Note: Plenty of content in the 2015 blog on the original settlers. Feel free to look around for it. This is the obit of one of the first children on that group.
JOHN F. TEMPLETON DEAD
A pioneer of the Whitewater Valley gone to join the innumerable caravan in that Land Where Sealess Shore mingles with Shoreless Sea.
The air was freighted with sadness on the old Templeton homestead in Harmony Township, Union County, Ind., Thursday morning, June 18, 1891 (about 2 miles south of old Quakertown settlement).
The sweet June sunshine had hardly climbed the shoulder of the eastern hills that summer morning when the heart of Uncle Jack, as he was familiarly called, ceased to beat, and death claimed its own from the arms of a quiet sleep into which he had fallen about 5 o'clock. His life went out like a tune set to pleasant words; like a murmuring brook over pebbly bottom whose sounds is forever lost among the dark marshes of some green meadowland.
"Uncle Jack" was born on the homestead where he died. Nov. 29, 1807, and was aged 83 years, 6 moths and 19 days. He was the first white male child born in the Whitewater Valley. His sister, Mrs. Katy Newland, who was born July 15, 1805, was the first white female child born in the Whitewater Valley.
His father John Templeton was born in the county of Astrum, Ireland, Jan. 28, 1776 and was married to Mary J. Janna, which home he went to South Carolina in 1801 and came to the Whitewater Valley with the Carolina colony, passing through Cincinnati which then had but one store, and settled on the Templeton homestead in Nov. 1807, where his son John F. was born.
The Carolina colony was composed of the following prominent families: John and Joseph Hanna, Templeton, William and John Logan, Geo. Leviston, John Hanna Jr., Robert Templeton, John Ewing and Robert Swann.
The first pioneer cabins on the East Whitewater Valley were erected in 1804.
When his family located here, his first night was spend under a tree, near Fairfield, with a root for a pillow.
The funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian church in Liberty by Rev. J.S. Revenaugh. Burial at West Point cemetery.
He was taken ill on Monday, his case assuming a dangerous form on Tuesday, he grew worse until the leadened winged messenger came Thursday morning.
Those who were nearest and dearest to him can know and feel that he has only drifted a little while before them i=on the sunbeams of that early summer morn, out into that land where sealess shore mingles with shoreless sea, and God rule eternal.
-- Will H.
Liberty, Ind., June 20, 1891
From 1884 Atlas showing J. and Benjamin F. Templeton land just south of old Quakertown settlement in Union County. As an aside, the land just south, owned by Elmira Koerner. She was the wife of Daniel Koerner, whose sister was Susan Koener Wright, the mother of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Most of the Koerners are buried in Old Franklin Cemetery east of New Fairfield.
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