Marion City, Grant, Indiana

Martin Boots and David Branson each donated 30 acres (120,000 m²) of land in 1831 for the site of Marion. They chose a location on the left bank of the swift, scenic river which the Miami Indians had named “Mississinewa,” meaning “Falling water.” So rapid had been the tide of settlement that it followed by only 19 years the Battle of Mississinewa, 7 miles (11 km) downstream, where U.S. troops and Indians had fought a bloody, pre-dawn encounter in 1812.

With the formation of Grant County in 1831, Marion was established as the county seat. The river provided water supply, power, and drainage and it bequeathed a natural beauty as it flowed at the base of hills that marched away on either side. Along with at least 36 other communities in the U.S., Marion was named for the Revolutionary War General Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox” of South Carolina.

Marion grew slowly for more than 50 years as an agricultural trading center supported by a sprinkling of small farm- and forest-related industries.

In the 1880s, fields of natural gas were discovered across much of east-central Indiana, and Grant County began to grow at a dizzying pace. Gas City and Matthews were carved out of raw farmland and launched as speculative boom towns, each absorbing existing tiny villages.

George Hayde b 1821 and Mary Jane McKee

The earliest ancestor of a Hayde family in Indiana is a George W Hayde b 1821 New Jersey. He was a farmer in Ohio in 1850, a labourer in Indiana in 1860 and a pump maker in Indiana in 1864 and 1870.

George married Mary Jane McKee in Ohio in 1847.  (He is not the George Hade that served in the Pennsylvania cavalry in the civil war and had an invalid pension awarded in 1878).

They had the following 5 children (of whom only 1 was alive in 1900):

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• Sarah b Ohio 1852. She married Crowel Walker in 1876
• George W b Indiana 1854. He died before 1900. He married Wilhelmina (Winnie) Rigler (b 1864 Indiana) in 1886 and they had:
  • Frank Charles b 1887, d 1980. Frank was in San Francisco at the time of WW1 registrations. He married Hope Gregory in NY in 1920, was a superintendent at a warehouse in Queens in 1930 and a shipping clerk in Wisconsin in 1940. They had the following children:
    • Gloria b New York 1924
  • Helen b 1891
• (Theodore) Wilson Hayde b Indiana 1861, d 1899. Theodore married Phoebe Lugar (b 1863) in 1881 and they had:
  • Estella Sarah (b 1882) Indiana
  • Mamie J (b 1884) Indiana
  • George Wilson (b 1887) Indiana, d 1947. George married Eva Seybold and lived in Grant, Indiana.
    • Phoebe Ada, b 1921 d 1980s
    • Nancy b 1924
    • George W Jnr b 1927
    • Robert Theodore Hayde b Indiana 1931

Theodore, Phoebe and children went to Fitzgerald, Georgia with a group of ex-Unionists to establish this city with Mr P Fitzgerald. Phoebe and children were still there in the 1900 census.

This male line of this family seems to have ended.

Origins

Having researched the origins of George W b 1821, it appears that his ancestors are:

• Benjamin Hade b 1786 New Jersey and Anna Voorhee
  • John Hyde/Hide b 1746 New Jersey and Hannah Rittenhouse
    • John Hyde/Hide b 1705 Gloucester, Shirley, England and Elizabeth Runyon

John Hide is noted in various records associated with the revolution.  He served in the New Jersey militia in 1782.

The tree is covered in more detail on the ancestry site at  https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/202711261/family?cfpid=412654250350