History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships, Part 151

Author: Tucker, Ebenezer
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman
Number of Pages: 664

USA > Indiana > Randolph County > History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships > Part 151

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

EZEKIEL GULLETT was born in North Carolina about 175G. Ile married Mary Dixon, sister of Benjamin Dixon ; they bod ten children, all born in Ohio or North t'arolina. They moved to Butler County, Ohio, at a very early date, und, after undergoing a full course of pioncer life in that region, resolved to try a second experience of a similar sort, and plunged into the wilderness of Randolph County, settling this time for life, in Wayne Township, some miles south of where Union City now stands. lle was among the first in that region, only about half a doxen families having preceded them in that part of the town-

431

WAYNE TOWNSHIP.

ship. The family come to Wayne Township in 1835, consisting of husband and wife and eix children, four having been married in Ohio- George, Aann, Thomas and Johe. The six unmarried were Mary, Samuel Ezekiel, Eleanor and two others. The wbele ten grew up, were married and had families. Six were sons and four were daughters; only four are now living. Mr. Gullett was a farmer, a Methodist and a Democrat. He was a substantial pioneer, re- eiding in the township seme twenty-six years. He was verging toward eld age at his emigration to this county, being near sixty years old, and he died, July 18, 1861, aged eighty-four years. ITis wife outlived her husband some- what, her death occurring on the "cold New Year's," January 1, 1864, about eighty years old.

SAMUEL GULLETT is the son of Ezekiel Gulleit, having been born in Butler County, Ohio, shout 1821. He came, with his father, te Wayne Town- ship in 1835. He has been twice married. His first wife was Frances Wasson, daughter of David Wasson, a pioneer of the adjacent region in Darke County, Ohie, and she died in 1873. His second wife is Ellen Perriue, from Danville, Ind. They removed, not long ago, from their farm east of Salem, Randolph County, to Union City, where they now reside. IIe has had seven children, five of whom are living ; one of his sons is Alexander, who has attained some dis- tinction. He was a soldier ; spent some time as a clerk in Washington t'ity ; was Township Trustee; became an attorney ; was elected Prosecutor for the Judicial Dis. riet to which Randolph County belongs, and, in 1880, removed to Colorado, where he is rising to prominence as a man of activity and enterprise in his profession and in business in general.

JOHN V. L. HIARLAN is a native of the county. Ile isn son of Joshua and Lucinda Harlan, and was born on the 26th day of December, 1848, He was educated in the common district schools, and taught school one term. HIe learned the blacksmith trade and worked at it for some time. On January 27. 1872, he married Lucy A. Hartman, daughter of John Hartman, whose biog- raphy is given in this work. They have had five children, two of whoor are dead. Mr. Harlan is now engaged in farming, living on his own farm, five miles southwest of Union City. Hle and his wife are both members of the Christian Church,

JOHN HARTMAN, WAS born in Adams County, near Harrisburg, Penn., June 12, 1804, being a son of John and Ann (Bishop) Ilartman (both deceased ), the former a native of Berks County, Pean., and the latter of Lancaster Conn- ty in the same State. Ilis education was received in the primitive cabin school- house, with its usual appurtennuces. The teacher was a Scotch-Irishman, who would "let out" school occasionally to " go on a spree." At the age of seven- teen, Mr. If. learned the trade of n coverlet-weaver, working at that business for twelve years. He was married, February 7, 1828, to Miss Louisiana Alter, A niece ef Ilon. Jacob Alter, who was for many years a member of the Penn- sylvania Legislature; ns also a niece of Hon. Joseph Ritner, ex-Governer of the Keystone State. Mrs. Hartman was born in 1805, and died March 16, 1879. They came to near Greenville, Darke Co .. Ohio, in 1833, seeing the stare fall in November of that year, and to Wayne Township. Randolph Co., Ind., in 1848, In 1832, they were in Greenville only thirteen houses. lle settled three and one-half miles west of Greenville, ani when he removed to Randolph County, he traded that land for 200 aeres in Wayne Towaship, where he has since lived (till he removed in 1880 to Bartonin), His age is seventy- eight years, but he is hale and active, and seems more sprightly thau many far younger men. He has been lately married again, to Miss Mary Woods, a daughter of Oliver Woods, Darke County, Ohio, May 16, 1880. Ite has had eleven children, as follows : Elizabeth, who married Windsor Wiggs, lind seven children, and died in 1872 at Union City, Ind .; Jeremiah, born in 1833, two children, died in 1871; Solomon, born in 1835, seven children, resides in Wayne Township, and is a farmer and teacher (see below); Emeline, born 1838, two children, died 1858: John, born 1841, died a Union soldier, 1804, a member of the Fifty-seventh Indiaan Infantry, Company C. He taught school five terms, and was nt Lebanon Normal School when he enlisted, lle was in four battles-Pittsburg Landing, Chattanooga and two others. At Pittsburg Landing he was hit six times, but not wounded. From Chattanooga, he came heme te raise recruits, but while at home he was taken sick with lung fever, and the soldier who had passed through the dangers and the deaths of two years of war and battle noharmed, lay down to die amid friends and relatives in the home of his childhood, and passed from the scenes of earth afar from the roar ef cannon and the din of conflict. But his comrades also were with him in his last hours, for they had come hoie to " veteranize," and they attended his funeral in a body, and Inid him to rest with the honors of war in the Union City Cemetery, where a simple tombstone commemora'es his youth- ful valor ; Francis Marion, died one year ohl; Jacob, born in 1846, has one child, lives with his father: Lucy, born in 1849, hns four children. Most of the descendants of John Hartman reside in Randolph County. There were three ethers, whose namey cannot now be given. Mr. Hartman was, during torce years, Township Trustee of Wayne Township, and his wife and himself nre members of the Christian Church. J. H. is cheerful in disposition and genial in temper, aetive, industrious and frugal, esteemed by his neighbors and beloved by his acquaintances. In politics, he is a warm-hearted and en- thusiastie Republican. He now (1882) resides at South Salem, Wayne Town- ship.

SOLOMON HARTMAN is the son of John Hartman, Wayne Township. He was born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1855; came with his father to Ran- dolph County, Ind., in 1848; attended Buckeye Seminary U. L. Institute, nt Gettysburg, Penn. lle taught school before he was seventeen, and has taught twenty-four winters. lle married Sarah Ann Williamson in 1858, and they have had eight children. He ie n prosperous and successful farmer, taking delight in enring for all his affairs in a nent and thorough manner. Though considered slightly eccentric by some, and being withnl a man independent in opinion, he is a most energetie supporter of all good things. In politics, he used to be a strong Republican, but of late years he has thrown all the enthu- siasm of his nature into the National Greenback movement : nad he expects,

erelong, to see the world "turned upside down," or, as he would say, turned " right side up," and hopes to witness the ushering in of the new era, when everybody shall have all the money he wishes, and more, too, and when that blessed time shall come may we all be there to see and to receive, moreover, ench one his full and abundant share. Mr. If. resides near his faber's old farm about five miles southwest of Union City and a little north of Greenville Creek, Mr. H. is a thoroughly enterprising and greatly public-spirited citizen, entering heartily into every movement for the advancement of the public wel- fare.

HENRY HILL, Jericho, was born in 1790 in North Carolina. Coming io Wayne County, Ind., in 1817, he changed his residence to Randolph County in 1818, entering eighty neres in Wayne Township, Jericho settlement, and resid- ing there till his death in 1874, fifty-six years. Mr. Hill was three times married -to Achsah Peacock in 1814, who was born in 1793 and died in 1830; to Achsah Thomas in 1831, who died in 1835, and the third time in 1837 te Avis Woodard, who died in 1877. Mr. H. had ten children, all grown sud all married, and eight are living still. Asenath (Themas), born in 1815, married George Thomas in 1833; has had three children ; resides at Jeriche. Daniel, bora in 1817, has been married three times; is publisher of peace literature at New Vienna, Ohie. Jesse, born in 1820; married Catherine Cex ; has had two children, died many years ago. Margaret, born in 1824; married Alexan- der Mason ; lived in Minnesota ; had five children, died in 1878. Achsah, born in 1829: married Obadiah Stillwell; resides near Lynn; has bad twe children ; husband is a farmer. William, born in 1832; married Hannah Stanhrey ; has had nine children ; resides in Iowa. Rachel, born in 1833 ; married Mr. Cox ; bas had eleven children. Isano, born in 1885; no children. Henry, born in 1838; has had eleven children; resides at Jericho; is a farmer. Henry Hill, Sr., has had fifty-two grand-children and twenty-two great-grandchildren. lle was a quiet, steady, reliable citizen, an Anti-Slavery Friend, a Republican, a thrifty and successful farmer, and an honest, faithful, npright man.

FANNY (DIGGS) HILL is the daughter of William Diggs, who was the first head of a family to settle on White River, in Randolph County. She was bora in September, 1817, being supposed to have been the first white child born on White River. She was married to Matthew Ilill, sen of Benoni Hill, of Jericho, in 1836. Matthew Hill was born in 1814. and came with his par- ents to Randolph County in 1818. They have seven children, and they live en the land which he entered in 1897.

BENONI IIILL was born in North Carolina, came te Jericho, Wayne Township, Randolph County, Ind , in 1818. Hod ten children, seven of whom grew up, and died abont 1870. His wife's maiden name was Pelly Bos- well, and she died about 1860. Mr. H. was a Friend, an Abolitionist, an Anti- Slavery Friend, a Republican, and altogether an excellent Christian men and citizen, having been one of the earliest pioneers ef Wayne Township.

MATHEW IHILL is the son of Benoni Hill (deceased), having been born in 1814, in North Carolina. Ile'came with his father, at the age of four years, to Randolph County, in 1818. In 1837, he married Fanny Diggs, and they have had seven children, six of whom are living and one unmarried. Mr. H. entered eighty acres and now owns 120 acres, being a thriving and successful farmer. Ile was nu Anti-Slavery Friend, and is now a Republican. Mr. Ilill, like the great body of the society of which he has been a life-long member, au earnest, faithful, steadfast adherent of Christian principles, and a quiet, bum- ble, unassuming but useful and esteemed member of the community.

CHRISTOPHER HOLLINGER was born in Lancaster County, Penn., June 4, 1833, and is a son ef Samnel and Lucy Hollinger, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of England. He was brought up and educated in Darke County, Ohio, to which place his parents removed when he Was four years old. In December, 1854, he was married to Miss Rebecca Shire, by whom he has had four children, only one of whom is now living. In 1872, Mr. Hollinger came to this county aod settled at Harrisville, engaging in a general mercantile business for two years, being at the same time Post- master at that place, In 1874, he sold out hia stere and bought a farm ef 188 neres in Section 32, which he still owns, but resides at !Harrisville, and carries on a business ef carpentering and cabinet-making.

PETER HOOVER, Su., born in Virginia ; came to Randolph County, lad., in the spring of 1834; had eight children, seven now living. He died many years ago, as also his wife. She belonged to the l'resbyterian Church. IIe was a Democrat.

PETER HOOVER, JR., born 1810, Pendleton Conoty, Va .: came to Darke County, Ohio, 1833, and to Randolph County, Ind., 1834; entered 160 acres and has 160 acres still. He had only $2.50 when he got here, and he had his father and mother and their six children to care for. But by hard werk and close economy he succeeded in assisting his parents, and also in gaining a rensonable competenes for his old age. Ile was never married. An numarried sister lives with him and cares for his affairs. He is an henest, sincere, hard- working, industrions, frugal and simple-hearted citizen; & sound Democrat and patriot of the olden time.

ANDREW HUTTON was born in York County, Penn., on February 4, 1834, and is a son of Solomen and Elizabeth Hutton, both natives of that county. In 1861, he married Miss Margaret Kiester, but they have no chil- dren. In 1876, be enme to this county and purchased forty aeres of land in Wayne Township, upon which he resides, and, besides farming, pursues the carpenter trade.

JOSIAH KAYLOR is a son of William and Rebecca Kaylor, and was born in Preble County, Ohio, February 21, 1838. He was raised on a farm and edn- cated in the common district school. On April 18, 1860, be was married, te Miss Lucinda Kesler, and they bave one child. Ile came to this county in February, 1878, and purchased n farm of 208 neres, five miles southwest of Union City, upon which he resides, engaged in farming and stock-raising. He also owns a quarter-section of land in Jay County. Ile and bis wife are mem- bers of the Lutheran Church.

432

HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY.

WILLIAM KENNON, born in Ireland, came to America when fourteen years old; lived for n time in Guernsey County, Ohio, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1830. He settled on the Downing place, south from the toll- gate south of Union City. He married Eleanor Smith, and had four children. He owned 210 acres of land, was n Democrat, was Justice of the Peace for four years, and was highly esteemed for integrity and intelligence. He died many years ago, ae did also his wife, but the date of their death cannot now be ex- actly told.

THOMAS S. KENNON, born in Wayne Township 1834. Married Hannah Perkins, 1862; has five children ; owns 360 acres; is a thriving, industrious, active farmer, and an extensive and successful stock denler. Ha is likewise an earnest and enthusiastic politician, though he has never sought public office. Hle is & steadfast Republican, and takes a prominent part in public affairs. Mr. Kennon thinks that he is the oldest person born in Wayne Township who now resides therein. There were settlers in the township twelve years in advance of his father, and, probably, children born in it before 1854, but he thinks none such are living here now. He bas always been a resident of the town- ship. Ilis educational privileges consisted of the schools in the old hewed-log and round-top schoolhouses of the period, as also a few months at the Union Literary Institute, n manual labor institution established in 1846, at the Green- ville settlement, northeast of Spartansburg. and nffording instruction to grent numbers of the aspiring young men and women who were residents of the region nt the time. T. S. K. was a volunteer in the civil war of 1861, first, in the Eighth Indiana three months, and ngain in the One Hundred and Twenty- fourth Infantry, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant of his company.

JOHN KUNKLE is e son of David and Miriam Kunkle, and was born in Darke County, Ohio, September 14, 1846. lle came with his father to this county in April, 1854, and here he was educated in the common district school. On the 12th of February, 1869, he was married, to Miss Catharine Headrich, also a native of Darke County, and a daughter of Michael Hendrich. She died March 31, 1880, leaving six children. She had been for four years a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Kunkle for five years worked at shoemaking. and for awhile was Postmaster of Bartonis. At present, he owns a farm of 100 acres in the south part of Wayne Township, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising.

WILLIAM A. MACY was born in Guilford County. N. C., November 6, 1809, being a son of Obed and Mary (Armfield) Macy, who were both natives of North Carolina. His education was very limited, the "Old North Stnie" being more famous for "pitch tar, turpentine and lumber" than for " school keeping" or " book larnin." Ile married Miss Jemima Rogers, July 4, 1833, and they had five children. Both his wives (see below) have been members of the M. E. Church, and his present wife and himself still remain such. IJc has owned 200 acres of land but now retains but ninety acres, hav- ing given 110 to his children. In 1852, he went ow a visit to bis native State, and upon his return therefrom brought with him his aged mother who spent the reinniudor of her days in Randolph County. Mr. M. emigrated to Ran- dolph County, Ind., the year of his marriage, 1833. He resided at Spartans- burg three years, on the Rogers Place, enst of Spartanshurg five years, on a farm west of Granger Hall eleven years, and about twenty-eight years upon his farm north of Greenville Creek, near Abraham Chenoweth's. His wife died May 24, 1879, and was laid to rest in Arha Ceoietery. In 1881, he was married nguin to Mrs. Morgan, widow of Frank G. Morgan, late of Spartans- burg, and they now reside at that village. Mr. Macy. although seventy-three years old, appears cheerful and sprightly like a man of fifty years. He has had five children, only one of whom is living, to wit : Jacob Clarkson, who was born in 1839 ; married Mary Shreer in 1859, has had nine children, cight living, and lives on his father's old place, in Wayne Township. J. C M. has been Township Trustee two terms, and is a stock-raiser and dealer and farmer. Another of the children of J. A. M. was Caroline, who became the wife of Jolin H. Cammack in 1862, and after having been the mother of three children, died in 1869. W. A. M. is, of course, a member of the great, widesprend, universal Macy family, eprung from the original Thomas Macy, of New England, who sailed across Massachusetts Bay, around Cape Cod to Nantucket Island. The voyage is probably n fact, but the story as rendered into verse hy the poet Whittier, oontains some poetic embellishments, or may possibly agree with popular tra- dition in that region. More than 2,000 persons have belonged to the " Macy tribe" since Thomas Macy. the sturdy Puritan,

" Upon Nantucket's dreary Iale Drew up his bont at last."

Accounts of many other Maoys are given in the course of this work. W. A. M. is & fine old gentleman, a prosperous farmer and blacksmith, an old-time Methodist and Abolitionist, a sincere and thorough Republican and a thoroughly upright and honest man. He suffered a severe affliction some three years ago in the loss of the life-long companion of his bosom, the sharer of his toils and his sorrows for well-nigh fifty years. In the winter of 1881-82, be was happily successful in gaining the affections and the hand of Mrs. Morgan, ns already stated, nod seems by this fortunate union to have renewed his manbood, and to have grown younger by twenty years.

DR. WILLIAM K. MARQUIS is a son of William and Polly Marquis, and was born in Darke County, Ohio, on the 9th day of April, 1832. His parents were natives of Hardy County, Va., and the mother is yet living at the age of eighty-seven years. He was brought up on n farm, received his education in the common schools, and rend medicine with Dr. Enos Williams, of Darke County, beginning the practice of his profession in 1868. In 1853, he married Miss Mary Bennett, by whom he tind nine children. She died in October, 1875, and in March, 1877, he married Miss Fannie Coats, by whom he has two children. For seventeen years he has been a minister of the German Baptist Church ; nt present lives on his own form of fifty-five neres in southwest part of Wayne Township, this county, and is engaged in the practice of his profes- sinn.

MASON FAMILY.

Richard Mason (father of the " Mason's" ) was born in North Carolina in about 1795; came to Clinton County, Ohio, when a boy, perhaps in 1805, married Sarah Jackson in Ohio, moved thence to Wayne County, Ind., and to Kosciusko County, Ind., to the latter in 1834. He had ten children, and died in 1844 in the last named county, his wife dying in Randolph County, Ind., in 1850. His children all grew up and were married, and eight still survive. They are as follows : Thomas, tra children, resides nt Union City, Ind. ; Elizabeth (Mason), seven children, is dead : Delils (Harper), four obildren, lives in Iowa; Louisa (Drake), seven children, is dead ; William, bas seven children, resides in Union ; Sarnh (Gunter), ons child, Kosciusko County ; Salina ( Frazier-Milnor) nine children, Iowa ; Elihu, several children, resides in Ohio; Mary (Conkling), four children, Wayne Township ; Jemima (Duncan), three children, Town. Six of them bave been residents of Randolph County. Thomas, William, Salinn, Elibu, Mary and Jemima; and Thomas, William and Mary live here still.

THOMAS MASON, Union City, son of Richard Mason, was born in Clin- ton County, Ohio, in 1813 : moved to Wayne County, Ind., in 1815, married Jane Polly, in Wayne County, in 1830; moved to Kosciusko County in 1834, and to Randolph County in 1838 ; has made this county bis bome ever since that time. He settled three miles northwest of Salem and remained there till 1865, moving in that year to Union City, retaining, however, ownership of bis farm. llis wife, Jane Polly, was born in Preble County, Ohio, in 1812, and removed to Madison County and thence to Darke County, Ohio, the Intter in [819. Mr. M. and his wife are both active and sprightly, bearing their age well. They have been the parents of ten children, most of whom ars still living. He has been all his life & farmer. He was at different times Assessor, both of personal property and of real estate, and was four years Justice of the Pence for Wayne Township. He was at one time a member of the Dis- ciples' Church, but is not so at the present time. Ilis wife belongs to that Society at Salem, Randolph County. He has been, ns to politics, a life-long Democrat, though he sometimes " splits" his ticket, which a " free man" has a right to do if he chooses.

ANDREW McCONNELL was born in Miami County, Ohio, July 19, 1826, and is a son John and Elizabeth Met'onnell. He was raised on a farm and educated in the comminn schools. When he was a young man, he learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed for twenty years. He has been twice married, the first time to Miss Jane Inman, by whom he had six children, of whom four are now living. ITis second wife was Mrs. Matilda Clapp, by whom he has one child. Mr. McConnell enme to this county in 1850, and at present resides at Bartonia, being n Justice of the Peace for Wayne Township.

JONATHAN J. MIKESELL, was born in Darke County, Ohio, January 25, 1838, and is a son of Riley and Matilda Mikesell, the former a native of Vir- ginin, and the latter of Ohio. Young Mikesell received his education in a little log schoolhouse furnished with slab sents, but so improved his time that he obtained the necessary certificate, and for awhile was engaged in teaching. He came to this county in 1865, and in 1862 married Miss Hannah Rarrick, daughter of Daniel Rarrick, and they have eight children. Mr. Mikescht now owns a farm in the south part of this township, and, besides farming, he is, in connection with his brother, Curtis O. Mikesell, engaged in manufacturing drain tile, to supply a constantly increasing demand in his locality.

D. T. MORRIS.

David T. Morris is a native of Fayette County, Ohio, and was born on the 15th day of December, 1823. His parents were John and Mary Morris, nntives of the State of Delaware, who removed from thio to Campbell County, Ky., when the subject of this sketch was quite small. Here he grew up on H farin until he was fifteen years old, at which time he went with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father engaged in business as a contractor and builder. Young Morris was educated principally at Farmers' College, situated at College Hill, near Cincinnati, which institution was then under the control and management of Gen. S. F. Cary. In 1849, he was married to Miss Mary A. Murphy, a native of Greene County, Obio, and daughter of John C. Murphy, one of the pioneers of that county. They have had nine children, but four of whoin-John H., Ada L., Charles [', and Samuel H .- are now living. In rear- ing and educating his family, Mr. Morris employs a governess, and has his children insirneted at home. He has been prompted to this course by his loen- tion being remote from school facilities, as well as hy his own preferences; yet no citizen pays school-tax more cheerfully than he. After engaging in business for himself, Mr. Morris tried various avocations. For awhile he was employed in book-keeping, then merchandising, then a hotel, and finally, farming. In 1858, he came to this county, and bought 200 acres of unimproved land on the Indiana side of the State line, four miles south of Union City. This land has been developed by industry and intelligent supervision into one of the most pleasant and sightly homestends in the county, as our aketch herewith will ehow. Mr. Morris has a taste for the beautiful, and his hospitality is joined to a cordiality and good will that renders a visit to his house always agreeable. Besides the resources of his farm, he is the owner of valuable Western lands. and is a stockbolder and Director of Citizens' Bank of Union fity. Mr. Mor- ris has always been a friend of public improvements, and among the foremost in local enterprises for the development of the country. Although employing a private tencher for his own children, he is an earnest advocate of public schools, and contributes cheerfully of his means for their support. He was one of the original incorporators, and has usually been a Director of the Union Agricult- ural Association, and has contributed of his time, his money and bis labor to promote its success ; and to his influence and example, as much as that of any other minn, is to be attributed the better system of farming and improvement of farm stock of Randolph County. For some years he has given especial atten- tion to the breeding of fine horses, being at this time the owner of " Mont- gomery Boy," n grandson of the famous Rysdyk's Hambletonian, and on the

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships, Part 151

Author: Tucker, Ebenezer Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman Number of Pages: 664

Author: Tucker, Ebenezer
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman
Number of Pages: 664