The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-11-18
Random ThOughtS---NO. A.
BY THE EDITOR.

where my parents are buried, -ol the old home
stead one and one-half miles soufh-west from
Portland / Isaid over igLt with my nephew,
John Phillips As wentdown the railroad
met Mrs. Susan Price. one Of my old neighbors.
She is the mother of Andy Price, who was hung
in Irontou last Spring | heard after had
seen her, that she hid been to see onc of her
daughters die. This woman was the widow Of
Levi Canter. In the winter OF 1851, l. eyi Can
ter and his brother Bill and Perry Price, got
into a drunken fight with some Irishmen at
Monroe Furnace. Levi Canter was killed, when
Bill Cantcr and Perry Price killed the Irishman
who had killed Levi. was Pros ecuting At
tomey at the time. Ny recollection now is that
Price ran of, and that Bill Canter was in
Jail fora time, but the witnesses could not be
had, and lie was never convicted In fact, l
never blamed Bill, because, almost any one see
ing his brother cut to pieces, would Kill the
m urderer on the spot Well, Mainda Canter,
the widow of this Levi Canter, died in a rock |
house or cave, amile or two below Portland, in
utter destintion, and The trustees Of jefferson |
town ship had to bury, her.
On Friday morung"Mr Phillips and l put
up the grave stones, when once more took a
look at the home Of my chi ildhood l do not |
suppose that my old home Possesses any interest
to my readers, only this, that they all once
were children, and also lad home, which W i'll
ever be dear to them. The man or woman who
does not revere tie holy name of bome-who
does not love even the hearh-stone around
ich he or she crawed in infancy-the tree
under which the playhouse was built-the tree
upon which the ids sang SO sweetly must be
Of different nature from mine.
The old log barn built by my father in 1882 is
yet standing, but it looks like it would soon
tumble down | went to the house. Mrs
Jones and Mrs. Hughes, who live there invited
me in,and gave me opl les from the old orchard,
the trees in which were set out in til spring Of
the year 1886. The old log loom house 5 still
standing. 1 made new doors to the old resi-
dence in the fall of 1872 Before that time th c
doors were Of elapboards. There were no saw
mills cut down yellow poplar tree, cut Off
log ten feet long, aud hewed ii square. | then
hired 1.-TWO Wehlmm, Evan Jenkins and james
, L. james, 10 saw 1t into inch planks. They
= Put the log upon scaffod about seven feet
high, and struck black lines upon 1t with Il
: striug, on the top and bottom. These lines
, were an nch aIurt ana guided them when saw
ing one ot them stood upon Ghe top OF the log
and held The upper end OF The saw, and the
other stood under II AMI held the lower end.
They called the saw whip saw. When the
planks were seasoned l borrowed planes and
tni a A., n,,d, Il,
doors Paint and painters were then unknown
in that nci ghborhood. Soon after my doom
were made, Dr. MeNeel stopped over nigh
with me. told h i'm that was afraid that th'
+ door on the north side the house, being eX
posed 10 he storms, would soon decay as yel
low opar was not very durable wood. HI
It toll me 20 gtt pound Of 81 anish brown at TN
If store, which would only cost twenty-five cents
O and mix lome ot II with butter-milk, and pain
my door with 1t, and he thought II would an
= swer the urp0se. | did as he directed, and tht
I, paint remained, bright for many years. l no
"a tlced on last Friday That the door was In gooC
state Of prcseryatlon,ond neaI"the raclng, wher
>. 1t had been some what protected, the red pain
was yet plainly to be seen, although but on
: coat of II had been put on, and that twenty
seven years ago.
again visited the old 0pple-Lree, which Wis
: tied and described July 10, 1865. Itforks about
: two feet above theground IagOn measured II
n Just below the fork II was nine feet four inche
Il in circumference. One fork, four fee
above the ground, Is Ave feet two inches, ant
Y the other fear feet eleven inches. The tree
:. not high, but Its branches extend In every d
rs reetlon about thirty feet, making sixty fee
IA from the end of one limb TO the other The tire
~ Is now nearly llty years old,
,e In the afternoon went TO the grave OF m
babe, who died Nov. 10, 1850 1t is buried a
a the old Baptist church In Oak Hill. The oil
building is gone, aud SO Is the old Method,
V church In Oak Hill. | st opped at the grave
~ yard at the Wesh church In the south part o
y Oak Hill, Here lie many persons with whom
~ was once acquainted. Many ofthe inscription
y are In he Welsh language, generally quotation
from scripture. One stone at the graves of tw
's children has this Iuscrlp ton!
4 "Welc plant ydynt etllcddleath yr Arglwydd
g ei wobr If wv frwyth groth. y
ID On another is this warnings
e. "Am hynny byddw eh chwlthau barod, cany
A. yn W awr nj thybloch y daw Nab dyn."
in Which in English Is this
"Theretora be yu also rehdyi for in such a
hour us ye think not, the Son OF man Cometh.
~ On another Is this lus Grip tlon'
IN "Gwerihhwr yngolwg yr Arglwydd y
&c marwoaeth ell saint el.
IF, Tne English OF which Is;
ut "Precious In the sight of the Lord 10 the deaf
ID Ofhls saints,
,o have often spoken of the grove In Oak III
Vi where a BaptIst association wus held In 1924 IAN
again in 1850, and where our Sunday schoo
were afterwards held. / went there ON Frlda,
The lot had been In corn. Two hogs were
the lot. In this same lot was the first gray,
BE- yard in Oak Hill Here were buried greG
ID many persons Not Ia ycslgo Of grave ca
IN now be seen. In 1926, Andrew Brown. VIII
m died OF consumption, was buried here. NJ
ls fathers mother was buried here. / saw til
le wife of jesse Kelley buried here, and the odes
y SOU, a child, OF james Kelley. Old Mrs Kelly
"a james Mcdaniel Esq, aud many Others, lie here
D. and their dust will never be Identified until th
Ie aat trump shal sound. ID. NJ.
10 NO A5.-
lI Tho people of Portland are putting up
l. splendid lwO.story frame school house, on IN
x high polnt, near the old schooLhouse, and th
church The new brick NJ. E. Church. up ih
o railroad, Is up aud covered, fhur5 Is nnt
brick church, finished ncar tho east side o
Portland. On marble slab, in 'front.' is hi
IS inscription, First Congregational Church 1868
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