Jacob G. Warrick, Sr.

Warrick County Indiana is named in Captain Jacob Warrick's honor

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John Sprinkle Waren County

Date and Place of Birth: 1778 – York Co., PA Date and Place of Death: 1821 – Warrick Co., IN John Sprinkle came in the spring of 1803 to Ohio Township in Warrick County, Indiana. This was the scene of the first white settlement in this county. The first settlement was called Sprinklesburg. Today it is known as Newburgh. In 1813 Warrick County was officially organized by the Indiana Territorial Legislature. The county was named after Captain Jacob Warrick a war hero killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. John Sprinkle was married to Susannah Lawrence in 1797 in Henderson, Kentucky. The family consisted of 10 children. It is recorded that the first lot in the county was sold by the county agent to John Sprinkle for 30 dollars on July 15, 1814. One of John's counterparts was another early pioneer of Warrick County named Bailey Anderson. He was famous for "Bailey's Roost" for rumor had it that he lived in a tree while building his cabin. Abraham Lincoln walked to Boonville in Warrick County from his home in Spencer County to borrow books and to watch a local attorney argue cases. John Sprinkle is credited with founding the first settlement in Warrick County. Life was difficult for those first settlers. John Sprinkle died in 1821 at the age of 43.