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Pike, like the other townships of Marion County, was laid out and erected a separate township by order of the county commissioners on the 16th of April,
1822, and on the same date and by the same au- thority it was joined to Wayne for township pur- poses (there being but few inhabitants in either), and the two together were deemed a single township, called the township of Pike and Wayne. This continued until May 10, 1824,1 when the commis- sioners of Pike separated from Wayne (the inhab- itants being sufficiently numerous), and an election was ordered to be held at the house of Alexis Jack- son for the choice of a justice of the peace on the 19th of June following, David MeCurdy to be in- speetor of election. At this election there were but seventeen votes cast, and John C. Hume was elected the first justice of the peace by a majority of three votes, Mr. Thomas Burns being his opponent for the judicial honors of the township. J. C. Hume at that time lived in the northern part of the township, in the Harman neighborhood, on the south part of the farm now owned by Samuel Hornaday, and Thomas Burns lived in the southwestern part of the township, on the east side of Eagle Creek, on the farms now owned and occupied by his grandsons, Thomas and Oliver Reveal.
Following is a list of township officers of Pike from its formation to the present time, viz. :
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Abraham Hendricks, June 15, 1822, to June 19, 1824.
Isaac Stephens, June 22, 1822, to February, 1824; removed. Jeremiah J. Corhaley, May 10, 1824, to June 19, 1824.
(The three preceding served for Pike and Wayne while these two townships were joined as one.) John C. Hume, Aug. 19, 1824, to May 16, 1827; resigned. Jacob Sheets, Ang. 27, 1825, to December, 1829; resigned. Austin Davenport, Ang. 9, 1827, to March 1, 1830; resigned. Zephaniah Hollingsworth, Feb. 19, 1830, to May 2, 1831; re- signed.
William C. Robinson, Fob. 20, 1830, to Feb. 12, 1835. Jesse Lane, April 0, 1830, to April 9, 1835.
Adam Wright, July 4, 1831, to July 4, 1834; resigned.
1 From that time until 1834 small parts of the counties of Hamilton, Boone, and Ilendrieks were included in this town- ship, but in the year last named the matter was brought before the Legislature by the llon. R. B. Duncan, and the northern and western lines established as they are now. Another ehange was made by which three sections of land originally belonging to Pike were thrown into Washington township, thus establishing the township lines as they are at present.
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Smith Isaac, Oct. 17, 1834, to Oct. 17, 1839. Nathaniel Bell, April 18, 1835, to April 15, 1845. Riley B. Hogshire, Jnne 9, 1838, to June 9, 1843. Daniel Cooper, Dec. 14, 1839, to Dec. 7, 1844. Daniel Cooper, Feb. 8, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1850. Benjamin Powell, May 6, 1845, to May 6, 1850. Nathaniel Bell, May 10, 1845, to July, 1846; removed. James Haines, Dec. 18, 1846, to Dec. 15, 1851. John C. Hume, April 12, 1856, to April 12, 1855. Riley B. Hogshire, May 8, 1850, to March 15, 1851; resigned. James Haines, Dec. 22, 1851, to Dec. 15, 1856. Fletcher Patterson, April 19, 1853, to April 19, 1857. John C. Hume, May 8, 1855, to May 3, 1859. Perry W. Cotton, Nov. 3, 1855, to Nov. 1, 1859. James lfaines, April 20, 1857, to November, 1860; died. Abner A. Wakeland, May 7, 1859, to April 22, 1861 ; resigned. Perry W. Cotton, Nov. 7, 1859, to Nov. 1, 1863. Joseph Patton, Dec. 6, 1866, to Sept. 22, 1863; resigned. John M. Voorhis, April 21, 1863, to Dec. 26, 1865; resigned. William R. McCnne, Nov. 5, 1863, to Nov. 1, 1867.
Abraham Artman, April 20, 1865, to May 24, 1867; resigned. Joseph F. Trowbridge, April 13, 1867, to Oct. 13, 1879; resigned. William R. McCune, Nov. 9, 1867, to Nov. 1, 1871. Mahlon B. Pentecost, April 25, 1868, to Nov. 16, 1868; resigned. Salathiel F. Pentecost, April 28, 1869, to Jaa. 31, 1871; re- signed.
Francis M. Hollingsworth, Oct. 28, 1872, to Oct. 28, 1876. Jobn C. Reed, April 9, 1878, to April 9, 1882. Francis M. Ilolliogsworth, July 9, 1878, to April 14, 1880. Tiry N. Hardin, Oct. 13, 1879, to June 27, 1882; removed. James M. Smith, May 11, 1882, to May 11, 1886. Robert Dunn, June 27, 1882, to April 14, 1884.
TRUSTEES.
John H. Wiley, April II, 1859, to April 11, 1866. Elihn Culver, April 11, 1866, to Jan. 13, 1861. William P. Long, Jan. 13, 1861, to April 13, 1861. James M. Draper, April 13, 1861, to April 17, 1863. John H. Wiley, April 17, 1863, to April 13, 1867. James H. Kennedy, April 13, 1867, to Oct. 29, 1876. Jeremiah Coble, Oct. 29, 1876, to April 10, 1886. Jasper N. Guion, April 16, 1880, to April 14, 1882. Jesse A. Avery, April 14, 1882, for two years.
ASSESSORS.
John B. Harmoa, Jan. 1, 1827, to Jan. 5, 1829. Jesse Davenport, Jan. 5, 1829, to Jan. 3, 1831. Joseph Staton, Jan. 3, 1831, to Jan. 2, 1832. William W. Harmon, Jan. 2, 1832, to May 5, 1835. Alexander Felton, May 5, 1835, to Jan. 4, 1836. Smith Isaac, Jan. 4, 1836, to March 7, 1836. Alexander Felton, March 7, 1836, to Jan. 2, 1837. William W. Harmon, Jan. 2, 1837, to Jan. 1, 1838. Smith Isaac, Jan. 1, 1838, to Jan. 7, 1839. Alexander Felton, Jan. 7, 1839, to Jan. 6, 1840.
Smith Isaac, Jan. 6, 1840, to Jan. 4, 1841. Alexander Felton, Jan. 4, 1841, to Dec. 6, 1841. Thomas W. Council, Dec. 16, 1852, to Nov. 20, 1854. John Bowers, Nov. 20, 1854, to April 7, 1855. Abraham Logan, April 7, 1855, to Dec. 4, 1856. James M. Draper, Dec. 4, 1856, to Nov. 20, 1858. Allen P. Wiley, Nov. 20, 1858, to Nov. 6, 1860. John M. Voorhis, Nov. 6, 1860, to Nov. 16, 1862. John Sonerwine, Nov. 16, 1862, to Nov. 26, 1864. Jacob R. Wilson, Nov. 26, 1864, to Oct. 27, 1866. Joseph Loftin, Oct. 27, 1866, to Ang. 1, 1873. Samuel H. Schenck, March 23, 1875, to Oct. 23, 1876. Joseph Loftin, Oct. 23, 1876, to April 16, 1880. Jacob Sonerwine, April 16, 1880, to April 14, 1882. Jacob H. Heisay, April 14, 1882, to April 14, 1884.
From the best information now to be obtained the first white man who settled in this township was James Harman, who was a native of Pulaski County, Ky., and a soldier in the war of 1812. He came to Indiana and first located in Rush County, and in 1820 came to Marion County and settled in the north part of Pike township, on the east side of Eagle Creek, where he lived until the 20th day of Novem- ber, 1832, when he sold out to Wesley Marklin, and moved to the farm where Richard Carter now lives. He lived there for a few years, and then moved to Boone County, Ind., near Zionsville, where he died. Mr. Harman raised twelve children, some of whom still live in the neighborhood where they passed the years of their youth.
The next settler in the township is supposed to have been David McCurdy, Sr. He was born in Ireland in the year 1777, and at the age of two years he with his mother (then a widow) came to New York, where he lived uutil 1818. He then came to Indiana and settled near Noblesville, on White River, in Hamilton County, and lived there until 1820 or 1821, when he came to Marion County and settled in Pike township, west of Eagle Creek, on the farm now owned and occupied by James White. Mr. McCurdy owned at one time two thousand five hundred and eighty acres of land along Eagle Creek in this township. In a few years he moved to the southwest part of the township, ou the farm which he made his home until his death. He built the first grist-mill in the township, on Eagle Creek, at what is known as the MeCurdy
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Ford, where the citizens got their corn and wheat ground for a number of years, the flour being bolted by hand. He also owned and ran a small distillery just south of the residence of his son Samuel. Mr. McCurdy was married twice. He had ten children by his first wife and ten by the second, equally divided between the sexes. All lived to maturity, and settled in this seetion and shared in their father's large estate. Mr. McCurdy was honest in all his dealings, kind and liberal to the poor, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jones' Chapel, and very liberal in its support. He died at the age of eighty-four years, and was buried at Jones' Chapel Cemetery, where a fine monument marks his grave.
Samuel MeCurdy, a son of David MeCurdy, Sr., was born in Pike township, Jan. 11, 1840, and lives on the old farm and homestead, where his father died. His residence (built by his father) is the first brick house built in the township. Samuel McCurdy is one of the wealthiest men in Pike township; is extensively engaged in farming and stock-raising. He owns six hundred and thirty acres of excellent land, and has built two miles of gravel road at his own expense. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
John B. Harman, born in Virginia, emigrated thence to Kentucky, thenee to Bartholomew County, Ind., and in 1821 came with a wife and two children to Pike township, and settled in the north part of the township, west of Eagle Creek, on the farm now owned by Samuel Hornaday. In 1829 he was assessed on the northeast quarter of section 15, township 17, range 2. In 1837 he sold out, and removed to Boone County. His wife was Mary Findley, to whom he was married in 1817, and they became the parents of six sons and two daughters. After his arrival here he traded with the Indians, and was on friendly terms with them while. they re- mained in this region, but afterwards he saw some- thing of their hostility. He had served in the war of 1812, and volunteered for service in the Black Hawk war of 1832, in which he became a captain. At one time, at the elose of a very fatiguing march, he, with about thirty-five men who were with him,
was attacked by the savages, and all were killed ex- eept himself and one other man, who eseaped by leaving their horses and swimming a swollen stream. Capt. Harman died in Boone County in June, 1860. .
James Delong was one of the earliest settlers in Pike. He came here in 1822, first settling in the northern part of the township, and in 1823 he bought out Elijah Standridge, on the east side of Eagle Creek, two miles south of Trader's Point. The farm (two hundred and fourteen aeres of excel- lent land) is now owned by Jacob Delong, his second son, who was born on the farm, and has lived on it sixty years, this being the longest continuous residence of any man in the township.
Chesley Ray, Sr., a native of North Carolina, came to Pike township in the winter of 1822-23, and set- tled with his family (wife and two children) on land now owned by Amos Smith, east of Eagle Creek. Some years afterwards he bought an eighty-acre tract, now land of William Jennings. He was also owner of several other farms at different times. He moved to Illinois, and died there in 1869, in his seventy-first year. He had five children,-three sons and two daughters. His first wife was the second adult person who died in this township, in May, 1826.
. Joseph Staton was a Virginian by birth (born in 1796), was married in 1818 to Cidna Tarns, and in 1823 came with his family (wife and three children) to settle in Pike, on Staton's Creek,-their nearest neighbor then being three miles distant. Mr. Staton died at the age of sixty-six years, two months, and fifteen days. He raised four sons and four daughters. His eldest two sons, Reuben and Washington Staton, own the lands on which their father and mother settled sixty years ago.
George Haines, Sr., was a native of Pennsylvania, moved in his youth to Kentucky, and came to Pike township in October, 1824, settling on the farm after- wards owned by Ira Hollingsworth. After a few years he moved to Missouri. He had seven. sons and four daughters, and raised them all. His son George was famed as the largest man in this township, being six feet seven inehes high. Another son, Absalom, now approaching his threescore and ten years, has
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lived in Marion County almost continuously for nearly sixty years.
Abraham McCorkle was a native of Fleming County, Ky. He came to this township in 1824, and entered one hundred and twenty acres of land on the west side of Eagle Creek, in the western part of the township. On this tract he built a cabin, and in 1825 (October 26th), with his wife and child, com- menced housekeeping in the woods of this part of the township. He was one of the original members of Jones' Chapel (Methodist Episcopal Church), and donated the ground for the meeting-house and ceme- tery.
Hon. Robert B. Duncan came to this township in 1824 (when but a lad), and lived with his brother-in- law, William C. Robinson, and also with his uncle, John Duncan. Iu 1827 he left, and went to the then village of Indianapolis to educate himself. He lived with James M. Ray, and worked for his board while at school. His subsequent career is too well known to the people of the county to need extended mention here.
David Wilson, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania in 1801. In 1825 he came to Indiana and settled in this township, on the west side of Eagle Creek, on the land now owned and occupied by Thomas Parker. He owned several other tracts of land in the town- ship. His wife was Annie Railsback, and they raised thirteen children, eight sons and five daugh- ters. David Wilson at one time owned a saw-mill and grist-mill, and carried on the milling busi- ness quite extensively for a number of years. He died Nov. 30, 1853, and was buried on his farm. His widow is still living, and is eighty years old. She was one of the original members of Ebenezer Christian Church, and is now a faithful Christian, holding her membership in one of the Christian Churches at Indianapolis, where she lives with her children. Her house was the preachers' home while she lived in Pike township.
John C. Hume was born in 1790 in Harrisburg, Pa., whence he removed with his father to the State of New York in 1804. After a time he engaged in the occupation of civil engineer, and as such laid ont the plat of the city of Rochester, N. Y. He was
married in 1813 to Martha Rodman, in New York, and in 1815 he removed to Washington County, Ind., where lie resided until 1821 or 1822, when he took up his residence in Marion County. He located where the city of Indianapolis now stands, which place at that time contained but a half-dozen log cabins. He was among the first settlers of the county. He served fourteen years as justice of the peace, seven years as probate judge of Marion County, and four years as circuit judge of McLean County, Ill., to which State he removed ia 1837. After the expiration of his term of office in Illinois he returned to this township, where he lived uninterruptedly until his death.
Stephen Gullefer, a Virginian by birth, came to Pike township in 1827. In 1829 he was assessed on the northwest quarter of section 7, township 16, range 3. His son, Aaron Gullefer, was born in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., in 1796; emigrated with his father to Ohio ; thence to Wayne County, Ind., in 1821; thence moved to Pike township in 1827. He owned lands on Little Eagle Creek, near Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, and elsewhere in the township. The farm he lived ou is now owned by Henry Gullefer and Jacob Heine. Aaron Gullefer was married in 1821 to Lydia Hollingsworth. They had three sons and three daughters. Mr. Gullefer died in 1852.
Joseph Loftin, Sr., was a North Carolinian by birth. He emigrated thence to Wayne township, Marion Co., about 1826. In 1830 he moved from Wayne to the northeast part of Pike township, and settled on lands which are now owned by the Loftin family, and the homestead farm occupied by Joseph Loftin's youngest son. He had ten children, five sons and five daughters. Three of the sons became physicians. The eldest, Hon. Sample Loftin, has been treasurer of Marion County. Joseph Loftin, Jr., a native of Wayne township, and now fifty-six years of age, is one of the most prominent men of Pike township. He was township assessor for about fourteen years, trustee for two years, and in 1882 was elected county commissioner. He was engaged in school-teaching for a number of years, and taught the first school at the school-house called Poplar Cot-
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tage, a name given to it by him because it was a very low building of poplar logs. Mr. Loftin is active in politics, and bears the reputation of being one of the best-informed men in the county on political matters.
Nieholas Hightshue was born in Germany in 1794, and settled in Maryland in 1805. From there he moved to Perry County, Ohio, and in 1829, with his wife and five children, settled in the northwest corner of Pike township. They raised seven chil- dren, two sons and five daughters, all of whom are still living. Nicholas Hightshue served through the war of 1812. He was one of the original mem- bers of Ebenezer Christian Church, and served as an elder for many years. He died in 1858, and his wife in 1859.
The Hollingsworth and Klingensmith families were the most numerous of any in Pike township. There were twenty-four Hollingsworths and twenty-two Klingensmiths, voters, on the registry roll at one time in 1865-66. The Hollingsworths were Republicans and the Klingensmiths Democrats. The Hollings- worths were members of the Christian and Meth- odist Churches, while the Klingensmiths were mostly members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Zephaniah Hollingsworth was born in South Caro- lina, near Charleston, on the 6th of September, 1787, and was married to Polly Dayley on the 12th of Oc- tober, 1806. In May, 1807, he, with his wife and son, George D. (who was then only six weeks old), emigrated to Montgomery County, Ohio. Polly rode a paek-horse, carrying her babe, and their bedding and wearing apparel, the distance being nearly six hundred miles. They remained in Ohio until May, 1828. They settled in this township, on Little Eagle Creek, near Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, on the land now owned by W. H. Broug- hard. They reared five children,-three sons and two daughters,-who all lived to maturity. Only two are now alive,-the oldest son, George D. Hol- lingsworth, and the daughter Jane.
George Hollingsworth, born near Charleston, S. C., in 1801, emigrated at the age of six years, with his father to Ohio, and in 1819 moved thence to Ran- dolph County, Ind., from which plaec be came to
Pike township. His name appears, with that of Zephaniah Hollingsworth, on the assessment-roll of the township for 1829, but neither of them were then assessed on any real estate. Both paid poll- taxes in the township in that year, and Zephaniah Hollingsworth was assessed on two horses. The lands on which George Hollingsworth settled were located on Little Eagle Creek, and he built a saw- mill on that stream, which was one of the early mills of the township. He died in 1860, having reared a family of ten children, of which the youngest is Syl- vanus Hollingsworth, who was born in this township, and now lives on the farm on which he was raised. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and is regarded as one of the leading agriculturists of the township.
Joseph Klingensmith, Samuel Rodebaugh, and Peter Anthony came to Pike township with their families (each having a wife and four children) in 1829. They were from Western Pennsylvania, and passed down the Ohio River with their families and household goods on a flat-boat to Cincinnati, where they disembarked, sold their boat, and finished their journey to this township by wagons, arriving in the early part of August in the year named. Joseph Klingensmith settled near where New Augusta Station now is, on the land now owned by Simon Klingensmith, his second son. Samuel Rodebaugh settled east and south of the centre of the township, on the land now owned by Joseph Rodebaugh. Peter Anthony settled near the centre of the town- ship, on the farm known as the Daniel Meyers farm. Of this party of early settlers, but two who were then adults are now living,-Esther Klingensmith, who is eighty years old, and lives on the old farm, with her son Simon; Sally, wife of Samuel Rode- baugh, is also one of the survivors, is cighty-one years old, and lives on the old farm with her young- est son, Joseph Rodebaugh.
Simon Rodebaugh, son of Samuel and Sally Rode- baugh, was born in Pennsylvania, and was nine years old when his parents came to this country. He lives in the eastern part of the township, on some of the land his father entered. He owns three hundred and fifteen acres of good land, is a good farmer, and
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is somewhat extensively engaged in the business of stock-raising.
Joseph Klingensmith, Jr., was a native of Penn- sylvania. He came to this township in 1835, and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in the eastern part of the township, and just south of the centre east and west. His oldest son, Oliver, now owns and occupies the land. He is a good farmer, and is extensively engaged in the manufacture of drain-tile. He ran the first tile-mill in the township; is treas- urer of the Marion County tile-maker organization. He has also been engaged quite extensively in the saw-mill business.
Emanuel Meichal came to Marion County in 1828, and first located in Wayne township. In 1833 he came to Pike, and settled between one and two miles northeast of Old Augusta, on the Michigan road. He is a North Carolinan by birth, is now seventy-four years old, and has lived in this township for half a century, except about two years when he resided in Hamilton County.
Wesley Marklin came to this county from North Carolina in November, 1832, and settled on the north line of Pike township, east of Eagle Creek. His wife was Margaret Green, to whom he was married in 1832. They have raised one son and three daughters, and have lived together as man and wife more than fifty-one years. He is now seventy-four, and his wife sixty-seven years old. He has been a great hunter, and some have called him the Daniel Boone of Pike township.
Thomas Burns was an early settler in Pike. He owned a large farm in the southwestern part of the township, and in connection with Jedediah Read, one of his neighbors, carried on the first tan-yard in this township. He was an enterprising man and a good farmer. The farm on which he lived is now owned and occupied by his grandsons, Thomas and Oliver Reveal. They are energetie and enterprising citizens, and are extensively engaged in farming.
A. B. Smock was a son of Peter Smock, who came to this township in 1826, and bought eighty aeres of land near the centre of the township, on what is now the Zionsville and Pike township gravel road. The land is now owned by Newton Pollard. A. B. Smoek
served during the Mexican war in the Fourth Indiana Regiment. He also volunteered in the late war of the Rebellion in Capt. Black's company, Sixty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteers. He has at different times been extensively engaged in the saw-mill busi- ness, is now a retired farmer, is sixty-three years old, and the only Mexican soldier living in the township.
Thomas B. Jones came from Franklin County, Ind., to Marion County in 1824. He was married to Jane Speer, daughter of Robert Speer, Sr., Jan. 18, 1826, by Jeremiah Corbaley, Esq., of Wayne township, where they then resided. In the spring of 1826 they moved to this township and built a cabin on the west side of Eagle Creek, one-quarter of a mile southwest of where Jones Chapel (Meth- odist Episcopal Church) now stands. They raised eight children (six daughters and two sons), of which four daugliters and the two sons are still living. Aunt Jane Jones, as she is called, is still living, and makes her home with her son, J. T. Jones, west of Clermont. She is in her seventy-ninth year, is a regular attendant at church, and has been for sixty- five years. She is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Churchi.
Craig Jones was a native of Kentucky. He came to Marion County in 1821 and lived with his brother, John B. Jones, in Wayne township, near old Union Christian Church. He was married to Sally Speer Sept. 30, 1830, and in October following they settled in Pike township, on the cast side of Eagle Creek, on the farm now owned by the Davenport heirs. They lived there thirty-two years; then went to Iowa, lived there seven years, came back to Indiana, and settled in Hendricks County. Mr. Jones died July 7, 1880. They had no children of their own, but raised several orphans. Aunt Sally, as she is called, is now living in Clermont, Wayne township. She is now in her seventy-second year, and has been a member of the Christian Church for fifty-six years.
Jonathan Ingo came to this township in 1829 with George Coble, and settled near the site of Old Au- gusta. The farm was afterwards owned by David Boardman and Thomas Council, and is now owned by Mr. Collins.
Seth Rodebaugh, son of Christopher Rodebaugh,
George W Aston
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was born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and was raised by his uncle, Adam Rodebaugh, wbo came to Ohio in an early day. He was married to Mary Hollings- worth July 9, 1817, and in March, 1818, moved to Randolph County, Ind. In 1825 he, with his wife and four children, came to Marion County, and settled in Pike township, on Little Eagle Creek, on the farm now owned and occupied by Jacob Meyers. Rode- baugh sold to Meyers in 1844 or 1845, and went West. He died during the " Border Ruffian War" in Kansas. His wife and children remained in this township, Mrs. Rodebaugh living with her children, of whom she had eight, six daughters and two sons. She is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Laycock. She is eighty-five years of age, the oldest person in the township.
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