460 HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY.
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pied by the Catholic cemetery. This grant included all land
lying north of Seventh Street, in the present city plat.
The ground lying directly south, to what is now known as
Bruce Street, was pre-empted or purchased from the Government
by Joshua Moore. Seeing the advantages that would accrue
from railroads, Mr. M. W. Shields purchased from Samuel Moore,
his son, this tract of land, which was owned by the latter, about
the year 1850. Butler's addition, comprising the greater part of
the Fifth Ward of the city of Seymour, was purchased direct from
the Government at a merely nominal price by Charles Butler.
The city of Seymour is located on a part of four separate sections,
the corners of all meeting at the intersection of Brown and Wal-
nut Streets. A parallel line, running south from the east side of
the city cemetery on the north to Brown Street on the south,
shows the northeastern part of the city located in the west half of
Section 17, Township 6, Range 6. All lots and lands west of
said parallel and north of Brown Street are located in Section 18,
Township 6, Range 6. That part of the city lying south of
Brown Street and mainly west of Walnut and known as Butler's
addition, lies in Section 19, Township 6, Range 6. The fourth
division is best known as Pfingst's addition, though much more
than this addition is included in or encompassed by Section 20.
of Jackson Township.
THE FIRST SETTLERS.
Among the first, if not the very first, of the actual settlers in
Seymour was John Redinger, Sr., a shoe-maker by occupation
who was the first person, after the town was laid out, to occupy an
old frame building standing in Second Street, after that street was
laid out, directly in front of the ground where J. B. Morrison's
dry goods store now stands. Mr. Redinger erected a small frame
dwelling, which still stands as the north wing to his saloon build-
ing and hall. On his departure for his new home the old build-
