The Old Settlers of Monroe County, Indiana

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This searchable database is provided, courtesy of the Monroe County Historical Society, as a supplement to the meager census data collected prior to the 1850 census. Should printed material or substantial investigation of any individual found here be needed, please access the Monroe County Society's webpage for their services [H E R E].

In order to qualify for this list (recorded at the courthouse) the applicant had to be fifty years of age and thirty years a resident of the county on September 17, 1858. In the case of many of those listed, the remark "Dead" was added. This was in the same handwriting as the name entry so it is conceivable those individuals may have been deceased at the time they "applied" for the listing or shortly thereafter. Various modifications of the rules were added and appear within the list. We regret the lack of alphabetization, but the "order" of the list is presumably that in which it was taken from the applicants.

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           Name                 Came   Age    Born in

           ---------------      ----   ---    -----------

        1. Benjamin Rogers      1817   60     Kentucky

        2. John Ketcham         1818   76     Maryland

        3. James V. Buskirk     1820   61     Ohio

        4. George Whisnand      1818   77     Virginia

        5. Peter Able           1820   69     Virginia

        6. John Whitsell        1820   85     N. Carolina

        7. James Dunning        1818   70     Delaware

        8. Luke Ward            1820   60     N. Carolina

        9. James Slocumb        1819   72     Maryland

       10. Elias Abel           1824   58     Virginia

       11. George W. Ritter     1820   56     Kentucky

       12. Samuel Collins       1827   63     N. Carolina

       13. Alexander Kelley     1827   63     Virginia

       14. John Hight           1818   63     Kentucky

       15. James Parks          1816   76     N. Carolina

       16. John S. Owens        1817   68     N. Carolina

       17. Solomon Butcher      1819   62     Tennessee

       18. Joseph Polley        1826   59     Kentucky

       19. David Finley         1821          Kentucky

       20. Joshua 0. Howe       1819   74     Maryland

       21. Benjamin Ridge       1819   72     Maryland

       22. Benjamin F. Rogers   1816          Indiana

       23. James Borland        1818   69     Pennsylvania

       24. Samuel Boruff        1820   60     Tennessee

       25. Edward Borland       1818   62     Pennsylvania

       26. William McNeeley     1827   55     Tennessee

       27. Dudley C. Smith      1819   61     Vermont

       28. James Everman        1823   57     Kentucky

       29. John M. Sadler       1816   74     Virginia

       30. Milton McPhetridge   1825   55     Tennessee

       31. Johnson McCollough   1819   52     Kentucky

       32. Lewis Carroll        1821   58     Virginia

       33. James G. Fleenor     1828   51     Indiana

       34. William Batterton    1819   63     Kentucky

       35. John M. Sluss        1829   51     Kentucky

       36. Lewis G. Shryer      1825   58     Maryland

       37. Jesse Rader          1827   68     Virginia

       38. Matthew Flora        1823   75     Pennsylvania

       39. Noble S. Stockwell   1825   59     Kentucky

       40. William C. Foster    1829   59     Kentucky

       41. Andrew Reeves        1817   50     Kentucky

       42. John Orchard         1823   58     Kentucky

       43. James Starnes        1822   60     Virginia

       44. Joseph Thomas        1823   50     Kentucky

       45. James Knuckolls      1823   58     Virginia

       46. George A. Johnston          60     Virginia

       47. Alfred Houston       1826   53     Kentucky

       48. George W. Mattock    1816   55     Tennessee

       49. John S. Hardesty     1827   66     Virginia

       50. James Dearmin        1822   50     Virginia

       51. Joseph Messor        1819   71     Pennsylvania

       52. David Batterton      1819   56     Kentucky

       53. Thomas Carter        1821   63     Kentucky

       54. Solomon Lucas        1817   62     North Carolina

       55. Daniel Stout         1818   82     Virginia

       56. Wesley Whitson       1818   65     Virginia

       57. James Davis          1828   52     Virginia

       58. Isaiah Payne         1821   81     Maryland

       59. David McHolland      1815   69     Tennessee

       60. Nicholas Shipman     1820   51     Indiana

       61. Allen Sims           1827   58     North Carolina

       62. Austin Seward        1821   60     Virginia

       63. Ellis Stone          1819   70     Kentucky

       64. Isaac Gillaspy       1820   68     Tennessee

       65. Alexander Murphy            78     North Carolina

       66. Eli P. Farmer        1822   60     Kentucky

       67. Richard M. Houston   1826   59     Kentucky

       68. George W. Hardin     1826   64     Kentucky

       69. Robertson M. Farmer  1823   60     Kentucky

       70. James Rawlings       1816   57     Kentucky

       71. Nicholas Whisnand    1818   58     Virginia

       72. Emsley Wilson        1818   54     North Carolina

       73. William Edmondson    1817   65     Kentucky

       74. Isaac Buskirk        1820   67     Virginia

       75. Robert D.Alexander   1827   58     Kentucky

       76. John A.M. Lemon      1827   54     Kentucky

       77. John Garrison        1820   58     North Carolina

       78. Samuel Snoddy        1820   61     Kentucky

       79. David Byers          1827   52     Kentucky

       80. Phineas Coatney      1823   63     Virginia

       81. James H. Houston     1826   57     Kentucky

       82. James P. Eeless      1824   69     Virginia

       83. William B.Alexander  1825   52     Kentucky

       84. Joseph Campbell      1819   62     Kentucky

       85. Jefferson Wampler    1827   53     Virginia

       86. Nicholas Smith       1828   69     Tennessee

       87. Samuel Smith         1822   56     Virginia

       88. Edward Jackson       1828   52     Kentucky

       89. John Tate            1822   65     Virginia

       90. Thomas Rader         1826   72     Virginia

       91. Lankston Brummett    1819   52     Tennessee

       92. John Burton		

       93. William Smith   	

       94. Jonatham Hinkle      1820   56     North Carolina

       95. David Barrow         1824   57     Kentucky

       96. Solomon Wooden       1818   67     Maryland

       97. John Hanson          1818   56     Virginia

       98. Lewis Harmon         1825   63     Kentucky

       99. Basil Hill           1818   55     Kentucky

      100. Sylvanius Tarkington 1816   65     North Carolina

      101. David Wright         1817   52     Indiana

      102. Stephen Hovious      1826   57     Kentucky

      103. John Kutch           1817   72     Virginia

      104. Alexander Gillaspie  1824   72     North Carolina

      105. James Rogers         1810   69     Pennsylvania

      106. Thomas Fullerton     1820   74     South Carolina

      107. John L. Shirley      1821   54     Kentucky

      108. David Young          1827   77     Virginia

      109. Jacob B. Lowe        1815   60     North Carolina

      110. Paris C. Dunning     1823   53     North Carolina

      111. John M. Beny         1827   67     Virginia



         The following were admitted as honorary members:



      112. James Johnson

      113. A Croucher

      114. Isaac S. Buskirk

      115. Isaac Cox

      116. William C. Saddler

      117. James Woodburn

      118. John T. Rogers

      119. Henry Rogers

      120. Benoni Denny         1827   53     Kentucky

      121. A.W. Rogers

      122. James Rogers

      123. James D. Robertson          60

      124. Pleasant S.D. Mitchell

      125. Nelson Robinson

      126. Hugh Campbell

      127. John J. Woodburn

      128. Samuel H. Buskirk



                    Admitted at second meeting, Sept. 17,1859:



      129. Richard Carmichael   1827   85     Virginia

      130. John Mitchell        1816

      131. John Hubbard                  64

      132. Daniel Ketcham       1818   54

      133. Samuel Pennington    1830   63     North Carolina

      134. Daniel Butcher                64

      135. Domas Smith              56

      136. Daniel McCoy

      137. Solomon Butcher

      139. John Rader                    81

      140. Albert Parks                  56

      141. Jonathan Kegley             56

      142. Frederic L. Butler                 Virginia

      143. Virgil Empson

      144. Caleb Hazel

      145. John Armstrong              65

      146. Rebecca Ellett              62

      147. William Ross         1818   83     North Carolina

      148. Elizabeth Ketcham           78

      149. Mary Rogers                 73

      150. Catherine Gabbeti           69

      151. Elizabeth Buskirk           45

      152. Amanda Batterton            47

      153. Matilda Slocomb             55

      154. Elizabeth Buskirk           74

      155. Hannah Able                 54

      156. Elizabeth Rogers            62

      157. Elizabeth Hite              61

      158. Elizabeth Gillaspie         68

      159. Nancy Houston               47

      160. Rebecca Rawlings            72

      161. Jane Seward                 60

      162. Elizabeth Wampler           53

      163. Elizabeth Kegley            55

      164. Rhoda McNeeley              53

      165. Susanna Rogers              63

      166. Jane Rogers                 45

      167. Elizabeth Farmer

      168. Sally Dunning               51

      169. Martha Berry                50

      170. Conney Butcher              67

      171. Margaret Knuckols           67

      172. Catherine Butcher           62

      173. Nancy Hubbard

      174. Fanny Ketcham

      175. Rebecca McCollough          47     Kentucky

      176. Sarah McPhetridge    1825   49     Tennessee



              Admitted September 17, 1860:  (3rd Meeting)



      177. Barney Brummett      1817   70     Virginia

      178. James Gentry         1833   60     North Carolina

      179. Tanzy Gentry         1833   61     North Carolina

      180. Eliza Baker          1833   54     Maryland

      181. Malden Baker         1833   59     Maryland

      182. Benjamin Neeld       1820   64     Kentucky

      183. Eliza Neeld          1819   45     Kentucky

      184. Sally Ann Reeves     1819   49     Kentucky

      185. Andrew Parks         1826   50     Indiana

      186. Absalom Baker        1826   59     North Carolina

      187. Paulina V. Hardin    1826   61     Kentucky

      188. Alexander Givens

      189. John McCrea              (Honorary Member)

      190. Mrs. Sara Williams                 Kentucky

      191. Mrs. Nancy Anderson  1819   66

      192. Isabella Smith       1830   50     North Carolina

      193. Elizabeth Morgan

      194. James Miller

      195. Morton C. Hunter

      196. George Eller

      197. William E Browning

      198. Henry Eller

      199. William N. Roseberry

      200. Robert Houston

      201. John Knight                 65

      202. Jonathan Brannum

      203. James McBride

      204. Felix G. Mercer

      205. Ellis G. Sluss

      206. William N. Anderson

      207. George Sluss

      208. Peter Whitesell             79

      209. Stanford Jacobs [?]         77

      210. John W. Throop              67

      211. Morton S. McCollough        42

      212. Wm. J. Alexander            55

      213. George W. Payne             55

      214. Wm. H. Slocumb              40

      215. William Blackeley [?]       63

      216. B.E Adams                   50

      217. J.M. May                    45

      218. Miller (?]                  45

      219. John E May                  49

      220. Jonas May                   44

      221. David May                   75

      222. Jackson Sewel               60

      223. Joseph Jamison              60

      224. John M. Armstrong           50

      225. James Stout                 60

      226. Felix G. Dunn               60

      227. Ezra Perring                60

      228. Alex C. Weir                57

      229. Charles Moore               63

      230. Jacob Bunger                69

      231. W.S. Walker                 56

      232. Joseph Walker

      233. William Hale                51

      234. Thomas Kellough             46

      235. James A. Ward

      236. Thomas Gillaspy             61

      237. Thomas J. Sharp

      238. J.J. Whisnand               48

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