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MIAMI BAPTIST CHURCH
Prior to 1842 the Baptist residents of Miami and adjoining town- ships were members of the Logansport church. At that time, feeling themselves sufficiently strong to maintain an independent organization, they resolved, with the consent of the parent church, to constitute them- selves an arm or branch of the Logansport church. Accordingly, on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1842, a business meeting was held in the schoolhouse situated in the northeast corner of section 23, to prepare for a council to be held the next day. The record reads: "Agreeably to an understanding of the brethren and sisters of the Logansport Bap- tist church in the neighborhood of Union Mills, Miami township, Elder William Pratt was chosen moderator and John P. Baker clerk." After Vol. 1-41
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mutual consultation it was resolved that "we request the brethren that shall meet with us to constitute us a branch of the church at Logans- port, to the end that we may have our regular monthly meetings and discipline the members within the bounds of this branch and transact such other business as may be local in its character." The council acted agreeable to the wishes of the brothers and sisters and the church commenced its work as a semi-independent organization July 26, 1842.
Meetings had been maintained, however, for a number of months previous to the organization, which were conducted by Rev. William Pratt, brother of Hon. D. D. Pratt. He was then a young man in his prime, and his preaching caused a great religious awakening. The people left their cabins, clearings and crops to attend divine services. During the summer, on special occasions, no building large enough to contain the congregation could be procured, and the meetings were held in the woods and every path and road seemed to lead to the meeting place.
Numbers came from a distance and the woods surrounding the con- gregation presented the appearance of a camping ground.
Among the charter members we find the names of Ira S. and Nancy Sellers, Samuel and Rachel Coons, Paul Bush, Nathaniel Williams, Samuel Berry, William R. and Mary Coons, Mary Rush, H. P. Berry, Mary and Elizabeth Berry, A. L. Williams, Andrew Rush, Catharine Miller, Elias Williams, J. C. Moore, Stephen Chappel, Moses Coons, Martha Coons, Eliza Pfouts, Elizabeth Baker, John P. Baker, Sarah Ann Williams, Peter Berry, Jane Chidester.
On the day of organization a building committee was appointed to speedily arrange for the erection of a house of worship on land donated by Peter Berry, situated in the northwest corner of the northeast quarter section 24, Miami township.
In the meantime meetings were held in the schoolhouse until the fall of 1843, when a neat little frame church was completed and dedi- cated to the service of the triune God.
This building was remodeled and repaired in 1867-8, and served the congregation until 1879, when it was abandoned and a new brick church was erected at Hooverville, a mile to the northwest of the old church site, with an outlay of $2,000, and only the cemetery marks the place where the first church was erected in Miami township. This church society increased in numbers and influence, and ere long the majority of the people in the community identified themselves with the congregation. The first trustees were: Nathaniel Williams, E. G. Chidester and Wil- liam R. Coons. Ira S. Sellers was elected clerk in 1843, and E. G. Chidester and John Williams were ordained deacons. Rev. William J. Greenlief, the first regular pastor in 1843, became a Millerite and caused great excitement in the church, and finally some of the rougher element destroyed his charts during one of his lectures and broke up the meet- ing. He was later expelled from the church. A Sunday school was organized in 1848, and with some temporary suspensions has been maintained ever since. In recent years foreign and home missionary societies have been organized and successfully maintained. The church is prosperous and has at present a membership of 135, and officered as follows :
Trustees-Israel J. Berry, William Decker, Dougal F. Coons; clerk and treasurer, Slate Kline; Sunday school superintendent, Harry Rea.
Pastors who have served the congregations are :
Wm. J. Pratt, 1842-3; J. H. Dunlap, 1843; S. G. Miner, - Man- ning, Demas Robinson, Wm. J. Greenlief, Samuel Duease, 1845-50; L. E. Layne, 1850-6; S. V. R. Coon, 1856-7; J. B. Allyn, 1858-61; John Dun-
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ham, 1862-3; L. A. Alford, 1865-7; E. J. Delph, 1868-70; E. M. McGraw, 1872-4; James M. Maxwell, 1875-7; W. L. Wolfe, 1877; J. G. Tedford, 1878-87; W. P. Tedford, 1888-92; W. A. Bender, 1893-97; W. H. Hock- man, 1898-1900; H. F. McDonald, 1901-2; E. G. Shouse, 1903; M. A. Thomas, 1903; J. F. Rake, 1904-5; H. F. McDonald, 1906-7; J. G. Ted- ford, 1908-13.
NEW WAVERLY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The history of Methodism in Miami township dates back to 1847 or before, at which time there were two small societies or classes. One of these was at Lewisburg and the other met for worship at the residence of Henry Voorhis, a short distance northeast of Waverly. The Lewis- burg class met at the schoolhouse, with Lewis Bowyer as class leader. Among the early members of the Lewisburg class were: Lewis Bowyer, Malinda Bowyer, Virginia Bowyer, Eliza A. Bowyer, Naomi Bowyer, William Meeks, Harriet Meeks, Mrs. Blankenship, Rachel Pennel, Cla- rinda Casebeer, Maria Casebeer, Phebe Dayton, Catherine Eaton, C. R. Fields, Unity Fields, John Conkling, Mary Conkling and Elizabeth Cris- man. The names of those meeting in the Voorhis schoolhouse were: H. M. and Louisa Voorhis, David S. and Jane Bennett, Horace and Panthea Bennett, Father and Mother McNama, H. M. Eidson, Henry Canfield and Nathaniel Williams. The same pastor, the Rev. J. S. Don- aldson, ministered to both societies, and at that time (1849) were on the old Peru circuit.
Brinton Webster was appointed pastor in 1850, and after him came Henry Bradley, who was instrumental in erecting a house of worship at Lewisburg. A hewed log church was built in 1851 on lot No. 4 in the town of Lewisburg, donated by Lewis Bowyer, he conveying said lot to the trustees of the church December 29, 1854, several years after the erec- tion of the church edifice.
This log church was dedicated in 1851 by Rev. W. L. Huffman. Meetings continued to be held north of the prairie in private residences and schoolhouses until 1857, when the organization was moved to the town of Waverly, which had been laid out on the Wabash Railroad a few years before.
The Lewisburg class continued to decrease, owing to Waverly attract- ing the trade and the people from Lewisburg, and the societies were finally merged into one.
A reorganization of the two societies was effected in the spring of 1858, with the following members: Dr. C. R. Quick, Lucinda Quick, M. H. Voorhis, Louisa Voorhis, A. Voorhis, John Passage, Mary Passage, H. M. Eidson and wife, D. L. Bennett, Panthea Bennett, H. Bennett, Indiana Bennett, Mr. Fox and wife, Josiah Fox and wife, Hannah Fox, Hezekiah Fox, Julia A. Fox, A. J. Huffman, Huldah Huffman, Clarinda Casebeer, Maria Smith, Henry Lattourette, Maria Lattourette, Frances Place, Augusta Williams, and possibly others whose names could not be learned.
The log church at Lewisburg was abandoned and the new reorganized congregation held their meetings in the Waverly schoolhouse until 1866, when a commodious church edifice was erected in New Waverly and dedicated in January, 1867, by Revs. V. M. Beamer and H. N. Barnes, and Rev. F. T. Simpson became the first pastor in the new church.
A Sunday school was organized in 1857 by Dr. C. R. Quick, who became its first superintendent. This same church building, with some minor improvements, is still occupied by the congregation. This con- gregation is not an independent charge, but united with Hoovers, On- ward and Nead, under the charge of the same pastor.
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The present officials are:
First steward, A. C. Wallick; chairman of board of trustees, O. M. Patton; class leader, A. H. Voorhis; Sunday school superintendent, Mrs. Grace Castle.
The present membership is about sixty-five. A ladies aid and allied societies are maintained.
The spiritual wants of the congregation have been administered to by the following pastors, although not complete :
J. S. Donaldson, 1849; Brinton Webster, 1850; Henry Bradley, 1851; James Black, 1852; W. L. Huffman, William Anderson, J. W. Bradshaw, Jacob White, C. Boyce, William Vigus, A. S. Larkin, W. R. Edmonson, A. Greenman, W. R. Hoback, F. T. Simpson, J. T. Shackleford, S. J. McElwee, James Leonard, R. T. Lung, R. J. Parrott, A. S. Harrison, Samuel Miller, E. S. Preston, William Peck, Joseph Cook, Thomas J. Elkin, J. S. McElwee, E. F. Albertson, 1886; William Amos, 1899; W. E. Hamilton, 1905; J. E. Davis, Albert Hoover, J. Parker, the present pastor.
ADAMSBORO GERMAN BAPTISTS (DUNKARDS)
This denomination is now known as the "Church of the Brethren." This congregation had its beginning about 1880, when a few of the faithful of this denomination held meetings at the residence of David Flory (now deceased). These services were conducted by Elder Jacob Barnhart, of Mexico, Miami county, to which this territory belonged. About 1881-2 an organization was perfected under the care and direc- tion of the Mexico church, and the following were among the charter members :
David Flory and wife, David Keeport and wife, Solomon Hyer and wife, Abram Hyer and wife, Joseph Ellis and wife.
During the year 1882-3 a commodious frame church edifice, 40x60 feet, was erected near Hooverville (Adamsboro), Miami township. This society was under the directorate of the Mexico church until 1894 (April 12), when a separate and independent organization was effected with a membership of forty, and seemed to prosper for a few years, but deaths and removals caused a falling off in membership, which was reduced to thirteen and ceased to exist as an independent organization in 1900, and was again attached to the parent church at Mexico. A few years later the Hooverville church was transferred from the Mexico charge to Logansport, and is now managed by the latter organization, and services are held occasionally by elders from the Logansport church.
The following elders have served the congregation :
Jacob Barnhart, 1880-2; - Myers, George Brower, Isaac Fisher, Noah Fisher, J. O. Weaver, W. L. Hatches, 1898-1900; Kernie Eiken- berry, Elias H. Oberlin, Allen A. Oberlin, 1910-13.
NEW WAVERLY CHRISTIAN (NEW LIGHT) CHURCH
This church was organized in the Waverly schoolhouse in the year 1890 by the Rev. Samuel McNeely, of Tiosa, Indiana, with the following charter members:
A. L. and Emma West, Peter and Catherine Richardson, Minnie Bowyer, Laura Williams, William, Lucinda, Sadie and Lowie Alspaugh, Mary Dean, Malinda Fiddler, Kate Anderson, John and Sarah Julian, Mollie Richeson, Sallie Williams, Riley Bowman, India Bowman, Kate Bowman, John and Emma Rush, Allie Williams, Marian and Mary Young, Allie Fiddler, Amelia Hogentogler, Carrie Ferguson, Kate Run- nels, Anna Harsk, Jacob and Jennie Ludders.
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The schoolhouse continued to be the meeting place of the congrega- tion until 1894, when the present handsome brick church was erected in the east part of Waverly, at an outlay of $2,500. A Sunday school was instituted in 1903 and has been a potent factor in building up the church, which has been uniformly prosperous, and its membership now numbers nearly one hundred.
The following ministers have had pastoral charge of the congre- gation :
Samuel McNeely, 1890-94; A. L. West, 1895-6; David Hidy, 1897-8; C. V. Strickland, 1899-1902; C. E. McCoy, 1903-08; Silas Mosteller, 1909; Charles E. McCoy, 1909-13, the present pastor.
CEMETERIES
WILLIAMS CEMETERY
This is the oldest burial ground in Miami township. The land was donated by Nathaniel Williams in 1831 or 1832, but he never executed a deed for the same, and his heirs by John Williams, on March 5, 1877, conveyed to the trustees of Williams cemetery of Cass county, to-wit: G. V. Patton, S. E. Williams and E. G. Miller, one and thirty-nine-one- hundredths acres in the northwest corner of section 29, Miami township. This is quite a large cemetery, finely located on rolling and sloping ground, and fairly well kept. The earliest interments:
Mrs. Van Dorn, 1831 or 1832; Mrs. Bowyer, 1834. 1
We copy some inscriptions as follows:
Calvin B. McGartor, 1837; Israel S. Patton, 1840; John Haines, who was drowned in Pipe creek, is buried here.
Soldiers: George W. Tussinger, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, died 1862; Ferdinand G. Tussinger, Sixteenth Indiana Battery ; Newton Tussinger, Sixteenth Indiana Battery, died 1905; George Dale, Sixteenth Indiana Light Artillery, died 1900; Lewis Eades, Twenty-first Indiana Battery, died 1880; George W. Patton, Fourteenth Indiana Battery, died 1878; Anthony Marsh ; G. W. Wilson, First Iowa Battery, died 1866; William H. Gard, Company B, Forty-sixth Indiana, died 1876; N. B. Bowyer, Sixteenth Indiana Battery, died 1872; J. W. Chidester, Company G, Fifty-first Indiana; John P. Fox, Company B, Forty-sixth Indiana; Samuel Fox, Company B, Forty-sixth Indiana; W. H. Hogle, Fifteenth Indiana, killed at Stone river; Harry Guston, killed on railroad; Samuel Morgan, One Hundred and Seventh Illinois; James M. Pervis, Twelfth Indiana Battery; Nathaniel Williams, War of 1812; Cornell Abdill, War of 1812; William Miller, Mexican war.
MOUNT CALVARY (DUNKARD) CEMETERY
This is a nicely located cemetery on a hillside south of the Dunkard church at Hooverville and overlooks Eel river to the west.
On March 18, 1887, David Keeport deeded to the trustees of the German Baptist church at Hooverville, Indiana, to-wit: David Flory, Abram Hyers and David Keeport, several acres of land in the north- west quarter section 24, Miami township. Prior to this, on January 26, 1885, David Keeport platted six and one-half acres, being the above- described tract for a cemetery. There are not a great many graves on these grounds. We copy the earliest inscriptions :
Maris B., son of D. and S. Keeport, June 27, 1871; Margaret, daugh- ter of D. and S. Flory, 1888; David Keeport, Sr., 1890.
Members of the Stevens, Flory, Charles, Keeport, Kinzies and Cart families are buried here.
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MIAMI BAPTIST CEMETERY
This is the second largest burial ground in the township. The ground was donated by Peter Berry about 1833, but like the majority of early cemeteries no deeds were made for years.
May 5, 1853, John H. Berry (son of Peter Berry) conveyed by deed two acres in the northwest corner of the northeast quarter, section 24, Miami township, to the trustees of Miami Baptist church for church and burial purposes. A church was built in 1843, but abandoned and removed in 1880.
The old part of the grounds is not platted, but after the church was removed the trustees, George W. Coons, Israel J. Berry and George E. Stoughton, made a plat of the north part of the original tract, Decem- ber 7, 1891.
First Burials-Wife of James Rush, 1836; Julius, son of H. P. and Mary Berry, 1837; James Rush, 1841.
Soldiers in Miami Baptist Cemetery : William Kline, War of 1812, died 1855; William R. Coons, War of 1812, died 1864; Peter Berry, War of 1812, died 1855; Joseph C. Moore, Mexican war, died 1879; Wil- liam Mitchell, Company B, Thirteenth Indiana; David Dale, Sixteenth Indiana Battery; William Incledon, Pennsylvania regiment; William Loser, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-first, died 1892; Alex Leon- hard, Fourteenth Ohio, died 1905; Andrew Stanley, Company G, Forty- seventh Indiana, died 1886; Hiram Armstrong, Company G, One Hun- dred and Twenty-eighth Indiana, died 1889; Samuel Myers, Company D, Eighty-fourth Indiana, died 1906; James Carter, Company E, One Hundred and Seventh Illinois, died 1866; Franklin Pfouts, Company B, Forty-sixth Indiana, died 1867.
NEW WAVERLY ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY
On February 19, 1877, the Odd Fellows lodge, No. 434, of New Waverly, purchased two acres of ground of Elizabeth C. Chidester for the sum of $200, and she conveyed the same to the trustees of the lodge, C. P. Forgy, Joseph Hogentogler and S. C. Williams.
This cemetery is situated one-half mile north of New Waverly, in the north part of the southeast quarter section 21, Miami township. On January 26, 1882, the trustees made a plat of the above-described grounds.
This is a comparatively new burial ground, but is well located on a sloping hillside and has some good monuments. We copy some of the earliest inscriptions :
William E., son of E. M. and L. A. Voorhis, died 1854; Jacob Voor- his, died 1859; wife of Daniel Loser, died 1881.
Members of the Quick, Castles, Pennels, Grimes, Richeson, Wallick and other families are here interred.
Soldiers : Samuel L. Pennel, Company B, Forty-sixth Indiana, died 1898; Jacob Voorhis, Company I, Eighteenth Indiana and War of 1812; William Daniels, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio; Joseph Wingler; David Jenkins, Company F, Forty-sixth Indiana; A. J. Hooks, Fifth Indiana Cavalry; David Tucker; Henry Beese; William Saund- ers, minute man.
REED PRIVATE BURIAL GROUND
This ground, once sacred to the dead, lies on the west side of the road, a short distance south of Hooverville, in the northeast fractional quarto"
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section 23, Miami township. In an early day Abraham Reed owned and lived on this tract of land, which belonged to his son, Rev. Madison Reed (now deceased).
Before churchyards were laid out in this township death entered the Reed cabin and Mrs. Nancy Reed was laid to rest on this little knoll under the forest trees in 1835, and later her husband, Abraham Reed. In the thirties and forties the father of Dr. Passage, of Peru, and several of his children were-buried here, also members of the Kauffman, Moore and other families and several laborers who were digging the canal and building the railroad in the southern part of the township. There were markers to a number of these graves. The Reeds were removed to the Baptist cemetery, a mile to the east, but the others lie in their original graves, unless some of them may have been disturbed when the road which now occupies part of this burial place was improved. In digging down the hill human bones fell from the excavations, we are informed.
CONNER FAMILY BURIAL GROUND
Situated in the southeast corner of fractional section 9, on the Galla- han farm, Miami township, on the north side of the road in the woods, is a burial lot, sixteen feet square, enclosed by a board fence, within which are several pine trees and three graves marked by marble head- stones inscribed as follows :
William Conner, died June 16, 1836, age 55; Sarah, his wife, died June 20, 1835, age 47; Phebe, his daughter, died August 25, 1835, age 21.
We are informed that this family all died but one son, who became discouraged and disgusted with the country and went east to relatives, but later moved to a western state and about ten years ago returned and rebuilt the fence around the graves of his parents, who succumbed to the deadly malaria and hardships of pioneer life.
MASTERS INDIVIDUAL GRAVE
William Masters, while working in the forge or iron mill which was operated on the old canal in the later forties, was overheated and died suddenly, and some report that he was accidentally killed in the mill, about 1850. He was working for Mr. Green and was buried on his farm, which is now owned by John G. Mick. His grave, unmarked except by a sunken place about a foot deep over the grave which is plainly visible at this writing (1907), is situated fifty rods west of the southeast corner of fractional section 22, "Nancy Burnett's Reservation" of Miami town- ship, and three rods north of this section line and three or four rods south of the present Adamsboro road, south of Eel river, in a flatiron piece of ground cut off of the southeast corner of section 22 by the wagon road. Here in this unmarked and lonely grave has rested the remains of this unfortunate man for seventy years, and only known and remem- bered by one or two old pioneers. This is a beautiful and elevated place, and Mr. Green expected to locate a church and burial ground here, but his expectations never materialized. The iron mill was not a suc- cess and only this sunken grave remains to mark the site of the city that Mr. Green had pictured in his mind and that will soon be lost and for- gotten to the world.
' HYERS FAMILY BURIAL GROUND
Sixty years ago Solomon Hyers lived in the southeast quarter of sec- tion 20, about a mile west of Waverly, and established a family burial
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ground on the north part of his farm in the above-named section, and during the fifties several members of his family, including Solomon Hyers himself and probably some others. The Hyers were removed to the Williams cemetery and the burial ground abandoned and no traces of it are to be found today.
VOORHIS-GRIMES BURIAL GROUND
Many years ago this burial ground was established by the Voorhis and Grimes families on their lands near the center of section 22, about one mile east of the Odd Fellows cemetery. Here were interred members of the Voorhis and Grimes families, and gravestones were erected, but after the establishment of the Odd Fellows cemetery to the west, in 1877, removals were made to the latter place and the new road which extended east occupies the ground of this old family graveyard.
And this once sacred ground, where mourners wept, Is now a road, by automobiles swept.
INDIAN BURIAL GROUND
In the old orchard on the Kidd farm in the southeast quarter of sec- tion 12, south of Eel river, just opposite the Old Town Indian village, was an extensive Indian burial ground. When this land was brought into a state of cultivation, large numbers of skulls and other human bones were turned out by the plow. After the lapse of a century these have crumbled until now only small fragments may be found, but the Indians that once vitalized these bones are in their happy hunting grounds oblivious to the tread of the plowman.
If I have friends on earth and sea, With One I trust on high, 'Tis matter of small account to me, Where my shell lies when I die; Whether it sinks in the foaming flood, Or lies under a forest tree, If only I die as a Christian should, It is all the same to me.
ROADS AND IMPROVEMENTS
The first road in Miami township was opened up before any perma- nent settlement was made in the township, probably in 1828 or 1829. Soon after the organization of the county, the county commissioners, with some aid from the state, opened up a road through Miami township, from Logansport to Peru, then called "Miamisport." This road has since been known as the Forge road, running east and west through the southern part of the township.
The hills of Miami township contain an inexhaustible supply of gravel and the outcropping limestone at Adamsboro and in the south- west part of the township, where are now located large stone crushers, furnish an abundance of the best road-making material, easy of access, and all the principal roads are graveled, and the past two or three years stone roads are being constructed at Waverly and the Forge road in the southwest and from Lewisburg east to the county line the road is now being graded and graveled. The roads which originally followed Indian trails and wound around hills regardless of lines, are now straightened
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and placed on section lines, the hills cut down to a uniform grade, and graveled or macadamized until every part of the township can be reached over smooth and solid roads. A drive through Miami will not only show good roads, but also well improved farms with many modern farm houses, neatly painted, surrounded by orchards and gardens, indicating thrift and prosperity on every side.
In 1838 the Wabash and Erie canal was completed and opened to traffic, and was a great advantage to the farmers, giving them a ready market for their surplus products which up to that time had no outlet except by ox-cart or pack-saddle. The canal did duty until the Wabash Railroad was completed in 1856, when the canal gradually fell into disuse and was entirely closed about 1874, but the railroad greatly stimulated trade and was a great convenience to the farmers.
In 1905 the interurban line from Fort Wayne to Lafayette was com- pleted, the road occupying the towpath of the old canal and having a station at every crossroad, which is highly appreciated by the farmers along the line.
PHYSICIANS
Usually doctors have something to do with the beginning and ending of man's existence on earth, and often all along the journey of life he more or less comes in contact with the people, so that the history of a community is not complete without mention of the physicians. We will, therefore, give a brief notice of the twenty or more doctors who have lived in Miami township since the coming of Peter Berry, the first settler, eighty-two years ago.
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