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he - “Lr~neonakibePtiIjej- [This paper was written by Miss Goldie Lee, and submitted by J. S.’ Johnson, County Historian,] tiutAddison township, the center town- 0 ship of Shelby county, was organised S( in 1832. Being the largest township ti lis in the county, it was ordered divided C( :a- by the commissioners. The southern C( Jr- half vas organized into a township in 1 ta. 1SS2 and was called Shelby for the Ci be county. alt;he Shelby township is bounded on the 01 Jb north by Addison, east by Liberty, r€ w- west by Hendricks and on the south a( in by Washington and Noble. It is four ' a- miles north and south and seven of ig miles east and west. It contains 17,- ap ie 020 acres and in 19OS its assessed i*1 value was $S36,450. .arit was settled by pioneers, among w whom were James Stafford, William ar )n Amos and a Mr. Fenns. . P*r- Shelby township has seven pikes. ac ig Norristown, being the oldest, was sil ie made in 1S52. A stone pike serves 1°a] as a dividing line between Washing- deton, Noble, and Shelby townships, bu These roads are just fair compared of k with the others of the county. !This township had eight schools in ta 190S, eight teachers and 253 pupils. lt;m; Now it has seven schools, 120 pupils tlC and eight teachers. .wlJames Green was the first trustee tit and Frank Conner the first elected catone. • anrThere are three churches in the 015itownship, Ripple Methodist, Fenns P° Christian, and Lewis Creek Baptist. | Tht Lewis Creek Baptist was or- • tic ganized September 23, 1833, with J'wl Daniel Stogsdill as moderator and an William Eaton as clerk. The ehar-:£a ter members were Polly, Simeon and jOf Nancy Stafford, William, Martha and Polly Morris, David and Matilda Hendricks, Neal and Louisa McCann.Mr. Stogsdill preached from Peter atr: 2:17, “Honor all men, love the broth- jhTn erhood, tear God, hr nor King.*' iP‘e The preacher was not paid any- ;thlt; thing at first. |jusThere have been sixteen pastors, 8Plt;4some of them be.ng Perry Markland, Rev. Noah Harper. Rev. Huckleberry,- Rev. John Reece, Rev. W. W. Smith, e Rev. George Jayne, and Rev. W. T. a Markland.*, The present pastor is Rev. S. 'iIiaf lolmes Wood. The church has ,a,wo- cangregation of 607 members. jan1s Prescott and Fenns are the only, tor- villages in the township. ~ t Fenns being named for the early f pioneer, Mr. Fenns. It has a store,railroad stop, elevator, postoffice and ^ro- a few houses. jdmt Prescott has a few houses, stores, er«f elevator, railroad and traction stop san , and a saloon, the only one in the !- township. ;der3 The railroads were some of the ^- earliest chartered. The I., C. St. ,ev*' I L., Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg, jwe] . was chartered in 1S32. The J., M. 8™t-:oar.ea-ynpotblt;Tr;urlt;whneiofherJ., or Pennsylvania, was chartered in 1832-37-46. j woiThe “underground railroad’* from acilLawrenceburg and Greensburg jevepassed thru Prescott near the north- Plei east part of the township. sac:Voltically Shelby township has! been democratic except for two elee-(*ati tions when two republican trustees nawere elected. jdreBefore Addison and Shelby were thr4 iseparated the county farm was 10-j^ ° rated on a 200-acre plot in the cen- ; ter of the township. When the di-riding came the farm fell in Shelby jmo£ township. [histThe men from this township who Pre:wore in the Mexican war were Jason jhigl»nd Joe Greene. honAmong those in the civil war were He-niy Dunn, Nathan Stafford, Wil- 'shii iiani James, George and Nathan Hail, j pro' WilHam Barnes and William ! ?nox, ;*car who were in the 70th Ind. Regiment pen under Col. Ben Harrison and Capt. ena John Newton.*«
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Shelbyville, Indiana, US
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