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Howard (1907) I, p. 284, on the authority of William H. Drapier; Chapman (1880), p. 678
The township's southeast quarter-section cluster carried its own distinction. On the word of William H. Drapier of Indianapolis, son of one of the settlers, Howard records that "Gideon and Ariel E. Drapier, Thomas P. and William F. Bulla and Evan C. Chalfant, all settled on section thirty-one, township thirty-eight, range three east, the Drapiers taking up one quarter, Chalfant one quarter and each of the Bullas one quarter." Evan C. Chalfant married the Bullas' sister; Thomas P. Bulla married Hannah, daughter of Gideon Draper; the Bulla family was "closely related to the distinguished Julian family of Wayne county, Indiana"; and of both families Howard prints the judgment that they were "uncompromising opponents of African slavery" — the township's anti-slavery record stands in the county history at that strength and at that place, a farm cluster on the township's eastern sections, and no stronger claim is made for it here. Thomas B. Chalfant's own biography (Chapman) fills the farm in: born in Wayne County, Indiana, 18 February 1820, son of Evan and Anna (Bulla) Chalfant; came with his parents 1 November 1832 and settled on the farm he still held in 1880 — 236 acres at $75 the acre; married Jane Melling in 1848 (she died 1861) and Eleanor C. Alford in 1864; a former township trustee. The cluster stands at the township's size in this build; its families run through the people register and the long-tail below.