Shelbyville  News
 Saturday, July 3, 1976
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Revolutionary War drummer boy's grave near Flat Rock
(Last of a Series) By ANTHONY SEED
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          Appropriate day for the announcement of  discovery.  The day prior to our country's 200 birthday -- day to tell of the grave of a Revolutionary War soldier.  Buried in Shelby County near Flat Rock; burial never been recorded officially.
          The grave sits under a tree with only half the gravestone still standing nearby.
          Moris VanWay, a 76-year-old Shelbyville resident, remembers sitting under the tree as a small boy.  He took this reporter back to the spot earlier this week.
          Grave is on the farm of  Garnet Hamilton on S.R. 252 just west of Flat Rock.
          The half gravestone remaining reads  "Job Pope, May 16th, 1766, died…" The other half of the stone, according to VanWay, explained where Job Pope had died and the fact that he had served in the Revolutionary War as a drummer boy.
          Pope would have been 10 years old, and he survived the war.  It was not uncommon for young boys to serve in the army.
          Site about half a mile off the road, overlooking open pasture, side of  hill.  There are 12 known Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Shelby County, according to the Shelby County library.  Job Pope is not listed with them.
          John Porter, a 70-year-old Flat Rock resident,  Dr. V. B. Scott, a retired Shelbyville physician, and Van Way made the trip to the grave.
          Grave is located on old Porter property, belonged to  John Porter's father.  Porter remembered his father having once written down the info about the stone.
          Across the street from the Hamilton farm lives  Albert Porter,  Job Porter's cousin.  Porter searched an old barn on Albert's property, finding the date of  Job Pope's death, 1832, age 76 years old at death.
          The plaque in the library, dated 1923, lists 12 men buried in this county to actually have fought or participated in the Revolutionary War.  Now twelve.
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Photograph of  Job Pope's burial marker


THE  SHELBYVILLE  REPUBLICAN
 January 22, 1948
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Fire Damages
Motor Terminal
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          An undetermined amount of property owned by the Lucas Motor Freight Company, of Shelbyville, and two other trucking firms was destroyed today in a two-alarm fire at the Indiana Motor Freight trminal[sic] at Indianapolis.  Spokesmen for the Lucas concern said they were unable to learn immediately just how much of the company's property was involved in the blaze.
          The fire broke out at the loading dock at the terminal this morning, and firemen said three big overland trucks and a quantity of inflammable merchandise were afire.  They saved 47 other trucks which were parked nearby.
          A fireman and a police sergeant were injured while efforts were being made to bring the flames under control.  The fireman, Roy Pope, Jr., was but by falling glass, and the policeman, Robert Smith, was injured when he slipped and fell on the ice from water poured on the burning dock.
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THE  SHELBYVILLE  VOLUNTEER
 Thursday January 26, 1871
Page 3 column 3
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DEED  FILED  WITH  COUNTY  RECORDS
For Record, For The Week Ending Tuesday Evening, January 24, 1871
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          Elijah E. Pope  and wife to  Madison Kelly, part South East ½ Section 4 Township 14 Range 7.  $400.00
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THE  SHELBY  UNION  BANNER
 May 12, 1864
page 2, col 4
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THE  STATE  OF  INDIANA }Ss.
Shelby County,                     }
In the Common Pleas Court, July Term, 1864.
Virginia Fay,               }
Hiram Fay,                 }
Caroline Pope,           }
John Pope,                  }
Horace Stewart,          } Complaint
Benjamin T. Stewart, } for
              vs.                 } Partition.
Permelia A. Roberts,   }
James Roberts,            }
Tazwell Stewart,         }
William A. Stewart.     }
Be it remembered, that on this 25th day of April, A.D. 1864, the plaintiffs, by David, Wright & Green, their attorneys, filed in the Clerk's office of the Common Pleas Court of said county, their petition in the before entitled action, and also the affidavit of competent person that said defendants, Wm. A. Stewart, Permelia A. Roberts, and James Roberts, are non-residents of the Stat of Indiana: said defendants are therfore notified of the filing and pendency of said petition, and they are hereby each required to personally be and appear before the Judge of said Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be held at the Court House in the city of Shelbyville, Shelby county, Indiana, on the first Monday of July A.D. 1864, and then and there answer or demur to said petition, or the matters and things therein contained will be heard in their absence and decided upon accordingly.
Attest: ALONZO BLAIR, Clerk.
D. W. & G. for pl'ffs.
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