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Note: on of John and Jane (Allen) Summers, natives of Virginia who came to Parke Co., locating in Sugar Creek Twp in 1829; his uncle, David Allen, who came a few years earlier, was the first settler in this part of the Township & was a leading member of the Baptist Church, his house being the principal stopping place for all the pioneer preachers of that denomination.
Mr. Summers was born in Kentucky 19 July, 1829 being only a few months old when his parents settled in Sugar Creek twp., at which time this part of the county was heavily timbered, where deer & turkey & game of all kinds were numerous. He received his education at the common school, which was held in a log building, fitted up in the most primitive fashion and until 1856 worked on the farm with his father when he married Miss Elizabeth Shaw, moving in 1857 to Iowa, where he remained 7 years at the end of which time he returned to Parke Co. & now lives on the old homestead. He has a good farm of 268 acres, well improved. He has a family of 7 children; Rachel Jane, John Eli, Andrew, Jackson, Martha Ellen, Isaac William, D. W. Voorhees, Thomas Sydney & is a member of the democratic party.
Mr. Summers has in his possession one of the old VA mountain pack saddles which has been in the family over 60 years, having been bought by his father when he came here." - 1880 History of Parke County, Indiana by J H Beadle, Chicago pg 449: H H Hill & N. Iddings, Publishers
Note: "Isaac Summers, farmer and stock raiser, Wallace, Fountain Co., Indiana is the s
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