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Villages and Postoffices. WRIGHTSVILLE lies on the right bank of the Ohio River about six miles above Manchester. It was laid out by James Hobson, April 22, 1847, on a plat of 144 lots. The situation is pleasant and there is ample room for a city, but the place seems never to have flourished although it is the nearest shipping point from West Union to the Ohio River. For many years during the bitter contest between West Union and Manchester over the county seat question, the West Union merchants shipped and received their goods via Wrightsville; and it would ha become the permanent depot for West Union merchandise, but for fact that in the location of the turnpike from West Union to Wrightsville the Manchester people controlled the engineer and commission and succeeded in having the road made over a very long and high near Wrightsville which precludes the hauling of full loads over the road Mules and bicycle riders have discovered what civil engineers of our public roads seem to be unable to comprehend: that it is nearer to go miles round, than one mile over a grade. The name of the postoffice at Wrightsville is Vineyard Hill. It formerly called Mahala, in honor of a sister of Captain William W an old resident of the vicinity and a son of Zephaniah Wade above mentioned. It was established in 1848. GRIMES is the name of a postoffice recently established at the m of Ohio Brush Creek, at the site of the almost forgotten town of W ington once the county seat. BEASLEY'S FORK is the only other postoffice in the township; it established in 1857 with James Miller as the first postmaster. MONROE TOWNSHIP - 451 Churches. QUINN'S CHAPEL, Methodist Episcopal, is said to be the oldest church organization in the township, dating from 18o5 when services were held by Rev. James. Quinn at the house of William Lucas on Gift Ridge. The first house of worship was a hewed log structure built on the Fenton farm. Afterwards a frame was erected on the farm of John Pennywitt and called Quinn's Chapel, in memory of the pioneer circuit rider, Rev. James Quinn. UNION CHAPEL, Methodist Episcopal, on Ohio Brush Creek near mouth of Beasley's Fork, was organized in 1856. BEASLEY'S FORK CHAPEL, Christian Union, organized in 1864, and the present frame building was erected in 1871. REMINISCENCES. Monroe Township was the home of many old soldiers of the Revolution. Among them was Henry Aldred who is buried in Beach's Cemetery on the McColm farm. He was wounded at the siege of Charleston by the British, which lamed him for life. He had an enduring hatred for everything English. Living in the vicinity of Aldred's home in Monroe Township was John Pike who had been in the English navy. At a log rolling at old Edward Hemphill's, Pike was relating his experience in the navy, and asked Aldred if he remembered what fine music they had as they marched into Charleston after its surrender. This so infuriated Aldred, that, crippled as he was, it took several of the bystanders to keep him from striking Pike with a handspike. Old Donald Sherwood, a relative of the wife of Stephen Beach, a pioneer on Bush Creek, was known as the "foolish Yankee." Among other things related of him is that while living in a cabin near the mouth of Brush Creek, before a settlement was made there, he tracked a large bear into a cave in the hills, and, Putnam like, with torch and gun, entered it and shot the bear which weighed over three hundred pounds. Captain William Faulkner, or Falconer, a soldier of the Revolution d also of the War of 1812, was an early settler at the mouth of Brush reek. He is buried in the old orchard on the Grimes farm. He was Catholic, and it is related of him that when his wife died he had her buried at the chimney of his house. He then built a kitchen, adjoining and laid the hearthstone over her grave. He would enter this kitchen, sprinkle water over the hearthstone and exclaim : "You are well rid out this hell's kitchen,. my dear." Henry Malone, who was born at Pleasant Bottoms on the Hemphill farm near the mouth of Brush Creek, Monroe Township, January 26, 1815, related to the writer recently that it was said by all the old Revolutionary soldiers in the vicinity that William Floyd, or "Flood," as he was sometimes called, was an illegitimate son of General Daniel Morgan. Floyd is buried on the hillside near Cedar College schoolhouse. Mr. Malone said that when he was about eight years of age the Methodists held a meeting at the home of Stephen Beach who then lived on the opposite side of Brush Creek. One Monday morning a young man in company with Mr. John Brooks came to the ford and called to him bring his father's canoe and ferry them over the creek. He did so, and 452 - HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY the young man gave him a six and one-quarter cents silver piece, which was the first money he ever earned. That young man was Henry Bascom then preaching his first sermons in the pioneer settlements in Adams County. Mr. Malone said he gave that piece of silver to his mother to help keep old Abraham Jones from being sold as a pauper as was the law in those days, and remarked that although now eighty-five years old, he had been "keeping paupers" ever since.