Union Township

Towns: Eaton - Pittsburg - Shideler

Location:
Coordinates: 40°20′53″N 85°23′03″W [S2] -

Other Names:

Cemeteries: [S2] -
Laird:
Mount Zion Church:
Union:
Eaton:

1874: Sec 22 - Sec. 36 - [S7, page 17] -

Population: (Including Eaton)
1870: 1244
1880: 1466 [S3, page 3]

Maps:
Hand-drawn Plat Maps: 1861 - 1862 - 1863 - 1865 - (Bracken Library Historical Maps Collection)
1870: [S5] -
1874: [S7, page 17] - Eaton (Sec 23, 24) - Pittsburgh (Sec. 17) - Shideler (Sec. 35) - Mississinewa River - Railroad -
1876: [S4] -
1887: Plat Map - S3,

Schools:
1874: Sec. 11, School #2 - School #6, Sec. 20 - School #12, Sec. 26 - [S7, page 17] -

- Pipe Creek School:
   - Students with caption, Sept 1914 - [Album of Yesteryear, The Muncie Star, 24 Apr 1988, p 10B] - Doc2745.pdf
   - Location: NW Corner of Shideler Pike (CR 800N) and Nixon or Baxla Rd (CR800N) - [Album of Yesteryear, The Muncie Star, 15 March 1987, p 14D]
      - Photo of students with names listed, 1915-16
   - Photo of Students, Sept 1914, Grades 1-8 - [Album of Yesteryear, The Muncie Star, 24 Apr 1988, p 10B]
   - Mary M. Brandt was a teacher at Pipe Creek School - [Album of Yesteryear, The Muncie Star, 24 Apr 1988, P 10B]
   -

Tile Works: Sec. 8 - [S7, page 17] -

Union Township Delinquent Taxpayers, 1847 [Delaware County Genealogist and Historian, March 1996, p 15, 16] - Doc2739.pdf

Thrashing Bee Scene, 1922 - [Album of Yesteryear, The Muncie Star, 11 Jan 1987] - Doc2746.pdf

Francis Harris erected a cabin 1831, erected a mill on the Mississinewa River - [S8, p 288]

[S11]
Page 73: Union Township
75: First School
   - Teacher: Miss Susan Handley, 1836-1837
   - Location: SW Qtr of Sec. 24, owned by Junius McMillan, Now owned [1899] F. R. Foorman
   - Teacher, 1837: William Campbell
76: First Mill - Francis Harris, west half of NW Qtr, Sec 25
76B: Photo of Eaton Park - Charles Brown, Manager - Shows slide into River
77: First Church
78: Eaton
80: Sec. 8, School #5, SW Qtr; Sec. 10, Smith Ditch; Sec. 11, L.E. & W Railroad; Sec. 11, School #2
81: Sec. 14, "Hen Peck"
82: Sec. 16, School #3, NE corner
83: sec. 19, School #6, NE corner
84: Sec 23, Eaton, School #1 in Eaton; Sec. 24, Eaton; Sec. 25, Eaton, Leard Cemetry, SW corner of East half of SE Qtr of Sec.
85: Sec. 26, School #11, Also a church, SW corner; Sec 28, School #8, North side of Sec. at half Sec. line
86: SEc 30, School #7, SE Corner; Sec. 33, School #9, Southwest
87: 1/2 of Shideler, Sec. 35; SEc. 36, School #10, NW corner; Has two post office towns

Sources

Source Citation

Image
(Click for larger View)
(To Magnify larger image - use CTRL + )

Google Maps:

WikiPedia Article

An Atlas of Delaware County, Indiana. Philadelphia: Griffin, Gordon & Co, 1887, reprinted., Knightstown, Indiana: Mayhill Publications, 1971. Bk1849

Plat Map, Union Township, page 18: Doc2234.pdf
PDF Pages:
1 - Title
2 - West half of township
3 - East half of township

Map: Delaware County, Indiana, 1876. (Published by Baskin, Forster & Co. Lakeside Building Chicago, 1876. Engraved & Printed by Chas. Shober & Co. Props. Of Chicago Lithographing Co.) David Rumsey Map Collection. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~23110~790090:Map-of-Delaware-County---Published-# Accessed, 27 Feb 2012. Acc002078/Ph9386-001 to 041.jpg

Detail: Union Township

From 1876 - Delaware County Map

Ph9386-006.jpg

Map: Asher, Adams & Higgins. New Topographical Atlas and Gazetteer of Indiana, multiple counties including Delaware, Blackford, Madison, and Hamilton and others. Indianapolis: Higgins & Ryan, 1870, pages 19, 20. David Rumsey Map Collection. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~33585~1171285:New-topographical-atlas-and-gazette?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No# Accessed 28 Feb 2012. Acc002079/Ph9387.jpg

Map Detail: Union Township, Delaware County

Book: Road Names of Delaware County, Indiana. Muncie, Indiana: Delaware County Historical Society, 2005. Bk3641, page 18

Book: Map of Delaware County Indiana: Indexed and Printed in Atlas Form from 1874 Wall Map. Original: Philadelphia: A.L. Klingman, 1874. Reprint: Muncie, Indiana: D & N Research, 1989. Bk3642

Helm, T. B. (Thomas B). History of Delaware County, Indiana: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Kingman Brothers, 1881 (Reprint, 1976), Bk1595

"Delaware County's Delinquent Taxpayers of 1842" - Delaware County, Genealogist and Historian, March 1995, page 13 - Doc2904.pdf

S10

"Delaware County Delinquent Taxpayers of 1847" Transcribed by Joyce Colleen Libes. Delaware County Genealogist and Historian, March 1996, pages 15, 16 - Doc2908.pdf

S11

Ellis, John S. Our County: [Delaware County, Indiana] Its History and Early Settlement by Townships. (1890). Evansville, Indiana: Whipporwill Publications, Reproduction, 1987. Bk2082. Read Online -

S12

S13

S14

S15

S16

S17

S18

S19

S20

S21

S22

S23

S24

S25