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ALLEN  COUNTY  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


3  1833  01707  8624 


Gc  977,201  J63ban 
Banta,  D.  D.  1833-1896 
Making  a  neighborhood 


MAKING  A  NEIGHBORHOOD 
(SHILOH,  INDIAIU) 

BY 
JUDGE  D.D.  BANTA 

SPEECH  DELIVERED 
MAY  26,  1887 


MIlKiNdliNEKIHBSRii©©®, 


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>;i^i>i:M\  ji:i£i:i!»  at  Tiii;.^^'-^^^- 


bHILOH  KEL 


NION, 


, -.^.^.- 3S^ JL"i-  26,  1887,   ^3r::v_„^ 


■^iD.  D.  BAHTA.!^ 


"Our  early  diys!    Hov/  cf'.en  back 
V/s  turn  on  life's  tewOienns  tracif . 
To  where  o'er  hill  ar.d  valley  playo 
The  suTi'iight  of  cur  early  dayal" 


-'v/(5)e>--- 


•*'^0"5G6    A 


(KopuUlican  I'riat,  KranlvliD,  luti.) 


Making  a  Neighborhood. 

J  *hQQ::x  the  last  day  of  December,   1822,    Gov.    Williani 
1®-trB'i  .  .  .  .  ... 

'  ie<*V-^ip^-i'  Hendricks  sk'ned  the  bill  providing  for  the  organ- 

•'i?(i;^'G^  ization  of  Johnson  county.  The  population  of  the 
county  at  tlic  time,  which  was  confined  mainly  to  the  Blue  River 
and  White  Pvivcr  settienicnts,  did  not  exceed  550.  There  -Acrr- 
about  100  families,  whicii  was  one  family  to  every  three  and 
tvo-fifth  square  rnilcs.  In  1823  the-  settlement  at  Franklin  v;r, 
begun  and  the  town  laid  ofT.  The  snnic  year  the  first  sctthr 
built  his  cabin  on  tisc  soutli  fork-of  StoU's  Crock,  in  Congrcs- 
ioual  township  No.  twelve,  in  range  three  cast,  which  Congr<j<s- 
ional  townsliip  was,  in  1830,  incorporated  into  the  poljti<:ii 
townsiiip  of  Union.  This  first  settlor  was  Bartholomew  Carrnli, 
who  located  on  section  thirty-four,  near  the  place  where  Joli;, 
Vandiver  afterwards  built  a  raiil.  Ills  family  consisted  of  hiu!- 
self  aiid  wife,  tiiree  <!ons,  William,  Joim  and  Samuel,  tv,-.» 
daughters  whose  names  have  not  been  handed  dov.m,  and  iii<- 
grand-father  of  his  children,  a  very  aged  man,  who  died,  it  i- 
said,  when  he  was  110  years  old. 

Bartholomew  Carroll  was  a  genuine  backwoodsman  v.-ho  sp.-ni 
his  days  hunting  and  trapping  and  gathering  wihl  honey.  In 
that  early  day,  and  indeed  for  many  a  year  after,  all -this  rogiou 
was  celebrated  for  the  abundance  of  its  wild  game,  its  fur-bear- 
ing animals  and  its  wild  be'esi  It  is  said  that  Carroll  wouid 
sometimes  have  as  many  as  100  bee  trees  marked  in  the  wo'>ds 
at  ono  time.  The  Carrolls  had  the  country  to  themselves  fur 
three  years,  when,  in  182G,  others  began  to  move  in.  Pcifr 
Vandiver  settled  in  section  twenty-five,  not  far  from  the  sonih- 
cast  corner  of  tiie  township,  where  he  lived  till  his  death,  in 
1864.  Guinnie  Uttcrback,  a  widow,  with  her  eight  sons,  settici 
at  the  place  now  known  as  Union  Village.  John  Garshwihr, 
:  Mrs.  Christina  Garshwiler  and  Joseph  Simpson,  moved  to  the 
eastern  border  of  the  township.  •. . 


In  1827  I  know  of  onl}-  two  newcomers,  George  Keplieart, 
Avho  buili  ;i  c.ibiti  on  section  twonty-tlivcc,  and  Alcxan<^cr  Gil- 
mer, in  tin.'  northeast  corner  of  the  township.  But  the  year 
fullowin;^  witnosscil  the  advent  of  nearly  or  quite  a  dozen  famil- 
ies. IV'ter  Zook,  Samuel  Willian\s  and  Henry  Banta,  moved 
into  the  Vandivor  neii^hborhood;  Benjamin  Uttcrback  to  the 
vicinity  of  his  sister-in-hiw,  Mrs.  Guinnie  Uttcrback,  and  Adam 
Lnsli,  James  Ivivei-s  and  Jolm  ^Mitchell,  well  up  toward  the 
north  side  of  the  townshi]). 

In  IS-Jo  ^Villiam  Burkliart,  a  yonn;^  man  who  \vas  nuicli  of  a 
\\<)odsm;ni,  :iiul  who  came  to  be  known  in  after  years  by  the 
c<>L,nioinen  of  "'Little  Bill  Burkhart,''  to  distin^juish  h.inf  from  an 
o!(UT  member  uf  i>i.>  family  beiiring  the  same  nanie,  was  out 
linnrin;:,  and  in  the  woods  some  where  between  the  Hopewell 
.-cttlvmcnt  a?id  Betcr  A'jindiver's,  lie  struck  a  runway  which  ha 
ioll'-woil  westwnrdjy  a  distance  of  "about  five  miles"  till  it 
brought  him  to  llork  Lick,  on  the  north  fork  of  Stott's  Creek  in 
section  sixteen,  which  ultinnxtely  proved,  to  be  one  of  the  most 
famous  dccv  resorts  in  all  the  couritry.  For  juilca  and  mi^cs, 
in  every  direction,  runways- led  to  and  frouL.  this.  lick^aucL  its. 
fame  w.is  soon  sjn-emi  abroad,  and  hunters  visited  it  froni  groat 
il!sT:niccs.  Tlie  hoof  ju'int  of  nn  cxceprronallr  hr;,'  deer  was  no^^' 
and  then  seen  in  or  ab<»uc  the  lick,  and  every  lumter  that  paw 
or  heard  ubout  the  !)if^  track  was  at  o!ice  iircd  with  an  ambition 
:o  shy  th:.:  deer.  2QSp6Zfi 

Of  the  iiunt^M's  ^vbo  Tisito^l  Rock  Lick  in  the  early  times  ivas 
Jesse  Youn!^,  from  the  NineveJi  settlenient,  whither  ho  had 
moved  fron)  Brown  county,  Ohio,  in  IS'25.  AVhat  may  liave 
been  h.is  habit  as  to  the  pursuit  of  i,'ame  before  eomin<j  to  th<i 
new  State  (d' Indiana,  I  am  ^lot  advised,  but  it  seems  that  short- 
ly aftvr  luakinj.'  his  home  at  Xineveh,  he  became  known  as  one 
of  tlic  most  expert  woodsmen  au<l  hunters  in  the  <;ountr3'.  I 
3iave  heard  from  divers  sourx;cs  a  tradition  of  a  white  tlcer  that 
roamed  the  woods  anJ  ehuled  the  hunters  till  its  trail  was  struck 
by  Jessv  Yonnc:.  At  a  marvelous  distance  it  was  brought  down 
by  a  ball  Jrom  ''Old  Grate,"  his  hunting  riile. 
■  lie  must  hax-e  visited  Rock  Lick  in  18*27,  and  probably  in  1826. 
\Yhen  passing  through  that  marvelous  forest  of  White  Oak 
timber  then  growing  on  the  table  lands  just  south  of  the  lick, 
his  trained  eye  saw  in  its  rich  fruitage  a  far  more  abundant  and  • 
infinitely  cheaper  food  for  his  herd  of  swine,  than  the  best  tilled 


—  3  — 

fields  of  corn  of  that  day  could  produce.  And  so  he  drove  hl^ 
ho,i,^s  out  to  the  White  Oak  forests  of  Rock  Lick,  that  tlioy 
inii,'ht  feed  and  fatten  at  Nature's  crib,  ahd  at  the  same  time  lio, 
as  their  herdsman,  <?ratify  his  love  for  the  \voods. 

In  1828  Jesse  Young  determined  to  make  this  toAvnship  his 
permanent  liome,  and  to  that  end  ho  selected  the  cast  half  f.i" 
the  novth^vcst  quarter  of  section  twenty-seven,  on  which  to  1)<- 
gin  liome  making,  but  lie  did  not  enter  the  land  from  the  Uniti-d 
States  till  the  following  year.  A  cabin,  however,  was  creeted 
the  Siuiic  year  in  tlic  woods,  on  a  site  which  has  ever  since  been 
occupied  as  a  dwelling  i)lace,  and  on  which  Peter  Voris  lived 
and  died;  and  in  the  fall  of  the  year,  n(jw  nearly  fiity-nine  years 
ago,  lie  moved  his  family  out  and  Shiloh  neighbi^rhood  w.,^ 
founded. 

Jesse  Young  cauic  of  Scotch-English  Prcsl^yterian  anccstoi^ 
who  settled  at  Jojies  Falls,  T)ear  J*ultimore,  about  IGS').  Av 
the  close  of  the  Uevolutionary  war  his  fatliei',  Jacob  \'oui;g. 
luiving  become  involved  in  trade,  sold  his  possessions,  j).!;<I 
h's  debts,  and  crossing  the  Allegiiruiy  Mountains,  settled  in 
Western  Pennsylvania.  lierc,  in  the  inidst  of  a  hardy  rac", 
Jesse  grew  to  manhood,  and  in  his  twenty-third  year  marrit  1 
Margaret  Wiley,  tlien  in  her  ninetccatli . .  Suiiscqiicul!.^' 
he  moved  to  Brown  county,  Ohio,  where  we  know  tliat  lie  au.! 
his  wife  were  members  of  the  Strait  Creek  Presln'terian  eliurrii, 
and  from  Brown  county  they  moved  to  Indiaiia  in  182;'),  ii.s  ,\\; 
have  already  seen. 

■  In  1828  Jesse  Y'oung  was  forty-six  years  (dd,  and  Margni'd, 
his  wife,  forty-one,  and  they  had  a  famil}  of  si.\  sons — Jo^.]:. 
Jacob,  y/illiam,  Jesse,  James,  Jonathan  Edwards  and  Thorn,. s 
Wilson,  (the  advent  of  Newton  Watts,  his  youngest  son  and  ih',' 
first  to  be  born  in -this  neighborhood,  not  being  till  August  ;'.!. 
1830,) — and  of  four  daughters — Mary,  Sarah  W.,  Elizabctli  a:iii 
Margaret  Eaton.  Three  of  the  boys  were  stalwart  men,  and  <)uc 
of  the  girls  was  a  woman 'in  years. 

Memory  has  not  handed  down  to  us  the  circumstances  attc'inl- 
ing  the  building  of  that  first  Shiloh  cabin.  The  building  of 
cabins  in  those  days  was  not  looked  upon  as  much  of  a  feat  Ail 
\vc  know  of  this  one  is,  that  it  was  built  in  the  woods,  and  thar 
Jesse  Young  and  his  8ons<;ould  easily  have  built  it  without  out- 
side help,  and  that  they  probably  did  it.  AH  Shiloh  y{as  in  tiio 
woods.    The  Three  Notched  Lino  Road — in  tlic  curly  tinn-ij 


coiiimonly  known  \>y  llic  n:inic  of  Iho  "Jftickcd  Lino,"  and  oc- 
casionally as  the  "Three  Hacked  Lino," — hud  been  cut  out  aa 
early  as  1822,  but  between  that  road  and  the  Morgan 
county  line,  along  the  tier  of  sections  on  which  the  Shiloh  cab- 
ins v.ere  at'rcrwards  erected,  tliere  was  not,  when  the  site  for 
that  first  cabin  was  chosen,  a  "stick  amiss."  What  a  wonderful 
growth  of  trees  made  the  Shiloh  forests  of  that  long  ago!  Where 
W(i  to-ihiy  see  fruitful  farms,  then  grew  such  an  array  of  mighty 
beeches,  and  ashes,  and  maples,  and  of  giant  oaks,  an  1  poplars, 
as.  only  tliis  American  continent  of  ours  can  grow.  So  dense 
was  ihc  sluulc  during  the  summer  season  that  tho.  noonday  sun 
could  scarce  pierce  through  the  arboreal  arches  above  to  the 
moist  home  of  the  blue  violets  below. 

The  down  trees  wore  scarcely  less  numerous  than  the  standing. 
Imagine  these  in  all  stages  of  decay,  some  newly  fallen  and  some 
sunk  half  their  depth  in  the  oozy  soil,  and  lying,  some  by  the 
side  «)f  and  others  across  each  other,  and  all  enveloped  in  thick- 
ets of  spice  wootl,  green  briers  and  youjig  saplings,  and  you  ujay 
uudtorstand  what- an  impcuctroblc  barrier^ would. confront  the. 
horsemen,  and  even  how  hard  it  would  be  for  the  footmen  to 
wedge  his  way  through. 

The  land  chosen  for  the  scat  of  this  now  neighborhood  being, 
as  it  is,  a  part  of  the  table  land  betn-oon  the  north  and  soutli 
forks  of  Stott's  Creek,  was,  in  the  beginning,  mainly  without 
natural  drainage.  Here  were  to  be  found  swamps  flooded  from 
the  beginning  of  the  winter  rains  till  the  coming  of  the  summer 
drouths;  nay,  sv;ami)s  that  held  water  tlic  year  round.  Can  I 
ever  fv)rgot  those  spongy  mai-sh  lands,  with  their  hcavj'  timber 
growths,  made  up  in  tlie  main  of  shapely  sv/amp-ash,  lieavy  top- 
ped white  elm  amLstraight  boiled  bur  oak  trees?  And  if  the 
])icture  of  those  swamp  forests  could,  by  any  means,  fade 
from  my  vision,  could  I  forget  the  myriad  voices  pi])ing  from 
their  lagoons  on  the  atlvent  of  the  spring  thaws  and  the  vernal 
showers?  .-. 

"Ami  when  tlio  courso  nf  <Iay  wiiR  nm  -           .;!     .-. 

Ami  siiu-KUt  liutit  liaci  uhangod  tu  ilnu,  '  ,  T '.  '  •",     """ ""  . 

■  There  came  fr«m  out  the  mud  and  niuok,  "■■   .               '..'•  [ 

A '.veird  will!  c!i-iru8,  chucU  cluck  ciio-riiftk;  '          _:...[•' 
Clmck  ciuck  cl'-O-ruck,  ohuck  cluck  chc-nicki" 

But  there  was  change  even  in  this  swamp   life.     As  tho  . 
sun  crept  slowly  up  from  the  south  and  touched  to  life  the  white 
blossoms  of  the  liaw  and  the  wild  plum,  and  tho  dogwood  and 


t!io  crnlj-iipplf!  ;<ro\vii!/<  uj»(»ii  iIk;  rld^M-.s  and  kiiolls,  llu;   "( Imck 
cluck  clicruck"  soii<,'  fj;;ivo  Wiiy  to  one  pitched  in  ;i  liii^lier  key.    '  , 

"And  Ihcrc  came  from  out  llic  Bbadows  deep 
Teu  UiousnnU  voices,  peep  peepcli«f-rcep; 
I'cep  poop  clic-reep,  peep  peep  che-reep! 
■  Here  wc  como  from  Lethe's  slcup, 
Here  we  come  from  icy  lliruU 
To  joiu  in  Nature's  carnival, 
I'cei)  jiccp  che-rccp,  peep  peep  chc-recp!" 

With  tlic  advent  of  tlie  sunmier  Kolstico  a  new  sctofniKsicians 
IcajK'd  upon  the  stiigc.     AH  the  suuinicr  n!{.'l!t  lois^'  tlie  ^v:ik(jful 
Sliilohan  could  licar  the  never  endiiifj  refniin  of  tlit'sc    marsh, 
minstrels,  crym;^  in  chorus,  ''K-n-e-e   deep,  k-n-e-o  deep  jind 
deeper!"     "K-n-e-e  deep,  k-n-e-o  deep  and  deeper;"' 

But  it  was  in  that  dread  season,  the  early  fall,  when  the  \i]<i;ht 
air  vy-as  laden  with  the  deadly  miasn'i,  and  when  the  pt'^iik-nce 
shadowed  the  footsteps  of  the  pioneer  and  stood  sentinel  ;it  his 
bedside,  that  the  bull-frog  took  up  tlio  moan  and  ]>oi)nicd  frosn 
ilic  fens  and  boj^'s  his  ;^loo!iiy  "Muliy  Maroijnl  Mully  .M:>r<)onl 
Mully  Maroon'." 

But  let-US- return- from  these-visions  of  the  nrai-sheH-to  tin;  urstr- 
cabin  home.  Jesse  Young  was  not  a  rich  man.  Rich  )iii!n  sel- 
dom became  pioneers  in  the  times  of  which  I  write,  and  ei-rtandy 
there  were  none  who  cjime  to  our  Shiloh.  Mr.  Yonni:  .ilnvidy 
liad  in  the  White  Oak  woods  over  against  Hock  Lick,  a  ''largj 
lot  of  hogs,"  and  he  brought  with  him  "eight  or  teii  h^-ad  of 
cattle,"  including  a  pair  broken  to  the  yoke,  and  one  »narc,  ''(ild 
Jewel, ■'  who  is  entitled  to  lionorablc  mention  as  being  tht-  jirst 
of  her  race  to  pick  browse  in  tliesc  woods  for  a  living. 

By  the  following  spring  Mr.  Young  and  his  boys  li;id  about 
eight  acres  cleared,  wliicli  was  tilled  in  corn.  History  h:ts  not 
handed  down  to  us  any  of  the  particulars  of  that  clearing,  ■•\i;('pt 
as  to  the  rolling  of  tlie  logs,  but  if  all  the  trees  eighteen  inches 
and  over  in  diameter  were  leftstandingandscortchedatiho  roots 
with  burning  brush  to  ensure  the  doatli  of  the  summer  foliage, 
■  while  all  trees  under  eighteen  inches,  and  all  down  higs,  save 
the  big  oak  and  poplar  ones,  were  rolled  into  Iionps  and  ])urnod, 
that  was  a  well  cleared  field  for  the  times.  The  big  logs  were 
worked  around  till  the  pioneer  could  find  time  to  "trougli"  them 
with  fire  and  thus  remove  them.  Tradition  does  tell  us  smne- 
thing  about  that  first  log  rolling  in  Shiloh.  It  occurred  in  tlio 
'  spring  of  1829,  and  tho  names  of  some  of  those  who  bandied  the 
hand-spiko  on  that  occasion  have  boon  handed  down.     (Jidcon 


—  6  — 

hniko,  wlio  liiiisl.  liiivo  coiiU!  :il!  (lio  Avny  fVoui  NInovcli.  m'hs 
there,  and  so  were  the  CiirrolLs,  Bartholomew,  th(>  father,  and 
^\'ill:am  and  James,  his  sons,  and  James  Spckes,  his  neighbor, 
and  Samuel  Williams,  and  no  doubt  Peter  Vandiver.  Doubt- 
less there  were  others,  for  it  was  the  custom  in  those  days  for 
every  able  bodied  mari  to  go  to  all  the  log  rollings  wichiu  his 
rearh. 

U  was  a  veiir  an<l  n.  liaifafter  Jot^so  Young  moved  in  before 
he  had  a  neiglibor.  Li  the  fall  of  182u,  or  early  in  the  following 
spring,  Josepli  Young,  his  nephew,  built  a  cabin  a  half  mile  west 
of  him.  Joseph  was  a  Pcnnsyivanian  by  birth,  but  moved  to  Ohio 
abuut  the  time  ho  attained  his  majority.  "When  twenty-eight 
years  old  he  married  Mary  ]\Ioore,  of  Brown  county,  in  that 
State,  who  was  twenty-one.  This  occurred  in  the  spring  of  1828, 
and  tlie  following  fall  they  moved  to  Indiana,  stopping  in  this 
county  at  the  Nineveh  settlement.  On  tlie  17th  of  March,  1830, 
ihuy  moved  out  to  their  new  Sliiloh  home.  They  took  with  them 
two  cows,  a  few  hogs  and  a  coop  of  chickens,  in  ad.dition  to  a 
very  little  furniture  and  a  goodly  outfit  of  home-spun  goods, 
Nancy  Jane,  their  first  bonv  ^vas  four  lUfnithsold^ 

The  same  year  Joseph  Y'oung  moved  he  cleared  about  three 
acres  wliich  he  cultivated  in  com  with-  the  hoc  ;ind  with  such 
success  tluit  he  raised  enough  corn  to  sujtply  him  witli  bread  till 
the  next  year,  at  wh.icli  tiuic  ite  liad  enlarged  Iiis  field  to  five  or 
si.^  acres,  and  once  more  cultivating  with  tiie  hoe,  he  raised 
enough  f<n-  his  Inxad  andsolfl  two  or  three  barrels  besides,  which 
doubtless  was  the  iirst  Shiloli  grain  product  ever  sold. 

The  same  year  Jolm  Yoting,  Jesse's  oldest  sou,  married 
Bncliel  Titus,  on  Indian  Creek,  in  tliis  county,  and  took  a  claim 
on  a  tract  of  .land  lying  south  of  his  father's  entry,  where  ho 
built  a  eabju  and  made  a  clearing  of  about  nine  acres,  on  Avhich 
his  ehlest  son,  Josiah,  was  born,  all  three  of  whom  arc  now  liv- 
ing ii\  Monroe  county,  Iowa.  Afterwards  Jacob  Core  "entered 
lum  out."  This  occurred  in  1801,  when  Mr.  Young  took  a 
elaimin  section  thirty-two,  where  he  built  a  cabin  and  cleared 
ten  acres  which,  in  1837,  he  sold  to  David  Deuiarec,  .and  then  ' 
moved  eastward  on  Stott's  Creek,  where  he  built  a  mill  which 
was  for  a  good  many  years  a  great  convenience  to  the  neighbor- 
hood and  some  profit  to  its  owners.  My  earliest  recollcctions'of 
milling  go  hack  to  that  old  log  mill  with  its  undershot  whocl 
and  its  hundred  yards  of  mill  race.     For  the  first  few  years  it 


/ground  cofii  only,  ImL  ns  tlici  t'.(<iniLi'y  \\'nn  clc.'u'i-il  u|i:iiiil  \vlic;iL- 
broad  bei,'!iii  to  l;ikc  the  place  of  coni-ln'eiul  on  tlie  Sliil'Ui  tables, 
Mr.  Young  put  in  a  bolting  cloth  und  turned  out  an  article  of  Hour 
■which  was  acceptable  to  the  housewives  of  that  day. 

On  the  first  day  of  January,  in  this  year  of  18;')0,  (xidcon 
Drake,  with  his  family,  moved  to  section  nineteen  and  opened  a 
j'arm  Avbcveon  lie  lived  IVn- many  years  thei'eafYei".  Mr.  l)rak(! 
was  a  l\(;ntu<;k!aii  by  birth.  Uefore  lie  attained  bis  i(i:i.i'»rit.y  lie 
moved  to  Brown  county,  Ohio,  wliere,  in  1S22,  la-  married 
Susanriali  ^.litchell,  :uul  thence  as  early  as  1825  bo  moved  to  the 
Nineveh  settlement  in  this  eouuty.  In  the  autnm  of  1821' he 
entered  a  (juarter  of  said  section  on  which  he  built  a  small  eabiu 
into  which  he  moved  at  the  time  mentioned.  Like  ;ui.>t  other 
cabins  of  that  "lay  his  was  a  primitive  affair.  Its  clajib.i.ird  roof 
was  held  in  place  by  weight  poles.  The  floor  was  of  iniaeheons, 
the  chimney  of  mud,  the  back  wall  ami  jambs  of  clay,  ;iio  door 
of  riven  oak  boards  and  the  window  was  covered  •viih  oileil 
paper.  Six  sheep  Avhich  were  nightly  liuused  in  a  joic-pen  to 
protect  them  from,  the  wolves,  and  two  cows,  were  all  ilie  live 
&toek  ho  ha  1^ 

It  w;is  late  that  Now  Year's  afternoon  when  the  family,  eold 
and  tired,  reached  their  new  home  in  the  woods,  but  the  cheer- 
ful bln/e  of  the  open  fire  gave  warmth  to  the  body  and  animation 
to  the  spirits.  The  next  morning  a  moist  and  clinging  snow  of 
six  inches  in  dei)th  clothed  the  trees  and  the  bushi'.^  and  the 
earth  in  a  nnintle  of  white. 

Mr.  Drake  began  a  clearing  at  once,  and  in  tuna  to  plant  tlie 
ensuing  si)ring  a  late  crop  of  corn,  he  had  a  small  field  of  four 
or  five  acres  prc!)arcil,  but  an  early  fall  frost  cut  sh(»rf  his  cro]). 
The  second  year  an  additional  field  was  ready  for  the  hoe. 
Everything  eighteen  inches  in  diameter  as  "higli  as  tlie  knee" 
was  felled,  and  a.ll  brush  and  sticks  ])ilcd  around  th'j  trunks  of 
the  standing  trees  aiul  burned.  Amidst  the  down  logs  eorn  was 
planted  and  cultivated  solely  with  the  hoc.  Mr.  Drak*-  did  his 
"  milling  on  Flat  llock  for  the  first  year  or  two.  Ili.s  grists  ho 
carried  on  horseback,  and  it  re(|uired  two  days  for  him  to  go  and 
return. 

As  an  evidence  of  how  completely  a  pioneer  might  be  .shut  off 
from  the  world  in  those  days,  it  may  bo  mentioned  that  it  was 
just  one  year  to  a  day  after  Mrs.  Susanah  Drake  moved  to  her  new 
home  ere  she  saw  the  face  of  one  of  her  sex. 


— 8  — 

In  tills  place  another  anc-cdotu  charitetoristic  of  tlio  times. 
The  iiolo-pon  in  wiiicli  Mr.  Drake  ni;iiilly  liousuil  lii.s  slicop  to 
l)rotect  tliem  from  the  maraudiuij  wolves,  w:is  built  contiguous  to 
his  cabin.  One  day  during  the  second  year  of  his  residence,  a 
wounded  deer  fleeing  before  a  liuntcr  and  his  close  pursuing  dog, 
lias.st'd  through  ^Ir.  Drake's  clearing  and  finding  an  entrance  to 
the  pt'U  ran  in  for  protection.  Mrs.  Drake  and  the  woman  whose 
fare  she  had  at  last  seen,  Mrs.  Nancy  Young,  investing  the 
animal  in  its  new  <iuarters,  captured  it  and  ere  the  huutcr  came 
up  had  it  transformed  into  a  dressed  venison. 

Gideon  Drake  was  not  a  Presbyterian  but  a  Methodist;  never- 
theless he  belonged  to  this  neighborliood.  lie-  took  an  active 
pan  in  the  erection  of  the  first  meeting  house;  he  helped  raise 
all  the  cabins  and  roll  all  the  logs;  he  went  for  the  doctor  for 
Shiloh's  sick  when  occasion  required,  and  he  and  his  wife  helped 
nurse  its  sick  and  bury  its  dead.  lie  took  part  in  the  building 
of  the  Shiloli  school  houses,  and  never  faile«l  at  every  school  to 
furnisli  a  bench  full  of  boys  and  girls.  Ten  children  were  born 
to  him  and  his  good  wife,  seven  sons  and  three  daughters, 
all  of  whom  are  yet  liviiig,  and  I  nyoice  t»>knfrw-that  the-  aged- 
father  and  niotlicr  are  still  in  the  flesh. 

How  dif^ercntrthese  days  from-  tliose!  -  In  those,  famrlre^mov^- 
to  new  countries  in  palace  cars,  and  can  send  houses  ready 
to  be  nailed  together,  tlirough  on  freiglit  trains.  Coun- 
ties arc  settled  up  in  a  season,  and  villages  become  metropolises 
in  a  few  years.  It  was  otherwise  in  Indiana  during  the  times  of 
which  I  write.  A  family  a  year  for  tb.e  first  five  or  six  years 
marked  the  growth  of  Shiloh.  In  1831  Jacob  Young,  a  son  of 
Jesse,  built  a  cabin  on  a  tract  of  Congress  land,  a  half  mile  oa.st 
froni  Gideon  Drake's  cabin.  lie  was  the  one  now  settler  for 
that  year. 

In  1832  Jacob  Banta,  from  Henry  county,  Kentucky,  consti- 
tuted  that  year's  accession.  He  came  in  the  early  part  of  Sep- 
tember to  this  State  on  a  tour  of  inspection,  and  being  pleased 
with  the  prospect  as  presented  in  this  neighborhood,  bought 
Juseph  Young's  "im])rovement"  and  entering  200  acres  of  land « 
including  the  Y'oung  tract  and  the  tract  on  Avhich  this  church 
house  is  built,  early  in  the  following  October  ho  moved  to  his 
purchase,  and  at  once  added  to  his  home  by  building  an  addi- 
tional and  double  cabin.  Mr.  Y^oung  then  bought  a  tract  in  sec- 
tion thirty,  near  Mr.  Drake's,  which  he  improved  and  lived  upon 
i'or  over  twenty  years. 


Jauol*  Baiita  \v;ts  of  Ilolluiul  ilc.'sccjit..  It  may  bo  iiiK-rc.tiiijL,' 
to  all  ulio  arc  (Ic'SooiKlaiiUs  ofllic  JIolliindcvK  to  kiuAV  ilmf  .it.  tlie 
time  0111'  ancestors  came  to  tliis  country,  iiuiiily  surnanic.-  were 
not  common  to  them.  Every  man  had  liis  own  surname  Avliich 
was  tlic  Christian  name  o'f  his  father.  Thus  the  first  of  the 
Banta  tri])e  to  arrive  in  this  country  was  named  Etikc  Jacob, 
that  is,  Epke  son  of  Jacob.  This  custom  was  adliercd  t./  by  the 
iS'cw  Yoi'k  Dutchmen  for  two  ^'ciiei-atioris,  whoi  they  bc--au  t(j 
assume  family  surnames.  Sometimes  the  place  ^\hc!l^^  ilu:y 
came  suggested  the  surname,  as  for  instance,  Voi-js,  or  the  mure 
correct  form.  Van  Voorhce.s  signifies  "fj'om  before  Ilecs/*  the 
name  of  the  hamlet  in  Holland  whence  the  family  came. 
Whence  the  name  BcDita,  I  do  not  know. 

Epke  Jiicob  (Banta)  came  from  Ilarlingen,  East  Frieshind, 
Holland,  with  his  wife  and  five  sons  to  Kew  ^Vmsterdan;  in  10.')!), 
In  a  few  years  lie  is  found  at  Hackcnsack,  and  in  al-xu  1708 
his  descendant,  Hendrick  Banta,  jr.,  of  the  fourth  geuiMMtion,  is 
one  of  a  colony  tliat  goeii  to  Adams  county,  Pennsylvania,  ami 
ten  years  later  he  .moves  to  JJoonesborough,  Iventucky,  and 
shortly  after  to  Mercer  county,,  and  ultimately  to  Shelby  (•Miinty,, 
near  ricasuerville,  on  the  ""Dutch  tract"  where  he  died,  iji  IhUo, 
aged  eighty-eight  years,  the  father  of  thirteen  sons  and  srx" 
daughters,  nineteen  in  all,  fifteen  of  whom  married  nnd  n-ared 
families.     He  had  10-1  grand  children. 

Jacob  Banta  was  of  the  seventh  generalioii  iVoru  Epke  .farotj, 
the  Frieslander. 

But  let  us  linger  a  little  in  the  dcail  p.-'.st.  Shortly  licibre  the 
war  for  Independence  a  swarm  from  the. Dutch  hive  in  ainl  round 
ab(uit  Hnekensack,  ii\  New  Jersey,  migrated  and,  for  a  scasnn, 
lodged  at  a  place  they  called  Conawago,  in  Adams  county,  !Vn- 
n.sylvania,  close  by  (jcttysburg,  a  place  made  famous  by  one.  of 
the  best  fought  battles  of  the  late  war.  There  they  Ijuil'  n 
church,  a  school  house,  and  ina<le  farms. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  nuiny  of  them  once  nioif  .-netting 
their  faces  to  the  Western  smi,  ultimately  took  up  their  aboih-  in 
Kentucky,  most  of  them  at  the  first  in  Mercer  couniy.  it  is 
doubtless  true  the  origiiial  purjiose  when  they  left  New  Ji-rscy 
was  to  cross  the  mountains  sooner  or  later,  and  it  is  certain  this 
was  accomplished  as  soon  as  it  became  apparent  that  thi;  Ken- 
tucky pioneers,  by  their  numbers,  gave  promise  of  i)rotection 
from  the  Indians.     Doubtless  there  was  more  than  one  migration 


—10  — 

ill  to  Kentucky  from  Coiuiwa^o,  Ijut  ;ill  Avero  coniioctcil  1»y  tics 
of  nationality,  by  a  common  faith  and  most  of  tlicm  were  akin. 
Of  these  old  Conawago  families  that  moved  to  Kentucky,  the 
following  are  familiar  as  household  words  to  all  of  us:  Brewers, 
Brunei's,  Bantas,  Bices,  Bergens,  Carnines,  Coverts,  Dcmarccs, 
Domotts,  Lagranges,  Lists,  Luystcrs,  Monforts,  Shucks,  Smocks, 
Vannuyscs,  A''annrsdolls,  Vandivcr.s,  Voriscs. 

True  to  their  traditions  these  dcsccndents  of  the  Knickerbock- 
ers fo\nulcd  churches,  built  school  houses,  oj)ened  farms,  made 
tan  yards,  constructed  mills,  in  a  word,  practiced  all  sorts  of 
handicraft,  and  thus  did  their  full  share  towards  developing 
their  country.  They  were  not  politicians  in  tlie  modern  sense, 
yet  one  of  them,  Peter  Bruncr;  was  a  member  of  the  first  con- 
stitutional convention  of  Kentucky.  Some  of  them,  as  the 
Dv-marecs  and  tlie  Monforts,  were  of  French  descent,  and  it  is  a 
euvioui-  fact  that  all  the  school  masters,  doctors  and  divines  pro-  ' 
duced  by  these  descendents  of  the  Knickerbockers  for  ahundred 
years,  came  from  the  French  bloo<l.  Three  generations  were 
born  an<idead  before  Frenchman  or  Dutchman  dared  be  a  law- 
yer. Vet,  one  of  their  number  more  than  a  half  century  ago, 
was  honored  by  a  constituency  tliat  liftetl  liim  from  a  township 
magistracy  to  tlie  Circuit  Judge's  bench.  lie  too  was  a  French- 
man by  blood. 

About  the  beginning  of  the  present  century  a  Mercer  county 
colony  moved  into  Shelby  and  lieni-y  counties,  in  Kentucky,  to 
a  tract  <if  land  yet  known  in  the  locality  as  the  ''Dutch  tract," 
a  name  indicating  the  origin  of  its  purchasers. 
■''   Jacob    Banta's   immediate   family   ]ivc<l   near    Pleasurevillc, 
whence  ho  moved  to  this  neighborhood,  ns  we  have  seen  in  the 
.f;ill  of  lS;J-2.     He  w:ts  l)arely  past  his  twenty-first  birthdiiy  at  tlie 
S&i^^stime  of  hh  arrival,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Denmree  before  hermar- 
T^^    riage,  was  not  (|uite  eighteen.     While  yet  in  liis  teens  at  liis  old 
KcJitucky  home  he  had,  as  the  tallest,  broadest  shouldered  and 
best  ])uilt  man  of  his  militia  company,  been  chosen  as  their  Cap- 
tain,    jlis  young   wife   oftener   weighed   under    one    liundrcd 
pounds  than  over. 

The  young  pioneer  entered  with  iceal  upon  his  farm  work,  and 

at  the  end  of  three  years  liad  not  less  than  fifty  acres  under 

fence,  thirty-five  of  v/hich  v/as  in  cultivation.     He  planted  an 

orcliard  that  bore  fruit  for  many  years,  and  ho  sowed  the  first 

^  blue  grass  seed  that  ever  sprouted  into  green  pastures  in  this 


t? 


—  n  — 

^vestcr^  .si<lc  olMolinsoii  counly.  Il  is  not  ^'oiii;^  too  fur  f(»  say, 
that  no  m;in  of  liis  day  had  so  proniising  a  future  in  this  neigh- 
borhood, in  a  •worldly  sense,  as  he;  but  alasi  liow  soon  did  he 
realize  the  truth  of  the  Preacher's  words,  "vanity  of  vanities; 
all  is  vanity  I" 

On  the  ■24th  day  of  November  of  this  year,  1832,  tl.e  first 
marriage  was  celebrated  in  Shiioh  at  the  liome  of  Jcssl-  Vonng. 
Tlioiuas  Titus  and  Mary  Young  were  the  contracting  parties, 
and  Esciuire  James,  from  tlie  Vandivcr  neighborliood,  (nli'tiMted. 
Shortly  after,  the  newly  jnarried  couple  set  up  hou.M-keeping 
over  on  the  extreme  south  side,  but  probabnotly  till  in  the 
spring  of  lH3:j. 

Wc  have  come  now  in  the  progress  of  this  history  to  I'lc  time 
of  the  organization  of  this  church.  In  1824  PrL-sbyterian 
churches  had  been  established  in  Franklin  an.d  (.lixcuwood,. 
For  several  years  Pleasant  Hill,  ns  it  was  then  callvvi,  now 
Hopewell,  had  been  a  preaching  place,  and  the  county  w;'s  visit- 
ed from  time  to  time  by  missionaries  iiealouo  in  their  Master's 
service,  who  let  no  opi)ortunity  slip  to  preach  the  Word  uliere- 
ever  a  hearing  could  be  had,  or  of  visiting-  a  family  v.hcrcvcr- 
one  was  found  professing  the  !*resbyterian  faitii.  .h-s^v  \'nung 
was  a  pronounced  Presbyterian.  Twenty-four  years  iifter  his 
settlement  here,  he  gave  me  as  a  reason  for  moving  n-om  the 
dryer  lands  of  the  Nineveh,  the  evil  iniluences  likely  lo  sur- 
round, his  boys  in  that  vicinity,  and  the  hopeless  outlook  for  a 
church  of  his  choice.  He  Inid  the  faith  to  Ijelicve  that  were  h.e 
to  niakc  a  home  in  the  uidjroken  wilderness,  he  could  iu:ike  his 
home  the  nucleus  of  a  Presbyterian  neighborliood.  'riiinkingns 
he  did  and  hoping  as  he  <lid,  it  is  not  to  be  supposed  that  liis 
family  was  unknown  to  the  missioninies  visiting  Fnudilin  aiul 
Pleasant  Hill  from  time  to  time.  I  have  no  certain  ki.owleilge 
that  any  of  these  niissioruiries  visited  at  his  ca]>in  lirioi-  lo  the 
coming  to  the  county  of  the  ]lev.  David  Monfort,  wliieli  (occur- 
red in  1830,  but  I  have  no  doubt  they  did,  and  if  so,  ir  is  very 
certain  a  sermon  was  preached  at  every  visit.  Thi:  preacher 
may  have  sat  in  the  corner  and  the  family  constituted  !ii,s  only 
congregation,  but  he  would  preacli  the  sermon  ncverthch'ss. 

Little  or  nothiiig  is  known  of  Mr.  Monfort's  dealings  with  the 
families  of  this  neighborhood  prior  to  the  organizatiuii  of  the 
churcli.  James  W.  Young  remembers  that  lie  prenc!i.;d  nt  lils 
father's  house,  but  that  is  all.     He  seems  to  have  known  the 


]'rosi)vic'ri;iii  p(.'(tj)l(',  liowovor,  an  I  wlien  tlio  time  c;nnc  for  the 
i-liurc1i  to  be  or^aiii/eil,  lie  was  present  :vn(I  saw  that  it  Avas 
(jrilerly  June.  / 

Hero  llieii  in  the  i'all  nn832  'were  living;  four  families,  in  two 
<jf  whicli,  Jcsscaml  John  Yonng's,  tlic  heads  of  the  families  were 
menJjcrs  of  Pre^byteriaii  churches,  anJ  in  the  other  iwo,  Joseph 
Young's  anJ  Jacob  Banta's,  a  rrcsbyteri;;n  faitli  was  adhered 
to,  but  there  was  no  churcli  nicnJjcrshi]). 

Un  Indian  Creek,  in  llensly  township,  Avere  three  fimilies  en- 
tcnainiui:  Ib-csbyterian  views — James  "Wylic's,  Peter  Titus'  and 
.luhu  Clark's.  Wylie  w:is  Jesse  Youni^'s  brother-in-law,  and 
1i;mI  c>>me  to  the  country  with  him,  but  never  joined  this  church. 
UhiuK'.tcly  he  went  to  the  Cuuiberlaml  Prcs1)yterians.  Titus 
and  Clark  were  from  Adams  county,  Oliio,  and  liad  been  livinff 
in  llensly  since  IS'!'). 

()n  the  ot'n  (lay  of  October,  lSo2,  accordin;,'  to  the  written 
record,  the  church  was  ori;ani7.cd.  A  computation  shows  the 
day  10  li.u'e  been  Friday,  thou;,di  it  is  due  to  history  to  say  that 
one'"'  who  Avas  present  and  even  remend)crs  the  text  of  the 
preacher,  says  rho  day  w.is  Mondny.  The  Rev.  I'^jtvid  Mohfort- 
in'eaehed    the   ori;-ani/.alion   sermon   from  Hum.  III.  28: 

••Thcri'f.in- wo  <;oiic!i;ili;  ili;U  a  m:iii  i.«  jubtiiled  by  TaiLli  wiUioiU   Uio  ilocils  of  the 


hnv 


I  have  never  hoard  a  reason  i^iven  for  the  or'^ani/.ation  of  the 
church  on  Indian  Cretk  rather  than  in  this  nei^diborhood.  Of 
the  six  ioundatior-  members,. ibur  were  of  tliis  nei,2;hboi-]iood  and 
two  of  ilu-  i'.ulia?!  Creek.  ( )f  tlic  six  nu-mbcrs,  four  were  women 
and  two  men,  and  th.c  men  lived  here.  Jesse  Y'duu'"-  was  the 
Fatlu-r  <d"  Shiloh  tind  stood  at  tlie  front  in  its  organization. 
From  a  statement  in  the  record  describing  the  foundation  mem- 
Viers  as 'M  riunJier  of  jicrsons  fjcsiding  on.  the  Avatcrs  of  Indian 
Creek,"  it  niiglit  lio'ini'ered  that  it  w;is  the  origin;;,!  ])urposc  to 
make  the  Indian  Creek  neighlnu'hood  the  scat  of  the  church 
but  1  cannot  believe  it  to  have  been  so.  Very  soon  after  the 
organi/.atioji  was  enected  the  building  of  ;s,  meeting  house  was 
agitate<l,  and  I  never  heard  tluit  any  other  location  was  talked 
of  than  the  one  adopted.  Wliatever  the  reason  for  effecting  the 
organization  on  Ind!;!n  Crock,  1  cannot  but  tliink  the  i)urpose 
iVom  the  begi'ining  was  to  locate  it  in  Jesse  Y'oung's  immediate 
neighborlu^od. 

The  complete  record  of  organization  is  as  follows:  ' 

''October  Tub,  lSo2.     .\  number  of  persons  residing  on  the 

♦Thoiiius  W.  TitiK. 


—  13  — 

\ViitcM\s  ot'ltidiini  Creole,  in  the  county  of  Joliiison,  ami  Stale  <>:' 
Indiana,  bciii^  iiictfoi-  public  Avoi-.sliiit  niul  fur  llio  purpose  of  Le- 
inij;  organized  into  a  Presl)ytcvjan  churcli,  pursu.-uit  U)  ])i-cvi((i:.- 
uppointniciit  at  the  house  of  James  AVik'V,  a  sermon  nvuh  deliver- 
ed hy  tiie  Rev.  David  ^Moufort,  who,  1jy  re(jne.st,  attcnd.cd  and 
presided;  \v lien  the  followinj^  jiersons  jiresented  re;iular  cenit- 
icates  of  their  former  membership  in  the  Presbyterinn  church,, 
vi/:  Je^Ji-se  Young  and  Margaret  Young,  his  wife,  from  Strait 
Creek,  Ohio;  llebecea  Clark,  from  West  I'nion,  (Jhio;  Haclicl 
Titus  and  Ivaehel  i'uung,  from  tlie  snuie  jdace,  and  John  Youni;, 
frfun  Franklin,  Indiana.  Prayer  having  licuu  olfered.  ii>  Almigbiy 
Cloil  for  !iis  blessing  on  the  occasion,  tlie  alcove  named  jier.-i'!;s 
unanimously  expressed  t<heir  .lesire  to  be  organizedt  into  a  i'r'  >- 
byterian  church,  to  be  placed  under  the  care  of  ti-.e  ]h-es!)ytr!-y 
of  Indianapolis.  It  was  then  unaniraously  resolved  to  proceed 
to  the  electio)i  of  one  Ruling  Elder,  vvhici!  was  ilone  by  balhn: 
when  it  appeared  that  .fosse  Y'^Oiing  wji.s  duly  c-lcc-ed.  Mr. 
-Y'oung  having  signified  his  acceptance  uf  the  appointnu'Ut    wa-. 

■  then  set  aiiart  to  his  office  in  the  manner  ].>rescribed  in  tiie  (Ji.'U- 
fe.«ision  of  Faitit-  ami  (lovennnent  of  the  iVcsbv'tcnafr  chnrc):. 
On  motion  it  was  i-eNolve<l  that  this  cliurch  be  e.iilcil  SIM  iiOil. 
The  meeting  then  closed  with  prayer. 

David  Mo.vfokt,  Moderator  and  Clerk." 
The  church  wa.s  now  organized,  but  it  w.is  nearly  tw(»  yeai> 
before  a  house  of  worship  was  provided.  From  the  record  ic 
appears  there  were  at  least  two  occasiotis  dnri'^g  that  ini-.-rim, 
when  nu'otings  were  held,  once  in  .lunc,  18^:},  and  agaiji  iir 
September  of  the  .same  year.  At  the  first  of  these  meeting- 
Jesse  Young's  three  youngest  children,  J(-natin.n  I'idwr.rd.s, 
'J'honras  AVil.son  and  Newton  Watts,  were  bariri/.ed.  Ar  riip 
second  meeting  Joseph  "li'oung  ami  his  wii'o   and  Thon.as  Tiiu- 

.  and  Mary,  his  wife,  were  admittc<l  into  the  fcllowshi))  of  ilu- 
church,  and  Thonms  Titus  was  ba])tizedc  and  also  his  infant  son, 
Jesse;  and  Jo.siah,  the  infant  son  of  John  and  Rachel  Y'oung, 
and  Nancy  Jane,  Rachel  Eliza  an<l  AVilliam  Moore,  infant  chil- 
rcn  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Y'oung,  likewise  received  tlic  .same  ordi- 
nance. 

At  what  pla<;e  these  meetings  were  held  is  net  now  knowi;. 
Wo  have  seen  that  the  church  was  organized  at  the  house  of 
James  V/ilcy.  It  is  certain  one  or  more  meetings  were  held  a  I 
Peter  Titus' barn.  ,  Thomas  Titus,   still    living,   remembers   to 


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!i:ivo  uiTHiigi'd  .sciits  ill  till.'  Itani  for  Llio  purnnse.  'I'Ihtc  !m  '^oml 
L'viileiice  that  both  Monlui't  and  the  Rev.  Jeremiiih  Iliil  prciich- 
C(l  at  Jesse  Young's,  but  ^vhothel•  before  or  after  the  organization 
is  not  known;  and  it  is  equally  certain  that  Monfort  preached  at 
Jacob  Banra's  and  that  ;i  llev.  Stradlinj,'  preached  at  Serril 
^Vinclle.•^t(•r's,  which  two  last  sermons  wore  !)reached  sonietiuK' 
bctwfcn  the  early  snfiii.Lj  oflS^jo  iind  tlie  suuuner  oriH."34. 

In  1.^:^5,  the  sixth  year  after  the  first  settlement,  witnessed  the 
advent  of  three  new  nei.iilibors,  Serrill  ^Vinchester,  Daniel 
Newkirk  and  Peter  D.  Banta.  Tlie  last  named  is  said  to 
have  come  in  September.  lie  was  from  Henry  county,  Kcn- 
turky,  and  loeated  <in  the  Three  Xntchod  Line  road  on  the  ex- 
treme eastern  edije  of  the  neij^hborhood.  His  wife  was  Joana 
A'oris,  a  sisrev  of  ihe  Peter  A'oris  who  is  to  follow. 

Daniel  Xewkirk  was  an  (Jhioan,  and  settled  on  the  hmd  on 
wliicli  .lesse  \ .  DeUiaree  uuw  lives.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and 
iriiiisuiitu,  and  the  nlies  of  his  n\anufacrure  were  hiijhly  cstecu!- 
i-d  by  the  old  Li;ae-huatcrs.  Iw  lS'^.{j  he  sold  out  to  Gaorge  \V.- 
Dvmaree  and  moved  into  ?»Iori^an  county.  He  was  a  Methodist 
au'd  Y-.-ent  to  a  Merhndisr  nci;ihboi-h<)od. 

JSerrill  Winch.estcr  c.une  in  PY-bruary,  from  the  Nineveh 
seiileraent  where  he  hadi  been  llvintr  a  short  time.  A  yoke  of 
oxeii  ami  one  horse  constituted  the  team  that  hauled  his  house- 
liold  ^in^X  to  the  uniinished  cabin  in  which  the  family  found 
sheltxjv  iu  ihe  bc',nn!iin^'.  The  mother  rode  Lark,  the  horse,  and 
carried  Harvey,  tiie  year  old  oaby,  in  her  arms.  Nancy  and 
Ja'ie  and  William  found  seats  in  the  wagoii.  That  February- 
day  Avas  a  cold  aiul  gloomy  one,  and  in  lieu  of  cloaks  each  of  the 
girls  wore- one  of ''father's  coais."  Tradition  has  lost  sight  of 
JohnYi  whereabouts  on  that  dismal  day,  but  as  "O/t?  Lil,"  ihc 
cow,  constituted  a  part  of  the  cavalcade,  it  stands  to  reason  that 
armed  with  a  good  stick  he  kept  in  the  rear  with  an  eye  single 
to  the  behavior  of  that  cow. 

Let  us  enter  with  the  faniily  and  take  an  inside  view  of  tlioir 
new  home.  The  half  of  the  f.oor  next  the  fire  place  is  of  punch- 
eons and  the  other  half  of  native  earth.  Mr.  Winchester  has' 
lUit  had  tinie  to  split  and  h.ew  the  puncheons  necessary  to  cover 
tliat  other  half,  but  it  will  be  done  in  gooiltime  PI!  warrant  you. 
Tlicre  are  two  doors  to  the  cabin — or  rather  two  openings  for  the 
doors — one  on  tlio  cast  side  and  one  on  the  west,  but  it  has  bden 
about  all  Mr.  Winchester  could  do  to  raise  and  roof  his  now 


];<)i!,s(',  jiiid  jiui  ill  liiilfii  lloor,  Mini  :i.  chi.pboani  loCl,  and  nil  <>n\. 
places  tor  the  two  doors,  so  he  liurriedly  nulls  bcKirds  i.vcr  the 
west  door  while  his  wife  hangs  up  a  quilt  over  the  e;ist  one.  The 
AviiiJows  are  not  yet  cut  out,  but  when  that  is  done  they  will  bo 
covered  with  oiled  paper.  On  the  chi])board  loft  ovoi'Ia-iid,  the 
corn  that  is  to  ninke  the  bread  for  the  family  and  fnrni.sh  ;iii  car 
now  and  tlicn  fur  old  Lu7-li  is  stoix-il,  and  libove  th:it,  []\>-  baccui 
is  huiiir.  There  Is  not  much  in  that  new  ca!)in  to  riicer  the 
hcai'ts  of  its  owners  except  the  children  and  faitli  in  the  I'uture. 
Ah,  this  is  the  day  of  little  thinj^^s — when  the  making  and  hang- 
ing of  a  cabin  door  even,  brought  great  joy  to  an  entire  familyl 
The  forest  grew  a  solid  phalanx  of  trees  up  to  the  very  door  of 
that  calnn,  and  when  the  log  barn  was  erected  some  ioriy  yards 
distant,  it  could  not  be  seen  from  tlie  house.  How  pi-oiid  the 
children  were  wlien  an  avenue  was  cut  tln-ough  tiie  nre.>  and 
iliey  could  sec  the  barn. 

'i'he  Winchesters  have  an  English  [)cd!ifrec.  'J'he  hi-.-'t  of  the 
family  to  set  foot  on  oui-  ^Veste^n  Worhl,  was  JoIju  Windn-stcr, 
who,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  embarking  in  tlie  ship  Eli/al'i-th,  of 
London,  rnK)8"),  landc*fl  irr  the  Province^  of  Massachrrs  ••rs  liay, 
and  settled  at  ILingham.  In  lOAO  he  moved  to  Muildy  iluri,  now 
I)n)okIine,  in  the  same  Province.  One  of  his  grand-soiis,  An- 
drew, emigrated  to  New  London,  in  Connecticut,  about  tJie  close 
of  the  first  third  of  the  eighteenth  ("entury,  wlicre  he  married 
and -established  his  bi-anch  of  the  fasnily.  Ai;out  ITUa  !ii.-  g!-:uid- 
son,  John  'Winchester,  the  father  of  Serrili,  niov-ed  to  \\ir  ihcji 
new  State  of  K^'ntucky,  and  settled  in  Hardin  county,  wiicro 
Serrili,  the  oldest  of  the   nineteen  chiJdrcn,  was  horn   in    1.S04. 

The  year  Indiana  was  admitted  in  the  Union,  young  Serrili 
came  with  his  father  to  Jell'erson  county,  in  tiiis  Stale,  and  set- 
tled not  far  from  the  Jenningscounry  lino.  December  Htli,  1S:24, 
he  was  married  to  Mary  Ann  Miller,  who  was  a  sister  of  the 
Williiun  and  Washington  Miller,  who  subsequently  m.oved  lO  this 
neighborhood.  The  ancestor  of  the  Millers  came  from  Ireland 
to  North  Carolina  in  17G7,  and  in  1816  John  Miller,  hiss^iu  and 
the  father  of  our  Shiloh  Millers  inove<l  to  Kentucky,  and  thence 
at  the  end  of  a  year  to  Jennings  county,  in  this  state. 

In  the- year  of  183;\  William  Young  w.as  married  to  Ximcy  J. 
Iloback,  and  probably  they  began  housekeeping  the  same  year 
on  the  tract  of  land  now  owned  by  Mr.  James  Paris. 

The  next  step  in  the  history  of  Shiloh  brings  us  to  the  time  of 


—  16— 

tlie  buiUlin^'  of  tlic  lui^  uieoling  liouso,  whicli  took  place  after 
the  crops  iiad  been  laid  i)y  in  1834;  but  before  ^vc  take  a  glimpse 
at  that  work,  let  us  see  who  the  builders  are  to  be,  and  consider 
■.)!'  I  hell-  al)ility  to  do  it. 

All  told,  ihvvv  were  ten  lamilies  liviii;^  within  the  boiDids  of 
the  neii^diborhood  at  that  lime,  most  o!"whoin  could  be  de])eiided 
on  to  do  their  level  best  wlii-n  the  timei-anie.  Jesse  Youn,::;  was 
heard  to  say  in  after  ye;;rs  that  there  were  "cicjht  of  the  early 
settk-rs  who  were  rin^r  l<-aders  in  the  work.'' 

Shiloh  was  .>till  in  the  woods,  but  the  facilities  for  vcachini;  it 
wi-re  better  than  when  the  fii'st  two  or  three  families  came.  The 
road  from  Franklin  to  Martinsville  had  l)een  cut  out,  and  also 
the  road  iVom  "Williamsbura'  (Nineveh)  to  Mooresvillc  via  the 
villaj;e  on  White  lliver,  afterwards  known  as  Waverly,  and  so  had 
a  road  lead  in  i,MV(im  that  in  section  twenty-seven,  a  half  mile  or 
less  north  of  the  ])lace  afterwards  known  as  the  John  Forsyth 
Cross  Kuads,  and  runniu<>"  thence  west  on  the  half  section  line  on 
tlie  south  .siile  of  Jncol)  l>anta's  hmd,  and  also  of  Daniel  Now- 
kirL's,  and  thence  northwesterly  i)ast  Gideon  Drake's.  This 
road  had  been  opened  in  IS^H  or  "v52,  but  it  was  vacated  in  ISoo 
or  "'■^H.  For  nnmy  yearn  its  print  was  plainly. to  be  •seen,  aud... 
while  passing  over  a  part  of  it  la.st  fall — fifty  years  after  its  va- 
cation— I  still  saw  evidence  of  its  ancient  use. 

The  tillable  land  of  the  neighborhooil  in   1834  did  not  exceed 

eiirhty  acres,  ami  by  reason   of  the  imjicrfect  natural  drainage 

some  t)f  that  couUl  not  be  relied  on.     It  is  hard  for  us  to  realize 

the  physical  condiition  o\^  the  counlry  in.  tliose  days.     It  ajn)eai'ed 

dillcrcnt    to  the  eye  tlieu  from   what  it  does  now.     Amid  the 

bushes  ami  trees  was  apparently  a  dead  level,  and  in  the  rainy 

.seasons  tlie  wliole  counlry  was  Iloodctl.     Since  the  bush.es  luivc 

been  In-oused  down  and  killed  oil,  a.nd  the    timbered   areas  re- 

tlueed  to  a  few  acres  here  jind  there  of  ojien  woodland,   wc  sec 

wliat  a  beautiful  and  billowy  country  Shiloh   is.     It  is  a  land  of 

alternating  ridges,  knolls  aud   valleys.     On  these    knolls   and 

ridges  tile  nutst  of  tlie  Shiloh  grain  was  grown  for  many  years. 

In  the  valleys  between,  the    weeds    and    grass    of  wet   years 

(and  oh  how  many  wet  years  there  were!)  usually  pushcil  the ' 

corn  to  the  Avail.     There  was  in  the  early  times,   as  you   may 

reailily  ])erccive,  little  or  no  dust  in  Shiloh.     I  remember th:it as  : 

late  as  1S4U  the  dust  that  accumulatc<i  at  certiiin  seasons  in  'the' 

jtiiblic  roads  of  the  neighborhood,  was  an  object  of  considerable 
curio.'jity  to  me. 


How  much  do  you  suppoiic  all  the  propei'ty,  real  aiiJ  posonul, 
of  all  the  Shiloh  settlers  would  have  brought  at  public  auction  in 
1834?  Unimproved  land  was  selling  at  "Congress  price-."'  A 
cabin  added  about  ?20  to  that  pi-ice.  Jacol)  Banta  paid  Jusoph 
Young  S.oO  foi-  his  cabin  Miid  clearing  ol'  five  or  six  acres.  All 
the  lariiiing  in)[)l(!ments  in  tlic  neighborhood  would  hurdly  havi: 
made  a  two  horse  wagon  load.  All  the  furniture  in  tlie  ten  cab- 
ins of  the  neighborhood  did  not  cost  as  much  as  the  furniture  in 
a  Shiloh  farmer's  "best  room"  does  to  day.  Good  work  iiorses 
sold  for  S25  to  S50  each  and  there  were  about  iiftcen  goO(!,  bad 
and  indifferent  in  the  neighljorhood.  Milch  cows  were  worth 
from  S5  to  SIO,  and  one  and  two  year  old  cattle  from  ?:i  to  S5. 
Hogs,  which  were  mostly  running  in  a  half  wild  state  in  the  woods, 
when  killed  and  dressed  could  l)e  sold  for  about  SI. 50  pur  cwt. 

It  is  plain  to  be  seen  the  assessor  would  not  have  fou;.d  any 
considerable  surn  of  taxable  property  .aaong  tlje  Sliilohau.H  of 
1884. 

And  yet  tliese  men  wore  going  to  build  a  meeting  lrm»e. 
How  poor  in  purse  and  yet  how  immeiisurably  rich  in  faiiii  and 
hoj)C  they  were  I  Here  Wits  their  home;  hero  their  childi-en, 
born  and  unborn,  were  to  grow- to  manhood  and  ^vom.'inliood  imd 
a  meeting  house  wa.-,  a  necessity  to  them,  more  of  a.  n'-er^sity 
than  a  mill  or  a  store,  and  there  ^vas  b;it  one  way  to  get  tu^c — 
Inild  it!  And  so  the  work  was  begun.  Contrary  to  what  so 
often  lia[)pens  now-a-days  there  was  no  controversy  ovi-r  ihi!  lo- 
cation of  that  meeting  liouse  iioi-  over  tlie  style  of  urchi'tcture 
to  1)0  adopted,  nor  over  the  proposed  cost.  I  doubt  if  tiier'-  ever 
was  a  Tueeting  hou^e  built,  that  ocea.sioned  less  bickering  among 
the  builders,  or  for  that  matter  brought  more  joy  to  them  when 
finished  than  the  old  Shiloh  one.  No  money  was  si)ent  for  an 
ijligible  site.  I  have  heard  my  mother  say  that  my  fa ihcr  se- 
lected this  beautiful  knoll  on  which  this  house  stands  an'I  yon- 
der dead  are  buried,"  very  soon  after  arriving  at  his  new  !iome 
and  set  it  apart  for  the  ])urposes  to  which  it  has  since  bceii  con- 
secrated. Nor  was  any  money  si)ent  for  nuiterial  save  fhe  lit- 
tle it  took  to  buy  a  few  pounds,  of  nails,  and  tlie  glass  for  tlie 
windows.  I  do  not  suppose  any  suliscription  pajicr  was  handeil 
around  to  raise  even  that  little  ujoney.  I  do  not  know,  but  I 
think  it  probable,  that  deer  skins  and  venison  saddles  were  bar- 
tered for  tliosc  few  jjounds  of  nails  and  the  glass  for  tlie  win- 
d.ows.     The  men  of  Sliiloh   Avere  skillful  with  the  chopping  ax, 


—18— 

tlic  ltr»acl  a.\,  t!ie  niau!  mid  we(!|^%  iho  (roe  and  ilic  w!iii»-iiaw, 
and  tlie  woods  was  full  of  tail  &nd  straight  boiled  bcecltcs, 
maples  and  ask  trees  trich  a  ikir  spriakling  of  straight  grained 
irhite  oaks  s.!id  poplars.  All  the  men  of  Shiloh  had  to  do  in 
order  to  kave  a  meeting  house  was  to  go  into  the  forest  and  eat, 
hew,  split,  rive,  «rS5i|>-saw  acd  hnild — and  they  did  it.  They 
paid  tlic  price  and  the  house  "was  theirs.  We  have  no  written 
reconl  of  the  time  when  the  work  s-as  begun,  Osr  fathers 
were  nmre  cx^scrt  with  tke  haEd-spike  than  with  the  pen.  **It 
«-a>  very  W2,nna  weather"  says  one,  and  **it  was  after  the  crops 
\sere  laid  by*'  says  aaoiiier.  The  hiSt  hoeing  had  been  given 
m  file  cons  j*atckc-s  a^d  the  little  wheat  fii?ids"had  beeii  reaped 
wiih  the  sickle  and  the  strais-  pat  m  the  sh«>ck  asd  SEayhap  the 
jpraisi  fiiaileA  out  before'  the  wsrk  was  began.  Be  this  as  it  may, 
Jesse  Yoniig  sr„,  Serrill  Wfinehesier,  Oideon  Brake^  Jacob 
Baaia,  Jesse  Y©5i2g,  jr,-,  Josepb  YuKng  &nd  peraaf^  cithers  not 
sia^  remeasSsered  feiied  the  trees  fend  t-et  as£«l  secred  the  logs. 
Jaiajies  W.  Y©siEg  tlifia  a  lad  of  sistec-n  s^j%  *''I  helped  liae 
ilsem.'"  J«3;sia!i  DraVc  stsll  yoaiij^r  says,  *•*!  helped  picsk  the 
tr.i>"h  «>i"iMf  navr  iske,"  Johi*  Y?»KRg  -aEd"Thaiaa-*  W,-  Titus 
ke»c<l  the  leg's.  J-aha  Ifarrel!  then  a  yoisng  m^n  asi-d  mzk'mg 
his  home  in  the  neigab«isrlioosl  says;,  '•*r  p«it  as  Sve  or  .sis  days  at 
sfhatevereame  handiest.''' 

When  the  day  for  raisiag  the  hffiisse  eame  rosand  a  ''*g€aei%l 
irivrmiiiGii  iVfij?  ssTi^i  ont/'  siKal  vmunteicT  help  caiae  from  .  al! 
sjiian^rs,  fr*>m  Initaay  Creek^  Stfeit.ls  Creek,  Hcg^sewell  and  Peter 
Ya!id«ver*s  'aeigh^rliesaL  Tkut  sviaE  ^as  eemsM-s^erei!  a  Baeasi 
»mi'  indttHl  ^hii  «"«^a!d  refji^^-  SBiiscalar  aid  on  ssich  &n  aecasiflsa. 
Sernl?  W  i)!sr!)scstfr  c&rrsec!  mn  the  ncsrth-eaist  sorner;,  &f  trac  new 
hMiEsf,  Joseph  Yoassg  s5iie  iiortis-'si'est,  Thi^mas  W.  Titos  the 
sijaih-wt*Ki  :rm!  Johrs  Ysmng  the  somh-esiss.  This  was  the  first 
hfcweni  lag  house  erecJe*!  m  the  ncigLhorhood  and  by  al!  oddsi  the 
most  imposing  ediSee  in  it,  and  in  addition  it  iras  the  Meeim^ 
house  aKd  so,  extra-  care  teas  taken  in  notching  down  the  eoraera 
tis  c'tBie  fiitiijg  joints. 

The  clap-board  r©of  was  uaile*!  on,  which  was  n©t  a  eaiamcs 

thisig  <!one  m  Shiloh  rsor  aBj  where  eha  in  Central  ladiaisa  in 

•  ihiise  «lays.  "      .  ■ 

Jesse  Yoiiag,  jr.,  aiid  Tkossas  W.  Tima  wiiip-sa^-ed!;  the 
-plasaks  'iised  fwr  iioorisig  sjid  eeiling^  for  the  doora  and  door  and 
window  e^Qg  and  the  tomnt^mion  table.     Some  of  that  lumber 


—  19  — 

I  am  told  liius  bcou  worked  irjto   tlio   floor  of  this   house   whioli 
has  tukcn  the  place  of  that  log  one. 

John  Young  says,  *'thc  log  church  was  about  25  feet  wide  by 
30  feet  long,"'  but  it  seems  to  me  its  length  must  have  been 
greater  by  five  feet  than  that.  It,  was  located  a  little  to  the 
south  of  the  one  that  has  taken  its  place  and  like  it,  its  greater 
length  %Ya3  north  and  south.  A  double  <loor  Avas  in  the  middle 
of  each  side  and  one  window  flanked  each  side  of  the  ihnn-s  and 
two  small  windows  were  cut  high  up  in  the  south  end  and  a  lit- 
tle to  each  side  of  the  pulpit.  In  the  north  end  was  the  fire  place, 
with  its  clay  hearth,  and  clay  j-irabs  well  beaten  in,  the  whole 
surmounted  by  a  mud  and  stick  chimney  the  handi-work  of 
Serrill  Winchester. 

The  pulpit  was  a  box  like  structure  standing  on  four  square 
posts  and  made  of  riven  oak  boards  smoothly  shaven  with  the 
drawing  knife.  The  nroacher  mounted  to  his  percli  iti  that 
primitive  pulpit  on  steps  made  by  laying  urwn  each  other  in 
right  order,  logs  that  had  been  sawc-d  out  U>  make  place  for 
doors  and  windows.  .The  seats  were  roufn  whip-sawed  {>lank.^ 
laiti  or>  log  tresdes.  Tim  eeiilug  -  wjo*- made  by  laying  loost^ 
planks  on  the  joists.  In  after  years  this  ceiling  wjis  properly 
done  and  plain  though  comfort-ible  seat;  were  mad'-.  Tlie 
communion  table,  a  plain  deal  tabie  made  of  whip-sawcd  lumber 
when  set  for  sacramentJil  occasions^  exter.chd  from  tlu=  j.Milpit 
more  than  half  way  down  tiie  aisie.  V>'hen  used  it  was  covered 
by  a  clean  white  cloth  and  around  it  all  the  conimunicanTs  were 
seated.  When  not  in  use  it  stood  at  the  south  enil  of  the 
church  on  the  outside.  In  a  few  years  its  use  was  discontinues! 
altogether. 

It  evidently -<Iid  not  take  very  long  to  buihl  that  house,  for  I 
find  from  the  record  that  on  the  30th  day  of  July  the  yoju-of  the 
building,  "The  congregation  of  Shilol.  met  pursuant  to  rioiice  at 
the  meeting  house."  I  think  it  probable  the  work  wtis  begun 
after  the  middle  of  the  month  and  no  doubt  the  "notice"  was 
given  before  the  roof  was  on.  Doubtless  that  first  meeting  was 
held  in  a  house  without  chimney,  without  doors  ami  witulows, 
with  unchlnked  and  undanbe<l  cracks,  without  }>ulpit  and  with 
an  unlaid  floor.  Be  this  as  it  may  Monfort  jireaclitil  and 
.  Joseph  Young  was  elected  to  the  eldership. 

In  1834  there  were  no  accesuions  to  the  neighborhowl    but  in 
the    following    year    two    families,    Peter   -Vori.«!'    and    David 


—  20  — 

« 

Dcniarco's,  moved  in.  The  county  records  sliow  that  on  tlio  20th 
of  March  of  Umt  yc:ir  Jesse  Youn^  who  two  years  before  had 
made  an  entry  in  section  20,  conveyed  to  Mr.  Voris  the  eighty 
aere  tract  originally  patented  by  him  and  on  which  had  been 
erected  the  first  Shiloh  cabin.  Young  moved  out  to  his  new 
houiC  a  few  days  before  Yoris  moved  in. 

-^2m'i'3  °)lil.  ^^'^"^ '^  native  of  Henry  County  Ky.,  whence 
sliortly  after  his  marriage  to  Martlia  List  he  moved  to  this 
county  and  lived  in  the  Hopewell  neighborhood  from  the  fall 
ofl8:VJ  up  to  the  date  of  his  removal  to  this  place.  That  oc- 
curred ill  the  early  spring  and  the  oldest  living  member  of  that 
inmily  ren)om!)ers  with  the  distinctness  of  a  yesterday,  the  wild, 
\w-\vi\  cJatck  cluck  clievuck  -wA  peep  peep  cJiereep  that  went  up 
from  the  woodland  rnaishes  the  first  night  of  their  sojourn  in 
their  now  home. 

Tlic  new  comer  moved  his  househohl  stuff  and  i)robably  a  few 
farming  implements,  and  possibly  a  little  food  for  his  horses  and 
I  have  no  douh:  a  supply  of  bread-stufls  for  his  family,  in  a  four 
I'.or.se  wagon.  The  mother  rode  old  Tan  and  carried  John,  the 
baby,  while-  the  dianghicr  who  was  the  chlest  and  who  still  re- 
!uend)(.'!s  ihe  music  of  the  frogs,  sat  in  the  rear  jmrt  of  the 
wagoii  close  up  to  the  end  gate  by  the  side  of  a  big  earthen  jar, 
with  her  back  to  the  hor.c.es  so  she  could  "look  out  and  see 
mother.' 

The  Vorises  are  of  Dutch  blood.  In  lUOO  Steven  Coirtie  and 
Willenipe  Sucbring,  husbarid  and  wife  with  their  seven  children 
Udt  tlicir  ancestral  home  near  liees  ;i  hamlet  in  Ruinen  and 
coming  to  America  settled  on  I^ong  Island.  They  came  from 
bcfori'  Ilfi's  and  hence  their  (»riginal  name  Van  VoorHees. 

Albert  Stevense  Vooi'-llees  was  the  sixth  of  this  family  of 
children,  and  in  time  became  quite  a  Long  Island  land  holder 
a.iid  a  notlil  brewer.  ()n  his  death  his  children  divided  his 
lands  and  the  sou  bearing  his  name  left  Long  Island  and  went 
to  Hackensack  and  was  the  projenitor  of  numerous  dcKcendants. 
When  the  great  emigration  westward  of  the  Dutch  families  set 
in,  the  llackonsack  Yoorht^eses  were  represented.  Their  names 
ajipear  in  the  church  record  of  Conawago  and  when  the  Dutch- 
men invaded  Keritucky  the  Voorheeses  as  Vorises  were  in  the 
vanguartl.  ■  ^  ■ ' 

Seven  years  have  come  and  gone  since  the   first  family  cajme  • 
to  the  neighborhood  and  during  nil  that  time  not   a    deatli    lias 


oc(;urre(l  in  ;i  .single  Shiloh  c:il;in.  The  nuTi  luid  Wdincn  of 
these  cubin.s  have  boon  suhjectetl  to  all  ni.'uuiiT  of  privalion  :unl 
h;r-(lship;  they  have  felt  that  weariness  df  hotli  body  and  mind 
that  eonics  from  unremitting  toil,  but  so  fur,  their  door  lintels 
liavc  i)ecn  sprinkled  and  the  angel  of  death  hits  paS'sed  them  by. 
In  the  providenee  of  God  this  immunity  no  longer  ean  be.  On 
the  '22nd  of  July,  1835,  a  second  son  is  born  to  Jaeob  and  Sarnh 
Banta  and  on  the  fourth  day  thereafter  the  little  ojie  is  laid  in 
its  little  grave,  the  first  to  be  garnered  in  the  new  ehureh  yard. 

It  is  only  an  infant,  this  first  of  Shiloli's  dead,  and  men  striving 
to  foree  from  reluctant  nature  here  in  the  wilderiK'Ss,  lh(ir  daily 
Ijread,  have  no  allotted  "days  oruU)uriiing"'  to  give  tc;  au  iiii'aut"s 
memory.  "The  Lord  giveth  aiul  the  Lor^l  taketh  away,  blessed 
l;e  the  luune  of  the  Lord,"  said  they  in  grim  earnestness,  and 
the  toiling  went  on.  It  was  tlie  mother  here,  as  it  always  has 
]>een  elsewhere,  and  always  will  he,  who  brooiis  in  silence  and  in 
great  sorrow,  over  the  death  of  the  little  ones. 

In  these  busy  days,  Jaeob  Banta,  with  iii.i  four  horse  team, 
found  ready  employment  at  renumerative  wage*.  Henry  Mus- 
sulman, an  Indian  Creek  merchant,  was  in  pressing  nerd  of  a 
load  of  <lry  goods,  salt,  groceries  ;rml-har(lware,  front  ^!:idis(Mr, 
and  there  was  no  one  but  Jacob  Jjanta  to  go.  Never  h;:d  the 
wagoner  found  it  so  hard  to  leave  homo  before,  llis  young 
wife  clung  to  him  and  sobbed  as  if  her  heart  wouM  iiri-ak. 
Doubtless  she  was  thinking  of  the  little  mound  ur:dcr  the  sitadow 
of  the  oak  trees  at  the  new  meering  house. 

At  the  appointeil  time  the  teamster  returned  and  he  said  he 
was  sick,  :iiul  straightway  went  to  bed.  'i'ho  last  days  of  ins 
journey  had  been  days  of  cold  rains  and  chilliti^  winds.  Xot 
many  hours  passed  by  ere  the  news  of  his  sickness  reaclieil  every 
cabin  in  Shiloh,  and  at  once  men  and  women  went  to  see  \vliat 
tliey  could  do.  Two  men,  .Jesse  Young,  sr.,  and  Gideori  I /rake, 
the  two  oldest  and  most  experienced  men  of  the  TU'ighborliftod, 
))ecame  the  self-appointed  nurses,  whilst  I'eter  Voris,  .S;-i-i-ill 
Winchester,  Joseph  Young  and  all  the  others  lield  thcinselves 
.in  readiness  for  ^iny  .service  at  any  moment.  Doctor  McVuly, 
from  this  side  of  Franklin,  came  to  see  the  sick  man,  an<l  ditl  all 
ho  could  according  to  the  learning  of  the  times.  He  dosed, 
bled  and  blistered  and  blistered,  bled  and  dosed,  but  all  in  vain. 
On  Friday  morning  John  Ilarrell,  a  farm  hand,  went  to  I'eter 
Voris'y  to  thresh  wheat.    The  sick  man  wa.s  not  then  thon«dit  to 


•22  — 

bo  »lan;,'c'nHisly  ill.  At  noon  llarrcll  rotiirncd,  iind  a  cliaii^o 
for  the  worse  li;ul  set  in.  'Uhc  young  wile  who  had  so  recently 
buried  her  second  born  and  is  anxious  concerning  the  fate  of  her 
husband,  nevertheless  remembering  her  first  born  and  only 
living  chiM,  on  Karrell's  return  asks,  "Was  not  David  with 
you'r;' 

'Xo,''  was  his  answer. 
'^'  The  hoy  had  wandered  o.T  early  in  the  day,  and  the  mother 
thoiighL  he  was  with  llarrcll.  Twenty-eight  months  old  and 
lost  in  the  woods  I  Her  husband  in  the  gripe  of  death,  but  on 
hii-  feet  in  spite  of  the  efforts  of  his  two  lusty  nurses,  fighting 
death  with  the  strength  of  a  Sanij^son  I  Think  of  it  and  realize, 
if  you  can,  s<in)ewhat  of  the  sufferings  the  fathers  and  mothers 
endured  who  subdued  the  wilderness  of  Shiloh ! 

The  boy  was  found  the  afternoon  of  tlie  day  he  was  lost  and  a 
little  hitor — just  -as  that  September's  setting  sun  illuminated 
with  a  halo  of  glory  the  leafy  crowns  of  the  tallest  trees  in  the 
surrounding  forest,  Jacob  Banta's  spirit  winged  itsway  to  the 
God  who  gave  it,  and  there  was  one  Shiloh  liome  less! 

Sa<l  was  the   day  to  ShHoh  that  witnessed,  the  procession  of 
mourners  following  the  dead  along  the  little  ruad  that  Wound  in 
and  out  amid  the  beeches  and  maples  and  oaks  andpoplar.s  then- 
growing  Ijctween  yonder  ancient  cabin  site  and  this  church  yard. 

At  the  grave  tiie  hands  of  neighbors  and  friends  reverently 
laid  the  dead  away.  No  minister  was  there  to  speak  words  of 
comfort  to  the  young  widow.  Jesse  Young,  tlie  patriarch  of  the 
scttlen'.ent,  uttered  a  brief  prayer,  and  a  hymn  was  sung,  after 
wliich  sin\ple  service  the  mourning  friends  disperse<l  to  their 
homes. 

It  Wits  a  fever — tlie  malignant  typlius — that  cut  tlie  man  down 
in  tl'.e  pride  of  his  strength,  and  oh  I  how  many  of  Shiloh's  men 
have  been  swept  from  the  earth  in  their  iirime  of  life  I  Go  into 
yonder  church  y:U(l  and  read  the  story  as  told  by  its  tomb 
stones. 

.laeob  l>anta  <lied  September  4,  1835,  aged  25  years. 
.     Is.iae  \'antuiys  died  August  12,  1S44,  ii;j^(i<\  o2  years. 

Veter  1).  ]ianta  died  September  1, 1844,  aged  Vul  years.        ■••:    -; 

David  Dcmaree  died  September  27,  1840,  aged  40  years.   . '      . . 

George  ^V.  Dcmaree  dieil  October  1,  18;')!,  aged  30  years. 

Serrill  Winchester  died  October  1,  lv854,  aged  50 years.       "    ■ 

IV'Ilm-  Voris  ilicd  April  22,  1857,  aged  49  years. 

William  Miller  died  July  11,  1856,  aged  51  years.  ^   '  '/ 

Washington  Miller  died  November  lb,  1808,  aged  53  years.     '    ' 

"^Afi-h&if-^hJ'^d'^  B'^^-^A  -i^n's  -f-i^ts  SS^  &f^^^ 

/(h  ~l-hsi^ri  pet^so^  •'-•  A>«p  t>^j3!s  "f^^  Co^  h^7* 


—  23  — 

Lnmoilialc'iy  Kucccojin^  llio  (lo:ith  of  .I<'i(;r>)>  I'lmtu,  liin  widow 
went  U)  Hopewell,  where  she  was  Boon  joined  \>y  her  niolher, 
Rachel  Demarce,  and  sister,  of  the  same  name,  who  ari'ived  in 
this  State  from  Kentucky  in  the  latter  part  of  October  that 
year,  1835,  and  with  thera  she  abode  at  the  house  of  her  brother, 
Peter  Demaree,  for  a  period  of  about  two  years.  At  the  same 
time  David  Demaree  and  his  Avife  and  two  ehildren,  Harriett 
and  John,  and  Gcorj^e  W.  Demaree,  his  unninrried  brother,  im- 
migrated to  tlie  State,  David  witli  his  family  movin<,'  into  the 
house  so  lately  occupied  by  Jacob  Jiautaj  and  thenceforth  the 
Demaree  name  lias  been  intimately  linked  with  the  fortunes  of 
ihis  nei;^hborbood. 

The  Demaroes  are  of  French  descent.  David  dos  Miirest, 
the  progenitor  of  the  wide  spread  and  numerous  fnmily  in  Amer- 
ica of  Des  Marests,  Demavcsts,  Demorests,  Demarays,  Demarees, 
was,  says  David  D.  Demarest,  D.  D.,  of  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
''a  native  of  Bcaucbamp,  a  little  village  of  Picardy,  in  France, 
about  twenty-two  miles  west  of  the  City  of  Amiens,''  where 
he  was  born  abou.t  1(J20.  Tlie  Des  Marests  were  ILu^'uc- 
nots  in  faith,  and  to  escape  the  fierce  persecution  wa^^etl 
against   his  sect,  Jean  des  Marest,    the    father  of    David   lied 

with  his  fam.Ll3ito  Holland,  which  was  at  the  time  the  J'ro- 
tesiant  asylum,  and  settled  at  Middleburg  in  the  island  of  ^S'a!- 
cheren  in  the  mouth  of  the  Rhine.  Here,  on  the  24tli  of  July, 
l(j4o,  David  des  Marest  was  married  to  Marie  Soliier,  of  Niej)[)!.', 
a  town  of  llainault.  In  1G51  he  mo\od  to  Marinlieim,  a  city  up 
the  llliine,  to  which  the  French  Protestants  were  at  the  time;, 
invited  by  the  elector,  Charles  Lev/is,  to  come  and  make  their 
homes.  Here  he  remained  for  the  s]):ice  of  twelve  years,  when 
the  threatenings  of  the  Catholic  prir-ces  against  his  protector, 
induced  him  to  emigrate  to  America.  Descending  the  lUiinc  to 
Amsterdam,  there  he  and   his   family  embarkefl  in   the  "liontc- 

"coe,"  i.  e.  Spotted  Cow,  and  on  the  Kith  of  April,  MiU-l,  were 
landed  at  New  Amsterdam,  in  the  Now  World.  After  a  resi- 
dence of  two  years  in  Staten  Island,  he  moved  to  New  Harlem, 
the  whole  of  which  he  i)urchased,  says  the  llev.  Theodore  B.  Ko- 
meyn  in  his  "Historical  Discourse"  relating  to  the  llaekensnck 
'•Reformed  (Dutch)  Church."  In  luTT  "he  bought  from  the 
Tappan  Indians  a  large  tract  of  land  lying  betweeri  the  Hacken- 
sack  and  Hudson  rivers,"  to  which  he  moved  the  following  year 
with  his  three  sons,  John,  David  and  Samuel,  with  all  their 
families.    .         .   ..     ■         .  •  '  .. . 


—24  — 

The  Hrs  Murcst  family   was  no   less  prolific  than  the  Dutch  ' 
families  of  its  nci<jhborhoo(I,     Says  Dr.  Romeyn,  "As  fur  back  . 
a>  IS'JO,  one   iuterested  in  this  family,  found,   by  search,  seven  .  • 
ihousaml    names    connected  with  it — branches  of  the   original 
stock. 

The  Dos  Marests  were  as  conservative  as  were  their  more 
stoli<l  Dutch  neighbors.  It  seems  to  have  taken  them  a  long 
time  to  ,L'ivc'  up  their  Frencli  p:'.stors  and  French  modes  of  wor- 
sliip  for  ihc  Dutch,  and  in  the  si.x  Davids  which  once  upon  a 
lime  in  tiiis  very  ncii^hhorhoud,  the  people  .were  compelled  to 
distinjruish  in  urdiunry  convcvsatiou  by  such  desuriptivo  appella- 
tives as  '"Big  Dave,''  "Little  Dave,"  ''David  Nelson,"  "and  the 
like,  we  have  strouLC  proof  of  the  vitality  of  their  veneration  for 
i(.r  their  family. 

^\'heIl  the  liuckeiisack  migration  to  Pennsylvania  took  place, 
Dcs  Marest  families  were  found  with  the  migrants,  and  when 
tlie  sw.rrm  moved  on  to  Kentucky,  as  Demarees.  they  went  along 
and  became  Keutuekiaus. 

L'avid   Deiuaroe   l\a<l    visited  the   neighborhood  in   the  fall  of 

lS-$4,  at  which  rime  lie  h;rd  patented  120  ucreft-iji  Mectioa.S2.An.d 

had  begun  an  imjjrovement  by  making  a  ''deadening."     In  the   ■ 
spring  of  I'SoT   he    purclia.sed    Jolin    Young's   homestead  in  the"*' 
same  seerinu,  at  which   time   Young,   as  we  have  seen,  moved  to 
his  laiul  on  the  creek   and  built  a  mil!,  aiul  moved  his  family  to 
Ids  new  homestead. 

llis  ^<>n,  .JoliD,  who  was  abtntt  i'>nu-  years  of  age  at  the  time 
and  is  wiiii  us  here  to-day,  rcmeiubers  to  liave  Sicai'd  .some'  talk 
ab.out  the  new  chicken  liouse,  in  which  he  vwismore  interested 
ilian  in  the  roof  t]>at  was  to  cover  liis  head.  No  sooner  was  the 
family  at  their  new  home  tlian  he  began  looking  for  ttie  new 
chicken  hou^e,  but  in  vain.  Spice-bushes  and  sj)rout.s  and  sap- 
lings stood  an  impenetrable  wall  of  living  green  close  up  to  the  ■ 
very  door  of  the  cabin  itself,  shutting  ofi"  tlie  view  in  every  di- 
rection.  •'^VheTe  is  the  chicken  house?'  cried  John,  "Come 
with  me,"  sai<i  the  father,  and  he  led  hira  along  a  little  path 
cut  through  the  bushes  lo  the  object  of  hi.s  anxiety.  I  have 
myself  seen  that  chicken  house  long  after  the  surrounding- 
bru.sh  and  tree.^  were  cleared  away,  and  I  do  not  believe  it  wa.-* 
to  exceed  QO  feet  from  the  cabin  door.  .      •  . 

•  David  Demarce's  wife's  maiden  name  was  Margaret  List,  and    • 
she  was  a  sister  to  Marth;r\'oris,  the  wife  of  Peter  Voris.     The 


two  women  wlio  lon^  survived  their  husbands,  are  rciucinhcrcd 
bv  most  of  us  bv  tlie  familiar  names  of  "Aunt  i?cg<i;v'"  and 
"Aunt  Patsv." 


The  year  following  David  Deraaree's  advent,  Isaac  Vannuys, 
another  Kentuclcian,  whose  ancestors  originally,  as  is  sup- 
posed, came  from  the  village  of  Nuys,  in  Groningen,  Holland,  to 
New  Amsterdam  and  thence  to  the  West  with  the  New  Jersey 
colonists  and  who  ha<l  recently  married  EIizal)eth  Johnson,  found 
a  home  amid  the  Shiloh  woods.  It  was  on  the  9th  day  of  Ocio- 
bcr,  1?>'?A'>,  that  he  and  his  wife  came  to  tlie  neigliborhood.  He 
had  recently  entered  a  (juar'tcr  secLion  of  land  in  tliat  famous 
Ijolt  of  oak  timber  over  against  Rock  Lick,  in  whicli  Jesse 
Young  had  herded  his  hogs  Aviton  all  of  I'nion  township  \\;is 
yet  in  the  wilderness.  Not  a  tree  had  been  cut  down  on  the 
Vannuys  land  when  he  came,  but  at  the  end  of  three  weeks  he 
had  a  place  he  called  home.  "We  were  real  glad  to  get  into  a 
cabin  that  was  our  own,"  writes  the  aged  survivor  of  Ins  hard- 
ships, Mrs.  Eli/.abeth  Dunlap,  "although  we  had  no  doors  or 
windows  to  keep  out  the  wrdvcs.  *■•=  ^-  It  was  several  weeks 
that  I  hail  to  make  d.aor  und.  winiuj.w  skatters  out  of  my  quilts." 

Late  of  a  November  evening  the  new  comer  moved  into  his 
cabin,  and  tlie  nert  moiming-hc  wax-c-tcnrielled-to  return  his 
father's  wagon  to  Franklin.  It  had  been  raining  off  and  on  for 
a  month;  the  creeks  were  bank  full  a.nti  "i^ake  George,"  the 
i\ame  by  which  that  great  swam]>  lying  between  the  Vannuys 
homestead  audi  the  main  settlenn-nt  was  known,  was  a  sea  of  wa- 
ler.  It  was  a  dismal  ^VL*dnesday  morning  that  Isaac  Vannuys 
left  his  young  wife  and  bis  baby  boy,  Archie,  alone  in  the  heart 
of  a  strange  wilderness  to  make  that  journey  to  Franklin.  He 
e.x'pected  to  return  the  same  day,  but  v.-hcn  the  night  came  he 
was  not  there.  The  long  night  passo<l  away  arid  the  morning 
sun  arose,  and  yet  the  husband  and  father  had  not  come.  How 
an.xiously  the  young  wife  listened  the  night  through  fur  the 
sound  of  his  coming  1  The  second  day  })assed  and  the  second 
night  and  still  no  tidings.  "Surely  some  calamity  has  l)efallen 
Iftm,"  thought  the  now -til;u'me<i  woman.  "Why  else  should  lie 
stay?"  It  was  more  than  a  mile  to  th«^  nearest  cabin,  and 
"Lake  George"  and  a  pathless  woods  lay  between.  -^Vhat  was 
she  to  do?  "There  was  but  one  thing  1  could  do,"  writes  the 
dear  old  woman,  ".stick  to  my  cabin."  Shut  off  by  swumps  and 
woods  from  neighbors,,  there  was  nought  else  for  her -to  <lo.     At 


— 2S  — 

hi.st  the  lung  suspense  was  cndoil.  At  noon  of  the  third  day  the 
liuslwind,  anxious  :ind  cave  worn,  emerged  from  the  swampy 
ihieketsand  owrc  more  })as.scd  the  doo)-  sill  of  his  new  home. 
From  a  heavy  rain  in  tluvn()rtliern  part  of  the  county,  Young's 
Creek  had  swollen  till  it  was  past  fording,   and  hence  the  delay. 

Early  in  ISod  Peter  Banta,  a  brother  of  the  deceased  Jacob, 
Si'i'.lcd  on  the  i;irni  afti'rwards  owned  by  John  Covert,  on  tluj 
rnnllnes  of  lIopcweM,  and  he  and  his  wife,  Vroiiehy,  and  hi.s 
tlaughter,  Ivaehel,  united  wit!i  this  ehureli,  but  at  the  end  of 
two  years  he  sold  out  and  moved  to  Hopewell.  It  can  hardly  he 
>;iid  ihal  iu;  was  idenliiied  with  this  ueigh'jorhood. 

Ill  \s:\~  William  Mvan.s,  l''ieh!ing  II.  \'(iris  r.nd  Mieajnh  Ihnn- 
iltun  iwund  homes  lu're,  ;ind  Sarah  Jianta  retunu-d  to  her  old 
liome  accom]!anied  by  her  mothei"  and  her  sister.  Evans  arrived 
tit;  the  'lib  uf  April,  moving  d/ireelly  fr>tni  Hopewell.  A  deep 
snow  fell  ihe  night  before  he  set  f«jrth  on  his  journey,  andlVom 
the  tier  work  of  branches  overiiangir.g  the  roa<l  the  sotlden  snow- 
fell  in  sheets  on  the  travelers'  head.s  half  the  tlistanceV)  their 
new  luune.  The  roads  were  "sloppy  and  slijspery,"'  the  mud  was 
dec^p,  and  the  whole  day  wa.s  consumed  gomg-from-rheir  Hopcweli 
to  their  Shiloh  home,  a  dist.-incc  of  less  than  nine  niiles.  Mr.s- 
E\Tins  volunteered  to  hel[i  start  the  cows  on  the  nnirch,  but 
found  no  disetiarge  from  duty  \mtil  the  journey  wa.s  ended.  She 
walke<l  the  eiitii-e  distance  und  was  often  over  shoe-roj)  deep  in 
n^ud  and  water, 

Tlie  family  n\oved  into  ;.  cabin  foruKrly  erected  by  Jordan 
Winehcster,  on  land  now  owned  by  ilonry  Demaree,  but  Field- 
ing U.  Voris  purchasing  -the  land  the  sauio  S}U-ing  moved  rio-lit 
u\  when  Evans  rented  a  small  cabin  at  a  jjlaee  since'  known  as 
the  Cross  Ivoads,  near  the  nuuuh  of  Koot/.'s  Fork,  in  which  he 
lived  until  he  could  build  on  his  own  land,  which  he  did  durin" 
the  following  summer.  It  is  rememberijd  that  he  planted  iin 
-orehanl  the  first  thing  and  had  his  fruit  trees  growing  before  ho 
cleaved  of^'  the  native  woo<ls. 

William  Ev.-vns  was  a  North  Carolinian  by  Inrtli,  and  moved 
to  Green  County,  Tennessee,  with  Ids  father  while  yet  a  sm.all 
boy.  About  the  time  Im  reached  his  majority  lie  canie  to  John- 
son OouTity  imd  jsubsequentiy  m:u-ried  Mrs.  Catharine  "White- 
luic'k,  a  widow,  whose  maiden  name  was  Vandjver,  a  Kentucky 
woman  of  New  York  Dutch  descent.  • 

In    the    summer    of   18-U,    Micajah    Hamilton,    of  Mercer 

INBLCVil  STATE XtBR ART  .'.,.•  •- 


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County,  Kentucky,  came  to  this  county,  and  being  pleased  wh\\ 
the  outlook,  entered  240  acres  in  section  2G,  and  ininu'(liately 
moved  liis  r;niiily  out,  hut  not  to  his  new  piirelui.se.  This  did  not. 
take  i)lace  till  sometiine  in  1SH7,  at  whieh  time  tlie  Hamilton 
family  became  identified  with  this  neigliborhood.  Micajah 
Hamilton  was  of  English  extraction  and  a  Virgiiiian  by  birth, 
roming  from  near  Fredericksburg,  on  the  Ilapitahannock,  to 
Mereer  Comity  while  a  boy..  Hlw  c;irly  life  Wiis  iiii  eveiitfu!  (inc. 
His  father  dying  soon  after  reaching  Kentucky,  lie  was  thrown 
upon  his  own  resources,  and  while  yet  in  his  teens,  becauie  a 
wagoner,  driving  a  six-horse  trader's  t(;am  over  the  mountains 
as  occasion  I'cijuii'eil  to  the  pi'inciijnl  iSonthei'n  inland  cit!'..'s.  !Iis 
v/ifo  was  Eiizal)eth  Luyster,  anoll'^cr  descendeut  of  tbe  New 
York  ])utchmcn,  whom  he  mai-ricd  in  his  old  Ken.tueky  home 
ere  he  came  to  this  Slate. 

That  vear  of  18:>7  witnessed  the  advent  ?d'siill  another  fiunily, 
Jolm  Shuck's,  wiiich  arrived  in  November.  He  had  nnide  his 
entry  of  land  as  early  as  March,  18o.">,  and  in  the  year  ho 
moved  he  engaged  Jesse  iinu  James  Young,  sons  '.*f  Jesse  Young, 
sn,  to  build  the  cabin  so  well  remembered  by  ?nany  of  us.  A 
good  four-liorse  team  hauled  tlie  family  and  their  personal  goods 
from  Henry  County  in  Kentuuky,  and.  it  is  remembered  that 
Sugar  Creek,  in  tiiis  county,  could  be  crossed  by  tiiat  wagon 
ordy  by  ferrying. 

John  Shuck  was  a  dcscendent  of  a  Virginia  family  that 
moved  to  Kentucky  in  the  early  <lay.  Hi.s  wife,  C;itbarine  Yo- 
vis,  was  a  niece  of  Peter  V^oris. 

The  following  year,  lHr>8,  (larrett  Ditrnars  moved  to  the  neigh- 
borhood. He  was  New  Jersey  borti  and  so  .was  his  wife,  Saraii 
Verbryke,  both  of  whom,  as  tlieir  names  indicate,  were  of  Durch 
descent.  In  1880  they  nioved  from  Somer.sct  County,  New  Jer- 
sey, to  Warren  County,  Ohio,  where  they  remained  ui)  to  IH-lij, 
when  they  moved  to  this  county  and  lived  in  the  vicinity  of 
Fvank^.ln  for  a  ])eriod  of  two  years,  and  then  came  to  tiiis 
neighborhood.  It  was  a  distnal  snowy  day  in  February  that  wit- 
iTessed  their  departure  for  their  new  home.  CcorgcW.  Bergen 
and  Zcbulon  Wallace  drove  the  wagons  that  hauled  the  family 
and  the  household  goods' to  this  neighborhood.  By  noon  of  that 
dismal  day  the  liouse  of  Peter  Bergen,  of  Hopewell,  was  reached 
and  as  an  instance  of  the  hospitality  of  the  times,  it  may  be 
stated  that  Mr.  Bergen  stopped  t]»e  movers  and  ha<l  them  in  to 


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ilinner.  Peter  and  Cornelius,  two  of  the  Ditmars  boj-s,  drove  the 
little  herd  of  cuttle,  and  it  is  remembered  tliat  while  the  boys 
tarried  at  the  Borgeii  table,  tlie  herd  took  the  hack  track  for 
Franklin.  William  Covert,  Mr.  Bergen's  son-in-law,  volun- 
.  toerc'd  to  head  oil"  the  errant  cattle,  and  in  due  time  returned 
wiili  them  t()  the  «-omi)nny,  by  wliich  time  the  boys  had  finished 
tho  dinner  and  were  ready  to  resume  their  march.    . 

From  Mr.  Bergen's  on  to  the  Ditmars  place  there  was  no  road, 
but  Mr.  Covert  knowing  the  country,  piloted  the  teams  through 
10  tlieir  new  home.  Here  a  small  c;ibln  had  been  erected  by 
some  one  chiiminj^  under  a  lease,  and  into  this  cabin  the  family 
moved  and  began  life  in  Shiloli. 

Wc  have  .seen  that  George  W.  Demaree,  an  unmarried  man, 
came  to  the  neighborhood  in  the  fall  of  183").  In  this  year  of 
1S;>S,  on  the  2oili  of  January,  he  and  Sarah  W,  Young  were 
married,  and  at  once  set  up  housekeeping  in  the  old  Ncwkirk 
cabin  which  stood  amidst  a  little  grove  of  beeches  on  the  noi-th 
side  of  the  road  that  yet  passes  through  the  old  farm. 

In  ISoH- Aaron  Monforr,  another  Kentuekian,  ^f  -  Frenelt- 
Knickerbocker  origin,  whose  wife  was  a  sister  of  that  Elizabeth 
Vannuys  who  held  "watch  and  ward  so  long  in  the  cai)in  await- 
ing the  re'turn  of  her  husband  as  narrated  above,  nioved  to  the 
neighborhoo<l  atul  settled  immediately  east  of  Serrill  Winches- 
ter's place,  on  an  improvement  begun  by  William  Kepheart. 

William  Young  having  sold  his  little  farm  In  1889  to  his 
brother,  Jesse  Young,  jr.,  on  the  iOtli  of  May,  1840,  tlie  latter 
was  n\arrietl  to  Sarah  Banta,  widow,  and  shortly  after  thev 
movxMl  to  their  home,  where  they  continued  to  reside  up  to  tlie 
fall  of  1S.V2,  save  a  .short  interval  during  the  last  sickness  of 
Grand  Mother  Demareejn  the  fall  and  winter  of  184(>-7,  wlien 
they  lived  with  her  on  Jacob  Banta's  old  farm.  Theirs  was 
^he  one  family  of  thisyear.    , 

In  1841  DavidJ/^jJ3anai^^  in,  ami  James  Park  and  Eliz- 

abeth Young  were  married,  and  set  up  housekeeping  on  tho 
conhnes  of  the  neighborhood;  in  184*2  Zebulon  Walhice  and 
Washington  Miller  oamc,  and  about_  thisyear  Peter  L.  Hamil- 
ton having  nnirried  Elizabeth  Dollins  m.ade  an  additional  familv. 
Early  in  1842,  Henry  Demaree,  a  young  man  from  Henry 
County,  Kentucky,  came  to  the  neighborhood,  and  afterwards  ' 
on  the  oth  day  of  February,  1846,  married  Nancy  S.  Winches- 
ter, and  thus  another  family  was  added.     The  ."Uime  your  Wil- 


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liara  T.  Shuck,  another  Ilcnry  County  Kcntuckian,  having 
married  Susan  Demarcc,  made  a  settlement  here  and  in  ]H;j1  John 
M.  Winchester  and  ILarrietB.,  (hxugliter  of  David  Denniree, 
deceased,  were  married  and  foun(hMl  another  Shih)Ii  home. 

The  len.i^'th  to  ^vhieh  this  sketch  lias  already  been  drawn, 
warns  me  to  make  jjreparation  fur  its  ending',  and  so  here  let 
these  family  histories  terminate,  and  let  the  year  1S.')()  he  one  at 
which  to  stop  for  a  moment  and  take  a  brief  look  1)ack  over 
Shiloh's  past.  It  has  been  22  years  since  the  nei;,diborhuod  was 
founded  and  18  since  the  church  was  orj^anized  and  10  since  the 
old  lo<^  church  was  built.  Six  heads  of  families  have  died  in  the 
meantime,  viz.  Jacob  ]>aiita  Sejitember  4th,  IS^ij,  Mrs.  Mari^arct 
Youui?,  wife  of  Jesse  Young,  sr.,  August  12th,  1(S40,  J*eter  I). 
]janta  September  1st,  1844,  Isaac  Yaiinnys  August  12th,  the 
same  year,  and  David  Dcmaree  September  27i!),  IS-lil.  Four 
families  have  moved  to  newer  westei'ii  countries,  Joliu  Young'.s 
and  Thomas  Titus's  in  IS;]!),  Jesse  Young's  in  lfS41,  and  Aarun 
JMonfort's  in  184o.  All  these  went  to  Illinois,  but  Jesse  Young 
returned  at  the  end  .oftwo- .ycar.s  to  the  oltl  neighburkood^..  1il.. 
1S52  he  again  removed,  and  in  IHoG  died  at  the  residence  of  his 
grand-son,  the  ][nn.  Josi.ih  T.  Young;  in  Monroe  county,  lowu.  ■ 

In  this  year  of  1850  I  call  to  mind  22  families  of  the  neigh- 
borhood who  were  identified  with  it  by  chu!-ch  relationship,  the 
heads  of  which  were  as  follows:  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Vanniiys,  Mvs. 
Joanna  Eanta,  Micajah  Hamilton,  Peter  L.  Hamilton,  John 
.Sliuck,  Garret  Ditinars,  Peter  Voris,  Serrill  AV  inch  ester,  Hen- 
ry Demareo,  Grand  Mother  Demaree,  Jesse  Young,  jr.,  George 
W.  Demaree,  Mrs.  Nargaret  Demaree,  Washington  Miller,  Wil- 
liain  Miller,  William  Evans,  Joseph  Young,  Jaines  W.  Young, 
J.  Edw-(irds  Y'oung,  Jesse  Y'oung,  sr.,  James  W.  I'a.rk  ami  David 
V.  Demaree. 

An  examination  of  the  Church  recor<ls  discloses  that  from 
1832,  the  year  of  the- organization,  up  to  1840,  41  persons  united 
with  the  Church  ;  from  1840  to  1850,  40  persons  ;  from  1850  to 
18Gt),  79  persons;  .from  18G0  to  1870,  38  persons,  an<l  from  1870 
to  1880,  37  persons — 235  in  all ;  from  Avliich  statistics  we  learn 
that  the  growth  of  the  Church  culminated  during  the  decade 
from  1850  to  1860.  During  that  interval  the  losses  from  deaths 
and  removals  were  many.  Garret  Ditmars,  Grand  Mother 
Demaree,  Judge  Peter  Voris,  George  W.  Demaree,  Washington 
Miller,  William  Miller  and  Serrill  Winchester,  all  died,  and  Jo- 


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seph  Young,  Jesse  Young,  sr.,  and  Jesse  Young,  jr.,  James  W. 
Young,  Jonathan  Edwards  Young  and  David  V.  Demarce,  all 
moved  aAvay — a  loss  of  seven  heads  of  families  enumerated  as 
heiongingto  the  neighborhood  in  1850,  by  death,  and  of  six  fam- 
ilies by  reiuov:il. 

It  was  during  this  decade  the  old  log  meeting  liouse  Avas  re- 
moved and  the  present  commodious  and  tasteful  frame  structure 
^•reetedin  its  stead.  Tlie  old  meeting  house  liad  undergone  some 
changei?  in  liie  meantime.  For  several  years  it  went  without  re- 
pairs, and  with  the  rude  seating  already  indicated,  but  during  the 
V.  inter  season  of  about  1842-3  the  men  of  Shiloh  came  forth  and 
under  the  leadership  of  Isaac  ^'anuuys  as  head  carpenter,  it 
was  comfortably  seated  and  properly  ceiled. 

It  was  about  tliis  time  the  first  real  controversy  ever  arose  be- 
tween the  old  Shilohans.  The  distuibing  question  was  one  of 
Stove  or  no  Stove.  Tb.c  radicals  v^-unled  a  stove  while  the  con- 
servatives mantaiued  that  the  stove  was  an  abomination,  and 
clamored  for  the  retention  of  the  old  fire-place.  But,  liappily 
for  the  ])eace  of  the  Church,  the  spirit  of  compromise  ultimately 
prevailed,  and  while  the  genial  oi)en  fire  hehf  its  place  at  the 
north  Qm\,  a  plain  old  fashioned  box-shaped  stove  was  allowed 
10  sneak  into  the  aisle  well  up  tow;jrds  the  pulpit.  I  have  it 
from"  good  authority  that  Peter  Voris  i)resided  over  the  meeting 
which  settled  that  momentous  question,  and  notwithstanding 
Grand  Mother  Demaree  and  Sarah  Banta  each  proposed  to  con- 
tribute ?o  with  wbach  to  purchase  tl;e  new  stove  and  Serrill 
Winchester  agreed  to  haul  it  fvoni  Madison  free  of  charge,  the 
vote  stood  six  for  and  six  against,  and  it  required  the  casting 
vote  of  the  chairman  to  {locid.e  the  proposition.  That  vote  was 
given  in  favor  of  the  stove,  and  the  two  wi<lows  contributing'  as 
ihey  had  agreed,  Serrtll  Winchester  made  his  word  good  and 
the  first  stove  was  set  up  in  Shiloh.  Tliat  old  stove,  rough  in 
exterior  as  I  remember  it,  gave  such  good  satisfaction,  that  later 
on  and  after  the  second  mud-aml-.stick  chimney  liad  .succumbed 
to  the  elements,  the  open  fire-place  was  turned  into  a  double 
door  and  the  side  doors  were  closed,  and  all  to  the  satisfaction  ■ 
of  the  entire  congregation. 

In  this  hasty  sketch  of  the  making  of  a  neighborhood,  how 
much  we  must  pass  by  and  leave  untouched  I  What  think  you 
these  Shiloh  fathers  and  mothers  of  ours  were  doing  these  early 
years  of  the  neighborhood's  history?    They  wore  not  .spending 


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tlieir  (lays  in  idleness  nor  in  unprofitable  toil.  Look  abroiid  at 
your  fields  of  growinj,'  ^vhcat  and  of  sprouting  corn,  and  your 
pastures  rank  witli  green  grass,  and  tell  me  whence  they  came  '( 
I  cannot  stop  to  repeat  the  old  story  of  manual  toil  and  of  pliys- 
jcnl  hardship  and  material  growth.  It  would  be  simply  a  repe- 
tition of  the  story  of  that  which  has  been  done  and  been  en- 
dured, and  has  followed  in  som.e  soi-t  in  every  neighborhood  in 
in  Central  Indiana.  Let  us  turn  rather,  for  a  few  moments, 
and  contemplate  the  mental  and  moral  aspects  of  ihc  communi- 
ty's early  liistory. 

Tlic  Shiloli  i)ionccrs  wxre  limited  in  tiioir  bock  learning. 
"Witli  one  or  two  oxcoptiuns  tlicy  were  men  whose  schooling  ii.ul 
been  compressed  within  a  few  weeks,  or  at  most  a  few  winter 
niontlis  in  some  country  schoid.  Mon  and  women  all,  could  rc-ail 
and  write,  and  the  men  cii)hcr  after  a  fiusiiion.  George  W, 
Dcnnirec  had  been  favored  witli  a.  few  niontiisat  6ome  Kentucky 
academy  in  his  youth,  and  had  a  tolerable  knowledge  of  geog- 
raphy and  English  gramnmr.  Up  to  the  comiiig  of  Davi<l  Y. 
Demaree,  his  nephew,  he  was  the  best  book  sch'jlar  in  the 
neighborhood.  The  nephew  was  a  good  English  scliohir,  and 
had  studied  the  Latin  and  Greek  gr.ininmrs.  Waslungton  M'll- 
ler,  Avhen  he  came  a  few  years  later  still,  brouglit  with  him  the 
rudiments  of  a  good  English  education,  and  for  many  winters 
in  succession,  he  taught  the  youiig  Sniloh  idea  how  to  shoot. 

Jesse  Young,  sr.,  was  a  man  of  extensive  inforiiiation.  lie 
was  well  read  in  Edwarsian  theology,  and  had  been  a  close  ob- 
server of  American  political  history  a'most  from  the  time  of  the 
adoption  of  the  Federal  Constitution.  lie  must  have  had  some 
taste  for  lighter  literature  also,  for  I  remember  tliat  lie  was  a 
great  admirer  of  the  poetry  of  Sir  Edward  Young  whose  "Night 
Thoughts"  he  had  at  his  tongue's  end.  Jesse  Young  was  an  en- 
tertaining conversationalist,  an<l  was  much  given  to  the  adorn- 
ment of  his  discourse  with  quotations  from   his  favorite  author. 

Let  me  take  you  into  the  primitive  Shiloh  cal)ins  an<Is]iowyou 
the  books  these  people  had  to  read.  Of  course  we  will  find  a  bible 
and  a  hymn  book  in  every  one,  and  of  all  the  books  in  the  neigli- 
borhood  it  is  certain  none  are  perused  so  much  as  they.  lie- 
ginning  at  the  west  end  of  the  neighborhood  let  us  call  at  Gideon 
Drake's,  the  Methodist.  Here  we  find  two  books,  nay,  three, 
Horry's  Life  of  Marion,  a  book  of  religious  poetry,  and  the  book 
of  Discipline.     IIow  often  in  my  youthful  years   have  I  been 


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wrought  up  over  tlic  liair  breadth  escapes  and  shed  teard  over 
the  de::th  scenes  narrated  in  that  glorious  old  history  of  General 
Francis  Marion.  Joseph  Young,  Drake's  neighbor,  owns  Trum- 
bull's History  of  the  Indian.*,  a  little  "Life  of  Alexander  Selkirk," 
and  the  '*01ivc  Branch,"  the  last  a  political  farrago  belonging  to 
the  early  part  of  our  century.  On  a  little  shelf  over  David 
Deinaree's  cabin  door,  we  find  the  "Gomprchcnsive  Commen- 
tary," a  set  of  books  whose  jiicturcs  were  the  only  interesting 
features  to  uie,  when  a  boy,  I  must  confess;  but  by  tlieir  side  are 
two  other-s  the  reading  of  which  is  a  fascination.  These  arc 
'*\Ve.-teni  Adventure''  by  John  A.  McClung,  and  an  illustrated 
work  on  Natural  History.  A  sermon  book  or  two  and  a  Con- 
fession of  Faith  completes  the  list,  but  some  of  you  can  easily 
understand,  I  am  spiito  sure,  how  a  Sliiloh  boy  of  forty  years  ago 
would  prize  an  Indian  book  full  of  good  scalping  stories,  far 
above  a  Confession  of  Faith  with  a  good  book  of  sermons  thrown 
its.  From  David  Demarcc's  let  us  go  to  his  brother  Gcor^-c's. 
where  we  will  find  a  cherry-wood  book  case,  the  only  furniture 
of  the  kind  in  the  neighborhood.  All  the  other  book  cases  are 
sjwtrfs  above  the  cabin  doors  madc.b}'  s:iwing_  out  an  extra  lo». 
This  was  a  feature  <iuite  common  to  the  Indiana  cabins  in  early 
days.  George  W.  Dcmaree's  book  case  occupies  a  site  on  top 
of  the  high  bureau  in  the  spare  roous,  and.  it  holds  a  set  of  the 
Comprehensive  Commentaries.  Buck's  Bible  Dictionary,  the  life 
of  the  Uev.  William  Tcncnt,  Kirkh:im\s  English  Grammar  and 
a  Woodbridije's  Geography  and  an  athis.  At  Grand-mother  Dem- 
arcc's cabin  we  fin.u  all  of  Joan  liuiiyan's  works  except  the  very 
two  a  boy  would  have  deemed  worth  reading — the  Pilgrim's  Pro- 
gress and  the  Holy  War.  Here  also  was  a  sermon  book  or  two 
an.d  a  few  religious  pamphlets.  Jesse  Young,  sr.,  had  on  the. 
same  sholfwith  his  "Edwards  on  the  Will"  and  his  "Edwards  on 
iledcmption,"  and  his  "Night  Thoughts"  and  his  Erskine's  ser- 
mons, numerous  political  pamphlets.  Micajah  Hamilton  we  find 
with  a  copy  of  the  Pilgrim's  Progres.s  I  know,  for  a  persual  of 
it  away  back  in  that  dead  past  of  which  I  urn  speaking,  gave  mo 
my  first  knowledge  of  that  ever  fresh  and  incomparable  spiritual 
allegory.  I  am  not  sure,  but  I  think  a  peep  in  Peter  "Voris'-. 
cabin  would  bring  to  vieW  a  copy  of  the  Statutes  of  1838;  at  any, 
rate  of  1S43.  John  Shuck  is  the  neighborhood  chimney  corner 
lawyer,  while  Peter  Yorisit  its  jurist.  All  legal  questions  are 
submitted  to  him  and  so s;itisfactorily  does  he  answer,  that  he  is- 


—  33  — 

at   last    Ea:Mle   a  jusiice  of  the  peace  for  llie  township  and 

iiltimatcly  in  ISsl  is  elected  to  the  oSce  of  Probate  Judge  for 

his  coimlhr. 

A  few  sermon  books  tre  may  bavc  missed  Ik  oar  visit  to  the 
Sbiiob  cabins  and  mayhap  a  feir  oM  do«;-eaFcd  school  books  and 
possibly  a  goml  many  pampMets  but  I  think  ■«re  hare  seen  the 

major  part  of  the  SHiiloh  books  and  Icavan.^  r*ut  the  bibles  and 
hymia  books  and  tiic  t?*-©  sets  of  eftimaientarics,  it  is  crislent  tlsat 
a  bmshcl  basket  wonld  c:irry  the  Iwt.  What  a  dr&iiy  'K-:iste  to  a 
Wy  "wrh®  hungered  and  thisste«I  for  tales  ©?  adrerstnre  W  Eoo.-! 
:md  by  €ehl!  And  how  sosne  f^i  ms  wlm  were  youHjjstcrs  tisesij 
m  sheer  desperation  vre^l  to  ws,f  wkh  tlic?  Ol?ITes!bimeRtIscrof"S, 
Iight5n«:  m'Qt  "srith  thens  their  blooslr  !>attles  aa«!  with  Sj-  John 
oitit  Patmos  seeinj;  his  visioiss  as  recfirJie^l  m  the  Aisoeaiyj^sc  atsd 
hcisriRg  the  slioat  of  liis  **&ar  ansd  twej^tj  rlslery.** 

There  '^•as  u«t  a  "s^'ork  of  lictmis  ?e  a5i  Shslfth  I  verily  hvlieve 
save  old  Jahrz  BsiEjaia's,  far  sesrly  j>r  ?|5iite  twefsty  j'ears  afier 
the  SrsI;  eabiri'^sas  built.  If  tlsere  !i.ad  !iC€-ai  I  3!»  ctmte  ssire  I 
woeM  hare  foaind  it>  T!ie  ssavel  \irns  r;eTer  t»I'i"2d.  abo«it  even, 
save  when  is  was  deemed  acccss.'irj  tsj  iilter  Witrssiags  ajeainst  ii. 
in  the  sssjEie  masmer  as  waraisii,*^;  wtr^  isttcreiil  jsgsaiu^t  prsfaioe 
swc:tring,  dancijj«j5  drssMkness  tnid  Qti-ser  kiRelre-i  vit-es.  For 
twenty  jenTs  I  dwsibt  if  a  rannd  ossla  ^"ks  sis'®™  iia  the  I^osesIs  <tf 
the  nei,?j!iib©rho©4l  and  I  know  there  was  iso  ?kncin^,  ^ras  ?ja 
!i,^htin«j  and  ara  s|iai!te  snrc  a  «!ra.ns  "isf  i^itfesJi-titiR^^  liqiiiior  ts^is  ssssj.. 
tsikea;;  cert;iii«?ly  not  by  a  SlailahaEj,  Sseh  'sras  tlae  state  ©f  fs^fss^i^s 
Im.  ancient  Sluloh ! 

Nffltwithsfc^ndiBj;  the  fiercenes*  of  xIk-  h-sttle  f«>wght  by  mir 
fsLllw-rs  here  m  the  wilderssess  is^i  iae!»5s!f  «if  fii!es«55i»!vf«i  ;?nd  fa?ni- 
lics,  they  alw56}i"s  lissd  thne  fifr  iiidi«;i«8MS  jsjiBmsvrKH'JSt  nF.d  on 
occjision  tarnesl  aside  for  mentaL  Armmisii?  mr  earFicsfc  recol- 
lections is  ene,  presenting  thcmer:  rmd  l««ys  ^f  ShiiT>h  seated  in 
a  semi-circle  around  the  amjde  lire  |4aee  in  dse  old  teg  chnrch 
cnga«jcd  in  the  stmly  of  g:eogTnii.ph3'.  LaMj^h  sf  yon  wi!l,  hut  ihat 
old  geog:ra,phy  school,  was  made  a  serioMs  business  by  men  who 
tamd«jcd  from  tSiC  extreme  quarters  of  the  itcii^hberhood  afiter 
the  day's  work  wna  done  to  attend  it.  I  do  Xiot  know  what  may 
have  been  the  experience  of  others,  bnt  as  for  nsyself,  elemen- 
tary geographical  knowledge  was  there  acqaared  ssfhich  has  stood 
me  a  good  turn  ever  since,  and  I  cannot  bnt  think  sncfe  progress 
in  the  knowledge  of  the  science  was  made  by  the  men,  as  more 


—  34  — 

than  compensated  them  for  their  loss  in   that   particular   from 
lack  of  early  training. 

Subseijuently  David  V.  Demaree  gave  lessons  to  the  old 
Shilohaiis  in  English  grammar  in  the  ohl  log  church,  but  their 
greatest  school  Avas  their  school  of  polemics.  Who  of  the  older 
generation  that  does  not  remember  the  Shiloh  debates  ?  The 
Shiloh  Debating  Society  had  its  constitution  and  by-laNvs  and 
was  conducted  according  to  the  Pauline  precept  "in  decency 
and  order."  Questions  springing  out  of  the  issues  of  the  day 
were  discussed  with  such  thoroughness  as  to  enlarge  the  sphere 
of  knowledge  of  all.  I  remember  some  of  those  questions.  The 
slavery  (lucstion — then  hanging  a  black  cloud  low  on  the  politi- 
cal horizon — was  debated  with  an  intensity  of  feeling  prophetic 
of  the  stnrmy  scenes  of  the  coming  years.  The  temperance 
question,  questions  relating  to  banks  and  banking,  tariffs  and 
taxation  and  other  vital  questions  of  the  hour  engaged  the  at- 
tention of  that  old  school  of  polemics,  ■  The  men  who  indulged 
ia  orderly  dispute  in  tliat  old  Shiloh  meeting  house  were  not 
jiundits;  they  were  simply  inquirers.  When  they  came  to- 
gether in  debate  the  sliock  never  failed  to  strikii.out  somcsparks- 
of  truth.  Their  area  of  knowledge  was  enlarged  and  they  be- 
came better  and  stronger  men — better  fathers  and  better  citizens. 

In  these  debates,  the  fame  of  which  Avas  spread  abroad  even 
till  knights  came  from  off  Indian  Creek,  and  from  Franklin,  and 
from  elsewhere  in  the  county  to  shiver  lances  with  the  Saladins  of 
Shiloh,  Peter  L.  Hamilton  was  noted  for  the  great  clearness  and 
force  with  which  he  stated  his  propositions;  George  W^  Demaree 
for  the  copiousness  and  excellence  of  his  language  and  the 
breadth  and  exceeding  ingenuity  of  his  arguments,  and  John 
Shuck  for  his  wit  and  humor  and  power  of  declamation. 

The  people  of  Shiloh  were  a  deeply  religious  people,  and  ac- 
cepted the  tenets  of  their  cult  without  interlineation  or  .mental 
reservation.  They  were  Presbyterians  of  the  "Old  School" 
from  ''away  back,"  and  tluit  in  their  day  meant  a  great  deal.  I 
find  not  a  few  evidences  in  the  old  church  book  indicating  with 
what  stiffness  of  backbone  they  adhered  to  what  they  considered, 
the  right.  There  was  nothing  slip-shod  about,  them — there  was 
no  screaking  of  loose  wheels  in  all  their  religious  machinery. 
Their  faith  they  accepted  in  all  its  length,  breadth,  height  and 
depth.  To  them  it  was  the  beginning  and  th'e  ending— the  ne- 
j)fi<8  7f?/ra  of  all  spiritual  things. 

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—  35  — 

In  looking  back  over  the  lives  and  times  of  such  a  people 
there  is  a  proneness  to  rate  them  as  a  cold,  grim,  unlovable  sort 
of  people,  and  the  time  may  come  when  our  fathers  Avill  be  look- 
ed upon  in  that  light.  Never  would  there  be  a  greater  mistake. 
Thej''  were  on  the  contrary  a  merry,  clieerful,  kindly,  loving, 
benevolent,  warm-hearted,  social  set.  They  brought  into  their 
busy  lives  all  the  sunshine  that  was  possible  to  men  situated  as 
they  were.  They  were  human  in  all  tilings.  The  women  loved 
their  tea  and  their  roses,  aiid  the  men  their  tables  and  theii' 
jokes.  Not  a  cabin  that  in  season  was  not  bedecked  by  climbing 
bloomers,  not  a  door-yard  that  did  not  show  oil  its  roses  and 
sweet  briars,  and  not  a  garden  that  had  not  its  beds  of  holly- 
hock.s,  pinks,  peonys,  bachelor-buttons  and  otiicr  of  the  old  tinu.- 
blossomers. 

While  the  old  Shilohans  were  poor  and  hard  run  yet  I  never 
heard  of  an  execution  in  the  hands  of  an  oflicer  of  the  law  autlior- 
izing  him  to  levy  upon  and  sell  a  dolhtr's  worth  of  their  propeity 
to  satisfy  a  debt.  For  more 'than  tv/enty  years  not  a  judgment 
was  ever  entered  against  a  man  of  Shiloh  in  a  court  of  record. 
.For  more.  than,  twenty  yeajL's».nQt  a. Sheriff  of.  Johnson  county  ever 
came  to  the  neighborhood  of  Shiloh  witls  a  summons,  a  writ  or 
even  a  subpoena  for  one  of  its  citizens,  except  as  one  of  their 
number  was  now  and  then  wanted  to  serve  on  one  of  the  juries 
of  the  county.  For  more  than  twenty  years  not  a  man  of  Shiloh 
ever  made  a  mortgage;  never  did  one  make  an  assignment  of  liis 
property  for  the  benefit  of  his  creditors,  nor  smuggle  his  property 
to  keep  from  paying  his  debts.  Tliough  poor  and  in  the  language 
of  the  times  "hard  pushed  to  make  both  ends  meet,"  neverthe- 
less they  were  seldom  harrassed  and  worried  over  the  aflaii's  nf 
life  as  seems  to  be  tiie  cjise  with  their  more  prosperous  descend- 
ents.*  Their  wants  were  few  and  simple,  and  each  reganicd  it  a 
religious  duty  to  live  within-his  income. 

Probably  in  nothing  did  they  feel  their  poverty  more  than  in 
their  inability  to  secure  weekly  preaching.  The  church  was  al- 
ways weak  and  there  have  been  but  fcAv  times  in  its  history  when 
preaching  could  be  had  oftener  than  one  Sunday  in  four.  This 
has  always  been  a  sore  trial  to  the  people  of  Shiloh.  But  the  obi 
Shilohans  from  the  very  beginning  fell  back  upon  their  own  re- 
sources and  never  permitted  the  want  of  a  preaclicr  to  stan<l 
between  them  and  the  duties  of  public  worship.  Regularly 
every  Sunday  morning,  in  winter  and  in  summer,  fathers,  motli- 


—  36  — 

crs,  sons  aiul  daughters  wciulcil  llieir  uay  to  the  old  log  church 
ill  their  home-si)un  best  for,  public  worship.  Assembled  together, 
thoy  read  the  scriptures,  sung  hymns,  prayed  and  read  n  sermon, 
in  the  beginning  Jesse  Young  read  tlie  sermons  out  of  Erskinc's 
collection — sermons  patiently  listened  to  that  sometimes  took  all 
of  an  houi-  and  a  half  to  read.-'-  Afier  him  canic  .[o.sopli  Young 
and  David  Demarce,  and  then  Clarrctt  Ditmars  who  introduced 
the  sliorter,  sharper,  crisper  and  perhaps  less  dogmatical  ser- 
mons of  John  Burd.cr.  Others  ix-ad  now  and  then,  among  whoni 
1  remember  t»eorge  W.  Denuuee,  David  V.  Dcmarec,  "Washing- 
t(tn  Miller  and  Peter  L.  Hamilton.  Ah  I  How  the  memory  of 
the  worshijievs  of  those  long  by-gone  days  clings  to  mel  Though' 
every  tuneful  voice  has  long  been  stilled  in  death,  yet  there  . 
come  times  when  I  seem  to  Iioar  tlie  far  away  melodies  rising 
and  falling,  as  when  a  boy  I  hoard  theni  of  still  Sabbaths  along 
the  forest  aisles  hard  l)y  the  old  log  meeting  house. 

I  cannot  close  without  some  reference  to  the  children  of  our 
oltl  Shiloh.     "Happy  is  the  man  who  has  his  quiver  full  of  them,^' 
saitli  ike  Tsaimist,  ami  there  were  a  good  many  fuli-tfuiveys-in'- 
Shiloh.     In  the  old  families  the  numbers  from  first  to  last,  living 
and.  dead,  stand  as  fol'awsr 

Josso  Young,  sr.,  eight  sons  and  four  daughters. 

Micajah  Hamilton,  five  sons  and  five  daughters.  '  '    ' 

Peter  D.  Panta,  three  sons  and  four  daughtei's. 

John  tshuek,  tlircc  sons  and  four  daughters.  '     ■  • 

l.l;n'rct  Ditmars,  seven  sons  ami  six  da ugliters.   ,      ■  ,  ••  ■ 

Peter  Voi'i?^  ^'-^  -"^^^'^^  '^'^'•^  ^'^  daughters.    *^i  •  j^'..3!W^'s.  Ct  s-t: 

Si-rrill  Winclicsier,  five  sons  r!n<l  five  daughters, 

i.leorg(.'  W.  Demari^c,  xhivc  sons  and  three  iluughters. 

DaAudJ^ciuaree,  t\vu  sons  and,  five  daughters.  ^,  /^J ^.n^ s r^* i-  U<?t^ 

Jo.seph  Y'oung,  four  st)ns  and  six  (huighters.  "^' 

JiHues  W.  Park,  five ^<ins  and  six  daughters. 

In  the  Shiloh  Faith  these  children  occupied  u  conspicuous 
niche.  They  Avero  regarded  as  gifts  to  be  brought  up  in  the 
''nurture  antl  adnmnition  of  the  Lord."  To  the  glory  of  the  old 
fathers  and  mothers  be  it  spoken,  opportunities  for  the  mental 
and  moral  training  of  their  children,  they  viade.  Trust  a  people  . 
fur  that,  who  organized  night  geography-and  grammar-schools .. 
to  }>romote  their  own  education. 

The  fii-st  thing  after  the  new  log  meeting  house  was  erected, 
and  for  that  matter  before  the  floor  was  laid,  was  to  organize  a^ 

•Tins  on  meauiliority  <#f  oU'.cr  people  than  I. 


-:^7  — 

SunciMy  school.  And,  in:irk  you,  there  ^vere  not  :i  dozen  cbiM- 
rcn  in  the  nci;?hborhood  counting  in  Jesse  Young's  family,  souh- 
of  whom  Avcr(!  vergir.g  on  ihcir  majority,  old  enough  to  go  to 
Sumhiy  school,  and  less  than  half  a  dozen  of  them  could  reiul. 
Abraham  I^anta,  Jonathan  E.  Young  and  John  M.  Winchesii-r 
constituted  one  class  and  wove  i)ut  to  work  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment. From  the  beginning  it  has  always  been  tlic  practice  in 
Shiloh  to  set  the  children  to  work  in  the  xscw  Testament  just  u^- 
soon  as  ever  they  could  manage  to  read  it,  a  ])ractice  that  jn-c- 
vailed  in  the  ancient  day  schools  of  the  neighborhood.  Those 
children  who  co^ild  not  read  brought  their  spelling  books.  It  is 
remembere<l  that  on  one  occasion  Josiah  T.  Young  was  in  Si-r- 
rill  Winchester's  class  and  was  spelling  in  words  of  threes,  sylla- 
bles. He  caine  to  the  word  tnisconsirue  and  it  floored  him. 
M-i-s  inis  c-o-ii  C071  imi^toustrue  went  tlic  youthful  Josiaii,  aiK: 
in  spite  of  all  Shiloh  he  })crsisted  iii  jjronouncing  that  last  syl- 
lable without  sj)ellir!g  it.  I  remember  myself  when  George  W. 
Voris,  who  ix  with  tis  to-day,  attended  the  Shiloh  Sunday  Schmd 
and. recited- to  DaviiLDeui:irce-hi.s-a-b  abs.  - 

But  the  old  fathers  and  mothers  di«l  not  leave  to  the  church 
and- the  Sunday-and  the  "day-schools  the  training  of  their 
children.  Every  cabin  was  a  school  house.  The  elements  of 
knowledge  were  taught  us  at  our  mothers  knees.  How  many  of  u:-; 
in  the  early  day  learned  our  letters  in  the  big  bibles  and  hymn 
books,  and  to  spell  out  easy  reading  lessons  at  home.  But  other 
things  were  taught  there;  subordination  to  parental  authority, 
and  reverence  for  God  and  man  were  enjoined  by  both  precept  and 
example.  The  Shiloh  youth  was  not  perraittcJ  to  say  "Old  man 
so  and  so;"  it  was  always  "Mr."  Good  behavior  in  all  place- 
and  under  all  circumstances  was  enjoined,  and  as  a  consef|uencc 
the  Shiloh  youngsters  early  learned  that  it  would  never  do  to 
"""whisper,  snicker,  laugh  or  clatter  in  and  out  <luring  religious 
services.  The  shorter  catbchism  was  not  neglected.  I  think 
there  was  a  time  when  every  yorith  in  the  neighborhood  knew 
it  from  "What  is  the  chief  end  of  man?"  down  to  "What  doiii 
the  conclusion  of  the  Lord's  Prayer  teach  us?" 
,  From  these  hints  the  scope  of  the  parental  training  given  in 
old  Shiloh  may  be  inferred,  and  it  rejoices  me  to  be  able  to  giv<? 
you  a  hint  as  to  the  effect  of  that  training.  Such  of  the  youth 
who  received  it  and  are  yet  living  are  all  men  and  women  who 
have  passed  the  meridian  of  life.     They  arc  scattered  all  the 


—  38  — 

way  from  here  to  the  Kocky  Mountains,  but  I  think  wc  have 
kept  truce  of  all  of  them  with  but  two  or  three  exceptions,  and 
this  we  know,  and  I  say  it  to  you  with  more  pride  than  you  can 
well  im:ij,'inc — that  not  a  single  one  of  all  those  old  Shiloh 
young  folks  has  ever  been  brought  to  judgment  for  a  violation 
of  the  laws  of  the  land. 

Why  then,  may  not  we,  the  children  and  the  grand  children 
and  the  great  grand  children  of  the  Shiloh  pioneers  sound  their 
praises?  Let  us  thank  God  that  we  had  such  true,  loving, 
faithful,  conscientious,  God  fearing  fathers  and  mothers.  Let 
us  perpetuate  in  our  hearts  their  memories  and  be  animated  to 
better  lives  by  their  glorious  examples.  With  few  exceptions 
all  have  passed  to  the  other  side.  John  Young  and  Rachel  his 
wife,  two  of  the  foundation  members  of  tlie  church,  and  Thomas 
Titus  and  'Mavy  his  wife  the  third  and  fourth  persons  to  unite 
v.ith  it,  still  survive.  So  does  Jesse  Young,  jr.,  and  James  W. 
Youn.u'  and  his  wife  !^Lary.  And  so  Elizabeth  Dunlap  who 
;is  Elizabeth  Vaunuys  watched  for  the  coming  of  her  husband 
from,  the  thitber  .  sida  of  ^'Lakc  George;"  and  so  Joanna  Banta 
the  widow  of  Peter  D.  Banta  and  Louisa  Miller  the  widow  of 
^Vashingtor^.~  These  .trc-all  that  are  living  aad-all  ara_in_-diih_ 
tant  States.  All  the  rest  are  gone.  May  we  all  so  live  that 
viuen  Ave  too  go,  our  children  shall  rise  up  and  bless  our 
memories- 


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IKFANT  BAPTISMAL  HEGISTER  OF  SHILOH  CHTTHCH. 


NAMK  OK  ISKANT 


niTB  OK 
BAVTISM. 


..'Jjsseand  >farg.  Vounjj June  8,  18^  D.iTiil  Monfort.. 


183:11 


Aug.  1,1  KW.. 
Jiiuc  r.i  WMi. 


•20,  isac 


.Ton.itlmn  Eiin-arde 

TliDinas  \Vils.>n* 

Ncwiou  Walts 

Jor?L-' Tlioni.-is  and  Mary   Titus Sept. 

Joaiati '.Uilin  ;inU  Uachcl  Younp 

<.MiL-y  .Ittiiu Ijobcpli  ana  .Marv  Yomijj., 

RacSicl    Kliza !    " 

^V•;ham  Moore '    "  "  •' 

.Tolin  Neliou '    "  "  "        ...  Aug.  1,  IKW..  William  SicWlc* 

Mary  .laiie   WiUiam»on...' D.avlil  ami  Marj-  I>emnrcc.. 

Mari;aii*i  Jane* iXboiiias  ami  Mary  T;las. 

JUiiry    K!i/.al>etl> ••  •'  '•     ., 

SaniUiM  llorriotl Jolin  an<l  Uaihel  Younjr.. 

Jail  11  >lii:cr 'Scrnll  &  M.  A.  WiuriiicsicrjOct. 

Naucy  j^parta I    '•  ••  i    '• 

JanoStnii'.i i    "  »•  I    •' 

Wiili.ini  Uoi'crlson* i     >•  •'  I     '• 

ilarvoy  Cro.-^-iy 

Minerva* .". 

Jori!;sn  >fiU()U* 

Eli/.abolU    Kincline 'JosciiU  anrt  Marv  Yoiuij:. ...  May  iT,   \!^'^7 

.Mchisa  Ar.u Scrnll  ^tM  A.  Winchi'sterlOc!.    i.    Iki: 

Jami's» „ iTIioiiias  anfl  A!ary  Tuns. .  N"<iv,  i2,  lHt7 

Margaret _;\>ii>.  and  Catliariuc  Evans  Jan.   .'!.    1.s:;n  J.W.McKcunou 

IJoluTl* •■  ••  " 

v^liariiv  Kli7.a\ji;tli Ilbnar  and  Eli/..  Vnnnuys 

Wa.-liinu::oaiic;ii* iSi.TriU  .Vi  M.  A.  WtncliOi^ler. April  la,  JKWlWiUixaj-SiiikLofc— ..- 

JiUia  Kikn !lsaiicnur!  K'.iz.  V.mnnys...' ''  .         • 

Tliomtfs  WiUon* I'lioinas  and  Mary  Tilus....!    ••       •>    "  "  '•. 

•Kilin  Ncwtim..., j.iolm  and  n.Tcliel  ^'ounp "    '  "   ,  ,.  ■,'...  . 

.^!a^y  Jane ;.\aroii;ind  Kli/    .N!onfort,..'    "       "    "  "     •'." 

Jossv;  Young    '(iiio    \V.  \    Sarali  Oomarcc,    *'        ..»••.  .. 

J.ilui jKii.'ldin^  and  Sarah  Voris...:    '•       "    •'    ,        .      " 

Mary .loscpli  and  Mary  Vonnjr  ..'Fob.l",  If-IO  " 

fiaviil   L ; Davit',  and  Marp;.   Demarcc '    I   .      .      " 

Kdivard U.iriiM  t  A  Snraii  Diiiuar.-'. .:    '•"••:'  ••  •■ 

Oavi.l  .Msr.slial" Gvo    W.  X  .Sarah    Dcinnri'c  May  '.';{.  IfUl, David  Monfort. 

.fi*lm  T>.  Hill... _'(;..t  S.  l>itn»nis  rM  i)arcnt8 '    I  *'  I' 

M.iry  KIl>-n* Wni.    it    i  atbarine   Kvan.<.    '•     ''      *'    i  "        . 

Jii'.in  lliTVi-v .!.■^a.•lC  iV    Eiiz     VaimuvR '    "      ••      ••  ■•     . 

WiUiani   Krskioc ■.I^.•^.■^o  and  Sarah   ^  oun;; •'      >•      »•    ;  " 

f.oni^a I 'ot^cpli  and  NSarp  Yonii>: '    "      ••      •»    |  •• 

Jfoliorl  !'.n-ckcnridire* Co.t.  W.  .V  Sarah  Pcmane  Nr.v.  i:,!,  1R12  Williasn  Slcklu*. 

Aiiizi  TlionqiAon' i David  V  .  .t  i;!:/..   Deiii;iriH>j     "        *'    "  " 

[li-iao'l  Tti()ni;i.< 'Aaron  Jt  Martlia  Monfoit. .'    "       "    "    ,  ,      " 

^'rtrii-v  Amanda' .'      •'  ''  "  '     ''        "    "     ',    '  '" 

Martha* .\Vni.  &  Cailiarinc   Kvan"...'    '•        »•    ^     i  .»       ■ 

Jonailian _,  lospidi  and  Mary   Y<,tini;...!jau.  18,   lJvl3'U.  V.  Smock...    ' 

Uui'hcl  Aninn.la* jl*.  V.  &   £li/..  Dt-niaroc !     "       '•     "j    .       " 

.Margaret  Jane (ico.  W. /t  b.irah   !>einaref|    '*       ■'    "   I  **    . 

•locoph  Uruncr Mcs-'C  Hnd  Sarah   Youn>j I    *•       "    '•    i  .»        »  •-.•..• 

•MaryJunia* „|n.  V.  &  liliz     Deinarce ■  A|>ril  21,  3S14i  '•        ......      , 

Mar^rarec  Ann* il\L.  &Kliz.   lluudltnn...  ;Sept.  15,    •'  j         .- "  .        "        ,• 

WiUiam  Alison Jdicod  ami  .M«ry  E.   Yonng,    •*        ..    u        .     ...      /   .   •    ■ 

MurvJan'' |Wash.  an.i  Louisa  Miilcr.  ■    "       «    ••    |  .•     ;  -_ 

Kniflv  Catharine* O.  and  ^'.arlr    rV'innrec. .    ,  Mar.  17. 1845'         -  •'  ,.    ': 


\aron  and  Marllia  Monforii 
,.;los.-lih  and    i'.ary  Yountt...      "    )rt,    l?j|OJ 
.  j  Win.  and  Cailiarlne    Evaua      "    "        '• 
.jjosto  and  Sarah  Young     -I    •'    »•      ■•• 
....Janiea  and  Mary  K.  Vounj;  •    "    '•       " 
..:jas   and  Elizabeth  Park...  ' IW5 


.Uisj^ph    l.Taoi 

Jo-v'ph  Wilfcon 

William  Henry 

Noble  Walts..... 

Jidm  liervey 

Ii>aac  Ni'wcon* 

Kl.2al.0th _ i    "  ••  "       I.. 

Johu  Newton P.  L.  and  Kliz    lh>mili»>n...|.. 


s.'.rHh  i«.abt;l 

l;.;r.;)cl  KMcn* 

.Martha 

AiUert   Henry*.... 

.lolin  Sanutcl 

Jnincs  HarvcT 

Wi!hu»rt  Henry.... 
WiUiam    lien'rv*. 


..|W^gh  au<l  1-ouia'  Mtlier.. 
..  ((;co.  W.  .t  Sarah  Demarccl 

..U-e.  W  and  Kli/..  I'ark...  [ 
...Jy*.  V.  &  KU/..  Domniet  ...1 
....iHenry&N  .S  Deniareo.  ..'•  I 
..„|Jolui  E.  *:  Luna  Yonog  _...! 

;!».  L   .t  K!i/.    Hannlton...  | 

...J.Ton.  W.  arfl    Elix.   S'Hrk...   | 


1&17: 


UH9,... 


*Fer«>as  whcMd  nnmc*  xro  mtrked  tbn»  *  ar«  UcaU. 


■47  — 


IKFANT  BAPTISMAL  EEQISTEE  OF  SHILOH  CHURCH. 


MAUB  OF  INKAKT 


DiTE  OK 

hKmaa.. 


Olivo  Florence'- VV.  S.  &  P.hoda  Miller 

Racliel    CUriBsa*. Jcbpc  umi  Sftrah  Young... 

Wm.  Andcrsoa J.  K.  iiml  Laaa  Young..  . 

Mary  Clarin'ta Ul.  ANaucy  S.  Demurce 

Kliz.  Mercy ICco  W.&  Sarah  Ucmarcc 


A&ii\ 


April  4,  18S1  jaiQcaA.  McKo«: 


Harriet   laubel Jaa   \V.  and  Klu.  I'ark. — 

.Johu  flenry* iJ  .  E  an*l  Lana   Yount-j. 

GcorRC ErustaB&Maru.E.  ICoUidsod 

Ilccry  Harrison "  '"  *         i  > 

VVrr.    Alexander Jolin  W.  &  Mary  Scott...     „.  "    | 

•latnca  WilbOQ Ikd.  \V.&  Wary£.   Young "    j 

(ico   Monroe |    "  "  " *' 

Marg.    Ann iJ.M.&IIarrictt  Winclicsler  Jan.  30,  lS53„i 

Mar\'  Elieo It,  E.&  i-ana  Yoting..  j       "         "      I 

i'ctc'r ».il*.  r-  and  E!u    llaOiiltoa...;       •'        "     ! 


jj.  \V'.  ami  M.  E.  Younij.... 
.;.Jii3.  W.  aa<l  Elii.  I'ark.. j 

ji*cicr  and  M.arllia  Voris.,...! 

1      •'  "  "  ! 

.  Wm.  T.  ftDd  Suaaa  Shuck...' 


.1854  ... 


Martha  Jane 

Mary  Suean.,.. „ 

Cornelius  ISarvcy. 

Marxtirct  .\»n 

Jnacph    William.... 

Sanuie!  Ni'lbOQ ..i      "  "  "  ' 

MaryJatK.- 1      "  "  "  1 

K'lima  Kranees.. AVm.  S.  &  UliodaMillsr —  j 

Mary  lielic*  }Wni  A- &  Alinira  TerhuDcl 

CiK'.rlclte  Ann I     ••  '•  '*         i 

John    l.rle  ■ ...,..i     '-  *-  t* 

.Maccniii  Jane* 'J.M.^'ill.  B.WiacLeatcr.... 

J.nmcs  David  Scott* iVVaab  and  Louita  .MiUcr,....| 

ijai-ih  Ellca' «..-,„  I'.L.  A  iOlix.   iJamillon ,I8£5i, 

hcrrill  Wiuchoster ...|ll   and  Nancy  s.   Dcniirec 

Krama  Elizabeth ...IW'ni.  T.  A .Siisau   Slsuck... 

(."orucliuti*  I  Wni.  A  Cath.  UridKcman,... 

Lee  McKcc .lias.  W.  &  Eliz.  i'ark..      .....1856 

Albert  M:trion „.  Itolil.  M.  &  Mary  J.  Covert',. " 

Mary  Eliza ' .....IJ.  M.  &  ii.   15.    Witichciitci  j ....." 

Geor^o  Washington :.lJaB.  W.  and  Elii". .  i'ark —    .    „..„...1S5' 

faaac  Martin  jWm.A  Calh.  li  r  it  Ue  no  an...!. *' 

Rachel  Af!;ircna  hVin.T.  &  Susan  h'-suck ' " 

Gcorjce  Scott  !i'.  L.  &  E'iz.  Hamilton i.......  ......IsSJii 

Kachcl  K.  Mincrvc 111.  &  N,  S.  DcmartJC  ..,...\ "    1 

Charlie  .Miller (Jco.  W.  A  Eliz.  J  Ucraftracj,..,. "    ! 

Jeremiah  Mre.  Marg.  Tingle ,.....,. ,"    i 

Samuel  Wiliwn* Jas.  W.AEhz.   I'ark !  "    | 

Harriett  Calvina* J.  .M.  &  H.  B.  Wmchcsterl 

ChantY  Minerva "  *'  "  iUeo. 

Cora  iicliraa' — ,..„ "  "  "  !>i>dy 

Henry  Itico |Rcnry  &  X.  S.  Dcmarae  ..  j    •' 

Clara  Elizabeth J    .M.  &  H.  U  Demarp.o    ,..|aiay 

ilftttic* .- ....„|Gfco.  W    A  E.J.    UciTsarci'l    " 

.l.ddic  Jane ,W.  II.  &  C.J.   HaniiUon.-.!    '» 

■  Geo rt;e  Thomas ....j V/.  T.  &  Susan  Hliuck...  .  l    " 

.'^e.rrill    Edwin |J..M    &H     U.    Wmche£tci  Feb. 

.■-nrah  Wilson iJ.W.andE   Fari: -icpt. 

.•f-KbC* ......j        "  "  1      *" 

John  Fletcher jMrH.Miirfr-  Bromwoll '    •' 

Oavid  IJruiier Joho-M.   Winch»:Bicr " 

■  Flora .......iMrs.  Christina   Evans  ....       *•' 

Marietta ....IW.  H.  A  C.  J     Hamilton....!    •• 

litrtha - A.  J,  A  a.  A.  Canary „..| March 

Martha  Ellen IWm.H.AC.   J.   Hatnitu>a;JBa, 


18D9  . 
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lKf.2 

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loiy  4, 


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Wardie  WUk8.  ...;:.■.....„  p.  L.  AC  A    Dcm^e.* 

Orien.. .-.' I  J.  and  M.  J,  Duala|>... 

Kdwin '.     .  ....|J.  N.andX.  A.Ujinalltou.,. 

Lolin ..,; I  J.  M.  and  M.  J.  liono  .... 

George  Morey ,  .•: . I W.  T.  and  M.  E.  AJ iilcr. . . 

Anna  May ..|0.  L.  and  C.  A.    Uooiarce 

Arthur  Graham ilt.l*.  nnd&f   J.   Hamilton.. 

Mary  Estor „..  JcfBC  Y.  and  M.  A  Hetnarce 

Gerfndo ;."*amucl  ami  Mar»f.  Shuck.  .jt>b.  JO,  1876| 

Ordoll „.. John  and  Marg.  Brldj£cn>aiii 

Hnttltt    iJesKoY.  A  U.  A.  Dcniarce 


Mar.  SS,  1K7«) 
Jfttt.         lST2j. 

I- 


—48' 


INFANT  BAPTISMAL  REGISTER  OF  SHILOH  CHURCH. 


NAMi:  OF  INKAKT 


.Tnim  Baxter D.  I..  A  C    A   Dcmarce 

Vclni.i J.  W.atnl  M.  J.VouDg 

CorrdI 

Ivy   Denn  iSanuicI  & '^';irp.  Shuck 


DATE  OK 
nATTISil. 


'Fob.  70. 
'.\pril 


.>arnh' 

(."or.i 

Davi'l  .^f;lU^i^•.C. 

( 'li;i!iiiiT« , 

llolii.r* 

lUrl'.M  Jane...  . 

Miiiuio  IwOis 

liOrt'OC.         

Hcrljcil  E;irl.. . 

TilHs 

Mabol  tJua*  — 


iJ.Y.ao    M  A.  Dcmnrcc... 

s.  t;.  :ui"t  Al.   K.  Sin;\ll     

I).  !,.  viiilc.  A.  Di'tiiarce... 

I.  W.  aiKl.M..).  Vciiiit,'  

•J  11(1  T   .'mil  C.  M  Cii.Kl   

•/ .  Y.  I'.iiil  M  .  A  .    Di  niMiTo.. 
I).  I.,   lui  1  C.  \.  DcinarcL'.. 
.1 .  I-".  uiKl  i".  M  .  (;oiid   .... 
./ .  F.  anil  M  .  A    llri'iiTCruau 

>.  >t    an.-"  M,  Siiuek 

U.  Y.  an<l  M.  A.    Dcniarce.. 
i.I.  AV.  A;  M.irv  .f.    Youd;;... 


May  10, 

Jan.  li. 
Ai.rll  r., 
.hiiio 
Avij,'. 

Sept.  i. 


.Mar.  i5. 


Alvira l-I.  F.  ^i  cuaritv  A.    (..lod. 

l{o.\v  Covert ,11.  I'.  A;  S    C    llamiUon :    "  " 

Uvroa   Marchall ;.l.  Y.Jt.vlar?.   A.  Demareo  July  l.s, 

Cf.citcr  Orviu !j.  A.  A:  M     A.    Bri'lcroninnl     "  '• 


187C 
ISTT 

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ip 

isro 

l.s.SO 

isai 



1.S62 





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Names  of  Ministers  Who  Have  Supplied  The  Shiloh  Pulpit. 


rxTi:  OF 
sVri'LY. 


Kov. 
irev. 

Jicv. 

Itev. 

Siov. 
Kev. 
1:l'V 
Uev. 

l.'i'V. 

H?v. 


Pavi.l  Monf.rt  llK!2to  1,S:i:>  Uov.R.F.  Wood  

William  tu-kK's lis  ;">  to  )>4:;  Ucv.  Arc.hibaM    C   Aliec. 

iMviil  V.  .MiHH-k* l.vi:i  to  j,S.-)U'  liW.ArlLur   N'aylor , 

JaiiK-.i  H.  MtKoc ji.s.-io  to  IS.'!'  i:-jv.   Jlcnicc   nuKliueU   .. 

Uoliort  M.   <»veritrcct...:!s?I  to  Ls.'.i'  Rev.  Michael  3[.   Lawson. 

.iohn    L\ ic  Mariin   ...     US.".-!  to  \s:,i  fJev. Itceves 

I'.cnjamiiiT.  Wooil  !].S.-i.'>t(j  l.^'-'^  Ucv  .  U  ibcrt  JIurron 

Leo llN'.VS  to  lS.-,ii  :Uov.   ilotiry  V.    >iivn 

.J.  t,iuix)i-y  Xi'iCcflian   . .   ils.V.*  to  iSCn  ({ 

W.  W.  .Sifklos     ... 

J.  i.hiiiiiv    .Mi-Kci.han 

.w.w.su';j.  i.\.;ii.i.  Kiii;r'isi;.'.  to  i>-i;t. 

N;itti.in  i.      IViimcr ll.S(.ii  to  l.scr  I'.ov 


Kilniond  N.  I'osl 

!S(;i  to  I.sii-.'  i:!'v.  !*aiiiel  J'.,  naiitu 

I.Sii:i  Lo  l.si;:,   i:cv.  L.  I,,  horrimer 

J.  Qtiiiirv   J.ieKeeh.aii 
)OKC|iii   Pttjth 


UATK  OK 
SUITLY. 

iHCT  to  law 

KSJ1S  to  l'-70 
l>71  to  187* 
1872  to  187:; 
1M7J  to  ih:4 
H74  to  l^T) 
1K7(;  to  1877 
IS77  to  larti 
l.i7.S  to  U>79 
In7!I  to  1S*(1 
I.S.SO  to  1.S.S1 
I-X!  to  188-t 
]Mi 


*Wafi  I'abior,  ail  oi!iCM"«>niH>!it's.  " 


List  of  Elders  of  Shiloh  Church. 


DATE     OF 
KLECTIO.S. 


DATE    OF 
ELECTIO.V. 


JcrtPC  Yonn;r ■ . 

.losoph  Yoiniij 

l>aviil  Deiu.iree 

t;:irritt  nur.i.ird  . . 
fli'o.  W,  llcniarco.. . 
I'ctcT  T>.  llc.uiilton. 
Win.  S.    Miller     .. 

i'etcr  Voris 

.lam^sW.    I'ark 


•  iOct.    ."i,  IsKii"  ircnry  Domaree ; Mnr.  24  IWiS 

.July  30,  l";!!  AVabliinplon  Miller i.Jan.  SO,  JS-Vi 

jOet,  -ii),  l.s:tt'i,Oeor>:c  Wiiiti'ileld   DcmarcdMar.  ?.0,  1.S07 

.|Nov.l7,  Irfil   OaviU  I..  iKMnaicc I    "     "      " 

.;Julyl7,  1S17  William  11.  Kvaua...   . 
.1     •'     "       "  '  .lolin   f.f.  Winclicatcr.v 

.Feb.  2,  ISSij'.roliu  K.  Gooc! 

.  iMar.  l!4.  lS.'iS   John  F.  arUli'.>m;iD.. 


2^,  l.S-0 
tJan,  27,   1H7S 

Oct.  r.  i.»82... 


■49  — 


LIST  OF  DEACONS  OF  BHILOH  CHUKCH. 


DATE   OF  ELKCTION. 


(Jcorge  W.   Bemarcc 

Isaac  Vannuys 

rotor  L.  Hanultou... 

I'eter  Voris 

William   Evans 

Sirrill  \Yincli08tnr.... 
\V;i.sliiiit?lon  Miller., 
.lolm  .M.  WincliL'HLcr., 
Jcaao  Y,  Dciiiaroo  — 


Sept.:,  3sr-7 

...July  21.  1S43 
.MarcU  '■.,  1*15 
...Dec.  1...  iwS 


Jim.  .:1.1H.'.:! 

.Murci.  :^1,  l^-'-'' 


LIST  OF  TIirSTEKS  OF  SSSILOIE  ClStltCIS, 


IpATK  ok  tLKCTIOK. 


Sen-ill  WincliCBtcr. . . 
William  Lvans — ..... 
Washington  ilillcr.  . 
John  M.  Winchester. 
i>avid  L.  Dcniarce... 

Joseph  W,  Youu(^ 

WilliaiTiT,  shiitk — 


.Not.  -■;,  18Jl 


..Alaruh 
....Jan. 


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