Trueblood, Nathan & Patience
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 family They were God-fearing people. kind and helpful to the poor, for whom they had the same honest feeling as for the rich. Many a poor wanderer found refuge in their home, where was found a number of orphan children they had taken to raise. This was also the home of a negro boy that they had brought with them from their former home in North Carolina and who remained with the family until his death.