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HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY.
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
GENERAL.
Wayne Township was created (as it stands at present) in 1838. It lies on the east side of Randolph County, Ind, with Jackson Township north, Darke County east. Greensfork Township. on the south and White River Township at the west. The town- ship is about eight miles north and south, and five miles east and west, containing about forty sections It lies on both sides of the old (Wayne's) boundary, embracing most of Township 17 and the south part of Township 18 north, Range 1 west, and the north part of Township 19, and all of Township 20, Range 15 east. It is located upon Greenville and Dismal Creeks, and also on White River and Little Mississinewa River. The surface is mostly level, and some of it quite low, though probably its entire extent is tillable by proper drainage. Greenville Creek is in the southeast, Dismal in the central east, Little Mississinewa in the center and northeast and White River in the west. The western part was first settled in 1818 and onward. The Greenville & Winchester State road passes through the southern part of the township, a part of that thoroughfare being piked. There are parts of four pikes within its bounds: First, State Line pike, from Union City sonth to the old Greenville Stato road, six and one-fourth miles; Winchester & Union pike (north), ten miles; Winchester & Union pike (sonth), ten miles; Arba & Bartonia pike (in the township), one mile. The country is under pretty good improvement, there being some fine residences and many good farms. The first settlers were at Jericho. Amos Peacock, Benoni Hill, Hiram Hill and Abram Peacock were perhaps the first. They came in 1818. Joshua Foster (on the Griffis farin) came very early, in 1819 or 1820. Robert Murphy, three and a half miles south of Union City, came in 1834. Settlers in that region and soon after were James Griflis, on the Williamson place, came in 1833. Smith Masterson lived one mile west of Murphy's. William Kennon lived on State road, near Bartonia, in 1832. Hewas the father of Smith Kennon, northwest of Bar- tonia. John Dixon lived one and a half miles north of Mur- phy. Mr. Green lived on the State road. The first important mill in Wayne Township was Cox's, on White River, about five miles east of Winchester, built in' 1825, removed about ten years ago. It was sold to Joseph and Benjamin Pickett before a long time, and bought afterward (1853) by William Pickett, and run till 1864; stood idle through five dry years, and was pulled down in 1870. The first school probably was in Jericho settlement, among the Friends, in 1822 or 1823. Mariam Hill taught the school, in Friends' Meeting House, with twenty or twenty-five pupils. Friends' Meeting was established about 1821, at Jeri- cho. The first school near Robert Murphy's, he says, was about 1838. Several settlers catre in that year, and the neighbors built a little log cabin schoolhouse, with no windows, but a log cut out for light. The first meeting-house in his region was at South Sa- lem. They used to go to Coletown, Ohio, at first where was a Con- gregational Church, Rev. Springer. The thembers of the Friends' Meeting were Benoni Hill, Amos Peacock, Henry Hill, Abram Peacock, Elijah Cox, William Cox. There was no preacher in the meeting for a long time. The first one in the bounds of the meeting was John Jones. It was a quaint but affecting sight to witness those faithful souls gathering in that humble woods cab- in, and sitting in utter quiet, without a word of prayer or exhor- tation or song, waiting in stillness on the Lord for the power of His purifying spirit in their hearts, meeting thus week by week, month by month, year by year, without weariness and without failing, humbly and in love both with God and with men.
Different settlers came at varions times. Some of those who are now prominent came later. James Griffis moved to the Griffis farm in about 1838; Norton, near Bartonia; Graves, old
town of Randolph; Bailey, who kept a store and tavern just east of Randolph in 1846, and for years before and after, came very early The father of Thomas S. Kennon, northwest of Bartonia, came in 1830. Mr. Shockney, father of Samuel Shockney, west of Bartonia, emigrated from Maryland in 1840. Williamson, on the State Line pike, south of Union City, Ind., settled there in about 1838. Elihn Cammack, on the State road, east of Bar- tonia, settled there in 1846, but was born near Arba in 1817. Will- iam Pickett settled in White River Township in 1828, and in Wayne Township, at the Cox Mill property, in 1853. The Pollys and the Masons came in early. George Thomas, son of Benjamin Thomas, near Newport, Ind., settled in Randolph County (Jeri- cho), in 1835, and his wife in Wayne Township in 1818. Will- iam A. Macy, north of Elihu Cammack's, came there in 1852. John Hartman, northwest of William A. Macy, settled there in 1848. Gullett, west of Robert Murphy's, came to that place abont 1836. Poor settled near the Griffis farm. Joshua Fos- ter came to the same neighborhood early-1820 or sooner; Sheets, north of Union, in 1830.
Two important railroads traverse Wayne Township, crossing each other at Union City-the " Bee Lino " and the " Pan Han- dle," Union City being at the crossing, and Harrisville on the " Bee Line." The "Bee Line," the original Indianapolis & Bellefontaine road, was the second road in the State, built in 1851-53. The " Pan Handle" was begun about the same time, and constructed to Union City from Columbus soon after, but completed to Logansport about 1867. These roads are now parts respectively of two immense railroad corporations, holding each thousands of miles of track, and millions of dollars' worth of fixt- ures and apparatus.
The Greenville State road west through Wayne Township and Winchester was for many years one of the chief routes of travel between the East and the West.
At first, emigrants in great numbers passed westward, and in a few years vast droves of cattle came East on the same ronte. Many persons kept hotel and pasture and feed stations for peo- ple and for droves. Immense crowds of cattle used to go East along this route during twenty or thirty years-in fact, until the Bellefontaine Railroad dried up the business, in 1853-seven or eight hundred fat cattle would be in a single drove. The road would be tracked in straight, deep hollows, as if logs had been "plumped" down lengthwise and taken up, leaving a huge mark across the road.
In Wayne Township, James Griffie kept one of the chief stations for droves for many years. William Robison, whose father lived not far east of Winchester, says his father kept a tavern, and also fed cattle more or less. The charges seem to have been low enough, compared with these times. The price for man and hoisb (supper, lodging and breakfast for both) was 37} cents. He says also that the boys had often to sleep in the barn on the hay-mbw to make room for the travelers in the house. The bus- iness of feeding droves seems to have been lucrative. At least, the men who followed it appear generally to have become wealthy, principally, perhaps, for two reasons-first, they had of course large tracts of land for pasture; second, the feeding gave them a home market for all the corn and hay they could raise. The business of keeping tavern was indeed important in those early ‹lays. When all the travel from East to West went through "by land," great means of accommodation would be needed; and, as it is always, a public demand created a general supply, and on all the chief roads and in every town, one of the chief occupa- tions used to be to keep travelers. Now that business is reduced to a minimum. The travel all goes on the railroads, and very little of it stops at all for anything, except, indeed, for a " smash-
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RES OF MRS ABRAHAM J. CHENOWETH. WAYNE TP. RANDOLPH, CO. IND.
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up," and that occurrence pays no attention to hotels or anything else. The "Quaker Trace" passed through the township from south to north, via Bartonia and Salem, toward Fort Wayne. The township is tolerably well drained by White River to the west, Little Mississinewa River to the north, and Greenville and Dis- mal Creeks toward the east; yet portions of the township need ditching badly, and future years will doubtless witness solid im- provement in this respect. Several pikes lie partly in the town- ship. The State Line pike, north and south, from Union City, the two pikes connecting Union City with Winchester, the Union & Salem pike northward, a new one eastward from Winchester toward Jericho, and the pike westward from Greenville toward Bartonia, as also the Arba & Bartonia pike If the Greenville & Winchester pike were only made through, and one extended northward from Bartonia via Salem, and from Elihu Cammack's northward to the Winchester & Union pike, Wayne Township would be " well out of the mud." For which joyful consumma- tion let all good men earnestly labor and strive.
A new and free pike is in construction from the Wayne County line straight north to the toll-gate southwest of Union City, which will be a very important road.
Politically, Wayne Township is stongly Republican. There is a considerable Democratic element, but it is largely in the mi- nority.
CONTENTS.
Wayne Township contains sections as follows:
Township 17 north, Range 1 west, Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 23 to 27 inclusive; Township 18 north, Range 1 west, Sections 23, 24. 25, 26, 35 and 36; Township 19 north, Range 15 east, Sections 4 to 9 inclusive; Township 20 north, Range 15 east, Sections 3 to 10, 15 to 21 and 28 to 33, in- clusive.
Some of the sections are fractional, but the township em- braces about forty-five square miles, or 28,800 acres.
Entries of land were made in Wayne Township by the record as follows: Jeremiah Moffitt, N. W. 18, 20, 15, 160 acres, Dec. 1, 1812; William Chenoweth, S. E. 24, 17, 1, 160 acres, Septem- ber 24, 1817; William Chenoweth, S. E. 25, 17, 1, 160 acres, September 24, 1817; Abram Chenoweth, N. E. 26, 17, 1, 157.83 acres, September 24, 1817; Abram Chenoweth, N. W. 26, 17, 1, 157.83 acres, September 24, 1817; Abram Chenoweth, S. W. 26, 17, 1, 127.83 acres, September 24, 1817; Jeremiah Cox, Sec- tion 19. 20, 15, 640 acres, February 6, 1818; Abram Peacock, N. E. 30, 20, 15, 160 acres, April 15, 1818; Henry Hill, E. S. E. 30, 20, 15, 80 acres, April 15. 1818; Amos Peacock, E. N. E. 31, 20, 15, 80 acres, April 15, 1818; Benoni Hill, E. S. E. 31, 20, 15, 80 acres, April 15, 1818; Jeremiah Cox, S. E. 18, 20, 15, 160 acres, May 29, 1818; Christopher Baker, W. S. E. 20, 20, 15, 80 acres, May 17, 1818; Joshua Cox, W. N. W. 30, 20, 15, 80 acres, December 10, 1822; Amy Cox, W. N. E. 29, 20, 15, 80 acres, September 24, 1824; Jefferson L. Summers, N. W. N. E. 33, 17, 1, 39.64 acres, April 12, 1826; Solomon Cox, E. N. Ę. 29, 20, 15, 80 acres, May 16, 1826; Joshua Buckingham, E. N. E. 6, 19, 15, 79.60 acres, August 11, 1826.
The rest of the township, i. e., the great body of the land therein, Jay vacant for several years, being entered chiefly from 1834 to 1838.
The first entry in the county seems to have been made within the present bounds of Wayne Township. The location is about a mile west of Harrisville, on the White River. How the man who made the entry got away in there, so far from any settle- ment, and why he entered that particular quarter-section, would be interesting at this day to know, but probably the facts will be forever hidden in the tomb of the forgotten past. This entry was made more than a year before the first settlement, which took place in April, 1814, and some fifteen miles southeast, on Nolan's Fork.
M. Moffitt did not settle on the land he had entered-not at that time, at any rate.
The next entry was made by the Chenoweths, directly east of Bartonia, on Greenville Creek, being Section 26, 17, 1, a part of which is still owned and occupied by the widow of Abram Chen- oweth, who died a few years ago. Abram Chenoweth, the father
of the Abram of later days, entered three quarter-sections in Sec -- tion 26. on both sides of Greenville Creek, in 1817.
During the winter following (February 6, 1818), Jeremiah Cox, of Wayne County, who had been employed in milling for years in that region, came up to White River, a mile or two above Harrisville, and entered a whole section-Section 19, '20, 15-on both sides of the river, with a view of erecting mills after. awhile in that new county-a purpose which he accomplished about 1825.
The same year, April 15, 1818, Abram and Amos Peacock and Henry and Benoni Hill made entries and effected a settlement shortly after, i. e., in 1818. They are supposed to have been the first actual settlers in Wayne Township.
The growth of this region was but slow. After the Cheno- weth entries and the Jericho colony, but little was done till many years later. The Chenoweth land was not settled till more than twenty years later (1840). The Coxes, the Peacocks and Hills came in from Wayne County and the south, but the next consid- erable movement entered the territory south of Union City, break- ing across the line from Ohio and the East.
The Chenoweth who entered the land so early in Wayne Township (September 24, 1817), lived near Spring Hill, Darke Co., Ohio. He was the grandfather of Abram Chenoweth, who died a few years ago, south of William A. Macy's, near Green- ville Creek.
The first Chenoweth who resided on the land was Abram Chenoweth, cousin of the one spoken of just above. He made the settlement about 1840, and the other one, whose widow lives there now, came later.
By the end of 1826, only eighteen entries had been made, and that by fourteen persons. These entries comprised about thirty-one hundred acres. Nearly all, or 2,650 acres, were taken up in a few months, almost at first, from September 24, 1817, to May 29, 1818, by the settlement of Friends. They lived there, nearly in seclusion, for years, having communication with the White River settlers toward the west, but not much any other way, except, indeed, to go to the Whitewater Mills for grinding, and the Whitewater Yearly Meeting for religious purposes.
The first, religious meeting in Wayne Township was probably that of the Friends, at Jericho, and the first school the one in their meeting-house.
There are not many churches in this township. There are, outside of Union City, only four -Methodist, at Bartonia; Friends', at Jericho; Christian, at Harrisville; and Disciple, at Salem. The Friends began their society about 1820; the church at Bartonia was built about 1850; the one at Harrisville, about 1860; and the one at Salem, perhaps about 1855.
The schools in Wayne Township are in a good condition. Four of the schoolhouses have been lately built new. They are substantial and sightly edifices, well suited to their purpose.
The Trustees of Wayne Township have been Robert Murphy, Alexander Gullett, Jacob A. Macy, William Turner and Robert McKee. Mr. McKee is building (fall of 1881) two new school- houses of brick.
ENTRIES BY SECTIONS.
Township 19, Range 15-Section 4, 1832-35; Section 5, 1833-38; Section 6, 1826-37, Joshna Buckingham August 11, 1826; Section 7, 1826-36, George W. Farrens, October 17, 1826; Section 8, 1833-37, Stanton Bailey, September 16, 1833; Section 9, 1831, Stanton Bailey, October 4, 1831.
Township 20, Range 15-Sections 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 21, 28, 1836 -37; Sections 6, 8, 10, 1836; Sections 15, 17, 1837; Section 16, school land; Section 18, 1812-37, Jeremiah Moffatt, December 1, 1812, below Harrisville, on White River, first entry in the county by some fourteen months; Section 19, 1818, Jeremiah Cox, next up the river from Harrisville, one and one-half miles from that town, Cox's Mill built in 1825; Section 20, 1819-37, C. Baker, 1819; Section 29, 1824-38, Amy Cox; Sections 30, 31, 1818-38, Henry Hill, Amos Peacock, Benoni Hill, April 15, 1818; Section 32, 1835-38; Section 33, 1835-37.
Township 17, Range 1 west-Sections 1, 2, 14, 1835-37; Section 3, school section; Section 10, 1836; Sections 11, 12, 1831-38, William Kennon, Isaac Gullett; Section 15, 1836-37;
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HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY.
Section 22, 1833-37; Section 23, 1834-37; Sections 24, 26, 1817-35, William Chenoweth, September, 1817; Section 25, 1817-36, William Chenoweth, 1817; Seetion 27, 1831-35, James Green, September 10, 1831; Section 33, 1837.
Township 18, Range 1 west -- Section 23, 1830-33, James Emerick and John Sheets, January 15, July 6, 1830; Section 24, 1831-37, John Sheets, September 21, 1831; Section 25, 1835 -36, John Royer, September 21, 1835; Section 26, 1832-36, Thomas Peden, October 2, 1832; Sections 35, 36, 1836-37.
TOWNS.
The towns in Wayne Township are, or have been, Bartonia, Harrisville, Randolph, Salem and Union City. We describe them in order:
Bartonia .- Edward Barton, proprietor; A. D. Way, surveyor; location, junction of Spartansburg & Arba pike with Greenville State road; twenty-seven lots; recorded October 1, 1849; streets, none named in the plat. Distances: Spartansburg, four miles; Union City, seven and one-third miles; Winchester, eight miles; Harrisville, six miles; Saratoga, four and three-fourths miles; Arba, seven and four-fifths miles. The town is located at the point where the Richmond pike running northward reaches the Greenville & Winchester road. and stands upon Section 26, 17, 1. Some business has been done in years past, but not very much. A store, a smith shop, a wagon shop, a physician, a post office and a church have been there much of the time for twenty-five or thirty years. At one time there were two stores, a smith shop, a cabinet shop, a turning shop, a post office, a meeting-house and two physicians. But little is left at present. The town has dwindled, many of the dwellings are removed, the others decayed and things are in a dull way indeed. There are now one store, one smith shop, one post office and ono church (Methodist Epis- copal). l'rincipal residents near are W. S. Morton, west; T. S. Kennon, northwest; John Hartman, north; James Ruby, south; Daniel Stockdale, south; Richard Stockdale, southwest; Graves, Esq., west; Mr. Chenoweth, east; Branson Anderson, east; Reagan, east.
Bartonia is one of the polling places of Wayne Township. the other two being Union City and Harrisville. Bartonia is half a mile east of the site of the old town of Randolph, which, however, has been extinct for thirty years or more. The coun- try around is rolling and fertile, and the residents are thrifty and prosperous, and some possess a comfortable fortune.
Harrisrille .- Location, in Wayne Township, upon Sections 17, 18, Town 20, Range 15; on the Beo Line Railroad, four miles west of Union City, and seven miles east of Winchester; recorded June 17, 1854, Job Harris, proprietor; E. L. Watson, surveyor; seventeen lots. Dickinson's Addition, William Dick- inson, proprietor; recorded August 18, 1854; E. L. Watson, sur- veyor; streets, north and south, Elm; east and west, North; lots eighteen to thirty-five, eighteen lots. J. Alexander's Addition, Joseph Alexander, proprietor; thirteen lots; recorded Novem- ber 17, 1877; streets, east and west, Main; north and south, Mill and Sugar. Distances: Union City, four and one-half miles; Bartonia, six miles; Winchester, six and one-half miles; Sara- toga, five und one-half miles; Arba, thirteen and a half miles; Spartansburg, ten miles; New Pittsburg, ten miles.
The town arose with the Bellefontaine Railroad. The busi- ness of the town was but little at first, and the improvement of the village has since been slow. There is but one public road, and that running north and south across the railroad track. The town is too near Union City to command much business. How- ever, some growth has been attained, and it has become the cen- ter of a meager trade. Two small additions have been made to the plat of the village, indicating an increase of population. The antecedents and commencement of the place are as follows: In 1841, just forty-one years ago, and about ten years before the birth of the town, two small cabins stood upon the site where now appears the hamlet of Harrisville. One was occupied by Michael Ingle, father of Philip Ingle, still a resident of the town. Mr. Ingle died of cholera some years afterward on the Mississippi. The othor settler was William Dickinson, who lived near where the church now stands. Others came and at length
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