Johnson County, Indiana
Biographies
ISAAC
AND JACOB SUTTON
Isaac and Jacob Sutton were brothers, and sons of James Sutton, and
cousins of Jonathan and James Sutton. They emigrated from Preble
County, Ohio. Isaac came first to Marion County, Ind., with a relative,
in the year 1821 or 1822, unmarried, and worked with unceasing efforts
to earn money enough to buy a piece of land, earning the greater part
of $100 by splitting rails at 25 cents a hundred. So soon as he had
obtained the last piece, he started on foot to Brookville, the place of
entry, to secure the prize, all the way fearing that, on examination,
some piece might be found spurious, for he possessed no reserve to fill
the place. His money proved to be good, and he became the owner, on the
4th day of February, 1823, of the west half of the northeast quarter of
Section 9, Township 13 north, Range 3 east, situate in White River
Township. This tract he ever afterward called the "home place," and,
while he would give his children any part of his lands when he was
distributing them, yet he always, excepted the "home place." In the
fall of 1824 or 1825, he returned and married Alice Watts, and settled
on the "home place," where she still resides. Isaac Sutton, following
up the policy of his early manhood, acquired about six hundred acres of
as fine land as is in White River Township. He died February 18, 1869,
aged sixty four years and ten months. He left eight sons and daughters,
but, since his death, one half are already dead.
(Title: A historical sketch of Johnson County, Indiana Author: Banta,
D. D. 1833-1896.)
JACOB
SUTTON
He came to White River Township from Ohio, on foot, with a pack on his
back and twenty five or thirty dollars as the sum total of his wealth.
He did not, however, sit down and repine over the smallness of his
fortune, but, with a stout heart, went to work, and soon found the
means to enter eighty acres of land for his home place, and he,
moreover, called in an energetic assistant in the person of Abagail
Doty, daughter of John Doty, the old pioneer, by authority of Thomas
Lowe, Esq., on the 21st day of November, 1825, and located on the east
half of the southeast quarter of Section 18, Township 13 north, Range 3
east, near the Bluffs. By uniting a small tannery with his farm, and
practicing strict economy, he secured a competency, and, although the
good wife has long since ceased her labors and gone to receive a
glorious reward, yet the old pioneer still lives, and still manages, by
taking in a widowed kinswoman, to run a house of his own.
He is stout and cheerful, and now seventy eight years of age. He has
two sons and a son-in-law in the township, who, in industry and economy
and good citizenship, walk in the footsteps of their worthy, venerable
and aged father.
(Title: A historical sketch of Johnson County, Indiana Author:
Banta, D. D. 1833-1896.)