Town of Sugar CreekCity of ElkhornTownship Maps Township Cemeteries Township 3, north of range 16 east retained the name of Elkhorn after Lagrange, Richmond and Whitewater were set off and newly-named, and until a new town of Elkhorn was created February 2, 1846. The only actual settler in 1836 was John Davis in section 13 and 14 who then sold his claim to Asa Blood and moved away. Other families to come later were: BIGELOW, BOWMAN, CHARLES, CROSBY, HARRINGTON, HOLDEN, KENDALL, LOOMER, McCART, MILLER, RAND, SALISBURY, SPOONER, and WELCH Capt. George Washington KENDALL kept a tavern in 1839 now known as Tibbets in section 10. Samuel H. TIBBETS built a house about 1842 which served as a postoffice. Congregationalists and Wesleyans joined in 1872 and built a church south of the Gravel tavern. The same year, the Methodists built one. Other early religious societies included the Presbyterians, Baptists. A store, brick school house, blacksmith shop and Mount Pleasant cemetery are at the Kendall corners. There is also another community at Barker's Corners, at sections 8 and 9 with a postoffice which is now known as Millard. This, too, has a cemetery. From History of Walworth County Wisconsin, Vol. 1, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, publ. 1912 - Page 418-425 John A. BAIRD's widow died at Trempealeau in 1865, aged seventy-five years. Joseph BARKER (1781-1857) and wife Lucinda had nine children, of whom eight came to Sugar Creek. Joseph Lewis married Phoebe T. ROBERTS, April 2, 1846. Timothy Putnam (1818-1878) married Elvira SHUMWAY (1827-1886). James B. (1823-1898) married his cousin Almeda (1824-1901), daughter of Hugh BARKER. Francis (1821-1875) married Mrs. Maria BALDWIN. Russell married Sophia BAKER. Adeline (1811-1892) was wife of Booth B. DAVIS, of Elkhorn; Mary L., wife of Hiram TAYLOR; Diana, second wife of Stephen G. WEST, Sr., married November 9, 1841. Daniel F. BIGELOW (1815-1895), son of Doctor Daniel, was born in Nova Scotia. He married Amy McCART, a native of Ohio, born 1824, died 1897. James (1819-1899) married Ann Elizabeth FOWLER. Lewis CROSBY married Phoebe McCONKEY December 25, 1844. John H. ELLSWORTH died in 1859. Sophronia (1827-1894), his wife, was daughter of Asa PRIDE and Susan BATES. James Whipple FIELD, born at Scituate, Rhode Island, March 22, 1814, and now living, in 1912, at Elkhorn with his son-in-law, George KINNE, in fair health and full of memories, is son of Thomas FIELD and Thankful WINSOR. His older ancestors, reckoned backward, were Thomas, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, and William. He married the half-sisters Angeline and Sarah, daughters of William ADAMS. John FISH married June 28, 1843, Harriet, daughter of Stephen LOOMER. Caleb KENDALL married Emily A. WEBBER, June 19, 1842, and lived in Richmond. Mr. KINGSLEY was drowned in Silver lake, 1839. His family came a few days later and returned to their eastern home. John MARTIN married May 18, 1840, Eliza Ann, daughter of Ebenezer CHESEBROUGH and Anna GRISWOLD. She was born in 1809, and had entered land in her own name in section 33. Mr. MARTIN died in 1885. Silas MINSHALL died May 16, 1857, leaving widow Rose Ann. Daniel NYCE was born in August, 1801; died May 29, 1857. John Alexander PIERCE (1817-1887), farmer, mill-owner, and man of many business affairs and very generally prosperous, married, first, Mary GRAY, of North Geneva. She had five sons. He married, second, Hannah, daughter of Henry and Mary MOORHOUSE. He was son of John PIERCE and Maria A. McFARLING. John RAND (1819-1898), son of Benjamin and Sarah, was born in Nova Scotia. He married, May 2, 1844, Sarah Sophia (1817-1900), daughter of Benjamin and Eunice LOOMER. John SAUNDERS (or SANDERS) (1806-188_) married Jane LEAN. Jeduthun SPOONER (1799-1867), son of Jeduthun SPOONER and Hannah CROWELL, of Hardwick, Massachusetts, a printer in Vermont, and an early justice of the peace for Sugar Creek, went in 1853 to Allamakee county, Iowa. A nephew of the same name, also of Sugar Creek, a son of Judge SPOONER, married Julia Ann, daughter of Sutherland GERMAN and Mary, a sister of Christopher WISWELL. James STRONG (1810-1890), born near the line of Virginia in Pennsylvania, married Lois PARKS (1817-1876). Hiram TAYLOR (1814-1895) married, in 1838, Mary L., daughter of Joseph and Lucinda BARKER. Samuel Holmes TIBBETS (1806-1872), born in Windham county, Vermont, married in Canada, October 2, 1837, Sarah (1810-1878), daughter of Dr. David PATTEE. Their three daughters were married: Clarissa to Asa FOSTER, Sarah Jane to Azel Bird MORRIS, Hannah Maria to John Henry LAUDERDALE. Jacob TOSTENSON (died 1887) married Margaret LARSON (died 1875). Their sons, Tosten and Ole Jacobson, were substantial citizens. Ole was a soldier and became an officer of the Thirteenth Infantry and was a capable and useful man of public and private business. He was born in 1838 at Skien, Norway, and died January 28, 1912. Nelson WEAVER (1804-1868) married Ruby RAND (1812-1903). Freeborn WELCH, Jr. (1804-1884) was son of Mercy Spike (1785-1857. He married, first, Caroline, daughter of Phineas BROWN; second, Ann McDONOUGH. For some years he kept the long known Gravel Tavern at Tibbets Corners. Joseph WELCH (1820-1900) married Eliza HAVENS (1821-1893). Hulcy WELCH (1812-1879) had wife Hannah. Josiah (1805-1881) had wife Louisa, and lived for several years in Geneva. These four WELCHES were brothers, who had lived in Steuben county, New York. Congregationalists and Wesleyans joined in 1872 to build their union church, next south of Gravel tavern. In the same year Bethel church, Methodist, was built on land bought of John CAMERON, section 12, about seven miles by road from Elkhorn, to which this church has usually been attached for pastoral assignments. A store, brick school house, blacksmith shop, and Mount Pleasant cemetery are at the Kendall corners. Congregationalists, Methodists, and Presbyterians met as early as 1840 in Christian unity at Captain KENDALL's, at their own homes in turn, and at the school house. A society of Presbyterians was formed, but soon became Congregational. This body received its ministrations from those early laborers in newly broken fields: Cyrus NICHOLS, Stephen Denison PEET, Amnon GASTON, Cyrus E. ROSENKRANS, David PINKERTON, Samuel Elbert MINER, and other clergymen from Delavan and Elkhorn. Among Wesleyan and Free Methodist pastors were George PARSONS and George L. SHEPARDSON. Seven persons met at Barker's Corners to found a Baptist society. These were Rev. Henry TOPPING, of Delavan, Thankful BALLARD, Jonathan, Joseph and Sophia H. LOOMER, Electa MASON and Christopher WISWELL. At the next meeting, a few days later, James W. FIELD and six of the LOOMER family joined this movement. Mr. TOPPING divided his well-filled time with the new society for two or three years. A. B. WINCHELL relieved him in 1844; R. PICKETT, 1846; Moses ROWLEY, 1847; John H. DUDLEY, 1849; Albert SHELDON, 1851, and again in 1873 (and died April 4, 1874); A. E. GREEN, 1863 to 1868; Nelson COOK, 1869; L. C. JONES, 1873; Mr. HICKS, Mortimer A. PACKER, about 1887, and ordained in 1889 (remaining to 1894 and returning in 1907); S. F. MASSETT, December, 1894; George Jerome KYLE, 1897, and in 1899; Eli PACKER, 1898; Nicholas WAKEHAM, 1901; Anthony JACOBS, 1905; George N. DOODY, 1910-12. The first church was built about 1850. In 1892 a better one was built and the old one set aside and backward for Sunday school and other reputable purposes. This society laid out a few rods north, in section 9, on James B. BARKER's land, a burial ground which has become a public cemetery. Page 428-430 Joseph BABCOCK died in 1867 John CHAPMAN died at Little Prairie in 1885. John FEARNLEY (1804-1867), born in Yorkshire, died in Lagrange. His wife was Ann (1806-1858). William HOLCOMB married Juliana ROGERS, December 7, 1846. Moses KELLOWAY (1805-1863) had wife Ann (1808-1860). Caleb NEWCOMB (1776-1855) and wife Phoebe (1779-1850) were probably from Nova Scotia. Peter O'BRIEN died 1888 in Dakota. George W. ROBINSON was born 1808, died 1856. John SANFORD died in 1858. Chester C. BEACH (1823-1882) was born in Connecticut and died at Heart Prairie. He married, first, Elizabeth A. REYNOLDS; second, Harriet J. EMMONS. Ezra BENNETT (1816-1904) moved to New Berlin, but died at East Troy. Hiram BREWSTER (1806-1861) married Achsah MANSUR (1812-1882). He left sons. Richard DAY (1808-1885) died at Whitewater. His wife was Susan (1821-1885). Sprowell DEAN (1795-1843) married Clarissa SCOTT (1796-1880). Israel Scott and W. Augustus DEAN were his sons. Loren FERRY (1817-1880) married Hannah RICE, February 27, 1845. Samuel FOWLER (1809-1894), son of Linus FOWLER and Huldah BAGG, was born in New Hampshire. His wife, Dorothy A., a native of Vermont, daughter of Allen DEWEY, died in 1885. Charles HEATH (1817-1889) died in Lagrange. Harriet E., his wife, was born in 1817. Elias HIBBARD (1793-1856) had wife Lydia C. (1800-1875); George, his brother (1807-1900), married, first, Elizabeth CLARK, 1808-1865; second, Mrs. Naomi WATERS. He died at Elkhorn. The HIBBARDS of Troy were Massachusetts-born. Mrs. Adeline L. (GOODRICH) KEATS (1806-1879) was born in Connecticut, and came to Troy from Michigan. Two of her sisters were married to two of the SPOOR cousins. John KING (1806-1899), son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born in Lancashire. His wife was Hannah HILTON (1808-1887). They came to Rome, New York, in 1837, and from 1841 lived in Lagrange. Jacob KLING (1785-1883) married Dorothy GASPER (1793-1874). They were of Schoharie county, New York. Not all of their fourteen children came with them to Troy, but enough of them to connect by marriage a considerable part of southwestern Troy. Jacob Rensselaer KLING (1815-1892) married Emily (1817-1907), daughter of Gideon BLISS and Prudence PEASE. John MORRISON (1815-1864) married Rachel LIGHTBODY (1815-1898). William Henry, their son, was for several years director of farmers' institutes for Wisconsin. Hiram E. NOURSE (1824 ____), son of Elisha NOURSE and Sarah MURDOCK, of Vermont, married Elizabeth (1823-1885), daughter of Jacob and Dorothy KLING. Asaph PERRY (1779-1856) and wife Anna (1787-1858) had sons, John Adams, who became sheriff, and Albon Mann (1817-1902), whose first wife, Susan, was born in 1825 and died in 1870. Both sons lived long at Elkhorn, and were radically opposed in politics. Selah Smith PORTER (1805-1887) had wife Cornelia A. (1806-1849). Soldan POWERS (1805-1889) came from Vermont in 1837 and, May 31, 1842, married Ann FLANDERS (1820-1899), who was a sister of Royal C. FLANDERS, of East Troy. Mr. POWERS was a man of education, property and influence. He served his town variously and for several years as member of county board, town clerk and justice of the peace. He was of the Democratic old guard of the county. Martin RAY, born 1779, married Caroline PHELPS (1781-1840), who died at the home of one of her sons. Three of their large family came to the county, and all had some part in its greater affairs. These were Adam E., George Augustus, and Henry M.; the last named was of Delavan. Norman Alonzo RICE married Elizabeth HOLCOMB, December 3, 1845. Paul SCHWARTZ (1811-1895), born in Bavaria, was son of Adam SCHWARTZ, who came to America in 1832. Paul married Elizabeth WAGNER (1815-1881). Their children are yet well known in the Troys. Mark WATSON (1810-1896) married Elizabeth RANDALL (1810-1897). Page 431 The church was Congregational and was organized August 17, 1839, by Rev. Lemuel HALL, of Geneva, whose pastorate then reached, in effect, from the state line to the northern county line. This society built its church in 1848. Twelve years later it became and is yet a school house. In its rear is a little cemetery where Major MEACHAM, his wife and one of her sons were buried. (Next to the church eastward is the Major's later built house, where William Pitt MEACHAM, the first-born of Troy, died November 3, 1911. He was the son of Urban D. MEACHAM and Prudence GEDDES, and was born September 27, 1836.) After Mr. HALL the Congregational pastors were Mr. ORDWAY, David A. SHERMAN, Solomon CHAFFEE, Cyrus E. ROSEKRANS, Roswell Robinson SNOW, Milton WELLS, James HALL, Avelyn SEDGWIC.
Township Map circa 1900 Township Map circa 1907 Township Map circa 1923 Copyright 2013 Walworth County Genealogical Society
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