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James Adams, George Bests, Samuel Cupins, Erastus Gibson, Ebenezer Kingsley, Perry Kingsley, Ephraim Kingsley (single man), Edward Kingsley. Count Kingsley, John Lukins (single man). George Leadlie (one sawmill with two saws), David W. Mead (sawyer), John Nolf.
In a "table of township assessors for the year 1837" David Mead is mentioned as the official for this township.
CHAPTER XXXI
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP-BOROUGH OF FALLS CREEK
ORGANIZATION AND POPULATION-LIST OF TAXABLES, 1838-PIONEERS-INCIDENTS AND ANEC- DOTES-EARLY PREACHERS-PIONEER ELECTION-PRESENT OFFICIALS-TOWNS-FIRST CEME- TERY-MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION-JUDGE EVANS-SCHOOLS-CRIME IN THE TOWNSHIP- BOROUGHI OF FALLS CREEK
Washington township, named after George Washington, organized in 1839, was taken from Pinecreek and Snyder. Washington township was bounded on the east by the Clearfield county line, on the north by Snyder township, and on the south and west by Pine- creek township. The population in 1840 was 367; 1850, 646; 1860, 1,079; 1870, 1,124; 1880. 1,282 ; 1890, 2,643; 1900, 3,816; 1910, 2,813.
LIST OF TAXABLES, 1838
Dillis Allen (one sawinill), Frederick Alex- ander, Hugh Alexander, John Atwell, James Alexander and father, James Bond, Samuel Beman, Samuel Crawford, John Clendennen, John Crawford. William Cooper, John P. Clark, Aaron Clark, Robert Douthard (one gristmill), Thomas Dougherty, James Dough- erty, James Downs, Robert Dickson, Michael Elliott, William Feely, John Fuller, Alex- ander B. Fowler, George Feely, George Hughes, Andrew Hunter, George Horam, Jacob and William Horam, John Horam, Sr., John Horam, Jr., Matthew Keys, Henry Keys, Joseph Keys, James Kyle, Samuel Kyle, Sam- uel Miles, John MeGhee, Oliver McClelland, Andrew Moore, Robert Morrison, William McConnell, James MeConnell. Joseph McCon- nell (single man), John McClelland, William Mccullough, William McDonald, Robert Mc- Intosh (occupation ), Ilenry McIntosh, Jolin McIntosh, William MeIntosh, Jr., William Mc- Intosh, Sr., Rebecca McIntosh, George Ogden, loseph Potter (tavern). Ramsey Potter. Jacob Peters, Tilton Reynolds, William Rey- nolds. Thomas Reynolds ( single man), David Reynolds. Joshua Rhea, Samuel Rhea, James Rany. James Smith, Andrew Smith, Matthew Smith, B. Sprague, Ephraim Stephen, Peter Sharp, John Sprague, Thomas Tedlie, Henry
Vastbinder, James Waite, John Wilson, Oliver Welsh, Daniel Yeomans, Henry Yeomans.
PIONEERS
This township was settled by Scotch-Irish, mostly from Counties Antrim and Tyrone, Ireland. They were as a unit agricultural. One noted hunter was reared there, George Smith. Before the advent of the settlers the Indians made maple sugar here. Trees are still standing that were notched for this pur- pose by the savage tomahawk. The early Irish settlers took up this business and made tous and tons and barrels and barrels of maple molasses and sugar every spring. As a result no sugar trust or Claus Spreckels had any terrors for them. Money was scarce, and the pioneers and early settlers of this town- ship paid their debts usually "with sugar in the spring and oats after harvest."
The pioneer settlers in what is now Wash- ington township were Henry Keys, John Me- Ghee, Thomas Moore, Alexander Osborne and John McIntosh. These located here in 1824. One of them, Henry Keys, is mentioned as assessor of Washington township in a "table of township assessors for the year 1837." In 1826 Andrew Smith, William Cooper and John Wilson settled; in 1829, James Smith, Esq. Other early settlers were as follows: John Millen. James Ross, David Dennison, William Shaw, Robert Morrison, Robert Smith, George Senior, William Smith, Thomas Tedlie, John Magee, William McConnell, Alvin H. Head, T. B. Melain, William B. MeCullough, Alexander Keys, Robert Patton, Daniel Groves, James Groves, John Groves, James Welsh, Frederick R. Brown, James Bond and John McClelland.
In 1830 John and Andrew Hunter settled on farms. The winter of 1831 was a very
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cold season, and in the severest part of it the house of John Hunter burned down. An- drew Hunter lived to be over one hundred years old, and as the celebration of his cen- tennial birthday was the first event of the kind in this county, I reprint my report of that interesting occasion, made at the time :
"A GREAT BIRTHDAY
"CELEBRATION OF ANDREW HUNTER'S ONE IIUN- DRED YEARS OF LIFE
"Jefferson County's Centenarian
"Born in Ireland, Oct. 1, 1790, living in Jefferson county, Pa .. Oct. 1. 1890. Located on his farm in Washington township, Jeffer- son county, in 1830. Hle is bright. intelligent, and pleasant to converse with. Handsome, short in stature, rosy-checked, with a fine head of iron-gray hair. A widower for many years, and will probably not remarry. Always an early riser and a hard worker. Has never been sick, never used tobacco, but drinks tea and coffee, and believes that a little 'gude whuskey,' unless taken to excess, 'will not hurt ony man at all, at all.' Occasionally goes to a wedding, but attends church reg- ularly. A strict Presbyterian. Leads the family devotions night and morning. Is lively, loves jokes, laughs heartily, and enjoys life. Is opposed to all modern innovations in the church, such as organs, improved psalmody, etc.
"I said to him, 'I suppose, Mr. Hunter, they are getting some new-fangled ideas in the church up here ?' 'Aye, feth, that's jest what they're doin'. They are singin' human com- position in the church now. I fought it with all my might, but they overpowered me, and I did not go back for three months. I thought I never would go back; but then I said for all the wee time I had to stay. I might just as weel go back. Our preacher came over to make us a visit, and I just took the opportu- nity to give him a piece of my mind, and after I was through he had not one word in reply to make, for he had not a particle of founda- tion to stand upon.'
"The gathering at Mr. Hunter's home yes- terday was an immense affair, worthy of the occasion, the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. Relatives, friends and neighbors were present. The old, middle- aged. and the infant were there.
"The company numbered fully a thousand. coming from various parts of the county, and
some from outside. At noon refreshments were served for all present, a special table being prepared for the old patriarch, with Judge Jenks, Rev. Mr. Filson, Dr. McKnight, James McCurdy and other friends near him. The old gentleman laughed, joked, and ate a hearty meal. He hears ordinary talk and has nearly all his lower teeth.
".At one p. m. Rev. Mr. Filson preached an old-fashioned sermon. Rev. Mr. Hill explain- ing the psalin. The clerks in charge of the singing were A. Mccullough and Eller Wil- liam Smith, one lining the psalm and the other leading the music. Mr. Hunter joined in the singing. Addresses were made by Hon. W. P. Jenks and Dr. W. J. McKnight, and an original poem, by Willie Wray, was read by Rev. Mr. Hill. Mr. Hunter's neighbors pre- sented him with a gold-headed cane on which to lean in the second century of his life. This was the greatest event ever witnessed in this section of Jefferson county."
According to census reports, persons who live one hundred years or more are a good deal like snakes in Ireland-very scarce. The United States, with a population of more than ninety millions, is given credit for only forty- six. Germany's population is sixty mil- lion, and its quota of centenarians is seventy. Great Britain, with a population of forty-six million, has ninety-four. France, with forty million, claims one hundred and sixty-four. Bulgaria, with four million inhabitants, boasts of three thousand three hundred, and Rou- mania, with six million people, has three thou- sand three hundred and twenty centenarians. The last named little countries eat little meat and drink a great deal of sour milk, and to this fact some attribute their much greater long- evity.
The pioneer birth in the township was that of William McGhee, in 1825 : the pioneer mar- riage, Henry Keys and Catherine Wilson, in 1826; the pioneer death, Mary, wife of John Hunter, in 1830. The pioneer graveyard was on Cooper's Hill, in 1831. The pioneer mer- chant was Thomas B. McLain, near Beech- tree : other early merchants were W. B. Mc- Cullongh and Alvin Ilead. The pioneer church. Presbyterian, was organized Dec. 3, 1832, with fourteen members. The pioneer cabin was constructed by three men only: Thomas Moore, Henry Keys and John McIntosh. In 1831 John Wilson erected an up-and-down sawmill near Rockdale.
Arner & Simpson were merchants here in 1850.
ANDREW HUNTER
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INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES
Archie Campbell, James Wait, Samuel, James and Robert Kyle were early settlers, too. Archie Campbell and James Kyle were broth- ers-in-law. They were odd, eccentric and stingy, but each prided himself on being very generous. The Kyles and Campbell had the reputation of being wealthy. Early in the forties the women in that part of Washington township took a notion to fix up Prospect graveyard, and in order to reach the Kyles and Campbell a subscription paper was put in the hands of Jimmie Kyle. Jimmie was an old bachelor. The first thing he did after getting the paper was to call on Archie Campbell, when the following conversation, in a dignified manner, took place :
"Gud-morning, Muster Cummell."
"Gud-morning, Muster Kyle."
"Are yez all well this morning, Muster Cum- mell?"
"Yes, Muster Kyle, there's only me and Mary, and we're all well."
"Muster Cummell, I've got a subscription paper here to fix the graveyard beyand, and wud you be after putting something down ?"
"Egad, no, Muster Kyle, not a cint for that ould cow-pasture. As long as I Itiv I won't be burried there. Egad, I won't."
"Well, Muster. Cummell, we duffer in opinion on that, for if I luv and kape me health, I wull."
The story :
ARCHIE CAMPBELL AND JIMMY KYLE
Archibald Campbell and his friend Jimmy Kyle Were sturdy old gents from the Emerald Isle. Jimmy lived on a farm just below Prospect Hill And Archie kept tavern in old Reynoldsville. Now this was long since, perhaps during the war, And possibly even a few years before. Both were thrifty and close, and knew to the cent Precisely the quantity of money they spent. It happened one day, in the course of affairs, That the old Prospect graveyard needed repairs. It had grown up with briars, bushes and trees, The fence was quite rotten and weak in the knees, And tombstones that ought to be standing erect Were prone from a true upright course to deflect. Now this was a shame, the good citizens said, For they ought to show more respect for the dead. And so they agreed, to accomplish their ends. To raise a subscription amongst their good friends. Tom Dolan, Ed. Seeley, Ben Haugh, and Pete Brown George Sprague and Wash Fuller all put their names down.
But still they were short, and to increase the pile They handed the paper to old Jimmy Kyle.
For a ten dollar bill he put down his name,
And said he'd make Campbell contribute the same. And forth with his paper friend Kyle did essay,
Talking loud to himself as he wended his way: "Sure Archie is ruch ; he sells whuskey and ale,
An' a paltry tin dollars he never would fale,"
And thus with himself he debated the case
Till firmly convinced. When he reached Archie's place
He knocked at the door of the old Sandy Lick,
When Archie jumped up and opened it quick.
"Gud mornin'," said Jimmy, all wreathed in a smile,
"An how's Muster Cummel?" "Quite wull, Muster Kyle,
Except for me legs, fer yez know how it is,
I'm bothered a gud but wuth ould rheumatiz.
In a general way me health's gud enough,
An' I'd be all right if I wasn't so stuff."
"An how's Mary Ann?" "She is gud-very gud ;
She's out in the back yard splitting some wud."
"Muster Cummel," said Jimmy, "I'll sthate what I want :
We're fixin' the cimetry over beyant-
I've a subscription papur I want yez to sign : Jist put down yer name for a tin below mine." "Egad !" exclaimed Archie, "not a cint will I guv ! I won't be buried there as long as I Inv !"
"We duffer on that p'int." said Kyle. "be me s'ul! If I luv and kape me health, Archie, I wull !"
-W. O. SMITH, in Punxsutawney Spirit.
Archie Campbell married Mary Ann Kyle. Archie and his wife lived in the vicinity of what is now Reynoldsville, and one winter day they concluded to visit the Kyles. They hitched up their horse in a little jumper, reached their destination, some four miles over the Ceres road, and remained over night with their re- lations. During the night there was a heavy snowfall. On starting home in the morning the Kyles presented Mary Ann a small crock of apple butter. The crock was stored be- tween Mrs. Campbell's feet when she took her seat in the jumper. The road track was covered with fresh snow, and Archie could not, of course, discern it. After driving some distance he struck a trot, the jumper went over a stump, and threw Archie and Mary Ann violently into the snow. Archie scrambled up and cried, "Mary Ann, my dear, are you hurted?" "My thigh is broken, my thigh is broken, Archie!" Archie rushed to her aid. and running his hand up her limb to ascertain her injury, he exclaimed, "It's wuirse than that, it's wurse than that, Mary Ann; your bowels are busted, your bowels are busted !" And it was only apple butter.
Rev. Alexander McCahon, a "Seceder" minister who preached in and near Brookville abotit 1850, and before that time was a Scotch- Irishman, talented and well educated, buit like many of that time, including preachers, was fond of "the gude crayther of God." He was accustomed to get his jug filled regularly at Judge Evans's store, and before leaving he would nearly a ways request William C., whe
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was still living in Brookville in 1899, to "jist open the molasses gate and let a little New Orleans drop on the cork." He must have been very fond of molasses. I remember him well. The town papers occasionally published one of his sermons.
As Americans we are proud of this blood. In our struggle for independence they were loyal. A Tory was unheard of among them. Pennsylvania and the nation owe very much of their greatness to this race. Natural-born leaders and orators, they have given us states- men, teachers, professors, ministers, physi- cians, judges, Congressmen, and generals, even to our Sheridan and Grant. They have fur- nished the nation with seven presidents and our State with seven governors. Brave, intel- ligent, warm-hearted, and true, their influence must and always will be potent.
EARLY PREACHERS
In 1831 Rev. Mr. Riggs made a missionary tour through the settlement. He made a pas- toral visit to each family, and preached on two Sundays. The only capitalist in the "Woods" was Matthew Keys-he had a five-dollar bill. The settlers agreed to give Keys twenty-five cents apiece as soon as they could get it if he would give Mr. Riggs the bill. This Keys (lid, and then the settlement was without a cent.
Rev. Joseph MeGarrah assisted Rev. Mr. Riggs to hold the first communion in the Beechwoods. A son of Mr. MeGarrah in 1815 went to a store with a bag of wheat. He went on horseback twelve miles, and got seventy- five cents a bushel for his wheat, and paid fifty cents a pound for coffee and twenty-five cents a piece for tin cups to eat mush and milk out of. It was night when he got back, and he brought two pounds of coffee and two tin cups for his bag of wheat.
In 1830 Rev. Gara Bishop came from Phil- lipsburg to marry James Waite and Mattie Mc- Intosh. The temperance reform had not started then. Mr. Bishop carried a jug of whisky in one end of his saddlebags and a stone in the other to cheer the wedding guests. It was the whisky, not the stone, that cheered the guests. They had no fighting. Ile bap- tized Susan McIntosh, now Mrs. Stevenson, at the wedding. The reade. will perceive that they were in the habit of killing two birds with one stone in those economical days.
Rev. Abner Jackson, the pioneer Methodist minister, was here in 1832. The first Meth- odist church was built in 1857.
PIONEER DAYS IN THE BEECHIWOODS DISTRICT
In February, 1847, seventy years ago, when eleven years old, I went to the Joseph (now the John J.) McCurdy farm in Washington township. I lived there four and a half years. On this farm we had a log house and an old-fashioned fireplace. Our stock con- sisted of cows, young cattle, a yoke of oxen, sheep, an old white hipshot mare, geese, chick- ens and hogs. The farm produced everything we consumed, clothing and food. The sheep furnished the wool, which was carded and made into rolls for spinning. At home it was spun into yarn and woven on a hand loom. For beds it was left white; for clothing it was dyed any color desired. A competent house- wife could make dyes of logwood, indigo, cochineal, butternut bark and human urine. There were no ready-made clothes in the market; our clothes were made in the home. There was no woven underwear. Stockings were knitted at home as well as mittens.
Several cows or steers were killed each fall, and salted for winter. There was a tannery in Dogtown where we had our skins tanned. Joseph MeCurdy made our winter shoes. In summer I went barefoot, walked to church and sang Rouse's version of David's Psalms.
Our flax was cut and laid down until the fiber loosened from the woody part, put through a heckle worked by hand, spun and woven. This strong linen cloth was used for summer clothing, towels and sheets. The seed was saved to make flaxseed tea or poultices for bruises.
For food we had buckwheat cakes, pone, mush and milk, rye bread, pork, potatoes, cab)- bage, maple sugar and molasses which we made every spring, and in the fall we had the old yellow pumpkin which made such good pies. llalf a dozen two-year old hogs were killed in the fall, which gave plenty of hams, bacon, lard, sausage and salt pork. The hams and bacon were hung up in the smokehouse, a sinall building, and smoked, which gave them a delicious flavor.
From milk, we made butter, cheese and schmierkaese. In the spring of the year this was rampey, what we did not use was sold, and usually it brought twelve and one-half cents a pound. Cheese was also made at home, as there were neither creameries nor cheese factories. Cheese was sold at five to six cents a pound. All eggs not used went to the store and brought ten to twelve cents a dozen.
We made our own soap. It was called soft
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soap. It was soft, but very strong, and took the dirt off your hands and face very thor- oughly and some skin also unless you were very careful.
We thrashed our grain by flail and tramped out with horses.
PIONEER ELECTION
In 1839 the first election was held and the following persons were elected: Constable, John McGhee; supervisors, John McIntosh and Tilton Reynolds ; auditors, Andrew Smith, Oliver McClelland, William Reynolds, Joshua Rhea ; school directors, Oliver McClelland, Andrew Smith, James McConnell, William Reynolds, John Fuller, John Horm; fence ap- praisers, James Smith and Oliver Welch ; poor Qverseers, Henry Keys and Tilton Reynolds ; town clerk. John Wilson.
PRESENT OFFICIALS
J. S. Daugherty and James C. Smith were elected school directors Nov. 2, 1915: R. M. Sterrett, supervisor ; I. M. Klingensmith, con- stable.
TOWNS
Falls Creek borough is in this township.
Coal Glen and Beech Tree are mining towns. The former has a post office, and there is also a post office at Wl'estville.
Rockdale Mills is a village in the center of the township.
The township embraced Prospect Hill, Pres- cottville, Reynoldsville and West Reynolds- ville until Winslow township was formed in 1816.
FIRST CEMETERY
The pioneer cemetery was organized in 1831. and was on Cooper's Hill. The first per- son interred there was Mrs. Elnor Smith, May 28, 1831.
MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION
Memorial Day was observed for the first time in Beechwoods, May 30, 1884. Easton Post. No. 229. G. A. R., of DuBois, had charge of the exercises. Messrs. Ross, Har- vey and Troxel were appointed as a commit- tee to designate soldiers' graves.
Rev. R. A. Hunter led in prayer. After the singing of "America." Commander Har-
ris made a brief address, followed by a very interesting speech by Mr. Troxel. Rev. R. A. Hunter also made a very touching address in behalf of the younger class who were not able to go to the front in the time of our coun- try's need, but are now reaping the benefits of the battles won by our gallant veterans, and closed with the benediction.
The comrades from our neighboring town were furnished with hot coffee (made on an old-fashioned campfire) and a lunch by the ladies, for which they were very thankful, and went away feeling that their efforts were highly appreciated.
JUDGE EVANS
Judge Jared B. Evans died at his home at Rockdale Mills. of pneumonia, Feb. 21, 1891, after a short sickness. Mr. Evans was one of the old settlers of Jefferson county. He was a native of this State, born in Bridge- port, Oct. 15, 1808. When nineteen years old he came to Jefferson county and located at Port Barnett, which was then the only place of prominence in the neighborhood for miles. In 1832 he married Jane McCreight, who died a few years before her husband.
Judge Evans was one of the first post- masters of the county. He succeeded Joseph Barnett at Port Barnett, and when the post office was removed to Brookville in 1830 the Judge was made postmaster there. He or his family have presided over the Rockdale post office most of the time since it was established in 1863.
The Judge was engaged in business for a couple of years at Port Barnett, but Brook- ville began to take the lead. and he followed the tide of civilization to the newer town. There he carried on a store for a great many years. In 1869 he removed to Washington township and has lived at Rockdale since. In the early days he was an active figure in the business of Jefferson county. He was asso- ciate judge one term, whence his title.
Judge Evans came of a Quaker family, and his ancestors were among the voyagers to this country with William Penn. He was not much of a churchman, but, like Abou Ben Adhem, he regarded his fellow man. He had an open house for sojourners, and an open hand for the orphan. Besides his own family he reared two other children who had no particular claim on his generosity but the ties of humanity. He was buried in Brookville, where Mrs. Evans is also interred.
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SCHOOLS
In the fall of 1832 the first school was started in the place, at Waite's. The log schoolhouse had one regular window with six lights. The other window was made hy re- moving a log and placing panes of glass in the cavity joining each other. A writing desk was made by driving pins in the logs below this window and laying rough boards upon them. The fireplace was made by building a stone wall against the logs as high as the loft; from this a kind of flue was made of pine sticks and clay. Sometimes the smoke found its way up the chimney and sometimes it wandered through the house. William Reynolds taught this first school. for ten dollars a month, half in cash and half in grain after harvest. People who do not know half as much would turn up their noses at treble that pay now.
At the Dennison school reunion held in the summer of 1906 Dr. McKnight made an his- torical address covering the history of the schools in Washington township, and the fol- lowing acount of the gathering appeared in the Falls Creek Herald, issue of August 29, 1906:
An event of great importance to the entire Beechwoods community took place Wednesday when the former pupils and teachers of the old Dennison school held a reunion in the Andrew Ross grove. The grove stands upon a hill within sight of the old schoolhouse, and hun- dreds of the former pupils and teachers, ac- companied by friends, spent a most delight- ful day there. There was a well arranged pro- gram of singing and speeches given, which, together with the well-filled baskets taken, made up a day of great enjoyment. Among the speakers was Dr. W. J. McKnight, of Brookville, the noted historian. Dr. Mc- Knight's address was very interesting and at the same time one of great historical value. It is as follows :
"MR. PRESIDENT, SCHOOL COMPANIONS, AND FELLOW COUNTRYMEN : I am delighted to be with you today, but my delight is clouded with sorrow, for I miss so many dear familiar faces. I would prefer to speak to you extempora- neously, out of the fullness of my heart, the inspiration of the moment, and to talk of the long, long ago, its people, 'the deep tangled wildwood and all those loved spots' that my boyhood once knew. For the past, the present race alone can tell. But, upon calm reflection, T think it my duty to you and future genera- tions to read and submit a condensed historical paper, which I have prepared for this occasion,
on this school and the general educators in the Beechwoods of over fifty years ago.
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