MORGAN COUNTY, ADAMS TOWNSHIP; PAGE 312

...When but a lad of some four summers, in 1795, ELI PRUITT emigrated with his parents from North Carolina to Kentucky,
 which was then almost an unbroken wilderness. They settled near the present site of Lexington, where his father,
 BRIGHT PRUITT, bought some 600 acres of military lands, which he lost in consequence
 of a defective title. Afterward he entered 400 acres in what is now Oldham County, KY., where still later he built 
and operated a distillery until 1830, when he came to Gregg Township, Morgan Co., Ind., where he resided
 until his death. Young Eli received a very fair education at the rude log schoolhouses 
of the Kentucky frontier, and learned the cooper's trade with his 
father, which he followed for a number of years. At the age of twenty-seven 
he was married, (to NANCY WILLIAMS) soon after which he bought a farm 
in Oldham County, KY., and was engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection 
with his trade until the fall of 1835, when he came with his family to 
Adams Township, Morgan County, Ind., entered and bought 743 acres of 
wild land, and improved a farm upon which he resided until his death, 
which occurred March 28, 1868, in his seventy-seventh year. He was an 
enrolling officer in Kentucky during the War of 1812, and Township Trustee for 
one term after he came to Indiana. Himself and wife were members of the 
Christian Church. In politics, he was identified with the Democratic party, 
and was one of the pioneers of Morgan County....

COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE AND BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO:F.A. BATTEY 
& CO., PUBLISHERS 1884.