Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-09-04


home. The warming a church with
stoves was an innovation more mod.
ern and regarded by many as profane.
The singing was considered a part
of worship, and ere long was entered
upon with fervor and as much intel
ligence and care as we commonly find
in later days.
Not until 1926 was a Cong'l church
organized in Gustavus. This was
established on purely republican prin-
ciples, and no dissatisfaction ever
arose from every members having
and using the right to. Uote. James
Badger was the first pastor; his salery
was $500; $50 of it being supplied from
the Missionary fund. The Bible pre-
sented by Josiah Pelton to the
church, bears date 1852, and was prin-
ted in Edinburgh, Scotland When
this revered old book was displaced
by new one of modern type, it was
returned, according to his request, to
one of his descendants, and is now,
1872, in possession of Mrs. Alpha
Lane. Names of the members were
Jehiel and Rhoda Bidwell, Joseph
and Eunice Hart, Truman and Eliza
Cowden, VIM. and Marquis Roberts,
Rufus and Alcinda Beman, Curtis B.
Coe, Faith A. Mills, Asa and Hepzi-
bah Case, Aaron Lyon, Ira, Hepzibah,
Achseh and Riley Skinner, Luther
and Mary Jones, Abner and Lucy
Waters, Seth st. John, Cyrus and
Abigail Bailey.
The first school was kept in a HelO
log barn belonging to John Lane, II
miles northeast of the center. The
teacher was Sally Wakeman her
wages was 70 cents per week. Many
of the children found their way thro'
the woods by means of blazed trees.
The tuition was all paid by the
parents, as there was no puplic school
money here for thirty years after
ward. This was in the summer If
1908.
School books were not very plenty
until DIR. Streeter went on horseback
to Pittsburgh in 1909, where he
bought Webster's Spelling Book,
Columbian Orator, English Reader
and Elements of Useful knowledge
nearly a portmanteau full
First school house was built on the
premises of Riverius Bidwell in the
year 1913. Soon after, Esther BidwelI
taught there, and the children from
the center (nearly three miles away
and even farther, came to her school.
Some could not obtain hats but came
with kerchiefs bound about their
heads, so set were their hearts on at
tending her school.
The temperance movement was
inaugurated by Marquis Andrews.
A meeting was called. He saw the
growing evils of intemperance and
disapproved of iHlmoderdte drinking.
A resolution he offered, embodying
his views, after being discussed, was
so amended as 10 entirely preclude
the drinking of ardent spirits. The
pledge that was quickly circulated
was so strong that he himself 1gould
not sign it!
During the second war for Inde-
pendence in 1872, when the Army of
the West under Gen. Harrison was
concentrated at the head of Lake |
Erie, there was a call for troops from
Ohio. With what enthusiasm the
call was met will be inferred from
the fact that when a draft of only
eight men was made upon Gustavus,
nearly every able man volunteered,
and in one day after the call came,
Marquis Andrews led q company,
armed and equipped las best they
COULD toward Fort Stephenson at
Lower Sandusky.
Among these were Joseph, Elias
and Julius Pelton, Lemuel Newton,
Aaron Rice, Joseph Hart, John Lane.
Thaddeus Selby, Aaron Lyon, Elam
Linsly and Lester Cone. esquire
hearing in Kinsman of
the demand for equipments as well as
men, FASTENED home to hide his two
brass kettles in his eornfeld. But
as his son Jehiel enlisted, the kettles
soon had to be brought in for imme-
diate use, as each man had to furnish
his own camp kettle ard blanket
After three days DR.. Streeter took
his horse and follow the company
TO bring back tidings. Every good
wife sent cake by him to her hus-
band, and the wife of John Lane
sent him pair of shoes, as there had
been no time to procure them before
he left home. But volunteers were
soon so numerous that Gen. Harrison
felt compelled to issue an order
against further enlistments, 50 very
many we!e discharged and returned
home. But knowing that the Indi-
ans, very many of them were allies
Of the British, great fear was felt
after the departure of the troops, lest
this willy foe should steal upon the
people and pillage and
murder, as they had SO often done in
other settlements.
Some boys hunting in the western
border of the township were over
ioyed one day at their triumph in .
having shot a fawn. Mrs. Newton, ]
who lived two miles west of the CEN {
ter and who was quite alone with her I
two little children, one a babe, hear
ing their wild shouts, supposed the
IL dians to be just at hand and shout {
ing their war whoop. She seized both s
her. children and avoiding the path (
where her tracks might be seen, she t
led through the woods TO the center 7
where lived her nearest neighbors.-
Some were amused at her flight, but
he pleasantest thing to her was the G
act that her fears were groundless. '
The band of Indians who until the /
year 1910 had encamped on the west t