Carroll County IN Archives Obituaries.....EIKENBERRY, Mary "Polly" [FLORA] January 8, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Janet Hall halltall@aol.com May 13, 2007, 7:22 pm The Hoosier Democrat, Flora, Ind. Sat 15 Jan 1898, Front page DEATH CLAIMS ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF MONROE TOWNSHIP Mrs. Henry EIKENBERRY died at her home one mile north of town last Saturday morning at one o'clock after a short illness of diabetes. In the death of Aunt Polly, as she was commonly known, Monroe township as well as Carroll county loses one of its pioneers. In the year of 1829 Mrs. EIKENBERRY, who was then only a child less than one year old, came with her parents Mr and Mrs John FLORA from Prebble [sic] county Ohio and settled on the farm from which our prosperous little city was laid out. They were the third family to locate in what is now Monroe township, the other two families having arrived in 1828. There were no white settlers at that time between here and White river. There were very few white men in Carroll county at that time and it is said that in the year 1829 all the white men of the county met at a house raising on Wild Cat Creek and there were only 18 in attendance. The younger generations can form no idea of the hardships endured by those early settlers and often forget that whatever we enjoy has been handed down to us by the untiring hands of the pioneers who cut from the wild forests the beautiful farms and villages we call our own. The HARTERs, the FLORAs and the EIKENBERRY families were the first to settle in this county and have intermarried until at the present time there is possibly less than 30% of the people of this neighborhood who are not related to one of these families, while many are related to all three. Mrs. EIKENBERRY was the eldest daughter of John FLORA, the founder of this town which bears his name. She was united in marriage in the year 1847 to Henry EIKENBERRY and [they] lived happily together for nearly fifty one years. They have lived on the same farm where she died for 45 years, in fact her entire life was spent in this county [sic]. She leaves a husband, five sons and one daughter, and three brothers and a sister to mourn her loss. The funeral was held Sunday from the Old Order church of which she had been a faithful member for many years. Interment in Maple Lawn Cemetery. Thus one by one the old settlers pass away and it is but a short step until the boys of today will be the old men with gray hair and feeble step. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/obits/e/eikenber60gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb