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This is
the extreme northeastern subdivision of Fayette county.
Madison civil township was one of the original townships made at
the organization of the county in 1810. Its history, then,
goes back one hundred and ten years as a precinct of the county.
It is bounded on the north by Madison county, on the east by
Pickaway county, on the south by Marion township, and on the
west by Paint township. Its population in 1910 was
reported as being one thousand two hundred and thirty-three.
SETTLEMENT
John
Baldwin,
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Edmund Clarridge
Col. Joel Gregory
James Jones, Sr.,
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John
Leavell
John
Nutt
Robert Abernathy, a native of
Virginia, was born in 1786 and when grown up he married and
emigrated to Williamsport, Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1815,
rented land on Deer creek on Round Bottom, where he raised two
crops. In the autumn of 1817 he purchased ninety-seven
acres of land in Overton's survey. HE made a good farmer
and capable citizen, and at death left a good property at Mt.
Sterling, when he died in 1852.
Ephraim Moore, born in
Delaware, came to Ross county, Ohio, in 1805,
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EARLY STORES AND SHOPS.
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MILLS.
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VILLAGES OF THE TOWNSHIP.
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in the late eighties was still furnishing such work and goods
for that section of Fayette county.
A shoe shop was put in by A. Howser, in 1879.
the earliest blacksmith of Waterloo was in 1830, in the
person of Mr. Tracy, who at that date was eighty years of
age, hence only wielded the sledge a few years longer.
Others of that trade were Messrs. McClelland, John Timmons,
Adley Bostwick who was killed by the falling of a pile of
native lumber. Also William Scott ran a shop later
than this. Bostwick patented a plow which his
apprentice manufactures.
At the present date, summer of 1914, the business at
this point is chiefly in the hands of: F. W. Hatfield,
hardware; C. A. Richardson, groceries; M. R. Scott
general dealer; R. L. Hutchison, general dealer; D. M.
Norris, blacksmith; J. H. Richardson, postmaster.
There are churches as follows: Methodist
Episcopal Christian, Christian Union societies. The
present school house was erected in 1889.
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