Shelby County, Indiana
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Sugar Creek Township
Sugar Creek Twp, Shelby Co, IN: Township 13 North - Range 5, 6 East
per Plat Directory distributed by the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, 1997.
Sugar Creek Township is bounded on the north by Moral Township, on the south by Hendricks,
on the west by Johnson County, and on the east by Brandywine Township. The Martinsville Railroad
intersects it diagonally in a southwesterly direction. Its principal streams are the Sugar Creek and
Little Sugar Creek. The face of the country is level, and the soil, particularly in the river bottoms, is
very productive. The streams are spanned by two very fine iron bridges. Among the earliest settlers
of what is now Sugar Creek Township, are the following:
John McConnell
S. G. Huntingdon
Adam Smith, Sr. (the father of David Smith)
James Johnson
Matthew Campbell
William McConnell
John Hindsman
Joseph Trusler
Reuben Strickler
Daniel Padrick
James White
Henry Willard
William Dannell
David Hoover
Linsey Boggess
Joseph Hough
Robert Myers
James Holmes
William Hoskins
William Croddy
William F. Morgan
Amos Collins
John H. Stewart
William Edwards
Lee Parrish |
Boggstown, the only post office, is located in the exact center of the township, and was founded at an early day by William, Warren and Joseph Boggs, three brothers, who were leading men in their day. It is now a railroad station, and contains a Presbyterian, a Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant Church, and also a graded school. There was formerly a Masonic Lodge, now
removed to Fairland. It is the headquarters of the largest grain trade in the county, outside of Shelbyville. Hough's Mills, now called the Red Mills, has been in existence for over forty years. Hugh and Adam McFadden were among the early settlers; the former was the father of Dr. William G. McFadden
and James B. McFadden, attorney at law, now of Shelbyville. Edward Gird,
Representative in the State Legislature (1836-37), was a resident of Sugar Creek Township. The first school teacher here is remembered with great enthusiasm. It was the late William Manwarring, afterward of Franklin, Johnson County. There were formerly a Baptist Church, known by the name of the "Morgan Church," in the northwestern part of the township, but the organization has been discontinued. The Methodist Episcopal, of Boggstown was 1826 at the house of Joseph Hough. In 1830, it was removed to the residence
of Adam McFadden, one mile south of Boggstown. The Presbyterians had built a church at
Boggstown which they offered to the Methodists for quarterly meetings and other great occasions. In 1850, the present church edifice was erected. There are six schools in the townships, five of them have brick schoolhouses. Among the handsome improvements the following deserve mention:
Philip Hoops
Herman Torline
David Smith
C. A. Gibson
Benjamin Farmbrough
George W. Holmes
Tillman H. Lee
Daniel Padrick
Benjamin Willard
William Weaver |
Many of the citizens of this township have occupied public positions. John McConnell was County Commissioner; John H. Stewart, Sheriff; James O. Parish, Treasurer; T. H. Lee , Sheriff and George C. McConnell is now Deputy Treasurer.
Atlas of Shelby Co., Indiana, Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co, 1880, page 14.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming.
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