The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-06-19
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History of Lexington Township.
CHAPTER XIX.

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ter supplied with fruit of all modern va
rieties than is Lexington township. The
soil seems well adapted to apples, pears,
grapes and plums. The latter fruit, how
ever, meets here with its deadly enemy
the curculio.
All the varieties of small fruits do well
in the township. There is no one person
giving them especial cultivation and at
tention, but number of persons are pro-
dueing a surplus for the market.
David Kendrick, in early times lived in
q cabin on what has been known as the
Garwood farm, recently owned by Joshua
Garwood, purchased of him by Jehu B.
Milner, and surveyed into town lots and
christened as Miners third addition to
Alliance.
David Kendrick went to Friends meet
ing at Lexington, on foot, taking with
him his son Nelson, q little boy three
years old. Oa his way home a. violent
storm arose, and about the junction of
Main and Mt. Union Streets. tree blew
down killing Nelson and breaking Mr..
Hendricks leg in. two places. BE was
carried to the cabin of MIR. Perry Chance,
situated about the present location of Mr..
Lowers brick residence just north of the
P. F. W. & G. R.R..
About 1850 the wheat raised In Lex
ington township was diseased, producing
an affection of the human system known
as Wheat Sickness" The grains of
wheat we're plump, and to all appearances
healthy, but the -four when baked left q
pungent taste IN the throat, and produc-
ed eeathly nausea and vomiting Wheat
rye and other cereal grains, prior to 1925,
were cleaned by bouncing them In sheet
in a current of wind, the four corners be-
ing held by two persons; but at the above
date, windmills were introduced, and the
gram tramped out with horses or cattle
on barn floor, or threshed with fail up
to 1845 when threshing machines were
introduced. A few years after this the
improvements were attached to the
threshers, so that grain was delivered
from the machine ready cleaned for the
market.
Mrs. Nancy Rockhill, at present living
with her son IN law, John Q. Ramsey,
left her cabin on the present site Of the
residence of Clement. Roekhill, her son,
to visit Joseph johnson, still living
and residing two miles west of Alliance.
In returning to her home IN the evening
she got lost in the forest; though the
neighbors went to her rescue with horns
Anu SHO Was AOb 4SuAA VA bA4O
following morning.
It viii be source of pleasure to all the
older settlers of the township, to read the
following letter from Clayton Grant, of
Bourbon, Indiana.
Mr.. hittIeberry Stanley, alluded to In
the letter as one of the parties at the
squirrel hunt, was reputed as one of the
finest marksmen in the township, and
was father to our excellent and energetic
citizen 7. G. Stanley.
BOURBON, IND, March 22d, 1873.
Mr.. RIDGEwAY HAINEs :-DeaT SIR /:
Your letter of the inst. came to hand,
asking some questions about my recollecs
ton Of early times in Lexington township.
By tradition / understand that John
Grant, my father, settled on the farm on
which yo1 now reside, in the year 1903.
I was born there IN 1911 IN 1872 we
moved into a house where Lexington
now stands; when the war was over, we
moved back 10 the5old place. The first
grist mill built in thai township was built
about the year 1926, near where the town
of IIimaville now stands, afterwards
known as Sage's mill 1t was built by
Joseph Elliott. Afterwards, In about
1921. John Pennock built one where
Williamsport was then commenced.
John Macs Was one Of the early settlers
of Lexington Township he settled on
what was, s,-and perhaps is still known as
the old Oyster farm, on the Salem road
due east of,Mt. Union about two miles, it
was said that while he lived there that be
Killed thirty bears. Many others were
killed along the Mahoning or its tributa-
ries. I recollect of my father and bis
bows killing four of them along that little
run that passes through the farm on
which Glenn Rockhiil now lives.
5 / carried up one Of the corners Of the
/ first house built IN Mt. Union on the
LeEinetop side about tSe year 1928 or 1895
About the year 1880 1 bullt cellar val
for nv brother Thomas, afterwards occu'
pied by William Teeters. Ehe place L
now occupied by Alliance. From 1883 Il
1888 lived in the east side Of what nov
is Alliance, cleared the land. built th'
first cabin there, and lived happily IN i
for those FIVE years.+ 80 -
Father built his brick house on the OLD
farm about the year 1926 and his barr
about 1928. The great squirrel hunt o
which you inquire came on about In
wear 1889. LIttlabuiy Stanley took tn,
firs5 prize ard I took the second; Ithlni
he killed aoout eighty, and l about sey
| entv.ive SQUIRRELS that day. The las
deer that 1 have sny knowledge of beini
killed in those parts, first saw shot ant
wounded about II miles sorsh ives
of Mount Union; I had horse with me
the deer ran northwest about three mllel
l rode until I came to brother Stacy
place where the widow now lives, hitch
ed nav horse to his fence, where he stay
ed tiil the next day. 1 followed the dee
till he turned back, then back We Wen
81 miles to near the starting point, then
; straight shoot for Mount Union, passe
through the edge of it, thence throug
where Alliancs NOW Is aituatSds en- to kls