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Book Title: Encyclopedia Of Genealogy And Biography Of Lake County, Indiana

Brief Records.

    The following are names of worthy citizens who did their parts well in
making Lake county what now it is, but of whom there is very little to place on
this page as memorials. The first one to be named might have well said, in the
words of Dr. Bonar's "Everlasting Memorial," a very different poem from
Tennyson's "In Memoriam":

"So let my living be, so be my dying:
So let my name lie, unblazoned unknown:
Unpraised and unmissed, I shall still be remembered,
Yes—but remembered by what I have done."


    AUGUSTINE HUMPHREY settled on Eagle Creek Prairie, now Palmer, as early as
1837, probably in 1836. He was from New England, he and his wife both devoted
and very useful members of the Presbyterian church, his children intellectual
and well brought up, his oldest son, Henry Humphrey, graduating at the
University of Michigan in 1851, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in i860,
but dying in a few years, other sons following soon to the unseen world, and
then the noble, Christian mother, and, except one daughter-in-law, he was left
before many years quite alone in life. He was county Commissioner in 1847 anc*
again in 1856. His family genealogic record went back to the Norman Conquest,
through, according to the family tradition, the old Duke Horton of England, but
no copy of it was brought to this county. He died many years ago, the last of
his household except the daughter-in-law's family who removed to Colorado, and
the burial of his body was one of the most lonely burials ever in this county.
In that world, where such a spirit as his would go, there is no lack of life and
love.


    Another of these names is JOHN L. WORLEY, born in Indiana April 28, 1820,
settling in Lake county in 1839, President for nine years of the Lake County
Sabbath School Convention, residing south of Lowell, an active church member,
who lived to be over eighty years of age.


    Another name is that of WILLIAM SANDERS, of West Creek township, whose name
was given to one of the cemeteries of that township, the oldest member of the
Association of Old Settlers, who died October 16, 1898, nearly ninety-seven
years of age.


    And yet another name is HIRAM H. SCRITCHFIELD, another settler from the
State of Kentucky probably, as his wife was born near Lexington, Kentucky,
January 4, 1812, and he was born in 1811. They were married in 1832, and were
the parents of fourteen children. A few years ago their living descendants
numbered eighty-two, and would now quite certainly number more than a hundred.


    The last name in this group is that of DAVID McKNIGHT. He was the father of
six sons and three daughters. His first settlement was at Hickory Point in 1845.
About 1864 the family removed to the neighborhood of LeRoy. Four of the sons
went into the Union Army and two of them returned. The father went to the West
some years ago and there died. The family in church relations were what is now
called Reformed Presbyterians, valuable members of any community. A son, a
daughter, and grandchildren are still in the county working on the side of
virtue and righteousness.

    That some other names might have properly been placed upon this list is
certain. There are limitations to all human efforts. There are physical
impossibilities, mental impossibilities, and moral impossibilities, and to reach
perfection in this line of writing may well be called a mental impossibility. No
one could give of our most worthy early settlers a perfect list. Some names are
added here of those whom a few may yet remember. Daniel May, Peleg S. Mason,
William Hodson, Robert Wilkinson, of Deep River, James Westbrook, Jonathan
Brown, Royal Benton, Edmund Brown, Jabez Rhoades, David Gibson, Jacob
Mendenhall, S. J. Cady, Horace Wood, John Russell, Peyton Russell, William
Myrick, Jesse Pierce, David Pierce, these last two, according to the Claim
Register in December, 1834, and in 1836, Jacob Van Volkenburg, John J. Van
Volkenburg, and M. Pierce, from the State of New York. Lorenzo D. Holmes became
a resident about 1838 and died at Ross in 1883.

    Buildings as well as men disappear. About this time three old landmarks in
Crown Point were removed. The first Methodist church building was taken down in
the fall of 1882. It stood on East street. The Crown Point bakery was taken down
in July, 1883. The first Baptist church building, which was also on East street,
was taken down in August, 1883.

    And so with these twenty-one added names and the mention of three old
buildings this memorial chapter ends.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904

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