Deming is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana, United States.

In 1833, David Anthony, Joseph Hadley, William Pickett, and Jesse Beals became the first recorded American pioneers to permanently inhabit the region that is near/at the present site of Deming, Indiana.

Later that same year, Hansil Bartholomew, Peter Lowrance, Jacob Hadley, William Ramsey, Levi Cook, Elihu Pickett, James Fisher, Jacob Crull, Joseph Moon, John Countryman, Daniel Lane, Samuel Pickerill, Squire Tucker, and John Hatfield also settled in the area.

[4][5][6] This early wave of settlement ended with the Panic of 1837 and the subsequent failure of the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act.

[7] The aforementioned early settlers found that the soil of this region had enough sand in it to make for naturally well-drained land.

The surrounding forests were thick with poplar, sugar, walnut, and oak trees, which denoted fertile soil.

[11] The Dismal stretched diagonally southwest for the three miles between Deming and Hortonville[12] until it was drained in the late 1800s or early 1900s by a network of drainage ditches.

[13][14] The community that is now Deming was laid out on August 10, 1837, by Elihu Pickett, Solomon Pheanis, and Lewis Jessup.

[68][69] A tan yard at the crossroads to the east of the church provided the oak bark strips that were used to insulate the meeting house.

[74] The Civil War came on and stripped the villages and the hamlets of all their young men large enough to bear arms.

[75] Among them were Nehamiah Baker,[76] Martin Davis,[77] Peter Phenis,[78] Joseph Hadley,[79] and Hugh Lee.

[86][87][88] Numerous other men from the Deming neighborhood became fatalities of the war; some of their gravesites can be found in local cemeteries.

It was noted in The Noblesville Ledger that a North Carolinian man, William Perry, came to Deming to avoid being drafted into the Confederate army.

[89] At the conclusion of the Civil War, the men from the Deming neighborhood who had survived their time in the Union army returned to their homes.

Even after moving to Tipton, Indiana around 1870, The Noblesville Ledger described how Jennings was still "well known in the Deming neighborhood [and] among the Civil War veterans of Hamilton County.

"[90][91][92] On May 9, 1863, a dozen or so Master Masons gathered in a store in Deming to apply for a charter from the Grand Lodge of Indiana.

[100] How sweet my child-hood memories, Of trees and flowers and rill, of wild-flowers and woodland lot— And Deming on the hill.

Down the road we'd barefoot go On past the water mill; With errands bent to the country store— And Deming on the hill.

Sweet Childhood memories we would not chide, But let thee have thy fill And dwell upon the dearest spot— Of Deming on the hill.

[111][112] The Masons of this lodge met on the second floor of a building that was located "on the southwest corner [of Main and Cross streets]".

This is a great country.At the beginning of the United States involvement in World War I, forty-five men registered for the draft in Freemont Holloway's store in Deming during the first mandatory registration on June 5, 1917.

[134][135] One of those men was Harry Leeman; he later enlisted in the United States Army and was subsequently assigned to Battery B in the 103rd Field Artillery Regiment.

Leeman was killed instantly on July 28, 1918, after a shell from a German airplane landed near him during the Second Battle of the Marne.

[60][122] In 1871, The Noblesville Ledger described how the Deming schoolhouse filled the place of "seminary, church, town hall, and club room.

The architect and builder of the new schoolhouse was Ira Shoaf, while the brick work was done by Philip Leace and George Deerwester.

[151] In September 1931, the schoolhouse was sold for $160 (approximately $3,310 in August 2024) to a nearby property owner by the name of Mrs. Griffin.

"[131][152] The former schoolhouse was partially dismantled and then razed in circa 1939, with the lumber from the building being sold to a sawmill owner in an auction.

When the town was first laid out, a "corn cracker" mill was in operation a half mile to the east of the community.

[182][183] Many inhabitants in and around present-day Deming were actively involved in assisting runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad.

The family recuperated in preparation for continuing their journey to Canada at the home of Joseph Baker, which was located to the west of Deming.