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Public Meeting – June 5th, 2015

Ice Cream Social and Public Meeting

Sponsored by the Springville Community Association

June 5th, 7:00 PM

At the Old Springville Gym Shelter

 

All past, current, and future residents of the Springville area are invited to come out to visit with friends and neighbors to learn about the newly established Springville Community Association.

 

Other topics will include recent improvements to the Springville Park, the new sidewalk from the school to the park, future plans for the park and old gym, and the Lilly Foundation Matching Grant Opportunity.

 

The Springville Community Association was approved by the Indiana Secretary of State as an Indiana Nonprofit Corporation in May of 2014. The Association has applied for US Internal Revenue status as a 501(c)3 charitable organization.

 

The organization charter states that the association will support other non-profit organizations in the Springville area and the surrounding township including but not limited to churches, fire departments, community parks, 4-H clubs, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and cemetery associations.

 

The Springville Community Association Board Members include:
Kenny Thompson, President
Jerry Hill, Secretary/Treasurer
Jack Armstrong, Jackie Thompson and Billie Simpson

 

William Haggerty

The “Volunteer Soldier of America” along with the pioneer settler made this great land of ours.  His courage in performing his duty will stand forth in the annals of history for all time.

There is one soldier of the American Revolution buried in Perry Township.  This is his story:

William Haggerty

Within the sacred soil of the old Baptist Cemetery lies the dust of the township’s only soldier of the Revolution.

On May 12, 1776, William Haggerty enlisted for the period of two years in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment.  His company commander was Captain Lowden and his regiment was commanded by Colonel Hand.  His place of enlistment was Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  Haggerty was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains and was at the capture of General Burgoyne at Saratoga.  He was honorably discharged after his tour of duty at Valley Forge.

Haggerty married Nancy Buford and they had four daughters;  Sally, Nancy, Mary and Lucinda.

On April 2, 1821, while a resident of Mercer County, Kentucky, Haggerty applied for a soldier’s pension.  He stated that he had no trade but was a soldier by profession.  Due to his age and infirmity he was not able to work.

Records show that he was living in Lawrence County, Indiana, in 1830, where he moved to be near his children who had moved here previously.  Haggerty died in 1836 and was buried with his wife in the Springville Baptist Cemetery.  His grave is marked by a large limestone monument and a government marker.

–Taken from the Book:  Springville, Indiana – Village on Spring Creek (Sesquicentennial Edition) Compiled and Written by Jay Wilson, Jr.