The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-13

crops are now most promising. Oats
alone will DO any way short. Except ap.
PIES fruit will be very abundant, and the
apple crop will by no means be q failure.
Peaches are rapidly ripenlng and are be.
ing as rapidly plucked and hastened 10
market. They will be remarkably cheap
before the middle Of next month.
WHILE IN BIsTRRSvILLB
! had several hours' conversation with
Mrs. Mccoy, lady now In her eightieth
year. She was one Of a family oil twenty.
two children, and In 1903 her father (Mr.
Wells removed hero from near what Is
now Bethany, going down the river in
canoes, as II was before steamboat was
ever seen on the Ohio. At that time
nearly the half Of what 10 now the State
Of West Virginia was Ohio county, Viz
ginia, The family only removed from
the upper to tho lower part oil Ohio coun'
". Mr. Wells was for years Q member
Of tho Virginia Legislature and o promi-
nent man. Ills daughter, Mrs. Mccoy,
informed me that che well remembered
when many Of the heroes Of
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
were entertained at her home. One oil
the family connection became cousin oil
Henry Clay's by marriage. This old
lady recollects all the important move
ments made in tho organization OF the
first Church In what is now Sisterville,
and has evidently taken q great interest
in all public improvements and in all
prominent men
OF TIE PAST HALF CENTURY.
Mrs. McCoy's hearing Il as perfect as
ever, her oversight Is very good, enabling
her 10 read the smallest print, and shg
regards 1t great pleasure 10 walk around
the town and call upon her relations
Near one half Of the residents are related
to her. She has one brother living, Mr.
Wells, who resides about q mile below
town. He is In
HIS EIGuTY.EIGHIH YEAR.
Many years ago, when tho Wells chill
dren were comparatively young, mum
bering twenty-five, there resided on the
adjoining farm below a family Of twenty
eight children, and on the farm immedi
ately above there was q family OF twenty
one children-in all seventy.one children
in the three families
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION
for Tyler was held at Middlebourne Sat.
urday, when delegates were appointed t
go 10 the Ellenboro convention. II Il
said that Tyler will cast a complimentary
vote for Dan johnson on the first ballot
and then, first, last and all the time, he
vote will be for Colonel Ben Wilson. Thu
Colonel is regarded in Tyler as the only
man who can poll the party vote. l wal
somewhat amused to hear old residents
and prominent men in political circle
asking who Hans Good was. Severa
came 10 me and asked about the younG
man, presuming that, as l was from
Wheeling, could impart the
NECESSARY INFORMATION.
Several new residences Of modern STYLE
have been erected in Sistersville during
the past Year-that oil Mrs. Wells pre-
sentlng q very handsome appearance
Ely w. Russell, ESQ, expects soon Il
build large and commodious store. room
10 accommodate his
NCREAsINd TRADE.
1t was in Sistersville that Mr.. John I
Russell, the talented editor of the Wheel
Ing argus, was born and raised. He wa
well and favOrabiy known 10 many Of tn
citizens Of Wheeling. Soon after his re
turn from Santa Fe he died at his moth
er's residence, and his remains rest in tn
beautiful little family cemetery about hal
q mile
BELOW TIE TOWN.
There are still four or five members G
the Russell family living in Sistersville
They are known only 10 be respected
} and the name stands high in Tyler.
Several members Of Capt. Taylor's fam
lily, Of Wheeling, are visiting at Sisters
vile, being entertained by the hospitabl
Mrs. Wells. OLIVER.