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HISTORY
OF PARKE COUNTY, INDIANA
(Source: History of Vigo & Parke County, Indiana - Chicago:
H. H. Hill & N. Iddings, 1880, 1310 pgs.
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
BIOGRAPHIES OF SUGAR CREEK TOWNSHIP
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| WILLIAM
BILBO, deceased, was born in Kentucky in 1797, and was
the son of Archibald and Mary Bilbo, both natives of Kentucky;
the former of whom died in 1826, aged fifty-seven, the latter
in 1833, aged fifty-six years. Mr. Bilbo was married in
1820 to Lucinda Durham, daughter of Benjamin and Margret
(Robinson) Durham. Her parents were the first
settles in Boyle county, Kentucky, and they both died in
Kentucky; the former in 1846, aged sixty-nine years, the
latter in 1853, aged seventy-three years. Mr. William
Bilbo had by this marriage twelve children:
Margaret, David, Elijah, Mary, deceased; Benjamin,
deceased; William B., Elizabeth, deceased;
Archibald, Harriet A., Milton J., James O. A., deceased;
and Sophia A. Benjamin was killed in the battle
of Jerkins Ferry, April 30, 1864. Archibald was
captain of the Howard township Home Guards. Mr. Bilbo
began life for himself poor. He came to Parke county in
1829, and shortly after returned to Kentucky, remaining there
nine years, after which he returned to his farm in Howard
township, where he died in 1854. By trade he was a
blacksmith. He and his wife were active, earnest workers
in the cause of christianity. They united with the
Methodist Episcopal church at Waveland. Mr. Bilbo
took an active part in the building of the first church in the
township. He was a man very highly respected by his
neighbors for his integrity and moral character. By his
death his family lost a benevolent and kind husband and
father. |
| JACOB
C. BANTA, farmer, Waveland, was born in Mercer county,
Kentucky, July 14, 1817, and is the son of Garrett and Lana
Banta. His parents were natives of Kentucky; his
grandfather, Peter Banta, was a pioneer settler in the
State of Kentucky. The old log-house built by his
grandfather, in which he and his father were both born, stood
till four years ago in a good state of preservation. His
maternal grandparents came to Kentucky from New Jersey in the
early settlement of the country. The earliest legend
respecting the Banta family is that the
great-great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch
was of Dutch descent, his wife of the French, and that their
descendants came to America in the time of its early
colonization. His mother's people were originally from
Germany. He was married in 1838 to Sarah W. Bingham,
daughter of Joseph and Sophia (Janes) Bingham, pioneer
settlers of Virginia. By this union he has nine
children: Sophia, married to James Owen;
Mary L., married to William T. Davis; Sarah F.,
married to Richard A. Watson, deceased; Joseph H.
Laney E., deceased; John M., married to Amanda
Pitman; and Charles W. Charles W. and
Joseph H. remain at home. Joseph H. was a
member of the Howard township Home Guards. He and his
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at
Waveland. He has all through his life preferred home to
the honors of office. He has a farm of 160 acres, mostly
cleared and fairly stocked. |
| COLONEL
CASPER BUDD, Waveland, was born November 16, 1805, in
Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of John
and Mary (Bosworth) Budd. His father was a native of
Germany, and an officer in the army, born in 1779, and came to
America in 1794, with his parents, and to Lycoming county,
Pennsylvania. In 1812 he immigrated to Ohio, and settled
in Cincinnati, where he remained till 1822, when he removed to
Clark County, Ohio, where he died April 1, 1850. He was
for many years justice of the peace. Col. Budd's
mother was a native of Vermont. She died March 19, 1850,
aged seventy years; her father, David Bosworth, was the
son of Benjamin Bosworth, and immediate descendant of
one of the "Pilgrim Fathers." Her grandfather settled in
an early time in New York, near Athens. Col. Budd
was married in 1826 to Kallista A. Stratton, daughter
of Timothy and Hester (Horton) Stratton; the former, a
native of Connecticut, born in 1773, and died in 1853; the
latter died in 1837, aged sixty-one years. By this
marriage he has had ten children: Hulda M., Henry C.,
Hester A., William W., Mary B., Harriet, deceased; John
T., who died in the service; Daniel C., Joseph C.,
Phoeba E. and Sarah J. John T., William W.
and Daniel C. were in the 9th Ind. battery; the last
was in seventeen hard fought battles. He and his wife
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Waveland.
At the age of fifteen he went to Cincinnati to learn the trade
of carding and spinning, where he remained two years. He
then went to farming, but disliking the business, he again
returned to his trade, which he followed, working in various
places, till 1836, when he purchased an interest in a carding
and fulling establishment in Wayne county, which he carried on
till 1840, when he sold his interest in the factory and moved
upon his farm in Parke county, where he remained till within a
few years, when he sold his farm and retired from business to
enjoy the products of his industry. In 1855 he was
elected trustee of Sugar Creek township. It was during
this term of office that Howard township was cut off from
Sugar Creek. He afterward served one term as trustee in
Howard township. In 1861 he raised a company for the
Indiana Legion, and was made captain. In 1862 he was
commissioned colonel of the Parke county regiment which was
called out several times during the war to prevent
depredations and outbreaks on the part of the Knights of the
Golden Circle. He served one term as state
representative in what in known as the "stormy session of
'63." Cal. Budd, through not now an officer of
Parke county, as he was during the war, has lot no part of his
former interest in the welfare of her people and institutions. |
| HOWARD
CLORE, farmer and stock raiser, Waveland, is one of the
most successful business men in Howard township. He was
born in Kentucky in 1819, and is the son of Israel and
Frances (Deer) Clore. His parents were natives of
Madison county, Virginia. His father was born in 1779,
and died in 1854; his mother was born in 1783, and died in
1871. His father never lost an opportunity to impress
upon his family the duty of honesty in their dealings with
men. Howard Clore, emigrated to Montgomery county
from Kentucky, with his parents, in 1837. In 1839 he was
married to Margaret Deer, daughter of John and
Margaret (Clore) Deer, both natives of Madison county,
Virginia; they emigrated to Kentucky and then to Montgomery
county, Indiana. By this union he became the father of
eleven children, all of whom are dead but Hannah E., Sarah
L. and Henry H., who is married to Maria A.
Myres. William w., deceased, was a volunteer
in the 115th Ind. reg. He died in 1865, aged twenty-five
years. His first wife died in 1856, aged thirty-five
years. He was married a second time, in 1857, to
Sarah A. Deer, sister to his former wife, and by this
marriage they have five children, three now living: Howard
D., Whitfield, and Robert A. This second wife
died in 1873, aged forty-nine years. He was married a
third time, to Elizabeth Frame, daughter of Robert
and Mary (Smeak) Lafollett, both natives of Hardin county,
Kentucky. They emigrated to Montgomery county, Indiana,
in 1826, and he died in 1876, aged seventy-three years.
Mr. Clore's paternal grandmother was a pioneer settler
in Virginia, and lived to a good old age. His maternal
grandmother, after having raised a family in Virginia,
immigrated to Kentucky, and a second time became a pioneer
settler. Mr. Clore settled in Howard township,
where he now lives, in 1839. His education was such as
the pioneer schools could give. In religious belief he
is a Predestination Baptist, but has never united with the
church. His father was of the same faith, but, owing to
a split in the church, never became a member after he left
Kentucky. Mr. Clore has a well improved and
stocked farm of 400 acres located along the line separating
Howard township from Montgomery county. Lately he has
deeded his children 1,299 acres of western land. In
politics he is a staunch republican. He was raised to
believe in equal rights. |
| URIAL
C. DELP, farmer, Wallace, was born in Kentucky in 1828,
and is the son of James and Malinda (Clore) Delp, the
former a native pioneer settler of Kentucky. He came to
Parke county with his parents in 1837. His father died
in 1880, aged eighty year, and his mother in 1873, in the
sixty-second year of her age. Urial C. Delp (Crosby)
Clore. By this marriage he has nine children:
Malinda A., Marion S., Edward S., Ulysses G., Ambrose B.,
Ida J. and Cora E. He ran the mill on Sugar
creek, known as Delp's mill, for twenty years.
When he began life for himself he had but little property, and
he now has a farm of 335 acres, located on Sugar creek, rich
in mineral deposits, such as iron and coal, which will receive
special attention in this work. His education is only
such as the pioneer schools of Parke county county could
furnish. |
| JACOB
B. LOUGH, farmer, Waveland, was born in Cumberland
county in 1810. He is the son of Thomas and Nancy (Bishong)
Lough, both natives of Cumberland county, Kentucky.
Thomas Lough and his father were musicians.
Thomas was a drummer, and did good service in beating up
volunteers, both in the Indian wars of the northwest territory
and in the late war. His father served in the
revolutionary war under Washington as fifer. Thomas
B. Lough came in Indiana at the beginning of the
rebellion, and died in 1854, aged seventy-seven years; his
wife died in her seventy-seventh year, two days after her
husband. Jacob Lough's paternal grandmother was
Nancy Warner, cousin to Gen. George Washington.
His maternal grandfather was captain of a company under
Gen. Harrison. Jacob B. Lough was married in
1843 in Kentucky, and remained there till he could earn a
vehicle convey him to Parke county. By his first wife he
had three children: Thomas W., George W. and
Sarepta D. His first wife, Rosanna Stalcup,
died in 1846, aged twenty-eight years. He was married a
second time in 1847, to Mrs. Emily J. (McGuffey) English.
By this union he has two children: Elva J. and
Perry J. He and his first and second wife and all
his children are members of the Christian church. In
politics he was formerly a whig, but is now a republican.
George W. was a soldier in the 21st reg. Ind. Vols.,
and served three yeas. When Mr. Lough was married
he and his wife had but a very limited share of this world's
goods. He now owns a good farm of 305 acres and has it
fairly stocked. He never cared for office and never was
sued in his life. His education is that of the common
schools of his boyhood. |
| JOHN
N. McCAMPBELL,
farmer, Waveland, was born in
Parke county, May 5, 1849, and is the son of John H. and
Sarah A. (Grismore) Campbell, early settlers in Parke
county. John N. was a native of Kentucky, and
immigrated to Parke county and settled in Washington township
in 1846. Sarah A. McCampbell was a native of
Clark county, Indiana. John N. was married in
1872 to Victoria McCord, daughter of R. S. and
Caroline (Allen) McCord, both natives of Kentucky.
She was born in Parke county in 1852. He has by this
marriage two children: Clara, born May 20, 1874,
and Walter A., born August 14, 1878. Mr. and
Mrs. McCampbell are members of the United Presbyterian
church at Bethany. His parents are old members of this
church. He began life for himself in very moderate
circumstances. By good management and industry he has
accumulated property quite rapidly. In politics he votes
the straight republican ticket. He and his wife were
educated in the common schools of Parke county. He was
elected last spring to the office of justice of the peace in
Howard township. |
| SAMUEL
MUSGROVE, deceased, was born in Tennessee. He was
the son of Samuel Musgrove, a native, pioneer and
pensioned soldier of the revolution, of the Big Bend State.
He was first married to Rebecca Miller, of Tennessee,
by whom he had nine children. He came to Parke
county about 1830, where his wife died. In 1840 he was
married to Margaret Snooks, daughter of Jeremiah S.
and Nancy (Watt) Snooks. She was born in Ohio in
1809. Her father was a native of New Jersey, her mother
of Pennsylvania. Her grandfather Watt was killed
in the revolutionary war by the Indians. Her grandfather
Snook served in the army throughout the revolution. By
this second marriage Samuel Musgrove had three
children: John A., Nancy E. and Charles A.
John A. was a soldier in the late war, in the 21nd Ind.
Vols., in the beginning of the war, but was transferred to the
artillery service, and was killed at Baton Rouge, after having
served two years. The youngest remains at home on the
old farm with his aged mother. Samuel, son of
Mr. Musgrove by his first wife, was a soldier in the late
war. When Mrs. (Snook) Musgrove came to Parke
county there was but one log house where Rockville now is, and
but two families in Howard township besides her father's.
Mr. Samuel Musgrove was trustee of Howard township one
term, and in politics was a republican. He was an
energetic, successful farmer, and a strict church member.
His second wife united with the Methodist Episcopal church, of
which he was a member, at the first camp meeting held in the
county. By his death, in 1874, the church lost a
faithful, benevolent member and officer, his wife a kind and
affectionate husband, his children a generous, obliging and
loving father. |
| ANDREW
J. MYERS, farmer, Wallace, was born in North Carolina
in 1819, and is the son of Daniel and Mary (Shuby) Myres,
both natives of North Carolina. The former was drafted
in the war of 1812. The grandfather Myres
emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania, then to North
Carolina. His father was one of eleven brothers, and
raised a family of thirteen children. A. J. Myres
was married in 1849 to Martha Brant, of Fountain
county, daughter of James and Sally (Morgan) Brant,
both natives of Kentucky. By this union there are six
children: James D., Sarah C., George W., William B.,
Francis F. and Mary E. His wife, Martha
(Brant) Myres, died in 1875. He was married in 1876
to Mrs. Mary T. Chark, formerly Miss Tinzley,
with whom he now lives. He came to Parke county with his
parents in 1830, when the country was a wilderness. When
he began life for himself he had but little except an
industrious good will. He now has a good farm of 192
acres in good cultivation and fairly stocked. He was
raised in the Lutheran faith. In politics he is a
democrat, of the Jackson type. During the war troubles
he remained neutral. He treated every one with respect,
and received the same treatment in return. |
| JOHN
C. REDDISH, farmer and stock raiser, Waveland, was born
in Kentucky in 1834, and is the son of Robert and Elizabeth
(Connelly) Reddish, both of whom were natives of Kentucky,
and immigrated to Parke county, Greene township, in 1844, and
settled three-fourths of a mile west of Parkeville; they
afterward moved to Howard township and settled on the old
Flemming-Johnson farm. The subject of this
sketch came to Parke county with his parents in 1844, and in
1854 he was married Mary J. Watson, daughter of
Richard and Sarah (Burford) Watson, both natives of Shelby
county, Kentucky. Her parents died shortly after coming
to Parke county; her father in 1837, aged thirty-three years,
and her mother in 1839, aged thirty years. Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Reddish have four children: Clayborn
W., husband of Eva C. Sutton, Lizzie B., Cora A.
and Effie J. They are members of the Missionary
Baptist church at Goshen, Washington township. He lost
two brothers in the late war. During the war he was
ready at any time to defend the laws and institutions of the
country. In politics he is a republican. In
practical business life he is a success. He owns a farm
of 240 acres of as good land as Howard township contains, and
has it fairly stocked. He formerly dealt in cattle
principally. He received no education outside of the
common school. |
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