The Lewis family, pioneers of eastern Tennessee and the Indiana territory.
This article is part 4(b) of a series about the travels of my family across the country and around the world.
So it went on until the latter part of the winter when he was helping his brother make sugar troughs, not knowing anyone lived near.
They heard some one holler and soon Mr.
Ward came up and they found out they would be neighbors, which they were as long as they lived.
The Wards and Lewis' were the early supporters of the Methodist church in this part of the country.
Now, there was a Baptist church, organized at the home of William Leach, and from that started the church known as the Harmony church, a brick building standing on the south of Matthews.
The Quakers started their meetings on the Back Creek.
The children of those who founded the early churches of Grant County still to this day carry on.
We will know only on Judgment day the good that has grown out of those early churches.
The first school, built on the land owned at the time by Joseph Weston, later known as the Leach farm.
It was a little log building 16x18.
The logs were split and it had a dirt fireplace, a puncheon floor and clapboard roof mitered down with poles.
The seats, made of split poles with legs in them.
On these seats, what we called 'kids' now, would have to sit.
The next school was taught in the Sugar Grove Meeting House, by Mr.
O'Brien whose last known residence was Alexandria, Indiana.
He started to teach a six month school but for some reason did not teach his time out.
The people who came into this country would find some one acquainted with the woods and could give numbers of the land.
This information was needed, so they could go to Fort Wayne and make the purchase.
The next thing was to get a cabin raised, get their family into it and then get a piece of ground cleared off and made ready to roll.
During this time in history, settlers came from far and near, rain or shine and roll the logs into heaps.
Many a night you might see a man out at a late hour, righting up his log heaps as he had to help his neighbor the next day to roll logs or raise a cabin.
And it was not uncommon to see a mother and the girls out picking trash and helping to get the plowing started.
Next Article, "Spring Farming"
This article is part 4(b) of a series about the travels of my family across the country and around the world.
So it went on until the latter part of the winter when he was helping his brother make sugar troughs, not knowing anyone lived near.
They heard some one holler and soon Mr.
Ward came up and they found out they would be neighbors, which they were as long as they lived.
The Wards and Lewis' were the early supporters of the Methodist church in this part of the country.
Now, there was a Baptist church, organized at the home of William Leach, and from that started the church known as the Harmony church, a brick building standing on the south of Matthews.
The Quakers started their meetings on the Back Creek.
The children of those who founded the early churches of Grant County still to this day carry on.
We will know only on Judgment day the good that has grown out of those early churches.
The first school, built on the land owned at the time by Joseph Weston, later known as the Leach farm.
It was a little log building 16x18.
The logs were split and it had a dirt fireplace, a puncheon floor and clapboard roof mitered down with poles.
The seats, made of split poles with legs in them.
On these seats, what we called 'kids' now, would have to sit.
The next school was taught in the Sugar Grove Meeting House, by Mr.
O'Brien whose last known residence was Alexandria, Indiana.
He started to teach a six month school but for some reason did not teach his time out.
The people who came into this country would find some one acquainted with the woods and could give numbers of the land.
This information was needed, so they could go to Fort Wayne and make the purchase.
The next thing was to get a cabin raised, get their family into it and then get a piece of ground cleared off and made ready to roll.
During this time in history, settlers came from far and near, rain or shine and roll the logs into heaps.
Many a night you might see a man out at a late hour, righting up his log heaps as he had to help his neighbor the next day to roll logs or raise a cabin.
And it was not uncommon to see a mother and the girls out picking trash and helping to get the plowing started.
Next Article, "Spring Farming"
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