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£*lt;.Qool@1Ja.aysk GL QPIw(Mill Creek Township is now a part of Jefferson but at one time was an independent administrative unit.)Mill Creek Township lies east of Marion, Jefferson and Clover-township was Nancy E. Holmes, daughter of Jacob Holmes, who built the first house in the township. Her birth occurred May 7, 1830. This child died at the age of four years. Thedale Townships, and is bound- first marriage was that of Eli ed on the north by Hendricks Lee and Polly Heavin, daugh-County, on the east by Hen- j ter of William and Barbara dricks and Morgan, and on the | Heavin, in the year 1832. Mr. south by Morgan. It is drained Lee built the first horse-millby Mill Creek, which forms the eastern and southern bound-which was widely known and extensively patronized foraries. There are a few small i years. The first school house in tributes, but none of any size, j this township was built on the which enter that stream within! farm of a Mr. Bricks. The the limits of Putnam County. I puncheons for the floor and This township was annexed to' seats were hewed by Pleasant Putnam County by order of the Allee.b -rd of County Commissioners j The Methodist Church was at the September term, 1860, j organized in the township in the confirmed by act of the Legis- year 1829, at the house of Mr. lature, approved March 11,; Bricks. Services were afterward 1861. I held at the schoolhouse untilThe first settler in this town-1 the erection of mount Pisgr.h ship was Thomas Broadstreet, i Church, on the land of Norman Sr., who was bom in Virginia i Nunn, in the year 1844 or in the year 1813. In the year 1845. Mr. Thomas Broadstreet 1826, at the age of 13, he came was one of the earliest if not West with his father, who set-1 the first minister in the town-tied within one mile of the west j ship.edge of the township. The first) Thomas Elliott improved the log cabin in Mill Creek Town- j place at the forks of the Green-ship was built in the year 1826, j castle and National Roads, on the west bank of the stream where he first built a log house,from which the township took its name, one and a half miles south of Stilesville, by Jacob Holmes. This house was then sold to James Sallust. The next was built on what is known as the Clark farm, by Thomas Skelton Walton William Parker entered land and built a house close by, and then came Elisha Hurst and Norman Nunn. They were all early settlers, and owned lands adjoining the Clark farm on the west. William Heavin came here in the year 1827, and at first built a log cabin, but within a few years erected a very good hewed-log house. At a very early day, Mr. Heavin built a water-mill of the kind known to old settlers as a hominy-pestle; and he also planted the first orchard in the township.The first death which occurred in the township was that of Mrs. Barbara Heavin, wife of William Heavin, who died in the year 1830, and was interned near the family dwelling.James Sallust, father of John and Wilbur Sallust of this township and of J.R. Sallust of Oregon, came from Virginia to. Mill Creek in the year 1829, and ' lived in his traveling-tent until he built a cabin in which to live. Mr. Sallust made the first kiln j of brick in the township. His molder and burner was a man! named Daniel Elliott. Mr. Sallust lived to the year 1851.Mr. McHaffie, from Knox! County, Penn., father of M. F. McHaffie, bought land in the north part of the township in the year 1831, to which he moved in the fall of the next year. He built the first waterpower grist-mill in the township in the years 1835-1836. Samuel Beadle, Pleasant Allee and William Allee all came to the township in the year 1837.The first child bom in thein which he kept a tavern, as did also Mr. Keller, just accross the line in Hendricks County. In the year 1837, Mr. Elliott built a brick house, and in the following year, Mr. Keller built a two-story frame. These were rival houses, and attained great notoriety. They were known as the “Indian Chief” Tecumseh and Washington Hall.” They were together called the twin taverns.”SheinwolcLead From Right Hand To Cut Danger In HalfBy Alfred SheinwoldJeff Rubens and Larry Rosier constructed some sobering hands for college students to play a few weeks ago in the annual Intercollegiate Bridge Championships. Their feeling was that optimism should be tempered by an occasional dash of cold water.North dealer North-South vulnerhble NORTH A AKJ52 V A J 6 3 O J * 642EASTA 0 10*4 3 S? Q 10 9 7 O A A K 7 5WEST A 99 K*0 *7654 A 1109*3t A2 lt;93 NTsoothA 76 5? 542 O KQ 1093 2 * AQ Eart Sou* WestPass 2 O Pa*Pass 2 NT PassAll Pass Open in* lead - 4 ISouth’s problem, after winning the first club trick, was to bring in the diamonds. If south led a low diamond, a de-'■» ~fuse the first
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