I want to thank everyone that has responded to my
question. It's been such a help!! It's so nice to
know that so much help is just a few key clicks away. @>----
Dee in FL
P.S. I'm also including a very detailed
accounting done by Bill Robinson. I believe that
he intended for his message to appear on the list
for all to see, but it got sorta misrouted.
Anyhow....here's what he had to say:
Dee & Mary K -
Actually, I spent part of the last few days
trying to tie this down as there is so much conflicting info.
Dee wanted to know if Burget's Corner was at N
43.7027; W 89.9062 [this can also be identified
as 43°42.9; 89°54.22]. She said that William
Perry HOBSON and Mary Jane CHASTAIN were married
by John W. Bacon, Justice of the Peace on Aug. 12, 1862 in Burget's Corner.
Earlier she found this:
"Burget's Corner was started by James Wesley
Adair's wife, Rachel Burget's family in 1831.
They are buried about 200 yards to the north of
me and where Burget's Corner stood (it died in
the 1880s with the coming of the railroad) is
about one mile south of my location. I am the
local high school history teacher and about the
only person left that knows anything about
Burget's Corner." (Note: The James Wesley Adair
mentioned was this man's g-g-grandfather.) [This
was almost certainly Andy Robertson.]
You may have noticed that Gregg Scircle wrote to Connie Rushing that:
"Burgets Corner was a corner of an intersection,
about a mile or so north of what is now
Scircleville. I believe there was a meeting
hall, store, and perhaps a church. The area
around Burgets Corners was owned in part by the
Orr family (that's what I have been told)
Matthew Elijah Orr enlisted there and used it as
his home of record in 1862. Some of my Ryans
also enlisted in the Union Army at Burgets Corner..."
On page 310 of the Clinton County, Indiana,
History and Genealogical by Joan C. Bohm, 1989:
BURGETTS CORNER: NEcor sec 33, 2 miles north of
Scircleville. Surprisingly, this seems to be
wrong. While surnames are notoriously flexible,
and this one probably evolved from Burchardt, it
appears that the founders, William Martin and
Lydia (Keever) Burget, kept the single T
spelling for all their children. Most members of
these families did not appear to add the extra
T until sometime after 1880; perhaps this
occurred after the Post Office was moved to
Scircleville which was founded in 1873.
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I believe that 40°19'23.98"N 86°17'58.49"W, or
1100 East & 250 North was the actual location.
The Maps of Indiana Counties from 1876 (1968 IHS
reprint) may be the only image showing Burget
Corner and it put the village between sections 29 & 28.
The first primary source may be the 1870 Census
enumerated by Wyatt A. Gentry showing several
pages for Burgets Corner; (the apostrophe
seems to appear with no rhyme or reason).
In an 1895 (1913) map from The History of
Clinton County, Indiana by Hon. Joseph
Claybaugh. It shows sections 28-27, 33-34, &
4-3. The then-new railroad, which signalled the
end of the settlement, is at 250 N. Claybaugh
also stated that Eugene O. Burget was born
January 5, 1869 at Burget's Corner... and I
have a dozen or more events recorded for this location.
Perhaps the longest description of Burgetts
Corner was on Oct 24, 1926, by Ed N. Thacker I
think this was a part of a broader series.
Another source, the 1980 Sesquicentennial book said:
The post office in the village of Burgets
Corner, located two and one-half miles north of
Scircleville, was established Dec. 28, 1860. The
first postmaster was Joshua Harlin, followed by
William Burget, who served until the post office
was discontinued Aug. 19, 1879. Mr. Burget also
operated the first store there; the building he
erected to house his store and the post office
was later moved to Scircleville and was used for
a saloon by Luke Scott, then for Keever's
General Store. Orville Blackburn then had a
small restaurant and store in the building
followed by the Charles Amos Grocery, Charles
Benjamin Grocery and William Frazier Grocery. In
later years G.A. Grove had a blacksmith shop and
auto repair and welding shop in the building.
In an article, apparently from the 1980s, in the
Kokomo Tribune by Madeline Wilcox, our site was
said to be one and one-half miles north of Scircleville.
The William Burget family arrived in the newly
seized and drained land in 1841 and by 1943
(Dee's note: I think Bill must have meant 1843)
their `Corner` seems to have been established. I
think they may have lived nearer to the Tipton
County border between 1831 & 1841, but I can't
put my hand on that info right now.
I'm going to transcribe these images and post
them soon, but I would like to hear the errors
and ommisions that I have almost certainly made. Thank you all for sharing.
Bill Robinson
37 Grove Avenue
Toronto, Canada
M6J 3B7
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