Larry Anderson - Families and Individuals

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Benjamin FAWCETT

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 TYPE Moved  to
 DATE ABT. 1830
 PLAC Springfield, Ohio

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 TYPE Moved  to
 DATE 1836
 PLAC Montgomery County, Indiana

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 DATE 1843
 PLAC Howard County, Indiana

Benjamin and Esther, started raising there children in Virginia and moved to Springfield, Ohio about 1830 , and then in 1836 they moved to Montgomery County, Indiana, and in 1843 they moved to Howard County, Indiana and settled there with their children,  filing a land claim for 169 acres on a quarter section located three miles west of what is now the public square in the city of Kokomo, Indiana. The county seat came very near being at Russiaville or Richard'sville as it was some times called. However, Kokomo was finally decided upon.  Kokomo was named after an Indian Chief of the Miami Tribe and means  " she bear ".  Silas Fawcett, the oldest of the Fawcett boys helped carry the surveyors chains when the town of Kokomo was laid out and helped cut the timber to clear the ground where the public square is now located. Benjamin and Esther are buried along with many other family members in a county graveyard named Spice Run near Kokomo, Indiana

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