Patterson built ("Undertaker") the jail at the rate of $181.50. Hardy used it as a grain business - it was known as "Hardy's Corner." David and Lew Wallace as well as many other men practiced law there.įollowing the courthouse, a jail was needed and it was built using 14" thick oak boards raised on a foundation of excellent stone. After this building was abandoned, James G. There shell be two good and sufficient floors, laid on good solid sleepers the plank of said floors not to exceed 9" in width, and one and one-fourth inches thick good and sufficient joists." Abraham Griffith gave the lowest bid at $335.
#Fountain county indiana court records windows#
Two panel doors, six panels each windows in lower story to be 15 lights, 8 x 10 each windows in upper 12 lights in each. It wasn't until March of 1827 that the board of justices ordered "a frame building 20' wide and 26' long, two stories high, lower story 10' in the clear, 2nd story 8' in the clear, three openings in front and back in each story, two windows in back and front of lower story, also in 2nd story with single architrave-casing also a solid cornice, the cant-mould to protect 4", the facia to protect 10" the bed-mould to protect 4". Just five hours after her wedding (at the beginning of their charivari) to Henry Davis Lawson, the paper wads meant to be a joke shot into their bedroom hit her in the temple and killed her. One of my most unliked piece of Fountain County history is also related to a wedding of a cousin of mine, Florence Sowers. Usually a dance would accompany the early weddings and the musician would be exhausted as dancer after dancer got to "cut-out" and rest but the fiddler continued on. This was likely the first or one of the first weddings in the county. They lived happily ever after, raising several children who aided in populating Fountain County. John Hibbs walked the rest of the way (up through Wabash Township) with Davis and performed the wedding ceremony.
On the way back, James Davis stopped at a new minister's home who had just settled in.
This was the spring (April) the next year. James was the son of Enos Davis who settled in Fountain County in the fall of 1823.
#Fountain county indiana court records license#
Davis who walked to Terre Haute to procure a license to marry Sallie Johnson, daughter of early settler Archibald Johnson. One of my favorite early Fountain County stories is that of James C.
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