Henry County; past and present: a brief history of the county from 1821 to 1871, Part 12

Author: Pleas, Elwood
Publication date: 1871
Publisher: New Castle, Ind. : Pleas Brothers
Number of Pages: 174


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In February, 1864, in county convention assembled, a Re- publican committee of 13, stifled a resolution endorsing the Emancipation Proclamation, which, upon being presented by its originator, in the body of the convention, passed amid deaf- ening applause ; illustrating how the mere politician is ever be- hind the people. On a memorable day in April, 1865, a commit- ter charged with the duty of preparing suitable resolutions for the obsequies of a Martyr President, refused to report a resolu-


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tion charging the black crime of his murder to the list scored up against slavery This too was reported by it- originator to the convention and more completely touched the popular chord than any thing else said or done, notwithstanding its introduce- tion was pronounced unnecessary by one of its original oppo- nent -. After its pa-sage its publication as having come from the Hands of the committee was privately requested, showing that politicians sometime- learn when it is too late.


"Military necessity" placed the musket and the ballot in the hands of the negro in spite of the settled conventions and ex- pressed opinions of many a Henry County politician. The re- construction of the Southern States was also declared against by many "good Republicans." since, to admit that they were lapsed into a territorial condition, or had lost any of their rights was to grant that "the rebellion had succeeded."


The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to which the party is now so fully committed, had each to be fought for in the political circle of Henry County republican- ism, but the battle seems at last almost won. The "logie of event-" ha- carried us beyond the most advanced out posts of. the anti-slavery men, till it almost seems as if the Garrisons, Phillips', and Giddings', the Sunners and Julians, were respec- table old fogies. The elogs of the party of freedom have been shaken off or carried irresitably along till they have had time to see every hated position taken by those denominated as Rad- icals, adopted by the party at large. and the heresy of yesterday made the orthodoxy of today. And now, since to go back is impossible and Democracy itself is beginning to "accept the situation :" and the results of a victory it never intentionally helped to win, cannot all say " let us have peace."


INDIANY.


"The Noble Red Man" became a searce article in this coun- Ly soon after its settlement was fairly begun by the whites. As


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previously mentioned by the terms of the treaty of 1818, they were all required to leave by the spring of 1821. The bulk of them left before that time, although a number of them were scattered up and down Blue River and some other streams in the county for some time after the first crop of white immigrants took possession. Probably the most extensive Endion village in the county was located near the present site of Hernly's Mills, about two miles north of New Castle. The Indians of this county were of theDelaware tribe and perhaps chiefty belonged to the branch known as Muncies.


MOUNDS, KARTHWORKS, ETC.


There are in the county many evidence of its having been the home of one or more races of people, now passer . way. Numerous mounds and earthwo. ks or fortifications gre found in the county while flint, arrow and spear headsan ford in al- most every neighborhood, and it might be said on altaost every farm in the county. Stone pescels, hammers, tomatwks or hatchets, and other implements and trinkets are found in por- tions of the county. Whether these belonged to the ta : of " red men " that immediately prec med the whites, or sono prople they had displaced is pernaps iu open question. It is probable that the oc upants of the soil, when the whites came into this part of the State, knew as little about the manufacture of these arrow-heads and stone hatchets as we do to-day, and yet these very weapons have been the only implements used by their aurestors of two hundred years before. It would not have taken he of the " untutored mind " long to discover the superior murderous quality of a steel hatchet over the blunt implement of his sires, and of course, as the stone implement was superce- ded the art of manufacture was lost, and even a well defined tradition of its use soon passed away with a people unused to letters.


The most notable earthworks of the county are perhaps those on the " Hudeison place," formerly the "Allen Shepherd farm." Here are fortifications which have defied the ravages of the "tooth of time" for aught we know for a century, and the plowman's share for half that time, and yet, in some instances from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the embankinent is still four to six feet, though generally much less. Several of


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Lem enclose near a half acre, and generally there is in the centre a mound which was probably at one time touch higher than the surrounding embankment and served as a sort of ob- servatory and as well perhaps as a resting place for the dead. There are one or more mound- without the surrounding ditch and embankment .. One of the most noticeable is about two rods arross at the base and near five feet in height although some body -- matcher has been thrusting his sacrilegious spade into it, with what result we know not. Like the famous general who " fit" in the Mexican war, these aboriginal engineer- seemed to preter having the ditch on the inside of the embankment, which probably served a- a feuer for the retention of stock as well as for defense from without. Some of these enclosures appear to have been circular, others quadrangular, one octagonal and some of irregular outline, though from the partial obliteration of the walls the exact -tate is not easily determined. Some of the walls were probably eight, or more feet in height in early times and it is reported that some of them were surmounted with the remains of a stockade much less than fifty years ago.


One of these old forts is on the premises and nearly in front of the residence of Mr. JJoseph Dorral, ahont one and a half miles north of New Castle, the New Castle and Northern Pike cutting it in two. There are two stumps in it, the remains of trees, probably more than one hundred and fifty years old. There are also similar relies in other portions of the county, all speaking to us of the trials. hard-hips and struggles of a race whose extinction seems near at hand. The hand of the " paie face" seems ever against them, even the sacred precincts of their burial grounds are invaded and their bones are not shaffer- ed to rest in peace.


In constructing railroad- and turnpike- their crumbling skeleton- have been exhumed by scored and severed to the four winds.


THE INDIAN CHARACTER.


A. portrayed to us by the early settlers, though out " altogether lovely," was not desperate. The "noble red man, " never Fremed to have any ditheulty in acquiring an appetite for fire- water, was fond of music, such as an old fiddle could supply, and seemed just in his element when engaged in a night of rey-


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elry, with a few triding white, and bottles of whisky for campan- ions. In point of honor, integrity, and some of the sterner vir- tues they were but little behind half the white men with whom they associated.


Mr. Benjamin Harvy lived in their midst for two or more years and pronounced them "just as good as the whites." Wc secured their good will by upright dealing with them, and when the orders came to remove them to certain reservations, their parting with the family was with tears and every demonstration of affection.


Asahel Woodard say- they would never take so much as a "roasting car" from him without the asking, and that they were exceedingly prompt in the return of everything they bor- rowed.


Dempsy Rre-way - they often came to his house and would trade wild honey for corn bread and give pound for pound. They were inveterate beggars for small favors, and were never known to refuse an invitation to take a meals victuals, and when invited to set up alone to a well filled table they seemed to understand that all the virtual- set upon it were intended for them, and what they could not get outside of, they would empty into a pouch or haversack with which they were generally pro- vided ; bread, meat, potatoes, gravy etc., being dumped in pro- miscuously. They much prefered sleeping on the floor to a bed.


They were not proverbial for personal cleanliness or over squeamish in choice of food. The venerable Mrs. Hannah Symon- relate- being called upon by one of their braves, who spied a lot of eggs that some of the children had brought in, part of a ne-t full which a faithful hen had abandon- ed after week- of fruitle -. effort at hatching. These he must have, and no amount of explanation as to their addled character was of any avail. Then he must have her skillet to cook them in, and actually cooked and ate the whole lot with the utmost gus- to, and many an "ugh," expressive of satisfaction.


We have not been able to learn of an Indian having been killed by a white man within our borders. or any white ettier falling by the hand of the Indians. Those of the earlier set- tlers who endeavored to live in peace with them found no diffi- culty in doing sc, and has but little apprehension except from


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a fear that some lawiess whites might so exasperate them by some gross outrage as to cause them to forget the difference between friend and foe.


WILD ANIMALS.


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The early settlers found here pretty much all wild ani- mals to be found in the State, and many of them in great abun- dance, though we are not aware that the county was especially noted in this respect.


BEARS .- The Black Bear was quite numerous for many years and made no inconsiderable addition to the larders of many a family. So iate as 1830 they were not infrequently met with ; several were seen in the streets of Knightstown so late as 1832-33. M. F. Edwards is said to have tried to keep one out of his lot by striking it with his fist, and when close pressed it sought refuge in the chimney of a new house, helonging to Alex- ander Posten. So late as 1848-50 three created some excitement in Spiceland Township.


DEER .- The Red Deer was very plentiful and many families supplied themselves most bountifully for some years after the county began to be settled, with venison. Nathan Ratliff, the famous banter and brother to Cornelius Ratliff, of Dudley Township, cleared and fenced ten arres of ground one summer and fall and killed seventy-five deer. One was killed in Har- rison Township in 1865, as several parties who were prosecuted under the game laws can testify. This is the only one we have heard of in the county for fifteen or twenty years.


WOLVEN .- The Grey Wolf was very numerous and annoy- ing to the first settlers, being especially destructive to young porkers and sheep. The county records show that no inconsid- erable part of the funds in the Treasury at an early day went for wolf sealps. Quite a number of men more than paid their taxes in this way. They have long since disappeared.


Tus Fox .- Both the Red and Grey Fox have ever found a home in the county, and latterly seem to be on the increase, es-


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pecially the Red Fox, and the chase with horse and hound is becoming a fashionable and exciting pastime.


. PANTHERS were occasionally found, but offener heard of in early times. The lynx, sometimes called the wild cat, was not an uncommon animal here at one time, though very rare for thirty years past. Something of this sort ( perhaps the Cana- dian Lynx) was shot by one of the Garrett boys, about five miles north of New Castle, only two or three year- since.


RACCOON .- This little representative of the bear family was always quite numerous in this county, and it is not improbable that they have been on the increase for the past few year -.


OrrossUMs .- These animals were once plentiful and are still found occasionally, though hardly in sufficient quantitie- to supply the wants of our citizens who count them a toothsome dish. At a Masonic festival in New Castle, a few years since, a couple of them graced the well-filled board.


SKUNKS .- This unpopular but rather pretty little animal defying public prejudice, seems to be wonderfully on the in- crease for a few years past. There are said to be some eight or ten varieties of this animal in the United States. Perhaps there is but one variety in this county and that must be the real Me - phitis Americana. One variety is considered quite enough, al- though the kittens are said to make splendid pets, if they are not kept too long.


BEAVERS .- The earthworks of this industrious and saga- cions engineer were not unknown to the early settlers, though we judge few if any of the builders were ever seen by the whites.


THE OTTER, MINK AND MUSKRAT are still found in the county though rapidly decreasing in numbers. The pelts of these, especially of the Mink and Muskrat, have at times fur- nished the basis of considerable traffic.


THE WOODCHUCK OF Groundhog, always a resident of this county, has been rapidly gaining ground in some parts, of late year's.


THE RABBIT, or properly called Hare, is able to hold his own amidst all his foes. It is hard to tell what the boys would do if " cotton tails" should become extinct.


RATS .- The so-called Norway 'more properly gnaw-away )


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rat many years since expelled the old fashioned black rat, and has made himself perfectly at home, in such numbers as to al- most dispute the right of possession with tyrant man. The es- tablishment of a fine kid glove manufactory in each village is probably the only way to "clean out " the pests.


SQUIRRELS .- The common Grey Squirrel or chip-munk was so numerous for many years as to be a terrible tax on the patience and energies of the husbandman. and more than once the greys, with a considerable admixture of the blacks, lavs made their appearance in such countless numbers as to alnost defy the farmer to save any thing from their ravages. He ap- peared to be emigrating from some unknown region to the south or southeast. Joseph R. Leaky, who had in several acres of corn, in 1823, had occasion to be from home for a few days, returned to find he had not an ear left. George Evans could only save a portion of his one season by pulling it when green and drying on a dry-kiln. Dempsey Rees hired a man by the day to shoot them around his corn field ; the gunner killed over one hundred and said he could have done better hut for his gun getting so hot. Others had a similar experience, till dogs and boy, became tired of slaughtering them. For about twenty years the Fox Squirrel has been rapidly supplanting the abor- igines.


ELk. - We have no reports of the elk having been seen in this county, though from the frequent finding of their im- mense antlers in various parts of the county, it is inferred that they were numerous at a period not very remote. We have in our possession parts of two specimens, a pair of which could not have weighed less than 25 or 30 pounds. R. H Mellett re- cently found a specimen over four feet in length, and Dr. Jont Ross had an "elk horn," a few years since, over six feet in length.


Other animals of little importance, such as the weasel, fly- ing squirrel, mole, mice of various species we suppose are as minerouts here as almost any where.


WILD TURKEY .- Of all the wild fowl to be found in the county this is the most important. Though becoming somewhat rare, there are still enough left for pretty fair sport at the prop- er season of the year. Some of our expert hunters can still hag several in a day at times. They breed in the county to


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some extent, though the most that are found here are probably emigrants from the wildler regions north of us.


WILD GEESE are frequently seen in their passage to the North or South, and occasionally alight and remain with us brieny.


WILD DUCKS of several species are found along our streams. Most of them are migratory.


THE GREAT BLUE HERON, more commonly called a Crane, is not infrequently found here, during the warmer months of the year, while the Green Heron, or Fly-up-the-creek, is much more numerous.


PHEASANTS, the true Partridge, or Ruffed Grouse, are still occasionally found, and more often heard, in our groves and thickets.


QUAIL .- The beautiful little Bob White. we believe, is found here in increasing number- under the protecting agis of the ganie law .


There are numerous other birds, large or small, as the crow, vulture or buzzard, a half dozen kinds of hawks, large and small, several varieties of the owl, occasionally a stray eagle, a numerous retinue of the smaller songsters and chatterers, &e., &c., to be found in the county, either temporarily or the year round, which there is not room even so much as to attempt to enumerate.


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On sunday morning, the 14th of April, 1861, news reached Indianapolis of the fall of Fort Sumpter. and Governor Morton tendered President Lineoln ten thousand men to uphold the au- thority of the Government, the President having called for seventy-five thousand three months troops, of which Indiana's quota was subsequently fixed at 4,683 men.


The Governor issued his proclamation, calling for these troops, on the 16th. From the Adjutant General's report it will


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be seen that five hundred had reported for duty next day, two thousand four hundred in three days more, and in seven days twelve thousand men were in camp. The object of this brief chapter is to show how promptly and thoroughly Henry Coun- ty fulfilled the part assigned her.


In the first regiment organized under the call, and only six days after the Governor's call, seventy-eight citizens of Henry County were mustered into service, and only two days later sev- enty-five others. making abont double the quota of Henry County.


By the enrollment of October, 1862, Henry County was found to have 2,652 men liable to military duty after deduet- ions for disability, etc. At this time there were 1,008 already in the service. The volunteers from this county under the first and second calls was so largely in excess of its quota that under the third eall, (Angust 4th, '62) but 160 additional men were re- quired to fill the county's quota of 300,000 men. These were promptly forthcoming and the draft avoided.


In 1863 there was a call for 100,000 men, soon followed by another for 300,000. To fill this conuty's quota required about 350 additional men and they were promptly supplied withont a draft.


In 1864 the falls in February. March and July, amount- ed to 500,000 more. This county's quota under these calls was 1,185, of these 939 men were supplied by new recruits, 97 re-en- listraents of veterans, making 1,036 volunteers. One hundred and seventy men were drafted which supplied the deficiency and gave the county an excess of 52 men in the service.


In December, 1864, there was still another call for 300,000 more men. On this last call Henry County was required to furnish 359 men, of diese ?(0 were raised hy enlistment and hut 17 by draft ; right township- escaping entirely.


From the foregoing it appears that. Henry County had in the United States Service altogether a grand total of 3142 sol- diers. Of course a large number of these were counted twice, as most of the three months men immediately re-enlisted and a large number of the one, two and three year men veteranized.


It is certainly creditable, and an evidence of the patriotism of our people that less than 200 of those who entered the service


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did so as drafted men. In addition to these, under the Govern- or's call to resist the Morgan raid, about 500 citizens of Henry County enlisted in the State Service as "Minute Men."


We have relied mainly on the report of the Adjutant Gen- eral for the facts given above, but this is very unsatisfactory in many respect, as it does not give the residence of the men in many instances, and acredits whole companies of Henry County soldiers to other counties. The following are the regiments in which Henry County men most conspiciously figured, with the number in each ; the number, in most instances being the orig- inal enlistments. The residences of those afterward sent for- ward to fill up the depleted ranks, often being omitted or wrongly stated :


REGIMENT.


TERM OF SERVICE


NO. OF MEN.


Sixth


3 months.


78


3 months.


75


Ninth


3 years.


12


Eleventh


3


(Estimated)


50


Nineteenth


15


Thirtieth


331


Thirty-Sixth


3 ..


94


Forty- Fifth (3rd cavalry)


3


42


Fifty-Seventh


173


Sixty-Ninth


196


Eighty-Fourth


18


Ninetieth (5th cavalry)


75


One hundred twenty - first (9th cavalry) 3 "


146


One hundred thirty-ninth


100 days


61


One hundred fortieth


100


132


One hundred forty-seventh


1 year


18


One hundred forty-eighth


1


16


Twelfth Battery


3 years.


15


Nineteenth Battery


lu addition to these there were a few Henry County sol- diers in each of at least twelve other regiments. In short, there was scarcely an important engagement during the dark days of battle .in which some citizen of Henry County did not take a part.


In the matter of county and township bounties and relief to soldiers' families but few counties in the State surpassed Hlou- ry. The different items are as follows :


$133,120.94


County Bounty


252,540.25 ..


Township Bonnty


63,263.56


Family Relief (County)


18.914.53


Family Relief (Township)


Grand Total


$168,739,88


Eighth


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ITEMS.


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WEIGHTY MEMBERS .- Dudley township, and especially Hopewell neighborhood, challenges the world for large men and women. Within a radius of 124 miles of Hopewell Meeting- house, there lived, a short time since, no less than nine persons who weighed between 250 and 365 pounds each. One young lady weighed 304 at seventeen years of age. Another lady weighed 300 pounds. There are twelve women living in the neighborhood, or have recently done so, whose weights ranged from 225 to 300 pounds. In one family of nine children and the parents, there were but two who failed at some time of their lives to reach the goodly weight of 200 pounds, the average of the whole family being 248 7-11; omitting the two small ones, the "runts" of the family, and the others averaged 271 2-9.


SIGNS OF GROWTH .- In early times the bonds of the Con- stable and County Treasurer were equal. Since that time the bond of the Treasurer has been eight hundred times that of the Constable, or about twenty-five times as much as the bonds of all the Constables in the County.


SUFFICIENTLY SPECIFIC .- The law make it the duty of jus- tices of the peace to report all fines imposed, to the commis- sioners.


In early times a Justice reported that he had fined Mr. - $3 for swearing three illegal oaths as follows : "two by-God and one by-Jesus Christ," and on a subsequent occasion, a similar amount for three others as follows : "one by-God, one by-God and one by-Jesus Christ."


TO-MORROW MORNING .- The usual formula for the adjourn - ment of the Commissioners' Court, in early times, was ordered by the Board that "the Court now adjourn till to-morrow morn- ing, nine o'clock."


On several occasions the morning entry read as follows :


"To-morrow morning the Court met pursuant to adjourn - ment."


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THE PIONEER .*


BY B. S. PARKER.


His formi is bent: his head is grey; His limbs are long and slender. But still, beneath his woolen vest, The heart is true and tender.


His comrades long are in the elay ; Their wooden head-boards rotten; And in the modern neighborhood, Their very names forgotten.


He walks serenely thro' the fields: Old shadows seem to follow. Again he sees the tawny deer Go leaping down the hollow.


He hears once more the rifle's ring, The hunters shouting gladly. On yonder hill the wounded bear Again gives battle madly.


He hears the pheasant's booming drum: lle hears the turkey calling ; The thudding maul: the ringing ax ; The crash of timber falling.


He sees the little cabin home; The tiny patch of clearing, Where once he dwelt with wife and boys, No breath of evil fearing.


"Ah. well!" he sighs; "she's sleeping now:


The eldest boys are with her.


I very soon shall go with them. Since they may not come hither."


The tear that glistens in his eye Falls down a moment after;


For. silvery. echoing up the lane. He hears his g. andchild's laughter.


The past and present strangely blend Before his mental vision; Yet love. that makes the dreary wolls Appear like fields elysian,


Still paints along his early days The fairest scenes of pleasure,


No rhythmic art can measure.


No words bespeak his heart so warm As did the haekwoods greeting; No preacher has such power as him Who held the backwoods meeting.


He knows of many a merry time At reaping, rolling, raising, Or, on the jolly husking nights. With cheerful torches blazing.


From many a good wife's quilting bout


He treasures home-spun blisses, Where old folks talked, and young folks played Their games of forfeit kisses.


The lazy Indian still he seorns ; Their squaws and their papooses: The things, God made them ; but, no- doubt, For undiscovered uses.


Where now a dozen turnpikes streteh Stiff lines between the meadows He knew a single Indian trail That wound thro' forest shadows.


A dozen villages he sees Beside their rail and stations, Where onee a single trading post Supplied the settlers' rations.


A hundred rushing trains go by : He hears them scream and thunder .. And laughs to think how they would shake His back woods world with wonder.


llow strange the ways they practice 110W, This new time emphasizing, He thinks, and with the uttered thought, Grows loud soliloquizing.


"With clattering instruments at church,


And dapper youngsters preaching, An.1 garners stores of happy thought And, for the congregations' hymn, A dozen lasses sereeching.


* Written by request especially for these pages.


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"And then for all our social jos- And good old-fashioned greetings. The sinners masque at fancy ball -. The saints at public meetings.


"You rest at case in fancy home -. Your thoughts on high careering. But give me back my wife and boys. And give me back my clearing.


" And give me back my rifle gun. My forests, deer. and pheasant .. And I will prove you. any day. 1 ' tame as British peasants.


"Your girls grow fine: your boys grow prond And vain: 0! more 's the pity :


There's scarce a youth in all the land But 's crazy 'bout the city.


"it's true there's boys that grow up non- Pale, ick, unlikely creatures.


With foreheads broad and driveled


And strange, unnatural features.


Or preach with mt much harming. Still linger on my listening ear


But all the toutest. brightest ones Shoul I steady stick to farming.


"Give me the lad with sinewy arm For box or wrestle ready.


To lift his share at hand-spike end. Or hold a rifle steady.


"And I will after show a man Whose heart is tender human,


And brave in every hour of need. And true as steel to woman.


"But I, why should I moralize: I'm but a dotard growing,


And death ents now a reaper's swath Beside his ancient mowing.


"It seems so strange. the forests gone ; The very stumps are rotten;


And half the fields I helped to clear I've really now forgotten.


"The post-horse. lagging with his load.


Across th' unbridged morasse -.


He reached us once or twice a month With letters for the lasses.


"But now they run on fying wheels, Or fly on lightning pinions.


And in the twinkling of an eye Arrive from far dominion -.


"For church and school-house. once!


.a hut


Of logs did halt the county. But heaven as freely then as now Dispensed her largest bounty .


"We flailed the wheat with twiste } sticks.


By steam you thresh and clean it, And rush your four-horse reapers where We used to hook and glean it.


"But why go on this cat 'logue style With what we did, and you do; We did the best we could and that's The way in knowledge you grew.


"The old folks labored long and well To build the rude foundation, And you have wro't no more than we With all your cultivation.


"We conquered forests, cleared the


Our work. let no man scorn it; But you who follow, follow we !!; Complete; refine: adorn it.


"Who might be doctors, if they "The olden music, olden songs, would.


The pioneer rejoicings.


With myriad happy voicings.


"No wives are like our drar o!d wives. No neighbors like our neighbors. No boys are half as bold as ours. So cheerful at their labor -.


"No ladies in their rustling silks And gimeracks half so winning, As were our girls in linsey frocks From yarn of their own spinning.


"Full many a rough. unseemly man Who shared my carly labor. Looks noble through the mist of For was he not my neighbor?


"And so when all your heads are white.


And death comes creeping nearer, You'll think the old ways. perfect wayas Old friends grow hourly dearer."


!A partridge whistled by the way, A blackbird trilled above it,


A red-bird sang "0, sunny day," The robin "flow Ilove it!"


"lo!" cried the pioneer. "you birds Are bent on early pillage," And so, his musings spoiled, he walked Quite briskly toward the village.


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INDEX.


INDEX.


Aid in Preserving the Union


141 | Charles D. Morgan


112


Attorney-, the First


45


Dora J. Gilbert


115


Ashland


Dudley Towiship


16


Associate Judges


89


Democratic Banner


119


Advertising Sheets


121


Dunreith


81


Auditor-


91


District Prosecutors


90


Assessing the Revenue


03


Ezra Spencer


115


Annual Exhibit


Elijah Evan Edwards


115


Alfred J. Cotton


109


Elizabeth City


78


Albert Hodson


113


Errata


148


Adolphus Roger-


111


Excise and Sompr ary Laws


95


Blue River township


34


Extraordinary K venditures


98


Board of Justices


I. E. Paik r


112


Blountsville


Fiat Pape


116


Beech Tree


1×1


First - ttler-


3


Benevolent Societies


1×1


First Sattler- oVlasy '1'n's.


4


Banks.


1:23


Prairie


5


New Castle


101


TEY


5


Knightstown.


124


6


Union ..


124


Franklin


6


Citizen-


1224


Daily


6


Bailiff's


Liberty


7 7 8


Benjamin Franklin


11:


Benjamin Wrigley.


114


8


Bell Stanford


Fall (


8


Commissioners


.5


Je fersen


8


Courts, the First


Blue River


9


Commissioners


35


Fall Creek Towish !!


26


Circuit


3.8


Franklin To s'i .


28


County Buildings


Fairfield


66


First Court House


Good Templars


122


Second Court House


50


Greenstoo Tow. ship


73


Second Jail


rirane i.t.


83


Stray Pen


54


Harrison township


30


County Asylum


35


Henr County Tines


119


Ch'k's and Recorder's office


57


Henry County Independent


119


Auditors and Treasurers


53


Henry County Republican


120


Present Court House


58


Henry Township


21


Present Jail


61


Henry Courtv Villages


62


Clerks of Circuit Court


Hillsboro


74


Cadiz


77


Hannah Mori Pa-ker


114


Chicago


78


Henry County Officers


84


Circleville


81


Honey reek


81


City Chronicle


120


Huldah Wickersham


110


Commissioners


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87


Introduction


1


Clerks of Circuit Court


88


Isaac Parker


110


Circuit Prosecutor s


89


Isaac Kinley


111


Clerks of Probate


90 Indiana Sun


116


Common Pleas Judges


90


Indiana Courier


117


Collectors


91


Indians


134


Coroners


92


Items


144


County Revenues


94


Jefferson Township


33


Congressional Districts


99 Jennie G. Kinley


115


Churches


103


John W. Grubbs


110


Clarkson Davis


112 Jehu T. Elliott


112


B. S. Parker


1'3


Arteeshor


.29


First Jail


Greershoro


148


ERRATA.


Josie V. Hickmixu


112 Prairie Township


Joshua Il. Mellett


112 Petersburgh


James Brown


11: Presiding Judges


John t'. Teas


114 Per Cent. of Taxes


J. G. Burk


114


Public Schools


101


Joel Reed


114


Raysville


69


Knightstown


66 Rogersville


77


Knightstown Banner


120 Representatives


86


Knightstown Citizen


120


Recorders.


91


9 Russell B. Abbott


110


Wayne Township


Stony Creek Township.


25


Henry


10


Spiceland Township


31


Liberty


10


S. S. Bennett.


115


Dudley


11


1 Sharington


76


Franklin


11


Spiceland


78


Spiceland


11 Sulphur Springs


79


Greensboro


11


Straughn's Station


82


Fall Creek


11


Springport


83


Jefferson


12


Signs of the Times


100


Blue River


12


Senator-


97


Liberty town-hip


Surveyors


92


Lewisville


Statistical and Financial


93


Literature


108


School Statistics


102


Luray


Stock and Grain


104


Ler Roy Wood>


113


Sarah Edgerton


111


Middletown


70


Township Organization


15


Masons


121


The Pioneer


145


Mt. Summit


80


Treasurers


88


Misses Edwards


115


Turnpike-


105


M. Mahin


114


The Contrast


104


Millville


80


Thomas R. Stanford


112


Mechanicsburg


$1


Uniontown


M. L. Bundy


110


Vote for Governor


100


New Castle


63


Rep. in Congress President


101


Newspapers


116


Wayne Township


18


New Castle Banner


118


West Liberty


62


New Castle Examiner


120


Wheeland


77


Nathan Newhy


113


Wealth and Tax per capita


97


Organization of the County


13


William Haughton


115


Ogden


71 Walter Elfern


100


Other Items


99 William Edgerton


111


Ould Fellows


122 7


Western Ruralist


121


Political Development


125 Will !nimat-


138


ERRATA.


Page 65, 17th line. read "M. L. Bundy " for "M. L. Powell." Page 73, 14th line from top, for " Job" read "lehu" Wicker bam.


Page 86, in a portion of the edition an error occurs in the name of the Representative for 1813. Ir should read "Rob't. I. Hudelson."


Page 104, 14th line should read "for verit's ing the result by a re-count." Page 134, last line on second paragraph. for "Perry" read "Noah" Wagoner.


A number of typographical and other errors have been observed of too trivial a character to make their correction seem desirable in this place.


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New Lishon


75


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Naney Kinley


111


Woolville


Harrison


12


Sheriff'-


22 78


89 97


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