The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-02-28

II he ever came back it would DO In two
weeks from that night, as he was going TO
see another young lady on the next Sab
bath evening, and if she would marry him
he would not come to see her anymore
Well, at the end Of the two weeks Miss
Ann las will call No. ~ began to loo, TO
see if she could read her fate. It began TO
grow late, and still William did not como.
She thought her doom was fixed, and de-
termined she would seal it with her life.-
She went to the creek and seated herself
on the ice, (for it was winterl and ,,,o
way to her grief in a flood of fears. sba
had not been there long, however until |
one Of the other members Of the family
went in search other just after dark. fopnd
her as above described and said, "Ann
cheer agp, for Billy has come ~ She rose
quickly, wiped the tears from her ewes and
went to the house all smiles, where she
found "Billy," who said that the "ot5er
gap would not have him, and he wac
ready now TO marry her. They were mar
ried, raised numerous family and were
happy in each others love.
| AL the persons mentioned In this sketch
have passed away except two, John and
Lydia Thornburg, who are still living near
Lexington. They have seen this settle
ment in all Of its changes, from wilder
ness to its present cultivated condition.
| Where then the wolf and the panther
screamed and roamed at pleasure, in the
short space of go years is made to "blossom
like the rose" and instead of being startled
from their sleep by the howl ofwild beasts,
they are now awakened by the shrill
whistle of the locomotive, as it speeds on
its way, drawing after it trains loaded with
the products of the land. I. MT
! Mr.. Scott states that the first Wheat
known to have been sown in the present
county of Highland, was sovn by Nathan
iel Pope, on a few acres of ground near
where the brick school house now stands.
in the town of Leesburg.
Late in November, 1893, Marcshah
Llowellyn and his wife Peggy, came out
| from the pine hills Of North Carolina, and
settled on Rocky Fork, two miles south of
where Hillsboro now stands. This was the
! first settlement made on the Rocky Fork,
and was on the west side of the present
road leading from Hillsboro, known as the
old West Union road, about three hundred
yards north OF the creek.
There is a bit of romance connected with
the emigration of Llewellyn. It seems
that his wife's father was an Englishman,
named George Smith, who disliked Llewel-
lyn because he was Welsh, and swore he
would shoot him If he did not stop court
ing his daughter. Peggy, however, did
not share her fathers prejudlces, and smiled
on her bold young lover. Finally, both
being determined to marry, and knowing
her father would never consent to the
match, they quietly stole away one moon
light night, while the old gentleman was
away from home, and started for Tennes-
see, with all their worldly goods packed on
horseback. Arriving at Elizabethtown,
on the Holston river they were legally
married, and pursued their journey to
Kentucky. Llewellyn hunting by the way,
and stopping occasionally to rest them
selves and their horse, they reached Mays
willie in October, and crossed the rivor-
They pushed on northwardly, Llewellyn
being chiefly anxious to find good hunting
grounds, where he would not be interrupt.
ed by other settlers. At length he reached
Rocky Fork, and being pleased with the
country, concluded to stop there a while.
In the spring of 1900 he cleared out d
small corn patch, and raised corn, pump.
lSins, &c, and during the summer bull
him cabin. In the fail he gathered hi,
corn, and ground meal on an iron hand
mill which he had brought from Kentucky
This furnished them the first bread they
had tasted since leaving that State.
= ain the course Of the next two years
William Dougherty, James Smith, Jol
Smith, Robert Branson, George Weaver
and George Cav, settled in the neighbor
2 hood of Llewellyn, who still continued t.
hunt and grind corn on his hand mill fol
e the new settlers. Robert Branson died it
D the summer Of 1901. In the course of {
few years, Llewellyn grew weary Of tn,
+ mill business, and as game had becom,
rather scarce, he determined to NOV,
r left.
'In the fall of 1900, a settlement wal
a formed three or four miles south of New
Market, by as jolly a set of Irishmen n
ever collected together this side their ns.
3 tive island. Their names were Alexande
d Fullerton, John Porter, Samuel McQulttv
It William Ray, William and James Boyd
James Farrier, Hector Murphy and Alex
T. ander Darlington.
b "a little stream, i'm the Language of
+ gentleman of New Market, who furnish
n ed this information to Mr.. Scott for hi
History ofthe county-"bearing the classi
+ name of Smoky Row, in memory of
= cherished locality in sweet Ireland, wende
20 lazily through the lane Of John Porter
+ who was moved to profit thereby. Johr
y in the course Of few years, set abou
d building thereon a grist mill Of most singu
II lar construction, and when it was con
.e pleted greatly rejoiced thoreat; and as b
s. viewed its zigzag walls and peculiar adaI
tation to the object for which it was d,