In 1826 their tribe ceded the land back to the government and in 1828 their title to the land became extinct by reason of the treaty and the land was disposed of through a government land office in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Prior to this time the area was occupied by the Pottawatomie Indians under a grant from the Government. There is some evidence that there had been a trading post on the site of where Thorntown now is as early as 1827. In 1854, Cornelius moved to a farm in Macomb Township in McDonough County, Illinois and died there two years later. There they had these children: (4) Josephine (Malissa) Westfall Otterman born, died 1923 (5) Louisa Maria Westfall Harris born, died 1907 (6) Elnathan Kemper Westfall born, died 1912 (7) Harriet Steele Westfall Cogswell born on, died 1924 and (8) Clara Amelia Westfall born in 1845. It was named after the Miamis Indian village that had been there and named ka-wi-a-ki-un-gi (place of thorns). In April of 1830, Cornelius platted his land into ninety-four lots to create the town of Thorntown. On November 10, 1829, Cornelius bought 160 acres in Indiana for $4 per acre. They lived in present Troy, Ohio and there had thyese children: (1) Beverly Randolph Westfall born, died 1882 (2) Mary Elizabeth Westfall Armstrong born, died 1905 and (3) Sarah Ann Westfall born in 1828. Sarah was born in Trenton, New Jersey on September 6, 1802. Rachel died in about 1822 and Cornelius wed Sarah Mary Davis (1802 - 1874) in Miami County on October 28, 1823. Cornelius wed Rachel Dye (1784 - 1823) in Miami County, Ohio on April 25, 1809, and they had two daughters, whose names are unknown. He became Clerk of Common Pleas for Miami County and served in that position for twenty-four years. Later, Cornelius moved to Miami County, Ohio and surveyed and platted the town of Troy. Cornelius moved to Ohio before 1803 and helped establish the town of Dayton and taught in the first Dayton school. Cornelius was age sixteen when he moved with his parents to Elizabethtown, Kentucky in 1794. *******Cornelius was the first child born to Jacob Westfall and Mary King. His great great grandparents were Johannes and Marritje (Kool) Westfall, and Cornelius's great great great grandfather was the original Westfall immigrant to America who came to America in 1642 from Holland, Jurian Westfall who married Maritje Hansen. ![]() His great grandparents were Jurian and Styntje (Kuykendall) Westfall. His grandparents were Jacob and Judith (Hornbeck) Westfall. Cornelius was the son of Jacob Westfall born 1755 and Mary (King) Westfall. ![]() ![]() She was born in 1802 in New Jersey, and died in 1874 in Wolfgrove, Illinois. He married 1st Elizabeth Bryan, married 2nd Rachel Dye, and married 3rd Sarah Mary Davis 10 Oct. 1856 in Wolf Grove, McDonough County, Illinois. The book is about Thorntown, Indiana, which was founded in 1830 by Cornelius Westfall.Ĭornelius Westfall was born 7 Mar. 1778 in Beverly, Randolph County, Virginia, and died 5 Sept. Cornelius Westfall and the house he built in Thorntown, Indiana are pictured in a book "The Thorntown Centurial", published in 1930. Cornelius Westfall was the founder of Thorntown in Boone County, Indiana in 1830, and built the first house in Thorntown.
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