Early days in Madison
County, IN, are recalled through the biographies of numerous early
residents, in this booklet, comprised of excerpts from the rare
1895 book: The Pioneer compiled by Samuel Harden, and Indiana,
a Guide to the Hoosier State, a 1941 WPA publication. The spiral
bound booklet is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" and is printed on 60# paper.
A vinyl sheet protects the front cover.
Past and present
communities in this southwest Indiana county include:
Adams Township, Alexandria, Anderson (part)
(County Seat), Boone Township, Chesterfield (part), Country Club
Heights, Duck Creek Township. Edgewood, Elwood (part), Fall Creek
Township, Frankton (part), Green Township, Ingalls, Jackson Township,
Lafayette Township, Lapel, Markleville, Monroe Township, Orestes,
Pendleton, Pipe Creek Township, Richland Township, River Forest,
Stony Creek Township, Summitville, Union Township, Van Buren Township,
and Woodlawn Heights. (Some may not be mentioned
in the booklet.)
This
booklet is a goldmine of information for genealogy seekers, as
it is filled with biographies of persons who lived in the county
in 1890s, usually giving the names of parents, spouse, in-laws,
children, siblings, etc., as well as military service, politics,
residence and occupation. The bios
include David Bowers, Robert Webster, Joel Cook, Wm. Herritage,
Jesse Vermillion Sr., Barnabas Maynard Sr, Charles Henn, Chauncey
Vermillion, Isaac Osborn, Charles McClead, Noah Richwine, Lewis
Summers, Alexander Wood, Benjamin Copper, James Jarrett, Lennox
Gooding, Levi DeLoughter, John Markle, Wyle Ellis, Thomas Ballard,
George Robinett, Alsalom Cross, Wm. Prather, Jesse Peck, John
Hickey, Alexander Peck, Shadrach Furgason, Peter Hosier, John
Etsler, Jonathan Deloughter, Manson Johnson, James Anderson, George
Gilmore, Jacob Koehler, Nathan Young, Wm. King, David Winsor,
Ira Miller, Th. Whitehead, Wm. Jones, Reuben Neese, William Ball,
Eli Furgason, Ithamer McCarty, Adam Gisse, Uriah Vermillion, Joseph
Downham, Mrs. Nancy Eckhart, Washington
Petigrew, Henry Waggy, Wm. Johns, James Hudson, Lemuel Jones,
John McAllister, Wm. Gale Sr., John Fattic, Joseph Hancock, Ahasuel
Rains, John Zedaker, Esta Makepiece, Noah Waymire, Aaron Williams,
Aquilla Moore, Issac Cox, Samuel Williams, Abraham Cottrell, Ward
Cook, Curtis Langley, Josephus Poindexter, Daniel Stanley, Birkett
Ead, John Davis, Joseph Rider, David Pittsford, Henry Smith, Joseph
Swain, Edward Vernon, John Hall, Thornton Rector, John Harmason,
Conrad Crossly, David Cattron, Joseph Draper, Alexander Inglis,
Isaac Jones, Stephen Norris, Andrew Behymer, Mathias Maddron,
Wm. Benefield, Quincy Van Winkle, the Paris Family, Wm. Gale Jr.,
Andrew Greenlee, the Surber Family, Robert Cree, the Brunt Family,
David Croan, Aquilla Norris, Allen Simmonds, Eli Hodson, Seth
Smith, C.R. Reeves, Wm. Saunders, Aaron Brown, Wm. Stanley, Andrew
Jackson, Thomas Moore family, Milton Ruddel, John Richardson,
Dr. John Westerfield, Joseph Finnemore Sr., John Coburn, Timothy
Metcalf, Abraham Adams, James Shawver, Caleb Cannaday, Daniel
Windsor, William Mershon, Levi McDaniel, Harry Bevin, Harrison
Allen, the Vandyke brothers, James Hundley, Robert Collier, Joseph
Shannon, Joshua Chappell, Moses Harmon, Sanford Keltner, Wm. Barton,
the Makepeace family, Joseph Johnson, Jone Titus, Allen Booram,
the Bronenberg family, the Irish family, Ulysses Lewis, James
Johnson, Samuel Irish, Phillip Hardin, Abijah Cox, Garrett McAllister
Sr., John and Wm. Hunt, the Myers Family, and the McAllister Family.
There is
also a list of early settlers and prominent residents of each
township, brief bios of "our lamented dead: and recollections
of Pendleton and Madison County by some long time residents.
The brief WPA excerpt gives more
general and historic information on the county recalling the Chesterfield
Spiritualist Camp, Mounds State Park, Moravian Mission Monument,
Anderson (named for an Indian chief?), the Gas Boom, Anderson
College and Theological Seminary, the Indiana Reformatory; the
birthplace of Wendell Willkie, the world's first rock-wool insulation
factory, and a monument designating the site where three white
men were executed for killing a group of Indians.
Wouldn't this make a unique
gift?
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