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HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY.
amount of $719.19, next to Center township in the descend- ing scale.
The county is reasonably well supplied with railroads. The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis passes east and west through the central portion ; the Cleveland, Colum- bus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis (Bee Line) crosses the north-western portion ; and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis (Old Junction) crosses the south-western por- tion. The Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western rail- road company is now extending a line across the county, entering Buck-creek, crossing Center and the north-west corner of Jackson, and out through Brown. This road will probably be completed early in 1882. The county will then have about fifty-six miles of completed road. Another road is contemplated, to extend north and south through the county, past Eden and the Junction, and through Greenfield to Shelbyville. The road is completed to Anderson, and if sufficient assistance is voted along the proposed route, it will be completed through to Shelby- ville. Should this road be built, as projected, there will not be a township in the county without a railroad ; and without it, all but Green are partially, or wholly, crossed by roads completed, or being completed. The P., C. and St. L., being the old " Indiana Central," has a line of about nineteen miles in the county ; the " Junction " ten ; the " Bee Line" nearly seven ; and the I., B. and W. will have twenty miles when completed.
We have four papers now published in the county ; all in Greenfield. Three political news and miscellaneous weeklies, and one educational monthly.
Our people are generally industrious, moral, thrifty, and intelligent. There is less illiteracy in the county than in the average counties of the state. According to the official returns, there were, for the year 1880, but two per- sons between ten and twenty-one years of age in the county unable to read and write ; while in Madison, on the north, there were fifty, in Hamilton there were thirty-nine, and in the state there were two thousand and forty-seven,
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which number divided by ninety-two, the number of counties, shows Hancock, on that basis, to be above an average county. The people are naturally very conserva- tive ; and it may be recorded as a historical fact that Han- cock county once bitterly opposed the establishment of free schools, as shown by the official vote, when the ques- tion was submitted to the ballot-box. Though our voting population was then comparatively small, the county stood four hundred strong against the proposed establishment of free schools, and one township is said to have cast but two votes in favor of the same. But to-day she is not inferior to adjoining counties in the support of " free schools, the hope of our country ;" and the individual that would pub- licly advocate their abolition would be considered, if not non compos mentis, at least a relic of the dark ages.
Hancock county is the home, and has been the resi- dence, of several prominent men-politicians, poets, and educators. Milton B. Hopkins, late state superintendent of public instruction. and A. C. Shortridge, formerly superintendent of the Indianapolis schools, and for a time president of Purdue University, were once citizens of the county. This is the home of Judge David S. Gooding, a personal sketch of whom is given elsewhere, and of the poets James A. Riley and Lee O. Harris, who have more than a state reputation.
The county is democratic by about four hundred and sixty majority.
The churches principally represented are the Method- ist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Christian, Friends, Catholic, and Dunkard. The Methodists are found all over the county ; the Friends are principally in Blue-river township; the Presbyterians in Center township; and the Catholics in Center, Sugar-creek and Vernon townships.
Hancock county is not behind her sister counties in loyalty and patriotism ; but has ever been prompt and liberal in response to the country's call. In the war with Mexico she furnished a full company, organized by Captain James R. Bracken, and called into the service of the
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United States by the President, under the act of Congress approved May 13, 1846, at Madison, Indiana, the place of general rendezvous, on the 8th day of October, 1847. In the war of the Rebellion she furnished, in response to the various calls of the President, nearly twelve hundred brave boys in blue, many of whom bled and died for their coun- try's good.
The following is the
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY FOR ISSI.
GENERAL OFFICERS.
State Senator. . Hon. Simeon T. Yancey Fortville.
Representative . . . Hon. Morgan Chandler Greenfield.
Judge 18th Judi-) cial Circuit.
Hon. Mark E. Forkner. New Castle.
Prosecuting Att'y . L. P. Newby. Knightstown.
Bailiff Wm. K. Jacobs Binwood.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Cl'k Cire't Court. . Ephraim Marsh .Greenfield.
Deputy. Chas. E. Downing. Greenfield.
Auditor Henry Wright. Greenfield.
Deputy. William Wright. .Greenfield.
Recorder John W. Ryon
Greenfield.
Deputy Miss Mary Roberts. Greenfield.
Treasurer. Isaiah A. Curry
.Greenfield.
Deputy
James L. Smith .. Greenfield.
Sheriff Wm. H. Thompson Greenfield.
Deputy. . John C. Dudding Greenfield.
Coroner
.James R. Trees. Cleveland .
Surveyor. W. Scott Fries Greenfield.
County Attorney. James A. New .Greenfield.
County Supt .. . . .. Robert Alonzo Smith. .Greenfield.
Commissioners.
Augustis Dennis . Westland.
John E. Dye.
Philadelphia.
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Thos. E. Bentley Greenfield.
ATTORNEYS.
R. A. Riley,
David S. Gooding,
Lemuel W. Gooding,
G. W. Duncan,
James L. Mason,
Marshall B. Gooding,
Wm. R. Hough,
William F. McBane,
Montgomery Marsh,
John W. Jones,
Charles G. Offutt,
William H. Martin,
George Barnett,
John H. Binford,
James A. New,
Israel P. Poulson,
A. R. Hughes, Robert Collins,
James J. Walsh,
William M. Babcock,
S. A. Wray,
Chas. E. Rennecamp,
John A. Hughes,
L. H. Reynolds.
W. S. Denton,
TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES.
Blue-river Thomas E. Hill .. Morristown.
Brandywine Duncan MeDougall. Carrollton.
Brown. William L. Garriott. Warrington.
Buck-creek . . John C. Eastes. Mt. Comfort.
Center . Robert D. Cooper . Greenfield.
Green. Sidney Moore. Eden.
Jackson .James F. McClarnon. Charlottesville.
Sugar-Creek William C. Barnard Sugar Creek.
Vernon. Samuel Arnett. Fortville.
SCIIOOL TRUSTEES.
City of Greenfield.
Dr. Samuel S. Boots President.
J. Ward Walker Treasurer.
William Mitchell. Secretary.
Town of Fortville.
Joseph Bills President.
R. A. Black, W. W. Cook,
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James B. Anderson Treasurer.
J. W. Ferrell Secretary.
TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS.
Blue-river Nathan Newby Westland.
Brandywine Theodore L. Smith . Carrollton.
Brown Joshua P. Harlan Warrington.
Buck-creek Mahlon Apple Oaklandon.
Center James K. King. Greenfield.
Green
William H. Warrum Eden.
Jackson Thomas E. Niles. . Charlottesville.
Sugar-creek
William A. Wood
Sugar Creek.
Vernon. Aaron R. Chappell . Fortville.
In the foregoing we have endeavored to take a brief general view of the county as to history, resources, and other matters of interest, which is intended to give the reader some idea of the territory to be surveyed before entering upon the work proper. This closes the first chap- ter, after which we will engage in more specific definite work, and will take up each of the townships in order, and speak of them separately; and will, in the course of the work, give a full detailed account of the several points mentioned herein.
BLUE-RIVER. TOWNSHIP.
CHAPTER II.
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MAP OF BLUE-RIVER TOWNSHIP.
SHOWING THE SECTIONS, TOWNSHIP, AND RANGES OF WHICH IT IS CONSTITUTED.
THIS township takes its name from Blue River, the principal mill stream in the township. It was organized
15 North.
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in 1828, and composed of the entire eastern part of the county, what now constitutes the first commissioners dis- trict. In 1831 it was reduced in size to thirty sections, its present limits. It is located in the south-eastern corner of the county, and is bounded by Rush county on the east, Shelby county on the south, Brandywine and Center town- ships on the west, and Center and Jacksan townships on the north. In extent it measures six miles north and south and five miles east and west. It is all located in township fifteen north and ranges seven and eight east; two tiers of sections on the west are in range seven, and three on the east are in range eight.
The range line dividing the two fractional congressional townships, of which this civil township is composed, extends along the center of the road running north and south by Westland Post-Office.
The principal streams are Blue River, Six Mile Creek and Nameless Creek. Blue River cuts off the south-east corner of the township, running through four sections, and receives from the north, in section twenty-nine, the waters of Six Mile Creek, and in section thirty the waters of Nameless Creek. Six Mile Creek is found in four sections of the south-eastern part of the county, and Nameless Creek in five sections of the central portion, entering the central northern part and emptying in the central southern part. These were once all mill streams.
The first mill in the county was a small log structure on Blue River, erected by Joshua Wilson in 1824. It was situated above the old Wolf's mill, now Bacon's mill. The latter is the only water-mill now in the township.
Nameless Creek and Six Mile Creek both had at one time small sash saw-mills and corn crackers, all of which have long since been superseded by the modern inventions and improvements.
Jesse Hunt used to run a small saw and grist-mill on Six Mile Creek, near where the Kysers now live. The writer from 1850 to 1855 spent many a day at this mill while his grist of corn was being ground, and there saw the first sawing by water-power of his life.
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John Hunnicutt run a small saw-mill on Nameless Creek for a number of years, on what is now the William Brooks farm. There was also another small mill further up the creek, near Westland Post-Office.
Blue-river was settled at least ten years before the organization of the county.
In 1818 Andrew Evans built the first log cabin in the township.
In 1822 Thomas Philips had a blacksmith shop on Blue River.
In 1823 there was built the first school-house in the township, or county, and Lewis Tyner was the first male teacher.
Elijah Tyner, in 1824, erected the first store of the township, as well as of the county ; and he continued to do business at the same place until his death, in 1872. The writer's first pair of boots came from this store. Tyner was not only a merchant, but an extensive farmer, stock raiser, and stock dealer. For a great many years he bought and drove nearly all the stock raised and sold in that part of the county, and even in the adjoining portion of Shelby county. Tyner is also entitled to the credit of setting out the first orchard in the county. He brought the trees with him from the east.
The first fence in the county was built in this township. The builder was a man by the name of McCall. It was a brush fence, made of the branches of the trees which McCall had climbed and trimmed. McCall had previ- ously cleared a little spot by hitching his faithful "Buck " and " Bright " to the grubs and " pulling them out by the roots."
Among the first settlers of this township were Andrew Evans, John Montgomery, Montgomery McCall, Harmon Warrum, Elijah and Solomon Tyner, John Osborn. Joshua Wilson, George Penwell, the Johnses, Adamses, James and Benajah Binford, Joseph Andrews, John Brown, David Dodge, David Smith, and others, with their families, were
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among the more prominent pioneers of this section. The Binfords came in 1826.
The township in its native state presented some fine scenery ; especially in the rich bottom lands. The primi- tive trees were grand and stately, and some of them of enormous size. There is an oak now to be seen on the farm of Penn Binford that measured nine feet in diameter and about seventy feet to the first limb. It fell about the year 1852. It is said, by those who saw it, to have been large enough before the falling off of the bark to have made it possible to have driven an ordinary two-horse wagon and team from the butt to the first limb. The red- bud skirting the streams in early spring presented a bright picture among the green and luxuriant foliage. Pea vines spice-brush, grape-vines, and nettles, were common everywhere.
The surface in the vicinity of the streams is somewhat hilly and undulating, while on the uplands it is moderately level to gently rolling. The only portion that may be con- sidered strictly level, is in the north-west corner. It is the dryest township in the county. It consists of first and second-rate land, and is well improved and under good cultivation. Within its limits are many prosperous farm- ers, with fine residences, large barns, and good fences.
Its educational and church advantages are not sur- . passed in the county.
Its public schools, it having none other at present, are nine in number, arranged in three tiers of three each, and numbered regularly from one to nine, similar to the num- bering of the sections in a congressional township, No. I being located in the north-east corner and No. 9 in the south-west corner. The teachers, for the present, are as follows: District No. 1, Pleasantview, W. B. Hill : Dis- trict No. 2, Temperance Hall. W. E. Scott ; District No. 3, Jessups, James K. Allen ; District No. 4, Hopewell, Bertha Scott; District No. 5, Westland, Jethro Dennis ; District No. 6, Hardy's Fork, Mattie Coffield ; District No. 7, Handy's, John M. Winslow : Distric No. 8. Gates' Har- vey New : District No. 9, Shiloh, Fanny Davis.
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The churches are six in number, named and located as follows, to-wit: Shiloh, Baptist, located in the south-west corner of the township, near Elijah Tyner's old place ; Mt. Olivet, Christian Union, in the central portion, near the Newby farm; Gilboa, M. E. church, in the northern central portion ; Westland, Friends, in the central portion, near Westland school-house, the voting precinct ; Pleas- antview, Friends, in the northeastern part of the town- ship, adjoining Samuel B. Hill's farm ; Western Grove, Friends, in the central western portion, on the pike near Mahlon Beeson's farm.
The present mills and factories of the township are as follows : Bacon's Flouring Mill, water-power, previously located ; Wiley's Saw-Mill, steam-power, in the western central portion ; Marsh's Tile Factory, one mile west of Westland P. O. ; Luse's Tile Factory, in the central north- ern portion.
The roads in Blue-river, like other parts of the county, were once mere paths "blazed out" through the thick timber and underbrush, which presents quite a contrast to its present graded and graveled highways. The town- ship now has eight and one-half miles of toll pike in addi- tion to her public unassessed roads, many of which are nearly, or quite, equal to the revenue roads.
The township has no railroad within its borders, but has five miles of the P., C. and St. L., the old " Indiana Central," on its north line.
The entire population, white and black, in 18So was 1,258. The polls in 1881 were 217, and the scholastic population 350.
The number of acres assessed in the township for 1881 were 18,755, valued at $456,290. The improvements on the same were valued at $63,840. The total value of the personal property was put at $168,455. The total valua- tion of property, real and personal, was $688.585. The full amount of taxes due from the township for the current year is $6.540.47.
Among the more prominent men of the township at
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present, especially in a financial point of view, are the fol- lowing, each of whom will pay taxes to the amount of $40 and upwards for the year 1881, to be paid in 1882 :
Atkinson, Lurilda 45 75
Andrews, Robert D GS So
Anderson, James. 67 19
Binford, Wm. P
51 42
Binford, Robert
Binford, Joseph
79 98
Brooks, Wm.
77 58
Butler, Joseph
64 92
Billman, Leander.
66 38
Brown, Robert.
72 36
Coffin, N. D.
60 SS
Caldwell, J. M.
£9 ot
Catt, Jacob
69 70
Eakins, Levina
44 03
Gates, Dayton II.
71 30
Hendren, Jerry
40 22
Hackleman, Lemuel 57 51
Hill, Samuel B.
128 70
Hill, Thomas E
44 05
Harold, Lemuel
57 87
Hunt, John.
41 35
Hatfield, George H S6 74
Jessup, Levi.
47 89
Johns, Robison, sr
43 OS
Moore, William
New, William 52 93
115 13
Pitts, Samuel C.
42 OI
Pusey, Jesse F. heirs.
64 47
Reece, John 46 94
Roots, Chas. P.
124 So
Tyner, James M.
55 97
Tyner, Elbert 52 19
Tyner, Sarah A 85 38 Warrum, Noble
72 89
Wolf, Jacob G 59 IS
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis R'y Co .. 464 23
78 37
Binford, Wm. L
97 71
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At the present time the township has but one justice,- Elijah Tyner,-and he is not likely to become wealthy from the profits of the office, notwithstanding that he is much of a gentleman ; but he is living in a quiet commu- nity of peaceable people, who patronize the courts only in case of necessity, and hence are seldom engaged in petty lawsuits and acrimonious legal contests.
The township has one located physician, in the person of Dr. Oliver Andrews, allopathist, and son of Joseph Andrews, deceased, one of the pioneers. Much of the practice of the township is divided up between the physi- cians of the surrounding towns-Greenfield, Carthage, Morristown, Charlottesville, and Cleveland. Among the physicians who practiced in the township thirty and forty years ago, were : Drs. Lot Edwards, B. F. Duncan, R. E. Barnett, N. P. Howard, of Greenfield ; John Clark, Pat- terson and Stratton, of Carthage ; Whiteside and Riddle, of Knightstown ; Wolf, of Morristown, and Edmundson, of Blue-river. The latter was a one-armed man, located on the Joseph Binford farm, where he also kept a small store. A few years later Dr. Newby held forth at Moore's shop, in the eastern part of the township.
B. P. Butler is the post-master, and Thomas E. Hill trustee.
Samuel Heavenridge built the first store, at Westland, in about the year 1852. It was a small log structure. He sold to Levi Reece ; Reece to Ambrose Miller and Henry Newby ; Miller & Newby to Calvary G. Sample, who run the store for a few years, and then sold out at public auc- tion about the beginning of the civil war. There was no store in the place then until Wm. New opened up. New sold to Lemuel Harold and Levi Cloud ; Cloud sold his interest back to Harold, who afterward formed a partnership with James L. Binford ; Binford sold back to Harold, and Harold to Binford Brothers, who were burned out on the 13th of April, 1881, since which time there has been no store in the place. Joel Pusey erected a building in the eastern part of the township in about the
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year 1855, in which he run a store for a number of years.
In politics, Blue-river is republican by about seventy- five majority, being the only strictly republican township in the county.
The magistrates of the township from its organization to date, as near as we are able to ascertain, were as follows :
John Osborn. . Unknown
Samuel A. Hall IS34
Richard Hackleman 1836
Richard Hackleman. 1840
Adam Allen I 848
Richard Hackleman. IS51
James Sample 1856
I853
Richard Hackleman
John Coffin. 1857
John Coffin. IS61
Thompson Allen. I S65
Thompson Allen. 1 869
John O. G. Collins. 1 869
Edward L. Coffin IS72
Walter S. Luse IS77
Elijah Tyner, present justice. IS78
The following are the ex-township trustees since 1859, the date at which they were empowered with authority to levy local taxes :
B. P. Butler. IS59
N. D. Coffin IS60
James New IS63
Lemuel Hackleman I 865
B. F. Luse 1 869
Samuel B. Ilill. IS73
Lemuel Hackleman IS77
Thomas E. Ilill. ISSO
Of the men who once lived in the township, and now reside elsewhere, are: The News, of Greenfield ; James P. Galbreath, of Kansas; the Binfords, of Iowa ; Elias Marsh, editor of the Commercial, Portland, Jay county.
David S. Gooding.
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Indiana ; Amos Beeson, editor of the Winchester Journal, and one of the trustees of the northern prison ; Milton Hodson, a former partner of Beeson's in the fournal; Prof. Penn Hunnicutt, of Iowa : Hon. Noble Warrum, Dr. M. M. Adams, and the writer, of Greenfield : Oliver Butler, attorney, of Richmond ; James L. Binford and the Tyners, merchant and traders, of Morristown; Eli Gal- breath, attorney, Pittsburg ; Ephraim Bentley, commis- sioner, now of Brandywine; Prof. Joseph R. Ilunt, of Indianapolis ; Dr. Handy, of Arkansas : Mrs. R. P. Hill, of Rush county, author of a book of poems; Levi Bin- ford, druggist. Joseph Binford, farmer and banker, John Hunnicutt, carriage-maker, and Dr. Nuby, of Carthage.
Of the ex-county officers now residing in the township. we call to mind Ex-Treasurer George W. Hatfield and Ex-County Surveyor Calvary G. Sample.
William New, of Greenfield, was for a number of years commissioner from Blue-river, and William Handy state representative.
The chief exports of the township are corn, wheat, hogs, cattle, horses, apples, potatoes, and flaxseed.
The value, in the judgment of the writer, of the nine frame school-houses in this township is $4,500 : value of apparatus, $400 ; total value of school property, $4,900.
At the presidential election for 1880, the township was republican by sixty-eight majority, the vote standing as follows : Republican vote, 175; Democratic vote, 107; Greenback vote, 18; total vote, 300. Blue-river in 1836 cast 32 votes ; in 1840, 38 ; in 1860, 212.
The population of the township for 1850 was 936 : for 1860, 1,060 ; for 1870, 1, 125 ; for 1880, 1.258.
CHAPTER III.
MOUNT OLIVET CHURCII.
The Christian church of Blue-river township, now known as Mt. Olivet, was organized in the year 1838, by 5
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old Father Hubbard, in what was then known as the Allen School-House, in district No. 3. Among its early preach- ers were Elders Hubbard, Epplesizer and Jonathan Line- back. Its early members were Jonathan and Polly Line- back. Absalom Davis and wife, Eli and Anna Risley. John and Catharine New, and Miss Lizzie Miller. The same church was reorganized in the year 1852. by Elder W. A. Gross, at what is now called the Temperance Hall School-House, in district No. 2, with a few members. prominent of whom were Jonathan Lineback and wife. Nathan Newby and wife, and Abraham Lineback and wife. The membership at that time was about fifty-six. The present building was erected in 1871, at a cost of $1,000. It was dedicated in June. 1871, by Elder Homer. A. H. Allison built the church, and was the first preacher. fol- lowed by Elders John Burket, Davenport, and Peter Baker. Some of the present members are: Miles S. Cook and wife. Walter S. Luse. John Hackleman, Polly Lineback, and others, about forty in number. Preaching. usually, once a month.
WALTER S. LUSE'S TILE FACTORY
was erected in 1879, at a cost of $2,000, being the second in the township. It manufactures about 1.500 rods of tile per annum. Ilas been in operation eleven years. Total amount manufactured, 16.500.
LEWIS G. RULE'S SAW-MILL.
in Blue-rive township, was built in 1879, at a cost of $1,500. Capacity. 3,500 feet per day. It furnishes work for six hands, and ships lumber to Indianapolis, Buffalo and Cleveland. The mill is in the northern part of the town- ship, a little south of the National road.
ELIJAH TYNER.
The subject of this sketch was born in Abbeville Dis- trict. South Carolina, in 1797. He was the second son of the Rev. William Tyner, a Baptist minister, who removed
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from South Carolina to Kentucky in the year 1802, and from thence to Indiana in 1805, near Brookville : thence to Decatur county. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Tyner was married to Martha McCure, of Franklin county. In 1820 he came to Hancock county, or the territory now comprising the county, which the reader will remember was not organized till eight years afterward : and even Madison, from which Hancock was struck off in 1828. was not organized till 1823. In 1821, September 19, he entered eighty acres of land in Blue-river township, being the third entry made in the county. The first entry was made August 10, 1821, by Harmon Warrum, and the second August 23, by James Tyner. In 1822 Mr. Tyner married Mary Nelson, who died in 1830. In 1832 he was again married, this time to Sarah Ann Hollerston. Mr. Tyner was one of the staunch pioneers, coming into the county within two years from the first settlement made by the " pale-face." As a merchant, he was honest and accom- modating, and thereby gained the esteem of all who knew him. Elsewhere we have shown that he was not only a pioneer merchant, stock-trader and farmer. but he was the first in the county to give any attention to horticulture. having set out an orchard in the year 1822, according to the best information now at hand. Mr. Tyner also acted as a kind of common carrier between the early settlers and the market. As a father, he was kind-hearted and gentle. He raised a large family, and provided well for them. As a neighbor, he was highly respected on account of his many amiable qualities. In politics, he was a whig and republican, but liberal in his views. He was a Baptist in faith, but by no means a bigot. He liberally supported the church, and every good cause found in him a friend and substantial encouragement. His remains lie buried in Shiloh cemetery, near his home, where loving hands have erected a stately monument to mark his last resting place.
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