The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-11-11

and who resides in Plymouth Rich
land county Ohio.
Alexander Ralstou, aged 81 year:
and who resides in Columbus Ohio
Has been Justice of the Peace, and
member of the Ohio Legislature.
Samuel Ralston aged 80 years, and
wheresidesinD ekalb Indiana
David Ralston aged 50 years, and
who resides in Clinton county Iowa.
Jane, who married John Hail, and
resides in Nevada Wyandot county
Ohio.
Margaret, who married Geo. Hall,
and lives in Orange township of this
county. q E-A 81
Mary, who married Isaac Gribben,
and lives in Richland county, Ohio.
Mariah, who married Jonathan
Dickson, and lives in Crawford coun-
ty Ohio.
Julia, the youngest, aged about SO
years, who married J. c. Bodily, and
resides IN Whitley county, Indiana.
The entire family aIe doing well /;
and bid fair to survive for many years.
They are uniformly quiet. unobtru-
sive, industrious and exemplary menu
bers of society. They are true sam
pies of the genuine pioneers, n If
the great West could be filed with
such, prosperity would crown every
enterprise, and the wilderness be
made to blossom as the rose l
NoTE.-It has been supposed by
some that Baptiste Jerome, was part
Indian. We are informed by those
who were well acquainted with him,
that he was n pure French Canadian.
THE PIONEERS BEFORE THE WAR OF
a. 1S12-THE CARRIERS.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
] see the lords of human kind pass by
Intent on high design GoLpssnrH. u
Daniel Carter Sr. was born In
Huntington county Pennsylvania De
cember %, IVA. He married Ssisss
Nancy A. Snyder of Bedford county
same State, in 1896. Removed to
Butler county Pennsylvania, and re-
manned there till 1906, when he emil
grated to Stark county Ohio. He
continued to reside there till Feb.
1912 when he removed to Richland
county and located on the Lang and
Mason land a mile North east of
Ashland, He came through Massil-
Ion and Wooster, which were then
very small villages, in a wagon. over
new and difficult roads, to John Cars
one mile North of Jcromeyille, where
MS family remained, till he cut a road
through to the above mentioned
land. He had been upon the land
upon which he located, in the spring
of 1911 and selected it for entry.
His first house was a cabin of poles,
covered with lclapbOards, and open at
one end. He then set to work to cut
and haul logs for a cabin, after doing
he went some twelve miles to
get the fourth man to help raise it,
there being only five men in all to ac-
coinplish the undertaking. After get
ting his family housed in this rude
he cleared a small piece of
ground, some six acres, for corn,
he planted.
. At the surrender of Gen. Hull,
Aug. 16, 1912, it was found unsafe to
In his neE home; and he re-
With his family to New Phila-
aeIphia Tuscarawas county Ohio,
they remained till =FchLsIa-
They then, rettrned to his cabin,
he found bis house undisturb-
ed ; and remained there till the attack
the Sey1nour's, Ruffncr and Co
pus' by the Greentown Indians. near
Petersburg. Prior to the intelligence
of these outraees, his neighbors had
all fled either to the block house at
Jeromeville, or their former home In
the east part of this State. The next
day after the news of the massacre OF
the Seymeur's, Ruffner, and Copus'
had reached the block house at Je-
bonneville, Absalom Newell, son of
Robert Newell, volunteered to inform
Nh. Carter and family of their dan
ger, and to beg them to flee to the
block house. On his way up the
he found his fathers house in
flames, and returned to the block
surprising that Mr.. Carter and
had been murdered by the In
dams. In the meantime thirty sol
diers, who had been qUartered at the
block house for the safety of the set
tiers, started on n march up the creek
to escort Mr.. Carriers family to the
fort. Mr.. David Noggle on the return
of Newell also volunteered to 90 on
horse back, to inform Carter of his
danger. Upon his arrival Mr.. Carter
and family, Immediately started for
the block house, where they arriAed
oi l.lfl. i
When the soldiers came up to Mr..
Cuppy's land, who had previously
fled to the east part of the State, they
found his cabin ia flames /; and saw
some Indians come out of a corn
field, and made an Intellectual attempt
to capture them. They continued
their march further up the creek till
they reached HFry's cabin" on what
is now the Daaiel Wertman farm,
which also had been destroyed by
the Indians. They then returned to-
the fort. The tracks of thirty seven
Indians were seea in MI. Carriers
cornfield within one hundrad yards
of his cabin; but his family had not
been disturbed by them. This was
owing no doubt to the circumstance, |
hat Mr.. Carter had always treated
the Indians kindly, prior to these diff
ficulties, and often had given them
food when they came to his house,
hungry. When the Indials at Green
town, and JerometeEvn, learned that
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