MARION TOWNSHIP, Dec. 30. ----- Willie DePrez is on the sick list.
A small number of M. W. A. held an interesting meeting Saturday night.
School begins here Monday, after a three days' holiday.
Mr. George Nanve and wife of Owlridge spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rhoades.
Miss Fannie Tadlock has been passing the past week with friends and relatives in Indianapolis.
Messrs. Albert and Ovid Silverthorn of this place are spending a wekk[sic] with their brother Charles in Anderson.
Mr. Charles Merrick of this place made a trip with his huckster wagon to Indianapolis last week.
The primary classes of this school highly entertained the high school ....
Copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelbyville, Indiana, Daily Democrat
Tuesday, May 29, 1894
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OLDHAM'S MILL.
Wheat is heading out very
uneven.
J. W. Harrell1
lost a fine heifer last week from the effects of wet clover.
James Ricketts
and wife, of Brady, spent the day at J. E. Rinehart's Sunday.
T. B. Carey2
has the contract of painting the Fairview church. Good for you, Bent.
Mrs. Marie Totten3
and her little son Frankie, of Indianapolis, spent last week with her sister, Mrs.
Elijah Ensminger.
Mr. and Mrs. Rafe
Alexander are the parents of a fine boy, but unfortunately the little
fellow is minus a hand. Perhaps he may make his way through life better
than some who have two hands.
Thomas Fisher, an
aged resident of Moral township, died at his residence last Sunday morning, and
was buried Tuesday in the graveyard on the farm belonging to Cyrenius Bishop.
The services were held at East Union church, conducted by Rev. Hughes.
Mrs. Nancy Hankins4,
accompanied by her little children, were at Poland's school house the other
night at church. On returning home, and just in front of the school house,
they ran over a large rock in the road overturning the carriage, but fortunately
no one was hurt.
Some neighbors of Thomas
Means one night last week thought they would clean up his corn field,
so they rolled the cumbersome articles and carried straw and tried to burn them,
but they would not burn. Then they discovered that instead of being logs
they were great big clods.
BUFFALO BILL.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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Notes from Mary Harrell Sesniak
1
Judge (given name, not title) William Wick Harrell, son of Byrum & Sally (Hubble) Harrell.
In
1894, he was married to wife #3, Lettie May Jenkins (#1 Lodema Ann Drake,
#2
Josephine E J Day.) JW & Lettie/Lottie are listed in a City Directory
living in Greenfield in 1891, but he still owned land in Brandywine Twp.
2
Thomas Benton Carey who first married Susan F Reed April 05, 1868
and then married Margaret Ensley c. 1893.
3
Mary Matilda Oldham was the daughter of Joseph O. and Matilda
(Harrell) Oldham; she was the wife of John Jackson Totten. Her
sister was Clarinda Lenie Oldham, wife of Elijah Ensminger and the
daughter of Joseph O. and Matilda (Harrell) Oldham.
4
Nancy M Wright was the wife of Lewis C Hankins; they were married on February 12, 1880.
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Marion Township is bounded on the north by Van Buren
and Hanover Townships, on the east by Liberty, on the south by Addison, and on the west by Brandywine Townships.
It is five miles square, and Big Blue River passes through the center.
A number of the earliest settlers have already been
enumerated in speaking of "the first town" in the county, Marion. In addition, the following may also
be mentioned:
Stephen D. Ludlow
Henry T. Gaines
Hugh and Nathaniel Gatewood
William G. Morris
John Hawk
Peter and John Jarling
Joseph Vernon
Among the best farms in the township the following
may be named:
Jesse Rodes
Henry T. Gaines
Elbert Morris
Mrs. Ellen Bass
Hiram Bass
Leason Bass
Michael and George Billman
William Kaster
Jacob Howery
George B. Huffman
Stephen D. Ludlow
Sylvester Bassett
Whitlock and Larkin Arnold
Leander Fox
A.R. Sleeth
E.V. Morrison
Charles Billman
Henry Pond and
Moses Bowman.
There are seven schools in Marion Township; three
of them have substantial and handsome brick houses and at Marion there is a graded school. There are three interesting
churches in this township--the Liberty Baptist Church, the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal, and the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Marion. ~ ~
From the Atlas of Shelby Co., Indiana, Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co, 1880, page 14.
SHELBY UNION BANNER
April 14, 1864
Page 3, col 2
Township Elections -- Official.
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MARION.
Union. Copperhead
Trustee.
L Kennedy...........73 .....................
Constable.
Charles M. Sleeth...70 ....................
T. Kennedy..........71 ....................
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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