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The Christian Church at Bentonville was organ- ized not far from 1836 by Rev. John O'Kane. Among the first members were George Van Buskirk and wife, Philip Shrader and wife, Trueman Munger and wife, Moses Ellis and wife, and Richard Kolb and wife. Services were held in private dwellings and in school- houses until in 1840, when a frame church building was erected just south of Bentonville, which the soci- ety occupied until they became too large to be comfortably seated, when it gave way to the present neat and substantial frame edifice built a year ago at a cost of about $2,500. The ground, one and a half acres, was deeded for church and burial purposes to the Trustees of the society by John Gilleland. Among the early ministers of the church were Revs. John O'Kane, Elijah Martindale, John Longley, John Brown, Jacob Daubenspeck, R. T. Brown, Thomas Conly and Elijah Goodwin. The present member- ship is about seventy-five, which is in charge of Rev. Lewis Wilson.
The grave-yard at the church is about the age of the society. Among the first interments made in it were the bodies of Sutherland Gard, Richard Kolb and Price Shortridge. The latter, according to the in-
scription on the tombstone, died August 30, 1834. From the inscriptions on the tombstones and more pretentious monuments it is evident that many of the pioneers were here interred. Some of the aged are as follows:
John Engels, died in 1859, aged sixty-five years; Rosey Engels, died in 1877, aged seventy-four years; Hester Loder, born in 1790, died in 1874; Mahala Cole, died in 1882, aged seventy-one years; William Van Dyke, died in 1875, aged eighty years; Samuel Pierson, died in 1883, aged seventy-seven years; James Gilleland, died in 1854, aged seventy-three years; Amos Gilleland, died in 1876, aged eighty-six years; Mary Westerfield, died in 1856, aged seventy- two years; John Gilleland, died in 1876, aged eighty- seven years; Mary Gilleland, died in 1865, aged sev- enty-seven years; John Treadway, died in 1838, aged forty-three, years; Phobe Brown, died in 1852, aged eighty-three years; Thomas Shipley, died in 1846, aged seventy-three years; Eleanor Shipley, died in 1857, aged seventy-four years; Philip Shrader, died in 1870, aged seventy-eight years; Isabella Loder, died in 1863, aged seventy-eight years; Thomas Stiles, died in 1864, aged eighty years; Rebecca Stiles, died in 1867, aged eighty-one years ; Ruth Middleton, died in 1861, aged seventy-two years.
Just north of the old part of the church-yard and adjoining it-all within the same enclosure-some years ago another tract of an acre and a half of land was purchased of James Huston, which was planted in evergreens and regularly laid out into lots, and a beautiful cemetery established which is now thickly dotted over by marble columns and granite monu- ments of elegant and costly design.
Until recent years a congregation of Missionary Baptists worshiped about a mile west of Benton- ville. The society was organized in that vicinity many years ago, and among the early members were the Longwells, Carvers, Thomases, and Knopps. Services were held in the neighborhood schoolhouse, which was finally purchased by the society, who built an addition to it, and until the society disbanded used it as a house of worship.
On the land now owned by Andrew Cole, about three miles northwest of Bentonville, is the oldest public burying-ground in the township. In the early history of this section the land was owned by Isaac Metcalf; the spot comprising the place of burial was suitable for such, and a public grave-yard was soon made of it. A Mrs. Spencer was among the first buried in this yard. After the establishment of the grave- yard at the Christian Church, not many interments were made in the Cole burying-ground, although it is still used to some extent.
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BENTONVILLE.
Bentonville, so named in honor of the late states- man, Thomas Benton, of Missouri, is a little hamlet situated south of the center of the township and is a station on the J. M. & I. R. R. Thirteen lots were platted by Josephi Dale, the proprietor thereof, on the 7th of August, 1838. The surveying was done by William Dickey on the same day.
An addition was made to the place in 1844 by Thomas K. Stiles.
Before the hamlet was laid out William Young had built a house there and was employed as a tailor. Among the early business men of the place was Brad- ley Perry, who was the neighborhood blacksmith; a Mr. Woodson, Samuel Dickey and Joseph Mc- Cauley, Woodford Dale and Alfred Loder, merchants; William Stockdale, tanner.
The hamlet to-day, in a business sense, consists of one blacksmith shop, three groceries, one shoe shop, one wagon shop and a steam saw-mill.
HALF-CENTURY CITIZENS.
In 1879 there lived in the township the following- named citizens who had been residents of the county for fifty years and upward:
C. Thompson and wife, David Kimmer and wife, Sarah Kimmer, Sam Lamberson and wife, John Lam- berson and wife, William Lamberson and wife, A. M. B. Cole and wife, George Van Buskirk and wife, T. Van Buskirk and wife, Temple Beeson and wife, Jesse Manlove and wife, S. W. Gifford and wife, John Scott and wife, James Scott and wife, John Weaver and wife, Luther Oldfield and wife, William Manlove and wife, Peleg Hathaway and wife, Levi Ayers and wife, Linville Ferguson and wife, C. Wal- lace and wife, Rozzell Spencer and wife, Thomas Heck and wife, Lewis Shaw and wife, Byrned Bald- win and wife, J. H. Tyner and wife, Clarrissa Knapp, William Freeman, John Miller, Eunice Monger, William Berry, Millie Thatcher, Lewis Longwell, Daniel Longwell, William Longwell, Elmira Kellogg, Zellah Longwell, Daniel Heck, Isaac Brittingham, James Lowry.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP.
ORGANIZATION AND BOUNDARIES-LAND ENTRIES-EARLY SETTLEMENT-SCHOOLS-CHURCHES AND GRAVE- YARDS-VILLAGES-HALF-CENTURY CITIZENS.
F AIRVIEW, the last township formed in the county, was not organized until in December, 1851. It is bounded on the north by Posey Town- ship, on the east by Harrison and Connersville Town- ships, on the south by Orange Township, and on the west by Rush County. Its territory was taken from Orange and Harrison Townships, and included the land lying within the following described boundaries: "Beginning at the southeast corner of Section 25, Township 14, Range 11, running thence west three miles to the Fayette and Rush County lines; thence north six miles on said line, to the southwest corner of Posey Township; thence east three miles to the range line; thence south six miles to the place of beginning." The boundary lines have not since been altered.
The surface of the country is with very little exception level, and the lands are of most excellent farming quality, not surpassed if equaled by any in the county. Originally the land was covered with a dense forest of a variety of trees indicative of a good soil, with heavy undergrowth of spice of considerable
size, as some few who are still with us can testify, not forgetting the labor required to clear it. The township is under a thorough system of drainage and the result is the producing of large crops. The farms are well improved and the people are moral, law-abiding and enterprising citizens.
LAND ENTRIES.
The lands of the township were disposed of by the Government in the years set forth below, and to the parties whose names are there given:
Township 14 north, Range 11 east. Section 1 sold in 1820-21, to Hugh and William Dickey, Stephen Hull and James B. Reynolds.
Section 2 sold in 1820, 1821 and 1824, to John Ste- phens, Samuel Shortridge, James B. Reynolds, Jona- than Wallace, Ananias Gifford and Harrison Baker. Section 3 sold in 1821 and 1823 to John Wheeler, John Smelsor and Benjamin B. Isles.
Section 10 sold in 1822, 1824, 1825 and 1828, to Jeremiah Jeffrey John Wallace, John Hair, Ira Alward, William Jeffery and Zachariah Parish.
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Section 11 sold in 1820, 1829, and 1831 to Mi- chael Brown, Hugh Dickey, Solomon Gifford and Lewis Robinson.
Section 12 sold in 1820, 1821, 1830, 1832 and 1833 to James Smith, John Darter, Minor Mecker, Daniel Campbell, David Scott, Philip Bilby and Sam- uel Davis.
Section 13 sold in 1820, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1829 and 1830 to William Smiley, John Ellis, John Bogar, John Philpott, John Smith, Andrew Moffitt and Joshua Wallace.
Section 14 sold in 1820 and 1823 to Ross Smiley, Jacob Kinder, Thomas Smiley, Thomas Keaton, James Putman and Samuel Houseworth.
Section 15 sold in 1820, 1821, 1823 and 1830 to James Smiley, Thomas McConnell, William Park- er, Jacob Aspaugh, John Clifford, J. Justice and A. Sloan.
Section 22 sold iu 1822 and 1830 to Joseph Put- enny, Robert McCrory, George Heiger, John Rees and Samuel Heiger.
Section 23 sold in 1821 and 1822 to Thomas Mc- Connell, Thomas Moffitt and John Morrison.
Sectiou 24 sold in 1820, 1821, 1822 and 1831 to Jonathan Eddy, John Jake, John Rees, Jr., David Stewart, John Darter and John Rees.
Section 25 sold in 1820 and 1827 to William F. Conaghy, John Ryburn, Alexander Russell and Will- iam Ennis.
Section 26 sold in 1820, 1821, 1822 and 1828 to Alexander Russell, William H. Putenny, Ephraim Frazee, John Rees and William Nash.
Section 27 sold in 1821, 1822 and 1823 to William Banks, John Morris, William Linder, Richard Nash and John McColm.
Township 15 north, Range 11 east.
Section 34 sold in 1822 and 1823 to Ira Starr, John Gifford, John Pattison, Samuel B. Louden, John Murphy and Edward Pattison.
Section 35 sold in 1822, 1823 and 1824 to Joseph Relfe, James Beakley, William Brooks, Thomas Legg, William Leer and Abraham Baker.
Section 36 sold in 1821 and 1822 to William Dick- ey, Trueman Munger, Edward R. Munger and Will- iam Berkley.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The lands of Fairview, lying entirely within the "New Purchase," were not settled until, comparative- ly speaking, a late date. However, some few ventured within its borders quite early. The decade between 1820 and 1830 will cover the period of its early settle- ment, the tide of immigration setting in in about 1820.
It is very probable that the first settlement was effected in Section 12, and in that portion of the
northeast quarter lying adjacent to Conuersville Township. Charles Williams, a young man and a native of the State of New York, settled on this land in 1814. He was a carpenter by trade, which occu- pation he followed many years, during which time he was identified with the erection of many of the early and more recently built houses and barns of that sec- tion of the country. Mr. Williams came from Pitts. burgh, Penn., by flat-boat to Cincinnati; thence by wagon to the county, where he passed the remainder of his life. He also followed farming. He was the father of Charles M. Williams, ex-County Auditor and Surveyor.
About the year 1819 William Nelson from Ver- mont settled on what is now the G. S. Dunn farm, on a branch of Williams Creek.
In the same year, emigrating from Ohio, settled William and Alexander Russell, brothers, locating in the northern part of the township.
John Ryburn is thought to have settled in the township in 1819.
Ananias Gifford, a native of New Jersey, removed to Ohio in 1815, stopping at Newtown on the Little Miami River, and two years later removed to Harris- burg, where he remained until in 1821, then settled near the present village of Fairview.
About the same year (1821) Robert and Matthew Hastings and Richard Nash settled in the northern part of the township. Matthew died in 1881, aged seventy-six years. It is said that he and Mr. Nash when young were engaged in boating on the Ohio River.
Andrew Nelson, a native of Maine, located here in 1821.
John Rees, Sr., grandfather of Justice and H. C., now residents of the county, from Greene County, Penn., settled here in 1821; also a married son, John, located here.
About the same year came Robert McCrory, Sr., a native of County Antrim, Ireland, from whence he emigrated to America, landing at Baltimore in 1812. Several of this name and family came at or about the same period.
Not far from this date also came Samuel Knot, Abraham Kinder, from Virginia, and Samuel and George Heizer from New Jersey. All located south- east of Fairview village.
In 1825 Ellis D. McConnell settled in the north part of the township.
In 1828 James, a brother of E. D. McConnell, located here, coming here from Brown County, Ohio.
In 1824 John Thrasher and family emigrated from Pendleton County, Ký., and settled just across the line in Rush County, yet was closely identified with the history of Fairview Township. A son, Hon.
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W. W. Thrasher, now a resident of the village of Fair- view, in 1831 and 1832 purchased land where he now resides of John Wallace, who had located there, hav- ing come from Delaware. Mr. Thrasher has cleared some 300 acres of land.
In 1820 Thomas Keaten, a native of Maryland, located in the township.
Another of the early settlers who resided just over the Rush County line, though closely identified with the carly history of the western part of this county, was Robert Grove, a Kentuckian.
Another was Garrett Wykoff, who came from New Jersey in 1822. He owned land on both sides of the dividing line between the two counties, yet his house was located in Rush County.
About this time, or perhaps a little later, the Jeff. reys, Jeremiah and William, from the State of New York, located east of Fairview Village.
A number of the Moffitts in 1822 located in the township. The Moffitts were natives of Ireland, and had early settled in Pennsylvania, thence in Ohio, thence to this locality.
In 1825 Josiah Piper and family located in the vicinity of where Falmouth now stands. Mr. Piper still resides on the land.
The Dickeys, Hugh and William, emigrating from Kentucky, located in about 1825 in the northern tier of sections.
East of the Dickeys settled the Baker brothers, John and David, who were also Kentuckians, and in that vicinity Drury Tyner was another of the pio- neers of Fairview.
Ross Smily was another of the pioneer settlers. He had located quite early further east in what is now Union County, where he figured conspicuously before locating in this township.
William Lear, Collin Banister, Jacob Ashpaw, John Hawkins, Samuel Shortridge, James Runnells, John Rees, G. Saxon, Zachariah Parish and the Jacks were pioneers of this locality.
There being no roads, those early settlers were obliged to cut out the undergrowth to reach their prospective homes. The Pipers resided by the side of a large poplar tree that had fallen, for some time, until their cabin was built and ready for occu- pancy. They were compelled to carry water for fam- ily use about three-quarters of a mile, and the only vessel they had for the purpose was a five-gallon keg. They were so distant from neighbors as to be barely able to hear the bark of their dogs. Frequently weeks passed without the wife of this pioneer seeing a woman.
One of the early tan-yards of the township was operated on the Jeffrey land by Frank Jeffrey.
There have been very few mills and distilleries in
this section. The pioneers and subsequent residents of the township have depended upon the mills of neigh- boring subdivisions for such conveniences. In about 1838 or 1840 John Moffitt had in operation a saw- mill on Williams Creek and on the Nelson land. At the same time just below this mill and on the Wal- lace land was a saw-mill which had been built by Joshua Wallace. There has been no grist-mill, we believe, in the township.
SCHOOLS.
The first schoolhouse erected in the township, we are informed by Uncle Samuel Little, stood a half mile east of Moffitt's Crossing, built in 1825, and was then in the third district of Orange Township. Mr. Little says "it was built of round logs, afterward hewed down; clap-board roof; uo chimney, but a stone fire-place in the center of the puncheon floor; a flue built of sticks and mortar, rested on six-foot posts; the fire being in the center of the house all parts of the room were heated equally. The crevices of the house were closed with mortar except those fronting the writing-desks, where they were enlarged to fur- nish light, which was admitted through greased paper which was pasted to frames fitted to those apertures." The first school in this house was taught in the fall of 1826 by Jonas Price.
The first schoolhouse for the settlement in the neighborhood of where Fairview Village now is stood over the Rush County line at the grave-yard. Mr. Piper informs us that this house was built about 1824 for a meeting-house on ground given for the purpose by Robert Groves. The building was used for both church and school purposes. About the year 1825 a Mr. Noble was teaching here.
Probably two years later (1827) a schoolhouse was built on the Jeffrey land in which school was first taught by Thomas Dawson.
About the year 1829 a schoolhouse stood in the northern part of the township in which, at that time, John Legg was keeping school. Later in the same building a Mr. McClure taught a school.
At Fairview, but just over the line in Rush County, is located an academy building, which was erected in 1848 by general subscription of that sec- tion of the county for miles around. The object was to establish a school in which would be taught the higher branches, then not taught in the common dis- trict schools. Among those most instrumental in establishing the school were Dr. Ephraim Clifford, W. W. Thrasher, William Shawhan, Rev. H. R. Pritchard, Rev. George Campbell, John Campbell, John Thrasher, Donovan Groves and G. B. Rush. The first Board of Trustees of the institution was G. B. Rush, John M. Shawhan, G. Wykoff, James Han-
Samuel JKommer
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nah and Ephraim Jeffrey. The building, which is of brick, was erected by Josiah Smith at a cost of $3,500.
Prof. A. R. Benton, a graduate of Bethany College, West Virginia, opened the first school in the building, and taught for a period of probably ten years, during which time he conducted a first-class school. He resigned to accept a Greek professorship in the Northwestern University at Indianapolis, which chair he still occupies. Other instructors have been Profs. Hull, of Hiram, Ohio; Rev. Daniel Van Bus- kirk, William Thrasher, Walter Campbell, Bowen, Piercy and others. The institution has been under the control of the Christian Church. Scholars have been in attendance at this school from the States of Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio aud New York.
CHURCHES AND GRAVE-YARDS.
On the Rush County side of the line, nearly oppo- site Fairview Village, is located a frame building which has for many years been the house of worship of the Methodist families of that vicinity. On the the same site, as early as 1824, a log meeting-house was crected by this denomination which was used for both church and school purposes. The ground upon which it stood was deeded to the Trustees of the society, probably as early as 1822, in addition to some surrounding it, for religious and burial purposes, by Robert Groves. The ground then deeded was one acre, to which have since been added, deeded by W. W. Thrasher, at different times, several acres, until now there are included at the cemetery and church-yard some four or five acres. This, in recent years, has been laid out into lots and made a most beautiful place of burial, which is dotted over with evergreens and many elegant and costly monuments, that would be a credit to more pretentious cemeteries. Here lie sleep- ing the remains of many of the pioneers of the region of the country for many miles around, among them a number of the early settlers of the western part of Fayette County. Among those who lived to a ripe old age in the vicinity interred here are:
William McCarty, died iu 1874, aged eighty-six years; Theresa McCarty, died in 1877, aged eighty- three years; Ephraim Jeffrey, born in 1817, died in 1883; William Jeffrey, died in 1862, aged eighty- four years; Abraham Baker, died in 1842, aged seventy-eight years; Robert Groves, died in 1855, aged ninety-one years (a Revolutionary soldier); Martha, his wife, died in 1855, aged eighty-nine years (from the tombstone it appears that this couple lived together sixty-seven years); Ross Smiley, died in 1878, aged ninety years; Josiah Thrasher, died in 1849, aged eighty-six years: Robert Hastings, died in 1859, aged ninety-four years; Isabella Hastings,
died in 1847, aged eighty-three years; Samuel Isles, a Revolutionary soldier, died in 1842, aged one hun- dred and two years.
This place of burial has been extensively used for upward of sixty years, and is the only grave-yard of any size in that section of the county. The oldest grave marked by a tombstone is that of Petro Rush, who died October 24, 1824 (born in 1776). The first burial here is thought to have been made in the spring of 1824, a child of John Smith, in March of that year.
The Fairview Christian Church, which too stands just over the line (west) dividing the counties of Rush and Fayette, was organized in 1843 with a member- ship of forty, prominent among whom were William Shawhan and family, John Thrasher and family, W. W. Thrasher and family, Josiah Piper and fam- ily, Jacob Parish and family, John Bates and fam- ily, and Samuel Shortridge and family. The first house of worship was a frame, and was erected in 1844, which was replaced in 1872 by the present neat and substantial brick edifice, which has a cupola and bell. Among the pioneer pastors of the church were Revs. Arthur Miller, Bird Byfield, John O'Kane, John Longley, Houshour, John P. Thompson, Benjamin Reeves, Peter Wiles and Jacob Daubenspeck.
VILLAGES.
The little hamlet or village of Fairview is situated in the western part of the township and is comprised of a little cluster of neat dwellings just east of the highway forming the division line between Rush and Fayette Counties. The inhabitants now number probably 100, who are a moral and religious people, never having permitted liquor sold in the village and have for years had two churches nearly within a "stone's throw." The people are supplied with one grocery and the " village smith" is there.
Fairview was laid out on the land of W. W. Thrasher, and the first house of the village was a hewed log one built not far from 1828 by William Powers. The first merchant of the place was John McClure. He was followed by Birdsall & Co., in about 1835. The successor to this firm was William Moffitt. Of the early blacksmiths were a Mr. Van. valkenburg, followed by Brown & Bros. and this firm by William Irvin.
Falmouth is a village of two counties located in the northwestern part of the township on either side of the road dividing Rush and Fayette Counties. It was surveyed July 24, 1832, by Thomas Hinkson -laid off on land belonging to James and Elijah Patterson and Patrick McCann. That portion lying east of Madison Street is in Fayette County and that west of the same street is in Rush County. Additions
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were made to the place in 1838 by Ed L. McGee, Stephen Isles and Jeremiah Jeffrey. The greater por- tion of the village is in Rush County.
The first house on the Fayette County side was erected by William Smith. Early merchants were P. Shawhan, William Stewart, and John Birdsall. John Crane was the early blacksmith. His dwelling was in Fayette County, but the shop was in Ruslı. An early cabinet-maker, who had a turning-lathe and manufactured chairs, tables, bureaus, etc., was Jno. Carr.
Falmouth is a station on the Jeffersonville, Mad- ison & Indianapolis Railroad, whose depot is in Fay- ette County. The inhabitants probably number 150 and on the Fayette County side are located a drug. store, a dry goods store, a cabinet making and under- taking shop, and one carpenter shop.
HALF-CENTURY CITIZENS.
The following list of names was given in 1879 as those who had been residents of the county fifty years or upward: Josiah Piper and wife, Isaac Powell and wife, John Baker, David Baker, Daniel Baker and wife, John Parrish and wife, Hiram Jeffrey and wife, Charles Shortridge and wife, Ephraim Jeffrey and wife, W. W. Thrasher and wife, William Brown and wife, Ezekiel Parrish and wife, William Irvin and wife, Thomas Smiley and wife, Jesse Shortridge and wife, Matthew Hastings and wife, James McConnell and wife, Elias McConnell and wife, Justice Reese and wife, Frank Bilby and wife, Richard Nash, Andrew Moffitt.
BIOGRAPHIES.
CONNERSVILLE CITY.
DAVID W. ANDRE, retired druggist and phar- macist, Connersville, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Lebigh County, April 26, 1836, and is descended from a prominent Alsatian family. His father, Nicholas Andre (known in the records of Maschweiler and Rischweiler, at Maschweiler, Alsace, as George Jacob), was a son of George Jacob Andre, who for many years held a prominent sinecure in that Province upon the civil list of France. He entered the birth of Nicholas Andre upon the records the day following his birth (February 21, 1806,) as George Jacob, but subsequently had it changed to Nicholas. He married Lonisa Weber, of Winschberg, Alsace, who was born June 27, 1812, and died here Janu- ary 31, 1883, followed by her esteemed husband November 8, 1884. They are buried in Connersville Cemetery, the family burial place. They came to America in 1832 and located in Lehigh Connty, Penn., and in 1855 removed to Indiana. The subject of this sketch is prominent in the list of Connerville's representative men, and is in fact a "self-made man." He acquired a good rudimentary education in the public schools and applied it to teaching, in which profession he was very successful. January 1, 1857, he entered upon the study of pharmacy at Brookville with D. V. Johnson, where he remained till the begin- ning of 1858 in close application to that study. Leaving there he went to Indianapolis, where he com- pleted it. Returning to Brookville he entered the store of John King as clerk, with whom he remained in reputable connection till 1860, when he engaged with S. H. Heshour, of Cambridge City, Ind., and clerked for him three years. In 1863 he returned to Brook- ville and embarked in business for himself (buying out D. V. Johnson), which he successfully carried on till 1868, when he retired from business there and came to Connersville and opened a drug business Sep- tember 1, 1868, with which he continued in active connection till 1881. Since coming here he has taken a very prominent part in the encouragement and sup-
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