The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-09-06
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana

strong aversion. Rue's three or four III
married daugn,-rs. Ho.man sons and IL
three youn, men ab,v- alluded TO- iorme
the first Young Peoples 8 ,cieiy in tn
: county. Although they had no pianos
guitars. flutes nor clsrion-tt-s to make du
Get strains in the '.stily night" nor dill the
pass in lons. merry. wreathing groups {
fashionably dressed young ladies and gen
t.emeu through spacious rooms and hall
draped with damask. and brilliantly iilurnin
ated with costly chandeliers; yet they hal
their good social freside chas in the o'he
corner in the presence OF the old folks; an
sometimes. after the old people retired from
gatherings, log rollings. corn huskinys
qriliings and the like. the young people re
manned until the "wee hours" playing sis
ter Phebe. come my love and go with me
green grows the rushes D. and other limo
cen, plays and songs equally as sensible and
sentimental as those exquisite charades, and
! modern French6ed amusements now So
! popular in upper tendon. One thing Is
suffered with "corns," nor ..brandy head
aches" and the young ladies' toilets were
innocent OF paints and perfumeries.
1t has not been month since l he,rd one
of the bellies Of that day say that she spun
and wove some nice linen frocks and table
cloths for herself out OF the lint of netrles
that grew in the White Water bottoms.
Think of that girls OF Wayne COUNTY
When your costly silk dresses. purchased
by your fathers and brothers. ruStls as you
enter the sisles Of your neat and comfortable
church. think of the girls that spin and
weave. 70 this day. their linsey woolsey
frocKs. as perhaps did your mothers and
grandmolhers at The day about which am
wiring.
Rue bull cabin on the brow OF that lof-
~ and romantic hill. situated few hundred
yards north east of the mouth OF Snort
Creek. HOLMAN erected his cabin three
quarters OF a mile north east of Rue's res
iuencc.
The fall following. McC.y and B'unt az
rived from keutueAy with their 'anilieS.--
they both settled the west side nf the
river wIlh:n nal. a mis- If Rae'S aud OK
CABINS. McCay setuei the place alter
wards owned oy SunIl-, Henry Rae. an
nov by II ,rn ); AMI ant sealed on ii
odd hcrs aien pace. now owned bF Leroy
Llrsh
Danng tte A,n.cr OF 1920, | stayed sey
era! nl,,.s m.in ns4 rus anI eV6fs event :
about iwi-.i.at, .F,A,as 9s back go
would SO: mp j.ir.,I .4a~ iag. mnic4
ec!io-i Iave.a,4iiy a.o;4s tne aiiis and
STREAMS ~ thai Pic iu' e.i.- roiu t-,.!u 10
caiity. Sune ol tae Cutters. B .rt.
Mct ,ddeas, I'-nd.etons, Was 'ds. He leg
tisneTS MO tlon lived IA t.i. VI
cinity nav cu.nca 10 STE tuess lines az
vii, doubti,s reeoi:.ct WiiAlae wolf 4.n1
IT, esen.ax serena~i,.s, ami nsiy {, Inc IA
.ftV ar
Wh.,e Mater. wtica can COY lie recalled
by tae mag. Z Il ., memory.
A<ln the .aii OF 1896, Hugh Call, Jacob
Meek john OK, Gather OF the fist sett-rl
L,Zarus Whitehead Charles Hunt aud sew
eral Others, With their iaInl.ies, joined The
Kentucky settlement. As II was Called
Tn-y all settled along Big Eiknosn except
John Cox, who built ills caDI0 where 40
Ing ton no stand,--whlch town was after
wards laid of by him aud us son Joseph,
Is the RECORDS will show
Ii is said that Hugh Gull. a local Me,ho
dist preacher, { no WAS memoer of the
Convention OF 1916 that formed the first
Constitution of Indiana, and who is still hv-
Ing in Wayne county AZ the advanced age
of lO2 years. or Lazarus Whitehead, a
Baptist minister preached the first Sermon
delivered in Wayne county. Tue first cleo
tiou as well as the first term of court. was
held at the house OF Richard Rue. on the
top Of the aforesaid hills which stood like >
tower overlooking the surrounding country.
A diversity OF interests and conflicting
opinions among the different sparseiy settled
neighborhouds of the county, whlci. like
the youny mans wiiskerS. was extensive
ly laid out, but thinly settled" caused dis
cord and strife to spring up among the peo-
pie, even at that early day. The county
seat question was the first great hone oi
contention which excited bitter feelings, and
engendered animosities which endured long
after Salisbury, the first regular county seat.
had been converted into a corn:ielI Many
furious and bloody tights came of at almost
every election. That day WAS set apart by
the bell,coss to settle old gruiges. or try
the mettle Of some new aspira:ts to pugihs-
tic honors. Al the first election it is said
there were more than a dozen lights and ex-
hioi,ions OF skill. pluck aud muscle that
would not disgrace a ueenan, or Sayers.
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