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About the year 1810 or 1811 William McGraw, a native of Bourbon County, Ky., settled on a portion of Section 33. He removed to Hancock County, this State, in 1858, and there died in 1874.
In 1817 William Hart, a native of New York, though from Pennsylvania here, located in the town- ship. Later he assisted in clearing off the timber from the site of the city of Indianapolis.
The following copy of a "poll-book of au election begun and held at the house of Joseph Ruby, in the township of Waterloo, in the county of Fayette, and State of Indiana, on the first Monday in August, A. D. 1825, for the purpose of electing a Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, one Senator for the coun- ties of Fayette and Union; one Representative, one Clerk, two Associate Judges, one Recorder, and one Coroner for the county of Fayette, at which time the following persons appeared, and voted, to-wit: "will
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serve to give the names of other pioneer settlers of the township:
"Alfred Coleman, Joseph Dawson, Thomas Will- iams, Jonathan Williams, Jacob Vanmeter, John Brown, Benjamin Williams, Samuel Dawson, Joseph Camblin, Thomas Dawson, Nathaniel Blackburn, John Swazey, Mathias Dawson, Charles Wandle, Jona- than Coleman, Daniel Skinner, William Port, Ma- thias Dawson, Isaac Stagg, Francis McGraw, Eli Daw- son, Abijah Helland, Steven Wandle, William Robin- son, Mathew Robinson, Henry Henry, Joseph White, William McGraw, John Blackburu, James Beeks, Isaac Dungan, Benjamin Dungan, Cornelius Cook, Robert Holland, Elijah Dills, Zachariah Dungan, Aaron Hangham, Nathan Roysdon, Enoch Chambers, Hezekiah Bussey."
SCHOOLS.
In Section 16 there stood one of the earliest built schoolhouses in the township. It was erected in time for the winter school of 1815, and the first mas- ter in it is thought to have been Elijah Holland. A Mr. Taylor and Absalom Heaton taught in this house or in another erected a little later, in Section 17, prob- ably a mile southwest of the Daniel H. White farm. The latter two teachers are remembered as having taught in the last mentioned building, which may have been only a cabin vacated by some family, and not built for school purposes, yet it was so used. The former building was not occupied long, and possibly Heaton and Taylor held no school there. In the south part of the township later teachers, but very early, were one Hardin and Alexander Wilson. Not far from 1821 a regularly built frame school- house stood near the river, in the northwestern part of the township, in which at this time school was held by an Irishman by the name of Gray. Probably in 1827 or thereabouts the frame building heretofore referred to as standing in the grave-yard at Springer- ville was built and occupied as a schoolhouse.
The condition of the schools of the township in 1879 is exhibited in the following report of the Su- perintendent for that year:
"The interests of the educational affairs of the township are managed by B. F. Dungan, who also has the experience of a previous term. Four school- houses, taking them as a township, are the best in the county-well arranged, large and commodious. Educational matters are looking up in this township; but it is in need of some fencing, shade-trees and well fixtures. This latter all townships are in need of, as the health of the pupils is of first importance. I would recommend that the wells and springs be well cared for, and that they be within the school grounds if possible. The platform of wells should be of
stone rather than boards. A previous Trustee built the houses, and left them in good order. Number of males, 149; females, 113; total, 262."
WATERLOO VILLAGE.
Waterloo is situated in the north western part of the township on the east bank of Nolan's Fork-the hamlet consisting of a few dwelling-houses only with one industry-a blacksmith shop. A plat of the place was recorded October 28, 1841. Among those licensed in its earlier history as merchants, hotel- keepers, etc., by the County Commissioners were: William Port as a merchant in 1825, and later as a merchant and grocer; Joseph Flint as grocer and liq- uor dealer in 1829; Robert Scott and Louis Beaks as the same in 1830; John M. Turner as a tavern-keeper and liquor dealer in 1837. Some of these licenses were renewed yearly for quite a period-William Port's especially. For a time the people, it seems, were of the opinion that too much liquor was being sold, and in 1836 the Commissioners when granting license issued no liquor license in Waterloo Town- ship.
In 1839 or thereabouts Drs. Richardson and Chapman were the physicians of the village, Reuben Hawkins and Isaac Kline were the blacksmiths, and Joseph Forrey inn-keeper (Eagle House). Not far from this period Dr. Richardson built a saw-mill on Nolan's Fork, which was then iu operation. This was subsequently owned by John Grewell and still later by John Troxell, in whose hands it fell into disuse.
Nearly sixty years ago Waterloo was a Methodist preaching place on the old Whitewater Circuit. Prior to the war of the Rebellion there was built at Water- loo a frame church by subscription, in which all de- nominations were to hold worship. It was probably used more frequently by the United Brethren Society. All religious societies there have long since passed into history, there being no church building or or- ganization now in the village.
On the night of May 14, 1883, Waterloo was visit- ed by a terrible storm, concerning which we quote from one of the county papers: "The hamlet of Wa- terloo was badly damaged. Only three buildings were left standing, these three being at the north end of the one street the place afforded. Every other build- ing, barn or dwelling, was either roofless or totally destroyed. The place contained about 100 inhabitants, about seventy-five of whom were rendered homeless, and yet but one person was injured, and he slightly."
CHURCHES.
The earliest Methodist class or society in the township, and among the first in the county, was that out of which grew the church styled Robinson's
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Chapel. This chapel building is a large frame, located in the northeastern part of the township, and at which is a burying-ground of considerable age. As far back as we can trace the history of the origi- nal class or society, it was an appointment along with Waterloo, a class at John Quinns, Brownsville, Bethel, Alquina, Veatches (Mt. Garrison), and others further south. The old Whitewater Circuit was formed in 1806 or 1807; just at what time the class at Robin- son's was organized or first visited by the preachers who traveled the circuit, in the absence of records we cannot state, but it was some years before the forma- tion of the Connersville Circuit in 1822. Sixty years ago the village of Brownsville, just east in Union County, was among the most flourishing societies on the circuit; the preacher often lived there. A meet- ing-house at Robinson's was built early; we find a reference to it in the decade between 1820 and 1830. The present house of worship there was built in 1845.
The following list contains the names of some of the earlier preachers who traveled the old Whitewater Circuit and circuits growing out of it, on which Rob- inson's was an appointment:
1823, Revs. Bigelow and Gatch.
1824, Revs. Everhart and White.
1825, Revs. Stephens and Griffith.
1826, Revs. Havens and Jones.
1827, Rev. Havens.
1828, Revs. Hitt and Scott.
1829, Revs. Thompson and Robinson.
1830, Revs. Havens and Smith.
1831, Revs. Tayler and Kimball.
1832, Revs. McReynolds and Dailey.
1833, Revs. Tarkington and Griss.
1834, Revs. Bonner and Robins.
1835, Rovs. McReynolds and Harris.
1836, Revs. Burwick and Stallard.
1837, Revs. Phelps and Kiger.
1838, Revs. Beswick and Hartie.
1839, Revs. Beeks and Kelso.
1840, Revs. Kiger and Landy Havens.
In the church-yard sleep many of the pioneers of Waterloo Township and the neighboring country. One of the earliest graves marked by a tombstone upon which is an inscription that is legible, or one at all, is that of Catharine, daughter of H. and M. Henry, who died January 14, 1828, aged fourteen days.
Among the remains of the aged resting here are those of William McGraw, who died in 1871, aged eighty-three years; Martha, his wife, died in 1858, aged fifty-nine years; David Pearson, died in 1847, aged sixty-seven years; Hannah, his wife, died in 1867, aged eighty years; Jane Ridgley, died in 1842, aged about ninety years; Elizabeth Perry, died in
1855, aged fifty-eight years; James S. Hamilton, born in 1792, died in 1878; Eliza, his wife, born in 1797, died in 1872; Matthew Robinson, died in 1841, aged sixty-one years; Eleanor, his wife, died in 1864, aged eighty-one years; Thomas Harbin, died in 1866,aged seventy-one years; Mary, his wife, died in 1868, aged seventy-two years; Robert Holland, died in 1857, aged seventy-seven years; Margaret, his wife, died in 1851, aged sixty-three years; Daniel Skinner, died in 1871, aged ninety years; Nancy A., his wife, died in 1865, aged eighty years; John Thomas, died in 1866, aged seventy-one years; John M. Layson, died in 1861, aged seventy-six years; Sidney, his wife, died in 1855, aged sixty-four years; Catharine Little, died in 1855, aged eighty-six years; Henry Henry, died in 1859, aged eighty-two years; Margaret, his wife, died in 1867, aged seventy-five years.
On either side of what is called Four Mile Creek, in eastern Indiana and western Ohio, from 1804 to 1808 settled fourteen families, coming principally from the States of Virginia and Pennsylvania. These people were members of the German Baptist Church before their emigration. Elder Jacob Miller, who is thought to have been the first German Baptist minister who preached west of the Great Miami River, came occasionally from Bear Creek, in Ohio, and here preached for this membership, which was organized by him, with the assistance of John Hart and Mr. Bolton. In subsequent years the church increased in numbers, two districts were formed and a second meeting-house was erected in the southern part of Union County, this State. Subsequently a member- ship was formed in this township, among whom were John Moyer, Samuel and Elizabeth McLinster, Salome Fiant, Sarah Moyer, Mrs. Daniel Fiant (the first member of this denomination in the community), Daniel Jamiey soon after, Susannah Strong, Cath- arine Priser, Martin Fiant, Mrs. Fiant, John Moss, Elizabeth Dise, Jonas and Mary Fiant, Samuel and Catharine Crick, Ada Simpson, John Fiant and wife Hannah, Polly McPherin, Lewis Paten and wife Elizabeth and Susannah Ward.
Their house of worship, a frame structure, was built in 1868, the building committee being Jonas and John Fiant and Isaac Pritchard. Prior to the building of the church edifice, meetings were held in dwellings and in barns. Among the ministers who have served the charge have been John Moyer, Will- iam Moss, Abraham Moss, Daniel Miller, Daniel Brown and Jacob Rife. Preaching is held once in four weeks. Present memberships in the neighbor- hood of fifty.
SPRINGERVILLE.
The hamlet of Springerville is located in the southern part of the township, on the road leading
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from Connersville to Brownsville, and was laid out by Thomas Simpson, Jr., in 1840; surveyed August 9 of that year, by William Dickey.
ยท About the year 1838 the frame house now occu- pied by Henry Schriver in the hamlet was built by Thomas Simpson, Jr., in which the postoffice and a store were kept by Mr. Simpson. License was granted him to vend merchandise and groceries by the County Commissioners in January, 1839. Probably ten years prior to this goods were sold iu that local- ity by William McKimmey (the records show that William A. McKemmy was licensed as a merchant in the county in January, 1835). James Culley was sub- sequently a merchant at this point. Among the blacksmiths of that vicinity, and about the period of which we are writing, were John Hoffy and Mortlo Remington.
The ground now occupied as a grave-yard at Springerville was owned in a very early day by William Dawson (entered by Thomas Dawson) and the first burial made on the site of the grave-yard was a small child of Charles Hubbartt, which was drowned in a spring. This occurred quite soon after the settlement of that vicinity. This tract of land was in subsequent years purchased by Thomas Simp- son, Jr., and although public burying there had been made for years, and the yard was in the hands of Trustees, no deed was made for that purpose until after Mr. Simpson became possessor of the land, when he deeded a half acre to Charles Hubbartt, John Hubbell and Henry Holland as Trustees of the bury- ing-ground. In the corner of the grave-yard, at about this time, was erected the little frame building, yet standing there, for a schoolhouse, church and
funeral purposes, on ground given for such by Thomas Simpson, Jr.
The remains of many the old citizens and pioneers lie slumbering here, among them:
William Walker, Sr., aged eighty-two years; Jane, his wife, seventy-two; Joseph Felker, sixty- eight; Eve, his wife, seventy-four; Joseph White, eighty-three; Mary, his wife, seventy-six; Daniel Cline, eighty-three; J. Hubbell, Sr., ninety-two; Bar- bara, his wife, eighty; Henry Holland, seventy-three; Jane, his wife, sixty-nine; Abner Chenault, seventy - eight; Mary, his wife, seventy-three; Samuel Frazley, fifty-one; Catharine, his wife, sixty-three; Jonathan Davis, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, eighty - five; Michael Petro, eighty-three; Ivah, his wife, fifty-uine; Montgomereys, Rigges, Mongers, Browns and many others.
HALF-CENTURY CITIZENS.
The following list contains the names of such citi- zens of the township as had in 1879 resided in the county fifty years or upward:
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Thomas Simpson and wife, William Simpson and wife, William C. Jones and wife, John Hubbell and wife, Jonas Fiant and wife, John Fiant and wife, David Fiant and wife, D. H. White and wife, Albert Layson and wife, Daniel Burris and wife, Joseph Sutcliff and wife, Henry McMullen and wife, Alexan- der Vanblair and wife, David Lyous and wife, Will- iam Montgomery, Clayton Lambert, J. D. Monger, Jacob Heider, Jacob Troxell, Joseph Cole, W. R. Skinner, Mrs. Roysden, Mrs. Wolverton, Mrs. Job, Mrs. Peyton, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Thompson Cook, Irvin White.
CHAPTER XXIV.
ORANGE TOWNSHIP.
ORGANIZATION AND BOUNDARIES-LAND SALES-PIONEERS-SCHOOLS-MILLS, DISTILLERIES, ETC .- CHURCHES AND BURYING-GROUNDS-FAYETTEVILLE-HALF-CENTURY CITIZENS.
RANGE TOWNSHIP was organized in Febru- ary, 1822. It is situated in the southwest cor- ner of the county, lying south of Fairview Township, west of Columbia and Connersville Townships, north of Franklin County, and east of Rush County. The territory comprising it was taken from Connersville and Columbia Townships, and at its formation was thus designated: "Beginning at the southwest corner of Fayette County, running eastwardly with said county line three miles to the range line; thence north with
the said range line to the northern boundary of Con- nersville Township; thence west with the said town- ship line to the county line; thence south with said county line to the place of beginning."
It was then six sections larger than at present. The two northern tiers of sections were taken from it on the formation of Fairview Township in 1851.
LAND SALES.
The lands of the township as originally disposed
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of by the Government, with the year of sale and the purchaser's names, are set forth in the following list:
Township 14 north, Range 11 east.
Section 34, sold in 1820 to Robert Lyon and Jos- eph Justice.
Section 35, sold in 1820 to Ephraim Frazee and John Gregg.
Section 36, sold in 1820 to Ephraim Smith, Nath- an Ells, Moses Scott and Ephraim Frazee.
Township 13 north, Range 11 east.
Section 1, sold in 1822, 1825, 1830 and 1831 to Ephraim Frazee, John Coley, Dyer Woodworth, Ab- raham Finch, Enos Carter, Samuel Smith and Will- iam Martin.
Section 2, sold in 1822, 1824, 1826, 1828 and 1830 to David Dill, John Coley, Robert M. Orr, John Wagoner, Philip Rich and Aaron Anderson.
Section 3, sold in 1820, 1821 and 1822 to Aaron Betts, John Ratcliff, John Russell, Mary, Susannah, Margaret, Marion and Regannah Ronald, and David Dill.
Section 10, sold in 1820, 1821, 1822 and 1830 to Isaac Thomas, Hugh Allen, Joshua Moore, David Dill, George H. Puntenny and Joseph McDonald.
Section 11, sold in 1822, 1830, 1831, 1832 and 1834, to George H. Puntenny, Silas M. Stone, Thomas R. Stevenson, John Alexander, Jefferson Helm, James Case, Hugh Wilson, James Lathers and Noah Daw- son.
Section 12, sold in 1820, 1831, 1832 and 1834 to John Ronald, John C. Halstead, John Thomas and Hugh Wilson.
Section 13, sold in 1820, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1827, 1831 and 1832 to William Callett, John Klum, Henry Klum, George K. Cook, John Cook, John Hag- lett and Thomas G. Stephens.
Section 14, sold in 1821, 1822, 1824 and 1831 to Triplett Lockhart, Shelton Jones, Thomas William- son, Elias B. Stone, Jonas Jones, Silas H. Stone, Bethnel Rychmanl and Henry Klum.
Section 15, sold in 1821 and 1822, to Henry Brown, Aaron Betts and Elias B. Stone.
Section 22, sold in 1821, 1822, 1824 and 1830, to William Stephens, John Wagoner, Charles Scott, David Dill, Elias B. Stone, John Longfellow and Daniel Jackson.
Section 23, sold in 1822, 1824 and 1830 to Daniel McNeill, David Dill, Peyton Cook, John L. Lindsey, John Daniel and Thomas G. Stephens.
Section 24, sold in 1825, 1831, 1832 and 1834 to William McPherson, Josiah Mullikin, Enphemia Morrison, Daniel Jackson, John Klum and Lewis B. Tupper.
Section 25, sold in 1821, 1823, 1832, 1833 and and 1834 to Elias Matney, John Jacobs, Elisha Elli.
son, James Stevens, Thomas G. Stephenson, Mary Johnson and Richard Stevens.
Section 26, sold in 1822, 1824, 1830 and 1833 to Robert Stevens, Ephraim Johnson, Lewis Johnson, Jacob Moss, Samuel Wilson, John English and Law- rence Johnson.
Section 27, sold in 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825 and 1830 to David Crews, Jr., William Moore, Michael Beaver, James New, Solomon Carn, Lawrence Johnson and Rinard Rinearson.
Section 34, sold in 1820, 1822, 1823, 1825 and 1829 to C. Rinearson, William Pool, Joseph Stevens, William Dearning, Conrad Plow, William Arnold and Moses Bart.
Section 35, sold in 1821, 1822, 1823 and 1831 to Catherine Watson, B. E Hains, Conrad Plow, Elijah Pool, Adam McNeill and C. W. Burt.
Section 36, sold in 1820, 1821, 1822, 1829 and 1834 to Cornelius Rinearson, Alexander Ayers, Tim- othy Allison, John Woolech, John Linville and James Conwell.
The greater portion of the above lands were pur- chased in forty and eighty-acre tracts.
PIONEERS.
The beginning of immigration to the lands of Orange Township dates from about the year 1820. Little knowledge concerning the first settlements and those making them can be gathered at this late day.
Among the first to settle in the township was the now venerable Wells Stevens, who, at this writing, is unconscious to the things of this world. Mr. Ste- vens is a North Carolinan, from which State his father, Robert, emigrated during the first decade of the century to the vicinity of the settlements of the Carolina colony on East Fork of Whitewater River. Robert here lived in the vicinity of Templeton's Creek until the close of the war of 1812, and during the war served several months along the frontier set- tlements. He then settled on Garrison's Creek in what is now Columbia Township.
Wells, possibly in 1819, but probably not before 1820, then just married, settled in the southwest cor- ner of this township, and began the work of the early settler. He had built his cabin before the survey was completed, and in it, it is said, he entertained more than once some one or more of the party engaged in making the survey. Later, Robert removed to that vicinity and there passed his life.
Elias B. Stone, emigrating from Kentucky in about the year 1820, settled southeast of the now village of Fayetteville on Garrison's Creek, and some two years later Silas H. Stone, a brother, then a young and single man, came out from Lincoln (now
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Boyle) County, Ky., but returned to Kentucky, and again came out in 1824 and made a settlement.
Adam McNeill, a brother-in-law to Robert Stevens, prior to 1822 had settled in the Stevens neighbor- hood on Sain's Creek.
About the time Robert Stevens made his settle- ment William Pool from North Carolina located in the same neighborhood.
In 1821 George Creelman, a native of the County of Antrim, Ireland, settled where his son W. G. now resides. Mr. Creelmau died in 1880 at the advanced age of ninety-three years.
At the same period the Dills settled here.
In 1823 or thereabouts Ralph Titsworth and family, from Scott County, Ky., settled probably a mile and a half north of Fayetteville. He had lived for a time before coming in Butler County, Ohio, and before settling in Kentucky, in the State of New Jersey. Mrs. Squire Daniel, of Fayetteville, is a daughter.
Along north and east of Fayetteville during the decade between 1820 and 1830, settled, and were living there, Hugh Alleu, John Russell (who cleared the land and built the house in which the late Robert Gamble died), Samuel Hornady (lived where Robert Martin now owns), John Coley, James Lathers and a Mr. Perkins.
Just east of the village of Fayetteville, at the period above referred to, there lived, on what will be recognized as the Dr. Mason farm, Isaac Thomas. Still further east lived a Mr. Jones from Kentucky, who after a period returned to that State. Still east of Jones had settled Thuel Wrightman and Henry Klum.
In 1822 John Scott, a native of Pennsylvania, entered land in the township and that year built a cabin upon it, and removed his mother's family thereto. His parents when he was small emigrated to the vicinity of Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. Here the father died and left a large family with nothing. The son John traveled the river, work- ing on flat-boats which were engaged in conveying salt from the Kanawha Works to Cincinnati and to other points, and traveled the Mississippi, Kentucky and other rivers, and with his earnings made the purchase referred to. He served as one of the Asso- ciate Judges of the county and occupied other public positions.
Henry Dicken, from Kentucky, and Triplet Lock- hart, of the family that settled early in Connersville Township, were among the pioneers of Orange; also Joseph Justice.
Another of the pioneers on Sain's Creek was Cor- nelius Rinearson; and in that same vicinity located early Laurence Johnson.
In 1826 Elias Matney, a Kentuckian, and his father-in-law, Alexander Ayers, settled on adjoining land on Sain's Creek, in the southeastern part of the township. They were from Preble County, Ohio, here. Ayers had emigrated thither from Pennsylvania.
Comparatively speaking, few of the farms in this township, it is said, were cleared up and improved without the aid of leasers or renters of land, concern- ing which large class the records give little or no in - formation, and as many of them, on the expiration of their leases, removed from the county,nothing definite of them can be given. In some cases the purchasers of the land remained in the East or in other States from whence they emigrated until the land was par- tially cleared up. These leasers were to make speci- tied improvements on the premises and live thereon for a term of years free of rent, etc., etc. Of this class we would gladly write could the data be obtained.
SCHOOLS.
The first school held in the township is thought to have been kept in a cabin just north of the village of Fayetteville in 1823, taught by Eleanor Blair. Two or three years later Miss Mitchell taught a school in a cabin house that stood probably one and a half miles east of north of Fayetteville, on what is now the Joseph Gamble farm-then the Russell land. The cabin had been occupied as a dwelling by Mr. Russell, and abandoned on his building a new one.
District No. 1 was organized in 1824 under the law. The tax levied was nearly all paid in labor or material. The ground upon which it stood, situated on the hill northwest of Gray's saw-mill, was donated by John Coley. The building was in keeping with the houses of that period-of hewed logs, the floor of walnut puncheons, clapboard roof, and the chim- ney of stone. It is thought that a Mr. Gunn taught the first school in this building. In 1825 a second school district was organized in Danville (now Fay- etteville). Wiley J. Daniel was one of the early teachers in the Danville building. Subsequently a frame house was built in the village, in which J. P. Daniel taught for a time. James Rhodes is also remembered as having taught in the village school.
The first schoolhouse in the settlement along Sain's Creek stood in the northwest quarter of Sec- tion 36, on what is now the land of A. Winchell. Early teachers in this house were Alexander Patton, John Bell and Thomas Points. The next house in this section of the country was built some 400 yards south of the other. Alexander Matney taught in this building. The condition of the schools of the town- ship in 1879 is shown by the following report of the County Superintendent:
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