| Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana |  |
| Into the extreme northern end of Tobin Township had come Thomas Cummings from Virginia as early as 1807, and inside the next three years he was followed by his son, Uriah Cummings who, on his way to Indiana, had married in Kentucky, Sarah Lanman, like himself a native of the Old Dominion. They located upon land which the father had entered, and became the parents of four sons and seven daughters, so that their descendants are numerous and found in other townships as well as on the original homestead, the name of Uriah having been handed down through each generation to the present.From 1815 to 1829 Uriah Cummings I operated a saw- and grist-mill on Poison Creek, afterward conducting a store in a building on his farm until he died, July 30, 1831. His donation, in 1816, of forty acres, had secured the location of the court house at Rome, but the condition attaching thereto, (providing for reversion to his heirs in case Rome ceased to be the county seat,) was disregarded when the county offices were moved, in 1859, to Cannelton, and through some technicality the claim of the Cummings heirs to the property was defeated.Perry County A History by Thomas de la Hunt The W.K. Stewart Company, Indianapolis Published 1916 |
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| John Hargis, who had come from Kentucky with his wife, Nancy Allen, among the pioneers. For several years operated a large horse-mill, the power whereof was conducted by a band of raw bull’s-hide, with the hair still on, cut out in a circle beginning at the centre of the hide. This business was so profitably managed that he was the owner of a half-section (320 acres) of land at his death, October 17, 1838. His widow survived him forty years, dying at an advanced age in June, 1878. Their descendants through twelve children. | |
| LEVI WINCHEL, a farmer of Tobin Township, is a native of Perry County, Born November 1, 1882, being the youngest son in a family of seven children born to the marriage of Uriah Winchel and Sarah Weatherholt, natives of New York and Pennsylvania respectively. They were married in this county, and lived the remainder of their lives on a farm in Tobin Township. The mother died about 1828 and the father was killed by an accident in 1833. The subject of this sketch was therefore left at an early age without the guiding care of a parent. He went to live with Hiram Simons, with whom he lived for about eight years, and during that time he learned the tanner’s trade. After his marriage, which occurred June 17, 1842, he formed a partnership with his former employer, which continued for about eight years. He has since been engaged in farming with good success. He chose for a life partner Ellen Finch, a native of the county, by whom he is the father of nine children, five of whom, James E., John E., Hiram, George W. and Levi C. are living. In politics Mr. Winchel is very liberal, always voting for principle rather than party. He was born in the Protestant faith, and his wife in the Catholic. Both are highly esteemed by all who know them. “History of Warrick, Spencer and Perry Counties, Indiana – Tobin Township” by Goodspeed Bros. & Co. – published in 1885 |
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