The Shelbyville News
Saturday January 17, 1948
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YOUR TOWN – LEWIS CREEK
By Hortense Montgomery
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The most that
historians have to say about Lewis Creek is that it is located on the J.M. and
I. Railroad, which perhaps still serves freight transportation but does not
accommodate passenger service. Also that it had a post office at one time.
We had an interesting interview, over the telephone, with the daughter of Mr.
Ed Hawkins, one of the older citizens, and found that the village now has
one grocery store owned and managed by Mrs. Willard Evans and a
confectionary owned by Rufus Evans. A slaughter house where custom
butchering is done managed by Emerson Harrell. There is a Grain Elevator
and Supply Company managed by James Buchanan. There is one filling
station.
A Wesleyan Methodist Church, built after the first one was burned, gives the
village its religious opportunity for worship. An Odd Fellows Lodge is the
outlet for the men’s fraternal expression. A four-room school, now abandoned
served the children of the community before the time of the consolidated school.
Mr. Hawkins’ mother was one of the pioneer settlers and landowners; he has
always retained a part of her original land and only recently bought another
tract. Hiram Drake is another pioneer of this community and he and his
wife are both past 80 years of age. In the village now are exactly 22 homes and
57 residents.
Contributed by Barb Huff
The Shelbyville Republican
Friday, October 7, 1898
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LEWIS CREEK.
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The school is
prospering under the teaching of Jesse Scudder and Linnie
Deiwert.
Stanley
and Harry Johnson, who have been sick with scarlet fever, are able to
be out again.
Inez and
Grace Mitchell, Allie and Eunice Fateley are going to
school at Lewis Creek this winter.
While at school Monday, Ursey
Weintz was thrown down and got a hard spill, but was not seriously
hurt.
Eunice Fateley
is learning to play a mandolin under the teaching of Hawkins
and he is learning to play a guitar under Eunice.
Between Friday evening
and Monday morning some one got into the school house and that person had better
keep still. This is his first attempt and he had better let it be his
last.
The scholars of the Lewis
Creek school have made up enough money to get a flap for the school
building. We want to be patriotic. The flag is ten by five. It
will help the looks of the [the article continues].
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
1868 Lewis Creek
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