The township [Hensley Township] grew rapidly in population. The lands along Indian creek were peculiarly inv iting to land hunters, who had traversed the level lands of the country in search of suitable locations and immigrants came trooping in. At least twenty men came in and bought, and more than half that number moved in. Of these, Isaac Holeman, Henry Musselman, Arthur Bass, Albert Roberts, John Schrem, John and Lewis Shouse and Aaron Holeman may be mentioned. By the close of 1833 more than fifty families had moved in, and, wliile it would seem to be impossible at this time to make any degree of classification as the time when these came in, or even to give the names of all, yet the following may be set down as being early settlers, to-wit: James Taggart (who was afterward killed at the battle of Buena Vista), William Skaggs. Holland Jones, John Brunk, Nicholas Hobbs, Hiram Porter, Reason and John Slack, John Voris, Simpson Sturgeon, Montgomery Smith, Andrew Underwood, Leonard Leffler, John McNutt, William Mitchell, Thomas Lyman, S. W. Weddle, Thomas Lockhart, Thomas Alexander, John Clark, Jesse Wells, Samuel Fleener, Hiram T. Craig, John Boland, Samuel Woolard, Frederick Ragsdale, George Bridges. William Clark, Abraham Massey, McKinney Burk, Avery M. Buckner, Levi Petro, James Wiley, Elijah Moore. Stith Daniel, Thomas L. Sturgeon, James Forsyth, David and Uriah Young, Godfrey Jones, R. W. Elder, James Hughes, George White, Richard Joliffe and Perry Baily.
