IN A LIST OF FIRST SETTLERS OF MONROE TOWNSHIP 9 N;RANGE 2W., PAGE 374

LEWIS NOEL APPOINTED ASSOCIATE JUDGE IN 1818.,

LEWIS SETTLED IN PARKE CO IND IN 1824-1826. BEFORE COMING TO INDIANA MERCER CO KY WAS THIER HOME. FROM THERE THEY CAME TO SULLIVAN CO. IND THEN MONROE CO, AND FINALLY PARKE CO. IND.

HISTORY OF MONROE COUNTY RICHLAND TOWNSHIP PAGE 505

The first school in the township was taught during the winter of 1822-23, in a log cabin which stood about where the residence of william Draper now stands. The building was of round logs, had a huge fireplace that could be induced to take in logs six feet long.and two feet or more in diameter , and had a log left out on the sough side abut breast high over which greased paper ws fastened to serve the purpose of windows. William Rawlins, son of Roderick Rawlins, the first County Treasurer, was the first teacher. The term was three months long, and the children of James Parks, Benjamin Parks, Lewis Noel, Coleman Puett,Samuel Ellett, Joseph Puett Joseph Reeves, George Sharp, George Parks, William Milligan, two miles away, and William Edmundson, went to young Mr. Rawlins to learn how to read, write and cipher. This house was used for school purposes about five years and then displaced by a hewed log structure erected near the cemetery, and used until the township was divided into districts in the forties.

HE WAS ONE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WHEN THE ORDER WAS PASSED TO BUILD THE SECOND COURT HOUSE. THIS IS A HISTORIC FAMILY. WHICH SHOULD HAVE A MORE EXTENDED NOTICE THEN WE ARE ABLE TO GIVE.

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THE FIRST BRICK HOUSE IN THE TOWN

WAS BUILT BY MATTHEW NOEL IN 1827. IT STOOD ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SQUARE WHERE THE FINE BRICK BUILDINGS NOW STAND. HIS BROTHER SCOTT NOEL ESQ. HELPED LAY THE BRICK. THE NOELS CAME FROM SHELBY CO KY. IN 1818, REMAINING EIGHT YEARS IN MONROE CO. BEFORE THEY CAME TO ROCKVILLE IN 1826. MATTHEW NOEL DIED IN 1858. SCOT NOEL ESQ. IS STILL LIVING IN TOWN. HALE AND HEARTY, AND HAS BEEN ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEAE ALMOST CONSECNTIVELY FOR FORTY TWO YEARS. hE WAS TWINTY TWO YEARS POST MASTER OF ROCKVILLE.

PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF PARKE CO IND. PAGE 436.

GEORGE S NOEL

IS ONE OF THE OLDEST SETTLERS NOW LIVING IN ADAMS TOWNSHIP, PARKE CO. WHEN HE FIRST CAME HERE INDIANS WERE NUMEROUS AND GAME OF ALL KINDS WAS ABUNDANT, AND HE WAS A HUNTER OF NO MEAN REPUTE, DELIGHTING IN THE SPORT. HE OWNS A FERTILE FARM WHERE HE IS ENGATGED IN GENERAL FARMING AND STOCK RAISING.

THE BIRTH OF MR. NOEL OCCURED IN MONROE COUNTY ON JANUARY 31, 1821. HIS FATHER LEWIS NOEL WAS BORN IN ESSEX CO. VA. HE WAS IN TURN THE SON OF BERNARD WHO WAS AN EARLY SETTLER OF KENTUCKY AND A PREACHER IN THE BAPTIST CHURCH. LEWIS NOEL GREW TO MANHOOD IN KENTUCKY AND THERE MARRIED SALLY MCCANNON, SOON AFTER WHICH EVENT HE LOCATED IN FRANKLIN CO. KY. HE WAS A BOAT BUILDER BY TRADE AND FOR SOME YEARS CONTINUED AT THAT OCCUPATION. IN THE YEAR 1816 HE REMOVED TO INDIANA, FIRST SETTLING IN SULLIVAN CO. WHERE HE ENGAGED IN FARMING FOR ABOUT ONE YEAR, AND THEN RSIDED IN MONORE CO. FOR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS. IN DECEMBER OF 1824 HE LANDED IN PARKE CO, PURCHASING LAND OF THE GOVERNMENT, ON WHIICH HE SETTLED. HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PIONEERS OF THIS REGION AND WAS DEVOTED TO CLEARING HIS LAND UNTIL 1828 WHEN HE BECAME A RESDENT OF ROCKVILLE FOR TWO

YARS AND THEN RETURNED TO HISN AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS. AGAIN, IN 1836 HE WENT TO ROCKVILLE AND BUILT A HOUSE WHERE HE LIVED FOR ONE YEAR. IN 1837 HE MOVED UPON A FARM A MILE SOUTH OF THE VILLAGE, WHERE HE LIVED SEVERAL YEARS. THENRETIRING FROM HIS ACTIVE WORK AND ONCE MORE GOING BACK TO ROCKVILLE, HE SPENT HIS REMAINING DAYS DYING IN 1851.

GEORGE S NOEL IS ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN, ALL ABUT TWO OF WHOM GREW TO MATURE YEARS, AND THE FOLLOWING ARE STILL LIVING: SAMUEL, WHO LIVES IN DES MONINES IOWA, AND IS A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR; COLEMAN, WHO LIVES IN ODEL AND IS CLERK OF THE COURT, HAVING HELD AN OFFICE UNDER PRESIDENT GARFIELD; PATSY WIFE OF JOHNSON PUETT, AND NALLIE, WIFE OF JAMES BURFORD, DECEASED. SCOTT DIED ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO. THE FATHER OF THESE CHILDREN WENT BY THE NAME OF JUDGE NOEL AND WAS A POPULAR MAN IN POLICTICAL CIRCLES. HE WAS ONE OF THE DEACONS OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH AT ROCKVILLE, OF WHICH HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS. THE BUILDING HE ERECTED, RAISING THE TIMBERS HIMSELF.

GEORGE S NOEL GREW TO MANHOOD IN PARKE CO. AND REMAINED WITH HIS PARENTS UNTIL HIS MARRIAGE IN 1840 WITH MISS SARAH ANN MORRIS. SHE IS A DAUGHTER OF JOHN MORRIS, WHO EMIGRATED FROM AUGUSTA CO. VA. IN 1837. AND WAS A CARPENTER IN ROCKVILLE. MRS NOEL WAS ALSO A NATIVE OF AUGUSTA CO. VA. SOON AFTER HISMARRIAGE OUR SUBJECT LOCATED ON A FARM SOUTH OF ROCKVILLE, WHICH HIS FATHER HAD GIVEN TO HIM. THEY SETTLED IN THE MIDST OF THE WOODS, WHERE THEY COMMENCED HOUSEKEEPING. ABOUT THE YEAR 1856 MR NOEL BECAME THE OWNER OF HIS FATERS FARM, UPON WHICH HAS BEEN HIS HOME FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS, MRS NOEL DIED IN 1851 , LEAVNG FOUR CHILDREN, OF WHOM TWO YET SURVIVE: JOHN L, WHO LIVES IN ROCKVILLE, AND CHARLES R A RESIDENT OF DES MOINES. AMANDA JANE DIED IN THE PRIME OF LIFE. SHE WAS THE WIFE OF ANDREW H MACALLERTEN AD LEFT FOUR CHILDREN TO MOURN HER LOSS. GEORGE A GRANDCHILD DIED IN THE SUMMER OF 1892 AT THE HOME OF HIS GRANDFATHER.

MR NOELS PRESENT WIFE TO WHO HE WAS MARRIED IN 1851 WAS FORMERLY MARY MANKEN WHO WAS BORN IN COLUMBIANA CO. OHIO AUGUST 7, 1829 AND CAME TO INDIANA IN 1850 SETTLING IN PARKE CO. THEIR DAUGHTER, SARAH MARRIED ALEXANDER STRAN AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HER FATHER, LEAVING ONE CHILD, ELIZABETH WHO LIVES WITH OUR SUBJECTS SON JOHN AT ROCKVILLE. POLITICALL7Y MR NOEL IS A DEMOCRAT. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, TO WHICH HE HAS BELONGED FOR MANY YEARS PAST. FOR TWO YEARS HE ACTED AS DEPUTY ASSESSOR OF THIS TOWNSHIPM KEEPING ALL THE BOOKS AND RECORS HIMSELF

Portrait and Biographical Record of Parke Co. Ind. 1893,page 389.

Periminter P. Noel . In this volume may be found biographies of many influential citizens who have plodded up the steps of honor and prosperit y with remarkable energy and success. The life of Mr. Noel furnishes a good examble of this kind. He is now the owner of a good farm in Washington Township, Parke Co. , and therefore is devoting his time and strength to agricultural pursuits. Progressive in every way, he is known in this section as one of the well to do and prominent farmers. A native of this county, our subject was born Febuary 25, 1845 to Samuel and Rachel Parkes Noel. The father was the son of William Noel, who was a native of Kentucky and died when the father of our subectr was very young. Being left to depend upon himself, the father of our subject began serving a three year apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade. At the end of this time he commenced in business for hinself, which he carried on in Kentucky for an indefinite period. His marraige to Anna Carver resulted in the birth of the following children. James, William, Samuel. Artimesa, Mary, Hannah,and Martha, all of whom are deceassed with the exception of Hannah and Samuel. In the year 1831 the father of our subject, with his wife and six children came to Parke Co. , where he entered land on which he now makes his home. At that time he was able to enter one hundred and sixty acres of timber land, but byworking industriously at his trade, in the meantime carrying on his farm as best he could , at the end of nineteen years he owbned three hundred acres of good farming land, the greater part of which he lived to see improved. After the decease of his first wife Mr. Noel married a second time choosing Mrs. Rachael Noel, a daughter of James and Nancy Parkes and a widow of Barnet Noel . By her first Marraige Mrs. Noel became the mother of three children:Nancy, deceased, Sarah deceased, and Mary deceased. From her union with Mr. Samuel Noel have been born two children P.P. Noel and Nancy J. The mother of our subject was a native of North Carolina, being born August 4, 1809. Her parents were also natives of North Carolina and after moving to virginia where they lived but a short time , they located in Monroe county, Ind. and there settled among the Indians. The parents of our subject were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically the father was a Whig, casting his first vote for Henry Clay for the Legislature. In late years he voted the Repuplican ticket. During his life he took an active part in the affairs of his township and was the recipient of many local offices. He passed away January 22, 1872. After the death of his father Periminter Noel married and took care of his mother until she also was calle to the better land in August 1855. Our subjects first union was with Miss Jane Watson an orphan, reared under the guardianship of Charles Overman. To these were born bour children, James being the onlyone now living. It was but a short time until Mrs. Noel died and our subject was again united in marriage , to Margaret J. daughter of David and Martha Mc Murtry, who with her husband is a faithful worker in the Presbyterian Church if Bethany, Mr. Noel is in social life a member of the Knights of Pythias, Silliman Lodge, No. 66, at Rockville. Politically he is a conspicuous figure in the ranks of the Republican party. Has been President of the Parke County Agricultural Association and is now active in the capacity of Treasurer of the same. He is looked upon as one of the influential members of society, his education and good breeding and honorable character giving him weight in the community.