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| John Portlock of Shelby County, Indiana bought 40 acres of public land on 20 May 1835. John Portlock Jr. of Shelby County, Indiana bought 80 acres of public land from the U. S. government on 5 October 1835. From Elijah Hackleman's scrapbook: "My First School--Jno H. Lines School After an interval of more than sixty years, I cannot with any degree of certainty, name the date of the early schools of Rush County. As already intimated the first school I ever attended, was a six month term taught by John H. Lines in the Little Flat Rock meeting house belonging to the Baptist Church, commencing as well as I can recollect about the middle of August A.D. 1826, and ending in the later part of the following February. Mr. Lines was an excellent teacher for those early times, having attended a few short terms of school at Brookville. Taught by those celebrated teachers, Wynn, Egin and others, who had emigrated from the New England States for the express puurpose of teaching. I believe however that John Wynn came directly from England, arriving at Brookville about the 18th year of his age. He was a fine classical scholar and was several years the surveyor of Franklin County and died in 1861, in Jennings County. Hon. James M. Wynn ex-representative from Jennings County was a son of his. A great many leading men of Eastern Indiana owe their success in life to the instruction of John Wynn. I recollect besides Mr. Lines, that John and Moses Portlock of Rush County were students of Mr. Wynn." "They built a hewed log school house and had no glass in the windows. This house stood on the bluff of Conns Creek...George Vanaman was the first school teacher...the next was John Portlock and after him his brother Moses Portlock. Of spelling, continued John Cartmel...bantered...Moses Portlock who was teaching at St. Omer, this was in 1835...Portlock, to make sure, got some of the best spellers in the Jones school and from a school up near Moscow, but we beat them." 1879 Biography: "Dr. J. S. Portlock was born in Virginia, Feb. 23, 1801. At the age of 6 years he emigrated with his parents to Kentucky, near Louisville, where he remained until his 16th year. From that time until he was 25 he pursued various vocations, but finally concluded to become a physician, and about 1827 began reading in Cincinnati. In due time he located in Shelby County, Indiana, where he practiced with great success for 15 years. After this he removed to Farmers Township, this county, and here was in active practice until within 2 years of his death, which occurred March 15, 1878." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Abstracts of "Bardolph News" Sep 1893-Sep 1912 McDonough County, Illinois pg 55, July 17, 1895, Vol. 2, #46 Mrs. Portlock, mother of S. V. Portlock, of this place, died yesterday morning. They left to attend. 1879 Biography: "Mary A. Portlock, widow of the late Dr. Portlock, was born in Franklin County, Indiana, Feb. 28, 1815; married Dr. J. S. Portlock March 4, 1830; had 12 children of whom 6 are living, viz: James L., Samuel V., Wm. P., Emeline, Caroline and Minerva. Mrs. Portlock still lives on the old home-place on which they settled Nov. 15, 1840." Obituary: "Grandmother Portlock, at the ripe old age of 80 years, 4 months and 16 days, passed to her eternal home in mansions not made with human hands, at 2:30 o'clcok Tuesday morning, July 16, 1895, at her home two mile north of Table Grove, where she has resided for over half a century. The affliction of advanced age had borne heavily upon her for some time past and death came to her not as an unwelcome visitor, but as a release from suffering and the dawning of a brighter day. Mary Ann Moore [Portlock] was born in Shelby County, Ind., Feb. 28, 1815. On reaching womanhood she was married to Dr. John S. Portlock, and with a family of small children they moved to Fulton County in 1840, locating on the farm where both have closed their eyes to the sleep called death. Grandmother Portlock joined the Baptist church when quite young, but after moving to Illinois, there being in an early day no Baptist church in this section of country, she united and for many years worked with the Newlight Church, afterwards reuniting with the Baptist. To her were born 6 children, 5 still living: James at New London, Ia.; Mrs. Emeline Frizzell in Nebraska; Samuel at Bardolph, Ill.; and W. P.; Mrs. Carrie Allen and Mrs. Minerva Rhodes in and near Table Grove. That grand old pioneer Methodist preacher, Uncle Billie Rutledge, was called from Jacksonville and preached the funeral sermon at Baker's church Wednesday at one o'clock p.m." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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