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PARKE COUNTY, INDIANA
CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL
Published under the auspices of
The Rockville Chautauqua Association.
1916
Pg. 117
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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UNION TOWNSHIP
Union Twp. -
JOHN MARTIN purchased at land office
in Terre Haute in 1820, half of Section 23 in Union
township, settled on it with his wife and eleven children in
1821, coming from South Carolina. They built a log
house and at once began clearing away the forest. He
was a blacksmith and gunsmith and often repaired the guns of
the Delaware and Miami Indians passing along there trail,
who frequently camped on his land. Mrs. Martin
made clothes for the children out of buck skin. The
Indiana frequently got drunk, but one of the bunch would
remain sober. At the age of sixteen John Martin,
sr., served under Washington in the Revolution. A
number of his descendants are now living in the east part of
the County.
Source: Parke County, Indiana Centennial Memorial - Publ
1916 - Pg. Page 121 |
Union Twp. -
THOMAS WOLEVRTON also purchased land
the same year that John Martin did. In Sections
20 and 30, some of which is now owned by his descendants.
March 1, 1827, he married Rebecca Crawford, age sixteen, in
Franklin County, Indiana, and at once came on horseback to
this County, and began life in a little house he had built.
Charles W. Aydelett, who lives in Rockville, owns
part of the original farm, coming to him through his mother
who was a daughter of the subject of this sketch.
Source: Parke County, Indiana Centennial Memorial - Publ
1916 - Pg. 121 |
Union Twp. -
JOHN NOBLE was born July 20, 1829, in
Shelby County, Ky., and came to Parke County with his
parents, James and Sarah Noble, the same year.
He was married to Martha Stagg in 1851. He was
a farmer; several times justice of the peace, assessor of
Union township, leaving to his children at his death several
hundred acres of land.
Source: Parke County, Indiana Centennial Memorial - Publ
1916 - Pg. 121 |
Union Twp. -
JOHN COLLINGS was born in Shelby
County, Ky., April 22, 1795. He and his wife settled
in Union township in 1833. Their son, John, was
then four years old, and became the owner of his fatehr's
farm, which he possessed until his death. At the age
of 21 he married Sarah A. Connelly, both of whom were
faithful members of the Missionary Baptist church.
Source: Parke County, Indiana Centennial Memorial - Publ
1916 - Pg. 121 |
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