Dale - See Daleville, Indiana
Dale, Alexander Campbell-----------------------A Short Sketch--------------------------------
"Campbell" Dale as he was known, lived in the north eastern part of Worcester Co., MD until aboout 1826/27 when he sold all of his lands and moved his family to Delaware Co., IN. According to census records Campbell had three sons and two daughters. It is not known when his wife and two daughters died. No mention is made of them in his will written in July of 1839. He did, however, will extensive lands to his grandson George Campbell Lethers the son of Rhoda and Henry Lethers of Delaware Co., IN.
Campbell moved from Ohio from Maryland for a short time but by 1830 was living in Delaware Co., IN. 1830 census shows Campbell Dale with: 1m u 5; 1 m 30-40; 1m 40-50; 1 m 70-80; 1f 45-50; 1f 50-60. The 1840 census for Delaware Co. show 1m 10-15; 1m 30-40; 1m 40-50; 1m 70-80.
The land entry book for Delaware Co., IN shows three entries for land for Campbell Dale made 10 January 1827 and two on 20 March 1827. It is said by his descendants that a son John R. Dale walked from Ohio to the land office in Indianapolis, IN to enter land in Campbell's name, paying $1.25 an acre for it. He beat a man who started out on horse back at the same time.
The town of Dalesville, in Delaware Co., IN was platted by Campbell on 10 November 1828. It was there he settled and lived until his death in 1841. He was buried in he little Dale cemetery in Dalesville. In April of 1964 the S.A.R. placed a Government marker at the little dale cemetery in honor of Alexander Campbell Dale, Revolutionary War soldier.
He was born abt 1755/56 in Worcester Co., MD. died 1841 in Dalesville Co., IN.
Children: (not necessarily in order of birth)
1.daughter
2. John Dale b. 20 Oct 1776 in Worcester Co., MD -- d. 27 Oct 1864 in Delaware Co., IN
3. Rhoda b. in Worcester Co., MD d. pre 1841 -- m. 18 Sept 1828 to Henry Lethers in Delaware Co., IN
4. William C. Dale b. abt 1892 in Worcester Co., MD d. 25 Dec 1857 in Delaware Co., IN -- m. 23 March 1842 to Sarah Tabler dau. of William Tabler in Delaware Co., MD
(Contributed by Judy Laliker - [email protected])
------------------------ABSTRACT OF WILL OF ALEXANDER CAMPBELL DALE----------------------Written 6 July 1839 - filed for probate: 29 Mar 1841- Delaware County, IN I direct that:
my Grandson George "Camel" Lethers shall have all my land lying in the county of Madison and the State of Indiana and that he shall have one hundred and seventy five dollars out of my estate, cash.
that he shall have a horse and saddle and bridle when he arrives a the age of twenty one, worth fifty dollars
Also that he shall have one corner lot in the town of Dalesville.
that if he should die without lawful heir the land shall fall back to my three sons
that my land is to be equally divided into three shares the lines to be drawn North and South with my sons, Elisha, John and William Dale as heirs.
that of the land that lies in the County of Delaware and the state of Indiana my son Elisha Dale is to have the East third of said land and my son John the middle and my son (William) the West third.
that the sawmill and two acres on the other side of the river is to belong to my sons John, Elisha and William in partnership.
that my sons Elisha, John and William Dale are to have a lot apiece in the town of Dalesville.
that all my personal property is to be equally divided between my three sons Elisha, John and William Dale that my worthy and esteemed sons Elisha Dale, John Dale and William Dale are to be executors of this my last will and testament.
witnesses: Abraham Deploye
John Simpson
(Contributed by Judy Lalike - [email protected])
Daleville, Indiana - Daleville, down the river about five miles southwest of Yorktown got on the map, Campbell Dale having filed his plat of a townsite there along the river in the northwest half of the northeast quarter of section 1 of township 19, range 8 (Salem), November 10, 1838. This townsite evidently was laid off in the expectation that the projected canal would prove a permanent thing, which it then promised to be, for the plat is laid out at the junction of the "canal" and White river, with the"feeder dam" marked in accordance with the plans of the engineers, but the canal collapsed and the town went to sleep, only to be awakened by the whistle of the railway locomotive when the railroad came along there in 1852, when it was made a station and became a good trading center. Mr. Dale's original plat of his townsite shows three full blocks, three and one-half blocks and two lesser fractions, on the state road with the east and west (at variation) streets being Dale and Washington, the north and south streets (also at variation) being Pearl, Main and Water. It is proper to note that the original plat as recorded carries the name of Dalesville, though the gazetteer and the maps make it Daleville, which also is the postoffice and railway station name.
(Source: History of Delaware County, Indiana, Frank D. Haimbaugh, 1924, Vol 1, page 403)
Deeds, John G. - see Georgeville
Delaware Lake, West Muncie - See West Muncie
Desoto, Indiana - Desoto, on the Lake Erie railway about midway between Albany and Muncie, really had its start as a trading center at a point about a mile north at the mouth of Campbell creek, which was platted by Abraham Cline under the name of Clifton on June 7, 1849. Clifton was a tract of three blocks and a fraction at the mouth of the creek there at the bend of the Mississinewa in the east half of the southwest quarter of section 16 of township 21, range 11 (Delaware), with Buckeye, Main and Cherry streets the east and west streets and Mulberry and Locusts streets north and south. With the coming of the railroad in the '70s Clifton lost its value as a trading point in favor of a stop that had been established by the railroad company at a point on the road a mile or more south and on January 8, 1881, Luther L. Perdieu, owner of the tract where the railroad crosses the creek in the west half of the northeast quarter of section 28 of the same township, laid out and platted the town of Woodlawn, a tract of sixteen lots cut diagonally northeast-southwest by the railroad, with four streets, Perdieu and Delaware east and west, and Market and Main north and south, and opened the sale of lots as a townsite. When it came time to establish a postoffice there the postoffice authorities declined to accept the name Woodlawn as likely to become confused with the name of the postoffice of Woodburn in Allen county and by agreement with the proprietor of the townsite and the railroad people the name of Desoto was given to the place and this it since has held.
(Source: History of Delaware County, Indiana, Frank D. Haimbaugh, 1924, Vol 1, pages 404/5) Dille, Silas - see William Heal
Dowlet, Francis - see Selma
Duncan, William - see Smithfield