The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 August 1932 — Page 4

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PLTNAMVILLE HISTORY GIVEN

OiMMl M M HAS M AN ^ INTKRriNG i M IS l» \ I IN*. H \( l\ M \ NY YKARS.

The annual Putna nville home coming ne\t Sunday has resulted in the |i>■ paration of an interesting history nl that cuinmunit) dating back to its f. indinji: on the National road more than it hundred years atro. By a mere ihance (ireencastle instead of Putn; i.vill bt-eamt' the home of DePauw university. h’ollowinff ire some interestin" 1 fa: t connected with founding of the (V. irr.'.nity and later day history. Warren township lies immediately iiitli of Giei lie istle township. The : orla. e of t* 1 ' tnwn.-nip is undulatinL’ and i parts quite broken. The soil a clay loam, wi'h some very r ini •tt land along Deer creek. The a.vnship was on e i avily limoere ! h oak, poplar, hard maple, and !i, nd ^ m grow th of''walnut and ni. Kory alon ■ the streams wi'.h a I I tiful supply f sycamore. It i,il by ]) -er reek, togethet with tributane-, which traverse the iwni hip froni e northeast to the nuthwest, along these streams are nune-rous never failing limestone ings. home of the early settlers wen : ,1 une Townsen, William Ha*': 1 * ", ouel Hawn, Benjamin Hawkins, <:• n." Pearcey, T omas Brown, John lb r n, Peier Waynich, Alexan r. Arthui and (lilit'ore Conley, John I;m,'. John Arnold, John Akin, Judge 1> We e, William W. Walden, Joh .Mer r, .1 icob Peek William Duckork, David Clearwater, John May, 'I in: McArthur, Joseph Denny, 'I liomas Hanco.'k, Daniel Helper. Denh: Williams, John Carrom, John C. •SiMlers, Nathaniel Hawki s Simu ! Wrelt, Winthington Williams, John Swi: , Archibald Cnoper, I In her' Win lall, John Woodall, Thomas M on . Joe Shinn, Janies Martin, l.ozi n I! (iainmiin. David Skelton, l.uke 1 In’ , yaniiiel Maiti: 1 , William !{■ bi rt Rnhin- iii, S inmel Steele, Kdward Heath, KIiIit Tlioma- Oatman (Chris-

'minister), Di D W 1 aynum, A W Welker, John M. Jenkins, Johi per, W. li. W ' ianis, Flower :t, Calvin Wood-, Je Hendricks, ph Clapsaddle, R' v. Ransoir 11 'ley, Polly Bi Elizabeth 1 1 is, John H iyn In an early day re weie twi potteries in the p w. p, one oper ated by Boyd & 1\ ihe ether by A. W. Welker. One of the mar 1 :: atures of tla township is r.- ex.elli -t-ne quarry one and on vhal: mi! west of Put iiarnville on the National road. Ti e li 'yes of the rock in the quarry vary from two inches t i fi\ fee in thick ness. Professor Cox, at o:e ti: e .stat y logi.-t, said thi done is almost the - une as wh.it ; known as Englis' fire, stone an I as ii is (10 pc cen gray granite it will last ns lori" atin e. Putnamville lin.esto e i known and used tin ighout the entin Cnited States. Putnamville is .-’Dinted on the N':. tional load almost i if wav is we r • Haute, ai An- laicr out b. ,1ami < Tow end i. 1830 on land puichased fr m E'waii 1 Hi ith. Mr. Townsen al ■> kept t'n fir-4 general store in Butt, affor 1 tu some of tii - early settlers a phiie t< swap yarrs, a- W'll as to buy thei 1 merjiandise. Tins -tote SI on been in so popular that it vv i mn followe ' by another owned by .Mr. Mi Kane, who said that nis flock of wliittlers was the best s* ry toll'ns in Putnamville, or Putnam county. The first - -he I was founded and taught in Putnamvill ■ in t e year 183-1 by i, Mr. Wakefield, '‘ ho enme her from ' - X- Enginnl stat The first black-mi*b .-hop in Put nmvilii was built the following year by A■ hibnld Cooper, and wn - oiie» itei by him for .-ev. r.il years, and like the ceiietal store, businei was so gnod that Ji hn Aiken opi-ne 1 , leoeial shop, which ’.vas s on folli w" I iiy the first waco hop, owned and operated by Hugh Thompson. In the eailv ia\- of Patna : ville it was aim" t impe-ishl- to get j-nns, or in fact, any "thi r ti teidal, from the then distant citie oi' In idi’oipolis or Terre Ha ite, and Jo - Morgan built the first • it ting machine which was operated ‘Mr many years. Th- first grist mill was ere. ted on Dear crr''k one half mill .outlie.i--t of Putnamville, Or*. Dh IH'dit ' ■ Mex ander Conley, allot! 'r was hiilt on the same cn ther of town, in th" year 1K'!| by Samuel Steel and Dr. I). V.' I.ayi’i m. Tb.iwa- early in the year and Putnnm-

.•ilie then boasted of having fifty icusi nd a copulation of 300. The postoffi ■ was established Det. 4. 834, w ’h D. W. Layman a- the first io»tmaster. Sonic* of hi.- succe sor.' Am, \\. Walker, 1840: Thom.«s l.o . . 851, M, Tfemlrt*; -. l8.»tt; ho:: a * Bril! res, 18(il; A. J. t lark, 8*>d: S C Bishop, I860; K. H. Bow’•ri, IS' ■ Kmmn Peck, 1880; and J. .1 Aowen, IS03. In ly day ’’utnamville ids' jval ' 1 istle lor the lm ion of , ...ni nine ■ ot :ble effoit t , 'ectire t h e ocati o: Asbury university. Ti ecun ti is the litiaens agreed to e-'ve thi* university a donation of ^2, >00, >ut thev were not -u essful. The Methodist church of P dram ille w organized in the vear 18h' it the ome i f John S. Pe-rv, th Rev. Thomas J. Brown offici'iting. Ich M Jenkins, John S. Perry, 1 tke Davis * wif . an | John Sv ■ md vife "(ne am :ng the fits! me Ihts. Soon after the organic:.lien the, r: ted a ne.it frame building .- a house of worship, which they routined to use untill about th year 185'! vhi■ b oy purchasi o the brick hoti. • iuiP by t'n* Presbyterians, w o wa e irgntmed Dec. 7, 18!!0, at tb honv >f James Townsen I by the Rev. '■■■.. • . Reed. The following were member f the original organization, .1 hRobinson, Samuel Moore, Alary Moore, Alexan er Conley, Jam Con ley, Jam - Townsend. Cath« i e Town end, Sarah Shell. M i t a \ 1, .ugh and Julia Ann Merrill. .1 '"ownsetHl warn the first ruling elder Amc.ng the first ministers wa r Uo. den iniidl Hill. Rev. Samuel I. \a Rev. James H. Shields and Rev. Wil liam W. Woods. The Rev. Ransom Hawley cime t, I’utnaniville in the year 1811 ami ■ ot • il a- pastor of the Presbyterian hurc’i until 1865, a period il 31 veins, which is ample evidence of *. e acceptability of his ministry and thi upright’ess of his life. The lb tael M. E. : hurch, tv ’Mle. a.-t of Putnamville on the National real was organized about the ea* 1835* The Christian church wv organized In Elder <4. P. Badge' 1871 Dr. D. W. Layman, wh.i came from Virginia, settled in Putnamville r 18:11, .vas the first modi id practition er in the township. He wn so sue cessful in i practice that no th i physiciad ever continued la g in thi attempt to rotnpe'e with bi’e. 11 was i man of upright and pleasing

man . but of very pronounced political views. A Dory is told that in the fall " 1854 i l umber of boisterous War • n sh i citizens, who had beet itti an, a Democratic meeting Gree .stle, reluming home on hie -, hack .ring the right, passe'! b' th kDt, ' ou and, knowing of hi pro d ITnion sentiments, v. rv •ou: 1 repeatedly chered for’Jeff Dav "i - r hidden by the darkness on t up, site side of the road, the oct as i , '*1 to distinguish th ride ' i“y noisily flew by, bu hjs in 'aiitly :n i completely a d a • pi la* I tip a stone an 1 hail it '. th all hi rripat in the iili o tlie idse. A little 1'tei m me tiding up to tin* doctor’ iou I a k d the physician to ac com ' i down the road to see ; w...s hurt and nee led medical attentior. t rolat"d the dnetor year , “l was - little suspicious, hut I ha 1 never failed to answer a ■all my profe-sional services, 1 ■uni 1 at o’i"e and sot oat for the s.e: ,f trauble A short (listanc low * ite ro ■ isi.le we came upon a gnu mar the fe-ct*, in the center of vhii a line 1 a man who was lileedng "fu-rlv from :i wound in hi: hem w hi h hi- companions explained had n i-niised by a fall from hicorr A light was procured and there hr its dim rays I pave the wou d*d man the medical and surgical ttention the case sremel to •• quir Of c tirse there was somi D-k. d I kept my eyes peeled all the die but I pretended to he ainno i: a * they and so far as f oul I i vo there was not the -dig t ,attempt t * molest me. In 'act in in oil mar came t > my of‘ico and, still maintaining an air if i n ■, offered to pay me fer vy w bch 1 declined, mean i d’-rr him of the dangcrou vs ■ idng for Jeff Davis, • less 1 am sure he never forgot.” A w fi r Putnamville as I have ear it in the following years. I ot time I a k you who are gat! i e 11 forget that you an livi;, the year 1933, ai d go hack o t biM and 70- of the 19t: •on! * village extending over : nili is th sides cf the National 'nail street leading to the demit :nd iI t i flrce* castle passing thn he tenter. It was not the ms! illage of stage coach days t - platform for passengers 'or Monon railroad, located at he spring, but it was Putnam-

cille after she had :'anv " t ur . ( tlie county seat ac.i! also, Asbury umvrsity. The church and the m ’ v , ' ro ,nf it f siiuivi-s of merest fiuencp reached far ami neai in «« trong character. Wort ugtnti B. \' il'iams was a graduate of DartMu N. il.: Dr. D. W. I ended the University o A irvinia, mil the Jefferson medical college of '•inlaiielphia. Low a. i Lina Hawley mil Mrs. Albeit Layman w rP gradates of Mt. Holvoke, Mass. .Mrs. Nate Layman “D a '' ' p k D*e ojrls school at t'r.'iwfordsville. Josiah William, and hi . lister attended at Poughkeepsie, N Y., o*' Hu,Is. n river. John Kingsbury wo g radiated from Wabash liofor- toe ( ivil var. Mrs. Belle Chirk ‘'Pomi nD” atended the state university at Bloomngten and was a teacher in the chools of this state. Belle S..Bish p and Ella Chaplin vere -tu ent o’ Mr. Mdligali, .: h• sbyti is mill ’ : . c* Gosport. Benjamin Park was a 'ta'itist preicher and tea er. Miss Mary Grigatiy, later .Mr-. Boy !, was vcimui/ed a a pioneer ii education ■'i:r he taught when women had 1 '>< id many rights and privileges a ; they inw have. Sh paved the way for all the women teachers of biter years Iheclore fjtvmoo, Dick Bowen an Mrs. Sally ‘‘Wills” Mullis, we: * 1 o, who t ivght in tlie village. Mrs. lb t Irix wi t to tl fiist mentioned an earned to read, write and pell under his direction. iTfte old school h ii- ■ had tv« ronms. anil •hihlren played ante over and in it tudied lessors. The teacher went home at ■ oo i and the dinner pupils, the lb yle; , th • Leontir s, tlie Farrow gills and any ne who wished to do SO, \V(*ie left to do cs they ftletised They h I v. > trouble until .the holiday thne, an 1 •■n fire cracker* stirred i>: ; " In evi ry -cliuol there are some bo , ■ iys, and as men are only boys grown .!!, two of these hoys were Jam 1 Kingsbury nad V.ch ti r Hester. They nuld put fire , rackets in the rnvi . nd the pipe w ..lid come down ta d the door blow off. frightening thi girls cut of their ser ses. They naturally would run acro-s the s' root tth" stores a id then -ome one wou! i tell how the girls were running th streets. The McGuffey spelling book, thi choosing up each Friday afternoon, the spelling school, er.il head marks with prizes as a reward, made for

bette" -pellers than we have new. Theic wete two hurches, the Methodist and Presbyterian, and preaching as they called it, was held one Sunday at one church and th * next. Sun ay at the other. Consequently ma v oeople went to both churches and felt perfectly at home. The men -at on one side of tae room and the women on the other, wh !.* ie ohb r ones who were active in the service occupied the seats in ti;,. lie c ■ me is facing the pulpit, known as the Amen corners. O little girl went b the P'esby tell:.n church ait I Sunday school and , I, v had -I ,■ tiii d to re a 1 etviugn I pter in the Bible to commit , a ver-es t , bo one of the g, o I < ■ for t e Sun la} ■< picnic to carry o: e of the two ri'ii n i eamei.s that floated from a l: whi i* banner with a motto on it. But ■ r ambition was never realized, Cataie Williams and Tina Furrow won that honor. Th goad people that came dew: i, , les were Di Layman, stately I dignified; Mr Worthington Wil:am-, her hair in curls, her cheeks ro y a a girls; Mrs. Hawley in a r i Mu ss and little bonnet, gentle a" full of reverence; Mrs. Stone and Mi Wailen, in black dresses and smili' g. Mr.-. Ingram, Alls. Stoops, Mrs. Bowen, Mis. Fasti r. Mrs. Hainev, Mr- Ji Si'IIpis an 1 Mrs. Willy Sels. Amt Betty Davis, ti Methodist, . 'ii failed to come with a silk dress 1 1 nail ra|K>, a ruffled silk bon * <>’.. amber beads and several rings, a turki ' wing fan, and her handkerhit 1 held exactly in the middle, be.vien her thumb and little finger. She had n individuality all her own, very brusque in manner, if she greatly favored the pteacher of her church he hung his picture in her window n ! i' -hi became peeved at him she t on e took it down. She was al- ' vs promising the girls she would leave them ea ii a quilt in her will, ifte, hi r death we never heard of my girls getting them. Mr Row. '\ Air. Stoops, John Sel- , Mr. Oriesbv and Dr. Layman. ...... always called out. sat in the n ; bile |p\vs with the Oneals, the Ike1 II . Fathei Mi Walden, Mr. Heater, Mi Ii vraat, Jo* Sellers and Mr. L'lwen were in the Amen corners. '•Mi • a William- was the organist nd the choir sat around her. In the M. tln-li-t church the Welkers, the Beck . (bo Beetles, t o McGrews, the Sinclair-, the Boyds, tke Perrys, the

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