 About 12.1% of families and 15.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.8% of those under age 18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over.In 1806 the first European Americans in the area, Quaker families from North Carolina, settled along the East Fork of the Whitewater River.This was part of a general westward migration in the early decades after the American Revolution.