Winchester Township (part 19 of 30)

Ye said Thomas Hollingsworth and Grace Cook appeared in an assembly of people, at a meeting for ye purpose, appointed at ye house of Nathaniel Park in Concord, and ye said Thomas Hollingsworth taking ye said Grace Cook by ye hand, did, in a solemn manner, openly declare that he took her to be his wife, promising through ye Lord's assistance, to be to her a loving and faithful husband until death should separate them. And then and there in ye said assembly Grace Cook did in like declare ye that she took said Thomas Hollingsworth to be her husband, promising through ye Lord's assistance, to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them. And moreover, ye said Thomas Hollingrsworth and Grace Cook, (she according to ye custom of marriage assuming the name of her husband) as a further confirmation thereof, did then and there to these presents set their hands, and we, whose names are hereunder written, being

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Though not an Abolitionist at the outset, he did not like to live in a slave state and for that reason left Kentucky. He first undertook to be in favor of the removal of the blacks from this country by colonization, but finding that impracticable, he became an ardent Abolitionist, and in his dying hours, he was greatly comforted by the fact that President Lincoln had freed the slaves.

His home in West Union he owned from the time he came there in 1817, and the present Hollingsworth home, built on the plan of "Abraham's delight'* at Winchester, Virginia, was built in 1836, in place of his former home taken down to make place for the new one.

The Maysville and Zanesville Turnpike was built between 1838 and 1840, and he superintended its construction between Maysville and West Union. He had three daughters. The first married a Mr. Lockhart. and reared a large family. She died three 3 ears ago at the home of one of her sons in Kansas.

Mr. Hollingsworth's daughter, Caroline, never married. She lived in West Union all her life and was most highly esteemed. She furnished the data for this sketch in 1894 and since then she has joined the silent majority.

William Kirker was born January 24, 1791, in the vicinity of Pittsburg, Penn., the son of Governor Thomas Kirker and Sarah Smith, his wife. He was the eldest son and child of a family of thirteen. He marrierl Esther W^illiamson and died February to, 1857. His father moved to Manchester in 1792 and lived there until 1794 when he located on the well known Kirker iFarm in Liberty Township. In the War of 1812, he was a First Lieutenant and after the war, he was made a Colonel of the Militia, which position he held until near the time of his death. He was County Commissioner in 1825 and again in 1832. He was made an elder in the Presbyterian Church at West Union in 1826, his father being an elder in the same church. He was a delegate to the Presbytery from his church from September 29, 1826, many times, until April 5, 1854. He was always courteous and kind to everyone and was noted for his philanthropy. Judge J. C. Coryell said of him that he was the most useful man in his community, and that the poor, the widow and the orphan lost their best friend when he died.

His wife, Esther Williamson, was born en June 4, 1797, and died January 4, 1880. He had a large family of children whose descendants are scattered throughout the United States.

late of Wayne Township, Adams County, was bom May 29, 1816. By the time he attained manhood he began work for himself on a farm near Harshaville. He was married in i&^-i to Margaret A. Patton, daughter of John Patton of Cherry Fork, bom on the sixteenth of April, 1824. They had four sons, three of whom are now living. John Patton Kirkpatrick resides at Kansas City, bom June 23, 1843. He married a daughter of William L. McV>y. Adams Anderson Kirkpatrick, who has a separate sketch herein, was born November 14, 1847, and Robert Stewart Kirkpatrick. His wife died soon after the birth of her youngest son, and he was married the following year to Mrs. America Kerr, widow of Robert Kerr. They had one child, Oscar Bennett Kirkpatrick, bom December 6, 1856, now a physician at North Liberty.

Nathaniel Kirkpatrick lived near Harshaville when he was first married. He then removed to the old home, now the property of Huston Harsha, occupied by a man by the name of Beekly, just before his first wife died, and he resided there until 1882, when he removed to North Liberty. While residing at Harshaville, he was one of the first elders in the U. P. Church at Unity, and after liis removal to his home on Grace's Run, he was a member of the Cherry Fork Church. He was a trustee of Wayne Township for many years, but never sought or held any public offices, but he usually attended all the political conventions, either as a delegate or spectator.

Mr. Kirkpatrick was a man of wide and extensive reading, well informed on all current topics of Church and State. He was a man of very decided opinions, and was fond of giving expression to them. His opinions on religious and political subjects were well considered, and he was a leader among men. He exercised a great deal of influence in the circles of his own acquaintance. To him is entitled the suggestion which made the Hon. John T. Wilson first State Senator and afterwards Congressman, and many of the poHtical results in his county and district were due to his suggestions. He was a ver\' ardent Republican and always antislavery. He was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, from the station at Gen. William Mclntire's to the house of Joseph W. Rothrock at Mt. Leigh, and has conducted many a fugitive over this route. \o fugitive applied to him in vain, and no bondsman ever placed himself under his care and was returned to slavery. He was an Abolitionist always, but prior to the war, thought it best to eo into the Republican party and did so, but never acted as a third party man. Prior to the Republican party he was a Whig. He was a most agreeable companion, a good neip:hbor and a good citizen. He was always cheerful and genial, and it was always pleasant to meet him and converse with him. He appeared tf> be built on the plan of which there are very few models, and in this generation which has succeeded him there seems to be fewer. His passing was a loss to the community and to all who knew him. He died June 20, 1886.

was born June 22, 1/79. "^^^ Richmond, \'irginia. He came with his father, Thomas Kincaid. to Limestone (Maysville, Kentucky) about 1788. In J 797, he came to the settlement at Manchester and remained there until 1800, when he married Sallie Hannah, March 27, 1800, and moved to near the Kirker graveyard. Here he and his wife lived for a few years and then moved to what is now the old Kincaid homestead, where they died. They raised a family of eleven children, seven boys and four girls, The boys were Thomas J., John H., Dr. William P., Dr. Samuel W. and Dr. W. P. Kincaid, who was Senator four years from the Clermont County District. John Kincaid was one of the first Justices of the Peace of Liberty Township and served from 1818 to 1830. He was commissioned Captain of the First Company in the First Batallion, Third Regiment, First Brigade and Second Division of the Militia of this State by Gov. Thomas Worthington, May 19, 1815. He was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Regiment in the First Brigade and Second Division of the Militia of Ohio by Thomas Worthington, Governor, October 20, 18 1 8. He was commissioned Associate Judge for a term of seven years by Governor Allen Trimble, January 18, 1828, which he held at the time of his death, which occurred April 3, 1834. The letters and papers he left behind are living witnesses of a broad and well-balanced mind. He did as much for Adams County from 1800 to 1834 as any man who lived in it. In 181 2, he raised a company at West Union for the war and was appointed Colonel of a regiment.

John Kincaid was a Presbyterian and helped to build and organize the stone church at West Union in 1809. But in 1830, the Presbyterian Church denounced Free Masonry and he was asked to renounce the order, which he positively refused to do, left the Presbyterian Church and joined the old Union Church at Benton ville.

John Kincaid was one of the charter members of the West Union Lodge, No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons, which was issued in 1817. He was the first Junior Warden and afterward Master several times. He was a Knight Templar Mason and his Royal Arch apron, sash and Knight Templar jewel are still preserved. The jewel is solid silver and finely engraved. They are all in fine condition and are nearing the century mark. The possessor, his grandson, W. S. Kincaid, prizes them highly. Money could not buy them. Sallie Kincaid, wife of John Kincaid, died October 22. 1824, and on January 19, 1826, he married Dorcas Alexander.

On the morning of April i, 1834, John Kincaid walked down across his farm to look at some calves and came in about ten o'clock, sick, and on the morning of the third, he was a corpse. He died at the age of fifty-five, yet he got in more than a good many men would in one hundred years. At the time of his death, he was the nominee of the Whig party for Congress and would have been elected had he lived.

Joseph West Lafferty was born in Connels ville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, October 2y, 1809. In the year 1814 his parents emigrated to Ohio, settled on a farm three miles east of West Union and his father took up the business of wool carding and carried it on for more than thirty years.

From his majority until 1848, he was a Democrat. From November 15, 1834. until December 15, 1841, he was the postmaster at West Union. In 1848, he supported \'an Buren on the Free Soil ticket. When the Republican party was organized in 1856, he identified himself with that and supported it until his <ieath. He A'as ar. arient supp^jirer of the war I'jr the L'nion and two of his sons were in the service- When the Internal Revenue Act went into ettect in 1S62, ilr. Latterty was apjy>inted a Deputy Assess'^Fr for his county and ser^xd as such f':^r several years. He took great interest in the ad\'ancetnent of the community in which he lived and ser\-ed on the B«jard of Education for a number of years. He was a member of the Board when the separate districts were united and a schoolhouse for graded schools built. There v. as bitter opposition to the neu districts and h^ use. but Mr. Latteny and others stfxxi for the advance^I ideas and thev prevailed, fn March, 1839. he was married to Elizabeth Burwell. daughter oi Nicholas Bumell. who sur\-ived him. His children were Sarah Rebecca, wife of Smith Grimes of Mineral Springs* Dr. Xelson B. Laffeny. of HiIlsfx>ro, Charles L. Lafferty, of Pittsburg. Penn.. and J*>seph and Julia E. J^fTertv, of West Union. Mr. Laftertv was a student of men and affairs. He wa? a goo«i reader and a careful thinker. He had pn^- nounced views on all public questions and his views were all made and expressed after mature deliberation. It was always agreeable and profitable to listen to his discussion of any subject, because he would not express his views until after much studv and after careful fkrliberation. His views wtTc advanced on all subjects and they were earnest and conscientious. All evil and wrong was abhorrent to him. The emotions of his soul were always generous.

He had the dignity and air of a Chesterfield and it was inborn in him. He always wore a silk hat and wore a standing collar with stock. He was neat and careful of his personal appearance: he had a pleasing address and was always courteous to every one he met. Xo more of a gentleman in his manners and address could be found anywhere. He was a most useful and valuable citizen, always leading public opinion <:»n all mattcr^ of public concern, general or local.

was an early .settler of .Adams County. He \»as born Xovember 3. I76«.>. and must have located in Adams County about 1800. On February 10. iHjfj, hc! was appointed an AssrKiate Judge of Adams County, and was nai)pointcrl twice, serving continuously in the office until February-, 1832.

I'Vom April 13, 1836, for three years, he was a Justice of the Peace for Arlams CVmnty. From July 10, 1841, to Xovember 4, 1846, he was tlitr prxstniastcT at Manchester, Ohio. He died July 4, 1847, ^"^ ^^ interred in the old cemetery at Manchester. His wife, Margaret, died August 17, 1826, at the age of forty- four years and he never remarried. He had two sons and two daughters. His sons were Samuel and Lucien. Samuel marricfl Elizabeth Ellison. Thev lived on the Williamson farm near Manchester, l)ut went to Minneapolis and died there. The daughters were \ancy an,l Liicinda Jane. Lucinda married David Ellison, a brother of William h'.llison and lived and died in Manchester. She has a danj^ditcr, .Mrs. Dayid Stahlcton, residing in Manchester.

lnrlL(e Livingstone was a Demcxrat and a Presbyterian. He was a man of the highest integrity and often chosen as guardian and administrator of estates. Tie enjoyed the confidence of the public all his life.

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was one of Massie*s surveyors and was a native of Mason County, Ken - tucky. He possessed a large fortune and was reported a liberal and honest man. He was unostentatious in his manner and respected by all who knew him. He was never married.

Peter Lee was one of Col. Robert Todd's expedition in June, 1787, which marked out Todd's Trace. He was still living in 1826 and tjestified in May of that year at Georgetown, Ohio, in a case of Martin v. Boone and McDowell, 2 Ohio, 237.

was born in Winchester, Va., March 24, 1767. There he was reared anri there he married Elizabeth Cooley, a widow with one child in June, 1790. She was born in 1760. His eldest child, Sarah, married first to Robert Hood and for a second marriage to Alexander Woodrow, was bom July 13, 1791, in Winchester, Virginia. With this child, his wife and stepchild, he emigrated to Kentucky in 1792, and in 1794 took up his residence in the Stockade at Manchester, Ohio. He was one of the first grand jurors of Adams County, serving at a Court of Quarter Sessions held at Manchester, September, 1797. He purchased the Col. John Means farm, where A. V. Hutson now resides, directly after the treaty of Greenville, and moved there. His son, William, was bom in Manchester, January 14, 1794. Ludlow was born March 11, 1796, and his son James, long a resident of Portsmouth, was born on the Means farm, March 15, 1798, and here on July 6, 1800. his wife, Elizabeth, died and was buried on the farm.

In June, 1802, he married Hannah Finley, daughter of Major Joseph L. Finley, and by her became the father of the following children, all born in Adams' County: Kennedy, Lylc, Joseph, Michael, Preston, John N., Jane E.. married to Jacob McCabe, and the only one now living; Martha Scott, afterwards married to Eli Kinney: Nancy Finley, afterwards married to J. Scott Peebles. In 1803, he was elected Sheriff of the County, and served until 1807. On May ly, 1804, he auctioned off the lots in the new^ town of West Union, and forty-nine years afterwards, on a visit to West Union, could point out each lot and the name of the person to whom he sold it. In 1810. he was again elected sheriff and served one term. In 181 2, though fifty-five years of age, he went into the war at the head of a regiment and performed distinguished services. He was an excellent disciplinarian and one of the bravest of men. Gen. Harrison, under whom he served, gave great meed of praise to his soldierly qualities. In 1819, he was a fourth time elected SheriflF of the County and served one term. Whilt^ he held the office, at the opening of the term, he formed a procession and marched the judges from the hotel to the court room with martial music. On these occasions he wore a cocked hat and carried a sword. No one sustained the dignity of the office as fully as he did. He was very fond of musters, and on these occasions he was much admired for his soldierly bearing.

In 1815, he moved to West Union, and built the house afterwards known as the P>enjamin Woods tavern, and where Lewis Johnston now resides. In 1819, he sold his farm in Sprigg Township to Col. John Means and purchased the McDade farm west of West Union in Liberty

Township. He was County Commissioner from December i, 1823, for three years. He removed to the McDade farm after his retirement from the Sheriff's office. On July 28, 1827, his second wife. Hannah Finley, died, aged forty-four years.

In October, 1828, he married his third wife, Eliza B. Elliot, a widow, who died October 2, 1857, in Hamilton County, Ohio, and is buried at Spring Grove, Cincinnati. In 1832, Col. John Lodwick sold all his possessirms in Adams County and purchased a farm in Storrs Township, Hamilton County, where he spent the remainder of his days. This farm fronted the Ohio River, and he sold off part after part for suburban residences until finally he sold the last part of it and moved on to Pike Street in Cincinnati, where he died.

Many of the prominent families of Cincinnati have suburban homes on the land he bought in 1832. While residing in Storrs Township, he connected himself with the Presbyterian Church, and was a faithful meml^r for the remainder of his days. In 1840, he had the remains of his two wives, Elizal>eth and Hannah, taken up and re-buried in the West Union Cemetery. He placed over them a slab tomb, giving the usual data as to birth and death, followed bv this :

'* Their lanji^uishiag heads are at rest. Their thinking and aching are o'er, Their quiet, immovable breasts Are heaved by affection no more."

From that time, during the remainder of his life, as long as able to travel, every summer, he would visit West Union for the purpose of looking after this tomb. His daughter, Sarah, resided in West Union and he would visit her. He always brought her many household gifts and wDuld s^mictinies remain several weeks. On one of these visits the writer met and conversed with him. He had the most remarkable physical powers. lie survivx*d until the age of ninety-four and was then carried off by a cancer of the face. Had it not been for this, he would easily have lived beyond a century. Think of one dying prematurely at ninetyfour, but such was the case of Col. Lodwick. Not one in 100,000 had such vitality as he had. He was always full of animal spirits, of humor and fun. No one enjoyed a humorous story more than he did, and but few had such a repertoire of them.

He was always an entertaining::;- and agreeable companion, as well for tbv ycnnii.^ as for the old, and he retained all his faculties and his great How of s])irits to the last. At ninety-four, he was as cheerful, humor- <')ns and urbane as at any i)art of his life.

In ])olitics, he was always a DemcxTat ai.d never wavered from that faith. lie trained all his sons in that party and they adhered to it during tlu'ir live*^. In relij^non. be was a Presbyterian and greatly devoted to the church.

Xo descendants of his are ncnv living in Adams County. A number of tliein reside in Cincinnati and a few still remain in Portsmouth. It seems reniarkal)le to reflect that one who at twenty-four ^'ears of age had resided in the St(X'kade at Manchester should survive till the dav of President Lincoln's first inauguration, March 4, i86t.

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Joseph Logan was born a slave in the State of North Carolina, about 1797 or 1798. He was, of course, kept in ignorance of reading or writing, and was brought up as slaves were at that time. He belonged to the Smith family, then a prominent family in North Carolina, and a daughter of which had married the Reverend William Williamson. He resided in Rutherford County. In about 1817, he contracted a slave marriage with Jemima, a black girl of about seventeen years of age, the property of another branch of the Smith family. Logan was then called Smith, after the family name of his master, John Smith. He was of ordinary height, weight about one hundred and forty pounds, and was a V-shaped man, with broad shoulders, and muscular in every fibre of his frame.

He was as black as a coal, 3nd slave as he was, he was a man, in the full sense of the term, and would take no aflfront, either for himself, or for any of his friends. While of ordinary size, he was more powerful and muscular than most of the men of his race, and would not hesitate to use his great strength when occasion required.

He was a favorite servant of his master, and usually travelled with him on all of his journeys. In 1803, ^^is master's sister, Mrs. Jane Smith Williamson, emigrated to Ohio with her husband, and they had taken twenty-seven of his race with them, to set them free.

Joseph had accompanied his master to Ohio on a visit to his master's sister, between 1806 and 18 16, and had some idea of a free State, and the condition of the freemen of his race. In 18 19, by the death of the owner of his wife, she was willing to pay a legacy of $300 to Jane Smith Williamson, his master's niece, and he knew that she was liable to be sold to pay the legacy, and to be sent to the slave market in New Orleans, and this probable event was freely talked of in the family. His feelings, while such an event was impending, cannot be told. Fortunately for him, Miss Jane Williamson would not permit his wife to be sold, but elected to take her and her two children in satisfaction of the legacy. He heard of this, but did not know what it meant, tmtil Miss Williamson came from Ohio, and stated that she would take Temima and her two children. In the meantime, one of Jemima's children died, leaving her with but one. Logan begged Miss Williamson to buy him. and take him to Ohio with his wife; but she was unable to do so, for want of means.

It was the tenth of March, 1821, when Miss Williamson and her brother, afterward the Reverend Thomas Smith Williamson, started North. Each of them rode horseback, and the third horse carried Jemima and her child. Logan was not permitted to bid his wife and child good-bye, nor did he know they were started until after they had gone, and it was some time after they left before he learned of their destination. He simply knew that Miss Williamson intended to take Jemima away with her when she went. That same summer his master visited Ohio and took Logan with him. John Smith visited his sister, Mrs. Williamson, and Logan got to see his wife and spent some time with her, and it was there that he told her that he intended to be a free man, and a slave no longer.

ing several months in Ohio, John Smith took his slave Logan, and went back to North Carolina. Logan took note of the entire route of their return, and determined to escape at the first opportunity.

He made friends with the slaves on his route, returning, so that they would remember him, and aid him. As a precautionary measure to his escape, he privately beat and whipped all the slave-hunting dogs in the vicinity of his home, so that they would refuse to follow him.

He started in the summer of 1822, the next siunmer after his return from Ohio. While his master would not follow him, knowing that he would never be taken alive, other slave hunters of the vicinity undertook to recapture him, but the dogs refused their accustomed duties. When they found the trail of Logan, they sneaked back to their masters, and thus, the hunt had to be abandoned. But Logan was pursued at several points along his route by strange dogs. At one time he killed two dogs with a hatchet, which he carried with him, and wounded two others so badly that they had to be killed. At another time, he plunged into a river to escape the dogs. Two of them swam into the river after him, and he seized them, one at a time, and held their heads under the water until they were drowned. He could not be taken by dogs, as he either frightened them so badly they would not follow him, or he would fight and kill them before the hunters could come up to them. At one time, he was so closely pushed that he was forced to abandon the clothing which he carried, and which was of the best quality, the gift of his master. At another time he was so closely pursued by two men on horseback, that they were within a few feet of him. They ordered him to halt, but he refused, whereupon, they shot at him, but missed him. He traveled mostly by night, and followed the North Star. Wherever he could, he walked in the streams to cut off the scent of the dogs, for these often followed him a short distance. He knew the general course of the mountains and streams he had crossed before, and kept to the North all the time.

He went from North Carolina to the Poage settlement In Tennessee, where he was acquainted. There he learned that Colonel James Poage had taken his slaves North, and set them free. At this point he came very near heinj:^ being recaptured by professional slave hunters. His master had not pursued him. anrl would not. He knew, and had been told, that Lo^an would not he recaptured, and would die rather than suffer such a thing. He was. therefore, willing to suffer his loss; but this did not prevent slave hunters anywhere along his route from seeking to recapture him.

The rivers on his route he swam, where he could not wade them : but he swUm none, until he had first inspected them by daylight, and then swam them at night. Most of his travelling was done between midnight and morning, and on clear nights. He made his inquiries for the route, of slaves, of children, or of white men, whom he met alone. He would inquire for a route, hut would never take the one he inquired for. but would travel parallel with it and away from ii.

Occasionally, he ventured to travel by daylight. He swam the Ohio River near Ashland. Kentucky, and started westward, inquiring for the Reverend William Williamson, who was well known in Ohio. He tlu»n,i^hi it safe to travel l)y daylight in a free State. Not far east of Portsmouth, he met two men, who were willing to be man hunters.

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They recognized him as a fugitive from labor, and told him they believed they would take him and remand him to slavery. He picked one of them up, and threw him over an adjoining fence. Then the next one concluded that Logan was too powerful a darkey for him to tamper with. They gave him directions, however, to find the Reverend William Williamson, and he took a detour, miles to the north. Near Bentonville, he met a stone cutter who attempted to arrest him. Logan told him he could not take him South unless he killed him first. He then hid himself until the next morning.

"The Beeches," where Rev. Williamson resided, was about a mile and a half from Bentonville, and his wife resided there. Next morning, after his adventure with the stone cutter, his wife was the first person he met, and that must have been a joyful meeting for two poor, black people, who felt that they had no friends on earth but each other.

Jemima had been looking anxiously for her husband, as he had told her, when on the visit the year before, that he intended to come to her, or die in the attempt.

Logan's master knew very well where he was. In fact, several slave hunters wrote him, offering to take Logan back to slavery for a suitable reward, but the master declined to give any reward. He knew that Logan would not be taken alive, and dead, he had no value.

Logan made enemies, who wrote his master where he was, and to come and take him; but the master declined to attempt to recapture him. Logan gave it out freely that if any attempt were made to recapture him, he would kill as many of his captors as he could, and would die himself, before he would be retaken. He had demonstrated his physical prowess on many occasions, and his statement was strictly believed.

In Ohio, Logan was a part of the Underground Railroad system, and he helped every runaway slave he could, to freedom. At one time, twelve slave catchers had surrounded his cabin, but he and his friends got away from them. Once, he accompanied the late Thomas Means to Bentonville. Some of the citizens expressed surprise that a fugitive slave should go abroad so boldly. Mr. Means told them that if any of them 'were fools enoug-h to get killed trying to recapture Logan, the community could very well spare them. It was a common thing in West Union, Ohio, after Logan removed there, for anyone who got angry with Logan, to write to his master to come and take him back ; but the master, having promised to free him, and Logan having freed himself, declined to take any steps or to offer any reward to reclaim him.

Logan, like Hercules, was in the habit of carrying a great club with him wherever he went, and it was well known that he would use it on dogs or men, as occasion required. Once, he was caught without his club, and was attacked by three men. Thcv were all armed, and he was not. They attempted to seize him, hut before they could do anything, he knocked them all three down, disarmed all of them, and then told them that he was glad he had forgotten his club that day, as otherwise, no doubt he would have killed them.

Barney Mullen lived near West Union, and would come to the village, get drunk and over-awe every one by his prowess. He had the common Irish prejudice against a negro, and one day struck Logan with his fist. Logan staggered for several yards, but did not fall. As he recovered, he came back at Mullen with a rush, and butted him over. He then pounded him well, and filled his ej'es with sand from the! highway. It took Barney two hours to wash the sand from his eyes. Soon after, he left the country in disgust, emigrating to Illinios. He declared he would not live in a country where a negro could whip a white man.

Logan was fond of being about the hotels and public stables in West Union, and handling horses. He was a follower and attendant of some of the fast young men of West Union, notably, of Bill Lee. One day in 1849, Le^ ^^'*^'*> drunk, and handling a revolvei* in his right hand. He dropped it on the floor, and it was discharged, the ball lodging in Logan's great toe. The wound brought on lockjaw, of which Logan died. He was thus carried off in his prime, with a constitution, which, in the ordinary course of nature, would have lasted him to the age of ninety.

Logan learned to read after he came to Ohio, and there is a story that his freedom was purchased of his master for $200, of which he contributed $100 himself, and $100 was contributed by his friends. I am led to believe that this stor}' is not true; but it was current in his lifetime for many years before his death. Logan, no doubt, gave it countenance, for it seiiwid as a protection against the man hunters. It is said that Logan's maste!'>visitcd Ohio several times after Logan's escape and always saw him anrf^onversed with him on those occasions.

On the first visit after Logjfcp's escape, the master asked Logan to return to North Carolina, urging\the kind treatment he had always received. Logan admitted that, but Sftid that he had escaped to be with his wife, and preferred to remain in fe^iio. The master told him that he would never send for him, and gave hiAl.$io, assuring him of his good wishes. \

Jemima, the wife of Logan, survived undl September 25, 1885, when she died at the supposed age of eighty-five. Logan left several children. Joseph Logan, his son, at the age of sixty-c;i."e» is a resident of West Union. He is a quiet, peaceable citizen, respected by all. Logan also left a daughter, who is married and has a family of children; one girl of which is a music teacher, and has a class of whitO pupiis.

Jane Williamson, who set Jemima free, at a gi^^at sacrifice to herself, survived until the twenty-fourth of March, i8(;5, \\'hen she passed away at the great age of ninety-three. The history of tliC world contains no nobler act than the freeing of Jemima by Jane WilliaPison, and no more daring adventure than that of the escape of Logan.

was horn in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, ]\rav 8. X786. He was married to Margaret Hlack, of Ohio. January 3, i8o(> Tit. 1812, he was a Caj)tain in the Volunte«er Service, and was stationed at Buffalo, and then called to the frontier. lie was there until Christmas a'*'^ then went home. He went to Columbus, Ohio, in 1817, and was Mayoi of the town in 1823. On locating:: in Columbus, he connected with the I^rst Presbyterian Church anrl soon after was made one of its ruling elders. While in Colnmhiis. he followed the business of contracting on pi'Wic works, as such he ne\'x.T wc^ked on Sunday or permitted the men in his employ to do so. His wife died in 1827, and in 1829 he was married to Miss Elizabeth K. Cunning. He remained in Columbus until 1831, when he went to Rockville to get stone to build the canal locks at Cincinnati to lead the canal into the river. That took three years. He then went into the business of building steamboats and built the "Columbia," the "Atlanta" and others. He built a large saw and grist mill at Rockville and carried on a large business. He also went into the culture of peaches and pears. He had great success in the peach culture. He retired from business in 1855, turning it over to his son, John C. Loughry, except the fruit business, which he retained until his death. He took a great interest in the Presbyterian Church at Sandy Springs and had the church and parsonage rebuilt. He was an elder in Dr. Hayes' Church in Columbus while a resident there and also in the Sandy Springs Church. He was liberal in all things, kind and generous. He was the build of men which keeps the world going and preserves all that is good in it. He was an enterprising, loyal citizen, a good man, a pleasant neighbor and a devoted Christian.

, He died August 6, 1862, leaving a son, John C. Loughry, who has a sketch herein, and two daughters, Mrs. Dr. Awl, of Columbus. Ohio, and Mrs. Dr. Marshall, of Blairsville, Pennsylvania.

the founder of Manchester and the leader in the third settlement in Ohio, was born December 28, 1763, in Goochland County, Virginia His grandfather, Charles Massie, with two brothers, had emigrated to Virginia from Chester in England in 1680. His son, Nathaniel Massie, was married to Elizabeth Watkins in 1760 and our subject was their eldest child. He had two brothers and a sister. His brother Henry was the original proprietor and founder of the city of Portsmouth, Scioto County. When he was eleven years of age, his mother died, and two years later his father married again. Nathaniel Massie had a good education and learned the science of surveying. In 1780 and 1781, he served with the Virginia Militia in the War of the Revolution.

In 1783, at the close of the Revolutionary War, at the age of twenty, young Massie set out for Kentucky. He was a surveyor. His father had already located lands in Kentucky and he had excellent letters of introduction. He adapted himself to the conditions of life he found in Kentucky and made a most expert woodsman, hunter and Indian fighter. He had courage*, endurance, and a happy temperament. He would endure any hardships incident to his life without complaint. He was a trader in salt in 1788 and made money in the business. He established a reputation as a land locator which brought him business and made him money. He was a tall and uncommonly fine looking young man. His form was slender and well made. He was muscular, very active, and his countenance expressed energy and good sense. During his residence in Kentucky, he made several expeditions into that part of the Northwest Territor\^ now Ohio, and in 1790. formed the determination to establish a settlement at Manchester. He offered an inlot. an outlot and one hundred acres of land to the first twentv-five who would accompany him. His offers were accepted by nineteen persons, and a written contract entered into December i, 1790. Of those who signed, the de-

In the winter of 1790, in pursuance of this agreement, a settlement was made at Manchester, composed of Virginians, the third in Ohio. A block house and stockade were built. While the first people of Manchester lived in dailv dread of the Indians, and while two of their number were carried off by them, yet they enjoyed themselves more than the present inhabitants. Massie was not, however, content to. remain at the Station at Manchester. He located the land on Gift Ridge in Monroe Township in order to give each of his settlers the one hundred acres of land he had promised and he located one thousand acres of the finest upland for himself, being the tract afterward known as Buckeye Station. This he sold to his brother-in-law. Judge Byrd. in 1807. Massie lx;gan his explorations of the Scioto country soon after his location at Manchester and explored Paint Valley. Here, two miles west of Bainbridge, he located one thousand acres of land on which he afterward made his home. It is today the finest body of land in Ohio, and the writer would rather own it than any tract of the same quantity in the state. Massie must have had a wonderful faculty of judging land in the virgin forest, for he never failed to select excellent land. In 1796, he located the city of Chillicothe. In 1799, he represented Adams County in the first Territorial Legislaure with Joseph Darlinton as his colleague.

In December, 1797, though a layman, he was a Common Pleas Judge of Adams County, and a Colonel of the Militia. He was married to Miss Susan Evcrad Meade, daughter of Colonel David Meade, of Chaumiere. Kaituckv, in 1800, and thereby became the brother-in-law of Charles Willing Kynl. then Secretary of the Northwest Territory, and of William Crci^hlon, the first Secretary of the State of Ohio. He was a member of the second Territorial Legislature from Koss County, where he had tak<-n iij) his residence. He was a member of the first Constitutional Convention from that county. He was a member of the State Senate from Ross County at its first and second sessions.

On January 11, 1804, he was commissioned as Major General of the Second Division of the Ohio Militia, hivinj^^ been elected to that office by the Legislature. It is from this appointment he derived the title of General. At the same time his friend, David Bradford of Adams County, was commissioned as Quartermaster General of the same division. He was a member of the House from Ross County in 1806 and 1807, and a candidate for Governor in 1807 and received 4.757 votes to 6.050 votes for Return J. Meigs, who was declared ineligible to the office. Massie declined to take the office when Meigs was declared ineligible and it was filled by his friend, Thomas Kirker, Speaker of the Senate. To show how he was estimated among those who knew him best we give the vote for Governor in the following counties: Ross - Massie, T032: Meigs, 62: Adams - Massie. .,41: Meigs, 114; Franklin - Massie, 332 : Meigs, 30.

On the question of the ineligibility of Meigs for the office of Governor, the yote of the General Assembly *^tood twenty-four in favor to twenty against. Thomas Kirker, the Senator from Adams and Scioto and v^peaker, did not vote. Of the representatives from Adams and

Scioto, Dr. Alexander Campbell, Andrew Ellison and Phillip Lewis, Jr., voted the ineligibility of Meigs. That vote made Thomas Kirker Governor from December 8, 1807, for another year. Massie might have had the honor himself, but preferred that it should go to Thomas Kirker, who was Governor of the State almost two years without having been elected to the office, by filling two successive vacancies.

General Massie's activity in public affairs largely ceased after his race for Governor. He had a national reputation and was known as well in Kentucky and Virginia as in Ohio. He resided in the Virginia Military District and was better acquainted with it both as to the manner of locating lands and the lands in it that any man of his time. He was employed in locating warrants wherever he could or would accept employment. Of course he could not serv^e all and had to refuse many, but his friends were numerous and some he could Viot deny. Besides, he had a large private business of his own. The large tracts of real estate which he owned required most of his time. He made sales, subdivisions for purchasers, perfected titles, made deeds, paid taxes and made leases. He built saw and grist mills, paper mills, and, at the time of his death, was making ready to build an iron furnace.

He was full of the activities of this life, but his career was cut short. In the fall of 1813, he was attacked by pneumonia, the result of exposure. The doctors of that day believed in heroic treatment and the result was that he was bled profusely and the disease carried him off. He died November 3, 1813, at his pleasant home and was buried there in a field in front of the house, between it and Paint Creek. His wife survived him until 1837, when she died and was buried at his side. There their remains rested until June, 1870, when, by request of the citizens of Chillicothe, they were removed to the beautiful cemetery of Chillicothe and rcinterred on a lot which overlooks the entire city.

General Massie was a lover of fine scenery. He enjoyed the view from Buckeye Station many times, in all its primitive wilderness. He enjoyed the view from his home in the picturesque Paint Valley, and in life he has stood on the spot where his ashes are laid and viewed the beautiful Scioto Valley, and could his spirit visit the scene of the last resting place of his body, it would no doubt be satisfied with the honor shown his memory by the people of Chillicothe.

His son, Nathaniel Massie, was for the greater part of his life a citizen of Adams County. He was born February 16, 1805, in Ross County. He married a daughter of the Rev. John Collins and reared a large family. He made his home in Adams County from 1854 until 1874, when his wife died. He removed to Hillsboro in 1880 and resided there until his death in March, 1894. He and his wife are interred in the old South Cemeter}' at West Union in a spot which has as fine an outlook as the spot where his distinguished father reposes.

We have refrained from giving a more extensive account of General Nathaniel Massie because his life has recently (1896) been published by his distinguished grandson, the Hon. David Meade Massie, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and we could only copy from that most interesting work. To all who desire to read up the founding of our State, we recommend the persual of this work. General Massie was the founder of Adams County and of its largest town, Manchester, and his memory should be held in affectionate remembrance by every citizen of the county.

iron manufacturer, son of John and Anne (Williamson) Means, was bom November 3, 1803, in Spartansburg, South Carolina. He spent six years in a select schorl established by his father, which was chiefly for the education of his own children, and he acquired, not only a fine English education, but also a respectable knowledge of the classics. His father moved to Ohio in 1819, when he was sixteen years of age. He labored upon his father's farm and clerked in a store for several years in which his father was interested in West Union, and in 1826 he took a flatboat loaded with produce to New Orleans. In the same year he became storekeeper at Union Furnace which his father and others were then building four miles from Hanging Rock. This was the first blast furnace built in Ohio in the Hanging Rock region, and he had the pleasure of first "firing" it. The old Steam, Hopewell, Pactolus and Argillite were the only furnaces previous in existence in that region and they were in Kentucky. Since 1885, the old Union has not been in operation, but the lands belonging to it are yet, in part, owned by his heirs. In 1837. he and David Sinton became the owners of Union Furnace and rebuilt it in 1844. In 1845, they built Ohio Furnace. In 1847, he became interested in. and helped build Buena Vista Furnace in Kentucky. In 1852, he bought liellcfonte Furnace in Kentucky. In 1854. he became interested in and helped build Vinton Furnace in Ohio; in 1863. in connection with others, bought Pine Grove Furnace in Kentucky, and the Hanging Rock coal works, and in the following year, with others, bought Amanda Furnace in Kentucky. In 1845, he and David Sinton built a tram-road to Ohio Furnace, one of the first roads of its kind built in Ohio, and now a railroad five miles in length runs from the river to Pine Grove Furnace. The Ohi(^ was the first charcoal furnace in the country which made as high as ten tons a day and was the first that averaged over fifteen tons. This furnace also produced iron with less expense to the ton than had then been achieved in any other. In 1832, when the Union had been worked tip to six tons a day. the Pennsylvania furnaces were averaging but two tons. lie. in connection with the Cnlbertsons, built the Princess, a stonecoal furnace, ten miles from Ashland, in Kentucky, and also, later with Caj)t. John Kyle and K. 1». Willard, built another at Hanging Rock. In the first year of I'uion Furnace, three hundred tons of iron were produced: in the last year. 1855, it reached twenty-five hundred. Three hnndnMJ in 1837 was as large a yearly production as had been reached in the United States, and this rate was fully up to that of England. The lari^ost furnaces now reach fifteen thousand tons a month in this country.

Under the superintendence of himself and David Sinton, the exjHMimcnts for intRxlucing the hot blast wore first made, and at their Union I'nrnacc they put up the second hot blast in the United States, only a few years after its intro(luction in 1828. This was probably the greatest step f«>rwar(l that had yet been made in the manufacture of iron. Always fav(>rini; tlio advance in improvements, many changes were made by him in the form oi furnaces and in the mcxies of operating them. Under his patnMiai^v. in i8(xi, at C )lii(^ Furnace, was introduced the Davis hot blast, wliich i^rcatly improved and moditied the charcoal furnaces of the comitry. Ho was h^ui^er cnga.i^ed and doul^tless more extensively and directly concerned in the growth and prosperity of the iron business than any other man in the Ohio Valley. Besides his large interests in the various furnaces, he had a very considerable interest in eighteen thousand acres of iron ore, coal and farm lands in Ohio, and nearly fifty thousand acres in Kentucky. He was one of the originators of the Cincinnati and Big Sandy Packet Company and was its leading stockholder ; was one of the incorporators of the Norton Iron Works of Ashland, Kentucky, and one of its largest stockholders ; helped lay out the town of Ashland, was a large stockholder in the Ironton "Ohio Iron Railroad Company;" was one of the originators of the Second National Bank of Ironton, and its president at the organization in 1864, ^md was also a stockholder of the Ashland National Bank.

In 1865, he purchased a farm near Hanging Rock and resided there several years. He cast his first Presidential vote for John Quincy Adams, and was indentified with the Whig party while it lasted. At its dissolution, he became a Republican, and during the Civil War was an ardent supporter of the National Government. In his religious views, he was a Presbyterian, but not a member of any church. After the organization of the Congregational Church in Ironton, he attended that. ,

He was a man of fine personal appearance and correct business habits; of a strong constitution, able to sustain a long life of incessant activity; with a high sense of social and business integrity, his great fortune was the legitimate result of uncommon business ability and judgment. He possesed a pleasing address, was agreteable in manners and wholly void of ostentation. He had a peculiarly retentive memory as to historical and statistical facts. He could give names, dates of election and length of terms of State and National officers - Presidents, Congressmen, U. S. Justices, etc. Could give dates and other facts as to tariflf legislation, and as to treaties with foreign countries; also could give in millions, tons, bushels, dollars, values of the imports and exports and production by the United States, and of many of the States, for instance, of cotton, corn, wheat, hay, iron, wines, etc. He was fond of discussion, and often in argument about protection, etc., surprised hearers at his accurate knowledge of matters. He had always a good general knowledge of his business affairs, was good at planning, but poor in detail. Was fearless of man or beast, but careless as to his dress.

Mr. Means was married December 4, 1828, to Sarah Ellison, daughter of John Ellison, Jr., of Buckeye vStation, Adams County. She died in 1871 at the age of sixty-one in their home at Hanging Rock. Their children now living are John, of Ashland, William and Margaret. In December, 1881, he bought a residence in Ashland, Kentucky, where he lived until his death, June 8, 1890. Xo man did more for the development of the Hanging Rock iron region that he, and in that resj>ect he was a great public benefactor.

was born in Adams County, Ohio, June 2, 1821. He received his common school education in a log schoolhouse near his father's home. He taught school three winters, continuing to work on the farm in the summer. In 1842, he started to college at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, graduated in 1846, and was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Chillicothe Presbytery, April, 1849, ^"^ ^^s ordained by the same August 21,

1858. He was Pastor of Tranquility congregation for six years. He was elected as Professor of Mathematics in Monmouth College, Illinois, in 1856 and served in that capacity until the autumn of 1862. He was Chai>lain of the 9th Illinois Regiment from August, 1863, until August, 1864. He published the Western Presbyterian for several years at Monmouth, Illinois: was pastor of Fairfield, Illinois, congregation from January i. 1866, until December, 1870: of Amity, Iowa, from March i. 1 87 1, until August 30, 1876. He was appointed general missionary by the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church for Nebraska and Kansas and served in that capacity for one year. He was pastor of Mission Creek Church from April i, 1878. -mtil December i, 1889; was pastor of the U. P. congregation at Starkville, Miss., for about one and a half years. When there, he broke down with nervous prostration and had tf) abandon the active work of the ministr)'. He returned to Mission Creek. Nebraska, and has made his home with his only daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth liarr. ever since, preaching only occasionally when able.

He received the degree of D. D. from Monmouth College. He is the author of the ''Life of the Rev. David MacDill, D. D./' and of the ** History of the Ninth Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers."

Recompense Mur])hy was born in Pitts' Grove, Salem County, New Jersey, in 1774. He emigrated to Ohio in 1805. coming down the river in a flat-lK)at. He had been married in New Jersey to Catherine Newkirk. Her grandfather w-as David Whittaker, and he and his wife followed Recompense Murphy to Ohio.

C)iir subject located the first summer on the Ohio River, at the month of Turkey Creek, in Scioto County. After that, he went to Sandy v^prinjj^s, Adams County, where he bought land and fanned. He built a brick house on Ills land near the river front, which has long since disappeared, havinj^ hern destroyed by the encroachments of the Ohio River, lie had a brother William wlio came with him from New Jersey, but removed to Illinois, were he died. Samuel Murphy, another brother, l(K\'ited near l^Vanklin, ( )liio. Mary, a sister, married Samuel Swing. whose son David, was the father of the celebrated Professor Swing, of Chicaj^o. Onr subject had a brother, John, who remained in New jersey. Another sister. I^lizabeth. married a Mr. Ogden and lived at r'ainnoniit, near Cincinnati.

The children of Recoinj)ense Murphy were David Whittaker Miiri^hy. born in i8cx). of whom a separate sketch appears, Jacob Miir])liy, who located in Whiteside Countv, Illinois, and retaining the rresl)yierian faith of his mother, became an elder in the church there; l\eroni])ense vSlurry Murphy, who lived and died at Sandy Springs; Sainiu'l M. Murphy, of Garrison's, Kentucky, now deceased; John Murphy, who resides near Quincy, Kentucky; William, wdio emigrated to California; Robert, who died at the age of eighteen; Rebecca, w^ife of Simon Tniitt, who resides at Agricola, Coffey County. Kansas, at the age oi eighty-seven ; Rachel Warring, who remcned to Posey County, Indiana; C'atherine Cox, widow of Martin Cc>x, who resides at Rome,

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Recompense Murphy's first wife was a Presbyterian, a member of the Sandy Springs Church from 1826 until her death. June 30, 1832. Recompense Murphy was married a second time to Matilda Ives, a widow, whose maiden name was Fuller, a native of Broome County, New York. Her father was at one time a member of the General Assembly of that State. She was a shrewd, keen Yankee. Some time in the sixties, she removed to her home in New York and died there.

Recompense Murphy died November 18, 1844. He made his will February 25, 1837. It was witnessed by Socrates Holbrook. Robert W. Robb, Isaac Carr and J. D. Redden. It was proven December 20, 1844, in Adams County. He gave his mansion house and one-third of his farm to his wife. He mentioned all of his children, but having already provided for four of his sons, he provided in the will for the remaining sons and two daughters. The document indicates that he w^as a just man. He was a member of the Sandy Springs Baptist Church, joining the same after his second marriage, and died in that faith. He was an excellent citizen and aimed to do his part in every respect in his place in the world and his cotemporaries have left the record that accomplished what he undertook. His descendants are living witnesses that his training produced the best results.

David Whittaker Murphy, son of Recompense Murphy and Catherine Newkirk, his wife, was born in Salem County, New Jersey, in 1800. He was brought by his parents to Adams County when five years of age.

This incident occurred when our subject was about twelve years of age. He and another boy near his own age were crossing the Ohio River in a canoe, one sitting at either end. When they had gotton far into the current, they noticed a large animal swimming toward them. It proved to be a bear, nearly grown, and was almost exhausted by its efforts. Seeing them, it made for their canoe and climbel in. The boys, of course, were very much frightened, but nevertheless, continued paddling their canoe to the landing. The moment they touched the shore, bruin sprang out and disappeared. The boys were as glad to be rid of their shaggy companion as he was of their company.

Our subject grew to manhood in Sandy Springs neighborhood;, having the advantages of such schools as were there, and having the fun and sports that boys of his time were privileged to have. His first wife was a Miss Julia Ann Turner, whom he married in Bracken County, Kentucky. By this marriage there were two sons and a daughter ; James, William and Anna Maria. The sons both went South before the Civil War, and were soldiers in the Confederate Army. William was Lieutenant of a Mississippi Battery.

David Murphy's second wife was Cynthia Givens, a widow, whose maiden name was McCall. The children of this marriage were David A., married to Jennie M. Ball, of Portsmouth, Ohio, now living at Oxford. Ella M. Evans, wife of Mitchell Evans, a prominent citizens of Scioto County, residing at Friendship, Ohio; Leonidas Hamline, a partner in the well known wholesale shoe house of C. P. Tracy & Companv, of 38a

PortumoiUh ; John Fletcher Murphy, a clerk in the Auditor's Office of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, in Cincinnati, and Miss Tillic M. Murphy, residing at Valparaiso, Indiana. Our subject anci his second wife, Cynthia Givens, were earnest members of the Methodist Church all their days. Until 1848, he was a farmer, residing in Adams County. Ohio. In that year he left Adams County and removed to Rucna Vista, just over the line of Adams County, in Scioto (bounty, where he kept a hotel for awhile. He was postmaster at Buena Vista from 1868 until 1873. His home in Buena Vista was a delightful cMW where it was always pleasant to visit. After the death of his second wife, in 1873. he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Evans, of Friendship, Ohio, until his death in 1892. Mr. Murphy had a great deal of dry humor and could express himself so as to entertain his hearers and amuse thetn at tlie same time. He was always anti-slavery, and once, a long time l)efore the war, being asked if he would help execute the Fugitive Slave Law, he said. "Yes, if called by the United States Marshal to be l>art of a pix<;se to catch fugitives, I would help, as I must obey the law, but I would be ver\' lame." He served as a Justice of the IVace in the two counties of Adams and Scioto, for a period of fift>" years, and his decisions gave general satisfaction. He could draw an ordinary' deed as well as any lawyer. In politics, he was a Whig, until the Republican |>arlv was organized, when, after 1856, he went into that party and romaincti a mcml>er of it during his life. However, he voted for Fillmore for President in 1856, because he fdt that his election would better preserve the Union. In i860, he voted for Lincoln and for evcr>' Republican presidential candidate from that time until 1888. his last presidential vote, which was for Benjamin Harrison. He died in February-, 1892.

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He was a plain common Irshman, with the strongest emphasis oi> Irish, as it shone out all about him. He lived on Brush Creek awhile, then moved to West Union. He was a member of the Baptist Church in West Union. He was a strong Whig. He owned a large tract of land near Jacksonville, in Meigs Township. He purchased the Palace Hotel property of the estate of his sister, Isabella Burgess, and died there. He lived in Cincinnati a good part of his time. He was living there in 1814 when his son Joseph was born. He was also living there in 1831 when his sister married Rev. Dyer Burgess. He was a strong Baptist. He donated the ground where the Baptist Church in West Union stands and built the church. He had considerable improved property in Cincinnati and was at that city to collect his rents in June, 1849, and when he returned to West Union, was taken sick and died. At the time of his death, he was Superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School in West Union.

It is said he came from Ireland a lad and worked about the furnaces in Adams County. He was the architect of his own fortune. He made money, but how, is now buried in oblivion, but he made it honestly and was highly esteemed as a citizen. He was a carpenter by trade, and was the contractor and builder of the first bridge built in Adams County where the iron bridge now stands. James Anderson crossed it with a team and wagon loaded with pig iron from Steam Furnace, and that was the only team which ever crossed it. There was a sudden rise in Brush Creek which undermined one of the piers and the bridge fell. Adam Mc- Cormick lived on the farm on which George A. Thomas now resides. He removed to West Union and purchased the Dyer Burgess property and lived there from 1842 until his death, in 1849.

He was married to Margaret Ellison, April 6, 1813. Andrew Ellison was running Steam Furnace and Adam McCormick was a patttern maker and made patterns at the furnace while his father-in-law run it. James Anderson teamed between Steam Furnace and the river, hauling pig iron, supplies, etc. When the furnace shut down, Adam McCormick went to farming.

We have eight letters written by him to his friend, Robert Shaw, in Virginia. The first is dated Raleigh, Buckingham County, June i, 1809. He acknowledges his of the 20th, in which lie finds that his friend had a tedious passage (by water) from Richmond to Baltimore and was seasick. He says he has enjoyed a good estate of health since his friend left. He was a merchant and complains that collections were slow. He desires his friend to bring him a Beed plane that will work one-eighth of an inch and one-half dozen of two-foot rules.

On December 28, 1812, he writes from Raleigh, N. C. He asks how his business with the negroes of Anthony Jones' is settled. He says he has been tossed on the wheel of fortune since he saw him. It seems he' went to Baltimore and purchased goods, and shipped them to Richmond, intending to take them to Nelson C. H., Virginia. At Baltimore, he met a Mr. Callam, who had purchased goods in Philadelphia, and induced him to go to Raleigh where they put the two stocks together and sold as much as $500. He wants to know if there is any store at Raleigh C. H., Va. It seems they went to Raleigh while the Legislature was in session, and f^o](\ goods rapidly until it adjourned.

His next letter is dated Januar)'^ io» 1813, acknowledging one of the 4th. He says he boards in the family of Mrs. Burch, a very decent, pious old lady, who has a daughter equally pious as herself and possessing considerable accomplishments, having resided in Philadelphia with a Rev. Burch, her brother. Of Raleigh, he says its people are principally emigrants from Scotland, orderly and sober, but possessing strong prejudices. He says, that with but few exceptions, they are Federalists. He speaks of the schools in Raleigh and their influence in improving the manners and, in some instances, the morals of the people. He says they are the means of circulating a great deal of money. He further says that the country is poor and the planters have nothing which suits the markets hut pork, tobacco and cotton.

He wants to know if he thinks his friend, John Randolph, will be reelected in his district in Virginia and whether there is any change in political sentiments there - whether the people are pleased with the war, and the manner in which it has been conducted. Also his opinion respecting the combination of the non-importation lav.-. On January 24. 1813, he is still at Raleigh, but complains of the war affecting the business. He says there is no demand for cotton or tobacco, and pork is the only article that commands money and that at a low price. He says there are twenty stores in Raleigh, and he intends to remove early in the Spring, probably to Virginia. He says in that country, where wheat is cultivated, is the best place to do business during the war, because it will sell high. He wishes to be informed what effect the war has had in that part of the country-, where his correspondent resides, as to sale of goods and the circulation of money.

February 8, 18 13. he writes his friend. Robert, that he intends to leave Raleigh in the Spring and wants to come to Nelson C. H., if his friend thinks best. He is afraid the war is not pushc 1 with energy- and that the spirit of the nation has never been up to war pitch. He thinks there will be great difficulty in raising men and money and that the opposition to the war is so strong, and from tht way in which the war was managed it will end in a separation of the I.'nion anci the destruction of our most excellent Constitution, though he will hope tor better things.

Fehruary 24. 181 3. he writes thanking h's friend for full information as to the political situation. He doubts about purchasing spring goods, as the times are precarious. He thinks the Government will be compelled to repeal the non-importation law in order to get revenue, or otherwise levy taxes which will make it unpopular. He thinks in case of a repeal. g<X)ds would come in plenty through the neutrals. He thinks our privateers will not bring in many trips b* cause the Brittish fleets wmH bliK^kade Hampton Roads and other bays. He relates a duel between Thomas Stanley, of Xewbeni. and a ^^r. Henry, of the same place, in which the fonnor was killed by the latter. The cause of the duel was that Henry liad paid attentions to Stanley's sister, and t'lien dropi>ed her.

Slay 20, 1813. lie writes from Cecil County, Mar>*land, that he had made monoy hy liis Nxnture in Raleigh. He went to Petersburg, Va.. to chanijo tlu State notes '^f Xorth Carolina for A'ircfinia as thev would n<^i oass \o xhv n.>rtli of that place and could not be changed at par. at a»i\- oxhcr place. ]^c says goods were to<^ hiijh in Baltimore to purchase with any safety as tlie war might stop and drop prices. He informs his cousin that he has changed his state of life and married his cousin, Mary McVey ; that she is the only child and daughter of his Uncle McVey, who owns a fine farm on the main stage road from Philadelphia to Baltimore with some negroes and other property. "As to her qualities, you will no doubt think me a partial judge." He says her qualities justified iiis choice and her appearance pleased his fancy.

He says the injury done there by the British caused nothing but alarm and since the British went down the bay. politics have been more tranquil, but they are so divided on politics, they are continually on the jar.

He says the epithet "Tory." is brandished on all occasions and that all the entire party seems to be aiming at military despotism, if they could obtain it. He asks his friend's views of the political situation and to tell him how the elections have terminated in Virginia and how his speculation in flour has turned out, in view of the blockade.

The last letter is April 12, 181 5. He writes that since the peace, prices of grain have fallen instead of raised and the public was disa|>- pointed. That wheat was only one dollar per bushel and other grain correspondingly low. He complained that times were dull. He wants his friend to secure him house and store-room at Nelson C. H. He desired to be informed as to the election and the result of the contest between Epps and Randolph. In every letter, he sends his regards to his wife and family, and his friends, and all the letters are written on plain paper, now yellow with age, and folded, sealed with a wafer seal and addressed on the fourth page. They are addressed to Robert Shaw, at Buckingham C. H., Virginia, and are marked "free." They mark the writer as a student of the times, deeply interested in political matters and a Federalist. His friend, Robert Shaw, no doubt, was of the same political faith. The letters of Robert Shaw to Samuel McCullough have not been preserved.

McCullough emigrated to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 1815, and from there to Adams County, Ohio, in 18 16. where he followed the business of merchandising during the remainder of his life. His wife died February 6, 1835, at the age of forty-three, at West Union, Ohio, of consumption, after a long illness. He died on the eighth of June. 1835, of Asiatic cholera in his store in West Union on the spot where Miller and Bunn's drug store now stands. He was born May 5, 1775. and she was seventeen years his junior. They were the parents of Addison McCullough, deceased, and of William McCullough, of Sidney, Ohio.

Samuel McCullough, for the nineteen years he resided in Adams County, was a just and good man and respected by every one. He was quiet and unobtrusive in his views, but a reader and thinker who kept himself well informed on all public questions. He was by instinct and training a merchant. He knew the right time to buy and the right time to sell.

He was a successful merchant - always made money. He was trained to the business from boyhood and seemed to have a natural faculty for it. His son, John, died at Catlettshurg, Ky., in 1851. Addison died at Point Pleasant, W. Va., November 16. 1876. A son, George W., died in infancy. Mr. McCullough lost his wife February 6, 1835, just a few months before his own tragic death of Asiatic cholera. The ashes of both repose in the cemetery at Tranquility, Ohio.

was born in Adams County, April 25, 1817. His parents were Samuel McCuIlough and his wife, Marj' McVey, both from Cecil County, Maryland. His childhood and boyhood were spent in West Union, where his father was a prominent and successful merchant. He was attending college at Augusta, Kentucky, in June, 1835, when he was called home by the death of his father. He did not return to school but took charge of his fafher's business which he continued successfully in West Union, until 1847, when he closed it out and invested the proceeds in Star Furnace in Carter County, Kentucky. He was married in West Union on June 2^, 1837, to Eliza Ann Willson, eldest daughter of Dr. Wm. B. Willson. He left West Union in the winter of 1847 and T848 and removed to Catlettsburg, Kentucky. He was the financial agent of Lampton, McCuIlough & Company, of Star Furnace, until 1854. when he sold a portion of his interest in the concern and purchased an interest in Hecla Furnace. At this time, he removed to Ironton, which continued his residence until his death. He continued his connection with Hecla Furnace until his death. His wife died December 16, 1868, at Ironicn, and he died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Ella Capehart, ot Point Pleasant, West Virginia, November 16, 1876. Both are interred at Woodlawn near Ironton

Addison McCuIlough was of a thoughtful and serious mind ; he was religious by nature and instinct. In West Union, he lived in an atmosphere of earnest and sincere religious influence. He joined the Presbyterian Church at West Union at an early age, and when there was a ilivision in the church there on account of slaver\\ he. with the family of Dr. William R. Willson and others, w^ent into a new church organization in which he and Dr. William B. Willson were made elders. He was highly respected and much loved by the people of West Union, and when he left there in 1848 there was universal regret and heartfelt grief. He was a lovin^:: and lovable man, and his practical charity while in West I'nion had eiidoared him to all. Soon after he located in Irontcm. he was made an ^^Idcr in the church thcFv.- and filled that office until his death. Though a thoroucrh business man, the church held his aiTections and he was always present at all its services and social meetin^rs. He was of a quiet disposition and spoke ir of no one. In the church meeting, he was earnest and fervent. ek">quent in speech and prayer. He was a diliqenit biblical student and was faithful in his attendance in the teacher's meetings for the study of the Bible.

He was respected and esteemed by everv- one in Ironton as a model citizen and a true Christian gentleman. His death was like his life. His last illness continuetl eight weeks and he suffered much, but no complaint escaped him. Tlie consolations of his religion made his final hours full of mental joy.

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was bom November i8, 1796, in Allegheny County, Maryland, and emigrated to Adams County, Ohio, with his father, John McColm and family, about the year 1800, and settled on Gift Ridge. His brothers John, Malcolm, Matthew and David were all prosperous farmers, lived to a ripe old age, and have passed to their reward, excepting David, who lives near Bentonville.

William McColm married Lucy Turner, July 17, 1827, at New Richmond, Ohio. Their children were John T., Sarah, William S., the latter only of the three surviving and who resides at Portsmouth, Ohio. Mrs. Lucy McColm died at Clinton Furnace, December 24, 1833. The subject of our sketch was married again June 24, 1835, at Buckhorn Furnace, to Martha McLaughlin, to whom were born James A., Mary, Henry A., Matthew and Clay F., all of whc«n are deceased except Henry A., a resident of New Comer, Delaware County, Indiana.

William McColm was the descendant of Scotch-Irish parents and showed their characteristics in all his walks of life; was a Whig in politics; a Methodist Prostestant in religion and a square man in all his dealings. He was a clerk and afterwards a store-keeper in West Union from 1824 to 1833, when he was induced by the late William Salter and other owners of Clinton Furnace to take an interest in the furnace and act as store-keeper and furnace clerk. His investment in Clinton Furnace proving unprofitable, he moved to Buckhorn and later to Amanda Furnace, where he was employed in the same capacity as at Clinton.

On June i, 1840, he was appointed Treasurer of Scioto County in place of John Waller, who refused to qualify. He was elected to that office in 1841 and re-elected in 1843, 1845, 1847 ^"^ 1849. He qualified for his sixth term, June 3, 1850. He died on his farm in Washington Township, September 7, 1850, while an incumbent of the office of County Treasurer. His wife died in Portsmouth, Ohio, April 9, 1890, and both are interred at Greenlawn, at that place.

Mr. McColm was a member of the Methodist Prostestant Church of Portsmouth, Ohio, during his entire reside^nce in that city. His congregation met at the house of Mrs. Sill, on Fourth Street, before the church on Fifth Street in the rear of Connolly's store was erected. He was always a Whig and anti-slavery. He was a strong advocate of temperance, being a member of the order of the Sons of Temperance, which flourished in his day.

was born at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in the year of 1789 and remained with his parents until 1807, at which time he emigrated to Cabin Creek, Kentucky, where he resided for four years, when he removed near the mouth of Brush Creek in Greene Township in Ohio. He was in the War of 1812, in which he served until December 24, 1814. On returning from the war he engaged in keel-boating salt down the Ohio River from the Kanawha Saline to Louisville, Ky. In 1828, he was made Major in the Second Regiment, First Brigade, Eighth Division of the Ohio Militia. He was married in 1812 to Miss Margaret Eakins. who resided near the mouth of Brush Creek. There were thirteen children bom of this marriage, nine boys and four girls, Elizabeth, Susan, James, Mary, John, Joseph, William, Priscilla. David, George, Wilson, Rebecca, and Richard. Seven of those sons served in ihe Union army in tlie late Civil War. Our subjcvt shouKlered his gun in iStxj lo assist in resisting General John Morj::^n's Raid, at which time he was seventy-fi\-e years of age. He ser>-ed nine \cars snocessivoly as Justice of the Peace in Greene Township, durlUj; which time he solemnized numerous marriages. Mr. McKee "was an cUUt in the Christian Church, and lived up to his profession. He was rx^jcurilcii as a ir«-»l neighK"^r and citizen, and ever ready to help the poor anii luvdy. He diet! near Waggoner's Ripple, at the age of ninety-two \c,ir> and twcmv-nine davs. His wife, >larsaret McKee, died seven > cars earlier. 1 Ic was the grandfather of the Sheriff. James W. McKee, who was tIic si»n of Havid McKee, now residing at Wichita, Ksinsas, h.^v-.r.c rcmowu there iu^^n .\dams Coimtv in 1882. Ictsefh McKee was a 'iCT^crsi r.:.in lVnK«crat of the strictest son. and his ,CTands«:ci, Sherin J.iTris \\ . -\lcKvc. ^s rcv^'gniietl as one of the most reliable leaders C'f the IVr.Hvr.i! :\i:T\ in Xi^rims Count v.

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While apparently unconscious in her six v/eeks' sickness, she was conscious most of the time, and knew what was going on about her. She could hear what was said, but could not communicate. She felt the approach of delath ; she noticed the cessation of circulation in her extremities, and the approach of it to her heart. Then she became unconscious. Then, the first thing she knew, an angel approached her and took her in charge. She had no sense of the time she traveled with him through space, but found herself in an outer court of a great pleasure garden or park. There was like lattice work before her, and beyond that, were a great company of happy people, surrounding a loved object. She could hear the most rapturous music and singing of the multitudes. At another place within the inner court, she saw a company sitting about a table. Their faces shone so she could not look upon them, and was compelled to take her eyes from them. Among those she saw in the inner court was the face of a young woman friend of hers, who had attended the pietist meetings with her. She made a request of her guide to be admitted to the inner court, but he said, *'No, you must return to earth and preach Christ a period longer before you can be admitted." She then seemed to be spirited away by four angels and let down to earth as it were in a sheet.

As soon as she was able, after her return, she told her vision. People came from all the surrounding country to see her and converse with her. In relating her vision, she predicted the death of her friend, whose face she had seen in Paradise, and it took place within a year, but she died in the triumph of faith. Mrs. Minick believed in this heavenly vision as much as she believed in her own existence. To her it was as real as anything which ever occurred to her, and it influenced her entire life. The angel's message was ever as fresh to her and ever as important as the day she received it, and she followed it to the last of her life.

She and her husband had heard of the United States and longed to go there. His experience with the service under the great Napoleon satisfied him and made him wish for America. So he and his wife and two children came to the United States in 1830. They located at Piketon, Ohio, where thev lived several vears. Then thev moved to West Union, Ohio, where they spent all of his life and most of hers. She lived in the Httle brick house just opposite the Pflaummer residence, then Dr. Wm. B. Willson's residence. She believed that cleanliness preceded godliness, and her home was always scrupulously neat and clean. She and her husband had and kept a most wonderful garden. A self-respecting weed would not ci^row in it. and none were ever seen in it, and all of the vegetables grew just as though they thought it their duty to do so to please her. One room in her house she had fitted up for religious meetings, and many were held there, the services being conducted in her mother tongue. She had an occupation. She was a doctress and nurse and followed her profession most faithfully. In the cholera of 1851, she went among the patients everywlierc, and her services were rliought equal to those of the regular physicians.

She was the mother of four children, two sons and two daughters, the youngest horn in this country. She was a woman of the most earnest and devoted piety. She believed in her religion, and she lived it every day. Her whole life, day by day, was a sermon and an argument in favor of her faith. While she never mastered the English language fully, she would attend the Methodist re\nval meetings, and she enjoyed them ver}- much. She could not express herself to her satis&ction in English, and uTis often, at these meetings, requested to sing in German. She was always pleased to do so, and M-en'one felt the spirit of her hjmns. She was always reluctant to tell the Heavenly \'ision, as she knew many were skeptical about it, and only related it where it was appreciated, but to her it was real. She had all the faith and love of St, John, and the zeal and enthusiasm oi St. I*aul. She ^'as respected and loved by all who knew her. Her husband died August 19, 1870, and her pleasant home in West Union was broken up. After that she lived '^R'ith her grandchildmi until the tenth of April, 1883. ^bexi her Heavenly Msion was realized. She and her husband rest in the old South cemeten- at West I'nion, waiting the sound of Gabriel's trumpet. Her life was fuU of usefulness, of gcKxl deeds, and she was a minister to the souls of all who knrw her.

of November, 18^^, b> Rev. Ekazor 3:»ra.in::rd. *ind the\- wem to housekt^ping in Rocla-ilje. }it remained ^-ith John Longing- from abom 1831 buildings to the county. Their son, Samuel, was bom on the fifteenth of February, 1797. Hef was married to Mary Armstrong, December 14, 1815, and located on the farm west of West Union, where he lived until 1864 when he removed to North Liberty, Ohio, and died March 5, 1882. Isabelle, his daughter, married William McGovney, May 9, 1839. He was elected Associate Judge of Adams County in 1831 and served one term. He was a practical surveyor and did a g^eat deal of work in the way of land surveying. He was also a school teacher and County Examiner and was one of the first School Examiners in the county. He died November 5, 1881.

In politics he was a Whig, an Abolitionist and a Republican. He was a strong temperance advocate. He set the example of total abstinence by refusing to use liquor at a bam raising or in harvest, and to show his harvest hands it was not to save money, he offered to pay each one the amount ebctra for the cost of the whiskey they had formerly been furnished.

He was a Presbyterian, a ruling elder in the church for many years, the Associate Reformed and afterwards the United Presbyterian. He was liberal in his views and spiritually minded. In the last few years of his life, there was but one book to him - the Bible. He read it four times in four years, and said that each time he re-read it there was something new. His mind was clear to the last. In his final illness, he spoke calmly of his approaching end, and passed away in the confidence of Christian faith.

In his personal appearance Judge McClanahan was a remarkable figure, and in his old age he was one of the best types of the patriarch, with his long flowmg beard and dignified bearing. He was a man among men and respected by the entire community for his sterling virtues.

was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1757, and emigrated to Virginia in the Spring of 1777. He enlisted the same spring as a private in Captain Wood Jones* Company and served afterward in Captain Benjamin Hoomes* Company, Second Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. William Febiger, in the Revolutionary War. His enlistment was for a period of three years.

He was in the battles which occurred during the time of his services in New Jersey and about Philadelphia, but a large part of the time his duties consisted in hauling supplies to the army.

He came to Ohio in 1795, directly after the peace of Greenville, and bought two hundred and twenty-five acres of ground on Poplar Ridge, in Tiffin Township. This land is now owned by W. J. and B. Grooms, Caleb Malone and Mr. Deitz. He left the blockhouse at Manchester and located on land in Tiffin Township when there had not been a single tree cut down in the township and none outside of Manchester. He cleared off a patch of ground and built a pole cabin and mcfved his family into it. There were plenty of wolves, bears, wild turkeys and deer in the forest at that time, and a great many roving Indians.

His daughter has told a lady now living near West Union that she had been at that place many times when all was forest, not a house in the vicinity, and had drank out of the spring where the public well now stands.

The squirrels and wild turkeys were so plenty that when he planted his corn, it was necessar}- to stand gaurd over it until it was grown too high for them to disturb. After it was planted he made paw-paw whistles and had his children march around the com nelds at the edge of the forests during the day, blowing these whistles so that the squirrels and turkeys would not bother the com.

He was one of the first members of the Presbvterian Church at West Union. He was not a. pensioner of the Revolutionary War, because he owned considerable land and could not obtain a pension.

William McGarrv had a second wife, Marv McKee, and she was the mother of three children. He was esteemed as a useful and valuable citizen. He did what could not be done in our day : he was a ver\' pious man and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and raised his familv in the same manner as himself, and at the same time made and drank whiskey all the time when it was no disgrace either to make it or drink it was one of the old-time characters in West Union. He owned and occupied the property where Mrs. Sarah W. Bradford now resides, and dug the well there which was famous in his time and which is know^n as Ralph McChire's well to this day. Judge Byrd extolled the properties of the water in his diarv\

Our subject was a north of Ireland Irishman with a rich brogue. He was a schoolteacher in West Union before pul)lic sc1kk)1s were organized. He taught many v^ars in the home where he resided and all his schools were subscription schools. The first school David Dunbar, of Manchester, ever attended was at Ralph McClure's. The latter offered young David six and one- fourth cents if he would learn the alphabet in three days and David accomplished the task. McClure once had a horse-mill on the rear of Mrs. Bradford's lot, opposite the Lawler Ksidence. and at one time he had a distillery just south of his residence, but it was burned. He was a bachelor and never attended church. He wa:- of medium stature and had a sharp face. He was very fond of smoking and raised his ow^n tobacco and made his own cigars. His neighbors seemed to have a great deal of confidence in him for they elected him Justice of the Peace in 1820. 1826. 1829. 1838. 1 84 1 and in 1844. He and Nelson Barrere were great friends, The latter would often state a suppositious case to him and get his opinion. Tf the opinion pleased Barrere, he would immediately bring the real case before the Justice and win it. as ^IcClure was never known to go back on any opinion lie ever expressed.

He died April 24. 1846, while holding the office of Justice of the Peace. We do not know the place of his interment or whether he left any relatives.

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was born in County Down, Ireland, December 14, 1789, of Protestant Presbyterian parents. He receiveld a fair education, became a Free Mason and was advanced in that order to the degrees of Christian Knighthood, before leaving that country. While there he united with the Presbyterian Church.

In 1818, he came to this country and located in Adams County. He was married to Miss Mary McGovney, in Adams County, on the twentyeighth day of January, 181 9, They had one child, Thomas, and she died January 14, 1820, at the age of 28 years. Her surviving husband never remarried. In West Union, Mr. McGovney kept a general store and part of the time conducted a tannery. In 1840, he became a member of the Methodist Church and from that time until his death there was no more devout or consistent Christian than he*. Always in his place at every church service, and every prayer and class meeting, he was a bright and shining light. He lived his religion every day of his life, and in his dying hours it was his comfort and solace. He was always at the Wednesday evening prayer meetings which the writer attended when a small boy. Uncle Adam, as all the boys knew him, had a fixed and certain prayer and the writer at one time knew it all and could repeat it from memory. He regards it as his loss that he cannot remember it and repeat it, until this day. One phrase in it was "Knit us, Oh Lord, closer to thy bleeding side." Pie. Abraham Hollingsworth, Nicholas Burwell, William R. Rape and William Allen could always be depended on to attedid and be found at the weekly prayer meetings.

Next to his religion, Mr. McGovney was attached to Masonry. He was as faithful a Mason, as he was a church member. The writer remembered seeing him in many Masonic parades and he usually wore the crossed silver keys of the lodge jewels. He was treasurer of the lodge many years. As a neighbor and a friend he was liked by all who knew him. He published the country of his birth whenever he spoke, as he had the broadest of Irisii accent, but it was a pleasure to listen to it.

He was very fond of the little people, the children. He knew how to please them, to cater to their pleasures, which he was very fond of doing. They wete always his friends, and he, theirs.

He promised to bring the writer up to the tanner's trade and took great pleasure in explaining it all to him. Mr. McGovney was oyer six feet and slender. He had a very firm expression when his countenance was in repose, but when animated or in a laughing mood, no one was more agreeable. He was always ready to sympathize with those who deserved it and to aid those who needed it. On his death bed he expressed his complete confidence in the religion he professed in life. He required no religious consolation and. when approached on that subject, said, "I have long placed my confidence in my Savior.'*

His funeral was conducted with Masonic honors by the West Union Lodge and members of other lodges in the same county. The services were at the Presbyterian Church and the interment was in the Kirker Cemetery where he was laid beside his wife who had been buried there Torty years before.