Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 February 1895 — Page 2

THE BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 6 IH95

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More snow. We are preparing a “pome.” The two bright failures of this season are Queen Lil. and Grover < The funeral of Gen. Manson will occur at Crawfordsviile Thursday ufleruouQ nt I ,3o o'vloc 1 .., Dv. W. L. til' nvii.iit uiivi Dr. II. A. T je’je. being in charge. ()i'k reptirt of the v-oun-ty Historical society’s meeting tabes considerable space foi we believe it deserves it. The society will grow to great proportions in due time, it being a worthy enterprise. Our KfTorta Appreciated. To the Editor Banner Times: Hear Sir:—The members of the Historical society of Putnam county, by unanimous vote, hereby tender to you their cordial thanks for the interest you have manifested in the welfare of the society, and for the kindly notices you have generously given to aid in its organization and secure its future success. J. R. M. Allen, Pres. T. W. Taylor, Rec. See.

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Monroe in “My Aunt Bridget" is a great character. See him at the opera hou* 1 this e/euing. It

“My Aunt liririKet ** Ohio state .Journal. , George W. Monroe opened a three nights’ engagement at the Grand last night in “My Aunt Bridget.” Mr. Monroe’s creatioi of the good natured, blundering Aunt Bridget will be fondly re membered when many farce comedy creations have drifted into oblivion. Last night his spontaneous, “Oh, By Gosh, ’ created just as much laughter as when he first sprung it on Columbus eight years ago. His explosive laugh is as infectious as ever. He has introduced two clever bits of natural comedy in the play, his fortunetelling scene and his soliloquy in the third act. His “Oh, gee, 1 got the blues,” was the signal for a roar from the audience. This is the last season of “My Aunt Bridget.” and the next three perform ances will be the last in Columbm. Mr. Monroe always surrounds himself with a clever company. The specialties this season are all new, prominent among which are Monroe's, “The Seven Husbands” and his original, “Kh ! Did I Hear You.” Raymcnd Hitchcock, as Alton the impecunious nephew, gave an excellent rendition of the part, ably seconded by Ben Grinnell as Jack. Grinned is an ex ceeding clever singer and dancer. Thomas Grady, as the tough, lent new coloring to that character, and his song was the hit of the medley. Lindseo Morrison possesses a tine bass voice and uses it effectively in a well selected solo. Miss Falk, a newcomer, sings a pretty ballad with much feeling and finish. A pretty and effective Dora is Miss Mamie Ryan, a protege of Clara Morris. Lottie Collins has an American rival in Miss Nellie Bland, who. in addition to her exceptional musical accomplishments, proved a dainty comedienne. The fetching souhrette, Miss Mabel Florence, sang and danced herself into favor at the head of the hand of pickaninnies that closed the hurrah of the second act. Mr Monroe can congratulate himself as closing the final tourot jolly old Aunt Bridget with the public confidence at his elbow. At opera GietL'C-aefle, U,r ! ght. When Other* Fall 1 Hood’' '■“ir.npsrilla hiuld* up th«* uinftered system by giving vigorous action to the digestive organs, creating an appetite and purifying the blood. It is prepared by modern methods, possesses the greatest curative powers, and has the most wonderful record of actual cures of any medicine Ir. existence Take only Hood’s. Hood’s Bills are purely vegetable, and do not purge, pain or gripe. Z.ic

The Weather. The indications for this vicinity for the coming thirty-six hours are as follows as received by H. S Renick A Co. from the official weather bureau at Indianapolis: Indianapolis, Feb. ti, 189c. Heavy snow and colder tonight, Thursday snow and scjlverccoid wave. Moore. Later—Heavy drilting snows and high winds tonight likely to inter few with travel, followed Thursday by much colder, northerly winds. Harrington.

THE OPENING MEETING. Of the I’litnum t'oiinty Hifttorteal Society a Very SurceHMtiil Kvent. About one hundred people were gathered in the cheerfully lighted and warmed G. A R. hall, u splendid room by the way, last evening to witness and to take part in the first minor meeting of the now thor oughly alive Putnam County Historical society. Chairman J R. M. Allen culled the audience to order at 7:25 o’clock. Rev. Jenkins offered prayer after which the choir, composed of Misses Hammond, Grubb. Graham, Gifford, Barnahy, Spencer, Hathaway, Messrs. Black, Steele and Grooms, rendered “Mv Country’Tis of Thee.” The music was splendid and the opening nuim her and succeeding selections were greatly enjoyed. The first paper of the evening was “Some Revolutionary Soldiers” by Hon. W. 11 Ragan, and it proved to he one of great interest and information. Mr. Ragan prefaced his remarks by saying it was re markable that Putnam county should have furnished a home for any survivor of the Revolutionary struggle, but it was more remarka hie that five survivors of that great struggle had settled in a neighborhood embracing not over six square miles, lying immediately nortli and cast of Fillmore, in which their sa cred ashes still remain. Three of the soldiers are remembered by Mr. Ragan, the others dying before his recollection. There is perhaps no area in the state so small where so many patriots of the War of Inde pendence spent their last days and the theme was one most happily chosen by the program committee, who surely intrusted the subject to good hands. The area spoken of embraces a portion of Floyd and Marion towhships. three of the sol uiers having resided in the former and two in the latter. The soldiers’ names were Abraham Stohaugb, Silas Hopkins, Samuel Denny. John Bartee and Benjamin Mahornev. So full of interest were Mr. Ragan’s descriptions of these five soldiers, who died in the order named above, that we herewith repi.duce his biography of each. Abraham Stobaugh came from Montgomery county, Virginia, in company with his son, the late Jacob Stoiiatigh, and settled in the south tii portion of Floyd township. He was the graudfaiher of Mrs. A. M. Robinson, of Fillmore, and of the late Mrs. Owen, the wife of our fellow townsman aid ex-county recorder, George Owen. From Mrs. Robison I learn that this worthy patriot died in September, 1S30, and that he was buried with the honors of war. A militia company fromGreencasile, commanded by the late Colonel Lewis H. Sands, fired the salute at the grave. He was buried in a private cemetery on the old Gorham farm, in Marion township. There is today no tra e of his grave remaining, none at least that would identify it among those of numerous friends and relatives. Mr. Stobausrh left quite a large number of descendants, some of whom still remain in the neighborhood of his former home. Silas Hopkins, if traditi n may be credited, was a native of the pity of Baltimore, and a supposed relative of ihe late millionaire merchant and pbilantropist, Johns Hopkins, whose name will eo down to posterity in connection with the great university his beneficence endowed. E llas Hopkins was the father of the somewhat noted John Deroysha Hopkins, whose eccentric characteristics will be well remembered by many who are present. He was also the fa ( her of the lafe Mrs. Thomas G irham with whom he made his home. Patriot Hopkins was in some particulars not unlike his eccentric son. His death occurred near the close of the fourth decade of this century. How long or i’ *\ hat ,i. ■! u... f - , v' • •.111rionarv struggle and in what branch of the service or under whit command these patriots served, is perhaps unknown to living mortals: hut that they were iev<d>in..iiarv nopl'ier* there l« per a shadow of doubt. Jacob Stohaugb, the son of Abraham, wa* a veteran of the war of 1812, and some of the descendants of Silas Hopkins laid down their lives to preserve that government which he gave his best years to the establishment of. Even Ins eccentric son John L>., was for a time a Union soldier in the a ur of the rebel ion. Although at the time he was beyond the age of military service, he enlisted in Company C, seventieth Indiana regiment, and served part of the second yeat of the war as a member of that regiment, which was commanded by the only living ex-president of the United States. At least four grandsons uNo served in the Union army, two of whom Silas and Thomas Gorham, laid down their lives in their country’s service, and now rest side by side in the village cemetery at Fillmore. There is something sadly pathetic in the story of the death of these patriotic grandsons of Silas Hopki s. They had survived the mtshaos of war from IKiil to when one of the brothers began to decline in health. The war was over, and they were really it" longer needed at the front. So the sick brother w as given a furlough to Ids home, and for company the well one was sent, with him. On Hie Vandalia tram, while halting at the Grecui a'tie station, and within six miles of home and friends, tint invalid brother quietly breathed Ins last. The survivor tenderly supported the lifeless

form of his brother in Ids arms until the train reached Fillmore, where kind and loving triends performed tti • last and rites. But one short month elapsed until the remaining brother was gently laid by li s sole “in the shadow f the stone.” In flmse early days almost every farm had its private hurial place, in which the members of the family and friends were interred. Tlf Gorham f inn was not an exception to lids general rule. On tiie north end of lids farm, known to the older residents as llic Judge Mnitli. or Gorham farm, and now oa tied by \lt»ert O Luck ridge of tills city, and the first land in the township conveyed by the government ton private individual, is one of these little n gleeted hurial places. T he locaiion is obscure. and tint for a few rough stones, one of which hears the indistinct inscription “W. B.” there is n. light to indicate that it is a pioneer cemetery in which many of the early setths sleep their long sleep. Here rest the mortal remains of Abraham Stobaugh and Silas Hopkins of revnluti' Htiry memory. But a few fleeting years will elapse until tins little graveyard will he entirely unknown and forgotten. ami posterity will then hive naught hut tradition as i guide to tlil« sacred spot where lie two of the founders of our republic. Samuel Denny resided in the southern part of Floyd township, on what is now known as the Gravel Bit farm, which is owned by the Big Four railway. His home was with an adopted daughter, Mrs. Isiuie Yeates, lie having had no children of Ids own. Mr. Itennv first settled in Warren township, where Ins wife died md was buried. He was the great uncle of our fellow-townsman. James T. Denny, esq. Batriot Deiinv had long predicted that Id-death would occur on the 4th of July, which prediction was verified by the fact. In the early summer of isi:i, Ids rapid decline was noted, and on the nation's sixty seventh birthday. Id- gentle sp pit took leave of earth. I well remember Mr. De itiv, and h ave him pictured in my mind as a m >st venerable personage, indeed he w is highly respected and honored by all who knew him. 1 have already referred to the fact that he raised no children of Ids own. It is, however, a well-verified tradition that he raised thirteen orphan children by adoption, tints showing the great benevolence of Ids character. He wii“ buried in Warren township at what is known as Deer Creek Baptist cemetery by the -ide of his deceased wife, and I have no doubt with the honors of war so well befitting the day and the occasion. John Bartee’* Imme was on a fraction of the same faun on which Batriot Denny died, and to which he iiad in some way acquired a fee simple title. The e were ten acre- of the little honicsteu 1 upon which he resided. He lived in an humble log cabin, with but oi.c room. Here, in company with Ins fee-ble-minded second wife and still more imbecile daughter, he spent his last day* in extreme poverty. The fato'ly were objects of charit 1 ’. Through the exertions of the late An lerson B. Mattl - ews, himself a member of the board <o county commissioners, that body made a -mall appropriation. I am not able to say just how nnicli, in support of this superannuated veteran; hut with all this, only a small share of the good things of earth fell to the lot of our worthy patriot in Ids declining years. At the age of sixteen, lie participated in the siege of Yorktown and the cap lure of Lord Cornwallis. His death occured in February of 184S, and he was hurled in the little graveyard on the Yeates farm, near by Ids former home. Benjamin Mahornev, the fifth and last survivor, and perhaps among the very last of ids race, died in the summer of 1854, more than seventy years afier the close of the great struggle in which he was an active participant. His residence was in the northern portion of Marion township, and immediately on the line of the Bi^ Four railway, one mile east of the little station of Darwin, lie lived with his son, Owen Mahornev, who made him comfortable in ids last days. He was a most venerable personage, known to the people of the neighborhood as one worthy of veneration and respect. His hair wa« as white as the driven snow. He wa< a Virginian and eni sled from Farquire county, in that state, indie spring of 1779, fora term of eunceen mo iths. He served under (’apt. Walls, in Col. Buford’s regiment of Virginia militia. His regiment met the British cavalry under the celebrated Col. Tarlc-

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ton, at Waxhaw, North Carolina and were repulsed with great loss in killed, wounded an I prisoners. Batriot Maliorney was one of the few who escaped without injury or capture. His term of enli-tment dosed on Oct. 25th. I7MI). nearly seventy-four yeais prior to Id* I ■ leatli in this county. From the records : of our county clerk’s office, I learn that I lie made application for a pension, at the April term of court in 1833, and that he was at that time seventy-three years of age. From this record I also learn the above fact* concerning hi* enlistment and service in the patriot cause. At the time of In* death there was in the neighborhood a military company with headquarters at the village of Fillmore and commanded by Janies II. Summers, a Mexican war veteran and afterward* colonel of an Iowa rejiment in the war of the rehellion. Captain Summers called together hi* company, and tired a salute over tieopen grave of the last survivor of Revolution memory in the neighborhood. The interment was at what is known as tne Smvthe graveyard.just south of the Vandalia railway, and one mile east of Fillmore. It is probahlethat the grave of Mr. Mahornev might still be identified. An ineideiit occurred after the hurial of Batriot Mahornev, when Captain Summers. with Ids conipary, returned to Fillmore to store their guns in the company’s armory. A member of the company, Noah Alley also a Mexican vi teran, and afterwards killed at Cedar Mountain, Virginia, as a memberof the Twenty-seventh Indiana regiment, through an awkward mishap thrust the fixed bayonet of Ids musket through his leg just above the ankle, making a serious and painful wound. The village hoys, out of juvenile coriositv, had gathered about the military company, rnd were many of them witnesses to tins painful accident. The writer well remembers the impression it made on ids youthful mind, and this incident will go down in his memory associated with the death and hurial of the last survivor of the Revolutionary struggle in that part of Butnain county, if not In the state. Of these five Revolutionary patriots, two only, Hopkins and Stobaugh, have living descendants in our midst. Denny, it will he remembered, had no children of his own. Bartee’s wife and daughter are long since dead, and the younger Mahornev, after Id* father’s death, together with his family removed to Fountain county where they have been lost to sight, in the busy throng that now throbs and pulsates through our land. Mr. D. K. Williamson, at the conclusion of the paper, arose and said : “I remember a Revolutionary soldier who was very old, had lost his ■-C..*. a.e. ««..iiOI5ki t.'ii 'iliTlili, and who was kept lu aa a,rL.‘c:’.ai.' and fed like a child, and yet when one could oet tip* oh! feHow’c mir.d aroused he would remember the scenes of that terrible struggle, and I am satisfied that others like myself had but little knowledge of the fact that Putnam county, and such a small portion of territory had the honor of the presence, the close of life and the burial of those distin guished old heroes who made our liberty possible at this time. That the facts of Mr. Ragan be perpetuated. I move that his paper be tiled with the secretary of this society.” 1 his was done and the paper went into the records. “Auld Lang Syne” was sung with Miss Stella Grubb in the solo part, the audience joining in the chorus, after which Mr. T. 0. Grooms spoke on the subject of the “Opening Gun.” The speaker said that ids subject covered fourteen milt-s, atid ail the territory to Kel river! In referring to the gun he sa:d it came to this country for the

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militia, but there was no record t how it came here. It was muc neglected, not being housed, an when the “Internal Improvemet Bill” was passed in 1830 it wi fired in the direction of Putnan ville, between which town an Greeneastle there was much riva ry at that time over the county sea On July 4, 1845, the gun wt rammed full of mud, sod, cla horse-shoe nails and slugs, an burst under the glorious enthus asm of the day. Mr. Grooms sai the subject of “First Gun” coverc so much ground he could not git it all; it meant the first coming t pcTnOus lu the county, first officii hint couits, organization t the county and other early thing! the first court, was iietii in h hou: near the forks of Kel river, on tl land now owned by Ed. Huffm.i March 7, 1822; the first case wi Wm. M. Blair vs. John Hamiltot first criminal case Nathan Bak< for horse stealing, with Thoms Black prosecuting attorney; fin violation of liquor law was Sils Weaks; first divorce was Klish vs. Charity Mullinix; first slamb suit was in 1820; first murder wt that of Thomas James in 182; Henry Secrest and Louis H. Sant were lined lor fighting a duel; $ was paid for first liquor Been privilege (it now costs $400); Re ben Ragan’s name first appeared road viewer in 1829- the “Piowboi was the first newspaper; May 1837, Asbury university appearet tlic first execution occurred inIS4 one Thompson, and he was hut within thirty days after his arrei swift justice those days. M (Continued on /‘at/e J.)

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