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Yes I know Newberry is in Daviess County but, does anyone happen to know when
it was formed and if it had another name before it became Newberrry?
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SURNAMES I AMRESEARCHING IN GREENE COUNTY
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I am a direct descendant of Peter Lehman. My Grandfather was Otho Lehman. His parents were Henry and Elizabeth.
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Jim Ed... Obviously you know more about the Liberty Church than I do. I did not mean to infer that there had been only one Liberty Church. I was saying that there was only one Liberty Cemetery. As to the burning, I was told by my parents, who lived within sight of the old church, when the leaves were off of the trees, that it had burned while I was in the service during the late 1950's. (Who can you believe, if not your parents?) My dad, Herschel Carter, and Step brother, Clarence Brinegar are buried at Liberty, and I was simply trying to offer a little help... (Apparently too little.) Will try not to jump in next time. Please contact me if you wish, because I dont wish to publish my ignorance for all to see. Thanks. Dick Carter
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Thanks Jim Ed,
Your information on the Old Liberty churches was a great help......not only to me but to others as well.
N.J.Skinner White
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First of all their were three Liberty Church of Christ located just about a mile to a mile apiece. No 1 Liberty was first built back in early 1840's and was a sister church of Richland Church in Monroe County. The church was a log cabin and after a while was to small. They moved down the hill where No 2 Liberty was built close to the 1880's a second grave yard was started behind the new church the first couple buried their was Charles and Lucy Hendricks Abram. Alot of the older settlers were buried at the cem. located close to the Number 1 Liberty. The Number 2 Liberty was old and needed alot of repair so the decision to build the Number 3 Liberty came to happen. The Number 2 Liberty did not burn down it was torn down and I have pieces of some the old wood from it. The Number 3 Liberty is just down the road from Number 2 Liberty. The Cem at Number 2 is still being used. I don't believe records were kept by the church but I have start a records of burials and location!
s of graves at Number 2 and Number 1 only a list of some due to sandstones used with no names or dates on it. It was destroyed several years ago by the land owner with no trace of anything left. I hope this helps Jim Ed of Hendricksville
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IT'S ALL IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS
1722
He surveyed the results of his day's labor. He'd spent 16 hours
hand-plowing nearly two acres of land today ~ just another 38 or so left
to go. An additional 20 acres would be left for another year. A digging
stick and a stone sickle was all he had those first few months of
farming and he wondered then if he'd grow enough food for that first
winter. Then he'd learned to use himself to pull a wooden plowshare
through the dirt while his wife steered it. Twice the amount of land
was cultivated and the family was, for the most part, kept from total
starvation. They'd lost two children last year to disease resulting
from their poor diet.
He wasn't a farmer when they'd left the old country two years ago and
he'd struggled to learn this new way of life. Two years ago he was a
bookkeeper; but America didn't need bookkeepers. Farming was the
anticipated way of life an immigrant could expect. He was glad he'd
gotten a start on the cabin last year that his family was still living
in. At least he didn't have to worry about another dwelling right
away. Still, his wife was pregnant with their 5th child...
1772
The noon sun beat down on him and his oxen, causing sweat to bead up on
both. They took a moment's breath, and all were beginning to feel
the weariness caused from the last five hours of plowing. He took his
weather-beaten hat off and using his forearm, wiped the water from his
forehead. But he wasn't one to complain. His Dad's farm was doing
well. Dad had passed on 10 years ago after a backbreaking life of
working the land for 40 years and as oldest son, he'd inherited it. Had
Dad still been living he would have found working the modern,
wrought-iron plowshare pulled by an ox to be a joy. Forty five acres of
land were being tilled now. Life was easier now; it was good.
The tiny, dirt-floor cabin he was born and grew up in gave way to a
newer and larger one about 25 years ago. It sat off to the side of the
yard and was now used as a barn and storage area. The larger,
earthen-floored cabin where he, his wife and the three youngest of their
twelve children were living in today could use some fixing up before
winter set in. Perhaps their oldest son would come over and help him fix
the roof next month. Then again, his son's wife was due to deliver
their seventh child then...
1822
He was tired, so tired. He knew it wouldn't be many more years before
he'd pass the farm along to his eldest son. Looking back on the old
days when Granddad first started the farm, it was hard to believe the
operations of an 80-acre farm could be accomplished without a plow. In
1797 the old days were left behind when Charles Newbold invented the
cast-iron plow, though he remembers his dad swearing that it would
poison the soil and help weeds to grow. It took some time, but
gradually Dad and other farmers learned that these beliefs were false.
In sixteen hours a day of plowing now he could get done six times the
work of his grandfather.
The family didn't live in either cabin anymore. A new location up on
the hill behind the original, 1719-structure had been cleared and now
reflected a two-story farmhouse, though both the log cabins were still
in the field near the stream. If they were still alive, both Mother and
Grandmother would have been surprised at the handpump that provided
running water in the kitchen. And Grandma would be very impressed with
this new-fangled wood-burning stove to cook on. No more cooking in pots
over an open flame in the fireplace; imagine that!
1952
Seven generations of men in his family had owned this farm and now, he
was struggling to keep it. He wondered if his forefathers had gone
through times as tough as right now. Seventy-five acres of wheat, corn
and other foodstuffs were lying in the mid-summer field, thrusting
themselves upward, seeking relief from the overhead clouds. So was he.
It had been two weeks since the last rain and if the clouds didn't
release a good downpour soon, he knew his harvest would fall far short
this year for him to make a profit and keep the farm going.
It wasn't supposed to be like this. He'd grown up in farming, knew what
had to be done to get the crops to grow; but the weather seemed to be
taking advantage of his tough times. He still owed on that used tractor
he'd bought last year and the house... after the past winter's
blizzards, well, that roof on the house wasn't going to hold up for
another bad winter.
He was worried, and so was his wife. They needed that rain to fall.
It didn't.
2002
BOOM!... BOOM! The sounds resonated throughout the valley. The family
and their friends were appalled that the construction company was
tearing through what used to be their corn and wheat fields. The house
on the hill was already demolished and a grader was leveling the land to
lay in a road. Down below sat two delapidated log cabins. The smaller
of the two was barely standing. A look inside produced an old stick
with clumps of long-ago dried dirt still matted along one end, making it
appear that it had been used for digging. Next to it sat a... what in
the world was it? A stone in the shape of a sickle? Heaved into a
truck meant to haul away rocks and soil, the two, nearly 300-year-old
implements meet their final demise.
And nearby, an equally old family cemetery lay overgrown with weeds.
Will it escape the sights of the surveyor's equipment?
I hope so.
And, like so many things we see these days, we leave behind those items
and memories in the name of progress, then later wonder "what it was
like to live back then."
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Surnames: NEEDLER,MOORE,MOYER,TERRELL,CURTIS,BRIGHT
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WOULD ANYONE KNOW OR HAVE HEARD OF LOU NEEDLER OR MCNEELY,AROUND THIS AREA ABOUT 1937- HIS AGE WAS APPROX 61 YEARS OLD ; HE HAD A WIFE - 2-3 KIDS; HE IS MY GRANDFATHER,THIS IS THE LAST AREA HE WAS KNOWN TO BE AT. MY FATHER;OLDER BROTHER; A COUSIN HAD WENT DOWN TO SOLSBERRY,GREENE CO., INDIANA; THEY FOUND HIM; MET THEM @ THE ROAD; HE DIDN'T WANT HIS WIFE TO KNOW THAT HE HAD BEEN MARRIED BEFORE. IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFO ON HIM PLS CONTACT ME. THANKS AGAIN
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Surnames: LIVINGSTON, SKINNER,BURKS
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thanks Dick,
Just found out that I have family buried at the Liberty Cemetery there, now I 'm wondering if they were affiliated with the old Liberty Church that you mentioned?? John T. BURKS and wife Sarilda A. SKINNER Burks. Wonder if anyone knows if there are any old Church records still around from this Church? Probably not, if the Church burned??
My Ggrandmother Hamey Loruh LIVINGSTON's uncle Andrew M.LIVINGSTON was said to have been a minister, but I have no idea if he preached at a certain church in the area, or possibly even from his own home?? They lived in Beech Creek Twp. and the Andrew Livingston Cemetery is on his old farmstead property there, several of my SKINNER and LIVINGSTSON ancestors are buried there.
thanks again,
N.J. Skinner White
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There was/is a Pentecostal Church Between Solsberry and Hendricksville, that I attended as a child..... The Liberty Church Burned some years ago and has been replaced by a new Church down the hill, just as you leave Hwy 43, at the edge of Hendricksville..The 14 mile radius puts you pretty well into both Monroe and Owen Counties also..
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1860 Troy Twp., Whitley Co, IN:
Robert Scott, 42 b. OH
Mary Scott, 36 b. VA
Howell Scott, 17, b. IN
Francis J. Scott, 16, b. IN
Nancy M. Scott, 13, b. IN
Ruth Scott, 11, b. IN
Elsie E. Scott, 10, b. IN
Thomas B. Scott, 3, b. MO
Rebecca J. Scott, 3m b. MO
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I think you did a pretty good job covering the Churches.....someone sent me some info on a church that she found in the History of Greene Co......I believe you have more info here......I have to look for the email if there is anything different from what you have I'll let you know. I'm getting ready for a trip to Owen and Greene Co. so I'll do it when I get back home.
thanks so much,
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I am interested in the Rowe name due to Andrew Miller Rowe married Catherine Abram who was my grandfather's Aunt. Please e-mail me when you can. I always thought David Rowe the Civil War Vet was a brother to Andrew. I always heard that Andrew's father Benjamin had been married several times please let me know Jim Ed of Hendricksville
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please e-mail me and I can help you out with dates and locations thanks jim ed of Hendricksville
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there was the old Liberty Church of Christ near Hendricksville the Union Church going towards Solsberry Greene Co. Chapel Methodist Church as you go towards Greene Co. Chapel on the Bloomfield Road. Several Churches in Solsberry and several in Newark That's all I know of heard of. Let me know if you find out more Jim Ed of Hendricksville
I wonder if any one can tell me if Robert Dougherty who would be 60 to 70 and had 1 boy 15 to 20 and 2 girls 10 to 15 at least at home yet and his wife listed as 60 to70 is listed on the 1850 census for Green Co. They are on the Lawrence co census in 1840. Thanking you so much Mary Lou in Okla.
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My Gr, Gr, Grandmother was Ellendor or Eleanor Shoptaw Harshfield, my Gr. Grandmother was Caroline Shoptaw. Eleanor's father was John (middle initial unknown) Shoptaw. Caroline's father was William Shoptaw. Can you help me with these families?? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Eleanor and Caroline are related, I think Aunt and Niece. Thanks Claudia.
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Surnames: Scott, Hughey(Huey) Shepherd,Taylor,
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My file refers to Benjamin Huey as born 1768-1771 in North Carolina. children were Thomas, A.J. , Malinda, Elizabeth, Margaret(Peggy), william. william had a son named Benjamin born 1835 in Marion county, Indiana. I also see taht Elizabeth was married to a Leamon L Woodsworth. this has to be the same family and is conneccted to the Scotts in Monroe county Iowa
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I have some info if you would like to get in touch with me.