Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-11-27
father of our townsman, Mr., j. C.

town were Judge McLean, Samuel
Maddle, John Hopkins, Jacob Kelley,
Geo Hinkle, Ben. Hubbard, (colored) J
Thomas McGarI augh, physician, the
second Nj. D. in the town, who after
wards died at Greenfield; John Irwin
Nicholas Neeley, Deputy Sheriff; viii
liam Wilson. Robt. Robinson, a law
yer; John Popejoy, a Justice of the
Peace; Samuel Young, saddler; John
Grady, Peter Heffley, Isaac Strain,
Samuel Loofborrow, Wade Loofbor-
row, a lawyer, a man of fne legal ac-
quirements and an eloquent, impress
i've orator; Pierce Evans, John Evans,
Geo. Upp, saddler; Henry Flesher,
blacksmith; B. Kruzen, Sampson
Dempsey, tailor; James Clark, an
Irish school master; Samuel Fisk.
butcher; Mathew Hopkins. Robert
Wilson, saddler; Ben. Hinton and
John Hinton, physicians; John Will
bright, halter; Peter Gay, halter !;
Zephania Bloomer, tailor; Valentine
Coil, brick maker; Joseph Blackmore,
tanper; David Hopkins, James Hop
kins, Joseph Hopkins. doctors: Isaac
Selix, carpenter; John Selix, Abso-
lom Collins, William Irwin, cabinet
maker, and perhaps half a dozen others
whose names are not now remembered
The tavern kept by Harris had for q
sign the likeness of Madison or Mon
roe, and on Saturday, when the Ina
tives" from the surrounding country
gathered in town to trade and drink,
they amused themselves by shooting
at the eyes of the portrait, to the dis
gust and provOcation of bOniface and
the eventual destruction Of the sign.
The Court house was finished in
1915, and burned down about Christ
mas in the winter of 1928 30. The
site on which the town stands was
very heavily timbered with white oak,
and for many y.ars enormous stumps
stood in the streets, in driving around
which wagons would often sink axle
deep in mud.
The first Jail was built and burned
down in 1823-the second one was
put up the same year and torn down
in 1910, when the present structure
was erected. There has been but one
man hung in the County according to
lave. w. Smith. Of all who resided
in the town in 1915, there are as fal
as known but four living, Judge Nc
Lean, Il. W. Heagler, Mrs. Mary Stock
dale and JOS. Mclean, who resides
near town.
John 5. Burnett was the first Au
ditor elected in the County in 1928
He died the same Fall and was succeed
| ed as follows BY Norman F. Jones
father OF Rev. Norman Jones; by
James Hinton, Jared Plumb, James
PuFsell, Henry Robinson, John Sand
ers, j. P Robinson. A. McCandless.
! The County Treasurers since 1915
were as follows JOHN King, Ben
Hinton, Jas. B. Webster. who died il
1888, and z. W. Heagler was appoint
: ed, who held the Office IL years. HI
r was succeeded by VIM. McElwain
Robt. Fawkes, Robert Stewart, J. S
Bereman, A E. Silcott, J. w. Sayr'
: and Eli Craig.
: When Z. w. Heagler received th,
r Office in 1888, the safe was tin boa
+ about II inches long, four inches wild
and about six inches deep, secured b.
! a tin clasp with a brass pad lock, anC
e contained the paper money-an ole
shot bag held the coin, probably 5000
: which was also put in the box tol
safe-keeping! The papers delivered
n and pertaining to the office were emp
2 tied out of a sealed half bushel meas
ure, belonging to the estate of Judg
4 Webster The books were three il
b number, having paste board backs, al
r of them containing not over six quires
# There was neither table, desk, station
b cry nor office, and the business wa
transacted at the residence of tn
S Treasurer. The salary was about $45C
h per year.
q There was one story school-hOus
e built of unhewn timber, on the lC
|. where the old NJ. E. church stood o
d Market street. Scholars attended tn
k school from what is now the Dew i
IL settlement, four miles east of Wash
= ington. There was no church buildin
T. in the town-there were a few MethC
, dists and Presbyterians. Meetings wer
r, held sometimes in the Court house an
.r prayer meetings at private cabins
3 Baptist Ministers named Yeomar
Al Snelson and Bell, preached occasion
r ally, although there were bnt three Q
H.; four church members in the town {
l that denomination of christians.
lie Frequently, strolIing bands of II
q diars, of the Cherokee and other L:
tIons visited the settlement and n
re mained several weeks Col. S. \
N Yeomans father lived near what
ID now known as Rock Mills, and was
e chair maker and painter. z. w. Heas
V Ter, Esq, has three chairs in his po'
Ie session, of a half dozen purchased I
le him in 1926, and they are almost {
to good as the day they came from tt
=, shop. Furniture was made in thos
/, days for service, not show!
le The fret court in the County, ws
ar held above where BloOmingburg no
ir is, in the neighborhood called me
De Purchase" The court held its Sc
a sions in a cabin and the jury when
he case was submitted to them, retired il
'r to hazel thicket to agree upon the
e. verdict. The first court held in Il
It, town was held in a double log cabi
3. on the corner where Willett's Pictu
il Gallery now is-the building WI
I'd owned by Valentine Coil, who WI
re raised by tue Indians. The court ar
II jury sat in one room or cabin, whi
- the Proprietor sold e0hjsky in Il
,et other, and when jury retired to NAL
by up their verdict in a case. they we
sw to the log Jail, which was seldom o
ne cupied by prisoners, then as nOaO, Il
tn principle criminal cases were 10hiSh
It, cases or hog stealing. Hogs were pc
ed mitted to run at large and frequent
ot persons got 1.-THE wrong pig NIT Il
a SOW" as Henry Dahl says, and la
al. suit was the result, which gave Il