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old log building was dedicated by the Rev. A. J. Neugent, the first minister.
Some later additions - to the church are Mr. and Mrs. James Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. James Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Richardson, George John- son, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Cummins, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cramer, Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Williams, Mike Everly. Mr. and Mrs. Tune Everly, Mr. and Mrs. Chancey Ro- mine, Clara Bennett. Albert Forbes,
Scott Engle. Sarah Curry, Theresa Wood, Mrs. Joseph Halberstadt, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Doty and Martin All.
Some of the preachers who have preached here are Rev. Louis Jose- lin, Rev. Collins, Rev. Hearse, Rev. Cardwell, Rev. Easton, Rev. Shide- ler, Rev. Muncie, Rev. Markley, Rev. Fink, Rev. Buzzard, Rev. Harbert, Rev. Coffman, Rev. Miller, Rev. Thomas Walters, Rev. Ellist, Rev. Brandenburg, Rev. Schoonover and Rev. Forwood.
In 1890 a new frame building was built which stands today. It was dedicated by Bishop Castle. The auxiliary associations of the church are the Sunday School, the Chris- tian Endeavor and Ladies Aid Soci- ety.
The Cemetery.
The cemtery here is not very old for the first grave was made in 1894 The ground for the cemetery was given by Mr. Ben Bridwell. The first grave was that of Lucy Brid- well. Others who are buried here are:
Nancy Halberstadt
Geneva Risinger
Elizabeth Everly
Thomas Beasley
Theodore Halberstadt
Herman Branson
Lottie Everly
Raymond Bridwell
Leo Romine
Martha Denton
Ruth Miller
Martha Bennett
John T. Halberstadt
Elizabeth Daugherty
Mary Flowers
-Martha Allen
Dora Morris J. E. Johnson
„Infant daughter of Frank Lowe Sarepta Cummins
A. J. Richardson Samuel Romine William K. Pierce
Virginia Grader J. G. Pierce
Lizzie M. Pierce
John Williams
Ben Bridwell
Eliza Easter
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Arthur Barnhart Harrison Barnhart Isaiah Hoggatt
Roy Joselin
Boulah Peterson Edwin Beskeen
George Halberstadt Mary Halberstadt
James Shaw Eliza Shaw
Tom Barcus
Amanda Barcus
Lora Cummins
Robert Daugherty
Ed Berlien
Joe Berlien
Lucinda Everly
James Swift
Martha Harding
Mary Harding
Saralı Swift
Namie Swift
Mary B. Swift
James P. Hagerman
Bill Ammerman
Ivy Ammerman
Anna Peterson
Betty L. Halberstadt
The soldiers buried here are:
John Pierce
"Jehu Johnson
Andy Richardson
· Joe Berlien
. Samuel Romine
Tom Halberstadt
· George Halberstadt
Tine Halberstadt Dora Halberstadt
The following are biographies of some of the oldest residents of the district :
Mr. and Mrs. Cramer.
Mr. Albert Cramer was born in Germany in 1835. He went to com- mon schools in Germany and at the age of twenty-three enlisted in the army and served three years and six months, for it was required that all able bodied men should serve in the army. Mr. Cramer was a farm- er when living in Germany. He ac- companied his father to America in 1868. They came to Jasper County. Indiana, and lived there for a nuni- ber of years. He then moved to Sullivan County and later to Illi- nois, where he farmed for a number of years. He then moved to Jack- son Township. He was married in
1567 to Mary Grobs. She died the same year. He next married Miss Angeline Carpenter in 1955. She was born in Jackson Township in 1.50. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sim Carpenter. She went to school at the old log school build- ing just east of the Nye's Chapel Church.
Mrs. Lusetta Baskeen.
Mrs. busetta Carpenter was born in Owen county in 1845. She is the youngest of a family of twelve chil- dren. All are dead but herself and two others. She came to Jackson Township in 1849. She was married , in 1865 to Edward Baskeen, who was born in England. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Baskeen eight children of whom only two are now living .- Mrs. James Fox of Jackson Township. and Mrs. Samuel Woods of Terre Haute. Mrs. Baskeen is now living with Rufus McCloney near No. 3 School House.
Mr. and Mrs. David Sharp.
David Sharp was born in Cumber- land, England, in 1531. He came to America in 1850 and lived at Evansville. Indiana, for a number of years. In 1858 he moved to Farm- ersburg. Indiana. He leased a coal mine and operated it until after the war. He moved to Jackson Town- ship in 1864, where he died in 1905. In 1856 he was married to Mary Stuart. who was born in Scotland in 1$41. She came to America when she was sixteen years old. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sharp eight children of whom six are now living. They are David. Ralph, George. Robert, Mrs. Mary Hunt- work and Charles. Mrs. Sharp is now living with her son Charles.
John Heck.
Mr. John Heck was born in Frank- lin County, Indiana, Oct. 15, 1839. He came to Jackson Township, Dis- triet No. 3, in 1850. He settled and 3 purchased land south of No. School House. He was married in 1802. His wife was born in Greene County, Ohio. in 1839, and came to Jackson Township in 155℃. There were two children in this family .-- George D. Heck and Sallie A. Heck. Mr. and Mrs. Heck now live south of No. 3 School House.
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District No. 4 is in the northwest part of the township and taken as a whole, is very fertile and well adap- ted to agriculture. In the
south and southeastern parts it is rough and broken but the rest of the land of the district is level. Farming is the principal industry of the dis- trict, although there is some stock raising on a small scale.
The land in this district was en- tered about 1830. Some of the first settlers were Thomas Manwarring, Jerry Barcus, Abraham Plew, Har- rison Halberstadt, Benjamin Barcus, Washington Ridgeway, S. B. War- dell and Henry Wallace. In 1846 Thomas Manwarring purchased from the government seven hundred and fifty acres of land lying around the
school house in District No. 4. There were two hundred acres lying south of the building, and the rest on the north, east and west sides. The heirs to this land were Swifts, Halberstadts and Dotys. All of A. P. Asbury's land was at one time owned by Thomas Manwarring. The land now owned by W. W. Barcus was also owned by the same man and later purchased from him by Mr. Barcus's father, Thomas Barcus. About 1846 J. Ridgeway entered a large tract of land of which a part is now owned by Henry Ring.
Just after the district was settled. a log school house was built by the settlers. It was situated about a half mile west of the present brick building. It was a subscription
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school and provided for by the set- tlers who built it. One of the first teachers was Washington Ridgeway. The second school house was a frame building and was erected while James Plew, the son of Abra- .ham Plew, who entered land here in 1830, was trustee of Jackson Town- ship. The school house was then
known as the Ridgeway
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House. S. B. Wardell, a local preacher of the M. E. Church, was also one of the early teachers. Some who came later were Jabes Asbury, Jennie Manwarring, Mandy Hinkle Manwarring, Cora Wardell, Rebecca "Batey, Adam Snider, Rev. John Fur- ry and Madge Patton Stevens.
Some of the oldest residents of the district are Mrs. Sarah Jane Asbury, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Asbury and Mrs. Eliza Halberstadt, whose biographies are given below:
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Asbury.
A. P. Asbury, son of Rev. George W. Asbury and Sarah Jane Hugh- banks Asbury, was born Dec. 1846, in a log cabin south of Hy- mera, not far from where Jackson Hill is now. On March 1, 1864, at the age of seventeen, Mr. Asbury enlisted for service in Company H of the Eighty-fifth Regiment of In- diana Volunteer Infantry and served until the close of the war. He later attended Ascension Seminary at Far- mersburg. On March 18, 1869, he was married to Almira ' Beecher, daughter of George and Keziah Beecher who originally came from Columbus, Ohio, and settled in Vigo Eliza J. Halberstadt. County, where Mrs. Asbury was born March 1, 1849. She attended school in Vigo County and at the Ascension Seminary .. at Farmersburg. . Later she taught school at Rosedale and Lewis. There were born to Mr. and Mrs."Asbury ten children, . all of whom are living, except the young- berstadt. She has lived in Jackson est son. They" are Mrs. Ida Ford, Mrs. Maud Cummins, Mrs. Eva Grit- ton. Fred Asbury, Mrs. Bertha
Thralls, Mrs. Mary J. Bronson, Ar- thur, Emery, Lester and . Raymond. In 1879 Mr. Asbury was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the G. A. R. and was elected Department Commander of this state in 1910. (Since the writing of this biography Mr. and Mrs. Asbury bave moved to Farmersburg).
Sarah J. Asbury.
Sarah Jane Asbury, wife of the late Rev. George W. Asbury, is at present living with her son. A. P. Asbury. She was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, March 14, 1826. She is the daughter of William Hughbanks, who came to Jackson Township in 1835, and settled on the farm now owned by Albert Zink. She was married in 1841, at the age of fifteen, to George W. Asbury, son of Landman Asbury. His mother died of cholera while they were liv- ing in Fleming County, Kentucky. His father was a soldier in the war
of 1812. Rev. and Mrs. Asbury went to housekeeping on the farm now known as the Keen Farm, east of Hymera. They have lived in Jackson Township all their married life, except fourteen years during which time Rev. Asbury was a trav- eling minister in the M. E. Church. There ' were born to Mr. and Mrs. Asbury five children,-E. K. Asbury of Farmersburg, A. P. Asbury. Mrs. R. M. King of Terre Haute, J. T. and J. A. Asbury. both of Pasadena. California.
Eliza J. Cummins Halberstadt was born in Jackson Township June 2, 1847. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Cummins, who were residents of Curry Township near the Jackson Township line. She was married Dec. 16, 1869 to E. T. Hal-
Township all her life. She is the mother of one son, Joseph Halber- stadt, with whom she now lives.
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This district is purely an agricul-
tural one, although there are some farmers who work in the mines in
Many of the farmers are taking up the winter and farm in the summer.
scientific farming and are receiving
great rewards for their work. , Many silos and fine stock barns have been built recently in the district.
The land in this district was en- tered in the early part of the last century ... Some of the earliest set- tlers of this district were John Lowe,
James McCammon. . Some of the my Mahan, Billy, Hughbanks and Nathan Sills. Abraham Wence, Tom-
soldiers who enlisted for service in
the Civil War from this : . district
were Abe Vanderpool, } deceased,; Frank Stock, deceased, Monroe Ca-"-
naan, now in Soldiers' Home, Harry
Lyons, deceased, William Harvey,
living at present in the district, Tom
Lyons of Sullivan, Joel Manwarring,
deceased, and John H. Mahan.
The people of this district have
/never had the pleasure of having a
church house located in the district ..
Sunday Schools were first held in the
old school building as early as 1878: Dr. Givens of Lewis, is supposed to-
-be one of the first superintendents. of this Sunday School. This Sunday School was continued until 1900,
when the Christian Members be- came predominant and this denom- ination held church here for abont.
two years, when the organization united with the Christian Church at Hymera. Neither Sunday . Schools
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nor church services have been held here since that time. These Sunday School classes, for many years, and as early as 1885, held plenics in what was then known at Barnett's Grove, now owned by Mr. John Bar- nett.
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This district has four and one- fourth miles of gravel and rock roads, part of which were built at three different times. The first part of these roads was built in 1895) and was graveled. This road ran one mile due north from No. 5 school house, and one mile south. The second road was built during the year 1905 and was covered with crushed rock. This road began at a point one-fourth mile west and one- fourth mile south of the school house, and ran due east to the dis- trict line. The last addition to these roads was built during the year 1913 and was also covered with rock. It started at a point one-fourth miles west from the school house and ran due west to the district line.
In the old days two deer licks are known to have existed in the dis- trict. The larger of the two was about half a mile south of Mr. Joe Barnett's home. This spring is still in existence. On the ground just above the spring stood a large sugar tree. Many wild animals are said to have been killed at this spring. The other spring is said to have been located next to the creek, just. east of the residence of Mr. Noten Branson. This spring was not very large and was not the haunt of as many wild animals as was the other spring.
The first industrial establishment in this district was a saw-mill locat- ed on Busseron Creek, directly east of Mr. John Hood's farm. It was located here in 1855. It was owned 'by Mr. Joel Manwarring, and here he placed the first steam engine that was ever brought into Jackson town- ship. Later, in 1867, Mr. Manwar- ring and Mr. William Harvey estab- lished a nursery on what is now known as the Chestnut Grove Dairy Farm, owned by Mr. J. E. Hopewell. The principal kinds of trees which he raised here for sale were pine.
cedar, espress and almost all kinds of fruit trees. lle sold a large amount of apple trees. Mr. Harvey quit the nursery about the year 1870. Three very distinct marks of this nursery can yet be seen today on that farm. There is a very large grove of chestnut trees, which bears a good quality of nuts annually. This grove is about two hundred yards north of Mr. Isaac Mahan's home. There are also long rows of large pine trees, and a hedge fence which almost entirely surrounds the north and west sides of the farm. This nursery was discontinued after the year 1885.
Mr. Frank Stock, who lived on the farm now owned by Mr. John Easter,, was the principal shoemaker in this district for many years. Mr. Stock. later moved to Lewis where he started a hardware and harness shop
The first school house in this dis- trict was located about two hundred yards northwest of Isaac Mahan's present home. It was built of logs with a clap-board roof and
had a large fireplace in one end of the room. This school house is known to have stood in this place about the year 1855 but it was later burned. The second school house was built in the center of the district in 1872. and was located where the present. school building now stands. It was built by Benjamin Barcus and Will- iam Mahan, both pioneer residents of the district. This house was used not only for school purposes but also for church, Sunday school, court room, lodge meetings, elections. singing schools, and all public meet- ings in general. In 1893 it was sold to Mr. W. J. Lyons and made into a dwelling house, in which Edgar Ly- ons now lives. The teachers who taught in this building were Hannah Lovett, 1872; Anna Hinkle, 1873; Theodore Brewer, 1874; Jabes As- bury. 1875; Helen Flood, spring term. John Barnett, 1876: Clara Siils, spring term, Kenneth Self, 1877; Alice Gritton, ISTS: W. S. Baldridge, 1879; and after this Mr. John Barnett taught here for about seven years. Those who came later wore Mattie Scott, J. L. Scott.
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Charles Barnett, Clabe Self and Rev 1. 11. Furry, Roscoe MeAnally, Ger- trade Crist Cochran, Dr. Claude As- bury and Bert Beasley. The third school house built in this district 1. : till standing and was made of brick and built in the year 1899 by lohn Barnett, contractor. The teach- ers who have taught here are too weil known to record.
Some who graduated from this district were Robert Barnett, Jesse Scott and Mattie Scott, in 1883; Manville Lyons and Flora A. Lyons, in 1885; Edgar Lyons in 1890; Otis lloggatt, Pearl Ford and Della Hog- gatt. in 1893; Bert Hamilton and Luna Wolfe, in 1890; Cordelia Har- vey in 1900; Lottie Railsback and Lottie Lyons, in 1901; Glenn Van- derpool. Leland Hamilton and Myr- tle Barnett, in 1903; Lydia Vander- pool and James McCammon. in 1904; Nellie Barnett, Hazel Vander- pool and Hada Bennett, in 1905: Elizabeth Vanderpool, Lessa Rails- back and Marie Barnett, in 1906: Connie Hamilton in 1907, and Frank Hood in 1908. Some of those who Have graduated from the High School at Hymera from this district are: Nellie Barnett, in 1909; Marie Barnett. in 1911; Connie Hamilton; 1912; Raymond Barnett, Herbert Harvey and Judson Stark, 1913; and Mary Hamilton, 1914.
Mr. and Mrs. William Harvey.
Mr. William Harvey, son of Sam- nel and Louise Dunn Harvey, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, Nov. 4, 1839. on Mill Creek, eight miles north of Cincinnati. He joined the Union Army in 1861, in Company B of the 37thi Indiana Volunteers. from Brookville, Indiana. He was in the battles of Cumberland Gap, Stony River, Chickamauga, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea.
Mr. Harvey was united in marri- age to Mollie Knote in Brookville, Indiana, in 1865, and to this union were born two children, Ella and Edgar. both deceased. In 1870 Mrs. Harvey died. In 1872 Mr. Harvey married Elizabeth Matilda Med'am- mon, and to this union were born seven children: Lon, wife of Mr.
Wes Barens. a progressive farmer of this township; Minnie. derrased: Grace, deceased: Arthur, a tiiner of this district; Cordelia, wife of Mr. Frank Criss, a miner of Hymera: Mrs. Edith Husband of Terre Hore. and Herbert, who has been a student at Purdue University during the past year.
Mr. Harvey made his first visit to this township in 1865, when he saw an angry mob hang a murderer at Shelburn. In 1867 he moved his family here. In 1867 he entered in- to the nursery business with Joel Manwarring but quit this business in 1870. He has always been a far- mer and is a very active G. A. R. worker in Sullivan County.
Mr, and Mrs. Isaac Maban.
Isaac Mahan, a well known farm- er of this district, was born in the house in which he now lives, on Nov. 2, 1842. He was the son of Thomas and Betty Mahan. "Uncle Ike," as we all know him, was the sixth- of twelve children: William M., deceased: Margaret. J .. deceas-
ed: Rachel, deceased; John H., de- ceased: Sarah P., deceased; Isaac: Elizabeth A., deceased; George K. deceased; Samuel D., deceased: Ben S .. of Hymera: Mariah L., now Mrs. Thomas Welch of Hymera.
Uncie Ike was united in marriage to Emily Dayhuff, who was born in. Knox County, Ohio, Jan. 3. 1872, and this union has been blessed by the birth of two sons. Carl R. T. and Lloyd L. Carl was for several years a sawyer and thresher in this township and later a sawyer at Mer- rill, Mississippi, and in Louisiana for about ten years, and for the last four or five years has been manager of a cotton gin at Sulphur Springs. Texas. But owing to the bad cotton crop, he is now farming at that place. Lloyd served in the Spanish - American War with Col. Roosevelt's Rough Riders. He was in the fa- mous charge up San Juan Hill and participated in the capture of Santi- ago
Uncle Ike has always lived on the farm on which he was born, except from 1871 to 1875, when he lived on the farm now owned by Mr.
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George Gritton. His home was the first frame house built in the dis- trict and in all probability was the first in Jackson Township. It was built about 1850. The plates of this house were whipsawed, the corner posts hewed, and the studding were probably sawed at the Manwarring mill. It was built by Walter Asbu- ry and Uncle Ike's father, who were both carpenters and cabinet makers. Mr. Mahan owned a blacksmith shop for many years. It was located just across the road from Uncle lke's home.
Uncle Ike told the writer that he once gathered about two hundred ' pounds of honey from one bee tree, but he claims not to be a hunter, saying that when his father's family wanted deer or bear meat, they al- ways had "Uncle Jim" McCammon to kill it for them, as he was a great hunter and a very close neighbor, as they thought, in those days, because Mr. McCammon lived only about one and one-half miles from them.
Mr. Mahan was a cooper when young, but has been a farmer since then. He takes very much pride in his two large fish ponds, in which he has some fine fish.
James McCammon.
James McCammon was born in Daviess County, Indiana, on the east fork of White River, Feb. 9, 1821. When he was seven years old his pa- rents moved to Jackson Township, Sullivan County, where he has since resided. He was the son of William McCammon and wife Patience, whose maiden name was Chestnut. He is the last of eight children; five girls. Polly, Betty, Rebecca, Sallie and Minerva; three boys, James, John and William.
When Mr. McCamion first came to this township there were very few people living here. Their near- est neighbor was one-half mile away and the next was one and one-half miles from them. When they raised a log cabin they went four miles in each direction in order to get enough help. The nearest doctor at that time was twenty miles away so that home-made remedies often had to
take the place of doctors prescrip- tions.
The woods at that time were full of wild animals. There were tur- keys. deer, wolves and panthers, but bears were not so plentiful as at an earlier period. The deer would often come in great numbers to the "deer- licks" where salt could be obtained. Here the hunters would hide and shoot the deer as they approached.
Mr. McCammon was
a great marksman and as the old pioneer in "Alice of Old Vincennes." if he could "get a bead on his left eye" he could bring down a deer at every shot. He has acquired through the years a reputation as a hunter that is quite equal to "Hawkeye" in the "Last of the Mohicans."
He tells an interesting story in regard to the killing of his first deer. His father had cut up and shocked a piece of new-ground corn. The wild turkeys had found it and had eaten the corn on the outside of each shock. A few nights before Thanksgiving there was a light fall of snow and the next morning the turkey tracks were thick every where. Mr. McCammon. then a small boy, taking his gun on his shoulder, told his mother that while she was getting breakfast he would go to the field and get a turkey for Thanksgiving. 'At the edge of the field he saw deer tracks, so he went after the deer. Soon he saw a deer's head projecting from a fallen tree. He fired and wounded the deer by hitting it in the breast. He then hesitated, remembering that his fa- ther had said a wounded deer was dangerous to encounter. Soon a neighbor boy came up and together they went for the deer which threw them back as fast as they approach- ed. but finally they won the fight and had venison instead of turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
One night the young folks of the neighborhood were having a party. The fun was at its height when they heard a terrible scream at the front door. Then all was quiet inside the house for some time. Every one was afraid to make a sound. Noth- ing more could be heard so after a
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time they resumed their games but again come another awful scream. No one was brave enough to go out- side that night so the whole crowd stayed over night. The next morn- ing there were the tracks of the pan- ther in the snow at the doorstep.
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