Uncle Warder, Pioneer Farmer of Decatur County
In a small, rural community of southeastern Indiana lived a pioneer farmer – William Warder Hamilton. “Warder” migrated to Decatur County from Kentucky in the fall of 1842, where he purchased a hundred-acre farm in Clinton Township. Uncle Warder, as the local citizens lovingly referred to him, was a consummate businessman and farmer throughout his life. When he died in 1907 at the ripe old age of eighty-five, he still owned the first land he bought in 1842, and he…