According to passed down stories, Simeon Root removed from Southington, Connecticut to Knox County, IN, at the age of 21 years. His father [most likely his family, his father died when he was 8] bought him a team of horses and a wagon; which Simeon loaded with trade goods such as needles, spools of thread, thimbles, buttons, and tinware. These he sold when he arrived in frontier county (Southern IN).
He settled first on White River, east of Wheatland. He married Harriet Langton, daughter of Daniel and Sally (Coles) Langton, on March 19, 1822. He lived there five years, but felt the place was unhealthy. He bought next to his father in-law in Palmyra township a 200 acre tract of land from David Snyder, who had bought it from Frances Vigo. Vigo recieved it as a land grant from the government.
Only three acres in front of the house were cleared at the time, so he started to clear the fields, raise crops and livestock, and he planted an orchard. The hogs ran in the forests and lived mostly on acornds and beechnuts mostly. He notched the ears of the hogs so he could tell his own hogs from those of the other farmers. In the fall of the year he would drive them up and feed them corn so that when he slaughtered them, the lard that he rendered out would be solid.
In a few years he was taking produce such as potatoes, apples, sides of pork and beef - hams, shoulders, and cider to the Vincennes market twice a week. He always started to market at four o'clock in order to get there by the time the market opened. One dark morning when there was no moon, the team of oxen got off the road into the forest. He couldn't find the road and had to wait until daylight.
Source: The Bruners: History & Genealogy
Publication: The Print Shop, Paoli, Orange Co, Indiana, USACitation details: page 356
He settled first on White River, east of Wheatland. He married Harriet Langton, daughter of Daniel and Sally (Coles) Langton, on March 19, 1822. He lived there five years, but felt the place was unhealthy. He bought next to his father in-law in Palmyra township a 200 acre tract of land from David Snyder, who had bought it from Frances Vigo. Vigo recieved it as a land grant from the government.
Only three acres in front of the house were cleared at the time, so he started to clear the fields, raise crops and livestock, and he planted an orchard. The hogs ran in the forests and lived mostly on acornds and beechnuts mostly. He notched the ears of the hogs so he could tell his own hogs from those of the other farmers. In the fall of the year he would drive them up and feed them corn so that when he slaughtered them, the lard that he rendered out would be solid.
In a few years he was taking produce such as potatoes, apples, sides of pork and beef - hams, shoulders, and cider to the Vincennes market twice a week. He always started to market at four o'clock in order to get there by the time the market opened. One dark morning when there was no moon, the team of oxen got off the road into the forest. He couldn't find the road and had to wait until daylight.
Source: The Bruners: History & Genealogy
Publication: The Print Shop, Paoli, Orange Co, Indiana, USACitation details: page 356
According to passed down stories, Simeon Root removed from Southington, Connecticut to Knox County, IN, at the age of 21 years. His father [most likely his family, his father died when he was 8] bought him a team of horses and a wagon; which Simeon loaded with trade goods such as needles, spools of thread, thimbles, buttons, and tinware. These he sold when he arrived in frontier county (Southern IN).
He settled first on White River, east of Wheatland. He married Harriet Langton, daughter of Daniel and Sally (Coles) Langton, on March 19, 1822. He lived there five years, but felt the place was unhealthy. He bought next to his father in-law in Palmyra township a 200 acre tract of land from David Snyder, who had bought it from Frances Vigo. Vigo recieved it as a land grant from the government.
Only three acres in front of the house were cleared at the time, so he started to clear the fields, raise crops and livestock, and he planted an orchard. The hogs ran in the forests and lived mostly on acornds and beechnuts mostly. He notched the ears of the hogs so he could tell his own hogs from those of the other farmers. In the fall of the year he would drive them up and feed them corn so that when he slaughtered them, the lard that he rendered out would be solid.
In a few years he was taking produce such as potatoes, apples, sides of pork and beef - hams, shoulders, and cider to the Vincennes market twice a week. He always started to market at four o'clock in order to get there by the time the market opened. One dark morning when there was no moon, the team of oxen got off the road into the forest. He couldn't find the road and had to wait until daylight.
Source: The Bruners: History & Genealogy
Publication: The Print Shop, Paoli, Orange Co, Indiana, USACitation details: page 356
He settled first on White River, east of Wheatland. He married Harriet Langton, daughter of Daniel and Sally (Coles) Langton, on March 19, 1822. He lived there five years, but felt the place was unhealthy. He bought next to his father in-law in Palmyra township a 200 acre tract of land from David Snyder, who had bought it from Frances Vigo. Vigo recieved it as a land grant from the government.
Only three acres in front of the house were cleared at the time, so he started to clear the fields, raise crops and livestock, and he planted an orchard. The hogs ran in the forests and lived mostly on acornds and beechnuts mostly. He notched the ears of the hogs so he could tell his own hogs from those of the other farmers. In the fall of the year he would drive them up and feed them corn so that when he slaughtered them, the lard that he rendered out would be solid.
In a few years he was taking produce such as potatoes, apples, sides of pork and beef - hams, shoulders, and cider to the Vincennes market twice a week. He always started to market at four o'clock in order to get there by the time the market opened. One dark morning when there was no moon, the team of oxen got off the road into the forest. He couldn't find the road and had to wait until daylight.
Source: The Bruners: History & Genealogy
Publication: The Print Shop, Paoli, Orange Co, Indiana, USACitation details: page 356
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