Burton Township (part 2 of 7)

Linus, - the 2d son, married Eliza Humiston. They moved to Illinois, quite early, and started from there March 18, 1846, for Oregon, Where he is farming in the beautiful valley of the Wilamette.* The railroads have come by his door, and they call the station Brooks, after this pioneer of Marion county, in that sea-shore State. His was the first white family in the place. He has given to print many valuable recollections of his boyhood days, upon which drafts have been made for history. He was coming from Pundersons mill with bags on the old mare, and near Beard's, when a bear jumped in the track. Boy and grist both tumbled off. A man passing helped him on, and, with the grist, he pushed home in the dark. The cow pastures were extensive and wearisome to the legs of half-grown boys. He used to track their cows from Page's east, to the Cuyahoga bottoms, and sometimes two miles north along the flats, before they could be found and started for home at night. The Cuyahoga bottoms was one immense pasture along the river, and shaded by huge elms, until the dam built at the Rapids caused the water to set back, making sickness, and the growth of low brush now* seen.

1st Frame House - built in the county, in the year 1802. (Mr. Witter says he came in 1800.) The little cellar of this old house, at the south end of the square, was filled up with earth by W. J. Ford, in the summer of 1878. The

1st Store - he kept, and Elijah Hayes bought his first jack-knife of him, when a small boy. The Indians traded with him, and gave him the fanciful name, "Kia-ho-gua," meaning crooked river. He had no family, and Hickox says he moved to New Castle, Delaware. He was the 1st captain of the 1st militia company; Jedediah Beard, lieutenant; and Lyman Benton, ensign. Eli, Seth, and Joseph Hayes, were in the company.

1802. Vene Stone - came this year, and settled on lot 1, north of the road. His house stood near where his son Frank's barn now stands, in Burton. His wife was Charity, a sister of Samuel Hopson. They were married in 1804. She taught school near Hopson's creek, the summer of 1803. His 2d wife was Alice, a sister of Calvin Williams. She died in August, 1869. He was captain of the company that went to Cleveland in the war of 1812 ; was a member of the Ohio legislature one or two terms, and an associate judge. Riddle says he was a man of dignified manners, superior understanding and sterling integrity, and would have been a leading man anywhere; one of that rare old type that seems to be nearly extinct.

1802. David Barrett - built the first log house by the spring, where Elijah Hayes afterwards lived on lot 22. He married Phebe Fowler, sister of Isaac Fowler. His bravery was known. Four Indians came and frightened his wife, and he drove them out of the house with a club Daniel Hayes bought his land, and he enlisted in the war of 1812. In the fight one day, the bullets of the enemy split slivers from a stump, throwing them against his shins, bringing out the exclamation: "You shoot d - d careless!" He died in the west.

1802. Benjamin Johnson. - The lot which was a gift to Mrs. Isaac Fowler, across from the fair grounds, he purchased, and built there, in 1802. The record of his birth is found in a quaint Bible, printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1790, and is written as being July 22, 1761. The expectation of a college being located in town, enabled him to exchange his improvements, before he had paid anything on the land, for eighty acres in lot 69, where he settled, a little west of Erastus Johnson's present house, on the north side of the road.

Esther Ford, mother of Horace Ford, of Parkman, told of the labor directed to clean stumps from off the square. Her father, Benjamin Johnson, was justice of the peace. When a man got drunk, he was fined and sentenced to dig up a stump and remove it. This sentence was not often passed, for it was a great

One day, in early times, the children heard the dog bark, and three boys ran down towards the brook, south of where Orrin Dayton lives ; but ran back quicker than they went, followed by a she bear. The elder boy, Oroon, jumped a brush fence; and, hearing Billious, the younger, yell fearfully, saw him plunge into the brush just ahead of the bear, which seemed not a foot behind. The dog had cleared the fence, and the yelling alarmed the beast and she returned to her cubs. Esquire Johnson went the next day and got a gun, determined not to have his children driven out by bears again.

He was a soldier of the Revolution. His death occurred September 19th, 1825, at the age of 67; and his wife, Susanna, died March 26, 1843. They were buried below the hill. He was a mason, and the funeral was conducted with both military and masonic honors.

Down the line of descent from this soldier, we find Oroon Datas, the eldest son, born January 26, 1792. He married Betty, of the Umberfield family. She was born March 1, 1793. Their children were: Sophia, born July 10, 1816, and died September 21, 1864; Leander, born July 28, 1818, and died February 2, 1862, and Betsey, born December 29, 1819, who married Edmund Canfield, and now lives in Cleveland.

Billious K. - third son of Benjamin Johnson, born January 8, 1798, was married to Lucy Hale, June 25, 1827, and died September 14, 1866. The wife, born August 25, 1805, survived him a few years - dying April 3, 1877, aged 71. He lived long on the old home farm, "over the river," and his son, Erastus, now occupies the place he left.

Harriet - their first daughter, born March 19, 1830, married Reuben Smith, whose birfh dates August 19, 1823. The ceremony was performed by Peter Hitchcock, esq., January 1, 1855. They reside in Middlefield.

Polly - the youngest daughter of Benjamin and Susanna, born 1804, married William Bartholemew. They lived on the last lot in Burton, No. 100, and raised nine children, all of whom grew up. With patient toil she met the hardships of pioneer life for. 36 years. 39 years a member of the Methodist church, she was true in the faith to the day of her death, which occurred September 25, 1878.

1 803. Gideon Finch - was a teacher the winter of 1 803-4, in the log schoolhouse on Hopson's creek, near where Edson afterwards built his mill. Elijah Hayes was one of his pupils. He built, where Esquire Merriam resides, the

1st Stylish or Showy House - in the township, about 1806 or '07. He kept tavern in this house for a time. His wife was a Hill, and cousin of Mrs. Eli Hayes.

1803. Noah Page - was overtaken by Luther Russel on the road west this year. They were both bound for Trumbull county, Ohio, and journeyed together. Mr. Kirtland is remembered as coming at the same time. Mr. Page located on lot 27. Ephraim Clark was there prior to his coming, and it is thought he may have traded his interest to Mr. Law, and that Page bought direct from Esquire Law. Lots were often exchanged, and payments on articles for land canceled by the improvements made. In all the after life, with its perplexities and questions, with him and Russell, his near neighbor, there existed a feeling of fellowship, and the word of each to the other was a bond of honor.

Isaac Thompson once had a cabin there, but thought the timber too heavy for him to clear, and so "pulled up" and went to Middlefield, and his farm there was paid for by his hunting and trapping.

1 803. Luther Russel - and his family, arrived in J une of this year and stopped at what was known as the Emigrant house. It stood northeast of Hickox spring, and was probably the "company house," left for the new settlers to occupy until they could throw up a log house. This, Russel soon did, and located his family on lot 38, by a strong running spring.

Born at Danbury, Massachusetts, 1775, be caught the military spirit of the times, and, at the age of 22, enlisted in the regular army, being stationed seven years at West point, and was away but twice during that time. Married at 28, he yoked a pair of oxen, and put a horse on lead, and, with his wife and goods behind this "spiked team," started for Ohio. For the 100 acres in lot 38, he paid $125 cash, and had $25 left with which to "set up" farming. Chills overtook him in 1805, and continued sickness left the family without bread or meat. He crawled from his bed to the door - to see a deer not far away. The gun was handed him, and rested on a chair. Almost fainting, he drew sight on the game, and it fell. The load of venison was drawn to the house by his wife, who dressed it, and had meat to share with her neighbors. This year he went to Beaver and bought a barrel of flour, for which he paid $16. He wished that the barrel should be kept; Luther has it in use in his house now. His 2d wife died the year 1809. In poor health he returned east, but found none of his kin. All had gone, nor did he hear of them after. In better health he came again to Ohio.

He married Polly Moss in 1S13. She had been deserted by her first husband, Joseph Moss, and was divorced. She lived in Mesopotamia, and the chimney part of the house not yet complete, the cut away of the logs for the stone jams of the chimney was open. It is said that a bear disturbs no dead thing, but covers up what it finds, if life has departed. Mrs. Moss was startled at seeing, in the moonlight, a bear enter the chimney opening one night. Resting quietiy, she held her breath and closed her eyes. Bruin came to the bed, laid his cold nose on her cheek and walked off, satisfied that she was scared to death. That this was not a dog, was proven by the tracks, the next morning. She traded a loaf of bread to an Indian. He came next day, and pressing his hands together, said " no good," meaning it was light, and drew his knife on her. Catching a chair, she knocked him down, and drew him out the door. He came again and gave her a dipper to "make up," saying " me drunk" first day. She was an enthusiastic Methodist, and as early as 1812, Seth Burton tells of meetings being held at Mr. Russell's house ; and that she offered prayer in the family of Mr. Russell, for a year and a half, while employed as a hired girl. Her executive ability and tact made her ready for any emergency. He was a trapper, and on Saturday night came home with a load of muskrats. On Sunday there was to be preaching at their house, but the rats must be skinned. She took hold, and, swift as he was, she skinned three to his one, and the skins w-ere off before Sunday.

While at the Emigrant house, one evening the latch string was pulled, and Marimon Cook entered alone. He had been expected by Mr. Russell for some time, and fears were felt that he was lost. His appearance caused rejoicing. After news from the east was related, and a hearty supper was served by the light of the great log fire, Mr. Russell went with him to Jonathan Brooks.

His children, by the 2d wife, were: Eliza, Lucy, Rebecca, and Julia; and, by the 3d wife, Luther, Mary, Polly, Linus, Martha, and Caroline. The first

Luther Russel - his son, afterwards lived on the old farm. He married a Miss Creaser, and now occupies a house on the road northeast from the former house. He went to school in a log house, located on the northeast corner of the Tolies orchard, near Beardsley's present house. Jewett taught then [1826], and Dr. Ludlow's academy school in the village was challenged to spell. The town school came in the evening. The syllables set at the head of the columns of words in the books then in use, were put together and pronounced as words. Julia Russel spelled all down on the pronounced word "Kayda rosko-muskogporto-bacco." For many years Luther bought furs, and is still in the business. Taking a lively interest in agriculture, he was at one time president of the county agricultural society.

1803. Lynfan Benton - came from Guilford, Connecticut, this year. He married Anna, sister of Samuel Hopson. Their children were : Delia, Ann, Augustus, Andrus and Lodemia. The 2d wife was Rhoda Fowler. Children - Woodruff, Cynthia, Maria, and Lucretia. He settled on lot 43, a little west of where the Benton house now stands, in which Horace Crittenden lives. He was a justice of the peace as early as 1814. His name, with that of M. D. Merriman, Mansel Wicks, Elison Sperry, and Edmund Taylor, stands at the head of the Liberty party in Burton. His health became poor, and dropsy set in and his weight was said to be over 400. He walked to Carlton's shop to hear the first abolitionist lecture in town, by Elder Winans, and was so interested in the first election, and to vote for James G. Birney, that he had two chairs set into a cart, and notwithstanding his great size, rode to the polls to cast his #vote with the party.

Eleazer Hickox. - The very name of this man has in it the snap of enterprise and go-ahead. Probably to no man was Burton, in her early day, more indebted, and in fact the whole country, far away and round about, for the exchange of goods; the barter of trade; the driving of cattle; the finding of market, and the bringing back of money in return for the poor product of that time, than to him. Born July 25, 1776, in Watertown, Litchfield county, Connecticut Had the month and year anything to do with the patriotism and energy which he developed in this young country? He started for Ohio in February, 1803, and that year worked for Jonathan Fowler, who kept tavern in Poland, at $ir per month. His first trip, made mainly by Indian trails, to Burton, was this season, and to Cleveland, where there were three or four houses. Fowler sold goods to people in Pennsylvania, thirty miles east, on credit. In the fall, Hickox collected in the cattle of the debtors, from the woods, where they ran wild as deer. In October, Fowler started east with 100 head. The first day he lost 12 in the wilderness. They were afterwards found. This was the first drove from Ohio over the Alleghenies. There was no market. He packed the beef for the West Indies, and a French privateer is said to have captured part of it from an English vessel.

In February, of 1804, he started from Connecticut with one horse and a sleigh loaded with 400 pounds of steel chains, axes, etc. After, reaching Buffalo, as was quite common with winter or early spring travelers, there being no road by land, he took along shore on the lake ice. The action of the waves freezing had formed breakwaters or ridges of ice parallel with the shore. Between these ridges the valleys w^ere one glare of ice, and along them he drove. East of Ashtabula creek he found a horse frozen into an old ice crack, in a standing position, his head above the ice. Fearfully dangerous were these watery roads so frozen. Opposite Perry his horse broke through a seam, her hind feet going down, but with a mighty spring she cleared the gap, landing cutter and load safe on solid ice. A storm was rising, and the rotten ice liable to be lifted and heaved, crashing to pieces. For hours, Hickox hunted a place where he could cross the ridges and gain shore, but they were too steep for horse and load.

At Grand river, March 20th, General Paine came with a canoe to take him across. The ice had broken, and the river was running full. Putting his load into a canoe, and the cutter on top, they pushed off, and were an hour dodging ice and crossing. Going back for the mare, it took a long time to swim her across.

When on the bank all hands set to rubbing her with bark to dry the water out, and get the chilled circulation started. Driving on to Painesville that night, he stopped with Smith, the first settler there. Then there were only two houses in the village. The next day, in crossing the stream one mile scfuth of Painesville, he waded in to his chin, and held on to the hind end of the sleigh to prevent the current from swinging it down stream, and reached Bondstown (Hambden) at night. At the west branch of the Cuyahoga, southwest from Hambden, he poled out an ice gorge, and, after waiting two hours for the water to go down, drove through, arriving at Burton about sundown, March 2 2d, 1804.

He was land agent for General Andrew Hull and Wm. Law, and was much occupied in selling this year. He received at Poland one morning $1,500 in silver for land. It weighed nearly 100 pounds, and he had to lug it on his back a long ways, going to Burton, as there was no one to receive it at Poland.

He had the use of a field just across from where Charles Stickney now lives, on lot 45, but got a poor crop of corn and oats from it, and said it never raised a good crop afterwards. It was lack in cultivation. Good corn and potatoes grew on it in 1878.

The 3d frame building in town, he put up for a store and dwelling, in the year 1804, just north of where James Peffers' horse barn now stands. Fowler, of Poland, sold him goods that fall, and at Pittsburgh he secured kettles - both whites and Indians being anxious to make sugar the coming spring. Sometimes 40 or 50 of the "red skins" camped for a week, back of his store, preparing for a trade. They gave up their arms, furs and skins, and the preparation was to have a dance and a drunk - seriously performed. Some whites continue the Indian custom to this day, in drinking before a trade.

He sold, to new comers, wheat at $1.00 per bushel. Flour was taken from the old bridge up the river two miles, in a canoe, and landed at a hard point on the east bank. It was sold to Parkman, and his men came there and took it from a bark shanty. Beeswax was collected from wild swarms, in large -quantities, and sold for 40 cents per pound.

Cotgrave, a swindler, came here, in 1S05, and was arrested by four men from Pittsburgh. He was a colonel in the war of 1812, and noted for his cowardice.

Hickox says that the only time he ever enjoyed such a sight, was when Stark Edwards, at Warren, thoroughly whipped the cowardly Cotgrave in his own tent.

With Bradley, he went to Buffalo for goods. The team was oxen ahead of a pair of horses ; thus hitched to insure time slow enough for the cattle, and the load of furs, beeswax, etc., 1,500 pounds. They traveled 12 to 18 miles per day, and camped. They carried their grain, and cut troughs in fallen logs to feed their horses in. 18 miles a day, then; now, to New York in 24 hours.

At Buffalo - the oxen were traded for 10 barrels of salt, at $5.00, and he paid $4.00 per barrel to have it shipped by schooner to Fairport. Going on to Springfield, Massachusetts, he sold his mink and otter furs; and at Danbury, Con- ^ necticut, the muskrat, coon and beaver. He returned across the Alleghanies - by Harrisburg, Pa. Then, wagons could go only in dry weather, and the trans- portation was nearly all by pack horses. But he persisted, and his wagon came over. His sister, Sybil, kept house for him, in the store building, until 1808.

The conveniences of early life find illustration in the fact that a plow-point needed sharpening. He went to Mesopotamia, on foot, to a blacksmith, and paid 1 2 y2 cents for a job that cost a day's time and 25 miles walk.

The Onondaga Salt company had salt here, and he bought cattle, trading them for salt, which sold at $10.00 per barrel. The value of the cattle was estimated by measure around the chest; allowing $25.00 for every six feet girth, and for each additional inch, $1.00, or deducting at same ratio when less than six feet No attention was paid to the condition of the cattle for beef. He continued, during his life, to measure his own cattle at home, in order to judge of their weight

1 st Cider - was imported from the old French orchard near Detroit in 1807. There worth $^.50 per barrel, and here worth $5.00 ; and apples in same proportion of profit, less transportation. Boating it down the lake, the heavy swells warned his party of a storm. They pushed near shore at Vermillion, put the .barrels overboard and floated them on the beach, carrying the apples and stuff that would not bear wetting, ashore on their heads. Nearly frozen, and chilled through in the water, they found sticks on the sand and built a fire and dried off. The second day after, they put off part of the cargo at Cleveland, and part at Fairport.

With the same skill of business, and tact of heart, he sought a hand from the first family, and, October 20, 1808, was married to Stella Umberfield. At the same time his sister Sybil married Lemuel Punderson.

Their children were: Lydia, Marietta, John, Cordelia, and Bronson. Eleazer, a son, and three other children, died young. Lydia married David P. Baldwin, of Connecticut, and now resides at Bridgeport, in that State. Marietta married Samuel Humiston, and is the only member of the family left in Burton. She is keeping house on a part of the old farm, just east of the square. Her son James lives with her, and carries on the farming. He inherited some of the spirit of his grandfather, so ready in the peril of 1812, and, in the war against the rebellion, in 1861, he did good service with the soldiers that went to Camp Dennison and Johnson's Island. John lives in Iowa. Cordelia and Bronson are dead.

General Andrew Hull - owned 800 acres of land, and, in 1805, it was bought by Hickox and his brother Uri, at $2.25 per acre. He retained some 300 acres of it for a stock and grain farm. Luther Russell cleared a field of 10 acres for Esquire Hickox on the north line of lot 48, about 1806. The second growth of wood now' covers it densely, some trees, 20 inches through, would cut 40 feet of timber. His last house, built south of the square, will long be remembered as the "Squire Hickox brick."

1808. He, with Punderson, commenced building a mill and distillery at the foot of Punderson's pond in Newbury. Took the ague; w'ould layby for a day's shake and fever, then work the next day. September 12, 1806, he w'as commissioned justice of the peace, and elected again in 1809, and that year was appointed associate judge, by Governor Huntington. He used often to "edify the faithful by reading sermons in the public worship. East of the square he killed a rattlesnake over six feet long, that weighed 9 pounds and had 2 1 rattles. It was of age."

1812. He was major and in command of a battalion of militia. He raised a large company of volunteers, and was first to report in Cleveland. There he was appointed commissary by General Wadsworth.

He sold 200 barrels of flour to be delivered in Cleveland, and, the roads were so bad, he chained one pair of cattle behind the wagons, when it was hauled, to hold down the hills.

In shipping goods to this country, he, with another party, loaded a schooner at Black river. Adverse winds sent her to Canada. He went ashore. During the night the crew sailed her off. He walked fiom Point Albino to Black Rock and Buffalo, and around to Fairport, 200 miles, in 4 days, arriving ahead of the schooner. Some young men walked with him the first day, and bragged of their powers of locomotion. They were distanced the morning of the second day, and never seen again. The schooner was likely to go ashore. He saw it, and tied a line to the blunt end of a sharpened billet of wood, then ran down after the swells and threw the line as far as he could, and retreated. He tried the experiment many times; and was often caught and tumbled heels over head in the swells; but finally the line was got aboard, and a tow line hauled out, when help arrived and she was dragged to a smooth beach. Some of his goods had been extracted from the boxes before the schooner went to pieces. He found cloth between the lining and outsides of the vessel. One of the crew left, the other two were arrested by the sheriff from Painesville, tried, and sent to the penitentiary for two years.

1816. He went to Tennessee and bought 120 head of three year old steers, and drove them to Auburn, where they were summered in a windfall tract of wild grass. He sold them out in the fall at Cleveland and Painesville, making $700, a great profit for that time.

1822, was sent to the legislature by a very large vote. He was in session at Columbus with such men as Elisha Whittlesey, Sloan, of Ravenna; Phelps, of Painesville ; Mack of Youngstown; and Robert Harper, of Harperfield.

Re-elected in 1823, he then met Thomas Corwin, and says: "When Corwin became known, the opposition party used to let him religiously alone, for fear of stirring him up."

1826-7, he contracted to do canal work at Caldersburg [now Roscoe], Ohio. Through the rascality of a partner he lost $5,000, and two years time.

From 1840 to 1848, bought cattle in Illinois, and drove to Philadelphia, from Cass and Morgan counties, 40 miles east of Springfield. From 1819 to 1853, he handled a great many droves. The Pennsylvanians called him "honest drover," as he told the faults of his cattle, if there were any.

1854. He set out for California in the early summer, thinking to establish his sons there on farms. John took 106 head of cattle, from Noble county, Ohio, and started on ahead, early in May, by way of Illinois and Council Bluffs. He was not seen again by his father, until his arrival in California the next year. Hickox was late in the season for crossing the mountains, and curious to see the prophet of

Salt Lake - and his mighty temple in the wilderness, he wintered there and taught school for the Mormons. When closing his school, which had been well kept, a leading Mormon told the children how they had been blessed in so good a teacher, and that he was 80 years old. Certainly a remarkable man at that age of life - a Gentile who could control well and teach a rough, wild set of Mormon boys.

In the winter of 1857, he sold off his cows and heifers, from $70 to $90 per head, and returned to Burton in 1858. The war of the Rebellion coming on, about the first of it, he sold one pair of 4-year old steers for $300.

i860, his leg was broken by a pile of lumber falling on it. He was a famous rider, and at the age of 90 broke a Stranger colt, which he sold for $400. The colt fell with him, and he was nearly killed. This was his last ride. He did much to improve the stock of cattle and horses in this section.

During his absence in California, and at a time when he could not come home, his wife, Stella, died. This was October 25, 1855, aged 68. Kindly cared for by his daughter, Marietta, and though suffering much from the fall of the colt, he lived to a very ripe old age, having been a remarkably active and useful man. Death came to his relief February 21, 1868, at the age of 91, and he sleeps near the river. His grandson, James Humiston, has his watch, an old-fashioned English timer, 190 years old, made in 1689. His sword of 1812 is still bright and in the possession of his daughter, Marietta.

The great poplar trees, that grew so long on the southeast corner of the square, were set by him, and one is still standing in front of Mrs. Humiston Js house, east of the square.

Demonstrations of his strong will are remembered. Simeon Rose wanted the road to run straight from Marcus Dickerman's across the river and up Burton hill, giving it a better grade. It would have come across Merriam's barn-yard and through Hickox's orchard. He mustered all the opposition to the survey, and in a hot fight was victorious over Rose.

1804. Joseph Noyes - taught school in Burton in the year 1804, as near as can be ascertained, although Esquire Hickox taught in his own house, the winter of 1805-6, and made no mention of him. He was a graduate of an eastern college, and said to be a profound scholar - a lawyer by profession. He was chosen deacon of the Congregational church, at its organization, August 22 , 1808. Indolent in his habits and negligent in business, few would employ him, and his life, in a professional way, was a failure. As words were cheap, costing little or no effort, he would often indulge in conversation much to the annoyance of those who had no time to spend in that way. It is said he would follow men who were laboring in the field, smoking his lazy pipe, or sit on a stump and talk till they had worked away from him, then move on to another stump, and so on, following the hands and talking.

Edwin Ferris, writing of him, says that he and his father were working in the nursery one day. Noyes sat by a stump and talked to them till he fell asleep. A heavy shower threatening, they ran to the house, but their neighbor slept on undisturbed till aroused by a drenching rain. On awakening, and going home, he walked directly by their house, much offended because they neglected to warn him of the approaching storm.

His wife told that he read extensively, then dreamed, and would recite his dreams and carefully write them out, till he had filled many quires of manuscript. He owned several lots of land in Burton. From here he moved to Parkman, and finally to Pittsburgh, where he died.

Mrs. Noyes - was a person of large and powerful frame, and, withal, possessed a violent temper, a combination which did not fail to make her a woman of remarkable influence, especially when physical force was the agency employed to accomplish her purpose. She sometimes defied the officers of the law, as she would the encroachments of wdld beasts. Mr. Noyes would contract debts without making provision for their payment. On one occasion the deputy sheriff (who is mentioned as being Uri Hickox) came to take some goods on execution. Mrs. Noyes seized him, and twisting a bed curtain about his neck, choked him till he was black in the face. Noyes trying to release him, she caught up a tailor's goose and hurled it at him, smashing his foot. He slightly exclaimed, "My dear, you have hurt my toes."

On another occasion the sheriff, Joel Paine, attempted to satisfy an execution, when she struck him with a square-bottomed candlestick, cutting a hole in his scalp, above his eyes, from which the blood flowed, blinding him.

John Ford, a powerful man, was sent to attach a bed. He got out as far as the kitchen door, when she grasped him like a tiger, and in the scuffle she shut

After they had moved to Parkman she became furious at Fred Kirtland, and went into his store, giving him the lightning of her inflamed tongue in great rage. He watched his opportunity, and when she was near the door gave her a push, but she caught him and they went out together, he falling uppermost. She screamed "murder," "rape," all the time holding him fast in her clutches. Esquire Parkman, running up, cried out, "Why don't you let the woman up?" He groaned out, " I would if I could."

After her husband died she returned to Burton, and claimed dowery in all the lands he had sold. The terror of her name had reached the children. She came to Asahel Barnes, a mile southwest of the village, and the children, knowing that she was expected, saw a horse at the bars, as they came from school, and shied around out of doors, not daring to venture in. Julia Barnes (after* wards Mrs. Chase), was asked by her for a glass of water, which she brought and was politely thanked for it. John Ford, esq., made out the papers for her to sign that night, and she received one hundred dollars for her dower in* terest in the lands, and was well satisfied. During the evening they visited, and she called the prominent men nicknames - as Ferris, a "catamount;" Umberfield, an "owl," and Mrs. Umberfield, a "goose." She had names for Hitchcock, Punderson and Hickox, not mentioned. She was charged with burning the academy, but Edwin Ferris, who saw the fire, says she did not do it, as she was in the house of Lyman Durand, and could not have been at the academy.

1804. Asa Wilmot was an apprentice of John Ford at the carpenter's trade in the year 1804, and with him worked on the first academy built in Burton, being the first work done exclusively for the education of the young. The building was not completed till the year 1806. He married Betsey Durand, and settled a mile north of the village, and built this house long known as the .Stoddard house. In taking down the chimney of this house in 18 - , a brick was found on which was distiuctly marked the print of a deer's foot. The brick is now in possession of the historical society. He died at his son Burrit's, on Oak hill. His son, Curtiss, was killed by the falling of a tree, while chopping on Chardon square (Colgrove).

1805. Uri Hickox came in the year 1805, and with his brother, Eleazer, bought a tract of 800 acres belonging to Gen. Andrew Hull. He, with Daniel Dayton, who came with him, in his employ, went to work clearing on the public square. This winter Eleazer gave up his house to Mr. Hill and family, Eleazer, Uri, and Hill sleeping in the barn. He was married to Lydia Ford, daughter of John Ford, September 25, 1808, and settled the same year on lot 50, in the west part of the town, near the spring east of where now is the Woodard orchard. In the year 1821 they moved into a frame house, which they had built on the comers, some distance to the north, and long know as the Hickox tavern. In the joist above the bar-room is the bullet mark of a shot fired by one Dick Burke, who was fooling with his rifle. Mrs. Hickox was weaving up stairs, and Hickox ran up to see if she was hurt.

Of the bar-room stories, current in that day, is one told of some parties making sugar in a camp off to the southwest. The syrup was left in the kettle over night, and in some mysterious way disappeared two or three nights in succession. The two men had some whiskey, and they poured a quantity into the syrup; then tasted it, found the mix good, took "a little more," and laid down for the night "well set." The first man, on awakening in the morning, saw his companion lying beside a huge bear, and at first supposed him killed. Cautiously rising, he saw both man and bear were asleep. The toddy had proved too much for the bear, that had been the thief, as it did for the men. This time she had her last drink, and lay dead drunk. With an axe she was dispatched. Johnson Hickox, the eldest son, recalls something of this story.

In the year 1812 Hickox went with the soldiers to Cleveland, his wife going to her father's with her two children, Lovina and John. Wolves often howled about the door, and a bear was once driven away with a pitchfork, when attempting to steal a pig.

1805. David Hill. - A family of Hills wintered with Hickox in 1805-6, but did not remain long. Hannah Clark was married to David Hill, and they settled here early, living on the lot opposite the fair grounds. He was one of the first carpenters, and a man of lively temper. Ar one time, when at work on Joseph Hayes' house, he had spleen against bear meat. Some was nicely cooked and carried to him for dinner. He ate heartily, and called it good. When told it was bear meat, his disposition arose, and he made spasmodic efforts to clear his stomach, but failed.

1805. Daniel Dayton - came this year in February. On the lake ice the horse broke through, and Dayton's life was saved by clinging to the bit of the horse. The square had been underbrushed and girdled ; great chestnut trees were left standing. Uri Hickox set him to work, and from one cut of a chestnut log he split 140 rails. He bought the farm on Oak hill, where Hiram Chapman now lives, on lot 74. One day in 1806, the townsmen and neighbors all came in, cut logs and hauled, split shakes for roof and puncheons for floor, and raised him a house before night. In the afternoon darkness came on. The fowls sought cover, and the animals gathered in the shadow of that day. The men stopped work until the sun should come from behind the great cloud. There was something of terror in the gloom of the

Great Eclipse - that spread its night over the day and the land. This house was built on the north bank of a spring run, where an old orchard now stands. He planted corn June 20, 1805, and claimed the crop was good. Crossing from Esquire Benton's, in the pines near the big pond, he met a she bear. He carried a puppy in his arms. The bear began to growl. He held the struggling pup tight, ready to throw him into the embrace of the bear, should she make an attack, while all the time her cubs were scratching u^> a tree lively. When they were safe she snuffed off, and Dayton got quickly away from the path through the pines, with his dog, and hurried home.

W olves attacked his sheep, and, when he appeared, made at him, driving both himself and dog out of the lot, and made off with two sheep. About 1822, the dogs drove a deer off the ice into the west branch. The water had fallen, and the deer could not get out. It was a large buck that had just shed his horns. Dayton cut away the ice and the deer walked out without fear. Dayton grabbed him by the ears, and, in the struggle, dropped him, but not until his clothing had been torn into shreds, kicked off, and he was terribly bruised. When down he cut the deer's throat with a jack-knife. Plucky for a man who was no hunter and kept no gun. Out towards "Flemings meadow" he drove back a bear, with whipping his tow frock at her, until she had treed her cubs, and tore the hem off the frock, when she left.

Reuben, and Eliza. His wife died June 1 6, 1819. He afterwards married Chloe S., daughter of Maj. Allen Humphrey, of Claridon, and their children were: Daniel, Suffrona, Allen, Polly, Ellen, Lucien, Chloe, Bernice, and Delucia. This 2d wife died September 8, 1855. She was, with him, a constant member of the Congregational church. He farmed steadily, and reaped from a productive soil the fruit of his labors. September 1, 1853, he passed to his rest, beneath the hill.

Orrin and Linus, - his brothers, came about 1817. Orrin settled on lot 81, where his son, George, now resides. He died in 1833, leaving his wife, Sally, to care for seven children. With the boys she carried on the farm. Only the month before she died, she pointed out the spot where bears and wolves often came. She died November 8, 1879. Linus moved on lot 81, where he cultivated a fine farm, on which his son, Horace, now resides. A fearful fever swept off the wife, and part of the family, in 1854.

1806. David Warner - a bachelor, settled in 1806 on lot No. 2, in a log; house on the Tomlinson lot, near what was long known as the Wooster house, where the cheese factory now stands. He sold out to Captain Eleazer Patchin in the fall of the same year.

1806. Andrew Durand - came to Burton this year, first occupying a house built by Lemuel Punderson for Esquire Law. He also built a large barn, and thatched the roof with straw. This building was afterwards moved away, and became part of John Cook's tannery. Durand soon moved into the Hayes' settlement, and remained a short time, then built and moved into the first house east of Page's, on lot No. 27, bought of Ephraim Clark.

1806. Lyman Durand - came with his brother Andrew, and built a log house on the corner where Dr. Lawyer now resides. (Colonel Stephen Ford says it was there in 1807.) Lyman, his son, lived near Painesville.

In 1820 Mr. Durand, Jewett, and Colonel Stephen Ford, were east of the river harvesting oats. They camped on Bentley's place (the Dickerman lot). Bentley sang the song of the hen: "She laid one egg a day, and sometimes two, and on Sunday she laid three." At the house of Andrew Durand, east of Page's, the Methodist church assembled and were going to try him under the discipline, when Colonel Stephen explained to them that he had done nothing bad, and they gave it up. In 1812 the Methodists held a meeting in Andrew's barn, which was a log structure. Lovira Hoadley, then three years old, remembers singing through the hymns with them. He moved to Indiana and died there. His sons were Andrew, Amasa, and Andrus. Andrus died in Minnesota.

Lyman was a lover of the fiddle, and was the music maker for the log house dances. It is told the children were left at home. He was away visiting, and the house and all the goods were burned. The eldest boy came to his parents saying, "I saved it," holding up the fiddle.

1807. Thomas Davidson - came on, as a carpenter for Punderson, in 1807, and worked in building the mill at the Rapids ; Samuel Davidson at a later day. Thomas expected to sail up the Cuyahoga river, as vessels did up the Connecticut to New Haven, but found this inland river crooked and sluggish, and more swamp than river. He intended to go back east in six months, but never went.

He was at work on the first frame district school-house built on the square, and heard the booming roar of cannon, from off the crimsoned waves of Erie, the bloody day of Perry's victorious battle, Septembor 10, 1813.

ton, about 300 acres. He married Susannah Stull, a sister of the hunter, Henry Stull. Needing money, to set up housekeeping, he sold out the farm, and began life in the woods of Burton, on lot 88, just west of where Charles Morton lives. The trees to plant his orchard, were brought up the river in a canoe, and landed at the mouth of Rocky run, and from there he and Stull carried them on their backs.

Sending East for a Great Draft Book - he spread it out before the astonished workman, and began in Burton the first carpenter's work, by square rule.

The book and work was then a subject of laughter and ridicule by the "scribe and rule men." He was a quiet, useful and hard-working man, and much respected by. the old citizens of Burton, and lived to an old age.

Davidson worked for Mr. Humphrey in building his house, and told of the minister wondering how they should clear the cellar of shavings, when it was suggested he might burn them out, and, sure enough, they got on fire, when all hands had a lively struggle to beat back the flames and save the building.

Henry Stull went out one morning, after telling Davidson to come with a pair -of steers, and draw in the game,- and before breakfast he killed 5 deers, which Davidson drew in. Meat was scarce before, but now plenty.

His dog treed a bear near his mill. Stull shot, and it fell. He went up to the bear, and was grappled, and both rolled off the rocks into the race. When found, the bear was dead. Stull was rolled to get the water out of his ears and mouth, and "came to." It was the fearful embrace of the bear - that took his breath, when they rolled into the water.

Gardner Conant has told of being sick at Stull's house in Liberty, Trumbull county. The doctor ordered a squirrel Mr. Stull shot one, and it fell in the crotch of the tree. Old as he was, he climbed 50 feet up the tree, and brought his game to the house.

1806. Samuel Burton - arrived this year, July 7, bringing his wife and four children: Eunice, 6 years old; Thomas, 4; Lydia, 2, and Seth, six months. They came from Norwich, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, and settled near the west branch, in the Hayes district. He was 31, and his wife, Olive, 26; his brother, Daniel, was 12 years old, and his sister, Betsey, 20, and came with the family. Soon after arriving, the whole family was sick with ague chills, and had to be distributed among the neighbors for nursing. In 1811-12, the family lived near a spring, southeast of Luther Russell's present house. The sheep had to be guarded at night to protect them from wolves. Thomas and Seth were looking for the sheep. All at once Thomas took fright, and claimed he saw an Indian with a gun, loping towards Page's. It is said this was the last wild Indian seen in Burton, save three, at the close of the war, told of as coming into Freeman Hyde's blacksmith shop.

Seth - came to Burton ahead of his mother, although only six months old. Dr. Bond took him on horseback, the last of the journey, and left him with "Aunt Rachel," at Jonathan Brooks' home. The memory of this precocious child, who dared to ride off with the doctor, became great on dates, and has fixed facts for the historic record very closely. People inquire if he remembers the doctor's horse, saddle, and all about it. He married Mary, a sister of Luther Russell. At his uncle Daniel's, on Oak hill, New Year's, of 1828, he met Mary Ann Jackson, a teacher in the neighborhood. They were to attend a ball, at Un Hickox's. On horseback, she rode behind him, in primitive style. On the way, the horse floundered in a mudhole, throwing the "school ma'rm" backwards into the mire. Her white dress and silk overskirt wrere in a plight. John Brown lived near, and his wife, Mackay, washed and ironed them out of trouble in an hour and a half, and on they went to the party. Miss Jackson married Augustus Gilbert. Not forgetting her old beau, they laugh together, over the ride, when they meet.

Daniel Burton - settled on Oak hill, southwest from Daniel Dayton's, about So rods in section 73. At one time, he lived east of Lucius Merriman's, on lot 8. Betsey married Simeon Moss. Of Samuel's family, only Seth and Lydia are living.

1806. John Cook - was bom December 27, 1782, in Cheshire, Connecticut. An active boy, he often engaged in the sport of coasting. The snow had fallen deep on the hills of his native town, and covered the fences. He was 17, and full of spirit, led a train of sleds. His own sled shot out of its course and brought him against the stake of a fence. It went through his body, just forward of the backbone, and above the hips. A man put his foot on Cook's body and pulled with his might to get the stake out. It was two months before he was able to get off the bed. He learned the tanner's trade, was married to Meroa Smith, and came with Peter Hitchcock to Burton in June, 1806. The roads were bad from Warren. Mrs. Hitchcock and Mrs. Cook took a horse and went forward from Parkman, carrying with them Mrs. Cook's baby. They walked and rode by turns, each carrying the child on the horse. Coming to the great swamp of the Cuyahoga, the horse caught a foot in the logs. They carried the child to the bank and laid it down ; then returned and pried apart the logs and released the horse. The stream and the woods were dismal. They lost no time, but climbed Burton hill alone. Whatever of joy in anticipation of pleasant homes in this new region, had filled the hearts of these toilers, was dross and ashes, when they beheld the logs and brush on the park of this western village. /On one of the fallen trees in this "slashing" they sat down and wept. John Ford and Asa Wilmot saw them, as two strangers, coming from out the depths of the wood. The work on the academy stopped short. Ford hastened to them, and these carpenters heard news from their own homes that day. Tears changed to smiles as they told the story of the journey, and they were soon well cared for at Jonathan Brooks'. Teams were sent on to help along the husbands.

The child was Nabby Cook. She died the same fall, October 23d. They camped together that season in the log house west from the present fair grounds, cooked by a stump, ate from a chest cover, and were happy.

His house was finished in 1807, on the lot now occupied by Mrs. J. S. Cook, on Cheshire street, and the family moved in. Part of the house built for Esquire Law was converted into a cider mill, and the second tannery was started west of the house. He had a horse called " Merrick," and loaded him with leather and tramped through to Pittsburgh market, one hundred miles, on foot, leading the horse. Returning, he brought oils and groceries, and a calico dress for Harriet, his daughter, the first new calico worn in the township.

In the days of the great pigeon roost at the center of Troy, he, with others, was "poling them oTflf" and bagging them up one night. Jumping over a log, in the thick wood, he struck astride a bear. The animal ran off with him and was worse scared, if possible, than Cook, who yelled: "Brimstone and blazes; a bear!" The exclamation was a by-word years after, It is told of his shooting two large elk, from behind the headlights in a canoe on the Cuyahoga, one night. From the pen near the house, about 3 o'clock one morning, a hog was carried away and a bear made of him a fat breakfast.

Active and diligent, by the labor of his hands the "currying" work was done. Business enlarged and he gained a competence. With his wife, who was early a member of the Congregational church, he was free in its support. She united in 1 81 1. He was public-spirited, and served the town 21 years as justice of the

Josiah S. Cook - an only son, who continued the business of his father, and occupied the old home, where he died February 20, 1876. John Cook died at Mrs. Bough ton's March 21, 1848, and his wife lived to the age of 88, dying July 26, 1870.

1807. Calvin Williams - born in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 1787, came with Lemuel Penderson, early in 1807, and was in his employ that season. He worked for John Ford the next year and some time for Judge Peter Hitchcock.

Many a kitchen was neatly kept in those days, and the log fire lighted up the sentiments of young hearts that courted sociability in the glow of its winter blaze. Betsey Bradley worked in the kitchen at the same time that Calvin drove the oxen and sledded dogs for the Judge. He knew the skill of her hand at the dinner, and the glee of her voice by the fire. They were married in 1810. She was a daughter of Thaddeus Bradley. Lot 5 was bought, and where Delos Williams now lives, they went into a log house. The north half of the lot was sold to Selah Bradley. Young Williams was a walker, and went east and returned, twice, on foot, before he was married. He was interested in the saw-mill, and finally bought out the owners, and to a late day continued a favorite sawyer with many neighbors. Mrs. Williams often built a big fire in the night, when her husband was away at the mill, and with only a blanket hung up for a door, she tooted the dinner horn to frighten away the wolves that came howling about the house. He was a man of wholesome influence. In the little burial spot on the bank of the brook south of where they lived, kind hands have set up the marble on which his death is told, September 29, i860, and hers only a few days before, August 17, both aged 74. .

Carlos Williams - the eldest son, was forming many years, but now resides in the village, east side of the park. He has always taken great interest in agricultural fairs, and has long been well known as the efficient managing superintendent of the grounds. . His wife was a Miss Electa Augusta Crane. She died November 7, 1879. A lady of uncommon refinement, and possessed of a sweet disposition, she was wedded to a man of strong nature. Fitting words, written at the time of her death, are transcribed here: "Her quiet ways have been a silent but effective influence, building more than any have known, or can know, only as years shall measure the loss, along the paths of life, rests, where the bloom of kindness, gentility and charity, offered from her heart, was sweet incense to the household, to the children and grandchildren, as the flowers that daily blossom in the window, are beauty and fragrance from the hand that plants and waters them there.

" Hers was a nature so fair and true, that the culture of years but strengthened, and unto it was added the Christian graces that perfected. The family knew whose life was the guiding star, on the narrow sea of time.

" Her ancestral name stands with the first, beside the sea-beaten rock of Plymouth, in the perilous days of 1620. She was a lineal descendant of Governor Bradford, who came in the Mayflower. Who knows how far down the succession has pulsed the blood of men who counted 'obedience to God,' first of all great obligations? Who can say how much of the gentle companionship of Christians, who gave 'all things for the common godd,'on that ship, has come down to this generation? It is certain, the same spirit of kindness will be called lovely and good, when the little children tell of her.

"Robed in white, with flowers beside the drapery, they carried her to church for service on Sunday. The casket was glass, and the mountings silver. In the congregation where she was wont to meet, were many people. The prayer was said by the old Father Witter, the sermon by Mr. Cutler, and touching songs were sung. The gray clouds of this November day darkened, rain fell, Nature seemed to mourn. When it was all over, the remains were taken to the vault in Claridon, and are at lest. The loss in this community and church is deeply felt."

Luther Crane - her father, a pleasant old gentleman, died July 30, 1878. Rebecca Crane, her mother, was born at Plymouth, Mass., July 18, 1801. She was married July 18, 1823. The maiden name was Manter, her mother's maiden name was Bradford, a great-granddaughter of William Bradford, the 2d governor of the Massachusetts colony. She kept the faith of the Puritan stock unto her death, which occurred November 19, 1878. They had lived together 55 years, and both rest in the village cemetery.

Delos Williams - the 2d son of Calvin, lives on the old farm of his father, and has kept it in good order these many years. The other children were Phebe, Ann, and Catherine.

1807. Marimon Cook - was born November 12, 1761, in Cheshire, Conn. His family record traces back to his father, Elam, born 1733; grandfather Ephraim, born 1704, and the great-grandfather, Samuel Cook, who emigrated from England in 1600 - the exact time not given, probably about the close of the century. Following the English custom, a deed, dated April 7, 1785, conveys to Marimon the house of his father, Elam Cook, in Cheshire, who gives it for the 44 Love, good-will affection to him, as descended from the estate of his honoured father, Capt. Ephraim Cook." The money received from the sale of the homestead in the east was used for the purchase of the new home west - and the line of descent is continued to Mrs. Parmele, the 6th generation in a long lived race. The old deed is still in her possession.

A soldier-boy in the Revolution, he served in cooking for the officers, and caring for the sick. Was on picket duty, and twenty-four hours without food. He was with Josiah Smith (the grandfather of Mrs. Governor Ford) at Horse Neck, and saw his head 44 trepanned " after the fight. He drew a half pension. He was captain of militia, and commissioned by Oliver Walcott, the captain general of Connecticut, May 23, 1796.

Lole Bradley, - sister of Gen. Roe Bradley, of Vermont, and Thadeus, became his wife, August 8, 1780. He is mentioned, by Luther Russell, as coming to Ohio in 1803 - probably looking out land. With John Ford, April 20, 1807, and their families, he left Cheshire, Connecticut, on the 44 day trip. In their team came a mare called 4401d Blue," famous for having made seven trips in all from the east, and to the east and return. Cook rode her out, and back to Connecticut in 1806. By-and-by she came to be saddle-horse for Loalma Carlton and her family, then living across the river. Mrs. Carlton often took on two children in front and two behind, and three others paddling on foot, or holding on by the tail, came to visit her father, the troop thus escorted by "Old Blue." This mare lived to be 35, and died honored in age, and memory.

Harriet, - John Cook's daughter, afterwards Mrs. Ford, w*as born there in the fall of 1807. The same season he and John Ford harvested wheat on the field south, which had been sown for them by Jonathan Brooks, the fall of 1805. At the end of their journey, June 2, 1807, they came to this new home. He was a large land owner, and, in company with John Ford, in the first purchase of Mr. Street. f

1 st Deacon - of the Congregational church, elected August 22, 1808. He served faithfully, and his house was often used for meetings, and wTas called the 44 Missionary home." He kept, and has left, valuable records of the early church. He wore, to the last, the traditional waist-coat of the fathers, remem- bered now, with the silver buttons of the family on it. and which have been preserved. His death occurred August 25, 1858, at the age 96. The first wife died April 11, 1812. In 1815 he married Betsey Hulburt, of Northampton, Massachusetts. She proceeded him to burial - dying May 7, 1837, and now the three rest side by side at the river, waiting the day of the "great congregation." His children were: John, Hiram, Clarissa, Loalma, andElzar. -

He was fond of hunting. Jonathan Brooks had a whiffet dog. It followed a bear and would not be called off, but staid out over night, annoying the bear by biting its hind feet. Cook and Brooks pursued in the morning, into Huntsburgh, where Cook shot the bear. The dog had literally bitten off the bears hind feet June 7, 1829. he marriedRuth M. Beard. He died October 21, 1870, and his wife soon after - March 12, 1871.

Elizabeth - their only child, was born March 24, 1830. She married Philander Parmele, May 13, 1868. The kindness of the "Missionary home" has not waned the orphan and kinless have found shelter there from the storms of life.

Hiram Cook, - born March 21, 1785, came in 1S15, and settled across the way from John's, and just south of the present fair grounds. His wife was Cydia Lorinda Hitchcock. He was many years in company with his brother, John, in the tanning business.

The children - four girls - married as follows: Arvilla married Raymond Gaylord: and the 2d time, Joel T. Case, and with him went to Texas. Lydia married Dr. Sherman Goodwin, and is now living in Victoria, Texas. Eliza Ann married Peter Hitchcock, and Sarrilla, Richard Dayton.

For many years after coming here, he was an active and earnest member of the Congregational church, and, with his wife, readily joined in the prayer meetings which were often held at their house.

1807. Captain James Bishop- settled, this year, on lot 1, where George Wheeler now lives. He was taken sic k with fever. Elijah Hayes and Hiram Fowler watched with him. He died at this time, and was buried east of his house. It is probable* that he was the Captain Bishop of the survey party of 1798.

1807. Captain Eleazer Patchin - was here in 1806, but came with his family, June 2, 1807, in company with John Ford. He had one pair of oxen and one pair of horses to his wagon. His family consisted of his wife and four children: Levi, Linsen, Daniel, and Abigail. He bought lot No. 2 of David Warner, in 1806, and settled there, in 1807, and afterwards moved on to the State road, in Newbury.

1807. Gilbert J. Ferris - was born in New Milford, Connecticut, May 6, 1779* married to Olive Griswold, March 3, 1800, came to Burton with his familywife, three children, and wife's sister - in December, 1807, and settled on four acres bordering on the southeast corner of the public square, which he converted into a garden and fruit yard. The old trees standing on this lot were planted m 1808, and Edwin Ferris picked fruit, of the "sheep-nose" variety, from one of these trees in the year 1878. He bought a stock of trees, and planted a nursen on the ten-acre lot, where Mr. Witter now lives. It was northwest of the house. He is said to have been among the first to introduce the nursery business on to the Reserve. Orchards are now standing that were supplied with trees from his planting. Employed at intervals by Eleazer Hickox, in his store, and occupied in teaching school for a time, in 1815 he moved to Oak hill, on lot 84, and from there to Michigan, in 1821. At the time of H ull's surrender, in 1812, Fer- ris was sick on the bed with rheumatism. On hearing the news, he roused up, took a mop-stick for a crutch, and hobbled off to alarm His neighbors* Though unable to march himself, he took his own horse, and, securing another and a wagon, carried the baggage of the Burton company, which, all but one. went to Cleveland, expecting to meet the enemy. He died at John P, Smith's, in New bury, January 15, 1^835.

Edwin Ferris - son of Gilbert J. Ferris, was born in Otsego county, New Yolk) September 6, 1801, and came, with his father's family, to Burton, in 1807. He lived with his father, working on the farm until he was twenty years of age. He then bought his time, by paying a note of one hundred dollars, that his father owed John Ford, esq. He paid the note by working for Mr. Ford eight months. -For several years he followed teaching, and finally settled on a farm, on Little Mountain, where he is now quietly living. He has, for many years, kept a daily record of meteorology. He has also furnished much interesting material for tfie pioneer history. Of his teaching and government in school, mention is made under the head of "Education."

1808. Adolphus Carlton - was born at Bellow's Falls, Vermont, in 1784, and came to Ohio in 1798. Was with Judge Kingsbury, near Cleveland* but came to Burton in 1808. Loalma Cook, daughter of I beacon Mariman Cook, was born February 24, 1792. She became Mrs. Carlton, December 30th, 1809, Esquire Lyman Benton marrying them. The style of dress and particular fashion of that day is not given, but the "setting out" which she received was considered ample. It reads: 50 acres of land in the north part of lot 58, $150 ; tea and bake kettle, $4.50; crockery, $4.00; 3 small and 1 great chair, $3.37; 1 set tablespoons, $1.00; 2 beds and and bed clothes, $20.00; 1 fire shovel, $1.00; 1 set knives and forks, $2.00; 1 pair tongs, $1.75; 15 pounds feathers and tick, $7.50, making her outfit $45.12. Land in addition to the above, $64; total land, $214.

They located permanently on lot 79, about too rods east of the Dickerman house, living there until his death, September 4th, 1823. He was a carpenter, and also worked at clearing his land.

Of his shooting, Garry Cramton tells, there was a place where the wolves came near a sheep pen in the woods, some eighty rods from the house, and he knew just where the pack centered- One dark night he heard the contiuuous howlings, took his rifle and stepped beside the door, and aimed for the spot from whence he heard the dismal howls. In the morning he found a dead wolf, and considered it the best shot he ever made.

The widow worked on as best she could to raise seven boys, all of whom grew up to manhood, under the kind influences of good moral training. Elisha died March 15,1869; Hiram was killed by a boiler explosion, June 15, 1867, being thrown from Huff's shop above the trees, into his own yard, his body falling in the path from the house to the barn; Merrim an was in the Union service from the State of Iowa, and died March 27th, 1862, near Vicksburg; Asa died in Aurora, September 27th, 1865. With Amasa he repaired the old Hoadley gaw~ mill in 1845; built the Lathan mill in 1848. In 1858 they built the grist-mill where the Center mill now stands, west of town ; sold to William Bolton in 1864, and went to Aurora and built a gnst-mill, which Amasa completed in 18C6. Amasa, with Andrew Durand, built the blacksmith shop north of Carlton's wagon shop, whicl^was torn down in 1878. Almon, Hiram, and Merriman were carpenters; Amasa and John, blacksmiths ; Asa, a wagonmaker, and Elisha a farmer. Amasa and John live near together on the street west from the old wagon shop, and Almon on the east side of the park.

wisely followed. He always said no, to the social invitation to drink, so common in that day. The sons never acquired the habit, but lived temperance men.

1 808. Thadeus Bradley - made his home on lot 1 5, opposite, and a little north from Judge Peter Hitchcock's, where S. C. Hinkston now resides. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and many the tales he told. His wife was known as " Aunt Parnall." They came here about 1808. He planted an orchard when near the age of 50, and was told he would not live to see any fruit from it, but at the age of 75, said he had picked of its bearing many years. Some of the trees are still standing. The children were Selah, Nabby, Betsey, Gomer and Hull. Hull lived north of the road on lot 8, but later occupied the old home, and died there May 1, 1863. His sons, Hull and Lawrence are both practicing medicine. Hull in Hillsdale, Mich., Lawrence in Horicon, Wisconsin, many years, and now in California. Thadeus Bradley died Nov. 16, 1840, aged 84, and his wife died January 16, 1861, aged 95. They rest in the family yard with the Williams'.

Hull Bradley - was with Elzar Cook and cut a hollow tree, tailing it to stop the hole from which a bear could come out. Then, they punched the bear with a pole and he put his paws out at a smaller hole, and each dog tried the paws, and had his nose pealed. They cut the pawrs off and then cut the bear out. After his feet were off he would knock the dogs down with the stub of his paws, and was too much for them in the fight. The hunters shot him.

Selah - was a thorough mechanic, and started up manufacturing of various kinds on the little stream north of Williams. He was sick with typhoid fever, it is said forty days, when he got up, walked to the window and back to the bed and died, Sept. 1 6th, 1833.

1808. About this time Freeman Hyde moved on to Oak hill, west of Daniel Dayton's, and had his first blacksmith shop there. John Ford went to Parkman with an ox team, and brought him to town. Afterwards he had a shop west of the square, and beyond where Dr. Lawyer's barn stands. He lived on the brow of the hill south of the square as early as 1814. A Vermonter, with a fund of wonderful stories, and a very good mechanic, he could always supply the trade. In later years the marvelous story-telling grew with him, and the fires of the imagination were kept aglow as -bright as the irons from the forge, and it is said that it took a pint of whiskey to get a horse shod.

1810. Solomon Charter - located on northwest comer of lot 42, a little way southwest of Beard's mill. His wife was Olive, a daughter of Nathan Parks. He was early engaged with his brother, John, for Welsh, of Troy, in cutting the first road toward Burton, and was a great chopper. Born in Vermont, at Orwell, April 3, 1792, he was yet a boy, when coming here in 1810.

He told of a wild cat walking on a log, and that a big deer stood looking at it. He shot the cat and let the deer go. He learned the distillery trade of Matthew Fleming.

1810. Ebenezer Green - came to Burton about this time, and occupied the house Lyman Durand had left, and Edw'in Ferris tells this story of him: He made the acquaintance of Henry Umberfield, Ebenezer Hayes, and some other Burton men at Malden, Canada, in this year. These men were engaged m smuggling across the river from Malden to Detroit. The authorities in Malden arrested Green, Hayes, and, I believe, another or two, and put them in jad- Harry Umberfield by some means escaped arrest, and corresponded with the men in jail, and furnished them implements to break out of prison. One day they had a secret passage about completed, and told Henry Umberfield to meet them, with a boat, at the shore of the river, at a certain specified hour. Accordingly, Harry came at the appointed time. The men had anticipated him, and were at the shore before him. When the bow of his boat touched the shore, Green seized hold of it and called out: "Who comes here?" Henry, supposing it to be an officer that was intending to arrest him, cried out: "God Almighty!" Says Green: "If it is God Almighty there is no danger; He will not harm us." So they all got into the boat, crossed over to Detroit, and shortly after returned to Burton, Green in company. He used to say: "Til not take from a poor man, but the world owes me a living, and I'll have it. But, I'll take from such as can afford to spare it." He was an excellent hand to work, so people would employ him. He was one of the strongest, and most active men in Burton. Very few men had any business with him. Oh "training days" he had great sport,- wrestling and running foot races with the Indians. There was no Indian who conld run or wrestle with Eb. Green. He ran with "Big Deer," a fleetfooted Indian, from near the 'Hickox brick to where the Store block now stands, and won the race. The "redskin" said "white man spry."

Before Green came to Malden, he had lived on the plantation of Colonel Talbot, an aristocratic Englishman, at St. Thomas, on the street running parallel with the shore of Lake Erie, called Talbot street, after the name of the colonel. When Green was in jail at Malden, the old colonel called to see him, and accosted him with, "How are you, friend Green; you've got into the right place at last. You'll not get out of here very soon to steal sheep and lambs, or grain boarding here a day or two. 1 can walk out of here any time I please." Says the colonel: "You'll not leave these quarters very soon, you thief." "Fudge," says Green; "you Canadians don't know enough to build a jail that will hold a Yankee." And sure enough, the next day but one, Green and his associates left for Detroit.

1814. Ephraim Cook. - A deed dated July 13, 1814, from Samuel Hopson and wife to Ephraim Cook, was witnessed by David Hill and Thomas Davidson, before Lyman Benton, justice of the peace, and conveys 75 acres, east half of lot 43, for $600 - $8 per acre.

Cook arrived in June, and planted Yankee corn on the lot, near the creek, east from the house, and it ripened in good season. The house was of split logs, and stood southwest from the present frame house, which is east of where Horace Cook lives. The present house was built in 1822. The 25th of June sand was being taken out of the bank east from where the house was to stand. Samuel Cook, a lad of 7 years, was in the hole. The bank caved in, and he fell forward on to his face. Only the head and shoulders were covered, but the ears and nostrils were packed full of. sand. His brother Horace found him, and called for help, but before any one came, he was dead.

Stephen Cook - bought his farm of 118 acres, where Charles Rice now lives, of Judge Hitchcock, and, Elijah Hayes says, worked to pay for the whole of it. On it is a fine sugar orchard, which he worked quite extensively. He also made brick several years, and finally sold out and resides in Michigan. His son, Samuel, was in the service, with the 100 days' men, at Johnson's island. Ephraim, the second son, was in the 128th Ohio infantry, stationed at John- son's island. Celestine F., a daughter, married William E. Joy, and lived in Illinois, a valued teacher in her town, and a highly respected lady.

The Cooks had an old dog, "Tom," that used to drive the wolves north to the woods, and he was as often followed back to the sheep fold by the hungry pack. They had a run-way at the foot of the hill towards town, and were often seen crossing the road. When going to school, the boys used to find their tracks at this place, and saw where they had rolled in the snow. The boys always made lively steps by that point. From the pen and nest of pigs, near the house, bears helped themselves.

In the cellar, by the old chimney, in 187b, a deer's foot and leg bone was found by Samuel Cook. It had been laid there by the hunters, who used the marrow grease for oiling the locks of their rifles.

1816. James Gilmore - born in Rainham, Massachusetts, March 25, 1788, was in Burton this year, and with Robert Edson, in building the mills on Hopson's creek, west of the village. He had been here and worked for Lemuel Punderson in 1812. In 1820 he moved to the north road, on "west branch," and soon after put up the saw, and also the grist-mill, long known as "Gilmore's mills," He built a new grist-mill in 1847. The same saw-mill is still standing. October 15, 1817, he was married to Celia Thompson, in Rockingham, Vermont, and they started west. She was born in Easton, Massachusetts. He died December 23, 1853. She still survives him, at the age of 86. Their children were: Phebe Ann, James, Maxcy, Altha, Eliza, David, Eunice, and Mary. He was an industrious miller; his steady care and good nature drew custom, and held it, and a larger head of water was advantageous in the new locatibn. His thrift gained a property of $25,000. By trade he was a foundryman, and his brother Minzy carried on the business, having the first furnace in the township, and opposite the mill, east of the stream, for many years.

1816. Amariah Rose. - A tall, muscular man, braved the miasmas of a new country, this year, and settled on lot 58, not far from the river The high, characteristic red house stands there yet, and is occupied by Elizar, the oldest son. With his wife, he was a regular attendant on the Congregational church, a faithful member, and was a neighbor much esteemed by his fellow men. He was born in North Branford, Connecticut, in 1792, and died at the age of 83.

1816. Merritt Nettleton - met David Smith at Sheffield, Massachusetts, and they came together, being at Captain Spencer's, in Claridon, the 15th of October, this year. Smith went to Auburn. Phebe Nettleton, afterwards Mrs. Bennet Sperry, was a baby six months old. She died at the hand of Stroud in the fearful tragedy of 1878. Nettleton was a carpenter. He built the house on the southeast corner of the square, \vhere Dr. Lawyer now resides.

John Nettleton - a good carpenter, did the "boss work" in finishing off the inside of the Congregational church, when it was built. He moved to the Rapids in very primitive style. North, in Captain Fowler's woods, he cut a 4-foot log, 20 feet long, and dug out of it a large canoe. In this he loaded his family and food, and sailed down the Cuyahoga.

1817. John Brown. - In the war of 1812 he served in ^ New Hampshire regiment, and afterwards m the nth United States infantry. He was appointed drum-major, and was always called Major Brown. His regiment was in the a service, and took part in the fight at Lundy's Lane. The beat of his drum will long be remembered in Burton. He was born March 14, 1 791, and came m

1818. Dennis Cramton - was born July 27, 1799, in Guilford, Connecticut. When he started from the east, as he afterwards told it, in a public address, he "supposed he was going west of whiskey," but found that it had traveled west too, "a roaring lion going about seeking whom to devour." About 1820 he married, and in the same address, made before the Sor^s of Temperance, he speaks of settling: "Settle, no; but went wherever alcohol drove me." At last, after twenty years, the family broken, the wife gone, the father a wreck, he paints a picture of waste and of sorrow, and leaves the sad story to be read by his grandchildren. For a long time reformed, he continued sober and was respected.

Of his children, Rachel married Russell Humiston . Caroline, Oliver Gaylord, and Henry lives east, in New#Yoik State, and is an active business man. April 15, 1840, Henry began work for Abram Barnes, at $4.00 per month.

Dennis, like all the Cramtons, loved music. His hunt with Mr. Hall is still told. They were in a canoe on the Cay^hoga, and saw a cub up a tree. Hall caught him, and before he could get into tho boat, was overtaken by the mother. She mounted him, and they fell in the water, the bear tramping him in the mud with all her weight. Cramton broke his gun over her, and theq dealt her such heavy blows with the barrel that she went off and he threw the barrel after her. It was afterwards found four rods up the bank. He pushed the mud from Hall's nose and mouth, got him into the boat, rolled him to start the water from his ears and head - then pulled up the river, with no sign of life from the trampled man. A spot called Gunn Island taking its name from a Mr. Gunn who was here early, was just ahead. Cramton watched his companion, as best he could, and finally saw him gasp. He landed at the island, and brought Hall to consciousness, then took him on to the old bridge -and Simeon Rose took him to his house, content to not bring down another cub.

1818. Ira Hoadley - was born April 19th, 1803, and came from Northfield. Connecticut, with Noah Page, the fall of 1818. .He worked for Page, and twoor three years for Stephen Ford. October 19th, 1828, he married Lovira Brooks, and in 1830 they settled on lot 49, east of the river, where Obed Wicks now lives. He was ensign, lieutenant, and captain in 1st company, 5th regiment, 1st brigade, 9th division Ohio militia, all in the years, 1827, 1828, and 29, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 3d regiment, September 30th, 1833, and resigned with honorable discharge, exempt from military duty, July 19th, 1834. Removing to Bloomfield, Trumbull county, with his family, he was postmaster there in 1845 and '46. In 1847, they were in the Cramton hotel, in Burton, but returned to the farm in 1848, and were there until 1864, when they moved to the village, where he died July 1 8th, 1878. He was a hospitable and friendly man. His widow still survive s him.

John, the eldest son, went into the Union service, enlisting September 10th, 1864, in Company G, 177th Ohio infantry, and was in at the close of the war. He is now living in town.

1820. Rufus Hoadley - his father came two years later. His wife, Hannah, was a sister of Noah Page. They located where J. C. ( hell is now lives, on a tract of eleven acres. He built a blacksmith shop, and carried on his trade.

Merwin Hoadley - learned blacksmithing of Robert Edson. In the shop where Harlow Charter now plies his trade, he worked some years. He married Adaline Barnes. They removed to Hiram to educ ate their children, and in 1863 emigrated to Garden Grove, Decatur county, Iowa, where they now live.

running west from H. H. Ford's. He brought the family through with one pair of oxen in 1822. Many fine red cattle were grown on his farm, and to this day the Devon bloods fat in the same fields. A long time deacon of the Congregational church, he will be remembered as an attentive and faithful member, who was always in his place, the venerable white head giving dignity to his genial face. He was thrown from a buggy and soon died.

Robert, his son, was a faithful worker, after his father, in the church. He has passed away. Gilum, the 2d son, still lives on the old Homestead.

1822. Burt Jewett - built a house on lot 28, where the dilapidated orchard now stands, opposite the VVelton school-house. He married Olive Hayes.

David Jewett. - A land mark of these times is the lone pine tree near the river, on lot 29. Close to it David Jewett built his house, and probably planted the tree about 1822 or '23. -

Some militia men set out before break of day, at the general muster in 1827, to awaken the officers, by shooting near their houses. A party gathered at Jonathan Brooks', and fired. Frank Jewett had his hand blown off.

1823. Benjamin Stickney - arrived November 17, from Grafton, Windham county, Vermont. His wife was Polly, a sister of Robert Edson. They rented the farm where Ferris*had lived, on lot 84, Oak hill, the summer of 1824, and in August Mr. Stickney died.

Two sons, Simeon and Elbridge, grew up to manhood. Elbridge, an upright, sober, and industrious citizen, has been equal to much hard labor, and possessed of shrewd intelligence, has contributed time and money to improve the breeds of cattle, sheep and poultry, and to fruit growing. Simeon carried on the harness business. He died August 26, 1879.

Elbridge tells of hunting deer. A section of bark of a 15 inch tree was cut, and one-half the shell had a board fitted to it at one end, and the bark was set upright in the bow of a canoe. A large candle of tallow and beeswax was set into the board at the bottom, and the bark shell became a reflector to throw the light of the candle ahead of the canoe. The hunters were in the boat, and screened from the bow by the shadow of the bark. In the summer night there was no wind, and the canoe floated noiseless down the red waters of the Cuyahoga. Deer stood in the water cooling, or feeding on the tall grasses. Merwin Hoadley drew a bead on one that had watched the delusive light until the hunter could see his eyes, and fired. They did not stop for the game, but floated on to find another shot. The game killed in this novel way, at night, was picked up the next day. This boat hunting with lights was quite successful, and large numbers of deer were killed.

1824. Brooks Bradley - located in April, on lot 90, where Reuben Jolly now lives; afterwards moved to Oak hill. His son, Stephen, occupies the farm near the pond. He was a brother of Justus Bradley, the hatter.

Cephus Smith - first settled east of Bartholemew's, on lot 100. He was a keen hunter. William Cay tells of hauling from, the woods, nine deer which he killed in one day, and Richard Slitor credits him the same number, in one day's hunt.

Richard V. Slitor - was born in Chatham, Columbia Co., N. Y., Nov. 24, 179° and came to Burton in 1826. With an eight horse team, in the year 1817.be moved the engine, boilers and anchor from Albany to Buffalo for the first Lake Erie steamer - "Walk in the Water" - hauling the whole in three loads of f°ur tons each. One load, by mishap, slipped off with the wagon into a ditch. His fellow teamsters brou3ht their spans to his aid, and when all were hitched, he had 21 horses under one rein, which he drove with the one line so carefully as to pull the load safely out.

last night (Oct. 31st, 1821) the 'Walk in the Water' was beached upon the coast near Buffalo. From Mr. George Williams, the only passenger of th<? ill-fated boat now living, a resident of Cleveland, the Herald obtained a copy of a paper, signed by passengers of the steamer, expressing their gratitude to Capt. J. Rogers the officers and crew for their gallant conduct in saving the lives of all on board. The terrific storm which was encountered, threw the boat, heavily laden as she was, entirely on the beach. The first officer who sailed her was Captain Fish, of Buffalo, and her whistle first awakened the echoes of the "old Cuyahoga" at Cleveland in Sept., 1818."

Mr. Slitor married Amanda A. Dayton in the year 1819, and the children that came with them to find a home "across the river" on lot 96, were Jerome, Caroline, Moses and Enoch. Mrs. SlitOr was born in Herkimer Co., N. Y.,. in the year 1800. When he located, just north of the Troy line-, there were only three houses between his own and the centre of Hiram. ( doming into the country with his family in a two-horse wagon, when he reached Chardon he had barely six cents in his pocket? Truman Slitor moved in after him, and then came the Hubbards and the Silvernails, In 1829 he began cutting the road from the Troy line north to where it intersects the road leading to Parkman, and with the help of others, in 14 days, he had finished it so as to drive his team through.

In the war of 1812 he was in Capt. Lowell Hutchins' company, Col. Nellis' regiment, 13th N. Y. infantry, in the command of Gen. Oliver Collins, and served 3J4 years to the end of the war. His first discharge was from the 18 months service, and was written on white birch bark, which he now has in his posession. At Sacketts Harbor, at the close of the war, without pay and 400 miles away, he started out for home, with but 3 cents for fare, on so weary a journey. He had gone out a boy, and was so long away that his family gave him up for lost, and supposed he was dead. Returning rough and ragged, with nothing but his good name as a soldier, he came to his father's house and asked shelter for the night. He was welcomed 4nd fed, but unknown. What a joy when the old father found his son was alive, and the mother knew that her boy was home again.

He cleared up his farm, and remained there until 1861, when he removed to the village and lived there six years, afterwads going back to the chosen spot of his early days, and near by, just over the line in Troy, he still lives, at the ad^ vanced age of 89, and is vigorous and able to walk to town and back again. The children born here, are: John E., Amanda Ann, Fanny M., Richard L., and George J.

Mrs. Slitor died March 1, 1877. With tyim she "walked with" the Methodist church for a time, but when the Free Will Baptists organized in Auburn, they united there. Elder Crafts often held Baptist meetings in the school-house near by, any the quarterly meetings were held in Mr Slitor's barn, and when the school-house was too full they would adjourn to the barn.

Joel Tuttle Merriman, - son of Joel Merriman, was born in Cheshire, Con necticut, April 21, 1804. He lived at home till nearly 21 years of age, when he went to work for William Law, and worked for him eight years, at eight dollars per month. During this time he met with an accident by which he came near loosing his life. He was driving a vicious boar across a field, when the animal attacked him, mutilating him in a terrib'e manner. He managed to escape to the house, exhausted and weakened by the loss of blood, and at once became unconscious, in which condition he remained for some time. Under the medical treatment of that time it was twelve weeks before his clothes could be removed, and more than a year before he could resume his labors. He was married February ij, 1832, to Chloe, a daughter ot Erzra Merriman, with whom, the next fall, he came to Burton. They spent the winter at Myron Beards, whose wife was a sister of Mrs. Merriman. The following spring they secured rooms of Calvin Williams, where they remained during the summer, while he began to clear a spot, on which to build a house, on a piece of land he bought soon after his arrival in Burton. He moved.on to his land, on lot 7, in November, 1833. He used to give two day's work for one of a man with oxen. His father was out in 1833, and saw the hard work going on. He gave Joel $50 to buy oxen, and the son often said it was the greatest present he ever received.