Old Settlers - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The old settlers of Tippecanoe, Montgomery and Fountain counties assembled at Meharry’s grove, Coal Creek Township, Montgomery County on last Saturday to related incidents of the pleasures and hardships of pioneer life and to make merry generally.  

Squire Mendenhall came in 1823 and settled where Yountsville now stands.  All the buildings there was at Crawfordsville was a double log cabin.  Moved from Yountsville to the vicinity of Waynetown.  It was then a wilderness.  The nearest mill was at Terre Haute.  Snakes were innumerable and they would meet and make snake killings, dragging them out of their burrows in the banks of Coal Creek.  He once saw in a single heap a wagon bed full of snakes, rattlesnakes, copperheads, garter snakes, blut snakes, black snakes and all other kinds of snakes, both of color and species.  The closing speech was