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If men and women had had the same kind of religion then that they have now, my father and mother and their family would have starved. But in those days all things that men had were in common. No one said that aught that he had was his own. While one had a peck of corn meal or a pound of pork, all had.
At Piqua was the nearest mill. Many a bushel of corn we pounded on an oak block with an iron wedge and made it into a dodger or mush and ate it with a chunk of venison or pork. Then Aaron Hipshire got a two-burr hand-mill and with hard work two men could grind two or three bushel a day. Then John Pool put up a horse-mill and two horses could grind a bushel an hour. That was good. In
1844 Daniel Walters built a little water-mill where Venedocia now stands, the then outlet of the Coil Prairie. That was fine. He could grind wheat, but one had to bolt it by hand.
As for schools, there was not one in the township until 1843, and then only one for the whole township. In 1839 the heads of the fam- ilies in the township were Levi Rowland, Evan B. Jones, John McCollum, John Heath. Jesse Tomlinson, R. Ross. Leonard Varner, George Wooten. Robert Thomas, Benjamin Griffin, Lewis Culver, John Arnold, W. H. Peasely and John W. Conn. Daniel Bickford came in 1840. Many and trying were the hardships in those days, much harder for us than for others. Father was a French Huguenot and had never done a day's work; mother was Scotch and was also raised in the city. Many were the sacks of meal and chunks of pork and other things given us by David W. McCoy, Daniel Beard, Thomas Pollock and others. Never were there truer, braver and kinder men settled in a county than the early settlers of Van Wert county. In the early history of the county they were bound together as one man. Above all, religion was supreme; there was preaching in the little log cabins, but no religious discus- sions. A calico dress and sun-bonnet was the finest apparel for a woman; a linsey wammus and a coonskin cap for a man. There was more genuine heartfelt religion at one of those old pioneer meetings than there is in a whole year now. People would go for miles to attend meeting, frequently taking a sack of jerk. a chunk of pork and some meal and staying two and three days. They would sing and pray and shout-I can hear them yet singing. "Sing on, pray on, we are gaining." "O Hallelujah! the power of the Lord is coming down. O Hallelu- jah!" If we had more old-time religion today we would be a happier people.
In those days hunting and fishing were the
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chief pursuits of life, for game and fish were abundant. To raise a crop some member of the family had to stand guard from sowing to gathering, or the deer, coons, squirrels, tur- keys and birds would get it all. But when such men as the Gillilands, Hills, Stacys, Kings, Ramseys, McCoys, Beards, DeCamps, Pol- locks and their wives and many others that space will not permit me to name settle a coun- try, it must : rosper. As far as I know, the heads of those families of 1839 are all gone to their rewards. Some of their children, like my- self, are yet lingering on the brink. Nearly if
not all, like myself, have reached their three score and ten. It is no more the scenes of our boyhood-I am led to say, "Backward, turn backward, O time in thy flight, make me a boy again just for tonight." With all the hard- ships, many and dear are the fond recollections of those days.
The great majority of my early associates have crossed the mystic river, a few are waiting to join the mighty throng on the other shore. Time and space would fail me to tell the many thrilling incidents that occurred in the days when this region was being reclaimed.
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CHAPTER X
JENNINGS TOWNSHIP
Organization-First Arrivals-Names of Voters in 1841-Some of the Original Land En- tries-Magill, the Wolf Hunter-The Villages of Monticello and Venedocia-The Welsh Settlement.
At a session of the commissioners of Van Wert County, held June 5, 1837, it was ordered that township 3 south, ranges 3 and 4 east, be known as Jennings township. Township 3 south, range 4 east, then was composed of 36 sections, a regular congressional township. But in 1848 the county of Auglaize was organized and in the reapportionment 18 sections were taken off the east side and attached to Allen County, and nine sections taken off of Union township, Mercer County, and attached to Jennings, thus making it nine miles north and south, and three miles east and west or only 27 sections in extent.
FIRST ARRIVALS.
In 1825 John K. Harter, William Harter, George Harter and Peter Harter settled in Jennings township. In 1830 came John Keith and Silas Mills. In the next three years came Edward Williams, Oliver Ingraham, Wm. Reed, James Reed, Quinton Reed, David Reed, Daniel Walters, John Fortney, Benjamin Grif- fin, Benjamin Griffin, Jr., John Duncan, Wash- ington Mark, James Wilson, Nathaniel Griffin, Claudius Griffin, William Carter and John Brooms.
NAMES OF VOTERS IN 1841.
As shown by the poll book of an election held in Jennings township on the 12th of October, 1841, there were 14 electors whose. names follow: Daniel Reed, John Frazier, Quinton Reed, James Reed, Peter Harter, Adam Wolford, George W. Griffin, Oliver In- graham, Elisha Rigdon, John K. Harter, Wash- ington Mark, William Reed, Edward Williams and John Keith. The clerks of the election were William Reed and Oliver Ingraham, and the judges were Washington Mark, Quinton Reed and James Reed.
SOME OF THE ORIGINAL LAND ENTRIES.
SEC. NAME.
ACRES.
YEAR
4 John Fortner
162 1848
4 Michael Stippick 60
1848
4 Samuel Arnold 160
1848
4 Faver Myers 40
1848
John Rohing
40
1848
4 Jacob Reider
40
1849
4 G. Prichard
40
1849
4 John M. Hertz
80
1849
5 David Thatcher
325
18,36
5 Israel Harris
320
1836
6 Thomas R. Jacobs
162
1836
6 Jacob Grubbs 190
1836
6 James Reed 160
1836
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SEC. NAME.
ACRES. YEAR.
SEC. NAME. ACRES. YEAR.
6 Milton T. Ross
95 1836 29 Peter Harter
40
1851
0 James Mewhirter
95
1837
29 James Williams 80
1851
7 James B. Britton 193
1836
29 Abraham Williams 120
1851
7 Jacob Hammon 193
1836
29 Henry Burnet 200 1851
1832
7 William Reed
160
1836
30 John Keith 272
1832
7 Alex. Taylor
80
1836
30 Washington Mark 272
1832
8 Daniel Reed
160
1836
160
1836
30 Henry Burnett 40
1850
8 M. Berry 160
1849
31 Levi Patrick 47
1834
8 Samuel Doyle 160
1849
31 Moses Goodwin 46
1836
9 John Callahan
80
1849
31 Samuel Harley 179
1836
9 John A. Arnold
160
1849
40
1849
31 Hiram Maltbie 160
1836
9 William H. Jones
40
1851
31 G. Keith 40
18.38
a George Blank 40
1851
32 David Wolf 120
1850
9 John Stork
40
1851
32 J. Perry 40
1850
9 Jacob Lux
80
1851
32 Fred S. Bellis 40
1850
9 John F. Vleke 80
1851
32 Welsey Binner 80
1850
9 John Devore
80
1851
32 J. Keith
80
1850
W. W. Watts 80
1850
17 Joseph Blackburn
80
1836
32 Joshua Goodwin 80
1850
17 John Halsey
80
1836
32 Amos Goodwin 80
1850
17 Samuel Doyle 160
1849
32
Isaac Price 40
1850
17 John Berry 160
1849
18 Washington Mark
627
33
Harris Wells 2.10
1851
18 Foster Griffin
80
33 Jacob Cook
40
1851
18 Jacob Carr 99
1836
33 J. Keith
80
1851
18 Alex. Taylor
40
1837
33 Levi Topper
80
1852
18 J. B. Halsey 40
1838
33 Charles C. Marshall
80
1853
18 John Arnold 47
1849
33 Henry Burnett 40
1853
20 Benjamin Griffin
160
1832
4 David M. Price
79
18:1
20 Nathaniel Griffin
1832
4 John Casebeer
80
1851
20 Peter Harter
40
1832
4 Richard Hance 120
1851
20 Jacob Puterbaugh 120
1834
20 Foster Griffin
40
1834
4 Lemon Field 157
1851
William Ullery 40
1834
4 J. S. Panabaker 78
1851
20 George Harter 40
1834
5 Robert Stram 317
18,35
21 John Walters 160
80
1848
5 P. S. Cable 160
18.9
21 M. Berry 160
1848
6 Joseph DeLong 78
18,36
21 E. Rigdon
80
1849
6 Thomas Nickel
78
18,36
21 William McHollister 160
1851
6 Henry Reichelderfer 377
1835
28 James Weatherhead 160
1834
6 William Howell
160
18,35
28 Allen L. Mark 1851 80
1851
7 Benjamin Lloyd
80
18:6
7 Simon Jennings 191
18:6
7 James Wallace
160
1836
28 Fred Bridgeman
40
1851
7 William Snode 191
1836
28 Fred Marquand
160
1853
8 John Able 320
1836
8 Andrew Hilleman 320
18.36
29 William Williams
40
1851
9 Andrew Hilleman 320
18.36
80
1836
30 James Mark 40
40
8 Marion Mewhirter
31 Harrison Maltbie 120
18,36
a Richard McCarty
17 J. Reed
160
1836 32
33 James Harrod 80
1851
4 Richard S. Hance 120
1851
1848 5 Samuel G. Graybill 157
7 E. Chalfant
1836
28 Samuel Daniels 80
28 T. W. Kidd 80
1851
28 George W. Lance 40
'1851
29 Josiah Clink 160 1848
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21 Alex. Walters
160
1832 1832
30 Edward Williams 1848
7 Henry P. Baker
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SEC. NAME.
ACRES.
YEAR.
a
James Lowery
So
1851
9
John Snitzer
80
1851
9 Christ Haik
80
1851
9 Elias Bayman
80 1852
16 Benjamin Griffin
420
1853
16 William J. Coil
160
1853
17
James Jones
160
1836
17
William Gibson
80
1835
17
Austin Jones
80
1836
17
Adam Thompson
160
1836
17
Fleming Graham
40
1836
17
David Sheets
40
1836
18 Benjamin Griffin
127
1835
18
Joseph Wilson
94
1835
18
John McClintock
129
1836
18
Jacob Halsey
80
18.36
18
Austin Jones
160
1836
18 Joseph Hayden
47
1836
18 John Stager
80
1836
18 P. J. Pfaltzgroff
96
1837
18 Michael Fisher
96
1837
18 Moses Folz
96
1837
18 E. M. Phelps
96
1839
MAGILL, THE WOLF HUNTER.
Among the earlier settlers was a man by the name of Magill, a great wolf hunter. At one time he found a wolf den in a hollow tree, which was entered several feet above the ground. McGill, having seen an old wolf go- ing away, supposed the coast to be clear and determined to go in and get the young. After he had climbed down part way, he reached reached down with a stick, which was snapped off as smooth as if cut with a knife. McGill concluded to wait for a more convenient sea- son. He went back later and secured his game.
He had a pet wolf that he had raised which was trained so that he could make it howl when- ever he desired. In the season that the wolves had their young, he would go out into the woods, wherever he thought it likely there be a den, and about the hour that the old she wolf would be suckling her young he would have his
wolf set up a howl, which would be answered by the old she. He would camp near by and in the morning would look for the den and would seldom fail finding it. Once he was in the north part of the country and had located a den in this way. The next morning he saw an old wolf standing by a hollow log and shot it, and then started to crawl in to get the young ones. He had taken the precaution to take his butcher knife in his hand. When he had crawled some distance, the old she wolf made a rush to get out past him an he plunged the knife into it as it crowed past. He caught five young ones and the old she died at the mouth of the log from the wound inflicted by the knife thrust. Thus he had seven wolves for that day's work. Wolf scalps were worth $4 apiece, which made a good day's haul.
His pet wolf followed him like a dog all over the country and was as kind and gentle' as a common cur. But the children would scamper for their mothers when they heard that Magill was coming with his wolf.
MONTICELLO.
We find this thriving little village situated on the C., H. & D. Railway four miles west of Spencerville, Allen county. Some of the finest farms in the county are in this section, as is evidenced by the fact that they support two ele- vators in the village. C. Slentz, one of the old settlers of this section, owning the land where the village is located, gave the railroad the right of way through his farm, was the first postmaster, the first railroad agent and the first merchant in the village and has been identified with all the interests of the village and sur- rounding country. He contributed liberally of time and money for the erection of the Presby- terian Church, of which he is an elder. But, not
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ZION WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHURCH, YORK TOWNSHIP
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SALEM WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHURCH, VENEDOCIA
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confining his liberality to his own denomination he also contributed liberally to the building of the United Brethren Church. He has been an advocate of good roads and can now enjoy rides over good pikes to Mendon and Spencerville. Mr. Slentz is of German parentage and has been a resident of Van Wert County over 50 years. He purchased his present farm (80 acres) in the woods for $500. This has been cleared and improved, and could not be bought today for $10,000. Besides, Mr. Slentz has considerable town property. After clearing up his farm and spending 16 years in mercantile life, he has now retired.
VENEDOCIA.
Near the north end of the township line, between York and Jennings townships, is the village of Venedocia. The village and the com- munity surrounding it for miles in each direc- tion is a Welsh settlement of energetic and thrifty citizen, whose fine farms and hand- some buildings are monuments to their indus- .try and good management.
The first Welsh settlers were the three fam- ilies of William Bebb, Thomas Morris and Richard Jervis, who came to America from North Wales and located in Van Wert County in April, 1848. Of these three pioneer fam- ilies, only two persons-Richard Jervis and Mrs. Laura Bebb Jones-are now (1906) liv- ing. The William Bebb named above was a first cousin to Governor William Bebb, which may have been the influence that caused the little colony to locate in Ohio.
Religious services were held in one of the log cabins on the very first Sunday after their arrival, and the Sunday and midweek services in the Welsh language have been constantly and faithfully maintained for 58 years. The jubilee year (1898) was celebrated by the ded-
ication of a $20,000 church which is a fine church building.
As the neighbors increased in number and the borders of the settlement widened, the dis- tance became too great for the farthest away to worship at Salem Church in Venedocia, so branch churches were established,-Zion, in York township, and Horeb, in Jennings town- ship,-at both of which points the old churches have been replaced with fine new buildings of brick and stone, erected within this 20th cen- tury.
Counting the English Presbyterian Church that was dedicated in November, 1896, four churches have been erected in this farming com- munity within the last 10 years at a cost of about $41,000. These facts plainly prove that the Welshman is fond of sermon and song. One organization of which the Welsh of Ven- edocia are truly proud is the Venedocia Male Chorus, which has won many prizes in musical contests of other States, as well as in the larger cities of Ohio, and whose fine singing was an attractive feature of one Winona Bible Confer- ence.
The large frame building now owned by the Venedocia Male Chorus and known as Cambrian Hall was formely the church of the place until removed to make room for the pres- ent magnificent structure. In its day it was fully up to date. An accident occurred at the raising of this church, and the marvelous thing about the accident is that no lives were lost. When in the act of lifting the heavy roof tim- bers into position, the beams on which they were standing broke and eight men, mingled with plank, pike-poles and plunder, fell 40 feet among the joists below. If the eight had been instantly killed, the surprise would have been less than to know that all recovered and some were only slightly injured. The men who had this thrilling experience were: Rev. J. P.
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Morgan, D. W. Evans, William E. Jones, Hugh E. Evans, Jonathan Jones, William Fini- frock, David M. Jones and John Breese. The last two mentioned had broken ribs and a broken thigh, and life hung in the balance for many weeks.
When the bugle call sounded for volun- teers, the Welsh boys were found as patriotic as any in the land, and promptly followed the flag into the field of battle.
When the 118th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., recruited in Venedocia, Moses Parry, David R. Owens, John Hughes, John Jervis Jones, Lew- is Thomas and Jonathan Jones shouldered their muskets and marched to the front, the first three named never to return. Two more have since crossed the silent river, and only John Jervis Jones is now living. Other Welshmen in Van Wert County who bravely served their country in the terrible Civil War of 1861-65 are: Hugh E. Evans, Richard Lloyd, Hugh T. Thomas, W. J. Bebb, Owen Morris, Edward T. Jones, and David E. Evans, of Venedocia ; James Thomas, Richard T. Hughes, William
J. Hughes ( the father of Hon. W. T. Hughes ) and Lucius Price, of Elgin ; and William Jones. Richard Breese and Evan A. Evans, of Van Wert.
The first merchants in Venedocia were Rowland J. Whittington and Evan A. Evans. A condition in the deed for the first lot in the town site shows the high moral purpose of the pioneers. They had in mind the future welfare of coming generations. Instead of taking chances on Beale laws and Brannock bills. they inserted a clause in the deed forbidding the keeping or selling of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. The deed recites that if the premises, or any part thereof, shall be used for such pur- poses the title reverts to the original owner. This deed is dated November 11, 1865, and signed by Jane Bebb Evans (a daughter of William Bebb) and her husband. D. W. Evans, esq. The precedent has been followed by in- serting this condition in nearly all the deeds of the town ever since. It is a thoughtful pre- caution and wise provision, worthy of emula- tion and imitation.
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CHAPTER XI
HARRISON TOWNSHIP
Organization-First Settlers-List of Electors in 1840-Some of the Original Land Entries -Pioneer Reminiscences-An Indian Sherlock Holmes-An Early Marriage in Harrison Township-A Pioneer Methodist Church-Harrison Baptist Church-St. Thomas' Lu- theran Church-German Evangelical St. Paul Church-The Hertz Family-Henry Showalter.
On March 27, 1839, a petition was present- ed to the Board of County Commissioners, ask- ing that a new township be set off and called Harrison. It was ordered that township 2 south, range I east, and township I south, range I east, be organized under the name of Harrison township and that, when said terri- tory should again be divided, township 2 south, range I east, should hold the name.
And it was further ordered that the audi- tor notified the electors of said township to meet on Thursday, April 11, 1839, at the house of Henry A. Lords, for the purpose of electing their officers.
FIRST SETTLERS.
The actual settlers that came in between the years 1836 and 1840 were about as follows :
1836 .- Joseph Johnson, Davis Johnson, Abel Johnson, Abel Johnson, Jr., and Jesse Foster.
1837 .- William Johns, J. W. Johns, James Foster, Robert Manley, Allen Walters, Joseph Osborn, John McPherson and H. A. Lords.
1838 .- M. F. Richey (from Crawford County ), Peter Hertz (from Holmes County), J. R. Glenn and Clark Glenn ( from Jefferson County), Amasa and H. C. Preston, E. M. Jones, Jacob and Eli Bauserman, Asa Cook, Philip Kilmer, A. Whitmarsh, David Rich- ey, George and Erastus Lynch and Peter Mad- dox.
1839 .- H. G. Germann and sons-Jacob, Charles, Peter, Henry and John; Peter A. Germann, M. and J. Kreischer, William and John Bowman, Fred Myers, F. Files, Philip and George Reidenbach, Henry Showalter, Thomas Calender and others.
LIST OF ELECTORS IN 1840.
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Pherson, Abel Johnson, Peter Maddox, Ed- win G. Jones, Josiah Foster, James R. Glenn, Norman C. Preston, Jacob Stamm, John M. Lords, Noah Banker, Joseph H. Osborn, John S. Lords, Robert Manley, Allen Walters, John Manley, Jacob Bauserman, Jr., Frederick Myers, William Glenn, and Simon Wyant. The clerks of election were William Bower and Clark Glenn, and the judges, M. F. Richey, Amos Preston and Robert Baxter.
SOME OF THE ORIGINAL LAND ENTRIES.
SEC. NAME.
ACRES. YEAR. I0 M. F. Richey 120
1839
IO Mathias Lyons
1 20
1839
I Jonathan Wilkin
160
1838
I James McConnel 162 1849
1838
II Samuel Shaffer 40
1837
2 Nicholas Reidenbach 78
1838
II Alex. Bidler 80
1837
2 Philip Klimer 316
1838
II John Shaffer 40
1837
2 Peter Hertz 160
80
1837
12 David Fostnaught 80
1836
3 James A. Kail
80
1837
12 Randolph Graybill 80
1836
John Hudspeth
40
1838
12 John Harr, Jr. 160
1836
3 Davis Johnson
80
1838
12 Samuel Shaffer 80
1837
3 John Bissant
80
1838 12 James Tumbleson 160
1837
William Bissant 3
80
1838 13 Jacob Zimmerman 80
1836
3 George Lincoln 80
1838
13 Samuel Slusser 160
1836
3 William McKean 80
1838
13 Nancy Slusser 80
1836
3 Daniel Minerd
40
1840
13 Henry Zimmerman 160
1836
4 David Johns
160
1837
13 Samuel Maddox 80
1837
4 Jacob W. Johns
80
1837 13 Eli Adams 80
1837
1837 14 John Hill 160
1836
1839 14 Sarah M. Reynolds 320
1836
14 David Capper 160
1837
15 John Slusser, Sr. 320
1836
15 Rebecca Slusser 320
1836
16 Henry Showalter 80
1843
16 Peter Hertz 80
1843
5 Reuben Archer
40
1838
16 Charles Germann 180
1843
16 R. C. Baxter & Hill
80
1843
16 Davis Johnson 80
1843
1840 17 David Ohio 520
1838
17 Andrew Whitmarsh 80
1838
6 John B. Vanemon 80
1838
17 Samuel Norman 40
1849
6 John Sheets 143
1839
18 Conrad Yarrian 160
1838
6 Robert Vanemon
80
1839
18 William Ammon 141
1838
7 John Sheets 142
1838
18 Jacob F. Higer 160
1838
7 Abraham Brown 302
1838
18 Heathcote Chilcote 70
1838
7 Zach. Tindall 40
7 William Tindall 80
1838
7 John Boyd 40
1848
8 L. E. Hertz 160
1838
8 John Lords 1 20
1838
8 Henry Lords 80
1838
8 Jonathan Hammel 120
1838
8 Michael Harrod 120
1838
8 Andrew Cotterell 40
1845
9 M. F. Richey 160
1837
John Pontius a
160
1837
9 John Lords 120
1838
9 Aaron Pancake 160
1838
9 M. F. Richey 40
1839
10 Joseph Eller 160
1837
10 David Capper 120
1837
10 Simes Andreas 40
1837
IO Todd P. Ross 40
1837
10 Ebson Stewart 40
1850
II David Capper 480
1837
1838 12 Henry Zimmerman 80
1836
3 David Johns
I Philip Klimer 320
1838
1838
18 Robert Vanemon 70
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John Gundy 40
1841
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Michael Barton 160
1851
4 Michael Bowers
40
1851
5 Eli Wilkins
40
1838
5 William Lyons
160
1839
5 .Philip Bowers
80
1840
5 Edmund Ferral
242
6 Conrad Yarrian 303
1838
4 John Hudspeth
40
Philip . Kyle 80
M. F. Richey 40
1839
2 John Stamm 78
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SEC. NAME.
ACRES. YEAR.
SEC. NAME.
ACRES. YEAR.
19 Tobias Pringle
160
1838
29 Isaiah Foster
80
1836
19 Samuel Plants
35
1838
29 John Gooley 80
1838
19 Adam Panabaker 80
1838
29 John K. Cunningham 80 1838
19 Joseph Deaner
80
1838
29 Joel Kaufman
160
1838
19 Joseph L. Huse
70
1838
29 Elias Deaner 160
1838
19 Sarah Deaner
70
1838
29 James Stewart 80
1848
19 Mary Deaner A. J. Cory I9
70
1838
30 Josiah Foster
30
1836
30 Jeremiah Plants 220
1838
20
Daniel D. Cash
80
1838
30 George Ritzman 160
1838
20 Israel Harris
160
1838
30 Samuel Plants
140
1838
20 Thomas B. Carault
80
1838
31 Andrew Kerr 80
1836
20 Nathaniel Strong
160
1838
31 John A. Gormley
80
1836
20 Samuel Plants
120
1838
31 Abel Johnson 278
1836
20 John P. Hay 40
1850
31 Joseph Johnson 160
1836
21 William Bower 160
1837
21
Lemuel Wagers 80
1838
32 John Marshall
80
1836
21 Milton Avery
120
1838
240
1836
21 Charles Hall 160
1838
21
George Sproul
40
1849
33
Thomas Lyons 160
1837
22 Joseph Shotwell
640
1837
33 Gottlieb Bristley 320
1837
23 Eli Bauserman 160
1837
33
Michael Frantz 160
1837
23 Jacob Bauserman 160
1837
34 Isaac Alexander 160
1837
34 Robert Manley 160
1837
34 Michael Kreischer
So
1837
24 Asa Cook
40
1837
24
Jacob Bauserman
160
1837
24 Jonas Balycat
240
1837
24 James R. Glenn
160
1837
35 Joseph Klinker 320
1837
34 C. Feigert.
80
1840
35
Susan Umbaugh
80
1837
25 Michael King 160
1837 35
Charles Miller
160
1837
25 John Goodbread 160
1837
25
Nathan Everett
80
26
James R. Glenn 80
1837
26 Abraham Clawberg 160
1837
26 Hugh Murry 160
1837
26 Valentine Coleman
80
1837
26
James R. Glenn
120
1837
26 Joseph Miller
40
1837
27 Robert Manley 240
1837
27 Susan Umbaugh
80
18,37
27
Henry Colemar
80
1837
27 John Shaw
80
1838
27
William L . Shaw 80
1838
27 Clark Glenr 80
1838
28 Frederick Myers 80
1838
28 James R. Boner
40
1838
28 Susan E. Brown
80
1838
28 Benjamin Johnson 240
1838
28 John Brown, Jr. 40
1841
28 John Grundy 80
1841
28 Isaac Rigley
40
1848
28 Anthony McQueen
40
18;8
George Myers 80
1837
1837 36 Henry Germann 160
1837
36 Peter Germann 160
1837
36
David Balyeat 240
1857
36 Philip Knicht 80
1837
PIONEER REMINISCENCES.
At an early day Aaron Hoover moved into the woods on the farm he still owns, built a log cabin and commenced clearing up his land. He noticed that a deer was coming into the clear- ing for browse. Having no gun of his own, he borrowed one from one of his neighbors and went out to the clearing, where he found the (leer. It seemed so tame that he thought he would drive it up close to the house, so he would not have so far to carry it after it was
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