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William C. Mills, a prominent old settler of Hendricks County, was born in Wayne County, Ind., at the present site of Economy, May 8, 1816, the second son in the family of eight children of Henry and Hannah (Woodward) Mills, natives of North Carolina, the father born in March, 1780, and the mother Sept. 5, 1790. They moved from their native State to East Tennessee, and thence in 1814 to Indiana. They located near Richmond, and then moved to Economy, where they lived two years, but not liking Wayne County, returned to Tennessee; subsequently moved again
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to Wayne County, where they lived till 1829, when they came to Hendricks County and settled on eighty acres of land on the farm now owned by Aaron Milis. The father died in 1833, in Morgan County, Ill., and the mother in 1862, near the same place. Five of their children are still living. Henry Mills was a valuable man in the new settlement. He was a natural mechanic, and handy with all kinds of tools. He was a good penman, and was often called upon to write deeds, contracts, wills, etc. He was a great reader and was well informed on all subjects of general interest. William C. Mills was about thirteen years of age when his parents moved to this county. He received a good education for the early day, but the greater part of his time was spent in assisting on the farm. He remained with his mother till his marriage, and then settled on a tract of land in the woods, on the Lick Fork, where he lived eight years. After clearing and improving his land, he sold it, and subsequently made several changes, and in the fall of 1855 bought the farm of Joseph Moffett, to which he moved in 1856. He owns about 800 acres of land, about 400 acres under cultivation and the rest good pasture land. Mr. Mills has made a specialty ot stock-raising, which he has made a successful and lucrative busi- ness. He is a shrewd business man, an upright, honest citizen, and merits the success he has achieved. Mr. Mills was married in 1839 to Rebecca Hadley, a native of Randolph County, N. C., born April 3, 1820, daughter of John B. and Elizabeth Hadley, of Morgan County, Ind. They have had a family of ten children, six of whom are living-John H., Charles H., Amos H., Mary E., wife of Wayne Macy, Oliver H., and Aaron H. Mr. and Mrs. Mills are birthright members of the society of Friends.
Isaiah Sivage is a native of North Carolina, born near Eliza- beth City, Sept. 18, 1826, a son of John and Ann Sivage, natives of the same State. When he was sixteen years of age he left his native State and came to Indiana, stopping the first winter in Richmond. He then removed to Hancock County, and in 1846 to Hendricks County, and found employment on a farm near Bridge- port. He was married in 1848 to Axie Hudson, and settled on Mill Creek, six miles southwest of Danville, in the woods, where he cleared and improved a farm. In the spring of 1860 he sold his farm and bought another of 140 acres, three and a half miles south of Plainfield, where he lived twenty-four years, and in 1884 rented his farm and moved to Plainfield, where he now has a livery and sale stable, and is also engaged in buying and shipping horses.
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His wife died in 1856, leaving two children, both of whom died soon after. In 1860 he married Sarah Hadley, who died in 1864, leaving two children-Indiana and William E. Jan. 31, 1866, he married Eunice Lindley, daughter of Thomas and Mary Lindley. of Parke County, Ind. Mr. Sivage and his family are members of the society of Friends.
Ebenezer Tomlinson is a native of Hendricks County, Ind., born May 26, 1826, the fifth son of James C. and Nancy A. (Doan) Tomlinson, natives of Guilford County, N. C., the father born in 1799 and the mother in 1800. In 1819 James C. Tomlinson and his wife moved to Hendricks County and settled about five miles south of Plainfield, in the woods, and made for themselves a home where they have lived about sixty-six years. They reared a family of eleveu children, eight of whom are living. Ebenezer Tomlin- son was reared in his native county, receiving his education in the common schools. Attaining his majority he engaged in agricult- ural pursuits, which he followed till 1865, when he left the farm and engaged in the dry-goods business in Plainfield till 1881, when he organized Tomlinson & Co.'s Bank, of Plainfield, of which he is the principal owner and controller of the business. He has been a successful business man, and owns two farms and his residence in the village of Plainfield. In 1876 he was elected Township Trustee and served two terms, and in 1882 was again elected and is still an incumbent of the office. He was married Feb. 6, 1852, to Miss Damsel Watson, of Brownsburg, Hendricks County. To them have been born two children-Terrillus B. (deceased), and Tennessee, now the wife of Milton Phillips. Mr. Tomlinson is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Plainfield Lodge, No. 287. He is a member of the society of Friends. His wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist church.
William A. Watson, grocer, Plainfield, Ind., is a native of Jeff- erson County, Ind., born in January, 1834, a son of Ebenezer and Ann Watson, his father a native of Virginia and his mother of Kentucky. In 1839 his parents moved to Hendricks County, and settled in Brown Township, where the mother died in 1874 and the father in 1884. The latter was well and favorably known in the county, and for nine years served as County Commissioner. He died at the advanced age of eighty-four years. His family con- sisted of nine children, four cons and five daughters, all of whom lived till maturity. William A. Watson was reared in Brown Township, on his father's farm, receiving a good education. He
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followed agricultural pursuits till 1874, when he sold his farm and moved to Indianapolis, but in March, 1875, returned to Hendricks County and located in Plainfield, buying an interest in the flouring mill. He subsequently sold his interest in the mill and has since been engaged in the grocery business. He keeps a full line of groceries and provisions, and has built up a good trade. He was married in 1855 to Susannah Funkhouser, and to them have been born three children. Mr. and Mrs. Watson are members of the Missionary Baptist church, of which he is Trustee and Treasurer.
John R. Weer, a prominent and enterprising farmer of Guil- ford Township, was born in Warren County, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1831, a son of Elijah and Margaret (Cox) Weer, natives of North Caro- lina, who settled in Washington Township, this county, in 1832, where the father died in 1850, and the mother in 1865. They were active members of the Christian church, he serving as Elder several years. Their children were ten in number-Emily, Samuel, John R., David, Hiram, Harris, Julia, Elizabeth, Martha and Amanda J. John R. Weer was reared on his father's farm, in Washington Township. After the death of his father he took charge of the farm, and after his marriage bought the interests of the rest of the heirs. In addition to the 120 acres entered by his father, he now owns 215 acres which makes a fine farm of 335 acres. He has made a specialty of stock-raising and in 1884 fat- tened 121 head of Poland-China hogs. He has been one of the most successful horse-breeders in the township. In 1882 he moved to Plainfield, giving the management of his farm to his son- in-law, George Carr. He was married in 1853 to Emma Gunn, daughter of John and Lydia Gunn. They have three children- Martha A., wife of Theodore Walton; Lydia, wife of George Carr, and Ernest E. Mr. and Mrs. Weer are members of the Christian church, of which he is an Elder and Trustee.
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CHAPTER XVI.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
DESCRIPTION .- FIRST SETTLEMENT AND EARLY HISTORY .- REMI- NISCENOES OF JOSHUA MARSHALL. --- POLITICAL HISTORY .--- TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS. - STATISTICS. - CLAYTON. - BELLEVILLE. - CARTERS- BURG .- CENTRE VALLEY .- BIOGRAPHICAL.
Liberty Township is in the southern part of the county, and is bounded as follows: On the north by Center and Washington, on the east by Guilford, on the south by Morgan County and on the west by Franklin and Clay. It comprises about forty-nine square miles, in townships 14 and 15 north, ranges 1 east and 1 west. It is the largest township in the county. The surface in the northern and eastern portions is high and rolling, while the southwestern portion is low, level, and in places inclined to be swampy. East Fork crosses the northeast corner of the township near Clayton, and passes out of it near the southwestern corner. The natural drainage of the higher portions of the township is excellent, and the small streams or branches generally afford an abundance of pure water the season through. Mud Creek Valley, in the south- west, is of easy drainage on account of the large proportion of sand in the soil. The lands of the township are fertile throughout and well cultivated, and the most extensive farmers in the county live in it.
EARLY HISTORY.
The first settlement was made in October, 1822, on the National Road east of Belleville, by William and Thomas Hinton, James Thompson and Robert McCracken. The first ground was cleared on the Pearson farm. William Pope and his son, James N., who was then sixteen years old, came in the spring of 1823, which year brought into the township George Matlock, James R. Barlow, Samuel Hopkins, William Brown, William Ballard, and if not in the same year, soon came David Demoss, John Cook, Moses Craw- ford, John Hanna, Thomas Cooper, George Coble and Jonathan Pitts. William Hinton taught the first school in the township (628)
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and county in the fall of 1823, in a school-house which had been built that fall, one-half mile south of Cartersburg.
Thomas Hinton was the first Justice of the Peace, and William Pope, a Baptist minister, did the first preaching, and organized the first Baptist church in Hendricks County, in his own house, in the autumn of 1823.
The first brick dwelling house in the county was built in 1830, for Jesse Cook, just south of Belleville, by Joseph V. Pope and William Hinton. The act authorizing the organization of Hen- dricks County designated the house of William Ballard, which was on the old Terre Haute road, south of Belleville, as the place of holding the courts, but William Ballard died before the county was organized, and George Matlock, who kept tavern on this road a mile east of Mr. Ballard's, laid off a town which he called Hills- boro, and made a strong effort to get the county seat located there; but failing in this, and meeting his death in 1825 in an affray with his brother-in-law, the Hillsboro enterprise was a failure.
In connection with the early history of Liberty Township, Joshua Marshall, now of Kirkville, Iowa, writes:
"In the autumn of 1826 my father, William Marshall, of Surrey County, N. C., emigrated to Indiana and settled in the south part of Hendricks County, I being then in my nineteenth year. Evan Davis, my brother-in-law, with his family, came at the same time and settled near by. At that time most of the land belonged to the Government, and settlements were scattering. We frequently went as far as five miles to help each other raise our log cabins and stables. . A few settlers had preceded us-Edward and Joseph Hobson, William Rushton, John Cook and sons-Levi, Jesse and Stephen, with their families-Edmond Cooper, Jefferson Matlock, Rev. Wm. Pope, Thomas Irons, Judge Little, William Herron, William Townsend, Joshua Hadley, Bowater Bales and others.
" Not having saw-mills, we felled a nice tall gray ash and cut it into 4 x 6 lengths, split out puncheons, dressed the ends to a uniform thickness and then laid them on sleepers. They were jointed with saw and ax, and made a good floor. We split our clapboards for roofing and door shutters. We had plenty of elbow room, and were anxious for our neighbors to help build our cabins and roll logs so as to get them out of our way, in order to raise a little corn for bread and to feed our stock. We were mostly poor, yet contented, and looked forward to better days and more con- veniences. We were all neighborly and kind to each other.
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"Danville had been laid out into lots and a few cabine were be- ing built. David Matlock and others had settled near by and were opening farms. Religious privileges were scarce, not & church or school-house, to my knowledge, being then in the county. The Friends had formed a society and worshiped in a log house near Mooresville, in Morgan County. Rev. Mr. Pope, a Baptist minister, then living near where Cartersburg now is, preached frequently in his own house to attentive, though small, audiences; and we were glad thus to meet, hear preaching, and form each others acquaintance. In the spring of 1829 Joseph Tarkington, a Methodist minister, established a preaching place at the house of Edmond Cooper, then residing on Mud Creek, at the crossing of the Indianapolis and Terre Haute road, and there a class was formed of six members-Evan and Rebecca Davis, Mother Cooper and two daughters, and Hannah Snodgrass. Shortly after this, in June, 1829, at a two-days meeting held in Putnam County, I joined the church and invited Rev. John Mur- ser to come to Hendricks County and preach at my house. At the appointed time he came, and seven joined the church. Three weeks later he came again and seven more joined. Thus a society was formed in the settlement where Salem church now stands. In August of the same year Evan Davis, Father Crutchfield, Bowater Bales, myself and a few others commenced work on a hewed-log church, which was raised in the presence of an 'assembled multi- tude.' About this time Evan Davis built a saw-mill on White Lick, and there we had our lumber sawed out for flooring and seat- ing. Evan Davis was Class-Leader and I was assistant. By Christ- mas there were seventy-tive members. In the summer of 1884 I visited Salem church, and found the old log church had been re- moved and in its stead was a beautiful frame building, nicely painted and finished inside and out. Near by stood a handsome brick school-house. Surely this wilderness has ' budded and blos- somed like the rose.'"
FIRST ELECTION.
The poll-book of the general election of Aug. 2, 1830, gives the names of thirty-nine voters in Liberty Township, and these prob- ably include most of the first settlers. The names are here copied as recorded in that document, which is more than half a century old: Evin Davis, Joshua Marshall, Jacob Harper, Abraham Woodward, Lewis Coopper, Samuel Gwin, Thomas Coopper, Ed-
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mand Coopper, Cornelions Coopper, George Dawes, William Rush- ton, George Rushton, John Cook, Jonathan Mills, William Allen, James Hiuett, George Rushton, Michael Kerkum, Jesse Allen, William Cawerby, William Marshall, Nathan Snodgrass, Joshua Rushton, Joel Wilson, Silous Grigory, Boyeter Bails,[Cornelious Jonson, Jesse Rushton, Joshua B. Hadley, Robert Coopper, John Mills, Thomas Harper, William Townsend, Nathan Cook, Robert H. Irvin, Silous Rushton, Martain Coopper, Eli Moon and Jesse Whippo.
The vote at this election was as follows: For Representative, Alexander Worth, twenty-four; Gideon Johnston, thirteen; for Associate Judges, Samuel Jessup, thirty-four; Elijah Anderson, twenty-three; James Downard, ten; for Clerk, Simon T. Hadley, thirty-eight; for Recorder, Simon T. Hadley, thirty-eight; for Com- missioner, James Trotter, thirty-two; for Coroner, Isaac Williams, eight; for School Commissioner, Harmon Hiatt, thirty-three.
POLITICAL.
In the days of the Whig party, Liberty Township distinguished itself for heavy Whig majorities; and since 1856 it has been as loyally Republican. Following is the vote of the township at each presidential election:
1882-Andrew Jackson ... 56
20
Henry_Clay. 36
1886-Wm. Henry Harrison. . 155
180
Martin Van Buren 25
1844-Henry Clay ..
246
169
1872-Ulysses 8. Grant.
854
205
Horace Greeley.
149
Lewis Cass. 98 Martin Van Buren 8
1852-Winfield Scott.
210
101
Franklin Pierce 109 John P. Hale ... 9
1856-John C. Fremont ..
247
147
James Buchanan. .100 Millard Fillmore. 21
187
1884-James G. Blaine ...
.387
Grover Cleveland.
189
Benjamin F. Butler
19
John P. St. John.
18
OFFICIAL.
The following lists are of those who have been incumbents of the various township offices, together with the years of their election: Justices of the Peace: James Grice, 1829; Robert Cooper, 1831; James Green, 1833; William T. Matlock, 1835; James S.
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1860-Abraham Lincoln .. 877 Stephen A. Douglas. ... 90
John C. Breckinridge .. 8
John Be!l. 7
1864-Abraham Lincoln ..
.885
270
George B. Mcclellan ... 65
1868-Ulysses S. Grant.
400
269
Horatio Seymour.
181
James K. Polk
77
James G. Birney.
8
1848-Zachary Taylor 199
106
1876-Rutherford B. Hayes ..
.352
167
Samuel J. Tilden .. . ..
.185
Peter Cooper.
44
1880-James A. Garfield ...... 419
243
Winfield S. Hancock. .. 176
James B. Weaver.
80
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Odell and J. S. Wills, 1836; Clayton T. Swindler, 1841; John W. Bryan, 1845; Nathan Meredith, 1847; John W. Bryan, 1849; Nathan Meredith and Clayton T. Swindler, 1851; Amos S. Wills, 1854; Jacob S. Redmond and Elisha Franklin, 1855; Amos S. Wills and Samuel J. Banta, 1858; Elisha Franklin and J. F. Powell, 1859; John P. McCormick, 1860; Amos S. Wills, 1862; Elisha Franklin, 1863; William Williams, 1864; Amos S. Wills and Abraham Bland, 1866; W. W. Irons, 1868; H. A. Marley, 1869; Amos S. Wills and Abraham Bland, 1870; Elisha Franklin and J. Ballard, 1872; Amos S. Wills and H. C. Harper, 1874; Amos Elmore and H. F. Swindler, 1876; Amos S. Wills and D. H. Watts, 1878; John Glover and Reuben Franklin, 1880; Alvin Graves, R. C. Franklin and William Shepherd, 1882; Dan Watts and M. F. Jones, 1884.
Constables: Goodwin Taylor and Blueford Wilson, 1832; Jo- seph Herron and Goodwin Taylor, 1833; Joel Richardson and Goodwin Taylor, 1834-'5; Goodwin Taylor and John McMul- len, 1836; Joseph Herron and Archibald McMichael, 1837; John J. McMullen and Joshua D. Parker, 1838; Joshua D. Parker and G. W. Wills, 1839; John J. McMullen and Alexander Mas- ters, 1844; Jacob R. Odell and John J. McMullen, 1846; Joel Jelf and Herbert Fansler, 1847; Joel Jelf and John J. McMullen, 1848; Joel Jelf and W. R. Lawhead, 1849; Benjamin Hiatt and John J. McMullon, 1850; Herbert Fansler and John J. McMullen, 1852; Herbert Fansler and Nathaniel Case, 1853; Thomas Canay, Asbury Ungles and John J. McMullen, 1854; G. W. Wills, H. Cook and Herbert Fansler, 1855; John J. McMullen, Thomas Hannah and Alfred Richardson, 1856; William Cox, John J. Mc- Mullen and Alfred Hadley, 1857; D. N. Hopwood, L. H. Kennedy and Henderson Cook, 1858; Squire Faulkner, William Cornett and W. W. Jones, 1859; William P. Cornett, John M. Cook and T. J. Kirtley, 1860; James J. Wills, William P. Cornett and John M. Cook, 1861; J. O. Riley, William J. Morgan and Joel Jelf, 1862; F. M. Cook, Jeremiah Johnson and A. S. McCormick, 1863; Will- iam Poulter, William J. Morgan and William H. Hussey, 1864; William J. Morgan, Zim Cook and Wes. McClure, 1865; J. S. Rhodes, D. C. Hooks and H. Pearson, 1866; Robert G. Little, E. W. Farmer and John A. Roberts, 1867; C. G Cantley, J. F. Mar- tin and J. A. Fricker, 1868; J. L. Rhodes, 1869; C. G. Curtley, William W. Jones and John Done, 1870; G. Adams and John Wills, 1872; John Worrell and John B. Cook, 1874; John Glover
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and Charles Maddox, 1876; John Glover, O. Winstead and Wes. Sawyer, 1878; James Sims, Oliver Winstead and Amos Marker, 1880; Fred Oakley, J. W. Bishop and George Esmon, 1882; George McHaffie and William Cline, 1884.
Trustees: Reuben A. Coverdale, 1856; Milo H. Moon, 1857, Young Short, 1858; Risdon C. Moore, 1859-'67; Daniel Cox, 1868; Alfred Hadley, 1869; Risdon C. Moore, 1870-'72; Alfred Hadley, 1874-'76; R. F. Reid, 1878; William C. Swindler, 1880-'82; Elisha Franklin, 1884.
Clerk: Taliaferro B. Miller, 1856-'58 (office abolished).
Treasurer: Risdon C. Moore, 1856-'58 (office abolished).
A88088078: Y. W. Short, 1870; James T. Walls, 1872; William C. Mitchell, 1874; W. J. Morgan, 1876; Elisha Franklin, 1878-'82.
OENSUS REPORT.
By the United States Census of 1880. the population of Liberty Township is 2,604. The following figures concerning property and taxation are for 1885: Acres of land assessed, 30,654.81; value of same, $875,587; value of improvements, $166,874; value of lots, $9,386; value of improvements, $25,904; value of person- alty, $397,450; total taxables, $1,475,201; polls, 440; dogs, 210; State tax, $1,990.24; county tax, $4,349.30; township tax, $885 .- 12; tuition tax, $2,765.36; special school tax, $7,596; road tax, $2,212.80; endowment tax, $73.76; bridge tax, $1,475.20; total taxes, $24,433.14; delinquent tax, $1,074.39.
CLAYTON.
Clayton is the largest village in Liberty Township, having 500 inhabitants. It is situated on the Vandalia Railroad, in the north- western part of the township, on sections 33 and 34. It was platted in 1851, by George W. Wills, and contains about .eleven acres, which tract was purchased from Elizabeth Wills. Its first name was Claysville, in honor of the Kentucky statesman, and had its name afterward changed because there was already a postoffice in the State by that name. The first house was built by Thomas Potts, and the second by Lewis T. Pounds, both frame structures. The first store was opened by Parker & Foote, the second by Richard and James Worrel, and the third by Morrison & Thomas, in which the first postoffice was kept by Benjamin F. Thomas, about 1852. The first hotel was built by George W. Wills, and was run by Ephraim Hartsuck.
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The first church was erected by the Cumberland Presbyterians upon a lot in the south part of the village, donated by Richard Worrel. The second was built by the Missionary Baptists in what was then the northwest corner of the village. The work was done by Amos S. Wills, and the cost was $1,200. This has since been replaced with a fine brick church, at a cost of $3,300, in size 40 x 60 feet, on the old site. The third church was the Christian, built in 1864 and dedicated the following year. It cost $2,300 and is 38 x 48 feet in size. The Methodist Episopal church was built in 1867, at a cost of $3,300, and is a substantial brick edifice.
The first physician was Dr. Lyon, following whom came Dr. C. T. Lawrence, The first Justice of the Peace was Amos S. Wills, elected in 1852. The first flouring mill was built in 1852 by John Miles and James Worrel. This mill has been remodeled and re- fitted, having now the roller process. The proprietors, Clark & Harrison, have an extensive business.
The first school was taught in 1852 in a frame building which is used now as a wagon shop. The present school building is a beau- tiful two-story structure, which contains six rooms. Its cost was $15,000.
The only elevator at Clayton was built by Johnson Bros. in 1882. It is 24 x 60 feet on the ground and sixty feet in height. Its capacity is 30,000 bushels.
RELIGIOUS.
The oldest religious society, as before mentioned, is the Cumber- land Presbyterian, organized about 1852, by Rev. Samuel Mitchell, with the following first members: Samuel Little and wife, A. T. Scott and wife, H. Smith and wife, John Alexander and wife and John Countt and wife. Their first house of worship was a frame structure erected in the south part of Clayton, in 1852, at a cost of $600, which was occupied till 1872, when it was moved to its pres- ent site, repaired, and for some time it was used by different denominations as a church. Samuel Little and Zach. Reagan were the first Elders of this society. The present Elders are Samuel Little and William Reagan. The present membership is about thirty-five. The pastor is Rev. Mr. Witherspoon.
The Missionary Baptist Church was founded March 11, 1854, by John Vawter, Jacob Rynearson, M. Elliot, Davis Boswell and Moses Crawford, who held letters of dismissal from the Belleville church, and a number of others, fifty-eight in all. The first Trus-
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tees elected were Richard Worrel, Francis Edmonson and John Rynearson. Rev. Joseph Roberts was called as the first pastor. Richard Worrel, Hiram Norman and James Glover were elected Deacons.
The Christian Church was organized Dec. 7, 1863, by Rev. Thomas Lockhart and O. P. Badger. Samuel B. Hall and John . R. Ballard were chosen as the first Elders, and George Acton and James Ferguson, Deacons. The charter members were sixty-three in number. The church built in 1865 cost $2,650. The pastors of the church have been Revs. Thomas Lockhart, O. P. Badger, Jem- erson, Sherman, Canfield, Miller, Jewel, Frank and Brewer. The membership at present (1885), under Rev. Urban C. Brewer, num- bers seventy-five. Elder Thomas Lockhart, now in his ninety- third year, has aided in the conversion of 7,000 souls, a wonderful record.
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