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LITTLE HOME HISTORY IN OUR EARLY HOMES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO INTRODUCTION during the summer of 1941, William Henry Stanton of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, in his eighty-first year, expressed his wish while visiting his numerous friends and relatives of Stillwater Quarterly Meeting, East of Barnesville, Ohio, that some history be written of the development of this section of Belmont County which started in the early 1800's. As he talked of "Old Homesteads" and the primitive ways of living with these people, they became deeply interested in this thought of writing about their experiences of earlier years and the stories they had heard from their parents and grandparents and early settlers. To make this "Little Home History" possible, we are indebted to those who have so faithfully written to him with their stories and past experiences and hope that the coming generation shall enjoy reading it and benefit from the stories related herein by their ancestors and friends. Robert D. McDonald. Beulah Patten McDonald Aldan, Pennsylvania AN OLD RESIDENCE An event occurred in Warren Township, Belmont County, in the winter of 1806 - 1807 which presents the privations of the pioneer in so strong a light that we are constrained to present it to our readers, Jesse Bailey, a Quaker, from the State of North Carolina, arrived in the township late in the fall of that year. He had not time to build a. cabin before the hard winter would set in, So looking about for some place in which to winter, he found, situated on the lands now owned by Jesse Judkins, in section 27, a rock, the upper ledge of which projected out beyond its fellows from fifteen to twenty feet. He immediately determined to turn it to his advantage, Splitting out some puncheons he placed them upright, inclosing a space even with the edge of the out-croping rock, In one corner, the rocks were so formed as to make the part of a natural chimney. Topping this out with four puncheons like a funnel, and daubing its sides with clay mud, formed a fine outlet for the smoke. In this structure he and his family passed the winter. Timid deer, frightened, bounded away from its ungainly front by day, At night wolves howled around his humble mansion. Bears came and clawed at the door, and wild cats on the limbs of the adjacent trees screamed at the unwelcome intrusion. But Bailey, secure within, lived through the winter in comparative comfort. (Extract from "Belmont - Jefferson" History 1880,) Written By Anna Bailey Patten Tacoma, Ohio Baileys Mills is said to be named for this man. We are not able to trace any connection with our branch of the Baileys'. - 2 - Jesse and Asenath Patterson Bailey Jesse Bailey was born 1-1-1815. He was the third son of Jesse, Bailey Sr.. and Phariba, his wife, and married Asenath Patterson, who was born 7-4-1820 daughter of Silas and Rachel Patterson,, who came from Deep River, North Carolina in 1808. Sias' parents came from England. His mother, Elizabeth Patterson was a minister in the society of Friends and traveled extensively in that service. At one titre she rode horse-back from Belmont County to North Carolina., Jesse and Asenath were married in 18371 at Stillwater Meeting House and went to house-keeping in a very primative way in Somerset Township near the present Union Church, The house had no glass for windows and they used oiled paper. They lived here six months when Jesse's mother, Phariba, died. Then they went to his father, Jesse Bailey Sr. home to keep house for him, on the farm now owned by Ross Bailey, a grandson of Jesse and Asenath. They lived in the hewn log house built by Jesse Sr. pictured and described on page 215 of the book Our Ancestors The Stantons, They lived here ten years. Here Silas, Sarah, and John were born.. From this home they moved to Asenath's mothers farm on Long Run. Here they lived in the log house where her parents had lived and where Asenath was born. They lived in this house while building a two story frame house close by. Part of the old log house still stands,. Here on this farm Lindley, later called L. P. , Allen, Rachel and Mary were born. The latter two died in in infancy and Sarah in her twenty-first year. By the new house they dug a well, drew the water by windlas and wooden bucket. This well was only ten feet deep but has, never been known to so dry. It now has an iron pump and produces an abundance of good water. As a child I used to stay at Grandfathers a good deal. My mother was not very strong and often sick and as I was too young to help at home, Grandmother would take me to her home. I loved to stay their with them. I well remember the spring-house just on the other side of the house from the well, I can see yet the trough through which the water flowed from the spring above,. This trough was filled with stone crocks of milk and cream. Here Grandmother churned and made the rolls of good butter, part of which she exchanged for groceries in Barnesville,, There was no celler under the house but just a little beyond the spring house was a cave built in the side of the hill where they kept their fruits and vegetables. Each room of the house down stairs had an open fireplace and how cozy on a long winter evening to sit beside the open fire. Long years after this we lived in this home and here our son was born. In the old Kitchen there was a large wood fireplace with a crane on which to hang the large iron and brass kettles, And the big kettles of apple-butter Grandmother used to make their stiring it with a long apple-butter stirrer until it was thick and so well cooked it kept without sealing. It was put in large stone jars and a cover of muslin tied on, No glass fruit jars in those days. - 3 - Just a little ways down the lane a Large creek "Long Run" crossed the road and how I used love to wade in that creek, sometimes I would fall down and get wet but that didn't seem to worry me. They had to drive across this creek to get out to the public road and sometmes when the creek was high they would have a little trouble. Just a little way above this home, on the "Goshen Road" there stood in the edge of the woods a little school house and here my father, L. P. Bailey and his brothers and sister went to school. Father use to slow us children where the school house stood and tell us of his first day in school. He had ever been used to sitting still and it wasn't easy for him. In the afternoon of his first day he commenced rolling his slate pencil on his desks saying, "rolly, rolly unconscious that he was disturbing others until the teacher spoke gently to him. After he was through school here he attended boarding school at Mount Pleasant, Ohio and when through their taught in the same little school where he rolled his pencil. Just about a quarter of a mile below the home, on the same farm, stood a little house just where the road turned off the Goshen road, crossed the creek and turned up the hill to the Sandy Ridge road about a half mile further up the hill. In this little house, with a big outside stone chimney., each of Jesse and Asenath's four sons, when he married, took his wife there and made it their home until they located elsewhere. This was called the weaning house. The long Run home of grandfathers was two and one half miles from Stillwater Meeting. The road - as all roads were in those days - was bad during much of the year but Jesse and Asenath were always in their accustomed seats at meeting twice a week unless prevented by sickness. Asenath Bailey was one of the most remarkable women belonging to Stillwater Meeting. She was a recommended minister of that meeting. She had very little education, as schools were not close to her home and her father dying when the children were very young, her mother was not able to give the children much schooling. But when she would rise to speak in meeting, her strong voice and earnest pleadings attracted the attention of all her listeners and made them feel that the voice of God was speaking through her to them. She visited other meetings and often went to prisons to speak to the convicts. Once, while on a religious visit to Iowa, she felt a call to speak to the prisoners in the State Penitentiary at Animosa and I have been told by one who accompanied her that she spoke so earnestly, pleading with them to lead better lives, she held the attention of all the prisoners amd there was scarcelya dry eye when she finished her sermon. As Jesse and Asenath grew too old for the duties of a farm their youngest son Allen and family moved to this home from the "weaning house" and the farm is still owned by his family. Jesse and Asemath moved to a home on the Sandy Ridge road about a quarter of a mile from the Stillwater Meeting house, There they spent many happy years, With their horse and the old carriage they went to meeting and visited their children and friends. Active in the meeting and loved by all who knew them. Asenath's crippled sister Elizabeth and their niece "Lib" Patterson lived with them in this home. "Lib" was faithful in caring for them in their declining years, Jesse died in 1898 and Asenath in 1905 and were laid to rest side by side at Stillwater. Written By Anna Bailey Patten Daughter of L. P. and Elizabeth S. Bailey Granddaughter of Jesse & Asenath Bailey. - 4 - JOEL BAILEY Joel Bailey was the son of Edmund and Margaret Bailey. He married Ruthanna Patterson in April 4th, 1844 and they lived south of Barnesville, Ohio. They were members of Somerset Monthly Meeting, but soon moved to a home three miles east of Barnesville, at the place now known as Quiet Side, the hone of Henry and Eliza Leeds, on the Sandy Ridge road. Their membership was transferred to Stillwater Monthly Meeting, The house, a two story frame building was built a portion at a time on the site of the present dwelling. A kitchen was added later which was moved from the place now occupied by William H. Sears, A well about thirty-five feet deep was dug near the house. This is still in use„ The Baileys had five children. After his wifes death in November 29th. 1856. Joel married Lydia Holloway and they had two children. An incident during the early infancy of one of the children is still vivid in William Sear's memory. It was about 1859, when he was but a young boy that he and his mother were calling on Lydia, who was ill in bed. While there, a severe hail storm wrought such havoc that the west windows were broken. Precipitating wind rain and hailstones. Esther Sears picked up the tiny babe and ran to the closet and held it inside, protecting it in the half open doorway as the closet was too small to admit her. In the following summer, a late freeze caused much damage. The "June Frost" destroyed corn that was knee high and all the wheat, clover, garden vegetables and flowers. Joel's Blacksmith shop, which was located on the main road, was just south of the house. Here he was mostly occupied. His brother assisting in the caring for the needs of farmers and neighbors. The shop his long since been torn down. On the terrace in back of the house, stood the old sorghum mill which was often running might as well as day. When a lad, William Sears' remembers hauling the cane from a distant hill with two yoke of oxen end brining it to Joel's mill. Joel Bailey and his family travelled the two miles to Stillwater Meeting twice a week, driving his horses over the poor roads., He passed away at his home in 1876. Written by Eliza Foster Leeds Barnsville, Ohio (Not a relative) - 5 - LINDLEY PATTERSON AND ELIZABETH (STANTON) BAILEY There was an unusual stir of excitement at the Stillwater Meeting the twenty-sixth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seven-one. Lindley Patterson Bailey and Elizabeth Stanton had announced their intention to wed thirty days previously and on that day they were married. Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Joseph and Mary Stanton, was born on a farm a short distance northwest of Tacoma, Ohio, on December 24, 1846. Lindley Patters who was the third son of Jesse and Asenath Bailey, was born on March 8, 1850. The charming Elizabeth Stanton was the same young girl, who not so many years before had attended the Mount Pleasant Boarding School. In those days the rules of boarding school life were very strict. There was no social relationships between the boys and girls, except under strict supervision. One day Elizabeth and one of her girl friends were out in the yard, and seeing some boys on the roof, stopped to see what they were doing. But by a strenge trick of fate a watchful teacher saw this "misdemeanor" and their registers were "marked," for "looking at the boys In this stalwart, attractive looking young man was a youthful orator, who many times had mounted a stump, and with the birds and animals of his fathers' farm for an audience, had delivered ab oration which caused much stir among the animal life. After leaving school Elizabeth Stanton was invited to attend the wedding of Lindy Bundy and Roanna Frame and to be a "waiter" with Lindey P. Bailey, almost a stranger to her at the time. From the friendship formed at this wedding came the seed of a youthful romance which blossomed into full glory on July 26, 1871 and remained in all its loveliness for almost sixty long years. The happy couple lived for a while in "the weaning house"- a little log cabin on his father's farm. From this home they went to an adjoining farm, where Lindley worked during the summer and taught school during the winter. While living here, they advanced another step on the ladder of life, for on July 18, 1872 they became the proud parents of a red and wrinkled baby boy., their eldest son-Edwin Macy Bailey. The year after the birth of their first child they bought a farm. near Tacoma of one hundred and sixteen acres, which proved to be a heavy burden during the financial panic of 1873. Lindley and Elizabeth lived on this farm for six years, during which time Lindley continued the combination of farming and school teaching. While here three more children came to bless the home: Oscar Joseph, December 5, 1874; Anna, August 16, 1876; Clara, June 25, 1878. Elizabeth had a natural inclination for cows. She made high class butter, commanding a premium price in the village. Lindley did not share this liking for dairy cows preferring beef cattle and sheep, but finally acknowledged that Elizabeth's cows brought in better returns than some of the other farm interests. James Edgerton, a few years before, had imported from Rhode Island three registered Jersey cattle, said to be the first ever shipped across the Allegheny Mountains. Elizabeth desired to own some of these Jerseys,, so she persuaded Lindley to trade a threshing chine which he was running somewhat against her wishes for a Jersey bull, a cow and a heifer Calf. At last Lindley became interested in dairying and more particular in Jersey cows. - 6 - The children of this family feel that they are justified in calling their mother the sponsor of tie Jersy cow interest is Ohio. In the fall of 1877, Lindley, always interested in raising fine crops, took special care in one wheat field and the next year he had a fine field of grain. This turned out to be fortunate for him. The county was looking for a tract of land on which to build a children's home and to have additional space for raising various products. Lindley sold his farm to the county, partly because of the fine impression which his wheat field made. It is doubtful if he ever could have paid off the debt on the place and the selling of it was good luck for him. The family remained there until 1880. The brick for the building of the Children's Home were made on the farm and Elizabeth boarded the men who made the brick. One day while still in their third home, Lindley went to get some coal and Edwin came to meet him on his return, the little boy got up on the load of coal to ride the rest of the way home, but going over a bad spot in the road he fell off, The rear wheel went over his chest, but good fortune was with them for Edwin was not injured. In 1880 the family rented a farm near Speidel, Ohio and lived there for sx years, while in this home the two youngest boys were born: Alva Caleb, April 26, 1880; and Jesse Stanton, April 15, 1884. The log house in which they lived was surrounded by big walnut trees and the water for which they used come from a spring nearby. They had no cellar under under their house so they built a cave in which they kept their fruit and vegetables. On this farm there was a small log stable but as Lindley became more and more interested in the dairy business, they built a larger cattle barn on the hill just above the house. The six years they spent on this farm were years of happiness, mingled with sadness, but always busy years. Six hearty children had to be fed, clothed, and sent to school. The nearest school was over a mile away. The boys can well remember attending No. 8 school where it was the custom to put the teacher out at least once a term. One day the larger boys, who were enrolled in the school, locked the teacher out while he was ringing the bell. Instead of becoming angry, the teacher asked the little boys and girls to go skating with him. That act won the favor of the whole school and he was soon let back in. Very often when the children were coming home from school they would walk up the railroad tracks to the station at Speidel. Just beyond the station was a deep cut in the hill. One evening, Oscar walked home with some friends, and leaving them, he walked down through the cut towards the station. An old lady, who lived nearby saw him just before he went out of sight. A train was coming, but wasn't near enough for a little boy, who was skipping and running along to hear. The station master ran out and called to him and the old lady ran out on the hill waving her apron. This attracted his attention and seeing his danger he threw himself to the side and wass off of the tracks before the train went whizzing by. To go from this story to the one of Alva and Clara sliding down the side of the cave on this piece seems ridiculous, but so is life: The common place with a touch here and there of the unusual. The children were not allowed to - 7 - slide down the side of the cave but Alva and Clare thought it too great a temptation and took the chance. When Elizabeth saw them, she came after them with a stick and they ran, as children will. They crawled into a hole which went under the house, but their mother was not discouraged by this and called sister Anna and told her to go after them. Anna couldn't refuse and go after them she did. Then-POOR CHILDREN-Well you couldn't blame them for running. It doesn't seem that Anna profited too much from this experience for a and Oscar were likewise tempted beyond their power, to resist. One day they decided they wanted some apples to eat. The apples were still green but nevertheless they went to the orchard and climbed the tree. In place of picking a few and eating them they shook the tree vigorously and enjoyed seeing the apples fall to the ground. Things might have turned out all right, but their father coming from the barn saw the performance and their only reward was being whipped by their father while their big brother Ed laughed at them from his hiding place behind the chicken house. There is a pathetic story told about Oscar. His mother and father had gone away from home, taking Edwin and Anna with them, and Oscar was left to be the man of the house. This didn't quite suit Oscar's liking so he went to seek work elsewhere. At that time there were some tenants on the farm who raised tobacco. One of them, Aaron Bishop, needed a hired hand. Oscar, al though just a little tyke, asked for the job. Asron assured him laughingly that he would be glad to have him and would pay a dollar a day. Oscar was very serious about it all, He went home and told Ella Butcher, the hired girl, that he had a job and asked her to pack some clean clothes for him. Then he went to Carl Mcllvane, the store keeper in Speidel, and talked, man to man about his job and Carl gave him an account book and a pencil with which he might keep an accurate account of his time. The next morning, Oscar trudged happily down the hill with his clothes done up in a red bandana, on his way to work, but he was soon told it was all a joke, The hill seemed awfully long as a little boy trudged back home, swallowing his tears of disappointment and grief; the first great tragedy of his life. At another time during the six years on the farm near Speidel, Mag McKnight worked for the family. For some reason or other she got mad and quit. They owed her twelve or fifteen dollars in wages and Lindley wrote a check for this amount.: But, no she must have cash that she could count with her own hands, so Lindley went to town and got ten dollars in pennies and the rest in nickels and dimes. He gave her the money and let her count it to her satisfaction. Many, many things of interest come to the mind of the members of this family as they think over those days of their youth. For instance they all remember with somewhat a thrill, the torch light procession which was held in Speidel for James G. Plane and John D. Logan who were running for president and vice president respectively. In this home at Speidel there was a large fire place and one time as Lindley was putting in a big back log he slipped and broke his leg. At another time the children all had the measles. While Susan Wharton was working for Elizabeth, her daughter, Bird, took the measles. Susan would either have to stay home or bring Bird with her when she came to work. Elizabeth told her to bring the girl, so that all the children would have the measles and that one childhood disease would be done with. She did and all six of the Bailey children were sick with the measles at the same time. - 8 - It was while the family lived on this farm that Elizabeth had a very serious illness. For a few days her condition was critical, but she had a mission yet unfulfilled and was spared to her family. Dr. Kemp, the family physician, attended her.  After her recovery she nursed Oscar through a case of typhoid fever and often went to other homes, to offer her services as a practical nurse A boy, who lived close to them, was shot in she hand, the wound became seriously infected and amputation of two fingers was necessary. Elizabeth assisted the doctor in this operation and for several weeks afterward she would go everyday to change the dressing on his has hand. During this time the Jersey cow had become the leading breed of dairy cows in Belmont County and even in Ohio. Lindley seeing this demand made a trip to Massachusetts for a car load. of Jerseys,, The demand seemed to increase and Lindley realizing this made other trips to New England and brought back some prize cattle It was then they began to ship their cream to Bellaire. All these extra Jerseys meant extra work. The Bailey children were taught to work as well as play end they all remember the days spent there with pleasure. As we have said these years were busy years but never to busy to think of some of the bigger things in life. Elizabeth and Lindley always had a keen interest in the affairs of their community, The school and the church as well as the home held a high place in their lives. They were never to busy or the cares of the home were never so great but that they found time to go to the Friend's Meeting of which they were life long members, They looked forward to these days as times in which they gained strength for the tasks that followed through the week. There are many things which this account leaves untold, but perhaps itgives to one a glimmering into the life of two grand people and their children up until the year when they moved to the John Bundy Farm. Written by Sarah J. Bailey (Daughter of Oscar J. Bailey.) (Granddaughter of Lindley and Elizabeth S. Bailey.) - 9 - DAVID BALL In the Southland and Plymouth neighborhoods there are a number of houses still standing that were at one time the homes of the early settlers of these Friend communities. However, a few if any, are now living that are old enough to give the information concerning the why and wherefor, as well as the process of these particular places becoming the homes of Friends. Our own Great grandfather, David Ball, came to Malta township in Morgan County in 1835, when our grandmother Gaynor Ball (Burgess) was a child of nine. I have visited the scene of their early home and have heard much about it. Had I been wishing to write about this some three years ago both father and Uncle Nathan could have given much of the value, but as they are now gone, I am not altogether certain about many of the details. I thought I might have secured some information from an old neighbor of the family, who still lives in the community, but since we must so plan trips to try to save tires, and the time in which to gather facts was limited. I have not attempted to write about homes that I had in mind at first. Nevertheless, since my interest has been aroused, I hope I may be able to gather some information about some of these later, for my own satisfaction. In thinking of some one who could tell something of one or two of the homes I had in mind, Alden Hobson was asked for information. As he and his daughter Edith Hobson Burt mentioned facts about their home, we felt that although it was not one of the really old homes, there were reasons for its description being interesting, so I am giving briefly what they have given me about their family as connected with this home, along with my comments. Elizabeth Burgess P.S. I had waited for a reply to a letter inquiring about the Edmund Fowler home. It was received the 24th. but I can give little even yet, I had hoped to secure some photographs to accompany this. - 10 - EARLY TIMES IN BARNESVILLE, OHIO The following was written by Jonathan Bundy, an old time resident of Barnesville, Ohio. It was printed in the Enterprise of 3rd, month 13th, 1884, Descendants of Mr. Bundy have furnished us with a copy of the paper in which it was published, and believing it will be of interest to many of the readers of today we again print it. (Taken from the Enterprise 3rd, month 16th, 1911) -Editor Enterprise; Some months ago there was a notice in your paper to the effect that I had passed through the place where Barnesville is now situated, at an earlier date than any one else now living near their. Since then I have been repeatedly asked to write out some account of those early days, for publication, and as variety is some times pleasant and useful, it may not be amiss to compare the present flourishing condition of this town and vicinity with the difficulties and hardships with which the earlier settiers had to contend, though I am aware it must be a very crude article which my aged hand can produce. As my father's family were the little company of pionners who passed through Barnesville. in 1805, and settled one mile west, I remember well the beginning of the town, and many incidents occurring among ourselves and neighbors, and when I enter the Barnesville of today, with its turnpike, railroads, telegraphs, telephones, gaslights, glassworks with its large mills and magnificent houses, with schools and lawyers doctors and preachers, with its banks and stores and pleasant homes a vision rises up before me of the broken wilderness, where we hastily threw up our log cabins without aid of carpenter of mason. Our fireplaces were made of sticks and clay, our floors of puncheon, our door shutters of clapboard pinned to wooden hinges, and never a nail or screw or pane of glass in the whole structure. We had an unbroken forest to subdue before we could raise our provisions, and the first object was to obtain something to live on, while felling the great trees and clearing away the underbrush and rubbish so that the land could be tilled. For no matter what a man had at a old not get it here because there were no roads. This provision was furnished in a great measure by killing or capturing the wild animals with which the woods abounded. Powder and lead were high priced. so the smaller game was mostly taken by stratagem. To catch the wild turkey, we built a pen about ten feet square and three or four feet high and covered with rails. A little ditch was dug in the ground terminating on. the inside near the center of the pen and covered near the wall, The bait was then placed so as to be seen from the outside but only reached by going in the ditch. When they have entered, helped themselves and wished to escape, they walk round and round trying every crack, and even over the cover of the ditch. but never think of getting down into it and go out as they came in. A good fat bear was our first choice, but they were hard to find and take to the deer furnished the greater part of our meat, We also saved for food every quail, squirrel and bird we could trap or capture in any way, for when the gun had to be resorted to, to obtain meat it took a good hand from his work of preparing the new fields, and land had to be cleared and corn raised before we could have hogs or cattle and when we did get hogs, it was hard to keep them for the bears were very fond of fresh pork, We let them run in the woods in the daytime, but they came to their beds at night, and we were obliged to keep one or two old ones with long tusks to fight off the bears from the smaller ones - 11 - I well remember a very exciting circumstance of my boyhood Mother had gone from home on a visit of three of four days. I stayed at grandfather's and father also worked there, going home monings and evenings to feed. One night he found his hogs all out and gone. He began calling them but soon saw a large bear between himself and the house which he observed was mad, having been whipped by the hogs, and coming towards him with his bristles raised, all ready for fight. Father made all the show he could, hoping to scare him but to no purpose. He could not get his gun, which was in the house, so he turned and ran a short distance thinking the bear would not come farther than the fence, but when he looked he be held Bruin in full chase and gaining on him rapidly. He then, as I have heard him say, let out every link he had in reserve and ran for deer life, but the bear gained on him until he could hear him at every bound, light closer and closer behind him, When he came to a fence, and laying his hands on the top bar and leaped over, he heard bruin light on the fence the moment he touched thr ground. It was then uphill to the house and as a bear cannot run up hill well, father gained on him and rushing in took down grandfathers gun and went back to meet him, but grandfather saw the bear run round the house and disappear in the woods while father was inside. He came back that night, however and took two pet pigs whose bed was under the wagon at the end of the house, eating one and leaving the other dead. The next day they put the dead pig in the end of a hollow log nearby, and set two- guns in position so that he could not get the pig-without pulling the strings attached to the triggers and thus firing upon himself. The two bullets did their work that night, and next morning he was dressed made us a good supply of meat. Many bears were taken in this way. Often we would hear the hogs rallying, as we called it and ,o to see what disturbed them. If it proved to be a bear, we would generally find a dead pig for he would quickly kill one by biting it through just behind the shoulders, and then leave it till the big hogs were quiet, then he would go and eat it or get shot, as in this instance. But it required great care to go near those angry and frightened hogs for they were but half domesticated breed and quite dangerous. Two of our neighbors went our for a hunt one morning, taking their dogs with them. They had not gone far before coming onto a lot of these half wild hogs. The dogs ran for their masters, and the men seeing their danger, betook themselves each to his tree. The dogs played. round and round the tree keeping out of the way of the hogs but would not leave their masters, thus keeping them in their trees until the hogs went to their beds at night. The wolves also would often take our young stock, if not well protected. Hearing a stir among his hogs one night, father slipped quietly out to take observations. Soon a wolf appeared at the door of the hog house and the large hogs rushed after it. In a moment it dodged back picked up a pig and ran off with it before the hogs returned. Evidently it and lain a plan and carried it out successfully. Thus it was the cunning of man contriving against the cunning of wild animals for protection of his stock. The wolves would howl around our cabin almost every night and sometimes during the day and the dogs would sit in the yard and bark at them, but let a panther scream out his peculiar wail imitating some fancied, the cry of a woman, and every dog would run under the house trembling and growling, The wild cats and the catamounts were very plenty and sometimes quite imudent. One of our neighbors having cut some trees down one day after trimming up the tops thought the brush and green leaves made so inviting a bed that he lay down upon them to rest a little and fell asleep. He was rudely - 12 - awakened by a wild cat springing upon him evidently aiming to get hold of his throat. but be with much difficulty turned him under, crushed and mastered him receiving many deep scratches in tie process. Benaja Parker, who lived near us, hearing a stir among his hogs one dark night, seized a chunk of fire and rushed out, shouting to scare away the intruders. As the bear was black, he did not see him until so close that the beer raised his paw and with one stroke, struck the fire from his hand, leaving him in the darkness, in very uncongenial company. In a moment he turned and fled for life, leaving his hogs to fight for their lives. Our pathway east ran a little north of where the main cross street now is, and near the cross used to be a noddy place which was a favorite wall-owing place for the bears, for they resort to such places the same as hogs do. Father once saw a bear carting down a large tree which stood for many years after the land was cleared, about There the Frasier tavern now stands, He supposed he had been up there hunting bees, as they are great lovers of honey and would often gnaw great places in the tree to get at it, My grandfather was quite a bee man and often found large swarms of wild bees, When he cut the trees down to get the honey, he would save the bees also, if he could and hive them in an old fashioned bee gum made of a cut in a hollow Once when he went to look after a hive of this kind he found that a bear had thrown it down, and he supposed, run his head so far in that he could not withdraw it, and so, dragged of the hive leaving a great track wherever he wait. Grandfather, thinking he was sure of than beer, followed on the trail until he came to the hive fast between two trees which had held it fast while bruin pulled out his head. Thus in toil and privation, adventure and excitement, the days of our early life sped on and when I began to write of them, such a throng at memories come crowding up for utterance, that I know not where to close. Nearly all of the first settlers of Barnesville are silent in death and soon none will be left to tell the story of its wild beginning yet all who have been instrumental in bringing about its present flourishing condition, those early pioneers, who broke the first road through the forest and lived in danger and hardship, had the hardest part to bear. The young girls of Barnesville, who flit gracefully about their dainty stoves never think how their great grandmothers cooked and roasted and baked with only an open fire-place, and the young men, who drive their fast horses swiftly along the smooth streets, do not reflect that the very necessities of their ancestors, as salt and powder, were packed laboriously over mountains, through underbrush and fallen logs, and came to us at a very high price. The hand of progress has swept away all trace of the wilderness that was, and it is well, for in its place we behold a fertile and productive country, contributing to the growth and enterprise of a happy and industrious people. When uncle Jonathan Bundy was 19 years old he was splitting rails out of a log from a large chestnut tree. He split 90 rails to the cut. He was working at the foot of the second hill from my great grandfather Doudna's house, Great grandfather came riding along on horseback with his daughter Achsah, who was 12 years old, on their way to term (Barnesville) and they stopped to talk to Jonathan a little bit and while they were talking Aunt Achsah peeped cut from behind her father at him, and he thought then she was to be his future wife. - 13 - If so happened, for they were married near tje last of the 4th month 1824, and lived here in our neighborhood until 25th of l0th. month 1830. They got a certificate of removal to removal to Deerfield monthly meeting, Morgan County Ohio. They had three children at that time, and six altogether, Later they moved to Iowa, and since I can remember, he came back to Yearly meeting and to visit, he would come to our house to visit and we children just loved to hear him and our grandmother, Asenath Doudna, fathers mother tell stories of the olden times such as he told in the above article. One night when he was at our house there was an owl bothering some of our chickens that were roosting up in the cedar tree at the south end of the house. He was sleeping in the parlor bedroom and the tree was near by,, along about five o'clock in the morning, he heard it fall. He then came out and told our folks about it and said if they would get it right away and cut its head off it would be all right to eat. He would take walks out in the fields to gather the plant celled Life everlasting and we children would go with him and help him get it and hear him tell pioneer stories. Written by Elma D. Bailey Barnesville, Ohio - 14 - BUNDY ANCESTORS in the late 1700's, five brothers came from England. One of them settled in Louden County, Virginia and the other four in Wayne county, North Carolina, One of these became dissatisfied and went to central New York where there are still folks of the Bundy name and such given names as Hezekiah, John and William. The earliest record is of Dempsy and Mary, his wife, who both died in N. Caroline. Their estate was settled by Wm. Bundy who married Sarah Overman man in 1803 near the southern edge of the state. Sarah Overran was not able to write her name on the marriage certificate, but she waa energetic and skilled in caring for her family. After his mothers death, William Bundy brought his wife and small children to a squatters permit in section 16, Somerset Township in Belmont County Ohio. He with Joseph Cox and John Coyler, paid the wagoner $250 to bring their goods here from No. Caroline. William Bundy also entered a quarter section in section 27, Warren township and bought 26 acres in section 13, Somerset township. On this 23 acres he built a weatherboarded log house and painted it red. It was kwon as the red house farm. The house was moved away in 1865. Thomas Marshal, a land speculator from Baltimore, entered a half of section 4 in Warren township under a patent signed by President James Madison. In his travels,, Thomas Marshall saw the red house cud was so taken with it bird its surroundings that he traded his 320 acres of unimproved forest far this 26 acres with the red house. William Bundy started at once to make a home on the new purchase. He took his oldest son Ezekiel and his daughter Mary, to cook for them and help with the work. They stayed at night while he went back to his wife and younger children. At first they had only a homespun blanket to cover the opening for the door, so Mary would sit and sew or knit most of the night to keep a bright fire so that the wolves would not come into the house. The log house had two rooms, one of which was used for spinning and weaving.. In 1822, William Bundy contracted with a brickmaker for bricks to build a large house. The written contract provided the terms and methods of payment Clay for the brick was dug from the cellar and ground in a wooden mixer operated by a horse walking round and round in a circle, After mixing, the clay was molded into bricks and laid one in a place to dry. Then the brickmaker hoped earnestly for sunny days till the bricks were dried enough to cover up around and over furnaces which were fired with wood till the brickmaker deemed them hard enough to put in the wall. Also in the same year, a contract was made with Elias Williams to dress and lay the stone range work for the foundation and for the chimney and sills and caps for the windows. This work was to be done in a workmanlike manner in the warm season of the year. Wm,, Bundy was, to pay $50o and 200 pounds of swingled flax. The written contract shows the delivery of the 200 pounds of flax, The carpenter and joiner work was done by Giles Brooks. For pay he was to receive board and lodging and a deed for the east half of section 27 in Warren township, where Wm. Bundy had formerly lived and made improvements. The new house built with the view of keeping drovers, and as they were sometimes a rough set, there was a brick wall partition with no doors dividing the upstairs. - 15 - In order to get white lime for the plastering, teams were sent to haul mussel shells from the Ohio river. When these were burned in a kiln and sorted from among the ashes, they yielded a very hard white surface which is smooth and hard after 120 years As Win. Lundy was pickinq shells from the ashes, a neighbor, George McNichols came along and joined him in the work while they "visited". However, George soon got tired and raised up with the remark "Mr. Bundy you are stronger in the faith than I would be," William replied "Thee is as strong in the faith as I am but thee is too lazy to work for it" It so hapened that Win. Bundy did not live long enough to enjoy the fins house he had built. He and his wife rode away one morning to attend Quarterly meeting of Friends in Morgan County and to visit their oldest daughter who married Wm, French, and lived near Chesterhill. As they started away, mother sto-ped down and told the little boy to be a good boy till mother gets back/ His father said " I cannot say till I get back." While they were vsiting, at Mary French's, he was taken suddenly ill and died and was buried at Elliot's Cross roads. Sarah Bundy came home alone leading her husbands horse and took up the work of making a home for her children. She was also active in aiding escaped slaves on their way to Canada and Freedom. On one occasion they had a whole family hidden away in the hay mow for more than a week. It was son William's job to take their meals to them and to help to entertain the children till they could be sent on their way. With such a mother, it was no wonder the children grew upto be abolitionist, and son William known as Black Bill, in later years became a successful conductor pn the under ground railroad but such was the respect for him that with a price on the negroes, he was never in toils of the law. On one passing the Ebenezer Baptist church just as protracted meeting broke up on a moonlight night and the road was full of church goers but none of them betrayed him. In 1843 Thomas Marshall sold 108 acres adjoining the Wm. Bundy farm to Thomas Schofield. He dug a deep well, planted and orchard of fruit trees and built a two story log house on a rising knoll-200 yards from the highway. Not long afterward Schofield sold to Dempsey Bundy,of these transactions, we do not have as clear records as those left by Wm, Bundy. Before many years, Dempsey decided he wanted to live nearer the road and entered into a contract to have the brick made on the premises to build a large 8 room two story house. The building was plain and substantial and still stands, a monument to the work of those early days. He built a large barn in 1839 and again it happened as in the case of his father William Bundy, he did not live long to enjoy the new home but died in 1876. The farm has passed to strangers but is kept in excellent repair. Written by Dillwyn C. Bundy Tacoma, Ohio - 16 - ANNA STANTON BUNDY Anna Stanton Bundy, daughter of Joseph and Mary Stanton, was born at the old Stanton home a few miles north of Barnesville, Ohio, on Stillwater Creek eight month, eighth, 1837. On the thrtieth day of the third month 1859 she was married to Nathan Bundy, son of Ezekiel and Mary Bundy. Anne Stanton Bundy was educated at the Friends school near Stillwater Meeting house and at Mt. Pleasant Boarding School, Ohio. It is said by those who knew her in her girlhood days that she was of an unusually gay end happy temperment, enjoying to the fullest the innocent pleasures of life. Anna Stanton Bundy and Nathan Bundy lived for a short time on Sandy Ridge in what was probably the first house built by Henry Doudna, for his home. At the death of her Mother, they moved back to the old home. Here the following children were born to them. Joseph S. (1-19-1860); Caleb L. (12-12-1862); Mary M. (7-7-1864); and some years later, while living in Barnesville, Ohio, Clara Elma (11-7-1871. Clara died when she was but eighteen months old. In 1865, Nathan Bundy and his cousin, Chalkiey Dawson. put down a coal shaft which they operated for a few, years, About 1870, Nathan purchased a menIs tailoring store, and not long after his health began to fail. He decided to go to Oregon in the fall of 1873, thinking the climate might be of benefit. with lung trouble. It turned out to be only a temporary relief. While he was in Oregon, Anna and her family lived with her brother Eli Stanton, who did so much for them at that time. Many happy hours were spent there, Nathan returned home in the spring, but his health continues; to fail and he passed quietly away in the late summer of 1874, at the age of thrity seven. Once again Anna had no children to take care of and they went to live with her sister Elizabeth Stanton Bailey, They lived with them all that winter and in the spring purchased a little home near them and close to Tacoma Station. The children went to district school #2, and each in turn taught there for a short time. They attended Barnesville school and Lebanon, Ohio, Normal school Anna Stanton Bundy's friends were numerous and her relatives were very dear to her. "To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence" was especially true to her. She had a great gift of humor. Not being a good sleeper, she complained of lying awake many hours in the night and would get sleepy early in the evening. One evening after trying in vain to keep awake, she suddenly arose, from her chair and said "I'll go to bed, I know I can keep awake there." She was a great lover of flowers and spent many happy hours in the flower garden. Possibly her greatest sorrow was the passing away of her only grandson, Clifford B. Colpitts, on ninth month fifth., 1911; at the age of 21. After his death, she began to decline. She had heart trouble, and although she had been in poor health for two years, she did not become worse until within two weeks of her death which occurred tenth month fifth, 1917 at the age of eighty. Taken from the Stanton Book. Written by Beulah Patten McDonald Aldan, Pa. - 17 - CHALKLEY BUNDY HOME This old home of Chalkley and Sarah Doudna Bundy was built by Robert Hodgin, Sarah's uncle. The following story of my grandfather Bundẙs old homestead has been related to me, a little at a time by my father, Nathan Bundy, now in his 94th year. He enjoys going back through memory's lane and giving me a history of his early home and life. It is remarkable how much he remembers after so many years. The main part of the house was of brick construction; tea stories high, with a lean-to frame addition, four of five steps lower, used as the kitchen. Telling me of the lean-to kitchen reminded father of an incident that happened when he was a very small, boy, One night grandfather heard a noise in the kitchen. The doors were left open in the summer time for ventilation. Going to the top of the steps leading to the kitchen he saw a crazy many one Stoke Newman, standing in the middle of the kitchen with an ax over his shoulder In the olden days there were no institutions for the feeble-minded and such persons were taken care of by their relatives as best they could. Grandfather just stood still and looked at Stoke, saying not a word. Presently Stoke turn, on his heel and walked quietly out of the kitchen door. Later it was discovered had taken the ax from great-grandfather Doudna.s wood shed The downstairs of the brick part, consisting of one large room and two bedrooms, was about 8ft. in height. There were three bed rooms and a hallway upstairs. There were two open fireplaces upstairs and one in the living room downstairs. In the kitchen was a fire place which would hold a big beck log set on andirons. Father says they studied their lessons in the evening in front of this big fire place, reaching out occasionally, as did Abraham Lincoln, kicking the logs to make them burn up brighter so they could read. Here he told me about a young colored slave boy from the south who had come in live with them. His name was George Matthews and he could not need or write although he was 18 years old. He went to the colored school and studied his lessons with brothers, Lin and Joe, by the light of the log. They were all reading the first reader, but when school was out he was away ahead of the other two boys. George lived with them until he married a girl from No. 1 school district. The cooking was done over a wood stove. Grandfather had a circular saw run by horse power for cutting the wood. The logs were cue about a foot and a half long, then split. The splitting of the wood the wood stove was the first job given the colored boy when he came to live with grandfather. The windows in the whole house were rather small consisting of twelve small lights, six above and six below. Under the brick part of the house was the cellar with its dirt floor and another big fire place. The butchering work was all done in the cellar by this open fire. Lizzie Peterson, a colored woman, who helped grandmother, took care of the butchering work. Apples, potatoes, etc. were stored in the basement for winter use. The water supply was from a spring over which was built a two room, dressed stone spring house. In the first room was the spring and in the second a stone trough into which the water ran from the spring. The milk was kept in this trough in open crocks. - 18 - At the barns, which was built by grandfather, was a dug well. In this well war an old log pump built by Jeptha Blower's father. He bored the log out by hand and put in the pump part. They made soft soap by leaching wood ashes. Father said they would cut down a sapling about three feet long, split it in half and hollow out a trough. Then they would cut clap boards from a white oak tree and lean these up in the trough. Piled these full of ashes and run water over them. The lye was col!ected in the trough; it was then put in an iron kettle with scraps of grease, cracklings etc. as long as the lye would eat it up. When the lye was strong enough to bear up an egg it was poured out to harden. This type of soap was very hard on the hands. Father used to worry about his rough, bleeding hands when he went to school end would soak them in bran water. There was no sugar camp on the farm but they would tap the big sugar maple down by the spring house and made maple syrup over an open five in the yard. Grandfather raised sorghum and made molasses, black as tar, in an open kettle, Sometimes the barrel of sorghum would turn to sugar. They raised sheep but sold wool except what Sarah would use in making socks for her family. After Grandmother's death, Grandfather married Deborah Hanson Bundy. Grandmother Debbie used to weave carpets. When Grandmother Debbie came into the family her own daughter, Mary C. and Aunt Mary were little girls together They used to call them the "tweins." Grandmother Sarah hired Sally Van Law to make suits and clothing for them. They bought most of the material right there in Barnesville, however during the Civil War some material was gotten from Wheeling The suits were made from corduroy and had no lining, making them of little value as far as warmth was concerned. Father says Sally used to make the boys suits so they wouldn't outgrow" them in a hurry end his were often big enough for two or three more his size The suits were worn out before the boys could grow into them. Grandfather aiweys kept a dog or dogs for the children. One little dog was a great coon dog. Several of their dogs were killed by time coons who would lead them to a creek and then drown them but this little fellow was to smart for them and always got his coon. Great-grandfather Doudna had a dog ma,ed Ramger who would follow him every place he went. At the time of his funeral Ranger went right along in the carriage, and stood at the edge of the grave while they lowered the casket. The dogs were used a great deal in fox hunts. Uncle John Bundy had one of the first McCormick Reepers. Grandfather used a sickle to cut wheat and a Grubber for thrashing. The apples were taken to George Tatem's cider mill to be made into cider. There was always such a throng there that one time Grandfather thought he would be a little smarter than the other farmers so they took load of apples and went to the press in the middle of the night, only to find another load already there ahead of him. - 19 - On June 19th, 1859 there was a severe frost that killed all the wheat in that area. This is just a small insight into the homelife of my grandfather and grandmother and in spite of the hardwook and the lack of all the modern. conveniences that we deem it impossible to get along without they were a simple, a little more after the fashion of theirs. The folowng is en exact copy of the records in the Chalkley Bundy Family Bible.   Births Chalkley Bundy, son of William Bundy and Sarah his wife, was born the 24th of 2nd month, 1823 Sarah Doudna daughter of Joel Doudna and Rebecca, his wife was born the 16th of 9th month, 1824. Lindley Bundy, son of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah, his wife was born the 28th of 1st month, 1845. Lindley Bundy, son of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah, his wife, was born the 22th of 10th month, 1846. Joel L. Bundy, son of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah, his wife, was born the 22nd of 10th month, 1845. Nathan W. Bundy, son of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah, his wife was born the 11th of 6th month; 1848. Lucinda Bundy Daughter of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah. his wife, was born the 11th of 9th month, 1850 Rebecca D. Bundy daughter of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah his wIfe was born the 11th of 12th month., 1853. Emma Bundy Daughter of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah his wife, born the 8th of 12th month 1856. Mary Elizabeth Bondy daughter of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah his wife, was born the 23rd of 5th month 1860. Chalkley Bundy son of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah his wife, was born the 5th 6th month, 1862. Mary Caleb Bundy daughter of Caleb Bundy and Deborah H. his wife was born the 3rd. of 2d month 1860 Deaths: Sarah Bundy Consort of Chalkley Bundy departed his life 8th month 1st 1862. Age 37 years 10 month 1860 Chalkley Bundy son of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah his wife departed this life 9th month 18th 1862. Age 3 months 23 Days. Emma Bundy daughter of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah his wife departed this life 8th month 25th 1863 Age 6years 7 months 17 days Chalkey Bundy departed this life 12th month 1st 1866. Age 73 years 9 months 7 days, Joel Bundy son of Chalkley Bundy and Sarah His wife departed his life 31st of 3rd months 1873. Age 26 years 5 months 9 days Written by Anna Mary Bailey Daughter of Nathan W. Bundy and Granddaughter of Chalkley Bundy. - 20 - - Anecdote- FLAX - WOOL- SOAP MAKING Every farm grew flax and almost every home had its spinning wheel and many had looms not only for weaving carpets but for making woolen cloth called "Linsey Woolsy". The boy who had a "Linsey Woolsy Wampus" had something to be proud of. Lye for soapmaking was a part of each familys outfit.. It was made by pouring wet r over wood ashes and collecting the liquid to be boiled down to the right consistency. Various mehtods were used, A common one was to set a bottomless wooden barrel on a wooden slab with four legs. The front ones being short so the lye could run into an iron or stone container by means of a groove in the slab around the barrel and to the lower side. Ashes were piaced in the barrel and water poured on from time to time until the required amount was made. One small boy mistook a saucer of lye for a saucer of molasses being cooled for taffy, and drank some with the result of having no tonsils to be removed in later years. Ezekiel Bundy brought the first grain seperator to the township. It was made by Hoyle brothers at Smithfield and war kept in operation most of the winter. A colored man, Tim Peterson got his arm mangled so tat Ezekiel Bundy kept him and his family as pensioners. In later years, the colored mans son spoke of it as the good old times. They did not have money to spend but when flour, cornmeal and meat were needed these things came from Ezekiel Bundys storehouse, Each fall he would take then to the store and outfit them with good warm clothing and good stout shoes. Before the grain separator came into use the grubber was a cylinder mounted on a frame and operated by horsepower, was used to separate the grain from the strew. Men kept tar straw pitched to one side and grain and chaff on the other. The old. Robert Smith barn had a floor laid of strips and when the horses trammed the grain out or the straw, it would. drop to the floor below ready for the mill. The first reaper in the neighborhood was owned by Ezekiel Bundy. The driver code the saddle horse and the operator sat on a stool with a wooden rake to push the grain onto the platform and the bunches were pushed off to be bound by hand. Later a second mean stood on the platform and bound the sheaves before they were thrown off. The first grain drill was left in the shed for years because the farmers said it took more work to get the ground in order to use the drill than it did to sow the grain by hand. Written by Dillwyn C. and Elizabeth Bundy Tacoma, Ohio - 21 - JOHN BUNDY HOMESTEAD The old John Bundy home, now occupied by Alva Bailey was built in 1825 by Isaac Stubbs on a part of the original land entered by Joseph Stubbs about the year 1804. The clay for the bricks was dug on the farm, molded and burned there, John Bundy bought the farm from Isaac Stubbs and built a fram kitchen to the South of the original brick kitchen with porches to the West and East. The house was originally strengthened with iron rods running through it which are still in evidence. Lindley P. Bailey remodeled the house, building a frame extension to the West and of the brick in the 1890's. A frame kitchen has been added to the South East corner in the lest few years. The large barn is a building of great interest. It was built in 1854 by John Bundy, one of the most progressive farmers of this section. He was noted for his good equipment. The master carpenter on the barn was Isaiah Fields who rode each day in mid-winter from Morristown, a distance of approximately eight miles to supervise the building. Due to the exposure he developed pneumonia, Two full days were needed to raise the barn with all neighbors help, most barns taking only one day. The barn is sixty feet by seventy fact and the long timbers are hand hewn and fastened together by wooden pegs. The timber for the barn was probably cut on the farm. The hinges for the doors were forged at Slab Town by Mason Thomas for one hundred dollars. Some of the hinges are still in use. John Bundy filled the barn only once and the mowing scythe and hand rake were the tools used for the harvest. Wooden forks were made from white oak pieces split at the end into four prongs. Lem Bailey has one of the old Barley forks as a relic. The barn was the first to b equipped with a horse hayfork. John Bundy owned the farm until 1888 when Lindley P. Bailey bought it. With some remodeling of the old barn and the building of a new dairy barn in 1909 the farm has become on of the leading dairy farms in the country. Written by Lloyd Bailey Tacoma, Ohio - 22 - WILLIAM "BLACK BILL" BUNDY William "Black Bill" Bundy was born in 1819, the eighty child of a family of eleven. His parents were William and Sarah Overman Bundy who over the mountains from Wayne County, North Carolina in a cart and settled in this section of Belmont County. He was five years old when the "brick house" was built. The children loved to run up and down the inclined runways used by the masons in constructing the (then) unusual house which is located on the Barnesville - Bethesda road a mile west of Speidel and is familiarly known as the "Alden Lee Place." At the age of nine, his father died and he grew to manhood under the guidance and care of his pioneer mother. She taught him to hate the institution of slavery, and later he took an active part in the discussions of the leading questions of the day. The foremost of these was the abolition of the slavery and he naturally became a conductor on the underground railroad. It was his duty to take the passengers from the next man south and conduct them as far north as possible and get. back by day break. The aged slaves and children rode in the wagon and the rest marched behind. It was because of this experience that he became know as "Black Bill" although he was quite dark complected, the name suited him. When he reached the age of 24, he married Prudence Wood. She died eighteen months later and left an infant son. About the time of his marriage, "Black Bill" built a story and a half house across the road from his fathers famous brick house. It consisted of two ground floor rooms and two rooms upstairs. He had a windlass well, outside Dutch oven and an outside cave to accommodate the housewife. This is quite different or the conveniences of today. Three years later "Black Bill" married Asenath Doudna, and to them nine children were born. In 1860 a lean to kitchen was built on to the house and in 1868 - 69 the final addition was made by Samuel Williams. It is still standing today as it was finished in 1869. In the early days, one toiled for the necessities of life. Soft Soap was made by leaching wood ashes. Cloth was made by spinning their own flax, end carpet. were made of woven rags. They had a maple sugar camp and also raised cane for molasses. They progressed from the sickle to the combine, from the tramping out of the grain to threshing Machine in their generation. There was an interesting reason for enlarging the farm house to such proportions in 1868. "Black Bill" was very much interested in the "Drove Road" and its purpose. This road is only a tradition now, but it existed for a very good reason. When the National road was built, it was surfaced with hand crushed stones which were too sharp and rough to drive the herds of sheep, cattle, mules and horses on from the middle west to the east cost, and so the "Drove Road" was built. It entered Relmont County at Putney Ridge, winding est thru Barnesville passing on south of Bethesda and Belmont to the Ohio River at the mouth of Grave creek where the cattle could ford across. - 23 - "Black Bill" would give these drovers and their hers accomodetions for for the night as they passed thru, As many as 5000 heed of sheep or 1000 head of cattle would be cared for in a few days. At one time four drovers brought 149 mules and four horses, thru., The mules were herded into the mule lot and the neighbor boys were hired to watch them while the drovers rested and slept. One night they played “hookey" and it took all the next day to round them up again. Always interested in public advancement and in the fore, runt of action, he was elected to represent Belmont County in the Ohio State Legislature in 1875, although he was a Republican in a Democratic County, His wife; Asenath, died in 1888, after 42 years of happy family life. His son Clark Bundy and wife Rachel Crew Bundy, were living on the west coast at this time and asked him to come and live with them. "Black Bill" said "No" it is hard to transplant an old tree." In 1891 he sold his large farm to Allen Bailey and it is still known by that title. He built a new house which is now owned by the Belmont County Childrens Home, but is better known as the Wilfred T. Hall farm. He lived there until his death in 1905 at which time he was in his 86th year. William Bundy opened his farm home to every orphaned or ages relative that he had and sheltered close to 20 at some time in his life. Of his nine children only Dillwyn C. Bundy of Tacoma, Ohio is living., He is my grandfather and it is from him that I gaomed the facts for this history. Written by Bernite Bundy Great Granddaughter of William Bundy THE CLAY PIKE This road was surveyed by the State through Belmont County and other counties,, It paralleled the National road and entered ire county from the west, near Barnesville and extended through Tacoma, the site of Bethesda, Jacobsburg, and crossed the river at the flats of Graves Creek, which was on the West Virginia side. It was used chiefly as a drove road after the National was macadamized or stoned. The hard road was very, damaging to the animals hoofs so the clay pike was used during the 1830's. for driving all kinds of stock, but cattle predominated. A number of farmers made a business of feeding and caring for these droves., The drover would start in central or southern Ohio and plan to fatten the stock by the time he reached the eastern market, with his droves. After the railroad was completed, this road soon became just as ordinary country road. Written by Dr. D. O. Shepherd Barnesville, Ohio - 24 - THE FRANCIS DAVIS HOUSE When I was a very small boy, my grandfather and grandmother, Francis and Mary Davis, decided to build a larger and more modern house so that they might be better prepared to entertain visiting Friends, especially so at Yearly Meeting time. They made a deal with my father and moved theirhouse over on to his land near his greenhouses, and built a new home on the site of their old one. The new house, which was two and one half stories, high; rectangular in shape, with a one story all in the rear, made an unusual appearance with its four large red brick chimneys and a lookout on top of the roof. From this lookout, one had a broad view of the surrounding neighborhood. The house itself being located on top of one of the highest hills in Belmont County and exactly on the watershed between the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. In fact, the rain which fell on one part of the roof drained off to the Ohio and from the other part to the Muskingum river. This new house was considered quite modern and up to date. Having as lights and running water. It also had a few features which show that the idea of entertaining was considered when the plans were being drawn. One was the twin parlors separated by folding doors, which when open threw the two into one, Another was the third story which was finished in one huge room from one end of the house to the other. This room furnished sleeping quarters for men and boys while the four large bedrooms on the second floor took care of the women and girls. The large dining room was, no doubt, of interest to many of their guests for as I remember, grandfather was a generous provider and grandmother was a good cook. Written by Joseph E. Stanton Westtown, Pa. - 25 - JOSEPH F. DOUDNA Near the Sandy Ridge Road . About two miles East of Barnesville, Ohio (near what is locally called Pigeon Point) my grandfather, Joseph F. Doudna and his wife Belinda Hobson, my grandmother, lived. The house, a large two story frame stands today, very little changed I an told from what it was when grandfather bought it from the builder, Joel Dawson. Joseph F. Doudna (born 12-18-1824) died 12th. month 11th 1914. Was the son of Hosea and Mary Farmer Doudna., Grandfather and grandmother - John and Sarah (Knowis) Doudna came from Edgecomb Co. North Carolina in 1804. The oldest child of Joseph F. and Belinda Doudna, was my father, Josiah W. My Aunt, Ruth S. Hibbs was the youngest - and only child now living. She recalls that the house was bought early in the spring of 1861 and that my father was sent over to plow several fields, before the family moved. She had Scarlet Fever at the time and they were unable to move until she had recovered. There were two other children, Mary H. (Hoyle) and Edwin F. The house had five rooms end large halls on each, floor. There were open fireplaces on both floors, and a large coal cook stove in the kitchen. There was a nice cellar under the house. The windows were numerous of small panes of glass. The well was a dug one, from which water was drawn by windless (and rope.) Among other farm implements, grandfather had a grain cradle and mower. My Aunt Ruthie, as we called her. remembers hearing her mother-speak of now famous "June Frost," Her mother had been up all night, to sit up with a sick neighbor, and on her return home in the morning, found flower and vegetable gardens stiff with frost. The first recollections I have of my Grandparents, were when they had moved from this house to a smaller one on Sandy Ridge. The Children all being married, had left the home for homes of their own. The slat backed rocker that grandmother sat in, is the piece of furniture I remember best of all. (It was similiar to the Stanton rockers shown on page I44, "Our Ancestors, the Stantons.") This rocker had a soft green pad on the back and a soft cushion to match, made with a deep ruffle around it, falling to the rocker, slashed at the corners, so that it swayed as she rocked. My aim was to sit in this chair when she vacated it. I remember how the flies were kept off our food, as we sat at a long table at thrashing time. Someone had to stand, and cave to and fro over our heads, a long light weight pole, to which long bright colored paper streamers were attached. Grandfather raised strawberries, and we were always delighted to help ourselves from the patch.. I have a Hammer my father gave me once, and told me to keep it, as he said. "Grandfather Doudna used to use it to make brooms." - 26 - Outside the vhite picket fence which encircled the yard of this cottage home, stood a large horse block, or "Up or. block" as we celled it. As it was three steps hp from the ground, it, made a splendid place to mount or dismount from the back of our old sorrel "Bob", or when we came to visit, by buggy or surrey, it was equally useful. Grandfather was always very fond of horeses, and took thee some "Bob" to care for, years later, when we moved "To Town." This is the house where grandmother died. Hers was the first funeral I can remember. Joseph F. Doudna later married Ann Eliza Wilson, and they moved to Pasadena, California, where she died. Grandfather died at the home of my parents in Barnesville, Ohio. Written by Alice Doudna Smith Barnesville, Ohio ANECDOTES OF JOSEPH F. DOUDNA Joseph Doudna was a man of great energy and a very good cradler. One time while he was living in the Dawson house, he went over to James Edgerton on the ridge to cradle wheat. An expert cradler was to be there and a contest had been arranged between them. Joseph decided to take Belinda, his wife, along to visit for the day. When they arrived the expert had already started. Joseph watched a while, then said "I see he doesn't have my stroke." He started in after him and soon caught up; cradled around him and left him, in a patch of uncradled wheat, As Joseph related, "He drew his cradle on me in a threatening manner." One time when the trestle below Barnesville, was 75 feet high, a group of friends had gathered and were talking of it being too high to want to walk across it. Joseph Doudna took Josiah, his son then a baby, in his arms and carried him across. Written by Wilford T. Hall Related to Alice Doudna Smith Barnesville, Ohio - 27 - KNOWELS AND KNOWIS There seems to be a difference of opinion as to the spelling of the name of one of the ancestors of the Doudna's. Knowels and Knowis being used by the different branches of the Doudna family. The name is given as Knowis in the early birth records of Stillwater Meeting while Knowels is handed down from the other early history. However, as far as we can learn. Knowels and Knowis apply to the same family, "KIDNAPPED DOUDNA" TRADITION Different varsions of the same tradition are quite common. Therefore it seems desirable that when the facts are no longer known, except by tradition, we should not dismiss or ignore either but a record should be kept of both because either one might be true. There could be confused understanding in later years when both a kidnapping and an attempted kidnapping, so similarly describer, are believed to have occurred. - 28 - A KIDNAPING INCIDENT Many years ago while at the wharf of England, a little boy who had accompanied his father with a load of vegetables to trade with the sailors was induced to go aboard a ship, which furnished ample amusement for him until sometime after the ship had left the shore. But as soon as the boy realized his situation, he burst into an agonizing fit of tears which was kept up until he cried himself to sleep. The next morning he awoke to find himself very lonesome with out his parents, but ere long forgetting his troubles, he became helpful as a sailor boy, and quickly learned to climb to the top of the ships mast also learned the meaning of the words sailors used. He would often ask his master where his parents were, but would be put off by a promise that he would some day tell him. All that the little fellow could remember was that his name was John Doudna, and that his fathers name was Henry and his mothers was Elizabeth. John grew rapidly and soon became a trusty sailor, but as a sailors life is a very rough on, no attention is given to education except in the line of managing a ship and learning all they can about storms which influence sailors lives very much. John Doudna was kept by the same sea captain for twenty years, and in all that time, never once heard from home.. The captain had not yet told him where his home was. He had reached his 26th year, when it was noticed one day that a great storm was arising. It proved to be a great ocean windstorm, which finally wrecked the ship. But providentially our ancestor, John Doudna, with two others of the crew got astride some boards which served as a raft and succeeded in reaching a very small island on which they took refuge. As soon as the storm abated, they began to realize their situation. They were on a small island in the great Atlantic, with nothing to sustain life except a little rain water they found in the chinks of a rock which was on the island. They waited patiently to meet their fate with some hopes how ever, that the morrow would bring them good tidings in the form of another, ship, But alas ! their hopes were in vain. The morning dawned; but no ship came to view. They now began to long for something to appease their hunger but their longing for this was also in vain. The second and third days came and still no tidings and how it became apparent that they must starve to death if relief did not come. They were tempted to throw themselves into the sea, to shun such a death but they waited on with higher hopes for deliverance growing weaker without food or shelter for eight days. But on the eight day one of them sighted a ship, but being too weak to stand up, they in turn raised a hand or waved a hat to the ship. Soon they observed the ship had changed its course and was coming toward them. They were taken on board and were only allowed one teaspoon each of broth without any salt in it. This began to bring back their appetites again and they almost went crazy with hunger. At the end of two hours they were given two teaspoonsful each and at the expiration of every two hours the quantity increased until their severe hunger was satisfied, and in three or four days the ship reached port, and John Doudna was landed in North Carolina without a cent of money in the world. - 29 - According to a vow he had made, never to sail on the ocean again if he ever reached land, he started out to find a piece to work for his board, until he learned how to manage farming implements. He had not proceeded far, until he met a girl on her way to school by the name of Sarah Knowis. This was the first girl he had met in this strange land and her kind words and sympathic ; made a deep impression on John, not soon to be forgotton. She directed him to her fathers house, and after working there less than two years, John Doudna and Sarah Knowis were united in marriage., John being 28 and she being 14 years of age. John took his young wife and settled in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, there to spend his time in peace and happiness. But in the year 1804, he with his wife and most of their children migrated to Belmont County, Ohio. Here he remained the rest of his days, and in all probability helped to build the first meeting house that was ever erected in Warren Township for the public worship, near where Stillwater meeting house now stands. His wife survived him several years, being over 80 years of age at the time of her death. At which time there were 450 people who called her mother grandmother, or great grandmother. The above account was taken mostly from an article written by J. H. Edgerton, a great grandson of the "Kidnapped Boy" and a descendent of his daughter Zilpha who married John Edgerton In connection with this, an article written by my father, Joseph W. Doudna, another great grandson, says "Our great grandfather settled about one and a quarter miles east of the Stillwater meeting house, on the farm that afterwards became the home of his son Hosea, who lived there until his death in 1888, aged 95 years end about 80 years after the death of his father. His oldest son Henry settled on a farm farther down Sandy Ridge, on or near the home of William H. Sears, where he built a barn before the days of cut nails. The roof was put on with wooden pins instead of weighting it down with poles, log cabin fashion. John Doudna, the second son, settled on a farm in the Ridge neighborhood, near two miles south of Barnesville. He was the father of William, John Jr., Isaac and Elisha (and grandfather of the writer) where he lived until his death in 1863 at the age of 90. Another son Knowis, settled at Leatherwood, where he raised s large family, which with his oldest sister Mary's family (she married Isaac Hall and was the one of whop my mother Rosetta (Hall) Doudna was a descendant) composed the most of the Friends settlement there. Another son James died in boyhood before they left North Carolina, also a little girl Peggy (Margaret), between eight and nine years of age, Joel the youngest son remained within the limits of the Society at Stillwater, Anna, and Elizabeth, two other daughters; both married and lived at Stillwater, while Asenath settled within the limits of Ridge and Zilpha who was the grandmother of the writer of the early part of this History, married John Edgerton and removed to Morgan County, Ohio where she lived until her death in 1858. age 62 years. We have never understood that any of these 450 descendants could ever trace their ancestry farther back than the particulars given in the foregoing account. Written by Joseph H. Doudna Barnesville, Ohio Son of Joseph W. Doudna and 4th generation of the "Kidnapped Boy".   - 30 - HISTORICAL DATA CONCERNING JOEL AND REBECCA DOUDNA AND FAMILY. OLD BRICK HOUSE, built in 1811 by William Hodgin This old brick house is believed to have been the first b rick house built in Warren Township , Belmont County, Ohio, The date 1811 was cut in one of the black walnut joists over the second story at the top of the stairway. It was torn down in 1901. This was located on the road now running past the Grange Hell just outside of Barnesville, Ohio. We would cross the creek, go up the hill, on the level for a little, then up another rise. There was an old double hollow walnut tree where an old blacksnake lived In the hollow just before this rise the old brick house stood. Before this was built, my grandmother's parents lived in a log house. After the oldest child, Ezekiel, was married and the others were older, grandmother's father Hodgin built this brick house. There was a loft over the kitchen The only was' to get to it was by a ladder off the porch. The kitchen was a lean to. In the kitchen in the corner by the fireplace there was a cook stove. There was a large fireplace in the living room. Joel and Rebecca lived, in this house until the board house at the top of the last above mentioned rise was built. My Mother was born in this house., Joel and Rebecca's daughter Sarah and her husband Chalkley Bundy set up housekeeping in the old brick, These are my father and mother. It has been said that Joel Doudna was known as "The Good Joel Doudna" He would loan to his neighbors and friends the things he needed for himself. Rebecca E. Doudna Bundy before she was married lived with us a great deal and helped mother. She was making apple butter It was in large kettles over the fire. There was a long stirer which was a very long square stick. At right angles there was a stick that went down into the kettle. This enabled us to stir the butter while we were sitting down. My little sister was standing with her back to the fire, and Rebecca cautioned her to go away or the hot butter might pop onto her. She went away. I then went there, not thinking, and some hot butter splased out onto my neck. Then Rebecca said she had not spoken to me because she thought I knew better. (I was about. ten years old ) My Mother died here in August, 1862 SPRING. My father, Chalkley Bundy, built a milk house by and partly over the spring. I can remember when it was dug out square around it, Bill Starky came to break the stones for the house,. This was done by hand with a Hammer as I remember it. After breaking the stone he would smooth it the same way. The house was high enough to walk into. There were three steps from the spring down into the milk house. Two large pieces of stone were hollowed out to make troughs on the inside on two sides. The spring water ran through these troughs. I used two gallon crocks ccvered with large, clean boards, and would set there filled crocks in the trough to cool the milk. Each day I would skim the - 31 - previous day's milk and put the cream in the cream crock. After this had soured I would churn it into butter , The temperature of the cream had a. great deal to do with the quality of the butter. At the door of the milk house and around the side of the spring it was built with the stones, When the weather was goods I would churn here. We would very often sit on the long, wide board that ran in front of the the spring to amuse ourselves with our reflection in the water. One day sister Rebecca and I were bending over to drink from the spring. She tumbled in head first. The spring must have been three or four feet deep. I pulled her out by the heels and she was all right. Above the spring on the little hill was a maple tree, We always had a play house under it, In the springtime, Father would tap it by boring a hole in it. Then he would insert a little trough and hang a bucket on it. The sap would drip into the bucket and we would then boil it down into sugar, From sassafras roots, tea would be made, The Maple sugar sweetened it and it was good, Under the maple trees there was a fireplace which we used for washing Large kettles hung by chains over the fire. There were five beech trees around the spring,. My father was very fond of the nuts, and we children would gather them in the fall and he would reward us by paying us a penny for a given number. TOBACCO HOUSE, TOBACCO GROWING, AND LOG HOUSE.. Father's tobacco was always considered as among the very best in the neighborhood. When the tobacco was ripe, they would bring it to the tobacco house on sleds drawn by horses. They would then unhitch the horses, leave the filled sled and hitch them to an empty sled to take back to the field. The stringers (the persons tying the tobacco would put the tobacco on a table about three feet long and two feet wide.) They had a stick about four feet long, twine, and a long needle, After tying one end of the twine to the stick and threading the needle with the other end, they would thread the needle and twine through the stem of the tobacco. Then it was pushed up as far as possible. When the sticks were full., they were tied to horizontal pieces on top and between posts which were in long rows placed grape arbor fashion. These horizontal pieces wore placed just far enough apart to leave the yard sticks to hang free, The first filled sticks would be tied at the top of the house. It was great fun to play hide between the full rows of strung tobacco, In the middle of the dirt floor a "flue" was built. This ran the full length of the house and was covered over the top. It was made of stone and bricks. At the end they pushed in long logs . This kept burning for two or three days. Close to the tobacco house was built a little shack of logs. It was equipped with straw and old quilts. The one's attending the fire in the tobacco house would sleep there. This was called the "Dog House." At first father himself would tend it, not trusting the boys,. Afterwards the boys would do it The neighbor boys would come in, and they would have watermelon. They told how they would catch chickens„ kill, clean, and cook and eat them there. Gypsum weed grew on the place. The stem sometimes was as big as my wrist. The Tobacco blower, a kind of butterfly, laid its eggs on this weed, The worms hatched from these eggs ate the tobacco leaves, Father would give us pennies for catching these large, ugly worms. They could be caught best about sundown. - 32 - LOG BARN This was built on the hill to the North of the house., The part next to the house had the stables with enough room for ten or twelve horses On the other side there was a sawed board floor. Feed and hay were kept there. The mow was only of logs close enough together to hold the hay, Here the chickens would make their nest. By my time, the logs were pretty shaky. NEW BARN In the fall of the year that father died, he was gathering timber for a new barn. On December third, he died, The boys got the barn started as early as spring as the weather would permit. When the first floor was laid, all the young folks had a party there.. I suppose it was on Sunday because they would be working through the week. They built it during the summer and it was reedy to put hay into it at harvest, The lower part was high enough to drive a carriage under and that is where they kept it. A bridge went across the upper part under which they drove the carriage. Aaron Frame,, cheif carpenter, said when it was finished that "it was the biggest barn and highest in the county. CHANGE BY THE PURCHASER The purchaser of this place tore down the old brick house. He used the old tricks to build a new house on the site of the old log barn. NEW SAWED BOARD HOUSE This was located on the hill to the south of the old brick house, Grandfather Joel Doudna built this house of sawed boards.    They piled the boards one on top of each other to make the walls. The partitions were, made the same way. Inside it was plastered. There were five rooms. On the outside, the boards were not even, they allowed for a toe-hold. From the porch we would Clint up that wall by using these cracks. There were fireplaces in the sitting room and in the room where Grandmother and Grandfather slept. When Uncle John Doudna's wife died he was left with several small children, including little Walter who was only a few weeks old. Aunt Eunice told. John that if he could get along with the older children, she would take the baby to grandfathers and take care of him there. She was not in very good health. She arrived at grandfather's house one night about nine o'clock. She had come from Chesterfield on hack, boat and train to Goshen County. She slept in the room next to grandmother's. Grandmother heard her in the night and after inquiry found out that she was up fixing the baby's bottle. The next morning she did not arise when the others did so they thought she was tired from her travel. Afterwhile someone went in her room and found her dead. MEDICATION APPLIED TO A CRUSHED THUMB During thrashing, my right thumb was crushed. My father made splints for it, and put them around the thumb joint. Then he put sugar and camphor - 33 - on it and wrapped it. This was not changed as I remember unless it was to put on a clean outside wrapper. Ii was about ten years old . The joint was left a deformed, but entirely useable. JUNE FROST As I remember this, it was in the first part of Tune, it killed all the corn except a few stalks that were growing under trees. It must have been as high as my head. Not enough being left for father to gather, we children would take our wagons and wheelbarrows and gather the ears of corn which grew to maturity on the stalks under the trees. After the frost, the sun came out and laid it low and turned it black. This must have been in 1860 as the Civil War came the next year. We had some "greening" apple trees These apples were very much in demand to Barnesville for apple butter. These apples were killed, We also had a row of "neverfail" apples which we generally did not use or pay any attention to except to let the hogs eat them. The year of this frost, the "never fail" apples were the only ones that were not killed. We took very good care of these apples from this time on. Written by Lucinda Bundy Hanson Richmond , Va. Feb. 12, 1942 - 34 - THE BIRTH PLACE OF JOSEPH W. DOUDNA A part of the house in which the writer is now living, has been called home for more than one hundred years. Originally there were but two rooms one built directly above the other. The rooms were seventeen feet square. The joists under the floor were small logs hewn on the upper side, The joists overhead were of small logs hewn on the upper and lower side, and were spaced near three feet apart. These are still faithfully serving their purpose. Sometime between the year 1804 and 1841, this two roomed house was built on the same location where the home of Kenneth Lloyd Doudna now stands. (This land was originally purchased from President Thomas Jefferson by John Doudna Jr,. in 1804.) It was here during the winter of 1841 that Joseph W. Doudna was born to John Doudna 3rd and his wife Asenath. They continued to make this their home for some years. A short time before the death of Josephs father, which occurred in 1848, neighbors slid the house down the hill a few rods nearer the spring so that water could be more easily carried. A few years later, a large house was built on the same location from whence the smaller one was moved, later the two roomed house was again moved to its present location (now the home of John A. Doudna, son of Joseph W. Doudna) and a lean to kitchen was added. Here in the year 1876, twin daughters, Mary and Sara were born to Joseph W. and Rosetta H, Doudna, in the same room in which their father was born, five years before. The lean-to kitchen has long disappeared. But the two original rooms still stand with the addition of six new ones. Making for us today, a comfortable eight roam house instead of two I like to think of the busy hands and loving hearts who long ago worked so diligently to establish their little home midst the great trees of the forest. Written by Beulah M. Doudna Great great granddaughter of John Doudna Jr. - 35 - JOSEPH W. DOUDNA Having been requested to write about our father Joseph W. Doudna, who was a great-grandson of the kidnapped John Doudna and his wife Sara (Knowis) Doudna, Their second son John who married Miriam Hall, daughter of Isaac and Ann (White) Hall was his grandmother and grandfather. They had three children when they moved from North Carolina to Belmont County, Ohio, in 1804. Nearly two miles south of where Barnesville is now located, they came and settled here four years before the town was laid out, Here their. son John 3rd, was born 6th month 24th 1808. He married Asenath Garretson on 10th month 8th 1840., She was a granddaughter of Robert Williams whose oldest son was Richard Williams, and who married Sara Stanton. His pother was Elizabeth Dearman, who died in 1773, He afterwards married Anna Shoebridge, who was born 9th. month 7th 1748 in London, England. Robert Williams was from Ruthin, North Wales. Robert and Elizabeth came to North Carolina on their honeymoon, which took nearly three months, and brought with them Anna Shoebridge, a friend of Elizabeths. She wanted her to come along for company- They arrived just before the Revolutionary War and settled in Beaufort, Carteret County, No, Carolina. Robert established trading stores at Newberne and also at Beaufort, N, C. besides owning hundreds of acres of land. Robert and Anne S. Williams, daughter Elizabeth, who was born 4th month 28th, 1778 married Joseph Garretwon, who was born 11th, month 29th, 1782, a son of William and Mary Garretson, They came from Pennsylvaina, and moved to Ohio about the year 1800 and settled at Concord, Belmont County, Ohio. He and Elizabeth Williams were married at Concord, 4th. month 26th, 1804. and in 1811 they moved to Barnesville, Ohio where they lived about a year and then settled on a farm near one and a half miles south of town. He died is in 4th, month 13th, 1855. It has been said from accounts we have of him, he was a man of great ability and was regarded as one of the best teachers in this part of the State. He spent much of his time teaching school. It was their oldest child Asenath, who as married to John Doudna 3rd, 10th, month 8th, 1 840. She had also taught school and learned the tailor trade and did spinning, knitting, twisting and weaving goods for clothes, blankets, coverlets, and carpets. When we remembered she had a loom which our father made with which we used to see her weave when we were children. She also used a twisting wheel, real, spinning wheel and warping mill. We children used to like to see her use all of these so well and took lots of rides on the warping mill which we enjoyed very much. I now have the twisting wheel, spinning wheel and reel that she used to use. Father fixed an attachment on the reel that would click at every hundred rounds, so that she did not haveto keep an account of the rounds in getting out the wrap for carpet. John and Asenath Doudna were the parents of four children. Joseph W., Ann, Jesse I., and Sara, the oldest of which was our father, who was born 100 years ago this winter, 12th, month 26th, 1841, on the farm that was left to him by father, which was a portion of the original land from Thomas Jefferson to John Doudna 2nd. Here father lived all of his life. (over 91 years.), except a little while in 1875, the year he and mother were married, while he was helping to build the Boarding School building and Barn. - 36 - That summer they lived at Stillwater near Tecoma on the Francis Davis place, so he could be near his work. They lived there until late fall or early winter and then moved to the home where John A. Doudna now lives, for a short time. They then moved back to the home farm on which he was born and where he lived until his death on 1st month 21st 1933. His father died 4th., month 3rd, 1848 leaving his mother and four small children, Father being a little past six, He and his mother and brothers end sisters got along as best they could with the help of relatives at times and neighbors and hiring, until the children grew up. When they were little, they would go quite a distance, some three miles on horseback to the mill. One would ride and hold the grist on, awhile the other would walk, and open gates as the one on the horse could not vary well get off to do it and hold the grist on. One time when they ware going to the mill, father was on the horse with grinding and they had to pass a school house, and Uncle Jesse who was walking had a little red jacket on and the school boys took after him and called a red fox. My, but he did run. He was so badly scared they ran after him for a long way clear to Aquilla Crews and he name out and stopped them, then went and told the teacher about what they had done and the teacher told the boys, that if they ever did that again,, he would. whip them if it was the last day of school. The teacher was Elam Bailey. When father was quite a small boy, after his fathers death, he went with his mother to the pasture by the big woods to look after the sheep and found that they had gotten out. A snow had fallen, the kind that sticks to the branches of the trees, which made it harder for them to see, She had to go into the woods to look for them and she left him by, the bars, and told him to stand there until she came back. After a while she got turned around and did not know which way to come back to him., She called to find out where he was, and when he answered it sounded in such a different direction from where she thought she left him, she said, "Joseph thee is not where I left thee." He said "Yes mother, I am." She said.. "Is thee sure thee is where I left thee?" He answered "Yes mother I am._ If I am not I will give three my dollar." She then knew she was lost. He told her to come to him which she did and found he was where she left him. In those days fathers Uncle Asa Garretson lived down toward Somerton. While he was yet a little boy, Uncle Asa took him down to stay a week with him and help him. On second day morning he took him out to the potato field to pick up the potatoes. He was placer near the road and after a while Uncle Asa had to leave to go to towns, so he was left there to work alone. He said he got very lonesome by himself as he had been used to being with the other children, the time seemed long. Along about the middle of the week Uncle Asa started hauling coal and took him with him and he thought that was so nice and he enjoyed the rest of the week much better. Another childhood experience, when he was small and had to go to mill on horseback, a neighbor had threatened him where he had to pass, in such a manner that his Aunt Elizabeth Wilson went with him to that place and. remained there by the bars until he went on to the mill and came back to see that nothing happened to him. - 37 - At another time his grandfather Garretson had to go to mill. When he was an old man and not very strong, lie rode the horse and held the grist on in a time when the road, were muddy. Father walked along side to help in case of need. As he was going down the hill, where the water works is now located, the horse stumbled and he and the grist both went off in the mud. Father being too small to be of much help , went and called Lemuel Patterson, who lived nearby, This was the same hill on which the boys ran Uncle Jesse down (father brother) , when they called him a red fox. As grandfather was old and too weak to do nuch work, he would sow the wheat while on horseback. He would tie something over the horses ears to prevent the wheat from getting in its ears, and sowed broadcast. Fathher and Uncle Jesse had to stay home from school sometimes in order to help flail the wheat and. do other things on the farm. Thus they got along until the children were grown. Father had a very mechanical turn and his Uncle Asa had also, Father would often go and work with him in his shop. He had a carpenter shop and a blacksmith shop. Sometimes he would work with Mason Thomas in his blacksmith shop. He became so competant that he could make or repair almost anything he needed about his farm in after years. They would sometimes borrow things from the neighbors and there was one man in particular who seemed glad to have him do this as the things were not always in the best of shape, and would sometimes break in his hands. He would then fix them and when he took them home, they were better than when he got them. He finally decided to have his own tools instead of borrowing and fixing up other peoples. Things he had no money to buy, he made for the most part. Father at one tine had a Grubber thrashing machine and a Horsepower. We saw it used once or twice when he had a small crop or for some reason could hardly get a thrashing machine. He had a burr grist mill to grind wheat for graham flour which was very good and also ground cornmeal, He would use the horsepower to do this end the sawmill, as he had seveal different sizes of buzz saws to saw lumber and wood. When he was a young man, he end a neighbor had a saw mill and father used to run the engine. He worked at that for a while and then built a carpenter shop and blacksmith shop for himself. He also did bricklaying and built chimneys and was equipped to move buildings when needed. Our spring was at the foot of the hill below the orchard. Father made they called a water drawer. In about five or six different places some distance apart he had poles set about three feet apart at the bottom and about twc feet a. part at the top, and fastened with a cross piece to hold the track or wires on which the pullies carrying the bucket ran. He had a waxed cord attached to the carrier on which the bucket hung at one end. The other and was fastened just outside of the kitchen door with a handle attached to the wheel so as to turn it and wind up the cord as it came up and unwind when we sent it down to the spring. Sometimes when someone was down at the springhouse, those at the house would sebd down the butter plate and the cream pitcher in the bucket and the one down there would get the butter and cream and put them in the bucket. - 38 - and then two on the wires and the one at the house would. know to drew it up. When the bucket was sent down for water, it was so arranged with weights on one side that is would tip over and fill up and those at the other and could tell by the sound when it was full. This was always a groat curiosity to visitors. It saved many steps and was used until our well was drilled in 1884. When they were trying to get the Barnesville and Somerton pike, what is now known as route 8, father canvassed the west side and James Edgerton the east side with a pater to Let names in order to get it. Elisha Doudna, a friend in the Richlandd neighborhood wanted him to come and do some building for him. Others followed and be was busy much of the time for some years building houses and barns. It was while he was working in this neighborhood, that he met our mother, Rosetta Hall. She wee the daughter of Joseph W. and Sara (Webster) Hall, and a great grandddaughter of Mary the oldest daughter of the kidnapped John Doudna, and married. Isaac Hall before leaving North Carplina. Father and mother wore married 4th month 29th day, 1875. At this time he was workng on the Boarding school building and after working on the school house for a considerable time, the foremen of the barn quit. Alfred Brantinghan wanted father to take his place so badly as a foreman and take up the work where he left off. Father hesitated, quite a bit as he felt it to be too much of an undertaking to take up where another man had left off. He was afraid that in such an important job everything night not come out all right. When the day came for the raising of the barn. Francis Davis (the Sup' t) said to father "Now Joseph I dont want thee to do any work. Just walk along ahead of the men, show them what pieces to pick up and where to put them." There was close to a hundred men to help at the raising and just as the sun went down, the last piece 'we laid up without a mistake. Father felt much relieved. After working the Boarding school building and, barn, that summer he and anther went to yearly meeting while it was still held, at hit.. Pleasant. Later they moved back over here on the farm, which he enjoyed so much.. But at times he still worked at his carpenter work,, In 1878, 1st month 26th, when mothers great grandmother the oldest daughter of the kidnaped boy died (she lacked two weeks of being 100 years old) there were at that time representatives of five generation living. She was a great Aunt to our father. He made her casket, as he did such work when called on, and made them out of nice walnut wood which he lined, padded and varnished. At different times he was urged by the Watt Mining Car Wheel Company to come and make patterns for them as he was a very good hand to make them. He had made some patterns of cogwheels of different sizes which he wanted for his own use and took them to the company so they could make the wheels from them. He felt best satisfied to stay on the farm with his family. About 12 years after they were married our house burned. 4th month 5th, 1887. It was a cold dau with a little snow in the air. Brother John was about 2 months old. We then stayed until it got warm enough (about 5 weeks.) - 39 - in one part of Uncle Jesse Doudna's house on an adjoining farm which was also a part of the original farm. By that time we could move into an out building by putting us a lean-to kitcben so we would not have to go beck and forth to our work. As soon as they could, they began work on the new house of which father did the greater part. Father's Uncle Isaac Doudna was out on a visit from Wisconsin. He and fathers brother, Uncle Jesse helped keep the farm, work going. Uncle Asa Garretson, Aaron Frame, James Frame, John Bundy and William Henry Patterson each donated a day or two apiece on the carpenter work. Father made a contract that summer with James Edgerton, to take our berries to town for shipping, Father was to see that they were taken to the road for him to save him corning in a fter them. In doing so much of the carpenter work himself and overseeing and helping with the farming, it was fall before we moved in and then it was not all done inside. He could work at that at times in the winter. Father had just built a new grainery and just got it completed when the house burned. The grainery had a nice airy loft overhead, so was put a bed up for Taylor Farmer to sleep in and when we had company to stay overnight, the visiting men and some times father would go out there with him, in order to make room for the women folks in the house. We had a large carriage house with a floor in it which with the lean-to kitchen, we got along very well for the time we lived there. We were very comfortable and happy. After the kitchen had been built a day or two, on of the neighbors came one spring morning while we were eating breakfast and pleasantly said "Hello Joe, you are in your new house are you?" There were seven of the eight children then as Rosetta was born after we had in the new house a while, in 1889. As years rolled on, father and mother besides raising their own family of eight children, Mary J. and Sara A. the twins, Asenath Elma, who married Irving E. Bailey, Dillwyn W. married Edith R. Carter, Lizzie C. married Alva B. Harrtley, Joseph H. married Nora E. Hartley, John A. married Marietta Carter and Rosetta B. married Frank A. Louhoff, they also made a home for at least three old peopie and three children at times. One of them Alva Cook was there over 12 years., At two different times there were 12 to sit around our table during their married life and these were very pleasant times, As the children married, they all settled near by, which was a great comfort to them. Father would often say he could go up on the hill above the house and see where each one lived. Thus the time went on with the great favor of not having a break in their immediate family for over 51 years, when a daughter Sara A., one of the twins, who will be remembered by many for her faithfulness in nursing at the Friends Boarding School, near Barnesville, Ohio for eleven terms, She at one time joined the faculty as teacher for a few weeks at their urgent request, when one of their number was sick. For several years she was a member of the faculty of Friends Indian School at Tunesasse, New York as girls caretaker or governess, She came home to help take care for her aged parents, which she did for some years and passed away 5th month 28th, 1926. from this scene of action we fully believe "to that house not made with hands, enternal in the heavens" aged 50 years 3 months and 11 days. - 40 - As father expressed it "Fifty beautiful years." Then father and mother with their remaining twin daughter lived on together between six and seven years longer, Father especially growing more and more feeble until 1st, month 21st, 1933, when he passed away at the age of 91 years and 26 days, and we doubt not, is receiving the reward of a well spent life. Our family in the home being now reduced to two, one or the other of brother Johns boys lived with us until after our dear mother was done with the trials of time, and on the 26th. of 5th. month 1939 was called - we do believe to join the loved in the Heavenly Home, aged 88 years 8 months and 21 days. Since then the home where our dear father spent practically all of his life has become the home of his grandson Kenneth Lloyd Doudna with his wife and baby daughter, the son of John. A. Doudna and the 5th. generation from the kidnapped boy. Written by Elma D. Doudna Mary J, Doudna Barnesville, Ohio - 41 - THE HOME OF SARA DOUDNA Recollections relating to one of the homes of the original Doudna farm two miles south of Barnesville, Ohio, The home of Sara, the younger daughter and youngest child of John and Asenath Garretson Doudna, and granddaughter of the first owners and first settlers on the farm, and Miriam Hall Doudna. The writer, on of the third generation reared on the land of these ancestors and pioneers. My mother, the above named granddaughter, lived the sixty six years and five months of her life on this farm. About twenty six End a half years at the home of her parents (her mother left a widow before her second birthday), about twenty nine and a half years where John A. Doudna now lives, and ten years on that part of the farm where three daughters of her brother Joseph W, Doudna now lives, formerly the Edgerton, then the Thomasson farm., My parents were married 12th. month 10th., 1872 but began housekeeping in the spring of 1873 in the house on the Boston road, and this was my birthplace (4-9-1874) and my home until nearly twenty one years old. As to the work that was going on around me, in the late seventies, I remember very little but I believe that Mother and grandsmother together, continued weaving carpets at various times during that period, in the building which was used for that purpose, at the home place. When this building was moved down to the ridge field to uncle Jesse I. Doudna's land to be partitioned, plastered and finished for his dwelling house, I think weaving loom was not used for some time but uncle Jesse soon moved to Morgan County, Ohio and the loom was set up again, on the upper floor of his home, and mother wove carpets there for a few seasons and later at our own general purpose work shop. This was built for and first used for home evaporating of fruits and sweet corn. But was soon used for many other purposes. I do not remember how many seasons our evaporator was used, but more or less; I think nearly every season for at least fifteen years. That always made work a plenty for all of us but most for mother because the work was somewhat on the order of kitchen work, a kind of extension of kitchen work. Mother's good management was necessary in order to get it done successfully. When we were drying sweet corn she did most of the cutting of the corn. This was done on a slaw cutter, which was attached to a heavy board on curved metal legs, bent cabriole fashion, and elevated so that a large pan could be placed under the. cutter. The corn was then spread on the cloth covered wood-framed wire trays, and the trays were rotated in the three track drying box. each fresh tray being placed on the lower track nearest the small furnace. About half way in this course the corn on each tray was scraped from the cloth, from the corners to the center, until all was loosened and then it was spread again to finish drying evenly. Close watching and regulating of the heat was necessary in order that no corn was scorched or the least bit overheated or discolored. Mother looked after all of this or else directed. The other part of the work was keeping fires, husking corn and removing the silk (all of it) after which the ears were placed in a large basket (round heavy splint bushel basket) and this suspended in a kettle of nearly simmering - 42 - hot water, where it remained about fifteen minutes and then was carried to his drying house for cutting. In the first few years we also dried a good bit of fruit, Apples, peaches, cherries and raspberries. Apples turned out best, and indeed were very nice and way was a great improvement over sun drying and oven drying. A great deal of wood chopping was required for these fires and for the wood burning cook stove which we used until after the house was remodeled. I can remember no time when we did not have an ample supply in the wood boxes, ready for use. Most of the time. there were large piles all around the wood-yard. We usually aide as much maple syrup as we could each year. This required labor quite out of proportion to profit. There was no cellar under our house but there was a good springhouse nearly half way between the old home and ours, which we used for a number of years for keeping milk, cream, butter, cottage cheese, and so forth, in the summer months. It stood north of the farm road some distance above the filled in bridge, in a cool sheltered place, where there was a strong flowing spring and there were a number of trees all around the banks on either side of that time. A real "Shady Dell" location. When I was quite young, my parents built a good sized cave, or cave cellar. The greater part of the field stone used for the walls were hauled from uncle Jesse's part of the farm, a good deal of which was very stony and also steep or hilly. I believe there was one high point which the family called Mt. Pisgah. Several years later this cave was enlarged and much improved. The sod and top covering was removed, the center pole and side pales, plank, and other timbers were replaced with new lumber. The walls were built higher and a cement floor laid. We then had a good roomy cave., It was well ventilated and was kept whitewashed inside and likely was a more sanitary place for keeping milk, milk products and various other foods than many a cellar under a dwelling. At this home, we had a dug well. It was not more than twenty eight feet deep, but the water was very clear and cold end nearly free of lime deposit. It was considered the best drinking water anywhere along the Boston Road, for many people came to our well. It had a good sized well house over it end the water was drown with "oaken bucket" and windlass. In the "80's" there were a great many people who passed by on foot and many who rode horseback, including a good many women. They rode on side saddle and wore the long full gathered black cambric and other material riding skirts. As amusing incident that I recall occurred about mideighties, when an intoxicated horseback rider returning home from town (Barnesville,) long after dark, fell off his horse and when he attempted to ride in at the front yard gate at John G. Halls. Hearing some disturbance outside, our neighbors went outside with some caution until they learned what had happened. The man was helped upon his horse and started on his way again in the right direction. When he gave his name, he was asked if he didn't live at Boson. He indignantly replied, "No, he wouldn't be caught dead in Boston, he lived in Temperanceville." (Two small towns, not far apart some ten miles south)" - 43 - These are a few recollections relating mainly to the eighties and here I will mention briefly the dreadful winter we passed through in 1880 and 1881. There was an epidemic of diptheria that fall and when. I had gone to school just five weeks, my first term, I was taken ill with the disease. In about three weeks I was recovering when my younger sister was more severely stricken. She too appeared to be nearly out of danger , we thought, in about three weeks. But suffered a relapse and in another week passed away at the age of four years and four months. Not long after that mother took the desease and was very ill. In the early spring the baby sister died, at the age of eleven months. We had sickness all through that winter which was, as I remember, a very cold winter with deep snows. Mother liked the outdoor work better than work indoors and she was especially interested in having trees planted wherever space could be spared. There must have been, in the early seventies, few fruit trees of any kind around our home, but a young orchard was soon planted above the highway nearly opposite the house, and came into bearing long before I was grown up, The good varieties of apples and many peach trees and other kinds were planted from time to time. A few of some kind or other nearly every year. We also raised small fruits for market. First strawberries and later blackberries and red raspberries. Our farm was a small one and it was necessary to try to make the most of the land we had. I believe it was fully demonstrated here that all hands can keep just as busy on a small farm as on a large one. The nineties are often referred to as the "Gay Nineties" and the forties as the " Fabulous" but the terms for either period were not equally applicable to all parts of the country, and of course did not originate in that broad meaning. For ourselves and most of our neighbors there was only normal change in the nineties; I think, with respect to our work and other activities. We were still living in the "Horse and Buggy days" and even in the next decade there seemed to be hardly more than the shadow of coming events and great change, then near at hand. No doubt several of the cousins who have remained on the land, first belonging to our great grandparents, have written about the later times around the old environs from their personal experience and knowledge. They have also written about many other circumstances and events of earlier tines which, naturally were more often mentioned at the old home which was also the lifelong home of uncle Joseph W. Doudna where books and papers, early writing and records, deeds and such were kept and were available for reference. I will add that mother lived the same active life to the last at her later home and we had noticed with little difference in her good health and remarkable energy, her ambition, initiative and determined effort, at all times, under any difficulties; characteristics which she possessed in marked degrees. Only three years before her death, her home burned down destroying much of its contents. This happened the day before Christmas in 1909. Mother then had great inconvenience for several months in temporary living quarters, and also much extra work during the time that preparation was made for building a new house. This was the only way she was willing to consider. - 44 - Timber for building was cut and sawed on the farm and prior to building the dwelling house, a good sized building was put up for a temporary home on the site of the house that burned, where the oldest part of that house had stood for eighty-eight years, with additions built in 1833 and 1858. Carpenters were working at this house at the time of the great meteoric display in 1833. The new house we built on higher ground above the lane or farm road, to the west and north of the other location, and in sight of the Boston road and where mother's two former homes were in plain view. Once more the work was done as it had been undertaken and mother lived in the new home, but hardly more than a year and a half. Her death came unexpectedly, December 3, 1912, after a short illness with pneumonia. It was near dawn of that day that she passed away into the "Silent Land," "where toil shall cease and rest begin." Written by Ella L. Galloway Barnesville, Ohio - 45 - MY PIONEER GRANDMOTHER - ANNA HALL EDGERTON It seems a long time ago Since I heard my grandmother, Anna Hall Edgerton, tell her grandchildren stories of her own childhood and of the pioneer days in Ohio. Her old age was spent in the hone of her daughter Sarah, my mother, who had three sons and two daughters. I have heard my father say that he had "lived with her for twenty years and that he had never heard her speak ill of or to anyone" - surely a remarkable testimony from a son-in-law who knew her in the intimate give and take of daily living in a family composed of three generations. To the day of her death at eighty-one years her back was straighter than that of any of her daughters and she enjoyed company even when her memory had begun to fail so that she could not be sure of the names of the visitors. She received them very graciously, hoping that some indication as to who they were would appear in the course of the conversation. If the desired lead was given she would slip out of the room and ask some other member of the family in a gentle whisper.,- "Who is it? Who is it?" Her memories of earlier days, as is so often the case with older people, were clearer than those of later years so that she gave to us children a vivid picture of her experiences from the time when she, as a little girl of seven, moved with her family from North Carolina to Ohio. Her parents, Joseph and Christiana Peele Hall, were comfortably settled on a farm in Edgecombe Co,, North Carolina, and Friends there pled with them not to undertake the hazards and discomforts of the long journey. Their conscience, however, were uneasy with the use of slave labor. They wished their children to grow up in a country free from its effects end when the Northwest Territory was opened on such terms as made settlement practicable for small landowners they resolved to remove thither. Joseph Hall and one of his older sons went out to Ohio on horseback in the Spring of 1602, purchased a considerable acreage near what is now Harrisville, raised a log cabin and barn and returned to North Carolina for the rest of the family. The wife and mother, Christians, who was a semi-invalid, made the trip of some 600 miles in a. two-wheeled cart lying on a feather bed. slung hammock-wise. from the fur posts. They had two other carts of their own and had besides engaged a neighbor to accompany them bringing most of their household goods end supplies.. Unfortunately he had been paid in advance so that when, in the last stage of the journey, they encountered a teamster homeward bound the neighbor unloaded their possessions in the woods six miles from the new home and left them.. to shift for themselves. This was the more difficult as they were among the first settlers in that part of Ohio and were obliged to cut down trees and make a road for part of the way. One of their possessions we still have in use, a sturdy walnut chest that must have been heavily loaded for the journey. In due time they arrived safely. and wintered in the log shelters previously erected for themselves and their stock, The two buildings had been located near two conveniant springs of fresh water. The choice of the home spring was a fortunate one though entirely accidental. One morning when the weather was beginning to feel warmer, Anna, my grandmother, was walking around the barnyard among some loose cornstalks, Felling something move under her foot she looked down and saw a rattlesnake still torpid from the winter cold. When the men investigated they found a save in the rocks above the barn spring which contained 60 rattlers. Had the home been built where the barn was located it seems likely that some one of the family would have been bitten before the danger would have been discovered. As it was seven year old Anna never forgot the day when she stepped on a live rattler and escaped unharmed. - 46 - In the year 1810 when she still lacked two months of being fifteen years old was married to my grandfather, James Edgerton, whose brother Richard her sister Mary had married,, She had been her father's housekeeper since she was eleven years old when her delicate mother had passed away. James was at this time twenty-four, a minister in the Society of Friends, and a man of such settled character and reputation that Joseph Hall was entirely satisfied with the engagement, especially as he himself was in poor health and felt concerned to see that this youngest of his daughters should be suitably provided for. His approval as well as his affection is evidenced by his making the trip to Wheeling with her to purchase the wedding dress. After she had selected a simple white cotton material which he purchased, he himself chose a peach bloom silk of which he bought enough to make both dress and bonnet to match. Anna, although so young, had already reached her mature height. She was straight and tall with auburn hair and must have been a striking figure in her beautiful costume with short sleeves and long gloves up to the elbows, and bridal slippers on her feet. The Meeting House at Short Creek was made of logs and was heated by a charcoal brazier which rested an a central stone. As the wedding was on the 10th, of the Fourth Month artificial heat was still required and grandmother used to tell withquiet humor about the sermon that was preached over her on her wedding day, At that time a Welsh Friend, Mary Wichel, was travelling through Ohio on a religious visit. From the various incidents related of her she seems to have been something of a character, Unused to the monotony of pioneer food she grew weary of a steady diet of poultry. At one home where she was staying she looked out of the window and saw them trying to catch a chicken for dinner, She raised the window quickly and called "Let the chicken go and catch a pig." Hearing of the intended marriage of so young a girl she expressed her disapproval and, being present at the ceremony, preached about "the proud and naughty daughter of Zion." When she was questioned afterward as to what she meant she replied, "it was because of the way the bride switched her silk dress around the charcoal brazier." In telling us the story grandmother used to add that Mary Wichel herself had been married in her ninetieth year and that it always seemed to grandmother "just as bad to marry in one's second childhood as in one's first." After the wedding feast Anna Hall Edgerton rode pillion behind her husband to her new home in Somerton, passing by forest paths through what is now Barnesville. Most at of her new neighbors were scuatters without much education. She was often lonely as her husband was frequently away at night, He was a surveyor and went to the river to see to arrangements for settlers taking up new land. In her isolation, however, Anna Edgerton did not forget the amenities of life. Quaker women in those days wore caps over their hair both at home and under their bonnets when they went abroad. Grandmother used to tell. how she got hold of a cap pattern cut rounded under the ears instead of square cornered and tied under the chin. She made herself several caps in this new Eastern fashion and was wearing one when her father came on a visit. Joseph Hall might buy a peach bloom silk but he was shocked at this new style in caps and said to Anna, "I never thought that a daughter of mine would have worn such a thing." At one time, Grandfather Edgerton was bitten by a copperhead snake. As she ran for help to some of the neighbors, his wife must have remembered the years before when she had stepped on a poisonous snake and got away unharmed. Acting on the advice of older and more experienced women she put the flesh of a newly killed chicken on the wound. Her husband recovered but was ever afterward conscious of discomfort at the same time of year as that when he had been bitten. - 47 - Eight children were born to Grandfather end Grandmother, five daughters and three sons. Grandfather had built a two-story! brick house with a central hall but had not yet nailed down the floor of the iving roam then he was seized with a mortal illness. A terrible epidemic, passed over that part of Ohio with faith fatal consequences in many homes. It was a medical conviction of time that fever patients must not have any liquids and those nursing the sick kept them in an agony of thirst till they died or got better. Sometimes there were not enough nurses to maintain this careful watch. One boy, during this epidemic managed, it is said, to crewl away unobserved to the maple grove there he drained a bucket of sugar water. He was one of the very few who recovered. Grendfather and his two oldest sons died as did also en adopted boy, Vernon, whom they had taken to raise. Grandmother was thus left with five daughters and one son, David, a boy of ten. The young widow had the farm to manage end six children to feed and educate. Fortunately she had early known responsibility end she met the heavy burden bravely. Twelve years after her first husbands death she remarried and. had one more daughter who died early. Of the Edgerton children, ray mother, Sarah, was the last of the daughters to leave the parental home. She married Samuel Walton, my father, and went to Philadelphia to set up housekeeping. After two years in Pennsylvania they returned to Ohio. Grandmother came to live with them and so it was that the lives of Sarah's children were enriched by mother's memories of Pioneer days. Written by Anna Walton Moylabd , Pa. - 48 - EDGERTON HISTORY James Edgerton Sr.. and his wife Sarah Cox Edgerton, removed from North Carolina to Belment, County, Ohio in 1805. They located on a tract of land on Captina Creek about three and one half mIles south east of Stillwater Meeting House, Soon after coming to the State, he built a mill for grinding grain for he Community. The mill was run by water power, as most other mills were in those days, This mill was sold to Isaac Patten some twenty years later. Their son Richard born in 1786 married Mary Hall, daughter of Joseph and Christiana Peele Hall, In 1808 and located on a quarter section of land about two and one half miles from Barnesville, and not far from Ridge Meeting House. Two years later his next younger brother James married Anna Hall, a sister of his brother Richard's wife, They began their married life on a 160 Acre tract of land one half mile east of Somerton. These brothers and their wives. must have been frugal and industrious, for we find them each with large families housed in substantial brick houses. In the spring of 1828 Richard died of typhus fever. Within three weeks, his brother James and two older sons were removed by death of the same disease. The two bereaved sisters labored faithfully to keep their children together, end gave them as good an education as other Friends children could get in those days. Both the brick houses mentioned above have been destroyed by fire, so there is little left to mark the places, once hallowed by the presence of the brave spirits of those who labored there. When James Edgerton and Anna Hail were married in 1810, the bride wa.s not quite fifteen years of age, and could neither read no write, but she was well developed and skilled in the -work of those early days and wove her own linen and blankets. The young couple had arranged to be married the day following Monthly Meeting, at which they "passed Meeting." The procedure probably originated from a desire of Friends to prevent any unwise or hasty union, and by making it public, so there would be no question in regard to it's legality. The parties were to stand up first in Men's Meeting, and then in the Women̊s, and declare the "Continuance of their intention of Marriage," with each other. They asked for an appointed Meeting but Women's Meeting refused to grant the request and they had to wait until the regular Meeting the next week. The brides family had made provisions for the Wedding Dinner the next day, and the Groom. was thirty miles from home, which meant much more then now. It was thought the Women's Meeting was influenced by a Ministering Friend from England, Perhaps she thought the bride was too young and would be older in another week. This English Friend was married when she was very old, and disappointed bride in recalling the event in after years, said "She thought it was better to marry in first childhood than in second." Joseph Edgerton, whose wife was Charity Doudna, like his brother Richard, settled in Ridge neighborhood where he continued to live until late in life, when he removed to Iowa. He was one of the favored Ministers of Ohio Yearly Meeting. - 49 -