Hi Doug, I have a book of cemeteries in Tipton Co. IN I found a Mary A. &
Alexander Craig. They are buried in Brookside Cemetery. I wonder if this is
the Mary you are looking for. Pat
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From: "Doug" <dsmith22(a)woh.rr.com>
To: <INTIPTON-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [INTIPTON] Responce to Doug re Craig.
Thanks Phil !! Well, at least I have a better understanding
now of what Lewis and his new family were going
through. You did not paint a very pretty picture; but I'm
sure that it is accurate to the best of your ability. Things
sound pretty harsh at that point in time, there in Liberty
township. I would assume, that in order to attract folks
to the area, land was probably offered at a fairly good price.
Do you suppose that it would be possible to find any
recorded land records for that period of time ???
Do you think that Tipton County, would possibly have
anything on line, or possibly a BLM site that would have
a listing of Lewis Craig's purchase ??? Assuming that he
DID purchase land .... maybe he was just share cropping
or working for someone who did own land at that time.
I'm just guessing here at the possibilities.
I appreciate your reply Phil. Thanks for responding.
Please correct me if I am wrong here, but your email is
the first one that I have seen here on the INTIPTON
List. I have only been here on the list for 2 days now,
but it does not look like a very busy list. I could be
wrong, but the impression I'm getting is that the traffic
here on the list is not too heavy. Maybe it's the holiday
season, and everyone is preparing for Christmas/New
Years instead of concentrating on genealogy/family roots.
Thanks again Phil, hope to hear you out here again.
Doug
Phillip Hawkins wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I can not provide any Craig information, but I can provide some
> historical background to indicate reasons for their not remaining in
> Liberty Twp.
>
> Following is information from a book that I am publishing on my
Hawkins
> in Liberty Township, Tipton County, Indiana. The material was
gleened
from
> sources in the Tipton County Library.
>
> Liberty Township, Tipton County, Indiana.
> The glaciers, thousands of years earlier, had leveled the high
hills
> and gouged shallow depressions, that over time had been filled
by
erosion
> and dead vegetation. It was a land of shallow lakes, swamps and
wetlands,
> and some of the largest hardwood trees in America. The "Big
Woods" was a
> forest swampland with only a few small clearings between the West Fork
of
> the White River to the south, and the Wabash River to the north.
The
future
> Liberty Township was primeval virgin land; inhabited by bears,
timber
> wolves, timber rattlers, and the dreaded panther. It was as wild as when
the
> Indians first came.
> Tipton County was formed by a decree of an Indiana State Law, in
1844,
> from the northern portion of Hamilton County, and the southern
portion
of
> the Great Miami Indian Reserve. At that time, when Tipton
became the
89th
> county in the state of Indiana, there were nineteen states in
the Union.
The
> northern 2/3 of the county, taken from the "Old
Reserve" had no
permanent
> Indian villages but it was the hunting grounds of the Miami,
Delaware,
and
> Pottowatomie tribes. The southern 1/3 of the new county
contained only a
few
> settlements due to the harshness of the land, and for some time
it was
not
> considered a good place for new settlements. In 1846 the Indians
were
moved,
> under duress by the Army, west to Kansas; but nearly half of
them, those
> with some white blood, or who owned land, or had influence with
authorities
> were allowed to stay. When the Indian lands were offered for
sale in
1847
> the "wild land where fallen trees and beaver dams held the
water in
> overflows and swamps" was still the hunting grounds of those Indians
that
> had not been moved.
> Due to the dense forest and swamp, transportation was by horse, and
> baggage had to be by pack-horse.The first roads were short, crooked
paths
> through the trees and around the pools, generally following the
Indian
> trails. Even following the Indian trails, it was hard to keep man and
horse
> dry.
> In 1849 Liberty Township was formed from half of Wildcat Township
to
> the east, and a portion of Prairie Township to the west. A year
later,
the
> census of 1850 recorded 26 homes and 144 inhabitants within the
new
> township, and E. M. Sharp had plotted a new town that was named
Sharpsville.
> In 1854, Sharpsville's streets were still full of stumps and
logs, but
there
> was a railroad , and the new town contained 200 people. Harrison
Burns,
in
> 1855, wrote that the spring and summer were very wet, and that
the
entire
> county was covered with water. It was impossible to haul
anything. There
was
> a great deal of malaria, nearly every one had the
"ague". He stated, "I
have
> seen a team with an empty wagon stalled in the streets of
Sharpsville."
>
> Phil Hawkins pahawkins@earthlink 12 Dec 2001
>
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