Montgomery Co, IN

Description

424 pages including index, history of the county and the towns in it, businesses, churches, families and organizations, lots of b/w illustrations

Sujets

• Midwest
• Histoire
• Volume 1
• Condado de Montgomery
• History of Indiana
• Montgomery County Historical Society
• State
• History of the United States
• Montgomery County
• United States
• History
• Local
• IN
• Comté de Montgomery
• 1823
• 1988

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 1989
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781681624976
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

New Richmond Surplus Electric 1930 s

Bymaster Homstead

Shades State Park Hotel

Waterworks, Crawfordsville, Indiana
C OMPILED B Y T HE G ENEALOGY S ECTION O F T HE M ONTGOMERY C OUNTY H ISTORICAL S OCIETY
Copyright 1989 by Genealogy Section of the Montgomery County Historical Society
Author: Genealogy Section of the Montgomery County Historical Society
This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced without the written consent of the Author and Publisher
The materials were compiled and produced using available information; Turner Publishing Company regrets they cannot assume liability for errors or omissions.
Library of Congress
Catalog Card No.: 89-051787
ISBN: 978-0-938021-74-2
Created and Designed by: Mark A. Thompson, Independent Publishing Consultant for Turner Publishing Company
Book Design: Elizabeth Dennis
Paula Borman
Limited edition of 1,000 copies of which this copy is number _______

Haywood-Detchen Union Elevator built 1903, burned 1950 .
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Genealogy Section of The Historical Society
Montgomery County Historical Society
Introduction
County History
Brown Township
Clark Township
Coal Creek Township
Franklin Township
Madison Township
Ripley Township
Scott Township
Sugar Creek Township
Union Township
Walnut Township
Waynetown-Wayne Township
Feature Stories
Church History
Family History
Club History
Business History
Index

Alamo Post Office
GENEALOGY SECTION OF THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
In August of 1981, the Montgomery County Historical Society expanded its horizons to include interest groups: the first being their Genealogy Section. First officers in the group were: Eulalia Mason, Chair; Ralph Barker, Vice; Barbara Taylor, Secretary; Pat Ferguson, Treasurer; Al Boone, Historian and Karen Zach, Representative to the Historical Society.
Throughout the years, the members of the section have helped sponsor various genealogy-related endeavors, such as: how-to-seminars, workshops on history of the county; indexing projects (1860 Fountain County census, 1900-1936 newspapers); restoration work (helped save the early school class negatives, worked with the Courthouse clean-up); a family cookbook (collected and published old family recipes); Eagle Scout projects (helped with the cemetery update for the county, 1880 census index, 1969 newspaper index and cemeteries of townships of other counties which touch Montgomery); creation of new organizations (such as the nation-wide Orphans Train Society).
Volunteers from the society have totalled thousands of hours of work in the Local History Room of the Crawfordville District Public Library helping historians of all walks of life research their given topic. Hundreds of books and much genealogical materials have also been donated.
The club sponsors are the Balhinch Gazette , a newsletter which comes out three times a year and is chocked-full of Montgomery County tidbits. It is edited by Barbara Taylor.
The Genealogy Section honors an individual for promoting genealogy by giving a Genealogists of the Year Award. Barbara Taylor, Al Boone, Ralph Barker, Pat Ferguson and Karen Zach have received the honor.
1989 Officers are: Norm Cramer, President; Mary Cramer, Vice; Karen Zach, Secretary; Barbara Taylor, Treasurer and Pat Ferguson, Historian. Ralph Barker serves as Montgomery County Historical Society Representative.
This year, 1989, we would like to thank the following for their aide in making the Montgomery County Family History Book a success.

HISTORY BOOK REPRESENTATIVES
BROWN TOWNSHIP
Terry Fullenwider
Sam Tom Patton
Lillian Presslor
CLARK TOWNSHIP
Corky Brewer
JoAnne Van Cleave
COAL CREEK TOWNSHIP
Frances Beardsley
Irene McCorkle
Joan Oppy
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
Ramona Ainsworth
Geneva Fugate
MADISON TOWNSHIP
Linda Burkle
Mary Wilkins
RIPLEY TOWNSHIP
Helen Rush
Joann Spragg
SCOTT TOWNSHIP
Imogene DeBusk
Larry Gentry
SUGAR CREEK TOWNSHIP
Phyllis Boots
UNION TOWNSHIP
Barbara Taylor
Karen Zach
Carolyn Ellis
(CRAWFORDSVILLE)
Gwen Frees
Becky Neideffer
WALNUT TOWNSHIP
Pauline Walters
Mr. Mrs. Denver Feltner
WAYNE TOWNSHIP
Katherine Grimble
Maxine Rush
Businesses: Norm Cramer
Churches: Ralph Barker

The Waveland Bandits Participating in the Re-enactment of the 1932 attempted bank heist are from left to right: Dick Hockett, Les Shelton and Terry Fullenwider. All Waveland residents
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND LANE PLACE
Fascination with this county s past has a long history. Soon after the county was settled the first frontiersmen began creating an oral tradition about their experiences. The tradition was continued when the Old Settlers organized to hold annual meetings at which families met in wooded areas all over the county. These social outings, a day-long mix of storytelling, basket dinners and general hilarity, became the format for Montgomery County s first historic record keeping.
After the Civil War Peter Kennedy and Lew Wallace, both attorneys of Crawfordsville, advised that the records should be written down in order to preserve them. Wallace recommended that each township collect its own record. Kennedy wrote for Beckwith s county history published in 1881. Although he was not a resident until after the Civil War, he wrote about one dramatic experience of 1845. On June 16 county families gathered on the lawn at Lane Place to send their men folk off to the War with Mexico. This county formed the first volunteer regiment in the state. The women folk had made a silk banner for the men to take into battle-and Joanna Elston Lane, a 19-year old bride of the commander, made a patriotic speech from the west portico of the newly built house. Surely Kennedy had heard about this event from an Old Settler.
The seeds for organizing a formal group to preserve heritage germinated in late 1911 when the Dorothy Q Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution succeeded in influencing Dumont Kennedy, Peter K. s son, and seven other incorporators. These organizers were: Kennedy; Alice and Claude Thompson (wife and son of author Maurice Thompson); Charles A. Tuttle; Julia Davidson Waugh; Addie Harding; Josephine Tuttle Thomas; and Theodore H. Ristine. Kennedy was chosen as president and served for fifteen years. Members of the DAR were given honorary memberships for 1912.
This small group was keenly aware of the importance of keeping the lives of Lew Wallace and Henry Smith Lane before the public for they had brought fame to this county, state and nation. The young historical society had another priority, however. The major effort was to be expended in collecting pioneer artifacts and locating all county log cabin sites. Residents of each township were urged to join in this project.
Storage and exhibit space became necessary after the collection mushroomed into more than members homes and sheds could contain. So large show cases were purchased from local merchants and the relics were moved into the basement rooms of the Public Library.
Early minutes reveal that formal meetings were rare and were held anywhere from law offices to the Community House and finally at the DAR House. Open meetings were scheduled for the High School auditorium and consisted of lectures about the county s heritage. These latter meetings were well-reported the following day on the front page of the Crawfordsville Review . Thus was posterity served.
The Society supported and acted in the 1916 pageant staged in the Crawford Woods, the county s observance of Indiana s Centennial. In 1922 Kennedy proposed a re-dedication of the Offield monument. Hundreds motored out to the site and heard speeches and an original poem given by Mary Hannah Krout.
In 1930 Miss Helen Elston Smith, niece of Joanna Elston Lane, who had inherited the Lane Place property in 1914, offered a room at Lane Place for the Society s meetings. Then in 1931 Miss Smith, with her cousin and guardian Blair Taylor, offered the property to the Historical Society. Lane Place, built by the man who had secured Abraham Lincoln s nomination for president, was deeded to become the museum to perpetuate Henry Smith Lane s life and display the county s relics.
The following decade proved to be very difficult for the Society s thirty members paying $.50 dues per year. The property had a lien and it was the Depression era. Due to Shirl Herr s determination to save Lane Place and T.H. Ristine s legal guidance a lease agreement was made with the City Administration. The City would pay the debt and care for the exterior of the house and the grounds for 25 years, and the Historical Society would take care of the interior of the house and its collection. No doubt the struggle to achieve these goals was the greatest challenge the Society has faced in its 75-year history.
The care-taking proved to be necessarily minimal for decades, but thousands of visitors came and marveled at what they saw. The goals of preservation and education were being met, but other projects were done as well. The Speed cabin was preserved and resurrected at Milligan Park (1935). Members influenced the preservation of the covered bridges at Deer s Mill and Darlington. When the Civil Band played on the grounds at Lane Place, Lane Place had Open House-a popular program during Helen and John Remley s residency. In 1965 the Society earned recognition for Lane Place and Yount s Mill when the Civil War Commission erected historic markers at both sites.
With the 1970s came expanded educational programs. Oral histories were taped, transcribed and placed in the Library; various kinds of historic reviews were published in the Journal-Review ; Montgomery Magazine became a monthly publication which was placed in all county libraries by the Historical Society. In 1978 the Society s first annual publication was printed for its membership. In 1979 the first annual Christmas Candlelight Tour of Historic Homes wa