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 170

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

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Church and is a recorded minister in that society, and is considered one of the best citizens of the vicinity in which he resides.

JOHN D. WRIGHT, farmer, P. O. Farmland, was born March 6, 1837, in this county. His father, Solomon R., was originally from Tennessee, where he was born in 1801 ; from thence settled in this State about the year 1818. Mr. Wright was united in marriage to Miss Lydia A. Jackson, who was born Sep- tember 28, 1847. Five children blessed this union, of whom four are living- Eva M., born October 15, 1866; Everett E., October 19, 1869; Mand E., Feb- ruary 27, 1873, and Lydia A., January 26, 1875. Ile was educated in the common schools of the State, attending Liber College oac term. He is ef Quaker descent and a member of that church. Mr. Wright has followed farm- ing and stock-raising from boyheod, and owns a fertile farm of 1793 neres. Republicaa in politics, and an honest, industrious citizen.

GEORGE W. WORL, farmer, P. O. Neff, was born August 80, 1836, in Wayne County, Ind. His father, Robert Worl, was born in Kentucky about the year 1810. He immigrated to Wayne County at an early date, and de. censed on the road to California in 1852. Mr. Worl was united in marriage to Lydn A. Ripley July 19, 1857. She was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, August 1, 1841. Mr. Worl was educated in the common schools of this State, and is a gentleman of good information and intelligence. He was elected Town- ship Assessor in 1871, serving two terms, and Trustee of Stony t'reek Township in 1875, ia whioli capacity he also served two terms"of two years each. In hoth of these offices he was noted for bis ability and fidelity, which fully dem- onstrated the fact of the confidence and esteem in which he was held by his neighbors. IIe, with three brothers, served in the war for the Union. He enlisted in Company B, Thirty-sixth Indians Infantry, serving through the war, and being wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. He is a member of the Christian Church, the A., F. & A. M. Lodge, No. 308, of Farmland, a Re- publican in polities, and a gentleman of the best social standing. Four chil- dren have blessed the marriage-Mary E., born May 6, 1858; Emma 'A., March 23, 1861; William M., May 22, 1867, and Ulysses S., September 28, 1872.

NETTLE CREEK TOWNSHIP.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

It embraces thirty-one and one-half sections. being seven miles long. north to south, and four and a half miles wide cast to west. It lies wholly west of the Twelve-Mile boundary, and the land was surveyed about 1820 or 1821. It includes parts of Towns 18 and 19, Range 12 east, upon the upper course of Lit tle White River. Settlement began vater. of course, there than it did east of the boundaries." The township lies chiefly in the valley of the Little White River, and covers a fine scope of country. Much of it is gently rolling, presenting pleasant land. scapes. The soil is well adapted to all kinds of farming, and fine erops are produced Being settled later, improvements are not so much advanced as they are farther east, yet there are many fine farms, with good buildings, etc.

The earliest settler of whom we have heard is William Shulla- barger, who came in 1820, settling south of Losantville. He was killed by the falling of a tree. The next settler (so far as we know) was John Burroughs, 1822, and also his brother. Thomas Burroughs, 1822. The following came soon afterward. Where they settled we do not know; Solomon Sparks, Mahlon Bronson, Isaac Branson, John Massey, Ichabod Tharpe. Phineas Macy, Mason Powell. Enoch Sayles, Jacob Tharpe, Henry Mossby and perhaps others,

Samuel Burroughs, son of John Burroughs, was the first child born in Nettle Creek Township, May 20, 1823.

The following enme in the years named: John Clevinger, 1828; Anthony Johnson, 1829; Isaac Thornburg, 1830; Hamilton Snodgrass, 1830; William Snodgrass, 1830; John Snodgrass, 1830; John Bookont. 1831: Jordan Halsted. 1831: Henry Leaky, 1831; Reuben Johnson, 1532; Lewis W. Johnson. 1832: George W. Wine. 1834: Bright Cist, 1834; George Deaky, 1834; Christian Leaky, 1834; Wilkerson Gray, 1835; John Grubbs. came early; Byaleel Hunt, Joel Drake, Mark Diggs were there in 1838.

The settlers in this region had peculiarly severe hardships in the early time. Some of them were very poor, and all of them were greatly " put to it " to make their way. One pioneer in this

township, when he first moved to the county, had one old horse only. and the horse died in a few days, which left them in a bad condition. The man cut his knee with his frow while splitting elapboards for his cabin, and was laid helpless on the puncheon floor for six weeks. His wife and her brother improved the sea- son by making several barrels of sugar, which stood them in good stead to give in exchange for corn during the summer.

In a scope of two miles square there were owned but two wagons. One day, six horses were hitched to one of these wag ons to go to mill. Twelve bushels wero loaded in, and off the teams started. The horses would not pull together, got fast in a big mud-hole, and stopped. Six men unhitched each a horse, took each a sack of wheat and away to the mill, leaving the wagon to get out of the mud when it got a " good ready." Thus did the hardy pioneers of Nettle Creek bravely push their way, and some of them still survive to look back upon those rough and troublesome times and those awkward ways.

Isaac Branson was in Nettle Creek in 1824, in the time of the " Falling Timber," since one settler relates that her sister at that time was at Isaac Branson's, and that Mr. Branson's horse was hommed up in the stable, but not hurt.

Nettle Creek Township is a fine rolling country, well adapted to all kinds of farming. It is in the southwest corner of the county. The only pike is the Windsor & Hagerstown pike, north and south, through Losantsville. There is but one town, Losantsville, or, as it was called at first, Hunt's Cross Roads. Nettle Creek is Republican in politics by a moderate majority, when State and National lines aro drawn. As to religion, Meth- orlists, Disciples, Friends, Christian. United Brothren, Baptists. etc., are represented. The first sermon in the region was preached at Thomas Burroughs', by Rev. Bowen, a Methodist. The people generally went to West River. Thomas Burroughs died in 1825, and his funeral was preached in his cabin by Hen- ry Mossburg. The Baptist Meeting-House on the county line was built in 1825. A Methodist Meeting-House was built not twenty rods away. in 1840. The first schoolhonse was built in 1833. School was taught in it in 1833-34 by Mr. Evans. The

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next school was managed by Cornelius Murray and his sister. From those small and awkward beginnings, the township has slowly made a substantial growth, till now her school advantages compare favorably with the other townships of the couuty.

There are several churches in the township. There is no railroad anywhere within easy reach. Winchester. Hagerstown, Richmond and Muncie are the places at which the people of Nettle Creek must reach the railroads. Yet they might be worse off, since good pikes reach out to all these towns, and the farmers and business men of that region, instead of being obliged to hitch six horses to twelve bushels of grain, and then after get- ting their wagon mired, to carry their load off to the mill on the backs of the six horses, as of old, can now take almost any quantity they please and proceed pleasantly, easily and safely to the market of their choice in their own, or in adjoining counties. Nettle Creek is perhaps more purely agricultural than any town. ship in the county, and the valley of the Little White River is truly a splendid region. As the traveler passes north from Lo- santsville on the good and . erviceable pike that extends through the township, his eye beholds with delight the beauty of the land. scape, displaying a splendid scope of country rescued from the domain of the original forest and subdued by the tireless indus- try of her stalwart farmers. Although much of the surface lies high enough for natural drainage, much, also, stood in need of human help in this respect; and in the last few years the modern system of tile drainage has been brought greatly into use, and the farming interest of that region has been largely strengthened and enriched by that means.

In early times, like many primitive communities, some rough- ness of manners and actions prevailed, but latterly the commu- nity has become fully the equal of the rest of the county in those things that tend to enlighten and elevate and refine the feelings and sentiments of the community. In religious things there is considerable variety of opinions and practice. In an early day, the Baptists established a large influence in that part of the county, and they have maintained to this day a larger following in that township than elsewhere in Randolph. In fact, the Baptist eloment, which holds in the county at large a strong. prominent and controlling position, has, for some reason, found in Randolph County but a meager support; and. outside of Net. tle Creek, that branch of the Christian body has found but few adherents. It has been suggested, with how much justice we know not, that the " Disciples," so called, who are essentially and intensely Immersionists, and in many other respects like the Baptists proper, have in this region absorbed the Baptist element into their own body. We do not declare it as a fact, but give the statement as a theory proposed by some to account for the unusual fewness of the number of Baptists hereabouts, compared with many other portions of the country.

LAND ENTRIES.

S. W. 15, 18, 12, October 31, 1822, John Burroughs; S. W. S. W. 3, 18. 12, November 3, 1822. Jesse A. Jenny: S. W. N. W. 12, 19, 12, November 25, 1822, Robert Scott; S. W. 12. 19, 12, November 25, 1822, Tarlton Moorman; W. N. W. 13, 19, 12, November 25, 1822, Mark Diggs; E. N. E. 14, 19, 12, November 25, 1822, Mark Diggs: W. S. W. 13, 18, 12. November 26, 1822, Robert Kennedy; E. N. E. 15, 18. 12, February 24, 1823. Jesse Moore; W. N. W. 15, 18, 12. September 30, 1823, Jesse Routh; E. S. E. 15, 18, 12, December 15, 1º23, James Massey; W. N. W. 15, 19, 12, February 2, 1824, Joseph Brooks; W. N. E. 15, 18, 12, March 26, 1826, Isaac Branson; E. S. E. 5, 18, 12, An- gust 10, 1831, Jesse Sisk.

It is seen by the statement just given that the settlement of the township was very sparse before 1830. In fact, the west part of the county in general had but few occupants before that date. A small number had made a beginning upon White River and Cabin Creek, but not many were even there, and away from those streams the cabins and the clearings were truly " few and far between."

Nettle Creek Township is bounded on the north by Stony Creek Township, on the east by West River Township, on the south by Wayne County, and on the west by Delaware Connty.

Politically, Nettle Creek has a Republican majority, though the Democratic element is strong and active, and now and then, through dissensions in the Republican ranks, they manage to slip in oneof their sort into some of the local offices.

ENTRIES BY SECTIONS.

Township 18, Range 12 -Sections 1, 2, 1836-38; Section 3, 1832-37; Section 4, 1935-37; Sections 5, 11. 14. 1831-36, Jesse Sisk, August 10, 1831 (Section 5); Section 8, 1831-38, Jacob Crouse, December 12, 1831; Section 9, 1325-36, Henry Brown, December 4, 1825; Section 10, 1830-38; Section 12, 1825-36, William Jordan, February 17, 1825; Section 13, 1822-36, Rob- ert Canady, November 26, 1822; Section 15, 1822-30, John Bur- roughs, October 31, 1822; S ;tion 16, school land; Section 17, 1821-36.

Township 19, Range 12 -- Sections 13, 14. 1822-36, Mark Diggs, November 25. 1822; Section 15, 1824-36, Joseph Rooks, February 2, 1824; Section 16, school land; Sections 17, 25, 1835-36; Section 20, 1836; Sections 21, 23, 24, 1833-36, Mar- tin Scott and Richard Robbins, 1833 and 1835; Section 22, 1830 -35, Miles Hunt, November 9, 1830; Section 26, 35, 1834-36; Section 27, 1830-36, Benjamin Antrim, February 11, 1830; Section 23, 1825-36, Joseph Garrett, December 12, 1825; Sec- tion 29, 1833-37; Section 32, 1836-37; Section 33, 1832-37; Section 34, 1828-36; Section 36, 1835-37.

Nettle Creek was entered between 1821 and 1838 inclusive.

TOWNS.

Fallen Timber Post Office .- No town (perhaps) Section 35, Town 19, Range 12; two miles northeast of Losantville, in the neighborhood of Hicks K. Wright's late residenco. The name has been given from the fact that nearly sixty years ago a torri- ble tornado prostrated miles and miles of timber, falling, as it did, in a dense, heaped-up, impenetrable mass, and lying for many years upon the surface of the earth, an utter barrier to passage or communication across or among its overthrown tree- trunks. That mass of prostrate tree-trunks, entangled for years with shrubs and new-grown saplings, has for two generations disappeared from sight, and a single name, as above, is its only existing memorial.

Flemingsburg .- Location, northwest Section 23, Town 19, Ringe 12; forty lots; Reuben Hunt, Robert W. Butler, proprie- tors; recorded March 31, 1837. Distances: Four miles north of Losantsville; five miles northwest of Huntsville; one mile south- west of Pleasant View. This town seems to have been among the oldest in the county, but whether it ever existed except on paper, or whether any business was ever done there, we are un- able to say. It is utterly extinct, and even the name seems to be wholly lost. It is to be presumed that at least a log cabin, store and a blacksmith shop were there, but we have obtained not the slight- est outside information

Losantsville .- Location. Sections 3, 4, 9 and 10, Township 18, Range 12 cast; twenty-eight lots; Howard Hunt, proprietor; recorded February 22, 1851; streets, north and south, Cambridge; east and west, Main.

Distances: Arba, eighteen and one-half miles; Bloomings- port, ten and one-half miles; Fairview, twenty miles; Farmland, thirteen and one-half miles; Huntsville, eight and one-half miles: Lynn, fourteen miles; Union City, twenty-eight miles; Windsor, seven and one-half miles; Winchester, seventeen and one-half miles; Rural, fourteen and one-half miles; Richmond, twenty-four miles; Muncie, seventeen miles; Hagerstown, eight and one-half miles. Losantsville (at first called Hunt's Cross Roads) was laid out in 1851 by Howard Hunt. Its " antiquities " are as follows: Mr. Denny had a log-cabin store; Bright Cisk resided there in 1834, and had a grocery in 1842, and perhaps sooner than that. Howard Hunt had a grocery and a hotel in 1850. Moses Shores built a grocery at the southwest corner of the main crossing. Lemuel Wiggins bought him out, and he in turn sold his establishment to Samuel Burroughs and William Hendricks. However, Mr. Wiggins continued his residence at the place, and for twenty years has kept hotel at Losantsville, be- sides owning and running a store more than once, the last time

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for five or six years. William Chambers had a cabinet shop. Thomas Jones also worked at the same business afterward. Henry Blazer, Lewis Retz, John Sutton, William Bradfield, William McCollom, Charles Shaffer have had smith shops. A post office was established nearly twenty-five years ago. The Post- mastors have been Messra. Wiggins, Hendricks, McCollom. Can- ada, D. Wiggins, L. Wiggins. Mills Hunt, Esq., is a resident of the town, having been an inhabitant of the county more than fifty years. Losantsville is not extensive in the line of inhabit- ants. There are only eleven dwelling-houses. The present business may be described chiefly thus: . One store. hotel and post office, Lemnel Wiggins; one smith shop, John Sutton; one shoemaker, William Horn; one grocer, William MeCoflom; one wagon shop, William McCollom; three physicians, Messrs. Berry, Frank and Lowe; one schoolhouse. one lodge (I. O. O. F.), one Porter's Temperance League, one Baptist Church, one Method- ist Episcopal society, one Christian (New Light) society, both the latter occupying a public hall for their religious services.

Pleasant Vier. -- Location, in Nettle Creek and Stony Creek Townships, upon Sections 11, 12, 13 an1 14, Township 19, Range 12 east, Mark Diggs, proprietor. Number of lots not stated. No plat recorded so far as known: laid out in 1854. Being situated in two townships and four sections, its location is more extensivo than its business. There has been a small amount of business from the beginning of the town. Mr. Davi- son had a saw-mill; William Kennedy had astore; Hiram Diggs also had a store; Mr. Carey had a smith shop in 1856; Solomou Hauscom started a furniture store, as also an undertaker's shop. in 1855. and it has been continued ever sinco; the latter business with them has become very extensive, the most so the proprietors claim of any of the kind in Randolph County. They make their own work and furnish coffins for at least 180 buryings per year. The merchants in Pleasant View have been Messrs. Kennedy, Diggs, Wright, East, MeNees. Kelly, Moore, Bates, Lumpkin & Bro., Ross & Hanscom, Macy (whose store was blown up with powder), Jessup, Hanscom. Jessup & Carter, E. Carter & Son, G. Wright.

The physician has been Dr. Frank, in 1870. The smith shops have been run by Messrs. Johnson. Carey, Bowers, South and Robison. Wagon shops, J. W. Paschal, L'unb & Will- iams. Saw-mill, Mr. Davison and others. Cabinet and under- taker's shop, Mr. Hanscom.

Present business: One store, G. Wright: one smith shop, Mr. Bowers; one wagon shop, Lamb & Williams; one saw-mill, Da- vison; one undertaker. Mr. Hanscom; one post office, name, Good View, Postmaster, G. Wright; one schoolhouse. Every- thing at this town is on a small scale. There is one pike, and the railroads were so far away as to hide the wonderful train, smoke, roar and all from the sight and sound of the villagers. But, in the spring of 1832, the I , B. & W. road was laid through the sonthorn part of the portion exten ling east and west, con- necting Columbus, Indianapolis, etc., and running near Losants- ville, and not very far from the town with the pretty name, Pleasant View. Whether the proximity of this line of road will help or hinder this aspiring little hamlet. time, the great revealer, will unfold. Till then, let us wait in pationce the revelations of the future. A thrifty and prosperous country region surround ; the town.

BIOGRAPHY.

John Bookont was born in Tennessee in 1807; came to Net. tle Creek in 1831: married Nancy Laughlin in 1829; entered forty aeros where ho now lives, east of Losantsville. Ho has bought other land besides, but the land which he first entered is the honestond. He has hal thirteen children, anl is a farmer. He lives east of Losantsville. Ta region was considerably set- tled np when he came -John Snodgrass, north of Losintsville, now doad: Hamilton Snod grass. son of John S., north of Losants- villa, now living; Byron Cirter, esst of Losautsville, living; the Cisk family, an old man and his sons; Reuben Johnson. north of Losantavill ; sevoral families by the nine of Birro ighs lived south of Losantsville. Solomon Sparks. Israel Tharpe, Benjamin Antrim, Antony Johnson, Thomas Antrin, Gorgo Loiky. Hon- ry Desky, Au bersoon Mora, William D .any. Jacob Crouse were

among those who had at this time made a settlement in this re- gion. Mr. Bookout is a Baptist in religion and in politics a Domocrat.

John Burroughs lived southwest of Losantsville. He was born in Virginia in 1793, came to Warren County, Ohio, in 1808, moved to Fayette County, still again to Randolph County, Ind., in 1822. He married Martha Chambers (who was born in 1799, in Wilkes County, N . C.), in 1816. They have had twelve children, ten of whom have been married. One died in Florence Prison, Jesse Burroughs. Mr. Burroughs died in 1862, sixty- nine years old. His widow is still living with her son, south of Losantsville; she is about eighty-three years old, yet she is active and cheerful, and her memory is fresh concerning old things. Some reminiscences are given by her as follows: "The 'Fallen Timber' was two years after we came here (1824). Plenty of Indians were still at Muncie, Yorktown, Smithfield, etc. While living in Fayette County, our folks went twice (in the spring and in the fall) into a fort at Elkhorn Creek. My youngest brother was born in that blockhouse. The tornado did but little damage where we lived. The body of the storm was farther east. John Burroughs' father, Thomas Burroughs, came when we did. Samuel Burroughs was the first white child born in Nettle Creek Township, May 20, 1823. He died eighteen years ago (in 1863)." Aunt Patsy Branson, now of Muncie, Ind., widow of Isaac Branson, who were pioneers of Stony Creek, and afterward of Nettle Creek, says that Mr. Burroughs' people were the only settlers in the region when they planted themselves in Nettle Creek, and that they used to hear the dogs bark and the roosters crow at Mr. Branson's through the woods several miles.

Jonathan Canaly was born in North Carolina in 1821, came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1826, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1849. He married Susan Moore, and has had fourteen chil- dren: twelve of them are grown and eight are married; eight have taught school, two aro attorneys, and one is a Justice of the Penca They are an active and intelligent family and are Re- publicans.

Martin L. Canady was born in Randolph County, Ind., in 1848; married Sophronia E. Noll in 1869, and they have three children. He is a farmer and teacher, having taught school thirteen winters. He taught the first school that ever was held in Losantsville (in 1878), for it seems that ambitions little town never till 1878 rose to the diginity of possessing a school. The Township Trustees in that year, taking pity on her desolation, erected a nont and commodious school building, and now the as. piring Losantsvillans need not be obliged to submit to the hu- miliation of forever being bound to dance attendance upon an old-fashioned or even upon a new fangled country school.

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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 170

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