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Here's a bit of history on that township and a link to a map that follows>>>#6 - FRANKLIN-PISGAH TOWNSHIP - 14 North Range 9 West 3rd PM

Among the first settlers in 1820 were Joseph Buchanan and his son Benjamin, then 19 years of age, who with Ansel Cox and Michael Antle pitched their tents on Section 3. (Then Madison County in 1820)

The next year (1821 which would then be in Greene Count) Lott Luttrell, Johnson, Shelton and Francis Petree followed, and soon Joseph Fanning. After them came William, Robert, James and Russel Tabor, John Sappington, Rice Duncan, Richard Wood and Andrew and David Samples.

The first sermon was preached by Rev. Simeon Buchanaan, a Baptist clergyman at a comp on Section 3 in the fall of 1821, which we judge was the first in the county. The first death was that of Mary, wife of Ansel Cox, June 17, 1823.

The first marriage was John Wiswall to Miss Eda Tabor in 1825. Rice Duncan taught the first school in 1825. Theophilus Ballard was the first Justice of the Peace, and Joseph Fanning the first Constable, both elected in the spring of 1827. The surface, except in the northern part, is moderately level, with a rich soil well adapted to farming. It was originally about four-fifths prairie, and contains some of the best farms in the county.Link here>>>http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilmaga/morgan2/mc-twp.html