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| Moses Blackmon Portlock of Decatur County, Indiana bought 74 and 6 hundredths of an acre of public land on 2 April 1835. Moses Blackman Portlock of Marion County, Indiana bought 80 acres of public land from the U. S. government on 30 September 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 thosee 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." The 1860 Indiana Census for Union Township, Perry County lists William B. Portlock 53 school teacher Kentucky Sarah 52 Ohio John W. 26 farm laborer Indiana Samuel B. 24 farm laborer Indiana Thomas J. 22 farm laborer Indiana Benjamin F. 21 farm laborer Indiana Sarah E. 19 Domestic Indiana Margaret 17 Domestic Indiana Marcy I. 14 Domestic Indiana William 12 Indiana This William B. Portlock is the same approximate age as Moses and both were school teachers. News item in paper "Mr. M. B. Portlock met with a serious accident a few days ago. He had been to the Boyd School House and was leading his mule across a lot by the bridle, when the mule became frightened by a horse that was loose in the lot, and jerked Mr. P backward on the ground, dislocating his shoulder. Mr. P is said to be in critical condition." Obituary: "Mr. M. B. Portlock departed this life on Tuesday evening April 22 at 6:00 o clock P. M. Mr. P was in the 75th year of his age and was one of the prominent instructors of this county. He was a kind, father, clever neighbor, and enterprising citizen. His remains were interred in the Burford Cemetery." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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