Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Herald Telephone, June 30, 1955, p. 1. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. The town of Stinesville is being readied for its 3-day centennial celebration July 7 - 9.A writer of that day described some of the early settlers of Monroe County as being the best citizens who came here and made it their abiding place, and those valuable adjuncts of civilization-education and religion-took deep root. It is said that the first school in Bean Blossom Township was taught in 1828 by a Mr. Taylor. By 1836, there were four established schools, all log. Three famous teachers of the 1830s were Eusebius and Ambrose Hinkle, brothers, and sons of a wealth slave-holder of Tennessee. The old history describes them as being "young men of fine manners, finished education and among the most perfect disciplinarians ever in charge of schools in the district." Eusebius, the eldest, was a Lutheran minister and often preached in German to the members of his church who could not understand English very well.These brothers were single men, though the elder married one of the fair daughters of the township. Clinton C. Owens was another pioneer teacher. He is described as being "finely educated and his discipline was the pride of the district." Today Stinesville has a modern stone grade and high school and an adequate teaching staff that serves the township. Church Life Liberty Church at Mt. Tabor is said to be the first church in Bean Blossom Township. John and Nancy Burton with their six children were the first to settle in the community in 1819. "Uncle Johnny," as he was called, was a very religious man. He had prayed for safe journey to their new home and found the Indians friendly. It was he who said, "We have come unto a new land, a new Promised Land," and after quoting from the Bible he said, "We shall call that hill and this place Mt. Tabor." Religious services were held in log cabin homes at first, but on September 23, 1831, "Uncle Johnny" and a group of friends and neighbors met on the site of the church and here, with axes and broad axes, the finest yellow poplars were felled and the church was erected on the ground Burton donated. The church was supposed to be non-denominational, but since most of the congregation learned toward the Methodist faith, it became the Liberty Methodist Church.