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Ladies aid and missionary societies are maintained by the church in active operation.
Pastors who have served the church: Rev. J. W. Haut, 1881; Rev. D. Williamson, 1882; Rev. L. Dunnick, 1883; Rev. J. Ebey, 1884; Rev. E. Seithman, 1885; Rev. C. Purveyance, 1886; Rev. Wm. Lower, 1887;
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Rev. J. Beghtet, 1888; Rev. J. Pickerd, 1890; Rev. J. T. Keesey, 1892; Rev. E. Leonard, 1894; Rev. S. Snyder, 1895; Rev. J. Farmer, 1897; Rev. H. E. Breter, 1898; Rev. J. Miller, 1902; Rev. J. Bechtol, 1904; Rev. J. Rupley, 1906; Rev. C. A. Spittler, 1908; Rev. W. N. Sherrel, 1910-13.
PROVIDENCE CHURCH (OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST)
As early as 1837 a few of the faithful believers of the doctrines of this church began to hold religious services at the home of James Trout- man on the Michigan road, seven miles north of Logansport, under the leadership of Rev. Andrew Veal, who resided in Jefferson township. Among the communicants at these early meetings were Vachel Conn and wife Angeline, John D. Jones, Albert Thompson, James Troutman and wife Nancy, the Foys, Stapletons and others who cannot now be recalled. This society held meetings at private houses and later at the Guy schoolhouse near the present Presbyterian church until 1847 when steps were taken to erect a church on land donated by James Troutman. The records show that, on April 20, 1847, Mr. Troutman deeds one acre of ground situated in the northeast quarter of section 29 to the trus- tees of the church, to wit : John D. Jones, Albert Thompson and Andrew Veal. Soon after, however, Mr. Troutman, the leading spirit in the society, died and the church was never built. Meetings were held in private houses by Elders Veal, Shank and Cole for several years, but the members affiliated with other churches and the society disbanded.
CEMETERIES
Bethlehem's dead repose in at least nine different burial places, each of which will be briefly mentioned, with the first interments and a list of soldiers that rest therein.
BETHLEHEM M. E. CHURCH CEMETERY
The land for this burial ground was donated by John Eurit in the early thirties, but the deed was executed October 17, 1853, by his son Stephen, to the trustees of the church, Joel Martin, Wm. Johnston, G. M. Smith, John and Stephen Eurit, for one acre in the northeast quarter of section 24, Bethlehem township. On February 7, 1861, Anthony Leffel deeds one-fourth of an acre adjoining the above to the ' trustees of the church and the grounds were again enlarged November 10, 1878, when Nathan Kinneman conveys a tract adjoining the above to the trustees, S. Eurit, A. B. Grable, A. Leffel, J. A. Dalzell and J. W. Kreider. On January 12, 1891, an addition to the cemetery was platted and recorded. A log church was erected here in 1847. The first interments in this cemetery were John Kelly, Katherine, wife of Joel Martin, and members of the Thomas family. They were, however, buried about forty rods to the south of the present grounds, near Nathan Kinneman's house. Some were removed, others left remaining, but no stones mark their resting place. The earliest inscriptions to be seen are: Katherine Martin, 1838; Nancy A. Kreider, 1838.
LIST OF SOLDIERS RESTING HERE
Christian Kreider, died 1847, age 90, Revolutionary war; John Eurit, died 1870, age 73, War of 1812; Joel Black, died 1883, age 93, War of 1812; Jacob Bookwalter, died 1896, age 93, War of 1812; Christian Kreider, Jr., died 1839, War of 1812; Geo. Lowman, died
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1872, age 82, War of 1812; Reuben Perry, died 1875, age 86, War of 1812; Smith Bockover, Mexican war; Frank Bridge, died in Mexico, 1846, Mexican war; G. M. Conkling, died in Mexico, 1846, Mexican war; Samuel Yantis, died in Mexico, 1846, Mexican war; Geo. Chalk, Com- pany L, Twelfth Cavalry, died 1881; Allen Parker, Company E, Thir- teenth Indiana; Samuel Lowman, Company F, Twentieth Indiana, died 1873; A. T. Faucett, died 1869; Wesley Dague, Company B, Forty- sixth Indiana, died 1901; G. W. Larimore, Company K, Ninety-ninth Indiana, died 1895; J. S. Walters, Company G, Seventy-third Indiana, died 1871; J. W. Howell, Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana, died 1899; Peter Booger, Company G, Seventy-third Indiana, died at Nashville, 1863; D. Eurit, Company G, Seventy-third Indiana, died 1883; Reuben Perry, Company G, Seventy-third Indiana, died 1862; J. T. Harmon, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana, died 1867; Wm. Crooks, Company G, Fifty-first Indiana, died at Nash- ville, 1865; Mart W. Abshire, Virginia Regiment, Confederate soldier, died 1876.
BETHLEHEM PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY
James G. Cox donated the ground on the Michigan road in the north- east quarter of section 29, and May 28, 1853, deeded the same to the trustees of the church, E. B. Buchanan, Thos. Dalzell and J. M. Buchanan. The first burials were members of the Dipert family about 1852-3; Eliza, daughter of Henry Barnett, and Mrs. Cornwell about 1859; Mrs. Russel about 1865, and J. G. Cox. The latter has in recent years been removed to Mt. Hope. No interments have been made here for over forty years and the ground has been abandoned for burial purposes. The few persons buried here now rest peacefully under the new church erected in 1899.
SPRING CREEK BAPTIST CEMETERY
April 2, 1852, Joseph Penrose deeds the ground for this cemetery to a board of trustees: Aaron Yantis, John Yund and John F. Dodds, with a proviso, should one die or resign, his place should be filled by the survivor. January 9, 1876, Mr. Penrose conveys additional ground adjoining the above to the trustees of the Baptist cemetery and January 18, 1882, Jonathan Grable, as executor of the estate of J. Penrose, deeds one acre adjoining the graveyard on the west. The first burial was Martha Jane, daughter of James M. Buchanan, August 8, 1849, age five years.
SOLDIERS
Alexander Jennings, died 1866, War of 1812; John Griffin, died 1861, War of 1812; Isaac Caw, died 1870, War of 1812; J. M. Gordon, died 1862, Company B, One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana; Jos. Redd, died at Louisville 1862, Company B, Forty-sixth Indiana; Aaron Booth, Company E, Twenty-ninth Indiana; Solomon Yund, One Hun- dred and Fifty-fifth Indiana; Isaac Yund, killed in Virginia 1862, Company F, Twentieth Indiana; John B. Hollenback, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana; Stephen Holsey, Company K, Ninety-ninth Indiana; Thos. B. Ford, died 1877, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana; M. S. Newton, died 1880, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana; C. W. Moyer, Company: E, Twenty-ninth Indiana; A. C. Knapp, Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio; F. M. Brown, died 1897, Company G, Fifty-first
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Indiana; Jacob Wilt, died 1900, Company C, Thirteenth Indiana; Hiram Thomas, died 1900, Company. A, Eighth Indiana Cavalry; Wm. H. Ulery, died 1902, Company C, Indiana; G. Muffley, died 1903, Company H, Twenty-first Ohio; Ira Tilton, died 1904, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana; B. F. Warfield, died 1905; John G. Penrose, died 1907, Company E, Twenty-ninth Indiana.
TROUTMAN BURIAL GROUND
James Troutman, who entered the adjoining farm in 1837, deeded one acre of ground in the northwest quarter of section 29, Bethlehem township, to the trustees of Providence church (Old School Baptist). J. D. Jones, A. Thompson and Andrew Veal, deed acknowledged before David Chestnut and witnessed by Josiah Powell April 20, 1847. The first interment was an Indian doctor, who died about 1839 at the house of J. Troutman nearby. James Troutman died September 16, 1847, War of 1812. The church never was built and the ground became a pri- vate cemetery in which only members of the Troutman family were buried from 1847 to 1869, when Mildred E. Veal, daughter of Mr. Trout- man, was the last interment and the ground is abandoned as a burial place. It is situated in a grove, surrounded by a wire fence and con- tains a dozen or more gravestones.
JULIAN OR TREEN PRIVATE BURIAL GROUND
About 1845 Geo. Julian, who then owned the northwest quarter, section 6, Bethlehem township, adjoining the Fulton county line, laid out a burial ground but never executed a deed for the same. Seven interments were made here from about 1845-55, but no markers are to be found except a marble slab with the following inscription: Elizabeth Treen, wife of J. G. Treen, died February 14, 1848. This may be seen just inside the wire fence that encloses the woods covering the land at that place, on the south side of the county line road a mile west of Fletchers lake.
STUDEBAKER PRIVATE CEMETERY
Wm. Studebaker interred several members of his family, in the forties, on his farm just west of the Michigan road, in the southeast quarter of section 10, Bethlehem township. Some members of the Goss, Conn, Jones, Simons and other families were probably buried here from 1840 to 1855, but no markers were placed at the graves, except two or three slabs that are broken and crumbled beyond recog- nition. The surrounding farm evidently passed out of the hands of Mr. Studebaker without any reservation, for Aaron Tilton, on May 24, 1855, deeds to Wm. and Joseph Studebaker and their heirs for the use of a burial ground a piece of land 4x7 rods in section 44, Michigan road, lands lying west of and adjacent to that road. Levi Horn now owns the farm and leaves a small plat of ground uncultivated that marks the last resting place of these pioneers, who sleep as peacefully as though towering monuments marked their graves.
CONN PRIVATE BURIAL PLACE
About forty rods west of the Michigan road, just south of the north line of section 45, Michigan road lands, and opposite the old Penrose residence where John Rhodes now lives, were buried three members of
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the Conn family from about 1836 to 1850. An infant of J. M. Buchanan was buried about 1850 and possibly others. The place is unmarked and is cultivated by the farmers of this generation, ignorant of the sacred remains of the early settlers that lie beneath the plowman's feet.
BLACK PRIVATE GRAVEYARD
This burial place is situated on the northeast corner of the south- west quarter of section 19, Bethlehem township. In 1837 Gavin Black entered this land and occupied it until his death in the sixties. Several members of his family were buried here in the forties and about 1850 his wife's remains were removed from the Troutman burial ground to this place. Some eight or ten interments were made here, but there are no markers and the ground is now occupied by an orchard. One marble slab may be found in the fence corner, which reads: Fanny, daughter 'of W. and L. Booth, died August 30, 1850, age eleven months. This place was abandoned as a burial ground before Mr. Black's death in the sixties and he was buried at Metea, but the occupants of these graves, in that once beautiful woodland, still sleep on, undisturbed by the feet of the busy world that tramp over them.
INDIAN BURIAL CUSTOMS
There was an Indian village about a mile south of Fletchers lake on the southeast quarter of section 6, Bethlehem township. About 1839 a death occurred in this village and the body of the deceased, with toma- hawk, arrows and all his belongings that were needful in the happy hunting grounds, were placed in a wooden trough and swung to the breezes, under the forest trees, with solemn yet strange Indian cere- monies. A few days later the sugar trough, corpse and all, was missing and a firm of Logansport doctors, whose initials were F. and B., were always suspected of appropriating this dead Indian to the cause of science.
PHYSICIANS
Doctors are always interesting and the people of any community. always know the village or country doctor and a short sketch of the physicians of Bethlehem may be of interest and we give below a brief mention of the doctors who have administered to the sick of this community.
Probably Dr. A. B. Buchanan was the first doctor to locate in the township about 1840, but he spent the greater part of his life in Logansport and will be noticed among the physicians of that town. Until within the past few years Bethlehem has always had a resident doctor, but at this time there is no physician living in the township, as it has become so healthy since the clearing of the forests and drain- ing of the swamps that there is not sufficient business to maintain a resident physician, but towns have sprung up on the railroads to the east, west and north where doctors are within easy call.
Dr. Milton M. Boggs was born in New Castle, Indiana, January 10, 1830, educated in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended medical lectures at Laporte, Indiana, about 1849, and located in Bethlehem township a mile north of Metea in 1857, where he was united in marriage to Mary A. Penrose, April 8, 1857. Mrs. Boggs died January 1, 1867, leaving two daughters still living and married. Dr. Boggs was a small man, full of energy; however, and one of Bethlehem's best physicians. In 1866 he moved to North Manchester, then to Macy, Miami county, where he practiced and
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ran a drug store until he retired at eighty years of age, and moved to Peru with his daughter, Mrs. Lawrence. Dr. Boggs was a veteran of two wars, Mexican and Civil, and was captain of Company E, Twenty- ninth Indiana.
Dr. A. M. Buchanan is a native of Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1823. He came to Cass county with his father, Rev. J. Buchanan, in 1837. He attended medical college at Laporte, Indiana, in 1847-8. During the gold craze in 1850, he went to California and two years later located in Kankakee, Illinois, and engaged in practice. While there was married and had three children. Mrs. Buchanan died and he moved to Fulton, Indiana, about 1864, and two years later to Metea, where he built up a lucrative practice. He retired from active practice in 1895 and moved to Logansport, where he died November, 1905, and rests in Mt. Hope cemetery. His second marriage occurred in 1867, to Minnie York, a native of New York, by whom he had one daughter, now Mrs. Wm. S. Collett, who, with the widow, reside in Logansport.
Dr. Johns. About 1879 Dr. Johns located in Metea as successor to Dr. M. S. Newton, who died in 1880. He only practiced here two or three years when he moved to Fulton county. He was a man with a family, but his antecedents are unknown.
Dr. Stephen Julian was born in Ohio, October 2, 1822, attended an eclectic medical school in Cincinnati and moved to Cass county. in 1863, locating first at Georgetown, then at Burnettsville, then to Metea, where he practiced for several years in the sixties. He moved to Clay township and finally to Royal Center, where he continued in practice until his death, February 26, 1873, and was buried in the Crooked Creek cemetery. He was married to Hannah Fuller of Boone township, December 25, 1853, and they had two children, who, with the widow, still reside in Boone township.
Dr. M. S. Newton. We first hear of Dr. Newton at Reeds Mill, in Jefferson township, where he was engaged in the practice of medicine about 1868-9. In the seventies he moved to Metea, where he married Alice Lowman Smith. He continued to practice at Metea until failing health compelled his retirement and he died October 6, 1880, aged thirty-six years and is sleeping his last sleep in the Metea Baptist church . yard. Dr. Newton was a sociable man, but possessed no great medical ability.
Dr. Albert A. Ogle was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1867, was licensed to practice in Cass county in 1905 and located west of Metea on the J. Grable farm, where he practiced for a few years, when he moved to Indianapolis, where his father was pastor of a Baptist church. He professed to be a follower of Hahnemann theory of medicine. He was a young man with a wife and one child.
Dr. Cyrus Pickett. From about 1885 to 1888 Dr. Pickett lived and practiced medicine in the east edge of Bethlehem township. He was earlier located at Young America and in 1881 at Adamsboro and regis- tered as an Eclectic physician. In 1889 he moved with his family to Broken Bow, Nebraska, where, it is reported, he died about 1907.
Dr. Timothy Waterberry was born in White county, Indiana, about 1855, attended the Eclectic Medical College of Chicago, and about 1879 located at Metea, where he was for a time associated in the practice of medicine with Dr. Newton, but did not remain long and moved to Nebraska about 1880. He was married in Nebraska and has since died.
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BRIEF SKETCHES OF OLD PIONEERS OF BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP
Gen. Richard Crooks was among the first settlers of Bethlehem township, locating here in 1831-2. He was an energetic, brave man of more than ordinary intellectual ability. He was a brigadier general of Pennsylvania troops in the War of 1812. His commission bears date of August 3, 1811. His ability and experience combined to make him a leader, as he virtually was in the organization and development of the township.
General Crooks, of Scotch descent, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1790. He was united in marriage to a Miss Richard- son, in the early thirties and had two sons, William and Thomas, and one daughter, Lucy, who became the wife of J. Dalzell, also a pioneer, . who lived and died in Bethlehem township, as did his two sons, Robert and John A. Dalzell. Wm. Crooks was married and had one son, Reper R., who was in business in Logansport and died here. Wm. Crooks was a soldier in the Civil war and died in the service. Thomas, the other son of General Crooks, married a Miss Shockey, lived in Adams township until 1866, when he moved to Minnesota, where he died about 1880. He left four sons and two daughters. One daughter, Hannah, became the wife of John Skinner of Adams township, the other, Martha, died in Minnesota unmarried.
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William, John D., and Thomas B. moved to Minnesota in 1866, where the former died in 1909, and the two latter still live in the North- west. They were all married and have children living. Isaac S., the youngest son, was united in marriage to Maria L. Powell of Bethlehem township, in 1864, and they had one son and one daughter. Alva A. Crooks, born April 11, 1872, married Mary L. Gary, October 2, 1900, and are blessed with three daughters and one son. Minnie, born in 1870, married T. M. Armstrong and now resides in South Dakota.
General Crooks died in Bethlehem township, May 6, 1842, and rests near the center of the old cemetery in Logansport, with only a large sugar tree to mark his grave, which has grown up over the grave since his burial.
Joseph Godwin Cox was a wealthy Baltimorean, born in 1808, and purchased a large farm six miles north of Logansport on the Michigan road in 1848, where he resided until his death, August 24, 1863. He was a man of some education, ability and refinement, but unaccustomed to Hoosier methods and with no practical ideas of farming, and spent large sums of money in impractical improvements and many practical jokes were made by the farmers in the neighborhood at Mr. Cox's expense. He was something of a joker himself and when hilarious from imbibing too freely, as he sometimes did, many ludicrous scenes were enacted. He was stoutly built and pompous in his demeanor and had a peculiarity of speech when in earnest conversation and would end his sentences with an exclamation like "Wha-Wha." He was a character, yet possessed many good and generous impulses. He was twice mar- ried-first to Sarah S. Twells, in 1840, to whom were born Maria, Christiana and Sarah Stokes. Mrs. Cox died and he was united in marriage to her sister, Maria P. Twells, in 1846. To this union was born James H., in 1848; married Martha Yantis, died 1909. Caroline H., born in 1851, died 1876; Joseph H., born 1854, married and living in Wisconsin; George W., born 1866, now in the Northwest; Fanny, born 1863, living in Baltimore.
Joel Martin was one of the earliest settlers, locating on section 24 about 1831, and was a charter member of the M. E. church. He was a man of character and was instrumental in laying the foundation of
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the enlightened and Christian community that grew up in that locality. His wife, Catherine, died in 1838. He was again married to Mrs. Leah Cox and she died in 1848 and both rest in the Bethlehem cemetery. In 1854 Mr. Martin sold out and moved to Laporte county, where he died at the home of his son about 1863.
Joseph Penrose was born in England, October 11, 1804. He was injured when a boy by the kick of a horse and always walked a little lame, although he was a stoutly built man and an athlete and a skilled boxer. He was educated as a civil engineer in England; came to America in 1828 on a sail boat, requiring six weeks to make the voyage; surveyed the line of the Ithaca & Oswego Railroad in New York state; came to Indiana in 1829, locating at Fort Wayne; aided in the survey of the Wabash and Erie canal in 1833-4; was a contractor and built the canal locks at Fort Wayne, Lagro and Georgetown. About 1844 he and Mr. Green built a forge at the locks four miles east of Logans- port and operated it for a few years, using bog iron ore shipped on the canal from White county. Mr. Penrose moved to Bethlehem town- ship about 1848 and resided on the Michigan road a mile north of Metea, where he became a leading citizen and greatly aided in the develop- ment of the township. He served two terms as county commissioner in 1861 and again in 1872. He was married to Delilah Frances Rhodes, daughter of Jacob Rhodes of Jefferson township. To this union three sons and four daughters were born: John G., Joseph Henry and Edward R. The former was a soldier in Company E, Twenty-ninth Indiana; returned to Bethlehem, where he died June 19, 1907, leaving several children. The daughters were all married and had families. Two, Mrs. Emma Calloway and Hulda Hitchens, are still living in Cass county.
Jacob Powell. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was James Powell, of Welsh descent, a. Revolutionary soldier, living in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where Josiah Powell, the father of our subject, was born July 31, 1779. James Powell moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he reared his family of eight sons. Josiah Powell was married to Margaret Mug (born in Maryland, December 7, 1793), October 8, 1812, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where our subject was born March 10, 1815, and when a boy moved with his father to Steubenville, Ohio, where he was educated in the public schools. In 1835 he went by boat down the Ohio and up the Mississippi river to Rock Island, and walked from there to a little town on Lake Michigan called Chicago, as there was some talk of it becoming a great city. Here he was offered forty acres of land, now in the heart of Chicago, for $300, which he carried with him on his prospecting tour; but at that time Chicago was composed of only a few houses around Fort Dear- born, all of which were surrounded by swamps and it was too God forsaken a country for Mr. Powell to invest in, and he walked from there to Logansport and put up with Daniel Redd, with whom he was acquainted, who at that time lived up in the woods on the hill, north- east corner of Sixth and Broadway, where McCaffrey's grocery is now located. He located in Bethlehem township in the spring of 1836 and induced his father, Josiah Powell, to come to fair Bethlehem, where he lived an honored citizen until his death, May 6, 1867. His daughter, Matilda, and sons Jeptha, William and Lemuel, all of whom raised families, were influential citizens, but all have passed to their last rest- ing place except Lemuel, who still occupies the old homestead. Jacob Powell was united in marriage December 23, 1841, to Martha A. Trout- man, daughter of James Troutman of Bethlehem township. Of this union four children were born: Orlando, who is a farmer of the
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township; Dr. J. Z. Powell, of Logansport; Maria L. Crooks, widow of Isaac S. Crooks, who occupies the old homestead; and Matilda M. Wem- ple, widow of Wm. Wemple, now residing in Logansport.
Jacob Powell was sandy complexioned, tall and slender, but of power- ful physique. He was liberal in his religious views, but held to the Quaker church. In politics he was a Whig until the organization of the Repub- lican party, when he followed its teachings. He did not enlist in the army, but spent one winter (1862) with the Twenty-ninth Indiana Regiment at his own expense as a scout in citizens clothes.
Mrs. Powell died May 20, 1878, and in 1881 he was again married to Mrs. Julia Turner of Metropolis, Illinois, where the widow still resides. He died in Cass county, June 30, 1895, and rests in Bethlehem M. E. cemetery.
James Troutman was born in Kentucky in 1793, was a soldier in the War of 1812; married Nancy Stephenson of Kentucky, May 8, 1817, who was born November 24, 1798; moved to Bethlehem township in 1835, and kept a tavern, the Seven Mile House, on the Michigan road, until his death, September 17, 1847, and sleeps his last sleep in the Troutman burial ground back of his residence. His wife died April 11, 1880, in Fulton county.
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