The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-10

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died on the farm which he had spent
most of his active life in improving.
Nathan Baldwin settled on the land
now owned by Elijah Reed. He erec-
ted buildings, cleared the land, lived
there a-number OF years and died with
erysipelas. John Pervo settled on the
land now owned by Jones Grant. He
lived there a short time then moved
to Fountain county, Ind. VIM. Daw-
son settled on the Peter Apple farm.
He built the house that stands on the
farm, cleared the land and lived there
over twenty years. He sold TO Peter
Apple and moved to Tippecanoc
county, Ind. Johnson Carl settled on
the land now owned by Otto Apple.
He erected buildings, cleared land
lived there number of years. He
preached the gospel as he understood
lit: That Gods last ultimatum to the
sinner was III, fire and birthstone"
He moved to Minnesota and wrote
back that there were no grave-yards
in Minnesota. The people lived to be
Extremely old, dried up and the wind
blew them away. Elias Marsters set
tied on the land now owned by David
Carl He was a Methodist preacher
and fine man. He lived there quite
a number of years but finally sold
out and went west John Mccoy
lived on the land now owned by Ell
mer Arnantrout He was killed in
an accident in an old style wooden
lcane mill. The sweep that turned the
rollers passed close to the corners Of
the frame He raised up and the
sweep caught his head against a COR
ner of the frame, crushing it so bad
lly that death resulted instantly. He
was a devout man. The land that is
now owned by Baker was settled by
Israel Reed. He erected buildings,
Icleared the land and died in Bourbon
He was brother to Martin Reed, of
bourbon. Saul Marsten settled on
the land now owned by McAfee.
lWm Gum settled on the land now
lowned by William Bland He made
lspinning wheels in an early day for
1.-THE pioneers. Henry l. Bell, deceased
settled on the land where Mrs. Bell
now lives. George H. Thayer settled
on the land now owned by Milton
Martin. He erected buildings, cleared
the land and done blacksmithing He
also preached the gospel and was a
talented and good man. John Greer
lsertIed on land half mile south. He
was violinist When I was a small
boy l heard him play a piece he
called Sugar in the Gourd" 1
thought it was delightful. 1t might
have been the sugar that made it
sound so WELL Some of the old pio-
neers used to keep sugar in a gourd.
| sucose that is what the song started
from 1t went something like this
Sugar in the goLrd, sugar all about,
It's hard to get the sugar in
And hard to get it out.
Thomas Plummer settled on the
land now owned by Enos Metheny.
His wife's name was Barbara. They
lived long. happy life together. 1t
was said of them that never a cross
word passed between them. They
were Christians. If everybody would
live that way it would stop the di-
vorce business. They had two sons,
.Abi and William c. who died a few
|years ago in Bourbon. Elisha Plum
mer, brother of Thomas, settled
on land joining. He had six sons,
Joseph, William, Thomas F., John,
James and Elisha, jr., all deceased
Mrs. Luther Banks was a daughter
of Elisha, sr.
South and southeast Of Bourbon,
Thomas Fife settled on the John
Beck farm He erected frame build
ings, cleared good sized farm and
lived there fifteen years or more,
then sold out and bought a farm a
short distance south of Plymouth and
died there. Wooley settled on the
land now owned by Joseph Wood.
He was hard on his horses and drove
through the mud under the whip He
sold his land to Franklin Martin and
left Jessie Burket was a pioneer. He
was remarkable man and rose to
zenith in his profession and retained
it through life. Joseph Hall settled
on land now owned by Lewallen He
bought the land of the old Indian Be-
mack. Barney Gerard settled on land
now owned by Sellers, about the year
1s45. To have asked him if he ever
voted the democratic ticket would
have been an insult. Philip Hancock
settled on land now owned by Bearss
and Downing. He lived there quite
number of years. He had long
spell of sickness and it was thought
he was going to die. The doctor
went to his bed one day when Han
cock said: Doctor, am going tc
get we'll" He said he had had sign
that told him that he would get we'll
land he got better from that time on,
and finally fully recovered
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