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Goldie May Birch, May Nichol- son, Emma Strahle, Alvin Stark, Melissa Saunders, Mollie Spears Raley, Noel Starks, Connie Starks, William Stout,' Tiny Stout, Ra- chel Keen, Frank Keen, Bert Saunders, Ethel Saunders, Jess She- ridan, Dave Spears, Minnie Vanhoy, John Merrill, Lue Vanhoy, Erma Vanhoy, Zola Wortman, Gladys Sny- der, Cass Stroud, Harry Merrill, Me- lissa Williams, Delia Stark, Earl Saunders, Ola Saunders, Ida Dorthy, Ollie Pruit, Lily Pruit, Emma Bran- ham, Marion Waldorf, Grace Kelly, Grant Dutton, John Stout, Ona Jen- kins, George Davis, May Davis, Mrs. Jessie Gosnell, Henry Gage, Mrs. Henry Gage, Mary Keen, Lizzie Keen, Edith Loudermilk, Bert Lin- ton, Tom Loudermilk, Lucy Louder- milk, Mrs. Bert Linton, Goldie
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Reins, Harry Woodrow, George Pat- ton and family, Chas. Annis, Luther Williams, . George Stanton, Daisy Maynard, Bonnie Maynard, I. S. Klinger, Anna Botts, Mel Dutton, Jane Sharp, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Roy Gilman, Etta Hood, Mamie Stanton, Clara Blair, B. A. Dix, Herbert Da- vis, Herbert Fuson, Eva Fuson, Jim Smallwood, Nell Stanton, Dotia Stanton, Juliet Spear, Nelson Stan- ton, Cloe Syester, Hubert Stanton, Pink Stanton, Sarah Stanton, Roda Stout, Mabel Trump, Sam Trump, Josie Weaver, Odie Weaver, Mat Hood, Minnie Harris, Jim Harris, Bettie Hood, Roxa Hutchinson, Ed- ward Griggs, Mollie Griggs, Rosa Payne, Ida Raley, Juanita Raley, Minnie Stanton.
After the removal of the church building to Hymera, the church grew rapidly in membership until recently, when the membership became divid- ed over a misunderstanding in re- gard to church practices. There are at present two Baptist churches in Hymera.
Church of Christ.
The Church of Christ was organ- ized in the summer of 1905. The erection of the church was com- menced Sept. 26, 1905 and was com- pleted April 4, 1906. Rev. H. W. Cuppy of Illinois, was the first pas- tor. Some of the charter members were Mrs. Cora Shoemaker, James Shoemaker, Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Ca- ton, Aron Sluder, Mr. and Mrs. Ed- ward Arthur and Emmet Achman. The present members are: A. Sluder, James Shoemaker, Parmenas Stuts- man, A. J. Lambert, Cliff Gilman, H. B. Neal, James Hamilton, Levi Mor- ris, Ward McBride, Joe Huffman, Henry Pirtle, Edward St. Clair, Charles Puckett, A. J. Macy, Ed Wal- ters, Polly Fair, Cora Shoemaker, Girtie Stager,' Mary Griffith, Laura Gilman, Lydia Stager, Grace Gilman, Frankie Frakes, Olivia Hamilton, Anna Hamilton, Hanna Hamilton, Dora Railsback, Lizzie Morris, Mrs. Walters. Mary J. Dudley, Beckie Sills. Mae Huffman, Ella Huffman, Ella Mullens, Mae Godfrey, A. Mc- Bride, Ethel Baskeen, Luna Pirtle, Mary Dutton, Hattie Woody, Gurtie
Divinie, Lura Benefield, Mary St. Clair, Laine Broddie, Lillie Puckett, Elizabeth Godfrey, Enima Hessler, Jane Sluder, Margaret Wall, Manda Walters, Eliza Scherb, Sattie Stan- ton. Mary Gilman, Cora House, Maude Sluder, Dolly Sluder. Dot Smith. Jolin York, Boon Mckinney, John Godfrey, John Profit. Edgar House, Roy Gilman, Charles Mullins, Roscoe Criss, Creatie Mckinney, Jane Everhart, Nora Followell. Myr- tle Sluder, Esta Gilman. Phoebe Losson, Ida Graves, Anna Kirkham, Lena Mullins, Mrs. Reynolds. Shella Fair, Esta Criss, Kattie Smith, Sa- rah Godfrey, Viola Baskeen. Grace Lambert.
Sunday School is held every Sun- day at ten o'clock. The Sunday School teachers are Nora Godfrey, Mrs. Cora E. Shoemaker. James Shoemaker, H. B. Neal and Anna McBride.
Church is held every Sunday mor- ning and Sunday night. Bible read- ing is held every Friday night.
Bethel M. E. Church.
The Bethel M. E. Church was org- anized about 1840. The charter members were William Pitt. Ejiza- beth Pitt, Martin Hale, Samuel Ma- han, Margaret Mahan. Nicholas Cochran, William. Mattox, George Asbury, Malinda Asbury and Asa Mahan. The first meetings were held at the home of William Pitt but soon a log building was constructed upon the ground given for that pur- pose by Nathan Hale, a charter mem- ber and local preacher. This build- ing stood about fifty feet west of the present building. Some of the first preachers were: Mr. Jones, James Williams, Marion Heaven- ridge. Mr. Bowers, George Asbury Mr. Palmer, Martin Hale, Mr. War- dell and Mr. Harding. Mr. Harding was also a carpenter and built the second church building, in 1871. This was a frame building and stood until 1914. Some of the ministers who preached in this building were' John L. Sims, B. F. Julian. J. D. Crane. G. F. Bundy, N. F. Donny, John Ragle, W. F. Russell. Daniel Ryan, L. B. Johnson and M. O. Rob+ bins. The present building was
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erected in the summer of 1913. On
Dec. 28, 1913, Bishop David H. Moore dedicated the church. M. O. Robbins was the pastor at the time. The building is made of brick and has three rooms. It also has a base- ment which is used for prayer meet- ings and social affairs. The church will hold about five hundred people. The total cost of the building was about $9,000. This church has three hundred and ninety members. The Sunday School has an average at- tendance of about two hundred. There are one hundred and twenty on the cradle roll, sixty-four in the home department, and an enrollment of five hundred fifty.
Mr. C. J. McAnally has been su- perintendent of the Sunday School for several years. Mrs. Dessa Rob- bins is superintendent of the prima- ry department.
Bethel Cemetery.
The first burial place in Jackson, Township was what is now known as Bethel Cemetery. William Pitt, one of the first residents of this township, gave an acre and a half to be used as a burial place. Il. is thought by some of the oldest resi- dents of the township today that: William McCammish was the first to find a resting place in this home of the dead.
Within a century this plot of ground has been filled with graves until now there is not room for an- other. Many beautiful monuments have been erected here to help the living to feel that the dead are still with them, at least in memory.
In 1904 a beautiful monument was erected in memory of Nathan Hin- kle, a Revolutionary Soldier who is buried in this cemetery. The money to erect this memorial was secured by subscription. The monument was unveiled on October 1, 1904. James S. Barcus, a great-grandson of the patriot, delivered an address, and Mamie Asbury, a great-granddaugh- ter, assisted in the unveiling. The monument is fifteen feet high and represents a Revolutionary soldier at "Parade Rest." The inscription is: "Nathan Hinkle, born June 7, 1749; died Dec. 25. 1848."
There are many other soldiers buried here. There is also one Mex- ican Soldier's grave in this cemetery. His name is A. A. Hamilton. Some of the Civil War veterans buried here are Henry M. Hughes, Thomas Doty, Dr. Hyatt, John A. Spear, Robert Lyons, Harry Lyons, John McAnally, John Ford, Lyman Ford, Jahn Gambel, Hugh Sebring, Sr., Hugh Sebring, Jr., John J. Mahan, James Jonson, Richard Swift, Uriah Nead, Burr Watson, Abraham Van- derpool, Noah Ring, Jack Clark, One Unknown, S. B. Wardell, William Mahan, John R. Mahan, Lanman As- bury, Ichabod Gilman, William Am- merson and William McCammon.
It is often of interest to the older people to know where their friends and acquaintances were buried. In the busy activities of life we often forget those of our acquaintances whose faces are no longer seen among the throng. Thinking it might be of interest to know who lies in this cemtery, we give below the names and dates found upon the tombs:
Hugh Sebring, Sr., 1876.
Hugh Sebring, Jr., 1873.
Sarah Sebring, 1893.
John S. Sebring, 1893.
Martha Pitt Hinkle, 1909.
Johnie R. Sebring, 1882.
Margaret Watson, 1875.
William S. Gillman, 1889.
Manerva Gillman, 1887.
William M. Gillman, 1862.
Claybourn Wood, 1892.
Elizabeth Givens, 1889.
Katie Bryan, 1877. Hester Thomas, 1862.
William Lyons, 1911.
J. F. Thomas, 1875.
Nancy Woods, 1884.
Sibbana Thomas, 1872.
Sarah Worth, 1859.
Clarissa Worth, 1863.
John Worth, 1864.
Ephrian McDanial, 1900.
Sarah McDanial, 1908.
Hattie Norman, 1906.
William and Phebla Gillman, 1880
A. H. Lyons, 1876.
Sarah Lyons, 1913.
Doras Lyons, 1874.
Robert Lyons, 1872.
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Robert Paterson, 1904. Samuel Patterson, 1897. John Patterson, 1901. George Patterson, 1891. Levi Spear, 1875. David Wilson, 1866. John Spear, 1898. Lydia Spear, 1835. William Spear, 1906. James A. Patton, 1867.
Adaline Patton, 1863. Elenor Lyons Patton, 1892. Imo Marie Patton, 1897. Ruth Patton, 1898. Julia A. Payne, 1904. Mary Mahan, 1882. Hosea Payne, 1898.
Sarah Asbury Payne, 1903. Hattie Mahan, 1889.
Winnie Payne, 1879.
Eva Baldridge, 1869.
Masy Wiman, 1867.
Maggie Barnhart, 1874. William Nelson, 1876.
James Riggen, 1876.
Emma . D. McCammon, 1898. Clara McCammon, 1883.
Jennie McCammon, 1881. John J. Pipher, 1899.
N. E. McCammon, 1888.
Margaret Combs, 1873.
Mary S. Combs, 1896.
Nathan Combs, 1898.
Robert Spear, 1911. Ella Spear, 1907. Maggie Spear, 1908. Elizabeth M. Harvey, 1913. Grace Harvey, 1894. Minnie Harvey, 1890. Edgar Harvey, 1881. Mary Harvey, 1870. Elizabeth McAnally, 1906.
Herman Ladson, 1888. Floretta McAnally, 1868. Mamie McAnally, 1876. Iva McAnally, 1893. Callie Ford, 1901. Sophie Tuttle, 1870. John Ford, 1885. James Mahan, 1909. Samuel McMullin, 1855. Robert McMullin, 1878. John McDonald, 1906. Miles R. Miller, 1899. Margaret Berlien, 1886. Francis M. Baker, 1900. Lydia Hyatt, 1876. Mary Wardell, 1882.
George Wardell, 1878. Milton Wardell, 1878. Hattie Gard, 1901. Fannie Gard, 1903. James Barcus, 1877.
Joseph Payne, 1871.
John Hiple, 1888. Stella Crichfield, 1899.
F. M. Doty, 85th Ind. Infantry.
Joseph Canaan, 1875.
Ruth Canaan, 1887.
Percy McCarty, 1890.
Lillie Frakes, 1878. Lucy Cowen, 1903.
Chloe Gouckenour, 1895.
Anna Gouckenour, 1891.
Andrew McAnally, 1900. Philander Craft, 1900.
Martha Gouckenour, 1590.
V. L. Gouckenour, 18&9. Olive Craig Gouckenour, 1893. Horace Myers Gouckenour, 1893.
Sarah Kinder, 1905. Rosy Standly, 1892.
Adie Standly, 1901.
Walter Standly, 1905.
Earl Cummins, 1890.
Margaret Cummins, 1888." Carrie Davis. 1887.
Henry Hughes, 1895.
Andrew Pullie, 1893.
Bessie Beasley, 1905.
Ida Mahan, 1888. John McAnally, 1898.
Golda McAnally, 1898.
Ethel McAnally, 1891.
Mabel McDaniel, 1902. David Russell, 1895. Gertrude Hegne, 1897.
Daphnia McAnally, 1835. Lester McAnally, 1892. Burress McAnally, 1892. Nettie McAnally, 1889. Mary McAnally, 1889. David Plugh, 1882. Nancy Plew, 1891. Huidah Richmond, 1886. Walter. Richmond, 1883. Julia Richmond, 1888. Jennie Wence, 1884. . Gertrude Wence, 1905. William Gritton, 1878. William Gritton, 1891. Elizabeth Gritton, 1900. Bridget Madden, 188S. Julia Shanks. 1879. John Camel. 1873. Burr Watson.
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Jona Cummins, 1904. Murty Barnhart, 1879. Tilden Barnhart, 1878. Maggie French, 1884. Amazon French, 1885. Ivii French, 1883. Carl Pierce. Glenn Neal, 1906. Sarah Allen, 1889. Elishia Allen, 1863. John Allen, 1862.
Melinda Patton, 1857. Richard Bowman, 1872. Lucy Mahan, 1863. Clara' Railsback, 1906. John Mahan, 1891.
· Victoria Mahan, 1891. Daisy Mahan, 1878. Verdel Railsback, 1910. William Ladd, 1899.
Tottie Tipton, 1896. Mary J. Tipton, 1908. James Johnson. Beulah Abbott, 1909.
Francis Dorothy, 1901.
Sarah Hamilton, 1855.
A. A. Hamilton, Mexican War. Sarah McGray, 1878. George Mahan, 1846.
Sallie Mahan, 1851.
John Mahan, Sr., 1847.
Daniel Ring, 1897.
Elizabeth Ring, 1879.
Arpie Patton, 1891.
Willis French, 1885.
Margaret French, 1873.
W. E. French, 1863.
Maggie French, 1890.
Mary French, 1892. Percy Kennedy, 1878.
Lizzie Heavenridge, 1870.
Lucinda Beckett, 1864. Susan Foxworthy, 1860. Reason Beckett, 1856.
Harriet Beckett, 1876.
Elizabeth Beckett, 1865. Sophia Bowman, 1908. Mary A. Miller, 1880. Lillian Brewer, 1901. Charles Mahan, 1872. Joshua Beckett, 1898. Anna Beckett. Evadna Beckett, 1896. Joseph Beckett. Elizabeth Plew, 1880. Mary Hamilton, 1877. William Hamilton, 1857. Eliza Johnson, 1842.
William Harbert, 1857. Bertie Asbury, 1882. Clarissa Hughbanks Zink, 1889. Nancy Hughbank, 1888. William Mahan, 1856. George Mahan, 1847. Sarah Mahan, 1819. Joseph Mahan, 1860. Betsy Ann Mahan, 1860. Thomas Mahan, 1873.
Margaret McDaniel, 1870.
Sarah Watts, 1887.
Noah Ring, 1906. Sarah Ring, 1901.
Cora Ring, 1891:
Dellie Ring, 1870.
Nancy McCammon, 1895.
John McCammon, 1899.
James McCammon, 1859.
Patience McCammon, 1853.
William McCammon, 1847.
Thomas McCammon, 1846.
Nancy McCammon, 1835. Nancy Mahan, 1861. Jerry Mahan, 1878.
Jemima Mahan, 1834. Emmeline Mahan, 1879.
Rachel Mahan, 1876.
John Hughbank, 1854.
Oliver Hughbank, 1854.
Emma Hughbank, 1870. Lovisa Cochran, 1851.
John Prosky, 1859.
William Prosky, 1862. 1
Martha Ring, 1857.
Loten Ring, 1857.
Newton Ring, 1857.
Mary Ladd, 1879.
Soloman Ring, 1875.
Maria L. Ring, 1882.
Elizabeth Mahan, 1870.
Jeremiah Mahan, 1874. Martha Mahan, 1876.
Emma R. Thomas, 1881.
Emily Mahań, 1888. Elizabeth Cochran, 1870. Talitha M. Cochran, 1859.
Emory Cochran, 1873. Guy Peterson, 1898. Fay Vanarsdall, 1882. Hester Vanarsdall, 1889. Mason Hamilton, 1903. Dorothy Mahan, 1848. William Mahan, 1846. Lucinda Mahan, 1871. George Mahan, 1847. Carolina Mahan, 1854. Emmeline Mahan, 1854.
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David Mahan, 1863. William Mahan, 1878. Isaiah Branson, 1875. Caroline Branson, 1912. Asa Branson, 1861. Jeremiah Branson, 1861.
Nancy Branson, 1865. Charles Branson, 1875. Emma Branson, 1890.
Harrison Williams, 1883. Louisa Montgomery, 1863.
Damesh Montgomery, 1861.
Lucy Plough, 1873.
Samuel Hinkle, 1884.
Hiram Hail, 1858.
Fannie Hinkle, 1859.
Nancy Girlingmire, 1865.
Robert Girlingmire, 1865.
Maggie Girlingmire, 1878.
Leonard Girlingmire, 1892.
Minnie Shivers, 1877.
Jerry Mahan, 1852.
Margaret Halberstadt, 1859.
William Halberstadt, 1859.
Charlotte Halberstadt, 1859.
George Mahan, 1862.
Blanch Zink, 1900.
A. D. Welsh, 1891.
William J. Beckett, 1890.
Martha Beckett, 1876. .
Hiram Beckett, 1864.
Byrl Barcus. Nancy Hinkle, 1901.
Clarissa Zink, 1871.
Cleveland Zink, 1902.
Abraham Vanderpool, 1904.
Denney Clark, 1904.
Anna Clark, 1904. Lydia Clark, 1893.
Talitha Ammerman.
Estella Hinkle, 1901.
Elizabeth Ammerman, 1894.
William Ammerman, 1872.
Uriah Nead, 1873.
- James Wright, 1858.
Richard Swift. 1876.
Catherine Scully, 1901.
James Scully, 1898.
Soloman Bailey, 1903.
Minnie Wilkinson, 1888.
Abraham Baker, 1859.
Catherine Wence, 1856. William Wence, 1854. Henry Wence, 1872. Mitchell Wence, 1854. Mary J. Wence, 1848.
Harriet Badders, 1856.
Samuel Badders, 1912. Lewt Shivers, 1899. Stella Badders, 1898.
Samuel Badders, 1888. Thaddius Cochran, 1841. John Cochran, 1859. John T. Mahan, 1848. Mary J. Mahan, 1842.
Parthena Mahan, 1888.
Zillah Coffey, 1887. Vivia Coffey, 1885.
Mary Hughbank, 1884.
Sarah Hughbank, 1884.
William Hughbank, 1886.
John R. Mahan, 1865. Anna Mahan, 1850.
Charles Shivers, 1899.
Elizabeth Meeks, 1908.
Rebecca Nicholson, 1885.
John Nicholson, 1884.
Arletta Nicholson, 1873.
Maggie Nicholson.
Maynard Nicholson, 1882.
Loeffler Winckelpleck. 1896.
Samuel Hinkle, 1872.
Eliza Peterson, 1859.
John Hinkle, 1861.
Nathan Hinkle, 1848.
Rosanna Girlingmire, 1857.
. David Crawford, 1885. . Sarah Linn. Allis Barcus, 1859.
Martha Barcus, 1871.
William A. Pitt, 1870.
Elizabeth Pitt, 1880.
William R. Pitt, 1841.
Pheraby Mahan, 1841.
Asa Mahan, 1894. Alexander Mahan, 1847. Ella McCammon, 1866. John T. McCammon, 1863. Eliza McCammon, 1876. Burtle Pullis, 1864. Sarah Wence, 1882.
Abraham Wence, 1872.
Magdalene Wence, 1871. Henry Baker, 1859. Rachel Baker, 1860. Joldjar Baker, 1859. Malissa Brownson, 1856.
Hannah Wilkinson, 1892. Maxwell Brown. Lizzie Ammerman, 1888.
Blanche Norris, 1896. Laura Stutesman. Harriet Julian.
Warner Hall, 1854.
Emnia Hail, 1884. Warner D. Hail, 1864.
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Elizabeth Hail, 1880. William W. Cochran, 1858.
Harry Cochran.
Webster Cochran, 1858.
Laura Cochran, 1870.
Allie Marshall, 1895.
Dr. Alfred Marshall, 1912.
Glennie Branson, 1902.
Lyman S. Ford, 1897. Edna Ford, 1880.
Lyman G. Ford, 1876.
Alice Ann Ford, 1860.
John Barnhart, 1882.
Margaret Barnhart, 1891.
Henry Barnhart, 1876.
Margaret McAnally, 1872.
Susan Barnhart, 1857.
Samuel Mahan, 1860.
James B. Mahan, 1865.
Nanna McClung, 1855.
Elizabeth Nead, 1857.
Candacy Nead, 1858. Catherine Lofton, 1901.
Augustus Lofton, 1909.
Murphy Lofton, 1891.
Jessie May Hood, 1902. H. A. Hood, 1901.
John Hughes, 1874.
Alice Hughes, 1890.
Thomas Hughes, 1835.
Edward Hughes, 1890.
Elizabeth Hughes, 1903.
John Hughes, 1874.
Angeline Stark, 1893.
Edward Marshall, 1892.
Eva Marshall, 1894.
Mary Marshall. 1883.
Charles Lane, 1891.
Christina Lane, 1902.
Opal May Morris, 1900.
Georgie Highfield, 1898.
James Morris, 1908.
Martha Hughes.
The Mines of District No. 8.
There are six veins of coal in this district. The top vein is about sixty feet below the surface in most pla- ces. This vein contains a good do- mestic coal from five to six feet thick. The greater part of it has been used. No. 5 vein is a very good quality of steam coal from three to eight feet thick. This is the vein being worked now. No. 4 vein is not thick enough in this lo- cality to be mined." No. 3 is a good quality of steam coal from four to nine feet thick and very little of it
has been mined. Drillers report that veins No. 2 and No. 3 are block or semi-block coal but none of it has been mined.
Some coal was mined on Harve Wilson's farm before the Civil War. The coal was taken from the side of a hill.
Starks and Coffee mined coal from a slope mine as early as 1873. Very few men were employed in this mine when it was first being worked. The coal was taken to Curryville in wagons and shipped from there because there was no railroad were then. In 1876 anoth- er mine was sunk on the same site to another vein. They erected what is known as a gin shaft. A rope was fastened to the cage, passed over a pulley, and fastened to a large wood- en drum. The drum was turned by a horse and in this way the coal was raised on the cage.
.Butts, Rubley and Buchanan, or the Pittsburg ( Hymera) Coal and Coke Company, sunk a mine to No. 6 vein in 1889. It was located near the corporation line south of Hyme- ra. All of the buildings and machin- ery were modern. About one hun- dred and fifty men worked in the mine and they were paid one dollar and a half for nine hours work. In 1896 the tipple burned. Each man who worked here donated ten dol- lars to be worked out at a dollar and eighty cents a day to rebuild the tipple. and clean the mine. In 1897 the mine fell into the hands of a re- ceiver and was sold to Mr. Niblick. In a few months he sold it to Hard- er and Hafer. In 1899 they sunk to No. 5 vein and in 1901 to No. 3 ve.n. The mine was dismantled in 1904 ..
.. Marshall Zinor sunk a mine to No. 5 vein in 1891. It was located east of the E. & T. H. railroad and in the north part of town. It was called the White Ash or Golden Standard. About one hundred men worked here. They were paid one dollar and a half for a nine hour day. All of the coal was dug by pick work and hauled by mules. In 1902 the buildings burned and another mine was sunk on the west side of
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the railroad, a little farther south. In 1897 or 1898 William Murdock, William Britton, Clay Cummins, Jack Dorthy and David Cummins bought the mine. Later other stock holders were taken In, the principal one of which was Mr. Ermine. A short time after this, Mr. Ermine bought the mine. The Consolidated Coal Company bought the mine in 1905 and called it No. 31. The mine was abandoned in 1906 and the tip- ple torn down in 1910.
Harder and Hafer sunk a mine to No. 5 vein in 1901, west of the town. About three hundred men worked here. They received two dollars and forty cents for an eight hour day. The machinery and buildings were modern and are used here today. The Consolidated Coal Company bought the mine in 1905 and called it No. 32.
Harder and Hafer sunk a mine to No. 5 vein in the winter of 1903- 1904. This mine was located south of the town and outside of the cor- poration. The miners received two dollars and fifty-six cents for an eight hour day. The machinery and buildings were all modern. In 1905 it was sold to the Consolidated Coal . The battle lasted from sunrise that Company and called No. 33.
The biographies of some of the oldest residents of Hymera are given below:
Nathan Hinkle.
Nathan Hinkle, the oldest citizen and veteran of Hymera, was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, June 10, 1826. When Nathan was about twelve years of age, his father, Sam- uel Hinkle, moved to Missouri but soon returned to Vermilion. It was in Vermilion county, at a little log school house, and under the strict discipline of a crabbed teacher that Mr. Hinkle received his early edu- cation. When about seventeen years of age he came to Hymera with his father who entered land, buying for- ty acres at first and forty later. He also attended school here in the school house which was located where the Bethel Church is now. After his school days he engaged in the trade of a cooper along with that of farming. When twenty-four
years of age he was married to Mar- tha A. Pitt, daughter of William Pitt who was one of the very first residents of Hymera. In 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil War in Company I of the Ninety-seventh regiment under: Gen. McPherson. Mr. Hinkle was in twenty-two bat- tles and skirmishes. He well re- members the battle of Kenesaw. Col. Catterson had placed him in com- mand of Company I and on the night before the battle the colonel told him they were going to make a charge from Kenesaw Mountain the next day, and that he might do as he pleased as to informing his men about it. Mr. Hinkle thought it right that he should inform them and all that night he says, there werd murmurs throughout the camp about the coming battle. Early the next morning they made the charge and during the battle the men of Com- pany I got in ad ance of the regi- ment and with'n close range of the enemy. There was a stream at the foot of the hill and so fiercely was the battle fought that the water was red with blood, and the ground thickly covered with dead and dying. morning until two o'clock that after- noon. The Yankees fought hard but were defeated. Those who were living were discouraged but never- theless thankful for their lives.
Mr. Hinkle served three years and was given an honorable discharge in 1864. He is a member of the Meth- odist church, also a charter member . of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges. Mrs. Hinkle was also a member of the Methodist church and Eastern Star lodge. She died May 23. 1909.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hinkle were born eleven children, Sarah E., Nan- cy, Josephine, Fanny, deceased, James. Mary. William. Samuel. de- ceased. Robert, Henrietta and Ho- ratio.
After the death of his wife. Mr. Hinkle continued to reside at his own home with his daughter, Mrs. . Henrietta Beckett. He is familiarly called "Uncle Nathan," and consid- ering his old age. is very active.
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Harriet Moore Brooks.
Harriet Moore Brooks was born in Adams county, Ohio, May 13, 1834. Her father was George Moore and her mother was Elizabeth Stad
Moore. Mr. Moore was born in Pennsylvania and Mrs. Moore in Ire- land. When she was twenty-three years of age Harriet was married to George Kirkham. To them were born two children, Jolın Kirkham, who married Anna Freeland, and Rachel, now wife of Frank Owens. Both are residents of Hymera. Sev- eral years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Kirkham was united in marriage to Mason Brooks. In 1874 they came to Indiana, settling three miles southwest of Hymera. Mr. Brooks died in 1900. Since then Mrs. Brooks has lived with her daughter.
Mr. John Tipton.
"Uncie John" Tipton, a well known civil War veteran, was born Feb. 3, 1845, in Coshocton county, Ohio. He was the son of Dr. Joseph and Mahala Nead Tipton. In 1847 he came with his parents to Owen county, Indiana, and his father en- listed in the Mexican War in the same year. When he was sixteen years of age he enlisted as drummer boy in the Civil War on Oct. 10, 1861, in Company C of the 59th re- giment of Indiana Volunteers. He served during the entire war, under
different generals, and
was
with
Sherman on his famous march to the sea. Some of the battles in which he participated were Island No. 10, Fortress Monroe, Jackson, both bat- tles at Corinth, Pittsburg Landing, - Marietta, Kenesaw Mountain, Vicks- burg, Raleigh, Goldsboro, Chatta- hooga, Lockout Mountain, Mission- any Ridge, and numerous others, some of which were extremely bloody and very fiercely contested.
After the war he returned to In- diana. Soon after he joined the 85th regiment of Missouri State Mi- litia. in 1868, where he was quar- termaster for five years. He then went West, was wounded in an en- counter with the James Brothers' "Gang," and returned to Indiana. On Nov. 9, 1877, he was united in
marriage to Mary Jane Barnhart,
daughter of Henry and Margaret Barnhart. Mrs. Tipton was born May 4, 1855, of German and Eng- Ilsh ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Tipton settled on a farm one mile south of Hymera. To Mr. and Mrs. Tipton were born eight children, all of whom are living except the youngest daughter, who died when small. They are Joe, Bernard S., Wilbur V., Mrs. Chloe Keene, Tip, Mrs. Toney Butler, Tottie, deceased, and John Bryan.
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