Thanks for sending this out. I have ancestors burried in the little
cemetery at the Pleasant View Church. They being John Purdue and his wife
Sarah Elizabeth Owens Purdue and his Mother Sarah Elizabeth Ocherman Purdue,
wife of Archie B. Purdue, I have yet to find out where he died and is
burried, and some of their other children and daughters-in-law. I had the
pleasure of visiting the cemetery this last summer and did find my
GGGrandmother Sarah Elizabeth Ocherman Purdue and the sons and
daughters-in-law that are burried behind her. I did not however find my
GGrandparents John and Sarah Elizabeth Owens Purdue. I plan to visit again
this next summer to find them. My grandparents Lanus William and Pansy
Byroad Purdue lived in Dover for sometime before and after My Mother Sarah
Sue Purdue Cook was born, their son Daniel Neal Purdue having been hit by a
car and killed when My Mother was just 2 months old. I even attended the
Dover School when I was in the 7th and 8th grades for a short period each
time. I have later found out that My GGGrandfather Enos Byroad and his son
Thomas Neal Byroad, My GGrandfather both helped to build the Dover School,
one as the carpenter and the other doing the electric wireing there. Boy I
wish I had known that when I was going to school there, I could have done
some major bragging. LOL I think it is great having these bits of history
over the internet. I have found a lot of ancestors and cousins on it that I
would not have found otherwise.
Thanks
Mary Anne Cook
GGranddaughter of John and Sarah Elizabeth Owens Purdue, both burried in
Pleasant View Cemetery, and GGGranddaughter of Sarah Elizabeth Ocherman
Purdue also burried there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Caldwell" <gemini44(a)indy.net>
To: <INBOONE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: [INBOONE-L] Re: INBOONE-D Digest V02 #2 Benjamin BEEMAN
Larry --
Thanks for the posting on Jefferson Township. This is great! Is the
source book
available through libraries or elsewhere? I'd like a copy of
that to read about the other townships.
Carol Caldwell
Larry Young wrote:
>
> Boone County INGenWeb
>
> History
> Jefferson Township
> (including Dover)
>
>
> Jefferson Township is located on the west border of the county being the
middle township. It is bounded on the north by Sugar Creek and Washington
townships, on the west by Montgomery county, on the south by Jackson and a
small portion of Center township, on the east by Center and Washington
townships. It contains 46 square miles of land. Sections 13 to 36 inclusive,
in township 19 north, range 2 west and sections 1 to 12 inclusive, in
township 18 north, range 2 west, also sections 19, 20, 29, 30, 31 and 32, in
township 19, north, range 1 west and sections 5, 6, 7 and 8, in township 18
north, range 1 west. It is drained by Walnut creek in the southern part by
Muskrat creek in the central and by Wolf creek in the northern and eastern
parts. The farm land is excellent, rolling enough to be drained without
difficulty. The streams flow into Sugar creek; thence into the Wabash and on
to the Gulf and the wide sea.
>
> Settlements began as early as 1829. It is stated that James SCOTT
entered the
first land, followed by William YOUNG, who was elected justice
of the peace; Michael W. CAMPBELL, Allen LANE, Ed. COX, William HILL, John
THOMPSON, Lewis DENNY, Wm. M. MCBURROUGHS, Abraham UTTER, R. COX, Clayburn
CAIN. Following these came the CALDWELLS, TAYLORS, John HILL, Adam KERN,
John STEPHENSON, Wm. DARROUGH, Thomas M. BURRIS, Samuel MOORE, Sampson
BOWEN, Gid JACKSON, Rural JACKSON, Erskins THREILKELDS, James A. THOMPSON,
James DAVIS, Samuel HOLLINGSWORTH, Nathan CORY, Manual HEISTAND, Wm.
SANFORD, Jesse JACKSON.
>
> Churches
>
> The first religious services held in Jefferson was at the home of
William
YOUNG and the services were conducted by his brother Claybourne,
1831. Religious services were held in private houses for several years. The
Pleasant View church was the first organized in the township. The meetings
at first were held in the home of Adam KERN. Benjamin BEEMAN conducted the
meetings. This was in the fall of 1836. The following eight persons were the
parties that organized the church: Adam KERN, James HALL, Jane HALL, Arice
PAULEY, John BOWEN, John PAULEY, James KERN and Miles HALL. This church has
been one of the most substantial country churches of the county. Over one
thousand persons have been enrolled among its members. The fiftieth
anniversary of the church was held November 6, 1886, at which time over one
thousand persons attended. This church is located three miles east of Dover,
and six miles west of Lebanon. This church is reported in the Rural Church
Survey 1911, with one hu!
nd!
> red and sixteen members and losing ground. There are six other churches
in the
township, three at Dover and two at Hazelrigg. At Dover are the
Disciples with one hundred and seventy-six members, losing ground. Baptists,
members, fourteen, losing ground; Presbyterians, dead. At Hazelrigg there
are two churches, Disciples (non-progressive), twenty-one members, standing
still. Presbyterians dead. In the southeast part of the township is the
United Brethren church with a membership of seventy-five, losing ground.
>
> Schools
>
> There are no towns or trade centers in Jefferson township except
Hazelrigg in
the northeast corner. The district school is the people's
college. It grew first from the primitive cabin school-house through the
frame to the brick of this day. From the private or subscription school
through the half-free to the public schools of the present. To supply this
want there were erected over the township thirteen district school houses,
through which the youth of the township for a generation received the
instruction necessary to fit him for the duties of life. Under the present
system of concentration, the number of schools has been reduced to eleven.
>
> Roads
>
> There were no state thoroughfares in Jefferson township to aid the
people in
the early development of the country. The road leading from
Crawfordsville to Lebanon, running on the section north of the line between
townships 18 and 19 north was the first principal road. All others have come
up through the Indian trail, blazed way of our fathers, the cut away
corduroy and grade to the splendid gravel roads of the present that mark
most section lines and many half-section lines. It is a pleasure to drive
over these splendid roads and view the handsome farms on either side with
the attraction of beautiful homes and landscapes.
> The Big Four railway runs across the northeast corner of the
township
and the Indiana Central across the southeast corner. The Terre Haute &
Indianapolis Traction line runs across the township on the line between
townships 18 and 19 north, and affords very convenient accommodation for the
people.
>
> Dover
>
> This town was laid out in 1850 by Ariss PAULEY. It was first known as
"Crackaway." It is located near the center of Jefferson township, on the
Noblesville gravel road and the Thorntown and Jamestown road, eight miles
from Lebanon, in a fine part of the county. In 1860 a postoffice was
established here and named Cason, in remembrance of Thomas J. CASON, of
Lebanon. It has been for years the center or voting place for the township.
The first merchant was Wesley ADKINS, who started a store in 1860. The first
postmaster was William GOLDSBURGH, succeeded by Joseph S. MILLER. In 1851,
James STEPHENSON built a sawmill here. The following doctors have practiced
here: Doctors CLAIR, OXLY, C. SMITH, HAMILTON, John S. SMITH, FINCH, CRAFTON
and W.H. WARE. The first woodshop was by J.L. PYLES; first blacksmith,
William GOLDSBURGH. The names of merchants and mechanics are: MCDANIEL &
Brother, merchants; Lewis DENNY, blacksmith; Henry J. FRAZIER, carpenter;
Hezekiah KERFART, shoemaker; R!
ob!
> ert DENNY, carpenter; Lee MILES, workingman. Three churches, one school
house
and fourteen families making in the eighties about fifty inhabitants.
>
> Submitted by: Amy Davis
> Source:The History of Boone County, Indiana, Volume 1, by Hon. L. M.
Crist.
>
>
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