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Joseph and Mary Farlow Beck had a daughter, Addie Beck, born Aug. 18, 1874, and she lived in New Ross.
Archie Young and wife Lena and Americus Young and wife Mary live and work in New Ross. The Young's have beenin New Ross many years.
The following persons lived in this area in 1884, eligible to vote: Thomas Apple, F. A. Adkins, Bion Adkins, James Agee, Aaron, James and Al Archer, John Brown, Baxter Brubeck, John Beebee, F. M. and O. C. Bowman, W. F. Beck, Willard Booher, Ed Bowman, Henry Beck, Henry Bursot, Charles Bratton, Charles Bruce, Robert Bruce, William and J. M. Brown, John, Phillip, Mike and John Bruch, J. M. Burk, William H. Brown, Gran- ville Brown, Joseph Booher, E. R. Biddle, Dr. Bowers, J. B. Bakcr, Ira Baker, Benjamin Babb, William Burroughs, James Britts, P. M. Brown, B. F. Brown, John Bell, Dr. Bronaugh, William Coddington, John and Mose Coddington, W. A. and Smith Conner, William Clark, John Condon, David Condon, Tom Cronin, William Chambers, James Chambers, J. Conner, C. Cronin, W. F. Cuater, W. G. Cline, Anderson Cline, James Cline, A. B. Crawford, John Conover, Joe Cooper, Arthur,Al- bert and Oliver Dickson, George, John, James, Clemmel and Danny Duke, Madison Dumford, Wesley Davis, William Dix- on, Nathaniel Darnell, J. F. Evans, Frank Elgin, Robert Evans, Oscar M. Eddingfield, W. B. and Thomas Evans, Sand Epper- son, J. B. Evans, James Everson, William Fulwider, John Fox- worthy, William Fishback, William Garver, Gilbert Gray, Eli Cathright, William Gott, Isaac Golliday, Squire Graves, Steve Graves, John Graves, R. B. Green, William Higgins, James, Oliver, Gideon, Dick and Thomas Higgins, J. D. Hurt, Sell Henderson, Jerry, George and Sam B. Hinkle, Stokes Huddles- ton, Jaines Hendrix, James Harris, A. J. and Ed Hobson, Thom- as Holloway, S. S. Harris, Thomas Harris, Jamcs Heath, H. E.
Ezekiel, Isaac, Elliot and John Inlow, William Johnson, John E. Jones, Dr. King, M. S. and M. O. Love, Thomas Lockeridge, Thomas Lytle, Tim, Mike and Dan Lane, James Linn, Isaac Linn, Noah Linn, William Lockman, O. P. Lockhart, David Loop, E. C. and J. E. Mount, William Miller, James Miles, James McDaniel, William Morris, James Morris, Jeff McIntire, Logan Michel, William McIntire, H. M. Miller, James McIn- tire, James Meek, W. McGlothers and Tom McGlothers, F. McCormick, A1 Morrison, William Meenach, I. Munson, Pat McDonald, I. N., J. W., George, H. A., B. F., Oliver, John, and P. F. Miller, J. A., J. E., G. T., John, Frank, and A. J. Morrison, John A. Mallett, T. T. Munhall, J. H. Miller, Scott
Laughlin, William McVey, William McClintock, William Mc- Guffin, Milli ?, H. Newkirk, Pete Phelps, Elmer Powell, George and William Powell, William Pritchard, James, John and Wil- liam Peterson, George Rowe, Jack Roark, William Redenbaugh, James Routh, Dan Rian, Jerre Redenbaugh, R. R. Rogers, Fred, Charles Rodgers, Jesse Sr, Jesse Jr, and John Routh, J. M. Rich- ey, Jesse Rains, A. Jackson Routh, John Spohr, John and Wil- liam Stipe, Isaac Sperry, Clint and George Stamp, George Sper- ry, William and James Stewart, Rob Sanford, George Swisher, Nelson Smith, Dave Sparks, W. Stiles, A. B. Sparks, William Sharpe, George Sheppard, Jacoband Marion Stoner, Allen Stew- art, Perry Smith, Charles Sheets, Jesse Smith, Nat (Nathaniel Edward) Scott, Tom Scott, William Skillman, Mike Sharp, Nel- son Sharp, Samuel Vaile, John, I. W., Benjamin, L. and H. N. Vancleave, D. M. Turner, George Templin, William Tipton, Davis Wilson, F. M. Worley, C., William and F. M. Walkup, Alva Walters, Thomas Webb, B. F., W. B. and R. C. Walkup, Si Wren, John Wagonseller, Al Wheeler, ? Wheeler, Buck Worth, John Worth, A. Wright, B. F. Witt, Jack and John Williams.
Here are some of the families who lived near the town of New Ross: David and Catherine Canada Duncan had four children, Goldie Culley, Elsie Peck, Albert Duncan and Bailey Duncan, wife Artie Phillips Duncan, and son Robert, Oliver Lockhart and wife Nancy Inlow, Milton Lockman and wife Martha A. Inlow, William Minnick and wife Harriet Routh Minnick, Marion Mul- lendore married Winnie Sparks, David Newkirk and wife Jennie Copp Newkirk, George Sanford and wife, Amanda E. Conner Sanford, Nathan G. Thompson and wife Martha Fishback Thomp- son, Isaac Wheeler and wife Mary Burk Wheeler.
All of these people named in the foregoing pages have been inhabitants of the New Ross area, and there are many I know who have not been named, but ommissions are not intentional. It takes the people to make a community and keep it going.
We have gone from cabins with latch-string door fasteners to modern dwellings with good locks and doorbells; from dirt floors or plain floors to highly polished or heavily carpeted floors; from no windows to large "picture" windows; from plain, sturdy furniture and foods to rich, plush furniture, and rich, abundant packaged foods; from plain, simple, funny, good entertainment, from music to song fests to radio, television, and movies, which is questionable entertainment nowadays; from messengers on horseback to telephone, telegraph, and mail service; from plain, prim, clothes in which all could be well-dressed, to practically no clothes; from easy-going, helpful, neighborly, friendly lives to the rush, every-one-for-himself mode of living we have to- day; from woods to trails to free gravel roads to super-duper high- days. There's one thing that has never changed, that is rumor- mongering, only it has advanced to outlandish proportions today and many a person's character has been. assassinated by the out- pouring of false words from the lips of many.
As the years go on, each generation has made things easier for the next generation; better roads, better homes, better schools, better churches, and now we have an easy, push-button life. Some of thesc things which are regarded as progress today do not
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seem like progress. In one instance, wlien roads, which earlier generations were so proud to have had a hand in building, and whichi was enjoyed by so many, has now been completely shut off; neighbors cut off from one another by a super! ! highway, well fenced to prevent anyone from crossing these highways. I-74 is situated north of New Ross, and although it can be cross- ed on an overlicad bridge, New Ross people have no access to the road I-74, except by traveling east to Jamestown or west, to cast of Smartsburg, a non-progressive step, it seems to me.
As we travel in our easy-riding automobiles over tlic ground these early settlers came here on, in their bouncy wagons, both covered and plain, on horseback, horse and buggy, or on foot, let's reflect a moment into the past, with deep appreciation that these carly settlers, and those coming later, selected this as their site for a settlement. Although I'm sure there are many items of data and people I've omitted, let's strive to keep rec- ords for future generations and make them appreciate the heri- tage of the New Ross and vicinity, events, and people.
The Union Presbyterian Church, located 2 1/2 miles west of New Ross, was started in 1834, and several people from the New Ross arca were instrumental in organization and growth of the church. Many of the members were in the Mace area. Most of the data given has been taken from W. Arthur Porter's "A His- tory of the Union Presbyterian Church, Walnut Township, Mont- gomery Co. Indiana 1834-1934", most of which he got from records of the church and from information of his father, James Albert Porter.
"From records of Union Church, first page said they met at John Porter's to organize a church, with Rev. James Thomson presiding. The ones from Virginia had gone to Windy Cove Presbyterian Church in Windy Cove, Virginia. Twenty-eight persons gave their names as ones who wanted to be associated together as a churcli. They resolved the church should be call- ed Union. Thus was Union Presbyterian Church born in a little log school house, called Porter School, on Saturday, August 30, 1834. This Porter School was 100 rods north from east end of Union Hill Cemetery. The school house was used about eight ycars for church services, for on Tuesday, March 25, 1871, a session of church was held in school house, next record says meeting held June 22, 1842 at meeting house of church. The original church (built where cemetery now is located, was built in 1844, 30' x 40', with two doors on north side; men used east door, women used west door; pulpit originally on north side, later moved to south side of church. The cemetery was in use by 1848, may have been used before. John Porter donated land for church and cemetery. This was on brow of a hill overlooking Walnut Fork Creek. In 1889, James Mills Martin donated land west of this, and first church was moved to this site, and re- modeled, and all the ground to the east was used as the ceme- tery. (For many years my Linn family had their annual reunions in this church. )
Alf Peterson of New Ross, in 1920, wrote about the church. He went to church there as a boy, with his parents, in a big wagon. He said people usually visited an hour after church. He said that country churches could no longer be maintained, and Union Church had ceased to be a church, but church had been sold to Farm Bureau of Walnut township for a townshfrp com- munity house, and many meetings were held there. " (Later the church building was sold, and Frank Sabens said it was used by a Nazarene Church on W. 16th St., Speedway City, Indiana. Now Walter Peck owns the ground where church did stand, and where cemetery is now. In 1967, vandals desecrated many tombstones in the cemetery, and culprits aren't known as yet.)
"Mrs. John Linn said her mother, Margaret Ann Bratton Mar- tin joined the Union Church at Oid Mt. Zion Church in 1843, in what was then Fredericksburg, now Mace, Indiana, so they must have loaned their church house to Union Church, and that's why
1842 meeting was held in a church house (see above). Had 26 members in 1834. (From this beginning until end 1915-1916, 534members joined the church, many of these from New Ross and New Ross area, others from Mace area. ) "By 1920, mem- bers had moved memberships elsewhere. " (Many New Ross peo- ple are buried in the cemetery. ) "From Virginia came the Air- harts, Berrys, Brattons, Chambers', Crawfords, Dices, Evans, Lockridge, Loop, Pogue, Porter, Sellers, Smiley, Spohr, You- ell, Foster, Walkup, and many others. From Ohio came John- sons, Linn, Conner, Coulger, Dukes, Ensminger, Foster, Ga- leys, Harrison, Hanleys, Hendersons, Hipes, Jarvis, Kennedy's, Maxwells, Mount, Patterson, Pattison, Remleys, Shanklins, Shewey, Smith, Thompson, Ward, Watson, Epperson, Gra- ham, Reeds, Wrights and others. "
"John Porter came to Indiana 1829, and to Walnut township, Montgomery County, in 1830, 2 1/2 miles west of New Ross, with his seven children, Rebecca, born 1812, Va., married James E. Evans; James Lewis Porter, born 1814; Delilah Porter Shanklin, born 1815, Va. ; Joshua Adam Porter, born 1817; Cyn- thia Ann Porter Crawford; Margaret B. Porter Oxley, born 1819; John Reason Porter born 1812, married Mary Hannah Caldwell (grandparents of W. Arthur Porter, author of the Union Church History); and Elizabeth Porter, who died young in Virginia, John Porters' wife Nancy Agnes Bratton Porter had died in Virginia in 1824. " There were 45 ministers at the church from 1834 to 1915. The above history of the Union Church is exerpts from Mr. Porter's book on the Church.
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AN ADDENDA TO NEW ROSS HISTORY
The Kanawha Tribe of Red Men was organized in New Ross, No. 397. Officers for 1907 were Sachem, Z. J. Walker; Sr. Sachem, Jesse Walters; Jr. Sachem, H. Newkirk; Prophet, T. C. Green; C of H, H. H. Feathers; K of W, W. S. McIntire; First S, Walker Harris; Second S, Eddie Mason; G of W, Edward E- baugh; G of F, Clyde Culley; trustee, V. T. Norman.
Dr. W. R. Kirtley, a dentist, came from Crawfordsville in 1907 on each Tuesday to Dr. Bronaugh's office and did dental work.
Dan Cleveland came to New Ross and started a bakery in Ellen Grave's rooms.
1906, James Baber, shipped 45 carloads of horses from New Ross to everywhere. Total value of horses was over $100, 000. He had lived in New Ross 8 years in 1906. Horses were his busi - ness.
Parthenia Rebecca Lodge No. 423, IOOF, New Ross in 1907. Pythian Sisters metin Cosel (?) Hall 1907. Rosewood Temple No. 74.
Feb. 1907, town board decided on cement walks for the town.
Foundation laid for a creamery in 1907. Ben Hur Interurban line rented IOOF building room on E. State St. for 10 years, 1907 to 1917. First cars to run on the interurban from Crawfords- ville to Indianapolis they stopped at New Ross on way back, and passengers got out and ate all the food the restaurants had, sandwiches, pop etc. Each interurban car was 57' long and cost $11, 800 dollars. They had 8 cars to begin with.
1907 Charles Lewis had a barber shop and Bret Billings worked there.
May 10, 1907, roof was finished on power house for intcrur- bans. They had made a wooden frame for the roof, then had cemented over this and then removed the wooden frame. Work- men began bringing equipment and machines from Allis Chal- mers Co. , Milwaukee, Wisc. and teams were hauling this from Big Four Railroad Station to the power house.
Epworth League was started in New Ross in 1907. and Pres. was J. C. Burkle; Vice Pres., Mrs. Ida Ringer; Mrs. Etta Brat- ton, Mrs. James Bratton and Mary E. Walkup; Sec., Arthur Brown; Treas., Virgil Conner; Organist, Blanch Lowell and Chorester, Warren Bratton.
William Baber, father of James Baber. Mr. Keller of Wayne- town contracted to turn the Christian Church around 1/2 way to make it a greater length north and south. The addition at east end was torn down, doors removed, windows taken out, and chimney torn down.
The Powell family around New Ross were descended from John Powell, son of Thomas and Mary Caldwell Powell, and his two wives, Betsy Partick, and Elizabeth Welch. He and Betsy's child- ren were Thomas, Ary Ann Evans, Matilda J. married James A. Stewart; George W. Powell, m. Henrietta Back; Mary Eliza - beth Powell married Josiah Bowman; Eliza Powcll Miller; and Alicia Powell died at 6 weeks of age. He and his second wife had John I. Powell; Charlie Powell; James William Powell, m. Sarah Jane Harris; Messer Beeson Powell; Elmer Powell; Newton Powell; Melissa Powell, married Marion Stoner; Melvina Powell married James Franklin Byrd. Many descendants still live around New Ross.
May 31, 1902, the graduating exercises of the Walnut Town- ship schools were held at New Ross, on Saturday evening at 7:30.
Graduates from eightli grade werc Aaron Crawford, Leonard M. Abbott, Kate Engle, Mabcl E. Dicc, Rutli Fletcher, Roy B Dicc, Bert Chambers, Lillie Bowman, Carrie McIntire, Viola McIntire, Harry Evans, Carl Bratton, Verlin Leavitt, Morto Ronk, Ora Moss, Algie Mason, Jennie Walters, Blanche Lawell, Fred Lawell, Dora Linn (my motlicr), Belle Coulter, Viola Wright, Eva Galloway. (Those underlined are from thic New Ros area).
Programme: Montana Brotliers Orchestra from Indianapolis. Invocation: Rev. Redcr
Class Address: L. B. Rettger, Terre Haute.
Board of Education, Ward B. Walkup, (New Ross native), County Superintendent.
Trustee, George O. Brown
New Ross Higli School Romulus Minnick
Faculty: School No. 2, Elmer Hester; No. 3 Bert Vancleave No. 4. Charles Jolinson and Ethiel Brown; No. 5. E1- morc Hobson; No. 6. Aubrey Bowers; No. 7. Claud Brown, Charles Shanks, Hattie Vancleave and Gold ie Boots; No. 8. Edith Lindley (Greenwood School and No. 9. Charles Lautliers.
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