Werle “Look Cards on Indiana Ebony Record,” Yards 792, William Henry Smith Memorial Collection, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Indiana

Fayette County

The latest nineteenth century Ebony society out of was quick however, enhanced steadily through the years. For the 1820 there have been a maximum of 9 people regarding colour. Inside 1830 new number rose so you’re able to thirty-you to broadening to 53 in 1840, seventy-one or two for the 1850; 87 when you look at the 1860 and you can ninety five from inside the 1870. Most persons stayed for the Connersville Township. Of that township people cohort, the vast majority of lived in the town from Connersville in the place of life style when you look at the a rural environment. About three from is the reason nine townships (Columbia, Fairview and you can Waterloo) claimed zero Ebony people in virtually any of your decennial censuses 1850 as a consequence of 1870. The populace of one’s leftover five townships would-be called intermittent. Data are listed below: Harrison, 1850 – fourteen, 1860 – 0, 1870 – 1; Jackson, 1850 – 0, 1860 – seven, 1870 -0; Jennings, 1850 – dos, 1860 – 0, 1870 -1; Orange 1850 – 0, 1860 – 17, 1870 – 1; and you will Posey, 1850 – a dozen, 1860 – 1; 1870 – step three.

William Walk try a distinguished very early visibility in the area one to turned . Into the 1814, Path ran off bondage when you look at the Sc and you may arrived in the Whitewater River Area urban area ahead of Indiana statehood. Trail battled of slave catchers both directly plus press the site in the brand new process of law and you may put up to buy their liberty. He married a free woman regarding colour, Sarah Wadkins, who’d migrated away from Virginia toward Beech settlement in the Hurry Condition.

Yet another celebrated Ebony farmer into the was James/John Van Horn. Van Horn escaped bondage during the Kentucky (c. 1826) and took retreat during the Rush County sooner or later relocating to . Working as an excellent teamster he had been in a position to save your self sufficient money to buy their versatility. In 1840 he inserted 160 acres off land in Blackford Condition. Van Horn married Nancy Foster of Kansas inside 1842. Once feeling racial aggression into the Blackford Condition he exchanged the latest tract to own eighty miles in the and you can gone back to the room in the 1854. After a while he put in his holdings accumulating 121 acres on Alquina Street eastern off Connersville. The guy built a hefty farmstead one to stands today (637 E Alquina Highway). The Van Horns are hidden from the regional cemetery one to surrounds the newest Community Creek Church (CR 150 S). [So it chapel is known regarding the Interim Statement.]

The new black colored inhabitants of Connersville and you may environs are adequate in order to assistance numerous church congregations. Black colored Methodists first started meeting c. 1844-1845 eventually erecting a small physical stature chapel that has been in use up until 1872. Next a brick-building is bought (referred to as “assets of your own regular Methodists”) regarding Religious congregation inside the Connersville (Barrows, p448). An enthusiastic AME chapel was also arranged which have worship within a design into Water Path. Rev. Daniel Winslow are one of its very first ministers. Wesley Church are said as well in connection with the latest “coloured Methodists” out-of Connersville (Barrows, p 405). Black colored Baptists prepared Mt. Zion Baptist (colored) inside 1888 appointment around hall prior to building a creating in 1891. A roster of your own charter people in Connersville Christian Chapel, a white congregation, is sold with Elijah West, “a colored servant of your own Holtons.”

They stayed into a 25-acre farm located east off Connersville for some ages before moving in along with their growing family relations so you’re able to Henry State in which they’d ordered 160 miles from land

Connersville had two barbers, both African american: Henry Holland, produced in Ohio; and you may Andrew Turner, produced in the Indiana. Nearly all ‘s the reason African Us americans got its roots in a choice of Indiana otherwise Kentucky. Someone else originated in Ohio, the new Carolinas and you can Virginia. A lot more surnames provided Foster, Scott, Hickelson, and Munford.