The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-06-25
EER ASSOCIATION.
4 Pleasant Meeting and Two Very Iriyrestin-,
Paper, Read and Placed uH lie.

An adjourned meeting Of the Han
cock County Monumental Association.
was held at the Court House ola Satur-
day, Allen Wiseley, Esq, in ,Ie chair.
The minutes OF the May meeting were
read by d. b. Beardsley, Secretary. The
following resolution on the death Of
Henry Helms, E-q., was read and adopt
ed:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased God 10 sunl-
mon from our midst Henry Helms,
member Of this Association, therefore be
it
ResoIred. That we feel ia the death
of Henry Helms, this Association has
lost a valuable member, society an
honest upright citizen, and his family a
kind and alTectiOnate parent. and that
we Will cherish his memory and eni"av-
or to practice lis virtues.
ALLEN WIsELEY,
g. T.. JORDEN, Com.
ID. H. BEARDSLEY.
Levi Taylor, Esq, Treasurer of the
Association, rendered his resignation on
account of i'll health. The resignation
was, Oh motion, accepted.
The following communication was
read:
T5 the oGicers ant HIemJcrs gj'thePjoHoer
AssOciatiOn If HGHcOcE C0HHiy:
GENTLEMEN: Your honorable AsSoci-
alton is hereby cordially invited to he
present at tile ceremony o. unvciling
the soldiers monument Of this county,
to take place on the 9th proXiInO at the
Court House square in Findlay.
Your Obedient Servant,
ii. i. GAGE,
Chm Com. OH Invitation.
Ezra Brown. Esq, was chosen Treas
urer, to fill the vacancy occaSioncd 10y
the resignation of Mr. Taylor
On motion Of c. f. Jorden, Esq, the
next picnic OF the Association be held
on the grounds of Hancock County
Agricultural Society, on Friday, Sep
tembcr 10, 1873.
Mr.. Henry Hiestand, OF Washington
township, who came to Ohio, Nov 18th,
1882, joined the Association. at this meet
ing.
Also VIM. ii. Fountain, of Liberty
township, who came To Hancock County,
October, 1882.
The Executive Committee of the ASso-
citation will meet at the Office of ID. B.
Beardsley, on the second Saturday in
August, to make arrangements for the
picnic.
The following letter from Edwin :.
Jones, of ChilIicothe, Illinois, an old cit
izen of Hancock County, was read and
ordered place on file:
FoREsTGROvE, TowN OFLAPRARIF, J
MARSHALL Co, I'LL,
June e, 1875.
Mr. Allen wiseley, President of the Pioneer
Association, Hancock County, Ohio.
MY DEAR SIR: 1t is with pleasure |
see your honorable name as President of
that to me venerable Association. 1t calls
to my mind some of the incidents that oc-
CURED in my youthful days when So
journed in Hancock County. | resided
for n season, as yOu will remember, in
Marion township, above where Marvin's
Mill has since been built. The first clcc-
ton held in said district was held at my
cabin or chebang, in April, 1881. | think
there vera at that time fifteen voters in
said towr, all of whose names | think
could call over. | rccollect Mr.. Barnabus
Dewitt and Edwin 5. Jones were prom
inent candidates for the important office
of Town Clerk. think received one or
two more votes than Mr.. Dewitt. For
Trustees, Mr.. Major Bright, Mr.. Allen
Wiseley and Mr.. Asher Wickham. Mr..
Joseph Johnson was also elected 10 an
office. 1t was, rs you Mr.. President will
remember, as common TO have whiskcy
at n cabin raising, or log rolling, rs it
was TO have bread or meat for those who
assisted on SucE occasions This expense
had to be borne by the employer ut the
hazard of losing caste. Many little
broils arose from this source of strife
Mary persons were opposed to this prac-
tice. But custom shut their mouths.
During our said election, and to bring
said custom to test, drew up the fol
lowing for the reception or rejection OF
said voters, there and then assembled,
TO wit:
ReSOicod, BY the voters OF Marion
township, that in future il shall not be
considered breach OF etiquette, or good
manners, to omit the having or procur-
ing Of whiskey or ardent spirits, at rails
ings or log rolIings. or other public gath
eringS.
| put said resolution, and it passed
unanimously. All present signed il, and
it was further voted that il be recorded
in the Town Book But Mr. President,
did not set down to write now an es-
say Oh Temperance, much as ! still ad-
mire it, but to speak of the dear
ones over whom you preside. There
are some of the veterans still there,
though time is snatching one by one
away; soon my treasure and jewels will
be gone. There are yet some living, when
Ishould again like to see indeed should
like to meet with you at your Septem-
ber annual meeting, ana perhaps may
if should live SO long.
Mr. President, l should ike to have
my name recorded as a member of that
veteran Pioneer Association, although
may never see their venerable faces.
! first visited Hancock County in Sep
tember, 1926: getting AS faras Amanda;
visited Findlay, May 10, 1897; commence
ed woIk k building house there in ku-
gust, 1897; left for Peoria County, Ill.
October ;, 1881; enlisted IN Il. 5. ser
vice April ., 1852; rs Orderly Sergeant,
Captain Ead'S scout rangers. enlisted in
the late unpleasantness with the South
in l39th Regiment Volunteer Infantry.
Drank no whiskey; not sick 10 speak of;
was discharged with the regiment De-
tober 2S, 1864.
Mr.. President, give my love and kind
wishes to the dear friends over whom
you preside, hoping that if we never
meet on earth, we may meet where we
shall part no more. EDWIN s. JONES.
Mr.. Jones is mistaken Oh one or two
points. Mr.. Wiseley was elected Treas
urer of Marion township, and a Mr.. ga
ker Trustee, at the first election ever held
in that township.
Mr.. Jones was, on motion, made an
honorary member of the Association.
The following sketch from Mr. q. W.
Trout, of AHeR township, was also pre-
sented and read:
On November y. 1928, my father, John
Trout, with his family, left Somerset,
Perry county, Ohio, for the regions of
Hancock. we passed through Thorn
vile, Newark, Johnstoyn, Sunbury,
Delaware and Marion. Thence into tie
WyandOt Reserve, where we remained
one night, at the house of a widow Walk |
er, Il half breed, formerly the wife OF an
Indian, and where cur experience was |
by the sight of the first In- |
dian we had ever beheld, he having ap- !
preached our wagon for the purpose Of |
trading dogs. Having continued our
rr. ,AraGant tIrra at ITnr.r