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BOONE COUNTY
Boone
County
History Jamestown
This thriving town is
situated in the south
part of Jackson township, in section 10,
town 17 north, range 2 west. It was laid
out by James MATLOCK and
John R. GIBSON in
1832. The first house built was the John R.
GIBSON in 1829. It was
of round logs,
with overlapping corners, of the pattern of
the very first houses
built in the woods
of Boone county. If you get a view of one,
you have a conception of
all of that class.
The style was not changed. It was the
invariable rule for the
construction of the
round
log cabin of the pioneer. Its rudeness was
modified by the hewn log
house that was
the next style of the pioneer house, and
marked an advance in
beauty and convenience
for a home.
HENDRICKS COUNTY
Atlas of Hendricks
County (Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co.,1878)--Center
Township
biographical entries
MATLOCK, JOHN C., P.O.
Danville; Farmer and
Stock Dealer, Sec. 16;
son of John T.,
born in Ind. Ter., Oct.
19, 1813, and Cynthia
Hinton, born in Highland
Co., Ohio,
May 1, 1813 (settled
1824); born in this
county March 27, 1835.
Married Oct. 4,
1866, to Louisa Pierson, born in this
county
May
28, 1840
HOGATE, ENOCH G., P.O.
Danville; Attorney at
Law; son of Jonathan and
Sarah A;
was born Sept. 16, 1849,
in Centreton, N.J.;
settled here in 1864.
Married May 8,
1873, to Mary J. Matlock; one child--Jessie M.
IRVIN, WILLIAM, P.O.
Danville; County Clerk;
son of John and Sarah
Matlock. Irwin,
who settled in this
county about 1827; was
born in this city Nov.
27, 1839. Married
Feb. 8, 1870, to Mary E., daughter of Rev. T. S. Webb, at
La Porte,
Ind.;
two
children--Grace Lynn and
Webb.
JACKSON COUNTY
HISTORY OF JACKSON
COUNTY. 411
The soil of Hamilton,
like that of many other
townships of
Jackson County, has been
stained with the blood
of a victim of
mob law. However, the
credit or discredit,
whichever it may be,
belongs to the citizens
of Salt Creek Township.
In the latter
part of the sixties the
store of George Matlock,
a merchant of
Houston, was burglarized
by two young boys by the
name of
Stewart, in company with
a negro. Search was
instituted, and a
portion of the stolen
goods found in
possession of the above
named. The Stewarts were
arrested, and a large
party of citizens
went in pursuit of the
negro, who they supposed
had fled toward
Seymour. After
twenty-four hours search
the negro was arrested,
and on the way back to
Salt Creek, where the
preliminary trial
was to be held, they
were intercepted by a
mob, and the negro was
hung to a dogwood tree.
The following day an
inquest was held,
and the body buried on
the hill-side, near the
Isaacs Schoolhouse.
The body, it is said,
was exhumed by a member
of the medical
profession, and
doubtless contributed no
little to the science of
the age.
HISTORY OF JACKSON
COUNTY. 424
In 1852 a small frame
church building was
erected one-
fourth of a mile south
of Clear Spring; this
served as a place of
worship until 1868, when
the erection of the
present large frame
building in Clear Spring
was begun. This was
completed in
1870, at a cost of about
$2,000. In 1871 an arm
of this church
was extended to a young
neighborhood, and under
the supervision
of Elder McCoy another
class was organized. The
following is
a partial list of the
ministers who have
served in these two
charges: T. J. Hanna,
John Bell, John R.
McCoy, William
Gillaspy, George W.
Sweeney and Isaac Coker;
deacons: Abra-
ham Brannaman, William
Hinkle, Christian
Brannaman, Daniel
Sanders, James K.
Matlock. It is said that
so many members of
this church went out in
defense of their country
that at one time
there was not a
sufficient number left
to hold services.
History of Jackson Co
520
The first building and
loan fund association
started in this
town was the Brownstown
Building and Loan Fund
and Savings
Association, organized
in 1871, and after doing
business for
about eighteen months
suspended without loss
to the stockhold-
ers. The Live Mens'
Building and Loan Fund
and Savings Asso-
ciation was organized
December 22, 1876, with
$50,000 author-
ized stock. But $35,000
was subscribed, the
shares being worth
$100, with $1 per month
dues. The first officers
were Barthol-
omew H. Burrell,
president; Joel H.
Matlock, vice-president;
Frank Fassold,
secretary; and Walter L.
Benton, treasurer
From
Jackson
County Genealogical Society Paper, June 1986.
Listings of
Soldiers in Civil War
from
Jackson
County.
"Joel H. Matlock was
born in
Jackson
County August 17, 1847 and was the fourth
child of George and Betsy Weddell Matlock who were natives of
Tennessee. In
February 1864, Joel Matlock enlisted in Company H. of
the One Hundred and
Twentieth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was in the battle of Resaca and
was
with General Sherman
until after the battle
of
Atlanta.
He mustered out with
the rank of Orderly
Sergeant. On November 5
1868 he married Mary A. Scott. They
were the parents of five children: Cora Effie, Mary A., Grace, Price H.,and
Bessie."
History of Jackson Co
619
JOEL H. MATLOCK,
deputy county auditor,
Brownstown,
was born in Jackson
County, Ind., August
17,1847, and is the
fourth child of a family
of nine born to George
and Betsey (Wed-
del) Matlock, natives of
Tennessee. They came to
Brownstown in
their younger days.
After marriage they
lived in the western
part of Jackson County,
farming being Mr.
Matlock's occupation.
They were both prominent
members of the Methodist
Episcopal
Church for many years.
In 1878 they moved to
Kansas, where
they now reside. Joel H.
passed his early life on
his father's
farm, attending the
schools of those days.
In February, 1872.
he was appointed deputy
county clerk, served
until 1880, since
which time he has served
as deputy auditor, thus
making thir-
teen years or more spent
in the employment of his
native
county. In the month of
February, 1864, he
enlisted in Com-
pany H, One Hundred and
Twentieth Indiana
Volunteer Infantry,
and served till .January
8, 1866. His first
battle was Resaca.
He was with Sherman
until after the battle
of Atlanta; was also
in the battle in front
of Atlanta when Gen.
McPherson was killed.
He was in the battles at
Nashville and at
Franklin, and many
other minor engagements.
He went out as a private
and was
soon after appointed
orderly sergeant.
November 5, 1868, he
mar-
ried Mary A. Scott, a
native of Ohio. There
are five children
living by this marriage:
Cora Effie, Mary A.,
Grace, Price H.,
Bessie and Charles S.
(deceased). Mr. Matlock
is a Royal Arch
member of the Masonic
fraternity, also a
charter member of the
K. of P. from 1880 until
1884 he was on the
Democratic Cen-
tral Committee, and for
the last two years has
been chairman of
that committee.
WABASH COUNTY
History of
Wabash
County
The first settlers in
Wabash
County were Colonel David Burr, Colonel Hugh Hanna and
Alexander Worth. In
January 30, 1833,
Wabash
County was established and
Wabash City
was first incorporated in January 1849. Joseph A.
Matlock was elected the
first mayor
of
Wabash from 1866-1868
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Washington
County Giants Greenfield, Ind.: W. Mitchell Print.
Co., 1921 Part 111
Our Own Time Pg 397-399
Henry W Medlock the
long-time well known
marshal of Salem would
not measure up in
stature with the others,
but not withstanding
this undersize, he was
capable of
holding his own, as was
shown by his long and
turbulent experience as
marshal with
the best of them and
proved more than a match
for all of the would-be
bad men who
sought so often “to
paint the town red”
during the early years
of his official life.
He was a man about five
feet, ten inches high,
heavy built and would
weigh about
one hundred and eight
pounds. But I will give
but one instance of his
numerous
contests with violators
of the laws who
attempted to resist
arrest. And this one
came
under
the personal observation
of the writer. Medlock,
unlike the proverbial
police
officers
that is always absent
when most needed, seemed
always to be on hand
when his
services
were called for. One
summer day a man by the
name of
Hamilton, from the east
part of county came to town, as he said, for
the express purpose of
“doing in the
marshal!” He was fully six feet tall, well and
heavily built and was
the equal of the
marshal
weight. A fine looking
fellow and one that
would have been picked
out of crowds
as an athlete. The marshal had arrested him some
time before for some
infraction and
on
occasion he said that it
was the last time. He
was somewhat under the
influence of
liquor, and after making his boast,
left the parties to who
he was talking and
started
across the
street to look for his
“Whiskers” as the
marshal was called.
Before he got
quite across the street he came face to face with
the object of his
search. They both
stopped a few feet apart. Hamilton reached for his
gun but instantly the
marshal was
upon him and
beat him to it, taking
the gun out of his
pocket and putting it in
his own.
Hamilton closed in and they clinched and
soon went down in the
street. But it did not
take many minutes, with the heavy
marshal sitting on his
breast and gripping his
throat
with a hold that could not be broken, to cause an
unconditional surrender
which was
accepted and
the marshal arose. But it seemed that
Hamilton would not get up. The
marshal tapped his feet a time or two with his billy
but that had no effect.
So he put
his club, bent
over, took
Hamilton around the middle, threw him over
his shoulder and
walked
off with him to the justice’s office. Hamilton
afterwards said to the
writer,
in speaking of
this occurrence,
“Whiskers can arrest me
any time in the future
without
trouble. For I
know when I am licked”. The foregoing is
but one of the numerous
contest
with violators
of the law who attempted to resist
arrest by the marshal.
Well might he
be
properly called “The
little giant”.
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