Some of the Lindleys were celebrities in the early settlement of Washington County. Samuel Lindley came to the county in the fall of 1808 and settled just north of where the Orthodox Quaker church stands and the schoolhouse stood. He afterwards located just east of the Hicksite church on the farm once owned by one of his descendants, William Lindley, the land having now been in the family over one hundred years at the time.

Another early settler locating in the vicinity of Salem was William Lindley, Sr.. a relative of Samuel, who built the first two-story double log house in the county, about 1811, on the brow of the hill on the west side of South Main street, about a furlong from the creek. It was at his house that the commissioners met to locate the county seat. He built the first water- mill near Salem, three years before the town was laid off, it being located in the bend of the creek about a quarter of a mile below the forks of Brock creek and the Lick branch of Blue River.

The Jehoshaphat Morris family came to Indiana in a wagontrain with others from Symons Creek Monthly Meeting (Pasquotank County) during the early summer of 1815, carrying their certificates from the meeting to Lick Creek MM in Washington County, Ind., and were among the founders of the Blue River Monthly Meeting of July 1, 1815. Other families who came with them were the Truebloods, Whites, Nixons, Symons, Coxes, Pritchards, Cosands, and perhaps others. They followed a trail near the North Carolina-Virginia state line, west to Cumberland Gap, at the corner of the Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Here they found a 1500-foot-mountain to climb to get to the top of the pass. No doubt here t ...
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John and William Overman came to America from England more than two centuries ago and settled in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. From John Overman comes the line of descendants Benjamin Overman, son of Elizabeth Overman, was born in Pasquotank county. North Carolina, in 1790. Living here until his father's death and his mother's remarriage, Benjamin, then grown to manhood, and his sister, Miriam, came to Indiana Territory in the year 1815, like many others of the Quaker faith to leave the land of slavery and build anew in this land of promise, which afterward became Washington county. Miriam was married ...
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Albert W. Thompson, son of John A. and Margaret (Trueblood) Thompson, was born on May 14, 1869, in Washington township, some three miles east of Salem. John A. Thompson was born near Canton and was the son of Levi J. and Patsy (Arbuckle) Thompson, the former of whom was a native of this county, his parents being among the early settlers, having come from North Carolina as pioneers of this section. Margaret (Trueblood) Thompson was born near Salem, being the daughter of William Penn and Anna (White) Trueblood, who came from North Carolina after their marriage and settled in the Quaker neighborhood no ...
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Nathan and Patience ( Newby ) Trueblood. were natives of North Carolina, where they grew to manhood and womanhood and were married and where four of their children were born. The family came to Indiana in 1814. to escape the influence of the slave-holding classes of their native state. The long journey was made in wagons, which were loaded with all the articles which they could obtain for their future conveniences. On their arrival they settled some two miles east of Salem, along the Blue River, on a hill now known as Cypress hill. The great cypress trees that now grow there were planted by the f ...
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William Penn and Anna (White) Trueblood, who came from North Carolina after their marriage and settled in the Quaker neighborhood northeast of Salem. The family have been farmers for generations.