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Samuel McAninch, and his younger brother Daniel McAninch, born ca. 1796-1798, in Kentucky |
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(Daniel Jr.?), both took their families to Indiana, to the Mill Creek area along the county line between |
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Putnam County and Hendricks County. Daniel moved in 1828, from Mercer County, Kentucky (they |
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may have traveled with his wife’s family, Burks), and Samuel came soon after the 1830 census [14]. |
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During 1831-1832, Samuel McAninch left Casey County, Kentucky, moving first to Putnam County, Indiana, and then settling in adjacent Hendricks County. In 1834, Samuel patented 120 acres of land in Hendricks County, filed at the Crawfordsville Land Office [15] [16]. In 1839, he bought an adjoining 80 acres from Silas Bryant [17], and, on the 1841 Tax List, Samuel owns 200 acres in Hendricks County, in Section 9, Township 14, Range 2 West [18]. On the 1844 Tax List, Samuel, age 55, owns 220 acres, and his second son, Daniel McAninch, age 25, has 100 acres, all in Franklin Township [19]. |
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On February 9th, 1849, a few days after his 60th birthday, Samuel McAninch donated the specific |
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half-acre of land for the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church [20], for the new church building, and for the cemetery. The deed states that the Trustees |
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“shall erect ... a house of worship for the use of the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church”. |
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The land was donated to “Trustees M. E. Church”; and there are five Trustees named in the deed: |
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Elias Grimes [age 30], John Hancock [age 45?], Daniel McAninch [age 30], Tristram Pike [age 46], and Benjamin Tincher [age 25]. Three of these five are already part of Samuel’s extended family: |
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his son, Daniel McAninch; Tristram Pike, father of Daniel’s wife, Phebe Pike; and John Hancock, believed to be related to George Hancock, who married Samuel’s first daughter, Sally (Sarah) [John Hancock, possible brother of George Hancock]. |
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Samuel’s wife, (Mary) Polly (Skidmore) McAninch, probably died between 1846 and 1850 [10] [21], |
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but, no record of her death nor burial has been found. After Polly died, it is possible that Samuel would have buried her here, in the McAninch-Pike ‘family plot’, which later became this Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Cemetery. If there is a list of ‘other possible burials in the (Old) Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery’, then Polly (Skidmore) McAninch is the first candidate [21]. |
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After Samuel McAninch donated the land for the M. E. Church and cemetery, in February 1849, |
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he lived another ten years, five months past his 70th birthday. Samuel died on 30 July 1859, |
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aged 70 years, 5 months, and 25 days, and was buried in his ‘family cemetery’, which is now this (Old) Pleasant Hill Cemetery [1] [2] [3] [4] [4a5] [4b]. |
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The next section presents historical information about the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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“Old Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery”, Copyright 2003, by Frank McAninch (1.0) page 17 of 68 |
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