Pike Township (part 2 of 2)

'"¢GRANDMOTHER Barnp.'"'> - Next to 'Aunt Peggy Wright," ''Grandmother Barnd'' was the last of the pioneer women of Pike township to depart this life. She was another representative woman, and one who is widely remembered. She died in 1880, at the age of eighty-six. The following interesting facts are gleaned from an obituary sketch published in the Perry County Democrat:

'¢ Julia Ann Eckels was born at Cumberland, Maryland, February oth, 1794. She was married to Jacob Barnd, December 26th, 1815. They emigrated to New Lexington, Ohio, in 1817.

'¢ Their removal from Cumberland to this place was not an easy task, under the circumstances. They brought no wagon, and only one horse. We believe they had two little children at the time, and also brought some light personal and household effects. Mr. Barnd, of course, walked nearly all the way. New Lexington had just been laid out, and a few log houses erected. Mr. Barnd bought an unfinished log house, situated on the corner where the Horahan block now stands. The house had been erected by Ezekiel Chaney, and was purchased from him. Chaney was one of the first men that lived in the town. The writer has often heard Mrs. Barnd describe the place as she rode into town to her new home. The trees had been cut on Main street, and the timber cleared away ; but the brush had been piled flat, all along the street, preparatory to being covered with earth, so as to round up the street. But the brush was not covered for some time.

'¢When Jacob Barnd and wife came to Ohio, Christian Barnd, a brother of Jacob, lived on the farm now owned and occupied by Curtis Rugg, a mile or two northwest of town. Sometime in the summer of 1817, two other brothers came to Ohio, and visited Christian and Jacob. We have heard Mrs. Barnd describe how she wanted them to come, ae dreaded their coming for they had no table, no chairs, and but very ittle of anything else. A rude table was improvised, and three-legged stools were made. She secured a wild turkey, got some potatoes of a neighbor, and she had a cow, and milk of her own, if we remember right.- So the dinner was: prepared, and, after all, was good enough for anybody. The brothers were very jolly, as they sat around the rude board, and enjoyed their dinner, the last they ever all ate together.

'<The log house on the corner was weather-boarded, raised in height, and additions built to it, and it became the famous '* Temperance House, by J. Barnd," and as such was very favorably known to travelers and sojourners. Jacob Barnd was a hatter by trade, and he, fora long time, carried on a shop, but finally abandoned the business. He died in 1856. : been built in this place, and Mrs. Barnd went, once a month, afoot, and carried her baby, to attend church, near where Henry Hazleton now lives, at the mouth of Shawnee run. She would go Saturday and return Sunday afternoon. She united with the Second Baptist Church thirty odd years ago. She was a regular attendant at church as long as she was able to go anywhere. She lacked but two days of being eighty-six years old at the time of her death.

'©Grandmother Barnd was one of the last of the pioneer women, who came to the town and neighborhood previous to 1820. She had been tenderly brought up in a town or city, and her people were well-to-do ; but she hesitated not to start out on a lonesome journey into the wilderness, and labor to found and furnish anew home. She did her part nobly, and was highly honored and respected in every station of life. Few persons will be more kindly or generally remembered when they pass off the stage of action."