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The congregation expended $2,200 in the construction of the build- ing. Reverend Guard was the moving spirit in collecting the money, also in superintending the construction of the church, and acted as its pastor until 1889. Then followed Rev. G. V. Walker, 1890-1; Rev. T. A. Pattee, 1892-3; Rev. Emil Schultz, 1894.
The church was completed, and dedicated in the fall of 1876 by Rev. Joshua Crouse, assisted by Reverend Guard.
During the next few years, under the pastorate of Reverend Guard, the church prospered and the membership was increased to over one hundred, but soon after Reverend Guard left, some of the members moved away, others attached themselves to the Logansport church, the membership declined and since 1894 the church has had no regular pastor, and has been in a state of suspended animation, and the church building has been used almost exclusively for funeral services for the neighborhood, who bury their dead in the Shideler graveyard adjoining the church on the north.
A Sunday school was organized in 1877, and was prosperous during the activities of the church.
ST. JOHN'S ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH
This church was organized by Rev. John W. Guard of Camden, In- diana, in the year 1877. The congregation was composed of members from all denominations, and was known as a union church.
Some of the leading spirits in the organization were members of the Reed, Slaybaugh, Wagoner, Sauers, Tyner, Wipperman, Porter and other families.
A neat brick church was erected the same year on the northwest quarter of section 4, Clinton township, at an expenditure of $1,800. Ebenezer church contributed $300, and took title to the building and Vol. 1-85
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grounds as an English Lutheran church, and the remainder of the cost of improvement was made up by the neighborhood. The church was dedicated to the Master's service in March, 1878. The ministers acting as pastors were the same as supplied Ebenezer church. Since 1894 there has been no regular pastor, but the neighborhood has arranged for occasional services by different preachers of all denominations.
In recent years, however, the church has been mostly used for fu- nerals, to accommodate those who make interments in the adjoining cemetery, which was the first burial ground in the township.
PLEASANT HILL (UNION CHURCH)
This is a Union church, erected by the combined efforts of the Chris- tians (New Lights), Disciples and Dunkards.
The Keeps Creek Christian (New Light) Society was organized June 5, 1858, in Keeps Creek schoolhouse (No. 3), Clinton township, by the Rev. Wm. Winegardner, with John Hynes as clerk, at which meeting the following names were attached to the charter roll: B. M. and Elizabeth Girton, John and Nancy Hynes, B. B. and Elizabeth Lesh, Catherine Porter, James and Sarah Kleppinger, B. F. and Martha Wasson, Michael and Ellen Kleppinger, Jackson Williams.
The following statement was signed by the above list of charter members on the day of organization :
State of Indiana, Cass county,
June 5, 1858.
We, the undersigned, feeling our relationship to God and to each other, agree and associate ourselves into one of the branches of the Christian church at Keeps Creek contained in the Old and New Testa- ment for the rule of our faith and practice, and watch over each other in the spirit of the Gospel and bear each other's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ and have our individual names enrolled by mutual consent of each other. Done by order of the church. JOHN HYNES, Clerk.
After the organization, services were held in the school house until 1875, when the present brick church was erected by the combined efforts of the three organizations with the understanding that each denomina- tion should have the privilege of occupying the church, and so arrang- ing the time as not to conflict with each other.
James Justice donated the ground upon which the church stands, situated in the southwest quarter of section 11, and conveyed the same to three trustees, Michael Kleppinger, Jacob Eyman and James Justice, representing the three church denominations, and these three trustees managed the construction of the church building at an outlay of $3,000.
The following ministers have served the Christian (New Light) Society at different times : Rev. Wm. Winegardner, 1858; Rev. Thomas Whitman, Rev. Geo. Abbott, Reverend Culbertson, Reverend Fowler, Reverend Winebrenner, Rev. Wm. Hiflin, Rev. J. R. Kobb, Rev. S. Mostiller, Reverend McCallahan, Reverend Faucet, Reverend Winters, Rev. Kendall West, Rev. C. E. McCoy, Rev. S. McNeely, Rev. M. M. Wiles, 1911-13.
The Disciples, so far as we could learn, never had any permanent organization, yet a few of the faithful of that denomination have held services at intervals from 1875 to 1890, and occasionally since the latter date. Rev. David Lilly, Dr. H. Z. Leonard, Rev. John Cantner, Rev.
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erend Lowe and others have conducted services for the Disciples at Pleasant Hill church.
DUNKARD CHURCH
We have failed to secure any knowledge of the Dunkard church or- ganization at Keeps Creek, but learn that Jacob Eyman was a trus- tee representing the Dunkards in the erection of the church edifice in 1875, and that Mat Furrow and Reverend Million were interested in the Dunkards in 1912, and that they hold occasional services.
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In early times there were no churches and no established burial grounds, yet the deadly malaria and other diseases of pioneer life car- ried many a loved one over the dark river. When death entered the pioneer cabin, one could not, as now, notify the undertaker, but had to act in that capacity himself and bury his dead on some knoll under the shade of a giant forest tree, near his cabin door. Hence we find burial places dotted all over Clinton township, to the number of twelve, each of which will be briefly mentioned
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH CEMETERY
This is known as the old Shideler cemetery. Elias Shideler, in De- cember, 1847, deeded one-fourth acre of the southwest quarter of sec- tion 33 to the commissioners of Cass county for a burial ground.
February 10, 1877, W. A. Wagner conveyed 4.30 acres adjoining the above to D. H. Clymer, Nicholas Reed and D. D. Neff, trustees of the old Shideler burial ground; consideration, $300. February 24, 1877, the trustees above named plat this ground and record the same.
It is said the first interment in this old Shideler burial ground was Lydia Neff, wife of Wm. Neff, in 1829 or 1830. Other early burials were Polly, wife of Jacob Neff, in 1834, and Catharine, wife of John Griffin, December 4, 1837. A church was erected near this cemetery in 1877. This is the oldest burial ground in the county outside of Lo- gansport.
On June 3, 1889, Robert R. Reed, trustee of the Shideler's burial ground, deeds a large lot 40x60 feet, adjoining the above cemetery, to trustees, who convey the same to Clinton township for the benefit of old soldiers who fought in the defense of their country.
List of soldiers buried here :
Emanuel Lerch, d. 1874, Co. H, 128th Indiana.
Absolom Grace, 128th Indiana.
John Stumbaugh, killed, Co. H, 128th Indiana.
Edward Johnston, d. 1898, Co. H, 73d Indiana.
Thomas Chambers, 9th Illinois Cavalry.
James Chambers, d. 1907, 9th Illinois Cavalry.
Isaac Corey, d. 1907, Co. G, 73d Indiana. Harry Corey, Co. M, 160th Indiana. M. Choen, killed at Stone river, 1862, Co. K, 9th Indiana. James Miller, Co. K, 9th Indiana.
Samuel Hinman, d. 1903, Co. K, 9th Indiana. Chas. Wright, Co. A, 9th Indiana.
John Miller, Pennsylvania Regiment. John Latch, United States Marines.
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Chas. Ward. Wm. R. Neff, Co. H, 55th Indiana.
J. Henry Smith, Co. D, 46th Indiana. Andrew Johnston, d. 1862, Co. I, 46th Indiana.
A. J. White, 2nd Colorado. Wade Blackburn, 128th Indiana.
Wm. Atwood, Black Hawk War.
- - Hammond, War of 1812.
YOUNG PRIVATE BURIAL GROUND
This private burial place is located near the center of section 34, Clinton township, on the farm originally owned by A. J. Young, but now the property of the state of Indiana, on which Longcliff Asylum is built. About 100 feet west of the west ward building of Longcliff may be found marble slabs marking the graves of the Young family, the oldest marked being that of Virginia Young, died March 9, 1837. The monument of Andrew Young, who died June 11, 1866, is a square gran- ite marker twelve feet high. The last burial is that of the wife of An- drew Young, May 12, 1879. There were verbal reservations of this burial ground, but no mention of it is made in the deeds to the state in 1885, and the state suffers the graves to remain undisturbed and keeps the lawn in fine shape. Andrew Young purchased this land from the government in 1833, and it remained in the possession of him or his heirs until bought by the state in 1885.
TYNER PRIVATE BURIAL PLACE
Before the days of public cemeteries, during the early settlement of the county, the pioneers were accustomed to bury their dead on their own land. Richard Tyner, who owned and resided on the northwest quarter of section 5, about 1836 and the years following, buried four children northwest of his house on a beautiful knoll, and they peacefully slumber in their quiet and secluded graves, where they were so tenderly laid seventy-five years ago, with no stone to mark the spot.
LONGCLIFF CEMETERY
The Northern Hospital for the Insane at Longcliff was opened July 1, 1888. Until the present anatomy law was enacted, patients dying at this institution whose bodies were unclaimed by friends were buried in Longcliff cemetery, located about the center of the west line of the grounds in Section 34. In 1891 this cemetery was abandoned on ac- count of the difficulty in digging graves, as the rock coming so near the surface made it difficult to dig graves, and the cemetery was located several hundred yards to the north, near the Wabash river. The first person buried at Longcliff was Jacob Long, of Posey county, Septem- ber 3, 1888. The old cemetery contains fifty graves, the new 252 (1907). The state provides a cast-iron marker upon which is painted the name and number of the patient, thus a complete historical record of the occupant of each grave can be traced by referring to the books of the hospital.
NEFF FAMILY BURIAL GROUND
Jacob Neff, about 1831, settled on the northwest quarter of section 34, just west of the insane asylum grounds, and here, on the south bank of the Wabash river and north of the wagon road a short distance west
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of the asylum grounds, were buried in an early day, several members of the Neff family and a few others. About 1827 or 1828 three children of a family who were passing through here on their way west, died of smallpox and were interred at this place. Dennis Uhl, when county commissioner, removed the Neffs to St. John's cemetery and changed the road to the north a little, when it was graveled, so that this burial place lies in the center of the road, and has lost its identity except in the fading memory of a few old pioneers, and automobilists swiftly pass over these pioneer graves, ignorant of the fact. At one time the burial ground was enclosed by a picket fence and marble slabs marked the graves, but all are gone.
THOMAS PRIVATE BURIAL GROUND
Hewit L. Thomas, who was associate judge in 1845, came to Clinton township about 1835 and settled on the north half of section 6, land afterwards owned by John Myers and Isaac Myers. Here, about 1840, just back of his log cabin he buried an infant daughter. Robert R. Reed, still living, dug the grave. Here also were buried the wife of Henry Helm and a few others in the later thirties and early forties. Stone slabs marked the graves. Mrs. Helm's was removed, but the others were not, and all vestige of this sacred place has disappeared and only a few of the oldest residents remember the place or the circumstances.
CLYMERS CEMETERY
Joseph Fitzer, for a consideration of $10.00, deeds one-half acre of land on the southeast corner of the southwest quarter, section 7, Clin- ton township, to the trustees of the M. E. church for church and burial purposes, January 15, 1855, and on January 27, 1905, Hugh Fitzer conveys one-quarter acre adjoining the above tract to the trustees of Ebenezer M. E. church and on January 28, 1905, the trustees of Ebenezer church deeds both the above tracts to the trustees of Clymers Cemetery Association, to wit: T. L. Moore, William Nicholson, J. B. Rice and Harry Amoss. The old church building that formerly stood at this place, has been removed and a new church in Clymers erected in 1904, a half mile to the east.
The first interment, as appears on the markers, was Albert Rea, 1852. The first soldier buried here was Isaac Wilkinson, Company A, Seventy- second Indiana, who died at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, April 7, 1863.
List of soldiers buried here :
Jasper Cohen, d. 1901, Co. K, 9th Indiana.
Charles G. Cohen, Co. F, 116th Indiana.
Taylor Cohen, Co. K, 138th Indiana.
Kelly Stumbaugh, Co. H, 128th Indiana.
Isaac Wilkinson, Co. A, 72d Indiana.
Charles Calvert, d. 1865, Co. A, 86th Indiana.
Jesse Lesenbe, d. 1900, Co. H, 8th Indiana.
Isaac Urick, d. 1906, Co. A, 93d Pennsylvania.
H. D. Parish, d. 1907, Co. A, 150th Indiana.
Bruce Porter, d. 1904, Co. G, 21st United States. Patrick Tucker, d. 1898.
FITZER PRIVATE CEMETERY
Is located on the Fitzer farm on the west side of southwest quar- ter of section 7, just south of Keeps Creek, on a beautiful elevated
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tract of woodland pasture field, unenclosed, except for a fence around the entire field. The Fitzer family have always owned the surrounding farm. This burial ground contains several dozens of graves of differ- ent families, some have markers, more have none. Joseph Fitzer, who originally entered the land, has a large monument. He died in 1885 aged eighty-seven. We copy some names from marble slabs that have fallen down: William, son of J. and S. Woods, died 1839, and four other children from 1839 to 1846. Members of the Johnson, Stumbaugh, Palmer, Creekbaum and other families from 1840 to 1866. Hugh Woods died January 2, 1854, aged ninety-four years. The only soldier, David Stumbaugh, died 1850, Mexican war.
RODABAUGH FAMILY BURIAL GROUND
Is situated on the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of fractional section 31, in the corner of a field on the south side of the south bank of the Wabash river, four miles west of Logansport, on the old Rodabaugh farm. Here are buried members of the Rodabaugh and possibly other families. The graves are sunken, the marble headstones have fallen and are crumbling, only one of which could be read, viz .: Anna Rodabaugh, died September 23, 1846, age 46. This, like scores of other pioneer burial places has long since been abandoned as such.
PORTER-JUSTICE BURIAL GROUND
This is a neighborhood cemetery that received interments in pioneer days, but it was not until June 27, 1881, that Benjamin Porter deeded a tract of land, ten and one-half by eleven and one-half rods, situated on the northwest corner of the northwest quarter of section 14, to James, Frank, John, Oliver, Joshua and Benjamin Porter, Daniel and Jane Rohrer, Andrew Philips, Justice Porter, Will McLaughlin, Mary Klepinger, Mary J. Rohrer, Esom B. Gustin, James Lesh, Nancy Dickerson, and their heirs, for a burial ground and for no other pur- pose except that a church may be erected thereon.
The first interment is said to be Nancy Gilaspie, 1840, but we copy from markers as follows: Martha, daughter of J. and M. Justice, died 1838; Susan, daughter of H. and M. Klepinger, 1840. There are mem- bers of all the above named families buried here from 1840 to 1874, but none in recent years. The families interested meet every year and clean the grounds which are fenced and neatly kept and are beautifully situated in a corner where the roads meet.
ABRAHAM SHIDELER CEMETERY
On December 11, 1876, Abraham Shideler laid out a cemetery on the south end of his farm in the southwest quarter of section 3, Clin- ton township, on land originally entered by his father, George Shideler. Mr. Shideler sold lots to parties desiring, and since his death in 1910, his son Asa, manages the grounds.
The first burial was that of George Shideler, December 25, 1875.
Soldiers buried here: Cicero Jackson, Co. D, 46th Indiana; Isaiah Storer, Co. K, 9th Indiana.
Ebenezer English Lutheran church stands across the road on the south but is not connected officially with this cemetery.
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PLEASANT HILL CEMETERY
James Justice conveys three-quarters of an acre of ground, situated in the southwest one-quarter, section 11, to Michael Klepinger, Price Shortridge and James Klepinger, trustees, for a burial ground, Janu- ary 1, 1873, and on January 3, 1876, deeded an additional quarter acre to the trustees of Pleasant Hill church, and a church was erected on this ground in 1876. The first interments, as appear upon the monuments, were Harriet, daughter of James and M. Justice, 1864; and others are James Justice, Sr., 1893, and John Hynes, 1890, both pioneers who helped to develop Clinton township. It is reliably reported, however, that the first burial in this graveyard was Samuel Alder, in 1863.
Soldier: Abram Stager, Co. K, 9th Indiana.
Pleasant Hill, as its name implies, is beautifully situated and is an ideal burial place in the western part of Clinton township.
PHYSICIANS
The history of a township is not complete without mention of the doctors. Of all occupations the physician is usually the best known in a community and probably has more to do in making history than any other class, and if the popular idea gains favor he has a good deal to do in filling cemeteries, although the writer did not have such thoughts, it is a coincidence that the write up of the doctors should follow so closely that of the cemeteries.
Dr. H. D. Parish was identified with Clinton township longer than any other physician. He was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, in 1842, educated in the public schools, studied medicine, but it is doubt- ful if he ever graduated from a medical college. He practiced at Bring- hurst, Flora and Cutler, and in 1878 moved to Clymers. He is regis- tered in 1882 as an "Eclectic Practitioner." He practiced and kept a store at Clymers and was postmaster for many years. He was married in Tippecanoe county to Elizabeth Coffin, by whom he had five daugh- ters and one son. The doctor died in 1907, and sleeps his last sleep in Clymers cemetery. His widow and children are respected residents of Cass county.
Dr. Nicholas Barnesdale was born and raised in Clinton township. He was an educated man and graduated from a medical college. Before he was regularly located in practice he was called to a difficult confine- ment case, requiring instrumental interference. Assistance was called but chloroform was not used in those days and the patient screamed and hollered so that the young saw-bones was so distracted and unnerved that he never opened an office, quit the profession before he began, taught school and engaged in farming, and is now a respected citizen of Clinton township, and often speaks of his first and last case in the practice of medicine.
Dr. Hillis. During the years from 1875 to 1880, a Dr. Hillis opened an office in Clymers, but his success in the rhubarb and ipecac line was not of the character that most young disciples of Aesculapius dream about, and he packed his grip and moved on to greener pastures.
Dr. Reuben T. Griffin, a licentiate of the Fort Wayne Medical Col- lege, 1892, was born in Ohio, February 6, 1845, practiced in Legro, Indiana, and August 13, 1909, opened an office in the capitol of Clin- ton township, but some time since writing the above the doctor has moved-to where the writer knoweth not. He was married in 1871 to Miss Addie Fife, and of this union five children were born. He served during the Civil war in Company K, 88th Ohio.
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Dr. Andrew Blake was born in Miami county, Indiana, 1849, and graduated from the Physio-Medical College, of Marion, Indiana, in 1897, practiced in Miami and Marshall counties, and in December, 1907, opened an office in Clymers where he continued until 1909, when he moved to Logansport and retired. He is married and has two daughters.
ROADS
Clinton township farmers appreciate the value of good roads and have made wonderful progress since the first pioneer entered the town- ship over an Indian trail. We of today can hardly realize the condition of the primitive roads, cut through the forests, where ox teams had to weave in and around stumps, through mud and over corduroy. But all this has changed. The first gravel road was a toll road built by a company down on the south bank of the Wabash about 1880. Since then four gravel roads have been constructed, extending east and west through nearly the entire length of the township with all the principal cross roads graveled. Within the past few years, stone roads are being con- structed, and the entire county line road on the south with several other connecting lines have been macadamized until automobiles and car- riages can reach any part of the township over solid, smooth roads, a great contrast with the pioneer corduroy.
EARLY INDUSTRIES AND OLD MILLS
Clinton township being a heavily timbered country there was no lack of building material but there were no mills and we find the early settlers soon erecting sawmills on the small creeks, harnessing the water and making it do their bidding. Probably the first mill in the township was erected on Keeps creek in 1835 by Mr. Ellsworth, near where the creek flows into the Wabash in the western part of the town- ship. He and others operated this saw mill until about 1859.
William Neff built a sawmill on a creek that runs through the State Asylum's grounds which sawed lumber for that neighborhood about 1837.
About 1837, George Clymers erected a sawmill on Keeps creek, above the Ellsworth mill. Later Daniel Benner bought the property and built a new mill eighty rods east of the Clymer mill, in 1838, with a corn- cracker attachment. This mill was operated for twenty years or more by Samuel Gassaway. George Clymer, at this mill, sawed the lumber for the old covered bridge across the Wabash at Biddle Island, the first bridge erected in the county in 1837-8.
Elias Shideler, uncle of Abraham and Isaac Shideler, about 1839 built a sawmill on a creek three and a half miles west of Logansport, on the south side of the Wabash, and operated it for some years.
All of these mills were run by the old fashioned undershot or over- shot water wheels. The creeks were small, and the water was not of sufficient volume to run the mills constantly but only part of the day, except in the rainy season. As the country has been drained, the water runs off rapidly and these same creeks would today afford no water- power whatever, except a few days after a heavy rain, but in the first settlement of the township they were a great boon to the pioneer. After roads were opened and railroads constructed steam sawmills appeared in several localities and did an extensive lumber business, shipping to various points but the timber is nearly all cut, and the sawmills have disappeared with the timber. George Clymer, William Clymer, D. H. Clymer and Josephus Atkinson and possibly others were the operators
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of steam sawmills at different times in and around Clymers. The tim- ber, the mills, and the operators have all passed away and we record the facts as worthy of preservation in the pages of history.
REFERENCE BIOGRAPHIES
The history of a community is made up largely by the lives of its people and a biographical sketch of the leading citizens is necessary to complete the history of Clinton township but where these sketches have been written and made of permanent record we will, as a rule, not re- produce them here but refer the reader to them in other works in order not to repeat and make this work too voluminous. The biographies of the following persons, former residents of Clinton township, may be found in Helm's History of Cass County, published in 1886, the majority of whom have gone to their reward: Andrew Dodds, died 1907; Hugh Fitzer, d. 1906; John Hynes, d. -; Samuel Hynes, d. 1902; John H. Marshall; George K. Marshall, still living; Alfred B. Myers, still living; Mrs. Sallie Neff, d. -; Washington Neff, still living; Daniel K. Neff, d. 1895; James E. Patterson, d. -; Oliver H. Porter, d. 1897; Rich- ard Tyner, d. 1893.
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CHAPTER XLVI
DEER CREEK TOWNSHIP
LOCATION-CREEKS-SOIL-EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT-ORGANI- ZATION-INDUSTRIES-ROADS-CHURCHES- CEMETERIES-PHYSICIANS -SCHOOLS-TRUSTEES-TOWNS-LODGES AND ORDERS-MISCELLAN- OUS INCIDENTS, BIOGRAPHIES.
Deer Creek township is located in the extreme south part of the county, and comprises thirty-six square miles, situated in Congressional township No. 25, Ranges 1 and 2 East. It is bounded on the north by Washington and Tipton townships, on the east by Jackson township, on the south by Howard and on the west by Carroll county. It received its name from "Deer creek," the principal water course, running through the township. The latter derived its name from the fact that in early times, vast herds of wild deer frequented the banks of this creek. This is a good-sized creek, rising almost to the dignity of a river, which runs from east to west through the entire township near its center, flowing on through Carroll county into the Wabash river. Little Deer creek is a smaller stream running through the extreme southern part of the township, and Jordan's Run is a small creek between the two former.
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