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1838, PRINTED AS NOT-HERE; 1840–43, THIS GROUND
The removal everyone pictures belongs to the next county south: the forced column of 1838 — the Trail of Death — assembled at Twin Lakes in Marshall County, on the Yellow River reserve whose 1836 sale the taking article above names, and marched its 859 people through Logansport to Kansas, 42 dying on the road; that record is carried at valley strength in the county treatment of the sister legs, and it is printed here as what it is for this ground: not-here. No column of 1838 formed in Lincoln Township or crossed it. This ground's removal was quieter, later, and is documented at one sentence's strength in the county record this build inherits: the remaining Potawatomi of Indiana were removed in the removals of 1840–43, conducted under Alexis Coquillard — the sentence Chapman's narrative carries, and the Osceola leg prints for the county's east, standing for this ground on the same authority. The chronology is the finding's sharp edge: the cession was signed in October 1832, the surveys ran over the ground by 1834, Fulmer settled in 1835 and Wiley found his near neighbors Indian in 1834 or 1835 — settlement and possession overlapped here by the better part of a decade, the ground ceded on paper a full removal-generation before it was emptied in fact. When the removals of 1840–43 closed, the township's first age closed with them; the settlers of the second wave, after 1850, arrived in a country where the first people were a memory the county histories were already writing down as past. The removal's name-level record — who was taken from this township, in which party, under which conductor's roll — is the Tribes leg's pursuit in the removal records themselves; this section prints the course the county record supports, and no names it does not.