Shelby  County  Indiana  History

Marion  Township


Township 13, 14 North - Range 7 East


THE  SHELBY  DEMOCRAT
December 31, 1903
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MARION.
          MARION  TOWNSHIP,  Dec. 30. ----- Willie DePrez is on the sick list.
          A small number of  M. W. A. held an interesting meeting Saturday night.
          School begins here Monday, after a three days' holiday.
          Mr. George Nanve and wife of Owlridge spent Sunday at the home of  Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rhoades.
          Miss Fannie Tadlock has been passing the past week with friends and relatives in Indianapolis.
          Messrs. Albert and Ovid Silverthorn of this place are spending a wekk[sic] with their brother Charles in Anderson.
          Mr. Charles Merrick of this place made a trip with his huckster wagon to Indianapolis last week.
          The primary classes of this school highly entertained the high school ....
Copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming


The Shelbyville, Indiana, Daily Democrat
Tuesday, May 29, 1894
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OLDHAM'S  MILL.
         Wheat is heading out very uneven.
         J. W. Harrell1  lost a fine heifer last week from the effects of wet clover.
         James Ricketts  and wife, of Brady, spent the day at  J. E. Rinehart's  Sunday.
         T. B. Carey2  has the contract of painting the Fairview church.  Good for you, Bent.
         Mrs. Marie Totten3  and her little son Frankie, of Indianapolis, spent last week with her sister, Mrs. Elijah Ensminger.
         Mr. and Mrs. Rafe Alexander  are the parents of a fine boy, but unfortunately the little fellow is minus a hand.  Perhaps he may make his way through life better than some who have two hands.
         Thomas Fisher, an aged resident of Moral township, died at his residence last Sunday morning, and was buried Tuesday in the graveyard on the farm belonging to Cyrenius Bishop.  The services were held at East Union church, conducted by Rev. Hughes.
         Mrs. Nancy Hankins4, accompanied by her little children, were at Poland's school house the other night at church.  On returning home, and just in front of the school house, they ran over a large rock in the road overturning the carriage, but fortunately no one was hurt.
         Some neighbors of  Thomas Means  one night last week thought they would clean up his corn field, so they rolled the cumbersome articles and carried straw and tried to burn them, but they would not burn.  Then they discovered that instead of being logs they were great big clods.
BUFFALO  BILL.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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Notes from Mary Harrell Sesniak
1  Judge (given name, not title) William Wick Harrell, son of  Byrum & Sally (Hubble) Harrell.  In 1894, he was married to wife #3, Lettie May Jenkins (#1 Lodema Ann Drake,  #2 Josephine E J Day.)  JW & Lettie/Lottie are listed in a City Directory living in Greenfield in 1891, but he still owned land in Brandywine Twp.
2  Thomas Benton Carey who first married  Susan F Reed April 05, 1868 and then married Margaret Ensley c. 1893.
3  Mary Matilda Oldham was the daughter of  Joseph O. and  Matilda (Harrell) Oldham; she was the wife of  John Jackson Totten.  Her sister was Clarinda Lenie Oldham, wife of  Elijah Ensminger and the daughter of  Joseph O. and Matilda (Harrell) Oldham.
4  Nancy M Wright was the wife of  Lewis C Hankins; they were married on February 12, 1880.


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          Marion Township is bounded on the north by Van Buren and Hanover Townships, on the east by Liberty, on the south by Addison, and on the west by Brandywine Townships. It is five miles square, and Big Blue River passes through the center.
          A number of the earliest settlers have already been enumerated in speaking of "the first town" in the county, Marion. In addition, the following may also be mentioned:

Stephen D. Ludlow
Henry T. Gaines
Hugh
and Nathaniel Gatewood
William G. Morris
John Hawk
Peter and John Jarling
Joseph Vernon

          Among the best farms in the township the following may be named:

Jesse Rodes
Henry T. Gaines
Elbert Morris
Mrs. Ellen Bass
Hiram Bass
Leason Bass
Michael and George Billman
William Kaster
Jacob Howery
George B. Huffman
Stephen D. Ludlow
Sylvester Bassett
Whitlock and Larkin Arnold
Leander Fox
A.R. Sleeth
E.V. Morrison
Charles Billman
Henry Pond and
Moses Bowman.

          There are seven schools in Marion Township; three of them have substantial and handsome brick houses and at Marion there is a graded school. There are three interesting churches in this township--the Liberty Baptist Church, the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal, and the Methodist Episcopal Church of Marion. ~ ~
From the Atlas of Shelby Co., Indiana, Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co, 1880, page 14.


SHELBY  UNION  BANNER
April 14, 1864
Page 3, col 2
Township Elections -- Official.
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MARION.
Union.                                                        Copperhead
Trustee
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L Kennedy...........73 .....................
Constable.
Charles M. Sleeth...70 ....................
T. Kennedy..........71 ....................
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

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