| THE PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF RIPLEY COUNTY, INDIANA
COMPILER, VIOLET E. TOPH, VERSAILLES, INDIANA |
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| A Special THANKS goes to RCHS member, Pati Smith of Florida, for extracting and typing this history index for the Ripley County Homepage! |
| FOREWORD BY THE COMPILER |
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| Because of the lapse of time since the organization of Ripley County as a unit of the State of Indiana, the fact that so many families have kept no written records of their families, and the difficulty caused by lack of funds and the scarcity of workers in collecting data for this volume, it will necessarily to have important items omitted and many inaccuracies. |
| The compiler is striving to arrange in a somewhat readable and coherent style information obtained from many of the sources of historical information, i.e. cemeteries, public and family records, newspapers, old family bibles, old letters, previously published histories, national archives, personal interviews and Mics. handed to the compiler to be listed herein as given by their authors. |
| A special attempt is being made to give full credit to all who have contributed so generously by giving their articles, as they have written or told them, with their names attached. This may cause some conflicts in statements, repetitions and inaccuracies in regard to actual historical facts but the compiler desires this book to be a memorial, not only to our pioneer ancestry, but to link the present with the past and give due honor to all who have contributed and without whose help this book would not have been published. |
| The compiler very sincerely asks the pardon of her readers for any and every act of omission or commission which may offend or surprise each or any of them. The only apology which is offered is the difficulty of the task and the inability of the compiler to do any better. Inaccuracies are bound to occur. |
| Violet E. Toph. WEBMASTER NOTE: No attempt has been made to correct or edit the following text, it is presented as Ms. Toph wrote them. |
| Fact or Person | Page # |
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| Foreword by compiler V.Toph some Ripley characteristics | 1 |
| Indian mound survey 1875 | 12 |
| Lochrey | 17 |
| Ross’ run | 19 |
| Township formation | 23 |
| Commissioners Reports 1818-1824 | 28 |
| Sale of lots (Versailles) | 29 |
| Commission reports by Wm.. D. Roberson | 35 |
| Early Settlements” by Tyson 1875 newspaper article Chicago | 53 |
| Hawley, E. Lister | 54 |
| Constable E. Hawley | 68 |
| Grocery/liquor lic. Adonjah Gleason | 75 |
| Elections inspect : Ami Wilson for 1830 | 86 |
| “Labor” by Tyson | 87 |
| O’Poor for 1830: Roland Robinson, Zalmon Hawley | 88 |
| Constable: Reuben Anderson, E.S.Hawley | 89 |
| First mail route from Vevay to Brookville | 89 |
| First Newspapers by Tyson and ? | 89 |
| First Post Offices | 89 |
| Early settlements by W.H Tyson | 94 |
| Tavern, Amos Boardman (Franklin Twp?)1830 | 97 |
| Indian event at Devil’s Elbow | 99 |
| Cave | 100 |
| Rabi, Mr.. | 101 |
| Wild hogs and Bread | 104 |
| Drinking of Ardent Spirits | 107 |
| Doctors and Disorders | 109 |
| Cholera | 112 |
| Capital of Texas named for a Ripley Co Man | 114 |
| Parsons, Kansas named for Milan Boy | 115 |
| Temperance Society, first | 116 |
| Speech of Gov. S.S. Harding and Long | 118 |
| Revolutionary Soldiers who came to Ripley Co. | 120 |
| Historical Sketches by George Anthony | 133 |
| Lathrop, Erastus | 133 |
| Roberts Written for Republican in 1892 | 133 |
| Roberts, G. A. Writings | 133 |
| Amizrah, Young | 134 |
| Bentley, Hon. Joseph of Versailles | 134 |
| Ditch Brothers | 134 |
| Curry, James | 135 |
| Groc. Liquor Lic 1830-31 A Gleason | 135 |
| George Salyersof Cross Plains was killed by James Persinger | 135 |
| Mills, Old time | 136 |
| Houses | 137 |
| Social Life | 139 |
| Cross Plains, William Corryers | 143 |
| Dry Good Store, A.G. Hunter’s | 143 |
| Inspect of elect: Artis Wilson 1831 | 143 |
| Fence viewer 1831; Z.Hawley, J. Anderson | 144 |
| India-Kentucky Post Office | 144 |
| Revolutionary Soldier, William Bassett Sr. | 144 |
| Rictchey, John preacher Jurist | 144 |
| O’Poor: Ajonijah Gleason, Wm.. Dooly | 145 |
| Roberts First Death says Thomas Buribfield | 145 |
| Counells and John Watts | 147 |
| Hart, William | 151 |
| Ross, William | 152 |
| Leatherbury, Mr.. | 154 |
| Roberts house Burned | 154 |
| Baptists Churches Middle Fork, West Fork, Brushey Fork | 156 |
| Bear Creek | 156 |
| Roberts, Mrs. Moses, taught school in her cabin 1819 | 156 |
| Bear Creek Cemetery – minister Erastus Lathrop and George Hume buried there | 157 |
| Ministers, List of | 157 |
| Spencer, Thomas, Houses where Church was held etc. | 159 |
| Finley, David Mrs….. | 160 |
| Strange, John Minister | 160 |
| Wiley, Allen | 162 |
| Woods, Aaron and Enoch | 162 |
| Cross Plains, David Taylor land 1826 | 163 |
| Mail route from Vevay to Versailles | 163 |
| Robinsons, Armit | 163 |
| Blake, Persiger store first in | 164 |
| Polical candidates and politics | 165 |
| Merittscrange- Col. John Smith | 166 |
| Brinson, Sebulon | 167 |
| Cross Plains, James Curry addition to Cross Plains and his death | 167 |
| McGinmis, Dr. Edmund | 168 |
| Robinson, Joseph | 170 |
| Election for JP | 174 |
| Hunter, John | 174 |
| Bentley, Joseph | 175 |
| Johnson Twp., Pioneer Settlers | 175 |
| Lewis, John | 175 |
| Skeen, William | 175 |
| Cornet, Dr. | 176 |
| Fox, Dr.. previous to 1825 | 176 |
| Road Superv: James Anderson at Reuben Anderson’s | 177 |
| New Marian, Judge John and the first court at Browns at New Marian | 178 |
| Land Court at Versailles with John Watts | 179 |
| O’Poor: Wm.. Dooley to replace H.G. Canfield | 179 |
| Shook, David P. and Hezikiah | 179 |
| Steel, James | 179 |
| Harding, Gov. Stephen Selwyn and his brother | 180 |
| Harding, Dr.. Myron | 182 |
| Hawley, Salmon and wife | 182 |
| O’Poor: Z. Hawley, W. Dooley pauper C.C. Chapel | 182 |
| Snodgrass, John | 182 |
| Allemong, Henry | 184 |
| Knowlton, Hiram | 184 |
| Pratt, Diah | 184 |
| Redlon, Ebenizer | 184 |
| Wilson, Obed | 184 |
| Bowers, Dr.. Henry J. | 185 |
| Constable: E.S. Hawley replaced by David Harding Jr. | 185 |
| Craig, Judge Morton | 185 |
| Hukill, Judge Henry B. | 185 |
| Kelly, Elder Richard | 185 |
| Moss, Harvey a Methodist Preacher | 187 |
| Road Work NE Corner S13 T8 R13 s. to Washington Twp | 187 |
| Cornwell, Elias | 188 |
| Jackson Twp | 188 |
| Mullen, Mark | 188 |
| Switzerland Co and Joe Bentley | 188 |
| Craig, Morton and Miles Mendenhall of Napolum (Napoleon) | 191 |
| Judge of elect Z. Hawley 1831 | 191 |
| Rybolt, Stephen and Darnel of Napoleon | 192 |
| Skeen, William | 192 |
| Dickerson, John M. and Wife | 193 |
| Hunters | 194 |
| Barnes, Rev. J.F. | 195 |
| Carters | 196 |
| Francis, Jacob | 198 |
| Osgood Indiana- W.R. Glagou | 199 |
| Roberts, George Anthony – Ripley Co Revisited in May and June 1896 | 199 |
| Levi, Isaac | 200 |
| Freeman, Dr. | 201 |
| Versailles | 202 |
| Versailles, Dr.. Cornet’s Old Home | 207 |
| Babcock, D. kept pauper | 209 |
| Correct and Dr. Dennis Mahoney | 209 |
| Ditchs, The | 209 |
| Rexville and The Warvlers | 209 |
| Jacksons | 210 |
| Elksbers, John | 211 |
| Lincolnville | 211 |
| Pribble, Lemon | 211 |
| Wright, Gordan | 211 |
| Militia meeting and James Benhaur | 213 |
| Life of a Ripley Co. Pioneer James Dickerson and wife by Rowland Jackson | 218 |
| Indian Village and location of Dickerson farm | 221 |
| Pauper of Franklin Twp | 222 |
| Backtracking Old Trails by WD Robinson | 230 |
| Burchfield, Robert and the Panther | 231 |
| Durham and James Curran kill a bear | 231 |
| Groc: Abr. Redlon & John Boldrey | 231 |
| Morgan and Bill Curran | 232 |
| Travern: A. Boardman | 232 |
| Jail, The first | 233 |
| Lipperds, The | 233 |
| Falls, Mike | 237 |
| Johnson | 237 |
| Shackelford | 237 |
| Watts | 237 |
| O’Poor: Z. Hawley, Palmer Fuller for Joel Canfield | 238 |
| Dickey and Henderson | 239 |
| Roberts and Huntingtons | 240 |
| Bethel Church | 241 |
| Johnson family and Harker | 241 |
| Rea, Davidson | 246 |
| Rossell, Thomas | 251 |
| Fight, John Henderson and William Johnson | 253 |
| Joe and Bob Wilson bought the St. Nicholas Hotel (Now Purdum) in 1862 | 253 |
| Glass, Mr. on the Michigan Road | 254 |
| Slaves and Lige Stevens | 255 |
| Jackson, William H. | 257 |
| “They say and Do in the country” by Charles Heberhart | 257 |
| Lloyd, Hon. J. B. Boyhood Remembrance | 262 |
| Pioneer Days in Ripley Co. by Sanford R. Fuller | 266 |
| Kelly, Mr.. S. Henrietta (Bower) Memories | 269 |
| Blackmoor Mill | 270 |
| Roberts, John M. Story written by one of the oldest residents of Ripley Co | 273 |
| Robert’s home site | 275 |
| Groc. lic. B. P. Roberson | 282 |
| Election returns not in on time | 287 |
| Road inspector Distr #2 E.S. Hawley | 295 |
| Memory’s Marches Poem by Lucy | 326 |
| – by LL Hannah RobertsThe Old Eighty-Third | 327 |
| Little Graham Creek, It’s Pioneer Settlers. by William E.Ryper | 331 |
| Churchill sash saw mill | 339 |
| Higgins Water grist mill | 339 |
| Ryper, William Edward “A Trip” | 339 |
| Fort Buchanah, Otter Village | 340 |
| Franklin Twp. Early History by Re R.P. Wilson | 342 |
| Rev Robert P Watson gives interesting chapter of Early History of Franklin Twp | 343 |
| Horsely Killed | 344 |
| Soldiers who enlisted from Milan | 345 |
| Prattsburg, the Wilsons and other citizens | 346 |
| Franklin Twp by Rev. Robert P. Watson | 347 |
| Shaw, Watson C. “Reminiscences of long ago in Ripley Co” | 347 |
| Steam Mill and Cording machine in New Marion in 1841 by Paul Strickland | 347 |
| Poston ( Dabney) in 1841 | 349 |
| Versailles in 1841 | 350 |
| Otter Village 1841 | 351 |
| Residents of Otter Village from 1850 to 1928 by Nora Newman Crouch | 352 |
| Railroad well at Poston | 355 |
| Shaw, Watson C. “Reminiscences of Long ago in Ripley Co Jan 10, 1895 | 355 |
| David Rea killed by William Stafford | 357 |
| Rapping Spirits 1851 | 358 |
| Comet, The 1842 | 359 |
| “Reminiscences of Otter Creek Twp. by Thomas Canover Feb. 24,1931 | 362 |
| Constable Wm. Ranney change in Rd. Distr #10, Franklin Twp | 362 |
| Fleming, S. Trustee 1850 Washington Twp Trustee Book. Excerpts | 364 |
| Information caped from Samuel S. Flemming | 364 |
| Town of Clinton ordered vacated totally | 364 |
| Washington Twp Trustee Book: Excerpts S Fleming, trustee; 1850 | 364 |
| Blasdell, Isaac N. township framers | 365 |
| Election for JP to fill Vacancy of E.S. Hawley | 365 |
| Washington Twp road workers in 1853 | 366 |
| Trustee Book for Washington Twp | 367 |
| Washington Twp paupers and roads in 1853 | 369 |
| Washington Twp enumeration of school children for Nov. 1853 | 371 |
| Pauper | 375 |
| Petition for a school house on Fleming land | 375 |
| Election in Washington Twp in April 1836 | 376 |
| Otter Creek Twp History by Miss Ruby Lane in 1927 | 376 |
| Conditions and custom of Indiana Fork by Carl Wood 6-13-1925 | 377 |
| Hardings May 1,1820 come to Old Milan | 377 |
| Pioneer Days by Hon. Carl Wood June 13,1925 | 377 |
| Cross and saw company 1821 | 382 |
| First death in the community Mr.. S.. Spencer in June 1820 | 383 |
| Harding, Stephen S | 385 |
| Schools, spelling Bees | 385 |
| Harding descendant, Mrs. E. Row | 387 |
| Underground Railroad | 411 |
| Rd Distr #2 – #4 | 419 |
| Harding Mansion by Mrs. Crouch | 489 |
| “Morgan’s Raid through Versailles” by Mira Anderson Sheets | 503 |
| King, Isaac, experiences told by his daughter Emma King Dearborn | 512 |
| Morgan’s Raid by Rev. B.F. Ferris | 513 |
| Morgan Raid Claims | 522 |
| Hoover’s Reminiscences Nov 18, 1927 | 523 |
| Carringtons | 528 |
| Solders buried in Cliff Hill | 529 |
| Solders buried in Franklin Twp | 529 |
| Eighty-third’ the Old | 532 |
| Eighty-third Indiana Inf. | 536 |
| Wooley, Alfred Milton tells what became of the boys of his Co. the 68th | 538 |
| Soldies Aid Society | 549 |
| Roster of the 37th Reg Ind Vols | 550 |
| Ward, Col W.D. | 550 |
| Copies of Letters written by John Halve to Wells Johnson during the World War | 557 |
| Civil War Diary of Ferdinand Sebring | 564 |
| Day, Thomas G. “After thirty-seven years” | 620 |
| Posts, J.A.R | 621 |
| Military | 622 |
| Post, Wheeler donates Hall | 692 |
| Pension Items | 693 |
| Copeland, James T | 694 |
| Day Thomas G | 694 |
| Evans, Samuel, F | 694 |
| Harman, David | 694 |
| Thomas, Benjamin | 694 |
| Holton, Indiana William E. Williams | 695 |
| Alf. Hunter Trip to Chickamauga on Spring Wagons Sept. 1895 | 695 |
| Williams, William E. of Holton, Indiana | 695 |
| Civil War Veteran Theodore Kern visits former home May 10,1927 | 698 |
| Weber, Captain Henry W. | 700 |
| Companies band D.37th Reg Indiana Vols | 701 |
| Spanish American Complete Roster of War Veterans | 702 |
| Henderson, Clinton – Letters from Clinton in Spanish American War | 709 |
| “Santogo Battle 1898” Frank McMurphy | 709 |
| Spanish American War Letter from Clinton Henderson in SAW | 709 |
| Spanish American War letter by Jesse Laswell | 715 |
| Spanish American War Letter Robert Landell | 716 |
| Spanish American War an account by Corporal John Shepherd | 717 |
| Spanish American War by Valentine Knocbe | 718 |
| Colson, Lewis W. “writes a letter enroute Honolulu, Hawaii | 719 |
| Hanging in Ripley Co., The only Legal Hanging | 719 |
| Rittenhouse, James R “A career of crime” | 721 |
| Bergman, Jonathan “A soldier boy in Cuba | 722 |
| “Manila Philippine Islands” Corporal Bergman | 723 |
| Boody Deed Lynching – Thomas Boyd 1878 | 724 |
| Leor Family Versailles Republican Sept. 20,1894 | 725 |
| Jolo, PG Carl Krom | 727 |
| Lynching, The second Ripley Co | 727 |
| Leroy Wager killed Mrs. Sutton and the Browns | 840 |
| Reno Gang, Last of | 847 |
| Sororicide, Borgman | 847 |
| Frank Ellis killed David Rea | 849 |
| Stogg, Mike The Farmer and Bumble Bee, Aug 13,1900 | 850 |
| History of Cedar Cr. Mr.. S.. Wagner. | 850 |
| Green Chapel letter from Laura Bowen | 852 |
| Work on the wonderland Way July 18, 1933 | 852 |
| Carter, Dr. Laura | 853 |
| Cedar Creek History by Nicholas Wagner | 853 |
| School Houses at Cedar Creek | 853 |
| Willson, Thomas | 853 |
| Willson, WD | 853 |
| Bradshaw, Mattie | 854 |
| Brodshow, Francis Gray | 854 |
| Glosgou, WR | 854 |
| King, Alex | 854 |
| Kitts, JB | 854 |
| Schurer, Mary | 854 |
| Skeen, Mary Reed | 854 |
| Cedar Creek Teachers, Rev Charley Myers and Frank Robinson | 855 |
| Brodshaw, Holman | 856 |
| Burroughs, Gordon | 856 |
| Johning | 856 |
| King, “Pad” | 856 |
| Love, Roy | 856 |
| Pendergast, Mable | 856 |
| Pratt, Mayme | 856 |
| Wagners | 856 |
| Brodshaw, Fannie | 857 |
| Buckingham’s | 857 |
| Carter, Edgar | 857 |
| Kings | 857 |
| Love, Walter | 857 |
| Muir, Florence | 857 |
| Myers, Alice Craig | 857 |
| Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hill – Discuss old Prattsburg Feb 2,1933 | 858 |
| Austin, William A Our Charish Pet Liquor | 860 |
| Mud Pike by Lester Hawley | 865 |
| School essays on Ripley Co written 1922-23 County project | 865 |
| Look out School, Local and County History by Margaret Dockelman | 868 |
| Delaware by A. Lenora Palmer | 869 |
| Kelley School, Story of our Comm. by Lenora Palmer | 869 |
| Delaware Twp by Louise Dole | 872 |
| Delaware by E. Dunbar | 874 |
| Pierceville | 875 |
| Franklin School Students essays Extracts | 876 |
| Stumpkes Corner by Helen A Bellman | 879 |
| Shurmpkes Corner by Elizabeth Jordan | 881 |
| Stumpke’s Co. by F. Whitlatch | 881 |
| Laughery Twp Dist 5 Local History by Walter Menchofer | 882 |
| Dockelman, E. “Laughrey Twp | 884 |
| Laughery Twp and Lipps School extract from history by Edwin Dredermanns | 884 |
| Laughrey Twp. by E, Dockelman | 884 |
| Milltown, Penntown “Our Community” by Elsie Bass | 885 |
| Mang School, Local History by John Luers | 886 |
| Mangs by J. Luers | 886 |
| Mang’s House | 887 |
| Hunsicker Community, History of by Mabel Holzhousen | 888 |
| Boardman Stand Cross-Keyed Inn | 889 |
| Clinton Community by Marie Mehrley | 889 |
| Gust Mill and Three Hotch Trout | 889 |
| Mehrley, Marie “History of Clinton Comm. | 889 |
| Hayti Community, History by Opal Bultman | 890 |
| School, Squire Robinson | 890 |
| Sunman, Durbin “Dr. at Durbin Sunman’s House” | 890 |
| Ballstown by Samuel Ball May 15, 1848 | 892 |
| Civil War Soldiers from Hayti | 892 |
| WW1 Soldiers at Hayti | 892 |
| Ballstown’s Officers | 893 |
| Hayti History by David H Bohnerts | 893 |
| Washington Twp by Helen Rupp | 894 |
| Washington Twp First School on Bergdoll Farm | 895 |
| Trading Post History by Hazel Damaree | 897 |
| Local History of our Community Olean by Lottie Werner | 897 |
| Olean by L. Werner | 898 |
| Underground Railroad station at Olean | 898 |
| Brown Twp First house | 899 |
| Olean WW1 Soldiers | 899 |
| Hockersmith, Herschel History of Shelby Twp District 8 | 900 |
| Shelby Twp District 8 by Herschel Hockersmith Smith | 900 |
| Sketch by L. Williams | 901 |
| West Fork by H. Brown | 901 |
| Antioch School, Local History by Robert Ewing | 902 |
| District 10, by Rose Meisburger | 902 |
| First Post Office on Peter Meisberger Farm | 902 |
| Meisburger, Rose the History of District 10 | 902 |
| St. Magdalene by R. Meisberger | 902 |
| Antioch by C. Thole | 903 |
| History of White Hall by Louis Frendenstein | 905 |
| Marble Corner by Allie Kirk | 906 |
| Mc Darnce, William | 906 |
| “Pole Cat Corner” by Mose Wiserman | 906 |
| Shelby Twp Local History Chloe Shoups | 906 |
| Kingwood School et. by F. Matthew’s | 908 |
| Kingwood, History of Local Community by Florence Mathews, | 908 |
| Waldman, Frank | 908 |
| Bear Creek Baptists Church by M. Brooks | 910 |
| Bridge, Natural Rock | 910 |
| Extracts from History of Ripley Co by Mary Brooks | 910 |
| Natural Rock Bridge | 910 |
| Samm’s School Extracts from History by Dallas Hughes | 910 |
| Grishaws Churches at Correct | 911 |
| Hawthornes Goodrich | 911 |
| Wooleys Falls | 911 |
| Delay’s, T. history extracts | 913 |
| “Wolf Trail” by Malotte Holman Wooley | 913 |
| Tanglewood’s History by Opal Kelch | 914 |
| Civil War Solders from Tanglewood | 916 |
| Cross, C. “Johnson Twp.” | 916 |
| Curran community by Marvine Littell | 916 |
| Curran School by Marvine Little | 916 |
| Curran, Thomas | 916 |
| Jackson, Amos | 916 |
| Johnson Twp. by C. Cross | 916 |
| Store – Calvin Shrook | 916 |
| Tanglewood Civil War Solders | 916 |
| Tanglewood teachers, Presley Gray, Jacob Fullenuder | 916 |
| Johnson Twp. by R. Fallis | 917 |
| Firth’s | 919 |
| Hunters | 919 |
| Johnson, William | 919 |
| School, Local History by Clara Cross | 919 |
| Websters | 919 |
| Johnson Twp”Life of the Early Settlers of Union Locality” by Ruth Follis | 920 |
| “Local History Otter Creek”, Ralph Hills Vanosdol | 921 |
| Cuneo, Freeda “Local History” | 922 |
| Holton, by Drottea Shaw | 922 |
| Shaw, Drottea “Local History Holton, Indiana” | 922 |
| Holton Local History by Bert Schlotman | 923 |
| Heimsath, Marion “Local History Holton” | 924 |
| Holten Marker | 924 |
| Shaw, Mable “Local History Holton” | 924 |
| Underground R.R. Station Marshall | 925 |
| Civil War Soldiers at Flat Rock and Lock Springs | 926 |
| Star Route mail at J.S. Mill’s | 927 |
| “Local History” by Paul Vanosdol | 928 |
| “Center Twp” by Luella Sparling | 931 |
| “Napoleon” by William Butt | 932 |
| Jackson Twp by Robert Thielbar | 934 |
| Napoleon area by Nettie Caster | 934 |
| St. Maurice congration organized | 934 |
| Napoleon Area by Elnore Kestler | 935 |
| Grave yards | 936 |
| Otter Village by Mildred Muir | 936 |
| Civil War-Morgan-Hobson Sunday 12, July, 1863 | 941 |
| Franklin Twp Cutter School by H. Kittle | 942 |
| “Haney’s Corner in 1916 by V.E. Toph | 943 |
| Haney’s Corner Rebels in 1916 by V.E. Toph | 944 |
| Haunted Houses, What a violet heard in Ripley Co | 946 |
| “Just my regards to Ripley” by Charles Moyer Ketchum | 949 |
| Fox Drive; Mar,1883 Tanglewood | 950 |
| Corner, Yater and Newman cases contrasted with Johnson, Scopmire and White | 951 |
| Crime/stealing | 951 |
| Floyd, Tom “Dreams” | 961 |
| Hunter, JF “Apple Blossom Time” | 961 |
| Springdale, Indiana by V.E. Toph | 963 |
| Johnson, Edward W. “Ripley Co.Sept 24,1933” | 976 |
| Morgan’s Raid Markers | 977 |
| Fort Buchanan | 978 |
| Laughery Creek | 978 |
| “Back Yonder” a Poem by Hazel Morrison | 980 |
| Ripley Log in parade, Oct. 1916 | 981 |
| High Bridge over Laughrey 4-16-1901 | 984 |
| Clinton by Mrs….. Heaney | 985 |
| “Old Trails” by David Agnew | 986 |
| Postal Guide Ripley County 1851 | 992 |
| Roads, Ripley | 993 |
| Commissioners Reports 1818-1833 | 995 |
| Railroads, Letter 1898 | 1079 |
| Turnpike meeting notice 1874 | 1084 |
| Masonic Lodges in Ripley Co. by Frank Tucker | 1085 |
| Lodge | 1086 |
| St. John’s Evangelical Church 100 Yrs. by H Freeland | 1093 |
| Churches, Early Franklin Twp. by R. P. Wilson | 1098 |
| Milan’s Masonic Lodge over the past century by Thomas Price Myers | 1099 |
| Stumpke Corner | 1100 |
| Sunday schools of old times | 1102 |
| Baptists Church Washington by Rufus P. Lomb | 1103 |
| New Marion Baptist Church 100 Yrs by C. Brown | 1110 |
| New Marion by Mrs….. Robertson from Myra Dickerson Sheets | 1120 |
| Baptists Church Poston By Elmyra Dickerson Sheets | 1122 |
| Union Chapel by Mrs. Sheets | 1123 |
| Union Chapel Latter-day Saints | 1125 |
| Tanglewood Church Baptists By Mrs….. Myra Dickerson Sheets and Etta Chloe Broley Waldron | 1126 |
| Versailles Baptists Church by Mrs. Flora White; for Centennial | 1131 |
| Methodists, Cedar Creek | 1144 |
| Methodists-Johnson Twp. by Tyson | 1144 |
| – Bethel Church Methodist | 1161 |
| Pleasant View (Correct) | 1162 |
| Methodist marriages 1876-1915 Circuit records | 1163 |
| Pleasant Hill – 1846 from Breeden | 1163 |
| Otter Creek Chapel by Nora Newman Crouch | 1204 |
| Methodist Church at Otter Village | 1208 |
| Hopewell Baptists Church 1838-1888 | 1209 |
| West Fork Baptists Church by Mrs. Myrtle Boswell Demaree | 1222 |
| Bethel Baptists Church by Ulmer E. Smith | 1224 |
| St. Nicholas Parish | 1233 |
| Workman cabin 1815 | 1239 |
| St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran | 1240 |
| St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Olean by H.A. Barth, Pastor | 1256 |
| Sunman Community Church | 1257 |
| Marble Corner Methodist | 1261 |
| Marble Corner, Last Homecoming Jan 5 1941 | 1261 |
| Salem Church Delaware Twp. | 1262 |
| St. Magdalene Roman Catholic Church by M Kramer | 1263 |
| Union Freewill Baptists Church 1843-1928 | 1267 |
| Life of Sanford Fuller, written 1914-1915 | 1299 |
| Union Flatrock Baptists Church 1914-1928 | 1308 |
| Wesleyan Methodist Holton by Eliza Gray | 1331 |
| Bear Creek Baptists Church 1818-1918 by Elrmer Livingston | 1332 |
| Osgood Christian Church | 1343 |
| Napoleon Methodist Church | 1344 |
| Freewill Baptists Church at Pierceville by R.P. Wilson | 1347 |
| Bethel Baptists Church by Eva King | 1349 |
| Milan Baptists Church | 1351 |
| South Milan Chapel 1867 | 1352 |
| Old Milan Baptists Church | 1353 |
| Osgood Churches | 1355 |
| Osgood Methodist Church by C. Starks | 1358 |
| Me. Circuit-Milan members | 1363 |
| Churches/towns, Delaware Twp | 1368 |
| Catholic vs. Protestant | 1370 |
| Olive Branch | 1372 |
| Stringtown or Zion Methodist | 1374 |
| St. Paul’s Lutheran Olean | 1375 |
| Stringtown Unversalist Church | 1376 |
| Flatrock Baptists Church | 1378 |
| Holton Christian Church | 1379 |
| Blair Church and Cemetery | 1380 |
| Harmony Chapel | 1380 |
| Otter Creek, Bethel Methodist | 1383 |
| Possum Trot-Caesar Creek German Baptists | 1384 |
| St. John’s Roman Catholic-Osgood | 1385 |
| Napoleon Baptists | 1386 |
| Methodist Delaware Twp Built c.1860 | 1387 |
| St Ludwig’s Catholic Church Batesville | 1388 |
| Marble Corner Methodist org. 1861 | 1389 |
| Lutheran German Evangelical St. Paul’s | 1390 |
| Westley Chapel Methodist Benham 1848 | 1391 |
| German Evangelical Lutheran-Olean | 1392 |
| Shelby Christian Church | 1393 |
| St. Pius Catholic Church | 1394 |
| St. Peter’s of Delaware 1850 | 1395 |
| Methodist, Friendship org.1848 | 1396 |
| St Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Franklin Twp. | 1397 |
| Franklin Freewill Baptists | 1398 |
| Old Salem, in Laughrey | 1399 |
| Lutheran Church Penntown | 1400 |
| St Maurice Roman Catholic | 1401 |
| Mud Pike, Delaware Baptists | 1402 |
| Celebration 1876 | 1404 |
| Ghost Towns & near ghost towns | 1406 |
| Horse Racing | 1408 |
| Mills | 1412 |
| Wooley, A.M. Account | 1421 |
| School Ch. essays re: mills | 1430 |
| Speech by C.S. Royce-Shelby Twp | 1434 |
| Finch, Wm.. B., account of visit | 1457 |
| Ryker, W.E. account | 1464 |
| Shelby Twp by W.D. Robinson | 1466 |
| St. Magdalene | 1477 |
| Marble Corner | 1478 |
| Benville & Rexville | 1479 |
| Haney’s Corner | 1480 |
| Shelby Twp history 1891 | 1481 |
| Old Timbers by V. Toph | 1492 |
| Holton by G. Pate | 1498 |
| Holton | 1505 |
| Holton by W.D.Robinson | 1516 |
| Outlook in Otter Creek Twp by W.D. Robinson | 1519 |
| Horton by J. Demaree | 1523 |
| Friendship Band of Gay Nineties – a Photograph | 1525 |
| Cross Plains by G. Pate | 1526 |
| Cross Plains Sale of lots | 1534 |
| Cross Plains Bank | 1535 |
| Cross Plains school building | 1536 |
| Farm Bureau, Brown Twp History by Mrs. H.D. Fiss | 1543 |
| Olean by W. D. Robinson | 1551 |
| Cross Plains | 1552 |
| Elrod, Washington Twp. by W. D. Robinson | 1558 |
| Pierceville Creamery by W.D. Robinson | 1559 |
| Pierceville in 1898 | 1560 |
| Poston Area, Recollections of Amanda Means by W.E. Ryder, Pastor | 1564 |
| Poston by W.D. Robinson | 1565 |
| Napoleon & Vicinity by W.D. Robinson | 1567 |
| Napoleon State Bank | 1570 |
| Natural Gas | 1570 |
| Churches | 1573 |
| Orlean founded in 1820, Is the only town | 1575 |
| Jackson Twp. by Ethel R. Smith Stute | 1577 |
| Napoleon by Ethel R. Smith Stute | 1577 |
| Flour Mill built in Orlean” by William Meyer | 1579 |
| Catholic Church | 1580 |
| Laughlin Mill in Napoleon | 1580 |
| Napoleon Baptists Church | 1580 |
| Hertensteins Store | 1583 |
| Emerson Bachlmer’s Hardware Store | 1584 |
| Water, E.O. Store | 1584 |
| Jackson Twp & Schools by Ethel Stute | 1585 |
| Jackson Twp Organized early, by Ethel Stute | 1585 |
| High School Delaware-Jackson Twp by Ethel Stute | 1587 |
| Delaware village by A. Munger | 1593 |
| Delaware by William D. Robinson | 1594 |
| Spades by William D. Robinson | 1596 |
| Bishoff Flour mill at Morris | 1597 |
| Versailles Incorporation | 1598 |
| Versailles-sale of Lots First | 1600 |
| Trees of Versailles by W.D. Robinson | 1603 |
| Tyson Trust Fund; history of Versailles | 1605 |
| Versailles State/National Park project 1936 | 1609 |
| Versailles Creamery | 1611 |
| Versailles lots for sale | 1612 |
| Versailles Pro and con by Mrs. Hazel Dormeeker | 1615 |
| Hunter lic. of Town Health Department | 1617 |
| Versailles Town Board Meeting 1910 | 1617 |
| Garden Spot of Ripley Co. by W.D. Robinson | 1618 |
| Curran, Enoch | 1619 |
| Fisse, Sam | 1619 |
| Gilliland, Jim | 1619 |
| Thielking Bros. | 1619 |
| Volz, Frank | 1619 |
| Bagonfelt, Charles | 1620 |
| Livingston, Joseph | 1620 |
| Mill Race | 1620 |
| Ferguson Store & Feed Mill Versailles | 1621 |
| Bushing, Otto, Greenhouse | 1624 |
| Ryker, William Edward “letter” | 1626 |
| Ryker, William Edward visit | 1626 |
| Versailles Letter from William Edward Reker | 1626 |
| Goohins, Harriet “Joe Hassmer home in 1926” | 1628 |
| Moonshine | 1632 |
| Sheiff Ira T. Spillman | 1632 |
| Ripley in 1849 Indiana Gazetteer | 1633 |
| Cave near Versailles 1915 | 1634 |
| Versailles, First Brass Band 1856 | 1636 |
| Osgood Cornet Band | 1638 |
| Austin’s Theater Begins 23rd year by Ethel Stute | 1640 |
| Mitchell, Lee “A ray of Hope” | 1646 |
| Agriculture Society-Ripley Oct. 11.1845 | 1647 |
| Picketing | 1650 |
| 4-H Club Camp, Versailles | 1652 |
| Pumpkin Show | 1654 |
| Dam, Building of | 1655 |
| Versailles 1897 | 1656 |
| Versailles by Tyson 20 pages missing | 1668 |
| Milan | 1686 |
| Milan 1718 | 1694 |
| Memorial by S. Harding | 1725 |
| Farm, Stock | 1729 |
| Schwing garage | 1730 |
| Railroad Depot & Environs, Milan | 1731 |
| Milan in 1891 | 1738 |
| Industries & Batesville, Laughrey Twp. beginnings | 1742 |
| Osgood C. 1905 | 1755 |
| Abstracts for “oldest house” | 1756 |
| Hospital- Margaret Mary | 1757 |
| Osgood | 1758 |
| Buckingham, T.J. | 1783 |
| Osgood | 1783 |
| Shaw, Albert F. | 1783 |
| Telephone | 1783 |
| Kemper, G. R. | 1784 |
| Frenodling, J.H. | 1785 |
| Pruitt, J.H. and J.W. | 1785 |
| Osgood 1905 account | 1786 |
| Osgood B. and O. SW. | 1786 |
| Osgood by Wells Johnson | 1789 |
| Underground railway | 1790 |
| Geodetic survey of 1932 | 1791 |
| Agriculture Fair of 1861 | 1792 |
| Stock Dealer – B.F. Fowl | 1793 |
| Osgood Fire 1906 | 1797 |
| Dr. Cravens, Osgood Journal | 1798 |
| Immigrant’s view of Osgood | 1801 |
| Schoneider, Ben Article from Russia | 1801 |
| Milk Co.; Tucker Jewelry Store | 1806 |
| Tucker Jewelry Store | 1807 |
| Wilson Farm sold to Crudgington | 1808 |
| Ferris, Col Abram Farm 1915 | 1811 |
| Sunman by F.B. Freeland | 1811 |
| Fox Buggy, First | 1812 |
| Mower. First | 1812 |
| Reaper, First | 1812 |
| M.E. Church and First Preservation | 1813 |
| Dr. J.B Hall | 1815 |
| Banks and Trustee | 1816 |
| Wise, John A. | 1820 |
| Sunman by W.D. Robinson | 1821 |
| Sunman, Why the name | 1821 |
| Black Smith- M.J. Meister | 1822 |
| Cigars- Watt Huneke | 1822 |
| Contractor- Lewis Sieg | 1822 |
| Flour Mill – | 1822 |
| Jeweler | 1822 |
| Sawmill- Chris Newman | 1822 |
| Valentine Hartman | 1822 |
| Bigney, V.W. | 1823 |
| Druggist | 1823 |
| Livery | 1823 |
| Merchants | 1823 |
| Undertakers | 1823 |
| Sunman ” Bench mark” by Waltis H Fitch | 1824 |
| Ketchum, Charles Moyer “My Home a Yankee Cottage” | 1825 |
| Sunman by Harold Freeland, “Backtracking Yesteryear Trails” 1931 | 1827 |
| Christmas of 1945 Heavy Sheets of Ice Interupts Electric | 1831 |
| Bridges | 1832 |
| Letter from O.C. Madden, The Gouchers by Henry B. Smith | 1836 |
| Sutton to Ripley Co 1816 | 1836 |
| CCC meeting – Ripley’s Boundaries | 1839 |
| History of Ripley Co. Newspapers | 1840 |
| Newspapers by H. Thompson | 1841 |
| Linotype machine installed at Republican office 1909 | 1848 |
| Fair Ripley Co 1881 | 1852 |
| Schools Ripley Co notes from County papers | 1856 |
| School District the First Ins | 1858 |
| Teachers Institutes | 1859 |
| Royce, C.S. “Recalls Election of George W. Young” | 1867 |
| Bogos, Superintendent | 1868 |
| Delaware High School, from First Annual Catalog | 1870 |
| Schools of Franklin Twp by R.P. Wilson | 1876 |
| Schools | 1879 |
| Teachers Directory | 1891 |
| Law Compulsory, First 1897 | 1897 |
| Institute notes for 1894 | 1918 |
| Institute notes for 1895 | 1922 |
| Institute notes for 1900 by W.D.Robinson | 1927 |
| King, Estelle | 1927 |
| Institute notes for 1902 and 1900-1901 | 1929 |
| Directory of School officers and Teachers for 1909-1910 | 1932 |
| Teachers for 1910 | 1936 |
| Lamb, R.P. “Look backwards” | 1937 |
| Directory of School Officials and Teachers for 1919-1920. | 1939 |
| School Board Versailles for 1920-1922 | 1939 |
| Teachers 1924 | 1942 |
| Directory of School Officials and teachers 1927-1928 | 1943 |
| Directory of School Officials and teachers 1928-1929 | 1947 |
| Milan School | 1952 |
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