History of Hendricks County Indiana, Her People and Industries and Institutions
John V. Hadley, B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1914, page 282:
JEREMIAH JASPER PAGE - One of the old families of Hendricks county which traces its ancestry back to England is the Page family, whose descendants now number thousands throughout the United States. The family name "Page" indicates that the family was once connected with the nobility, some members of which were once pages to members of the royal family. Later on some members of the family were given titles and received valuable concessions from the crown with the result that many of them became immensely wealthy. There is said to be an estate of several million dollars left in England by members of the Page family to which the American branch are justly entitled. However that may be, the Pages in America have always been able to take care of themselves and have never made any effort to establish their claim to the Page fortune of England.
The Pages of Hendricks county trace their ancestry directly to Peter Page, an Englishman who came to Virginia early in the sixteenth century. Peter Page lived and died in Virginia, and to him and his wife was bom Williamson Page.
Williamson Page grew to manhood in Lee county, Virginia, and there married Elizabeth McCloud, who also was a native of the same county, and the daughter of John McCloud and wife, natives of Iowa. In 1830 Williamson Page and wife came to Indiana and settled first in the southern part of Hendricks county, where Jeremiah Jasper, whose history is herein recorded, was born. He entered land in Eel River township, one mile south of where Jeremiah J. Page now lives, entering two tracts of fifty-six and one-half acres each. He moved onto his land in the fall of 1834, built his rude log cabin of notched log and started in to carve his fortune out of the wilderness. At this time there were no roads except blazed trails from one settler's cabin to another; dense underbrush filled the lowlands and covered the highlands of the county; deer, wolves, turkey and small games of all kinds were very numerous, and the county was merely a hunter's paradise. Williamson Page had been a blacksmith in Virginia and his profession was one which was a very necessary accomplishment in a pioneer community. Gradually the farm was cleared and as the sons grew up and he had increasing assistance, the farm was eventually brought under cultivation. Williamson Page and wife were the parents of a large family of children : Nellie, Nancy, Elizabeth, Stephen, Andrew J., Jeremiah J., Chesley, Robert, Williamson and Demerius. It is interesting to note that at this time there were only three families in this locality, the Pages, Fleece and Zimmerman families. The Fleece and Zimmerman families had fifteen children each, making a total of forty children in the three families, and of those forty children there are only two living today, Jeremiah Jasper Page and Mrs. Rosena (Zimmerman) Waters.
Jeremiah Jasper Page was reared under the pioneer conditions which have just been described and at the age of twenty, June 15, 1854, he was married to Ann Elizabeth Hypes, who was born August 18, 1838, in Botetourt county, Virginia, the daughter of Jacob and Mary (Pfeffly) Hypes. When she was three weeks old her family came to this county from Virginia in wagons, taking the trip of hundreds of miles through unbroken forests and enduring hunger and hardships of all kinds. The Hypes family settled in the northwestern part of Eel River township, where they entered government land, and here Jacob Hypes died in 1849. Ann Elizabeth was only fifteen years of age and her useful husband was only five years older when they were married and it is interesting to note the prenuptial agreement of these youthful lovers, a plan which they agreed upon before their wedding day. This plan, which is guaranteed to promote domestic felicity, they have followed for more than sixty years of wedded life and have never had a quarrel. This wonderful agreement, which has never been broken throughout sixty years of wedded life, is simply this: When either one becomes cross or out of humor in any way, the other is to keep still until the irritability passes away and not enter into any discussions when angry.
The useful couple bought forty acres of new timber land entirely on credit and in a rude log cabin this fifteen-year-old bride started up housekeeping. That they worked faithfully need not be told here. Within a few years they had their first forty acres paid for and were able to buy another forty adjoining it. This happened within a few years after their marriage, and it is to be remembered that when they were married they had only the following possessions : two beds, a horse, a cow, a few chairs, a few cooking utensils and no money, and yet this happy couple enjoyed life just as much as we do today with all of our modern conveniences. The table he made out of a plank and the meat and bread which she cooked in the fireplace tasted just as good to them as our porter-house steak cooked on the gas stove of today.
Another chapter in the history of this interesting couple begins in 1866 when they sold their eighty acres of .land and went to Iowa at the earnest solicitation of the mother of Mrs. Page. After reaching Iowa, Mr. Page carefully examined several prospective farms and came to the conclusion that the safest thing for him to do was to return to Indiana. Accordingly they came back to this county and purchased one hundred and forty-four acres of land in Eel River township. His success as a farmer in this county shows that he did not make a mistake when he left the broad plains of Iowa for the rolling" fields of Indiana. He has prospered to a degree which he little dreamed, when, as a twenty-year-old youth, he started in married life with practically nothing. He has added to his land holdings from time to time until he and his children now own two thousand acres of land.
Mr. and Mrs. Page are the parents of eleven children: John H., of North Salem, who married Clarinda Davis and has four children; Mary Elizabeth, who married W. H. Robbins, of North Salem, whose sketch is delineated elsewhere in this volume; Samuel R., a farmer of this township, who married Rebecca Murphy and has five children; Jacob, a farmer in this township, who married Ida Thompson and has nine children; Frank, a farmer of this township, who married Ora Carpenter and has two children living; Ellen, deceased, was the wife of Daniel Robbins and died in February, 1912, her husband dying just a week before; they left one son; Joseph, who died at the age of seventeen; Belle, the wife of Amos Thompson, a farmer of this township, they have two children living; Cora, the wife of Ed Davenport, a farmer of this township, has one child living; Sarah Francis, and one other child, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Page have twenty-seven grandchildren living and twenty great-grandchildren.
Mr. Page and his wife are both loyal members of the Christian church of North Salem and have been for many years. He is a man who esteems honesty as the first essential to success and during his long career in the county he has so conducted himself that he has never been the cause of censure on the part of his neighbors. He has such a reputation for peace, that he is frequently called in to settle differences between his neighbors. Enough has been said to show the character of Mr. Page and to indicate the influence which he has had upon the growth of his township. His life has been a busy one and yet he has always found time to take his full share in the various public questions which concern his immediate- community. His career has been honorable in every way and such as to justly warrant the biographer in using that famous old saying, "This was a man."
John V. Hadley, B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1914, page 282:
JEREMIAH JASPER PAGE - One of the old families of Hendricks county which traces its ancestry back to England is the Page family, whose descendants now number thousands throughout the United States. The family name "Page" indicates that the family was once connected with the nobility, some members of which were once pages to members of the royal family. Later on some members of the family were given titles and received valuable concessions from the crown with the result that many of them became immensely wealthy. There is said to be an estate of several million dollars left in England by members of the Page family to which the American branch are justly entitled. However that may be, the Pages in America have always been able to take care of themselves and have never made any effort to establish their claim to the Page fortune of England.
The Pages of Hendricks county trace their ancestry directly to Peter Page, an Englishman who came to Virginia early in the sixteenth century. Peter Page lived and died in Virginia, and to him and his wife was bom Williamson Page.
Williamson Page grew to manhood in Lee county, Virginia, and there married Elizabeth McCloud, who also was a native of the same county, and the daughter of John McCloud and wife, natives of Iowa. In 1830 Williamson Page and wife came to Indiana and settled first in the southern part of Hendricks county, where Jeremiah Jasper, whose history is herein recorded, was born. He entered land in Eel River township, one mile south of where Jeremiah J. Page now lives, entering two tracts of fifty-six and one-half acres each. He moved onto his land in the fall of 1834, built his rude log cabin of notched log and started in to carve his fortune out of the wilderness. At this time there were no roads except blazed trails from one settler's cabin to another; dense underbrush filled the lowlands and covered the highlands of the county; deer, wolves, turkey and small games of all kinds were very numerous, and the county was merely a hunter's paradise. Williamson Page had been a blacksmith in Virginia and his profession was one which was a very necessary accomplishment in a pioneer community. Gradually the farm was cleared and as the sons grew up and he had increasing assistance, the farm was eventually brought under cultivation. Williamson Page and wife were the parents of a large family of children : Nellie, Nancy, Elizabeth, Stephen, Andrew J., Jeremiah J., Chesley, Robert, Williamson and Demerius. It is interesting to note that at this time there were only three families in this locality, the Pages, Fleece and Zimmerman families. The Fleece and Zimmerman families had fifteen children each, making a total of forty children in the three families, and of those forty children there are only two living today, Jeremiah Jasper Page and Mrs. Rosena (Zimmerman) Waters.
Jeremiah Jasper Page was reared under the pioneer conditions which have just been described and at the age of twenty, June 15, 1854, he was married to Ann Elizabeth Hypes, who was born August 18, 1838, in Botetourt county, Virginia, the daughter of Jacob and Mary (Pfeffly) Hypes. When she was three weeks old her family came to this county from Virginia in wagons, taking the trip of hundreds of miles through unbroken forests and enduring hunger and hardships of all kinds. The Hypes family settled in the northwestern part of Eel River township, where they entered government land, and here Jacob Hypes died in 1849. Ann Elizabeth was only fifteen years of age and her useful husband was only five years older when they were married and it is interesting to note the prenuptial agreement of these youthful lovers, a plan which they agreed upon before their wedding day. This plan, which is guaranteed to promote domestic felicity, they have followed for more than sixty years of wedded life and have never had a quarrel. This wonderful agreement, which has never been broken throughout sixty years of wedded life, is simply this: When either one becomes cross or out of humor in any way, the other is to keep still until the irritability passes away and not enter into any discussions when angry.
The useful couple bought forty acres of new timber land entirely on credit and in a rude log cabin this fifteen-year-old bride started up housekeeping. That they worked faithfully need not be told here. Within a few years they had their first forty acres paid for and were able to buy another forty adjoining it. This happened within a few years after their marriage, and it is to be remembered that when they were married they had only the following possessions : two beds, a horse, a cow, a few chairs, a few cooking utensils and no money, and yet this happy couple enjoyed life just as much as we do today with all of our modern conveniences. The table he made out of a plank and the meat and bread which she cooked in the fireplace tasted just as good to them as our porter-house steak cooked on the gas stove of today.
Another chapter in the history of this interesting couple begins in 1866 when they sold their eighty acres of .land and went to Iowa at the earnest solicitation of the mother of Mrs. Page. After reaching Iowa, Mr. Page carefully examined several prospective farms and came to the conclusion that the safest thing for him to do was to return to Indiana. Accordingly they came back to this county and purchased one hundred and forty-four acres of land in Eel River township. His success as a farmer in this county shows that he did not make a mistake when he left the broad plains of Iowa for the rolling" fields of Indiana. He has prospered to a degree which he little dreamed, when, as a twenty-year-old youth, he started in married life with practically nothing. He has added to his land holdings from time to time until he and his children now own two thousand acres of land.
Mr. and Mrs. Page are the parents of eleven children: John H., of North Salem, who married Clarinda Davis and has four children; Mary Elizabeth, who married W. H. Robbins, of North Salem, whose sketch is delineated elsewhere in this volume; Samuel R., a farmer of this township, who married Rebecca Murphy and has five children; Jacob, a farmer in this township, who married Ida Thompson and has nine children; Frank, a farmer of this township, who married Ora Carpenter and has two children living; Ellen, deceased, was the wife of Daniel Robbins and died in February, 1912, her husband dying just a week before; they left one son; Joseph, who died at the age of seventeen; Belle, the wife of Amos Thompson, a farmer of this township, they have two children living; Cora, the wife of Ed Davenport, a farmer of this township, has one child living; Sarah Francis, and one other child, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Page have twenty-seven grandchildren living and twenty great-grandchildren.
Mr. Page and his wife are both loyal members of the Christian church of North Salem and have been for many years. He is a man who esteems honesty as the first essential to success and during his long career in the county he has so conducted himself that he has never been the cause of censure on the part of his neighbors. He has such a reputation for peace, that he is frequently called in to settle differences between his neighbors. Enough has been said to show the character of Mr. Page and to indicate the influence which he has had upon the growth of his township. His life has been a busy one and yet he has always found time to take his full share in the various public questions which concern his immediate- community. His career has been honorable in every way and such as to justly warrant the biographer in using that famous old saying, "This was a man."
History of Hendricks County Indiana, Her People and Industries and Institutions
John V. Hadley, B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1914, page 282:
JEREMIAH JASPER PAGE - One of the old families of Hendricks county which traces its ancestry back to England is the Page family, whose descendants now number thousands throughout the United States. The family name "Page" indicates that the family was once connected with the nobility, some members of which were once pages to members of the royal family. Later on some members of the family were given titles and received valuable concessions from the crown with the result that many of them became immensely wealthy. There is said to be an estate of several million dollars left in England by members of the Page family to which the American branch are justly entitled. However that may be, the Pages in America have always been able to take care of themselves and have never made any effort to establish their claim to the Page fortune of England.
The Pages of Hendricks county trace their ancestry directly to Peter Page, an Englishman who came to Virginia early in the sixteenth century. Peter Page lived and died in Virginia, and to him and his wife was bom Williamson Page.
Williamson Page grew to manhood in Lee county, Virginia, and there married Elizabeth McCloud, who also was a native of the same county, and the daughter of John McCloud and wife, natives of Iowa. In 1830 Williamson Page and wife came to Indiana and settled first in the southern part of Hendricks county, where Jeremiah Jasper, whose history is herein recorded, was born. He entered land in Eel River township, one mile south of where Jeremiah J. Page now lives, entering two tracts of fifty-six and one-half acres each. He moved onto his land in the fall of 1834, built his rude log cabin of notched log and started in to carve his fortune out of the wilderness. At this time there were no roads except blazed trails from one settler's cabin to another; dense underbrush filled the lowlands and covered the highlands of the county; deer, wolves, turkey and small games of all kinds were very numerous, and the county was merely a hunter's paradise. Williamson Page had been a blacksmith in Virginia and his profession was one which was a very necessary accomplishment in a pioneer community. Gradually the farm was cleared and as the sons grew up and he had increasing assistance, the farm was eventually brought under cultivation. Williamson Page and wife were the parents of a large family of children : Nellie, Nancy, Elizabeth, Stephen, Andrew J., Jeremiah J., Chesley, Robert, Williamson and Demerius. It is interesting to note that at this time there were only three families in this locality, the Pages, Fleece and Zimmerman families. The Fleece and Zimmerman families had fifteen children each, making a total of forty children in the three families, and of those forty children there are only two living today, Jeremiah Jasper Page and Mrs. Rosena (Zimmerman) Waters.
Jeremiah Jasper Page was reared under the pioneer conditions which have just been described and at the age of twenty, June 15, 1854, he was married to Ann Elizabeth Hypes, who was born August 18, 1838, in Botetourt county, Virginia, the daughter of Jacob and Mary (Pfeffly) Hypes. When she was three weeks old her family came to this county from Virginia in wagons, taking the trip of hundreds of miles through unbroken forests and enduring hunger and hardships of all kinds. The Hypes family settled in the northwestern part of Eel River township, where they entered government land, and here Jacob Hypes died in 1849. Ann Elizabeth was only fifteen years of age and her useful husband was only five years older when they were married and it is interesting to note the prenuptial agreement of these youthful lovers, a plan which they agreed upon before their wedding day. This plan, which is guaranteed to promote domestic felicity, they have followed for more than sixty years of wedded life and have never had a quarrel. This wonderful agreement, which has never been broken throughout sixty years of wedded life, is simply this: When either one becomes cross or out of humor in any way, the other is to keep still until the irritability passes away and not enter into any discussions when angry.
The useful couple bought forty acres of new timber land entirely on credit and in a rude log cabin this fifteen-year-old bride started up housekeeping. That they worked faithfully need not be told here. Within a few years they had their first forty acres paid for and were able to buy another forty adjoining it. This happened within a few years after their marriage, and it is to be remembered that when they were married they had only the following possessions : two beds, a horse, a cow, a few chairs, a few cooking utensils and no money, and yet this happy couple enjoyed life just as much as we do today with all of our modern conveniences. The table he made out of a plank and the meat and bread which she cooked in the fireplace tasted just as good to them as our porter-house steak cooked on the gas stove of today.
Another chapter in the history of this interesting couple begins in 1866 when they sold their eighty acres of .land and went to Iowa at the earnest solicitation of the mother of Mrs. Page. After reaching Iowa, Mr. Page carefully examined several prospective farms and came to the conclusion that the safest thing for him to do was to return to Indiana. Accordingly they came back to this county and purchased one hundred and forty-four acres of land in Eel River township. His success as a farmer in this county shows that he did not make a mistake when he left the broad plains of Iowa for the rolling" fields of Indiana. He has prospered to a degree which he little dreamed, when, as a twenty-year-old youth, he started in married life with practically nothing. He has added to his land holdings from time to time until he and his children now own two thousand acres of land.
Mr. and Mrs. Page are the parents of eleven children: John H., of North Salem, who married Clarinda Davis and has four children; Mary Elizabeth, who married W. H. Robbins, of North Salem, whose sketch is delineated elsewhere in this volume; Samuel R., a farmer of this township, who married Rebecca Murphy and has five children; Jacob, a farmer in this township, who married Ida Thompson and has nine children; Frank, a farmer of this township, who married Ora Carpenter and has two children living; Ellen, deceased, was the wife of Daniel Robbins and died in February, 1912, her husband dying just a week before; they left one son; Joseph, who died at the age of seventeen; Belle, the wife of Amos Thompson, a farmer of this township, they have two children living; Cora, the wife of Ed Davenport, a farmer of this township, has one child living; Sarah Francis, and one other child, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Page have twenty-seven grandchildren living and twenty great-grandchildren.
Mr. Page and his wife are both loyal members of the Christian church of North Salem and have been for many years. He is a man who esteems honesty as the first essential to success and during his long career in the county he has so conducted himself that he has never been the cause of censure on the part of his neighbors. He has such a reputation for peace, that he is frequently called in to settle differences between his neighbors. Enough has been said to show the character of Mr. Page and to indicate the influence which he has had upon the growth of his township. His life has been a busy one and yet he has always found time to take his full share in the various public questions which concern his immediate- community. His career has been honorable in every way and such as to justly warrant the biographer in using that famous old saying, "This was a man."
John V. Hadley, B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1914, page 282:
JEREMIAH JASPER PAGE - One of the old families of Hendricks county which traces its ancestry back to England is the Page family, whose descendants now number thousands throughout the United States. The family name "Page" indicates that the family was once connected with the nobility, some members of which were once pages to members of the royal family. Later on some members of the family were given titles and received valuable concessions from the crown with the result that many of them became immensely wealthy. There is said to be an estate of several million dollars left in England by members of the Page family to which the American branch are justly entitled. However that may be, the Pages in America have always been able to take care of themselves and have never made any effort to establish their claim to the Page fortune of England.
The Pages of Hendricks county trace their ancestry directly to Peter Page, an Englishman who came to Virginia early in the sixteenth century. Peter Page lived and died in Virginia, and to him and his wife was bom Williamson Page.
Williamson Page grew to manhood in Lee county, Virginia, and there married Elizabeth McCloud, who also was a native of the same county, and the daughter of John McCloud and wife, natives of Iowa. In 1830 Williamson Page and wife came to Indiana and settled first in the southern part of Hendricks county, where Jeremiah Jasper, whose history is herein recorded, was born. He entered land in Eel River township, one mile south of where Jeremiah J. Page now lives, entering two tracts of fifty-six and one-half acres each. He moved onto his land in the fall of 1834, built his rude log cabin of notched log and started in to carve his fortune out of the wilderness. At this time there were no roads except blazed trails from one settler's cabin to another; dense underbrush filled the lowlands and covered the highlands of the county; deer, wolves, turkey and small games of all kinds were very numerous, and the county was merely a hunter's paradise. Williamson Page had been a blacksmith in Virginia and his profession was one which was a very necessary accomplishment in a pioneer community. Gradually the farm was cleared and as the sons grew up and he had increasing assistance, the farm was eventually brought under cultivation. Williamson Page and wife were the parents of a large family of children : Nellie, Nancy, Elizabeth, Stephen, Andrew J., Jeremiah J., Chesley, Robert, Williamson and Demerius. It is interesting to note that at this time there were only three families in this locality, the Pages, Fleece and Zimmerman families. The Fleece and Zimmerman families had fifteen children each, making a total of forty children in the three families, and of those forty children there are only two living today, Jeremiah Jasper Page and Mrs. Rosena (Zimmerman) Waters.
Jeremiah Jasper Page was reared under the pioneer conditions which have just been described and at the age of twenty, June 15, 1854, he was married to Ann Elizabeth Hypes, who was born August 18, 1838, in Botetourt county, Virginia, the daughter of Jacob and Mary (Pfeffly) Hypes. When she was three weeks old her family came to this county from Virginia in wagons, taking the trip of hundreds of miles through unbroken forests and enduring hunger and hardships of all kinds. The Hypes family settled in the northwestern part of Eel River township, where they entered government land, and here Jacob Hypes died in 1849. Ann Elizabeth was only fifteen years of age and her useful husband was only five years older when they were married and it is interesting to note the prenuptial agreement of these youthful lovers, a plan which they agreed upon before their wedding day. This plan, which is guaranteed to promote domestic felicity, they have followed for more than sixty years of wedded life and have never had a quarrel. This wonderful agreement, which has never been broken throughout sixty years of wedded life, is simply this: When either one becomes cross or out of humor in any way, the other is to keep still until the irritability passes away and not enter into any discussions when angry.
The useful couple bought forty acres of new timber land entirely on credit and in a rude log cabin this fifteen-year-old bride started up housekeeping. That they worked faithfully need not be told here. Within a few years they had their first forty acres paid for and were able to buy another forty adjoining it. This happened within a few years after their marriage, and it is to be remembered that when they were married they had only the following possessions : two beds, a horse, a cow, a few chairs, a few cooking utensils and no money, and yet this happy couple enjoyed life just as much as we do today with all of our modern conveniences. The table he made out of a plank and the meat and bread which she cooked in the fireplace tasted just as good to them as our porter-house steak cooked on the gas stove of today.
Another chapter in the history of this interesting couple begins in 1866 when they sold their eighty acres of .land and went to Iowa at the earnest solicitation of the mother of Mrs. Page. After reaching Iowa, Mr. Page carefully examined several prospective farms and came to the conclusion that the safest thing for him to do was to return to Indiana. Accordingly they came back to this county and purchased one hundred and forty-four acres of land in Eel River township. His success as a farmer in this county shows that he did not make a mistake when he left the broad plains of Iowa for the rolling" fields of Indiana. He has prospered to a degree which he little dreamed, when, as a twenty-year-old youth, he started in married life with practically nothing. He has added to his land holdings from time to time until he and his children now own two thousand acres of land.
Mr. and Mrs. Page are the parents of eleven children: John H., of North Salem, who married Clarinda Davis and has four children; Mary Elizabeth, who married W. H. Robbins, of North Salem, whose sketch is delineated elsewhere in this volume; Samuel R., a farmer of this township, who married Rebecca Murphy and has five children; Jacob, a farmer in this township, who married Ida Thompson and has nine children; Frank, a farmer of this township, who married Ora Carpenter and has two children living; Ellen, deceased, was the wife of Daniel Robbins and died in February, 1912, her husband dying just a week before; they left one son; Joseph, who died at the age of seventeen; Belle, the wife of Amos Thompson, a farmer of this township, they have two children living; Cora, the wife of Ed Davenport, a farmer of this township, has one child living; Sarah Francis, and one other child, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Page have twenty-seven grandchildren living and twenty great-grandchildren.
Mr. Page and his wife are both loyal members of the Christian church of North Salem and have been for many years. He is a man who esteems honesty as the first essential to success and during his long career in the county he has so conducted himself that he has never been the cause of censure on the part of his neighbors. He has such a reputation for peace, that he is frequently called in to settle differences between his neighbors. Enough has been said to show the character of Mr. Page and to indicate the influence which he has had upon the growth of his township. His life has been a busy one and yet he has always found time to take his full share in the various public questions which concern his immediate- community. His career has been honorable in every way and such as to justly warrant the biographer in using that famous old saying, "This was a man."
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