and perhaps less credit, I would not offer any more. Some years afterward, I was again elected School Commis- sioner for the county. At the expiration of my term of office, I retired from public life. (I never was beaten for any office I offered for.)
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" The first President I ever voted for was Thomas Jefferson for his sec- ond term of office. I have been a straightforward Democrat ever since -voted for all the candidates for office except Greeley. I thought the Democrats got off the track there, and I would not follow them. I have lived on the farm where I now live sixty-two years. I have been the ancestor of eleven children, fifty-six grandchildren, eighty great-grand- children, and five great-great-grandchildren, thus being, at this time, the representative of five generations.
" I joined the Baptist Church in North Carolina about the year of 1807. I was one of the charter members of Old Vernal Church, the first congregation organized in this county, Monroe, and was Deacon of the church for quite a number of years.
" I have endeavored to live peaceably with all men, and to live in accordance with the will of my heavenly Master, to the best of my knowl- edge. I have fought the good fight, have almost run my race, and am now patiently waiting for the good Lord to call me home, where there is a heavenly mansion prepared for me not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. JAMES PARKS."
INCIDENTS.
George Sharp, the father of Jonathan Sharp, was probably the most experienced bear hunter ever a resident of Monroe County. He had lived before coming to the county in a wild section of the South, and during a surveying expedition of considerable magnitude, had been one of four or five scouts and hunters who supplied all the wild meat required by the members of the expedition. He averaged a bear a day for months, besides scores of buffaloes, deer, turkeys, etc. He killed hundreds of bears in his time, and had many narrow escapes from death, but his incredible strength, coolness, skill, and knowledge of the animals, always brought him through without serious injury. He went armed with a huge butcher knife, the blade of which was one foot in length, and car- ried a rifle with ball heavy enough to bring down the largest game. His son, Johnston Sharp, yet has his knife, which is truly a formidable weapon, and is greatly prized as a keepsake. It was used in killing one of the few bears taken in Richland Township. In about 1819, during the early winter, and just after a light fall of snow, some man in the settlement, in going through the woods, saw a large and curiously shaped track, and could not account for the same. Old man Sharp was called on to decide, and pronounced it the track of a large bear. The trail was immediately followed and led to a large hollow sycamore which stood a short distance north of Ellettsville. All the men of the settlement gathered around to participate in the killing, but were prohibited from using guns for fear, in the excitement, of shooting some person. The tree was cut down. While this was being done, Mr. Sharp, the only one experienced in the habits of bears, was plied with all manner of questions, such as " Which way will it run ? " " Where shall I stand ?" etc., and answered all in a manner to keep his neighbors on the " ragged edge," and make them feel their decided inferiority on questions of bear-hunting. The huge tree came down with a crash, split open, and, to the astonishment of all, revealed three bears-one large one and two cubs three-fourths grown. The dogs to the number of about a dozen immediately set upon the bears,
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which, severely stunned by the fall, could at first offer only partial resist- ance, and were readily dispatched with clubs and cautious rifle shots before they had recovered their usual strength. One of the cubs caught a dog owned by Mr. Sharp, and was crushing the life out of it, when the irate owner, armed with the big butcher knife above mentioned, ran up and reaching over the bear, struck it to the heart from the opposite side. The yelping canine was instantly released and in a few moments the bear was dead. Several present could not understand why Mr. Sharp had reached over the bear and struck it from the opposite side from which he was standing. He explained that bears when struck with a knife always snapped at and struck with their paws at the immediate object hurting- in this case the knife-regardless of who or what was on the other side, and he cited them to the fact that the bear when struck had bitten sav- agely at the knife, striking also with its paws, and had he been on that side would, no doubt, have suffered injury. He had been in too many hand-to-hand (so to speak) conflicts with these animals not to know how to use the knife. The three bears were taken and dressed, and parceled out among the settlers, all of whom enjoyed eating a large piece of juicy bearsteak, which, it is said, tastes much like pork, and can be fried in its own fat. Several other bears were killed in the township very early, an account of which cannot be given. Wolves were very troublesome, and were caught with steel traps. Panthers were occasionally found. A small dog, belonging to Mr. Milligan, treed a large one. early one evening and kept it there all night, strange as it may seem. Early the next morning, Mr. Milligan, who had heard the continued barking, went out with his rifle and shot the panther dead from its perch in the tree. It was a very large specimen of its species, measuring, it is said, nearly twelve feet from tip to tip.
One morning, very early, James Parks, Sr., was aroused from sleep be- fore the usual time by a strange noise on the door step, and getting up as quietly as possible, he walked to the window, which commanded a view of the door step, and looked out and saw with astonishment and some alarm a large black bear lying there asleep. The settler got his rifle, and taking cautious aim at a vital place of the animal, pulled the trigger. The sharp report was followed by the death growls of bruin, and in a few moments all was still; the bear was dead. The family ate bear steak for breakfast. The Mayfield boys-Nicholas and Elzy-in going from school, saw a dark object cross the path a short distance in front of them, and at first supposed it to be a raven. Going farther on, they were alarmed to see a large bear; and taking to their heels, made for home at the top of their speed, and there told what they had seen. A party of men started out, but did not succeed in coming up to his bearship.
William Poe owned a hand mill as early as 1822 or 1823, which sup- plied the neighbors with cracked corn. The meal from this mill and from the old Parks Mill was coarse, and was at first sifted until all the finer had been separated out, when the remainder was used for half-hom- iny. John Fullen operated a horse mill later, and also made a limited quantity of whisky from a small copper still. The Mayfields, in Rich- land, and Allison, in Van Buren, took the earliest stand against the consumption of ardent spirits, and did much to stop their use at log roll-
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ings. Jack Storm, one time in a freshet, endeavored to cross the principal creek in Richland Township, but after getting a severe wetting, and failing ingloriously in getting across, he was forced to give up. From this circumstance the creek is said to have taken its name-"Jack's Defeat." William Rawlins and Mary Sharp were married in 1818 ; this was the first in the township. David P. Edmundson was born in the township during the summer of 1817, his birth being the first; Lucinda Puett was the second.
The settlement of the township was quite slow after the rush was over, and only took place as the country gradually grew from its back- woods condition. In 1841, the tax-payers were as follows :
POLL-TAX PAYERS OF .1841.
James Armstrong, Alexander Armstrong, E. W. Archer, James At- kins, David Acuff, Jonathan Archer, James Alsup, John Acuff, John Bennett, Earlham Bratney, James Bratney, Jr., Nathan Bray, David Byers, Micajah Bray, James W. Coffey, Thomas Copeland, Joseph Camp- bell, John Campbell, Samuel Campbell, William Campbell, Hiram Coffey, Elisha Carter, Thomas R. Coffey, William Claman, John Carder, Larkin Coffey, Albert Coffey, Aliham Coffey, Riley Coffey, Achilles Coffey, Mat. Clay, William Clay, Cornelius Clay, Peter Coon, Lewis Coffey, W. P. Chipman, Elijah Dunning, Robert Delap, D. D. Duskins, James S. Dowell, J. A. Dyer, William Dyer, Hiram Dyer, H. N. Dyer, William Edmundson, D. R. Edmundson, G. W. Edmundson, Martin Ellett, James Everman, E. P. Farmer, John Fullen, Jr., Lawrence Free- man, James Freeman, Micajah Freeman, Robert C. Graham, W. H. H. Gilbert, William Greenwood, Hiram Gilbert, William Grimes, James Goodnight, David Grimes, Harvey Houston, Samuel Harbinson, James Hall, Beveridge Hall, Andrew Harshboyer, John Hileman, Washing- ton Houston, John Henry, Solomon Hickman, John Horsford, Carey Houston, Henry Hopewell, E. S. Harrell, Jonathan Isenhaw, George A. Isenhaw, John S. Johnson, Archibald Kerby, James Melicote, Jacob Mefford, William Moffitt, William Mayfield, Charles Moore, John D. Mayfield, Nicholas Mayfield, John Manis, James Manis, L. H. Moreland, Leroy Mayfield, William Nesbit, David Nesbit, Curtis Parks, Anderson Pinkston, Coleman Puctt, Jeremiah Poe, James Parks, Jesse Reman, James P. Raney, James Robertson, William Robertson, John Robertson, Mathew Robertson, Elias Renana, Joseph Reeves, John T. Reeves, Will- iam Shannon, Gabriel Stine, William Shannon, James Stearns, Samuel Straney, Johnston Sharp, John Sanders. Joseph Sanders, Luke W. San- ders, Isom Sanders, J. B. Shreeve, John C. Smith, William Stagsdall, Jacob Summit, Joseph Summit, Simpson Sharp, Reuben Shipley, Reu- ben Tompkins, William Thompson, Jacob B. Yany, Pleasant York, Charles Wier, Maxwell Wilson, Zimri Worley, Hiram Worley, George Whisenand. David Whisenand, Hiram Wampler, Andrew Wampler, Jacob Wampler, Wesley Whitson, Jefferson Wampler. Archibald Wilson, Sam- uel Wier, John T. Wilson, Perry Woodall, William Williams, Godfrey Williams, John Whisenand and David Whitesell. The heaviest tax- payers were Jonathan Archer, $12.50; John Bennett, $18; James Brantney, Sr., $11.44; Nathan Bray, $14.59; David Byers, $14.02;
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Reuben Coffey, $11; James Coffey. $11; Lewis Coffey, $14.15; Martin Ellett, $10.30; Estate of Samuel Ellett, $24.36; E. P. Farmer, $13.11; Rachael Foster, $11.77 ; Samuel Harbinson, $37.80; Francis Hall, $15.57 ; Archibald Kerby. $11.40; Leroy Mayfield, $18.70; David Nesbit, $25.86; Curtis Parks, $11.50; Meredith Parks, $10.12; James Parks, $10.34; Joseph Reeves, $11; James Stearns, $14.42 ; Samuel Straney, $18; John Sanders, $36.70; William Shreeve, $15.95 ; Jacob Wampler, $10.01; John Wier, $22.82; Samuel Wier, $12.57. There was a total of 165 polls ; acres of land, 18.804} ; value of land and im- provement, $133,938; value of lots, $2,985; personal property, $42,- 591; total value of taxables, $179,514; State tax, $839.34; county tax, $391.13; total tax, $1,230.47.
RICHLAND, OR ELLETSVILLE.
This town did not have as early an origin as several others in the county. Edward Ellett kept tavern there for several years before it was considered a village. He also conducted a blacksmith shop that was well patronized. He started a small, old-fashioned, up-and-down saw mill early, and it is said that he later put in one apartment of the same build- ing a set of rude stones, and for a number of years ground corn, and probably wheat. The first grist mill in this neighborhood, and probably one of the very first, if not the first in the county, was the rude hand mill of George Parks, which was brought to the township in 1817. It was patronized by all the neighbors until the Mt. Tabor grist mill was built by old man Burton, in about 1820. This old hand mill of George Parks' is yet in existence-in the possession of Johnson Sharp, who operates it on Old Settlers' Day, for the inspection of the curious and the gratification of the early settlers. Old man Kirkham, in the northeastern corner of the township, started a horse mill about 1820, which was quite well pat- ronized for several years. In the month of February, 1837, Reuben Tompkins employed John Sedwick, County Surveyor, and laid out four- teen lots on Section 9, and named the village thus founded Richland. During the same year, an effort was made to secure a post office there, the name, Richland, being selected ; but as there was another post office in the State of that name, it was changed to Ellettsville, in honor of Edward Ellett. In the spring of 1838, Alonzo Beman laid out an addi- tion of seventeen lots, and at this time the name of the village became Ellettsville, the same as the post office. Mr. Beman at this time opened the first store, his stock consisting of a general assortment, worth about $1,000. Within a short time he was joined by F. T. Butler, who became his partner, and who was then in business at Mt. Tabor, packing pork and manufacturing hats to a considerable extent. In 1839, Jeffer- son Wampler opened a liquor store in the little village ; and about the same time, or perhaps late in 1838, Ellett & Barnes started a good store of general merchandise.
In 1840, there were then two stores, one liquor shop, one blacksmith shop, one grist mill, one saw mill, a post office and about five families. James Whitesell started a store in 1841, continuing until about 1845. Johnson Stites sold liquor in 1840; Isaac Wampler sold liquor in 1841. A Mr. Manville was in business about 1846. H. R. Seall opened a good
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general store in about 1848, and continued nine or ten years. S. B. & O. A. Harris started with about $1,000 worth of goods in 1848, and in one form or another have continued until the present, if their sons who succeeded them are included. Emanuel F. Faulkner opened a store in about 1849. Parks & Coffey started soon afterward, as did also John H. Reeves, Harris & Dean, Dowell & Moore. The McCallas. of Blooming- ton, had a branch store in Ellettsville. Dowell & Stearns were in business in the fifties; G. B. Moore the same, and is yet in business, having ac- cumulated a fortune. R. W. Akin & Co. opened with a general store in 1856. J. M: Campbell started up about the beginning of the war, and F. E. Worley began during the war. W. H. Jackson opened a store about the close of the war, and still continues to make a living over the
counter. Parks & Puett were in business early in the village. The Perry Brothers came to the village twenty or twenty-five years ago, and have amassed comfortable fortunes. They are now engaged extensively
in the stone business. Among the business ventures at the village have been the saw mill of Sanders & Knighton, many years ago; Houston's steam saw mill, started in the fifties, and transferred to Perry & Sed- wick, was afterward burned. Late in the fifties, David Allen built and equipped a grist mill at a total cost of about $13,000. It was an excellent mill. After a few years, it was sold to Jesse Draper, and ten or twelve years later to W. H. Jackson, upon whose hands it burned down last winter (1882-83). S. B. Harris built a grist mill about 1870, at a cost of $9,000, and after four or five years added a set of machinery for card- ing wool. Both are yet in operation. The woolen factory cost $3,000. It is said that John Whisenand carded wool at the village as early as 1842, his motor being the tread-wheel. It ceased running about 1850. Early in the fifties, Gilbert May started a good cabinet shop. Shook & Faulkner began manufacturing carriages about eight years ago, and are still engaged in the same pursuit. F. E. Worley opened a private bank in the village about twelve years ago, with a capital of from $40,000 to $60,000. He still continues doing a general banking business, and has the confidence of the community. He owns one of the finest residences in Monroe County. George Fletcher started a planing mill five or six years ago. He is an extensive contractor and builder. About five years ago, a German from Indianapolis erected a spoke factory, which is now owned by Sedwick & Grant, and is not in operation. William Walls is now conducting a good wagon shop. Judson Sanders started a steam saw mill in 1883. These are the more important business industries. In 1850, the population of the village was about 60; in 1860, about 250; in 1870, about 450; in 1880, 585, and in 1883 about 625.
INCORPORATION.
In 1866, the project of incorporating the village was talked of, but met stubborn opposition from the moneyed element. In June, 1866, a petition was presented to the County Board praying that the village might hold an election, and that in the event of a majority of votes in favor of incorporation, the village might be declared the incorporated town of Elletsville. The plan proposed comprised two hundred and two acres, and the petition was signed by the following residents : W. H.
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Jackson, James W. Coffey, Charles G. May, Thomas Manpin, Nehemiah Sumner, Noel Edwards, W. J. Jackson, Elisha Allen, W. C. R. Mc- Neeley, Henry E. Akin, William Galloway, Samuel Galloway, Joseph B. Gray, Samuel Given, James S. Whitesill, R. J. Mills, G. W. Fletcher, R. C. Harris, W. H. Corneling, E. E. Moberly, H. M. Shook, G. K. Berry, E. H. Wood, F. M. Falkner, N. E. Miller, John Cook, H. R. Seall, J. G. Smith, John Dearmon, H. F. Perry, Theodore Sedwick, H. A. Edwards. J. H. Shook, A. Albertson, James S. Sharp, T. J. Sharp, J. V. Rawlins, R. L. Rawlins, S. F. Edwards, E. E. McNeeley, G. W. Houston, A. W. Gray, G. V. Lane, John Stevenson, Lafayette Truett, W. G. Jamison, W. P. Davis, - Josbrook, J. E. Sedwick, S. B. Harris, J. L. Nesbit, H. S. Hughes, Allen Mills, T. J. Costin, J. M. Harris and Daniel Manpin. The population of the village by the census taken at this time was 388. The County Board ordered an election held, which was done the 16th day of June, 1866, a majority of votes being polled for the incorportion. In September, 1866, the County Board de- clared Ellettsville to be duly incorporated. Officers were elected, but within a year or two the interest died out and remained dormant so that elections were abandoned for several years, when the municipal govern- ment was revived and has continued to work until the present. The present officers are G. W. Houston, William Miller and - Steven- son, Trustees ; James Robinson, Treasurer ; John Edmundson, Clerk ; Robert Fletcher, Marshal.
PRESENT BUSINESS INDUSTRIES.
General merchandise-G. B. Moore, John Matthews & Son, Harris Bros. Drugs-Hughes & Whitted, J. F. Harris. Hardware-W. C. Draper, W. T. Harris. Groceries-Perry Bros., F. M. Stevenson, O. F. Moore, James Parks, Jr., H. H. Constable, J. T. Robertson, W. H. Jackson. Boots and shoes-Perry Bros., J. T. Robinson. Milliners- Mrs. C. Pressley, Miss Dora Hughes. Grist mill-S. B. Harris. Card- ing mill-S. B. Harris. Saw mill-Judson Sanders. Planing mill- George W. Fletcher. Barber-J. A. May. Blacksmiths-Shook & Falkner, Harry Copenhaver. Notions-T. B. Harris. Newspaper, Monroe County Citizen-W. B. Harris. Harness shop-C. B. Shey. Hotels-Mrs. Whitesell, Richard McNeeley. Saloon-J. W. Smith. Carriage factory-Shook & Falkner. Bank-F. E. Worley. Graded school, five teachers ; Principal, Mr. Farrabee. Ellettsville has had several newspaper enterprises, an account of which will be found else- where in this volume.
SCHOOLS
The first school in the township was taught during the winter of 1822-23, in a log cabin which stood about where the residence of William Draper now stands. The building was of round logs, had a huge fire- place that could be induced to take in logs six feet long and two feet or more in diameter, and had a log left out on the south side about breast high over which greased paper was fastened to serve the purpose of win- dows. William Rawlins, son of Roderick Rawlins, the first County Treasurer, was the first teacher. The term was three months long, and the children of James Parks, Benjamin Parks, Lewis Noel, Coleman
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Puett, Samuel Ellett, Joseph Puett, Joseph Reeves, George Sharp, George Parks, William Milligan, two miles away, and William Edmund- son, went to young Mr. Rawlins to learn how to read, write and cipher. This house was used for school purposes about five years, and was then displaced by a hewed-log structure erected near the cemetery, and used until the township was divided into districts in the forties. Late in the thirties. Porter Edmundson erected a building which he used for a school- house for a number of years, himself doing the teaching. This was wholly a private school supported by subscription, or tuition, and was a good one for that early day. Another early school was the one taught in the southern part of the township in a log cabin on the Benjamin Reeves farm in the winter of 1823-24, William Matlock owned the farm then, and his son, Jefferson Matlock, was the teacher. He had as high as twenty scholars, and taught such a good school that it was continued every winter after that in the same neighborhood. In 1836, there were four schoolhouses in the township, besides two or three private schools. By 1846, the number had increased to seven, and in 1856 to eight, and by this time several frame houses could be seen where erst the log house with greased paper windows, puncheon floors, doors, seats and desks were to be seen. The following was the condition of schools and houses in 1880-81 :
TEACHERS OF 1880-81.
Number of District.
Actual Enrollment.
Kind and Size of Houses.
Mary Moberly
7
20
Frame, 22x28 feet.
H. M. Edmundson
6
48
Frame, 24x30 feet.
J. E. Edmundson
4
28
Frame, 20x24 feet.
Nellie Wingfield
5
44
Frame, 24x26 feet.
J. W. Bray.
3
24
Frame, 22x28 feet.
J. V Foster
2
36
Brick, 34x36 feet.
M. E. Dickson
1
21
Brick, 22x26 feet.
Various schoolhouses were used in Ellettsville prior to about 1855, at which time a large frame house with two rooms was erected, and used until the present brick structure was constructed about twelve years ago. Maj. H. F. Perry was one of the first teachers in the old frame house. The present two-storied brick cost about $7,000, was built by the town- ship, and is occupied by five teachers, who cannot properly instruct all the town children, and a small brick building near it is also used.
CHURCHES.
The old Vernal Baptist Church was one of the very first, if not the first, organized in Monroe Connty. Meetings were held during the winter of 1817-18, but probably no organization was effected until several years later. Among the first members were the families of James Parks, Benjamin Parks, George Parks, Lewis Noel, Leroy Mayfield, John Sanders, the Coffeys, Mr. Shreeves, the Martins, Frank Hall, and others. A rude log church was built in the Sanders neighborhood, in about 1826, and was used until about 1838, when a frame church, built further north and within about three-fourths of a mile of Ellettsville, took its place. The old log house was so open that in cold weather meetings were held in the residences of the members-principally in that of James Parks, who
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