5 10 6623 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ac8b083628a9c0cd1e1b4c4a6d214ae1.jpg afd7164325c158e211db869be7d21557 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (1) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to cover of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Compiled in 1998 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4384e1318177896f388d58aa2f1a60d2.jpg dbdf4feaf9100b8860340bc3efc2638b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (2) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to cover page of : The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl In Loving Memory of Loraine Roof Crowl Born: September 8, 1931 Died : July 4, 1975 She was a loving, and devoted, wife and mother who is sadly missed by her family and friends. Through these stories, her "legacy", she will live on forever. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2dfd5a630bf80cbf69e56ae78edbee54.jpg 37bcfb807416e171940831d60bf74c65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (3) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to Introduction of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Introduction The following stories were found following my mother’s untimely death in the summer of 1975. When my father was sorting through some papers, he came across a folder and started reading the hand-written pages that he had never seen before. He showed them to all of us children, myself and three older brothers, and each of us read them with our own responses and questions. I have compiled these journals in a book form, so that my mother’s dream of someday becoming an author can finally come true. I also want future generations of our family to know her, and understand our heritage. The original pages will remain with my father. It is my hope that they will be preserved somehow, as the pencil writing is already fading. Throughout the process of reading, re-writing, typing and proofreading these stories, I have learned a great deal about the mother I lost at such a young age of 15. She was only 43 years old, a whole lifetime ahead of her. I have also learned a great deal about myself, and my family, and I have a better understanding of why my memories warm my heart so! These stories are true (except for The Kiss, which turned out to be closer to the truth than she could have imagined, and Little Runt). It is not known when mother wrote them, probably when we were all busy with school and work. Her pencil was her confidant, the paper her tool to sort out her thoughts. It has been twenty-three years since her death. I have always wanted make this a reality and I feel that now is the time. Mother confided to me, once, that her fantasy was always to become a writer.......... this is my way of making at least one of her fantasies come true. In loving memory of my mother, Loraine Roof Crowl, for my Father, Brothers, nieces and nephew, and all those who knew her, and loved her, as much as we did. by KAREN SUSAN CROWL BENNETT 1998 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b851717219ddf8cc247d4a4be26ec5f8.jpg 67f2b340ed0a7e234b2ce7814734686b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (4) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 2 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter One CHILDHOOD MEMORIES “Once upon a time”, “Far, far away’, and “Long, long ago’, were the beginning phrases of books and stories I loved as a child. I was a lucky child, in that not only did I have a grandmother and a grandfather, I had two of each; and not only was one grandparent’s home particularly a fun place to visit, I was fortunate in actually getting to live with them for a long period of time. Sun-filled, warm summer days that stretched into very long days. Fall days filled with the tangy odor of burning leaves. Picking the last of the garden before the first freeze. Winter days before the coal heating stove, that meant carrying in coal, carrying out ashes, freezing (it seemed so in the mornings) while Grandpa stoked the stove and got it going again. Cookies on Saturday morning, (only Saturday was baking day). The cookies lasted all week. A pie or cake for Sunday dinner; other day’s desserts would be home-canned fruit or pudding, sometimes Jell-O if it was cold enough, and there would be enough ice in the ice box. Thanksgiving, and Christmas shopping and gift wrapping; certain drawers not to peek in. Finally, Christmas Eve itself, with my parents, brothers and sisters, and sometimes an aunt and uncle and cousins. Finally, we could put the tree up. Stockings to hang and early to bed; and the next morning, creeping down the stairs barefoot in the ice-cold. No one beat us up to stoke the stove and get it going! Stockings could be opened, but everything else had to wait until after breakfast. It was always amazing how long oatmeal took to cook; the table to be set, and cleared, and the dishes washed! The turkey to be put in the oven, the pudding put on to steam. Honestly, if the grown-ups could have thought of one more thing to prolong the presents they would have! Finally, everyone was assembled in favorite chairs and the gifts were passed out. A toy, or game, or doll. Some coloring books and new crayons, writing paper, paper dolls. Clothes perhaps. Nothing too frivolous, there were five of us children, and sometimes, some years, a book that started “Once upon a time”, or “Long, long ago”. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1711bdd47d4600ce259f9eb4db370f29.jpg 19516bb86a777fbd452fedcf596fc7c2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (5) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 3 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl I can't remember learning to read. I can remember learning some words lying on the floor at the side of the stove. Reading the “funnies”, the etiquette books, a History of the Civil War. Sunbury had no library then as now. Borrowed books were from Delaware, or Westerville, were “re-lent” by neighbors. The “Bobbsey Twins” were the best to read, until, finally, I was old enough to go to school, and then the County Library brought books on a rotating basis. Sunday afternoons in the long winter months were such short days. Bedtime was “at dark”, and it got dark early on the short winter nights, And, then, magically it seemed, winter disappeared and the tulip leaves peeked out through the ground, the narcissus, the forsythia; beloved Easter came and went. The cherry trees bloomed, the plum, the pear, and another year turned into long, lazy summer days. Looking back at this perfect time, where our family was altogether, before the Second World War started, and my brother, and all my cousins, went to war, when all four of my grandparents were alive, and there was nothing except a Depression to worry about, or trying to convince Grandma I needed a dog - I never got one, or even a cat (finally a cat came to stay in the barn) - it seemed a book was always my friend. Reading in the easy chair, in the living room, or in front of the attic window when | surveyed “my world” and read of many worlds. I didn’t know how perfect my little world was until it started to disintegrate, piece by piece. First, my cousins went into the army, then my brother; and then, during a visit to Aunt Ruth’s house, my grandfather died. The sad trip home, the cousins who managed to get home on leave, my brother who didn’t. Strange relatives came to visit, to sit and talk. Nowhere was there a place of solitude to cry for that which I would always miss, and would only realize years later how very much. If, during anytime of the year to lose a loved one, maybe summer is the best time, while life is growing all around you, and everything is green and beautiful, if the sun shines and one can be outside in the morning, barefoot, to run over the “fairy patches”. If anytime to lose at death - the sudden loss, the absolute horror of it, and the http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fdef50db5ce37eee54e37344c61bc9a5.jpg 5eaa47b757da2ab6a5fabbf9e2f29939 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (6) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 4 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl following loneliness, then perhaps summer is the time, although never again was summer ever the same. That winter, my other grandfather was killed in an accident; the following spring, my Grandmother Roof died of a heart attack, and, when summer came again, the magic was gone... http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/60ad14ae7ff9d585d5661b7c8fec756d.jpg 3792272f14c2882da2dca0ee0b7d30ef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts : The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (7) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 5 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Two HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jennifer lay on the side of the bed with her little daughter. While Susan closed her eyes, finally, and succumbed to the land of dreams, Jennifer’s eyes remained open. Not the thinking kind of wakefulness, but the deep, pondering kind of alertness that creeps up on one’s self at unexplained moments. The day of the year had arrived that she had been dreading for months. The first birthday of her grandmother since her death months before; if she had lived, she would have been ninety-seven. Ninety-seven is such and old, old age, and yet Grandma had been younger the previous year at ninety-six then she had been at ninety, and even back as far as Jennifer could remember, for all her thirty-one years. Grandma had been sixty- five then, she thought. Sixty-five when she had come to live with her at the time of a serious illness on the part of her mother. The years -- summers, falls, winters, and springs, stretched back through her mind. She could remember playing with the little china dolls, the “Quints”, who had been born on her grandfather's birthday. She could remember pushing her doll buggy up and down the sidewalk in the front of the house, the roller skating for hours-on-end with the little girl up the street, and, on rainy days, there was the attic with trunks, and books, and the small, low window that overlooked the whole world! The 4-H meetings and the sewing, and cooking, that Grandma had done for her -- dresses, coats, sometimes made- over from something that still had “good left in it” because those were the Depression years, and they were on a pension. The box, a whole box, of doll clothes one year for Christmas. Christmas! Christmas with the tree that always touched the ceiling, with the lights that had to have all good bulbs or the string didn’t work. During the war years, they found that a piece of tin foil from a gum wrapper would fill in for a bulb -- “It’s a wonder we didn't burn the house down,” she thought. Remembering the Christmas’ past was too much, and sobs started. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/71825096c27c4207954ebd978c49c60d.jpg 0d1f0ca96cce0969cce64858f6324913 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts:The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (8) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 6 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl “Why now,” she thought, “why can’t I see her face when all these months I’ve tried and tried? Why can I hear her voice and yet she doesn’t speak? Will I always have this feeling of guilt when I think of her, and the way I felt?” Thinking led her to try to find a justification of the way she had felt. With four children under ten, one a newborn baby, she surely had not had too much extra time to devote to her grandmother’s care. Except when she had been sick that one time. Jen had managed to take her to church, but the tears began again when she thought of the many times she had not sat with her, but rather in the back of the church, leaving Grandma to sit with neighbors and friends. “Even that last Sunday, before she had gone to Aunt Ruth’s,” she thought, “I didn’t even go then.” In her mind’s eye, Jen could see Grandma walking up the aisle of the church with ten-year old Jerry at her side, to the pew where she had sat for so many years. Grandma talked in church, not too quietly either, when she wanted to know who the young couple in front of her was, or whose baby was crying in the rear of the church. In a small community maybe such things didn’t bother the rest of the congregation, but for some reason, still unknown, they bothered Jen. The words of the minister who had preached Grandma’s funeral came back to her, “Like the old oak tree, magnificent and old,” and the way he compared Grandma to the old oak tree, Jen’s thoughts continued, “the minister had been one of the very few requests the family knew about. I wonder how many requests she wanted to make and didn’t. Why, why, why?” Then, the thought came to her that perhaps Jen wouldn’t have heard if she had asked, that maybe she had asked and Jen was too busy to hear. Maybe the times, the car was in the drive, but Jen was so busy with PTA, church circles, club meetings, and such, maybe Grandma had wanted to ask and was afraid she wouldn’t be heard. “Oh, dear God,” she thought, “did she ask? Did she ask, why didn’t I hear? She had all the comforts of home; she lived here, in this house that she and Grandpa had bought some sixty years before. Why, the house must be one hundred years old at least! She had some of her furniture around her; the rest was in the attic,” Jen thought, and she pictured the http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/726cb7ba536fa61afdc975bcfb21fc65.jpg 7d276a2b3757d9cbf112fa8169e23c35 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (9) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 7 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl attic that had been the scene of so many happy childhood hours. “Not much room there now," she thought. Grandma had had a birthday blouse and a Christmas slip, and, once in a while she bought a new pair of hose, and enough stationary to write that weekly letter to her daughter. Above this, Grandma had nothing! “Nothing except what we gave her perhaps,” Jen thought, “perhaps she thought she didn’t even have our love. I don’t remember telling her for so long, how much I loved her. Oh, how I wish I could tell her now, how I wish I could say ‘Happy Birthday Grandma. I love you!’, but I can’t.” The times that Jen had been brusque with her Grandma came back to her, and such a terrible wave of remorse and shame swept over her. Most of the community had praised Jen, had told her what a devoted granddaughter she was, and had been, of how much joy she had given her grandmother -- the words echoing through her mind sounded so hollow. “The outward appearance we show others”, she thought, “to cover our own shortcomings and guilt!” In all honesty, Jen could not remember a single time she had been mean, or had ignored her needs. Rather, her sins had been of omission, if sins they were. She had kissed her good-night, but could not recall when she had told her she loved her. She had baked her favorite desserts, pies and cookies, but had never been overly joyful while doing them. Never delighted to be doing something, no matter how small or trivial, for someone who had done so much for her. The four years Jen and her family had lived here, there was always a sense of tomorrow, never of yesterday. Jen lay on the bed for a long time, now wide awake, watching little Susan sleep, thinking of how Susan’s great-grandmother had loved her, how much she had loved the boys, had loved Jen and Jen’s husband, but she couldn’t think of a single time that the word love was mentioned between herself and Gran, or the children. “Doug told her,” she thought, “six year-old Doug, her pet, told her.” He did, in fact, still cry himself to sleep at night, even now, ten months later, missing the one person whom he thinks loved him more than anyone else can ever love him. “How do we explain to Doug, how to tell http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d704e56c33ae2964753723c007a165f7.jpg c64a68f2bc773a9c38bbb0fe6c57aef7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (10) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 8 him so he can understand, how to reason with this inconsolable grief, with his heart- breaking sobs, that he loved her and why couldn’t he have her back? Just for a little while!” “I don’t know Doug,” she said silently to herself, “why can’t we have her back, just for a while?” Jen wiped the tears from her eyes, looked out the window at the bright, October sun, one of those rare days in the fall of the year, when the world is all golden. With crunchy leaves, and sunshine filtering through the leaves still on the trees, with the softest of breezes, with the scent of burning leaves still in the air. “Last year, on this day, we had a party for Grandma,” she thought, “last year she was ninety-six; she'll never be one- hundred now, there will be no more celebrations with the relatives and friends, no more’ flowers.” Last year she lay here in this very room, in her casket. The room was filled to overflowing with flowers; the church, where Gran had been so faithful, was filled with people, even though it was a rainy, winter day. “Uncle Lester said, “Blessed is the corpse the rain falls on,” she thought, “and I’ve only taken flowers once. I've never had the time.” And then she thought, “That's the only thing I do have -- Time!” Jen very quietly raised up, careful not to disturb Susan. She went out in the bright, warm, golden sunshine of October, and picked a bouquet of flowers; late blooming summer flowers that had escaped the frost, and glorious mums. The flowers were late that year. One whole year! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/608f3adf650ffdbd7537a0883ae05e0c.jpg a3cef72672176df55b80af09403c113c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (11) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 9 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Three MY “OUTSIDE INTEREST” Do you need an outside interest? “Yes”, say all the magazine experts. I know, because I’ve read this over and over. “Don’t allow yourself to become dull, unattractive, boring, all you need is an outside interest to make yourself more desirable to your husband, more loving to your children, more anything.” Including weary and exhausted! Anyway, after reading this for the umpteenth time, I decided maybe I did. So, I looked around the living room, at the comparative cleanliness, or neatness, considering the fact that school will be dismissed in forty-five minutes, this condition won’t last long. I’m not even looking at the doorway that goes into the downstairs bedroom - sewing room, den, catch-all room. One of the things about this particular room is the fact that it has a door. What Fibber McGee could put in this closet couldn’t begin to compare with the things that find their way into this room. So, if I want to say the living room is clean, don’t doubt it for a minute! You should see how it looks most of the time (no, on second thought, you shouldn’t see it then either!). To get back to my outside interest. First of all, you should know, I have four children. These are three boys, who are older and more babyish than the baby, who is a “her”, and is a very grown-up two year-old. Any mother could tell you that boys who are eleven and nine, aren’t really eleven and nine. They are somewhere between five and fifty, depending, of course, upon one’s actual age, because they always know more than their parents, and we're in our early thirty’s! So, they are between five and fifty depending! Now, our six year-old is six. There’s something so reassuring about a six year- old, who hasn’t yet started to school, and, so, for the time being, is a c-h-i-l-d. When school starts in the Fall, he will be a b-o-y, and soon will be eligible for the “5-50 club”, that all boys belong to. He will learn such interesting things - that mothers must not go into the bathroom for any reason (like rescuing two year-old sisters from the tub) if he’s in there; he'll learn that little boys go to the little boys room, and not to the ladies room http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fe7a0efbc714781b8f3fda188c680a8c.jpg d1496cf41751111a9232b88b64f123aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (12) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 10 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl with mother, The little five year-old next door is going to be so lonesome, because he will be the only pre-schooler left on the block, except of course for our two vear-old, Susie, who is a g-i-r-l. However, this morning he actually let Susie hug him, and then he said, “Mrs. C., she likes me!”’, so maybe he won't be so lonesome as we think. But, to get back to some of the aspects of the six year-old’s further education. He'll learn that the good fairy doesn’t really bring a dime for those teeth that come out, He'll learn to pull these loose teeth himself - preferably in school with twenty-five, or thirty, admiring pupils, and one rather bored teacher, rather than at home with no one ‘except Mother, (who has been through this before and can’t even be bored about it!), and two big brothers, who would probably like to pull it for him, and are bound to “egg” him on - to see if will bleed much I suppose - and Susie would probably be his most interested spectator, except that she will try and try to pull hers, and then be quite dismayed when they won't even wiggle! He’ll also learn that there really isn’t a Santa Claus, but on the 23rd of December, he’ll remind you that he didn’t write a letter, and “Is there still time?"; just in case you see. “And you must be sure to leave a treat for Santa and his nine reindeer.” Nine? “Did you forget to count Rudolph?” So far he won’t be at the sadistic stage and leave things like “mustard sandwiches”. That will come later - probably about the time Susie is four, or five, and quite shocked about the whole thing! But, most of all, he will learn the facts of life. Not the facts of life that we know as parents, or the facts that we’ve told him by the book, but the f-a-c-t-s as told by the first, or second, grade authority on such subjects. Every class has one, or more, so his education won’t be neglected. For the time being, he’s a little innocent, so to speak, and there are still three and one-half months left in this term. All things being relative, you know, so maybe I will have time to pursue an “outside interest”. At least for three and one-half months! I think there is something close to heavenly about two year-olds. They are big enough to need a great big hug, strong enough so they won’t break under such a hug, and sweet enough to deserve such a hug on fairly numerous occasions. Of all two year-olds, and after all, there are only two kinds - boys and girls - at least at our house that’s all we http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/dbbb1ad71b82b15cc3c5c32b83b04cd6.jpg dd632b7fc190fccc62b2b60521dec795 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (13) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 11 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl count: the cat is a year old, the dog is six, of course the members of the club, "5-50" that is, will tell you the cat is really eight?, the dog is (?), because, "don't you remember mother, they don't count years like we do!" I always leave this to the club members to figure out because they wouldn't believe me anyway, and the six-year-old will only ask, "Why?", and I won't have time to answer if I'm going to pursue that "outside interest." Anyway, to get back to the two year-olds. I think the little girls are the sweetest. Boys are sweet, but there is always an imp in the eye when they give you a hug and kiss, but a little girl looks so angelic. Maybe we just think so after the experiences of three boys first. Our "fine sons. I'm quoting the doctor here, after three times of hearing "Mrs. C, you have a fine baby boy!", now really , could you blame me for not believing him when he said, "What did you want Mrs. C.?", (for thirty-six months I told him I wanted a girl), "You have a fine baby girl.", so I said, "No, I think it's another boy." "Now Mrs. C., would I tell you a story?" Well, I looked around, rather bewildered I suppose and considering the fact with glasses my vision is still not 20/20, and who wears glasses in the delivery room? - and said, "No, I don't think you'd fib, but are you sure?" Naive, wasn't I? So, he picked up little Susie by her heels, and told me to look for myself. Well, even with such poor vision and Susie being upside down, she definitely didn't resemble her brothers, so I believed him. After the second look (this time she was all wrapped up in a blanket, and I had my glasses on), I told the nurses to take real good care of her. I was sure I wouldn't be that lucky again, and after you hit the jackpot once, it is really pretty silly to try again. Besides, not only did she not resemble her brothers before being wrapped in the blanket, she didn't resemble them much wrapped up either. She had a deep crease on the bridge of her nose, and her poor little nose was spread flat, and half way across her face. She must have lain on it for all those months! And , if she had had a feather in all that black hair, she could have passed for a "red-skin" any time. The thought did cross my mind that the kids could play Cowboys and Indians now, in earnest. Where the boys had all been little picture babies, plump and eight pounds fair, and just the right amount of hair, she was a mere seven pound, six http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/42dde8722ce911a54e518ccd2ef4d40a.jpg 2bfea44a54e642742c30f30d80e1ae59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (14) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 12 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl ounce baby. She had the longest feet, and the scrawniest arms, and legs, and I couldn't help but think, "Well thank the Lord, it's a girl. At least we'd love her for being a she!" I shocked my husband with that remark, the nurses told him that her nose would be perfectly all right. He didn't think she was so scrawny, after all those few ounces did make a lot of difference, and if I didn't appreciate her, at least he did! Flat nose and all! We were very careful not to have any pictures taken of her until she was six weeks old, and then with a frilly bonnet, no one could see her nose very plainly anyway, everyone was too polite to mention it, and besides, she was such a good baby , and "Weren't you lucky, and on the fourth try!" We always shook our heads agreeably, beamed with parental pride at the praise of our littlest one, while trying to break up a fight between the two older ones, who were seven and nine, and all the while trying to create a feeling of goodwill toward our four year-old so he wouldn't be j-e-a-l-o-u-s of the new baby. As I look at her now, she has made remarkable progress since then. At two years and five days, she has a very interesting nose (like her mother), hazel eyes with brown and green specks (like her mother), straight, brown hair, and not much of it (like her mother), and everyone, but everyone agrees she's the image of her father! She can only say twenty-five words, but she can talk for an hour in church! Not only talk, she sings and patty-cakes, and directs the choir: she even, heaven forbid, does her version of the twist, and it is a pretty good version too - except - at church? But, as long as I sit in the back pew, maybe only half the people see her, and then they should be listening to the sermon anyway! We live a in a small community. Now, thirty, or forty-thousand more people know what I mean when I say, small community. There couldn't be too many more people than that that live in one, and it takes a person who lives in one to know just what I mean. It is nice to live in a small community, to know everyone except the last few families who have moved into town, and maybe we won't always be such a small community after all. Nice to not have to pack lunches, but have the kids walk the block, or two, to school and home for lunch. Nice to have your hubby come home for lunch too. Even if the the lunch hour at school is staggered so the second grader gets home at 11:15, the fourth grader at http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/17fae0ace08be3981b722de31f218911.jpg f3680d624e2289cf73bd919ca9d2fcc8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (15) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 13 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl 11:30 and hubby dear anytime at all, just anytime at all! Somewhere along the line. I began to feel like a short order cook. Now, if I could just figure out how to feed them all the menu, keep it hot, ad infinitum, and exotic, like baked potatoes, steak, shrimp cocktail, etc., etc., etc., because after all , he "could pack peanut butter sandwiches", etc. etc., etc. I console myself with the fact that after today, there will only be seven more days of this routine, and then!, then I can have a big, noon-time meal. I'll do the baking in the morning, we'll eat punctually at 12:05 everyday, all summer (and he had jolly well better be here too!) the table will be a work of art, fresh flowers, and all, every day! The wash will be on the line for hours, in fact, it may even dry! All the housework will be completed (beds will be made!). And, after this leisurely 12:05 dinner. I say leisurely because did you ever watch members of the club (5-50) eat? It may be leisurely and then again, it may not. However, Daddy only has half an hour so we will have ample time., I'm sure, to practice the rudiments of "proper table manners". Then, after the repast, while the nine year-old stacks the dishes (ahem!), the eleven year-old washes the dishes (ahem, ahem!). Mother will have oodles of time (five minutes) to rest from the hectic morning (and it will be hectic I'm sure), before we will all leave for the pool. Speaking of the pool, I should get quite a tan this Summer, as little Susie will demand, and I do mean demand, full attention this year. For some reason, children think the big pool is the same depth as the wading pool, and invariably walk right in the eleven foot depth, if someone doesn't tag along every second. I guess I won't even need a new suit, the old one will do it I don't get wet, and doesn't look like I'll be getting wet! Where was I? Oh, yes, my "outside interest". My outside interest last year concerned getting over an attack of arthritis. So, the flower beds didn't get weeded, I only canned seventy-five quarts of string beans, instead of one-hundred. Our corn blew over, and then down, and the coons got into it, so I didn't have much for the freezer. We didn't have very nice strawberries, so I did make a lot of jam. By staying up till mid night several evenings. I did get Mother-daughter dresses made for the occasion of our family reunion. Of course, my cousin's wife helped some by sewing the buttons on Susie's http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/68dfebb0a0568a3903cae205f6ca236a.jpg 4c684ee494cecdcc8be23c5558b3a53b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (16) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 14 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl dress for me as we were dressing to go to the reunion. Considering, though I think I did pretty well! I feel sorry, I really do, for people who've never lived in a small community. By small, I mean around one-thousand to fifteen hundred people - not including dogs and cats as some smart -aleck, city slicker will say. There is a sense of security, you know about living in a house that my grandparents bought fifty to sixty years ago. However, I don't believe I'd go so far as to say it is comforting. What it lacks in comfort, it makes up in charm, and quaintness, and believe me, until last Fall, it lacked a lot of comfort. Since then, we've torn up the "path" and the house has become much more modern. It'll take a small town reader to understand where the "path" went, and also to appreciate how wonderful it is to have a bath. This was our big project last Fall (but I can't call it an outside interest", can I?) My husband and I did all the work ourselves. He'll probably tell you he did it, but then being a man, he doesn't know any better. Granted, he tore out the existing wall, he did it with an ax, but who cleaned up all that mess? The kids and I, working until midnight, that's who! Whom? Granted, he built the new partition, using the salvaged 2 x 4's that had been in the old partition, that had been added thirty to forty years ago, and they were economy minded then too! So, it wasn't his fault if the wall isn't just exactly true, is it? Granted, he did all the plumbing, and and he did a good job of that - every time! You see we had a very cold winter, and the pipes froze, and he had to thaw them out with a blow torch and re-solder them. But, think of the plumbing bills we saved, and after all, these modern conveniences do require a certain amount of pampering. We didn't have that trouble, of course, with the "path", but, as I said, it was a mighty cold winter, and that kind of "outside interest" we can do without , thank you! Granted, he did all the finishing things, like putting up the plaster board, or dry- wall as we professionals call it, but who held the end of those big sheets? And then, I did all the rest of the work, like spackling, and hanging the wallpaper, and painting the woodwork. Mine shows! And it looks nice if I do say so myself, and I have to as no one else does! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c83a5535c5f50aeabd5c4ae011c679d0.jpg 33e94ff1f906c3c799a9eb90a4f3603c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (17) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 15 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl The things that a small-town wife has to learn to do! Wallpapering, sewing, taking care of a garden, canning and freezing the surplus and, in between, there is the PTA, the Women's Society of the church, the Church Circles, which must be supported by attendance and volunteer labor. Then, there is bowling and the Fraternal Orders, but the biggest volunteer group of all in a small town is the Fire Department. In our town, they are a select group of hard-working, young men! My husband would miss anything, I think, except a firemen's meeting, or a fire! It must be difficult being a city fireman, and getting PAID for your services! Think where the thrill would be if you were at the firehouse when the calls came in, and you didn't have a siren to blow. We only live two and one-half blocks from the fire department, and, if he isn't there when the siren stops, and it only blows three minutes, it's very upsetting! And of course, a volunteer must be ready to serve at a moment's notice, come all the proverbial things usually attributed to the Post Office department. they do an excellent job though and we are quite proud of them! If that siren just wouldn't blow as we are sitting down to eat one of those leisurely meals I was telling you about! Well, you can see, with all these activities, something is missing from my life, and it must be an outside activity - it has to be because I just glanced at another magazine, and it reminded me. Maybe during this coming summer I will take up painting in my spare time, or how about writing? I can't think of anything else that I could do. Postlude: The summer's half gone, and it's as good a time as any to sit down and evaluate my projects - my "outside interests". So far, I haven't gotten outside the house, honestly! Except to plant the garden (you see, I didn't have a baby this year and so it was my turn to plant the garden. thoughtful, isn't he! ) I have hoed the garden, and oh, those gorgeous flower beds I planned last May, in reality turned out to be three envelopes of seeds and I have been having zinnias as centerpieces for those leisurely, elegant, half-hour dinners at 12:05. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/51b1c79bf9e9635ae6f0761d2a1fc080.jpg 482a1c7abbef13f92642d2d002ad4a20 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (18) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 16 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl However, at last count, most of them are coming at 12:30, 1:30, or even as late as 2:30, and let me tell you, it is no small trick keeping those steaks, mashed potatoes, etc., etc., etc., warm until 2:30. Every once in awhile, I've been throwing in a few peanut butter sandwiches, just to keep in practice you know. I do get "outside" to hang up the wash, because so far, we've had a beautiful summer, and I need to exercise. I do get to pick the green sting beans, and yellow wax beans, and the golden ears of corn, and the peppers - that were supposed to go with tomatoes into homemade ketchup. Only, so far, we've had dozens of peppers, and the tomatoes won't be ripe for another two weeks. I have gotten outside to go swimming at least four times in the past six weeks, but so far, I really haven't needed that new suit as I really haven't gotten wet. One thing I forgot to take into account last Spring was Little League Baseball. Unfortunately, this has been my first encounter with organized sport activities for the younger set. I started off with a bang to make up for it, with a player on one team, and a husband coaching another team. So, instead of one practice night and two games a week, we have two practice nights, not the same night of course, and four games a week, except for the very few times when they play each other's teams. And, of course, they only play on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, but lest your arithmetic and mine doesn't agree, let me add that to compensate for the fact that they only play certain evenings, and have too many games, some of these games are held at another park, (about three miles distant), and, since Dad is a coach and has to lug equipment around, Mother can walk. I thought the exercise would do me good, and since the mothers sponsor a refreshment stand, because they play two games a night, one should really support such a worthwhile cause, shouldn't one? Need I say more?! With the Summer's passing, the two year-old is getting older, of course, she can say twenty-eight words now, instead of twenty-five. Her new words are "home", only she says "no home", shaking her head contrary wise to indicate she doesn't wish to go there, "fish", (we are going to take a fishing trip to Canada and I'll bet that will be full of interesting activities, outside and otherwise), and "choo-choo". She's even learned to http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5a51c6f934e2288a167e51f3c3d02fec.jpg bf347aa14cbfd1b8d4cfb920995e5059 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (19) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 17 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl open the kitchen door so she can see it better and never wants to miss a single train. Not even the 9:55 PM one! She has almost enough hair for two little pigtails, and is quite a water-dog , which is the reason I never get a chance to get in the pool myself! The six year-old is gradually losing his innocence and is getting taller. With only three swimming lesson, he'd learned enough to dive for the "pennies" at the local water show, and came up with the "lucky silver dollar". Much to his brother's chagrin, but who do you think was the most proud?! The nine and eleven year-old boys have progressed even further into the 5-50 club, with the advent of Little League, as it seems to be not vaguely related to the softball we played in High School, lo, those many years ago. I'm sure you all know the line, it goes, "But Mother," and "You didn't Have TV?" All the painting I have done so far has consisted of the woodwork in the upstairs bedroom, which "No. 1" son so eagerly tackled. Now, I will have to paint the floors again to cover up the white spots (or else drip a few more and dare anyone to criticize my home decorating talents!) The sewing is still in the box. The dresses I cut out in March, for little Susie, are still pinned to the pattern. However, I did find the best bargain in the shopping center last week when I was shopping for school clothes, and so, I got ten yards of denim, and three different pieces of dark-tone cottons, which will be so practical for Fall you know I will get at them soon, as soon as I have time. Oh, yes! the cat was a "she" and blessed us with three darling little kittens. When I called the next door neighbor over to show her, she noticed how much the black and white one resembled her cat, which of course just happened to be a "him". Maybe we can give her all the kittens???? Too bad it's been such a dull summer! After our seven hundred each way, trip next month, with all the kids, to the fishing paradise of Canada (his words and he's been there three times without me). I'm sure that I will have something interesting to discuss at our next club meeting. Of course, I realize some people have camping trailers, or even station wagons, but our family enjoys (?) roughing it. So, leaving the cat, and her family, http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4f2d073ad37a23a960b4d7e5adcba3e1.jpg 2cc7cb5f924e3b186e35af95a16fcf9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (20) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 18 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl and dog at home, we will jump into our late, very late - or is it early - model four-door sedan and take-off. Of course, it's pretty full with just four children to the back seat and the trunk is full of very necessary tools, for what I don't know, but we should be able to squeeze in a few items like: a week's supply of food - it's too far to the store and there aren't too many supermarkets I take it - three, our four suitcases should do us (he took the biggest one last year when he went by himself so if I share with him, the kids can share one, or two, so maybe we can get by with only three, life preservers for the kids (I'm not going out in the boat anyway, and Daddy wouldn't dream of falling in anyway). Blankets - it can get cold up there in the North Country. Of course, thirty-two degrees isn't too cold here in the "tropical Midwest"! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/066b5d4e33f27781f2e3b10dec8b641b.jpg 62c1ede7608ef8432f76c6163bdb7e3d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (21) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 19 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Four IN-BETWEEN DAYS Today is one of those "in-between" days. In-between winter and spring - with patches of snow and overcast skies promising rain, yet with a few spots of blue that may mean sunshine. The crocuses are blooming, the jonquils are in bud, and the grass looks green on the southern slopes and banks. One of those "in-between" days. Today I feel sort of "in-between" too. In-between the days when my children were young - toddlers - first graders and non-teenagers, yet still not grown, and the days to come when they will be young men and woman,with the problems of adult-hood still before them. Decisions of life work, life partners, life still ahead of them. I'm forced to realize that by the insuing statistics, my life is half finished, so as the optimist puts it, half begun! I think I feel more half finished than half begun though. A few weeks ago, I lost my father. Why is it supposed to be kinder to say he's lost than he's dead? I know to say he's dead has a terrible finality about it, but not as final sounding to me as the words, "She's lost her father". I would think, as Christians, we could not say we've "lost" someone. If we believe in the resurrection, we believe we will meet again, that someday we will all be together. Unless the God above is one of revengefulness - casting souls into the fiery depths for infractions of rules, saving only those passive, good souls who, like sheep, obey without questioning, who bleat out, "It's not my job! Not my responsibility, my task, my fault! It's your job , your responsibility, etc., etc., etc.". Does God sit on a majestic throne, judging everyone- separating the sheep from the goats, the grain from the clef? I wish I knew. Which was my father? Which is my husband? Which were my children? I refuse to accept the theory (how strange it looks written - like a willful child stamping her foot, refusing) that families will be separated for all eternity because of infractions of rules! How can God do this? http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/07656387b687d9ab373351d0f67b3f03.jpg 50d4f8cd4ec39b8dbe717f688d56cfcf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (22) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 20 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl If God is a Heavenly Father concerned over the children he has populated the world with how can he bear to be separated with one of these souls? How could he say, "Get thee away I never knew thee!" ? How could he bear the pain of it? As a parent, I could think of nothing that any child could do that would make me feel this way. That sounds like a bold, harsh statement; but I believe I mean it. There are things they might do that I'm sure would break my heart, but I could not imagine casting them out - throwing their lives away as if they had never lived. And, what about the worth of man over a swallow or the lilies of the field? I wish I knew God better. I feel I do know him. Does that sound egotistical? You see, I believe lots of things really. It does sound a little mad - especially in the day and age of space flights, submarines, heart transplant, TV, and all the other scientific research. It almost sound unfathomable that people could still believe in Jesus of Nazareth, a carpenter's son who walked the dusty path of Israel two-thousand years ago! Could still believe the precepts he taught could, or do have bearing on our lives today, with all the insight we supposedly have. Maybe we neglect to take his life out of context. Maybe we neglect to be like one of ESOP's Fables, of one of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. maybe we should update the story. I find it hard to picture modern day performers in Jesus' parables. Maybe I'm speaking heretical, I don't know. Surely questions of the soul are no more sacred, or forbidden than considering heart transplants, kidney machines, brain surgery, plastic surgery, or whatever. Which, if not all, of the doomed political leaders today, in 1968, with the prestige of family fortunes behind them, could better play the part of the rich, young leader who wanted to be a disciple of Jesus, but could not pay the price of giving up his wealth and following him. Which of our fine white brothers would be anxious to have a Good Samaritan Negro, Mexican, Puerto Rican, minister to our wounds, load us in a Cadillac, and transport us to the nearest hospital and pay the going rate of those institutions for our http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fa3c30ee445041145aa51345c9e57f0e.jpg 17d82a7931bab2bfd92afea0cd8443a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (23) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 21 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl care? Or, reverse the procedure if the reader would be one of the Negro, Mexican, Puerto Rican clan. Maybe this is why the Gospel seems to be losing in its impact on the people of today. The other characters of Jesus' time, his best friend - dead in the tomb - Jesus calling him forth, the woman who had touched his robes and became well, the lame, the blind, all these we have with us today. How do we minister to them? The "Great Society" has undertaken a project of anti-poverty. Perhaps they should remember Jesus' admonition, "The poor you have with you always". Perhaps he was talking only of those particular "poor folk", but certainly we have always had the poor, the shirtless, the uneducated, the unprincipled, the welfare cases. I'm reminded of a quote from years ago, when head lice in small communities was rather a prominent thing - "It's no disgrace to have head lice, only in keeping them!"; there should be a lesson in this for welfare recipients. As I said, it's one of those "in-between" days; weather wise, spiritually, physically. I'm either half finished with life, or half begun. It's too late already, for lots of things. To go to college, to have a career (other than homemaker and mother - I'm not sure I've done too hot a job with that one!), to be a ravishing beauty, to be one of the "jet set", one of the group - a Hippie. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5e7a589b69b7e81881c135c37575ec1d.jpg 61865db44e396434e97dcf353de395d2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (24) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 22 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Five A LETTER TO MR. BISHOP Note: the letter was found among the journals contained in this book. It is not known whether this handwritten copy is a rough draft, or the original. I have included it in this book because it contains information as to the background of family members, and feelings that I feel are important to understand just who Loraine Crowl was. Dear Mr. Bishop, Along with thousands of people, I caught my breath when I read the account you had written about your father's death. I've followed your articles each day they've appeared. The characters in your little story are so true-to-life. One can almost see them. And, you've made tears come to my eyes more than once. Today, when you spoke of the condolences you've received, the same words used over and over again, the cards from friends, and the fact that no tear had come for you this time, brought back very clearly my father's death, less than a year ago. My dad was the constant story-teller. He had a droll sense of humor at times, but told some back-slapping stories, of his many escapes as a child. He grew up in a small town, and surrounding countryside in Ohio. The pictures in the old photo album show him beside his brother's touring car, surrounded by kids. He taught school in a little, one-room, school house, as did my mother, often walking miles to, and from school. Later, he went to work at a bank, and then a factory during the Second World War. We lived on a farm, we never went hungry. We always had something to eat. My mother baked her own bread; we had a garden. We were kids. While I was in High School, we moved to town. Population probably one-hundred fifty to two-hundred. We had electricity and gas heat. We got rid of the ice box with the dripping pan, and got a refrigerator. In time, we got an electric iron and didn't have to heat the irons on the kerosene stove. We never did get a metal ironing board. My mother still has the wooden board somewhere. Anyway, somehow, the year passed, I got married, my brothers and sisters did. the grandchildren came; we've contributed four to the grandparent's brag- book". http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4879c3e4601156a8d50e3cbbf6ec5f65.jpg 8f5fb44b6219b45ccfcae234ea4ec8b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (25) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 23 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Retirement came a few years ago to my dad. Retirement for some must be wonderful - for him it was pure anguish! By this time, my sister was living with them: with her Cerebral Palsied child. My brother, and his two small children were there too. My mother, who was in her sixty's was forced back in the role of cook, cleaning lady, clothes washer, and ironing lady for three little ones. My brother drank, my sister was working, my dad was beside himself! Part-time jobs helped, but they had no money for trips, and my mother's sense of duty wouldn't permit her to go, even on trips with us. Finally a trip was planned to Florida. My brother sent tickets for the train. They traded those in on plane tickets; one way. They didn't know how long they'd stay, but Social Security checks, in the next couple of months, would have allowed them enough for tickets home. The day arrived when they were to leave. I drove them to the airport, one snowy day in March. My dad had a cold - a pretty bad one - and he was subject to pneumonia. He walked to the gate for the departing plane. He was short of breath when he got there. He carried his new hat with the feather on the side, so it wouldn't get wet. He said they might stay until June; wasn't much sense in coming back to more of this stuff! We all smiled. My mother gets homesick if she's away overnight. We knew she wouldn't stay until June. W watched the plane taxi around to take off, and then we left the airport. We felt it was unlucky to watch it out of sight. A plane took off just as we were leaving the parking lot. It flew over us, and we wondered if it was theirs. That was on Monday. On Tuesday, we had the biggest snow of the year. Schools close in this part of the country when it snows like this. In consolidated school districts, the rural children are bussed in, and rural roads get pretty bad, with six to eight inches of snow. We all agreed it was good the folks were in Florida, where it was warmer. On Wednesday, the call came. Daddy had been sick when they got to Florida. They were to take him to the doctor on Tuesday. They had done that. He took tests, and wanted him to come to the hospital on Wednesday for more tests. On Tuesday night, he became quite ill. They took him to the hospital on Tuesday night. He had a light case of pneumonia. The phone call Wednesday was supposed to be reassuring. We knew he had pneumonia before. He'd had bronchial infections, etc.; he always got over them. He was our dad nothing would happen. The next phone call said they had found a severe anemia. There was something wrong somewhere. We all thought of Leukemia, but said it was probably not much of anything. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/11709d187c34f52812558e93c7cd70b1.jpg f50ea8ff3d314167fc94a7af171768c0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts:The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (26) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 24 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Then the phone calls became more frequent. My mother called, my brother called. In between we three girls took turns calling. An operation would be needed; he was seventy, but it was needed. The operation was over before they called again. they found an abscessed appendix. We couldn't believe that; yes it was an abscessed appendix! It had walled itself off somehow, and, occasionally, leaked its poison into his system. His blood had little oxygen in it. No wonder he had been so pale! Oh yes, they had found a couple of small tumors, up near the stomach. They were small, but malignant. The surgeon thought he got it all, Dad was doing fine. Then he had a coughing spell. The stitches tore loose, he had to go back to surgery. He was in intensive care. There was no change. No reason for us to go down there: nothing we could do, except call. Easter Sunday came - another operation. He'll be all right. We sent down summer things for my mother. She lived at the hospital. She packed her sandwich in the morning. My brother dropped her off on the way to work. He picked her up in the evening. She sat in the halls if they wouldn't let her in Dad's room. She visited other patients on the floor who were sick. She didn't need to know them. Anybody sick brought out the "mother " in my mother. In May, the call come. My dad would be coming home. He needed convalescent care. He could do that here. If he stayed there, he probably wouldn't be strong enough to come back for several months. They would charter a plane. We were to meet them at the airport, with an ambulance, and make arrangements to have him admitted to a hospital in Columbus. He would need surgical care again, and attention. We wondered how he could fly in such a shape. We met him at the airport. My mother looked fine when she got off the plane. It was early, we were late! We had also gotten lost. But, she looked fine. Thinner, but our mother. My dad was on a stretcher, being transferred from the plane to an ambulance. He was old! He was seventy, but looked one-hundred! His face was sunken and pale. He fingers were bony. He had left Ohio in March, weighing two-hundred to two-hundred ten pounds. He weighed one-hundred and thirty-eight when he got home. His eyes were bleary, and darted here and there. His hair was long on the sides and curly. He could barely talk above a whisper. Breath seemed like a very fragile thing to him. But, he was home in Ohio. He had made it this far. We smiled and kissed him, and told him he hadn't really had to wait until June, and clucked over him. We followed the ambulance to the hospital with misty eyes, but we couldn't cry; not yet. We saw him lifted into a hospital bed. He looked more rested. We took my mother home. The first time she'd been home alone without him for forty-eight years! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/002b86f479fd46255f788f23ecf65daf.jpg 70ba9c6468b360d890476882ce02b01c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts:The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (27) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 25 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl The next day, he was transferred to another hospital. The rotten abscess kept draining. It was ugly stuff, and you wondered how anyone could live with that stuff in them. Another operation was scheduled. We all went down. Now it was our turn to take Mother back and forth to the hospital. She was still packing sandwiches! The operation did the trick for the time being. He was finally on the road to recovery. We had bought a house. We had lived in the house my mother had grown-up in but we found another house; a very reasonably priced one, larger than my mother's old house. In the midst of all else, we were painting, papering, etc, etc, It would be awhile before my dad would be able to leave the hospital. Only then would my mother tell him of our plans. He didn't know how he'd be able to go back to the house with the three children, my sister, and my brother. He needed to be alone. They needed to be alone; they had not been for nearly forty-seven years! We were in the midst of papering when my mother stopped. Daddy would come home Saturday. He'd almost been in the hospital the ninety days Medicare allowed. It would be very close. This was Tuesday; Thursday we moved - four kids, a dog, a house-full of furniture and junk -just moved! The rooms weren't papered, some of the plumbing was in need of repair; we moved anyway! Friday, we moved my mother's things. Only part of them; they were going to camp out, so to speak. She would need all her time to nurse my dad, and didn't want very much. A sofa, chair, or two, a couple end tables, lamps, a rocking chair of my grandfather's was in the attic. We brought it down and polished it up. We brought my dad home on Saturday. It was June by this time, and he was home. To a house where birthdays, and Christmas', and picnics had been celebrated by our family for sixty-three year. The summer passed, and he was able to be up and around. He enjoyed riding in the car. It didn't seem to bother him. In August, we took him thirty-five miles to see his brother, who was celebrating their 50th anniversary. He sat in the car, and nieces, and nephew, from New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and California came to the car to see him. It was a milestone! The roses that bloomed by the bedroom window, bloomed again. Fall came. He was able to drive. He was still stiff, and bent over somewhat. He had gained thirty pounds, and he was getting a "spring" in his step. He was able to eat what he wanted. He bought a new suit, and a topcoat. Maybe he could finish that visit in Florida next Spring. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0682b03042e182139a0b871acc797182.jpg 1872a7a8104b783f414a55378e503b89 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (28) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 26 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Christmas came and we all trooped up for a very thankful Christmas in the old house. The grandchildren were there. Family get-togethers are like that; movies were taken. the traditional poinsettias were bright in the corner. After Christmas, a check-up revealed bleeding from the rectum, the doctors said it was probably hemorrhoids. They didn't seem concerned. One night, in January, it became severe. They thought it best to go to the hospital. He was scheduled to go the later part of January anyway. Just to be safe, he'd go early. I rode in the ambulance with them. He joked on the way with the driver. I sat in the emergency room, and found out how slow waiting can really be. Hours passed. Finally, the nurse said he would be admitted that evening. We could go up and say goodnight. Examinations, and tests, showed a tumor, or growth, inside the rectum. A colostomy would be performed. He hated the idea. We tried to cheer him up by telling him of people we'd heard about. Surgery was scheduled for the next week. The next week tests showed his heart wasn't strong enough. They'd wait a couple of weeks. We took books, and candy, and flowers. My mother packed her sandwiches, and stayed all day again. The twenty-first of February, surgery took place. For over five hours we waited. The nurse told us, finally, the surgeon would come up soon. When he came, he told us that the surgery had gone as expected. The growth had been malignant; it had also spread. Growths were present near, and on the aorta. Nothing could be done for that. My sister asked about radium. He said they'd have to wait and see. His wasn't strong enough of course, and the location would suggest only a few months- six or so. For the next two weeks, we visited him every day. He was conscience. He finally could eat a spoonful of Jell-O. One day, we went down and he had been moved to another room. A smaller one, with a very sick man in the other bed. it didn't bother my Dad - nothing much seemed to bother him. A few days later, I took my mother down. A couple of friends of mine road along. We would go shopping. They had brought my Dad's lunch while I was there. A dinner of steak, mashed potatoes, Jell-O, ice cream. He was so weak, he couldn't have lifted six spoonfuls. They left the lunch. He had eaten a couple of bites; my mother fed him the soupy ice cream. I talked with him a few minutes, kissed him on the forehead, and said I would see him in the morning. I left. We talked in the car, my friends and I, of the idea of feeding a sick man a dinner like that. Of how hospitals keep patients alive, of the agony we knew he'd go through while he was adjusting to life following a colostomy, of how little time he'd have before he'd start downhill again; of many things. It's the most wonderful thing in he world to have understanding friends! That evening, I told the children that Grandpa had steak and ice cream for dinner. That he'd sent them a kiss, and said he loved them. That evening I told my husband I didn't see how he could live much longer, and how I wished he didn't have to suffer so; That night, I cried. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/10e6207a2b6a47454090a3dadf93a097.jpg 10e56e941d8f97cfc6377e1b6e1f0200 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (29) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 27 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl The next morning, early, the phone rang. the head nurse, on the same floor, but different service, said my Dad had taken a turn for the worse, to come down as soon as possible. I called my mother, I called my sisters and my brother. My mother drank her morning tea as usual; my sisters were slow. It wouldn't have made a bit of difference, my Dad had already died when the nurse called. The surgeon met us in the hall. He took us to a consultation room and told us. He got us pills, which we didn't take. My mother was dry-eyed. My sisters were still, so was I. My brother didn't say a word. My mother asked if she could see him. The surgeon suggested not - she insisted! My younger sister went with her, I stayed in the hall a few minutes, and then went in. He had a look of absolute peace on his face, with maybe a hint of a smile at the corners of his mouth. He'd had a heart seizure, or attack. He'd known nothing of it. He was spared that final suffering. In the hall, his clothes were waiting in a shopping bag. The roses, and flowers, were on the cart too. We each picked something up and started to the elevator: each of us thinking our own thoughts. In the main floor lobby. I saw a friend, Margaret, the nurse. We cried together a few minutes. I tried to comfort her. I tried to comfort me. We got in the car. My brother found his cigarettes, my sister drove, and we went home. I stopped at the Post Office, where my husband worked, and told him it was over. We went on to Mother's and called relatives, and just sat there. The thoughts that passed my mind were thoughts of relief for the suffering that was finished, of all the emotions. I think there was one that most described it. There were tears only once, when I called my mother's sister, when she asked how we were, I cried and she knew. The cousins came again from Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky. My brother from Florida. the neighbors brought food , as is the custom in this part of the country. The funeral director went along with my mother's idea of having visiting hours at the house, instead of at the funeral home. And, he wore the brand new suit he'd so happily bought and never worn. The bedroom, where they had slept, was emptied of furniture. The flowers around the casket literally filled the room. And my Dad looked at peace. The hardest part for me was when they put the lid down. The room was completely empty then. My Dad was gone. Still, I didn't cry then. Nor did I cry during the service. I can remember my husband gripping my hand at the same instant I reached for his. The service was held at the church. It was very brief; the church was full. We walked out an got in the cars to drive to the cemetery. I was amazed to discover four folding chairs there; one was for me. We sat there in the cold, and heard the minister's words. We left very soon. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/51e80de589e3d7459ed9cfd78c378856.jpg a9c50feb7810dab84ffa0777c7ad4a70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (30) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 28 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Beside my father's grave are my grandparents. Next to it, on one side, is a very dear friend. There is room for my mother, and two others. A sign of old age, I'm told is when you know more people in the cemetery than you do in town. At home, after the service, the cousins gathered once more for a tearful farewell. The coffee pots bubbled. Cousins wives, with their hats still on, did dishes so everyone could have something to eat before they left for their various homes. I think at one time, I counted sixty people. There are only three rooms downstairs in that house. My Dad would have enjoyed it! He would have had a joke to tell, a curl to twitch, a remark about someone's hat. He would have teased the grandchildren, scolded one of the cousins for not wearing boots. He would have enjoyed it. Strange as it sounds, I did. I had tears then; no none now. I have a terrible loneliness at times, and wish I could see him. sometimes, when I see a man about his age, and his build, with a fringe of white hair, I catch myself in time, before I go up and make an insane remark. When the roses bloomed last summer, beside the bedroom window, my mother took bouquets to the cemetery. I've only been a few times. My father is not there; I'm not sure where he is. I feel his presence at times. I think about him a great deal. I think of my mother, too, who's been alone for almost a year now. And I think that, by the very nature of things, I'll be in the same position someday. Either to go, or to remain. One of us will be left. That's each one's "thing" in life. And, how I will meet this, I don't know. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b971118c3ad144a5c883eef2627f848e.jpg d735fab1de4ebd3ac87031815180b8e0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (31) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 29 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Six WHO AM I ? The sun rose bright and warm this morning. The sky is that winter blue, the evergreen stands still and tall, no breeze is about. The snow crunches under foot. It looks cold and quiet and serene. It is cold! Our thermometer says Zero degrees, and, for the first day of March, in our area of the country, it is cold! Especially with six, or seven, inches of snow on the ground. It's plowed high on the side of the street, so it's hard for my little daughter to get around, to be able to cross the street. Last night seems far away. The shadows, and phantoms, I hope were vanished with the sun, but I'm not sure. Maybe, If I put them down in morning light, their mysterious power over me will be gone. I have reached a certain, happy relationship with my pencil and pad of paper. The typewriter doesn't suffice. I can't think and concentrate, at the same time. What I really mean to say, is that I can't compose my thoughts and concentrate on the typewriter, keep at the same pace. So, I write in longhand, trusting that sometime, I"ll be able to decipher it. My biggest problem is, I guess that I keep everything to myself. I always have. Last night, I wished so desperately to pour out my silly secrets, and fears, to my husband, but I couldn't. I never have been able to. This is the reason I write. I picture a time, after my death, when he's going through papers, and old reports, and things of that kind, and he'll come across the folder of my "manuscripts". He'll pull them out slowly. I think he'll read them. I'm not sure, but either way, my purpose will have been accomplished. He'll know, at last the silly secrets, and fears. And, if he scorns them, then why it really won't matter, because I will be past the point of being able to be laughed at, or ridiculed. I've been ridiculed, and laughed at, too long, and it still hurts too badly to expose myself. My biggest regret, along this line, is the fact that our oldest son is exactly the same as me. He keeps everything bottled-up too, and it hurts him so deeply. I wish I http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1a8840057482eec0803de1212a663d53.jpg 969b462a6847603e340a1091604c42c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (32) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 30 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl could help him, but I can't relieve his torment by telling him how I've suffered. That's a strange word - the pencil seemed to write it alone - I guess I have suffered. And I think that this kind of suffering is the worst. I've had my share of physical suffering, maybe more than my share. This I could bear! Last night, when the scenes of my childhood flitted past my eyes, I was wide awake. I know somewhere there was an answer, but I didn't find it. It got away. It always does. And, finally, the long night ended. I was reminded of the prayer I used to say, "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake. I pray thee, Lord my soul to take". It must have bothered me, it does now. I taught my children to say only the first two lines, and then to say, "God bless everyone I love," naming all the relatives, and friends, and then everyone else in the world, "and make me a good child!" But, I've always had the feeling that I've deprived them of something, in a way. Maybe I've only kept the fears from them, and, if so, I'm glad. The fears! Lord, how I've hated those fears. Fear of dark, fear of death, fear of going places, fear of ridicule, fear of people's opinions about me. I was twenty-five years old before I could even think to myself about a person, "Go to Hell, I don't need you!" I still haven't been able to say it out loud. Someday, I just might. I don't know who I'll say it to first. This has certainly given me a certain amount of inner satisfaction, imaging their response. It's almost as good as telling them to their face. The trouble is, I really do like most people. I love to talk with sales ladies, I used to be one, and it's nice to have someone notice you, and be nice to you. I can catch the eye of another mother, coping with her small child, as I used to mine, and a recognition will pass between us, and she'll smile, and so will I. I don't really know if you can call that empathy, compassion, or just plain nosiness. I only know that that's the way I am. this bothers some of my friends, who are always asking, "Did you know that salesperson?", or woman or whatever. And then, that puzzled look comes over their faces. It's the same response my husband gives me. Some look in awe, so I guess I'm something of a "kook", because no one understands - except my oldest boy. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/060ba7c92f90841cc9e3541584ccdb65.jpg 1861f0403a606e157c039ad8bca26bef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (33) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 31 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl I do love to talk with people. Any people, anywhere. I'm reminded of the by-line of one early TV program; "There are a million people in the Naked City, there are a million stories. This has been one of them''. I think that, when I drive down streets, and roads, and past houses. Maybe not a million, but hundreds. They all have stories. So do I, but I can't tell mine, and I don' think they can tell theirs. It's like two parallel lines extending, ad infinitum, going the same way, side by side, but never touching. Dear God, I don't want to be a parallel line! I wish I could tell my story to someone. I don't know why, I don't really know to whom, but I feel sometimes as if these layers and layers of reaction, responses, impulses, stimuli, must come out. Or does everyone carry around the muddle of their thinking until their dying day? There are times, dear pencil, as if I'm really afraid to trust you. Because, once it's written, I cannot recall it, and the chance of being read, and misinterpreted, would be as bad as saying things and having them misunderstood, or ridiculed. Other people seem to have such well-run lines, neat, orderly. Are their minds the same? I don't really think so. As I know some of those neat, orderly people. Houses always spic and span, children always clean, the blasted ironing always done, and not a dirty dish in the house. i can't believe their minds are this tidy. Maybe they have better control over theirs than I do. I've thought of writing this as a story. Changing names, especially mine, and trying to palm it off as an imaginary story. My imagination isn't this powerful, but maybe someone else would think so. I don't really know what I'll do with it. but, here goes - most stories start off with either a very happy, or very unhappy, childhood. I wish I could remember my childhood, but I don't think I ever had one. I can remember almost to when I was two, and I can't remember a childhood as such. It certainly wasn't unhappy. It certainly wasn't a joyous occasion. I never remember enjoying it because I was always waiting for another time. The other time has never come. Will it ever? I don't know, I've done the same thing with my children, never fully enjoying the ages they are - always trying to picture "another time." I've lost all the memories that I wish I could remember. Certain times stick out in my mind, but they are http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/291a6789fac398dc2fb0cbe4994ddb23.jpg 68ccde2fc7137282d6d40001c10e3b2a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (34) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 32 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl few. What happens to the days? I guess I've wished them away -always waiting for "another time." I could put on a stoic face, and keep the tears of agony to the time when I'm alone. My husband doesn't like to see me cry. Or anyone. He had sisters who used this for their own means. There have been times, when I've screamed inside of me, to him, to please say "go ahead and cry, cry all you want!" I know he never will. It's the way he is. He just doesn't think anyone needs emotional release this way, and he just doesn't understand me. The trouble started last night over the same thing. It's usually always the same thing and it always ends the same way. Only last night, I didn't fight back after he went to sleep. I didn't toss and turn, or turn on the light, but I accepted things. I had the sensation they say a dying man has of seeing things, and scenes pass before my eyes. I wondered if each of us, complex humans that we are, all have such an inner-turmoil. My husband doesn't. Things are so simple for him. things are black and white - there's no middle gray anywhere. He has come to accept some of "gray" in his own life. He's learned to accept the fact of "breakdowns" in his own family, and in mine, but not in ours. But, he looks on these cases as weaknesses of the individual. I don't think he will ever have a nervous breakdown. I sometimes don't think he has nerves. i don't know what sustains him; sheer physical strength, I suppose, guts, no spiritual fallacies. Oh, he believes in God, but not in Heaven. It's all here and now with him. It's rather disconcerting really. He hates to go to funerals. It's all over in his estimation. There's nothing left. No hope, no thought of heavenly rewards, or threats of eternal damnation with him. It's here and now, and he's the master of the situation. It's really very sad! He doesn't need people. I crave people. Or books, except of course, for the face that books have a happier ending, most of the time. Either a good book, or a visit with someone, or a telephone conversation will work the same therapy on me. It's an intrusion to him. Maybe he's got a simpler mind, or a single track one. But, these things aren't important to him. People, books, music, solitude. If he spends five, or ten minutes alone, he goes to sleep. Just shuts his eyes and goes to sleep. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/773767a638266d0d179eec9e8c18d206.jpg b7fddba91079d8eca055dcd4d06d4af4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (35) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 33 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl So many things came to mind last night. I can't hardly remember them this morning. So many scenes of growing up - "Growing UP" to what? That's certainly a strange phrase - Growing Up. It presupposes you are smaller, or shorter, then you grow up, straight and tall. We have a lot of strange phrases in the English language. "Grow up", how often we say this to children - "Grow up and act your age!" - most of the time, that's exactly what they are doing. Acting their age, their physical age. I like "maturing" better. It sounds more like a flower opening. It sounds more like a cycle of events, instead of physically growing up. I guess the problem basically hinges on the fact that I didn't have much of a childhood. I went to stay with elderly grandparents when I was two. I think, sometimes, I've lived for a hundred years! The stories they told me were like the fairy tales read to other children, by their parents. The time was one, mid- depression, and in a very small town, so things like sanitary sewers, bathrooms, refrigerators, kerosene lamps, ice boxes, quilting blocks, hand-knitted mittens, and kerosene ovens seemed to me to be mixed up. See, normally the generation who lived with kerosene lamps would have been my grandparents. My mother's generation would have lived with the ice boxes, and the quilting blocks, and the mittens being knitted, and the bread rising in the pans to be baked in the kerosene ovens. so, I guess you'd say I was a composite, and it's all mixed up. I had a friend when I stayed with my grandparents. Her parents were the right age. She had store-bought clothes, and a bathroom, and a fireplace, and a refrigerator that made ice cubes, with pop stored in it. How I envied her! My goal, even yet, is the fireplace, and the store-bought clothes. I wanted all these things so desperately, when I was a child. I'd go back to stay with my parents part of the time. They lived in the house with no electricity. I was in High School before they moved. It was finally to a house with electricity - but still no bath. To this day, they don't have one. We finally installed one, five or six years ago. It's still new to me. I've always wondered why they didn't move, years before they finally did. I guess it's habit. I don't think it was love of the place. I though when we http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b53c8f6bc40f907c08d7970e1ba0d22d.jpg a18bd901645a08aaa56480faa5c29fbf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (36) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 34 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl moved to town, it would be a whole new world. It wasn't. It was still the coal stove in the corner, still the slop bucket in the corner to empty dish water and plate scrapings into and the kerosene stove in the kitchen. Still, the two-piece pad irons, heated over the stove. But, we did have electricity. They've finally installed water in the kitchen, an electric range, a refrigerator and a freezer, a dryer and gas space heaters. It's almost up to date. But, my folks aren't. Whether it's habit or whether they like it, they've lived in this house as long as they lived in the one in the country. I still live in my grandparent's house. We didn't have much company. Of course, in the Depression years, I don't suppose people went visiting much. One of those fears I had was traveling. I was in Jr. High before I went to the nearest city - twenty miles away! I may have gone before that, but I can't remember. Things big have always frightened me. I still don't accept this as a manner of course. It's still an excursion, still has an element of fear, uncertainty about it. I still see intrigue lurking in corners, and doorways, still manage to get lost, so to speak, in unfamiliar stores -still consider it alien ground. I've been a small -town girl too long. Oh, I go all right. Go into town for meetings, and visit art galleries, shop, etc. My husband doesn't take me. I go alone, or with women friends. I take the children. They romp on the escalator, and self-serve elevators, to their hearts' content. They've never worried about being lost, or being stolen by Gypsies, or murdered in the doorways by dope addicts. As I said, though, we didn't go much, and we didn't have much company.I did travel to another state a couple of times. My grandparents went to visit my aunt, and I could go too. As I grew older, it meant joys without end. This town had a movie house, middle-sized stores, sidewalks that were broad enough, and smooth enough, to skate on. I made friends across the street, and down the street. We drank lovely Pepsi's by the carton - full! Ate potato chips and pretzels. Played Ping-Pong. Blissful summer days. Those were the days of my childhood, I think. the only days, and they came much later, about eleven, or twelve, and ended suddenly with the death of my grandfather and trip back to the house I grew up in. The absence of that dearly loved, familiar figure, http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3b7fa5bc33c48a8fc6e07bf19b62be95.jpg d691b6ae005922a208aceaa5e502f19b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (37) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 35 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl upon whose lap I loved to sit, and rub my cheek in his scratchy, wool sweater, duck to one side as he spit tobacco - most always unerringly in the Chase & Sandborn coffee can. Reach in his pocket for a pink peppermint lozenge. Beg for a nickel to run to the corner store for an ice cream cone, whose last remarks, as I went our the door, were always, "Remember who you are". I never asked who I was. I never knew who I was. Only that was his grandchild, and my grandmother's grandchild. My brothers and sisters I hardly missed. I didn't know them to miss them. You cannot miss what you do not know, and I didn't know them. I can still sometimes still hear, "Remember who you are". I still do not know, but I don't know whom to ask. I guess I must find this answer alone. Things changed then. I went home to stay. My grandmother wasn't well, my older sister, who was out of school, went to stay with her, and took my bed, and my dresser drawer. Strange, I can only remember one dresser drawer. I guess that held all my belongings. These were never many. There still aren't. Back I went to the house in the country. Back to the family I hardly knew. I had lived with them during school terms all the time. But, I waited on weekends, and summer vacations, to go to town. I waited on those nickels, those laps to sit in. The pampering I suppose I got. I never remember being called in the mornings, except Sundays. Sundays we went to Sunday School and church. We walked , unless it was terribly inclement. then, my grandfather got out the Model A and took us. He always came after us. Always drove up after everyone was gone. My grandmother was always the last one out of the church. I never knew if it was because he was always late, and she waited on him, or thought she'd be late so he waited on her. I never knew. I guess it doesn't make any difference now. I waited all the time I lived in the country, with a sort of detached aloofness. I probably was hard to live with. I know of no teenager that isn't. I had Rheumatic Fever. Spent months in bed. My mother was a good nurse. But, she never talked to me. No on ever really does. I think. We spent days together, me waiting for the school bus. She doing things around the house. It was winter, so we were living in only part of the house. She did play the piano. She played beautifully! She didn't teach me though. I taught myself. I had lessons once, when I was a little girl. We must have had some money then. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/032fed2f59763521863c5b60d2438129.jpg 04b79667b5f1b1d3e93462cdad8ab550 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (38) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 36 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Then with the war, my father changed jobs. We didn't have anything much for a long time. I'm sure we ate. We kept chickens, and a few cows. I remember they butchered a pig once in awhile. My mother canned the meat. We had a big garden and raised our own potatoes. My mother made our bread. The pantry always had big crocks of milk sitting in it. Scraping the cream as it rose. How often do you scrape? I have no idea. I didn't learn. I did learn to bake bread. It's one of my accomplishments to this day. Only now, I make sweet rolls. I made too many loaves of bread then. It seems so strange that I can remember so few times working. My grandmother was the mistress of her home. She didn't ask for help, or tell me to help. She'd wash out my clothes, wash my hair, scrub and clean. She was surprised that I know so little about how to do anything in later years. No one rally ever taught me. I haven't done a very good job of teaching myself. School progressed. I like people, as I've said, and I liked school. I never really was anybody's best friend. No one else was as interested in books as I was. I didn't really have to study harder. I had parts in school plays. Went to basketball games. Was never elected cheerleader, they always picked someone more petite, and graceful. Had a few honors in school. Worked part-time. We'd moved to town by this time; not the town where my grandmother lived, but close to it. I could go back and forth on the Greyhound Bus. I hated those trips. I was always afraid I'd miss the bus. When it finally came around the curve, I'd run to the stop. Then, i was always afraid the driver wouldn't stop at the right station. Once one took me ten miles past my destination. I cried and cried, called my mother, who sent a neighbor after me, and caught up with me on my way, walking back home. It was as hard to accept a favor then as it is now. I'm always afraid it will be an imposition. After graduation, I could have gone to any one of several colleges, but we didn't have guidance teachers then. My heart was set on dress design. Some silly, romantic kid's idea. I could have gone on to any college of Liberal Arts, and should have. I had met my future husband by this time. We enjoyed a friendly, friendship. I suppose, in all honesty, I wanted a friend - he wanted a sweetheart. I had fallen madly in, and, http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/89c6c0bde6dae93ae8fc5dc838ec23d7.jpg f284dc2fbf5f5cb1010c7f14ccba9e7d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (39) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 37 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl disillusioned, out of love just before meeting him. I would have followed this first love to the end of the earth. Only he didn't ask. He was embarrassed at my overtones of affection. He tolerated my playing all these romantic love songs of the day on the piano. He had his obvious faults. My parents didn't like him much. They could see through him. I couldn't see a thing! It was a very short-lived romance. As summer romances are apt to be. I was introduced to my husband by one of the girls I was working with that summer. I, in turn, introduced her to her future husband! We did a lot of double dating. She "had" to get married; we had a big church wedding. Part of the time, after I was out of school, and working in the little town, I lived with my grandmother again. She was in her eighties by now. Never the less, she called me for work every morning. Fixed my lunch at noon when I walked home. Waited supper till all hours if I was late because of visiting, or just plain talking. Washed out my lingerie, ironed my clothes - and I practically ran away! I guess I did run away before we were married - ran back to my parents' because I thought I should be there. Couldn't be both places, close to my husband's work. He came home for lunch, and we played at housekeeping and married life. I finally learned to drive. worked at a job, one and one half weeks, and that's been the only time since we've been married. As I've said before I never really had anyone teach me to do housework. I keep looking to tomorrow's projects, and seem never to get today's projects finished. We've reached the middle thirty's and with forty's breathing down our necks, I can't enjoy today. I'm too fat. The dreams, and aspirations, of that crazy, mixed-up kid of twenty years ago are actually centuries ago. Our four children have had their share of measles, mumps, chicken pox; not Rheumatic Fever. And, I suppose as a mother, I didn't sit down and talk with them either. My grandmother died five year ago , at the age of ninety-six. We finally moved out of our house in the country. Came back and lived with her. We had just the three children then. Our little girl came after. Grandma was still cleaning her own room, and doing my dishes , when she died. We still live in Grandma's house.It's never been mine. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7732c38338257781d7cd6da932cf835d.jpg aa3939ce9b78b77318114f34d4938df8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (40) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 38 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl or ours, probably, never will. I trim her rose bushes in the spring, transplant her tulips, and jonquils, every three or four years. We did plant some trees that are ours. But the house hasn't changed that much. But, if I have deep, and ponderous, thoughts, my friend, the pencil, and I write them down. I've lived too long to explain any of my wishes, desires, or thoughts, to anyone else. I haven't gotten the nerve to tell anyone to "Go to Hell". or "Jump in the lake", and likely never will. If I open my mouth to contradict anyone at a meeting , or to voice an opinion, I blush, and my heart pounds. We go to church every Sunday, don't miss a one. Only my husband goes too - we usually are the last ones out the door though, come to think of it. Same church, same door. The words of my grandfather come back. "Remember who you are!" Who am I? God, I wish I knew! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/aa0165dbc466986d1859b55313f6aba3.jpg 74afdf7bf5f3edba24019d1d3dd406d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (41) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 39 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Seven WHERE IS HOME? I knew then that I would never forget. All my life, I'd waited to hear them . Every Fall, my brother would talk of them. Only after the war came, and my oldest brother left for the army - only then did they not mention them. I'm talking of the geese of course, the wild geese flying down from the North - flying south in the Fall. Flying to the warmth, and the sunshine, of the South. Leaving their home in Canada, flying the miles over our part of Ohio - going to only they know where, and once I heard them. I used to dream of it when I was a little girl; dream of the north reaches of our hemisphere, wonder at the unknown expanse of country; wonder if I'd ever go there to see the towering pines, and the crystal blue lakes, to feel the spray of sun against my face, to see only trees, lake and sky, in one broad sweep, with no one else in this panorama. I saw it once, one early summer morning, many years later, standing on the edge of the dock. I felt an aloneness that spoke of the grandeur of nature. The sun had just risen, across the lake, the water was so calm, that, after I had taken a picture of this, there was a perfect reflection in the water, so that I still wonder which is real and which is the reflection. I think I know. I think the picture is real the way it was printed, but I always wonder if perhaps the printers may not have made a mistake. It is so perfect that it is really hard to tell. I'd never seen a lake so still before, and I've seen one so still since. The was picking up a rock, here and there, at my feet as its rays were diffused through branches of the pines behind me. I felt suspended in space. It was so still. Not a fish rippled the calmness of the lake, and I do not think that ever a bird's song broke the stillness of the morning. You can drink beauty; absorb it through the very pores of your being; wrap yourself in beauty. I did that morning in the land where the wild geese fly home in the Fall. Then, things changed. We returned to Ohio from our vacation. the Canadians call them "holidays". I like their word better! You cannot vacate your mind - only your place in busy whirl of complex world. For two weeks, or only a week, or even a http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e191463150cbb3c59fb19c39fe9237bb.jpg 52e24e31c7479f9da05c81908f5190d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (42) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 40 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl few days, the world that depends upon your presence must do without you. You are vacating that spot. But, the idea of a holiday presupposes you with hope of festivity, rollicking good times, a spirit of living free as the birds - rise with the sun, eat when you wish, sleep when you like. So a holiday is far more enjoyable than a vacation. Coming back to our mundane working world. I brought the peacefulness of that early morning stillness with me, wrapped around me like a blanket - protecting me from the coldness of the world. The beauty of that morning was captured forever on the film in my camera, but also imprinted in my mind. We've returned to Canada for many years since then. We return in the summer, after the geese of course. I've never heard them fly North. I wonder, do they sound different flying North? Are they going home, home to the blue, blue lakes, the giant pines, the serenity of the North Woods? Or, is it like my picture? The reality is in the turning Southland. Which way is home, my heart do you know? Or, will you know someday? When you've heard the geese once more? Does my heart search for the quiet solitude of the almost wilderness of the North, or is the reality of my life in the hustle and bustle of a household evidenced of my husband, four children, one dog, several cats, and many friends? Which is the reflection, which is the reality? Is not the tranquility of the Northland lake reflected in my Ohio home life? Just as my reflection is seen in the bountiful lakes of the North. Who can tell me which is which? I think I know, but then again, maybe someone has turned the negative of my life upside down so I do not know. The children grow. They grow fast. Time cannot stand still and the season have changed many times. I did not know the geese fly North the first time I heard them! When I heard them, I was standing with my father. He had been so very, very ill. He had been in the land where the geese must fly, in the sunshine of the South. He flew down, much faster than geese of course! From our spot in Ohio it is a four-hour trip. Very little flying time. Just walking from desk to boarding area and back to the desk on arrival. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/150306ddcee44337a48b7971fc4f2365.jpg 3dde50ac59abfe76a9b7e3b5ddf6321f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (43) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 41 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl When he came back, he came by plane. The short weeks of this trip had taken a toll of years of his life. He was an old man. a man who had lived with pain; had battled death, had survived. He needed time for his body to mend from several operations, from a foe that had staked a claim on his life. A foe that would be relentless; a foe which is Cancer unsuccessful. The ally's name is Heart Disease and Heart Disease cheated Cancer for my father's life. I think wistfully if one of them should be the victor for his life, I'm glad it was a heart attack. But, of course, when we heard the geese, my father and I, we did not know of the coming battle. It was a night that must be very common in this small town of Ohio, in the middle of Fall. Someone in the next house was burning leaves. The smoke you could smell; nothing could smell like leaves burning in the Fall! Except of course, leaves burning. The air was crisp and clean, but in our town, the darkness cannot be felt with our electric lights, our street lights, with automobile headlights. The silence cannot be felt with the slamming of car doors and house doors; up and down the street someone's dog is barking, some child gives a yell! How to define the yell? Who really knows? We heard the geese winging their way through the darkness, their leader directing their flight in his own manner. Flying South to the warmth, and the sunshine. I had not heard them before. My father did not hear them again. In the spring, before the jonquils and the tulips, before the lilacs and the lilies blossom, before the frogs began their nightly sounds - in the spring, my father lost his battle with his foe named Cancer, even though the true victor was a heart attack. The geese flew North again that spring, I'm sure. And many seasons have changed since. Who knows the true home of the wild geese, my heart, do you? And knows the true home of the soul? I felt my father's presence - not at the cemetery, not in the spot where his monument sits, engraved with the only accounts of any of our lives that tells the story of our lives. Born : January 11, 1896 Died: March 7, 1968 Age 72 years, 1 month, 28 days http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2182bad0da75d6ac8f9207e5cad813ff.jpg a258599028579271a5295c32c3b90e82 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (44) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 42 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl But, which is the true picture of my heart? Which is the reflection? And, is it like my picture of the lake; can it be turned upside down so the reflection is the actuality, and the reality is the reflection? Who knows? I only know my father is not there; not in the narrow grave! I do not know where he is! I do not know my heart's destination . Whether my heart seeks to go home again, or whether it's true destination lies many miles away. Is the wild goose going home to the North, or going home to the South? Oh, I know the scientists know. The bird's home would be the place of his birth, and instinctively they return there. Do they take their little holiday then in the North, or the South? Are our lives our "holidays"? do we go "home" when we die, or do we go on a great adventure? Instinctively we look forward to a homecoming in the future, a gathering of the "class" so to speak. We want to feel that those who have gone ahead of us are waiting for us. Much as the leader of the wild geese calls to his followers to follow. I have not heard the geese since that night. But, today I saw them! Flying South in a sky that forecasts the winter ahead. Gray, November days, with the ground covered with leaves. Soon, we will have snow, and if it is deep enough, you cannot see the graves of all who have gone before, only the markers standing. Today, I saw the geese for the first time. I couldn't hear them, but they were flying in a not too straight formation; flying South. To the warmth, and the sunshine. Maybe in the spring. I will either hear, or see, them flying North. Only they can tell you which direction is home to them. Maybe someday I will know in which direction my heart's home will like. Which is the truth, which is the reflection? I think I know, But I'm never sure; if the negative of my life was printed in the right perspective! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2474ee028346b529b59be641e4d19d0a.jpg 29b5a0fb1d877fdbf8b4139f0e34cff0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (45) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 43 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Eight MY ROOM I like my room. It's gold, and brown, and rusty orange. It's like the early morning sun, streaming through yesterday's rain streaked, winter windows, before spring cleaning. It's the braided rug- reminiscent of days gone by when home-braided rugs were means of economy. It's the pattern in the old-fashioned oak rocker-bought at an auction years ago, that rocked three babies. It's the green plants growing profusely in the window. The ones that make living center pieces at the table, or maybe arranged on the piano. They really get around, those little plants from the 10 cent store. I like my piano. It's funny about my piano. For years I've liked to play. We even once had an old piano, given to us by a former minister's wife. This is a new one. A Spinet with warm shades of Honey Walnut. That's a new name. You usually hear Honey Maple. But, this is soft Honey Walnut streaked here and there with the grain of Walnut. My piano-a gift of love. Many hours I've spent in the few months we've had it. Playing my soul out. Tempestuous, beguiling, tenderly. Music from me. Love songs for my husband, pop songs for the children, classics to remember from days gone by- all during the quiet hours when they've all gone to school, and to work. Just me-in my room, at my piano. I say my room when it's really everyone's. It invites you to just walk in. What more should a room do? It has memories- oh, so many memories! Gifts, Christmas'. Only one here, but it's still home. My room, my house, my family, my town, my state, my country! How wonderful to say my, when it all belongs to everyone! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7a9b8ccfd7f71b961a20d97641bcd5b2.jpg 0f291427211a3c0405cacc8337cc8fcf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (46) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 44 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Nine THE KISS It was the first time she had seen her husband cry! At least, in public. There had been one other time, a long, long time ago. But, then they had been alone, closed up in their own little world, during the hours that belong just to husbands and wives, in the kingdom of the bedroom. But, this was different. He sat on the sofa, with the children around him. Little Karen their pride and joy, on his lap. David and Pat their two youngest boys, sitting in almost stunned silence. Bill, their oldest, who, even at thirteen, would cry, sat motionless, but tears were streaming down his cheeks. The first thing that struck her eye was herhusband's clothes. "Why," she thought, "they're dirty!", and her fingers ached to wipe that streak of grease from his face. Even though he was a repairman, and had to get dirty, and greasy at times, he was usually quite immaculate. He never even liked to have the boys be "little-boy' dirty". And, here he was, greasy and all! She walked through the door and closed it. "Funny, she thought, "I didn't hear the door close, and neither did they!" She had no sense of having come from any particular place or room, the only sense of time, or being, she had centered around the five people sitting in her living room. She looked at her husband, as though he was one of her children, and with an exclamation of utter compassion, and abject sorrow, she swiftly crossed the room and sat on the arm of the sofa. She put her arms around him, and cradled his head on her breast. The children didn't notice her, but only sat, still staring with unseeing eyes. As she sat there, she wiped at the grease spots on her husband's face and brushed them away with her fingertips, much as she had down hundred of times for the children. His sobs were subsiding now, and her arms drew him closer, even closer, his face bowed down, the tears drying on his face. With a sigh of spent relief, he raised his head and looked straight at her. Without a word, she kissed him on his lips, one long, http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/096826d74423e9ec3ca12e9ebe09ee16.jpg 16ee873690a317281d4377b828bd8a0d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (47) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 45 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl agonizing final kiss. A kiss to last him until eternity, and to last her throughout eternity, and she was gone. Her husband sat still, as he had been sitting since he first heard the news. He had not seen her, but had somehow felt her presence, and he gently ran his fingers over his lips. He had not seen her, but felt her fingers on his face, and the wonder and knowledge of what he had felt filled his whole being, so sorrow and grief seemed to vanish and with a sense of lightness of spirit, he raised his head once more. Mirrored in his eyes was an unfathomable smile. With a sigh he spoke the words - the sound -were the first ones heard and as he spoke, the mood of despair lifted. Somehow, though the echoes of time, a whole new world was opened to her loved ones, sitting in her living room - grieving over her death. It seemed like such a long time had passed. Bill was in high school now, and becoming the student his father, and his mother too, had known he could, and would be someday. He had made friends of the boys and girls he had always known, but, somehow, had not really known. A smile had come to stay on his face, the dark scowling from bitterness, pettiness and persecution, had somehow long vanished. It seemed Bill had changed, practically overnight. Since the time of his mother's death, several years before, in fact. His teachers noticed it first. A child of temperament, often in trouble because of inattention, and lack of attention, he had settled down into quite a remarkable young lad. His grades, that had been failing, had risen until he was an honor student. His sullen disposition had changed, and with it the animosity that several teachers held toward him changed, and was gone. A comradeship sprang up between the teachers and Bill. The school psychologist said it was undoubtedly caused by his sudden maturing but was dumbfounded to explain how it worked in just the manner it had. Usually, cases regressed even further into despondence, and he would have supposed Bill would have somehow, he was still unable to explain either premonition, of the actual happenings. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8269515dfecfabd9a33a87d5d512cd32.jpg 46a6829a0631cc1b6b299147ad5ce3d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (48) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 46 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Tonight was the Science Fair. Bill had worked long and hard on his project. He was very interested in science, always looking for an answer, as if it would be found in a test tube. Anyway, he was at peace with himself, working on his experiments, and on his second love - art. It seemed he could almost speak through his fingertips, the beauty he created at such a young age was very strange; almost ethereal landscapes, captured through his memory's eye, from distant places seen on various family trips. Always to the wilderness, or to the far away places. And always Bill was able to capture and elusive beauty that is nature. Always it was an odd, imaginative canvas, as though an extraordinary vision was granted to him - a time from another time. Tonight, however, he received a special award on the district level and, with a proud, but somehow quiet ease, he acknowledged his receiving his award. His father was there, his sandy hair sprinkled with some gray; he often smiled at the gray with a melancholy smile of remembrance of how she always disliked her gray hairs. The whole family had laughed at Mom's gray hairs; he had always liked them and would never let her "touch them up". She would tease about his receding hair on his forehead, and say that whenever it receded another one-half inch, she would like it too. Unconsciously, his hand stole up and touched the bald spots on either temple. It has receded the half inch, he thought, and with just a slight smile, he thought of how she would have loved it. And, with a tug of his heart, he wondered how gray her hair would have been now. His mind went back to that evening so long, yet such a short time ago. A lifetime ago, he thought. And,still his heart was warmed and set at peace by the fleeting touch on his lips. He glanced at his side, almost expecting to see her there, expecting that his remembering might have conjured her up. The lady on his right was the wife of one of his customer though. He quickly glanced to the left, where David, Pat and Karen sat. Karen was growing up so fast. Nine years old now, and looking more and more like her mother. The shade of her hair, the lift of her chin, her hazel eyes that turned green when she was angry. Her nimble fingers that loved to play the piano. His little ray of sunshine he thought. Pat with his freckles, and his serious nature, was thirteen. Pat's natural http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/828929afee93f888306296a602712b47.jpg 9aabaa50ea40d54271b0ee93a3e3c828 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (49) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 47 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl bend seemed to be the ministry. His seriousness about the church, at such an early age, was remarkable. The boy's questions, and study about the church, and it's history, had long since amazed him, and caused quite a few lifted eyebrows among the ministers when a new one came, as they quite often do in the Methodist Church. The boy seemed to find a solace there, he did have to admit it. He himself did Sundays when he sat in the choir loft. the peace he found there was precious to him also. with the new church, he found he could concentrate more readily. Somehow, in the old church, the shaft of early morning sunlight had always touched the spot where his wife's casket had laid among the flowers. The beauty of the flowers, the sunlight through the stained-glass windows was almost too much for him though, and he was quite happy when the new church was completed. This picture he could see in his mind's eye, and that was enough. And, the spot in front of the Chancel in the new church had not as yet held the casket of a dear friend, let alone that of his beloved. With a shake of his head, to clear the reminiscing thoughts from it, he winked at David who had just caught his eye. He then centered his attention to the stage where his first-born son, now a tall, six-foot teenager was receiving his award, and once again, he felt the presence of his wife, felt her fingers curl within his, felt an almost imperceptive squeeze of his hand, felt her fingers touch almost fleetingly upon that spot - that spot on his temple. He could feel, as any married person can, the nearness, the way bodies touch each other, when two people sit side by side, as if she were sitting beside him in the auditorium, sharing Bill's achievement. sharing the whole family's pride in one of their members. He sat there motionless, staring at his empty hands, and the coat and shoes of the wife of one his customers. As Bill was walking from the stage to meet his family, he heard his mother's voice just once, calling him "Billy", but though he turned as quickly as he could, stopping so suddenly that he almost made the girl behind him fall, he couldn't see her. But when he saw his father, he knew that somehow his mother's presence had been there that evening, had shared with them this moment of achievement, was a justifiably proud of him as if she had been there in form, as well as in spirit, and as he held the paper, the http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/69b5836983961886590423fda051df3a.jpg c145c220059b1821333d81ec6cd2008c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (50) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 48 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl paper so earnestly and tirelessly, worked for, he was startled to see a splotch, like a teardrop had fallen on the printed William. Time for mortals has a way of flying, even though the days go slowly, and the nights are filled with intolerable loss. However, the time called years hastened on. Somehow, he knew that she would not have minded him marrying again, but he just couldn't find a woman whom he could care for. Even with their mutual loss as a family, his children and he were very close. Much closer, and comfortable about it. They had not spent much time in mourning over their loss of wife and mother, it seemed their grief had lofted long ago, and the expectancy of the future closed around them, and the time called years passed. Bill went to college, to post-graduate work, and was well on his way to a brilliant future. His-self-assurance was amazing. He seemed to go along with the idea that he had reserves of strength to carry him on, like a man that knows exactly where he is going, and how he is going to get there, just the quite confidence that marked him as an outstanding young man, with quite a future ahead of him. David had finished high school with honors, his long ago skinniness had filled out, and he had become quite an athlete in his local school. He had become quite a vocalist too, singing in the A Capella Choir, and quite often sang in the church choir with his dad. Once, long ago, his childhood ambition had been to become a doctor. With the natural grace of all born athletes, and the nimbleness of his fingers, he was fast becoming a good, a very good, med-student. With the charm, and handsome features, he was blessed with when he was born, he had become quite a handsome young man. Quite a son to be proud of! Both boys had worked hard, hard, hard and long. Their father had not had much to help them with. Both boys were soon to be married. Pat was finishing college soon. He would enter theological school soon. His serious nature was still there. His impish grin, and the gleam in his eye, sometimes peeped through, and this only added to his charm! The freckles were still there, and his blonde hair was somewhat darker. He had missed the boys when they left home to go to http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f0ce4dfda1f71c9804ef73516fa4f3cd.jpg 2f34b2b8067a0e07168e2d9c6482c64e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (51) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 49 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl college, and with his sensitive nature, he might have had quite a time of it, but with his presevering nature, he had been able to adjust to these changes. Karen had become quite a grown-up young lady. Her sunny personality had kept the whole family on an even keel. As the only female in a masculine household, she might have been quite a tomboy, but with a protectiveness few older brothers have, they had managed to keep her practically unspoiled. She had grown up in a small community that loved her, and she loved it in return. The town was just small enough, that quite a few people had known her from the time she was born. She had grown up with a realization of her loss of a mother, but with a deepening awareness of the love her remaining parent had for her. She could vaguely remember her mother. She could remember that at times her mother was cross, she made dresses for her, helped her write, and taught her to read at such a young age that she just couldn't remember learning. It seemed she always knew how, like she just knew a lot of things. All these things Karen could and did, remember. She could remember how her mother rocker her occasionally, even when she was a big girl of five! Of how she sang to her, and played games. These times over-shadowed the cross times in Karen's memory, but she did remember that mother got cross! Tonight, Karen was walking home slowly. She knew Mike would soon want an answer. He had asked her to marry him last night. She knew she would say yes, even at nineteen people are sure when they are in love, she thought. Gram had told her that her mother and father had been married at nineteen, and even the hardships that early marriages often entail, she knew they had been happy, and would not have changed a moment of it. She would tell her father as soon as she got home. She hoped he wouldn't be too lonesome, (how that word tugged at his heart-strings; she never realized, but it was a word she had used quite often as a small child). She knew her father liked Mike, he was so much like her dad. She was sure that her father would not object. Karen's favorite game, as a very small child, was one of pretending, and her favorite pretend partner was her mother. So, this day she talked to herself as she walked home, that lovely Fall day in September. She wouldn't have remembered it, but it was http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fa76a6c07593644209785dc455aaf852.jpg 32325e14446d8fbc05d3bcb0d4b1247d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (52) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 50 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl her mother's birthdate. She scuffed through the fallen leaves, and thought. " Oh, Mother, I wish you knew Mike. You would like him. I know you wouldn't mind if I were married, would you? I'll bet you and Mike's mother were friends when you were here though and she's so nice. She's almost a mother to me anyway. We can talk about the silliest things, and still be serious. I must ask Daddy if she knew you. You know, there are some things you just can't talk about with men. We'd like a Christmas wedding at the old church. They're going to tear it down in the spring. But, that's where you were married, and that's where I want to be. The boys will be married soon, and Pat is away at school. I'd like to finish college, but if we would happen to have a family very soon I'd have to quit. Remember, how I've always loved babies, I think I always wanted to have a baby sister or, or brother, and never did, but Mike and I would like to have lots and lots. The first girl, we'll name after you, if it wouldn't make Daddy too sad." Karen was very intent on her conversation and reached the corner of her street almost before she realized it. As she turned the corner, her "talk" with her mother concluded with, "Oh, and yes, Mother, Mike says he thinks my great-grandmother's wedding band will be fine." As she opened the door, she stood back just a moment, as if to let someone else enter first. Her father happened to glance up as she came in, and somehow, the sunlight and shadows made two of Karen, only one was much older. The realization hit him then, that the children were almost all grown, the boys were on their own, had been in fact, and the approaching marriages would soon be here. This boy Mike, that Karen was interested in, was a good boy, good worker, he had known him all his life. He wondered if Karen was seriously interested, and then the expression of her face, an unguarded expression told him all there was to tell. He slowly put the paper down, and held out his arms. She shyly came to him, and together, they sat on the sofa. Karen impishly perched on his knee, and started her carefully rehearsed speech. One look at her father's face told her that further conversation would certainly be unnecessary. As she flung her arms around him, and giggled like a four-year-old, somehow, again her dad had felt his wife's presence; her breath against his ear, and over his daughter's laughter, and talking and planning, he heard his wife say, "You've done your job, not too much longer now, not http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8d41ccc6d7b27bcdfe448a6f25ba2ab7.jpg 31a4c9020e7209172f32ed1097688974 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (54) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 52 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Ten SO IT GOES IN DREAMS Every girl, while she is growing up had dreams of the family she will have some day. It starts with naming dolls, and probably because the dolls are usually girl dolls, our babies-to-be are girls also. At least in my case they were. In my daydreams, there were four little daughters. Stairsteps, always immaculately dressed in frilly, white pinafores, with black, patent Mary Jane shoes, white gloves, and crisp little bonnets for church; velveteen snowsuits in the winter, and little short sets in the summer. You've seen the pictures in magazines yourself. You know what I mean. I even had these little girl children named, knew their personalities, their clothes practically made during these growing-up-days of mine. There would be Sharon - curly haired with dancing, brown eyes, pig-tailed Rebecca, with freckles on an up-turned nose; Ann and Susan would be composites of the other two, but with their own distinctive personality. all would be adorable, beautiful, mannerly little ladies - no resemblance to their tom-boyish mother in her younger years. With protruding front teeth, long-legged and with the the grace of a knobby-kneed calf instead of the graceful fawn, and with green, or rather hazel, eyes - nearsighted too - I would definitely not be expected to have such lovely children. So, for the father of these little cherubs, I imagined a husband patterned after some of the more famous Greek Gods, and as consolation and tribute to this wonderful man, I would produce - after these daughters - a son. For him. the would undoubtedly inherit my myopic vision, stumbling feet, and my rather low, alto voice. Enough that the girls be beauties. So it goes in dreams. As I became older, my dreams changed to thoughts of becoming a dress designer in a far-distant city, where the streets were paved with gold, and there were penthouses, glamorous nightclubs, and my fashions would become the most sought after in the world. After tiring of all this worldly fame, and having made my fortune, I would return to this little midwest village, and flaunt my hard-won, worldly gains in front of all my girlhood chums, who because of some reason or other, had never left this little town, and who http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a210551b6f43fc6c85f8de3ac73a5670.jpg a992368f058bf90ec545f2619fd4bbc5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (55) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 53 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl would turn just "green with envy" at the sight of my mink-coat, the foreign convertible, and of course, the fabulous wardrobe, the reason for my success. So it goes in dreams.. But. Lo and behold in my senior year of high school, I met the love-of-my-life, and, after dating rather steadily during our final school year, reality gradually crept into some of those dreams. For instance, my daughters-of-the future were going to have to be red-haired, more sturdily built, with definite freckles and fair complexions. No brown eyes either, and their temperaments might just become slightly fiery, which would be due of course, to their red hair! However, since this love-of-my-life was quite an athlete, I would compromise my dreams and we would have twin sons after the four girls. First of all, though, there would be college, then fashion school, them my career, which would have to be shortened to allow plenty of time, for the planning of six children would of course have to be considered. But. After graduation, our class took, what was known in those days, a senior trip. For seven wonderful days we toured the East! Over the Skyline Drive in Virginia we went to Washington, DC, Atlantic City, and wonder of wonders, New York City! Here, I found the widest streets, the tallest buildings, the hustle and bustle of the city. From the seventeenth floor of a mid-town hotel, the subways, the automat, Radio City, Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue, riding the subway to Long Island to visit a cousin who had made it to the city! All the thrills, all the dreams coming true! And if, while riding around the city in a boat, we saw parts of the seamier side of any large city, if the apartment shared by my cousin with three other girls wasn't a penthouse apartment, and the rooms were smaller than I had imagined - if the stores were not any different than Columbus - only larger- certainly none of these reasons were enough to justify the sudden tarnishing of the streets of gold! Or was it? Maybe it was, because the love-of-my-life was graduating form another school while we were gone, and absence does make the heart grow fonder. Having seen through the tourist eyes, the sights of Washington, from the top of the Washington Monument, where the view of the White House also encompassed the view of some of the slums; visiting the Senate and the House of Representatives, and http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0db725bf8e2153897db83a2f2c36768e.jpg 8a21191a8e442823a91ec4db8eb3c4e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (56) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 54 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl meeting congressmen in the halls, and watching from the visitor's gallery while these elected men, who run our country, as they were actually doing this, somehow, in memory's eye, they appear as somewhat weary businessmen who sometimes disagreed with each other, and the selfless dedication, one might suppose, to the service of this nation, was overshadowed by a great number of empty seats, and the affairs of state are sometimes quite repetitious and boring. Somehow, the majesty and excitement were missing, and so went a dream! And while we saw the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and even a television studio; ate at a hotel dining room, and left the city that never sleeps at 4:00 am, had hamburgers for breakfast, somehow the streets didn't glitter nearly so bright at 4:00 am! "The sunrise over the East River", (or whichever river is mentioned in the novels of yesteryear) couldn't be seen for the buildings, and to a simple, small-town girl, the lure of seeking my fortune in this city had lost quite a bit of its magnetism. Even the river itself smelled mightily of fish - dead, as well as otherwise - and the seagulls flying overhead were beautiful, until one considered they were gliding so gracefully to pluck a piece of garbage floating on the surface. "Litterbugs" were active in those days too. And, so, in the midst of the soot and grime, in the city of my dreams, another dream was gone. In not too long a time, after working and saving for a small nest egg, the love-of my-life and I were married, in a typical small town wedding. On a beautiful Fall afternoon, in a gown of bridal satin, that I made myself, complete with train and a "something borrowed" veil, with flower girls and bridesmaids, and a white Bible - before a church, packed with friends and relatives, favorite uncles and aunts, little cousins -we repeated the vows that made us man and wife. And, for our honeymoon trip, as in all dreams, we went to Niagara Falls! We started "housekeeping" in a big, old, country farmhouse, with a well-stocked china cupboard - gifts of well-wishing friends and relations. That was the year of the famous "Snow-bowl" game between Ohio State and Michigan, and since the honeymoon was far from over, walking through the now covered yards, and drifts, to the car was http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6776272d03705329e03128538c619361.jpg ca0ae1ab31083496cda1ccf28ead8b1b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (57) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 55 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl fun! As well as piling comforters on the bed and snuggling down while outside the wind roared and the snow swirled. Spring came, and with it apple-blossoms in the old orchard, strawberries in the garden, and, on a rather cool, summer evening, toward the latter part of the summer, our first dream child arrived! Not brown-eyed , curly haired Sharon came to us that summer evening, but rather a little fellow, with an old, wizened-up face, and perfect toes and fingers, and a very loud voice. We named him Gerald William. To my husband, who the oldest child in his family, with three younger sisters, a dream came true! Two years later, on a hot, summer afternoon, during State Fair week, when traffic is at an all time high, Thomas David arrived to keep his brother company, and Rebecca left to join Sharon in Dreamland. Back from the hospital we went, to the farmhouse on the hill, and if I felt the arm of justice was a little heavy in the other direction, I had only to look at the two boys and realize how fortunate I was. So, time passed, and there really was so little time then to dream. Three years later, when we brought Douglas Patrick home, I packed the little gift dresses, and the frilly sweaters, and tied them with the ribbon of my dreams, and gave them away. Now, if the boys had not been the dream children I envisioned, in reality they are three very handsome sons. Jerry, the oldest, does have brown hair and eyes, and when he was a baby, it was even curly, and with a dimple in his cheek, and a twinkle in his eye, all five foot, six inches of him is solid muscle. Since he is only thirteen, I'm sure he will grow a few more inches, and while his voice is husky with change, I still can see the little blonde, curly haired boy he once was. Tom, at eleven, is quite an individual in his own right. He's our Little League ball player, and with the natural grace that born athletes seem to have, he would have been the one with the dancing feet, but with his "bandy-rooster" spunk, I feel his dancing feet are quite useful. He's the tease of the family, and with his blue eyes, and freckles on http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/51e303c7615444d60a50bf73ff0d85e8.jpg 0f40b17db7f204c56a98bf8577f090a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (58) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 56 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl his nose, he stands straight in his choir robe, and looks like all the little cherubic pictures of choir boys the world over. Douglas recently became a cub scout, which has been his burning ambition since the days of the den meetings when Jerry was a cub and I was a den mother. With a shock of blonde hair, and more freckles than skin, almost, stocky built, and with a grin that really does reach from ear to ear, he is at times, the far more serious-minded of them all. And now, when four men are dressed for church on Sunday morning, with their polished shoes gleaming, the bow ties in place, and the cuff links all found, and the crease in each trouser leg so straight, my heart contracts as I realize how fast they've grown - this family of mine, how long ago the old farmhouse in the country, the time when they were small, and how much farther away even the time when I dreamed dreams. And as I pull on my gloves, and straighten the latest "silly" hat, I glance down at Karen Susan, our soon to be five year-old. Our "little surprise" from a Heavenly Father who knew all the time the dreams of a foolish child who had to learn things like patience. Susan, in her black patent Mary Jane's, with little white gloves, a tiny purse over one arm, a doll baby usually clutched under an arm she's had the ruffles and the pinafores, but the new "shift" fashions some how seem to fit her personality better. And, while her hair is neither curly, nor long enough for pig-tails, the little girl bob some how fits that shade of brown, and with her hazel eyes, and a very sweet smile, she's still not too big to give an unexpected hug and kiss. And, when her brothers are in school, Susan and I have plenty of time for tea parties, time to make doll clothes, and if we do have to walk over and around the balls and bats, the trucks, the football shoes, and the bikes, somehow, just one tiny smile from Susan makes the sun shine brighter. We now live in an old house, not as big as it once was, in town. And, if once in a while the call of the country gets through to the boys, Susan and I maintain we like it in town. I'm sure the winter evenings would be far from lonesome anywhere with our gang around now, still, who knows what dreams are waiting? http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/774845775e190b3b1e86abe3b38ca5e8.jpg 59095e8bad68d2ce86569efbd6f3f236 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (59) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 57 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Maybe someday curly haired Sharon and pig-tailed Rebecca, and little smiling Ann, will come to live with us, as did Jerry, Tom, Doug, and Susan. Somehow, I haven't thought of my dream children for a long time. For one thing, my heart is too full of the real-life children to spend much time thinking of what might have been. Which one of my three sons would I not have wanted to have, or could have done without? Not one! Because each of them, in their own, way, is such a wonderful gift from God. And each of them has such a large part of my heart. And, if our "little surprise', our most unexpected gift from God, had not come, I think, in time, I could have tucked all my dream daughters away. Tucked them away with a kiss and a sigh, to be sure, but away. Reality is such an unexpected thing, but when it comes, we thank God for both the reality and the ability to dream. For the loving care of a Heavenly father, who knows that the heart is blessed and warmed by the way our dreams go. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d5f1ae2c2061db6968f26e644cabdaf3.jpg 495de67d8f23f40fa92b5b398c59ecf5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (60) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 58 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Eleven HOLD FAST THESE THINGS The very things in life we cherish, are the most fleeting. Who of us has not yearned to be an artist, and portray a gorgeous sunset, or sunrise? Who has not yearned for the eloquence of a poet to describe a moment of pathos, tenderness, love, or hate? Yet, these moments are the most fleeting of our lives, and very few of us are a "Thoreau", a "Shakespeare", "DeVinci!" Most of us are simple folk, leading a complicated life, very small ducks in a very large river. How can we hold these intangibles - how can we share these unsharable moment of exquisite beauty, unquenchable desire, unbearable pain, if we do not first realize that these moments exist? When pursuing our every day vocations, we hurry to catch a bus in the rain, do we miss the rainbow in the other direction? With our minds full of "Get that train", "Tote that attache case," Lift that toll change", do we ignore the people closest to us? Are we, as housewives, fulfilling the creative urge of our children, when we scrub the floors, walls, the window, the clothes? Make the bed and light the light, Daddy will be home at 6:00 tonight! But, what about the children? Up at 8:00, breakfast, outside to play, clean up for lunch, take your nap, outside to play, take your bath, supper and so to bed, sleepy head. What a schedule for a pre-schooler - yet school days are not much better. With organized baseball, organized football, basketball, cub scout, boy scouts, brownies, girl scouts, 4-H, swimming lessons, dancing lessons, and ceramics, choir practice, and youth groups, the extra-curricular activities of many a grade school, or high school, student leaves no time for such mundane things as daydreaming, exploring attics (who has them?). cleaning cellars (who needs them?). Even mowing lawns - a good 50 cent per occupation in my youth has been vanquished by the power mower. Everyone has one of those, can't you tell on Saturday mornings? http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/984399d1808ae22f73b00855234588b6.jpg cccf46b75c296e7f648f5f60a1b74ebf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (61) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 59 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl The frantic hustle, and bustle, of our everyday existence leaves little time for even a wish to do something creative! Yet, our whole being cries out for this. Some mark to make upon the world! Some influence felt by others to show - to prove that I exist! Perhaps it will never be a beautiful painting as the Mona Lisa, perhaps it will never be a Hoffman's Head of Chris, the Angeius. Perhaps not the children's Hour, "The Barefoot Boy", "The Ancient Mariner". perhaps not "Profiles in Courage". How then, can we, you and I, make an impression on the sands of time? Hold each fleeting moment of beauty. Guard it well, because it will not come again. This sunset will be like no other, and no other will ever be like it. Look out of your window some cold, winter morning, when there is a full moon. The shadows on the snow! the gray - blue - black of the sky, the stars are so close, and so large, and so bright! Every limb on each tree wears a powder-puff of snow. The frost has etched designs on the sun- porch windows! Walk outside. The snow glimmers, gleams, shines, crunches under foot. Your breath makes a halo around your head, like Santa Claus! Of course, to get the whole effect of this winter fantasy, you must get up early, very early, and you must not be going home, you must just have gotten up, because, otherwise, you will be tired and you will have seen too much, and done too much. But, in the morning, your mind is clean as the snow. You haven't yelled at the kids, fought with your husband, kicked at the dog. You have a whole , glorious, God-given day ahead of you! Enjoy it. Make it before the dogs start to bark, the cars start to idle, the kids start to yell, before the milkman cometh, also by yourself. Or, take a stroll in your own backyard, in the spring of the year. Come walk through ours with me. See the first violet there on the little bank, in front of the peony bushes. Their little stems are so short, too short to pick, leave them there, the fairies enjoy them too. The apple, and peach, trees have tight little buds, curled up like a mouse's ears. Soon, They will bloom, and the leaf out, with little parasols, the tulip and jonquil leaves look like little spears all lined up for battle. Look deep into each little clump of spears, the bud is curled up inside, waiting for the sun to get just a little warmer. One of our boys spent almost a half-hour, one spring, examining a single. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4876d9273c763c807b0aafe850c5bbf8.jpg 643f6efaea2ccc09dfe447d57e33c2c5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (62) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 60 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl jonquil from every angle. From one side he saw the jonquil, with a background of our tall, stately evergreen, so very green against such a blue sky. From another angle, he had as a background, the twisted, gnarly trunk of the mulberry, brown and bare, from yet another, he could see past the jonquil, the neighbor's yard, and then a field with a brown and white cow, slowly, and methodically, chewing her cud. I'm sure he saw all these things, because, after he left, I went out myself and down to a four year-old level (height wise) and I looked and looked, and looked. And I felt the southerly breeze, warm against my face, and was lucky enough to see a cardinal perched up in the evergreen. Maybe he'll never paint the pictures he saw there that day. By the time he's grown, he'll have forgotten. And I'm afraid I have not the talent, but oh, how I wish I had. ut, neither of us will forget. Someday, a scene will flit through his mind, very briefly, and a vague sense of having seen just one jonquil, before the "crowd of golden daffodils", against a green, green evergreen, against a blue, blue sky. Or, pet a small, furry kitten, just big enough to walk straight. Or, take a youngster to the zoo for the first time, when they're about four. Did you know elephants were so large, so huge, so just plain big! Or peacocks had so many different colors? Do you remember how the merry-go-round makes your stomach go down when you go up? Try it sometime! With a four year-old to remind you. We've seen it too many times, done it too many times. Walk in the summer dew, with little spider webs gleaming on the grass, walk barefoot so the grass can tickle those tired feet of yours. With civilization, and a Bath, instead of a "path", all those morning walks in the dew became unnecessary - what a shame! Pull a radish form the garden; don't worry about Strontium 90, or whatever, wipe the dirt on the backside of your jeans, chew like a bunny until you get to the leaves. rinse a few blades of crinkly lettuce off under the faucet if you must, but don't add any dressing. Put a little spoon of sugar down along the big vein of the leaf, wrap it tight and eat it. Good! Did you bring the one, big luscious strawberry in with you? Rinse if off, dip the end in the sugar bowl, hold it by the leaves and eat; eat it, all by yourself, and don't let the kids see you, or you'll have the sugar bowl to wash! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/baf233caa0ed517938078fa75a0ba6ff.jpg 55b5bbfe0c248700b2884fc5eb564008 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (63 ) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 61 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl These are the things that can instantly conjure up a picture in your mind, can make the sweetest perfume, can make you taste just one strawberry, can take any given number of years off anyone's age, and make them a child again. If. If we don't keep them too busy, make them too grown-up, too soon, steal from them the very things we should be giving them. Childhood, youth, and time to enjoy themselves. doing nothing, yet everything, filling the storehouse of their minds with all the beauty, joy, that sight, sound, smell, touch can bring, and then the awareness to enjoy. Hold these things fast. Next year, the eager six year-old will be a jaded seven year-old. The sunset tonight will be like no other, and no other will be like it. Look for the rainbow, it'll be there somewhere, it always is. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0a87a7e0447d7a974d7f329ab680f9ca.jpg 44788b5cfa51b1f05a898cdde037f543 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (64) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 62 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Twelve A Day Ends, Another Begins A day ended and another day begun. So she had taught herself to look at the complexity of this substance called "Life". up at 5:00 am, breakfast prepared for one, for two, for three, three more times before the four of them would leave; her first-born on a newspaper route, her husband, the other two boys, the little girl who always announced her presence at each day's, "Mommy, here me is!", and with her arms outstretched, a little actress beginning each day' performance with a smile on her impish little face. A day ended, another day begun - so has time marched across the pages of history, not in decades, generations, centuries, but as day's dawning, and the sun's setting, time and time again for all the days of creation, and even into eternity. The land that was here, will be here; the sea, the stars, and beyond, and we who are mortals , dare to presume, inflict our wishes, our fears, our demands upon our world as a child in a tantrum; kicking, hitting out, being hurt ourselves, and so, to solve our hurts, we seek to hurt others more. And, even as the child knows that more hitting and hurting really won't make him feel better, he thinks that in hurting someone else, it might. The tears, so sorely needed by children, and parents of our modern civilization, are not allowed to flow. No healing process is allowed. This kind of world we created in our time - the world we are leaving to you, the coming generation. With each day's downing, and sun's setting, we add to our world's problems of housing and food, we add misery to misery. May you, the new generation, use your time to the betterment of the world, to solve the unsolveable, to cure the incurable, to feed the hungry and house the homeless. As our Lord said, "If you have done it to one of the least of these, so ye have done it with me." Each day's dawning, each evening's sunset, even to eternity. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b3727674ae219755713b7a7e45003c23.jpg 719800079d512d660810f9045b91fc8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (65) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 63 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Thirteen ONE WOMAN WRITES Today we all had coffee together. Janet, Verna, and I. Sometimes I feel we're the "Three Musketeers". We're not always of the same mind. But I do feel we have a kinship. Age, children who are contemporaries, maybe just three women who met. Certainly our backgrounds are not too similar. Age is certainly one factor. Our attitude toward age another similarity. Our children are close to the same age. At least three of Janet's and three of mine. One of Verna's and one of Janet's. We do go to the same church, PTA functions, etc. Anyway, our discussion today started over coffee as usual. It certainly got serious pretty quickly. How does one American housewife, Mrs. Average American Housewife, make herself known - her beliefs, her thoughts, her attitudes? How do you speak out against, or in favor of, politics, the Vietnam War - our teenage sons eventually facing the draft? How does one find the strength, and courage, to meet these issues. From where do we find our strength? Is our opinion of any value to anyone, save our families? The terrible circumstances of life in the late 1960's are certainly topics that should be dealt with on a different day than one like today. With the grass growing, the frogs singing in the creek beds, Verna hanging her wash on the line. Her cozy kitchen. But, on the other hand, what other kind of day could one bear to think of these things. Certainly not on a day of gloom and dreariness. Maybe God's answer to our questioning lies in the greening grass, the budding flowers, the peepers in the creek. Maybe the answer is one of hope and promise. The use of seedtime and harvest mentioned in the Old Testament. Maybe life goes on whether we are here, or not - whether we live and breath, and have our being. Our children will because of us. If the world we bequeath to them is the strife-torn, warring world, we've made it, and our parents made it then truly the sins of the parents will be visited, even to the sixth and seventh generation. With all the advances of civilization, we stall are living in a feudal era. Oh, the names might be different. We have the middle class, the upper class, the poverty stricken. We have http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a1d6c8450855165f1e28a0e9b61cfaba.jpg 2ae95a9958e15147dac2a98b9122c0cd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (66) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 64 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Advantages, and lack of advantages. But, how to solve the problems? We really wished we knew. To whom could we write? To whom protest? To whom congratulate? Where can we go? Where is the Utopia we could migrate to, to give our children freedom? Where can we go to give them peace? And, how crowded it would be with all the mothers of the world, wanting the same thing for their children! It seems so little really. A patch of blue, blue sky, a clothes line to talk over, the frogs in the creek, the sun shining brightly on a warm, warm March day, and, please, for every child, and every mother in the world. Please, may it one day be real. Amen. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/39995c760686c5ab2daf8a7c70c8ffc8.jpg ce81edde5f5e1bcd774b79d8925aabec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (67) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 65 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Chapter Fourteen A LIFETIME IN A SPLIT SECOND A person's lifetime is but a split second in the passing of time. As a single second can change a person's life - either for good, or not so good - so can a person's life change the course of the world, although, not the destiny of the world. We're sent here for a purpose. That purpose is two-fold. To do what we can to influence others to do good, and in so doing we justify our existence here, and prepare a way for ourselves in the world to come. A person has only to look at the beauty, and glory, of nature to realize that a power greater than ourselves, made this world. It was no accident. And, when the world is destroyed, again it will be no accident. God has had a plan for this old world of ours since it was created, just as a the teacher has a plan for a day's activity in school. As we grow older, we realize we cannot slow down the passing of time, and it seems to pass more and more quickly. At four, or five, a day is a year, a week is a lifetime, and it's forever until Christmas. At ten, or twelve, it goes more quickly, however, High School is so far beyond the grasp of so many children, at that age, that a high school student is old! A high school student thinks that twenty-five is practically aged. And, a twenty-five year-old mother, or father, of a tiny infant realizes that the cycle is starting over, and that they must take the responsibility and raise a child to be an adult. The years go so fast, and then the children are grown, the grandchildren come, and then the great-great children. All of this expires in a time so brief in the passing of time, and centuries, that it may well be called a "split-second". Grown-up adults are always faces with a decision. Parents are faced with decisions every day. Not just one either. Usually they are many. It's a difficult thing to be able to respond quickly enough to insure the right decision. The time for right answers comes but is gone. parents must be always on guard to make sure they answer the questions right, at the right time. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9d3e3f28182da97792a9c72ef4a41b82.jpg 578d569d467b321f556d5b6edd0b941d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (68) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 66 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl There are people who spend their entire life being busy at nothing. They are so busy all the time, they never have a free moment for anything of pleasure, and still, their lives may not have left any impression upon the world. There are others who aren't so busy that they cannot take a few minutes, now and then, to revel in the white fluffy clouds, in the clear blue sky to laugh with a child at the antics of a pup, to listen to a baby gurgling and cooing in a basket, and be thankful for all these blessings. The blessing of sight, of laughter, and of - with the help of God - creation. People are so much inclined today to look at the material side of life, and to hurry with the hustle and bustle, of the work to gain a material bank account. Then, in a split second disaster, it is gone. We, who live in a powerful nation, militarily speaking, and who blind ourselves with our armies, and navies, against the thought of aggression with some other powerful nation, are helpless against the forces of nature - hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, etc. Our weather bureau is doing a fine job of predicting the weather so that proper precautions can be taken, to guard against the loss of lives, but the aftermath of a storm still reveals thousands, and sometimes millions, of dollars worth of damage to homes, school, factories, and places of other business. We are helpless against the fury of nature. In another respect, we are helpless against the love of God. a mother can remember times when their children ask for something and she, absent-mindedly, says yes, only to discover a few minutes later she's said "yes" to request to do something altogether different than she thought she had heard. A person can hear God speaking to them through beautiful music, through the lives of other good, conscientious, people, through a minister's sermon every Sunday, and still not realize what they are saying yes, or no, to. Until, in some instances, it's almost too late! You've heard people say, "Christianity is all right I guess - and when I get a little older!" They don't stop to think they may not get any older. A faith in Christ, and in God, isn't a punishment for old age. It's definitely not in the same category of white http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e5577b9e942c686e7c111461312a42e8.jpg bf097d3592306c01d1e231c1af1db921 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts:The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (69) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 67 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl hair, glasses and dentures. It's a guide for everyday living, right now. Today! There may not be any tomorrows for me, it's today I'm concerned with. The day you open your heart to God, and let him take over your life, is one of the most glorious days in your entire life. Suddenly, everything is just all right. You know, you just know it is. Indecision may have dogged your footsteps for months, perhaps years, but suddenly the whole world is so much more glorious than you ever thought possible! All that is needed is to open the door when God knocks, and be willing to do as he commands. If he wants you to do something, and you are willing, he'll show you the way. Be sure of that, and be sure it only takes a split-second. Very few people wait until middle-age to marry. Yes, marriage is a wonderful climax to a courtship of two people in love. Conversion is a climax between a God who loves his children, and the children who experience the ability to love more deeply than they thought possible. June, 1956 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e07fef47ed1e43ca57c66d55f6206a64.jpg 49948c95d06345552ecc5d657162c26b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (70) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 68 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl CHRISTMAS '64 I did the shopping in the store, with bells and bows and carols in the air; I did the tree, did the wreath for the door, wrapped the presents, baked the cookies and more - then, why didn't I find Christmas? We went to church, like I knew we would, saw the tree, heard the sermon, and the children's songs, taught the lesson, made the gifts, did all we could, lit the candles, went caroling, just like we should - then, why didn't we find Christmas? Up till three, the night before, Old Santa had nothing on me that night; Spent hours, and dollars, on wrappings so bright, sewed each little snap with a thread so tight - Maybe this will make Christmas? Up at seven, the day's begun, the wrappings are littered the room a mess; the toys are clattering, clamoring, chattering, hanging, shooting, clanging, hammering; TV's blaring , no one caring - Who would even hear Christmas? The day has ended, thank the Good Lord! The relatives have all been visited, the gifts bestowed - deplored? The three old wise men, of yore, had nothing on us, with gifts of frankincense, myrrh and gold - They started gifts of Christmas! Now it's all over for another year: Settle back in your easy chair, let the dishes whirl in a new machine; Life is so easy, now, without a care, of pots and pans, all that work - My aren't we glad for Christmas? http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b35ecbe81c45e588f46b1864fe77dd78.jpg c01f81219918f5388ccfab0b49898564 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl(71) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 69 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl And, if your heart doesn't go a-flutter, at my rhyme, rhythm, poetry; Perhaps it's obvious at your house, with not a creature stirring, not even a mouse - You might have had Christmas! No decoration expensive, with bows so lavish, no tree, no tinsel, no bulbs so bright; with only a candle to brighten the night - with only a creche for decoration, on the table a Bible - with only these, you had Christmas? Tell me, my friend, now it's over and done, the New Year's bells are soon to be rung; The partying's over, the gifts are exchanged, the tree's dismantled, the rooms rearranged, tell me, my friend - What happened to Christmas? http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b50e138ae9493ecec5cf866d770d89a6.jpg 648034a95cc6bc5ae4fabc12c22f895b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (72) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 70 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl NEVER IS FOREVER I walk in the silent rooms alone; the dust swirls at my feet; The one I loved is gone, Nobody's child am I, My youth, my past is gone. I walk in the silent rooms alone, the dust swirls at my feet; The silence echoes through these rooms, my memories bittersweet. How many years these walls have seen, Love and laughter linger here; Pain and sorrows there have been; The memories haunt and sear my empty heart. Nobody's child now am I, alone I must go on; My youth, my past they fly, and having flown, leaves like the down, my empty heart. My heritage surrounds me now, My life - by me all they stand; My manly sons, my daughter fair, Life's cycle moving , moving still, and I'm alone. Nobody's child I must remain. Through years of joy and pain; Through all of life with memories, never to feel again my Mother's love, her gentleness, nor hear her voice, nor see her smile, to feel her kiss, or her caress; Nobody's child and I'll forever be. Alone, I walk these empty rooms, the dust swirls around my feet; The silence echoes through the air, my memories bittersweet. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b5f0af23eaae4e996f4b35b8dad89e0f.jpg b1fac6c4a46eb545c654af5d0a5f9025 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (73) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 71 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl HAPPINESS Happiness is not a one-way street, Everyday there are trials to meet. When you are weary, And things just seem to go wrong. Just plan to greet it with a song! Rest and be thankful, Count all your blessings, Rest and be thankful, Count all your joys! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/708e5e236040efa61f432fcd2ce8730f.jpg 112de23ea454138ea80de0a3f9593661 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (74) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 72 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl A BABY'S SMILE A baby's smile, a sweet caress, Will give you pause for thankfulness, So look around you will find, All around you a halo of sunbeams! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/90981cbb019c666124ec3a47ba5d89c5.jpg 4c6b03048851cb1915fd599687d30d6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (75) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 73 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl A MOTHER'S LOVE To Susie-Q from Mother (May 6, 1964) To my daughter - Karen Susan Today is a lovely spring day - 3 days before your birthday. In 5 days you will be 4 years old, and in the midst of the lovely, beautiful spring weather, your mother has the "blues", so to speak, and will write you a letter, I hope you never get. You see, in the midst of the beautiful spring, Mother's thoughts have been turning morbid (for me) thoughts. I waited so long for you Susie-Q, and do so want to see you grow up to become, a beautiful young lady, but sometimes, I get a little scared that I won't. You see Susie-Q, the world today is kind of funny. There are so many accidents, have been here in town even, that I never knew about when I was a child, maybe they were there and I didn't know, but anymore it seems there are so many accidents, and sicknesses, or diseases. All of these things are not pretty, my sweet, and your Daddy and I keep them from your brothers and you, which is how it should be, but sometimes things are too nice, too, and a person gets kind of worried , so today, I'm writing you a letter; to tell you how much I love you and all your your big brothers, and your Daddy too. Be the sweet, little girl you are now, all the rest of your life, "punkin"; remember how much you are loved, and will be loved in the times to come. Sometime in the future, your world of love and security may shake, but it won't fall apart, because the same God who made the birds, and the clouds, and the pretty green grass, and the kitty-kats, will still be loving you, and taking care of you, as he's taken care of Mommy and Daddy and the boys, and all the people who know, and love, you. So my little Susie-Q, daughter, be that good little girl. Keep reminding you big brothers, and your Daddy, how important love is, and all the hugs and kisses that go with it. Don't let them forget. And, next year, on your birthday, I'll write another letter, I hope, one you'll never receive, I hope. With all my love, You Mother http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1d0a4d649d1e3291e4915992111de028.jpg 542900c540cab7583b0750514fc4d60c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (76) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 74 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl LITTLE RUNT - A THANKSGIVING STORY BY DELLA LUTES Note: This story was found among Mother's journals. The name Della Lutes is believed to be her "pen" name. My father thought that it would be nice to include it in this collection, and I agree. Mother may, or may not, have included experiences and memories from her own childhood. This story may also, in fact, be the works of another writer and Mother may have copied it from something. Holidays in my childhood, some fifty years ago, in southern Michigan, were celebrated mostly by a foregathering of relatives and the generous consumption of good food. And so, on such holidays as fell in winter, the men tipped their chairs back against the wall of the front room, and swapped local history, while the women swung between the parlor bedroom, where they had laid their wraps, and sleeping children, and the kitchen, where they fell to and helped. Thanksgiving was the day of days for intimate family gatherings, and unstilted feasting. On Thanksgiving, my mother welcomed numbers; only numbers could provide suitable scope for her prowess as a cook. A young sow, once in early Fall, presented herself with a lively litter of thirteen husky pigs. All but the 13th! My father brought him into the house, scrawny, unable to stand on his little, spindling legs, blear-eyed, and pallid, and laid him on my mother's lap. "Runt", my father said succinctly. "Though maybe you'd like to put him in a little box or something". My mother placed an old apron on a chair, and laid "Little Runt" upon it. Then, she warmed some milk, stuck a finger in it, and let the little creature suck it off. This he did repeatedly until, satisfied and warmed, he feel asleep. In a few days, a bottle was substituted for fingers, and in a week, Little Runt not only had a chance, but was on way to normal pig life. He was given a small box near the kitchen door, and all day his contented grunts, and more demanding squeals, as mealtime http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/85d3afd01d5c3a224c9686166548fca7.jpg d56a4f48d7f542e065cf3643110b4fe0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (77) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 75 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl grew near, were heard. I became my duty to dump the box, give him fresh straw, and see that he had water. "Fat him up," said my father eyeing Little Runt critically, "and we'll have him for Thanksgiving dinner. I've always wanted roast pig for Thanksgiving!" So, Little Runt was fed on sweet milk, fresh corn meal, and vegetables, and throve to a state of porcine beauty, beyond all rightful expectations, considering his early state. He tagged at my mother's skirts when she looked for eggs, and when she fed the hens, always sniffing at everything in his path, continually expressing his affection, gratitude and general satisfaction in life, with cheerful little grunts, or a high-pitched squeal. He allowed me to wash and scrub him until his skin was pink and smooth, and firm, and made no serious objection to the still-pink ribbon tied about his neck. With his little round-quirking nose, his small bright, watchful eyes, and his up-curled, wiry tail, Little Runt was a pig to be proud of. My father watched the process of his growth with evident approval. "going to look pretty good spread out on the dripping pan "long about the 29th!", observed my father, early in November. My mother made no reply, and, as for myself, I looked at my father with positive distaste. How could he be so cruel, actually smacking his lips at the thought of Little Runt spread out in a dripping pan! Poor Little Runt! I ran and grabbed him up, and held him, kicking, squealing, protesting, in my lap, glowering at my father as at an Ogre. "Just how," queried my father at another time, "do you make stuffing for roast pig?" For quite a few minutes my mother did not reply. The subject seemed to lack favor with her as it grew in the approval of my father. Surprised at her silence, he set his penetrating eyes upon her and said "Huh?" "Stuffing?", she repeated with apparent reluctance. "Oh, I make it 'bout the same as for turkey. Little more sage, maybe." http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/07210374cbf62226298f9515adf89455.jpg 895f43c777b5ce6a0379f2f937a2d154 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (78) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 76 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl "Umm-mm", my father made pleasant reminiscent sounds in his throat, "Sage~! You picked the sage yet?" "Yes, " she replied, "long ago. Savory too, and all the herbs." "Put any onion in it?" "Yes," said my mother, shortly, "plenty of it!" And, then all of a sudden, Little Runt took to following my father about, his nose close to the heel of the man whose favor he seemed to think it vital that he should gain. At first, he was merely tolerated. "Get out of the way, you dad-rotted, blame little ole fool!" my father would exclaim, accompanying the admonition with a thrust of boot, designed to caution rather than to harm. But, within a short time, as Little Runt, with porcine stupidity, ignored his master's indifference, the companionship seemed to be encouraged. "Come along then , you old cuss fool." Father would invite lamentably, "you get underfoot and you'll get your tarnation nose knocked off!" And, into my father's voice crept an extra note of bravado when he referred to the succulent dish so soon to be served upon his plate. "You going to have anything besides roast pig?", he asked of my mother, in what was intended to be a casual tone. "Potatoes," replied my mother, "and squash, and boiled onions--." "I mean any - any other - meat?" He explained in a manner strongly hesitating for all of his forthright spirit. "I didn't know as just the - the pig 'a be enough." "Well," said my mother, judiciously, "I didn't know as 'twould be myself, seein' how your mouth's waterin' for it. So I thought I'd roast a turkey. Old Tom's good and fat." My father's face lightened "Maybe's well," he remarked, carelessly, "When you want him killed?" "Not yet, anyway", replied my mother, shortly, "You can kill him when you butcher the pig." http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3b1ee9865cc61059b40bbc99f790cf08.jpg d0b507cee66da3d16eba37f8a0971c86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (79) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 77 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Abruptly, my father rose and went outside, where we heard him being vociferously greeted by Little Runt, with his won response made in loud and threatening, tones. My mother smiled with her eyes, but her lips wee tightly shut as she went on about her work of clearing away supper. After that my father talked loud, and often, of the Thanksgiving feast so rapidly approaching. He asked my mother if she was going to put a raw apple, or a cooked one, in Little Runt's mouth. With the imminent approval of the festal day, Father haunted the kitchen. He watched the filling of the cookie jars- gray stone for sugar cookies and a brown glazed one for molasses. He sampled each batch of doughnuts as it came from the kettle , and said they were not up to Mother's usual standards. He took, at my mother's invitation, repeated tastes of the mincemeat under preparation, and, with the air of a connoisseur, suggested the addition of wee bit more boiled cider, just a speck more of allspice, and finally, with a tentative glance at my mother's face, just a touch of brandy. Adding and mixing and stirring and tasting, together they brought the concoction to, what both were satisfied, was a state of perfection! Two days before Thanksgiving, my father beheaded Old Tom, filled the big brass kettle with boiling water, scalded and plucked him. the wing tips were cut off whole for brushing the hearth, and the tail feathers were finally gathered up and tied together in the form of a duster. He was then handed over to my mother, with the somewhat ostentatious remark, "There"s you turkey. I'll fetch the pig in tonight. Stub Obart's goin' to butcher him for me." As for my father, there was no understanding him. He had seemed, especially in the last few weeks, to love Little Runt. He had fondled him, scolded him, even called to him when not in sight! He scratched his back, and now he talked callously about cutting off his head. After supper that night he set off with Little Runt, squealing, kicking, protesting, in a box in the back of the prong, (a type of sleigh) it having snowed during the day. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d0e44e51f1d24c33e62730dea27c14b9.jpg f57484d3996fc38ba100a781123a83e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts:The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (80) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 78 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl My mother and I sat close together by the evening lamp, she mending, I playing half-heartedly, with paper dolls. Our ears were strained to catch - in imagination only - the shrill cry of fear and pain, our eyes seeing crimson splotches on the sweet new snow . Along about 9:00, my father returned. "Where you want him?", he called lustily. "Put him in the cellar," my mother replied, "on the bench." She did not rise, she made no inquiries. She took me off to bed and sat with me until I slept. The little pig's carcass was brought up as soon as breakfast was over, and, at the sight of it it, I burst into tears and fled the kitchen. Time is no respector of emotions, and as the hours wore on, the tempo of activity increased. Potatoes were pared and left in a kettle of cold water. My father brought a huge Hubbard squash up from the sand pit in the cellar, and broke it into small pieces with an ax. He was not a handy man when it came to household procedures, but on this day he seemed unusually eager to make himself useful. At 2;00, we were all seated around the the board, the turkey, his crisp , juicy skin bursting here and there in the plenitude of his stuffed insides, before my mother at one end of the table, and the rosy brown, crackling-coated, well-rounded porcine frame before my father. The little pig's legs, now untied, squatted wantonly beneath his well- padded hams and shoulders, his golden body crouched upon the plate. Father, holding the knife above the riddled carcass, said with odd gusto, "Now, Missy, I'm going to cut you a nice juicy slice." My mother, struggling to control herself, said, "I don't care for any, thank you," and burst into tears. We all, with no accord, turned to look at her, the guests in astonishment, I, with streaming eyes and sobbing breath, and my father in consternation and apparent anger. "Well," he said, with what would seem to be a righteous indignation, "I was waiting to see if you was goin' to show some signs of feeling, 'Missy. Wait a minute." http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/00a310f6e112a8801b63899af6f65afc.jpg ba77ba7bad8eac90ee4577c39b3fcc91 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts:The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (81) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 79 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl He threw down his napkin, shoved back his chair, dashed through the kitchen, snatched his hat from a nail, as he went all, it seemed, in one whirlwind of motion, his guests staring after him in rooted amazement. My mother wiped her eyes, and a shamed voice, said, "It was Little Runt. I fed him by hand - he t-tagged us around - I didn't see h-how he could - I d-don't know what he's up to." But her tearful, broken apology was interrupted by a confusion of the strangest sounds - a mingling of sharp, staccato squeals, the innervoice of a struggling pig, snuffles, and grunts, my father's voice raised in affectionate abuse, the back door opening. "Hol' your tongue, you tarnation fool-cus" - there he was, white hair flying hat awry, and in his arms, leg kicking snout wrinkling, small pink body squirming, was - sure as you live - Little Runt! "There!" said my father, wheezing a bit from exhaustion, "Now what you think?" Every chair had been pushed back. Food was cooling on the plates. I had flown from my chair to greet Little Runt and pull into my lap. "Why!", cried my mother gasping. "What - where - ?" "Well," said my father, flinging off his hat and smoothing hair and beard and beaming with satisfaction in his own exploits, "when I saw you [addressing my mother] were really bent on having roast pig for dinner [my mother lifted hands, opened her mouth, and remained silent], I figured I'd have to fix it some way to save Little Runt's hide. You see, [he now turned to his dumb-founded guests] this was the runt we raised by hand, and he took to following me around, so when it came time, I didn't have the heart to - so I took one of Stub Obart's instead." Then, with a swift turn from the still silent table, he addressed the contented, adventuring pig. "Come along now," he said, and executing a flank movement, caught Little Runt by his hind leg and hoisted him to his arms, admonishing him sonorously. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/70773aa536c24b2daddf86d7bf78522c.jpg 475cea18acae60a8ddbbaf858ebcf0b6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (82) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 80 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl "Thanksgiving for you all right, you fool runt, but hogs don't celebrate it in the house.", and, in an uproar of squeals and protesting kicks, Little Runt was born away. "Lije," said Uncle Frank, in his absence, "always was a sentimental old fool!' "Let me", urged my mother, politely ignoring the remark, "give you some more turkey." And so, as far as I can remember, Little Runt lived to a fat old age and died in his pen. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/84eea11c4d5e1515678c8bea3948565f.jpg 253bde0e68441eee6a319e6853020124 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts:The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (83) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 81 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl "My Manuscipts" A HISTORY OF THE STORIES I have tried to calculate approximate dates that these journals were written. Through the content of my mother's journals, and research done by my father, I have determined these dates to be as follows: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES: My grandfather, Douglas Gorsuch, died in 1943. It is not known when my mother wrote this story. Perhaps it was sometime in the late sixties, following the death of her father, Harold Roof, in 1968. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Mother wrote this sometime in 1962. My great-grandmother, Minnie Gorsuch, passed away in 1961. MY OUTSIDE INTEREST: Mother wrote this story during the summer of 1962. IN BETWEEN DAYS: This story would have been written sometime during the Spring of 1968. Grandpa Roof passed away on March 7, 1968 A LETTER TO MR. BISHOP: This letter would have been written late 1968, or early 1969. WHO AM I?: This story was written in March, 1966. WHERE IS HOME?: According to the time frame that Mother speaks about, it appears that this story was written in the Fall of 1968, following the death of my Grandfather that prior March. MY ROOM: this story was written sometime during 1968. THE KISS: This story is fiction. I have spoken with my father about the times that I was now aware of, and it appears that she may have been writing from the perspective of what she wished for her children. The most amazing thing about this story is that we http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ed224ac996d6dc8a1ab0bf156932d85f.jpg 3be2985fb02b10fa6650593cfab1c410 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (84) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 82 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl really did sit in the living room, following her death, and felt much of the feelings that she described. We had not yet found these journals, and when we did, after reading them realized how eerie it was that she could almost foresee such a thing. The date that this was written was probably sometime during 1969 or 1970. Footnote: My oldest brother, Jerry (William) did marry a wonderful woman named Barbara Jo, and they have three beautiful daughters, Jessica Loraine, Jennifer Marie and Joslyn Dyann. My brother Tom (David) also married a wonderful woman Barbara Jean, and they have two beautiful daughters, Lindsay Anne and Loren Lea. My brother Doug (Patrick) married a woman named Kathy and they had a daughter named Amanda Lynn. Kathy and Doug later divorced and he re-married. His wife's name is DiAnna, and they have the first grandson, Gerald Kenneth Douglas Crowl (we call KC - he is blessed with two of his grandfather's names, Gerald and Kenneth and his father's). I, Karen (I go by Susan) was married and have no children. My husband and I also divorced. I have not remarried as of this writing. SO IT GOES IN DREAMS: According to the ages of myself, and my brothers, my mother would have written this sometime in the spring of 1965, shortly before my 5th birthday, which is May11. HOLD FAST THESE THINGS: This story must have been written in late 1969, or early 1970. Mother speaks of dancing lessons and that is when I was taking Ballet lessons with a friend of mine. I would have also been the last one in Grade School. A DAY ENDS, ANOTHER BEGINS" It is difficult to determine when this was written. The reference is made to our approximate ages so I am guessing that it was in the early 1960's. ONE WOMAN WRITES: Mother references in this story that it was written in the late 1960's. Her friends that she writes about were very dear to her. Janet passed away http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/21fac32a92d92f13a99396610b2cec16.jpg f323ec185da21e91239a1d6f022c50ee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (85) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to page 83 of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl many years ago, after my mother had died, and Verna is still alive and living in the same area. A LIFETIME IN A SPLIT SECOND: The date is know because Mother wrote it on a notepad with the date at the top. This is the only time that she had dated anything and the date written was June, 1956. CHRISTMAS '64: I do not know if Mother wrote this following Christmas, 1964 or if she wrote it later, remembering Christmas. NEVER IS FOREVER: Mother wrote this poem sometime following the death of my Grandmother, Edith Roof. Grandmother passed away July 7, 1970. HAPPINESS and A BABY'S SMILE: These are both poems that were found with these journals. It is not known when they were written. A MOTHER'S LOVE: This is a very personal letter that was found in the folder with these journals. I cried the first time that I read it, and I have cried each time after. I have included it with these journals because I feel that it is important to k now all of mother's feelings to fully understand her, and who she was. I hope that you, the reader, see the love that is there. I named it myself because I feel that she loved me so much, and this was her way of showing me that love, even though she hoped I would never see it. She wrote it to me before my birthday in 1964. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3ba8a045ad7a65ba37b830a3d4047b6c.jpg f315bdb142dbe3a94dfbc585d4c7f0f3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl (86) Description An account of the resource Corresponds to back cover of My Manuscripts: The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Family Histories Description An account of the resource This collection contains family histories that have been written by residents of the Big Walnut area. Items in this collection generally contain genealogical information about the families, personal anecdotes, and images of family members. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "My Manuscripts" The Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl Subject The topic of the resource Local History--Sunbury--Delaware County--Ohio Personal Narratives--Loraine Roof Crowl (1931-1975) Description An account of the resource From the Introduction of "My Manuscripts, the Personal Journals of Loraine Roof Crowl,": "I have compiled these journals in a book form, so that my mother's dream of someday becoming an author can finally come true...I have learned a great deal about the mother I lost at such a young age of 15. She was only 43 years old, a whole lifetime ahead of her." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Author Loraine Roof Crowl Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Compiler: Karen Susan Crowl Bennett Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Book Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 31116841 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cbb16255d9301da3ed688b04e3d07089.jpg 68199e52a0a1d4bcd71887154fee23a4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 1] [corresponds to cover of I-DENTITY] THIS BICENTENNIAL YEAR OF 1976 In grateful acknowledgement of the sacrifices and perseverance of our forebears; I-DENTITY is dedicated to my children and to Longshore Posterity everywhere. Respectfully submitted by Maxine Longshore Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 1) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/11d43f37fd29252d2637acb971f5271f.jpg 70fd6c5c34492dcb0f446244dedb9579 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 2] [corresponds to page 1 of I-DENTITY] A FORWARD BY THE AUTHOR I-DENTITY was written to satisfy the hunger each of us has to know "who am I and where did I come from?" Perhaps the background will give a sense of direction to the foreground. The following is an explanation of the purpose of this work and is by no means an apology for it. A genealogy is simply an account of family ancestors and rel- atives with their pedigrees. No doubt some will find it dull, dry, boring-while others will think it exciting. In my research, I have found references to different families' occupat- ions, careers, and special projects which are included to add interest. Hopefully each Longshore family will find this work helpful whenever he would like to find out where Great, Great Uncle Harry lived and what he did for a living, who his wife was and how many kids did he have anyway, and why did he leave Ohio (or wherever) in the first place! You will not find all the answers but you may find some valuable clues. I have carefully researched and tried to validate all statements. However, by the very nature of the subject, some data has to be based on tradit- ion, hearsay, and the reliability of someone's memory. Even the census takers made mistakes in their recordings of names and birthdates, partly because at times the respondents themselves did not know how to spell their names, read, or write and oftentimes the early census takers themselves were just one step ahead of the illiterate. So please take any mistakes in stride and try to understand how it could happen even among very conscientious recorders; and make your own corrections and additions. The genuine history student no doubt will thrill as he fits his own ancestor into the proper time slot and location, and his imagination can run riot as he pictures his courageous OWN-striving for religious freedom, fighting the wars, clearing the wilderness, fleeing the Indians, burying their children, strugg- ling to stave off starvation and other privations. He can also envision happy times such as barn dances, family and community gatherings, games and contests, the plain simple family together- ness in work and recreation. Americans have always played, sung their songs, and danced, and most importantly - laughed! Many thanks to each of you who has cooperated so beautifully and contributed in any way. Special gratitude to my father-in-law, Lester Longshore, who patiently racked his brain to answer my persistent questions; Harold and Bessie Longshore who drove to Ohio from Iowa last fall special to bring their data on the Truman Longshore line, compiled in part by the late Homer Longshore and Matilda Longshore Rule; Claire Longshore Raybuck who helped me read tedious microfilm at the libraries; my husband, Russell, who tolerated my meanderings in the cemeteries, and my absent-mindedness while I was focusing on people, dates, and places of yesteryear; but most of all to my daughter, Janet Nuckles Mallett, who gave freely of her expertise and time to photocopy this story. I have loved every minute of this experience, especially the making of new friends. If in any way, my probings into family matters has offended anyone, please forgive. Respectfully Submitted, Maxine [Mrs. Russell] Longshore Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 2) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/73b61bc6a9498889f16655d263fc2418.jpg fd3042642b472775f92359a95f189a3b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 3] [corresponds to page 2 of I-DENTITY] SOURCES OF REFERENCE Family members Delaware County History of 1880 by Baskins History of Bucks County, Pa. by Davis (1905) Early Friends, Families of Upper Bucks by Roberts Memoranda and Diary of Thomas Ellwood Longshore (1835) 1800 Census of Bucks County, Pa. 1850 and 1860 Delaware County Census from Ohio Delaware County Tax Records of 1812 (Ohio) Various deeds and wills from Delaware County, Ohio Delaware County Vital Statistics Wills from Pa Books of Tombstone Inscriptions from Delaware County, Ohio and Muskingum County, Ohio Delaware County Atlas of 1860 Longshore Reunion Records from 1898 World Book Richard Skolnik's Great Heritage Books These various references were found at The Columbus Branch of The Latter Day Saints Library, Ohio Historical Center, Ohio State Library, Westerville Library, Columbus Library, Community Library in Sunbury, Delaware Library, Delaware County Courthouse, and the Probate Court in Doylestown, Pa., Cemeteries at Sunbury, Galena, Condit, and Westerville, Ohio Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 3) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2a62de8f11ee6dd0332df67191bae257.jpg 7138c919c010eca4ab9dbb5a1ce19926 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 4] [corresponds to page 3 of I-DENTITY] Index to the Longshore History Page 1 -11 Possible Pa. ancestry and background 12 Introduction of David Longshore, 1806 Ohio Emigrant 13 - 16 Early Delaware County History 17 Possible Euclydus (II) Longshore descendants 18 Introduction to David Longshore's children 19 IA John Longshore, David's 1st child 19 - 20 IB Introduction of Cyrus' (David's 2nd child) children and Cyrus Longshore's Will 20 Jonathon and Minor Longshore and Charles (Cyrus' sons) 21 Introduction of Charles Longshore's family (Cyrus' son) 21 Introduction of Minor Wm. "Tine" Longshore family (Chas' son) 22 - 24 Minor Longshore's family continued 25 Harlow A. Longshore, Cyrus' son 25 Isaac Newton "I. N." Longshore, Cyrus' son 32 Truman Longshore, Cyrus' son 32 Edson Longshore, Truman's son 32 - 36 William Armanthus Longshore branch (Truman's son) 37 - 43 Clem Longshore branch (Truman's son) 43 - 45 Dean Longshore branch (Truman's son) 46 May Longshore Clevenger (Truman's daughter) 47 - 49 Isaac Newton (Newt) Longshore (Truman's son) 50 - 51 Milo E. Longshore (Truman's son) 52 - 53 Nellie Longshore Clayton (Truman's daughter) 56 IC Warner Longshore, David's 3rd child 57 Norton Longshore, Warner (2nd) son 58 Harriet Longshore Ginn, Warner's 2nd child 58 Tammison Longshore Watters, Warner's 3rd child 59 Mary Longshore, Warner's 4th child 59 Harmon Longshore, Warner's 5th child 60 - 61 Warner Longshore (the 2nd), son of Harmon 61 ID Rachel Longshore Squires, 4th child of David 61 - 62 Longshore Reunion History 63 IE Sarah Longshore Carpenter, 5th child of David 64 IF Charles Longshore, 6th child of David 64 Eugenia Longshore Carpenter, daughter of Charles Longshore 64 - 70 Fred Carpenter Branch, son of Eugenia Carpenter 71 IG David Longshore, Jr., 7th child of David 71 IH 8th child of David's, a daughter, but no data Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 4) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a4ae93481c15ee9fa01cdf887de14547.jpg f5cb2eaefc385c20e9afb306d9601c2d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 5] [corresponds to page 4 of I-DENTITY] Organization and Numbering I have endeavored to keep the numbering system simple for easy, prompt reference. I will attempt to explain the method. The generations will start with Pennsylvania emigrant, David Longshore. Since this is a vertical genealogy; that is each ancestor's descendants follow his introduction, the Roman numerals will represent the generations and will be used for each family grouping. A generation is considered to be roughly a span of 30 years, but sometimes they overlap in the larger families. David Longshore's children will be Generation I, and each of his children will have a Capital letter in order of birth, to set them apart from the later generations. Following generations will have only the Roman numeral with an Aramaic numeral to indicate the birth sequence among the brothers and sisters. For example: David Longshore, emigrant from Pa. in 1806 Issue: I IA John Longshore IB Cyrus Longshore IC Warner Longshore ID Rachel Longshore IE Sarah Longshore IF Charles Longshore IG David Longshore, Jr. IH Daughter Longshore (?) Cyrus IB = second child of David (the first) Truman IIB4 = fourth child of Cyrus Clem IIIB3 = third child of Truman William Bryan IVB1 = first child of Clem Leona Longshore Pratt VB2 = 2nd child of Wm. Bryan Patti Ann Pratt VIB1 = 1st child of Leona Pratt The index will tell which page each family group is on, so the reader can turn immediately to the branch he is particu- larly interested in at the moment, without having to thumb through reams of irrelevant material. It is suggested that corrections and additions be made on the back of the corresponding sheets so as to keep the book legible and neat. Extra sheets can be inserted or added at the back. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 5) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/130e071d1e822d9430f534d139d414a3.jpg 202e6252ca170f84d2b2fdb9b37fc3d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 6] [corresponds to page 5 of I-DENTITY] Possible Pennsylvania Beginnings of Longshores Robert Longshore "Robert Longshore, gentleman"! With all that this word connotes, WHY would Robert ever leave his established, secure, comfortable home in England, to delve into an unknown, untamed land? Perhaps his young blood raced at the thought of making his mark in America, the land of opportunity! Maybe he was simply an adventurous sort wishing to break the bonds of family and tradition. Could be, Robert was seeking religious freedom such as the Quaker, William Penn, had sought in America. Whatever his reasons, the real truth of it will never be known. It is known that many grossly exaggerated stories of America's wealth and opportunities had floated back to England and enticed folk there to migrate to the "land of the free". Consequently, thousands of Europeans sailed to America shortly after Robert's arrival in 1681. Most likely Robert Longshore, a surveyor, had already been commissioned as a deputy surveyor to Thomas Holme before he left his homeland, which would have assured him a measure of security. Robert Longshore did help Holme survey and plan the city of Philadelphia for William Penn. This beautiful port city along the Delaware River became known as the city of Brotherly Love, because its proprieter ruled it and the colony with fairness and love, allowing total freedom of worship. Penn endeavored to treat the Indians fairly also and did not incur their hatred as leaders in other colonies had done. There were 45,333 square miles in this grant of wilderness land which had been given to Penn at his request as settlement of an $80,000 debt owed by King Charles II of England to William Penn's father, Admiral Sir William Penn. William Penn wanted a refuge for himself and his Quaker followers away from the com- pulsory attendance to the church of England. Matter of fact, since he had been jailed several times because of his rebellion and religious fervor, he had become a nuisance to the Crown and an embarrassment to his father; therefore they were relieved to be rid of this rebel, William Penn. Robert Longshore, himself, could have been a part of this Quaker movement! At any rate, this city Robert had helped lay out soon became a cultural center and prospered. It rivaled Boston and was the capital of colonial Pa. Pennsylvania became a leader among the other 12 colonies, namely; Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Hamp- shire, The Carolinas, and Georgia and became known as the Key- stone State because of its location. Pennsylvania and Maryland were the only two proprietary colonies, which meant they were owned by individuals. Robert Longshore situated himself in the center of Phila- delphia on the corner of Market and Front Streets. In due time, this founding father of the American Longshores met and wed Margaret Cock, a daughter of Pieter Larson Cock. Pieter had been among the first Swedish immigrants coming to Pa. in 1641. He was a collector of tolls, imports and exports, for the colonies. He also served a magistrate for New Sweden and later as a deputy governor. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 6) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/11601b86b27bfae312be2062cb2601a2.jpg 028fdece1a7a802ab19baf50ed7e6921 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 7] [corresponds to page 6 of I-DENTITY] Sometime after Robert and Margaret's union, he purchased 500 acres of land in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pa. and settled there. Robert and Margaret probably were born about 1660, give or take a few years. There is no record to show how many children they presented to their new country but most likely they did their duty. A son, Euclydus I, was born about 1690. Not much is known of Euclydus I, except on Jan. 8, 1715, he married Alice Stackhouse (b1699) when she was but 16. Alice was a daughter of Thomas and Grace Heaton Stackhouse, one of 14 children. Alice's father was a descendant of Thomas Stack- house, who arrived on the boat "Welcome"in 1682, and her mother, a daughter of Robert and Alice Heaton of Middletown, Pa. It is said that the 1st generation children of the Stackhouses inter- married with the families of Clark, Stone, Wilson, Longshore, Copeland, Gilbert, Watson, Plumley, Cary, Haring, Janney, Mitchell, Stephenson, Tomlinson, and others and that their descendants are almost legion --. Euclydus I and Alice lived in Middletown, Pa., where he died in 1764. Issue of Euclydus I and Alice Stackhouse Longshore: Robert 10/13/1716 Grace 2/24/1717 - 1726 Thomas 9/13/1721 Margaret 4/21/1724 Alice 7/ 4/1726 Grace (2) 6/18/1728 Euclydus 12/ 4/1730 - 1732 Mary 10/30/1732 - 1734 * Euclydus II 4/27/1735 - 6/14/1804 This descension shows the high death rate among children at that time. Since only five of Euclydus I's children sur- vived him, out of nine produced, sorrow was no stranger to Euclydus and Alice. At this period in the country's history, manpower was needed and so large families were desirable to help with the work, usually on a farm where they could raise their own food; and to offset the death toll. Because of frequent childbirth, hard work, hardships, lack of medical attention, women too fell prey to the grim reaper, and it was not uncommon at all for a man to have two, three, four wives in his life- time. The family line is picked up through Euclydus II and it seems he was the most prolific of the Longshores, fathering 22 children, 11 by each wife. No one could accuse him of showing favoritism! Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 7) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d37ebf74d0785a18f8b5a11fe20af378.jpg 11a07fc19d198b724e1928d5692f95f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 8] [corresponds to page 7 of I-DENTITY] Issue of Euclydus II and Susannah VanHorn who were married 1760 The children's names all started with an "A". Their religion was Quaker. 1 Abner b 1762 m(c)1789 Sarah Powers d 1848 2 Asher b 1764 d before [illegible] 3 Asa b 1766 (c) d before 1804 4 Anna (Gilbert VanHorn) b 1768 (c) 5 Alice (Isiah VanHorn - Cremer) b 1769 (c) m1.1787 2.? 6 Abigal (Minor - Scout) b 1776 7 A 8 A 9 A 10 A 11 A At age 45, Euclydus II on 5/11/1780, married Sarah Gillam, the daughter of Lucas and Anna (Dungan) Gillam, also a Quaker. 1 Sarah d infant 2 Euclydus III 1781 - 1838 md Sarah Cox 1802 3 Margaret 1783 - 1855 md Slack 4 Abraham 1785 md Rhoda Skelton 1807 md Mary White [illegible] 5 Mary 1787 6 Joseph 1788 7 Grace 1790 - d a young woman 8 Rachel L. 1792 - 1865 md Valentine Dickinson 1811 9 Thomas Canby 1794 md Jane Moved-Franklin, 10 James 1797 md Frances 1815 11 _______ The following are copies of the wills of Euclydus I and Euclydus II; Will of Euclydus Longshore I - 1760 Be it remembered that I, Euclydus Longshore of Middletown, in the County of Bucks and Province of Pennsylvania --- Being weak of body but of sound mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of this body as also the uncertainity of time do make my last will and testament touching what temporal matters it hath pleased Almighty God to bless me withal in manner and form, following viz: But first and principally recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it. Next my will is that my body be decently buried at the discretion of my dear and well beloved wife. Next my will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses be duly paid and discharged by my executors herein and after named. Next to give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Alice Longshore all that my land and plantation whereon we now dwell with the rents, issues, and profits Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 8) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8a976954f6bf753295adcbb8c6a65a21.jpg b8611271fa17d358934be53dda817194 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 9] [corresponds to page 8 of I-DENTITY] thereof during her natural life that is to say the said land is to east and as far westward as the state road and after her decease my will is the above said land and plantation descend immediately unto my son, Euclydus Longshore, to whom I give and bequeath the sum of ____(blurred) to be enjoyed by him and his heirs and assigns forever also I give and bequeath unto my be- loved wife aforesaid, the sum of seventy pounds of lawful money of the province aforesaid to be paid her out of my personal estate as soon as payable after my decease. Next I give and bequeath unto my son Robert Longshore, all my wearing apparel and to be fully discharged of all my demands against him and further I give aforesaid unto him my said son Robert the full sum of four pound lawful money as aforesaid to be paid unto him his heirs or assigns in two full years after my decease Next I give and bequeath my daughter Margarate Atkinson two acres and twenty four ____(parcels or barchos) of land with the appurt- enances thereunto belonging situate at the northwest corner of my land adjoining upon N. Jhamba Cook and laid out by a draft survey by Evan Jonos and the same to be possessed and enjoyed by her and her heirs during her natural life from the day of my decease also my will is that after her decease the same land and premises descend unto my grandson Isaac Pearson and the same to be possessed and enjoyed by him the said Isaac Pearson and his heirs and assigns forever Next I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Longshore all the residue and remaining part of my land and premises situate on the west side of the road leading from Bristol to Newtown supposed to be about fifty acres be the same more or less and the same to be possessed and enjoyed by him my said son Thomas his heirs and assigns forever provided he my said son Thomas render and pay unto his sister Margarate Atkinson aforesaid out of the value thereof of the full sum of five pound money aforesaid within the space of two years after my decease and also to pay aforesaid unto his sister Alice Lamb her heirs and assigns the sum of forty shillings money aforesaid yearly and every year for the space of four years after my decease also I give and bequeath unto my daughter Alice afore- said her heirs and assigns the full sum of four pound of money aforesaid to be paid out of my personal estate in two years after my decease and in order to enable my executors to discharge my last will as aforesaid; my will is that my executors hereafter named do sell all that my house and lot be the same and more or less which is now situate near the four lane ends adjoining George Walker's lot and the same to convey to the purchaser or purchasers as I myself might or could do was I personally present and the land and money arising therefrom be the same more or less to be taken from personal estate Also my will is that if any remains of my personal estate appears to be after all my debts and legacies are duly discharged that the same be divided one ____or half part to be paid unto my beloved wife Alice as her rightful property and the other half to be equally divided amongst all my surviving children, son or sons and daughter or daughters share and share alike Lastly I nominate constitute and appoint my trusty and well beloved wife and my esteemed friend Thomas Jienks Executor this my last will and testament hereby revoking and disannulling other other and former will or wills heretofore by me made ratifying this andthis only to be my last will and as aforesaid. In witness whereof I have hereforth set my hand and seal this eighth day of the eleventh month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Sixty Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 9) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/120ce1677187184c387846f3536df22c.jpg ebedbf7fa0126ebad4b76ee33d7fb2dd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 10] [corresponds to page 9 of I-DENTITY] Signed Sealed Published Declared to be the last will and testament of the testator in the presence of: Samuel Sykes, Sam Smith, S___ Cary Signed Euclydus Longshore 1760 Will of Euclydus Longshore (ll) Died 4/28/1804 This twenty eighth day of the fourth month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four I, Euclidus Longshore of Middletown in the County Bucks and state of Pennsylvania being of sound mind but through divine favor calling to mind the mortality of the body and that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make this my last will and testament touching the disposal of what temporal estate it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life recommending my spirit to God who gave it and my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my beloved wife and first my will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses be duly paid and dis- charged; secondly I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sarah Longshore all that land on the north side of the great road as it is now laid out likewise that house nearest the house where we live with about three acres of land on the south side of said road be the same more or less to be the same length of chain on the west end as it is; measuring from a large whitoak stump near the house to the north line formerly Woolstons and Martins to have and hold and to bequeath while she remains my widow or if necessity requireth, my will is that she sell the land or any part of said land that she may make her life com- fortable while in a state of widowhood,but if she should marry any other man and be in possession of said land my will is that the land be sold by my executors and divided amongst my eight youngest children and my will is that she my beloved wife may have twenty five pounds in lawful money two feather beds and bedding drawers, cupboards and the pewter; frying pan bake-iron and teakettle with all other articles necessary for keeping house; likewise that she my wife have ____(blurred) and one best cow two best hogs and all the poultry with my tin plate stove and my will is further that my wife have one best frame barrick (barouche, a 4 wheel carriage) and two loads of hay likewise that she have one half the grain that is growing and is gathered, with potatoes for house use; I likewise give and bequeath unto my son Abner Longshore the sum of twenty pounds ($70.00) to be paid one year after my decease I likewise be- queath all the remainder of my estate both real and personal to my eleven other children namely Anna VanHorn, Alice Cremer, Aby Scout, Euclydus, Margaret, Abraham, Joseph, Grace, Rachel, Thomas, and James Longshore, and the same to be sold and equally divided amongst them as they arrive at age but my will is that my three married daughters named Anna Alice and Abi have a de- duction made out of their legacy the amount standing against them; likewise my will is that my son Euclydus have his legacy paid at the discretion of my executors; --- For the due performance hereof I nominate and appoint my beloved friends Simon Gillam and James Wildman to be my true and lawful Exceutor of this will and testament hereby revoking disannulling and making void all other wills Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 10) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1a42c3bd3344db6fcfb12c41b286792d.jpg 8bb9ded208bc6981e0ea733dfe23e825 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 11] [corresponds to page 10 of I-DENTITY] heretofore by me made ratifying and confirming this only to be my last will and testament. Signed seal'd and declared by the said Euclydus Longshore to be his last will and testament in the presence of us John Blakely) William Gillam) Euclydus Longshore and my will is that if any of my younger children should die before they arrive to age or the possession of said estate that the same be divided amonst my last wife's children and likewise the small account I have standing against my son Abner Longshore be deducted out of his legacy before mentioned. Witness present Euclydus Longshore John Blakely William Gillam June 22, 1804 It is to be noted that only twelve of Euclydus II's 22 children survived him, attesting again to the high infant mor- tality rate. As late as 1900 and beyond, the infant mortality rate was 50%. Since most people in the 18th and 19th centuries had to make the caskets used by their family members, a supply in different sizes was generally kept made up ahead. Many infants succumbed to a disease called cholera infantum; typhoid, malaria, & tuberculosis also claimed many lives. Not only did individual families supply their own coffins, they likewise dug the graves; so tragedy made a double impact on them in the early days. According to Thomas Ellwood Longshore, from whom most of the previous data has come and who supplied many records up to 1890, the following is from his compilation regarding Euclydus II's family: Some of Abner Longshore's descendants settled in Ohio Anna Longshore's daughter, Betty Atkinson, lived in Zanesville Margaret Longshore md James Slack Joseph Longshore md Joanna Kelley ch: Amos and Kelley Longshore Rachel Longshore md Valentine Dickerson ch: Sarah, William, John, Joseph, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Ann Dickerson Thomas Canby Longshore md Jane Gaine ch: Jane, Maria, Sally James Longshore md Sarah Roberts - owns a candy & con- fectioner's business in Columbus, Ohio Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 11) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/62a9eab1cec4c8b1a9a6b2f5c7b1b731.jpg 983aa69f92e6d75320b80247583bd253 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 12] [corresponds to page 11 of I-DENTITY] Abraham Longshore md Rhoda Skelton, dau of Joseph and Mary Carey Skelton, of Salvury, Bucks Co.,Pa. on 3/11/1807 ch: Sarah Ann, Joseph S., Mary, Thomas E., Carey, Isaac S., John Watson, William, Samuel C., Elizabeth S., Mary This author wishes to digress at this point from the direct line to follow a sideline. Euclydus Longshore II's son, Abraham's family, had some active, interesting, and distinguished members whose contributions to society will give some insight to the par- ticular line this compiler is pursuing. "Memoranda and Notes of the Longshore Family, Pioneers of Which Settled in Bucks Co., Pa." is also written by the same descendant, Thomas E. Longshore, son ofAbraham Longshore, and was compiled from tradition and the records he had found. Some of his data used in this narration heretofore has been paraphased but this item is verbatim. It will be of interest to the family today because it shows how Thomas E.'s grandfather's and father's families weathered the hard time of the late 1700s and early 1800s when this new country was suffering growing pains follow- ing its independence. Suffice it to say that these gentlemen did not serve in the Revolutionary War probably because they had such large families to support. Many of their descendants served in later wars, proving their patriotism. "Euclydus Longshore, our grandfather, from the impression I have received from different members of the family, was rather an easy, good-natured man with a kind of dry humor. He was of a light, sandy complexion with light brown hair. At the time, Father, (Abraham) was born (11/6/1785), I believe the family was living in a stone, one story house, north of John Watson's farm, in Middletown, Bucks Co.,Pa., on the south side of the road. Grandfather was not much of a farmer but things drifted anyhow. The children went to work as soon as old enough. Father went to James Wildman's to live at age 12, as a "taken" boy * He did not get along satisfactorily with old Adam Adams, their colored hired man, and refused to thresh in the barn with him because of being so abused. Father kept a daily diary as proof of his grievances so he could be freed from his indenture*. Euclydus, my grand- father, died when Father (Abraham) was 19. Father borrowed $1000. to purchase a farm and it was all he could do to pay interest. We all had to do what we could to save money by living poor and dressing in homespun clothing, eating mush, rye bread without butter or molasses, and potatoes, no tea or coffee, or sugar, or even lard, rye pie shortened with smoked pot-skimmings and dried apples so sour we made the less of it answer. Father had gone to school 3 months and learned to read, write, and cipher. He had a good memory and could sing 100 songs. He loved to read, mostly the Bible". (Abraham's father, Euclydus II, died in 1804) *"Apprenticeship in early days was serious business. Articles of indenture were drawn up with all the care of a conveyance of real estate and corresponding obligations of master and apprentice were specifically set forth." (Taken from Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 12) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0bf5856be8e5e376c222846850170d56.jpg f613cbfe25497bd778ac22e8ed64764d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 13] [corresponds to page 12 of I-DENTITY] an early history book). Many time the master was a tyrant dictating every breath his servant took, including his morals and use of his leisure time (what little there was). *Abraham was able by virtue of his diary to obtain a hearing and get out of his obligation to James Wildman. However, in some in- stances, apprenticeship served a good purpose when the "indenturee" was able to learn a trade as well as earn room and board. There were no public schools to teach a trade and most of the common people could not read or write so how else were they to learn! Too often though the masters abused and exploited the trainees. Issue of Abraham and Rhoda Skelton Longshore - 11 children Sarah Ann (Walker-Taylor) 12/26/1808 Joseph S. 9/18/1809 - 1879 Mary 8/16/1811 d @ 2 1/2 Y Thomas Ellwood 11/11/1812 Carey 8/ 1 1814 d 5/24/1888 Langhorne, Isaac S. 8/ 6/1816 d 5/24/1888 . . Pa. John Watson 5/ 5/1818 d 1839 Rock Is.Ill. William 1820 d infancy Samuel C. 11/ 2/1822 Elizabeth S. 4/28/1825 Mary 4/16/1829 The brothers, Carey and Isaac, died the same day, same hour, and buried same service at Friends Grounds in Woodbury, New Jersey Family of Abraham and Rhoda Skelton Longshore Children and Families 1 Sarah Ann md Holcomb Walker ch: Horace, Linford, Caroline, Anna Mary Walker 2 Joseph S. Longshore md Julia LaRue; he was an author, lecturer, and doctor of medicine; no ch. 4 Thomas E. Longshore md Hannah E. Myers ch: Channing md Maria Pierce ch: Elsie and Rudolph Longshore Lucretia md Rudolph Blankenship ch: Julia Blankenship 5 Carey Longshore md Matilda Holcomb ch: Elizabeth, single Sallie md Henry Morrell ch: Emma and Frederick Morrell Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 13) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/059286594f4fcff81341906f2646bd96.jpg b29ac05d96e5cd474c242a4e1f81ff9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 14] [corresponds to page 13 of I-DENTITY] ch 3: Samuel md Adella LeCompt ch: William, Marian, Clinton, and Horace LeCompt 6 Isaac S. Longshore md Mary Burgess ch: Edward md Debora Smith, M.D. - no ch. Rhoda md Benjamin F. Knowles ch: Bertha and Rhoda Knowles Rhoda's I's second husband - George Mason ch: one son, lives in Kansas ____Mason Rachel md Israel Walton - no ch. Alfred md Mary ___?__ ch: Edward, Joseph, Debora, Emma Longshore 8 William Longshore md ____Hellings, no ch:; 2nd wife ____ ch: Abraham md Hannah Whitson ch: Oscar Longshore Abraham 2nd wife, Adeline Howell of N.Y. ch: H. Walker Longshore, lives in L.A., Cal. Elizabeth md Samuel Watson - no ch. 9 Samuel C. Longshore md Sarah Ann Case - no ch. Samuel's 2nd wife - Rebecca Reynolds - no ch. 10 Elizabeth S. Longshore md William Burgess ch: Frank C. Burgess md Lissie Baker ch: Stella Frank's 2nd wife, Addie Johnson, no ch. Anna Mary Burgess - b&d 1849 Alpheus Burgess (1851) md Ida I. Sheets ch: none Marianna Burgess (1853) unmarried William Watson Burgess (1855) md Mamie Roberts ch: none Charles A. Burgess (1851) md Mamie Roberts Henry Edwin Burgess (1859) unmarried (Of this large family, there was no progeny) 11 Anna Mary Longshore md Lambert H. Potts ch: Emerson J. Potts (1855) md Flora M. Jamieson ch: William Lambert Potts (1882) Charles Jamieson Potts (1887) Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 14) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/49096133c800d432dc4a295a8b77fcc3.jpg 330c12e654d1bc1ced804d2556f413ab Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 15] [corresponds to page 14 of I-DENTITY] Excerpt from HISTORY OF BUCKS CO., PA. by Davis - published 1905 Another son of Abraham Longshore "Among the prominent sons of Middletown, who live in history, Joseph S. Longshore, b 1809 d 1879, is entitled to a niche. He lost partial use of one leg when a boy and was lamed for life. Turning his attention to the medical profession, he graduated in medicine from the University of Pa. at age 24 and practiced several years at Attleborough (later named Langhorne). In 1850, he established a medical College in Philadelphia for women, the first of its kind in the world. He was also an ardent advocate of total abstinence and an active abolitionist, at a period when it required no little courage to declare oneself." Another historical excerpt, this time from EARLY FRIENDS, FAMILIES OF UPPER BUCKS" by Roberts about a daughter-in-law of Abraham Longshore. "Hannah Myers, daughter of Samuel and Pauline (Iden) Meyers, born in Sandy Springs, Md., 5/30/1819 d 10/18/1901. Graduated from Women's Medical College in Philadelphia, 1851. She was a pioneer woman physician, accumulated a modest forturn. Hannah married Thomas Ellwood Longshore 3/26/1841. He was a son of Abraham and Rhoda (Skelton) Longshore. He was born 11/11/1812 on a farm in Middletown Township, Bucks Co., Pa., died 8/19/1898 in Phil.; he and his wife having moved to that city in 1850. Children: Channing b 11/24/1842 md Sidney Maria Pierce; Lucretia Mott b 5/8/1845 md Rudolph Blankenship. Issue: Channing Longshore (sone of T.E. & Hannah Longshore) Studied medicine and practiced in Sheldon, Iowa ch: T. Ellwood Longshore b 1878 d 1879 Hannah Elsie Longshore b 1881 md Howard Garrett ch: Priscilla and Jane Garrett Rudolph Channing Longhsore b 1883 md Leila ____, lives in Montana ch: Dorothy Lucretia Mott Longshore (dau. of T.E. & Hannah Longshore) born in 1845 at New Lisbon, Ohio while mother was there on a visit to her parents. Lucretia was president of Pa. State Suffrage Association (1892-1908), 1st vice pres. of General Education of Women's Clubs (1912-1914) and a member of the New Century Club, Civic Club, etc. Lucretia md Rudolph Blankenship in 1867. He was one of the originators of the Citizen's Permanent Relief Committee and visited, as its representative, the famine regions of Russia in 1892. He was active in Reform Politics, and was elected as a county commissioner; also served as a Reform Mayor beginning in 1911." Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 15) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/53e4b2bd00a55757566297a5aa3d4385.jpg 8b637bd719a4646e0815dd0b02b7f2ca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 16] [corresponds to page 15 of I-DENTITY] Again to deviate from the direct line, here is a presentation from another of Robert's descendants GENERAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE WYOMING & LACKAWANNA VALLEYS, PA. Volume I (published 1906) "Longshore Family, long residents in Pa. Founder of family in Pa. was Robert Longshore, who came from England and settled at Front and Market Sts. in Phila- delphia; later moved to Bucks Co." The name of the person who sent in this biography to the previously mentioned book is not mentioned so there is no way to know which of Isaish Longshore's grandchildren wrote it - "Isaiah Longshore, grandfather, lived at Beach Haven, where he kept a hotel and boarding house, died at age 47 and buried there. Ch: A.B. b 1812 and Alfred R. Alfred was a justice of the peace, had 3 dau., d age 82 Y. A.B. Longshore, M.D. reared at Shickshinny, studied medi- cine with his uncle, A.B. Wildon, graduated from Jeffer- son Medical College in Philadelphia in 1843 with honors. Spoke both English and fluent German, d in 1875, age 63. Practiced medicine in mountain region in Wyoming County. Practice so extensive he called five of his students to assist him in this vast area. 8 ch. - Dr. Wm. R. Longshore only survivor." "Dr. Wm. R. Longshore, M.D., son of Ashbel B. and Maria J. (Righter) Longshore b 9/10/1838 in Beaver Meadows, Pa. Studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College and Pa. College of Medicine from which he graduated March, 1860. Worked as assistant in male department of Pa. Hospital for Insane under Dr. Kirkbride until 1862. Was Commander's assistant surgeon with rank of 1st Lt. in 147th Reg. Pa. Vol- unteers in Sept. 1863 and was promoted to surgeon and rank of major. A Mason. 1 child, Harry Carter Longshore, d at 14; adopted a dau., Jane Martin, md to Wallace Ellerslie Engle and she has a son, William Longshore Engle, who resides in Hazelton." These historic and biographic passages are used for one purpose - to show that some of the early Longshores were human- itarians; vitally interested in their country, in the healing arts, women's rights, foreign aid, and political reform. They were great contributors to their fellow man, be it on a local, state, or national scale; always ready to serve. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 16) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bb1a62d996303f8406641c1dd6f6f322.jpg 7f6b92dca05ff78af6f9e13d6e67d34d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 17] [corresponds to back of page 15 of I-DENTITY, a letter to Mrs. Maxine Longshore] 7224 E.17th St. N. Wichita, KS 67206 August 11, 1991 Dear Mrs. Longshore: join the DAR and wrote to two of her father's cousins, one a Davidson and one a Longshore. She didn't get to join but the letters she re- ceived were very helpful when I started my research. Incidentally, the Longshore cousin she wrote to was James C. who was loving at 1201 Hamlet St. in Columbus at the time. I don't know what year he died but he was elderly at the time-79-and only he and his sister Sarah were still alive. The reason that you don't find a complete list of the children of Euclydus and Susannah Van Horn is that they were married out of meeting. All of the children of that first marriage had names beginning with A. When Euclydus returned to the Quakers he took what children he could back with him and his son Abner was one of the witnesses at his marriage to Sarah Gillam. I was told recently by one of my earlier correspondents that another lady had told him that the David Longshore who married Elizaneth Warner was the son of Cyrus Longshore, who was marred to Mary David and waws the son of Thomas Longshore and Joanna Vance. Thomas Longshore was the son of euclydus Longshore and Alice Stackhouse and was born the 13th day of the 9th month 1721. He was married to Johanna Vance on the 10th day of the 4th month 1742 at the Middletown Monthly Meeting (LDS film 20403, pp.308-9). Thomas' will is file # 1162, Bucks Co., PA. It is dated 11 Jan 1777 and proved 13 Feb 1777. Johanna died between the writing of her will dated 22 d 4m 1792 and the probate date of 14 June 1794 and is file # 2535 Bucks. Co. Her parents are as yet unknown but she has a sister, Jane McLear. the first child of Thomas and Johanna was born less than nine months after their marriage and Thomas became angry with the reprimand of the Quakers. In his will, thomas mentions his wife Johanna, his sons Thomas, cyrus, and euclydus and his daughters, elizabeth Hunter and Margaret Wiley. I found deeds dated 14 Apr 1784, filed 27 Sept 1785, of Cyrus and wife mary and euclydus and wife Jane. They mention that the land came from their father, Thomas. Johanna in her will mentions her sister, Jane McLear, her son Euclydus, her daughters, Elizabeth Hunter (wife of Andrew) and her daughter Margaret Wiley, her grandson Amos (the son of thomas who later married Ann cox) and her granddaughter Jane (the daughter of Cyrus who later married Aaron Cox). These are known facts and I have written to the lady in Iowa to find out the facts on which she bases her conclusions. The death date given for David Longshore is 3 Nov 1859. The 1800 Tax list for Middletown Twp., Bucks Co. shows him as a single man. 20 Jan 1802 david Longshore of Middletown m. Elizabeth Weber/Warner, Isaac Hicks, J.P. then 1810 Tax list in delaware Co., 67A., Range 17, Twp 4, Section 1 and the same in 1814. I will let you know when I hear on what the lady has based her conclusions. Can you suggest any of the other descendants of the branch of David Longshore-Elizabeth Warner to whom I could write to bring other lines down to the present? Is it possible to secure copies of wills, obits, and the other pertinant data? I would pay copying costs if that would help. Sincerely, Elizabeth Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 17) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4ef9d0abbe09481dd8356b5fcb4c1c12.jpg 22658a0cca43488772ba80c4664845cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 18] [corresponds to page 16 of I-DENTITY] To get back on the track - The Ohio progenitor of the Longshores is David Longshore. There is data to prove he came to Ohio in 1806; to Del. Co. with his brother, Euclydus (III), in 1808; purchased land in Delaware County in 1811. Many clues link David to the line of Robert, Euclydus I, Euclydus II; but actually there is no record found, as of this date, to prove a David Longshore, born Jan. 1779, was born to this line or any other line! This author is still researching on this puzzle and if additional information is ever unearthed, it will be attached at the end of the story. It is the considered opinion of this compiler that the "missing link" can be theorized as follows: Perhaps[underlined] David was the youngest child of Euclydus ** and ____Cox Longshore and possibly his mother died at his birth or shortly thereafter. In the con- fusion, his birth was never recorded. This thought is based on his birthdate of Jan. 25, 1779; the fact Euclydus II remarried on May 1780; and his first child by the second wife, Euclydus III, was born in 1781. Since all of the children by Euclydus II's first wife had names beginning with an "A", it could be that David did not like his "A____" name, whatever it was, and decided to use his other given name and change his image when he came to Ohio. At any rate, there is no hint of the "A" in any of his legal papers. The following excerpts are from biographies submitted by one of David's children (Charles) and one of his daughter-in-laws (Margaret) will bear out the fact David did come from Pa. in 1806 and settled in Delaware County, Ohio in 1808. From Baskins 1880 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY "Charles Longshore, farmer: P.O. Condit; is a son of David and Elizabeth (Warner) Longshore; his father was born in Pa. and came to Ohio in 1806, settling in Berkshire Township, west of Sunbury, on the farm now owned by Mrs. Grist, where he lived until his death; it was then a dense forest, there being but one house between Delaware and Johnstown, and that where George Gibson now resides; the only neighbor for some time was a brother; their first nights were spent in the woods around a fire, with a friendly Indian as company." "Margaret Longshore, P.O. Condit; was born July 2, 1804, a daughter of Christian and Sallie (Linderman) Young; her father settled in Ohio about 1816, and farmed near Galena until his death in 1838. She was married June 22, 1826, to Cyrus Longshore, by whom she has had six children, four are now living; her husband was born Nov. 24, 1804, in Muskingum Co., *Ohio, and came with his parents to Delaware Co. about 1808, settling west of Sunbury on a farm now owned by the Landon Brothers, and in 1836 on the farm owned by Mrs. (Margaret) Long- shore; he died May 3, 1870." Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 18) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c56b5fa37e5cfb313216765e9fdf9a80.jpg 71de748a3b709bf2a8ba0d5a6540b7a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 19] [corresponds to page 17 of I-DENTITY] * There is a discrepancy about the place of Cyrus' birth; the 1850 and 1860 Delaware County Census, also his death record, state that he was born in Pa. It is possible David stopped in Muskingum County in 1806 where other relatives lived, on his way to central Ohio. This biography states he came to Delaware County in 1808, which is entirely plausible. Somewhere else there is a reference to David's having lived in Sunbury Township before purchasing his farm in 1811 in Berkshire Township. David Longshore was born three years after the birth of the United States of America, and ten years before George Washington became president in 1789. He arrived in Ohio during the term of Thomas Jefferson, and in Delaware County in time to ['Del. Co. in 1808' handwritten in margin] see Delaware City laid out in 1811, Columbus in 1812, and Sunbury in 1816 and just four years before the War of 1812. At that time Ohio was considered the Crossroads of the Nation. A big busines boom existed immediately following that war. The schedule of prices shown here will show the prosperity that lasted until 1819 when prices slid back to pre-war levels. Pre-war Prices Prices 1812 - 1819 hogs - $1.50 per 100# hogs - $4.00 per 100# oats - .50 per bu. oats - 1.00 per bu. corn - .50 per bu. corn - 1.00 per bu. flour - 1.00 per 100# flour - 4.00 per 100# hay - 10.00 per ton hay - 20.00 per ton Some prices nose-dived to below pre-war values, such as; corn sold for 10-12 cents per bu.; potatoes - 12 cents bu., etc. Rigid economy was practiced by all grades of society - even the wealthy drank rye coffee and distinguished men dressed in blue linsey pantaloons for a time. In 1820 in Columbus, Ohio, over one hundred parcels of real estate were advertised in one ad- vertisement of sheriff's sales! Gradually though the nation recuperated from the recession. One blessing for the white man was that he never again was bothered by the red man in these parts after 1812. David and Euclydus (III) purchased their 134 acres in Range 17, Twp. 4, Lot 4, from Thomas Brown for $268.67 1/2. The 1812 Tax record values it at 67 1/2 cents an acre! In 1816, it seems they sold half of this same land - 67 7/16 acres - for $400., tripling their money. Perhaps this is a further example of the inflation of that period. Later however, in 1819, a quit claim deed is recorded whereby Euclydus (III) and Sarah, of Muskingum County, transferred the east half of 134 7/8 acres for the sum of $202. to David Longshore. Reference to David, in Charles' biography, states that David lived on the land he settled until his death in 1858. At the time this farm was purchased in 1811, there were only 2000 people in the entire county! By 1850, there were 1557 persons in Berkshire Township but this dropped to 1392 in 1860. Nevertheless, it was not over- populated at that time. Following is a copy of the original land purchase by David and Euclydus and their wives. (Euclydus is spelled 2 different ways in this same deed) - Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 19) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/abf5809fefc04ed7f57cfa611a58dd9f.jpg 9b3027447b61446130f6f87a585f9e42 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 20] [corresponds to page 18 of I-DENTITY] Thomas Brown Deed to E. & D. Longshore "Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Brown of Berkshire in Delaware County & State of Ohio in consideration of two hundred & Sixty eight dollars eighty seven and an half cents paid me by Euclydus & David Longshore both of Sunbury in the county of aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby give grant sell & convey unto the said Euclydes & David a certain tract of parcel of land lying & being in the first quarter of the fourth Township in the seventeenth Range of U.S. Military land in the State of Ohio & more particularly distinguished as the north part of lot no. eight in the western Tier of lots in the aforesaid quarter agreeable to a sur- vey thereof made by Joseph Eaton in 1806 reference thereto being had & to extend South from the whole length of the North line of the aforesaid lot so far as to contain one hundred and thirty four acres & seven eighths of an acre To have and to hold the afore granted premises to the said Euclydus & David & to their heirs & assigns to their use & Behalf forever & I do covenant with the said Euclydus & David & their heirs & assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore granted premises that they are free of all emcumbrances that I have good right to sell & convey the same to the aforesaid Euclydus & David & that I will warrant & defend the same premises to the said Euclydus Longshore & David Longshore & to their heirs & assigns forever against the lawful claims of all persons. In witness whereof I the said Thomas Brown & Betsey, my wife in token of her assent & release of dower in the premises have hereunto set our hands & seals the fourth day of Sept 1811 _____________________________________ In presence of Thomas Brown Sophronia Brown Betsy Brown Mary Thurston Be it remembered that on the 11th day of Feb., 1812, personally approved State of Ohio Thomas Brown & Betsey his wife who being Delaware, County examined separate & apart from her hus- band the each acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be their free act and deed -- In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day above written Soloman Jones J P Received and recorded the forgoing deed this 14 day of Feb 1812 Mert Reuben Lamb, recorder Delaware County (Note) The preceding document was all hand written, of course, with no punctuation or abbreviation except that "and" was always written "&". Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 20) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b16c568ffa0a3cbf40b4c9b69272c1fb.jpg 8c1697673674c26e9ce392caaa2d29d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 21] [corresponds to page 19 of I-DENTITY] From the description in this deed and comparison with a map of this area in 1811 and 1860, it is pretty well determined that David's farm lay west of Sunbury, beginning at the corner of St.Rt. 37 and Twp. Rt. 72, running along the southside of County Rt 72 as far as the Henry Beaver farm. At the corner of RT. 37, in more recent years, this area was known as the Burt Cornell farm, and the old brick house about 1/8 mile west of Rt. 37 on Co. Rt. 72 was the homestead. Remnants of this house still lay there up until about 10 years ago, when a new ranch-style house was built by that grove of trees, and some of that farmland was portioned into building lots. Jon-Jon's Restaurant is on the corner now of Rts. 37 & Twp. Rt. 72. David's son, John, owned land in this same territory which partially adjoined his father's and that land is now owned by the V.M. Green heirs. Before it came into the Green ownership, the land in the general area was owned by Griste and Landon families. The original land purchase passed from Longshore hands before 1860, probably at the time of David's decease in 1858. Coincidentally, before he had any know- ledge of where his ancestors had first settled, a descendant of David's, Russell Longshore, purchased an acreage across the road from the original plot and built a house on it 17 years ago (1959)! At the turn of the 19th century, the land where David took up abode could scarecely be seen for the trees; now the land can scarcely be seen for the houses, shopping center, and commercial buildings: Super highways have replaced the scenic byways and the accelerated pulse of modern civilization - even in this rural area - has supplanted the leisurely heart throb of nature and its wonders. But then, that's progress! Everyone enjoys the modern conveniences but they want the slower pace, and somehow oil and water just don't mix. "Despite technological advances, inventions, and explor- ations that would have seemed miraculous to our grandparents; indeed, that even seem miraculous to us, people are still people. Go back in time - or forward - ten years, a hundred, or a thousand - you'll find people loving, hating, desiring, and fearing the same things as thoday. You'll find people valuing the same things - success, status, comfort, friendship, love." An excerpt from THE MASTERY OF PEOPLE by Auren Uris. In this bicentennial year, it is popular to look back to "the good ole days" and see only the good part; especially when the TV announcer comes on with his "and this is the way it was, 200 years ago" accompanied by a fife and drum playing their version of "Yankee Doodle". A little tingle goes up the spine and one feels a yearning for the peace (?) of bygone days. It is easy then to forget the hardships the pioneers faced each day. It is doubtful if anyone of this generation could accurately define a pioneer hardship because no one nowadays has experienced it; so "starvation", "privation", "Indian massacre" are just words in today's vocabulary. But then, possibly, the pioneer could not define the words of this day, such as: "mugging", "freak-outs", "spaced out", "murder contracts", et cetera. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 21) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7d5ff9a59b4bb479a9c09b2a1f69b8b6.jpg cfabf20676c553fd6100e5d7fb0be4f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 22] [corresponds to page 20 of I-DENTITY] Possible Eucyldus III Family Connections: Muskingum Co. Marriage Records (1804-1835) Longshore, Amos md Lydia Hopkins 4/13/1834 (Brushcreek Twp) Longshore, David to Sarah Ellen Butt 2/14/1826 Longshore, Thomas to Effie Boyd 4/ /1830 Longshore, Elizabeth to Benjamin Berry 1/24/1830 Longshore, Elizabeth to Morris Worstall 12/19/1833 (Brushcreek Twp) Longshore, Ruth to Benjamin Crane 1/ 4/1831 ___________ Longshore, Perry d 1865 A 20 Pvt Co B of 159th O.N.G. (Everhart's History of Muskingum Co.) publ 1882 p.308 ___________ "Bethel Cemetery, Newtown Twp, Muskingum Co., Ohio" In the book was the notation, "sons of Euclidus & S.E. Longshore", but it was not clear which names were the sons. David Longshore b 3/4/1804 d 3/5/1873 Mathilda Scott Longshore b 2/2/1817 d 7/28/1896 Burzellaw Longshore d 1/21/1895 age 26Y 11M 9D John W. Longshore d 11/4/1865 - 1Y12D Thomas Longshore 10/10/1807 d 10/12/1886 Effie Boyd Longshore 3/6/1803 d 4/30/1885 (Daughter of Robert Boyd, Revolutionary War soldier) Other Longshore researchers have additional information on this line, so it would be possible to follow through on this line, if interested. ________________________ And so it has been established that David and Elizabeth (Warner) Longshore emigrated to Ohio in 1806, and came to Del- aware County by 1808, lived in Sunbury (had to be township), and then settled on the farm west of town by 1811. Soon three more boys and three girls were added to the score making a total of eight. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 22) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/713608ad12373f48ae316d2ba98643c6.jpg 6039e6814d184f0e537fe159e866af12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 23] [corresponds to page 21 of I-DENTITY] Zada Longshore, widow of Gail Longshore, contributed the following chart which had been given to Gail by Seth Longshore when Gail was asking him one day about the family history. "David & Sara* Longshore came from Vermont* 1806. Gail's great, great grandfather settled in brick house west of Sunbury." Charles: Eugenie (Carpenter) Warner: Harriett (Ginn), Norton, Allen Allie (Foster) Albert, Noah, Edith Minnie (Budd) Elmine (Youman) Veo, Otis, Gail Cyrus: Truman, Isaac Newton, Charles, Jonathan, Harlow May Clem Seth David Nell Edd Mark Minor Dean Will Sid I.N Molly Jane Milo Dell (This chart noted that David I had 3 daughters-; in major points it agrees with this compiler.) Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 23) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6f9ef8c81e5162618cf2ee38586f75d6.jpg eb4e9a33ea6d270e27529c1eb74f8298 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 24] [corresponds to page 22 of I-DENTITY] Family of David Longshore LONGSHORE DAVID b 1/25/1779 d 11/3/1858 Age 79Y 9M 8D md about 1802 to Elizabeth Warner (1/22/1783 d 8/8/1840 Age 57Y 6M 17D They emigrated from Pa. to Ohio in 1806 Settled in Del. Co. Berkshire Twp 1808 Issue: I I A John 1803-1877 b Pa. I B Cyrus 1804-1870 b Pa. I C Warner 1807-1892 b Ohio I D Rachel 1810-1852 b Ohio I E Sarah 1816- b Ohio I F Charles 1818-1904 b Ohio I G David Jr. 1822- b Ohio I H Girl ____ b Ohio Since this compiler has no data on the third girl, at present, all the descendants hereafter mentioned will stem from one of these seven children of David and Elizabeth's. After the first Elizabeth's death in 1840, David married another Elizabeth (Betsey Benton) and she survived him. Apparently David did not leave a will but following is an inventory or schedule of his property, which evidently was done room by room: David Longshore - Oliver Stark Administrator Dec., 10, 1858 12 month support ($200.) to widow Appraisal - 1 set of dishes, 2 chairs, 2 bureaus, brass clock, 1 stand, 1 lott of carpenting, 1 table & oil cloth, 1 pair andirons, 1 tar bucket, 1 cubboard, 1 bedquilt & old carpet, 1 kettle, 1 iron kettle, 2 iron kettles, 1 small brass kettle, 1 feather bed, 1 small brass kettle, 1 feather bed, 1 small brass kettle, feather bed, 1 bed- stead, 1 coverlid, 2 blankets, 2 bedquilts, 2 bedquilts, 4 bedquilts, 3 bedquilts, 1 bedstead, 1 chest of drawers, 1 looking glass, 1 lott of carpeting, 1 looking glass, 1 set of harness, 1 fanning mill, 1 saddle, 1 cream mare Sarah Carpenter (Fester Utley, Roswell F. Fowles, Norman Detrick, appraisors) Appraisal of all chattels & goods Schedule of personal property belonging to widow not accounted for: 1 bed & bedding, 1 table, 6 knives & 6 forks, 6 plates, 6 teacups & saucers, 12 spoons, 1 cook- stove, all clothing of widow & deceased, 6 chairs, library not to exceed $50., 1 family Bible, all ornaments of widow. Notes: S.Carpenter -$23.20; George Benton - $20.00 Personal property sold on Jan. 6, 1859 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 24) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4c4cd8ffd1d7141b626228fc8c4a12d0.jpg 2e308080c04bcc0c92310468cccfadc0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 25] [corresponds to page 23 of I-DENTITY] Sarah Carpenter, Alfred Benton, Norton Longshore, Cyrus Longshore, Alex McD Wlaker, J.D. Wilcox, Wm. McDaniel, David Longshore, J.W. Longshore, John Longshore,Charles Longshore Betsey Longshore received year allowance of $200. John Longshore, first child of David I A John b Pa in 1803 d 3/18/1877 (death due to a tumor) A 74 Clarinda ____ (b 1807 d 1871 b in N.Y.) d A 64 bd Sunbury,O. Issue: II 1 David b 1827 2 Aaron b 1829 d 1855 A 26Y 3 Hannah b 1842 d 1864 A 22 Y I B Cyrus b Pa in 1804 d 1870 of dropsy age 66 bd Trenton Cem. Margaret (Young) md 6/22/1826. To give a clear idea of Cyrus and Margaret's life, her biography is repeated here, although it was used earlier. "Margaret Longshore, P.O.Condit; was born July 2, 1804, a dau. of Christian and Sallie (Linderman) Young; her father settled in Ohio about 1816, and farmed near Galena until his death in 1838. She was married June 22, 1826, to Cyrus Longshore, by whom she has had six children, four are now living; her husband was born Nov. 24, 1804, in Muskingum Co., Ohio, and came with his parents to Delaware Co. about 1808, settling west of Sunbury on a farm owned by Mrs. (Margaret) Longshore; he died May 3, 1870" Issue: 11 six sons all born Ohio 1 - Jonathan Longshore 1827 - 2 - Minor Longshore 1829-1856 3 - Charles Longshore 1830-1921 4 - Truman Longshore 1833-1913 5 - Harlow A. Longshore 1835- 6 - Isaac Newton Longshore 1839-1920 Cyrus farmed east of Sunbury, between Condit and Vans Valley, on what is now State Route 605, on a farm now known as the Ted Gray farm. In the 1860 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 25) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6a2a8daec0f0c251efca429eb7848c9e.jpg ea9bbb3483b0ec632d9119f93a892a7a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 26] [corresponds to page 24 of I-DENTITY] Census, his worth was listed as $5775 Real Estate value and $1000 personal property, which compared to other listings was quite prosperous for farmers in the area. Tradition has it that an old Indian used to stop to visit Cyrus and to trade items for whiskey. The tavern was just about a half mile away where the Zieschang house is. The Indian told that there was a silver mine in that are but none was ever found. Cyrus Longshore's will follows: Will of Cyrus Longshore In the name of the benevolent Father of all I Cyrus Longshore in view of the certainty of Death and the uncertainty of life do make and publish this my last will and testament Item 1 I direct that after my decease all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid by my Executors out of my estate Item 2 I direct that my beloved wife Margaret Longshore have the entire use and controll of all my estate boath real and personal during her natural life Item 3 I direct that should the rents and incomes of my said estate be not sufficient for her maintainance and support in the style in which we are now living that said estate be sold and so much of the proceed as may be necessary used for her support as aforesaid Item 4 I direct that at the death of my said wife my estate that may be remaining be equally divided among my heirs as follows To wit my sons Charles Truman Harlo A. and Isaac Newton and the heirs of my deceased son J.W. Longshore Item 5 I hereby nominate and appoint my wife Margaret Long- shore and my son Truman Longshore my Executors of this my last will and testament In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fourth Day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy Cyrus Longshore (his own signature) E.H. Dent John Sinkey We E.H. Dent and John Sinkey hereby certify that Cyrus Longshore signed the foregoing instrument in our presence as his will and that we signed the same in his presence as witnesses E.H. Dent John Sinkey This document was done in beautiful handwriting, with the punctuation (mostly by spacing), capitalization, and spelling popular in that period) _______________________________________________________________ Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 26) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2c62b1b41dc15a9f83beef37c870cc5c.jpg 17c4ad855bf6f45798f9e80a4c0ed68d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 27] [corresponds to page 25 of I-DENTITY] IIB 1 Jonathan Longshore - sone of Cyrus - b 1827 d ____ Born in Ohio md Clarissa Lewis 1852 (3/1) Delaware Co.,b 1833 Issue III 1 - Volney L. b 1853 2 - Truman D. b 1855 3 - Miles N. b 1857 4 - Ida B. b 1859 5 - Ada b 1859 IIB 2 Minor Longshore - son of Cyrus -b 1829 d 6/15/1856 A 27 md Sarah Clark in 1854 (11/16) in Delaware Co., Ohio Issue: III 1 - Harold IIB 3 Charles Longshore - sone of Cyrus - b 11/30/1830 d 3/19/1921 bd Marysville, Union Co., Ohio; he was a Civil War Veteran, lost a leg in the war and wore a wooden leg. md Susan Tracy (b Muskingum County, be Marysville). Susan was a dau of David Tracy II B - 3 Family of Charles Longshore (sone of Cyrus) Issue: III 1 - Sidney Longshore 2 - Mary E. Longshore 3 - Jane Longshore 4 - Bertha Longshore 5 - Minor William Longshore 6 - Molly Longshore 7 - Annie Longshore 8 - David Longshore Note - Glen (grandson of Minor (Tine) and his wife, Cheryl Longshore, of Salem, Oregon, are also researchers. They sent the information on the Charles (Cyrus' son) Longshore family, also the following pictures of Minor and Janetta Longshore and their young family. Glen's father, Irven Longshore, remembers his grandfather, Charles' wooden leg and the fact his father, Minor Wm. (Tine) played at Murphys's Hill near Sunbury, Ohio, as a boy. (The Murphys and Trenton Twp. Longshores lived on farms in the same community. It was always said the two families emigrated to Ohio about the same time. Although one of Charles' children was born in Ill. in 1858, and possibly the family lived there at that time, the family was listed in the Ohio 1860 census with Charles as a farmer worth $7200 real estate and $1000 personal worth; this rated as very prosperous at that time in the Delaware County farming community. His father's worth at that time was Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 27) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8c6d6d048f98dc824e6a5d1eb2ab6595.jpg e59ba6db314ef5a8b7d7eda4c4a3c7c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 28] [corresponds to page 26 of I-DENTITY] estimated to be $5775. At any rate, it is known that Charles was married and a father at the time of the Civil War. Issue: III 1 - Sidney - no info on this 2 - Mary E. - b 1857 3 - Jane - b 1858 in Illinois md Sivey (1) & Arts (2) 4 - Bertha - b ____ md Raymer 5 - Minor Wm.-b 1861 (more about him later) 6 - Molly - b about 1856 d A 46 4/2/1903 (Longshore Reunion Book) md Jaunt Grandstaff. Molly d in Magnetic Springs, Ohio 7 - Annie - b 1871 in Harlem Twp. d A 46 on 11/9/1916 md David Gilbert (Bert) Meddles (d 1921) 8 - Bert - b ____ died age 14 IIB 3 Family of Charles Longshore (son of Cyrus) continued through Charles' son, Minor Wm. Longshore IIIB 5 Minor William (Tine) Longshore b 6/9/1861 in Union Co., O. d 3/29/1943 in Hardin Co., Ohio md Janetta Hites (dau. of Benjamin and Margaret McGinnis Hites - b 8/26/1870 d 4/6/1898 md Janetta in Richwood, Ohio and both Minor and Janetta are bd at Roundhead Cemetery, Roundhead, O. Janetta b McDonald Twp., Hardin Co., Ohio Minor was md before and his lst wife's and child's names are unknown but they are bd in Sunbury Cemetery. It is thought they were either typhoid or TB victims. Issue: IV 8 children 1 Florence May b 2/6/1899 d 7/8/1937 in Ridgeway, O. d Russell Point, O. Md Truman Dunn Herring in 1918 Issue: V Minor, Joan, Russell, Bob Herring 2 Sidney Ray Longshore b 4/28/1902 in McDonald Twp. Hardin Co., O. md Cloa Orth 12/24/1923 in Kenton, O. Issue: V Melvin Longshore 3 Carl Clayton Longshore b 5/9/1904 McDonald Twp spent a year in Kansas where he found his wife and brought her back here. At one time her family had lived in a sod house in his yard for exhibition. As a consequence, there was a big write-up about it in a Sunday Columbus Dispatch a couple years ago, and sightseers go to see it. Prospect, Ohio commissioned him and a crew of men to build one for display in the Park as a bicentennial exhibit. He built that one in 11 days. Carl md Florence Opal Symonton on 9/17/1927 in Colby, Kansas. 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Description An account of the resource [page 29] [corresponds to page 27 of I-DENTITY] Family of Minor William (Tine) Longshore continued ________________________________________________________________________ Issue: V - Vinita, Ralph, and Carlyne Longshore 1 Vinita b 1928 md Earl Tillman Issue: VI 1 Larry Tillman b 1948 2 Ralph Longshore b 1931 md Helen Oathodt Issue: VI 1 Randy b 1966 3 Carlyne Longshore b 3/24/1938 md Garry Massie No ch. 4 Ethel Longshore md Crew Ferguson Issue: VI Robert, Blanche, Dwight, Fred Ferguson IIIB 5 - IV 5 Unnamed Boy d age 10 da either 1907/08 6 Irven Roscoe Longshore b 9/19/1909, McDonald Twp, Hardin Co., Ohio md Vivian Mary Thomas on 6/11/1939 Glendora, Calif. Issue: V 1 Glen Longshore b Lives in Salem, Oregon md Cheryl Frad 7 Juanita Gertrude b 8/29/1911 in Huntsville, Ohio md Wilbur Barnhart Issue: V Patricia, Lester, Richard Barnhart 8 Perry Elwood Longshore b 5/1/1913 md June Harraman Issue: V 1 Harold Eugene Longshore b 9/28/1938 md Issue: VI 1 Cheryl Ann Longshore b 6/21/1958 in Kenton, O. md 5/14/1976 to Darrell Wampler (11/15/1956) son of Eugene and Doris Wampler 2 Linda Lee Longshore b 5/10/1960 in Marysville, Ohio 3 Gary Eugene Longshore b 12/11/1962 in Kenton 4 David Neil Longshore b 8/3/1964 b in Richwood 5 Harold Eugene Longshore, Jr. 7/28/1968 in Sunbury, O. 2 Barbara Longshore md Clifford Conley Issue: Timothy Wayne b about 1965, (adopted when an infant) Conley 3 Nancy Longshore md Bud Yoakam Issue: VI Mike, Tony, Penny Yoakam 4 Jeannie Longshore md Bob Hildreth Issue: VI Ricky and Robin 5 Minor LeRoy d infancy 6 Gary Lee Longshore died in infancy Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 29) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e181ee4757e9fbbd2146e75b7bc21766.jpg cc89123f3a3bcdb0eb6513868aa96014 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 30] [corresponds to page 28 of I-DENTITY] The Family of Cyrus (IB) continues. _________________________________________________________________________ Truman Longshore is the fourth son of Cyrus and should come next but because his line is so prolific, it seems best to skip him for the moment and compile his two younger brothers now. _________________________________________________________________________ II B 5 Harlow A. Longshore, fifth son of Cyrus, b 1835 d ____ He married Massa Linnabary ( b 1843) on 2/8/1864 According to deed transfers at Del. Co. C H in Ohio, Harlow and wife, Massa, purchased land from Sarah E. Longshore (probably Mrs. David Jr.) in 1866 and in 1870 sold this same land to Cyrus Longshore, his father. Evidently they then moved from the area and no further trace has been found to date, by this compiler. In the 1860 Census, he was age 25, living in his father's house, farming. II B 6 Issac Newton Longshore b 6/14/1839 d 5/11/1920 bd Trenton Md Angeline T. Bourne (1840-1936) on 11/23/1865. In the 1880 HISTORY OF DELAWARE CO. by Baskins, it says that I.N. Longshore was very active in the Christian Union Church (Bethel, in Licking Co.), of which he was an Elder and Superintendent of Sunday Schools. The biography also states he once carried mail from Johns- town to Newark daily for one year, worked as a carpen- ter for years, but mostly he farmed. Angeline was born in Ohio just one year after her parents, Almerian and Elizabeth (Jewett) Bourn who were born in Mass., came to Ohio in 1839. "After marriage, I.N. and Angeline settled on the old homestead where their resident still is (in 1880). (This is where the Harvey McElroy farm now is on Ross Rd., Trenton Twp.) In May of 1880, I.N. sold his farm for $1000. cash and soon after bought one of 47 acres at $60.00 an acre from A. C. Bowers; he also worked 83 acres of his mother's (Cyrus' and Margaret's) farm." In late years he retired to a house and lot in Condit across from the schoolhouse and cemetery. His son, Seth, then took over the farming. Issue III: Alvey Seth and Mark 1 - Alvey Seth b. 1867 died 1953 md Estella M. (1872-1952) both buried in Trenton Cemetery, Condit, Ohio. Seth was a farmer. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 30) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ba597d4719ac14eb1e648c6b7013d8da.jpg 38c5c0d66dad821d35e0dd98d97cf867 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 31] [corresponds to page 29 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the family of Isaac Newton, the 6th child of Cyrus, Seth and Estella Longshore family ________________________________________ Issue IV Eva, Von, Fern, and Iva Longshore 1 - Eva Longshore b 1891 on 10/26/1923 md Grover Gorsuch (d 1/28/1971) Issue V: 1 - Ceeta Gorsuch b 12/4/1927 md on 12/23/1951 to Lawrence J. Sillan live in Newark Issue VI: 1 - Robert Emory Sillan b 9/1952 2 - Diane Sillan b 1957 2 - Von Longshore b 1896 md Clifton Feasel 10/19/1922 live in Condit, Ohio no ch. [obituary: Lucile Bailey] 3 - Fern b 1893 d 1979 md. Harry Cornell on 6/19/1913 Harry died 1963 from effects of a paralyzing stroke a few years earlier. He was a school bus driver and later a railroader. They had lived in Trenton Twp., Mt. Vernon, and in late years during his invalidism, they lived with son, Alva, in Cincinnati, where Fern kept house for him and his motherless daughters. Harry died there. [obituary: Fern Elizabeth Cornell] Issue: V: Lucille Cornell and Alva Clay Cornell 1 - Lucille Cornell b 4/20/1914 md Dale Bailey 10/10/1934 They live in Trenton Twp. Dale Bailey recently retired as Landmark County Manager Issue: VI- Marvin, Joan, Mary Lou 1. Marvin Bailey b 8/20/1935 md Gwendolyn in 1955 Marvin is an employee of Landmark Inc. They live in Delaware, Ohio Issue: VII Bruce, Keith, Steve Bailey 1 - Bruce Bailey b 9/3/1956 2 - Keith Bailey b 9/5/1958 3 - Steve Bailey b 1/29/1960 2 - Joan Bailey b 5/20/1937 md Richard Moore on 5/29/1955, Richard farms near Johnstown Issue: VII Don, Carolyn, Dianne, Linda, Connie Moore Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 31) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b0c15855119594bdef3c68181b80d696.jpg cff7190d359eb7758094a9f605a0bfac Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 32] [corresponds to page 30 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the family of Isaac Newton, the 6th child of Cyrus-Family of Seth and Estella descendants. ____________________________________________________________________________ [obituary: Forest Dale Bailey] 3 - Mary Lou Bailey b 1/17/1940 md Ted C. Harper They live in Columbus Issue VI- 1 - Kenny Dale Harper b 4/23/1964 2 - Lee Orva Harper b 8/23/1965 II B 6 V 2 - Alva Clay Cornell b 9/26/1917 md Ruth McKenzie (III 1) on 2/19/1943 Issue VI- 1 - Charles David Cornell b 1/16/1944 to Ruth Alva and Ruth divorced Alva md Iola Frye (d in 1961) 2 - Alice Jean Cornell b 5/29/1953 3 - Phyllis Marie Cornell b 5/29/1953 Alva md Bina Von Bolborth on 1/3/1969 No children. They live in Cincinnati, Ohio IV 4 Iva Longshore b. md Harold Bailey on 9/30/1920 He farms. They live on Trenton Rd. in Harlem Twp. Delaware County, Ohio Issue V- Marcella Bailey 1 - Marcella Bailey b 5/9/1921 md Forrest Earl Edwards in 1937 Divorced Issue VI Forrest LeRoy (Jack Edwards b 11/19/1937 Marcella md2 George Lynn in 1942 and live Trenton Twp. Delaware County, Ohio Issue VI Carolyn Sue Lynn and Peggy Lorraine 1 - Carolyn Sue Lynn b 5/29/1947 md Robert Smith in 1965 Issue VII: 1 - Bobby Smith 2 - Jodie Smith 3 - Shelly Smith 4 - Jennifer Smith 2 - Peggy Lorraine Lynn b 9/28/1950 Md Robert Berridge live in Harlem Twp. Delaware County Issue VII: 1 - Valerie Berridge 2 - Patricia Berridge Issue III - Mark b. 1868- There is a great mystery in connection with Mark. As a young man, he suddenly decided to take a trip; later writing an affectionate letteer from Wisconsin to his parents expressing regret as to necessary for the trip but still not explaining it. He was never heard from again. His grieving family and fiance could only believe he had met with foul play somewhere. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 32) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/09737ba68ec6fd73d8ed1fea791d52ee.jpg 2e825cf1d4c6cc5520f6bde43b28d87e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 33] [corresponds to page 31 of I-DENTITY] Carlyle once said that "History is the essense of innumerable biographies". An appropriate follow-up might be a statement by Longfellow in which he said, "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while we judge others by what they have done." Oft times later generations can be inspired by the achievements of those gone on before or be put on guard by their failures. We cannot rest on the laurels of our ancestors; neither are we held to account for their deeds; we can rise above or sink below their character, but the fact remains we are a composite of our ancestors and that is why Susie may "take after" Aunt Mary or Johnny after Uncle Joe or Granddad. Strange how the genes work _______________________________________________________________________________ After the death of Truman's 2nd wife, Lucretia, in 1881, Truman brought his motherless children back to Ohio and he never went out west again. The children were taken in by various family members until old enough to go on their own. Since Harriet (Longshore) and her husband, George Ginn, only had one child, Elmine, at home they took 14 year old Milo into their home. One day when Milo was near 18 years of age, he went downtown to get a loaf of bread for his aunt. Two years later he returned and tossed a loaf of bread on the table, saying, "Here's your loaf of bread!" The 2nd time he left he kept in contact with them. The Ginns also had been in Iowas for three years but George become so homesick they came back to Ohio. This was prior to Truman's tragedy. When Clem Longshore, along with his parents, Truman and Lucretia and their family were traveling out west from Ohio, they used a flat bed wagon. They had a team of horses, two cows, one sow, and a dog. On the wagon was a bed, dresser, and two stoves. The womenfolk rode on the wagon and drove the team while the father and sons walked. When they came to a cabin, it was customary for that family to provide accommodations for the travelers. They fed the family and livestock. The men of the house went outside and slept under the wagon with the traveling men while the women all slept inside the house. When the Longshores arrived at their destination, they turned the horses out to pasture. The horses ran off toward home with the dog. The dog made it on home but the horses stopped at the "big river". Later the horses were found beside a large river (which lay on the homeward route) which evidently they were reluctant to cross. A postcard informed the Longshores of the horses' whereabouts. Truman took a train to retrieve the horses. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 33) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e61228d997504f6f9d513c1853735df8.jpg c6582085e7ac492acfd285dd9a54aa07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 34] [corresponds to page 32 of I-DENTITY] YOUR NAME You got it from your father, It was all he had to give, So it's yours to use and cherish For as long as you may live. If you abuse the watch he gave you, It can always be replaced, But a black mark on your name, Can never be erased. It was clean the day he gave it And a worthy name to bear, When you got it from your father There was no dishonor there. So make sure you guard it wisely, for After all is said and done, You'll be glad the name is spotless When you give it to your son. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 34) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ac4392b214a2ee952beb1bd76b1d4750.jpg f847dc84648d8df574e9d83d696dd32f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 35] [corresponds to page 34 of I-DENTITY] Truman Longshore Fourth Son of Cyrus Longshore II B4 The Truman Longshore line is being recorded out of sequence of Cyrus' sons because his family seemed to be more prolific, plus the fact he and most of his Ohio ancestors and their descendants remained or still live in the particular area where this compiler lives. Therefore, information is more accessible as well as personal knowledge and contact with the subjects and availability of resource material gives more insight to this line. Every effort has been made to research the other lines and all submitted material has been appreciated and used. Consequently an abundance of data follows: possibly Job 14:1-9 expresses what he may have felt at times: "Man is born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble." Truman was one of the four, out of six, sons who survived his father, Cyrus; Jonathan and Minor having died before 1870. He and his mother, Margaret were executors of Cyrus' will. Truman was sort of a jack-of-all-trades, having farmed a great amount, he was a competent teamster, operated a sawmill and tile mill, et cetera. He must have been somewhat of an adventurer considering that he got around considerably for that day of poor traveling facilities. The railroad came to Delaware in 1851 and it was called the "Big Four" since it ran through Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, and Truman could have used its accommodations some of the time. At any rate, get around he did, whether by horseback, carriage, stagecoach, covered wagon, or by rail. To travel by any of these methods required super desire, courage, a strong constitution, and perseverance! Truman may have been enticed to pursue greener pastures by the lectures of Horace Greeley who was a journalist and politician who went around over the country lecturing with the clarion call "Go west, young man!" hinting of riches and acclaim that lay just beyond for the going and claiming. It is known that some of Truman's Longshore cousins also answered this call and went West; perhaps forming a wagon train. Rumblings from some of the wives' grumblings are still being heard of, such as; "Haint no sense to it at all!" The women were content with their lot in life right where they were. The gold rush of 1849 (although Truman at 14 was too young to embark at that time) may have had some appeal although there is no record of any Longshore having found gold! Some of the Longshores must have found something they liked in Illinois and Iowa because some went and stayed. Most of them eventually came back to Ohio and their roots here. It is known that Truman found his first wife, Larusia Bouier, in Peoria, Illinois in 1859. Most likely he lived out there farming before and in the early part of his marriage. His son, Clem, many times told the story of his father's second move out to Illinois. They went by covered wagon. In the late fall, they turned the horses out to open pasture as was the custom there. The horses and dog must have been homesick because they ran off toward Ohio. Later the horses were found beside a large river (which lay on the homeward route) which evidently they were reluctant to cross. The dog left them (as compared to Ohio's at that time) and said that one time he harrowed corn all day and didn't get over the field. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 35) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/41696bccde1ad137f836b87582b81dde.jpg 029b32a32d257469a3158dfa70b6331e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 36] [corresponds to page 35 of I-DENTITY] It is thought that the first three of Truman's children were born in Ohio and the other five in Illinois. It is re- corded that Will was born in Ohio and that Clem was born in a log house on his grandfather Cyrus' farm - possibly the tenant house, in 1865. Truman was back in Ohio at that time and also in 1870 at the time of his father's death. Larusia had died the year before at age 35. She is buried at Condit, Ohio. In 1871, Truman married Lucretia [underlined] Peters. A copy of her father's biography follows: Also taken from Baskins 1880 Delaware County History -- Daniel H. Peters, farmer and stockraiser; P.O. Green, Licking County, Ohio is a son of William and Sarah (Bashford) Peters; his father was of English descent, and born in Maryland; his mother of Irish descent; her father was from Cork, Ireland. Mr. Peters's father emigrated to Ohio about 1816, and his grandfather came to America in 1808, and served awhile in the War of 1812. Mr. Peters was born Jun 26, 1820, in Pickaway County, Ohio and came to Licking Co., in April, 1822. Nov. 27, 1842, he was married to Miss R. Iles; she was born in Licking Co.; they had nine children - Sarah J., Lucretia, James W. Effie, Oliver, Emma, William P., Melissa, and Martha. His wife died Oct. 6, 1863; she was a member of the M.E. Church. Daniel was again married, in 1864, to Mary A., daughter of Edward and Mary Lake, by whom he had six children; five living - Rose D., Frank J., Milton H., Mark M., William S. and John M who died Nov. 21, 1869. He (Daniel) lived, after marriage in Licking Co. four years and then rented his present farm of 124 acres, which he bought two years afterward. About 1859, he learned the carpenter's trade, and has thus been enabled to make his own farm improvements; in 1864, he commenced dealing in Spanish merino sheep, which he supplies to those wanting at fair prices; he has filled his share of the township offices, and is now a member of the Christian Union Church, as are also five members of his family. He has served as Supt. of Sunday School for 25 yrs, and many years as Elder. This church now has membershp of 100. He is a member of Sparrow Lodge, No. 400, A.F.& M. According to a granddaughter, Daniel Peters score of children reached 17! (Daniel H. Peters: June 26, 1820 - Aug 23, 1900 Mary I. Iles: Jan. 17, 1840 - Nov. 10, 1900 b d in Wapello Cemetery, Iowa After 1871, Truman and Lucretia moved to Ill. with his family of three sons: William, Edson B., and Clem. Soon Dean, Mae, Newton, Milo, and Nellie joined the throng. But again tragedy struck when Lucretia died in 1881 at age 36. A broken man returend to Ohio with a ['covered' crossed out] wagon load of motherless children. Will, the eldest at 21, returned to the West and was married that fall. It is thought that he kept 2 year old Nellie and Newt, age 7. It is not known what 19 yr old Edson did but Clem at age 16 was old enough to do a man's work so he lived with his father's uncle, Warner and Cordelia and daughter, Mary, on the farm. Cordelia passed away in 1882 so then the spinster daughter, Mary, kept house for her father and Clem. Warner's daughter, Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 36) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ab7794617dbc7e7ef7a821adaec9013f.jpg 32bfdbcfb8354f1a365ddd75bba9523f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 37] [corresponds to page 36 of I-DENTITY] Harriett and her husband George Ginn, having only one (at home) child, Elmine aged 9, took five year old Milo to raise. Mae, who was eight went to live with a sister of Lucretia's in Mich. It is not known where Dean, aged 9, stayed, but when he turned 18 he went to Iowa where he settled. So, compassionate relatives "took in" the children and it was such a commendable thing to do. Everyone did the best they could but still the family circle was broken. However the family, though scattered hither and yon, remained close in spirit and all kept in touch, visiting each as often as possible. Most of them eventually settled in Central Ohio. Truman did not set up housekeeping again until Mae was old enough to keep house for him. He then purchased a place in Olive Green in 1886. At that time a Doc Foster and Truman became business partners in a tile mill. All went well until Doc decided to shoot himself dead in a tile kiln. Just one more upheaval in Truman's life. He lived to age 78 and died in 1913. All of his children lived long lives except Nellie, who died at 35. The others averaged out to over 78; Clem lived to be the oldest-passing on at age 90 in 1955. Reading of the trauma that went on in these families' lives reminds one of Elizabeth Akers Allen's poem: Rock Me to Sleep Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight, Make me a child again, just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth a few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;-- Rock me to sleep, Mother, - rock me to sleep! I am so weary of toil and of tears; Toil without recompense, Tears all in vain; Take them, and give me my childhood again! I have grown weary of dust and decay, - Weary of flinging my soul wealth away; Weary of sowing for others to reap; - Rock me to sleep, Mother, - rock me to sleep! Elizabeth Akers Allen's poem, "Rock Me to Sleep" 3rd verse Tired of the follow, the base, the untrue, Mother, O Mother, my heart calls for you! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and faded, our faces between; Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I tonight for your presence again. Come from the silence so long and so deep; - Rock me to sleep, Mother, - rock me to sleep! Over my heart in the days that are flown, No love like mother love ever has shown; No other worship abides and endures, Faithful, unselfish, and patient like yours; None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick soul, and the world-weary brain, Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 37) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/83ac7fd53847c343825d767c84f8b863.jpg ebe55ce4dbd6ed63a12f9ea500855242 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 38] [corresponds to page 37 of I-DENTITY] Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep; - Rock me to sleep, Mother, - rock me to sleep! Come let your brown hair, just lighted with gold; Fall on your shoulders again, as of old; Let it drop over my forehead tonight, Shading my faint eyes away from the light; For with its sunny edged shadows once more, Happily will throng the sweet visions of yore; Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep; - Rock me to sleep, Mother, - rock me to sleep! Mother, dear Mother, the years have been long Since I last listened your lullaby song; Sing, then unto my soul it shall seem Womanhood's years have been only a dream; Clasped to your heart in a loving embrace, With your light lashes just sweeping my face, Never hereafter to wake or to weep; - Rock me to sleep, Mother, - rock me to sleep! This poem was found in McGuffey's Fifth Reader Revised. It is familiar to the scholars of that era. Many committed it to memory. The data on the Truman Longshore line was supplied mostly by Harold Longshore, son of Homer, and his mother, Bessie, who live in Wapello, Iowa. They have come to the Longshore reunions throughout the years whenever possible and every year recently. They have contributed greatly to the over-all effort to "keep in touch". The Family of Truman Longshore Fourth Son of Cyrus Longshore IB II 4 Truman Longshore b 11/6/1835 d 1/16/1913 md in 1859 to Larusia Bouier (from Peoria Ill.- b 1834 d 2/20/1869 A 35) both bd Trenton Cemetery, Condit, Ohio Issue III: 1 - William Armanthus Longshore 2 - Edson B. Longshore 3 - Steven Clement Longshore III- 2 Edson B. Longshore b 11/6/1863 d 7/19/1944 md Jane Ham in 1909 Jane died 7/22/1913 No issue Edson married Edna Ward on 8/21/1918 Edna d 8/4/1967 No issue Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus line, William Armanthus Longshore Branch. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 38) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/769a767aff84542cbcfa9dee9e5e85e9.jpg bbf70543fcf598a90fd0742bfaf7e5cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 39] [corresponds to page 38 of I-DENTITY] III-1 William Armanthus Longshore (Will) b 10/6/1860 d 10/14/1934 Age 74 settled in Minnesota Most of his descendants live in that general area of Albertlea, Minnesota. md Amy Jane Peters (b 5/19/1862) on 10/6/1881 Will was a tall, big broad shouldered man It is thought that they kept his sister, Nellie and brother, Newt, for awhile. Will was a farmer; the first to raise field corn in the state of Minnesota.Prior to that, Minnesotans raised caffer corn. Will kept visiting Ohio and taking back samples of Ohio corn seed until finally he got a crop started there. Issue IV: - Earl Francis, Louella May, Esther Longshore 1 - Earl Francis Longshore b 12/17/1885 d 7/26/1954 Md Merry Christmas Miller (b 12/25/1885) on Christmas Day, 1905 Issue V: - Beverly Elise, Lois, Miller, William Miller, and Rondald Longshore V-1 Beverly Elise Longshore b 3/8/1907 md 9/29/1925 to Victor James Christensen (b 4/4/1907) Issue: VI - Jeanne Marie, Lloyd LeRoy, Leslie James, Dale Lincoln Christensen VI - 1 Jeanne Marie Christensen b 4/29/1927 md on 2/14/1945 to Carl B. Matthies (b 6/1922) Issue VII: - Steven Carl and Wendy Jeanne Matthies VII - 1 Steven Carl Matthies b 10/15/1945 md on 4/9/1966 to Mary Bruder 2-Wendy Jeanne Matthies b 2/18/1950 VI - 2 Lloyd LeRoy Christensen b 7/13/1930 on 9/19/1954 md Geraldine Bogan Schutz (b 11/10/1934) Issue VII- 1 - Brian Scott Christensen b 9/7/1955 2 - David Loyd Christensen b 6/7/1959 3 - Mark Allen Christensen b 5/7/1962 VI-3 Leslie James Christensen b 7/13/1930 on 12/31/1950 md Yvonne Marie Amlet (b 7/6/1930) Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus line, William Armanthus Longshore Branch Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 39) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f35c34669303d07288af21741537aa7a.jpg 74d7e3f1bab0f71817a5e284ae792c54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 40] [corresponds to page 39 of I-DENTITY] Issue: VII Cynthia Yvonne, Beth Ann, Leslie Jane, and Donna Ranae Christensen VII-1 Cynthia Yvonne Christensen b 9/30/1951 2 Beth Ann Christensen b 7/17/1953 3 Leslie Jane Christensen b 10/25/1958 4 Donna Ranae Christensen b 8/15/1962 VI- 4 Dale Lincoln Christensen b 9/4/1934 on 8/6/1955 md Martha Judith Bruder (b 6/28/1936) Issue VII Dean Dale and Dianne Lynn Christensen VII-1 Dean Dale Christensen b 12/23/1956 2 Dianne Lynn Christensen b 5/12/1958 V-2 Lois Miller Longshore b 4/29/1915, on 10/19/1933 md Luther LaVern Dillavou - live in Albertlea, Minn. Luther LaVern Dillavou (b 3/4/1906) Issue VI: Romelle Mae, Sandra Sue, Lois Geraldene, and Earl LaVern Dillavou VI-1 Romelle Mae Dillavou b 5/18/1936, on 5/28/1960 md Ernest H. Enderson (b 7/14/1931) - Romelle md her first husband, George Flattum on 7/18/1954, dv in 1957 - 2 children adopted by Ernest Enderson Issue VII - Gary Alvin, Constance Mae, Tomothy Ernest, and Patricia Jean Enderson VII-1 Gary Alvin (Flattum) Enderson b 4/29/1955 2 Constance Mae (Flattum) Enderson b 7/2/1956 3 Tomothy Ernest Enderson b 1/20/1961 4 Patricia Jean Enderson b 4/3/1962 VI-2 Sandra Sue Dillavou b 8/5/1937 on 12/26/1955 md Orin Roisen (b 3/8/1935) Issue VII- Julie Gayle, Donna Lee, David Orrin, and Roger LaVern Roisen VII- 1 Julie Galye [Gayle] Roisen b 7/10/1956 2 Donna Lee Roisen b 12/1/1957 3 David Orrin Roisen b 1/1/1959 4 Roger LaVern Roisen b 4/1/1962 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 40) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/98c09ac2c6c9291624dfa64f166b3906.jpg ebecc389dcedb019ee31a431d15fcb9e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 41] [corresponds to page 40 of I-DENTITY] Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus Longshore, William Armanthus Longshore Branch continued ______________________________________________________________________________ V 2 Clifford C. Hammer b 10/21/1920, on 12/10/1921 md Betty Jean LaValle (b 12/10/1921) Issue VI 1 - Annette Rae Hammer b 8/5/1941, on 6/9/1959 md Roger Alden Walberd (b 9/28/1939) Issue VII 1 - Richard Roger Walberd b 12/10/1961 2 - Suzanne K. Hammer b 1/17/1948 3 - Charles C. Hammer b 3/4/1951 Third child of Wm. A. & Amy J. (Peters) Longshore IV - 3 Esther Elma Longshore b 1/1/0/1893, on 7/18/1908 md Alonzo Wilson Cram (b 9/19/1888 - d 9/11/1955) Issue V: - Raymond Alonzo, Alma Beatrice, William Earl, Amy Jane, Cleon Forrest, Clayton Clair, and Marlene Rea Cram V - 1 Raymond Alonzo Cram b 11/26/1908, on 12/20/1933 md Esther Alvira Anderson (b4/5/1914- d 7/30/1968) Issue VI: 1- Lonene Cram b 10/11/1936 on 8/6/1957 md Vincent Novak (b 1/11/1934) 2- Jack Cram b 6/30/1938, on 11/29/1958 md Mary Alice Pearce (b10/7/1941) V - 2 Alma Beatrice Cram b 1/4/1911, on 3/19/1929 md Manly M. Olson (b 5/13/1909) Issue VI - Doreen, Richard, Arlan, Karelyn Olson 1 - Doreen VonDell Olson b 9/8/1930 on 7/29/1950 md Clifford H. Plaisance (b 9/8/1929) Issue VII 1 - Kim Clifford Plaisance b 8/18/1951 2 - Angelesque Dee Plaisance b 12/2/1954 2 - Richard Olson b 12/11/1931 on 8/9/1952 md Florence Young b 10/10/1931 Issue VII 1 - Cynthia Louise Olson b 7/27/1953 2 - Karen Ann Olson b 5/13/1956 3 - Julie Ann b 7/25/1958 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 41) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b7cc36b5cad544c95f46c26d1e42cbca.jpg ea0a62c518a0e18886ba8a760045ca62 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 42] [corresponds to page 41 of I-DENTITY] Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus line, William Armanthus Longshore Branch through the family of his daughter,Esther, his third and last child. _________________________________________________________________________ Issue VI cont. 3 -Arlan Craig Olson b 8/25/1936, on 6/8/1957 md yla Abbott (b 1/24/1937) Issue VII: 1 - Lisa Marie Olson b 4/11/1959 2 - Dayne Lynn Olson b 1/6/1961 4 -Karelyn Kay Olson b 12/2/1938, on 8/3/1958 md Keith Alan Porter (b 6/8/1937) Issue VII: 1 - Kristie Kay Porter b 7/2/1959 2 - Keith Alan Porter, Jr. b 1/14/1961 V - 3 William Earl Cram b 12/15/1915, on 9/22/1934 md Hazel Torgerson (b 10/13/1914) Issue VI: 1 - Lonna Byll Cram b 5/28/1937 d 3/12/1971 2 - Kath E. Cram b 10/7/1954 V - 4 Amy Jane b 5/13/1920 d 2/19/1926 V - 5 Cleon Forrest Cram b 6/11/1922, on 10/16/1942 md Harriett Christenson Issue VI: 1 - Marc A. Cram b 3/12/1946 2 - Todd A. Cram b 9/11/1947 3 - Carol Ann Cram b 7/7/1954 V - 6 Clayton Clair Cram b 9/25/1929, on 9/26/1950 md Marlys Evenson (b 9/20/1930) Issue VI: 1 - Nancy Jo Cram b 11/8/1951 2 - Jane Louise Cram b 11/1953 V - 7 Marlene Rea Cram b 7/7/1935 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 42) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d83c3a04a04ba12b0abffcc348bf03ac.jpg 284bb7517330dd4a91fa4471b8e8f080 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 43] [corresponds to page 42 of I-DENTITY] Line of Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus continued _________________________________________________________________ The Longshore train comes back to its Ohio source for a time and visits with the third son of Truman's, Clem Longshore. Depot - Sunbury, Ohio and nearby areas. Clem's three sons all live rural route Sunbury and their children have about all settled nearby. Clem Longshore was born in Ohio; at age 16, he came back from Illinois with his family as the result of his stepmother, Lucretia's death. He lived with his Uncle Warner's family in Trenton twp., Delaware County and worked on the farm there. Later he purchased the farm and remained there the rest of his 90 years. The farm is now owned and operated by his son, Lester, who have lived on it all of his 76 years. Clem was a slightly built man, rather short in stature. Always in good humor. He was a devoted husband caring tenderly for his wife Ella, during her invalidism several years,before her death. He was a widower for 24 years. He enjoyed traveling. His daughter-in-laws were as fond of him as his sons as he treated them with respect. His grandchildren adored him. On his 77th birthday he ice skated on the creek (in February) on his farm (this creek was and still is the recreational spot for the whole family). His grandchildren loved to fish but did not want to clean the small fish so they would give them to Grandpa and he would clean them and fry them crisp and crunch them, bones and all! Although he visited each of his sons every day, he never caused any trouble because he never interfered in their business or took sides in any disagreements. Everyone loved to see him come. When his Great grandson, Jim, was born, Clem walked out across the plowed field (in May, 1954) to where his son, John, was working and announced, "Today I am a rich man" and then told of the birth of his first great grandson (with the Longshore name). This was when he was 89 and he could still get excited over the birth of a child! He enjoyed doing favors for people and many is the time he took someone to the doctor for regular treatments or took someone on an errand. He seemed to enjoy his retirement because he could and did make himself useful. In his late years, his granddaughter, Betty and her husband, Sam Watts, lived with Clem keeping house for him and caring for him when he needed it. His life after age 16was somewhat serene and certainly more settled than his father Truman's had been. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 43) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7616b7289281c3a8ac4cce8e17cb9292.jpg 8b485decb7972776d360c629b5eb5ab0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 44] [corresponds to page 43 of I-DENTITY] Family of Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus continued ____________________________________________________________ Steven Clement Longshore The third son of Truman Longshore III - 3 Steven Clement Longshore b 2/22/1865 in Trenton Twp, Delaware County, Ohio - d 10/27/1955 at him home at age 90. On 5/28/1895, md Ella Watts (b 8/2/1862 - d 2/21/1931).Ella was born in Genoa Twp. Delaware County, Ohio, daughter of John and Lavina Ginn Watts, one of eight children. (Ella's Great Great Grandfather (on her mother's side) was killed by the Indians, as well as his wife, daughter and 2 sons during the Revolutionary war. One son, Ella's Grandfather, was released by the Indians so he could tell the sad news.) Obituary of Clement Longshore "Steven Clement Longshore was born Feb. 22, 1865 in Trenton Township. He was the son of Truman and Lurusia Longshore. On May 28, 1895, Clem was united in marriage to Ella Watts. To this union four children were born: William, Bryan, James Lester, and John Glendon. One child died in infancy. His wife, Ella, preceded him in death. She died in 1931." "Clem was a farmer for his active lifetime. He was member of Vans Valley Methodist Church more than 50 years. He passed into the life eternal on Oct. 27, 1955 leaving to mourn his departure his 3 sons, 14 grandchildren, 6 greatgrandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends." Issue IV: William Bryan, James Lester, John Glendon 1 - William Bryan Longshore b 7/20/1896 Trenton Twp., Delaware County, Ohio on 9/2/1922 md Inez Born (b 3/9/1894 d 2/15/1985) Bill worked for 35 years as a foreman in Hamilton Milk Plant in Columbus.(later owned by Borden's) until retirement. Has lived most of his married life in Berkshire Twp., Delaware County, Ohio IV 2 James Lester Longshore b 4/23/1900 Trenton Twp., Delaware County, Ohio On 10/10/1921 md Ina Lillian Adams (b 11/25/1904 - d 4/10/1943). Ina was a daughter of Frank and Mary (Morrison) Adams, b in Ohio. Issue: V V - 1 - Ruth Evelyn Longshore b Columbus, Ohio b 8/1/1924 works as an accountantlives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 44) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c6def2e0b4bb5596bf41dfe7597ddc80.jpg f0663b2701a3e566021d9dfc7de2fbda Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 45] [corresponds to page 44 of I-DENTITY] Family of Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus, James Lester and Ina (Adams) Longshore family ______________________________________________________________________ V - 2 Leona May Longshore b 7/25/1928 on 3/8/1949 md John Eli Pratt (b 11/2/1927) Mgr. of General Tire Store West in Columbus. they live in Hilliard, Ohio. Issue VI: 1 - Patti Ann Pratt (b 9/14/1959) Patti will be a senior at Hilliard High and recently (from a scholarship test) rated in the upper 2% of students in United States. 2 - Pamela Ruth Pratt b 8/27/1961 Leona and Ruth both were born in Columbus but moved to Berkshire Twp. in 1930. IV 2 James Lester Longshore b 4/23/1900 d 10/31/1988'Trenton Twp. Ohio. On 10/10/1921 md. Ina Lillian Adams (b 11/25/1904 d 4/10/1943 Ina was a daughter of Frank and Mary (Morrison) Adams, b in Ohio. Issue V: 7 children - Betty Ellen, James Russell, Violet May,Kenneth Lee, Dorothy Lurusia, Margaret Darlene, and Phillip Bruce Longshore. Lester md Beatrice (Glass) Goings (b 4/9/1918) on 6/9/1950 Beatrice had 3 children: Margaret Louise Going b 4/28/1938, in Pagetown, West Virginia, md Donald McGlothlin 12/5/1955 - dv in 1970 - Margaret md2 Jim Fish in 1972,Delaware Issue: Donald McGlothlin Jr. b 11/29/1956 1 - Donald md Teresa Issue: Delisha Dawn McGlothlin 2 - Drema Jean McGlothlin b 12/16/1965 Marjorie Carol Goings b 9/8/1939 md Delano Walker (b 4/10/1937) on 10/5/1955 - live on a farm near Condit in Trenton Twp. Issue: William LeRoy Walker b 1956 Bart Walker b 1960 Nancy L. Goings b 7/19/1942 md Elmer Clayton on 9/5/1958 - dv 1964 Issue: Linda, Michael, and Lisa Clayton Nancy Clayton md Eduardo Quijada Issue: Lisa (Clayton) Quijada b 2/5/1965 adopted by Eduardo Eduardo Quijada, Jr. (Sonny) b 1/25/1968 This family lives in Delaware, Ohio. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 45) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/21adc35b6c956a6e7d8a3dded758aa2b.jpg e4ce7f91fe042c7fbbf40b1a49294a1b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 46] [corresponds to page 45 of I-DENTITY] Line of Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus, Family of Clem and Ella Watts Longshore--Lester and Ina Adams Longshore family continued ________________________________________________________________________________ IV 2 V 1 - Betty Ellen Longshore b 11/7/1922 in Trenton Twp. md Charles (Sam) Watts (b 4/16/1919) on 3/17/1942 Sam Watts works for Nestle's Inc. and Betty for The Sunbury News. They live north of Sunbury on a farm. Issue: VI 1 - Steven Bruce Watts b 3/17/1951 Trenton Twp. Steve is a physical education teacher. He works Works with Columbus Parks & Recreation centers.Lives in Columbus, Ohio. 2 - Linda Rene Watts b 7/2/1954 Trenton Twp. md Larry Arthur DeMint on 4/28/1973 Larry is a brick mason contractor. Rene works for Farmers's Bank, Sunbury Issue: V 2- James Russell Longshore b 5/25/1925, on 3/26/1950 md Maxine (Linnabary) Nuckles (b 9/15/1919) Issue VI; Ina Claire, James William, and Craig Thomas Longshore Maxine had three children by a previous marriage: Charles Allen, Janet Carole, and Cheryl Lynne Nuckles VI - 1-Claire Longshore b 5/3/1951, on 8/5/1972 md John Kenneth Raybuck (b 11/19/1949) John is employed by Nationwide Insurance in Columbus. Claire teaches 2nd grade in Gahanna Elementery. They live in Gahanna, Ohio. Claire b Trenton twp. John born in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania but grew up in Painesville, Ohio ch: Jennifer, Joshua, Betsy 2- James William Longshore b 5/17/1954 in Trenton Twp. Delaware County Employed by Cellar Lumber Co., Westerville. 3- Thomas Longshore b 6/15/1960 in Berkshire Twp. Delaware County, Ohio. Attends Big Walnut High School in sunbury Russell formerly farmed but is now a Landmark employee Russell's step-children: -- 1 Charles Allen Nuckles b 6/8/1938 md in 1958 to Barbara Jane Satterfield (b 8/1942) Reside in Simi, Calif. (near Los Angeles) Charles employed at Rocketdyn Aircraft Charles b Trenton Twp. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 46) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a2337e0d7b5ccf7c0f8463715d1ab5e7.jpg 139318b32819b034a1d18b4da8c8f0e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 47] [corresponds to page 46 of I-DENTITY] Line of Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus, Family of Clem and Ella Watts Longshore-- Russell and Maxine (Linnabary) Longshore family continued ___________________________________________________________________________________ Issue: Dennis Ray Nuckles and Denise Kay Nuckles B 10/18/1958 in Sunbury, Ohio 2 Janet Carole Nuckles b 5/1/1943 in Sunbury md. Bradford Leo Freeman in 1961 dv 1969 Issue: Jeffrey Allen Freeman b 11/13/1961 in Sunbury Angela Eileen Freeman b 8/28/1964 in Westerville Janet md 2 Charles E. Mallett (7/11/1946) on 9/5/1975 - Live in Westerville 3- Cheryl Lynne Nuckles b 4/14/1946 in 1962 md Lawrence Hancock dv 10/1963 Issue: Gina Louise Hancock b 2/4/1963 Cheryl md 2 Edgar Belford 10/10/1964 dv 1970 Issue: Gina Belford (Ed adopted Gina Hancock) Michael Charles Belford b 11/5/1968 Cheryl md 3 Robert Harold Morgan (b 3/25/1945) Live in Whittier, California V 3 Violet Mae Longshore b 2/13/1927 Trenton Twp, in 1946 md Howard (Andy) Cline (b 9/24/1919) He is employed by Limbach Mechanical Contractors. This family lives in Lewis Center, near Delaware, Ohio Issue VI: Jerry Neal, Robert Dean, Larry Edward, Sandra Sue, Ronda Lou, Douglas Wesley 1 - Jerry Neal Cline b 4/26/1947 on 10/12/1968 md Jeanne Beale (b 7/28/1949) Jerry employed by PPG. Issue VII 1 - Jessica Jeanne Cline b 12/17/1974 2 - Jason Nathaniel Cline b 7//1976 2 - Robert Dean Cline 5/24/1949 on 8/2/1969 md Sharon Karshner (b 12/29/1949) They live in Westerville, Ohio and Bob is employed by Ohio Harvestore 3 - Larry Edward Cline b 12/22/1958 Attends Olentangy High School 4 - Sandra Sue Cline b 4/2/1964 student md. 5 - Ronda Lou Cline b 4/2/1964 student 6 - Douglas Wesley Cline b 3/26/1969 student V 4 Kenneth Lee Longshore b 9/16/1932 Trenton Twp., on 11/17/1957 md Julia Keller (b 9/19/1938) They live in Trenton Twp. where Kenny farms. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 47) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7a17fefbddfcbe6d9a18ccdf10e96ad3.jpg 65b15ca27e7b8f80203b5259cfbf0852 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 48] [corresponds to back of page 46 of I-DENTITY] [photo: Clem Longshore Family] L-R - William (Bill) and wife, Inez John and wife, Frances] Lester and 2nd wife, Bea Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 48) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/35b81dd110ff47c168a2d3f1c5896c5d.jpg fe5731934e67d50f5b8da67fcb4e79c0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 49] [corresponds to page 47 of I-DENTITY] Line of Truman Longshore, son of Cyrus, Family of Clem and Ella Watts Longshore-- Kenneth and Julia (Keller) Longshore family continued _______________________________________________________________________ Issue VI 1 - Peggy Jo Longshore 4/7/1960 attends B.W. High School 2 - Karen Lyn 10/28/1962 attends B.W. High School V-5 Dorothy Lurusia Longshore b 4/12/1934, Sunbury, Ohio On 8/2/1953 md. Howard Hale (b 5/19/1931 - 9/13/1969) Howard was a farmer in Trenton, where his sons are presently farming his farm. Dorothy is an employee of Dollar Federal Loan in Sunbury. Issue VI: 1 - Howard Wayne Hale b 11/18/1955 student at O.S.U. 2 - David Lee Hale b 9/25/1958 will attend O.S.U. this fall David recently received a unique honor when he was selected as one of four Outstanding Young Citizens in Ohio. He was honored at a ceremony at which Archie Griffin received a similar honor for Outstanding Adult Citizen in Ohio 3 - John Allen Hale b 4/24/1961 student at B.W. High V-6 Margaret Darlene Longshore b 9/20/1938, Sunbury, Ohio Rt #1 On 7/21/1956 md. Robert Kean (b 2/18/1937) Robert is an employee of PPG in Delaware.Darlene is employed by a Delaware bank. The family lives on Longshore Road in Trenton Twp. Issue VI: 1- Debora Marie Kean b 5/1/1957 An employee of Penney's Ins. Co. 2- Diana Esther Kean b 2/16/1960 A student at B.W. High V-7 Phillip Bruce Longshore b 4/17/1941 in Trenton Twp. On 7/18/1959 md Judy Barr (7/18/1942) Phil is a deputy sheriff for Delaware County Judy works for the Delaware Unemployment Bureau This family lives in Trenton Twp. Issue VI: 1-Bruce William Longshore b 5/7/1960 2-Todd Allen Longshore b 2/11/1961 3-Sherri Lynn Longshore b 10/5/1963 4-Heidi Lee Longshore b 1/4/1965 At this writing all are students at B.W. High Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 49) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fe2f089d112ec87504788510ce63843b.jpg 5d3ff24f59b381f88273b6b6bf0f7f99 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 50] [corresponds to page 48 of I-DENTITY] IV 3 Third child of Clem and Ella (Watts) Longshore John Glendon Longshore b 4/26/1904 Trenton Twp, on 6/26/1931 md Frances Simms (b 10/31/1907) A farmer presently. In early marriage, lived in Columbus and drove a City Transit Bus. He then moved to Trenton Twp. and farmed but after he sold his dairy cows, he worked as a custodian for Gahanna School System. He has now retired and resumed farming full time. This family also lives on Longshore Road in Trenton Twp., neighbors to his father's farm. Issue: V Donald, Shirley, Carole, Robert, Randy 1- Donald Wayne Longshore b 8/29/1933 on 7/22/1963 md. Diana VanderHout in Milwaukee. Donald is employed by Allis chalmers. This family now lives near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2- Shirley Ann Longshore b 2/9/1936 on 8/22/1959 md William Mertel (b 10/12/1935) live near Cleveland, Ohio. Bill is an Art teacher in a Jewish school. Shirley is a temporarily retired kindergarten teacher. Issue VI: 1 Lori Lynn Mertel b 5/17/1966 2 Lisa Ellen Mertel b 10/21/1969 Students 3- Carole Lynn Longshore b 6/28/1938 On 10/8/1966 md Melvin Bell (b 6/18/1939) Melvin's employed by Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric. This family lives near Columbus, Ohio (Gahanna) Issue VI: 1- Lisa Ann b 12/19/1968 4- Robert Lee Longshore b 8/3/1942 Bob farms in Trenton Twp 5- Randy Allen Longshore b 4/5/1952 on 6/8/1973 md Kathy Ann Fuller (b 5/10/1955) Randy is an employee of Landmark, Inc. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 50) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d55a7b8ef783fa9f4fe6ba3331cd90f8.jpg c1244d5f11349e979a15cfc1ce7a65de Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 51] [corresponds to page 49 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of Truman & Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line Jmaes Dean and Nancy Elizabeth (Ryan) Family ________________________________________________________________________________ III Descendants of Truman & Lucretia Peters Longshore Issue IV: James Dean, Estella May, Isaac Newton,Milo E. & Nellie V. Longshore 1- James Dean b 1/16/1872 d 4/7/1952 Age 80 After age 18 settled in Iowa Born Delaware County, Ohio On 10/30/1894 md. Nancy Elizabeth (Ryan) This is a copy from a clipping out of the Wapello, Iowa newspaper sent to the Longshore Reunion secretary at the time of Dean's death. Obituary James Dean Longshore Born Delaware County, Ohio January 26, 1872. At age 18 went to Iowa to farm. Married on October 30, 1894 to Nancy Elizabeth Ryan. Children: Mattie Melissa, Homer Russell, Ernest Cecil, Bertha May, Mabel Dean, Paul Marion, Lela Valentine, James Vernon, Rollo Raymond, and Leslie Lewis. Elizabeth, his wife, died June 24, 1930. Son of Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore. Lived with Paul. Three sisters and two brothers preceded in death. Survived by two sons,Homer and Paul, and daughter, Mrs. Mabel Murray (Oakville). Survived by two brothers, Milo of Keokuk, Iowa and Clem Longshore of Sunbury, Ohio. Died April 7, 1952. Issue V: 1- Mattie Melissa Longshore b 12/13/1895 d 12/18/1909 d age 14 2- Homer Russell Longshore b 7/3/1897 d 9/21/1971 md Bessie E. Wilson (b 3/18/1906) on 7/3/1927 Issue VI: Harold Dean Longshore b 3/7/1929 LiveS in Wapello, Iowa Both Homer and Harold worked for the state Highway Dept. 3- Ernest Cecil Longshore b 9/20/1898 d 12/8/1927 on 6/28/1921 md Lela May Gunnells b (5/1903) Issue VI: 1 Nellie May b 5/12/1922 d 7/11/1923 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 51) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/41316701d65b0c567f7247ebba678102.jpg 89116342bad039b116702de3503d7786 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 52] [corresponds to page 50 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of Truman & Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line James Dean and Nancy Elizabeth (Ryan) Family __________________________________________________________________________ 2-Marjorie Jean Longshore b 1926 Marjorie was just a little past 1 year of age when her father died, so her aunt adopted her More about this later. 4-Bertha May b 5/11/1903 d 8/13/1923 on 2/1/1922 md James J. McKinney b 12/4/1890 d 12/11/1927) No issue: 5-Mabel Dean Longshore b 10/20/1904 on 6/14/1922 md Ben Murray (b 2/28/1903 d 6/19/1975) Issue: VI 1- Marjorie Jean Murray (adopted 1930 from Lela (Gunnel) Longshore Marjorie Jean Murray b 10/21/1926, on 11/3/1944 md. Allan Gerst (b 3/30/1923) dv 1966. Issue VII: Marlan Allan, Karen Dean, Janice Marie, Lynette Kay Gerst 1-Marlan Allan Gerst b 9/12/1947 md 3/7/1970 to Phyllis Jean Hinrichs(b 8/22/1950) 2- Karen Dean Gerst b 11/1/1949 on 3/20/1970 md Ronald Humphrey (b 7/8/1947) 3-Janice Marie Gerst b 9/29/1951 on 12/20/1969 md Robert V. Hutchinson (b 12/5/1949) Issue VI: Children Nancy b 7/4/1970 Trudi Ann b 12/24/1973 4-Lynette Kay Gerst b 2/16/1954 Marjorie Jean (Murray-Gerst) md2 John Humphries (b 6/18/1924) on 9/22/1966 6.Paul Marion Longshore b 3/15/1906 d 3/12/1970 md on 11/28/1928 to Margaret Ellen Merrick (b 6/1/1903) Paul d age 64 Issue VI: Helen Pauline and Robert LeRoy Longshore 1 Helen Pauline b 1/19/1930 on 2/23/1952 md Richard W. Kenyon (b 6/1/1929) Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 52) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ba8b0e4520ebb40b132b710d6172e28a.jpg 884fa612547949acba0b9d56fc13b555 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 53] [corresponds to page 51 of I-DENTITY] Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line Dean Longshore branch- Family of Paul Marion Longshore family ___________________________________________________________________ Issue VII: 1- Paula Michelle Kenyon b 8/13/1956 2- Richard Bruce Longshore b 4/15/1958 2-Robert LeRoy Longshore b 11/3/1933 On 6/23/1957 md. Mary Lou Hutchcroft Issue VII 1-Kathleen Ann Longshore b 10/20/1958 2-Karen Michelle Longshore b 5/16/1966 7. Lela Valentine Longshore b 2/14/1908 d 2/21/1933 md Ernest Clayton (her 1st cousin) on 12/30/1926 (More on this later) d age 25 - Children: William D., Verlee, & Cecile 8. James Vernon Longshore b 11/16/1910 d 6/24/1929 Age 19 9. Leslie Lewis Longshore b 1/28/1916 d 1/29/1916 10. Rollo Raymond Longshore b 4/13/1918 d 4/14/1918 (Note- This completes the Dean & Elizabeth Ryan Longshore Branch) 10 children: namely - Mattie Melissa, Homer Russell, Ernest Cecil, Bertha May, Mabel Dean, Paul Marion,Lela Valentine, James Vernon, Rollo Vernon [sic Raymond] Longshore This family saw much tragedy as 2 died in infancy; 2 died as teenagers; and 3 in their 20's. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 53) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/aebc6118abae09b844b525f6837a96da.jpg 2f20b6e821a155532b1d7b10cb626c58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 54] [corresponds to page 52 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line IB III __________________________________________________________________________________ IV 2 Estella Mae Longshore b 5/20/1873 d 9/24/1949 md 8/18/1897 to James C. Clevenger (b 3/31/1874 d 5/2/1947) Issue V: Perry T., Carl C., and Eva Louise Clevenger 1 Perry T. Clevenger b 12/19/1898 d 3/22/1924 of TB md 7/23/1921 to Everetta Weaver 2 Carl C. Clevenger b 9/23/1902 md 7/4/1923 d 1988 to Ruth Hazelet (d 7/17/1926) Carl md2 Lois Drutchell (b 1904) 8/20/1927 Carl and Lois formerly lived in Condit, Ohio and moved about 15 years ago to Marysville Carl worked many years as a house painter. He is now retired and the family lives in Marysville, Union Co., Ohio.He is a tall slender man. Issue VI: Bernard, Donna & Norma 1 Bernard Clevenger b 3/12/1928 on 12/16/1950 md Mildred VanLoon dv Issue VII: 1 James Edward Clevenger b 6/11/1952 Bernard Clevenger md2 Frances Pruett Dowis Issue VII: 2 Carla Ann Clevenger b 9/30/1960 2 Donna Mae Clevenger b 3/24/1930 on 8/21/1949 md Lee Crawford b 12/29/1953 Donna owns and manages a Nursing Home in Marysville. Lee Ann is a college student. 3. Norma La Vonne Clevenger b about 1932 Norma has an office job in Columbus, Ohio, lives in Marysville. 3 Eva Louis Clevenger b 12/10/1910 d 1/28/1934 of TB md on 7/22/1930 to Sherman Walter Weiser. It's been said that Jim and Mae clevenger were wonderful people. The kind who were always on hand when a family or neighbor crisis arose; to comfort the bereaved or ailing and to help in a physical sense. "Uncle" Jim always had a bit of candy for the children; endearing himself to them. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 54) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3e05464b3db971e0e6ad62c3614cdbf8.jpg e1cbad50e94a00e70fde41b0cb88f302 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 55] [corresponds to page 53 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line Isaac Newton (Newt) and Susan (Roberts) Longshore family ______________________ IB III 3 Isaac Newton Longshore b 9/15/1874 d 11/4/1944 At age 70 on 10/1/1897 md susan C. Roberts (b 5/6/1876 d 7/3/1917) Newt was a slightly built man, known as a good hostler and driver of horses; also farmed in Trenton Twp, then moved to Galena where he worked for the Bennett Lumber Co. Issue IV: Edward B., Ellen W., Alonzo J., Matilda May,William H, Charles, and Mary Frances Longshore. 1 Edward B. Longshore b 2/17/1898 on 12/20/1927 md Letha Huse (b 2/17/1898 d 1/26/1971) No Issue. 2 Ellen W. Longshore b 2/20/1900 on 8/20/1918 md Osco Green (b 12/1/1893 d 12/10/1960) Lived in Mansfield. Issue V: Pearl Louise, Harold Edward, & Beulah Mae Green 1 Pearl Louis Green b 4/8/1921 on 6/6/1942 md Clell Spearman Issue VI: 1 Joseph Allan Spearman b 8/27/1947 2 Kay Ellen Spearman b 11/22/1953 3 Betsy Jane Spearman b 10/17/1954 2 Harold Green b 2/3/1924 on 6/30/1946 md Martha Young (b 8/21/1928) Issue VI: 1 Roger Allan Green b 10/27/1947 2 Ralph Edward Green b 8/24/1949 3 Randy Lea Green b 11/9/1956 4 Robby Lynn Green b 8/23/1958 3 Buelah Mae Green b 4/5/1926 on 12/15/1953 md Clare Tucker Issue VI: 1 Thomas Randal Tucker b 12/18/1955 2 Jerry Eugene Tucker b 12/13/1961 3 Alonzo J. Longshore b 6/6/1902 d 5/6/1960 on 10/3/1923 md Zella Downing (b 5/9/1903) Lived in Mansfield area. Issue V: 1- Neland J. Longshore b 6/14/1924 on 9/1/1946 md Marilyn Ryner [sic Kyner] 4 Matilda Mae Longshore b 2/8/1905 on 6/12/1930 md Clyde Ruhl (b 10/12/1896) Lives in Mansfield, Ohio Issue V: Dale Arnold Ruhl, Robert Eugene, Ruth Irene, Ralph William, and Jean Ruhl 1-Dale Arnold Ruhl b 2/24/1933 d 3/25/1933 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 55) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/356ed2e8cc80a4bac0a0fe7f75daf83b.jpg 449978f142bed7fd805462cf325893a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 56] [corresponds to page 54 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line Isaac Newton (Newt) and Susan (Roberts) Longshore family ______________________________________________________________________________ 2-Robert Eugene Ruhl b 7/14/1934 d 8/4/1934 3-Ruth Irene Ruhl b 3/9/1936 on 1/6/1956 md Ronald Dean Brubaker (b 7/17/1936) Issue VI: 1-Michelle Lynn Brubaker b 3/4/1962 2-Cynthia Kay Brubaker b 3/9/1963 3-Donald Douglas Brubaker b 6/14/1966 4-Ralph William Ruhl b 8/20/1939 on 4/29/1961 md Shirley Ludwig (b 12/18/1944) Issue VI: 1 Teresa Marie Ruhl b 8/12/1961 2 William Eugene Ruhl b 5/8/1966 5-Barbara Jean Ruhl b 2/3/1941 on 12/28/1963 md Donald L. Queen (b 10/15/1941) Issue VI: 1 David Harold Queen b 12/19/1966 2 Dianna Kay Queen b 4/27/1971 5 William H. Longshore b 1/20/1909 d 2/18/1930 d age 21 6 Charles Newton Longshore b 5/11/1912 on 11/4/1937 md Nellie DeBolt (b 10/23/1913) Always lived in Galena. Issue V: Juanita Louise, Robert Eugene, Norma Jean, James Lawrence, Charlene, Betty Longshore 1 Juanita Louise (Peggy) Longshore in 1958 md Norman Patrick Lafferty (b 11/21/1937) Issue VI: 1 Leslie Diane Lafferty b 2/25/1959 2 Judy Marie Lafferty b 10/7/1960 3 Michael Patrick Lafferty b 11/2/1961 4 Steven Edward Lafferty b/26/1972 2 Robert Eugene Longshore b 2/3/1946 d 9/14/1948 age 2 1/2 3 Norma Jean Longshore b 2/4/1948 on 11/26/1968 md John Barrick Bowmar (b 11/1/1943) 4 James Lawrence Longshore b 4/7/1949 on 6/18/1972 md Julia Silvers (b 9/15/1948) 5 Charlene Nancy Longshore b 1/14/1952 Died 12/24/1956 age 5 6 Betty Ann Longshore b 3/6/1955 on 12/14/1974 md Armando Munoz (b 8/27/1952) Issue VI: 1 Genaro Carlos Munoz b 1976 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 56) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/de4bcf326a1e69c8a22a09803bedd770.jpg 1ef83af66d0152683ae7cb29886ad8e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Description An account of the resource [page 57] [corresponds to page 55 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line Isaac Newton (Newt) and Susan (Roberts) Longshore family ____________________________________________________________________________ 7 (7th child of Isaac Newton & Susan Longshore) Mary Frances Longshore b 4/4/1914 on 2/24/1946 md Arthur Zimmerman (b 4/8/1911) Issue V: 1 Yvonne Sue Zimmerman b 6/18/1947 2 Garry Thomas Zimmerman b 10/28/1948 3 Carl Richard Zimmerman b 3/10/1951 Isaac Newton (Newt) Longshore md2 Eva Penin Green 11/27/1920 d 1/26/1938 Issue V:Earl Dean Longshore b 7/12/1921 on 11/4/1942 md Glenda Murray (Eva Green had 7 children by her previous marriage; William, Jessie, Ray & Roy, Ruby, Edison, and Almont Green) On 2/14/1940, Newt md3 Mildred White Bennett IB II4 III 4 Milo Ernest Longshore 4th child of Truman & Lucretia B 5/8/1867 d 6/17/1954 (A 87) bd Wapello Cemetery, Iowa On 12/10/1902 md Susan F. Wilcox (b 9/16/1881 d 5/14/1926) Issue IV: Leo H., Wilma Lucille, Hallie Rex, Dorothy Marie IV Longshore 1 Leo H. Longshore b 12/5/1903 d 10/8/1966 age 63 on 11/10/1926 md Sara Hoffman (b 8/7/1907) Issue V: Elva Jean, Wilma Maxine, Leo H., Jr., Bethene Audray Longshore 1 Elva Jean Longshore b 2/27/1930 on 3/27/1949 md Richard Hedrick (b 8/27/1928) Issue VI: 1 Lynn Diann Hedrick b 10/20/1956 2 Gail Ann Hedrick b 11/15/1957 2 Wilma Maxine Longshore b 10/3/1931 on 4/30/1950 md Don Harmon (b 9/14/1929) Issue VI: 1 Rebecca Ann Harmon b 5/8/1951 2 Dale Harmon b 3 Leo H. Longshore, Jr. b 4/27/1937 on 8/30/1958 md Patricia Fritzmoser (b 6/6/1938) Issue VI: 1 Nugent Michael Longshore b 7/22/1959 2 Patrick Douglas Longshore b 7/23/1961 3 Theresa Ann Longshore b 5/5/1963 4 Bethane Audray b 5/17/1939 2- Wilma Lucille Longshore b 3/11/1908 d 2/6/1909 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 57) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/265468ad570652618e0fb2707376a960.jpg 5267f44f6a89e956f909b0d1878e7854 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 58] [corresponds to page 56 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line Milo and Susan (Wilcox) Longshore family _________________________________________________________________________ 3- Hallie Rex Longshore, 3rd child of Milo & Susan b 11/21/1912 d 8/6/1941 on 4/24/1932 md Irene Knight (b 8/29/1910) Issue V: 1-Marrye Ann Longshore b 2/5/1933 on 8/27/1950 md Billie D. Hootman Issue VI: Billie D., Dana Marie,Deanna Lynn, & Erin Hootman 1- Billie C. Hootman, Jr. b 1/25/1952 d 1/27/1952 2- Dana Marie Hootman b 6/27/1953 md Patrick Bryan Conner on 5/5/1973 3- Deanna Lynn Hootman b 6/27/1953 on 6/5/1971 md Dennis Hess 4- Erin Hootman b 8/25/1960 2- Linda Irene Longshore b 6/1/1939 on 3/17/1962 md Clifford Eugene Barrett (b 4/27/1931) Issue VI: 1- Shawn Lee Longshore Barrett b 9/1/1959 2-Kelley Joe Barrett b 7/7/1962 3-Stacie Lynne Barrett b 11/22/1963 3- Rose Marie Longshore b 1/1/1942 on 6/12/1963 md Allen Neilsen Issue VI: 1-Rex Allen Neilsen b 6/12/1965 2-Jacalyn Suzette Neilsen b 9/27/1969 4- Hallie Rex Longshore, Jr. b 6/11/1940 on 6/11/1967 md Bonnie Lynne Gorrell Issue VI: 1-Joseph Carl Longshore b 1/16/1969 2-Jacob Longshore b 11/4/1970 Hallie Rex Longshore, Jr. was ordained into Zion Lutheran Church at Hiawatha, Iowa on 6/12/1966. 5- Dorothy Marie Longshore b 5/7/1919 in 1935 md Richard Paul Walker, dv Issue VI: 1-James Walker b 7/20/1937 d 12/5/1984 2- Sharon Kay Walker b 10/31/1940 on 2/7/1959 md William Brenner children Wm. Kent (Rocky) b 12/31/-- Rocky md Carol Lynn Hart 3/17/1989 in Indiana - Anita Louise b 8/4/1962 - Brigitte Ann Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 58) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4dfa23db7b71957201087cb195990ea3.jpg 20956b343f7b3a46a2866d04937670bb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 59] [corresponds to page 57 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Lngshore line through Milo and Susan (Wilcox) Longshore family--Dana Marie Walker and Robert Browning cont. _________________________________________________________________________________ 3- Dana Marie Walker b 8/24/1939 md Robert Browning Children: Kathleen b 11/30/58,Margaret (Peg) b 59 Thomas Oliver b 8/2/62,Jeannine Helene (Neena) 4- Vernia b 8/24/1942 (Janis Marie Mezykowski) md Frank F. Banicki Children: 1- John Joseph b 7/16/1960 md Margaret Barbera Children: Michael, Melissa 2- David Alan b 9/30/1961 md Margie Schrump Children: Jennifer, David Jr. 3- Ronald Stanley b 4/15/1963 md Kim Children: Matthew 4- Sharon Guadalupe b 7/9/1964 md James Critchlow Children: Jason, James Jr. 5- Barbara Jean b 7/17/1967 6- Thomas Michael b 9/6/1969 md Alma Children: Amanda 7- Daniel Edward b 10/22/1971 8- Ann Marie b 9/1978 md2 Coy Winters in 1948 dv 1952 Issue VI 5: Susan Winters md Phillip McClain Children Kellie, Kristie md3 Lawrence Cole in 7/28/1958 Issue VI: 6 - Martha Ann Cole b 10/6/1959 d 4/22/1989 3Children 7 - Lawrence Joseph Cole, Jr. b 1961 All the Walker children were born in South Bend, Indiana. Dorothy md Mr. Winters in 1948 and divorced in 1952. She married (2) Mr. Cole in 1958,he died in 1983. 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Clayton b 2/15/1902 d 7/16/1979 on 12/20/1926 md Lela V. Longshore --daughter of Dean & Nancy Longshore--(b 2/14/1908 d 2/21/1933 age 25) Issue V: William D. Clayton, Verlee Clayton, Cecile Clayton 1-William D. Clayton b 4/10/1928 on 6/27/1959 md Isabelle Mae Belt (b 11/7/1930) Issue VI: 1 - Anita Marie Clayton b 8/28/1960 md Glenn Hunt 3/10/79 2 - Rebecca Diane Clayton b 6/27/1961 3- Tayna [sic Tanya] b 8/18/77 2a- Elizabeth Verlee Clayton b 11/10/1930 on 10/21/1945 md James D. Lance III, Jr. div Issue VI: James, Linda, Donald Lance 1- James Daniel Lance III b 1/5/1947 md 7/2/1966 to Marilyn Holbrook b 12/5/1951 Issue VII: 1 -Troy DeWayne Lance b 1/12/1967 2 -Samantha Ann Lance b 7/13/1971 2- Linda Lou Lance b 1/16/1948 md 10/15/1961 to Ernest Stanley Gayhart,Jr. (b 6/28/1944) Issue: VII 1-Diana Sue Gayhart b 1/20/1964 2-Brenda Kay Gayhart b 5/15/1965 3- Gayhart b 4/18/1969 3 - Donald Eugene Lance b 10/9/1949 md 2/14/1970 to Pamela Raley (b 2/5/1952) Issue VII: 1-Donald Eugene Patrick Lance b 11/1/1972 2b (Elizabeth) Verlee md2 Grady N. White on 9/2/1951 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 60) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/725c4bae218ce96825d0863ea6a7f40a.jpg 17d68a737d4b6a5b16aca225083d1b7a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 61] [corresponds to page 59 of I-DENTITY] Issue: VI 4 Michael Timothy White b 11/2/1951 5 Lilli Kathleen White b 8/29/1957 6 Grady Edward White b 10/15/1958 7 Tommy Dean White 9/26/1959 ['* ch: * ch:' handwritten in left margin] [page 67] [corresponds to page 53 of I-DENTITY] Truman & Lucretia Longshore Line (II) III Nellie V. Longshore Clayton (5th child) Issue: IV 3 Cecile Viola Clayton b 1/8/1933 on 5/6/1951 md Robert P. Ahr Issue: Robin Pauline Ahr b 4/21/1955 Charles William Ahr b 4/24/1956 Ted Anthony Ahr b 9/8/1972 IV 4 4th child of Nellie V. Longshore Clayton Harvey Clayton b 1/31/1905 d 6/24/1973 md on 2/28/1928 to Vergie Hubbard Issue: V Irene and Giles Letha Irene Clayton b 2/7/1929 md 9/18/1945 to Paul Poe Issue: VI 1 Donna Jean Poe b 3/3/1946 d 8/4/1962 (killed in auto accident) 2 Dale Poe b 10/8/1947 3 Eddie Poe b 1/5/1949 4 Garry Lee Poe b [photograph: unidentified] Giles Raymond Clayton b 5/20/1932 on 12/1/1952 md Jeane Law Issue: VI 1 Ronda clayton b md Issue: VII 2 Randy Clayton b 3 Sherry Clayton Harv md Louise Wilson of Iowa in 1935, no ch., dv. Harvey md Cora Hess (b 10/9/1914) on 5/12/1937 Issue: V Elmer, Arbutus, Merle, Ruth, Kathy Clayton 1 Elmer Clayton b 7/7/1938 on 9/5/1958 md Nancy Goings dv Issue: VI 1 Linda Sue Clayton b 12/6/1959 2 Michael Clayton b 9/5/1961 3 Lisa Sue b 2/5/1965 (later adopted by Eddie Quijada) ['- Nancy's 2nd husband' handwritten) Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 61) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/190625e7fd816917aac755332af2cda9.jpg 82ea4430f5ec743fd7eccf13d46a30a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 62] [corresponds to page 60 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line - family of Harvey and Cora (Hess) cont. _______________________________________________ 2- Arbutus Clayton b 1/6/1940 on 10/25/1964 md Everett Swackhammer, a minister Issue VI: Eddie L. Swackhammer 3- Merle Clayton b 3/9/1942 md 8/16/1963 to Janet Harris Issue VI: 1 -Brenda Kay Clayton 4- Ruth Clayton b 7/30/1945 on 4/27/1964 md Roger Ingmire Issue VI: 1- Michelle 2- Melissa 3- Roger Allen 5- Kathy Clayton b 5/1/1951 md David Murphy IV 5 Fifth child of Nellie Longshore and Virgil Clayton Dave Clayton b 1/29/1907 on 12/20/1933 md Nellie Hubbard Issue V: 1- Erwin Edward Clayton b 6/7/1937 on 5/5/1961 md Mary Elizabeth Miller (b 8/13/1938) Issue VI: 1- Dennis Edward Clayton b 12/5/1965 2- David William b 6/5/1967 3- Denise Leanne b 12/5/1969 2- Janet Carole Clayton b 10/12/1938 on 11/9/1953 md William Callan (b 8/29/1938 d 2/18/77 Issue VII: 1- Deborah Lee Callan b 12/5/1954 md Gregory R 2/11/19 2- Robert Eugene Callan b 1/20/1958 md Diana Moss 5/28/1975 IV 6 Sixth child of Nellie Longshore and Virgil Clayton Forrest Alvy Clayton b 3/12/1909 d 7/16/1963 on 9/15/1934 md Erma Alberta Wilson- 12 children Issue V: Foresteen Alberta, Martha Joan, Doris Marie, Elva Elaine, Lola Mae, Patsy Lou, Ralph Franklin, Nancy Beth, Minnie Lea, John Delbert, Forrest Alvy, Jr., Shirley Louise 1- Foresteen Alberta b 7/22/1935 d 7/22/1935 2 - Martha Joan Clayton b 7/18/1936 d 3/28/1937 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 62) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d44f01f4c2c8c7f3ead5e4239d007fe3.jpg 8db036904aa947aa54dbc6fab5fa4b0d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Description An account of the resource [page 63] [corresponds to page 61 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Truman and Lucretia (Peters) Longshore line - family of Nellie Longshore and Virgil Clayton ________________________________________________________________________________ 3- Doris Marie Clayton b 9/8/1937 4- Elva Elaine clayton b 11/20/1938 d. 4/1974 on 6/8/1957 md Donald Fry (b 8/20/1938) Issue: VI 1 - David clayton Fry b 5/3/1960 2 - Stanley Clarence Fry b 7/28/1965 3 - Donald Edward Fry II b 10/7/1966 4 - Sheldon Fry 5-Lola Mae b 12/3/1939 on 12/18/1957 md Pet Evans (10/3/1931) Issue VI: 1 - Foresteen JoAnne Evans b 10/7/1958 2 - Carolyn Marie Evans b 4/10/1963 3 - Harvey Allen b 6/10/1969 6 - Patsy Lou Clayton b 4/8/1941 on 11/19/1961 7 - Ralph Franklin Clayton b 5/4/1942 on 5/4/1942 md Barbara Stevens Issue VI: 1- JoAnne Elizabeth Clayton b 2/8/1962 8 - Nancy Beth Clayton b 4/25/1944 on 1/26/1961 md Tommy Perkins (b 3/4/1941) 9 - Minnie Lea b 11/18/1945 on 11/1963 md David Behrens 10 - John Delbert Clayton b 4/22/1948 on 10/17/1969 md Cathy Reichert 11 - Forrest Alvy Clayton Jr. b 9/11/1949 12 - Shirley Louise Clayton b 11/13/1950 Note - These tabulations complete the Cyrus and Margaret Young Longshore line. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 63) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1e618749dcaa78908b50389785f476d6.jpg 3e2f108a18075771e73af12322ed3a86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 64] [corresponds to page 62 of I-DENTITY] Warner Longshore The Third Child of David and Elizabeth Longshore IC Warner Longshore b 10/18/1807 d 1/1/1892 age 84. Warner was born in Ohio and is buried beside his two wives in Sunbury Memorial Park, Sunbury, Ohio. He settled on a farm east of Sunbury in Trenton Twp, Delaware County, Ohio. This farm is still owned by a Longshore. Lester farms it at present, and his father, Clem, farmed it before him. The farm is situated on Longshore Road. Warner was quite active in the Vans Valley Methodist Church in his community and was a trustee there. His name appears on the church deed. His family of seven children all took part in the work of the church. He and his wife, Cordelia,"took in" his brother Cyrus' grandson, Clem, (Truman's son) at the time of Clem's stepmother's death. Warner and Mary Ann Buxton Longshore (b 11/24/1811 d 2/20/1846) Issue II: Norton, Elizabeth, Allen, Harriett, Tammison After Mary Ann's death, Warner md Cordelia Searles (b 1810 d 1882) on 6/1846 Cordelia was from New York. She died of heart disease Issue II: Mary and Harmon. II 1 Norton Longshore b 9/9/1832 d 2/2/1893 age 60 of pneumonia bd in Trenton Cemetery. Norton farmed on a farm located on what is now Meredith St. Rd. and it is still owned and occupied by a family member, Zada Longshore. Issue III: Edith, Noah, and Albert Longshore 1 - Edith H. Longshore b 7/3/1859 d 6/25/1864 age 5 2 - Noah D. Longshore b 1866 d 1890 bd Trenton Cemetery d age 24 taught school and worked in a nearby sawmill. He lived on what is now the Charlie Lane property North Old 3C Hwy. in Trenton Twp. He was killed in a saw mill accident. His leg was cut off and he bled to death. They had no children. 3 - Albert Longshore b 1857 in Illinois d 1921 a 64 md 8/28/1878 to Emma E. Wright (b 1859) She died of malarial fever bd. Trenton Cemetery. Issue IV: Otis (reared by his grandparents) 1- Otis H. Longshore b 1880 d 1927 never md lived in Cols. was a foreman for many years at Tellings-Mt. Vernon Ice Cream Plant in Columbus, working up until his death of a heart attack at age 46. Albert Longshore md2 Lizzy Curry on 11/20/1884 (d 3/16/1926) Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 64) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2a04381360213745f07ed689b18d8a24.jpg 1a79d5967649b5e84beb88559656d3f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 65] [corresponds to page 63 of I-DENTITY] continuation of the Warner Longshore line - Norton and Zada Longshore family. _____________________________________________________________________________ Issue IV: Gail Norton Longshore b 9/30/1907 d 1961 following a few days' illness from a stroke. In 1919 md Zada Freas. Gail was in military training in Columbus for WWI when war ended. He always lived on and farmed the home place. Issue V: 1 Erma Louise Longshore b 2/25/1921 md Don Scott,(b 9/14/1919) from McConnelsville, OH. He was a paratrooper in England during WWII for 2 yrs. He was a school superintendent at a Cleveland, Ohio school until his recent retirement.Erma taught Commercial subjects at Northfield High in Ohio at that time. They now live in Johnson City, Tenn. Issue VI: 1- Randy Scott b 7/24/1949 b at Kirkersville, Ohio, md on 3/1/1969 to Carol Cooper Issue VII: 1-Stephanie b 6/22/1970 Randy Scott was a Marine and served in Japan for 2 yrs. He now lives in Memphis, Tennessee and works for the Naval Intelligence Corps. 2- Linda Scott b 11/3/1953 at Wooster, Ohio. Now teaches kindergarten at Northfield Elementary, near Cleveland, Ohio. The foregoing information was solicited from Zada Longshore _____________________________________________________________________ II 2 Elizabeth Longshore b 1834 d 3/3/1905 md Isaac DeWitt in 1855 (No further information on her.) II 3 Allen Longshore b 1837 d 12/28/1863, age 28 yrs. 11 mo in 1858 md Martha Forwood (b 1831 d 1863 age 32) Issue III: 1-Ella A. b 1859 d 1863, age 3, died 3 wks after father All this family were victims of typhoid fever. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 65) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f2a4b0548dfcaebbbcc522a6dce379b1.jpg a83821c64851f27d03e983ac2c0861af Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 66] [corresponds to back of page 63 of I-DENTITY] EZEKIEL BROWN Ezekiel Brown was born March 13, 1760 in Orange County, New York and died April 23, 1841, in Delaware County, Ohio at the home of his daughter, Nancy Brown Leonard. He was married to Jane Smith, Feb. 26, 1786. She was born Sept. 15, 1766 and died Aug. 19, 1821. In 1808 he came to Berkshire Township and settled on land a little northeast of where Galena now is. He came from Lycoming County, PA, where he had been elected to Congress for one or two terms. In 1776 he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army and joined the forces under Washington, just after the Battle of Trenton. He participated in several engagements. Two years later, while on a furlough to visit his home, then in what is now Lycoming Co., PA, he was unfortunately captured by the Indians. The incidents, as related by his daughter, Nancy Brown Leonard, are as follows. There had been numerous Indian alarms and the neighbors had gathered at Ezekiel's father's house; a strong, hewed log cabin, which was easy of defense. Here they awaited the onset of the savages, but they did not make the attack when expected. Instead they kept secreted in the neighborhood for days until the settlers, lulled into a false sense of security, went into their homes. As soon as the savages saw their plans succeeding, they rushed in upon the unsuspecting and defenseless settlers, and commenced their work of butchery. Ezekiel's father, mother, and sister's husband were ruthlessly murdered, and himself and sister with her seven children were carried into Indian captivity. The mother was separated from her children, and the children from each other. Ezekiel was forced to pass through the forms preceding adoption into the tribe. Three times during the journey to the main town of the Cayugas, near where Scipio, N.Y. now stands, he was forced to run the gauntlet. The first time, he received a severe wound from a tomahawk. The second time, less fortunate, he received a terrible blow from a war club which felled him to the ground in a fearfully mangled condition. His life seemed ended, but he finally recovered and proceeded with his captors to their destination, where, after another trial, he passed through the fearful ordeal unharmed and was adopted by a family who had lost a son in the war. He was afterwards taken to Canada where he found his sister, and a clue to the whereabouts of her children. He managed to become employed by a trader and bought his freedom,but the ties of kindred were too strong for him to leave his sister in captivity. He at once set about securing her release and that of her children. He had secured all of her seven children but two, when one boy came up with the Indians and claimed his mother, but she told him she was not his mother. He had changed so much and was so dirty she could not own him. She asked him if he had any brothers and he said he had and told their names and said he had an uncle, Ezekiel. Then she had to own him. They now had all the children but one boy twelve years old. It was nearing the time when Ezekiel hoped to return to his friends, that he learned a party of Indians with this boy was about to start for a distant point to hunt. If this should occur, he despaired of ever seeing the child again, and determined to kidnap the boy. Calling the Indians into the trader's cabin, he treated them to liquor. When they became drunk he pushed them out and the boy in, then barred the door and waited the issue. This treatment was not relished by the savages. The resented it by kicks and more forcible attacks upon the door. There were no signs of it yielding, so they had to leave the boy behind. But the lad had become enamored with the wild life of the woods and longed to be with his Indian friends. One day while out playing he saw his opportunity and his Uncle Ezekiel saw him running with all his might to regain his friends. With sinking heart and almost in despair, he started in pursuit. The boy was recaptured and with the whole family returned in 1783 to their friends in PA., after five years of Indian captivity. Seven years later, Ezekiel Brown moved to Ohio and in 1808 to Berkshire Township. Ezekiel Brown was my grandfather and your great grandfather. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 66) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/71b5b6479e59197afea7c5bd531dbf98.jpg 26b6569b272da4508d633d719b1dbc43 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 67] [corresponds to page 64 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Warner Longshore line - Harriet Longshore Ginn family __________________________________________________________________________ II 4 Harriett Longshore (1839-5/28/1918) d age 79, bd Galena md George Ginn (1839-11/11/1888) d age 49, This couple raised Milo, Truman's son, along with their three daughters. Issue: III Elmine, Minnie, Allie, and Greddie [Freddie] Ginn Elmine Ginn b 1867 d age 89 md in 1903 to Bert C. Youman (1868-1923) age 55 Issue IV: Zora Elizabeth Youman b 9/3/1904. Zora lived in Westerville, OH. Was educated at Otterbein College,rec'd a degree for teaching but graduated during the depression when there was no market for teachers. She then took a business course and became a secretary at Westerville High. As she says, a career she immensely enjoyed as it put her in touch with the school personnel as well as the students and she often was a confidant of these teenagers. Zora recently retired from her position as sec'y to the principal. She never married. 2. Minnie Ginn (1862-1933), d age 71 md Inman C. Budd (1865-8/6/1929), d age 61. bd Galena Issue IV: Madge Barrows (7/27/1920) 3. Allie Ginn (1850-1927), d age 77, md William Foster Issue V: Anabel and Mike Daugherty Burr Foster md Grace Dill Issue V: Dorothy Foster md Floyd Fickle 4. Freddie Ginn (12/1869-2/23/1871) d age 1 yr 2 months bd Galena II 5 Tammison (Tammy) b 1846, md in 1865 to Isaac Watters Issue III: Will Watters, Frank Watters (d 1915) in Toledo, Ohio, Eva Watters, Gertie Watters, Clinton Watters, Destimona Watters (d 1926) Mary Ann (Buxton) Longshore died in 1846. Warner married Cordelia Searles in 1846. II 6 Mary Longshore (1847-9/28/1926),bd in Sunbury Cemetery She never married, kept house for her father and Clem Longshore,her cousin, in the house where she was born. After Clem and Ella were married, she maintained an apartment within the house. II 7 Harmon Longshore (1851-10/8/1898) died age 46 of typhoid fever, md Abbie Ross (1852-4/4/1939) Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 67) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e6d757558c643d6482ddeda85be3c1e6.jpg 70f717275b80c5257d59937e13618c98 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Description An account of the resource [page 68] [corresponds to page 65 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Warner Longshore line - Warner and Cordelia (Searles) Longshore family _________________________________________________________________________ Issue III: Wilbur, Bertha, Warner (II), Clarence,Florence, and Elsie Longshore; Florence, Warner, Clarence were born in Iowa. 1- Wilbur Longshore (1874-5/7/1948) married in 1900 to Edna Mann, dv. md2 Nettie Smith (2/20/1940) Issue IV: Abner Ross Longshore (4/21/1903- 7/1930) died age 27 2 - Bertha Longshore (1875-1952), d age 77, md George Reiselt (1856-1934) Issue IV: Howard Harmon Reiselt (7/1/1897) on 3/17/1917 md Sylvia Mae Huff Issue V: Bernard, Marjorie Jane, Barbara, Kenny,and Hilda Reiselt 1- Bernard Reiselt md Edna Mitchell, ch: Ronald,Clifford, Richard, & Edward Reiselt Issue VI: 1- Ronald Resielt md Nancy Overturf, ch David & Kevin 2- Clifford Reiselt md Sharon Grice, ch Bart Reiselt 3- Richard Reiselt md Mary Smith ch: Cindy Reiselt 4-Edward Reiselt md Sharon Grimes, ch: Jeff & Craig 5-Marjorie Jane Reiselt md Carl Harrington ch: Brenda Harrington md Myron Burdg, ch: Sarah,Julia, and Jason Burdg 6-Barbara Reiselt md Eugene Cahill, ch: Barb (Moller) and Linda (Scheiderer), ch: Tiffany 7- Kenny Reiselt md Charlene Armston, ch: Leslie Reiselt md Charleve Armston, ch: Leslie Reiselt md Susie Kandel 8- Hilda Reiselt md Carroll Kandel, ch: Terry Kandel Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 68) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c711f551a7a6a7840aafc22c90a0ae0d.jpg 034362549eccdefacdd5db89f824cb9f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 69] [corresponds to page 66 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of Warner Longshore Line - Warner and Cordelia (Searles) Longshore Family _____________________________________________________________________ 3. Warner Longshore -2 (1876-3/1/1940) md in 1899 to Alice Miles (1873-1/13/1928) Warner was a rather short, stocky built man, he worked as a log hauler, railroader, and lastly on the State Highway in Ohio. He lived in and around Galena most of his life. Issue IV: Dellena Wave, Kelley Miles, Clyde, Harold, Pearl, and Ralph Longshore 1-Dellena Wave Longshore (b & d 1904) 2- Kelly Miles Longshore (11/9/1905) about 1938 md Gertrude Davison. He was a railroader until retirement. They live in Tuscon, Arizona, no children 3- Clyde Longshore (1908-1975) md Soophia [Sophia] Miles on 12/6/1933;settled in Cardington, Ohio, where he farmed, ch: Marilyn Jean and James Longshore Issue V: 1- Marilyn Longshore (4/28/1938) md Richard Shoemaker, ch: Tony, Larry, and Cindy Shoemaker 2- James Longshore (6/8/1946) 4- Harold Longshore (1910) md Leota Millins [Mullins] in 1931. They live Rural Route Galena, retired from North American Aviation. Issue V: Harold Richard, Donna, Linda, & Larry Longshore 1 - Harold Richard Longshore (8/22/1932) md Jackie Marshall in 1952, dv., ch: Steven (10/29/1955) and Janet Longshore (2/6/1957) H. Richard Longshore md Dee ___, live in Dayton, Ohio, ch: Harold Richard, Jr. (5/3/1958), James (10/23/1960), and Penny Sue (9/3/1962) 2 - Donna Longshore (2/8/1938) md Andrew Gallick (7/18/1955), live Huntsville, Alabama, ch: Mark (3/31/1963), and Sheryl Gallick (1/16/1965) 3 - Linda Longshore (2/16/1944), on 9/13/1963 md Ray Downing (10/23/1943), live in Wash. C.H., Ohio ch: Kevin (4/27/1965) and Karin (12/19/1967) Downing Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 69) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6e55b81c36b3b6a56bac470065ff3c75.jpg 34bf1ceb2202162a9474d89035a2be18 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 70] [corresponds to back of page 67 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Warner Longshore line - Warner and Cordelia (Searles) Longshore family through Harold & Leota (Millin) Longshore family ____________________________________________________________________________ 4. Larry Michael Longshore (3/27/1951) in 1970 md Debbie Hunter (8/30/1955), live near Westerville ch: Gary Longshore (7/4/1970) III 6 Elsie b about 1884 md Roy Burnett dv She Lives in Cols. Also made her living as a seamstress in downtown stores in Columbus. Elsie, much later, md a Mr. Luminais, dv Issue IV: Frances Burnett b._ _ _ _ _ not married This completes the Warner (I) Longshore line ___________________________________________ Rachel Longshore The Fourth child of the founding father David Longshore (and wife, Elizabeth) I D There is not much evidence to support the fact Rachel Longshore was a child of David's, except it is known they had three daughters; that Rachel was born in the same age bracket;and in the Vital Statistics in Delaware County Library archives, a Rachel Longshore in 1836 md Tallman Squires. The Squires always knew there was a family connection, even though they were not able to trace it down,and in the early days of the Longshore Reunion, which began in 1898, they attended regularly. ___________________________________________________________ A history of how the Longshore Reunion all began follows: ___________________________________________________________ The Longshore Reunion idea was conceived on September 4,1897 at Condit, Ohio in the home of Mrs. Ida Longshore (widow of David's son, Charles). Her daughter, Eugenie Carpenter invited some folks into their home to celebrate Ida's 80th birthday. It was then the well-wishers present decided to organize an annual get-together beginning the next year, planning to have the first meeting in the home of I.N. Longshore the 2nd Thursday of August, 1898. The first Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 70) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bc1cdbd1244985acba09e3bbd9a5cc73.jpg ad29d5f1b90437aff1552aa8e6f6a555 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 71] [corresponds to page 68 of I-DENTITY] president was Seth Longshore, Secretary Burr Squires. The reunion date later was changed to the 2nd Sunday in August. (The old-timers frowned on social activity on Sunday) The reunion has met every year since, making this the 78th one. This Reunion has been a large factor in holding the families together, forming a nucleus, sort of. Although it was always held in central Ohio, since that is the scene that the emigrators picked way back in 1808; family members in various years have come from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota,as well as distant points in Ohio. For many years, the annual affair was held in different private homes; then in Galena Park where Charlie Longshore so faithfully reserved the tables for the picnic; then it met a few times in Mt. Vernon Municipal Park to be nearer the Mt. Vernon, Marion, and Mansfield contingent, but for the past 15 or so years, the group has voted to meet in the beautiful Centerburg Park facilities. It has shelter houses, horseshoe courts, basketball court, and playground equipment in a lush setting beside a little stream. It has been a tradition to serve ice cream in the afternoon following the business meeting. Although everyone is stuffed to the brim with the abundance of good food these excellent cooks turn out, there is always room made for this extra treat. In these days of deep freezers, et cetera, ice cream is not the thrill it once was, but yet the youngsters, who by then have run off their calories, look forward to this part of the program, and yes, even the oldsters enjoy it! Speaking of program, most likely everyone present can recall having taken part in it in one way or another. The program through the years has taken on every aspect in the entertainment field, and as one One that stands out is Bob Cline telling us "That's Good; That's Bad" well --- and Jim Longshore's tale about "No More Squoles". In this annual "talent show" there have been reminiscences by the senior members; guitar and accordian playing; trios and quartets; solos; tap dancing; patriotic readings; you name it, we've had it! Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 71) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9be4959ca7014911f3876c8e51785aba.jpg 5783eab8952dc30662f499e825e96d32 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 72] [corresponds to page 69 of I-DENTITY] Some of the young adults remember fun things in their play; such as walking the logs at the Galena Park, or the annual dousing someone's sure to get in the babbling brook at Centerburg Park. Those on the Park Reserve Committee could tell of some near fights over the saving of the shelter houses - times when they have had to spend the night lying or sitting on one of the tables in order to keep it! It is on a first-come-first-served basis for the early bird gets the shelter house. Best of all is the visiting and renewing of old acquaintances and the making of new firends among relatives. "Auld Lang Syne", "Till We Meet Again" ! There were 43 present in that first select group, 19 of them, Longshore by name, but all related or family connected: Mrs Ida (Charles) Longshore Charlie Longshore, Richwood Mrs Eugenie (Longshore) Carpenter Mrs. Harriett Gin, Galena Mrs. Della Carpenter Miss Elmine Ginn Mr. & Mrs. Fred Carpenter Mrs. Minnie Budd Chelsea, Clyde, Kenneth Madge Budd & Frank Carpenter Mrs. Wm. Foster,Sunbury Mr. & Mrs. Seth Longshore, Johnstown Zora, Burr, Wilma Foster Eva,Von, Fern, Iva John Squires, Chesterville Mr. & Mrs. I.N. Longshore, Sunbury Burr Squires Mr. & Mrs. James White Eden Mr. & Mrs. Arton Squires Miss Mary Longshore Vans Valley Mr. & Mrs. Ervin Squires Mr. & Mrs. Clement Longshore Mr. & Mrs. James Clevenger Bryan Longshore Mrs. Abbie Longshore, Galena Florence, Elsie, Clarence Longshore In 1898, 48 were present Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 72) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3f3b04358df381f702361acfabf2e852.jpg 616af58566d06e3c9a590ab5b23615f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 73] [corresponds to page 70 of I-DENTITY] Sarah Longshore The Fifth child of the founding father David Longshore (and wife, Elizabeth) I E Sarah Longshore b 18116 - on 1/28/1836 md Hiram Carpenter in Delaware, Co. Ohio The 1840 census shows the family had 2 children 1 boy, and 1 girl Charles Longshore The Sixth child of the founding father David Longshore (and wife, Elizabeth) I F Charles Longshore b 1818 d 8/1894 a 76, in 1840 md Ida Sharp (b 1817 d 8/23/1901 d a 83) three years afer the birthday party in her honor which start the Longshore Reunion. Ida had a very tragic life, having borne 5 children, three of whom died as young men and one as a small boy. Only the daughter survived. (See preceding biography) Issue II: 1- Cyrus Clinton Longshore b 1845 d 10/3/1848 age 3 2- Jasper W. Longshsore b 1842 d 3/10/1867 Co 96 Reg OVI Served in the Civil War 3- Robert Clark Longshore b 1843 d 7/18/1868 age 25 4- Eugenia Longshore b 1846 d 1920 d age 74 5- James Seth b 1852 - d 3/26/1867 age 15 Charles, of course, shared in all this sadness. He farmed all his life near Condit in Trenton Twp. on N. 3C Hwy. 4- Eugenia Longshore b 1846 d 1920 bd Trenton md Johnson Carpenter b 1836 d 1870 bd Galena. He was in the Civil War 3 years serving as a Cpl. in Co. C of the 32nd Inf. Eugenia was a widow 50 of her 74 years, and lived with her parents, on the farm she later owned. In her late years, she moved to Maryland with her son, Fred, and died there. She is bd in Trenton Cemetery. Issue III: Fred and Frank Carpenter 2 - Frank died at age 26 of TB, md but no children. 1 - Fred b 1868 d 1950 md Cora Fox dv. d age 82 Death Notice of Fred Carpenter "Fred A. Carpenter, son of Eugenia and Johnson Carpenter. Born Trenton Township, Delaware County 1/15/1868 d 2/8/1950 at Kilbourne. Married Cora Fox 2/25/1892. Survived by 3 sons and 2 daughters: Clyde,Kenneth, Elmer, Beatrice, and Florence. Chelsea, Frank, and Earl preceded in death. Survived by 23 grandchildren and 25 great grand- children." Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 73) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a759630114114b69ca9834413386ec81.jpg 971f0e01d5486d2d27fb8bb973519cef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 74] [corresponds to page 71 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Charles & Ida (Sharp) Longshore line Fred was a railroader and in later working years lived in Maryland, taking his mother, Eugenie, and son, Chelsea to live with him. During his retirement years, he lived in Kilbourne. He was a mathematical "whiZ" as he could add several columns of figures at once in his head. Issue IV: Chelsea, Clyde, Frank, Kenneth, Earl, Beatrice, Elmer, Florence IV 1 - Chelsea Carpenter b 1890 d 3/1926 age 36 md Aline Scott,lived in Cheshire, Ohio. At age 7, he went to live with his grandmother, Eugenie Carpenter, and at age 17 moved to Maryland with her to live with his father. Issue V: 1 - Helen Ruth Carpenter b 10/16/1916 md Ralph Alton on 6/1937. After his death she married a Mr. Jolly. They live in California. 2- Merle Scott Carpenter b 1918 d , killed by a fall from a silo, which caused a skull fracture. 3- Cecil Carlyle Carpenter b 1/20/1921 4- Albert Lincoln Carpenter b 6/14/1923, lived with his grandmother, Cora Carpenter, after his father's death when he was 3. The other children were sent to the Children's Home. IV 2 - Clyde Carpenter b 1893 d 8/1950, md Helen Updike Issue V: 1- DeWitt Carpenter 2- Bob Carpenter IV 3 - Frank Carpenter (#2) b 1894 d 6/9/1938 (according to his sister, Bea Barcus, as she says he was age 44 at death - there is a) discrepancy here). He died of a stroke and heart attack, is bd in Trenton Cemetery md 7/3/1915 to Nellie Nash (1897 d 1976) Issue V: Hilda, Frances, George E., Mary, Juanita Jane. 1- Hilda Carpenter b 1916 md Ernest Bennett 1/1938 live in Columbus. Issue VI: Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 74) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a65a6ca0159a8632d8cede64b5dad059.jpg 51b6303b87fae2ba3a3ee2fee4cc657a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 75] [corresponds to page 72 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Fred and Cora (Fox) Carpenter line Emory Bennett b 11/25/1942 md. Dianne Whitehead - no children 2- Frances Carpenter b 1918 on 6/20/1937 md Lauris Bennett (b 8/4/1901) Issue VI: Patricia, Donna, Larry Curtis, and Suzanne - all born Galena where they have always lived 1.Patricia Bennett b 11/27/1938, in 1956 md Ellis Adkins, Jr. Roy, Randolph, Liza Jane, Sarah Marie. Issue VII: 1 Roger Adkins b 12/24/1958 2 RoseMary Adkins b 6/2/1960 3- Judith Ann Adkins b 10/5/1966 4- Ellis Adkins III b 1/20/1964 5- Roy Adkins b 5/14/1966 6- Randolph b 3/14/1970 7- Liza Jane b 8/27/1972 8- Sarah Marie b 8/21/1975 This family lives near Bristol, Virginia 2-Donna Bennett b 8/22/1940 on 3/17/1960 md George Hogg (b 11/24/1938). George is post- master in Galena, Ohio. Issue VII: 5 adopted children 1- Troy Hogg b 4/18/1954 md Patricia 2- Eugene Hogg b 11/30/1961 3- Eugenia Hogg b 11/30/1961 4- Michael Hogg b 1962 5- Richard Hogg b 12/13/1962 3- Larry Curtis Bennett b 1/3/1943 md Phyllis Cookson (b 3/27/1945) on 9/5/1964 Issue VII: 1-Jerry Lee Bennett b 6/8/1866 2-Curtis Allen b 12/8/1970 3-Rebecca Lynn Bennett b 10/22/1972 This family lives in Galena 4-Suzanne Bennett b 9/5/1947 on 11/1968 md Richard Alexander (b 5/22/1944) Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 75) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d50862b503ed95f416eda83646a19fb3.jpg a51b08f65ce1b36d18f3d5b12ec9bcfc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 76] [corresponds to page 73 of I-DENTITY] Issue VII: 1-Tammy Sue Alexander b 6/7/1970 2- Richard (Ricky) Alexander b 9/11/1973 V 3- George E. Carpenter b 12/9/1920 the third child of Frank and Nellie Nash Carpenter d 1/1965 of a heart attack age 45 md Bonita Grove dv Issue VI: Raymond Carpenter by #1 Debora Carpenter by #2 1- Raymond Carpenter b 3/1940 md Carol Brinkman (4/19/1938) Issue VII: 1- Gordon Earl Carpenter b 11/17/1960 2- Kristy Kay Carpenter b 9/9/1962 3- Dana Lynn Carpenter b 12/18/1963 4- Brian Henry Carpenter b 2/8/1965 This family lived in Greenwood, Ind. V 4- Mary Carpenter b 1925 md. Harold Fetter, Jr. Issue V: 1- Christine Fetter VI - suzie 2- Sallie Fetter 3- Julia Fetter 4- Franklin Fetter 5- Jennifer Fetter V 5- Juanita Jane Carpenter b 1928 md1 Robert Newberry md2 Lester Murray Live in Columbus, Ohio. Issue V: ' 1- Robert Newberry 2- Theresa Newberry IV -4 Kenneth Carpenter- Fourth son of Fred Carpenter & Cora Carpenter b 1895 d 1976 age 80 md Grace Bennett on 6/4/1917 dv later md2 Iris ____ (d 1963) Kenneth was a Sgt. in the Army during WWI and was in France 1918 & 1919. He was quite versatile in his occupations: having worked as a blacksmith, carpenter, schoolbus driver, driver on a bus for Buckeye Stage lines and in later years was guard at the Ordinance Plant in Marion, Ohio. He died in Marion. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 76) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/027e14fb35759690c2f106d2b7b07d3f.jpg ec8661e864af711f0a5662b253ff0bbb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 77] [corresponds to page 74 of I-DENTITY] Continuation of the Charles Longshore line through daughter Eugenia, family of Fred and Cora Carpenter ____________________________________________________________________________ Issue V: 1- Viola Carpenter b 1921 2- Gladys Carpenter b 1923 V- 1 Viola Marie Carpenter b 2/11/1921, on 3/9/1939 md Webster (Bud) Potts Issue VI: David, Dora, Joyce Elizabeth, Velma Nadine, Verle Potts 1-David Potts b 1940 md Marjorie Hubbard on 5/1960 Issue VII: 1- Kevin Wayne Potts b 2/26/1961 2- Kimberly Wynne b 6/17/1963 2-Dora Potts b 4/14/1942 md Tom Stockdale 8/29/1964 Issue VII: 1-Anna Louise Stockdale b 4/8/1967 2-Alice Lynn Stockdale b 4/8/1968 3-Jason Lloyd Stockdale b 9/17/1969 3-Joyce Elizabeth Potts b 11/11/1944 md Harold Harris on 12/21/1963 Issue VII: 1-Karen Marie Harris b 8/17/1964 2-Gregory Dean Harris b 5/22/1967 3-Christina Lois Harris b 10/22/1969 4-Kelli Nadine Harris b 3/15/1972 4-Velma Nadine Potts b 10/19/1949 md Marshall Hicks on 12/24/1970 Issue VII: 1-John Marshall Hicks b 12/22/1973 2-Rebecca Adele Hicks b 3/9/1975 5-Verle Potts b 3/7/1951 md Kathy Cook on 2/21/1970 Issue VII: 1-Jill Kimberly Potts b 9/8/1970 Verle was in the Marines during the Vietnam War V 2 Gladys Marguerite Carpenter-second daughter of Kenneth & Grace Carpenter - md Coy Green, 1948, dv Issue VI: 1-Coy Green, Jr. b 1949 Gladys m2 Strader Issue VI: 2- Patricia Strader (b 1957) 3- Marguerite Strader (b 1965) Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 77) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9e1859936592c3d4fb1d94eff2ccc08f.jpg d2c305d78c5b205ff8ede14952dce5a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 78] [corresponds to page 75 of I-DENTITY] Continuation Charles Longshore line --Earl Carpenter Family IV 5 -Earl Carpenter b 1900 d 1/1/1936 md 4/10/1924 to Ruth Powless m2 Bernice Rush Earl was killed in a truck accident on New Year's Day Issue V: 1 Betty Jean Carpenter md ____ Biggs, lives in Delaware (She is Earl and Ruth's child) 2 Minnie Margaret Ted Carpenter Loyce Carpenter (These last three, Earl and Bernice's children) IV 6- Beatrice Carpenter b 1903 md Norman Barcus 1921 Lives in Sunbury Issue V: 1- Leonard Gale Barcus b 1923 md Magdalene Skaggs in 1950. They live in Hilliard, Ohio. Gale recenlty retired from Westinghouse, Inc. and will soon become an ordained Methodist minister. Magdalene works for the DynaTrol Corp. Issue VI: Vivian, Norman, Leonard Barcus 1-Vivian Barcus b 1951 md LeRoy Gaines Issue VII: 1 Michael Gaines 2 Shawn Gaines 3 Shannon Gaines 2 Margaret Irene Barcus b 8/1/1925 md Meade Faye Irene and Meade live in Newark Issue VI: 1 Earl William Faye not md., lives in Cleveland, OH 2 Robert Eugene Faye b---- works at New Hope Boys' Ranch, Reynoldsville, Ohio 3 Caroline Sue Faye b---- md Steven Cramer Issue VII: 1- Regina Lynn Cramer b 1974 3 Jean Marie Barcus b 4/21/1930 md William Klick Now live near Sunbury, Ohio; formerly lived in San Diego, California. Issue VII: 1- Karen Klick (adopted) md John Helms II Issue VII: 1-John Helms III b 1976 4 Arthur Milton (Jake) Barcus b 11/24/1932 d 10/1968 md Phyllis Tucker Issue VI: 1 Cathy Jo Barcus b 1959 2 Cindy Leigh Barcus b 5/27/1962 Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 78) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8bc627f128f2157eeb5f1820fd43c01f.jpg a1349f02f93da4be252a5e130f2e5996 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 79] [corresponds to page 76 of I-DENTITY] 3-John Charles Barcus b 7/6/1966 Continuation Charles Longshore line -- Beatrice (Carpenter) & Norman Barcus family __________________________________________________________________________________ 5-Donald Cloise Barcus b 7/27/1934 md Betty Brown dv 1974 Issue VI: 1 David Barcus b 1956 lives in Florida 2 Danny Barcus b 1959 3 Terry Lee Barcus b 8/1966 4 Carman Barcus b 11/ Donald md2 Janet Bullock in 1976 He is a retired Navy Career man, and now lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania IV 7 Elmer George Carpenter - the seventh child of Fred & Cora Carpenter Elmer George Carpenter b 5/3/1905 d 4/9/1967 age 62 md to Lila ---- Issue V: 1- Elmer William Carpenter b 6/1923 2- Floyd Carpenter b 8/24/1927, was in WWII, died during the war from measles contracted while in Japan. 3- Allen Carpenter b 4- Peggy Carpenter b in San Diego, California The following is the death notice of Elmer G. Carpenter from a newspaper clipping: "Elmer G. Carpenter, Croton died Doctor's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio of heart attack 4/9/1967. Retiree Naval Career (electronics); Veteran WWII, Police Reserve Officer in Security. Retired 10/31/1966. Survivors: wife Lila of Croton, 2 sisters, Beatrice Barcus and Florence Huffman, 2 children - Peggy Carpenter of San Diego, Calif. and Allen Carpenter of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Military funeral Service Wednesday Snyder-Melick Funeral Home Interment East Lawn, Centerburg." Elmer had spent his last years in Texas and San Diego and had moved to Croton, Ohio just 2 weeks before his sudden death. IV 8 Florence Carpenter -Last child of Fred and Cora (Fox) Carpenter b 7/1/1907 in Galena md Homer Huffman 1926; they recently celebrated 50 years of marriage. They live in Centerburg. Issue V: 1- Clark E. Huffman b 3/10/1928 2 Mabel Beatrice Huffman b 3/26/1933 md Bob Pruett Issue VI: 1 Cheryl Pruett 2 Michael Pruett 3 Cathy Pruett This completes the Charles and Ida Sharp Longshore Branch (Charles was the 6th child of David and Elizabeth (Warner) Longshore Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 79) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1ebb9070aca7b4916f3065add1fbb133.jpg 989914a6bfd77b20e1febc3ad132184a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 80] [corresponds to page 77 of I-DENTITY] David Longshore, Jr. The Seventh child of David and Elizabeth (Warner) Longshore IG David Longshore, was born 1823 in Ohio md Sarah Shannon Issue 1- Augusta Longshore b. 1849 2- Mary Longshore b. 1850 3- Serepta J. Longshore b. 1853 4- Frank Longshore b 1860 For additional information by Judy (Longshore) Campbell see Addendum _____________________________________________________________________ Girl (Unknown name) Longshore The Eighth child of David and Elziabeth (Warner) Longshore IH The eighth child is a daughter, ----, and so far there is no data on her. Perhaps she was not number eight in the "line-up" but it seems best to put her in that sequence, since no date has been found by this compiler. ______________________________________________________________________ Note - This completes the tabulations of the David and Elizabeth (Warner) Longshore line by this compiler. Every effort has been made to keep the lines straight but if some should have crossed, it is because sometimes there were so many Davids, Charles', et cetera, most without benefit of I, II, Sr., Jr., or whatever. It was the custom to have namesakes in the early days, more then than now, and so babies were named not only after parents and grandparents but also after aunts, uncles, etc., so again a confusion develops - and there's no one to ask in most instances! Also much of this information has been gathered via telephone so again there is a greater margin for error in that type communication. And I may as well admit it - sometimes I "goof" just for no reason at all! Seriously though, all of this compiling has been done with the best of Intentions, and no slights or errors intended. So now, you know "who's who" among the Longshores! -Maxine Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 80) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3aac03e36e9267794c4573c73de34006.jpg b61df6f434744c3d81b9d8efa9dc9765 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 81] [corresponds to page 78 of I-DENTITY] Note - The following material is included because this writer feels it can be fit into the family history somewhere,although she has not been able to find the "hook-up" as of now.(1976) It was submittted by Curtis Longshore of Johnstown, Ohio last October at his home when this compiler visited him there as he was recuperating from surgery. He died a few months later. From the CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF FRANKLIN CO - 1901 "Isaac Longshore, resides in Blendon Twp, born in Zanesville, Muskingum Co., Ohio 10/17/1844. His parents being Thomas & Mary A.(Evans) Longshore whose 6 children are: William H., a farmer Pawnee Station, Kansas; George W., a fruit grower in Grand Junction, Colorado; Isaac; Charles, a resident farmer of Missouri; Thomas H a businessman in Kansas City, Missouri; and Margaret A., wife of Martin Brown of Ft. Scott, Kansas. Thomas was born in Pennsylvania in 1811, son of Amos. Thomas, with his father,came to Ohio during early childhood where his family settled on a farm in Hocking Co. where Thomas was reared to manhood. In Muskingum Co., Thomas and Miss Evans (b 1817). Thomas took up abode in Zanesville and operated a sawmill and sale of lumber until late 1850s when he purchased a farm in Perry Co.,Ohio, 6 miles east of New Lexington, until 1884; sold farm and went to Kansas making his home with his children, residing there in his 89th year, well preserved at this time (1901). Thomas is a staunch republican, served as a J.P. and township trustee several years; deacon in Baptist Church. Wife died in 1892 at age 75 (wife of Thomas) Isaac bought the homestead from his father, Thomas. House was over 100 years old. He later married Elizabeth Driggs and moved to Morgan Co., purchased 80 acres of land near Beavertown. He operated the farm there until 8 years later and then came to Blendon Twp., corner of 161 & 3C. Isaac's 5 children: Jeremiah W. (Cincinnati Railway mail service); Archibald A.(1882-1902), agriculturist (broom manufacturer) delivered brooms to penitentiary, wife Minnie Buck; Josephine M., wife of Rev. R.W. Kohr; Edward md Lulu Buck; ---- [Cora] M. at home." Amos Longshore 17---- Thomas 1811 Isaac 1844 - 1930 (couldn't serve in Civil War; couldn't bite cartridges with false teeth.) Archibald C. 1882 - 1962 (Isaac's son) Curtis -1976 Archibald's son 1/2/1962 LONGSHORE A.C. Longshore, age 91, Johnston, Ohio. Survived by daughter, Mrs. Dwight Smith; son, Curtis L. Longshore, Johnstown; sister, Mrs. Josephine Kohr, Pasadena, Calif. Brother, Edward Longshore, Johnstown, Service Thursday 2 p.m. Crouse and Son Funeral Home., Johnstown. Entombment in Otterbein Cemetery Mausoleum, Westerville, Ohio. Friends may call at the funeral home... Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 81) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d9c98cd6014dcebac3eeb2a356992c92.jpg 375eec4c2ee9dd387a9d261a2467bd32 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 82] [corresponds to unnumbered page 79 of I-DENTITY] Additional Longshore Information by Judy (Longshore) Campbell David Longshore (I) lived in Middletown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In the 1800 Bucks County Census, he is listed with the unmarried men. He and Elizabeth Weaber were married by Isaac Hicks, J.P. on January 20, 1802 in Middletown Twp., Pennsylvania. Elizabeth is listed as a spinster. (She was 19). Her name on almost all Genealogical records (including, LDS records) is Warner. Her mother's maiden name was Warner and I believe that she took that as her own maiden name after her marriage. The tombstone of David Longshore says that he came to Ohio in 1806. It also states that he was 79 years 9 months 8 days old. Later census records say that he came from Pennsylvania. After his wife Elizabeth (Warner) died on August 8, 1840 he married Elisabeth (Betsy) Benton on June 20th 1842. Betsy and her husband lived on a farm next to the Longshores. David and his brother, Euclydus bought land together in 1811 and David lived in the same place the rest of his life. Family of John Longshore first son of David (1) John Longshore b. 10/9/1802 d 3/18/1877 married Clarinda Benedict b. about 9/7/1807 died 12/2/1871 After the family came to Ohio. John spent his whole life in Delaware County and later owned a farm next to his fathers. Children: 1. David C. Longshore b. 3/16/1827 died 9/05/1907 on 3/12/1851 md Fannie Bailey daughter of James and Eve (Kitts) Bailey. Fannie was born 3/12/1829 and died 6/11/1901. David fought in the civil War for Iowa and moved there to live in 1861. He lived in Valley Junction (Polk County, Iowa), the rest of his life. Children: 1- George b. 1853, Ohio died May 26, 1912, Iowa m. Rosaline 1 daughter - Bessie b 1874 d 12/20/02 2- Julia b 1856, Illinois lived in Iowa 3- Alice b 1/12/1858, Illinois on 1/11/1883 md William Youngerman. She died 10/3/1884 and is buried in Iowa 4- Henry Lee Longshore b 7/26/1860 d? Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 82) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/28c5d27ae11c11748204221fec0f22a0.jpg 7bf7d03d45421f2060ce68d38472b37d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 83] [corresponds to unnumbered page 80 of I-DENTITY] on 9/5/1888 md Anna Bell (Drury) b12/1865 Children: 1- Hazel L. Longshore b 11/19/1890 2- Edith Blanche b 6/5/1892 3- Gladys b. 9/1894 5-Infant b. 2/15/1863* 6-Infant b 4/1867* 7-Edwin Asa Longshore b. 8/21/1868 d 4/21/1935 on 8/21/1890 married Minnie Grace Chittenden (b 12/3/1870 d 3/8/1931) children: 1- Cecil A. Longshore b. 11/21/1891 d 12/4/1971 never married 2- Blanche Marie b. 8/26/1893 d 10/17/75 never married 3- Harold Longshore b 10/12/1898 d 5/28/1960 on 10/12/1929 married Clista Davis (b 6/9/1908) d 4/21/2002) children: Jacqueline md Sam Genovese Harold Jr. - never married 4-Russell Eldon Longshore b 8/18/1901 d 11/30/1973 never married 5- Ellwyn Edwin Longshore b 2/4/1904 d 10/3/1995 on 7/1/1934 md Audrey Lavona Burk children: Judith Elaine David Edwin 2. Aaron Longshore b Apr. 5. 1828 d 1/30/1855 on 10/21/1852 md Lucinda Powell 1 child Phebe who married Noah Coons 3. Hannah Longshore b. 7/8/1842 d. 10/31/1864 on 8/29/1861 md Nathan T. Stanley. Nathan was in the Civil War and away from home when Hannah died. children: 1- John E. Stanley 2- Charles Lee Stanley Note: After Hannah's death, her boys lived with their grandparents John and Elisabeth. John's Will says that James Lampman will be guardian of John E. Longshore (Stanley) and that his son, David Longshore (in Iowa) will be guardian of Charles Lee stanley. Charles Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 83) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3e98e3a00a36e0f8f47b29c9cff90fcd.jpg e7eef3b4ff4ed7344b23f553aec5078a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 84] [corresponds to unnumbered page 81 of I-DENTITY] Stanley and Edwin Longshore married Chittenden sisters. ---My brother - in-law is my cousin? The Family of David Longshore, Jr. The 7th child of David (1) There is more to be told of this family than will be told here. David, Jr. lived with his parents. The rules by which he would take care of them in their old age and thereby inherit their land was written in deed form. After the death of David Sr., David, Jr. sued all his brothers and sisters for the right to the land. In this suit is evidence that Rachel Squires is a sister of this Longshore family. David Jr, sues her children, since she was already dead. David Jr. served in the Civil War. His records show that he enlisted at the end of the War so he wasn't in very long. He served with an Ohio group. David was born about 1822 d 9/5/1871 and on 4/13/1848 married Sarah Ellen Shannon. (b 2/06/1824 d 10/26/1895) Children: 1- Agusta L. b 4/9/1849 d 10/11/1882 on 11/11/1867 md Edward D. Lunt (b 7/11/1844) Children: Charles E., Frank P. Emma L., Inez L. (After her death, Charles remarried and moved to Wapello, Iowa) 2- Margaret Louisa b. 1850 3- Serepta J. b 1851 4- Frank M. b 10/1855 *David Jr. and David, son of John, both ended up living just miles apart in Des Moines, Iowa. They are both buried in the same cemetery in a plot purchased by David Longshore. There is no indication which David. The infants buried there simply state infant of D. Longshore. It cannot be certain which David Longshore family they belong to. After David Jr's death, Sarah lived with her daughter Mary and family. They went west in the late 1800's and she died and is buried in Mountain Home, Idaho. Mark Longshore, son of Isaac Newton Mark Longshore, son of Isaac Newton, was found by this researcher by using the Ancestry.com database. He died in 1945. His death certificate is from Contra Costa County in California. (This includes the San Francisco area. It verifies that Isaac and Angeline (Bourne) were his parents. According to the certificate, he had lived in California for 30 years. At time of death he was working as PBX operator at a San Francisco hotel. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY (p. 84) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Family Histories Description An account of the resource This collection contains family histories that have been written by residents of the Big Walnut area. Items in this collection generally contain genealogical information about the families, personal anecdotes, and images of family members. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource I-DENTITY Description An account of the resource This book is the history of the Longshore Family, prepared by Maxine Longshore in 1976. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 31112402 Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Author Maxine Longshore Subject The topic of the resource Longshore family--Genealogy Longshore, Maxine--Personal narratives Ohio--Delaware County--Sunbury--History Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Community Library, Sunbury Ohio http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/008df0d3ec992f7f721f7e5b24541feb.jpg 1381743dd5015e1eca1521dde54eb01a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 1) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to front cover of When Our Mother Was a Little Girl] WHEN OUR MOTHER WAS A LITTLE GIRL by Mrs. A Baldwin copyright 1888 (original in vault) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/14faa8e14c854f65e4621d258d3900e7.jpg 1885830ba624bbb5d8ce2b19cb07ff00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 2) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to introduction of When Our Mother was A Little Girl] This book was written by Mrs. A. Baldwin, who was the daughter of Mahalia Rosecrans, daughter of Abraham Rosecrans and Susan Patrick Rosecrans. These stories were told by Mahalia to her grandson (Mrs. Baldwin's son). Mrs. Baldwin thought them interesting so put them in print about 1888. My father John Landon, and Charles Patrick each bought a copy. The cousins asked me many times if I could get some copies made up but not until 1955 did I take the time to do so. As a child this book was read to me many times and I have read it several times each year. I never tire going through its pages. My father who was born in 1832, knew most of the folks mentioned in the book and I used to hear him tell of meeting them. I hope the reader will enjoy the book half as much as I have. Joseph B. Landon 84 Winthrop Road Columbus 14, Ohio Nov. 25, 1964 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5e507e5729b53b264f6c31aae5d32721.jpg 4091a2d66ca1f96d56a79298633bbe99 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 3) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to unnumbered page 1 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] When Our Mother Was A Little Girl Copyright, 1888. Mrs. A. Baldwin Part 1 "What are you thinking about, Jack?" said Grandma. "I'm not Jack. I'm George Washington: and I'm thinking about Indians. Tell me about when you were a little girl and the Indians came." "Ah!" said Grandma, "George Washington saw more Indians in his day than I ever did in mine, and Block-houses, too, for that matter; but he never saw our Block-house; and I will tell you about that. A block-house is a large square house, the logs are round and rough on the outside, but hewn on the inside; and all around at intervals, are little holes." "For birds' nest?" said Jack. 'No, indeed; they are for guns. At these the men would stand and fire, and the women down below would cling together, and the children would cry: and outside, the Indians, all covered with paint, would yell and dance and fire their arrows. But I never saw anything of this kind, for they were all friendly Indians when I was a little girl; though once, when I was a baby and my father was away in Delaware- town, making roads for the army, and all the men were with him , a woman came run- ning across the fields, crying, "Susan, Susan! the Injuns! Run to the Block- House!' My mother who was never afraid of any thing, said she would not go. But when Uncle Isaac's wife came by, with her bed and her clothes in a wagon and her children on top of them, mother was persuaded to pack her things on, too, and taking me in her arms, she walked to the Block-house, which was three miles away, close by Uncle Jim Starke's. There they all spent the night, but the next day, not seeing any Indians or hearing any more about them, they went home, and that was the last time the old Block-house was ever used; but it stood many years, a peaceful place for the chil- dren to play in and perhaps after all, the birds did build their nests in the gun holes. "There was once a camp-meeting in that same Delawaretown where father made the roads, and the people invited the Indians from Sandusky to meet with them. Several hundreds of them accepted the invitation and came marching into town; the Chiefs and warriors ahead, the young men following, and the women straggling along, in the rear, loaded down with the wigwams and cooking utensils. Such an array was alarming. Had they come for good or evil? Uncle Jake, who was a class-leader, said it was all for good; that they were led by the Spirit; that the heathen were our inheritance; and he sang with more fervor than ever, that he hoped to shout glory when the world was on fire. But father said they had come because they had nothing else to do; and no doubt he was right, for these Indians were the last of the old Hurons; their forefathers had been powerful allies of the French; in more then one fight they had conquered the Iroquois; and now their glory had departed and they were restless and discontented in their narrow precincts on the shores of Lake Erie. We were all anxious to see them and father took us in his wagon to their encampment. I was a very little girl, and the only thing that I remember was a http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fccb78e3db19bbe0f8d9b8fa4d03d8b3.jpg 27b3f5a57a1207b3004a1da8375ec2dd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 4) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 2 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] curious kind of cradle. It was made of a blanket, with each of the four corners tied to a tree; when the wind blew the cradle would rock; and the old squaws could put in half a dozen babies and go off to hear the preaching. I thought it would be an excellent idea for the twins, and proposed it to mother one day when Uncle Jake's children came over to help us pull flax, and was so offended at her refusal, I left Sophronia alone in a fence corner, where the poor little thing cried herself almost to death; but mother never found it out, and I said nothing more about the cradle. I hope, Jack, that you will be better to your little sister than I was to mine, and always tell your mother the truth." "Like George Washington? But I don't want to hear about babies, I want to hear about Indians." "Why, there are baby Indians, as well as big Indians, and they call them Pappooses. When a pappoose's mother is going on a journey she does not strap her baby up softly and carry it in her arms, but she straps it on a board and the board on their back, and marches along. Once an old squaw came to Uncle Abner Ayres' tavern, in Fredericktown, and she stopped outside the door and un- strapped her pappoose, and set the board, pappoose and all, against the side of the house, while she went to get some whiskey. When she came out, there was no baby left, for a dreadful old sow had eaten it all up. But you like to hear about fighting Indians, do you, with paint on their faces and feathers in their hair? They do very well to talk about, but how would you like to see some of them walking in here tonight? Once, when father and mother had gone to a funeral and we children were at home alone, we saw a party of them coming up the road, with guns in their hands and knives and tomahawks in their belts. We were scared enough. Some of the children ran under the bed and some under the table, and Maranda crawled into a bag; but Uncle Daniel's boy- Uncle Daniel was General Rosecrans' grand- father - armed himself with a poker and stood in the doorway to protect us. He was a little fellow about 9 years old, but his dark eyes were full of courage and his young heart beat stoutly under his homespun shirt. The odds were des- perate, one against many; an old poker against guns and tomahawks. No neigh- bor was within call. Around us lay a little patch of cleared land, and beyond that, the woods. We were all alone, and our only defense was the little boy, with his poker in the cabin doorway. The Indians, armed and painted, came nearer and nearer; but when within a few yards of the house they stopped and began talking gesticulating in a frightful manner. Were they planning to fire the house and scalp the inmates? We shook with fear in our hiding places. But great was our relief when they turned back, and we, peeping cautiously out, saw them lay down their guns, stick their knives and tomahawks into the fence, and then return to the house, making signs that they were friendly and only wanted something to eat. We came timidly out from under the beds and tables, and Maranda crept out of her bag, and we gave them all the bread and venison we could find in the house, and were happy enough when they marched off, one after another, Indian fashion, down the road." "If they had burned the house, then what? I guess your father and mother would have been sorry they went to a funeral. I don't like funerals." "They did not, either, but they always went to them. In those times every man within 10 miles was a neighbor and every neighbor was a friend and when any- one died, a boy was sent on horseback from house to house to tell the sad tidings. On the day of the funeral, all the men and women in the country round laid aside their work, however important, and attended it. Rough wagons, with boards across http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/82e91e5afdd9333d63cf5953695185c5.jpg dff84c3ad7dd3297e78bec1ed5e9ee23 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 5) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 3 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl] for seats, perhaps with a chair for some old grandmother, formed the procession, followed often by men on horseback with their wives behind them. They had no hearse and the best wagon of the settlement held the coffin and a homespun blanket answered for a pall. I have seen many grand processions since then. Once I saw a city hung with mourning, and thousands of soldiers marching with muffled drums and all the people mourning a great man. But I have never seen anything that seemed to me so solemn as those wagons winding through the forests and over the rough roads to the half-cleared grave-yard of that new country." But Grandma is thinking her own thoughts and has wondered far away from her Indian stories. Now I will tell you one more and then we will light the lamp and get ready for supper. We were never afraid of Indians when father was at home for father was a mighty hunter, and we were proud of him. I can see him now, as he looked to me when I was a child. Tall and erect, with black hair and eyes so keen, no thing escaped them. He wore cloth trousers, foxed below the knee with deer skin; a hunting shirt of striped flannel, with fringe around the bottom. His powder horn and shot-bag were slung across his shoulders, and his hunting knife was in his belt. There never was a doubt in our minds about his being able to protect us, and I think there never was in his, for he was a man of courage. And so this morning that I am going to you about, we were not in the least frightened, when we saw a large party of Indians approaching the house. Father went out to meet them, and they made signs that they wanted breakfast. Friend or foe was always made welcome to our table, so he brought them in, and mother cooked more meat and baked more cakes on the griddle, and they feasted to their satisfaction. After they had gotten through and mother was clearing the table, she said to father "What shall I do with this bread?" "O, give it to them! I don't want to eat after red dogs!" They went away, and the circumstance was forgotten when, several years after, father was in Delawaretown, and an old chief invited him to take a drink, Father consented, and politely requested him to drink first. But he said, "No, You, you no like to drink after the red dogs" and then reminded him of his remark about the bread, which he had perfectly understood. No, we never were afraid when father was home. But two or three times a year he went to Chillicothe to get his corn ground; that was a long journey and he was away several days. One stormy night we were sitting 'round our fire enjoying its warmth and comfort."-- "Just like our fire, Grandma?" "No, not very much like ours. That fireplace was three times as large; and instead of brass fire-irons they had great black stones; called "nigger heads", and on these were piled logs, so large and heavy, it took two men to role them in, with hand-spikes; and every night men went from house to house, helping one another build the fires. When the family went to bed the blaze was carefully covered with ashes so the fire seldom went out; for we had no matches, and it was difficult to kindle with flint, that rather than do it, I have known people who go a long distance to 'borrow' a brand or a shovelful of coals. Well, we were sitting 'round one of these great fires. Mother was spinning flax at her little wheel, the older girls were knitting, and the children were listening to stories of Wyoming and mother's childhood, when the door suddenly opened and in walked two big Indians. Indians never knock, and our door had only a wooden latch, and the leather latch-string hung outside. So there they came, without any warning. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d1ca9dc805dbb664d0e3a4eb1cceed1b.jpg 1b874c63a189be4372f9d635ecd85cd6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 6) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 4 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl] "We were very much frightened and huddled close together, but mother rose from her wheel, and without a sign of fear, asked them what they wanted. They made her understand, by motions, that they expected to spend the night. She could not refuse them, it was more dangerous to send them away than it was to keep them, so she placed chairs for them before the fire and made them as welcome as she could. They were not pleasant to look at as they sat in our midst wrapped in their blankets, silent and motionless. The more we looked at the them, the more frightened we became, and mother was glad to take us into the next room (we had two rooms) and put us in our beds. Then she covered the fire and told the Indians that they could go to sleep when they liked. "They made ready to by lying down on the floor, with their heads to the fire and their tomahawks for pillows, while their guns were placed carefully by their sides. Our fears were soon forgotten, but who can tell what our mother thought and felt during the long hours of that winter night. She was up early in the morn- ing and gave them their breakfast, and they were gone before the children were awake, and even now, I can scarcely convince myself that it was not all a dream. "Perhaps they were thankful to my mother. I know some Indians once re- turned after receiving a kindness and brought baskets to the children, and one of them gave my sister an Indian nose-ring. It was, in shape and size, very much like the bowl of a large spoon, and would have hung over the mouth in the most in- convenient manner. The gift seemed of no consequence to us, but when my sister sold it a peddler for a silver dollar, we realized its value and envied her accordingly. Fifty cents was a large sum of money to possess in those days and Sophronia never thought of spending it, but rubbed it bright with vinegar and ashes and put it carefully away in a box, bringing it out as a great treasure when our cousins and the neighbor children came to visit us. "And that reminds me of a piece of money I had given to me when I was a little girl, and all the trouble it made me." "Money don't make me trouble," said Jack. "But I'm not a girl. Tell me about it. "There was no hotels in Kingston in those early times, and travelers were obliged to depend on the hospi- tality of the settlers, and it soon became known far and near that anyone stop- ping at Abram Rosecrans' would be certain of a place to sleep and something to eat, so it was no unusual thing to see a stranger riding up and hear him ask if he could spend the night. Father had always one answer - "You must take care of your own horse. There's the stable and plenty of feed. And if you go before breakfast, you'll have to pay but if you stay to breakfast, I shall not charge you anything." Of course the traveler, whoever he was, stayed to breakfast, and of course, father never took any pay for his entertainment. And father's answer was considered by us all a most excellent joke. "I was very fond of horses then , as I am now and when a fine horse came, it was my delight to lead him to the trough and water him and sometimes, to steal a ride upon his back. I liked that much better than helping mother get supper. And although my sisters cut the bread and set the table and turned the griddle cakes, I was always the favorite, and it was to me that one of these travelers, on going away, gave a silver quarter of a dollar. "I think I must have been the first child in the family to receive money, or my brothers and my sisters would not have treated me as they did. Or, perhaps I was proud, and as you say, 'Took on airs'. - I no sooner received that money than I was made to feel myself an outcast. When I went to help Maranda wash the dishes, http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9d97f61d73b880e6485bb0f011ed1129.jpg 03a1bc0e6cca71e03efce3ea09bbbc43 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 7) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 5 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] she said she had rather wash them alone; that rich folks didn't need to wash dishes. And when I joined the twins, who were picking up chips, they went off on the other side of the woodpile and left me alone. I did not care about the work, but nobody would play with me and that was hard to bear. "That afternoon Uncle Jake's children were coming over and we were going for nuts. There had been a big frost the night before, and we could hear the nuts rattling down in the woods and the prickly burrs were thick under the chestnut trees. This first nutting expedition was a great event to us and we had talked of nothing else for a week. Mother had made us each a linen bag and had woven tape on purpose for strings. And when I saw the children coming, I forgot all about my money and ran to show them my bag. But one of the girls got ahead of me and I heard her say "Oh! she feels so big," and then they went off and whispered among themselves "I went with them for the nuts, but nobody wanted to walk with me or talk with me, and they had secrets together and laughed and made signs. I filled my bag alone and walked home alone and was very unhappy". Every night , after we were washed and made ready for bed, we said our prayers. Mother had not time to hear us one by one, as your mother does, so we all knelt in a row around the bed and prayed silently. But that night I could not remember anything to say, I was so busy thinking about my money; and I could not sleep after I went to bed. What should I buy with it? I had everything I wanted. I had new shoes, laced with leather strings; and white lined stockings, that mother had knit me to wear to church; and a pair of gloves that she knit; and a pink calico dress, with a ruffle in it; and a pocket handkerchief with a border; and a silk bonnet that Mrs. Prince had made from a piece of one her dresses. I could not think of anything else. I might buy something for my sisters, and I took great comfort thinking how ashamed they would be when they saw how generous I was. But then my sisters had everything I had, eve to the bonnet, for Mrs. Princes dress had answered for us all. The silk was changeable, red in one light and green in another, and we presented a gay appearance and were much envied, when the six of us rode to church in the wagon, three on a seat. No, my sisters had everything and I had everything; but I must spend my money, for it made me so un- happy to keep it. I had put it for safety under one of the stones on the hearth; but every time I awakened, I seemed to see it shining like an eye, and once or twice I got up and lifted the stone to assure myself it was there. I had a wretched night, very early heard my mother stirring in the kitchen. I am an old lady now, but that sound comes back to me -- our mother, in the half darkness, working for her children. My troubles were over. I sprang from my bed, seized my money and ran to the kitchen. Take it! I cried, as I threw myself on her. Take it! Buy tea with it, or snuff for Aunt Thankfull, anything so I don't have it. How easy it was. Now the girls would love me just the same and everything would be pleasant. The new day was dawning as I ran to call father to breakfast. He heard me singing and said, What makes you so happy this morning? Oh, I have given away my money, that's what makes me happy. Don't you like money? he said, laughing. No, I don't, and I hope I'll never have any more. But you have had money, said Jack. Yes, but none that ever caused me so much trouble as that silver quarter; and after all my happiness has come in giving it away. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ac926bb8be1619be00b1b29b8ab9f2b2.jpg 95e1d63ab44d0d65261cf3a7332ca447 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 8) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 6 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] Part II The driving sleet beats against the window, and the pine trees outside are heavy with snow. Long icicles hang from the piazza roof, and the little stone dog that guards the door lies in a bed whiter than himself. The lake roars like the ocean, and the wind whistles wildly around the house. On a night like this, two years ago, a little bird came and knocked at our window, asking as plainly as a bird could ask, to be let in. Its feathers were sodden; its wing was wounded, and it scarcely fluttered as we warmed it in our hand, and nursed it into life. It seemed to trust us. But, alas! friends at night were enemies in the morning, in the eyes of that little bird, and it flew away without a chipper gratitude. Jack was a baby then, although he is a a big boy now, he will yet stand at the window watching, as he often does on nights like these, for the return of that un- grateful bird. Jack has had a trying day, for the precincts of a house are a contracted field for a mighty hunter like Daniel Boone -- and Jack is Daniel Boone. He has been all day on the chase and his legs are tired going up and down in quest of game. He has had a frightful time with a growling bear in a cave under the bed. He had tracked the deer to their salt licks in the kitchen, and has killed the owl on the bookcase, till it is as dead as an owl can be, and his work is done and here comes Grandma, knitting and all, to their camping-ground on the hearth rug. "Grandma, I killed a bear today. Did you ever see a man before that killed a bear?" and Jack elevated his small figure and put on a look of great fierceness. Grandma laughed as she looked at her little boy, and said, "Why, yes I have seen a man that killed a bear; but he brought his bear home with him, we had bear steak for supper, I wonder if your bear's meat will be as tough as ours was! Sit down in your little chair and I will tell you about it. "It was a winter evening, though not so cold as it is to-night; we were through supper and the girls were washing the dishes, and mother was mixing the 'corn pone' for breakfast. She always made this at night and put it into a baking kettle, with an iron cover. This she set in a bed of coals, with coals on the lid, then covered it all with ashes, and in the morning the pone was baked brown. With wild honey or maple molasses, it made a dish fit for a king. Father was sitting before the fire, and perhaps he heard us taking about breakfast, for all at once he got up and said, 'I think I'd better go and kill a deer, we are about out of venison,' and taking his gun down from the wall, he hung his shot-bag and powder- horn on his shoulder, put his knife in his belt, and started for the Deer Lick. This was a salt spring, where the deer came to drink, and was about a quarter of a mile from the house. Near the spring was a tree, and father climbed up among the branches, feeling sure that a deer would come before bed-time. He was obliged to keep perfectly quiet, and it was cold work waiting, hour after hour, so he was glad enough when he heard a rustling among the bushes. He cautiously raised his gun, to be ready. But what was his surprise to see, instead of a deer, a great black bear! It came slowly and clumsily along, growling in an ugly, sullen way. Many a man would have been frightened; but father only thought, 'Now I must do my best; for if I miss him, or slightly wound him, he will be on me before I can re- load.' So he took careful aim and fired. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/442193223d2542832af43992dffb28b8.jpg c00691c68a08197fee2c2cc726fca90f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 9) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 7 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] "We heard the report of the gun, and, the next minute, father's call for the dogs. For some reason, the dogs refused to go. Again we heard the call. The case was urgent, something must be done! So two boys who were spending the night with us , seized the dogs, and, lifting them on their backs, ran with them to the lick. There they found father with his knife in his hand, the snow red with blood, and the bear dead. He had killed it the first shot; but uncertain of it, had called the dogs to help, in case of a struggle. The boys came home, hitched the oxen to the bob-sled, and went back for the bear. We children flocked out to see it, and I remember it looked like a great black cow in the moonlight. "In the morning all the neighbors came, and word went far and near that Abram Rosecrans had killed a bear-- the first and last ever killed in our township. We took great delight in hearing father tell the story over and over again, and tried our best to think bear's meat better than venison, but it was so strong and tough we could not really like it." "Did he kill a deer the next night?" "I don't remember about that. But he never had any trouble killing deer: he would often kill three or four in a day, and come home with the skins and the best part of the meat slung over his saddle. Mother would cook all she wanted, and father would usually jerk the rest. Jerking was cutting it into narrow strips, smoking it a little, and then drying it. Father always took jerked venison and parched corn when he went hunting, and we had it for our dinner at school. Our little school-house was a mile away, and we carried our dinners with us. There were pegs driven 'round the school-room, over our seats, and on these we hung our baskets. "One day I lost my dinner, and how do you think it happened? It was a warm summer day, and I was trying to study, -- but from my window I could see the woods full of wild flowers and birds and squirrels and all manner of pleasant things, and it seemed as if noon never would come, -- when, all at once, I heard a scream, and looking up, I saw, right before me, hanging by its tail from the ceiling, an immense black snake! Its head was in my basket, and it was eating my dinner with great satisfaction. Oh, how we ran! -- the teacher and all. The school-house was cleared in a minute! And then, two of the big boys went in with clubs and killed it. We did not measure it, but we always said, 'it was as long as a rail.' "Yes, I lost my dinner, but it came out right, for the other children divided with me and the teacher gave us an extra play hour. "That school teacher's name was Polly Taylor. She was pretty, sweet girl, and a great favorite with her scholars. "Susan Skeels, another teacher, never thought of anything but study. How we did dislike her! She was an old maid, and had very strict notions about the bring- ing up of children. We had to stand with our toes exactly to the crack when we recited: had to hold a heavy Dictionary at arms-length for a punishment, and were feruled for the the slightest cause. The time came, though when we had our revenge, and I will tell you about it. "One summer's day we were gathered in the school-house, studying and recit- ing, when suddenly, to our great terror, the sun seemed blotted from the sky and the darkness of midnight settled upon us. There was a whirring, roaring noise, http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/107f16397bab5e5e3d0ecacfcf81ac8b.jpg dad098ef762c4d81118add7703755042 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 10) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 8 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] and then the rain fell in torrents. I cannot tell how long it lasted, but when it ceased, we found that the little brook between us and our homes had become a rushing river and the foot bridge was in danger of being washed away. We dared not cross it alone, and were greatly relieved when we saw father coming to help us over. Miss Susan was very fat, and she did not like to trust herself on the log, but after father had taken the children over, she was persuaded to try it. She got on very well until she neared the middle, where the current was swiftest, when, for some reason, she lost her courage, and, with a wild cry, threw her arms around father, and they tumbled together into the water. "Then was our chance. 'Good for her! good for her!' we cried. 'Look at her; look at her now' as she came struggling up, the water dripping from her sun bonnet, and her clothes clinging to her stout figure. 'Keep your toes to the crack, Susan; don't forget your manners! Cross your i's, dot your t's, and spell ablel! Three cheers for teacher! and laughed, and cheered, and hurrahed, and one boy, in his excitement, threw his cap into the brook and it floated away after Miss Susan's dinner-basket. "Father finally dragged her to the land, and a sad sight she was, as he hurried her along the path to our house. Mother gave her some dry clothes, and a bowl of camomile tea, and she was none the worse for her wetting. But after that she never seemed quite happy in school and soon made way for Polly Taylor. "I was very fond of play when I was a little girl. I am afraid I liked it too well, and I often got into mischief. I remember one day mother said I might go to Uncle Joe's; the way to Uncle Joe's was right through the woods, and that I liked, for I never was afraid and I always found something to interest me. On this day, a herd of deer ran across my path, a dozen of them, with branching horns and bright beautiful eyes, and little farther on, an old wild turkey flew out from behind a clump of bushes. I was curious to see what she had been doing, and creeping cautiously 'round, I came to a next of turkey eggs. that was a trea- sure indeed! I had no basket, but what could be better than a sun-bonnet! I filled it full, tied the string together for a handle, and hurried on to show my prize to Uncle Joe's children. They were delighted, and proposed that we should set the eggs and raise our own turkeys. Fortunately, they had several sitting hens, and we had only to lift them carefully, take out the hens' eggs, and put in the turkey eggs. Aunt Sarah wondered why her hens were so long com- ing off, and she wondered still more when they did come off, and instead of a brood of young chickens, they were followed about by long-legged, half feathered turkeys. I thought the hens, themselves, must have been surprised at their queer looking children; but were just as kind as they would have been to their own yellow chickens, and scratched for them and clucked to them in the most motherly manner. But turkeys have no gratitude: and as soon as they could pick for them- selves, they ran away to the woods and were seen no more. "I always liked to go to Uncle Joe's, but there was no place we enjoyed quite so much as Uncle Isaac's. Aunt Mary had died before I could remember, and the children kept house. "In those day children could not do as much damage as they can now. There was little furniture to injure and no carpets to wear out. I recollect, when Uncle Jim Starke's last wife made a rag carpet (I was quite a big girl then) how all the people talked about her extravagance. It was said the rags would have made six good 'coverlids,' and 'what a waste it was to put them on the floor to http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/57e9af0fa3c91ddf98d8c914306e7d6c.jpg 00bb7533f804a8f4ca457ca0afce5cd0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 11) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 9 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] be walked on! It was almost wicked.' No, there was no furniture or carpets to spoil and no windows to break. When a man built a house, he cut out the logs , to leave open spaces, two or three feet long. In these he put a kind of frame and pasted paper over it; this paper was greased on the outside, so the rain would not injure it, and the light came through better than you would think. The first window glass I ever saw was a great curiosity. Dr. Skeels had it in his new house, and father took us to see it. He had two windows, with four panes in each window. That we could see in and see out was wonderful! I went outside and Maranda inside, and we pressed our faces against the glass and tried to touch and kiss on another. We could not understand it; - a piece of that glass would have more precious than diamonds. "But I was going to tell you a little story about a visit to Uncle Isaac's. One day, as a special favor, father said I might take the gray mare and ride over to see my cousins, but that I must come home before night, for Uncle Isaac had no room to stable the mare, and it was too cold to leave her in the field. I was al- ways fond of horseback riding and I went off with great joy. The children gave me a warm welcome, and especially glad to see me, because their father had gone to 'quarterly-meeting' and they were alone; they insisted that I should stay all night and cousin John said he would look out for the mare. Uncle Isaac was building an addition to his house, and the rooms were floored, but not entirely finished, and into one of these rooms he put the mare. "After evening meeting, Uncle Isaac came home bringing a minister with him, and they went to bed. Sometime in the night, he wakened us by calling, 'John! John! Get up! There are horses in the yard! and there might have been a dozen, such a whinnying and tramping of hoofs as we heard. But John was sleepy, and he called back, 'Oh! never mind , father, It is only Uncle Abram's old mare in the bedroom!' "Uncle Isaac was satisfied and went back to bed; but I have often wondered if the minister thought that was where we always kept our horses. "Uncle Jake's children were our most constant playfellows, their farm ad- joined ours, and between our house and theirs was only a little woods and a slash, as we called the brook so the two families were always together. "One night, I remember, father and mother and Aunt Polly and Uncle Jake were invited to a party at Mrs. Blackman's. Mrs. Blackman came from Newtown, and was looked upon as authority in all matters of taste and fashion. She had no children and lived luxuriously in a double log-house, with an entry between. She baked beans just as they did in Boston, and made real Connecticut pumpkin pies. One of her parties was quite an event. This night Uncle Jake and Aunt Polly were going with father and mother, and as the snow was deep, father thought he had better drive the oxen. He put fresh straw in the sled, for mother was going to wear her dove-colored silk, and that required care. Mother had brought that dress with her from Wyoming, ten years before, but it was still considered a handsome dress and was only worn on great occasions. They bade us good-by, promising to bring us some cake, if we were good chil- dren; and we watched them, slowly wending their way through the clearing, till fairly out of sight. Then on went our hoods and cloaks, and away we went, through the snow, to Uncle Jake's. Their children had promised to spend the evening with us, and we were to help them carry over the baby. Poor little thing! it was cruel http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ec3090792714ff9a0379661755416b62.jpg 8d74cab0d7196855f8a1cdd723a66162 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 12) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 10 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] to take it out of its warm cradle. But we wrapped it up well, and took turns run- ning with it, and were soon home. On the way one of the boys called out, 'There are Mother Hess's dogs!' and saw several of the great black creatures run out of the woods, and thought no more of it. "We gave the baby some milk and were commencing our games, when we were startled by hearing howls in the distance. We listened. The sound came nearer and nearer, and louder and louder, and the the boys cried out, 'It's wolves! It's wolves! and they're coming to the house! "Sure enough, in a minute there they were! -- before the doors, under the win- dows, and all around the house -- filling the air with howls. Then we knew it was wolves we had seen in the woods, and were frightened enough when we thought of the little baby and our escape. We felt quite safe in the house, and after a time were tempted to take a peep at them; so we opened the door a little crack and took turns looking out. I remember how, in the dark, their eyes gleamed like coals of fire. "The boys thought they would scare them, by throwing fire-brands in their midst, but they only ran off a little way and came back fiercer than ever. Then John Poole took down father's shot-gun. There was a keg of powder handy, under the bed, and he put in a good, heavy charge, poked a hole in the window paper and fired away. This amused us, but did not scare the wolves, and we finally got tired and went to bed. "When father came home they were gone, but the snow 'round the house was covered with tracks. Uncle Jake and Aunt Polly were so glad to find the children safe, they forgot to scold us about taking out the baby, and we had our cake all the same. "Wolves were very troublesome in those days, and we were obliged to have the sheep-pen adjoining the house, and covered over. The calf-pen was a little farther off; and once, in broad daylight, a wolf climbed on the pen and would have seized the poor little calf, had not mother called the children and told us to scream, all at once, as loud as we could.The noise we made was more than any wolf could stand, and he ran away. "The men had wolf-pens all through the woods. These were made of logs with a trap-door on the top. A piece of meat inside tempted the wolf, and when he jumped in to get it, the door fell and he was caught. "One day, I was playing with my cousins and we came across one of these pens. I proposed that we should get into it and have it for a house. They were ready for anything, so in we climbed, when, suddenly, down came the cover, and we were fast enough. Fortunately, there was some one outside to go for help, or in those deep forests they might have hunted for days and not found us. 'We were quite excited, at one time, about a large gray wolf that prowled for weeks around the neighborhood and eluded out best hunters. It had only three paws, one of them having been cut off by a trap. Morning after morning we could find its tracks around our pens, and once in a while a sheep would be missing. One evening, just at dusk, Mrs. Blackman was out, bringing in her clothes, when this old, three- footed wolf chased her into the house. That was going a little too far, and father said he would take the matter in had. So he killed a sheep and place it in such http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b1c4588af46dbd8af42c303657008e55.jpg 3a9e11833239c1e5efb00f483eec485c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 13) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 11 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] a life-like position on the trap, that no wolf could resist it, and the old fellow was caught the very first night. "That is all the wolf stories I remember. But as you have been shooting owls today, I will tell you an owl story. "John Poole, the boy who fired at the wolves the night of Mrs. Blackman's party, was the son of a widow who lived neighbor to us. "One night, a few months after the party, father and mother were awakened from their sleep by a violent knocking and pounding at the door and some one crying, 'Help! help!' Father sprang quickly out of bed, drew back the great, wooden bolt and called out, "Who's there? What's the matter?' "A voice in the darkness answered, "It's me! it's me!" and the Devil is in my bedroom!' and the owner of the voice, whoever he was, staggered through the door and fell on the floor. "By that time we were all aroused, and very much alarmed. Mother hastily blew up a coal and lighted a candle, and there on the floor, lay John Poole. His curly hair was torn and matted; his face was scratched, and the blood was streaming down. He was a frightful object, and so exhausted by fear and running, he could scarcely speak. Mother bathed his face, and after a time he managed to tell his story. "The Pooles lives in a cabin, with one room below and a loft above. Mrs. Poole slept in the lower room and John in the upper. He had taken his candle, as usual , and climbed the ladder but no sooner had he stepped into his room, than he heard a frightful noise, and the Devil, himself, jumped out at him, and seized him by the hair, and blew out his candle, and beat him on the head and scratched him, -- all the time calling him dreadful names, in a language he could not understand. It was only by a miracle that he escaped and jumped down the ladder, and never stopped running till he had reached our house. "Our hair stood on end as we listened. Bears and panthers were bad enough! But a Devil, was too awful for anything! And father took down his gun, we all cried, and begged him not to go. But he went off laughing, saying that he would kill the Devil and bring him home with him. "In half an hour he came back, carrying an immense white owl! John was very much mortified, and it was many years before he heard the last of his Devil." http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d85e652dadfae1dfd135acac5c1b335f.jpg 77467310ae5fdd444da2c220c5eb2ccc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 14) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 12 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] Part III The sun shone bright and clear the morning after the storm, and Jack looked from his window on a world of whiteness. The sleighs, with their jingling bells, were not yet out, and the deep snow muffled the noises of the street. To the out- ward ear, all was silence, --but it was the silence of intense life. The snow dazzled; the icicles glistened; the sun shot forth his rays, and the very air sparkled. A child lives close to nature; and Jack' eyes grew bright, and his pulses quickened under the influences of the morning. He laughed aloud as a flock of "wax- wings" swooped down on the "mountain ash," scattering the snow, in search of their breakfast of berries. And a moment after, Jack was a "wax-wing" himself, in red mittens, flying here and there through the snow-drifts with a heart as free from care as any bird of them all. But alas! legs are not wings, at will, and snow- covered ice is treacherous. For with a cry, poor little Jack falls helpless. The birds fly away; the children troop along to school; the sleighs go merri- ly by, while Jack lies on the sofa in the parlor. but he is Jack no longer: he is a soldier, wounded in the great Rebellion. His army coat hangs by his side, the buttons are tarnished and the shoulder-straps are faded; -- Virginia suns and the dampness of Virginia trenches have left their marks upon them. On his head is an old cap, the regulation blue is dimmed and visor is defaced, but Jack takes pride -- and well he may -- in the golden letters that adorn the front. Over his shoulders is a sash that once was crimson, and on his breast he wears a badge bear- ing the names of "Petersburgh," and "Spottsylvania," and "Cold Harbor." Grandma is the nurse in charge, and tells her patient many stories of hospitals and wounded men. "Women have to take care of men; don't they, Grandma? They can't fight and wear uniforms and get wounded." "No, they don't wear uniforms, and don't generally fight. But I know one man who was wounded, and wounded by a soldier. Her father kept a tavern on Wyoming Flats, and when she was a little girl, about as old as you are, some Revo- lutionary soldiers stopped at their house to spend the night. One of them careless- ly laid his gun in a corner of the room; in some way it was knocked over and it went off, shooting the little girl in the leg. Her wound was so severe they were obliged to cut off her leg, and she had weeks of suffering. But the Government gave her a pension, and she got on very well with her wooden leg. Mother told me a funny story about that leg. "The Hilman's came to Ohio the same time with our people and old Mrs. Hilman rode horseback nearly all the way. One night they stopped at a tavern, and the landlord came out to help Mrs. Hillman from her horse. He had on high boots with his pants tucked into them. He offered his hand, Mrs. Hillman gave a spring, and by some chance her wooden leg went inside of his boot. They both fell to the ground, and the leg was so wedged in, it required a great effort on the part of the bystanders to get them apart. "Mrs. Hillman was the tailor of the neighborhood, and went from house to house cutting and making clothes for the men and boys. We were always delighted when she came to us, for she had seen Washington and Lafayette, and she told us many stories: but especially, there was a fascination and a mystery about her wooden leg that never lost its interest. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f4e3284af26160ec7ed697dd2c6b0b33.jpg 4e0bad9bdcb2c17e726b197b79d2b642 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 15) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 13 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] Yes, my grandfather came from "Wyoming Flats, too. He owned a good farm there, with a house and barn and everything comfortable. But he had four sons, Abram, Isaac, and Jacob and John, and two daughters, Sarah and Rebecca; and to see them all settled in life was more to him than houses or land, or ease and comfort. So he sold all that he had, bade good-by to the scenes of his early life, and with the remnant of his household goods packed in two wagons, and their sons with their wives and children following, he set forth upon a journey through forests almost unbroken, over streams dangerous to ford, and among a people savage and cruel; -- a journey whose only limit was the little bag of money, hidden, perhaps like Joseph's cup, in a sack of grain, for grandfather had decided on the number of his acres, and would travel on until the price accorded with his means. "With him were three brothers -- Carpenter by name, the Taylor family, the Hillmans, and the Sturtevants. Old Mrs. Sturtevant was a resourceful shiftless sort of a woman, but only one little circumstance made her famous as a manger and the envy of her neighbors. At starting she had hung her churn behind the wagon, And every night when she milked her cow -- they all brought cows -- she put her milk in her churn and the jolting of the wagon churned it, and she had fresh butter all the way, and buttermilk to treat her friends. "My mother lived to be a very old woman, but to the day of her death she blamed herself for her want of management, and spoke mournfully of the butter she might have made. "Why they chose Kingston township for their home I cannot tell. It was sever- al miles from any settlement, and had only two inhabitants, --old George Hess and Mother Hess, his wife; but Kingston was their Canaan, and there grandfather bought his land, paying one dollar and a half an acre, and there he built his house, and there my father and my uncles built their houses. "They were rude enough. Sawmills were unknown, and hewing boards form solid trees was slow work. We had a puncheon floor, and the ceiling overhead was elm- bark, the stump of a tree, left standing in a corner of the room, made a solid table, and my cradle -- for I was the first baby born in the new home -- was a little maple trough. "Mother had brought with her chests of clothes and cloth enough to last us until the land was cleared and our first crop of flax grown; but our chief diffi- culty was in getting corn for bread. Several times a year father was obliged to take a long journey to Chillicothe -- his bridle-path marked by blazed trees -- for the purpose of buying corn. "Near our house was the samp mortar, -- a stump hollowed out with a weight, suspended by a sweep, -- and here the men of the neighborhood came, in turn, to pound their corn. Years after Norton's mill was built, and all the men for thirty miles around took their provisions with them and went to the 'raising.' To hear father tell, in his return, of the height of it, and the width of it, and the size of the hopper, and the weight of the stone, was like the wonders of Aladdin. "Old George Hess was a very important man in our neighborhood; for he had a cleared farm and had raised potatotes, and had seed wheat to sell. "But more important than George Hess was George's wife, who was known to us all as Mother Hess. She was a stout little woman, in a short gown and petticoat. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/71ed1a3266fdbd210968364ee5db88a4.jpg f040f2db1f9003dd9936899daeb0d6a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 16) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 14 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] with a man's hat upon; her head; and her constant companions were three big black dogs. They had no children, so they adopted three, or rather she adopted two, and George one. "Dave was George's boy, and Moze and Julie were claimed by Mrs. Hess. George had all the care and responsibility of his child, and she of her two. If Dave was sick in the night, George had to get up and attend to him; but if it were Moze or ornaments of their house was a large looking-glass, but having found Julie looking in it, more than she thought was good for her Mother Hess took it down, -- when she died, twenty years after, it was unpacked from one of her great chests. "George was a frugal man and drove a close bargain. Walter Dunham once went to him to buy some wheat. Walter was a poor man, and the price was so exorbitant, he felt he could not pay it, and was turning dejectedly away, when old Mrs. Hess followed him and whispered "'You come back when George is not at home.' "And he did go back, and she filled his bags without charge and sent him off happy. "Another time, this same Walter Dunham had all his sheep killed by wolves. The day following, father had a rolling and Mrs. Hess came to help mother cook for the men. At the table they were lamenting Mr. Dunham's ill luck. "I'm sorry, too,' said Mrs. Hess, 'I'm sorry one sheep. How sorry are you?' and she appealed to each in turn, and not to be outdone by a woman, every man had to be sorry a sheep. The next day all met at Mr. Dunham's and Mother Hess was with them, leading the finest of her flock. She was a great Whig and her influence among a poor class of squatters called 'Taways,' controlled the election. She would often walk ten miles to Delawaretown to hear a political speech, a dislike of riding be- ing one of her peculiarities. Her horses were like children to her. Their names were all written in the family Bible, and at her death, thirty were caught and sold that had never known a bridle. "George died first. But, years before his death, they had equally divided the property. George left his to Dave, but hers went to Moze and Julie. These two had fortunately married one another, and as long as lived they made a happy home for Mother Hess. "In less than a year after mother came to the country, she was followed by her three brothers, Uncle Newman and Uncle Joe and Uncle Ben. Uncle Josh came many years later. He had been a sargeant in the Continental Army and a soldier in the War of 'Eighteen hundred and twelve'. Uncle Joe was a great man, an office holder in the county and a member of the Legislature. But Uncle Ben, the black sheep of our family, was our favorite. "Uncle Ben was in many ways remarkable. He is the only man I have ever known who had double front teeth. They were white and even, and the peculiarity was scarcely noticeable; but they were double all around, and strong beyond be- lief. He was very eccentric in his dress, never wearing a coat, even in the http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1401ae0e273989125e9483970d3179c4.jpg 27f236d3919385295b66e382b77f4e41 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 17) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 15 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] coldest weather. His shirts were made of calico, a little open in the front and ruffled around the neck. His eyes were gray, and his expression kind and pleasant. His wife lived in Pennsylvania; but Uncle Ben's home was wherever he happened to be, and his money belonged to any one who needed it. "He had been a Methodist preacher -- and his knowledge of the Scriptures and his mighty voice made him welcome at revivals and camp meetings -- but he fell from grace so often, the Conference could not trust him; and when we knew him, he was a veritable 'Jack-of-all-trades.' "He brought a set of tools with him, and under his skillful hand our house became quite elegant, in comparison with our neighbors. We had a planed door with a latch and wooden bolt, two bedsteads made of cherry wood, and best of all, a chest of drawers. That was a piece of furniture to be proud of, and we little girls felt rich with half a drawer apiece. "Uncle Ben made coffins, too. Once there was a freshet, and the waters of the 'Big-belly' rose so high that the ford became impassable, and the foot-bridge was washed away. Uncle Ben had a coffin to deliver on the other side, and how to get it over became a serious question. The hour of the funeral drew near; the case was urgent; and at last Uncle Ben solved the difficulty by boldly launching it upon the water and paddling it across. "Poor Uncle Ben! How many stories, the old people used to tell of him! He did not keep himself unspotted from the world, but he visited the widow and the father- less, and the cause of the poor he searched out. Once I saw him take the shoes from off his feet and give them to a wretched woman; and he had to buy a cow for a family left in poverty. By his example he taught us to be generous, and his gifts of dresses and ribbons and pretty things, made room for him in all our hearts. Girls loved pretty dresses then, as girls do now, and mother did her best to please us. And her best, what did that involve! -- shopping 'round in pleasant stores and seeking after styles and fashions? No, indeed! It was climbing up the ladder to the cabin loft and bringing down the bag of flaxseed. It was the planting in the springtime; the anxious watching for the flowers in summer; the directing of the children as they pulled it in the fall; the raking and the binding and the rotting; the breaking and the skutching and the hetcheling; the carding of the tow and the spinning on the big wheel; the winding of the distaff and spinning on on the little wheel; the reeling and the quilling; the rinsing of some skeins in lye to bleach them, and the coloring of others. Last, and most difficult of all, the weaving and the cloth was done, -- some white, some unbleached, striped and checked with coppers and blue, -- and now, after months of labor and anxiety, the dresses could be cut and made; and not dresses only, but shirts and sheets and pillow-cases, the ticking for our feather beds, table cloths, towels, curtains, and even cloth to sell. the girls were taught to spin as soon as they were old enough, and a little sister, more ambitious than the others, had a little bench on which she jumped to reach the wheel. "The loop-shop was the first addition to our house, and mother was noted for her weaving. In one day she wove fourteen yards of yard-wide cloth, and carried it to Berkshire and traded it out at Judge Brown's store. The first one-horse wagon in our township, --no carriage has ever seemed to me so fine as that, -- she bought and paid for with proceeds of her loom. "In the evenings, as a kind of fancy work, she wove tape (buttons were a luxury, and we used tape instead), and father twisted rope for harnesses and bed- cords. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1d55270883798717dd1af461865d4d21.jpg 7b065c450fe6482d5272d32cdd9c3d63 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 18) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 16 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] "Our cherry bedsteads had corded bottoms and high posts, reaching nearly to the ceiling. these, curtained off, made spare chambers for our guests, and two or three in a room were no disadvantage. 'Round mother's were curtains of gay chintz from Pennsylvania, and the other were of linen, woven by herself. These were finished at the top by a valance or ruffle, pleated and fastened on with pins. For these pins I sighed! Cousin Beck suggested that thorns were just as good as pins for curtains; and one day when mother was busy in the loom-shop, and the children were off playing, I dragged out one of the big chests, put a chair on top of it, mounted the chair, and, carefully withdrawing the pins, substituted long sharp thorns. My stock in trade gave me a great advantage and I played pin till all the school was bankrupt. When mother cleaned house, months after, she discovered the deception and questioned all the older children, but never thought of me, I was so little and so innocent. "Yes, mother had a busy life. When the land was cleared and father had pasture for the sheep, she made woolen goods as well as linen, and she bought cotton by the bunch, mixed it with the wool and wove a cloth called jeans, twilled and heavy , for the men and boys. We took great pride in our first woolen clothes. Our undergarments were colored red with bran and madder; and our dresses brown, with butternut bark, or green, with peach leaves. "One night when Elim Brown was keeping company with my sister, I slipped from bed and walked around the room, for the purpose of displaying my night- gown of red flannel. My sister was horrified, and I suffered for my vanity by being sent off in disgrace. There was work in plenty for both men and women; everything we ate and everything we wore came from the hand. I was almost grown before I saw any sugar except that made in our own camp. Occasionally we had a treat of store tea, but generally drank rye coffee and tea made of sage. The first genuine coffee I ever tasted was at Uncle Dan'els. "Uncle Dan'el was a doctor, and with his pill-bag on his saddle rode every- where about the country. On one of his trips he had either bought or been pre- sented with some coffee; -- it was a great luxury, but Aunt Thankful said, 'Massy!' -- she always prefaced everything with 'Massy!'--'Massy! Children will enjoy it more'n grown folks!' and paying no attention to Uncle Dan'el's remonstrances, but talking to herself all the time, she bustled about, browned it in the skillet pounded it in the mortar, and then giving it a good, hard boil to get the strength out, poured it into our cups. The first taste! I remember it now, and Aunt Thankful's enjoyment of it all, as passed the cream and sugar saying, 'Massy! children, help yourselves; there's plenty of it.' "Yes, that was my first coffee. It seems strange to think about it now; but then even such common things as pepper and spice and soda were unknown, and our salt was brought sixty miles on horseback. Mother pounded dill and sassafras root for flavoring; and we raised red peppers in the garden, and cooked little pieces with our food to season it. Soda--saleratus we called it--mother made by burning corn-cobs on the griddle. "Work, work in every direction. Their pleasures were only work under another name, work made play by the sympathy of friends. The rollings and the raisings and the huskings, the quilting-bees and the pumpkin-parings and the apple-parings http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6259e679b2c52b2df3e0e584883d28a5.jpg a3eb75f28c7412ee5206eb6b2212a872 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 19) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 17 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] were called merrymakings; but they were, in reality, hard work done in company. The spinning-bees were best of all, and had a double value. Was any woman sick or burdened with unusual cares, her flax and tow were divided out among her neighbors. the work was done, and her recovery, perhaps, was celebrated by a party. Provisions were sent in, and each one came, bringing with her the yarn that she had spun. "It was almost impossible to get work done for money. Sometimes a Taway would hire for a few days. And there was a queer old man, who appeared every winter, and went from house to house spinning for his board and clothes. We called him 'Jimmy the Spinner'; but where he came from, no one knew, or why he had chosen that strange way of life. He was a quiet little man. He had no stories to tell about his wanderings, and but little interest in the life around him; but he had a store of plaintive love songs, and he sang them as he spun, in a weak, quavering voice. Year after year, he went his rounds, coming in the fall and leaving in the spring;--he was part of the season to us. We knew that winter was coming, for 'Jimmy the spinner' sat in our kitchen corner, and that spring was at hand when he said good-by. "One year we watched for him in vain. The leaves had fallen and the nuts been gathered, but still he did not come. And he never came again. From first to last he was a mystery. "Another singular character was 'Johnny Appleseed'--a small wiry man, with keen black eyes and long black hair. For years he had gone up and down through Ohio and Indiana, doing and finally sacrificed his life. He was chosen, he said, to make the wilderness blossom; to plant, that others might eat of the fruit. At the cider mills in Pennsylvania he gathered apple-seeds; filling a bag, he took it on his back and started westward. Carefully choosing places where the soil was fertile and the outlook pleasant, he would clear the ground and plant his seeds. These clearings would, perhaps, be miles from any habitation and often in the midst of forests, but the locality was well marked in his mind and year after year they were re-visited and cultivated, and became, under his care, nurseries for the surrounding country. "His devotion and enthusiasm inspired many of the early settlers to lay out orchards. He advised and helped them in the transplanting of the trees, and then his work was done. They blossomed and bore fruit, and Johnny was far away, still doing his 'duty' in the advance of civilization. "He lived to be an old man. One night he asked for shelter at a cabin, in western Indiana. They gave him food and offered him a bed, but he preferred the floor, --and with his bag beside him, went to sleep. In the morning they found that he was dying. He was unconscious, but a look of perfect peace was on his face. Perhaps he saw the Tree of Life. "The love of this man for the trees that he planted was like that of a father for a child. He could not bear to have them pruned or grafted. To cut them, seemed inflicting pain. His heart was full of tenderness toward everything except himself. He went cold and hungry; walked barefooted, through the snows of winter, and bore the heat of summer; but he could not see an animal or an insect suffer, and the little money that he had, he spent in providing home for crippled and ill- treated horses. He loved all children, and carried in his bag bright bits of calico and ribbon for the little girls. It was said that he would http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cf75d4b8a9b2d441d3c203d7732ed267.jpg e447ffb06558e5e04b2acad84901042a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 20) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 18 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] never eat at any house, till he would ask and be assured that there was plenty for children. "Grandfather's house was generally his stopping place, and over the kitchen fire they held long arguments; for Johnny held strange views, called Swedenborgian, and grandfather was a Wesleyan Methodist. The first prayer-meeting I ever attended was at grandfather's. Their house had but one room, which was warmed and lighted by the fireplace at the end,--a fireplace so large, they sometimes hauled in with a horse, the logs to fill it. Against the opposite walls were two curtained beds; and in one corner was a cupboard, filled with blue flowered dishes and big pewter platters. Bunches of herbs were drying overhead, and hams of venison and links of sausages hung against the chimney. "When the people came to prayer-meeting, and all the chairs and chests and beds were occupied, they bought in rough benches from outside, and soon the room was filled. Some of the women had babies in their arms and children holding to their skirts. Uncle Isaac and Uncle Jake were class leaders, and they prayed and spoke and 'occupied the time', while Aunt Thankful led the singing, in a high- pitched voice. "Uncle Dan'el -- much to Aunt Thankful's grief was -- a Universalist. Once he invited a Universalist preacher to hold service at his house. Aunt Thankful was offended and refused to go into the room. But after the sermon was over and the preacher was going away, Aunt Thankful called out, 'Massy, Dan'el! You're not going to let him go without a cup of tea.' The good soul had had the kettle boiling all the time, her hospitable heart being stronger than her theology. "I was a large girl before we had any church building. but meetings were regularly held in the houses of the neighborhood: and after Mr. Carpenter built his barn, we met there in pleasant weather. There was room for all on the large thrashing floor, and a barrel answered for a pulpit. Here the Word was expounded, prayers offered and and arrangement made for works of charity and mercy the ensuing week. Was any one sick, the preacher would announce it and ask for watchers and for workers -- who would go on Sunday night! Who would wash on Monday! Could some- one take the ironing home, and send a baking in? One after another would volun- teer, until the week was filled, and the care and comfort of their neighbor was insured. Had any poor come to their midst, they were provided for in the same way, and for over fifty years not one poor person, man or child, came on the town. "There were some Episcopalians in our neighborhood. Mrs. Blackman, who came from Newtown--the one who gave the party--was an Episcopalian and so was her neighbor, Mrs. Curtis. They always went to Berkshire to church riding on pillions, behind their husbands. In Berkshire the 'Princes' lived,--and I must tell you about them, for they were our best friends. "Judge Prince and his brother were the first settlers in Berkshire township. They came from Connecticut, bringing with them old Kate and Toney, two colored people, who had been slaves to their father. Toney and Kate were cousins. When their master died, he left his little boys in their care, and they had been, as best they could, father and mother to them, and finally, in their old age came with them to their new home in Ohio. "All this happened before I was born or Kingston settled. But Toney, a gray-haired old darky, was very fond of telling the story, and I heard it again http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7268e4d25251b76bada37cfb1320e67f.jpg ba879e39aaf5fdca81226fbfd7252cbc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 21) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 19 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] and again when I was a little girl. Toney was a favorite with the children, and the redcheeked apples that he brought us were as great a rarity and as highly prized, as oranges or bananas, by the children of the present day. "By this time Mr. Prince--the elder brother--had married Judge Brown's daughter and become a judge himself, and when Mrs. Blackman and Mrs. Curtis rode to Berkshire on their pillions, he read the service from the Prayer-book at the schoolhouse; and one or twice a year Bishop Chase, himself, came for Confirma- tion. He, of course, stayed with the Princes. "I remember hearing Mrs. Prince tell mother, how, on one of his visits, he had accidentally broken her only china bowl. But she said it did not matter, for the Bishop always liked to drink out of a gourd better than anything else. "Even at that time, people found it difficult to buy things. Mrs. Prince once sent to our house, a distance of two miles and a half, for a needle that she had left there the day before; but after a few years her father opened a store in Berkshire, and it was there that mother sold the fourteen yards of cloth that she had woven in one day. "One experience of my life made a deep impression on my mind, and the circumstances of it are vivid to this hour. It was a fall day and mother had gone to Berkshire and left me in charge of the house. Once a year Joseph Prince took a drove of hogs to New York and mother always helped his sister-in-law--the Judge's wife-- to get him ready for the trip. He went horseback, following his hogs. The journey was long and tedious, and required a stock of good, warm mittens, thick winter stockings and heavy overalls packed closely in his saddlebags. "We can scarcely imagine such a journey now. Hogs are 'pig-headed' animals to drive, and in the woods, especially, needed constant care and patience. they would take their time; there was no use trying to hurry them, and the hundred miles to the Lake must have seemed interminable. At Sandusky they took a boat to Buffalo, and then on foot again to New York city. "Well, father and mother had gone to say 'Good-by' to Joseph, as people nowadays go on board a European steamer; and , as I told you, I was left to keep the house. there was an unusual excitement in our neighborhood that day, in regard to some suspicious characters that had been seen in company with Palmer-- Mr. Taylor's son-in-law. This Palmer had come a stranger to the settlement, and being a showy, talkative young man, had won the heart of Mr. Taylor's daughter and married her. They had a little baby and she stayed at home, but he always away on what he called 'business'. This time, on his return, he brought two or three men with him, and suspicion gained ground that his 'business' was making 'counterfeit money'. A smoke had been seen rising above the forest trees and several of the neighbors, Uncle Jake and Uncle Dan'el among the number, came for father to go with them on the search. I told them that father was in Berkshire, and they left me anxious and distressed. We had no daily papers then, to make crime familiar to us,--the Delaware Gazette was the only paper I had ever seen, two or three families clubbed together and subscribed for that, but it was filled with local politics, a love story now and then, and original poems in the Poet's Corner',--and the thought that counterfeiters might be in our woods--even then at work!--was dreadful and terrified me so, I scarcely dared to stay alone. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1ba9570ace3381660f8a57af4596a5ca.jpg 24db35f972de157c00eae6de0281ef41 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 22) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 20 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] "The hours passed on, I undressed the little children and put them into their bed, and was sitting sewing when the door flew open, and a man dashed by, saying, 'For heaven's sake, hide this, or I'm a ruined man!' and before I had time to breathe he was gone, and at my feet was a bag of something. I heard steps out- side, and scarcely knowing what I did, I seized the bag and threw it into the oven, the door of which stood open. "The next instant Uncle Jake and Uncle Daniel and all the men came in, out of breath, crying, "Did Palmer come in here! Have you seen Palmer?' "I trembled with fear, but answered boldly: "No! I have not seen him. He has not been through here.' "And taking my word, they hurried on. They caught him somewhere near the hay stacks, and held him under arrest, while they searched for evidence. But they never found it and were obliged to let him go. "It seems they had followed the smoke and came upon the gang at work, but in some way the alarm was given, and Palmer, who was remarkable for his fleetness, seized the bag of dies and escaped with them. "I hope to never pass another such a night. I could find no place secret enough to hide the bag. I tried to go to sleep with it under my bed, but it haunted me like an evil spirit, and I finally got up and buried it in a barrel of bran. "Months after, when Palmer had left the country, I took courage and told father. The bag disappeared form the barrel, but the remembrance of that dread- ful night and the lie that I told, troubled me for many a year. "We always went to father when we were in trouble. Father was a loving easy-going man, as men given to hunting often are, and was never in hurry. He managed his farm very well, but there was little inducement to raise more than we could use ourselves. There was no market for the grain and no means of transpor- tation. Father once took a load of wheat to Mt. Vernon, thirty miles away, but could not sell it at any price, -- and rather than haul it home again, he took it 'round the town and gave it to the poor people. "I remember a man, whose house had been burned down, coming to us for help. Father offered him ten bushels of wheat but he replied that he was not taking wheat any more. "A good cow and calf were sold for five dollars. Father brought the money home in his mitten and gave it to me to count. The most of it was 'split money,' silver dollars cut in two, four and eight pieces. "Where there was little to sell, there was little to buy, even our shoes father learned to make by ripping up an old one, stitch by stitch, and cutting off a pattern. He made them of wild hog skin. The woods were full of wild hogs, some of them quite savage. One boar, especially, with enormous tusks, was so ferocious, the men went in company to hunt him, and it was said that his hide was so tough, it turned a bullet. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8af9f2548b0408e5fb4829f88980acb0.jpg 892b7d0fdcbad0c9b346a411aadff9ce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 23) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 21 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] "No , we could live and spend very little money. The taxes were the greatest trouble, and to meet these, father depended chiefly on his wolf scalps (for each of which he received a bounty of a dollar) and his coon skins; these were always salable. One young man, a neighbor of ours, had cleared his land and built his cabin and wanted to be married. The bride was ready. She had her dower of feather-beds, and homespun linen, and nothing was wanting but money enough to buy the license. Coons were scarce, it was anxious time for the young lovers, but finally love prevailed. Coons were caught and skinned and sold, the license granted, and another home was founded. "Father took great pleasure in his garden. His vegetables were excellent, but the flowers were his pride. Such a bed of pinks was never seen; and 'stur- tians' of every color; sweet peas and gilly flowers and roses, hollyhocks and mari- golds! The yard was brilliant with color, and the house covered with vines. The neighbors said they could smell our pinks a quarter of a mile. We had a bed of tulips that was gorgeous. The bulbs were a present from Mother Hess, and she said that the variety of color came from sewing them through and through with sewing silk. The tiger-lily was father's favorite flower. When he was a very old man, and had gone with Charles to Illinois, he had one planted under his bedroom win- dow, so when he could walk no longer, he could see it from his bed. "Mother's energy and vigor did everything for us. It sent us to school, it made us study, it taught us to work and fitted us to struggle with the world; but father's gentleness and sympathy , his love of natural things, was, to our lives, what the vines and flowers were to our cabin. A beauty was given to common things; a grace to labor; a sacredness to the very soil, which held the bloom and fragrance of the rose. We were taught to work, but at the same time we were taught to ob- serve the lily, which toils not, neither doth it spin." Grandma ceased to speak and a silence fell upon the circle gathered around her. Jack was long ago asleep and "children of a larger growth" had been listen- ing to the stories of their mother's childhood. Never again in all the world could such an experience be repeated. The spirit of "Jimmy the Spinner" would look in vain for flax-wheels in the chimney corner, and a young man's hope would be deferred if it depended upon coon skins; the men could not be found who was taking wheat no longer, or a Bishop who preferred a gourd to drink from. No, those days are gone, and their experiences can never be repeated; but remembering the labor and sacrifice of our mother's life and that of our mother's mother may that experience blossom into patience, and patience work out hope. Their endur- ance and fortitude is our inheritance, and we deny our birthright when we submit to discouragements or cease to hope. The shadows of evening gather 'round us and the fire burns low upon the hearth, the sleeping child upon the sofa, with his "army things around him, speaks of Peace that comes through conflict, and is a fitting emblem of this Christmas- time, and with our father and mother in our midst, we, their children, may well sing the song of "Glory to the Highest, and Good Will To Men". http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2e3a7db848cb7b8c48a84a01b40ce57e.jpg 5c39633859d0a0503d369e75fa5be677 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 24) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 22 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] A Brief History of the Patrick Family. Jacob Patrick, a native of Ireland, born 1733, came to America with his parents and settled in Massachusetts in 1735. He had one son by his first wife, Mathew by name. His second wife was Zeruah Rogers, a descendant of John Rogers who was burned at the stake in England (1555) on account of religion. This marriage produced nine children, seven boys and two girls. Their names in order of their birth were; Joshua, Jacob, Mary, Sheperd, Susan, William, Benjamin, Norman and Joseph. Their ages varied from 66 to 90 years at time of death.* Matthew and Joshua served throughout the Revolutionary War. Benjamin and Joshua served in the War of 1812. Joshua was shot through the hand by an Indian three days before Hull's Surrender, he received a pension to the time of his death. Matthew married and settled in New York State, nothing is known of his family. Joshua married twice and two sons by his first wife, Cepter and Charles: four by his second wife, Poeba, Holms, Washington and Lafayette. There was little known of Jacob, as he left home at an early day and was never seen by his brother Joseph. A son of his visited the Patricks' of Delaware County, in 1835. Mary married Jacob Flowers, a soldier of the Revolution: they had three girls and five boys. Shepard married Kate Goodwin and had 2 girls and a boy. Susan married Abraham Rosecrans, 8 girls and 2 boys, namely Calista, Zeruah, Miranda Mahala, Elizabeth, Mariah, Almon, Sefrona, Charles and Susan. Elizabeth and Mariah were twins. William was supposed to have settled in Michigan, nothing is known of his history. Benjamin's first wife, a Miss Atherton, two girls and one boy, namely Elizabeth, Malvina, and Charles. His second wife, a widow by name of Burger, they had one son Benjamin. Norman married a Sarah Williams, 3 girls and 3 boys, namely Keziah, Norman Huldah, Matilda, George and John. (George was nicknamed Bunk). Joseph married Sarah Taylor, six girls and two boys namely Eliza (married Oliver Stark), Emilia, (married George Landon), Charles, Mary and Elizabeth, Julia, Porter and Zeruah. *Susan, Benjamin, Norman and Joseph emigrated from Luzerne County, Pa. to Delaware County, Ohio in 1809. My children will have a more complete history of the Patrick Family). Joseph B. Landon Charles Patrick married Lydia Murphy had six children as follows: Sarah who married Tom Fredricks. Thomas (Tom) married Melissa Parnes Jane who married _____ Walker. Two other children - Thomas died as a baby Joseph who married Annie Fredricks. before Thomas 2nd. was born. Lydia died as a baby. Mary Fitzpatrick married _____ Raymond and had one child Lenora Mary Patrick married ______ Raymond and had one child Lenora who married Geo Wilcox. Elizabeth married John Rooney and had Louellen-Eugene and Allen. Julia married Geo. Benton, two children, both died young. Porter married Phoebe McFalls Zeruah married Roswell Fowler for 1st. husband- children Junnia and Lydia, Junnia married Oren Barcus. Lydia married Wilbur Roberts. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7a26a842d906e1454a6ee56e44908d20.jpg 24efdcb77847cecdadb8c20db198772c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 25) Subject The topic of the resource [corresponds to page 23 of When Our Mother was a Little Girl ] (A) Abraham Rosecrans Farm *Where bear was killed. (B) Sam Rosecrans Farm (L) Joseph Patrick Farm (D) Cemetery where some of these folks are buried. (C) Norman Patrick Farm (purchased in 1814). http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d763556fa34f0f8141c9d8a68e89df1f.jpg 5cdaf7e572221c06a0faf23beeb6b742 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl (p. 26) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Family Histories Description An account of the resource This collection contains family histories that have been written by residents of the Big Walnut area. Items in this collection generally contain genealogical information about the families, personal anecdotes, and images of family members. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When Our Mother was a Little Girl Subject The topic of the resource Landon family--Genealogy Ohio--Delaware County--Kingston Township--History Patrick family--Genealogy Rosecrans family--Genealogy Description An account of the resource This book is a collection of early settlement stories of Berkshire and Kingston townships in Delaware county, OH. The stories are told by Mahalia Rosecrans to her grandson, son of the author, Mrs. A. Baldwin. Topics include early settlement culture, encounters with Native Americans and Native American culture, the ups and downs of having money, farming, hunting, education, prayer meetings and religion. The book includes a history of the Perfect family (Mrs. Baldwin's maternal line) and a map showing the locations of events pertinent to the stories in the book. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Author Mrs. A. Baldwin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1888 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Book Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 31153866 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joseph B. Landon Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8e4b9be7925291467d1e7e75394f1db8.jpg f475ffeafcab5c8a2c0f8b10633be4b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (1) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to cover and unnumbered page 1 of From the Beginning] From the Beginning Verna Cushman Bergandine [cover photo: Verna Cushman Bergandine] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/afcbdec0914f4c2095cf3165dc1acc08.jpg ff863baf1208c730d9fe6065b7db015f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (2) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to inside cover and unnumbered page 2 of From the Beginning] [illustration:Community Library Bookplate] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/832c8ec3406a911cc4697a8c77cbb328.jpg 7cef1abdf473aac01ebc156ef7fcef83 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (3) Description An account of the resource {corresponds to title page and unnumbered page 3 of From the Beginning] From the Beginning Verna Cushman Bergandine [photo: Verna Cushman Bergandine] Community Library 1996 Verna C. Bergandine [signature] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/993e49b47a82ce6873e142c9fbd5e30a.jpg a7ef9345b20ef1dba6b0bdf9f4188e3a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (4) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 2 of From the Beginning] Land in Champaign Co., Ohio known as the Darby Plains was purchased by parties from the New England States in 1819. After considering Hartford for the settlers from Connecticut, New Albany for the New Yorkers, the name Woodstock was chosen for so many arriving from Vermont. After a while the Yankee School District became the Woodstock School District. Five families from Connecticut came in 1819, among them William Gifford. The following year five more families joined the Colony including Harvey Cushman. These two names of early settlers are the ones that are of interest to me. Harvey Cushman was a direct descendent of Robert Cushman of London , business agent for the Pilgrims. He and wife Lucinda Bennett Sears brought their young son, four year old Franklin, with them from Massachusetts. Harvey was a man of many interests. He was a farmer, Attorney, Physician and Inn Keeper. He built the first Hotel in Woodstock. In the old History of Woodstock, I found this account. "In 1835 Harvey Cushman built a hotel on the east portion of lot 15. In those days the ceremony of of "raising" a house was attended with the consumption of vast quantities of corn whiskey. On the day that frame work of the Cushman Hotel was raised, every man present, except Sylvanus Smith, was drinking, and most were decidedly under the influence of the whiskey. When the framework was finally up, it was decided to christen the future hotel in some such manner as battleships are christened. A bottle of whiskey was provided the soberest man, who climbed to the top, took a drink of the contents, then threw the bottle, dripping its contents enroute over the building. Thus was christened the Woodstock Hotel. A heated discussion took place following the christening. Some said that hotel was spelled with one I and others insisted that two were needed. The question was referred to Sylvanus Smith, he being the only sober man in the crowd. Smith surveyed the crowd around him and rendered his decision - If this was a sample of what the hotel was to be, it should be spelled "hot-hell". It proved to be that for three or four years. Gangs of hoodlums gathered there on Saturday afternoons, staying until midnight, terrifying the people with their demoniacal yells, fighting and running horses on the street. The local residents finally put a stop to the weekly orgies. A vigilante committtee gathered many eggs and let them age in the sun. The next Saturday night when the "gang" emerged from the hotel the conspirators turned loose a volley of eggs. A man has to be pretty drunk not to resent meeting an aged egg face to face. The men in charge of the egg brigade must have had practice, for the mob beat a hasty retreat. The hotel came in for a share of the omelet, and the next morning presented a grotesque yellow appearance. The proprietor decided http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/404e939f65b889d7c954a19048290a4b.jpg 01e5e0bb9f96ca2a59fca8c75dd43016 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (5) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 3 of From the Beginning] to confine his liquor sales to travelers, and the hotel became a very respectable tavern. In the early days no social gathering was fully complete and enjoyable without dancing. Several terms of Dancing School were taught in the hotel soon after it was completed. Seldom a Fourth of July or New Years passed without having a Grand Ball in the hotel ballroom on the second floor." For many year, after the hotel was no longer used for travelers, it was a private dwelling. It was torn down a few years ago, one of the oldest landmarks. In 1837 Franklin Cushman married Susan Brown Gifford, daughter of William Gifford. They had five children, Julius Jehiel, Charles Anthony, Lucy Lucinda, Warren Sibley, and Daniel Harvey. Daniel died in infancy. Franklin died in 1848 leaving the young widow to raise the children. In 1857 another New England family came to Woodstock to make their home. Samuel Standish set out from N.Y., N.Y. for Illinois with his family. Not finding that area to their liking, after three years, came back east as far as Woodstock. Samuel, a direct descendant of Miles Standish of Plymouth the first white child born on Manhattan Island, India, where his father Miles was a Methodist Missionary. There were five children in the Standish family. [insert] News from Our Files Fifty Years Ago - 1863 February 25, 1927 Sixty four years ago on the 18th day of February in the little village of Woodstock, the wedding bells rang out to announce the marriage of Charles Cushman and Julia Standish. Both are old pioneer stock. The bride, a descendent of the gruff old captain, Miles Standish, of Plymouth, was a charming vivacious member of a group of young people, who make life merry and pleasant not withstanding the dark days of the civil war that were upon the land. Charles Cushman was one of the first to enlist in 1861. Two sons, Arthur and Charles are veterans of the Spanish-American war and a grandson, Frank Cushman of the World war. They have nine living children, Mrs. George Standish, Urbana; Mrs. John McCarty, Mrs. Asa Owen, Arthur and Charles Cushman, Jr., of Woodstock; Warren Cushman, Dayton; and Frank, Julius and Jared Cushman of California. [Clipping from the Marysville Tribune] [right photo: Woodstock Hotel -1935] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/89cd1ed854336383508b49ed21956cdc.jpg 89202c9ae436a72bbdfcb8cedc04a470 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (6) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 4 of From the Beginning] Samuel, Mark, Miles, Josephine and Julia Augusta. In 1863 Julia married Charles Anthony Cushman. Up to now, I have written about some of my ancestors all of whom I had to become acquainted with through genealogies and books written about the history of the town where I was born. Now we are in the period of time when I grew up, I knew the characters in this drama. Of course I didn't know Julia Standish when she married during the Civil War, but much later when she was my grandmother I had the privilege of spending time with her. I never tired of asking questions about her journey from N.Y. in a covered wagon to the time she finally arrived in Woodstock, Ohio. She was a petite, gentile lady with a twinkle in her eye that told of her zest for life. Always busy with projects she was working on. Sewing, knitting, crocheting lace and working crossword puzzles. Always a student she was well read. She had taught school when she was 16. Of course when I knew her, she was in her declining years. She had raised her family of 13 children and knew the heartache of losing 3 of them. Harriette died of whooping cough when she was 4: Sara, at birth; and Robert died of spinal meningitis when he was 19. Arthur Garfield was her 9th child, born in 1880. He was my father. Between his Junior and Senior years in high school he enlisted in the Spanish American War along with his brother Charles. They were sent to the Everglades, Florida to train; but the war [photo lower left: Arthur G. Cushman and Charles W. Cushman - 1998] [top right photo: Julia (Standish) and Charles A. Cushman - 1928] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7854f03a91ac0b2b6fbc47537d0b3135.jpg 523aafc27b1060e29cd4e7a1bfdff891 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (7) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 5 of From the Beginning] ended before they went any farther. He was back in time to finish high school with his class of 1899. He went on to Buchtel College in Akron on a scholarship. It was Universalist College, the denomination of his church in Woodstock. One summer when he was home between classes, he was working in the General Store where he met Mary Ellen Blake from Milford Center. She was visiting a friend who insisted that she go with her to the store so she could introduce them. It was a successful attempt at match- making. They were married in 1903. Unlike growing up with relatives on the Cushman side of the family, we saw mom's family only now and then. Milford Center is 5 miles from Woodstock. In the days before cars were commonplace we occasionally went by train. I remember once when my sister and I were permitted to go by ourselves. I'm not sure what the occasion was. We spent the afternoon visiting relatives and then caught the train at 6:00 p.m. to return home. I know I kept worrying about what time it was, afraid we might miss our train. Mom's brother Uncle Johnny Blake always had a nice car and would drive over on Sunday afternoon. Grandma Blake died before I was old enough to remember her. [insert] PROGRAMME TENTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF THE Woodstock Public Schools UNIVERSALIST CHURCH ON Wednesday Evening, May 24 , '99 "Non Honores, sed Honor." Music-"On the Sea"............................................Buck Apollo Quartet Invocation........................................... Rev. Colgrove "Education"....................................Arthur Cushman "Alexander Hamilton"........................John Houser "Effects of the Late War"............Leonard Kidder "Sunshine"......................................Mabelle Kimball Music-"Gay Hearts".......................................Macy Apollo Quartette "Clara Barton"......................................Elsie Lincoln "Monuments of the Ages"..............Nelle Martin "Grant and Lee"........................Nelson McClellan Music-Jenk's Vegetable Compound........Macy Apollo Quartette "Environments"..............................Howard Sharp "Oh Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?".. .....................................................................Lena Smith "Not Honors, but Honor".................Nena Smith Music-"Ben Bolt"............................................Wiske Apollo Quartette Address........................................Hon. O.T. Corson Presentation of Diplomas Music-"Home, Sweet Home"......................Buck Apollo Quartette "Benediction"..................................Rev. Colgrove NEWS PRINT, MECHANICSBURG, O. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1cbce44d164b5cd590345e38919d538a.jpg 5ce84cf536cf276311575a8f59937319 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (8) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 6 of From the Beginning] [photo] Cushman Family Reunion - 1910 Great-Gradfather Stanish in the Center [photo] Great Grandma Wetzel's 100th Birthday Party Milford Center - 1910 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/04f6a09f4ae1a75dc249674cd134dc8c.jpg 346300911d14dff08e4125d5e24090a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (9) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 7 of From the Beginning] William Henry Blake, my grandfather came to Milford Center sometime in the 1800's He fought in the Civil War. He married Emma Parthmore who came from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with her parents and sister, Great Aunt Hattie Parthamore. The Parthamores came to America in the 1700's. One of them fought in the Revolutionary War. This I learned from research a distant cousin had done on the Parthamore family tree. Great Grandma Wetzel lived to be 100. The picture is of her birthday party at the Blake home in Milford Center in 1919, My mother had three sisters, Carrie, Bertha, and Alice. Her Two brother Henry and John served World War I. I was born on November 14, 1914, the sixth child in a family of 11 - We were named for aunts and uncles from both my parents families. Starting with the oldest, Elsie Margaret, Robert Henry, William Howard, Bertha Lucille, Julia Virginia, Verna Louise then Susan who lived only a few days, having been born with a heart defect. Josephine Martha was next and then the three little boys as we called them when referring to them collectively, Charles Blake, John Franklin and Arthur Garfield. Naming the boys came out just right since the last one bore the name of my father. It was a very happy childhood for all of us. My father was firm but fair. The boys were kept busy with chores and work that went with his occupation. He worked for the railroad and also had a large tract of land for truck farming. The soil in that area was a rich black loam which with know how and hard work grew very good crops. He raised all kinds of vegetables for sale as well as providing a wonderful diet for the family. His hot beds in the early spring were the source of plants for most of the gardens in town. Nearly everyone had a little plot. Also tomatoes were canned in the W. G. Lincoln factory. He not only raised many of the plants for the farmers who grew them but he also produced several acres of them himself. I must not forget to mention the green beans. that is where we girls came in. I didn't mind it so much unless swimming and a picnic had been planned for the day the beans needed to be picked. then I would pray for rain, which was a little shortsighted of me, because if it rained we wouldn't be going on the picnic anyway. We girls all did babysitting and housework for some of the families for our spending money and some of our clothes. I would describe my mother as being easy going, always happy to turn the disciplining of us over to my father. We all knew instinctively the things we would probably not be allowed to do. If something came up we wanted to do that was questionable, we would first ask Mom. She would say that we'd have to ask Pop. All in all we were given much latitude, knowing that the consequences for any infractions would be ours to deal with. [photo] Charles A. and Julia Cushman - 1923 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5637e4935e83af9cd8a99addb94b2e9a.jpg 6d69a78ab1e83a987429195ef64a7df2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (10) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 8 of From the Beginning] I stared to school in 1920. Broshes, Clark, Conner, Corbett, Cushman. That was the order of seating in the first row in my class, grades one through 12. During those years things went along pretty much the same in the village also. For the most part the inhabitants were four or five generations from the early settlers. It was a thriving community, population three hundred. "Downtown Woodstock" boasted a Post Office, 2 banks, 3 groceries, hardware, drugstore, restaurant, 2 garages (one in the livery stable of days gone by), a Taxi Service (consisting of a Model T Ford Coup), Pennsylvania R.R. Station, grain elevator, family doctor, 3 churches, grade school and high school and later electric shop and furniture store. I like to think of Woodstock as I knew it. To my way of thinking just about the best place on earth! I wouldn't have changed a thing. I knew everyone I would meet on the streets and where they lived. But alas, an event over which no one had any control occurred in 1933 that was to be the beginning of the end of the town as we knew it. President Roosevelt declared a moratorium on the banks. Ours closed and never reopened. In due time the villages nearby were to profit by the commerce which formerly was done in Woodstock. The loss of the bank combined with the times of the depression resulted in business failures. After a time not even a grocery store was doing business there. [top right photo: Verna in Grade School] [bottom left photo: 1929 Back row left to right: Bill, Robert, Bertha, Mom, Julia, Pop, Verna, Elsie Front row: Josephine, Charles, John and Arthur] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d81985ac227123e8fdfd3fd9acde2b0c.jpg 0325b92e70826748691fdf8e9ecbde59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (11) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 9 of From the Beginning] I remember the oldest inhabitants fondly. A few of them still wore the lace trimmed high neck blouses and long dark skirts. One old gentleman still wore a long black cape when he sallied forth in winter. They were kindly folks some of whom we called Aunts and Uncles. Often times when we couldn't think of any thing to do we went to "Aunt Mayme's and Uncle Winn's" house to listen to the phonograph with the horn. We never asked; but he would ask us if we would like to hear it, knowing of course that was the reason for our visit. When I was about twelve we moved to the country. At the time my father went to farming full time. My sister Elsie moved to Columbus where she went to Ohio State University and worked part time for Ohio Bell Telephone Co. as a long distance operator. Robert was next to go to the University where he made the wrestling team. The matches were broadcast on radio. We heard them on a set with two ear phones at my uncle's house. He and my father listened and reported to us what was going on. The team traveled by train. On the return trip when they had been to Indiana or Illinois, Robert threw off a note tied to a cake of soap as they went through Woodstock on the Pennsylvania Railroad. One of the section hands would find it and bring it to our house. That created much excitement in our little town. Robert nicknamed "Shrimp", wrestled in the lightest weight class. Even if it appears that I am bragging, I must say he won most of his matches. Bill also went O.S.U. One of his courses was in Forestry. He and a friend decided to go to Montana to work in the fire season as a lookout. They did that for two summers coming back home for the winter quarter. Always an outdoors person, hunting and fishing, he decided that Montana was where he wanted to hive. He worked for many years in the Forest Service taking courses in winter at the University in Missoula. He was married there and returned to Ohio only occasionally for a visit. Bertha studied Horticulture. She also worked at Ohio Bell when she was in school. Julia and I came along in 1930 and 32 when the depression was a big factor in everything one might want to do. College was put on hold for us. After a time both of us married. I forgot my hopes of becoming a teacher. Josephine went to business school in Columbus. Charles, upon graduation left the next day for Ft. Bragg, N.C. as a Second Lieutenent in the Army. The year was 1942. John was starting his second year when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He left school and enlisted in the Marines. Arthur was the youngest and the only one at home helping run the farm. At that time my father bought a smaller farm, one that he and a hired man could manage. Art was off serving as paratrooper in the 101 st Airborne. The two older boys, although married and with families also enlisted in World War II, Robert in the Navy and Bill in the CB's. When we asked of my mother if she weren't worried with all five boys in the service, she replied, "I expect them all to come home." That says much about her wonderful way of looking of at life. Always cheerful and not wearing her innermost concerns on her sleeve. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/24522f7a13e719dbe46c3156667bafea.jpg f72b3605f525314f7ffb0ee990129e75 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (12) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 10 of From the Beginning] And now I must go back to my high school days. I always liked school and all my teachers. One I especially admired was my Music Teacher, Adah Madden. Every spring she conducted an operetta wherein all the students participated in one way or another. If not chosen for a major roll, she made chorus seem very important to the production. She knew how to get the best out of all of us. Our high school girls sextet was called upon to sing for many occasions. The one I shall never forget was a funeral. It was for a young mother who died and left six children. The funeral was held in the little tenant house where they lived. The oldest girl, about twelve, sat holding the baby. There didn't seem to be any other family members present only the distraught father and a few neighbors. Rather than sing, I felt more like crying. Somehow we managed to get through it. The man expressed his appreciation to us for our part in the service. To say the least, it was a very sobering experience for us who were usually so happy go lucky. Basketball was the highlight in winter months. When I was a freshman as a lowly substitute, I wore the bloomers and middy blouse that were handed down through the years. My oldest sister, Elsie, then Bertha and finally Julia had worn them before me. That year new suits were purchased for the first team. Julia's team was the first [photo:'28-'29 Junior Julia is second from left in front row Freshman Verna is fourth from left in second row] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/dc76746f5f4ead4f759ca261d62dce94.jpg 80cd34b49cc6f0ac1f5d7368d6fb2dd8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (13) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 11 of From the Beginning] to appear in the "shorts". They came to the knees but after being so fully clothed they seemed downright risque. How important it was to look one's best out on the floor! We rushed home from school on Friday, washed our tennis shoe strings and curled our hair with a curling iron. The iron was heated by inserting it in the chimney of a coal oil lamp. Woe to the blonde girls who turned the wick up too high! She could count on a few black streaks. No chance for me and my friends to get into the game until our sisters had graduated. Then we were the first team! My younger sister Josephine also played basketball. soon after she graduated, all the county schools dropped girl's basketball from the curriculum. [photo:The Woodstock girls Leah B. Lincoln of North Lewisburg loaned the Citizen this photograph of the Woodstock girls basketball team in their 1931-32 season. With some married names added, the first row, seated, are from left Mary Rhodes Stittings, Mildred Lucas, Verna Cushman Bergandine, Ruby Lucas, Harriet Lincoln West and Darlene Westfall Seaver. The second row from left are Winifred Clark Raff, Leah Broshes Lincoln, Coach Willis Pond, Erelene Westfall Simpson and Mary Connor Tackman.] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4e75577a6364f232548569caaee7ac5e.jpg cf2b0e35833214960a89018ad5578a4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (14) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 12 of From the Beginning] In the summer the favorite pastime was swimming. Brush lake, located two miles, from town was the place to go. there were no swimming pools until later, consequently the young people from towns around were there frequently. We knew many of them from seeing them at events where our schools competed in sports. At any rate that was the highlight of the week when we could spend Sunday afternoon at the lake. One Sunday when I was still in high school, Julia and I met these two fellows from Marysville, Bob Orahood and Frank Bergandine. Julia and Bob were married in 1932. Frank's family lived in Union Co., starting with his Grandfather, Samuel Bergandine where in the mid eighteen hundreds he bought a farm in Allen Township. Jesse, Frank's father, was born there and married Myrtle Burroughs. Their five children were born there also. When Frank, the youngest child was three years old, they left the farm and moved to Marysville. Frank's mother's family also settled in that general area. His great grandmother Holycross lived to be 104. I didn't know Frank's father. He died in 1930. [top left photo: Brush Lake - 1929 Bert, Judy, Josephine, Verna] [top right photo: School Picnic at Darby Creek - 1930 Verna, Julia] [bottom left photo: My Last Day of School] middle right photo: Woodstock High School] ] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/424dac9233eddba5a84aa4679d429c4f.jpg 175aa5d2dc1abcfc3ee80a481b2a5fcb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (15) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 13 of From the Beginning] Frank had graduated from Marysville High in 1929. A fine athlete, he especially liked playing basketball. In his Junior and Senior years they won the district Championship. Jobs were hard to come by at that time. It so happened that the Plant Manager for the Nestle Co., Mr. Grout was an avid basketball fan. He followed the team and had gotten to know the boys. Frank applied at the Milk Plant and Mr. Grout found a place for him. That is where he was working when we were married in Dec. 1934. Julia and Bob were living in a double at the time, and we were able to rent the other side. We spent evenings playing bridge and making popcorn which came from home. Rarely could we come up with the price of a movie on the small paychecks. That summer Julia and I would be waiting with sandwiches when the boys came home from work and off to Millcreek we would go. I don't think there were any real keepers where we fished, but it was great fun. As neighbors we borrowed not only the proverbial cup of sugar from each other but anything else we needed that the other one had. I used her food grinder as often as she did. When Frank and I later moved to Sunbury, she presented me with a gift, a food grinder, a cherished possession which I still use from time to time even though I have a more up to date food processor. Annual Commencement Woodstock High School May 19, 1932 Reflections From The Operas Huffer Orchestra Invocation Mrs. Hulda Kimball The Old Refrain Kreisler Girls Senior Sextett Objectives of Education Health and Fundamental Processes Worthy Use of Leisure Winfred Clark Citizenship Mary Lininger Vesper Bells Are Ringing Van Norman Boys Senior Sextette Santus Schubert Junior High School Chorus Vocations Leah Broshes Character and Home Membership Mary Connor Nightfall In Granada Bueno High School Chorus Listen To The Lambs Dett Nash High School Chorus Goodbye Old Hi Moore Boys Senior Sexette Presentation of Class Memorial Clarence Barnette Acceptance of Memorial Harriette Lincoln Out of Dusk to you Zamenik Girls Senior Sexette Presentation of Diplomas W. V. Pond [top left photo: Frank - 1926] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/35a06fb7089559600aa40fb50eac44ca.jpg cdbec89f7d55d410cc2dedad72ac1066 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (16) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 14 of From the Beginning] In September 1935, Anne was born at home, She was delivered by Bertha's husband, Dr. Henry W. Katter of Dublin. Two weeks later Frank underwent a tonsillectomy. An operation that usually causes a very sore throat for a few days but not a long recovery. Not so with Frank. After surgery and for over a week following he continued to hemorrhage. We later learned that the excessive bleeding was caused by an abnormality known as Von Wilobrandt's Disease. Of our eight children, all but two of them also have that tendency. The Doctor came to the house many times to try and stem the bleeding with stitches in his throat. Frank was so weak from the loss of blood that it was nearly a month before he was able to be up. Had it occurred today, he would been in the hospital and would have been given transfusions. With his throat so sore from all the stitches, about the only thing he could swallow was jello. Small wonder that from time on he didn't care much for jello. Luckily, Julia and Bob were close at hand to see us through the ordeal and help with taking care of Anne. Uncle Henry came to the same address in Sept. 1937, and delivered Susie. By this time Frank was working in the Research and Control Laboratory where they were experimenting with a new product, Nescafé. By 1939 they were trying it out in the Sunbury Plant and before the year was over, were producing it there. Frank had been driving back and forth from Marysville. In April 1940 we moved to 185 Letts Avenue. [upper right photo: Anne, 7 months Old, West Second Street Marysville, Ohio - 1936] [lower left photo: Anne and Susie - 1938] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c0baa50d6034d46e1816658f163728db.jpg 2bbf775f0bb8cea49b62a5c3e387c889 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (17) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 15 of From the Beginning] My first trip to Sunbury was very reassuring. It would be pretty hard to get a negative impression of the town when one of the first things I saw was the old Town Hall. Chuck Nettelhorst was the first person I met when he came to the house to hook up our gas stove. Mary Ellen Miller delivered milk to us. When she stopped to collect, we would always have a little chat. Louise Sheets had just opened "The Little Shoppe". When doing other errands, I would stop in for a visit with her. The shop was full of so many interesting things. Anne and Susie noticed the pretty earrings she always wore. Seeing the case full of them, they asked if she put on a new pair everyday and then put them back in the case. Luretta Day welcomed the little girls when I took them to the Methodist Sunday School. I was invited to join Search Light Club. It didn't take long for us to feel that we belonged here. Anne started School in the fall of 1941. Susie, age four, missed her very much. Several times a day she asked when Anne would be coming home. Mr Strosnider, our neighbor, was putting sidewalks in front of our house. She spent the day watching. He later told me that she had announced to him a coming event. She was wearing a pair of blue coveralls that had been Anne's. She told him she was saving hers for the brother. In April 1942 Uncle Henry came to the house once more and delivered a baby girl, instead. We named her Barbara. During Anne's first year in school she was having tonsillitis often. In the summer she had a tonsillectomy and was hospitalized for bleeding. Frank and my sister Elsie were the same blood type as hers. She had a pint from each of them. My blood went to replace a pint in the hospital blood bank. That was before the Red Cross started the blood donor program. Susie suffered the same fate as Anne when she had a tonsillectomy the following year and also needed transfusions. Same blood type, same donors. After that we decided enough was enough with tonsils. Somehow the others survived the sore throats without going through the ordeal with surgery. In Nov. 1943 , it was Dr. M. W. Livingston who came to the house and this time delivered the "brother", John Franklin. This year the Sunbury Plant received the Army Navy E. Award given for outstanding accomplishment in the war effort. Nescafé was packed in the K Rations of the armed Forces. The company, feeling the need for increased production, purchased an old Brewery in Granite City, Illinois, and converted it into a coffee plant. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9a6925014f04ac28a5c38dbae6790dfc.jpg 5d25b4a3bd93ad6be4b1110c582a1a02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (18) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 16 of From the Beginning] Mr. E. C. Teut was the plant manger here. He left in February to start up the new facility taking Frank along as Asst. Manager. Little did we know it was to be in October before suitable housing could be found. It was a nice old house in Edwardsville, fifteen miles from Granite City. Anne had started fourth grade and Susie second grade in Sunbury. Barbara was two and half years old. John 10 months when we set out for Illinois. Once more Julia came to the rescue. She went along to help with the children and to help get us settled. I had not seen the house at 215 N. Kansas St. before the day we arrived. I was more than pleased with what I found. The neighborhood was all I could have asked for. Grade school within the block, the Presbyterian Church two doors from us and neighbors who soon became good friends. After leaving Julia at the train in St. Louis to return home, we didn't see anyone from home for more than a year, with gasoline rationing. The first Thanksgiving we invited all the Nestle "strays" who had moved there from other places and were unable to get home to be with their families Charlie joined our little group in Feb. 1946. He was born in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Granite City. Arriving about a month before he was expected, Charlie was the smallest of the children weighing in at 5 lb. 5 oz. He was more interested in sleeping than in taking in nourishment. I worried about his slow weight gain. By the time he was a month old he was awake more and hungry. He just needed a little more time to get caught up. By Christmas he was pulling himself up and walking around the play pen, [top right photo: Grandma Bergandine with Susie, John, Anne, and Barbara at 185 Letts Avenue Before We Moved To Edwardsville, Illinois - 1944] [ bottom left photo: Visit to Ohio in Summer of 1946] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/178a72098ef6363af0a97356498cd9be.jpg e8c0c600802d250601a5e7fb24a32cdf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (19) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 17 of From the Beginning] Santa had brought John a little tool box containing saw and hammer. He discovered the rungs of the pen were easy to saw. Charlie soon the opening for his get-away. When I found him crawling around outside the pen, I confiscated the saw and pushed the pen against the wall on the side where the damage was done. To this day John is very good with the saw. His hobby is working with wood. He has turned out some beautiful pieces of furniture. One of them, a little table with cabriole legs, was made from the walnut tree that had been next to our driveway. It sits in my living room. In 1948, Mr. Teut left to start Nescafé production in another plant, and Frank was made Plant Manager. About that time he discovered that he was diabetic. With a change in his diet he was able to control it for a time without insulin. With St Louis only some 20 odd miles from Edwardsville, we were able to go there occasionally for some entertainment and shopping. The children enjoyed the zoo. [top right photo: John in Wooden Jeep Made During Wartime - 1947] [middle right photo: A trip to St. Louis for Barbara, Susie, Anna, B Orahood, Dick Orahood, and John] [bottom left photo: Charlie at Christmas - 1949] [bottom right photo: Grandma Widicus with Charlie, John, Barbara - 1947} http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b630e5cf0cfe8be50c097f288b50d5e5.jpg bf7d18f6be15d4366ffffa3012df6388 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (20) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 18 of From the Beginning] Three times during the school year, the Jr. High went by bus to hear the St Louis Symphony. Susie wanted to be first getting her money in so she would be sure to get a seat on the bus. In summer the Municipal Outdoor Theatre at Forest Park put on some very good light opera. Ice Hockey with the St. Louis Flyers and the Cardinal Baseball team were two special attractions. At the 8th grade picnic, Anne fell and injured her leg. The bone was bruised, an osteomyelitis developed. She was on penicillin and crutches for most of the summer. When she was able to walk without the crutches, she wanted to see the Cardinals play. She knew Billy Southworth in Sunbury. He was manager of the Cardinals. Before he left home for Spring Training he would stop for her when he was taking Carole to school. She and Frank waited by the dugout. It was quite a thrill for her when Billy emerged and talked to them. He was a thoroughly likeable person. When Barbara was about six years old, she and her friend Virginia Kinsman were fascinated with weddings. Virginia's father was minister of the First Presbyterian Church. He would permit the girls to quietly observe the [top left photo: Virginia Kinsman John Barbara - 1945] [top right photo: John, Barbara - 1947] [bottom right photo: Barbara with the New Look. Gone Are the Braids. Her First "Toni" Given by Her Beautician Mom - 1949] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b5b14ff5fad68d94598ca39111421586.jpg dff689ebc997f80b866dadce279ddebb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (21) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 18 of From the Beginning] ceremonies from the balcony. They took it very seriously in their Sunday best, wearing white gloves, their Easter bonnets and carrying their pocketbooks. They felt as much a part of it as if they had been invited guests seated below. The fact that I lived close to the church and was usually at home, I was occasionally called upon to witness a marriage. One day my friend and next door neighbor Lucille Harrison, asked me what was going on. She saw me hanging clothes on the line, and in a matter of minutes I was walking down the street toward the church wearing a dress, heels and lipstick. The next thing she knew I was hanging up clothes again. Seeing me at the clothesline was not unusual, in fact hanging diapers on the line was almost a daily ritual. It was the sudden departure that caused her to wonder. When Mrs. Kinsman called, not wanting to keep the bride and groom waiting, I would get there as soon as possible. Speaking of churches, the Christian church was on the other side of us. Twice during our stay in Edwardsville, young couples thinking our house to be the parsonage, rang our door bell. They asked if the minister was in. They wanted to get married. On the other side of town the Baptist Minister caused us a certain amount of involvement. His name was Boergadine. We received many of his Christmas cards and one year a lovely plant was delivered to our door with a note thinking him for burying her husband. I called the florist and told him the flower was not intended for this address. He insisted that perhaps I didn't remember the lady but he was sure that Rev. Boergadine would know her. I finally convinced him that the Bergandines lived at this address, not the Boergadines. The itinerants passing through town found our door with a certain degree of regularity. One man we particularly came to expect on Christmas morning. On this occasion and in the spirit of the day, I came up with ham and Swiss Cheese sandwiches and a few goodies that I wanted to share. It finally dawned on me the reason they knocked on my door instead of the neighbors, they too thought it was the parsonage. In September 1950, Jim was born in St. Joseph Hospital, Alton, Illinois. The other children all brought their friends home to show him off. Charlie's little friend Jamie Kinsman knocked on the door and asked if she could see the baby. Jamie was a little younger than Charlie, and he sometimes treated her as if he were a little superior. After hesitating he told her she could come in but she was not to touch the baby because he was sterilized. She was used to Charlie's rebuffs. If he told her he didn't want to come out and play, she would go home and come back the next day. [bottom right photo: Charlie, Jamie Kinsman, Jim, John Edwardsville - 1959] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/372bb88a5d07d5d14cd45920a6a86fe2.jpg 74d6a06d44f82d915a5eee4fe2ce0f3e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (22) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 20 of From the Beginning] Our good friends. Les and Leanore Marks and daughters, lived across the street. Les was a funeral director. They lived on the second floor in a large old brick Victorian house that sat way back from the street surrounded by a wrought iron fence. Once when Suzanne and Linda Marks with Susie and Barbara were playing house under one of the large evergreens, sweeping the pine needles and sending the dust flying, Susie had an attack of asthma. That night she could scarcely breath. We called the doctor. He came and gave her a shot of adrenalin and left a syringe for another dose. He recommended that we take her next day to a specialist in St. Louis which we did and also at regular intervals for about six months. The treatment worked and she has not been bothered by asthma since. The Marks girls came to our house to play when there was a funeral going on across the street. [top left photo: Back Row: Anne, Susie, Linda Marks, Barbara Front Row: Suzanne Marks, John Across the street at the Mark's in 1946] [bottom photo: Anne Susie Charlie Barbara John 1950] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cd158491a535677c1a5d976a2b2a79a4.jpg 89986df480b9a61da23e4a2b5cb00a65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (23) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 21 of From the Beginning] The girls had gone from Girl Scouts and Jr. High activities to band and choir in High School. Anne played French Horn which she liked all except the part about carrying the horn to and from school. The director required practice at home. It was quite a walk to the high school. It was always a keen competition for first chair between her and Tommy Reilly. Susie played clarinet in Jr. High but going into high school her interest was in choir. In the tryouts, she was one of the two freshmen to be chosen for the Acappella Choir. As we go into the year 1953, I remember it as one that tested my abilities to cope. First of all in January on a beautiful crisp Sunday morning, snow on the ground, I realized that I would be going to Alton to St. Joseph Hospital. I got the little ones ready for Sunday School and informed Anne she would be in charge until Frank returned later. The little ones did not know that I wouldn't be there when they came home. In a few hours, Frank called home and Anne was able to tell them that they had a a new baby brother, Robert Steven. In March Frank was to leave us for a time once more. The company decided rather than do a complete overhaul on the boilers in the old building in Granite City, they would close the plant. Frank returned to the Sunbury Plant. It being Anne's senior year we planned to wait till June to move. On morning in April, Susie came down stairs with a persistent pain in her side. The doctor suspicioned appendicitis and told me to take her to St Joseph Hospital. He was right. She had surgery that afternoon. All week while [top left photo: Linda Marks, Barbara, Charlie, Jim - 1951] [bottom right photo: Charlie, John , Barbara, Bob, 4 Months, Verna, and Jim Edwardsville, Illinois - 1953] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f0b03ef087333893e007d91f5f0320c7.jpg 7c7f601bbfc4df7ac85a2c49ffbf6769 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (24) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 22 of From the Beginning] she was in the hospital, I went to see her everyday. We managed to keep things going at home with a little babysitting help from my dear neighbors. Bob survived, showing no ill effects with someone feeding him and still another person burping him. My efforts then turned to getting ready for Anne's graduation. A trip to St. Louis shopping was necessary. Frank came for graduation, and we had one week to prepare for the movers. The older children weren't thrilled with leaving their friends. John had but one request. That was that our new place would have some boys to play ball with. He had had it with all the girls. I knew that there was much I would miss about Edwardsville, mainly the people; but if Frank was to be transferred anywhere, I was glad it was to return to Sunbury. Coming back to Ohio we were bringing three boys who were not with us on our trip west. Anne and Susie left by train the day before. when the big moving van pulled away from 215 N. Kansas St. and our car was packed and we were ready to leave, there was quite a group gathered around us to say goodbye and to wish us well. The Marks, Kinsmans, Harrisons and Lucille's mother Grandma Widicus and even the old bachelor, Henry Weidey. It was then that I was made aware of the great impact they had all had on our nine and a half years spent among them. We couldn't have been happier! Frank had been looking for a house in Sunbury from the time he arrived in March. It wasn't until two weeks before we were wanting to move that one became available. An elderly man had died, and his daughter barely had time to close out his belongings before we were here. She assured me that anything I wanted to do to redecorate would be fine. It was a nice old 2 story house, but it did take some doing the next few years to make it seem like home. It was on the corner of High and Harrison Sts. and yes, John got his wish. There were boys in the neighborhood. The boys soon found way to occupy their time. The girls missed their friends, and the routine they had left behind. We bought our first television set which added a new dimension to their summer. After school started Susie got a job working at the drugstore for Mr. Hill some evenings and on Saturdays. Anne started college at Otterbein only nine miles away, but after leaving her there we faced the realization that for the first time she wouldn't be coming home with us and we would just have to get used to it. To close a very busy and eventful year my parents celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on Christmas Day 1953, with all of their ten children and their spouses. I was especially glad to be back home in Ohio and able to visit them a few more http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0c458a16856deaf0d3c72272b13e6d8e.jpg dacccce0c6ac8527b841f6c57c899e66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (25) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 23 of From the Beginning] times in Woodstock before my father died in March, 1954, after surgery for cancer. In the spring John, age 9, was operated on at Grant Hospital for appendicitis. Running true to form he also had prolonged bleeding after surgery. The pattern seemed to be that it took just so long for the bleeding to stop no matter what measures were taken. What a relief it was when finally there were no more episodes, and he was able to come home. By the end of the year we were back nto the swing of things. With all the familiar faces at P.T.A., church and Searchlight Club, it was almost as if we had never left Sunbury. Anne took a summer job at Lazarus, leaving town each morning on the Greyhound Bus to Columbus at 7:00 and returning in the evening at 6:30. The boys playing in the neighborhood knew when they heard the Nestlé whistle that it was 12:00, time for them to be home, hands washed and ready for lunch when their father would be home. [left top photo: Golden Wedding - 1958] [top right photo: Mom and Pop - 1942] [bottom right photo: In Marysville at Aunt Judy's - 1953 Bob is 6 Months] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e59bda87a41ffff182921a6a1da6739c.jpg 6477c8dee13aedabb4a7159a3030fef7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (26) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 24 of From the Beginning] In December Frank celebrated his 25th year with the company. He and I left by train from Columbus at 9:30 p.m. and arrived at Grand Central station, N.Y. at 7:30 next morning. We stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel. Frank had been to N.Y. several times on business, but this was my first trip and what a grand time of year to see the City! To say that it was decorated for the holidays was an understatement. We were met by one of the men from the corporate office from the Manufacturing Dept. who frequently visited the Sunbury Plant, and each day another couple, acted as our hosts to show us the city. The first day we visited the United Nations, then had lunch at the Rockefeller Plaza looking out at the skaters and the huge decorated Christmas Tree. The view of the city from the top of the Empire State Building minimized the size of everything below. Another time we had dinner at the Stork Club. Sherman Billingsley, the owner seated at a table near us, recognized the couple who was with us and had a bottle of Champagne sent to our table with his compliments. After we saw the play, "Can Can" with the original cast. Guy Lombardo was celebrating his 25th year playing at the Roosevelt Grill. We dined and danced to his music with the Warren Bullocks and Harold Colvins. The last evening we were in N.Y. we attended the Annual Christmas Party at Glenn Island Casino. It was a large affair with 600 guests, [photo: Nestle Christmas Party in 1954 at Glenn Island Casino, New York} http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bc029d6379df07c5bae39072bacdaf1c.jpg 9ffefb3c543469b72741c9667f99d3a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (27) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 25 of From the Beginning] the office staff and their spouses. We were seated next to the President, Mr. Dan Notion. It was than that Frank was recognized for his 25 years of service and presented with a gold watch. I have been to N. Y. several times and always enjoyed it but this trip I remember best, five days of pure fun and excitement. We arrived home on the 17th with just enough time to make ready for Santa Caus. I am indebted to my mother. She stayed with the children so that I could go with Frank and also Julia who took Bob, who was not quite two years old. Susie graduated from high school in 1955. Her interest was always in music. In the fall she started at Ohio University. By the end of the first semester she was disappointed in the the music program. She came home and the following year enrolled at O.S.U. About that time when Jim was in the first grade our neighbor, an old gentleman whose name escapes me, died. the previous summer when he was sitting on his porch, Jim and Bob would go over and talk to him. I answered Jim's questions about the funeral and burial and also added that his soul went to heaven. Later I heard Jim explaining it all to Bob who didn't understand about how he was to get to heaven. Jim gave it some serious thought and then said, "They just take the gravity off." Bob said, "Oh". We lost two of our family members in 1956. Grandma Bergandine died in August, having lived to be 78 years old. She was in a wheel chair the last few years. always a joy to be with, the children loved it when she came to visit. In spite of all the commotion that was ever present, ours was the place she enjoyed the most. My sister Elsie Bowerman died the 26th of December. She was 52 years old. She had been wanting ice skates and found a pair under the tree that Christmas. She and her two daughters, who were students O.S.U. went to the skating rink the next evening. She had no sooner started skating when she fell to the ice and was gone almost immediately of an aneurysm in the brain. Elsie was a Phys. E. Major in college and always excelled in sports. She was captain of her basketball team and was an excellent swimmer. Our holidays ended on a very sad note. [photo: Sisters Bertha, Julia, Verna, Mom, Josephine, Elsie Memorial Day -1955] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a8eac62ca9a7fe0260dd3ac5d3b50395.jpg 9a33da98d5926523b7163d63d654907f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (28) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 26 of From the Beginning] Barbara went with members of the Big Walnut Choir to a summer camp at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. She returned home to find that another brother had taken up residence with us. Jeffrey Miles was born on August 5th, 1957 , at White Cross Hospital. Frank had scarcely returned home from White Cross when it was necessary to take Susie to University Hospital. She had had a wisdom tooth pulled several weeks before. There had been some bleeding from time to time, but at this point it continued to bleed in earnest. The eight days that I was required to be in the hospital, Frank went from seeing mother and child to being with Susie while the bleeding continued. Her face swollen with the huge clot that formed. Doctors were undecided as to what should be done as this was most unusual. Finally they did remove the clot and a day after Frank brought Jeff and me home, Susie was able to come home. Having had so many shots she needed a pillow to be able to sit at the kitchen table. Frank was glad to have us all around the kitchen table after eight days of shuttling back and forth between hospitals and the anxious moments he went through with Susie. I laid Jeffrey on the davenport when we came home. Bob was four and a half at the time and remembers running in to check on Jeff several times while we were having lunch. He was fascinated with the little newcomer. Up until now he had been the center of attention. [top right photo: Jeff Gets a Bath on Christmas Morning - 1957] [middle left photo: Bob, John, Jim, Charlie - Christmas 1957] [bottom right photo: Jeff Playing John's Drums] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/20895fdce5bdb9b2a714b7c46ecb19a6.jpg 327d0eff8a1c71c00831a01f5cdde220 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (29) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 27 of From the Beginning] Many exciting events were to come in the next few years. Anne graduated from O.S.U. in June, 1958, and went to Elyria in the fall to teach 4th grade. Outside at recess with the class, she fell on the ice and broke her arm. Unfortunately, being left handed it was her left arm. Bob started to school in 1959. Jeffrey was asked what he would do now that Bob was in School. He said, "I pay wid Wayme". Rayme Saunders was a neighbor and friend of Bob. Once again I was left with just one little one at home till my boys in grade school came trooping home at noon for lunch with their father. Frank was offered the Nestlé Plant in Freehold, N. Jersey to manage. It was presented in a way that left Frank to decide. The opening there came up and since it was a larger plant, they told him it was his if he wanted it. It would have had some advantages at this time. It was actually Barbara who made the decision final for him when she said, "Money isn't everything, Dad." with a pleading look that was not possible for Frank to ignore. [top right photo: Queen Barbara and Her Court at Homecoming - 1958 Her Football Escort Duncan Whitney to Her Left] [middle left photo: Bob, First Grade] [middle right photo: Bob sharing Cake on His 6th Birthday with Neighborhood Friends Left to Right: Jim, Amy Stockwell, Bob, Doug Crowl, Mary Ault, Jeff Tom Crowl, Tom Ruthg, Booby Chaffin] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2e99ccd67743c1d837b46cdf6fa1fc5f.jpg f8b0eab3d9b98b1c5164b1033bc8217e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (30) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 28 of From the Beginning] [top left photo: Jim and Bob Sunday School bound in 1958] [top right photo: The Boys in New Christmas Sweats - 1959] [middle photo: Bob, Frank, Jeff, Verna, John, Barbara, Anne, Susie, Charlie January 2, 1959] [bottom left photo: Bob, Jeff at Aunt Judy's 1960] [bottom right photo: Jeff First Grade] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bef6389ce9e9a440512d66e264170a92.jpg 59ca3154b859d150b7710fa72f5d4a4e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (31) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 29 of From the Beginning] Sunbury Plant was their Research Plant and Frank was told that this was the decision they had hoped would make. sometimes it took a balancing act to meet production demands and also work out scheduling trial runs for the Laboratory. It required cooperation and the company appreciated Frank's ability to make things run smoothly. In March 1960, Susie graduated from O.S.U. She started teaching Music at Bellville in the fall. We had two graduates that year with Barbara from Big Walnut. That fall she started at O.S.U. John was next to graduate in 1961. He also went to O.S.U. Over the next three years there were three weddings. First Susie to Ed O'Bryan in April 1961; Anne to Larry Stockert in July, 1962; and John and Polly Reynolds in January, 1963. A rather sudden change in the household. Although Anne and Susie were at home only summers, it was not the same without them. John had driven to school from home, and his absence was felt even more. Frank and I were given a three week cruise to the Caribbean by the Nestle Co. As we were basking in the sun from one island to the other we learned on the ship's daily newspaper of the extreme cold in Columbus, Ohio - 25 degrees below zero. Our itinerary included stops at San Juan, St Thomas, St. Lucia, Nevis, St Kitts and Barbados. Always when we went ashore the natives greeting us with music from their steel bands. We left the ship at Port of Spain., Trinidad, the hottest place I have ever been, to spend three nights there with the Nestlé people hosting our stay and showing us around the island. After a picnic on the beach Frank had a case of sun poisoning with swollen hands so that he had to call off a golf game scheduled for the next day. By contrast, coming into the hotel out of the sun, the lobby was so cold it almost made your teeth chatter. The one main road on the island was built by the G. I.'s. during World War II. [photo: Frank in Nestlé's News - May 1961] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/066043f0c5536a8b4eb007ed830a19d2.jpg c7663da688c3c9d149c1d7d53440b737 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (32) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 30 of From the Beginning] We flew from Trinidad to Kingston, Jamaica. The Director of Nestlé Operations, Mr. Hay, an Englishman, met us; and he and his wife showed us many interesting places the three days we spent there. The Straw Market and a visit to the Governor's Rose Gardens were some of the places. Mrs. Hay was a good friend of the Governor's wife. I didn't get to meet her as she was as they say, "On holiday in England." I must say that roses do beautifully in Jamaica, but then the climate is ideal for both roses and people. One evening the Nestlé driver drove us and Mr. and Mrs. Hay to Blue Mt. Inn for dinner. Our table was before a fire on the hearth and dessert was the famous strawberries grown on the hillside. I remember Arthur Godfrey on his radio show telling about his experience there and commenting on how great the strawberries were. He was right! Mr. Hay showed Frank some of the Nestlé facilities. Our stay in Kingston went very fast and next we were driven about 3 hours to the northern shore to Ocho Rios where we stayed three more days at the Plantation Inn. One thing I noticed on all the islands where we had dinner, it was always served in the open under the stars. Their insect control must have been very effective because I never saw a fly or mosquito which always seem to want to share in the fun on our outdoor events here. At ocho Rios on the beach I polished off my already very deep suntan. In fact when all the kids came to the airport to meet us, they recognized Frank as we came down the steps of the plane; but they wondered who he had brought back with him. [photo: Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 1963] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a5466e581fef09a1dd13c36a8604de6f.jpg 7bc92b93d2e995eec260c9206e55240a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (33) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 31 of From the Beginning] We were driven to Montego Bay where we took a plane to Miami and on home by evening. Susie and Ed and one month old Christopher stayed with the children while we were gone. It was at this time we bought my first clothes dryer. With all my eight children, it had to be my first grandchild whose diapers were dried in it. Of all the housewifely duties I performed through the years, I think I enjoyed washing most and that included hanging clothes on the line. However, I soon realized the dryer was a better way. I wondered how many miles of clothesline full of socks I had fastened to the line with clothespins. The Surgeon General of the United States came on T.V. with the long awaited announcement of the findings of the Cancer Society on the direct connection between smoking and lung cancer. The date was Saturday Jan. 11, 1964. Frank and I had decided before hand that if what he had to say was bad news we would give up the habit. It was bad news, and we did not buy any more cigarettes. With only ten left in the house we made them last till Monday morning, and that was it! Frank had taken up smoking out of boredom in 1944 when he was in Illinois for several months with the family. Later in 1949, I decided to give it a try, being convinced by the advertising that claimed if you only "reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" maybe I could lose a few pounds. Trouble was there would be days go by that I would forget to smoke. Finally I learned to enjoy them. Most of my friends had smoked for years, but I had had no desire to try it. Smoking was never spoken of as being harmful to health. At least people now are fully informed about why they should not smoke. It took two weeks before I didn't want a cigarette. I started new projects that would keep my mind and hands occupied. Frank's battle with kicking the habit required much more strength of character as he was surrounded by smokers everyday. Charlie was next to graduate from high school. The following February on Valentine's Day, he was struck by a car on the square in Galena. He had stopped his car and had gone around behind it when a classmate thinking to give Charlie a scare pulled in toward him. Charlie looked up to see headlights in his eyes and at that moment was pinned between the two cars. Obviously the boy's judgement in executing the prank was faulty to say the least. On impact Charlie's car was pushed up the incline onto the grass on the other side of the sidewalk. His glasses and shoes were found several feet away. Deep cuts in both legs, one to the bone continued to bleed for several day. Many blood transfusions were required. He didn't lack for donors. Friends came forth to offer their blood for him. It was nip and tuck for a time before the bleeding stopped. It http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1c08dc3b2dc9c95e1b313d5809da8441.jpg df7a360e9af22dbf5eccb8766fc3f28e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (34) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 32 of From the Beginning] was three weeks before he was able to come home from Riverside Hospital. I++t took a little time before his legs wanted to function as usual. I remember him telling how scarry it was the first time he started across the street downtown with the green light and hoping to get there before the light changed. In March 1966 my mother died. She was 82 and until the last few months had always been well and very active. Flowers in her garden was her delight in summer. Always a fresh bowl of sweet peas on her kitchen table. "The way to keep them blooming is to pick them everyday", she said. All my sisters and I enjoyed gardening as much as she did. She had the advantage of having rich black loam soil which didn't require as much coaxing to get the best results. A little manure from the barn and her dahlias, gladiolas and asters, which she called fall roses, were real prize winners. Anyone who stopped by always left with and armful of whatever was ready in her garden. I think that describes her best. Her generosity was seen in all her actions. She said, "I enjoy them more if others have some of them, too". When the children were small and I had little time for flowers I was content with the offerings the little boys brought to me. I probably had the first dandelions and violets spotted in the neighborhood. How pleased they were when I made a fuss over their bouquets and would look for just the right glass to hold their little short stems! We started our new house at 217 High St. in August. It can honestly be said that this house was "built upon a rock." It took several days to dig the basement with a bulldozer and truckloads of rocks were hauled away. We moved in on the 15th of December, 1966. Only the three younger boys were at home. Charlie did not move with us as he and Cheryl Saunders were married a few days [upper right photo: Mom at Her 80th Birthday Party April 16, 1964] [bottom right photo: Digging the Basement at 217 High Street - August 1966] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cbd71ed8f652a177140c706403839d0c.jpg f22a33cfc6e93714eb0dd3249cfe0fe0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (35) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 33 of From the Beginning] before. It was an exciting time to be settled in the new house and have the children and grandchildren here for Christmas that first year. The large family room in basement was more than adequate. Barbara and Duncan weren't able to be with us until the next day. She was working in the University Hospital in Charlottesville, Va. where Duncan was in law school at the University. We were glad to have them for a few days after Christmas. The next two years were busy ones for Frank. A new product has many problems to solve before the first batch comes off the line. Several engineers were hired to get the equipment ready with the bugs ironed out before Tasters' Choice, a freeze dried instant coffee was in production. Heavily insulated suits and boots were required for the workers in the "Cold Room". The men spent a limited amount of time on that detail because of the extreme low temperature before they were relieved by the next shift. The Sunbury Plant produced the first Nescafé in 1939, Nestea in 1946 and now in 1968 Taster's Choice made it's debut on the market. In 1969 Jim graduated from Big Walnut then started school at C. I. T. Bob in 1971 and on to O. S. U. When Jim and Julia Dudas were married it was just Bob and Jeff at home. The sun did not set on the day of the wedding before Bob had moved all his belongings from the room he had shared with Jeff into Jim's room. Bob looked at the wedding not so much as losing a brother around the house but as a joyous occasion when he acquired his own room. The feeling was mutual as Jeff expressed much satisfaction in having his own space, also. Jeff was the last to graduate from Big Walnut. From Sept. 1941 when Anne started to school it was 34 years of contact with the schools. I had mixed emotions with it all coming to an end. No more PTA. When 7th and 8th grades were in Galena Building it meant membership in two of them. Always room mother for one of the children, programs to attend when on of the children performed, Band, boosters and so many other reasons to be involved. Almost half my life to that point keeping schedules and seeing that the children of all ages were where they were supposed to be and on time. Not only grade school but also high school and college to say nothing of always a little one keeping me company at home until Jeff started to school. And now looking back over the years that were so important to me, I have to think that I must have been about the happiest person alive in all this tangled web of activity that some how seemed perfectly normal to me at the time. I suppose one can say that from this phase of my life I had arrived at retirement the same year that Frank retired from the Nestlé Co. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f026976f7b47a5e3bd175082fa7dd375.jpg ff3d68025a4ed2a85edc55367025522c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (36) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 34 of From the Beginning] [top left photo: Anne - '53] [top middle photo: Susie '55] [top right photo : Barbara '60] [ middle left photo: John '61] GRADS [middle right photo: Charlie '64] [bottom left photo: Jim '69] [bottom middle photo: Bob '71] [bottom right photo: Jeff '75] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e5db17c898c31499f1d4e27c580f138f.jpg 1ed537383b1a8ddd60312710d2b1cbd0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (37) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 35 of From the Beginning] Blue Chip Profile Sunbury Executive Heads Two Organizations Frank D Bergandine heads up two large organizations in nearby Sunbury, Ohio: his family with eight children and 11 grandchildren and the Nestle Co. Inc. plant of 240 employes. Bergandine, 63, has been Nestle plant manager since 1953. He stands as Sunbury's leading industrialist. On average the company employs one of every nine Sunbury residents. In former years, soft-spoken Bergandine has served as president of Sunbury Lion's Club, which another businessman said is as close to a chamber of commerce as the town has, and the Big Walnut Band Boosters Association. He and Verna, his wife, served on the committee that coordinated Sunbury's sesquicentennial celebration in 1966. Mrs. Bergandine is the former Verna Cushman of Woodstock in Champaign County. She a former president of Sunbury PTA and now serves on the official board of Sunbury United Methodist Church. A lot of Bergadine's leisure time goes to golf. He is a member of Sunbury and Blackhawk golf clubs. AS OF TODAY, Bergandine has been with Nestle exactly 44 years. It was in 1929 that he took a factory job at Nestle's plant in Marysville. He had worked two months before that for Scott Seed Co. after graduation from Marysville High School. He worked in production five years, then spent four more in the control and research laboratory. In 1940, Bergandine was transferred to Sunbury in charge of the plant's laboratory. Four years passed and when Nestle opened a plant in Granite City, Ill., Bergandine went there as assistant plant manger, becoming manager in 1947. He returned to Sunbury as plant manager six years later. Four of the Bergandine children are graduates of Ohio State University and fifth is a junior there now. THE NESTLE Co. has owned the plant since 1918, when Nestle's only business was milk products. Until that year , the plant was the Sunbury Creamery, founded circa 1895. Nestle, whose parent company is headquartered in Bevy, Switzerland, has corporate U.S. offices in White Plains, N.Y. Since 1967, when major rebuilding was done at the plant, main product from Sunbury has been freeze-dried, instant coffee. Bergandine said the process was developed for production between staffs at Sunbury and Marysville Nestle plants and was an industry first. Bergandine said the facility, in 1939, started the first successful, commercial production of instant coffee, a lot of which went into Army K rations during World War II, and its instant tea was probably first in the industry. BESIDES FREEZE-dried coffee, the operation today produces a non-dairy creamer and fills containers with some products shipped from other company plants. Coffee beans for the plant come from abroad. But Bergandine gets questions about producing his own. A seven-foot tall coffee tree, given to him as a seedling by an employee, is nearing the ceiling of his paneled office. (R. N. Moore) [photo: F. D. Bergandine] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/54881a1df5b783e77b35feaa5b58b69b.jpg 29ee0b7bd1d5c47fd3b2879df61a0c45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (38) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 36 of From the Beginning] In Retirement [top left photo: 1975] [middle right photo: Nestlé Quarter Century Party 1976] [bottom left photo: Frank in Nestlé Golf Tournament 1978] [bottom right photo: Two Nestlé Men Frank and Jeff] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a5363f6a6632de7a59c6be5ae8be5c1f.jpg 8dfc44a2a07220f6f30df514f33f1381 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (39) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 37 of From the Beginning] Jeff was off to O.S.U. where he made the Marching Band and had the thrill of playing at the Rose Bowl. We were off to Europe on a three week tour which the Nestlé Co. provided for Frank's 46 years of service. Our itinerary was planned to the smallest detail. We knew before we left home where we would be and which of our Nestlé friends would be showing us the sights in each country. When the men from the plants in Europe visited the U.S. they always spent some time in Sunbury, it being their experimental plant. Our first stop was London. We arrived there a day before our luggage. Luckily our carry on bags contained all the essentials. They delivered our bags to the hotel the next morning. In London Don and Patricia Cunliffe were our hosts. Don was Plant Manager at the Hayes Factory. Patricia had accompanied him the summer before on his visit to the U.S. and they spent several days in Sunbury. They were very gracious and one evening invited their close friends to join us for dinner at their home. For sightseeing a tour guide picked us all up in her car every morning for the day's agenda of places we wanted to visit, then back to the hotel to dress for dinner. Near the end of our stay, I jokingly said to Patricia that I thought the English had taken a bum wrap from some who accused them of eating only roast beef an boiled potatoes. She asked me if I had not noticed that we had dined each evening in French restaurants known for their fine cuisine. At any rate, there were no complaints about the fare. Frank and Patricia managed a game of golf. Neither Don nor I are golfers so we dropped them off at the Country Club and with their six year old son, Adam, he and I toured a couple of very old churches in the country side near by. One of them was [photo inserted into article: Frank D. Bergandine] Nestle Plant Manager Retires After 46 Years of Service Frank D. Bergandine, who has been plant manager of The Nestle Company's soluble coffee plant at Sunbury for the past 22 years will retire Sept. 1. He has been with Nestle a total of 46 years and during that time became involved in the production of many Nestle's " firsts" which have positioned the company as a major soluble coffee and tea manufacturer. Bergandine started as a general factory worker in 1929 at Nestle's Marysville plant which at the time made condensed and evaporated milk and milk powders. In 1935 he joined the plant's Quality Control Research Laboratory. Five years later he was promoted to supervisor of both the laboratory and of manufacturing at the Sunbury plant, which had been built in 1939 for the first manufacture of Nescafe. Since then this product has become the world's largest selling brand of instant coffee in the world. When Nestle build a new plant at Granite City. Ill., in 1943 to produce Nescafe instant coffee for World War II armed forces, Bergandine first became its assistant plant manger in 1944 and then plant manager in 1947. Bergandine returned to Sunbury in 1953 to take over as plant manager, and was responsible for the first US manufacture of Taster's Choice freeze-dried coffee in the 1960's. This is now the top-selling freeze dried coffee in the country. And he also managed the first production of Taster's Choice Decaffeinated in 1971, now the leading brand of decaffeinated freeze dried coffee in the country. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2241ff19abecce0d2b2bf440ab9c3073.jpg e1f5c3360d0b1df24ee17cc3f94d914f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (40) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 38 of From the Beginning] 500 years old, made of stone and still in use. The graveyard was interesting with the old tombstones, one of them was Sir Thomas Moore, author of "Ellegy, Written in a Country Courtyard". This being the Sunday for Celebration of the Harvest, the altar was laden with produce and according to tradition was to be distributed among the widows of the Parish. I remember fondly the beautiful countryside and the little hamlets we drove through on that day in the fall of 1975. When it was time to bid farewell to England we left from New Haven where we boarded the boat to take us across the channel to Dieppe, France. By the time we were settled in the hotel I began having a strange feeling in my chest. It didn't get any better and by 10:00 o'clock Frank called the desk and asked for a Doctor. There was a decided communication gap between his English and my French but he decided a shot of valium was needed. It must have been a strong dose because I was in slow motion for a couple of days. However the pain left and I managed to get dressed and accompany Frank to lunch the next day which had been planned for us with the management of the Nestlé Plant. The French really know how to entertain. I was sorry I couldn't show a little more enthusiasm at the five course luncheon. The best I could manage was a few nibbles. They served a different wine with each course and were very hospitable and entertaining. They took me back to my room and I slept all afternoon and most of the next day. The following day we left by train for Paris. I had to leave Dieppe with exploring the town and sights nearby. We were met at the station by a gentleman we didn't know but he and Frank had mutual friends in the company. He was very helpful in getting us settled in our hotel and then took us to dinner. The next evening he and his wife accompanied us to dinner, at the Eiffel Tower. We spent almost an entire day at the Louvre. It was only a block from the Concorde Louvre Hotel where we were staying. I was getting awfully tired but I thought the chance that I might pass that way again was nil and I just had to see as much as I possibly could. Another evening we went to the Lido for dinner and saw a show that was a real extravaganza. The tables were arranged around the stage on three sides. The show opened with cowboys riding horses racing down the center stage for a wild west act. Then the floor changed to ice and the skaters put on a show. A desert scene with camels and veiled women entertained. Topless dancers descended the stairs with their ornate headdresses of feathers so tall that it looked as if it were a real feat for the girls to keep from toppling over. Another day of sightseeing in Paris and then we left from Orly Field for Barcelona, Spain. We were met by Juan Roccomora. I saw this handsome man standing alone, I told Frank that he was was our host. Frank said, "What makes you thing so?' I told http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f1c71fdd9890dc000837fb7acfb6fe3d.jpg 2817d7adfe7e94bcf8374b86b028a68c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (41) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 39 of From the Beginning] him that he was definitely a Spaniard and he was looking for someone. When our eyes met he came forward and asked if we were the Bergandines. From that moment he was in charge of seeing to it that our stay in Barcelona was most enjoyable. He and his wife Carmen picked us up each morning at the Diplomat Hotel and we were off for the day. Along the Costa Brava we stopped at a little Inn and had a fisherman's lunch. Traveling in another direction along the Mediterranean the scenery was spectacular against the deep blue of the water. In Barcelona Harbor we saw Christopher Columbus pointing west and the Castle where Queen Isabella knighted him on his return from his voyage to the New World. The Roccomoras planned to visit the U.S. in 1977 to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. To prepare for it Carmen and their two teenage sons were being tutored in English. When we rode along together in the back seat on our tours Carmen would ask me to repeat words so she could hear me pronounce them. She said her teacher was good but when she spoke in English it still sounded like Spanish. We looked forward to seeing them again and for the opportunity to show them around our area. Unfortunately about a year after we had seen them we received a letter from Juan saying Carmen had died of cancer. Although our acquaintance with them was of short duration they lift a lasting impression with us. Our next stop was Nice, France where we spent a couple of nights along the Riviera. Then on to Geneva, Switzerland. The old hotel where we stayed in Vevey, the Trois Couronnes, had quite a history. Built on Lake Leman in 1840 on the site of a 13th Century Castle, it boasted a roster of guests that contained names of crowned heads of governments as well as many important travelers. On leaving we were presented with a book from the hotel containing pictures and signatures of many of them. One of them was Paderewski shown practicing on one of the grand pianos in the ballroom for a music festival in 1913. The scenes that met the eye from our window was one I am not likely to forget. In the distance the misty Alps majestically pointed skyward changing reflections on the lake as the sun changed positions throughout the day. The first evening we were there Dr. Carl Angst, head of the Nestlé Co., drove us to a quaint Mountain Inn for dinner. Saddle of deer was the specialty that evening - a new taste for me which I thought was quite good. The next few days we spent touring the countryside with different hosts stopping at places of interest. One day at a very high elevation we came to Gruyere Castle. looking down at the valley below at the cattle and goats, their tinkling bells playing a tune as they grazed on the hillside is the picture that comes to my mind when I think of Switzerland. We had lunch in a little restaurant on a road leading up to the castle. We chose the http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/25a87a5f40fa899254a57c82468e7458.jpg 15c56694bd1a239af83f816c27efc32f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (42) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 40 of From the Beginning] one that offered only a Swiss Menu. A slab of Gruyere Cheese on a toaster of sorts was placed on the table from which we scraped slightly melted cheese onto the smallest of red potatoes, boiled with the skins on, and served with small sweet gherkins, delicious hot bread and butter, strawberries and cream and of course wine. The cheese was made in the village nearby and was out of this world. We visited the large Corporate Office of the worldwide Nestlé Co. Frank, having spent his entire working life in it's service, really enjoyed seeing where the important decisions were made that were responsible for all it's fine products. To top off Frank's enjoyment of our visit Switzerland, Dr. Angst had arranged for a game of golf on our last day. Unfortunately it rained the entire day. We left for Rome that evening with a rain check for a game at Black Hawk on his next trip to Sunbury. We spent the last two days of our tour viewing the ruins of the Ancient City, many of which I recognized from pictures in my Latin book. I mention this because my teacher, Miss Hunter, had been to Rome and enjoyed telling the class about what she had seen. When our translation had to do with a particular building we would ask the right questions we could get her started on that. We always expressed a great interest in learning how it was. That reduced the time for translation. If we really hadn't studied our vocabulary for the day we didn't have to expose our lack of preparedness. Miss Hunter was near retirement age and was probably on to our scheme but she was a good sport and made Latin more interesting. It happened that we were there on Sunday and on the visit to the Vatican we saw the Pope making his appearance from the window and blessing the huge crowds of people. And Miss Hunter, whenever you are, I do thank you for whetting my interest in Rome with your stories. I enjoyed seeing the Old Colosseum and could picture in my mind all the events that took place when Julius Caesar watched from the stands. Veni, vidi, vici - We left for home with the feeling that I came, I saw, I conquered. As I write this account of our trip I like to remember all the wonderful sights we enjoyed and the hospitality that was shown us where ever we went. And now back home in Sunbury with the laundry and mail caught up I decided I had better go see Dr. M. W. Liningston about why I wasn't feeling just right. He took an Electrocardiogram. He told me I had had a heart attack and that I should go home and do nothing. Frank took over with the house hold chores. I went in for tests at regular intervals and by April the Electrocardiograms showed much improvement and there didn't seem to be any damage to my heart. As soon as possible I started walking and have continued ever since. It has become so much a part of my early http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2ffea66d2f48a2890b906c19a7a36951.jpg c42fc5b309338240e256a72037a08dba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (43) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 41 of From the Beginning] morning routine that I hate it when the weather is bad. Annette Roberts comes along at 6:30 and our route takes us about 2 miles. When Judy Morris was living she joined us on Greenbrier and the three of us solved many of the world's problems in our discussions as we walked along. We both lost a dear friend. The Bicentennial year was celebrated with several events. One of them was a Tour of Homes sponsored by the Community Library Friends. Six homes were open to the public as a fund raiser on May 16, 1976. From 1 to 6 p.m. over 500 signatures were recorded in the guest book at our house. At this writing we are coming upon Memorial Day which has always loomed large in my life experience. From the time we were children old enough to walk from the church to the cemetery, we formed lines behind my father and Uncle Charlie. With flowers handed us by the women of the church we followed up the hill and hunted a grave with the little American flag on it to lay them on. My father, after seeing to it that no soldier's gave was missed, led us to the spot where one of our leading citizens would tell us why we should always honor our men who served their country. The band that played as we started out in step to the cadence of the drum beat consisted of three old men playing fife, bugle and drum. To this day when I hear the music of a drum and bugle corp I fancy myself in my best summer dress and black patent leather slippers - bouquet in hand. With the exception of the years when I had children in the Big Walnut High School Band, I have always gone "Over home" for Memorial Day. During World War II with the railroad running along beside the cemetery, the speaker and special music always had to stop and wait for trains to to pass, sometimes twice what with all the hauling by rail for the war effort. A large monument stands in the Woodstock Cemetery since 1895. It was built by my great uncle, Warren S. Cushman to commemorate the family and all the men who volunteered in the Civil War from Woodstock. Names of 140 soldiers are etched on a scroll on one side where above them the sculptor's profile is shown with his bugle. He was the company bugler. On the base of the monument are carved the three main branches on the family tree- Cushman, Hewitt and Gifford. On one end is Julius Cushman, brother of the artist in a military fatigue uniform. He was the first Woodcock soldier to die in battle. Beside the scroll of names is the third brother, Charles Anthony, one of the first to enlist in 1861. Warren stands beside the family history on the other side. Members of Woodstock families who have long since moved away come back to see their soldiers names carved on the monument. Time and weather have not been kind to the Portland Cement from which it was made. It has required constant repair to fill the cracks by the artist's two great grand daughters. A few years ago my brother and cousin Bailey Cushman replaced the time worn names in the cement with marble slabs which will be there for time to come. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/aa12de0ebb6a92e4f8d24331a51a0c63.jpg ef4b37e5f467ebf650027dc8bba3b0a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (44) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 42 of From the Beginning] A word about the artist. He was born in 1844, died in 1926 with over 1000 paintings to his credit. He studied at the Corchoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. His portrait of President Rutherford B. Hayes was hung in the Nation's capitol. He exhibited "Spanish Dancing Girls" at the World's fair in Chicago in 1893. The painting later sold for $10,000. Each year at the cemetery on Memorial Day half of the people I see are relatives although none of them reside in Woodstock anymore. There are only two houses where I can name the residents. My sisters and I join my brother in Mechanicsburg for a potluck at noon. In July there is a much larger reunion at Goshen Park and this year we will celebrate Robert's 90th birthday. He is the Patriarch of the family. The tradition of reunion started with the first families of Cushman, Hewett and Gifford. Now it is only the Cushmans who are within range and some of them come from quite a distance. In 1979 we attended Frank's 50th High School alumni Banquet in Marysville. His class was one of those exceptional classes of students that produced several good athletes as well as many strong ties of friendships that continued through the years. His High School Principal, Miss Fern Mills was present, ninety years old at the time, and his baseball coach, Whitney Dutton. It was quite a party that prompted Miss Mills to comment that she was gad to see that nothing had changed their behavior. In 1982. I had another slight heart attack and this time was advised to have an angiogram. It showed a complete blockage of a small artery and also evidence of the [photo: Cushman, Hewitt, Gifford Monument in Woodstock Cemetery] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bd0f131aad42265858caa881eff42e82.jpg 981f82baa2cdc2da698ef6fce134fa32 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (45) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 43 of From the Beginning] one suffered in 1975 on a main artery. Medication was prescribed which I have taken even since. Frank had an angiogram two weeks after mine. We told the doctor about his bleeding tendency and was assured by him that of the hundreds of procedures he had performed not one of them had ever bled. Well, he can't make that statement anymore. Frank was scheduled to go home the same day but just before he was to be dismissed his bandages and bedding were soaked with blood. They kept him overnight. The hemorrhaging continued with at least one episode per day for several days. When it was the night of my 50th High School Alumni Banquet he didn't want to run the risk of having to make a sudden exit so Susie drove us to Delaware where we left Frank in the good hands of Nurse Barbara. Susie had the "pleasure" of accompanying me to the party where she met all my classmates about whom she had heard stories through the years. Frank got along through the evening with no problems, but about 2 a.m. we were up changing the dressing. As with the tonsils the little one inch incision at the elbow finally healed. Our annual family Christmas party fell on the 20th of December this year, our 48th wedding date. The children surprised us with a wedding cake, presents and all the trappings of a golden wedding celebration. It was our last one. On June 26th, 1983 Frank died suddenly. At that moment for me the whole world seemed to have stopped. Disbelief and numbness finally gave way to the thankful realization that he did not suffer an extended illness. While I didn't fail to count my blessings for the 48 years of happiness with Frank the wonderful memories made my loss harder to accept. That is where my children came in to help me through this period that I can't imagine facing without them. He had taught well by example. They were there with help, many times even before I would think of needing it. Surely I have been blessed. With eight children, fifteen grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren there is always a happening taking place. Birthdays, graduations, weddings, new babies and all sorts of important occasions in between. We never lack for reasons to celebrate. Frank lived to see all but one grandchild, Jim's daughter, Amy. Our first great grandchild, Susie's granddaughter, Brooke Elizabeth was born in 1986. Frank was denied the privilege of knowing any of the great grandchildren. Until last July it was six of one and half dozen of the other. Anne's granddaughter, Olivia Lucille was born in Dearborn, Mi., making it 7 girls and six boys. We looked forward to a little change of scenery in summer when Frank had vacation from work. The years we lived in Illinois we spent that time in Ohio visiting friends and family. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7faf41af120116ed7285a735539d6045.jpg 8d0d945357155d5339befa3ff728f8c8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (46) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 44 of From the Beginning] It was exciting when we set forth on the trip. I filled the Coleman Cooler with ham sandwiches, potato salad, cake and fruit. We stopped at a rest area just east of Indianapolis. It was over half way to journey's end, a good time to let the little ones play in the little creek that ran through the park. After that, it didn't seem so long till we came to the Ohio line and were in Ohio Country. the older children still talk about the fun they had at Knightstown, Indiana. After seeing everyone and having such a good time we were all just as eager to start the trip home. Later on in the summer, a trip to Florida with Jim, Bob and Jeff was the destination for our get-away. By then the girls, also John and Charlie, had summer jobs. After they were married some of them moved out of state. We visited them which took us to N. Carolina, Michigan, Virginia and New Mexico. Jeff at an early age could spot the Holiday Inn signs a mile down the road. After riding for what seemed to him like a very long time, he looked forward to a swim in the pool. Also, he pointed out all the Golden Arches that he spied up ahead. And many times during these trips, we heard the question, "Are we almost there?" After the children had all left the nest, Frank and I spent a couple of weeks in Florida each winter. That was as long as we cared to stay. Even with the snow and cold, Ohio was the place we wanted to be. Frank was the last surviving brother-in-law. After he died my three sisters and I spent time together at Siesta Key. Long walks on the beautiful, white beach was how we started the day with sunning and swimming till noon. Evenings we played euchre. Josephine, not an avid card fan, would have no part of bridge which was the game three or us enjoyed playing: so euchre was a compromise. By the time our two weeks were up, we were caught up on family news and much of the past had been gone over. Mostly about people and events that took us back to Woodstock. The next year we would start all over again. We do not go to Florida any more, but each spring the four of us plan something together closer to home. If it is any distance, we have drivers who are willing to see that we get there intact. Susie and Carolyn, Bertha's daughter, are willing to listen to the same old stories and our arguing about events being discussed as to whether it was this way or that. Otherwise Josephine is the "designated" driver. She has [photo: Spring Break 1990 in Siesta Key, Florida Josephine, Julia, Verna, Bertha] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5815f83e173b6d5df6c7689a87790c90.jpg b7fab888bc9e7ae2da5e9d3fb088194e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (47) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 45 of From the Beginning] come many times and driven us to Indiana to her house and brought us back home. She being the youngest of the four, we absolutely forbid her to get old. We were saddened by the loss of two of our young men when accidents claimed their lives. On April 16, 1988, Scott, Charlie's son, met with death on his way to work in his truck. He was not far from the Golf course where he was working when he failed to make the turn. In 1991 on May 10th, Christopher, Susie's son, was on his way home from work at Honda when he was crossing a seldom used railroad with inadequate marking. A train came along at a fast rate of speed and carried his car down the track. Chris was 28 and left his wife Vicki, daughter Brooke, age 5 years, and son Blake, 2 years old. Scott was just through school and on his first job which he liked very much. The loss to all of us left a large void which is hard to understand, but we can only remind ourselves of the joy that they had brought into our lives. They are always with us when we think of the smiles and winning ways of two handsome, tall, blond young men who were very dear to us. Life does not always go along as planned. Divorce results from marriages which were probably not meant to have been. It is never an easy time when that seems to be the only solution but somehow life goes on. Five of my children found themselves in this unfortunate situation. Four of them have since remarried. Charlie and Karen Stevens, from Ostrander, bring Natalie and Angie Stevens into our family. Jim married Debra Winters of Delaware and have a daughter Amy. John and Darcie Dunzwiler from Zanesville married last summer, and Susie and Steve Churchill of Columbus were just married June 15th. Steve has two children, Susan and Steve III. Anne also is divorced and living in Rockwood, Michigan enjoying her children and grandchildren. When my children are happy, I am happy for them. As I bring my story to a close, it occurs to me that there is a side of my personality that I haven't mentioned. and that is the need I have always had to create something with my hands. I wasn't until the children were no longer young before I could find the time to pursue my interests. Perhaps if I had been content to stick to one thing, I could have achieved more success. No sooner than I finish one project I want to start something new. [top right photo: Verna 1990] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e07a335f091c508431bf5ba61eb20aa8.jpg edfece4a2e63ab687a73c398e460f340 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (48) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 46 of From the Beginning] [top left photo: Out to Lunch on my 74th Birthday - 1988 Judy Morris, Betty Jo Guidotti and Me] [top right photo: 75th Birthday Party at Lindeys - 1989] [middle photo: My 80th Birthday Party In Front: Barbara, Susie, Me, Anne, Karen In Back: Charles, John, Jeff, Bob, Duncan, Debbie, Jim] [bottom photo: Sisters Julia, Verna, Josephine At My 80th Birthday Luncheon At Barbara's 1994] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bda9c298a105ffe287583a80bf9b04e3.jpg 283279f761e99838358fb9095cff4c68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (49) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 47 of From the Beginning] However, I always finish what I start. A hooked rug or crocheted lace tablecloth might have taken a year. But I was driven by the desire to see how it turned out. For a few years I was very much in to quilting which was truly a creative process. From the selection of the calico prints that required going from store to store to find, to arranging them as to color. That makes the quilt one of a kind which definitely reflects one's own artistry even though others may use the same pattern. When the adult evening classes in Art were offered at the high school with teacher Bill Fraley, I signed up and spent many happy hours with some of my good friends with similar interests. We were working in oil, and later I had a few sessions in water color with Ruth Firestone. I mean to get out the paints again; and if some other project doesn't get in the way, I probably will. The trees we planted in the yard 30 years ago have grown so tall they shade my flower beds. I must hunt for a sunny spot here and there to plant any thing at all. I love the trees and have to accept the fact that I can't have it both ways, but I do miss the variety of cut flowers from which I can pick and choose to make arrangements for my tables. Also the last summer that my friend, Judy Morris was with us, I enjoyed seeing her face light up when I took flowers to her. From the time I started collecting antiques, I have spent hours removing paint and varnish with all seemed worthwhile when the final finish was being smoothed out and the beauty of the wood came through. I have brought home items from auction sales which had definitely seen better days. In fact at times Frank would doubt my judgement or lack of it. However, he would set to work although grudgingly, on the drawers making them glide smoothly and any other repair that was needed. With the removal of the old finish and the results of my labors in restoring the piece, he was as excited as I was over the transformation. I believe that this sums up the important events in my life that I recall. Although I put off starting it for one reason or another, I have actually enjoyed remembering details that I hadn't thought of until I needed to put them in writing. As much as I enjoyed the places and people I came to know in moving where Frank's work took us, I feel privileged to have spent so much of my life in Sunbury. a good place for family, and friends that make life exciting and worthwhile. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0c21027d6343a87f7d8ae83fb6c77faf.jpg 13282fb32c46668002a510cccef1cfeb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (50) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to numbered page 48 of From the Beginning] [photo: Shep and I September 1996] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/79f6fa997eff8b05b7da94b2e99868ed.jpg b287d149cb36aa96a371eed9a17e7da9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning (51) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Family Histories Description An account of the resource This collection contains family histories that have been written by residents of the Big Walnut area. Items in this collection generally contain genealogical information about the families, personal anecdotes, and images of family members. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Beginning Description An account of the resource This family history tells the stories of the Bergandine and Cushman families, the Bergandine's world travels, and how it came to pass that Mr. Bergandine became the manager of the Sunbury Nestlé plant. Many photographs are included. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 1] [corresponds to title page of Pages of Our Lives] Pages of Our Lives [image] Farming a Way of Life by Rachel Murphy Buxton Community Library Sunbury, Ohio 2005 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 1) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4280896fa5ecab52394386217b1bfb45.jpg c02dc31b7fe03c4b341ff42f5e33e96c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 2] [corresponds to page -i- of Pages of Our Lives] Table of Contents Rachel's Story My Childhood .............................................. 1 Maple Syrup Making at the Murphy Woods .................... 7 Condit Presbyterian Church ................................ 8 Other Childhood Memories .................................. 9 Rachel's School Days ...................................... 12 More Childhood Memories ................................... 20 Threshing and Silo Filling Rings .......................... 21 Memories of Dad ............................................ 22 Memories of Mom............................................. 24 Tom Enters My Life.......................................... 27 Tom Buxton.......................................................... 29 Jerry Edwards............................................... 31 Tom's First Florida Trip.................................... 32 Marriage............................................................ 34 Children............................................................. 35 Family Homes Thomas Buxton House......................................... 36 Rex and Joy Buxton's House.................................. 39 Vacations........................................................... 40 Medical History Rachel's Medical History.................................... 43 Tom's Medical History....................................... 48 Cancer in My Family......................................... 50 Memorable Moments in Our Family..................................... 50 Appendix Other Papers by Rachel Program for Friendly Club ................................... 51 My Great Uncle Lovett ....................................... 54 By Other Murpheys Lovett Taft Murphy ...................................... 56 What May Be Done to Improve the Social, Moral and Intellectual Condition of the Farm by L.T Murphy ............................ 59 Ella Murphy's Tape ........................................ 62 Letter from Abram and Mary Ann Adams to Linnie Murphy ..... 72 Letter to Melinda Ball Murphey ...............................73 Abram and Mary Ann Adams Epilogue .............................75 Grace Chadwick Murphey's Memorial Service .....................76 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Velma Murphy McCall Creech ...84 Lovett Murphy: A Step Back in Time ...........................101 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... 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Description An account of the resource [page 3] [corresponds to page -ii- of Pages of Our Lives] Rachel Murphy's Ancestors ............................................... 103 Murphy Family Tree ...................................................... 105 My Ancestors ..................................................... 106 The Murphy Tree by Grace Chadwick Murphy ......................... 107 Murphy Family History ............................................ 111 Farrah Murphy's Papers ........................................... 127 History of Trenton Township by Farrah Murphy ................. 129 Scenes from My Childhood by Farrah Murphy .................... 134 Farrah C. Murphy by Ella Murphy Taylor ........................... 135 Chadwick and Loren Family Tree .......................................... 138 Loren History .................................................... 139 Loren History by Grace C. Murphy ................................. 140 Chadwick Family History .......................................... 143 Chadwick Family for Sunbury Bicentennial ......................... 144 Carnes and Olmsted Family Tree .......................................... 149 Emmitt and Melissa Carnes Family History ......................... 150 Joe Carnes ....................................................... 156 Maple Crest Farm ................................................. 158 Olmsted Family History ........................................... 159 Willis Buxton Family .................................................... 163 Marvin Buxton's Descendants ...................................... 164 Buxton Family History ............................................ 165 Buxton Family Photos ............................................. 167 John and Mary Jackson's Descendants ..................................... 169 Jackson and White Family History ........................................ 170 Thornton and Neal Family History ........................................ 171 Green Family History .................................................... 173 Callan Family History ................................................... 174 Wayne Buxton ...................................................... 175 Lucille Buxton .................................................... 181 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 3) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0b9045b7a7f7cd3c5ebf163315ca07d6.jpg d832b251ebe8704c67deae8cc9a1a954 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 4] [corresponds to page 1 of Pages of Our Lives] My Childhood [photo] [photo caption] Home of Rachel Murphy Buxton 140 acres on the north side of road 105 acres on the side of road is 50 acre wood and 55 acres farm land only the house, garage and chicken house behind the house remain in 2005 I, Rachel Leola Murphy, was born Feb. 26, 1933 at home in the 1st house on Murphy Road where I lived all my childhood. I was a happy child at home, never getting angry except I hated to be teased. The kids on the school bus would call me "Little Art" as looked like Daddy. Another time my brother, Lovett, teased me and I chased him around our house with a butcher knife. Mother was afraid I would fall on it as I was pigeon-toes. I had to wear shoes to correct it. They were always kept under the bed in the tiny downstairs bedroom in the southwest corner of the house. I loved to clean so many times I was sweeping the stone around the back porch, where the eaves ran down, to make them look neater. One time I found some old money (Indian heads) while sweeping. We had a fenced in chicken lot to the north of the house which had the chicken house, fruit orchard, and the back house in it. The back house had two holes, one large and one small. This was our only toilet until we had an inside toilet put in Sept. 1944 with one stool upstairs and a small bathroom downstairs out of the little bedroom. I loved to sickle the weeds in the chicken lot as I didn't like the looks of the big nettle weeds which liked to grow there. Dad only cut the bull thistles. One day I was sickling too hard and ran the point of the sickle into the side on my left knee. I also had trouble going to the toilet in the back house as the roosters and cross ganders would always chase me when I was little so I always had to get someone to walk with me. I remember when they had to have our chickens vaccinated for cocidiosis. It took a long time to catch every chicken to vaccinate and put a leg leg band on them. We always fed the chickens boughten oyster shells besides our own ear corn which we had to shell. We had to carry ear corn from the corn crib across the road south of the house clear up the long yard and down the path to the chicken house each day. We had a large yard with the house sitting at the top of a big even rolling bank going [photo] [photo caption] Rachel Leola Murphy -1- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 4) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ea7f5e50de3088f93543e720173a97af.jpg c1c41cd75fdb6a366f4956714645aa6a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 5] [corresponds to page 2 of Pages of Our Lives] south down to the road and then real sharp, short banks going up to the the road. We would stand in the road and let the lawn mower go down the hill and then pull it back up. We would repeat this on the bank clear across the south side of the yard. It took us three kids all day Saturday to mow the yard and we took turns pushing the hand lawnmower around the big rectangle patch that we mowed. We had a old day bed with wire springs that we played on while out folks milked. We would also go round and around a pole in the milking parlor. I never learned to be a good hand miler as I was too young. I remember helping Daddy with the milking after my sister, Velma went to Cadet Nurses' Training in 1945 at Muskingum College and Bethesda Hospital for 3 years. We used the 2 five gallon stainless steel buckets with the De La Val milking machine. Dad and I would carry 2 or 3 milk can, strainer and the 2 milk buckets down the hill to milk. We would put the strainer pad in the strainer, set it in the milk can and start milking. Dad always squeezed the milk out of the dirty strainer pad and fed the barn cats milk when we were done milking. Then we had to carry all the cans and equipment back up the hill to the milk house. We rinsed the milkers with cold water at night but they had to washed with hot water and soap each morning. The full ten gallon milk cans were hard to carry up the sharp rocky path to the milk house and then set them into the cement water tank to cool before the milk man picked them up each day. Later we got the ice bank milk cooler to cool the milk. It was hard to lift the cans in and out of the cooler ever though the milk cooler was set lower in the cement floor of the milk house. I used to sing all the while we milked as I always listened to the hit parade on the barn radio. I knew all the popular songs by heart many sang by Frank Sinatra. Sometimes Dad would help me with my homework especially algebra if I had a problem, while milking. We put a pail full of ground feed, using an old 5 gallon calf a pail, into each of the six wooden stanchions. We would call the cows each in separately to milk two cows at a time. The cows knew their names and came in in the same order each milking. There was a long cutout place in the cement on the floor back of the cows that we called the gutter to catch and hold the cow manure. Each morning I swept the milking parlor floor which we limed and cleaned the gutter out with a scoop shovel. The walls of the milking parlor were white-washed every year or two especially if the milk inspector ordered it done. In 1962 when Dad was sick in the hospital with his cancer, the man hired to milk tried to drive the cows into the milking parlor to milk. The hired man had so much trouble I got all the names of the cows from Dad and I called them in and helped milk Dad got home. Cows habits are hard to change. We had one cow who would take her tongue and lick open the sliding barn door that fastened with a metal ring that hooked over a bolt sticking out of the cement sidewall. One very cold day her tongue froze to the metal ring. She never tried to open the door to eat feed again. I have many happy memories of helping Daddy milk as loved the cows and made pets out of all the heifer calves that we raised. We always had calves to feed. We [photo] [photo caption] Rachel with pet calf in front of coal house in the backyard -2- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 5) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b06d339194b68b1de1be3b476da083d4.jpg c7fa5b78a639f4908049cfb43c7fd3f2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 6] [corresponds to page 3 of Pages of Our Lives] mixed water with the dry calf feed called Calf A for the little calves in place of milk which we fed the calves as soon as we could sell their mothers milk. The mother's milk was fed to the newly born calves which contained colustrum for the first four to six days after freshening. We kids took turns in the summer time walking the cows down the long lane to the woods for the day. It took about a half an hour to do this. Then at night we would turn the cows across the road from the barn into the pasture field north west of our house after we milked. I never liked to watch the cows in the clover field west of the barn when it was in hay. We had to watch them usually an hour. There were no fences at the east end of the field so we and to sit and wait while the cows ate they would not get out and into the cornfield across the barn lot. One taste of corn and you could not keep them in the clover field. In the winter we had to throw down the loose straw from the straw mow in the barn above the cows to bed the cows. Then we had to throw down the loose hay from the hay mow to feed them in the manger and also had to climb the ribbed wooden silo rings and shovel out silage into a cart. Then push the cart in front of the long row of stanchions along the north wall of the barn. We would pitch a shovel silage in for each cow along with hay we had carried over to the mangers. The cows were kept in the barn all winter this made a lot of manure mixed with the straw to haul out in the manure spreader to spread on the fields. Dad Pitched the packed manure into the manure spreader with a 4-tined pitch fork. We each got a bottle of homemade canned root beer when we helped Dad pitch a load of manure. It meant a lot in later years when a neighbor, Charles Chamberlin, was paid to load the manure spreader with his tractor with a manure bucket in the front as Dad might have 100 loads of manure to haul in the spring. We ate a lot of rabbits and squirrels during the hunting season. Many times we had chickens when they were killed on the road as cars would pop over the hill from the east and hit them. The hill in the road was widened and the hill lowered in 1996. We butchered a beef each year sometimes a hog. We rented a food locker in Delaware, Ohio, and then later rented a locker in Sunbury after one was built there. We had a grocery man who came every two weeks. We would order our sugar, salt, flour, spices, vanilla, cocoa and peanut butter. My sister , Velma, liked to help mother can food and cook while I liked to work in the garden and clean. When we had to clean our rooms each weekend, I would have mine done early and Velma always waited until she had to do it. When Velma would cook and bake and make lots of dirty dishes I would wash the dishes and clean up the kitchen. I remember staying Grandma Murphys on the hill. I liked to sort the funny papers (we didn't get a paper) out in their old northeast unfinished store room on the ground level. Grandma always liked to work crossword puzzles and study the Bible. In later life she became a Christian Scientist. One time I stayed while the rest of our family to the Coney Island as I had to go to much to take on a trip. Grandma and I lay down one afternoon for a nap and she said, "Let's see who can go to sleep first." Of [photo] [photo caption] Grace Chadwick Murphy, 1930] -3- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 6) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/118314a5bdbdc02549d2e220f99eb70a.jpg 25e817a836316d9dc0f1d6906b90184e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 7] [corresponds to page 4 of Pages of Our Lives] course it was me. As a family we always went to Delaware once a month to get our meat from the locker, have an ice cream cone on the way and maybe see a movie at the Strand Theater. In late years we went to Dorsey Theatre in Johnstown. I always had to sit in the end seat so I could go to the restroom with disturbing everyone during the movie. I couldn't go to Centerburg movies as they didn't have a restroom. We picked always picked up hickory nut each fall in our woods as a family. In the spring we went to the woods to see the spring flowers and gather pawpaws to eat. In the summer we went our wood s to pick black- berries for mom to can and later years to sell. Mother had an electric Maytag washer and used a big square metal tub sitting on a small wooden table to rinse the clothes in. This same rinse tub was used for our weekly bath when we were little. We all used the same water, just adding hot water as it cooled down. We had lots of pets when we were young, I remember 2 dogs, Bobbie and Bingo which were both small black and white, short haired dogs. Lovett had some coon dogs and a pet crow. I also had a pet lamb and pet mouse. We had no pet cats as we just had what we called barn cats. I especially remember Mary Ellen who lived to be 25 years old with not teeth but still had kittens every year. When Wilma Carnes, my second cousin, and I played, one day in the sand pit at the bottom of the hill, we had slid down it so much on our seats we decided to wash our panties in the water tank in the milk house. I don't remember Dad ever scolding me for it. When us 3 kids would climb the ladder up to the haymow from the barn floor my legs were too short and I had a hard climbing the steps when we came to the big beam with no steps, but I never fell. As children, my sister, brother and I were not allowed to have a bicycle since our neighbor on 605, Charles Barton, was killed on his bike in an automobile accident. We played games with Ted Gray, our neighbor who also lived on 605. He was a year older than my brother. We played hide and seek, and Velma and Lovett got to ride his bike and horse in our yard. I didn't get to do as many things since I was the baby being 5 yrs. younger than Velma and 2 years younger than Lovett. One time time I went with Lovett to check his traps and he caught a skunk which we carried home. Mother made us change our clothes in the backhouse we smelled so bad. Every day when I got home from school I'd run upstairs and listen to my radio shows. I also loved to listen to Let's Pretend on Saturdays. I never got to stay all night with classmates except two times. Once with Nancy Williamson and once with Mary Lou Forgraves. they both lived in Sunbury. Mary Lou then got to stay at our house one night. I still remember how afraid she was of our chickens as she had never been in the country before. Our family never ate out so one time when I got to buy my lunch at school in downtown Sunbury with Joan Crowl it was very special. I had never had a boughten hamburger or milk shake before. I also remember of being in our Church's Prince of Peace speaking contests in the 8th and 9th grades. It was a 10 minute speech we memorized and spoke up front in a contest held at [photo] [photo caption] I remember getting burned with my first permanent which was given like this. I was in the 5th grade. -4- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 7) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7f4383a7fffe08bb3c6fc4e42d1b7f3d.jpg b928563bc44db5f9767743db517c6a45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 8] [corresponds to page 5 of Pages of Our Lives] Condit Church. My 9th grade speech I remember getting a mid-calf, black flaired skirt to wear for the contest. Mother made most of my skirts so this was special. I did not win but enjoyed being in the contests. The skirt length was in complete contrast with my 4th school year when the 8th grade girls across the school hall wore mid-thigh length dresses. I was very little as a child until I started to gain weight rapidly after the 2nd grade. By the time I was in the seventh grade I weighed 152 pounds and was 32" around my waist. I was so tired of being called "Chubby", "block buster", etc., that I made up my mind to lose wight that summer. I ate less and touched my toes 200 times a day. When I started back to school in the 8th grad I had lost 20 pounds and 6" around the waist which vowed never to gain back. I still enjoy exercising and have exercised daily since the early 1970's when I first started running and doing floor exercised. I changed to at least 15 minutes daily walking nightly floor exercises. I never missed the floor exercises but did miss walking when it was too cold before going to Florida in the fall. When we had our 2 siamese cats for 16 years, I never missed a night as they would wait for me to do the floor exercises so I would hold them for a few minutes. In 1995, I added weight lifting. I started slowly with 3 lb. weights which I lifted in seven different motions increasing to 20 times each way. Then I slowly added 5 lb weights, then 8 lb and sometimes I even use my 10 or 11 lb weights but it seems to take too long so I very seldom us the 10 or 11 lb. weights. I have 2 sets of 3, 5 and 8 lb. wights so I have one set on the bathroom counter and the other set in the motor home. I look forward to Listening to Deliah on Sunny 95 radio when I lift weights in the bathroom and watch T. V. when I lift weights in the motor home. My junior year I went Y-Teen Camp for a week. As children Dad always played rook, carrom, checkers and later euchre with us especially in the winter evenings. We were not allowed to learn to play poker as this was considered a gambling game. I never liked to read like my sister, Velma did. In the 4th grade I read the reading circle books only to get the certificate. I was so disappointed one Christmas when Aunt Ruth and Uncle Raymond Chadwick gave me a book for Christmas that I cut a circle around the pages of the book. Sometimes in the 1980's, my daughter, Tina gave me some Harlequin romance books and I enjoyed reading them. Then I read "Ashes in the Wind" by Kathleen Woodsworth about the Civil War. This got me interested in reading good books that I enjoyed and felt I also learned something. I now have many authors which I enjoy reading their books. I usually read 15 or 20 long books the four months each winter when we are in Florida. I find the thicker, best selling books are usually very good. We had a lot of sledding and ice skating parties on Grandpa's hill and pond in the pasture field. I din't learn to ice skate until I got my new shoe skate my freshman year in high school in 1948. The slip-on skates that you put on your shoes did not give any ankle support. I remember how us kids used to hunt for our Christmas gifts early. One year we finally found them in the back of the piano. I remember how pleased I was when our gas man's, Nick Nichol's wife , made me a little cloth divan and chair with lift up lids for Christmas. One year we bought a live Christmas tree in a ball of dirt. It was not very well branched but we made it look nice by decorating in the holes between the branches. This Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 8) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6dc991d5fb13fcd245b19be506867c7e.jpg afa7811241dc773774b1247a412d4c3f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 9] [corresponds to page 6 of Pages of Our Lives] odd-shaped tree is still growing in front yard of our home place on Murphy road. The road going east past our house was lined on both sides with locust trees which touched together in places smelling so good when they bloomed. We had to walk up to the bottom of the hill to get our mail each day. I loved the walk up the road at night as it was so pretty. I also like to walk and climb up the big hill in the pasture fields east of the pond at night and sit and look at the stars and the moon shining on the pond. We three kids each had our room upstairs. Velma had the east room, Lovett had the northwest room and I had the southwest room where the stairway came up in it. We liked to walk around the ledge around the stairway. Sometimes we would play in what we called the poke hole closet with its door just to the right of the top of the step upstairs. This closet ran along the west side of the southwest room with very little width space. It was so hard to walk as you had to bend over and it was dark as there was no light except the light from the door opening. We got our first T. V. when I was a freshman in high school in 1947. Emmie Van Sickle, an older second cousin we often visited when I was young, lived on a mud road near Sparta, Ohio. Several times, my folks got our car stuck on this road. I'm still afraid of muddy places. Emmie had always been sickly until she had her gall bladder out. She made this beautiful hair picture when bedfast for 2 years with rheumatic fever at age 13 years. It was made with horse, human and baby hairs wrapped around fine wires to form different flowers which were attached to a red velvet background. It is housed in a deep two foot square wooden glass frame. I received 1st place on this picture at the Hartford Independent Fair at Croton, Ohio. Our family ate our meals together sitting around a round table in the west end of our big kitchen. The table was covered with an oil cloth with a big clear double-handled sugar bowl in the center we always talk about everything during our meals. We even talked about the boys I had dated. Our family exchanged Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner with Aunt Ernistine and and Uncle Darrel who lived just north of Sunbury off route 61. Aunt Ernistine always made her three-layered square hickory nut cake with a hickory nut, sugar and cream thickened filling and topped with confectionary sugar, butter and vanilla frosting which always ran over the sides of the cake. Later when we three kids were married, we had our Christmas dinners at my sister's, Velma and Allan McCall's house in Delaware. Our last Christmas eve, Dec. 24, 1960, before Dad died we were at the home place waiting for Dad to get done milking so the kids could open their presents. We didn't know Dad had cancer and why it took him so long to do the chores. My father got us a nice step-stool which we still have and I wore a black and white corduroy skirt which I also still have. We usually had our Murphy reunions in the summer outside some where often at uncle Darrel's Woods or by a creek where the kids could swim and men could fish. We always had so much fun when all the cousins got together. when us kids were older we made a lot of candy. We sometimes had taffy pulls and then would put the pulled taffy on the buttered marble dresser top of Mom's Jenny Lynn bedroom suite in the enclosed back porch bedroom. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 9) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7393f5efd41f92659decde2310f5a832.jpg 12ff1fe348d5f97ec2b272cb79259065 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 10] [corresponds to page 7 of Pages of Our Lives] [photo] [photo caption] Arthur and Ethel Murphy's 25th Wedding Anniversary and Annual Picnic At Darrel Murphy's August 29, 1948 Allan McCall, Darrel C. Murphy, Grace L. Murphy Farrah C. Murphy Harriet Vogelsang, Erma McCall, Rachel L. Murphy, Ethel I Murphy, Mary Ell Murphy, Arthur B. Murphy, Mary Carnes, Ernistine Murphy, Ella L. Taylor, David Taylor holding Grace Taylor Children in front are John Taylor, Jon Carnes and Ralph Murphy Maple Syrup Making at the Murphy Woods (about 1938-1950) My sister's and brother's and my birthday are on Feb. 24,25, and 26. This time of year always marked the beginning of maple syrup making season. Some seasons were much longer than others. The weather played such an important role in syrup making. When the weather turned warm for several days and night freezing ceased, the maple buds came on the trees and the sap would have a budding taste and the sugar making season was over for another year. All the sap buckets and spiles were stored in the granary over the milking parlor. They had to be washed and taken to the sugar camp which was a clearing in the woods with a small wooden structure housing the necessary equipment to make maple syrup. This structure was located at the northwest section of the woods, closest to our house which was less than a mile away. The firewood, which had been cut during the winter, was stored near the camp. The wood was used to keep the fire burning under the three big evaporating pans. Next the sugar maple trees in the woods had to have a small hole bored, with a brace and bit, into the bark about four feet up from the ground and a spile tapped into the hole. A spile was a hollow piece of wood or metal later which formed a trough to allow the sap to come out of the tree into the pail. Real big trees could have two or three spiles in them. The cleaned sap buckets were then hung on the spiles. The next job was to hitch two horses onto the double tree attached to the sled which held the deep round gathering tank. The horses pulled the two-logged bottom sled through Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 10) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fe71319ebcd4b2df5e1c41569ee6d8ea.jpg 2286a8e55f7e624c6da2b94dc6e47707 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 11] [corresponds to page 8 of Pages of Our Lives] the muddy, rutted path in and around the tapped trees so the pails could be dumped into the gathering tank. The sap would again run through the spiles and drop, drip by drip, into the pail after the next freeze and thaw. The sap had to be gathered every day or it could sour. The filled tank of sugar water was parked on the higher hillside on the northeast side of the sugar camp. The pout was let down and the sap would run down through pipes to the evaporating pans inside the sugar camp. Then the fire under the pan was started. the steam would roll up and out of the opened sided roof as the sap boiled down. When the sap in the first pan got to a certain degree of sweetness it was syphoned into the next pan until it reached the finishing pan. Then a special test was done with a hydrometer tester which was floated in the sap. When it tested right the boiling maple syrup was run through a thick, dense wool-filled bag into the new square one-gallon maple syrup cans Dad bought and put his name labels on before he sold them. The caps were screwed onto the hot syrup-filled cans. Mother would top off the cans at the house before they were sold as the cans were not sealed. It took between 40-50 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup so a lot of fire wood was needed. As a season got nearly done the finished maple syrup would be darker in color and get a budding taste. This syrup we would keep and not sell. dad would start a a batch early in the morning after milking the cows and it might not be finished until midnight. He would get 6 to 8 gallons per batch. The sweetness of the sap affected the length of time per batch and amount of work. We kids like to have parties at the sugar camp. We often roasted potatoes and meat in the hot ashes and boiled eggs in the sap. We have a picture of the Condit Presbyterian Sunday School class party held at the sugar camp taken about 1938. When I was in the second grade in 1940 I broke my left wrist during recess at the Sunbury grade school. The school called my Grandpa Murphy as they had a phone. Grandma blew her big couch shell to let Dad know to come home. It could be heard clear down at the woods from up on the hill where Marv Monroe now owns. Dad came to house and got the message. He took me to Sunbury so Dr. Spiro could set my arm bones when I placed it behind the screen. The set was O.K. so I got to go home after the cast was on it. We also made a lot of maple syrup candy by just boiling maple syrup to soft ball stage (when a teaspoon of hot syrup would just go under in a cup of cold water and float our of teaspoon.) Many time we added peanut butter to the syrup before beat it and put it in a buttered glass square pan. Boughten candy was a treat. One time when Wilma Carnes and I were at Grandma Carnes East Liberty home, we were playing in their bedroom and found a box of candy. We each ate a piece of a candy and never told Grandma. Condit Presbyterian Church My parents never went to church because my father was forced to go to church until he was 21 years old and he said he was not going to church after he was married. Mom did not go by herself and I was not going to do the same when I married. As a child I started going to Sunday School with Grandpa Murphy and continued as I grew older. I also remember going to the Guild meetings at the church with grandpa. As a child I remember being in the big west Sunday School room and each class sitting in their row. We got a cupcake for our birthday. I remember Grace Condit and Mable Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 11) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/dac4596bcbc8a9654a7ee429c3101c4e.jpg ed6e5ac72039deb3b5235a0287b6f85b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 12] [corresponds to page 9 of Pages of Our Lives] Comstock, "Doc" McOwen and wife, Mary McOwen and Jim Wilson as teachers. When I was in high school, Wendall Days picked me up for choir practice so I got to sing in the choir. I was never very good at singing part but one time Faye thorn and I sang a duet for church. I ended up singing the melody and Faye, the alto as I could't stay on the alto part of "In the Garden". I went Wooster Church Camp which really was a high light in my life. I still remember our last nigh communion and all walking back to the dorm, singing "Only Believe". Then I gave a camp report at the Condit Presbyterian Church where I was a member. When I was about 16 years old, during the Easter Church service, the minister asked if anyone wanted to join the church and I stood up. I remember the Elders taking to me before I was baptized and joined the church. Another special day was the day I was ordained as an Elder. I especially remember how heavy all the other Elder's hands were on my head during the laying on hands service. Our Youth Fellowship was led by Wayne and Jerry Reppart. It was very special as did so many things I had never done before. We did roller skating and swimming parties so I learned roller skate and swim. [photo] [photo caption] Rachel - 16 years old I joined the church in 1949. Tom went to church with me once in awhile after we were married in 1952 but often I went alone. After our kids were born, I took them and my brother's children every Sunday and often taught Sunday School. I was pleased when Tom joined our church in 1996 after Ted Gray invited him to join. I started teaching Sunday School when Tina was 3 years old by helping Mildred Morton teach her class. I moved up with Tina until she graduated. Then I taught in Perry and Rex's classes. I also lead the group opening for Sunday School for several years. Our women's group started meeting at the Rest Home and helping with crafts when Mrs. Crawford had her rest home in Berkshire. We then went Morning View Care Center in Condit after it was built. I helped with crafts one day a week for several year. Then changed to bingo as more patients could join in. Ann Ross and Grace Wilson also helped as it takes several to help the patients play. Then we have a cover-all and the winner gets a $1 bell. Ann Ross, her sister, Louise, and I had bingo several years for the patients. The church had always been very important to me my whole life. I enjoy going to Sunday School and church, singing in the choir, attending our day sewing and study circle, going to our working group called "The Friendly Club", working on different committees, and helping with Bible School and church meals and teaching Sunday School. [photo] [photo caption] Rachel Buxton and Velma McCall for Church's 150 Celebration in 1986 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 12) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/38c26e420541ad6105fd572462779729.jpg 1983f238de8ad178db98df4571a3ea38 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 13] [corresponds to page 10 of Pages of Our Lives] Other Childhood Memories Lovett and I both had pink eye when Mom was in the hospital. Helen Williams and baby son, Dickie, took care of us. We had to soak our eyes open in the morning and get the burning medicine of argeral put in them every day. I always loved to sew. I started making doll clothes in the 4th grade. By the 8th grade I made myself a full, pleated skirt on a dropped hip line top. I remember the pride I felt when Mother let me wall-paper the pantry by myself and it looked so nice when I got done. I remember staying all night at Grandpa and Carnes and his new wife Harriett Vogelsang, when Mom was in the hospital. I must have played in the dirt as Grandma told me to wash my feet in a pan of water before supper. While I was washing my feet, Grandma went outside to call Grandpa in for supper. I remember her yelling when she found Grandpa dead hanging from a rope in the barn. I was sent immediately across the road to the neighbors where I stayed all night until Dad could get me the next day. I shelled corn by hand for the chickens. O remember getting to shell corn on Grandpa Murphy's corn sheller that he used for shelling corn for his shelling his corn for his sheep. It was so much fun to put an ear of corn in the font hole, turning the handle and the corn come out the bottom and the cob out the other side. When I was in Sunbury grade school, each morning all the classes lined up by the flag pole with the 8th grade first going down to the first grade. The eighth graders seemed so old and grown up to the younger kids. I remember Terry Day play taps on his bugle for the flag rising before went to our rooms to start our day. The first eight grades were in the western part of the old Sunbury school house. We went to high school in the east side of the same building. My 1951 class went to the Sunbury High school building for our senior year, which included Sunbury and Galena but was called Big Walnut. In 1952 the Big Walnut High School including Sunbury, Galena and Harlem and the students got to use the new Big Walnut high school building. All twelve years of school my brother, sister and I rode the school bus. We were on of the first kids to get on the bus in the morning and last ones of at night. I was always anxious for school to start. I went to Sunbury grade school and Sunbury High School. Mr first grade teacher was Miss Tathem. We enjoyed our gold fish we had at school in the back of the room. My 2nd grade teach, Miss Bond, was very strict and we learned a lot. She had divided reading classes. I was in center reading class. There were six in 1st class. We were sent to the black board in small groups and had to stay until we knew our words. We also had to count to 200. My 3rd grade teacher, Miss Love, let the kids who got their work done play a lot. My fourth grade teacher, Miss Hogue, was strict but when we got our work done we could play in the back room making things out of orange crates. I worked hard on reading books to get my reading certificate but did not enjoy reading like my sister Velma did. My fifth grade teacher, Miss Beatty, was an older woman but made us work. I enjoyed having a speaking part in a musical play that 4th, 5th and 6th grade kids were in. My 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Grumlick, was an excellent teacher and we learned our parts of speech well. It was in this class when we heard World War 2 was over in 1945. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 13) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/73746a6e20fe30577cf859a7c5898fc9.jpg 2e2b4b91e60bb88218ad611b34a10cb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 14] [corresponds to page 11 of Pages of Our Lives] My 7th grade teacher, Mr. Crawford, tried hard but always got along better with the girls than the boys. We traded some classes with the 8th grade and our class always beat the 8th graders in parts of speech in English. My 8th grade teacher, Mr. Neilson, was an excellent teacher and really made me work. He was very patriotic. Every morning we sang patriotic songs, pledged allegiance to the flag, repeated memory verses and had a prayer. I was excited I got to be Aunt Polly in a Tom Sawyer play we put on. I also remember my beautiful wool long sleeved green dress I got for our first class party. We also enjoyed our last day trip of school Oshonasee Dam. We took a packed lunch and just had fun all being together. My biggest trouble was I liked to talk too much and ask too many questions. Our memory verses I still remember. (1) There Are Bridges to Cross and the Way Seems too Long. (2) For when the one Great Scorer Comes to Write Against Your Name. I was the only one who memorized the long poem, The Ship of State, and recited it for the class. [photo] [photo caption] Certificate I earned in the 8th Grade Following is a paper I wrote my freshman year in English Class. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 14) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/22c2f9d43d76a359566c539fcfc52e23.jpg 0634e468c5a51a4bac9735a0efe6f6a8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 15] [corresponds to page 12 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] I was born on my fathers farm near Condit on February 26, 1933. Because I was the youngest of three children my brother two years older and my sister five years older, they both liked to tease me and make me cry. Even though they did tease me we also had fun together especially in winter because we have a very high hill to slide down and a large pond to skate on. At the age of six I started to Sunbury school. In the second grade I broke my arm running on the cement walk in front of the school building, where we were not supposed to be playing. In the third grade since I and some others were good students we were permitted to build articles out of orange crates. We also gave a play using the articiles we made. In the fourth grade I was once caught copying spelling words, after getting a good bawling out I never copied again. In the seventh grade I was Mr. Crawford's secretary. When Mr. Nielson Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 15) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9a391a76457287447fdfe5205e203d18.jpg 423c90d9dd8116df39ac50063476b928 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 16] [corresponds to page 13 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] taught the seventh grade English I was his secretary too. Then in the eight grade I was vice president. I had a part in both of the plays which were put were put on by Mr. Neilson. In the Christmas play I had the part of Faith. In our commencement play I had one of the leading parts. The play was "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". I had the part of Aunt Polly. In the eighth grade state test I was fifteenth in the county in all my subjects and first in the county in science. I am news reporter for the Condit Presbyterian church's West Minister Fellowship. It's lots of work but also fun. When the West Minister Fellowship went to Glengary on a swimming party I learned to swim. When we went to Rollerland on a skating party I learned to roller skate. I am also learning to ice skate on our pond since we got the dam fixed last summer. We again have many ice skating parties on the pond. This year I have learned most of the rules for baseball and football. I am hoping to learn Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 16) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bae7194353f44fa7ffe2c5a3dbbb8f21.jpg 702af8378385a25e7e4ea5de07d52e33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 17] [corresponds to page 14 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] more about basketball too. I like very much to go to the football, baseball and basketball games of our school. When I was ten my cousins and I went Youngtown [sic] with our great aunt. there we saw may steel pants but what I liked seeing much better was the huge rock garden which we drove around in the car. This rock garden was simply beautiful with all it's different colors and designs. I have also been to New Concord, Zanesville and Akron seeing my sister who is a cadet nurse. When she was taking her college work at New Concord she took me over the college grounds. It really took a lot of energy because the college is all located on hills. When she was on her affitiation [sic] in Akron I went up on the bus and stayed with her on her day off. I had a grand time while I was there. I soon made friends with all the other cadet nurses there. It was so interesting Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 17) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5e42d63483d1cfd498fff24a2527d671.jpg 7d4dddcbe7c885b15d391c5ce0522333 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 18] [corresponds to page 15 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] to talk to cadet nurses from other states. In the summer I usually get three or four days vacation from helping milk twenty cows night and morning at some of my relations. When I visited my Aunt and Uncle in Delaware we went swimming, downtown ect. [sic] but when I visited my Aunt and Uncle near Berlin I took care of their little boy while they milked, put up hay ect. They were both though quite a change from what I had been used to doing. This summer when my sister got her vacation form nursing school we had so much fun together. We baked a grand anniversary cake for our parents wedding anniversary. Besides basking it we also frosted and decorated it to a T. I like sewing just as well as cooking though. When I see something in a magazine I like real well that isn't too hard to make. I cut the pattern of paper then Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 18) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0ebc66f0447c55962f39a41c469b90a3.jpg 18cf1570c67e5afda89aa7eee8bc4755 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 19] [corresponds to page 16 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] material and sew it up. My hobby is nature and science. I especially like to catch insects and mount then [sic] on cotton. I have another hobby which is singing that is when I haven't got a cold. I like to sing with my sister and brother. Sometimes we harmonize real well. I have quite a tan from helping make hay, mowing our 1/4 acre lawn, weeding our garden ect., Besides out door work I also like to help my Mother with in indoors work such as cooking and cleaning house. when Mother went on a weeks vacation in Toledo I did all the cooking for my Father and Brother besides the house cleaning and school work. I am now a freshman in Sunbury High School working hard for the future. By Rachel Murphy My freshman year was so exciting. I took Home Ec., Latin, algebra, English and Science. My sophomore year I too World History, Typing, Hygiene, Biology and Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 19) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/41fb66f6fdd23b38832c6fb5e34ab258.jpg a84b87f5b34b292286b545274f000023 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 20] [corresponds to page 17 of Pages of Our Lives] My Short but Enjoyable Vacation My Vacation was when I went to Akron visiting my sister who is a cadet nurse, she was on affiliation in Akron. Velma called us at my grandparents, since we didn't have a phone, but their phone was out so she had her girl friend Darlene Woodburn call up her boy friend Doniven Justice. It was on Sunday night at ten o'clock that Mr. Justice came over and said Darlene called and said I was to come to Akron on the bus the next day at eleven-thirty o'clock. That morning I got up at five- fifteen to go milk. After eating we washed the dishes and milkers. I then start the washing. We got done with the washing at ten-thirty that gave me forty five minutes to get ready. I was ready and waiting for Daddy at eleven ten. He was painting on the barn roof. Finally we were on our way to Sunbury to meet the bus. We got there at eleven thirty. The bus came in ten minute so I din't have long to wait. The seats on the bus were full so I stood up. A lady near me got off after about three miles so I got a seat. At Wooster we had a rest period. The bus station was real nice there. when I go to Akron a girl said are you Rachel and I said yes. It was Dorthy Hostetler a cadet nurse in Velma's group who happened to be off in time to meet me. I was hot and tired and we had about a half hour Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 20) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/49584c0287a079b1cd2db7610f503a04.jpg d29031c63b5f3658953a44c736e55ef5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 21] [corresponds to page 18 of Pages of Our Lives] walk to the hospital grounds. The girls Nursing Home is right beside the hospital joined by a hall. That night I had some time learning how their cafeteria system worked. After supper five of us girls went to see the show called "The Husters" I thought the show was good but I liked Wild osker better. He was the man who played organ while you sing words which were written on the screen. Later that night Velma, Darlene, and I went to a little cafe near the hospital for milk shakes, sundaes, and donuts. Because Velma and I talked till two-thirty I didn't get up until ten-thirty that day. I did nothing but read and rest all day. That night Vel and others walked to bus station with me. Dad and Mom were waiting for me at Condit so I soon got home. By Rachel Murphy My junior year I took English, History, Typing and Public Speaking. I got a C in typing as we could not type any time except class time and I felt so bad my folks got me a Royal typewriter for Christmas. My senior year I took Senior Math, Problems of Democracy, Chemistry and English and Civics. I graduated from Big Walnut High School in Sunbury, Ohio, In May 1951 2nd in Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 21) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1e2e58e688df99937773596c97dd7ed3.jpg 61e9d5fac706d82b04d359b679fc1593 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 22] [corresponds to page 19 of Pages of Our Lives] my class of 42 students. I loved to study, tutor other kids and wanted to get good grades. [Photo] [Photo caption] Rachel Murphy class of 1951 Salutatorian [Image] [Image caption] First Big Walnut Graduating Class Graduation Program, Class of 1951 [Image] [Image caption] 41 Grads Receive First Big Walnut Diplomas "Choose ideas to fit you the best. Do not follow the crowd. Go your individual way to accomplish something of purpose," the Rev. Homer E. Felty of Ironton told the first Big Walnut High School graduating class at com- mencement last Thursday evening. Win High Honors Normand Townsley won highest honors in the first Big Walnut graduating class with a four year average of 3.89. Rachel Murphy was second with an average of 3.78. Normand is the son of Mayor and Mrs. Cecil Townley and plans to attend College. Rachel is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Murphy and will enter White Cross School Nursing in the fall. Normand Townley presented the valedictory and Rachel Murphy the salutatory. Supt. Marvin Miller presented certificates to graduates placing high in state scholarship tests. Principal Hylen Souders turned the class over to Owen Meredith, school board president who congratulated the forty-one graduates and presented diplomas. A large crowd attended commencement in the school auditorium here. Music was furnished by the school band and mixed chorus. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 22) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8424dd0342f0ff48724f9106357d92ab.jpg 8b71bbda3f3045dc8503cb743669d482 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 23] [corresponds to page 20 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] More Childhood Memories Us kids used to play and dress up in Dad's baseball clothes and great aunt Lynn's tiny high button shoes which were kept in a dresser drawer upstairs. When I was 11 years and cousin Mary Ellen Murphy was 13 years old we went back to Youngstown with Great aunt Goldie to visit. Then came home on the bus. Another summer we went to Aunt Ella Murphy Taylors. After the first night Aunt Ella wouldn't let Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 23) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a5bf9a2b9490bd9c2359076158f09afb.jpg 33c6845722c91326f63a097578f63d9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 24] [corresponds to page 21 of Pages of Our Lives] us sleep together as we giggled and talked all night but we still had a big time. They were building their house themselves when we were there. We enjoyed listening to Aunt Ella play the piano and Uncle David his violin together. My brother, Lovett, and I went to Robbins lake one summer. We swam out to the raft. I had a hard time swimming back as the raft had drifted out farther into the lake. I had to rest floating several times to get back to shore. We slipped in under the fence as we really were trespassing. My sister always wanted a big wedding. She planned a lawn wedding but changed her mind and was married in Condit Presbyterian Church. It was a lucky change as it poured down rain all day the day of the wedding. We had to run into the church. Jane Lattimer, Velma's girl friend who lived just up the road, was maid of honor. Mary Ellen Murphy and I were brides maids. Velma had a very nice long satin dress with a long train. We just replaced the sidewalk on the north side of our church in 2005. I remember when this was install in 1948 after my sister's June wedding. I jumped over the mud, as it rained so hard that day, when I ran into the church to get my bridesmaid dress on before the wedding. [Photo] [Photo caption] Velma Victoria Murphy and Robert Allan McCall's Wedding June 6, 1948 Threshing and Silo Filling Rings My father, Arthur Murphy, was in the neighborhood threshing and silo filling rings. In the summer when the wheat was about ripe, Dad would cut the wheat with a binder. This machine could be pulled with horses or tractor. It cut the wheat with a sickle cutter which bunched the stems of wheat together to make a a bundle called a sheave. The sheave was tied around the center with binder twine and then was pushed and dumped on the ground. The next job was to shock the wheat sheaves. You would shock one sheave cut side down on the ground and put sheaves around it in a circle. Then bend one sheave over your arm to crease it and place it on top to help the rain to run off the top of the shock until the wheat was dried and ready for threshing. When it was your turn to thresh, wagons were used to load the sheaves. One man would pick up the sheaves from the shocks in the field and pitch the sheaves to a man on the wagon to load. The loaded wagons were brought to the Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 24) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0d49ece9a235da52a8524a523c10898c.jpg 5753a8b1b752f8bc86a04503b4ebf7d2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 25] [corresponds to page 22 of Pages of Our Lives] threshing machine usually set up near the barn so the straw could be blown into the upper barn mow. A man had to pitch each sheave into the threshing machine with a fork making sure the wheat heads were headed the correct way. The wheat came out one side to be bagged in cloth grain sacks and the straw was blown into the straw mow or into a pile on the ground when the mow was full. The straw was used to bed the animals in the barn during the winter months when they were shut in. Threshing was a very dirty, dusty job. In the fall when the corn was about milk stage, the silo filling would begin. The groups of men would take big wagons to the field and a forage cutter cut the corn stalks off close to the ground, and ground the whole stalk and ear up and shot it back into the forage wagons. The wagons were then taken to near the silo base where the silage was dumped slowly into a silo blower which carried the silage to the top of the silo. It was dangerous to get into the silo to level off the silage after a day or two as orange gases would form which would kill you if breathed, so the blower had to be run to clear the air before entering the silo. Both of these rings, as we called them, would have around 12 men who would go from farm to farm until all the work was done. The women had a big job as the men worked hard and had a big appetite for the noon meal which the women prepared. I remember Mother and Aunt Martha Elroy cooking for these meals. The table had to be set and lots of meats, mashed potatoes and pies. Then there were all the dishes and pans to wash as no paper products were used. I also remember helping with the unloading of loose hay as a child. The hay was moved with a mowing machine, then raked with a hay rake. The rows of hay were loaded with a high hay loader which was pulled behind a flat bed wagon for the hay to fall on to. The loaded wagons were taken to the side of the tallest part of the barn a metal track was attached. A double-pranged harpoon fork with a long heavy rope attached would follow this track to different parts of the barn, and the rope was tripped to dump the batch of hay in the mow. My Grandfather Murphy would set the fork in the loose hay on the wagon, and my brother would drive a team of horses outside the barn pulling the rope to pull the bunch of hay up from the wagon through the barn window and across the barn where my father would trip the hay and spread out the dumped batch of hay with a pitch fork. It was my job to pull the rope back to the edge of the barn so it would not be so hard for Grandpa on the wagon to pull the rope all the way back to reset the fork for the next dump of hay. I remember my brother, Lovett Murphy, got $.10 a load , and I only got $.01 a load. There would be several batches to dump in each load. Memories of Dad Dad enjoyed his hunting, fishing and trapping. He belonged to the Sunbury Hunters' club. I remember helping to hold the hind legs of the muskrats and minks as Dad skinned them. Then he would tack them a a special flat board to dry before he sold them. I also learned how to clean squirrels and soak them in salt water over- night before cooking them. Dad shot a snow goose one winter and we dressed it in the house. Feathers went everywhere but it was good eating. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 25) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3d6df7405406a7f0954948109bae8d32.jpg 7c39d7ba80703fc629bbe120339a7a4e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 26] [corresponds to page 23 of Pages of Our Lives] Dad also loved his baseball games. He played baseball when he was a freshman in college with the Cincinnati Reds. Every Sunday afternoon he always listened to some kind of ball game on the radio so Mother and I would go to great Aunt Hal and Great Uncle Grant Murphy's many times on Sundays up Murphy road about a mile east and way back a long lane on the south side of the woods and gather hickory nuts in the woods. Many a winter night Dad would hold Mom's old flat iron upside down between his knees and crack hickory nuts with a hammer for Mom to pick out. Dad would also play Rock (a card game) with us kids as we were not allowed to play euchre as it was considered a betting game. Mother and Dad like to play euchre with Pearl and Nick Nichols, Virgie and Alvin Horn, and Emogene and Sig Pugerud. Dad also played checkers and carrom with us kids using his big wooden board with checkers on one side and carrom on the other side. It had four webbed corner pockets to catch the putts. [Photo] [Photo caption] Arthur Bradley Murphy May 1902 - 10 months [Photo] [Photo caption] Arthur Murphy 2 years old - 1903 Dad had a nut bowl and he liked to crack pecans, nigger toes, and other mixed nuts with hand cracker. Dad loved his cream and always used cream on his cereals, bananas or strawberries. He enjoyed his weekly pies, many of them with whipped cream on top of them. He always ate mayonnaise on his fresh tomatoes. He like to dip his little green onions from the garden in salt before eating them. He like limburger cheese on his crackers. He loved his ripe bananas so he would come home from the store with a big bag of cheap ripe bananas at $.10 a lb. We had many a meal of ripe bananas of strawberries and homemade bread. We used skim milk as the cream was saved for Dad or for whipping or to make butter cheese. Dad's worst habit was smoking cigarettes all his life. He rolled his own for several years. Sometimes he chewed tobacco when we went to Delaware. I remember when he spit out the front car window, we would get tobacco juice in the face in the back seat. We had no car air conditioner so the windows were all open in the summer. We kids would fight over had sit behind Dad. I can only remember Dad getting angry twice. The one time when my brother Lovett put water in Dad's knee high slip on gum boots that he wore with moccasins to the barn. Lovett said I put the water in his boots! Of course, I said I didn't do it. I said Lovett put the water in the boots so we both got spanked with Dad's slipper. The other time was when Grandma Harriet Carnes (second wife of Leonard) slept with my sister, Velma. They were taking Velma's east upstairs bedroom. Lovett and I both got spanked again with Dad's slipper as we were told to quit talking and to sleep but kept talking anyway as Velma and Harriet were still talk- ing. I slept in the southwest bedroom and Lovett slept in northwest bedroom upstairs. Mom and Dad slept in the little downstairs southwest bedroom until it was made into a bathroom in 1944. Then the north back porch was enclosed and used as their bedroom. My folks also had a bed in the garage as with the high grounds on the east side wall of the garage it was much cooler in the summer time. Mom and Dad lived on Murphy road for 39 years when he died of cancer at 61 on Oct. 1, 1962. He found out he had cancer in Riverside Hospital on Feb. 26, 1962. He had his bone morrow Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 26) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/752522e78c8a0b1603b40709040c7fa5.jpg 3c2a3b3f0040ae385f9ceec818e65abe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 27] [corresponds to page 24 of Pages of Our Lives] test the day John Glenn went into space. Dad stayed at home seven months until he died. He had glandular glaucoma and took no treatments since it was wide- spread. My sister and I stayed the last two weeks with Mother before Dad died. He stayed in bad all the time and had a catheter for his urine but was able to go to the bathroom once a day. The last day he went to the bathroom he started to hurt so bad he called for Velma to give him a shot for pain. He died before she could get the needle boiled. His pain tolerance was high as he never com- plained of any pain before. [Photo] [Photo caption] Arthur Bradley Murphy Spring 1919 - 18 years [Images] [Image captions] Arthur Murphy's Graduation from Sunbury High School - Class of 1919 Memories of Mom Each morning Dad would get up early to take the ashes out of the kitchen cook stove and kindle the fire before he went to the barn to milk. The cook stove would them be hot for Mother to cook our oatmeal of pancakes for breakfast before we went to school when they were done milking. We had a path that went to the barn through the weeds as Mom always took us to the barn night and morning while the hand-milked as high as 21 cows. She never left us alone at the house. Mother and Dad always raised a big garden besides their large fruit orchard. They had permanent plants of rhubarb, asparagus, goose berries, ground cherries, currents, Logan berry, big red raspberry, black raspberry, black berries big white white grapes, blue grapes, huckleberries and elderberries. In their orchard were several apple trees including yellow transparent, jonathan northern spy, winter apple, sweet apple and crabapple. Other trees in the orchard were sweet cherry, sour cherry, pear, three apricot, black walnut, chestnut, green gage plum, blue damson plum, white peach and yellow peach. In their garden they raised potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, peas, all kinds of beans, corn, peppers, pumpkin, squash, onion, beets, spinach and strawberries. Mother always canned 100 qt. each of several fruits especially peaches, cherries, and black berries. She always baked several pies each weekend as Daddy loved his pies. Mother also churned butter, made cottage cheese, lye soap, catsup, root beer pop, sweet and dill pickles, mincemeat, homemade bread and canned meat. Mother did a lot of sewing and mending. she made Aunt Martha's (Dad's sister) school clothes for the first grade the first year she and Dad were married and lived with Dad's Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 27) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2ff3c1bba4641c09c12df5a4fcfdf288.jpg a86068a380afdaa64eb2c9d9ff027b74 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 28] [corresponds to page 25 of Pages of Our Lives] parents up on the hill. Mother made about all of Velmas's clothes when when started first grade in the fall of 1933 as Velma was such a big girl for five years of age. She also made a lot of my skirts in grade school. They were 3 tiers gathered onto a belt. Mother also enjoyed crocheting. She did some quilting, too as I have one quilt she made. Mother was a good homemaker and cook. she later cooked at the Sunbury Restaurant for about a year. One winter when she and Dad went to Florida, Mother cooked at Mullet Key Island now called Fort DeSoto Park since the spur from the Sunshine Highway made a road to it. After Dad died she cooked one winter for a man in Delaware, OH. Mother washed clothes on Monday, ironed on Tuesday and mended on Wednesday and baked pies on Fridays. My mother, Ethel Carnes Murphy loved flowers. These are the flowers and bushes in our yard on Murphy Road when I was growing up. 1. White lilac tree 1. Tiger lilies 2. Pink lilac bush 2. Bleeding heart 3. Snow ball bush 3. Tulips 4. Hydrangea 4. Hyacinths 5. Passion vine 5. Peonies (white, pink, and red ones) 6. Weigela 6. Amerillis 7. Trumpet vine 7. Morning glory 8. Forsythia 8. Hen and chicken 9. Flowering almond 9. Bee balm 10. Dwarf white hard rose bush 10. Yucca 11. white spirea (little tiny white flowers ) 11. Lily of the valley 12. regular spirea 12. mock orange 14. Wisteria 13. Holly hocks 15. Rose of Sharon 16. Spice bush In Oct. 1963, Mother at age 54 years married Val Anderson from Florida. The lived in St. Petersburg, Fl., [Photo] [Photo caption] Val and Ethel in Florida-1964 [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel and Val in 1976 [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel and Val Anderson 1964 right after their marriage Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 28) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f25b2d1f3de6e7178a1f8e0f01fdba93.jpg 28586a5a097081e30b36e65b2696a7ad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 29] [corresponds to page 26 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Val Anderson making nets by the big oak tree [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel Anderson 1979 - age 70 [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel and Val Anderson's Florida home of 5th Avenue and 43rd Street in St. Peterburg Mother Lived here 23 years from 1964 till her death in 1987 for 23 years until died in Aug. 1985 after being unconscious for two weeks in a rest home. Mother continued to live with a renter the last two years because she was afraid to stay alone. She had such fear of being alone or being in a rest home. She died Feb. 1,1987. We were glad we were in Florida when Mother got sick and died within three days. Tom and I had gone camping in our motor home over the weekend at Venture Out (B's RV Camp) near Clermont, Fla. where we joined the membership campground system. The following Wednesday night, Mother, her renter (Ken Adams) and Tom and I went to my nieces, Alice and Kurt Schusters in St. Petersburg for supper. Mother seemed to be feeling all right then. Thursday morning when I came into the house from our motor home she had a temperature and her lower back hurt so bad. I gave her aspirin every four hours to keep her temperature down. She was not any better on Friday and we took her to the doctor. The Doctor could not find anything really wrong except her temperature was still high as her back pain was gone. The Dr. gave her medicine for temperature and an antibiotic. Friday night she fell off her kitchen chair by the table. It took Tom and Ken both to get her up. Sat. morning she fell out of bed and seemed so stiff that I called an ambulance. She didn't want to go to the hospital so I had to sign for her to be taken. My sister, Velma, came from Dade city. Velma, Mother's brother, Wilbur Carnes who lived next door and Tom and I stayed with Mother at the hospital all day. We kept cold compresses on her head as her high temperature continued. We had not been home very long when the hospital called at 10:00 P.M. Saturday night that she had died. It was hard to believe as she did not seem that sick. Mother's funeral plans to be cremated were all plnned and prepaid. We bought her urn of ashes home from Florida to Ohio. On May 5, 1927 we had planned a memorial service at the Condit Presbyterian Church and a grave side service at the Trenton Cemetery at South Condit, but the weather was so wet [Image] [Image caption] Died Feb 1, 1987 [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel Irene Carnes Murphy Anderson Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 29) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/620c1d74643eb7d0e0e13d5b6cd4fcc5.jpg a18c629ccc6de2a95ca474840eec317c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 30] [corresponds to page 27 of Pages of Our Lives] and cold we had all the service at the church. Tom took her urn of ashes to the cemetery for burial on her grave site beside her first husband, Arthur Bradley Murphy. A very nice dinner was served for everyone in the church basement following the service. My sister, Velma, and I were co-executors of Mother's Living Trust. It took us four years to finish it as we could not get Mother's house in St. Petersburg sold. It was costing us $200 a month to keep it so we had even made plans to give her house to the St. Petersburg Presbyterian Church. The 4th realtor finally got it sold for $20,000. It had been appraised for $45,000 in 1987 but no one who wanted it could get a loan. We felt lucky that the church had bought Mother's lots next to the church and the renter's in Mother's trailer in Dade city bought her trailer. Velma, Tom and I worked several weeks getting everything sorted. Mother was a keeper and liked a full look. She enjoyed having knick-knacks, pictures, etc. We filled up our brothers station wagon, Velma's station wagon, and our Toyota pick-up truck to bring to Ohio. We sold furniture to neighbors, gave her clothes to the church and sold to an antique dealer. Then we had a sales barn come in and they got 3 big van loads that they sold in boxes at their Auction Barn for a percentage of the sales. Tom Enters My Life In the spring of my senior year, the night of my best friend, Mary Alice Richardson's father's funeral, mother and I were doing the dishes and were crying and talking about the funeral and someone knocked at out door. This boy asked if he could take me out for supper the next night. I didn't know what to say so said "yes" This was my first date with husband, Tom Buxton. We went together all summer. We ate out, went to movies, went square dancing and went swimming. By August we were in love. I will never forget when Tom and I were going together. We were so proud of the big bull frogs that we had caught in our pond that we took them into the garage to show them to Mom and Dad, they slept there when summer temperature was high. A frog got loose and jumped into bed with them. [Photo] [Photo caption] Rachel and Tom August 1951 [Photo] [Photo image] Rachel Murphy and Tom Buxton 1950 My sister, Velma, was a cadet nurse during World War II the last class to graduate after the war ended and I wanted to be a nurse, too. Tom gave me my engagement ring the day I left in September 1951 for nurses training at White Cross Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, now called Riverside. I could not wear my ring due to regulations and after the first weekend could not go home but Tom could call on Wednesday night. I stayed in Henderson Hall. We had classes daily and hospital floor duty either 7-9 morning care or 7-9 night care. I really enjoyed my training and had a nice roommate from Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 30) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f7b51f1c48d2ed428def87c563fad12e.jpg c0f8fbc9f9eba7525ddc70ab7aa8a44c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 31] [corresponds to page 28 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] [Photo] [Photo caption] Rachel in nursing uniform at White Cross Hospital Fall 1951 Willard, Ohio, Margene Buckingham (now Mrs. James Harper). We started out with floor duty in the hospital from 7-9 morning care or 7-9 nite for evening care of patients besides our daily classes. We had such good hospital food with many fruits and vegetables which I really enjoyed. Our teachers were strict but we learned. Mrs. Matson, 6 mo. pregnant, was our health nurse and Miss Shoemaker taught how to make a bed and Miss Owens had our microbiology and counted off on tests for any misspelled words. Rev. Johnson was our chaplain. I got good grades and enjoyed my studies and loved the hospital duty time. I finished my first year and received my books for the second year before I married Thomas Edward Buxton Mar. 16, 1952. We had become engaged in September 1951 but nursing students could not marry then. Rev. William Bingman married us at Condit Presbyterian Church where I had become a member when I was 16 years old. We had only our immediate family present and my brother Lovett Murphy and his wife Angie stood up with us. I wanted to be married in our church but no fuss so only Tom's parents and Grandma Buxton and my parents, my sister and husband, my brother and wife, who stood up with us were present for our wedding. Tom wore his brown suit and I wore a knee length thin blue dress trimmed in black. We came back to Mother's and Dad's house, first house on Murphy Road and had a lunch. My sister, Velma, had made grilled meat toasted sandwiches in the oven. Later in the afternoon we left for Washington D.C. where we stayed all night. [Image] [Image caption] Condit Installation Service for Rev. William Bingman who married Rachel and Tom We stayed our first night in Wheeling, West Virginia. The weather was cold and the roads were very icy. Tom was worried about his dad's new Mercury he was driving. The second night we stayed at Hagerstown, Maryland at my second cousin's, Elsie & Lincoln Cox. the following day we toured Washington D. C. and stayed there that night before leaving for home the next day. We stopped in Zanesville and got our first groceries on our way home to 13105 Clover Valley where Tom carried me over the door step. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 31) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9bb1653ea9df71fcb96ba3064899c71e.jpg 34b73dbb86b908ae3459ebeb034d55eb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 32] [corresponds to page 29 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo] [Photo's caption] 13105 Clover Valley Road, Croton, Ohio Thomas and Rachel Buxton's home for 13 years [Photo] [Photo caption] Thomas Edward Buxton Tom Buxton Thomas Edward Buxton was born Dec. 15, 1930 at home at 13105 Clover Valley Road to Wayne and Lucille Buxton. The milk man had come in the morning and as he was lifting the milk cans into the truck, he heard a baby cry. His folks would sit Tom beside a corn stalk so he wouldn't get cold as they husked corn by hand nearby when he was little. Tom was very close to his Grandma Buxton as he had stayed 22 months with her when his mother was sick with tuberculosis. She had gone to a sanitarium in Newark and had surgery at the university to collapse her lung. She was very sick and it was believed she might die. Grandma Buxton lived in Croton on Main Street, east of Hartford Grade school (the last house before the railroad crossing, on the right side of the road, on the corner). Tom was able to walk to school. They had no car because she sold her model T after her husband died in 1934. She and Tom would walk to Johnstown Croton Road to catch the hack (or taxi) when they wanted to go to Alexandria to visit her other son, (Tom's uncle) Claude. Then they had to be at a certain place to catch it when they came back home. Each July for almost five years, Tom Frank James, Jack Clayton, Gilbert Duncan & Jack Holland would go camping for a week (or until they got rained out) on Forest Canaday pasture field east of Croton. They rode their bikes to the fence and threw over before walking to their camp site. There they would tie a rope between two trees and hang a tarp over it. Everyone brought food. They would cook over an open [Photo] [Photo caption] Ida Mae Green Buxton Wayne Buxton's mother Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 32) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d92282dbe6f43c62261e75ce846857ad.jpg f0d26e6670b141caeff0c3a8c18e1a62 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 33] [corresponds to page 30 of Pages of Our Lives] campfire and sometimes cooked mud rolled potatoes in the ashes. They walked about 1/4 mile to Eddie Booher's for their milk. They washed their metal pie pans that they ate on in the creek and they used a can opener to open cans of beans and other food. Jack Clayton was the oldest, so he was the main cook. At age ten, Tom drove the horses to unload hay which would be unloaded by using a set fork. the hay would then be dumped in the hay mow when the man on the wagon tripped the rope. About the same time, Tom picked up potatoes each fall for two years for P.E. Grub. He was 12 years old when he disked with a tractor and wasn't strong enough to get the clutch pulled back to stop very quickly. [Photo] [Photo caption] P.E. Grube's DeKalb seed corn plant at Croton His home on left side and Mexican migrant homes on right rear side - Wayne Buxton raised seed corn for Mr. Grube for several years Tom at the age of 13, plowed a few rounds with a 2 bottom plow when his folks were away. When his dad saw the uneven ridges he told him he needed to learn how to adjust the plow as it would take 2-3 years for the ridges to freeze out. Tom was running the Oliver combine to combine wheat for P. E. Grube when he was 16. Grube owned the Delkalb seed corn plant in the Croton area. the men at the plant adjusted the settings on the combine for Tom so he did a good job. Tom got his drivers permit when he was 15 years old in 1945. He got his license in Dec. 1946 when he was 16 years old. He drove his dad's truck and started dating Barbara Callan. They often went to the Midland picture show in Newark or Dorsey Theater in Johnstown. They also went roller skating in Utica. Tom took Barbara to help her set up the Grange booth at the Ohio State Fair in the summer of 1947. In 1947, Tom's dad got Tom a used 1946 blue Chevrolet 1/2 ton pickup truck with stock racks. It had 6,000 miles on it and cost 1,200. A year late, Tom's dad traded in the '46 for a new 1948 1/2 ton for Tom costing $1,300. Tom's dad let him use gas out of the tractor's gas tank and his mom gave him $5 whenever he went a date. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 33) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/87fea076a604835f80d56751a188f6e5.jpg bd14fbd7c8dd1ec8a0aac6aa1ab5005d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 34] [corresponds to page 31 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Tom's Freshman Class Top row: Richard Higgins, Jimmy Butt, Donald Mitchell, Tom Buxton, Robert Fawn Middle Row: miss Judy-teacher, Barbara Callum, Martha Denty, Laura Jean Denty Kenneth Snyder, Howard Seigsmund Bottom row: Priscilla Morris, Donna June Hess, Patti Booher, Glenola Potter, Gladys Cramer In the fall of 1948 both Tom and Barbara were freshman at Hartford High School when Barbara found out she was pregnant. Right after Thanksgiving, Tom's Mother went with them to be married in Kentucky. They lived in Robert's road house in the early spring of 1949 and did the chores for two weeks while Tom's folks went to Florida for the first time with Frank and Elsie Ross in the Rosses 2 door, 1947 Fleetline Chevrolet car. Jerry Edward All seemed to be going well for them when Jerry Edward Buxton was born in White Cross Hospital in Columbus May 24, 1949. Wayne remodeled the house on Clover Valley Road in the early summer of 1949 so they could move in and start house keeping. By mid July, Tom & Barbara were having problems. Helen Callan's, Barbara's mother was constantly coming to get Jerry and many times, Barbara went home with them and things would not be as well when Barbara came back. At wheat combining time in July, Tom was driving on Murphy Road and he saw me, Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 34) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6c3f36bd65389d5bd49cd86b70c97a65.jpg 8ccbd97812997debc1d8798b9d1e139d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 35] [corresponds to page 32 of Pages of Our Lives] Rachel Buxton, in the yard and thought "I don't want to live like this" They broke up the end of of 1949 and Tom's folks hired Joseph Fittsgiven, a lawyer from Newark. The divorce was final in November of 1949. Tom and his folks did agreed to let Ralph and Helen (Barbara's parent's) adopt Jerry after Tom had so many problems trying to visit Jerry during the custody fight due to Helen Callan's aggressive desire to have Jerry. Tom's grandma Buxton wanted to help raise Jerry but they all knew there would be constant trouble for Jerry as her was growing up if Tom didn't agree to the adoption. Mrs. Callan, renamed the baby Jerry Edward Callan and Tom never got to see him again to talk for 40 years. Tom and I went to Ed's High school graduation in 1967 at Utica High School but did not get to see him after the program as it was going to cause trouble. In June 1989, Ed came to visit us and wanted to know his father. Ed and wife, Ann, then started coming to our November Christmas dinner and August family Fair picnic. [Photo] [Photo caption] Steven and Janice Harris Janice is Ed Callan's daughter - 1994 We went to visit Ed's only child, Janice and her new husband, Steve Harris that same year after Ed's visit with us. They showed us their recent wedding pictures. They also came to our family dinners. Janice and Steve were divorced in November 1987. [date incorrect?] Janice married Dennis Koivula Feb. 14, 1999 which we missed because we were in Florida. [Photo] [Photo caption] Fall dinner Rachel Buxton, Edward Callen, Thomas Buxton [Photo] [Photo caption] 1949 Chevrolet Truck [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne and Tom 1949 Florida Camping Trip Tom's First Florida Trip In the fall of 1949, when Tom was sowing wheat alone for the first time, he saw his mom and dad drive up with his new 1949 Deluxe Chevolet 1/2 ton pickup truck with side windows. Tom's folks thought Tom needed a change after all the court fighting so a Florida camping trip was planned. Tom and Wayne built a rack over the pickup bed and covered it with special built canvas that flipped up at the back so they could keep warmer when sleeping on the mattress inside. Tom had never been to Florida and this Wayne's second trip. They both enjoyed their 2 week, 3,600 mile trip to key west, Florida. The next fall, 1950, [Photo] [Photo caption] Tom and Wayne in Florida - 1949 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 35) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c02eac0644db3418ce404e1a0ba45393.jpg 04c539b0591d989f71b746ba3da77295 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 36] [corresponds to page 33 of Pages of Our Lives] Wayne, Lucille & Tom all went to Florida in Wayne's new 1952 Mercury 2 door car. They stayed at Fitch Dixon's rental unit Sarasota, Florida. Tom was very closed mouthed about himself all his life. The special saying about Tom in the 1948 Hartford-Hi-lights 1st year book was "like clam". While Tom was told something once, expected to listen, not ask questions, and to mind (which he usually did). tom learned that you only needed to say something once and that you shouldn't talk about people. Tom had asthma, pneumonia, boils on the lower legs and a severe case of chicken pox as a child. When Tom was 12 years old he shot close range with his B.B. gun at a dynamite cap with metal pieces hitting 32 places on his body - one piece staying 30 years in the white of his eye before festering and coming out. Tom always liked to stay with his Uncle Claude at his fishing camp in Williams Port (back a lane near Deer Creek) several days before school started each year. One year Claude was taking Tom, who was about 8 years old at the time, for a ride on his back while walking with his wadding boats on across mossy rocks when he slipped and Tom went under water before Claud caught his balance. Farming has always been Tom's life and still works in the barn and shop keeping the machinery in good condition. It's hard for Tom not to be busy in the shop or going somewhere in his truck. Tom enjoys reading the Columbus Dispatch in the morning and the Newark Advocate in the evening. However, he doesn't read books or magazines unless they are about machinery or car sales. Tom was always good at repairing and maintaining all his equipment as he was taught to take care of his toys and the equipment. Tom, Wayne, Lucille & Grandma Jackson all have strong tempers but Tom get's over his quickly while his dad would bunk (not talk) for several days sometimes. Tom hated Sunday's and Holidays as a child because his dad was a Sunday Alcoholic and usually got mad about something when drinking. Tom and I do not smoke of drink after seeing all the damage it can do. Tom is backward and feels he can't do anything right in front of anyone. book learning was hard for him yet he is talented in many other ways. Tom joined the Condit Presbyterian Church on June 6, 1996. He was too shy to join in the regular church service and so Rev. Carol Weiss made it easier for him to join after had attended the new members' classes in this special way. She arranged for Tom's ceremony in the church basement with the minister and other elders. I'll always remember this special night. A light colored man named Grant Morgan who lived in Croton and like horses was a friend of Wayne Buxton. Grant walked 6 miles round trip to the Burley Marble farm on Rhodeback Road where he worked. He never learned to drive a car. Grant sometimes went with Tom's folks and Tom on Sunday afternoon drives. They were often invited into people's parlors to visit about their horses. Morgan gave Tom his big wooden chest and nice little parlor table when he died as he know that Tom would take care of them. Grandma Jackson gave Tom her hand crank Victrola that she got when she worked on East Livingston Drive in Columbus. Grandma and Grandpa Jackson worked on a farm Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 36) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1a1fbc592445c28affa68276d20bcc52.jpg 1791ab29b34e4a79359bd52f2581b7b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 37] [corresponds to page 34 of Pages of Our Lives] near there on East Main Street before they bought their farm at 2341 S. Street, Route 605, Galena, Ohio, where their grandson David and Belinda Jackson now live. Tom is always thinking of a faster and easier way of doing things. He doesn't like the slow fixing jobs like I do as I never get mad and have lots of patience. We work well together. I do the book keeping and he does the mechanical jobs which I am not talented in. One of Tom's most endearing traits is that always think- ing of the other person before himself. Marriage I enjoyed helping Tom keep the farm records, milking the cows, opening seed corn bags at planting time, mixing chemicals for farm spraying, mowing the lawn, raising fruit, and tending the vegetable and flower gardens. I picked a lot of strawberries and red raspberries. I especially like cleaning house and usually swept every day. I enjoyed sewing, which included mending clothes, boots shoes, combine canvas, toys, pool cover, air conditioner cover, etc. I liked fixing clothes better than making new ones. We got our first television in 1953. I remember when Tom and I got our first automatic washing machine after we had Tina in 1956. Tom's mother always washed Tom's diapers and baby clothes each day by hand as she only had 1 dozen diapers. Washing by hand was hard for me so I really was pleased with my new new washer. [Photo] I did not know how to cook as I had always cleaned [Photo caption] and my 5 year older sister, Velma, had always did the Our first TV in 1953 cooking with mother. I had a wonderful mother-in-law, Lucille Lalla Jackson Buxton, who helped me and of course the Ohio Grange cookbook helped too. I always took pride in keeping a clean house. Every Saturday I cleaned our house from top to bottom, and Tom and I would eat out Saturday night and I'd get my groceries in Mt Vernon, Ohio. [Photo] [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] Tom and Rachel in Roush Tom and Rachel Rachel and Tom Hardware in Westerville Married 24 years Married 34 years One day when Velma lived in Delaware and worked at Jane M. Case Hospital, she always came home to Mothers on her day off. We were getting ready to make a cake. Velma was putting the beaters into the mixer and someone plugged in the extension cord at the other Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... 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I never had a sick day with any of the pregnancies but after I had them I had post partem blues and couldn't sleep well. With Tina I weighed 135 lb. when I got pregnant and only 147 lbs. the day I delivered. I had an easy delivery with Tina. We were keeping Grandmother Buxton who was sick, from November 7th when Tom's folks went to Florida, until I went to the hospital. I had my first pain and went to bathroom at 3 in morning so Tom took me to the hospital before he milked in the morning. Tina was born very easily with no anesthetic until delivery with caudal block just as she was born at 10:30. In early fall we moved to the big house where the cows were at and closed our house for the winter each year when Tom's folks went to Florida. The year Perry was due I had gone to Dr. Merryman on Friday and he said I was close to delivery. We moved on Saturday and Perry was born Sunday afternoon. We were to have dinner with Grandma Buxton and we were turning the cows across the road to pasture about 7:30 in the morning and I had my first pain so Tom told Grandma we couldn't come and we dumped Tina in her sleeper with Mom and Dad on our way to the hospital. Perry was born at 2:30 in the afternoon. I had lost weight with Perry also but never had a sick day. With Rex it was a different story as I was RH negative so delivery was forced. I milked cows Sunday morning, Dec. 6, taught Sunday School and Tom took me to the hospital in the afternoon. Monday morning, Dec. 7 they started an IV drip early and I had pains every three minutes all day. My water was broken and even caudal block given to try to relax me but Rex didn't come so 10:30 P.M. Monday night they took out the IV and gave me a sleeping pill and said they would start again in the morning and sent Tom home. I went into labor on my own around 11:30 and they would not give me anything for fear it would stop my labor. I had very hard pains until midnight when Rex was born and they put me out. I had my tubes tied while in the hospital and the Doctor also took out my appendix. So my four days stay in the hospital I didn't get any good food as Dr. Merryman wanted liquid diet and then only light food after having my appendix out. I had enjoyed my food, heat lamp and security of hospital on my other 2 stays. Tina weighed 6 lbs. 9 1/4 oz. and Perry 6lb. 3 oz. and Rex 5 lb. 12 oz. Rex was born early Tuesday morning and seemed to be doing O.K. but each day got a little more yellow. On Friday they took him to Children's Hospital and he had his blood changed 1 1/2 times due to RH factor. Tom and I had to go to Children's and get Rex after I got home from the hospital. After each child I was so worn out and I stayed a week at Mom's with Tina. Tom's folks came home from Florida and got Grandma Buxton. Tom and I took Tina over one night to show them baby before they went back to Florida with Grandma Buxton. With Perry I stayed a Mother's one week. With Rex, Mom kept Tina and Perry and Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 38) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ec34e264e2a69515e8a3c3d1a740f519.jpg 018d93bdc5abcd076886a2926edf4952 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 39] [corresponds to page 36 of Pages of Our Lives] I stayed 2 weeks with my sister, Velma. It took an hour to feed Rex and then in 2 hours he was ready to eat again but would go right to sleep so we worked to get only an ounce of milk each feeding down him. With Tina I tried to nurse and I had milk but I was so nervous she was not doing well so I had to put her on a bottle. With Perry and Rex, I just started them both with bottles. When Perry and I came home to Mom's and Dad's we put him in a bassinet and put a hot water bottle in with him. He had constant diarrhea and took him to Dr. Livingston and he put on soft curd regular milk and it helped him. We had to take him in every week to get his heel cut to get his blood test as his blood was so low but not so low they had to change it. Finally the first of January it still was not increasing so Dr. told me to start feeding him every thing soft and his blood count finally started to come up. On the weight charts Tina was always below average, Perry always over, and Rex about in normal weight and height. Perry had his tonsils out when 6 years old and Rex had double hernia at 10 months and I had D and C all the same year in 1965. [Photo] [Photo caption] Rachel holding Perry who is not quite 1 Tom holding Tina who is not quite 3 - 1959 Tina broke the little bone in her foot when in 7th grade walking in Grandma Jackson's garden. It was very hard for her to miss her cheerleading. Rex fell down the basement stairs when 6 years old and broke his right wrist. He punctured his eye when we were remodeling our house in 1969 as he flipped some- thing into his eye while playing outside in 1969 which made a second pupil in his eye. Had to stay in hospital over night. Rex also broke his left humerus and had to wear a loose sling to hang his arm in. Thomas Buxton House Our 6 bedroom house on 12567 Roberts Road was built in 1904 by Will Sinkey for $52,000. The four upstairs bedrooms had large closets for hired hands to live in and keep all their belongings in. A small room upstairs for a bath was not completed. In 1969 we completely remodeled the kitchen and installed Monsanta plastic siding on all the outside, cemented the front porch, and added new porch railings and supports. We completed the upstairs bathroom that had never been finished. The kitchen remodeling included fruitwood oak Quaker cupboards, lowered ceiling, vinyl floor covering, and a new south window. I wanted lot of counter [Photo] [Photo caption] Thomas Buxton Home on Roberts Road in 1949, two years after Wayne Buxton bought it Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 39) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/12a767d2e65d345c5aa64ba6c9f644ff.jpg 2071132fbc7cf19fa753eaf0d2dad2ad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 40] [corresponds to page 37 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Thomas Buxton's Barn in 1949 work areas as the old kitchen had none with the west wall from floor to ceiling being cupboards leaving a square area room with 4 doors and 1 floor length window and open nook. This small nook had a place for coats, boots and the entrance to the cellar steps. The second downstairs bedroom and the closet that connected to the west kitchen nook, we made into a utility room which included a mud room, small toilet room, a sewing area, ironing board area, washer and dryer area, clothes hamper and sink. I also wanted a big bathroom with lots of storage. In the old toilet room, as I call it, off the kitchen door, and the corner hand sink. There was a little window over the toilet and a small medicine cabinet over the sink. We had a new downstairs bathroom built on the south east side of the house. Later we had a new metal [valleys] put on our slate roof, we dry walled the ceiling in the dinning room, the living room and 3 of the 4 bed rooms upstairs. All the rooms were then painted. Gail Sinkey, Will's son, married my great aunt Goldie Chadwick who was my paternal grandmother, Grace Chadwick's sister. Gail's son William Sinkey, was born in this house. We have a picture of Will Sinkey, his wife, 3 children, dog and horse standing in front of their newly built house Wayne Buxton bought the house from Jasper Thompson in 1947 with 142 acres for $18,000. Wayne and Lucille Buxton lived in this house from 1947 until 1965, when they switched houses [Picture caption] Sinkey School House at the corner of Tagg and Roberts Road in Croton, Ohio, - door is facing east [Picture] [Picture caption] First picture of house built in 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Will Sinkey and children. Dorothy, Artie, and Gail, who married Rachel's Great aunt Goldie Chadwick [Picture] [Picture caption] Thomas Buxton home in 1995 [Picture] [Picture caption] House when owned by J. N. Thompson Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 40) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/565f2b4f61ecf75617aa0e64972a470e.jpg b1c790e7e08d83027879fcf6f2e2d3f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 41] [corresponds to page 38 of Pages of Our Lives] With Tom and Rachel. We still live here in 2005. [Picture] [Picture caption] Aerial view of Thomas Buxton Family Farm Showing Sinkey School House in left foreground [Picture] [Picture caption] Mystery Farm No. 46 Here is Mystery Farm No. 46, do you know to whom it belongs or who operates it - either being all right if they are different people. Why don't you join the many who farm contest. There is a $25 prize for the one who answers the most, each week take part in this new Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 41) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3fac69771b7ce0bf3be53d44ab623360.jpg 7bff27966820a09e2e51ba0b1b13d929 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 42] [corresponds to page 39 of Pages of Our Lives] [Picture] [Picture caption] Thomas Buxton Farm - 2005 Rex & Joy Buxton's House History 1 1/2 miles west of Croton on 13105 Clover Valley Road Croton, Ohio 43013 This house was where Ida and Clarence Green lived with their parents, Newell and Rachel Green. It was moved there around 1900 or earlier from south of the little Gould cemetery which is just south of Perry and Mary Buxton's house at 13031 Clover Valley Road. this corner was known as the Newell Green corner where Foundation Road From Croton runs into Clover Valley Rd. and makes a T-Shaped road. Many accidents on this corner have been reported by every family who have lived in this house. Ed Buxton and Ida Mae Green were married March 25, 1894 and lived here. They had the barn built for $1600 by Jim Conkle. When Wayne Buxton was around 3 years, we have a picture of him with his [Picture] [Picture caption] Home of Mr. and Mrs. Newell Green on Clover Valley Road, Croton, Ohio - 1899 Left to right: Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Vinoster, Mr. and Mrs. Newell Green, Ed and Ida Buxton behind Wayne, Clarence Green, Fred and Stella Williams with son Roy, girl is unknown Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 42) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b5e93bd101a5ff6703bed9aac803a880.jpg 6be0b11232e0da98b791821640a22c68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 43] [corresponds to page 40 of Pages of Our Lives] family standing in front of the house with Ida's parents. Wayne Buxton can remember when he was around 12 years old in 1913 when he watched his father cement the basement lantern light. Wayne and Lucille Buxton lived in this house when Tom Buxton was born at home in 1930. They lived here until 1947 when moved to the Thompson Farm. The house was the remodeled in 1949 for Tom Buxton and Barbara Callan when they were married. They were living here when Jerry Edward Buxton was born on May 24, 1949. After Tom was divorced in the fall of 1949, the house was rented until 1952. The house was remodeled again for Tom Buxton and Rachel Murphy before their marriage on March 16, 1952 and they lived there until June of 1965. Wayne and Lucille lived here from June 1965 until October 1974 when Lucille died and then Wayne lived here alone off and on until Perry Buxton and Mary Lewis were married in July, 1978 and moved into their new house that they had built just south at 13031 Clover Valley Road. The house was completely remodeled again in summer of 1994 by Jay Zarley. Rex Buxton and Joy Harber Buxton moved in September 1994 and are still living here in 2005. [Insert] [Insert info] House at Newell Green corners now called 13105 clover Valley Rd., Croton, Ohio Newell and Rachel Green lived here 1850 est Ed and Ida Buxton 1894-1929 est Wayne and Lucille Buxton 1829-1947 Tom and Barbara Buxton 1949- Renters 1950-1952 Tom and Rachel Buxton 1952-1965 Wayne and Lucille Buxton 1965-1974 Wayne Buxton 1974-1978 Perry and Mary Buxton 1978-1993 Rec and Joy Buxton 1994-to present Vacations Tom and I were very fortunate to have a Florida vacation about every year after we were married in 1952 except the three years our children were born in 1956, 1958, and 1964 and the year Tom's legs were broken in 1984. We went for a month after the crops were harvested in the fall or sometimes in August. The year we went to Florida when Tina was 3 years old and Perry stayed home with my folks, I bought Tina a pair of shoe strings at Sarasota shoping cent during their grand opening. Their prize was a new comet car which I won on my one ticket. Tom and I drove to Florida in the spring of 1953. We stayed in Sarasota in a kitchenette apartment. It was my first Florida trip. We had such a good time going to the beach in the evenings as Tom burned so easy. We liked walking along the beach wooded areas. We also went to Ringling Museum. We went to Florida since Tom's folks had a winter home in Sarasota, my sister, Velma McCall, had a winter trailer home in Dade City, and my mother, Ethel Murphy Anderson and Uncle Wilbur Carnes both lived full time in St. Petersburg. We usually flew Eastern Airlines to Tampa Florida and then took the limousine to my [Photo] [Photo image] Rachel and Tina standing in front of new 1961 Comet Rachel won in Florida Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 43) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a6a3c3b0215d92eb8ee5873dfb21d7f6.jpg e5588b6f151d92ce59c8d935fa3280da Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 44] [corresponds to page 41 of Pages of Our Lives] mother' and step dad's home in St. Petersburg When I visited mother in St. Petersburg during the Christmas vacation, I had our 3 kids and usually another of my brother Lovett Murphy's kids with us. We always had a lot of luggage with us. One time when we unloaded our bags at mothers we had 15 bags instead of 13. The two look alike bags had to be taken back to the airport the next day. Tina always loved to fly, even the 1st time we flew when she was about 6 years old. She sat with a little girl in the back of the plane and they got to playing with a pillow and it broke. She still had feather on her when we got to mother's. She latter became an airline flight attendant for United Airlines in 1992. [Photo image] [Photo caption] Tina White December 2, 1992 flight attendant for United Airlines When I look back I never realized how much work mom went to when 5-7 people stayed for sometimes 2 weeks. She always had enough beds, pillows and covers for all of us. I always helped mom cook and clean up but there was a lot of extra work for her. We also visited my sister Velma & Allen McCall in Dade City Fl. Who lived in the winter months in their park model trailer. We always went Webster Flea Market near them when we were there. We also visited my Uncle Wilbur Carnes and his wife Sarah who lived next door to Mother in St. Petersburg. A few times we visited 2nd cousin Jean Somyk in Sarasota and my niece Alice and Karl Schuster and family in St. Petersburg. [Photo image] [Photo image] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] Rachel Buxton, Ollie Durfee and Velma Rachel, Ollie and Velma - 1982 McCall in Hawaii - 1982 In August 1982 my sister Velma McCall and her friend, Olive Durfee and I went on a Hawaii cruise. In 1985 Tom and I went with my sister, Velma McCall, on a senior citizen trip from Zanesville, Ohio by bus to Chicago and then by plane to California and bus trips from there to Las Vegas, Mexico, and Hoover Dam before returning home by plane and bus. In 1986 Tom and I went on a tour bur trip to Louisville, Ky. In 1970 we bought our 1969 19-foot Terry trailer which we camped in the first year at different near-by campgrounds so we could go home to milk. Then the next few years we parked it at Walter Bishops Camp near Alexandria, Ohio. In 1980 we bought our 25 foot 1978 Good Life mini motor home with 12,400 miles on it. Bill Fishers invited us to join their tri-county comping group which included the following couples from our Condit Presbyterian Church; William Fishers, Raymond Saunders, Wendall Days, Dudley Townleys and Wayne and Gerry Reppart. We were in this camping club until it discontinued int he early 1990's. All six [Photo image] [Photo caption] Our 1979 Good Life 24' mini motorhome Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 44) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b7233d9428d2498567c98ee5b69170a9.jpg 187deef40c154ace2a50aa693e59cac4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 45] [corresponds to page 42 of Pages of Our Lives] of us were elders in the Condit Presbyterian Church. In 1984 Tina, Gary, and children, Logan and Renee White went with us in our mini motor homes to St. Petersburg, Florida, and then flew back home to Centerburg, Ohio. In 1985, my brother Lovett, Tom and I were at Mother's in Florida when Robert and Thersa Olmsted joined us. Robert is Ray and Helen Olmsted's son. [Photo image] [Photo image] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] Wilber Carnes, Lovett Murphy, Thomas Lovett Murphy, Thomas Buxton, Robert Buxton and Robert Olmsted, Florida Olmstead at Mother's in St. Petersburg, in 1985 1985 In 1990 we bought our 1988 34' Pace Arrow motor home which had 13,574 miles and 118.6 hr. on generator. [Photo image] [Photo image] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] Camping in Rio Grande Park Tom and Rachel's motor home in 2004 Jan. 27, 1987, we joined membership campground system at B's R.V. Resort near Clermont, Fl. We rotated in our motor home every two weeks between B's RV and American Adventure RV Resort in Kissimmee, Fl. for 4 months each winter from 1988-1996. On Jan. 5, 1996 when American Adventure RV Resort discontinued their membership Campground camping, we changed to 3 Flags RV Resort, Wildwood, Fl., to alternate with B's R.V. camp. Since 1996 we have stayed at Clermont and Wildwood R.V. camps each winter for four months in our motor home. [Photo image] [Photo caption] Aerial view of B's R.V. Resort, built in 1982 In 1988 we joined membership campground members assoc. group to help fight fraud in membership camping. This group started with 700 members but it is down to around 20 couples in 1999 who just go to the rallies for a reunion of friends. This group had two rallies Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 45) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/55ef293fce3642f50f426feecce0a989.jpg 85fb54ad913e5e3f84cf209ce03de899 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 46] [corresponds to page 43 of Pages of Our Lives] each year the winter rally held in January in Florida and the summer one held in the different states where our members are from. Here are the list of rallies: 1. Jul. 1988 -Turtle Lake R.V. (AA) Michigan 2. Jan. 1989 -Lake Okeechobee (AA) Okeechobee, Fla. 3. Jul. 1989 -Woods and Waters (AA) White Cloud, Mich. 4. Jan. 1990 -American World (AA) Kissimee, Fl. 5. July 1990 -Walley World R. V. Loudonville, OH. 6. Jan. 1991 -American World (AA) Kissimee, Fl. 7. July 1991 -Walley World R. V. Loudonville, OH. 8. Jan. 1992 -American World (AA) Kissimee, Fl. 9. Jul. 1992 -Blossom Run RV (TA) Onamia, Minn. 10. Jan. 1993 -American World (AA) Kissimee, Fl. 11. July 1993 -Lake Paradise RV Lone Jack, Missouri 12. Jan. 1994 -American World (AA) Kissimee, Fl. 13. Sept 1944 (?1994) -Farm at Gettyburg, (OW) Dover, Pa. 14. Feb. 1995 -American World (AA) Kissimee, Fl. 15. Sept. 1995 -Lake France (AS) New Paris, Oh. 16. Feb. 1996 -Tropical Palms RV Kissimee, Fl. 17. Sept. 1996 The Landings RV Canal Fulton, Oh. 18. Jan. 1997 Citrus Tower, Clermont, Fl. 19. Sept 1997 -Twin Lakes(TA) Wapakoneta, Oh. 20. Jan. 1998 -Three Flags RV Wildwood, Fl. 21. Sept. 1998 -Natural High RV Lebon, Maine 22. Jan. 1999 -Three Flags RV Wildwood, Fl. 23. Sept 1999 -Round Out Valley RV, Accord, New York 24. Jan. 2000 -Three Flags RV Wildwood, Fl. 25. Jan. 2001 -Three Flags RV Wildwood, Fl. 26. Jan. 2002 -Three Flags RV Wildwood, Fl. 27. Jan. 2003 -Tropical Palms 28. Jan. 2004 -Eat out at Golden Corral 29. Jan. 2005 -Eat out at Golden Corral Tom and I have gone to all the rallies since the group started in 1988. In 1991, ten couple of our membership campground members association group left from American World Resort in Kissimee, Florida by bus to Port Canaveral, Florida, where we got our Carnival Cruise boat for the Bahamas stopping at St, Thomas and Freeport. In 1994 Steve and Ruth Rinke and Tom and Rachel Buxton, each driving his own motor home, went to Niagara Falls. In 1997 Tom and Rachel Buxton went with the Licking County Extension group farm bus tour to Washington, D.C. Baltimore, Md., and Gettysburg, Pa., stopping at a big dairy farm, White House, lima bean farm and Gettysburg. Rachel's Medical History I broke my left arm falling on cement at school when I was in the second grade. One day when Uncle Wilbur and Aunt Mary Carnes were at our house for supper, we were washing the dishes. I stepped down hard on the edge of a used while running Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 46) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/eea72165eca03bdba520ccb40e5f4166.jpg 30574fc7864fe68ebf3d88286bbdc8af Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 47] [corresponds to page 44 of Pages of Our Lives] out to the fence to dump the dishwater. The can had fallen on the yard side of the fence when it hit the clothes line and missed landing in the junk pile in the chicken lot where we threw all our old tin cans. The can cut a three inch flap in the arch of my left foot. It took a long time to heal but by soaking my foot in epson salts it healed down nice and never bothered me. Today I would have had several stitches in it but then you didn't go to a doctor for just a cut. On Sept. 6, 1944, at the age of 11 1/2 Years, I had my first period and continued normal, never heavy periods until in 1982 when I had missed a few periods and was getting hot flashes so my Doctor started me on premarin alone, Provera was was added around 1990 which were both continued until my hysterectomy in 2000. When only premarin was needed I had very bad cramps on the first day about every period and many times during school had to to lay down in the sick room. After having my children my cramps were less painful. I always had to frequently go to the bathroom as I went between each period during the day at school. This problem had continued all my life. In about 1998, I started not being able to completely empty my bladder and had to sit and wait a few minutes at least once each time to finish urinating. I never had any trouble with my bowels as always went regular each morning. I had imbedded tonsils out when 13 yrs. old and didn't talk for a week as vocal cords were so swollen. Mom worried I wouldn't talk. I was so anemic after this I had to take lots of iron medicine. After we were married, I have been in the hospital for three kids birth, D and C, toe lump removed in Delaware, 2 biopsies on left breast, complete hysterectomy in June 200, fallen bladder surgery in July 2002, hip replacement in July 2003. My uterus and bladder dropped in the fall of 1999 and surgery was needed I had a complete hysterectomy on June 23, 2000, to remove my uterus, both ovaries and fallopian tubes. My bladder was tacked up and several adhesions removed. These adhesians were from my previous surgery immediately following our son, Rex's birth birth in 1964. when Dr. William B. Merryman cut a 3 inch vertical incision on my lower center stomach to remove a piece out of each fallopian tube to prevent another pregnancy. He also removed my appendix since he was close to it. I was afraid of another pregnancy as Tina's blood was alright, Perry's blood very low for 2 months and Rex's blood had to be changed 1 1/2 times. A fourth child could even have had brain damage since the blood from B (CDE) R.H. negative blood and Tom's positive blood would get worse with each pregnancy. My hysterectomy was done by Dr. Brian Becher at Riverside Hospital in Columbus, I stayed in the hospital for two days. I was thankful when bowels moved on the fourth day after surgery. I really felt pretty well, only needing to take my percoset pain medicine for 3 days. Then I took Over-the-counter Aleve for pain. I went back to the doctor's office 6 days later to have the 14 staples removed from the 6-inch incision across my lower stomach. I was not allowed to drive a car for two weeks, no lifting over 13 lbs. for 3 weeks, no vacuuming with a sweeper for 4 weeks and no floor exercises for 4 weeks and complete pelvis rest for 4 weeks. Tom was really glad when my 4 weeks were up as he had never swept our house and was glad to give the job up. My 2002 Year Surgeries I started having upper right leg pain around 1994 when we were looking a motorhomes and checking roofs on them. We were climbing up the back ladder to look at Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 47) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/69ee18a2d9324a64df623bed50a9bdf5.jpg a14aeaab0b723efc1862ed9a461532db Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 48] [corresponds to page 45 of Pages of Our Lives] the top of the motor homes. all the first bottom steps were high and I thought I had just strained my leg muscle but I continued to have some pain even when just walking. My chiropractor took x-rays of both hips in 1995 and they showed that I had some arthritis in both hop joints with the left one showing the most ligament damage. At this time only my right leg bothered me. Later my right leg quit hurting and my left leg hurt. In the fall of 1999 my family doctor, Dr. Scott Merryman, started me on Naproxen 500 2 times a day arthritis medicine as his x-rays showed more arthritis. I took this for only a month as I side affects of itching and dry skin of my knees and elbows. I continued to have pain when walking so I went to Orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Schlonsky in the spring of 2001. His examination showed I had too good a range of motion to need surgery so he tried me on different new arthritis medicine, Vioxx 25 mg a day worked the best which I took for 11 months along with Glucisamine/Chondroitin. In the spring of 2002 I was having side affects of diarrhea and quit all medicine. This made me hurt more. I had more x-rays in the spring of 2002 with Dr. Schlonsky and they showed that in 18 months my left hip ligament was gone between the joints but my right side had stayed the same. He advised complete hip replacement of the left hip but he felt I needed to have my bladder problem taken care of first as I had to lean forward to urinate. So on July 5, 2002, I had cystocele bladder repair surgery at Riverside hospital by Dr. Becker with no incision needed. I was in hospital only 2 days. This surgery corrected the need to bend over to urinate but did not change the bladder not emptying completely or my rectal cystocele. I became allergic to delandid pain medicine as I got instant dry mouth, got hot and got hives on my back but continued on it with Benadryl added during my stay in the hospital. I gave blood July 26, 2002 and August 2, 2002 for my planned hip replacement surgery. Thursday August 15, 2002, we arrived at Mt. Carmel East Hospital at 5:45 a.m. I got to surgery waiting at 6:15. I had my 1 1/2 hour left hip replacement surgery and got back at 11:15 from the recovery room to my hospital room. I had foot air pumps and coumadin pills to prevent blood clots plus elastic hose, IV in right arm, nose oxygen and a big foam wedge between legs. I ate a full regular meal at 1:00 p.m. as I had not eaten for 13 hours and I have never thrown up in my life except in 2nd grade when I broke my wrist. I was on and off the bedpan 4 times before they inserted a foley catheter at 9:00 p.m. which had not been inserted during surgery. I had morphine 10 minute intervals push for pain which I used 8 times. My back hurt the most as I was not gotten up out of bed all day. On Friday the 1st day after surgery I had percoset for pain which I could have 2 every 4 hours. I only needed 1 every 6 hours. They got me up early for bath and therapy in A.M. and I sat in the chair for lunch staying up for 2 hours. I was helped out of bed again to sit in the chair for supper at 6:00 and therapy to walk to hall and back. The 2nd day, Saturday, in the hospital I had my therapy and sat in the chair for meals. I still had percoset for pain but Benadryl was added as I had a reaction to it. I was also given ancef antibiotic in my IV. My urine catheter was removed at 10:00 a.m. so I got up and walked myself with my walker from chair to bathroom several times during the day. My surgeon said my surgery went well and I had a healthy bone to work with and only osteoarthritis caused the problem. On Sunday the 3rd day, I was up from 6:30-12:30 with bath, eating, therapy, and Doctor visit. I was released at 2:00 p.m. but rested in bed all p.m. while waiting for medibus as I was too tired from being up too long. the medibus driver got me loaded at 8:00 p.m. sitting a wheel chair for a bumpy 45 minute ride arriving at Heartland Care Center in Centerburg at Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 48) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/57f4a6e2087047a78f485442d9abf68e.jpg 3a9baad3ffeb4c8315ec6bb96d250738 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 49] [corresponds to page 46 of Pages of Our Lives] 8:45. I was soon settled in my room with a bedside commode which worked well as I had decided I had to get my feet out of bed by myself. I knew I'd have to be up at least 5 times during the night due to my bladder retention problem. I stayed 20 days at Heartland for my 2 hour 5 day a week therapy. I learned the things that we had to do to prevent my new hip from coming out of the socket until the tissue, bone and muscles are completely healed. This is a least 6 months and some doctors say a year. The therapy consisted of the things not to do, how to use a walker and later a cane, balance, muscle strengthening, dressing, getting in and out of car and caring for my feet when you aren't allowed to reach them. Here is a list of all the things you have to not do for 6 months to a year: 1. Do not cross legs or ankles past center line of body with operated hip when standing, sitting or in bed when sleeping. 2. Do not bend over more than a 90 degree angle (the L shape) so have to use picker to pick up things from the floor & use sock dresser of feet 3. Do not twist the hip, like when turning to look behind you 4. Always extend your operated leg when rising from sitting position as you tend to bend forward when rising and you loose the 90 degree angle 5. Always have your hips higher than your knees when sitting or rising or getting in and out of a car. Use extended toilet seats for year. 6. You must sleep on your back with legs at least 10" apart. Later can sleep on operated side. The following medicine were given at Heartland during my 20 day stay 1. Colace - 100 mg twice daily for rectal cystocile as bowel softener 2. Topra XL - 50 mg twice daily for high blood pressure. Coumindin - 5 mg last day and for 5 days after going home. 4. Vicodin - 5/500 one and two every 6 hours as needed for pain 5. Aleve - one tablet as needed for pain after off vicodin 6. Multi vitamin 7. Darvoset- first day at rest home made me floaty and tight chested 8. Rocephin - one gm injection antibotic for incision redness before 28 staples removed. My 2003 Surgery My right Leg gradually began hurting me before my left hip was healed from my hip replacement surgery in 2002. By six months I needed to use a walker to help the pain in my hip and upper leg. I also had pain when laying down and if I even moved my right foot or toe it would send pain up my leg causing many sleepless nights. With my left hip I had pain only with walking or climbing steps. In April 2003 my x-rays at Dr. Schlosky's showed that my ligament was nearly gone in my right hip so I planned to have surgery. I went to a new doctor for a second opinion and liked him so well I decided to have do my surgery as all he did was hip and knee surgery at Mt Carmel East Hospital (and was a young doctor). July 7, 2004, I had my complete right hip replacement surgery by Dr. Joel Politi staying in the hospital 3 days and also 20 days at Heartland Centerburg to continue my therapy. On Monday morning, July 7th, we left home at &:15 arriving at Mt. Carmel East Hospital at 8:00 AM. I got into admitting room quickly where I signed my name, and my social security card and picture ID were checked. Then I went to pre-admitting room in a Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 49) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a703b96c51dc769a0fb3a741c064186e.jpg 1e019ff8a1cb38f6d0571cb07b8b4709 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 50] [corresponds to page 47 of Pages of Our Lives] Wheelchair. In a few minutes I was wheeled to the surgery waiting room and Tom had to leave. My blood pressure and temperature were taken. My blood pressure was 170/99 so I was not as calm as I thought I was as I had taken my blood pressure medicines earlier with a sip of water. I had had nothing to eat or drink after midnight. I next changed into a hospital gown. An IV was put in my hand and I was given pepsin and reglan with a sip of water to clear my stomach. An antibiotic was put in my IV. I talked to my surgeon, Dr Joel Politi, and also my anaesthetist before my surgery. Next, support hose were put on my left leg and I was given a a sedative in my IV. The sedative worked as I don't even remember being taken into surgery. My surgery lasted 1 hour with only a 4" incision being needed with self dissolving stitches and a washable patch applied over it. I was in recovery room for 2 hours where full support hose were put on both legs and foot pumps put on both feet to make pressure up and down my feet to help prevent blood clots. I arrived at 353, a single room in the hospital, at 1:15 PM. I still had my IV in and foam wedge between my legs. The doctor had ordered the first three meals to be liquid. I chewed two cups of ice and drank 3 cups of water during the day as my surgery catheter was working well. I had a morphine pump which I could push ever 10 minutes for pain but I only needed it about every 3 hrs. as I had little pain. My elastic hose & foot pumps bothered me the most. They did change my long hose to knee support hose which really helped. I was wide awake all Monday P.M. with little pain. At 10 PM on percuset did help me sleep from 11:00 til 3:00 AM. After sitting on edge of bed for a little while and also getting my first stool softener. I took my 2nd percuset at 3:00 AM and then slept from 4:00 till 6:00 AM. My catheter was taken out at &:00 AM Tuesday morning. They helped me get up and then I got to sit in a chair for an hour while I drank my breakfast at 8:00 PM. Monday P.M. they got me up and I passed out for few seconds as my blood pressure dropped to 66-44 so I got put back in bed and 2 IV's were given real fast and the house doctor called. then I was on bed pan about every 1 1/2 hrs. Finally let me up to go to the bathroom. I was catherized at midnight as bladder only part way emptied as usual. I slept good till 3:00 AM Wednesday morning. They helped me up to bathroom and I slept from 3:30 - 5:30 AM. Up in chair for breakfast and I walked to bathroom by myself with walker and bowels moved for 1st time. On Wednesday noon the aide left my foot pumps off so I could get out of bed by myself and use walker to go to bathroom & I could call the nurse to help me get back in bed as I could not lift my operated leg up into the bed. On Wednesday I had therapy of walking in halls in AM. And PM. and did my 9 exercised in bed. Wednesday night I got up to go to the bathroom at 10:00 PM., 12 & 4:30 PM. Then nurses helped me back to bed. Thursday morning both doctors were in for my discharge. I did all my own bath except my legs which the aide did. I ate an early 11:45 dinner in chair. At noon I was able to get back in bed for the first time by myself. The little Mt. Carmel East Ambulance picked me up at 1:15. I layed on a soft cot with head pillow, arriving at Heartland of Centerburg at 2:00 PM. I got to bed at 4:15. I was tired and my right hip and thigh were swollen quite a bit. The Heartland of Centerburg nurse did her tests. I ate good supper and I was weighed in at 160 lb. Tom, Rex and Tina all were in to help me get settled in. Since my leg was swollen, I did not start therapy until Monday when morning and afternoon therapy began. I could walk with walker, so I wanted more work on lift exercises. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 50) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/39243285e40f441c71667d9e84828603.jpg 99eeab3b3aa8b2c9aaf89498bd23120c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 51] [corresponds to page 48 of Pages of Our Lives] and going up and down steps as I wanted to be able to climb steps which I had not been able to do for nearly 2 years. I soon was going up and down their cement steps from the basement to 1st floor 4 times a day before going home July 20, 2003, in our truck. Tom's Medical History Tom had his appendix out after were were married and also his tonsils later. He also had a stone come out of navel after using bread and milk poultices. On Nov. 21, 1984 Tom came in at 4:30 P.M. and went to the bathroom and went back to unload dryer with beans into a wagon. I began cutting up turkey as I had cooked my turkey the day before Thanksgiving. Perry had driven paper truck all night and combined soy beans all day and he was leaving for home to sleep when we heard Tom yell just as Perry opened the house door to leave for home. We ran out to the dryer Perry got there first and said, "I think Dad's legs are broken." he covered him with a blanket and stayed with him while I called Croton Emergency. Before I could get Tina called and clothes changed the squad was here. Doris Wilson rode with Tom in squad van and we followed them to Mt. Carmel East Hospital and got there around 6:00. Since it was the night before Thanksgiving only one operating room was open. It was in use and a small staff on emergency call. Luck would have it that Dr. Rutherford, a bone specialist, was there on duty. The kids and I stayed with Tom until they took him to surgery around 11:00 when I told them to go on home. I worked folding laundry in the laundry room so I'd have something to do while waiting. He left leg was crushed from knee to his ankle and his right leg was broken from knee to ankle in over 8 places. All the doctor could do was clean out the wounds leaving in the biggest pieces of bone and putting gauze packing back in around the bones. I slept on a couch in the waiting room. Tina came in the morning and took me home showing me the easiest way to come the next day to the hospital. On Friday they took Tom back to surgery and took out the gauze packing and put in wick packing. Then Saturday they took out wick packing in his room and his left leg were soft like a spoiled orange. He was cast from hip to toe on both legs. The following Friday they did third surgery and tried to clean out more around bones and recast him. The cast hit a pressure point on a nerve and piece had to be cut out of the cast around his knee. He was given a total of 7 pints of blood. I drove the 22 miles to the hospital every day. He was on IV's and antibiotics for 2 weeks as Doctor said he could lose both legs. The antibiotics worked and his temperature did come down. Then he had to learn to slide from hospital bed to wheel chair before they let him come home after being in hospital for a month. He was glad to get home to his rented hospital bed with arm rails to pull himself around and the electric air mattress that moved all the time so he didn't get bed sores. I got 15 different pillow so block his legs at night so he could get comfortable. He would turn on his light when he needed help to turn of move as his leg casts were so heavy. He had to go in every 2 weeks for x-rays which was quite a job as it took several men to get him and his wheel chair down porch steps and into the car to sit sideways with casts on the set. After 3 months in the full hip to toe straight casts the Doctor took the casts off and put him in full casts but knees open and had a metal rod that went to plastic strips that went around thighs so they did bend a little and he could learn to walk. he got to take his first shower at 6 months when the casts taken off and full Vicrose wraps put on with steel supports in them were used so he could walk and not put stress on his legs. He wore these for six months. We went to Florida July 28th when my step dad had his heart attack and Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 51) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ec5c19a5e76333f8c062a7335d70d275.jpg e2eecab6a75cfd16d2228529ddf418f3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 52] [corresponds to page 49 of Pages of Our Lives] was unconscious in the hospital and Mom needed help. We flew to Florida. Tom was able to get around with his full braces on and to go to the church memorial services when Val dies Aug. 12th, 1985. After a year he gradually began to wear smaller braces until finally only a knee brace. By this time the nerves were healing and he had to start using his tens unit (Trascutaneous electrical nerve stimulator) which helped control the pain in his legs and knees. We had to cash-rent the farm out as Tom was not able to walk and carry any weight. Tom Buxton had asthma as a child. When he was 6 years old he could remember his grandmother burning something in a pail for him to breathe. It got better as he grew up but he would still have an attack if he shoveled snow, ran etc. We were married 1952 and he didn't have many attacks. I he did Dr. Godshall prescribed little white pill which stopped it. In 1989 Tom had his polyps removed from his sinus in his nose so he could breathe through his nose. In 1989 Tom got a bad sinus infection and his asthma came on strong putting him in the hospital in Florida in fall of 1989 and again in Ohio in the spring of of 1999. He was then a on a maintenance medicine Theo Dur 300 mg @ 2 a day and then later on 3 a day which helped prevent more attacks. In 1998 he started getting choked when he ate certain foods. This increased in 1990 as he had developed a pouch in his esophagus, Here food would catch causing him to choke and get food in his lungs. This choking increased his asthma attacks. On July 2, 1999, Dr. Bailey in Marion operated and removed this pouch and cut places in sphenter muscle to help his reflux. Tom got along well with his surgery and 4 day hospital stay. The next six months he had very little asthma even without taking any Theo Dur as he didn't seem to need it. On Dec. 20, 1999 while in Florida Tom was in dust and cigarette smoke at a thrift shop. The next day his sinus stared draining. He took decongestants but it didn't help very much. By January 1 his asthma was bad. We went to Clermont, FL. doctor three times for breathing treatments, antibiotics and steroids and new inhalers. Nothing seemed to help very much. On Jan. 8, 2000 he was in wood smoke at our campgrounds in Wildwood and two puffs on ventilator-inhaler would only last two hours. By Thursday morning, Jan 13th at 5:30 a.m. we went the to Leesburg Regional Medical Center emergency room. We got there in 25 minutes. Tom was so low on air he had a hard time walking. He was given immediate treatment while I filled out papers. The Emergency Room continued to get busier all day. Tom did get a room by 5:00 p.m. There were still 16 emergency rooms full, 8 beds in emergency hallway and the waiting room was full. He had 7 breathing treatments IV steroids, 4 antibiotics and breathing treatments around the clock every four hours. He stayed in the Hospital Thursday, Friday and he came home Saturday at 3:00 P.M. After only three days at home Tom was worse again and had to go back to the emergency room Tuesday night at 10:00 P.M. He got a room by Wednesday morning at 2:30 a.m. I had two hours sleep in the third floor lounge as the third floor in the hospital was all men with breathing problems so I couldn't sleep in his room. Friday afternoon after he got to breathing better I decided I had to drive home myself instead of calling friends to get me. I got home OK so then each day I drove in at 8:30 and left at 3:00 p.m. This time they kept him 7 days and he got home Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 52) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/775ce1b00682e0ec80408cbb9d025abd.jpg 3e7cf15ad34aefc559a7a952aa0b3ae0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 53] [corresponds to page 50 of Pages of Our Lives] Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2000, at 2:00 P. M. His catscan showed his lungs full but xray showed no pneumonia. He was not able to cough up any phlegm until the 4th day after using breathing pulsator and beating on his back finally loosened it and he was stronger. The phlegm test showed it was a streptococci bacteria infection. The home health nurses came out to the motor home Jan. 27, 28, 29 and Feb 1st. Each one helped us learn different things to help his asthma. After being very careful to stay out of the things which trigger his asthma attacks (wood smoke, cigar smoke, perfume, car fumes, cleaning chemicals) we arrived home safely in Ohio March 19, 2000. Tom had his low functioning no stones gall bladder removed at Mt. Carmel Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, on May 7, 2004. the 45 minute surgery by Dr. Jason Keith went well with only 4 small holes needed but he did stay ovenight in the hospital. Also, in 2004, Tom had anesthetic for a colonoscopy and later a throat exploration clear into his stomach. All the tests were normal but still he has stomach pain off and on after he eats. In 2005, he had a small bowel follow study which was normal with no blockage. Cancer in My Family Here is a list of those who had cancer in my father's family and their children who also had cancer. My father, Arthur Murphy died of lympho sarcoma Cancer at the age of 61 years. His son, Lovett Murphy died of colon cancer at the age of 60. My father's sister, Ella Murphy Taylor died late in life of Breast Cancer. She was 92. Her daughter, Grace Taylor Bell had had breast cancer. My father's sister, Martha Murphy McElroy died of breast cancer latter in life. Her daughter, Rose Ella McElroy Grove has thyroid cancer. And Martha's son, Donald McElroy also had cancer. My father's brother Darrel Murphy did not have cancer, but Darrel's daughter, Mary Ellen Murphy Lynne had lung cancer. My Father's aunt on his Mother's side, Goldie Sinkey had breast cancer. Memorable Moments in Our Family Tina's Graduation First Great Grandchildren [Photo] [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] [Photo Caption] [Photo caption] Attending Tina's Graduation From Cara Maryann Taylor Jenna Marie Cox Bowling Green University in 1978 11 weeks, Oct. 29, 2005 Born Sept. 24, 2005 7 lb. 13 oz. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 53) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a55951d2a5c87874bdfa49fcb2968d5c.jpg 73ff3f7b3f8b445dd27c13f606838340 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 54] [corresponds to page 51 of Pages of Our Lives] Other Papers of Rachel Murphy Buxton Program for Friendly Club of Condit Presbyterian Church May 7, 1997 By Rachel Murphy Buxton There were many teachers in our family history, thus education and teaching played an important roll in our family. The teachers on my mother's side 1. My great uncle, Frank Olmstead Cox, who was a missionary in Africa for many years. 2. My second cousin, Elsie Olmsted Cox, who was director and teacher at the Seventh Day Advent Academy in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. The teachers on my father's side 1. My grandfather, Farrah Murphy, was a teacher and an educator all his life. 2. My grandmother, Grace Chadwick Murphy was a teacher at the Perfect School District School for 2 years before she married Grandpa. 3. My great aunt Goldie Chadwick Sinkey was a teacher in Youngstown, Ohio all her life. 4. My aunt Ella Murphy Taylor taught all her life in Berlin High School. 5. My second cousin, Nellie Murphy, was a teacher all her life. 6. My great aunt, Cora Murphy, was a professor of Bible at Ohio Wesleyan College in Delaware, Ohio. She went to grade school at Condit, then 4 years Ohio Wesleyan for her BA in 1905. She had her Bachelor of Divinity plus several post-graduate schools. 7. My second cousin, Margaret Murphy Gillis, graduated from Sunbury High High School. Received her B. A. from Ohio Wesleyan. She also got degrees from University of Chicago and took courses at University of Florida, Ohio State University, Bowling Green University, and St. Petersburg, Fl. college. She was a teacher all her life and her last 8 years she was principal and teacher at American Legion Hospital for Crippled Children. 8. My Great Grandmother Chadwick was a school teacher. I'm the sixth generation to have lived on Murphy Hill Farm in the house just west of where Marve and Pat Monroe live Murphy Road. My grandfather, Farrah Carl Murphy (known as F.C.) was born April 13, 1874 and died June 26, 1966 at age 92 years. He went to Trenton Township School his first 9 years. The 9th grade was a college preparatory grade which most schools did not have. Then he went to Ohio State University for a 2 yr. agricultural course. When he went to Ohio State at this time in 1892 it was held on the edge of Columbus in an open field with only about 400 students. Then Farrah Murphy at age 23 yr. taught school for a while at the North Condit School for $20 a month. He had a special tonic he gave his students so they wouldn't fake an illness and miss school. It contained quinine, castor oil, drop of turpentine, a touch of coal Appendix-51 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 54) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/db925e4b3786fbe2d68962813ee95a9b.jpg ecb6dfdfc18d0ea1798159d207c56084 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 55] [corresponds to page 52 of Pages of Our Lives] tar, and capsicum which was very hot. It was a very effective cure and the kids never faked an illness again. Farrah was interested in Granges. He served as head master of Condit Grange for many years. He helped organize several other granges in the county and was honored in 1949 for his service to the Grange. In 1900 Farrah married Grace Chadwick of Condit. Her father owned and operated a tile mill in North Condit and it was widely known for its fine tile. Grace also taught school at Perfect School District which is the red brick building that still stands on the old 3 C Highway. They had four children; (1) Arthur (my father who lived in the first house on the north side of Murphy Road just off 605 road; (2) Darrell Murphy (Known as Pat) who lived on Beacom road just of 61 north of Sunbury, (3) Ella Murphy Taylor who lived near Berlin and taught school there, (4)Martha Murphy McElroy lived on Ross road north from Murphy road. Farrah Murphy was always interested in education, and was an advocate for consolidation of the county on-room schools in the Sunbury district, and it finally was accomplished about 1920. In 1918 Farrah helped form and was secretary of the first cooperative elevator in Delaware County, located at Condit. It was a tremendous undertaking and he and Mr. Charles Comstock spent many a sleepless night before it was accomplished. Farrah was a member of the County Board of Education for 14 years. It was during this time that the Sunbury News editor, Bill Whitney, was hunting for a name for the school district. Mr. Whitney was talking Mr Murphy and asked him if he had any ideas for a name. Mr. Murphy said that Big Walnut Creek runs through the district so why not call it Big Walnut. So that became its name. Besides farming, Mr Murphy and his sister, Cora Murphy, Who was a Bible professor at Ohio Wesleyan College in Delaware, Ohio, traveled through England, Europe and the Holy Lands. This was the high light of his life and he enjoyed telling of his experiences there. Mr. Charles Green (a neighbor of Farrah) and Goldie McQue, a friend of Cora, went with them. Farrah gained information which he used when he lectured at the Farmers Institute and later wrote a book. Farrah taught the young men's Bible Sunday School class at Condit Presbyterian Church for over 20 years and he always enjoyed the services there. Although Farrah was a busy man, he was a good neighbor and a fine father. He took time to play with his children with a walk in the woods, a trip to the store, or even a skating party on the pond. Farrah and Grace had daily devotions in the home for the whole family. Farrah believed in discipline in the home one time when the kids were noisy in the room when Farrah and Grace were studying the Bible, Aunt Ella had to sit in the corner and couldn't talk for an hour. Another time, aunt Martha and her cousin, Harold Sinkey, who came to visit each summer, transplanted corn plants in Grandpa Murphy's garden which were about a foot high as they had seen tomatoes, cabbage, etc. plants being transplanted. Since they were only 4-6 yr. old, they had a very stern lecture. Farrah Murphy could not have a accomplished what he did had it not the many sacrifices of fine Christian wife, grace, as she stayed home during his tour of Europe and Appendix-52 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 55) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ff79f1f2fd9ce449190cb5ccc5c04cea.jpg b3255fda01fcd6e489f045132aa0122e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 56] [corresponds to page 53 of Pages of Our Lives] with the help of her two sons, did the farm work that summer. Grace Loren Chadwick was born in Sunbury in 1878 and her father was a salesman. When she was 2 years old they moved to a new house at Condit Station. Mr. Chadwick, along with a partner, operated a tile mill. Grace soon had a baby brother named Garfield, then 7 years later a brother, Loren and after 14 more years a sister named Goldie. Three years later a sister, Mildred, and finally two years later another brother named Raymond. This made her youngest brother, Raymond, 18 years younger than Grace. Grace Chadwick was small for her age and had long blond hair. She had to wear glasses at the age of 11 years. She was also the oldest granddaughter in the family. Grace took care of her 5 brothers and sisters many times when her mother was sick. Farrah Murphy had three brothers who died of flu; Glenn Murphy, 7 mos. old in 1868, Delano Abram Murphy, 22 years old in 1886 and Ernest Thornton Murphy, 22. yr. in 1894. They had all three died before the big influenza epidemic of 1918. I never understood how the Murphys got the money to buy all their farm land, as nearly all the sons were given a farm, until I studied the Murphy family tree. Tax records show that in 1806 William, 2nd, and Benjamin paid taxes in Pleasant Twp. Edward Murphy in Richmond Twp. William Murphy I and his 3 sons, William II, Benjamin and Edward came to Ohio near Buckeye Lake. William Murphy I, the father, was 50 years old and a widower. He married Mary Ball who was 18 years old in 1803. William I and Mary Ball had Bazzil Murphy who was Farrah Murphy's grandfather. When Bazzil's father died his mother, Mary Ball Murphy, brought her son, Bazzil, to Delaware, Ohio. Bazzil Murphy courted and married a wealthy girl in Delaware, Ohio, named Rachel Algire. Rachel's father, W. K. Algire bought a woolen mill enterprise in 1873 which had started in Delaware. His stock company was worth $30,000. He built a 40 x 90 foot brick building and supplied with machinery for manufacturing of woolen goods in general, but it was not in operation as written in Delaware County History. In 1828 Bazzil Murphy and Rachel Algire were married and the same year bought the Jenny Green farm which is about 1 mile south of the Condit Presbyterian Church on 605 highway. Bazzil also bought 100 acres at auction across Murphy Road, south of Marve and Pat Monroe's house for $5 an acre. Bazzil and Rachel's son, Charles Leif Murphy, who married Martha Adam, whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower boat, came to Vans Valley and Murphy Hill and bought the north side of Murphy Road known Murphy Hill Farm. Charles and Martha built the first brick house here in 1870 with money Charles made from wool he sold at $1.00 per lb. during the Civil War. He also dug the pond with a dam on the west side where the water was the deepest. I remember how my father kept fixing the dam in later years as the muskrats kept making it leak. The house burned when I was 4 years old in February 1939 but I still remember rocking on my knees in our rocking chair and watching out the glass of our east living door at the fire and smoke as the house smoldered in the attic where the fire had started. I also remember later that summer when my grandparents, Farrah and Grace Murphy, lived in the garage while the house was being rebuilt. I remember how bad the catalpa worms were that summer with the worms crawling all over the ground under the catalpa tree just south of the garage. Appendix -53- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 56) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a675096227dd2049b9ace122d31d6b7e.jpg 8daef1d4ffb3efd398b3919fcf945faa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 57] [corresponds to page 54 of Pages of Our Lives] Charles and Martha Murphy gave their nine children a chance to get a good education and develop their inherited talents which led several of them to distinguished careers away from the farm. l. Arthur Murphy (Farrah's Murphy's oldest brother) graduated from law college and was a lawyer in the District Attorney's office in Bowling Green, Ohio. 2. Lovett Murphy was a renowned traveler, photographer, journalist and publisher. He combined three newspapers to start the paper now known as The Sunbury News. 3. Cora Murphy who graduated from Ohio Wesleyan College plus several other college courses, was a Bible Professor at Ohio Wesleyan. 4. Farrah Murphy who graduated from Ohio State College was a teacher, farmer, lecturer, and author. 5. Gertrude Murphy who helped her husband in the publishing business with her brother, Lovett Murphy. 6. Grant Murphy inherited 75 acres of woodland from his father, Charles and built a large 2-story house and a big barn after clearing some of the land. On may 6, 1941 the barn blew down during one of the worst wind and hail storms in years. Hail stones as large as baseballs fell followed by severe winds. My husband Thomas Edward Buxton, said he can remember when he was 11 yrs. old this storm. It was at graduation time and it knocked the north windows out of the Croton School House. Grant Murphy's oldest son, Mac Murphy, lived to be 104 years old and died in 2001. He was a renowned submarine electrical engineer in both World War I and World War II with many metals of honor and lived in California. After Grant Murphy's death, his children sold the farm in 1960. The other 2 brothers died young of the flu so did not get to live to their potential. Charles and Martha Murphy gave the land north of Murphy Road to their son, Farrah Murphy and daughter, Cora Murphy. The land south of the road that Charles's father, Bazzil Murphy, bought was given to Charles and then Charles left his part to sons, Lovett and Grant Murphy. Later Farrah Murphy bought his sister, Cora's land and his brother, Lovett's land. North of the road land went to Farrah's daughter, Ella Murphy Taylor and the smaller house on the northwest went Farrah's daughter-in-law, Ethel Murphy Anderson, as Arthur died of cancer in 1962 at 61 years of age. The land on the south side of the road went to Farrah's son, Arthur, then to Arthur and Ethel's son, Lovett Murphy, then to Lovett Murphy's son, Joe Murphy, who still owns the woods and farming ground. The north side of Ella Murphy Taylor's hill house and west pasture was sold to Marvin and Pat Monroe. The north west house Ethel Murphy Anderson sold to Mankins and is now owned by Tom and Nickie Horman. Joe Murphy is the 7th generation of Murphys and is building a new house in the northeast section of the woods in 2005. MY GREAT UNCLE LOVETT Written by Rachel Murphy (Buxton) in 1948 for a school report with Grandpa Murphy's help (Born 1867) My uncle at age 24 years started the Trentor Agitator, a newspaper that favored prohibition in the year 1884. He printed it first in the upstairs of my grandfather's house for several years. Then he built a building in Condit where Bill Ford lives now, to have his newspaper office in. He was there three years. He just got the paper going good when he bought out the Sunbury Monitor, the Centerburg Gazette, and the Croton Independent. All three of these papers were operated under the same management. In a year or two, he sold Appendix -54- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 57) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/89b638d90ef726b6f7aa469551fe186b.jpg bdd225d6f01f84b95ba03af31f20c1c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 58] [corresponds to page 55 of Pages of Our Lives] All three of these papers which later became what we now call the Sunbury News. After he sold these papers out, he bought another paper business in Columbus. It was also a paper which favored prohibition. This paper business which he bought in Columbus he moved to Cleveland. He then sold his interest out in it. After he sold out in Cleveland, he took up a homestead in Michigan. He stayed here until the temperature got down to 40 degrees below zero. He couldn't stand this temperature so he left his homestead and started for the state of Washington (on foot without any money at all). He got his meals by washing dishes in restaurants on the way. He stopped at Basiman, Montana. The editor of this town's paper was sick so Lovett stayed and ran his paper until the editor recovered. From Basiman he went to Seattle, Washington, part on foot and part on train. When in Seattle he learned of Yukon gold rush.He took a boat to Alaska. Instead of mining gold, he and his partner (which he picked up on the way) chopped wood for $6 a chord. After spending the winter in Alaska, he came down to California and worked in the grape vineyards and orange groves for some time. Tiring of California he came back to Ohio with the same amount of money in his pocket, which was about $40, as he had when he left his homestead in Michigan. When he came back to Ohio his father had died and he inherited 40 acres of land which was mostly woods. Here in the middle of the woods he built a round house with his own hands. On one side was a fireplace, in the top was a skylight which was the only light besides the door. (You can still see in our woods where his well was.) Nearly all the walls were lined with books. He even had pet snakes to keep away the rats. He lived here and studied for about for about three years. He studied the Bible and religious philosophy. In 1904, the time of the St. Louis World's Fair, he leased land and built cottages about five miles out of St. Louis which he rented to the tourists who were attending the fair. They even had a big catering place here. After the close of the fair, the houses at Cottage City were freighted to Sunbury and sold. He then took a sudden notion to go South, so he went to New Orleans. All the money he had was $100. One morning when he went to buy his breakfast he found that all his money had been stolen, so he had to wash dishes for the meal. Being he had no money, he got a job working on the railroad as a carpenter. In 1907 he followed the rail of Lewis and Clark and prepared a historical lecture, which he planned to give with pictures he would take on the way. When he got to Seattle, Washington, he took his camera and went on north to Alaska. In Alaska he went beyond the out most trading posts, taking pictures and prospecting for gold. Every day he wrote his geographical descriptions of this part of Alaska. When he and his partner were coming down a cold and very swift river, their Canoe struck a log and over turned. His partner swam to shore. Lovett drowned according to the message sent by his partner, even though he was an excellent swimmer, because he would not take off his boots, the current drug him under. this event happened 150 miles from any settlement, so his body was never recovered. His camera, journal and every thing was lost in the deep, soaring water. Appendix -55- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 58) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f9e5feb1875a4d2ae878f4e5c56307dd.jpg 8c6197b11fbe946399885493baaf7494 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 59] [corresponds to page 56 of Pages of Our Lives] LOVETT TAFT MURPHY, INFORMATION ABOUT HIS DEATH IN ALASKA Mr. Murphy left this part of the country for Seattle in January last. In his trip west he became snowbound in the mountains. Early in the spring he in company with several others, purchased a gasoline launch at Seattle which they had transported to Alaska where they used it to explore many of the Tributaries of the Yukon. In the loss of the departed the County loses on of its most brilliant minds. Letter to Miss Cora Murphy from Fred B. Borden dated 9/19/07, written on steamship enroute to Tacoma. Regarding death of L. T. Murphy on 9/3 he and I with Indian guide had taken our row boat up the Sushitma River and had prospected considerable finding nothing of great value. We ran out of provisions and he and I started down the river in our row boat making 70 miles the first day safely. The second morning after about an hour's travel with Mr. Murphy steering a cross current caught our boat and dashed it against a large log caught on a bar. The boat overturned and got away from us leaving us hanging on the snag. The current here was nearly 10 miles an hour and the shore about 100 yards away. After observing the direction of the current and the best manner of reaching shore we started swim. I barely made it and I am a good swimmer and after I reached shore I was barely able to raise up on my elbow. I could see Mr. Murphy still some distance out gradually being taken down stream. He seemed to be getting weaker but was making a brave fight. The current was too strong however and I finally saw him disappear beneath the water. He was heavily encumbered with clothing including a pair of hip rubber boots which he refused to take off against my advice. The water is extremely cold and he may have been taken by a cramp. As soon as I could walk I went down stream as far as far as possible but could find no trace of him. Luckily an Indian came up the river the next day and I hired him to take me down to the nearest settlement about 70 miles as I had nothing to eat. I waited there 6 days until 2 other parties had come down the river but as they found no trace I came outside. Mr. Murphy had considerable funds on his person including all mine. They were mostly certified checks unendorsed. Letter to Mr. F. C. Conley from Fred B. Borden dated 10/29/07, Tacoma Washington. Yours of the 8 inst received by me today. I was delayed in Valdez by business matters and did not arrive here until yesterday. In reply to your questions I will try and give you what information you ask for. Maynard and Recsci left us about the first of Aug. as they had then had enough of Alaska. Mr. Murphy and I went up the river alone with an Indian guide. We Appendix -56- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 59) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f43333119840681362d2b85dc50c1298.jpg b03fc426a0b0130f34b6c6d228c2ea26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 60] [corresponds to page 57 of Pages of Our Lives] were on our way out when our accident happened. We could have been down to Sushitma Station in another day. The launch we had run up the Sushitma River and tied it up to the shore while we proceeded up in a row boat. Unfortunately the river raised and as the launch leaked considerable it sunk. I engaged men at Sushitma Station to go up and raise it and bring it down the river. I have since heard they they were successful and that the launch is now at Knik. They will hold the boat as security until the cost of salvaging same is paid. I have written for the bill of same. All of Mr. Murphy's things of any value were on the row boat. This included all clothes, blankets, camera, books and I believe everything. We recovered absolutely nothing although I had the Indian take me all around that portion of the river. The river at this point runs in so many different channels and is so swift and turbid that there is very little hopes of finding either the body or anything that was in the boat. I left orders at Sushitma Station to give a suitable reward to any Indian or other that would bring in anything. I also took some pains to see as many of the Indians as possible and tell them that there would be a good reward for anything they might find. I spoke in particular about the suitcase that contained the journal, books, etc. and the camera. the journal in particular is a big loss as I know that Mr. Murphy took great pains with it and it was complete and very interesting. As you say it is invaluable. The bills unpaid were small in amount. I believe they were as follows. Due Indians for guiding us one month at $2.00 per day - $60.00. 100 gal. gasoline purchased at Sushitma Station at $.65 - $65.00. the reason these bills were payable by him was that he was to pay all expenses of the last trip if I was to go with him when the others left. He had some money of mine on him as he acted as the treasurer. I don't know whether this was included in the certified checks or whether it was in cash. I do not know the amount of either. He intended to pay these bills when he got back to the Station. We had no specimens of gold or other mineral with us as we had found nothing of any value when we were forced to come out on account of running out of provisions. He told me once about his timber claim. It is in Clallam Co. this State and consists of 80 acres. I recently sold a claim in that County of 120 acres for $2,500. The claim is probably worth from $1,000 to $1,200. I cannot give you the exact figures as he had forgotten the description of the land. I can look the matter up however and send you the description and cash value of same. These timber lands are sold under the U.S. laws and can be sold at any time. No assessment work or any other work has to be done on them and there are no taxes due until the second year after taking up. If you would care for my advice would say that Clallam timber is good property and well worth hanging on to as the Milwaukee Road intends building through the Section. If the surrounding timber is sold however it is best to sell at once as it is possible to "bottle up" so that no buyer will care Appendix -57- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 60) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bb4d9a78f15c659af8825762391bac54.jpg 880760a5285485e6f66532ca5cc96223 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 61] [corresponds to page 58 of Pages of Our Lives] to take it. It deserves careful attention. My attorney has informed me that the administrator must live in the State in which the property is located. The checks were drawn on the National Bank of Commerce, Seattle and I have the number of one of them. They were unendorsed and can be recovered by the administrator giving a bond to cover. There will be no trouble to get full value on these. Your uncle did not call. ----- Comment - My uncle Lovett was a famous Woodsman, World Traveler, Writer, and Commercial Photographer. this was his second Alaskan adventure. His first trip was in 1897 when the famous Klondike Gold Rush was the lure. I remember him quite well. He always brought presents to my brothers and me when returning form one of his trips. Two I remember were a steam engine that whistled and a gun that he hand carved. I also remember his cabin and clearing where he lived for a couple of years after being taken down by consumption. He grew his own vegetables, hunted for meat and doctored himself with herb and other woods medicines of his own concoctions. He also believed in Christian Science. After his recovery he was often called on by others who were ailing. On this last trip west he mailed me a picture postcard from Chicago which I still have. Very little of his estate was recovered. The railroad through the timber was not built so there was no practical way to get the timber to an eastern market. With no one to look out for it some of the best timber was supposed to have been logged off by poachers and taxes offset the remaining value. Note - On Present day maps the Sushitma River is spelled Susitna. It flows into cook Inlet and has its headwaters near Mr. McKinley National Park. E. M. Murphy This is taken from Earl Macklin Murphy's book "Murphey-Murphy" Appendix -58- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 61) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fcdaa582d3e482450228cca796d50613.jpg 0df544fb71ded0ed7f95976a50375330 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 62] [corresponds to page 59 of Pages of Our Lives] WHAT MAY BE DONE TO IMPROVE THE SOCIAL, MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONDITION OF THE FARM L.T. MURPHY, AUTHOR Published in the Sunbury, Ohio News, February 8, 1900 and Read at a Meeting of the Farmers Institute I love solitude. I love a somber forest, whose dreamy shadows make me dream of paradise. I love a lonely mountain path threading deep chasms which echo the thunder of foaming cataracts. I love bold mountains whose jagged peaks puncture the clouds. I love the sea - its vain rage as it battles with the bellowing tempest; its low sobbings as it settles to rest after the storm, seems to mirror my mood - my own fruitless struggles against destiny. I love the laughter of the rollicking brooks, the soft music of summer winds, the glad songs of the birds. I love environs wild and free, unvexed by human art. And yet, a deep instinct, I shall know the need which calls for society and the conditions necessary to meet it. I perceive that my success in life depends upon the faith I have in myself. But I perceive also that this confidence is only conceit until it is confirmed by another. No word can stand save in the mouth of two witnesses. Not the most intoxi- cating landscape - the richest ravishment which nature affords - can give me one atom of delight, until I have confided it to another, and he had approved. In vain royal nectar of the skies until another has sipped also and pronounced it good. society comes to be my witness, to confirm my report, to stand sponsor for my integrity. He who would fulfill this function must be a man of faith. Let no unbeliever essay it. In spite of the contradictions of my conduct, he must hold to the belief of my essential holiness. In the face of any number of failures he must still affirm that I can succeed. I have a stake in all lives. the meanest man mirrors my meanness. I am complimented by the man who hates. I like a good healthy enemy. One man only I can never forget. His name is Hypocrite. The me that you hate, I hate also. So make your indictment and I will sign it. But I cannot live on shadow,. I want a man who can discern in my very defects the handwriting of destiny. this faith cometh not through colleges or culture. He who finds must leave the crowd and seek alone that great still Presence which bounds all being and links all lives in the bonds of universal brotherhood. He must banish blind belief and be at one with that Presence. This At-one-moment is the supreme fact of life. It has well been called the sun. All planets circle round it. When you date your letter A.D. 1900, you witness to your fiend that the old world of sense has circled 1900 times around this luminary. Galileo simply published a local. There is no law of gravitation. Centripetence to this central fact is the only force that holds either molecules or men together. You cannot build a society out of infidels. France wrote in her creed: "O Reason thou art the only god." Then she wrote in the world's sky in letters of blood and fire. "O God, thou art the only reason!" You cannot contend against the Hold Ghost. Deny it the higher planes: it will speak on the lower. You will not believe the "I Am." Then take the "I Was" and the "I Will Be", and mighty sea of sorrow that rolls between them. Your god has gone on a long journey. He will not be back soon; but you have invented a devil to hold the reins through the long Appendix -59- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 62) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/dbce68a0bfd0a2fb4a1e18c0aa5a405c.jpg cc17ff494983bcdb996698b15f25e2aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 63] [corresponds to page 60 of Pages of Our Lives] interregnum. You will not have prophets and seers; then put up with preachers and theologians. You do not believe that a man may know; then have your professors and professional men. The Divinity is quite well today, thank you, but you do not believe in a whole divinity; then have your doctors of the divinity. You deny the common wealth, then take private wealth. Let blind greed mass its millions, and hollow-eyed poverty clutch its crust. You deny the Souls expansion. Then you will write expansion in your national creed. You will send out your missionaries to preach it. Englishmen will go down into Africa and butcher a few thousand Boers. Americans will preach it in the Philippines, to music of cannon with death - moans, and midnight murder shrieks for a doxology. And the devil will pronounce the benediction. Hide your ignorance behind titles and diplomas. Hide your meanness and misery behind big houses and luxurious surroundings. for your spiritual birthright take this pottage of material progress, and the colossal conceit that goes with it. You have caught the lightning and harnessed it. Yes like Pat caught the panther. You have such splendid facilities for sending messages. Yes, but you haven't any message. Cushi can outrun Ahemiaz, but the kings heart is breaking and Cushi has no message. You get your newspaper before the ink dry but the news smells musty. Conquests in Africa, conquests in the Philippines, murders, suicides - all that was on in Caesar's time. What's your hurry? If you should get a new idea by any mischance, you could send a man around the world with it on foot, and he would get back in time to take your next. Your swift trains, your improved machinery; you dispatch your work with such speed. do you know the meaning of that principle of mechanics: "That which is gained in time is lost in power?" Do you know what this craze for machinery costs you? Where are your Shakespeares today? They are making mowing machines. Where are your Phidiases? They are making china dolls. Where are you Platos? Making armorplate. Where are your Dantes? They are writing dime novels. where are You Michael Angelos? they are making horseless carriages. Where are your Raphaels? they are inventing rat-traps. Heaven gives only so much fire. You can use it to smelt pig-iron, or to fuse facts into an immortal poem. But you cannot do both. You blot out heaven with the breath of your blast furnaces. You build costly churches but the pews are empty. Your ministers have no message and the people know it. Beat your drums and tambourines on the street. The multitude will pause a moment; they want a live creed; you offer only dead dogmas, then they will go to the slums. Your real confessions of faith is the one you make unconsciously. You sing "The great physician now is near," but I notice you run your horse for the doctor when your sick, and then I know which physician you pin your faith to. It was a rich piece of irony, the fact that the Delaware fire company insured against fire. But I know of one better even that. We have an old church out at Vans Valley. We were afraid God was getting tired of it. We were afraid he would come some night when we were not watching and set fire to it, or hitch one of his tornados to it and tip it over. So we engaged an insurance company to stand surety for the good behavior of the deity for the next 12 months. Our deity is demented, but this company will guard him from doing himself any damage during his mad fits. Appendix -60- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 63) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5784c7114d5a36ad746fb5f1ad47b8da.jpg e598c692b7aa9800c015376f0022b2d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 64] [corresponds to page 61 of Pages of Our Lives] Men are bound to believe in something but what social intellectual or moral conditions are possible in an age whose God is insane and requires a guardian. Outward conditions are only beliefs materialized. I read your creed in your institutions. Belief builds a city. The same belief sends the boy to the city. Everything in the city confirms that belief. The youth soon loses his identity in the crowd. Mephistopheles puzzled Faust by declaring "I am a part of a part." It is the very essence of diabolism, this being "a part of a part. Only that which is whole can be wholly. The youth is no longer a unity. He is not even a fraction, but only a part of the nation, etc. A fraction whose denominator is multiplied too its numerator is lost in the abyss of earths teeming millions. He learns a trade. But trade too long has adopted the orthodox creed. Division of labor is a very practical way of saying that man is depraved and unholy. He enters a manufacturing plant. Instantly his integrity is challenged. Trade does not believe in wholly me. He is only a fraction and he is not permitted to make anything holy. It is a plant where tin pails are made and he is set to operate a die or crimper. Or it is a shoe plant and he out soles or uppers. He is not a man now but only a hand and an eye. He is not even a machine but only a part of a machine. All his higher faculties are denied. At night he goes into a big library, and instantly his intelligence is challenged. The very existence of such a collection of books is presumption of his ignorance. He had a certain fund of knowledge which seemed to possess a kind of organic unity and draw to it and assimilate new facts, as the plant or animal gathers assimilates its food. And this sense of completeness gave him confidence and courage. But he very atmosphere of this place avers that his faith is only conceit. The book he takes up is interesting, but he knows only a part of its truths. The boo is only a part of the library and the libary is only a part of the world's literature, and all the world's literature is only a drop of the infinite ocean of truth. the thought seems to lift a mental veil disclosing unfathomable abysses of ignorance. He has met Mephistopheles now on a mental plane. He mind is not microcosm then. It is a fraction whose denominator is omniscience. He reads now with a certain feverish haste. He watches the clock. He wears that haunted look which you see so often in the student's face. that fever which throbs through all the arteries of modern life in his veins. It is Sunday and he attends church. the creed which built the city and called him to it is preached to him again. It comes to him with a new emphasis now. This is the creed: man is unholy, depraved. vice is natural, virtue artificial. He is mortgaged to the devil for all he is worth. His only hope a moral bankruptcy law which enables him to make an assignment and prevent foreclosure. He has met Mephistopheles now on a moral plane. He had conceded that he was poor, he had admitted that he was ignorant, but at least he was honest: this conviction had still held him to high ideals. But now his manhood is driven from this last last rampart. He is a criminal out on bail. He is told that his only hope is to fell and leave his bondsman to suffer for his crime. When he has accepted this his self respect has made its last stand. He is seen lost in the crowd. Society is not possible while you hold this creed. Then write in your confessions of faith that every life is an "incarnation." Write that each life is an epitome of all life. Write that the bootblack kneeling on the curbstone is heir to an estate wider than the farthest plant's parallax. Write it in all your institutions. Appendix -61- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 64) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4833a88f20009ba27157837226456614.jpg 2355340db7820bebd742389c38cb4162 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 65] [corresponds to page 62 of Pages of Our Lives] Ella Murphy's Tape My Friendly club June 2, 1999 program was about Ella Murphy Taylor, my father Arthur Murphy's sister. Ella was born and raised on Murphy Hill at 15545 Murphy Road where Marve and Pat Monroe now live. She graduated from Sunbury High School and Ohio Wesleyan University. She obtained a masters degree from Columbia University. She was a teacher and eventually became principal of the Berlin township School. Ella made this tape for nieces and nephews when she was 77 years old. On the tape, Ella talks about her childhood and the lives of parents Farrah and Grace Murphy. After a short illness with breast cancer in 1997, she moved in with her daughter Grace Bell in Sunbury till her death. She was given a 90th birthday party in 1996 and died a year latter on Sept 15th, 1997, at 91 years. [Photo] [Photo caption] Ella's 90th birthday Seated: Rosalyn Taylor, Ella Taylor, Amy Bricker Standing: John Taylor, Grace and Dennis Bell Here is her taped message: Farrah C. Murphy whom may best be remembered for his having suggested the name Big Walnut for the Sunbury School district, lived the grater part of the last century, 1874 to 1966. He lived in an age of change from horse and buggy days to automobile to supersonic space travel to the moon. His maternal grandparents, John Adams and Desire Cook who were two of the very first white children in Harlem Township lived during the greater part of the previous century, and also experienced tremendous changes. They came with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Adams, and Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cook to Harlem Township from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1809 and 1807. They came riding in a wagon pulled by oxen and they lived in an Indian cabin while their houses of cabins were being built. This was rugged life and many changes were coming. They had to make their own clothing and build their own buildings, clear their own land, and kill something for food (wild animals, usually wild turkeys). Their menfolk had to go as far as Chillicothe for salt and grinding of the feed for their animals, and so the women and children had to stay at home and sometimes had Indian visitors. In 1825, F. C. Murphy's grandparents were married and built a cabin back of the Harlem Methodist Church, and for 150 years their descendant played as children on the hillside behind the church. Farrah Murphy, the 7th son of Martha Adams-Murphy and Charles Murphy, was born and raise in a brick house atop Murphy Hill (the highest spot in Delaware County). He and his youngest sister Cora, learned much from their mother as well as from their older brothers. Their brothers, two of whom were publishers of the newspaper called "The Agitator" (that would have been Lovett and Delno) It was from this experience that Farrah practiced writing when he was a lad of 12 and continued both reading and and writing Appendix -62- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 65) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/20f22d7e5ade17a95eb40b595676f8eb.jpg 6ec320776a27e41ef83840cc7f98538c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 66] [corresponds to page 63 of Pages of Our Lives] throughout his lifetime. His brothers were great readers also, as well as his mother who had been a teacher before marriage. Mr. Murphy went to the Trenton Special School District in Condit, Ohio. The little schoolhouse still stands there besides the cemetery, and there he got a better education then many young people do today. He had a beloved teacher, by the name of Russell Bennett, who taught not only the first eight grades, but also the ninth grade and had 45 pupils. It was necessary, therefore, for some of the older pupils to help with the younger ones: and I'm sure that Farrah did his share of that as well as Grace. Farrah went for one year to Ohio Wesleyan after the ninth grade at Condit, and here he stayed with his Aunt Lynn. Then after more or less preparatory work, he went onto Ohio State University Where he studied in the field of Agriculture. At that time the Ohio State University was in an open field at the edge of the city of Columbus and had only 400 pupils or students. Farrah Murphy taught school for a time after he graduated from college. He taught at the North Condit school where he received $20 a month for his services. He recalled a very effective tonic that he administered to his pupils when they faked illness, so they could skip school. He used a mixture of quinine, castor oil, a touch of coal tar, a drop of turpentine, and some capsicum (Cring's Balm) which was very hot; and this remedy was very effective. They never missed a second day unless they were really sick. From young manhood, Mr. Murphy was interested in grange work and community affairs. He served as Master of Condit Grange for many years and helped organized several other granges in the county. For this he was honored in 1949, much to his pleasure. In 1900 Farrah Murphy married Grace Chadwick of Condit. Her father owned and operated a tile mill there, and was widely known throughout the countryside for his fine tile. She also taught school at what is known the perfect district. At present the little red brick school house still stands on the old 3 C highway, not far from 3-C Apple Orchard. This couple lived on Murphy Hill throughout their lives. They worked hard on over 200 acres of land. They raised Jersey cattle, sheep, and hogs; and of course had a few horses, turkeys, and chickens. They had four living children; Arthur (the oldest), Darrel (sometimes called Pat, very close to Arthur), and then after 3 1/2 years, Ella (now Mrs. David Taylor), and then 12 years later, Martha (Mrs. Harvey McElroy). Farrah Murphy was always interested and advocated consolidation of the county's one room schools and especially the one at Condit where he and his children had gone to school. Finally, this consolidation was accomplished. In 1918, he helped form and became the secretary of the first cooperative Elevator in Delaware county at Condit, Ohio. This was a tremendous undertaking for him and for Mr. Comstock who was the president and they spent many sleepless nights wondering whether or not this would succeed, but it did. F.C. as he was often called because his name was so widely misunderstood and misspelled, was a member of the county Board of Education for 14 years and it was at this time that the Sunbury news editor, Mr Oatfield Whitney, was hunting for a name for the present school district. He asked Mr. Murphy if he had any ideas and Farrah replied, "Big Walnut Creek runs through the district, lets call it Big Walnut," and that became its name. Besides farming Farrah Murphy enjoyed traveling and lecturing. In 1926, he and his sister Cora, who was a bible professor at Ohio Wesleyan University, along with Charley Green, a brand new neighbor of Farrah's, and Goldie McQue, a good friend of Aunt Cora's, they went through Europe and onto the holy land, and I suppose this was the highlight of Appendix -63- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 66) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f6d8d6e45a640065691e44f20e5f6651.jpg e5275c1d2c0c725e10357430da837178 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 67] [corresponds to page 64 of Pages of Our Lives] Farrah's life as he never ceased, to talk about his experiences there. He gained much information which he used in the Farmers Institute, lecturing, which he did for several years, also in his writing. He along with his wife, Grace, helped to write a full length religious novel after they reached the age of 70, however, this book was never published. Farrah did the writing while Grace did a lot of the research. Mr. Murphy taught the men's Sunday School, which is called Men's Bible class at the Condit Presbyterian Church for over 20 years and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found a record not long ago of the by-laws of his class and also the names; and practically every man in the community belonged to, there were about 50. Although a busy man, Farrah Murphy was a good neighbor and a fine father, he seemingly had time to play with his children. Whether it was a walk in the woods, a game of horseshoes or croquet, a trip to the Hartford fair, or a skating party on the pond. We had daily devotions in the home and discipline at times. Church and school functions were never neglected. We were encouraged to read good books and learn all that we could. I remember on time when Martha and Harold our cousin, who lived with us, were about 4 and 6 years of age. They went to the garden and pulled up the corn and transplanted it and this made Farrah quite angry. I think he did give them a little switching. They had seen him transplant the tomatoes and cabbage plants and had thought that they were helping out. Another time when Arthur and Darrel were coming home from school and wouldn't carry the lunch box and thought the other ought to carry it. They finally left the lunch box in the woods and came on home. Farrah marched them back and made them walk, each one holding onto the lunch box, as they came back. Farrah Murphy made an indelible impression on me as he was my father. I would like to add that my father could not have accomplished what he did had it not been for his self-sacrificing of his fine Christian wife, Grace Chadwick-Murphy. I will now tell you just a little bit about my mother. Grace Chadwick-Murphy was born in Sunbury in 1878 where her father was a salesman. Then before she 2 years of age, her father and mother, William Wellinton and Nancy Ellen Loren Chadwick moved into a new house at Condit Station where he, along with a partner started to operate a tile mill. Grace soon had a baby bother, Garfield and then after 7 years past, another brother, Loren. After a few years a sister, Goldie. Mildred and Raymond were born when Grace was 15 and 18 years of age. Grace was a small child for her age with long light hair piled high on her head. At age 10 she thought a pile of tile was a red cow, so her father said she should surely have a pair of glasses. Of course she had drops put in her eyes to dilate her pupils, as that was custom in those day. She wore small gold rim glasses until she was past 75 years of age and then it seemed that her eyesight returned, at least she could see to read without her glasses. Grace was the oldest granddaughter in the family and had three doting aunt's who spoiled her. One was Eva Wigton, another Augustus Loren Domigan, and the third Eva Cunningham. These aunts bought her a doll, which she had kept through the years and passed it on to me; and I have given it our daughter, she in turn to her daughter. So we still have the beautiful lighthaired china doll which was given to Grace Chadwick. Grace Chadwick had a very keen mind and she also assumed responsibility at an early age. She worked hard, as her mother was sickly and she soon became the main instructor and boss of the other children. I think she was always old for her age and had little fun as a child. She seldom smiled, even as a grown person. But she assumed the responsibility of 5 younger Appendix -64- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 67) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d7c52e6cf6b8c8d3c41e45849c3d8d1b.jpg 6dc9806de00127eed35f8ba176fd7ca6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 68] [corresponds to page 65 of Pages of Our Lives] children while her mother sewed and baked and kept busy. But she did have a hired girl to do the heavy work at home. Mother was the most self-sacrificing person I have ever known. She always put others before her self, her husband, her children, her relatives, neighbors, and many others. For instant, her husband took a trip to Europe in 1926 and she stayed home and managed the farms along with the help of her 2 nearly grown sons. She always had meals at the convenience of her men folk, rather than for herself. She seldom left the house except to help in the delivery of a neighbor's child or cared for those who were sick. She had company without end. Her sister-in-law, and her own sister Goldie and 2 boys, would come for the summer. Aunts, uncles, cousins, and old time friends of the family made mother's home and table theirs. She had thrashers and silo fillers, foreign students, and especially her sister-in-law who counted the old home place hers, and so on vacations Aunt Cora always came. For Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays she brought not only herself but perhaps 2 or 3 of the college students who had no place to go, along with her. I also added to mother's work. I didn't realize it at the time, but I spent my vacations at home until I was past 30 years of age and she usually did most of the cooking for me. Mother never stopped learning, what a memory she had. She loved to work crossword puzzles and used the dictionary unceasingly. She was called upon for birthday, wedding, and death dates, as well as relationships but I learned some some things to remember as she had over 100 cousins and she knew most of theme. She wrote to many of them too. That was one thing mother did, she did do a lot of writing. The reason she has so many cousins is her father had 11 brothers and sisters and her mother was 1 of 8 children with quite a few half brothers and sisters. Paul Winchel in the Guide Post article says of his mother "she preferred a simple life, I don't need many things" she said. Her interests were outside of herself. She was enriched when she could help troubled friends and neighbors. She was not a taker, but a giver. Grace Chadwick- Murphy was much like that, she received her reward in helping others. Mother like Edith in all in the Family on T.V. series always went a trot rather than a walk. Her heart beat twice as fast as that of her husband and her temperature was normally much higher than his. She lived and worked in high-gear. That is, until she was 50 years of age and then it came to a halt, almost a stop. She punctured her knee with an old needle while scrubbing the dining room room floor and within a few days developed blood poisoning. In spite of this seeming tragedy which almost cost her her life, really it was a blessing in disguise because she had to slow down and she had to learn to live at a slower pace. It gave her time for study, especially her science and health and bible which became the greatest forces in her life. She worked so faithfully at her study and she had a great influence on her family friends. She lived a triumphant life. Of course mother had faults as we all do, her own mother who lived with her for many years of much of the time for the last 15 years of grandmothers life, irritated her and caused mother to be a bit grumpy with her. Mother was not especially a good housekeeper and didn't really appreciate others doing things about the house. Those were small things as she always said that you must make the most important things come first, and that's what she considered the most important. Not housekeeping. Mother's last 7 years were quite different, quite unusual for her after suffering a severe head injury when she fell on the lower step of the stairs in 1953. She injured her brain so the she could not remember. Yet together, with father's help and really he had a lot to do Appendix -65- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 68) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4a37209d97f2028d8deb80924e4641ea.jpg 0e9301a4ca75f6b61fbb3dc52dcf2c02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 69] [corresponds to page 66 of Pages of Our Lives] then and we don't think much about it until we have someone to take care of ourself. But he took care of her for the last 7 years and in 1960 her heart gave out on April the 30th, the birthday of of her oldest daughter Ella. Grace Chadwick really lived her religion and will never be forgotten by her children and friends. She went to her home above and a better life where the lord is her Shepard. The lord is my Shepard, the 23 psalm was her favorite and Uncle Raymond used this very nicely when he preached her funeral sermon. Since there is still a little space left on this tape, I might tell you a little about my childhood. since I am 77 years of age now I guess it is okay for me to tell. When I was 10 years old I walked alone to school about one mile across the field (first you crossed our pasture field, then Mr. Lane's, then Mr. Comstock's woods) I had my book bag across my shoulder and my tin lunchbox in my hand and went swinging along to the little red brick schoolhouse beside the road near South Condit near the cemetery of today. The four years before, I had had my brothers, Arthur and Darrel to go with me. But this year, in the fall of 1916 they both went to Sunbury to school. I didn't mind going alone as I enjoyed seeing the flowers and the interesting things along the way. That 20 minute walk helped me to grow strong and be a happy person. Each morning my mother combed and brushed, and braided my long light hair (it is almost the color of Amy's or Alice's-they have such light hair) I had never had my hair cut, not until I graduated from high school. So it was quite long and I could sit on it when I was 10. I usually had my hair parted in the middle and had two braids, each tied with a hair ribbon in the back, when I went to school. I had a man teacher, whom I liked and who played games with his 30 pupils from age 6 to 14 and at recess at noon time. sometimes we divided up on two side and played Anna over. We used a baseball and one of the old pupils would throw it over the school house. Pupils on the other side would try to catch it and if they did catch it, they would get to go around to the other team and select a person to take back with them. The team having the most members at the end of the period won the game. We also played black base dare base, both quite active and exciting tag games. My favorite game was jumping rope. When I was 6 years old I would try to jump as fast as I could and my brother, Arthur, and Dean Lane would turn the rope as fast as they could and in doing this I tripped once and fell, hitting my new teeth which had just come in, on edge of the stone and broke both teeth, leaving a big gap in the front of my teeth. The dentist said not touch them until I was 15 and then they still said not to touch them or the nerve would die. So I carried that until I had my teeth pulled when I was about 50 years of age. Since the Condit cemetery was next to the school yard, sometime the teacher would let one or two of us go over, especially if we had been good. We just looked looked at the flowers, and the funny gravestones, and maybe saw where our grand- parents were buried. But it was a treat for us to do that, something different. In the springtime, some of the girls would play house behind the school building. We took just a few broken dishes to play with, nothing good or some of the other kids would probably come along and give it a big kick. One day, in the fall as we were playing on the school yard, a big boy with heavy work shoes landed on my big toe. It became so sore that I had to have a hole cut out of my shoe and wear that for a month or more. As a result, I have a large big toe joint on my left foot and have to wear a 1/2 size larger shoe than I would Appendix -66- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 69) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9a9f83beb70ffdf52dfa6a2a4d943f28.jpg ab4de3901e474eb3a10b642e7d6bcc24 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 70] [corresponds to page 67 of Pages of Our Lives] otherwise have to wear. Another thing that happened to me when I was around 10 and playing in the school yard, was very painful to me but laughable to the others. A ball had lodged in a large Maple tree and I being rather aggressive and tomboyish agreed to get it. The boys put a long board up against the tree. I climbed up and got the ball and threw it down. Then I had to slide down the board to the ground. There were several big splinters that ran into my hips. So I had a long painful walk home from school, and then had to have my father remove the splinters from my hips. It was rather embarrassing and I think that was the last time I had ever slid down a board. When spring came, about my birthday time, April 30th, our country school was over for the year and the boys could help their father's do the spring farm work. We nearly always had a last day of school picnic. We would all take a basket of food and spread the food on a cloth on the ground, and eat in the school yard or just across in the field nearby. One picnic I remember well, since our teacher had brought about a dozen or so of bananas, that would be a real treat for us, but while the girls were busy getting the food ready, one of the bigger boys, well he wasn't too big, about a 5th or 6th grader, was so famished for bananas that he grabbed the bunch and ran off into the woods with them. I'm not sure how many he ate or whether he got the stomach ache or not. But we never forgave him for taking our picnic treat. I know he would be rather embarrassed about this now. He became a fine business man and rather sedate. I will tell you a little about our school house. It had a vestibule, a small wooden entrance where a heavy rope hung from the belfry. The teacher would pull this rope to ring the big bell which brought us in from recess or at noon. A few times, the rope got pulled so hard that the bell turned upside down and then a boy had to climb up into the belfry and turn it over. That was exciting too, for us. Another time a large owl got inside the place where the bell hung, and I must say it was scary and a bit different for the teacher. Once on Halloween, some of the boys brought a burrow (a small donkey) into the entrance way and left it over night. You can imagine what that place was like on Monday morning. Inside the school room were desks on each side with a big pot belly stove in the middle. At the front was the teacher's larger desk with the black boards behind it. At the back of the room were shelves for our lunch boxes on the left side and hooks on the wall for coats on the other side. There was also a table with a water bucket on it where we would go to exercises and by the time I was 12 the older girl who had played for 2 years was gone and I got to play the old pump organ. I learned much from this experience. I could play all of the songs in our song book, of a 101 famous songs by the time I had completed the 8th grade. I really practiced though on these at home. When 4 o'clock came, we got our lunch boxes, coats and overshoes and marched out the door to our homes. There were no school buses in the country at the time. We had to go 6 or 8 miles even to high school and furnish our own way. My brothers drove a horse to Sunbury for their 1st two years in high school. Then my father got a Ford touring car which they drove. I also drove the Model T Ford when I went to Sunbury high school. I forgot to say that when you needed to go to the toilet at the little brick house you simply went to the outhouse or privy behind the building. There were 2 of these, one for the boys and one for the girls. These rural school houses are all gone now, or practically gone, but all learned a lot and in many ways they are or were as good for the children as some of our larger schools are today. Appendix -67- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 70) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/83267cc99be0f973e5fb4f4b34ef7319.jpg d90881300a331cf2ddefe7dbb81bb951 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 71] [corresponds to page 68 of Pages of Our Lives] We had some very good teachers too. My 1st and 8th grade teachers were women but the rest were men. My 8th grade was poor because we had so little school that year, in 1918. It was dismissed because of Spanish Influenza that year. For many in our community died. Nearly every family had the flu. I didn't get it, but my mother and Arthur were very sick. Martha was a baby then and had to be weaned. I never missed a day of school during my 1st eight grades. So you see, I had been strong and healthy. Of course, I had a cold now and then, and the chicken pox before I started school. But the mumps didn't make me sick and they never knew whether I had measles and whooping cough or not. At least, it was a very light case if I had them. We used a slate to work our problems and our spelling. I'll mention just a little bit about my clothing. I wore button shoes until I was 13. so every morn- ing when I dresses I had to get the button hook and get each button in the right button hole. Nothing was much more provoking than having a button or two come off your shoes when you were getting ready to go someplace. You had to get a big needle, thread, and work difficultly, to get these fastened on. If you were lucky, you got a pair of shoes with buttons patented on, that is they were fastened with metal. Sometimes kids would lose their shoe buttons and have a white or a yellow one on a brown or black and those looked quite silly. Some kids didn't care. But my mother was rather particular about us keeping our shoes looking decent even though I had only one pair at a time and I didn't get more than 3 pairs a year, depending on how fast my feet grew. When I wore the leather soles out or a hole came in it, my father would repair the shoe with a resole. He had a cobbler's tool which had 3 sizes of metal laths, one for the man's shoe, one for a women's shoe, and one for a child's shoe. These irons as I had mentioned were called laths and were used in the shoe, so when the nails were pounded through they would clinch the nail and keep it from running in your stocking or foot. I remember a few times when I could feel the nails. For 5 sets of feet to keep in shoes my father never ran out of a job with his iron laths and shoe nails. When I was 13, my folks took me to Centerburg to get a new pair of shoes, and much to my delight I got my first pair of laced shoes. I wanted them so much that I said they fit fine when I really knew that they were too tight to start. Of course my feet were growing then and I didn't get to wear them long, even though they were very beautiful. I remember another pair of lace shoes, when I was in high school, it was the style to wear very high shoes, lady shoes. I did get a pair of these and I was so proud of those. In the spring and summer, I along with my brothers and most of my friends went barefoot until school started again in the fall. It was painful to have to put shoes on for Sunday school and church, but we did. The thing I really hated about going barefoot was having to wash my feet every night. It wouldn't have been so bad if we had had nice warm water as we do today but since we had to light the stove to heat some water in the tea kettle, we usually just used a bucket full of cold water, sat on the back porch and washed our feet. Another thing I hated about going bare foot was the sore toes, which we usually got during summer and sometimes I would step on a honey bee. That of course was not very pleasant either. I remember going along in the mud and letting the mud come up between my bare toes. I can still feel the ooze of that. Also when we would walk through the dust which was an inch or tow thick, I can remember walking in the dusty roads. When fall came, and it was tie to start to school we usually had a new pair of shoes. Of course our folks got them big enough that our feet had a chance to grow before they got too tight. We also got a new supply of black ribbed stocking. Never more that 3 pair at a Appendix -68- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 71) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f9716fc6334aa1210543375f6f35cf89.jpg f527178841154f752d7dfbdc75448394 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 72] [corresponds to page 69 of Pages of Our Lives] time. These were quite heavy except for the feet which was thinner and they came up above the knees. There were two ways to keep them up. Either you wore a panty waist with long garters fastened by safety pins which came down to the knee and fastened to the stockings in two places or you wore round rubber or wide elastic garters, which fit tight enough above the knee to hold your stocking up. This created a problem as they often became too tight for comfort or the elastic would become too loose and they would slip down below you knee. Of course, our dresses were longer then so our stockings didn't show as much as they would have. I believe I started wearing thinner stockings, and they may have been tan rather than black, when I was a freshman in high school. My first silk stockings were given to me when I graduated from high school in 1923. I received a pair of white ones and a pair of black ones. So I felt quite dressed up in them. The panty waist which I mentioned that held our long garters was without sleeves and had 5 or 6 buttons at the bottom. On these buttons our panties were fastened as they had button holes on the side, both front and back and when we needed to go to the toilet, we had to unbutton the two in the back so that the flap would come down. First bloomers I had, came as a gift when I was in the 8th grade and then when I was a sophomore I had some bloomer type panties which were long enough to come down below the knees and had two rows of elastic. They were known as petty bockers and mine were green satin and I thought they were very fancy. My grandma had a pair of gray silk ones and she wore those for years. Our dresses came fairly close to our ankles that year that I was mentioning, first year in high school, they were mainly pleated skirts and middy blouses, since it was about the time of the war and everybody was dressed more or less in a sailor type style. I wore a large apron often times over my dress to keep it clean and of course I removed it when I went to school. We didn't have any different dresses like people do today and most often they were dark material. In the winter time they were usually wool. In the summer time they were cotton with long sleeves and a high neck to help keep us from being tanned. The women often times, and girls, wore sun bonnets to keep the sun from their faces because it certainly was not the style to be tanned in those days. As I was a bit of a tomboy, I didn't always wear my bonnet like my cousin Dorothy did. She had a beautiful white complexion. Dorothy was 5 days younger than I was so we did play together a lot. She was my closest neighbor and lived - a mile east of us. Her sister Margaret was 2 years older, so the 3 of us were company for one another. They went to a different school house, however, one south and east of them known as the Sinkey School District while I went to the Condit Trenton Special District. My Aunt Cora Murphy was a teacher at Wesleyan, I believed I mentioned that, and when she came to visit us she often times would bring us a small gift, especially for birthdays. Once she brought Dorothy and me each pretty sun bonnets. We had our pictures taken in those. Another time she brought material for dresses, a beautiful dress, pink for Dorothy and blue for me, and how I envied Dorothy with that pink dress. I wanted the pink so much, but Aunt Cora decided that with Dorothy's light skin and dark hair she would look much better in the pink, and the light-haired, tan girl would look better in the blue. I remember my blue dress very well, as my grandmother Chadwick, who is a very fine seamstress made it beautifully for me. She also made me a lovely pink sateen dress for my junior/senior banquet, I never will forget that beautiful dress, and I wore it both my junior and senior years to high school. Apppendix -69- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 72) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7c7e5a341932e738b493c7562f0b19ba.jpg c0a413bae24e2e1e36764d6ab6272426 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 73] [corresponds to page 70 of Pages of Our Lives] My mother made most of my school clothes, often from an old dress of an Aunt's, and I never had a store bought dress until I was 13. I remember it well. It was a navy blue sailor style dress with red braid on a large sailor collar, a middy type. I soon grew out of it though, so I didn't get to wear it long. Mother had a great Aunt come to our home during the summer before I started high school. She came mainly to make me new dresses, and she made them very long. She informed me that now I would be a young lady, and I must wear my dresses longer. I wasn't too happy about that, and soon out grow those dresses too. You may think it's strange that I didn't go to the store and buy dresses like you do today, but there just weren't many stores around where they sold ready made dresses. Most people had them made by dressmakers, if they could not sew themselves. Then we seldom got to Delaware, as it was a 3 hour drive by horse to get there, a distance of 18 miles miles from our house. My grandparents went by train to Columbus, but I had never been there to shop until I was a senior in high school. I well remember the day I went to buy my commencement dress. Well I bought 2 dresses that day, one white for commencement day and cocoa brown dress for baccalaureate sermon. I wore that brown dress nearly all of my first year in college. It was a crepe material, which could stand washing and if we'd stretch it, it would become long enough for me to wear. another dress which I loved and wore for 2 years, was the crepe sateen dress, which I have already mentioned. We always wore long-legged underwear when I was a child, high neck and long sleeved. It was common for many people from 1900 on to wear wool, as our houses were cold, of course they wore that before then too; but a lot of us had to walk a mile or so to school or walk outdoors, and so did need heavy clothing. My brothers and I wore underwear that was fleece lined. It always created a problem with the stockings, as you could get some mighty lumpy or bumpy legs if you were not careful to lap the underwear over before you put the heavy black stockings on your legs. We usually changed this underwear once a week, on Saturday nights when we took our weekly baths. This was an ordeal which we did not like too much, when the weather was cold; but it was necessary, so we did it. We used a galvanized tin tub in the kitchen, near the old cook stove. We filled it, well about 1/2 full, and then scrubbed with soap and water. You can not stretch out in a round tub, and so we had to sit with our knees up. I remember when I was fairly small; we children were bathed in front of the fireplace. We the steamed on one side and froze on the other. We didn't tarry very long in the tub, but soon got a towel around us and in our underclothes as soon as possible. In the summer time, bathing was more fun, as we had our tub with warm water in what we called our washroom, a place just back of the kitchen where we had a cement floor and did our weekly washing. Monday was wash day, and a very busy day it was. All the water had to be heated on the cook stove. Sometimes mother had me fill the copper boiler, which was placed over about 1/2 of the top of the stove, and then when it got boiling hot we would usually put the white clothing, especially the table clothes in to boil for awhile. If there was a berry stain on the tablecloth, we poured boiling water through it to get the stain out. The tub was put on a stool and the washboard was put in the tub, mother and I then began the rubbing of the clothes on this corrugated board, soaking dirt spots freely with laundry soap; this was quite strong and hard on the hands. We first washed the finer white clothes and then the colored. Then finally, usually afternoon, we were still scrubbing on the men's dirty overalls. There was a second tub also on the stool, which was filled with cooler water, and after the items were as clean as we could get them, they were put in this rinse water. The wringing was somewhat of a problem Appendix -70- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 73) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8da2142f24c85925188668f7478db484.jpg 1c276ef30ce8127eed10e21859d790e5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 74] [corresponds to page 71 of Pages of Our Lives] too, especially a bedspread. I've known my mother and I to each take a hod of an end and wring form there, it was something else to wring a bedspread; these bedspreads we used everyday, these white bedspreads on all the beds. Tuesday was almost as tiring a day, because we spent most of it ironing, not with an electric iron, but with heavy irons heated on the kitchen stove, and they didn't stay hot very long, or if we got them extremely hot we burned, we scorched. so there was constant changing of the irons, every 5 minutes. We did not iron sheets and many pieces, as my grandmother did at least she had the girl to iron. A funny thing happened on summer, when I was 9 or 10 years of age, we kept our clothes pins from the line, they simply disappeared, and we couldn't find them. Months later, when my older brother climbed up a ladder to clean the eave spout of leaves; he found dozens of clothes pins in the spout, as well as several other small objects. Darrel's pet crow had simple pulled them for the line, and carried them up to the roof of the house and hid them. The last days of Mr. Crow came when he played with the baby chicks. He would pick one up, and then after he would fly a little while, he would let loose and let the little chick flutter to the ground; and then he would pick another one and watch it flutter. When my father saw this then he said, "that crow must go," and despite Darrel's protest, the crow was soon put to rest. I believe Darrel had a funeral for his black pet; he seemed to love that one so much. Speaking of little chickens, we nearly always raised a lot, usually hatched them in an incubator where had a 100 eggs and kept them rolled each day and kept the temperature just right, and after 21 days they would hatch. Fluffy little chicks were then usually put in a brooder for several weeks until they could go it on there own. Of course, we fed them fine chick feed and kept them well watered. We also boiled eggs, and when they were first hatched we would give them boiled eggs and sometimes cottage cheese. Sometimes an old hen would steal her next and hatch her own chicks, and often times this made it real handy because that way we had a few more chickens for fried chicken, and we nearly always did have fried chicken on Sunday and Monday, practically always we'd have drum sticks in our lunch box. My pet when I was young was a little kitten, which I loved. I also had a puppy dog which I carried from my music teacher's when it just about 4 weeks old, we called him Shep. We counted him our pet, and he was well trained, very friendly, and he didn't bark much. So Shep was quite an attachment around our house. Darrel, I believe especially loved Shep, and when died Darrel had his hide tanned and a pair of gloves made from the skin. Another pet, which we all loved, was our pony. He was given to Arthur and Darrel, he was a very young pony, he was given to them on Christmas day and so he really was their pet, but when they were 13 1/2 and 15 they felt to old to care for a middle sized pony, as he was a Shetland pony, and never grew very large; so he became my love. I used to curry comb him in the spring, which shed his long hair, and he was a very rich medium brown in color with a black mane, and he was always nice and plump. Danny was a smart pony and seems to do what we wanted him to do or what I wanted him to do; and since we had to go a half a mile for our mail, I often times rode him bareback to get the mail. One time I went to my cousin's on Danny, and I guess Margaret was, well I'm not sure what happened, but anyways she threw her hat at us and it frightened Danny, and away he went galloping off across the field with me on his back. I wasn't use to a gallop so I soon fell. It made me just a bit sore Appendix -71- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 74) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0c0d7f34772b950a575003af047ff57e.jpg ad799fe9ba8441b134ee60eb8872cb99 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 75] [corresponds to page 72 of Pages of Our Lives] and quite provoked at Margaret. Danny know how to throw anyone from his back that he didn't want there. We had some city cousins who came once, thinking they could ride anything, and they hadn't much more then got started down the hill, until they just went a flying off of his back. I could usually catch him easily, with a lump of sugar or an apple, put the halter around his neck; but others difficulty. He would grab the apple or lump of sugar or piece of corn, whirl around and make them think he as going to kick them. We all used the pony when we needed to go to the store; or my mother and I when we went to my grandmother's, we usually did go once a week. I drove him also for children's day practice and to Sunday school and various things. We usually kept horseshoes on him, on his feet, as the roads had rough stone on them. Sometimes he would lose a shoe, so my parents let me go occasionally to Mr. Condo's to get him shod. This was quite an experience. Mr. Condo's blacksmith shop was not far from the corner of the grocery store, so I knew the way well; and first he would trim the hoof and then after shaping and fitting the shoe, he would drive the nails at a slant, then bend them back so they would stay. His hoofs were like our finger and toenails, and it didn't hurt to cut them. By the time I was 12, I could harness and hitch the pony to the buggy alone. Of course, when you came home you also had to unhitch and put the harness and the pony away. Danny had his own stall in the barn; there were 4 other horses at that time on the hill; 2 heavy work horses named Ruth and Betsy, and 2 other driving horses, Fanny who was plump and pretty, and Nelly who was thin and homely. There was also an old pony of Aunt Cora's, named Gay; and she called her a pony, but she was almost as tall as a full grown horse. She lived to be 30 years of age, quite old for a horse. Aunt Cora loved her and so she remained out in the pasture field until she died. The doting aunts that gave my grandmother Grace Chadwick Murphy a china doll were: 1. Eva Chadwick Wigton who was Grace's father, William Wellington Chadwick's sister 2. Eva Loren Cunningham was Grace's mother's sister 3. Agustus Loren Domigan who was Grace's mother's sister Copy of letter from Abram & Mary Ann Adams to Miss Linnie B. Murphy (Melinda Ball Murphy) Envelope postmarked Summit, Cal. Dec. 13,1864, Addressed to Vans Valley, Delaware Co., Ohio. Dec. 9, 1864 Dear Sister I have seated myself this evening to drop you a few lines though I hardly know how to interest you after informing you that we are enjoying good health. At present mates health is fine and she is geting fat. I have escaped the Rheumatism until I have not fear of it this winter. We received your letter date Oct 23rd a few days ago and were glad to learn from it that our loved ones at home are all well. Linnie you will discover before you are through Appendix -72- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 75) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/282d9de602e40a57a4e3162f7063cf5a.jpg c80bdc9fff3ede2aff71fea44d1b680e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 76] [corresponds to page 73 of Pages of Our Lives] reading this letter that I am the poorest letter writer in the world but I suppose I had better tell you a little about the weather you can tell how it corresponds with the weather in Ohio. About 28th of last month it commenced raining and after raining about two days it turned to snow. Was about two feet deep and now the ground is bare again and the weather fine and clear. Mate has just come upstairs and as we are both one, she of course had to know what I had written and she thinks that what I have written about her getting fat needs some explanation. I suppose of course it is the high living as we have a fine fat rabbit or rather have every few days and they are none of your little rabbits, I can tell you, but as large as two or three of them and as white as snow. A few days ago while the snow was on, there came a drove of antelope about 15 in number, past just above the house and we of course gave chase, and chasing them up the hill and down again about the fourth or fifth time, we finally killed a fine large one and it was very fat, so you see, we have plenty of venison or antelope meat. Now is not enough to fatten anyone. I think so. I must close as Mate wants to write some. Give my love to all, Father Mother, Charlie, Matt and all our friends, reserving for yourself a liberal share. I remain your loving brother Abe Abrams Letter to Melinda Ball Murphy Dear Sister - How I wish I could have been home when our Cousins were there, not only to have helped with the work but I should have enjoyed visiting with them so much. Aint cousin Seppri a sweet girl. I took a good laugh over Jonnies ideas of so much gold in California. I have never seen but two pieces just as they was taken from the earth and they are some of Calls good luck while mining. He says he expected to get pins put to them for cuff pins for Mat. They would be so nice. I am so hard run to find work to keep me busy. You know I never Could sit and hold my hands. I knit a pair of socks for AD out of that blue yarn & made a nice rug to lay before my bed out of old cloth. I have braided me such a nice foot stool. We have got a Johns built (toilet) at last. I have wanting one ever since I came. I turned sheets, made me a nice pair of pillows for my bed and five Pairs of pillow cases, then I made another pair of pillows of wool so we have in all three pairs of feather and one of wool pillows. Call had a few sheep but the wolves were so hard on them we sheared and killed them before we came so have wool enough to make a cushion for our lounge & one chair & a pair of pillows. Vic says she is going down in the Valley next spring to camp with the boys wile they shoot wild geese enough to pick to make her a feather bed. I dont know what she will do with her young ones. Alma walks all over. I should think she would be so glad as it would be so for one to have tow that could not walk. I do wish I had some of your yarn as I am footing socks with white and it looks so shofery but I comfort myself by thinking white is warmest. I have crocheted and and embroidered some for Vick. I turned my calico dress upside down which I brought from home. I guess it will last all winter. I have worn it week about with my spotted delane ever since I came. My hoop skirt is almost as good as when I left home so you can see I am as easy as ever on my clothes. AD and I want to be as saving as we can so when we come back we can buy us a nice home. We took a horseback ride the other day, went up on the mountains and looked over into a valley called Last Chance. We have one of the easiest riding ponies I ever saw. He is not as large as your pony & rides a great deal easier. I do not ride as much as I use to at home. I have no place to go & if I had I would be afraid to ride alone & AD is always busy so you see I have to stay at home. He Appendix -73- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 76) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b554e62d8a1d9c546cc90d7e3f732b8e.jpg 079fb2edf1803958015d4709da26037a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 77] [corresponds to page 74 of Pages of Our Lives] often tells me to take a ride but I am too much afraid of my neck. Lin, didient I leave the pieces like my silk dress at home; If not they are lost. I did not miss them until the other day. I was going to make me a needle book & went to look for them & could not find them. If they are there send me a piece large enough for one pocket. It is one finger length deep & one & a half wide & if have any other pretty piece send it as I want the pockets all to silk. The back oilcloth lined with red ribbon, it is going to be fancy. Save the pieces like my dress as I will want them when I come home & I am bound to come with three years. It has been almost half a year since I left. The time has been both long and short. I do want to see you all so much. They tell me I will soon neglect to write and next will forget all about home but I know I never will. I have to many dear friends there. However, I will wait until we can get ready to come with patience for I have a good home here & am happy. I feel very thankful my lot is cast in such a pleasant place. The longer I stay here the better I like. It is so healthy and I feel so well I dont believe I ever enjoyed such good health. If I keep on gaining as I have some time past I would like to send you my picture. I have never felt so well as now. I never have the least bit of pain. Our picture came all right. Abes is such a good one but mine looks so old and hard. I will send you a better looking one the first chance I have to have it taken. I have been dreaming about Nerve for two nights past so I am looking for a letter from her quite strong. Cant Mat get some time to write me a scratch or two or does her family duties press as hard as ever. I expect she would like to me sew a while for her. I wish I could come and sew a week. I would do it gladly. There is a young man by the name of if Jo White Head working here for his board. He is so lively always cuting up. He has put some chickens to fat that froze their feet, says we are going to have a roast on Christmas & some oysters. We bought two turkeys the other day, gave five dollars a piece. I became acquainted with an old lady here by the name of Marshall who has a brother in Columbus & one in Winchester by the name of Bartlet. She is quite an intelligent lady, is such good company, is a widow. The men of Cal are mostly bachs & so many of them drink and gambol. I like Ben Boboa and his brother & a few other that I have met but as a general thing they are hard cases. There is Preaching at the Summit tomorrow & we expect to go if doesnt storm. Do you have hard work to read my scribbling. If you do I will try to do better. Write often. Love to all. From your affectionate sister Mate. James Adams has not been here but twice since I came. He gets my letters and sends them to me as our mail carrier got in debt & run away. Footnotes to accompany the letter written Melinda Ball Murphy during the Civil War 1) Turning the sheets was the term used when older, thin sheets were cut down the center and the sides were sewn together. The seam was then in the center of the bed and you could get more wear out of the sheet. 2) turning the skirts meant that you removed the skirt from the waist band and sewed the hem of the skirt to the waist band so newer fabric was over the stomach where there is more wear. 3) This letter was written during the Civil War when traveling east might have been dangerous. Appendix -74- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 77) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1249b64e2c3a10cf765a93ec27a1307e.jpg 441d46bb7f5d7d2a37f743c0c5572c93 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 78] [corresponds to page 75 of Pages of Our Lives] ABRAM AND MARY ANN (MURPHEY) ADAMS (Epilogue) Mary Ann Murphy was my paternal great grandfather Charles Leif Murphy's sister. The preceding letter gives us a deep insight into the character of this pioneer girl who journeyed to California with her husband Abram in the wake of the California gold rush. Here they established their home in the Sierra Valley (now located in Sierra County) and near the town of Summit in what is now Plumas County. Her prediction that she would return to Ohio within three years came true but it was not the happy homecoming she anticipated. Abe died a little less than a year after she wrote this letter when in his 40th year. A diary written by Mary Ann and found many years later details the sadness of of her life after Abe's death. She brought him by ship around South America to the Atlantic Coast and the across country to Ohio so she could lay him to rest with his family in the Harlem Cemetery. It was a long and tedious journey. After the funeral we find this entry in her diary - "I weep in vain. The eye is shut. the fountain sealed and there the one we loved so much is but the dust of hopes that were. The eye is closed. The ear is dull. Alas, alas, so beautiful the stars above his grave will keep their vigils. Sadly we return to life, many a tear and one tie left to bind us here." She went to live with her father and mother on the Murphy Hill Farm and later with 'her sister Linn in Delaware. Here she worked as a seamstress and according to the William Street Methodist Church she was very active in the church until the time of her death in 1876 when only 39 years old. In her letter Mary Ann mentions a few nuggets of gold that Cal had found. (This was Abe's brother Calvin). Later they may have found more and they had it made into jewelry some of which was sent to their families in Ohio. Linn Murphy received a watch and chain. My grandmother Martha received a pin. Mary Ann herself had a pin and Abe a belt buckle. After Linn's death the watch and chain were found in her possessions. Nellie Murphy Willis requested and was given the chain. After her death it was given to her maid and through the efforts of Cora and Ella Murphy eventually returned to the Murphy family. I now have a piece of it about three inches long and Ella the rest. Ella also has Mary Ann's pin. Velma Murphy McCall has the pin that belonged to her great grandmother Martha. The watch was given to Lola Sinkey Van Fossen, a granddaughter of Minerva Lin Murphey Sinkey. Lola died in October 1903 when approximately 83 years old. She taught school at Appleton Ohio until she was 80 years old; a remarkable woman. She left the watch to her grand- daughter Fern Sinkey and I have been told that she sold it. James Adams, another of brothers, brought from California a locket for his sister Loretta made from a gold nugget. It is now in possession of Loretta's granddaughter Lois Adams Byers. this nugget has the mark of many little teeth, where babies cut their teeth on it. Appendix -75- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 78) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2e258675f4742154d3586bf9415b63b9.jpg 2c328de790c5f665faf75f2a068665b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 79] [corresponds to page 76 of Pages of Our Lives] MEMORIAL SERVICE MRS.GRACE CHADWICK MURPHEY 1878-1960 (Died April 30, 1960 82 yrs.) Conducted by Dr. J. Raymond Chadwick (her brother) (Born 1896 - Died Nov.8, 1961 65 yrs.) Her son (Arthur - Died Oct. 1, 1962 61 yrs.) Her husband (Farrah - Died June 26, 1966 92 yrs.) Slack Funeral Home Sunbury, Ohio May 4, 1960 - 1 P.M. ORDER OF SERVICE ORGAN MUSIC Mrs. Slack "Faith of Our Fathers" "Love Divine All Loves Exceling" "Oh Love That Will Not Let Me Go" "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" OPENING SENTENCES "The Eternal God is our refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms, Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made Heaven and earth. The Lord of Hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Be still and know that I am God." INVOCATION Oh thou God of infinite love, Who art the same yesterday, today and forever, We turn to thee this hour, Earnestly beseeching Thee that the sunshine of Thy love May shine through the shadows around bout us. Comfort our hearts which are heavy with sorrow And have compassion upon our weakness Appendix -76- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 79) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8ea6da68b11cdb43ca8b37484caa47a5.jpg 89ed307bb5ac59ba2fae660e4635ff81 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 80] [corresponds to page 77 of Pages of Our Lives] Give to us a vision of eternal of eternal realities And solace us with with the hope of a larger more glorious life Made possible through they infinite love and eternal goodness Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen SCRIPTURE READINGS Selections from Psalm 91 Selections form Psalm 27 II Corinthians 1:3-4 Romans 8:34-34. 37-39 Selections from John 14 ORGAN MUSIC - "Abide With Me" REMARKS The one thing which we desire more than anything else at such an hour as this is the certainty that our good Heavenly Father is right by our side. Therefore, we say in the words associated with the familiar strains of music to which we have just listened: "Abide with me fast falls the eventide The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide When other helpers fail, and comforts flee Help of the helpness, oh abide with me. The Psalmist of old knew that the Great God of Love would fulfill such an earnest prayer, in fact he knew from his own personal experience that his prayer had been fulfilled, for said he in those words, which are probably more familiar than any other passage of scripture: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want, He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over, Surely goodness and mercy shall pursue me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. These enduring words not only soothe our spirits through the beauty of their phraseology, they also exalt our hearts and minds in the assurance that the greatest blessing in life is the guiding hand of the good shepherd. He it is who leads us beside the still waters. He it is who restores our spiritual energies when Appendix -77- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 80) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/38f5cf0acf66d6b06f449c8f735bbf57.jpg 555ddd3d8d21c01d2f543ea0f6017997 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 81] [corresponds to page 78 of Pages of Our Lives] Our reserves have not run low. He it is who not only encourages us to bear the load bravely, but gives us strength to bear our load. He it is who not only rejoices when we walk through the valley with dry eyes, firm lip and steady tread, but knowing ail sorrow and how hard grief is to bear comes to us to support and strengthen us. Many times we can learn a great deal from those who are children. A little girl who had been to Sunday School only a few times was asked by a distinguished clergyman what she had learned in Sunday School this morning. This was her reply: "I learned a passage of scripture which says "The Lord is my shepherd and dat's all I want." The little girl was correct. All that is sufficient is to know that the Lord is our Shepherd and that his promises as revealed in this beautiful Psalm are eternal and ever abiding. That was the faith in which sister Grace lived. She knew that the Lord was her shepherd and that his promises were true for this life and the next. Without this assurance that God is the good shepherd life would be meaningless. With it, however, every trouble may be translated into a triumph; and we may experience in our own hearts this victory today, even as the poet has said. "He Giveth More Grace" He Giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater; He sendeth more strength when the labors increase; To added affliction he addeth his mercy; To multiplied trials he multiplies peace. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere the day is half done, When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, Our Father's full giving is only begun. His love has no limit; his grace has no measure; His power no boundary known unto man; For out of his infinite riches in Jesus He giveth and giveth and giveth again. Annie Johnson Flint The good shepherd also guides our hearts and minds into the folds of victory through the certainty that our loved ones art still with us in spirit through beautiful memories which shall always abide even though their physical presence is no longer with us. Even so, we feel the spirit of Grace Chadwick Murphy very near unto us as we think of all the good and enduring qualities of character which she revealed in her earthly sojourn. Born in Trenton Township Ohio, October 7, 1878, she grew up here in Central Ohio in those days when life was not filled with all the comforts and conveniences which we enjoy today; but when one had an opportunity of learning through the simple rugged life those basic qualities which are essential for noble living upon this earth and which endure throughout all eternity namely, honesty, dependability, faithfulness to duty, ability to see things from the Appendix -78- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 81) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0487221517e1ded7ef2ddc2d037addd0.jpg ae8500ac1a356a1491b516dfafff67d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 82] [corresponds to page 79 of Pages of Our Lives] other persons point of view and the willingness to do her part to make life rich and full and complete. Realizing, however, that she was not equal to life's demands in her own strength, she early sought the help of Almighty God through membership in the church. First, she became a member of the Trenton Presbyterian Church when she was fifteen years of age. Following her marriage she transferred her membership to the Van's Valley Methodist Church in 1900. About thirty years ago she withdrew from the Methodist Church and became a member of the Christian Science Church with membership in the Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts. She was an ardent and faithful member of the Christian Science Church until the end of her earthly sojourn, finding great spiritual strength, peace and power in the teachings of her faith as revealed in numerous underscored passages in her "Science and Health" which she had used daily for the past twenty-five or thirty years, as well as in special quotations written in the fly leaves of this well-worn book. I would like to quote three such passages which especially attracted my attention. the very first sentence in the preface to this book reads as follows: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings." In the front of this book Grace had written with her own hand: "I am able to impart truth, health and happiness and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing." In the back of her "Science and Health" I also found these words which have the flavor of St. Francis of Assisi: "There is no anger, Hence no pain; There is no hate, Hence no poison; There is no fear, Hence no death; For God is all and God is love." It is no wonder, therefore, that sister Grace made a wonderful mother, exerting in her home for more than sixty years the positive influence of divine lover upon all the members of her household. Married to Farrah C. Murphey, March 8, 1900, to their four children, fourteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren she left a spiritual heritage which no man can take away. As on thinks of her life he feels that it was motivated by this wholesome bit of philosophy which was the guiding principle of another other: "If we work upon marble, it will perish; Appendix -79- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 82) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/76215960b272da33900d913f80bec913.jpg 1167c9826e491fcade18977208fa0e25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 83] [corresponds to page 80 of Pages of Our Lives] If we work upon brass, time will efface it; If we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; But if we work on immortal souls, If we imbue them with noble principles, With the just fear of God and love of our fellowman, We engrave on those tablets something Which will brighten all eternity." If I might be personal for just a few moments, I would say that I have always considered myself to be very fortunate that I was the youngest in a family where my oldest sister was nearly twenty years my senior. Grace was to me as much a second mother as an elder sister. To go to her home as a small a boy for a week's visit was like being with my own mother. When she would go to the big city I would look forward to the gift she always brought me just as much as I did to the presents which were brought home by my father when he made a similar trip. Even when I was in college her motherly farewell still lingers in my ears; "Raymond don't study too hard." And so I join with Thomas W. Fessendon in paying my tribute to my sister as my second mother, even as I do when I think of my own mother and all Christian mothers everywhere. How appropriate are these words entitled "To Mother" You painted no Madonnas On chapel walls in Rome; But with a touch diviner, You lived one in your home. You wrote no lofty poems That critics counted art; But with a nobler vision, You lived them in your heart. You built no great cathedrals That centuries applaud; But with a grace exquisite, Your life cathedraled God. You carved no shapeless marble To some high soul--design But with a finer sculpture, You shaped this soul of mine. You did not go to battle, To save our own dear land; But lived through daily sacrifice, Appendix -80- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 83) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/80c1692c94a5f27d2c132746080edb3e.jpg 26af81a98a17b10a77394dfa47c967e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 84] [corresponds to page 81 of Pages of Our Lives] The brotherhood of man. Had I the gift of Raphael, Or Michael-Angelo Oh, what a rare Madonna My Mother's life would show, The good shepherd also assures us that such noble spirits for not die for says He "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever." This instinctive feeling which the good shepherd has so well voiced is down deep in every human heart. This spark of immortal hope Jesus fanned into a living flame when he said "In my Father's house are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you. "In other words, a place is already prepared for us by Jesus, the Savior of all mankind. We, therefore, need have no doubt about our beloved sister. We can say with confidence that she is with the Lord. She has entered in to one of those home places prepared by God for all of his children. We know that God has given to her a new means of expression whereby her spirit shall go on throughout all eternity bringing joy and happiness to other in the spirit of infinite love even as she did during her early sojourn. The beautiful victorious transition from this life to the next causes us to join with the wife of one of our bishops who as she approached the lifeless form of her beloved husband said "Put on the hallelujah chorus on the victrola and let us all rejoice and sing." Truly death for the Christian is no time of sadness. It should be a time of great rejoicing because another one of God's children has gained his reward. To me one of the most graphic descriptions of the transition from this life to the next is expressed in there line entitled: I Am Standing On the Seashore I am standing on the seashore. A ship at my side spreads Her white sails to the morning breeze and starts For the blue ocean; she is an object of beauty; And I stand and watch her until at length, She hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea And the sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says; "There she's gone!" Gone where? Gone from my sight--that is all. She is just as large in mast, and hull and spar, As she was when she left my side and just as able to bear Her load of living freight to the place of her destination, Her diminishing size is in me--not in her Appendix -81- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 84) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/895c6672c50a4f8f9fab3073f986e872.jpg a4106466a7b6fb3a016575305f8102fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 85] [corresponds to page 82 of Pages of Our Lives] And just at that moment, when someone at my side says "There! she's gone!" -- there are eyes watching on the opposite shore And voices ready to take up the glad shout saying: "There! She's come!" And that is what we Christians victoriously call dying." Prayer Almighty Father, whose holy purpose is on of infinite love, from whom do come the spirits of all of thy children, with whom they live during this earthly life, and to whom they return when they have finished their mission here among men, we give thee humble and hearty thanks for the good examples of all of those who have finished their course and now have entered in to that larger, more joyous life of eternal love and heavenly grace. Especially do we thank thee for the good qualities which we saw in our beloved sister Grace. Grant, we humbly beseech thee, that her abiding presence may be a constant source of inspiration to all those who knew her, and especially to all those whom she loved most dearly. Take from our hearts all fear of death. Help us to realize that there is no such thing as death, for life is one continuous whole since God in his infinite goodness and eternal love hath linked this world inseparably with the next. Help us all so to live that when the time comes for us to join those who have gone before, we may do it without any sense of uncertainty or dread, but with a whole and happy heart that travels on with cheer because we know that the road's last turn shall be the best. And so may we all enter in to those heavenly home places prepared for us by the God of infinite love and eternal goodness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Benediction And now may the Lord bless you and keep you, May the Lord make his fact to shine upon you and be gracious unto you, May the Lord lift up the light of countenance and give you peace this day and always. Amen. Organ Music Largo from the New World Symphony -- "Going Home" Committal "I am the resurrection and the life", said Jesus "He that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live; And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." Appendix -82- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 85) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ad7de12e20c34132aa26d3baf99dfda6.jpg 58f02f57f0df8775e503a57fa863fa90 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 86] [corresponds to page 83 of Pages of Our Lives] Therefore, we can say with the greatest of certainty: Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall. On gentle hinges it gives at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel are green leaves Beyond the light lies still Very willing and weary feet Go over that sill. There is nothing to trouble any heart, Nothing to hurt at all. For death is only an old door, Set in a garden wall. For as much as God in his infinite goodness hath given unto the soul of our sister a new means of expression, we lay her body to rest amid the flowers, with a sure and certain hope that as she has borne the image of the earth, she now bears the image of the heavenly. "And love will dream and faith will trust That somehow some where meet we must." Prayer Oh thou whom we cannot behold with the eye of flesh, help us to steadfastly behold thee with the eye of faith, the we may not faint under the manifold trials and tribulations of this life, but may endure as seeing him who is invisible. And grant that having fulfilled our mission here among men we may enter into all those joys and blessings made possible for us through the life, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Grant that the peace an security, and the certainty that love is the greatest force in the world; and that the God of love can never be defeated. And so may we all have the experience of victory in our hearts this day and always through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Benediction And now may the grace and peace of Father, Son and holy Spirit rest upon, abide with, sustain and keep each one of us this day and always. Amen. Appendix -83- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 86) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/67e933b3b67a4ecc325ae84ca05a3576.jpg 78421b5c05a6f77fa544dd34a48051d2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 87] [corresponds to page 84 of Pages of Our Lives] Yesterday Today and Tomorrow written by Velma Murphy McCall Creech March 1985 Appendix -84- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 87) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4dbe6bed57dcee2b12290f18e894ff59.jpg 54ecc75b364c38221b6413bbc8a87f4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 88] [corresponds to page 85 of Pages of Our Lives] Love Joins the Past with the Present and Future (Kahlil Gibran) [photo image] [photo caption] Velma Murphy at Grandma Murphy's 1st house on hill before it burned in 1937 I was born February 24, 1928. many changes and new things have occurred in my life time, same as anyone can make that statement that has live 57 year. My roots are from rural America and Delaware County, Ohio to be exact. My family settling there back when my great, great grandfather Murphy came and bought up a section of land there and on top of the hill is where he built his house. Back then the Indians camped at the base of the hill, the evidence still being unearth when I was a girl at home. My father plowed the ground with horses then and it was not uncommon to find arrow heads. We also found the stone that was used to grind their grain, that same soil divulging its secrets of times past. Many of my ancestors, and yours, too, were probably more educated than most at that time, producing an array of teachers, a lawyer, newspaperman, ministers, explorer, and farmers, hunters and trappers. No one was in medicine, but I was to become a R. N., the first in the family, but the is getting ahead of my story. My grandfather spent all of his life on the home place, and reared four children there with My dad, Arthur, being the oldest. He was twenty-two when he was married to a tall gangly very young girl of fourteen and one-half, Ethel Carnes. She was very mature for her age, able to cook and sew to the surprise of his mother. Mother and Dad had a hard time of it with us three children all born in the depression years of 1928, 1931, and 1933. But we worked very hard to make ends meet, as the saying goes. We children had rather unusual birthday; mine was February 24, 1928, my brother's February 25, 1931, and my sister's February 26, 1933. My earliest recollection was when I was 3 years and one day old, when the birth of my brother, Lovett was about to take place. It's hard for me to imagine I was making such fuss about having to go to my grandmother's, when in a few years I was at their house more than I was at home. Of course I was quite a grandma and grandpa's girl; being the first live grandchild, and we just lived down the hill, so I had good reason. I was always large for my age and on the plump side, and still am, for that matter. I don't like to stay fat, but I like to eat better that I like to diet. [photo image] [photo caption] Velma, Cousin Mary Ellen and Lovett Murphy sitting on cement cistern top with coal house in background Appendix -85- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 88) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5523285d2d06109ac6437b7c0d00e1fb.jpg 64d53d6327eb4ccc5f9c82c7aa654549 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 89] [corresponds to page 86 of Pages of Our Lives] [photo image] [photo caption] Lovett and Velma Murphy behind Cousin Mary Ellen Murphy One doesn't realize when he is growing up how lucky they are to have a loving family and have a close relationship with their parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles, but I now and am so thankful. It is was much more common then than now, with all of the broken marriages, and family relationships of today, as hardly anyone got divorced in those days. I was very close to my dad, as I worked with him in the fields and the barn, milking the cows, and any outdoor activity where I could tag along. It made him more of a confidant than my mother, as so much time was spent in his company. My dad was such a friendly, caring man and father. He always had time for a cheerful word or deed, or a few hours to fish if farming and weather permitted, but he loved anything outdoors. When there was illness, or births, we had a leather couch that opened up in the living room and made into a bed, similar to what we have today. That is where mother was for ten days; that's the way it was in those days, and till up until when I was in nurses training, when we started getting them up. [photo image] [photo caption] Cousin Velma ans Marry Ellen Murphy Mother was ill several times and had surgery which made lengthy stays in bed back then. We had some white dish towels that were edged in red, that I made into nurse's cap and I had a white apron trimmed in red bias tape, and that was my first nurse's uniform. Oh, did I feel big! I was 9 or 10 years old I expect. Dad's youngest sister, Martha was 18 years younger than he, so my first experience with courting was watching my Aunt Martha dressing and primping for her dates. Her boy friend and later husband, had an old car, and what a noise it made coming up that steep hill. There was no doubt about it, Harvey McElroy was arriving. While I am on the subject of this aunt, I must tell you about the bologna sandwiches. After we got home from school, on the bus, and I got my clothes changed, up the hill I would go, Aunt Martha always had a big bologna sandwich, and of course, so did I. The meat was delivered to the door, coming once a week, peddled door to door. If he came when we children were home he always gave us a wiener. His name was "Dickey Dowell". I don't know how he made much money if he treated all the kids like he did us. In later years after my aunt was married and away from home, Grandma always gave me stuffed pepper. I must have eaten gallons. Grandma was never much on sweets, so I can't blame her Appendix -86- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 89) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3d7f2c0927fa9e2f2780dfc97c1290d2.jpg 423990aa2f86bd81275dcea1955449fd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource page 90] [corresponds to page 87 of Pages of Our Lives] [photo image] [photo captions] Cousins Velma and Mary Ellen Murphy on Murphy Hill for my sweet tooth. In fact, I can only remember once when Grandma baked pies. Grandpa told her they looked like sun baked pies, as they were so pale! Also along in this time span, I believe, was when my grandmother's mother, Ella Chawick, came to stay with her. She was getting quite elderly. When airplanes went over, Great Grandmother always said, "There's a sky buggy" and we would all run out to see the plane go over. That doesn't seem possible with all the air traffic we have this day and age. She would sit by the hours making quilts; I was a receiver of one in the fan pattern and I still use it today. It was all made by hand. I am sorry I didn't learn more about sewing from her but she was beginning to fail each year, but I always went in and sat with her and she told me about old times. She died when I was eleven. In 1937 my grandparent's home was totally destroyed by fire. Just the west wall was left standing. it had been made of brick, homemade brick, as one field was always known as the brick hill field. Someone told me on the school bus, but I wouldn't believe it had burned. I couldn't believe until I saw it. It was like part of me was gone, too. that summer Grandpa and Grandma lived in the garage while their house was being built. That year was the worst year for catalpa worms I ever saw and there was a big old tree that shaded the garage. If you aren't familiar with catalpa worms, you haven't missed anything. they are big and messy but harmless. the new house was again brick and made similar to the old one, but it never held the same place in my heart, with all the upstairs rooms empty rather than filled with all the memorabilia of the past where I had gotten to play and see all those good things. Of course, they were all lost in the fire as that was where the fire started. Since both grandparents were school teachers, if needed any information for my lessons, up the hill I went. They had a set encyclopedias and were very well-read, spending much of their spare time reading. They always had an answer. I sometimes wonder if Mom and Dad felt left out. If I wouldn't work something out in the evening, after I helped milk the cows in the morning, I would hurry up for help before getting breakfast and getting ready for school. Grandma and Grandpa still in bed lots of the times. Why didn't they tire of me? In these days we didn't do much "going". To town for groceries once a week, was done by my Dad, and he usually brought home a big bag of cheap, ripe bananas. On Sunday Mom and Dad would pick me up from church and we would go to my other grand- parents. Mom and Dad didn't go to church. I went faithfully with my grandfather. Mother would have liked to have gone but Dad had been made to go as long as he was at home, and when he had a home of his own, he wasn't going to go, although he lived by his early teachings, and was a good man. About this time Mother's folks wanted me to came and stay a few days with them. They lived in Olive Green. I was to go from Sunday to Sunday. I got too homesick and Grandma sent me home with the bread man who delivered bread door to door. While there though, I learned one very useful thing, and that was to put a knot in my thread when beginning to sew. Appendix -87- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 90) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e7b6e136e231960ce2f321c534c0e6f7.jpg 41209a61a05e4381d41d6f259a59c7b9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 91] [corresponds to page 88 of Pages of Our Lives] They had an ice house back of the house; this ice was cut in the winter from the steams and packed in saw dust to keep it from melting. This was a nice place to play, but it must have been hard on the ice. Also at Grandmother's house there was a doorbell. How we loved to ring it; lot of times they remembered to disconnect it so it would not ring. It was like a door knob, and you pulled it out and it was fastened with wire and when you pulled the knob out it clanged against the bell. Grandma Carnes made the best sugar cookies and bread--big cookies with raisin or nut meat in the center. She always put on a red-checked tablecloth for Sunday dinner. I thought that was so nice, as we must not have used a table cloth at home. She always had her yeast sponge in the warming shelf of the old wood stove in the kitchen. We saved the potato water to add to it, as I remember. Those stoves had a reservoir on the end beyond the oven; this water was warm and sometimes hot if you were to fire the stove heavily. Wash water was heated on the stove for washing clothes in a copper boiler. Most folks used kerosene lamps for light after dark, unless you were lucky and had your own delco system which guaranteed your power. We did. We also visited my great grandmother Carnes who lived next door to my grandmother and grandfather Carnes. We also visited my Great Grandmother Olmsted who lived in peerlis; she had a water barrel where the rain water was collected for use for washing, etc. I feel she was glad we didn't come too often as I liked to stir it up and we went on Sunday and the next day was wash day. So I feel sure she had to wash in sooty water, as the soot settled to the bottom of the barrel. And as I had played in it the day before, I doubt it was too clear. I know she certainly didn't want me to play in it. We were one of the lucky ones. We had a Delco system that supplied both my grandparents and our place, so I don't remember washing clothes by hand, but we heated water in the old copper boiler. We got our electricity in 1936. what an exciting time! We soon got a Gibson refrigerator and an electric stove which was on legs in those days. It had an oven on the left side and four burners on the other. No storage space. I don't know what was different about them then, but when there was an electric storm, sometimes the fire just shot out of it. One time in particular, I remember. We three kids were home alone as Dad had taken Mother to Centerburg to get a permanent in her hair. It was a terrible storm, so bad we ran outside rather than stay in and have the fire shooting out of the stove at us. I have since wondered how Mother was able to get her permanent as then you were hooked up to electric cables that clamped onto your rolled up hair, the heat making your hair curl, sometimes too much! Maybe I should say usually. As a little later my parents raised chickens and sold eggs to the hatchery in Delaware. We also got a treat of an ice cream cone on the way as we passed by the Delaware Creamery and they were only a nickel. We also had an adventure raising turkey. We never had as good luck with them. They are rather harder to raise, sometimes they wouldn't have enough sense to eat, prone to disease, and were raised up on wire. On day when my folks were gone a turkey died, so I got it and took it to the house. Dad had gone to college one year at Ohio State University, and he had some instruments that he had used in zoology, and they had always intrigued me. I would get them out look at them, but had never been allowed to use them. This day I operated on that dead turkey on the kitchen table; I did put down a newspaper. I discovered his liver looked diseased. (don't know what that meant), but that was my first surgery unless you count dressing a chicken that had gotten hit by a car that I salvaged one time when Appendix -88- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 91) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6d109652fad2799faacda8b4e74a62ef.jpg 19bea31008f03288bc5960855cb4121f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 92] [corresponds to page 89 of Pages of Our Lives] Mother was sick. In those days, nothing was wasted; that's the way I was taught. Waste not, want not. I always have had a love, for cats, dogs, even the cows we milked; they all had names and were pampered. I started helping milk night and morning when I was six year old. I had a cow named Shirley Temple, the child move star of my day. I gradually milked more helping Mom and Dad all my years at home. My brother have the feeling for cows; he helped some but never like to milk like I did. We milked by hand until the two or three years I was at home, when Dad got a new DeLaval milker. I loved those cows and never minded milking. In 1940, when I was in the seventh grade, Dad got his first tractor, a John Deere. Oh the thrill of getting to drive it. I never was much good plowing, but got along fine for other things. Before that we had a team of dappled mares. I never cared much for the horses. The flies were always bad and it was hot in summer, and the horses' tails always got me in the eyes when they were being hitched up and unhitching them. I have learned to like to see a pretty race horse, but never was sorry when the horses work phased out. As I said earlier, there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, but there were the movies. We really enjoyed going to Johnstown to the Dorsey Theater. We usually went on Thursday night, as it was family night, and was a lot cheaper. Once in while if there was a special movie on in Delaware, we would go there on Sunday for the matinee. That was really something! One thing I remember about going to the movies, and that was my sister's many trips to the bathroom. She was always places on the outside of the row so she wouldn't bother anyone. The more exciting the movie, the more trips to the the bathroom. To this day, she needs close to a bathroom, so there must have been a problem, but it had never caused her any medical problems, just inconvenience. We were all very healthy. I had never been to the doctor's office but once, and that was for sinus infection, until I had to go for an examination for entrance into nursing school. We missed very little school, unless we came down with the measles or some other childhood disease, that even we didn't escape. I started to school the year I was five. That was about the time they decided you had to be six at a certain time before you started to school. Sometime after I started to school, there was a problem about me continuing, as I wasn't the magic age. My folks wanted me to go and, of course, I wanted to keep going, so somehow it was arranged for me to continue as long as I was doing well, and keeping up with My studies, I loved school and had no problems, and always hated for school to be over in May. We had a pond in the pasture field to water the cattle in summer, and we skated on it in winter. I had a pair of double runner skates at an early age and learned to skate. I never could learn to roller skate, though, but ice skated every winter as soon as the ice was thick. Also our hill made pretty fair sledding but it surely was a long ways to walk back up the hill to take another ride down again. Every fall we always spent at least one weekend gathering in our supply of hickory nuts. Dad always went squirrel hunting every fall and he knew when the nuts were down. After our first hard frost we would go get bushels of nuts for winter use. What good hickory nut cookies and cakes we always had. Hickory nut cake with the nut filling is what we always had for our birthdays. These nuts were hung behind our kitchen stove to dry and cure and then put away for later use. We did gather some walnuts and butternuts, but they Appendix -89- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 92) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/18eebc3106346325148ca7c8bc59daf1.jpg 5ab0b3f9ec7a146331c89018c91c3260 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 93] [corresponds to page 90 of Pages of Our Lives] were so messy to hull we relied on hickory nuts. For heat we had a wood cook stove, before electricity, and also a big old wood an coal stove in the living room; It was a Glow Boy. It served us all the years at home; then my brother used it, too. It was enclosed with enamel outside around the actual stove. You couldn't burn your hands; it was much safer than the old pot-belly stove, as many little hand were disfigured by them. Every winter (really toward spring) in February when we had freezing nights and warmer thawing days, was maple syrup time in our lives. We always ran down to the woods when we got home from school and drove the horses to pull the sled carrying a tank that held the sap. We emptied it from the buckets that were hanging on the maple trees. My dad and grandpa drilled holes in the tree on a good day, the buckets ran over and we collected at least twice a day. On the weekend we helped, too. It took about fifty gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup. That took a lot of wood to boil it down. It was a steamy place even though the building was made open at the top to let the steam escape. We had parties there, my classmates coming out to see first hand what took place to make that delectable sweet. We also made maple sugar and the most fun of all was a taffy pull; the messiest, too. There was a poor family that lived nearby that had many children. They would come and ask to berry pick when the blackberries were ripe, and they stayed all night in the woods and slept in the car and in the maple syrup house. When it was warmer, Saturday and Sunday were spent in the woods, collecting all the wild flowers we could find. It took a few years to find where each was located. We had white and blue violets, spring beauties, dutchman's britches, turkey Toes, Trilliums, Jack in the Pulpit, mayapples, paw-paws, and probably more, but that is all I can remember now. I had a spot deep in the that was a favorite of mine. It was like a little knoll to sit upon, and a small pool of water beyond. A good place to meditate; when I think of our woods, that place always comes to mind first. We three children occasionally needed discipline. Dad was really pretty patient, but there came a time when it was at an end. His favorite was either a plum sprout you picked yourself or his old Romeo slipper if you had gone to bed and were suppose to go to sleep. Bedtime was early on the farm for everyone as we got up early to get the cows milked, milking parlor swept out, ourselves cleaned up, dressed for school, and breakfast before the bus got there. Dad fed the cows before he came to the house. Lots of changes occurred in caring for the milk, too. My first memories of cooling the milk was in a cooler that the well water flowed inside and the fresh milk was poured over the outside. We always had our tin cup ready for that nice cold milk. Now we wouldn't think it was cold at all. then we had a cement tank that held the cold, fresh pumped well water and the milk cans were set into to cool. Next came the electric cooler that made an ice bank inside and the cans were set in there; that was like a refrigerator. Now there are bulk tanks where the milk goes from the cow to the bulk tank by pipes, where it is cooled and held until the milkman comes with his refrigerated tank truck to haul it to the creamery. We didn't have an allowance, I suppose some kids did, but we did get a little money at hay making time. When we were done making hay, Dad took us to town to buy our fireworks before the fourth of July. Dad set off the big ones, and we had supervision using the smaller ones. That was really an occurrence; in later years we were sometimes taken to town to see the big display of fireworks. Soda pop was not a common drink. I do not Appendix -90- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 93) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/76ff75ad8218dfc2835d7b0c4d4caaa0.jpg 8da361161dc82095dd31d6feffa964cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 94] [corresponds to page 91 of Pages of Our Lives] remember ever having any, but Mom would make our own homemade root beer, using yeast and a base she bought. On a hay making day, Mom would bring over to us a bottle of the rootbeer up from the basement, and it was really cold and good. We only got a half a bottle apiece. Even that was a luxury. Our toilet facilities were primitive- an outside toilet. We just had a two seater, but my uncle had a three seater, and theirs had a moon cut in the door, ours wasn't very fancy! When my sister was two or three, we always had to help her when she went to the toilet. One time we had a pet lamb and he would butt her or us if we didn't watch him. And another time we had some geese and the gander would take a peck at her and we would chase him off. He would really hurt if he got a piece of skin between his bills. Our family had a a big garden, we grew gooseberries, tame berries and also picked many wild berries. Mam canned most of our food, even meat was canned before refrigeration. The fat was made into lard; the sausage was cooked down and covered with the lard and kept in the pantry or basement where it kept cool, and was used up before hot weather arrived. The hams were home cured with Morton' Salt preparation. Our meat supply was also to include rabbits, squirrel, ducks and geese, and, of course, chicken and turkey. We raised banty chickens for our own egg supply as the nice hen eggs were sold. Grains such as wheat and corn were taken to the mill to be ground for flour and corn meal. Most all types of vegetables were also raised and canned. I remember Mother coming from the basement (we called it a cellar) and she would have her arms loaded with potatoes and canned good, all for our evening meal. We had breakfast or pancakes, eggs, sausage, cooked oats, not all of these but we usually had meat with the pancakes and syrup. Our noon meal was dinner and the evening meal was supper on the farm. We think we are busy now, but looking back I don't know how Mother ever got done. She helped Dad when we were kids were little with the milking, farming, plus house work, cooking, and made all of our clothes, She had a schedule as I remember, washing on Monday, ironing on Tuesday, mending on Wednesday. The rest of the week was cleaning and baking. For the weekends she always filled up the old kitchen Hoosier cabinet with all kinds of pie. If she made donuts, she made several kinds, applesauce, chocolate, and plain ones. There were gingerbreads, cakes and cookies, too. No wonder I like sweet things and a meal wasn't complete without dessert. I learned to cook, and bake too, at a young age, and soon was a big help in the kitchen. Later on my sister liked to sew and do yard work, and didn't learn to cook until she was married. I also like to iron, and helped with that. we had to iron everything, as everything was all cotton then, not the wash and wear we have today. I remember the old irons we heated on the stove; They had a handle that we took off and put on the other iron that was heating on the stove. These come after the one piece iron that are so popular for antique collectors now. When I was ten or twelve I suppose, my girl friend and I joined the Four-H. I never cared much for sewing, but learned a little. We walked to and from the meetings that were held in Condit. The first I ever heard of cancer was when I was with my friend and we stopped to see her aunt on the way home from 4-H. She had breast cancer, and it was an open wound and the odor was very bad. Surgery wasn't performed much in those days. This friend took piano lessons, so I teased for lessons, too. Once a week in the summer I took lessons, but I didn't care to practice so never was very accomplished. How I wish Mom had made me practice, it would be so nice to play just for my own pleasure now. I played a clarinet later on in the school band, but always wished it had been a saxophone as they had more melody parts than clarinets. Appendix -91- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 94) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/139b4cfdb53d426a639d069d768a7932.jpg f2ce619a1abdaf00eda0c3be17edf26b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 95] [corresponds to page 92 of Pages of Our Lives] I enjoyed music all through school, but in the 8th grade we had a marvelous man teacher, we learned patriotism, choral music, we put on an operetta, and he made all things interesting. He had that knack. In the seventh grade my grades improved, all because I got glasses. By high school I was getting mostly A's. the way I discovered I needed glasses was because of a test the teacher wrote on the far board, and I couldn't read it at all. I had usually sat up in front, so that I could see better, that was the way that I compensated for my severe near-sightedness. So my eyes got examined, and glasses were needed. I will never forget how clear and shining everything was, and the stars that I had never seen. It was short of a miracle to me to be able to see so much and so clearly. I liked the boys and had a good relationship with them. I was interested in farming and they were mostly farm boys. They were more like brother, than romantically involved with them. My weight problem was a big handicap. Now along came the war, World War II, and the scrap drives, food and gas rationing, and war bonds, and listening to the radio to hear the war news. Every- one was glued to the radio when it was news time. Mother was always pessimist and my Dad an optimist. I can remember so plainly and very often my Dad saying, "Now Ethel, worrying never changes a thing." Mother was always upset over bad news and was afraid we would lose the war. Our class had scrap drives and much old steel and metal was collected; around our farm, alone, old harrows and farm machinery were dug up out of the ground and we had a good collection and felt real patriotic. Dad got a War Bond as often as he could, and everyone else did, too. Food rationing didn't really bother us too much except the sugar. We learned to substitute honey and I suppose that was illegal, but we could trade meat coupons for sugar coupons. My grandmother Murphy really missed green tea as it was unavailable until after the war. She loved her tea. Gas rationing hit everyone hard, but for our class plays, Dad and my friend's mother took turns taking us to practice for the plays, and they would stay in town and wait for the practice to be over and would save gas and one round-trip to town. Our senior trip was cancelled because of the scarcity of gas, but it wasn't a big thing as I remember; by then you all had relatives in the war, and boys you knew in school were leaving for the service. Everyone wanted to do their share to help with the war and get our boys back home. During my senior year, when the school was trying to provide help in our future careers, representatives came around and told us girls about government sponsored Cadet Nurse Program. That gave me a free education, and patriotic touch, too. My mind was made up, nursing came in ahead of teaching. I went home and told my folks I wanted to join the Cadet Nurse Corp, when I got out of school and later planned to be a missionary to China. Programs were offered in Cincinnati and Zanesville, Ohio. I decided to write to Bethesda Hospital in Zanesville as it had connections with Muskingham College. My entrance tests were the same day as my graduation. Dad and I got off to an early start for Zanesville, where I took the tests all day. then we hurried home to milk the cows and to graduation. That was a busy day, May 26, 1945. Six days later, June 1, 1945, we were on our way to Muskingham College where I was starting my nursing studies. That summer was at the college. We weren't allowed home the first month, and after that, one overnight a month. Was I homesick! I wrote home every day. That first year was hard, as remember I had been away Appendix -92- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 95) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b6a93581b192bb96ed9328a781dc9e2d.jpg 2bc355cefa9b4adadf386efaf10f5406 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 96] [corresponds to page 93 of Pages of Our Lives] from home very little. Now I know it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Everyone should leave home and go away to school. You do not appreciate home until you are away from it. I was always a little ashamed of my home; we didn't have things very fashionable, I guess, but it surely looked good when I came and home and I hated going back. To get home I first took a train to Columbus and got a cab from the train depot to the bus station and bus to Sunbury, where my folks met me. Later on after I was at the hospital I took a bus to Hebron and then my folks drove there to meet me. There were 30 of us starting our classes, losing down to 16 the first six months. Some were not able to make the grades or did not like it. I was just 17, the only other girl who was so young as I, was 1 month younger. We were just out of high school. One of us was 37, and she had lost her husband over in Italy, he had been a flyer. She had just made it as the cut-off age was 37. I never did ask, but imagine she had decided that was a good way for her to help the war effort. It must have been very hard for her, she must have felt old among us teenagers. In her place I know I would have, and at that time I don't think that any of fully appreciated the effort she was making to rebuild her life. She had no children so she was really on her own. although she did have some sisters. That August the war was officially over, and we were up in the air as whether we would get to continue our training or not, but we did and we were the last class to get our free education in the Cadet Nursing Corp. If the was had continued until our nurses' training was completed, we obligated to do nursing for the government wherever needed for the duration of the war. That same August I was on my way home and in the cab was a soldier and a WAC I was wearing my rather smart-looking grey uniform, and she asked me where I was stationed and I explained to her I was presently at Muskingham College. That perked up the soldier's ears as his family's farm adjoined the college campus. We were soon at the bus station and I got out proceeded to get my bus home, and never gave him another thought. I enjoyed my overnight stay at my home and was back at College. This was V. J. Day. The war was over. I was preparing to wash my hair that evening when the phone rang and there was a call for me. Yes, you guessed it. It was the soldier that I met in the taxi cab in Columbus, Ohio. We were all allowed off the campus. So we walked and walked. I'll never forget the feeling I had when I saw him waiting for me. He was very fair and blond and he was a baker and cook in the army for Officer Candidate School and had not been out in much sun before coming home. That day he had been helping his uncle thresh wheat, and was red as a lobster, eyes red from the dust. I thought he was drunk! but I soon realized he was just sunburned and had been in the dust all day. I didn't know how he found me, because I had not told him my name. The next day one of the girls asked me if a soldier had called me. She said he had seen her walking with some other girls and thought it was me, and asked her if she lived in Columbus. She told him it wasn't her, and when he questioned her, if she knew anyone who did, she had given him my name. If you think that was strange, his train was delayed and if hadn't been late in arriving in Columbus and going to his sister's who lived there by cab, our paths would not have crossed. He had to go back to camp shortly after our first evening, and so he asked me if I would write and I said I would. We both wrote faithfully until he was discharged in November, 1945. Appendix -93- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 96) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3172ef8bc05fd7fd361f0be25fbfb02a.jpg 1fda6461208c0de6db9a7c44c76f49fd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 97] [corresponds to page 94 of Pages of Our Lives] We dated during the remaining years I was in training, usually seeing one another once a week and weeks and months flew along. We became engaged one year later, one year from V. J. Day. I was home that summer on vacation and got the first and last sunburn I have ever had to this day. I drove the tractor to cut wheat and wore shorts and halter. I was burned to a crisp on all sides and had a miserable time trying to sleep. Mother put cold vinegar compresses on me but that didn't help much. I learned a dear lesson. The summer of 1947 was a 3-month affiliation in Akron, Ohio for my pediatrics training at Akron Children's Hospital. Allan took us up, and the brakes went out on the Loudonville hill and was that a scary thrill. It left a permanent mark on our memories. We were given a few more privileges there, and could have an overnight a week and stay out later on weekends, but never got away from the nightly bedchecks. The boys came up once while we were there on a weekend. They stayed at a hotel there, and found a gun under the mattress. One of the highlights while in Akron was the banana splits, they were huge and gooey. They were rather forbidden, as we were not allowed to walk that way unless there were several of us, as it wasn't the best place in town for us to be walking. Also we really enjoyed the movies. They played request on the organ at intermission and we always had several requests like "Peg of My Heart', "White Cliffs of Dover". On the negative side was the water. It was horrible and had the taste of rubber, just as the air was permeated with rubber. Also we had lamb frequently there and never in Zanesville, but the food really was a lot better except for the lamb. For our second and third year at Bethesda, we moved into the nurse's residence which was next to the hospital. It was in an old rambling house and upstairs. When we got to making too much noise the housemother tapped on the ceiling to quiet us down. The first year we were on the fourth floor of the hospital after we came into Zanesville from Muskingum. They could keep better track of us when the Director of Nurses lived in the same area. There wasn't much time for romance, but we all managed. One of our class- mates especially managed! One evening she had a boyfriend in the hospital lobby, one in the nurses residence, and one waiting for her in the car! We were all so close and had such good times; it is just pleasant to write about it, but we worked and studied hard, too. On July fourth, my roommate and I decide we would try sleeping in the nude. It was a hot night, but neither one of us could get to sleep, so we got up and put on our gowns. Lots of close relation ships were made during those year, and we enjoy seeing and writing one another to this day, 40 years later. Graduation was in 1948 at the Presbyterian Church in Zanesville. I hadn't missed any time so was finished May 31. The next stage of my life begins June 6, 1948, the day we picked for our wedding. It was Allan's folks and his oldest brother's anniversary. We had a lovely wedding, but the weather didn't cooperate. It was raining all afternoon, and to make things worse, the sidewalks were being replaced at the Presbyterian Church at Condit where we were married at a 2:30 afternoon ceremony. We went on our honeymoon to Niagara Falls in a "38 Chevy, named the Blue Devil. It had a match stick in its gas tank, to stop a leak. We wouldn't start to town in a car like that Appendix -94- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 97) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/65d8f9ede75291b31a02a5bef0d678d6.jpg bc86ded9392371f8b7badd2c580ab50d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 98] [corresponds to page 95 of Pages of Our Lives] now. that's the way you are when you are young. Cars were still not plentiful then, so soon after the war; you drove what you had. We started out in an old house in New Concord, Ohio, Allan's hometown. We had begun to fix it up before we were married. We had papered the living room and got us a living room suite. The rest of the furniture was in the house. We got a stove and refrigerator a little later for 75 dollars, and that completed our needs, along with all the wedding gifts. And in the meantime, there was a kerosene stove there that I had to cook on till a gas line could be laid, and connected to the gas stove we had just gotten. If you have ever used Kerosene to cook with, you know I burned up all my nice shiny new pans. Also I burned lots of toast, as you had to remember to turn the toast from side to side when it was brown on one side, and then to take it out of the toaster when the other side was done, one time or another, you forget it. Allan weighed about 119 pounds the first year of our marriage and I decided right to fatten him up, but it was me that gained the weight, He didn't gain a pound. while I am talking to you about food, etc. I will mention something I forgot about on our honeymoon. Allan was used to getting up at 5:30 and he liked an early breakfast, but I was ready to sleep in since I had the chance. I still don't like getting up early like he does. Anyway, he wanted to get up at an early hour for breakfast, But I said I din't want to, so he got some rolls, and chocolate milk the night before and put the milk in the window to keep cool, and that is what we had for our early breakfast. he got to eat, and I didn't have to get up early. I didn't realize until now that that is the way our marriage has been - a compromise in most things. I worked hard to get our house fixed up that summer, as it was my folks 25th wedding anniversary. We had a picnic for Mom and Dad, and had all the relatives down to celebrate that August 23, 1948. TV made its appearance after that and Mom and Dad got one, so went up for the weekend. I think I must have had pneumonia but I went anyway. Oh, what a marvel! It was a tiny little screen, that's the way the first ones were made. I was like magic. I was in bed most of the time I was there, but watched TV. In 1959 we moved up home to Delaware County; we lived upstairs at Mom's and Dad's where they fixed us up an apartment. In August that year I got a job at the hospital in Delaware, Jane M. Case Hospital. In 1951 Allan also got a job in Delaware and we got an apartment there, and the next year we bought our house at 295 E. Central Ave. in Delaware. We lived there 10 years before getting the house across the street, that was a one-floor plan. These were happy years, but also frustrating, unhappy years. A few years after years, after we were married, my brother and sister were married and as my nieces and nephews arrived, we still had no children. I loved each one as they arrived like my own, sometimes feeling like I was getting too involved, knowing I had no say in their lives. Yet I worried and loved and enjoyed them as a mother would. On my days off, I would spend the day with my folks and see the children. My job at the hospital paid 180 dollars for a 6 day week, and Allan's paid 200. We got along well and had all the necessities and we seemed to have more than when we made more and things cost more later on. The payments on the house were 75 dollars a month and we were able to get a VA loan since Allan was a veteran. We went fishing in Canada, and at the Delaware Dam, but seems like we mostly Appendix -95- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 98) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9a3ed78f5462ee421bfa79d219067532.jpg c1e227eede479d93a6c6cad855ad88ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 99] [corresponds to page 96 of Pages of Our Lives] worked as I look back on it now, and hoped we would have a baby, but that was not to be. We spent alternate Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays with my dad's brother's family when we children were at home. After our immediate family got too big we had our own dinners, usually at Mom and Dad's or sometimes I would have it. The kids would like to come to Aunt Velma's. (We didn't like to go to Aunt Velma's, we loved to go). What a treat it was! I loved having everyone, decorating the house and setting the pretty table. The baking out at my Mother's were some of the nicest Christmas memories. My sister and sister-in-law and I would bake cookies and make candy all day at home. Mom would keep the dishes done up and watch the kids after they arrived. What good times, but they were soon to end, as Dad was ill with cancer but we didn't know it yet, as he just gradually did a little less and never complained. I had the dinner in 1961; that was to be Dad's last Christmas and I have always regretted not getting his pictures. I was all ready to take his picture, when I discovered I had just taken my last one. There were later ones, but after he was starting fail. Dad seldom went to a doctor--for emergencies only. In February, 1962, Mother had quite a surprise when the doctor called to say there was a bed for Dad at Riverside Hospital in Columbus. He was diagnosed there as having lymphosarcoma. It was all through him and he was sent home to die. Maybe he should have had chemotherapy or something, but the didn't do as much then. I was always glad that he was allowed to return home, still able to do a few things he wanted to do, and retain his dignity. He never complained, taking each day as it was given to him to his dying day which was at 4 a.m. Oct 1, 1962. What a hard summer that was seeing Dad go downhill, and Allan going into a severe depression for which he was hospitalized after Dad's death. Also the next summer I had surgery in hopes I might be able to have a baby, I was so miserable taking fertility pills that were just being given on an experimental basis that I had to quit taking them. By 1969 we had lost both of Allan's folks, too. So the 60's passed and we had taken up golf, and enjoyed playing several times a week. We had given up fishing, as not not enough time for both. We had several enjoyable years, and in May 1972 Allan had his first heart attack, and we had a bad summer with Allan not feeling very well, in and out of the hospital and house bound in the cold weather. The doctor advised him to go on disability. Mother had married Val Anderson of Florida October of 1963, so she lived in St Petersburg. So in the fall of 1973 I got brave enough to work in Florida that winter, and go back to Delaware and work that summer. I did this for four years, gradually staying Florida longer and Ohio less, until we decided to sell our house in July, 1978. We had purchased a mobile home in Pasco County outside Dade City, Florida, in the country where we had a big lot, and didn't feel closed in like we did on most where they are crowded together. After we sold our place in Delaware, we spent our summers in New Concord, Ohio with Allan's brother, Raymond, on the McCall home place. In 1983 Raymond started spending the winter months with us in Florida. We seem always to have a car full despite trying to limit the items each way to and from Florida. This last year we all felt like sardines. We had been talking about getting a station wagon the next car we got. By the time we got the dog, 6 canaries and their and their cages, luggage, and our extra things packed, and then ourselves, we were loaded to the gills! So Appendix -96- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 99) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/63bf88464284fb86e0afb4f7628c6a67.jpg 41cec9a747ce908d68ae70feb198a4cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 100] [corresponds to page 97 of Pages of Our Lives] Allan decided to check at the garage where we do business, and they had a Mercury Marquis wagon in use as demonstrator. It was being used by the owner, so we decided to go ahead and get it. It was pretty luxurious for us but we had decided to go ahead and get a larger car, for the comfort of it. We had really noticed coming down from a Pontiac to a smaller Ford. We don't put that many miles on a car anymore, so gas mileage didn't figure too much into it. Some day I would just like to walk out the door with one suitcase and head for home! (I won't hold my breath). This winter of 1984 is the first year that I have not worked, the first since 1950. It is so nice to stay home and do things as I want to, rather than planning every minute how I will get everything done. I've enjoyed cooking and baking and since Mother and Val were not very will, I've tried to spend 5 days at a time in St Pete each month. I go down on the bus and Allan comes after me on Sunday. I try to get the laundry caught up, wash windows, and curtains, bathe dogs and get the extra things done for them. Catch them up, so to speak. They were robbed and beaten in August 1984 and have not ever been as well since. Val was in intensive care for 5 days and Mother had a ruptured eardrum and a partially detached retina. The emotional part may be worse than the physical aspect. They are fearful of every noise and have several locks and alarms on every door, inside and out, a disturbing way to live, and to think it is necessary. A far cry from my early days as doors were never locked, and very places were ever robbed. Food is burglarized more than things. The biggest regret in my life is that we had no children. We did talk some about adoption, but Allan was never wholeheartedly in favor of it and I felt that adoption was one thing that you both had to agree 100 percent. I don't think he would have ever said Completely No, and I always sure that he would have loved an adopted child, but I did not press the issue. I had my work which I enjoyed, and I had my nieces and nephews, that I lavished my love upon. A few things I have found out in my 57 years is that the strange thing about being childless is that you are always being reminded of it. People always ask if you have children when your are young, and ask about grandchildren when you are older. You have nothing to show and tell so the loss continues through the years. One must not dwell on what might have been. I have much to be thankful for having a kind, considerate husband, my loving family, and besides the immediate family there are great aunts and uncles I remember with love and affection. Great Aunt Cora, Great Aunt Goldie, and Great Aunt Ruth and Uncle Raymond, on my Dad's side, and Great Aunt Olive on my mother's side. there were others but these were the ones I was closest to and saw the most. One of my greatest pleasures is all the beauty around me, the sunsets, sunrises, flowers, streams and lakes, mountains, sky, and the fall colors, when I pause to see them, God is very close to me. I love my country; there is no finer place in the world. We take all of our freedoms for granted, I'm afraid. I have worked with different ones from other countries, and it is hard to believe the fear, poverty, and desperation they have lived with. I have learned that money does not buy good health and happiness, live's two greatest assets. Life is too short to hate and hold grudges as you harm yourself more than those you hold the animosity against. As we get caught up in the world, and busy lives, set aside a little time every day for yourself to read your Bible and be alone with God. You will be glad you did; it will let you Appendix -97- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 100) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d88f162cd2cacc1c17a2450efd5593d9.jpg f207d62ed722d6c32cef7956b574e076 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 101] [corresponds to page 98 of Pages of Our Lives] find an inner peace that you otherwise will have missed. As you get older you realize your parents are the last line between the older generations, and that time is passing and it is not wise to wait much longer to ask questions you have about your great grandparents, or others who have gone. they need to be asked as the chances may soon be gone. That is why I have undertaken to write this, as I will soon be the missing link in the chain and I will bee the only one who knew and remembers that older generation. Our lifetime is so fleeting like foot prints in the sand, which the wind will soon erase, unless we give a gift of love to remember us by and I do give you much love. (Signed) Aunt Velma Postscript It is now January 31, 1986, and much has happened since April 1985, when I completed my memoirs for you. Allan, Raymond and I went home to Ohio in April and found spring to have sprung early. The grass was quite high, and much raking was done - in fact 3 1/2 truck loads. Allan used the lawn mower and I the rake! As soon as we got the lawn in shape, fishing was the next priority. We didn't ave much luck early at Seneca Lake, so we decided to find a place at Salt Fork. We fished from the rocks, and returned quite often and spent some lovely days there, giving me many happy memories to treasure. We also picked gallons of wild black raspberries, and seemed to have a special closeness as we spent these hours out in the open. We would rest under the shade of an old tree before walking back to the car. Allan smoking his pipe, and talking about when he was a child, picking berries with his mother here in this same place. We also reflected on the happy times this summer. There were no blackberries, so berry picking was over until red raspberry picking was to start in late August for John White. Before this was to happen though, we received a call that Val Anderson was unconscious, and was being kept alive by life sustaining machines. Rache, Tom and I flew down to Florida to be with Mother. Val was breathing on his own by the time we arrived, but remained comatose until his death 12 days later. We wanted to donate his body to the Anatomical Society and so only a memorial service was held on Friday for him. Mother was in a state of shock, and has not recovered too well, as yet, being quite forgetful at times, and afraid to stay alone. I received a call while at Mother's, that Allan was not feeling well, and returned afternoon to Ohio. He really never felt like his former self after that. We picked red raspberries as planned, but Allan not as perky as usual and then he caught a cold, and finally was feeling pretty good by the time we started back to Florida on October 8, 1985, and we had a good trip back home. We were breathing a sigh of relief, that we had finally gotten the porch windows and things halfway in shape. It had been usually warm, and we could only work early in the mornings. Mother called on a Saturday night, November 2 1985, and wanted me to come down to help her with some business the first of the week. I had just written her that I would come down on the bus on Thursday, but changed my plans and went down Sunday afternoon on Appendix -98- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 101) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e1026ea29e72b250056eafd4b7238c75.jpg 8e96557f88e56cc5188ff028c17f896f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 102] [corresponds to page 99 of Pages of Our Lives] the bus instead. We made plans with Al and Ella Pepping, our next door neighbors, to go to Webster Flea Market the Monday, so Allan, Raymond, All, Ella went ahead as planned, Allan got his first pecans of the season and was looking forward to getting started at his nut cracking for the year. I had slept without waking at Mother's until four A.M., and had not been able to go back to sleep,. I read for a while, and had just gone back to sleep when the phone rang about 6:30 A.M. I got up and answered it and it was Pepping telling me that Allan had been taken to the hospital in the emergency squad and that he had seemed better after they had started some oxygen on him there at home. Raymond had gotten up around 4:30 and found Allan Sleeping/sitting out at the kitchen table, and stated he was having trouble breathing lying down. Raymond went back to bed, and Allan awakened him later and asked him to call the Emergency Squad. He was admitted to the hospital emergency room at 5:30 A.M. As soon as Al called me I had phoned the bus station to find out how soon I could get a bus to Dade City, the phone rang in seconds after I hung up. It was Al again to tell me Allan was dead, and I was to call the emergency room and talk to Dr. Brownlee, our family physician. Dr Brownlee said Allan was in acute pulmonary edema, and they had given him aminophylline and then he went into ventricular fibrillation and they were unable to bring him out of it, and that he was brain dead he felt when he got there. He was pronounced dead at 6:48 A.M. after working on him for a long time. I remained calm, because I had decided years ago that I would never carry on as some did when someone died, as it would change nothing. I went next door to Mother's and told Uncle Wilbur and Sara. they made a call to Rachel and got us plane reservations for that evening. I got packed and helped Mother pack as she had decided to go to Ohio with me. Charlotte and Katherine, Val's sisters who lived up the street, came and helped too, and we got to Dade city around noon. The funeral director came and arrangements were made for here and we ate a bite of lunch. I got Raymond packed and got Allan's clothes together to take home for his funeral. By then it was time to take Cindy Dog next door, as Al and Ella were keeping her for me, and Sarah and Uncle Wilbur took us back to St. Pete to the airport, and we were in Columbus at 10:30 that evening, November 5, 1985. Rachel and Tom, Perry, and Allan's sisters and their husbands met us. Raymond went with them and Mother and I to Rachel's. The next morning was spent at the De Vore Funeral Home. There I had to pick out the casket, the burial vault, music for the service, thank you cards, and other decisions I don't even remember. Also a trip to the florist's to get the flowers for the casket. Then as soon as we were done there, we went to Delaware to the safety deposit box, as soon as the death occured. So we were fortunate that our ex-neighbor and friend was our attorney as he was across the street in less than 5 minutes. He had made arrangement for the auditor to come and take an inventory of the box, and clear the account there so that we could write checks for the funeral expenses. Then back to Rachel's where we spent the evening getting our clothes lined up for Lovett, Mother, Perry, Rex, and oursleves. Thursday morning Rachel's minister from the Condit Presbyterian Church came to the house to make the plans for the service. I had gotten to know him that summer, as I had gone to church there several times that summer, when we had been up to Rachel's. What a Appendix -99- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 102) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/20a9f60e6b56aca118c3ac8abec81a73.jpg 9a2b0caa339c6e5920b226d402bb8f00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 103] [corresponds to page 100 of Pages of Our Lives] Considerate, giving man he is! He talked to us about Allan, and out life together, and from that planned the service and used scripture I had requested. I only wish he had taped it for those who couldn't come. It was very fitting and comforting. Calling hours were from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, November 7th. So many friends and relatives came that I had not seen for years. How comforting to know they cared enough to come. Over 90 called that evening and 56 more signed the book before the funeral service Friday morning; I was really unprepared for this out-pouring of love and sympathy, as we had been away so many years from the Delaware area. The flowers were beautiful, 13 arrangements and 2 wreaths. I saved the wreaths to use for Memorial Day next May. It had been cold and rainy ever since we got to Ohio. Friday morning for the funeral was the only time it wasn't raining. The sun peeped through for a few minutes. The funeral was at 10:30, November 8, 1985. The American Legion gave a salute at graveside at Trenton Township Cemetery, the Friendly Club served lunch at the church, and it was very nice to be able to have a place to eat and visit, as many were from out of town. I started working on the thank-you notes the afternoon of the funeral and Saturday, too, as there were so many to write, and it kept me busy. We did some cooking for Sunday dinner and made the plane reservations to go back the following Wednesday, November 13. We arrived back in Florida to continued extra warm weather and I plunged into cleaning Allan's clothes and personal things, working at things that needed to be done keep myself busy. My worse moments were Cindy kept wanting outdoors to look and listen for Allan; that was really hard! Christmas was coming , so I made little gifts to help put in the time, and did a lot of baking as usual, and Rachel and Tom got here December 21. I had the Christmas dinner here and enjoyed having everyone. There were many frustrations in filing out the V. A. forms, and Allen's retirement system forms. Each wanted my birth certificate, marriage certificate, so much time was wasted securing a certified copy from Ohio. So, consequently, my first income did not arrive until the latter part of January. I have become more active in the First Presbyterian Church, and have joined the morning circle, also going to Sunday School and just started Bible study. I have found much solace in church and the Christian fellowship. I don't know how I would have survived sometimes without our Lord. I truly believe I was being prepared for Allan's death for more that a year. The T. V. ministry Day of Discovery led to my returning to church, the fulfillment I have found there, the special closeness Allan and I shared this summer, and even my not being home when he died, as I have watched many in pulmonary edema, and have always felt so helpless watching someone unable to breathe and that this was a hard way to die; from the outpouring of friends and family at the time of his death, the many cards that kept coming until they ran into the Christmas cards-all made me feel I was not alone, but being watched over by the Comforter! I am thankful for Allan's love and faithfulness and the 37 years of marriage we shared and especially, the 13 years we had after his first heart attack. Time will heal my wounds and I must tuck Allan into a corner of my heart and go on, and as the sun rises, the tears of the night must be replaced by the hopes, promises, of a new day. Appendix -100- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 103) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/29e56a20f4d6397108e6f5cb7b3f3195.jpg a9980ab0de70fb0f476e9198a999e568 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 104] [corresponds to page 101 of Pages of Our Lives] Lovett Murphy: A Step Back in Time Bearded and bit rough in appearance, Lovett Murphy, a lifetime resident of Sunbury occasionally stops by the Sunbury News office to say "hi" to the staff and to rest for a bit, before heading back home to his Murphy Road residence. To look at the man and listen to him talk, one sometimes wonder if he's related to the legend Daniel Boone, or the famed Davy Crockett, "King of the Wild Frontier," because if the subject is nature related, Murphy seems to know the answer. But then nature seems to be the natural love of Lovett. In fact he admits, "I like to work in the woods, I've generally worked in the woods more than any other job I've ever had." Though Murphy claims to have experienced a variety of jobs over his lifetime, including sawmills, driving a taxi cab loading explosives from boxcars to trucks, and planing logs for log cabin homes, talking about his experiences as an Alaskan firefighter and visitor among his favorites. Murphy says that's because he found the people so interesting back in the year 1960. "People have said the that New York is the melting pot, but those people never saw Fairbanks during that time," he remarks. Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, native Indians, New Yorkers, Canadians, Californians, whites, blacks and others all flocked to Alaska in the late 60s due to the "oil rush" according to Murphy. Amazingly, little to no racial tension existed among the dwellers, even though many lived in tents or out of vans, he says. Although oil wasn't the attraction that drew Murphy to the state, he too ended up in Fairbanks a town that at the time was a somewhere around the 18,000 mark or roughly the size of Delaware, Ohio, he notes. Soon after his arrival "the worst year for fires Alaska or on the North [Photo] [Photo caption] Lovett Murphy American continent" broke out, he explains. "Fires burned all over Alaska" which were causes by "lightening" he continues. "A great deal of them were range fires as opposed to forest fires, he recalls. Range fires tend to smolder more, he says. In need of employment, and having a love for the woods, Murphy says he soon joined in the fire fighting duties. Hours were long and hard as 16 to 20 hour days were frequent, and fire fighters would often be dumped off at a site for weeks at a time, not knowing when someone would be returning for them. Murphy notes that the fires ran fire fighting teams all over Alaska. Much of the time, workers were hauled by bus to the various locations, although at least once, they were transported by helicopter, to a camp established on the top of a flat mountain. Lovett says the "big bosses" were "sore" at most of the workers for a drunken incident that had occurred shortly before being flown out, so when the workers were dropped off, they were told that they were told that their bosses didn't care what they did. "They told us that they didn't even care if we fought fires, but we were going to get awfully hot if we didn't," he laughs. Murphy says he remembers looking over the edge of the mountain at about that time, and seeing the fire approaching from every direction. Taylor Highway, which runs east and west across Alaska, according to Murphy, also carried them some 700 miles to a fire near Eagle, Alaska once. A fire named the "Fishhook Fire" which at the time was labeled the biggest fire to ever burn on the North American continent, according, to Murphy, also had them giving assistance to fire fighting efforts another part of the state. The "Fishhook Fire' finally burned itself out, but Murphy, a squad leader, and one of the oldest fire fighters there, adds that a rain assisted in the effort. He adds that smoke from the fire hampered both fire fighting efforts as it made a dangerous journey for planes carrying water to douse the flames, and stopped other commercial flights from leaving the Fairbanks airport. Workers had only the bare necessities for survival, but that didn't bother Murphy. Most of the time workers ate "C" rations and slept on bed rolls which were placed on plastic, and wore heavy clothing to stay warm. Lovett says some of the men were scared of grizzly bears, which grow to 400- 500 pounds inland, compared to the same bear that reaches weights of 1000 pounds on the coasts due to the plentiful supply of salmon. As a result, some of the men put up tents, although he elected not to do so simply sleeping with his head covered by portion of the bedding. Not all of Murphy's Alaskan adventures were fire oriented. Lovett implies that he enjoyed the beauty of the land in other ways, in the days following his firefighting excursions. He says that he and usually two or three others would trek across the land, using cabins for shelter, if possible. He says they ate available "C" rations and carried light sources of food, such as dried apples and pancake flour. Appendix -101- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 104) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a2bb11f0fee21ab1659d295238b942af.jpg dbb9f34dbfba0df8549d14450a013f8d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 105] [corresponds to page 102 of Pages of Our Lives] The Indians were helpful also, as they showed Murphy and his companions how to roast porcupines and prepare them for eating. He says the trick is to roast the animal first, with the quills still on the hide, and let the fire do all of the work by burning the quills off. Asked how he knew what was safe of good to eat, he grins and replies "if it tasted good, it was edible." Other foods consumed were fresh salmon, cabbage, carrots, goose, graylings, and a species of the grouse family, he notes. Caribou were plentiful but not a preferred food even by the natives, Lovett informs. In fact, the barren-land caribou were hated by the natives and were often shot by the thousands, "just like the buffalo were,' he informs. He claims the animals were hated in part because they leave a lot of manure on the ground, and aren't as "good and meaty" as the wood-land caribou, found mostly in Canada. Lovett say once there must have been nearly 700 of the barren-land caribou grazing on the slopes of Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. He also says that because the animals travel the same paths year after year, he could see where "they'd wore a path right into the granite rock." For a time, Murphy says everyone had to come to Alaska to"pan for gold," something which he also tried. But Alaska probably has more moss than it has gold. Murphy tells that on the tundra, a thick 18-inch layer of moss grows. Even though the ground is frozen, the moss thrives, which makes a natural freezer or refrigerator for the inhabitants would cut through the moss with a axe and place their drinks into the moss, near the frozen ground, to keep it cold. Within ten minutes, it would be extremely cool, and a short time later, frozen, if not removed, he acknowledges. Unlike Ohio and some of the surrounding states, water wells were not available to drink from. Murphy says that the water was pure enough to drink "right from the streams" though. Getting to the water was sometimes a challenge however, as inland water wasn't all that plentiful, and in places like Eagle, Alaska, big slabs of ice rested on the stream banks and water surface "creek banks are all scarred up and grooved from the ice that's been sliding down for thousands of year," he adds. Once, Lovett explains, he was tired and thirsty. He could see Gold Rush Creek in the valley below, but Indian was standing over him holding his (Lovett's) rifle which had been positioned across his chest as he rested. Murphy says the incident "scared" him, but all turned out well, as the Indian simply wanted to know what Lovett was doing in the area. Lovett claims some of the Indian villages were built out of "plywood" left there by the "Army" after fighting "World War II." He states that he finds a certain irony in the fact that in "the coldest climate on the North American continent, a great percentage of the people have no fires at all," because they have nothing to build a fire with. He adds that as a result, "they keep warm by any way possible." Murphy tells other interesting details about the Alaskan environment and its people. Of course there were times of daylight that lasted 21 hours, and days after Thanksgiving where the cycle reversed itself, causing darkness 12 hour periods. These conditions made life much different for the inhabitants of that state, as baseball games would sometimes start at midnight, requiring no additional lighting, states Lovett. One could even read a book at midnight simply from the light coming in through a window, he adds. Continuing along the same line of thought, Murphy says a memorable sight is "standing in in a high place at the midnight hour" and not looking at the moon, but "the sun". Lovett has traveled to several other states in his lifetime from what he says, but notes that Fairbanks, Alaska (in 1969)) was almost "ridiculous" with 22 bars, all located on Third Street. He says that, "without question," the oil people came from all over the northern half of Alaska to trade in a town of 18,000." He claims it was second in size only Anchorage, which had some 99,000 inhabitants, both of which are located in a state without counties, but containing many miles and acres of land and wilderness, divided up instead, into 12 districts. Appendix -102- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 105) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6e97f967b12f81476cc8533a3a98b869.jpg 5a95eb6c052d1a8cee9002664ffbca2a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 106] [corresponds to page 103 of Pages of Our Lives] [image] [caption] Rachel Murphy's Ancestors Appendix -103- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... 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Description An account of the resource [page 107] [corresponds to page 104 of Pages of Our Lives] Murphy Side William Murphy 1st - m - Mary Ball and their child Bazzil Murphy - m - Rachel Algire and their child Charles Lief - m - Martha Adams and their child Farrah Carl Murphy - m - Grace Chawick and their child Arthur Bradley Murphy - m- Ethel Irene Carnes and their child Lovett Carnes Murphy - m - Angeline and their child They had 5 girls and Joseph Bradley Murphy (not married) _____________________________________________________ Carnes Side Emmett Cotton Carnes - m - Emily Melissa Catt and their child John Leonard Carnes - m - Alice Leola Olmsted and their child Ethel Irene Carnes - m- Arthur B. Murphy and their children Velma Victoria Murphy - m - Robert Allan McCall Lovett Carnes Murphy - m - Angeline Avenneli Rachel Leola Murphy - m - Thomas E. Buxton There are several set of twins on the Carnes side but none in our line. Emmett and Melissa had 12 children and the doctor never got there in time for any of them. Grandpa couldn't milk, so grandma always milked, and and never missed a milking. He died when I was little, 1929 ? I can remember three of my great grandmothers but none of my great grandfathers. (Aunt Velma) ______________________________________________________ Chadwick side James Chadwick - m- Catherine Slack & their child William Wellington Chadwick - m - Nancy Ellen Loren & their child Grace Lee Chadwick - m- Farrah Carl Murphy & their child Arthur Bradley Murphy - m- Ethel Irene Carnes & their child Rachel Leola Murphy - m - Thomas Edward Buxton & their children Tina Buxton - m- (1) Gary White (2) Rodger Martin Miller II Perry Newell Buxton - m - Mary Lewis Rex Bradley Buxton - m - Joy Ann Haber ______________________________________________________ Olmsted Side Elmer Case Olmsted - m- Louella Alverson & their child Alice Leola Olmsted - m- John Leonard Carnes & their child Ethel Irene Carnes - m- Arthur Bradley Murphy Velma Victoria Murphy - m - Robert Allan McCall Lovett Carnes Murphy - m - Angeline Avenneli Rachel Leola Murphy - m - Thomas E. Buxton Notes of Interest My Great Grandfather Elmer Olmsted was a triplet, one had red hair, one had black hair and one had blond hair. No multiple births in our line. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 107) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/91ffc539e4d5fd21b3f0b956e182f1d1.jpg a28228b0b1083c3b60dc16b145fc0663 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 108] [corresponds to page 105 of Pages of Our Lives] Murphy Family Tree Farrah Murphy's Great Grandparents William Murphy 1st (50 yrs. old widower married in 1803) on Father's side Mary Ball (daughter of John and Lucretia Ball) born about 1785. They had Brazzil Murphy Farrah Murphy's Brazzil Murphy born 1805, died 1882. Married in 1828 Grandparents on Rachel Algire (a wealthy Delaware, Oh., girl) 2nd of 5 his Father's side children (W. K. Algire was her father.) They had Charles Leif Murphy. Farrah Murphy's John Adams came from Luzerne Co., Pa. in 1807-1809 Grandparents on Married in 1825 at Harlem Methodist Church his Mother's side Desire Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benejah Cook. They had Martha Adams. Farrah Murphy's Charles Lief Murphy Born Dec. 5, 1835. Died Dec. 25, 1897 Parents (62 yrs.) Married Martha Adams born 1835. Died Oct. 11, 1896 (61 yrs). (She came over on Mayflower) They had 9 Children. Farrah Murphy was 7th son. Rachel Murphy's Farrah Carl Murphy Born 1874 in Condit Oh. Died June 29 Grandparents on her 1966 (92 Yrs) Married March 8, 1900 in Condit, Oh, father's side Grace Lee Chadwick Born Oct. 7, 1878 in Sunbury Died April 30, 1960 (81 yrs. 7 mo). they had Arthur Bradley Murphy Rachel Murphy Arthur Bradley Murphy Born Jul 25, 1901 in Sunbury, Oh. Buxton's Died Oct. 1, 1962 (61 yrs) Married Aug 29, 1923 in parents Kentucky Ethel Irene Carnes Born Jan. 7, 1909 in Olive Green Died Feb 1, 1987 (78 yrs.) Grandpa and Grandma Murphy My Mom and Dad [photo] [photo] [photo caption] [photo caption] Farrah Carl Murphy and Grace Lee Chadwick Ethel Irene Murphy (39) and Murphy on their 60th Wedding Anniversary Murphy (46) - Married 25 Years in 1948 Appendix -105- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 108) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e19d3d27a82e22265e02540b179507e7.jpg b265c5056d8ea82771776d8cd64d7e63 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 109] [corresponds to page 106 of Pages of Our Lives] My Ancestors Murphy, Chadwick, Olmstead and Carnes Chadwicks: Murphys: James Chadwick William Murphy 1st m. Catherine Slack m. Mary Ball c. William Wellington Chadwick c. Brazzil Murphy m. Nancy Ellen Loren m. Rachel Algire c. Grace Lee Chadwick c. Charles Lief Murphy Carnes:* m. Martha Adams Olmsteads: Emmett Cotton Carnes c. Farrah Carl Murphy Elmer Olmstead** m. Emily Melissa Catt m. Grace Lee Chadwick m. Louella Alverson c. John Leonard Carnes c. Arthur Bradley Murphy c. Alice Leola Olmstead --- m. Alice Leola Olmstead m. Ethel Irene Carnes ------------------------------ c.Ethel Irene Carnes c. 1. Velma Victoria Murphy c. 2. Lovette Carnes Murphy My Great Grandma and Grandpa Carnes c. 3. Rachel Leola Murphy [photo] Great Grandpa and Grandma Chadwick [photo caption] [photo] Melissa and Emmett Carnes [photo caption] William Wellington Chadwick and Nancy Ellen Loren Chadwick in front of son, Dr. John My Grandma and Grandpa Carnes Raymond Chadwick [photo] Great Grandma and Grandpa Olmstead [photo caption] [photo] Alice Leola Olmstead Carnes [photo caption] and John Leonard Carnes Louella and Elmer Case Olmstead Appendix -106 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 109) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7d5f96b053d5b6c0ccd7d7c61f888850.jpg a1e7a220c4f6bacac4e7b58a69f6823c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 110] [corresponds to page 107 of Pages of Our Lives] [photo] [photo caption] the Murphey tree Written by Grace Chadwick Murphey Grant E Murphey 6th child of Charles L. and Martha Adams Married Hallie Dell Granger Feb. 12, 1896 at Columbus, Ohio Six children all born on Murphey Road, south of Condit Earl Maclin Murphey Aug 8, 1897 Merlin Granger Murphey Sept. 11, 1899 Charles L. Murphey Sept. 29, 1901 Margaret Martha Murphey Dec. 18, 1903 Dorothy Mildred Murphey June 12, 1906 Ruth Evelyn Murphey July 9. 1914 The family record, dating back to 1775, of John and Lucretia Ball maternal grand parents of Bazzle's father, William Murphey, was destroyed when the Murphey homestead burned in Feb. 1937. Bazzle's Mother, Mary Ball, was the 6th child of John and Lucretia Ball born about 1785. Bazzle's father, William Murphey came from Millersport near Buckeye lake, Licking Co., Ohio Bazzle was born in 1805 - died 1885 in Delaware, Ohio-Buried on Murphey- Algire lot in Del. Bazzle Murphey and Rachel Algire were married in 1828. Rachel died in 1874 and left 5 children Minerva Lin Murphey 1831-1903 72 yrs. 2 sons Frank and Charlie Sinkey John Sinkey was her husband. Charles Lief born 1836 - 1897 married Martha Adams - 9 children Arthur, Lovett, Delano, Gertie, Grant, Ernest, Farrah, Cora Melinda Ball 1841-1927 86 yrs. never married-kept her father until (over) Appendix -107- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 110) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e8e764474119da3f0018fcb153c04f07.jpg 46e7ce9f080487588738628fd6bb9ad0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 111] [corresponds to page 108 of Pages of Our Lives] his death 1885 Mary Ann Murphy 1843-1876 Married Abe Adams (Mothe Murphey's brother). No children. William Algire Murphey 1845 Married Jennie in Texas-one child, Mabel who died at at 4 yrs. Mabel and her mother lived with Aunt Lin about 1 year. Charles L. Murphey & Martha S. Adams married Sept. 2, 1858. Nine children born near Condit, Delaware Co., Ohio. Arthur Bradley M.- Dec 15, 1860, died June 1898-37 1/2 years. Lovett Taft M. - Mch 6, 1862 drowned in Alaska Sept 3, 1907 = 45 1/2 years Delano Abraham M. - Mch 25, 1864 died Aug 29, 1886 (ill 3 days) 22 yrs. Gertrude M. thrall - Oct 18, 1865, died Ded. 20, 1932 67 yrs. Salt Lake City, Utah Glenna M. Feb 27, 1868 died Sept. 12, 1868 - 6 m. 6 days Grant E. M. Feb 17, 1870 Ernest Thornton M. Jan. 1, 1872 died Sept. 12, 1894, 22 years Farrah Carl M. April 13, 1874 Cora Murphey Oct. 16, 1876 Delaware, Ohio 271 N. Washington St. Cora bought her home in 1912. G. E. Murphey, Grant's oldest son. Earl Maclin Married Florence Grace Brooking Feb. 13, 1920 1 son, Bruce Macklin born Feb. 1, 1921-July 1951 Fatally injured in a logging accident, Died in a Medford, Oregon hospital. Rudy and her children are her relatives in Oregon. Bruce's parents live at Santa Rosa Calif. about 150 miles south of Medford, Ore. Bruce married Ruby Zozel Nov. 2, 1940 Children of Bruce and Ruby Zozel Lola Louisa Murphey Oct 9, 1941 Rosalie Ann Murphey Oct. 26, 1942 Born in Oregon Jack Maclin Murphey May 3, 1944 Mark Roger Murphey Dec. 20, 1946 Merlin Garnger Murphey married Letha Grandstaff April 23, 1917 Children Nellie Elizabeth Murphey Nov. 29, 1917 - 3 sons Earl Dean Murphey Oct. 21, 1920 Phillip Gerald Murphey Nov. 26, 1922 2 sons Robert Lee Murphey Jan. 1, 1925 Betty Adell Murphey Feb 23, 1927 4 children Floyd Alva Murphey March 11, 1933 Nellie Elizabeth Murphey and Harry Niniger Paul William Niniger Mar. 15 1936 Wendell Harry Nininger Aug. 23, 1931 Rollin Frederick Nininger Nov. 25, 1937 Betty Adell Murphey married George Small Sept 1944 Evelyn Marie Small Oct. 13, 1945 George Richard Small Sept 23, 1946 Linda Jean Small Jan 12, 1949 John Roger Small Aug 26, 1950 Gerald Murphey & Ardith Hill 2 sons Appendix -108- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 111) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6771e391636d5aa227456bf4bdef267f.jpg 28ebafe2c6b92380f80f1bccc18cf457 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 112] [corresponds to page 109 of Pages of Our Lives] Charles Lief Murphey married Lena Bush June 7, 1927 - No Children Margaret Martha Murphey married Virgil English July 1, 1933 at Aunt Cora's Delaware, Ohio by Dr. Rollin Walker. Divorced John Edwin Feb 20, 1936 Columbus, Ohio Margaret Susan Aug. 11, 1940 Minnesota Margaret M. English married Val Anderson St. Petersburg, Fla. Val Anderson adopted the two English children, John and Susan Dorothy Mildred Murphey married Otto Swigert Sept. 29, 1928 Wanita Mae Swigert Gamson Clyde Swigert Charleston, W. Va. Ruth Evelyn Murphey married Rolland Davidson June 10,1935 divorced 1946 one child Joan Davidson Ruth Davidson married Fred McLaughlin Jan 1947 divorced Aug. 1951 one child Fred McLaughlin Jr. April 19, 1948 'Mickey' B. Dec 15, 1960 A. B. Murphey - Elizabeth Kersher Married Nov., 1893 at Bowling Green, Ohio Died June 1899 Age 37 1/2 years one child - Nellie Fern Murphey - born Jan. 28, 1894 - Married Phil Willis Toledo, Ohio Aug 2, 1918 one child Elizabeth Willis died at birth May, 1919 B. Oct. 16, 1865 Gertrude Murphey - George Thrall 1886 Colorado Springs Died Dec. 20, 1932 - age 67 years. one child - Edwin Thrall - March 1888 - died about 1912 Later in life Gertrude married a Mr. Brown Salt Lake City, Utah. 1 daughter Ruby Brown B. 1906 - She married a Mr. Nathaniels. they had three children, the last we heard from them in 1932; when Ruby wrote of her mothers death (Dec 10,) Gertie was buried in Salt Lake Sity - 67 years old Second son of Martha H. & Charles Lief Murphey Lovett Taft Murphey born March 6, 1862 drowned in Alaska Sept. 3, 1907 45 1/2 years third son Delano A. Murphey born March 25, 1864 died Aug 29, 1886 22 years Ernest T. Murphey born Jan. 1, 1872 died Sept. 12, 1894 22 years Glenn Murphey born Feb.27, 1868 Died Sept 2, 1868 6 months 6 days Appendix-109 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 112) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b9db252205faaad343610b9174da7853.jpg bb8b06ec39c92b56bf7a6c0fe6fdb3fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 113] [corresponds to page 110 of Pages of Our Lives] Pastor of Condit Presbyterian Church by Rev. W. D. Wallace Farrah C. Murphey & Grace Lee Chadwick MD. Mch 8, 1900 Condit Ohio I belonged to Condit Church till after My marriage in 1900. Joined the church when I was 13. Children Arthur Bradley Murphey born July 25, 1901 Daniel Chadwick Murphey born Oct 13, 1902 Ella Loren Murphey born April 30, 1906 Martha Adams Murphey born May 30, 1918 Read by Rev. Lindsay at your marriage service June 6, 1948 Velma & Allan McCall How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, I love the to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal grace, I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by Sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise: I love thee with the passion put to use, In my old griefs, and with my childhood faith; I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath, the smiles, the tears of all my life And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Oldest son of FC & Grace Murphy Arthur B. Murphey B. July 25, 1901 & Ethel Irene Carnes B. Jan 9 MD. Aug. 29, 1923 Ky. Children Infant daughter born Mch. 25, 1925 buried om Trenton Cemetery Velma Victoria Murphy born Feb 24,1 1928 Lovett Carnes Murphy born Feb. 25, 1931 Rachel Leda Murphy born Feb. 16, 1933 Velma Murphy married Robert Allan McCall of New Concord Ohio in Condit Presbyterian Church June 6, 1948 Lovett Murphy married Angeline Aveneli Feb. 26, 1952 son Joe Bradley born Feb 27, 1953 Rachel Murphey married Thomas Buxton March 16, 1952 Appendix -110- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 113) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/10c3ba59356170ea641762af8e53ba43.jpg 4fe9d0284ae0aff3b0712030c8a4809d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 114] [corresponds to page 111 of Pages of Our Lives] 2nd son of F.C. and Grace C. Murphey Darrell Chadwick Murphey born 13, 1902 married Jan. 29,1927 Eva Ernsitne Zartman Westerville, Ohio. Lived 1 yr in Licking Co. moved north Sunbury near Fargo in Feb. 1929 Children Carl James Murphey born Feb 24, 1929 died Mch. 24, 1929 buried on Murphey lot in Condit Cemetery Trent Tp Mary Ellen Murphey born Feb 13, 1931 Frank Richard Murphey born July 22, 1935 Ralph Ernest Murphey born April 11, 1937 oldest daughter of Farrah C. and Grace C. Murphey Ella Loren Murphey born April 30, 1906 MD. Mch. 29, 1941 David Lorn Taylor Cheshsire, Ohio by Rev. H. Nathan Frederick Franklin, Ind. Condit Church, former pastor of Presbyterian Children John David Taylor born Mch. 8, 1943 Jane M. Case hospital Delaware, O. Barbara Grace Taylor born Dec 8, 1947 " " (named for her grandmothers). Gracie Barabara youngest child of Grace C. & F. C. Murphey Martha Adams Murphey born May 30, 1918 married Oct 16, 1936 Harvey George Elroy born Nov. 27, 1915 have always lived on Seth Longshores place near Condit Ohio Children Rose Ela Mc Elroy born June 4, 1937 Mary Jane Mc Elroy born May 16, 1939 Donald Harvey Mc Elroy born Sept. 12, 1940 James Earl Mc Elroy born Dec. 16, 1944 Betty Ann Mc Elroy Nov 27, 1946, her daddys 31st birthday Murphy Family History Bazzil Murphy left his home and all his money to Ohio Wesleyan University College in Delaware, Ohio, when he died. His brick home became the first co-op campus for male students. Education was always central in the Murphy family. My Great Aunt Cora Murphy taught religion at Ohio Wesleyan. She lived in Delaware and often kept college students in her home. My Aunt Ella roomed with her in order to go to this college. It was 18 miles from Murphy Hill to Cora Murphy's house in Appendix -111- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 114) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fbf926baeffa192fc41be5d6b891d814.jpg 21fe10e4faeaa194aa1d42c827af3360 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 115] [corresponds to page 112 of Pages of Our Lives] Delaware. It took 3 hours by horse and buggy one way when Ella was a girl. The only available place for Ella to stay was an unheated inclosed porch porch in Cora's house. One winter night Ella was so cold that she went to stand in front of the parlor fireplace and her flannel nightgown caught on fire. She got it out but it really scared her. My cousin, Mary Ellen Murphy also attended Ohio Wesleyan College in 1950. It cost $1,000 for one year at that time. [Photo] [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] Rachel Algire Murphy Rachel Algire Murphy Bazzil Murphy wife of Bazzil Murphy wife of Bazzil Murphy The name Bazzil as I wrote it has been spelled many ways over the years on deeds, etc. It is spelled Bazzel on his tombstone in Oak Grove Cemetery in Delaware, Ohio. Bazzil Murphey, b. 1803 - d. 1882, m. 1828 Rachel Alguire, b. 1809-d. 1871 They had five children who lived. 1. Minerva Lin Murphy (Nerve) B. 1833 - d. 1903, m. John Sinkey b. 1831 - d. 1881. they two sons: 1. Frank Sinkey, B. 1857- d. 1933, m. Mollie condo. They had 3 children 2. Charles Sinkey, b. 1858-d. 1917, m. Persis Payne. They had 5 children. 1. Clarence Sinkey, died an Infant 2. Clell Harris Sinkey, b. 1885 - d. 1976 m. Mary Ethel Case. They had: 1. Mary Ann Sinkey m William Arter 2. Fay Elna Sinkey m. Charles Grube 3. Fern Myrtle Sinkey, b. 1887- d. 1970 4. Nola Myrtle Sinkey, B. 1890 - d. 1920 5. John Lewell Sinkey, b. 1897 - d. 1983 2. Charles Lief Murphy (Charlie) b. 1835 - d. 1897, m. Martha Adams (Matt), b. 1834 - d. 1896. They had 9 children (see Murphy History) [Photo] 3. Mary Ann Murphy (mate), b. 1837 - d. 1876, m. [Photo caption] Abraham Adams (Ad), no children Mary Ann Murphy Adams 4. Melinda Ball Murphy (Linnie) b. 1840-d. 1927 - 1837-1876 never married Appendix -112- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 115) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5665aca844a3c74f44fad56e27b35de6.jpg 83581dd3cd6d82f3bf758044a7fa182e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 116] [corresponds to page 113 of Pages of Our Lives] 5. William Algire Murphy, b. 1845, m. Jennie. Had 1 girl Mable Murphy who lived in Texas. In the Adams Family, I found at least 8 children: 1. Abraham Adams 6. Martha Adams 2. James Adams 7. Elijah Adams 3. Elijah Adams 8. John Adams 4. Calvin Adams 5. Loretta Adams Bazzil Murphy and all his family and his wife, Rachel Algires' family are buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Delaware, Ohio. A big 25 foot cross monument in the northwest section, near the north fence of the cemetery arks The Murphy area. Each grave has a smaller marker. My second cousin, William Lynne (Mary Ellen Lynne's son) works at the Oak Grove Cemetery. Bazzil Murphy's oldest son was Charles Leif Murphy. Charles Leif Murphy, b. 1835 - d. 1897 married Martha Adams b. 1835 - d. 1896 and they had 9 children: 1. Arthur Murphy, b. 1860 - d. 1898 at 37 1/2, was a lawyer [Photo] and worked on the newspaper when younger. His daughter [Photo caption] Nellie studied most of her life A. B. Murphy [Photo] 2. Lovett Murphy, b. 1862-d. 1907 at 45 1/2 years [Photo caption] was a newspaper editor, speaker, writer, Delno Murphy traveler, and woodsman 3. Delno Abraham Murphy, b. 1864 -d. of flu after 3 day illness, at age 22. He wrote for his brother's newspaper in their parent's home 4. Glen Murphy, b. 1868 died of flu at 6 months, 6 days 5. Gertrude, b. 1865 - d. 1932, married young and moved out west. May have been in silent movies. 6. Ernest Thornton Murphy, b. 1872 died of flu in 1894 at 22 years 7. Grant Murphy, b. 1870, was a farmer, trapper, and fisherman and enjoyed playing cards. Married Hal Granger. they had 6 children: 1. Earl Macklin Murphy, b. 1897 - d. May 31, 2001, m. Florence Grace Brooking on February 13, 1920. They had: 1. Bruce Murphy, b. 1921 d. 1951 in a logging accident, m. Nov, 2 1940 Ruby Zozel. They had 1. Lola Louise Murphy, 1941 2. Rosalie Ann Murphy, 1942 3. Jack Macklin Murphy, 1944 4. Mark Ryder Murphy, 1946 Appendix -113- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 116) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/14ff4c9e2687343eaaa670cbb897a718.jpg 438a5f2d50eceda573f47a6a69191e09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 117] [corresponds to page 114 of Pages of Our Lives] [Newspaper Article] 2. Merlin Murphy married Letha Grandstaff. They Had 1. Nellie Elizabeth Murphy, b, Nov 29, 1917, m. (1) Nininger and had 3 sons 1. Paul Nininger married Roaslin 2. Wendell Nininger married Bessie 3. Fred Nininger married Louise Nellie Married (2) John Rich [Newspaper Article] 2. Earl Dean Murphy, b. Oct, 1920 3. Phillip Gerald Murphy, b. Nov. 26, 1922, who had 2 sons 4. Robert Lee Murphy, Jan. 1, 1925 5. Betty Murphy , Feb 23, 1927 who married George Small. They had: 1. Evelyn Marie Small, 1945 2. George Richard Small, 1946 3. Linda Jean Small, 1949 4. John Rodger Small, 1950 5. Floyd Alva Murphy, Mar. 11, 1933 [sic 1953] 3. Charles Murphy married Lenna Granger. they had no children but I remember their 15 pound beautiful cat. 4. Margaret Murphy married (1) English. They had two children 1. John English married and divorced. He had 2 daughters and a step daughter. He raised all three girls alone. 2. Susan English married (1) a man who died of face cancer. They had: 1. Pam who was in the Peace Corps 3 years and died young. Pam married and had 2 boys Susan married (2) Vawn. This man had bone cancer. They had: 1. Eric who is about 30 years old in 2004 Margaret married (2) Val Anderson (3) William Gillis 5. Dorothy Murphy married Ott Swager. They had 2 children: 1. Clyde Swager who married and had step-children Appendix -114- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 117) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/48101c07fcfe468c65914f14d27d94f7.jpg 78953bcee58be656d95d2736c7994a08 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 118] [corresponds to page 115 of Pages of Our Lives] 2. Juanita Swager married and had an adopted boy 6. Ruth Murphy married (1) Davison, They had: 1. Joan Mae Davison, b.Oct. 8, 1936. Married (1) Ron McDonnel and had: 1. Mike Mc Donnel married and had 1. Shad McDonnel - shot himself at 16 2. Nicholas McDonnel had downs syndrome 3. Michell McDonnel married and has 1. Ryle 2. Liberty 2. Gary McDonnel married and they have: 1. Amanda McDonnel 2. Brandon McDonnel 3. Tony McDonnel 4. Derick McDonnel 3. Steven McDonnel has no children 4. Debbie McDonnel married and has 2 girls 1. Push 2. Astlon Married (2) Carrel All of Joan's children and grandchildren live in Idaho Ruth Murphy married (2) McGlothen. They had: 1. Mickey Mc Glothen, b. 1946-d. Jul 29, 1987 in car accident He was an artist Ruth married (3) Cartt 8. Farrah Murphy, b. 1874 -d. June 29, 1966, was a speaker, teacher, farmer, raised turkeys and taught men's Sunday School for 20 years at the Condit Presbyterian Church [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] [Photo Caption] Grace and F. C. Murphy behind Grace and Farrah Murphy Arthur and Darrel Murphy seated Ella, Arthur, and Taken at Henry Bevans, Oct 1911 Darrel Murphy Farrah Murphy married Grace Chadwick and they had: 1. Arthur Bradley Murphy, b. July 25, 1901 - d. Oct. 1, 1962 2. Darrel Chawick Murphy, b. Oct 13, 1902 - d. Sept 29, 1970 Appendix -115- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 118) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/173889d8522044f91b05c25d53230d85.jpg 8f3a8bbcf0acc6e03c887c9f96c25127 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 119] [corresponds to page 116 of Pages of Our Lives] 3. Ella Loren Murphy, b. April 30 1906 - Sept. 15, 1997 4. Martha Adams Murphy, b. May 30 1918 - d. Dec 18, 1994 [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] [Photo Caption] Grace and Farrah Murphy seated before Farrah and Grace Murphy Ella Murphy Taylor, Arthur Murphy, 60th Wedding Anniversary Martha Murphy McElroy, and Darrel Murphy [Newspaper Article] [Photo] [Photo caption] Cora Murphy sister of F. C. Murphy 9. Cora B. 1876 - d. Oct. 21, 1960 was a missionary and college professor of the Bible at Ohio Wesleyan College. She never married. [Photo image] [Photo] Cora Murphy, F. C. Murphy and Grace Cora Murphy on left Murphy Appendix -116- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 119) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c21fa2c158857847b69a16614906d01c.jpg 014f9f5dc1c2e6efdfd4609553fbd874 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 120] [corresponds to page 117 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo image] [Photo caption] Card received by Cora Murphy when in school in Delaware, Ohio (Note) Cora Murphy received Bachelor's Degree from Ohio Wesleyan University at the age of 29 in 1905, Master of Arts at age 31 in 1907, Bachelor of Divinity from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1925. She did post graduate work at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. She taught school at Jennings Seminary, Aurora, Illinois; Missionary Training School, Cincinnati; Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, Ohio, where she held the position of Associate Professor of English Bible. (Note) In 1933 at the age of 57, Cora Murphy retired from teaching and became Director of Men's Co-Operative Residence at Ohio Wesleyan University which was named Murphy Hall in her honor. [Photo] [Photo caption] Card from Cousin Nell, May 15, 1909 [Photo] [Photo caption] Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, where Cora Murphy taught religion [Photo] [Photo caption] Cora Murphy's room at Cincinnati Missionary Training School My Dad, Arthur Bradley Murphy, often called Art was a quiet, good natured man who was never comfortable in good clothes. He wore his overalls with his slip on leather slippers in the house and knee high rubber boots to the barn. He loved his sports, especially baseball which he played in college with the Cincinnati Red Socks. He always listened to his ball game on Sunday afternoons. He liked to play horse shoes. He loved eating his pies, baked goods, and his cream on his ripe bananas with homemade bread. He never got overweight. He was always ready to help with our school work. He died of lympho sarcoma. Appendix -117- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 120) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/61427a0a9cd01edade2cc7ecff9df769.jpg e12814502f1196b3bb5dc600fc7ab3e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 121] [corresponds to page 118 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel Irene Carnes, fourth from right in third row School Picture 1922 My mother, Ethel Irene Carnes Murphy, was six years older than her brother Wilbur Carnes, so she often took care of her brother when her Mom was hanging wallpaper in someone's home or just outside looking for turkey nests. Mother liked to cook, so often did the cooking very young. Mother met my Dad in the Spring of the year and they ran off and got married in Kentucky in August when Mom was 14 1/2 years old and Dad was 22 years. Her folks thought they were going to the State Fair but they came home married. They lived with Dad's parents on Murphy Hill until Grandpa got the little house fixed up for them to live in west and down the hill from them. Mother was a tall thin 128 pound pretty girl when they were married but later gained a lot of weight when she had Velma. She always stayed fairly heavy all her life. [Photo] [Photo caption] Mrs. A. B. Murphy Age 40, 1949 My Uncle Darrel was a grain and dairy farmer often using government programs. He enjoyed hunting and was a good fisherman often going to Canada to fish. He died when a blood clot got in his heart which was very enlarged, three times normal size. He also had arthritis. Aunt Ernistine was a shoe model as she wore a size 4 shoe. She was a homemaker and was known for her delicious hickory nut cakes and excellent canned pickles. She cracked, picked out and sold hickory nuts in the winter. She died of congestive heart failure. My aunt Ella was school teacher all her life and was principal at Berlin School. She loved her music and gave piano lessons in home. She collected period dolls and often made doll clothes for them as she enjoyed sewing and making craft projects. She was active in Berlin Rural chapel Methodist Church. She lost most of eye sight the last few years and died from breast cancer at 92 years. Uncle David was a farmer and carpenter as Ella and David built their house after they were married. Members of the Condit Presbyterian Church according Ella Murphy Taylor 1. Great Grandpa Chadwick 2. Uncle Raymond Chadwick 3. Grandma Murphy Grace Chadwick Murphy ______________________________ 1. Great Grandma Chadwick not a member 2. Grandpa Murphy Farrah Murphy? Appendix -118- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 121) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e69039d53556858735adb67e14d1e67f.jpg 64272dc4c5ab7d9db892672d95986cdf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 122] [corresponds to page 119 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] [Image caption] Aunt Ella Taylor's Memory Verses Learned at Sunday School He later worked for the State of Ohio in road construction. He enjoyed playing his violin while Ella played on the piano. They were mild tempered. David died from Parkinson disease. My aunt Martha was a homemaker. She liked to cook, bake and can. She enjoyed working in her big garden. She loved her flowers. She often worked crossword puzzles. In later life she enjoyed traveling with her son, Jimmie, and sometimes he would take them to trap shoots (where you shoot at clay pigeons). She died from lung cancer. Uncle Harvey was a farmer and loved his jersey and guernsey cows. He liked to work in their garden. He had 4 pet geese. He was a hunter and went on fox drives. He also enjoyed his travels with their son. He died from strokes. The last one he didn't recover from. [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel Irene Carnes Murphy and Arthur Bradley Murphy Wedding August 29, 1923 She was 14 years old and weighed 128 pounds Appendix -119- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 122) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6947c96f600e290cffd46d7869c47c02.jpg 3ef815946d7ad0732a68b7f3c04af836 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 123] [corresponds to page 120 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Arthur and Ethel Murphy at his mother's home on Murphy Hill - 1923 [Photo] [Photo caption] Arthur and Ethel Murphy when expecting Velma [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel, Velma, Arthur Murphy - 1928 [Photo] [Photo caption] Velma Victoria Murphy, 6 Rachel Leola Murphy, 1 Lovett Carnes Murphy, 3 February 1934 [Photo] [Photo caption] Lovett, Ethel, Velma, Rachel and Arthur Murphy - 1937 [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel Anderson, Velma McCall, Rachel and Tom Buxton November, 1985 when Mother and Velma came from Florida to plan Allan's funeral (1). Arthur Murphy married Ethel Carnes b. Jan. 9, 1909 - d. Feb. 1, 1987 and had 4 children: 1. Florence Cleo Murphy, b. Mar. 25, 1924 - died after birth 2. Velma Victoria Murphy, b. Feb. 24, 1928 married (June 6, 1948) Robert Allan McCall, b. April 10, 1920 - d. Nov. 5, 1985. He is buried in Trenton Cemetery. Appendix -120- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 123) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d1dd2475d7ac3acc9bf0ac051aabec86.jpg de5b401566b944760d2d27d2e889ef38 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 124] [corresponds to page 121 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] They had no children. My sister, Velma, was in the cadet nursing program in 1945 to 1948, getting her state board in 1950. She nursed in Jane M. Case hospital now called Grady Memorial Hospital in Delaware, Ohio and Dade City Hospital in Florida until 1984. She now lives in Stockdale in southern Ohio. [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel Anderson, Velma McCall, Rachel Buxton and Lovett Murphy at Cora Lynn Murphy's Wedding to Doug McLurg June 13, 1986 My sister's husband, Allan McCall farmed with his Dad in New Concord, Ohio. Then he farmed with my Dad in Sunbury, Ohio. After getting his boilers license, he worked as a stationary Fireman at the Delaware Girls' Industrial School. Then he was a custodian for Hayes High School in Delaware, Ohio [Photo] [Photo caption] Rachel Buxton and Velma McCall at Aunt Ella Taylor's - Her dolls on the mantel [Photo] [Photo caption] Lovett Murphy, Thomas Buxton, Allan McCall, Angir Murphy, Rachel Buxton, Velma McCall Christmas at the Buxtons in 1971 [Photo] [Photo caption] Lovett Carnes in Florida - 1985 3. Lovett Carnes Murphy, b. Feb. 25, 1931 - d. Oct. 30, 1991. He married (Feb 27, 1952) Angeline Mary Avenella, B. Feb 13, 1928 in Pennsylvania. They have 6 children: 1. Joseph Bradley Murphy, B. Feb 27, 1953. Married Nancee Edwards, divorced after 1 1/2 years. Joe worked as a tool and die operator at Ranco and North America and also in China for 2 months. He works as a Sunbury policeman and night watchman for the Columbus State Academy. He enjoys his motor bike and hunting in his woods on Murphy. He is very dedicated to his Appendix -121- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 124) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6587eecc5c3e8fe33e4ee9527a04f42d.jpg ba17b94e78102e8291e0d0bf97646c6b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 125] [corresponds to page 122 of Pages of Our Lives] nieces and nephews. He is building a new house on the North East corner of his woods on South side of Murphy Road. 2. Mary Ann Murphy, b. June 3, 1954 married (June 30, 1972) Frank Lee Counts, b. Mar. 20, 1952. They have 8 children. 1. Micah Rae counts, b. June 3, 1978 2. Eian Dae Counts, b. Dec. 24, 1980. Married (Oct 30, 2004) Jenna Miller, about 1978 3. Kalyste Fae Counts, b. Jan. 29, 1984 4. Marek Jae Counts, b. Jul. 20, 1987 5. Danya Shea counts, b. Jul. 20, 1987 6. Tamika Mae Counts, b. Nov. 7, 1990 (adopted from Russia) Brother 7. Olga D-Nae Counts, b. Jun. 30, 1989 (adopted from Russia) & sister 8. Aleksandr Sergae Counts, B. Sept 18, 1990 (adopted from Russia) Mary Ann is a registered nurse and taught nursing at Ohio State. she is home schooling all of her 8 children. Frank is head of the blood bank at Ohio State University. 3. Teresa Irene Murphy, b. June 22, 1955 married (April 18, 1987) Allen Paul Rossi, B. Aug 17, 1947. They have 1 child and two from Allen's previous marriage: 1. Alicia Ann Rossi, B. Sep, 1987 2. Paul Allen Rossi, b. Dec. 7, 1972, married (Oct. 13, 1997) Danielle Marie Durand, b. May 15, 1970 3. Cindy Marie Rossi, B. Sept. 28, 1975, married (June 21, 1998) Brian Douglas Teske, B. Aug, 7, 1974 Teresa is a registered nurse and does out patient nursing and home schools her daughter. Al has worked at National Bank in Columbus for 35 years. They are active in their church. 4. Velma Josephine Murphy, b. Jan 18, 1957 has no children. Velma Jo at 13 years old moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, to live with her grandmother, Ethel Murphy Anderson. She joined the Army after high school graduation in 1975 so has been in the service for 30 years. She is a Lieutenant Colonel. She volunteered for the Persian Gulf War in Saudi Arabia where she dispatched trucks. She teaches cadets. She is a life member of the V.F.W. Post 8736. She lives in California where she worked 19 years as a xerox copy machine repair specialist. She enjoys her motor cycle and her cats. 5. Alice Leola Murphy, b. Dec. 17, 1960 married (Sept 20, 1980) Kurt John Schuster, B. June 12, 1957. The have 3 children. 1. Patrick Quaid Schuster, b. Oct. 7 1990 2. Thomas Christian Schuster, b. Mar. 23, 1992 3. Daniel Brain Schuster, B. Aug 18, 1995 Alice moved to Florida after her high school graduation for Sunbury and lived with her grandmother, Ethel Murphy Anderson. She became a registered nurse, married, had her family and worked in a Florida hospital until they sold their home and moved to Ohio in the fall of 2003. They bought a country home with a woods and pond. She is home schooling her 3 boys. Kurt works for Ohio State as a physical therapist. The boys stated public school in Centerburg in 2005. Appendix -122- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 125) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/67c7e1156ffc2811ad23d07243db0ef1.jpg 8b7b7e172ebd8663012ea5b93a635af5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 126] [corresponds to page 123 of Pages of Our Lives] 6. Cora Lynn Murphy, b. Mar. 22, 1967 married (June 14, 1986) Doug McKenzie McLurg, b. Oct. 5, 1964. They have 2 children. 1. Jeryn Mckenzie McLurg, b. Oct. 17, 1987 2. Taylor Lynn McLurg, b. Sept. 1, 1995 Cora Lynn works as manager of a condominium in Columbus, Doug is manager of Wendys in Sunbury. They live in their country home. Taylor enjoys riding horses and Jeryn likes his chickens. My brother Lovett worked for his Dad farming in Sunbury. He worked for the Delaware Farm Bureau at Condit. Then he worked for Griffeth Farm Service in Centerburg. He worked Andy Main Trucking at Sunbury and also worked Delaware County Highway department. He loved the woods. He had a strong temperament that could change quickly. Lovett was tall like the Carnes. He died of cancer. My sister-in-law, Angie, worked at Van Heusen Shirt Factory in Kane, PA, as a presser for several years before her marriage. Angie is 4 feet 11 1/2 inches tall. She is a homemaker and excellent cook. [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] Thomas, Rex, Tina, Perry and Rachel Front: Tom and Rachel, Tina White Buxton and Rex Buxton Back: Perry Buxton and Edward Callan 4. Rachel Leola murphy, b. Feb. 26, 1933, married Thomas Edward Buxton, b. Dec. 15, 1930, They have 3 children and a step son: 1. Tina Marie Buxton, b. Dec. 28, 1956, married (1) (Aug. 12, 1978) Gary Lee White, b. April 22, 1951. They have 3 children: 1. Renee Dawn White, b. July 4, 1979 2. Logan Lee White, b. Aug 1, 1982 3. Kale Oliver White, b. Sept 20, 1984 Tina Marie married (2) (June 14, 1997) Rodger Martin Miller, II, b. Feb. 2, 1969 2. Perry Newell Buxton, b. Nov 16, 1958, married (July 12, 1978) Mary Jo Lewis Appendix -123- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 126) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3961bf684aa916c7b15c782f09127498.jpg 75f363d06648af9f69a9bfaa98fabdec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 127] [corresponds to page 124 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] Natalie Buxton and Mary Buxton and daughter Paula Brandon Cox visiting Great Grandfather Wayne Buxton in Sarasota, Florida in 1979 [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] Perry N. Buxton Paula Buxton and Eric Taylor June 18, 1999 b. Aug. 9, 1962 they have 3 children. 1. Paula Marie Buxton, b. Nov.22 1978, married (May 10, 2003) Eric Normand Taylor, b. Oct 4, 1977 2. Natalie Rachel Buxton, b. Sept 22, 1978, married (July 24, 2004 Brandon David Cox, b. May 19, 1978 3. Perry N. Buxton, b. July 28, 1933 3. Rex Bradley Buxton, b. Dec. 8, 1964, married (June 15, 1990) Joy Ann Harber, b. Nov. 7, 1956. They have a son and stepson: 1. Dakoda Bradley Bunton, b. Sept. 28, 1991 2. Stepson James Harber, b. Aug 3, 1977, married Ginny Miller, b. 1972 and have 3 children (s step): 1. step Caleb Miller, b. Dec. 31 ,1999 2. step Kyra Ann Miller, B. Jan 24, 2000 3. Breianna Reane Haber, b. July 25, 2003 4. Jerry Edward Callan (stepson), b. May 24, 1949 (see Callan History) I helped milk our holstein cows for 35 years until we quit milking in 1983. I keep all the farm and household records. I enjoy sewing, cleaning, record keeping, exercising and my church work and rest home visitations. Tom will always be a farmer at heart. He still works in farm shop, picks up rocks, helps move equipment and gets parts and keeps his car, trucks and tractors running. He enjoys biking, camping, and just going for a drive. (2.) Darrel Chadwick Murphy married (Jan 27, 1927 Eva Ernistine Zartman, b. Aug 18 1906. d. Aug 13, 1981. They had 4 children: 1. Infant son died at birth 2. Mary Ellen Murphy, b. Feb, 1931 - d. Jan. 2005, of congestive heart failure. Buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Delaware, OH. Mary Ellen married (Dec. 27, 1953) John James Lynne, B. April 2, 1931 - d. June 10, 1981. They had 4 children: Appendix -124- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 127) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/df95f3adfe63c680e7438a298ef16026.jpg e0b73e7e9f7cdbe2dbefd3bdd562bbd3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 128] [corresponds to page 125 of Pages of Our Lives] 1. Michael Jame Lynne, B. Oct. 1, 1954 - d. Dec. 3, 1954 of pneumonia 2. Eva Jeanette Lynne, B. Dec. 22, 1955, married (1) Charles Wayne Newman They have 4 children: 1. Naomi Ann Newman, b. June 1976 2. Mandi Newman, B. Jan 1981, married and had 1. Girl 2. Boy 3. Girl 3. Christine Newman, b. 1989 4. Brandi Newman, B. 1990 Jeanette Married (2) Charles Mason 3. Debra Anne Lynne, b. Sept. 15, 1962 - not married 4. William Carl Lynne, b. Jan 7, 1968 - not married 2. Frank Richard Murphy, b. July 22, 1935, married 9 July 22, 1961) Nancy Ellen Grube, b. July 14, 1940. They have: 1. Michael Richard Murphy, B. Nov. 14, 1964 m. Feb. 2005 2. Adopted Patrick Stephen Murphy, b. Dec. 6, 1968, Married (April 3, 1992 Tonya Marie Knight, b. June 17, 1971 (now divorced). They have: 1. Step Travis Logan Frazier, b. July 26, 1990 2. Levi Tyler Steven Murphy, b. Oct. 27 1992 3. Chelsea Marie Murphy, b. Dec. 16, 1998 3. Ralph Ernest Murphy, b. April 11, 1937, married (Aug. 24, 1962) Mary Kathryn Chapman, b.June 3, 1937. They have 4 children: 1. Rebecca Lynn Murphy, b. Jan. 3, 1964 married (Oct 24, 1987) Raymond LeBlanc, b. July 14, They have: 1. Troy Alexander LeBlanc, B. Oct 4, 1996 2. Rachel Nicole LeBlanc, B. Oct 4, 1996 2. Elizabeth Ann Murphy, b. Aug 12, 1965 Married (June 26, 1988) Robert William Haepfner, b. Dec. 19, 1995 1. Joseph Karl Haepfner, b. Dec. 19, 1995 3. Robert Gerald Murphy, b. Feb 12, 1968, married (June 20, 2001) Billie Jo Schweiterman, b. Oct 22, 1964. They Have: 1. (step) Justin Smith, b. Feb. 18, 1992 2. (step) Cindy Smith, b. Mar. 27, 1993 4. David Ernest Murphy, b. Jan 17, 1969 - not married (3). Ella Loren Murphy married David Lorn Taylor, b. Aug 30, 1908 - d. Dec. 13, 1984 They had: 1. Grace Barbara Taylor. B. Dec 8, 1947 Married (1969) (1) Ronald Bricker b. Oct 13, 1946. They had: 1. Amy Barbara Bricker, b. Sept 4, 1970 m. (2) Dennis Bell on Oct 29, 1990 2. John David Taylor, b. Mar. 8, 1943, Married (Sept 24, 1966) Roslyn Fay McReney, b. July 2, 1940. They adopted: 1. Lori Taylor, b. 1973. she has Appendix -125- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 128) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1965bc575ce140aba2655e2d520af9d2.jpg aa0b5987b5a8b21f734ed5ef19d5d649 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 129] [corresponds to page 126 of Pages of Our Lives] 1. Tasha Nicole Taylor, b. Aug. 28, 1994 2. Ellana Lorraine Taylor, b. Sept 29, 2001 3. Baby boy in Feb. 2005 (4). Martha Adams Murphy married (Oct. 16, 1936) Harvey George McElory b. Nov. 25, 1915 - d. Dec. 30, 2001. They had: 1. Rose Ella McElroy, b. June 4, 1936, married (June 30, 1963) Robert Lee Grove, b. May 25, 1935. They had: 1. Steven Scott Grove, b. Jan. 31, 1967, married (Nov. 13, 1963) Jennifer Gregory Carroll, b. July 26, 1952 1. (step) Rachel Beth Carroll, B. July 9, 1974 2. (step) Charity Leah Carroll, b. Oct. 12, 1976 1. Emma N. Minor, b. Nov. 6, 2001 3. (step) Amber Nicole Carroll, b. May 21, 1981 Austin James Bertwell, b. Oct. 20, 1997 2. Mary Jane McElroy, b. May 16, 1939, married (June 15, 1957) Oscar Vernon Jones, b. Mar. 27, 1937. They had: 1. Jerry Lee Jones, B. November 26, 1957, married (Sept. 18, 1976) Darleene Cynthia Shively. They had: 1. Preston Lee Jones, B. Oct 2, 1977 2. Jamison Kyle Jones, B. July 29, 1979 3. Jeremy Ray Jones, Aug. 1, 1983 4. Stephanie Lynn Jones, b. Oct. 24, 1985 2. Tami Lynn Jones, b. May 28, 1962, married (May 17, 1997) Samuel Edward Hennis 3. Donald Harvey McElroy, b. Sept. 21, 1940, married. they had: 1. Homer Eastwood McElroy, b. July 5, 1960, married (Oct 17, 2004) Lisa. They have 1. Ashley McElroy 2. Donald Harvey McElroy, b. Feb. 26, 1974 Donald married (2) (June 5, 2002) Maggie Bayonet, b. Mar 16, 1952 They adopted her 2 grandchildren: 1. Ceasar, b. Dec. 24, 1996 2. Marina, b. July 12, 1999 4. James Earl McElroy, B. Dec. 16, 1944, not married 5. Beth Ann McElroy, b. Nov. 27, 1946, married Roger Gardner, b. Jan 6, 1947 They had: 1. Daniel Philip Gardner, b. Sept. 15, 1977 married (Sept. 7, 2002) Mandy Bowers, b. Nov. 6, 1977 2. Emily Diane Gardner, b. May 5, 1980 6. Brenda Kay McElroy, b. Oct. 8, 1958, not married Appendix -126- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 129) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7aa00d638fe3ec6a3800a6a94e962428.jpg 40a8dc4119b7ef1c7e4ba012a0b16b4e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 130] [corresponds to page 127 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] [Image caption] Farrah Murphey's Papers Appendix-127 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 130) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/affd105998e70e2164e33c1f81196712.jpg c663a87468ccaede9be0dca436a0d58c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 131] [corresponds to page 128 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image 1] [Image caption] Program Farmer's Institute [Image 2] [Image 3] [Image caption] [from the back cover] Copy of letter of recommendation: Sunbury, Ohio Nov. 28, 1935 Dear Sir: At the last Advisory Council Meeting of the Scioto Valley Co-operative Milk Producers Ass'n. I nominated F. C. Murphy for the director of the Appendix -128- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 131) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/732d2c9e98906a0b0518073fb16da49f.jpg 44b84fdcb5c1ed7ed5be29241e6a12f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 132] [corresponds to page 129 of Pages of Our Lives] association. I am mailing you this letter to tell you of some of his qualifications for office. Mr. Murphy has kept a dairy in this community for 40 years. He was one of the Directors of the Sunbury Co-operative Creamery Co. for many years. At that time it was the largest co-operative creamery in Ohio. He has served of the Delaware County School board and the State Farmer's Institute Force; He has been a teacher for 20 years in the Condit Presbyterian Sunday School. As an advisory councilman from the Trenton Local he is familiar with all the problems confronting the Association. As the Trenton Local has never been represented on the board, I hope you you give this your consideration. Yours Truly, (signed) Roy Comstock Advisory Councilman History of Trenton Township by Farrah Murphy Just how far back should one begin to write a history? I will begin back a few million years so none of you will know whether I am entirely correct or not. Trenton township is made up geologically of disintegrated fine sandstone that crops out along Big Walnut Creek at the extreme western side of the Twp. A few million years ago a great glacier slipped down across the nation of Ohio and ground the surface rocks and hills into powder, leaving in its wake many granite boulders. The largest of these in the state can be seen about two miles west of South Condit. This disintegrated sandstone and the other accumulations of the centuries account for the fertility of the soil of the Twp. As you go eastward this sandstone rock sinks to a depth of 100 to 150 feet. And a few miles farther east, the glaciated area ends with a terminal moraine. Trenton Township is part of the U. S. Military Lands, lands set aside by congress on June first 1796 to be given to the revolutionary soldiers as payment for their services in the war, The townships of the U. S. Military lands are 5 mi. square which is much different from the Twps. of the western part of the country in the Virginia Military District which was surveyed in a haphazard sort of way to suit the desire of the settler. There are four streams that rise in Licking co. and flow westward across the Townships. North Fork, Middle Fork and South Fork unite about the middle to form Rattle Snake Creek which empties into Big Walnut just above the bridge on R. 37. Culver Creek flows across the northern part of the twp. and empties into Big Wal. just above the new bridge on 3 C. The First settlers of Trenton Twp. came mostly from the East and South, especially from Penn, New Jersey, and Virginia. Generally speaking , those from New Jersey and Penn. were interested in education and religion more than those from the hills of what is now West Appendix -129- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 132) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7488877a143eae0c9c3124015cfac4f6.jpg d5970164edb3079d6297c790f63ff936 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 133] [corresponds to page 130 of Pages of Our Lives] Va. almost at the beginning they built school houses about every two miles and churches every for miles. Children could walk only about a mile to school and the settlers could drive or ride horseback about two mile to church. The result was seven school districts in the twp. and four churches. There prevailed what we think of now as foolish sectarian differences that caused little cooperation in religious matters. The first that came built their houses of the timber that stood on the ground by cutting logs the desired length, notching with an ax the end on one side and hewing the end of the next log to a "V' shape to fit into the notch so that the logs fit tightly together, then the cracks were chicked with mud, the roof covered with poles and split shingles, the fireplace at one end was made from stones gathered from the fields or hauled from a nearby creek. when a house was to be erected, the neighbors all came to the log rolling with their axes and joined together to help. The next generation built frame buildings when every neighbor bought a pike pole to the "raising" and they all joined together to put the frame together. Ed Post was always invited because he had a tremendous voice, so when he shouted "heave" they all heaved." The free dinner was all the payment expected. At first the ox was the main beast of burden. While unbelievably slow they fitted well into the task of cleaning the fields of trees and logs and plowing the stumpy ground. However, the ox became too slow for the second or third generation and the horse took its place as the cleared fields increased in size and the spring wagon, sleigh, and buggy took the place of the ox cart and sled. The first who settled here made their clothes from wild animal hides and moccasins from deer skins. later the skins of calves and cattle were tanned in Sunbury and boots were made for the boys and men and shoes for the women although the children were expected to go barefoot from spring until snowfall in autumn. (I might add that I spoke my first piece at our "literary" barefoot). The frost on bare feet caused them to crack and bleed. The remedy was to wash them every night in dishwater. I suspect sometimes the dishpan was used. In those days a bathtub had not yet made its appearances in Trenton Twp. As these improvements began to appear there came a demand for other occupations beside farming. Blacksmith shops, a wagon maker's shop, a shoemaker's shop, a saw mill and several stores that sold everything from stick candy to tempt the children to dress goods and tobacco to tempt men and women. As I remember, Mr. Grove had a blacksmith shop at Vans Valley, Simon Pierson one across the creek form his house, Geo. Clark on just across the road from what is not Trenton Cemetery, one at North Condit. James Hannon had a wagon maker's shop at north Condit. Thompson Pierson had a boot and shoe shop at the intersection of what is not the intersection of the Murphy Road and Highway 605. The men and boys went to the shop or he came to the home, took the measurement of their feet and made leather boots to fit. As I remember I took hickory nuts to see him crack them on his calloused knee where he held the boot to drive wooden pegs into the soles. He had but one child of his own and she never married, but he loved children and used to give me waxed thread for fish lines when we came to watch him work. Many of the building that stand today in the Twp. are a tribute to the skill and care of carpenters who build them. Among these are the names of Charles Ginn, Johnnie Payne, Harry Potter, Geo. Ginn, Chas. Jackson. So far as I know Alvin P. Condit had the first sawmill in the Twp. It operated an up and down saw by water power a few hundred feet east of this church. The old mill race can still be seen there. In later years, Truman Culver had a saw mill at Condit Station and Smith Ketcham Appendix -130- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 133) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ac2029be9c7a8240c3e90de9ef0694ad.jpg d361ce782f9f0c58db0a289d663f1eec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 134] [corresponds to page 131 of Pages of Our Lives] one just east of North Condit. I. A. Pierson built the warehouse at Condit. It has changed owners many times. In the closing years of the last century, my brother, Lovett T. Murphy had a printing office in South Condit where he published the Trenton Agitator, a weekly newspaper which had a considerable circulation in the township and the adjoining part of Del. Co. and Licking Co. There was a grocery at Vans Valley corners where Christian Knox sold groceries and kept the PO which received mail twice a week from Delaware. It was later owned by Dave and Ben Chase when it burned and Hi Horlocker built a house in its place, now owned by Forest Shafer. There was a grocery at Condit Station just across the R. R. from the depot operated by Henry Alden and later by Harvey Wheaton. It burned. Another grocery at North Condit was owned by Enoch Condit for many years, later sold to Gorsuch Bros., then to Andrew Meredith and then to Wm. Lane. It, too burned. The present grocery was built by Meeker and has changed hands frequently since its erection. Mary Post ran a grocery store at South Condit, first with Agitator building, then in the present store building just across from the church. It then became the property of Minnie Ringer who left it at her death to Eleanor Condit. Isaac Payne built a store and P. O. on the Licking Co. line near the Bethel Church. It was named by P. O. Dept. McBride. H. H. Cring produced a medicine called Cring's Balm which he made in drug and grocery store a stone's throw east of the Condit Church. He kept a team and wagon busy peddling his balm, extracts and various other medicinal products. His sons, George and Henry, usually did the peddling. His store ,too, burned Oct. 4, 1896. J. A. Caldwell, who lived on the north side of the Sunbury and Croton road where Geo. Justice now lives helped to make and sell maps and directories of the Twps. of Ohio and Penn. There has been a later directory of this twp. made but it is not so elaborate as that made by Mr. Caldwell. I suppose that what was the first telephone in the county was made just east of South Condit. The Cring boys had been reading of the experiments made by Alexander Graham Bell so they took the heads of a drum their father had brought home from the army. One of these they stretched over an opening in the Cring home. The other they stretched over an opening in the neighboring Potter house. In the center of each drum head was placed a rubber button to which was attached a wire strung on poles along the roadside. By tapping the rubber button with a piece of metal like a spoon, the phone was made to ring. A conversation could be carried on this distance of a quarter of a mile with no battery of electrical attachments. The livestock interests of the twp. have gone through four different stages. In the earlier years, they had to be good travelers. The hogs had to be able to gather their own food from the mast in the woods, that is the hickory nuts, chestnuts and beechnuts but before the advent of the R. R. they had to be able to carry their fat on foot over the mts. to Pittsburgh. The same with the sheep and cattle. After the close of the Civil War the livestock farmers turned almost wholly to sheep. Wool sold for $1 a pound. I have been told that Ed Green and his neighbor, Condit, drove a team and spring wagon to Vermont where they bought French Merions, a ram and two ewes for $1000 and hauled them back to their farms east of North Condit. Here they kept the ram much as stallions were later kept. The mating fee was about the same. These Merinos increased greatly the quantity and fineness of the wool fibre. After the price of wool declined Appendix -131- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 134) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f83fbe01d4c048fae7b578b4f0e7b47d.jpg a4f3a1bd8e6596ab622926b548df0d92 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 135] [corresponds to page 132 of Pages of Our Lives] until its production ceased to be profitable the farmers turned to draft horses and some of the best in the state could be found here. Later the tide turned to dairy cattle at the time of the establishment of the Sunbury Creamery. At one time there were more dairy cows milked between Condit and route 37 than in any like distance in Ohio. The creamery built a skimming station at Condit Station which was run by Lewis Ketcham profitably until its sale to the Nestles Co. We are still in the milk production stage but the milk is nearly all sold as whole milk in the city of Columbus. I have failed to dwell on the two institutions that have had most to do with the cultural development of our twp. The churches and the schools. These alone would require my entire time. They will be presented by another speaker. The RR was built across the twp. in the early 1870's. This changed for the better transportation and the marketing facilities as well as to lighten the tax burden of real estate. Few taxpayers appreciate the amount of tax that is assessed against the R. R. I have been told the R.R. Co. pays more for the new H. S. building in this district than the residents of Sunbury. Condit Station became the shipping point for most of the live stock as well as the grain sent out of the county. At threshing time, there could be seen wagon loads of wheat lined up along the road for a quarter of a mile in front of the elevator waiting to unload. I rejoice to be able to say that we have not had a saloon nor a beer parlor in the last 50 years. The first Grange was organized in the seventies and met in the the farm homes. It was No. 998. The Del Co. Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. was the product of the grange. The Farmers Alliance was organized in the twp. house in the early nineties. Just before the coming of the automobile, an interurban line was proposed from Westerville through Sunbury, Croton and Centerburg to Mt. Vernon. Several farmers contributed toward the survey, but the survey was never made. The auto put that out. Not the least contribution to the township was that made by W. W. Chadwick who began the manufacture of tile just south of Condit Station in 1883. At first he was in partnership with Dr. VanKirk, but later he bought and operated the entire plant. Although his contribution is buried beneath the sod it has contributed immeasurably to the agriculture of Trenton Twp. for his tiles are laid in nearly every field of the township. We have produced seven preachers, two missionaries, a college president, a senator, a Judge, several county commissioners, three doctors, 3 dentists, an author of considerable fame, three editors, several nurses and, as I remember, two convicts to the pen. Trenton twp. has produced few military leaders. Not of lack of ability, but because the township was bought off from the draft during the Civil War. Perhaps I should mention the name of Mr. Hoover's brother, Guy who rose to prominence and Mac Murphy who was second in command of the Iowa as it sailed into Tokyo, Japan. I would like to name four or five who have contributed to the music lovers of our twp. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Knox taught singing schools and Mr. Knox taught a brass band at Condit while Mrs. Knox gave music lessons to many. Smith Ketcham, a graduate of Boston Conservatory of Music, taught and led the Condit choir for many years. Later Mrs. Grace Condit, Miss Carrie Wilson took over the leadership in Condit and then Mrs. Wilson in Vans Valley. Some of the songs we sang, not in church, were "Over the Garden Wall", "The Girl I Left Behind Me," "In the Gloaming", "Will You Be My Sweetheart", "Where Did You Get That Hat?" and "Annie Laurie". Women! Thus far I have mentioned mainly the men, but beside every man who has contributed anything worth while there has been a loving, devoted, righteous woman who has Appendix -132- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 135) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/032cffe064fc6b58a14c73996b96ced1.jpg 628c4a59cfe712106a6858c090c04e54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 136] [corresponds to page 133 of Pages of Our Lives] encouraged and inspired him to nobler and better achievements. I could mention many but I shall name only four -- Aunt Cal Armstrong, Aunt Jake Condit, Aunt Mary Condit, and Marian Rice. To quote Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "They talk about a woman's sphere as if it had a limit. There's not a place in Earth or Heaven, there's not a task to mankind given, there's not a blessing or a woe, there's not a whisper "yes" or "no", there's not a death, a life, a birth, not a feather's weight of worth without a woman in it." I know that when I begin to recall the names of families I shall leave out some that should be recorded. But I shall let my memory roam back through the years and bring to mind those who have been brave and strong, loving and helpful, upright and just. Lives that have been an inspiration to those who have followed them so that our township is a good place to make a home and raise a family of children. Names of those who have left few or none to carry on their traditions. The only record of their lives is a name and two dates on a marble slab or piece of granite in the cemetery and there their strength and beauty of character not indicated by the size of their monument. There comes to mind Armstrong, Bailey, Barton with the club foot, Burrel, Bricker, Brown, Carpenter, Condit, Condo, Clark, Cring, Culver, Cook , Chadwick, DeWolf, Dawes, Davis, Downing, Domigan, Duckworth, Farris, Forwood, Gorsuch, Grove, Green, Hannan, Hite Huff, Harroun, Horlocker, Irwin, Jacobus. Ketcham, the sweet singer Knox, Knerr, Leak, Lewis, Meredith, McNeely, Miles, Owings, Payne, Pierson, Potter, Post, Perfect, Preston, Ringer, Rice, Sinkey, Sunderland, VanDorn, VanKirk, VanHouten, Walker, Whitney, Wilson Wheaton, Williams, Wylie. In closing let me carry you back to my childhood days when I used to come here let me carry you back to my childhood days when I used to come here and saw the crowds that came here to church, especially on Sunday evening, when every boy took his best girl to church. First because it was the custom, but mainly because there was no place else to go. May I paraphrase a few lines from the great epic poem. Like the leaves of the forest when autumn is green That crowd with its banners on Sunday was seen, Like the leaves of the forest when autumn has blown That crowd with its banners lie withered and gone. For the angel of death spread his wings o'er the blast And breathed in the face of the crowd as he passed." About Land in Trenton Township by Farrah Murphy Trenton Township is the part of the U.S. Military Lands. Lands set aside by Congress on June 1, 1796 to be given to the Revolutionary soldiers as payment for their services in the war thirteen years after the war ended. The township of U. S. Military Lands are 5 miles square which is much different from the townships of the western part of the country of the country in the Virginia Military District which were surveyed in haphazard sort of way to suit the desire of the settlers. The Revolutionary War 1775-1783. Fond Scenes of My Childhood "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood Appendix -133- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 136) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/13dc4477c3cb05583c4158fff9313a93.jpg 13a89ac5318a2be7858d991da52214b6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 137] [corresponds to page 134 of Pages of Our Lives] When fond recollections present them to view" The Orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood And every loved spot which my infancy knew." F. C. Murphy, age 90 3/4, while lying in bed at the Ferris Nursing Home in January, 1965, recalls the scenes of his childhood. First in importance is pond where I played with my older brothers in and on a flat bottomed boat which Father had made by Charley Payne. We would paddle around the pond in the boat, and then turn it over and dive from it, spending any carefree hours. Sometimes we would wade in the mud on the shallow east side where the Calamus grew. We pull up a plant at a time and eat the tender inner shoot. Only a calamus eater knows the flavor of this delicacy. Of course, fishing, and trapping and skating were also happy experiences on the pond. The young people would come from miles around for skating parties, and we learned to be good skaters. I was still skating on the pond after passing my 85th birthday. I often used the same skates of my youth which fastened to my shoes and boots with screws. The second scene which comes to mind is of the sand hole south of the road near the path we used to take to the sugar camp. As father had sold sand here, a large hole had been made as it was scooped out of the hillside by the by the wagon load. Here we played at catching toads, which were imprisoned in the pit. We would capture crickets and flies to use as lures for the toads and watch the snap of their tongues as they caught the insects offered them. In early spring the sugar camp called us, where we not only helped bring in the sap and keep the great fire roaring, but we also had our "sugaring off" parties. When I was about 12 years old my older brother, Lovett printed a paper, a semi-monthly news called "The Agitator". It was in the south upstairs bedroom where my brother had the printing press and taught me to set type. I suppose it was due to this experience and also the fact that my older brothers, Arthur, Lovett and Delano were news writers which let me to have an ambition for writing. I have satisfied that desire by writing numerous stories and speeches and a full length religious and historical novel. The latter I accomplished with the help of my wife, Grace, after I was three score years and ten. I remember well the first flock of ducks I so tenderly raised. One spring my cousin, Charley Sinkey, gave me a duck and a drake and I was happy as I had wild dreams of raising a large flock. After a few days an owl caught my duck and drug the remains across the pond. I cried and cried and after Charley heard of it, he laughed at me and made a lot fun over it. Soon he brought me another of his ducks and my project was again in full swing. This time I kept the mother shut in the "Buggy Shed" until she had laid her egg for the day, then I would let her out for a while. She Hatched a dozen beautiful fluffy ducklings. I cared for them with great pride as they were all mine. This was only the first big enterprise in poultry raising. Of course I had great fun sled riding on our own hill, but my greatest pleasure came when we slid on the snow at the Condit School yard. I was eleven years old and the little girl who usually rode with me was eight. Her name was Grace Chadwick. It was then that I fell in love with her, a devotion which lasted for three quarters of a century. I was called "Frog" and she was called "Frog's Girl". The name was attached to me one day when I was jumping up and down. Someone said "You are a toad". I replied, "No I'm a Frog." That nickname Appendix -134- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 137) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8ef6a9ae330d9c8259a0843abf02ab81.jpg 8a9ea49109790c9f3172d7ecb164f627 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 138] [corresponds to page 135 of Pages of Our Lives] stuck. My brother, Grant, was called "General" and Ernie was called "Captain". Cora and I had two very close friends in our neighbors who lived on what is now know as the Frank Williams Glaze place. Minnie and Herman Ringer either passed the summer afternoons with us or we with them. Thus we grew up endearing ourselves to the pond, the sand pit, the woods, the printing room, the school yard, our own back yard, and a path to and from our neighbors' door. These are the most loved and the fondest scenes of my childhood. F. C. Murphy Farrah C. Murphey Written by Ella Murphey Taylor Farrah C. Murphey, who may best be remembered for his having suggested the name "Big Walnut" for the Sunbury School District, lived for the greater part of the last 100 years - 1874- 1966. He lived in an age of change from horse and buggy days to automobile to supersonic space travel to the moon. His maternal grandparents, Desire Cook and John Adams, were two of the first white children in Harlem Tap. - lived during the greater part of the previous century and also experienced tremendous changes. They came with their parents, Mr. & Mrs. Benejah Cook and Mr. & Mrs. Adam Harlem Twp. from Luzerne Co. Pennsylvania, in 1807-1809. Desire Cook at 4 years of age rode in a wagon pulled by Owen to the forest Duncan Run where she and her parents lived in a wigwam until they could clear the trees and build a cabin. Both the Cook and Adam children experienced the rugged life of clearing the forest, building cabins, making clothing, driving as far as Chillicothe for salt, living on wild foods such as turkey and raccoon and protecting themselves from Indians and wild beasts. In 1825 F. C. Murphey's grandparents were married and built a cabin back of the lot where the Harlem Methodist Church now stands. For 150 years their descendants have played as children on the hillside behind the church. Farrah Murphey, the 7th son of Martha Adams Murphey and Charles Murphey, was born and raised in a brick house atop "Murphey Hill" in Trenton Twp., the highest spot in Delaware County. There he and his younger sister, Cora were encouraged much by their mother who had been a teacher before marriage. They also profited greatly from their older brothers who were well educated and had many good books. Two of these brothers published a newspaper called "The Agitator". it was from this experience that Farrah practiced writing and reading throughout his lifetime. Mr Murphey went to the Trenton Special School at Condit where he received a better education than many of our youth do today in high school. He along with others, had a beloved teacher named Russel Bennett who taught 9 grades and had over 45 pupils. Some of these were older than the teacher who was past 25 years of age. Following grade school, Farrah went for one year to Ohio Wesleyan College then continued his education at Ohio State University. At this time the University was in an open field on the edge of the city of Appendix -135- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 138) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7661cd68a4bb03a06b0e7865013bb5ac.jpg dfb1c5667e364198521a31b8107b67fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 139] [corresponds to page 136 of Pages of Our Lives] Columbus. During his early years. Mr. Murphey taught school at North Condit. He recalled a very effective tonic which he administered to his pupils when they feigned illness so that they could skip school. He mixed a mixture of Quinine, Castor Oil, a touch coal tar, a drop turpentine, and Cring's Balm (very hot) and it was very effective. In 1900 Farrah Murphey married Grace Chadwick who's father owned and operated "The Condit Tile Mill" - Grace taught school in "The Perfect School" and the little red school house still stands on the old C. C. C. Highway East of Sunbury. This couple lived and worked very hard on the 240 acre farm where they specialized in Jersey cattle as well as raising sheep, hogs, horses, turkeys and chickens. To them were born four children, Arthur, Darrel, ("Pat"), Ella (Mrs. David L. Taylor) and Martha (Mrs. Harvey McElroy). From young manhood Mr. Murphey was interested in Grange work and community affairs. He served as Master of the Condit Grange for many years and helped organize other granges in the County. For this he was honored in 1949 much to his pride and pleasure. In 1918 he helped form and become the secretary of the first Co-operative elevator in Delaware county at Condit, Ohio. This was a tremendous undertaking an caused Mr. Murphey and Mr. Charles Comstock a few sleepless night but the venture did succeed they were proud of their organization. Mr. Murphey was always progressive, especially in education, and early advocated consolidation of the county schools with the Sunbury district. This, with some difficulty, was finally accomplished. F.C. as he was often called, was a member of the County Board of Education for 14 years and it was at this time that the Sunbury New's Editor, Mr. Oatfield Whitney, was hunting for a name for the present school district. He asked Mr. Murphey if he had any ideas and he replied "Big walnut Creek flows through the district so let's call it Big Walnut" and that became it's name. Besides farming Mr. Murphey enjoyed traveling and lecturing. In 1926 he and his sister Cora, who was a Bible professor at Ohio Wesleyan University, traveled through England, Europe, and the Holy land and I suppose this was the high light of his life as he never ceased to talk of his experiences there. He gained much information which he used in Farmer's Institute lecturing and in writing. He, along with his wife's help, wrote a full length religious novel after they reached the age of 70, however it was never published. Mr. Murphey also used his knowledge gained in "The Holy Land" in teaching the Men's Bible Appendix -136- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 139) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/46432ab4ebf290abbaad3489208989c8.jpg 4295f2efe1dc39d61428422071745532 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 140] [corresponds to page 137 of Pages of Our Lives] class of the Condit Presbyterian Church. This service he enjoyed and performed for over 20 years. Although a busy man, Farrah C. Murphey was a good neighbor and father. He always had time to play with his children, whether it was a walk in the woods, a game of horse shoes of croquet, a trip to the Hartford Fair, or a skating party on the pond. We had daily devotions in the home and discipline at times. Church and school functions were never neglected and we were encouraged to read good books and learn all that we could. He offered higher education to his children if they desired to take advantage of it. You see, Farrah Murphey made an indelible impression on my life as he was my father. I would like to add that my father could not have accomplished what he did, had it not been for a very self sacrificing and devoted Christian wife, Grace Chadwick Murphey. Written by Ella Murphey Taylor [Photo] [Photo] [Photo caption] [Photo caption] Four generations Lovett Murphy Family-1966 Mother Tina, Great-Grandmother Murphy Anderson From: Velma Jo, Angie, Alice, Lovett holding Renee (1 year), Grandmother Buxton Back:Teresa, Mary Ann, Joe [Photo] [Photo] [Photo] Lovett's Family in 1976 Velma Murphey McCall Rex Buxton Back Row: Alice, Teresa, Velma Jo, Joe Age 45 - 1973 November 1983 Murphey and Frank Counts Front: Cora Lynn, Angie, Mary Ann Murphey Appendix -137- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 140) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b09413e841ce4c5f83466757a34c4ad6.jpg b21f603225c12d8b28603505a7d889ab Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 141] [corresponds to page 138 of Pages of Our Lives] Chadwick and Loren Family Tree Grace's Great Jeremiah Loren I born 1780 in Connecticut died in New Grandparents on Mom's York, married Catherine Clark born and died in New Father's side York. they had Jeremiah Loren II Grace's Great Robert Montgomery married Mary Elizabeth Young in Grandfather on Mom's Pennsylvania. They had Charity. Robert died in Ohio Mother's side soon after moving there when Charity was 7 years old. Grace's Grandparents James Chadwick from London England. Born 1792, died on her Dad's side 1854 (62 yrs). Married 1831 Catherine slack of Ashley born 1812 died 1858 (46 yrs). They had William Wellington Chadwick (11th and last child) Grace's parents William Wellington Chadwick Born Oct 12, 1854. Died Mar. 17, 1922 (67 yrs.) married Mar. 16th, 1876 in Sunbury Oh, Nancy Ellen Loren Born Feb. 11, 1854 Died June 3, 1940 (86 yrs.) They had Grace Lee Chadwick. She was the oldest of six children. Rachel Murphy Buxton's Farrah Carl Murphy Born 1874. Died June 29, 1966 (92 Grandparents on her yrs.) married Mar. 8, 1900 at Condit. Grace Lee Chadwick Father's side Born Oct.9, 1878 Died April 30. 1960 (81 Yrs. 7 Mo.). They had Arthur Bradley Murphy, the oldest of 4 children. Rachel Murphy's Arthur Bradley Murphy Born Jul 25, 1901 in Sunbury Oh. parents Died Oct. 1, 1962 (61 yrs.) is buried in Trenton Cemetery. Married Aug 29, 1923 in Kentucky, Ethel Irene Carnes. Born Jan 7, 1909 in Olive Green Oh. Died Feb. 1, 1987 (78 Yrs.)s buried in Trenton Cemetery. They had Rachel Leola Murphy, youngest of 3 children. Rachel Leola Murphy Born Feb. 26, 1933 in Sunbury Oh. Married March 16, 1952 at Condit Presbyterian Church Thomas Edward Buxton Born Dec. 15, 1930 in Croton, Appendix -138- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 141) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2719c46a51a70d93932a3da339ea5194.jpg cc4e617418833423d8d42199e981d86c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 142] [corresponds to page 139 of Pages of Our Lives] Loren History by Rachel Buxton using 1870 and 1900 U. S. Census Delaware County, Oh., and Grace Murphy and Ella Murphy's writings Charity Montgomery was 7 years old and her brothers 9 and 5 years old in 1830 when her Dad, Robert Montgomery, moved his wife and 3 children to Knox County, Ohio from Green County, Pennsylvania. Shortly after this move he died. Mary Elizabeth Montgomery and 3 children soon settles in Harlem Township, Delaware County, Ohio, buying 160 acre farm in 1933. Charity's Mom lived the rest of her life on this farm homestead. She did marry much later Charles Oldham of Harlem Township and they had Nancy and LaAmie Oldham (Charity's two half sisters). Copy of Record from Family Bible: Marriage Charity Montgomery and Jeremiah Loren 11 March 14, 1840 by Daniel Hunt, J.P. at the residence of Charles B. Oldham In Franklin county, at age 16 years and 4 months, Charity Montgomery, my great-great grandmother married 35 year old widower Jeremiah Loren II whose 31 year old wife, Mary Elizabeth Wright and infant had died 5 months before leaving him with 6 children: Peter 16 years, Rachel 11 years, Archibald 8 years, Sibbie 7 years, Catherine 5 years and Pamela (Millie) 3 years old. This young woman took on a heavy load of work. They had 13 children. 1. Infant Loren. 1-31-1840, New Albany, Ohio died at birth 2. Mary Elizabeth Loren, B. 12-18-1843, New Albany, OH, d. 19 months 3. Second infant son B. 2-6-1843 in New Albany, Oh died at birth 4. Theodore F. Loren, B. 2-6-1845 in Harlem Twp. Delaware Co., Oh, D. 4 years 5. John Wesley Loren, B. 11-30-1847 in Harlem Twp, D. 11-15-1931, 81 years 6. James Myers Loren, B. 11-30-1849 in Franklin Co., OH, D. 2-9-1936, 86 years 7. Lucretia Ann Loren, B. 11-17-1851 in Franklin Co., OH, D. 10-31-1913, 64 yrs. 8. Nancy Ellen Loren, B. 2-11-1854 in Harlem Twp., D. 6-23-1940, 86 years 9. Jeremiah Clark Loren. B. 1-6-1856 in Harlem Twp., D. May 1937, 81 years 10. Rebecca Jane Loren, B. 1-31-1858 in Harlem Twp., D. 3-26-1940, 82 years 11. Dora of Isadore Loren, B. 12-24-1860 in Harlem Twp. D. 2 years 12. Eva Rose Loren, B. 4-18-1863 in Harlem Twp., D. 9-14-1946 83 years 13. Josephine Agusta Loren, B. 8-31-1865 in Harlem Twp., D. 5-21-1947, 81 years Charity had a hard life having a child about every 2 years and losing so many children. Infant baby son died in 1840, 2nd infant son died in 1843, Mary Elizabeth died at 19 months in 1843, Theodore died at 4 in 1849, Archibold (stepson) died at 21 years in 1853 and Isadore (Dora) died at 2 years in 1862. They were hard working farmers and helped Charity's mother on her farm which they later bought and their last child August Loren was born in the homestead farm house in 1866. Appendix -139- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 142) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/29805622bb5698988bb185bced88769e.jpg 5bafe3f0cf5a063b80dfd749d5f2bf53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 143] [corresponds to page 140 of Pages of Our Lives] Loren History as Assembled by Grace C. Murphy Jeremiah Loren who was born Aug. 8, 1805 near Hoboken, New Jersey. His parents died when he was a small child. His mother's maiden name was Clark. He was reared by an old lady whom he always called "Granny" McCloud. He married Elizabeth Wright in New Jersey in 1826 when she was 18 and he was 21. Three children were born in New Jersey - Peter, Archie and Rachel - then the family moved to Ohio, Franklin Co., Plain Tp. There Sibbie (1833), Catherine and Millie and an infant were born. The mother and infant and Archie born (1832, died at the age of 21) are buried in Plain Tp. Cemetery. Elizabeth Wright Loren died in 1840. In a few years Grandfather Loren married our grandmother, Charity Montgomery. Four of her children, Theadore (4 yrs.), Mary Elizabeth (19 mos.) and two infants are buried in Plain Twp., Franklin County Cemetery. Uncle Clark Loren had a fence built around the lot a few years before he went to Florida in 1935. Rachel Loren (b. 1830) - Mrs. Jonathan Stauffer had four children Abner Stauffer never married Loma Stauffer Nettleton's oldest son, Charles Nettleton, 1877 Martha Wood, three children Mary Budd (Sherman Budd) no children Sibbie Loren (b. 1833, d. 1896) married Rev. Uriah Wambaugh. 1 son, Uriah Loren Wambaugh. My grandma Loren kept Loren W. while his mother learned the milliner's trade. Loren W. was Aunt Jennie's age. He and his mother lived in Center Village, Harlem Twp., where she had a shop. He married a Center Village girl. All of his later life he lived in Angola, Indiana. Sibbie died 1896. Catherine (b. 1835) married William Orendorf of Center Village who died 1900. Sons Charley, Joie, and Frank. Daughter, Addie M. (Frank) Green. (married later in Calif.) Permelia 'Millie' Loren (b. 1837) married Joe Rarick who died in 1922, of Westerville, Ohio. Ruchie, Allie, and a younger daughter, Janna Jackson, 1 son, Willie Rarick. Uncle Joe and Aunt Millie are buried in Fancher Cemetery. Hannah Jackson lived with Grandma Loren 1 year while her husband, Charley, went to England to claim a family inheritance. There were five Jackson children: Willie, Nellie, Jessie (Mrs. Fred Forgraves), Robert, the youngest. Peter Loren (b. 1825) Jeremiah Loren's oldest went to Missouri and married Betsy Ann Powers there. I, (Ella M. Taylor) remember grandma Chadwick telling how the children watched their brother, Peter, come over the hill as he returned from the Civil War. I believe she was about nine years old at that time. Peter's wife was Betsey Ann Powers - 6 children, sons, Will Loren and Sam Loren. Peter's wife was Betsey Ann Powers - 6 children, sons, Will Loren and Sam Loren. Peter's daughters Manda Loren Combs, Mary Loren Rech, Minnie Loren who died age 10 of snake bite, and Allie Morrison. My Mother, Ella Loren Chadwick, visited Uncle Peters in Centralia, Mo., in 1875. Allie came home with mother and stayed in Ohio 1 year. Uncle Peter visited in Ohio in 1885 or 86. Charity Montgomery (Grandma Loren) Mary Elizabeth Young Montgomery - our great grandmother, moved Green Co., Penna. soon after the death of her husband, Robert Montgomery (about 1830) with three small Appendix -140- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 143) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f176ebf4af02bc580d60caf72d8ec165.jpg eecc53987d15bbb452edf44ad7abf502 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 144] [corresponds to page 141 of Pages of Our Lives] children -- John, 9, Charity, 7 and Myers, 5. She settled in Harlem Twp., Delaware Co., Ohio. Bought 160 A. near the Hunt Schoolhouse and lived there till her death. Then her daughter, Charity, and her husband, Jeremiah Loren II, bought the place. Their youngest child, Gussie, was born there in the old homestead, Aug 1865. Aunt Eva (Mrs. C. D. Wigton) was born on the county line road 1 mile from the Hunt schoolhouse April, 1863, Ella, 1854, Clark 1856, Dora 1860 (2 Yrs.) Jennie 1858 were born where John Triplett lives (1950) south of the Hunt schoolhouse. Theodore (4 yrs.), Mary Elizabeth (19 mos.), John 1847, James 1849, and Lucretia 1851 were born in Plain Twp. Franklin Co., Ohio [Newspaper clipping] [Caption] Mrs Charitt Loren's Obituary in 1892 Mary E. Young Montgomery married Charles Oldham of Harlem Tp., a number of years after she come to Ohio. By him she had two daughters, Nancy and LaAmie. Nancy married Hiram Cockrell and they had four daughters, Mary and Millie died. LeAmie Cockrell married Lake. I knew one of her children, Aimee lake, in Sunbury High School. She lived with James Cockrell. LaAimie Oldham married Whitney -- "Big Dave" first marriage. One child, Tiny Whitney. They are both buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Johnstown, Ohio. Pictures of Tiny and her father are set in the monument. Sister Goldie went to see the stone about 1940. Taken from slips of paper in old Chadwick Bible: Jo Ann Sinkey (Harold's) 12-10-40, Goldie Sinkey's grandchild Ruth Elizabeth Sinkey (William's) 1-31-43, Goldie Sinkey's grandchild John David Taylor (Ells's) 3-8-1943, Grace Murphy's grandchild Paul Richard Sinkey (Harold's) 8-17-'43, Grace Murphy's grandchild John Wm. Sinkey (William's) 5-20-47, Goldie Sinkey's grandchild Grace Barbara Taylor (Ella's) 12-8-1947, 1 daughter, Amy B. 9-4-1970 Brenda Kay McElroy (Martha's) 10-8-1958, Grace Murphy's grandchild Elsie Bierbower, daughter of James Cockerell Bierbower, Columbus, Ohio became an actress with the stage name of Elsie Janis. Her mother travel with her when they left the of "El Jan" in Columbus, Ohio. After her mother's death, she married in New York state. Elsie had one brother, Percy Bierbower, who drowned while crossing the Atlantic. LaAimie Oldham Whitney married, second marriage, Joe Eubanks and had one son, Percy Eubanks, born 1871. Marriages taken from Chadwick family Bible Nancy Ellen Loren (d. 6-23-1940) and William Wellington Chadwick (d. 3-17-1922) Grace L. Chadwick, (d 4-30-1960) and Farrah C. Murphy (died June 29, 1966) Married Mar. 8, 1900 at Condit, Ohio W. Garfield Chadwick and Edna B. Patrick m. July 4, 1901 at Galena, O. Appendix -141- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 144) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/af42ff949747ce2e2469dceadf8fd29a.jpg 06b0682d425f66621c4c5030158ff75c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 145] [corresponds to page 142 of Pages of Our Lives] Goldie M. Chadwick and Gail Sinkey married M. 16, 1913 at Galena. Gail died 6-27-1916. Goldie died 11-20-1946 J. Loren Chadwick and Goldie Ethel Hartsough married Nov. 17, 1921 at Newark. John Raymond Chadwick and Mary Ruth Utley m. June 20, 1923 at Sunbury, O. He died 11-8-1961. John Raymond Chadwick. Jr. died 11-24-1924, age 5 days. Grandson Arthur B. Murphy married Ethel Irene Carnes 8-29-1923 in Ky. He died 10-1-1962, age 61. Darrel Chadwick Murphy and Eva Ernestine Zartman married 1-27-1929 in Ky. Births: William W. Chadwick 10-12-1854 Died 1922 Ella Loren Chadwick 2-11-1854 Died 1940 Grace Lee Chadwick 10-7-1878 Died 1960 W. Garfield Chadwick 10-12-1880 Died 1967 J. Loren Chadwick 11-15-1887 - Goldie Mae Chadwick 7-20-1891 Died 1946 Mildred Eulalie Chadwick 2-17-1894 Died 11-11-1986 John Raymond Chadwick 9-8-1896 Died 1961 Children (Grace's) Arthur B. Murphey B. 7-25-1901 Darrel Chadwick Murphey 10-13-1902 Ella Loren Murphey 4-30-1906 Martha Adams Murphey 5-30-1915 (Garfield's) Doris L. Chadwick 7-31,1905 Thomas Charles Chadwick 8-21-1907 Died 6-27-1940 Maxine Chadwick 10-18-1920 Edward Dean Chadwick 5-5-1925 Died 7-9-1926 (Goldie's) William Daniel Sinkey 2-26-1914 Harold Chadwick Sinkey 2-29-1910 Died Jan. 1973 (Lorens) Paul Frederick Chadwick 10-3-1922 stayed with Murphy at 5 last heard from him 1930 (Arthur's) Velma V. Murphy (A. B. M's daughter) Feb 24, 1928 (Darrel's) Carl James Murphy (D. C. M's son) 2-14-1929 to 3-24-1929 Mary Ellen Murphy (D. C. M's daughter) 2-13-1931- to 1-9-2005 (Arthur's) Lovett Carnes Murphy (Arthur's son) 2-25-1931 to 10-30-1991 Rachel Leola (Arthur's daughter) 2-26-1933 (Darrel's) Frank Richard (DM) 7/22/35 Ralph Ernest 4/11/37 (Martha's) Rose Ella McElroy (Martha's) 6-4-1936 Mary Jane McElroy 5-16-1939 Donald Harvey McElroy 9-21-1940 James Earl McElroy 12-16-1944 Betty Ann McElroy 11-17-1946 Brenda Kay McElroy 1-8-1958 Appendix -142- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 145) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/31b566c6d6cfc8f5c1a90390216cbe3c.jpg 1a20515cd1b5a7c4de69a3bbed571e72 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 146] [corresponds to page 143 of Pages of Our Lives] Chadwick Family History James Chadwick 1st, B. 1792-d. 1864 at 62 years, married August 11, 1831 Catherine Slack, b. July 17, 1812 - d. May 10, 1859 at 47 years. They had 10 children: 1. Sarah Chadwick B. 1832, D. July 1912 (80 years) married William A. Wigton they had 7 children. 2. John Chadwick, B. 1834, D. 1899 (65 years) Married Irene Page. They had 3 children 3. Margaret Chadwick, B. 1838, D. 1910 (74 years) Married Alfred Morehouse. They had 3 children 4. Mary Chadwick, B. 1838, D. 1914 (76 Years) Married Edward Wipple. They had 5 children 5. James Chadwich 2nd, B. 1840 married Charlotte?. They had 1 daughter. 6. Joseph Chadwick, B. 1842. Married Barbara Benow. They had 4 children. They built a house near Ashley, Ohio 7. Nancy Chadwick, B. 1844 Married Nathaniel Frost. They had 1 son. 8. Marian Chadwick, B. 1846 Married Moroe Vance. They had 2 children 9. Lottie Chadwick, B, 1851 Married George Wigton, they had one adopted daughter 10. William Wellington Chadwick, B. 1854, D. 3-17-1922 (67 years), Married Nancy Ellen Loren, They had 6 children. 1. Grace Lee Chadwick, B. 1878 - taught school at Condit before marriage D. April 30, 1960 (82 years). 2. William Garfield Chadwick, B. about 1880 lived in Linden, a northeast section of Columbus, OH 3. James Loren Chadwick, B. about 1887 lived at Condit Married 11-17-1921 at Newark, Ohio, Goldie Ethel Hartsbough. They had one son Paul Frederick Chadwick, B. 10-3-1922. Paul lived with his Aunt Grace Murphy the winter of 1927-28. Paul left Murphy Hill April 1928 to visit his mother in Dayton, Ohio. Later he went to Pittsburg, PA. Grace heard from him last in 1930. She said he was the nicest little boy she ever knew. 4. Goldie M. Chadwick, B. 1891, taught school in Youngstown, Ohio, for 23 years. Goldie married Gail Sinkey, the son of William Sinkey who built our house on Roberts Road near Croton, Ohio. Goldie died suddenly of an embolism at age 55 years in 1946. They had: 1. William Sinkey 2. Harold Sinkey William married Margaret?. They had 1. Ruth Elizabeth Sinkey, B. 1-31-1943 2. John William Sinkey, B. 5-20-1947 3. Betsy Sinkey She married Guckeyson Harold married Sadie. They had: 1. Jo Ann Sinkey. B. 12-10-1940 2. Paul Richardson Sinkey, B, 8-17-1943 5. Mildred Chadwick, B. 1893, D. 2 1/2 years 6. John Raymond Chadwick B. 1896 was a minister and president of Iowa Wesleyan University Appendix -143- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 146) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/295f47e21774b396e02182563f0884c9.jpg f29693aef3a417f769bf674e2d4b50b4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 147] [corresponds to page 144 of Pages of Our Lives] NOT IN THIS TREE Grace married Farrah Carl Murphy, b. 1874- d. 1866 (92 years). They had: 1. Arthur Bradley Murphy, b. 1901 - d. 1962 2. Darrel Chadwick Murphy, b. 1902 - d. 1988 3. Ella Loren Murphy, b. 1906 - d. 1988 4. Martha Adams Murphy, b. 1918 - d. 1994 (continued in the Murphy Family History) Sarah Chadwick, eldest child of James and Catharine Slack Chadwick was born near Ashley, O. Aug. 27, 1832. She was the oldest of ten children, five have preceded her in death. She was united in marriage William A Wigton June 23, 1852. Seven children were born to them two dying in early childhood. The husband and father passed on April 18,1813 leaving her with care of five young children. She was a most devoted mother never happier than when ministering to her children. She united with the Berkshire Methodist Church under the pastorate of Rev John Whitworth. When she was able to go, she was always found in her place in the church and took an interest in all the work of the church. she was a good neighbor and as long as health and strength permitted was ever ready to lend a helping hand in sickness. Grandma Wigton passed from us Sunday morning July 28, 1912 at the Old Home near Sunbury where she had spent the great part of her married life having lived on the same farm nearly 55 years. Two sisters, two brothers three sons, two daughters and seventeen grandchildren are left to mourn. Her influence as a kind and loving mother and as a consistent Christian still lives. You all knew her. Her pure and noble life tell more words. The pall bearers were W. L. Wigton, M. D. Wigton, Eurolus Wigton, Vernel Wigton, Garfield and Loren Chadwick. Sarah Chadwick Wigton is the sister of Grandmother Murphey's father, W. W. Chadwick. Chadwick Family for the Sunbury Bicentennial W. W. Chadwick's father, James, came as a young man from near London, England and settled close to Ashley, Ohio. Here he met and married Catherine Slack in 1831. To this union were born 11 children, William Wellington being the youngest who arrived a few months after his father's death in 1854. Within 4 years time his mother also died so W. W. as he was called, went to live with his oldest sister, Sarah, wife of Mr. A. Wigton. The Wigton's lived on a large farm a short distance west of Sunbury. This farm was bought by the Cochran family about 1918. Not far from the Wigton home was that of Jeremiah Loren family, and as was fairly common in those days, young people found their mates nearby. Three members of the Loren home married three from the Wigton household, one of them being the marriage of W. W. [Photo] [Photo caption] Nancy Ellen Loren Chadwick Grandma Murphy's Mom Appendix -144- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 147) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/40648413d1276ad921cf1254cbea2e26.jpg 341b88d339d6969250dc6ff077d50029 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 148] [corresponds to page 145 of Pages of Our Lives] Chadwick to Nancy Ellen Loren, a young teacher, in 1876 [Photo] [Photo caption] William Garfield, Goldie Mac, James Loren and John Raymond behind Grace Lee (Rachel's Grandmother) Nancy Ellen Chadwick and William Wellington Chadwick (Rachel's great grandparents) The young couple moved to Sunbury and lived in the old Letts Property here their first child, Grace Chadwick was born in 1878. when she was 2 years of age her father and mother built a new house close to the R. R. Station at Condit. Nearby on the west side of the road W.W. Chadwick built a tile mill where he manufactured tile throughout his lifetime. He died in 1922. Grace Chadwick, along with her younger brother, Garfield, attended Sunbury High School in the City Hall Bldg. where Grace graduated in 1898 in a class of 6 girls. In this group were Maggie Wilson, [Mrs. Dr. Gerehardt,] Grace Schaffer, [Mrs. Milton Utley] Grace Chadwick [Mrs. F. C. Murphy], Edna McVey, Mrs Pearl B. Cocharan and Bertha W. Grace taught school for two years at "the Perfect School" on the old CCC highway, then in 1900 married Mr. F.C. Murphey who was also a teacher at that time. They lived on the Murphey homestead where they raised 4 children - Arthur, Darrel - better known as Pat, Ella (Mrs. David L. Taylor) & Martha (Mrs. Harvey McElroy.) [Photo] [Photo caption] Grace Chadwick Murphy [Photo] [Photo caption] Grace Chadwick Murphy The second Chadwick child, Garfield, became the Secetary of Treasurer of the Sunbury Creamery which stood where the Nestle plant now stands. Garfield was a "whiz" in mathematics and could add in his head two columns of figures faster than the new adding machines of that time. His children, Doris and Charles attended Sunbury schools before going to Columbus. Appendix -145- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 148) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/22c5f49c3ee7262f9a4d99037c76c6d3.jpg cbd50bda5eea2be36f4e690879d926df Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 149] [corresponds to page 146 of Pages of Our Lives] The third Child born to Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Chadwick was Goldie, a redhead, who after two years at Ohio Wesleyan University, married Gail W. Sinkey. In three years time Gail died leaving his wife with two small sons to raise. She taught school until her death in 1946, two years were taught in the Sunbury High School in the early thirties. [Photo] [Photo caption] Gail Sinkey, the little Boy in Picture of house, who married Goldie Chadwick Rachel's Great Aunt [Photo] [Photo caption] Goldie Chadwick Sinkey, wife of Gail Sinkey whose Dad built our house on Roberts Road The next Chadwick child was Loren Who served in World War I and helped run the tile mill with his father. [Photo] [Photo caption] James Loren Chadwick Grandma Murphy's brother The youngest son, John Raymond Chadwick, grew up at Condit and also became a teacher before attending O.W.U. where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1920. At the age of 14 Raymond had lost his right hand at the tile mill, but instead of letting this tragic accident ruin his life, he was strengthened by it and compensated by making very good use of his mind. He became a minister of the Methodist Church and President of Iowa Wesleyan College for 10 years prior to his death. In June, 1923 John Raymond Chadwick was married to Mary Ruth Utley, teacher in the primary grades at Sunbury School. Ruth was a great help to her husband as a minister's wife and together they spent their lives helping to educate young people. Mr. W. W. Chadwick, who owned and operated a tile mill at Condit from 1880-1920, was well known throughout the county for his fine tile which still drain. [Photo] [Photo caption] Grandma Murphy's Brother Loren, Garfield, Raymond Chadwick Appendix -146- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 149) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9f344e2ebad6761f999a24ed8b502dfa.jpg 89c09ae66fba28775a53fb880bca3d0b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 150] [corresponds to page 147 of Pages of Our Lives] acres of our farm lands. He was a hard working, honest, and generous man. Many a "hobo" came to his door for a handout and he never went away hungry. Many friends and neighbors left their horses in his barn while the took the train to Columbus or other destinations. [Image] [Image caption] Great Aunt Ruth Chadwick's Father Ella Chadwick, William's wife, also worked from dawn til dark baking, cleaning, sewing, and of course canning and making apple butter. She was a meticulous person about everything she did-her appearance, her lawn with a white picket fence, her house with a beautiful parlor which was used mainly for entertaining the minister, and even the papered outhouse at the end of a well kept grape arbor. She was a beautiful seam-stress and made clothing for the entire family. She also loved to sing the old songs of her youth as she had attended Singing School at Center Village. Ella Chadwick trained her children will in morals, concern for others, and in learning all that they could from books. Both Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick were devout in their religion and usually attended the Methodist Church whenever services were held there. Mr. W. W. Chadwick also attended the Condit Presbyterian Church and usually kept peppermint losingers in his vest pocket for a restless grandchild during the service. (I, Ella Murphey Taylor, sat beside my grandpa and had many a peppermint treat.) [Image] Appendix -147- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 150) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1a8b5dbc0b37521f829f6aab34df2e3b.jpg b7c610b5d7e848194582dbd6a17cd4e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 151] [corresponds to page 148 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] [Image caption] Grandma Murphey's Father The Loren and Chadwick families all had good minds of which they were rightly proud, and they passed this heritage on to their descendants. W. W. Chadwick's Obituary Goldie Sinkey Obituary Hartford News article dated Nov. 28th, 1946 in the Johnstown Independent. Mrs. Goldie Sinkey, 55, widow of Gail Sinkey. A former resident of this community, died at her home in Youngstown Tuesday evening, Nov. 19th and the following relatives from this community survive. Daisy Davidson of Centerburg, Mr. & Mrs. Chell H. Sinkey, Miss Fern Sinkey, Miss Vinnie Sinkey attended the funeral services conducted by Rev. Raymond Chadwick of Allience Michigan. The funeral was held at the Presbyterian church in Condit last Saturday afternoon and the burial service in the Trenton Cemetery. [Photo] [Photo caption] Rachel with the bulk milk tank for of milk - 1974 [Photo] [Photo caption] Thomas Buxton Farm - 1982 [Photo] [Photo caption] Tom Buxton and Gator, October 2005 [Photo] [Photo caption] Tina, Perry and Rex with steer pool calves for Hartford Fair - 1974 Appendix -148- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 151) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2a62a1f144b1b6041b3838a19961afa3.jpg 9a2a9aa9c77f865d5eb433b79fe4836a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 152] [corresponds to page 149 of Pages of Our Lives] Carnes and Olmsted Family Tree Rachel's Murphy's Emmitt Cotton Carnes, b. about 1849-d. 1929 or pneumonia Great Grandparents married Emily Melissa Catt b. 1884 - d. 1936. Both buried in on her Mom's East Liberty Cemetery. They had 12 children: Father's side 1. John Leonard Carnes, b. Aug. 18, 1882 - d. 1941 2. Elmer Carnes (oldest) 3. Lenna Carnes 4. Bell Carnes 5. Edith Carnes 6. Mable Carnes 7. Frank Carnes 8. Clarence Carnes 9. Luther Carnes (youngest), b. about Nov 1893 - d. 1946 10. Mandy Carnes 11. ? Carnes 12. ? Carnes Rachel Murphy's Elmer Carl Olmsted married (June 15, 1878) Louella Jean Great Grandparents Alverson. on her Mom's They had 7 children: Mother's side 1. John Francis Olmsted, b. 1880 - d. Nov. 1947 2. Alice Leola Olmsted, b. 1885, d. 1936 3. William Robe Olmsted, b 1883 - d. 1957 4. Elbert Ray Olmsted, b. 1891 5. Hettie Dell Olmsted, b. 1895 6. Charles Dewey Olmsted, b. 1898 7. Olive Lucille Olmsted, b. 1903 - d. Dec. 13, 1979 Rachel's John Leonard Carnes, b. 1882 - d. 1941 married Alice Leola Grandparents on Olmsted, b. 1883 - d. 1936. both are buried East Liberty her Mom's side Cemetery. They had 2 children: 1. Ethel Irene Carnes, b. Juan. 9, 1909 - d. Feb. 1, 1987 Buried in Trenton Cemetery. 2. Willbur Willis Carnes, b. Feb. 2 1915 - d. Jan. 29, 2002. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery at Waverly, Ohio. He married Mary Conklin and they had 1 child Rachel's Parents Ethel Irene Carnes married (Aug. 19, 1923) Arthur Bradley Murphy, b. Jul 25, 1901 - d. Oct. 1, 1962. Both are buried in Trenton Cemetery. they had 4 children: 1. Florence Cleo Murphy, b. Mar. 25, 1924 (died after birth) 2. Velma Victoria Murphy, b. Feb. 24, 1928 3. Lovett Carnes Murphy, b. Feb 25, 1931 - d. Oct 31, 1991. Buried in Trenton Cemetery 4. Rachel Leola Murphy, b. Feb 26, 1933 Appendix -149- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 152) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/649007e693f89539a7afaf1bec855fb4.jpg fc4a5d993e9d2a6effbe39aa6b9bec11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 153] [corresponds to page 150 of Pages of Our Lives] My Family: Rachel Leola Murphy married (Mar. 16, 1952) Thomas Edward Buxton, b. Dec. 15, 1930. they have 3 children: 1. Tina Marie Buxton, b. Dec. 28, 1956 2. Perry Newell Buxton, B. Nov, 16, 1958 3. Rex Bradley Buxton, b. Dec 8, 1964 4. Stepson Jerry Edward Callen, b. May 24, 1949 [Photo] [Photo caption] Emmett Carnes, Luther Carnes, John Leonard and his wife, Alice Leola Carnes Emmitt and Melissa Carnes Family History Emily Melissa Carnes, my great-grandmother, was a strong, small petite woman The doctor was never able to arrive on time to help with the birth of her 12 children and she never missed milking her cow as grandpa could not milk. Great-grandfather Carnes was a strong boy who wanted to join the army. He was allowed to join the Civil War (1861-1865) at 16 since he could throw this big disk far enough. He was stationed in Brownsvill, Texas. He returned from the war, was married and ran a timber business and horse business and raised 12 children. In his horse business he would buy cheap draft horses (work horses) or plug horses (ones not fed or taken care of) get them in better condition and sell them for a profit. He was a red haired triplet with the other two being blond and dark haired. Appendix -150- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 153) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/21b6843e7f9f27fdbe76d1ca6acb9eea.jpg 7cb6c28aff568559825bd5db27ab10dc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 154] [corresponds to page 151 of Pages of Our Lives] Emmitt Cotton Carnes, b. about 1849 - d. 1928 of pneumonia, married Emily Melissa Catt, b. 1884 - d. 1936. both are buried in East Liberty Cemetry. they had 12 children: 1. John Leonard Carnes, b. Aug. 18, 1882 - d. 1941 2. Elmer Carnes (the oldest child) 3. Lenna Carnes 4. Bell Carnes 5. Edith Carnes 6. Mable Carnes 7. Frank Carnes 8. Clarence Carnes 9. Luther Carnes (the youngest child), b. about Nov. 1893 - d. 1946 10. Mandy Carnes 11. ? Carnes 12. ? Carnes, Vedia's mother who died young of T.B. [Photo] [Photo caption] John Leonard Carnes and grandson, Jon, - 1940 [Photo] [Photo caption] John Leonard Carnes [Photo] [Photo caption] Alice Leola Olmsted [Photo] [Photo caption] John Leonard and Alice Leola Carnes [Photo] [Photo caption] Farm where Wilber Carnes was born (1). John Leonard Carnes, b. 1882 - d. 1941 married Alice Leola Olmstead, b. 1884 - d. 1936. Both are buried in East Liberty Cemetery. They had: 1. Ethel Irene Carnes, B. Jan 9, 1909 - d. Feb. 1, 1987. Buried in Trenton Cemetery. 2. Wilbur Willis Carnes, b. Feb 2, 1915 - d. Jan 29, 2002. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Appendix -151- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 154) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3314bdbfcf7aae25e5e1c73d503c7f15.jpg feba0e43d66533643ed1ca08f68df021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 155] [corresponds to page 152 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Wilber Carnes at home in Bell Center, Ohio Grandpa Carnes had a housekeeper named Fannie after his first wife died and before he married (2) Hariet Vogelsang in 1939. He hung himself in the barn while I was staying with them when I was 8 years old. I was sent to the neighbor's and Dad got me the next morning. (1) Ethel married (Aug. 29, 1923 in Kentucky) Arthur Bradley Murphy, b. Jul 25, 1901 - d. Oct. 1, 1962. They had 3 living children (in Murphy History) (2) Wilber married (1938) (1) Mary Conklin, d. Mar. 1972 from cancer. They had 1. Jon Carnes, b. Mar. 25, 1938 - d. Jul. 6, 2004 Buried in South Salem Cemetery. Jon married (1968) Jenna Randsdell, b. 1939. They were both school teachers and active in farm Bureau, school and church. Wilber married 1973 (at Johnstown, Ohio) Sarah Woodruff, b. Sept. 13, 1924. They had both lost their spouses in 1972 and met at the bank where Sarah was working in Waverly, Ohio. [Photo] [Photo caption] Wilber, Mary and Jon Carnes [Photo] [Photo caption] Wilber Carnes (my Mother's brother) and his car [Photo] [Photo caption] Wilber Carnes with seatbelt he designed Wilber Carnes installed the 1st seat belts in the cars and trucks where he worked at Atomic energy plant in Piketon, Ohio. He was a 52 year member of the Moose Lodge. Appendix -152- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 155) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1d6c11aabe73e80877eed2d1d3c7bf50.jpg 8fcb59e7d585d283546c25e7b6ec3862 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 156] [corresponds to page 153 of Pages of Our Lives] (2). Elmer Carnes married and Charles who lived in Toledo, Ohio. He also had a girl named Voleta. He was a diabetic and had one leg off. (3). Lenna Carnes married Emmitt Mathews I. They had 5 children: 1. Ralph Mathew married Dorothy 2. Elbert Mathews married Vera Olmsted (In Olmsted History) 3. Emmitt Mathews, II married (1) Blanch, (2) Edith. He had by 1st wife: 1. Kenneth Mathews 2. Clarence Mathews 4. Edith Mathews 5. Hazel Mathews married Virgel Ralson. They had 1. Leta May Ralson 2. Udell Ralson 3. Boy Ralson (4). Bell Carnes married (1) Hicks and they had 1. Charles Hicks 2. Clara Hicks Bell married (2)Browning who was a Major in W. W. II. They had 1. Homer Browning who was in army Special Forces in Vietnam War 2. rose Browning married ? and had (5). Edith Carnes married Price (6). Mable Carnes married Mort Sherman and they had 1. Maynard Sherman married Helen Shafer. They had 1. Robert Sherman married and had 1. Robert Sherman, Jr. 2. William married Sharon and had 1. Ryan Sherman 2. Jason Sherman 3. Nancy Sherman married Larry Kolmer and had 1. Melody Kolmer 2. (boy) Kolmer who lives in California 2. Gordon Sherman married Margaret Watson. He soon went to W. W. II and died in Italy. He was a tail gunner on a B24 bomber. 3. Ronald Sherman, b. 1919 and lived in Centerburg, Ohio. He married Patricia Willis. They had: 1. Susan Sherman, b. Nov. 11, 1943 and lives in Galena, Ohio 2. Jim Sherman, b. Oct 10, 1949. He is a farmer and has a mail route. He married Denice Merise. The had: 1. Robert Sherman, b. Dec. 24, 1979. 2. Thomas Sherman, b. June 1985 Ronald Sherman had diphtheria in the winter if 1929 when he was 10 years old. He recovered OK but they were quarantined for 3 months when his mother Mable Carnes Sherman and sister tested as carriers of diphtheria. They could not sell their milk or eggs so they made ice cream with their extra milk and eggs so they wouldn't go to waste. They used 1 1/2 dozen eggs and 1 1/2 gallons of cream and creek chipped ice to make their ice cream in their hand cranked ice cream freezer. They put ice around the metal container Appendix -153- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 156) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/37938f6bfe945562fde47e5b4fc0d2eb.jpg 17c1361835786265f6e2f2d7170e9533 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 157] [corresponds to page 154 of Pages of Our Lives] holding the cream mixture, and as it melted as you turned the crank handle, the ice cream froze. They ate a lot of rich ice cream that winter. They had plenty of food to eat as they had their canned fruit and vegetables from their garden and orchard and their milk. They butchered their beef for meat. His mother, Mable, did not go to her father's Emmitt Carnes, funeral but did get to view him through the window. He died of pneumonia the same winter when they were all quarantined in 1929. (7) Frank Carnes married and had Harold and a girl named Bessie. Frank was a farmer who milked cows. He married his (1) wife. They had Bessie and Harold then a little girl who died in a car accident and his wife became overly religious in 7th Day Adventist Church. He married (2) Pearl and she was a spiritualist and this also did not last. He married his (3) wife from Michigan. He also had (4) wife. He lived with his brother Luther and his wife on their farm during the Depression years in 1929 and had Lydia Bowser as a girl friend. He died of a stroke. [Photo] [Photo caption] Frank Carnes and his wife (8). Clarence Carnes married (1) Merle VanSickle, a maiden lady who had 2 brothers Clarence and the 2 brothers all worked with the horses and cattle on the same farm. Each farm could defer one man from serving in World War I. Merle would not let 2 brothers go so Clarence went to war. The brother brought Clarence's animals real cheap thinking he might not come back but he did. Clarence would not buy his animals back at the high price the brothers wanted so he left Merle. Clarence married (2) Mary Waldron, an old maid school teacher. She was very smart bit odd. She did not keep things very clean or cook very well and had a little dog in the house but she was fun to be around. They had a hired man who nearly died from eating her tainted cherry pie. Clarence got so upset one day when he came home from town and found all his beer was gone that his face turned beet red. He had bought several cans of beer and had it cooling in the barn water tank for the harvest workers coming soon. While he was gone, Ben Grooms, another hired hand. was so hot while he was working that Mary told him to go out to the barn and get a cold beer. He drank Appendix -154- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 157) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cd04b27899bd37a22dde4aedd3366e54.jpg ff7afaca502d69ce38db9c70869fb393 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 158] [corresponds to page 155 of Pages of Our Lives] them all. Lucille Conklin was visiting them, then, when a girl, and it scared her that he might hit some one but it didn't bother Mary. She said, "Just let him cool down, and he will be alright." After Mary died, Clarence had a heart attack when his niece Wilma Carnes was a senior in high school as she remembers visiting him in the hospital. His roommate was a Mr. Harrington, Edith, Mr. Harrington's wife, visited them often. Later after her husband died, Clarence married (3) Edith Harrington. Her Personality was prim and proper, - just the opposite Mary. Clarence was a farmer in Olive Green. (9). Luther Carnes, b. about Nov. 1893 was the youngest in the family. D. in 1975 by hanging himself. He married (1.) Nellie Lucille Lane who died in 1946. The had 1. Edward Wendall Carnes, B Jan. 24, 1929 2. Wilma Lurene Carnes, b. April 3, 1934 Luther married Lillian Searles in 1949. Luther was a dairy farmer who milked Jersey cows. He made pets out of them. He bedded them knee deep with straw every day. In the winter he had to break the creek ice so the cows could drink when he turned them in to the pasture as had no water in the barn. Wendell Carnes remembers when he was about six years old, his Dad Luther was working in the haymow and accidentally stuck the pitchfork in his knee. It became infected, blood poisoning set in and later gangrene so his Dad finally went to the doctor. Dr Ihle wanted to amputate his leg but Luther said he would die first so a treatment was prescribed. It did heal and his leg was saved. [Photo] [Photo caption] Luther and Lillian Carnes [Photo] [Photo caption] Wendall Carnes and Wilber Carnes Luther and Clarence Carnes were in the same camp in the army in World War I. Luther was very ill with pneumonia. A doctor thought Luther was dead and laid him out with the dead bodies. Clarence came looking for his brother and found him, [Photo] [Photo caption] Wilber and 1st Cousin Wendall Carnes Appendix -155- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 158) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9114e7de171080ed65db21bedf92510b.jpg c57819f7dd094e72f284ff627a6ba58d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 159] [corresponds to page 156 of Pages of Our Lives] there, still alive. He got treatment for him which saved his life. (1) Wendell married Pat Boyd in 1956 for 4 1/2 years. Wendall was a pilot for 27 years. He had cancer in 2003. He is very active in Methodist Church in Cardova, Tennessee. He is now (2004) building a new house in Lakeland, Tennessee. (2) Wilma Carnes married Thomas Charles Myers in 1960. They had: 1. Victoria Lynn Myers, b. Jan 21, 1960 Vicki married (1) Scott Hughes about Feb. 1990 Vicki Married (2) Lew Gerrick in 2002 2. Jackie Lee Myers, b. Oct. 11, 1961 Jackie married (1) Randy Warner in 1992 Jackie married (2) Gary Covert in 2000 twins 3. Donald Patrick Myers, b. May 9 1964 Donald married Feb. 24, 1996 Clare Heilig Gress. They had: 1. Lillie Ann, B. April 18, 2003, D. May 4, 2003 2. Ellie Marie, b. June 10, 2004 4. Ronald James Myers, b. 1964. He is not married. (10). Mandy Carnes Married (1) Francis Nutt senior. they had: 1. Francis Nutt, Junior who was a farmer. Francis married and had: 1. Boy 2. boy (11). _________ Carnes (12). Mother of Vedia who married Reginal and had: 1. Audry 2. Boy Vedia's mother died of T.B. when young. She also had a sister who died of T.B. One of the Carnes sisters hung herself Two of the Carnes brothers hung themselves. Jon Carnes (Rachel Murphy Buxton's 1st Cousin) My first cousin Jon Carnes was the only child of Wilbur and Mary Carnes. He was born March 25, 1939 and died July 7, 2004 at the age of 65. His dad Wilbur Carnes, my mother's brother died June 29, 2002 at the age of 87. Jon's mother died of cancer in March 1972. Jon graduated from Delaware High School before his folks moved to Waverly, Ohio where Jon finished his education. Jon Married Jenna in 1968 and taught 4th grade and sometimes 5th and 6th grades for 26 years while Jenna taught juniors and seniors in high school. they were very active in Farm Bureau and school [Photo] [Photo caption] Jon Carnes-1959 Appendix -156- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 159) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b2b033e4a03808c3b159f8b7fa57f772.jpg 5c472e4078fc6613b27bbeb8a91aa5d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 160] [corresponds to page 157 of Pages of Our Lives] programs as they both loved working with children yet had no children of their own. They were members of Concord Presbyterian Church where Jon was an Elder. The both taught Sunday school and loved to sing at the quaint 200 year old Church near Frankfort, Ohio. [Photo] [Photo caption] Jon Carnes in Arthur Murphy's 1941 car Jenna discovered she had Multiple Sclerosis which gradually grew worse. She continued to teach even though confined to a wheel chair for a wile. Later she was confined her bed. Jon continued to care for her at home with the help of a neighbor couple who had lived in the trailer next door for 11 years. They had helped Jon for 8 years with Jenna's care by coming over twice a day to assist with bathing and feeding. On Friday, July 2, 2004, the neighbor come over as usual and found Jon unconscious. He was taken to Grant Hospital in Columbus, Ohio where he died 5 days later. He had suffered extensive internal bleeding from a massive stroke in his brain. Pastor Todd Thomas had Jon's funeral as he had been his minister for the last 5 years. Jon was buried at South Salem Cemetery. Afterwards, family and friends gathered at the church for lunch. Jenna was taken on Monday July, 12 2004 to Calcutta Heath Care in East Liverpool, Ohio to be near her life long girl friend Judy Miller. [Photo] [Photo caption] Wilber, Jenna and Jon Carnes - 1973 Appendix -157- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 160) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c32beebbb1ba991e7a41f1eaf899f1ef.jpg 1dcb481b3e153ebcdbdcf862f575a7be Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 161] [corresponds to page 158 of Pages of Our Lives] [Image] [Image caption] Delaware , O. Gazette Monday, May 23, 1966 Veteran East-County Residents Recall Porter 'Devil's Strip' Appendix -158- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 161) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e917a8657e791ced1bb8a82b2a10c067.jpg 27d5dcd430af06ffe2f6c6fd49fe4092 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 162] [corresponds to page 159 of Pages of Our Lives] Olmstead Family History The Olmsteds came from Sweden and inter married with Germans. They moved to Pennsylvania and then came to Ohio in a covered wagon. All of the Olmsteds were short and heavy sit. A lot of Olmsteds are buried in Blendon Corners Cemetery near Westerville, Ohio. Emily Jane, the mother of Elmer Case Olmsted, weighed about 300 pounds and had red hair. A special casket was made and couldn't get it through the church door. They took her to the cemetery, buried her and came back and had the service. She was Welch heritage. Elmer Case Olmsted, born in 1855 married (June 15, 1878) Louella Jean Alverson. They had seven children: 1. John Francis Olmsted (Uncle Frank), b. 1880 - d. Nov. 1947 2. Alice Leola Olmsted, b. May 19, 1885, d. 1936 3. William Robe Olmsted (Uncle Will), b. 1883 - d. 1957 4. Ebert Ray Olmsted (Uncle Ray), b. Oct, 1891 5. Hettie Dell Olmsted, B. Jul 21, 1895 6. Charles Dewey Olmsted (Uncle Charles), b. Nov. 28, 1898 7. Olive Lucille Olmsted, B. Mar. 24, 1903 - d. Dec. 13, 1979, buried in Bloomfield Cemetery. (1). John Francis Olmsted married (Aug. 19, 1903) (1) Mary Blanch Irwin. They had 3 children. He married (2) Ethel Peet. He was a missionary for 17 years, part of the time in Africa where he was president of the college. Vera and Elise were born in Africa before his wife got sick and they came back to the U.S. Virgel was born in the U.S. and 16 yrs. old when his Mom died. 1. Vera Lenor Olmsted, b. Jan. 4, 1907. she was a nurse. Vera married (July 17, 1930) Elbert Mathews. They had 4 children: 1. Francis Louis Mathews, b. Dec. 23, 1927 - d. June 10, 1947 by drowning. 2. Richard Eugene Mathews, b. - died of over medication for seizures 3. Phyllis Anne Mathews, B. May 24, 1931 - D. Jan. 10 , 1976 married (1) Roberson (2) Don See 4. Marilyn Josephine Mathews, Sept. 10, 1932 - d. married Henry See 2. Elsie Irene Olmsted, b. Mar. 16, 1909 Elsie Irene married (Nov. 29, 1933) Lincoln McKinley Garfield Cox b. Aug 9, 1901 - d. Aug 8, 1989. they Had 1 child 1. Ruth Elaine Cox, B. Nov. 19, 1936 Elaine m (1) Jim Arrington Elaine m. (Oct 18, 1972) (2) Wayne Wallace, D. Mar. 2004. They had: Adopted I. Ickconna Irene Wallace, b. Jan 6, 1970 Ickconna married Douglas King. They had: [Photo] [Photo image] Seated: Elaine, Darlene, Elsie Behind: Wayne, Leonnie, Lincoln Christmas 1983 Appendix -159- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 162) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e8653d0b664544598c5af457847e91df.jpg d41f5bb99fa37f88657dccd05fc76d35 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 163] [corresponds to page 160 of Pages of Our Lives] 1. Xylon McKinley King b. Jul. 4, 1993 2. La Kota Morgan King, b. Aug. 29, 1996 2. Angelis Darlene Wallace, b. May 31, 1976 Darlene married Mark Robertson. They had 1. Dana Ann Robertson, b. Feb. 26, 1996 Elsie Cox had to verify her U.S. citizenship when entering the U.S. from Canada with group of 7 day advent teachers on a church study trip. At the border they asked Elsie where she was born and she said Africa. They finally let her enter the U.S. but she had to to before a U.S. judge later presenting her U.S. grade cards as proof of U.S. citizenship. Elaine Cox Wallace is a registered nurse who recovered from T.B. that she had when she was in nurses training. She later contracted lupus when she was exposed to extreme cold during an hepatitis vaccination trip to a remote settlement near Barrow, Alaska. A severe storm blew down all the tents and prevented the bush Pilot from returning for them. They had to walk to the only wood building in a white out storm. 3. Virgel Elbert Olmsted, b. April 8,1912 Virgel married (June 23, 1934) Eloise Marie Merkel, B. May 18, 1912 d. Jan. 4, 200. They lived in St. Louis, Missouri, while their children were young. They had: 1. Wendell Lauren Olmsted, B. Aug. 11, 1935 - d. Aug. 5, 1994 married (Oct. 19, 1957) Janet Faye Silveus, b. Jan. 26, 1936. They had: 1. Byron Wendell Olmsted, b. Jan. 19, 1960 married (Aug. 18, 1985) Sherry Shipley. They had 1. Travis Wayne Olmsted, b. Feb. 18, 1989 2. Brandy Nicole Olmsted, b. Jan. 18, 1994 2. Barry Alan Olmsted, b. May 24, 1961 married (April 1986) Marsha Shipley. They had: 1. Andriaunna Elizabeth Olmsted, b. Dec. 12, 1989 2. Shauni Analycia Olmsted, b. June 1, 2001 3. Bradley Steven Olmsted, b. Jul. 24, 1963 married (April 1984) (1) Gayle Collins. They had: 1. Steven Curtis Olmsted, b. Jul 30, 1984 2. Stephanie Nicole Olmsted, b. May 12, 1989 married (2003) (2) Mary Sharp They had: 1. stepson Shane sharp, b. May 11. 1937 2. Gwendolyn Joyce Olmsted, b. May 11, 1937 married (Nov. 25, 1967) Glen Romaine Saunders, b. Mar. 8, 1936. They had no children. They have lived in Louisiana since 1984. (2) Alice Leola Olmsted d. 1936 married (Aug. 15, 1907 in Mr. Gilead) John Leonard Carnes, B. 1882 - d. 1941. She was a beautiful girl girl who got heavier as she got older. She died in her sleep and had a big stomach tumor at the age of 52 years. She hung wall paper and raised turkeys and chickens for extra money as Leonard was in the hospital different times for mental depression. He died by hanging himself in the barn. They had 2 children. Appendix -160- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 163) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1192bbb0314351daa6c9a05a4be0bd99.jpg 59c08c0d73ede27d301974f1dde6bf63 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 164] [corresponds to page 161 of Pages of Our Lives] 1. Ethel Irene Carnes, b. Jan. 9, 1900 - d. Feb 1, 1987. Buried in Trenton Cemetery. She married Arthur Bradley Murphy and they have 3 living children (recorded in the Murphy line). 2. Wilber Willis Carnes, B. Feb. 2, 1915 - d. Jan 31, 2002. Buried in Ever Green Cemetery. Me married Mary Conklin and they had 1 child (recorded in the Carnes history). (3) William Robe Olmsted married (Oct. 14, 1922) Blanche Lillian Metzer. They had: 1. Agnes Louise Olmsted, b. April 8, 1908 - d. 1991. Buried in Bloomfield Cemetery. Married Paul Anderson, d. 1991. They had: 1. Stanley Eugene Anderson, b. Oct. 19, 1934, married Joyce Ann. They had: 1. Karen Jean Anderson, b. May 8, 1954 2. Sharon Ann Anderson, b. Jan. 7, 1956 3. Julie Lynn Anderson, b. June 7, 1959 2. Marian Virginia Anderson, b. Sept 28, 1939 married Charles Horn Elkins 2. Leigh Olmsted - drowned Louise Olmsted Anderson worked 29 years as L.P.N. at Harrod Nursing Home in Centerburg, Ohio. [Image] [Image caption] Louise Anderson Obituary (4) Elbert Ray Olmsted married )Sept. 2, 1920) Helen Metzer. They had 3 children and lived in St. Louis where he was a city forester. 1. Robert Elbert Olmsted, B. May 12, 1925 married Theresa. They adopted. 1. Allan Olmsted 2. Vicky Olmsted 2. Faye Lovella Olmsted. B. June 21, 1927 3. Betty Lee Olmsted, B. Aug. 14, 1932 I visited Uncle Ray when I was a junior in High school. They took me to see outdoor opera in St. Louise, Missouri. When they visited us, we all went to Scioto Downs, horse racing place south of Columbus. Betty bet on long shot horses as she to win big is she won but she didn't win. (5) Hettie Del Olmsted. married (Dec. 1910) (1) Benjamin Harrison Dudley in Kentucky. Married Nov. 26, 1919 (2) Hugh Johnson Sr. They had 1. Hugh Johnson, Jr. Married Donna. They had: 1. Carol Ann Johnson (6) Charles Dewey Olmsted married (Sept 16, 1922) Celia Mary Trout. They had 4 children. 1. Charles, Jr., born Oct 13, 1924 married Roberta Pruit. [Photo] [Photo caption] Great Aunt Hettie's son, wife Hugh and Donna Johnson Appendix -161- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 164) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f8fb6b4bd767790e401c1badb070068b.jpg b425320d0a0f59c4b42370b0d45a53f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 165] [corresponds to page 162 of Pages of Our Lives] They had 5 children: 1. Beth Elaine Olmsted 2. Linda Jean Olmsted 3. Randy Olmsted 4. Ce Ann Olmsted 5. Mitchell Olmsted 2. Harold Lee, Jul 18, 1927. Had no children 3. Louella Jean, B. Mar. 19, 1930 was named after her Dad's mother. Had 2 children 1. Michael Leigh Miller, b. April 12, 1955 married Audrey and they had: 1. Christopher Miller, B. Sept 26, 1983 2. Paula Jean Miller, b. Nov. 14, 1981 2. Deborah Rena, b. Jul. 3, 1958 married James White, They had: 1. Julian James White 2. Savannah Jean White, b. Jul 25, 1996 4. Ronald 7. Olive Lucille Olmsted married (Oct. 14, 1922) (1) Frank Swartwood, b. 1894. They owned and operated a store in Peerless. Olive loved her animals. She married (2) Betts [Photo] [Photo caption] Rex Buxton and Terry. Trailer bought in 1970 [Photo] [Photo caption] Snow 1978 Looking north towards Roberts Road while on Clover Valley [Photo] [Photo caption] Velma Jo Murphy, Rex and Tina Buxton with Mom's dogs [Photo] [Photo caption] Our Siamese Cat Cinders and Kittens - August 1968 [Photo] [Photo caption] Our cats Smokey and Ollie Appendix -162- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 165) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/edd839fb350c97994a7bd7ab8559bf5b.jpg 19b4035551a2c8c46dc84ae7c704d68b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 166] [corresponds to page 163 of Pages of Our Lives] Willis-Buxton Family Robert Willis B. 1750 (Scotland) m. Sarah Gibson abt. 1773 George Willis b. 1770 William Willis B. 1970 m. Ruth Jenkins 1880 m. 1. Elizabeth Skinner 1814 2. Eliza Moore 1849 Evan J. Willis b. 1812 Louis K. Willis b. 1852 m. 1. Rachel ? abt. 1830 m. Alice E. Corner 1882 m. 2. Mary A. Stern Elizabeth E. Willis b. 1844-6 Louis E. Willis b. 1883 m. Marvin Buxton abt. 1866 m. Ida May Merwin 1915 Elias Ed Buxton b. 1869 Richard Willis b. 1823 m. Ida Mae Green 1894 Wayne N. Buxton b. 1901 m. Lucille Jackson 1929 Thomas E. Buxton b. 1930 m. Rachel L. Murphy 1952 William Willis family generations are long because of his late second marriage and the marriages of his descendants. [Photo] [Photo caption] Ida Mae Buxton and Rachel Buxton about 1954 [Photo] [Photo Caption] Tina, Rex, Rachel, Perry Buxton December 12, 1970 Appendix -163- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 166) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/79cf364f92242456bc7bb12bac19439e.jpg b35b1c893917b9a1aacfc77f5b6e1c01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 167] [corresponds to page 164 of Pages of Our Lives] Marvin Buxton M. Elizabeth Wells Elias Edward Buxton Delia Buxton Don Buxton b. 1869 died of asthma 1934 m. Frank Catt - m. Laurel m. Ida Me Green 1894 d. 1959 lived W. Shield Hugh Harley Harriet St. Newark, OH died electrician humped back flu in all his m. Lawrence W W I life Rice no Never children married Wayne Buxton Claude Buxton Raymond lived on N. Main St. b. 1901 d. 1983 b. 1900 shot wife 1 mile from parents m. Lucille Jackson and self d. 1948 m. Jessie b. 1907 d. 1974 m. Jane Phillips Margaret Harold Thomas Buxton Doyte Buxton Hazel Buxton girl A boy lived in b 1930 Shot himself m. Paul Gribble girl Indianapolis was m. Rachel Murphy abt. 1983 c. Ronnie Gribble in WWII died of 1952 b. 1933 m. 1. Avenel m. (1) Lavonna Little lung disease Tina c. Boy Buxton c. 1. Robin Grible Perry m. 2. Opal m. Brian Roache '00 Rex c. Jan Buxton c. Briana Riarke '04 m. 3. Betty c. 2. Shawn Gribble m. Brandy Oglefby 1994 c. Stephanie Ogelby 1996 c. 3. Shannan Gribble m. Hofea Hooks 1998 c. Kyle Hooks 1998 c. Kayla Hooks 2001 m. (2) Harvietta Newland 1982 Appendix -164- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 167) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/428f3a7f02ca0825d2e4a5fed00cb941.jpg d302ea3ffb32cc34672ee7d5ff50ef6e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource page 168] [corresponds to page 165 of Pages of Our Lives] Buxton Family History Marvin Buxton, B. 1844-6 d. 1934, married (1866) Elizabeth E. Willis. They had (1.) Donovan V. Buxton, b. July 1868 - d. April 26, 1942 is buried in Hartford Cemetery. Known as Don, he married Laural. They had: 1. Hugh Buxton died of flu in W.W.I and is buried in Hartford Cemetery. 2. Harley Buxton - never married. He did electrical work. He is buried in Hartford Cemetery. 3. Harriet Buxton married Lawrence Rice. They had no children. Harriet had a hump in her upper spine. Both are buried in Hartford Cemetery. [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne Buxton, Harley Buxon, Ray and Jessie Catt, Jenette and Claude Buxton Seated: Harriet Buxton, Harold Catt, Doyte Buxton (2.) Elias Edward Buxton, b. Dec. 1869 - d. Mar. 1934 is buried in Hartford Cemetery. He married (1894) Ida Mae Green, B. 1876 - d. 1960 at 84 years. They are buried in Hartford Cemetery. They had: 1. Claude Buxton, b. 1900 - d. 1948, married Janet Phillips, d. 1948. They had: 1. Doyte Buxton, d. 1984 buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH. He also shot himself. Doyte married (1) Avenel and they had a boy He married (2) Opal. They had Jan Buxton He married (3) Betty 2. Hazel Buxton, b. 1920 - d. 2002 of cancer and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH. She married Paul Gribble. They had: 1. Ronald Gribble married (1) (1968) Lavonna Little. They (2.) Elias Edward Buxton, b. Dec. 1869 - d. Mar. 1934 is buried in Hartford Cemetery. He married (1894) Ida Mae Green, b. 1876 - d. 1960 at 84 years. They are buried in Hartford Cemetery. They had: 1. Claude Buxton, b. 1900 - d. 1948, married Janet Phillips, d. 1948. They had: 1. Doyte Buxton, d. 1984 buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH. He also shot himself. Doyte married (1) Avenel and they had a boy He married (2) Opal. they had Jan Buxton He married (3) Betty 2. Hazel Buxton, b. 1920- d. 2002 of cancer and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH. She married Paul Gribble. They had. 1. Ronald Gribble married (1) (1968) Lavonna Little. They had: 1. Robin Jeanette Gribble, b. Jan.2, 1969. Married (May 20, 2000) Brian Roark. They have: Brian Jade Roark, b. Sept. 8, 2004 2. Shawn Marie Gribble, b. Aug. 13, 1972, married (June 14, 1994) Brandy Oglefby. They have: 1. Stephanie Kay Oglefby, b. May 27, 1996 3. Shannan Sue Gribble, b. Aug 13, 1972, married (Aug. 22, 1998) Hofer Hooks. They have 1. Kyle Evan Hooks, b. Jan. 3. 1999 2. Kayla Nicole Hooks, b. Feb. 8, 2001 Ronald married (2) (June 1982) Harvietta Newland, b. June 19, 1946 2. Wayne Newell Buxton, b. 1901 - d. Oct 9, 1983 and is buried in Trenton Cemetery. He married (Mar. 23, 1929) Lucille Lala Jackson, b. Appendix -165- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 168) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b3a3bef62e09df015fb98d873bf32dff.jpg 412eea037b4a8221f9ef2094fdc492c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 169] [corresponds to page 166 of Pages of Our Lives] Mar. 23, 1907 - d. Oct, 1974. Buried in Trenton Cemetery. they had: 1. Thomas Edward Buxton, B. Dec 15, 1930, married (1) 1949 Barbara Ann Callan, b. 1933. They had: 1. Jerry Edward Buxton Callan, b. May 24, 1949. Married (1) Sharon Mossbury. They had 1. Janice Callan b. Jan. 13, 1970 Married (1) 9-24-1989 Steve Harris Married (2) 2-14-1999 Dennis Koivula (2) (Mar. 16, 1953) Rachel Leola Murphy, b. Feb. 26, 1933. They have: 1. Tina Marie Buxton, b. Dec. 28, 1956, married (1) (Aug 12, 1978) Gary Lee White, b. April 22, 1951. They have 3 children: 1. Renee Dawn White, b. July 4, 1970 2. Logan Lee White, b. Aug. 1, 1982 3. Kale Oliver White b. Sept. 20, 1984 Tina Marie married (2) (June 14, 1997) Rodger Martin Miller, II, b. Feb. 2, 1969 2. Perry Newell Buxton, b. Nov. 16, 1958, Married (July 12, 1978) Mary Jo Lewis, b. Aug. 9, 1962. they have 3 children: 1. Paula Marie Buxton, B. Nov. 22, 1978 Married (May 10, 2003) Eric Normand Taylor, b. Oct 4, 1977. They have: 1. Cara Maryann Taylor, b. Aug. 12, 2005 2. Natalie Rachel Buxton, B. Sept. 22, 1981 Married (July 24, 2004) Brandon David Cox, B. May 28, 1978. They have: 1. Jenna Marie Cox, b. Sept 24,2005 3. Perry N. Buxton, b. July 28, 1993 3. Rex Bradley Buxton, b. Dec. 8, 1964, married (June 16, 1990) Joy Ann Harber, b. Nov. 7, 1956. They have a son and stepson: 1. Dakoda Bradley Buxton, b. Sept. 28, 1991 2. Stepson James Harber, b. Aug 3, 1977 married Ginny Miller, b. 1972 and have 3 children (2 step): 1. Breiana Reane Haber, B. July 25, 2003 2. step Caleb Miller, b. Dec. 31 1999 3. step Kyra Ann Miller, B. Jan. 24, 2000 (3) Della B. Buxton, b. Dec. 1872 is buried in Homer Cemetery. She married S. Franklin Catt who lived in West shield in Newark, Oh. They had: 1. Raymond Catt who lived at N. Main St. route 13, on mile from his [Photo] [Photo caption] Renee White, Tina Miller, Rachel Buxton - 2005 Appendix -166- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 169) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/06a2465196d766ab8fd82c19eb60f1dd.jpg f00931c1acf2eb6272dae3cd88d4f6bc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 170] [corresponds to page 167 of Pages of Our Lives] parents. He worked at the county garage where he lost an eye when a rivet hit his eye. Raymond married Jessie. They had: 1. Margaret Catt who married and had 2 girls 2. Harold Catt who married and had a boy. They lived in Indianapolis, Ind. The boy was in W.W. II and died of lung cancer. Buxton Family Photos [Photo] [Photo caption] Claude and Jennett Buxton Doyte and Hazel (baby) [Photo] [Photo caption] Doyte Buxton and Grandpa Ellis Buxton [Photo] [Photo caption] Ed and Doyte Buxton [Photo] [Photo caption] Doyte Buxton, Tom's 1st cousin, Son of Claude Buxton [Photo] [Photo caption] Tom and Rachel's Children Tina Marie, Perry Newel and Rex Bradley [Photo] [Photo caption] Newark Home of Dell Catt [Photo] [Photo caption] Dell and Frank Catt and his brother Dell Catt is Ellis Buxton's sister Appendix -167- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 170) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/de20051ba5c9fee92b979d6efe8554c0.jpg 19c747fe6b5332805142e1d6f9a7ed1c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 171] [corresponds to page 168 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Back row: Ed Buxton, Ida Buxton, Lauren Buxton (Don's wife). and Don Buxton (Ed's brother), Raymond Call (Don and Lauren's son), Jessie Call (Raymond's wife) holding son Harold or daughter Margaret, Dell Buxton Catt (Ed's sister), Jess Walker's wife, Jess Walker's two girls, Jess Walker Seated: Harriet Buxton on lap of unknown man, Newell Green (Ida's Buxton's father), and 2 unknown adults [Photo] [Photo caption] Ethel Murphy Anderson, Velma Murphy McCall Creek, Rachel Murphy Buxton and Lovett Murphy at Cora Lynn Murphy's Wedding to Doug McLurg on June 14, 1986 [Photo] [Photo caption] Tina and Martin's Wedding, June 14, 1997 Thomas Buxton, Tina and Martin Miller, Rachel Buxton Appendix -168- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 171) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3e2378b64e0eeda0ca1c70158ae5b046.jpg f2e4302701c0ac072f16d9a13f352ba4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 172] [corresponds to page 169 of Pages of Our Lives] John and Mary Jackson George Washington Jackson b. 8 Oct. 1879 d. Jul 1965 m. Ada Maye White daughter of William W. and Ruth M. White) 5 Dec. 1903 Donald Dean Jackson b. 14 July 1920 d. 30 May 1980 m. Marie Francis McKenzie 12 Feb. 1944 b. 15 Apr 1924 d. June 1959 David Donald Jackson b. 30 Jan.1952 m. Belinda Arlene Wigton 5 Sept 1952 b. 28 Nov. 1951 Lucille Lala Jackson b. 23 Mar. 1907 d. 16 Oct 1974 m. Wayne Newell Buxton 23 Mar. 1929 b. 23 Sept. 1901 d. 9 Oct. 1983 Thomas Edward Buxton b. 15 Dec. 1930 m. 1. Barbara Ann Callan in 1949 c. Jerry Edward Buxton (Callan) b. 24 May 1949 m. Sharon Mossbury c. Janice Callan b. 13 Jan. 1970 m. 1. Steve Harris 24 Sept. 1989 m. 2 Dennis Koivula 14 Feb. 1999 m. 2. Ann -1979 m. 2. Rachel Leola Murphy 16 Mar. 1952 b. 26 Feb 1983 Tina Marie Buxton b. 28 Dec. 1956 m. 1. Gary White 12 Aug 1978 b. 22 April 1952 c. 1. Renee Dawn White b. 4 July 1979 c. 2. Logan Lee White b. 1 Aug 1982 c. 3. Kale Oliver white b. 20 Sept. 1984 m. 2. Rodger Martin Miller 13 June 1997 b. 2 Feb 1969 Perry Newell Buxton b. 16 Nov, 1958 m. Mary Lewis 12 July 1978 b. 9 Aug 1972 c. 1. Paula Marie Buxton B. 22 Nov. 1978 m. Eric Norman Taylor (b. 10-4-1977) 10 May 2003 c. Cara Maryann Taylor b. Aug. 12, 2005 c. 2. Natalie Rachel Buxton b. 22 Sept. 1981 m. Brandon David cox (b. 5-28-1978) 24 July 2004 c. Jenna Marie Cox, b. Sept. 24, 2005 c. 3. Perry N. Buxton b. 28 July 1993 Rev. Bradley Buxton b. 8 Dec. 1664 m. Joy Ann Habor (b. 11-7-1956) on 16 Jun 1990 c. Dakoda Bradley Buxton b. 28 Sept. 1991 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 172) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fed1a93bea15d2ca37e48f4356abc75b.jpg 2a496e7c52620685df0adf37760764a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 173] [corresponds to page 170 of Pages of Our Lives] Jackson and White Family History There were 12 children in Grandpa Jackson's family and 12 children in Grandma Jackson's (White's) family. Two Jackson brothers married two White sisters as they lived near each other in southern Ohio. Another White sister, Tom's great Aunt Lalla White married William Clark Thronton. They moved into a log cabin on White Hollow Rd near Patriot , Ohio in Galia County. This Thronton log cabin was on top of a mountain with a very steep slate rock drive built around 1857 when Polk was President of the United States as he signed the papers on it. The White family are: The Jackson family: 1. Edmond Levi White, b. Aug. 22, 1869 1. George Jackson family: 2. Nancy Isabel white, b. Oct 17, 1873 2. J. U. Jackson 3. Charles Monroe White, b. Oct. 4, 1874 3. John Jackson 4. James Wilson white b. Mar 31, 1887 4. Mrs. Frank Myers 5. Elmer Emitt White, b. Jul 19, 1879 6. Lottie Jane White, b. Aug. 15, 1881 7. Lalla Faye white, b. Jan. 10, 1884 8. Ada Mae White, b. May 25, 1886 9. Benjamin Franklin White, b. April 16, 1889 10. Minnie Ellen White, b. May 31, 1891 11. Emory White, b. 19,1893 12. Infant - not named [Photo] [Photo caption] Ellis and Myrtle Thornton's Home Patriot, Ohio John Jackson married Mary and they had George Washington Jackson, b. Oct. 8, 1879 - Jul 14, 1965 buried in Green Hill Cemetery William W. White married Rachel M. and they had Ada Mae white, b. May 25, 1886 - d. Sept. 26, 1972 buried Green Hill Cemetery George Washington Jackson married (Dec. 5, 1903) Ada Mae White and they had 1. Lucille Lalla Jackson, b Mar. 23, 1907 - d. Oct. 16, 1974 buried in Trenton Cemetery (1) Married (Mar. 23, 1929) Wayne Newell Buxton, b. Sept. 23, 1901 - d. Oct. 9, 1983, buried in Trenton Cemetery. They had: 1. Thomas Edward Buxton, b. Dec. 15, 1930 Married (Mar. 16, 1952) Rachel Leola Murphy, b. Feb 26, 1933 (continued in Buxton History) 2. Donald Dean Jackson, b. Jul 14, 1920 - d. May 31, 1980 Buried in Green Hill Cemetery (1.) Married (Feb. 12, 1944) Marie Frances McKenzie, b. April 15, 1924 d. June 3, 1959 of cancer, buried in Green Hill Cemetery. They had: 1. David Donald Jackson, b. Jan.30, 1952, married (Sept., 5, 1992) Belinda Arlene Wigton, b. Nov. 28, 1951 Appendix -170- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 173) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b87db652f67f411fe601b13870e5cf5c.jpg f66ec578ebf02a9360f0555eb839c5fd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 174] [corresponds to page 171 of Pages of Our Lives] Tom's Grandma Jackson kept a very clean house and was a good cook and raised big gardens. She had a fiery temper while Grandpa Jackson was meek and mild. Both were very hard working farmers. [Photo] [Photo caption] Marie, David and Donald Jackson Donald is Tom Buxton's Uncle on his Mother's side [Image] [Image caption] Lucille Buxton's Father (obituary) Thornton and Neal Family History Lalla Fay White, b. Jan 10, 1884 - d. Oct 25, 1974 married (Nov. 22, 1905) William Clark Thornton, b. Oct. 2, 1878 - d. Nov. 17, 1969. They had: 1. Emory Ellis Thornton, b. Sept. 2, 1912, - d. April 12, 2004, married (June 10, 1945) Myrtle Bernice Jackson, b. May 6, 1921. They had: 1. Nolan Dean Thornton, B. Sept 2, married (Dec. 12, 1964) Wanda Lee Jeffers, b. June 28, 1947. They had: 1. Angela Gail Thornton, b. June 15, 1966, married (Aug. 23, 1981) (1) Michael Ray Arrowood, b. Nov 6, 1964. They had: 1. Seth Michael Arrowood, b. Feb. 28, 1982 2. Tabitha Gail Arrowood, b. July 20, 1988 Angela married (Mar. 29, 2003) [sic] (2) Bruce Kevin King, b. June 23, 1970. Her step children are: 1. Brittany Faith King, b. June 29, 1995 2. Bree Anna King, b. July 26, 1999 2. Charlene Kay Thornton, b. June 1, 1972. Married (Sept. 15, 1989) John Arrowood, Jr., b. Dec. 10, 1971. they had: 1. Agustus Levi Arrowood, b. May 5, 1990 [Photo] [Photo image] Ellis, Lalla Fay and Myrtle Thornton Appendix -171- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 174) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cca86e0f13b8eb5b39a7bd7f03bec2b4.jpg fbef6667fa689c5873a536da6baab64e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 175] [corresponds to page 172 of Pages of Our Lives] 2. Rachel Lee Arrowood, B. Feb 15, 1994 3. Sabrina Dawn Thornton, b. Nov. 9, 1968, married (Sept. 12) 1989) Noel Shannon Stover, b. Sept. 22, 1968. They had: 1. Samantha Nicole Stover, b. Aug. 25, 1995 2. Sidney Marie Stover, b. Oct 25, 2001 4. Jeremy Dean Thornton, b. Dec. 19, 1979 not married (2) Helen Marie Thornton, b. Aug 21, 1915 married (April 26, 1936) Harry Alden Neal, b. Aug. 22, 1911 - D. May 4, 1980. They had: 1. John Richard Neal, b. Oct. 5, 1938, married (Sept. 20, 1959) Joyce Lee Reapp, b. Sept. 13, 1941. They had: 1. Debra Lynn Neal, b. May 11, 1960, married (May 28, 1983) James Henry Ehman, b. Aug. 1, 1956. They have: 1. James Christopher Ehman, b. Dec. 13, 1985 2. Cory Neal Ehman, b. Oct. 3, 1987 2. Teresa Ann Neal, b. Oct 14, 1962, married (Aug. 17, 1983) Gene Alan Layton, b. Sept. 6, 1961. They have: 1. Derrick Ryan Layton, b. Dec. 31, 1984 2. Chelsea Nicole Layton, b. Jan. 10, 1989 3. Melissa Dawn Neal, b. April 7, 1976, married (Dec. 10, 1994) Thomas Kenneth Harding Lambert, b. Feb. 9, 1975. They have: 1. Kaylee Ashlynn Lambert, b. Dec. 9, 1998 2. Kennedey Morgan Lambert b. Jan 28, 2003 [Photo] [Photo caption] Myrtle and Ellis 3. Earl Edward Neal, b. Mar. 10, 1940, married (June 20, 1960) Karen Arlene Parks. b. July 21, 1942. They had: 1. Cara Dawn Neal, b. April 2, 1962, married (June 9, 1990) John Charles Bambenek III, b Jan. 1, 1957. They had: 1. Rachel Neal Bambenek, b. Mar. 29, 1997 2. Jacob Michael Bambenek, b. June 4, 1999 3. Stepson Bambenek, b. ? 2. Christian Shawn Neal, b. Feb. 15, 1965 - d. July 1, 2002, married (Mar. 9, 1989) Charles Letchford. They had: 1. Rebecca Elise Neal, b. July 19, 1989 2. Christian Alexandra Neal, Aug. 29, 1994 3. Treavor Alden Neal, b. April 25, 1997 4. Theodore Paul Neal, b. Sept 28, 1966, married (Dec. 22, 1990) Lisa Carol Haldren, b. Sept. 16, 1970, They had: 1. Mary Elizabeth Neal, b. Dec. 2, 1992 2. Jessica Leigh Neal, b. Mar 21, 1997 [Photo] [Photo caption] Wanda Thornton in back Nolan, Myrtle and Ellis Thornton Appendix -172- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 175) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/dd5e15814b39d160ce66cbde3a843681.jpg a478fbe5430c3106283d65b646b4e989 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 176] [corresponds to page 173 of Pages of Our Lives] Green Family History Newell Green married Rachel Clayton. Both are buried in Hartford Cemetery. They had: 3. Ida Mae Green, b. 1874 - d. 1959 of throat cancer. Buried in Hartford Cemetery Married (1894) Elias Edward Buxton, b. 1869 - d. Mar. 1934 of asthma. Buried in Hartford Cemetery. (continue in Buxton Family History) 4. Clarence Green had cancer and died in Baltimore, Ohio. They had 1. Fredrick Green 2. Daughter severely disabled who died about 10 years old 3. Marian Green 4. Ida Mae Green [Photo] [Photo caption] Newell Green Tom Buxton's Great Grandfather [Photo] [Photo caption] Ida Mae Green - born in 1875 Tom Buxton's Grandmother [Photo] [Photo caption] Susan Green Wayne Buxton's maternal Grandmother [Image] [Image caption] Ida Mae Buxton's Obituary - April 1959 Appendix -173- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 176) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/054e388f303c52f053aafc33e3ea3c26.jpg 8e869720a57722cf427e2491e431ab75 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 177] [corresponds to page 174 of Pages of Our Lives] Callan Family History Thomas Edward Buxton, b. Dec. 15, 1930 m (1948) Barbara Callam, b. July 1933. They had; 1. Jerry Edward Buxton, b. May 24, 1949. Jerry Edward Buxton was adopted by his grandparents, Ralph and Helen Callan. His name was changed to Jerry Edward Callan in the fall of 1949. Jerry Edward Callan married (1) Sharon Mossbury. They had: 1. Janice Callan, b. Jan. 13,1970 married (1) (Sept. 24. 1989 ) W. Steve Harris Married (2) ( Feb 14, 1999) Dennis Koivula Jerry Edward married (2) Ann in 1979. they divorced in 1997 [Image] [Image] [Image caption] Ed Callan's First Wife [Image] [Image caption] Ed & Sharon's Callan's Wedding [Photo] [Photo caption] Jerry Edward Callan Thomas Buxton's son [Image] [Image caption] Eddie Callan, January Farmer [Image] [Image caption] Janice Callan's Birth January 13, 1970 Appendix -174- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 177) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3fadc0327001951ed44accdc23f0d6f7.jpg 2650c3db471a1d2a3708021adb9b8c6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 178] [corresponds to page 175 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Jerry Edward Callan on Longhorn Steer Wayne Buxton [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne Newell Buxton Wayne Newell Buxton was born Sept. 23, 1901 in Hartford township. He went to school at the Perfect one room school house on Johnstown Croton Pike. The school was torn down around 1982. Wayne's parents went to housekeeping in 1894 on a farm in Homer, Ohio, where Elias had grown up. They later moved to a small farm on Parsons Road about three miles south of Croton where Claude and Wayne were born. Wayne and his year older brother Claude, grew up working on this small farm with their parent Elias & Ida Mae Buxton. Wayne went to Sunday school and church with his family at the Church of Christ in Croton. We have two of his Sunday school pins for perfect attendance. [Photo] [Photo caption] Claude Buxton [Photo] [Photo caption] The 7th boy in back row in center of window is Claude Buxton in Sunday School Class at Church of Christ in Croton Appendix -175- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 178) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cc6a4996430d084a0385ecbf4d5e96a3.jpg 990a4ab75ca088539a470ae1c53c2b6c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource page 179] [corresponds to page 176 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Men of the Church of Christ at Croton, Ohio Edward Buxton (Tom's Grandfather) is the 4th man from the right in the back row. Due to a childhood accident, Wayne had a bad handicap with his right foot. As when he was a young boy he fell from the hay mow and his foot hit the manager and broke it. His folks carried him to the house. The next day he could hobble around so they never took him a doctor. It healed with a bone lump on his foot behind his toes. He had to pad his shoe so that it didn't bother him as bad. He walked many a mile carrying corn to feed his sheep when roads were closed due to snow. He also walked a lot using his hand seeder to plant his future hay fields. Wayne's first job was sorting boots in Akron, Ohio. Later he worked in the state of Iowa where he had the flu in 1918. Every time he looked out his bedroom window, the hearse was going down the road to the cemetery to bury someone. So many were dying so fast that no funerals services were held. Wayne counts his life to this man where was rooming who gave a laxative to get things going again after his high temperature for several days. He soon came home by train to the north Condit station where his folks picked him up on a cold rainy day. They drove the 10 miles back to their Croton home in an open horse and buggy with everyone covered with a heavy horse blanket. They could only go 6 miles an hour. Wayne married Lucille Lala Jackson in 1929 and received the 72 acre farm at 13105 Clover Valley Rd. a mile west of Croton that his mother Ida Mae received from her parents, Newell and Rachel Green. This corner was call the Newell Green corner for may years. The roads [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne and Lucille Appendix -176- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 179) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/71fb18d8719e8593e793f629c9a11a8f.jpg ab596167c74db5cac7ad31eeaa45b8b4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 180] [corresponds to page 177 of Pages of Our Lives] at this corner are now named Foundation & Clover Valley. They worked very hard together. Using horses to pull the farm equipment, they raised corn, wheat, oats and hay. They also had about 5 milk cows, and a few hogs and sheep. Their only child Tom was born December 15, 1930. Wayne and Lucille Buxton never had running water or a toilet when they lived in their house on Newell Green Corner. They used an outside toilet behind the garage which faced the house. They got their drinking water from a deep hand dug well on the north west side of their house. The horses also drank from this well. Their other water was pumped from a pitcher pump in the kitchen drawing from a hand dug cistern on the south west corner of the house. The day before washing their clothes, They put "old settler' into the cistern to settle the soot which washed off the roof and collected there from the wood burning stoves. This cistern was cemented over when Wayne drilled a well in 1948 and put in a bathroom in 1949 when fixing over the house for Tom and Barbara after their marriage in 1948. [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne Buxton Holding Tom Spring 1931 [Photo] [Photo caption] Tom, Lucille and Wayne Buxton On the south east corner of the barn was another hand dug well with a windmill attached to the pump. This pumped the water for the cows and sheep. There was a pin in the pump hand that you put in to stop the pump from pumping, but during a bad wind storm, Wayne would have to climb the windmill to turn the shaft so the blades would not catch the main currant of the wind as it would break the pump. There were 6 dug wells on the 72 acre Newell Green property between Tagg and Clover Valley Road. They soon needed to help his widowed mother Ida Mae farm her 75 acres on Parsons Road. Elias Buxton, Wayne's dad died in 1934 from asthma. Wayne's brother Claude was working as telegraph operator so couldn't help farm. In 1936 Lucille became sick with a very bad cold that never got better. Soon, they found out it was actually T. B. the doctor had to collapse one lung and she had to stay in the Newark Tuberculosis Sanitarium for 22 months until she was well and weighed 145 lbs. After Lucille came home in 1938, they realized they needed a tractor to help with the farm work. They bought a John Deere tractor with lugs on it's metal wheels, a plow, and a disk. This same year a law was passed that you couldn't run tractors with lugs on the road so they had to load the tractor on a flat be truck in order to go the 3 miles between the two farms. It was very dangerous to load unload so they traded in the tractor and bought a Appendix -177- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 180) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2969c380a61410ea171827f353289390.jpg 11270e78b6fbf4716946612091fd6d79 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 181] [corresponds to page 178 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne Buxton's 1st tractor with lugs on back wheels 1940 J. D. tractor with rubber tires. In 1941 they started raising soybeans using a 4 year rotation of corn, soybeans, wheat or oats, & hay in some of the fields. In 1942 Wayne and Lucille bought the 92 acre Buel farm for $4,500. This farm had no house but there was a big 32 by 100 foot barn in the field between Tagg & Clover Valley Roads east of Robert King's house at 1240 Tag Road. This barn was put together with long wooden beams and wooden pegs and is still used today to store equipment. Wayne Weiss painted a picture of this barn for us in 2005. [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne Newel Buxton [Photo] [Photo caption] Bailed Straw at Wayne Buxton's In 1945 Wayne bought a new International Combine with a 43 inch cut. Wayne felt lucky to get a permit from the ration board as World War II was just over and many things were still rationed. He did enough custom work on wheat and corn combining to pay for it in two years. In 1947 he got a new model 69 Minneapolis Combine with a 69 inch cut called a 69 Harvester. He kept this combine for 5 years. In 1947 they bought the 142 acre Thompson Farm for $18,000.00 at 12567 Robert's Road. This farm had a beautiful 13 room house with a garage and a barn in 1904. This made 307 acres with 248 tillable. In the fall of 1950, Wayne bought a new Minneapolis tractor which could pull a 14 foot 3 bottom plow for &1,935.00 because he needed help with all the extra work. The next spring, in 1951, he traded in a 5 year old R moline tractor and got a new Z Minneapolis tractor big enough to pull a 14 foot 2 bottom plow and a 4 row cultivator for $1,750. We still had the U and the two Z tractors in 2005. In the three years following his 1947 purchases, he was able to pay for the land by selling his $5 per bushel beans. He stored the beans after harvest in a make shift bin and sold them the next spring. His yield was not very high but relied on his cow manure for fertilizer and plowing to keep the weeds down. [Photo] [Photo caption] Elsie Ross, Margaret Frankleberry, Lucille and Wayne Buxton, Fred Ross Between 1945 & 1950 he had Ben Grooms, a ditcher, installed 17 semi loads of 242 rod to to the load of 4 inch tiles in the newly bought farms which helped improve the ground and yield. After we were married in 1952, Tom and I blew 32 stumps the next summer by drilling holes under the stumps and inserting dynamite in each hole. We packed the hole with Appendix -178- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 181) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/20cbaf29ccb6c01de44da318296bd16e.jpg 087b0615cfc9d82edd50c642956fb4f5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 182] [corresponds to page 179 of Pages of Our Lives] mud and lit the wick in field 4 of the Buel farm south of Robert King's house on Tagg Road. Wayne and Lucille went to Florida the first time with Mr. & Mrs. Frank Ross in early 1949. the enjoyed it and started going by themselves for a month during the winter staying at Fitch Dixon's apartment in Sarasota. Lucille would gain some weight and feel better. She was 5' 6" and would get down to around 100 lbs. [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne and Lucille Buxton's 1st Florida winter home in Sarasota in 1955. Wayne and Lucille built their first Florida home in the Sunshine Springs & Garden development in an orange grove just off Bee Ridge Road in 1955 in Sarasota. Now it is completely built up al along this six lane highway. [Photo] [Photo caption] Lucille, Ida Mae and Wayne Buxton - in their 1st home in Sarasota in 1956 One year, Burt Horn stayed in their Ohio house and did the milking so Tom and I could help his parents fix up their yard and put flowers and shrubs in their big planter box in their first Florida house in 1955. We also helped dig out a lot of palmetto roots in their new lawn. The second winter they added a Florida room on the back of this house. In 1957 after several heavy rains, they sold their house and built their second house on higher ground in the same development just up the street from their first house. This house had [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne and Lucille's 2nd Florida home in Sarasota in 1957 [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne and Lucille's 2nd home in Sarasota when trees and plants are bigger [Photo] [Photo caption] Lucille and Wayne in sunporch - 1969 Appendix -179- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 182) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d16564db36390eb3d8503f578ae385f8.jpg 43ab015bbb4626f4390563fd9f12c4f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 183] [corresponds to page 180 of Pages of Our Lives] [Photo] [Photo caption] 1955 Ford Truck big glass doors which opened onto a screened in porch with crotons and other buses in it. The solid glass east side made their living room very sunny and light. One night when we were visiting there, I cleaned the glass doors with glass wax; and they looked nice. The next day when the sun came up, they looked terrible. I liked very plain things do felt lucky that my mother-in-law, Lucille Buxton, also liked her home furnished modestly, as Tom and I lived in their Ohio home 12567 Roberts Road during the month of August (when they went to Florida to mow grass and clean up their winter home in Sarasota) and four months months during the winter. Wayne and Lucille retired and started receiving social security in 1966. Shortly after, Tom, their only child, was deeded the home place on Clover Road. We paid his harents $160 a month out the mild check for as long as they lived. Wayne died in 1983 and Lucille died in 1974. [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne and Lucille Buxton at Ethel and Val Anderson's in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1969 Tom's folks lived winters in their Florida home from 1955 too 1974, when Lucille, Tom's mother, died. Wayne stayed for a while in Florida but later moved to Herod Nursing Home in Centerburg till he died in 1983. He died from choking on a piece of wiener he was eating at the rest home. He was taken to Mt. Vernon Hospital he died the next day. Herod Nursing Home worked well for him as he was able to come and go as he pleased walking to nearby stores. He had to be back at the Nursing Home for meals and bed time and always have a complete weekly bath. His Social Security was enough to pay for his staying there and he didn't want to bother us but needed some help with his medicines as he had, in latter life, developed Parkinsons and Pagents diseases. We had him out on week ends All his life he was really healthy with only 1 surgery when a kidney stone was removed. The old Frank ross property of 34..146 acres on Roberts Road was Sept. 18th, 2004. The 2+ acre lots averaged $19,00 an acre. the price of soybeans is still $5 a bushel. This is forcing many farmers to sell their frontage in order to keep their farms. [Photo] [Photo caption] Wayne and Lucille Summer 1951 [Photo] [Photo caption] February 1974 Appendix -180- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 183) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0c03f9d4309516ce8eb032bf88613933.jpg 294e8c9b946b92e2c46dd1cef6a29255 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 184] [corresponds to page 181 of Pages of Our Lives] Lucille Buxton Lucille Lalla Jackson was born March 23, 1907, in Turrow township in Franklin County Ohio. the daughter of George and Ada Jackson, She was a very quiet, shy farm girl. She worked hard on her dad's farm milking the cows by hand, driving the horses, and husking the corn, and other chores along with helping her mother with the gardening, canning, cleaning and caring for her younger brother. Lucille graduated from Harlem High School in 1924 with 8 other class- mates. Verner Green, Nellie Gorsuch, Edith Garee, Dot Strider, Blanche Haughn, Bernadine Kinsel, Dale Mann and James Haughn. Th schools faculty consisted of W. J. Hines, F. W. S. Scudder and W. S. Bingham (Superintendent). After grad- uation she worked in an office in Columbus. [Photo] [Photo caption] Lucille Lalla Jackson on her 20th birthday March 23, 1929 Lucille married Wayne Newell Buxton on March 23rd, 1929 (her 22nd birthday) in Delaware Ohio. They worked had together on his 72 acre home place at 13105 Clover Valley Rd. in Croton Ohio. Lucille had naturally curly black hair, stood about 5' 6"' tall and weighed between 95 and 114 lbs. most of her life. She never was a big eater and had a nervous stomach. In 1936 Lucille was diagnosed with T. B. The doctor collapsed on lung trying to save her life and she was sent to the Tuberculosis sanitarium in Newark for 22 months. She looked very nice at her homecoming and weighed 145 lbs. Lucille made a China Cupboard scarf with beautiful tatted inlay on each end while in the sanitarium. She had also hand sewn pieces for a flower garden quilt top which I quilted in 1955 in our Condit Church Quilting Class which was at that time led by Lib Brenner. [Photo] [Photo caption] Lucille Buxton with 1948 Chevy Fleetline [Photo] [Photo caption] Lucille and her hogs [Photo] [Photo caption] Lucille Jackson Buxton about 1940 Lucille was a very good mother-in-law. She helped me learn to cook and listened to my constant chatter. She also kept a very clean and tidy house with very few pictures or what nots. [Photo] [Photo caption] Lucille and Ethel Murphy Anderson Appendix -181- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 184) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/737b781841b3d0cdbbd65497153f505b.jpg 854245d2af033c52c4289dc18b959f44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 185] [corresponds to page 182 of Pages of Our Lives] The first 5 years of my marriage to Tom, Lucille and I always did our washing together on Monday morning in the basement of her house on Roberts Rd. We used her electric Maytag wringer washer and rinsed the clothes in a big metal tub that sat on a stand. We usually hung the clothes up outside on the clothes line, or in the winter, over our hot air floor registers. She cooked the starch which we dipped the clean clothes in that needed to be starched. the starched clothes were dried, then sprinkled with warm water, rolled and let lay for a while before ironing. This all changed when Tina was born in 1956 as Tom bought me an automatic washer. Early each morning, Lucille hot mashed her chickens in the chicken house just east of the house. This got the chickens up early to eat more and then laid more eggs which she sold to a man in Columbus. [Photo] {Photo caption] Lucille and Wayne in 1948 Lucille usually ate Sunday noon dinner with her folks at 2341 South St. Rt. 605. Sometimes Tom and I also went to his Grandma Jacksons after Church for Sunday dinner. I always enjoyed the boiled sweet potatoes rolled in a brown sugar and flour mixture and fried in lard topped with her browned flour and lard gravy and served with fried chicken. Grandpa Jackson always had to have his fried egg each meal even on Sunday. It never seemed to hurt him as he lived to be 86 years old. Lucille was in the habit of laying down for a half hour nap each day after lunch on the davenport. She may not have felt very good but she never complained. The clothes wardrobe in our bedroom was bought by Wayne and Lucille in 1935. They ordered it either from Sears or Montgomery Ward and it came into Croton on the train from Chicago. She liked to have me comb her hair. I started cutting her hair after they bought a hair cutting set in 1953 in Florida. It contained electric clipper, barber comb, barber scissors and thinning shears. [Photo] [Phot caption] Lucille and sheep Lucille had hot meals ready for us when we came in from working in the field. The mashed potatoes were kept hot in a double boiler pan which held water in the bottom part. Lucille often helped me milk the cows during harvest time. We had to carry the five gallon milker bottom pails full of milk into the milk house from the 8 station milking parlor before we got the line milker and bulk tank. In early March 1974, Lucille was getting everything packed and ready to leave early the next morning for Ohio but before morning came she woke up with a bad stroke which paralyzed her whole left side. Wayne took her to Sarasota, Florida, hospital. Tom went down in July to help his Dad bring his Mom home from the hospital to their Sarasota home. Her walking was gradually improving enough that sometimes she left her four legged cane another room. I flew to Florida in August to help bring Wayne and Lucille home. The limousine Appendix -182 Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 185) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e842e1d02695a72ef3d22e1ef3425b23.jpg f1c7c82a2db5b962c1a6b113f8e7d84a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 186] [corresponds to page 183 of Pages of Our Lives] took us to the airport where two wheel chairs were needed to get them on the plane. The first of September, six months after her stroke, she was back in the hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where she needed a continuous breathing tube in her throat which she did not want. Several weeks later she was transferred to the nearby nursing home where she died two day later. We did not realize that her one remaining lung was that bad and could not supply her body with enough oxygen without the breathing tube. Her other lung had been deflated 38 years before when she had T. B. in 1936. She died at age 67 years. She must have known that death was near as she asked me to take care of her cat the day before she died. [Photo] [Photo caption] Lucille Lalla Buxton [2 Photos] [Photo caption] Lucille's Cats [Photo] [Photo caption] Tombstones in Trenton Cemetery Wayne and Lucille Buxton and Thomas and Rachel Buxton Appendix -183- Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life (p. 186) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Family Histories Description An account of the resource This collection contains family histories that have been written by residents of the Big Walnut area. Items in this collection generally contain genealogical information about the families, personal anecdotes, and images of family members. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pages of Our Lives... Farming: a Way of Life Description An account of the resource Personal history of the Buxton and Murphy families written by Rachel Murphy Buxton. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 1] [corresponds to front cover of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] [illustration of building] Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 1887 100 years 1987 60 North Sandusky Street Branch--30 Troy Rd., Georgetowne Centre Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 1) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/87964127be24a37448f7dded50ce3aea.jpg a49310a20aeb401a4abd58ca55da5876 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 2] [corresponds to unlabeled page 2 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] Fidelity .... YESTERDAY AND TODAY 1887-1987 A Commemorative History of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association of Delaware, Ohio Centennial Edition by Ray Buckingham Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 2) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bbd5ee6967c2e15e506a19f7bdb0adef.jpg 8c62d59273d9ee03620ffbe6a14bef6b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 3] [corresponds to unlabeled page 3 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] DIRECTORS Harry A. Humes, President James L. Kern, Vice President Lloyd D. Baker, V.P., Greif Bros. Richard Dawson, Farmer David C. Green, D.D.S. C. Neilson Griffith, Retired V.P. Landmark Edward J. Planisek Jr., Secretary-Treasurer OFFICE STAFF Faith Caldwell Dianne Oman Bonnie Howard Donna Peak M. Carolyn Jones, Cashier Edward J. Planisek, Jr. Martha Law, Asst. Treasurer Manager Mary Matthews Susan Rexrode Tracie Nelson Katrina Roberts Karen Schnees, Asst. Secretary ASSOCIATION SERVICES Insured Savings Accounts Certificates of Deposit Checking NOW Accounts I.R.A. Accounts Safe Deposit Boxes (Main Office) Home Mortgage Loans Home Improvement Loans American Express Travelers Cheques Money Orders Christmas Clubs Night Depository (Main Office) Walk-Up Window (Main Office) Free Parking Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 3) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/48a57eb6ec6fea7583f4e602da084c7c.jpg 03220ca6176649cb87088cd00fc0cded Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 4] [corresponds to unlabeled page 4 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] IT BEGAN THIS WAY Since the beginning of time man has sought and found shelter for himself and his family. At first it was caves and tents. Then he made use of whatever native materials were available, such as sod, stones, skins and logs to fashion living quarters. In America, since pioneer banks loaned money only for commercial purposes, small groups of those hardy individuals discovered that by pooling their meager re- sources they could form a large pool from which participants could draw by lot for home loans. Repayment of such loans plus interest, at regular intervals, would keep the pool ac- tive and solvent. They further reasoned that for safety's sake, the pool's resources should be entrusted to an honest merchant who owned, or had available, a strong safe. Historians claim that the first society organized to assist working men to build or buy their own homes was for- med in Frankford, a Philadelphia suburb, in 1831. It was called the Oxford Provident Building Society. The first $500. saved was loaned, by lot, to Comly Read, a lamplighter. His house, now restored, still stands on Orchard Street as a me- morial to American thrift and ingenuity. Once the Delaware area became well-populated there was a need for financing home building and home purchasing. This situation led to the formation and chartering in February 1867 of Delaware's Building Association. It was organized by two of Delaware's leading citizens, J. D. Van Deman and C. E. Hills, who were successful in selling the necessary stock. This money was then auctioned off and went to bid- ders offering to pay the highest rate of interst. So success- ful was this operation that when their charter expired in 1874, the Association was liquidated to everyone's satisfaction. The Ohio Savings and Loan League has always maintained that this Delaware Building Association was Ohio's very first officially chartered savings and loan and honored it as such on February 22, 1967 with a commemorative centennial ceremony at the Delaware County Fairgrounds and a banquet that night in Columbus. In 1887 the Fidelity Building and Loan Company, now known as the Fielity Federal Savings and Loan Association, was organized. Webster defines the word FIDELITY as "care- ful observance of duty or discharge of obligations". After 100 years of serving the home-minded people of Delaware Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 4) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5019f0642aed60b61b1206c6b25c716c.jpg 553fce9d926c811914316d8e09ecb6fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 5] [corresponds to unlabeled page 5 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] City and County, it may be truthfully said that Fidelity has lived up to the fullest meaning of its name and obligation. This history has been compiled to help commemorate and pre- serve those 100 years. Incorporation papers for the Fidelity Building and Loan Company were dated January 18, 1887, 100 years ago, and were issued by The State of Ohio. Historically speaking, Grover Cleveland, 22nd president of United State was mid- way into his first term. Joseph B. Foraker was Governor of Ohio. Delaware County had a population of 27,189 and Henri E. Buck was Mayor of Delaware, population 8,000. Incorpor- ators were H. J. McCullough, H. A. Welch, W. T. Gessner, J. D. Van Deman and B. W. Brown. Company officials were: Brown, president; May Frank, vice president; McCullough, treasurer; Van Deman, solicitor and C. O. Little, secretary. The board of directors, in addition to the aforementioned, in- cluded D. H. Battenfield, W. C. Jaynes, J. H. Smith and Professor J. H. Grove. During these early years there were nine directors. Capital stock was set at $400,000 - 2,000 shares at $200.00 per share. Members were assessed 25? for their passbooks. The first office was on the second floor of the Lamb's Block, northwest corner of Winter and North Sandusky Streets, above M. E. Wolff's Beehive Store (later the Boston Store, David's and presently Essentials). Also, on that second floor were other offices: Bale and Martin, In- surance; Central Union Telephone Company; J. H. Doughman, Attorney; and L. C. Valentine, Insurance. The directors' meetings were held monthly but during those formative years they seemed to meet weekly, mostly to resolve loan applica- tions, judging from the minutes. Mr. Little, the secretary, was paid $500.00 per year and the treasurer's annual salary was $100.00. Office rent was $32.50 per quarter. Check number 1 issued by Fidelity Building Associa- tion and Loan Company is still intact though faded and tat- tered. It was dated April 8, 1887, made out to R. W. Rey- nolds for $100.00, signed by H. J. McCullough, treasurer, and drawn on Deposit Banking Company. It was cashed on April 11, 1887. In their by-laws the Company stated its object in this manner: "The object of the Association is to raise money to be loaned among its members and depositors for use in buying lots, or in building or repairing houses, in holding, improv- ing and acquiring freehold property, or other purposes. This Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 5) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/298546e305464c9b97f2889553b70686.jpg efb4fdfb7756ee792b1365202ea4752c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 6] [corresponds to unlabeled page 6 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] Company is organized on the perpetual plan and persons may become members at the beginning of any month without the payment of back dues and shall be entitled to earnings from the time they become members." LEARNING YEARS 1890-1900 Capital stock was increased to one million dollars in 1890. The secretary and the treasurer were sent to Dayton for two days to learn about a new and more efficient system, the "Dayton Plan". Their expense account was less than $15.00. B. W. Brown's last year as president was in 1891. It was also C. O. Little's last year as secretary. Vice Presi- dent Max Frank was elevated to the presidency in 1892 but served only briefly due to a fatal illness. D. A. Battenfield was his replacement and W. E. Moore was elected secretary. Battenfield and J. D. Van Deman "volunteered" to "straighten out" Association records and they were paid $125.00 for do- ing so. Saturday evening office hours were established. In 1893 it was a very ordinary year except for an abundance of delinquent accounts. The 1891 line-up of directors included Battenfield (president), Van Deman, M. Miller, J. C. Cox, R. J. Cox, F. S. Sprague, W. T. Gessner, W. A. Smith and C. E. Hills. When J. C. Cox passed away that year, Secre- tary Moore was elected to fill that vacancy. Rent for the office was reduced to $80.00 per year. After flowery words, pats on the back and handshakes all around, Secretary W. E. Moore's salary was increased to $60.00 per month but the solicitor's retainer fee remained unchanged at $18.75 per quarter. Van Deman served as both president and solicitor in 1895 and again in 1896. At that time requests for loans were exceeding available money so the officers were authorized to borrow funds if and when it was needed. In 1897 there was little activity other than normal day to day operation. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 6) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5f74ff6bb81b1bf3c768be9ecfb7574c.jpg fafde7d6764cfd8bb86d48516119ad6d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 7] [corresponds to unlabeled page 7 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] Van Deman was still president and solictor in 1898. By that time availability of money for loaning purposes had improved. Ads advising the public that they had "money to loan" were placed in The Delaware Gazette and The Delaware Herald on a continuing basis. The same leadership and ad- vertising campaign carried over into 1899. In a major reshuf- fling of offices within the same building, Fidelity moved into an office formerly used by Carper and Van Deman, attorneys. Rent was increased to $125.00 per year. To make the office more attractive nine new "Delaware Chairs" were purchased for $13.50 and a new railing was installed. Eighteen acres of Fidelity-held farm land at the north edge of town was sold to the Children's Home Board for $1,100. The directors re- quested and were given a listing of mortgages starting with 100 and ending with number 261 for a grand total of $148,800. Also a request for a listing of all 122 checks written to date was honored. The usual semi-annual dividend of 3 1/2% to stockholders was paid. Longtime director, businessman, Joseph C. Cox, died late in the year and was replaced by W. H. Hague. Thus ended Fidelity's portion of 19th century history. FORMATIVE YEARS 1900-1910 J. D. Van Deman was president of Fidelity in 1900 and he was followed in that office by C. E. Hills (1901-1906) and then by D. H. Battenfield (1907-1909). W. E. Moore was managing secretary until 1903 at which time Frank Wat- kins began his 32-year tenure in that capacity. Among the treasurers serving during that decade were: J. D. Van Deman, W. H. Hague and Robert Powers. Each of the following at- torneys: C. H. McElroy, W. J. Cone and J. H. Lytle were legal counselors for Fidelity within that time frame. Authorized capital throughout those ten years was $1,000,000, however, capital stock in force fluctuated Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 7) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c79d73ea5624bae3b570f23f91d85718.jpg 8acc48f20b187361bb28db4a6eb9ffea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 8] [corresponds to unlabeled page 8 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] from $237,000 in 1906 to $225,000 in 1908. In 1900 the total amount paid in salaries was under $800. By 1909 this figure had increased to only $1,075. During those 10 years borrowing members increased in number from 100 plus to 200 plus; non-borrowing members held steady at approximately 140 while non-borrowing depositors jumped from a mere hand- ful in 1900 to nearly 300 in 1909. Loans were made at 6%; dividends held steady at 5%; and interest on deposits rated 4% and 5% during all ten years. (Since no minutes were available for this period, all facts and figures mentioned here were compiled from reports re- quired by and published by the State of Ohio.) A PERIOD OF STEADY GROWTH 1910-1920 Perhaps the most significant event of this ten-year period happened when, in 1911, the building at 46 North Sandusky Street was purchased for an office site at a price of $7,350. At that time it was occupied by C. D. Young, Jeweler, along with several rented upstairs offices. The following year, 1912, Fidelity, now well-established in the community, moved into its newly-acquired property. There it remained for the next 65 years. For all of these ten years D. H. Battenfield was pre- sident; Frank S. Watkins was secretary and manager and Rob- ert Powers was treasurer. James Lytle served as Fidelity's attorney from 1910 to 1914, at which time it became a joint position with Harry W. Crist. Assets grew from $270,590 to $977,947. Capital stock subscribed and in force went from $539,600 to $1,226,075. Officer's and employee's salaries rose gradually from $1,076 in 1910 to $3,265 in 1919. During each of these ten years, interest charged for loans was 6%; dividends were paid at 5% and interest on sav- ings accounts stayed constant at 4% and 5%. For the three years 1910-11-12 borrowing members numbered 225-233-257; Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 8) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d8dde4efcc8521c8e290b7f38703e693.jpg cfce48dfe7b6f5a292d8f2736de9fdee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 9] [corresponds to unlabeled page 9 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] non-borrowing members added up to 137-135-147 and non- borrowing depositors totaled 373-473-613. Starting with 1913 those reporting categories were changed to: stock- holders, borrowers and depositors. The number of stock- holders increased from 426 in 1913 to 582 in 1917, then dropped to 502 by 1919. Borrowers in 1913 totaled 286, increasing to 416 in 1917 before leveling off at 379 in 1919. Depositors totaled 723 in 1913 and reached 2,344 in 1917 before dropping to 1,470 in 1919. Fidelity's au- thorized stock was increased from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 in 1915. Par value of stock was $200.00 per share. Even though World War I had a negative effect on the building and loan business during its course, Fidelity was able to cope with those problems and to maintain a strong financial position. Besides, true to the spirit of the times, generous donations were made to many agencies supporting the war effort. PRE-DEPRESSION YEARS 1920-1930 Frank Watkins was secretary and manager for the en- tire decade, while Robert Powers served as treasurer the most of that time. The president from 1920 through 1925 was D. w. Battenfield and he was followed by Eugene Nash. The year 1920 through 1923 James Lytle and Harry Crist served jointly as Fidelity's attorneys, but in 1924 Crist was given sole responsibility for that important function. Over this ten- year period assets rose modestly from $1,303,350 to the sum of $1,533,623, a situation somewhat tempered by conditions that were leading to the stock market crash of 1929. During this time-period the number of stockholders varied from just less than 500 to slightly more than 600; the number of borrowers rose from approximately 400 to just over 500 and the number of depositors increased from 1,560 in 1920 to a high of 4,040 in 1929. The annual payroll ranged from less than $4,000 in 1920 to less than $6,000 in 1929, the year of the crash. Stock sold for $200 per share and the authorized capital for those ten years was $2,000,000. Both Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 9) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/51652c73f1379704c8cb173d635cbbc4.jpg a45c0fae73b6eda01896b32253be4c04 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 10] [corresponds to unlabeled page 10 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] dividend and interest rates on deposits were at the 4% or 5% level. The interest rate charged for loans was a consistant 6% throughout this decade. Available records show that in 1920 a donation of $50 was made to the Commercial Club, a group dedicated to the improvement of Delaware. The follow- ing year, 1921, a donation of $200 was made to Delaware's YMCA, thus indicating Fidelity's willingness to enter into community activities. Both Ray Hinkle and Questa Williams started their long-lasting careers with Fidelity in 1927, he as cashier and she as bookkeeper. (Fidelity was operating under Ohio rules and regulations all during the 1920s and it was from annual reports made to the State that most of the preceding information was compiled). TROUBLED TIMES 1930-1935 By now the Great Depression was an over-riding fac- tor affecting all types of businesses. Fortunately, Fidelity, through sound management practices, was able to weather the storm and continue to operate. In those last hectic years prior to Fidelity becoming "federalized" things looked like this, according to reports made to the State of Ohio. The management team of Frank Watkins, secretary and manager; Eugene Nash, president; and Harry Crist, the attorney, remained intact from 1930 to 1934. Then, at that time, Ray Hinkle was promoted to managing secretary and Harry Crist became both president and attorney. Fidelity's assets in 1930 were listed at $1,473,091 and by 1934 they were down to $877,337, thus reflecting the times. Stockholders numbered 614 in 1930 and dropped to 512 in 1935. Borrowers totaled 503 in 1930 but fell to 313 in 1934. Probably the most startling statistic revealing those troubled times was in the number of depositors - 3,761 in 1930 and 812 in 1934. It was likewise with dividends, the traditional 5% dropped to 1% by 1934. In working out details for a federal charter, government authorities suggested that dividends be eliminated for one year in order to "shore up" reserve funds. So, it was in this atmosphere that Fidelity decided to make the change from State to Federal charter. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 10) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/86998a85f8998c787fe354618a5344fd.jpg a038c91269ec7fff213abd5248b1e54e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 11] [corresponds to unlabeled page 11 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] A NEW BEGINNING 1935-1939 After operating under rules and regulations of a state charter for 50 years, the Association was granted a federal charter, number 1,075, dated December 30, 1935. It was for- merly accepted on January 15, 1936 and became effective on February 1, 1936. The Association underwent a name change, becoming the Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association. That change came easily. But, in order to comply with de- tailed federal requirements, a new constitution with new rules and regulations had to be written and adopted by the Associ- ation officials. That was no small task. Directors partici- pating were: Harry Crist, Charles Denison, Ray Hinkle, G. K. Hoffman, Eugene Nash, Hosea Warren and Fred Good- ing. Crist served both as president and attorney. Frank Wat- kinds, secretary-manager, was deeply involved in charter ne- gotiations but he resigned as of December 30, 1935 so it was necessary for his successor, Ray Hinkle, to start operating under federal guidelines. At that time, 50 years ago, the secretary-manager's salary was $2,400 per year and the cashier's was $1,200. The president was paid an annual salary of $240.00 and the Association attorney received $100.00 annually. Directors were paid $5.00 per meeting attended. Janitor service was provided at $5.00 per week. Appraisers, always from direc- tor's ranks, were paid $1.00 for in-town and $2.50 for rural appraisals. Interest paid on savings accounts was 2 1/2% per annum while borrowers were charged 4% to 5% depending on the amount of the loan. Assets at the beginnign of this first year (1936) under federal charter totaled $742,875 and at the end, $778,003. There were 36 delinquent accounts reported with a total of $4,895.11. No evidence was found to indicate a formal celebra- tion for Fidelity's 50th anniversary. However, a large ad- vertisement announcing this fact appeared in The Delaware Gazette on the exact anniversary date, January 18, 1937. The ad proudly proclaimed such things as: Half a Century of Community Service"; "Protecting Funds of Thrifty Folks - - Helping Tenants Become Home Owners"; and "Always Secured - Now Insured" plus the fact that the "Average Yield to its Investors Through These Years is Over 4 1/2%". Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 11) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/11151c90b476318057535c0dda83f66f.jpg e80749fd769538f186e2d7de86dbd034 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 12] [corresponds to unlabeled page 12 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] Lingering effects of the Great Depression were still disturbing normal business activity. At one point the board realized they had too many low-yielding investments and so they took steps to correct that situation. Another concern was the fact that four institutions with whom they did busi- ness were being liquidated. Slow business conditions promp- ted the directors to adopt the following resolution on August 30, 1936: "Resolved, that the bank (First National Bank) be advised that there is but little real estate changing ownership in Delaware City or County and that there is practically no new construction of homes, therefore the Association has been unable to make but few desirable mortgage loans." Even Federal Home Loan Bank officials were edgy. They crit- ized Fidelity for not being more aggresive in acquiring mort- gage loans. Since caution had brought them this far, Fidelity officials were not about to shed that trademark. Things remained static during the 1936-39 era. There were no changes in personnel or in salaries. Loans were of the three or four figure variety. Interest paid and interest received percentages changed very little. Repayment of the loans was at the $5.00 to $20.00 monthly level. The treas- urer's job was turned over to the secretary. Since the Asso- ciation owned a number of properties and a few farms, keep- ing them in good repair was an ongoing task. Farm land in which Fidelity had an interest was selling for about $60.00 an acre. By the end of 1939 the number of delinquent ac- counts was down to 10 and the assets were at $616,754.82. Even though the volume of business was down, Fidelity, as always, was able to maintain its strength and reliability. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 12) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/befbf9a1ae4ddb6cf15800c5832d963d.jpg f3c644e38c8bdbf12b09b066bf68f671 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 13] [corresponds to unlabeled page 13 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] WORLD WAR II AND AFTER YEARS 1940-1950 The 1940s were difficult years because of WWII and the aftermath. However, through careful management, Fidel- ity was able to surmount these difficulties and to maintain a pattern of growth, not spectacular, but consistent. Direc- tors in 1940 were Harry W. Crist (president and counsel) Ray Hinkle (secretary and manager), Charles Denison, Fred Good- ing, George K. Hoffman, Eugene Nash and Hosea Warren. Nash passed away in 1941 after serving 30 years. He was not replaced. Instead the board membership was kept at six. When Warren died in 1944, after being a director for 30 years, he was succeeded by Will McElfresh. Then in 1945 president and attorney Crist died after 25 years with Fidelity. Denison moved into the presidency. A. L. Everitt became a director, while Edson Williams and James Blair followed as Association attorneys. Because of poor health, Fred Gooding director for 16 years, resigned. R. M. Martin succeeded him. J. C. Wirthman was made a director in 1947, thus the board membership returned to seven. Directors were paid $5.00 per meetings attended until 1947 when it was doubled. Those directors who served as appraisers were paid $1.00 for local and $2.50 for rural appraisals all this decade. Throughout the decade presidents were paid $360.00 annually and attorneys received a $100.00 annual retainer fee. Crist, who doubled in both offices, accepted the pre- sident's pay but refused the retainer fee. President Denison, at his own request, served without salary. During this ten years there were but two employees, secretary-manager Ray Hinkle and cashier, Questa Williams. The secretary's sal- ary was $2,400 per year until 1949 when it was $2,880. He was also paid a car allowance. In 1949 the cashier's salary was raised from $1,200 to $1,620. Joe Mayer served as cus- todian at $5.00 per week. It is interesting to note that president Denison's first action was to call a special meeting on September 4, 1945 for the express purpose of discussing ways and means of im- proving business. Among the suggestions were such things as better office lighting; an advertising campaign; a new sign and the remodeling of the entire office. Also suggested were Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 13) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/90c7ce182594e443b117340a94211e72.jpg e94a24593ec91acde6f7c6b2b2e54e4e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 14] [corresponds to unlabeled page 14 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] visitations by board members to other savings and loan offices to study and observe their techniques. All of these ideas were eventually implemented and evidently worked because Fidelity's assets nearly doubled from 1945 to 1949. With but a few exceptions loans were in the 5-figure class and were made at 4% to 6%, depending on the amount borrowed. Interest was paid semi-annually and ranged from 2 1/2% down to a low of 1 1/2 as paid in 1949. That was the year Fidelity qualified to make FHA insured loans. At the outset, 1940, assets were $616,754.82 and at the end of 1949 they were up to well over a million dollars. On November 21, 1949 there was a full-page adver- tisement in The Delaware Gazette hailing Fidelity's 62nd Anniversary. It featured such things as individual pictures of all officers and directors; the safety record of its opera- tion; and the fact that they had plenty of money for borrow- ing purposes. In this same issue, on the front page, there was a news story announcing the fact that Delaware's only other savings and loan association was going out of business. Thus alertness was added to Fidelity's time-honored reputa- tion for caution and safety. A DECADE OF NORMALCY 1950-1960 The 1950s saw a decided increase in building, loan- ing and saving activity, with each year showing a substan- tial gain in dollars and customers. Both GI and FHA loans were on the upswing. For a short time there was no charge for appraisals, sort of a "special". Practically all loans were at the four and five figure level, carrying a rate of 5%- 6%, according to the amount of the loan involved. Interest being paid to savers varied from 2% to 3%. While appraisals started in the 1950s at no charge, that advantage was soon replaced by a $2.00 local and a $3.00 rural fee. By 1959 this charge was up to $10.00 flat, plus the legal fee. During these ten years the secretary- treasurer's salary increased from $3,180 to $6,300. His car allowance was increased from $50.00 to $70.00 a month. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 14) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/80199cec1a2f5a82c3e9ea5b0df05263.jpg 2470571a15a60ea75200bdebf809e74c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 15] [corresponds to unlabeled page 15 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] Likewise the cashier's salary was raised from $1,920 in 1950 to $3,600 in 1959. Both of these employees were given an- nual bonuses based on the year's business. For a short time directors received $10.00 per meeting attended but by 1956 that figure had increased to $35.00 for each meeting. The Association's legal counsel was paid a small retainer fee throughout these ten years. During practically all of the 1950s there were but two full-time employees: Ray Hinkle, secretary-treasurer, and Questa Williams, cashier. James Blair, Association Counsel, served all but a brief time during which time Henry Wolf acted in that capacity. Thomas Wright was em- ployed as a bookkeeper late in 1958 and then in 1959 he was made assistant cashier. Charles Denison, who had served as a director for 29 years and as president since 1945, died in August, 1958. He was succeeded as president by Will McElfresh and as director by Harry A. Humes. During his 11-year presidency he refused any salary except that for be- ing a director. J. C. Wirthman, who had served several of these years as a director, resigned that post effective Dec- ember 31, 1959. Fidelity's officials were always on the alert. When certain aspects of income tax laws seemed detrimental to savings and loans, they contacted Senators Taft and Bricker for favorable action. Then, when other savings and loans applied for federal charters to operate in the Delaware area, Director J. C. Wirthman was sent to Washington D.C. to protest. Later Association Counsel, James Blair, was sent there to further lobby against such chartering, the gist of their protest being that Delaware's building and loan needs already were being adequately met. Upon its organization in the early 1950s, The Dela- ware County Bank was added to the list of official depositor- ies that included the First National Bank and the Federal Home Loan Bank. Selecting depositories was an annual task of the directors. Although not as frequent as in the 1940s, requests for loan repayment adjustments continued to demand director attention and action. The two rear upstairs rooms were renovated and then rented to the Henry Wolf law firm. The front room was leased to the Democratic Party Headquarters. In 1956 air condition- ing was authorized for the first floor offices. Also, Saturday Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 15) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f238c1ae1666703b138ed606d1452ca1.jpg 73834d084436f3cb07025381fab98b8c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 16] [corresponds to unlabeled page 16 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] afternoon office hours were replaced by staying open on Fri- day nights. By the end of 1959 assets were listed at nearly two million dollars. That's about how things stood in the 1950s. THE SIXTIES -- YEAR AFTER YEAR 1960-1970 At the beginnign of the 1960s decade, Fidelity's as- sets were nearing two million dollars. Leslie Burkhart was named a director, serving with Will McElfresh, A. L. Everitt, Ray Hinkle, George K. Hoffman, R. M. Martin and Harry Humes. Money orders were added to services available. Loans were being made at 6% and 6 1/2% according to the amount involved. In anticipation of the upcoming 75th anni- versary celebration, $8,000 was allotted for new counters, modernizing the front and installing a new heating system. Patricia Miller was employed as a teller. Changes were com- ing so fast that board meetings were not adjourned - just re- cessed. Ray Hinkle retired as secretary-treasurer but stayed on as a director. James C. Blackledge became the secretary- treasurer in 1961 following Hinkle's departure. Because of his health, Geroge K. Hoffman, longtime director, resigned in 1962 and Blackledge was named to that vacancy. In mid-January 1962, fifty years after moving from the Lamb's Block building to its newly purchased facility at 46 North Sandusky Street, Fidelity observed its 75th anniversary with a three day Open House. Directors' wives were present to greet visitors and to serve refreshments. For celebrating this milestone the facility had been given a new look. Will McElfresh was Association president; James C. Blackledge was secretary-treasurer; Questa Williams was cashier; Kath- ryn McGovern was teller (having just replaced Patricia Mil- ler) and James Blair was general counsel. At this time the Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 16) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c087888a5eee8694d4f1e7c172f6f2e2.jpg 898bf6a1fa59961b3c8a4236405ad309 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 17] [corresponds to unlabeled page 17 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] Association had a membership of 1,300 investors (savers). Eighty of them had been investors for 25 years or more. One member even claimed that she had been an investor 70 of the 75 years. Assets were listed as being $2,500,000. During the 75 years over $1,900,000 was paid out in div- idends and interest, an outstanding achievement. In 1963 approval was given Fidelity to make FHA loans. Big loans for church building projects were being considered. Other loans involving six figures were also be- ing considered and even granted. Because of his wife's poor health Blackledge resigned in 1963 and was replaced by Reg- inald Moncur. Interest now being paid on savings was 4%. Ray Hinkle resigned as a director in 1964 after serving 34 years. John R. Florance succeeded him. Also resigning that year was secretary-treasurer Reginald Moncur. His succes- sor was Irwin Niemoeller. Several new employees were hired in 1965, including an assistant secretary, Jack Griffith and office workers, Kathleen Weiser and Mary Starling. The peak year so far as lending was in 1965. Over 200 loans were made, totaling nearly two and a half million dollars. Total savings increased by a quarter-million dollars. Niemoeller was made a director that year and Edward Flahive was named chief counsel. Due to the government's tight money policy of 1966, the building and loan industry, inclu- ding Fidelity, endured a difficult year in making loans. To offset this lack of business, Fidelity launched an intensive advertising campaign. An employee for 40 years, Questa Williams retired in 1966. Victor Milla became a director re- placing R. M. Martin who passed away after being a board member for 20 years. By 1967 the advertising campaign, at about $1,000 per month, was in full swing with appreciable effect. The Association-member appraisal committee was replaced by professionals, on a trial basis. Mary Starling resigned from the office staff and was replaced by Norma Hines. On April 28 and 29 another Open House was held. This was in ob- servance of Fidelity's 80th anniversary. Directors' wives served as greeters and served refreshments, an ongoing tra- dition. This event also marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of Delaware Building Association, the first building society in Ohio to be incorporated. On February 22, 1967 the Ohio Savings and Loan League had conducted a tree- planting ceremony and a plaque dedication commemorating Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 17) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e60d6c378ec8162216bcea3b65da4ead.jpg 6ee07fd07a364aaeb7123a8ccb818a4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 18] [corresponds to unlabeled page 18 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] that event at Delaware County Fairgrounds. During a ban- quet that night in Columbus, addressed by Senator Barry Goldwater the role of Delaware was highlighted. In their coverage of Fidelity's 80th anniversary newspapers mention- ed facts such as: the Association had 2000 savings custom- ers; nearly 500 home buyers and assets of approximately five million dollars, an increase of three million dollars in six years. It was a so-so year in 1968. However, a record amount was added to reserve funds. Things begin to look up in 1969. James Kern succeeded Victor Milla as a director. Assistant secretary Jack Griffith resigned his post. Loans were being made at 7% to 7 1/2% interest, while interest on savings accounts was changed often in order to meet compe- tition. Savings accounts were insured up to $20,000. A record amount was spent for advertising. In this one year alone over a quarter-million dollars in interest was distribu- ted, thus indicating a good year. Near the end of the year, president Will McElfresh died. He had completed 25 years with Fidelity, the last eleven as president. Vice president A. L. Everitt was elevated to the presidency. The '60s de- cade ended with assets of over $6,000,000, that figure be- ing three times the beginning amount. THE EVENTFUL SEVENTIES 1970-1979 Business continued to improve with 1970 being the most profitable year ever for Fidelity. Loans were made at 8% and interest on savings accounts was at 5%. Certificates were issued at 5.25% up to 6%. Improvement loans were popular at 6%. Charles Pasley was named assistant secre- tary and Dr. David C. Green was elected to a directorship. An employment benefit plan, sponsored by the Ohio Savings and Loan League, was accepted and put into effect. Assets were up to the $8,000,000 mark. Many applications for big loans started to show up in 1971. In fact, Fidelity was the lead lender in the development of Hayes Colony. Borrowing rates dipped slightly. Nearly 200 loans were processed and Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 18) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4633d5893da65431f057e33e9544def1.jpg 8ec3250310303840ed1fbf57f7de9373 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 19] [corresponds to unlabeled page 19 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] the net increase in savings accounts reached nearly the fig- ure of $1,500,000. Christmas Club participants were given a 51st payment for the use of their money. Assets were re- ported to be $10,000,000. Several additions were made to the staff in 1972, namely: Edward Planisek, Preston Knight, Kathy Baker, Karen Hughes and Sandra Stevens. There was one resignation, Charles Pasley. Business continued to boom. Such line items as loans for construction, property improvement, purchase and participation agreements became very prominent in monthly reports. Assets continued to in- crease, now at $11,500,000. A retirement plan for all employees was adopted in 1973. The issuing of traveler's checks became an added service. Secretary-Treasurer, manager and director, Irvin Niemoeller resigned, effective March 31, 1973 after eight years of service. During his years as an officer, Fidelity's assets increased by $8,000,000. Paul R. McAlister suc- ceeded Niemoeller. Edward Planisek was named comptroller a newly created post. Huntington National Bank, Columbus, became a fourth depository for Association funds. Profes- sional appraisers, E. Richard Sherman and E. L. Disbennett Jr. were employed to be appraisers. Interest was 5.25% on passbook savings accounts and certificates paying from 5.75% up to 7.50% were made available. Director John R. Florance resigned late in 1973. Assets were $12,000,000. Two new directors were named in 1974: C. Neilson Griffith to replace Florance and Paul R. McAllister to replace Nie- moeller. The well known firm of Coopers and Lybrand was hired for internal auditing purposes. Loans were made at 8.75% and 9%. Such new loan terms as: recast of loans, speculative construction, permanent construction; and re- finance of clear property began to appear in Association re- cords. A six-year certificate paying interest of 7.75% was introduced. J. Chad Wirthman and Don Fisher were added to the list of certified appraisers. An application for esta- blishing a branch office was filed with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Assets were $13,000,000 at the end of 1974. Permission to expand came early in 1975. So it was not long until a beautifully appointed, modern branch office with three employees was opened in a leased location at 30 Troy Road, within Georgetowne Center. The formal grand opening was March 10-14. Drawings were held for 10 pass- book accounts of $25.00 each. New depositors were given Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 19) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ebd58b4d22fa47ebf00d30e1ec8ce6ba.jpg 58923863bc69a974deedd9f5b7717426 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 20] [corresponds to unlabeled page 20 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] silver ice cream scoops. On display, in sharp contrast to the ultra-modern laundry next door, was crude washing equip- ment used by A. L. Everitt's grandmother while raising a family of eight. Everitt, who had a notable and lengthy con- nection with Fidelity, was serving as president at the time. It was largely through the efforts of Secretary Paul McAllis- ter that the branch office became a reality. This added loca- tion in Delaware's rapidly growing north end provided easier access and convenient parking for customers as well as cre- ating a new marketing area. All services of the main office were made available at the branch office. There were still more developments in 1975. The Association's historic calendar-year policy was changed to a fiscal year, ending on June 30th. Assets were now well over $20,000,000. Mr. McAllister resigned effecive Octo- ber 1st and Edward J. Planisek, who had been serving as the comptroller and assistant manager for three years, was ap- pointed secretary-treasurer and general manager. Another important milestone developed in late December. The 80- year old former Delaware Hardware Store building at 60 North Sandusky Street was purchased from Howard Kraft for devel- opment of a much needed larger main office. Director Leslie Burkhart was deeply involved in this acquisition. Thus, all in all, 1975 was a busy, profitable and eventful year. Starting early in 1976 a great deal of time was spent concerning the use and remodeling of the newly acquired building, a process that involved both staff and officials. In addition, a firm of professionals was hired to assist in the planning stage. Out of this planning came the idea of using an "old look" motif in developing 60 North Sandusky Street into a modern main office. Other things happened in 1976. Loan applications increased in both numbers and ammounts. Dates for all annu- al meetings were changed permanently to the second Monday in August, thus conforming wtih the new fiscal year policy. The interest rate for loans ranged from 8% to 9%. A new pay schedule was adopted for the 7 staff members as well as all officers. Libaility insurance coverage for all Fidelity offi- cers became effective near the end of 1976. With the advent of 1977 Fidelity became 90 years old. The early months of that year were devoted to comple- ting the restoration of their new facility and planning a gala birthday celebration. These activities required the com- Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 20) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/560b6f29e82848575b8da4c9455f6907.jpg 6a01c632eabac7b586e972af5124e546 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 21] [corresponds to unlabeled page 21 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] bined efforts and talents of manager, Edward Planisek and his staff and of president, A. L. Everitt and his fellow offi- cers. The restored 80-year old structure was given a new, but "old look" with its exterior being refinished in color and style reminiscent of the 1890s. For the lobby expert craftmen created a Victorian Era atmosphere with ornate lighting fixtures, plush wall-to-wall carpeting, naturally finished oak woodwork and walls featu- ring wainscoting of oak, highlighted with period wallpaper and art work. The lobby's waiting area was made especially pleasant with Victorian style furnishings. Adjacent to the waiting area two spaces were set aside for secretarial use. In order not to detract from the Victorian motif, the work area, with its battery of modern business equipment, was separated from the lobby by a row of teller terminals fashioned from oak. Adjacent to this work area a small private room was created for safety deposit boxes. Beyond the lobby, management offices were positioned as well as space for the bookkeeping department and conference, staff, storage and rest rooms plus areas for future develop- ment. In the recessed main entrance off Sandusky Street a walk-up window and a night depository were installed, both of which blended into the "old look". At the rear, a convenient parking lot was built, with both entrances and exits from Sandusky Street and Central Avenue. A covered rear entrance was constructed off the parking lot, with steps leading downstairs to a hallway that provided ac- cess to the lobby and various offices. In order to celebrate properly its 90th anniversary, to show off the new "Old Look" facility and to acquaint the public with its new location and its expanded services, Fidelity held a Grand Opening Week, June 13-17, 1977. Ray Hinkle, retired long-time Association official, was given the traditional ribbon cutting honor. Refreshments were served and gifts presented to all visitors. House plants were given with $50.00 deposits to savings accounts and ran- dom drawings were held for $600.00 in gift certificates re- deemable at area places of business. The Radio Station WD- LR did live broadcasts from the facility on certain days. After touring the new facility, one prominent citizen remarked, "It is a very significant and handsome addition to the downtown appearance of Delaware. I hope that it will encourage others to follow the excellent example you have set." Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 21) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/951765ac8ba4884a964fb731b168b7fd.jpg 8d2f0eee2b9da2e10324325a77b944fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 22] [corresponds to unlabeled page 22 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] Other things happened in 1977. The former office building at 46 North Sandusky Street was sold to Cedo Cor- poration. The unused rear one-half of the branch office was subleased to Buehler's; a program of surprise cash counts at various teller terminals was instituted; the liability policy covering officers was changed to a different company and a non-discriminatory policy in making loans became effective. In 1978 loans were made at 9% and 10%, with employ- ees getting special consideration on their loan applications. A limit of $15,000 was placed on home improvement loans. Traveler's checks were issued at no charge to Senior Citi- zens holding Golden Buckeye cards. A new salary schedule for all 8 employees was adopted along with a provision that called for automatic, semi-annual reviews of existing pay scales. Highlights of 1979 included the purchase October 9 of the adjoining building at 58 North Sandusky Street. For- merly a Sears Store was located at this site owned by Mar- guerite Burgess. Interest on passbook savings accounts was set at 5.5%. Continuing a trend of the times, pay raises were given to all staff members and officers. Outright authority was given Association officers to make first mortgage loans up to $45,000. Interest rates on loans continued to climb upward, now being at 12.5%. It was decided to convert un- developed space on the second floor into a room for use by auditors and examiners. Donations were made to the Hayes High School Band Uniform Fund and for the downtown Christ- mas lighting project. With deregulations of savings and loans in the offing, a whole new future was opened up for Fidelity. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 22) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0c0eb76ad6a9cbfb88c730cc6ba34e24.jpg 7390e63904dc17a387162d4200c59ac8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 23] [corresponds to unlabeled page 23 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] HIGHLIGHTING THE EIGHTIES 1980-1986 In 1980 a revised sick leave plan was adopted. Un- solicited outside offers for possible mergers, a common ma- neuver of that day, were turned down. The usual donations to youth groups were made plus one to the Soil Conservation District. Pay raises were given to all employees. NOW accounts and roll over mortgages were introduced. An offer designed to relocate the branch office to a place inside the Buehler Store was also turned down. Loans were made at rates that fluctuated between 11% and 15%. Due to a rash of bank robberies in Columbus it was decided to install a camera in a strategic spot. Economic conditions influenced much of 1981 activity. The trend was toward shorter term, higher cost certificates of deposits and a greatly increased average of dividends paid out. Such a business climate re- quired not only caution but also constant reviews of the Association's investment portfolio. Interest charged on loans rose to as high as 18%. Second mortgages, up to 80% of appraisal value, not to exceed $45,000 and with a 10-year limit, were made available. The usual annual pay raises for all employees were granted. However, the directors and legal counsel, due to 1981's economic slowdown, decided to take cuts in their fees. Despite the slowdown, Fidelity's assets were up to over $27,000,000 as 1981 ended. During 1982 a third teller terminal was installed at the branch office. A great deal of discussion centered on possible restructuring of assets. IRAs were introduced. Interest on 30 month CDs was limited to 14%. Money Ma- ker accounts and 91-day CDs were authorized. Inquiries regarding possible mergers continued to surface. No inter- est in these mergers was shown. Salaries were increased. Considerable attention was given to proposed methods for disposing of low-yielding loans. With the office building now five years old contracts were awarded for painting and other exterior work. The year 1983 was ushered in with on- going discussions concerning possible consumer type lend- ing; a more aggressive mortgage lending policy and possible sale of certain low-yield mortgage loans. Changes were made in advertising agencies and in internal audit compan- ies. Thomas Ivory was employed as assistant treasurer and Ed Madison was engaged to appraise for second mort- Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 23) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/75a2ddc6217e8449a231e2ccf8a22320.jpg 81905df4bcc80b8bc9fb5958e5176f3d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 24] [corresponds to unlabeled page 24 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] gages and for lots. Twelve-month CDs with a $500.00 mini- mum were introduced. Permission to make loans made possi- ble by passage of State Issue I was authorized by the direc- tors. Since he was moving from Ohio, Leslie Burkhart re- signed his directorship after 23 years of service, including 8 years as Association vice president. Business conditions were beginning to improve by the end of 1983. Fidelity experienced a good year in 1984. Richard Dawson was elected a director succeeding Leslie Burkhart. A change was made in the insurance company managing the retirement plan for Fidelity. Salaries for all employees and officials were increased and a maternity leave policy was formulated. In order to complete a change in data proces- sing firms new conversion equipment had to be installed. A. L. Everitt resigned from the board after being a member for 39 years. He was president for 8 of those years, during which time the branch office was established and the present facility became a realty. Noteworthy, too, was the fact that Fidelity's assets increased by over $30,000,000 during his connection with the Association. Everitt passed away in December 1984. By 1985 interest rates were beginning to fall. The business climate was much better. Restructuring of Associ- ation assets continued to be a prime topic. Lloyd Baker took A. L. Everitt's place on the board of directors. A sizeable special industry-wide assessment was paid to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Female employees were given a 6% salary incrase. Martha Law was named assistant treasurer after Thomas Ivory resigned from the post. Fees paid to directors were increased and year-end bonuses were distributed. By the year's end assets were all the way up to $32,664,250. While heading into the last lap (1986) of its first 100 years of serving the Delaware area things shaped up like this: interest rates on loans dropped to 10% and below; requests for refinancing soared; interest on CDs and various other savings plans inched downward; selected employees were given salary increases; and potential sites for expansion were discussed but no action was taken. When the fiscal year ended on June 30th, assets were up to $36,523,620. A Centennial Committee was formed com- posed of directors C. Neilson Griffith, James L. Kern, vice president and Harry A. Humes, president, to plan Fidelity's Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 24) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b313fbd678cf0063d9f6d14a00c41ac2.jpg fb72eea97538dc0a953081d75a7dceda Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 25] [corresponds to unlabeled page 25 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] 100th anniversary celebration. In approaching its 100th birthday, January 18, 1987, Edward J. Planisek Jr., manage- ing officer, announced that Fidelity's assets were up to a record high of $40,000,000. He also announced that the number of borrowers and of depositors were at all-time highs. It was in this upbeat atmosphere that Fidelity's first century came to an end. EPILOGUE In summation, Fidelity has survived wars, depres- sions, slowdowns, recessions, regulations, panics, in- flation and competition, thus attesting to its durability, flexibility and credibility. The Association can take great pride and satisfaction in the fact that it had helped thou- sands of people purchase, build or remodel their homes. Likewise thousands have entrusted their savings with Fidelity and they have been rewarded with high interest rates and guaranteed safety. In short, Fidelity has been good to the people of the Delaware area and Delaware area people have been good to Fidelity. Otherwise there would be no Centennial Celebration. It has bucked the merger trend and is still independent and Delaware's only home- town savings and loan Association. And judging from past performance Fidelity will be around for as long as man's quest for shelter is alive. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 25) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f95e4889d2b27fcd589b0ecc1b7e5a2a.jpg 3341b9fcbca4e8990f146916c13100a4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 26] [corresponds to unlabeled page 26 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] ADMINISTRATION Since its founding 100 years ago, secretaries have been regarded as top person in Fidelity's day by day opera- tion, always doubling as manager and sometimes as treas- urer. In recent years the title has become a combination of secretary/treasurer/managing officer, without a brief, des- ignated title. Their salaries down through the years were generally in line with thoes in similar businesses. Such benefits as car allowances, bonuses, insurance and retire- ment programs were added over a long period of time. In Fidelity's 100 year history only nine men served in this managerial capacity. Longest tenures were those of Frank S. Watkins (32 years) and Ray D. Hinkle (26 years). Their combined years covered more than one-half of Fidel- ity's entire existence. A considerable share of Fidelity's success would have to be attributed to these capable and devoted administrators: C. O. Little (1887-1892), W. E. Moore (1892-1903), Frank S. Watkins (1903-1935), Ray D. Hinkle (1935-1961), James Blackledge (1961-1963), Reginald Moncur (1963-1964), Irwin Niemoeller (1964-1973) Paul McAllister (1973-1975) and in 1975 Edward J. Planisek was named secretary-treasurer and managing officer. He is still serving in those capacities as Fidelity closes out its 100th year. ABOUT THE DIRECTORS Under the charter and by-laws adopted in 1936, the board of directors was charged with directing Association business. The board, as constituted, consisted of seven directors. They elected their own officers and formed them- selves into operating committees. Regular monthly meetings were mandated with provision for special meetings, if neces- sary. Among board duties were these: review and act upon loan applications; set interest rates for loans and for sav- Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 26) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5a6c2f0fa27492d9ce81deef358978c6.jpg 34e09690f6362f2aacd35cd0fc3a3313 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 27] [corresponds to unlabeled page 27 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] ings accounts; evaluate monthly financial reports and hire employees and set their salaries. In addition, for many years, it was customary for a committee of directors to make appraisals as part of the loan process. For this service each appraiser was paid a small fee. However, in recent years, the directors turned over this important duty to pro- fessionals. When the Association was organized, the di- rectors served without pay. Then as business increased, they paid themselves small amounts for meetings attended, a trend that has continued upward until nowadays they are receiving an annual salary comparable to directors in like businesses. A 1936 by-law states that the Association "shall extend leniency and indulgence to borrowers in dis- tress". Actually the officers and directors have been fol- lowing that practice for 100 years and it has enhanced the image of Fidelity by so doing. Basically the director's role and duties during those 50 years of state supervision differ very little from those of the past 50 years of federalization, except for the growing complexities of doing business in our constantly changing economy. Credit for much of the Association's success and longevity would have to be attributed to these 53 outstand- ing business and professional men who gave so liberally of their time and talent over the past century while serving as directors: Lloyd Baker, D. H. Battenfield, B. W. Brown, Leslie Burkhart, Dr. H. P. Caldwell, H. L. Clark, W. J. Cone, Joseph C. Cox, Robert Cox, Harry W. Crist, Rich- ard Dawson, Charles W. Denison, A. L. Everitt, John R. Florance, Max Frank, W. T. Gessner, Fred M. Gooding, Dr. David C. Green, C. Neilson Griffith, J. H. Grove, Dr. W. H. Hague, C. E. Hills, Ray D. Hinkle, George J. Hoff- man, George K. Hoffman, Harry A. Humes, W. C. Jaynes, James L. Kern, C. O. Little, A. Lybrand Jr., R. M. Martin, Paul R. McAllister, H. J. McCullough, Will McElfresh, Victor Milla, Martin Miller, W. E. Moore, Eugene P. Nash, E. E. Neff, Irwin Niemoeller, W. S. Parks, F. J. R. Pfiffner, Edward J. Planisek, J. H. Smith, W. A. Smith, Frank S. Sprague, V. D. Stayman, J. D. Van Deman, Hosea Warren, Frank S. Watkins, H. A. Welch, J. C. Wirthman and Bene- dict Yehley. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 27) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4b53b02a1dc80f366f8292b45c37e3ad.jpg 07970bdad11e99d57c23e1294d2a3519 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 28] [corresponds to unlabeled page 28 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] PINPOINTING THE PRESIDENTS The founding president was B. W. Brown. Other early presidents were Max Frank, C. E. Hills, J. D. Van Deman, and D. W. Battenfield. Following them were Eugene P. Nash (1928-34), Harry W. Crist (1934-45), Charles W. Denison (1945-58), Will McElfresh (1958-69), and A. L. Everitt (1969-77). Harry A. Humes succeeded Everitt as only the 11th president in Fidelity's 100 year his- tory. He is still serving in that capacity. Presidents have always been elected by the board of directors from within their own ranks. Early on, they were paid the same fee as directors, plus an additional amount for performing presi- dentials duties, generally on a per meeting attended basis. This method of remuneration still prevails. As times and circumstances permitted, presidential pay has been upgra- ded to its present level. Fidelity has been fortunate to have had such qualified and dedicated leadership during its first 100 years. LEGALLY SPEAKING From its inception Fidelity's by-laws provided for a legal adviser as part of the official family. The beginning fee for providing this service was limited to $18.00 per quar- ter. J. D. Van Deman was the first of Delaware's distin- guished attorneys to serve Fidelity. Others who acted as the Association's legal counsel included W. J. Cone, James Lytle, C. H. McElroy, Edson Williams, Harry Crist, and James Blair. In 1965 Edward Flahive was named legal coun- sel and he still holds that position. Attorneys Van Deman and Crist each served several years as both Fidelity presi- dent and legal counsel, but without pay for the latter post. Other Delaware attorneys, on occasion, were called upon to represent Fidelity in specific legal matters. There is little doubt but that the Association's legal counselors played an important role in its 100 years of solving housing needs of thousands of people. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 28) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/edaccda323b4a9729e3178ff09bd651b.jpg 51a143bc2c80540c7bacafb34abf3514 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 29] [corresponds to unlabeled page 29 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] PROFILING RAY HINKLE The name of Ray D. Hinkle stands out prominently in Fidelity's history. He started a long and distinguished ca- reer at Fidelity on June 1, 1927 as bookkeeper. Very soon thereafter he was named cashier. When long-time secretary and manager, Frank S. Watkins, resigned in January of 1935, Hinkle was named to that position and he stayed on until re- signing on May 1, 1961. In 1930 he had been elected as a director and remained in that capacity for 34 years. During 1962-64 he served as vice president. Hinkle's career en- compassed such difficult years as those of the Great Depres- sion, the change from state to federal charter and World War II with its trying times. When Hinkle became secretary and manager in 1935 Fidelity's assets were recorded as $778,003. When retiring from that position in 1961, the as- sets were up to $2,184,300. His genuis for making safe loans and for protecting depositor's funds is legendary. Some of his passing recollections include his former boss telling a demanding customer, "Yes, we do have a board of directors, but I am boss." He recalled the time he complained to a supplier via mail because his six-month old order had not arrived - only to receive a terse three-word note stating, "Sorry as hell". Also the trials and tribula- tions of the Great Depression days when he made "house calls" in an effort to collect past due accounts such as the delinquent farmer who had promised to pay "When his wheat was threshed". After attending Ohio Wesleyan University for two years, Questa Williams came to Fidelity July 1, 1927 as the bookkeeper. In 1936 she was made cashier, a position she held until her retirement October 1, 1966. She served under five different secretary-managers for a total of 40 years, the longest tenure of any Fidelity employee. Secretary Ray Hin- kle, Questa's boss for many of those years, had this to say about her, "Questa was an excellent employee who did her job faithfully, year in and year out". Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 29) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5ad08f5a687bb3b8f7c7c01371a074a3.jpg dfbbca61494c259da07c3998ef1ed493 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 30] [corresponds to unlabeled page 30 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] LOOKING AT ADVERTISEMENT When spread over a century, Fidelity's advertising has had to have an impact on its growth and visibility. Often large display ads were used to publicize anniversa- ries, dedications, grand openings, annual reports, and important events. Smaller ads, some done professionally, were used to highlight their ever increasing services as well as to urge people to be thrifty and save, preferably at Fidel- ity, of course. Even classified ads and direct mailings were found to be effective in making contacts. With the advent of radio and still later, cable TV, these new dimen- sions were put to use. Certain phrases and slogans, taken from advertising copy, have become Fidelity trademarks, such as: "Pin your future to thrift". "Not how big, but how strong". "Safety and service since 1887". "We're everything friends are for". "Always secured, now insured". In the 1950s a great deal of emphasis was given this phrase, "A local institution, conducted by local people, for the benefit of local people". The combination of media adver- tising and good will generated by satisfied customers has made and kept Fidelity a household name for these many years. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 30) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/704e8c412f6eb7ea90091d135dcf101f.jpg 3c51b230cf9dd79d207839c7ddcd6210 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 31] [corresponds to unlabeled page 31 of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] FIDELITY AND THE COMMUNITY Fidelity has always been community minded. Their very first donations were made to the Delaware YMCA, long since defunct, and to the equally old Commercial Club, a service organization engrossed in beautifying the downtown area. There has been always a special interest in support- ing youth movements such as Junior Achievement, Dollars for Scholars, Boy Scouts of America, Junior Fair and Hayes High School band. Sports-wise, Fidelity has sponsored softball and bowling teams. Special need causes brought on by both World Wars were assisted monetarially. Regular support has been given to the Red Cross and the United Way and its predessors. Chamber of Commerce membership was always a must as was support of their projects. A sizeable donation once was made to help keep K & W Rubber Company in Delaware. Such diverse things ranging from the Soil Conservation Dis- trict all the way to Ohio Wesleyan University's Music Ren- aissance Project received Fidelity financial assistance. Perhaps one of Fidelity's advertising slogans says it best, "A local institution conducted by local people for the benefit of local people." Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 31) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6d80372037a4a4ada6cacbe615833ede.jpg 819cdf3b36516f1e62d43c352aba74ba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [page 32] [corresponds to back cover of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan 100 Years] FIDELITY FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N 1887 100 YEARS 1987 Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years (p. 32) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Delaware Description An account of the resource This collection contains a variety of items pertaining to different events and organizations in the City of Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio including commerce, history, and schools. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association 100 Years Description An account of the resource This book recounts the history of the first 100 years of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association (1887-1987) in Delaware, Ohio. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1887-1987 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 22221035 Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Subject The topic of the resource Banks--Delaware--Ohio Centennial Celebrations--Ohio--Delaware--1887-1987 Delaware--Delaware County--Ohio Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Author Ray Buckingham; Fidelity Savings and Loan Association http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3b3eb603f1b939622082e116e72e1928.jpg 23e2888b9d4306e5e697b38ba340aac2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.1) Description An account of the resource It Started with These Two is an autobiography written by Rosella Ault that includes her family history, childhood memories, education, marriage and children. Subject The topic of the resource Ault family--Genealogy Main family--Genealogy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rosella Main Tibbits Buchanan Ault Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Book Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 31114110 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5d45c15a62d91845ceafce99e0244523.jpg 5d3fcee3fe4c096a66b448da7dc2676b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.2) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to inside cover of It Started with These Two] [bookplate] Community Library Sunbury, Ohio [bookplate] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/aef0954a0ccb4cc3a6d1bac11e7736f0.jpg eaa42f44d468c9d5f1ae5e378b113672 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.3) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to unnumbered page 1 of It Started with These Two] It Started with these Two Josie and Wilbur Main By Rosella Main Tibbits Buchanan Ault Community Library Sunbury, Ohio April 1998 [photo: Josie and Wilbur Main] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/262002cf8b2ddbc6224454db62b07138.jpg c4d20603d17a4d8941e53919b76f6df1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.4) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 2 of It Started with These Two] To anyone who may read this it suddenly dawned on me that I need an introduction. Some of my friends and family, Polly Horn, the Director of the Sunbury Community Library, and suggestions in Bob Greene's book To Our Children's Children's Children provided the encouragement and suggestions as how to proceed. Since this work was started in April of 1996 and not finished up until September or October, of 1997, there may be some repetitions. If so, please forgive me. My life started with the union of these two, Mother and Dad. They are the reason for my being. So for the title of this endeavor, IT STARTED WITH THESE TWO They were very good parents. They were the exception rather then the rule. [photo: Wilbur and Josie Main August 29, 1909] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5631bbfa21af1ba856f8b8e4f95d2182.jpg 7e40dfce719d3dd193e61e7bb68c5c32 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.5) Description An account of the resource [ corresponds to page 3 of It Started with These Two] This work is for our daughter Mary, and her husband Tom, our granddaughter Melody, and her husband Dennis, and their children, Brittny, Zak, and Brandon, but most of all for my husband Harold. My name is Rosella Jane Main Tibbitts Buchanan Ault. I'll explain as the story of my life progresses. Our present address is 14150 Centerburg Road, Sunbury, Ohio 43074 during the spring, summer and fall. Box 312. Our winter address is 1604 Illinois Street, Bradenton, Florida, a mobile home park, Trailer Estates, 34281. P.O. box 5736. I was born on a farm on Horseshoe Road in Delaware county Ohio, zip now 43015 at home on the election of Warren G. Harding while Dad was at the polls. This makes me 75 years old, and my birthday is November 2, 1920. I'll soon be 76. [photo: Rosella was born here in 1920 but brought to 521] My parents were Josie Bishop Main and Wilbur John Main. They were married on August 29, 1909; and according to the Delaware Gazette, it was the social event of the season. Dad used to say if you don't like a situation, change it. We are the person responsible to make those changes. I believe that much of my characteristics I inherited from Dad. Mother never was one to rock the boat. Long ago I learned that prayer is the glue that holds us together, and that people who have Bibles falling apart are generally owned by people who are not. Dad always believed in doing things first class as it only cost a little more. I guess I made lots of changes in my life and remembered what Dad believed. It's true. In high school, I took Latin, and I remember all Gaul was divided into 3 parts. In college, I took both French and German; but unfortunately, I only speak English. Last December the 10th, I was diagnosed with Meniere's Disease. I have a hearing loss, ringing in the ear, vertigo, and an imbalance problem. Harold tells everyone it's hardening of the arteries. Having a November birthday, my astrological sign is Scorpio which is often associated with persons who have strong and right opinions. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0bb60daa123910a6c9b700e79ee3cebe.jpg 77145481bc6cf6276915adf8eaa287b9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.6) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 4 of It Started with These Two] [top left photo: Rodney, Mrs. Carpenter, Rosella, 1 year old ] [top right photo: Rosella at 3] [bottom left photo: Rosella - Winter of 1923] [bottom right photo: Poppa Bishop, Momma Bishop, Robert and Rosella] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5c496774fac7ba232d530bc10ca0dfee.jpg 86038d625673a6a657b0a75615954335 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.7) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to unnumbered page 5 of It Started with These Two] 46 F Bradenton Trlr Park P.O. B etc - Florida Dear Aults, Dec. 1970 Feeling that it was time to do this, I am at it Every day is lovely here so there is no use to say- "Isn't this a nice day- be- cause all days are alike Sunshine is so plentiful here I wonder how they can sell it so high. Everything here comes from somewhere else, including a marvel- ous numbers of Michi- ganders who escaped from ice, and are found here. I am getting ashamed of myself for being here seem- ing hereextend an ex- sistence- apparently useless to the despair of heirs who might otherwise enjoy better cars, and other things more wished for than act- ually needed. So just come down here, we en- joy visitors even if re- latives as relatives are thrust upon us fortunate- ly we can choose our friends. I am counting the days now until I have a chance to see a little ice. That old Buick runs like a kitten and I will buy gas. Love- Dad http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/91cce4df14a5aeb2e132df36f45f9aac.jpg ba76db130b40d20610af07fd39f56ee0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 6 of It Started with These Two] On the news today on channel 4 they were talking of interpreting one's dreams. And speaking of Dad not to long ago I dreamed that dad and I were riding a motorcycle home from Florida. It was so real. Dad was riding in behind me and he had a 10 quart bucket in his right hand. Every so often we would stop and pick up rocks and yet it never got to be fuller than 1/4 full. In another dream, Mary Hervey and I were pushing Mom and Dad up along flight of steps in wheelchairs and yet it wasn't difficult at all. I'm 5' 5" tall and weigh 150 lbs. and have dark brown eyes and hair. My beautician told one of her other clients who inquired about my thick hair it was all mine and had never been dyed. When she cut my hair, she even displayed the long braid as proof. Our daughter Mary works for Sunoptics in Palmetto and makes my corrective bi-focal glasses. Dr. Welkinson tells me she is great at her profession. My social security number is [redacted] getting it in 1936 when I went to work part-time at the local Woolworth store on McMillian Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. My maiden name was Rosella Jane Main, but at the present time I'm married to Harold J. Ault, formerly of Marshallsville in Wayne County Ohio. We were married at the old Sunbury United Methodist Church on North Columbus Street on March 22, 1959 in Sunbury, Ohio. We have one daughter Mary, married to Tom Hickson. and they live at [redacted]. We talk each Sunday morning, Tom and Mary had 1 daughter Melody Sue Hickson who is married to Dennis Hughes, and they have 3 children - our great-grandchildren, beautiful Brittny 6 years old and the twins Brandon and Zachary, lively 3 year olds. For 30 years I was an elementary teacher, in the summer I taught severely retarded children whose IQ's were below 50. For 14 years I was a second grade teacher, and the last 16 years I was in Westerville as the primary educational teacher of handicapped children. My last year of teaching I was honored by the Westerville Teacher's Association as the primary teacher of the year, and I am listed in the 1976 National Teacher of the Year book. Josie and Wilbur Main were blessed with 7 children: John Wesley, born January 10, 1911; George, born on January 6, 1913; Robert, born April 9, 1915; Rodney, born January 22, 1917; James, stillborn in 1919; my birth on November 2, 1920; and a sister Verona, born February 18, 1923. Even though my parents were Baptist, I belong to the Methodist Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.8) http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ba68e90f1baf9eab898ae9b46adce2a9.jpg 84f744ad9cb3ea591870ae4b0a35d9f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.9) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 7 of It Started with These Two] denomination and the Sunbury United Methodist Church. I am a lay delegate for 3 years to the East Ohio Annual Conference. when I presented the annual report. I mentioned that 44 years ago, I was also a delegate for West Ohio when Mary was just 2 months old. I am a staunch and ardent Republican following in my parents' footsteps. I started out living in the country, then lived in Cincinnati and the small town of Sunbury, and now Harold and I are back on a small acreage, living in a little brown house that we built in 1988 on Centerburg Road. We have lots of evergreens around the house, walnut trees, weeping willows, maples, buckeye, oak, peach, tulip, and others. Geese roam the woods and enjoy a pond and creek. We see a deer occasionally. It's just 4 miles from Sunbury and 6 miles from Centerburg. We vote at a little town 3 miles from our house called Olive Green. Recently, we had 2 Dalmatian dogs, Bo and Little Girl. However, they are both dead now; and we miss them. I remember them well. [top left photo: Entrance to 14150 Centerburg Road] [side right photo: Harold with Little Girl and Beau - 1990] [bottom left photo: Rocks from the creek] [bottom right photo: Large rock brought in from the field by Ray Facemeyer] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9b280d57805912afa39789b0d1f27545.jpg ff3a4ac5bdf9afb21063b27c618385c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.10) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 8 of It Started with These Two] While I was writing this on Saturday evening, August 17, 1996, Harold came in and said you may not want to hear this, but our neighbor doing a good deed for another neighbor left the gate unlocked and the big black huskie dog was in the geese pen and was hurting some of them as she pulled the dog off. Harold just happened to be looking out the back deck windows and saw what was happening. He ran out to help. This Sunday morning, August 18th, I went out to feed and water them with fear as to what I would find. They were all 5 still alive. Hopefully they all will live. Our 5 guineas were better protected with chicken wire covering their whole pen so that they couldn't fly away until they had grown some and become used to the feeding area so they would stay around, however wild animals killed all of them. My grandparents on Mother's side were Addie Rosella Jacoby Bishop and Wesley Bishop. they are buried at Marlboro, Delaware County, Ohio. My grandmother on my father's side was Christina Schaub Main, who was born in Anweil, Switzerland and came to America when she was 5. She had a maiden sister, Rosina who was in a wheelchair and used to hold me. They are buried at Oak Grove in Delaware, Ohio. Alonza Eleezar Main, a doctor, who was high up in the Masons and who is buried in Ringgold, Georgia, died before I was born in August 1916. He was my grandfather. Addie and Wesley bishop lived on Price Road near a little place called Waterhill. I remember we had to call them Mama and Papa Bishop. They were embarrassed by our large family. Mama Bishop was an artist and painted pictures in oil, and Papa Bishop raised registered Merino sheep and Percheron horses. Papa Bishop called Addie "Pet". They lost their home because he tried to please her by building a three story house, one like her cousin down in Clintonville, now a suburb of Columbus. It even had an elevator. Brother John said he lived as a child after coming from Cleveland after Dad resigned his Chief Yeoman rank in the Navy at our grandparents' tenant house. One of their registered Percheron horses was World Grand Champion at St. Louis and sold to a Japanese for $10,000. His name was Clemenso. His valuable stable of horses were found floundered in a wet clover field one morning. Dad tried to save the farm but was not successful. They had a son, Harley, who died after a a trip west to buy Merino breeding [photo: Deer and Game in the side yard] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f9e0dcbfaef02118ce9892b0433ac352.jpg 1dbae2816bbf9ba6fe03015974e0ae68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.11) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 9 of It Started with These Two] stock. He contracted Typhoid Fever. They also had our mother Josie, a son Archie, a school teacher, and Violet Townley. Dad had a brother Dr. E. F. Main, a horse doctor. His wife was Ora White Main. they had 4 children, Francis, Edna, Nina, and Harold. Only Harold is still living in Cardington, Ohio and Florida. In 1920 after Dad was elected County Auditor, we moved into Delaware and lived at 408 West William Street. I went to kindergarten and 1st grade there. My first grade teacher was Effie Weaver. In 1927 we moved back to the farm on Horseshoe Road, and we attended the upper Horseshoe one room school. It is still standing among weeds. Helen Hardin Allen was my 2nd grade teacher, and we were friends until she died in 1989. She was my inspiration as well as my mother who would keep saying "get a good education; it's the only thing that can't be taken from you". Miss Dukes, the 3rd grade teacher, made us learn a Bible verse every time we were late for school. Again, Helen Allen was my my 4th grade teacher at the Conger School, then known as the East School. They are the only teachers I remember by name. In 1930 the school was closed, and we were transported by bus to Delaware. I played clarinet in the grade school band. Not much happened between then and 1936 when Dad was sent to Cincinnati, Ohio as a state examiner for Joseph Tracey. I was a junior and sister, Verona, a freshman at Hughes High School on Ludwig Avenue and West McMillian Street on the hilltop in Cincinnati. There were 770 in our graduating class as we marched 7 abreast to the tune "Pomp and Circumstance" down the large main aisle of the Cincinnati Music Hall, on June 17, 1938 for our diplomas. During 1939 working part-time at Sears, I attended MillerBusiness school. It was to learn typing which was a big help, also shorthand; and I still know how to [top photo: Horseshoe Road School 1927-1928, 2nd and 3rd Grades] [bottom photo: Helen Allen - 2nd and 4th grade Teacher 1988] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bb095dd5e0179858bec1af0d1a596559.jpg 6867ecde4f992316ae259bbd0b7b4725 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.12) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 10 of It Started with These Two] write and understand it. Starting to the University of Cincinnati wasn't a big change from high school as it too was just a block away from our home at 148 West McMillian Street. Tuition in the early 1940's was $45.00 a semester. In January of 1943 my friend Tom Tibbits left for March Field in California as a radio man and gunner, and I went to work at Wright Patterson airplane factory in Lockland. In November, Tom got a leave and on November 6th of that year we were married in the Christ Episcopal Church on 4th Street in Cincinnati. In early 1944 Tom was stationed in Medford, Oregon and before he was to go to the Aleutian Islands I made a trip west. Before I returned I was happy to know that I was pregnant. I went back to work at Wright Patterson before Thomas Palmer Tibbits, Jr. was born on November 20, 1944. the little boy was born with a congenital club foot. His foot was in a cast 3 times before he died at 2 years, 3 months and 9 days old on January 29, 1947 at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati from a fall from his crib. After getting home from the service, Tom had a drinking problem and went home to live with his parents, George and Bessie Tibbits, two wonderful [top photo: 5th Grade Elementary School Band- about 1931. Rosella at the end of second row] [middle photo: Hughes High School - Cincinnati - 1938] [bottom photo: Rosella's Graduation, Hughes High School-1938] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c465a2167c4f75a90251913316ccd137.jpg 5aa5ed4e6f91e5db141df3f6c934c55a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.13) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 11 of It Started with These Two] people, in Rochester, New York. On October 30, 1946 I received a divorce on grounds of incompatibility. [top left photo: Tom Tibbetts - 1944] [top right photo: Elizabeth, Tommy and Tom Tibbitts, January 1945] [bottom left photo: Rosella and Tommy - Spring 1945] [photo: Dad and Tommy, September 1946] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/442c826f06fa87c3ed9d77ecfd3b8b5b.jpg ba0126340f47befefec818aaeb3988d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.14) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 12 of It Started with These Two] At the time of my son's death, I was working two jobs, morning and evening at the Clifton Pantry as a waitress and during the day at the Jergens Soap and Cosmetic Plant as a supervisor in quality control. One night a week I attended the University of Cincinnati night school taking courses under Dr. Falau on building your vocabulary. One evening after class on my way home walking with a friend Alberta Peet, not knowing the professor was behind us, we were discussing how intelligent he was and it would be terrible living with such a smart individual. At our next class he started out by saying, for the 2 young ladies he had overheard the week before, living with him wasn't a prerequisite for passing his course. Were we two embarrassed? Grandpa Bishop loved horses as did George. One of the good things I remember about our Aunt Ora and Uncle Ernest was that they came to Waverly and stayed with me a month after Mary was born and until school was out. Also hewent with me to a sale of [top right photo: Dad and Tommy, September 1946 Chapel Road and the horse, "Old Dolly"] [bottom left photo: Old Dolly and Rosella - 1952] [bottom right photo: Old Dolly - 1952 ] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/908c161f69f0c257fcaea545a67d8f32.jpg 985055dcadc47496778ab95bc7f8806d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.15) Subject The topic of the resource [corresponds to page 13 of It Started with These Two] thoroughbreds in Columbus and picked Dolly for me. She had a bad tooth and the auctioneer warned people that she was dangerous. After Uncle Ernest pulled the tooth, she became a gentle spirited, but not a dangerous, horse. She had a foal "Princess" who later got a fistula and had to be put to sleep by the Ohio State Veterinary Clinic. Mary and I used to visit her, and the young medical students said she only whinnied when we were walking in the stable door. [photocopy of Rosella's Ohio teaching certificate 08/31/87 ] [bottom photo: Harrison Street School 2nd Grade School Teacher Here for 8 Years] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/4bc0f112cfc436e0a1dfb59d467c3961.jpg b941a54b8dea40cc4bcf50297fefb072 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.16) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 14 of It Started with These Two] [top photo: The Public Opinion - Westerville, Ohio - May 8, 1974 - Page 3 Teachers of the Year --Honored as "Teacher of the Year" by the Westerville Education Assn. were (left to right) Tom Crane, high school; Alice Gremshaw, Central College; Rosella Ault, Whittier; Terri Hokansan, Annehurst; Dorothy Deibel, Blendon; Dave Liggitt, Blendon; Jim Gould, Hanby; and Rick Ball, high school. (Photo by Robbie Miller)] [bottom photo: 1974 class of E.M.R. Debbie Shaw Died] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a796cae45b23f999cd4103f04e002f7e.jpg b2b991a3096b73e76770e4934c857606 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.17) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 15 of It Started with These Two] [photo] Appreciation Day- Whittier PTA presented a corsage to each staff member at Whittier Elementary School to express their appreciation for a job well done. Mrs. Magilla, president of PTA, center, pins a corsage onto Mrs. Linda Thompson, left who is straightening a corsage on Mrs. Rosella Ault. A total of 40 corsages were given. [photo] This is to certify that Rosella Main Ault has been selected as an Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America for 1974 in recognition of contributions to the advancement of elementary education and service to community V. Gilbert Beers, PhD., Director [top: newspaper photo: Whittier PTA honors staff members ] [bottom: photocopy: Outstanding Elementary Teachers of America ] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e8b27544762e4c4fed69af319edfcff8.jpg 29589fd9673adf117e4f9b8df710332b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.18) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 16 of It Started with These Two] At one time after buying 14150 Centerburg Road, we had 5 horses and "Trina" was Mary's 4-H project. The judge asked her how she got her horse so shiny; and without hesitating she said, "Dad rubbed her down with fly spray." He didn't take any points off because it didn't dawn on her to lie. I told Harold before I die I hope to have 1 or 2 horses for the great-grandchildren. There is an expression "You can fly your cares away on the back of a horse." How true! Uncle Archie, Mother's brother, was a school teacher at Harpster and Moral most recently. His first wife, Aunt Flossie, died suddenly as did a 5 year old son Owen Archie. They had 2 other children, Wesley and Jane. I can still hear Aunt Flossie saying "You can do a lot with a little arranging". She was very attractive. His second wife was Esther and I never related as well with her as with Aunt Flossie. There was Violet, Mother's sister, who was 20 years younger and is still living at 93 years old. She and Cecil had a son Marshall killed by a log truck across from the feed store on Granville Street and two other sons, Dr. Norman Townley and Marshton Townley. When we lived on Horseshoe Road, we attended the Hard Shell Baptist Church. Sunday dinners were potluck and all day services. We went to Sunday School at the Delaware Reformed Church on the corner of Franklin and West Central Avenue in Delaware, Ohio. During Dad's years as a County Auditor, Veley Main was the County Sheriff. Each Christmas the Courthouse employees had an oyster supper. Veley's son Vern later owned a drug store on the east side of the square in Sunbury. When Verona [photo: Reformed Church at Franklin and West Central in Delaware Sunday School from 1922-1936 ] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d48a08519d66ac2d00770aeda55fd7b8.jpg f3aa79c7af2cae199260e3e185038073 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.19) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 17 of It Started with These Two] was about 4 and I was 6, Vern and my brother George locked us between 2 doors in the jail. The prisoners could not reach us to physically harm us, but they shouted at us through the bars. We were petrified. When I asked Mother why we never had pictures when we were growing up, she told me that Violet had taken their expensive camera on a date and it was stolen. She never thought of replacing it. Maybe that is why I take so many pictures of my friends, family and small livestock, geese today. You would say we were a very caring and religious family. Dad once told me he didn't care how late I stayed out on Saturday night, but I better be ready for Sunday School and church on Sunday. My best friend Virginia Wenger Weisgerber was Catholic, and I went with her to 12:00 p.m. Mass Saturday night. Tommy Tibbits, Jr. was buried on Saturday morning January 29, 1947, and we were in church on Sunday morning. I went back to work at Andrew Jergens 2 weeks after he was buried. In Cincinnati, I belonged to the Christ Episcopal Church on 4th Street and later the Methodist Church on Ludwig Avenue. [top left photo: Old County Jail - December 1929] [bottom right photo: Tommy Tibbitts and Bobby Miller December 1946] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c78c94f634fba8e05ee8791229677b8f.jpg 9b02d83d9bdae565e7c79bf23464e606 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.20) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 18 of It Started with These Two] Mom and Dad were now living back on Horseshoe Road and on a weekend back in Delaware, my car slipped on the ice into a telephone pole and killed the nerve in one of my front teeth. Dr. Virgil Turner in Cincinnati capped it, and it's always been whiter than the others much to my embarrassment. Dad graduated from Ohio Wesleyan in Business Administration. Dad started out his adult work as a school teacher at Thompson Township one room school in western Delaware County. He then worked for O. M. Scott, a seed company in Marysville before he joined the United States Navy as a Chief Yeoman as a recruiter in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1908 he went around the world with Teddy Roosevelt. Mother and he were married when he was stationed in Cleveland, and they lived there until my brother John Wesley was born on January 10, 1911. Mother worked in a millinery shop designing hats in Cleveland and after that they lived on Main Road off U.S. 23 north before spending a year in Papa Bishop's tenant house. Dad Goes to Sea According to a historical paper it says "Bill Main goes to sea." Wilbur Main had just graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Business College in May of 1905 and was thinking about what to do with his future. He was almost 24 years old, born in Bryan, Ohio, in Williams County a far north western county in Ohio, on June 16th, 1881. Wilbur was a handsome young single man standing 5'8" tall and weighed 135 lbs. He had been raised on the good farm land near central Ohio. He had taught school in Thompson Township and worked for O. M. Scott in Marysville, Ohio, but the lure of going to sea and to see the world intrigued him. One day Wilbur traveled to Sandusky, Ohio to talk to a Navy recruiter. On May 19th he was appointed a Yeoman to be assigned to sea duty. (Yeoman is a Navy term for a recorder of bookkeeper). On the 20th he traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, for his physical and was one of two men out of 8 that passed the exam. In a letter to his friend (who later became my mother) Josie Bishop, Wilbur described how he traveled from Cleveland through Pittsburgh to Washington, D. C. by first class rail. He saw the White House, the Capital and other interesting sites. On the following day, it was on to Norfolk, Virginia, where they arrived at the Receiving Ship the "Franklin". After several days he was reassigned to the gunboat, [photo: Dad in Navy Uniform 1907] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0699cb07ae16eefe899a08bfa66be4b3.jpg 65ffb0ff1d76c65f776f234355ea7d97 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.21) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 19 of It Started with These Two] the "Hancock," which was docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yards in New York. It was here he was examined, vaccinated, and outfitted with uniforms. In a letter to Mother in July dad described life on the "Hancock". For breakfast he had bread, butter, 3 hard boiled eggs; for lunch he had mashed potatoes, gravy, roast pork and succotash. For desert, there was cake unheard of and pie then unknown. Dad was one of the five petty officers on the ship. On August 30th, this same year, Dad was transferred to the U.S.S. "Franklin" which was docked at the Norfolk Navy yard in Virginia. He stated in his letter in November that "My present pay is $35.00 a month but it is all clear of any expenses. He also stated that he missed the good home cooking and in his opinion he would farm in Ohio in their future. In a letter to mother written in January of 1906 Dad said he could sleep in his office on shore but that he would rather "swing" in his hammock on the Franklin. At 8:00 P.M. the Boatswain blows taps and sings out "Turn in your Hammocks". At 5:30 A. M. the Boatswain says "Rise and shine. In his next letter to Mother in February, he described hunting, horse back riding and touring through Virginia. He also stated that he had not been "seasick, homesick or lovesick". In May Dad was transferred to the battleship, the U. S. S. Virginia. It was stationed in Norfolk. During the summer, the Virginia steamed up and down the Atlantic coast. It dropped anchor at Newport, Rhode Island, Rockland Maine, and Havana, Cuba. He stated in a letter in November that "I am satisfied to leave the ill-smelling harbor of Havana and these childish, troublesome Cubans". The remainder of 1906 and through 1907, Dad steamed in and out with the U.S.S. Virginia. during this time he was promoted to Yeoman 1st Class in October 1906 and to Chief Yeoman in November 1907. In November of 1907 Wilbur was to finally embark on his big adventure. President Teddy Roosevelt made a typical bold Roosevelt decision. To assure the world understood that he and the United States carried a "Big Stick" Roosevelt [photo: Dad in Navy Uniform Australia - 1908] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8be3d8373b525b84475df299fa4285a1.jpg 5622981f7b2dd1f40e40dd4e49590685 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.22) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 20 of It Started with These Two] decided to send a large fleet of battle ships with their support ships around the world. The Atlantic fleet was selected for the mission. Dad's battleship, the U.S. S. Virginia, was one of the sixteen battleships, six torpedo boats and six auxiliary ships to perform this mission. The following tells of the fourteen month trip around the world: The U. S. S. Virginia stopped at the following ports, Port O'Spain, Trinidad: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (here Dad met a young man from Delaware. The young man hugged Dad and said "My God, it's Main". What a small world we live in. Puntas, Chile; Callae, Peru; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; Puget Sound, Washington; Honolulu, Hawaii; Auckland, New Zealand; Sydney, Australia; Melbourne, Australia; Albany, Australia; Manilia, Philippines; Yokohama, Japan; Amoy, China; Colombo, Ceylon; Suez, Egypt; Port Said, Egypt; Beirut, Syria; Smyrna, Turkey; Gibraltar and then home Hampton Roads, Virginia. The trip started on December 16th, 1907 and was completed on February the 22nd, 1909. During these fourteen months, the fleet covered more the 43,643 miles. When Dad's ship docked at Suez, Wilbur and several buddies were given shore leave. During this three week period, they went to Cairo and saw the Pyramids, the Sphinx, and other sites. During this time the ship had moved up through the Suez Canal and they rejoined it at Port Said, Egypt. At most ports Dad sent home many pictures and postcards. At this time Wilbur volunteered for Recruiting Duty in Ohio and May 18th, 1909 was appointed to the Navy Recruiting office in Cleveland, Ohio. Here he was close to Mother, his future wife, and they were married on August the 29th, 1909. According to an article in the Delaware Gazette, it was the social event of the season. Mother and Dad got an apartment in Cleveland and he recruited Navy men and she worked in a millinery house making fancy hats. Dad's mind had been made up. He now wanted to have a family, to farm, and to return to Delaware, Ohio. The days of going to sea and to see the world were now history. Mother and Dad didn't have a spectacular meeting as youth as their parents' farms were close to each other at a little place called "Waterhill" just over the bridge at the north end of Horseshoe Road. Dad said even though he was only a year and a half older than Mother, he remembered thinking what a beautiful girl she was but it wasn't until she was 28 and Dad, 29, that they married. Dad was supporting his mother and his maiden aunt Rosina when they tried to tell him there would be children, expenses, and he told them that he hoped there would be. What wonderful parents they were. Always encouraging one to get a good education and to do only what was right. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c5e3a2f19eb8269935f657b0a36fa22a.jpg ea1296ba20e028515ba471ec75064430 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.23) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 21 of It Started with These Two] [photo: Robert, Rodney, and George Main on the Farm 1930 ] [photo: Brothers John and George in 1922] [photo: Brothers Rodney, George and Robert on Welsh Pony] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cc328aaa0b5e1785d369aaa4c12ba09f.jpg 00eeb2549b6341f8151db003bccd1e52 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.24) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 22 of It Started with These Two] I have visited Grandfather Main's grave several times on our way to Florida and saw where he had his doctor's office. Grandmother Main lived on U.S. 23 north at Main road. It was sold to the U. S. government for the Delaware Dam. Brother John walked cross country from U.S. 23 north at Inskeeps Corner and visited the sight of the remains of the Wesley Bishop property on Price Road. John is able to help with times and locations. Papa and Mama Bishop were very loving. I have ridden with him to Ashley in a buggy with his horse, Pet. They were living on Horseshoe Road across from the Bob Barret home at on time. We have always had family reunions, Main and Jacoby, and since marrying Harold, the Ault and Shisher reunion. In 1920 Dad was elected the Delaware County Auditor and was for 2 terms. After not running for a third term, he took a civil service exam and became a state examiner with Joseph Tracy and worked at Kenton, Findlay, Chardon, and Columbus and retired form the Hamilton County Courthouse in Cincinnati in 1946. He then returned to the farm on Horseshoe Road in Delaware County. I was named Rosella after Mama Bishop, Addie Rosella Bishop, and Aunt Jane Jacoby Fisk. there was no pressure or influence because of having them as my namesake. I remember eating oatmeal cooked all night long in a double boiler on a large wood cook stove at the Bishops'. The 6 Main children lived average teenage lives with no special problems. We were not to play on Sunday. One time we were playing baseball, and Rodney slid into third base and broke his ankle. We were in real trouble. We rode bikes; and the boys, motorcycles. We were considered average on finances but above average in the encouragement for reading, studying and getting an education. College was to be expected. As for Dad's handwriting, here is sample birthday card that I received from my parents. Birthdays and all anniversaries were very special. I remember we didn't have a telephone, radio, or newspaper; but we were taken to the library often in place of these. We never felt abused or poor or neglected - just a fortunate and loving family, I believe because of the religious and Christian upbringing. One summer day, Rodney took Verona and me to the Olentangy River at upper Horseshoe. He told mother he wasn't bringing us home until we both had learned to swim and dive from the bank. In the fall of 1935, George rode a bus home from Ohio University with the mumps. Mother caught them, she was very sick. Dr. Davis told us how she was very sick and she might die. It was on Christmas Eve, and we always had oyster stew. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a228503464ccb3598884cb7852fc32b6.jpg d29afa65ae5efe3907e49e50906e7c65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.25) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 23 of It Started with These Two] I'll never forget that night. In the summer of 1936, we moved to Cincinnati. I started my junior year at Hughes High School on west McMillan Street. Since I had worked hard on the farm milking cows, helping to plow and make hay, I had lots of strength in my right hand. In gym class, I broke the gripper to measure strength. I again was embarrassed. On June 17, 1938, I graduated from Hughes High School with honors. C. M. Merry was the principal that signed the award. There were 770 in the graduation class. The Senior Class took a boat to Coney Island. My date that night was Eddie Becker. He was a friend of Virginia Dwenger's date. He was a Jewish boy and worked where they made Panama suits. We never dated again until after my divorce from Tom Tibbitts. He was providing for his widowed mother, and she didn't encourage him to date a divorcee and the mother of a little boy. I never really considered our relationship seriously. While I was working at the Clifton Pantry before and after working at Andrew Jergens during the day, I met John Buchanan. I remember his telling me "Young lady, I didn't order this" when I had brought him a dish of corn. Eventually we started to date and married in April, 1947 in Magnolia, Mississippi. We bought a 73 acre farm at Waverly on Cline Chapel Read, and I joined the Grange so I could attend with Mom and Dad when I came to Sunbury. We built a 40 X 80 dairy barn with a milking parlor after Ohio State University had sent us the plans. We had registered Holsteins and sent the milk to Borden's in Portsmouth. Fred Wallin was the farm hand. We had 100 breeding Shropshire ewes and also Leghorn chickens. We also raised a big garden. I got a job teaching the 2nd grade in Bainbridge, Ohio. J. Mason Jones was the principal. That winter was really cold, and we had lots of snow. When I tried to drive over Pots Hill to our place on Cline Chapel Road, the pickup truck stopped half way up the hill. It was then I rode to the top of the hill on a road scraper. At Nipgen, I got in an Omar bread truck and rode to Summit Hill. Our milk man, Fred Wallin, came and took me the rest of the way home. We had 18 inches of snow and 29 degrees below zero weather. I remember one child, Jimmy Duffield, that kept punching his clay. He said "This is my Dad; see me punch him like he punches my mother." After moving to Sunbury many years later, I read in the Columbus Dispatch that he was shot and killed after a card game in Bainbridge, and he was accused of cheating. During the 3 years I taught at Bainbridge, each spring I would take my second grade class for a train ride on the D T & I (Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton). After getting back one time, a little boy named Manuel patted me on my backside and said, "Teacher, that was more fun than recess." http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1a0853b9c650ab97b3f18a45b23d8686.jpg f6259d4ffd66c936f89e739a0d1d93cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.26) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 24 of It Started with These Two] At Christmas Jack Bartrom was the science teacher and a Methodist Sunday School teacher. His wife was Jehovah Witness. He asked if their 7 year old girl Pam could help me take down the tree. His wife sent me a very nice gift, not a Christmas one she reminded me but an appreciation for making Pam feel so special. Also, all of the children who didn't miss a day of school were brought to Columbus to visit the old Historical Society on North High Street and the zoo. The janitor's 2 boys got on the bus barefooted. The 6 teachers and the bus driver wondered if we should buy them shoes but voted against it since he made more than each of us. About 30 family friends and those who worked at the IGA came to the farm at Waverly for the 4th of July get-together. John Warner said birds carried knapsacks when they flew over Pike County. He was sure surprised when he saw the 40 X 80 dairy barn, 2 ponds, a diversion ditch half way up the hillside, alfalfa growing in one field and fescue on the hillside. There was a walled cemetery at the top of hill for a family of Gladstones who had died during a typhoid epidemic. The kitchen was modern, with a dishwasher and nice bathroom. As you may know, I like to cook and use dishes, not paper products, so sent them all home to Delaware County and was left with lot of dirty dishes. With all the toilet flushing, the well went dry and I had to go to the creek to get water to heat on the stove and do the dishes by hand. I still enjoyed the day very much. One Christmas 3 of the children's fathers were in prison for small things, like cheating on welfare, disorderly conduct, and obscene behavior. Ross County sent them to Orient up in Franklin County. This also occurred in the other 5 classes and the teachers, instead of exchanging gifts or having a faculty party went together and provided a Christmas for each child. Gregg's Drug Store helped with special discounts and extra toys. Across the street was a barber shop run by an African-American, and his grandson, Michael Gage, was the only black child in the school and in my second grade class. Across the street, too, from the drug store was a restaurant that had wonderful pork tenderloin sandwiches. They were so good. It was 18 miles across country to Bainbridge from our place on Cline Chapel. A little boy up the road saw me riding by one day in a fancy English outfit and motioned for me to stop. I was riding old Dolly, and he said, "My, you hold your age well". I don't know how old he thought I was. He was in a wheelchair from having had polio. I have always worried about young children carrying babies. The Alexanders who couldn't have their own children adopted a beautiful baby girl. Mrs. Genevieve Alexander's 12 year old sister dropped the baby, and she too was in a wheel chair like the Cline boy. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/6bd2cc8447022d5bf37f73d689aaaa82.jpg af42b2e0beb42403e98e60721075b8de Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.27) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 25 of It Started with These Two] In the fall of 1951, a Mrs. Barta came to the Bainbridge school with a sheriff's deputy and took one of my children to the Children's Home in Chillicothe. When I was trying to comfort him, he said, "But teacher, I love my mom." He brought sandwiches made of biscuits with fried potatoes as filling. Their cat had eaten the vittles from the kitchen table. In talking with the welfare department in Chillicothe, I told of my desire to adopt a baby since I was not able to have anymore. So Mrs. Barta kept me in mind; and on April 29, being at a P.T.A. meeting the night Mary Martha was born on the 28th, I received the happy news that a beautiful little girl had been born and that I could bring her home on the 30th from the old Chillicothe Hospital. She came a month early but still weighed 8 lbs and was 21 " long. When I went after school, I had to stop at the department store, for a clothes basket and baby clothes, since I had ordered these items from the Sears mail order catalog. She grabbed hold of my little finger, and I was hooked for life. She is our pride and joy. I told you earlier why Aunt Ora and Uncle Ernest were so dear to me. In the spring of 1953 when Mary was 1 year old, Josephine Sturgill came to live with us and stay with Mary during the day. On a Monday night while going to a P.T.A. meeting, I had driven most of the way; but at Nipgen, I turned around and went back home as I felt something was wrong. Josephine was sitting out with her boy friend, Jr. Clifford. When I went in the house, the chair and carpet outside of Mary's bedroom was burning, Josephine was not supposed to have smoked in the house; but after I left, she had called Jr. to come. Her cigarette had fallen into the chair. The two of them helped put out the fire. They seemed really sorry. They were our neighbors. We had another bad and snowy winter. A large family just down the road from us had a 14 year old boy who went forward to the altar on the World Day of Prayer at the little Cline Chapel Methodist Church. He asked if he could come live with us, and he did for over a year until I moved to Sunbury. I often wonder where he is and how he is doing. His name was Charles Johnson, and his aunt and uncle were Hadd and Nettie Osborn. On August 16, 1956, when I got my degree from Ohio University, they went with us to Athens. They belonged to the Grange and Cline Chapel Church, too. I received a B.S. in education. When I taught 2nd grade Bainbridge, I had between 46 and 54 children. Today they feel put upon if they have 25 students. I realize children were then easier to reach and teach. In the summer of 1953, we traveled to North Carolina to visit John's sister, Mary and Claude Leavitte. John's sister Mary cut our Mary Martha's pretty curls and said just imagine a man of 72 years old adopting a baby. I was in shock. He had said when we married that 1947 he was 46, and I had no reason to doubt his word. He http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cb27537a7a0ac0707faec0a25e937a8a.jpg fec002233162362a7240e1186a15e95d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.28) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 26 of It Started with These Two] acted and dressed such. We flew home to Waverly from Southern Pines, North Carolina, and I started a second grade position. I was hired by Marvin Miller, and Gladys and I became good friends and had remained so until her death last year. On March 6, 1956, I took the state real estate board exams at the old Virginia Hotel in Columbus, Ohio. I received word that I had passed March 16, 1956. I have been licensed with Richard Day, Forest Day, Glen Hoover, and presently with Ted Foreman. I have been a licensed sales person for over 40 years. [photocopy-left] Honored Realtors (Licensed Twenty-five Years or More) Timothy W. Ackley Rosella Ault Lorna Davis Rodney Disbennett Ted Foreman Martha Lobdell Leroy N. Randolph Harley E. Rouda [photocopy-right] ENTERTAINMENT COCKTAIL HOUR Bills Bells of William Church Duet by Dr. Nancy M. Gomso and Dr. Camaron Bennett DINNER MUSIC Olentangy High School "Key Notes" Nancy Notes, Director LATE SHOW Comedian Rodney Russ of "Class Acts" EVENING DANCING DJ Ty Higgins Throughout the evening there will be drawing for Door Prizes and also a Realtor Prize and an Affiliate Prize. GOOD LUCK!! http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5589dbadd3862b7ffe3deec72256969f.jpg 83e56fadbbc8d175cd094c003d20225f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.29) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 27 of It Started with These Two] I bought Jessie Sims', Betty Jo Guidotti's mother, furniture and took over her apartment on the east side of the square above the gift wrapping store and lived there until March of 1956. So that Mary would have a yard, Dad bought the duplex at 174 Harrison Street for us. John and Evelyn Warner kept Mary during school day, Mary called them "More Mommy" and "More Daddy". They were just great people, and we became close friends. I kept my legal residence in Pike County even though I might have been just a minority as to my politics. People actually paid to teach in Pike County so rather than do this I taught at Bainbridge in Ross County. A. E. Grover was the Ross County Superintendent, and J. Mason Jones was my principal. They were two very nice men as well as their families. We lived at 174 Harrison Street, and I walked up Otis to Rainbow to drop off Mary at the Warners. Evelyn also cared for Linda and Becky Breece and their two girls, Marileee (Meme) and Shelia (Sheshe) according to Mary. I then walked across the playground to a room on the 2nd floor of what is now known as the Harrison Street School. Harold Tippet was the principal. When Mary was 7, I transferred to the Galena School for 3 years before securing a position in Westerville teaching the Primary E.M.R. children at the high school for a year (no playground or equipment, and the children had to be watched carefully as students were coming and going in their cars). I joined charter ARC 24. In April of 1961, I got up the nerve to tell Carrol Biggs, the superintendent, formerly of Ashley, that I was resigning the 1962 school year unless we could be in an elementary building. In September our classroom was in the new addition to Whitter School. There I met many wonderful teachers that I still get together with the first Tuesday of each month. Most of the teachers that I taught with in Galena are now dead, Pat Wilson, Helen Kohberger, and Lousie Cooley for sure and the other 2 I don't have their addresses - Zenabell Cross Philips lives in Brooksville, Florida. She had 3 sons and lived across from the old Methodist Church. As teenagers they gave her lots of grief, but all three graduated from college and have responsible positions. One is a Wesleyan Methodist minister. I see her once a year when we go up to Brooksville to take visiting friends in Florida to see Roberts Christmas Tree Houses. These are 7 [top photo: House at 174 Harrison Street in Sunbury Moved here August 4, 1956] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ccff87a55f5c9fbf8b85816c42e1d5c4.jpg 4e8e60b0e810b621a95b8b906169fc40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.30) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 28 of It Started with These Two] little houses joined by walkways, and they are open every day in the year except Christmas. Their gifts are exceptional and expensive. On the 7th of August, 1957, I received a divorce from John Buchanan on the grounds he was unfaithful and had lied about his age. During the fall, I dated Rev. George Pringle who was the minister of our old church at 100 North Columbus Street. It was never very serious, but I understand some of the members were upset that he was dating a twice divorcee. He had very bad eyesight, and he loved cats which I don't. He got in trouble with the neighbors, the Brakes, when his cat killed their pet squirrel. Later I dated Burton Richardson who had a 155 acre farm father out on Centerburg Road east of Condit. He had a brother Malcom, and they were very nice to both Mary and me. Burton was a Mason and a Knight of the York Cross of Honor. He graduated from Penn State. It was Burton that Mary asked, "Man why don't you shave?" She was always along. Once coming back from Mount Vernon since we didn't have to be in a hurry, he was stopped by the highway patrol for driving too slow. When he explained who we were, showed a valid driver's license, and with Mary asleep on the back seat the patrolman just waved us along. But it wasn't until Zelma Young persuaded Harold Ault to join the Pythians and I was the one to escort him around the hall above the Fling Hardware store in the fall of 1958 that I knew he would be just a good loving farm boy. He was one of 6 children of Ruth and Stanley Ault of Marshallville. I too, was from a farm family of 6 children. Before it had been a Rochester city boy, a Southern person from Southern Pines, North Carolina, and we had nothing in common. One day after my 38th birthday, Mary told Luretta Day ( Forest was my real estate broker) that one of mother's boyfriends gave her a hair dryer for her birthday. It made me think seriously about Mary's and my future. We attended church and Sunday School, but I thought I was a real Christian. I didn't lie or cheat or sleep without being married to the man. But one evening, on November 14, I got down on my knees and prayed. "God, I've made such a mess of my life and now I have this beautiful little [bottom photo: Harold, Mary and Rosella - February 1959] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0b1a57f86882b9f40544b9c45031834c.jpg c63d6dce4f15f3c0fb22be4c2d3cf220 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.31) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 29 of It Started with These Two] 6 year old girl to instill a good life in; please help me and take over from here on", and He has. Harold and Mary and I went on our first date to a fish fry on the 3rd floor of the town hall put on by the Stars and Masons. George and Earl Duston were going to a sale of champions later at The Delaware County Fair, and they persuaded Harold to go along. In February, 1959 Harold took Mary and me to their farm at Marshallsville to meet his family. I don't think they were too impressed, but Harold had always said he was going to marry a school teacher, and he did. We were married March 22, 1959. [top-right photo: Harold's Family - March 22, 1959 Harold, Melvin, Lloyd, Stanley, June, Pearl, Pat, Ruth] [bottom photo: Ault Family on February 6, 1994 Harold, Melvin, Lloyd, June Pearl, Pat] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9e7eafb8979deb43925c33479204b9c5.jpg f575ab4e1bbaac8d82157131cd31bd5c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.32) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 30 of It Started with These Two] Harold and Rosella March 22, 1959 [top photo: Stanley and Ruth Ault, Harold, Rosella and Mary Josie and Wilbur Main] [bottom left photo: Harold, Mary, Rosella] [bottom right photo: Harold, Rev. Pringle, Rosella] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e72e00786621fba9519a51f51ffa3ed9.jpg 94f09ce89b1db767fdb8adb95cd80b79 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.33) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 31 of It Started with These Two] Youth Fellowship Pictured Below at the Wedding Reception March 22, 1959 [top photo: Bobby Miller, Lloyd Ault, Melvin Ault, Verona Miller, Mary, Harold and Rosella] [ bottom photo: Back Row; Hayes, Miller, Sparks, Garee, Millls, Warner Front Row: Sparks, Metzger, Phillips, Hayes Hayes, Warner, Reece] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bb2e9b46deecf245e258db734bfffecf.jpg b0e48efa8a40cec9f64a80a6182994b4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.34) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 32 of It Started with These Two] In 1960 Harold joined Sparrow Lodge F. & A. M. #400. By then they had moved into their new building on Morning Street. He also joined the Eastern Star in 1962 after Cathryn Wilson had been elected to go through Grand Chapter and would be the W. G. Matron in 1966. Some of Cathryn's pages in 1966 were the past Matrons of Columbia Chapter #33 here in Sunbury, I believe only Joan Farris, Maxine Buckingham, Mary Satterfield, and I are still living. That was 30 years ago. We still meet the 3rd Sunday in July at the Olde Summit Towne Inn Restaurant in Summit Station far out on East Broad Street. Etta Main would be the President in 1998 and I in 1999 if God is willing. I reminded Catherine that I would be 79 years old, and she reminded me that each one of us has a birthday each year. [top photo: Masonic Temple 87 N. Morning Street in Sunbury] [bottom left photo: 1965 Installation Harold and Rosella ] [bottom right photo: Eastern Star Reception in Ostrander - 1965 Harold, Mary, and Rosella] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2dbe1a4d33d085e7210ce5a3f330d1b7.jpg e092e5f28ddb78cc22455c68f0236d03 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.35) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 33 of It Started with These Two] This was not to be as Etta died on the 15th of June 1997, and I was elected to be president in 1998. On September 26, 1959 shortly after we were married, Harold's father was killed in front of the Chapel of the Cross at North Lawrence, Ohio by 2 kids drag racing. He had been working on the church bulletin board. Ruth was in the basement preparing to take food down to the Otterbein Home when she came out and found his body. It must have been an awful shock. He and Ruth are both buried in the cemetery behind the church. That same year, on October 19, Verona's son Bobby Miller was killed after being thrown from a car on Hartford Road. It was unfortunate, too, that Bob Miller, working for the undertaker Bill Slack, was sent to pick him up. This has really influenced the life of his brother, Rick, who was 5 at the time. [top right photo: 1990 Installation] [bottom left photo; Harold and Rosella Plant Eastern Stars Tree on Square - 1991] [bottom right photo:The Three of Us - 1965 Rosella, Mary, Harold ] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bcbea5b4299f9680bce524acd371ef82.jpg 1a3f7b17679e2dab4728ba1d0d2237ee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.36) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 34 of It Started with These Two] Harold's mother died on February 5, a day after Pearl's birthday in 1994. She was at a nursing home in Orrville. We were called home from Florida and got within about 10 miles of Orrville when something went wrong with the transmission, and we coasted in with the emergency lights flashing at about 20 miles an hour. Gladys Ault brought us back to Sunbury to pick up our van. I don't subscribe to many magazines but I do get Billy Graham's "Decision", "Air Fare- WOSU", and "Life Study Fellowship". This little magazine has a Bible verse in it for each day and 3 prayers, morning, noon, and night, to be united with others all over the world. "Prayer changes things." Most of my time is spent reading: Peck's books, Anne Edwards about President's wives and books that are up-lifting. I skip novels with a lot of 4 letter words. Knitting for the family is enjoyable. Sweaters for each of the great- grandchildren for Christmas are hanging in the closet. They are precious. We have never kept the twins all night at our mobile home, but Brittny loves to come and go to church with us and play at the organ. In the spring of 1963 we bought 33 acres of Ben Dever's at 14191 Centerburg Road just across from our home that we built in the fall of 1987 and the spring of 1988. (We moved in on the 4th of July, 1988.) Ned foreman was the general contractor. We had the land surveyed into 4 parcels, one on Fredericks Road one on the north side to the east, and a 3 acre parcel across the creek at the end of Fredericks Road, and our remaining 20 acres. We have a pond, creek, and lots of trees, evergreens up close to the house and along the drive and oak, tulip, and maple farther from the house so we don't have to rake the leaves. Harold had earlier built a 42' X 45" shed to the rear. [top right photo: Pearl Ault] [bottom left photo: Ted Forman and Harold Planning Where the House Would Be] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f99cec7ede619a52f0c15644da73db46.jpg 1b6a109c9b8a7c460768cc40be103a88 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.37) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 35 of It Started with These Two] 14150 Centerburg Road Sunbury, Ohio In 1973 we bought a mobile home at 1803 Ohio Avenue, Trailer Estates in Bradenton, Florida that Mother, Don and Verona stayed in. Our present winter quarters are at 1604 Illinois, Trailer Estates, Bradenton, and it is next door to Verona and Carl Bell at 1606 Illinois. We spent lots of evenings eating together. During the years that I taught in Westerville, I enrolled at Ohio State University in graduate school and on September 6, 1966 received my Master's Degree in Exceptional Children. We always had a unit on the food groups, time and money. Each year Mary helped me take the girls one evening and the boys one evening to eat at the MCL. They knew they could each buy 4 items plus their drink. We were always so proud of their behavior and good judgement in choosing their food. The reason we divided them by gender was so there would be no hard feelings if a girl or boy were chosen to eat with the early or later group. We didn't have teacher aids or playground help, and we ate lunch with our children. [top left photo: Spring of 1988] [top right photo: Harold and the New Shed Extension] [middle photo: Present House in 1977] [bottom photo: Rosella Ault - Sept. 7, 1966 Master's Picture] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f23b2d669a1a86a881d1f5f8ed25fea7.jpg 894fb6df9ccb30810fe6a58bfdbe0f5a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.38) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 36 of It Started with These Two] Mary once asked how do you take these children day after day and on an 8 week summer program. I reminded her that I had them for just 7 hours a day, and the parents the other 17 hours. These children in most instances tried very hard to please. I retired when Columbus took in 800 Westerville students and a younger special ed teacher would have lost her job. Recently in our paper, it told of Maria Spangler's death. Mary took piano lessons from Marian Whitney and organ lessons from Maria for 8 years. In 1956 I joined the Pythian Sisters and was an officer until we disbanded because of the steps. In 1958 I joined the Columbia Chapter #33 Ohio Order of Eastern Stars and began a move to be the Worthy Matron and Harold the Worthy Patron in 1965. Cathryn Wilson was to be the Worthy Grand Matron in 1966. On November 6, 1965, we had reception at the old high school. Our officers were George and Etta Main, Dorothy Buell, Maxine Buckingham, Mardell Shultz, Virginia Buell, Joan Farris, Mary Hervey, Mary Satterfield, Mona Lee Arthur, Judith Morris, Hattie Sparks, Helen Farris, Deana Searles, Joann Adkins, and Larry Buell. The pages were Melissa Ogden, Hallie Day, Mabel Strider Florence Olinger, Janet Lake, Vera Paul, Wilma Ward, and Minnie Linnabary. Our officers' lace dresses were pale green, and the pages' were pale blue and cost just $23.00. Mrs. Conrad came down from Loudenville to fit each one. She owned a bridal shop there. It was a busy and exiting year with a 13 year old daughter who got hurt on a ski trip, teaching and working on my master's degree at Ohio State. I was often going to bed exhausted but never was I discouraged. Everyone worked together to make it a very enjoyable year. Tonight, September the 9th around 6:45 I received a call from Venice, Florida from the Sparks family that my very best friend, Hattie Sparks, had just died. As I had mentioned she was a very good neighbor for 17 years and a faithful Eastern Star member and officer for Harold and I in 1965 and again in 1991. We will again be giving a donation to the First Baptist Church building fund as we had done for her husband, Theodore, who died on May 13, 1995. Her daughter is Vonda Clark and her husband is Robert and their son is Rondall Sparks whose wife is Margaret. They live in Radnor. I will miss Hattie very much. [photo: Good Friends- Theodore and Hattie Sparks] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/468bd93df2e11d4c657dfe421cc84f63.jpg fde4b65c4ae7b7c33a60309c4f1578be Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.39) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 37 of It Started with These Two] Aults and Sparks The only one person that I asked to be an officer that refused was a relative. To soothe my feelings, my dad who was a very astute gentleman told me that we can choose our friends but our relatives were thrust upon us. It was my dad, too, that I called upon for moral support. He would go with me down to the Ohio State Arps [top left photo: Rosella and Hattie Warner - Winter of 1995] [top right photo: Hattie and Rosella - March 1997] [middle photo: Theodore, Hattie, Rosella, Harold Leaving for Florida] [bottom photo: Harold and Theodore Kentucky Colonel Award - July 4th, 1994] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ececab73a23d423bbca20056b9a40a2d.jpg ce45428c16b1b5b3f04f0a5a0f40fde9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.40) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 38 of It Started with These Two] Hall library and read while I got the reference materials I needed. He died on November 12, 1971 after I told him in the morning that Mother had said he was a very good and loving husband and a wonderful father to us. He only said, "Do you really think so?" I assured him I did. On March 22, 1976, our wedding anniversary, Mary Hervey a good friend died. I played the organ for her funeral. She wanted especially for me to play "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" and "I Want to Teach the World to Sing". Mary in a quiet way did so much good for those in need. She didn't brag about her generosity. I still miss her. She could relate to the young people very well, especially our Mary and her husband Tom. She always dressed with class and looked nice. After my school retirement I went to help out Paula Shade in her restaurant out at the halfway house between Sunbury and Delaware. I was also the director for 3 years of the Delaware County Retarded Citizens. I was one of 5 area workers (Powell, Ostrander, Delaware, Ashley and Sunbury) employed by Supportive Services to take senior citizens for doctor's appointments, grocery shopping, and other essential places. It was phased out because of the 146 pages of paperwork to receive the grant funding money. I also drove a bus for Hickory Knoll and Leads Head Start. Since we spend 4 months each winter in Florida where the family lives year round, sister, husband and her family. I have given up gainful employment and settled down to just enjoying our house, the garden, geese. I spend lots of time knitting and making gifts for friends and family and cooking for Harold. Mother died at the Sarah Moore home on December 5, 1985, five days past her 103rd birthday. She was a real sweet lady, and I was holding her hand when she died. I have never told this to anyone: but when I felt her slipping, I heard her say, "Jesus, please take my hand." In 1986 I wrote a book on the 66 books of the Holy Bible and dedicated it to my brother George who died also November 12, but 15 years later than Dad, I also dedicated it to our granddaughter Melody Hickson Hughes. [top photo: November 13th, 1971 - Day After Dad Died] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e7f629d59389b13583dd64e08979e53d.jpg 14510a66d6e3c0bc4acb995724fc6143 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.41) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 39 of It Started with These Two] On March 9, 1993 brother Rodney died on his way back to Sunbury. His son Mark was driving and his wife Ruth and Harold were with him. The 911 medics pronounced him dead at Wendy's parking lot just west of the I-71 freeway. The same year on May 19th, Harold had a heart attack. It was Grange night at Bill and Mary Louise Sheets, and 911 called and said Harold was on his way to Grady. Our minister, Rev. Gene Taylor, and Shirley came over soon after I arrived. We really appreciate their friendship. We are watching his diet to help keep his cholesterol level down. He is on Cardisone C.M. Last year in 1995, Lockie Norman died in March, Bea Tharp in July, and Gladys Miller in October. They were a part of the Saturday morning Sunbury women's friends breakfast group. We all miss them. On July 15, Carl Bell and sister Verona were married in her Whitfield Presbyterian Church in Bradenton, Florida. On July 22, Harold and I had a reception for them at Carl's Sunbury Church of Christ. From June 17 to June 21, Margaret Garee and I were at Lakeside for the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. Rev. Gene and Shirley were returned to our church. Life is so precious but uncertain. Who knows what tomorrow may bring. So let's make the most of each day. Verona and I often wonder how Mother found the time to memorize all of the many Bible verses, "A soft answer turneth away wrath", etc. and she said in her long lifetime, she never had a headache. Maybe the answer was she confined herself to being Wilbur's wife and the mother of her children. She knew she was secure in her faith and the love of her family. I Never realized how short she was until I look at a big 24 X 36 picture of Mom and Dad taken in our dining room at 174 Harrison Street in Sunbury on his 90th birthday party. The modern day woman is torn in many directions, children to dance classes, boys and girls to band, soccer, basketball, football, track, 4H and other activities. She said she and Dad were the happiest at church, Grange, Historical Society and the Farm Bureau Council. They got season tickets to the events at Ohio Wesleyan. One evening Lockie Norman and I took Mother to Gray Chapel to hear Norman Vincent Peale. She was 100, and she took notes on his lecture. Mother and Dad were at Gray Chapel the evening Frank B. Willis was stricken with a heart attack. It might have changed the history of our nation and Delaware County in particular if he could have run for President and been elected. Yesterday (August 27, 1996) it took four 100 foot hoses to reach the most http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e244bd596d156a168d985dfbcce63b76.jpg 1974a767128bb873ff191d5fe8bca199 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.42) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 40 in It Started with These Two] recently planted evergreens along our drive. So much spring rain and now at one time this summer, we went for 27 days without it. In a week or so Harold will be going to Grady for an upper GI, whatever the initials stand for. He seems to be having problems swallowing some foods. If Dad were alive today, he would say I liked to plan, make definite decisions and was a good former teacher, Grange member, a devoted family member, an ardent Christian and full of energy that was until I got thrown a curve last December. It was then that a Grange member asked if I had been drinking because when as lecturer, I was slurring my words and was unsteady on my feet. It was Meniere's disease. [middle photo: Grange Get-together - 1996] [bottom left photo: Grange Booth - September 1995 Delaware County Fair] [bottom right photo: Delaware County Fair - September 1992] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3f5335f6a76fe24a1f2f6b9212066505.jpg 486f6cffd94516f73d7aea3c42f15ac3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.43) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 41 in It Started with These Two] I was especially proud of the Pomona Grange Booth that received a grade of 100 that I designed and carried out the 50th Jug theme. In April 1985 we bought 15 baby ducks from Griffith's feed store in Centerburg and raised them in the shed until they were almost grown and then out into a 24 X 24 pen with a white male goose who took over as mother. This same white goose stood guard around the geese pen again this year of 1996 and 1997. Our Kingston Grange disbanded in the end of 1995 due to the lack and age of its members. Mother and Father used to say it hurt to see their contemporaries dying and now I know exactly what they meant. On August 28, Verona and I attended grave side services for a former Horseshoe Road neighbor and friend that attended the one room schoolhouse and then rode the bus when it closed. Electricity only came along Horseshoe Road in the early 1940's On July 8, Kelley, Jessica (my niece Nancy and Rod Harkinson's 2 girls), Harold and I went to Lane, Ohio, to the Ridgeway Hatchery and bought 5 baby guineas and 6 baby geese. We fed them 20 lbs of turkey feed and then put them on chick starter and cracked corn. Our pens were just makeshift with chicken wire to protect them. The guineas were very skittish from the start. After the neighbor's dog got in the pen, there were 3 geese. On August 28 in the evening, Harold pulled the wire fence away; and the 5 guineas came out but stayed close to the feed and water pans as we watched before dark. Harold suggested that I do the same thing this afternoon, August 29, to let the geese run fee. The large geese make a bee line for the far end of the pond several times a day. The geese like to walk up onto the decks so it is necessary to keep 10" boards across the bottom steps and a large painted screen door at the cellar way. Each year we have to replace at least 10 evergreens. Harold tells me they should be planted in the fall, instead of the spring. it takes four 100' hoses to reach those down at the road. When I was little we lived on a 48 acre farm on Horseshoe Road. Our house had 4 bedrooms - no bath or electric- a cook stove, living room, large kitchen, and dining room. Brother Rodney tied me to a ladder at the barn as it was being built. It was large. We had a pond and raised ducks and chickens. There was a bulk head where we took corn down to feed the ducks. We rode a white farm horse, old Bill who was blind. We had lots of company on Sundays. Instead of a playpen, we used a large brown packing box. Brother George would, according to Mother, keep saying, "Now Rosella". http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/94f5286b70126bb007735463e037908f.jpg 5bc5349799e95f0baa27cc069566f3c5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.44) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 42 in It Started with These Two] We had a large coal and wood heater in the dining room and a player piano in the front room. It was always kept clean and picked up. We always had a large garden raising potatoes, corn, beans, peas, tomatoes, etc. Our yard was also large, and I mowed it by a narrow push mower. We lived here before going to 408 West William Street and again after I was 7 years old. We went down the road to a one room brick schoolhouse. We rode a bus into Delaware. Neil Olds was the driver. We took our lunches in brown bags. They took us to the East School on East William Street. It is now known at Conger Elementary School. It has just been rebuilt and the first day of school was Tuesday, August 18, 1996. I remember weeding in the garden when the neighbor children would be going into town for holidays and parades and fireworks, but then I would equate our Sundays with Sunday School and church and Sunday School picnics. We raised sheep, too, but never hogs. We had milk cows. One year Verona and I took our registered twin Jersey calves to the Ohio State Fair. They were called Fair Play Augusts and Augusts Fair Play. She got a 13th award, and I only got a 26 ribbon. There were lots of entries in the class. When we left Cincinnati, I weighed about what I weigh today. School days because of my weight weren't always too pleasant. They let me drive before licenses were necessary. We had a 1928 Pontiac. Dad evidently thought since the boys and I had driven a Fordson tractor, we knew all about driving. On my 14th birthday, Dad let me drive into Delaware to pick up brother John. I drove down Horseshoe, Lake Street, East Central and made a left turn at Central and Sandusky and before I pulled into a parking spot, drove right up on the sidewalk. John was watching, and Dad kept shouting, "My God, stop this thing". It was right in front of Graff's Shoe store. John drove us home. When I was 5 years old I was in the Grady Hospital, then on the corner of Franklin and West Winter Streets. Our neighbors were the 4 Ufferman children, James, Albert, Gale and Betty. the Lenbergers lived on one side, Jane, Harold and Rosemary. A nice couple close by were the Werlines. Then the Smothers daughter, Shirley and the Milligan children, Gladys and Harold. We had lots of company and friends in. We had a collie dog, Patsy, and Rodney really loved her, but she got into our flock of sheep and had to be put to sleep. It was a bad day for us all. On Halloween we upset shocks of corn, nothing dangerous or illegal. When they had Mother's sale, I was in Riverside Hospital with a sinus http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a5da281c37db33e125ac90fd910668c2.jpg ec00faeab341a90e551fb45c578f1ff6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.45) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 43 in It Started with These Two] operation, and Mary Hervey bid on the two kerosene lamps and her tea cart for me. Other family members had other preferences. It was in 1975 when Mother came to live with us. Dad had died in 1971. She was 93 then. She stayed in Florida with Verona during the winter months and came back to 174 Harrison Street in the spring for summer and fall. Before coming to Sunbury we had lived at the 73 acre farm on Cline Chapel Road. The house had 7 large maple trees around the yard, and it was called Maple Knoll. It was 6 miles from Waverly, 18 miles from Bainbridge, about 20 miles from Chillicothe, and 86 miles from Athens. I drove it for 4 summers before graduating from Ohio University on August 7, 1956. By then I had already been teaching at the Harrison Street school for 3 years. At home on Horseshoe Road, we had lots of chicken dinners, but I remember the donuts that Mother and George made were really good. During the depression, Mother would trade a dozen eggs 9 cents for a loaf of bread from a breadman that came once a week. In April, 1978, Mother went to live at the Sarah Moore Home on East William Street in Delaware and lived until December 5, 1985. she loved to have me take her out in the wheelchair to see the house that she lived in on Michaels Street in Delaware, just off of South Union, where she and her brother Hartley had rooms when she went to high school. Then we would go to Buns for pie and coffee. She would always say, "This is the place your Dad loved to eat best." For my 75th birthday my sister Verona and Carl had a surprise party for me with family, neighbors and card playing friends. There was cake, ice cream and gifts. On Harold's birthday, our anniversary or my birthday, we eat at the Branding Iron, a steak place on Stratford Road in Delaware. Generally, the family is not available in November as they are in Arizona and Florida. When we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, we had 2 real nice parties, one with friends at the Branding Iron and one in a restaurant near Marshallsville with Harold's family. [bottom right photo: 75th Birthday Party - November 2, 1995] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/be599119c10d8a13a33760b0113f7909.jpg e19fd9fd7f7c91faf8052be8817d99f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.46) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 44 in It Started with These Two] In our real estate transactions, we have been very fortunate, first in buying a house at 307 W. Central, after the Centerburg house and land. Dad always said to buy north, and in most cases we have. Then we bought 121 W Central and 80 North Liberty Street in Delaware. Harold tore off the 3rd apartment, an old frame house close to the corner, to provide parking for the 2 houses on the corner of Liberty and W. Central. We also bought a house at 29 N. Liberty Street. We bought a mobile home, 1803 Ohio Avenue, Trailer Estates, Bradenton, Florida, for our use and one for Tom, Mary, and Melody at 6547 Kansas in the same park. In April, 1988, we purchased the mobile home at 1604 Illinois, next door to my sister Verona. Several years later, we bought a duplex or twin single at 1211 3rd Avenue, E. for Melody, Dennis, Brittany and the twins to rent. We own a lot in Port Charlotte at the corner of Madelyn and McArthur. In 1976 Verona sold 5 acres of our 33 acres to Carl and Emogene Bell. They built a brick home at 4760 Fredericks Rd. Emogene died on May 5, 1994 We sold the little house and barn with about 4 1/2 acres to George and Gail Guenter. They moved to Cincinnati, and they sold it to Tim and Julie Scott. They have 2 little girls, Kelly and Courtney. Tim was in a very serious accident on his motorcycle up on a hillside when he came head on with his friend riding a 3 wheeler. I saw Julie across the street and took a knitted baby blanket for the new baby and a pair of knitted slippers to Kelley. Sunday, September 8, I took pictures of Tim at home. After Harold adopted Mary, we had our lawyer, make provisions for part of our estate to go to Harold's former church, the Chapel of the Cross at North Lawrence, Ohio, and to our present Sunbury United Methodist Church. Harold has also been active in community affairs. In 1996 he was treasurer of the Sesquicentennial Committee. He was on both the Delaware County and Joint Vocational School Boards for 12 years. He was President of the Lions Club in 1970. That year, Lillie Kempton, Mary Hervey, Etta Main and I prepared 200 lbs of potato salad for the ox roast using 15 stalks of celery, 5 lbs of onions, 30 dozen eggs, salt, 3 gal. of mayonnaise, and 1 gal. of mustard. It must have been good. It sold out in a hurry. We also baked 36 pumpkin and fruit pies. These days, they buy the potato salad and 100 pies, and the wives of Lions are to furnish 3 pies. Things change. School starts in August now. Just this morning, August 26, the bus stopped across the street for Kelley Scott. The geese are really growing. We think when this last bag of cracked corn is gone, they will be big enough to let out of the pens. On July 3, 1996, Verona fell on the basement steps and broke her left hip. Dr. O. Shoban set it on July 4. Nancy, Rod and the girls were here on vacation. Our great-granddaughter, Brittany Hughes, started back to school in the first http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/36e7660f36333851bb45566cd63cbdfc.jpg e5b4d87814780c4947a27a025b986b1d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.47) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 45 in It Started with These Two] grade at the new school in Oneco, Florida. It is close to Dennis and Melody's home in East Bradenton. Since she is the first on in her wheelchair, the handicap bus would be picking her up 6:15 a.m., so Melody drives her to school, She was born with cerebral palsy. Fortunately, only her legs are affected, not her intelligence. Her grandfather asked how Brittny started, and she said, "Ba-Be B." He said, "I think its Z" and she said. "I think you are confused. Our Mary was always saying things to get me into trouble. One morning in going up the old post office steps where Ed Saver has his antique shop, she asked an old maid school teacher, "Lady, do you smoke cigarettes?" The woman turned around and very sternly asked, "And why do you ask?" Two Eastern Star ladies who were going to serve refreshments at the Temple in June of 1965 met Mary and me to see how it was done. When we got home that night, I didn't know Mary was listening and told Harold that I didn't think they even knew how to boil water. Later, Mary asked us in church if those were the 2 ladies that didn't know how to boil water. When I went out to list some properties, we stopped at Burton Richardson's and she said, "Man why don't you shave?" I helped him study for a R.E. License, and he and Forest Day opened up the Heart of Ohio R.E. office in Centerburg. He died out in the barnyard from a heart attack and Mary, Harold and I went to his funeral calling hours at Moreland in Centerburg. Once after a family reunion at Pike Lake, Mary came home and hugged me and said, "I'm so glad you adopted me or I would have become one of those dumb southern Ohio hillbillies. It was strange that her mother Dorothy and sister Vickie had lived over in Delaware on Curtis Street and had a hard time financially, George and Dutch Strosnider saw them in Delaware after Mary and Tom moved to Florida. Mary's father had died in a car accident before Mary was born. She was the youngest of 2 boys and 5 girls. S In the fall of 1980, Vickie Frey, Mary's sister who was just 10 months older than Mary, called about 6:00 p.m. and asked if she could be Mary's sister and if she could get in touch with Mary. I had a church meeting that night and took her number and said after talking with Harold, Mary and the pastor, I would have Mary contact her if she wished to do so. She did. Tom and Mary were just 16 and 18 when they were married by a Methodist minister in Clintwood, Virginia on February 26, 1968. They arrived home on a Monday evening. Harold was at the church for a Lions club, and Mary Hervey and I were having dinner out at Walter Borchers' L. K. Restaurant at the freeway. They had 3 cents between them and they were starved as they had been eating so called junk food for 3 days. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/05a97ba1c3eb26d4ccdeb119d1d37b42.jpg f9f482df94d7816b11c8058134fe1797 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.48) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 46 in It Started with These Two] They have made a good marriage. Tom's parents are Virgil and Nellie Hickson, and they are always so supportive of the two. I bless Nellie every time I see her for being so good to our daughter. Many older marriages, Mary reminds me, have not been so fortunate. Melody and Dennis were married on July the 30th, 1988 at the Palmetto United Methodist Church. I bless Melody and Dennis, too. They dated in high school, and Dennis was in the Air force being sent to Hawaii when Melody graduated. Melody was one of 16 out of 3300 Manatee County graduates to receive the Golden Herald Award presented by the Bradenton Herald Newspaper. It was based on academic achievement and citizenship and personality. When twin girls were born prematurely on December 11, 1989, at 1 1/2 lbs. each, only Brittnny survived. Stephanie died 2 days later. They now have 3 year old twin boys, Zachary and Brandon. Melody and Dennis are wonderful loving young parents. Each and every day, I count my blessings. Harold and I are so fortunate. There have been many times of sadness, but I am firmly convinced that God doesn't permit one to handle more than their shoulders can bear. But, occasionally one wonders why God thinks one has such broad shoulders. This morning, August 30, 1996, Harold had an upper GI test. His throat, according to the tests, is crooked and that causes food to lodge before it reaches his stomach. Next Thursday, September 2, he is to have X-rays and barium tests. Harold picked up the keys from Mansfield Plumbing as they had just put in a new furnace at 80 North Liberty. Mark and Donna Ensign and their 7 year old daughter may be the new tenants. According to Paul Baller, Jr. in "Presidential Wives", Marion President Warren G. Harding was born on November 2, 1865 and won the election on November 2, 1920. Until I read about his life style, being born on his birthday seemed to be great but no longer. In 1992 Lockie Norman, Bea Tharp, Etta Main and I ate in Blands in Mount Vernon and bought the original 4 grown geese. We now have 9 adult geese and the 5 baby geese that we purchased from Ridgeway Hatchery. Helen Hardin Allen, who was born in 1906 and died in 1989, was about 20 when she come to teach at Upper Horseshoe one room school. She didn't drive so her brother Buss Hardin brought her and came after her. Her folks had the Hardin Hotel on South Sandusky. Sometimes she would take Gladys Shirley Poole and me home with her for the weekends. It was such a treat. Also, Helen Allen saw that we had hot lunches. We had lots of milk and the children all brought potatoes, tomatoes and vegetables, and she would fix soup for us each day on the pot bellied stove in the center of the room. She was born to be a good caring teacher. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/5c49d62e495281725c22a9dc02253c00.jpg bc029c9cdf02de6bbaec23d0aaae48d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.49) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 47 in It Started with These Two] The teacher that followed was as different in the lack of caring as Helen was in caring. The county schools had spelling and writing contests. This is what we practiced to have judged on this special day: "True worth is being, not seeming to be doing each day that goes by some little good not in dreaming of some great thing by and by." I had mentioned that most of the time we were fortunate in our renters. At 29 North Liberty, one time this was not so. It was a 4 bedroom and 2 baths house with 2 large living rooms, a large kitchen, back porch and and a back yard with a chain link fence. They got behind $2100 in their rent; and our lawyer sent them eviction notices, and a court date was set. The wife, when she had to be out in 3 days, feigned a heart attack. Emergency 911 was called. We had to go down through the judge's chambers to keep from stepping over her. It was a fake according to Grady. When we finally got possession, they had chopped the bathroom fixtures, and they had to be replaced. At 121 West Central we had to have a family evicted. It took 3 exterminator visits to get rid of the roaches. There were 55 trash bags of junk in the basement. I remember Harold and I one Thanksgiving were working trying to clean it up, and Betty Mackley came and got us for a very delicious dinner at her house. Betty was born in 1912 and died in October, 1989. She was in George's class, and he sat behind her in high school. She thought he was an only child. Our folks always saw that we had sufficient clean clothing even though they certainly weren't rich. Two ladies that I still am in touch with occasionally are Jean Wickham and Nancy Frankenburg. They are both loving and caring and efficient women. We worked in different capacities and offices at 38 South Franklin street in Delaware. Harold and I have been able to travel extensively. We went on a 23 day trip to Alaska, Tokyo, Hong Kong, China and Hawaii for the Lions Club International meeting with Mr. Bryant from Dalton, Ohio. There were 800 from Ohio. It was in the summer of 1969. Our granddaughter Melody was born when we were in Tokyo. We also went on a Lions Club tour to Europe, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. We also went to Mexico on a Lions Club tour. Dutch Strosnider and Glenn Evans were there, too. Harold got Montezuma's complaint and was gone so long from the Ohio luncheon that I asked a friend to go and check on him. We also went to San Francisco with George and Etta Main and Donna and Glenn Evans for the California Lions Club annual meeting. Lorraine and Kenny Crowl, George and Etta and Harold and I were on the trip east to Atlantic City. We came back through Lancaster , Pennsylvania. I am proud of Harold for all of his community activities. In addition to being a past president of the Sunbury Lions Club and member of the Delaware County and the JVS boards for 12 years, he was a former Masonic Worshipful Master and http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/74a13df6e7f44ebbdcc312a46d9b9000.jpg 456c2cd845b199c73bd6167ff4921f4e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.50) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 48 in It Started with These Two] a past patron of Columbus Chapter 4 times, a member of the Scottish Rite, Valley of Columbus, and a treasurer for several years of the Delaware County Shrine Club. Harold can do most everything. He likes to be outside on his John Deere tractor or cutting up trees or moving around our place. I really appreciate him. He is a good, loving, caring family man. We didn't get to see much of our only granddaughter, Melody, when she was growing up as Tom an Mary lived in Florida and we were still working in Ohio. However, we do see Melody and Dennis' 3 children. We grandparents have agreed to not buy them any more toys, but clothes. We spend 4 months in Florida now. Brittny has cerebral palsy, but she's not retarded. One night when she was sleeping in the big double bed between us, we had a terrible storm. Eventually she patted my cheeks and said, "Grandmother, is it safe to go to sleep now?" Today, Virgil and Nellie Hickson came to spend Labor Day with us. Harold was working cleaning off tables on the shady east side of the Lions Club food tent. As always the ox sandwiches were tender and delicious. They spent the night with us and left after breakfast. Maybe I'll never become a Grandma Moses, but I'd like to learn a little about painting. For the third time since the first August sweat bees or yellow jackets have gotten into the attic and chewed down through the hall and 2 bedroom ceilings. Raid spray kills them, but the odor in the house is overpowering, and we took our afternoon naps in the downstairs bedroom. This happened to us 3 years ago. Harold has tried to seal up the holes on the outside of the house. It is too warm for him to get up into the attic. The clean up left me slipping down the 7 steps on my backside yesterday. No permanent damage. We are enjoying seeing all of the 14 geese moving around the yard. Not a joy is seeing ground hogs carrying off tomatoes form the garden. When I met the retired teachers at Westerville at the Ponderosa, I went on down to the Christian Armory. They didn't have any of Bob Ross's "Joy of Painting" but suggested Michael's Gift and Craft Store just down the mall. I really shot my wad by buying a 14 X 24 canvas, paint cleaner, easel, 8 paints, sponge knife and several different kinds of brushes recommended by Ross and a palette. Now I'm scared to get started. He is on Channel 34 at 1:00 p. m. weekdays. He died last year at 55 of cancer, but he has more than 30 different books out with 14 explained paintings in each and videos are still available. I just read the Scorpio's words for Thursday, September 6 and quote, "Your indecision may be the only thing standing between you and rousing success. The time has come for you to fish or cut bait." http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3626692eacb0d94c3ec7c0370750de6d.jpg 60aea02ba0da590ff0a0db690c58fe58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.51) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 49 in It Started with These Two] Harold and I don't have cable. We watch Channel 34 to hear the "Frugal Gourmet", "Wild America", Billy Graham, food shows like Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cooking", Channel 10 for "Wheel of Fortune", their news at 6 and 11, "Chicago Hope", "Murder, She Wrote", "Diagnosis Murder", and "E.R." We take the "Delaware Gazette", "Ohio Farmer" and "Buckeye Farm News". We do like the library. I walk daily with Jesus. Mary, Tom, Harold, Melody, Dennis and the 3 children and other family and friends know that I pray sincerely for them each day. I, too, know that some day I'll see Mother and Dad, little Tommy, Bobbie, brothers George and Rodney and my relatives and friends. I hope to see Lockie, Bea and Gladys Miller too, because I've asked God through Jesus to forgive my sins. I trust in the Lord with all my heart, and He is my personal Savior. I have turned around and repented all of my sins. Mother and Dad didn't have a spectacular meeting as their parents' farms, at a little place called Waterhill, were close. Dad says even though he was only a year and a half older than Mother, he remembers sitting on the living room floor and playing with her and thinking what a beautiful girl she was. But, it wasn't until they were 28 and 29 years old that they became serious. Dad was supporting his mother and his Aunt Rosina. When they tried to tell him there would be children and expenses, he hoped there would be. Tom's parents were George and Bessie Tibbitts. George worked for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as the secretary of the president. Bessie was a worker at the Rochester Library. Tom was their only child. He came to the University of Cincinnati to study to be an electrical engineer, but he was called up by the draft in January, 1943. He looked just like the actor Van Johnson. He was a radio man and a gunner and won the purple heart. After the divorce, we remained good friends, even after Tommy, Jr. died. After we adopted Mary, they were too happy to see Mary and me and were generous in their love and gifts. Maybe, I've always been a little too independent because I was able to support myself and I wanted things to be definite. [top photo: Retired Teachers and Friends at Royal American Golf Club] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/d7c54cd502ab504cce2cc92958d08b5c.jpg a4ea5ddfa0fccc9e832965fb5fc7fd02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.52) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 50 in It Started with These Two] Tommy fell out of his bed when we were living in an apartment owned by John and Mary Morrison in Clifton Heights close to the University of Cincinnati. I was working 2 jobs. Early morning, I worked at the Clifton Pantry for Dorothy Kassens. During the day I worked at Andrew Jergens as a quality control supervisor. After day work, I went back to the Clifton Pantry. Two nights a week I went to the University working the first 2 years which eventually led to a B.S. at Ohio University in 1956. Tommy was buried January 31, 1947 in the old cemetery and later moved in June, to the present Marlboro Cemetery. After our marriage on March 22, 1959, Harold and I bought a house at 174 Harrison Street. It was a duplex that Harold turned into an 11 room, 2 and 1/2 baths home. We remodeled it in 1968 and built a 2 car garage, and a beautiful corner stone fireplace. We used it when we had the blizzard in 1978. Mother was living with us then after Dad had died on November 12, 1971. We bought 33 acres, 4 miles out on Centerburg Road in the summer of 1963. We sold 5 acres to Carl Bell on 4760 Frederick Road and 4 acres with the house and barn to George and Gail Genthner. Before this in the early 1960's Mary had up 5 horses. One young horse, Dawn, would sit down whenever anyone got on her back. She was sold to a man from Portsmouth who said he would train her out of doing this. In the middle 1950's Verona lived on Route 605 and kept ponies and our horse, Dolly. She ran under a tree with Bobbie on her back, and he fell off and broke his leg. Bobbie died in a car accident on Hartford Road on October 19, 1959. Harold' father had died on September 29, also as a result of a car running off the road on a Saturday afternoon as he was working on the bulletin board in front of the Chapel of the Cross at North Lawrence, Ohio. In September, 1987, Ned foreman, general contractor, started our house out on Centerburg Road. In the spring of 1988, we started moving things into Harold's new 42 X 45 tool shed and then in the summer moved furniture into the house. We moved everything - beds, organ, living room and dining room furniture - on a little pickup truck. We spent our first night, after it had been blessed by Rev. Gary Klempenaur, on July 4, 1988. On May 19, 1993, Harold had a heart attack. The Family, Tom, Mary, Dennis Melody and their 3 children, Brittny, Brandon and Zachary, came from Florida for 2 weeks. On December 11, 1989, Melody and Dennis were living in Hawaii. I had kept the baby basket that we brought Mary home from the Chillicothe Hospital on April 30, 1952. I made a new mattress and decorated the sided with lace. Ken Crowl took it across the counter on a Saturday morning. It cost $26.00 to mail it. Melody picked it up the following Monday afternoon in Honolulu. She was called the million dollar baby as she was a cerebral palsy 1 and 1/2 lb. baby girl. She was still on oxygen until they came back to the States in July, 1990. From 1991 to 1994, Harold and I were active with the Lions Club, Grange, http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c91ad09728df13ffd7a32b37caf1ec3a.jpg e122a5e97b717520a58247b5ddf3cfe5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.53) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 51 in It Started with These Two] church, Masons and Eastern Stars. The Worthy Grand Matron appointed me as our district 11 Heart Representative to tell the 15 chapters in the 4 counties, Logan Union, Marion and Delaware, about Heart and to raise money for research. During this same time I was president of Big Walnut Area Church women United - 7 local churches joined to help the local Friends Who Share. We have 3 meetings a year, the first Friday in March, May and November to celebrate. In November 1993, I attended the 127th National Grange Convention in Cleveland, Ohio and received the Sixth and Seventh Grange Degrees. In September, 1995, I designed the 50th Anniversary Brown Jug and Pomona Delaware County Fair Grange Booth. Kingston and Ashley were responsible for its being in place. As the lecturer of Kingston Grange and Delaware County Pomona Grange, it was my job to provide entertaining as well as instructional programs, such as the 3 crosses, old Blue Church, History of the Grange and holiday games and music. Kingston Grange disbanded in December, 1995. Such good grangers as Frank Dailey, Cliff Boyd, Orville Tuller, Joseph Bartok, Mom and Dad had died and other members were not able to get out for the meetings. In the downstairs apartment Ned foreman, our general contractor, has built 7 shelf book cases along the north and east walls for our library. Books that I enjoyed reading many times over in the past and present are: The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck. The New Road Less Traveled (Forget his latest As in Heaven as on Earth Peck's whole attitude and language has changed.) Your God is Too Small by J. B. Phillips Who Moved the Stone by Frank Morrison The Call to Glory by Jeanne Dixon I Came to Love You Too late, His Stubborn Love, Irregular People, and 12 other books by Joyce Landorf. They are easily read inspirational books. A Rustle of Angels by Marilyn and William Webber Billy Graham and Robert Schuller books that I give away He Still Moves Stones - No Wonder They Call Him Savior by Max Lucado My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers Daily Devotions We also have a large number of tapes and videos. Harold says he doesn't remember the Sunday evening when Rita Miller Young and our daughter Mary had ridden the 2 quarter horses over to Edward's at Kilbourne for an afternoon horse show. It began to get dark, and they hadn't returned to our place on Centerburg Road; so we got in the truck and found the 2 girls on the west side of the I-71 bridge on State Route 521. The horses refused to cross over, so Harold put a burlap bag over their heads and led them across. We followed the girls on horses home. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ff8d9c72f6723545a3b6307e5178ef2a.jpg af25fb8da4c71e675d27e9e43eb59879 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.54) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 52 in It Started with These Two] We had some neighbor boys who were very cruel and called Mary "illegitimate" and adopted. She'd come and sit on Harold's lap and cry. We'd reassure her that it was true that she was chosen but not illegitimate. She was the youngest of 7 children, 5 girls and 2 boys. She was loved from the very minute she grabbed hold of my little finger and held on for dear life. On a Father's Day, she bought Harold a plaque with an antique car on it that said "You're everything a Dad should be". What a testimony! Each summer our family had a large garden and animals to feed and cows to milk. We took just 2 one day trips - one Lakeside and a visit with Aunt Jane Jacoby Fisk, and one to the Ohio State Fair with Dad, Mother and all 6 of us children. For days afterwards, Mother would count 6. She was so afraid one of us would get lost. Harold's family came farther from Marshallsville and spent the week at the Fair and vacations in Michigan at the Havener's. I can remember my brother Rodney riding me on his bicycle down West William Street in Delaware to the Kindergarten and 1st grade at West School. We got in trouble as he raced a neighbor in a car down the hill. We also had a big convertible touring car that was an embarrassment to my brother John who was in high school. He is today dealing with the fact he encouraged Dad to move us back to the country on Horseshoe Road, and he feels we didn't have the same opportunities for education if we had remained at 408 W. William Street in Delaware. Maybe sister Verona didn't at the one room school and starting at 5 and 1/2 years old. Personally, it was great for me. When I was in high school, I used to baby sit for Duke Moffets and Roger Manthey who lived in the same apartment building at 145 West McMillan Street in Cincinnati. My best friends in high school were Virginia Dwenger and Esther Bartling, We came back to our apartment and studied. Math and physics were my hard subjects. I remember getting a 38 on a final in physics, but because of the daily lessons turned in correctly, passed the course. My first 2 years of college were at the University of Cincinnati. After marrying John Buchanan and buying the farm at Waverly, I attended the Ohio University branch at Chillicothe. After the 3 summers at the University in Athens, I received my B.S. degree in 1956. When Mr. Lane at the graduate school was interviewing me, Mary was sitting on my lap. He said, "You're a damn maverick. You've been to every college in Ohio." Mary hugged me and said, "Is the man mad at you, Mommy?" After the University of Cincinnati, Ohio University, Otterbein, Ashland and Ohio Wesleyan, I received a Masters at Ohio State in 1966. My father was a Chief Yeoman in the Navy before he and Mother married http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cc9159bc1fd23da80b214f7a61da2aa8.jpg c681e0fa38e070a419719bf481c4e897 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.55) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 53 in It Started with These Two] in 1909. My brother John was in the Navy, George in the Cavalry, Robert a doctor in the Navy, and Rodney a pilot in the Aleutian islands. They all returned safely home from the war zones without a scratch. Mother always believed her daily prayers saved them. The year I retired the Westerville teachers went on strike. They, according to the police, were more vicious than the students on the Ohio State campus 10 years earlier, like putting nails on the road to cause flats. At the same time Harold was on the Delaware County Board, and I firmly believed it was wrong, and the Westerville Board was treating the teachers fairly. So I was glad not to be involved. Taking courses by correspondence can be frustrating and detrimental to your mental health. In the fall of 1954 I signed up for a course that I had to have for graduation from O.U. It was called "Physical World". All I remember about it is Uranium 235. Norman Townley secured me a Capital University graduate to tutor me and explain the 36 lessons. Joanne Hoover, Mary and I met the young man every Wednesday after school at the library in Marion. We spent an hour going over the questions and then on the way home stopped for dinner. We made it a party instead of going off and leaving her at home with a baby sitter. Now you know why she would ask, "Momma, do you have to study tonight?" I don't remember the young man's name. It was important for me to get the 36 lessons sent to O.U. to pass the final. So that I could graduate in the summer of 1956, in the fall of 1955, I took a correspondence course in "Teaching Physical Education". That year there were 20 boys and 10 girls in the classroom. Batons must have been cheap for each girl received a baton to cheer on her red or blue team. The boys team were decided by picking their names out of a basket so that no boy would be left to be picked last for their playing skill. A boy who was self-conscious because of his eyesight was made a catcher for one of the teams. On a trip to a sports store, we bought a catcher's mask. His mother thanked me for his being able to be a catcher and improve his self- confidence. All went well. The children loved baseball as well as the special attention. The final examination was sent to Harold Tippett, and when I sat down, all of the questions were foreign to me. One I remember was "What is Williams platform?" I handed the exam back Mr. Tippett and said, "I don't know the answer to any of these question." Can you imagine how frustrated and confused I was? It was returned to O.U., and they had made a mistake and sent the wrong examination. After receiving the proper one for the course, Harold and I had a good many laughs when he said I looked completely devastated when I handed it back to him and said, "I don't know any of these answers." No wonder Mary would say I don't want to be a teacher. I just want to be a Mom. Maybe at least one thing good is Mary really likes to read. When she's home as was the case in the summer of 1995 with Brittny, they read books from our library http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/45485ac6a314ea7830bf001627496000.jpg b5f9ad174981f3aadf02a88e2e69603e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.56) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 54 in It Started with These Two] that Harold and I had read to her. It wasn't easy - 2 years in high school in Delaware and then my junior and senior years Hughes High School was easy, but college was a different matter. Dad and Mother had 3 boys at O.U. when I started at U. of Cin., George, Robert and Rodney. I worked part time Mabley Carew, Penney's and Sears. Then they had special $1.00 days. Umbrellas and purses were just $1.00, and they brought in a lot of college girls for these sales. After 2 years at the U. of Cin., I transferred to the branch at O.U. With 2 years training I secured a 2nd grade teaching job at Bainbridge. J. Mason Jones was the principal, and A.E. Gower was county school superintendent. At that time, I had 100 breeding Shropshire ewes. J. Mason said he was happy to hire me after seeing how well I cared for my sheep. During the week on Wednesday night, a neighbor and teacher took classes at the O.U. branch at Chillicothe. After her dog got into our flock of sheep and the sheriff destroyed their dog, it spoiled our friendship. Each of 3 summers I drove the 86 miles in 90 minutes from the farm to O.U. Sister Verona kept Mary, and her 2 older children went with me to pre-school and kindergarten at the college. One summer we lived in a Quonset hut. It was so hot and the flies were terrible, so the other 3 drove back and forth from Waverly across county. August 7, 1956 was a happy day when I received my B.S. from Ohio U. After Harold had his heart attack on May 19, 1993, I bought him a 2000 piece country scene puzzle. We put all the leaves in the dining room table, and he worked on it there. Tom's Uncle Roy Hickson made him a glass and frame. For our last wall hanging, Harold made a pretty antique frame. Marvin Miller, then the superintendent, had hired me on the condition of securing the degree. He was married to Gladys and the father of Lee Ellen, Pat and Matthew. The 2 girls are both teachers. [bottom right photo: Rosella and Mary at Ohio University Graduation B.S. in Education - 1956] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/baa97174accc03f905fb9d25fe4c8651.jpg f5e8d453a0d7d90eaba63dfbea8cac1f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.57) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 55 in It Started with These Two] Something that I did with my hands is my little rocking chair. I put a cane seat on it. Verona was living in Delaware, and we went to the Parks and Recreation Canning program. Verona put the seat in a large rocker. When we were little, we sat in it backwards and rocked all over the dining room. It was lots of fun. Then we made our own entertainment. One of the questions the Bob Greene's book asked if you ever did a remodeling job. Did we ever? Harold, one February, started knocking out a wall between the two sides of the duplex. We took out a kitchen, added a new furnace, fireplace, lowered the ceiling, added a new 12' x 30' upstairs bedroom and a half bath for Mary to use for having her overnight friends in. The house was torn up and dusty until the fall of 1968. Our first entertainment was our Thanksgiving Dinner for the family. The building of our home here on Centerburg Road was a joy. We have pictures all the steps of the way. Ned Foreman, the general contractor, and we are still very good friends. Some people when they retire move to town , but we have the best of both worlds. We are just 4 miles from Sunbury and 6 from Centerburg, and I can go out to feed the geese in my pajamas. It is quiet and peaceful. It gives Harold work with his John Deere, the Toro riding mower, and a small garden. We've especially enjoyed the tomatoes, zucchini, acorn squash and beets and are looking forward to the pumpkin patch. Life is good. We shop at Buehler's in Delaware and enjoy their dining room and its reasonable prices. We also shop at Atzingers in Centerburg as we like their Reiters buttermilk and milk and their meat and produce. The Intown Restaurant in Centerburg also has good food at reasonable prices. We spend about $75.00 a week for groceries. We eat well, not much junk food or soft drinks. Although we have credit cards for Lazarus, Penneys, Kohl's, Sears, B.P., Citgo Master Card and Visa, we both are thrifty people. We like to make sure we have the finances to go or do or buy what we want. All of the family are very special. In the winter the Christmas Eve dinner at Virgil and Nellie Hickson's with Tom, Mary, Dennis, Melody, the children, Harold and I have a warm and friendly relationship. Christmas Day is at Dennis and Melody's with the Hicksons, Dennis' family, and us Aults. The food is plentiful, and the gifts well thought out. Now instead of the toys the children get clothing from the adults and the toys from Santa Claus. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9588103a2abbcbfa119c7286597dd2bc.jpg 952adb06718f1958c5b762a6ad996b52 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.58) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 56 in It Started with These Two] New Year's Day is at our house. All of the family and Verona's family and the Hyatts from Columbus are there. We have both beef and pork, 2 kinds of pie, sauerkraut, black eyed peas, 2 kinds of potatoes, salad and lots of punch and coffee, but no alcoholic beverages. The new year needs a good beginning. The night before we've written out resolutions, Mary and Harold used to sign them upside down. I have finally realized it was to let me know life isn't or shouldn't be too serious. Life is Good when the family is happy and love one another. Yes, I read the Bible daily and the Fellowship verse for each day and the morning, noon, and evening prayers. Mary and Melody know they can count on the prayers. I certainly make lists for meeting times and dates, grocery lists and ideas for shopping trips. I get teased about being so organized, but I tell them that those who fail to plan, plan to fail. I check the calendar to see what meeting are scheduled for each day. When Mary was 6 in 1958, we took a little boy from the Children's Home in Delaware. His name was Jeffry Blair. His mother had been scalded to death by the father. The father was in prison. He came to Delaware from a northern county. He was in kindergarten at Smith School in Delaware and Verda Borders was his teacher and Albert Hogue was the principal. He liked to tease Mary and called her "Mary Oink." His IQ was about 75. He was so cute when he called me "Momme" but they convinced us he would be better off in an only child farm family. They said "Momme" is cute now but what about when he is 18. We heard he was adopted by a farm family over in Union County. It's strange how very best friends lose touch with one another. In 1949 a wonderful couple, Bill and Mabel Houston, came from Dayton and brought acreage just down the Cline Chapel Road from our 73 acres, built a 5000 broiler plant and a large brick house. One time the broilers all got coccidos and they had to be destroyed. The litter they brought from North Carolina. The house was a large long brick house. Bill was a brick mason. Visitors who lived back in Dayton with a little girl, asked Mabel if she should use the near bathroom or the far bathroom. Sad to say they lost all their property because of the chicken loss and went back to an apartment in Dayton. We went to the same little country Methodist Church. Bill played the guitar and sang hymns beautifully. The summer of 1968 we took Helen Allen, my second and fourth grade teacher, and Harold's mother, Ruth, to Tucson Arizona. Helen had no biological children but lots of school children. Like Luretta Day, she was a born teacher. Helen had enrolled in the University and we came out to visit Harold's brother, Lloyd and his family. We got to see Yellowstone, Salt Lake City and some famous landmarks in Colorado and other western states. We also visited Harold's sister, Pat, and her husband, Dick, in Parker, Colorado, and Pikes Peak, and Colorado Springs. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/983d699b2250ecf3d975dc65c275cfb3.jpg d92963ba0b6cce44ecd1402392731e13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.59) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 57 in It Started with These Two] Helen's brother Buss, who I dated for awhile, worked at the Deshler Wallack Hotel as desk clerk and we attended dances at the hotel. It was exciting. The last week of summer school, Helen wasn't able to get him on the phone so she got permission to take finals early and she came home and she found he had died of a heart attack. Life is uncertain. Every once in a while, especially in the middle of the night when I can't sleep because of the ringing in my ears, I have some thought about what it really means to be a Christian. I came up with this reasoning. To be a religious it means more than being a human trying to do good. It means the effort toward perfecting our humanity without being prideful or self righteous about it. I realize how brief is our earthly life and yet how we are called upon to make some momentous decisions. Life is good! One wonders how different would my life have been if I had joined the Navy during world War II. If Tommy had lived? If I had gone to Palmer, Alaska to teach? If Harold and I had children? If my sister and parents hadn't gone to Florida? What if? and then you come to the stark realization that what is in the past and we should let those thoughts be gone and get on with the present. It is here we meet our real selves as we were cast upon our own resources in the overall scheme of things and if we truly believe in God's providence. We seem to learn over a long period of time you cannot have a free will and not use it, it leaves a debris of aging promises of what might have been. In the late 60s after getting my masters in September of 1966, I took up knitting the first major project was a black dress. Helen Allen, this same wonderful lady had a yarn shop on the second floor above Mills Restaurant on North High Street in Columbus. I think this might have cemented the [bottom photo: Green Dress I knitted Took 20 Minutes To Go Around the Bottom Row] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e16fa5b36284ea244b60343091f5a5f4.jpg afcb932408389753aa3f3107e7686559 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.60) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 58 in It Started with These Two] friendship closer. The second project is the 3 piece light green outfit that I am wearing in the picture. With a blouse this is perfect for Florida winter temperatures. Imagine - I'm wearing it 30 years later - and it took 20 minutes to go around the bottom rows of the skirt. While Harold watched TV or came out to Centerburg Road in the evenings, I knitted. There are 4 little size 5 and 6 sweaters hanging in our downstairs closet for Rick's little boy, Matthew, and for Brittny and the twins Zachary and Brandon. Also on the floor 24 toilet tissue covers for friends Christmas party favors. Some of my friends and sister Verona like to play cards. Bridge is beyond my scope of intelligence. Euchre is too fast. Mother used to say, "Solitaire is such a waste of time. Do something constructive." She like to read and so did Dad. She also liked yard work and hated weeds and dandelions. When we were growing up we had the cleanest fields and lawn. Dad paid us a penny a dandelion or thistle that we dug up. Today Harold has a yard sprayer that he pulls behind the Toro yard Tractor and if I see on or two strays, I stoop down and pick them and say, "Mother, this is for you." Mother and Dad were such loveable parents, so full of encouragement and love. Right after high school, Verona and I both worked at Crosley Radio. We met the nurse, Alberta Peet Kaufman, and have remained good fiends. she lives in a Cincinnati suburb of Westwood. A good friend from the days that I worked at Andrew Jergens was Dorothy Kennedy. I have driven a lot of places in my life time and believe there must be a guardian angel looking after me. On one trip, Nancy Lindsey and I were on I-71 on the way to Dorothy Kennedy's installation as an officer of Eastern Star in the Westwood Chapter. The car stopped and Dale McClain, formerly of Sunbury and lived just down the street from us on Harrison, came by in his truck and fixed it. We attended the meeting and at about 11 P.M. in a little suburb of Blue Ash we had a flat tire. This time a perfect stranger stopped and changed the tire and we arrived safely in Sunbury. I have good memories of Cincinnati, Ohio. Brother George had a way with Dad - Mother and Dad always attended lectures at the Netherland Plaza Hotel. Dad never liked to spend money on himself and George told Dad the people at the hotel probably thought he came in to get out of the cold. Dad and Mother went the next day and got him a new overcoat. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bf2928887631812c0255b92f941d7998.jpg 9ab6841ccfcedd3533b5b93ddaa3991f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.61) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 59 in It Started with These Two] After Pearl Harbor started me thinking about the war so I started to work as a machinist at Wrights Lockland, Ohio making bushing for the airplane industry. I worked on a big lathe cutting out the centers. We used calipers to get the exact dimensions. Working with a lot of men was a rude awakening. Their language was something not to be desired. I never did pick up the habit of using foul language or drink or smoke. Dad and Mother were both mild mannered individuals and good language was also spoken in our home. Sister Verona and Carl Bell were married at the Whitefield Presbyterian Church in Bradenton, Florida on Saturday, July 15th, 1995. They came back to Carl's home on Frederick Road for the Spring and Summer and fall months. Patty, Verona's daughter who lives in Tallahassee, Florida, is coming soon and Wilma Jean, Carl's daughter, will be seeing each other after many years. Mother had so many sayings, such as "rain before 7, quit before 11" and if you notice it generally does. It was just that way today (Monday morning) even though our local weather channels tell us it should rain all day even into Tuesday morning. Also, if it "rains on Monday, it will rain 3 days in this week". 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Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.62) Description An account of the resource Family Memories [corresponds to page 60 in It Started with These Two] [top left photo: Brother John and Velma - Summer 1997] [top right photo: Brother Dr. Bob and Wife Bernie - 1997] [middle left photo: Harold, Ruth and Rod Main At Masonic Home in Springfield] [middle right photo: George and Etta -1966] [bottom right photo: Etta, Brandon and Zachary - January 1995] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a6ade2ed6726315d8d38f0ec5961b31f.jpg c1aa5873001819a46d1ce1b6d45345ff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.63) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 61 in It Started with These Two] [top photo: Mom and Dad's 50th Anniversary - August 29, 1959 George, Rosella, Robert, Dad , Mother, John Verona, Rodney] [bottom photo: Rhonda Main, Linda Main Clark, Marsha Main Jones, Debbie Main Smith, Patti Miller Chapin, Penny Main Bradfield, Tom Main, Bobby Miller, David Main, John Main, Mark Main, Bill Main, Rick Miller, Theresa Main, Mary Ault Hickson, and Nancy Miller] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/3063c217778ba75e22159a3ef0bd5a8b.jpg 0227352ed25bd3957bff356a0d610c39 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.64) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 62 in It Started with These Two] [top photo: Mother and Dad's 60th Anniversary, August 29th, 1969, in the old Grange Hall Front Row: Velma, Ruth, Mother, Dad, Bernie, Verona, Rosella Back Row: John, Rodney, George, Etta, Robert, and Harold] [bottom left photo: Main Reunion of the 6 of Us Robert, Verona, George, Rosella, John, and Rodney] [bottom right photo: 1990 Reunion Rod and Ruth Main] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/8f0f85381f79b75491dd31e96a2ecc2c.jpg bab5809a2a7c7d99a2b743f389a74c86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.65) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 63 in It Started with These Two] [top photo: Main Reunion 1991] [middle photo: Dr. Bob, Verona and John at Brother Rodney's Funeral, March 13th, 1993] [bottom photo: Reunion 1996 Velma, Krissy, and John Main] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c70f8f7eee29f393d299f6a29daba2a6.jpg 569ab39841ad3c560a01659a7ce3f5e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.66) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 64 in It Started with These Two] Dad was so proud of Mother. She was little and pretty. In 1959, they celebrated their 50th anniversary at the house on 521. their 60th Anniversary was at the old Grange Hall on North Galena Road. Neither Dad or Mother never had a headache, and they had few illnesses. Dad did have a prostate operation, and Mother for a a blood clot. Mother always wore pretty hats to church. I think I mentioned earlier that after Mom and Dad were married, Mother worked in a millinery store making fancy hats in Cleveland. [top photo: Mother's 100th Birthday - November 29th, 1982 Verona, George, Mother, John, Rosella, and Rodney] [bottom photo; Grandchildren and Great-Grand Children Mother's 100th Birthday At the Holiday Inn in Delaware, Ohio] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b06c15b61dce5718a90ce752760e2f2a.jpg dbbfbf9f2878b40ecbc5c403442bb2d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.67) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 65 in It Started with These Two] in the summer of 1939, Rod came home from O.U. and got a summer job working at the downtown Kroger store, 5th Street or Government Square. I worked at Sears. On Sundays, we went to church, ate lunch at Mills Cafeteria on 4th Street, and with a Sunday street car pass, rode west almost to the Indiana and Ohio borders and north and east as far as the tracks took us. One Sunday, Rod and I were just visiting parks and we ended up in Ault park, way before I knew an Ault. As we walked along the edge of the fountain, I drug my foot in the water and laughingly said I was cleansing my soul (sole). Rodney pushed me in. He didn't seem to think it was very funny. I got all wet and had to go home and change clothes before we went to Youth Fellowship. After devotions and refreshments, we danced the Big Apple and the Lambeth Walk. As for the other members of the family, John had married Velma in Columbus. Bob and Bernie , who were married in 1936, now had a a boy they named Robbie. They lived in Athens. George was still looking for Etta. Rodney was still at Ohio University and dating Ruth. Verona was still in Hughes High School. She graduated in June, 1940. I was going to Miller's Business College. I really didn't want to be a secretary, but shorthand and typing helped me later in my office jobs at Crosleys and Andre Jergens. Tom came in September, 1941 for the start of the fall semester. We had just met a few weeks before Pearl harbor. I was a freshman, too, at the University of Cincinnati. Until I was listening to a program on WOSU, channel 34, talking about how special education teachers and regular teachers cooperate to help special students achieve success in the classroom, did it really dawn on me that it had been 20 years since I was a special education teacher. At my last Easter Break in 1976, a grandmother and uncle came in an accused me of beating their little granddaughter and niece with a razor strap. Of course, I had never touched the child in a harmful way, only to give her an encouraging hug. My Easter break in Florida was ruined. They threatened to sue the principal and me. I never received an apology, but they called the secretary and confessed it was the child's father. [middle right photo: 6 of Us - 1943-1944 George and Rodney in the Service] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/9996a4181169b7f35522c3397229b7fa.jpg 7a1af9ef3fea6d25d434cb1ec67f03b3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.68) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 66 in It Started with These Two] Today, September 18, 1996, I made a start at painting. The sky and clouds look real professional but the bridge, rocks and trees need lots of improvement. After attending a church finance committee meeting, I agree with the statement I just read, "Most churches seem to have more in common with big business that they do with Jesus and His disciples." How true! Patty Chapin, sister Verona's daughter, who lives in Tallahassee is coming to visit the family. I had Patty in the second grade, and I had to walk on eggs to show no preference. After Tommy died, Verona let me take Patty with me to Chicago for 6 weeks as we were living in a high rise hotel in North Lawrence. The doorman called her princess. She's like a second daughter. Another time I had taken Patty with me to join Virginia Dwenger Weisgirber and her little boy for lunch at Mills. The waitress as she was pouring their milk spilled it on the table. Patty looked up at me and said, "Mommies spill milk sometimes, too, don't they, Aunt Rosella?" Some interesting things, I have recently read about Jesus, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. It was John Mark's - the writer of the second Gospel - that they held the Last Supper, the upper room as we know it. John Mark was the son of Mary. He and Peter ended up in Rome. He also wrote Revelations. Many feel that his Gospel is the most accurate. The shrine of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome is one of the most beautiful in the world. Next there was Matthew, a tax collector, who wrote the first Gospel. It is thought that he was put to death in Persia about 20 years after the Crucifixion. Andrew, Peter's brother, was martyred in 17 A. D. in Patrae. James was executed by Herod Agrippa. He is the Patron Saint of Spain. Phillip and Nathanael (also known as Bartholomew) are in the story of nothing good coming out of Nazareth and the loaves and the fishes. They were put to death in Arabia. Thomas was known as the skeptical one. He was supposed to have been martyred at Mylapore. James the Less became a Bishop and was thrown from the roof of the Temple. Jude was a carpenter and was killed. Simon, the Zealot, was killed in Persia. Judas Iscariot came from Kerioth and was the treasurer and is the one who took 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus, and he was supposed to have hung himself. All 12 disciples were so very different and with Jesus have changed the world with peoples of every age and race. I may be wrong in what happened to the 12. Life is such a mystery. When one is flying in a big 747 jet, one wonders what is keeping it up, and the simple answer is, it is the resistance of air that raises the wing. Sometimes with the ringing in my left ear it is difficult to get to sleep and I remember some things that happened many years ago. Mary was 4 years old and the IGA store was on Harrison Street. The Rev. Richard Burns was the pastor, and Hallie Jo was his wife. They lived in the Methodist parsonage at 100 North Columbus Street. It was the Rev. Burns first charge. He had been painting the parsonage and ran over to the store for milk when Mary spotted him and in her childish voice said, "Momma, there goes the God man." Twenty years later, her daughter Melody saw Rev. Don Newland and made the same comment, only it was "Grandmother, there goes the God man." When the Chapel of the Cross (the church Harold attended http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ede575d2a0acc1ac02dc58aaca576404.jpg 1fef6025d8d992b0d62afea64bcf7013 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.69) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 67 in It Started with These Two] when he was at his home in Marshallville) in the Canton district was having a mortgage burning celebration, Rev. Burns was their district superintendent. He reminded us of the incident 30 years before. Tonight on the 22nd, I covered up the bridge and rocks of the first painting I started on the 18th. Harold said the bridge looked like it was falling down, and I realized I had gotten carried away with too many big rocks in the creek. The white paint will have to dry before I can make some changes. Maybe, a hill and a small cottage will be next. In January, 1983, I wrote a poem I titled "Dear Lord, I Just Want to Thank You". Dear Lord< I just want to thank you For this satisfying life of mine, And for this house I call my home For the memories in it are so fine. From the moment in the morning When I rise up from my bed, I'll trust you, Lord, to guide me, And by You, my Savior, I'll be led. Please watch over my friends and family, All who are a source of pride and pleasure to me, Keep them safe and free from harm, For everyone is a real treasure, You see. Thank You, too, for my parents so dear As they taught me right from wrong, For as they grew more precious with each new year As they helped me to grow in love and how to be brave and strong, So let me offer service and comfort to my fellow man, As I travel along Your Highway, let it be my plan. For by my own faith and by Your grace May I reach Your kingdom some day and be able to thank you face to face. Before Madelyn Murray O'Hare outlawed prayer in school, the children in my classes had 2 prayers each - their teacher 3 - at school: Help us, Lord to be kind today, Very kind in all our play. Make us helpful, make us strong, Show us what is right and wrong, These things, Lord, we ask of Thee, So that a better world there will be. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/954a95d2595475406aa503079615be24.jpg 4870a3bb9425f278ae4bf7fe5bed5466 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.70) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 68 in It Started with These Two] God is great; God is good. And we thank Him for our food. By His Goodness we all are fed. We thank the Lord for our daily bread. And my prayer before school was "The Teacher" by Leslie Hill: Lord, who am I to teach the way to these little children day by day, When I am so prone myself to go astray. Though I teach them love for all mankind And for all of God's creatures and yet I find, Sometimes my own love comes lagging far behind. So, if their guide I still may be Lord, oh let the little children see Their teacher leaning hard on Thee. Brother John once asked if I thought about going into the ministry. And brother Robert said when I pray I sound like my Aunt Ora who was always very specific. I don't think God wants a general canned prayer. Maybe I should explain something about how children are eligible for a special class. Those with below a 50 I.Q. are in the County program and normally attend school the year round. For 8 summers Mary helped me teach these children in Franklin County. For 16 years I taught those with a 50 to 75 I.Q. in the Public School program and were mainstreamed for music and physical education. In the spring of 1974 a little 8 year old girl named Debbie Shaw contracted encephalitis and died in Children's Hospital. The custodian Eddie Birchem helped the children accept her death by giving a very loving talk and removing the flowers that we had placed on her desk and removing them both. A little boy named Jerry Wally was frightened by a dog and climbed to the top of the slide and fell off and broke his arm. This happened at Bainbridge and another second grade boy named Jerry Williams did the same thing on the Galena playground. Bobby Slack fell and cut his leg wading in the creek on the last day of school. These were the 3 most serious accidents during the 30 years that I taught. This summer had definitely not been a good summer and fall for sister Verona, who broke her hip on July 3rd, and her husband Carl. Yesterday when she and I came home from breakfast, the emergency and fire trucks were in the drive. Carl takes so much pride in the home. He was down at the creek repairing his foot bridge when he fell into the water and hit his head. He was able to get to the house to call 911. They kept him overnight at Grady after stitching and cleaning him up. The kitchen was a mess when we went in later that night. We think the personnel at Grady Hospital are very caring and loving. Winter came in early this year. We had 32 degrees for 2 mornings and Harold covered the tomatoes. The pumpkin vines still had blossoms on them. One time http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/fa7443910b0ac332a6dcc6bb904ae075.jpg 6410a9670bb2274c474e900dd9523823 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.71) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 69 in It Started with These Two] when Mary and Tom were home from Florida, Mary said, "Mom, you have every tree almost but no Buckeye." Well, we remedied that. This year we bought two Buckeyes. We do have over 100 evergreens, willows, burning bush, peach, dogwood, oak, maple, tulip, sycamore, elm, walnut, smoke tree, Osage orange, and grape vines with the evergreen close to the house so I don't have to worry about a tree falling on the roof or having to rake leaves. Dennis' firm sent Melody, the twins and Brittny with him to Ashville, North Carolina for Dennis's job. He is a whiz at computers as well as being a good father. For Christmas, 1989, 5 days after Brittny and a twin sister Stephanie were born, we flew Tom and Mary to Honolulu. We missed being with them for Christmas, but we knew Dennis and Melody needed some family support. Stephanie died Dec. 13th, and she was cremated. They have her ashes in a little gold teddy bear. I think I've mentioned before they are such good young loving parents. If one notices there are so many twins being born today. My nephew William and his wife Kathleen in January 1993 had twins, a boy and a girl. Our own granddaughter had twins in December 1989 and again 1993. A minister laughingly explained that in this hectic world today they were afraid to come in alone. In the summer or 1947, Genieve Cole, Mother and Dad organized the Delaware County Historical Society. On October 2, 1996, Brother Bob, Carl Verona and I visited the East William Street house and museum. When I was president of the Past Grand Appointed officers in 1991, Karen Bartholmew and Virginia were the program. I wrote a poem for the luncheon. It is titled "This I Pledge". If I could give you what I'd like today, Only happiness I would bring, Enough to last the whole year through. I would make it wonderful - some precious thing, Flawless, beautiful and everlasting, But this we mortals cannot give, So I pledge to you instead A perpetual friendship, one that' true, Strong enough to span all the years that lie ahead. I will try to make it shine and keep it wisdom-fed. Music has been a important part of our lives. We have always had a piano or organ in our home and every once in a while I think I'll start taking lessons again. While waiting for Harold to finish dressing on Sunday morning for church, I'll play 2 hymns, one for Dad, "The Little Brown Church in the Wildwood" and for Mother, "In the Sweet By and By." These were their favorites. A year after Dad died, Mother furnished the church bulletins and said the 3 places Dad like best were Farm Bureau Council, the Grange, and his church and that he was always a good example and influence for his family. Mother was likewise. Her favorite expression was, "If http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ed71d80dd1b4a0d245a763f64060bd24.jpg 7bc87c245e13acde680d2f482b0e47aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.72) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 70 in It Started with These Two] you can't say something good about that person, don't say it." We went with Melody on a visit with Brittny to the All children's Hospital in January, 1994, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The doctor asked her to raise her left leg, and she did quickly and then to raise her right leg and she said, "I can't". Again he said to raise your right leg, and she took her two hands and pulled it up and the doctor laughed and said, "Brittny, that is cheating." The doctor said she was too frail for an operation. There is an expression that some have a sound mind but a weak back. Thank heavens, this is the case with Brittny. She is so loveable and the twin are so mischievous. The doctor at the Trippler Army Hospital in Hawaii called Brittny their million dollar baby. We continually express our appreciation, to Melody and Dennis for being such good young parents. Harold reminded me that instead of 6 bags of shelled corn we need 12 since we have 14 geese now instead of 9. We do not have good luck in raising them, as wild animals raid their nests and eat the geese and also they kill our young ones. We have to put boards across the bottom step to the deck to keep the geese from coming up on the deck. On Mother's 100th birthday (November 29, 1982) we held a celebration at the Delaware Hotel. Ken Mackley took the pictures that turned out very well. Verona stayed with Mother for 4 days at the hotel. Mother was in a wheelchair but really enjoyed meeting her church and Grange friends plus being with the family. The family and Dad were so important to her. Our Mary and Melody flew up from Florida, and I think only 1 or 2 of the 16 grandchildren weren't able to make it. This year Jim Thorpe plowed and got the ground ready for the garden. We enjoyed acorn squash, tomatoes, green peppers, melons and a few pumpkins. At this late date in the first part of October, they have lots of blossoms on the vines. We have one quart of beets and 6 quarts of salsa and 4 quarts of tomato juice which we'll carry to Florida. The salsa makes wonderful chili. When I was younger and more energetic, I brought rocks from our creek in a wheelbarrow to make a wall at the edge of the drive. When our niece Patty asked [top right photo: Brother John - 13 years old] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/0f79bb402e5a5be8ab35db02515288e1.jpg 9aa9a6feea155ed3a88831f189b22d12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.73) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 71 in It Started with These Two] if she could do anything, her Uncle Harold said she could carry the rocks back to the creek. In 1991 when Harold and I were Worthy Matron and Patron of Columbia Chapter of Eastern Stars and Sunbury was celebrating its 175th year, we were privileged to plant a tree on the east side of the town square. Yesterday I started painting a picture of our large rocks, house, and Harold's 66' shed. It is clear full of bicycles, a motorcycle, lawn mowers, his power tools, tractors, flower pots and extra doors from a house he tore down. There is a pet electric fence that Harold put inside the wire fence to keep in the 2 Dalmatians that we used to have. My second "Joy of Painting" was anything but a joy. It was a disaster. Even though I took the easel out and hung it on the stepladder, the perspective was all wrong. The house took up too much room for Harold's 66' shed. There was no way I could show all of the evergreens along the drive and around the house on the large deck. Next time, it will be just a nature scene. The pictures of John on the swing and the boys with their pony and cart give a good indication of the fun we had in growing up. We always had an old plow horse to ride. Not a whole lot of money, but lots of love. Four of us took off for a Florida vacation, Harold was still working. It was Gladys Collins, Bernice Morgan, Gladys Miller and myself. We took the usual route 77 to 301 into Bradenton. After a week Gladys Miller got sick and had to fly home. The three of us came up through Plains, Georgia, and Gladys Collins and Bernice Morgan got to get their pictures taken with Rosalind and President Jimmy Carter. I wasn't so lucky since I'm the camera man. We attended church services and Jimmy taught the Sunday School class. He teaches 36 Sundays ouy of the year. Lots of time he is with Habitat for Humanity building homes for low income families. In the early 1980's I had read 3 books by Joyce Landorf. They were "The Stubborn Heart", "I came to know You too Late" and "Irregular People". Dusting the book shelves in our downstairs library, I came across them again. Her thoughts seem so ever new as well as Max Lucado's books "He Still Moves Stones" and "No Wonder They Call Him Savior". Much of my reading and knitting gets done as I sit in my chair beside Harold's in the evening as he watches the rough police shows on T.V. He especially likes "Law and Order" and "Walker", and I like "Touched by an Angel" and any show without so much violence. In David Roper's "A Beacon in the Darkness" there is a very profound short statement. - "God's words spoken in quiet confidence moves heaven and earth." Another inspiration book is "The Cry of a Passionate Heart" by David Roper. Another thought by Roper is "Without a preoccupation with worship we have nothing to give a cynical, unhappy, unsettled world. Only God can bring salvation to our world." http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/e3aeca3a325039f199288ae2e492c779.jpg d55db4e4b77bca8e60fd0ed1759b72c6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.74) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 72 in It Started with These Two] Verona's husband Carl was able to come home this afternoon, October 15, 1996. He realizes he can't do all the repairing, mowing and other things around the house that he could do when he was younger. Age does seem to have a way of catching up with us and causing us to change our life styles. I've mentioned him before but probably called him Uncle Ernest. He was a licensed veterinarian, and specialized in fixing horses' teeth. About 1945 he wrote a pamphlet entitled "My 3 Score Years of Experience." It is not dated, so if he were born in 1885, I figured it must be in the middle 40's. He mentions T.V.'s. His life was so different than my father's. When he was in his late teens he painted the 2 gold crosses above St. Mary' s Catholic Church in Delaware. He left his wife Ora, daughter Nina and sons Frances and Harold at Mom and Dad's for over a year while he went to get his degree. Can you imagine cooking for 4 extra persons plus your own 4 boys and a husband? Dad said Mother never once complained. We still don't know how she could memorize so many Bible verses, especially Proverbs. Maybe that is what kept her sweet and happy with so much physical labor. Most people, they say, don't get sick from what they eat but what's eating them. Hard work that has a purpose doesn't seem hard. Long hours of courses taken for additional credit or degrees all had a reason. One Wednesday evening in 1965, I was in the parking lot of Arps Hall for a course in writing a thesis when I fell on the ice. As I lay there with no help, I said, "God, what am I dong here? I really don't have to write that paper." The straw that almost broke the camel's back was when about 30 of us gathered outside a room on the 2nd floor. No professor had been assigned to teach the course. One young student actually reached the president home and really being very angry said the college had let him sign up for the course at 5 P.M. that same evening. You can be sure a professor was lined up for the following Wednesday evening. As it turned out I really didn't need the course. My advisor, Mr. Calvin, said it was too much of an Indictment of the State Education Department and had me do a study of mongolism. On Father's Day about 5 years ago, I bought Harold a wooden mother pig and a baby pig. Our brother-in-law Jake Ward gave him a front and back end of a cow, and now they need painting. As I was finished using the black enamel paint after putting the lid on and hammering it down, it sprayed all over my face and neck and on the side of the blouse I was wearing. Turpentine took it off but what an oily smell. Harold's family raised steers and hogs which they took to the Wayne County Fair in Wooster. Our family raised sheep and Jersey cows. After high school Harold went to work at the mill in Marshallsville. One day he decided to crack a book instead of his back so he went to college in Wooster and graduated in accounting. That is how he came to Sunbury and was hired by Dale Bailey, the Landmark manager, in April, 1956. Zelma Young, who was the secretary, persuaded him to join The Knights of Pythias, and the Pythian Sisters where we met. Earl Duston, who worked for George, and he became good friends. As they say "you can take a person out of the country but you can't take the love of the country out of that person, especially boys". Harold likes almost nothing http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cdc80959d11104c9a9f775e4e187e1d5.jpg 10e8733cdd79b51155f2231020488f34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.75) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 73 in It Started with These Two] better than to be out on his John Deere tractor on a brisk fall or spring day. Since so many elm trees died from a blight, there are lots of small trees to cut down and haul to the brush pile. I like gardening, lawn mowing, making crafts for my family and friends and trying out new recipes from the farm magazines. A new one is with bulk sausage, onions green peppers, shredded potatoes, canned mushrooms and mushroom soup. About a week before Memorial Day we buy trays of flowers from Raymond Bryant and make our way with peat moss and shovels and decorate the graves of our friends and relatives at Condit, Sunbury, Marlboro and Oak Grove in Delaware. At the last Memorial Day in 1996, we decorated 18 graves. We realize they are not really there but it does so much for us to just be able to trim the evergreens that we have planted and plant new plants each year. This afternoon we are taking a new evergreen to Marlboro Cemetery for brother Jame's grave. For some reason it has died. The family seems to like Pumpkin Bread or Zucchini Bread. This recipe from Chapel of the Cross cookbook is easy and makes 3 nice size loaves. Here are the ingredients. 3 eggs, 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup oil, 2 tsp. vanilla 3 cups of flours, 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. nutmeg, 1 cup of nuts, 1 cup raisins, 2 cups pumpkin or zucchini cooked and put through my salad shooter. All the ingredients are mixed together and put into 3 oiled loaf pans. Cook about 35 or 40 minutes at 350 degrees. I have altered it a bit by using brown sugar instead of the their recipe of of only 2 cups of white sugar. I found it was tastier and that is what cooking is all about to make things the best they can be. This is the first year that Harold and I have both been retired so that we can attend the Pumpkin Show in Circleville. The Shriners are in the 8 P.M. parade on Friday evening. It rained continually all day so we hope to be able to go in 1997. The Shriners do so much good with their Burn and Cripple Children's Hospital. In 1993 Melody and Dennis took our little great-granddaughter Brittny to the Tampa Hospital and had the spastic muscles in both legs cut so she can stand flat footed on both feet. I feel so much pain when she says, "Grandmother, I want to stand up" and yet she still isn't able to walk and uses as she tells it her "motorized chair". She has such a sweet disposition. We love her family dearly. Only 1 other little boy in a wheelchair is in her regular 1st grade class at Oneco School. Some of the things that families like to know about their parents relationship can best be conveyed in some letters Father sent to Mother on his trip around the world with Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet. Dad, born June 16, 1881, and Mother, born November 29, 1882, were not impulsive teenagers. They were married on August 29, 1909. Dad would have been 18 and Mother 27. Mother's brother Hartley had died, and Mother was still at home to help her parents in their grieving, Grandfather or Pap Bishop felt sad because he had sent Hartley west to buy some Merino sheep. I have always liked sheep and as I have mentioned before had 100 breeding ewes when I lived on the farm at Waverly. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/673afe2844d9c9a47d2786e4b6e1c89b.jpg 08c6c09eac19279b7a5cd99e839e0f49 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.76) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 74 in It Started with These Two] Maybe I had inherited his love, also for horses. Dad's mother Christina Main was living on the farm on what was then known as the Marion Road, just north of the Main Road with his maiden sister Rosina who was in a wheelchair following a stroke. They tried to tell him he'd have expenses and babies and he told them he truly hoped so. At one time there were hitching rails in front of the formerly located Marlboro Church. Grandpa Bishop said there will always be people coming with horses and buggies to their church. He would be so hurt since no one comes even in cars to the wonderful Memorial Day services with little children carrying flags and peonies to decorate the soldiers' graves. Now Memorial Day is for races and cook- outs. Many just can't find the time or inclination to attend Memorial Services. Our Sunbury services are such an inspiration. In 1906 Larry and Rachel Edward's son gave a very short but impressive speech. Ed Hoke had been the leader for 25 years and now the America Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars take turns in heading up and preparing the program. Fewer and fewer Legion members and Lions Club members are able to attend., Dutch Strosnider and brother George were always attending. It makes me sad when I see someone desecrating or burning the flag when i realize how many loyal Americans have given their lives to protect our freedom. On Saturday, October 19, we went up to the Chapel of the Cross bazaar. This in the church Harold attended when he was at home. It was before the merger with a United Brethren Church. The women of the church, starting in February, begin making crafts. This year I found beautifully decorated T-shirts and other things. We bought Carl two bales of straw that the Roberts' had brought in for sale to cover his strawberry plants. The women put them in large trash bags. They were happy that they came south with Harold. When we were young, on some hot Sunday afternoons sometimes we rode our bicycles to Ashley about 7 miles from our home on Horseshoe Road to play in a dance band and to get ice cream cones. I remember when the fair was held at Ashley, and I baked cakes and we took live stock there before taking the calves to the Ohio State Fair. Brother Bob said yesterday he remembers going with Papa Bishop taking 8 registered Percherons for 10 days to the Ohio State Fair. In the summer of 1947 Genieve Cole, her son Joe, a Delaware real estate broker, and Mom and Dad organized the first Delaware County Historical Society. In 1997 it will 50 be years and I hope there can be some celebration and we can give the Society a large painting of the old Blue Church that was painted in 1970 for Mother and Dad for their house in Florida as a Christmas present. Will Cleveland is the artist who painted the picture. On Tuesday, October 22, 1994, Louise Whipkey, Gladys Collins and I joined some 4000 other enthusiastic people at a rally for Senator Bob Dole. I was at Rikes http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b69fac7813355f4e90d1cbea38a0d20f.jpg f6ed6a0528384290300f2fee5a7530be Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.77) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 75 in It Started with These Two] gym in Westerville. Many had to be kept outside and heard and saw by remote. Governor Voinovich and John Kasich spoke. Some disgruntled Clinton fans even held a small group outside. I saw a sign on the way home from the North Lawrence Church on Saturday which read, "Why would a Christian vote for Bill Clinton?" my sentiments exactly. About 5 years ago Harold and I had Living Wills made. I reminded Harold this morning that they should go with us as we drive to Florida. Sweet and loving families get emotional and might use extraordinary measures to keep a dying or injured person alive but not really living. Since videos have come in our slide projector has seen little use. Most of the pictures of Mary taken when she was small were either by Olan Mills or on our 8mm camera. She has both the film and the projector and asked that I bring our large screen to Florida. Harold also took lots of slide pictures. That is one of the 16 items on the list to pack. Mary had a large red Chow dog we called Patsy. Our lawn at Waverly was large with 7 maple trees and on nice days she would be in her play pen and I would be studying for courses at either Ohio University branch in Chillicothe or correspondence courses or on campus courses. When neighbor children would come in the yard., Patsy wouldn't let them near Mary until I said it was O.K. Patsy was killed by a car on the road in front of the house, and we had to have a funeral, grave and a cross. In our family dogs seemed to be preferred to cat. I have lots of pictures with Harold and the 2 Dalmatians that died. Since I have a loud continuous ringing in my left ear much of my thoughts are being written down during the night time hours. It is difficult to sleep. When the Methodist Church was built on the corner of 3 and 36/37, Harold purchased the stained glass window on the right of the altar in memory and honor of our parents. Mary Hervey bought the window on the left in memory of the Herveys. In Florida we have a very friendly Christian Church in the park and Bible study weekly, but I miss the folks at Sunbury. When the weather cools in Ohio, it likewise seems to cool off in Florida. One Christmas Eve, we had snow flakes and a low of 33 degrees. Some people who live year round in Florida tell me they now miss the season changes in Ohio. Dad used to say they went to Florida for the winter and they generally found it. I was blessed with great parents and 4 wonderful brothers and a sister. Brother John was a statistician with the Ohio Welfare Department and was http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/68113fd568761ed9cd97f111a0c42126.jpg 8981c6ea385493b0e7c9c01e3c31aa79 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.78) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 76 in It Started with These Two] instrumental in getting the I.G.A. Store started in Sunbury and later in Johnstown. They live in Scottsdale, Arizona in the winter. Brother George managed the I. G. A. Store and at his death had 15 horses that ran at Scioto Downs and the County Fairs. Brother Robert was a Medical Doctor for many years before moving from a farm in Athens County growing evergreen trees, later into Athens and recently into an apartment at Friendship Village in Dublin. Brother Rodney worked for the department of taxation for the State of Ohio and was very active in the Walnut Hills Masonic Lodge, Past Master and their Secretary for over 30 years preparing and mailing out over 800 newsletters a month with the help of his wife, Ruth. Sister Verona obtained a Real Estate License in March 1956 and worked in Johnstown for Brian Scofield before moving to Florida after her son Robert was killed on October the 19th, 1959. She cared for Dad as his favorite nurse after he had his stroke in October of 1971. She took Mother to spend the winters in Florida with her. We had exceptionally good neighbors, as we do now, when we lived on Harrison Street - the Andersons, Clara Smith, Margarite Williamson, Ida Gammel, Ilo Owens, Lockie Norman, but especially Hattie and Theodore Sparks. We lived side by side for 17 years and we never had cross words. Our children respected each others property and didn't make paths through like they did in later years. Luretta Day lived just across on High Street. Many times I'd pick her up to sub in either Sunbury or Galena schools. Hattie was one of my officers in 1965 and again in 1991. Four women you could count on were Dorothy Owen, Mary Hervey, Mary Cring and Hattie Sparks. They were great friends. On the 4th of July, 1995, Theodore was 75, and Harold presented him with a Kentucky Colonel's badge and certificate. These are given for worthwhile family lives and are a great honor since not too many are handed out by the Governor of Kentucky. Theodore and Hattie move to Florida to be with their daughter Vonda. The two deer standing in our yard were at one time at 412 Perfect Drive. Theodore, Hattie and Vonda came up from Venice on March 2, 1995, to our Sunbury Day in Bradenton at the Olive Garden. Church ties are strong and so are lodge and chapter ties. We were saddened when Theodore died this summer, and we made a donation to the First Baptist Church building fund in his memory. I am looking forward to the installation of officers for Eastern Star on November 30. Also on the 4th of December the Ruth Circle trip to Der Dutchman up on 71 and the December 7th Christmas on the Square. I also have a luncheon for about 22 - 24 friends just before we leave for Florida. They seem to like taco's that they fix themselves and cookies and ice cream for dessert. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/95e0b0e892263a915d0af9ebecee9879.jpg ab71bd7fdbba8bf7e292ddb9e82ba4c5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.79) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 77 in It Started with These Two] We used to have monthly birthday parties for the Saturday morning Sunbury friends; but with some moving and others dying, we just don' seem to have the heart to celebrate any more. Tom Tibbits and his mother Bessie came to the funeral in Cincinnati of his son and her grandson. It was held around the corner from my apartment at the Faucett Whiting Funeral Home. The Faucetts had the home, too, on East William Street across from the Rutherford B. Hayes, small marker. Our grandmother Christina Schaub Main was buried from the Faucett Funeral Home. She is buried with her parents and sister at Oak Grave Cemetery in Delaware in April, 1933. Tommy was buried on a lot belonging to my parents on January 31, 1947. Family friends from Delaware asked to have the casket opened, and I remember seeing snow flakes falling in on his tiny body. As I mentioned before this was a Saturday, and we were in church on Sunday. Strong Christian parents, relatives, and friends helped me survive and also a good position to return to and night classes at the University of Cincinnati helped me to keep my sanity. I finished reading "Who Moved the Stone" by Frank Morrison, an English journalist who was at first skeptical about Jesus as the Messiah and His resurrection. At the end he presents some very convincing arguments as to its authenticity and truthfulness. It reminds me each time as I drive in our driveway with the large stone. The stone is so large that many years ago brother George and Harold used 2 tractors and lifts to bring it out of the hole and were unsuccessful, but it took Roy Facemeyers with his heavy equipment to lift it out of the hole and bring it up to the drive. Harold tells me that was my birthday present last year. Bill Fisher used to tease us about the other big stone, from a replaced bridge, on the other side of the driveway. Did you ever try to peel a pumpkin? Harold in his subtle way said he thought the largest pumpkin would make a good pie. Well, I cut my thumb twice, and I tried so hard to cut away, cutting it up in small chunks. It still took 4 hours to become soft. It looked so pale, but I assured Harold with some brown sugar, eggs and spices it would look like his mother's pumpkin pies - almost. Genevieve Beaver gave me a recipe using pumpkin, yellow cake mix, milk, eggs, sugar, spices, butter and nuts which helped to use up the extra pumpkin mix, and I believe I prefer it to the regular pumpkin pie. You don't have the worry of a bad crust or it getting too brown. Mother and Dad started going to Florida and bought a mobile home in the Bradenton Trailer Park in the early 60's. they followed Verona and her family there. On October 19, 1959, their oldest child Robert, 16 years old, was killed out on Hartford Road not too far from their home on 605. They left Ohio in the summer of 1960 and bought a home in Bradenton. The Howard Warners lived in Bradenton, too, also other Ohio and 605 friends. In our Trailer Estates you'll find the Bells, Mains, Ghents, Heils, Laytons, Mosleys, Evans, Hatfields and some renters from the Sunbury area. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/cc3b6cb2e22a01ac8e04dd6c912d33ff.jpg b1491ec14dd29240f3e75eb1b27486ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.80) Subject The topic of the resource Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 78 in It Started with These Two] In the early part of the '90's Harold and I were active in the Lions Club, our church, Scottish Rite, Delaware Shrine Club, Masons and the Stars, and the Kingston Grange. During the same time I was appointed the District 11 Heart Representative to tell those members in the 15 Chapters in the 4 counties of Logan, Union, Marion, and Delaware about Heart Research and to earn money to support these projects. The Big Walnut Area Church Women united with 7 local churches joining together to promote Christian Fellowship and help local organizations like People in Need and Friends Who Share. We meet 3 times a year on the first Friday in March, May and November. After my stroke in December of 1955, Barbara Hartman is now the president. In November of 1993 the Delaware Pomona Grange chartered a bus for the [top left photo: Harold and Rosella in Hong Kong, China, with the the Lions Club - 1969] [top right photo: Dutch Strosnider, Harold and Rosella Ault with the Lions Club in Mexico City, July 1985] [bottom photo: Lions Club at Atlantic City Kenny Crowl, George Main, Lorraine Crowl, Etta Main, Rosella Ault, Harold Ault] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/309900eaa4223c95491b6b86fa056fa2.jpg 96c2533e1e5a1d642fda20735fabb91a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.81) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 79 in It Started with These Two] 127th National Grange Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and I received the 6th and 7th Grange Degrees. It was in September of 1995, which was the 50th anniversary of the Little Brown Jug when I planned and designed the Delaware County Pomona Grange Booth. Our Kingdom Grange with the Assistance of the Ashley Grange were responsible for its being in place. Harlan Hall was the judge and gave us a perfect score. In December of 1995 Kingston Grange disbanded. Such good Grange members as Frank Daily, Cliff Boyd, Orville Tuller, Joseph Bartok, mother and Dad had died and the grange members were no longer able to get out to the meetings. For my 75th birthday in November of 1995, Carl and my sister, Verona, had a very nice surprise party for me with family, neighbors and card playing friends. There was cake, ice cream and gifts. On Harold's birthday, my birthday and on our anniversary we eat steak at the Branding Iron on Stratford Road in Delaware. We really don't eat out much as I like to cook especially for the family and friends. Our Mary was always saying things to get me into hot water. One morning in going up the old post office steps (where Ed Savor has his antique store) she asked a maiden school teacher "Lady, do you smoke cigarettes?" And the lady said, "No, I don't and why do ask?" At another time in June of 1965 2 Eastern Star women met us at the Masonic Temple to see how to serve refreshments and to make the coffee and when we got home that afternoon, I didn't know that Mary was listening and I told Harold that I didn't think they even knew how to boil water. The next Sunday at church she asked if these 2 women were the ones who didn't know how to boil water. One day when I went out to list some real estate properties we stopped at Burton Richardson's and she asked him "Man, why don't you shave?" He wasn't offended by her question and later I helped him study for an Ohio Real Estate License and he and my broker opened up an office in Centerburg, called the Heart of Ohio. Burton died from a heart attack out in his barn yard. Harold, Mary and I went to Morelands Funeral Home in Centerburg for his calling hours. Carl, after his fall from his foot bridge and his 10 day hospital stay, has had to go back to Grady for pneumonia and then to Arbors for rehab. He is such a good man and nice neighbor. Getting our garden in late, the pumpkins came on and there were blossoms on them still when we had the first frost. They tell me if one seeds the pumpkin, an easy way to cook them is to bake them in the oven, scoop out the pulp and run it through a sieve. We will see. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ea2d0a8c25e3076f8bc36749b90dffd3.jpg 354a49403bed0d51273e3f96be7e200d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.82) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 80 in It Started with These Two] Sunday evening, the 2 quarts started working, and I emptied it out in a sauce pan. It smelled terrible, and I eventually dumped it in the trash bag. So much effort for nothing to show for it. Yesterday, I tried again. This time cooking it on the stove, cut in small pieces and peeled it, and now its being frozen in the top of the refrigerator. Yesterday morning, too, after getting up early, I finished my 3rd painting. It is of the Old Blue Church, I had Will Cleveland's painting to go by. I've taken the easel and paints and packed them for Florida. On our kitchen table is a list of things to go to Bradenton. Since the family is in Florida, our car is always packed full with gifts, etc. I'm reading a book by Lenard LeSourd, Catherine Marshall's second husband, titled "A Cloud Walk". We especially liked the T.V. show based on her book "Christy". "A closer Walk is so inspirational and up lifting. she died March 18, 1987. [top right photo: Spring of 1997] [middle left photo: Blue Church - Spring 1997] [bottom photo: Pictures Spring 1996] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c19be5853c1d63253a2b13cd0d4d6cca.jpg 74f7f08fb2a03c3be6bbf643fceb4ac1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.83) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 81 in It Started with These Two] Today is the day the retired Whittier school teachers have lunch at the Ponderrosa in Westerville. Many of them have either died or become too disabled to attend, but it's always nice to see those who can. I think I've mentioned ealier about taking 3 Westerville friends to Florida and then coming home through Plains, Georgia, and listening to former President Jimmy Carter teach Sunday School. Maybe I should explain more about my marriage to Tom Tibbitts. His father was George Tibbitts, a secretary to the President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and a painter with pictures in the New York Art Gallery. We have 2 hanging on our walls. Tom's mother was Bessie Palmer Tibbitts and had an executive position with Kodak in Rochester. As a little country girl, I was probably intimidated by their social standing in the community. We named our son Thomas Palmer Tibbitts II. Tom was an only child sent to Cincinnati University to get an education where we met. [top photo: Pictures 1996 in Trailer in Florida] [bottom photo; Bernice Morgan, Rosilyn Carter, president Jimmy Carter, Gladys Collins Plains, Georgia, March 15th, 1992] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/bacc429b1821d1aea4481c3b3615b73d.jpg 475fed25c0ba37ad21894350ed419f64 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.84) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 82 in It Started with These Two] In the early 80's I took a driver's test to secure a CDL, commercial driver's license, to drive a bus for Hickory Knoll and later for Head Start. It was also necessary to pass a Red Cross course on CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver. In the early 60's I had also taken the course, and we had no thought of AIDS when we did the mouth to mouth resuscitation. Now precautions are taken. Laura Jean, Leo and Jerry Young's mother was in the class at Berkshire Township house. These health saving techniques remind me of the little boy named Ora Elliott that had a seizure in my second grade class at Bainbridge. After talking with the mother, she said she guessed she should have warned me but was afraid I wouldn't love him like the other children if I knew. Maybe now college courses deal with such things but not then. Last evening Margaret Garee and I attended a meeting in Shelby, Ohio, on closing Camp Wesley and Camp Zimmerman. Somebody used his power to do so. Now only because someone made a motion at the '96 Annual Conference to delay it and such meetings are to be held with 20 present plus the committee. This seemed a bit like locking the barn door after the horse runs away. Coming home about 10 P. M. from Delaware in my van, after driving a bus, as I leaned over to change radio stations, I must have gone onto the berm. A highway patrol stopped me and asked if I had been drinking. That was on the west side of Alum Creek. This same night I hit and killed a deer 36/37 at the Bent Tree Country Club. It shattered the front end of the van, but thank heaven for Nationwide and Glenn Evans Insurance. I have so many wonderful memories. My family were so loving and so full of support. As I may have said before when I would question Dad how he never gave up on me, he would just say we love and serve those we love. My parents were real parents. My 4 brothers, John, George, Robert and Rodney and my sister Verona, might have thought I had made a mess of my life but they never told me so. It is funny how many things that happened long ago keep returning. Each time I come across 521 and the I-71 bridge I remember how worried I was when Mary and Rita Young still hadn't gotten back to the barn on Centerburg Road. On a Sunday afternoon they had ridden our 2 horses over to Edwards, (just this side of Kilbourne) for a Horse Show. It began to get dark so we got into the truck and found the two girls on the west side of the bridge because the light of the freeway scared the horses and they refused to cross the freeway until we put burlap bags over their eyes and we led them across. The story of the woman having her horse killed near Kilbourne brought it all back again and what might have happened. When I went to pick up Mary at the Old Chillicothe Hospital and how she grabbed hold of my little finger and held on. She was just 2 days old. I remember Brother Rodney when he was in the second grade and I was in kindergarten at the old West School and he was riding me on his bike down the William Street hill and Dad and brother John saw us. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/23d9015bf58819cfc0ddd796c2121eaa.jpg 4de0c849c2497162851d7ae68d008b8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.85) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 83 in It Started with These Two] Playing in the band at Governor Davis' inauguration. It was very cold January day. I remember our Sunday afternoons with family and friends. Especially the Sunday when they took pictures of 13 on the Ford. I remember the day in 1987 that Ned Foreman and Harold stood on a little mound of dirt where our house now stands. Virgil and Nellie Hickson gave us a plaque that says "Sweet Country Home" and the night the Grange and Rev. Klempnaurer came for a dinner and the minister blessed our house. Since our marriage in 1959, Harold's dad had died, Bobby Miller, Melody and Dennis twin baby girl, Stephania, Mother and Dad, Mary and Bud Hervey, Dan and Betty Mackley, Harold's mother, Ruth, Brother Rodney, Brother George, Gladys Miller, Bea Tharp, Lockie Norman, Lillie Kempton, Emogene Bell and Etta Main, also Cecil Norman, and life goes on but we do miss their presence. Our minister, Rev. Gene Taylor and his wife, Shirley, retired to their home at Dresden, Ohio, at the East Ohio Conference held at lakeside in June of 1997, after 5 years here. Rev. Suzanne and David Hill are the new ministers. We wish for them and their family only good things in the future. In 1960 Mary and I started sending $15.00 a month to the Christian Childrens Fund for a little Indian Girl in New Mexico named "Pretty Paint". She sent us interesting letters about her home life and her school work. In 1968, when Helen Allen, Harold's mother Ruth, Harold and I went west we stopped and visited with the family. The father was tending sheep, the mother spinning wool, Pretty Paint was to watch her little brother. Her hair was dark and braided and her dress red and purple velvet and she was wearing blue tennis shoes. Harold took a picture of Helen Allen and me holding the baby with Pretty Paint. We sent money west she graduated from High School and got married. I am looking for that picture. Brother Rodney's granddaughter, Kristy Main, the daughter of Mark and Linda Main, recently sent me a picture of Rodney and me taken with a Mrs. Carpenter, on our back porch steps at the house on Horseshoe Road. Mrs. Carpenter came to our home and took care of mother as a live-in. My brother John should be given lots of credit for helping us and encouraging us to get a good education, along with mother and Dad. Every day I thank God for my family and loved ones. When we were at Dennis and Melodys, Harold took a picture of the four generations of women for me to send back to the church for the Mothers Day dinner. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f46a7ed5c5a5b09ce0b8a18cb4fbbdf4.jpg 8d1d307b61e9edfcaaedcd8077fccfef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.86) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 84 in It Started with These Two] When we are in Florida we like to have Brittny spend the week-ends with us and go to church at the park on Sunday morning. We generally meet Dennis and Melody and the twins for lunch. Brittny told her mother that "only old people go to church." That is especially true in our park where one has to be 55 or older to live there. Two Turtle Doves tried to build a nest between the 2 outside lights. They tell me that Turtle Doves mate for life and that is a happy thought. We went with Brittny, Melody and Mary to an open installation of the Bradenton Eastern Stars. It is a bit different than ours in Ohio but sill reverent and beautiful. I like to take pictures of Harold mowing our lawn on New Years Day and send them north. We have lots of trimming to do, windows to wash when we are in a mobile home. Harold likes to go to the recreation hall for bingo on Wednesday and Sunday evenings and I like ceramics, crafts and Bible study and the teacher get- togethers. The life style in Florida is so different. Our park is caring and look out for one another and laid hack. In the north there are so many meetings to attend yard work to be done and trips into town. We do lots walking and the shops and grocery stores are near by in Bradenton. We did have a lot of excitement when a man by the name of Larry Creech was holding the sheriffs at bay for 4 hours saying he had dynamite strapped to his body and was going to blow himself up. We made NBC, CBS, and ABC evening news. The swat team took him to a mental hospital. I finished my painting of the Chambers Road bridge. I'm not going to enter it in the Art show at the park on Sunday, the 9th. Our Mary told me she was proud of my art work but that I probably never would be famous like Grand Ma Moses. Ruth and Frank Fisher went with us to Ruskin to visit Arlie and Virginia Hammons. I had hope to stop at the Coffee Cup Restaurant where Mother and Dad and Verona liked to eat in the 70's but they convinced me that it had deteriorated and wasn't clean like it was earlier and so the best I got was a picture out the window as Harold drove by. I do have pictures of the Fishers picking lemons and oranges for us to take home. We kept hearing that Etta was having problems with her health and we kept calling and sending her get well cards. We enjoyed Christmas, New Years, and twins 4th birthday party with the family before we started home on the 25th of March, as we wanted to be home for Easter. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/a90f33a06cfca52a470968c99b35fdfd.jpg 2480ae56adbf6b0ef28edf93d9456d83 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.87) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 85 in It Started with These Two] Brother George's widow, Etta, died on the 15th of June. The Eastern Star Service and her funeral were difficult times. I would like to include the poem that I read at her funeral. I believe it is the wish of most Christians when they die. And the poem RELEASE ME, MISS ME, ME BUT LET ME GO When I come to the end of this life of pain And the sun has finally been set for me, I want no service in a gloom filled room Why weep and cry for my soul has been set free. Miss me a little bit but for not too long And not with your head bowed low. Remember the love and the good times we shared Miss me for just a little while, but let me go. For this is a journey we all must take And each must go all the way alone. It's all a part of the Master's plan A step on a journey and the long road home. When you stand by my grave for a last good-bye Release me, Miss me but let me go Weep if you must but I will know Life is for each one of us is for just a short while A friendship like ours should end with smile. When you are lonely and sick at heart Go to those we all used to know, Miss me but let me go. And bury your sorrows for me in doing good deeds Miss me for a little while but let me go. The author is unknown I found this list of resolutions that is good for any year. 1. Thou shall be happy 2. Thou shall use thy talents to make others glad. 3. Thou shall rise above defeat and trouble. 4. Thou shall look upon each day as a new day. 5. Thou shall always do thy best and leave the rest to God. 6. Thou shall not waste thy time and energy in useless worry. 7. Thou shall look only on the bright side of life. 8. Thou shall not be afraid of tomorrow. 9. Thou shall have a kind word and a kind deed for everyone, 10. Thou shall say every morning, I am a child of God and nothing can hurt me. As I mentioned earlier that 45 years ago I had attended West Ohio Conference with Rev. Rolfe Pool, pastor of our Cline Chapel Methodist Church where Mary was baptized on Mothers Day in 1952. There wasn't a dry eye in the church. Off and on during the years since joining the Sunbury Methodist Church I http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/7850c9c0dc522dc054ed01411bde3451.jpg 836187125c60d7c9718b35b5dd26f497 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.88) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 86 in It Started with These Two] have been elected the Lay Delegate to the East Ohio Conference. Margaret Garee, a good friend, also a past lay delegate to the Conference has attended with me the past several years and hopes to do so again at Lakeside in June of 1998. This year was an especially sad one as Etta Main died on the first day, June 15th. I returned home for the Eastern Star service on Tuesday and for her funeral on Wednesday morning, June 18th, 1997. We met the new Bishop Jonathan Keaton and his family on the elevator at the Fountain Inn Hotel, and were privileged to say goodbye as we left on Friday noon. He wished us well and asked us to continue to serve the United Methodist Church. At the conference we got to see Rev. Donald Newland, say good-bye to Dr. Gene and Shirley Taylor, meet and welcome the new pastors, the Rev. Suzanne and David Hill. We also got to see a former Galena minister, Rev. Kenneth Bibbee and his wife, Marie, who will be moving back from Mississippi to the Retirement Center at Copeland Oaks in September. We visited with the Rev. Francis and Ileen Norris also a minister at Galena. On the 12th of June 1997, 16 members of the Ruth Circle of the Sunbury Church traveled to Dresden to eat at Popeyes, have our picture taken in front of the World's Largest Longeberger Basket and spend the afternoon at Taylors beautiful secluded home. As I was looking through my papers I found another poem that I wrote on July the 16th, 1984. It is titled "I Found God Today' I've shut and closed the door on yesterday, And I've even thrown away the keys. For tomorrow and what it may bring It has no fears or doubts for me. I found God today How can I have such perfect peace, you ask For now I trust my God to guide me And let His blessings on me rest For I know that God alone knows best. I found God today. Harold sold our 1929 antique Ford. We have had it for about 25 years. He said it needed a lot of work to make it authentic. On August the 15th, 1997, Brittny got her new motorized wheelchair. It weighs 147 pounds. On the 16th bought her family a 92 Chevy van with a wheel chair lift. It is so customized that Brittny can get in and out of it by herself by just punching buttons. By the time she won't need it any longer, I probably will. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/da0b947e9cec45f7f1e7aadba661da9f.jpg c5a4dcf164392e5c26188199ee1033c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.89) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 87 in It Started with These Two] On the first of April I went out to the Humane Society on 36-37 west of the freeway and got a little 4 month old Dalmatian-Beagle mix puppy. Brittny and the twins wanted me to call her "Precious Little Girl", after a puppy in the movie 101 Dalmatians, She is now 8 months old and really growing. She is to have the back seat when we go to Florida this December. Precious seems to me to be a little much for an animal but for the great-grandchildren I do. In August the Worthy Matron of E astern Star is planning a night out and only the car divers will know where we will be eating and spending the evening. She has made 1997 a special year for the members. As we sit at our kitchen table we can see 2 and 3 Humming Birds dive bombing each other to get to the feeder. It takes a refill every 2 days. As I have mentioned that I think that families are pretty wonderful. Growing up in the Main family was a pleasant experience. I never recall that Mother and Dad had any disagreements in front of the children. They taught us to work hard, be productive for as Mother would say, "Idle hands are the work of the devil". They instilled in us the principles of doing for others for as Dad would say "You are to serve others and not to expect a reward" and to be a participating part of the organizations you belong to and to the church and to your community where you live. Maybe because of living the golden rule they both said they never had a headache or an ache or a pain, and lived to be 90 and 103. There isn't room to tell of all the good qualities of Mom and Dad or my 4 brothers and 1 sister. I may be repeating myself, but Mother and Dad had 7 children in the following order: John, born January the 10th, married to Velma Dennis and they had 4 children. They are Marsha, Debbie, Penny and John Jr. George was born on January the 6th, 1913, married to Etta Maxwell and they had no biological children but treated all 40 of their nieces and nephews as their own. Robert was born on April the 9th, 1915 married Bergandine Sprague and they had 5 children. They are Robbie, Thomas, Linda, William and Theresa. [photo top left: "Precious Little Girl" September 1997] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/2490f7a1bd5b64d17a5dfcc6570bdcf9.jpg bc69df1eab08c07306ca004c3fe23b6a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.90) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 88 in It Started with These Two] Rodney was born on February the 22nd, 1917 married to Ruth Shertzer. They had 2 sons David and Mark. In February of 1919 James was stillborn. I was born on November the 2nd, 1920 and when I was married to Tom Tibbitts had a son born with a congenital club foot who died on January the 29th, 1947 from a fall from his crib. I still remember Dad comforting me by saying all little children should be able to run and jump in Heaven so he could. We have a daughter Mary who lived in Palmetto, Florida. Sister Verona was born on February the 18th, 1923. She had 4 children. Bobbie Miller, who was killed in an auto accident on October the 19th, 1959. Two daughters are Patty and Nancy and a son Richard. Patty had a son Jason also killed in an auto accident. A husband's family also has a big influence on your life. Ruth and Stanley Ault had 6 children. My husband Harold is the oldest of the 6. We have one daughter Mary who gave her Dad a walnut plaque with an antique car on it and a writing that says "you are everything that a Dad should be". Isn't that a nice statement? Next in the family is Melvin, married to Gladys Benson and they have 4 children, Marilyn, Janice, Linda and David. A sister June, married to Jake Ward. She has 3 children, Roy, Richard and Renee. Next is Pearl with no husband or children. She is a "great aunt' to her nieces and nephews. A sister Patricia is married to Dick Quinn and they have no children. A brother Lloyd married Veronica Speck and they have 3 children. They are Jeffrey, Jennifer and Jason. During the summer vacations we would have nieces and nephews come for visits (as long as 10 days) to give Mary a feeling of siblings and to give their parents some free time. They were so well behaved and it was a joy to have them. We always have 2 tables set and card tables handy so we have lots of family and friend get togethers. I like to cook and make table favors. Extra food is quick and easy to prepare. In 1991 we had an Ault family reunion with 36 present. They filled every corner of our little house but with all of my knick-knacks on open shelves there were no accidents of mishaps. I think the parents must have reminded the children that http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b322c4553fc7aa2d9af221b71842bcc9.jpg c450e77cd7cd6bc795f361e9c1db6c0e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.91) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 89 in It Started with These Two] Aunt Rosella was a school teacher. In a perfect world all children would be brought up in a loving family relationship, free of mental or physical abuse, enough of the material things to be healthy,encouragement to learn and be instilled with good ethical and moral principles in a safe environment and as added bonus pets to care for, a creek to wade in and a horse to ride. I truly hope that Mary and Melody and their families believe that is what Harold and I have tried to provide for them. It is a sad commentary that many children in our society today lack much in the way of Christian training, lack proper food, shelter, encouragement to learn and a safe community to live in. In the fall of 1985 a nice Jewish lady by the name of Helen Cohen, who lives in East Columbus near the Eastland Mall asked if I would drive her to West Palm Beach. This neighborhood was changing so she was afraid to venture out especially at night. this is the same area where Nancy Lindsey was mugged by two African American young men who had followed her home from the Big Bear Grocery where she had bought groceries and had a check cashed to bring up to her daughter Lee Ellen whose 17 day-old baby girl had died. Doctors thought the baby had been licked by their dog. Before Nancy could come to Centerburg she had to have an ear stitched on that had been cut off when she had fallen on a concrete planter. That was a very sad funeral. To continue with the trip south with Helen Cohen. She was moving there permanently. We had to wait until the moving van was loaded so she could turn in the key to the landlord. It was a t least 5 p.m. so we only drove to Lexington, Ky.. and stopped at the Holiday Inn. She was to pay all of my expenses, give me $100.00 and provide a plane ticket back to Columbus from Tampa. It worked out just fine. We spent three night on the road going down I-75 and then across Alligator Alley in Florida. the second and third nights we stayed in Ramada Inns. They were cheaper and had Denny Restaurants attached. Helen said the pork products I ordered looked so good and she liked my attitude and the prayers before traveling and the before meals prayers. She asked if I would teach her to pray as she had always been so occupied and concentrated on acquiring material things. Tom and Mary came to West Palm Beach to pick me up to catch the plane. back to Columbus. It was a nice experience. Our Christmas party for the neighbor friends started back on Harrison Street in 1960's. All of those guests are now dead. They were Imo Owen, Ida Gammill, Marguerite Williamson, Vera Paul, Lillie Kempton, Mary Hervey, Janet Lake, Wilma Ward, Mother and Dad and others. http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/864562ce4bb9b928791e8ae381091d61.jpg 5a56e5c21902e4638a0fe59f40374bd4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.92) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 90 in It Started with These Two] [top left photo: Dad and Mother in Cincinnati -1938] [top right: article from Faith Magazine] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/c8e3a64abf7a9a44c650e78615c13556.jpg 2367ce316c5e7b667f26d216604da3f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.93) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 91 in It Started with These Two] [left image: September - Fellowship's Daily Prayers] [right image: September - My Daily Bible Verses] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/52de0e91f20135540ede8a5e3d9432b7.jpg 19c6b56818a3f40ff0875c526c16c149 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.94) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 92 in It Started with These Two] At the 2:30 meeting at The Sunbury Community Library with the Director Polly Horn and the book by Bob Greene for suggestions, "Our Childrens, Children Children". I hope to get my book finished with many pictures form the time I was 2 or 3 years old until the present time. Brother John and brother Dr. Robert are taping their lives. They being a little older their lives are centered more about horses, the one room school on Horse Road and Momma and Poppa Bishop. Verona is still giving it some thought. Brother George and brother, Rodney's deaths were so sudden that there was no time to think about writing up their memories. There were 6 of us and now there are 4 of us. Since Robert and Bernie moved to Friendship Village in Dublin and John and Velma in Pickerington and Carl and Verona just around the corner on Fredericks Road we get to talk and see each other often. There are so many things that I keep recalling but this book has to come to an end and so it does in September of 1997. [photo top right: 1929 Ford Bought in 1975] [photo bottom: Verona, John, Robert, and Rosella] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/1f63a6e834d82c76f44c17c09ac96225.jpg c8bb489b2e9064141871db0b962216b4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.95) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 93 in It Started with These Two] Things Which Have Occupied Harold's Time Since Retirement [top left photo: Memorial Day 1997 Verona and Rosella At Mother and Dad's Grave] middle right photo: Harold Mowing our Florida Lawn January 1, 1992] [bottom photo : Our Florida Home at 1604 Illinois Trailer Estates, Bradenton, Florida] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/199f96a9ce587aa68d0db8be194bd8d6.jpg 029fce84411c577bea93e721cb7f7f34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.96) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 94 in It Started with These Two] [left photo: Harold Constructed This Clock from Scratch - 1985] [top right photo: Harold - 1997] [bottom right photo: Carl and Harold on John Deere 'Old Oliver'] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/dc5e2f0e3aaa3194ae0ad4bcba6caa36.jpg 0ef47bb2d9be920e72d0931248903118 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.97) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 95 in It Started with These Two] [top left photo: Harold at Grady Following Heart Attack May 20th, 1993] [top right photo: Harold and Rosella Ault] [middle photo : Harold with 2000 Piece Puzzle after Heart Attack May 1993] [bottom photo : 25th Wedding Anniversary - March 22nd, 1984] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/22c1a669b3626a39f9b87f7f086e6afe.jpg 9b1bd8857f69c99e0841d77592947c63 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.98) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 96 in It Started with These Two] Things That Have Occupied My Time Since Retiring as a Teacher [top right photo: Celebrating My Getting My Commercial Driver's License - 1980] [middle left photo: Rosella in Trailer Estates Pool - 1995] [middle right photo: Heart Start Bus and V.W. Bug] [bottom left photo: Security Key Chain House, P.O., and Car Keys] [bottom right photo: Large Bible Written in 1986 and 1987 66 Books of My thoughts as a Layman] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/aa37917a46baccbae5dec7760ae595a4.jpg 5c39e56511bfff434c9ed1aea710c51b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.99) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 97 in It Started with These Two] [top photo: Church Woman United Freda Buell. Rosella Ault, Betty Townley, Eva Jane Williams] [middle left photo: Downstairs Bookcase] [upper middle right photo: Organ 1988 to Present] [lower middle right photo: Giant Squash Summer 1997] [bottom left photo: Downstairs Library] [bottom right photo: Rosella in front of Spook HIll sign] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/50caa1925bb5d6c1b18d24ea359c25ad.jpg 82c8443379d840e1f1efeb57fcbe1ebd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.100) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 98 in It Started with These Two] [top left photo: Laura Reeder, Rosella, Verona Bell, Mary Hervey in Florida] [top right photo: Jean Wickham - Friend] [middle left photo: Evelyn Roof, Imogene Bell, Mary Cring and Nancy Lindsey Uhl at Lancaster Holiday Inn] [middle right photo: Mary Hervey in 1975 - Good Friends] [bottom left photo: Verna Bergandine's Birthday Luncheon November 14th, 1995] [bottom right photo: Gladys Miller, Verna Bergandine, Etta Main, and Margaret Morris Luncheon at the Buxton Inn] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/64ed38dde6b759c5613621cd9f8b08e1.jpg 8a0ee2e88bd648f0bb22b3a32d40b5eb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.101) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 99 in It Started with These Two] [top photo: Sunbury Card Paying Friends in Florida] [middle upper left photo: Virgil and Nellie - Tom's Parents Christmas 1994] [middle right photo: Donna Evans, Harley Wilson and Glenn Evans in Florida Winter of 1996] [middle lower left photo: Nellie and Virgil Hickson] [bottom left photo : Good Friends Ruth and Frank Fisher - Summer 1997] [bottom right photo: Good Friends - Margaret and Jay Hyatts] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b1701e63d9981f1d7377ae8884b13956.jpg 4bfcfa95500c8f077fdc96424c12f5c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.102) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 97 in It Started with These Two] [top photo: Nellie and Virgil (Tom's Parents) and Harold] [left middle photo: no caption] [right middle photo: Louise Whipley, Linda Conant, Laura Barndt, Rosella Ault] [bottom photo: Rosella Ault, Etta Main, Lockie Norman, Bea Thorpe At Restaurant in Mt. Vernon] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/ff3e6e09a39895568853256428087e67.jpg 6f5f6c93de6683315a237892d1115fad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.103) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 101 in It Started with These Two] [top photo: Ruth Circle at Dresden, Ohio June 12th, 1997] [middle photo: no caption] [bottom photo: Saturday Morning Breakfast Woman Etta Main (deceased), Ginny Beaver, Gladys Miller (deceased), Frances Loar Maxine Longshore, Verna Bergandine, and Mary Kay Cochran] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/f452ebd77e7ee6f8eb8f084728ca6c24.jpg c22564143400a7e267b7d05ff7e9062e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.104) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 102 in It Started with These Two] Our Florida Family Mary and Tom [top left photo: Mary at Age 3] [top middle photo: Mary at Age 5] [top right photo: Mary - April 28th, 1992] [middle photo: Mary, Tom, Melody Hickson Hughes 1970] [bottom photo: Christmas 1995 Florida Tom, Nellie, Mary, and Virgil Hickson] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b83cf45f4e299f3822313fa97f797745.jpg e7336aeb977365df1b2bc7623d393924 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two (p.106) Description An account of the resource [corresponds to page 104 in It Started with These Two] [top left photo: Mary, Brittny, Melody, Rosella March 1977] [top right photo: 1966 Sweaters for Great-Grandchildren and Matthew Miller] [bottom left photo: Loving parents Melody, Dennis and Brittny Hughes (2 years Old)] [bottom right photo: Great-Grandchildren - March 1997] http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/87c2fe81ed02150055e5de5d5350d19c.jpg 5570881520140181cd834c24f4f2b712 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Family Histories Description An account of the resource This collection contains family histories that have been written by residents of the Big Walnut area. Items in this collection generally contain genealogical information about the families, personal anecdotes, and images of family members. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It Started With These Two Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Author Rosella Main Tibbits Buchanan Ault Subject The topic of the resource Ault family--Genealogy Main family--Genealogy Ohio--Delaware County--Sunbury--History Rosella Ault--Personal narratives (1920-2020) Description An account of the resource This book is an autobiography prepared by Rosella Ault, longtime Sunbury resident. In it she discusses her parents, siblings, children and grand-children, the importance of education, her teaching career, and her faith in God. 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Title A name given to the resource BROWN HIGH SCHOOL 1930 Description An account of the resource CLASS OF 1930 FIRST ROW LEFT TO RIGHT FAITH RADEBAUGH -FAC. MALISSA RAISON FAC G.N. THURSTON SUPT. D.R. SMITH PRIN. A. S. HIRTH FAC. MARY WOLFF FAC. ROW TWO LEFT TO RIGHT ROSELLA BILLINGSLY ERSEL LAHMON FAC. EDNA COLLICOTT FAC BERNARD GEPHART ROW THREE LEFT TO RIGHT JEANNETTE HUMES PHILIP FATE SEESE. PRES. AGNES NELSON VICE PRES. DARLENE SNEDEKER. SECY. CARL LAWRENCE ANDERSON TREAS. MARY E. HUGHS FOURTH ROW LEFT TO RIGHT ALICE MATHEWS LESTER PENDLETON DONALD PLUNKETT HELEN SHEETS MARCIA SHEETS FIFTH ROW LEFT TO RIGHT DORRANCE ZIMMERMAN EDNA BELLE VINING JOHN E WARD WINIFRED WALLACE PAULINE WILLIAMS PERES ZIEGLER SIXTH ROW MARY ETTA ZIEGLER Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Class Pictures Description An account of the resource At this time, this collection contains Delaware County, OH, senior class pictures from Bellpoint, Brown, Galena, Harlem, Orange, Ostrander, Powell, Radnor, Scioto Valley and Sunbury high schools. Dates range from 1919-1958, although not every senior class year is represented. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BROWN HIGH SCHOOL 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Brown Township--Delaware County--Local history Ohio--Delaware County--Brown Township Photographs--Brown Township High School--1930 Public schools--Brown Township--Ohio--1930 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baker Art Gallery Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0205202502 Description An account of the resource Class of Brown Township High School 1930 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/53ca225fd28e279bf38cd0e219118702.JPG c33cb437784fa4cee6118f9a705ac5b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown Township High School 1926 Description An account of the resource FIRST ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT DAVID R. SMITH-FAC JUDSON C. SIDDALL-PRINC GEORGE N. THURSTON-SUPT BERNICE O'BRIANT-FAC WINONA JONES-FAC SECOND ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT MILDRED KUNZE-PRES. HAROLD BUTTERS -VICE PRES. ESTHER WRIGHT - SEC. MARY NELSON - TREAS. THIRD ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT LUCILLE BREECE. HOMER COOK. MYRON GEPHART. CARL HEINLEN. JAMES LEONARD. MARION PENDELTON. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Class Pictures Description An account of the resource At this time, this collection contains Delaware County, OH, senior class pictures from Bellpoint, Brown, Galena, Harlem, Orange, Ostrander, Powell, Radnor, Scioto Valley and Sunbury high schools. Dates range from 1919-1958, although not every senior class year is represented. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BROWN HIGH SCHOOL 1926 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Brown Township--Delaware County--Local history Ohio--Delaware County--Brown Township Photographs--Brown Township High School--1926 Public schools--Brown Township--Ohio--1926 Description An account of the resource Brown Township High School Class of 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baker Art Gallary Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 020402025 http://delawarecountymemory.org/files/original/b85b42b3b1f79cb97390cf6493c008d6.jpg d3284571c270b2f7ec717619d30a1a68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource FIRST ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT A.O. LONG-SUP'T. LILLIE NOTTER-PRES. WRAY DILLON STANLEY SMITH SECOND ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT WILLELLA FELKNER WILMA GABRIEL MARY GLICK NINA GABRIEL CLAUDE HUTCHISSON lAWRENCE KELLAR THIRD ROW - RIGHT TO LEFT DOROTHY PHILLIPS ELIZABETH THOMAS VALETA WINSTON THOMAS WINSTON IVADEL WEAVER BAKER ART GALLERY Title A name given to the resource Ostrander High School Senior Class Picture 1925 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Class Pictures Description An account of the resource At this time, this collection contains Delaware County, OH, senior class pictures from Bellpoint, Brown, Galena, Harlem, Orange, Ostrander, Powell, Radnor, Scioto Valley and Sunbury high schools. Dates range from 1919-1958, although not every senior class year is represented. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ostrander High School Senior Class Picture 1925 Description An account of the resource This photograph of the 1925 Senior Class of Ostrander High School is in the collection of the Delaware County Genealogical Society, P.O.Box 1126 Delaware, OH 43015-8126. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1925 Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 92961092 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource Delaware County--Orange Township--Ohio Photographs--Orange High School Class of 1925--Ohio Public schools--Orange Township--Delaware County--Ohio Orange High School--Orange Township--Ohio--1925 Radnor Township--Ohio--History Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baker Art Gallery