Nathan Farmer
Richard Foote and M.W. Steiburger turned their memories backward to another day and recalled that the first white man buried in Farmer Township was an unknown hunter who died in a cabin on section 9. His partner came through the wilderness to Brunersburg and made arrangement for a coffin with Obidiah Webb, a carpenter of the settlement.
When negotiation were completed Abraham Webb and William Sittic lashed the coffin to a pole and carried it 13 miles through the dense forest arriving at 3 am to bury the dead hunter in the northwest corner of section 10.
The original name of Farmer township was Lost Creek township. The name was changed to Farmer in honor of Nathan Farmer who came in 1833. The Indian name for Lost Creek, was Buck-que-o-ke-uh which means Marsh Creek.
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