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- Albert Bunta, E. 3 N. E. 10. 19, 14, March 20, 1818. Thomas Hester, N. W. S. 18, 14, March 25, 1818. Stephen Milton, S. E. 27, 19. 14, April 2, 1818. Nicholas Longworth, N. W. 14. 19, 14. April 4, 1818. Zimri Lewis, S. E. 18, 18, 14, April 17, 1818. William Lewis, S. W. 18, 18, 14, April 17, 1818. Jonathan Haskins, E. ! N. W. 32, 19, 14. April 24, 1818. Henry Wysong. W. Į S. E. 10, 19, 14, April 27, 1818.
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Thomas Frazier, N. W. 10, 18, 14, April 29, 1818. Joseph Rogers, S. W. 12, 18, 13, June 4, 1818. Reuben Norcross, N. W. 13, 18, 13, June 8, 1818. Isaiah Rogers, N. W. 12, 18, 13, June 20, 1818. James Lykins, N. W. 18, 19, 14, July 9, 1818. Daniel Osborn, E. } S. W. 8, 18, 14, July 12, 1818; Mass Brooks, S. W. 10, 19, 14, July 15, 1818. David Hammer, S. E. 14, 18, 14, July 22, 1818. John Fowen, E. & N. W. 5, 18, 14, July 27, 1818. Joseph Hockett, N. E. 4, 18, 14, July 29, 1818. Isaac Pearson, W. } S. E. 33, 19, 14, August 14, 1818. Edward Thornburg, W. ¿ N. W. 5, 18, 14, September 10, 1818. Jonathan Willis, S. E. 32, 19, 14, February 12, 1819. James Abshire, E. 1 S. E. 33, 19, 14, June 30, 1819. Thomas Phillips, N. E. 12, 18, 13, July 21, 1819. Joseph Thoruburg, Se W. 32, 19, 14, August 12, 1819. Edward Thornburg, N. E. 6, 18, 14, August 12, 1819. Edward Thornburg, N. E. 5, 18, 14. August 13, 1819. William Johnson, E. & N. E. 22, 19, 14, September 11, 1821. Isaac Beeson, E. J S. W. 6, 18, 14. November 5, 1821. Enoch Nichols, S. E. 17, 18, 14, December 27, 1822. Andrew Hill, W. 1 N. W. 30. 19, 14, November 10, 1826. James Abshire, E. & S. E. 29, 19, 14, January 13, 1827. James Abshire, W. 3 6. W. 28, 19, 14, January 23, 1827. Daniel Osborn, W. ¿ S. W. 8, 18, 14, August 22, 1827.
SETTLERS.
The following are mentioned as early settlers by various per- sons who remember the pioneer period, with the date of their land entry when known:
Travis Adcock, May 14 and October 19, 1814. south of Lynn. Curtis Cleny, January 7, 1815, near Paul Board's.
Paul Beard, Sr., August 9, 1815, south of Lynn.
George Frazier, October 17, 1815.
John Johnson, March 2, 1816.
David Kenworthy, east of Jesse Johnson.
James Frazier, east of Lynn.
Isaac Hockett, Cherry Grove.
Francis Frazier. south of Lynn.
Isaac Hutchens, Cherry Grove.
Obadiah Harris, October 5, 1815, Cherry Grove.
John Pegg, November 7, 1816, three miles south of Beard's. Joseph Hockett, October 26. 1816, Cherry Grove.
Jesse Johnson, November 28, 1816, south of Lynn.
John Moorman, 1817.
John Barnes (Wayne County). Gideon Frazier.
John Baxter, January 9, 1817.
Edward Hunt, west of Lynn.
James Abshire, northwest of Lynn.
Daniel Shoemaker, east of Lynn.
Stephen Hockett, February 8, 1817, Cherry Grove.
Edward Thornburg, September 10, 1818, Cherry Grove.
Samuel Smith, near Bloomingsport.
Isaiah Rogers, June 20, 1818, near Bloomingsport.
Washington Township lies in four different Congressional Townships, viz., in Townships 18 and 19. Range 13, and in 18 and 19, Range 14, with the following sections in each: Town- ship 18, Range 13. Sections 1, 12 and 13; Township 19, Range 13, Sections 12, 13, 24, 35, 46; Township 18, Range 14, Sections west half of 2, 11, 14, Sections 8 to 10, and 15 to 18; Town. ship 19, Range 14, Sections west half of 11, 14, 28, 20, 35, Sec- tions 7 to 10, 15 to 22, 27 to 34.
Washington contains abont 28,260 acres of land, more than 10,000 of which had been taken up within five years from the first settlement.
RELIGION.
The preponderating religions element at the first settlement of the township was Quaker. A large body of the pioneers be- longed to the Friends, and, in a short time, two meetings were established, viz., Lynn and Cherry Grove, which have been maintained in a vigorous and prosperous existence to the present time. Other societies, also, found early footing in that region.
Methodist "Circuit Riders" threaded the whole country, pro- claiming redemption through a crucified and risen Savior. A Presbyterian Church existed in 1846, and for some years before and after that time, called Liberty Church. Other churches have been formed and maintained with a more or less vigorous growth for many years past.
SCHOOLS.
We have obtained no very definite information as to the com- mencement of schools in Washington Township. The history of that matter in that region is doubtless similar to other portions in the county. There was no efficient school system, and each neighborhood went on its "own hook," building something, though only a log cabin, for a schoolhouse, and employing a teacher as occasion offered. In Quaker neighborhoods, schools were held often in the churches, and sometimes schoolhouses were built near the meeting-honses, and schools were maintained by the societies. Frequently, the first schools were kept in pri- vate houses, the teacher taking her pupils into her own dwelling. Not seldom, some unoccupied cabin would be used for a school- house.
One of the citizens of the county (not very old, either) re- lates, that, no longer ago than 1837, he taught his first school in a dilapidated old cabin in a field, with the chimney-piece all open (a great gap in the wall six or seven feet long and as high as one's head).
Washington contains an excellent population -- moral, sober, industrious, intelligent and thriving. It has several good pikes and two railroads-the Richmond & Grand Rapids, passing near Johnson's, Lynn, Hawkins' and Rural. Another railroad is in progress east and west, passing near Lynn. Lynn is a thriving place, and a suburb of Lynn has been laid out as a depot for the north and south railroad, which is slowly advancing in pros- perity.
There are some antiquities in Washington Township, described more in detail in the chapter entitled "Prehistoric."
The boundaries of the township are as follows: North by White River, east by Greensfork, south by Wayne County, west by West River.
ENTRIES BY SECTIONS.
Township 18, Range 13-Section 1, 1835-1837; Section 12 1817 -- 1819, James Barnes, September 15, 1817; Section 13, 1817 -- 1836, Moses Martindale.
Township 19, Range 13-Sections 12, 13, 1817-1837, An- drew Lykins, December 6, 1817; Seetion 24, 1836-1837; Sec- tions 25, 36, 1836.
Township 18, Range 14-Section 2, 1816-1836, James Fra- zier, David Kenworthy, November, 1816; Section 3, 1831-1836; Sections 4, 7, 18. 1816-1818, Joseph Hockett, H. Hockett, Elea- zar Smith; Section 5, 1817-1819, Stephen Hockett; Section 6, 1817-1836, H. Hodgson; Section 8, 1815-1827, John Ozbun, June 1, 1815; Section 9, 1815 -- 1816, George Frazier, October 17, 1815; Section 10, 1814-1818, Travis Adcock, October 19, 1814; Section 11, 1815-1831, Curtis Cleny, Jannary 7, 1815; Section 14, 1814 -- 1830, Travis Adcock, Msy 14, 1814; Section 15, 1815 --- 1817, Obadiah Harris, October 4, 1815; Section 16, school land; Section 17, 1817-1822, John Pegg, November 7, 1817.
Township 19, Range 14-Section 7, 1817, Andrew Lykins, December 6, 7, 1817; Section 8, 20, 1834 --- 1836; Section 9, 1836- 1837; Sections 10, 14, 15, 1818 -- 1836, Albert Banta. Nicholas Longworth, Albert. Banta, March 20, April 4, March 20, 1818; Sections 11, 17, 1835-1836; Section 16, school land; Section 18, 1818 -- 1837, James Lykins, July 9, 1818; Sections 19, 23, 26, 30, 31, 1836; Section 21, 1831-1836; Section 22, 1821-1836, William Johnson, September 11, 1821; Section27, 1817-1835, Enoch Pilcher, January 9, 1817; Section 28, 1827-1836; Sec- tions 29, 34, 1817-1836, Joseph Cass, John Baxter, August 11, January 9, 1817; Section 32, 1816 -- 1836, William Reece, No- vember 4, 1816; Section 33, 1816-1830, Nathan Thornburg, October 25, 1816; Section 35, 1830-1837, William Benson (col- ored), February 19, 1830.
Washington entries occurred from 1814 to 1837 inclusive.
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TOWNS.
Bloomingsport .- Nathan Hockett, proprietor: location, Sec- tions 5, 6, 7 and 8, 18, 14. southwest of Lynn; forty-eight lots; streets. Main, north and south: High, east and west. Recorded September 30, 1829. This town is the second ohlest in the county, having been laid out in 1829. Though so old. its growth was never rapid; still, considerable business has been done at the place. The proprietor of the town was Nathan Hockett. Alfred Blizzard built the first house. Mr. Beeson kept the first store. Dr. Paul Beard was the first physician in the region. There was no physician in Bloomingsport for many years. Dr. Gideon Frazier lived in the village a long while ago. Other physicians have been Drs. Gore, Strattan. Kemper. Good, Coggeshall, etc. Merchants have been Messrs. Beeson, Comfort, Ballard, Budd, Hyatt, Wright, Coggeshall, Hockett, etc. There have been a potter's shop, a wheelwright's shop, a saw-mill and a grist-mill. There are two churches-Methodist and United Brethren. There is a pike passing through the town, connecting Lynn and Economy. There is no railroad. the nearest point of importance being West Lynn, except that the new railroad passes not very far from the town. The population is 141. The business of the place at present is about as follows: Merchants. Beeson & Bales; drug store and grocery. Smith & Peacock; smith shop. Albert Hardwick: saw-mill, Hockett & Bowsinan: wagon-maker, J. O. Hutchens; shoemaker, W P. Davison; car- penters, Albert Ingle, John Nichols; physician, Dr. Good: eler- gyman, J. V. D. R. Johnson (Christian). There are two elmreli- es-United Brethren and Methodist Episcopal. The Friendly also hold worship in the village. There is also a schoolhouse and a post office. The chief residents in the vicinity are William Engle, Jesse Bales, William Stanley. John Hodgson. Simon Adamson, Cady Osborn, Ezra Vandegriff, William Chamness, Levi Jessup, Joel Mills, Nathan Johnson.
Bloomingsport, like most of the interior towns in the county, is much decayed, and its business has greatly decreased. It is finely located in the midst of an excellent country, and many active and enterprising farmers reside in the region. There are two pikes, one connecting the Winchester & Richmond pike with Economy, and another north and south through the place. The village is quiet, moral and orderly, and, if the old regime had continued, might have been a flourishing town. But the "railroad era " has changed the entire methods of business and trade, and towns ontside their magie power have been obliged to snecumb and yield, notens rolens, to their inevitable fate
The distances from other adjacent towns are as follows: Farin- land, 18 miles: Huntsville, 7 miles; Lynn. 13 miles; Losants- ville. 18} miles; Ridgeville, 193 miles; Spartansburg, 10} miles; Union City, 20g miles; Windsor, 20 miles; Winchester, 103 miles; Rural, 9 miles.
The most prosperous time for the business of the town was, say from 1860 to 1868. There were then three considerable dry goods stores, two smith shops, one wagon-maker's shop, and au extensive and thriving trade was carried on. But now there is very little business of any kind.
Johnson's Station and Post Office .- Not incorporated; on Grand Rapids Railroad, two and a half miles south of Lynn, on Section 15, 18, 14. There is a station and a post office all in the same building. It was established probably at the opening of the Grand Rapids Railroad. The station is in the immediate vicinity of the residence of Mr. William Johnson, who is a very., prominent citizen, and it was probably located by his influence and for his special convenience, not less than for the accommo- dation of the neighborhood. It is roally no town at all. the sta- tion house being the only building.
Lynn .- Location, Seetions 34, 35. 19, 14, and Sections 2 and 3, 18, 14, on Richmond & Grand Rapids Railroad, Philip Brown, proprietor; nineteen lots; streets, north and south., Main; east and west, Mill, Brown, Recorded October 4. 1850. Hunt & Jennings' Addition, Royal Hunt (tirm of Hunt & Jennings). pro- prietor; forty-four lots; Shern an street, east and west. Re- corded November 17, 1866.
19, 14, and on Sections 2 and 3, 18, 11. about one-half mile from the Richmond & Grand Rapids Railroad. Jacob A. Hin- shaw had a store in 1847. William Londer had a smith shop. Dr. Banks was the first physician (1847). The pike from Win- chester to Fountain City, through Lynn. was built early, per- haps among the first in the county, or nearly so. The Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad was completed about 1570. The mer. chants have boon Mesas. Hinshaw, Tansoy, Hunt & Harris, Hinshaw & Hodgin, Hinshaw & Beard, Elliott & --- , Freeman & Jones. Hinshaw & Plait, George Bascom. Hinshaw & Hinshaw, MeKown. Sterling, Carter. Cox Bros., Hinshaw & Cadwallader, and may be others, Smith shops, Londer. Hinshaw, William Locke. Wolf. Johnson, Sugarts, Jackson, Shinte & Locko; drng stores. Simpson, Conter. Wysong, Holliday Bros. ; groceries, Freeman. Ingle, Hinshaw; wagon shop. W. Woods; cooper, i. S. Smith; harness shop, Hinshaw & Bonder; tin shop, Brown: milliner, Harris; saw-mill and grist-mill, both burned down: tile factorv, Hinshaw. Shute & Londer: hotels. Ostler, Way, Stet. tler, Nichols, Platt, Pearson; teachers, Ives, Anderson, Lasley, Marsh, Green, Hunt, Hogston, Polly, Frist, Nichols, etc .; phy- sicians, Banks, Adams, Hamilton, Alf Hamilton, Blair, Meeks, Swain.
The present business is as follows: One dry goods store, Cox & Bro .; one drug and hardware store, Halliday & Bros .; two gro- ceries, Ingle, Hinshaw; three smith shops, Sugart, Jackson, Shute & Locke; one butcher shop, John Thomas; one wagon shop, W. Wood; two physicians, Blair, Hamilton; two hotels, Stettler, Platt; two tile factories, Shute & Dove, Frist & Hamil- ton; one boarding house, W. D. Nichols; one shoe shop, Ecker- ley; one harness shop, J. Thomas; one church, Methodist Epis- copal; one schoolhouse, two rooms; one post office, Halliday; one depot, Nichols; one express office, Nichols; two teachers, A. L. Nichols, P. Bond (1881).
Distances: Bloomingsport, 45 milos; Newport, 63 miles, Snow Hill, 3 miles; Rural. 4} miles; Winchester. 9 miles; Spar- fansburg. 32, miles: Arba. 63 miles: Huntsville, S} miles; "Losantsville, 11 miles; Union City. 163 miles
The principal residents in the vicinity are as follows: L. E Conner. David Robbins. Alfred Price, George Baseotu, north of town; Simon Johnson. Silas Johnson, Ira Johnson, Alphens Outland, Charles Potter, south of town; Thomas Moody, east of town; Jacob Platt, David Thorn, west of town; Jonathan Bliz- zard, southwest of town; Thomas Sugart, southeast of town.
There are in Lynn about fifty dwellings, besides business houses and other edifices, and 239 people. Lynn is not far from Green'., Fork strem, and the country around it is excellent and well improved. Fine residences may be seen in every direction Pikes lead out from the village north, south and cast. The re gion has been inhabited by white men for more than sixty-seven years, settlers beginning to enter land in the neighborhood in 1814. and to come in 1815.
The Methodist Church was built many years ago. The schoolhouse is neat, commodious and tasteful. being intended for a school with two grades. The editier has two stories, with one room and an entry in each story. It was ereeted by the Town- ship Trustees some years ago, at a cost of abont $4,000. Two teachers are commonly omployed, sometimes during the summer term only one.
For a long time, the growth of the town was bnt slow, and its prosperity very slight. Its. vitality dates . chiefly from the completion of the railroad. It has good connection by pikes with the surrounding towns-Winchester, Union City (nearly), Bar- tonia, Spartansburg, Arba, Fountain City, Williamsburg, Bloom- ingport, Economy, etc. The school is becoming so large as greatly to need at least three rooms and three teachers.
Distances :: Spartansburg, 5 9-10 miles; Arba, 612 miles; Economy, 8 miles; Union City, 19 miles; Rural, 412 miles; Bloomingport, 4 1/3 miles; Huntsville, 81/2 miles; Losantville, 14 miles; Fountain City, 61/2 miles; Snow Hill, 3 miles; Winches- ter, 9 miles; Richmond, 15 miles.
The country is fertile, and the farmers are thriving, intelli- gent and prosperous, and society has a high moral tone. Sixty-
The town was laid ont by Daniel Freestone about 1847 and by Philip Brown, in 1850. It is locate l on Sections 34 and 35, five years of labor, frugality and thrift, have combined to make
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the valley of Greensfork a paradise of comfort, beauty and InxIry.
In the fall of 1881 and winter of 1881-82, a new railroad as built through the southern part of Randolph County, vouching byun, which. when in full operation will add largely, doubtless, to the facilities for business at that point, and, of course, to its material prosperity. July, 1882, the road has been com- Heted, and the cars are running.
Rural-Location. Sections 9 and 16, Township 20, Range 14. on the Richmond & Grand Rapids Railroad, between Winches. ter and Lynn.
The plat of the town (if made) has never been recorded.
The town was started about 1870, on the completion of the
railroad from Richmond. The first spike for the road was driven at Richmond June 10, 1870, and the track was completed before very long.
Joseph Wood built a shanty, October, 1866, to work on the railroad; went away in April, 1867, and returned in 1869. In March, 1870, he set up a saw-mill. The mill was in operation six months, and by that time the railroad had been made and the cars began to run. In November, 1871, David Fudge erected a store. The railroad company built a water-tank, and named the stopping-place Wood Station. Mr. Butterworth set up a smith shop in 1879. More or less grain is bought at the mill and by W. Bales built a store in 1878. Mr. Clawson established a smith ship in 1879. More or less grain is bought at the mill and by the merchants. A post office has been erected by the name of Rural. The business of the town may be stated thus ::
Two stores-J. C. Barnes, A. H. Clawson.
One grist-mill-Mr. Hawkins.
One smith shop-A. H. Clawson.
One water-tank-Railroad company, tended by Mr. Perry.
One ticket office-J. C. Barnes.
One express office-J. C. Barnes.
One post office-J. C. Barnes.
Rural has fifteen dwellings and seventy-five peopple. There is no pike, and not even a cross-road, but only an ordinary pub- lic road crossing the railroad. The village is so healthy that no physician can live there. The distance to the nearest graveyard is four and a half miles. Dr .- tried it here two years, but got no practice and left.
Residents in vicinity: Riley Lord, Jacob Lasley, Jonathan Edwards, Henry Johnson, west of town; Silas Henshaw, east of town; William Benson (colored), Thomas Watkins (colored), south of town; Thomas Holloway, north of town; Joseph Wood, Alfred Hogston, east of town.
Democratic how .-- There is a place west of Rural called Democratic Row, containing sixteen voters m two miles. with ten houses, fourteen being Democrats.
There is one smith shop. Lewis L. Norton: one dry goods store. P. W. Bales. Republican; one saw-mill. Thomas Cox; one butcher shop, Lewis L. Norton : one sewing machine agent, William Arbangh, Republican.
The "Row" is not a town. but a sort of hamlet, or collection of houses in a row, continuing somewhat closely together for nearly two miles.
The name above seems to have been given by some of the Republicans in the region, as the inhabitants themselves are not aware of the appelation, though the name, indeed, is no dis- grace, but may be rightly reckoned by the residents to be an honor conferred, since the meaning of the term, properly under- stood and applied, is worthy of all praise-government by the people; or, as President Lincoln once expressed the true idea, "A government of the people, by the people, for the people." Such, indeed, is true Democracy; such, in fact, is true Republicanism.
Distances from Rural :: Arba, ten and a half miles; Bloom- ingport, nine miles; Bartonia, ten miles; Farmland, fourteen miles; Huntsville, six mlles; Lynn, four and one-fifth miles; Losantville, fourteen and two-fifths miles; Ridgeville, fourteen miles; Spartansburg, nine miles; Union City, fourteen miles; Winchester, five miles; Stone Station, nine miles.
Snow Hill .- Section 23, Township 19, Range 14. There is a locality called Snow Hill about three miles north of Lynn, on
the pike toward Winchester, at the crossing of an east and west road. There used to be a store at that point, but there never was any town. The store has been long discontinued, though the building yet stands, flush with the pike, to show that once it had a public nature and importance. The name Snow Hill is still retained. The same name is sometimes applied, also, to the point where that east and west road crosses the railroad, which crossing is also sometimes called Hawkins' Station, and lies about one mile west of old Snow Hill.
Hawkin's Station .- On Grand Rapids Railroad, not incor- porated, in Sections 16 and 21, Township 19, Range 14, in Washington Township, one mile south of Rural and three miles north of Lynn, there is a switch and a station, and a cattle- pen from which to load stock, but no other sign of a town. It is sometimes called Snow Hill Station, because its location is the nearest railroad point to (old) Snow Hill, and one mile west of the point that formerly went by that name.
Springboro .- Curtis Beals, proprietor. Location, southeast corner of the northwest quarter of Section 29, Township 19, Range 14, between Bloomingport and Winchester, northwest of Lynn four miles (supposed to be Joseph Gess); twenty-eight lots: recorded February 15, 1834; town extinct.
Whether anything and how much of a town ever really exist- ed at the point above designated. the present inhabitants appear to have little knowledge. In the court records is found the granting of a license to sell goods at Springboro, which would indicate the fact that in those olden times somebody undertook to start some business at the infant town.
Rev. Hosea Tillson, in " Reminiscences" of his preaching, speaks of Springboro as though it were a place then (about 1837 or 1538) in existence, which fact, shows that the town held its maine, and probably at least some semblance of a town, for some years, the plat having been recorded in 1834. Pelatiah Bond states that in his boyhood there was a store and a smith shop and a few houses at the place.
West Lynn .-- On the railroad west of Lynn. Benjamin Hunt, proprietor; seventy-four lots.
Location, Section 34, Township 19, Range 14, west of rail- road. Recorded December 24, 1873.
Streets: North and south, Main, Second; east and west, North, Main, Cross.
The town was laid out in 1973 by Benjamin Hunt on the Richmond Railroad, half a mile west of Old Lynn. There is but little growth at the new station, the business, of which there is considerable, clinging with much tenacity to the old town. There are a few houses in the new plat and some future time may per- haps behold what has been denied to the men of this generation, viz., the sight of a thriving, prosperous and wealthy city upon the now sparse and scattered hamlet of West Lynn.
Quite a sprinkling of business. however, is done at this same little suburb of old Lyun, that boasts itself to be above its fellow-town" in " snap" and " grit." as the following resume of the transactions of the railroad at the station will clearly show. Statistics of business done on the Richmond & Grand Rap- ids Railroad at West Lynn, Randolph Co., Ind., 1880:
Car loads of wheat, 100; corn, 7; flaxseed, 18; oats, 7; wood, 12; Inmber, 17: tile, 10; stock, 141; other things, 24; total, 336. Amount received for freight forwarded, $11,262.98; amount received on freight stopping at West Lynn, $1,912.88; amount received on ticket sales, $2,653.80; total receipts, $16, 829.66.
Bushels of grain shipped, 63,180. W. A. Nichols, agent.
BIOGRAPHY.
James Abshire was born August 1, 1777: came to the West early; was in the Indian wars, being once three days without food, except black-haws; settled in Randolph County, Ind., northwest of Cherry Grove Meeting-House, in about 1821, and resided there till his death, in 1868, a very aged man, ninety- one years old. He had a large family, some of whom, and among them two of his sons, Isaac and Berry, are still living in the same neighborhood.
One of Isaac's sons, A. R. Abshire, is a young man rising , into prominence, who has been for some years a teacher, and
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who was elected, in the spring of 1882, Township Trustee of . Washington Township.
James Abshire was in pioneer days a famous hunter, and in later life, he delighted greatly in recounting his adventures with the wild creatures of the forest.
Once, in hunting near a pond, he heard some animal rust- ling among the bushes. Watching for the creature, as he sat there, rifle in hand, out peered the head of the beast, when lo! it was a bear. A bullet from the trusty weapon suddenly put an end to the life of the savage monster, and added ono more trophy to those already gained by the veteran hunter.
His acquaintance with the woods was thorough and exten- sive, and he knew the haunts of every flock of hogs in the re- gion, and when a settler wished to find his porkers, all he had to do was to go and ask old Father Abshire, and the locality would be pointed out at once, or the stalwart hunter would set out as a guide to the identical spot where that particular herd had its habitat and its lodging-place.
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