this was from Henry Co Roots but it has alot of Madison Co Info on it worth reading Jim R. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Lora1957@aol.com> To: <INHENRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: March 24, 2001 8:15 PM Subject: [INHENRY] Gustin,Fuller,Betts, Diltz,Cummins,Smith,Harvey,Nixon,Brunk,Hirpp > COMPENDIUMOF BIOGRAPHY > Of Henry County Indiana > B.F.Bowen > 1920 > > Page347, 348, 349 > > Surnames in this biography are: Gustin, Fuller, Betts, Diltz, Cummins, Smith, > Harvey,Nixon, Brunk, Hirpp, > > > > > > ISAAC H. GUSTIN > > Henry County, Indiana, has withinits limits but few > horticulturists and agriculturists as experienced in thesetwo branches of > husbandry as the gentleman whose name stands at the head ofthis biographical > notice. He is of French extraction and remotely of ante-Revolutionarydescent, > was born in Warren County Ohio, August 14, 1824, a son of Samuel B.Gustin, of > Pennsylvania, whose father, Jeremiah Gustin, was born in New Jersey and was a > son of Jeremiah Gustin, the son of John Gustin, who was born on the island of > Jersey, on the northeast of France, and was the founder of the family in > America. John Gustin and his wifeElizabeth came from the isle of Jersey to > America in 1675 and died in 1719 at Falmouth (Portland), Maine. Hisson > Jeremiah, who was born in 1691, married Mary -, who wasborn in 1692. They > settled in Sussex County, New Jersey, and there Mrs. Mary Gustin died in > 1762, and John Gustin in 1771. Jeremiah Gustin,son of John and Elizabeth > Gustin, married Bethany Fuller, and died at Red Lion,Warren County, Ohio, in > 1825 and 1829 respectively. Jeremiah Gustin, son ofJeremiah and Bethany > (Fuller) Gustin, married a Miss Betts, of Cincinnati,Ohio, and died also at > Red Lion at the advanced age of ninety-two years. Samuel B. Gustin, son of > the Jeremiah lastalluded to, married Elizabeth Diltz, a native of Kentucky, > but reared inOhio. Samuel B. and his wife lived on the old Gustin place at > Red Lion until 1845, at which time they were the parents of six children, > namely: Lemuel, who left his home about the year 1859, lived in Illinois and > Dakota several years, then at Storm Lake, Iowa and is now a resident of the > state of Washington; Isaac H.,the subject proper of this biography, is next > in order of birth; Rebecca, thethird child, was married to John Cummins, but > with her husband is now deceased;Jeremiah died in middle life in southwest > Indiana;. Susan, who was married to Asa Smith, died about ten years ago; > Benjamin Franklin, or Doe, ashe was familiarly known, died in southwest > Missouri, and Martha, who was first married to Miles Cummins, is now the > widow of Frank Smith. The Gustin familycame to Madison County, Indiana, and > settled on the county line, where Samuel B. cleared up a farm of one hundred > acres from a tract he had bought in the wild woods and on which he resided > until his death March 31, 1874, at the ageof seventy-six; his wife died a few > years previously at the age of sixty-eight Mr. Gustin was a mechanic and had > a shop in which he made guns, wheels,coffins, etc., and was also an impromptu > dentist, but his work in this line wasprincipally confined to the extracting > of teeth. He also bled peopleoccasionally and was the handy man of his > neighborhood. He was amember of the Christian church, was in politics first a > Wig and afterwards a Republican and had held the office of justice of the > peace. Isaac H. Gustin assisted in clearing up thenew farm and remained on > the place three years after coming to Madison County,when he married, > November 9, 1848, Miss Elizabeth, a daughter of James and Lucy(Harvey) > Cummins, natives of Monroe County, Virginia, where Elizabeth was born April > 15, 1827. In 1829 the Cummnins family came to Indiana in wagons with > several other families and settled one mile east of Middletown, but two > years later bought and west of the village, which land is now the propertyof > James L. Gustin heirs. In 1832 there had seven or eight acres been cleared > and the family lived ina round-log cabin, which was replaced by a > hewed-loghouse, and here Elizabeth Cummins was married at the age of > twenty-one. For one year after marriage Mr. Gustinand wife lived on his > father's land and then for a year on her father's. In 1850 he entered land in > the IndianReservation in Madison County, ten miles northwest of Alexandria, > erected a logcabin in the woods among the howling wolves and laid in > provisions sufficientto last him a year. He cleared up eight acres of the > place and set out fruittrees; then he sold the place for six hundred dollars > and for six hundred and fifty bought the farm of one hundred and sixty acres > on which he now lives. Butthis land was swampy and he was forced to drain it. > He then built a hewed-logcabin (which has been replaced by his present modern > dwelling on the same site), cleared up the higher ground, converted the > timber into cord wood and sold it to the railroad company; this process was > repeated the second year, Mr.Gustin deriving a fair income from it the > meanwhile. Since 1852 this farm has been the homestead, although Mr. Gustin > has sold some of the land to his sons,retaining but eighty acres for his own > use. He had placed one hundred andtwenty-five acres under cultivation, had > laid timber-lined ditches, which werefollowed by mole drains which in clay > soils had a lasting quality of from fiveto ten years and finally secured the > use of the public drains, into which heran tiling at a cost of six hundred > dollars. About three-quarters of the landwas under water the greater part of > the year and roads were invisible, buteventually logs were rolled together > and covered with earth and now good gravel roads exist wherebefore they were > more a matter of imagination than reality. Besides devoting his attention to > the farm.Mr. Gustin has made some experiments in inventing agricultural > machine andgates, for which he has taken out several patents. In politics > Mr. Gustin was first a Whig and in 1848 voted forGeneral Winfield Scott as > the presidential nominee of the party; since 1856 hehas been a Republican, > although for a few years he diverged from his party andjoined the Populists. > Mr. Gustin has been a member of the Christian or NewLight church since > thirty-six years of age and Mrs. Gustin has professed the same faith > for forty years. Mr.and Mrs. Isaac H. Gustin havehad born to them > the following family: Edwin, who lost his life in a gravel pit in > 1895 at the age offorty five years; Cynthia, who was married to Lee > Nixon and diedin 1875 when twenty-two years old; Francis Marion, a > homeopathic physician atUnion City; James, who died in 1895 at the age of > thirty years, wedded MattieBrunk, and was the father of five children: Lee, > Sylvester, Morton, Ada and onedeceased; Smith, a resident of Fall Creek > township, wedded Sallie Hirpp, andhad children as follows: Clay, May, Ida and > three deceased; Moses, anagriculturist, is married and is the father of five > children as follows:Montrew, Fredie, Ruby, Ogleve and Argness. The surviving > members of the Gustin family are amongthe most honored of the pioneer > settlers around Middletown and have, always been among the foremost > in developing from the forest thefruitful farm that now adorns and enriches > the country and which have tended to make thetown and township what they are > today. They have certainly richly earned the enviable standing, whichthey > now enjoy. > > > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > >