Person:Benjamin Holliday (1)

"Benjamin Franklin & Mary Jane & minor children Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Morton & Grace Maude were received into Hinkles Creek Monthly-meeting on 3/26/1872." They are buried in the West Grove cemetery near Deming. The meeting house did not survive for us to see it during our Sept. 2000 visit.

    The village of Deming is situated in the southwest corner of Jackson Township. It was laid out by Elihu Pickett, Solomon Pheanis and Lewis Jessup on Aug. 10th, 1837. Elihu Pickett opened the first store in the town, and Joseph Hadley the second. Hadley was succeeded by Davis & Stanley. A Mr. Williams came next, then B.F. Holliday. Holliday was the first blacksmith and Allen Meek the second. A tan yard was also operated at this time by Milton Stanley.
    The Methodists at an early date, organized a class in Deming and for some time met for worship in the school house. In 1865 they erected a church. The Wesleyan Methodists erected a church west of Deming on the old Foulke farm. When the town was first laid out, a mill 1/2 mile east, was erected on Hinkle creek. It was called a corn cracker. No other mill was erected until 1865.
    Hinkle Lodge #310, A.F. & A.M., was chartered in 1863 by the Grand Lodge of Indiana. The first officers of the lodge were: M. White, W.M.; C. Davis, S.W.; William Peacock, J.W.; W.R. Thomas, treasurer; Jabez Neal, secretary; M. Workman, S.D.; F. Baldwin, J.D., and B.F. Holliday, Tyler. In 1865 the order erected a lodge room over the Methodist Church.

From History of Hamilton County, Shirts, 1901. Grave site #42, row 10.

1. ↑ Pat (Niehaus) Cracraft.