Simeon Pfoutz and his wife Susannah were the first white settlers on Kettle Creek. He selected this site in 1813, cleared the land, built a log house, went to Perry Co. for his wife and their two year old son Simon, and returned in 1814 to spend the rest of their days there. They reared nine children. The cemetery where several family members were buried was a short distance upstream along the north shore. Simeon died from the bite of a rattlesnake he was handling.