Census - 1880 "old folks listed" - fun
Source: Greencastle Banner 15 July 1880
The following are the oldest inhabitants of Putnam County as shown by the returns of the census enumerators:
1st Ward, Greencastle
Mary Albaugh …. 79 – Eliza Barwick … 74 – Sarah Bradley … 70 – Sarah Chapin … 75 – Kate Celley (Kelley?) … 77 – Jane Carver … 75 – Susanna Conover … 85 – Zilla Crose … 74 – Jack Clough … 80 – Benjamin Dorell … 76 – Hanna Daggy … 79 – Benjamin Dunkin … 78 --- David Fisher … 86 – John Frakes … 80 – Mary Farrow … 79 – Bertha Isaac … 78 – John F. Jones … 82 – John S. Jennings … 77 – Mira J. Jennings … 77 – Theodore C. Jennings … 75 – Peter Longshore … 74 – Rhoda Longshore … 81 – Bird Monday … 81 – David Rudisill … 72 – Jane Rudisill … 72 – James Rice … 75 – Rachael Sherald … 71 – Eleanor Smith … 77 – John W. Smith … 73 – Margaret Smith … 75 – James Tally … 75 – Nellie Tally … 79 – Christina Wirth … 70 – Samuel Woodruff … 76 – Christopher Weber … 72 – Louisa Weber … 75
2nd Ward, Greencastle
Lutitia Allen … 72 – Mary A. Brooke … 82 – William Bosson … 78 – Hannah R. Evans … 73 – Mary Gray … 75 – Benjamin F. Hays … 70 – Caroline Harker … 72 – Mercy C. Hoar … 76 – Mary A. Jones … 71 – Perry McClain … 72 – Mary J. Muzum … 71 – Eliza Osborne … 70 – John Osborne … 70 – Elizabeth Ryan … 78 – James Rickets … 72 – George Smith … 99 – James G. Tennant … 75
3rd Ward, Greencastle
J. Atchison … 74 – Anna Armstrong … 70 – R. Bachelder … 80 – Asa Beck … 78 – Martha Beck … 72 – Benjamin Coleman … 70 – EB Chittenden … 77 – Paulina Chittenden … 74 – Margaret Evans … 82 – John Goggin … 80 – JP Hathaway … 74 – H. Hamilton … 71 – Mary Hamilton … 71 – May Hogue … 80 – Anna E. Hollis … 72 – RT Lakin … 70 – E. Meek … 74 – Mike Murphy … 75 – J. Trautman … 72 – Thomas Talbott … 71 – E. Talbott … 77 – Charles Vost … 74 – A. Vanlandingham … 78
East Greencastle Twp.
Louisa Allison (colored) … 78 – Zilpha Allison (colored) … 75 – Hannah Butler … 77 – Naomi Burton … 71 – John Browning … 76 – Vina Coffman … 79 – Mary Cummings … 77 – Nancy Cramer … 77 – Matthias Drew … 87 – John E. Fry … 89 – James Houck … 73 – Catherine Kerby … 70 – Margaret McKamey … 72; Elizabeth Moore … 72; Ann McDuffee … 75 – William Peck … 79 – Margetta Peck ….. 70 – John Reeves … 72 – Eliza Reeves … 72 – Alexander Stevenson … 78
West Greencastle Twp
James Allen … 78 --Margaret Allen … 71 – Alex Black … 77 – Martha Black … 70 – John Crane … 70 – Alex Dunnington … 76 – Rachel Durham … 70 – William Earl … 72 – Thomas Gillespey … 70 – Wm. Goodale … 70 – Samuel Gibson … 80 – Sarah Hawkins … 87 – FE McLaine … 74 – Anna O’Hair … 86 – Michael Pruett … 76 – Mary Sullivan … 94 – Nenian Steele (Colored) … 75 – Rose Taylor (colored) … 70 – Rose Taylor (colored) … 75 – Nancy Walls … 76 – Clinton Walls … 74
Clinton Twp.
Margaret Bament … 72 – Robert Brothers … 74 – Alex Bradshaw … 73 – Elizabeth Bradshaw … 70 – Jane Cawthorn … 70 – John Carmichael … 70 – Catherine Davis … 85 – Luke Gardner … 75 – Jacob Harlan … 77 – Samuel Lloyd …73 – Elizabeth Nugent … 79 – Nancy Nutgrass … 72 – Aaron Stites … 85 – Emzi Tatman … 70 – Elzephus Thomas … 73 – Estham Webster … 70
Russell Twp
James Burnside … 82 – Catherine Bamers … 76 – Jesse Blake … 82 – Nancy Chambers … 83 – Nancy Cashaw … 86 – James S. Dryden … 79—Solomon Gaines … 72 – George Graham … 72 – Edgecomb Guilliams … 74 – Rachel Homan … 74 – Rosanna Hinkle … 81 – Cornelius Hargrave … 76 – John M. Hart … 75 – Joseph T. Hopkins … 72 – John P. Leasure … 74 – George Lookabill … 77 – Elizabeth Lookabill … 70 – William Neal … 71 – Thomas Norman … 80 – Malinda Proctor … 73 – George H. Scott … 74 – Sarah R. Scott … 74 – James Spencer … 74 – Joseph Stallard … 74 – Charity Tate … 81 – Abigail Wilson … 85 – James B. Wilson … 74 – Susan Wilson … 78 – William Wilson … 71
Mill Creek Twp
Pleasant Allee … 79 – Samuel Beadle … 72 – Enoch Wallace … 73
Jackson Twp
Calvin Barnard … 73 – John Bartlett … 74 – Richard Biddle … 76 – Jonathan Brewer … 73 – Lucinda Brewer … 74 – Anthony Bowen … 71 – James Cunningham … 76 – Jacob S. Crosby … 73 – Eleanor Crosby … 75 – Phillip Carpenter … 74 – Mary Case … 77 – Sarrah H. Coffman … 75 – Elizabeth Eggers .. 72 – William Eggers … 84 – Elizabeth Grantham … 74 – George Jeffries … 81 – Harvey Jeffries … 70 – Lucy Johnston … 82 – John W. King … 74 – Betsy B. Lafollett … 72 – John Lafollet … 72 – Fannie Moreland … 73 – Susan Myers … 74 – Cynthia McCammern (sic) … 73 – Nathan Morpheu (sic) … 82 – Matthew Rust … 70
East Washington Twp
Phillip Bence … 78 – Margaret Black … 75 – John Funican … 83 – John Goggin … 79 – Ellen Goggin … 73 – Christopher Grable … 79 – Dudley Hamrick … 71 – Jonathan Mullinix … 78 – Jesse Rogers … 84 – William Rissler … 84 – Susan Rissler … 73 – Mary C. Rice … 79 – Elizabeth Sutton … 74 – Jesse Sanders … 79 – Henry Snyder … 76 – Joseph Zenor … 79 – Mary Zenor … 77
West Washington Twp
Rebecca Butler … 72 – Mary Donnahue … 79 – Elenor Girten … 74 – Russell Green … 75 – SIMPSON HARRIS … 100 – Isabel Harris … 87 – Elizabeth Irwin … 70 – James Johnson … 77 – Mariah Johnson … Carey Moyers … 70 – Susan Moyers … 70 – Henry B. Pickett … 72 – James Phillips .. 75 – Peter Stokes … 83 – Anna Stokes … 76 – Joseph Thompson … 74
Franklin Twp
James Akers … 86 – Eliza Brown … 78 – Jane Bridges … 74 – Jacob Card … 76 – Elizabeth Card … 76 – Robert Cleveland … 86 – Henry Cline .. 70 – Elizabeth Grider … 75 – Mary Goslin … 75 – Jesse P. Hymer … 75 – Sarah Harris … 73 – Joseph Hall … 79 – William Halen … 76 – David James … 73 – John L. Leaton … 75 – Jeremiah Oliver … 77 – Lucinda Oliver … 73 – Elizabeth Pearcy … 79 --- Larkin Roger … 72 – David Rady … 90 – Samuel Short … 78 – Rhoda P. Turner
West Half Monroe Twp
Rosanna Albin … 74 – Nancy Brown … 90 – James Fisk … 73 – Jane Frakes … 70 – James E. M. O’Hair … 76 – William Singleton … 78
East Monroe Twp
Turpin Darnall … 81 (very dim) – Louisa Darnall … 73 – James Denwiddie … 70 – Margaret Edgar … 78 – Sophia Givens … 79 – Matthew McCorkle … 76 – James McClary … 79 – Martin Mungarn … 76 – Mary Pearcy .. 70 – Annie Parr … 71 – William Randel … 80 – Mary Randel … 76 – John Starr .. 77 – Elizabeth Starr … 77 – Leah Tomison … 72 – J.A. Tharp…78 – JEREMIAH WAMPLER … 100
Madison Twp
Jesse Burnette … 74 – John Boston … 78 – Solomon Carpenter … 73 – Linna Frank … 70 – William Godard … 73 – Nancy Godard … 72 – Jane Hammond … 79 – Rachel Huff .. 80 – Jesse McPheeters … 73 – Cynthias McPheeters … 80 – Michael Murphy … 70 – Jane Messick … 71 – Edward Pierce … 75 – Charles G. Phillips … 72 – Susan Roberts … 72 – Mary Stoner … 70 – James Torr .. 70 – Joseph Wells … 87
West Cloverdale Twp – note -- this was very dim so a few of the ages may be off a bit 70 & 76 for instance looked alike as did 71 & 74 – sorry – best I could do
Theodore Allen … 70 --Abbie Crose … 72 – David Coffman … 71 --- William Corrithers … 74 – Orison Chamberlain … 72 – Delila Denny .,.. 76 – Arabian Davis … 78 – Kizia Davis … 78 – Sarah Hubbard … 76 – Jacob Hartsaw … 74 – Sarah Halfhill … 74 – William Lee … 70 – Nancy McMains … 78 – William Morrison … 76 – Henry McGill … 76 – James Pickens … 76 – John Renfro … 74 – Silas J. Riley … 72 – Mary Riley … 74 – Martha Sackett … 72 – James Sherrill … 79 – Samuel Turner … 74 – Fannie Trout … 79 – Amsea Taber … 76 – Hugh Thompson … 75
East Cloverdale Twp
John Broadstreet … 72 – Abigail Cummins … 75 – John Dix … 79 – Delana R. Pickles … 74 – Thomas Gorham … 74 – Julia Hadden .. 75 – Wesley Hall … 73 – Nancy McCarty … 83 – Aaron McCarty … 88 – Jacob Rule … 88 – Joseph B. Ross … 80 (very dim) – Andrew Steele … 78 – James Wilson … 70
Marion Twp (the ages are very dim on here – did the best I could)
Riley Buis .. 72 – George W. Brown … 74 – Jacob P. Cox … 74 – Nancy Cox … 71 – James Cooley … 78 – Mary Cooley … 77 – George Crow … 75 – Elizabeth Cros … 76 – Catherine Clark … 74 – Nancy Cooper … 74 – John Clark … 83 – Pauline Clark … 75 – Mary Denny … 75 – Robert Evans … 84 – Margaret Evan s… 75 – Sarah E. Freeman … 72 -- Thomas Jackson … 80 – John Keller … 77 – Effie Keller – 76 – Elizabeth Leachman … 74 – Michael McLaughlin … 78 – Daniel McAnanich .. ? – Dorcas McAninch … ? --- Charlotte McIntyre … 83 – Margaret Nicholson … 84 – Catherine Nichols … ? – Adam Nichols … 74 – Morris H. Oliver … 73 – Greenbury Prather … 80 – Thomas Ruark … 80 – John Smith … 84 – Henry Shields … 78 – Jane H. Shields … 78 – Benjamin Sechman … 73 – Dennis Spellman … 80 – Nathan R. Strauhan … 70 – Mary Straughan … 73 – Mary A. Shields .. 75 – Mary Terry … 75 – Ann Walker … 79
Floyd Twp
Elizabeth Ader … 74 – Delpha Busby … 72 – Stephen Brown .. 75 – Anna Brown … 74 Jane Brown … 76 – Josias Catham … 79 – Sarah Catham … 78 – Adam Ellis … 70 – Francis A. Figg … 75 – Rebecca Figg … 71 – Hannah Ford … 80? – Luson Hunger … 78 – Mary E. Kurtz … 76 – Archibald Miller … 77 – William McAchran … 70 – Mary R. Pickett … 80 – James M. Pickett … 71—Perry Smith … 75 – Mary Smith … 78
Warren Twp
Marquis Arbuckle … 76 – Catherine Albright … 70 – Elijah Arnold … 76 – Lucy Brothers … 71 – James Dale … 73 – Nancy Dale … 70 – Elizabeth Davis … 81 – Mary Denny … 88 – Henry Easter … 79 – William Grigsby … 70 – Henry J. Hendrix – 74 … Hannah R. Hendrix … 72 – John Jenkins … 75 – Catherine Kennedy … 74 – Susan J. Lewis … 76 – George Lancet … 71 – DW Layman … 71 – Sarah Mann .. 75 – Larkin Turner … 72
Jefferson Twp
Catherine Buis … 70 – Thomas Bryans … 75 – William Bybee … 78 – Mary Brinton … 90 – Louisa Boardman … 75 – Emily Farmer … 73 – George Hill .. 75 – Elizaeth Hurst … 78 – Harrison Hill .,.. 74 – James Halton … 73 – Rebecca Halton … 72 – Joicy Hart … 77 John Runyan … 73 – Jacob Smith … 76 – Susan Shaw … 71 – Jesse Truesdfale … 74
NOTE: There were BIO – listed as age 100 in the 1880 census
Two 100-year-olds were listed in the Putnam County Indiana Census, one being
SIMPSON HARRIS
Simpson Harris, a War of 1812 soldier. He lived seven more years but in his obituary it said he was 109. He was actually 108 years and 19 days. Born in Orange Co NC he literally (born Jan 1st) brought in the year 1778. He cast his first vote for Jefferson for President in 1801 and voted in each presidential election thereafter. He was later an active member of the Republican Party in Putnam. In 1882, the Greencastle Banner noted that he celebrated his 102nd birthday by voting. In 1885 he was finally granted a pension. He came to Indiana 1821 and lived on the farm where he entered a grant until he passed away. His wife was much younger, having been born 22 years after him. They had at least two children. Uncle Simp as he was familiarly noted had great physical strength in his earlier days. One story told about him was that a large family living nearby him by the name of Lawson who swore they would lick Simp. “One day five of the boys thought they would get him under the influence of liquor then thump him to their hearts’ content. They began the process in the usual way but Harris after getting a bracer or two allowed his liquor to run down his front. When the boys thought him sufficiently mellow they opened up. Uncle Simp braced himself and in about five blows had his assailants sprawled on the ground. He jumped up, cracked his heels together and shouted, “Bring on the rest of ‘em – I can lick the whole regiment of them yet!” (obits)
JEREMIAH WAMPLER
Jeremiah Wampler, along with Simpson Harris in the 1880 census were listed as being 100. It was quite an impressive plus for Putnam County having two at that age. Jeremiah was born May 20, 1780 in Whitheville, Virginia. He was a War of 1812 veteran, Virginia Militia under a Capt. Lewis. He married Rebecca Hall in 1821 and they went to Bedford, Ind where she passed away leaving seven children. He next went to Gosport, Owen County where he married Elizabeth Morehead and they came to Bainbridge where he worked at his trade (he was quite a well known wagon builder) until just a few days before he passed away at 102, 9 months 25 days. At his death, he had a good set of teeth and could read and write without his glasses – pretty amazing! (obits; bio)