A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY
· COMPILED BY JENNIE FORSYTH JEFFRIES
!:'\DI \:'\.U'OLI:S \\'m, B. Burford, Printing, Binding and Stationery l!JcO
TO PAl.L \VILLLUl JEFFRIES a founder of the FORSYTH ASSOC'IATWX OF lXDIAX ..\. this book i~ DEDICATED rn Lo\·ing Remembrance by his :.\IOTHETI
CONTENTS
PAGE Preface ...... 7 In trnd uction 9
PART O~E Chap. I. Early Origin of the X arne Forsyth ...... Chap. II. First Forsyth of the Castle of Fronsac .... . Chap. III. The Ancestral Race in Scotland ...... Chap. IV. Forsyths in Canada and New England .... . Chap. V. Other Forsyths in Scotland and America .. .
PART Two Chap. I. D~1.\·id :?.nd :.Iargaret :.IcGibbon Fo1·syth ... . 67 Chap. II. Emign,tion of the F01·syths to Indiana .... . 83 Chap. III. The Earlr Homes ...... 85 Chap. IV. Church Relations ...... 91 Chap. V. Speech of H. C. Barnett at First Forsyth Reunion ...... 96 Chap. \T Thomas Forsyth ...... 99 Chap. VII. James Fol'Syth, His Children and Some of Their Descendants ...... 101 Chap. VIII. Xancy Fol'Syth Daniels and Family ...... 189 Chap. IX. Elizabeth Forsyth Bridges, Her Children and Some of Their Descendants...... 198 Chap. X. David Forsyth II and Family ...... 205 Chap. XI. Letitia Forsyth Featherngill ...... 238 Chap. XII. John Forsyth and Family ...... 2--17 Chap. XIII. ::\Iargaret Forsyth Tucke1·...... 270 Chap. XIV. -:\lary Forsyth Featherngill and Her Child1·en 282 Chap. XV. Robert Forsyth and Family ...... 290
PREFACE
Few of the present generation of Fornyths know that their famib· has an authentic record nmning back ovel' many cen tmies :md that its membel's have played important parts in the e\·olution of Europe and America. In fact, information concerning even the simplest facts of one's ancestry is often lacking. When to ignorance of such facts indifference is added. the situation is lamentable indeed. But holding to the belief that e\·er,v pe1·son and e\·e1·,v family should leave behind fo1· posterity's sake some personal reco1·d, we have undertaken the publication of this book. Incomplete as it is, and modest in its claims, it may serve as a forernnner of later and fuller \\'()l'kS. Tlw family of Fors,vths for \Yhich this volume has been rno1·c especiall~· \\TittPn are the dPscendants of David and :\Ial'pnet :\IcGibbon Fo1·syth. The stOl'y of David and :\Ia1· garet \\ill be found in Part T\\·o. The facts 1·elating to the remote past of this family and herein recorded ha\·e been gathel'ed not me1·ely as a work of lo\·e ancl loyalty, but from a sense of necessity. In a few mon1 years the only rPmaining links between our present and those eal'ly days \Yould ha\·e been completely broken. :\Iuch valuable data only to be obtained from elderly members of the famil~· would ha\·e been lost forever. In the preparation of rnatl'rial relating to this distant period the writer has en clea vored to insel't those details which coming generations wili \\·ant to know. The information published concerning various members of the present-day family has been collected from Ycu·ious SOlll'('.eS, and while it may not all be of universal interest still it has a pl'Ope1· place in a family history. The compiler is indebted to the late C. H. E. Carmichael, antiqua1·ian edito1· of Taswell Langrnead's Constitutional His to1·y of England, who made the researches for nearly all the l'ecol'cls of the quaint early history of the family contained in Part One of this volume. His historical manuscripts are among the most complete of this ancient period. 8 "-\ HISTORY OP THE FORSYTH F.UIILY
:\fr. Carmichael's notes contain histOl'y that befo1·e was in ancient manuscripts and old publications, now \·ery rare. Grnteful acknowledgment of \·aluable assistance is also extended to Frederic Gregory Fm·syth, "\'icomte de Frnnsac of Canada. Ful'the1· assistance has been obtained from the manuscript of James Dennett Forsyth. late of the Boston Belt ing Company, Boston, :\Iassachuse~tts. Historical references are :\I~ll'tin's Histoire de Fm11ce, Yolume II. a standard \\"Ork which receiwd the Gobert p1·ize from the French Academy: LaGrande's E11c,i;clo])erliu of Frn11cr: Hollingshead's Chron icles of the Ki11us or' Srotl(wd: E.rcheq11er Rolls of Srotl(ll1r/: Froissart's Chronicles of the Jliddle A._qes: Lru·oussr E11r·utlo ])Cdiu French: Frr11ch Chro11icles: Chro11ides rd Clwl'ie- 11wu11r: Chro11irlrs of thr Ki11.(J0, D11rs 011rl Pri11ces of the Oclinic Fm11rs, published in Holland in the Se\·enteenth Cen tury; A.11tiquaires de lrl Dordor;ue: Legr11ds Historiq11es r/e.~ Troreres. The Denys lineage is from the manuscript by Louis Den:,·s of Chateau A:,·t1·e, France. The Dl111,\"S of Hon'flet:ll', Sor~ mand:v, and of Tours (Touraine), F1·ance, by thei1· alliance with the Forsyths of Dykes pl'esened with French exacti tude the genealogy of thei1· relati\·cs, the Forsyths. Info1· mation of yai·ious othel' branches of the family has been fu1· nished by John Fol'syth of Sitka. Alaska; Captain James FOl'syth. Cheltenham, England: ComrnodOl'e F01·syth of the B1·itish Xav:,·, and Rufus Forsyth of Chester, Xew Hamp shire; also Ira Forsyth of Omaha, Texas; C. J. Forsyth of :\Iena, Arkansas; Thomas Forsyth of FrankfOl't, Indiana, and others. Katherine Forsyth Pritchard 1·ende1·ed valuable as sistance in the collection of data of the family of DaYid For syth and :\Ia1·garet :\IcGibbon. The compile1· of these records regrets the inability to make this volume a more completP history of the FOl'syth family. There ai·e many membe1·s in Scotland, America and othe1· lands who are not mentioned. Fo1· the accuracy of all early records herein published the compile1· assumes no authority further than from sources mentioned. INTRODUCTION
The ancients had a saying, "Yesterday belongs to our ancestors; today belongs to us." Quite true enough; but in order to app1·eciate the present properly and to recognize full.1.· our duty thereto, we must know the past. Knmvledge of om· fathern who ,vere \'irtuous and brave helps to create fortitude and respect within ourselves, and such knov:ledge if handed down will inspi1·e future generations to ,vorthy living. It, then, is a 1J1"esent duty to record the deeds of those who ha\·e bequeathed the priceless heritage of a good name. It rests with us to impress upon the members of the 1·ising generation the real wo1·th of descent from noble blood and to help them realiz(:' what it should mean to be of a family noted in all ages past for its integl'ity, patl'iotism and high mo1·ality. In Part One of this work will be found the line of For syths ,,·ho occupied the ancestral castles of France and Scot land. ,.i:.: Forsyth de Fronsac, Dykes, ~ydie and Sterling. From this sou1-ce han' descended the Forsyths scattered now o\·e1· France, England, Ireland, America, Australia and pos sibl.1.· other lands. It has been a pe1·sistent family. In Scotland and Ireland, the Fol'Syths conformed fo1· many years to the clan 01·ganization. These clans, however, were gradually dissol\'ed afte1· 1628. In the 1·ecords of these coun trit~s are mentioned many groups who we1·e descended from those obtaining from the king hereditary fiefs, manors or barnnies. Prominent among them are the Forsyths of Fail zerton in County Ayr; the Forsyths of Dykes in Lanark, the Fol'Syths of ~ydie in County Fife; the Fo1·syths of Tailzer ton in County Sterling, and the Fol'Syths of :Mardyke in County Cork, Ireland. Coming from some of the foregoing groups are the first generations of the Forsyths in America, as represented by such pioneers as David, James, Alexander, Matthew, William, and no doubt others. ~Iatthew of 1699 and his brothers and their descendants nearly all came to Canada or the United
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States, and being the chiefs of D::kes they had the trndition and history of the family in hand. The contents of this book will deal main!~· \\"ith the his tory of Da,·id and his desc('ndants. In the records much is lacking. Frnm some families but little tan)2:ible historical n1c1terial is aYailable: consequently the compile!' of this \\'Ol'k has been compelled to lay aside the pen at man~· places. His tory can include only that ,,·hich is kno,Yn. The aim has been not to ,nite a biography but to gather the Yaried expe riences and interesting incidents of a past ancl nearly past generntion with others of a late1· elate and by combining them all in a simple nanatini to giYe to future F01·s~·ths a pictun· of their forebears and the times in ,,·hich the,\· liHcl. An effort has been made to follow the behest of James \Yhitcomb Tiiley when he insists on
Plain fact.-, plain words of the ;rood old-fa.-hionecl 11·a>·,, Uon't tech 'em up like the poet doe, 'Til the~·'re all too fine for u.-e. Tell them a tale of the timber Ltnd:' Of the old-time pionee1·,; Tell them of the old log hou,e-abou, The loft and the puncheon flo01·- Tlw old /he-place \\·ith the crane .-11·inging· out, And the latchstring· through the door. The Forsyth family coat-of-arms as used by the Fo1·s~·ths of Failze1·ton, is 1·ep1·oduced on the Frnntispiece pag-e of this book. This coat-of-arms is authOl'itatiYe and authentic. It is 1·ecorded in the Lyon comt at Edinburgh, Scotland. The reprnduction is from a copy made by the he1·ald a1tist of that rnmt, and is conect as the stamp shows. Forsyth an11s as bon1e b~· noland and First Forsyth de Fronsac and the eal'ly arms of the 1·ace was the g1·ifnn of green copper \\·ith 1·ed beak and claws on a polished steel shield. The nest or decoration on the helmet is a demi-griffin. The motto in Latin reads: Instaurator Ruinae, "Restorer of the Ruins". The seal of Frnnsac with that of Forsyth of Dykes and Xydie is in the Lyon office in Eclinbm·gh, Scotland.
The flags of the Forsyth family were as follows: I. The green with the white silve1· shield, bea1·ing the veen griffin with red talons and beak. This ,vas the flag A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F Ai\lILY 11 used by the old rnce of Forsyth, King of Friesland, whose clan settled in Scotland in an early day. Il. The yello\Y flag with black, two-headed, imperial eagle, which they bore unde1· Charlemagne to show thei1· official rank as palladins of the empire. III. The l'ecl flag with the gold 1·ose, and red label of tlu-ee lozenge points to show the orde1· of the nobility of the empi1·e. n·. The tlag 1·aised o,·e1· Castle Forsyth de Frnnsac "·as the re,·erse black cross flag· of Scotland. ,,·hich was yellow \Yith a black crnss, the Forsyth tlag being black \\"ith a yellow noss and charged ,vith a red label of th1·ee lozenge points. \'. The green flag ,,·ith the white siiYcr shield with th1·cc g1·ccn gTiftins hcn-ing 1·ed claws and beaks between the 1·ed engrailed chenon. This ,ms the flag of the Forsyths of Dykes, X yclie, Failzerton and Tailze1ton; in fact, the moden1 clan since the clays of Ilobert Forsyth, GoYernor of the rnyal castle of Stil"!ing and ffrst barnn of Dykes of 1:356. The tartan colors. of the family we1·e black, ~-ellO\Y, 1·ed and green. The colors 1·e1n·esented in the uniform plaids were often shmn1 in the ai·ms. To the Scotsman the tartan speaks of the "mist on the hills,'' of "s,,·ift rushing sti·eams," and "heatlw1· dad mountains,'' and of "lonely 111001· stretches."
Triumphant be the thistle ,till u17furlecl, l iear s,·mbol ,,·ild, on freedom's hill it gTo\\·, \\"het·e Finp;al c'temrned the ,yrnnts of the wodd, .-\ncl .Roman eagles found unconquered foes.
Xaturally one ,,·ould expect the hcathe1· to be the Scotch national tlowe1·, and perhaps it might ha,·e been had not a chanc(' incident confened the distinction on the thistle. His tm·~- states that James III of Scotland is responsible for this choic-P, Tradition traces the preference fo1· the thistle to the time when the Xorsemen rcwagecl all the shores of Northe1·n Eurnpe. On one occasion in the dead of night an invading X on:e forcc 0 appl'Oached unperceived the camp of the Scots \\·ho had gathered to oppose them. While the Norsemen paused to ascertain the undefended points of the camp they p1·oposed to assault, one of thei1· spies stepped on a thistle. The sudden pain brought fo1-th a violent oath. This aroused the Scots, and the~· hastened to attack the invaders. The A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY
Scots gained a complete Yictory and later adopted as an em blem the plant which had been the means of their deliYery. It has been stated that the thistle's thorny \·igor well ex pressed the Scotch characte1· in the days of so much fighting, but today the hardiness and bright bloom of the heather indi cates better the racial indiYiduality. Part One With the motto, Loyal A La :\lorte. omitted. and that of In~taurator Ruinae in ib place, the aboH arms are those of the Forsyth clan of Scotland.
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Copy of the seal of Forsyth de Fronsac brought into Scotland by Osbert, son of Guirand de Forsyth Chevalier de Fronsac before 1250. It is gold grnund with three black crosslets and a 1·ed lambel of three lozenge points.
(14) CHAPTER I EARLY ORIG!:\" OF THE XAME FORSYTH
SCOTLAKD Scotland is lovely in all weather, And because my love is true, I will wear her eagle feathe1· And he1· bonnie bonnet blue.
And my heai·t will sing her praises Till the evening shadows close O'er m~- rest beneath the daisies With the thistle and the rose, ffilliu111 TVi11ter.
FR0'.\I whom did I come; whither am I going; are the two questions that come to us all. Among the greatest nations desC'ending from the Aryan or white race, whose original home is supposed to have been the great central plateau of Asia, from \\·hich it wandered south and north and west, were the Gothic and Teutonic tribes. From these came the Franks, tlw ~orsemen and others, among them the Scots. The name of Scot is said to derive from the saint called Saint Skint, but the name Scot means man of the North or Northman, \Vhile Gothic comes from the word Gat or Got, meaning a man of waL The Scots, like their brethren of the North Aryan raC'e, \\·e1·e tall with hazel, gray and blue eyes, brown and yel low hai1·, and very fair complexioned, and were of the purest Gothic Aryan blood, and belonged to the Scandinavian divi sion of Teutonic stock. Among these people the most impor tant event looming out of the dim prehistoric past was the anival of Odin.* AccOl'ding to Snorro Sturleson, the Swedish
·, Sr101To Stul'ieson writes that Odin was an heroic prince in the Black Sea region with a great peoplP :-straitenerl. for n)om. The follo\.-dng ancient account of Orlin, which wa~ transcribed by Snot'l'O from the Ynglinga Saga, may be found in Tour ville':-; Fr,_ 11ch f/i.c;t.ory fJ,t' the For111ation Partfr,1.dari.<;fe, Chapter II, page 16: "ThP land of the east of the River Don was anciently called Asaland, that is to say thC" land of the gods of the Aryans and the capital city. In this city was a pl'ince name historian, Odin was the chief of a Scythian tribe of war- 1·io1·s, which immigrating from the East fought its way toward the :!\ orth passing through Germany in to Sc:andirnwia, where, through supe1·io1· intelligence. skill and bravery. he brought the natins into subjection and established a king dom. According to some speculatOl's he reigned about 70 B. C., but this is pure conjecture, as there are no histo1·ical facts concerning him. · In all likelihood there was such a man. pl'Obably a great and wise ruler, who of necessity in such an age was also a great wanior and statesman, that 01·ganized his people and gave them laws and permanently established them. Afte1· his death tradition following its usual course built about his memo1·y a mass of attributes that in the course of years became di\·ine, and finally caused him to be wor shipped as a god. To him was attributed the im·ention of Runic writing, poetry, etc.; a knowledge of astronomy and the arts, sciences and magic. He became the personification of all that was heroic, wise and good, according to the ideal:o of his people, the predominant ideal figure of his ra('e,. its .god .. This was the usual course of mythology and t1·adition among all races in their infancy before the dawn of letters in G1·eece and Rome and in the East. as \Yell as in the Xorth. c-ommon to every race, emerging into history and ci,·ilization. othp1·:-- rc-nden:•d homa.L!:E' an(l nl.H:1dien('c>. Odin ~·urp;--1..._,(•d all the other lord:-s ul' p1·incc-s of A~"!anl by hi:-'. di~tant tn'l\'('h. and ihP act or wat·. H<.' had :--uhmit10d to hi:-- la,Y~ tnany count l'ies and. kinv:dnms. He rPtunied e\·C'r Yieturinu~ and l'nriehcd lly war t rihutc-~ until hif::. companions b(·lie,·ed that \'ic-tnry belonged to him wlH'l'l•\Tr he- com battf>d, :c:o \\·hen others of his pince wt>nt nn military (1x1wclitinn.:; they dc•mand\'d that he blp,;s their entc>rpri: ..\hout this time the Roman g(0 ncn1.I:-; were 0v0n·unning thP eanh and enslaving all pt:'onk·s in this region, so that ~e-n~l'al of their chiefs abandoned their land. .\:-, Odin was able in divination an(l all snrls of kno\\'ledge h(~ forc::~nY that hi:-. no,.:.tei·it~· would rule in the north. So leaving th(' goYernmf'nt ,vith his two b1·others, Ve and Vila. at Af-lg-anl, he with the l'('St of the lord:-: and a chos('n Land of wanio1·<.; d.i1·pctl~d his enul'se t0 the \\'est, then turneoct to the south acn)ss \\'hat b Hanovt>r and \Ye:-,tphalia. Thf'rP Orlin subdued sev01·al hing The name Forsyth is first found in the ~Iythology of Odin. Balde1·, called "The Beautiful" and good, was the son of Odin ,rnd his wife, Frigge. He was worshiped as a beautiful, youthful wanior. whose wisdom and ,·alo1· were as eminent as his beauty and goodness. To Balder and his wife Xannie, ,ms born a son, Forsite, the just. He was known as the honorable and honored one. He is said to have been king of that pa1t of ~orthern Europe known as Friesland, where his palace, Glyner, ,,·as celebrated fo1· its magnificence and from the fact that no suppliant was turned away without a hearing and without 1·ecei,·ing justice. His reign was noted for peace and concord. From eal'!iest times it was the custom of nations, clans and families to adopt a symbol which, when borne upon standard or shield, furnished an easy method of distinguish ing different units or individuals from one another in the confusion of battle. On this custom was based in medie,·al times the science of he1·aldry. This science was born of neces sity, fo1· as long as n'len fought \\·ith faces bared there was no need specially to distinguish one from the other, other than his fancy dictated in distinguishing marks, but when complete armor was adopted and men could no longer see thei1· friends' and antagonists' faces they ,ve1·e forced to adopt distinguishing marks by which they ·were known in battle and in peace without trnuble. These marks or symbols we1·e usually worn on helmets, shield and banner. On the helmet it ,,·as called a crest; on the shield it was called a charge; on the banner it was the symbol of the family, or clan or nation. Each famib·, clan 01· individual had its own symbol IJ~· ,,·hich it was known, and in ancient times a badge 01· symbol was a sacTed thing, and fo1· a tribe 01· family to adopt that of another would have been an act of dishonor. To prevent repetition and confusion among the wearers of coats-of-arms, as the marks 01· symbols were called, there g1·ew up in feudal times special schools and colleges, as these were called, ,vhose business was to know and keep record and orde1· among the innumerable markings of the nobility. The lions of England and Scotland, the lilies of France, and the eagles of Germany are derived from these markings, and every knight and noble family had their own special bearings or symbols, coats-of-arms and crests by which they were 18 A. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\IILY known. A.fte1·,vard these S~'mbols \\·ere made use of fo1· other purposes than those spoken of, being used in endless vari ations for decorati\·e purposes, wo\·en in cloth. sculptured in stone, ca1·ved in wood, in stained glass, on signs, in metals, ivory, enamel, etc., in churches, halls, names, equipages and numerous articles of daily use \\·here\·er the case called fo1· a particulai· distinction as a decornti\·e motive, public or 1n·i\·ate. In the beginning, a1·ms or symbols were assumed simply as a distinguishing mark. Late1· ,vhen they became more complex and their use reduced to 01·der, they \\'e1·e given for some deed or as an hono1· especially confened. A. coat-of am1S is hereditary and, strict!~· speaking, belongs to the head of a family or with certain manifestations to his immediate kin, but the crest or badge can be borne by an~· of the blood of the family. The symbol of Odin was the raven. It was also the symbol of the wild, marauding Xo1·semen of ancient times. Fl'Om this s\·mbol comes, it is said. the black eagle used in the ,,urns, of Germany, Austria and Russia. The symbol of Forsite, Fm·sate, Forsath, Forsyth," as it is va1·iously spelled, the son of Balder, was the gri!tin, a fabu lous neature, winged, with the head of an eagle and the bod~· of a lion. It denotes vigilance and strength. The race whose badge was the g1·ittin contl'Olled both places which were later called Friesland and Denmark. A. Saxon people later occupied Friesland \\·ho we1·e no relation to the Danish heroes. In the annals of Scotland it is retold that one of the royal rnces that came from Scandina\·ia into Scotland bore the grif fin as its symbol. In an old history of Scotland in the Bos ton public library, one of the conquering Gothic clans from Scandinavia settling in Scotland in the second century was known from the standa1·d of their chiefs bearing the device of the griffin, the men of the griffin race. In the early history of the Forsyths in Scotland, they we1·e known as the race of the Griffin because they bore the griffin as the symbol of their race. According to the ancient law of heraldry the griffin which adorns the frontispiece was ex clusively the badge or symbol of Forsite or Forsyth, who first * The name Forsyth should ncv€T bC1 snclled with an e. In all ancient rccorcb thi.s letter v,:a:, not used. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 19 adopted it, and his descendants. The designation by this badge 01· symbol from generation to generation during a time \\·hen a symbol \\·as held by one family, is a better proof than anything else of descent \\·hen there we1·e no surnames. Later the co1Tuption of heraldry allowed others to assume the use of the g1·iffin, but this was conti·ary to ancient usage. During the reign of Henry III a law was promulgated prohibiting families from adopting a symbol pre,·iously used by another. B~· th is hl \\. no one could assume a badge 01· ai·ms without the king's permission. This law restored the ancient law of he1·aldry. The idea of the griffin goes back to classic times, and was ,nll known to the Greeks and Romans. The crest of the For syths is a demi-g1·iffin rampant. The demi part of animals alone was worn on crests, as it is impossible to wear the entire animal on a crest. On the shield the entire griffin was displayed. The anns of the famil~· is three griffins rampant \·enle on a field ,ugent. a che,Ton engrailed gules. CHAPTER II FIRST FORSYTH OF THE CASTLE OF FROXSAC From the race that bore the grimn as thei1· emblem, came Ethod, brnthe1· of Eugenius, King of the Scots. His son \\·as Ertus, who manied Rocha, daughte1· of Roderic, Lord and Prince of Denmark. Roderic had a son Fergus who assisted Ala1·ic, King of the Goths, at the taking of Rome in -110 A. D., afterward crowned King of the Scots as Fei-gus II. A younge1· son Roderic ,vas brought up in Denmark and edu cated at the Royal Danish Court. He manied a daughter of a Frankish noble of Austrasia. He bOl'e on his shield the g1·iffin, and his crest was a demi-g1·iflln. His grandson was Armtlf, bon1 near Xancy about 680. He nrn1·1·iecl a dm1ghte1· cif • the duke of the Franks of Austrasia. ),_fter her death he be came bishop of }Ietz in 61--1. One of his sons ,ms ),.nsighis. ,Yho rna1Tied Begga, daughte1· of Pepin de Landin, ma~·o1· of the palace. His estate or lordship ,ns knmn1 as Heristal. His son was Pepin de Heristal, father of Charles de He1·istaF *"' ( Chad es }Iartel), \\·ho was one of the greatest adrnin istrators and waniors of his age, 7:1:2 to 771. His ])O\H'l' based on the sword alone extended from the Rhine to the Loire. He rna1· ried Chrutude, and founded the great dynasties of the Carnl ings. Two sons, Pepin and Carlornan, 1·cceived equally the kingdom. Charles }Ia1·tel married second Sonahilda, the da ughte1· of the Duke of Ba,·aria.':' One son, Roderic, ·was bo1·11 in 7:26.t He was called Grippo and surnamed the Griffin because he ca1Tied the figure of the griffin on his shield. When he grew to manhood, as a warrior he bore the demi-griffin crest, while his two half-brnthers bo1·e the crest of the kings and princes of the Franks, whose estates they inherited. ** When Niartel died, Grippo received only a small part '~*'~ From ancient ).IS. published in the Netherlands in the XVII century entitled "Orig:in of the Kinµ;~ of the Francs and Princes of the Ernpirf'." '~ ::\Iartin's Hist,oric de France. f French Chronicle~. ::\Iartin's Jli.s;to-ri, d, Franr('. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY 21 of the estate because the church did not consider his mother's mal'l'iage an ecclesiastic one, even though it. was within the rnstoms of the F1·anks. To this G1·ippo objected, and he claimed an equal share as a prince of the rnyal blood. His half-brothers had him imprisoned in a castle in the Ardennes to prewnt a 1·ealization of his claim. Forfonately he escaped and went to Friesland, now ~orth Holland, where he ,vas \\·a1·rnly \\·elcomed because the people there still held in high esteem his ancestOl', Fol'Site. It \\·as there G1·ippo sought allies to regain his 1·ights and the Frieslandel'S we1·e the first to giw him aid. Idile, a Danish chieftain, and also a duke of the Rn-al'ians. resented \\·hat he considered an insult to his 1·elati,·e the mother of Grippo, and he was determined to awnge it. During the contention the1·e was some fighting, afte1· \\·hich an agreement was made in which the half brothers of G1·ippo ga,·e him the gon,1·nment of twelve coun ties de }Iansond, with the rnnk of Lordship de }fansond. Ho\n,,·e1·, he \\·as smToundecl by spies, and fearing he would be irnp1·isonecl hr ,n,nt in 101 to Aquitaine. Three years late1· he attempted to join an army of the Lombards \Yhich had arisen against the F1·anks. In the meantime Cal'lornan had entered a monastery and h:rnded 0Ye1· his ducal 1·ights to his brothe1·, Pepin, wh.o be came tlw sole duke of the Franks. Pepin 1·ecrnited his army from great ,,·,u'l'iOl's of the '.\ 01th to fight the Saxons and Lomhards. Among these \\·anion; was Fionnlock ( Fion of the Lake), whose name is lJl'eserwd in Fionne, an island off the coast of Denmm-k. Fionnlock \Yas a royal Scottish chief tain ,,·ho had gone to Fnrnc(c to aid }Iaitel. He was a 1·elatiYe of King Achaisus of Scotland, and one of the Scottish Aux iliaries among the Frnnks at this time. He was with the army that Pepin sent under two generals to intercept the ai·my of the Lombards that Grippo had joined. He also bore the demi-g1·iffin c1·est of his race. The encounter between the hvo armies took place at }Iaurienne. Fionnlock ,ms a friend of Grippo, and in the conflict he saw the latter's griffin symbol and tried to rescue Grippo from his enemies, but numbers ,vere against him and Grippo was killed. These two men were bound by other ties. Fionnlock's young daughter had married Grippo, whose death now left the widow with two little children in poverty and distress. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA~IIL Y \Vhen Pepin died in 768 he ldt two sons, Charles and Carloman. Carloman smYi\·ed his fathe1· but three years, and following his death Chal'les became sole king of the Fnrnks. The 1·eign of Charlemagne, the g1·eat Frankish lonl who in fact and legend filled all the world. no,,· begins. One of his fo·st acts was to appoint councils to inquire into the condition of his people-nobles, clerg)·. merchants and peas ants. By this means the ne,\·s came to him of Grippo's 1wincely family. He learned of the cournge and hono1· of Fionnlock, and of his daughte1·, Grippo's \Yido,\·, ,rnd of he1· two promising sons.* His heart ,nts touched and he took them unde1· his care, adopting them as his nephews. The)· wei-e often called his sons, but it would haYe prejudiced his own sons' claims to di,·isions of the empire had he adopted them as sons. It was a stroke of policy since it excluded their claims on the empi1·e ,,·hich might h,ffe been de1·i ,·eel from descent from their father. Prince P..oderic (Grippo). The elder, Roland, or Ronald. becanw the gTeatest of. the ernperOl''s paladins, and duke of the marshes of Brittan)·. H('' bore the demi-griflln cn:-st. Histor;-, scarce!)· noticed him until his late1· reno,,·n in tlw annal,; of chi,·alr)·. \\·hc·n he \ras called the flo\H'r of ancient chi,c"tlr~·. ,md his exploit,; ,,ere painted by the poets. The second son, ,,·hose name w,,s Forsyth. \\·as bon1 in 753. He was named from the Gothic prinet_' Fol'Sile, from whom he ,vas descended. Forsyth became a count of the em pire, and he and TI.oland bore the g1·iil'm inherited from thci1· fathe1·, G1·ippo, and as paladins and counts of the empire they also bore the double eagle symbols of imperial oftice. Iloland manied a niece of Charlemagne, while Fors~·th manied in 810 a daughte1· of the Duke of Aquitania. \Vhen Charlemagne was fighting the Saxons nea1· Pad de1·burn about 780, Roland and Forsyth \\·ere \\·ith him. and rendered valuable senice. In 786*'' Charlemagne built a castle on the hill of Fronsac, twenty miles northeast of Bordeaux. He called it Fol'Syth in hono1· of his adopted nephew and of thei1· common ancestor, the ancient King F01·site. He made it the capital of the district and ap pointed Forsyth as its defender, and gave him the hernld lordship of the castle, the first Yicornte de Fronsac. His ,:, Chronicles of Charlemangue. Froi:-::--a1·t ':-: Chi·onick'-, J ohlle' edition, A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY descendants in turn became the lords of the castle, the im perial \"icomtes of Fronsac, whose possessions in the eldest male line continued down to the eleventh century. The castle \\·as one of the most pmverful of \Vestern France. The Em pero1· and the Frnnks had conquered the Saxons, and the castle ,vas built as a restrnining influence against them. Frnnsac was an ancient district in Aquitaine. It bordered on the rinr D01·dogne. Its histol'y reaches back to the lloman period. Hagaman Forsyth de Frnnsac, a great grandson of the fin,t Fo1·syth of the castle, ,vas chief of staff of the Empern1· Chal'les the Simple, and his last legal advise1·. He defeated all the enemies of the empire when Chal'les was betrayed by them, but late1· in 9:Zi, when they succeeded in defeating Chal'les, Hagaman \\·as depri\·ed of his rank, afte1· which he retired to Forsyth castle, and by his influence Aquitaine 1·e fusecl to 1·ecognize the change of dynasty. Grim,\·alcl Fors~·th, the g1·eat grandson of Hagaman, ·was the last of the F01·syth mime to hold the castle. He married }farie ell' }Iontenac about 1010, and they had fom· daughtern itnd one son. Uef(Jl'e the eleventh century the FOl'syths of Fronsac and the Tailc·fer families, \\·ho were counts of Angoulene, had internrnniecl, and in 10:30 Gnillanone de Tailefe1· manied the c>ldest cbughte1· of Grim,valcl F01·syth and claimed one-third of the Frnnsac estates as his wife's dowry. Party feuds fol!o,\·ed bet\veen the daughters as claimants of the castle and estates to get possession. One of them occupied the c,,stle against the ·wishes of the king, who was the ai·bitrato1· of their disputes. The young son of Grimwald was deprived of his i·ight of succession and the castle passed into the female line. It \\·as dm·ing the contention for possession between the claimants that the castle in the eleventh century was part!~· destrnyed. It was rebuilt for some lord in the female line. In the fifteenth century when the English ,Yere at wa1· with the French uncle1· command of the Earl of Derby, they i1ffaded Aquitaine, and in their com·se captured the castle. Shortly afterward it was completely demolished. Some time later a new castle was built by one of the Richelieus under the name Chateau Fronsac. The second claughte1· of Grimwald Forsyth married Comte A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA::.I1LY de Albert, the third Seig Caumont and the fomth Prince de Rohan. The descendants of these families held the castle and the Fronsac title for se\'eral centui·ies, and it was from these came after 1--172 the following succession: Odet de Ayclie, Vicomte de Fronsac of the prince]>· house of Fix. Vicornte de Lantrac recognized by the King in 1-172 as Vicomte de Fronsac, J ehan de Rohan, Seig. de Gie, ::\Iai·shall of Fnrnce and Vicomte de F1·onsac in 1-Hll. He was succeeded by his cousin, Jacques de _-\lbret_, ::\Iarshall of the lJl'i nee!~- house of X a\'al'l'e. The king made him Comte de Frnnsac in 15,"il. His cousin, Antoine de Lustract, \\·as ::\LH'quis de Frnnsac in 15,35. During this time the family of de Caumont Due La Force were bearing the title of Comte de Fronsac, haYing inherited either from Hoban or Alb1·et. It next passed to Tioyal Bom·bons in the pe1·son of Francis de Ol'leans LongueYille, Comte de St. Pol. a descendant from a branch of the Valois famil>·· He \Yas a 1·elati\·e of King Henry of Xa\·ane, who in Hi08 raised the title to a ducal pee1·~1ge, Due de Fronsci:c. Armand ;J e;;rn de Ples'sis• Due ck Tiichelieu 1·e,·i,·ed a claim to it afte1· the ckath in rn:n of Ol'leans St. Pol \\"ithout dirc>ct lwi1·s. ,me! as Cudinal ancl prime minister of Frnnce attaim·cl a 1w,,· patc•nt in 1():} J. I fe claimed the duch:, thrnugh his g-rnnclmotlwr, a I~oc!H'lrnmu't, a descendant of Fo1·syth. At Richelieus' death the title passed to Louis de Bom·bon, P1·ince de Conde. In 16--16 his sister, the Princess de' Conde, the next hei1·. became Duchess de Fronsac, and at her death the title passed to her cousin, Due de Richelieu, \\'ith whose descendants it remained until the Heyolution when the Chateau Frnnsac castle \\·as finally destroyed by tlw rernlutionists. \Yhile the castle and title \Ye1·e held in the female line there were times 1Yhen different families in the succession were claiming the name Fronsac at the same time, but unde1· diffe1·ent titles. From this it is supposed that each branch of the family, the Vicomte, Comte, :Marquis and Duchy, had a legal right to bear his title at the same time. The title of Vicomte de Frnnsac of the Forsyths is imperial* from Charlemagne, while that of Comte de Fronsac is from a grant from the rnyal house of Capet; Marquis was a grant from the house of Valois, and the Duchy was from the royal house of Bourbon. ~' Titles made under the French empire are considel'ed worthless. Howev('J", Vicomt(' de Fronsac bein.!..?.' an imperial title, that is a title before the French empil·e exi-.;ted, i: sound. CHAPTER III THE AXCESTRAL RACE IX SCOTLAXD In the se\·enth generation from G1·imwald Forsyth and clc::::cencling from his disinherited son, came Osbert de For syth. At that time he ,vas the only descendant in the male line in the family, as other members had perished in the ci,:il ,nu of F1·ance. Osbert's 1·elatives in the female line, ,,·ho had held the castle and the Fronsac estates for several generations, had di\·ided the estates so that Osbert inherited but little. This led him to lea\·e France and go to Scotland, the land of his fo1·efathers. He fii-st went into England. It ,,-~ci,-, at the time \\·hen Eleano1· of P1·0,·ence went to England to ma1'!'~- Henry III .. Osbe1·t, by accompanying the princess, had the opportunity to \·isit England. It was the custom to make up a corn·o~- of ships on such occasions. Eleanor was attended on this ,iourney by all the chi,·a!J·y of the south of F1·ance. Then' ,,·as a stately train of nobles, ladies and min stn>Js. Eleanor ,,·as treated ,vith peculia1· honors ,vhile on he1· ,rn~· by Thibaut, the poet, King of Xa,·al'l'e, who feasted he1· and he1· company fo1· fin, days and gua1·ded them in pc1·son ,vith his knights ,rnd nobles to the French frontier. She then embarked with all he1· company, sailing from Bor deaux. The:; landed at Do,·e1·. After a short stay in Eng land, Osbe1t crnssecl over to Armondale in Scotland. There ,,·e1·e othe1· nobles coming over at the same time, who went into Scotland as he did. He bo1·e the shield with the emblems of Frnnsac and Angoulene beneath the demi-griffin crest of the Forsyths. While the above story of the time when Osbert went into Scotland has been transmitted in the family and published in se,·eral 1·epo1ts and genealogies, still it hardly fits in with the following exti-act from Volume 38, page 31, of the archives department, De la Gironde: that "Guirand Forsyth chevalier de Frnnsac, rendered his fief alien in the parish of St. Mar tin de Frnnsac in 1246. This he did so as to accompany his only son, Osbert, to Scotland." Osbert is found established :26 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTII F,DIILY in Armondale, Peebles county, Scotland, between 1:2--16 and 1:250, but his fathe1·'s name is not again mentioned. Osbert bore the famil~· name and emblems into Sc:otland. His place in Arrnondale was destroyed in the Brnce war, and the family after the battle of Bannockburn had a manOl' in Salkilh County, Stirling, called Polmaise ::\Ie1·ischall. The journey of Osbe1·t desen·es special emphasis. since it ,vas the turning point fOl' life or extinction fo1· the Forsyths. Had he not gained new impetus for life b~· deciding to leave the land torn by constant wai·fare where so many of his o\\·n blood had been killed, it might haYe been extinction. The Forsyths in every nation who haw inherited the name are descended from Osbe1t. He had a son \\·hose name ,,·as \Yil helm, who is 1·ecognized in the Chrnnicles of Scottish history as a feudal lord of County Peebles, who signed the nagman Roll of Scotland in 1:296. This \\·as an agreement to submit to the arbitrators of King Ed\\·ard the claims of the thi1·teen competitOl's for the uo,,·n of Scotland. so that ei,·il ,nu· be t,veen them might be a,·oided. Wilhelm's son, Robert I, mowd into Stil'lingshire while Robert Bn1ce was fighting for his c1·m\·n against King Ecl \\·ard. Robert named his son. Osbe1'l II. who \\·ith his father became pa1tners of Brnce. The~· took a prnrninent pcut in the battle of Bannocklrnrn, and after Ernee's victo1·y in this stniggle he became king of Scotland. In gratitude to Osbert fo1· the valuable se1Tic-e rendered in this most notable battle of all Scottish histo1·y, Bruce gaYe him a feudal grant of land in County Stirling. Bannockbu1·n is a town of Stirlingshi1·e, Scotland. about tl1l'ee miles southeast of Stil'ling Castle. Since this battle ,,·as the most important one in the history of Scotland, and one in which Osbert Forsyth was a ti·usted and ,·aliant leader, the account of the battle is given below. The English king, Edward II, appeared on June :2!, 13U, with an army which in point of numbers and equipment sur passed every force that had as yet been led against Scotland, and the largest that a king of England ever led. It ,,·as said he had one hundred thousand men and forty thousand horse men. Bruce ,vas well aware of the immense superiority of the enemy, there being two Englishmen to every Scotsman. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY :!..7 Bruce had chosen his ground of battle with admirable skill in the royal park between the Bannockburn stream and the Castle of Stil'ling. To break the ranks of the English ho1·se he constructed covered pits, and put o\·e1· the ground steel spikes. It \Yas only in front of the Scottish position that the banks of the stream offe1·ecl an easy passage to horses, so that the English had no choice but to attack the Scots at that point. Before the battle began, as the sun rose, the Scots went do\\·n on thei1· knees to pray, and when King Ed \n1rd saw this he said: "See, they ai·e kneeling to ask pa1· don." ''Yes," was the answe1·, "they are asking pardon, but from Goel, and not from us. Yon will conquer or die." At the beginning the English archers bent their bows and sent their ano\,·s as thick as snow flakes. The boggy ground and steel spikes 1)l'ewnted the hOl'semen from 1·iding quickly. The Scots stood finn, thrusting with their spears at the horses ,,·hich, maddened with pain, hurled their riders to the ground and clashed hithe1· and thither flinging the ranks into con fusion. While the battle rnged, from a hill near at hand, ,drnt looked like anothe1· Scottish army was seen to descend. It was only the serYants ,,·ho attended on Bruce. The Eng lish. thinking they \\·e1·e another army, lost hea1·t and were tl11·m,·n in to a panic 1·out . .-\like from the point of view of glory and inte1·est this i)attle holds first place among the triumphant actions of the Scottish people. It made Scotland a free counti·y. The stone upon \\·hich the Scottish standard was planted is still pointed out. Osbert Fors:,th ll's son, Robert de Forsyth II, was one of the gTeatest rnilitar~· leaders of Scotland. He became the govenw1· of Stirling Castle about l:3G0. This was the highest milit,u.1: command in Stirling Prnvince. Stil'ling Castle is a noble architectural pile, and it is placed on a gTeat lofty crag fronting the Yast mountains and the g:loomy sky of the north. It plays an important part in Scot tish hist01·y. In 1:30--1 it was taken by Edward I of England afte1· a siege of three months, but it v,as retaken by Bruce ten years later afte1· the battle of Bannockburn. James II, 1-1:30, and James V we1·e bOl'n in the castle, and here in 1--152 James II stabbed the Earl of Douglass. The battle of Ban- :28 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A~IILY nockburn. whe1·e Brnce defeated Edward II. \\·as fought hrn miles southeast of Stirling Castle. This same Robert Forsyth became feudal Baron of Dykes. the first lo1·d of Castle D>·kes, \\·hich \\·as in Lanark Count>·· Scotland. This castle \Yas supposed to h,we been built about 1:3,i0 by Robert, who gained a Yictory oyer the English at the Dykes. The lines below ,nitten by Fredel'ic G1·egor>· Forsyth of Canada, the lJl'esent \'icomte de Fronsac, show ho\\' Robert Fol'Syth won Dykes. Tlwy relate an incident in Scottish history. \\'hen the English i1waded Scotland and ,,·ere g·oing to destroy the \\·alls of D>·kes, the king callt:d fo1· some one to stop the raid until he had time to mass his forces. Robert Forsyth yolunteered to do this. Hm\· he did it with less than fom· hund1·ed men has been desC'l'ibed in the poem: Frnm the hills we see them corning· In their stout arrny; Insolent the English Think the land their prey; They haYe bl'oken clown the Dykes In this their strong forny. Who will be the one so Yaliant As their course to stay~ Out spake one who falters ne'er In council or in wal'- He who bore a demi-griffin On his creE't afa1·. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA~IILY Thrnugh the Dykes he'd chase the Eng·lish \Vith his clansmen true, And \\·ith swo1·cl, Forsyth acJyancing Pierced the arrnw thrnugh. \\.hen the King· of Scotland saw The chieftain strnight and tall, \\'ho had stood with all his clan ..\. wall where stood the wall, Hailed Forsyth to be the lonl, The barnn of the Dykes. The motto Instaurator Ruinae ( Restore1· of the Ruins) was appro\·ed 01· granted to the Forsyths of Scotland for their sen·ices at the battle of Dykes. Robe1·t Forsyth of Dumbarton, Scotland, secreta1-y of the Fors~·th Association, says Dykes Castle adjoined Halhill, near Sti·atha\·on. Halhill was a mano1· belonging to the Forsyths of Dykes in County Lana1·k. The Forsyths disbanded from D~·kes in the early part of the se\·enteenth century, after occup)·ing it for two and three-quarte1· centuries. In 1628 the castle ,,·as in rnins. A part of the foundation remained until 1828 ,vhen it was enti1·ely removed. Fo1· successive generations Stirling Castle was governed by the Forsyths. .John, the son of Robert lI, not only held the c1·0,,·n office at Stirling in 1379, but was also Baron of D~·kes, and William, his son, held the same office in 1399. In U26 the son of William, who was Robert III, wit nessed a cha1ter of Robert Keith, Earl }Iarshal of Scotland. He rnanied a daughter of Leslie of Roths. The fhe sons of Robert are especially remembered for thei1· establishing Glas gow l'niw1·sity. The elcle1·, John, was Baron of Dykes and bo1·e the shield of Fronsac. There is no record that he held any prnfessorship in the l·niversity, but his sons did. He mal'l'ied the daughter of Si1· James Douglass. Thomas, the second son of Robe1t III, Canon of Glasgow, used the Leslie seal of his mother (three buckles on a bend). He was an incOl'poratOl' and foundel' of Glasgow Pniversity in 1473, and received from it a }laster of A1-ts clegi-ee. In 1496 he became clean of the faculty as a recognition of his work and service. His son in turn became an instructor in the University. One of the younger brothers of Thomas signed the charter of the College in 1483, and ,ms one of its instructors. Matthew, the foul'th, was an elector to choose regents for the College in A HISTORY OF THE FoR:-:YTH FA.'.IIILY 1-J97, while Robert, the younger. was an otlke1·. David I and Alexande1· Fornyth of Aberdeen, sons of the abo\·e John. were chosen to elect 1·egents fo1· the l"ni\·ersity in 150t4. Da\·id was Lord of D~·kes and in 119:2 his coat-of-arms 21ppea1·s in Sir James Balfou!''s Hernlclic .:\Ianusc1·ipt a:e; Fo1·syth. Baron of Xydie. Xydie \nts a castle in Fife that ,,·as held by the Forsyths. It is not knO\nl who built it 01· what be came of it. The last of this family to hold the castle ,vas Sir Alexander Forsyth in 1601. In the hist01·~- of Stirling he is mentioned. Dy his title he ,ms doubtless a bal'Onet. The descendants of those who obtained the ba1·on~· of ?\\die ,,·e1·e called the Forsyths of Xydie. Gla:.--,row Cni\·c1>,ity David II, son of the above named Da\·id, succeeded his father as Barnn of Kydie and Lo1·d of Dykes, and his son, .John, succeeded to the titles in L5-10. His arms as Forsyth of Xydie are in the Heraldic ::\Ianuscript of Sir David Lindsay, the lJl'in cipal herald of Scotland in 15-1:2. HowPver, John transferred his estates of Gilcairnstorm, County Abe1·deen, to Lord Gor don of Pittwig, to enter one of the military companies of France in 1560. When he entered the army the title of Comte Forsyth de Fronsac was assumed by him. He had a brother, James Forsyth, who signed a feudal charter before the lords commissioners at Edinburgh in 1560, as Lord of the Monastery of Dumblane. John's son, David III, born in France, succeeded to Dykes in 1571. By act of Scottish Parliament he was appointed a commissionei- of revenue for A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:'.IILY 81 Glasgow. The arn1s of Xydie we1•e confirmed to his posterity thl'Ough the families of Dykes and Failzerton by the Heralds College of Scotland. He had fi\·e children, as follows: I. :-Iargaret married Captain Jean Denys of Honfleur, and St. \Tincent de Toul'S, France. II. James, who ,ms commissioner fo1· Glasgow in 1608. III. \Yilliam, his successOl' as Bal'On of Dykes, who also became commissioner of the Scotch pal'liament in 1621. I\T. :-Iatthew ,,·as an Advocate. \T. Robert of Failze1·ton was in the F1·ench army. He was a claimant to the title of Forsyth de Frnnsac. The arms of Xydie wrre confirmed to the Forsyths of Failzerton by Si1· Geo1·ge :-IcKenzic, King· of Arms of Scotland. \\Tilliam, son of David III, had three sons: I. William, his successor, "·hosr~ daughter, Barbara, ma1· ried Barnn Tiello. II. John, "·ho m:1s a Lo1·d Commissioner of Scotland in 16:52, and a member of the commission to meet the English Pal'!iarnent to heai· the plan of uniting the cl'Own of Scotland and England. To this step the Fol'Syths of Dykes ,vere strnngl~- opposed. John was in farnr of adopting the French l,rnguage as the national speech, as a bal'l'ier against English scttlemrnt in the lowlands of Scotland. He regarded that as a g1·0,,·ing menace to the integrity of the Scottish nation as ,,·ell as to the independencr of the Scottish kingdom. His son, James, inherited the lands of Failze1ton and Kilsyth from his mother, who was a daughter of Si1· William Living ston. James was a famous pl'eacher, a ministe1· for the chlll'ch in Ai1th in 1661 and at Stirling in 1665. His sermons were published in London in 1666. He was registered at Lyon Court as successol' of Dykes and ~ydie. He married :\Ia1·ion Elphinson, a daughter of the noted Bruce family, and the nearest line derived from the rnyal family of Bruce. Having no children, he adopted his relative, James Bruce, who succeeded as James Forsyth of Failzerton, alias Bruce of Gavell. This James was a member of the council of Stir ling with the Duke of Hamilton. The second son of John and brother of James, the min ister, was Walte1· Forsyth, a regent of the University of GlasgO\V and titular Baron of Dykes. His will is yet in the documents of Scotland. He married his cousin, Margaret, A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY daughter of Captain James Forsyth, ·who was a son of Robert of Failzffton. James became a captain in land and mwal enterprises. In )fay, 165!, he was a prisone1· of wa1· among the English and escaped from the vault below the Parliament House where he had been confined. He manied his cousin, ::.\Ia1·guerite, daughter of Xicholas Denys, \'icomte de Fronsac, and royal gown101· of Acadia, Gaspesie and Xe,,. Foundlancl. The famil.'· of Denys acquired great 1·eno,n\ in France in connection with early American explorations. As earl_\· as 1506 Captain Jean Denys published a chart of that gulf of Xorth Ame1·ica, afte1·warcl known as the Gulf of St. La,nence. He was also commissioned in LS:2-! by King Francis I to find lands in the new world fm France. His g1·anclson, Jean, rnanied ::.\Iargaret, the daughter of David Fo1·s_\·th III, Lord of Dykes and hei1· to the Fronsac title in Frnnce. Their son, Xicholas, was born at St. Vincent de Tours, in 159t4. In recognition of the senices of his ancestors in cliscm ffing lands for France in America he recei~·ed from the King in 16:3:2 the northern half of Acadia, a territory of about thirt_\· two thousand square miles, and he ,vas made its gown10r. One authoritr sa~·s he ,,·as a Huguenot, anothe1· that he ,,·as \'ery liberal in his 1·eligious \·iews, but he had trnuble with the Catholics. LeBorgne plirnned an ambush against him, captured him when alone, and canied him a prisoner to Port Royal (Annapolis). While in prison he obtained aid from the Prntestant English with which party he was forced to form an alliance for his own safetr, and they released him b_\· armed inten·ention. In the meantime he had opened the country to colonists, built ships, encouraged t1·ade with Xew England and established his capital at Fiene. His enemies next proceeded to petition the king fo1· his removed from the governorship. They succeeded in getting Giraudiere ap pointed, and Denys 1·etired into his own tenitor,r. The new governor with the aid of the king's ships and troops made war on him and seized the ships by which he traded with :'.\ew England, but he finally repelled his enemies and in 1659 was made governor viceroy of Gaspesie Acadia and X e,v Foundland. In 1667 his claims to the title of Vicomte de Fronsac were recognized and ordered to be registered by King Louis XIV. His history was published in Paris in 167:2 in two volumes. He is mentioned by Charlevoix, historian of A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 33 Canada, 8.s the best instructed of the new governorn of Xew France, and the most enterprising, most liberal and best edu cated pe1·son in the country. The children of the aboYe Walter Forsyth, whose wife, :.Ia1·garet, was grnnddaughter of Xicholas Denys, inherited from thei1· mother's family the shipping and p1·ivate armed H'ssels which were thei1· part in the Fo1·syth and Denys enter prises on the seas, the same extending even to the F1·ench and D1·itish Americas and Indies. The Forsyths were in alliance \\·ith the Xonnans of France, favoring the Stuart cause in Scotland, and opposed to English control. Their privateers were safel.v hal'bored along the west coast of Ireland with Irish and French \·essels in secret and contraband trade in defiance of English law. Thei1· place ,vas in the vicinity of Canickfergus near the castle of the O'~eals, where the sea protected their ships \\·hich sailed unde1· the flag of France. CI-L\.PTER I\- FORSYTHS IX C-\X_-\DA AXD XE\V EXGLAXD It was at this time (17Hl) that James :.\IcGregor, who \\·c1s a friend of the Fors~·ths, led a colony of Scots al1·ead~· in l ·lster to America. They settled at \\·hat is now Londondel'l'y. :'\ ew Hampshi1·e. These colonists, most of whom had sailed from Belfast and Canickfergus. \\·ere refused land in the Ke,\· England colonies because the~· \H'l'e not Eng·lish. it being the rnlc then that no Scot be permitted to settle in an English colony. Ho,\·e,·er, the~· were allowc'd to settle on land to the north bet\Yeen the French and Indians on one side, and the English colonists on the othcl', presumabl~- \\·ith the thought that the~· might be extc>1·minated IJ~· the Indians. But :.\lcC!'eg·ol', through the Fo1·s~·th and Denys fami'lie,'.;, m'ad(· a sec:i·et agreement with the Fn•nch that if the colon_\. or' Scots 1·emained neutnd in the \\.al' of reprisals going on lJv tween the Frenc-h and English colonies. the Scots \\·oulcl not be disturbed. This ,tgTecnwnt \\·as ,·,l!Ti,,ct out, and the F1·ench and Indian raids to the time of the fall of QuclJec in 1759 pass2cl safely thl'Ough the Scotch settlement.' Among these Forsyths \Yas James of Failze1ton, \·icomte de FJ'Onsae and titular Bal'On of D~·kes. He ,,·as a son of :.\fargaret, Vicomtess de Frnnsac, and \\'alter FOl'syth. James ma1Tit·d :.\Ia1·ga1·et, daug-hte1· of :.\Ia,ior Hugh :.\Iontgorne1·ii>. J arnes \\·as a captain on the seas uncle!' the fl.ag of the king of Fnmce during- \Yilliam of Ornnge's Irish eampaign, and a defender of the cause of the Stuarts against \Yilliarn of Ornnge. His son, :\Iatthe,\·, ,n,s born in 169D in Sc-otlancl. He went first to Ireland, \\·he1·e he manied Esther, daughter of Robert Graham, \\·hose wife was Janet Hume of the Hume family of Scotland. l\Iatthe,,· suceeeded his fathe1·, James, on the seas. He eame first to Canada in 1732 as successor to the title of Vicomte de Fronsae, and the estates of the Denys in Canada being the next heir of the last descendant of Nicholas Denys, "Parker·s llistory o.f Londoncfrri"!J; Cockran·~ l!i.-;fo;·u of A11tri1,1. .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY gonrnor of Acadia. Xicholas Denys having been enrolled in the nobility of Xe,,. France, the family became the heredita1·y g0Hmo1·s of the district. :.\Iatthew Forsyth was the last royal go\·erno1· of Gaspesie ( 173:2 to 1738) and the last titular Baron of Dykes. The fief of Fl'Onsac compl'ised the tel'l'i tory bet,,·een the :.\Iiramichi and the Restigonche Rivers to a depth of forty-fo·e miles with all the islands of the coast to a distance of nine miles towa1·d the sea. Richard Denys, a son of Xicholas, had built a chateau on the banks of the :.\Iil'arnichi, and :.\Iatthew Forsyth occupied it. The coat-of arms of the Denys and F01·syth families blended in a shield \\·as his otticial seal as gow1·n01·. It was can·ed in wood ovel' the do01· of the chateau. :.\Iatthe,\· \\·as ve1-y much annoyed by pirates from Cape Cod, who sailed in armed vessels along the shore. \\"ith his 0\\"11 ship, LoJ!onette, he made war on them. sinking, burning and destl'Oying theil' vessels. This attracted the English \\·ho sent two wa1·-ships against him. and in 1,:38 after an heroic resistance he \\·as d1·iwn by the Eng-li,;h from Gaspesie, and the Fl'Onsac tenitory. The latter clest1·oyc'd his :.\Ionette fort ,rnd bt!l'ned his manor house. His ,;hip \\ as s,n-ccl b)· being· hauled "P into shallo,,· wate1· whe1·e a Ltrge \\·ar \·essel could not go. He waited until the winte1· :-tonns had cli-i\·en a,\·ay the English ships, then sailed for the \1·est coast of Ireland, ,,·here he had left his family. Afte1· the death of James :.\IcGregOl', letters from a sm·- 1·i1·ing member of his family reached the p1·0\·ince of lJstel', \1·hcre :.\Iatthe,\· Forsyth had been since lea,·ing Canada. These lettei·s told of the success of the Scot colony in X ew Hampshire, and suggested his locating nea1·er his lands in Crnacla. This he decided to do, and accordingly he sailed acrnss the ocean and into the harbor at Boston under an Irish 1·egister and English flag. In 17--l:2 he settled in Ches te1·, Xew Hampshire. He brought o,·e1· considerable wealth and family sil\·e1· with arn101'ials the1·eon which had been con firmed to the familr b~· the herald of Scotland. He bought :2,000 acres of land and later owned a ·,voolen mill and the grist-mill. He ne,·er returned to his land in Canada since the buildings had been destl'Oyed. He was most prominent in the history of Chestel'. His name is wry frequently mentioned in town and p1·ovincial records. He was lay preacher and deacon of the church. and although his attitude and that of some of .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:\IIL't his sons leaned towai·d a resistance of pal'liamentary tyranny in America, he vrns a firm belie,·er that a royal form of gov ernment is best conducive to the interests of a people. In 177 4 he was a deputy for Chester at Exeter to choose a dele gate to the first Continental CongTess. When hostilities began between the English and the colonists he assisted in raising and arming the Chester company. Late1-, however, when he discovered that the majority ,vas planning a democratic re public he \Vithdrew into pri,·ate life. He was a lm·e1· of music, and well acquainted with European languages and literature. He died in 1790 in his ninety-second yeai·. Two of the small cannon of his fort in Canada a1·e in front of the hospital at Bathhurst, and a punch bowl of ancient date dug up at the ruins of his manor house is in the histo1·ical collection at Chatham, New Bruns\,·ick. In the gulf of the St. Lawrence there is an island called ).Iiscou. The name of its hai·bor, .--\nse Le G1·ittin, is de1·i,·ed from the first ship of ::\iatthew Fors~·th, Le Gri(Tiu, which anchored off ::\Iiscou Island. Of :'.\Iatthe,v Forsyth's children, ::\Iatthew, the eldest son, was born in freland. He ,,·as a lo:,alist and became a physi cian in the rn~·al navy. His 1wi,·ateer, the L(IJ/o11ctte, ,,·hich he inherited from his fathe1·, sailed under the flag of France. At the breaking out of the F1·ench Re,·o!ution his life as a royalist ·was in dangel'. He put his effects into gold, packed his baggage aboard the La Jlo11ette, and started to escape from the frenzied peasants who sought his life. His ship was intercepted as he was lea\'ing the harbor, but he replied to demands to stop by defiantly raising the royal flag. With his ship covered by the spray from the cannon shot of the harbor batteries past which he sailed, he turned to the sea and disappeared. Doctor l\Iatthew Forsyth \\·ent down against his foe in 1798, leaving his title and one million francs in gold and his shipping to his nephew, Thomas, ,vhom he had adopted. He never married. David and Jonathan, the second and third sons of Matthew, were born in Ireland. They were in the first New Hampshire regiment in the war of the Revolution, and both died from wounds received while in the service. William, Matthew's fifth child was born in Ireland in 17 40. He was a United Empire Loyalist in the war of 1776-83. In A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A~IILY 37 Atherton's history of :\Iontreal, Vol. 11, he is spoken of as commanding an independent patrol of Scot settlers on the bo1·der of Canada and in New Hampshire. His wife was a daughte1· of James Wilson, a Scot from ,near Carrickfergus, \\·ho liwd to be one hundred(and eighteen' years of age. Will iam was a deputy to a council of the noblesse in Canada held in :\Ionti·eal for the purpose of forming a confederation with the followers of Prince Chades Stuart, who came to America to get away from English rule. Charles wished to establish in Canada an independent monarchy in alliance with France and under the Stuart dynasty. This alarmed the Eng lish, and thei1· ministry wrote the governor to administer the oath in Canada since this would end the hopes of the P1·e tende1· Prince Chal'les. If any one refused he must leave the colon~·. \Villiam Forsyth refused to take the oath, and left Canada. He later settled in Deering, Ne,v Hampshire, and was one of the founders of the beering public library. He died in 1808. His chilcli·en were as follows: first, Matthew, who settled in what is now :\Iancheste1·, ~ew Hampshi1·e; sec ond, James, a physician and grnduate of Dal'tmouth College, a son of \\·horn, Doctor F. F. Forsyth, was one of the founde1·s of the \y eymouth, :\Iassachusetts, Histo1·ical Society; third, Da,·icl, Captain of the Deering Rifles; fomth, Thomas, who \\·as born in Deering in 1776. He was adopted by his uncle, Doctor :'-Iatthew Forsyth, who took him to Frnnce and edu cated him as his adopted heir. He was placed in a military school at the age of eleven years. When Doctor :\Iatthew on his ship, La J1011te, was escap ing from the French Revolutionists in 1792, his nephe,v was with him. The lad was landed by his uncle at a German port. Being a young man of seventeen years, he became so filled with the spirit of adventme that he joined the Brigade de Na,·ane in the campaign of the royalists and French princes against the first French Republic. In Revigney's N abilities of Europe fo1· 1910 there is a mention that his name was pre sented at the Austrian Court at the death of his uncle in 1798. His claim at this time to the title of De Fronsac was recognized by the Emperor, Francis II. He also held the title of Baron of Miscou. He returned to Canada in 1800, sailing in one of the vessels inherited from his uncle. He settled first at St. Johns, New Brunswick. Later, he went to Savannah, :38 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A'.IIILY Georgia, whe1·e he manied a daughter of Captain John Pm>·, late of the colomal na\·y of Georgia. He was one of the war dens of the Ancient Landmal'lz Lodge of Fl'ee ::\Iasons at Port land, ::\Iaine. It was he who prnjec.:tecl the scheme of a mil way from :.\Iontl'eal to Portland. This ,n1s as early as ix:10, but it was not completed until 18,:d. fiw ,\·ears afte1· his death. Thomas alwa~·s considered himself a Scot and a Canadian, and was always a British subject and a membei· of the noblesse in Canada. He was a musician and linguist. His son, Hamilton Fors>·th, born in 181:2, ,,·as a captc1.in in the commonwealth of Texas. He died ,:it Gah·eston in rn:rn. Thomas had a claughtel'. Sarah Ann. born in lxl."i. \\·ho had marked literary ability. She rnanied \\'illiam Pitt Pl'eble, LL. D., judge of the Supreme Comt of }faine. and fi 1·st president of the Grand Trunk f:aih\·a~· of Caiwcla. abo l '1:ited States 1:1inister to the :\" ethel'lancb. Frederic Forsyth, VicomtC' de Fronsac •..\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 89 The fifth child of Thomas ,ms F1·ederic, 1819-1891, born at St. Johns, New Brunswick. In 18-19 he succeeded his fathe1· to the title of \'icomte de Fronsac, and the barnny of :\Iiscou, also the men-hant marine inte1·est. In 18-19 he was an ortice1· in command of an armed expedition of pioneers ove1· lancl acrnss the plains to California. During the following ~-eai· he was at Reallejo in Xicarngua, whe1·e he became con nected with a E1·itish transpo1t company. He 1·eturned to :\Iontreal in 185~1, whe1·e in 1860 he commanded the guard of honor chosen to meet the Prince of Wales when he landed at Po1tland. His name is in the si!Yer book of the Grnnd Trnnk r..aihn,y Company as one of those selected to accompany the Prince at the ceremonies of the opening of the Victoria bridge at :\Iontreal. In 1886 the fiftieth anni,·ersary of the reign of Queen YidOl'ia was celebrated at his home in Portland by Fretlel'ic Gn-gory Forsyth, Vicomte de Fronsac 10 .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:.IILY British 1·esidents. He was always a British subject and a belie\·er in the right of the southern cause in the Ci\·il \\'ar. He was a merchant in the \Vest India trade at Portland, but lost his property and died poor in 18£!1. He married a daugh te1· of ::\Iajor-General Joseph Scott Je\\·ett of Po1tlancl. She was a \·ery gifted woman in the languages and music. Her name appears in the list of ladies who danced with the Prince of Wales at :\Iontreal during the royal civic entertainments of 1860. Their son, Frederic Gregory Forsyth, Virnmte de Fronsac, was born in l\Ionti·eal. He is the herald marshal of the noblesse in Canada, and the f'ounde1· of the l'nited Ernpin· Loyalist Association of Canada. He is known as an historian. and has always been a British subject. He succeeded to the title of \'icomte de Fronsac in 1891. He is connected with the College of Arms, Archi\·es Depa1tment, at Ottawa, Canada. His bl'Other, Thomas Scott, Bal'On of :\Iiscou, was bon1 in the Portland district of St. Johns, Xew Brunswick, in 1859. He is 1·egistrar general of the College of Arms of Canada, also honoral'y president of the Histol'icai Society of Gaspesie. As younge1· son he bears the honorary title of Comte de La Gaspesie, as may be seen b~· the list of titles in the Canadian Almanac of 1920, published in Toronto. \\·hich title has been de1·ived by des(:ent from Xid10las Den~·s, Co\· e1·no1· Royal of Acadia. Already belonging to the noblesse. the arms of Denys were capped by a Corntes Crown, and his descendants thus came to be the Comtes de La Gaspesie. Thomas is the author of a 1·ecent publication on financial influences in Canada and will soon edit the :\Iemorial histo1·y of the province of Nova Scotia. George Forsyth (1821-1912) was the sixth child of the above Thomas. He was major in the United States Ci\·il War of 1861-65, and was assistant adjutant-general of camp at Washington in 1865, also chief of staff to General Sheridan. and later revenue officer at Sitka, Alaska. He afterward removed to San Francisco, and was interest~d in a fruit ranch. He married a daughter of Captain Jewett of Portland. Robert and Josiah, the youngest sons of Matthew Forsyth, were Lieutenants in the war of 1776. Josiah's descendants still reside on the site of their first house at Chester. They have the old triangular battle sword that Matthew used 'Nhen he commanded his ship, Lo 11.fonette. Josiah's son, Josiah, A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY n 178:3, was captain of militia and selectman of Deering, and his son was ::\Iatthew, born in Cheste1· ( 1818-188--l). ::\Iatthew's son is Rufus Forsyth, in \\·hose possession is the triangula1· swol'Cl. His grnndson, \Villiam Francis Forsyth, \,·as an A. B. at Dartmouth College, in 1908, and ::\I. D. of Columbia l\Iedi cal College in 1910. A younge1· brother, Cad C. Forsyth, 1888, \ms A. B. of Dartmouth in 191:3, and A. ::\I. of Harva1·d "l'niversity in 191--l, and assistant instructor in natural science. A great grandson of the above Robert Forsyth was James, \,·ho was one of the prominent men in New York State. He was judge of the Rensselae1· county court, and president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railway, also of the Troy Bridge Company. His son, Robe1·t, was civil engineer and manager of the l'nion Steel Company of Chicago. Another son, James, is an atto1·11e~·-at-law, living at Riverside, Oswego, N. Y. The second son of Captain James Forsyth and l\Iarga1·et ::\Iontgomerie and brother of :Matthew, was James who signed the Londonde1Ty Roll in 1719. There we1·e political troubles, and those who signed the Londondeny Roll were by this obli gated to leave Ii-eland. James being an old man did not leave, but his son Alexander did. Alexander married Rachel O'Neal, a member of the house of O'N ea!, Earls and Princes of Tyrone in ll'eland. They came to the l:-nited States in the latter part of the eighteenth century and settled in Baltimore. His death occuned in 1828. Among his sons were, first, Isaac; second, Alexander; third, Elijah. There were also three daughters. ::\Iary, the eldest, married - Thompson, the second - Ryde1-, the third - Goldsmith. Elijah, the third son, married the daughte1· of Bernhard Gell of Baltimore, both of whom died before middle age, the father by accidental drowning while hunting, and the mother of the first epidemic of cholera in the l'nited States. They left a large family which was soon scattered among their relatives. The eldest son John later went to New York. The second son Bernhard went away from home about the time of the Seminole War. It was thought he was engaged in the war. Elijah came west. The fourth was William, who remained in Baltimore. Joseph lived at Powhattan, Maryland. The . sisters, Elizabeth and Louise, were devout Catholics. Eliza beth was for many years a nun. ,..\_ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY Elijah, the third son, came west in eal'ly life and died in Indianapolis in 1895. He married Olin· Hackett, ,d10 died in 1910. His eldest son, William, is the present ,,·ell-known a1tist of Indianapolis, and honorary member of the Society of Forsyths in Indiana. He was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, near Cincinnati, and came ,,·ith his parents to Indian apolis when a boy. From his childhood he had an innate Ion:> \Yilliam Fon,yth for books, and a passionate love for the beauty of the out-of cloors. He began drawing Yery early in his life, and a chance acquaintance with Ruskin's book on drawing directed him into the paths of art. He began sketching out-of-doors with enthusiasm, study ing alone and against the wishes of his parents. This he continued for several years before there appeared any open ing fo1· adYanced study . .About this time J. W. Leave, a stu- A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F,U1IL Y 43 dent at the Beaux Arts at Paris, and J. Y. Gookins, student at }Iunich, founded the first Indiana art school. William Fo1·syth entered this school and began his first training in dra,Ying and painting and modeling in clay. To ::\Ir. Leave, }fr. Forsyth acknowledges a gTeat debt for friendship and encouragement, and for high respect fOl" the profession \\·hich he inculcated. Thrnugh his o,vn efforts and the patronage of a friend, }fr. Fo1·syth ,,·ent abroad in 1885, remaining in Europe seven years. He was a student in the Royal Academy of Art in }Iunich for fi\·e ~-ea1·s. Here he studied drnwing under Pl'ofessor Benczm and Xicolas Cyeis, and painting under \" an Leoeffz, then 1·eckoned the greatest teachei· of painting in Germany. While there he ,vas several times honcH·abl~· mentioned and crn·arded a medal. He also exhibited in the }Iunich International Exposition of 1888. Returning· to the l "nitecl States, and by preference to In cli,rna. he has since been continuously ac:tiYe in individual wod~ in painting in oil, ,,·ater color ,1nd etching, and as an in.-;;tructn1·. For t\\·o ~-e,us after his return he \\·as associated "·ith :\IL Adams at }Iuncie and F01·t \Yayne, Indiarn1, in tPaching; then "·ith }Ii·. Steele in the second Indiana School nf .\rt at Indiam1polis. Since the building of _the He1Ton Art Institute he has bePn thl' principal instructor in its school. In this ,,·ork he has been unusually successful. }Iany of his pupib among ilh1strato1·s in the East ha,·e a national repu t<1tion. :\Ir. Fors~·th has bePn awarded numerous distinctions in exhibitions. among them a ;;ih·er medal for wate1· colo1·, and a brnnze medal fOI" oil at the Louisiana Pun:hase Exposition at St. Louis in 190-L Also a bl'Onze medal at the Argentine Exposition at Buenos A~Tes in 1910, and a silver medal for wate1· color and a bronze medal for oil .::it the Panama Ex position in San Frnncisco in 1915. At the Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists in 1910 he won the Fine Arts Building Prize of fo·e hundred dollars for the best group of paintings. He is one of the four Indianapolis artists composing the Hoosier group, the others being }Ir. Steele, :Mr. Adams and :.\Ir. Stark. This group has played no small part in the de velopment of art in Indiana and the :\fiddle West. Mr. For syth, like others of the Hoosie1· group, prefers the southern 1 l A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY part of the state as a field for his outdoor studies. He is especially fond of the country around Corydon, the old capital of the state, and of old Vernon in Jennings County, and around Hanover on the Ohio Tii\·er, the \Vhite Wate1· Valley, the hills of 1'101·gan County and the 1·egion about Indianapolis. He is a charter membei· of the Society of W estem Artists. and has served as its sec1·etary and vice-1)l'esident. He is re1wesented in pemrnnent collections at Kansas City, :}Iin nesota Art Association, Indianapolis A1·t Association, Tiich mond Art Association, and other cities. \\rilliam Forsyth was awarded the Holcomb 1)l'ize for the best water color in the exhibit of Indiana Artists at the Hel'l'on Art Institute in 19:20. He manied Alice Atkinson of Atkinson, Indiana, in 1897. She was a pupil in the Indiana Art School \Yhen he fil'st met her. Their children are Dornthy, a student in Butle1· College; Constance and E\·elyn. Constance is showing un usual talent in drawing and work in colors. William Forsyth has one brnther, E. J. Forsyth, in· h~- dianapolis; and two sisters, Elizabeth F. and Alice I. For syth, who are teachers in the schools of Indianapolis. Mrs. Louise Jennings at 0-J 1-1 Catherine Street, Phila delphia, is the daughter of James Forsyth, \,·hose father \\·as Alexander. James had two brothers, Alexander and Samuel. James and Alexander went to northe1·n Pennsylnrnia while Samuel remained in Han·e de Grace, ~Iaryland, the early home of the family. Se\·eral sons and daughters of Samuel live the1·e, also children of his sisters. This family is descended from Alexande1· Forsyth and nachel O'N eal. ::.\frs. Avoline Forsyth B1·0\Yne of Shepherds\·ille, Ken tucky, is a granddaughter of Alexande1· F01·syth, the son of Alexander and Rachel O'Keal. Alexander Forsyth made a will, which is among the legal documents in Baltimore. By this will his wife Rachel O'Neal was made administratrix, but she did not serve, due to her age. Her son Alexander and her son-in-law Thompson ad ministered on the estate. Alexander's grandson Elijah re membered him as a disabled old man as he went about his home; he also remembered his grandmother, Rachel O'Neal, and that she was a real Irish wit, alert, and quick in thought .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F Al\1ILY and action. She was not in sympathy with the Catholics, but her daughte1· ::\Ia1·y Thompson \\·as a devout one, being a ::\Iothel' Superior. She died in a Catholic convent. The third son of Captain James Forsyth and ::\Iargaret ::\Iontgomerie was Alexander, who 1·emained in Scotland. He had a son, Andrew, who was a civil engineer and ·who is said to have planned the celebrated bridge of Dee. Andrew's son was John Fo1·syth, chief of the medical department of India and physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria. His son was ::\Iajo1· Alexande1· G. Fo1·syth of the British East India army, and his son was Captain James FOl'syth, late of Cheltenham, England, whose son James Alexandel' Forsyth graduated at the chief milita1·r school of Britain just at the beginning of the World Wa1·. A fourth son of Captain James was Thomas, and fifth, Da\·id, \\·ho manied Lady ::\Iargaret ::\Iontgomerie. Alexander, son of Walte1· Fo1·syth and brnther of James, \\·hose son, ::\Iatthe,,·, ii'as gove1·nor of Gaspesie, ,vas born in .--\~Tshire, Scotland, in 1689. He came to Boston in 1719. He wa,; an eminent sea merchant and ship owner and selectman of Boston, and for senral years was a captain in the colonial regiment. He was one of the commissioners to make a treaty \i·ith the Indians fo1· the ::\Iassachusetts Bay Colony in 172--1, and in 17-12, as leade1· of the committee on colony military affai1·s, he planned the fortifications of Boston Harbo1·. He was a patron of art and literature. His autograph is in \"ol. II, Jle11w1·ial History of Boston. He was a firm loyalist, and being out of sympathy with colonial tendencies, he left Boston with his family about 1765 at the beginning of the trouble between the home government and the colonies, and 1·eturned to Scotland. His son, John, born in Boston, 1731, ·went with his fathe1· to Scotland, and was a captain in the British army during the wa1· of 1776-88. His son, John, born in Ayrshire, 1771, was a captain in the Volunteers, and his son, William, born in Ayrshire, came to Boston in 1828, and for nearly a qua1· te1· of a century was connected with the Boston Belting Com pany, now the largest belting concern in the world, and the original manufacturers of vulcanized India-rubber goods in the United States. He married a daughter of Hamilton Ben nett, of an old English family. 16 ) .. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.-U.IILY His son, James Bennett Fors~·th, ,nls manager of the Bos ton Belting Company, and one of the fo1·emost im·entors of India-rubbe1· appliances in America, h,:n-ing procured on'r sixty patents for machinery and fo1· irnp1·owd methods for manufactm·ing mechanical nibber goods. It is said that on one occasion, while trn \·eling. J arnes Dennett heard du1·ing the night from his hotel windo\\' a child cr~·ing in a tenement house. The next moming. upon inquiring the cause, he leamed it ,ms due to aching teeth, and later when asking his own dentist what the poor people did for dental attention he \Yas told they had to look out for thernselyes. He \\·as of a philanthropic nature. and at his death left c1 half million dol lal'S to found an institution for the dental ut1·e of the poo1· child1·en of Boston. To this his brothers, John Hamilton and Thomas Alexande1·, added a million and a half rno1·e mone.,·. \\'ith this sum they erected the Fo1·snh Dental Infinmtry of Boston in merno1·y of James Demwtt and a younger brnthe1·. GeOl'ge Hem·y Forsyth. The.,· gaYe a -funcl of three million more for its maintenance. It is the only one of its kind in the \\·orld. John Hamilton Fo1·s\·th died befo1·e the building ,nets completed. ThomAs )\lexand<:'l', pn'siclent of the Doston Delting· Companr, lin·s at th,: Hntl'I Tournine. Boston. CHAPTER V OTHER FORSYTHS IX SCOTLAXD AXD AMERICA Robe1·t Fo1·syth of Dumbarton, Scotland, is the secTetary general and founde1· of the Forsyth Association in the parent home, Scotland. His grandfather liYed to a great age in Stir ling. James :.\Iuelle1· Fo1·syth, D. L., is the p1·esident general of the Association. His estate of fifteen thousand acres with mcrno1· is at Glengorm, Argylshi1·e, Scotland. The chief of Forsyth clan is F1·ederic G1·ego1·y Forsyth, Vicomte de Fron sac, of Canada. The Association has in view the formation Robert Forsyth A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:.IILY of the Forsyth familr. members of which a1·e in different countries of the wol'!d, into divisions, each to become mem bers of the parent bod:: in Scotland. Alreadr divisions a1·e forming in Canada, South Africa and Australia. Any For syth a descendant of the blood is invited to become a member. An effort is being made by the officers of the Association A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA1fILY to identify the site of Dykes Castle, the foundation of which stood from 1628, when it was destroyed, to 1828, when the foundation stones were wholly removed. While on a vacation Robert Forsyth, the secretary, wrote to a member in London, asking some information, and by 1·eturn post received the following lines along with the infor mation asked for: "I ,vill suggest the following for your tombstone:" Here lies one who worked with zest, Nor knew the value of a rest; E'en when on holiday, Forsyth association was his play; Now he is dead he still would trace Forsyths in top and bottom place; :\'one will he find where Pluto rules, Forsyths are poor, but none are fools. The shrub Forsythia, ,vith small, yellow flowers which appear before the leaves in the spring, was named in honor of \Yilliam Forsyth, a distinguished Scotch gardner. Tiobel't Forsyth of Glasgow, Scotland, is a large dry goods merchant, having stores in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. He is also a manufacture1·, most of the goods sold in his stores coming from his own manufacturing plant. E. T. Forsyth, \\·ho has several times visited him in his store in Glasgow, speaks of him as a man of sterling character and pleasing pe1·sonality, having had a number of pleasant interviews with him there. ::\Iany of the characteristics common to the family are shown in his cOl'dial greeting to his American relatives when visiting his store. He has four sons who are interested with him in his business. James Forsyth, who came to Virginia about 1680, was probably the first Forsyth to come to the United States. He ,ms among the grantees of land in Amelia County, Virginia, in 1688. Among his children was James, whose son Matthew was the father of Robert ( 1754-1794), of Fredericksburgh, Virginia. Robert was captain in Lee's Light Horse in the war of 1776, major in 1777. He was the first United States ~farshal of Georgia in 1786, and was killed in performance of duty. He was buried with funeral honors by the order of Cincinnatus, of which he was a member. A monument was erected to his memory at Augusta, Georgia. Congress voted a sum of money for the education of his children. He mar- -t-53129 50 A IiIC:TORY OF THE Forr:-TfH FA:\IILY 1·ied :.\Irs. Fann~- Jolrnson Houston. a \\·idO\\' and aunt of Gen end Joseph E. Johnston. Robert's son ..John Fors,\·th (] 1,"()-]K l]), m,1s bo1·n in F1·edericksbm·gh, and died in \\'ashington. Ifc, \\·as gradu ated from Princeton in 17'.i'.I. lh· \\"cl,-; the ffrst ,,ttonw~- general of Geo1·gia in L..(/).~. ,rnd \\·as elected to the l'nited States Congress in lxll. se1Ting until 1818. supporting tlw :.\Iadi~on administration. He \\·as again elected to C'ongTess in 18~:3 and sen·ecl four ~-cars. \1·}w11 he became gon'rnn1· of Georgia. In lK:l-l- he \\·as ,ippninted sccn·ta1·~- of state under Jackson, when· he 1·emaineci until the !'ctin·nwnt of Yan Buren in 18--l-l. He supported .Jackson against Clar. Calhoun and \\'ebste1·. He int1·oducecl the c-ultu1·e of nankeen cotton into ~-\meric,1. Georgi,1 erected a monunwnt to his nwmo1·~- in the Con gressional burring-grnuncl at \\',,shington. He \1·as a handsome man \\·ith a fine speaking n>ice. It \\·as said of him that he 11·as ,1 little too fond of fashional1l_e life to achiew the greatness for 11·hich he w,i;; capable. He maniecl a claug;hter of Josiah :.\Ieigs, first president of the l'ni,·ersit~· of Georgia. His chilcl1·c11 \\·ere as follo,,·s: I. .Julia, 180:3, \\·ho mal'l'ied Alfred hc1·son, judge of the Supreme C'om·t of Georgia. 1'nitecl States senator and ge11- en1l in the Confeclenltc arm~·. II. :.\Iary manied ".\1·thm· Shaaff of Geo1·getown, D. C. III. Clara, 1810, maniecl Captain :.\Iuny :.\Iason, a com modore in the Confederate rnw~-. He \\·as a son of Genernl John ::\Iason, of Vi1·ginia, whose sistc1· ,,·as :.\Irs. Sidney Smith Lee, mother of Honorable Fitzhugh Lee, \Yho \Yas a 11ephe11· of Gene1·al Tiobert E. Lee, comrnande1·-in-chicf of the Soutlwrn Confederacy. IV. John, 181:2-1878, born in Augusta, Georgia. was edu cated abroad and at P1·inceton, whe1·e he graduated in 18:3:2. He was Cnited States minister to ::\Iexico in 1856, and in 1860 was elected mayor of :'.\Iobile. In 1861 he was sent as peace commissioner with others from the South to Washington, and during the wa1· sen·ed on Bragg's staff. He ,,·as autho1· of the "Prnclamation of the South to the people of Kentucky." His most efficient service to the South, hmvever, was in his bright hopeful \Hitings during the war and in the days of reconstruction. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 51 He \\-as a polished writer and he wrnte fluently. A biog- 1·aphe1· says: "He was a vigorous pa!'tisan, but never an unfair opponent. Courtb· and high toned in public, as in pri\·ate life, he nen1· stooped to little things. He opposed secession, but he \\-annly supported his state and the South afte1· the decision to secede was reached. He was in all things a man of the people and their trne rep1·esentatiw and natural leader. He \qls the leader of Southern thought during his i·n·ntful life, and is justly 1·egardecl as the most brilliant .i ounrnlist the South h:,s produced." His son, Charles Fo1·syth, was a colonel in the Third Ala bama regiment. He was distinguished at the battles of Eull n.un, Shiloh, Se\-en Pines and about Petersbm·gh. n.obe1t Forsyth, the youngest child of John of 1780, was colonel of artillery and c:ommande1· of the Confederate forti fications in :.\Iobile R,.L ffilliam Forsyth. brnthe1· of the abo\·e Robert, settled in Geo1·gia. He is ancEstor of Cornelius Forsyth of Rome, CcOl'gia, at one time solicitor general ot GeOl'gia. Another brothe1· \ms :.\Iatthe\Y, \,-ho settled in Kentucb-, and was an an('cstor of .Joseph Fors~-th, who was called the bnt\·e,;;t nrnn in Kentuck:-·. He was marshal of a town in Texa.;;, and \d1en alone and unaided defended the town against ,m attack of ('O\\-boys. He deported them, and was wounded sen•n times, but killed thirteen of the attacking party. He died in Kentuck~- in l:H:S. Gilbe1·t and Jason Forsyth came to Lynn, Connecticut, in 1750. A branch of this family settled in Albany. William Fo1·syth C'ame to Philadelphia about 17;:,0. He may have been an anc·estor of the Fors~-ths of Pc>1·1·y County, Ohio. Another \\'illiarn Fors~-th came to South Carolina in 1780. He was a landed proprietor. His descendants went to Xorth Cal'Olina. ) .. rnong them was Colonel Benjamin Forsyth, a celebrated partisan officer on the northern frontier. FORSYTHS OF DETROIT \\'illiam Forsyth, a British oftice1·, came to Quebec, Canada, in 1760. He was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, and was a rnernbe1· of the first lodge of ::.\Iasons fmmed by the British · officers of Quebec. His family have the gold medal made to cornmemm·ate the captm·e of Quebec with the name of William A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY Forsyth on it. He resided aftennlrd fo1· a time in X ew York City, but eventually settled in Detroit, then a part of Canada. He had considerable silYe1· plate, some pieces of \\·hich are ~-et in his family. He married a }Irs. Kenzie. Thei1· children were as follows : I. \Villiam, whose son ,ms :.Iaj01'-General James \V. For syth, C S. A. II. James, whose son was Lieutenant-Colonel Le,,·is Can Forsyth, C S. A., who was born in Detroit. III. John, who went to }Iontreal about 1780. He was one of the founders of the Korth\\·est Fur Company. Eithe1· he or his brother was father of Major-General George A. For syth, l:. S. A., who was born in 1771. IV. Thomas was Indian agent and justice in the teni tory of Illinois in 179:3, and dming the war of 1812 against Canada and Great Britain. His sympathies \\·ei-e ,,·ith his royalist brothers in arms. Late1· he \Yas colonel com manding the distl'ict near Chicago, and it was her~ that. he. and his half-brother, Kenzie, sa,·ecl the population fr~m the planned massaCl'e by the Indian chief, Black Partridge. He and his half-brothc1· Kenzie also established the lwginning 1 of Chicago. He manied :.Iiss }Iaillot of HagerstO\rn. :.Lt1·.: land, and settled in Peoria, Illinois, in 1806, but late1· mo\·ecl to St. Louis, ::\Iissouri, where he died in 1832. \Vhen he ,Yent to St. Louis in 1816 he acquired eight hun dred acres of land, now a part of F01·est Park. This prope1-ty descended to Robert Forsyth and then to \\"illiam Fo1·s~·th, the father of Docto1· Robert C. Forsyth, a physician of Ki1·k wood, :\Jo., who died in Februa1·y, 1920. Doctor Fol"Syth was educated at St. Louis l'niversity and at Johns Hopkins l"ni versity. He was a tireless and conscientious physician, always ready to respond to a call whether the patient was rich or poor, and it is said that he ne,·er refused to lend his professional aid to any one for the reason that payment was c'.oubtful. His attention to his patients during the influenza epidemic ,,:as the cause of his death. FORSYTHS OF ONTARIO A royalist family that played a very prominent part in the early history of that section, was the Forsyths, who were a::1011g those who stood for unity of empi1·e in North America A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY befol'e the treaty of 1783, and ·whose names were put on the honor list by Ol'de1· of the council, with the idea that their poste1·ity might be distinguished from other settlers. These Fo1·syths were James Forsyth, );"iagal'a stamp book govern ment pro\·ision list, Kingston, 1786. He had a crown patent for lands including Diamond Hill at Xiagara in 1798. George Fo1·syth from Schenectady Province, X ew York, James For syth, non-commissioned office1· King's Royal Range1·s of Xew York. provision list, Kingston, 1786; also \Villiam Forsyth of the 60th Regiment, and his sons, .James, Thomas and Robert. James and Thomas are mentioned as Lieutenants, James in :2nd Regiment in 18:38, and Thomas in the 32nd. From S0111e G1·01·e/; i,1 L1111dy's Lcwe, by Ernest Green of the Xiagara Histo1·ical Society, \\·e learn that the "Forsyth house \\·as wry historic. It was General Drummond's head qmuters afte1· the battle of Lundy's Lane, and that of Si1· Allan :'\apie1· ;.lc:'\ab during the Xavy Island campaign of 18:}8. It \\·as also that, of the 1·egula1· troop for some ye;;us. The Earl of Elgin made it Canada's gowrnment house and held court and council there. It \Yas thel'e the 1·eciprncity t n'at~· \\·,is planned. and Jenny Lind sang." Fi1·e destroyed Forsnh house: ''On the tombstones in the bul'ying grnund are \Yilfonn Forsyth 1801-18G9, and Rebecca his wife; also .Jane FoL,)·th claughte1· of William and Jane Forsyth. These ,tl'e the fe\\- 1·emaining memol'ials of a Royalist pioneer family that plci)·ed a very prominent part in the early history of this section."- ( Gree 11.) FOilSYTHS OF CARLISLE, EXGLAXD .-\ndre\\. Fors~·th, 1789-lb:i:}, was born in the no1·th of Scotland, and came into the Cal'lisle district when a young man. He was a d:;er by tn,cle, employed by Peter Dixon & Sons. He married Sarnh Irwin. His son, John Irwin For syth (1816), was apprenticed to the dyeing trade at Peter Dixon's. In 1832 he came to the Xew England states, whe1·e he learned the manufacturing of woolen goods, then returned to England, where, in 18-11, he married Sarah Freeland Bar ker. He and his wife we1·e confnmed members of the Church of Latte1· Day Saints, against the wishes of his father and family. In 18-!5 they left England for America, crossing the 51 ~-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F,\'.\IIL Y sea in a sailing ,·essel. One night a great storm arnse "·ith thunder and lightning. The min poured in toncnts, the ,,·ind blo,,·ing until the ,,·aHs of the sea \\·aslwcl OYer the ship and clashed do,Yn the hatclw:a.,· to the cabins lwlcrn·. The pas sengers beu1me frightened and rnshccl to the upper deck. The captain orde1·ecl them belo,\· and liad the hatches c-losccl to keep the ,,·ater from flooding the steerage. .-H this the pas sengers, many of ,,·horn ,n°rc Irish cmig1·,rnt.-;, lwc-ame frantic-, th1·0,,·ing themse!Yes upon the floor of the steenlge, calling loudly upon the Yi1·gin :.\Iary and all the saints to sa,·e them . .John Forsyth, \Yho WHs at all times brn\'e and fearless, said to, his wife, "Our prayers have gone before to Him who rnles and controls our destiny. He is watching O\'er us. If it is our lot at this time let us go together," and taking his little daughter Jane in his arms while his wife clasped he1· babe to her breast, they sat on the edge of their bed holding fast to each other v;hile the old ship was strnggling with the waves A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA::\IILY of the sea rnlling mountain high. Suddenly some of the pas sengel's 1·ealized that John Forsyth was not on his knees with them. They became ang1·y and tried to pull him down with them. He ans\\·ered: "\Ye are in the hands of the Lord. \\'hat is the use of canying on as you a1·e doing'? If the ship is going clo,,·n what can we do with the hatches nailed down'? \\'e can only trnst Him. I believe we will be saved this night, and ou1· prayers \\·ill be answe1·ed." Afte1· a night of terrnr the morning came and the ship hacl outl'idclen the stonn. They 1·eachecl Philadelphia at night, lrnt could not hmd until the next day. John Fol'Syth's wife ,;aid to him: "Oh, John, I cannot stay another night on this ,;hip. Please ask the captain to let us go ,vith him to the city." She had ove1·heard his orders to one of the sailors to lowe1· one of the boats as he was going ashore. Strange as this may seem her request was granted. The captain's reply \\·as: "Go to your cabin, and when all is quiet come on deck." A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTII F.UI!LY \\'hen all the passenge1·s ,n,1·e supposed to be asleep she went with he!' babe and a little basket on he1· arm and 1·etm·ned to the deck, and in the stillness of the night she ,,·as lo\\·e1·ed o\·e1· the side of the ship into the little boat. Then the chil dren were handed down and word was gi,·en the sailors to pull fo1· the shore, and in this wa.,· the~· landed on the shore of Amel'ica at twelw o'clock at night. In 185:3 .John Forsyth \\·ith his family moYed to ::\fanayunk. Pcnnsyh·,rnia, \\·hen' he became manag('l' of the .James Hilton ,1·oolen facto1·y. He set up and ope1·ated the lciqrest 1,·oolc•11 machinery in the Cnited States at that time. The spinning machine was a double header and at the time the only one in ope!'ation in the count1-y. He 1·emained then• until the fail of 18'37 ,,·hen all the inclust1·ies \\·ere closed d0\n1 and thou sands of men \\·ere thrown out of emplo.nnent. This ,1·,i,; the yea1· of the great panic when soup houses were opened all on·1· the countn·. In September he recei,·ecl a lette1· from Carlisle. England. enclosing a copy of his fathe!''s ,1·ill, and l'l'questinµ; him t,1. return to Enghmd as he had been appointe Jane F'or:-yth Snyder then sent fifty miles to Salt Lake City to have the soles put on. Sugar and coffee ·were each one dolla1· per pound; tea n,·e dollars, and other groceries in proportion. All these things had to be hauled acrnss the plains with oxen. At this time they ,,·ould often have from six to ten Indians come in and sit down on the floor while asking for everything in sight. The better judgment of the people was to feed them on these occasions and not fight them. .')8 .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:.IILY ::\frs. Sn)·der liws in the home in Prom where she has li\·ecl for neal'ly sixty years. She has been a prominent woman in the religious and political life of Prnrn. During the last six ;;ears she has spent much time in genealogical resea1·ch for the Fors~·th and other families. She s,1ys it has gin,n her much pleasure to !i,·e to lwc"u· of the Ol'ganization of the For srth .-\.ssociation in Scotland. of \\·hich she is a 111c•mbe1·. This is the onlr family of Foro;~·ths the ,nite1· has found among the ::\Iormons. ::\Irs. Snyde1·'s children and gnrndchil dren han• been brnught up in this church and educated in ib schools. One of her sons w:=is killed while enginee1·ing the rnnning of a tunnel in 191,'"5. The lines belo,,·, \\·hich he called hi:-; motto, we1·e found in his pocket afte1· his death: "I ,,·ill take tinw to lo,·e my friends to-da~·- .-1.11)· fl0\n'1·s I lrnn• to ;.rin° I \\·ill giYe to-clay; flowers laid upon a casket bl'ing no fragrnnce to the dead. If I h,1\'e anr suffe1·ing friend I will ,·i;;it him to-cla.,·, lest de,1th lay it:-; quiet hand upon hi.~ lw,tl't and still foreYer its po,nT r,1' glad n•spon:-;e. I ,,·ill JJ,l"" thrnugh this world but once, ,rncl ,rn~· goocl I can clr,· (Jl: :111\ ki11d1wss I can sho\\· I will do no._,._" FOnSYTHS OF PEiat y COl ·:-:TY, OJI IO \\.illiam Forsrth came to the l'nited States from Count~· Dn\\·n. Ii·eland. He had six IJl'othel's and /)ne siste1·, ,,·ho (',lllll' l!J thi,-; country 11·ith him. The bl'others separntecl aft('l' com ing hne, and lost all tn1ce of one anothe!'. \\'illiam li,·ecl a p,ut of his life in Penns~·h·,rnia, nl: was in the front-line trenches at Verdun and acrnss Xo }Ian's Land in sewral other sections of the front. The othe1· son is C. .J. Fo1·syth, ticket and passenge1· agent of the K. C. L. R,v. located in :\Iena, Arkansas. He is a man of pleasing person alit~·. and is Yery much interested in the history of the family to \\·hich he lx,longs. He has neYcr married and says this trait belongs to the Forsyths, as fotn- of his uncles we1·e bachelors. FORSYTHS OF HO'CSTOX, :\IIXNESOTA Clll'istine F01·syth liwcl in Guldbrandsdalen Vestre Gaus dakl, Xonrny. The imp1·ession of the family of his descend ants is that in an early clay his ancestors went into Norway from Scotland 01· possibly went to England first and then to GO A. HI.STORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:IIIL Y Xorway. Hans Forsyth, a son of Cl11'istine. ,,·as born and reared in ~ orway. \1· here he se1Tecl for sen•n years certain months in each ~·ear. as c;wali·~· soldier, coYering Finland. Sweden and into Russia. While still a soldier in training, he married Eli Olsen S,·ensrudstuen. In 186/'i he came to ,.\.mer ica with his wife and six child1·en. Fom· othu c-hildn.0 11 ,1·ere bo1·11 in this country. Their children are Xols, Ole, John, C . .J. For,3.yth Herman H. and Anthon Forsyth, sons. The daughters are l\Iattie Forsyth ::.\feyer, Canie Forsyth Robinson, Lena For syth Ousgai·d and Emma Forsyth. Herman H. Forsyth \Hnt to Alaska about twenty years ago. He made Dawson his headquarters and became inde pendent. He remained there fourteen years. He now lives at Cluny, Alberta, Canada. Emma Fornyth is a nurse in l\Iinneapolis, l\Iinnesota. .-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 61 Hans Forsyth had three brothers and a sister in this coun tr~·. Two of them, Christian and Peter, and the sister, Chris tine Forsyth \Yetterhail, lived in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The younger brother, Andrew, was in the Civil War. He lived at Grnfton, Xorth Dakota. All left families. Other Forsyths in :\Iinneapolis are C. W. Forsyth, 2425 Taylor Street, X. E.; B. F. Forsyth, 520 Metropolitan Life Building; .J. :\I. Forsyth, 2611 Taylor Street, N. E.; Elmer L. Forsyth, 2629 Quincy Street, X. E.; Forsyth and Smith, 2511 Central A\·enue. FORSYTHS OF HARRODSBURG, KENTUCKY About the year 1789 two brothers, Matthew and John For syth, came to Kentucky from North Carolina with General Ilobert Adair, afterward governor of Kentucky. The brothers had served in the Revolutionary War. ::VIatthew bought a fa1·m fom· miles south of Harrodsburg, and married Jane :\IcAfee, a sister to General Robert :VIcAfee, afterward lieu tenant-gonrnor of Kentucky, and resided on his farm until his death. His children \Vere: I. Robe1t, married :Miss Cardwell, a niece of Colonel An thony Crockett of Rernlutionary fame. II. Andrew, married l\Iiss l\IcAfee, a daughter of James :\fcAfee, one of the :\IcAfee brothers who made the first ex pedition to central Kentucky. III. James, married :Miss Irvine, and Miss Buckhannan. :\Iatthew had one daughter, :Mrs. Buford, who went to :\f issouri. Hobert Forsyth had three sons and five daughters. Andrew had five sons, and James one son and two daugh te1·s. John Forsyth taught school in 1790 in a schoolhouse near his brother's farm, and was said by General McAfee, who attended his school, to be well qualified. Robert Forsyth served throughout the War of 1912 under William Henry Harrison. He was at the battle of Platts burgh, serving in the 1·egiment of Colonel Richard M. Johnson. The Forsyths who are living near Harrodsburg are de scendants of these families. 6:2 A HIC-:TORY Of TIIE FOR;-;YTH F,UIILY \\'ILLIA:.\I GRAXT FORSYTH, IXDL-\SAPOLIS, IXDIAXA .John Forsyth (179:2-11:\!18) a linen merchant, manied in Belfast, Ireland, Sarah .--\lexandcr (1790-1870). They ,,·ere manied in July, 1817, and in 1818 came to .--\merica. .John Alexander Forsyth, J1·., ma1Tied Canie Chapman. Their son. John Chapman Forsyth (11'6:2-19():1), married Lillian Har land \\'inde1·. One son, William Grant Fo1·syth (18G--1) mai· ried Sarah Hanis in 1895. Thei1· children t:11'e Helen, 18~18: :.\Ia1·jorie, 190!; and William Hanis, HJO~J. Helen Forsyth rnanied in 1917 Clai·ence D. \'oltz. One child. Yirginia D01·oth~· Voltz. ,n,s born in 1918 . .John Chapman Forsyth rnal'J'icd second, Elizabeth ...... One son, Paul Forsnh. ,,·as born in 1 D0:3. FORSYTHS OF CLIXTOX COCXTY, IXDL--\XA It is ,·ery probable that \\'illiarn Fors~·th, \\·ho 1\·ent to Clinton County, Indiana, from Kentuckr, \ms desc(,ndcd ho1i1 the brother of DaYid I., whom Da,·id left in Virginia. Will iam pm·chased one hundl'ed acres of land in Clinton Count.,·. He was a Baptist minister and had chiidren as follows: .Jacob Lewellen, Xeirniah, .Joseph. \\'iiliam. Xancy, Sarah. Susan. Jacob L. manied Susan BO\H'n and had children: .--\lonzo, Thomas I., Louis H., Otto, :.\Iinnil>, }Iaggie. Xeirniah Forsyth manied Elizabeth Bowman and had child1·en: Ella, Sydney L., William, Geo1·ge, Eclwa!'d. Jacob Lewellen Fol'Syth was a solclie1· of the Ci,·i! \\'ar fo1· tlwee yeal's. He ,n1.s in Ande1·som·ille prison for one year. He was a membe1· of Company n. 17th negiment, C S. A. \'oluntee1·s, and was in some of the most famous battles of the wal',-the battle of Ho0Ye1·'s Gap. Kennesaw :.\Iountain, Missionary Ridge, Green Briar, Lookout ::\fountain, Shiloh and Chickamauga. He was a member of the famous \Vilder Brigade. Alonzo Forsyth had children: Iwilda, Floyde, Alba. Thomas Isaac Forsyth mal'l'ied Rosa Fallen and had one son, Clarence C., who sen-ed in the wa1· with Germany. He m:ts in the 375th Aern Squadron, -c. S. A., in England and France foul'teen months. Louis Forsyth has children: ::\Iyrtle, Harry, James. ., A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY 6D Otto Forsyth has children : Iloy, Laurn. Roy sen·ed two ~-ea1·s in the l'. S. Xa\T. Geo1·gc' F01·s~·th is decc·asecl. His son John Fol'Syth sen·ed in some of the most bloody battles of the late wal'. \\'illiam, ~nd, rnanied and has one son Xonnan. In Omaha, Texas. lives Im P. Forsyth. His g1·eat grand father \\·as :Carnett Forsyth, who reared fin! children, th1·ee sons, John, Barnett and James, and t\rn daughters, Gilley ancl Ann. James, who was the gra11dfathe1· of Im, married in Xorth Carnlina, and had eight children. They were Benja min, Sa!'ah, Chal'ley P., :\Iai·~-. Da\·id, Lilly, :\Iartha and James. Chc1l'ley P. Fo1·syth, the father of fra, manied Lucy Lo\·ing-, in Titus County, Texas. They had nine children, )1.delaide, Haniett, Lan, Alice, Odessa, Ira P., Jed :\1. and Charles :-I. The al)ow family settled in Xorth Carnlina in an eal'ly clay. .fames P. Fo1·s.\·th 1110\·ed to Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 181D, \Yhere he died about 1810. His children emigrated to Texas in 18 J.3, excepting Benjamin, \\·ho went to California. IJan1ett For.-;~·th. or his father, prnbably was one of the sons of \\'illiam of \'irginia, brnthe1· of Da\·icl, who came to Ken tuck~-. Cc·1w1·al Burstall. a nrnjo1·-general of the Second Division of Canadian troops that ,Ye1·e at the front in France, is a nephe\\. of Colonel Joseph :Cell Fors~·th of Quebec, his mothe1· being c1 siste1· of the colonel's. The1·e was no more distin guished c·omrnancle1· from Canada than he. Part Two CHAPTER I DA "\'ID AXD ::\IARGARET ::\IcGIBBOX FORSYTH The 1·calm of fiction hardly pl'esents a more romantic tale than the tnu' stor~· of the lo,·e, elopement and trngic journey of Da\·ic[ Forsyth and }f;uga1·et }IcGibbon from Belfast, Ire land. to ;(e\\· Yol'l-;: in the eighteenth century. It invoh·es Ion' at ffrst sight; flight from a preananged maniage fo1· tlw little tourt(•cn-yea1·-old }fargaret, and the terro1·s of a jom·ne~· by sea, their frail vessel beset by tenific storms with out, ,,·hile famine and pestilence niged \\·ithin. About 16:.20 the Forsyth family began their migrntion f,om Scotland to Ii-eland,' some of them d1·iwn from their homes IJy the i·cli 1;,;ious· intole1·ance of the times. They \\'C'l'e Prntestants, g·ood old Con•nantcrs, and prefened exile to con fnrn1it,· to the 1·cligious dictates of a Catholic king. One gc1wrntion after another was forcl'cl to die or flee to other L111ds. The time ,d1en Dand Fo1·syth's fol'ebears remoYed to l'lster. Ireland, is not kn0\\'11, 1101· is the exact date of the birth of Da,·id. It is thought to haw been between the years 17:1.') and '10 that hr~ was born near the bo1·der-line. In Catho ilc lrelancl again these Fol's~·ths found their religious beliefs a detriment. D,wid ,Yas a P1·esbyte1·i,rn of the old school, founded by Enox. On account of his strong Presbytel'ian c01wictions he could not prnspc1· among the Catholics, so he and his . two brnthers decided to emigrate. :\Iatthew went to France, but Dcc\·id ancl William sailed for America, the only country with out a state church; the country where so many had sought and found religious freedom and prosperity. The year of thei1· ai'l'i\'al in America is thought to have been 1770. It could not have been the year previous, as David wrote in his diai·y of being at his fa1w in Killiscolvan, Ireland, in 1769. D:wid remained in America for two years and then returned to Ii-eland with a well-matured plan for bringing a working ,·, There arP in Hill.-.,bnrou:;.,_:h church, County DmYn. lrl'lan ahnl~·s treat he1· as a ''lady,'' and pictured in glmving terms his p1·ospects and thei1· futm·e together in the new ,,·oriel. She kne,\· it 1\·ouicl be impossible to obtain her pa1·ents' consent to nrn1T_,. the ach·enturnus Da,·icl, a man \\·ith ,vhom they \\·ere unacquainted and \,·ho m1s on the eYe of sailing fo1· far-away Anw1·ica. so they decided to elope. She was not daunted when the~· found that the)· could not be manied in Ireland until she 1\·as of legal age 1\·ithout he1· parents' consent. She made a conficLrnt of her maid, and she, like Juliet's mn·se, sym pathi /,c'd \\'ith the romantic ~-oung couple and agTeecl to aid tlwm h~- going along· as companion to ::.\Iargaret. It was an u1H,s~i,1l situation fo1· a young gil'l to place herself in, but ..\f:0 1·1,t:nr·t's implicit faith in the man she 10\·ecl, and her deter mination to \\·in fol' herself lw1· he,wt's happiness, swept like a great \\·a,·(• all thought of co1l\"ention. She succeeded in 1.,,·ading· lw1· pal'cnts. and \Yas on the boat read~- for clepaiture ,H n,,J Li,;t ,,·hen ht•1· L1tlw1· and mothu·, h,wing disco,·e1·ed her pl,11H, ap1w,u·ed. on the scene. Ee1· fathe1· begged hei· to J'Ptu i·n. "l ,._ i 11 11:,\ ke :,ou m_,. flr~;t lwi l' and ~-ou shall haw ~-ou1· n!c\c,;t bJ"nth1·1"·s nortion oi' mr p1·opcrt~·." \\·as the mag nificl ill i11duc-en1,•Jlt lw ()j]',_,1·c·cl iul' he1· return. But he1· de ' i.-.i,111 \\':"- made•. Lrn-c•. 1·011H:1ce :1nd cich·entun) meant vastly nm,\· to l1t•1· IJ1·,\\"e \·m,nµ: ,;cul tl1an all the 1\·orlclly pos.sessions tlwt nrnlcl lw o1l'Ned. So thrT saiJc,cl away ~mcl the last she sa '-'. of lwl' father ancl mothe1· they we1·e standing by the 1\·atel'·,; edge, \\·ecping: and 1\·a,·i11g their hancls in fan:,,·ell. "-\s the~· left the hal'bo1· she hC'anl acl'Oss the \nlte1· he1· fathe1·'s \·oice. ":.faggie, come back, ('Orne back." 111 tile n-ssel Da,·icl had cha1tered he had fitted up a rnom \1·ith ail the comtorts possible for ::.\Iargaret and her maid. In this mom one can imagine that the two must have known man~- hom·s of teno1· during the fearful weeks ,vhich fol lowed. But at the start all was pleastll'e, hope, excitement and l'O:nance. They were sca1·cely out of sight of land when thei1· frail sailing ,·essel encountered a fearful wind, which made the sea wild. The vessel jerked at every blow of the billows as if every plank would be wrenched apart. Added to the clangers of their situation they suffered from the worst fOl'm of seasickness. The storms were almost continuous and clrnve the \·essel fa1· from its course. To keep his colony of ignorant serfs ralm and hopeful required all David's powers, and that he hole! an outw,inl cornposun lw could lrnnll:-· han· felt. As the \\·eek:-; ll'np:tlwned. the· ho1Tor:-; allcl uncL•J'Llilltil'" of the ,·o.n1gc \H.T,' incTe,c,;c•cl a thuu:-;,rnd-fnld lJ:-· ,t tl'l'J'iblc' pla1rue which brnk,, nut--p<'l'h,lp:-; cliol(•J'cl or .n•llu,,· fc·,·<'1'. ::\Ian)· of the p,b,'l'llge1·:-; gT<•,1· ,·irikml_, ill ,UH! l',tl'll da_, ..'-'ct11· ,rn inneasing numbel' of cl<•,lth:-; ,rnd lrnri,d,-; ,tt :-;<',l. Fl,,,. \l"l'l'l' ,ibll' to ,,·ithstancl the 1•,1\·aiT<'" ut th<' cli:-;ea,,e a:-; tlw_,. \\Tl'(' ah·ead~- \\·eakenccl l,~- tlw pn.0 ,·ious illnc:-;:-;r:-;, ancl tmn1rcl the last by actual stai·\·at10n. The :-;hip Jud been p1·oyi:-;ionl'cl for a nine ,,.-eeks' ,·o>·age c1nd no 11101·e. ln the <·nti1·,, lii;;tu1"_1· rJf Da,·id Fo1·s:-·th, full of daring aclH'ntun· a:c; hi:-; life ,1,1:-;, tlll•J''-' is nothing of greatt>1· intei'e:-;t than lhi,-; ,·o:-·age. Fe·,,· nwn al'e called upon to endure .such a tc':-;t of mnral and ph,1·:-;ic,il cou1age. \Ylrnt must h,ll"•' beL'll D,11·id\, thoughts ,,·lwn h<' sa,,· all hopes of the ac-hic>n·111l'J1t uf hi ...; hig·h pla11:-; ,.;lipping a1,·ay '. \Yhat blac-k hou1·s lw must h2n-(• :-;ilentl~- :-;ufl l'n·d \1·hv11 he Luriccl clail~- ,111 inc-1·,•a;.;inµ numlJL'i of hi:-; cH•,1· and .'-',l\\. the food supply quick/~· di\ indlrng a,,·,1i· a,-; the• ,, \\·atcrs, anci th,2 prntection and salYation of the one dearest in the \\·oriel to hirn-}Ia1·g:m·et. \d10 had left fathe1· and mother. home and prntection fol' Joye of him. ).s the~· \Yel'e entering Xe"· York harbor the maid, Bets)·, clil•cl. She had the ho1To1· of a bm·ird at sea, and bcfo1·e her clc,lth had implored DaYid to take her body to land for inte1· rnent. This he did, though he \\·as compelled to pay quite a ,.;elm for the p1·i\·ile12:e, \Yhich fm·ther exhausted his fund of money. }[a1·garet \\·as still ill \\·hen they landed. He took hc,r to an inn and placed he1· under the c;;ue of a good physi cian. It \,·as sen~n1l \H,eks bdol'e she 1·ecO\'eI"ed. It is not knm\·n hO\\' 111an~· \\·omen began this disastrous joun1ey on Da\ id'::; boat, but we clo knm1· that }Iarga1·et was the only ,.we \\·ho smTi\·ecl. D,wid Forsyth's landing in Xe\\' Yol'l~ \•:as \·a,,tl~· clifferc·nt from \\·hat he had planned. The men in \\ honi he had innc,tccl money we1·2 neal'ly all cleacl, and could not J'l']Ja_\. him. tlw1·efore the factory prospect had to be gin°n up. The ex1wnscs of bm·ying the maid and :\Ia1·garet's illness :, ;ul:, Pxlwustccl his :c;to1·l' of 1·cady mo1H.0 y. He did not \YaYe1·, cksp;1i1· or (•n·n ;-;1wncl ;1 n1onwnt i11 1·eg1·ct. He and }Ia1·garet 11 ,,1·e :di1·,'. for \\ hiL·h they wen' prnioundly thankful. His tJ,•:-,t thouµ:ht 1\·as \\·hat \\·a,-, bc.~t to be done fo1· he1· \\'hen she 1, ,\s \,·ell again. \Yith trnc Scotch foresight he decided in hi,; i·cclucecl cin·umstances to take hel' to the country. It is the belief of some of thl'i1· descendants that Dcfficl and .\fal'gal'ct \\·en, maiTi('cl :c,t the inn in Xew York bdo1·e :-:he \',as al)le to lea\·e th("l'E, but the consensus of opinion is that the~· \Ye1·e r,ot rnal'l'iecl fo1· rnrne time, prnbably t1\·o yem·s. It is po:;iti\·ely knmn1, howe\'Cl', that Dm·id took }Ia1·ga1·et t ginia, neai· :\Iartinsbmgh. He1·e he later acqui1·ed land and p1·0,-;pe1·ecl, the re\\·:ucl of honest labor and Scotch tlwift. The nernlutionm•~- \\'ar lwoke out, but Da\·id did not enter the :--en·ice until dminp: its last years. Dy that time there \H'l'C :::cnTal :~mall c·hildren in the home. In onle1· to prn tl·ct :'-fa1·garet and the babies as adequately as possible during hi::: absence he took them back to the home of James Stroud, \·,ith \rhom :\fargai·et had spent the first t,\·o years of her life in Anw1·ica. In the same ~-anl he built a house for his little L,mil)· and 1,,ft them there. In his absence :\Ia1·ga1·et tonk up hi:; \York of spinninp: and \\·em·ing, and labo1·ed clili g'l'ntl.'-· that :;hr• ancl hn chilcl1·en might li,:e. At last the ,nu· ( !n.0 e,l. Tlw men began 1·etun1ing to their homes in the neigh hnrh<,o,!. Fi1:a!ly «ll had come IJack 01· been accounted to1· ,-;:t\ 1 • Dci\·icl. The neighbors IJelieH'cl l,c must ha\·e pc1·ishccl. :.\f: 1 1·u:,u·(•t. alone• .,till hnprd a1 1 d !Jelicw1 d that he would 1·etm·n. :.\fucli nf :\larg,ll'l't'"' spinning \\·,1:, clone late at night afte1· tl• .. , hilc!i·, l' 1.H•,·,, a,-:l,•,·p. One niitht ,,·hil,· sitting at he1· wol'l,;: -.ch•· hc;\nl iwr faithful dog "Tigc." that her husband had pl;·.c ,,d r,n 1· i!z'l' ,_1,-; .'.. nt:..i·clian whc·n lw left. gin, an ugly gTO\Yl. :.\i:'.i:_\· ,m 'il1l0unter h,1.d :.\Iarg,11·et had 'Xith Tories ,1·ho p1·n1,·L·d :tl'ouncl lH0 1· hrrnse at 11ipJ1t. :;o she sat and listened. iHsiuting· to 1.ro to the doo1·. Suddenly the dog's rnanne1· d1,rnr.tccl ,,., thcnq:th plea.-cPcl. ,,ncl she heard, ":\Ia1·garet, open tlw do01·. It is D,n·icl." She tlll'P\\. open the door and he t·,rnw in footsore, 1·a;rirecl. starncl. Far into the night he told the stories or' his lrnnbhips and delays, as she ministel'ecl 1·:ith 10,·in.2: zeal to his comfo1t. The next morning when :\h·. ancl :\frs. Strnud learned of his 1·eturn, they celebrated with a !aqre dinne1· in his honor, i1witing a numbel' of retmned soldiers and c1.ll of the wiclmvs and children of those neigh !Jors who had been killed in the wm·. The1·e is Ii ttle reconl of Davie! and :\Ia1·garet for the decade aftET the close of the Re,·olutiona1·y \Yar. It is known that they became prosperous and comfortable in their Virginia home. By 179-1 nine children had been born to them. Then, CongTe:::s having voted free land in Kentucky to anyone who would suney it and settle the1·e, David decided to move thither. He thought he could thus provide amply for his growmg family's needs. Kentucky from the beginning had ,1 ,-\ r-r1.-.:T<1n1 c1F THE Fr:n:-:1T11 F.u11LY nen°r lwen O\nwc! IJ:,· ,lll Indi,rn tribe. lrnt ,\·,t.s frequented l:i.\· \\',mclering hunting· p;irties \\·ho came from the s,n-age tribes li\·ing n01-th of the Ohio 01· south of till' Tennessee. The whitr, people km•,\· little of Kentuckr. Ll'c'', tlwn t,\·enty yeai·s !Jcfon'. the pionee1·. D,rniel Doonl', hacl fir,;t H•ntu1-ccl into those perilous ,\·ilcls. The Jtn•at b;11Tier of mountains had cletcnwl emignition ,\·est\\',U'd thl'Ough '\'irginia. but Da\·id and ::\I;uga1·et. trained to ;-;u1·mount dilliculties and nm-tm·ecl in acl\·entu1·e, sa\\. lwfon_' them no impossil)le achi,•n•nH'nt. The:, klH'\\. there ,n:,1·e tO,H'ring mountains c-on'1·ecl ,rith dt•nse forests to mount. S\\·ii't and dc·ep rin'1·:-; to cro:ss. In dians to c•ncounter. :rnrl p1·0\,·ling ,\·ilcl aninrnb lor night rn111- p1111ions, but the:,· did not lw;-;itatc. l1csick;-; the ,trnlJition of obtaining riche,c; for the s,d;:e of their children. Ila\·icl ,rnd ::\Lu·g·a1·et mu;-;t haYe been led b<\. the lon· of nclnntul'e ibt'li. One can imagine tlw pleasurable cxci1em0nt incident to thei1· clepanm cliscmli:1r:,ed. It did no~ Llkl' th~'l'.1 lon?: to 1 .,11(;;\J :iii tlwi1· \Hn·lcllr posscs~·.io1,s. : \·ille, h,1s in the many yeus of its existence grown little. It is still a mel'e \·illage. He1·e D,fficl and :\fai·garet 1·emainecl for a time, but aftei some ye,\l's the beaut~· of Floycle's Fork d1·e\\" them back nea1· its banks. Tlw n'conls in the Louis\·ille coul"t-house show that Da\·id bought, A1)l'il :2:3, 180G. tluee hundred fifty-six acres of land. more or less, of \Yillinm Christy; and ninety acres of .John \Yallace, both farms located on Floyde's Fork. ln the e,wh· part of the year 1808. Den-id died, near!~· two ~·e,u-s after he had bought the land. These deeds had not ~·et been rnacJ,,. On p;;,ge 1:1:2 in the deed reconls at Louisville the \Yallan' deed bearing date of :'\owmbe1· :22, 1808, giws to :'\anc~· Daniels, Elizabeth B1·idges, John, Letitia, ::\Ia1·garet. :\Lu·y, ltobert and :\Iaria Fors~·th the ninety acres of land. It is reconlecl also that :\Iargaret took her do\,·e1· rights in this land a,.; the \\·ife of Dm·icl Forsyth, deceased. In ::\Iinute Dook \"II I it is related that "::\Ia1wuet ,ni.s appointed acl- 111ini strnt1·ix of the es.tale of Da\·id Forsyth. This was gnrntc>cl lwl' as hi;; \\·ido\\·, \\·ho the1·eupon took the oath re quired b~· la\1· and g·a\·e bond in the penalt~· of two thousand dollar,.;, "ith .Tame::; and D,fficl Forsnh and Isham B1·idges Sernritic;;." At the ;;ame time James Forsyth \Vas appointed 12:uardi,rn of Itobert and :\Iaria F01·s>·th. In Dook I, page 3:22, .fames deecb for nol)e1t and ::\laria as thei1· guanlian, thei1· inte1·est in this land. An interesting sidelight on the settling of an estate in those cla~·s is ginn in Dook 11, page 3:2:1, in the Jefferson count>· comt-hou:::;e, \\·he.re it 1s recorded that Thomas Stm·geon. Benjamin E1·iclges and Samuel \Vatson \Ye1·e ap_ pointecl b~· the cou1·t in .fanua1·y, I:-;08, to appraise all of the perso11c1I p1·opert>· of D,wicl Forsyth, deceased. The 1·eport \\·as made .fanu,u·y :28, 1808, to the county judge, who says: Thi, day Thoma,: Sturp;eon,• Benjamin Bridµ;e,: and Samuel \Vatson per,:onall~· appeared before me and made oath on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God that they had truly and justly to the best of their jud.,rment \·iewed ancl ,1ppraised all the personal estate of David Fo1· .,yth, clecca,,ecl, to thE:m prnclucecl and clue return made. 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() Bridgl', 11) 1() (I 1 11('\\' fbx 11 hl'l'l 1 (I •· nnt C' on :-::a1nz, fqr 1 old do do 1-i () J()() gallon.;11·1:iskf'1 .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA~IIL Y 79 l q11il!i11~ 1Y!i1•('l -t Ii l "i J()t 1] illL!.' ,,·lw"I ,111rl ·) I'('('! ·) II - I I' !t;t j (', ).i II Br::--:J.\\II'\- Bmo1;r:;;, }. 1·:t!Hll1 1 ...;J i(·k ,1111ffr1·, Ii II ~.\\ll.EL \\'.\Tc'O:'-:, ·) ,, I 1;1,k"1, ,) II Ti!(I\J 1., ~Tl'HCiI:O:--:. •) :.! pair, ,J[,l ,·,1rd, ,) II l l,,i 11! l11J(Jk, -t Ii l ,Jilli 12:Illl -t II l l"•d f11mii1trl' 'I i I) I) 1' .\i ,1 ,·,"1111:· ,·<111ri ]t('ld fo1 .Jl'Jfrr"<.11 ,·01111t.1· ,1t 1lte c•"1.t-ltuu,l' in L,"11,- 1·'11,· 1111 .\l"nd,,.,·. ill(• L':li d,11· \ \' \ H D l-: '\ P ::\"o\·embe1· L 1818, all tlwi1· inten'st in tlw land belonging to their father. In Oc-tobel'. 18:.2-1, Hobe!'t Fol'snh sold to Geol'ge Bridges for five hundred clolla1·s in gold and siln'J' money his land-the original deed delin:recl to D1·iclges. Febniar,\· F>. 18:.2,:5. In book I, I, page :.2~)(), it relates th,1t in Fcbnw1·,\·, 18:j:3, .Jennie Fo1·syth sold to Thomas Cardwell the part allotted to her as her dowe1· in the estate of he1· husband, James Fo1· s.\'th, containing eighty-sewn anes. Also in book L. L. page :.20, is recorded a sale beb\·een John H. Stm·gcon D. D. and Thomas Card\\·ell. Stu1·g-tcon was attorney 01· agent for Thomas, John and James Forsyth, heirs of James F01·s~·th, deceased. In this sale there \,·e1·e eight~·-ninc ac-res, this being all their c-laim 01· rights in the clmH'l' of }Ia1·garct For syth. their grnnclmothe1·. The info1·cncc from this sale is that }Iargaret, during the last years of her lifc-possibl~- \\·hen she went to Indiana-gan_, to her children her dmn·!' !'ight in he1· husband's estate. Thomas Ca1·d\,·cll bought the gTcater pmt of the D,wicl Fo1·s~·th land. }Ia!'g,aret li\·ed on in Kentuck:,·. bra\·t•ly l)rinp:ing. up 1).\: herself the younge1· chilch·en. T\\'O children. ltobe1t and }[,uici, had been born in K,,ntucky. The settling of an estate was not made eas:-· for a wiclo\,· in tho:-;(• cla~·:-;. At the sale of propei-ty she had to bu:-· IJack ('\·er:-·thing· she \,·ishccl to keep, en'n to blankets and li1wn of hc1· m\·n \\·ea\·ing, tlw only exception from the rnle being he!' \,·e,ning ,,pparel. It is thought that :.\[argaret stared on at the familr home as long· as she remained in Kentuekr. He1· son HolwrF con tinued to li\·e with her after his rnaniage until he came to Indiana. Her home was on tlrnt part of the land set aside as her dower. The house stood about one-lrnlf mile from he1· son James' home, her land adjoining his, \\·hich is described by a "stone plastered c-01·11e1·" at the co1·ner of he1· gnrndson's, Thomas Forsyth, land. ::\Iargaret's son, James, died and was btn-ied in Kentucky. Two other sons went south befo1·e Da\·icl's death. Two claugh- It was tol \ 1.-!J 0 nf lw:lllt)-. lI,'r cnmplL'':ion ,,-as 1·c•m,n·kabll • :'Ill's. Darnett, tl1,• motlwr of II. C. nan~ett, nf Frnnklin, ,llso 1·ernembered :'IL,l'g·,u·ct ,-,ell. She :-aid hei· complexion was the rn,u·yeJ of all \\ ho kne,1· he1·~smooth, soft ancl elem· as a girl's. She 1·,•n1ernlw1·ecl seeing hel' at eighty ~-ears 1·iding horseback. :'IIm·g,u·l't's grnnclson. Dm-icl, ,,·ho died in 1915, also spoke of her Ion•!:-· complexion. Ifr said she \\-as a handsome v,oman ,rith deep blue eyes. Her figm·e was small, gntcefnl and deli catclr formed: erect ancl full of energy and activity to the la:-t. Her 1·ich dark n~d luii1· ,nis only slightly gray. In those last :--ears when she \\·as impo1-tuned by the grnndchil clren to tell them a sto1·y, ::\Luga1·et talked more of her early experiences than she eYer had before. He1· father ,vas a physician in Ireland. T,,·o brothers and one siste1· ,vere left behind in Dublin. She had named one of her daughters for her sister, Letitia. DaYid, she said, had left a stepmother and two little half-sisters. Before leasing Ireland he had gone to see them. They ,\·ere living in property belonging to him. One of the little g-ii-ls climbed on his knee and said confidently, "::\Iothe1· told me you ha\·e come back to turn us _--\ HI;;TORY UF TIIE Fun;;YTII F.-L\IILY out of a hom1.:'." lfo a:esL11·ed them th;,t tlH·:, could sL1.>· until they "·ere grown. Doth )faqrnrl't and Da\·id had fullr ex pected to return to Ireland some clay. She told Ye1·r \·i\·idl.\· the sto1·ies of her rnrnantic life: the <'lupement. the hari·o,, ing ,·oyage, the experiL'nces clurinp: the 1~e,·olutionar.,· \\·,u. ,rnd the exciting ti·ip ,,·L'st,nuc! to Kentuck:-·. Da\ id \,·as ,,hra:- s a hero to he1· and she lon•cl to talk of his honor and lu_,·,tlt.,·. She said that the failure of Da\·id\; ,;dH'llJe \ms thrnugh n<, fault of his. He had spent t,,·o :-·ears in America, had ,c;een its possibilities, and in lJl'inging: n colon:· had thought it ,,·mdd be prnfitnble to the colonist:-; c1;; \\·ell as to himself. Ac; to her sc1lf, )Im·garet ahn1ys clccla!'ecl that she had neH11· n'gTettecl coming \1·ith Da,·icl. If he lrnd not been al..Jk to µ:in• lwl' ,l life of luxm·~-. as he had cl1·c•anwd, he hacl gi\·en her Im" ,'.nd faithfulness all the cla~·s of hi.-: life. She hacl not ,1·antccl to lc,we the home in KL'ntuck:-· ancl tlw spot ,\-h<'J'e he ],\,\. lrnril'd. but she finalb· ,\·ielded to the entreaties of tlw chilclJ'en. :<,1,1· ing. "I do not knO\\' ,,·hat the futu1·e ha:-: in ,.ct<,rc for nw. hut this one thing I do kncrn·, neitlv.'l' tinw nor ,;pace 1w1· an,\· other condition can er,1ciicatc• from 111_1: hval't tlll' !r,\l I 11'·,·11·· for him \1·ho lies under the slrndirn·." \\"hen questioned l:J~- hel' p:nrnckhildl'\'11 ,F to wh.\· ,;lw and D,n-icl hacl ne\·e1· nct.rn·ncd to In,l,rnci. she n 111indecl tlwm u'.· the tcnible trip o,·er and the consequL·nt dn•acl of crossing tlw ,,·ater again, and that although there were estates a\\ ait ing both of thr•m in the old counti·:· ther lrncl neye1· hacl time nor opportunit;: to return fo1· Uwrn and the \·isit to tlwi1· fa111ilies, because of thPir domestic cares and the LU"ge famil,\· of children. ~Iarga1·et spent the fo·st three months of 1~:37 ,1·ith thF gnrnddaughter, Emil~- Tucker .'.\Iulliki11. Tlwn she \\·islwd to return to the home of he1· son, Tiobel't. The~- \1·e1·e prepa!'ing to take her in a wagon, their only \·ehicle fo1· tnn"el, but she insisted that she prefened ,,·alking, and the frail little ,,·oman of eighty walked by the side of her granddaughter's husband, through woods and fields, a mile and a half to hc1· son's house. A few weeks later, April twenty-senmth, she died. A bob sled drawn by oxen and driYen by her son, D,n-id, canied her mortal remains to its final 1·esting-place. In the little country cemetery, known as the Feathe1·ngill g1·a\·erard, fiye miles south of Franklin, a plain marble slab mai·ks the graYe of 1\Ia1·garet Forsyth. CHAPTER II Uni;; lw who kno\\·s \Yhat it means to hew " home out of the fol'est; of \1·lwt is i1l\"oh·ed in the task of replacing· mig·hty tree:-: with c01·n; on!>· he \\·ho h:1.- \Yatched the log house 1·i,ing· in the cletuing and has \\·itncs.ce,l the den1tednes.-; that g·athers arotcnd the old log schoolhouse, can unclei·.-;tand ho\1· cle\·outne,s, beauty, decency ancl ]JO\Yer belong to tlw stor>· of tho.,e \\·ho be;r11r the mi.1.d1ty ta,k of changing the forests into '~he Le~;rt ot ::l•c populou.: .-.::tate. Tlw ,:;amc' spirit thc1t stimulated Da,·id and :.\Iarg·aret to IJ!'a,·,, the pel'ils of the ,,·ilcl ocL·,rn and ,·oyage to America, to lrn:wnl the ::;urety of the comfortable home in \'irginia fo1· the p1·ospect of richer f\.elcls in Kentud:r, li,·ed ane,,· in the lwa1·ts ot' thei1· children. :\"e,,·s of rich alluYial bottoms which 1w,·~·1· failecl to prncluc:e retu1·ns 1·caclH.'d Kentucky. Those \\'ho had n°11tmwl info the \Yilcls of Indiana returnee! only for ,1 , i,,it ur to p:athn up thei1· lx•lo1,J·ings, lr;;1xing behind t!wrn 1.do,1·ing- tail's of the \Yonclerful prnmise of this ,·i1·gin tenitor_,·. Inspi1·ecl b~· these 1·eports ,rnd by the faet that tlws(' Indiana lands belonged to tlw gowrnment and e:oulcl be bought for a cloll,11· an au·e, six of the Fo1·syth chilclncn of D,1\'icl and :.\Ia1·garet came to Indiana between the reai·s 18:21 and 18:1:2. I~obert, the young-<'St, ,n,s the ffrst to come. The journe~· frnrn Kentucky to Johnson County \\·as, in those cb,~·s, a cliflicult one. beset with 1wrils. The crossing of the Ohio on rafts 01· 1·0\,·-boats, ,,·hich would seem to us a dangernus uncle1taking, was perhaps the simplest part of the journe~·. Indiana was then an almost trackless fo1·est. The trip had to be made in w;:i.gons and on horseback, follo,Ying, for the most part, the ,,·inding- trnils of the Indians. Through dense forests of deciduous h·ees, maple, beech, oak, ash, wal nut, poplar, all intel'twined with s,,·inging, twining, twist ing ,·ines and underbrush, they made a slow and sinuous progress. Often obstrnctions such as fallen trees had to be remO\·ecl. Sometimes great tracts were submerged and so soft that the wagon would sink to the axle. Then a path had to be made b>· cutting dmn1 ,nlung Lffv:, ,rncl nrnking \dwt ,,·a.-; tcrml'd a conlm·o>· 1·oad. Thl'l'l' \\·en· :,;trdclws \\·hen, the thiC'kets must be clea1·ecl to ol1tai11 a Jrnssag·e. There ,,·e1·e. indeed, fe,\· forms of exenion ,1·hich so tlrni·otighl)· kstecl tlw mC'ttle of men as jom·11c.1·ing thrnugh tlw 11·ilclenwss. Jt took not onl)· skill, readi1Kss ,rncl stJ'l"ngth of ,t;·m. l1ut ton•;.;ight. patience and abon· all a sustaining 1·ision. The ,,·agon.s 11·hicl1 hauled the housc·l10ld bc•longings and the ,n:•aker ones of the family ,n,1·c· often big. a,,·Jn,·,U'd ancl lurnbc1·ing ,1ffairs, clrn,,·n sometinws b.\· horses, but pel'lrnps oft2ne1· by oxen. The schooner ,,·agon. high in the front and 1·ear like the boat from ,,:hich it took its rnml\;, 11·a~; a commodious affair, and one often used. Th:.' ,ioul'lll\\. 11·as necessarily so slo\\· that tlw pru,·isi 011" uin inrngi1w that much of Lhe thought cluri1:g the jom·ne~· \\.cb concentrntecl on considering the desirability of \·a1·io;_1s pJt,asing: sites as the\- tl'an,Jed thl'Ough the new c:oun tr:,;. Th0n \\ lwn at last a spot \nl.s found which seemed to meet all ffquirements the alacrity \1·ith \1·hic:h they camped ancl lwgan to S\\·ing thei1· axes in felling tl'ees for the new home'. Out ot' t11e heal't of the gTeen fOl'est the fal'm and U\bin must be ca1·yecl. The1·e \n1s no time fol' painstaking \H1rk. Lo;:,·;; of unifol'm size \H'l'C hastily cut and notched at the i 0 11ds so the.\· 1\·oulcl lie close tog('the1·, \,·hile the spaces ,J\ c1·,,,e11 them \H'J'e fillecl with mud. The chimneys ,1·e1·e 1Hk·ly built oi' :-ticks, rnugh stones ancl clay. The fil'eplaces ,\·e1·v made \\·1cle ancl ch:''-'P ,,o that logs of gTeat size could b<° liurnul in tlH·m. Tlwse \rnck-log:s held the fil'e which was stc1 l't,~ci and frcl br th<° fore-logs, ahYays of small el' wood. The :Ca)·ing about the latch-sti·ing al\Yays being out fo1· on<'s friends h,1d it:e; ol'ig·in in these first cabins. It ,vas then a liL·ral trnth. Tlwir cloo!'s ,n°1·e fastened with a \\·ooden latch to \\·hich a st1·ing \\·as attached. They drew this in at nig:ht. but in clc1ytirne it \Yas alwa~-s left hanging out, a wel l'Orne to all ,·isitors. Tn1velers ,n°re rec:ein!cl freely into these honws. The~· were 11e\·e1· too full. The beds in these pioneer homes ,n·re constn1ctecl br placing posts in the f\001· a few fret from the 1n1ll. Poles were fastened to these while the othel' ends were attached to the opposite \Yall. Tables and stools ,,·e1·e l'Ollghly constrncted, for it was the rare household that bl'Ought furniture into the western wilds. Cooking utensils \\·el'e scm·ce. Eve1·y household had a boa1·d, scraped and polished till it was as smooth as glass, for the baking of the .Johnny-cake, made from cornmeal and set in front of a glowing fire to bake. The bread, which a little later they baked in the Dutch oYen, has never been excelled if equaled. The Dutch oven was a squat il'On vessel on legs and cm·ered ,,·ith cl close il'On lid. This \\·as set over glowing 86 A HISTORY OF THE FnR:~YTH F.DIILY e:oals. The e:ooking \\·as all done at the fireplac-e, and it \Yas depended on also fo1· he,lt and in the en'nings. light. A primiti\·e lamp ,,·as made of a cup fillccl \\"ith g-rc,ase 01· 1·efuse oil in which a t,,·istecl mg scnecl ;-1.s a wick. The eaI'l,\· black smiths also made a shallo\\' irnn saucc'J' \\·ith a lid con,1·ing all but a lip, from ,,·hich the rag· ,,·ick prntrnclecl. ,.~ handle was often attached to this by ,,·hich it could be suspended, 01· bra linked-on spike, stuck into the chinks l:iet\\·een log-s on the ,Yall. A little later u1me candles made in candle molds. but many clung to the old cup. sauce1· and h,·isted n,g till the ad\·ent of the kel'Osene lamp. The ,,·omen of tlwsc earl.\· days, though depri,·ed of almost ewr~- comJol't, 1m1cle real homes of these cabins. They i1l\'ented \\·ars nnd means of furnishing and adoming in spite of the fact that from morn ing to night they must ,,·ork to rnise the food the~· ate•: to spin, ,,·ea,·e and make the clothing· tlw~- ,rnre. In tlJPsc calJil':< thel'e was a coziness and e:omfo1t alJCiut the flreplacl'S \\·ith theil' blazing logs th1·0,,·ing their light n, t'l' a slrnclcrny 1·or>111. thJt has ne,·e1· been sul'passed. \Vithin one .-ide would be ;inc,cl \1·i1h d11·,,;, ~,1rnw111.-. The other spread \1·ith ,kin, or' \·,1rmint.,: Ilriecl pumpkins 0Ycl'!1(;,1d \Yerc .-tn1n:,:. \Vhere Yenison hams in plent:,· hun.~·. T\1·0 rifle, placed abon· the door, A dog- lay stretched upon the floor, In short, the domicile ,,·as 1 ifo \\'ith specimens of Hoosier life. Ou1· emig-nrnt is .,0011 located, In Hoosier life initiated Erccb a cabin in the ,,·oocl,, \\'he1·ein he stm·es his household goods. Ensconced in this let those who can Find out a tl'Uly happier man; The little youngsters rise arnund him, So numernus that ther quite astound l1im. There were so fc,,. ,rnimals at this time that horses brought from Kentucky would not stay unless confined, and it ,,·as pathetic to see ho"· lonely a co\\· would be. If domestic animals were scarce, the wild ones ,nre plentiful and tl'ouble some. Deer could be fenced out, but squinels could not and they \\·ere most destructiYe to cl'ops. There are stOl'ics of .-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A:\IILY 87 \\·in,s p,,trnlling arnund the corn-fields while thei1· husbands cultirnted them. The e,ul~- schoolhouses were built of logs. The seats were forniecl of logs split in t,1:0. There wen: no backs to the seats. Of cou1·se the children who went to these schools we1·e ve1·y uncomfo1-table, but it was a day when no one was thinking nf making life easy for the child. The rnd was used freely ancl frequent]~- and few boys escaped it. The belief prevailed th:1t tlw harder school life ,,·as made and the more fear the teacher inspi1·ecl, the more the children \\·ould learn. The teadwrs "·e1·e incapable of teaching much e\·en if they im pal'ted all the~· kne,\·. The fn·st chm·c·hes we1·e also of logs with ve1·.v rude in teriol'::;. The seats ,n,1·e long benches. A brnad cente1· aisle sep,uiltecl the men from the ,,·omen. It made a division line \\·hich \1·a.s impassable except to small children. It ,,·as in ,ouch cabins and in such envi1·ons that the Fol'syth families li\·pd \\ hen the:, first came to Indiana. The )·ears passed and bJ'oug-ht ,,·ith them many irnp1·0\·eme11ts. Col'n grew l'ank in t11,, rich soil. \\"heat fields waved before the June b1·eezes . .-\pplt' ancl peach ti·ees planted clm'ing the first years \\"el'e no,,· ladl'n \\·ith delicious fruit. ~ eyer content to live meagerly, the Fors~·ths left their little log cabins fo1· more commodious and connnient dwellings. The new house which urnw \1·ith the gTm1·ing prosperity still had the big fireplace, \1·ith the iron cranes on which the teakettle sang, and the pot. filled 11·ith s,n-01·~- meat and ,·egetables, bubbled menily. The lrnking was also clone in the primiti\·e way at the fhe place, These homes 1Yere 1·ich in all the household treasures of the da)·. The floors were coyered with striped mg carpets, often 11·01·en in the home. The1·e were piles of soft, warm, home-,1·01·en blankets, and chests filled with home-spun linen. EYe1·y house,1·ife had stacks of beautiful quilts, all ca1·efully folded one upon another. They were ,vonderful pieces of hancli wOl'k and often 1·eally artistic n·eations. The women we1·e proud of them with thei1· beautiful designs and exquisite needlework. \\Then a ,·isitol' came they were taken down and from nine patch to the sta1·, rose and tulip designs, were in spected and complimented. The stitches, in parallel diagonals that were used fo1· the commoner quilts, were as fine and beautifully set as WL'l'C tl!Oi'P in tlH' fon,;. \\Teaths and l<·nth,-:·., that \\·ci·e C'rnplo,';ecl in tlw 1~1m·c' c·lalJ01·:1tL' quilt,-;, En'r,\· ,\·oma1~ was pnmcl to lw able to clo fine S('\\·ing. Clothes \H'l'C• «11 mc,clc IJ~· hand. fol' tbe ,;e\\·ing:-rn,lchino had not been in \·ented. The famil.'· hosi,~1·:: also canw from the s:rnw inclu,-; tl'ious fingers. \\'onwn could knit in th•-' clal'k. The• babic•s \\·e1·e nrn·secl and rnckecl to sleep to the c-lic-k of the knitting needles. If the \\·omen ,nnt to a nciµ:h\101··,; to ,·i,-;it the.\· not on]:-· ];:nit dui·ing- the call. lJut as the.\· ,,·alkccl to and fro. Then" \',Cl'l' fe\1· idle moments in the pioneer housdrnld. In the summer the cl1·.\·ing of fruit and 1·,,g·l'tal>k,-; \\',\,-; :en rn1- po1tant p,ut of 1\·omcn',; i11clust1·_\·. Ilci·nwtic,d .-;.'ct'ill'.,· <1:' fniit \\·as unk1:m\·n, but ,·ich lH'ese1·n·s \\··.Tc' nwcl,0 :rnd l ,·c•r.,· ,,·,ailable ,;p,1c-e ,,·as occupied in :,;un-dr:,ing. The fm·nic~hing: of' the;-;e homcc.; ,,·a;-; .~till :;impl<'. In ,1 nnwr usu::tll,\· stood a th1·ec-co1·rn·1-cd n1plj0c\nl. !Jlled ffith i>lu:::, ,,nd \\·hite china bc•auti full,\· :llT,11,,~-,•cl. The c-uplina1-.l 1':c1~ u~u;_1lJ)~ of chc rr~~. a~ \\~t.~1·-; 1 d~e clr<1p-lt 0 ztf 1.~1bl1° ~-o,· could she tolc•1·ate nncornbul hair. dirty faces 01· soiled "'itl'i'll·nb. In stiffl.~- st,uchccl aprnns mid clean suits the chil dn'n \H•n· sta1tecl off to school. Those ,,-en.' happy faces that loo;;:cd out from m1der the straw hats of the boys and the sun brnrncts of the firls. The chilcl1·en of late1· years who rernem lw1· tLese aunts, uncles, gre::,t-aunts and uncles or gnmcl pa1·,·nts think of the 1·espect and rcYercncc they inspi1·ed. The ,0 pi1·it ,rncl ,,·isdom of their fo1·ebca1·s looked from thei1· eyes. Thi·~- \H•1·c liste1,ecl to as were ontcles. It was fo1· youth to alltrn- the riH·1·s of thc·i1· brnade1· \\-isclom to flow undisturbed. In tlw honw the~- ,n·rc alwa~-s considered fin;t. The best of ,,\."l';dhing ,1-as sc:n·ecl to them at the table. Children often '.\";:ikcl 1-ill the ::::eco'1cl table All the homage clue to age was taug·],·, to ,11,d 1·equi1·ecl of youth. Tlwsl' c,1.1·lr For~,~-th,;; had thei1· part in the building of t!w ~L\Le of Incli,m,1. \Jut mo1·<· especial!~- ,n·n• their activities <1_•!Hl n·d in .;/Jhn-on County. ,dw1·e they first settled and \\ lwr,, th,,:: \\ tTl' a fo:·( i, in its .(.O'O\\-tll from a land of forests m1cl ,;,x:.11,1Jl'i t,1 one of culti\·atecl farms, comfortable homes, "< !1001~ anc\ lhun·hcs. The~- kne,1- they lrncl the abilit~· to \,in in tlw c\e\l'lopmrnt of a gTeat state and the:,; were \\·illing to ,n1rk for it. 13~- their hel'Oisrn, br,,n'ry, indust1·:,;, energ~· and honc,;;t:,; tlw~· hcFC gin·n thei1· descendants just cause to lw prnud of tlw root from \\·hich the~- came. Frnrn reconls in .fohn,rn· Count~· the~- ::i:c,n' more hmcl upon ·which ,ve1·e built ,·lrn1·r·b•s. ~;choolhouscs and gntve~-::ll'ds than any family in the count)·. The gTasc; gTnws to-cla~- o\-er the ground where once stood m:ci1.,· nf the first cal.iins. E\-ci•~· sign of former life has gone in the gynernl cleca~- of ~-ears. The fires in those old kitchens h,,n• long since gone out, and the actors in the opening s<:PlH:'s. \\·ith all their immediate descendants, haYe passed on. Strnngcn; now plow thei1· fields and eat the fruit and gather the grnin to fill the barns built by these ancestOl's. In the cemete1·ic,s and little gnweyanls of Johnson County vines in tangled masses are running over the memorial stones erected to mark the final 1·esting-place of man~· of these Forsyths of the earb- clays. The Fo1·syths of Johnson County no longer live in log cabins and wea1· homespun. The loom of that clay has passed a\\-a~·. Instead of clri\·ing he1·ds of swine a hund1·ed miles to 90 ,l HISTORY OF THE Fon~YTI! FA:.IILY nrn1·kct, a trnck conws to the cloo1· ,me! in a fe,,· hom·s ther m·e in the hands of the packun. The children of tl1esc· an cestors h,ffe good moclcn1 lwmes. The~· no\1· 1·ide in auto rn.obiles o,·er ,n,!J built rn,1ds instead oi in the ox-clnnn1 wagons of the pio1wc1·s. Tlw early Forsnhs ,n·re all \\·01·kcrs. Ther helped to lift this ne,1· country t(I a place of comfort. The mad ,1·as rnugh, the strngglc often h,ll'cl, \Jut 1.hc 1110\·e ment ,,·as nh1·ars upward. CHAPTER IV CHl'RCH RELATIOXS \\.HERE THE F'ORSYTHS \\·E::--.T TO CHURCH Descended as ther \\·ere from old Scotch Covenante1· stock, relig:ion pla~·ec! so large a part in the lives of the Forsyth family that no histor~· of them \rnuld be complete \\·ithout an ,1c·cotl1 1 t of thei1· church connections, their 1·eligious con Yictions ,rncl lH'actises, and the places where they wo1·shipecl. In Kc·ntuckr the~· attcnclecl both the Long Run and Flat I~ock ChurchL'S. Long Ihm Chtll'ch was one of the earliest clrn!'ciws in .Jefferson Count~·. It is eighteen miles east of L()uis\·ilk and clel'ives 'its name from the little creek on \\'hich it i,; ,-;ittwted. It \\·as on Long· Run that Abraham Lincoln, gTmHlLtciwl' of the President, entered four huncl1wl acres of brnd in 17~0. and four ~-i:'an; late1· \\·as kiliecl by the Indians. :\ea1· the spot the rre'- e1·encl \\'. E. \\'ailer gathe1·ecl the Bap ti:,ts togcthe1· in the schoolhouse and 01·ganized the Long· Ilun Baptist Chtn·ch. Fhit Hock Clrnn·h \\·as founded in 180i5 because of a cli\·i :.;ion in tlw L01w nun Chtll'ch. In U\0-l some neighllo1·s at a log-rolling got into a dispute o,·e1· the question as to \Yhethe1· a lie was en'1· justifiable. Pro\\·ling Indians were often a mcm1ce to tlw peace ancl sa fet~- of the community, so the fol lo\\·ing hypothetical question \\'as propounded: "Suppose a man hacl fi\·e children, and the lnclians kill fom·. The fathe1· has the othe1· one concealed when the Indians ask him if he has another child. \Yould the fathe1· be justified in saying no?" This was al'gued back and forth. The contention gre,v hot and \\·as carl'ied into the chm·ch and caused a schism. The lying part, as it \YaS called, moved five miles away and fotrnclecl the Flat Rock Chm·ch at which the Forsyths wor shiped. In 18:30 this church became divided again. Ben . Allen, a Baptist preache1·, was its pastor. Alexander Camp bell \Yas at this time traveling through Kentucky preaching no needs and no authority but the Bible. He held a meet- \ll,1 iPV in n,1t nod, C'hunh and cli 1:ickd the c hun·h. A;kn sided \1·ith Campbell. t,1Li11p. 11itll him th,, nrnjo:·it.1· ot' the church 0 rn('mbcrs. The rninorit~· v:itl1ill'l'\\ ,rnd built ,t n• \\ clrnl'ch t1\'CJ miles mni.1·. This. of cnu1·s,_;, utu ..:;c,cl ,1 lJitter feeling lw t1n'en the t1HJ cln,nhc:-:. The hot1.c:c i11 11·hich Den ~.\.lle11. the p1Tacht'l', lin'd is ,s;till :-:tancling: 11ear the to11·n of Crest,niocl. The old chunh is g-01w. Onlr a pa1t of the Jounclatio11 m,uks the place 11·hcre it once stood. The brgc, flat rocks leading to the c-hul'ch renwin in the pL,c•' the.1· IH'l'l' ,1·hen the fret of pion('CJ's tl'Ocl thern as thc.1: 1·,,1·cn·ntl.1· madl' tlwi1· 11·c1r into the clrnn·h. Xearbr is the• old c-emde1·.1· 11·ith the rude mc mol'ial stones, takl'll no doulJt rnanr of them from the stream belo11·, and from 11·hich ,ill t1·,1cc.-.; of markinp: ,u·e long since oblitentted. These fc•\\· old .stn1:l'.S lwn, po1':cr to conju1·c up the cla.\·s of long· ag:o and one can Sl'l' tho:-:e sturcl.,· pionee1·.~ in tlwi1· Suncla.1· bcc;t loite1·iqr ;\lung· tlw entrance ,;tullL',c;, ex dwnging g:1·cetings and en,io)·i!W ,1 hat Y,a,; the main .c;oci,11 gathering of the earl\· d,1::s. Tho:-:L' old stone':-:. h.:dlo\\'(•cl lJ:, the ll'L'acl of tho:-:(' IJ1',1\'('. frai'lc:",-.;, upright ::;ouk in thl'il' n•r.,· n1cle11c:-:s, si1°1pli( ity. :-:tren)..'.'th ;111Cl ,·1Hlur,rncc' _s;,•em ,l most tit ting memorial. For manr ,H·,u·,; after the Fm-.c;1·L11s urnw to Indiana the onl~· Daptist Chu1·ch 11·,h \\'hat \\·;1:-: ,·,u·iouslr called the Primi ti\·P. I~c·gul;11· 01· Hanlshell Daptist Chul'ch. The1·e are two of the~'<' c·hurclws in John.son Count:: that the Fors~·ths at tended. The Old Dethel Chm·ch in Xine,·eh to11·nship \\·a,; org·anized b~· TiolJe1·t ancl Da\'icl Fo1·snh in connection 11·ith nthe1 s. Thei1· fo·st stn1etm·e ,,·;tS of logs pl,1stenxl ,1·ith mucl. It was called the mud church. In April. lS l~. Samuel ,rnd Dennis Dunn sold to Da\·icl Fm·syth, Sanrnc,l Sellen; ancl \"rill i;;rn1 Da1·nett. trustees of the chm·c:h, tlw land upon 11·hich the present Dcthel church 11·as built. The consideration in this sale 11·as one dollai·. The deed 11·as signed b~· John Thomp son Forsyth and John Gosney as witnesses. It 11·as not long until a brick chun·h was e1·ccted on this site. This \\'as the church home of Dm·id and Tiobert Forsyth and some of their descendants. Twenty-five miles south of lndia1rnpolis on the Three Kotch Road is a little frame chmeh built seventy years ago lJy John Hume Forsyth. It is seldom opened for 11·orship no1L There are tho,;p liYing 1\'110 remember the devotion of the c',tl'l.'· Fors:., ;h,_; to ,hi'-; church. Jennie Sturgeon Fol'syth \HJu!cl 11(•\ the 11·hok• h)·mn, tlwn 1·rpeat the ffrst two lines. These two lines were then sung b~· the cong1·egation. The alternate 1·eacling and singing 11·ould continue till the hymn was finished. H,n-ing no aid from even a tuning fork, the hymns wel'e some times pitched too high and sornetimes too low, and the tune "·as often regulated by the indi\'idual singers, but faithful Aunt Heningham, no matter who else would falte1· and fail, would carry e,·e1·y hymn, high or low, to a successful finish. The doctrine preached in this church was the gloomy one of p1·edestination, and the preache1·'s voice in its melancholy 91 .--\ HISTllTTY Of THE F<;lc na.sal 1·e.-;onance match1·d tlw clol1.·J ul theme. Pl'eaclw1· and conp:l'cgation bclien·d that one mu:et h,ffc been fore-onlitined to he sand, and if one \Yas not nl'iginall:,· of the elect chosen b:-· the Gn·at Ruler of the 1·nin,1·se, no senice to Goel and lrnrn,mit:,-, no conduct ()f lire h0\n·n°1· vx1·111plai·.\·, urnlcl change the cler·rce and ciflH" from clc1m11,1tion. This repellill,li and un inspil'ing doctrine \nL-; ;;incel'el.\· belie\ eel by tl1ese eanwst p1011ee1·s. Thei 1· drn rch l i fo \1·,1:, :-;aci·c·cl to them. The1-c \\"as no hmT:-· in thci1· \\-ol'Ship. Tlw:,- patiently listened c\·en \,·hen the• p1·,,ache1· continued his sennon long afte1· the dinner hou1·. The:,· die! not bL'licn' in Sunc!a~·-.-;cJ10ols 01· othcl' church entc'l' priscs and \H•1·e stJ·ongl:-· ~,nti-rni,,sionary. The main social feature of the chunh \1·,,., a )·e,1rl,\· nwl'ting of an association of clrnn·hcs. Peopk' \1·0,ild 1.1·,ffel from long clist,rnces to tiwse assemblies. Aftcl' .--:c•1·\·ic·e.c; the J'(•'.;icknt nwrnlwl's \\·ould entcl'tain great nurnlkl' ...; :it thci1· homes fot· the' ni1..d1t. In the en°11ing the1·e ,,·otdcl be prc':lching in sorne oJ the homes attended Li:-· neig-hbnrs ,me! l'esid,,nt ancl ,·isiti11g· members. aftc,1· \\·hich the men \rnulcl be giwn l;bnket::; ancl pillo\1·s ,l!Hl sent to sleep in the barn on th(' har. Tlw \\·omen ,rncl chil cl!'l'll \\·otdcl occup:-· the houc:c. In th,· mol'nin~ ,1ll \1·n,, lw:;tle ancl hun:;. Cakes, pie.s ancl all good 1·ia11cb rnu:-;t !w ('ooked and prPparecl fol' the cli11n21· tlrnt \\cb C~ll'l'ic'd 11·ith them to the church, fo1· then' IHTe morning· ancl afternoon .sp1·,·icc,;. lt is surp1·ising how etlkient the 1rnrncn "·c1·e in uiring fol' such a Cl'owd, but the ,.-isitol's all helped in tlw prcparntion;; necessa1·:,-. These "hai·cl shell" Daptist.s did not belic\·c in a paid ministry. The,\· \YOti!d ha\·c no salal'ied preachers among them. It is said that Jennie Stu1·irco11 Forsyth cli!I'el'ecl trnrn the othe1·s on this point. She bclie\·ed the preac!H'J' \Y<1s de .se1·\·ing of some l'C'\1·,u-d fo1· his s,.n·iccs, and it \1·,1.s lwr cus tom quiet]~· to hand him mo1w)· ctft, .. 1• tb- chlll'('h scn·icc. ln he1· old clays Jennie Stm·geon had an amusing but rnther pathdic experience \\·ith the 1·igornus icll!as of thi:-; clrn1·ch. She gTe,\· tired li\·ing arnund \Yith he1· children and decided to mal'l'y again, and chose fo1· a husband a man \\·ho belonged to the :'.\Iissiona1-y Baptist Church. The b1·ethl'en and sisters of the Hardshell Baptists thought this breach of faith must be summ,wily dealt with, so the elders called on he1· and told her that she must gi,·e up he1· husband or he1· membernhip in the church. She told them she would return to li,·ing with A HI:C:TORY OF THE FORSYTH FA~IILY 95 her childn·n. but the congregation ,n\s not ~-et satisfied; they met and clecicled they could not fe!lo,\·ship \\·ith a \\'Oman who did not Jin, "·ith he1· husband. Sunday in the homes of the early Forsyths was a day of rest and quiet. The~· 1·etainecl all the old-time Scotch reYer ence for the Sabbath. The thrifty housewife carefully pre pared l'H_'rything necessary fo1· the family's Sunda~· comfort on Satunla)·. Xo unnecessai·y ,,·ork was done on Sunday. Xo tool whatc\'e1· wm; permitted to be used on that day. Ewn if :-;uf1kient fuel had not been prepared they managed with out. The sound of a chopping- ax ,,·ould haYe maned the holine:-;s of the clii~·- Quiet the1·e must be. Xoise of any kind ,rn:-; not tolerntccl. In thei1· passion for quiet the~· were like tlwi 1· s~otch ancestors \Yho ,,·oulcl take a canary bin! to the Cl'llcu on Sunday lest its singing nrn1· the solemnity of the cla;s:. The chilcln'n had to obse1·n, the rnle of quiet. The boys c-ould .(!"CJ s,, imming 01· pl,\)' ball behind the barn, but the~· mu- 0 !"0-cLi ~- \\' hi le \\~,, '-'111 ile ancl \\'OJ1cle1· ;1,t c'OllHc ot the religious l)c'liefs and prac:tic:es of these pioneers. \\·e aclmi1·e and 1·ecog nize thei1· earne~tnec:s. tlwi1· absolute fidelity to their c01n-ic: tions and the fac-t that 1·eligion \n\s the real guiding stai· of thei1· liws. .n.ui;n .tisl:lo Almira 1845-1914 Laz 1864 { William G. 1918 m.1 Henry Kennedy m. Walter Bridges Ermina 1869 William W. 1900 m. R. L. Findley { Orpha A. 1903 Venice V. 1906 Mary J. 1870 Susan 1872 Flossie F. 1902 { Gerald E. 1919 John Hume 1818-1854 { m. Omer E. Betts m. Sarah Ann Hughes .m,., J. B. Findley . Max F. 1903 m.' William Holland John Hume 1874 Ervena 1905 beck. m; Lona D. Miller { Scott Forsyth 1920 Ethel F. 1905 James T. 1877 Lester P. 1911 m. Myrtle Taylor { Russell D. 1914 Martha May 1918 Matilda J. 1848-1866 Weaver 1880 { Viola E. 1913 m. Bessie Taylor Emma 1871 m. Charles Mitchell Oval 1899 Harley 1874 Philena 1903 Monroe 1849-1914 m. Elizabeth White { James R. 1917-1918 m; Clara Hunter · Ora 0. 1879 {· Erma 1912 m. Stella Ridenbaugh . . Jasper 1851-1904 Furley 1885 Wilmer 1918 m. Frank Miller l • · · David Alford 1858 . Mary Emma 1892 m. Mary Emma Lewis Lewis 1897 Mary L, 1860-1868 Frank Overton 1863 S Harry B. 1892 { William F. 1918 m.1 Ida M. Brown l m. Fern McClure m.• Emma Townsend Hattie 1866-1868 Louise 1841 Martha Louise 1868 m. Robert Sturgeon William Edward 1871 Robert S. 1874 S Louise 1898 { Doris Virginia 1916- m.' Stella Cooper l m. Isom Ehl m.• Ida L. Barton Julia 1878 Jessie Forsyth { David 1820-1858 . 1881_1904 Dawson 1904 m. Henningham Clark m. Frank Blackmore · Ora 1874 S Velma Gladys Hume Edward m. Stella Winston l Ora Kenneth 1906 1845-1916 Emery T. 1878-1879 m. Josie Tyier • Earl T. 1884-1884 Thomas Jefferson Ida May 1873-1873 1852-1919 William E. 1875-1875 m. Nora Henderson Vo11ie C. 1877 m. Ethel Christian SECTION VII Arthur 1833- 1\Iedora 1857 111.' Victor S. faancs Alma R. m.1 Oscar P. Hoover m. Arthur Negley { Beatrice Il. • Arldie 185!J,i 111.. A. H. Frank Otto C. 18G2•1!)16 Victor Rachel 1835•Hll7 m. Bertha Weil Inna 111,. J. C. Deilch l Jennnette Othello L. 18U4 ?Jt. - Herwitz m. Pnulina Jucob,q { Joseph L. O.srar S. 1866 m. Emma Pence Joseph L. Naomi 1872 m. Helen Robey { Helen E. 1918 m. Charles E. W:trrl { William D. Joseph 111-. Nellie Warfel Edna m. John Ca;;sidy James 1\1. 1839·19HI Jmnes Emily 1810-J 879 ni. Nancy Kindle Amy m. Harvey Mullikin n~irvey Hugh Ila:r.el .Justin 1873 Homer C. ~ Emma .J. Maria June 1840-1916 ni. M. T. Shepherd Ge~evieve Flossie Frances L. m. F. E. Blane { Beatrice John David 1845- Margaret 1847·18!)0 Lydia 1850- Leota March 1878-1892 Ilcrtha Thomns 1880 Della Emily 1883 m. Iva Dillon Alice E. Della Sarah 1883-1883 m. G. H. Wingate Georgia .June 1889-1896 Cleopatra Hazel 1891-1803 Thoma;; A. 18!i7 lEstella / m. ,Jesse C. Webb Dorothea 1904 Frnnlde ~ ~ 1879 Lella f Cornelia William C. 1844-1907 m. Fred Dragoo l Frederick 111•• Maggie Poynter Chester ni. Carolyn Haag Nora Glenn m. George J. l\'lcKeehan lMary Margaret 8 th Marin 1811-1881 ~.~r~t~~-ie! S~ywood Ru - · - m.' Ilasil G. Jones Clrnl'les 1867 0 r ~i~ir~1;i tentherngill Will 1871 Mildred 18!:16 m.. Ollie Mullendore Glenn 1899 Paul 1902 Elizabeth 1840 Alice Jean l!H0 111. Thomas Flinn Ella Mae 1873 Oressa 1890 1n. P. P. :t1·Iulliki11 m. Ralph Knee Emma 1875-lS!J0 Helen 18% Carrie 1877 Auslin 1879 l 111. Susan Hichardson Otml J881-HI08 Elta 1884-l!J12 Emma V. 1878 { Maria 1!)11 111. Granville F. Powers Helen L. 1!}12 Edw,ard y. 1880 j r:~~~-1f~3_}iit m.. Cynthlll Green l Lionel L. 1906 Everett V. 1883 ' { Llovd rn10 m.' Richard II. Critten- / Clark Tucker 1854 m. Clara B. Lloyd Mildl'ed H. 1D12 den m. Laura Ann Lee Emmett V. 1885-1892 Dale T. 1!)18 Eclna V. 1887 111. C\nnmce l\landlin Clark H. rno9 William c. 18!:10•18!)2 1Mildred E. 1!)11•1911 Albert L. 18'J2 Ethel 18!l:J- t!J04 Muriu S. l!l,JO-UJO!i Lucinda A. 1840-186 •.3 Mary J. 1841-1!:104 { ,Tames 186G-J!J03 111,. Abner Park David 1843 Robert m. Mary Ramsey ! tn, Mary Ilamilton George JI. 1816-1856 Andrew J. 1846·1864 111. Parthena Nay Florence A. 1877 'George Wm. 185~ m. William Haugh !. 111. Sibelia Pritchard Anna C. 1880 { m. Wilford Vestal ·lohn 'm. Elizn Benn Addie 1\1. 186t Harry C. 1882 m. Ivory Cutslnge'r Samuel 1884·1908 { Corwin .l888- Thomm1 T. 18f>4-l8!J6 ,John Thomas 1818•1863{,~elia 1839 m. Imogene McEwen { Escolene 1893 m.' Caroline Parkhurst . m. Harry Coons Mary l8GG·1868 Martha l8U6-1872 William I. 186!) m~ Clara Carvin { William I. 1D03 Omer l. 188(q888 F,drlie J8G7 Mary 1896 Margaret 1870 in. William Hemphill Anna L. 1845 m.. Edward gthel { Margnt·et 1808 ni. George W. Voris John 11)02 VIII. Margaret John Halph 1880 f Virginia HJ08 1793-1803 • • 111,. Edith Walker I EW -m. Clark Tucker ~~tia;°(': i?~1o 'Y:llwm. c .. 1847 J Errol 187!1 l Emi.lv M. 1/t, Ma1ga1 et Guth-: 111· La Donna Morledge w·u-· J l'ldge l I l rnm . Grethel 1!100- 111,.~ Rosa Brown OpHl 1V03 { Moyle Hl07 George l!)O!J Wellbourne S. 1872 m..' Maud Kennedy { Maud 1896- m/ Lucy Sandefur { Sybil ln06 John S. 1801 Myrtle 187H Rosc-oe 1893 l!JlO 111. Sarah Ergenbdght m. William Prosser 1n. Mcarl Keaton f Maurice { Willa M. moo Bazel K. 188G 111. Charles M. Somers Forrest 1893 111. Evelyn Gillnspy John H. 1904 ~.iF~~dAfr. Owens Roger Barnett 1906 m/ ,Tennnett.e Hibbs Georgia J. ! 111,. Albert IL Palmer Robert Emmett Mary Knte 18[,3 1n. Della Hays 11 i. Henry C. Ilnrnett lOrnl S. 1880 l111. Pansy Matthews Bessie ,J. 1884 111. John W. Coon .Marie 1888-1008 Marjorie 1888-1!)04 Lloyd 1877 m. \'ioln Henderson f !Hildred HI05 Geo, ge I. HFil> JHerman 1882 m. Emma Reatn m. Grace Traf11ck Gordon 1!)09 He1 be1 t 18R6-1V11 111. Mahle Sande,;; Geoq:tia 1911 Grace 1878·1884 l Floia A 181j8-1001 Maigniet 111 Edv.:m P Cub::inge1 l111. Edwm Way [::~hatl~ Day Benjamin F. Thomas 11i. Fannie Bronson Lucy 111,, Walter Whitesides Lonnie · Clarence ·~ Paul Jane 5 Emily 1n. - Beadles ~ 1n. J0hn Helms l Sherman Clara 1870 m. J ei-:sc Downum .!\lary 1854 Oi;;rr1.r E. 1880·1918 Glenn 1914 m. Z. Jay rh. Iva Nichols Lynn 1!)16 Horace 188!J ! Lee Hll0 m. Laum Mullikin Robert E. 1918 David 1828·1897 1 m.1 Sarah Middleton George m. Cora Kirkland { Donald Hazel 1912 Sarah 1856 Carrie 1883 m. Charles Perry Edna 1916 m. Fred Timme { Lola 1917 m. ~ Nancy Lynam Edwurrl 1886•1914 (See Sec. II] Mary 1889-1911 Carrie 1848-1864 Addie 1854 Coyn m. L. T. Nickey Hnltie Ara 1856 ! Tillus 1881 m. 1 Sarah Gilio.spy m. Olga F. Miller m.2 Ella Alexander I Margaret 1827 Bei;::;ie 1880-1895 1n.' Absalom Clark Clark 1888 m. Doris Anderson ! ~::::·: 9~:09 Onklen 1886 Pnul l!J0U-1!)10 111. William Herod James Hill Fred 1913 Effie 1864 Glenn 1919 111. C. J\. Prather Harrv 1B!l0-18V0 V<'rnc 11J07 Mary· 1886 Eli Hl09 r/-/4,'YIA.r· ly'n1,1,,,/ m. Clarence Haymaker Virginia Hill ? Clar('!l('(' 1!111 \',,,.,,;,, 1~'11 '-ydrit - r Y.16 - U.171 l m. ,1/c,eAC,e i.u:K.JYJ.:~ CHILDREN OF DAVID AND MARGARET McGIBBON FORSYTH Thomas Nancy David Margaret James Elizabeth Letitia l{ary Robert John Maria SECTION I I. Thomas 1775-1809 Leon~• 1864 Mollie 1847- m. Mm~ m.1 William Lyster Julia 18(hHouseholder { m. Oscar fttl9 Allie 1873-lt)c:.at Elizabeth 1825-1849 m.' Taylor Peggs Owen 1876-190-. { m. Myrtle Drakt. m. J. P. Forsyth · { Mary C. 1903 [See Sec. IX] James T. 1849-1865 George M. 1851-1917 { Bessie Charles A. 1881 1n. Flora B. Allen ~ary R. 1908 l ~Iembers cf the Foi·.;;yth Family- "It gin:>s me g1·cat pleasure to lw pennittecl to sar a few \\·onls to you on this the fil'st 1·ctrnion of one of th(:' great fmnilics of Jolrns(w Coum:;. It i.-,; an occasion not soon to pass from the memo!',',' of tho'-'(' present. To the younger members it will be ;;rn rm.sis on their path or Jiff a.s the ~·ear;:.; come and go; and to the olck1· 01ws. \\·ho,.;e sun seems 11e,ue1· the setting. it ,,·ill n•\ jq, mr,nrnrics of time.s ,rnd fan°s long since gmw from anwng us, l;\,t nu,1· fo1· tlw monwnt p1·cse11t and in ,·ie\\'. "~Iost of you p1·,0 ::;u:t 1y,]01 1 g· to th(• thircl ancl iourth gen erations f1·om a common a;Hcstry. but thel'e ,11·e tin> Jic,1·e ,1t this time 11·ho a1·e onl:.- l'l•mon'rl OJh• .Qc:m·1·atinn from the pioneers 11·ho fh·st settk>cl in Johnson Count)·. in the early YE',H'S of the last centur:,·; and 11·c here and nm1· honor them <1s the connecting link bet11·ecll you and those hard;..- men and \\·omen ,d10 unclenYent the hardships of those' times that tried men's souls. ~.\ncl as the~· look l:rnc:k to the pa:,;t and think of those distant sc-em's ther can appreciate the sl'ntiment of these lines of one of the ,w:c"et singl'l'S of our language, when on such occasion he said-- " 'I feel like one, \\'ho trcarls alone, Some banquet hall clc,crted \Vho,e lights are fled, \Vhose garlands dead And all but he depal'tecl.' "Yours was a great family, and well do I remember the faces of most of those first settlern who came to our country. It is true they were old men and women when I was young, but I took note of the fact even then, that I was in the pres- A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 97 ence of superior personages, when I was in their company. They ,,·ere leaders in the communities \\·here they d\velt. Of course, I knew nothing of their liws befo1·e they crossed the Ohio fo1· this state, but I do remembe1· l:ncles Robert Forsyth and Da,·id Forsyth, and Aunt Rachel and Aunt :-fancy Forsyth. These \\·ere household names when I was a boy, not only in om· homes, but in the homes of many neighborhoods farther away. Late1· on, when I had become a man, I knew very well l'ncle Thomas and l'ncle Jimmie Forsyth; and I knew some thing of George Bridges, who was one of this same family. And I want to say on this occasion that none need be ashamed of these. They \\·ere farseeing men of affairs; they selected the choicest lands fo1· their homes-lands though not at all times seeming desirable, but lands that were rich in pro ductin: elements, yet at times coYered ,vith water. It is now remembered that many first settlers, especially those coming from Ohio, passed owr this rich wet part of the country and passed on to the high lands of Brnwn County, where they could nest high and dry, but ·where it has always been a more sen:'l'e strnggle to make a li,·elihood. "The Fors~·ths we1·e not daunted at the sight of work; they ,,·ere used to it and welcomed the opportunity. They were practical men, men who built the best dwellings, the best barns, and had the very best fencing and raised the best liw stock in the whole county. They gave character to the part of our county v:herever they lived or did business, and we1·e an inspiration to others to go higher. They were great men in their day; they were builders of empires, not simply in theory but in fact. Doctor J. P. Forsyth and Thomas Tucker, t,\·o sons of these eal'ly settlers, the former a son of Robert Forsyth, and the latter a son of his sister, were men patterned after the older stock, as I am told. I did not know Thomas Tucker, but did, as you all did, know Doc Forsyth, as we all called him. You older men and ·women who knew them best now realize they were much removed from the average farmers and stock men. They \Vere patterns, in many respects, for their neighbors. "These men were first to take an interest in fairs where the cultivation of the best in animal life and agriculture were encouraged. They exhibited their property and were ambi tious to excel. They were in the forefront of almost every ~.\ HIC:TOltY OF TIIE Fon The clist1·ict of ::--:atchc:z in ~\Iississippi ,Yas the home for some ~·,,,11·:-: ot' Thomas, the eldest ,;on and child of Da,;id and }faqral'et. lfore he ,n,nt \Yhen he lC'ft his parents' home in Kent,ic1~~· :-:ome time near the close of the eighteenth century, :n°ars bdore }Iississippi became ;;1. state. A.t that time this \\·a;; a long ,iourne~· from Kc,ntud;y, and the only way to get then' ,,·as to go clown the l'i\·e1· in a ,·e1-y primitive boat. Communication bet,,·een these sections of the l'nited States \\·ci;; sl The stel'ling qualities of Da\·icl and :.\Iargai·et shone out anei\· in the cha1·acte1· of Jc1mes, their second son and child. He \Yas a lad of about fifteen yea1·s when the difficult trip across the forested mountains and down the Ohio River was made. He was old enough to share the responsibilities and the soh·ing of the problems of trnnspoitation. The building of the n1ft on ,,·hich they made the \·oyage down the Ohio \\·as doubtless clone b~· the two older boys, supervised by their father. The trip ,ms a life-lesson in ingenuity, preparation fo1· eme1·ge11cies and self-l'eliance. James had little schooling in the book sense, but much in the school of life. He had a \·ast knO\\'ledge of outclool'S. All skill in woodcraft was J.trantecl him br natul'e because of his early associations. :'.\ L'\·ntheless. he had cl deep pern1eling sense of the value of ,;chools ancl a desire to help establish in this counfry equal ach·antages fOl' all. He spent his life on a farm and had a genuine lcffe for the soil and all gTowing things. He rnaniecl in Kentucky, Jennie Sturgeon, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hurne Stul'geon. She \Yas directly de scendl'd from the Humes of \\.eclcle1·burn Castle, Scotland, through Ccorg·e Hume, ,d10 \q1s Gorn and reared in the castle. Ik came to \·i1·ginia in 17:21 and b~· not returning forfeited his l'ights to the castle and huge estates that belonged to him l>~· l'ight of bi1th. The Humes tl'aced their descent from :.\Iakolm II of Scotland. .Jennie Sturgeon's great grandfather \\·as a C'ornpanion of George \\'ashington, when both attended school at Wakefield. They were the actors in a story often told of the taming· of a refrnct01-y colt that lost its life on a Sunday afternoon with Washington on its back and Hume at its haltel'. On :.\Iarch 11, 1805, James Forsyth at Louisville was g1·an ted a license to man·~· Jennie Sturgeon, but the wedding did not take place till six weeks latc!l', April twenty-first. The ( l(}\ I 1·eason fol' this \\·as that in that cL1~· a young man contem plating rnatrimon~· did not \\·ait until 1·eady to use the lic:n1se bcfo1·e procm·ing: it. but seu11·ecl it ,,·hen in to\,·n and then awaited his l)l'icle',; conn,nience fol' the nrnniagL' ce!'emon~·. The home \\·here .fan1e.s and .Jr,nnic Stu 1·µ:eon li\·ed. \\·he1·e his chilcll'en \\·ere bol'n and ,,·lwl'c' he dit·cl. \\·as ,t pal't ot tlw foul' huncl1·ed forty-six acres of Lrncl pu1·c:!1asecl in 18UG b~· his fathe1·. Of the old honwst0ad thel'e is nothing left saYe a fe,\. foundation stones, but from these stones one ma.\· look out upon Floyde's Fork, the little stream ,,·hich had by its beauty of old attl'ac:ted Da ,·id and ::.\Ia1·g,wet, as it ,rn1md its way bet,Yeen b,rnks lined \\·ith ti·ees and shrnbs. Along its banks, among its bushes and trees and in its wate1·s the chil dren of James Forsyth played in theil' tender years. A most interesting story of the naming of the stream connects it with the family of James Forsyth's wife.''' -:= Thl' stream Floyde'."' Fol'k W<'h named in honol' nf John Floyde. nne of the n10~t usc,ful and prominent men in pione('J' J{L'ntucky. He• wa:::. an early C(1mpaninn of Daniel Boone and wa-- a membe1· "·ith him of the first lC:'_!..!.islativc body that rnet we:-;L of tlw .·\)lp(!h.,-1.ny :\Iountain-- in Fvbru:-u·y, l';"Z"J;}, ,John Hume, ,'..!Tandfathcr of Jennie Sturgeon Forsyth, liYed at Foi·t Hw..::hcs.. One day when he and hi~ :-:on~ \H'rP out ~ 0m· \\·here the ho;ise stood, still grows the pionee1· house hold he1·b, catnip, planted there by Jennie Fo!'syth, from \rhich she made the t2a that soothed hel' babies' pains and cmecl their colds. At the foot of the hill below the site of the old house a sp1·ing· of \\·atcr bursts forth. a cont1·ilrntion of natm·e that cletenninecl the home site fo1· the pionce1·s. Th<' ~tones that ,,·ailed it l'Ouncl \Yhcn James lived tu·e still tlw1·•,'. The> Old Spriw.;· rn_1 a1· Floyde'.-; F'od..:: .fames Forsyth died i11 Kentucky before 1·eaching his forty fou nh ;.e~u·. His body 1·ests in Flat Rock Cemetery, near the old home. A heavy piece of limestone covers his grave, placed 1 ~(':\IHd and tan hi:-: ho1•-;e four1t.'('l1 mile:-,; to Shelby\ille. He notified the _._,_·o\·crno1·, \\h11 -.,n1 Cnlnn(\ .Jnhn Flo~·cl{· \\ith lWPnty men to rvscuc Huml' and hi~ ,on. Flc1y which it could be pun:hasecl, ,,·:1s lmiught to hl'I' from L'\·e1·~· side. :'.\eighbors \\·ere lea,·ing;. her husband's lirothl'l's and sisters and their families had aln:adr g:one and ,n:,1·e suc cessfully <:!earing mn,y the forests and cultivating Indiana's virgin soil. Her own daughters too had gone and \\·e1·e urging he1· to come. She became co1ffincecl that a brightel' future awaited her child1·en in Indiana than in Kentucky, so she sold the home and the slaYes owned by the family and pre pared to go to Indiana. She was a woman of some means for that day, as is shown by the inventory of the pel'sonal estate at the time of her husband's death. In Book \', page 272, in the court-house at Louisville, is found the appraise- A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A'.\IILY 105 ment as made by Charles G. Ximrod and Hem·y Dorsey. There we1·e ninety-five items in the inventory, consisting of e\·e1·~·thing used on a fann and all household furniture dmn1 to the meal sic\·e and the bed clothes on the beds. The1·e was a la1·ge DiblP ckscribed as "Gold Gilt," which soid at the sale fo1· fourteen dollars. There were several slaves. One negro boy of twenty-one was ::lppraisecl at six hundred dolla1·s, an othel' at fin, hundred fifty dollars; one girl at seven hundred clolbus and another at se\·en huncl1·ed fifty dollars. The ·whole estate, including the stock and g1·ain, amounted to four thou sand eight huncl1wl sewnty-three dollars and forty-two and one-half cents. George Bridges, a son-in-law of Jennie Sturgeon Forsyth, d1·on3 his laq~·e four-horse schoonel' ,n1gon to Kentucky and broug·ht the farnil~- and their household goods to Johnson Count,\·. \\'e do not know if she rode horseback or in the \\·agon. but after sonw ~-ea1·s, longing to sec the old home, she roc!P hol'sdrnck tlw c·ntirc distance of tYrn hundred and six teen rni](',-, then' and 1·etta·n. He1· gTeat nephew, Will Collins, 1·ememlwred lHT during this \·isit telling Indian stories as the~· all ;;,\t around the fil'eplace. She \\',ls a woman of strong 1wr;;rnialitr and kind!>· nature. Her rnm111e1· was n.:fined, cul tured and guntl<'. She \\·a;; a charter member of the little frame clrnn·h t\,·o miles north of Trafalgar on the ThTee X otch noad. The1·e ,He tho;;e li\·ing \\·ho recall her faithful attenclawe at this church. The'>. h,n-e ne\·er forgotten the picture of he1· mounted upon lw1· 0\\·n riding horse on the wa~· to church. \\'hen she and he1· four sons came to Indiana they pm· chased the farm one mile north of Trafalga1·, now owned by \\'illiam I:ll'iclges. In Febrna1-y, 18:SG, after a residence of t\n•ntr-fom· yea1·s on this farm, she died . .fames and Jc·nnie Stm·geon Forsyth's daughte1·, :\Iatilda, and George Driclges, \\·ho \,·ere first cousins, were manied in Kentucky when she w,1s a rne1·c gil'l of sen:nteen. The record of the n1a!'l'iage in Louis,·ille sa~·s slw was married April 10, 18~:3, and that the consent the1·eto of her mothe1', Jennie For s>·th, was pl'Oven by the oath of nobert Forsyth. Those who knew her hm·e spoken of her lO\·ely character. Small, deli cate, 1·efined in natm-c, she unfalteringly came with her hus band and da ugh tel', Elizabeth, to Indiana over the silent track hithe1'to trod b~· the stc0 althy sa,·agc. She made the trip in a \\·agon bearing a fe\\' of hel' household goods and the imple ments that settlers needc•d-1·i;le, ax ancl plcrn·. On a farm one and a hc1lf miles west of Trnfalga1· she \n,s takc1 n. It \Yas here \Yhere he1· four snns :incl t\\'O ,\·ounge1· claughte1·;; \\·c,1-e born, ancl where also. in l!'i J~. she cliecl. The e:hild1·en of Geoq?:e and .\Iatilda Bridges ,,·e1·e among those \\·ho helpul the countl'y experiP1,e:e it,; l1C\\. IJirth. HithETto Indiana had beell k110\n, chiefly as ct region of forests, dismal '.i\\·arnps c1 nd !~1iasmatic streams. The miclclle ages in Indiana we1·e 110\\. fast c!ra\\·ing to an end, ancl the t:'l'a of modern p1·ogrcss \,·a.~ lJ(·µ_·imjng. nailroads \H're being built, a system of fre,' s;_ hools h,,d bec>J1 p1·0\·idecl 101, and people ,,·e1·e be~rinning to hah' ,:orne iclc·n or the \·,1 stness of the natm·al 1·esoure:es that ,n°1·e \1·aiting tu IN d 1 'Y.:lopecl. The daughter, Elizabeth. 1rn1nit·d ,Lt1:1-:: Foi'te1· Fol'c:yth in 181:2. She clir•cl at the l'arlr age oi' t,nnt~·-four :-T,u·s, le;wing t,\·o small bo.:s. ,~~ce ,)mnes P. Fol'.,:;.-th" iamil.\'.) The chiughtr1, .J,uH>, 1\·ho maniecl Arm~;tnmg Alexander. ,1·as said to resemble he1· 1,10thu. Slw \\·,,s a \\·oman ol gn•at kindness of heart. ancl loyal to lwr n•latin•:,:, 11·]101,1 she' al\1·ayc; udlecl "cousin." She ,1·as for man>· yc,tJ':, a staunch nwm ber of the Tn,falg,u Baptist Churd1. In tlwi1· eal'lil'l' life the famil~- li\'ecl cm a farm north of Tndalga1. Late1· the~· mo\·ecl near Franklin. 11·her:: ior man~- :-·em·., .\Ii. Alexander \\·as engaged as a dealer in ]i\-e stock and in ]),,eking pod;:. He died in 1899. Politicnlly the rnns of .\Iatilcla Forsyth \\·e1·e Democrnts. Religiously, with the exception of Thomas. they \\·e1·e mem be1·s of the Baptist Chun·h in Tn,falgar. \Yhen they maniccl, the tl1l'e•.1 younger brnthers S(•ttlecl on farms near Trafalgal'. John later remo,·ed to }Ioores1·ille, Indiana, where he died. Geo1·ge Thomas Bridges was kn0\n1 as a man oi his word. He was a faithful attendant at the Trafalgar Christian Church, of which he was for many years an elder. Two characteristics will ne1·er be forgotten, 1·iz.: He invariably read at the social meetings the Uth chapter of John, and seldom failed to sleep for awhile during the church senie:es. He bore a striking resemblance in nature to his uncle, Thomas Forsyth, for ,,,;hoi~1 he was named. He was a lowr of home, A II!:cTOl~Y OF THE F,~•RSYTH FAl\IILY 107 \\·ith a po,iti\·e a,·u·sion to spending money in idle railroad tran::ling. Since 185:2 he had lived in the south,\·est corne1· of Frnnklin township, and his house \\·as reach:0 d u:; a drive thrnug-h one of the most beautiful bluegrass pastures in John- son Count~·. Thi::; pasrnn.? slw\n:•d the man and his ra1·rn. It \\·a::; kept perfectly, and ga\"c' ,-,atisfm·tion to all who saw it. There ,n:1·e 110 weeds, brush or old tree stumps to be found the1·e. The cattle that grazed upon it \\·ere of the finest qual ity and the~· Y,ere \;·ell l\·d. \\"hate,·e1· Thor;1as Bridges did \\·as done \\·ell, a tn1it that ,,as p1·ominent in other members of the Fo1·::;)·th farnilr. He was consen·ati,·e and somewhat 1·rserwcl in manrn:1·: a g-oocl citizl'n ,rnd well deserving of all tlw suc-ces,, that came to him. He was 1·ecognized by all as a kind, honest nwn "·ho 1':as gc•nuinc through and thl'Ough. He nrnniccl L~·dia Pelley in rn,31. She was bon1 in Pueblo County, Ohio, in 1;-;:n. It is related that tlwir acquaint,rnce iJrgan \\·lwn he \1·,Li a .n>ung man helping tl11·csh wheat \\·ith a gTounclhoy: sepal'atoi, and slw a young gii'l assistir,_g in the 1n·cparntion o! the dinncl'. These young people b(xame ch,1rtP1' memlJtTs oi' the Trafaly:ar Christian Chul'ch when it \\·a::; 01·ganized in Thomas L::rn:m's house. It was a life.long· habit o( Thomas lll'iclges to get his Dible each morning: and 1·pacl a chapt('J' before beg·inning his cla~·•s \\"CnK His son, J;_,mes nilcy, lin°s in an attnlctive countl'y place nea1· Trafalgar. He inherited his 1 athe1·'s neatness in his home and on his fan11. lIL· and his family a1·e among the best citizens of that comnumit~·. They are dependable in the Clnistian Church, being willing at any time to con tribute thei1· time ar.cl money to its support. James is a Dernoc-rat in politics. A great grnnclrnn of Thonrns Dl'idges is Paul Francis Hit ter, a son of ..-..; el lie Bnmigin Ritter. He was born in Indian apolis and educated in the public'. :;chools there, gnlduating from the Emmerick :.\Ianual Training :Iigh School. While a student then! he made a reconl J 01· inc1ustry cmd energy by completing the com·se in tlwce and a hall years, with t\vo credits abon! the requi1·ements. When the United States ente1·ed the w;w ,\·ith Gemrnny he enlisted with the Lilly Base Hospital. The unit was in training at Fort Harrison fo1· three months. In December they went to France, sailing on the tnmspo1t Geo1·ge Washington. They we1·e nearing their 108 A HI~TORY OF THE F()Itc'.YTH F.UIILY port when a terrific stonn came up and they had to put back to sea to keep from being dashed to pieces on the !'ocks. The first thing tlwy did after reac-hing· thei1· destination was to locate a little chm-ch in '>d1ich their first sen·ice was described as wry impressi,·e. A hotel whic-h had been a famous ,rnte1· ing place, they trnnsforniecl into a hospiU1l. Paul Hitter \\'as the youngest membe1· of the company. James Bl'iclges \\·as (''-:C-eeclingl~· geni,il and agTs:eable. He IO\·ed children, and ,,·;cis unin'L;all~· liked b~· them. It ,,·as fitting that he \\·as chosen su1w1·inte11dent of the Johnson County 0l'phans' Home at Hope,,·ell. ,,·hel'e he and his wife had the ca!'e of fiftr chilch·en. Their eal'lie1· life was spent on a fal'm near Trafalga!'. He \Yas a lon·1· of good ho!'ses, sometimes to the neglect of his fa 1·m. He ,n,s p1·epossessi11g in appearance. ,,·ith a per,;onalit,\· that \rnn many friends. His onlr d1ilcl, Ceorge \\'., lin·s in California, ,,·he!'e he went in l\H) 1. fh,, years aftel' his nrn1· nage. han \'anburen B1·iclgcs \\·a,; a \ er,\· ho,;pitable ho:;t ,{nd splcnclicl p1·0,·iclel'. There y:a,; no place in the n('ighborhood \\·hc1·e the roung people lo\·,·cl ,;o much tn µ:o. and his \\·ife \\·as equally c onlial. 1-1,, and hi,; brnthel' ..John. \\'l'l"e l'ach ,·err kindhearted ancl gcne1·ou,;. l 'ntortun,ltely John',; health \\·as impairrcl for cl numlwr of :,·ea1·:-;. \\'hen a ~·nunµ: nwn he) \\·as left at home to g,1anl tlw place from fil'e du1·ing- ,1ll un usuall>· cln· season while all the other 111'-'ll at the fa1·111 ,,·t:Te attending a political 1·,dl)·. A fo·e 01·ig:inatecl, pel'lrnps from ,1 rnilroad train. and roung John in his heroic efforts became cfferheated. He 11eye1· entire!~· Cffe1·u1111e the dfrcb. His famil,\· located in Kansas after his death. Ceo!'f}:C lin'cl in Chanute. Kansas, ,dwl'e lw \\·as in the railroad business. Some >·ear,; ag·o he ,,·ent to :\Iontana, ,rnd \Yith his famil~· pm·chased a la!'ge tn,c-t of Janel. His b1·otlwr, Janws. died in Kansas. Louella also died the1·e, le1:"\\'ing two child1·en. Rebecca Bridges is the counterpait of her brothei·, Thomas. She was as a girl noted for hcl' beaut~·. On a Yisit to Louis ville, Kentuck)·, she met hc1· first huc,bancl, a man many yeal'S her senio1·. Their C'hilcl1·en wne all bmn in Louisville. After the death of her husband in Uml, she 1·eturned to Johnson Count>·, Indiana, with he;· children. She has been a faithful member of the Baptist Church fo1· m,my ye,u·s. She li,·es A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 109 \\·ith he1· son, Henry Edward Loch1·y, ,vho is one of the suc cessful farmers of Johnson County. He is a progressive ag1·i culturist, and one who beliews in fal'ming in a scientific way. He represented his county in the legislature in 1912. He is a member of the l\Iodern 'A' oodmen of America and the order of F1·eemasonry, in which he has attained to the degTee of Knight Ternplar. He is also a member of l\lurat Temple, );' obles of the l\Iystic Shrine, at Indianapolis. ::\h'. Lod1l'y has been admired by a large ci1·cle of friends for his integTity, honesty and as a citizen of genuine worth to the community in -which he lives. Hany R. Lochry was inducted into U. S. sel'vice at La fa~·ette, Indiana, September, 1917, going from there to Camp Ta~·lor at Louisville, Kentucky. He was assigned to the 2;3th Co., 7th Pt. T1·. Bn., 159th Depot Bl'igade. October, 1917, he was transfened from Camp Taylor to Co. D, 151st Inf., at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, l\Iississippi. He remained in this organization until the 6th of February, Hl18, when he was transferred to the Quartennaster Corps Detachment of the same camp, and assigned to the Fuel and Forage Depart ment. In April ,Yas aclYanced to the 1·ank of first-class pri vate and placed in charge of tl1e receiving and unloading of the forage 1·eceived for the camp. On July 19, 1918, he ,vas made se1·g·eant in the Quarte1·master Corps and was to have been made sergeant, first class, in September, but was trans fened back to Camp Taylor to the Central Office1·s' T1·aining School, September, 1918. He was in the sixth week of train ing, and ,vould have graduated in another six ,veeks, when the armistice was signed. The men in these training schools were gi,·en the option of going into civil life immediately or going on and finishing their course and taking a commission in the -Cnited States Reserve Co1·ps. He elected to take a dischcwge and was discharged November, 1918. He gradu ated from Purdue 1_Tnivel'Sity in 1913. Ralph L. Lochry enlisted into the Medical Reserve Corps Septembe1·, 1917, receiving a commission as First Lieutenant. He went into training at Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indian apolis, Indiana, with the Base Hospital made up of Indian apolis men and known as the Lilly Base Hospital. The hos pital left Indianapolis for France the last of November, 1917, sailing on the steamer George Washington, and arriving in J 10 A H1,n1r:y <:F TI!E F 1 ,n:-:YTII F.\:\IILY France a da~· or t•\0 before Ch;·i:-;tmas. The hospital name ffas changed to Da:-;r• ffo:-;pit,d :--,-o. :_;~ .iust lwfo1·e it left In dianapolis. On .-\pril 10. J '.11~. he \1·,1.~ transfe1Tecl to a Fn:·nch C\'clc·uation lwspiial mid ,-u1t up 1w,u the front 11·here the 11·otmrlecl 11·en• g-i1·1•n their 11!':-:t ]]l):spibl att,2ntion. Hen• he experienced all the th1·ill." tll,H gn \1·ith being- under slwll fin· and being- bomlwrl from ,,in 1·,tft. tlL•ir hospital being attacked at one time•, maki 11g- it nece;;:-;a1·~· to Yacate it. The first of .Julr he 1\·,1s t1·,rnsfrJ'l'ed to Rc1se Hospital ~o. 1115. 11·here he l'Crnainecl until Octobc•l' ht. 11·ht•n lw \1·a:-; as:-;ignecl to Eed Cross :\Iilit,u:-· Hospital ~o. l. :\ro.~slc~· Hill. Li\'(•rpool. England. He \\ r\:-; at this pl,tr·e 11·he11 tlw annistiu• \1·,1:s signed. HE:' graduated from Incli,rna T'ni1· 1 1·~it:-· ii, l~ll~ ,rncl from the I11di,1na :\Iedical College in l'. 11 !. \\'hen Fann>· Lodirr maJ'l'iccl Fn•rl Sm:ill ::;hi' 11·1·nt to tlw st;1.tv of \\'a,;hington to li1(. :-;]il' died thl·1·e. l(•,ll'ing one da ugh te1·, Franu·s. \1·h o c anw to lwr unc· l('" l10mv m•,11· Frnn k l in. She spent fou1· .n-a!':s in Purdue l 'ni\ e1·sit>·· gTaduating in June, 1919. The children of :\Lltilcln Fo!',:;~·1 h ,tnd c .. n1·1x( 0 nriclg'l's ln.~t hca\·il:-· \\·lwn the First ~;-itional l\;rn).;: nf Fr,tnklin failed Ill 1H77. :\Ia1·gai·et Fo!'syth \\·a:-; manil·d in h°(•ntuck.\· in 18:2 l at tlw age of fourteen ~-cal's. ~lw 1·an ,rn·,1:-· from school the d,1.1· of he:,1· 11·eddinµ:. Ilcturning, slw pa:-;secl i:car he1· home 11·hen_• he1· motlw1· w;1s standing in th1.) doo1·11·a;:. lrnt the little girl had nothing to sa~· to her, for ,;he 1\-cll kiw\1· her mother 1niulcl not appro1·(, of lwr early m,uTi,1i:re. :\Iargarc,t \1·ent ,1t once to a littl(' Kl·ntuck:-· calJin, \\·he1·e she began the duties of a pionen hnnwrnakcL She came to Indiana a fe\,- ~·cm·s latc1·, at the time when other FLws:-·ths from Kcntnc-ky were corninµ:. Soon she learned the al't of taking the \Yoo] as it camP from the sheep through all its sh1ges of hand picking, colm·ing ancl \\·c•,ffing· until it clothed her family. The habits of industry fonned in her eal'ly life ne\·er left her, for she continnl'cl to knit, mold candles and bake in the old-fashioned way. She was small in stature, and \'e1·y quick in he1· moYe ments. She was a woman of qui0t c-haracte1', with a dislike of ostentation. She had a natural pride in her appearance. A Hl:-:TORY OF THE FORSYTH F A~IILY 111 He1· l'lothing \\·;-i_s alwa~·s of good matci·ial, neat and well nwncled. :'.\ot a tJ._ing about he1· shO\\·ecl carelessness. He1· blac-k lacp cap \\·ith a frill pleated at the side ,,·as a]w3~·s claint~· and 1watl)· tied uncle!' hel' chin ,,·ith a black 1·ibbon. All nrnniecl wnnwn at the time of lw1· rnaniag·c and ~·ears later ,rnl'e caps. This \Ycis the insignia of her wedded state, and the roung: people called all who ,,·01·e the cap old manied people. no matter ho\,· young tlwy might be. ~fa1·g,u·et \\·as also care:ul in the management of he1· home. She newr \\'astecl an~·thing:. She had the ability to tell with comparnti,·e c1ccm·acy the amount of food 1Tquired for eal'h ml::'al. Slw clicl not crnmble ln·ead nor thro,v away the crnst. Sugar ,,·as not left in the colL:e cup to be washed ,1\n\r. Sen·ral orphan childn-n "·ere c-an•cl for in he1· home. She nc,·e1· lo:-,t lw1· earl~· ideals to essenticils of chantcteL Fm· m,rn:-· :-·l·ars ,,he g-,1.\'e tn the Clrnn·h of the Disciples her ;o:-·al ,.;upport. She cli,·J in her lrnnw on the D1·idges hill in Fayettl' Cou11t:-·. Illinois. in .Jarnrn1·y. l;-s~.3. Tlw nanv., of her :-·oungest child. Gem·ge, will ahnt~·s be a;;snciat,•cl \\·ith the chm·ch. lw ha,·ing determined at the age of t,n,nt:-· to denitl' his life to the· rninisn~·. He held pas tor,itc•,.; in \'ancblia, nrn\\'nsto\,·n, \\'indso1·, Yersailles, Stan ford ,rnd othe1· towns in Illinois. ancl it v:as said of him that lw lrnilt rnorP , lrnn·il,,.; ;1:1d ::< hnolhouses than any one in his count:-·. It is n·lcttecl that at one• time he pe1·suaded men to go \\·ith him t\1:ent:,.· n:ih•;; fo1· l1. 1 1,1lwr. hauling it in a wagon, in onlc1· to build a chuJ'C'h. He solicited all the funds, paid all the bills, ancl \\·hen the church \\·as completed he preached fol' thl' < onin-cgation se,·e!'al yeaJ"S without pa~·. The last church lJuilt \\'c'\S on hi,; mYn farm 1w;,1· Drowns\·ille, for \Yhich he gan· both the grnund and his time. George Driclges stood fol' the 1·ight always, ancl v:as un comprnrnisingl~· loyal to the 1)l'inc·ipks in which he had faith. Fe\\' men of his modest t::pe 1·cprcsented so much in the life of the community. He worked unceasingly against the traffic in intoxicants, being c-01winced that it was wrong to sell a thing so destrnctive to the morals of those who indulged in its use. His work he did quietly and \Vithout display. He was loyal to his friends, de\·oted to his family, and generous to all who needed his help. 11:2 A HI:-TOTTY OF THE Fnn:-::YTH F.DIILY }fa1·garet Bridges' eldest daughtc1·, }Iargan·t Sarah, ma1·- 1·ied Doe:tor Cobb in Johnson County in mm. She died in Xinen:•h and Web buried near hl'J' great-grandmother, }Iar garet Forsyth. Homer D. Bridges, son of r~en°1·e1HI Ccorgc Bridges, en listed for scrYie:e in the l·. S .•.\rrny in •.\ugust, 1(117, at Fort Sheridan, in Batten· A 119th Field Artille1·~·. \\·ith the .!:2nd 01· Rainbow DiYision. Two months late1· he sailed from Hoboken, Xew Jersey, for Fnme:e. He \\·as trained undn the supen·ision of the French until Feb1·Lw1·~- tm__ •nty-second, when he went into the trenches and fought on different fronts until he was gassed in October, 1918, 011 the •.\rgonne front. He was sent to the hospital and in Janua1·y, 1\)19, sent back to the l'nited States and discharged. He was corporal frnm September, 1917, until his discha1·ge. E\·e1·ett and Bland Rich,udson, great grnnclsons of :.\Iar gai·et and \\'illiarn Bridges, \\·ere drafted into the ,u·my, lrnt, due to the war dosing, \\·ere not sent o\·e1·seas. Al\·in Darnell, grnnclson of ne\·e1·encl Gcol'ge Bridges, en listed at Camp Pike in Febniar~·. mix, and \\·as transfr1·1·ecl to Company 33,5, F ...\., x7tlt Di\·ision. :.\Iary, the folll'th child of James and Jennie Sturgeon Fo1· S.\·th. maniecl in 18:27 at the home of he1· birth on Floycle's Fork, .Jacob E. Co1·e (1801-;58), a young man of twenty-six :,·e,1r:,;. He had been bon1 in Pennsylvania. Later his family mo\·ecl to Ohio and then into Kentucky. His father was a nati\·e of Gen11any. Jacob Core ,vas a mille1· and wheel \Hight, O\n,ing and operating a mill on Floyde's Fork. :\fai·y F'1H':..;yth Con:, .Jacob Core, :\Iatilda Core Hamilton ln (ktobe1·, 113:10, ::\Iary and Jacob Co1·e. with thei1· young son, William, jom·neyed to Johnson County, Indiana. They bought land in Cnion township from the government. Their ne\\" farm was a ,·i1·gin forest, not a tree having been felled from it. Thei1· log house, with its puncheon floor, its fire place and its "latchstring through the door" required but little time fOl' building, and ::\fa1-y Forsyth Core was soon . cooking in the kettle "hanging on the pot-hook and swinging 111 A HI:--:Tr1rtY OF THE F<1IL from the crane." and IJaking· .Jolrnn.\·-cakl' in front of the rmuing fire. All around the l':;c1bin \1.·as a "·ilcleniess. .-\ mol'e dismal and gloomy outlook for a \1·intel' could lrnnll.\· lw imagined. Well-beaten paths throup:h the fon,c;t tolcl of Indians and th;_, 11·ilcl animal life thel'e. .-\II thrnuµ:h tlw 1\·i1:ll'r. ,1,c thl' \l·l·atlwr 11·ould permit, :\Ia1•y's husband 11·c1s fellin1.t trel':-; and burning the tirnbe1· that he might be able 11·hen sunrnwl' canw to cul ti,·ate the 1·ich \·il'gin soil that la:,- lwneath. :\Jany beautifl!l t1·ees gre11· upon the fan11 and some of tlw finest \H'l'e spctred. Fo1· many years a fine old poplar stood µ:ua!'d at the i.tMl'I,·,\,\·. This free was re,·el'entl)· spared by thL· ,-;ettJt,rs' ax lwcnu~,, of its ..;hape and bemity. The tnink \ms tall ,\lld studdl·d \1·ith bnmches Lll'ge and small. a Jw!'foct t1·ee Pol.JI>· ,cp,11'ed b>· the many storms that s1n.,pt the st,ite. Ac-ro,-;s ,t !'anµ:(• of hills it could l>e seen from the home of :\Ia1T\; IJrntlh'1·. Thnnrns. 111 o!'e than a mile distant. The 1\·ild life in the foi·ests in tho,,e cb:,:,-; would hl'i11g· tl'rrnl' to tlw faint-heal'tecl. Ile,u·s a11cl \1·iidc-a.t.s 1n·1·e 11u111tT ous. as were packs of \\·oln•s. Tlw panthel'. 01· c,ltamnunt. ,1·:1s pe1·haps the most dangcrnus, l1ut "·as less lJ'(•quentl:, .seen. E,·e1-r famil~- kept dog·s for the prntc•dion tlw> g·,t, c•. \\'oh·vc: \\'ere so bold that tlw.\· \\·oulcl c-onw !'iµ:ht ll]l tn th,· hous(' and often giYe battle to the dog.s. Then_• 11·en· 01'1,•11 nights when .JacolJ Con.' \\·,1s co1,1pellc,d tn lw a,,·,\:: irnm hnnw. Sometimes he 11·ould g-o to help othc•J',-; clc:ll' la11cl and !'du1·11 late at night. ~o wild animal caused him an)· fee!in;r ()I' fe,H. for on his shoulcle1· he caniul a musket fol' prntl•dion. (This old musket is in the possession of his gl'anciso11. \\"in field Col'c.) On these occasions :.\farr ,,·ould banicacle the don!' ,,o that no beast could b1·eak in. In the thick fol'e:--;t the sun ,rnulcl hare!]>· touch a cabin e,·en at miclda)·, and as nip:ht apprnac·l\(•cl. the ,,·oh·es, growing htmgTy, ,,·oulcl come and get uncll'I' the house, \1·bich of course h;:1cl no foundation, and fight 1\·ith the dogs. In thei1· frenzy the clogs would often raise the puncheons in her floo1· 1Yhile trying to get awa)· from the wo!Yes. :\fan~· an eYening while waiting fo1· the return of her husband, with only her babies and a small colo1·ecl bor':, .·, 'Thi:-; boy beloni.rccl to ~Ian: Cdn' in Kenturky, ;-1nd whe>n .-.:hL' left tht.-'!'P he rdu~t-d to stny behind. She b1·olt:tht him \,·ith 1wr and kept him fol' twn yval':-;, .\t the <·nrl of that tinw :-3he tnok him bc.1<"k a.;;; he !-:ad .!.!."rown homesick for the old home. A HISTORY OF THE FoRSYTI-I FA'.\IILY lLj for companions. :.\far_\· has sat with fem· and trembling listen ing to the hmding of the \\·oh·es and the lxu·king of the dogs. :.\Ian)· years of bran'l'.\·, patience, pe1·seYe1·ance and sac1·i tin· )),b,-;L•cl and the fo1·ests had gin'n \\·ay to fields of rich golcl,•n grain. the ox team to well-kept ho1·ses, and the humble· calJin tu a comfortable home. This cabin afte1· ninety ye,ws still stancls whe1·e Jacob Core built it. \\'hen the new house ,,-as lrnilt the cabin ,Yas weathe1·-boarcled on the outside. The lll'\\- hnu,-;e ,,-as 1w,u· the site of the old cabin, nem· what was c,ilk-d till' :.\Ln'tins\-ille rn,1cl. Jt stood back among a group of tl'ees. apprnached b,\· a path thrnugh trees and shrubs, a ,rhite framl· hous(• in a setting of green. A rnral home like this must haw lwen pictun·d in the mind of James \Yhitcomb I~ile,\· ,,·hen he \Hote of the "simple olcl frame house and its ·"''H'l't old apple tree." :\L,r,\· hacl ,1 ,,_·omkrful poultry yard that ,,·as the delight nf tlw l hildn•n \\·ho, isitl·cl he!'. Hen· the,\· made the acquaint :rncl' nf tl1e Yai11 peacock strutting around among the othe1· IJ,\1'11,\-,,nl frJ\\-J,-;, often \,·ith his head turned that lw might look ,\t hi." 0\\·11 lwautitul plumage. :.\fan.\· a bn1sh for fighting llw hnu."e fl.,· ,1·,1,-; made fl'om his lonir. b1·ight-colo1·ecl fcatlw1·s. Th,· t·hildren abo lwal'cl heH'- The· clackinec· ut' '"·uinl'a" a;1d thE cluckiw~· of th<:: hen,, .-\nd the rno,te·r·., lrnll~·]oo~·c•r ;1., h2 tiptoe·" on the frnc('. lluntin,Q.· ~2.'llinea vµ:g,-; "·as a sport the,\· all enjo,1·ed, for it is a half 11·ild f haired woman \\·ith a mild plainti\·e face. She \ms quiet and unassuming in manner, and he1· patient but courageous spirit looked out from lw1· e~·0s. She k1w1\· what it \\·as to gi\·e he1· life for others; to li\·e entirely fo1· those she Ion-cl. She was a membe1· of the Stotts Cffck Daptist Cl 1 ul'ch. T\\"O of hei- children 1n°1·e lJ01·11 ill Eelltuck,\·. Henl'y Guthrie died the1·e. \\.i]liam came with his p,U'cnts to Ill diana. \Yhen a youn~: nrnn he met with ,111 accident ,\·hich caused an i1n-aliclism for the 1·est of his life, and on]~- on a ,·er.,· fo\1· occasions 1\·as lw e1·c1 · a ,,·ay from his honw again. About one mile awa)· from the Core homestead in l"nion tom1ship is an old histo1·ic Pn°sb~·terian Church that has outli\·cd its membership. It was one ()f the fkst built ill the tom1ship, and ,ms in aclnrnce of its til1l('. It is called Shiloh. In it,; fiourishing chl~·s it-. inf!Ul'lll'l' moldt'd for good tlw L'nti1·e community. It \1·a:,; hue that }Lu~- ,Jane Core whf.:'n a )·oung girl ,,·ent to chun·h. In those cla,1·:c; .Johnson Count,,· chilc!i·en ,,·el'e corn pc] led b:: din' necessit~· to p rnct ice econom,1· ill the care of their clothing, and }Lir,1 .fa1w. togc'tlwr 11itll her brnthers and other chilcln·n in tlw 1wighlywhoocl, \1·ould \\·alk "·ithin a short cli:-;Umn' of the chun·h c-,t!T,\ ing th,•ir ,.;;hoc,;, and on their 1·etu1·n ,,·r,tild ,11.tain n·mm·\, th,•m, tlrn:,; ;tdrling to tlw length of their :-;e1Tic'l'. :'lfa1·1· .Jane 11·as an attrnctin· ~- cla~·'s activities. She ,1lways found time to do what she \Yished, and no one e\·e1· heard her complain that her duties \\·e1·e too many 01· lrnrclensorne. She \\·as alert and active, both in bod~· and mind, and man;;1gecl to accomplish a great deal \\·ithout those arnuncl he1· rC'alizing ho\Y much she was doing. Ho\\'C'\·01·, she \Yas 1wn)1• ~o busy but that she could gffe a \\·,11•111 \\'elc:omC' to ,1ll \\·ho came into her home. -:\fary .Janc> \n1·c Fn!'s:.yth One of her grandsons, no\\' gTO\\·n into manhood, says the "clearest memories; of his life are of week-end visits to her home, \Yhich was a fairyland of pioneer lore." In the long, lo\\· log house there was an air of home-life, of peace, and of simple cornfo1t such as onlr a great mother can bring. The memory of her genernus slices of sno;,vy bread and golden blltter, and of her sitting in her low hickory rocking chair, knitting befo1·e a hugl' lop. f\i·e \d1ich blazed crncl crnckll'd in the old-fashioned fireplat('. bring to mine! the kind of a home that Itile~· has pictmed in his ''Otit to Ole! Aunt :\I,1r~··s." :.'.Ia1·>· Jane \\·eip:hccl le,-;s than OJh' hundJ'cd pound.". ancl her friends su1rn:tim1::·s said of he1· that ::'he did not han, tinv, to gain flesh. She \ms not inclined to ,·i.sit nor did ,-;he cn'l' t1·a,·,,J. her life being \\·holly d,,,·oted to lwr home and ib i11te1·csb. but when she \\·ent to church or elsewhere, she ,ni:-; there (111 time. This ability to a,·oicl being l,,tc in a hon1l' ,\·here thc1·,, \\·,ts so much to be accomplished \\'"·" J;u·g-el)· clue to lHT nnk1·l)·, nwthoclical management and he1· habit of llC'\'l'J' putting ,1:-:id1' things that could be clone in ach·ancc of the time n1 ccl1·cl. En,J':,· ~rm·me1,t for lw1· famil.,· \\',1.'-' brnuµ:ht nut and (·,1n·!'ull,,· in.-:1wcted clurii·g· thL' ('1·eni11.g· lwf ,\ dmmtless cournge and pel'SeYerance and o\·e1·came many dif ficultie:-:. ..\fte1· his rnothe1·'s death he bought the old home f;11•111. ,,·Iwrc he ffcnt to !in!. It \\·as hen· in 1879 that his ,1·ife died. After fiJteen ~-c,us' 1·csidence he sold the home and mcffecl ne,:11' Franklin, where his second daughte1·, :.\Lu·~·, cliecl. Later he ,,·ent to Indianapolis. He \\·as a membe1· of the Cl'1,trnl ..\n'nue :.\Iethoclist Chmch. The last fi\·e years of his lifr he \\·as confined to the house, \\·he1·e he \ras can·d Jor b.\· i1is claughte1·s, :.\Iellie and Oli,·e . .\lvllic· \1·as for the gn:>ate1· part of he1· life in Yel'y delicate lic,1lth. She•\\ as )wr father's housekeeper. \Yith a sweetness ol ,:,:iirit her life 1,·as li,·ecl gentlr and quietly in he1· home. Sl:,' 11a~ a men,lw!' ol the College An·nue Baptist Church. O!iH· !'eccin·cl her education in the public schools of Frnnklin and Butle1· Colleg-e. She was for a number of ~·ears ,111 ,·1 1;(.ivnt bookkec·pe1· for the \\'oolwol'th store in Inclian :lJ)(ili,,. l11 •.\ugust. Ell~. she \n'nt to );"ewcastle, Indiana, a,; rn,111c1:.r"1 rli the \\'oolwol'th stm·e in that city. \\"i11lll'lcl ~colt Core is a farrn.(•l' li,·ing ne,u· \\'hitelancl, l1:dia11,t. His sn11. Cu·! n.nrnm, is an alumnus of Fnrnklin (',iii,.\!.·"· Ile did post-gracluat(• \\01-J.;: in the l"niH'rsit~· of I,i,\ :l. :t11d ,1 as principal of tlw hi2.'h school at Odebolt, Iow,1. J11r thl'l'<' ,n',ns. In 1917 he lwcame supe1·intcnclent of the ,d11J•il~ nf Cc•1·nw11ia. Io\,·a, but resig;necl the follo\\·ing· Ap1·il ,:n,i 1 'nL·1wl as ,1. prirnte from Indiana in the l"nited States .-'\.r,11:,. Ai'tt·1· t,\·o months' ti·aining: in Ccrn1ps Ta~·lm· and ;-;1i,-;·id;1!1, lw ,,·as sent to Franc~• ,,·ith the :;,th DiYision, :.\lili Lu.,· Police. ancl ,,·as there transfe1'l'ed to the 0th Am1r Corps, \dJi('h consisted of the :26th, :2'.lth and 8:2cl Di,·isions. He \\ as ,;Ltlioncd at );"og·cnt, on!,\· a fe\\· miles from the German !in,>. for se1.·e1·al \\ c•eks. a!1cl saw adi\·e sen·ice as an :.\L P. for fifty-four clays in the A1·gonne drive. In :.\Im-ch, lDHl, he \\·,ts sent to Urnssels in the :.\L P. senice. After his re turn to the l"nitecl States he was sent to );"ewton, Iowa, whe1·e lw is ,:rnplo~·ecl as teacher of science in the schools there. fratcmally, he is a :.\Iason. Itanclolph COl'e has ahn1p been inte1·ested in agriculture. After taking a course in the Indianapolis Business College he became assistant manager of Schlosse1· Brothers stock ta1·rn nea1· Pl,\·mouth, Indiana. Late1· he was a teacher in the ;:,griculturnl school at :.\Ioosehea1·t, Illinois; also had 1:20 A HI:STORY OF THE F Cecil Sekh. a gnmclson of Jacob and Eliza Layman Core, ente1-ecl the l'. S. A. in Septembe1·, 1917, and was sent to Camp Taylor for training. He was assigned to the 151st Heg·iment, Company :\I. :18th DiYision, and was sent to Fnrnce ;rncl ,,·as with cli\·ision 18th Infantry when he went to the front. He \Vas in the battle of Soissons continuously fo1· five clays and in the St. :\Iihiel offensi\·e ancl the :\Ieuse-Argonne for two weeks, and afte1· being relieved for 1·est returned to the .\Ieuse-Argonne ~ovember 8th and ,vas there when the mu ended. ~ o\·ember 12th he sta1ted with his company in the march to Gen11any, a distance of three hundred miles. He crossed the :\Ioselle River into Germany December 1st, and the Rhine the 1:Jth, the diYision being the first American troops to go into Germany. Cecil was awarded the Croix de Guene with citation after accompanying an assaulting party under \·iolent machine gun Jin' in the Soi.ssons offensiw the latte1· part of Julr. l\Jli<. He ,,·as callee! one of the brnnst men in the cornpan:--. David Jacob Core J.!Te,,· to nwnhoocl \\"hile in the old Core homestead. He ,rn,; maniecl in l/ Here he bought a farm that ,,·as a Yi1·gin fOl'est, and on it he spent the last t\rent~·-six yeai·s of his life. He c-leared the land of trees and stumps, made the rails that fenced it, built the farm buildings and drained the land. He made it pro ductiw and in n'turn i~ suppol'tecl him in ease and comfort in his old age. Robert Jacob, his eldest son, began teaching school before he was seventeen years of age. He was ready for the sopho- A HL~TORY OF THE FnR:;YTfI FA'.\IIL Y 1:.23 mo1·e yea1· in Indiana l'ni\·e1·sity \\·hen he began his \\·ork as teache1·. He t;:iught c:ontinuously fo1· t"·el\·e ye;:i1·s with the exception of one ~·ear \\·hic:h he :-:pent in the uni\·ersity. :.\Io1·e than half of this time he was lJl'incipal of schools in Johnson, :.\I01·1.urn ancl Da\·icss Counties. In l~H)-1 he remoYed with his famil~· to Outlook, \\'ashing-ton. He purchased an inigated rnnch in the Yakima ·valley, where they no,v reside. His daughter, Rub.';, finished her education in Outlook, when· she latel' manied and has since lived on a ranch nea1· Outlook. Susie CO!'e receiwcl her college training in the State Cni\·e1·sity of \Yashington, and in the State Xo1wal School at Ellenbmg. She holds a teache1·'s state certifi::-ate for the state of Washington. Sinc:e 191:2 she has served as principal in the schools of the state. In Scptembe1·, 1918, she received an appointment from the g·o\·ei·nment to teach at Balboa in the Panama Canal zone. She spent the Christmas rncation crnising down the coast of South .-\meric-a and up the ChagTes Ri,·e1· far into the tropical jungles. She ,·isited a 1rnti\·e ,·il lage ·where a white ,,·onrnn bad ne,·er lwen seen. She is an accomplished musician, and is fond of h0rscb,1ck riding and sw1rnmmg. Leslie Core graduated from the Outlook high school with the highest honors in his class. He represented the school in the state oratorical contest that won the championship o,·er the twelve high schools of the entire Yakima Valley. He entered the Cnited States Army at Camp F1·emont near San Frnncisco in September, 1918, and ,vas assigned to Company G, 12th Infantry. His regiment was sent to Camp l\Iills near New York. They had their overseas equipment issued to them, had their packs made up and were ready to board the troop ship when the armistice was signed, and 01·de1·s came not to embark. Afte1· his discharge Leslie pm·chasecl a ranch near Outlook. LC\\' S. Core, second son of Da\·id Core, did high school WOl'k at ::\Iartins\·ille and Da1n-ille, Indiana. He held a license to teach \Yhen sixteen years old, and taught for t-wenty-th1·ee years, \Yorking on a fa1·m clm·ing the summer, clearing the land and draining it. In 1810 he \\·as nominated for audito1· of DaYiess County, Indiana, on the Democratic ticket and was elected by a large majority. The county is normally Republican. He held the oflice for six years, after which he returned to his farm near Oden. His daughter, Cleo, is \\·ell educated. She attended the State X 01·mal at Terre Haute, and held a license to teach when fifteen years of age. FJ'Om that time she ,vas continu- ously in school as teachel' and studc>nt in the State :'\ol'mal and Business College at Tene Haute until 191:2. She then entel'ed the c-ounty auclito1·':,; olliu• as her fathel''s cll0 puty, 1Yhel'e she remained four year,-c. The> next t\\'O ~·ccu·s :she spent fo·st in school at '\'alparni"o and Chicago and latel' as teache1· in T.none. Penn.-;~·l\·,mia, ancl in a bu:,;iness college in Plainfield, :'\e\\. Je1·sr:.·· She '.\·a:,; rnaniecl in Jul)·, 1918. He1· husband Rode1·ick ,~:right, is an ,wiato1· cnplo:,ed by the go,·ernrnent to do experimental work at the HaE1pton, Vi1· ginia, field during the war. He is scCl'etal'y of the Gl'aham AYiation Coq)oration in E,·ans\·ille. Indiana, and has had a wide experience as an ayiato1·. Ruth, the youngest child of Lew Co1·e, is a student in the state uni,·ersity at Bloomington, Indiana. 1:27 Among- the For;e;yths \\·horn we delight to honol', and whose mcmo1·y \\·e cl es ire to presern', is James, the fifth child of James and .Jennie Sturg·eon Forsyth. Thel'e al'e many who remernbe1· him ~rnd his pleasing- personality. He was a young man of nineteen ~·c2n·s ,vhen he came to Indiana. On Febrn a1·y Hi, rn:1,, he manied Ellen nagsclale. She was a siste1· of }Lwy Ra,.)'sdalc, \',horn his brother, Thoma5, rnal'l'ied. They wel'l' daug·htei·s of Fredel'ick':' and S,uah Hunter Ragsdale. Although James had no children of his own, he was ve1-y fond of children, and th0.\· ,,·e1·e delig·hted with him, for he always took an inte1·est in thei1· spol'ts. He ,,·as devoted to his ' Ft·cdl'l'i(':, R ..1'..'.·:--.da\(} \\"n,s the :-'nn <,f Cndfl'ey Ra·..rsdale, who ser\'cd prnminl'ntly in the \\ar (Jf the H.t'\'nluti, n. 1Ie lt,ft \\"illiarn c1nd :.\Ian:':-: enlk''...>.:(' to (1 nter the al'my. Ht., caml! 1Ylth his pan•nts ti; the• L.. nited :;.talc>~ frnm Scotland. They landed on the coast of Vir:...:"inia in the --Jlrin~ of 1-;--;-1, After the 11·a1· Gndfrey caml' to Kentucky, and mal'ri('d Elizabeth },litehdl 0f Co\·in'.lt('n. Hi:- 1,,,dy rc-:ts. urnkr the corner of Lon~ I-tun Chul'ch in .Jeffcl'~on Cnunt:,·. h:,:ntuck:,:. 1:2.S A HI:".TORY OF TIIE FOE:".YTH FA:\IILY nephews and nieces to \\·horn he \\·as al\\·a~·s companionable. and by them he was much lo\·ed. His chee1·y tempentment inspired the low of the ~·ounµ:. and his \Yholesorne interest in whateYer concerned them kept his heart ~-outhful. and made him quite as many friends among the young· as those of mo1·c, mature years. Viola Eaton. a niece of his wife, came into his home at the age of six yeai·s arnl 1·emainccl there until hL·1· maniag·e. Dm· ing these years sh,: \\·as his petted fa\·01·ite and his almost houl'ly companion. Thei·e \\·as not a place on his farm that this child did not go \\·ith him. He lo\·ed he1· as his o,,·n dau!lhter, and took p1·ide in her education. To he1· he was all that was fine, noble and good. Delo,\· is a tribute to him written by he1· the last year of her life, which shows the esteem in ·which she held him: A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 129 Ilo\\·n the lineal line of David Forsyth, the first came .James, a l:ntndson of Da\·id. He was a Kentuckian, a loyal and blue-blooded son of the soil. A man of fine ideals and sterling qualities. Honesty and honol' wel'e his watchwo1·d, clean in thought and speech, kind of heart, s>·mpathetic almost to a fault. As no chilcken were gfren to him and his ,,·ife, it is the unspeakable pleasure of one who knew him as a fathei· to record some traits in his splendid character. It is quite common for the heart to grnw old. \Ve are sometimes made sol'l'y for one who has allo\ved time to rnb him of the delightful things that life offer,;-the .-wcct spirit, the happy laugh and jolly natm·e that draws children and young· people to him. Cncle .James was loved and revered by the young people of his church, in the neighborhood and among my young friends. He ,,·as ideal in spirit, young· in heart, firm in purpose, all culminating· in a Chri,,tian charncte1· of which any one might be proud. He never :~1·cw angTy, 11e\·er impatient, never scolded, seldom reproved, but usually found .,ome \\·ay to ,1·in me to do what he ,vanted through my love fo1· him. He ,,·as m~· conl!'acle thrnug·h many happy years. Those \\·ho wc,1·c childn'n \\·hen they \·isited him will not forg:et the spring: from \\·hich the watel' was taken that was used in his home. This spring was 1·eached by a pictul'esque path through forc>st trees and over a winding stream fed by the spring. This \\·as a circ:ulal' basin, small but deep, and fillec: around with stones. The bottom \YaS co\·el'ed with l-!'l'a\·el \\·hich spal'kll'cl beneath the ,,·ater when the sunbeams touched it. All \\·ill 1·cmcmbe1· how C'heerily he called to them to c·onw and g·o with him to the spring. How quick!:,'. he \miked, laughing and talking all the time to the children at his heels. A long-handled goul'd dippe1· was always at the s1)l'ing, and no \\·ate1· c,\·er tasted so good from any other drinking: cup. The water was c,\·e1· clear, cold and unfailing. \Veils might dr~· up, but ne\·e1· Cncle James' spring. The sc>remt:,· and sweetness of his daily life al'e a beautiful nwmory and a lasting: inspiration to all those who came unde1· his influence. It is one of the best l'ev.:ards of a life such as he lived, that it leavens all other lives that come in close touch with it and lifts thei1· thoughts to higher levels. His charac ter \\·as markc>d \\·ith simplicity of manners and sympathy \\·ith fine ideals. With a gentleness and dignity that were seldom evel' rntfled he combined a winning speech and man- 11e1· that made e\·ery one whom he met a friend. His house, which stood back of a grove of forest trees, was the embodiment of the ideal Kentucky home. In it there was genuine hospitality. 1:10 A HI~TOitY OF THE Fon~YTH FA'.\IJLY The following ,ms taken from a notice in the Franklin press at tJ:ie time of his death: "}fr. Fors~·th was one of Johnson County's oldest and best citizens. It \\·as by the industry and integrity of such men as he that our counti·~· ,,·ith all its resomces of ,1·ealth and intelligence has emerged from the wilderness that it \\·as ,1·hen :\fr. Forsyth first came to it. He was successful in acqui1·ing ,n.0 alth and was libenll in his confributions to ,,·orthy causes. He ,,·as a firm friend of Franklin Colleg·e, and \\·as fo1· se1·eral ~-ears a member of the college board. He contributed liberall~· to the support of the institution, and the college owes him a debt of gi-atitude. His porti-ait hangs on its chapel ,1·alls.'' For seYeral years he was 1wesident of the Fi1·st :\"ational Dank at Fnmklin. In 1877 o\\·ing to a rnisu::;e of the funds b~- the cashier the bank failed. This had a fa1·-reaching effect upon the people of Johnson County. .James lo.st hem·ily but had in part reco,·ered from the Jos., at the time of his death. He "·as ah,·ays a tl1l'ift~· man, and the hc{bit of ,,·asting. anything that was useful he neYer acqui1wl. 111 no othe!' in c-:tance did he show his Scotch cha!'actcl'istics mon.' than in hi., ecu·eful manageme1°t. His th!'i ft 11·a:-; tempL'1·anwntal ratlH'J' than acquired. He had a greate:· humor than his brothe1·, Thomas, hut \1·,1s like him in that whate1·e1· he had in his home or on hi::; farm must be the best he could obtain. He ne1·e1· 1rn1·chased a poo1· article of anything. This trait seemed to belong to all the earl)· Fol'syths. James Forsyth loaned money to young and old. and he never made it hanl fo1· the bo1Towel'. Throug:h this help many a man was enabled to buy and pay for hi., home. He was a membe1· of the Fin:t :\It. Pleasant Baptist Chmch located four miles southwest of Fl'anklin. He was baptized into its fellowship in 1843 by John Reese, a noted and able minister of the chul'ch at that time. He was early 01·dained as a deacon and for more than forty yea1·s was one of the strongest supporters of the church. He sha1·ed in its strug gles and early development, serving it as trustee, elder and as leader in its singing and other sen·ices. He was at all times a liberal contributor to all its needs helping it to become one of the strong forces fo1· good in the community. In vie,,· of A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F AI\IILY 131 the church in its great solitude has been laid to its evel'lasting rest all that could die of such a character. The honors that came to him we1·e unsought and we1·e but the spontaneous recognition of his exceptional worth as a gifted, upriµ:ht, hig·h-minded gentleman, unspoiled by prns pe1·ity, clemocrntic in his tastes, sweet-natured, faithful. To those \Yho knew him ,,·ell his own character and all that he achien'd an' h;:; test memoriab. Thoma:s Forsyth Thomas Forsyth, the second son and sixth child of James Forsyth and Jennie Sturgeon Fo1·syth, was born near Floyde's Fork, Jefferson County, Kentucky, January 23, 1816. His father died ,vhen he was five years old. His three sisters, ac cording to the custom of that day, married early. and left him to take a daughter's as well as a son's place in the home. Thus when a child he was trained not only in outdoor farm work 1:3:2 1-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:\IILY bctt in all the knm,.-n arts of domestic science. \Yhile Blake, tl1e poet and artist, had not yet written the inspin,tional senti ment, "\Yho s\\·eep;c a room make that and the action fine." there is no doubt th;;•t his sweeping, cookin1r and dairying "·ere fine!~· done. In late1· ~·ears when lw \\'as left alone \\·ith a family of small child!'en this accomplishment sel'wd him in good stead. His childl'en remembel' all his housekeeping, in cluding ewn the bakirg, as supe1·ior in neatness and qualit~-. \Yhen he \Yas sixteen his mother sold the home in Kentud)· and moYed to Indiana. In Kentuck~· the famib· owned slan:>s. Thomas often told of a black man he had sold fo1· fiye hundn'cl dollars. \\'ith pal't of this rnone~- he bought in Indiana tlnec• hundred and fifty ;:ines of rich go\·e1·nrnent Janel. The For S,';ths from the be12:inning h;.we ahn,~-s been l0Ye1·s and tillers of the soil. Thomas \Yas no exception. He \\·as an aclol'el' of nature. The sp1·inging turf beneath his feet. the g·1·eat trees o\'el'heacl and all the manifold aspects of the gTeat mothe1··,, face filled him \\·ith delight. This intense lo\·e of the outdoor world, together \1·ith his .io)' in his \Yo1·k made him not onl:: content to be a farmer all hi:, da~-,~. hut bJ'ou,1.rht him succe"" in his chosen line. In 1887 he manied :-far~· R. R;1g·sdak. cLrng·htf•J' of Frecl el'ick and Sarah Hunter Ragsdale. One ~-ea1· latt·r he and his bride mo\·ed to a farm he owned three miles \\·est of T1·afal12·;.u. He li\·ed in this homestead until t\YO yea1·s befo1·c his death. He \\·as of a home Joying natui·e and neYer ciwecl to frawl far from his own four walls. He was ne\·er in but the th1·ee states-Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. In the latter state at different times he Yisitecl his sister, :.\Iargaret Fo1·syth Bridg:rs. He returned to his childhood home in Kentuck~- once :,ftrr a fo1t~· years' absence. The house that had sheltered him \\·hen a boy had been ton1 away, lea\·ing only the foundation stones. He recalled exactly the location of the old spring from \\"hich as a boy he had ca1Tied many hundreds of buckets of watcl'. He stood on the site of the old house, with his brnther James, who did not belie\·e he could recall its location, and looking down the hill near \,-here a fine oak tree stood (grown since he had left) said, "There's where it used to be when I was a bo,v." Hallowed with memories and associations that touched the heart, \\'hat scenes this trip mnst haYe recalled. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 13:3 His first \·isit to Indianapolis was made in the early sixties \\·hen he and othen were subpcenaed to attend a trial taken the1·e by a change of venue. This \\·as a great e\·ent and much talked of in the neighborhood. It was the general feeling that it \\·ould be a l1cwdship for these men to be compelled to leave their homes for seYeral days and make this frip of twenty fiye miles. The impression this visit had on some of those who had neve1· seen the city was similar to that of Judge Keaton of Xi1H?\·eh, Indiana, who, after walking for the first time through \Vashington sti·eet of Indianapolis, said: "It is im possible for all of the people going up and down that street to ha\·e business." Thomas Fo1·syth ,vas not only contented to stay at home but he was so interested in his work that he was unwilling to hand it over to hirelings. He was like the Hillock farme1· in Scotland, who said to some tom·ists, "You can tra\·el aroun' the world just as you please, while I maun wol'!, on because I cannot affo1·d to stop;" when in reality he was \\·orth fift:; thousand dollars and could ha\·e bought out the tom·ists. Thomas Forsyth boug·ht tluee hundred and fifty acres of his farm from the gowrnment. The land lying north of the mad in l'nion to\\·nship he bought from Judge Robert :.\Ioore, fathL·l' of the late J. J. :.\Ioore, paying him fiw dollars pe1· acre. The same Scotch energy and vision that changed the Rin·r Cl~·de from a sluggish stream to the greatest of com mei·cial highways changed his farm from its primitive condi tion to the pel'fect state of cultirntion. Everything was trim and in order; crops clean and free from weeds; every hill of corn planted in a straight line: fences in perfect repair. Thomas Forsyth ,ms quick in his mo,·ements, and though a small man did a prodigious amount of wo1·k. He fenced his entire farm himself, even to cutting down the frees and split ting the rails. When one looked at the farm in its perfection and reflected upon the amount of time, labor. strength and thought expended to turn it from its primitive state, one was reminded of the story of the American sailing down the River Clyde and comparing it disparagingly to the Hudson, Missis sippi, and Ohio Rive1·s. The Scotch sailor listened to the eulogy till he was tired, then said: "Ye hae grand rivers nadout, and I wadna misdoot a word ye hae said, but ye maun 1:31 A HISTORY OF TI!E F(J!cSYTil FA.\IILY min' that God made the rin'I'S ye speak o· but ,,·e made the Clyde." So ,,·ith Thomas Fo1·s)·th's farm one \,·as inclined to think that God made the soil but Thomas made the farm. A fine taste that could at once detect the good from the bad was innate in him. Onl)· the be,-;t ,-;ati,-;ficcl him. \Ylrnten,1· he chose must be of the best; \drntew1· lw clicl must lJe done in the best \Yay kno\\·n. The cattle he bought for his farm mu;;t be choice and the pasture on \\·hich they in·azecl must be the fine,t that culti,·ation could produce. H(' had a strong cffe1· sion to white cattle, and ,nrnlcl not ha,·c one on his fa1·m. Onl,,· his chilcl1·en knew that he did not consickr them a line b1·ec,d. Xothing ,ms e,·er allowed to be \\·astecl on his form. l'\ en the n·urnbs from his table must be f,,cl to tih:> chickens 01· thro\\·n to the birds. Time tllso ,,·c1s preciou:-: and ,,·a.--; not tn be wasted. His children must 1·eacl 01· ,rnl'k at sonwthing useful. He himself neYer idled awa.,· a rnonwnt. and this in dust1·r and thrift, coupled \\·ith pe1·:-:e, e1·ancl' and energr. ,,·e1'(' at the 1·oot of his >·uccE>Ss. Ifr \,·as a nrnst nwthoclical llla!l. and his regular habits \H'l'L' nrn,r nwl'l' nrnni!'ust than ,,·hl'll lw ,,·as a',nty from hume. Fom· o'clnck in tlw afternoon ,1·;1:--, lh,' · c01Tect time to sta1t for lwnw ,,·lwth<'J' h,· ,,·,t:-: ,nr,i~ 011 liu,i ness 01· on a \·isit. The ,,·hole da.,· hacl l>,·c>n on(_' of ,i,--; much reg:ul;uity as it ::-,pent at his usual t,t.,ks. He 1,·as Yery considc•ratc of all anim,,k Ho\Y carefully he drn,·e his ca1Tiag-e horses. They \H're JHTel' tin,cl. Sure])·, if horses think, the:,; must often h,m' thought th<'il' !in•,.; hacl fallen in pleasant places. He ,nis their friend and the~- kJH'\\. it. ..\fter he no longe1· drnn' a caniage and most of his chil dren ,,:e1·e gone, a man wanted to bu~- one of the horse". After being assured that the horse 1rnulcl h,n·e i:rood care he let him go. T,rn )·ears later thi-, hcm.;c' \\·,is found ,--;tanding: at the gate as if begging· to get inside. \Yith tear:-; in hi,; eyes Thomas hastily opened the gate and gan' the old ho1·,-;e a hearty welc:ome. There is no part of his fann so filled ,,·ith happ~- memories as the old sugar camp. It was a great ,,·inter picnic-ground for his children who were ever alcl't in the early sp1·ing fo1· the first sap to come, and were usually the fhst to disco,·er it and excitedly to break the news, "The sugar \Yater is nm ning." Then their father would take the sap buckets which had been stored and beqin deaning· them. He sune1·intendcd A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F,UIILY 1:35 all the !)l'epanltion, in his cairn manner. The fai·m sled was brought out, and strong planks laid o\·er it to haul the buckets and collect the sap from the trees. The ride o\·e1· the hills, falling ott' occasiornillr on the soft gTound, was the delight of the children. The liills, the clear sky of the early spring, the crisp ai1·, the sunshine and roaring camp-fin,, the pure sap dripping in the clean buckets, all made a scene of inesistibie allu1·ement and exhilaration. Thei1· father tapped the trees him:,;elf. dro\·c in the clc,an spikes and placed the clean uuck ets underneath to catch the sap . •.\n earlier method of catching the wate1· was the he,,·n t1·ou1rh. Thesl' ,n·1·e made from blocks of \\·ood about t\Y0 and a lrnlf feet in Jc,ngU:. cut from the body of a t1·ee. They we1·e :,;plii: in the ccnte1· and hc\\'11 out leaYing a trnui-.d1 of t,,·o 01· th1·c'c 1t,Illons' cap,H:it~·. These trnughs \H'l'e turned on thei1· foe('" at the clo:-;e of the season, and ldl for the next ~-car's Aftcl' the kettles 1n.,1·c filled and the fire kindled it \\'aS w·, <'!' all The \\·i,;e.,t man could a~k no 11101·e of fate Than to be ,imple, mocle~t, rn;rnl>·• tJ'ue, Safe from the man>·• honol'ed br the fe\\·, :\"othinJ.(' to court in chul'ch. 01· \1·01·lr! Ol' ~rate, But imn1nll,· in ~enct to h0 (!Teat. \\'hile the pan:nts of .J olm Thoma,; Foi·,;nh had on!.\· the me,1ge1· Yillage school education of theil' clay, the>· belieYecl in a broad and libernl one. Tlw>· did mw:h for tlwmseln•s b)· reacting and stud::; ,rnd, b)· cxampll' and c011Yc1·sation, !eel their children to an ideal of cultun>, and to fc·el in tlrnt cL,,\· of hanl \\·01·k and small regard fen· intellectual pu1·suib. that obtain ing an education was a laudable ,rnd prnctiud ambition. \Yhen John Thomas. the eldest rnn of the famil:,. \,·a,; seYenteen, he ,,·as sent to Detlrnn>· Collt•ge, \'iqrinia. It \\',1s on the ach·ice of J. C. }Iiller, for nrnnr yeai·s ,1 mini.stc'l' in the Disciples Chul'ch, that Dcthanr \\·,1,; sclcctc•cl. :\liller \,·a::; at that time just ente1·ing his !if,, \\·ork, ,mcl he ::;,rn· in >·oung Fo1· s>·th a man of promise. Alexancicl' Campbell \\·,1,; pre::;idc•nt 01' Dethan:, ColLeg:e in 1~5-:S ,,·hen .John Thomas entered the school. \\'hile here he lx•carne a nwrnlw1· oi' tlw Christian or Disciplc>s Chu1·ch. This school pnioc\ \\·as ,111 l';1oclwl tinw in his Ii f(•. The F01·syths, \\·ith !Jut fl'\\. c·~L'l'Pt ion.~. hacl lJ('l 'll Democ'l',1 b. In Ken tuck)· they had O\\·necl s!an'::; ,me! \\ l'l'C' not opposed to the institution. At collt0 gc those qm•sticm,; of abolition and state's rights that eYentuall~· led to tlw Ci\·il \\'ar, ,n•1·e being· \\·a1·rnly discussed. Tlwsc debates led him to sec> sLwery in a l1e\\' light, and lw 1·etun1ecl to hi::; honw c011Yincccl that it \\·as ,nong·, and fo1· the 1·est of his life he \\·as a Republican. Afte1· b,·o ~-e,ws at Dethan>· he n•turnecl home and maniccl Luc_\· H. Keaton of Xine\·eh, Indiana. His earl>· ma1Tied life ,\·as spent on the farn1 \\·here his brotlwl'. ,Janws Han·e>·· afte1· \\·arcl li\·ecl. This farm \\·as the first Johnson County home for the poor. The house, a brick one of two rnorns and painted \\·hite, stood some distance northeast of the p1·psent home of the late J. H. Fo1·s>·th. The approach to the house \\'as through a groYe of fo1·est trees. In the winter John Thomas taught in the district schools. The college youth was not sat isfied. howeYer, with this n1ral life, so afte1· some years he moved to Franklin, where he established a small commercial school. Ill health forced him to return to the country. He ·went into a pionee1· cabin on a farm where his younger brother now liYes. Throug·h e\·ery part of the rnde cabin he .-\ HISTORY OF THE FmtSYTH FA'.\IILY 1:rn could get th2 pure air he so much needed. \\'hen he gTe,,· bet te1· he returned to Franklin. but later pm·chased a dry goods ,;tore in :'.\inen,h, where he li,·ed for sen1 1·al years. From there he ,n·nt to Indianapolis and at once became connected \,·ith the Balcl\\·in music sto1·e. .\fter some years he went into business fo1· himself. In ~fay, 1878, he met with an acci dent causing injuries that resulted in his death eighteen months later. ~uch facts tell but mec1gcrly the life of .John Thomas For syth. He \\ as c, rn He \\·as especially well kno,n1 as a compose!' of childl'en's music, also of new music fo1· old f;worite songs. He felt him self intensely an American and a Hoosie1· and it \Yas a che1· ished plan of some da,1: to ,,Tite a song to the gentle hills and ]oye]y streams of Indiana, but no one had said fOl' him in ,·erse just what he ,rnnted to express. :\fr. Rile~·•s ,,·ol'k made a strong appeal to him and he ,note music for sewral of his well-known poems, among them "There, Little Girl, Don't C1·y." The Yitai quality of folk music alm,1ys touched his enthusi asm and he took gTeat pleasure in ananging· a numbe1· of the old singing games published unde1· the title of "Old Songs for Young •..\merica." In a set of piano study books he made ex tensi,·e use of the folk music of different nations. His compositions included piano pieces, songs and music fol' 0l'gan and stringed instnirnents. :\Iany of his best com positions we1·e unpublished. Clai·ence Forsyth did not pel'mit his cnn1 occupation to absol'b all his inte1·ests. He ,,·as uncommonly well informed · and alert to all public mo,·ements. When he ,,·ent to lrYington he fo1·esaw a lal'ge suburban de ,·L'!opment. He bought what those \\·ho k1w,Y the ground thought a jungle along the banks of the stn·am, Pleasant Run. He laid it off in large lots and sold them \Yith restl'icted build ing conditions. Cpon one of these lots he built his o,,·n home. l'nder his plan a park-like settlement ,,·as de,·eloped thel'e. He was an exfremely modest man, seldom playing in pub lic. He always said the1·e we1·e few ai-tists good enough to sing and play fo1· the public, but thel'e ,,·ere many people \\·ho could be taught music for their own enjoyment and for the influence it had on their own li,·es and that most child1·en should gro\\· up under its influence. The following lines are from the pen of Hilton l'. Brown at the time of his death: A useful and sterling citizen has passed away in the death of Clarence Forsyth. He was a musician of far more than ordinary talent and was more than a musician. His interests were numerous and always soundly expressed. Had he sought the limelight he might have been famous. But he preferred the quiet but effectiYe work of a teacher. He had a fine scorn for mere personal publicity as such. He had un usual powers of org·anization and few men in their community have done more for their chosen art in a permanent way than he did. There A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 111 was nothing shoddy 01· showy in his make up, and in the Indianapolis School of }Iusic '>Nhich he 01·ganized and in all his eadier and later ,rnrk as instructor and composer he gave evidence of the qualities which made for strong citizenship aboYe othe1· things. The conventions of life did not trouble him and for most part he ignored them. But he had a hiµ:h appreciation for merit in good work, ,vhethe1· in art, agTiculture, athletics or daily life. He had a far-seeing· mind and habitually looked beyond the immediate present 01· narrnw environment. He loved his state and country and was a true patriot. J. H. Forsyth James Han·ey was born at the family home June. 184-L As a lad his eal"ly education ,vas 1·eceived in the neighborhood schools from such teachers as John C. :\1iller, Joseph J. Moore, A. V. Pendleton and his elder brother, John Thomas. As a young man he attended Hopewell Academy, which in that day sened Johnson County ably as an institution of higher learn mg·. He ah,·ays e\·incecl much interest in music. possessing as he did a teno1· \·oice of excellent quality. as m 0II 11.s being a perfo1·rne1· on the guitai· and organ. Those \\·ere the days of the old-fashioned singing school. and tlw .-;ub.ivct oi' this sketch achien)cl quite a 1·eputation as an in:,;trnctur in the art of sing mg. It was in Febn1c11·y, 1869, at Franklin, Indiana, that he \\·a:,; married to Jessie F. Ki1·tley. They made thei1· home one mile nol'th of Trafalga1·. :.\Iiss Ki1tley \,·as born in Ta:-·101· County, Kentucky, in 1845. On the death of her parents she came to Indiana with he1· brother, J. S. Ki1tle>·· in 186:2, and for se\·eral years taught school. She ,1:as k11mn1 as a ,\·oman of more than ordinary ability, both as to natu1·al endoffment and intellectual cultme. He1· death occmTed }larch :2'i-. 1881). James H. Fors~-th was manied again in ::\"o,·ernbe1·. 188:2. to S. Katherine Frazier of Shelbr Count>·· Kentucky. :.\fiss F1·nier ,\·as born in December. 1845. The :,:ear pi·e\·iou;-; tu her maniage she taught in the Trafalgar public schools. then unde1· the trnsteeship of \\'illiarn H ..Jeffries. Among' the many pupils uncle1· her care ,,-ere the l\HJ \\·ho \1·en' later tn become her loyal and de\·oted step-chilcl!·cn. She is a \\'Oman of gentle n!finement. The s1\·eetne,;s of her life \Yith J. H. FOl'syth can ne\·er be forgotten by tltnse \1·ho knew what it 1\·as. She helped make thei1· home a place ,\-hel'e friends lo,·ed to linge1·. Years ag-o \1·hen his fathe1· ,\·ent the1·e an im·alid she arose, a queen to the situation. Two years she ga\·e up her own freedom that he might ne\·e1· fol' one moment be neglected. She learned the thini):s he liked best, and she supplied them, and not once in two year:,; did she e\·ei· show the least impatience 01· manifest any desire to get away from the responsibility. He was hei· fathe1· be cause he was her husband's fathe1·, just as his children were hers. She was in perfect sympathy \,·ith her husband in the church and in eYery moYement that \\·as helpful and fo1· the happiness of the people in the community in ,Yhich they li,·ed. J. H. Forsyth hnd often expressed a wish that he might be useful to the close of his life. The day of his death had been liwd in its usual way, and at its close when his life suddenly went out there was not a task left unfinished. His ,vas a complete and well-rounded life. It was Decembe1· 6, 1917, when the message went to his neighbors and his friends that ,--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA!IIILY lJ:} he had passed a ,n1y, and e,·e1'Y one said: "A good man has g:one." B. F. Daily once said of his nephe\\·, Luther Forsyth, that "he had held the name Forsyth high." Xot in all the centu1·ies of Forsyth history did ,my one e,·er hold the name higher than clicl J. H. Fo1·syth. His character was of the kind that \\·ill !i,·e in a community when he is no longer seen among his friends. His life was pure, his ideals high. He newr needed to explain eithe1· his c011\'e1·sation or his life. His friends trnsted him. They kne"· his rngged, honest cha1·acter, that it was fme'and just and generous, and that his e,·ery act was sincL'l'e and in the interest of whateve1· was uplifting and g·ooc1. He newr did things with a selfish moti,·e. He m:1s gener ous ,,·ith his friends ancl neighbo1·s. Years ago when his mother died lea,·ing sen•ral small children this "Big B1·othe1·" was to them a power of strength. They felt that in him they lrncl a friend, a protec:to1·, who \\·ould never fail them. This feeling· towa1·d then· brnther stayed with them through all clw years. His tho1whtfulness for them was shown in that he ah,·,\~·s \\ anted to share \\·ith his brother, :.\Iilton, \Yho liH'cl near him. ,,·hatew1· he. had. He could not be happy in the sole possession of good things he thought his brothe1· lacked. He \\·a:-; s~·mpathetic \\·ith youth. He liked to haw young people in his home and they enjoyed him. Youth with him was not a thing· of :-:ears, but a quality of heart and soul. One did not think of him as e\·ei· being· old. Years did not soLll" him for he kept his head young and full of joy by ahrnrs being inte1·ested in ,,·hate,·er was of inte1·est to others. His greeting ,n1s ahrnys pleasant, and with a smile on his face. The1·e ,,·as a cordialitr in his ,,·elcome into his home, and e,·e1·:-· guest \\'<1S a welcome one. Prnbably no man in his community ,,·as so \\·ell read. He was educated and cultured through a life spent in useful read ing. His mind \\·as well stored with all the things of interest both in his state and nation. He read good books, magazines and papers, political, fa1·rn and religious. A friend said it was a joy to sit at his library table where there was always such a vai·iety of good things to 1·ead that one never grew tired. Through years of such reading he filled his brain with knowledge and ideas. and made use of this information with a keen observation to broaden his life. His industry and 1--1-1 A HISTORY OF THE FClR:-'.YTH FA:\IILY physical energy were most 1·emarkable. He ne,·er looked for an easy task, nor did he en~r shift to others the more difli cult duties. He was a leader in e,·er,\· field of actiYity in \\·hich he ,\·as engaged. His natlll'e clernanckd a life of acti\· ity fo1· happiness. His farm was a model of neatness. and ,,·hate\·er \\·as clone there must be \Yell clone. It \\·as often said in jest of him that he had the faith in his mn1 ability to think that no one else could do a thing on the farm as \\'ell as he. He did kno,\· that whatever he did \\·ould be done in the best \\·ay he knew. He ,,·as ca1·eful in the details. The soft ,niter and the drinking ,,·ate1· buckets in his kitc:hen ,n°1·e neYe1· al]O\n·d to be empty. The ,,·ood and kindling were ah,·ays read,\· pre pared for the fire. A gate must s,Ying on both hinges, bn1sh must not accumulate in his barn_\·anl, and the grnss in it must not be trampled e,·en by the horse he d1·0\·e. For many years he ,Yas a Republican of st1·ong com·ic tions. In religioi1 he \\·as the soul of faithfulness. He al,,·a,\·s filled an impo1·tant position in the chun·h to which he g,=n-e his strnng devotion, being for man,\· .\·ears an elder of great zeal and efficiency. The '·stranger in the gates" ,Yas an ob _ject of his thought and attention. He s,_rn· that lw ,,·a,; made to feel welcome and at home. His n'ligion was neither dog matic nor sectarian. The church to him meant an institution of God to teach the g1·eat fundamental truths leading to a highe1· life. It meant a life of 1mselfishness, serYice and sac rifice. The presence of such a man means much in the com munity in which he li,·es. He ,Yields an inf1uence while li\'ing fa1· g1·eater than he can corn1)l'ehencl, and it is an influence that li\'es after him. His daughter, ::\Iaude Lenore, recei\·ecl her early educa tion in the Trafalgar schools and had one ~-ea1· in the Frank lin high school. Later she attended Butler College at Indian apolis for two years. A low for music led her to a study of the piano. For several years she de\'oted he1· energy largely to teaching music among the young people of her home com munity. Her maniage to T. A. Hall of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, occurred at he1· home June 22, 1893. The wed ding ,vas the culmination of a college romance begun at But ler. Mr. Hall is a minister and an alumnus of the college, .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\IILY 1-15 h,Fing 1·ecei\·ed both of the degrees A. D. and A. }I. He has held successful pastorates in Indiana at Cente1Tille, Conners \·ille, :Hilton. Oxfo1·d, Tiensselael', Clinton and P1·inceton, and in Illinois at Lnnence\·ille. Dm·ing the year 1915 he was !!Jcatecl at Pol'tage La Prai1·ie, :.\Ianitoba, Canada. Hai·olcl, their eldest son, \\'as born in Centerville, Indiana, ",ncl died by accidental dl'O\~·ning in the Whitewater C,rnal at Robert Hall Conncrs,·ille, Indiana. Harold was an extremely attractive child and his tragic death was a great shock to all. James was born in }Iilton, Indiana. He received his edu cation in the public schools and at Purdue University. He wanted to enlist fo1· C S. se1·vice during the months fol lowing his brother's enlistment, but felt it his duty to remain ,1.t home when he saw the effect upon his mother of his broth er's going away. In Septernbe1· he enlisted in the S. A. T. C. lHi .-\. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA.'.\l!LY at Purdue. He ,,·as in the hospital for weeks at Lafayette and Fort Benjamin Hanison, a ,·ictim of the influenza epi demic. He was ma1Tied in 1919. In his chosen line of \\·ork as a business man he has the determination and energr that b1·ings success. Robert E. Hall ,ms a junior in Shortridge high school. Indianapolis, when the l'nited States entered the \\'odd War. Along with three of his comrades in classes and on athletic teams he enlisted .-\.p1·il, 1918, in Compan~· 16, 5th Regiment. Second Division of C S. :.\Iarines. After a few ,,·eeks of in tensi,·e training at Paris Island. South Carolina, and Quan tico, Yirginia, he was assigned to a casual di,·ision and sent oyerseas in July. His ship, the C. S. transport Hc,1- derso11. caught fire en l'Oute and the lads on boanl were com pelled to make a rather perilous transfor in mid-ocean to another Yessel. Practically all equipment and pe1·sonal lw longings ,nre lost. \\'ithin three ,,·eeks after reaching Fnrnn· Tiobert was sent to the front, and he sa\\· acti,·e senice at Soissons, Pont a }Iousson, St. }fihiel and Champag1w. The follo\\·ing letter of Robert to his mother tells of hi;; la,;t c'll gagement in which he was ineap,ieitated for furtlwl' "l'l'\ in· . •-\.fter spending eight months in ,·,uious hospitals in France' and at Brooklyn ;\a,·al Hospital he wc1s discharged August 1 J, 1919. He re-entered Shortl'idge high school in September and grnduated ,,·ith the class of 19:20, of \\·hich he was presi dent. He was extremely populm· with both teacher~ and pupils, gifted as he is with an unusual abilit~· to 1rn1ke fric•ncb. To know Robert Hall is to like him. He is planning a uni wrsity eourne and expects to equip himself fo1· a position in the business wol'ld. The lette1· follows: BASE HOSl'lT.\L Xo. ,:;o, A. P. 0. 7!J8, A. E. F., F1·ance, October lli, 1:11:1. IJear l\1othec Well, I suppose you haYe been ,,·ondering why you haYe not heal'Ci from me lately. There was a mix-up in our company's mail and our letters were returned to us before we went into the lines. You will notice the difference in my address, and no doubt you have been in· formed already of my being wounded. \VelJ, Fritz tried his best to put me out of commission, but I fooled him this time. Our company g·ot orders to go over the top about six o'clock. We went 0Ye1· alJ right and succeeded in reaching our objective without meeting much 1·esistance, as the Germans had retreated the previous night. We had come to the edge of a woods when suddenly machine gun bulJets, Austrian 88 m. m. shells and whizz-bangs came flying at us like a hailsto1.:m. I thought A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 1--17 hell had bl'Oken loo,e. \Ve had no protection except the bushes in the \\·oods, and they did not stop bullets or shrapnel. The best we could do was to hit the gl'Ound and lie the1·e. The artillery fire killed and wounded quite a number of ou1· men. I expected to be almost any time. The shelling· finally quieted clown for a while but the machine guns kept rig·ht on. Ou!' captain sent ten men over to the 1·ight of the woods to see if the~- could locate the gun that was doing the damage. I was one of the squad that started to the left for the same purpose. We got about n1·enty-fi\·e yards out in the open and had to lie clown as the bul leb \Yel'e flying· around om· heads. After dropping· we opened fil'e on Fritz located about one hundred ya1·cls to ou1· left. P1·etty soon the sel'g-eant \\·ho was just on my left dropped his 1·ifle and turning to me said: "Well, Hall, old boy, I\·e got mine." I started o\·e1· to help him when one got me in the back just a little abo\·e the hips. It did not penetrate \·e1·y fa1· and g·a\·e me very little pain, ,o I kept µ;oing. Then another one got me in the left side just o\·c1· the heal't, but it \\'els not serious a~ it was a glance shot. That :-topped me, howe\·er, and I lay there for about fh·e minutes when one of the fello\1·,, who I late1· found to be Fnmk A. Korman, 26 Delle An'nue. l(oxbur:,, :\Iassachusetts, came out of the \\'oods and picked me up. .Just as he ,tarted off another got me a little above the knee and 1-'hattered the bone. I g·ot back to the first aid station, had my \\'otinds d1·c.s.sed and then \\'ent in ,1!1 ambulance to the field hospital, a distance of thirt>·-t1\'C miles. The1·e the>· operated on me and had to amputate m,- 1id1t leg. It left a tine stub and I .,hall be able to get a good arti ricial limb and be as acti\·e as I need be for the rest of my life. Oh, I am certainly happy and onr-bles.,ed by Goel that He permitted me to Jin, thrnugh it all \\·hen so man>· of the fellows were not so fo1·tunate. '.\ow, ~Iothel', do not wony about me as I am leading the life of Hiley o\·ei· here in the hospital. We have clean sheets, plenty to eat, .,ome of the finest bread made from pure \\·heat flour, ju,;t like cake. The doctor sa>·s he thinks I shall be able to sail for America in a month ot· ,ix \\·eeb. I ,urely hope to do it and be at home fo1· Christmas. So ):ou may h,n-e my old room all read,- fo1· me and a nice dinner \\·aitin~. \\' ell, :\!other, I 1\·ill clo.,e for this time. hope to hear from you soon, and please do not \\'Ol'l'Y about me as I am feeling fine and getting excellent t1·eatment he1·e and am ha1·ing a great time. y OU!' ,on, HOBERT. Robert recei\·ed a sen·ice certificate from Jiajor-General Commandant GeOl"ge Barnett for honorable, active service performed while with the C. S. }Iarine Corps. EDGAR THO:.VIAS FORSYTH Edgar Thomas Forsyth, one of the organizers of the For syth Association of Indiana, is a teacher by profession. He has been connected ,vith the public schools of Connersville, l!K .-\ HISTU!cY iJF THE Fnlt:-'YT!I FA:.IILY ~Iilton and Indianapolis, Indiana. For "en,rnl >·eai·s he has sen·ecl as he;:icl of the histo1·r clepartmrnt of Shortridge high school in the last named cit>·· He• is c1n alumnus of I3utler Colleg(:, ancl has tntHlecl exten;;;in,J>· in Europe 2rncl .-\merica. Together ,,·ith Paul \\'illiarn .J d!'ri(•s. \\.illiam F01·s.nh and others, he helped to 01·ganize the I1·\·ington Dnrnrntic Club. He ,n1s ;:ilso one of the founde!':-; of the Inclianapoli;; Sc-hool men'c:: Club. and he lrns bet:n an nxecutin• 01rice1· of the In dianapolis Federation of Pul)!ic School Te,1chers. He \Ya:--: elected president of the Fol'syth A,;sociation of Indiana at its ,rnnw11 meeting in August, HJHJ. In the ,,·a>· of cli\·e1·sion his ta.-;te.s rnn to outclo01· ,\ctiYi tiPS such ;:is horticulture. motoring. canneing: and amateul' photogn1ph~·. \\'lwn not tnweling hi.s ,·auHion" are usual!~· :'.pent amid the rural scenes of his >·outh at the ;-tttntctiH, family homestead ne,u Trnfalg,n·. IncliHW'. Fo1· centuries some of the names L1n. William Jones, brother of the late J. L. Jones; J. J. Moore; his bl'Othe1·, John Thomas Fo1·syth, and others. Stotts Creek la~· bet\\·een the school and his father's home. The crnssing of it after hard rains furnished many an adventm·e for him and his bl'Othe1·s and sisters, for none of them were easily deterred from attendance at school. One experience, which \\·hen mentioned nm\· brings a smile of meniment, came near :II. S. Forsyth being sel'ious. It happened one evening after a severe rain storn1. As Schofield and his brother, James Harvey, passed the home of John Vandivier, a farmer who lived on the way home from their school, he hailed the boys, telling them of the swollen condition of the creek and insisting that they stay overnight at his house. But the boys assured him that there was a foot log and they could cross on that. "The 1,:>0 _..\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTII F.UIILY \\·ater is l'Unning OHl' the foot log," he answered. But the boys were unco1n-inced of their inabilit.\· to reach home as usual. They were uig enough to u·oss streams by themseh·es, the.\· thought, and their father expected them home. So they trudged on, but .:\Ir. Vandi\·ier follo,\·(xl them. Tn1e enough they found the \Yater had risen a fe\\. inches abo\·e their foot log. .:\fr. Vandi,·ie1· ,,·as a large, robust man, tall and strnng, \\·eighing mon~ than two hundred pounds. Finding the bo.\·s dete1·mined to attempt the crossing, he offered to \\·alk the log and cany the boys acrnss. So ,,·ith James H. mounted upon his back he started into the water, and soon landed him safely on the othe1· side. Returning. it \\·as Schofield's turn. So \\·ith enti1·e confidence in his pilot Schofield climbed upon his back, clinging to him with both arms. But .:\Ir. 1,·andi\·ie1· \\·ith the confident assurance of success no longer so careful!.\· measured his steps, and the scene changed. He w,fferecl and \\·ithout \Yarning both \\·ere plunged into the rnshing 1\·ater. But defeat \Yas not fol' such \·aliant souls eYen if feet did pla.\· them a slippe1·y trick. .:\fr. 1,·andi\·ie1· scrambled mit of the \ntter rnthe1· agha,;t, but laug·hing, \\·ith Schofield ,;till clinging to him, and both boys rushed for home happy, tlwug:h .J. T. Forsyth, attended a school in Edinblll'g under Professo1· .J. H. :\Iartin, a scholarly man, who later became president of ::\Ioores Hill College. Schofield was a conscientious stu dent, eager to do good wmk, and like his father never satis fied to do a thing in any but the best way. For se\·eral years he taught school. His first experience \Yas in a small frame building standing quite alone near the edge of a c:learing. This schoolhouse, one among many of its kind at that time, was located at the crossroads one mile north of Trafalgar. ,--\mong his nieces and nephews "Cncle Schofield" has nl\\·ays been a great favmite. A niece who greatly admired him once said of him, "Xo one could look in his face and not see that he combined a singularly kind nature with a Puri tan ·s sense of 1·ight and duty." A nephe\\' characterized him <1s an ext1·emely well-groomed and affable gentleman. His faultless atti1·e added to his prepossessing appearance. He had an unerring tciste for the best and ne,·er would pm·chase an inferior artic:le. From hi:e; early manhood he has been a loyal and zealous 11ll'111be1· of the Baptist Church, and a diligent student of the nible. Ile is a firm friend of Franklin College, and was a great admirer and friend of Professo1· Stott, former presi dent of the college. In his church, as well as in his p1·ivate life. he has ahvays dared to do and say ,,·hatever he thought to be right. He has se1Ted his church in various capacities, and as superintendent of the Sunday-school. His s:nnpathies political!~· have in the main been with the Democratic party, and \Yhile a loyal pal'ty man he has ne,·e1· been a pa1·tisa n. He has spent nearly all his life in .Johnson County, never hm·ing t1·,weled far from his own fireside, prefening the quiet and abundant life in his own home to the changing scenes experienced by the tra,·elel'. He has realized in his own life that satisfaction and culture depend upon the individual and not upon the envirnnment, and that a stay-at-home who through friendly association with his fellows and through 1·eading keeps in touch with what is being done in the world to-clay, and who knows something of what has been said and done in the past, has at least an even chance with the traveler to make his life interesting and to experience the joy of living. A Hr:-;TORY ()f THE FoR~YTH F A'.\IIL y He has commanded the respect of all b~· his dignit~·. his sincerity of speech, his honest~·. and IJ_\· his deep abiding Chris tian faith. Fo1· se\·eral yea1·s he has been a suffere!' from chronic J'l1eumatisrn. Thrnughout hi.~ long illne;c.;c. he ha:-; lwl'n a mar \·el of patience. In this tl'ial he has lwc'n sustai1wd b~· thl, untiring ca!'e and de\·otion of his \\·ife. a cl,rnghtt0 1· of H,n·n,y and :.\Iar~· Catlett Lyster. She has been faithful, uncomplain ing, self-sanificing. He!' chee1·)· dispo;c.ition has made their home not a place \\·hen' ;c.ickness might IJl'ing dep!'cssion. lrnt an abode of jo~· ,d1e1·e !'elatiw·s ancl frie11c!;c. lo\·e to iro. His chilcll'<'ll wen' ,,]] ;c.tuclent.s in Fl',rnklin Coill'g,,. .Jucl ;c.on is a commission nwn·hant at tlw l·nion c-:tock-.\·anls ii, Indianapolis. His on!)· child. Gran', \dwn dc'n'n .n·ar,; ()Id. \\·as accidentally bu!'neci b~· ,\ ;nic-: ,;to\·('. \\·hich ctrn,-;c'd lwr death. Since he1· maniagc Lois ha;c. li1·(,d in an attr,,cti\ (' cnu11- t1·)· home neal' Pro1·iclvnce . .Johnson Cnu11t,\·. Doane. the second ,-;on. Im::' all hi.~ lif,, Imel to tig·ht a \1(•,1k · constitution. To lwncfit his health lw 1·vn1r>n'd ."()111(' ~-c•,n.• ago to Colo!'ado. Doane i;c. a g:e1wl',1l L,rnl'i\\' \\·ith hi;c. l'vb1- tiH·s. He i:-; al\1·ays patient. kincll.1· 1n m,1111wr ,rnrl attral·b friends by his fine disposition. \\'hen :.\Iaxie 111aniecl she IH'l11 tu Philadelphia to !in,. Hl'I' husband, Frank Grillith. is connl)ctFd 1\·ith nne of the, IJanks in that city. ::\Lwtha Ellen Fm·syth 1\·a ..:; born and liwcl all he!' lifr in Johnson County. She became hl'l' fatlwr's housekeepel' at the age of fou!'teen 11·hen lw1· nrntlwr died. Then· \H•1·c four younger children in hel' fatlwl''s homC' and for sc•v(•nd )·e,u·;c. thne were necessarily hem·~· n•sponsibilitics placed upon this young girl. In 1870 she ma1Tiecl Benjamin Yanclive!', 1vho came to Indiana from Pennsyh·,rnia. \\'hen a young boy, during the Civil War, he entel'ecl the northern army. Ella Forsyth Vandiver's only child ,vas an adopted boy whose mother died when he was five \\·eeks old. To this child she 1,rns a faithful mother. She was a loyal mernbe1· of the Chris tian Church, and while she lived kept the child under its in fluence. Her death took from him the best friend he had. Robert Fulton died at the early age of thirty years. When he married he settled on a farm given him by his father, A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\IILY 15:3 which ,,·as a pait of his eal'ly purchase of land in Indiana. Fulton "·as a man of quiet and 1·esen·ed disposition. He ne,·er indulged in useless com·ersation, consequently he neithe1· complained 01· criticized friends or sh-angers. His deepe1· thoughts and feelings ,,·e1·e his own, and he ne,·er re,·ealed them to anyone. His daughter Dulcie is his only child. She was a student in Butler College for two years and also studied the piano with he1· cousin Cla1·ence Forsyth. She is es1wc-iall~· foncl of voocl litc-ratm·e a1:cl rn~1si(·. J,,nnie For-:,:1h JcJric, (Written by a Nephew) To ,nite of Jennie Forsyth Jeffries is a pleasant task in deed. The only difficulty consists in adequately portraying those strong traits which are so evident to all who know her; for hers is a personality that is forceful; hers a character that can not be mistaken. She grew up in Johnson County, Indiana, in the midst of a large circle of relatives. She inherited the distinctive fam- 15-1 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\IlLY ily traits; she breathed the atmosphere of a real Forsyth home; she associated with those of like origin and conse quentb· she de\·eloped into ,1 t_,·pical Forsyth. In her are embodied those qualities that h,n-e appeared in all genera tions of Forsyths-qualities of honest_\·. industry, loy,1lty, independence of thought and action. and a high mo1·al sense. In the matte1· of honest_\· it may be said of her. ,,s it \\·as said of himself by George \\'ashington: "She can not teJl a lie.'' Deception is positi\·el:-· fon•ign to he1· nature, and pre- tense is unknown. Honest~· being so ingrained in he1·, she unconsciously looks for it in others. Being abo\·e suspicion herself, she ne\'er suspects those whom she meets. This trait often makes he1· an easy Yictim of practical jokers in the family-of which there are seYeral. She is an agreeable and interesting companion, but never a humo1·ist. In industry she is tireless. To her nieces and nephews not only has she appeared always to be a tower of strength, but she is resourcefulness itself. It seems she can do every thing. As a result her home is a house of abundance. The _-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 155 larder is ne\·er empty, the garden is never a failure; the lawn is never ill-kept, and comfortable plenty reigns both within and \,·ithout. In fact, Aunt Jennie, as she is known to many, i.s in all things a \·eritable Lady Bountiful. In loyalt>· to those things desen·ing loyalty, she is not ]a('king. This trait is manifested especially toward her im mediate farnil>·, but extends also to the remotest membe1· of the dan. Any one in whom the1·e flo"ws a single drnp of blood from the g1·eat family sou1·ce, be it Da,·id I, Charlemagne or \\'oden. ma>· confidently count upon her loyal interest and s~·rnpathy. In he1· independence of thought and action, Jennie Forsyth .Jeffries is adrnirnble. She thinks clearly and she sees straigM. She seldom halts, as it were, between two opinions, not knowing which to accept-she knows. She studies ques tions of the day-economic, political and 1·eligious-and makes up her mind independently. She is entirely amenable to 1·eason, neYei- naJTO\Y and ne,·er dogmatic, but yet she i)e!ie\"!•s a thing "·hen she belien1 s it, and when a plan 01· p1·inl'iple has onlc' rec·ei\·ed he1· appron1l it takes real reason and crnTect logil to change he1· decision. For years she has IJeen the majorit~· stockholder in senTal sulu:ssful business enterprises, and in the management of them she has never been a silent pal'tnel'. He1· grasp of commercial methods, prnlJlems and lonclitions is remarkable. Success has come to her in all her business relations and responsibilities. In all rnatte1·s of mornlity and right living .Jennie Foi-syth .Jeffries stands four sqmwe. She is tnie to the best in life and she has en)1• at heart the ,·ital inte1·ests of the state, the chun·h crnd the S('hool. "-\ life-long communicant in the faith, she IJelien,s that right living is the true test of character, and that real religion consists in going about doing good, render ing help to the needy and gi,·ing comfort to the distressed. He1· benefactions, though generall.\· unknown except to her most intimate associates, are manifold. Her religion is prac tical: he1· faith strong, yet simple. She has tra,·eled extensively in the l'nited States. She is v\·ell read, and is a lover of good music. In this she v.as in perfect sympthy with her son's talent, and was an inspira tion to him in his pursuit of this study. The foregoing vie,vs are those of a nephew who all his li5G A HISTORY OF THE FuR:-,'.YTH FA~IILY life has kn0\n1 the subject of this sketch. He has lin:'cl for man:, years in his aunt's home. He has been a close com panion of he1· one son and four daug·hters. ..\s a child he knew the fathe1· of the household, \\'illiam H. Jeffrie:-;, ,,·horn to know ,nets to IO\'f:'. The author of the:,;e lines has be,'n thus drtuallr a membe1· of the family, and consequent!)· ,uite:,; from the fulness of his experience. \\'. H ..Jeffries ,,·as a successful teacher and a lrnsines:,; man of m,wkccl ability. He ,rn:,; a man of fine public spi1·it and genuine Christian chantcter. His :,;pirit tO\nucl all was one of helpfulness. He ,ms L•special!:, s~·mpathetic \Yith the unfortunate.. .\fter his death the family l'L·n10n'cl to Ining ton in onler that ther might lw 11ec11· a good school. The chilcl1·en \\·e,·e all educated in Butler College. E,·,1 \\',ts ,1 piano pupil of her cousin, C]a]'(.'Jln• Fors~·th, tor seY eral re,us and ,1·as also a t<'aclwr of th,' pianu. She• ma1Tiecl \\'alter Scott King of nichmond. Indiana. HL· ,1 as .a grndu ate of Butler College. the Indiana Stall' );ornial and abo of Chicap:o L'ni,·ersit.1.·. He 11·as connected 1,·ith the pulilic schools. h,wing st>rn·cl 1Joth in Indiana ,tnd lilinois. Orpha nrnniecl Uolw1·t Ha!l of Lrnp:hli11st01n1. Pv111h~ 11 ani,t. ,rncl n•:,;icles in lnington, a l'L'siclc'nce distril't ot lnclianapolis. Uoben Hall is a gTacluate of Dutle1· College and also of Hm·- 1·,ud l'nin°rsit.1·. He taught Latin in the ::\Lmu,1! T1·ai11ing Hig·h School fo1· a number of ~·em·s ancl is 110,1· president of the Tr,welers' Commel'C-ial lnsumnce Companr. Thei1· chil cli·en are both grnduates 01 Dutler College. Pearl spent one year in Cornell l'nin,rsitr as a graduate student and taught one ~·ear in a school for girls in \\'in chester, Yirginia, and t,,·o years in Uw 11·\·ington High School. She mal'l'ied George Miller of Indianapolis. He vrns educated in Butle1· College and is also a graduate of the Indiana La\,. School. After prnctising fo1· a while he was obliged to giw up office work. He is now president of the Indiana Sand and Granite Company. l\Ioddie is interested in all Oriental art. She has made an extensive study of the honest Oriental mg and is a recog nized authority on them. Her first experience with rugs began when as a bride she walked into an Armenian rug A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 157 ,-;to1·e and otfe1·ed fh·e dollars for an Oriental nig that meant something. The shre,nl A1·menian gaYe hc1· a ,rnrthless, moth-eaten rug, not e,·en deigning to explain how inadequate was the sum "-he hacl gi,·en him. Sh2 then ask<::d him to let he1· select one. and the one she chose p1·0,·ed to be a Harnaclm, hcarthrng, full of histo1·ical and Biblical suggestions. It ha~; been in constant use fo1· eighteen ~·ecu-s and is now ,rnrth many times the amount she paid fo1· it. ne,1lizing that rugs \\·e1·e stol'ies full of meaning·, slw IJqnrn the study of them. In h·acing a design to its smll'c• she found that all designs had a histo1·y-an ancest1·~·-ancl tl1l'ough these symbols one could t1·ace the history of long forµ:ottcn rates. The history of \Yea,·ing is the history of the 1919 to about fifteen general secretaries, urging that they secure thefr 1·elease for ternpon1.1·~- duty. In response to this call the trnstees of the Toledo Association g,1\'e }Ir. ffilliams 'l release for a tenn of fom· months' \\·ork, during \Yhich time he served in three different capacities-as personnel director in Chaumont, for special sun·e~- of the Brest camps, and as director of the leave area at Soissons. Paul \\.illinm .J Pffl'iP:-. ( From the Butle1· Alumna] Quarterly, October, l!Jl:-i) Paul William Jeffries died on July 10 near Hayward, Wis consin, and ,vas bmied on July 18 in the family burial place at Franklin, Indiana. Paul was born near Trafalgar, Indiana. At an early age his family removed to Irvington, ·where he received his edu cation in the public schools and late1· at Butler College, from which he graduated in 190:3. He at once entered upon a busi- A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 159 ness uwee1· ,,·ith marked success, but his many interests re sulted in o,·e1·,,·ork, fo1·cing him to go in quest of health. \Vhile hunting in northern Wisconsin, he w::is killed by the accidental discharge of a gun. The funeral services, ,vhich occurred at the family residence in liTington, were largely attended. Following are some of the tributes paid by those who kne,v him ,,·ell. In the university's gallery of memory hang the pictures of man~· cherished sons and claughte1·s. Some of us ,vho haw lingered long in this sao·ecl hall have seen the number in crease until it includes man~· of om· classmates and clearest and trnest friends. Another has been hung with fitting cere mony in an honored place. I view it in the perspective of intimate association, and in the light of sincere admiration. To \\Tite an ,1ppreciation is indeed a labor of love. If li,·ing can be exalted to a fine art, a life completed may prnperly be spoken of as ,l wo1·k of art-1;,·en a masterpiece. The pol'trnit of Paul \\·. Jeffries is a ,,·ork ,vorth~· to hang among those of acknO\\·ledgwl me1·it. The lin('S dnnn1 b~· chrnnology and economics are distinct and hal'monious. but not onT-l)old 01· dominating. Paul en ,in~·pc] !(·ss than half of the allotted three score years and ten. He chose business as a \ cH:ation. His careel', though brief, \\·as successful. He began \\·ith a laundry route among the students, and b~· continued and persistent industry built up one of the leading laundries of the city. The Irvington Coal and Lime Compan~· would be a ueditable monument to a normal lifetime of comnw1·cial enterprise. His last endeasor, bec-au,c;c of his break in health, failed of permanent comple tion, but by its rnag-nitucle ;md the character of the men en listed p1·on'cl him to be a financier of promise. Dut Paul's life cannot be outlined by dates and dollars. Great art does not \"iolate accepted rules. It transcends and illumines them. The finer qualities-the perspective of pur pose, the color blending of sentiment, the lights of intelli gence, the shading of thought and emotion, the symmeti-y of inte1·est and action, the depth of devotion, and the tone of idealism-these will make the picture of Paul's life stand out as indeed a work of Art. In years to come, as I shall turn again and again to gaze upon his face, it will emphasize to me, fast, his absolute sincer- 160 _-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA..\IILY ity. As a rnel'e starnmel'ing: child. his deep exp!'essi,·e eyes and sympathetic mice bespoke the genuinent:ss of his thoughts and feelings. This g,we him a peculial' po,,·c1· to inspi1·e c:on fidence. He did not piety L:i..,t ,me! loose \\·ith the great issues. He nc,·e1· !'ailed OJ' scoffed. \Ylrntsoe,·er commanded his at tention was treated as something ,,·01th ,,·hile. A necessa!'y complement of hi:-; sincerit,\· ,,·as a sterling integrit,'·. \\'hen a lad, he spent a summer at oui· home in the mountains. }[.,· fathe1·, a niggcd mounL1im·ci. ahn,.'·s said Paul was the best bor he cn·1· k1,c11·-a slight 1·ctlectio11 on his own sons, but perhaps tnie. Those of us ,,·ho han! kno,,·n Paul intimately tlHough his ,,·hole liie \l'ill confil'rn the judgment. His business integrit.'· \\'as unqm•stioned. Hi:< \\·onl ,,:as as good as his bond. Dut this is the lO\n'st t.1·pe of integrity. ...\. rascal will lJe honest in business. ,,·hc•n hon esty is the best policy. "He is more trnl,1· honest ,1·ho urn sit in the ])l'i,·ate chamlJe!' of his own thouirhts. and be lo~·al to his cmn-ictions." I kno,,· men c:t gTcat trnining. [l!Hl prn fessional prnminence. who al'e thm·ou,trhlr dishone.~t intellc•r·• tually. He is mol'e tndy honest ,,·ho can hhlcl his pi1s:-;i;m,: and p1·l•judices to a just accou11t,,lJilit~·. Paul ,,·as trUL' to his o\\·n thought. and if lvJ pos;-;c'.sc-;c,d passion. it 11·a.c; ,1l\1·ays uncle1· equitable restraint. His portrait \\·ill ahrnys J'adiate optimism. The lines of his life \\·ere cast in pleasant places. and he had little need to contemplate the somber moods. His spi1·it \\·as natiw to sunshine. Afte1· reading; the ntther sad comments in the family book, he wrote at the age of fourteen: "If any one ,,·ants to get lonesome, just look o,·r·i· this book, and it will make him about as lonesome as he ,,·,rnts to be." His ])l'E'S ence in the home was a benediction of good cheel'. He ,vas brnught up in a familr consisting of a wido,,·ecl mother and fom· siste1·s, but he ,sas in no \\·ise lcicking in manly st1·ength. There was a fine precision about his charncter that showed itself in d1·ess and duty, and an elegant robustness that made him the stay and support. Horne ,vas his sanctum. :'.\othing coarne or common was permitted to enter. His mother and sisters were his di\·inities. Feminine persistence sometimes appealed to his sense of humor. One day, when Paul was about twelve years of age, we were all seated at the table. He quietly arose, walked to the post office, and 1·etumed to A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 161 his place at the table and said, "~o, there were no letters fo1· ~-ou, 1101· you" (naming his siste1·s in turn) and then added, ''If Jesus Christ should come to eai·th, the fast ques tion you girls would ask him, would be, 'Have you any mail for us'?' He ne\·er complained or found fault. Each round hour he strove to fill with joy. By an inborn courtesy, he was always complimentary and gracefully concerned for the comfo1t and happiness of the family and guests. This opti mism enabled him to recognize the good in others. \Vhen a lad, he brought a negro boy home with him for a playmate, and, on noting the · look of surprise on his mother's face, clre,,· nea1· and said, ":\Iother, he is not very good looking, but he is all right." This expresses Paul's general judgment of his friends-they \\·ere all 1·ight. This appreciation and adrnirntion \\·as the secl'et of the graceful ease of his com panionship. He did not with the despair of Hamlet look out upon a \\·orlcl out of joint, but with the optimism of Brown ing he sa ,\. the ea 1·th filled with posies and the hea,·ens rich in blue. To him, the la\\· of life was growth, and the purpose of the ages \,·as e\·e1· incl'easing. This hopeful view filled him \\"ith enthusiasm. Ifr plunged into business with tireless c1w1·gy. because it had its logical and unfailing rewards. He \\·,is calmly impetuous in his activities. Whether he was in tel'ested in a political contest, 01· a social carnival, or acting as president of the Alumni Association, or ananging for the Kan1ea of his fraternity, it was always a work of joy. neligion \,·ith Paul was not a restraint, but a rejuvena tion-the normal expansion of life to\vards its varied and infinite possibilities. It \\·as corn1Jl'ehcnsivc as thought, pli clblP as sentiment, progrcssi,·e as hope, and gene1·ous as the dispensation or the rain and sunshine. He did not rack his IJrain ove1· the technicalities of dogma. Over and above all dogma, there was such profundity in the Cniversc, that "day unto day utte1·eth speech, and night unto night showeth kno,,·ledge." He kept his heart attuned to this higher mes sage. >Iorality was not a restriction, but a privilege. He ,ms free enough to hold himself under control, and strong enough to be tolerant of customs. With no thought of re ward, he was liberal, even bountiful in his charities. As by instinct, he seemed to grasp the profound philosophy that "the best portions of a good man's life are the little, nameless, 16::2 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA!IIILY u111·emembcred deeds of kindness and of lo\·e." His \\·hole life was a prayer of asking by e\·e1·y noble endea\·or and giving by liberality unrestl'ained, and recei,·ing the bounties of friendship and of fortune. He hcid little sympath~· ,rith ecclesiasticism, yet he ,,·otild pour out his soul in the music of a ritualistic sen·ice. He lon:d to gaze towards the moun tain peaks, and fa1· off horizons of idealism, but acted upon the conviction that the first taste of he,wen is home, and tlw 1·ealization of eternity begins with the present. The beauty of Paul's life lies not in the number of years. but in the pel'fection of days. He did not triumph pre eminently in any one line of ac:hie,·ement, but ,,·as delight fully successful in nu·ied interests and ac:ti,·ities. The al) normal development of an~· single faculty did not m,.Hk him as a genius, but his many prrn·ers \\·e1·e contrnlled by ,1 bal anced sanit~· that enabled him to disrega1·d the defecti,·e. and enjoy the excellent. The element., wel'c .-:o mixr,i in him. That nature might stand up, And .-:a~·. to all the \\·orld--''Thi, \\':t." a nwn" '. He was practical in prn,·iding: all material comforts and conveniences, but idealistic in the enjoyment of esthetic beau ties. The music of his lyrical tenor rnice \\·ill echo and re echo through om· memories as the finest exp1"2ssion of the harmony and richness of his being. In seai·ch of health he left a home of comfort and chee!' fo1· the wilds of the Xol'th. Timid, and tendel', and unused to hardness, he fatefully walked into the range of the deadly missile. Alone in the wilderness, he met the grandest and sublimest issue of life. With eyes fore\·er closed and ,·oice fore,·er stilled, he was brought back to a home trnnsformed by sorrow and tears. Countless tioral ti·ibutes of esteem wen' brought by those who knew him best. The deepest sympath~ ,vas expressed in prayer and song and eulogy. In the sooth ing calm of a summer day, devoted friends bore him from the scenes of his youthful joy and manly endeavor; from the home he had filled with gladness, to that house where d,,·ell- ing is eternal. A. l\I. HALL, '88. The poet, the artist, the scholar, is lost in the long, hard battle for material things, and the light that lit the joyous ,vays of morning is dim and feeble fo1· most of us before we A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY 163 reach the h\·ilight of enning. Happy is he who, entering the \\ ol'ld of stl'i \·ing men, can play his part among them, strnng to \\·in his place and achie\·e that success in matel'ial thing·s which most men want and stl'i\·e fo1·, and yet through all p1·esen·e the ideals of his youth and cultin1te joyously and unceasingly those finer things, f:om of youth and its enthu siasms, nursing his soul in the midst of the common cal'es of life. day by da~·, on that which was nearest to his heart's desi1·e. Such a one was Paul Jeffries. Fol'tunate above most men that, in the midst of an active and successful business caree1·, he did not lose touch 01· sight of the ideals of his youth, or flag in his enthusiasms \l·hile health was his. Business is all too apt to engross the lives of most men to the exclusion of en1·ything else not dil'ectly contl'ibuting to its successful pl'osecution. '\Yhatever bent a man ma.,· han· in othe1· dil'ections, especially if that bent is away from the lines of prnfit or in, the di1·ection of self-culture, is mol'e than like!~· to be subordinated in the course of time until at lcbt it i;-; lost 01· becomes a dim memo1·~·-one of the things Ji1id cnn,\· among the half-forg·otten dreams of an earlie1· time. Fe'\\' ;;u·e 1.he~· who cherish such a thing side by side ·with acti\·e business cares. Indeed, with most men it is deemed impo,;sible 01· a positive hindrance to business success, and doubly fortunate is he who can do so and attain success in both. It is the mark of unusual ability and breadth to achieve suc-h a thing. And yet Paul Jeffries accomplished the achie\·e rnent. His !on' fo1· music was one of the passions of his life--one might sa~·. the passion of his life-and it was to his c·1·eclit, possessing this love and a marked ability, that he did not allo,,· the stress of business to sul:ject his love for it 01· to smother his God-given talent. Not allowing work to rob him of this heritage of music, he pursued it as an artist-fo1· he was an artist-and joyously strove to perfect himself in it. Every artist who knew him must rejoice that he demonstrated his ability to make his place in the world of ,,·01·k, and at the same time keep the sacred flame of Art alive and bl'ightly flaming. How much richer is the world that this is so. Who among the thousands who have heard his clear voice rise in its beauty toward the infinite-lifting his hearers on the waves of sound toward the dreamed-of and l(jJ A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTII FA~IILY the longed-for that li\·es in e\·ery soul, howeYe1· much hidden -is not thankful that it was so'? His life was also an example to all, that it is well \\·orth while to haYe an ideal outside the ordinar~· \Yays of life whereby men gain a liYelihood or a competence-to presene apart a field of cultm·e and endea\·01· wherein the soul may be refreshed and the joy of life maintained-a field \,·here the artist, the poet, the scholar, may go his own way for his spirit's good and not fo1· profit alone. Paul .Jeffries was also fortunate in the fact that he pre served to the end of his health the enthusiasm of youth. It was his way-the a1·tist's way-not to allow the fires of life to burn low, but \\·hat he did to do ,,·ith all his might, and to put his best into what he did. \Yhat matter to a man whether he liYe long or die young. so he keeps these things so long as he Ii Yes. To maintain himself as a man: to do a man's work: to keep the best within him ali,·e and clean: to follow \Yhate\·er he may undertake with the enthusiasm of .,·outh-not easy, is it. in the press and stress ·of life. to do an~· of these things'. And yet Paul .Jeffries did them all. His was a short life, but he li\·ed it as a man: lin·cl it clean!>·: liYed it with zest: liYed it as on!>· one ,,·hose torch of life was lit at the flame of A.it could li\·e it. The tuneful \·oice is still, the artist soul li\·es otherwhe1·es, but the>· \\·ho mourn his absence know that the \YOl'ld that kne,,· him is riche1· for his coming; and, though the years may be long, his memory will abide with them to the latest clay, bright, undimmed and beautiful. \YILLIA~I FORSYTH. I haye known Paul .Jeffries from his w·ry early manhood. He was bon1 with a ,vealth of good nature, his en'ry impulse was kindly. His devotion to his famiiy and especially to his mothe1· was known to all. He ,vas a ::\Iason, a Knight Templar, and a member of the Shrine, but mo1·e than all and first of all, he was a Christian. He ·was indeed a knight, and his shrine ,vas his mother's fireside. But his useful life stretched out to large1· boundaries. He was a good community man. Every civic movement for the good of Irvington had his loyal and friendly support. Every one in Irvington knew Paul Jeffries. He was also known in the city, being a member of the Cornme1·cial Club and the Board of Trade. He was a good business man. He began A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 165 life right, resoh·ing to be square and honest with everybody. The devotion of those in his employ was remarkable. An old colo1·ed man who had been with him from the beginning of his business ca1·ee1· came to the house at the time of his death and wept like a child. He did not li\·e in Yain. X or can we say that his life though sho1·t was incomplete. It was wry exemplary, full, and well rounded. REV. ALLAN B. PHILPUTT . .:\Iilton F'orsyth ::\Iilton Fol'Syth has been a man of many sorrows and acquainted with grief, but he has known how to endure; how to drink the bitter cup and not become embittered; how to find the light when all seemed dark; how to keep in tune with the Infinite when the sweet bells of life seemed only to jangle. The perfect and beautiful resignation manifested, when, one lG(i A HI:C:TORY OF THE FOR~YTH FA.\IIL Y by one. he "·as compelled to gin' up all his children and at last their mother, ,,·as sublime. All his manied life, :\Iilton Forsrth ha.~ li\·ed on a fann north of TrafalgaL His life has been his farm. his church. his famil>·· :\Iusic has been a source of joy. comfort and sen·ice to him. Jfr ,1·as for a long pe1·iocl a membe1· of the TrafaJga1· concert hand, and for many years \ms directOl' of music in the Trnfrlg,n C!Histian Church. He \\·as al\\'a~·s ready to do his sha1·e in any dt>partrnent 0f church 11·ork. In any community \\·ork he 11·as one 1·eacl~· to takf' 1·esponsibilit>· and could be depended upon to can·)· out \\'hat he undertook. Four children were born to him and his 11·ife, Alice. Agnl's, the only daughter, died \\'hen less than a year old. La 11Tence, a b1·ight happy lad, 1n-1s sen'n ,,·hen he ,,·as t,1ken. but Luther and Leonard \\'e1·e left. Thei1· stmn)· faces and hearts and souls made brighter all ,, ho came near, and the parents were Jrnppy again. Luthe1· and Leonard 11·ere ell•\ oted to each othe1·. Ian ::\IacClaren tells somewhere a Scotch stOl',\. ll'hich illustrntes the lo\·ing spirit of these t,,·o l;oys. Ile sn,\-~ tliat 01w clay saunte1·ing along a count1·y rnacl h(• met a bonnie· ,n'e lass, all humped up and l'ed and puliing 11·ith tlw \1-eii.rl1t of a chubby laddie she 11·as UU'l'>·ing. '"Isn't be too hea\'y for ~·ou ':" asked :\facClaren. "He's not heaYy, sir," came the reply. ,,·ith a smile of lo\·ing pride, "he's ma' brother." Luther and Leonard \\'ere ah,·ays brothers in this true sc'nse. ).;'o burden \\'as ewr too hea\·~· for one to can~· for the othe1·. What boys they \\·ere, \Yith back titled hats, care l0ss hai1·, honest faces and men·y eyes. The fal'ln ,nu, a happy place for the boys to li,·e and a delight to the cousins 11·ho ,·isited them there. EYery summer \\·as a holida>· to the tlrn boys and thei1· cousin, Paul Jeffries. The tlll'ee boys, \\·ith tireless tramp, learned to kno11· the fields and \\·oods. all the trees and thickets, and mrste1·ies of hill and bottom land. Paul's boyish estimate of his tlYo cousins ,,·as, "There are no such boys as Luther and Leonard." But these happ~· days were not to last. Diphtheria took Leonard from the family circle. The sunshine of life seemed to go out. Through the valley of the shado11· of death the bereft pa1·ents and brnther struggled, led by the star of faith. Years passed and Luther had grown to manhood, straight, A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 167 c:le,rn and tall, looki11g life in the face \\'ith the enthusiasm of ~·onth. Hl.' ,,·as manied to Ruth Bridges and had t,,·o chilcl !'en. The first, Lowell. li,·ecl but a \Yeek. .:\Iarjo1·ie was a lit tle µ_-irl of t,ni yeal's whpn Luthe1· became ill and suffered for months. One day he said to his mother, "I han, fou1rht a hard fight, but it' 1 can't get well, it is all 1·ight. .:\Ieet it as br,wely ,,s :·ou can." ~-'\nd braYely the parents and young wife met ~-\lice For-:yth thei1· loss. Though the loneliness became more and more op pressiw·, they neYer lost faith. Their affection flowed out upon the little granddaughte1·. In April, 1918, the ,vife and mother died. Our poet, Riley, must have had such a character as Alice Forsyth in mind when he ,note, "Out to Old Aunt }Ia1-y's." She was the ideal host . ess. What boy or girl could ever forget her hearty cordiality 16~ A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F,\.'.\IILY or the delicious food she se1Ted, the chicken she fried. or the custard pie she made with cream? \Vas then' e\·er so kind a face And g·entle a~ her,. oi- such a grace Of welcoming·, as she cut the cake Or the juicy piP-s that she joyed to make .Just for the Yi,iting· child1·en's .,ake. The cordiality of her greeting at once made every guest in he1· home feel that he was in the presence of warm sympathy and understanding. Her charncter was tende1·, frank and open. Life on the farm had a fascination for hel'. She lo\·ed the great out-of-doors, and the freedom and abundance of country life. The simplicity of her Christian faith was in harmon~· ,,·ith the ,,·a\·ing wheat-fields, the growing corn and the rain across the meadows. Luther Fol'Syth grnduated from the Trafalgar high :-;chool and later was a student of Fnmklin College. He taught fo1· sen,ral years in the Cnion township high school and was filling that· position when his health failed. He was a successful teacher because he lo\·ed intellectual pursuits. and found pleas- n~ in imparting instruction to those under his tutelage. Obeying the injunction. "Remember now thy Creato1· in the days of thy youth," he united ,,·ith the Christian Chmch in his fifteenth year, and all the 1·est of his life was one of its most faithful membe1·s. He was organist and director of music in the church for many yea1·s and sen·ed as one of its trustees. Outdoor life had great charm for him. ~ ot only the .io:; in ,,·ind, and tree and bird and bush was his, but also the joy in the work. He took great pleasure in turning a funow, in watching and caring for the green growing crops. He was the Worshipful Master of the :Masonic Lodge at Trafalgal'. To the inte1·ests of the Lodge he was devoted, be lieving the benefits of great value to its membership. Luther had that rare faculty of making friends quickly and retaining them. The sunny disposition of childhood stayed with him in his riper years. Modesty was a leading characteristic of his nature, and anything that partook of egotism filled him with disgust. In commenting on his character B. F. Daily said, "He has held the nl:l.me of Forsyth high." A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 169 We a1·e accustomed to measm·e a man's life by days and yea1·s. Is this the trne gage? A wise English poet says : "He most lives \\·ho thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Judged by this standa1·d Luther's life, cut off so it seemed in its flower, was a long one. Bronson H., the youngest child of Thomas Forsyth has spent his entire life in Johnson County and near his own fo·e side. When he manied he w2nt to a farm northeast of Frank lin, where he lived for sevend yea1·s. He is one of the suc cessful farmel'S of the county. Brnnson is a man of sui·pass ing patience and forbearnnce-loyal to his relatives, his church and his political party. He is quiet in manne1·, unobtrusive and uni\·ersally respected. His home is in Franklin but he driYes almost daily to his farm seven miles a,vay. He is a rnembe1· of the Christian Chm·ch and has always supported the Dt•mocratic party. The greater part of the following story of John Hurne Forsyth and his family, was contributed by his granddaughter Alice :\Ioore French. \Yhen Jane* Stmgeon Forsyth emigrated to Johnson Count~-. Indiana, from the old Floyde's FOl'k home in K2n tuc:ky, her son, .John Hume, was a lad of fomteen years. Al though he died at the early age of thirty-six his life was full of actiYity and deeds worthily done. In appearance he was rather small of stature. He had dark hair, kindly blue eyes, a gentle \·oice and quiet manner. DepdYed of their father's care and protection in their ten der years, John and his brothers eady learned to take a man's pa1t They became dependable and 1·esourceful at an age when most l:oys are still inesponsible, careless dependents. At the age of twenty-th1·ee .John married Sarah Ann Hughes, a worthy descendant of ReYolutionary stock. She was the daughter of James and :\Ia1·y Bmton Hughes. They came from Virginia to :\Iercer County, Kentucky, at an early date, then to Nineveh township, Johnson County, Indiana. The Hughes ·were English, and gained distinction in colonial sen- ice. Sarnh Ann's grandfather and four brothers fought in the Revolutionary War. The young couple began housekeeping in a cabin on the banks of Stotts Creek in Vnion township. The land was secured from the government during the administration of '·' .Jc-nni0 1)cin'...!'. 1110•t L-1.miliar amon:2.· hcT fricn Andrew Jackson, his 1rnrne being aflixcd to the deed. John owned and op2rated a s,rn·mill, and the young couple only re mained in the cabin ,,·hile he felled and sa\,·ecl the lumber for the new house. which still stands after se\·enty-six years of sCl'nce. It is loc,,ted a sho1t distance \H'st of Dud on the ::\Ia1tinsYille road. In its thoi·oug·lrness of workmanship and artistic finish of the interior it is a credit to an~· uu·1wntel'. John had learned the c;cupentc'r's t1·ade ,, hilc a bo>· in E:en tuck~-. He lo,·ed tools ~rnd lumber. and was cle\ er in fashion ing- fm himself and his family not on!.,· an mtisticall>· built home, but furnitu1·e. He did not cut and ,,·a:,;ie the beautiful timber as was the unfortunate cu;-;tum of hi,.; cla\·. He s,,w its g-reat po:,;sib1lities and k1w,,· that ,,·ith hi,.; fine tool,.;, skill and artistic ideas he could manufacture many mticles fo1· his hou.sehold's comfo1t and c-011\'enic'nce. lfo built not only his own house, but those of his brnthers. J aim,,.;, Thomas and D,wid. Another example of the enduring- quality of hi,.; ,rnrk still exists in the little frame chun·h at the crnssing· of tlw rnad north of Trafalg:ar. built in l<'<."i:2. This \rn,.; u1lled the Old Baptist 01· I-fal'Clshell Daptist Church. It ha,.; long- out liYed its membe1·ship. This splendid ,1bilit>· fol' lrnndling tool:-: was handed drnn1 tn his chilcfren and gTanclchilclrcn. The amount of ,,-ork accomplishC'cl b:,· ,John Fors~-th and his \\·ife was n·mal'lrnble. The>· \Yorkecl hanl themsel\·e:,; ,rnd it is said gan• \,·ork to e,-er~·one \\-ho applied. De.sides the fam1 ,,·01·k m all its manifold forms of c-lea1·ing, tilling, stock raising. horticulture, etc .. he did cal']wntering throughout the neighborhood. Within the home \\·ent on spinning, ,,·eaYing ~md sewing to 1n·oyide for a family of six children. ..\ large sugal' camp which is still doing senice, furnished the annual suppl_\· of sugar and sirup. An earl:,- on·hanl helped to fill the cella1·s with fruit for the ,,·intel'. Fi,·e of these t1·ees are still standing and bearing fruit. Hunting was not sirnpl)· a pleasant diYersion, but a necessary way of suppl,\·ing the fam ily larder with a ntriety of meat. En•J')' hour and e,·ery season in these pioneer li\'es had its appointed task. In religion John Hurne Fo1·syth's life \\'as one of practice rather than 1wofession. His character was founded upon the christian Yirtues of charit~-. industry, gentleness and liberal ity. His wife shared his ,·iews and together they ga\'e gener ously of their means for the suppo1·t of the church. They did A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:\IILY 171 not app1·oye of the uncharitable doctrines of foreordination and predestination. _.u one time there was a dissatisfaction in the :\It. Zion Baptist Church o\·e1· the too liberal doctrines being preached by the young rniniste1·. and se,·eral members 1·efused to cont1·ibute to his salary. Sarah Hughes F01·syth quiet]:,· paid the diffe1·ence. John Hurne Forsyth was a \\·ise counsellor, and his neigh bors often sought his ach·ice. There are those still Jiying who ;-;peak admirinp:ly of his ,,·isdom and achie,·ements. He had the abilit:,· and instinct for making money, and had he liYecl ,,·ould no doubt haYe accumulated wealth. He had a 1)l'ide in the appeanrnce of ,,·hate\·e1· he had to do with. He \\·anted his house \\ ell furni;;hed and his family well dressed. At the eal'l:.· age of thirt:,·-six :,·ears and six months, John For~:,·th died leaYing· a ,,·idm,· and six young children. His clea1 h \\·as eausecl b~· a se,·e1·e cold, prnbably it would now be udl(•cl pneumonia, clue to exposure \\·hile building a fence on a min:,· da:,·. AJthough c!eprind of his fathel'!y ecue \\·hile ,·er.,· :,·oung. his children 1·ememberecl him and always spoke of him ,,·ith a \\·i;-;tful tenderne;-;s. The e\·ening afte1· his death tile relatin:·s i.ratlwrcd at his home and the brothers held an in furrnal sen·ice. .fames n•;:tcl a chapter from the Dible and ,11f,•l'ed prn_,·er. Tlwn Thomas lee! in the singing of the old h)·nm, "Hm,· tedious and ta:;tcless the hours \\·hen Jesus no longer I see." He \\·as buried at :\It. Pleasant Cemeter~· . .John Fors~·th left his family \\·ell J)l'OYided fo1·. There was ,.1 farm of three lrnncli-ed anes \\·ell stocked and in a prosper ous condition. His wido\,. and he1· six small children went hrawly to work ,,·ith the determination that insures success. Erminia, the eldest child, \\·as a fair slender g:il'l of twelw. Young as she was she felt the 1·esponsibility resting on her ;-;l10tilde1·s. It was he1· habit to rise eal'ly and do all in her J)O\\·e1· to help her mothe1· before going to school. She was ambitious for an education, and in spite of the extra work "·as always punctual in attendance. Paitly for their benefit and partly fo1· experience, Erminia would hold a school for the ~·otmge1· children. making them stud:,· lessons and recite to her. Th is habit of holding school and enforcing discipline and con trnlling the group of restless children was of great help to her busy mother . . About this time there appeared a young schoolmaster, A HI.STORY OF THE FUR~YTH FA~IIL Y Joseph Jefferson :.\Ioore, \Yho wished to l:oard \\·ith the widO\\. Forsyth's family while conducting a school in the neighbor hood. He receiwd eight dollars a month for teaching, and boa1·ded around. She felt the need of a man's presence in the house and as he had reached the matm·e age of t\\·enty-three she decided to take him in. All the childn~n attended his school and he assisted them at home. .-\!though Erminia \Yas only a child and had to be disciplined at times, the young schoolmaster fell in love with her, and \\·hen she was only fifteen they were manied by Asa E. Xay, one of the old-time preachers of the Stotts Creek Chl!l'ch. The wedding journey \ms to Indianapolis. There they spent most of thei1· money. The bride paid such a fabulous J)l'ice fo1· a fine bonnet that on her return home he1 mothe1· threatened her \\·ith a se,·ere pun ishment for her extravagance, but the fact that she was a rnai· ried woman sa,·ed her. \\"hen the young teache1· became a membe1· of the family his mothe1·-in-la,\· told him he was ex pected to assume the position of head of the house, and the 1·est of the children were instrncted to obey him. which tlwy did until they were grown men and women. For a time the young couple liYed on Erminia's farm on the edge of :.\Iorgan County. The counti·y \\·as sparsel,1· settled. and off in her little cabin the 1ril'l \\·ife was ve1·,1· lonely. Her husband's business as sun-eyor kept him away from home for days at a time. Before the> first bab,1· ,ni.s born the.1· mo,·ed back nearer home. They liYed in that neighborhood until 1866 \\·hen they went to Trnfalgar, where they remained the rest of their li,·es. Farm hands were scarce and in 01·de1· to plow and plant the fields the children were p1·essed into se1·Y ice. James and :.\Iyra, small and inexpe1·ienced as ther were, did much of the farming. One ·would guide the plow \Yhile the othe1· led the horse. At the end of the row they would commiserate themselves and tell each othe1· that the \\·01·k \\·as too hard for them. Then :.\Iyra broke her ankle and lay on a bed of pain fo1· two yeai·s, and was left ,Yith a permanent lameness. She was angelically patient all through her illness. \Vhen she recovered she married Henry Kennedy, a young sol dier of the Civil War. During the two years that follov.red Sarah Ann's barn was burned, her horses were stolen, and her cattle driven away, and while under some stress of war time excitement and hot blood young Kennedy was shot and A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 173 instantly killed. The shock nearly wrecked ::\Iyra's life. She took her three months' old baby boy, Laz Noble Kennedy, and 1·eturned to he1· mothe1·'s home. This child gre,v up in the John Hume Fol'Syth homestead, where he still resides as pro prietor, a good substantial citizen of the county. Not many months after :.Iyra went home the culminating tragedy oc cuned. )Iatilda Jane, the youngest daughter of the family. was burned to death. She was a pretty girl of fourteen, deli cate. tender and of a lo\·able disposition. Sarah Ann Hug·hes Forsyth rounded out a full life. She saw he1· children and some of he1· grandchildren settled in homes of their own befOl'e her death in l\Iarch, 1888. Al though not a member of his chm·ch, the young minister whose salary she had generously paid years before, preached he1· funen,l sern10n, eulogizing her fine Christian qualities. The cournw, and brawry with \Yhich she met the many trials that came to lw1· ,,·as ,,·onderful. Only a strong character could h,we enclu1-ecl and achiewd as she did. He1· life was ruled h~· IH'l' ideals of 1·ight. The children of John Hume and ),nn Hughes Forsyth grew up \\·orth:-· clescePclants of such a 1··,ther and mothe1·. E1·minia Fors:-·th )loon\ the eldest, ,ms a de\·oted member of the Tra falg:ar Daptist Chm·ch. Her views of right and wrong were ,·cry decided and she followed the 1·ight fearlessly. She was prngTessi,·c and ,ms especially interested in religious and edu cational mo,,ements. She ,ms rigid in he1· ol:se1·vance of Sunda:-·. The baking fo1· the day ,vas all done on Saturday. EYen the coffee was ground the clay before, as the old fash ioned coffee mill nailed against the wall was a noisy affair and she ,,·otdd not disturb the sau·edness of the day. The bell \\·hich announced the meals dm·ing the week was silent on Sun day. The household arose as usual in the morning and went to Sunday school and chtll'ch, then to Sunday school again in the afternoon. The rest of the clay was spent in religious 1·eading and singing. In her housekeeping Erminia was sys tematic and scientific. Like all Forsyths she was thrifty and industrious. The children of Erminia Forsyth Moore were educated in Franklin College. The daughter, Cinchona Alice French, is the orginator and founder of the national organization of American Wai· Mothers, the membership of which is limited to 17 l A HI:sTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY mothe1·s of sons and daughters se1Ting i:1 the army and na\T of the tTnited States du1·ing- the late \\·a1·. He1· only child, Lieutenant Donald F1·ench. \\·cts eclucated for the pl'Ofession of law. He was in the se1·\·ice of the Cnited Stat("s in the \\·ar with Germany. The son Frank is an attorney of In dianapolis . .James Thomas Fo1·syth was a man of unusual mental abil ity. He inherited his father's taste and talent for working with fine tools, but being rather frail physic-all>· he dernted his energies in other lines. He attended a school of higher learning in Edinburg. Indiana, in cornpan>· with his cousin, Schofield Forsyth, and ff. H. Jeffries. He \\·as especially tal ented in mathematics, and for a \\·hile taught school. In 1868 he \\·ent into partnership \Yith \\'. H. Jeffries in a genernl st01·e in \,·hat \\·as then kno,,·n as the to\\·n of :,(e,1·hurg. A saloon had long: gi\·en to this tow11 a had 1·eputation, and the name had become synonymous \\·ith e\·il. The .1·oung men felt they could nen•r succred in a tO\Yll ,,·ith such a name, and at their behest it \\·as clu:nged to the good old Bible mime of Samaria. \\'hen considering the name to be sent to the posto/lice d,· pal'tmen t these young men said. "Since the to\,·n has held an undesirable 1·eputation it ,,·ill lw \1·ell to gi\·e it a good name, one free from evil associations, pel'lrn.ps that will gi\·e it some thing to liYe up to." Lat01· .James Thomas became a mer chant at Trnfalgai· and at the time of his death ,\·as postmaster the1·e, a position he had held through se\·e!'al administrations. James Thomas Forsyth had a gentle, kindly disposition. He \\·as simple in all his tastes and remarkably regular in his habits of daily li\·ing. He was \·ery sensiti\·e in natu1·e and a keen obsen·er of men and e\·ents. In many \vays he was an idealist. He had an excellent knowledge of music. and pos sessed a beautiful tenor voice. In appea!'ance he is said to hot\·e been of the same type as John Forsnh. the pioneer states man and governor of Geo1·gia, who was one of the first paid tenor singers in our count!'>·· James Thomas devoted his musical ability to his church, being their leader in song through many yeal's. He was for forty years a loyal member of the Trafalgar Christian Church, serving it in many capac ities. As a deacon he \Vas considered one of the pillars of the church. He loved children and young people, and he wielded a benign influence over those who came under his tutelage in A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA~IILY 175 the Sunday school. One of his favol'ite maxims which he lived himself and p1·eached to the young unde1· his instruction, was, "If .mu cannot speak well of a person, say nothing at all." A friend and old teache1· said of him at the time of his death, "The tO\Yn has ne\·er had his equal. I learned to io\·e him for his manly worth. We roomed together at his moth er's home. He \\·as a model that many a young man has prnf itably imitated." He was married in 1870. His wife was the eldest daugh ter of Lo\·in and Kancy Keaton Pritchard. Since his death she has continued io li\·e in their home at Trnfalgar. In he1· married life of forty years she made a remarkable record for order and punctuality. She kne\\· her husband would ne\·er be one minute late fo1· his meals and in all that time she seldom failed to be as punctual as he. In her home she is hospitable and generous and no one in the church 01· communitr is more \Villing to gi\·e of their sen·ice to the suf fering ,rnd unfo1·tunate. Their son. Charles Espert, is a contracting painter of Trn falgal'. Befo1·e his marriage he attended the Heebs Business Ctillege of Indianapolis, \\·here he was grnduated. He has a family of prnmi,.:inp: children. Helen Gould, the eldest, mar ried a young fa1-mer nea1· Trnfalgar. Justin F. is a l~ook keeper in a bank at :.Iai·ion, Indiana. He is 1·emarkably efficient and trnst\\·orth.v fo1· a boy of his age. Charlie and his family al'e rnembe1·s of the Trnfalgai· Christian Church, and politi call~· he is a Republican. Cheste1· Hurne after finishing his early education at Trafal gar ente1·ed Butler College, from which he graduated in 1906. He did post grndu;ite wo1·k at Cornell, the State Cniversity of Illinois and at Ann •..\.rbor. Frnm this latter institution he was gi\·en the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Throughout his college and university career. Chester was remarkable for his ability as a \\·01·ker along all lin9s, educational, athletic, social and religious. He is a self-made man in the truest meaning of the term. He had little assistance financially, and did not refuse to do anything that was a means to the end he sought. He had a wondedul gift of winning friends. Backed up with rugged good health, and a never failing sense of humor, he was able to succeed where many failed. He se1Ted for one year on the faculty of Eureka College. 176 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:'IIILY At present he is a member of the mathematical department of Dartmouth College at Hanowr, Xew Hampshire. His wife is a graduate of the l:niYersity of Illinois. Chester has ti-a,,eled extensi,,elr, ha,,ing toured Europe at two diffe1·ent times. His first t1·ip ,,,as made with a college chum. They visited England. France, Switzerland and Italy at a cost of ninety dollars each. To pa~, fo1· their passage on the boat they took care of stock. When they reached London on thei1· 1·eturn the,· had seyenty-five cents between them, and their cattle boat had sailed three days before. This meant they must wait there a week for anothe1· one. \\'hen they finally reached Boston they were entirely penniless, but hap pily they had a watch which they pawned to secm·e money to telegraph for funds. Chester is a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. In 1867, Sarah Almira Forsyth, ,vhose young husband had been so tragically killed, married William P. Hollandbeck. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 177 Their six children all live at 01· neai· the old John Hume Fol' syth homestead. As a family they are 1·emarkable for their unusual intel'est in and loyalty toward each other. Almira \\'as a woman of rare ch,um, beauty of charactel' and sweet gntciousness. who lin·d a life of self-effacement. Her son-ows \H'l'e lost in her sympathy for others. He1· highest ambition \\·as to be a good wife and mothe1·, and a kind, helpful nc>igh bor. She did ,vhat she found to do and did it cheerfully and \H·ll. She was beloYed by all who knew her. For the most of her life she was a consistent and faithful membe1· of the Cluistian Church. A man who had known her when a .161'! and whose judgment was neye1· questioned, said that in dis position she v,as the nea1·est pel'fect of any one he had e,·er knO\rn. The bond of affection between the hvo sisters, Erminia and Almira, was beautiful, and lasted unmarred throughout their many frials. Almira ·was an invalid and con finer; to her home for many months before she died. She was born. li,·cd most of her life, and died in the house built by he1· fatLer. The da)· of he1· funeral the yard ablaze with the old r'asli ion eel rnses planted by he1· mother, ,vas filled ,vith sonow ing· friends and neighbors. whom her kindly life had touched. Judg-ing from events of family history brought to light >Ionrne Forsyth may hm·e 1·ecei,·ed his name from a favoritE: aunt. :\'ancy :.\[onrne Hughes, wife of Joseph Hughes of Vi1· g-11wt. ::\Ionrne's entire life was spent in the State of Indiana, and \\·ith the 2x:ception of a few months, in Johnson County. He ,ms a cai·penter of considerable skill, and a cheery, good natured companion, ,,·ith an appreciation of humoi-. The last few months of his life \\·ere spent in Indianapolis, where he died in 1911. He ,,·as a rnembe1· of the Christian Chmch. Ja~pe1·. the youngest child, ,vas named for his great uncle, .fas1w1· Hughes, a cornetist in a Virginia Regiment of the Rrvolutionary War. In he1· own words Ml'S. French gives her appreciation of this une:le: "He was my bachelor uncle, jO\·ial, kind and loyal to ::iJl of his family. A large share of his companionship fell to me. He had an unusually fine bass voice, and many happy hom·s we spent singing together. He \\·as one of my best friends, and no matter what kind of sorrow or joy came to me. he always gave me his sympathy. He was the jolly fat member of the family-weighing over two hun _d1·ed pounds." 17K .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\IILY For a good man~· years he was a prominent membe1· of the Baptist Chm·ch in Trnfalgar, and \\'as a capalde teache1· in the Sunday school. Da\·id, the your,gest child of Jame:-; and Jennie Stul'geon Fornyth. was less than two ;;ears old when his fathe1· died. and only a lad of tweh·e years \\·hen the famiJ~· came to In diana. His first home in this state \\·as his the J'emainder of his life. The place was endeai·ed io him by !11s bo~·hood asso ciation \Yith his mothe1· and hothel's, and he liked it none the less because it was the scene of theit· first efforts in home building in the State. \Yhen in 189:3 he rnanied H·mningharn Clark he brnught her to this farm. DaYid lacked neithe1· industr~·. ene1·g~· 1101· 1w1·se\·erann'. and in time became a prospernus fanner. He was inten'sted in fine stock and in its exhibition at the county fairs. He \\·a:-; also greatly interested in the culture of bees. Since it was his custom to know well \\·hateYel' he did he studied the bee and learned its habits and needs. To prntect them from the storms of winter he built a bee house ,\·here the~· \Ye1·e sheltered. DaYid has been desu·ibed as a man of "fine appearance and peaceable and orderly in his manner." In business lw \n,s conspicuous fo1· exactitude, his WOl'd ha\·in1r all the sanctity of an obligation. In his dealing \\·ith others, ho1101· and truth rnled his life. He did not interfere or concem himself with the affairs of those with ,d10rn he came in contact. He ffas cautious, prudent and assumed no hazards without approval of his best judgment. He was firm in his discipline with his children, and endea\·01·ed to teach them the importance not only of obedience to authority but respect for one's word. A good illustration of this is shown in an experience with hi:-; son, Thomas Jefferson. When a mere child, he went to the field where his father was plowing. Da,·id wishing a drink of water tied the ho1·se to a fence and told his son not to dis tm·b it in his absence. Idleness begets mischief and disobedi ence, and left alone with nothing to do the temptation was too g1·eat not to try plowing with his own hand. He soon saw that he ·was pulling the com out of the ground, and rehitching the horse he quietly commenced resetting it, but without regu larity as to hills and rows. When his father returned his accurate eye at once detected the uneven corn. and knowing A HlSTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:VllLY 179 \\·hat had occurred he proceeded calmly to punish his son. This was se,·e1·e enough that the boy ne\·e1· needed another like it, and the leswn remained with him all through life. The only thing his father said was: "In the future when you are told not to do a thing, don't do it." When the boy went to his mothe1· with the story she gaYe him the same ans,\·er. The intimate companionship of Da,·id's devout mother deeply influ,enced the son's religious life. To be faithful in attendance at church was to him the ele,·enth commandment. His piety and de,·outness seemed inbo1·11. He had respect fol' the opinions of others no matter how widely they might differ ,\·ith him. This was all the m01·e remarkable since at that time lihernlity and infidelity \\·ere almost synonymous. The1·e was no half-way ground. The pl'eaching was largely doc trinal and conti·o\·ersiaL :\Iinisters debated on free will versus predestination. good wOl'ks ,·e1·sus justification by faith, im u1e1·sion ,·ersus sp1·inkling. It \\·as said in jest that the only ditfrrence between the new school and the old of one denomi nation \\·as that one stood up and the other sat do,vn when they prn)·ed. Da\·id attc-nded church in the building situated at the side of the road \\·here the :\Iartins\·ille and the Three Notch roads cross. :\Iany years after David was gone his wife was always J)l'esent at both the Saturday and Sunday meetings, whc'J'e she sat on the front seat to help lead in the singing of the old hymns. It is interesting to know that DaYid owned one of the first cal'l'iages that came into the county. \\'hen his mother died in the month of February, 1856, the weather was Yery cold, \\·ith a hea,·y sno,L People came in sleighs to the funeral. These ,\·ere not the fashionable cutte1·s of today, but were the common sleighs which the farmers used often with a hast il~· impro\·ised bed of planks or the farmer's ,vagon bed. They would place straw or hay into the bed to make it warm and comfortable. Da\·id had so much pride in the appearance of things that he refused to go to his mother's funeral in a sleigh of this kind. He chose his can-iage instead, and its wheels creaked and crnckled as they went over the cold, dry sno\V. It ,vas so cold that his family had to change to one of the sleighs before 1·eaching the place of burial. He died from typhoid feve1· in 1858. This developed after lXO A HI~TORY UF THE FOR~YTJI F.-\'.IIILY a cold which he Imel taken \\·bile \\·orking: in the 1·ain trying to cut a way thrnugh the forests to make a bctk1· road to his chu1·ch. In this connection it i;c; intere,.;ting to know ::-;omething- of the treatment of t:-·phoid frn·r in those da_\·:,;. It \\·a,; almost ce1·tain death. ~o one kne\\' its cause, ,rncl much less a rem edy. The doc-tors kne\\' but little more than tlw patients. An old pioneer told of his experience \,·ith the earl)· prnctitioners. About his se\·enteenth year he \\·a:-; taken ill. ~eighbo1·,s said it was bilious fe\·e1·. The only docto1·. se\·en miles cl\\·a>·• came on ho1·seback, with hi:-; calomel. _jalap and castor oil. He pro ceeded to gi\·e him an emetic. tlwn !Jade him take c-alornel. Returning bn) cla>·s later he bled him until he fainted. The docto1· said he \\·as taking him thrnug·h a cour."c' of medicine to prnstrate his s)·stem to break the fewr. .-Hter continuing his \·isits for t,,o \Yeeks he said lw al\\·a~·s succeeded in curing b>· sali,·ating his patic-nt:-;. He \\·«,; alreacl.,· reduced to a nw1·e skeleton. To be suJ'e the fen°1· \\',b broken i'o!' there wa:-; little left to c-i-eate a fe\·er. but an ineparnblt> in_iu1:). had bei)n in flicted on hi ..:; loci~·, The old doctor l elie\·ed that the _-;a]i\·a tion ,ms the sah·ation of him. D;-l\"icl's onl>· claug·hter. Louise. \\·a,-; IJnrn neaJ' Trnfalg,u in the home ,Yhel'e he1· grnnclmotlwl', .Jennie Forsyth. li\·ed ,Yhen she first came to Indiana. \\.hen she ,,·as about seYen ~·ears old she started to school, hel' first teache1· being ::\Ial'tha Featherngill. a grnncldaughter of DaYicl I. The little log school house which she attended ,\·as typical of that da)·. It m,1s plastered with mud between the logs, and the seats wel'e made of logs split in the centel'. Boards laid upon pins that had be0 n d1·iYen into the ,,·all with ,rn Ul)\\·a1·c! slant ,,·ere used fo1· \Hiting tables. Her home was t\\·o miles away, and her path lay through fields and dense \\·oods, and during the short days of winter it would be dark before she could reach he1· home. Only one who has experienced the feai· of dark nooks ·with animals lm·king to creep upon prey can understand this child's terror lest some fox of which the ,mods were full should cross her path. The schoolmaster in the early schools stood in the place of the parent and punished freely with the full approval of the parent. The teache1· who neglected the frequent use of A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 181 the rod was a failure. The story is told of one whose school had nm smoothly without the se\·ere whipping of children. One rno1·ning a patron bluntly told him he was making a mistake, he \\'as not whipping anybody. "Why, who'll I whip'?" he asked. "\Vhip my Sam," was the prompt answer. "What for'? He's lazy, I know, but I can't whip for laziness, can I'?'' asked the teacher. "Yes, giYe it to him. Sam's my bo~,. and I know he needs it eyery day." Louise Sturµ:eon It was the fixed rnle of the master in these early schools that each pupil should go through the speller three times, twice "on the book" and once "off the book." On the book meant spelling and pronouncing the words with the book open, while off the book indicated spelling from memory. In many of the schools the pupils were required to study their lessons aloud in order that the teacher might be sure they were all 18:2 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA;\IlLY working. Hence master:, of an>· one branch usually \\·as the 1·esult of seemingly incessant 1·epetition, \\·hich fixed it in delibly on the mind. The goal of the pupil,.: \nlS to be the best spelle1· in the rnom. This hono1· fell to Louise, and at seYenty-nine yea1·s she has lost none of her ability. In later years she attended a boarding school that stood on \\"est Jefferson street in Franklin, and from this seminar)· slw went to a school of higher learning held in the rear of the old Presbyterian Church, \,·hich stood on the site of the present one. Louise g1·e\\· up in a religious atmosphel'e. \Yith such ,1rdent church members as were hel' parents it \\·as but naturni that they ,mule! conside1· it their first dut>· to see that thei1· child1·en did ~10t miss the sen·ices. The journe>· to the little chlll'ch on Stotts Creek \,·as made on horseback, and Louise, who ah\·a)·s rnde behind her fathe1·, would often gTo\\· \"e1·y ti1·ed on the long, tire,.;onw ride. The seab in tile church \\·ere an imprn·,ement OH'I' the earlier ones at schoul, as they were made of planks and lrncl backs. The1·e .\n•n· no. Suncla:· schools fo1· the child1·en. and the chun-h sc1Ticc:-; \\·e1·e long. HO\\·e,·e1·, the chilcln.'n wen· trained to sit quiet!)· thrnughout the ti1·esome sen-ice, and to lw pati(•nt \,·ith tlw long \,·ait before their Sunda>· dirn1vr was se1·,·(.:'d. Louise relates man~- interesting stories of her eal'lr life. "-\.s a ('hilcl she remembtTS when the fi1·st trnin passed tluoup:h Frnnklin in 18-17 from ::\Iadison on its way to Indianapolis. It ,,·a,; cl great e\"ent and \\·as \\·itnessed all along the line b,v hundreds of people, n-,an>· of them riding long distances on ho1·st·back to see it. Louise went with he1· pa1·ents to Frank lin the cla)· before that they might all be read)· \Yhen the train cHTi,·ed, and she sat on the fence and watched it go iJ)·. .-\.. ,·ery fe,\· had e,·er seen the "cai-s," and could not belien· a locomotive could trawl so fast as twenty miles an hom·. It was said by some that it ''looked like the cle,·il'' as it \\·ent puffing along, whe1·eas othe1·s said "it ,ms Godlike." :\IL ::\Ierrill, one of the speakers on the occasion of its al'l'i,·al in Indianapolis, g1·e,\· eloquent as he closed his address \\·ith these words: "The1·e may be other railroads, there p1·obably will be, but never will the1·e be any so g1·eat as this ::\Iadison Road." Louise has also frequently spoken of her first \·isit to Ken tucky. This was in 18-18, and she rode all the way in a wagon with her grandmother, Jennie Stm·geon Forsyth, who wanted A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 188 to Yisit he1· sisters and attend an association at Long nun E21ptist ChmTh in Shelby County. Thomas Sturgeon, her great grandfather, was at this meeting. She remembers that he g2t\'e her a peppermint cand)- cane, and that she ate so muf"h of it that she has neYe1· cared for peppe1·111int since. Sixty-six years later, in October, 191"1, she again Yisited old Long Run in company with Paul Jeffries and others. In memo1·)· of he1· fin;t \·isit Paul gaYe he1· another peppermint cane!)· cane. She has nenr forgotten when a little child sitting on the bank of a stream \\·here she watched her fathe1· and mothe1· ,b the~· ,,·ashed the \\·ool from which the family clothing was made. Afte1· washing it in a hole in the sti·eam they spread it on the ground to dry. It was then taken to ,\fr. Vickern1an, ,1·ho Imel a carding machine. east of Franklin. \Vhen the wool came home it \n1s all in soft, fleecy rolls that had to be spun into )·,u n on the '"big ,,·heel." It •.\·as all an interesting pro lT~s to the child, fo1· she rememb1,rs ho\\' she could not reach the \1 lwl'l, !Jut it ,\·as l1l'Cess,HT tlrnt she be brnught into se1T ice in the spinning, so a platfonn \\·as constrnctecl upon which ,;he \rnlkvcl to and fro as she spun the 1·olls into yarn. ::-;Jw t\'I J,, of the kettle \\·hich hci· mother kept for clays on tlw hearth near the fire, which burned in the old-fashioned l!l'eplace. In this kettle \\·as a home-made dye of blue made !°l' .J e:-s::;ie Stur.:.-';Qon Blackmol'e ways \·oted with the Democratic party. His church home and that of his wife and children is with the Church of the Disdples in Franklin. He received his education in the public schools of Franklin and later attended Franklin College. He is a pleasant, affable, kindly man, and well liked by his friends and neighbors. He says happiness is worth cultivating, and he considers whatever brings joy into one's life is a safe thing to guide action, so long as one keeps the rudder true. 186 .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F Al\IIL Y His marriage to Emily Lewis was the 1·esult of a college romance. Their daughter, :'.\,Ia1·y, gTaduated from Franklin College in 1916. Hel' brnther. Le\\·is, was in the S .•--\. T. C. training camp of Frnnklin College in the fall of 1918 . .:\Ia1·tha Sturgeon was he1· fathel''s business confidante, and since his death has manifested hel' abilit~· as a successful busi ness manager. \YhateYer comes in he1· ,,·ay to be done she does it without complaint, belie,·ing that any honest ,,·ork is honorable. She wins friends by her witty, happy personality. Her college trnining was recei,·ed in Frnnklin College. Her bl'Othe1·s, Frank Edward and Robert. a1·e farmers of Johnson and .:\Ia1·ion Counti2s. Julia Stul'geon has been the manage1· of her mother':,; home since she has been old enough to assume the 1·esponsibilit~·. \\'hen her sister, Jessie. died, lea,·ing an onl.,· child thi1·tee11 hours old, she unselfishly took the place of his mother. There ,,·e1·e many sleepless nights for the hitherto ecn·e-free girl, hut no tnie mothe1· e,·e1· complains, nor did she. As the child's guanlian she has faithfully fulfilled her trust. .Julia and her siste1·, Jessie, \H•re de':oted companions. The.,· 11·e1·e students together in Franklin College. .Jessie was known Co1· her lm·aule pe1·sonality and for !HT cheerfulness undel' all circumstances. He1· comfol'table philosophy, rnn tentment ,,·ith things, \\·as the outgTo\\·th of a noble Christian clrnrac:ter. Buoyant, bright, her brief life "·as happy in dern tion to the most hallowed place on earth, home. Hel' son Da\\·son is a student in the Frnnklin high school. Hume Edward Forsyth \Yas a mere lad of t,,·eh·e ~-ears when his father died, but he was the type of boy that his mother could depend upon, as he ,,·as he1· e,·e1· \,·illing helper, and fo1· years his young life was cle,·oted to her comfo1t. He was manied in 1868 and some time later remonxl to Johnson County, .:\Iissouri, with his wife's wuents, .:\fr. and .:\h's. }Iil ton Tylel'. .:\Iissouri at that time was new and not irnprowd. It ,ms still suffering from the effects of the Ci,·il War. The people were discouraged and there was much enmity among the diffe1·ent factions. Hume Ed,rnrd saw this bitter feeling disappear, and where discouragement had prevailed, coul'age and sympathy came. The ashes of burned homes had been replaced by beautiful houses and improved farms. Edward l'ecognized that progress comes through struggle, industry A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 187 and pe1·se\'erance, and he was willing to do his part in the dC\'elopment of the country around him. His reward came when he was c1ble to see his own home gro\,- to be one of the most beautiful in all that section. He was a loyal supportei· of the Baptist Church for fifty )'ears. He died suddenly \\'hile sitting listening to the service m the church, where he had for so many years been a faith- fol member. He was a man of but fe\v words, but when he said a thing his friends knew it was true. He was respected for his genuine worth. Quietly he lived his life, and when the great change came to him so quickly he was ready. His son, Orn Forsyth, is a prospernus farmer and stock dealer living near his father's home. He is a young man of good business ability and a general favorite among his friends. He is a ~Iodern Woodman and a Democrat. 188 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY Thomas Jefferson Forsyth Ii,·ed all his life in Johnson County. His earlier years were spent on his farm near Tra falgar, but later he 1·emo,·ed to Franklin, where his death occurred in August, 19Hl. He was one of the thirty-nine grandchildren of James and Jennie Sturgeon Forsyth, eight only of whom we1·e liYing at the time of his death. Thoma:-, .J. F'oi·syth When a young man he attended Franklin College. He served his county four years as ti·easm·er, and was one of its best citizens. Politically he was a Democrat and religiously a Baptist. He will be remembered by his friends for his cor dial greeting, having had the habit of addressing each one with the title of cousin. Thus he came to be known among many of them as "Cousin Tom." He was known for his pa tience, devotion and sacrifice for those nearest him. He was clean in heart and life, loyal to the church and his friends. CHAPTER VIII ~-~~CY FORSYTH DA:-:-IELS A:\'"D FAniIILY Little is knom1 of the life of Xancy Forsyth Daniels. He1· fathe1· ,note in his diary that she was born December :2:2, 1779, and it is reco1·cled in the county cle1·k's office in Louis \·ille that she manied Thomas Daniels, February 9, 1799. After corning to Indiana she lived in the neighborhood of Trafalgar. After her husband's death she lived in the home of her daughte1-, Eliza L~·rnrn1. She was a member of the old Christian Chun·h during the ~·ea1·s when it met in he1· claug·hte1·'s home. Her grandson, John D. Lynam, and :\Iary Jane \Vatkins \\·ffe rnaniecl Xo\·ember 11, li-;50, and on the following da~· his parents i.rm·e for them \\·hat Weis then called an "Infair Dinner." Xanc·~· Fors.dh Daniel$ ,n1s present on this occa .sion. but she died a few months late1· in July, 1831. In a little gT,1\'eranL one and a half Vi ;!es south of Trafalga1·, and near \\here the old log Christian Church stood, al'e two lone gTcl':t'S, unmarked save by some fragments of stone. These an' the gnt\·es of :'\all(·~· Forsyth and he1· husband, Thomas Daniels. Thei1· eldest son, Stith Daniels, came to Indiana bet,n:'en the ~-ears 1~:26 and ':3:3. \\'hen he was ready to le,n·e Kentucky he loaded all his possessions on a horse, then mounted owr all and rode to Johnson County. He bought land neai· Trafalgar upon a pm-t of which the First Baptist ChLll'ch in the town was built. Serelda and Sa1·ah Ann \Vatkins, \\·horn Stith Daniels' sons, DaYid and John 0., manied, were sisters of the three Watkins sistel'S who maniecl .John, William and Joseph Ly nam, sons of Eliza Daniels Lynam. In their early life they were residents of Johnson Countr. Elvin Daniels, son of George Daniels and grnndson of David, has attracted the attention of church people and others to the community spirit of his work as minister for the Chris tian Church in Kentland, Indiana. For some years he has been impressed with the necessity of the church and other ente1·prises fo1· the imprnvement of the religious and moral 190 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA)IILY atmosphere of any community becoming mo1·e interested in the athletics and other amusements for the young people. He is a "man of deeds, not of words." When he sees a thing should be done he talks little about it, but quietly thinks out some way to do it. In the lines belo,,· he tells the story of his life: I was born in '.\Iiami County, Indiana, .January 2-1, 1880. I \\·a, the first grandchild of my father's family and of course received much attention from the rest of the family. .Judging by the repo1-ts made by relatives, I proved to be a live wire from the very .start and furnished plenty of embarrassment and amusement for the folk,. We lived on the farm \\·ith the house back off the road. I spent a great deal of time until I \Vas tweh·e years of age in the fields, woods and the creek where I learned natm·e first hand. I came to know the habits of wild game and plants, which has been very useful to me since. I remember ni·y distinct!:,· my first day to vo to school because it was the day that my Grnndmothe1· Daniels died \'e''Y unexpectedly. \\' e lived about one and a half miles from the schoolhouse and granclmother's home \\·as on my way, in fact it was arranged so that my uncles ,houlcl go with me as they were still attending the school. That beautiful fall morning as I set 'out with my new red top boots, new books and lunch pail I felt as though all the world was mine. I of course stopped to see grandma, who had been sick for ,ome time and was thoug·ht to be rapidly imp1·oving. She greeted me and her last hopes as exp1·e.ssed to me ·was that I might go to school and pro\·e my.self a good student and ]j\·e to be a good and useful man, and that prayer abides with me to this clay as one of the most precious memories of my life. I have from childhood longed fol' an education that would fit me fo1· a worthy life service. l\Iy chief ambition is to be really wol'th while. I have been cuffed around considerably. When hveh-e yea1·s of age we moved to Tipton County, where I attended the village school at Hobbs, Indiana. Afte1· six months we moved to OU!' farm two and a quarter miles from Hobb,. At fourteen yea1·s of age m~· parents granted me the p1·ivilege of earning my way and seeking an education \,·ith the understanding that I was welcome home any time I wished to return. I batched with a young man and fed stock before and after school in our own neighborhood and attended the district school one winter, getting my boa1·d for my sen·ices. A little late1· I attendee! school at Logansport, Indiana, for a year, making my home with a family where I took care of the lawn, two hol'Ses, a cow and coached for my room and board. All the cash I had to use for nine months was what I earned at odd jobs and the money fathe1· gave me along at different times, which amounted to $33 and was the price of a pony which he promised each boy. At twenty years of age I secured a teacher's license and taught school for four years. During these four years I met with some reverses and gave up for a time at least the hopes of going to college, and mar- A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 191 ried, built a little home and expected to go into business and teach, but after a few ~·ears I sacrificed everything I had and with my wife's con sent I entered Butler College in the fall of 1905 and 1·emained there almost continuously fo1· more than eig·ht yea1·s, taking the Preparatory and College courses besides considerable work in the College of iviis o:ion:-. .\Iy object in comin;:;· to college was to equip myself for the .\Iinistry. .\Iy first work was for W. E. :M. Hackleman, taking cai·e of his cow, etc., then later in the winter I secured a little church fo1· foui-th time at S9 a trip and I paying expenses. Before the end of the yeai· I wa, employed all my Sundays by small churches and I was em ployed most of my time the rest of my stay at college. In Decembe1·, 191:3, I moved with my family to Kentland, Indiana, where I became pasto1· of the Chdstian Church. This was considered a hard field, but I entered into the work full of hope, and it has been a good field. .\I uch of the work I was not hopeful about I was not able to do, but some things which I least expected to do we succeeded in doing. For instance, I expected the adult members to be 1·eady to wo1·k together to help meet the needs of the young people, and expected the church to be interested in pro\·iding ways and means fo1· community acti\·itie,, since most of them had lodgeoS and clubs with splendid halls and Pquipment, but thi" ag·ain did not wo1·k out as I really hoped for, but thanks to a small grnup of public spirited citizens we succeeded in getting the main pa1·t of .a community building constructed, and we ha\·e been able to p1·0\·ide for the athletic activities of the young people fairly well. 3-I,- reason foi· attempting· the type of work I have here is because I know of no othe1· means that \\'ill reach the conditions of our day, and I am thoroughly com-inced that the prngram, when fairly intel'])J'eted, of Ch1·ist and His followers has been a constructive pro gram, which seeks to build up a new humanity. To de this we must project the principle., of .Jesus into all of our activities. This wo1·k was intenupted by the war. I left fo1· France in April, Hl18, and returned to the work here in .Janua1·y, 1919. I ha\·e sen-eel as farm hand, enginee!', section hand, janitor, school teacher, contracto1· and preacher, while I waf trying to get my educa tion. This not only made my financial support possible, but it i., a gTeat asset to me in dealing with some of the prnctical problems of church and community work as well as other things. \Yhen I went to Irvington to enter Butler College I took with me my wife and baby, and afte1· my tuition for the first term and house rent for the first month was paid, I had $4,-; and a great deal of faith. The fii·st term the baby had a fall which fractured its arm, and then my wife's health failed and she had to submit to an operntion which gave her relief for a few years. In Febi·uary, 191-'5, both Mrs. Daniels and Earl, our son, were com pelled to go to the hospital for majo1· operations the same day. This with many other reverses which I suffered has caused me many anxious moments, but I have personally enjoyed good health, and we have been very happy and enjoyed life. We now have an adopted baby girl that is a great pleasu1·e to us. 192 A HISTORY OF THE FOR:C:YTJ-1 F,\:\IILY went to France as a Y. :\l. C . .-\.. war worker, and was in Lon don, .'.\lay 21st, during one of the \\·orst air raids the city had experi enced at that time. Three daF later I aniYed in Paris, and while there the big guns began thro,Ying she!ls in tlw city, and ,,·ithin fiye hours had dropped sixteen. Thi.- \\·as kept up almost daily during the week I spent there. I left for Gonclecoul't ,·ia Chateau Thierry t\\·o days after the second bi;!; German offensi,·e, and \Hts on next to the last train that passed thrnugh Chateuu Thieny until after the Ame1·ican offen.,iYe. An enemy m·iator blew up the tracks at that place, and ,,·e \Yc1·e held there for ,-ome time. Here I \\·itnessed ,,·ar for the first time as a rcal it~·- The fleeing· refugee,;, the train loads of ,,·ounded coming back, and trnops going up, I shall neYer forget the si,d1t. I was assigned work at Gondecourt. I hiter \\'ent to the St. :\Iihiel frnnt, and did emergenc~- canteen work. I serYed as hut secretary with the third cm·alry for two months, and was the1·e made manager of the mo,·ies for that area, se1-Ying· about sixteen camps. :\ly se1Ticc certifi cate gi\·e~ me mention for se1Tice a., hut, athletic, relig'ious, transporta tion and cinema secretary. Eh·in's brother, F1·ed Daniels, ,,·ent to In-ington, Indiana, m 191:3, and ente1·ecl Butle1· Colle1re. He ,,·c,s a student the1·e until June, 1917. \Vhile in .school he ,,·as ,,jclely known- as an athlete, having been a member of the baseball. football and basketball teams. He was a rnemlwl' of the Phi Delta Th eta Fra terni t~·. In August, 1Dl7, he enlisted \\·ith the One Hundred Fifti eth Field A1tillery, Rainbow Di,·ision, and ,ms sent to Fort Den.iamin Hanison for training. His di,·ision \\·as one of the fil·st to go to France. He \\'as a sergeant and took part in e,·ery American offensi,·e. He was in the fighting on the Lorraine front, Chateau Thieny, St. :.Iihiel and the ATgonne. He ,ms severely wounded in the A1·gonne, Octob2r '.29. 1918, b~- being hit with a piece of shrapnel. and fo1· two months was unable to walk, and was in the hospital six months. He lacked thirteen days of going thrnugh the entire fighting period of the American Anny. In the s1)l'ing of 1Hl9 he returned to the l:nited States, and after being discharged returned to Butler and graduated with his class in June, 1919. His brother, John H. Daniels, enlisted in Decembe1·, 1917, with the Aero Squadron, and ·was just ready to cross over when peace was declared. The only child of John 0. Daniels was John 0. Daniels, Jr., who went to Lexington, Nebraska, ,vhere he married Elva Winifred 1866-1870 Max 1896 Evelyn 1868 I { Raloh E. 1918 m.' Samuel Mitchell l m. Ina Walters Edmund 1844-1896 m.' S. S. Parsley m. Mary A. Nay Edmonia 1869-1871 Minnie 1876 m. Emerson Brock Harry L. 1880 m. N ayomi Fleming Leland 1869-1870 Gerald F. 1898 Elba L. 1870 Edgar M. 1900 m. Zula Francis { Roger D. 1902 Elba L. Jr. 1909 Ralph G. 1894 Nora L. 1872 Oren 1899 ' m. William 0. Springer{ Lowell 1908 William D. 1846 m.' Nancy J. Lash Ollie A. 1875 m. Samuel J. Gibbs Daisy 1878 { Charles 1917 m. Watson M. Vannuys William 1915 Verne 1881 Mary 1917 m. Stella Atwood { Francis 1919-1919 Sarah Jane 1826-1902 Stella I. 1883-1892 m. Nicholas Branigin m.' Frances McQuinn Sawin Samuel B. 1906 Maria 1911 _ { Rena M. 1877 Wendell 1914 Montford 1852 m. Daniel y aste { Noble 1916 m.' Nettie E. Chambers Pearl 1908 William Paul 1883 Beulah 1910 m. Tessie Owens { Emery D. 1913 Clarence 1910 Bessie 1889 Norman E. 1912 m. Omer Slack Alice P. 1914 { Rita M. 1915 m.' Nina Webb Earl N. l!Jl6 { Morris W. 1891 Maurice E. 1918 m. Lena Boyd { James E. 1919 Ruth 1906 Clarence 1880 John N. 1908 m. Elizabeth D. Waltz Mary E. 1911 { Earl 1915 Oscar 1856 m. Sarah Jane Dragoo Hazel M. 1906 Harold 1910-1918 { Ralph 1883 Arlie 1912 m. Eva M. Bridges { Carl 1916 Donald A. 1918- Margaret 1906 Lucile 1908 Maude V. 1874 Wilson 1910 1n. Garner Wood { Paul 1912 Ruth A. 1895 m. Ralph Rhoads Anna B. 1898-1900 I. Sarah d. 1851-1902 Luna Volta 1876 William M. 1901 m. W. D. Terhune m. Otis Frazier m. Lella Dowden { Sarah V. 1903 Irene 1909 Stella 1880 m. A. C. Brock Florence 1888-1911 m. Will Rinehart Oliver 1884 IL Thoma~ 1855-1886 William 1886 { Edith Irine 1915 m. Edith Hibbs m. Blanch Woolridge Oma 1877-1896 { Mary 1896 _ .m. Will Banta Dora D. 1879 f Martha 1901 m. John W. Beard l Ruth 1902 Margaret 1904 III. Martha Ann Leona 1882 Charles 1906-1910 Elizabeth 1913 1856-1912 m. Butler Smith { m. Abram C. Deer Butler 1915 Donald F. 1888-1916 Helen 1907 m. Oma Cook Freda 1916 Tillus A. 1890 Irwin 1916 m. Edith Hildebrand Clarence 1895 l m. Josephine Covert Grace 1880 { Fern L. 1902 m. Wm. E. Reed Horace 1881-1882 Lucy I. 1883 Flora 1859 m. Clyde Corwin m. James Frank Cham David P. 1828-1915 Mary R. 1884 { Fletcher 1904 m. Mary Logan bers m. Alfred Ferguson Floyd R. 1910 Ernest F. 1887 Florence L. 1912-1914 m. Freda Brown { Beryl W. 1915 Bessie 1900 Vernon B. 1889-1908 Lamont C. 1891 m. Christina Ruby Oscar 1861 Raymond E. 1895 m. Lydia Balser Oscar D. 1897 m. Alma Brown Irma G. 1902 Lester D. 1907 Ereah 1886-1887 Mabel 1888 { Fred E. 1915 _ Josie .1864 ... m. F. E. Parfett m. Newton F. Huston Clarence 1/390 - Laura 1892 Josephine 1903 Newton F. 1905 John 1866 { Charleton m. Margaret Charleton r:t~aret , { Blan F. 1887 Margaret 1868 m. Freda Mayor m. William Marshall Ralph E. 1892 Alberta 1913 Deer m. Beulah Teeters { Alma 1915 Epha F. 1901 Ernest 1878 f Harold W. 1898 m. Mabel.Fisher l Paul E. 1906 Gussie E. 1875 { Gladys F. 1899 m. Jesse H. Deer Gerald F. 1910 Ira D. 1866-1866 Fuller 1868 Ruth 1897 m. Emma Walsh { Helen 1900 Nora 1872 Claire m. Charles Stilley { David M. Merrill 1896 Ruby 1899 Louise 1900 Harold 1902 Mamie 1875 Earl 1904 m. Emery Hood Elsie 1906 Oscar 1909 Elizabeth 1911 Emery 1914-1914 James 1906 Elkanah 1843-1912 Leonard B. 1877 Edith 1914 m. Isabelle Lyster m. Lulu Spencer Mildred 1915 Hubert Nellie 1880 Kermit 1919 m. Asa Clark Dean Paul J. } Nettie 1882 Isabelle 1908-1914 m. Allen P. Matthews Mabel 1884 Mabel 1907 Hazel 1886 Martha 1912 m.' Rachel Harvey m., Charles Morrison { Charles 1916 Cecil Georgia 1888 -m;-WalterAlbert-· Milo George 1891 Gladys 1893 m. C. E. Oldham Earl C. 1869-1869 Stella A. 1870-1889 Gratz 1872-1883 Philip F. 1908 Lura Edna 1875 . Georgiana Alice 1911 Andrew J. 1846-1913 m. C. L. Fix · { Gordon 1913 m. Lucy Jane Barnett Jane Pearl 1917 Pearl Barnett 1880 Tessie ,Jane 1883-1887 Annajane 1916 Haidee Alice 1889 ~Myrta Constance 1917 lm. Carl Burkhardt {Bessie Bright 1919 \... -. .. -....-., Chester A. 1886 Ida 1868 111,. Nellie Smith ni.' Jordan Utterback m. Thomas B. Thomp- Carlos A. 1889 · son { m. Ruth Wolf 1Cornelius M. 1870-1885 . Edward N. 1872-1874 Mary 1811-1872 Effie A. 1874 m. Louis L. Fuller m. Jacob Core l Eva L. 1904- Eric V. 1905- David Henry 1864 Vetal D. 1907- ni. Pe:;irl Core Myers Zeline K. 1909- Macil A. 1911- Dillard E. 1866 Rhea D. 1913 Harry C. 1892- George E. 1868 m. Anna M. Nicholas m.1 Bertha Stewart James W. 1895-1896 m.' Anna E. Riley { Gertrude 1916 Robert Newton Della C. 1897 1841-1880 Blanche P. 1900 m. Martha Pearcy Elmer Elzie 1871-1916 Cora A. 1903 m. Nora L. Martin Minner E. 1904 · Inis L. 1906 William B. 1872-1874 Elzie J. 1911 1 th 1899 Charity Dell 1877 { Mar a E. m. Gilbert Maxwell Mary G. 1902 James R. James Roscoe 1879 Cora M. m. Nora Cain Mabel C. Cecil 1891 m. Hazel Clem Mabel 1893 J Kenneth 1914 Clara 1870 m. Charles Smith l Doris June 1917 Jacob Elias 1844-1909 m. Charles N. Selch John 1897 m.1 Eliza Laymon m. Ester Pierce m.' Delilah Laymon Ruth 1908 Doncel 1894 I Harold 1914 Ezra Elmore 187 4 m. Lela Utterback t Russell 1916 m. Delia Barton Floyd 1909 1913 Dorothy Nellie 1911 Ruby .1891 { Helen 1913 Robert Jacob 1866 m. ~1lson Doffs Alice 1916 m. Isabel Hammonds { Susie 1892 Leslie 18915 Cleo 1893 Louis Seymour 1868 m. Roderick M. Wright m. Estella Howell Louis B. 1900-1902 { Ruth 1903 Jefferson A. 1871 Jessie D. 1893 { Helen 1916 m. Emma J. Cortee m. Onie Fielder David Jefferson Nancy M. 1873-1874 Fern 1897 ~ Eleedia 1917 184601918 Anna Belle 1874 m. May Price m. Anna E. Scroggin m. Samuel Blevens Ernest 1902 Elizabeth 1904-1905 Lena May 1909 Elma B. 1911 Pearl Olive 1878 Clarence 1898 m. 1 Herbert Myers m.' David H. Core J Vivian Laurie E. 1881 l m. Harley Fielder m.1 Gardiner Ray 5 Bernard 1904 m.' John Rusher l Velma R. 1907 Earl 1892 Alice 1870-1912 m. Helen Jacobs Henry Scott 1849-1865 Eva 1895 } Katharine I. 1915 m. Allen Vaughn { Rufus 1872 m. Fletcher Paris George 0. 1916 ni. Emma Skaggs Hannah 1900 Frances L. 1917 Homer 1875 m. Frank Gillaspy t James C. UJ.19 m. Lillie Prather Edith 1903 ' { Neva 1906 Cleo 1901 Matilda Ellen 1852 Elsie 1879-1912 Ruby 1906 m. John T. Hamilton m. William Hunter { Edward 1908 Alma 1881 { Pearl 1903 m. John T. Loch George 1909 Marie 1910 Erna 1888 Josie 1912 m. Leota Melton Henry 1913 { Thelma 1916 Iva Nell 1918 Hina 1891 m. Amanda Smith { Luther 1910 James 1813-1887 John Thomas { Clarence 1859-1912 m. Ellen Ragsdale 1838-1879 m. Mary LaJman m. Lucy Keaton Mary 1865-1869 { Thomas Harold James Harvey { Maud Lenore 1870- 1895-1897 1844-1917 m. Thomas A. Hall James Forsyth 1897 m.' Jessie Kirtley · m. Arthea Metcalf m.' s. Kate Frazier Edgar Thomas 1872- Robert _E. 1900 Lona Elston 1871-1871 Judson E. 1872 { Mitchell Schofield m. Nannie Lou John- Grace 1900-1911 1845- son m. Mildred Lyster Lois 1874 { Judson 1904 Martha Ellen m. Oren Deer 1850-1889 , Doane 1881 m. B. F. Vandiver m. Jessie Mansfield Edmonia Maxie 1890 { Kenneth Forsyth 1912 m. Frank Griffith Robert Fulton { Thomas 1816-1900 1851-1882 Dulcie. m.1 Mary R. Ragsdale m. Emma Gourley m.2 Mali!J-da Garrison · Evelyn May 1870- m. Walter S. King Berniece 1893 { Marjorie 1919 Orpha Dale 1871 m. F. E. Glass . m. Robert Hall Marjorie 1894 { m. Walter H. Mont Jennie 1853- gomery m. William H. Jeffries Pearl 1874 { David 1903 m. George V. Miller Moddie Alice 1875 { Kenneth Forsyth 1904 m.· Percy Williams Paul William 1880-1915 Lawrence 1876-1884 Milton Horace 1855 Agnes 1882-1883 ni. Alice Cole Luther 1884-1913 Lowell Bridges m. { 1909-1909 Ruth Bridges Marjorie 1911 Leonard 1886-1897 Bronson Haley 1857 J Versa! 1881 m. Carrie Willard l m. George Gross Fannie I. 1890 Frank F. 1859 Joseph W. 1885 Ermina 1842-1902 m. May Wyeth { m. Irene Wiselogel m. J osei_:>h J. Moore Elgin E. 1860-1868 { Cinchona Alice 1863 { Don R. 1889 m. E. M. French Helen Gould 1899 m. Harry Hall { Howard 1920 James Thomas Charles E. 1871 Justin 1901 1843-1910 m. Bessie Laughlin Stanley 1903 l { m. Melissa Pritchard . Margaret 1907 Chester Hume 1881 James 1910 · m. Louise James {,\.lmira 1845-1914 1·· L. az 1864 Ruth 1896 m.' Henry Kennedy m. Walter Bridges { William G. 1918 _::_;rmina 1869 William W. 1900 m. R. L. Findley { Orpha A. 1903 V,mi<'P V 1Q/llf: A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 193 0. Tyler, a daughter of Willet and Nancy Nay Tyler. Willet Tyle1· ,vas an early preacher of Johnson County. John 0. Daniels late1· left Lexington with his family and went to Asotin, \Vashington. \\'illiam Thomas Daniels, fourth child of Stith Daniels, enlisted in the Civil War November 29, 1862. He ,vas with Battery :.\I, Second Regulars, r. S. Artillery. He was honor ably discharged at Light House Point in 1865. While in the army he was in thirty-one important engagements and made the march with Sherman to the sea. His grandson, John Hoffman, was in the war with Ger many as a hospital nurse. :.\Iartin, the fifth son of Stith Daniels, was killed in the Battle of the \\'ilderness during the Civil War. Abner Hardin of Johnson County was standing near when the fatal shot came. \\'illiam W. Daniels, son of :.\Ial'tin Daniels and grandson of Da,·id Daniels, sen·ecl fom· years in the United States ~a,·y, ha,·ing enlisted in 1908. After four months' training at ~ orfolk, \'irginia, h'e was sent to :.\Ianila, where he re mained during his term of enlistment with the exception of nine months when he was in Shanghai, China, at the time of the Chinese rebellion. He was honorably discharged at San Francisco in 1912. In June, Hll8, he enlisted at Chicago for sel'vice in the war with Gern1any. He ,\·as stationed at the Great Lakes Training Station in Chicago, whel'e he had the supervision of the training of men fol' o,·erseas sel'vice. Here, on account of his 1n·eyious serYice, he pl'Oved a valuable man. He also ,,·hile at the station supe1·intencled the erection and mainte nance of the la1·gest heating plant in the world. His bl'Othe1·, Chal'les F. Daniels, enlisted in the federal service in 1916, and was sent with his l'egiment to the :Mexican border to protect the interests of the enited States from the bands of :.\Iexicans who ,vere a cause of disturbance at that time. He was mustered out in January, 1917, and recalled in August, ,vhen he and his company wel'e made a part of the Rainbow DiYision, 150th F. A., Battery A. Dming the entire engagement of this 42nd Division Charles Daniels was with his l'egiment excepting two brief pel'iocls when he was in the hospital, and was not injured 19J A Hr:-:roRY OF TllE FonsnH L\~IILY once in battle. After the signing of the armistice his 1·eg1- ment became a part of tlw cn·m,\· of oc-cupation. Robert Daniels spent his ecHI~· life in Johnson Countr. and ,,·as manied there. It ,,·as sonw years later ,,·hen he \\·ent to Pern, Indiana, \\·]w1·e he no\\· residt's. His childl'E'll li,·e in or near Pern. Ther ha\·e b0c'n successful in business and are among the prnrninent people in their communit)·. Frank Daniels has been an unusuallr successful fal'mer and stockman. He has giYen st1·ic-t attention to business ancl says that he has neHr said "no" to an)·thing that meant success in the end, not e\·en if it meant loss of sleep m· ,,·ork at night. One year his \\·heat had ripened rapid]~- ancl shat tered easily. He cut it by going to the field at one o'clock a. m., wo1·king until earl.,· dawn. He is among the largest stoc-k feede1·s in his county. His faithfulness to business is shown br his close attention to his young· stock ,,·hen the weather is cold. He has been knmn1 tn take a cot and sta~ near them all night. His home ,is near the Erie Canal, and most of the driw out from Peru is in ,·ie\\' of the canal and the old to\\·path. He has recently built a beautiful modern 1·esiclence on hi,z farm, \1·here he is a genial and rnrcli:1! host. Pel'!ina Daniels ,1·as \Jorn in Johnson County. She \\·a, manied neal' nensselaer, Indiana, in 186~). Her son. Jesse. and daughtel's, Corn Alice, Addie }Ia~- and Blanch, live 011 fal'ms near nensselaer. .:\Iable, the youngest daughter, is a bookkeeper and stenographe1·. She li\·es ,1·ith her fathe1· lll nensselaer. Xancy Forsyth's second child, John 0. Daniels, ,1·ent to X ew Ol'ieans when a young man and died there. The daugh ters, Harriet, Juliet and Letitia, died in Kentuck::. Letitia manied ~fr. Watts. Her only child died before he1· mother, leaving no descendants. Letitia died in Louisville, lea,·ing a small estate, which was divided among her 1·elatives, a num ber of whom we1·e in Johnson County. Her husband died in 1899 at Stanford, Kentucky. William Daniels. the youngest son, died in Kentucky about 1860. The history of the Trafalgar Christian Chul'ch could not be ,vritten without telling of the life of Eliza Daniels and her husband, Thomas Lynam, so closely were they identified with its work. Its first services were held in their home A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:'IIILY 195 dming the years of 18-18 and '19, when Thomas Lynam did tlw pl'eaching. On these occasions Eliza Lynam would p1·e pa1·e dinner for the enti1·e con,pany, "·hich pre,·ented her from h,ffing: ,m~· part in the senice, fo1· she cooked while they sang and prn,n_•d and \\'hile her husband preached. Two years afte1· the o!'ganization oL' the chm·ch a small log stn1ctm·e was l;uilt ,,·ith one doo1· and a single window. This was situated one 2,nd a half miles south of Trafalgar near what was called Goose C1·eek. The church was called Goose Creek Church. Eliza Lym1rn 's children became members while they wo1·shiped in this building, excepting the two elder sons, who united ,,·ith the chun-h ,,·hile they met in the parents' home . .--\fte1· a fe,,· years the log chun:h ,,·as replaced by a frame structun' located in ,,·hat was then called Hensleytown, now a part of Trafalgar. Thomas L~-n,1m \\·ith the help of his sons was its chief architect, builder and promoter, and no building of it.~ time stood mon· firm!.,· upon its cornerstones. The plastering ,vas the wo1·k of his hands. His daughte1·, Eliza, \\·hen a girl of ten ye2i1·s, helped to cal'l'r the wate1· to make the mortar ,,·ith which it \\·as plastered. Its plainness com pared \I ith that of the worshipe1·s fo1· whom it was e1·ected. On either ;-;ide of the pulpit men! the doors, one for the men ti) entc>1· and the other fOl' the ,1·ornen, and in those days it 1,·oldcl hm·e been an act of irnpl'Opriety fo1' either to ha\·e made the \\Tong en trance. This little chm·ch was the sc:ene of many happy experi ences fo1· the young people of the community. It was where the singing schools were taught. A stile reached by steps from the chm·ch g-l'Ouncls was where the girls and women mountc'cl their ho1·ses, for at that time everyone rode horse back, and it was the duty of the young men \vho cared to retain a reputa~ion for gallantry to see that each horse was brought to the stile at the proper time. Thomas Lynam had entire sympathy with the singing school of the young people, and they we1·e free to use the chmch at any time, but he never gave up his love for the simple, plain chm·ch in the old way. This was shown when a member of a later generation in trying to improve the sew1'e plainness of the pulpit where the old Bible rested, made a cloth cover for it. The week following its first appearance it disappeared and was found neatly folded and put aside. 19G .-\ HISTORY OF TEE FORSYTH FA~IILY The sister not discouraged again placed it o\·el' the pulpit only to find at the next sen·ice that it had l>een taken a \n'ty. She persisted, but each time the co,·er disappeared. and \\·hen she found .:\Ir. Lynam was detennined, she gan up and the pulpit remained as at first. Had it not been for the sacl'ifice of Thomas Lynam and his wife, Eliza Daniels, this chun·h might ne\·er haYe been built. They and their children helped to keep it nli\·e dming the Civil Wa1·. The story of the baptism of Emma, the daugh ter of John Lynam, is pathetic, but it sho\\·s the derntion of these early disciples to the faith fo1· \\·hich their church stood. She \\·as \·ery ill, and expressed a \\·ic;h to become a member of the church, and at its Sunday aften10on senic-e she was taken to the church. and from there to a stream of \\·ater, and while seated in a chai1· friends carried hel' into the water. and J. C. :.\Iiller, an able minister of the church. lx1ptized her. She died a \Yeek later. Thomas and Eliza Lynam \H'l'e patriotic to thei1· counti·~· \\·hen the CiYil \\'ar came. Their eldest son. Thomas. eiul,\' enlisted, and in Dec-embe1·. 1861, \nts killed in :.\Iissouri. He was a membe1· of Co. I, lKth Indiana Itegiment. A man ,,·ith a \\·ife and children was not E:'xempt from the draft in the war if he was \\·ithin the age limit of t\\·enty-one and fo1·ty fl\"e. Great hardships wei-e enclm·E'd by the L,\·nam famil,\· dming this period. Their daughters, ::\Iatilda. :.\Iartha and Eliza, each \Yith a babe, \\·e1·c compelled to return to the home of their parents ·while their husbands were in the a1·mr. In the court-house in Louis,·ille may be found the record of Eliza Daniels' maniage to Thomas Lynam. It sa_\·s: "The said Eliza Daniels being the daughter of Thomas Daniels, \\·hose consent thereto \\·as p1·0,·en by Stith Daniels, \\·as mar ried to Thomas Lynam, ,Januar_\· 30, 18:2:3." Eliza Daniels Lynam was a woman of kindly natm·e and a most unselfish character. She had many traits of disposition similar to those of her grandfather, David Forsyth, ,,·ho is said to hm·e had a remarkably even temperament. Her hospitality and her spirit of sacrifice Wel'e apparent when she so unselfishly cooked by an open fireplace fo1· all who came to the chm·ch service in her home. Thomas Lynam, her husband, was a man of very strong convictions. This was clearly sho,vn in a little circumstance A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 197 that has been frequently related. He and his neighbor \Vere men of equally strong characters, and could not be friends because of their different religious and political opinions. So strong ,vas Thomas Lynam's a,·ersion that he would always take the opposite side of the road when compelled to pass his neighbo1·' s house. John and William Lynam are remembered by the older citizens of their community as men \\'ho confributed thei1· share of whate\·e1· ,,·as best. They Wel'e strnng for the 1'nion dm·ing the wai·. but ,,·ere not antagonistic toward those who held opposite Yie,\·s . .John L:,nam's daughter Annie lives with her son and his famil~· on Hoyt avenue, Indianapolis. When a girl she was a pupil in J. C. :\Iille1·'s school in Xineveh, and while there met George \\'ei1·, whom she later manied . •..\gnes Buckne1· Hunter, daughter of Eliza Lynam Buck ne1·. \ms born in Trnfalga1· and lived there during her gil'l hoocl. She has ahn1ys called it home. A part of hel' eal'ly m,11Tiecl life \\·as spent there. Since the death of her mother the famil.,· home has been in Fnmklin. She prepa1·ed the data of the Eliza L.rnarn family with unusual neatness and accurnc)·. HPr husband, Dudley A. Hunter, is with the Strauss Clothing Company of Indianapolis. He is the son of the late Singleton and Haniett Clemmer Hunter, and a nephew of Anderson Hunter, ,,·ho was fo1· many years con nected with the la\\' firm of O,·erstreet & Hunte1· of Franklin. CHAPTER IX ELIZ.-'\BETH FORSYTH BRIDGES, HEH CHILDRE:\' .\:\"D SO:.\IE OF THEIR DES CE:\" D .\:\'TS D,ffid For:-;rth \\Tote in hi:-; clial'y that !ii:-; dau1:d1tel'. Betsey (Elizabeth) ,,·c1s born the 10th of DecemlH•l' in 17Xl. The _1,·ea1· of her clc,1th i:-; not kno11·11. !Jut it ,,·a;; about the .n'a1· l;-:(;3f,. She rnanied Isham Briclg:es in l(entuc-kY ancl :-;pent the rest o~· her life there. Som?,, hel'e in .Jetfer:-;c,n Count.,· her l;od_1,· lie,- l;uried in an unkno\\"n ,tncl unmal'kcd gTm·i. ""\"l' possibl_1,· br stones taken from a rn·arlJ_1,· .stJ·cam. ..\fter her death her husband came to Indiana. and hi:-; "'On, <;col';r,·. !milt ,l lwuse fo1· him in the _1,·ard near hi,; mn1 home. In thi:-; he li1·ed alone fo1· se1·ernl _1,·cai·."· He ,,·c1s ,1 n°r.,· l;u·ite ma11. ,-:o la1·g-e he could not ride ho1·,-:l'1Jack. \\ hich ,,·,t.s tlw ])l'l'\ ,iiling· custom. He pm·ch,, :-eel pro ha hi_,. tht' ti l'.s t l 1Ug·_(l_1· I ,mug ht in to Hen,-Jer to,1·nship. His gTandson. Thorrni:-:; firidg·es. ofte11 told that it ,,·as the first one he eYer sa,1·. Isham D1·idg-es 11·as a friend of tlw childn,n. ,,nd the,,· ,1l- 11·a_1,·s found him a \\·a1·m. helpful companion. It wa" a t1·c·at 11·hen tiler could g-o to his little house. fol' he took pleiFUl'l' in ente1taining them. In his late1· life he 1·eturned to LouisYille, \\'here he died at the home of his daughter. Rebecca, in 1K rn. The children \\·ere as follo\\"S: Fi1·st, Geol'g-e. \1·ho manied :\Iatilchl Fo1·srth. She \,·as the daughte1· and eldest child of James and Jane Stm·g·con Forsyth. In 18:27 they came to Indiana b1·inginp: two wagons \1·hich were of a \'err prirniti\·e type. One of them 11·as called homemade and had been manufactm·ed from the n1de material at hand. The \1·heels were made from thick oak planks 11·ith irnn tires. The other one was a schooner wagon dra-\71 by four horses. This ::\fr. Bridges used to haul pionee1· families back and forth from Kentucky. He cleared the farm, one and a half miles west of Trafal gar, known for many years as the Bridges farm. In 1884, tweh·e years after his death, 160 acres of this land was sold A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A.MILY 199 b:-· his family to William H. Jeffries. This \Yas the fast ti·ans fer after ;1fr. Bridges bought it from the gon:Tnment. Ceorge Bridges' education was limited so far as \\·as ac quilwl thrnugh schools, but his actiw mind was neye1· idle, and he made the best use of eYery opportunity. His was an unu::cuall>· acti,·e business life. His interests broug·ht him in cont,1ct \,·ith men of intelligence, and in this \\·ay he acquired a most 1)l'actical education. He was well informed upon all the genei-al topics of his time, and was familiar with every thing that pertained to the business in which he was engaged. He was interested first and last in agricultural pursuits and in the growing of live stock giving especial attention to a high grade of cattle and mules. Possibly no man in Johnson County ever handled so many mules as he. The large barn near the 1·oad was built by him more than sixty years ago to shelter 2()() A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.-\:\IILY them. In his earlie1· life, howe\·er, his acti\·ities were not con fined wholly to his farm. He \1·as not on]~- a promoter of Hensle.down, but he also named the place. The eastern part of the present town of Ti-afalg-ar \nts called Libertr. In l;:;5:3 he laid out a plot of gl'Ound ,iust \\·est of he1·e which he called Hensleytown. He \\·as a competitor \\·ith .-\Yen· Buckne1· for the postottice, but the latte1· being first in his application \\·on for his town of Liberty. The department objected to this name because of anothe1· in the state. ..\s a 1·esult of the 1·i\· alry Ti-afalgar \\·a:-i selected for the name of the postonke. The towns retain2d their name for man.\· yeai·s. and each ]eel its ow11 indi,·idual life. Hensleytom1 took the le,1d in gTO\\·th. One of its first buildings \\·as a huge stOl'l' room c1·ectecl by Bridges in which he engaged in merchandisinp: and handling grain. He amassed ,,·ealth during his forty-fi\·e yeai·:-; residence in Indiana, and he did it without detracting from the confi dence the people had in him. ..\n incident connected \\·ith the pun·hase of a la1·ge flock of sheep shO\\·s his fair deeding. Rob e1·t Stul'geon, who \\·as alwa~·s seeing: the humornu.s :sick• nf things. \\·as helping him to dl'i\'C:> the .~hl'ep to his fal'm, \\·hen he 1·cmal'ked: ·'Geol'ge, ~-ou kno\,· you got more sheep than you paid that man for. I counted them, and you lrne,\· about it." "\Vell," said Bridges, "\Ve \\·ill d1fre them l,ack and 12:et the man to help count them again, for I do not \\·ant any that I do not pay for." Sturgeon did not find it easy to conYincr him that it was all a joke. Some years before his death he was for some time a di- 1·ector of the First :National Dank of Frnnklin. He \Yas al:e;o a stockholder, but this stock was lost when the bank was ,necked after his death. He was interestEd in all that the chun:h stood fol', and \\·as a member of the Trafalgar Baptist Church. In politics he 1·e mained true to his southern ancestl'y, and was always a Democrat. For the children of George and ::\Iatilda Forsyth, see Matilda Forsyth. After the death of Matilda, Geo1·ge Bridges manied l\Iartha Clark. They had two children, ::\Iarion, who died when a child, and William A. Bridges, who has been one of the leading agriculturists of Johnson County of a late1· day. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:\IILY 201 His ideas of farming were the best known, showing the care and o\·ersight of the scientific farmer. When his eldest son married he 1·emo\·ed to Franklin, leadng the son on the farm. He sen·ed the county as commissioner for more than four years. and was treasure1· of Johnson County two te1·ms. In rnor, he \\·as f:lected mayor of Franklin, and filled the office sati~factorily for four years. He is a prominent member of the )Iasonic Fraternity in Franklin and was inte1·ested in the establishment of the Masonic home at that place, being super intendent of the constrnction of the buildings. He has sup po1ted liberally churches and all enterprises that help to build up a community. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and is a Democrat in politics. His children were educated in the public schools of Johnson County and Franklin College. Otis has been very successful in the management of his father's farn1. He is l'ecognized as one of the pl'Og1·essin, young: fanrn:1·s of his neighborhood. Hany went into the tl'easure1·':-; oflice as deput,\· under his fathe1·, ,,·hic:h position he continm·cl to hold uncle1· T ..J. Fol' syth. The eflic:ienc:~· ,d1ich lw .--d10,1·ed whik he1·c toµ:cthel' ,1·ith his courteous treatment of the people latcl' 11·on the dec tion fo1· him as t1·easm·el', at 11·hic:h time he J'ecein·cl the l,ug cst majol'ity en::1· gin,11 a candidate for public ol!ke in the count~·. It 1Yas clue to hie:: interest in the people and hi:,; af fable and kind!.,· t1·eatment of them that he 1·etained his popu lal'itr throu!£hout his tel'm. He is a membe1· of the Ifaptist Church and also a }Iason. He l ;elongs to l:oth the Yol'k and Sc-ottish Rites. Grn1·g:e Bridges manied the third time Eliza Prather, 11 ho sm·,·incl him about fol'ty yeal's. Theil' children 11·crc ,111 born and brnught up on the home fann. Dillard i:-; a farnwr of ~iiw,·eh township. A son of Henrr 1rn.~ in the .sc1·1·ic-,' of the Cnitecl States dul'inµ: the late 11·al'. Emily Bridges \Yolfington li,·c,s 11·ith her claug:hter. Lola .. in Detrnit, }Iichigan. Lola rnanied H211T~- Fon!. a ,.;;on of Hei,r)· Fonl. the automobile rnanufactul'er. He was ulptain ot' motol' trnn:-;po1·t co1·ps, l'. :-:,_ A... during: t!i? late war. He died Decembe1·, 1918. Dyron Wolfington ,,·as in the pilot m·iation sen-ice during the \\·a1·. Rebecca, the only daughtel' of Elizabeth Forsyth and Isham B1·iclve>s, was manied to Danil)l La,·ielle in rn:3:~ at the age of sixteen years. She 11·as the mother of tweh·e child1·e11. She is said to ha\·e been of a wn· cheerful and happ~· disposition, and great!~· loved by her childr2n. She> died in Louis,·ille, c1nd was buried in Ca\·e Hill Cemeten·. After her death her husband manied Lama Hardin, and by this maniage there 1,·e1·e nine childl'en, making: Daniel La\·ielle the father of twenty-one children. Sarah, the daugh ter of Rebecca Laviclle, afte1· the death of he1· husband, Doctor Kern, mo,·ed to Franklin, Indiana, where the daughter, Julia, ma1Tied. The mother and both daughters died there. Doc to1· Kern was a fine man and physician of Louisville, Ken tucky. William Bridges like his brother, George, married his first cousin. \Vhen he and his ,Yife, ::\fargaret Fol'syth, came to A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A~IIL Y :20:1 Indiana in lx:2~) th<2y \\·ent to section :J--l in 1'nion to\vnship. He clicl not care for the farm, and late1· mon'cl to Fnrnklin. \\.hile here tlv'. famil:, lin'cl in a house situated \I hen· the 1n·e:, ent Axt builcli1w stands. :\fr. Briclg(,,; 11·a.-; fond of holding oftice and at various times ,en·ed his countr as t1·e,1sm·er. shel'iff and comrnissione1·. His brnther \1·hen asked to accept an office ahrnys replied: ''Xo. I clo not ha1·e time. I must \1·01·k and attend to m~· farm. Ask \Yilliam. He likes to hold omce and does not like hanl \\·01·k". William and his \1·ife .:\Ia1·ga1·et \1·c1·e charte1· members of the Franklin Christian Chmch, which was 01·ganized in 1848. In 185:2 he and his family mo\·ed to Fayette County, Illi nois. Here he bought land upon which there was a very high hill kno\1·n for years as the blue grass knob. Later it became :201 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.U-IILY known as the B1·idges knob, ,,·hich name it still bea1·s. On the highest point stood the house \\·he1·e the family !ind. William Bridges \ms a justice of the peace for a good many years and often manied people. The follo,Ying ceremony is the one which he always used: By this act of joining hand,c you do now a,sume toward each other the relation of husband and wife, and do solemn]~· promise in the pres ence of Almighty God and the,e 11·itne,se., as such to !01·e, honor ,rnd che;·i,h each other so long as you both shall li1·e. B~· ,·irtue of the authority Yested in me by law, I pronounce you to be husband and 11·ife. John Bl'idges, son of Elizabeth Forsyth, \Yent to Texas in ea:·ly life and spent the rest of his life there. CHAPTER X DAVID FORSYTH II AXD FA::VIILY David Forsyth II ,ms born in Virginia, December 15, 178::1, and ,ms an heir to that spirit of '76 ,,·hich pledged life, fortune and honor to national independence. In Janua1·y, 1802, he manied ::\Iary Ann Hulett, who di2d }Iay 5, 1815. He man·ied again December 5, 1815, Cassandrn Pritchard. Da\·id bought his fil'St land in Johnson County, Indiana, in Oc:tobe1·, 1825. the land grnnt being signed by John Quincy Adams. His second deed \\·as grnnted one yeai· late1·, and at both elates he is spoken of as a 1·esident of Jeffe1·son Count~·, Kentucky. His lJl'othe1·, Robert, with others who had ali·eady lo('ated in Johnson County, built upon this land a pionee1· cabin l'ig·ht b~· tm·nty feet, before the al'l'ival of Dm·id and his farn il~· in ~onmber, 1827. People who located on lands without cabins \\·ere often compelled to camp in the woods fo1· sewral cla~·s. What a picture of trnwl this ti·ip from Kentucky was. In a \\·agon drnwn by fom· horses \\·e1·e the household goods and the children. There \\·ere also the provisions for the jour ne~· and for the first days in the new home. What happy times the children had 1·iding all the way in the wagon, and sleeping· at night with the moon and stars shining ove1· their heads. How good the plain food ,vas, cooked o\·e1· a fil'e built in the edge of tlw forest. \Yhen the wagon was loaded in Ken tucky then! \\·as no place for the mother, Cassandra, and her ~-oung·est child. Sarnh Jane, who was less than one yeai· old, so she mounted a horse ,vith this child in her arms and rode all the way on horseback. David found the marshes in Indiana even worse than he expected. with thei1· ditches, b1·iars, mire and all that makes an impenetrnble s,\·arnp. \\'hen he \,·ith his family reached the rudely built cabin, David's sons, ::\litchell and Thompson, said as they beheld the 1)l'imeval woods: "This is no place for a home." But a spring of \Vate1· had been found near where the cabin stood and this had influenced the selection of the spot. It must be remembered that in Kentucky David owned :206 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA~IIL Y sla\·es, and the heaYy \\"Ol'k had been done by them. The great forest ti·ees and bushes caused the sons to rcmonsti·ate, say ing-: "\\'e can't make a li\·ing he1·e.'' The1·e \\·as nothing in the unbroken forest to suggest a home or a chance for a liYing to these Kentucky boys accustomed as ther \\·ere to the colored men doing all the hard \\·ork. Then Ihwid's courage ous spi1·it arnse, and kno\\·ing the inspiration of leadership he said \Yithout m·?ument \Yhile picking up an ax2: "Corne. boys, we must get to \\·01·k," and the sound of the axe \\.,tS followed dm·ing- the first yea1· by b,·ent)· acres of cleared land. Da\·id was impatient with laziness. On one occasion he employed a man to hoe corn, and he p1·0\·ed to be another Jake Slocum, who lay abed so late and who \\·hen asked if he \\·ere not ashamed 1·eplied: "Yes, I be, but I rnther be ashamed than get up." Da,·id told the man tog-et a\,·a~· \\·ith great Yehern'2nce. In his haste to oliey he dropped his hat. Dm·id picked it l!Jl and th1·e,\· it ,,fter him. sa)·ing·: "Don't lea\·e your hat. I don't ,nrnt annhing· left nf ~·ou on till' farm." He had one sla\·e, "Ole Chal'iie," \\'ho refusc::d freedom ,,·hen his maste1· left Kentuck~·. His faithfulness at all times ,,·as bred of that loyalt~· of the South "·hich endeared master to sla,·e. He was club-footed, but able to be of much se1Tice to his master. After a fe\\' months in Indiana Charlie grew lonely and wished to return to Kentucky. Da\·id. ha,·ing left some unfinished business there. return9d, taking Chal'lie \\·ith him. He ananged to leave the negro, and had proceeded some distance on his 1·eturn, when he discowred Charlie running afte1· him and calling for him to ,,·ait. "\Yh,v, \\·here a1·e ~-ou going, Charlie?" said Dm·id. "Dack to Indiana," he an swered. Xo li\·ely children could plan escapades or deceits without "Ole Charlie's" eye and ea1·, and his master was at once in formed. Once Da\·id heard through the old negro that his daughter and a young gil'l who gre\.\" up in his home had two young men, "Doc" Fo1·syth and "Xick" Branigan, come to see them. Charlie, belieYing his master was opposed to their coming, promptly informed him of the Yisit. Da\·id said: "Let me catch them here, and I will Doc'em and Nick'em," showing David's sense of humor. Charlie v;as bul'ied at the feet of his master on the old home place. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:1IIL Y :207 .--\ strnng element in Da,·id's chai-acte1· was his sen·ice to those near him who ,,·ere in need of his help. He was known fo1· that ral'e hospitalit~· for ,,·hic:h the South is noted. He not on!~· g·,ffe a home to fatherless children, but often kept entire families for months until they were financially able to sbut their o,,·n home. X o stranger ,,·as e,·e1· refused hospi talily. All knew ::i hearty \\·elcome would be gi,·en them. Tradns, cattle buyers and peddle1·s sp2nt many nights here free of charge, often to the chagTin of his ,,·ife. It \\·as said of him, ''His home is ahrnys full because he does not chai·ge any thing,'' It was rnstomary fo1· neighbors to help build the walls of settlers' cal;ins, and to help raise the timbe1·s fo1· the barn. This ,,·as a g1·eat social ennt, and neighbors came from long distances to assist. A dinner, such as was serYed in wheat th1·Pshing season in late1· times, ,n,s prepared by the mistress of the e1·ected cabin. DaYid ,,·ould take his own dinne1· which ,,·as much appreciated. and consequently he was asked to as sist at en'!'~- hot:se raising in the neighbo1·hood. His son once ,,·anted to bo1TO\\' ,::ome money from a man who in answer to his request said: "Yes, any of DaYid Forsyth's family can ha\'C' crn~·thinp: he wants. fo1· once when he came to help me raise a building he brought his own feed for his horse." DaYid lrnd none of the mechanical skill of his brothe1·, Rob e1t. It \\·as often ,-:aid of him that he could not make a hoe handle, but once his land ,,·as clea1·ed he took cai·e dm·ing his long life that it 1·emained \\·ell kept. He had an aYe1·sion to weeds and nen'r allowed them to gl'O\\' on his farm. \Vhen an old man and unable to \n,Ik any distance he would ask to be dl'in'n o,·e1· the farm that he might cut the weeds. The hrn brothers ,,·e1·e independent of legal transfers when they wanted to exchange land. At different times they were known to exchange the owne1·ship of a tract of land without an!· exchange of deeds. DaYid's Christianity was pi-actical, helpful. We get a glimpse of this side of his character in an authentic incident. One of his neighbors had the misfortune of having his house bm·ned with all its contents. The man ,vas grieving over his loss when DaYid took ten dollan, out of his pocket and gave it to him saying: "I am sorry for you that much." A daugh ter-in-law went into his home when a bride. She was there :208 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A~IILY during the last months of his life. His kindliness of heart she never fo1·got nor his fairness to eYery one ,,·ith whom he was associated. His wife Cassandrn died in January, 18-U, and in Decem be1·, 184:2, he married Rachel Haney :.\laggard Camble. Among the FOl"syths who haYe acqui1·ed distinction for humanitarianism and fair dealing was the late John Thompson Fo1·syth, of Franklin. He was the second son of Da\·id and ::.\Iary Ann Hulett Fo1·syth, and was born in Kentucky. He was a boy of seYenteen ,,·hen the famil~· rnowd to Johnson County. They left the pleasant fields of a cleared fam1 and a comfortable home with near neighbors. They found noth ing but a densely \\·ooded wildemess out of which they must cane a farm and build a home. Accustomed as they \\·ere to the hea\·y wo1·k being done by the shwes in Kentucky. Thomp son and his older brnther at first thought the task impossible, and declm·ed a home couldn't be made there. But thei1· fathe1· \\·as of stronger faith, and led the boys to a spot ,,·here he had found a spring, near \Yhere his brother had built their cabin. Then the boys wonde1·ecl hmi:· the)· would e\·ei· make a lidng in the thick gTeen woods, but e\·entually ,,·ork. persen'1·ence and courage chang·ed the dense woods into well tilled fields. ~o one \\·ho has ne\·e1· li\·ecl in a ne,,· country and actually seen the enormous amount of \York necessary to clearing e\·en a small tract, can ewr 1·ealize the stupendous ,,·ork clone by the pionee1·s. In 1838 Thompson mal'l'iecl Emily \\'illiams. She \YaS the daughter of Thomas \\'illiams, one of the pioneers of the county, \Yho at that time owned a large farm adjoining the town of Franklin, 21ncl now known as the S. A. \\'ilson place. For seYeral years the young couple liwcl on a fan11 which he owned east of his fathe1· DaYicl's land. This was the birth place of :.\1ary Angeline. The other children we1·e born in Franklin. Near the eastern limits of the city of Franklin, there is a street called Forsyth, named afte1· the subject of this sketch. During the fast years of the Civil War and for some years preceding. Thompson Forsyth and his family ]iyed on this street in a t\\·o-story brick house. John T. FOl'syth built this house, and planted the pine trees, many of which are still standing. The farm was located east of the house, and he also mvned the lots west, nmv held by Doctor Payne's daugh- SECTION II Edmoncl 1852 Eliza John 1854 m. Hobert Quinn Lilly 13r;3 m. -- Beaver~ Snrnh F. 18G7-18G9 Elvin 1880 \ 111. Blanch Smith Ear\ l~H>3 David F. 1882 Edna A. 188,J-t!ll2 GC'oq~e W. J8(i0-- Orin 18Rti m. l\inry F. Gln!:-burn .John H. urns Hobert E. J 8!111-18Dl Roscoe 1R!J2 Frcrl lR!J,t Hazel 18!)6 Myron 1884-l 884 Martin V. 1863- Elbert m. Su~nn Herrell \Villinm \V. 1887 David F. 1831-1870 Mai• m. Serelda \Vatldns Ch11rles 18!1,3 Lloyd 1888-lf/18 Corn A. 18G6 r \Villirllll \V. 111-. Thonrn!'i Ho5~ l\1fthC'I Vera .John 0. 18G8- l 1Jort l870 m.' 1\Iary Boone f Ilnzcl 1U02-JD07 m.' Emma Childen:: Dona May 18!)6 Stith .Marie 1897 111. Fannie Yeoman Husscll 18!)3 Walter 1873 Mabel l!/01- m. Eflic Carnine JThel111a 1!102- 0aisy 1UU3- A rthur 1905- lLudle 1908 Ollie M. 188G m. Duniel Thomas Nettie ·m. -- Sparki:; John Orbnne 1833-1857 ! Joh!\ Orb,111e 1867- Orn '"· Snrnh Ann Watkins m.. ~lvn 0. Tyler 111. End Voorhecsc Cecil Cora Erschell Edna 11. Jnrnes F. 1872 lAlnt C. tn. Daisy Chclbarger { Ine?. 11. Tlwlnrn IH. Lee Vi. 1802-191 G Lyman JI. l8!M m. ]Jora Francis llorolhy l!llG AHgic M. 1805 Naomi D. 1874 m. \;ilUert L,rndrom Opal 1916 m. John O. Mnrsh j Cecil F. 18!18 William Thomns Esther L. JD03 1836-1881 }'au\ \V. 1900 m. Mnry Ewing I Hubert G. rno!l Enrucst W. 1!HO l /.;lhel 0. 1012 John W. 1805 Mary E. 1807 Bertha .J. 1875-rnnc; JCarrie m. George Horfmnn F'loyde Millon l J\lildrcd Lnuru Jlollc 1891- m. -- FeweU Mnrtin 1838-1863 OHO William J\I. rnG~ Howard 111. Nettie Hahn l Mary Elsie m. Chesler Clynwr Leora 18G4 noscoe rnn~ ., m. Mark Borden nohert 1841 Mine,: 1808 m. Sarnh Flynn nuth rno1 Alec 1902 Frnnk 18G6 Vivian m. J~ffie Butt tOpal John Orbane Delbert 1873 f Enrl C. 1895 .Juliet 11t. l\fuude Crider ( Pnul R. 1V04- Ilnrriett Jessie 1884 Edric A. 1003 Ill. J77D-rnr,J Lrtilin Mildred J. 1905 Nancy m. -- '\1/aUs m. ,John H. Bond { 111. Thomns Dn11iels Lorenn C. 1908 \Villinm --- 1860 Con, A 1870 m. John B. Lesh Jesse 1871 m. Grnce G. ,v ;1rne Perlina 1844-1D09 Gertrude 1876-1876 m.. \Villinlll L. Knowles Adrlie M. 1878 m. William A. Tim- mons Blanch L. 1879 m. William M. Morris Mabel 1885 J arnes P. 1846-1879 m. Mary ~rown Carol 111. 1894 Alva L. 1866 ,n. Giles T. Robinson Carlos L. 1807 111... Dnle Kepl1nrt { Donnld l'vL 1898 Maurice E. 1900 Mary J. 1824-:1844 Amanda 1844-1003 Clark N. 1002 ,n. Bluford Richardson IAlonzo E. 1870 m. Absnlom Clark l lm. Albe1-tn Clark Bluford W. 1003 Juliet M. 1826-1830 { Mnry K. 1006 William T. 181h m. Carrie Wilkes Emma 1851-18G7 John D. 1829-1875 Stella 1871-1872 Everett 1876 111. Mary ,J. Watkins { Anntt 1854 J George E. 1907 nt. George W. \Veir m.. Berthn Elliott l Eugene 1877-1887 Edwin 1880-1882 Anna 1885 I Catherine 1913 m.. Gilbert Gordon ( Raymond 1915 Catherine 1888 m. Edwin Fornn l Edward 1014 Thomns 1862 Benjamin 1890 m. Mary Conwny Elizabeth 1892 Raymond Agnes 1808 Nnncy E. 1831-1870 Cecilia 1901 '"· David M. Tucker Horace 1865 David L. 1909 111. Laurn Coakley Mary L. 1012 George 1868 { Walter 1897 111 .. fiosa Schyoll Edna Joseph S. 1833-1012 1 I..una Joseph L. 1007 1n. MeHie Watkii1s l m. J a.mes Bridwell ! James H. 1910 1n.' Mory Von Cleave Thomas 0. 1835-1861 George 1850- William J. 1837- J ohn N. 1863-1893 f Troy m. Rebecca ·wntkins { m.. Ninn Mohatt l m. Dorn Shiyock Martha A. 1839-18G3 Sallie M. 18"6 m. James T. Ragsdale 111. lsnnc nansdell l ~f.,';~1:·r Cnthcl'i11e 1015 m. Evn Vaughn George 1016 Martha E. 1861-1900 Dolan Elizn 1803-1869 m.. Columbus Pmis m. Almn PHchP.r Mildred m. Tho111ns Lynum { Ilenjnmin 18!)2 Lawrence B. m. Mabel McFmlden Chester Thomns B. 1863 m. Emily Smith m. Ida Utterback f Cnr·los m. Huth Wolf l Irene A. Dalston Montelle m. Minnie Vandegriff { Everett H. Dalston Hay Mnrgnret A. 111. Mike Sen tel's. 2.ncl ll1clc-h of the land of the Franklin Goif Club. The i:w:i-:_·e~-s ci hi,;; Jerscmtlit;. ar.ci man~·-~ided ::l.8_1-adcr fa st:11 :telt L,-- )Ji;; d1i1d1·e11. lie \ms firm in hi.-; discipiine, l:ut ,Y"it11 the r:w_-;;t g(•nei-ous heart tm1·anl his family. His chikh-en ,,·ere llC\Tl' r1uite certain \\·hen his firmness ,\·ould dissoln· into bumoi-. He gaw DaYid a pair of cakes \,·hich the boy detennined to train t'oi· a yoke of oxen. To prn·ent them from "turning 0 tlw rok( '' he secm·ecl thei1· tails, but nlas. one of the ::alws be came unyoked and lost its tail. This unexpecte:d denouernent \s"as c'ntii.·ek foreign to any of David's plans, and he fullr anti dr,,1tecl ,l ,hmisl~nH?iL but :1is frther. understancbng bo:1,· Jife. took it lighl_,- ;,eel said: ";,;eyer mind, :con, you c;:in eut the othu· Nf. and you ·w-ill ha';€ "' p ... ~--,: of hob-tails.'' He ',,--as fr~·c-hcmclecl ,rith his c-hilcll'en in money matters, seldom ques tioning ,,s to the a;1'ount 11eeded, bx: taking- ,,,-J,ate\·er c-hang-e Le fmmc\ in hi.-: pocket anC:t asking if that wouicl do. Thompson For_-;;~·th ,\·as a Yery acti\--e and successful busi ness man. He wns not of the usual conse1·n1tiYe and cautious I--\,1:syth t;,:pe. but wa:c; \\·illing to nm big dsks and bike chances :n the line of \,--ol'l~ with whid1 he was familiar. Had condi t:oi--,-; fo_n.J1·ecl him he rnig-ht han, become r1 man of great \\·(•,tllh. \\"llate,·e,· he rlid he too:, hold of it wi::1 ,--im ar..d en tln;.,iasn. H:s -Energy a11:l actiYit;, <-OU 1C~ he:wdly be surpassed. One· 'it1 :iii?: t1·.;;_it ,:if his fr,mily l:_,e :1aci ~n E, 1·1arked :legt·ee. He H'':o· idkc": tis tirn~. He (,w1u·d a pork l~ot1se in Fn1.rkli11 and r,rolx1bly hc1.nd]ed irore hogs :irnn any ma11 in his clay i,1 .fohn<'.on County. His est:o.hli"hnlent ga\·e eTnployment to a gTec,: l'lan~-- 1re11. ThP;-- li::ed to work for him bec,rnse he kept "I"' nr.t of his rnn1·ersation, using ''"·e" instead. He mad.:, his men feel th::,t they \Yere a pa1·t of the business; talked O\Yi" business policies with them and i1witecl suggestions. There 1\·as wisdom, consistency and respect fo1· the men in his man ag·er:1ent of tr1ern. He ,Yas a hard ·w01·kei· and expected the snme from them. He often laughing-ly said to them, "Take bold, men, take hold 1\"ith your teeth." On one occasion dur ing his absence the men ,wnt on a strike for higher wages. \\'hen he retun1ed he called ea(h rnan by name and ordered him to go to work. Kot one refused, Ko one thought of dis obeying Thompson Forsyth. Later each man received the in crease asked. He ,,·as not only fair but generous to those :210 A HISTORY OF THE FOR:-iYTH F.UIILY with whom he had dealings. .--\ little story told his son. Da\·id. after his father's death illustrates this kindliness. D.:n-id sought shelter fo1· the night \1·ith a man li,·ing nea1· :\Iorgcrn to,\·n, a neighl:01·ing Yillage. t·pon finding: that Den-id ,ms th2 son of Thompson Fon,yth he said: ·'Years ago I Offed a sum of money on my farm. To secm·e the amount I had to dispose of some hogs. Your fathe1· lought them and then asked if I had any left fo1· meat. l'pon learning that 1 was disposing of all, he gave back enough fo1· my :,·ea1·'s suppb·. but insisted on paying the rull amount of all. "Show me," he said in con clusion, "a man to-day \1·ho would not ha,·e taken all the hog,;." Kindliness begets kindliness. The people he dealt with had full confidence in him and ,,·e1·e \\·illing to share misfor tunes with him. At one time he bought three thousand hogs on credit, paying from two dollars and fort:,· cents to t,,·o dol lars and fift:,· cents per hundred. When he sold the hogs prices had experienced a sharp decline and he only netted eighty cents a hundred. Of course, \\·hen he went to settle ,,·ith the farmers he was short of mmw:,·. He g;;we to each one his propoliional part and not a man sho\1·ed dissatisfac tion. They said, "Well, Thompson, nen,r mind, :,·ou \1·ill rnakr it back next year and can pa~· the balance' then." \\·hich he did. For some time Thompson Forsyth made an annual visit to ~e,v Orleans, taking a load of horses for the southern mai·ket. On one of these occasions he stopped in :-;atchrz to Yisit his cousin, ::\Ial'ia Fo1·syth Jackson. He ,,·as the on!:,· Forsyth relative eYer in he1· home. There are many stories of this generous-hearted man's kindliness, sympathy and understanding. His patience \\·ith childish mistakes and insight into boy naturr mentioned be fore, is further illustrnt2d in hi:-; course \Yith his son \\·ho wanted to learn to chew tobacco. D.:fficl \Yas on]~· se\·en \\·hen his mother discovered him testing out the merits of the weed. She snatched it from him, gave the tobacco to his father and reproved him se,·erely. Thinking that his fathe1· ·would bette1· understand his manly aspirations he went to him for sym pathy. Relying on the child's good sense and hono1·. he re turned the tobacco to him saying, "Son, I would quit the use of it. You will some day regret it if you don't." He was considerate and fair with dumb animals and ne,·er allowed them to be mistreated. His patience was eYen proof A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 211 agc1inst a balky horse. ":,.;e\·e1· ,\·hip him," was his injunction. "Turn him out. He \\·ill \\·01·k to-mono\\', Pl'Obably he doesn't feel like \rnrking." Thompson Forsyth's intensity of conviction as to what he believed \YaS right is sho\\·n in his political vie\\·s. He was brnught up unde1· the influence of the democracy of the South, but became a Whig and later a most ardent and loyal Republi can. He had a contempt fo1· a class of men sometimes called Copperheads, who, while li\·ing in the ~orth, we1·e seCl'etly in sympathy with secession. It \ms during this period of stress and high feeling that he was compelled to give up his life of activity, generosity and kindliness. His humble comment on his own character was that he had been trained to honesty and fai1· dealing. .John Thompson died five yea1·s befo1·e the death of his father, David, and Emily had the sole ca1·e and training of thei1· la1·ge family, as she ne\·er 1·emaniecl. She was ve1·y fond of reading and music, and determined the child1·en should ha\·e an education and musical advantages. She en jo~·ed the society of young people, and her home was a very hospitable one. She and all of the daughters were very acti\·e ,rnrkers in the :.\I. E. church of Franklin. They played the organ, sang in the choi1· and taught in the Sunday-schooL He1· death occurred in 1877. Thomas Jefferson sen·ed in the Ci\·il \Var, and his health was ne\·e1· good afterward. ::\Iary Angeline attended college at Oxfo1·d, Ohio, and afte1· her return taught school for t,,·o ~·ears. In 186:2 she married Doctor P. W. Payne at the family home in Franklin. They moved into the home at the corner of Jeffe1·son Sti-eet and Home .-\senue, and never lived else \1·he1·e. The children were bom there, the daughters married and the mothe1· passed away there. She was never strong, and died at the early age of forty. :\Iary Payne was a woman of l'efined nature and gentle charncter. Her disposition was amiable, and she had the most winning and graceful manners. ~Jany 'who knew her when they were children, tell how they loved to go to her home and gather around he1·, fol' they knew how wide and tender we1·e her sympathies. She held an enviable place in their hearts, also, in those of more mature years. She was a sm ce1·e Christian woman, and a devoted mother. :21:2 _.\ HI:3TURY UF Tl!E Furt:-:YT!l FA:-IILY Doctor Payrn· \\·as born in 1~;1:2 in Eedfonl. Ohio. He \\·as educatccl at \\'abash Colleg0. and thcTl' 1·ecei\·ecl the de gree of A. :\I. Later he studied at Ann Arbo1· . ..\Iichigan. but graduated from Jefferson ..\Iecliuil Collegl'. Philadelphia, PennsylYania. He also studied in the medical department of the Cni,·ersit,\· of .\"e\\. York. ancl ,ms one of the best edu cated physicians that cn,1· pn1ctisccl in F1·anklin 01· the st<1te. There \H'1·e se\·cn snwll children in the famil,\· \\·hen his \\·ifo cliecl, and her dl•ath ,, as ;-1 blO\\. frnm \\·hich he nen·r full,\· reco\·e1·L·d. Although he !i\·ecl thil't,\·-sen·n ::ears longer he newl' 1·enrnniccl. Fol' fift.\· .\·ear.c.: he l'ernainecl in the old home. He was a f.rm lw!inn°r in hip:hcr education for both nwn and mrnwn. and insisted that hi.s children attend F1·ank lin College. :\lost of them grnduated thel'e. Lanma l'eceiYErl hcl' _.\_ D. and also _.\_ :\I. degn•e.s at Frnnklin. but rec('iYed he1 Ph. D. at Chicago l 'niHrsit,\·. Doc-tol' Carl Pa.n1e attended .Jeffer,-:c11, ..\kdic-al Cnlll'gl' at Philadelphia. ancl there i·ecc•in·cl tlw clegTlT (Jf :\I. Il .. and Docto1· IL \\'. Pc1,\·ne i::rndwited from T;ell('\"lll" ..\I(•dical Culleg·L, nf :\"ew York Cit~·- l:nth ,ll'L' practi:-:ing ph_\·sician:-: oi' F1·,111k lin. Docto1· P. \\'. P,1~·1w died at tlw h,1m(' ()f hi., dau1d1t,T . ..\[r,; . ..\fartin. in India1rnpolis. in l '.111i. \\·a.\·11e JI .. son of (;eol'g-e ..\I. P,1.\·m•, ,;ern·cl in the ],He \\'orlcl \\'ar as a membL'l' of Battel'.,. B. :;:27th F. _.\,, 1"(Hh Di\·ision, \\'hich 1·ernaincd in Fr,rnc-e about nine months. The children of ..\Iary Payne neck \H'l'e um·n in :\fexico City . ..\foxico, \,·hc1·e thei1· pa1·ents lin'ci for sen•ral ~-e,11·s. Elizabeth Al'temisia Fms,\"th maniecl Hannibal Hamlin of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 18fi7. He diecl in mo l at Estes Park. Colorado. Thei1· onl_,- child, Alice ..\Lu·.\·, \\·as born in Spring field, Ohio. \Yhc1·e he1· p,ircnts li\·ecl during most of their mar ried life. During the years follo,,·ing thei1· maniagc, they spent many months trnn·Jing in Eurnpe and other f01·eign lands. Elizabeth and Emma Belle are the only members of John T. Forsyth's family liYing in 191D. Emma was the first grnd uate of the Franklin high school in 187:2. She taught in the public schools of Franklin for seYeral yeai·s. Dm·id Fornyth III was born in Frnnklin, Indiana. At the age of sewnteen he entered the l."nion Army. His enlistment \Yas made without any preYious thought of the meaning of A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F Al\IIL Y 213 such a step. He \n•.s engaged at work in his mother's garden \1·hen he heard the whistle of a train upon which were a number of 11e1\· 1·ecruits from his 1·icinit~·. His mothe1· asked if lw \1·ould like to go with them. and when he answe1·ed yes, she g,ffe her consent. He thre11· down his spade, and ran to the station. 1·eac:hing it just as the train was pulling ~nn,y. He sen·ed until the close of the \\·cu-. Da,·id Forsyth III In 189,5 Da\·icl Fo1·s~·th, a Republican, \.ms elected auditor of his county, which office he held four years. Johnson County has always been normally Democratic, due largely to its early settle1·s 1vho came over from Kentucky. At this time the people felt a change of administration would be benefi cial, since influences injurious to good government had de veloped due to a long-time control of one political party. :2U A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:'IIILY As a deale1· in agricultural implements Dm·id Forsyth became widely k110\n1 among J olrnson Count~· fanne1·s. He \\·as engaged in this business in Fl'anklin for fifteen ~-ea1·s. It was said of him that he \\·as too genel'Ous and obliging to his friends to make a great success in business. but he \,·as honest and fair in all he did. He was derntcd to his familr and \nts deeply interested in the education of his child1·en. He was a constant reader and \\·as both interested and well informed upon the cunent and political topics of the time. He was a membe1· of the Wads,rn1·th Post. Grand Anny of the Republic, also a .:\Iason and Knight Templai·. His chil cll'en are being educated in Franklin College. Elizabeth Fo1·syth, the daughte1· of Dm·id and Ann Hulett. \\·as born in Kentucky nea1· Louis,·ille. and died at Elk Fc1lls. Kansas. at the age of eighty-nine ~·ears. \\'hen she \\·as fom· months old her mothe1· died. Frnrn that time she \\·as ca1·ed for b~· an old negTo mammy. ,,·ho ,\·as one of her fathe1·'s sla,·es. \\'hen a girl of fom·teen ~·eai•,-.; she came with her father to Indiana. T"·o. ~·e,us. later slw ,incl he1· brother, Thompson F01·.;;~·th. m:>nt back to Louis,·ille t Kansas p1·airies. He1· last visit was made in her eighty-ninth .\·ear. He1·e in the home of he1· daughter, Emily Jane, she passed away. He1· son, John Thompson, enlisted in }larch, 1X6:2, for sen·ice in the Civil \Var with the 9th Regiment of Company G from Rensselaer, Indiana. During his three >·ears' sen·ice he was wounded in battle and spent some time in the hospital. At the time of his discha1·ge at Huntsville, Alabama. he was offe1·ed the position of teamster by General Stanle>· to accompany him on his African expedition. This he 1·efused and returned home. Emil)· .Jane, daughter of Elizabeth Fo1·syth, is a woman of gracious personalit,\· and kindness of heart. She is a membel' of the Baptist Church. Her home since 1878 has lwen in Elk Falls. Kansas. \\'illiam Da\·id P1·itchard has been a farmer and stockman ,1!! his life. He \1·as bo1·n in Jasper County, Indiana, whe1·e his parents had gone in 183:2. His father died when he was t \\"CJ .n',11'S old. after \\·hich his mothe1· returned to Johnson Count~·. The spi1·it o_f hospitality that so characterizes his honw. he shares equally with his wife. The family are all ,trnng suppo1·u,1·s of the l 'nion Chri,· 1 ian ChLll"ch. fhn·id ,rncl Cassandra Pritch,ud Forsyth's oldest child, :\',rnc_\· .-\.nn, \\·as born in Henry Count_\·, Kentucky, and when she \\·as ele\·en years old came with her parents to Johnson County. A.t the age of se\·enteen in 18:3:3, she manied Amos Du1·bin, .Jr. She died when he1· only child, Cassandra, was three years old. A few ye;u-s latel' :.\Ir. Durbin was married to :.\Iargaret Feathemgill. daughter of Joseph and ::\Iary Fo1· "~·th Featherngill, and with Cassandra they went to \Vinne l)ago County, Illinois. In 1830 Cassand1·a married Edwa1·d l"init:-d1u1·y and in !861 they went to }Iound City, Kansas, \\·he1·e she spent the rest of her life. Her eldest son, David, \\·ent to California and ente1'ed a business college at San Fran l'isco. He has ne\·er manied. Charles W. Kingsbury liws in the old home at ::\Iound City, that is so full of memories of his mother. He is a prac tical agricultmist and dealei- in live stock. His daughter, :.\Ia1·garet, spent several years in the Philippine Islands, where her husband, :\Ir. Shannon, was in the Government service. David's second daughter, }Iary, was born in Henry Coun .ty, Kentucky. She was a child of nine years when she came :216 A HISTORY OF THE Forv-:ynr FA~IILY to Johnson County, 1·idi11g- all the ,my in hel' fathe1··s co\·e1·ecl \n,gon. In 18:1fi she ma1Tied \\'illiam Xelson \\'ooclrnff, a natiYe of Ohio, \\·ho \n1s born in 1:,-;1 J, and came to Indiana in 18:22. After thei1· mal'!'iage they \\·ent to their mn1 fal'ln three miles from he1· father's honw. Thei1· m211Tiecl life \\·21s of short durntion, both h:wing- died in about ten years of typhoid fe,·er. The)· left four small children. Jiartha, tlw eldest, \\·ho was nine rears of age, \\·ent to the home of her grandfather, Da\·id. the scene of hc1· mother's gil'lhood. Hen:' she 1·emainecl until he1· maniage in 11'1-)I) to Ed\\·in Eotsfo!'Cl GrnHs, who was born in Ha1·pe1·sfielcl, Dehrn·al'e Count:-·. Xe\\. Yo1-k. \\'hen tweh·e .\·ea1·s of ag·e he came ,,·ith his parents to Johnson Countr. Dul'ing their entire maniecl life of fift,\· ,\c'a1·s they li,·ed on the fann ,\·he1·e ;.;hl' ,ni.s born and \1·hen' he1· pa1·ents died. She li\·ecl quiet].,· and ,,·a,, cle\·oted to her home in all its ,·ariecl and essential lines of hous(,\-;:eeping and home-m21king. She ,,·ell ean1ecl the ti'ibute paid her IJ.1· a claug·hte1· ,1·ho said: "She \1·as a splenclicl l'C])l'('scntatin• of exalted motherhood. kind. tender and gracious. Slw speut her life a li,·ing sanifice in mother!,\· S('l'\·ice for those ,1·hom she held most clea1·. '' :.\fartha Gnwes· c-hilclren l'etl('l"t tlw cai·c, and clcrntion of a good mothe1·. In their sen°nll c-ommunities ,1·he1·e the·,\· lrnn: c-hosen theil' homes tlw~- al'<' amonµ: the substantial citizl!ns. They were lwought up under the influence of the Xinen°h Christian Church. 1\·hich no doubt has helped in molding thei1· liH'S. They a1·e all g1·aduates of the Xine\·eh high school. ...\cldison, the elde1·, is a prnspernus farme1·. For mnnr years he 11·as a successful teacher. He has s,·1Tecl his church as an elficient oflkel'. His daughter, Grnce Edith, aftel' completing the high school course at Xinc,·eh, 11·ent to \'alparaiso Xor mal. She taught for se\·eral ~·ca1·s in the public schools. Her brnther, William, aftel' finishing high school, became a stu dent in Wabash College, where he spent three years. He is a member of the J\1asonic Lodge of Edinbul'g. :.\Iary Adelaide Graws was for many years a stenographe1· for Ree,·es & Company, of Columbus, Indiana. She liyes ,,·ith her sister, Cordelia, at the beautiful old homestead near Nineveh. Robert Nelson Graves is a successful farmer, residing near Nine\'C'h. He is a useful citizen of the community, sel'Ving A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 217 as a member of the local school board and as officer of the Ch1·istian Chmcl1. Gc•orge Grn\·es liws in Indianapolis, \\·he1·e he has been engaged at \'a!'ious times as a stenographer and bookkeeper, and in the real estate business. He is an enthusiastic .:\Jason, h;:n-ing taken se\·eral adnrnced degrees. \\'illiam Gr,wes studied fo1· the ministr~· at Butler College, Indimrnpolis. and Gal'fielcl l'niversity at Wichita, Kansas. His health failing he, went to Colorado, whel'e he died at the age of t\\·enty-thn•e. :"\ettie GraH'S \\·as a most lm·able character, a joy in her home and a pleasuJ'e and a comfort to he1· friends. The chun·h \\·as an object of her clc\·otion, and in its various ac ti\·ities she \\·as IJoth srrnpathetic and intHested. Her mar riage terminated four months after the \\·edding by the death of lw1· lrn,-;lJancl. He1· death occmTc•cl fiw years latE'l'. Frank Le:c;lie Gr,n-es studied 'lclegT,1phy at Janesville, \Yis l'nnsin, and fol' sen°1·al yea1·s "·as an n1w1·ato1·. He also held n°spo11siblu pn;;;itions as a. J'aili·oad employee in Colorado, Illi nois, St. Louis and Kokomo. Indiana. For a time he was ,,upe1·intendent of the :.\Ietrnpolit,rn Life Insurnnce Company at Kokomo. He is 110\\' associated \\·ith n business firm of Kokomo. He is actin' in the work of the Christian Chm-ch, and a memlier of the :.\Iasonic Lodge. His wife was a t?acber in the public schools of Kokomo. She is a social leade1·, an acti\·e member of the club life of the city, and a \Hiter of short stoi·ies. Co1·delia Gr;:1\'es is a teac:he1· of the piano. She studied music and art in Indianapolis. :\Iartha Forsyth, the third daughter of Da\"icl and Cas sandra F01·syth, married Thomas Durbin in 183,"5. He was a son of Amos and Susan \Vhite Durbin, who were the first settlers in ~ine\·eh township, ,Johnson County. Thomas Dur bin had entered 160 acres of land in Clinton County, Incl. Here he had planned for the home he would share ·with his future bride. Immediately after thei1· marriage they started in an emigrant wagon for their new home. l\fartha was fif teen years old, a child in the estimation of a mother at the present time. It was a wildemess into which she went to establish a home. No one who today in driving along a lovely country road, ·with beauty all along the way, can imagine 21~ ~..\ HISTORY (JF THE FORC:YT!! F.UIJLY ,,;hat life meant to one so young. \\·hose home ,,·as a little settler's cabin smTounclecl b:-· a ,,·ide open tract of land desti tute of trees, its only ,·egetation ,,·hen ,-;he ,nmt there being a coarse ,,·ild grass. It ,,·a,; a prai1·ie count!'.\' and unlike the forested lands of Johnson Count~·. and ).la1tha ,1·as without e,·en a friend!~· neighbo1· to dispel the extreme loneliness of the days that follo,,·ed. In such a home the outside ,1·orld had cornpanlti1·ely little meaning. ).fartlrn Fo!'syth li1·ed here fifteen ye;us. and in that time helped to change lw1· home to one ,,·ith mon" attracti1·e sunotmclings. At th(' n'r>· earl~· age of thi1·ty-one she died leaYing fom children. Ten .,·ears later the Ci1·il \Yar came, and he1· eldest son. ~-\mo,;, enli.,;ted and sen·ed until wounded, when he 1n1s sent home. }laitha's young-est child, a daughter, the only one li1·ing, l'esides in the state of \Yashington. Th!'ee of he1· gTL'at g:rancl sons ,,·ere in the sen·ice of the l'nitecl SL,tes during tlw 11·,1!' 1,·ith Germany. Loren Dasi] Dul'bin. a son of .Janws Cliffton Durbin. l'll listed in the a1·iation se1Tice in •.\pril. l\Jli'(, ;:incl \\'ent to Fnmce. He ,,·.as there for man~· months. He, n'-L'nlistl'd lah• in the .1·ea1· oi' 1919 and is still in tlw sen·in°. His sister, GolcliE Durbin. \\·as a Heel C'rnss nursv. Hal'l'y A. \\'ilson entered the ,,·,w in }fa)·. 1/H~. from Lcb ,rnon, Indi,11rn, 1,·ith the la1·gest comp,111_1· that left Boone County during the 11·ar. He 1·ecei1·ed his training: in Camp Taylo1· at Louis1·ille. \\'hen he later ,1·,1s sent to Camp Gn'en leaf he ,,·as placed in the medical department e\·acuation hos pital :27. Frnm the1·e he ,nis sent to Camp Pike. Arkansas, "·hen° he ,,·as made sergeant and placed in charge of the company reco1·ds. In October he ,,·as ::-l'nt to France and 11·as located in Le}Ians and :--;-e,·ers as a,;:-;istant in the medical depaitment. In the sp1·ing of 1919 he ,,·as sent to Coblenz, Germany, ,,·here he ,,·as stationed until his 1·eturn to the l'nited States in October, 1919. A g1·eat grnndson of ::\Iartha Forsyth was Lieutenant ).Iel vin Kellehe1·, who was born in Clinton County, Indiana. and was educated in the ::\Iichigantown and Frankfo1t high schools and in Indiana t:niversity. \Vhile in the uniwrsity he made an enviable record as a student and an athlete. The follow ing account is taken largely from a local newspaper at the time of the accident \\·hich resulted in his death in June, 1919: A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 219 Shortly after the Cnited States entered the wa1· and only a few months before the time of his g-racluation he enlisted and went to the first officers' training camp at Fort Ha1Tison. He \1·as soon transfened to the a,·iation sen·ice and ,vent to Columbus and later to Dayton, Ohio, where he receh·ed his training in fl~·ing. He early denloped ability as an expert flye1· and was made an instructoL He was in convoys for American trnnsporb and often canied executi\·e committees from New \ ork to \\·ashington. He demonstrnted the Liberty motor and DeHavi lanrl plane when the machines were being criticized by the public. Dur ing the can;-ass for the last h\·o Liberty loans he tournd the country for exhibition flights, and fle1\· in nearly e1·ery state in the Cnion. He 11·ent to Frankfort, his home city, in a Cmtiss machine in the interest of the 1·icto1-y loan, and fo1· two days flew 01·er the city, delighting the people b,· his daring feats and skilful manipulation of his plane. In September, 1D18, he brnke the world's altitude record for a two pa;: senger bombing plane 11·hen he soared 2:3,,00 feet with Senator Clark of Illinois. A transcontinental fiig-ht hacl been ananged for .July, 1Dl9, from ~ew York to San Frnncisco, and because of his ability as a flyer he \\·as mentioned frequently for a flight ,,cross the ocean. His death in .June. lUl:), was the re,ult of an airplane accident in Connecticut. About a 11·eek befo1·e the accident he 11·as 111a1Tiec! in New Y 01·k. He had been recommenclecl fo1· a captainci; only a sho1t time before. He belonged to tlw .\la,onic Fratf'rnit~·. and was to ha,·e receiYed his thirty-.-econd cleg·1Te in Xew Y01·k n1·0 11·eeks after his death. He was a hancl.-orne youn,g· man, and made friends readily ancl held them. The c•,teem in 11·hich he 11·as held 11·as shown in the beautiful fribute paid hi;,1 h)· the people of C'linton County, 11·here he had been their a1·iatol'. The funernl \1·a.< the l?.rge,t in the history of Clinton County. There is a pa1-ticular charm to the Forsyth family about Florde's Fork, Kentucky, since it was associated for many ~-ecu·s \\·ith the !i,·es of Da,·id Forsyth I and his wife, :'\Iar gm·et, together with their chilcl1·en and g1·andchildren. Thus it is a link between us and om· ancestors of the remote past. Sa1·ah Jane, the fourth child of David, the II, and his wife, Cassandra, was born here where her grandmother, ::.\Iargaret, in her declining yea1·s must have often had dreams of her home in Ii-eland. Sarnh Jane's education was limited, but she loved to read, and with her keen and vigorous intellect cle,·om·ed everything she could find. She was always studious e,·en when a pupil in the little log schoolhouse. As a result of this insatiable desire to grow in wisdom, she became a close observer of nature, and learned something from every one she met. She grew up with a neighbor boy, Nicholas Branigin. He was eamest, straightforward and full of pur- :2:20 .l HISTORY OF THE F()R::-cYTH F'A:\IILY pose, ,,·hic:h made him a congenial companion for hel'. He ,,·on her 10\·e, and in her sixte,:nth .H',ll' tlwy ,,·e1·e rnal'l'ied, at an age ,, hen children today \\ ould still l;e in high school. They at once ,,·ent to housekeepmg in ,1 log house on the f,u-m, which two years late1· tlwy pun·hased fo1· thei1· 0\1·11. He1'e the.\· li,·ed for fort.,· ~·ears. In the loneliness and sim plicity of this home ther ,,·ere content. Thei1· means ,n:Te sometimes limited. but the.\· found JO.\' in the \\·ilcl roses and flowers with which she filled the yard and house in summer. Their furniture was home-made, but of the best material, and Sarah Branigin had the patience to wait for a day in the futm·e when better things would come into her life. A few years after her marriage during the constrnction of the In dianapolis and :.\Iadison railrnad, six men were assigned to the building of a bridge on the road near her home. While they were doing this she cooked for them by an open fire place. It was still too early fo1' the first little cook stove, .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY :2:21 the one made in stair-step fashion with little cloo1·s 111 front 0n hinges. like the old-fashioned door. So Sarah B1·anigin l)oiled the dinner fo1· the me11 in kettles that hung from the cnrne, and baked their b1·eacl in the old Dutch o\·en. At the same time she ca1·ecl fo1· he1· two small children, one a babe m ,urns. Hm,· industrious she ,,·as. He1· housekeeping was superio1· in all its details. Ewry spot in and arnund her home ,ms clean and ,,·ell kept. It has been said that her ;:wc1·sion to dirt and disordei- was so great that e,·ery spot in her yard \\·here grass did not grow was swept with the same reg:ularity as that of her house. Her home in late1· years ,,·as the cente1· of cordiality. Those who had the good for tune to kno\\· her remembf0 r her as the embodiment of that old Kentucky hospitality. It fair!~· radiated from he1·. Xo stranger was e,·el' turned a\\·ay from her door without an im·it;:1tion to share in the comforts of her home. Xor was it cn'l' too small to care fo1· all ,,·ho needed shelter. This tl'ait of chan1cte1· she had inherited from her fathel'. \Yhen lwr bo~·s ,,·ere g1·0,,·ing up they formed the habit of taking thei1· companions home ,,·ith them for dinne1·. Later when the~· had cle,·elopecl into manhood they continued the custom of taking with them fo1· Sunday dinner \\"ithout any warning thei1· young friends in the neighborhood. If she resented this imposition she ne\·e1· manifested it with eithe1· a word or look. \\"hate\ e1· made he1· chilch·en ha ppr ga\·e her happiness. She became the confidante of the boys. X o domestic quanrntine kept them from the front 1·00111, which in many homes \ms opened only fo1· company. \Yhat fine 1·ecollections of self-denial and kindness these :-;ons h,ffe of their mother. They ha\·e taken care that her nwmory does not fade with the passing of the lives she im mediately touched. Fo1· nearly sixty ,\·eai·s she and Xicholas Branigin liwd thei1· wedded life in perfect sympathy. He died in 1902, and she sun·ivecl him eight years. Xicholas Branigin was a nati\·e of Trimble County, Ken tuck,\·. \Vhen a lac! of fomteen he came with his mother, Lucy Branch Brnnigin, and his uncle, Thomas Branch, to Nineveh township. Those who knew him best say he had a strong character and was a man of courage, and an honored neigh- :2:2:2 A HISTORY OF THE FoR::-YTH F.UIILY bor and citizen. For t\\'O years he filled the position of county commissioner for Johnson County \\·ith credit. His son, Edward Dm·all Dnrnigin, afte1· his maniage in 1866, \\·ent at once to a farm, and in this occupation he spent his entire business life. In 189.'5 he remm·ed to F1·anklin, where he died in less than one yeal'. He had many de,·oted friends who looked upon him as a man of kindly impulses. Edward Brani::.,;in He won their esteem by his hospitality and honesty. He was not of the quiet type so often found among the Forsyths, but he loved convel'Sation and ahvays contributed his sha1·e. His son, Harry Leland, afte1· finishing the high school in Frank lin went to Purdue l~niversity, ,\·here he spent two years. William David Branigin purchased a farm in Johnson County in 1870, and he1·e he lh·ed for seventeen years. At •..\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY this time in 01·der that he might gin bette1· educational ad \·antages to his child1·en he \\·ent to Franklin, where fo1· four years he was engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. He then went to Edinbm·g, Indiana, whe1·e he opened a gen eral store, handling all kinds of implements for the farm. He held the office of trnstee for one te1·m in Edinburg, and has been a friend of the cause of prohibition, ahrnys taking an acti\·e interest in e\·ery effort to close the saloon in his town. In natm·e, he is genial, co1·dial, easily approached and com panionable. His wife was a devoted mother, and a faithful and good wife. She died in 1891. His second marriage oc cuned in 1895. In 1919 he purchased a farm near Franklin to which he recently remow!d. His son, Elba L. Branigin, was born and reared on the farm. He graduated at the age of fourteen from the graded schools of his county. In 1886 he entered Frnnklin College. He was a student there fo1· six yeal'S, graduating with the degree of A. B. Dm·ing his entire college course he was inter ested in all the acti\·ities belonging to college life. He was a memhe1· of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He recognized the me1·its of the literar.v society for the college student, and for the greater part of his college life was an active member of the Periclesian society. This training and a naturnl ability and grace as a speaker won fo1· him the freshman declama tion contest, and the opportunity to represent his school in the State Oratorical Contest of 1892, in both of \vhich he acquitted himself and the college with honor. He served as president of the State Oratorical Association in 1891. The four years following his graduation he taught in the public schools of Johnson County, first in a district school and for three years as principal of the Trafalgar schools. But it ,vas not his purpose to 1·ema.in a teacher, as he had selected the legal profession as his pursuit through life and had been devoting all his spare time to reading and studying law. In 1896 he was admitted to the bar of Johnson County. In the same year he formed a law pa1-tnership with Thomas Woolen, a former attorney-general of Indiana. About a year after the death of :.\Ir. Woolen, which occurred in 1898, Mr. Bran igin ente1·ed into a pa1·tnership with Thomas Williams, which association continued for cl number of }·ears. He has serYed fo1· a term of years both his to,,·n and count}· as ctttorney. }fr. Dranigin is a student of good literatm·e. He has a ,,·ell-chosen library, and some of hi;-; happiest hnui·;-; ai·e spent among his books. He has been especially intere.~ted in the collection of Yaluable information 1·elati\·e to the earl~· histm-y of Johnson County. This information he has gi,·en to the public in the histOl'ical poition of a recent histo1y of the county. :.\Ir. Branigin has attained great prnminence in }Iasonry. In 1893 he was made a :.\Iaster l\Iason in Franklin Lodge No. 107; in 1901 a Royal Arch l\Iason in Franklin Chapter No. 65, and in the same year a Knight Templa1· of Franklin Commanderr No. 23. During the yeai· 1903 he sen·ed as A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAl\IfLY :2:2,j \\'orshipful :\faster of Franklin Lodge and as Eminent Com rnancle1· of Franklin Commander~· in 1907. In the tall class of 1906 he took the degrees of the Scottish Rite, and in X o n,mber of the following year lw became a Xoble of the :\Iystic Shrine. He has held the highest office in Blue Lodge }fasonr,v in the state, luffing been Grand }fa.-;ter of the Grnnd Lodge during the rea1· at the time of the building of the }Iasonic home in Frnnklin. It ,n,s la1·gely through his influence that the home \\·as located in Franklin. For a 1rnmbc1· of years he was a member of the board of trustees of Franklin Col leµ:e, c,lso a trnstec of the Franklin Baptist Church. He has been inte1·estecl in politics, and is a Democrat, hm·ing sernxl his partr as eountr chairman and delegate to tlw stctte conn·ntion. Fo1· fom· :;ears he \\·as the honoree! pre,:;iclent of the Forsrth ~..\ssociation in Indiana. His son, Gen,lcl, ,n,:S in the nrn1·ine cffiation senice during the late ,nu. Th<.' three sister.c; of Ellxi Dranigin 11·ere educated in the public :-,;choob of Franklin. Daisy .~pent t\rn years in Fn1'.' ldin College. Since he1· nw ninge ,c;he ha,; lin'd in the neighborhood of Hopewell, .Jo]rn,;on Count~'. \'f'l'JH? Cr:rnig·in aftel' finishing the public schools of Franklin, entered the college the1·e, where he l'emainecl fom· .H' parents lived. It is a home full of memories. It is hen' where he and his b1·others ,n.Te born. \1·h('l'C they pb~·ecl as children, and \\·here tlwy gn'\\. to manhood. Oscar has spent his entire life he1·e. He has endeanm,d to maintain the same spirit of hospitalit~· that \\·as so much a p,u-t of his mother·s life. David P1·itchard Forsyth ,,·as the only one of Da\·id II and Cassandn1. Fo1·syth's children ,,·ho \\·as bo1·n in Indiana. He helped to clear some of tluc hea,·y forest lands of the county, and spent the greate1· part of his life on the farm. His wife, ;\Iary Logan Forsyth, came to Indiana from Shelby County, Kentucky. Her mother 1·ode ho1·seback, ca1Tying her a babe in her arms. Their daughter, Sarah Fo1·syth, was a woman of fine char acter, possessing a fund of practical good sense. She had that nature so pleasant to live with, a companionable and A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:\IILY :2:27 cheerful tempe1·ament. She presided o,·ei· hel' home with the ability of a fine house-keepe1· and home-make1·, and ,ms 11ey2r ~o lwppr ;1s when absol'lwd in the management of some house hold task. She ,,·as faithful in en,1·:v detail of hospitality, making eYery guest feel his hearty \Yelc:ome into he1· home. Slw \\-,ts ,, membe1· of the 'l'i'afalgar Baptist Church. Her last sickness ,n-1s the result of the tender care she ga,·e he1· mother during a malignant type of typhoid fe,·e1·. He1· clerntion kept her constantly for days at her bedside. The end hard!~· came until the daughter became an uncon scious ,·ictim of the same disease. Before he1· mother's death thei·e ,n,1·e fi,·e generntions, all girls, who belonged to lwr family. They \\·e1·e Paulina Logan, the aged great-great gl',rnc!rnother; ~Iary Fo1·syth, great-grandmother; Sarah Ter hUlll'. grnnclmother; Luna Frazie1·, mother, and Ruth Fl'azie1·, claughte1·. This is an unusual occunence. Stella, hel' g1·ancl dau1.rhte1·. says: "Laughing:!;.', I h;,ffe heard Gi-anclrnotlw1· Logan Set.\': 'Rise up, daughter, go see thy daughter, for thy claug·hter's daughter has a daughter.'" }.faude Te!'lrnne attenc!E:'cl the State :'\ormal at Tene Haute. then taught for se,·eral years. She was a teacher in the Franklin schools when sh0? man-ied in 1908. He1· hus \Jarcl. Gan1et \Yood, ,,·as i1~ the railroad business fo1· a num lwr of years, but resigned to go into business with his brnthe1· in :\'c•\\' York City. Their home is in Flushing, Kew Yol'!-::. Stella also 1)1'epared herself fo1· teaching and taught nine consecuti,-e terms. The second was in Tecumseh, Kansas, neai· Topdrn. Hel'e she spent one yeai·, the only one of her life out of Johnson County. She rna1Tied in 1907, Atilla IJmc-k, fomwrl~· of Owentown, Kentucky, who was cashier of the Fan11ers' Xational Bank at Trnfalgar. He was instru mental in the organization of this bank, and was cashiel' for tweke years. He i-esignecl this position and accepted the management of the Farme1·s' Ele,·ator Company at Franklin. Florence, the youngest daughter's married life was of short duration. She ,ms just twenty-three and full of life and hope, and he1· sudden death was a great shock to her friends. ~Iartha Forsyth, like her sister, Sarah, reflected the in fluence of a good mother. She ,vas a teacher in the Union township schools where Abram Clore Deer, who later became :2:28 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAl\IILY he1· husband, ,,-as a pupil. Aftel' their marriage they \\-ent to }fr. Dee1·'s old home ncai· PrO\-iclence, \\-lwre they spent their rnaHied life. They had man:-- friends, where known, c1:1d were noted fo1· their hospit<1lity. JLll'tha ,·-as of"' deeply religious natm·e, and he1· influencP i1' the community \\-as in the prnmition of high ideals. It ,\-as to tl1,:., Cluistian Chmch at Prnvidence that }Ia1·tha and Abram Clore gaw their most Flora Forsyth Chamber~ efficient se1·vice. Their eldest daughte1· died one year after her rnaniage, leaving a baby daughter, }Ia1-y, who was reared in their home. She has taken the training com·se for nurses and is located in the M. E. Hospital at Fort Wayne, Indiana, as superior nurse. Flora Forsyth lived for several years after he1· marriage in Vernon County, Missouri. The family returned to Indiana A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A'.\IILY 229 and pmchased a farn1 in Hendricks County, ,,·he1·e they lived until the death of the husband in 1902. This loss placed a heavy responsibility upon the young wife. There we1·e young children to rear and educate, and ,vith mai·ked heroism she accepted ,,·hat came to hel'. For several years she \vas matron and sewing teache1· for the Indiana Industrial Home at Cler mont. but resigned on account of ill health. She now liws with her daughter, Bessie, in Danville, Indiana. The claughte1·, Lula. is one of the matrons of the Indus trial School, and her husband, Clyde Con,0 in, has been fo1· sPwnd rears the supPrintenclent of the carpenters' depart ment of the school. Ernest Chambers is a successful business man of Indi anapolis. His wife, Freda Brown, is a graduate of the Indi anapolis Conservatory of :.\Iusic:. Bessie Chambers graduated from Short1·idge high school in l~JlK. Frnm the1·e she \\·ent to the Central Xormal College at Dam·ille fo1· a two years' course preparato1-y to teaching. o~ca1· Forsyth ,,·as born 11ea1· Clay City, Illinois, and when a small bo}· came to Xinewh, Indiana. He spent a number of )·ears in rnilroacl ,,·01·k in :\fissouri and Cheyenne, \Yyo ming, and later returned to Indiana, and in 1918 became a resident of Indianapolis. His son Lamont C. Forsyth enlisted at the age of seven teen in the l'nitecl States army and ,,·as sent to the Philippine Islands. \\'hile at Fort :.\fc.Kinley, :\fanila, he was placed in quaitnmaster detached senice, whic:h sent him to "..\ustralia. China, .Japan and llonolulu. He returned home in 1916, and in Hll, l'ccnliste'.: 1 OJ' scn·ice in the war with Germany. \Vhen the ,n1r closed he enlisted fo1· four years' se1·,·ice in the navy aYiation corps at Gi·eat Lakes, Illinois. He manied in 1919, Christiana I~uby of Tiochester, X ew Y Ol'k. When ,:ar was decl,Hccl with Germany, Raymond E. For syth enlisted v;ith the nm y and was immediately sent aboanl the Jlichigc111 for sea sen·ice. Dm·ing the war he spent seY eral months in foreign watel'S both in the ::.\Ieditenanean and North Sea. He was in England when the German fleet sailed from th2 Falkland Islands in Xovember, 1918, remaining there until President Wilson ani,·ed at Brest on his first mission. The fleet helped to \Yelcome the British fleet when it sailed into Brest ha1·bor in celebration of the great victory of Zee- ~:_l() A Hr,.;TORY OF THE Fon:-YTH FA:\IILY bnigge, the Ge1·man submarine base. On tlw retu1·n to the Cnited States they stopped at the sea porb of Spain. Afric;:1, Italy, Asia :\Iin01· ancl Tm·ker. The,~· \H'l'e under fire in Smyrna, Asia :\Iino1·, ,,·hen the Shl'il,s landed t\,·entr thou s;.rnd troops there to oc-cup_\· the cit.\· from the Turks. After his discharge Tiarrnoncl 1·etunwd to his home in Indianapolis . .Josephine :\far \\·as IJOrn ne,u Flom. Illinois, and came to Xine,·eh \\·hen a small child. She nwt her husband, Xc\\· ton Houston, \Yhile Yisiting in \\"alker. :\Iis:,ouri. -~ftcr their maniage they liYed in Topdrn, Kans,1s, \,·he1'c.' Josephine \ms prominent in the wmk of the Y. \\". C. _.\ .. sen·ing as its secretary and on its boarcl of din'c tors. Her daughte1, :\fable, lin·s in 021klancl, California, \\·]1e1·c her husband, Edwin Pal'fett, is ciishie1· of the :\lc]'('h,mt.-; lJ,rnk. John Clarence Houston \\·as a .c;tucknt in \\·a.-,hiJurn Col lege for four years. He is a resident oi Kansa:-: Cit~·. :\Iis souri. John Edwanl Forsrth receiYed his education in Johnson County, \\'here he taught for some time in the public schools. Fol' a number of yeai·s he ha:c; been e11g3gecl in selling 1·1?al estate and insurance in San Diego in California. Margaret Forsyth Deer and Family A HISTUrtY OF THE FORSYTH F,UI!LY :231 }lal'ga1·et Forsyth liws on the farm nem· Providence, where she and }Ial'shall Deel' spent tlwi1· manied life. Their honw \\·as one of the h,1ppicst and mo,;t p1·os1w1·ous in thei1· conrnrnnit)·. }Iarshall D<:·e1· died in June, Hlli~. He was one of the splendid nlt'n of the Prn,·iclence neighborhood. and he and his wife ,,:on the place tlw)· held among· thei1· friends b.\· tlwi1· hospitality and upi·ight li1·ing. Thei1· son, D:an, grad uated from '.'\ e\\' York Polyclinic .:\Iedical Colleg2. P1·evious to • ntcring- the 1'nitecl States service in O:.:tober, Hl18, he \\·as a prnctising physician and surgeon in Indianapolis, Incli arc1. He c'nlistecl in the l'nitecl States medical sen·ice, and l'Ccei n·c! a commission as fn·st lieutenant medical co1·ps. He married Freida }la.Hr ot' Indianapolis, and went to Fort Oglc,thurpe, where he 1·ecein?cl his on·1·seas orders. Owing to 1w,1ce lJeing d!'clarecl he \\·as stationed in the port of em lxnk,1tion, Xe\\- Yod~ City hospital train seJTice and the cli\·i sion of :-;urge1·r until his discharge, when he 1·eturned to Incli ;rnapolis tor residence and practise of medicine. En1cst E. Forsyth \\·as bo1·n in Xineveh, Johnson Count>·, Indian,1.. He recein,cl his education at '.'\ineveh and at Dan \·ilk '.'\rirn1al. Fo1· fom· yea1·s he \\·as engaged in the real ,·sLltc business in Franklin, and in 190:2 remoYed to D,wiess Countr. \,-here he began the clen,lopment of a large tract of rna1·sh lands. He became acti\·e in politics, and for eight ye,us ,y;i,; at the head of his pa1ty Ol'ganization. In July, HJU, he 1·eccin'd the appointment of postmaste1· of the city of \Vash ington. Dm·iess County, by President Wilson for a period of fou1· >·ea1·s. He \\·as 1·eappointecl in 1918 and was the first postm,1ster to occupr the new federal building of that city. ln l~J08 he \Yas elected a mem1Je1· of the board of education. cil'lTing three years. He \Vas a membe1· of the official board of the Fi1·st Ch1·istian Church and a leade1· in Bible schcol \\·ork. He was affiliated with the ::\Iasonic and I. 0. 0. F. i rn tern al ordel'S. During the \Vol'lcl \Yar his position put upon him much of the bm·den of war wod:: activities of his county, and he 1·enclerecl valuable sen·ice to the government until peace was declared. In September, 19Hl, he removed to the state of Washington. Gussie Forsyth was also born in Nineveh, and spent her g'irlhood there. She was maniecl to Doctor J. H. Deer of 2:12 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F .L\IILY P1·0\·idence, and they located in Zions\·ille, Indiana. Afte1· the death of Doctol' Deer in lDHi, Gussie went to Franklin. where her daug·hter, Gladys, entered Franklin College. Afte1· t,rn years' wo1·k in college she \\·ent to HenryYille, India1rn. as teacher of art, music and domestic science in the public schools. She is a member of the Pi Beta Phi SorOl'ity. Ernl':-( E. For.-:yth Elkanah Fors,\-th spent his early boyhood ,,·01·king on his father's farm and attending the country schools. On the fourth day of February, 1862, he enlisted as a pri\·ate in Company C of the 5th Regiment, C S. Artille1-y, of which Richai·d Arnold was captain. During his three yeal'S' sen·ice he was engaged in the battles of Plains Store, Louisiana, :\Iay 21, 1863; at the siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, 1863; at the bombardment of Fort ~Iorgan, Alabama, August 22, 186-1, and many smalle1· engagements. He was injured by a moY- A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 233 ing cannon passing owr his knee. This inj m-y soon healed and he 1·eturnecl to se1Tice, but it left him somewhat crippled. Howen,1·. he was transfened to the ca\·alry where he re mained until he \1·as honorabl,\· discharged at Petersburgh, Virginia, February 1, 18G5. In Xovemfje1· folloffing his 1·elease from the army he was manied to Isabel Griffen Lyster. They established thei1· home on a small fa1·m neai· Trafalgar, Indiana, and later moved to Xinewh, ,vhich at that time was called Williamsburgh. Here the:-: 1·esided until 188-!, when the family moved to Edinbmg, Indiana, where they lived fo1· twenty-tlu·ee years. In the autumn of 1907 ther moved to Indianapolis, where Elkanah Fors~·th died in 1912. He 1\·as widely known in Johnson and sunounding coun ties as an honest and ene1·getic man, and a gentleman of good charnctel'. His wife ha\·ing been a member of the Baptist Clrnn:h since girlhood, he too united \\"ith this faith dul'ing their 1·esidence in Trafalgar. His wife and children except i1w Xm·21 of }Iemphis, Teirnessee, Xellie of New Holland, Illi nois, and Cecil of X e1\· Y 01·k, 1·esicle in Indianapolis . .-\ncl1·('\1· Jad:son Forsrth was the youngest c-hild of both paI'('llts. each of \1·hom had been mc11Tied three times. "-\t t1rent:;-t11·0 he brnught a neighbor gid, Lucy Jane Barnett. home ,,s his bride, and to help uu·e for his aged parents . .\t the time of his maniage in 1868 he resolved nc\·e1· to say 01· do anything which he could not tell at his table before his ,1·ifc. One had only to kno1,· him to realize that that rcsoh·f1 ,n-1.s kept throughout his lifo. This same constancy 1,·as ,;ho1n1 ia his affection fOl' his \1·ife. From the time that hl' at eighteen first sa 11· he1· ancl she then tweh'e years ot age-they being in the same old-fashioned country school until the encl of his life she pleased him as no othe1· woman did. Although in his youth he often became exceedingly ,rngry \\·he11e1·er his 11·ill was th11·a1t0d, he nen•1· showed such feelings toward his 1,·ife. He ,vas especially fond of outdoo1· life, and had a ran, understanding of animal life. Ewn the work horses upon his f;wm were \\·onde1·full~· responsiYe to his training, know ing in addition to perfect horse behaYi01· many tricks, such as marking with hoof, pumping own cll·inking ,vater, etc. His own little riding ma1·e that he rode into Brown and Bartholo- :2:J! A Hr~TORY OF THE FoR: Andre\\. For:-;yth ,,·ise fathe1·, a pel'fect disciplinai·ian, possessing high ideals fo1· his children, in all of which he and his wife we1·e in pel'fect ham10ny. One common bit of advice b2came p1·0- VE1·bial among his children. Whenever anything was to be done ·which 1·equired courage, he would urge, "~ow, quietly and gently, but firmly." He was a born general. He enjoyed buying exhausted farms, putting good men on them, and building them up into A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY :235 \\·eeclless. \'.'ire-fenced acres of blue-gn,ss, three-yea1· rotation crnps, \\·oocls pasture, etc. ),t the same time he ,Yas canying on his businc,;s of stockman, bu~·ing, feeding and selling sheep, hogs and cattl<', especially the latte1·. His judgment on farm and stock \YclS almost unel'J'ing. ;1Ien said they needed no ;;cales for 1\·oighing,-'·Just gi\·e Ancly a look at 'em." Prn gTessi,·e fanne1·s fo1· miles around depended upon his juclg nwnt and gained in fam1 n,lue and income by doing so. They depended upon him fo1· othe1· deepe1· help, too. When he was making his 1·otmcls in the sp1·ing and fall through the coun try, especially in Bro,,·n County, no charges \Yere made for horse feed o\·e1· night, 1101· fo1· his food and lodging. (He, hO\\·e,·er, usually managed in some way to reimburse them.) He 11·as 1n•komecl as a friend and often then, ,,·otild be a ge111al chat for hours upon general topics. Family topics were often brnught to him for solution, and sometimes his fay01·ite 1rnnw of checkers \'.'as proposed, and he and his host \\·ould play for into the night almost speechlessly. \\'hilo he pushed his m\·n busim'ss aggressiYely, doing good to ,rn)· indi\·iclual \\·horn he met, he die! not forget to apply his \'JWl';?.'~· to the needs of his community, especially religiously and political]:-·. He had a singular gift for penetrating to the fundamental tn1ths of a situation. I-L-1'·ing once seen that tn1th, nothing could turn him from his obedience to its de mands upon him. This canied him apparently untouched thl'ough much scathing Ci'iticism, which came dm·ing his ye,:H's as elclel' of the Xine\·eh Christian Church, \\·hen he alone ,1t times, it seemed, had a substantial grip upon fundamentals. It \1·,1s he 1\·ho insistl·cl that a chm·ch equipment should be up-to-elate and attractive. To that encl he sacrificed six months of business to superintend personally the work of remodeling, gi,·ing at the same time mo1·e money than any other membc'l', although he was less able financially than some. First he was a Demonat, later an Independent, then a Prohibitionist. He spent many days going about ca1Tying 1·emonstrances for voters' signatures against the granting or re-granting of saloon licenses. Othe1· times his daughters and even some one whom he had hired by the clay would carry them from house to house in the township. He fought blind tigers when for it his house was egged with bad eggs, and tlweatened with burning. He entertained in his home tern- 2:36 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAr-IIL Y perance lecturers when thei1· friends would not let eithe1· of them go alone on the street afte!' dark without a body guanl fo1· fear of the "whisky men" lying in wait in dal'k places. N"othing good and prog1·essi\·e suffered fo1· lack of aid of his indomitable courage and determination, yet for all his stn°11- uous life no one could be mo1·e companionable for a hunting 01· fishing jaunt or fo1· a "lark out-of-doors." The \Hiter recalls long drives 01· rides into the country with him-a g·ay companion apparently with no responsibility on his shoulders reveling in the close and tende1· touch of rnad, and sky, and trees, and soil, and air, and sky creatures, and God's \·e1•~· J}l'esence. Sometimes he talked for hou1·s on \\·ood lo1·e sug gested by the e1ffirnnment; sometimes his passionate Ion fo1· God in His \\·onderful out-of-doors (for he belien·d God \\·as more easily found the1·e than in cities) made him \\·et-eyed and speechless. At such moments as these he freqnentl~· 1·e gretted that he had not the education to allow him to put his feelings into ,rnrds, and he exp1·essPcl the hope that the col lege education his daughtcTs \\'C!'e ha,·ing \\·ould c·nable 01w of them at least to ,nite fm· othe1·s the things ,\·hil'h he felt so profoundly but could not ,nite, and \\·hic-h they should feel in order to approach an umle1·stancling of God. Then his fine sense of humor \\·hich his wife's influence was constant!,\· bl'inging out in him, \\'otild ass,·rt itself, and with his keen bluP e_\·cs t,,·inkling lw would 1·efer to the 1·ema1·k of an e1wm_\· \\·ho said that the 1·e3son Ancl1·f:\\' ne\-el' had headaches (a fact of which he boasted) \\·as because he hadn't brains enough. "But I g·uess it's \\·ell enouJrh that I took care of m_\· aged fathe1· and mothe,· and m:· \':i fe instc'ad of going to c-ollcµ:e. fo1· ~·ou knO\\' then' couldn't ha,·,, br•Pn much future for a fello,\· \\·ho hasn't brains enough to h,ffe a headache." He, like most of the Fornyths. had the ability to sleep under an~· condition 01· circumstance, when not actiYely en gaged. On one occasion he had gone into :\forgan County to look at some stock, leaYing his ho1·se in ::.\Io1·gantown, when· he took the train. netm·ning he fell asleep. :\Iorgantown was called, but he did not hear it. When he a\\·akened his train was in the town of T1·afalgar, seyen miles farthel' on. His unusual appea1·ance on the streets of this town attrnctecl the attention of an acquaintance, who said: "l\Ir. Fol'Syth, what are you doing o,,e1· here':" Very calmly he replied: A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAl\IILY 237 ''Oh, I had a little business hel'e." He \\·as no\\. compelled to 1·etrace the distance bet\\·een the towns by \Yalking OJ' em plo.\· a man to take him. He chose the latte1·. To those who kne\1· him best it seems A man he ,,·as Foul' squa!'e to en°1·y ,,·ind that blo,,·s. \\'1 itten hr his daughter Pea!'l. His da11ghtel', Stella, clit•cl in her young \\·omanhood. She like her three siste1·s 1uc1s a \1·oman of much chai·m of manne1· and chan,cter. The sisters \\·ere educated in Butler College, Indianapolis, being members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma So rn1·ity at thc1t institution. The eldest, Lura Edna, was a ,;tuclent of the piano under Clarence Fon,yth, and fo1· seve1·al )·eal's 1n1s a teacher of music in .Johnson County, Indiana. Since he1· maniage to Clement L. Fix she has lived at Green- 1rnod and Indianapolis. At present they 1·eside on :ci f,u·m nem· :\Ioon's\·ille, Indiana. Peal'I Barnett Forsyth, a'fter teaching a fe1\· years, ente1·ed the \':ork of the Young \Yonwn's Christian Association. She ha,-; held the position of gencTal secretary in Xol'i'olk, Vi1· ginia, To1wka, Kansas, and Day City, :\Iichigan. Following the death of her fathe1· she n'tun1ed to her home in Indian :1polis and became associated with the citr organization there. She spent the yea!' 191R-1918 in Xew York City as a student in the Xational Training School of the Association, since ,,·hich time she has been a Xational sec1·etary fo1· the Young \Yonwn's Christian ~.\ssociation in the South Atlantic district with heaclqu;uters at Hichmoncl, Yirginia. Her ci1·cle of triends and acquaintances is national in scope. The secret of he1· sucC'.ess lies in the fact that in addition to g1·eat per sonal charm, she is endowed with a keen, comprehensive mind and splendid executive ability. Haidee Alice Forsyth, the youngest sister, afte1· finishing he1· college courne began Young \N omen's Christian Associa tion ..rnrk, being located at St. Joseph, :.\Iissouri. Later she \\·as rnanied to the Reverend Cad Burkhardt, a graduate of Butler College and also of Yale Lniversity. They reside now at Plattsburg, :.\Iissouri. CHAPTER XI LETITL-\ FORSYTH FE~-\ THER.\'GILL Lrtitia ,n1s the sixth child of D,fficl and :\Ia1·gm·et. She "·as maniecl in Kentuck)· in December, loO'.J. and six of her chilcli·en ,,·ere born the1·e. In 18~(i she came \\·ith he1· famiI., to Johnson County, Indiana. For main- ,·e::-us she lin·cl on a farm t\,·o miles ,,·est of T1·afalg:ar. There are those li,·ing who will 1·ecall hrr in her cleclininJ,'.· rears 1·icling hon,(•bac-k \Yhene,·e1· she had occ-::-1sion to lean· her home. In lXCi.:i \\·hile ,·isiting in Tn1falgar in the borne of her niH·c' :\L11·g,1n°t Tucker Clark. she ,cis taken sick and ,1ftc1· ,1 f(•,,- da,\·,-; died there. HE!r gnn-e is in the Featherngill gran·)·,11·cl neal' that nf her mother :\Iarga1·et Fo1·srth. :\far~· F(~ath2rngill. claughtel' of Letitia Fol's)·th. ,ras !Jorn in Kentucky. She maniecl Alex,111cler Scoggan in .Johnson Countr, and short]~- aftennucl the.,· ,nnt to Clay Count.,·. :\Iissomi, neai· the t0\n1 of H::-lins,·ille. \\·he1·e the.'· purclrnsecl thl'ee hundred and t,,·ent,\· ,1u·es of bncl on ,,·hic-h the:, lin:'d until thei1· death. :\fr. Scoggan ,ms killed ac-ciclentallr a sho1't time before the CiYil \\·ar. Fom· of :\Iary Scoggan\; sons enlisted fol' sen·ice in the anny of the Xorth \\·hen the \\·,u· came on. Another son. Commod01·e, \\·as onlr sixteen and felt it his dut>· to remain \\·ith his mother. But the bands of guenillas ,d10 ,n,1·e n,1·>· acti,·e in that counti·~· we1·e drtennined that the men li,·ing there should join one of the t\\·o a1·mies, since thei1· presence in the county might interfere ,,·ith some of their criminal acts. Commodore Scoggan after being secretlr told to lean' escaped when he \\·as being sunounded br the bandits, and went into the northern army. In 186-1 he was taken sick and sent home. Fearing the bandits should he 1·eturn to his mother he went to his siste1·, l\Iargaret Woodmancr, at Col lege Springs, Iowa, where a few months later he died. It ,vas a trying experience for the women at that time. The notorious James bo>·s were at the head of the guerrilla bands who had robbed even· bank in the count~·- :.\lary Scog- A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.DIILY 239 gan remained on her farm with fom· small children, even \\·hen her house \\·as seai·ched by them, and hol'SC?S stolen. If :she en,r hacl a foe ling of fear it \\·as neYe1· manifested. Th1·ee of hn sons returned <1t the close of the ,nu·. Fnrncis :.\fa1tin. \,·ho \\·as in the fighting at \'icksbUl'g, died there of fen:-1· the clay befo1·e the city sunendered. His bod~· lies among the many soldier dead at \'icksbtu·g. .\lary Scog.crnn Pritchard The children of :.\Iary Feathemgill went to the same school in ::.\Iissouri which the noted Jesse James and his brother attended. He1· twelve children lived to maturity. In later years a numbe1· of them and her grandchildren lived at Col lege Springs, IO\,·a. A grandson, Edward Scoggan, who was the son of David W. Scoggan, after graduating from Amity College took a :.\laster's degree from the University of Illinois, where he won a schola1·ship for special work in Columbia 210 A HISTORY (JF THE FORSYTH FA'.\ULY l'niversit;:, Xe,v York City. Hel'e he took hi:-; Ph.D. degree. Late1· he was appointed lectu1·e1· fo1· tlw Dickinson Seminar)· at \Yilliamsport, Pennsyh·ania. His later ~-P,U'S were spent in Iowa as minister for churclws thel'e. He mal'l'iecl Almicla Roy in Sairvois in the prn\·ince of Quebec, and died of in fluenza dm·ing the epidemic of l~ll~-'19 at Rochester, .:\Iinne sota, where he had taken his son for treatment. ~1argaret Fcatherrigill Pritchard .:\Ial'ga1·et Featherngill was born in Kentucky, and in 1828 when a girl of thirteen years came to Indiana ,vith her pa rents. She was married in 183.S, and her first home was on a farm in Johnson County, five miles southwest of Franklin, where later her cousin, Frank Featherngill, lived fm many years. In 1852 she with her family removed to Jasper Coun ty, where three years later her husband, Allen Pritchard, died. They had purchased a farm near Rensselaer where Margaret SECTION VIII Robert m. Margaret Conner William Albert m. -- Davis Mary E. Everett m. Thomas Smith m. Agnes Wright Lizzie James Allen 1817-1885 m. Charley Richardson m.' Elizabeth Jolliffe Minnie m. Will Conner John B. Joseph F. Nancy m.' Emily Hardin Margaret E. 1905 Estella 1882 Leland E. 1907-190? m. Everett Hunt { Marion 1909 Margaret 1860 Livy B. 1884-1904 Mabel 1887 Ralph S. 1911 m. Martin Sellers { Hugh M. 1913-1913 { m. Ernest Park Lester A. 1892 m. Hazel Pruitt m.' Sarah Barnett Samuel 1868 m. Nannie White Hubert M. 1893 m. Claudia Schreiber Lavinia 1871 Naomi 1897 m. Frank Mullendore { Lynn F. 1901-1902 Lucile L. 1906 Margaret 1820 m. Amos Durbin James R. 1844-1861 Edith 1892 Kenneth 1913 m. Earl Williams { Ivy May 1917 Earl 1894 John H. 1822-1891 Ella A. 1866 m. Florence Beddle { James E. 1918 m. Martha A. Branigin m. James S. Wells John H. 1895 { m. Helen Anderson Lucy F. 1846-1872 Lula 1896-1905 m. William Ramey Charles 1869-1869 Jessie A. 1870 Albert S. 1896 { Jessie F. 1917 m. Fred S. Coffman { m. Thelma Banks William A. 1872-1872 Curtis J. 1873 { Audrey F. 1906 m. Mary Raper Nellie E. 1897 Mabel 1900 Minnie M. 1874 Earl L. 1903 m. George Ritter Helen P. 1909 Roy R. 1911 Frank B. 1908 William R. 1876 Lewis D. 1910 Samantha A1:m 1853 m. Jessie M. Raper Julia G. 1912 m. Abraham Roe Winnie J. 1878 J. William 1904 m. Edward Pearcy { Florence W. 1906 Oren 1906 Joseph E. 1883 Clifford 1909 m. Ethel Wagerman Carl M. 1911 M. Victor 1913 Donald l!J03-1907 Cassandra F. Mabel S. 1884 Eva May 1908 1824-1898 m. Leo Smyser Maurice 1910 m. Curtis Pritchard Susan Jane ;1.856 111,. Joseph Hughes i Sarah Alice '1858-1906 . · { Emerson 1893-1893 Clar1s_s3: M. 1860 Marcia N. 1897-1897 m. Wilham N. Eccles Ruby E. 1898 Mary Etta 1862 { Grace G. 1885 m.' Frank P: Gillaspy m. John S. Bennett { Walter P. 1904 m.' Hiram Hensley Joseph W. 1846-1857 Nancy A. 1848-1912 IX. Mary 1794-1835 m. Wm. Harvey g11~ter m. Joseph Feath { Other erngill Mabel John D. 1849-1851 Gertrude Robert 1851-1910 Bessie m. Roberta McLean { Katie Robert, Jr. Mary 1826-1880 Cordelia 1857-1883 m. James C. Spears Ralph W. 1888 m. Hazel Ferguson Thomas 1861 Roland D. 1892 S Dale G. 1917 m. Sallie Wright m. Mary Sharp r Sarah E. 1918 { Yerian 1896 Leland W. 1898 Philander 1864-1881 Alberta 1894 { Richard C. 1915:1919 m; Richard Reasoner Paul C. 1894 m. Ruby Saunders { Hanford 1918 Albert C. 1867-1914 Roland C. 1896 m. Anna Anderson m. Margaret Werner Frank H. 1898-1907 Aline D. 1901 { Pearl 1919 m. Ernest E. McMaster Joseph W. 1850-1851 James T. 1851-1852 Sarah Jane 1853-1868 Thomas 1854 { Harry M. 1880-1893 m. Nancy Emma Cole- Dora B. 1883 Harry 1905 man m. Everett McQuinn { Margaret 1908 Frank 1828-1909 Mary Elvira 1858 m. Martha Mullikin Susan 1862-1903 Shirley G. 1886 Pauline A. 1913 m. Raze! Vandiver { Clarabelle 1916 Charles C. 1864 Lylah C. 1894 m. Anna B. Combs { m. Leigh Flinn Marion F. 1906 Harry M. 1866-1868 Julia B. 1868 Robert F. 1853-1858 William A. 1855-1858 Amos H. 1857-1858 Mary S. 1859-1871 Emry 1862 Harley B. 1901 m. Laura A. Ruhl { James K. 1903 Pearl G. 1907 Pauline 1909 Arlie L. 1882-1914 James N. 1912-1912 m. Mary M. Norris Lucile G. 1913 Letitia Amanda Emma 1862 Roberta 1914 1830-1896 m. J. W. Robbins Maud E. 1883 Joseph W. 1910 m. Jefferson Talbott m. Berton W. Berry tAlma 1913-1913 Pearl C. 1885-1907 Glenn 1900 George B. 1864 Carl 1902 m. Helena C, Rising Mary 1905-1908 · Leonard 1867-1919 Robert F. 18!J6 m. Sadie F. Fox Margaret 1869-1871 Dora B. 1871 m. Walter L. Clark Della 1883 { Alice 1858-1901 m. Robert Denbo William R. 1905 m. William Spears { Fred E. 1882 William F. 1860 { Virginia 1916 m. Susan Wohrer Robert H. 1832-1876 Bonnie B. 1882-1884 Grace G. 1884 { m. Mary M. Smith Sarah Etta 1865 m. Frank D. Black- Bettie L. 1916 m. John C. White more { Nellie B. 1887 m. Hannibal Stansfield Anna C. 1868 m. Arthur L. Hamilton ,?, l-. c/ ICJVe'"/f'. /f// Hallie 1867 m.1 C. E. Tesh m;;~;~;,~::-{ifttjt Mary A. 1918 Dale E. 1920 Mary 1891 John F. 1894 m. Olive Makepeace m.2 Otho Elliott Aline 1905 Erwin 1910 Eddie 1869-1870 Bessie L. 1899 Billie 1901-1902 Erd C. 1871 Eugene 1903 Mary Eusebia m. Jennie Berry Mildred M. 1905 1848-1896 Robert D. 1907 m. John Mullendore Patience J. 1910 David L. 1873 C. Harold 1898 m. Meta B. Hillam Bertie N. 1901 Jessie 1875-1876 Harry 1877~1879 Clarence 1879-1885 Otto 1881 Fred V. 1910 m. Goldie Cribley { Mary V. 1911 Claude 1883-1886 Clarice 1885-1886 Ray F. 1887 Helen 1915- Sarah Elizabeth { 1830-1862 m. Alma Glahn Christine 1918 m.' David Robison Carl 1889 Clinton 1892 Herman G:· 1888 { Elizabeth J. 1914 . m. Jean Picken Robert 1916 Ollie May 1867 Grace N. 1892 { Marie J. 1913 m. Daniel E. Deupree m. John Nackenhorst John F. 1915 Forrest E. 1895 m. Edna B. Thompson Nancy Jane 1851-1872 Ray D. 1901 m. Adolph Smith William E. 1871 lCharles E. 1897 m.1 Susie Kirkwood { Gladys 1899 Harold 1902 m.' Jessie Kirtley Sarah C. 1854 [See Sec. VII] m. John Tucker Raymond 1897 Grace 1875 Jessie M. 1899 m. Dr. W. N .. Menefee { Mary B. 1901 . Meredith 1911 Oliver 1877-1881 Walter 1879-1882 Jessie A. 1856 Gertrude 1884 { Marguerite 1903 m. J. F. Byrd m. Dr. F. M. Shon~- f:s7oeE:i/igg6 m.2 J. M. Ergenbright wiler Naomi 1911 Florence E. 1887 m. Lee H. Gould Jessie Anis 1891 { - m. Paul Shackelford Frances M. 1912 Edward L. 1858 Roscoe 1886 m.' Fannie Williams ! m. Blanch Shirley rn. 2 Carrie D. Patterson · l{ Robert 1855-1855 Mary Ellen 1833-1855 Grace F. 1875 rn. George Ergenbright Carrie 1877 Alice 1856 m. Edw. A. Root { Aileen 1897 m .. W. R. Quillen Earl 1880 m. Carrie E. W atzin Florine F. 1890 Horace F. 1860 m. Norris A. Chandler lNorris . F. 1918 m. Emma Taylor Georgia L, 1892 Cassandra Jane m; Hugh s. Price Patsey E. 1915 1835-1885 Horace H. 1889 m.' George W. Foster Georgia M. 1862 Marie 1891 . m. J. H. Ricks { m. L. D ..Emmons { Maxme R. 1913 Mary 1865 m. Earl C. Marine . Cora''i3~1ie 1868 . { Byron 1889-1890 . m.' Sherman W. Kiser Lyle 1891 m. May Brewer m.' North H. Losey Ermel C. 1891 Byron Paul 1918-1918 m. B. P. Young Ida J. 1919 Jewel F. 1870 Harry T. 1893 Elmira 1919 m.' Joel W. Smith m. J. H. McCafferty m. Hazel Johnson Luna A. 1898 l John A. 1902 Olive D. l m. William P. Smoot William C. 1895 Rebecca Alice Robert 1838-1838 1857-1887 m. William N. Mc Quinn John Henry 1859-1860 .Carl W. 1882-1919 Mildred 1910 Lela R. 1911 Roscoe H. 1884 Mabel 1913 m. Bonnie Barker Laura L. 1918 r James 1920 Laura E. 1861-1897 Georgia A. 1886 Robert C. 1908 m. Moses E. Compton m. Martin Holdcroft Dorothy Lillian 1914 Lucy E. 1888 m. Harry Hays Mary C. 1912 Eusebia M. 1840-1887 Tressie E. 1890 Helen M. 1912 m.' Abraham K. m. Orpha Wirey Laura E. 1919 Mit,c,_hell James S; · 1893 m. Tot Short Helen M; 1895 Orvie 0. 1891 m. Russell Poe { Glenn 1919 James M. 1864 Iliff C. 1893 m.' Maggie M. Dragoo Roxie V. 1895 Hester E. 1896 m. Riley Calvert { Iliff L. 1919 Oris L. 1899 m.' Etta Pickerel Lucy Jane 1866 m. Calvin F. Massin gale 8 908 Dora A: is7f.jg94 ·- -· .{ g:fvi~i flgi . { m. Walter Dragoo m. Josephine Coy m.• Jasper N. Mitchell . Olive H. 1894-1894 Hallie M. 1883 { m. J. William Colson m.• Andrew J. Bailey D. ora A. 1864 { Katharine 1894 m. Charles C. Riley Aileen 1900 Anna K. 1869 m/ William A. Utter- back m.' James Henderson Rebecca S. 1843 George H. 1872 m. A. V. Pendleton m.' Delia Johnson { Elizabeth 1901-1909 Rosamond 1907 m.' Esther Mack George H. 1912 { Marjorie K. 1917 XI. Maria 1799- { m.' Thomas Feath- Jackson 1820 erngill George 1822 m.• Joseph Mc- Carty .-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAl\IIL Y :2H C'ontinuecl to Jin• with her C'hilclren until 1850 when she re tunwrl to Johnson Countr. After 1870 her home was in Frar 1din. The eldest son, D,wicl, was an inn,lid a great part of his life and spent his time in readii12,' and study. The death of the fa'dw1· placed upon Daniel, then a boy of fifteen years, a la1·gc share of the responsibility of the fam ily. He was among the first to enlist for service in the Civil Daniel Pritch;ncl War, being a member of Comp;my F, 7th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. He was a good soldin, and his persistently good humor was an inspiration to his company. He was killed in the battle of Winchester, where shortly after James P. Fornyth was sent to locate the grave and b1·ing the body home. After a long search among the dead he failed to find it, and when speaking of this in a nearby hospital, a young boy lying seYerely wounded in the next room feebly called and said: :::'.12 ,-\. HISTORY Of TIIE F1>R:-'YTH F.L\IILY "I kn0\1· whe1·c lw is if I cou1cl on!,\· .Q"l't there." The boy ,n1s lifted on a strctchc1· and U\niul to thL· /.'T ic!. Y,ent to the \\·,u·. He \\·antc0 cl an educ,1tio11. and ,\.<1S ,1·ill ing to makf' mi,\· s<1(·1·ifk() tn obtain it. Hi.-, rnothe1· 11· Thomas Prit('hnnl about his home. \'iThen the clay's 11·ork was m·c1· he ,1·oulcl study by a firelight until late at night. Finally he was able to trnch during the winter months, thus helping ye1·y materially 11·ith the famil,\· income. In later yea1·s he was a student in Frnnklin College. He taught school for a period of t11·eh·e years near Rensselae1·, Indiana. His ability and popularity as a teacher a1·e shown A HISTORY OF THE FOR~YTH F.\:\IILY 2--!8 in that he \\·as elected to fiw different schools in Jasper County at the same time. He retm·necl to Johnson County, and ,,·hile teaching there he stuc:iecl law in the oflke of ":IIiller & D,unett of Franklin. He ,,·as admitted to the bar in 1~78 and formed a panner ship 11·ith D. A. Leach fo1· the prne:tise of law. In 188:1 the partm'r.ship \\·as dissoh·ccl and he practised alone until his cJc,ath. He \\·as actiYc in politics and was county chairman nf the Ilepublira,~ 1nut.,· fo1· a number of yea1·s. For four yea1·s he \,·as postmaster of Franklin unde1· Pres ifL nt ,Ii, i{inle:: and also senHl as c-ity attorney seYeral ~·ears. For L~·n ye,11's he acted as attomey fo1· the }Iutual Building and Loan ,.\ssoc-iation and through this ,,·01·k gained an ex tei1si n_, l,no·,declge of real estate la,L He \\·as at all times l't'lial1lc. ,1 safe counsello1·, ancl a nrnn of exccilent business iud;nm·nt. •1'!rnn1,1s Pritchanl \\°aS exceptionally fond of his home and his 1a,11il. 1:. He maniec! Emma Depue, a da,.1ghtcr of \\'illiai:1 ,t1 1 d Ll1:inia Heconis Depue. \\"illiam Depue was fo1' 1rn111~· ,'-, ,L,.. (,,1c of the most prorni1writ i'an11ers of Johnson County. Tlw cl,l,i;.rhtc>r, E1rn,1a Pritchard, \\·as ,m especially acti,·e 1n,!'k Nm·man Pritchard Ted attended Franklin high school and Franklin College as long as his health permitted. He had organic hea1t tl'Ouble all his life. Although never well he could not bear to be considered an invalid, and was quite an athlete, playing on the Franklin College baseball and football teams. Even when in bed, suffering intensely, he was never known to make any other reply to an inqui1·y about his health than, "I'm all right." .-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY :2-!5 Ruth Woodsmall grad'Jated from Franklin high school and Franklin College. She ,-.·as an unusually gifted student and in her third year she ,\·as ehose:n to 1·epl'csent the college in the State Oratorical Contest, but owing to ill health declined. She taught German hrn ~·ears, and Eng·lish one year at La porte, Indiana. She died in Laporte in April, 1917. She was a membe1· of Delta Delta Delta Soro1·ity. Sarah E. P1·itchai·d has resided in Indianapolis since her maniage to .-\ndre,\· Bohlen. She has been interested in the cha1·ity \\·01·k of the city, and is a member of the Third Chris tian Church. Andrew Bohlen was a soldier in the Civil \Var; was captured by the Confedernte authol'ities and confined for six months in Libby prison at Richmond, Virginia . .J arnes Allen \\·as the youngest child of Allen and ::\Iar garet Featherngill Pritchard and ,ms only eight months old when his fathe1· died. His fo·st school clays were spent in Franklin ,\·he1·e he \\·alkecl each day from the family home, a distance of t,\·o miles. This was during the Civil War period. Some yE:,us lat(•!' he was a pupil in the old Academy in Franklin. and was a student in Franklin College one year. Since 1 ~x 1 his home has been in Franklin, \\·here he is in business. He and his family are members of the Franklin Christian Chmch. His children were educated in the public schools of Franklin and in Franklin College, the eldest, ~Ia~·rne. gn1duating with the class of 1908. She was a teacher for t,\·o rears in Indiana and Oklahoma, and fo1· the two years following was p1·incipal of the school at Cadiz, Indiana. Since 1911 she has conducted an a1t and millinery store in Fnrnklin. Floy de Allen a ttencled F-..·anklin College and the Centrnl Business College of Indianapolis and later was asso ciated with his father's business as bookkeeper. For some years he has been the prnpl'ietor of the Franklin Tailoring Company. He is a member of the :\Iasonic Fraternity. John Thomas Feathemgill, son of Letitia Forsyth Feath erngill, was born in Kentucky and came to Indiana when a child of se,·en years. He grew to manhood on a Johnson County farm. At the b1·eaking out of the Mexican war he enlisted and taking a musket on his shoulder with a deter mination to help his country, he went to the front, where he participated in a number of the most important battles of the campaign. His marriage to J\Iartha J. Eaton occurred :.2 J!j •.\. HISTOrtY OF THE Fort~YT!I FA~IIL Y in Febrmu)·, 18-J9. In IKG,3 he J'l'l111JH'd \1·ith his family to Illinois where he lin:>cl on a farm until 188~1. when he 1·etired and \1·ent to Gillman, Illinoi:e:, \1·here he died a fe\\. rears latel'. His sons we1·e residents of Chicago. \\"illiam and Edgc11· \1·e1·e engaged in railrnacl 1\·ork, Edga1· being a passenger con ducto1· on the C. :.\I. & St. Paul raih\·a~·. Theodore ,xas con nectf~d 11·ith an engTa\·ing compan~·. CHAPTER XII JOH.\' FORSYTH A.\'D FA:.\IIL Y .JrJ!rn F,Jl'snh. the tomth son of Da,-icl and ::\fargaret, was l;n1·n in Yirg-inia in 1,:--\~). He ,,·as probabl~- four or fh'e rears nkl \\·lwn he m:int ,,·ith his pan:-nts to Kentucky. He eai-ly d,,,·.,],JJWcl a thirst amounting almost to a passion for kno,,·l c'cl5-re. The facilities for the routh of Kentucky in that age tn ,1cquil'e an education "·ere n°ry po01·, and the majo1·ity ,,·,·1·E0 dependent almost enti1·clr upon their own exertions for ,,·h:-1ten'1· lcan1i!'g they obt,,iiwcl. Howe,·e1', it ·was a mcuTel Ji,1,·: rnuch iJl formation tlw~· clid gain in this way. ,John Fo1· ,,nh's ciaug:htcr. :\Jm·i,1, ha.s told ho\\· her father would trap ,1nim,1ls in Kentuck,· and sell thei1· hides to get moncr to lrn,· lJnok:,. H,, ,n1ulcl make a tfre in the yard fo1· light and Ii,, flat on the' gTound and reacl. Success fol!o,,·s such energy ,tllcl amlJition, ,\1:cl he deser,:ecl all that came to him in later 1i rl'. At this tinw >.·c,1; Ol'!eans and the Xatchez district offe1·ed gT,•atel' ,rncl quicke1· opportunities for a young man than this v.n•at unck,·clop,,d count1·\· to the north. Without mone.,·, but \\·ith tlw cou1·ag:c to succeed. he left home and parents, clcter minecl to clo his l)('st in the life th At that time "Xatchez l'nder the Hill" was the 1·cndez\·ous for the most desperate characters in thp \\·hole \\·est. Being sheriff was no easy task. John Fors~·th \\·as truly a bra,·e and fearless man, \',hile ahn1)·.s hum;:1.nc with those in his care. The office at Urnt time carried \\'ith it many more responsibilities than that of looking aftc'J' the men. He was entrusted with some of the county funds and its expenditure, as "·ell as othe1· duties. In his busim'ss affairs John Fors~·th \\·as cilways successful. E\·e1·ything he touched seemed to tum to gold, and though a young man when he died he had accu mulated a fortune of seventy thousand dollars. although he had been a liberal contributor to all ,rnrthy causes. Tl11-ec• years aftc1· he went to Xatchez, in 1808, when he was about nineteen years of age, he married ::\fm·y Harmon, the sixteen year-old daughte1· of .Juan Christian Harmon and :.\Iartlrn ::\Iille1· Ha1·111on. She \\·as one of t\\·eh·e children, ancl her father, whose parents were nati\·,,s of Calabria, was an ex soldier of the Spanish army. ::\Ia1·y Harmon's famil~· lin,d about six miles from Xatchez on a plantation of fin• hundred acres. This joined the Clark home. whe1·e Johi1's brnther. Thomas Forsyth, died. Late1· ,,·hen John Forsnh was she1·itr in Xatchez, he built a large house on this plc111t,1tio11 in order that he and his family might have a retn,at from yellow fe\·e1· epidemics. It \.vas the type of fine colonial house so much co,·eted today. The people of Katchez and the country around could not see the wisdom of such a house for a man ,,·ho was an office-holder in a city six miles awar. \\'hen he com menced to build it they called it "Forsyth's Folly." Dming the fe\·er epidemics and fo1· scenes of social pleasm·e the big house \\·as often filled. John F01·syth's daughter, ::\Iaria, and her family were living in it during the disti·essing times of the Civil War. In December, 1879, the house, which was handsomely furnished, and nearly all of its contents were burned, together with a fine library of Mrs. Jackson's. In speaking of the loss her daughter, l\11'S. Bailey, said: "Our hearts were broken. The house was valued at ten thousand dollars, which of course meant a great deal at that time." l\Irs. Jackson was so crushed over the loss that she would never rebuild any part of it. One hund1·ed years ago this plantation was first called "Sheriff's Retreat," and the name has been retained all these ,--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F Al\IIL Y 249 years. It is not so much a place for growing cotton, the staple of the South, as it is a type of the old southern home. On its hills and in its rnlleys are great li,·e oak trees ,vith immense festoons of Spanish moss hanging from eve1·y limb. Another tree beautiful in form and color called the China tree grows he1·e in perfection. Its lea\·es in the autumn are the shade of the lemon. Fine specimens of the magnolia grow Sheriff's Retl'eat near the plantation house, which is 1·eached in two directions through the most picturesque roadways. These roads can not be fully described. Running through deep banks they are 1·eally sunken roadways. Many of the banks are from t\venty-five to thirty feet high. The great forest trees to\ver above and their branches and foliage interweave, forming a green covering for pleasant shade as well as beauty. One can understand after seeing 2:so A HISTORY OF THE FoR:-TrH F.DIILY these roads ,,·hy the rnnrnntic 1rn111e "Lon·r·s Lane'' has been giwn to one of the more beautiful. The roads wen· long yem·s ago on the top of the banks. but long use cl!1d slo\\· washing has worn them to thei1· pn•sent position. In Indiana the soil of suc:h banks would bn·ak ancl "·ash mn1y, but these han· gTm,·n so hard that the tran°ler ha.-; lo!' years been can·ing his name upon the "·alls where it may be seen yea1·s afte1· els though written on :-:tone. The associations of the past h,we rnaclc Sheriff's Heti·eat an i11te1·estinp,- place. A sho!'t ,rnlk ,,·ill lead one to when: figs 1;rny be· gathered from the tl'ee. A.n acorn planted mon, than one huncll'cd ycal'S ago b) .John Fms~·th's daughter, :\Iaria. when a little child, has gTm,·n into a tall magnificent liYe oak. A m,1gnolia that blossoms in all its glo1•~- each year has stood for many years m•m· the oak. Inside the gate, near \\·here the p1·esent house :-:tancls. 1m1.,· be :-:een a part of the foundation of the house .John For s,\·th built. Xo hand has .\·et been ,dlling to pull thi.-; clo,,·n "·ith all its sacred memories. :'\ear by is a J"oc-k conT;ng a c-i:-:tern which he built more than one hundred )'C[\l'S ago in onlel' to supply his famil_\· ,vith drinking: wiltel'.· The visitor as he wa11cle1·s around among: tlw ,,hnilJ.-,; ,111d tl'Cl'S in the yard ,,·ill see some brnken fragment:-: oJ mm·bll'. These are from the mantles of the big house. A.s lw enters ,\'lrnt was once a grnn? of frees he ,,·ill see the place \\·hel'e stood a jail built of gum logs. :\"aturnll,\· he will \\·onder \\"'h,\· a ,iail should h,ffe been six miles away from the county seat. Thi,, .John Forsyth hacl built in order to protect here the men in his care from rellow fe,·er. Xem· the site of the jail is a beautiful li\·e oak, which has gnnn1 from an ac-orn long after .John Fors~·th ga n, the place its name, Sheriff's Retreat. \\'hen he remo,·ed the prisoners from Xatchez to this jail the1·e were among them two fine-lookmg men who had been imp1·isoned for debt, for ,,·hich offense imprisonment was not at all uncommon. John Forsyth also li,·ed in Washington during the earlier years of his term as oftice-holdeL This old town is situated one and one-half miles a,vay from She1·iff's Retreat, and its historic associations l'ival even those of Natchez. ::\Ionett, the historian, and Wailes, the geologist, lived, died and ·were buried here, and their old homes still remain. Here is also located Jefferson College, the oldest endO\ved institution in A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F:UI!LY :2:sr the Soutlnn'st, and from \\·hich SlH:h men as Jefferson DaYis and Grntz 111·0\\·11 were graduated. Just within the entra1°ce to the u1mpus \\·as tlw old brick church founded b~· Lorenzo Do,,·, \\·hich ,ms also used as the state house. In this build ing the constitutional conwntion of 1817 \\·as held. Here also the p1·eliminm·~- im·estigation into the chm·ges against Aarnn Eun ,n1s made. "-\.fte1· ha\'ing been anested for h·eason in .January, 1807, sonw twent~- miles abo,·e ='Jatchez, he was brought to \\·ashington and released on bond. This he brnke ,rncl fo1· a time he ,.n1s concealed in \Vashington. Later a trial \\·as arranged and the grand jury brnught in a wrdict of not guilty. It is of inte1·est to kno\\· that EulT captirnted tlw 1wople \\·ith his learning and eloquence during the dis cu,;s1on . .John Forsyth's ,,·ifc died in Xatchez in 1825 of yellow 1('\.f'J', ,rnd latc1· lw maniccl :.\Iary Hardin. In 1827 he took lwr ,,·ith hi,; chilcl1·cn ,,ml went back to Kentucky to sec his mothc!'. \\.hi 1c ,·isiting in the home of his late brothe1·, James. 1w \ITOk on a blank leaf in the family Bible, these words: ".John Foi·s:,:th of the state of :.\fississippi, city of Xatchez, his \\-il(', :\Lu·.,· lfanlin and his son, Turpin, his daughte1·s, :\!aria .Jane, :.\fargaret and :\I;u~· Forsyth, in company came to the l'esiclence of the late James Forsyth on Flo;:de's Fork, .Jc,fforson Count:,:. Kentucky, the sixteenth clay of July, eighteen tm:nty-se,·en." This old Dible Jennie Sturgeon For ,;~·th brnug·ht \,·ith her to Indiana in 18:3:2. It is now in the home of the late .J. H. Forsrth. John Forsyth at this time al,;o made a trip to .Johnson County, lnclianc1, to see his broth c1·s, D,n-id ancl no:wrt. This was his fil·st and only \·isit to this state. It is often 1·clatecl that while on this visit John and his brother, Robert, \\·ent hunting taking with them a tlint-lock gun such as e\·ery man owned at that time. The \\·oods \\·ere full of squirrels, and soon John called to his brother, "Bob, don't you kill another one. \Ve haYe ali·eady killed one hundred; that is enough for one day." Robert and his family had been in Indiana on!~· three years, and they were still using the beds they so hastily constructed when they came. It was all a new experience to the city-bred wife of John Forsyth, the queer-looking beds, and the ride in a \,·agon from Kentucky, together with many other things that pertained to life in a ne\,. country. The trip from Natchez :2,5:2 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UfILY to Louisville had been made in a boat on the ri\·er, and it was a voyage of three ,\·eeks. They tied the boat at night and never traveled in a fog. The countl'y was sparsely pop ulated, and human life rnluable. An interesting storr is told of a little piano that John Fo1·syth took Kith him to Louis\ ille. Some time before 18:20 an Italian had made the piano ,,·hen in Xatchez. Colonel J. F. Claiborne, historian, of ::\Iississippi, said: "It was prnb ably the only one c,·er !,L?nuf,1-cturecl in Xatchez. It \\·as made for l\Iiss l\forgan, and sold to John Forsyth fo1· his daughters. who were taught music.'' The piano needed tuning and there was no one who could do it in Xatchez, so when the family "·ent to Louisville the piano was taken v;ith them. It ,,·as put in the ladies' cabin, and the daughter, l\Ial'ia, amused hel"Self by playing on it during the journe~·- When the boat n~ached Louis\·ille the piano \\·as taken to a wai·ehouse and a tune1· was sent for. The man ,"110 came prowd to be the one b)· whom it had been made. He was deeply affected \Yhen he recognized it, and ,\·ept as though it were a long lost friend. On the return trip the piano was again placed on the boat and taken back to Xatchez. Later \\·hen the Sheriff's netreilt home was burned in 1879 the piano was also destroyed. John Forsyth entertained lavishly, and dressed elegantly. His wife and child1·en looked up to him with great res1wct. An old lady who had known him said she could see he1·self in the polish on his shoes. He often told his children of their mother's neatness, and said he had ne\·er seen a wrinkle in he1· stocking. He died in 18:29, when forty rears of age, at the Bay of St. Louis on the gulf shore of ::\Iississippi, where he had gone for his health. The historian of l\Iississippi ,note of him when commenting on the death of his son-in law, Dempsey Jackson: "When :.\Ir. Jackson settled in Natchez, John Forsyth was then and for years had been and continued to be she1·iff of Adams County. He was one of those men who won confidence at sight and never lost it. One of those rare men who seem to be exempt from caprice, and was able to reconcile the inflexible discharge of duty ,vith unbounded personal popularity. I have often seen him shed tears when serving a writ upon an unfortunate debtor. He was the sympathizing friend of the widow and orphan, and I firmly believe that one-fourth of his income was bestowed A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIIL Y 253 on the clist1·essecl. Had it not been fo1· the assistance he gave my mothe1· she could not ha\·c educated her children. L'ntil the clay of his death he ,,·a:0 prnrninent as a citizen and a public man." A multitude he helped, unknown to any but the recipients and himself. His son, Thomas, \Hnt to T2xas when a young man and manied the1·e. His siste1·, }Iaria, visited him many years ag-o, Since then all trnce of his famib· has been lost. His son, Thomas, served in the Co,,fede1·ate army. ~Iaria Forsyth .Jackson .\Iaria Jane, the next child, born at ShETiff's Retreat, was reai·ed and educated at .Natchez. Here too she was mal'l'ied in .January, 1828, to Dempsey Pickett Jackson of Mason County, Kentucky. A few years later she moved back to th2 home of her l:irth where she lived fo1· fifty years. The fol lowing lines appeared in a Natchez pap2r at the time of her ~'> l A HISTORY OF TIIE F(!ITSYTH VUIILY death: ":'.\Iaria Jackson JJo;-;ses;-;ed a high orde1· of intellect. She was a F1·encll scholar and an accomplished musician. Offll ing at one time prnliahl:i; the onlr piano e,·e1· m,muJ'actu1"0 d in ~atchez. She \\·as a gTeat reader, had a fme memo1·.\· and \Yas a student of histo1·.,·, the choicest g·eni,-; of the pocb. and th·~ lest of fiction. She and he1· hus1 and O\\·ned om· of the finest selected libra1·ies in the state. 1t was in the home at Shel'iff's Tietreat \\ hen it ,rn;-; liurned. Sl1c· ,rn;-; chal'iti1lle. and in all the !'elations of ]if? she 110I·]~- puforn1ed he1· pal't." In acldition to her 1-;nm,·lecl;xe of mu;-;ic and tlH" classics she ,,·as an elocutionist oi' merit. At school ,,he ahYa,\·s ,1·011 the c:peak er's medal. She had the stunlr charactcr of the Scotch. and 1·?acl thci1· literatm·e and sang their song·s. Almost fift,\· :·cu-:~ of her life ,,·ere spent l;efore the cmanci paticn or the slan:-:. She p1e11· up and lin:d 1,·itli them al! arnund her clr,ring the most flou1'i:,hinp: p·Tiod of' slm·u·L l ]"1· kind]~- consideration of thei!' rip·hb and ncecL..: i,: ,;]i0m1 i;1 tl1< i1 Stirling Castle, Scotland, for so many ye,us occupied by the Foi-syths, ,ms once ,·isitul hy Dempsey Jackson \\·hile t1·av2ling in Eui-ope. James .:\Iadison. the foul'th child of ..\fal'ia Forsyth Jackson, has ]ind for many yeai·s at Sheriff's Retl'eat \\·ith hi::; siste1·, having ne,·er manied. He \\·ent into the Confederate al'rny at the b2ginning of the ,ml' and ser:ed until its close. IIe joine Kate .Jack~on Baih ~ the cavalry and sened under J. E. B. Stuart, and suncndered under Hampton in Carolina. His father supported him all through the wa1· with no expense to the Confede1·acy. Sh2riff's Retl'eat is today, 1918, the home of Kate Aubrey Jackson Bailey and her daughters, Annie and Bessie. "Aunt Ann," who was once a slave, is ever faithful to thei1· interests and needs. The1·e isn't anything modern atout Aunt Ann. H2r red l::andana tiEd over her head belongs to an age when .-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F Al\IILY '2:57 negrne.s ,ve1·e happy in "de cotton and de corn." )1rs. Bailey is the only li\·ing daughte1· of :'.I.Iaria Forsyth and Dempsey Jack.son, and the only granddaughter of John Forsyth. In 1871, she manied George vV. Bailey of Clarksville, Tennessee, ,,·110 died in Texas in 1913. ::\lost of he1· life she has lived on this plantation. She has been a reade1· of the best litera tme. She loves history, and has been an interesting writer. Her's is a poetical mind, and she does not need to seek for in :-;piration from among the great landscape pictures which na ture has painted, but she finds it in the outdoor life around her o,,·n home. Her ancestry is shown in her love for everything Scotch. She loves their poeti·y and their novels. To her, Br.sirle the llo1111ie fll'inr Bush is the most pleasing book ever ,Hitten. She 10\·es biography, and since she is desc:mded from the old Pickett, ::\Ietcalf and Shackleford families of Virginia, ,;he has assisted many families in collecting history of their ance:-;to1·s. On one occasion after receiving· a request for such data from one ,,·horn she had never seen, she complained that "he had ,;o much writing to do. Her daughter said: "Well, .,·ou :-;hould l;e glad you can ,nite fo1· you can't cook." She ha" often h2en heard to say that in hem·en she did not want any family reconls to hunt up. _\frs. Dailey attended school in Xatchez at the Elizabeth _-'\caclemy for gil'ls. After finishing a course in the languages her father determined she should have a business education. He himself ,ms a business man of unusual ability, and the kno,,·ledge and expe1·ience she gained while und2r his supervi. "ior; \\·ere valuable to her ,vhen she had to assume the mane ag'2rnent of' his estate. Her mother's confidence in her ability to handle hu·g·e affail'S is shown in that she left her sole execu tl'ix of the estate without requiring her to give bond. The gTeate1· part of the prnperty was in Louisiana cotton planta tions, which she s3fely managed and gave unincumbered to the heirs. After she closed the estate she became manager of the property. Some idea of the magnitude of her task may re imagined when one thinks there \Vere three thousand two hun cl1·e ,,·orse than the wal'. Think of old southern gentlemen like my father tr.ving to endm·e negro rule. I, like my father, was ,·ery much oppo.-ecl to the mu·. It ,ms the b·eaking up of a glorious go,·ernment, and any one \\·ho had anything to do in b1'inging it al:out could not escape some of the responsibility for the sono,\· that followel Davis was wrong· in that he ,rnuld e,·er consent to lead a movement to destroy the Cnion. The trnulile could h~n-e been settled ,vithout war had men on l:oth sides been \\·i!ling to do it. Of course, when it came ,\·e \\·ent with the South. It was ours, and our interests were herr. We ,, e1·e Cnion lovers, but loved the South more, fo1· ·Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land.' We were mined and killed but nen!J' conquered. \Ve gave our treasure, ou1· blood. our li\·es. ··Afte1· the smT2nder \\·e were left with nothing, figur ati,·ely speaking, without a spai·k upon the hearthstone with \\·hich to kindle a fire. ~o braver people ever lived. and afte1· a ,,·bile they thre\\ off the yoke. When the war closed the South had hut t,\·o friends in the government, Grnnt and Lin coln. ;(o trne southerner had a hand in the assassination of Lincoln. \\'1th his gTeat big heart of sympathy for the dis tressed he \\·ould have done nothing to further humiliate those \\·ho had sunendered to him, but he would have helped to hind up thei1· \\·otmds, recognizing that we ,,·e1·e still a part of the same g1·eat nation of people with the same capacity for joy and so1Tmv." She did not consider HaJTiet Beecher Stowe's story exag g-e1·ated. She said, "There are characters in this neighborhood with their ears cut off who are the kind from which some of hel' people wel'e taken. But the type of the man Legree ·who did this \\·as from the No1th." He1· waiting maid ,vas named Haniet Beecher Stowe. Harriet hated to wo1·k and hated the ha1·dships freedom placed upon her. She "wished times were like they used to te when niggers were all at home and she could sit up in the house and do nothing." l\Irs. Bailey prefers to relate the pleasant experiences. In speaking of these she said: "I never received anything but the most courteous treatment from the Yankees. A cavalry man once in our yai·d said that he hoped no harm would ever conie to any one in our house or home. A pleasant memory :260 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:'.lllLY of two northe1·n officel'S occuned one morning: \\·hen they rnde up in front of the house \\'here rn)· fathel' \\'as sitting on the lower gallery. I \\'a:o \\·atching them from the gallery alio\·e. They asked for \\·ater to drink. Fatheor sent Ilal'riet Beeclie1· Sto\\·e to bring it, "·hich she did in g-ol;lets on a \\·aitel'. 0112 of the men grncefully raised his gla::;:-; to me. and said: ·\\'e don't \\·ant your cotton, \\·e don't \\·ant )·om· sl,-l\'es. but soo11e1· than see this land di,·ided ,,·e'll fill your Southern gT1l\'es.' He then drank the ,,·ater and rode away." At one time the cotton ,,·hile still in the planters' hands \\·as ordered burned to p1·2vent the Federal autho1·ities from :-;eiz ing it. G1·eat quantities of it ,,·e1·e quiet]~- concealed and sold after the time for the execution of the 01·d21· had passed, but the money must be taken a,rny from :'.\atchez for safe-keeping. At this time Kate Jackson was teaching F1·ench and music to some children in a private family, some miles a,vay from ~atchez and across the Federal lines. She was asked to cany five thousand dollars in gold into that neighborhood. St1·ips of muslin just wide enough to hold the coin were used and the muslin was sewed across between each piece of money, thus preventing any rattle from the coins touching. When all was ready the strips were wound around her waist and shoulders, their weight making it difficult fo1· he1· to walk. She wore a A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 261 small jacket and long coat l:ut the money was so heavy she could not get into the caniage which was to cmwey her, ,vith out the assistance of t\\·o men, one on eithe1· side. During the \nil' e\·ery horse and mule of any value on thei1· plantation \\·as taken away. She knO\\'S but littl2 of life in the North, having visited only fo1· a short time in Chicago and St. Louis. In speaking of a \·isit made in 1868 to her Aunt :.\Iary Forsyth Forman in Illi nois. :-;he :-;aid: "J \\·as the1·e in harvest time, and ho,\· I en .io)·ed 1·iding in the header ,rngon and helping carry the coffee and cakes to the toys for afte1·noon lunch. It was moonlight and they \\·orked late. I spent the \\'inter, but the1·e wasn't SllO\\. enough fol' a sleigh ride. Hm\·ever, I was \\·ell snow balled fol' I entered into all thei1· sports. I had a grnnd suit 01· hair then, and when I sat in a chair it would sweep the floor. \\'ell. to ;:;ee it taken dom1, coml;ed and shaken out was a sight fo1· those ho,,·s." To her there is no pictm·e of American life so beautiful as the Hmn~· si Isthmus of Panama and \\·ent to California leaving her son with relati\·e;-;. Years afte1· she 1·eturned, but her life was ,ne-::ked. Doth hei- l:eauty and money w2re gone and she \1·as a broken-down 1rnman. Her only son 1Yho had inherited her intellect, her lo1·able natm·e and personal beauty was dead, ha1·ing di2d at sixteen yean; of age. Mary Forsyth Forman :\Iary, the youngest child of John Forsyth and Mary Har mon Forsyth, was to1·n in Natchez while her father was offi cially employed thHe. She married there in 1842, and for sevent2en years continued to live in Natchez. She then with her husl::and and four little l::oys moved to Nashville, Illinois. \Vhen her sons were ready for a larger school, in order that she might give them the best of advantages she moved to Richview, Illinois. :2G! --\. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:'.\IILY It is often claimed that portrait painters always indulge in excessive praise. It is not easy to write of a chan1cter like that of ;\Iary Fornrnn \vithout praising generously. She \\·as conside1·ed the star of the family. Her brothe1·-in-law, Demp sey Jackson, was he1· gua1·dian afte1· her father's death, and he \\·as very proud of he1· intellect. \\'hen she left school at se\·enteen she \\·as said to l;e the most cle\·e1· woman in :\Iissis sippi. She could do anything in a \\'Oman's line of work. She was a close student and a g1·eat 1·eadel' of standai·d \,·01·ks. She was also an a1tist and ,n-iter of al:ility. After she \\·ent to Illinois it was genernlly conceded that she \\·as the most in telligent, best educated and learned \Hite1· that had e\·er li,·ed in that section of the state. The Xcisluille Journal said nf her at the time of he1· death: "When he1· sons were editors of the Nashn'lle De111ocrnt she was of great assistance to them, contributing articles of much inte1·est and ndue." She was a ve1·y interesting corn·ersationist, being \\·ell inforrnerl 011 all current topics. He1· keen sense of humo1· and lier quick witty 1·epaitee made her an intnesting companion, and her. humor was ahnlys of a kindly natme. In 1877 she spent se,·eral \\·eeks in Indiana ,·isiting lier 1·elati,·es. Those who met he1· haYe spoken of her as a cliar acte1· of refinement, grace and charm. She had the trait that is a pa1t of the Forsyth heritage. She did not \\'aste time. She 11e\'er sat down with her hands idle, but while engaged in animated c01wersation she would be busy for hom·s making some beautiful piec2 of handwork. She was the mother of ten sons and one little girl who died in infancy. Her mission 011 eaith she clearly defined \Ya:c; to 1·e,u· and train boys, and ,veil did she perform her task. Sen'n of the ten gTe\\' to manhood, and no mother was ever mo1·e be loved and honored. Her son, Hamilton, once said his mother ,vas the grandest character he ever knew. Robert Stuart, the eldest son, inherited his mother's intellect. Doctor Blackbum, later governor of Kentucky, knew this boy, and said that he was the b1·ightest hoy he had ever known. He died in Nash ville when a lad of rleven years. Mary Forsyth Forman knew nothing of the experiences suffered by the family of her sister during the ,rn1·. She left the South in 1852, but during the rest of he1· life she cher- A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F Al\IILY 265 ished the memo1·:, of the associations of her eal'ly home and the old South. H21 husbtnd, William B. Fol'man, 1810-1866, died in Xaslwille, Illinois. William F01·rnan ,,·as Lorn in Xatchez and was reared on the fa1·rn near X asli ,·ille. He ,,·01·ked unti1·ingly for an educa tion in the public fC'hools and in Richview Semina1·y. For a time he was a teache1·, then took up the study of la,v and was admitted to the l:ar shol'tly aftel' l;ecoming of age. He was also edit01· of the Xcrnh 1·ille De,11ocrnt, and served his town as mayo!' two te1·ms. In 188.! he ,ms elected state senato1· for Illinois, \Yh ich position he held four years. He ,vas then elected to CongTes:s. whe1·e he se1·ved for three terms, and declined to nm again. His popularity ,ms sho,vn by his being sent to Cong1·ess as a Democrat from a Republican district. He was great!~· belowd by the people in his community for his strnng pe1·sonality and great forcefulness of character. His interest in politics was far rno1·e than that of a mere pai·ty man. for he was a man of .ideas. He was nominated for go\·er no1· of Illinois on the Gold Democratic ticket, and in the same ~·ear ,,·iic; appointed t·nited States CommissionET of lnte1·nal Re,·enue by Growr Cleveland, which position he held for a short time, ,,·hen he resigned to again enter the practise of l::rn· in East St. Louis, 111inois. In all the relations of life he was a comt2ous, kind, high-toned gentleman. Ilis son, Chal'les, was educated at Annapolis Naval School, and is now a retired officer. He was with Schley on the E)'()o/;{y11 at Santiago, and felt he helped win the victory. His career has been intenupted by ill health. He lives with his mothe1· at Sien·a :\Iadra, California. His brother Hamilton graduated from the~ law department of the State Unive1·sity of lllinois. Ill health late1· forced him to give up the practice of !a,v, ,,·hen he ,,·ent to }fiarni, Florida where he became inter ested in agriculture. Ely Hall Fo1·man was l;orn in Natchez, and reared near Nashville. After completing his education he was engaged in newspaper work in Nashville. When his health failed, that he might live in the open ai1· he gave up his work in Nashville and started in a wagon to Texas. He spent many days travel ing before reaching· Corsicana, Texas. This was atout the close of the Civil War. :266 ,..\ HISTORY OF THE FOR~YTH F.-\:\IILY Later he became a successfui lirn-yel'. He ,\·as accurate and painstaking in all he did. He ,ms sincere and reliable in his conversation, lileral in his ,·ie\:s. a;,d gcnernus in llis prin ciples. The Corsic((}w Co1 1 rie,· :e;,1id of him at the time of his death: "He ,,·as a trne type of a la,\·yer, ,n-iter, and best of all a gentleman." He died at the age of thil'ty in the prime of ltis young manhood. He neH1· manied. Luke Blackburn. ,,·ho ,ms also a nati,·e of Xatchez, died from an injury at the age of t\\·ent~·-three. liamilton Furn1:rn Hamilton was LOl'n neai· Nashville. His home is now in St. Louis, l\Iissouri. When only foUl' yeal'S of age he began his school lifo, and at this early age he was able to read the neYvspaper intelligently. He was graduated from Jones Com mercial College, St. Louis, finishing the WOl'k in six weeks, a shorter time than any youth had ever done, and showed the cleanest cooks on 1ecord. He has had an extensive banking record, having begun his career as clerk in the Washington bank in Nashville. In 1877 with others he organized the Du Quoin, Illinois, Bank, filling the position of cashier until ap pointed national bank examiner in 1886 by Grover Cleveland. .--\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA!\IILY :267 In 189/l he \1·as el2cted \·ice-pl'esident of the Second Xational Bank of Cincinnati, l;ut t11·O yeai·s later he resigned to become cashie1· of the Continental Xational Bank of St. Louis. He 11·as again appointed national !Jank examiner by Grover Cl2ve land, \\"hich position he held until 1901, when he was elected \"ice-1)l'esident of the Fourth Xational Bank of St. Louis, sub ,;equentlr h2ing promoted to president. In 190--1 the asso ciated bmks of St. Louis, seventeen in number, organized The Banke1·s' \\'orld's Fni1· Xational Bank for the pmpose of han dling· the finances of the world's fai1·, and H. A. Forman was unanimously elect2d president. Thus he 1Yas honored with the presidenc~- of brn national l:anks in the same city at one time. \\'hen the Fourth Xational Bank 1Yas merged with the ~a tional Bank of Commerce in 1906, he and his associates O1·gan ized th2 Central .:'\ational Bank of St. Louis. Th1·ee years later he disposed of his interest and retired. He is now en ioying- the fruits of his eal'lier efforts, spending a part of the ,-;urnmer months \\'ith his family at a northern lak2, and the \1·inter in St. Petersbmg, Flol'ida. He did not many until after Ii e 1·etired from business. He has one C. :\I. Forman and dul'ing all the years of his business career he has been an untiring worker, very seldom leaving his office fo1· any other interest save that which pertained to the business. He is devoted to his family. His daughter, :Mamie, and son, Floyde Forsyth, reside in Tuskegee, Alabama. Floyde is a splendid young man with many promises of a useful future. He married the daughter of Captain Cloud of Tuskegee, who •.\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 269 left at his death a large plantation nea1· that place. Flo,rde in addition to other business interests is helping to manage this plantation. His brothe1· William Forman has been in terested in I1e\Yspaper work in Chicago, where he has lived since his ma1Tiage. Leslie Forman is city editor of the St. Louis Ti111es. He has marked ability in ne\\·spaper work for one so young. :.\Iary Ann is the adopted daughter of William and :.\Iary Fors>·th Forman. She has been with the family since a gil'I of nine ,veal's. She is now mo1·e than seventy yearn old. She has earned by he1· faithfulness the love given her by her brothers, all of whom are clernted to her. She lives with Genas P1·eston, :.\Iar>· Fo1·syth Forman's youngest child. Genas li\·es nea1· Ashley, Illinois. He is a farmer and breede1· of a fine gl'acle of clai1·y cattle. CHAPTER XIII MARGARET FORSYTH Tl'CKER }fa!'ga1·et Tucke1· ,,·as born in \'irginia a fe\\' yea!'s after the close of the He\·olutionary War. Being only a babe when her parents came o\·er the mountains to Kentucky she had no memory of that hazardous journey. Her girlhood ,,·as spent in the region of Floyde's Fork. When she was se,·en teen she married Clark Tucker, ·who had also settled in Ken tucky about the time he1· parents came. They then ,,·ent to Ha1·din County. Had they 1·emained there :.\Iargaret's life might have had fewer of the many hal'dships ,,·hich came to he1· later, but she was unselfishly planning fo1· her child!'en, and in 18:30 they joined the adwnturnus settlel's in their quest fo1· \\·ealth in Indiana. The IGO-acre farm ,,·here the~· spent nearly thirty years was not pun-hased b~· them until Ix;3 l. For this they paid two hundred and fifty doll,ws. It ,,·as all hea,·ily timbered and on it was a fine gTo,·e of map!P tn•('S which the family utilized for many yea1·s fo1· making sirnp. }Iargaret Tucker was a woman of great strength of char acte1·, and he1· life was one of sen·ice and sacrifice. After 1·earing he1· own large family fise of her g1·anclchild1·en found a home with he1·. These children recei,·ecl the same tender care that she ga,·e he1· own, and her last \\·ords were in the inte1·est of the last one taken, Louella \Yea,·e1·, who was only twenty-th1·ee months old. She speaks of :.\Iargaret being a noble Christian character. :.\Iarga1·et like othe1· women wow all the linen used in her home, and all the material to clothe her large family. Her life was also one of ministration to those in need. There \Ve1·e no trained nurses in those clays, but the big-hearted women helped to care for the sick no matter what their duties were at home. When the church at Bethel was organized in 183--1, l\Iar garet was among its first members, and years later she with her husband became charter members of the church at Union. Her eldest child, Emily, was a girl of sixteen years when her parents came to Indiana. She rode all the way from U,01 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A'.\IILY :271 Hardin Count~·. Kentucky, on ho1·seback. She met Hai·vey }Iullikin while still li\·ing the1·e and manied him in 1833, some years after coming to Indiana. They settled on a farm in the woods th1·ee miles from the present tO\\·n of Xine\·eh. Thei1· cabin Weis not unlike many of the first Indiana settlers' homes. It had but one mom, and a large open fireplace, where Emily did the cooking fo1· the family. It was here \\·here her chilcl1·en \\·ere born, san' the youngest son, Thomas, ,vho was bol'n afte1· the family mm·ecl into \\'illiarnsbm·g (now Xine \'eh). It \\·as also in this cabin that }Iargai·et }IcGibbon, her grandmother. spent with her three months of the last winter of he1· life. The house stood far back from what was in late1· years a beautiful road, lined "·ith trees, shrubs and vines. The road as it led from the house to the town crossed a stream of \\·ate1· nine times. \\'hen the family mowd into Williamsburg, }fr. }Iullikin \\·ent into the mercantile business, but soon found he had made a mistake in le::ffing the farm for which he had been trnined, and where he had been successful. There ,vas noth ing fo1· him to clo except return to it. Afte1· gathe1·ing to g·ethe1· \\·hcit was left they \\·ent to a fa1·m nea1· the to,,·n of Bement, Illinois, tran,Jing in a wagon in Febrnary during the most inclement weathe1·. Emily inhe1·itecl a bright, acti\·e mind, and a splendid memor~·. with a disposition that made her many friends. In October, 18-36, at the age of twenty-one, Rachel }Iulli kin manied Joseph L. Deitch, a Frenchman of Jewish de scent, who was born in Alsace, and came to this country at the age of eighteen years. Rachel's daughter says "She was a beautiful gil'l \\·ith large blue eyes, red hai1· and pretty com plexion, modest and quiet, but full of life and fun; a very dignified woman, and neYer rude. She taught school several years and was quite a singer; \Vas very fond of horseback riding, often appearing on the track at the county fairs in g"irlhood. She was a great worke1·, knitting, sewing and em broidering and working both in the house and yard. She always had a great many flowers. Bouquets and potted plants were always found in the different rooms. She embroidered pillow cases, towels and centerpieces after she was eighty-one years of age. She did her own work until three weeks before she died, haYing no othe1· help than an old colored man to 272 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA.'\IIL Y do the ch01·es and care for the hoi-se. She had the same man seventeen years. She always kept her horse and buggy, and drove herself, ewn in the most congested pai·ts of the city, after she was eighty yea1·s old. She ,Yas a ,\·ornan of great fortitude and determination, and a great reader, a perfect book\rnrm, reading e,·erything she could get he1· hands on. She was a great lo\·er of poetry, and many poems were found in her Bible after she was gone. After reading a story she could tell it ve1T well, haYing a fine memmy." The first years of her manied life ,\·ere spent in \\"illiams burg and Frnnklin. The famil.,· then 1110\·ed to Indianapolis. This was the year 1865, and from this time she 1·esided on the same lot until her death fifty-t\\·o years late1·. She \\·as a member of the Christian Church from childhood. She be longed to the ~ew Century Club of Indiana, and also the Caroline Scott chapter of the Daughters of the American TieY olution. She was a descendant of John ::\Iullikin, who sened through the Revolution. ::.\Iedorn Deitch in he1· gi1·lhood attended the old fnrnklin Academy, a school of higher learning. ) .. t the age of eighteen she ma1Tied Victor Isaacs, ,\·ho lin,d on!)· fin, )·ea1·s. Fou1· years latei- she manied OsecH" P. Hoon'!', \\·ho died in 19Hi. She is a ,,·oman of fine business abilit)·. She resides at ::\Iars Hill, a suburb of Indianapolis. She is a mcmbe1· of the Queen Esther Chapte1· 0. E. S. and Carnline Scott Cha11ter D. A. R. Her daughters, Alma Rose and Beat1·ice Rachel, receiwd thei1· college trnining in Butle1· College, where both we1·e graduated. They have since held positions in high schools as principals. Alma Rose was married in Septembe1·, 1919. Addie Deitch, the second child of Rachel ::\Iullikin Deitch, was also a pupil at the Franklin Academy. She had p1·0- nounced musical and literary talents. She has had one book published, also a number of short stories. She has written and staged quite a fe,v playlets fo1· social and charitable purposes. She organized the Ladies Literary enion in 1900, now known as the New Century Club, and one of the success ful literary societies of Indianapolis. She is a membe1· of the Caroline Scott HalTison Chapter of the D. A. R. and Queen Esther Chapter of 0. E. S. A. H. Frank died 1897. SECTION VI Thomas Thomas 1809- Mary m. ----- Maggie { ru~ . Mary Elizabeth { Maria Jackson 1829-1905 . - - 1917 m. Philander S. Wood ~li~r Elizabeth Andrew 1831-1834 Anna Maria 1833-1859 Sophia Virginia Maria 1811-1892 1835-1835 m. Dempsey Pickett James Madison 1837 Jackson Dempsey Pickett Jack-{ M_ary E. 1902- son Richard Boyd 1905- m. Mattie E. Foules Charles Dempsey 1909- Charles Forman . Kate Aubrey 1840-1919 Anna Sue m. George Bailey Hardy A. 1908 Kate Aubrey Carroll P. 1910 m. Albert B. · Sojourner Alexander B. 1911 . { William A. 1913 Ehzabeth Claiborne Lawrence J. 1915 Turpin 1813-1842 { John 1840-1857 VII. John 1789-1829 m. Anna McAfee m.' Mary Harmon Elizabeth 1815-1825 Margaret 1817-1828 Robert Stewart 1844-1853{ Edna W11am'll' S t. J onh. MaryCh 1847-1908 ares1 m. Esther Tiebout Pear~ Hamilton S Charles R. 1914 m. Blanch Collins i Hamilton C. 1917 Eli Hall 1849-1880 Luke Blackburn 1851-1874 Hamilton Atchison { 1853-1920 Jeannette 1916 m. Cora Kilber William S. m. Ethel Woodruff Mamie C. m. John Drakeford Christopher McClure Kate McClure { Tancred 1855 m. Tancred Eggman Mary 1822-1897 m. Dora Catterlin m. Wm. Benjamin For Floyd Forsyth man m. Edith Cloud Leslie 1894 m. Hilda Tuncie Mary Ann McCoy (adopted) James Henry 1857-1858 Charles Ira 1860-1877 Harry W. 1889 m. Zora Lane { Forest 1913 Camilla A. 1891 m. Dayton Taylor Zenas Preston 1863- Eulalie 1893 · S Eloise 1915 m. Gertrude Avery m. Clarence Sleiger l Clarence W. 1919 John F. 1898 Charles Z. 1902 Howard H. 1905-1911 Benjamin J. 1907 James Borders 1866-1866 m.' Mary Hardin A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAl\IILY 273 Otto Deitch when a young man was a student in Butler College and the Cincinnati Phamrncy School, and later en gc1ged in the drng business in Indianapolis. Othello L. and Oscar S. Deitch are physicians in Indian apolis. and graduates of the Indianapolis ::\Iedical College. Oscar attended the Cincinnati School of Pharmacy. He en li:otecl as a captain in the medical carps for se1Tice in the \\·orld \\·,n. He was sent to Camp Polk, Raleigh, North Carn lina. as exm11ining· surgeon. :'\aorni Deitch \\·as educated in the Indianapolis schools and Oxfo1·d College fo1· women at Oxford, Ohio. Her son, -foc'eph \\'ai•d, is a graduate of the State l'niversity of \Vis consin ,1t ::\Iadison. William, the younger son, ,vas a student of the Texas State l'nive1·sity at Austin. Lydia ::\Iullikin has never ma1Tied. She says she is the "old maid" of the family, and that her brnther, Thomas, is inclined to be the bachelor. They liw together in the old homp \\ he1·e thei1· pa1·ents lived during their lirnt years. The tarm is t,vo miles east ·of Bement, Illinois. They are wry dernted to each other. Lydia was a classmate at Nineveh \\·ith William Chase. the 2utist, and remembers that she often helped him with his lessons. She also recalls a visit of Alex ande1· Campbell to the church at ~ineveh, when she was a -;mall girl. Campbell ,,·as very old and frail, but still able to p1·each. Lydia says a large crowd gathered on the occasion of his preaching, since e\·eryone felt it a great honor to hea1· him. She 1·emembers that he1· mother ,,·as there with all he1· children. }Iaria Tucker was bOl"n in Hardin County, Kentucky. Afte1· hn· marriage to Basil G. Jones they lived on a farm lour miles southwest of Frnnklin. It was here where their three children were born. ::\Ir. Jones died at the early age of twenty-seven. Elizabeth, the second daughter, is a resi dent of Frnnklin, but she has lived most of her life in the counti·y. She married Thomas Flinn in 1866. He was of Irish descent, his parents having been natives of Ireland. He was a soldier in the Civil War and in Libby Prison for six months. He died in 1918. Their son William is a successful farmer living four miles south of Franklin. He bought his first farm when he was 271 A. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\IILY twenty-two years old. He is a membe1· of the church at l'nion. Austin Flinn is an undertaker of Franklin. He is a ~·otmg man of fine character and of pleasing personality. He and his wife are prominent in the church life of Franklin. His sister Carrie has been a teacher in the public schools for seYeral years. Au~tin Flinn William C. Jones at sixteen years of age began life for himself and for some time supported his mother and the family. His daughter Estella was a teacher in the public schools of Franklin township for several years. She is a graduate of Franklin College. In politics, W. C. Jones was a staunch Republican and a member of the Christian Church. He was an honest, upright A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 27:5 citizen and esteemed by those who kne\\· him fo1· his many estimable qualities. Andrew Jackson Tucker, eldest child of Geo1·ge and Par thena ~ay Tucker, died at Portsmouth GrO\·e, Virginia, from \\·ounds recei,·ed in the battle of the \Vilderness. :.\Iary Tucker Park was born in Johnson County, Indiana. In he1· early life she became 2. member of the church and for forty-se,·en years li\·ed a consecrated Ch1·istian life and was a diligent student of the Dible. In 1865 she married Abner Park in the old l'nion Chm·ch, later moving to St. Clair Count~·. :.\Iissomi, \\·here she lived until the time of her death. She was killed by a train while crossing the track in Brnwn ington, :.\Iissom·i. Abne1· Park died in 1911. Their only son James died in Texas, le.:t\'ing a \\·ife and one daughter. John Thomas Tucker was one of the foremost stockmen and farn1e1·s of Johnson County, and stood high as an upright citizen. He was a charte1· membe1· of the l'nion Christian Church, and he and his wife, Jennetta A. Tucker, deeded as a gift the ground on \\·hich the building stands. At the time of his death Thomas Tucke1·, as he \Yas generally known, was an elder in that church. The follo,\·ing lines concerning him are from the pen of :.\I. S. Fors~·th, better known as Schofield Forsyth: His industl'y, energy and acti\·ity we1·e almost without a parallel. He po~.,essecl excellent judgment as was e\·idenced in his selection and cal'e of li\·e stock. Hi, fine public spil'it and his undoubted piety g-a\·e him a high po,;ition in the confidence and affection of his neighbors and friends. I \\·ell 1·emember on the occasion of his funeral, which was preached by the ReY. Knowles Sha,\·, who used for a text the words: •· P1·epare to meet thy Goel," found in Amos 4: 12, that he spoke of Brother Thomas Tuckel' as having made a suitable preparntion, and how he held up his life and character as worthy of emulation by his su1Tiving friends. He was a man of high ideals, and was greatly deYoted to his church, and judging by his life he no doubt possessed enlightened views of Ch1·istian character and benevolence. He \Yas a firm believer in churches and schools as an influence in the building up of a new country, and built the fo·st schoolhouse in his community. It is interesting to know that the l'nion Church had its beginning in a 1·evival held in a schoolroom which stood on the northeast corner of the ground which he gave. :2,G A HISTOTI\ ()f THE FonSYTH FA2\IILY The discipline of the chm·ch of that time \Yas often as intolerant as \\·as that of the .c:choolc:. This \\·as not t1·u2 of Thomas Tucker, who was nen·1· harsh or 1rn1·itanic-al in his dealings. He had sympath:v en'n ,,·herC' the \\Tong ,n1s in question. Some .\·oung school girl niembe1·s of the 1'nion Church \\·ere one day jumping: the 1·ope, and fol' this Yer.\· innocent amusement the.,· ,,·c1·e brnught be! 01·e the church and reproved. In another inciclrnt simila!' to this Thoma;:; TtH'.kc1· ,ms himself the offendel'. He ,,·as feeding a clro,·e of hogs that 1·equirecl a load of corn each da.,·. He alwa.\·s planned to gathe1· two loads on Saturday, but once "·hen it 1·ained he could only get one. On Sunda.\· rno1·ning he and his brothe1· in-law, Ho1·ace \\'ea,·er, Yer:,- innocentlr ,,·ent to the field earl:,· and brought in a load. ~.\. prominent member bl'Ought the incident before the church and insi.sted that he desenwl pun ishment fo1· the offense. William Coons. son of Celia Tucker Coon;:;, is c1 dn1ggist ,,·ith the Huder Drug Co. of Indianapolis. He graduated frnm the Louis\·ille College of Pharmac.\· \\·ith ho1101·, ha\·ing C'Ol1l pleted the com·s(~ in a shortt'r time than ,rn~·o11e ·at that time. He is a careful and capable business man, agreeable and pop ular with his friends. His \,·ife died in 11119. Ralph Voris is one of the younger successful ministel's of the Pl'esbytel'ian Church. ,.\.t this time (19:20) he is located in Xe\,. Yodc He is also an associate general secTetm·.,· of the Interchm·ch \\'oriel .:.Io,·ement. He \\·as educated in Frnnk lin College and in Chicago l'ni,·el'sity. Eno! Tucke!', the eldest son of \Y. C. Tucke!', rep1·('sented Bartholomey1; County, Indiana, in the State Legislatul'e fo1· two ~·ears . .:.fary Kate Tucker manied Hem-y Barnett in 187:2. Thei1· home since their maniage has been in Frnnklin, Indiana. They are among the city's most influential citizens. During their entire married life they have been prominent in the work of the Christian Church, giving their time and financial support liberally. As citizens they have taken a deep interest in the general welfare, giving their support to every move ment for the advancement of the culture and material inter ests of the people. In 187 4 Henry Barnett began the study of law in the office with Judge Woollen. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1875 and during the same year formed A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 277 a partnership ,\·ith R. ::\I. ::\Iille1·, which association still con tinues. Some ~·ears ago his son Oral Barnett became a mem ber of the firm. Henry Barnett has been known for his wise counsel and mature judgment. He stands in the front rank of his profession in Indiana. Paul Tucker, son of Benton Tucker, was in the war with Germany. He was sent to France and wounded in battle. Kate Tucker Barnet' Jane Tucker, who married Beadles, died when a young woman, leaving a daughter, Emily, who married John Helms, and went with him to Sedalia, Missouri. She died there, leav ing one daughter. When Margaret Tucker married Absalom Clark he had one little girl, the child of his first wife. To her Margaret gave every care, having inherited her mother's kindliness of heart toward motherless children. Her life was also like that 278 .-\ HISTORY OF THE FoR~YTH FAl\IILY of her mother in the sen·ice she gave those who needed her. She belonged to the life of the to,,·n of Trafrdga1· back in the sixties, and took care of the preachers \\·ho came each month to conduct the chm·ch sen·ices, and also those who had charge of the revival meetings. The church of her choice, where Asa Hollingsworth, John and Pen~· Blankenship, J. C. .:\Iiller and others preached, ,ms the little frame building erected b)· Thomas Lynam and his family. He1· last years \\'ere spent in an i1walid's chair. He1· courage and her faith were he1· strength during these years, for she was ever cheerful and hopeful. David Tucker m~nt with his family to Piatt County, Illi nois, in 1866. The trip was made in a schooner wagon. The land at that time was wet and swampy. The grnund David purchased for $1.26 per ac1·e had onl~· a fe"· places high enough to insure a crop sufficient to feed his stock. It had to be drained, and the tiling and dredge ditches which ,,·e1·e made cost mo1·e than the land was worth, but the~· were needed to make it fertile, and today the same land is selling for from three to fh·e hundred dollars per aC'l'e. His neighbors, togethe1· with his own family, had malaria. and he tried to help them by signing their notes to secure money. These he often had to pay, and with it all he had a struggle to even hold his land. His children and grandchildren a1·e now among the best citizens in that part of the state. They are prosperous farm ers living in comfortable homes of thei1· own. The~· are all inte1·ested in the best grades of cattle, horses and other kinds of stock. The v,ife of the younger son, George, is a chicken fancier, having exhibited her Black Langshangs, Single Comb White Orpingtons and Barred Rocks at the leading poultry shows in Indiana and Illinois, where at different times she has taken first, second and third premiums. David Tucker's kindliness of heart ,vas shown in the dern tion he gave his parents in their declining years. No matter what his other duties were he walked each morning the half mile between their homes to build their morning fire and arrange other things for their comfort. He was also very considerate for the women and children ,vho were unfortu nately left without homes and protection during the Civil War period. He would take them into his home and care A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 279 fo1· them. At one time he had twenty-one persons in his familr. His child1·en and a number of his grandchildren are very prominent in the Presbyterian Church. It is interesting to know what the influence \\"as that changed them from the church to which not only D,ffid belonged but also his parents and brothers and siste1·s. Luella \Veaver Duclnvorth During David's struggle in Illinois he could only afford to d1·ess his children in the most simple manner possible. He did not consider their clothing at all suitable to wear to his church Sunday school. But one Sunday morning a young Presbyterian preacher in passing their home saw the boys playing and in a friendly way entered into a conversation with them. He soon won their esteem, and when he said "I would love to have you in my Sunday school," they at once 280 .--\ HISTORY OF THE Fr)RSYTH F ,i.:\IILY became interested, and a little later were 1·egular pupils, and their interest in the church has continued thrnughout the years since. David Tucker had remarkable abilit~· for retaining in his memory any line of the Dible, and ,,·here it ,nis found. Lydia, :\Iargaret Forsnh Tucke1·'s youngest child, died ,,·hen a ,·ery young woman, lea,·ing her only daughter, Luella. who was not yet h,·o years old. She was one of the charter members of the l'nion Church, and ,,.c"ts an adive and \\·illing helper in its activities. She taught a class of girls in the Sunday school and her bright, energetic and happy disposi tion was an inspiration to them. She was a pupil in the school at Xineveh taught b~· J. C. }Jiller, and late1· the old Academy in Franklin. Her beautiful hanchrnrk sho,n'd a 1·efined taste and a lo,·e foi· careful, painstaking- wo1-kinan,;hip. He1· daughter, Luella \\'eanr Duck\rnrth, lives in ,, beau tiful modern home near Xeedham. Johnson County. She like her mother is a faithful wo1·ker in the church, lrn,·ing taught a Sunday school class for fot!l'teen yea1·s. Her daughte1·. Georgia, is a very capable, ene1·getic and useful rnernlwr uf society and the chLll'ch. John, her only son, \\·as ma1Tic'd nt se,·entecn. He is a young prog1·essi\·e farme1·, \\·hose pride is in the best grade of stock and in the cultirntion of his nops. PEGGY TCCKER'S LETTER TO JOH:\' FORSYTH The original of this letter is in the home of the late Kate Jackson Bailey, granddaughte1· of John Forsyth. It \Yas ,nit ten b~· :\Iarga1·et (Peggy) Tue ker to he1· brnthcr, John For syth, and is marked "Siste1· Peggy's Letter" in his hand ,nit ing. It was sealed without an envelope. The address was ":\Ir. John Forsyth, Sheriff, Washington, :\Iississippi, teni tory six miles from Natchez." It was sent from Elizabeth town, Kentucky. The letter is ·written in a plain, neat hand, and bears date of June 20, 1817. It follows: Dr. Brother: I received your lette1· dated April 13, 1817, by the hand of Uncle Alexander Merrifield, who informed me he was at your house where you state he stayed several days. It is a pleasure to me to hear you are all well, and I have with pleasure to state that we are all well likewise. I am glad always to hear from you and family, and take a pleasure in giYing you information of our welfare, also you A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 281 state you would have written to u~ ere now but did not know where to direct ~·ou1· letters. For the future that need be no excuse. \Ve li\·e in Hardin CountY, Kentucky, about twelve miles from Elizabeth to\n1, \,·here the postoffice is kept. You state you have three child1·en, Thomas, :\Iariah and Elizabeth, and that the two oldest go to school. We ha\·e three also, Emily, :uariah L. and George Hamilton. The two oldest f!.'O to ,chool. I am glad to hear you are doing well, although yet poor. We a1·e also poor, though doing ve1'Y well. We have a good place, tolerably well irnpro\·ed, and hope to make a comfol'table suppo1·t for ou rseh·es and children, and are com·inced yom· exertions to get rich cannot exceed ours. Our acquaintance here has not given us an oppo1· tunit~· of .saying much about friends, but so fa1· as is practicable to know we judge our friends are extensive. I am glad you are attached to the country, but can hardly think it possible ever to see it as the distance is so gTeat and the climate so warm and of coul'Se unhealth~·. I do not doubt but you think we could clo well in the country, but we cannot think of ewr coming as we are now very well settled. I have no doubt but :\fr. Tucker would be glad to come and see you and pos sibl~· may come this en.-uing winte1·, yet I hardly think he will so soon. He talks of getting Stills this fall. If he succeeds in his intentions I han· no doubt but he will come \\'heneve1· he can raise prncluce to load a boat r!o,n1. If fortune is.knocking at your door as you state, I would not ach-ise you to lem·e the counn:-· if you can ha,·e yom· health, but of that you are to be you1· o\\·n judge. I am glad Cncle :\Ienifield called upon you, "·h1ch has .,uperserled the need of writing· as much as we might othe1·\,·i.,e ha\·c written. Your statement about wishing to hear from us e\·ery once in a while is what we sincerely desire of you, and we shall spal'e no pain., to \Hite to you en'ry oppo1tunity and hope you will do the same to us. :\Ir. Tucke1·, .should he not come himself, will take pleasu1·e .in sending you anything· he may have to spare p1·ovidecl he can g·et a safe hand to send it by. Y om· recollection of us I shall 11e\·e1· \\~e trust be forgotten while in life. I have nothing more to write to :-·ou about :\Iother and ou1· relati\·es more than what you have heard. !\one of them dead that I have heard of. Be so good as to g·ive ou1· best respects t0 youl' family, and be assured the remembrance of you, a dear brother, shall ne,·er in time be erased from my memory. am your Dr. :c;ister, PEGGY TL'CKER. Hardin Count>·, .June 20, 1817. CHAPTER XIV ~IARY FORSYTH FEATHER~GILL A~D HER CHILDRE~ 1Iary Forsyth was born in 17~l-1. In 1816 she manied Joseph Feathemgill (1789-1863) in Kentucky. They came to Indiana in 18:28 and bought from the government two hund1·ed acres of land in what late1· became a part of the city of Indianapolis. This land they exchanged for two hun dred acres in Xineveh township, Johnson County, ,\·here }fary Forsyth lived the short period of sen'n ~·ears. Her husband lived here thirty-fi,·e years. On this farm some dis tance east of the main road leading from Fnrnklin to :'.\ine,·eh and five miles south of Franklin, is the Forsyth and Feath 0 erngill graveyard. Among the first gnn-es made here was that of l\Iary Forsyth Featherngill, who was the first Forsyth to die in Indiana. She was a ~-oung woman of fo1t~·-one years, and had a family of small children, the eldest being eighteen years of age, while Robert, the youngest, was only two. It is a matte1· of reg1·et that so little can be told of the life of such a fine character as 1Ia1·y Forsyth. It is known, ho,ve,·er, that every day of the short time she lived in Indiana was used in caring for a family of young children. She made thei1· clothing and her own from cloth made by her mn1 hands, as other women did of her time. The days were very much alike to these women. It was a dull routine, full of heavy tasks, and I\Iary Forsyth gave her life in saci·ifice that her children might have their part in the de,·elopment of a great country. l\Iary was a lovely charactel'. He1· nature ,vas gentle and refined. She was known for he1· patience and industry and her devotion to the interests of her family. Her daughter, Cassie, a mere child of ten years when her mother died, took care of the younger children and kept her father's house until she manied. Not only was her girlhood given unself ishly for those she loved but her whole life was one of great sacrifice. •..\. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 283 .Jiary Forsyth's first child, James Allen, was born in Old ham County, Kentucky, and ,,·hen he was twelve ~·ears of age he came to Johnson County with his parents. After his mar riage in 18:39 to Elizabeth Ann Jolliff he settled on a part of his father's homestead and liwd there until his death. His wife died in rn::io. Three of their child1·en died 111 infanc~·. The fourth. :.\Iarr E .. married Thomas Smith. Allen Feathel'ng-ill About 1853 Allen Featherngill married his cousin, Emily Hardin, of Kentucky, a daughter of his father's sister. She had one son, eleven years old, named Abner. Allen brought them to his home in Indiana where for two years they lived a happy and contented life. She died in July, 1855. Abner Hardin, for many years a resident of Nineveh, re veals to us the character of Allen Featherngill. When his mother died :\Ir. Featherngill said to him: "I will take you 2~-1 A. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:\IILY back to Kentucky to your people if .\'OU want to go, but I want you to stay with me if you would like to." In speaking of that time, :.\Ir. Hanlin sa.\·s: ''I did not want to lea,-e Ken tucky, but now I did not want to lcm·e the man who had been so kind to me." He remained there until the Civil Wai· came when he enlisted, and at its close returned to this home whe1·e he remained until his ma1Tiage. ;\OW in the decline of his Su::::an Barnett Fea~hen11..dll life he says: "Allen Featherngill was one of the best men I have ever known. He ,vas a real fathe1· all the years I lived with him. He was always kind to my rnothe1· and to me, and was just as fine and considerate of Susan Barnett, his third wife, with whom I lived for several years." He attended the Baptist Church at Bethel, now called the Baptist Church of the Old School, but he was never connected A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY :285 with the chm·ch as a member. His religious life was influ enced by the faith taught by the church, "If not chosen for salrntion as one of God's children he could do nothing," if :-;o, all ,,·as \\·ell. Allen Featherngill did not easily forget a ,nong. and \\·as slow to retm·n his fa Yor to one who had wronged him. He ,,·as esteemed as a citizen for his honesty and :-;ince1·ity and fo1· his unbending integrity. His dc1ug·hte1·, :.\Ia1·ga1·et, c;pent the fii·st years of her mar- 1·ied life upon a farm gi,·en her by her fathel'. She and her husband. who was formed~· a teache1·, ha,·e been interested in educational work and especially in the education of thei1· child1·en, fo1· whose benefit they 1·ern0Yed from their farm to Franklin. They luffe been strnng supporters of all religious enterprises, being members of the Christian Church. Thei1· children han, been educated in the Franklin high school and college. Li,·~· Burgess Sellers, a yotmg man greatly Joyed b:, his friends for his kind, courteous nrnnne1·, had an ambi tion to lJecome a pha1·macist, and fo1· two years worked in dustriously with that idea in \'iew. In 1904 while a student in Pul'C!ue l'nin·rsit~· he was st1·icken ,,·ith typhoid fe\'el'. ,,·hich caused his death at the St. Elizabeth hospital a few \\·eeks later. Hallie :.\fable attended business college at Indianapolis, and until her maniage was a bookkeeper. Lester Allen is in the employ of the Goodyea1· }Ianufac turing Company at Akrnn, Ohio. His \\·ife, Hazel Pruitt, is a graduate of the Tei-re Haute Xormal, and was a teacher of English in the Edinburg high school. Samuel Featherngili is the only son of Allen. He manied :\'annie White in 1888, and fo1· twelve years he lived at his father's old homestead, where he was born. Since 1900 he has been in the real estate and insurance business in Frank lin. He is a frank, kind, open-hearted business man, who inspires confidence in friends and strange1·s. He is a member of the Franklin Christian Church, also belongs to the Masonic order, Knights of Pythias, and First Lieutenant of Sam Oyler Company, ~ o. :29. Harriett La\'ina Featherngill was educated in Franklin and Butler Colleges. She married F. R. Mullendore in 1901. Their home is on a farm in Nineveh township. :286 A HI::3TORY OF THE FoR:C-:YTII FA'.\IILY Thei1· son, Hubert .:\Iaxwel!, is a graduate of the school of agriculture at Purdue Cni\·ersity, and is a }Iason. His ,vife is also an alumna of Purdue. Their daughte1· Xaomi is a student in Franklin College and is a member of the Y. \\·. C. A. and Delta Delta Delta Sorority. John H. Featherngill \ms born in Oldham County, l{en tucky, and came t0 Indiana \\·ith his pionee1· pai"2nts. He gre,\· up on his father's farm in Johnson Count)·. After his marriage in 1843 he and his ,,·ife ,,·ent to a farm in Xine\·eh township, where they Ji\·ed a number of years. He left there on a<.'.count of ill health. For seH1·al years he ,\·as engaged in po1·k packing in Frnnklin. He tnn-eled a good deal fo1· that time, and sp211t most of each sumrne1· in }Iichigan. He be came a member of the Clu·istian Church at Cnion during its early history. He \\·as quiet and 1·esen·ed in manner; \,·as 11e,·er a great talker, l1ut ,ms \,·ell info1-mecl on cu1T?nt topics. His wife, also !;nm in Kentucky, was a siste1· of Thomas and :\"icholas Branigin. \Yhen she died in 1816 her l'hildren \\·ere small. James ,,·as a soldier in the Ci,·il \\'ar at the ag(" of seYenteen, and died \\"ith measles clurin1r the first ~·ecu· of the \\'al', His l:ociy \\·as hrnught home and llllried in tile Feath21·ngill gTa\·ey,:1 cl. The unusual inscription on his toml: stone is-"Kind and mild, famed for trnth, he fell a pat1·iotic youth." He belonged to Compan~· F. 7th Indiana R('_ttiment. Lucy, the daughtel', \\'i.ls reared hy her grandmother Bn111i gin, who did beautiful w01·k with the needle, an a<.'.complish ment she thought all gil'is should haw. She tried to tQach it to Lucy, who did not like the ,,·ork, and often said there \\·as no use to do it right fo1· her grandmother ,,·ould ahniys make her do it all ov21·. When Lucy died in 1872, she left t,,·o small child1·en, Ella, six, and Jessie, three. Robert Spears, son of ;,Ia1-y Featherngill Spears, ,,·as a Captain of the Second Missouri in the Philippine \Var. He died in Texas and left a family there. Albert Spears died in Salt Lake City, where he left a family. Letitia Amanda Featherngill was born in Johnson County, Indiana. In 1853 she married Jefferson M. Talbott, who cleared the land upon which the Retecca Pendleton house A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY :287 stands. He \\'as a man of kindly nature, and she \\'as a happy b1·ide, with life full of hope. Her manied life was full of pathos and trag2dy. Tlll'ee child1·en came into he1· home, sturdy Loys, the joy of their mother's hea1't. ln ~o\·ember, 18,58, these children \\'ere stricken \\·ith scal'let fe\·e1·, and in one day two of them died. In !2ss than a \\·eek the l;aby \\·as gone. Only one \\·ho has experienced such a loss can unde1·stand ho\\· hei life \\·as clouded. The following Octobe1· a little girl was born. \\'hen she \\·as a girl of fourteen h2r baby sister died. A neighl:or came and \\'as asked to stay all night with the family hut he1· family must know the cause of her absence. Th2 daughter, ::\Iar.r, \\'as sent on horseback \Yith the information The horse became frightened, threw her to th? ground, killing her instantly. Othe1· children came to Letitia's home, and because of her loss she lo\·ed them e\·en more. The family re mo\·ed to Illinois, \\·here these child1·en in late1· years becamE men and \\·omen of influence and prominenc2. Leonard, the youngest son \Yent to Toppinish, \Vashing to11, from \\·hich place his son, Robert Fox, joined the national ,\.nianl in 191--t and se1Ted on the }Iexican !:order. H2 \\·ent to Fl'ancc in Deccmher, 1917, \\'as made a c01·pornl and se1Yed in the arn1,\· of occupation in G21·many. While there his r'atLel' died. }!any months elasped ,,·ithout a letter from home !'eaching him. Dming all this time his messages of love con tinued to come to his fathe1·. Frank, the sixth child of }Ia1·y Feath2n1gill, \\'aS horn it, Oldham County, Kentucky, and was one year old when the parents came to Indiana. He attended the pioneer schools of .Jolrnrnn Count,v. At the age of hYenty-one yeal'S he manied }fartha J. ::\[ullikin, \Yho \\·as also a native of Kentucky. In 18,36 they settled on a farm five miles south of Franklin. \\·hel'e they Jiyed the 1·emainder of their !ins. They \\'ere charte1· members of the Cnion Christian Church, \\'hich \Yas situated near their home, and thrnughout their lives \\·ere its loyal suppo1ters. They lived to a 1·ipe old age, hono1·ed and 1espected by all in the community where they \\·ere known. }fr. Featherngill affiliated with the Repub lican party. He cast his first p1·esidential vot? for John C. Fremont. Robert Featherngill was l:orn and reared and spent his entire life on the farm where he died. This was the home of 288 ..\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F,DIIL Y his parents, Joseph and ::'\Iary Forsyth Featherngill. He was a prominent and highly respected citizen. Thrnughout his life, in business, in church 1·elation, and social!~·. he held a place in the esteem of the people that any man rniid1 t ,,·ell envy. l!e had that fine and chivalrnus nature that ahrnys madrn the true gentleman. A tJ"ibutP from one who knew him tells of his lo~·al friendship, his sympathetic nature and \Villiam Feathernµ:ill warm heart, and his happy, joyous tempe1·arnent. Children ah,·ays found him a warm and helpful friend, and he Lelieved in their right to ti.ink and act independently of the opinions of their parents, consequently he never tried to unduly influ ence his o\\·n children. Everything for the improvement of the community in which he lived received his hearty support. A sincere and earnest Christian, he gave to the chmch his loyal service being for many years a faithful worker and officer SECTION IV Robert Mitchell 1807-1827 Wayne H. 1894 m. Margaret Hensley George 1863 Ruth 1895-1916 { Hugh W. 1916 m. Orah Ferguson m. Loren Webb { Jessie 1898 Alta 1903 Carl 1865 rm. Minnie T. Maley Arta H; 1867 Mary A. 1840-1880 m. M. J. Voris m. P. W. Payne Levona 1870 m. S. C. Newsom Roscoe 1872 m. Clara Behymer Elizabeth 187 4 m. Frank Martin Mary R. 1876 ( Elizabeth H. 1905 m. E. L. Beck 1 Mary S. 1908 Thomas J. 1842-1876 John Thompson Alice A. 1844-1864 1811-1863 David A. 1846-1918 David 1899 m. Emily Williams { V. David 1783-1868 m. Tennie Parkhurst Martha 1901 m.1 Mary Ann Elizabeth H. 1898 Francis H. 1899 Hulett Elizabeth 1848 Alice M. 1874 m. Hannibal Hamlin { m. George Glessner John J. 1901 { Emily F. 1903 Francis I. 1852-1864 Emma Belle 1854- \ Edith m.' John Givens t m. Guy Bailey { Mary E. m.' Edward Cox Jessie 1859-1877 William 1862-1863 Mary F. 1833-1863 { m.1 Thomas Shannahan Thomas E. m.' William Norris Sarah A. 1835-1859 { m. Joseph Mackey Cyrus. 1857. Martha T.1838-1838 Nancy A. 1841-1813 Montford John Thompso~ 1845 Nora A. m.' Josie Grant { Leslie I. Myrtle m.' Mary F. Offul m.' Lotta C. Bohannon Elizabeth 1813-1902 m.' Margaret Barkley m. Jonathan Pritchard Justin 1867 Mary A. 1898 Maud V. 1869 Bruce 1899-1900 Emily Jane 1848 m. Harry N eeland { m. George Nowels· Edell 1900 Blanche A. 1872-1873 Bertha 1875 { Mildred L. 1900 m. Alva E. Johnson Emery B. 1878-1879 Rachel A. 1850-1852 Forrest F. 1888 Clayton 1891 William David 1857 Georgia 1893 m. Nancy Kate Forsyth Flo Gladys 1896-1899 Robert David 1899 Oren D. 1902 David 1852 Nancy Ann 1816-1837 { Cassandra 1834-1869 Mattie J. 1883 m. Amos Durbin m. Edward Kin~sbury m. L. Wickman { Walter 1907 Charles W. 1854 Margaret 1889 m. Delia Walden { m. T. T. Shannon Wait C. Grace 1885 S Charles R. 1909 Addison 1857 m. Earl R. Jones { Oran H. 1913 m. Sarah Pritchard { William E. 1893 Ruby Pearl 1901 Mary A. 1859 Beryl B. 1896 Robert N. 1862 Clarence B. 1898 m. Lou Flake { Ivory P. 1900 William 1865-1888 Martha Ann 1837-1902 Gladys I. 1899 m. Edwin B. Graves George 1867 m.' Clara Hutchings Paul P. 1901 m.' Grace Curtis lDale I. 1913 Nettie 1870-1899 m. Fred T. Applegate Frank 1873 m. Eva Kerlin Mary 1818-1846 Cordelia M. 1877 m. Wm. Nelson Wood Sarah E. 1840-1861 ruff James A. 1842-1850 Lula 1868-1876 Mary M. 1870 { Cora Edith 1903 m. P. P. Bryant .James N. 1872 Annie D. 1910 m. Lister C. Woodruff { John B. 1912 Rose M. 1875-1879 Joab N. 1844-1895 Cora H. 1910 m. Annie E. Parmelee Charles 1878 Thelma G. 1911 m. Irene Staples { Ruby C. 1913 . . F { Nettie V. 1910 B enJam1~ . 1892- 1912 Mary F. 1912 m. Ida Gill { Mitchell 1. 905 Hazel 1886 Ross 1906 m. Isaac Smith Odus 1908 Georgia 1910 Martha Ann 1864-1865 · Edith May 1868-1901 Mabel R. 1896 Lula A. 1898 Inez Maryline 1900 . Keyth P. 1902 David A. 1871 Minnie B. 1903 m. Flora Rathenburger James D. 1906 Carl C. 1908 Albert D. 1910 Amos 1837-1887 Ross V. 1894 m. Nancy Hall lAmos L. 1896 Alonzo L. 1897 Dora B. 1900 Zella Ann 1873 Josie B. 1904 m. Silas Brown Lulu L. 1906 James E. 1908 John F. 1911 Goldie 1896 James C. 187 4 Loren B. 1898 m. Cora Lydy Oren C. 1900 Beatl"ice 1904 Susan 1841-1896 !~Wm. M. Hicks { A e m. Sydney Rogers !rn Brumett ,{ Alpha m~VAines 1n. ----- Avis William O. 1864-1868 Maggie M. 1890 Martha 1820-1851 m. Thomas Durbin m. Chalmers C. Gray Lurie B. 1869 Harry A. 1893 m. William H. Wilson { Fred L. 1900 Carl 1906 Sarah 1844-1895 1895 m. Thomas Norris Charles W. 1875 ( Ada H. . { Catherine G. 1914 • Pearl Warren 1 m. Lowell Hillock m. Minnie A. 1900 1Alpha F. 1902 Alva 1902 Gustin L. 1905 m.' Floda Smith Mary L. 1907 ,. Anna M. 1910. Iva M. 1912 Bessie L. 1914 :.a~~ Douglas Etta M. Earl m. Jerry Kelleher { Melvin --- 1919 Lottie Nancy Ann 1848- m. David Ferling Frederick { Thomas E. Myrtle m.' Cassandra Robert 1822-1827 Pearl Pritchard Absalom 1823-1842 Sarah Susan 1824-1824 SECTION V Milton Avery Alexander 1852-1016 Ida 1875 Vernon m.' Olivia Spears l m. George Bowman { Alice Leon Sadie 1881 1n.~ Esther Spears ni. James Duncan Retta 1884 Orville 1899 Della 1877 I Walcott 1899 Lillian 1856 m. Harris Lyon l Glen R. 1913 1882-1002 1n. Francis Roberts Glen Clyde 1882 m.-- --- j Dopolma 1904 Jane 1833-1878 Francis 1858-1902 1 11t. Allen Searcy mt. Elizabeth McCann William 1860 il~;.· 1886 m.l Alice Hughes Kitty Wilhelmina 2 111. Maggie Muire Constance Ivan 1905 Co1·a 1867-1894 t m. Nathan Herron j Wayne 1890 George 1870 Corrine G. m. Emma De Soto Edith { m. John Cain William 1859-1881 David_ Milton 1~35 ~~~n;~d~~:o1869 m. Ehzabeth S1mmom, Uoy 1906-1019 { Edward 1870-1019 Ruth 1910 Francis Martin m. Almida Roy · { Homer 1911 1836-1863 Letitia 1838-1917 { m. Thomas Woodman- Ch_arles 1863-1805 see Ahce 1866-1875 Edith M. 1904 Edna M. 1904 Minnie 1905 James A. 1871 Arthur 1907 m. Mary Robinson Henry 1910 Richard 1911 Woodrow 1913 Loy 1916 Anna B. 1873 Harry Leroy 1894 m. Ernest Bishop Marshall 1902 Matilda M. 1905 Floy A. 1902 Irma F. 1905 Francis M. 1875 Bernice 1909-1911 m. Effie Dickerhoof Wayne 1913 Lois E. 1914 Ivel G. 1916 William Anderson T. Willard 1918 1840-1898 Flossy J. 1897 J m. Amanda Simmons m. Emmet E. Larson · l Donald E. 1918 James A. 1899 m. Ruth M. Buchen Elizabeth A. 1877 dorf m. Edward Mccaul Blanche B. 1900 William E. 1902 Clarence A. 190,l Mary 1812-1867 Charles V. 1910 Alma M. 1913 m. Alexander Scoggan Charles 1879 • m. Maud Dickerhoof Henry A. 1881 Stella L. 1886 ni. Clarence White Clarence M. 19l7 Alma M. 1890-1910 m. Roy Smith Alvin R. 1910-1910 John 'J'. 1842 l Mary 1863-1863 Margaret L. 1868 m.' Ulysses S. Crandall m. 2 Lewis B. Hender- son Harriet A. 1843-1888 m.' Everett Holdcroft m. Wtlliam Hindman William 1867-1868 Albert C. 1869-1900 Pearl G. 1899 m. Alice Moore { m. Arthur K. Keep Ruby F. 1901 John F. 1872 m. Elza G. Wolf m. Alice M. Hindman Glen W. 1905 Wayne F. 1908 VI. Letitia 1786-1865 Hetty T. 1910 m. William Feath Comrr10dore 1845-1865 Verne E. 1893 erngill m. Rose E. Reynolds Pierre 1897 m. Hilah M. Hamilton l Pierre E. 1917 Calista Belle 1871 Dale David 1899 m. Eugene Dilley m. Olive Allen Bert 1903 Ross 1905 Meade 1907-1907 Mary M. 1846-1914 Ethel l.908 m. David L. Pritchard Blanche L. 1877 m. Henry L. Bates Ethel M. 1885 ni. Ira Pickerel Lloyd M. 1914 Jessie I. 1887 m. Charles J. Seaman Thelma L. 1917 William A. 1870 Charles J. 1919 lClarence R. 1892 m. Phoebe Holderness Virginia E. 1849 { Dorothy M. 1894"· rn. Henry Gates Lula J. 1873-1875 Edward H. 1871-1886 Mamie A. 1878-1880 Olney 1880 1 ·m. Grace Posten Dorothy 1905 Arabella F. 1851 m.' Ruth Porter l m. J~hn Nowels Alva G. 1883 m. G raee Core Alva G. 1906 Wayne 1888 m. Edna Woodard Thelma 1011 Clore 1913 May 1877 i Madison C. 1853 Wayne 1882 ,n. Ida McCullough Lysle 1886 { Iva 1892 David H. 1837-1860 Daniel W. 1840-1862 Mary L. 1844-1856 Margaret 1878 Thomas 1847-1908 m. Paul Van Riper j Paul P. 1916 Margaret 1815-1808 nk Emma Depue m. Allen M. Pritchard { ~;J~~~6:lo80 Ruth 1894-1918 Sarah E. 1850 11t, Audrew Bohlen James A. 1855 { Edna M. 1884 m. Katharine Mullen- Floyd A .. j Elizabeth K. 1916 William Cora Forrest George N. m. Moreland Hackley { Ralph Ruth Elizabeth 11,. Ida Taylor { Ora 1n. Samuel Preuitt Ellsworth Neov { Margaret William Rena { Arnold Mmy m. Charles Moran m.. Geo1•ge Bess Bertha { m. Walter Chandler Charley Nancy Ann Sarah ·ot. R. A. Bess Ha1·vey Lebert Orval Letitia 111.. John Taylor Harry B. Inez 1861-1892 m. J.P. Miller John Thomas Mira B. 1852-1880 1824-1897 William m. Martha J. Eaton Edgar Theodore Mary I. 1857 { Maud m. John W. Montgom- Ed . ery Ro;'ar Andrew R. 1860 { Earl L. 1891-1911 m. Lula Demott Mabel L. 1894 Bertie M. 1896- Clarence W. 1861-1865 A ndrew F. 1897 Oris 1864-1864 Eva 1865-1865 Claud Roy Lillie M. 1867 0.al m. E. 0. Manning l'ilerle Reva James H. J.830-1905 Leta R. m. Sarah A. Clemmer A1·naldo P. 1869 m.. Nora Ellington EJma 1Flossie m. Marshall Ives { Margaret L. Harriet C. 1871 Flo m. Ennis Swally Oval Olive Paul James F. 1873 Alice m. Ursula Oswig Harold Nora 1875-1875 1 Cordova 1875-1875 Maud 1876-18'/6 Dorothea William Osal J. 1879 Robert . ,n, Clara Jones { Helen Rachel SECTION III Maria Oressa 1893 m. Floyd Kisky { Charles W. 1918 George 1800-1872 Otis 1870 Walter 1895 { William G. 1918 m.' Matilda Forsyth See Sec. I m. Flora Parsley m. Ruth Findley Ralph 1897 Hugh 1902 Paul 1907 Marion 1849-1850 m.2 Martha Clark Harry 1872 William A. Jr. 1901 { William A. 1850 m. Kate Vaught Charles E. 1905 m. Alice Hunter Harold 1909 Mark A. 1900 Daisy Dell 1877 Noble B. 1902 m. Wiley E. Waggoner James A. 1910 { Robert D. 1916 Alice E. 1916 Edward A. ~8?0 { Edward 1911 m. Inez M ulhkm Herman 1903 Adda 1882-1916 Virgil 1905 m. Noah Henderson { Mary C. 1916 Grace 1885-1885 Hazel 1906 May 1885 Harold 1909-1911 Arlie 1912 H. Dillard 1857 m. Ralph Branigin { m. Maggie A. Ray Carl W. 1916 Shirley 1892-1892 Charles J. 1889 Myrtle 1893 { Cecil Leroy 1915 m. Earl Coffman Mary 1894 { Gladys Irene 1916 m. Ora Bell George Ray 1897 Fay 1900-1900 Emmett 1881 m. Pauline Saint Adaline 1859-1903 Lillian 1884 { Charles H. 1912 IV. Elizabeth 1781 m. James S. McQuinn m. Frost B. Hernly { m. Isham Bridges Carl 1890 James S. 1918 m. Pauline Brodney Glenn 1901 rn.' Eliza Prather Beverly 1882-1908 Gladys 1903 m. Edna Parsley { George 1905 Fred 1907 Henry 1862 Fred 1886 m. Alice Pitcher Fahnley 1893 Ralph 1899-1901 Roy 1899- Emma Lola Mary m.1 Joseph Alexander m. Harry W. Ford { Jane m.2 John W oolfington Byron Eliza K. 1866 Harold C. 1885 m. James Paskins { James Emmett 1888 Andrew 1867 Hattie Mary 1896-1903 1 Ruth 1888 Lowell B. 1909-190!) m. Hattie Musselman { m. Luther Forsyth } Marjorie Alice 1911 m.' Elizabeth Fulps { Alice L. 1903 William 1802-1875 m. Margaret Forsyth See Sec. I John · Isham Julia 1859-1881 Sarah 1834-1905 { m. Livy Overstreet m. Dr. Kern Hallie 1862-1891 Maria Louise 1835-1843 J . Isham 1837-1894 { enme Paul m.' Margaret Hopkins Henry . m. Louise Konenburg m.' Dora Lambertson m. Mary Wilson { Hallie m. Robert Rowell Louise 1841-1846 George 1841-1868 Daniel 1844-1866 Rebecca 1817-1855 Henry B. 1846-1863 m. Daniel La Vielle William H. 1848-1849 Alice 1849-1857 James Edward 1850-1881 m. Alma . Mary E. 1854- m. -- Kerr { Ruth m.1 Martin Thomas Eugene m. Lady Nedine m.' Henry Anton 1m. Luther Christy A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 289 of the Cnion Christian Chm·ch neai· his home. It can \\·ell be said of him that he ,,·as a lover of God and a friend to man, and in his lir'e the soul of integrity and honOl'. His son \\'illiam Featherngill is an attorney and lives in Franklin. He obtained his highe1· education in Frnnklin Col lege and the Indiana La,,· School in Indianapolis. He \\·as con nected \\·ith the public schools of Franklin for twel\'c years, fil'st as a teach21· in the high school and late1· as superintend ent . •~s an educator he \\·as successful and satisfacto1-y in eve1·y po,;ition ,,·hich he filled, but in the spring-of 1898 he decided to take up the study of Im,·. He is recognized as one of the leading attome:,s of Franklin. He is conside1·ed honest and fail' in hi,; l)l'acticc. and is faithful to his clients. His office is ,,·ell equipped. containing an 0xcellent law library. For fh·e .\·ears he \\·as cit,\· ,1.ttol'ne_\·. He belongs to the :\fasonic Fraternit,\· and the Knig·hts of l'::tliias. In politics he is an ardent suppo1te1· of the HepulJ .. lican part,\·. lle is a rnc•rnl;cr of the Fl'anklin Cluistian Church, and is a man oi' pka:-:ing pel'sonality and an inte1·esting con \.el'sationalist. CHAPTER X \' ROBERT FORSYTH AXD HIS FA.:\IILY Of all the child1·en of David and :ua1·ga1·et Forsyth, Hobert. the youngest son, is probably the most familia1· to the p1·esent generation. He was l:01·n afte1· his parents made thei1· home in I~entucky. Reared in a home of frngality and inclt1st1·)· it was but natural that these should be the salient characte1· istics of his young manhood. His aspiration::; ,,·ere cleal'ly de fined in action if not in \\·ords. It \\·otild se2rn as if the cen turies of tlu·ift, ene1·g)· and persewrnnce fo1· \\·hich the Scotch are noted had 1·eached a maximum in nobert Fo1·.~)·th. A man of his trpe is almost unheanl of in the histor:, of this countr~· e\·en in pioneer life. He had many o1 the' qualities of a gTeat genernl and ,,·ell desen·es to l;e called a genius. In the early part of the nineteenth centm·.,· the cll'earn of e,·ery young man \\·as to o\\·n land. nobert earl.,· began to think and plan \Ya;;s and means of making· tl1i.s dream come tn1e. Indiana, he was assured, ,,·as a land of rich ::;oil and fine promise. A farm could be secured as lo,\· as a dollar an ac!'e. His prnhlern ,,·as the earning of the necessm-y money to be come a large landom1el'. His first efforts \\·ere di1·ected to the trapping of quails. Ile caught in one da:: \\·ith the aid of his nephe,v, James Forsyth, six dozen. These he d1·essed for market and took to Louisville eighteen miles a,\·a~·. ,vhe1·e he sold them for t,,·o dollars a dozen. Th is \\·as the beginning of his fund for the pm·chase of his futm·e holdings. hut he did not stait into the wilderness immediately. In 1818 he manied Nancy P1·itcha1·d, to ,vhorn is due a part of the credit for Robe1t's success in life. She was a \\"Oman of remarkahle pe1·sonality. A sketch of her life and character ,nitten h:,, Modcli? Jeffries Williams may be found in the l:ook of I11dic111(( Autho!'.~. Five years after his marriage he made a preliminary trip to Indiana, selected his land, made a clear ing in the forest and built a cabin for his futme home. On his return he sold the Kentucky land that had been given him b)' his father, receiving the paper currency of the time in pay- A Hii:-iTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 291 ment. \\'hen he took this to the gove1·nment land office he \\·as surprised and keenly disappointed to find that it would take t,\·o pape1· dollars to make one in gold ,,·hich the law re qui1·2d in payment fo1· the land. In 182-! he and his \,·ife started for their new home. They easily found a man willing to mo\'e them to Johnson County, a distance of al:out a lnmd1·ed miles, fo1· the sum of six dollars. In a ,rngon loaded ,,·ith their meager hous2hold possessions and dnnn1 liy six horses, they \;egan their j om·ney. Truly the scenes through which they passed were of a nature to impress d2eply the beholde1·. The woods were a nearly un brnken _-;urface of ,·erdure, hut the rnadless passage thrnugh all this gnrnclem· thoroughly tested the courage, patience, skill and ph,\·:,ical ;-;trength of the tr,ffel2r \\·ho must choose and make his 0\\'11 path, clear a,\·ay ohstn1ctions, Luild rnads thl'ough I ogs and mire, find suitable places for camping, and prntect li i 111,;elf and family from \\·ild beasts 01· manrnding In dian,;. They reached he1· IJrnther, Daniel P1·itchard's home, on Ea.st \\'hit2 Ri,:er, April b\·enty-fourth, and found the 1\·ater ,-;o high and the lowlands l;et,Yeen the i-ive1· and their land so :ecuhmerged that the~- \\·ould lie compelled to wait for the \\ ate1· to reced9. The man from Kentucky who had lH·ou1.d1t them this far could not ,rnit 1\·ith them, so unloading his '>rngon he 1·eturned, lea,·ing- his employe1· to find another \\ a~· to co,·er the remaining distance. noLert could not re main idle nor did he purpose to do ,;o \\·bile waiting. He dis co,·21·ed a dug:-out canoe and crossed 0\"€1' in it each day to ('Ulti\·ate a piece of ground, all'eady clea1·ed and naturally drained, that he !'ented and planted in corn. This was the ,;pot no\\' called DJ'ake's llill. Ile also helped his hrnther-in la\\' and ,·arious neighbors to !'Oil logs, burn hrnsh and get thei1· land ready fo1· the plO\L \\"hen the water finally subsided they loaded their goods in an oxc-al't drawn by a yoke of oxen. \Vhile waiting Robert had bought a CO\\' and a calf, and the~· p1·esented a difficulty in transportation, \\·hich was solved by putting the calf in a sort of hammock made of l eel ticking and Indian poles, and fast ened to the back of the cart. The CO\V bravely forded and s,\·am the l'i,·el' in pm·suit of the calf. Having safely crossed the rive1· Nancy Fo1·syth mounted a horse, carrying her son of two ~-ears in he1· lap, he in turn holding a kitten, and on they :29:2 A HISTORY OF TJIE FORSYTH FA:--IILY rode fifteen miles tlirnugh the hea\·ily timl;ered \\·ildernesc- to the log cabin that ,, as to lie t.11 eil' liome. It \ms a trpical settlers' caliin that slw found a\Yaitinµ: hel'. It \1·as made of 1·ou11d logs untouched lJ_\. the ax except fol' the notches at the end, \1·here they 11 e1·2 fitted one into anothcl'. Xot a nail 11·as used in its con;-;trnction. The rnof \1·,t.-' cn\· erecl with clapl;oanl,.: so loose that the 11 ind could -;Jiakl' e1·e1·)· l;oarcl. Thel'e \1·,1::; no loft OY'..'l'hl'acl nor chinking l;et11 een logs. H \\'as \\·ithout floor, door Ol' clnmne)·. Xancr For;-;,1·th made the J;ed for the home as rrol:e1t liad 110 time fo1· a thing of so little prnfit. It ,ms made IJy piacing t\\·o f'ol'ked stick,.: in the grnund at a prnper distance from the side oi' th·~ calJin. Pole,; 11·ere laid acrnss t rnrn fo1·k to 11 all, one end l ei 11g ll eld Le tween the logs. Doarcls 11·en° ])1aced on these to hold the lied. Xancy 11·a::; fortunate in hm·ing a feathel' led. In this rncle cabin she li1·ed a Ii i'e of ti!'elr•s-; inc1LL,tr)·. lt 11·as a ,·em· 112- fol'e there 11·as tinw for making irn]Jl'O\'C'lllents. The ffrst thing to be cm·ed for on their ,uTi1·al ,,t thl' JW\1· horn2 11·as the cm,· ,rnd cal I'. ).,; thc'n' 11 c'!'e no fence.·, ,t pen 11·as hastilr built for the calf and the co\,. ,,·,1.s allO\n'd u, rria!ll a:-: she liked. TlH'l'C \H'l'e no animals µTazing· around ;md tlie loneline;-;;-; or the fon-,il.1· co11· 11·a,.; patlwtic. \\'lien r:01 c1 t iv turned occasionall)· to Drnk2 llill to rnlti1·ate the corn he lwrl planted then', his co\1· 1nmld often f'ollo11· him. nut grazing· along she sometime.< fell l.ehinrl, and he \rnulcl often pa."" he!' a,:; he came htck at ni.,d1t returning to he1· calf. lt is 1w:>cllc;-;s to say that there 1Y,1s no 1·ef.2:ulcn· milking time, fol' if' the co1r chose to retun1 long after the family 11·ished to retin'. she had h2r ,my. Although rroliert did not reach his home until :\Ia)· t1,·ent)· foul'th, he cleal'ed, 1Yith the help of a fe,1· neip:hl:or,;, four acres of ground and planted it in corn in time fo1· a fil'st )·ear Cl'Op. At this time \\·hen the high cost of li,·ing· is puzzling th2 econo mists the world over it is interesting- to compai·e the money values of that time and this. rrol;el't l:ought his C0\1· and calf fo1· eight dollars, and paid hYenty-five cents fo1· two hens. Th2 twenty-five cent piece 1Yas the smallest coin in cil'culation at that time. When only one hen \Yas wanted the coin had to be cut in two making- "t,rn hits." If smaller change ~·et was needed it must be subdivided again. Robert Fol'syth made and saved enough money in his life to buy five thousand acres A. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\IIL Y 293 of land. He ne\·e1· speculated 01· engaged in business whe1·e \\·ealth comes rapidlr. His \Yas the result of thrift and energy. H2 ,,·,lS thrifty of time as well as of mate1'ial things. One time he and his hrnther, DaYid, ,,·ent to the mill together each takin;:i: his 0\\·n sack of co1·n. Da\·id seemed inclined to stay after his corn had been ground. \\·bile Rol;ert ,,·as anxious to return. So since his own bag m,ls not ready he tluew David's on his horse and went off lea\·ing Dm·id to come on at his leis ure. Robert nevei· could stop his \\·01·k eyen \\·hen men came to ::::ee him on business. An incid2nt illustrating this has often been repeated. He \Yas plowing one day when John A. Thomp son, of Edinl;u1·g, came for a business interview. As it ,rnuld he a loss of time to stop the plm\·, Robert told his guest to fol lO\\' ,dong in the furrow behind and he would talk to him as he plo,1·ecl. With such a reception his \·isito1· was not long getting: to his business. "l came to l;uy :-,:our wheat, and I ,1·ill pay you ninet~· cents a liu,-;hcl for it," sairl. Thompson. :1ut Tiol e1·t rnad2 no reply and naturally his interlocuto1· thouµ:ht he 1,·as not heard. So he repeated his offer. Rohe1·t 11·,1.-; ,-;till ,-;ilent. Tliompson still thinking he had not made him ,-;elf heard called ~·et a third time: "I tell ~·ou I will gi\·c you ninety cents a bushel fo1· your 1,·heat." This time came a reply. ".John. make it c1. dollar and thEn I can hem· you." r~ohe1·t ,1·;1s not a ,·isitor or a trnnlel', lea\·ing home only to ,·ote and pay his taxes. To saw time while \'oting h2 \rnuld ;:,:et some man to held his h01·se instead of taking the time to hitch and unhitch. He nenr stayed to loaf and talk politics. but 1·eturned home immediately. The Forsyth family has been envied for that ability, pos sessed liy ~apoleon, to sleep fo1· a few minutes at any time or place, and awake refreshed and ready to go on with thei1· duties. RoLert 11·ould ahvays sleep after the noon meal \Yhile his ho1·ses rested, but he must always l,e called promptly at one o'clock. Time must be saved in every detail. If he ,ve1·e thirsty in the field his child1·en brought him water. He was neve1· known to come into the house and wait for a meal, but went at once to the table. Rain never caused him to quit work. His wo1·kshop furnished ample employment at that :29 J A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.DIILY season. He neYe1· spent moner fol' anythinµ: that could he manufactured in his ow1, ,nn·kshop. His tool house \\·as sim ilar to the famous little ''\\ hite hou,-,e" that stood liy the side of the mad in a late1· dar. IIen° he made e,·e1·rthinj.r needed on his fa1·m, from the plo,\·s, \\·ag-ons and other implements to the shoes he and his family \\·01·e. He not onl>· made the shoes, hut he ne,·er !;ought a piece of leather. It\\ a,-; oLtained from the skin of the calf rnis2cl on hi,-; farm. There ,1·as a small tanyai·d near "·here the hide \,·as tanned for half of it. He made the pegs for the shoes also. These 11·e1·e 1)1":'l)arecl by cutting a block of wood as thick as he ,1·antcd the peg,-; long. Then ,,,.ith a shcup knife the block:s \H'l'C' cut into small pieces and put a\\'ay to sea:son. He nen.>r 11·aited tiil ,-;omel:od~· ,,,.anted a pair of shoes l:efore prepai·in;2' the peg,-;. From the hemp \\"hich he rai,,.ecl durinp: his eal'l)· >·ears in Indiana he made c\·e1·y l'OJW nccdt'ci on his place. Plo\\. lines, c-lothes lines and conls for tlw old-fo,-;hioned lwcbt('acb \H'J'e 1\·o,:en by his own hands. He cut the timber and nrnclc' the shingles fo1· en'1·y building on his farm. He al,-;o burned the bric-k for his first ne\,. hou,-;e clfter the c,1bin. Thi,-; \1·,i.-.; the house that stood on the ea,-;t ,;ide of tlw ro:1cl II lwi·c· hi,-; dmwh te1·, ::\Iargan•t, li,·ed ior man.1· .n':tl'.". It is claimed tlvt he nwcle tlH' flr.-.;t child',-, crndlc in .fohn son Count~·. \\'hen a child was n,rnwd for him (Ilolwrt P1·itchanl) he at once began to make hie: nanwsake cl cradle. He had seen them in Eentuck)· and k1w,-..· tlw pattc,1·11. \\'hen he had finished this gift fo1· his namesake he. himself, caniccl it on his shmilcle1·s to the home of the child's parents. His 11·he:1t uadles "·ere' so \\'l!ll made tirnt thl'l'l' ,\·a,-; al- 1\·a~·s a ready sale for them among his less ingenious neigh bors. He mack a gl'eat many more farming implements than he needed for his own fan11. These he sold to his neighbors. He cut trees and out of them fashioned a wagon which when finished he sold for thirty dollars. The fan \\·ith \\·hich he cleaned his ,\'heat was also of his own manufacture. Perhaps his greatest achie\·ement as a manufactm·e1· was in the build ing of a buggy. The tires and other iron work he hi1·ed a blacksmith to mo.kc for him which was the only money paid out for his buggy. He patterned his whicle after one he had se€n in Louisville. Patiently, b.r hand he made the spokes A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 295 for the wheels and all the other parts of the buggy. At last all ,ms ready fo1· the c-o,·e1·ing of the top. He took a piece of linen wonon by his ,,·ife from the flax grnwn on his own land, and cut it into the proper size and shape. In order to make this ,rnter-prnof he smoothly spread tar o,·er its sur face. Then his ,,·ife remembe1·ed that the top of the model seen in LouisYille had been neat!,\· lined. So she took some flannel of he1· o,Yn weaYing, and haYing notched the edges she neatly lined the top. It must be remembered that Robert Forsyth did not have the ad,·,rntagc in his work of the use of tools such as are in use today. His tools were few and some of them crude. ::'-Iuch of his ,rnrk ,,·as clone ,,·ith a sharp knife that his chil cli·en ,,·ere ne,·er allmYcd to touch. He needed some lime to plaste1· a little house to be used for curing meat. and his ingenious mind worked out a method to obtain it. \Yhen burning a log heap he gathered lal'ge rncks and put them on. top of the burning logs. When the fire had burned out he had a quantity of white lime. The plastel'ing: in which it ,,·as used after all these years is still in good condition. A man ,,·ho was careless about paying his debts l'ecei,·ed small considel'ation from Ilobert Forsyth. A man of such a reputation came one clay asking to buy hay. ",\" o, I guess I\·e none to spare," said Ilobel't. ''\\'ell. I brnught the money \Yith me so that if"-the man hesitatingly began. ·'Oh. well, if you ha\'e the rnone.\·," said Robert, "I don't kno,Y but I can spare some." He had an Ol'iginal method of adjusting the wages he paid his hired men on the farm. He hi1·ed a man for seven dolla1·s a month, provided he received one dolla1· and fifty cents a hundred fOl" his hogs. If the pl'ice rose, the wage rose in proportion. The culture of strn,,·berrics \ms carried on in a novel way by him. He placed logs between the rnws and all runners were kept clipped off against these logs. Perhaps this served also to conserve moisture for the growing plants. He was a pioneer in fertilization at a time when other men were thinking only of the destrnction of what they looked :2U/5 A HJ.-;TORY ()F THE Fcrn.-;YTB F,DIILY upon as waste. En'1',\" bone from the animals killed for his table was gathered and buried \\·here most needed for some future crop. His work was ah\·a~·s so carefully planned that in the event of a sudden rnin his hin' :--;:u1cy Pritchard Fol'~:nh ( l 7~t':.1- l -.:D .) ) Ilobel't Forsyth's wife, Nancy Pritchanl Forsyth, was a \\·orthy helpmeet and companion to her sturdy, conscientious husband. In a sketch of her life published elsewhere* she is termed a Pathfinder. "She came to Indiana," says this autho1·, "as strong and magnificent as a soldier of Caesar." Hers \ms the sturdy independence characteristic of the build ers of the state. Inspired by visions of the future her superb young womanhood, tireless in energy, saw no tasks too diffi cult, no obstacles that were insurmountable. When they ar- ,:, Indiana .luthor.'>, cnmpile Parents so resourceful, industrious and self-1·eliant as ,,·ere nobe1t and X ancy Forsyth, could not fail to leave thei1· impress upon thei1· children . .James Porte1· Forsyth was an unusual ma,1 in many ways. In appeanrnce he was tall and straight ,,·ith the physique of an c1thlete. He had a remarkably strnng voice, being able to make himself heai·d distinctly for quite a distance, but when in gene1·al conversation it was quiet with a pleasing, musical quality. His education was necessarilr limited. There "·ere no good schools in Johnson County when he ,vas a boy, and had the1·e been he might not have been able to take ad vantage of what they offered. There was too much to do in a home of such industry as was that of his parents, at a time \\·hen eve1-y one was struggling to bring the country out of its pionee1· stage. But Doc Forsyth with his strong men tality and his lo,·e for investigation and advancement could neve1· remain uninformed, and in his later life he was a good example of the self-educated man. He had a taste for anatomy and medicine, and his early study of these subjects gave him the title of ·'Doctor" which :JOO A HISTORY OF THE FOR:-'YTH F.\.\IIL Y he ,, as called the rest of his life by c,·ery one except his wife, who ah\·ays called him "Jemes." _\ ~-om:,Q man of his prn gressin! ideas was quick to disco\·e1· \\·hat this countl'y most needed for its rapid de,·e]opment. He ,ms first among- the farmers in the county to think out a way to get 1·id of the unsightly stumps which \\·e1·e left when the t1·ees we1·e cut a\\"a)·. causing a waste of land and of time to culti\·,1tc ,H'nuncl JamPs Poi·ter Forsyth them. The open ditch for draining the rich swamp land was also a waste of land, and not al·ways effective, and how to rid the land of the water was a long time problem for the farmer. The first underground drain made of timbe1· was not permanent, and Doc Forsyth with three other men was the first one in what was then called the western states to make use of burned clay tiling for this purpose. He also saw that a better grade of roads was needed, since a country could A HISTORY rip THE FORSYTH F.UIILY 301 not impron> while its roads \\·ere a good pait of the year so deep with mud that an 01·dinary fa1·m w;:1gon would sink to the axle. Fo1· ye,:n·s he worked unceasing·ly fOl' thei1· better ment, gi\·ing his time often without compensation. He blazed the 1·oacl leading from the farm whe1·e his fathe1· first settled to {'nion Chun:h, a distance of one and a half miles. The mad has ne\·er been changed, and no road of the eal'lie1· clays nms with more e\·en lines. Home of Doc For:-;yth He lived on the farm adjoining to that where his parents settled when they came to the state. A very unusual trait in his character was his love for the old house ,vhich was located on this farm. It is the exception for a man to live in one building for a period of seventy years. If he does not change his place of residence the old house becomes antiquated and he builds a new one. Not so with Doc Forsyth. To him the old building with its old-fashioned, broad and low one story, and its long, wide front porch, meant contentment, rest ;J0:2 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY and a lo\·e fol' old association. The c01ffenience of moden1 improvements did not appeal to him as did the old things in the old way. In sb'ange contrast to this the other buildings on his farm were the best both in size and constn1ction. His love for the best of whate,·er he had on his farm often led him into extremes in the purchase of farm machinery. If he saw an irnprn\·ed article he \\·anted it i·egardless of \\·hether it \ms needed, or whether it had been thornughly tested. He \\·as one of the most aclYanced fam1e1·s in improYing the grade of his stock and grnin, and for fifty years his cattle, hogs and sheep were exhibited at both the county and Indiana state fairs. He kept pedigreed Shorthorn cattle. Fo1· se\·en,l rea1·s he ga,·e a great deal of attention to poultl'y, and he was inter ested onl)· in the pm·est breeds. About 1g76 he went to Can ada and imported a carload of different breeds of chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese. In the ca1· \\·e1·e also different breeds of sheep and the famous Lord Clyde hol'Ses. The first Light Brahma chickens brought into Johnson County \H're in this un·. He sold and shipped eggs and poultry to almost e\·e1·y. state in the union. Ho\\·e,·er this line of \,·ork required so much more time than he could prnfitably gi\·e to it that he e,·entually ga,·e it up. In politics in his earlier life he was a Democrat, but he was wry much opposed to a di,·ision of the states, and when it came all opinions on things political were cast aside and while the war lasted he \\·ith some of his friends often ren dered to Governor ::.\Io1ton a senice that \\·as w1·y valuable. He held in high esteem his friends and relatives, and he did not indulge in criticism of them 1101· did he permit it in his family. :Xo rnatte1· what thei1· station in life they all 1·e ceived from him the same cordial ti·eatment. He was a fil'ln believer in the influence for good of schools and churches in a community. However, he was not a membe1· of the church until a few years before his death, but he was ah,,ays ve1-y liberal in his support, being one of the la1·gest contributors to the building of T!nion Church. He lived to the age of ninety. The day of his burial will long be remembered by the many relatives who gathered in the little graveyard where his grandmother, ::.\largaret l\Ic Gibbon, ,vas bm·ied. Among them were young people who were cousins who had never met before. After the burial A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIIL Y 303 these relatiYes spent some time in a happy social intercoul'Se, making ne\\. acquaintances and forming ne\\. friendships. There \\·as no manifestation of grief, but it was a happy, .io.\·ful occasion, and in no othel' way could his fune1·al day have ended that would ha\·e pleased Doc Forsyth more. The inspiration for the organization of the Forsyth Association of Indiana had its birth that aftemoon nem· the newly made gra \·e of Doc Forsyth and that of his grandmother, }Ia1·garet. When Elizabeth Bridges Forsyth died her children were only four and two yeai·s old. It is due to the fine character of their father's second \\·ife that they never realized theii' mother's loss. They gTe\Y to manhood under he1· care. \\'illiam has ahrnrs J,een a fa1·mer. He spent the first years of his married life on a farm in ::'.\ine,·eh township. }Iinen·a :\Iullenclore, his first wife, died in 187:.2. Later he married Ernma Dugan, \\·ho died in 1877. His third maniage occmred in 1878, one J·ear l1efore he 1·ernoved to Elk County, Kansas. \\.hile a 1·esident thel'e he ga,·e a gTeat deal of attention to fine hor:-:es. in addition to the care of his farm. His thil'd ,Yife died in 1913. His son. Chal'les. is a prominent and successful farmer of Elk Countr. Ili,; child1·en \\·e1·e educated in the public schools of 1-:ansas, and se\·ernl of them have been successful teachers. George Forsrth attended th 2 State Agl'icultural College of Ean,;as, where he \\·as self-supporting. He returned to John son County sho1tly afte1· he left college, and was manied here in 1902. He is in business in Franklin, and a member of the Clu·istian Church. Robe1t Taylol' Fol's:vth spent the first ten yeai·s of his mar ried life on a farm one mile west of his birthplace. He re moYed \\·ith his family to Howard, Kansas, in the autumn of 1881. In 1886 he returned to his old home, and four years later \Yent to Hamilton County, near Kohlesville, remaining there until his health failed, \,·hen he 1·etired from active life and mo,·ed into Xoblesville. He died there in 1905. The children of Rohert Forsyth are citizens of influence in XohlesYille. They are helpful in the chmch work, and the sons are members of several fraternity organizations. Orn taught school for sixteen yeal'S in Hamilton County and the Noblesville city schools, and later served as a member of the school board. :301 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:'.\lILY Edwai·d aim taught for a numb21· of years. lle organized the Standard Supply Company of XolilesYille, \Yhich has gTo\nl into a general rnen:antile and in;;urnnce l:usiness in \rhich he and Ora haYe been associated for ::;ome time. Russell 0. Berg. th2 onlr ;;on of Xorrnait· Forsnh Beq1·. i;; a talented young a1tist. He \\·on the scholarship in the Herrnn _.\rt Institute from Hamilton County. ,Jessie Forsyth is an attractin! young \\·oman of gracious rnanne1·, and populai· with he1· friends. \\"alte1· Hal'ley FOJ'syth is an exp2Jt electrician. He is the prnmoter and rnanage1· of a large electrical comp,m>· of :'.\oliles Yille. John Gano \Yas the eldest child of James Porter and .Jane Core Forsyth. Fe\Y 111211 li\·ing on a farm enjoy reading· more than did John Gano. It i;-; altogether p1·ohal·le that hi;; ;;on, Italph. inhe1·ited from him this same lo,·e for 1 ook;-;. He had a keen inten:~st also in mathematics. He \\·as instant!>· killed Ii>· a ,;trnke of lig:htening· during: a S?\·ere ntinc:torm. Jii:-; l\\·in chil 0 dren, Opal and AnTil. entered high school at tlw age of four teen yea1·s. \\"hen the~· completed tlw cou1·:-;·: the_\· \H•nt to till' State Cniversit>·· Opal later took a :-;pc-cial p1·epctLtto1·.\· cour:-;e for teache1·s, and \\·as a capa\Jle teaclL:T until her marriage in 1!)09. She is a lo>·al Forsyth, ,,·hich is ;-;hom1 l y he1· attend ance at e,·ery annual meeting of the A;-;sociation. One of tllc most enterprising and ell'~rgetic ~·otmg men in the F01·s>·th family is Halph Kendall For,;nh. lli:-:. c,11·ee1· af i'Ol'ds an example of \\·hat diligence. industry, per;-;istence and a definite pm·pose \\·ill accomplish. Halph's eal'l:-· school cla:-·s ,ve1·e spent in the neighborhood of the to,,·n oC Xirn:\·eh. He graduated from the township high school in 1\)00. Professor J. :.\I. Seal'le, principal of the school 1·esign2d at the close of the year to take a position in the Cnive1·sity of nochester, :'.\ ew Yo1-k. Thrnugh his influence Ralph accompanied him to Rochester, wher-? he took a scientific course, graduating with the B. S. degi-ee in 1903. After a year's \VOJ'k as assistant principal in Cutler high school he entered Indiana eni,·ersity at Bloomington, ·where he spent four years, graduating with the A. B. degree. While in the univernity he ,ms an active participant in all university life being a member of different organizations for the promotion of class and literary activities, A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 305 as well as the Philosoph,v Club, \\·hich ,vas organized for the pmpose of discussing philosophical questions. During the surnnie1· months he was conn2cted with the Scal'l:ornugh Company of Boston, \\·ho h:we interests in San Francisco, Indianapolis, l'ai·is and London. He was salesman for the middle \\·est states and later trainer of salesmen fo1· that tenitory. The company s2nt him to Emope as super visor of salesmen of the British Isles, but he retm·ned to the Cnited States and \YaS made manage1· of the sales depart ment in California, Or2gon and Washington, which position he held for t\rn yeai·s. \Yhile in the west he spent one year in Leland StanfOl'd Cni,·ersity, where he took the A. 11. de gr2e. He 1·etumed east and during the yeai· 1910-1911, did grnduate \\·ork in Ha1·vard t,·niversity, whe1·e he held the To\vnsend schola1·ship, and also meml.ership in the Dunbar ClulJ, an organization limited in numl:ers to those who have done ori.,rinal reseaJ"ch wo1·k in economics. The year following his work at Harvard he did grnduate \\'OJ'k in Columl::ia C ni,·ersity, \\·here he lectured on business orp:anization. He held the university scholai·ship, and was a 1112111!:er of the Fello\,·s Club. Fnllowing his work in Colum bia he \ms appointed seci·etai·y of the North Ame1·ican Civic League fo1· ernigrnnts, with office in Buffalo. This ,vork was for the improvement of the condition of the emigrants enter ing'.\?\\' York State and their assimilation. Governor Hughes had appointed a commission in 1908 to investigate and recom mend legislation for this work, and the Civic League was the outgTo\,·th of this commission. nalph Fo1·syth is a recognized authority on maritime labor organizations and conditions. It was due his experience and knm\'ledge of the social and industrial lal::or condition that he ,vas appointed general secretary of the Prog1·essive National Service located in New York. While in this work he was asso ciated with Judge Lindsey of Denver, and Gifford Pinchot, also Jane Addams and Frances Keller, in a national campaign of education and legislation for the improvement of the social and industrial-life of lal::or. He was manied in 1911 to Grace Holt, daughter of Doctor and Mrs. Benjamin Holt of Santa Bar bara, California. She was a pupil in Palo Alto high school ,vhen Ralph was teaching there and was under his instruction. Afte1· their maniage she entered Columtia University with :306 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.-L\IILY Ralph as a grnduatE-' student. Thei1· home is at Xyack, Xe\\ York, in the foothills of the Catskill :'.fountains, o,·erlooking the Hudson RiYer. Thei1· daughter, Helen Holt, was born during their residence in Buffalo. Tialph and \\"illiam were born in .'.\'yack, and :'.Ia1-y .--\.nna in Xe\1· Orleans, Louisiana. Henry Irwin Forsyth \ya;; a happy. fun l Daniel Forsyth A HISTORY OF THE tC1R~~YTII F A:-IILY 307 Daniel :.\Iartin fur seYeral }Tal'S \Yas a resident of Kansas. and made the trip oyel'land to Indiana t\\·o different times. Ile is lH)\\. a r?sident of Franklin. and is engaged in real es tate business. :'llary .Jane continued to li\·e on he1· farm \\·he1·e he1· hus band died in 1910. He1· daughter, :.\Iarie Irene, graduated from th: Franklin l,igh :,;chool \\·ith the hig·hest general anT agc in the histor.\· of the school. She was a student in Frnnk lin Collcµ:e fo1· t\rn yeai·s, after \\"hich she took a teachen,' preparatory course at \'alparniso. She is also a graduate of the State l'ni,·?1·sity at Bloomington. She has since l·een a succcs:,;ful teachel'. In Scptcml e1·, 1919, she went to Bloorn ington. Incfowa, as head o~· :. department in the high school. _'.\anc:-· Katharine. In the \rnrds of one of her sons, Viho cnct• exclaimed. •·J:.;n t ,,Ii(: fine." her tn1e character is incli C:t ,u:. '~ he 11 o:-cpi t:di t:-· that c h,irncterized her mothe1· is r? llect0cl in the daughter, \\ ho i:; the mother of a l:ig hearted fomil,\·. and \Yhose home is ,t1 1xa:-·., the cent?r of hospitalit::. lle1· ,'..'.'lH.'sb are ne\·ei• to·o numcrnt:,; nor un\\'elcome. 1t' irnpo:,; ,;jl I(" to earl' fOl' all in the hou:,;e, there is ah\·ays a b~d of hay in the l1arn. ,tnd m,tn~· a young man \\·ith pil!o,\· and l·lanket ha,., !wd a rcsti'ul ni:xht in the barn loft. Kate is a type of the real For:-c.\ th \1·ith many of the charncteristics of the famil)·. She mani?d \\'illiam D,i\·id P1·itchard in 1866. Thei1· hoh1e is nea1· Franklin. T\,·o of their sons \1·e1·e in the se1Tice of the l'. ~- during the 1\·ai· \1·ith Ge1·many. The eldest :,;on Forest enlisted in the CS. A. in July, 1918, and \I as s?nt to Je1·sey Cit>· for training in a machine school. He ,,·as sent to Frar.ce in Octol:er. On the \·oyage o\·er he wit nese:-ed :,;ome of the misfortune among the men of the influenza epid?mic. On his I oat there \\'El'C' thi1ty-fh·e dead and ninety brn seriously sick, while on one convoy thci·e we1·e one hun dred and brn dead. Aftel' reaching Bn:st, Forest went to Meahhun2 a distance of one hund1·ccl ~nd fifty-eight miles. They 1Yere four clays and nights maki1,g that run owing to so much side tracking for other trnins. Frnm that time Fo1·est's expe1·iences in the Ordnance Department of the war is inter esting as showing the immense amount of war supplies that were handled in a short time. After thi1ty days in Meahhune he went to Bordeaux, where he helped to start two hundred ~md sixteen tractors in sixteen days. He then went to 308 •..\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F A;\IILY Gieverns, \\·here he \\·as made se1·geant and put in ch,uµ:e of the trnctor warehouse. Hne they first unpack'2cl one hundl'ed and twenty cars of tracto1· parts, some of the boxes ,reighing five tons. They were b,·enty days unpacking: and storing in warehouse. \\'h'2n all \\·e1·e sto!'ed they ,,·ere hanll~· notice able so immense \\·as the ,\·ai·ehouse. A few ,,·eeks later they had p1·etty well filled the warehou,;'2 ,,·ith supplies that 1,·e1·e continuously coming in. In :\larch, after distributing car loads of blankets and auto trncks to the men ,dong the Hhine, they l;egan mm·ing ma chine auto trucks to Lel\fans. Forest tells of the complete machine shop fOl' 1·epai1·ing guns on these trncks. In :\fay. 1919, he went back to GieYeres. \\.hen Satm·da~· came they were to have the afternoon fo1· rest when an office1· came and told them there \Vere fifty-hrn ca1· loads of tractor pal'ts ,,·hich they would have to unpack and sto1·e in the warehou,;e. This two hundred and sixteen men did in twenty-eig·ht minut2s. When they were ready to return this back to the C S .. Fon•st helped to load on flat cars one hundl'ed and fo1-tr-2ight t1·,rctol'" in one hom·. At another time they loaded fi\·e hundred auto- · mobiles in one hour. Forest spent some time in the Y. :\I. C. :\. work befo1·e he retumed to the Cnite ner. While in college his teno1· mice gained fol' him a place \\·ith the College Glee Club and Quait?tte. Ol'i:-; spent eight een months in milita1-y se1Yice, ha\·ing: enlisted in Au;rust, Hll7, at Fort Benjamin llanison. He wa:-; tl'ansi'ened to Chanute aviation field at I~a:1toul, Illinois. He WHs gi\·?n the rnnk of sergeant and transfenecl to ~Iitchell a\·iatio:1 field \\·he1·e he \Yas statio1 'H! i'cl' ten months. Harry, Hugn and Oris Vandivier A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA~IIL Y :311 Han~· Glen ,ilw took a leading- part in athletics, the Gl2e Club and fraternit~· \\'01·k while in Franklin College, where he spent thl'ee year". He enlisted in .Julr, 1918, as a gunn2r ser geant in the marine ,ffiation, se1Ted time at the :-Ias:e;achusett~ Technolog~· at Boston, and the ~a\·al and :-Iarine a\·iation stations at :-Iiami, Flo1·icla. He \Yas put in acti,·e sen·ice in }la:,·, 101 ~l, as a second lieutenant. Afte1· his discharge he l'nte1wl the State t'nin'l'sity of Illinois as a senior. Ell·a \'andi,·ier met "·ith an untirnel~· death in Sugai· Cre?k ne,11· ~ea!'s Camp, a fe"· miles south of Franklin, clue to a ti·eachel'Ous hole in the c1·eek. His cousin, Gemgia P1·itcharcl, came nem· losing he1· life at the same time. Elba was sixteen ~·ears of age, ancl \\·as a bo~· of unusual pl'Omise, and a fa \·orite fol' his cheerful and optimistic disposition. He was a junior at Franklin hig\i school and \\·as a mcml:e1· of a numl:er of high school org:anizatiom. IIe \\as talented in music and ,ms the pianist fo1· hi,s chm·ch and Suncla)· school. In his home he lo,·ecl to sing:. Just l;efo1"? ,;tal'ting to the cmnp where he met \\ ith the accident he \\·ent to the piano and sang, "I Hea1· You Callinµ: }Ie." The follo"·ing- lines on his charncter arc from a teacher undei' ,\·horn Ell:a was a pupil for four ::cws: I::lb,t', Jecpect for the 1·ight.s of others, together \\·ith hi, tine sense of humor made him one of the best companions. One cannot recall him \\'ithout remembering hi, \\·onderful \'itality, his \·i,1rn1· of both mind and body. anrl "·hethcr at \\'Ol'!, oJ· play he spent this enerµ:y \\'ithout rese1Te, and this "·a., rccoQ:nized by hi., companions. fo1· in ,my competitin· g·ame 11·hcther mental OJ' phy,ical. he was ah·a,·s among- the tirst chosen. Hi, poweJ· of exprei'sion and his choice of words must surely hm·e h2en " delig-ht to cin,· teacher ,,·ho heard his recitations or reacl hi, 11Titten 11·ork,. These, of cout·cc, \\·ere but eYiclence of that clean cut thinking- 11·hich 11·as his, and had hi, life been s1Jcu·ecl we h,l\'e e,·ery reason to belic\·e that Elba would ha1·e become a man v.-hose opinion \\'ould lrn1·e been g·i,·en con~ideration whenevei· exp1·essecl. It is rare indeed that one sees in a boy the aµ:e of Elba, when I knew him, the fine sense of dut,· that he had. \Vhen given a ta.,k he exhausted eve1·y resource he had in the performance of it. The writer recalls particu larly one instance 11·hich illustrates hi, devotion to duty, and shows to what extent he could be depended on. Althou,gh he lived two miles from the school building· he applied for the position of janitor. He was then about tweh·e :;ears old, and among his duties as such was one of getting· to the school buildinq; early enough mornings to build a fire and h,n-e the room heated by school time. That was a job to try any one's heart, especially on a colrl morning, and the particular instance I started to recount was one mornin.l,· with a deeply drifted snow on the ground,, 1,·ith a temperature of eight below zero. ;11:2 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\I!L Y Elba had struggled the two mile~ benn,en his home and school. and had a good fire going when I aniYed. Cpon my expre-sing .-u1·· prise at hi~ coming· such a morning· he looked square)~· at me and saicl: "You expected me to, didn't you'."' Here was a boy who though he li\·cd but a .-hon time, yet b,· his example of square dealing, his faithfulness d!ld his lo\·e of wholc,om(c fun, exerted an influence for g-ood that i, l'quailed by few men. The younger brnthel', Justin, is mt'chanically inclined, his chief interest outside of his school \\·ork being with moto!'s. Hannibal Hamlin was the youngest child of James Porte1· and Jane Forsyth. He was a manly boy of ten years \Yhen he died, and a l;oy of unusual promise, \\·ho in mind, thoughtful ness and behavior \\·as far beyond his yeai·s. Being the )·oung est of the family, and b1·ight, capable, with a happy, sunny natm·e he \ms a genen1l favorite and even at his eal'!~· age exhibited much tact and taste fo1· business . .:\Iargaret Forsyth Pritchard ,n1s L>orn four ~-L·ai·s afte1· he1· parents, Hobert and Xancy Fo1·s)·th, came to Indiana. The cabin that first sheltered them \\·as hel' hil'thplace, hut it had been imprnved since that first year. The crncks h2t,,een the logs had been chinked and filled ,,·ith cla~·. A floor had l een laid, and a do01· and ,,·indow added. A l;i!'g-e fireplace built of rncks se1-ved for lip-ht, heat and cooking. There were many other e,·idences of thrift and ene1·gy in furnishings and con veniences. :'.\Iargal'et was the oldest liYing daughter in the family and she experienced, during all her young life, what it was to spin, dye and weave the cloth fo1· the family \Yeai'ing apparel, as well as to spin the yai·n from \\·hich she and her mother knit the family hosie1-y. When :Margaret ,,·as fifteen he1· fathe1· built a new brick house. The brick \Yas burned on the place, and Margaret helped hET mother cook for the men \Yho ran the kiln and late1· for the masons \Yho built the house. All this cooking ,ms done at the open fa·eplace in the one-room cabin. This b1·ick house, at the time it was built, was considered the finest in Johnson County. It stood on the east side of the rnad and opposite the site of the large ln·ick and stone house \\·hich in after yeal'S Margaret and her husl:and built. It \,·as situated on the original acreage that Hobert Fol'Sytb bought and cleared when he fil'St came to Indiana. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 313 This farm has been 1·ecognized as one of the finest in John son County. The house standing on the hill ovel'looked the entire farm. Fo1· many years it \YaS known as the \Yilliam Pritchai·d farm. In l~-15 }Iargaret was married to William Pritcha1·d, the \\·edding taking place at the new brick house. The fil'eplace \\·as still used for cooke1·y in the ne\\' house, and the \Yedding dinner \\'as all prepared by l\fargaret and her mother ove1· its glO\\·ing coals. As her ,vedding gift her fathe1· gave her a 11argarei Foi-syth Pritchard fam1 on ,Yhat \\·as called the East Nineveh Road. Here four of her child1·en were born. Afte1· her marriage she continue::l the manufactme of the cloth from which the clothing of her family" was made. She became famous for the pretty colors she produced. Like most women of the day she kept the "pot of blue" always ready, also the red, green and yellow. She experimented in combining colors, and made a beautiful brnwn from willow leaves and walnut hulls. In 1856 the family moved to the farm where Margaret was ;31 J "..\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.DIIL Y l;orn. Here it ,ms in later :-·e,u·s that h2r cousins ,·isited he1· \\·ith theil' childi·en. These children. long since nrntm·e men and \\·omen, look hack and \Yonder ,,·h.\· it ,1·a;-; that the food she g·a,·e them ,,·as to tl12ir childish minds I dtel' than the:-· could get else,,·here. and that the \\·ate1· from the ,·:ell at the old spl'ing-house \\·as colde1· and had a better taste than from any oth21· \\'ell the:- l:ne11·. \Ya., it lwcau;-;e o( her kind].\· in terest in every chilcl ,,·ho ,,·ent thel'e ·: They all n·memher ho,, hospitalitr charncte1·ized he!' honw. The dool' ,,·a,; al- 1,·a_\·s open to rec2i,·e a friend 01· .,trange1·. :(o one 1rn;-; e,·e1· knmn1 to le,ffe her t11l'eshhold hungT_\', no difference hm,· un worthy, and she ,,·as ahntfs read:-· ,tt 11·hate,·el' ,;;:crifice to he1·self to be of se1Tice to any one in need of her help. )Iaqwret \\-[,s a strong cha1·actcl', di:.:tnified and Cc!pal ile. Her energ_\·, industr_\· and pe1·sen:'n'nce equalled that ol' IL'!' pm·cnts. She had poise and pl'ide. l ut the ])I'ide th,it j,; not disdainful !Jut beneficial. C1"2dit is due hn for nn,cli oi' tl;u succes;-; that came to them. Her hu.,1 and \\·,t., not a l'anrn'1· hut a successful trader. He employed an o,·ersee1·, l ut it \\ a., )Iargaret that made the farm a :-;ucc:,;-;;-;. She \\·a,; 1Tcog·nizcd as lun-ing· ;-;uperior business a\Jilit.,· and 11·as ,lll excelil'nt execu ti\·e. Fe\1· men of the time sul'pas.,ed hel'. Scho!ield Fol'.".\'tli sp'::'nt a \\·int-2r in he1· home \\ hile attending ;-;cl10ol. and hi,, tl"ilrnte to he1· is: ''You can't sa~- too much of he1· capalJilit~ and executi,·e management uncler conditions that sometime:--: tl'ied her soul." She remainPcl all her life bigger than a11:-· thi11p: that could h,,ppen to he1·-a test of gTeat character. It is of interest to know that the fo·st caniage e,·e1· l'l'OU?ht into :(inc.,•eh to,\·nship ,ms omwd h.\· \\.illiam Pl'itchard. It \Vas a premium caniage at the st,1te fai1·. \\'lien }Ia1·garet was fifteen she united \\·ith the ltegul;n· Baptist Church at Bethel. She ,n1s !oral to this faith all he1· life and a regula1· att2ndant at the Bethel church until the family rnoYed to \'ralke1·. )IissoLll'i. The handsome ne\Y l)rick and stone house that )Iargaret and he1· husband built opposite the old brick one ,ms enjoyed hut a few years. Th 2n ill health came to :'\Ia1·ga1·et, the fa1·m vrns sold and the famil.\· rnowd to )fissouri. Here again she enjoyed a l:eautiful home and pleasant smroundings and Let ter health. Her husband died in 1905, and she followed him t,rn years later at the age of seventy-nine. A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY 316 :\Iary Ann Pritchard was born and spent he1· early life in John:son County. Indiana. Some years afte1· her maniage she remoYed \\·ith her i'amily to Walker, :.'llissomi. Her hushrnd died the1·e in 1891. The eldest son. Tiol;ert, \Yas an alumnus of Strntten\:: Busi ness College of Chicago. and an excellent l·ookkeepel'. Cla1·ence i::mrnett O\\.lb a ranch north of the :\lio;som·i Riwr in :.'IIontana. Ee is a deale1· in large herds of cattle and horses. Xorman E\·erett is a fa1·mer. He Jiyes t·211 miles no1tlrn·est of \\'alke1·, :.'IJissouri, on a farm \1·hich he om1s. The youngest son, llos <'Oe A \·ere!. 01Yns a t\1·0 lnmd1·ed ane fa1·111 near vYalke1·. One hundred and sixty ac1·es of it is a pmt of his grnndpai·2nb. \\'illiam and }Ia1·gai·et Pritchard\; farm. It is one of the l:c:-;t farms o!' :\Iissouri. Roscoe feeds cattle for export, also rnise:,; and feeds "hahy bee\'es." Katharine Hamilton has held for sewn yea1·s a n:-ry lu cratin, position in the Xational Stockyards Postoftice in East St. Louis. Illinois. She holds this position under the Ci,·il :--:en·ice. ha\'ing pac-sed· oYer se,·enteen other applicants. In nature she is much lik·~ her grandmother, :\Iargaret Pritchard. Theo;e cliikh·en of :\Iary Hamilton ill'e interested in the re lig inu,, lif'e of the communities in which they li,·e. Emmett and hi,; family cU'e }Iethodists. Roscoe is a Baptist. and Kath arine n member of the Christian Church. :\lar.1.raret Hamilton \,·as born in Johnson County, five miles sm:th ot' Franklin. \\'hen a child of six yea1·s she \\·ent ,,·ith her pm·ents to :\Iissouri, ,,-h?1·e she grew to young \Yomanhood. She returned at internlls to her home county, and in 1 \)0:} ent(0 recl the Deaconess Hospital at Indianapolis, \\'hel'e she fit tecl h·~rself for the life of a mn·,;e. In the state examination for nurses she \\·on the highest place given in her profession. She pn1.ctised in Indianapolis and East St. Louis until June, Hl 1.i. ,,·hen ,;he \\'as chosen as head nmse of a unit of sev for the greater wol'k she might 1:e al;le to 1·endu· humanity in the great war. l\brgai·et was capable and conscientious, and unive1·sally lo,·ed and 1·espected toth by her friends and asso ciates at home, and l·y the meml:ers of the Chicago unit. The Jloclern Hospital Jlaga.:i11e of January, 1916, contained a tribute to her w1itten by l\Iajor GeOl'ge Gill of the Chicago unit. In speaking of her death, he says: "It was a great shock to us all, sudden and unexpected, and om· hearts and minds at once tumed instinctive!;\- to those ,,·ho held her dear back home, in the vague hope that something could be clone to relieve the shock of the inevital·le grief and sadness, es- ,\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA;\IILY 317 peciall;,· to th2 mothel'. Aided \Jy the B1·itish representatins \,·ith \,·horn we ai·e associated \Ye t1·ied to send her body 1:ack to America. liut under existing· conditions it \Yas impossible." He abo tells of the military funernl and describes th2 lo cation of the g:nwe in the follo\Ying: lines: The British authoritiec \\·ere \'et·y conside1·ate and did e\·erything that could be done at cuch a time and unc'er such ci1·cmnctances. Her d(0 ath \\'as mentioned in Houti;~e order., a., occuning "On duty, on active .,ervice." She \\'as gi,·en a mili rnry funeral with full honors. The simple impres 0 i\·eness of it \,·ill neve1· fade from the memo1·y of any of us, and the seriousness of the thoughts evoked will remain indelibly impl'essed on us all. She \,·as buried in the officers' section of the British militar~· graveyard for thi., district, where hundreds of officers and men of the Bl'itish Expeditionary Force are buried; tho,.;e who sac l'ificed their all, and gave their lives fo1· their king «ncl country during the present wal'. The cemete1·y is a mile from our camp within sight and .,ouncl of the ,ea, fo1·ewr chanting a requiem for the heroic dead. The gTa\·es a1·e on a level spot of gTound, sunounded on all sides except tO\\',ll•d the ,ea by gt'eat sand dunes, a most peaceful and picturesque spot. ideal fo1· the pul'pose to "·hich it has been consecrated. On the south the hills a!'e roHred 11·ith tl'ees and shrubbery; over the dune;; to the no1·th a1 e ]en,] cultin1ted fieldi. The caskc>t wn.s dnqwrl 1\·ith the ..',me1·ican fl,1g, and covered with Ao11·ers and \\'J'eath,; a h,ige blanket of chr:-·santbemums made by the lo\·im,· hand, of he!' nu1·,.ing· CO-\\·orkers, together with Old Glory, was buried 11·ith her. The casket \1·a,.; borne on a two-wheeled ca1Tiage pre ceded by the chapbin and fou1· trumpeters, accompanied by eight senior otnce!'s of the unit acting· as pallbea1·ers, and follo\\'ed by the personnel of the unit, non-commissioned officers and men of the Itoyal Army :'IIedical Corps, the nursing staff, and then the ufficers of the Twenty third General Hospital, "·hich is the official name of the Chicago unit. The corteg·e included rep1·esentatives from e\·e1·y hospital in the dis tl'ict, and as the simple burial sen·ice wa, uttered the trnmpeters >ounded the "Last Post," and as the notes of the familiar call echoed and re-echoed among the hills, with e\·err o/ticer and solrlie1· present ,tanding· at "attention," \\'ith hand at salute, they were endowed v.:ith a newe1·, deeper and more cheri~hed significance. :'l·Iany eyes were dimmed with moisture that had been strangers to tears for years. Who will say that thel'e was not one preEent that did not go away strength ened, fortified, purified'? The Hamilton-Een:v chapter of the Se1·vice Star Legion of Indianapolis was named in Memory of l\fa1·garet Hamilton and May Berry. By strange coincidence the first American \\·oman and the first Indiana woman to give their lives that democracy might live were graduates of the same hospital training school in Indianapolis. Miss Berry contracted pneu monia \\·hile on l oanl ship and died in England. :31:,;; A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.\'.\IILY _..\ large Arne1·ica11 Jlag- of silk \\ a ...; recently pl'esented to the Hamilton-Beny chapter in their memory b,1- the alumrne of the Deaconess Hospital. Frank }I. !'ritch,1nl. son of Thoma-; l'l'itchanl, \\ as clrnft 0d into the l-nited ::--;tates annr in .July. Ell:,-;, at Arlington, \\'ash ington. Iris di\·ision \\"as ,;cnt to Camp }Iiils in .:--;e\\. York in October, and equipped for o,-e1·scas but only a part of the di\·1sion ,\·as sent acrnss. due to the armistice. Frank's com pan,\· ,\·as ordered to .:-;'°\\·ark. :\'e\\' .Je!';;e,\·. fo1· guard duty. ,, he1·e the.,· spent the ,,·inter. }Jary E. Eot)in:·on }1ullendore left behind her more than the 01·dinm·,\· measure of beautiful m2mories of a Ii fe oi' de,·o tion. sacTifice and unselfish sen-ice to others. Being tile:. mother of thi1teen chilcln:n her life ,,·as nec2ssaril,1- gin'n to he!' home ancl farnil.Y. She ,\·as the t,1-pe of \\·ornan \,·ho i." happiest \Yhcn in the home she lo,-es, su1·1·0Lmd?d \,·ith her childn>n, and most contented 11·hen al s01·l:ed in some house hold task for thei1· comfort. \\'ho can measure the usei'ul w·ss of such a life, and }Iary Itoliinson \\·as a \,·ornan 1\·ith ,l ,;trong- Christian character ,mcl a i'c1ith that ne,·e1· left he!'. L-:ig·ht of lie1· childl'en \':el'e l:orn in Johnson Count.\· liefon· the farni]_\- i;10n·d to Ilo\',,l)'(l Count_\-, Ea11,;,1s. in J:,-;;-;:.,:, E]'(l }Iullenclol'e lin's 011 a Lu·m nca!' Clen'lancl. Okl21homa. lie is one of the \\'Calthiest men in th,tt pm·t of the state. ha1· i11g large land interests upon \\·hich thel'e ar? extensin' oil \\·ells. IIe is also inte1·ested in se,-e1·al lanks. leing· president of l:oth the Cle,-eland Xational and th·~ Osage State Bank Iris first expe1·ience in O\rning prnpe1ty ,ms in 1XD2 at the time the _\rovernment opened a l:od~· of land fo1· settlement in \\'hat is no\1- the state of Oklahoma. Any man cl('Si1·ing a claim of this land wa:c; 1·equi1·ed to l:e 1·ead_\- to start from a g:iHn line and race for it. Enl }Iullendol'e and his hrnther. Da1·id, made the race and \1·e1·e each successful in ohtaining- a ,-alual:le pi?ce of iand. His daug-hte1·, Lessie, spent a .1-·eai· in the \\'ard Belmont School for girls in :\' asiwille, Tennessee, and one yeai· in a school fOl' ::-:irls at Petersbm·g·, Vi1·ginia, and the y·2a1· 1919- 1~20 in a school at .:'\linernl \\'ells, Texas. A son, Gene :.VIul 1endore, is in his thi1·d yeai· at the Kernpe1· ::\Iilitary Academy at Boonville, :.VIissouri. David :Mu!lendot·? is an enterp1·ising, prngressive fa1·rner of Elk Count.1-·, Kansas. He is a capable business man and of A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA.\IILY ;119 fine pe1·sonal charncte1·, and one of the prominent men of his community. His son, Harold, \ms a student in George \Vash ington l'niwrsity, \\'ashington, D. C., during the school year Hil7-1,-;. In the fall of 1918 he enlisted in the student arn1y trninin/t corps and took instniction at Kansas Cni\·e1·sity at Laff1·ence. IIe \,as sent to the officers' training- camp at Rock ford, Illinois, and \1·as in training thci·c \1·hen the \\·a1· closed. In October. 19HJ, he accepted a position as bookkeeper in the First Xational Bank of \Vynona, Oklahoma. Otto :\Iullendore 1Yas a teacher in the Elk County, Eansas. public schools for fin years. and dm'ing the summer season at tended the State Xormal School at Emporia. He was also a student ot' the Ag-riculturnl and ::\Iechanical College at Still wate1·, Oklahoma, fo1· two yeal'S. He late1· went into the Cle,·eland Xational Bank in Oklahoma as bookkeeper 1·emain ing: the1·e se1·e1·al years ,vhen he \Yas prnmoted to the position of cashieL na;s.· F. :\Iullendore attended the State Xornrnl School at Emporia, I(ansas, also the Empo1·ia Business College. While there he som?times alternated teaching· during the school ?Ecll' 1\·itll \1·ork in the Xornrnl dm·ing the summer. He \\·as fo1· a numl:er of rears ,:,a.:-hicr of the Fil'st State Bank at Osage, Oklahoma. In 191-! he had a \·e1·:,· unpleasant experi?nce with t\\·o masked men \\·ho ente1·ed the bank in daylight \Yhile he and his l;ookkeepe1· were occupi?d \\·ith thei1· usual ,rnrk. With out a 1\·orcl of 1Ya1·ning the men began firing, missing ::\Iullen dore's head l;ut a fe1\· inches. They quickly secured all the money th?y could find and disappea1·ed, l:ut were latn captured ancl sent to the penitenti,:ll'y. He is vice-president of the Cle,·elancl :\'ational Bank in Cle,·elancl, Oklahoma. Carl ::\{ullo:dore took a special l:usiness coms'2 in the AgTi culturnl and :\Icchanical College of Stillwater, Oklahoma. He was then employed by the Cleveland X ational Bank at Cle,·e land, Oklahoma, els bookkeeper. After two years service he \\'as promoted to the 1~osition of cashiEl' \\·hich place he held until he went into the National Bank of Commerce at Hominy, Oklahoma. While holding this position he was called in May, 1918, into the Cnited States s2rvice at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he was assigned to the casual department, M. 0. T. C. He \Yas later transferred to motor supply train 429, at Detroit, }Iichigan, and assigned to the medical detachment. He was stationed there at the time of discharge, after which he re- :3:20 A. HISTORY OF THE FoR~YTH F.-L\I!LY tun1ed to his fom1er position as cashier in the Bank of Com merce at Hominy, Oklahoma. H2 is also president of the First Xational Bank at \Yynona, Oklahoma. William Clinton .\Iullendore \\·a.s l:orn nrn1· llo\\ anl, E:ansas, and graduated from the high school the1·e in 1909. In Sep tember, 1910, he entered the Cnin1·sity of .\lichigan, \\h21·e he spent fom· yeai·s. After his grnduation he l:egan the study of Im\· in the uninrsit)·, and grnduated frnm tlwt d2pa1tment in 1916. During his Enti1·e course he \ms an acti\·e meml;er of the various 01·gc:.nizations oJ' uni\·e1·sity life. He \\·as pre:-;i dent of the Cnivusity Y . .\l. C. A., said to be the largest student association in the \\'Orld. ln June, 1Dl7, he \\·ent to Washington, D. C., and Legan \\·ork \\·ith lierl.ert lloo\·c1· as an assistant to his pen;onal council. \\'hen the food administrn tion was created he was appoint':'d assistant couucil of the Cnited States food administrntion. Ile serwd in that capac ity until the spring of 1918, \\·hen he enlisted in the a,·iation sen·ice as a candidate fOl' a commission as a pilot in the fl>·ing· branch. He \\·as called to camp in June, and sent to Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas. His status ,ms that of a Jl:;ing cadet, air ~e1Tice, ·c. S. a1·my. In July he \\·ent to the School of' .\Iili tary Aeronautics, Camh1·idp:e, .:\Ias:-;achusetb. \\·here he ,,·a,; in training until September, \\·hen lie ,,·as transferred to the School of Aeronautics at Comell Cnive1·sity, Ithaca, Xe\\. Yo1k He finished there in Octoter, and afte1· a ful'!ough of ten days returned to Camp Dix, \\·hich \\·as the ::ffiation concentrntion camp. While mrniting assignment to the flying field in Xo vember, 1918, all 01·ders for further training ,,·ere Ccll1celled and he was in a few da.vs discharged from the se1·\·ice. IIe \Vas called back to Washington Ly the food administrntor he fore receiving his discharge. He returned there and ,,·as as signed the task of \Hiting the history and final report as \\·ell as the annual report of the United States food administrntion. He has also been acting since April, 1918, as council fo1· the food administrntion, in charge of the law depai-tment. Wil liam Clinton went to Eurnpe in January, 1920, on relief mis sion for American Relief Administration European Children's fund, under direction of Herbert Hoove1·. Nancy Jane, the sister of Mary Eucebia Robinson, died six years after her marriage to Adolphus Smith, leaving two small children. She was a devoted young wife and mother, and a .·\ H:s1nr..y OF THE FURSYTH F.UfILY :L!l 1 .io • to ht>r friend,:. ller daughter, a child of ffre .\·ear:,;, went into i:ill' home of he1· aunt. Sarah El'ganh·ight Tucker. \\"h?1·e -ii. \I c::,; tenderly cared io1· until her fathe1•':,; :,;econd maiTiage . .··n1: 1 ~· of thr lwppit :-t da,·,: oi' Iler g·ir!hood ,\l'C ot' dar:,; :,;pent in I lie· horn? of h,,r gTeat aunt. Eusebia Fo1·:,;yth .:\Iitc·hell, 1\ ho> She was particularly hospitable to young people. He1· home was a neighborhood meeting place for them. V\'ith her to enjoy he1· possessions most was to share them. Being young herself she understood the young. The~· were certain to find a warm fire and a warm 1·eception. They could talk in the dialect they wished and on all topics. They often gathered arnund her clean hearth in the e\·ening and told sto1·ies. Fre quently they repaired to the kitchen and made molasses candy, popped corn or roasted apples. They could amuse themseh·es in any way they wished in her home. The disorder did not distmb he!'. That could be looked after later. The1·e \\·as abundance of hilarity for she liked the life the)· brnught \\·ith them. Thus this home became to the children of he1· neigh b .James Mitchell singale. Cnfortunately she has been compelled to use an invalid's chair for many years. Her bravery and cheerful outlook on life indicates a character of strength and nobility. A son of Dora :\Iitchell, Calvin Dragoo, served as corporal ill the marine corps during the war. Hallie JI. Bailey was the only child of Eucebia Forsyth and her third husband, Andrew Bailey. She went to Cali fornia with her sister, Lucy Jane, and until her marriage in 3:26 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA:'II!L Y 1913 she was her sistET's companion and Joying care-taker. \Vh2tever the sacrifice she ,,·as 1·eacl~- to meet it in 01·der that her invalid sister might alwa~·s be hapm· and comfort,1ble. Her home is in El Centro, California. \\·hich was one of the cities visited by the earthquake of HJ15. The Colson home was damaged, without injury to the inmates. The only suni'.·ing child of Hobe1-t and .'\ancy Forsyth is Rebecca Pendleton, thei1· ~·otmgest. Dorn in ,1 home ,vhere thrift of time was a fixed habit, she, too, could not be con tented "to sit on a cushion and se\\· a fine seam, and feed upon strawberries, sugar and c1·eam." E,·en as a small child when she arose in the morning it was to meet the ,·81·ied requirements of her parents' full days. It was a time which challenged both brain and hands and no child could shirk. The spirit of the time was action and ene1·gy. \Vork meant •.\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY :-l:.27 tl'iumph and success. They exulted in shaping the ea1th to cl glol'ious end. They \\'el'e ne\·er satisfied. The more land they clea1-ecl the more they bought. The ston· often told of a time when Rebecca and her siste1·s had some guests in hog killing time, shows the long day in Hobert Fol'syth's home. The girls and their guests came d0\\'11 to breakfast about four A . .\I. just as their father. Robert. \nu; finishing. He glanced at them and then at his \\·ife. ,rncl said: "Why didn't you waken the girls to-monow mol'ning':" P.ebecca Forsyth grew up a typical pioneer's daughter. stahrnlt. 1·esou1·ceful. efficient, full of activity and ente1·p1·ise. She \\·as fond of the soil and skilled in its management. A life on the farm was he1· ambition and hel' happy and inde pei:dent life ,ittests the wisdom of hel' choice. If there was an~· \\·ork on the fan11 she did not enjo~· no one ever heal'd of it. She unde1·stood and liked horses. She enjoyed hearing them neigh o\·e1· thei1· \\·ell-ea.rued feed of corn, and seeing them \\·ith thei1· moist necks freed fron1 the hal'ness, dipping tlwi1· Page1· nostrils i1, the barnyard trough. Toda:-· ;;he is prngTessi,;e in spirit, inte1·ested in the people ~ti·ouncl her and clesin>us of helping where,·e1· needed. Living i,.; as inte1·esting to he1· no\\' as in the days of her greater ,icti,·it~·. She is the embodiment of energy, industry and fru gality: lo.\·al to her friends; a personality strnng, se1·ene and self-possessed. She has \\·alkecl the \rnrld with soul awake cll1d found beaut)· e\·erywhere. Had labor been he1· po1'tion and ;-;01T0\\. her shal'e, she \\·ould still look beyond the obscur in1t cloud. sure that the light \\·as there. She \\·as rna!'l'ied in 186:.2. Her husband, A. V. Pendleton. \\·a;; a man of studious habits. At se\·enteen he ente1·ed the State t·niYersity at Bloomingtor: graduating in the same class \\·ith the late John C. }Iiller, a prominent Christian ministe1·: Judge Banta, late of Franklin, and John \V. Foster, late min iste1· to Russia. He was teaching school in Nineveh, when Rebecca Forsyth was a pupil, when the romance developed \\·hich culminated in their marriage. As a wedding present Rebecca's father gave the young couple two hundred and sixty acres of land and two thousand five hundred dollars in money and stock. 1Iore than one hundred acres of the land was a part of Robert Forsyth's original purchase from the govern- :1:;K .--\.. HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F,\..\1ILY ment. The Scotch thrift and lo,·e of lcicd that was a p,U't of the Forsyth heritage doubtle:,;s actuated them in thei1· prn gram of prngress. They 1\·ere not satisfied with the acreage they had but kept on buying fort~· more acl't'S at a time till they possessed six hundred. Rebecca Pendleton's husband stands out in the histor~· of this period of Indiana as one of the men who was deeply interested in th2 subject of public education. In 18-10 only about one child in eight between the ages of fiw and fifteen was able to read. In 1853 the capital of the state had its first free school but it lasted onb· t\,·o months. Ha,·ing re ceived educational ad,·antages rare fo1· his cla)·, :\Ir. Pendle ton was anxious that others should ha,·e the same oppo1tu nity. He was a teache1· himself and ,,·as one of the fe,,· earl:, Hoosier schoolrnasters who vias tnlined for the ,,·01·k. He Jo,·ed the profession :=mcl possessed a naturnl aptitude 101· teaching. He \\·ill e,·e1· be remembered as a pionee1· in the state's strnggle for a s~·stem of free schools intelligent!.,· ad ministered and adequately suppo1·ted. When her husband died Rebecca Pendleton capabl)· as sumed alone the management of her l,1rge business interests. ?\o detail escaped he1· eye. She had inherited to a marked clegTce the abilit~· oi the Forsyths to sleep on any occasion, and to a \nd,en refreshed and Yigornus. It has often been related ho,,· she ,,·otdd secure the line's o,·e1· the dash boa rd of her buggy, and 1\·ith perfect comfort sleep dming the ride from her home to F1·anklin, a distance of six miles. The horse, apparent!~· understanding conditions, ca1·efully kept to the road, only pulling aside when meeting anothe1· vehicle. A cheerful sustaining optimism bas been one of the dis tinguishing features of Rebecca Pendleton's character. Some ~-eal'S ago when she was about seventy-two years old, she, \\·ith all the agilit)· of youth, climbed to the top rail of a fence to secure some fruit. She foll and suffered a fractm·ed bone which forced a long period of quiet. This was the sewrest punishment for one so actiYe. But she chee1·fully laughed O\'el' the accident and regardless of e\·idence to the contrary insisted that she had no pain. She also wasted no time con sidering how much more judiciously she might have acted. The Forsyth Association of Indiana today (19:20) honors A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY ;}Z\.) nebecca Forsyth Pendleton as the only surviving grandchild of Da \'id and }Iargaret }IcGibbon Forsyth. Her claughte1·, Dora, was educated in the Franklin high school and Butle1· College, graduating with the class of 1885. She also did post-graduate work in '86. She is well poised, appreciative of the best, modest in tastes, unassuming in man ner, and a most gracious and interesting woman, a type of the real pati·ician. She was married in 1890 to Charles Riley, ,,-ho \\'as a student in Butler College when she first knew him. He ,ms a capable business man, who had steadily gro,vn from one position to another. For yeai-s he was connected \\"ith the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. He was a man of fine charactei-, clean in thought and action, respected and Jo,,ecl by all his friends. Their home was in Baltimore at the time of his death, which occuned very suddenly January, mu, in Washington, D. C., where he had gone only a few hours before. He was a devoted husband and father. Their claughte1·. Katharine, graduated' at Butler in 1918. She has IJeen in the Long Hospital at Indianapolis for more than a ,n•a1· taking a teachers' training course for nurses. Aileen is a student at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. Annie Katharine Pendleton was educated in the public schools and in Franklin College. Her husband, William -ct te1·back, died in 1893, in California, where they had gone for the benEfi t of his health. She man-ied James Henderson in 1899, and thei1· home is in Franklin. She is striking in per sonality, winsome in disposition, a model in personal appear ance, and always interested in youth and activity. She is a fine manager and a gracious hostess. Geo1·ge H. Pendleton is consen·ati\'e, deliberate, a man of tine contrnl. His brother-in-law once said of him, "George ,n,s ne,,er in a hurry, and never on time." He graduated from Xine\·eh high school, the preparatory school of Frank lin College in 1888, and received the degree of A. B. at Indi ana l'ni\·ersity in 1891. The two following years ,vere spent in travel, and he en tered the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, now Indiana l'niversity School of :\fodicine, from which he grad uated in 1897. He has engaged in the practice of medicine at Indianapolis since graduation, and was professor of physi ology in the Medical College for three years after graduating '.3:30 A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FA'.\IILY and associate prnfessor of thernpeutics fo1· the next tl1l'ee years. He was also prnfesso!' of then1peutics and sanitary science in the Central Dental College from 1902 to 1~106. and lecturer at the City Hospital for a numbei· of ~·ears. \\'as consultant in the depai-tment of children's diseases on the City Hospital staff and physician to the .:\Ia1·ion Count~· ln firn1ary and penal institutions for se\·eral years. He is Past Chancellor of Indianapolis Lodge ~o. 56, Knig11ts of Pythias, a membe1· of Oriental Lodge ot ::\Iasons, Past High Priest of Oriental Chapter :-;o. U7, TI.oyal 1.\1-ch l\fasons, membe1· of Indianapolis Council, Raper Commandery Knights Templar, Indiana Consistory Scottish Tiite, and l\Iurnt Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is High Priest of Sariah Council Princes of Jerusalem of the Scottish Rite. He recei\·ed a commission as captain in the l\ledical Cmps A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY 1:-. S. A., September :20, 1917, and entel'ed the service at Camp DoclgP, Iowa, as ward surgeon in the Base Hospital with the 88th Division. In August, 1918, was transferred to Camp Custe1·. :.Iichigan, and made regimental surgeon of the Jlst Field Artillery, lJth Division, until the c:lose of the ,var. He was honorably discharged February, 1919. The chief duties ,,·ere medical and surgical supervision of the regiment, and training of the medical detachment fo1· ove1·seas service. The regiment received intensive training, and \Yas scheduled to lean camp X overnber 15, 1918, but remained after the armis tice ,ms signed. In indo1·sing the 1·eport of the Regimental Surgeon, Colonel Robe1't G. Kil'kwood of the 41st Field Ar tillery refened to the wo1·k of the medical department as follo\\·s: In forll'arding thi, report on the epidemic of Spanish Influenza, it i., rle.--i1·ed to call attention to the \·ery unu.--ual situation existing in thi.- regiment during· the epidemic. On account of the ove1·crowded condi tion ot the Ba.--e Hospital and the Annex Hospital this 1·egirnent took care of the bulk of ib O\\·n cid: and the convalescent patients, together ll'ith something on,1· two hundred from other regimenb. The unforeseen, ext1·emel~· unusual and a7-'Cluous task of caring for this la1·g·e number of sick soldier,, ( for those called convalescent were treated the same as the sick) ,Yas handled by the :\Icdical Detachment, H,t Field Artillery, increased by two medical officers and twelve nurses, a.-:,isted b~· \\'hateYer number of soldie1·s and oftice1·,- from the regiment a.-: seemed nece,-sary . .\11 the medical officers did efficient \\'Ork, but I desire to especially commend the Hegimental Surgeor, Capt. Georg·e H. Pendleton, :\I. LJ., for his tirele.-:., energy, extrnordinc1ry devotion to duty, and for his effi cienc,· in meeting· and handling an unusual crisis. The 1·esults he ob tained ,Yith the \·ei-y inadequate mean.-: at his disposal, were excellent. I ha,·e already 1·ecornmended the prnmotion of Captain Pendleton to the g-rade of :\Iajor. :.IARIA FORSYTH FEATHER)JGILL In his diary, David Fo1·syth I, wrote that his daughter, .:.\Ia1·ia, was born in January, 1799. The record of her mar riage in Louisville, Kentucky, relates that "Maria Forsyth, ,vard and sister of James Forsyth, ,vhose consent is given in person, was married to Thomas Featherngill." Maria did n\rt come to Indiana. Her husband died when her children were babies. Her second marriage was unfortunate, for the husband was very unkind to her children, and if unkind to them he could not have been in sympathy with her. But a ;3;3~ A HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH F.UIILY young \\·ife at that time knew no othe1· way only to remain with her husband, e,·en if it meant sepa1·ation from her children. ::VIaria's mother, ::\Iargaret F01·syth, after seeing the hus band punish the youngest child when only about one year old, took it from its cradle and carried it to her own home. She later took Jack, the elder. These children she kept with her, and with the assistance of Nancy Forsyth, cared fo1· them until Nancy came to Indiana, when ::\Iargaret said to her, "You can't take these children to that new country, but I will keep them here." When she came to Indiana two years later with her son, David, she brought Gemge, the younger, with her. He was reared by Nancy Forsyth. Jack she left in Kentucky with his father's relatives. It is thought that :'.\Iaria died while the children were small. The boy, George, was among the early members of the l"nion Christian Church in Johnson County. Later he went to Iowa, ,,·he1·e his brnther, Jack, joined him. William Forsyth, the bfother of Da\sid, ,whom he vis·ited in Virginia ,vhen on his way to Kentucky, is no doubt the ancestor of many of the Forsyths who are living in the Cnited States today. His nine sons doubtless emigrated into dif ferent states and reared families as did also the four daugh ters. They kept no records and we have no means of know ing where they settled. The family in Texas to whom Ira P. Forsyth belongs is believed to have descended from one of the sons, also the families from whom C. J. Forsyth of :'.\Iena, Arkansas, and Thomas Forsyth of Frankfort, Indiana, came. In Grand-View, Indiana, there are two boys who are supporting a little French boy who with his sister were made orphans by the war ,dth Ge1-many. One of these boys is \Villiam Joseph Forsyth, whose father, Joseph Forsyth, is cashier of the Grand-View Bank. Joseph's father was Wil liam, and his father came from Kentucky, and his ancestors lived in Virginia, and drifted westward by the Ohio River. This family is doubtless descended from one of the above sons of William. Any of these Forsyths may become honora1-y members of the Forsyth Association of Johnson County, Indiana. also of the association in the parent home, Scotland. INDEX I The li:--t i:- iP..cnmplete owinµ: to the lack of :-;Ltfheicnt data. j Albe1·t. Cl'cil For:--yth. ).;ewark. :St.•\\.• Jer~ey .. _-\lvx Bailey. Chade:-: Fnl'man. PlHntation YfanaQ."er. \\'a~hington. :\.Ii:-:-b:-ippi. VI Bailey, Demp:-ey Picknt. Farmer. Natchez. :\-Ib~i~~ippi. VI Bailey, Kate .Jack~on,'·, \\"a::;hin~ton, 1Ii:-:-.i":.-c:-ippi. VI Bal'ndt. KRte Tucke!', Ft·anklin, Indiana. VII Harnett, 0l'ai S., Lawyer. Franklin, IndiRna .. VII Bt..·ck. :\Iary Payne, Littleton. Ne",. H~mp~hire .... IV 8(:!ton, :::-.;aomi For:--yth. Ba:--in. \\"yominl.!. IX Bl::'r,cr. ~orma Fon:;yth, 'S"oblesville, Indiana .. IX Black,vond. Florence Bridge:-. Buffalo, Kan!:"-a:,;, Blank. Ruth Brani.u:an. Bt·i(ii..rtport. Indiana .. Blizzard. Clennit-• Huntel.'. Indianapoli~. Indiana. II Bohlen. :Sarah P1·itchard. h:.dianapoli:c,, Indiana. ,. Bnnd . .J e:,;sie Daniel:-:, Pl"l'U, Indiana, ...... II 'Bot·den. Leot'a Daniel:-:. Pet'U. In See. Pa.,{(·, Brid:.rc ..._, .J'Iatilda Forsyth.~' TraffliR·ar. Indiana. 11·.j Brid':.!.'e:.:. Olis, Farme1·, Ti·afalgar. Indiana. !II Bi·idu·es, Scott Lavieile. Farme1·, Bradcnto\\"n. Florida Brid_ste:,;.., Thomas,'·' Farnwr, Trafal.~a1·. Indiana. ]Ii!-; B l'idt!·e.-.., \\"illiam A .. Farmt~1, Franklin. Indiana .. Ill Brid;.re~. \\'illiam/' Ram~ey, Illinois .. Ill Bridg·e:::, \\'illiam T .. Phy.sician, .Stonin;.rton. 1llinni:-,. Brid.£Z:es. \\'ill T .. Indianapoli:--. Indiana. Brock. :V!innie Bl'aniµ:in, Indianapo!i:.:. Indiana Bt·oc•k. Stella Terhune. BnnkJ.;(•(_'JHc'l', Frnnhlin. Indiana. Bu(•kner, E,1.-;rar L .. Phy~ieian. Lc)s .--\n".!t_-'lc_, ... , Cali(111·nia Bu,·khal'd.t. Haidce For:,;..yth, Plattsbur.'.!, ::\-Iis.-soul'i .. By1·d . .J(•:--~iP EntL•nb1·i;:.!:ht. Lad(;-.ra, Indiana Ca:-:-id:v. Edna 11ullikin. Flrn·a, Illinoi;,;. \' I l Ca;-:woorJ, Gertrude F'linn. FJ'anklin, Indiana .. \'II Chamlwrf;,, E1·ne~t T .. Sale:-man, CleJ'mnnt. fndiana I\' Chamber~. Flora For.s:vth. Clt-rm0nt, Indiana .. I\' Clad,;, ..\ra, Farmer. Tl'afalgar. Indiana., \'fl Clark: Tillu:-. R. R. :.Vlail Cat ritT. Trafa!:.n-11·. Indi,-1na .. \'ll CIYml'l', El~it• Brnden. Pl'l'U, Indiana. II Cnle, A!mi,·a Kedin. Trafalg-ar. Indiana. Cn11111tnn. Laul'a ::V1iteht'II. Edinbu1·'-!·. Indiana. IX Compton, Ro:-coe H .. Farmer. Franklin. Ind:ana IX C0·in-.., CPlia Tuck('!', Indianapoli.-.. Indiana. \'II Coon.". \\'iiliam I., DrW..!.''.!.'i"t. Indianapo]i:... Indiana. \' I l Co1 Cad Bynum. TPa<'he1·, ;\ewu,n. -Iowa. I Cot·c. r')illanl E .. Farmu·. :.\Utnirl.:,.illc. Indiana. Co1·p_ Ez.n-1 Elmore. Poultry ::\ll·rchant. Hai·~·~,r:-,·i)l,,. Indiana Cnl'l', GPOP.!.t' E., Indiarrnpnii...;. Indiana. Cor(', Hart·:,.· ~ .. lndianapnli:-. Indiana .. Cn1 t' ..Jame ... Bank~. Farmc•1·, l..( 1 banon. Indiana Cnr<..•, .Janie:-: Rr~:-('f)e, Fal'me1·, Sandborn'. [ndiana, C,nP . .Jeffel'~nn ..\,. Fal'ffi('!', Elnora. lndi.-lna .. (1) 1 '(.', Loub S .. Farnw!', E!n(,ra. Indiana. f'pJ'l', ::\Iar,'.. !:uerit<..>, Teac:ht'I', \\'hitel,-1.nd, Indiana. Cnl'l', :.\Iary .Jane Fo1·~yth,'' Frnnklin. Indiana. 11 Core. Oli,·t:> :\{yl'tle. ~l.ana.'.!.·t • \\'1>0hnJ1·th Company. ,:-.;L'"·c·a:-:tlL', Indiana Cni'L', Randolph. Farmei·. F't·anklin. India mi. C11i L'. Robert .Jacob, Ranchman. Outlnok. \\'a:-.hin"c.::tnn. Col'<', Su.-;ie, Teacher, Balboa. Panama. Canal Zmw. Core. \\.illiam Fifield, Real E:-tatl•, Salt Lake Cit;-·. etah Core. \\'infield Scott. Fnl'me1, \\'hiteland, Indiana. Corwin, Lucy Chamber~. Clermont. Indiana. n Cnx. Emil:,.· Fol'."iyth Givens. ).,It. Rik•:,.-. Xew .\Iexico. l\' Critt<..·nden, Clad-;: Tuck<'!', 11:dianapnli:-. Indiana vrr Cut:-in.Q'Pl'~ Addi!:' Coon~. Indianapoli~. Indiana. \'II Cutsin.!.!:E'!', Floi'a Tuck-.~1-.'~ Edinbur-:t, Indiana. VII Daniel:,,, Dt>-lhcrt. Fal'mt•i·. Peru. Indiana .. II Danieb. Elvin. !\tlinister, ~lonticello. Indiana. II Daniels, Frank~ Fal'mer. Peru, In Sec. Paµ:e. 01.. ·t.:r. Loi.-: Fnr~yth. Frankl ire , R. R. i. Indiana. 1.1~ Ll1•(!1', .\Ia1·'..!·rtrPt Fn1·.-:yth. Franklin. Indiana ... IV IJr:('l. :Olary, I'1·1)fe.;:-ional );ur~e. Fort \\·ayne. Indiana .. IV lJc-('!", Ralph E .. FarnH:r. Fntnldin R. R. 1-. Indiana. I\' Dt-'••i·, Tillu:- ..\ .. Farnwr. Fl'nnklin ! R. R.1. InJiana. r,· Ut-'iteh. 0--:car S .. Phy.-:ician, Indianapoli:--. Indiana. VII D,·itch. Oth(•!ln L., Ph:i,.·-.iciar,. Indianapoli:-, Indiana. VII Dt:itch. Ottn C.. Indianapoli:-:. Indiana .... VII DL•n bn. D<.'lla :-;pea 1· ..;, Loi.. rar::-pLrt, Indiana ...... \'[II Dt•u11: l't'. Olli[· :\Ia;--· Smith. lndianapoli."', Indiana IX :]:.!1 Di!l"y, Cali.,1;-1 Pt·itchanl. Ir.dianapoli.-:. Indiana. \" Dnl.c.!.'no. Lella .Jo11e.-:. L,~porH. Jndiarrn. \"II lJuck\\·o:·th . .Jnhn \\· .. Fa1·me1. VII DucK\\·nrth, Lu,llla \\'c:nYer. ::.:vedham. Indiana. VII f't11'bin. Janw..: Clifford. Frankfort. Indiana ... I\' !Ju l'hin. Lor,.,n Ba ...:il, I\' Eatnn. E\·a Branii..::in. Tt.:ach<~l'. Ben Da'.·i ..... Indi..ina E:1· ..i:(~nhri• .. ::ht. E,hn11·d L.. Fa1rnel'. Fra.nklin. Indir--rna. nr E1ht"!I, 1Iar•..::an.'t Vnri:--...-\ndl'r.--on, Indiana. \'II F1'alh('l'TT'.!il!. .. -\ndn::·\\. R .. In1:L-1wndl'l1t'(', h"an:-a~. \' !·'1,ath,:1 n~ ..!:ill. Chal'le:- C.. F~t rn1t·I'. Fntn \din I R. R. 1. Indiana. VIII F1·ath!.:Tn:.!.·ill. Frank.' Fann( I'. Fn-1nklin. Indiana. \'llI F,•;-Hh(-i-n·.till. .J,rnH·-- ,-\111::n '. Fal'mcl'. Franldin. Indiana. . ... \'III 1:,,arh1•l n·..".·ill. ,Jam••-.: F. Ind!·J\l:n1k-nc1', Kan~a:-. ,- F, a1ht...rtl•..".i!I. ,Jnhn H .. ' Fntnklin. Indiarw. . \'I[[ F"al h(•rn'...!·ill. .J uli~t. Franklin. fndin.n,1. .... VIII Fenhr·rnc!·ill. :\Ia1 ia IX 1-·1•ath1•1·n'...!ill. :\Ia1·;- E .. Ft·anklin. Indiana. \'III F,-ath(•i·n·.... ·i!l. Rt:11,-r, H .. · Fai·mt·r. F:·anklin. Indi,rna. \'Ill l-'1·a1h1·:·n·.:ill. :-:arn;i,•I. l1~--u1·;t1,<'1', Frani..;Jin, [ndia,Hl. . .. \'Ill J··,a 1hfrll'..'.·!l1. :-=hi:!v,\- <; .. Farn1,·1·. Frnnhli11 ,l-L R. 1 IndianH. . .. \'Ill l·'t•athH·n·..!·i!l. Th(•Jlla, H .. :--=;ik--man. Fi"nnklin. Indiana. .\'III F,•a1hv1·nc!·ill. \\'il!iam F ..-\.ttol'Ol'Y· F,ani-:lin. Indiana...... \'Ill Fix. Lt11·a J.'q1• .... y1h. \Irh,r1·,\·i\!(•, Indiana. [\" 1:1int1. .\u .... tin, Fun{'htl Dii-(_·("14,I, Franklin. Indian.-1. \'[I Flinn. C;i1·1 ii·. T·:aC'hu·. Fr Sec. Pa-~v. Forsyth, Daniel. Machinist, Franklin, Indiana. IX Forsyth, Daniel ~ .. Real Estate, Franklin. Indiana. IX Forsyth, David,·~ Farmrr, Trafalgar, Indiana ... Forsyth, Da...-id A.,* Merchant. Franklin, Indiana ... I\' Forsyth. David Pritchard,'·~ Farmer. Nineveh. Indiana. IV Forsyth, Doane, Railway Telegraph Opei·ator. Colorado. I Forsyth, Dulcie, Morgantown. In Gel'dini,;. Edward Thornton. Philadelphia. Pennsy}\·ania .. 112 Gibbs. Ollie Branigin, Indianapolis. Indiana ..... , ...... IV 225 ,:,. Deceased. .-\ HISTORY OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY ;337 Sec. Pai.re. G!'d.\'e:-- • .--\ddi::;,m, h-l!'llll..'l', Edinhul'~:. Indiana. I\' :!lti Gra\·(._1 :-, Corddia .\l. . .\lu:-:ic Teachl~1·, ~inevch. Indiana. IV :!17 Gnn-e:--. Fiank Lc:-:li'--'· Knkomo, Indiana ...... IV 217 Gran:·--, Gcor~e. BookkPt'tH.'I", Indianapoli:-;, Indiana. IV :!17 Grav1_-:., .\Ian: .-\ .. Steno'.!l'apher. ~ine\·c:h. Indiana. IV :!Hi Gra\·l'"· Robr:rt ~-. FarmeL". >-iineveh. Indiana .... IV ~16 Gn·L~n. Emrna l'ttedmck. Trafal'.!ar. Indiana.,. 1:!1 (~reen, ,:\latilda Kerlin. Frnnklin ( R. R. 1. Indiana .. 1:!l Grittith . .\[axic F'nr-..yth, f-'hilad1::lphia. l'enn.-;yh·ania .. 1.1:! Hall. .\laud For:-;yth. Indianapolis, Indiana. Hamilton, .\lary Pritchard, \Valker, :\lis:-;ouri .. IX Hamilton . .\Ian.rn1·et.·' Profe:,:,:-;ional ~ur:-;e. Ea~t St. Loui:5, Illinois. IX :H3 Hamilton. :\Iatilda Ellen. :\Ion.ran town ( R. R. f, Indiana. I Hamlin. Elizabeth For:--yth, BcthlehPm, .:--iew Hamp~hir.:__• ... IV Hau'..rh. Fl0l'ence Tucker. Ir:.dianapolis. Indiana. VII Hazen. Sarah Fo;·:--yth, Drumri~ht, Oklahoma. IX Hemphill. :\lary EthL·I. Franklin. indiana. vu HL•ndc!':--on. Anna Pl:"ndi<>ton. Franklin. Indiana. IX Hcl'ron. \\"ayne, Soldier L-'1te \\"ar ...... V Hotlandb ...,ck, .Jam•2-s T .. ft ,Jack...:nn, \faria Fnr:-yth. · \\·a:-hin,.tton, }Ii:-....:i,-,-i1,11i. VI .J <'ff riv,. ,J r·n niv F,1r ...n h, r ndianapq]i~. Indiana. ,Je!f1·it·--. P:iu! \\"illic1m.' l::lu:-inL':-:....:. Indianapoli:-. fndiana .J vnnin:-!'...... Lnui ... l' Fo1·....:y 1 h. Philadelphia. Pcnn~ylvania. H Jon,::-:. \\'il!iam C.. F;ir111 1.'i. Franklin ! R. IL 1. Indiana. V[l :!71 K('kh. Ona f-hid'..!'<'.", Trafnl'..!·ar. Indiana Kelly. ~oan .-\. Fni-:-:yth. Ch!ea.'..!·o, 'Illinoi:-:. IX KP!IPhL·i· .. \.kh·in.' ..\,:iat(,t·, Frankfort. Indiana. I\' KinQ::--hury. Chadl'....: \\"., I-'arml·t·, :\[ound Cit~·. KEn:--a:--. I\' Kin;1::-.bury. Da\·[d 0 .. Bu:--inc:--....:, ~an Fi-anci:-,c_·n. Callfnl'nia. IV Knnwle::-. Perlina Danie,]:-,,'' Rl'n~:-;daer. Indiana. II La \."it'lle·. Relwcca Bl'id~{•:-:.-- Lnuisvillc, Kentucky. III Lynflm. Eliza L\:i.niel~. Trafa!.i.rnr, Indiana. II Lynam. 1Iar:.!:at·1•t Tuckl'l' Clark/' Trafah.1,"al'. Indiana. \'II Lochi·y, Ed\\·ard. Farn1l'r. Fi anklin. Indiana .. Ly:;;ter. L{.'nnie. Lexinµ;ton Avc_•nue, Indianapoli ....:, InclianR. Mc1.rtin. ElizabL·th Pnynl', Littlf:'ton. NPw Hampshire>. IV Ma!-.singale, Luey ::\litchell. Rt1 .\-litchell, Jame~ :\f,, Farmer. Tn-ifa/,..:·a1, Indiana. l\1onre, Frank F .. Attorney, Indianapoli,-.. Indiarw :\1on·ison, Hazel Forsyth. ln(iianai)oli~. Indiana ::\'lullendore, Carl. Bankt::·r. Hominy. ()].;!ah1nna Mullendore, Dadd L .. Farmt.r, How,nd. KHn:--a-- . .\-lullendore, Erd C., Banker. Clvn•land. ()k/ahr,nw. . .\1ullen :.\'."1.'\~·:-=om. Li.:'\·ona Paynv. TL:c:-=, n ..\.rir.ona. ~n1Ti ... , Cha1·h•:-- \\·., Bu--inc:--:--. Inrlianapnli ...... Indiana :\:n\yli,_,:--, ..\.rnh(•ila Fot·-..y1h ~('O'..!:'.£.-tn. Col!(".lv :-:.111 in-...... I,!\\ C( :--,;r,,\\-l•Jl-.. Emily .Janv. Elk Fall:--. h.an,-.,a.-.. X!J\\·eJI.,, .Ju.-.tin. /,ft•ich:1111. \\'iehita. I(an--a,-. Oidharn. C!Hdy-. F(1r-..y1h. In(;i:-,n;1110/i ..... lndi;tna Owt'll'-. :\linnil Ban1vt1 F,·; 1 11Llir1. Indian:1. Palnu•1·, r;l•n1·:. .-:ia Ba:n(·\1. ( hiC'i,'..".11, [llinoi,... P,n .... J('~·. En_•lyn Bi·anii.::in. I· 1·ank!i11. fndi Pritehard. Edmund K., Fa1·rnp1·. \\'alk{ 1 L :\-U ...:.-.ou1 i .. Pl'itC'l1a!'(I. Edna :'i-L, :\Iilli1wr Franklin. Indiana .. Pritl'ha1·d, Flu~·d. Tailol'. Fn-.nklin, Indiana. Pi·itC'hard. Ful'J'l':-;t Vor:-=yth, F,umc>r. Fl'anklin. Indiana Pritchard. CPo!'!2.'V \\' ., .:\h•1 d-:2,nt. lda-H(•i!l', Okla hum a. Pritchard, ,Janw:-: .-\ .. ::\lerchc.nt. Fl'anklin. Indiana. Pdtchanl. .J anw..: Thomn:-=, FHi·mc-1., \\'alkt·r. ).1 i:-:..:(JUl'i. Pritchard. Xancy Kathc:l'inl', Franklin. Indiana Pl'itchard. Norman. Attorney. Chicai.ro. Illinoi:-:. P1·itchard, Thoma::::,'~ Attoi·nc._-,y, Franklin. Indiana .. Pritchard. \\"illiam Da\·id, Farnwr. Franklin. Indiana. Pritchard, \\'illiam 0 .. FarmC'r. Eldo1·ado Spi·in'-!·:-', ~li:-::--ouri. Pdtchard, Mar.1.rnret,'·" \\'alker . .\li.,:-;ou1·i. Quilll'n, Alice F'ost :1·, \\·heal lflnd, Indiana. Ra:i:-sclale, Sallie Ra:1s.dc->ll. I ·ranklin i R. R. 1, Indiana .. II Reci =', I>ecease Sec. Pai.rt•. Rich:-. Genr·... i:ia Fn--t,·1 ..Jnplin, .\fbsnuri. IS. :l~:: Rilt'Y, D,J:·a Pr.!ndh•-:,in. ln(iianapolis, Indiana .. IX ;\~!l R1chH, ,:~:nn. \\'illi:-'!.111 T. P. 0, Emp/nyee. InrJLanap,)!i:-:. Indiana. ;r Ritt.e:, ~L-llt• Brani,-?.:in. Inf!ianapolis, Indiana .. H11hert.-.., Lillian .:"t.:·u·cy. Ctl'.:-ton, Iowa. V Rnbin~on, Ccn Schl,J~.'-et', Gco1·"..:·ia Duckwnnh. Franklin, Indiana VU :!..:•) .Sco•.tc.tnn, .Jame~ ...--\.., Fcnmei·, Lo\·ewL1 !L Kan:-;a;';. V :-::c,)c:_-:. .>:an. :\fary F,•athern•.:i.:il!. HHin:-.,:ille. :\Ii:-:--ouri. V Sf'a1 r:y Gcnr~..::e. Siit·in:..rdal,i, Pc•nn:-:ylvania. \. -~1:..'!ch, Ct:cil. Fl'anl-..!in. Indiana. l L~\ S1:lcb. Clal'a Co!·e. Bai -!et·-.:\'il/,:-. Indiana. ~el!v1· •. Le.,tcr _-\,. _-\kron, Ohio. VIII :.!~-"> S,_•llr·i---. :\Iar'.2:Hr'--'t Feat!-:t rnc:ill. Franklin. Indiana. -.·ur ~.;:_-, Sh1'11hl·!'d ..Ju~rin J.I.. Bariket·. Lm·in:..i:ton, Illinoi:-. \'![ Sh(~JlhL:l'd, Hnmc-r. .-\ttornc~-. Crbana. Illinois. \'If Shnrt. Emmeline Cnre, Franklin. lnJiana. S!l'i'...'.('I', Eulalie• F'rJt•man, CL'ntralia. fllinoi:-;. VI .--:1, .. :~, --. Tialt1h, 'l\•achL·:· Li'.1,,ty1ic. Indianap0li:::, Indiana. . VIII .')ri.·a: _..c, Th(1n1a:-:. tJ!' .'0fl\\"c·;,:,l Incliana .nrr .-..:j1l'in·..:·c-1·. Xn!'a Br:rnl·...::in. Crt..:l'l1\\·,1nd, Indian,(. !\' .:-:.1,1 ·1-tnr:, L···tla Hunt:!', >I( 1·-..,·an10\\·1;, ln1L;rna. ![ :-:1,-iu1. Edna H,id'..'.·e..c, f:·ar.Llin 1 R.. R. 1. Indiana. :-:·~11··..[(,111. Da\·id _-\. .. l-'1.•t·m<1. l-'i·anklin. Indiann · ~r:.1i·.:v,1i1. Han·~- 1, .. F,Hm· 1 :· I-'nrnkli11 1 f~, R., fndiana .. :--:•qr•_ _-( nn. L,·ui..c,, l·'qr-..yth. Fr;•nk!in. Indiana. I,, _--..:1 ~l· ·.::,'<111, n,,h(': 1_ .:-: .. F,1 )"J1l•·J. F'!' T:'Jl,,,,. Em•·~.. Farm•·:·. Ilar.,11..d. I!!in,d,.:. \·r; l T:tlh, ~· C,-o: ..:_(! LL. F,1i·mcr, B,1nrln...lk·. Illinni--. VI[[ T:(ll.c,1•. Li·ti•ia Fc·Hlhl•J"n·.dll. Rar~tnul. I!linni,-,,. .\'!'.[ T,·:hunt_·. R(_•lwcea B1·i,L!·,_,..:. L•K·h1 :,.·, 1·anklin. fndian~l j Th,1n1t•~11n, Ida l~~H•rhal'k, Fn:tnklin. Indiana. Th .. n11,;.;(jn, Xd!it- 1-',,1·..::,;1.h. Hn•ntrd. Kan::Sa:-. Th()rn11~11n, Thnnu-- B .. Farm( 1. Fi'an!din R. n. 1, 1 ndiana. Tuck\'I'. [kt·.id.' Fnrnwr B(_•f11'..'nt, Illinr1i~. Tu(_•;,;,,,·, Errnl. \"('Urinary ~L:1·'-!.:eon. C,1/umliu-... Indiana. Tu('ker, (;•!IJl''.!.'l'. Farmer. B•irncnt, fllinoi~. Tucki.•1·. (;l'()l''.!C: [ .. F'l'anklin. [ndiana .. Tuc-:.;u·. I-[,,rncQ. 1-'annur. Bcnhnl, Illinrii,-,,. T1.wk•'i', .fohn ~ .....:tar!.: C<>u1;ty. Indiana Tu1_·kv~· ..J(1hn Th-1m;.1_..::, Fa1·m1•f". Fi·anidln. Indiana Tu,_•k1 l', >Iaud, P1·:1t'1•:-..:i(ln;1j Xur~c-. Indian l.'t~('rback, :\fan.o;~u.·ct Cui'(?, Franl-.lin ( [L R. 1. Indiana. 1:!1 \·andi\·ie1·, Fred For:-5yth. Fal'mer. Franklin, Indiana [X \·andivier, Hu~h E., Teacht-r. Fi·Hnklin. Indiana. [X Vanrli\'ier, ~[an~:arct Ellen, Fn1.nklin. Indiana. IX \.-'andi\"ie1·, Oris A., Fa!'me1·. F1·anklin, Indiana .. IX \'an Nuy:-,, Daisy Brani.dn, Franklin < R. R. 1, Indiana .. [V Yan Schoick. }Iinnie Bri 0 • Deceased. A HISTORY (JF THE F,m.SYTH F.UIILY ;:-i (". \\·a.:.!·!--!."nnv!', Dell Bi 1rii.!:e~. );< \\"l'ci:--rlv, Indi;::J: 1Il \\-,.i_i-d. :\;;{< 1 mi Deitc;1, Deeann. Illin·1i--. YI! \\"ear, Jl211 y B1·idg:b, Ran1:e-t.:y. Illinr,i::- .. \\.ehl,. E~tt:lh-1. .Jor1L·:-, F:·anl Jin. J1.di,urn \'II \\"eir, A.nna \\'at\.in.~. IHdic•.1·aJ•oli~. In(iianc-{ If \\"ell.-., Ella Ram~--'Y, lndian I\.