Person:Adam Rankin (6)

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Your grand Uncle Jeremiah lived and died a mile from Lexington, Kentucky, father’s farm and his joined. He left three sons:
Adam,
Joseph and
Andrew and two daughters:
Rhoda and
Mary.
We were raised together much of my time when a boy I used to spend out on the farm (father lived in town) and at Aunt Nancy’s. Andrew the youngest being near my age.
Adam married Hetty Logan.
Rhoda married Samuel [?] Logan and
Mary married Martin Logan all brothers and sisters and
Andrew married, I am told, Margaret Anderson their (Logan) niece.
They had all moved to Decator County before we left Lexington. Their letter informed me they were all doing well. ...

Year: 1850; Census Place: Fugit, Decatur, Indiana; Roll: M432_142; Page: 79B; Image: 165
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Family Number Surname Given Name Age Birth Year Race Gender Birth Place
280 Rankin Adam 61 1789 Male Kentucky
280 Rankin Hetty 57 1793 Female Kentucky
280 Rankin Mary Jane 22 1828 Female Indiana
280 Rankin George L 18 1832 Male Indiana
280 Rankin James W 14 1836 Male Indiana
280 Foster Elizabeth J 6 1844 Female Indiana

Adam Rankin 68
Hester Rankin 65
Elizabeth Foster 17

p 122 - ... During the spring and summer of 1820 the land in this county was surveyed by Col. Thomas Hendricks and in October of that year it was placed on sale at Brookville. However, before the land was formally opened for settlement the settlers began to pour in at a rapid rate. In the summer and fall of 1820, the following families located in what is now Fugit township: Seth Lowe, William Custer, George and Samuel Donnell, James Saunders, Nathan Lewis, James and Moses Wiley, Robert Hall, Rev. James Hall, David Stout, Joseph Rankin, John Bryson, Adam Rankin, William, Joseph and James Henderson and Joseph A. Hopkins. ...

... From the 9th of October. 1820, to December 31, there were forty-eight entries in what is now Fugit township, while there were only forty-five entries made in all the rest of the county. These forty-eight pioneers were as follows : James Wiley, John Shelhorn, John M. Robinson, George Kline, John Bryson, James Saunders, Joseph K. Rankin, Thomas Martin, Griffy Griffith, David Martin, Cornelius Cain, Joseph Henderson, Edward Jackman, William Henderson, William Lindsey, George Marlow, Adam Rankin, Joseph A. Hopkins, Thomas Throp, Samuel A. Githens, Robert Imlay, Daniel Swem, John Hicklin, Aquilla Cross. William Custer, John Shutz, Martin and Alexander Logan, James Logan, William Pruden, John Dawson, Elias Garrard, Charles Collett, John Linville, James Hobbs, Jr., Robert E. and Henry Hall, Thomas Hall, Moses Wiley, George Donnell, John Smart, Robert and John Lockridge, Richard Turner, George Cowan, James Henderson and Nathan Lewis. The striking fact of these entries is that practically everyone entering the land was a bona fide settler on the land he entered. Only two or three never became residents of the townships. ...

p 127 - ... Probably as early as 1835 a district school house was built on the farm of Adam Rankin, not far from the present school site. It was afterward rebuilt and enlarged and remained in use until the erection of the two-story brick building early in the Civil War. It was burned down in 1894 and replaced by the present one-story building. ...

p 184 - ... Residents of Springhill called a meeting on July 2, 1843, for consideration of methods for improving the common school system. George Anderson presided and E. Mitchell acted as secretary. The following organization was effected: Adams [sic] Rankin, president; William Anderson, secretary; W. M. Herrick, Rev. James Worth and John Bell, directors. Rev. Hugh Maime and P. Hamilton were requested to address the meeting at a future date. ...

p 255 - ... The first church building [of the New Zion Presbyterian Church] was of hewed logs, was thirty feet square, and was thrown up in the fall and winter of 1824. James McCracken and Adam and Andrew Rankin prepared the logs and these men, assisted by James R. Patton and William Anderson, "carried up the corners." The house was not covered until the summer of 1825, at which time a roof of poles and split shingles was tied on with that skill which our good forefathers happily possessed. The shingles were rived on the farm of Samuel Lewis, near Clarksburg. The roof was put on under the direction of William Penny. The seats were such as those occupying them chose to make, everyone supplying their own, some better and some worse. On these seats the patient worshippers could and did sit through a two-hour service in the morning and one of equal length in the afternoon. The lot (one acre) on which this first church was erected was deeded by Samuel Donnell on January 1, 1825, to the trustees of New Zion congregation, namely: William Henderson, Adam Rankin and James McCracken, for the sum of six dollars and fifty cents. ...

p 390 - ... The first movement toward roads was after the county was organized in 1822 ... At the same meeting of the county commissioners William Henderson and others, of Fugit township, asked for appointment of viewers for a road beginning at the east county line and running southwest to the forks of Cliffy. This prayer was granted and William Custer, James Logan and Adam Rankin were appointed viewers. This was the same route later followed by the Sandusky, Springhill and Clarksburg pike. ...

... Among the very earliest settlers in Fugit, who came to the township in 1820, 1821, 1822 and 1823, we mention the following: ...Andrew and Joseph K. Rankin ... Adam Rankin, all from Kentucky; ...