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Isaac SMITH, who came to the county as early as 1828, but of whose subsequent life no information has been obtained.

In 1829 Daniel LOVELL, a native of Virginia, but subsequently a resident of Tennessee came from the latter state to this county, and located on Walnut Hill Prairie, where he remained some three years. In 1832 he removed to another part of the county, and settled on a farm now owned by Alexander MILLICAN, and there died in 1858. His wife died in 1849. Four of his children still live in the county.

Henry HOLT, the oldest living settler of Patoka township came from Georgia with his father, Harmon HOLT, and settled here in the year 1826. He was then sixteen years of age, and there was not another family living in what is now Patoka township. Here grew to manhood, married, and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he has since followed. Though seventy-one years of age, he is still a hale, hearty old gentleman.

In 1826, Mrs. JONES and family of four children became the second settler within the present limits of Foster Township. Her oldest son, James was married in Clinton county, and came to this counter the year following that of his mother's arrival. For some time prior to his marriage he was employed by the government as a guard of escort to the government engineers while they were making the early state surveys. He was a native of Georgia, having been born there in 1795. In 1865 he died on the farm he had improved in this county. His widow, whose maiden name was Laura LLEWELLYN, is still living, the oldest lady in Foster township. They reared a family of eleven children, of whom six (three daughters and three sons) still survive.

Mary WILKINS and her husband, who has been dead thirty-four years, emigrated from South Carolina in 1829, and the same year located in this county, in the part now known as Haines township. The 15th of August 1881, was the one hundred and first anniversary of her birthday, and yet in all that century of life she has never seen a railroad! She has reared a family of sixteen children of whom ten are still living. During the present year she has become partially demented-doubtless, the direct result of her very advanced age. She was a young lady of eighteen summers when WASHINGTON died, and a woman of family when Napoleon was conquered at Waterloo. She has lived during the grandest century of the world's history,-a century that, in magnificent achievements, far outshines the brilliant Augustan age of Rome, the renowned Periclean era of Greece, or the celebrated Elizabethan period of England.

Thomas ALLMON, a native of Tennessee, settled here in 1829. He was the first blacksmith in Tonti township; was a good business manager, and at his death left a fine estate to his widow and large family. David W. ALLMON, his oldest son, bought numerous tracts, and subsequently died on the old homestead, where his widow still resides.

Mordecai and Britton SMITH, brothers, and natives of North Carolina, came from Tennessee to this county in 1829, and located for the time being at Salem. Mordecai afterwards married and settled on a farm in Foster township, where he still resides. Britton drove stage, worked by the month, kept a grocery store at Salem, and traded around till 1837, when he married, and the same year bought an improvement. He afterwards entered this land and lived there till 1840, when he removed to where he now lives in Tonti township.

When he came to the county (1829), there were only seven families living in Tonti township viz.: those of William MARSHALL, Thomas ALLMON, the Widow PURSLEY, John EDDINGTON, Robert MANN, John DAVIDSON, and Ross JONES.

Josiah FYKE, of Tennessee, settled here about 1829. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war and also in the war of 1812; was at the battle of New Orleans. His son now occupies the old homestead in this county.

In 1829 John WANDLING emigrated from Tennessee, and the same year located on Red Lick Prairie in this country. He afterwards removed to Omega township. He had a large family of children, of whom one son, Manuel, still resides in the township.

Robert CARRIGAN came from his native state, Georgia, and settled here in 1830. He improved a farm upon which he lived till his death, in August, 1834.

His widow, now Mrs. HUFF, still lives on the old homestead. Mr. CARRIGAN reared a family of three children. The year following his death, his brother, James M. CARRIGAN, came to the county and settled where he now lives. He reared a family of ten children, of whom three are still living. His wife, whose maiden name name was DAVIDSON, has lived here since 1820. Mr. CARRIGAN and wife, and Mrs. Sallie HUFF are the oldest living settlers of Carrigan township. About the year 1830, Isaac CHARLTON became a resident of Marion county, locating near the north edge of Haines township, where he died a few years ago. His family consisted of a wife and four children, two of whom, James and Ann, still survive; the former living, at present, in Odin; the latter, in California. Is widow, Elizabeth CHARLTON, is now 77 ears old and resides on the old homestead. W. D. HAYNIE was born in St. Ann county, Virginia, in 1798, and at an early day removed to Kentucky and thence to Tennessee, where he married Miss Elizabeth B. FROST. In 1830 the family removed to this country and settled at Salem, where he died in 1870, aged 72 years. He was father of Gen. I. N. HAYNIE, of whom a biographical sketch may be found in the chapter on Bench and Bar, published in this volume. Mrs. Elizabeth HAYNIE still survives her husband and is now a resident of Salem, aged 77 years.

Nannie EARNHART settled in Salem during the year 1830, when the only families living in the town were Mark TULLY, James PYKE, Henry HIGGINS and Rufus RICKER. She and her brothers lived in a little house without floor or windows, and having but one door. The next year her father and mother removed here from Tennessee. She is still a resident of Salem, and is now 79 years old. All the east part of Salem was then a large field in cultivation. Wolves at that time howled through the streets at night and the scream of the panther could be heard in the surrounding woods. The court-house was then used for a church, and David R. CHANCE and William CHAFFIN expounded the scriptures therein. Leonard P. PILES came to the conty at an early day. He was from Tennessee, and had a family of six children. He was one of the first grand jurors of Marion county. In 1835 he left the county and went to Missouri, where he died.

The same year Thomas HOWE, from the same state, settled in Stringtown prairie and reared a family of six children. Enoch HOLTSCLAW formerly occupied as a farm the site of the present village of Central city, where he located in 1830. He continued his residence there till the time of his death, in 1840. He was a strict member of the Baptist church, and a highly respected citizen. N. B. NELMS came from Tennessee and settled at Salem in March, 1831. He lived there till 1858, when he changed his residence to Clay county, Ill., where he died in 1857. He had twelve children, three of whom still reside in this county; viz. S. A. NELMS, John T. NELMS, and Mrs. Margaret C. SANGER. Marcum C. LOVELL emigrated from Tennessee with his father, Daniel LOVELL, and settled on Walnut Hill Prarie about 1829, 30. He married Polly HENSLEY, and in 1831 changed his residence to Omega township, where he continued to reside till his death, which occurred in 1879. His