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Before the City — the Course of Section 25
What this fragment is, and what it leans on
Frame-pass fragments iv-the-taking, iv-peoples and iv-removal (the 1821 cession of this ground, Royce Area 117, plotted in the land fragment); this fragment's carriers as cited below.
The ground was ceded in 1821, surveyed, and sold — and then, for a century, it was simply farms. The cession that took this section, the peoples who held it before, and their removal are printed whole in the frame pass's land and tribes fragments and are carried here by pointer only. What those fragments did not do is follow the section itself: who first bought it, who first lived on it, what stood on it, and how a named town came to be sitting on its eastern edge. That course — first entry to emergence — is this fragment, at the size the record gives it.
The first entries: the question G-FR-3 asked, and its honest answer
BLM General Land Office records and the Indiana tract-book databases, recorded UNEXECUTED with parameters printed's note; Chapman (1880)…
No first entry for Section 25 was recovered, and no purchaser of the section is named in this build. The databases that answer the question could not be executed by text fetch: the BLM GLO search returns only a JavaScript shell…
1831: the Eatons on sections 25 and 26 — the section's first named family
Howard (1907), Vol. 2, sketch of Edwin Douglass Eaton, p. 1070, read from the page-image text; Chapman (1880), Jacob Eaton sketch, pp.…
The first family any carrier places on this section arrived in 1831 and stayed five years. Howard prints it in the sketch of the family's third generation: Jacob Eaton's parents "came to Clay township, St. Joseph county, Indiana…
The German Baptist ground: a church on section 24, a cemetery on section 25
Chapman (1880), Clay chapter, "Churches and Cemeteries," p. 677, verified verbatim from the page-image text (settler G-T-2, discharged for…
The section's one nineteenth-century institution stands in print with a caution attached to it. Chapman, whole: "There is only one church in Clay township besides the Catholic… It is a German Baptist organization, and the church…
The farm century, and the ground in 1950
After the Eatons removed in 1836, the section disappears from the named record into farmland. The farm families the county histories do name ring it — Cripes and Wrightsmans on 26, Jennings on 30, Chalfant on 31, the McCombs line…
Emergence: a name on a map, then a town
The section's course ends the way the town's begins — on a map.The housing the census counts on the town's ground — fifty units in 1990, sixty in 2000, sixty-three in 2010 — is the physical residue of that emergence. By the 1990 census the place stands tabulated as incorporated; by 2001 it acts corporately, a founding member of the Clay Fire Territory. Here the section's course closes and the town's frame takes over: the instrument that made a town of the neighbourhood is the recorded gap G-FR-1, and it stands open in the Story of Indian Village section fragment where the frame pass left it.