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PAMYATES(a)delphi.com wrote:
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> Let me know if you enjoy reading stuff like this. I also have the first and
> second hangings in Vigo county that I can post, if there's any interest.
> Also some info on Vigo Co townships.
This is fabulous! Please post anything you can find.
Kim
contined...
Beauchamp made his way to the Wabash which he swam several miles above here.
Search was instituted for him as soon as the news of the crime had been
spread, but the murderer succeeded in making his escape, and nthing was
heard of him for several months. Handbills were struck off, giving a
description of the murderer and offering a reward of $500 for his arrest.
These handbills were sent to all parts of the country and a person going
from this county to Texas took one of them with him and to this chance
occurrence the capture of the murderer was due. The bill was posted in a
rude country hotel, in a little place near the Rio Grande border in Texas. A
couple of young men visiting the hotel read the description and the offer of
reward, and knowing a man employed in a blacksmith's shop in that vicinity
who answered completely to that description, charged him with being the
culprit. It was Beauchamp, who ad escaped to that far away and seemingly
secure place of refuge, and when confronted with the offer of a reward for
his capture, confessed that he was the man. The young men took charge of him
and set out on horseback to return the criminal to the scene of his crime.
The great southwestern system of railroads had not been dreamed of in those
days, and a journey from the wild Mexican province to the distant Hoosier
State, on horseback, over unfrequented and strange roads, fording rivers,
with the accompanying perils to life and property, was the work of weeks and
months. It was completed in safety, however, and the men turned Beauchamp
over to the authorities here, receiving the reward offered for him, and for
which, rather than any desire to see justice administered, they had made
their long journey.
Beauchamp had a hearing before the Vigo court, and applied for a change of
venue to Parke county on the ground that there was such a public feeling a
sentiment against him in this county that he could not receive justice. But
his did not save him, as after a long and tedious trial before the Parke
county court, at Rockville, he was convicted of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to be hanged. The death penalty was inflicted at Rockville in
the winter of 1842, nearly two years after the perpetration of the crime,
the execution being public, and witnessed by a large crowd of spectators.
There was great interest in this county in the crime and the penalty, and
great numbers of persons went to Rockville on horseback and in wagons to
witness the last scene in the tragedy. This was the first murder ever
committed in Vigo county for which the death penalty was inflicted and the
first and only hanging that ever occurred at Rockville.
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Let me know if you enjoy reading stuff like this. I also have the first and
second hangings in Vigo county that I can post, if there's any interest.
Also some info on Vigo Co townships.
Sorry for any typos....
Pam
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9467/
>From The History of Vigo County (forgot to jot down the author...Bradsby?)
Beauchamp's Crime: The first murder in Vigo county for which the death
penalty was inflicted was the killing of George Mickleberry by Noah
Beauchamp near St Marys in Sugar Creek township, in May 1840. The murdere
was hanged at Rockville in the winter of 1842, having gone to Parke county
on a change of venue and there convicted. Noah Beauchamp and George
Mickleberry were the owners of adjoining farms in Sugar Creek township and
were in those days cinsidered well-to-do farmers. The men were members of
the same church, were friends of long standing and each of their families
consisted of a wife and several daughters. On the dividing line between the
two farms was a fine natural spring, which was used for watering stock. In
the spring of the year a temporary dam was built in the little stream formed
by the spring, and the latter backed up for the purpose of washing the sheep
of the two farmers, preparatory to the annual shearing. Each of the men,
when the shearing had been completed, spread his wool out to dry on the
hillocks on either side of the spring. A short time after the annual
shearing had been completed in May 1840, and the wool spread out to dry, a
report was current in the neighborhood that the daughters of Beauchamp had
been stealing wool from the Mickleberry's collection, while the owners were
absent. This report, which was said to have been originated by the daughters
of Mickleberry, of course came to the ears of the parties accused of the
theft. On the day the story was first heard at the Beauchamps, the husband
and father was absent. On his return, about noon, his daughters informed him
of the story, which had been started derogatory to them and without stopping
to eat his dinner, Beuuchamp set out for the home of the Mickleberrys. The
Mickleberry family was seated at the dinner table when Beauchamp arrived.
The latter appeared at the door, and repeating the story he had heard, asked
it it were true that the daughters of Micleberry had said this. Micleberry
responded that it was so, and that he supported every word they may have
said. This brought on a quarrel, in the course of which Mickleberry lifted a
chair to strike Beauchamp, but his wife prevented him from doing this. At
this juncture Beauchamp drew the knife with which he had provided himself,
and Mickleberry, who was unable to defend himself from the weapon, was
killed in his own yard, and in the presence of his wife and daughters.
Anoterh story is that it was Mrs Mickleberry who had said this, and that the
murdered man onlyh spoke when Beauchamp commenced to abuse his wife, and
then Beauchamp struck him to the heart with the knife. The latter gave an
alarm, Beauchamp having fled immediately after the commission of the deed.
The first man to reach the scene of the killing was Rice McCormick, the
veteran carpenter and boatman.
continued next post.....
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9467/
I am looking for information on Minnie B. Ferguson (Adams) that is buried in
Hull Cemetery, she is my great grandmother. Other than getting a copy of
the obituary from the July 16, 1899 Terre Haute Express that states she was
interned in Hull Cemetery, I know nothing about her.
I am also looking for information on Hull Cemeteries burial information or
curator to be able to locate her marker, if possible.
Thanks in advance
Claude Sturman
I ordered Vigo Co., IN Cemeteries from the FHC and received them this
week. I planned on copying the fiche and offering lookups. However,
their copier broke and will be down for an undetermined amount of time.
I did get one page copied:
(Some) Cemeteries:
Cooper in Riley Twp.
Cottom/Sankey in Riley Twp.
Durham in Honeycreek Twp.
Hull in Honeycreek Twp.
Liberty in Riley Twp.
Lones Hill in Riley Twp.
Mewhinney in Riley Twp.
Miner/Maynard in Riley Twp.
Mount Pleasant at Honeycreek Twp.
Musgrave in Prairieton Twp.
New Harmoney in Prairieton Twp.
Old Thompson in Riley Twp.
Prairieton in Prairieton Twp.
Quaker in Prairieton Twp.
Ray in Riley Twp.
Smith in Honeycreek Twp.
Old Oak Hill in Riley Twp.
New Oak Hill in Riley Twp.
Grandview/Redman in Honeycreek Twp.
Please don't ask for lookups just yet as I need to wait to have
hardcopies at home before I can do that. I can't trek to the FHC to do
lookups for everyone. When I am ready, I'll tell everyone - as well as
offering to do lookups on Pam's site and my own.
I'm sorry, but any requests to do lookups right now will be deleted. I
don't have the room to keep the requests on file until I'm ready. I
will let everyone know when I have the material to do lookups.
If you can't wait, this is available at any FHC by checking the
resources under Vigo County - cemeteries. There are nine or ten
microfiche, which cost me .60 total. Took about a month to get here
(I'm sure I'll be ready before then). The above cemeteries are
contained in one set of four fiche.
Kim