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<blockquote data-quote="john250" data-source="post: 1226338" data-attributes="member: 4406"><p>I lived at the site of the 2nd post office in Indiana. Smockville. (Vincennes was 1st) Samuel Smock came from Virginia about 1807 and chose a spot with a year-round spring on the road between Cincinnati and Loisville. Sam had a rare talent for the time--he had learned to read and write. He became a county official, auditor I think, an impotant position in Indiana county government. He was also a founder of the local Presbyterian church. His son was in the 1st graduating class of the local Presbyterian affiliated college.</p><p>It's said he was a delegate to the constitutional covention when Indiana became a state (1816).</p><p>The kicker is that he never had a deed, he was a squatter, and this was the 16th section--dedicated for public education. A school board was organized in 1838, and put the land up for sale. Sam moved to the next section east, and a few years later moved to Indianapolis. I have no knowledge of his time there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="john250, post: 1226338, member: 4406"] I lived at the site of the 2nd post office in Indiana. Smockville. (Vincennes was 1st) Samuel Smock came from Virginia about 1807 and chose a spot with a year-round spring on the road between Cincinnati and Loisville. Sam had a rare talent for the time--he had learned to read and write. He became a county official, auditor I think, an impotant position in Indiana county government. He was also a founder of the local Presbyterian church. His son was in the 1st graduating class of the local Presbyterian affiliated college. It's said he was a delegate to the constitutional covention when Indiana became a state (1816). The kicker is that he never had a deed, he was a squatter, and this was the 16th section--dedicated for public education. A school board was organized in 1838, and put the land up for sale. Sam moved to the next section east, and a few years later moved to Indianapolis. I have no knowledge of his time there. [/QUOTE]
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