History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, Part 108

Author: Sulgrove, Berry R. (Berry Robinson), 1828-1890
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 942


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school- and meeting-house, and John Alford, Sr., was superintendent for a number of years.


The Pleasant Hill Church is still an organization, but meets at Brooks' Methodist Episcopal Chapel at Trader's Point, the old Pleasant Hill Church having been replaced by a new church at the Point, built in 1873, for the better accommodation of its members. The history of this church was given by Silas White, Sr., who came to this township in 1828, on the 26th of November. Ile is now seventy-nine years of age, and has been a regular attendant at church for fifty- two years.


Jones Chapel, Methodist Episcopal Church. - The first meeting of this organization was held at Thomas B. Jones' house in 1828, and conducted by Joseph Tarkington, who was then on this circuit. The names of the members in the first organization were Thomas B. Jones, Jane Jones, Polly Jones, John Jones, Mary Jones, James M. Jones, Jemima Jones, Sarah Jones, A. B. McCorkle, Nancy Mc- Corkle, David McCurdy, Mary A. McCurdy, Stacy Starkey, Margaret Starkey, Margaret Wilson, Susan Plummer, William Davis, Jane Davis, Richard Douty, Alexis Jackson, Mary Jackson, Benjamin Morning, Margaret Morning, Charles Tomlinson, Edna Tom- linson, Mary Tomlinson, Nancy Davis, Sarah Parish, Margaret McCall, Elizabeth Coughran.


The preachers to the Jones Chapel congregation were those of the circuit and some local preachers, and are namncd, as nearly as they can be ascertained, in the history of the Pleasant Hill Methodist Epis- copal Church, to which reference may be had. The church was built on a tract of two acres, donated by Abraham McCorkle for that purpose and for a burial- ground. The first person interred in that ground was Jemima Jones.


Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church was first organized by holding meetings at Robert Ramsey's (where James C. Meyers now lives), and at Abram Wells' residence (where Leander Felton now lives). The original members were Robert Ramsey, Jane Ramsey, Abram Wells, Nancy Wells, Samuel Ewing, Sarah Ewing, Fanny Felton, Nancy Felton, Stephen Gullefer, and Betsey Gullefer. The first preacher who preached for this class was the Rev. Bramble. All !


the Methodist Episcopal Churches of this township were in the Danville Circuit, and all had the same circuit riders. The list of preachers is given in the history of Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church.


In 1832, Aaron Gullefer donated land for a meet- ing-house, and Zephaniah Hollingsworth gave land for cemetery purposes. Matilda Starkey was the first person buried in this ground, in June, 1832. Stephen Gullefer, Sr., was the second person buried here, in July, 1832. The first sermon preached in the meet- ing-house was at the funeral of Steplien Gullefer, Sr., by the Rev. John Klinger. Soon after the comple- tion of the church a Sunday-school was organized, and is still one of the best organizations in the town- ship. Stephen Gullefer is the present superintendent. In 1832 the Washingtonian Temperance Society was organized here, with Samuel Frazier, Leonard West, Samuel Ewing, and others as leaders of the organi- zation.


This organization was maintained for several years, when the Sons of Temperance was organized, with Samuel Frazier as leader of this organization, which was kept up for several years.


The Methodist Episcopal Church at Old Au- gusta was organized in 1833 by Rev. Thomas Brown, who was on the circuit at that time, but meetings had been held prior to that in the cabins of James Fec, Elias Fee, and Michael Mitchell. The first preachers who met with the early settlers here were Bramble and White. When the meeting- house was built the Rev. Thomas Brown preached the dedi- catory sermon. The first members in the church were James Fee, Nellie Fee, Elias Fee, Mary Fee, Samuel Fee, Simon Boardman, Margaret Boardman, Thomas Bonner and wife, Esther Bowers, James Hubbard (who is still living in Washington township at the age of ninety-nine years), Nancy Hubbard. A. G. Boardman and John Bowers became members soon after the church was organized. The same preachers were employed here that preached at Pleas- ant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. There was a Sunday-school soon afterwards organized, with Samuel Fee as superintendent, and an attendance of twenty scholars. Mr. Fee was succeeded as superintendent by A. G. Boardman in 1837. He continued in that


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capacity while the church and school remained at Old Augusta, which was till about 1871, when, for the better convenience of members, a new house was built at New Augusta, and the organization was transferred to that place.


North Liberty Christian Church was organized in May, 1841, hy the Rev. Thomas Lockhart, who is now in his eighty-ninth year and is still preaching. The officers of the church were Samuel Frazier and Leonard West, elders, and James Haines and Isom Lawrence, deacons. The original members of the church were Asa Hollingsworth, Susannah Hol- lingsworth, Ira Hollingsworth, Deborah Hollings- worth, Jonathan Hollingsworth, Kuhn Hollingsworth, Daniel Hollingsworth, Emily Hollingsworth, Samuel Frazier, Martha Frazier, James Haines, Mary Haines, Allison Pollard, Mary Pollard, Thomas Turley, Mary A. Turley, John Fox and wife, William Draper and wife, Mary Draper, Mrs. Avery, wife of Andrew Avery, Constantine Evans and wife, Leonard West, Anna West, Harrison Deony, George L. Sanders and wife, Martha Finney, Amanda Jones, William Starkey, Nancy Starkey, Rebecca Kemple, Elizabeth Hawkins. These are the names as far as can be had from memory of the first organization. Daniel Hol- lingsworth and wife, Thomas Turley and wife, Samuel Frazier, Rebecca Cropper, and Deborah Hollings- worth, who were original members of this church, are still living.


The formation of this church (which was one of the strongest Christian Churches in Central Indiana) was the result of a protracted meeting which was held in May, 1841, at Bell's school-house at night, and in the woods by day for eighteen days. The meeting was held by Thomas Lockhart, assisted by Jefferson Matlock, both of Hendricks County. Lockhart con- tinued to preach for this church for thirty or thirty- five years. Other preachers were L. H. Jamison, B. K. Smith, Asa Hollingsworth, Samuel Frazier, Elijah Goodwin, George Snoddy, John O. Kane, James M. Mathis, the Rev. Chalen, W. B. Hopkins, Thomas Conley, Joseph Sadler, John Brown, Matthew Coun- cil, John Hadley, W. R. Jewell, J. B. New, Nathan Hornaday, George Smith, Robert Edmanson, W. R. Couch, Irwin Brewer, Rev. Becknal, S. K. Houshour,


Joho Barnhill, Aaron Walker, and others whose names do not appear on the church record.


For a number of years a good Sunday-school was taught at this place, with Leonard West as superin- tendent ; but many of the members of the church have died, others have moved away, and there has been no church organization here for seven years. The house has been abandoned except for funeral occasions. Leonard West donated one acre of land for church purposes, and James Haines donated an acre for a burial-ground.


Ebenezer Christian Church (so named by the Rev. Alexander Miller) was organized in 1834 by the Rev. Jesse Frazier, with Sally Jones, Annie Wilson, Daniel Barnhill, Elizabeth Barnhill, Lewis Mitchell, Chesley Ray, Jane Ray, Nicholas Hight- shue, Alexander Miller, and Mary Miller as original members. Its first elders were Alexander Miller and Chesley Ray. The Rev. Jesse Frazier con- tinned to preach to this church for a number of years. The first meetinge were held alternately at the residences of Lewis Mitchell and Alexander Mil- ler, and in the spring of 1834 they built the first Christian Church of this township, Annie Wilson donating the ground. Her husband furnished the lumber and helped to build the church. It is still an organization, with a membership of one hundred and fifty. The same preachers who preached in North Liberty Christian Church preached also for the Ebenezer Church except " blind Billy Wilson," who preached for this church many years ago. The pres- ent officers of the church are Thomas T. Glidenell and James G. Dickerson, elders ; James A. Snyder and John Black, deacons; F. M. Hollingsworth, clerk ; and James A. Snyder, treasurer. A Sunday- school was organized many years ago in connection with this church, with John Miller as its first super- intendent. Its last superintendent was Marshall S. Glidenell, who held the office at the suspension of the school about three years ago.


Old Augusta Christian Church was organized in 1846, with Joseph Loftin, Sr., Mary Loftin, T. W. Council, Hester J. Council, B. F. Berry and wife, Simeon Head, Malinda Head, John Sheets, Mary Sheets, John Moss, Peter Daubenspeck, Alexander


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West, Temperance West, Thomas Reveal and wife as members. Council, Moss, and Reveal were chosen elders. This church was prosperous for a number of years, and was ministered to by most of the same preachers who served North Liberty and Ebenezer Churches. By reason of the emigration of some of the leading members of this church and the death of others, it ceased to be an organization for a num- ber of years; but in the last few years, through the earnest efforts of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stucker and some others, it has been revived, with Mr. Stucker as elder, and it now has regular service every Sunday and also a good Sunday-school.


The Christian Chapel at New Augusta was built in 1872 by subscription at a cost of twenty-five hundred dollars, and the church was organized by the Rev. W. R. Jewell, with William Pollard and Henry Dobson as elders, Hardress Avery and B. F. Abrams as deacons, and Milo Johnson clerk. The members were Allison Pollard, Mary Pollard, Eliza Gutherie, Alice Soucrwine, Henry Pollard, Ann Pol- lard, Henry Dobson, Sarah Dobson, Rachel Pollard, Hardress Avery, Nancy Avery, B. F. Abrams, Caro- line Abrams, Allen Avery, E. A. Avery, Henry Pol- lard, Candace Pollard, Mary A. Broughard, Sarah A. Pollard, James Holley, Harriet Holley, Rachel Crop- per, Sarah Cropper, and Anna Crull. The Rev. Mr. Jewell continued to preach for the church for one year, and was followed by J. M. Canfield, who preached one year, Robert Edmonson one year, then Jewell one year again, L. H. Jamison one year, R. T. Brown one year, W. R. Couch one year, H. R. Pritchard one year, Walter S. Tingley one year, then a vacancy for two or three years. The Rev. Mr. Gilchrist is now preaching for the congregation. The church num- bers about one hundred. It has had a good Sunday- school since the organization of the church, with some one of its most prominent members as superin- tendent. The present superintendent is William Pollard.


Prospect Presbyterian Church was organized about 1835, at Burns' school-house, by the families of Thomas Burns, Thomas McMannis, James Moore, James Duncan, John Duncan, Joseph Patten, and some others. In a few years after the organization


they built a house for worship on the northwest corner ol' James Duncan's land (where the Rural Academy now stands), and the first preacher who occupied the pulpit there was the Rev. Stewart, who continued to preach for this church for a number of years. After him the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (the noted Brook- lyn divine) preached here, and he was followed by the Rev. Reed, who preached for the church for a number of years, and the Rev. Long, who was the last minister of this church. As some of its leading members had moved to the West, and others had died, the house was sold for a school-house, and is now known as Rural Academy.


Hopewell Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized at the residence of John Klingensmith, in 1836, by the Rev. Abraham Reck. The members of the organization were John Klingensmith, Susan Klingensmith, Peter Anthony, Hannah Anthony, George Coble, Sarah Coble, Jacob Klingensmith, Joseph Klingensmith, Esther Klingensmith, George Klingensmith, Cecilia Klingensmith, Michael Kep- ple, Polly Kepple, Jacob Souerwine, Elizabeth Souer- wine, Isaac Meyers, and Catharine Meyers. They continued to meet at Klingensmith's residence until 1840, when a house of worship was built on Klingen- smith's land, of which he donated one acre for that and cemetery purposes. This house was never en- tircly finished, but was used to hold meetings in until 1855, when the old house was sold and the congre- gation then met at centre school-house (where Newton Pollard's residence now stands). They met here until 1859, when a new house of worship was built at Augusta Station, Joseph Klingensmith donating the land for church purposes. This house was used until the congregation was too large for it, and a new brick meeting-house was built at a cost of five thousand dollars. It is one of the finest church edifices in the county outside the city of Indianapolis. In the spring of 1880 the new house was opened for worship, and the Rev. A. V. Hurse, of Rochester, Ind., preached the dedicatory sermon. This church has always been prosperous, and now has a membership of about one hundred communicants. It has had preaching reg- ularly since its organization. Its first preacher was Abraham Reck, who was followed by Ephraim Rudacil,


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Samuel Good, John Livingood, Eusatius Hinkle, Philo Ground, Ephraim Wisner, M. J. Sterewalt, Jacob Wisner, W. C. L. Lower, John Hursh, and J. C. Barb; these preachers preached from two to six years each. Since the organization of this church it has manintained a good Sunday-school, for a number of years some one of its leading members acting as superintendent. Its present superintendent is Elias Klingensmith.


Schools .- The first schools of this township were taught in the cabins of the early settlers, and some of the scholars had to walk several miles to attend school. The first school of the township was taught by George L. Conard, in a cabin on David McCurdy's land, on the west bank of Eagle Creek, near where James McCurdy's saw-mill was built, on the farm now owned by James White. The second school was taught in a cabin on the land of Capt. John B. Harman. The next school in this part of the town- ship was in Pleasant Hill school and meeting-house, on the southeast corner of the Busenbarick land. The next school was in the southeast part of the township, in the Staton neighborhood, in a cabin on the land now owned by Thomas Ramsey, where James C. Meyers lives, on the Lafayette road. This school was taught by Hugh Wells. The next school was taught by Oliver Shirtliff, in a cabin where Jones Chapel now stands, on the land then owned by Abrahamn McCorkle. Then the Burns school-house was built, on the east side of the creek, in 1830 or 1831.


When the township was sufficiently settled several school-houses were built, with better accommodations for the scholars than the cabins had afforded. They were about sixteen by twenty feet in size, and high enough for the large scholars to stand upright. The doors were hung outside; holes were cut in the walls and greased paper pasted over them, and they were called windows. The furniture consisted of split poles with legs in them for the scholars to occupy, and they were called seats. The requirements of a Hoosier schoolmaster was to be able to teach spell- ing, reading, writing, and ciphering to the single rule of three. They were paid very small wages for their work, usually receiving six to ten dollars per


month and board themselves, but the teacher was always a welcome visitor at the homes of the patrons of the schools, and generally boarded among the scholars.


The teachers in the days of the log school-houses were George L. Conard, Oliver Shirtliff, Claiborne Lewis, Daniel Cooper, William Martin, Hugh Wells, William Harbert, Alexander Felton, Richard Miller, David Boardman, James T. Morgan, David Moss (now Gen. Moss, of Noblesville), Daniel Griffin, and others whose names are yet familiar to some of the older inhabitants of this township. In 1843 a new set of teachers, with new rules and regulations for the government of schools, came upon the stage of ac- tion. Among these reformed and more humane teach- ers were Nancy Felton (who was the first female teacher of the township), William Paten, John Bowers, Alfred Hawkins, Harriet Huffman, Oliver Felton, Joseph Loftin, John Laycock, Mary A. Hightshue, Samuel Martin, Patsey Bell, James Dobson, and others.


In 1853-54 the township was divided into twelve school districts, frame houses were built, and the teachers required to furnish a certificate of compe- tency from the county board of education to teachı all the common school branches, and maintain a good moral character. This was the inauguration of the free-school system. The teachers were paid by the month out of the township school fund, and cor- poral punishment was almost entirely abandoned.


The township now has twelve school-houses, as good as any township in the county. The value of the school property in 1883 was ten thousand dollars. The school enumeration for 1883, between six and twenty-one years of age, was: males, four hundred and eighteen ; females, four hundred and two ; total, eight hundred and twenty. There are fifteen teach- ers employed at the twelve school-houses, at an aver- age of forty-six dollars per month, and the school terms are six or seven months. The teachers are Jesse C. Smith, -- Whitaker, M. S. Glidenell, Ella Jennings, Henry Green, John Vantine, M. J. Wagle, John Mckinsey, F. M. Klingensmith, Ed- ward Hungate, Jesse Dunn, - Plackard, John Barnhill, and Kate Davidson.


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CHAPTER XXVI.


WARREN TOWNSHIP.1


THE township of Warren is the central one of the eastern range of townships of Marion County, Lawrence township joining it on the north, and Franklin on the south. It is bounded on the west by Centre township, and on the east by Hancock County. The population of Warren township, by the United States census of 1880, was three thou- sand one hundred and seven.


In the western, southwestern, and northwestern parts of the township the surface is but slightly un- dulating. The east part is more broken and rolling. The soil is either a black loam or clayey. This township is uot excelled by any in the county for the production of grass, and the soil is also well adapted to the production of corn and wheat.


Originally, Warren township was thickly covered with timber, and had many low marshes and swamps. The kinds of timber were principally beech, maple, white-, red-, and burr-oak, hickory, poplar, elm, ash, sycamore, walnut, buckeye, bass, mulberry, and iron- wood. The timber was of large growth, with very thick underbrush.


Warren township is afforded good drainage by Buck Creek on the east, Lick Creek through the centre and south, and Pleasant Run in the northwest. The marshes have all disappeared, and now but little waste land is to be found in the township.


At an early date the principal road through the township was the Centreville road, about a quarter of a mile south of where the National gravel road is now. After the location of the National road the Centreville road was vacated. Now the principal roads are the National, Brookville, and German pikes. But few dirt roads are left in the township.


Warren township was laid off and erected by the county commissioners on the 16th of April, 1822, but, being then not sufficiently populous for separate organization, it was at the same time joined to Centre township, the two to be regarded as one township, under the name of Centre-Warren. This union


continued until May 1, 1826, when, by order of the county board of justices, Warren was taken from Centre, to be separately organized as a township, and an election of justice of the peace was ordered to be held, on the 3d of June following, at the house of Rufus Jennison, Harris Tyner to be judge of the election. At this election Rufus Jennison was elected justice of the peace. Following is a list of township officers of Warren, from its erection as a township to the present time, viz. :


JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.


Wilks Reagan, June 14, 1822, to April 15, 1826; resigned. Sismund Basye, June 14, 1822, to June 3, 1826. Obed Foote, June 14, 1822, to June 3, 1826.


(The three preceding served as justices for Centre and War-


ren townships while they were united as one.)


Rufus Jennison, Aug. 7, 1826, to Nov. 3, 1828 ; resigned.


Henry Brady, Aug. 25, 1828, to Aug. 14, 1833. Solomon Wells, March 17, 1829, to Sept. 3, 1832; resigned. Joshua Black, Aug. 27, 183t, to Aug. 27, 1836. Elias N. Shimer, Oct. 27, 1832, to Oct. 27, 1837.


Joseph S. Mix, Oct. 15, 1834, to April 18, 1836 : resigned.


James P. Hanna, June 8, 1836, to June 8, 1841.


Lyman Carpenter, Nov. 30, 1836, to July 4, 1838 ; resigned. Elias N. Shimer, Dec. 5, 1837, to Deo. 5, 1842.


Ambrose Shirley, Jaly 31, 1838, to Aug. 23, 1840; resigned. Edward lleizer, Dec. 14, 1839, to Dec. 7, 1844.


John A. Buell, Sept. 29, 1840, to December, 1844; resigned. Joseph Clinton, Oct. 7, 1842, to Oct. 7, 1852.


Joseph W. Buchanan, Jan. 18, 1845, to July 14, 1849 ; resigned.


John Pleasants, Aug. 30, 1849, to April, 1852; resigned.


Stephen Tyner, Jan. 15, 1850, to March 16, 1850; resigned. Joseph McConnell, April 26, 1851, to Aug. 21, 1865 ; resigned. Charles Bonge, June 9, 1852, to Nov. 12, 1857; resigned.


Jesse D. Tomlinson, Oct. 8, 1852, to March 7, 1853 ; resigned.


Elias N. Shimer, April 23, 1853, to April 19, 1857. Aquilla Parker, April 21, 1857, to April 19, 1861. Peleg Hathaway, April 20, 1858, to April 19, 1862. Anstin B. Harlan, April 20, 1861, to April 16, 1881. Georgo Nowland, April 26, 1862, to April 19, 1866. William T. Whitesides, April 21, 1866, to April 13, 1870. Aquilla Parker, April 13, 1867, to May 29, 1871; resigned. Alexander D. Reading, Oct. 23, 1872, to Oct. 22, 1876. William T. Whitesides, Oct. 31, 1872, to Oct. 30, 1876. Lewis S. Wiley, June 22, 1875, to March 18, 1876; resigned. Daniel Foley, Oot. 30, 1876, to April 5, 1877; resigned. Levi White, Nov. 18, 1876, to Oct. 25, 1880. Sampson M. Houston, Jan. 15, 1877, to April 15, 1878. John S. McConnell, May 18, 1877, to April 9, 1882. Samuel A. Vandeman, April 24, 1878, to April 9, 1882. Cyrus Laughlin, Feh. 15, 1881, to April 13, 1882.


1 By Wharton R. Clintoo, Esq.


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Anstin B. Harlan, April 15, 1882, to April 15, 1886. John D. Godfrey, July 24, 1882, to April 14, 1884. Levi White, Sept. 21, 1883, to April 14, 1884.


TRUSTEES.


William Hunter, April 7, 1859, to Oct. 24, 1874. George M. Smith, Oct. 24, 1874, to Oct. 21, 1876. William IIunter, Oct. 21, 1876, to April 15, 1880. Robert Carr, April 15, 1880, to April 14, 1884.


ASSESSORS.


Samuel Jennison, Jan. 1, 1827, lo Jan. 7, 1828. Edward Heizer, Jan. 7, 1828, to Jan. 4, 1830. Rufus Jennison, Jan. 4, 1830, to Jan. 3, 1831. Edward Heizer, Jan. 3, 1831, to Jan. 2, 1832. Ahira Wells, Jan. 2, 1832, to Jan. 7, 1833. Joel Blackledge, Jan. 7, 1833, to Jan. 6, 1834. Elias N. Shimer, Jan. 6, 1834, to Jan. 5, 1835. Abira Wells, Jan. 5, 1835, to Jan. 2, 1837. Benedict lligdon, Jan. 2, 1837, to Jan. 7, 1839. Harris Tyner, Jan. 7, 1839, to Jan. 6, 1840. Elias N. Shimer, Jan. 6, 1840, to Dec. 6, 1841. John Allen, Jan. 24, 1853, to Dec. 9, 1854. Obadiah Davis, Dec. 9, 1854, to Oct. 19, 1858. Alfred B. Shaw, Oct. 19, 1858, to Nov. 26, 1860. Andrew J. Vansickle, Nov. 26, 1866, to Ang. 1, 1873. Elijah N. McVey, March 22, 1875, to Dec. 14, 1876. Andrew J. Vansiokle, Dec. 14, 1876, to April 6, 1878. Robert Davis, April 6, 1878, lo April 14, 1884.


Early Settlements and Settlers .- Among the earliest settlers in Warren township was Henry Brady, who was born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 16, 1794. He had a great desire to gain an education, and with that intention he went to Athens, Ohio, where he for some time attended school, working mornings and evenings for his board, and his lessons were chiefly learned while on his way to and from school. He was, however, compelled to abandon his idea of completing the course.


His first residence in Indiana was in Jackson County ; from there he moved in 1824 to Marion County and settled in Warren township, on land abont six miles east of Indianapolis, where he has lived ever since, and is yet quite hale and hearty, though in his ninetieth year. His name is a fa- miliar one to all the older inhabitants of Marion County. He has served his township in various ways, as surveyor, teacher, and magistrate. Al- though a stanch Democrat, he has represented Marion County at different times in both branches


of the Legislature. He has now quite a large farm, and it is also one of the finest and best improved in the township. Mr. Brady was always popular wher- ever known, and now in his old age he is happy in the respect and esteem of his many friends.


Harris Tyner was born in South Carolina. He emigrated to Kentucky, and from there to Indiana in 1805, and settled in what is now Franklin County. In February, 1821, he moved to Marion County and settled in the northern part of Warren township, where he resided at the time of his death, in 1881. Harris Tyner served as county commissioner for twelve years. He was in the war of 1812, also in the Black Hawk war.




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