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Note: e place of origin of the Buller Family, the first members of which came to Grant County eighty-five years ago, among the earliest pioneers and three years before the county was organized. In the third generation of the family is Harmon, for so many years prominent as a farmer and stockman in Fairmount Township and the owner of a splendid rural estate just outside the city of Fairmount. His fellow citizens have paid him many tributes for his thrift and excellent judgment in business affairs, and he has been remarkably successful in stock trading and dealing. Mr. Buller is a man of the energetic, nervous temperament, always active in mind and body, and has been a forceful leader in every undertaking whether on his own initiative or in community matters.
His grandfather Buller was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, and spent all his life in that State as a farmer, his death occurring when quite old. The grandfather married Mary, better known as Polly Leonard, also of North Carolina. After her husband died, with her family of two sons and three daughters she came overland by wagon and team across the long distance intervening between North Carolina and Indiana. This journey was made in 1833, and she located on Section twenty-eight in Fairmount Township of Grant County. The land was altogether new, in the state of primeval wilderness, though it had been entered a year or two before by other parties. Mrs. Buller after several years of residence in grant County, married Job David of North Carolina. Later they moved to a small farm in Liberty Township, where they both died. Mrs. Buller reached a good old age, and in many ways was one of the remarkable pioneer women. She was a Wesleyan Methodist in religion, and brought up her children in that faith. She survived her second husband by several years. Of her five children, all grew up and married and were farming people.
Lindsay Buller, father of Harmon Buller, was a young man when his mother moved to Grant County. He was born in North Carolina in 1815, and on reaching maturity entered forty acres of land on Section twenty-five in Liberty Township. There he did well as a farmer, and after a long and honorable career died in 1895 at the home of his son B. F. Buller. He was a Wesleyan Methodist and a Republican in politics. Lindsay Buller married Miss Polly Lytle, who was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, in 1814, and was a girl when she came with her father to Grant County, locating in Liberty Township. Her father there entered eighty acres of land, and that continued to be the Lytle homestead for many years. Later her father and a second wife moved out to Missouri where they died. Mrs. Polly Buller died in 1863, while her son Harmon was away fighting as a soldier for the Union.
Harmon Buller was born on his father's old farm in Liberty Township, February 23, 1844. There he grew up, attended the district schools such as were maintained in the rural communities of that time, and when nineteen years of age enlisted in Company G of the One Hundred and eighteenth Indiana Infantry as a private. with that regiment he served during 1863 and 1864, nearly a full year. He was in some of the hardest campaigns of the war and saw much fighting and many marches, but went through service without injury, was never confined a day in a hospital, and escaped capture. On his discharge from the army he returned to Grant County, and soon after acquired his first land in Liberty Township. He improved his place with good buildings, and lived there until he sold out in the fall of 1875. In that year he moved to Fairmount Township, and bought eighty acres of fine land, just outside the corporation limits of the city. By his thrift and enterprise he gradually extended his landed possessions and at the present time owns two hundred acres in one body. this is improved with a commodious brick dwelling house besides excellent barn buildings of all descriptions. the keynote of his success has been energy, combined with a certain talent for managing soil and in handling and dealing in live stock.
In Fairmount City Mr. Buller married Mary Little, who was born in North Carolina in 1840, and came to Grant County with her parents. She died in Fairmount, in 1904, the mother of three children. The son John E. is now a prosperous young farmer, is the owner of eighty acres of land near Fairmount, and married Salina Arnett. They have one son, Carmen A. Charles L., the second son, is a substantial farmer in Fairmount Township, and is regarded as one of the most successful men. His first marriage was to Bertha Plock, who died leaving one child, Harmon Jr. His present wife is Anna Yarber. Mr. Buller and sons are Republican voters.
Centennial History of Grant County Indiana 1812-1912. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.
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1860 Census: Liberty Twp., Grant Co., IN, p. 57/291.
Co. H, 118th Indiana Infantry
Enlisted in Company H, 118th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 03 September 1863. Mustered out Company H, 118th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 01 March 1864 in Indianapolis, IN
This regiment was organized during July and Aug., 1863, principally at Wabash, but moved to Indianapolis on Aug. 31, where its organization was completed. It was mustered in Sept. 16 for six months. Leaving the state the same day, it joined the other six months regiments at Nicholasville, Ky., and moved with them to east Tennessee. From Cumberland Gap it proceeded via Morristown, to Greeneville, and in November accompanied the command to Clinch River, participating in the battle of Walker's ford. Col. Jackson was placed in command of a brigade sent to the relief of the 5th Ind. cavalry, which had been engaged with a heavy force of the enemy 2 miles south of the river and was in desperate straits because of the exhaustion of its ammunition. The 118th, in command of Lieut.-Col. Elliott, waded the river, formed in line of battle on both sides of the road, and advanced, thus enabling the cavalry to fall back and cross the river. The regiment fell back slowly under the assaults of a brigade, repelling a charge on its right and recrossing the river. It was engaged during the winter in the arduous duties of that campaign and suffered greatly. It moved to Maynardville in Jan., 1864, thence to Cumberland Gap, Camp Nelson, then home, and was mustered out at Indianapolis about the middle of February.
Note: Randolph County, North Carolina, the source of so many early settlers in Grant County, was th
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