Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-06-02
Historical Sketches Of CarpII
COunly.-BrOKn Township.
81 enc nAapEsrs.
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pRoWf IowFsHIP orlglaally eonatilutG
" 9 part Of SIArk county, and was not orCar
lEed into asepsFate township until the yes
= 1878. Previous to that time Il vas Goa
2 esctsd With whst now constitutes OsDO
!. burgb, Sandy. Rose, Brown, Augusta an,
: Harrison townships for townthip purposes
The hrst settlement within the presen
bounds Of Ihe township was made 10 ID,
year 1873. Richard Vaughn. who settlec
on The farm recently owned By bis grand
sOD Henry V. BsaVeF,bsGween Oneida ant
! PskiD, and Moses Porter, Who settled Or
the tract Of land on which the town O
Malvern now stanjs-weFs the first settlers
Soon after, Isaac Craig and Amos Jen.
ney entered the quarter Of land on which
The town Of Pekiu now stands, and 10 the
year 1908. laid on said town, and about
Ihs same time commenced the erection oI
: small grist mill near the viIltge. The
m'll house was quite . rude structure, and
The machinery Of the plainest aud cheap.
est ki0d. The water wbeel was construct,
ed upon the plan Of what vas then called
the tub Wbeel," and there wss scarcely
iroa enough about the whole mill to iron
comon tao bone wagon. But t was q
CREST convenience to have 9 mill 10 Ghe
ns'ghbOfhOod, and the pFoprielors were
looked upon as public bensfactors, ss pre-
vIoua to the erection Of this mill the early
settlers we're compelled to grind their corn
upon hand mills, pound il into homony, or
PACK It to Canton. on horseback, through
.he woods, to have Il ground. This mill
did not continue long in operation until
THE floods came" and swept away the
dam and otherWise injured t6e property,
and The propristors cold out to David and
jacob Crumbacker, who seou after erected
very good grisI mill, which did the grind.
ing for The neighborhoOd for many years.
ln The year 1908 William Thompson
and bis soO'in law, James Hewitt, settled
on Sandy. between where Malvern and
Waynssburgh now stand, within the pres
ent bounds Of the township. The same
season Joshua Knapp and Abraham It'd.
ball settled on section sixteen, near where
Oneida now stands. aud made the frat set.
tlsment on said section, which than be-
lOngsd to the township for Schoo! purposes
and was leased to them for given mum.
Der Of year., 10 consideration Of their ma
king certain Improvements thereon.
In the spring Of 1909 John Reed sr.,
With his fsmily. consisting Of bis sons.
James, William, John, David and r ,bert,
and bis daughter Elizabeth, removed from
Pennsylvania, and settled on the farm on
which the town of L di has since been
laid out.
Do their way they stopped and stayed
all night near where McKsig's mill now |
stands. on the west fork Of Beaver, and
from there until they arrived At tie house
Of Isaac Craig, in Pekin, they dd not pass
single houses distance Of eighteen
miles. They remained over night with
Mr., Craig-for 10 those days every house
was . bouse Of public entertainment, and
the weary traveller vas cordially greeted
and Hospitality entertained with the very
boat the family could afford, and generally
without any charge. Those were days Of |
genuine hospitality and true sosiability.-I
From Mr. Craig's the family continued
their journey to their destination, and took
shelter beneath large oak tFss. which
stood BY the roadside. near the place where
thS house now occupied by Joseph Reed,
10 Lodi, stands.
These hardy pioneers soon reared . rude
cabin, into which they moved the few ne.
cesssry articles Of household goOds which
hey brought With then, and Immediately
commenced clearing away the forest and
planting : patch OF corn aud potatoes,
@hieb, with the wild game that then
aboundsd 50 pentifuly, constituted both
Tho neeessaries aud Injuries OF life.
Thee eight families constituted the first
settlers Of the township. Many of their
isscendents Ysl remain with US, but the
reads Of The families have gone
ITO that land oi deepest shade, Z
Unpisrced By human thought .
The dreamy regions Of the dead.
Where ell things are forgot"
,ut some Of their relics, having withstood
be storms and blasts of more than half . 6
sntury, still linger 10 mark the spot where
isy first settled. The orchards planted u
y the hands Of Richard Vaughn and No. \
. Porter, still continue "to yield their h
'uit in their season." and the main BODY
I The cabin, built by Mr. Porter, still b
auds, nearly opposite the town of Nal. L
srn, on the south bank Of Big Sandy. ID
although 90 addition has since been built R
II, and thecabin itself raised higher, and
as whole covered With shingla roof, vet
% same logs, felled by The "woOdman's h
Ee." welded BY bic own hands aud reared
The assistance Of bic few neighboEs, still p
Olnts TO the sp9t where one Of the fiat p
'ttlsn Of the tOwhshlp lived and died. b.
aud the same well, whose cool aud Il
'arkllng water. brought TO ths surface 81 ls'
the old oaksn bucket in tie hands OF its
rst Propr:etOr--which % Ollsn slsked bis
'iFst, and cooled bis brow till Yields the
',ne lympid sream and cooling draurht.
hich i did 10 The days when che drank Il
hereof himself" !
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