Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-16


lest Of November sorry, siekly looking
SET, the very reverse Of what they were in the
Spring. Several Of the company were dead.
10 May 1897, David Eldrsd, one Of the COM
pany, was drowned in crossing Grand River,
AZ SINNERS landing, four miles aboFe the
mouth Of the river. His body was taken 70
Cleveland and buried in the then Relp, but
now ''old Graveyard being the second death
on the Reserve, and the first buried In Cleye-
land is.f G.s l-sua sa
IN 1913 further accession was made to
the population, by the arrival Of Rodolphus
EdYaTds and Esthaniel Doane, who, aler a
journey Of near three months, arrived from
Connecticut A happy future now seemed to
dawn On the infant city; but il was soon be-
clouded, for during the latter part Of the Sum-
mer and fall, every person in It was shaking
with ague, or burning with fever Not 8
well person to wait on the sick-nOt q ply
sician to prescribe, nor any medicine to give,
except roots, herbs and barks that the forest
yielded. A Wag remarked that It was owing
to the destitution Of physicians and medicine,
that they all got well. Their only food for
the sick vas corn mashed in hand mill or
In mortar, and wild game. For the well
they needed nothing, for there were none. .I
In Janury 1899, every settler, but one, left
the eity-and from that time to April, 1900,
Major Carter and family resided there solitary
and alone This indomitable Pioneer seemed
determined to hold possession in spite Of sick
ness and starvation.
In the spring of ! 799, Williams and Wyatt,
from Connecticut erected small mill at the
falls in this Town, which was the first mill
on the Reserve. This was noted era in the
historyof the Reserve, as it marks the change
from the uncivilized pounding Of grain, to
the civilized grinding. Ia
But q more important event marked the
close Of the eighteenth century-and proved
a new era in the history Of Newburgh.
In 17e8.Col. Alexander Harper, ,MajorWm.
M'Farland and Ezra Gregory, with their
families; arrived at Harpersfeld, Ashtabula
county ,frem Delaware county New York. In
Major M'Farland's family was q fine young
widow by the name of Partbena Mingus,
whom Major M'Farland, having no children
Of bis owns had adopted when child. She
had been married to man by the name Of
Mingus, snd had one child, but Mingus died
soon after the marriage. The widow then
returned to the family of her adopted father,
and came on to Harpersfeld with them in
1898. EpFfn~T PA
There lived in Newburgh, at that time, q
bachelor BY the name of James Hamilton, q
member Of the surveying party, who had
purchased land and put up cabin, but had
no helpmeet. The arrival Of the new settlers
at HarpeFsfeld soon became known through
out the whole negion, and the exist
ence of the young widow stirrrd up the heart
of James Hamilton. In 1899 he procured
two horses, on one Of which he rode, and
leading the other, he started through the
trackless forest fifty miles, in search Of a
housekeeper. With nothing but the instinct
Of love end marked trees to guide him, he
at last reached the Harpersfield settlement,
and in the young widow ne found the OBJ
iect of his search.
In answer to the unspoken language Of his
heart, her heart responded, in the language
of Ruth, "Where thou goest will 90 where
thou stayest 1 will stay; thy God shall
be my God, and thy people shall be my peo-
pie" Both parties willing, nothing was
wanting to crown their happiness but the
solemnities of ceremony; but here was the
difficulty Tha- Western Reserve was not
organized into county until the summer Of
Is6o. when the county of Trumbull embra-
cling the whole Reserve, was organized by
the Legislature. Previous to that time the
serve east Of the Cuyahoga, with the coun-
ty seat at SteubenYille. No necessity exist
ed for laws regulating marriages, as there
was nobody to marry, and no justices had
previously been appointed, or authorized to
solemnize marriages; and the young widow
and her gay lover "Were in a FIX" But,
where there is 8 will there is always a way In
the Marsh settlement, in what is now Men
tor, Lake county, there was q man by the
name Of Moses Park, who had once been
q Baptist preacher, and it was concluded he
would answer. 1t was accordingly agreed that
Hamilton and his betrothed should call on
him ON their way to Newburgh, and legal
ize, as far as circumstances would permit,
their contract. Accordingly, at early dawn
on the following morning, they mounted
their horses, Hamilton taking the widows
child on his lap, and she riding on her fea-
ther bed, which supplied the place of a sad
die, and set out in search Of the quOndam
Preacher. On arriving at his cabin and
making their business known, he at frat
declined again putting on the sacerdotal
robes, as he had not preached a sermon for
many years, and had totally abjured his for
Iner creed. On reflection, and urgent solicit
ton, be finally, however, consented to act
as priest, and with the usual ceremonies, he
pronounced them husband and wife.
Money being out of the question, they paid
the Priest in heartfelt thanks, and went on
their way rejoicing. Some the descendants
Of this worthy Pioneer couple are with US
to-day, the worthy descendants Of worthy
Pioneer ancestors. fI---
Such was Cuyahoga County at the close of
1893. A small sickly Settlement of five
families wintered in Cleveland in 1797-8.-
a settlement begun in Euelid-a mill, and a
wedding party consisting of the Bride and
Groom in Newburgh years have now
passed away and your vision tells the change.
A city second to but one in Ohio for numbers,
and to none in beauty, or health, stands
where the rude cabin Sheltered the poor pioneer
as he shivered with ague, or burnt with a
fever. That city covers ground on which
British post was located but sixty-four years
ago The canal Boat runs where the Indian
canoe then foated the car whistle sounds
where the Indian whoop was then heard, as
they traversed the War-path. Steamboats,,
then unheard Of, now cover your Lake
The Indians have disappeared, their council
fires are e1tinguithed, most ofthem have gone
with their chief Tecumseh, to the spirit
land. The survivors have been driven to the
setting sun. Civilization, and improvement
have been advanced by their destruction, but
humanity weeps over the wrongs and ex-
tinction of the Red Man of the Forest