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 42

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

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He has been twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth Davis, and they were married at Oxford, Ohio. She died at Michigan City, having been the mother of four children, three of them still living. His second wife was Mrs. Anna (Ratliffe) Berry, who, though twice married, has had no offspring.

Ever since setting up business at Portland, Ind., he has been engaged in the turning business in some form. If he could com- mand capital equal to his business activity and shrewdness, lie would indeed make a stir among his fellow-citizens; as it is, he has, for many years, been wide-awake. and ever active and enter- prising among his fellow-citizens.

JOHN DEMORY, FREE-BORN, HALF FRENCHMAN.

Was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1774. He married Sarah Robison in Anson County, N. C .. in 1801. He came to Randolph County, Ind., with Lemuel Vestal, in 1825, on Stony Creek, near the Thornburgs. He had eleven children, as follows:

Mary. married William Weaver. living: Irvin. John, Han- nah; Robert, living in Cabiu Creek settlement; Charles, Cole- man; William, living southwest of Winchester; Zachary; l'hebe Ann, married Jacob Felters, living; Maston.

He was the first colored man to settle in the west part of Randolph County. The second there was Drew Taylor, on Eight Mile Creek. The third was Obadiah Anderson, near Wayne County.

Mr. Demory owned eighty acres of land and a house and lot in Winchester, at the time of his death, which took place in 1860 in his eighty-sixth year.

W. H. DEMORY. WHITE RIVER TOWNSHIP.

Is the son of John Demory, above mentioned. His biog- raphy is elsewhere given. We add some sketches describing his quaint and varied adventures from his own lips. He now owns the eighty acres west of Winchester that used to belong to his father. He is a prosperous and thrifty farmer.

ADDENDA.

"In 1847, I crossed the ocean as Steward on the steamer Washington to Southampton, and Bremerhaven, and Paris. Returning to New York. I shipped on the steamer Hermann to England again, and after that on the Iroquois from New York to the West Indies.

"I commenced life on ship-board in 1845, being body serv. ant to Commodore Perry on the James K. Polk, which was burned at the Straits of Gibraltar, and accompanying the Commodore in a six-months' trip through the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, Egypt and elsewhere. Returning to New York, he went up the Hudson to Whitehall and so to Buffalo, and upon Lake Erie to bring a vessel thence throngh to Lake Erie, the Welland Canal, Lake Ontario, the River St. Lawrence, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean, to Brooklyn Navy Yard. The ocean

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voyages above mentioned took place after my service with Com- modore Perry as just related.

"In 1852, I came West to Cincinnati. I went upon the steamboat Fanny Bullitt as cabin boy, giving a bill of sale of myself to the Captain, because it was considered safer in going down the river into a slave country to be reckoned as belonging to some responsible party, than to go as a free man. Afterward shipping as Steward on the Echo, Capt. Key, I went up Red River to Natchitoches. The Echo was burned just below Alex- andria, with a cargo of cotton. Going back, my next engage- ment was on the Magnolia, Capt. Thomson, running in the New Orleans and St. Louis trade. Capt. Thomson was the worst man I ever had to do with. On the way up the river, he fell out with me. I was folding napkins, and some ladies coming along handed Le some papers, saying, 'Please hand these to the Cap- tain.' I did so, thinking no harm. They proved to be 'kiss papers' from some candy they had been eating. He was a bach- elor, and took the act as an insult, and, with an oath, kicked ine severely. I turned in a flash and knocked him down. He was enraged, but, not venturing more summary measures, he put me on shore and had me arrested. I explained to the officer, and he believed me, and put me on an up-river steamer, and I got to St. Louis as soon as Capt. Thomson did. He had my baggage, and I presumed I should never get it. But I did, for shipping on the James H. Lucas, Capt. McGuire, at St. Louis. bound up the Mis- souri River, Capt. Thomson, coming to put some lady passengers on board that steamer, found me there; and he cried, 'Hallo, William; is that you?' I thought I was a goner, but he merely said, 'I have got your baggage locked up on my vessel for fear those niggers would steal it. Come and get it.' I feared that was a trap to catch me on board his vessel, but I wanted my baggage, and I went after it, and got it all right, and no harm came to me. We went up to St. Joe and back to St. Louis.

"My next trip was on the George W. Kendall, Capt. Norton. I shipped one time on the Itasca from Cincinnati via Louisville, and up the Mississippi to St. Anthony's Falls. At another time, I shipped as Steward for a trip up the Mississippi. At Nauvoo I went on shore and bought some provisions for the boat, as I had a right to do. The Clerk, however, who was also part owner, was provoked at me, because he generally bought then himself, and charged them up at advanced prices, thus filling his own pocket. He swore at me, and said he would settle with me at St. Louis. When there, he came at me with a club, and I caught his club with one hand and struck him with the other, flooring him. He was very bad and cruel, and those on board took my part, and I got out of the trouble unharmed.

"At another time, the Captain of the boat on which I was em- ployed set me to guard a certain line, and to prevent all persons from passing beyond it. The people mostly submitted quietly; but one fellow, a boat-runner, refused to observe the directions of our Captain, and, saying he would not be ordered round by a Cincinnati free nigger, drew his revolver. I had a little one in my hip pocket, and, drawing it quick as lightning, I shot him in the mouth. He fell, and I ran into my room and hid my pistol. A comrade found it where I had hid it. and hid it again, and they never discovered it. I was taken and tried, but men testi- fied that I was peaceable and never carriod a pistol, and my at- torney maintained the ground that the man fell somehow, a .. d that, his own revolver exploding, he was shot in that way. I got clear once more by paying some fine and the costs. But those things were becoming too common to be interesting, and I leit boat life, got married and settled down to business on the land."

HENRY M'DONALD, COLORED, SPANTANSBURG, BLACKSMITH.

Was born in South Carolina in 1814. His mother had been c _la. e, but was set free before his birth. He came to Preblo County, Ohio, in 1839; married Mary Knowles, and has had four children, all dead; moved to Greenville settlement in 1856, and to Spartausburg in 1859. He learned the blacksmith's trade in S uth Carolina when a boy fifteen or sixteen years old, and Las allowed it over since.

Ile is now sixty-seven years of age, but works in his shop still. He is a kind neighbor, and a skillful and faithful

workman, and is respected and relied on as an upright and sub- stantial citizen. He has a good property in the town of Spar- tansburg, including a fine house and lot, and the shop in which he follows his life-long vocation. He says of himself:

"I have no education. This fact has greatly hindered me in business. I forget so much of my work that I lose largely. Ihave never been troubled in any other way. People have always been friendly. I was to have had some schooling, but just then Nat Turner's insurrection broke out in Virginia, and laws were passed forbidding colored people to be taught. A free colored man who taught another free colored man got 500 lashes and was put in jail. A white man, for the same thing, was fined $500 and impris- oned. All gatherings of slaves separate from whites were prohib- ited by severe penalties; so I got no schooling. I went to Sun- day school a few times before Nat Turner's day. In other re- spects, I got along very well. My apprenticeship lasted five years. I then worked for a man, furnishing the tools and he the shop. When a boy, I lost four years' work.

"My father (a white man) hired me out for four years (eleven to fifteen years), for $20, $25, $30 and $40; the money to be paid to mo at twenty-one. But I never got it. He was killed in the Cumberland Mountains, having been robbed of $6,000 as he was coming North to buy land. The murderer was caught and hung. If father had lived, I should have got the money all right; but as it was, I never got it."

WILLIS PERRY, WINCHESTER.

Was born in Perquimans County, N. C., in 1795. He was a slave forty years. He was bought and set free by David White, a generous Quaker gentleman, and brought by him to Newport, Wayne Co., Ind., in 1835, with his wife and family of six chil- dren. Mr. Perry had married Nancy Mills in North Carolina, who was what was called "Quaker free"-i. e., her Quaker owner had done as much toward setting her free as the laws of Carolina allowed at the time. Their seventh child, Rachel, was born three weeks after the arrival of the family in Wayne County.

They had thirteen children in all. His wife died in 1862, and was buried in Dunkirk Burying-Ground, west of Winchester, her husband erecting a neat and tasteful monument over her grave, at a cost of $100, containing the following inscription:

"I was a slave, freed by a law-suit prosecuted by David White, the Quaker, may God bless his name! My husband's freedom was bought for $675. He made the money on rented land. Who of you that tauntingly say of my race, 'They can't take care of themselves,' have done better?"

They had no property when they came to this county, but Mr. Perry set to work at once with a hopeful spirit and an invincible purpose to attain a position of comfort and independence. He began by renting land of Thomas Hill, northeast of Newport. He had, the first year, fourteen acres of corn, raising a big crop, and fatting $120 worth of hogs. He worked his crop with an old blind horse that cost him $5. He bought an old cart " for a song," had it made into a wagon, and so on. Not many years after. he bought eighty acres of land near Dunkirk, for $770, paying $190 and giving notes for $580. Those notes he obtained at a heavy discount, getting them by the payment of $380 cash, thus saving $200 by the operation.

On this farm he resided till after the war, selling it at length for $3,000. He purchased property noar Versailles, Darke Co., Obio, remaining there three years, selling at a sacrifice; he re- turned to Indiana and settled at Winchester, where he still resides.

After the loss of his first wife, he married Hetty Ann Kimsey, which nnion proved a misfortune, since, after living with her four years, he was obliged to obtain a divorce.

Mr. Perry has no education, but he has always been steady, faithful, industrious, frugal, honest and respected.

His life has been long, and his adventures varied, he being now in his eighty-eighth year.

He is feeble in health, having suffered a severe attack of the palsy five years ago, and another attack not long since.

He belongs to no religious society, but says he is trying to live a pure and upright life, and hopes to meet his friends in heaven.

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JOHN RANELE, GREENSFORK, 1833.

Lives in the Greenville colored settlement, and had been a resident there for forty-eight years. His story can best be told in his own words:

"I was born in Virginia, east of the Alleghany Mountains, in 1796, being a slave, and was sold on the auction block and taken to Georgia and sold again. The man who bought me bought also two others, who had, it seems, been stolen. The owner of the two came on, found, claimed and gained them. My purchaser kept the two, and gave me in part payment for them. I was then taken to South Carolina and sold by that owner to his mother. She came to Indiana in 1810, to get away from slavery. She owned four. She was a Methodist, and her husband a Quaker. Before his death, they both freed all they had owned; but she bought four more and brought them to In- diana. The company were my mistress, her son and daughter, her daughter's husband and the four slaves. Mistress died in 1813. Shortly afterward, I sued for my freedom. By Territo- rial law, a man might hold his slaves awhile by his recording an inventory of them, and, if under fourteen, they could be held till thirty-seven years old; if over fourteen, the slave could have his choice as to length of time. They put me down as under fourteen. This law had been declared void. Others had sued and gained freedom, and so I tried it, too. I agreed to give the lawyer $100 if he gained my suit. I had no money, of course, but I was in custody of the Sheriff, and he hired me out two years, my wages to follow the suit. I was set free, and I gave the lawyer an order on the Sheriff for $100, which he got, but I never got any more. When I heard my petition read, it made me charge my owner with pounding, beating, striking, tying, chaining, and I know not what all. I was scared, for I had made no such charges; and besides, the Clerk told me I must prove my affidavit, which I knew could not be done in that shape. I went on foot to see my attorney at Brookville, James Noble (and a noble old man he was, too), and said to him, ' Mr. Noble, I never told yon my owners abused me. They never struck me a blow in my life.' He replied, 'Oh, never mind; you go home; we'll fix that all right.' When the jury brought me in free, he whispered, 'Now, Johnny, get your $3.25 and pay the jury.' (At that time, the successful party had to pay the jury.) I went and got the money of my employer and paid them, and I was a free man. This was at Salisbury, two and a half miles west of Richmond, then county seat of Wayne County. I had nothing, but began to work. I went to Fort Wayne in the fall of 1817 (by ' Quaker Trace ') with some teamsters. From one mile north of Spartansburg there was no farm till near Fort Wayne. There were two stations-one at Mississinewa and one at Wabash. Fort Wayne was a fort and an Indian trading post. I was first married to Sarah Culpher in 1817. She died in six months. I married again in 1826, my second wife being Lydia Sawyer. I worked three or four years as a traveling pewter-molder, molding over old pewter, etc. My home was in Preble County, Ohio, and I traveled extensively, on horseback, with my tools in saddle-bags. through Western Ohio, to Dayton, Cincinnati, Springfield, Urbana, Toledo, etc., and so to Michigan and through Eastern Indiana, mostly, however, on Twin and Wolf Creeks, and on Mad River, Ohio. I made money, and saved enough to buy some land. I came to Spartansburg in 1833, and purchased seventy-four acres for $500, including three big hay-stacks. I bought more afterward, till I had 220 acres there, and finally sold it to Wilson Anderson in 1874. I tried to settle near Bethel, and bargained for some land, but the man's neighbors were so hostile that he backed out. I went to school a little in South Carolina to make up for lost time of white children. My mistress taught me some, and the rest I have picked up as I could. I tried to send my children to school at Spartansburg, but they were treated so unkindly that I took them out. Afterward, there was school in the colored settlement east of me, and I sent there. Daniel Hill, Ira Marine, Betsey Black, Ann Williams, etc., taught them. I have tried to keep posted on the affairs of the country. Ever since the anti-slavery movement arose, I have taken papers, sometimes several at once. I have had the Liberator, Palladium, Emancipator, Philanthro-

pist, Standard, National Era, Wesleyan, etc. From the time of Bailey's death (National Era), I have taken the Gazette. When I came to Spartansburg in 1833, the colored settlers near the State line were Thornton Alexander and his large family of grown and married children; Ezekiel Lewis, Collier Simpson; William Lewis, father of Alfred Lewis; etc .; Allen Davis, near Jessup's Mill; Philip Holland, near the Gritlis farm. Thornton Alexander was the first.

The old meeting-house (A. M. E.) was built about 1837. The religious work for both sides at first was done by the white Methodists. The African Methodist Episcopal society broke off first, but some stayed with the white Methodists till the Wesley- ans arose. The white Methodist meeting-house was in Ohio, in the woods near the Clemens Burying-Ground. Afterward, the Wesleyans built a log church near their present one."

Mr. Randle has clear judgment, strong sense and firm prin- ciple. Mr. Ralph Pomroy, merchant at Spartansburg, once said that, if John Randle were white, he would be sent to the Legis- lature. He has always been an active and intelligent friend of education. He was one of the first Trustees of Union Literary Institute, and held that position for thirty years, and until age and infirmity obliged him to resign. He is now blind, but other- wise sprightly and active. His mind seems as bright is ever, his memory being sharp and vigorous, and it is a rich treat to talk with him of those old times when darkness lay heavy and thick over all the land. Mr. Randle has been many times to Canada. He moved there first in 1832, and once afterward. He has owned land there. He owned at one time 500 acres in the settlement, but now only 140 there, and in all, 300. He has had eleven children, five living -Mary, Reuben, Moses, Nathan, Elijah; William, Nathan and Elijah reside in Paulding County, Ohio; Mary lives at Oxford, Ohio; Moses is at Westville, Ohio; Reu- ben lives in the settlement in Greensfork; William has had eight children; Mary, five; Reuben, six; Moses has one. His second wife died in 1851, and he married Nancy Sizemore in 1857. This mar- riage did not prove fortunate, and they were divorced. She died two or three years ago. Mr. Randle now resides with his son Reu- ben. He has been for years totally blind, but enjoys otherwise excellent health, waiting cheerfully the hour when the darkness of earth shall be dispersed by the ineffable brightness of the glorious kingdom.

Mr. Randle died September 27, 1881, aged eighty-five years, and was buried in the old Quaker Graveyard, near C. Crist's.

RICHARD ROBBINS.

Born in South Carolina in 1800, a freeman, was a black- smith; came to Wayne County, Ind., about 1820, and to Ran- dolph County (Cabin Creek) about 1825; married Margaret Ter- ry, daughter of Jerry Terry, and afterward, Susan Davis, daugh- ter of Allen Davis. He had sixteen children-eleven by his first wife and five by his second -- eight of whom are living. His children were Eliza, Agnes, Elwood, Nancy, John, Melinda, Reuben, Celia, Ann, Simeon and an infant: Clarkson, Wiley A., Wesley, Silas, Alonzo. Clarkson went South to teach after the war, and died there; John, Simeon and Reuben were in the Union army.

Mr. Robbins was an enterprising, thriving, intelligent man, a humble, active Christian and a highly respected citizen. He acquired a good property, and, a few years before his death, was worth several thousand dollars.

Though without early advantages, he became a man of much information. Many of his children have attained a good edu- cation.

He was a strong and thorough Abolitionist, and en- gaged earnestly in the work of that active body of citizens, and lived to see his race freed and enfranchised, and, for several years before his death, enjoyed the privilege of the ballot.

He was, in religion, a Wesleyan Methodist, and in politics, an unswerving Republican.

Of his sons, Wesley studied medicine, and Silas prepared himself for the law, and is now practicing at St. Louis. Mr. R. removed to Greenville settlement, Darke Co., Ohio, about 1857, and died there in February, 1877. His second wife had died

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about a year before. He had a fine property, which he had ac- quired by patient economy and thrift, but, through mistaken kindness to some of his children, his affairs became involved, and, in the administration of his estate, it proved insufficient fully to discharge the debts thus incurred. In earlier life, he was a blacksmith, and followed that laborious but useful and honorable business many years; but in his later life, he was mostly a farm- er, being possessed at his death of a fine tract of land of 160 acres in Darke County, Ohio, and about seventy-five acres in Randolph County, Ind. He was buried in the Alexander Graveyard in Greensfork Township, Indiana.

JOHN ROBERTS, NETTLE CREEK.

Was elected in the spring of 1880 Assessor of Nettlo Creek Township, the first colored Assessor in Randolph County -- perhaps the first colored official in the county of any kind. They had an exciting time. He beat, they say, three preachers, was declared defeated by three votes, contested the election, and won by one vote. The struggle is said to have cost the contestants $50 apiece. Much feeling was aroused for a time. The novelty of having a colored Assessor in a township with so strong and aggressive a Democratic vote seemed to many to be intolerable, and some, in their haste, are said to have epoken somewhat harshly about the matter. But Mr. Roberts is really a fine, intelligent, genial gentle- man, and fully competent withal; and public feeling soon quieted down, and the township is rather proud, on the whole, to have been the one to break the ice for the new departure. There are some forty-five colored votes in Nettle Creek Township, and so large a body of electors would seem to be justly entitled to offi. cial recognition, and neither party should object thereto.

Mr. Roberts has performed his official duties with dignity and intelligence, and no citizen finds any ground of reasonable ob- jection to the work he has accomplished for the public.

JAMES SCOTT, NETTLE CREEK.

Is the son of Robert Scott, who came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1832, from Wayne County, and before that from North Carolina. Mr. Scott has been married twice, and has had fourteen children, all by his first wife. His second wife is still living. Mr. Scott has a fine farm of 120 acres, and a comfort- able dwelling. He met with a serious misfortune a few years ago in the loss by fire of a nice residence erected not long before. He is respectable and respected, a member of the Baptist Church, and a sound Republican. Although past seventy years, he is active and vigorous, and altogether a fine specimen of the race to which he belongs.

His first wife was Hannah Demory, and the second, Casseline (Cox) Taylor, of Kentucky.

ROBERT SCOTT, STONY CREEK.

Was born a slave in 1770, in North Carolina; emancipated in 1779; married Amy Robbins, half sister of Richard Robbins; had twelve children, nine grown, seven living now.

He came to Wayne County, Ind .. in 1821, and to Stony Creek, Randolph County, in 1832. He died in 1848, seventy- eight years old.

His children were Martin, Nettle Creek, ten children; Rachel (Outland), Michigan, one child; George, dead; Robert, dead; Amy, dead; James, Nettle Creek, fourteen children; Greenberry, Nettle Creek, ten children; Uriab, dead; Lewis, Michigan, five children; Robert, four children; Lydia, two children. There was one other, name not given.

He entered eighty acros of land, and followed farming.

Mas. JAMES SCOTT, NETTLE CREEK.

Was born a slave, at Frankfort, Ky., in 1829. Her maiden name was Casseline Cox. In 1845, she married Pallas Taylor. Her husband enlisted in the army during the civil war and died in the service. Sho came North in 1865, residing at Troy, Ohio, four years. In 1870, she married Jamos Scott, he being much older than herself. She had five children by her husband in Kentucky. Her father had fourteen children. In 1872, at the age of ninety-eight, he visited his daughter in Randolph County.

He was still alive in 1877, being one hundred and two years old. She has not heard of his death, if it has occurred. In 1877, he was still comparatively well and strong. She is an active, ener- getic, wide-awake woman.

MARTIN SCOTT, NETTLE CREEK.

Is the son of Robert Scott. He was born in North Carolina in about 1800; came to Randolph County, Ind., in about 1827; has had ten children, and lives in Nettle Creek.

Mr. Scott was one of the pioneers of the Cabin Creek colored settlement, formed some fifty or fifty-five years ago.

Many of the old settlers moved away, more of them died, and now few of the old stock are left, and the settlement itself has dwindled greatly.

Mr. Scott is a Baptist and a Ropublican, and a very old man, and, moreover, a worthy citizen.

WILLIAM SHOEMAKE, GREENSFORK.

Was born in South Carolina April 15, 1815, a freeman. He removed to Tennessee, marrying in that State, and residing there ten years. In 1837, he came to Wayne County, Ind., nud to the Greenville settlement, Randolph County, in 1855. His wife, Priscilla Burden, was born in 1811, in South Carolina, daughter of Lewis Burden, who died in 1848. They have had three chil- dren, one of whom is now living.

Mr. Shoemake has always worked at farming, though when he came to Indiana they were very poor, arriving there with a one-horse cart, the children riding in the cart, and his wife and himself on foot. The first land he ever owned was forty acres, bought in the Greenville settlement in 1855. Since then, he has been constantly thriving, until now he owns 500 acres of valua- ble land in the region of his residence. Though he has no edu- cation, being unable either to read or to write, he has much gen- eral knowledge, and is a man of active enterprise. He is an un- flinching Republican in politics. In the winter of 1878-79, he became the subject of a fearful persecution. A colored man of the region (in Darke County, Ohio) had been cruelly murdered by a large gang of armed marauders on the night of Saturday, Octo- ber -, 1876. They were all (as they still are) unknown to the public. Some persons, however, imagined him to be one of the band. He was arrested, imprisoned without the privilege of bail, though the Grand Jury of Darke County had refused to find a bill against him; and herculean efforts were put forth, by every moans that wit could invent or money could procure, to convict Mr. Shoomake of the murder of Stephen Wade. Many days were spent upon the trial, but, through the mercy of providence and the incessant exertions of his friends-since he was kept closely locked in jail for weeks before his trial-his innocence was de- clared by a jury of his countrymen, and he was let go free. The cost of his defense amounted to more than $2,000. Prominent among his earnest friends may be reckoned Reuben Goens, a gentleman of honor and integrity, whose untiring labors greatly aided in bringing the trial to the fortunate result attained. The public mind in Greenville seemed greatly excited by the fact that two terrible tragedies had been enacted in the same township by companies of men banded for the purpose; and there seemed to be a desperate attempt to find a victim of the public rage, and it happened that Mr. Shoomake was laid hold of as that victim, and every nerve was strained to carry the point. But the attempt signally failed, and Mr. Showmake returned from his imprison- ment to the congratulations of his neighbors and friends. The terrible mysteries still remain hidden in midnight darkness, and none but the banded gangs themselves seem to know who made up those fearful troops, that came -the first, in the edge of the even ing, into the heart of a bustling village, and the second at midnight, under a moonlit sky, to a peaceful country home, where its inmates lay in quiet slumber, and in both cases shot to death the master of the house and the father of the family, with the most revolt- ing brutality aud the most fearful cruelty. That such things can occur in a civilized community, within the sound of the " church- going bell" -- nay, almost within the shadow of the church itself --- is, indeed, passing strange. Yet occur they did, and the blood of those men still cries from the ground in vain, uncleansed, un-

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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 42

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