One of the pioneer settlers of Scott County was Joseph Mounts 1, who was born near Princeton, Indiana, May 10, 1810. This parents were Mathias and Mary (Montgomery) Mounts, natives of Virginia. She was a cousin to Davy Crockett, and also of General Montgomery, who was killed at the battle of Quebec.
At the age of four years Joseph was taken by his parents to Edwards County, Illinois, where he received his education, and lived until 1835, when in June of that year he came to Scott County and selected a home in Buffalo Township. Ile then returned to Indiana and brought his family to Scott County. The following April — in 1836 — he sold his claim to a man by the name of Brunson, and the land was platted as a town site. They paid him $800 cash for the claim, which gave him a start. He rented land for one season and the next season moved to a farm near the Village of Buffalo, on which he remained for five years, when he purchased a farm in section seven, Buffalo Township, and sub sequently moved to Blue Grass Township, where he lived until his death. During his residence in Scott County he fenced and cleared more than four hundred acres of land and erected six houses, one of which cost him over three thousand dollars, and was the finest in the Township in those days.
Mr. Mounts was united in marriage November 1, 1830, to Miss Elizabeth Stennett, a native of Ilardin County, Kentucky. They were the parents of ten children - Sylvester, Harriet, Louisa, Lucy, Mahala, Ellen, Mary, Charles.
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