The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-31
RAVENNA. oHIo---W WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 81. 1859.

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came into town, and settled, and made small
opening near Silver Greek where he resided
till 1875. when he exchanged his improve
ments with ames S,oops of Sandusky, and
moved to that place-Stoops coming to Ed
inburgh.
Sloops Was, originally, from Beaverin Penn.
About17 the Indians attacked the settle.
ment, on Brady's Run, where his father lived
and took several of the people. prisoners
Among the prisoners were several of the Stoops
children. The whites rallied, and pursued
them when the Indians attempted TO cross
the Beaver-carrying the children on their
blackstone of the Indians was shot. while in
the river with one of the children on his back.
but the rest escaped, and carried the remain
der of the prisoners to Canada, where they re-
manned for several years before their liberia
ton could be procured.
To Feb 1915 Jus in and Alanson Eddy left
Williamstown, Massachusetts, with their fam
lilies, in sleghs, and arrived in Edinburgh in
March. Justin made the 6rst Improvement
on the farm where Theodore CLARK now lives
|cupied by G. H. Rowell. Justin. with his
father, visited the township the year previous.
He built the first saw; mill in the town, on
Bond Ramon land now owned by Hon. E.
Whittlesey. rs. tr 1,
In August 1916 Henry Botsford, Amasa
Garfield, Capt. Trowbridge Edmund Bos-
twck Ezir Bostwick, Cyrenus Raggles, Rial
M'Arthur, and his father in law Coweli, left
Connecticut in seven wagons. and forty two
persons, in all, and arrived in Edinburgh on
the 30thof September. Mr.. Botsford built a
log cabin near the saw mill which he run for
FIVE years, Mr.. Garfield now resides in Ra-
! VIENNA, and Col. M'Arthur in Northampton,
Summit County-the others are dead
In 1921 Mr.. Botsford moved on to the
place where he now resides-a mile West Of
the eenter-and commenced improvements.
His farm, aud Improvements, show what en-
ergy, aud industry can accomplish.
Russell Clark, a young man, drove one of
Mr. Eddy's teams on coming into the country
He was an excellent teamster-and equally
expert with an xe, as with the whip. He cut
the first tree on many of the farms in Edin-
hurgh, and can now point TO many chestnut
stump, several feet in diameter from which he
cut the tree. "Beat this boys, if you can
| is his favorite expression. He now lives
about mile West of the CENTER on a, well
cultivated farm, the product of his own indust-
ry, energy. and perseverance. 1i-ss
In February 1917 t5reenbury Keen and
Betsey Hitchcock we're married by Rev. Ca
leb Pitkin. This was the first marriage in the
township. Miss Hitchcock came into the
country with Alanson Eddy.
In 1918 Robert Calvin, an old bachelor,
! from Virginia, came into town, and soon after
married Miss Fisher, of Palmyra He is still
living on the old farm on which he first settl-
ed on lot s, where Major Hart now lives-one
mile East of the center. David roWbridge
and Sylvester Gilbert also came in this season
and settled in the N East quarter of the
township. m f7sa7l 2efgss no
j Richard Garfield. son of Amasa, was born
April oath 1918. being the second birth. and
! first male birth in the town He died in Ra
VIENNA in 1S49 - 7s -
! Asa H. Botsford, son of Harvey, was born
i October 18th l818-being the third birth, and
second male child in Edinburgh. zi-
/ The first school was taught by Miss Claris
sa Loomis. of Charlestown in the summer Of
1918. in log house that stood near where
Mr. g. c. Young now lives. The scholars
were. Juiette, A. Eddy. daughter of Alanson
Eddy, now the wife of Fl. N Bostwick of R
VIENNA Edwin A, Eddy who lives in Wiscon-
!. sin-and Harriet Eddy who is dead-al
children of Alanson-Henry Garfield. now o
!, Windham-Julia Garfield, who is now deat
J, Harriet Garfield, now wife of George Bos-
twick of Ravenna--Polly, now the wife o
f NJ oses A. Birchard of Windham-and Charles
, who is now dead-chidren of Amasa Garfield
Julia and Charles lived in Royalton. Ooyaho-
! County, where Charles died., Julia died il
Edinburgh while on a visit to her parents
In the fall of this year Justin Clark Poll,
Clark, Sally Clark, and Harriet Garfield wen
e into the south part of the township to gathe
hickory nuts Night came on, and they go
: lost 1t was dark and rainy, and they emptiet
! the nuts on the ground and put the bag
around the girls shoulders, for shawls ant
e 'treed'-where they spent the night. In th'
night some wild animals came yelling roun,
!. the tree, evidently desirous of closer acquain
!. tance, but finally gave it up. They were found
# in the morning, BY persons out hunting 70
!. them, in doleful plight-wet through--an'
# the hands of the girls much swollen by holdin.
/. on to the limbs of the tree Polly is now tn
< wife of S. Day ESQ. of Ravenna--Sally of Ed
n win Howard of Edinburgh, and Harriet O
n George Bostwick.
~ On Justin Eddy's land where Theodor
= Clark now lives, was a rattlesnske den. Il
the Spring of 1918 Samuel Sanford, now c
. Vienna, and Russell Clark were "loggiDg" O
! this farm, and discovered rattlesnake--whic
n they killed. A terrific rafting immediatel
q commenced, when they found themselves i
the midst of den of them By removin
some nat stones they found the whole family
and killed seventy two-one of them, who aE
t, peared to be The patriarch of the family, an
most venomous, they tormented till they go
, his rage to the highest pitch, when they stuc
a green stick at him, from which the bark ha
II bean peeled, and he immediately struck hi
'' fangs into it. The poison was plainly visible