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Potential advertisers interested in sponsored content should call: southportsmilesindy.com To join the conversation, visit our Facebook page or (317) 300-8782 or email: [email protected]. follow us on Twitter @southsidetimes. ss-times.com • Week of July 15 - 21, 2021 3 The Southside Times COMMUNITY Peterman Heating, Cooling, & Plumbing is now Install a New, Qualifying HVAC System A view of the cemetery wall and Southport Road in 1914. The church steeple still exists today. (Photo courtesy and Receive a Free $1,000 Gift Card of the Perry Township Historical Society) | A current view of the same expanse of road, wall and cemetery. (Photo by Rick Hinton) The nuggets of Southport history $1,000 Gift Card HAUNTS & JAUNTS pitched roof built over the bell tower.” In 2012 the church experienced a tragedy 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 when a mentally unstable woman shot and By Rick Hinton killed Pastor Jaman Iseminger as members A Gift For You gathered for a cemetery clean-up project. Like most small towns, Southport has a var- The cemetery went through years of ne- ied history; and out of humble beginnings, Not valid with other glect, with Halloween especially vicious for offers/discounts or progress gradually takes root. Southport Road previous purchase. vandalism. Frank Kautsky remembers when Qualifying systems (once known as Union Street) became even only. Valid M-F, during he walked between the cemetery fence line regular business hours. more rural as it moved east from Madison Restrictions may apply. and the church parking lot to go down to the Expires: 8/15/21 Ave. The Old Southport Cemetery was not al- creek to fish. He remembers seeing the Brew- ways a graveyard, but once a farm. er family plot with wooden tombstones; and Jacob and Mary Smock of Kentucky made not in good shape. In March of 2011, South- their way north to Indiana, settling into the side Times writer and eventual editor Nicole wilderness area of Southport. This land be- Palmer (Davis) covered in writing workshops came the Smock Farm. to restore the monuments in the cemetery. In NEW Hot Water Heater Two of Jacob’s brothers made the journey August of that year, 50+ folks gathered at the and settled a little farther south in Green- cemetery to practice what they had learned. Starting As Low As $35/month wood. Legend says that the first school in Samuel and Mary Bryan are buried in the Southport, the Mudhouse, was built on the • Tanked Hot Water Heater cemetery, but Jacob and Mary Smock are not. • Installation Included Smock’s land during this period. The log Yet, there are Smocks present. Did the Bryans • 6 Year Parts Warranty structure also doubled as a church, eventually and the Smocks know one another? Absolute- being replaced with a school. It got destroyed Restrictions apply. With approved credit. Monthly payment is based on 40 gallon ly. The Little Buck Creek Baptist Church, or- electric tanked water heater with member pricing with 84-month financing at due to a tornado, and Smock soon got out of ganized in 1832 and about a mile southwest of 12.99% APR. Expires: 8/15/21 the school business. the present location, has Jacob & Mary Smock The former Southport Baptist Church (pres- and Samuel, Mary, Luke and Polly Bryon on its ently Bethel Community Church) was built on roster. Bryan is spelled as Bryon (most likely a the east end of the former Smock’s farm in transcription error), yet this leaves little doubt 1896. Some members believe the church has they are the same people and worshiping in Drain Clearing some Presbyterian ties. The church still stands the same church. This roster places the Bryans in prominence on Southport Road today. The in Southport about two to three years earlier cemetery associated with it became the South- than suspected. Any Drain for port Baptist Cemetery - the same graveyard In 1837 the Smocks transferred owner- $83 that is there today. When did the Smock Farm Reasonable outside cleanout access required, or additional ship of their farm site to the relocation of access charges may apply. Owner-occupied homes only. Valid become a graveyard? And what of church life? M-F, during regular business hours. Not valid with other offers/ the church, with the cemetery established discounts or previous purchase. Restrictions may apply. Expires: 8/15/21 There were always incarnations of a church that year. on the property associated with the Smocks. Southside historian Bob Alloway states that Plumbing License: PC11700082 by 1920, the church could no longer keep up Rick Hinton, a Southport resident, the cemetery, deeding it to the Perry Township loves researching things that go bump PetermanBros.com Trustees. That continues to this day. in the night. His articles can be read on Facebook: Rick Hinton, Southport “The steeple above the bell tower had been Paranormal Examiner. Hinton conducts leaking rainwater into the church for a long paranormal investigations with his 317 284-9145 time and continued to leak even after repairs,” team, South Central Paranormal. Alloway says. “The steeple got torn off, and a 4 Week of July 15 - 21, 2021 • ss-times.com COVER STORY The Southside Times Center Grove and IU alum Sydney (Clute) Walter competed in the Olympic trials at Hayward Field June 24-26.