Biographical and historical record of Putnam County, Indiana .. . Lloyd Harris. Pleasant Garden was laid out on sec-tion 21. in the year 1830, by John Matkins,as a rival of Manhattan. Keelsville was laid out by John Heel, onthe Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad, inthe year 1852. It is now quite a flourishingvillage. The following peculiar incidents are relatedby some of the old settlers as having attractedconsiderable comment: Old Squire Boone, brother to Daniel Boone,now living in the township, once lived in ahouse w^hich stood on the ground now occu-pied by that in which Simeon Stoner live
Biographical and historical record of Putnam County, Indiana .. . Lloyd Harris. Pleasant Garden was laid out on sec-tion 21. in the year 1830, by John Matkins,as a rival of Manhattan. Keelsville was laid out by John Heel, onthe Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad, inthe year 1852. It is now quite a flourishingvillage. The following peculiar incidents are relatedby some of the old settlers as having attractedconsiderable comment: Old Squire Boone, brother to Daniel Boone,now living in the township, once lived in ahouse w^hich stood on the ground now occu-pied by that in which Simeon Stoner the 3d day of July, 1837, his house wasstruck by lightning, by which two of hischildren were killed. Three years later hiswife presented him with twin boys, whom henamed Tip and Tyler. Some time after that,in the same house, two of his daughters weremarried on the same day. ^v i ??? vS43K?9> *Hu h -*•?<.,?». vJ^i ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^:^g «t PIONEER LIFE. I. HE early settlers ofPutnam County mostlycame from older States,as Kentucky, Virginia,and North their prospectsfur even a competency werevery poor. They found thoseStates good— to emigrate entire stuck of furniture,implements and family neces-sities were easily stored in onewagon, and sometimes a cartwas their only vehicle. IE LOG CABIN. After arriving and selecting a suitablelocation, the next thing to do was to build aloo- cabin, a description of which may be in-teresting to many of our younger readers, asin some sections these old-time structures areno more to be seen. Trees of uniform sizewere chosen and cut into logs of the desiredlength, generally twelve to fifteen feet, andhauled to the spot selected for the futuredwelling. On an appointed day the few neighbors who were available would assembleand have a house-raising. Each end olevery log was saddled and notched so thatthey would lie as close down as possible; thenext day the proprietor would proceed
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