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RESIDENCE OF MRS. EDWARD WRIGHT. WHITE RIVER TP. RANDOLPH CO. IND.
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WHITE RIVER TOWNSHIP.
James Marquis, S. E. 9, 19, 14, Novmber 27, 1818. John Haworth, S. W. 26, 20, 13, December 7, 1818. David Fairfield, S. E. 14, 20, 13, January 12, 1819. Joseph Puckett, S. W. 34, 20, 13, January 18, 1819. Joseph Smith, W. N. E. 13, 20, 13, March 1, 1819. Zachariah Puckett, N. 3, 19, 13, April 7, 1819. Tarlton Moorman, S. W. 25, 20, 13, April 15, 1819. Jesse Moorman, N. E. 35, 20, 13, April 15, 1819. Joseph Crew, N. W. 36, 20, 13, April 15, 1819. Robison McIntyre, E. N. W. 23, 20, 13, August 13, 1819. Thomas Garrett, S. E. 6, 19, 14, December 4, 1819. Moses Hiatt, E. S. W. 22, 20, 14, January 28, 1820. Jesse Green, fractional 28, 20, 13, February 5, 1820. John Way, E. N. W. 18, 20, 14, March 31, 1820. Godfrey Sumwalt, Sections 21 and 28, 20, 13, Sept. 16, 1820. W. and P. Larch, Sections 33, 20, 13, September 8, 1820. Isom Puckett, W. N. E. 34, 20. 13, November 20, 1820. Eli Hiatt, N. } 33. 20, 13, November 11, 1821. Jesse Moorman, N. E. 21, 20, 13, November 25, 1822. James Clayton, E. N. W. 21, 20, 13, April 2, 1823. Stephen Clayton, E. N. E. 20, 20, 13, April 2, 1823. Robinson McIntyre, E. N. W. 20, 20, 13, April 2, 1823. Morgan Mills, W. N. W. 20, 20, 13, August 14, 1823. Jesse Mardick, E. N. E. 9, 20, 14, August 22, 1823. Stephen Huffman, W. N. E. 20, 20, 13, October 25, 1823. Benjamin Puckett, N. E. S. W. 35, 20, 13, June 18, 1824. William Hawkins, S. 3 33, 20, 13, December 23, 1824. Uriah Moorman, E. N. E. 4, 19, 13, May 2, 1825. John Irvin, N. W. 5, 19, 14, January 28, 1826. James Wright, W. S. W. 36, 20, 13, February 24, 1826. Jonathan Johnson, S. W. N. E. 36, 20, 13, March 28, 1826. James S. Cloud, E. N. E. 36, 20, 13, October 17, 1826. Jesse Tomlinson, E. N. E. 3, 19, 14, October 17, 1826. Joseph Hickman, N. W. N. W. 1, 19, 14, December 15, 1826. John Coats, W. ¿ N. E. 23, 20, 14, April 22, 1827. Littleberry Diggs, S. § N. } fractional 3, 20, 13, May 24, 1829.
James Clayton, W. N. W. 21, 20, 13, August 26, 1820.
The number of entries and acres for each year are given be- low: 1814-one entry, 160 acres; 1815-one entry, 160 acres; 1816-eighteen entries, 2,800 acres; 1817-thirty-five entries, 5, - 352 acres; 1818-forty entries, 15,837 acres; 1819-nine entries, 1,280 acres; 1820-six entries, 1,128 acres; 1821-one entry, 135 acres; 1822-one entry, 110 acres; 1823-six entries, 480 acres; 1824-two entries, 136 acres; 1825-one entry, eighty acres; 1826-six entries, 426 acres; 1827-one entry, eighty acres; 1828-two entries, 154 acres. Total number of entries, 130; total number of acres, 18,318. Average for each entry, 140 acres.
In the five years, 1816-1820, inclusive, 108 entries were made, embracing 16,397 acres, or about 3,279 acres per year.
CHURCHES.
The first church was probably Dunkirk, built by the Friends, and during many years an important center of moral and relig- ious light and activity. T'emperance and anti-slavery found from the very first its spring and power for good largely among the body of Friends at that place. But the glory of Dunkirk has departod; the old church stands tenantless and forsaken, and even the graveyard seems woe-begone and forlorn, neglected if not forgotten. The church was built in a beautiful grove, open but shady, and as one stands gazing at the old edifice and the graveyard near at hand, and thinks of the more than sixty years that have rolled along since men began to gather among those shades for the worship of the "Unseen," and lay their dead silently and reverently away beneath that consecrated ground, he can scarcely realize how changed is the current of public feeling and how the channels of thought and sontiment and desire flow per- manently elsewhere.
ROUTES OF TRAVEL.
Several chief routes of travel pass through White River, viz: From Richmond; from Centerville and from New Castle to Win- chester; from Greenville to Muncie; from Winchester to Fort Wayne, via Deerfield, pass almost centrally through its extensive
territory, well nigh large enough for a county of itself. Pikes run from Winchester in every direction. The routes to Lynn, to Huntsville, to Windsor, to Deerfield, to Greenville, to Jericho, and the two roads to Union City all extend along its surface.
Two railroads cross it -- the Bee Line from east to west, and the C. R. & F. W. from north to south, intersecting at Win- chester. Winchester and Maxville are the only towns within its limits, Unionsport and Buena Vista, however, being upon its borders, and their northorn half upon its soil. Sampletown was in White River but it was an abortion.
White River is a very large and thriving township. It has surface enough for two good townships, having about seventy- four square miles. Lying as it does around Winchester, with that important town nearly in its center, there seems to be ho suitable way to make a proper division of its territory, and up to this time it remains entiro. There are twenty-two school dis- tricts within its bounds, not including the corporation of Win- chester.
TOWNS.
It is remarkable that White River, though so large and so rich a township, and though it has nearly twenty miles of track within its bounds, has but one railroad town to accommodate its numerous population. In fact, there never has been within its bounds any towns besides Winchester, except Maxville. And Maxville is for purposes of trade practically extinct. So that for seventy-four miles of territory this immense township can boast of but one town. There are, indeed, two small and unim- portant villages on the line in the southwest corner - Buena Vista and Unionsport, but for business they present very few attractions.
PIKES.
The pikes in White River are somewhat numerous.
The Windsor pike has about seven miles in the township; the two Union pikes five miles each in the township; the Deerfield pike about six miles in the township; the Lynn pike about four miles in the township: the Huntsville pike about four miles in the township; the Greenville pike about three miles in the town- ship; the Buena Vista and Unionsport pike about four miles (ou the township line), making at least eight distinct lines extending through the township.
It has direct communication by pikes with most of the towns in the county; with Union City, Deerfield, Randolph, Farmland, Windsor, Losantville, Unionsport, Buena Vista, Huntsville Lynn, Bloomingsport, and Arba, and indirectly with Spartans- burg. The northwestern townships, Franklin, Green and Mon- roe, are nearly destitute of graveled roads. Within two or three years, the spirit of improvement in that respect is rising in that region, and it is to be hoped that the people there will hunt up their gravel beds and get the gravel out where it belongs -- on the highways.
MISCELLANY.
White River, though destitute of towns (except the county seat), is nevertheless a fine, rich, well-improved region, with many good farms and many fine dwellings.
White River is bounded north by Monroe, Franklin and Ward; on the east by Wayne; on the south by Greensfork, Washington and West River; on the west by Stony Creek and Monroe ..
It is a remarkable fact that. White River tonches every other township in the county bnt two-Green, in the extreme . north- west, and Nettle Creek, in the farthest southwest. It is bounded by eight townships as above, and corners with one, Jackson, in the extreme northeast.
Such another township as to situation may not exist, per- haps, in the nation. Another notable fact exists as to White River, that it is the only central township in the county, and as to the others, that every one reaches the external boundaries of the county, all being arranged around and outside of White River Township as a common central region.
ENTRIES BY SECTIONS,
Township 19, Range 13-Section 1, 1832-36; Section 2, 1833-37; Section 3, 1818-33; Section 4, 1825-36; Section 5.
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HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY.
Township 20, Range 13-Sections 1, 10, 1836; Section 2, 1836-37; Section 3, 1817-38, John Sample, January 16, 1817; Section 4, school land; Section 9, 1837-38; Section 11, 1837; Section 12, 1836-38; Section 13, 1816-36, Tarlton Moorman, October 16, 1816, and John Clark, March 8, 1816; Section 14, 1819-37; Section 15, 1832-39; Section 16, school lands, sold 1833-36; Section 20, 1823-31, Robison McIntyre, April 2, 1823; Section 21, 1822-34, James Moorman, November 25, 1822; Sce- tion 22, 1816-31, William Way, June 5, 1816; Section 23, 1816 -19, William Way, Jr., February 7, 1816; Section 24, 1816-33, William Diggs, Jr., September 27, 1816; Section 25, 1818-37, Daniel Puckett, October 26, 1818; Section 26, 1815-31, George W. Haworth, September 10, 1815; Section 27, 1816, Henry Way, October 29, 1816 (rest December 5, 1816); Section 28, 1820-32, Jesse Green, February 5, 1820, Godfrey Sumwalt. September 16, 1820; Sections 29, 32, 1830-36, T. T. Teaglo (400 acres), Febru- ary 12, 1830; Section 33, 1820-31, W. and P. Search, Septem- ber 8, 1820; Section 34, 1817-32, Josse Ballinger, June 4, 1817; Sections 35, 36, 1819-39, Jesse Moorman, Joseph Crew, April 15, 1819.
Township 19, Range 14-Section 1, 1836-38; Section 2, 1818-37; Section 3, 1818-36, Jesse Brewer, March 23, 1818; Section 4, 1831-38; Sections 5, 6, 1818-36, G. W. Hines, John Elzroth, July 15 and 21, 1818.
Township 20, Range 14-Sections 1, 11, 12, 1837-38; Sec- tions 2, 4, 6, 1836-37; Section 3, 1832-37; Section 5, 1836-38; Section 7, 35-36; Section 8, 1832-36; Section 9, 10, 13, 26, 35, 1818-37, James McGuire, Joseph Moffitt, Richard Menden- hall, Rone Julian, Jeremiah Cox; Sections 14, 22, 1817-31, John Cox, Wright and Petty; Sections 15, 19, 21, 29, 32, 33, 1817- 18, John Dodson, Hiatt, Wright and Petty, Charles Conway, Luellen Elzroth, Wysong, Hockett, Hodgson; Section 16, school land; Section 17, 1816, all entered December 4, 1816, Solomon Wright, James Wright, William Haworth, Antipas Thoinns, one- quarter each; Section 18, 1816-40, John Moon, Docember 7, 1816; Section 20, 1816-17, David and John Wright, December 4, 1816; Section 23, 1827-37; Section 24, 1818-37, Richard Mendenhall, March 24, 1818; Sections 25, 30, 1818, Benjamin Cox, N. Longworth; Sections 27, 31, 1817-36, John Smith; Sec- tion 28, 1817-34, Jacob Miller, July 31, 1817; Section 34, 1830 -37; Section 36, 1831-38.
TOWNS.
Marville .- Location, Section 20, Township 20, Range 13, on White River; Robison McIntyre and Robert Cox, proprietors; twenty-six lots; streets, north and south, Railroad avenue, East; east and west, Main. Recorded May 28, 1850. [Note .- The town was established many years before that date, about 1832. ]
The town was laid out in about 1832 by Robison McIntyre. It stands on Section 20, Township 20, Range 13, and is located on the Winchester & Windsor pike. The town plat seems not to have been recorded till May 28, 1850. The commencement of business and the establishment of the town, however, dates back to 1832. Solomon Seamans built the first house, and kept the first storo; he also had a hotel and was a physician. For a time a large amount of business was done. Maxvillo became the cen- ter of a brisk and thriving trade. There have been at one time places of business as follows: Two smith shops, one grist-mill, three stores, two physicians, one saw-mill, one church, one schoolhouse, two limekilns, one lodge, A., F. & A. M., one lodge, I. O. O. F., one post office. It might in time have become an important town, if the old order of things had continued, but the Bellefontaine Railroad was built and missed the town about a mile, running, also, on the other side of the river, and be- sides, Farmland started up on the railroad, about a mile off, and our uspiring, hopeful little "burg " became a doomed towu, and its business has long boon almost wholly lost. In fact. no business proper is done in the placo. The grist-mill is still in operation in the suburbs, and so are the limekilns. The schoolhouse is there, and the meeting-house stands noar, and the old cemetery still raises to sight the sad memorial stones, the melancholy tokens of the final resting-place of friends long since taken from earth. The mill is in good repair, possesses a substantial reputation, and does excellent work, standing on
White River and propelled by water-power. The lime mado there has an excellent name, selling readily and rapidly. Each of the two kilns burns twelve times a year 400 bushels each. Often the lime is sold as fast as it can be loaded into wagons from the kiln.
There are now about ten good residences in the village, and the town has a pleasant appearance. The church belongs to the Episcopal Methodists. The cemetery is of long standing and is filled with graves, and a new burying-ground has been estab. lished across the road from the old one, and contains already many tombstones.
The country around has been long settled, the residents near there coming in, many of them, from 1816 to 1820. The farms are under good improvement, and there are many fine residences. The Windsor & Winchester pike, one of the oldest pikes in the county, has been built for many years. This road was originally, and for a long time, the grand thoroughfare between the East and the West, and it was thronged with travel of all sorts for many years. In fact, till 1853, at the opening of the railroad, the amount of travel passed along this route amounted some. times to hundreds of wagons per day. Thousands of cattle and sheep have been known to pass within a single twenty-four hours. The "taverns" on that road in those days were well patronized, and many a landlord made money by the business, even at the wondrously low prices in vogue at the time. The charges used to be 373 cents for man and horse overnight, including supper, lodging and breakfast for both. The boys of those days, now old men, remember how they had often to sleep in the barn or the hay-mow to accommodate travelers with lodging. But those days are long past, and there is not a country hotel from one end of the county (or hardly even of the State) to the other.
New Dayton .- It is a hamlet; not incorporated; on Section 2, Township 20, Range 13. It is not laid out as a town, but is simply a little hamlet with a name. There has been a store for twenty-five years, and a smith shop for thirty-six years. Lately, a wagon shop has been set up. There is also a church and a graveyard. Larmon Sherman keeps the storo. Mr. Carns owns the smith shop. Wesley Carns (son of the above) runs the wagon shop. The meeting-house was built in 1877. It belongs to the Episcopal Methodists. The graveyard has been there a long time and it is much used. A post office has been granted, and a new mail route through that region has been set on foot, with mail three times a week. The mail delivery covers a circuit of three to five miles. L. W. Sherman is Postmaster. There is no pike and no railroad. The region around New Dayton is well settled with industrious and thriving farmers.
Sampletown .- Was on White River, two miles east of Max- ville. Judge Sample entered land there, January 16, 1817 (Sections 3, 20, 13), and laid out Sampletown very early, but it never flourished. His mill and a tanyard were near, and were operated for some years, but the town as such never really began at all, and oven its name has been extinct for thirty years. The Sample farm was not far east of the new boundary. Some of tho timbers of the old mill are to be seen on the banks of the river, but the tan-yard has been all gone for years.
In May, 1820, a road was laid from Sample's mill to Hunts- ville, and another, in 1825, from Sample's mill to Lewallyn's mill (Ridgeville). Henry Sample, son of old Judge Sample, re- sides at La Fayette. Judge Sample left in 1845, for Iowa, and died some years ago. He was a prominent citizen. Sample's mill is thought to have been the first mill on White River, and it stood there many years. It may have been the first mill in the county. ' Lewallyn's mill, at Ridgeville; Sample's, on White River, and Jessup's, on Greenville Creek, north of Spartansburg, appear to have been built not very far from the same time. Some say that a mill built by a Mr. Wright, near Winchester, was the first in the county.
Vernon. - There seems to have been, at some time away back in the "beginning of things," a town by the name of Vernon. One of the roads laid out by the Commissioners is said to end at the principal street of the town of Vernon. No one now seems to know the location of that ancient site. Probably it is identi- cal with what is popularly known as "Sampletown," on the
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Windsor road, west of Winchester. A town was begun there, but it did not flourish and soon died away. The name which lived in the popular memory is Sampletown, from Mr. Sample, who settled there very early, as soon as 1820 or sooner. He built a mill on White River; his son established a tan-yard and laid out a town, and the locality is called Sampletown to this day, yet the real name may have been (and probably was) Ver- non. The place is at the schoolhouse, at the "Corners," just south of the iron bridge, near Stephen Moorman's, where the north and south road crosses White River, and five miles west of Winchester, on the line between Sections 21 and 22, 20, 13. The locality appears in old times to have been well known, or it would not have been the point for the termination of a road; yet it seems strange that the name of Vernon has faded entirely from the popular memory.
Winchester .- Is in White River Township, but its history is given in another part of this work.
BIOGRAPHY.
Thomas Addington, Sr., was born in 1778; married Tamar Smith in 1807 (who was born in 1786). He died in 1839, aged sixty-one years, and she died in 1845, aged fifty-nine years. They moved to Wayne County, Ind., in 1807, three years before Wayne was a county, and nine years before Indiana was a State. There were then only three counties in Indiana Territory, viz., Knox, Clark and Dearborn. They came to Randolph County, Ind. (Sparrow Creek), in 1834. He and his wife rode horseback from North Carolina to Wayne County, Ind., in 1807; they had during their lives thirteen children, as follows: Hannah, born in 1806, died in 1854, aged forty-six years; Matilda, born 1810, died 1811, aged one year; David, born 1812, died 1813, aged one year; Jesse, 1814, married Margaret Sullivan, has had three children, lives on Bear Creek, is a farmer; James, born 1816, married Susan Kelly, has four children; Mercy, born 1819, married Littleberry Diggs, and then Joseph Hawkins, has had one child-Calvin W. Diggs, and resides at Collett Station, Jay Co., Ind .; Joseph, born 1820, married Susan Sullivan, has seven children; George, born 1823; Mary, born 1823, married ---- Roberts, has thirteen children; Elizabeth, married Mar- shall W. Diggs, they have eight children, he has been pastor of the Congregational Church at Pisgah, near Fort Recovery, Ohio, for twenty-three years; Thomas, born 1829, see account else- where. There were two more, names not given.
Rev. R. Brandriff, Piqua, Ohio. The annexed sketch is so full of interest, and throws so much light on the early history of the county that we insert it, though possibly not in the most appro- priate place.
Mr. Brandriff was born about 1800; he became a preacher very young, and, in 1822, was appointed to the Greenville Circuit by the Annual Conference, in session at Marietta, Ohio, September, 1822; his colleague was Moses Crume, and the Presiding Elder was Alexander Cummins, and the circuit belonged to the Miami District. His predecessors were James Collard, Benjamin Law- rence, J. P. Durbin and William Hunt; his successors were James Murray, Silas Calvin, Isaac Elsbury, Benjamin Lawrence, Amos Sparks, Elijah H. Field. In 1822, the Greenville Circuit included all of Preble and Darke Counties, Ohio, all of Randolph and part of Wayne County, Ind.
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