The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-12
Annual Meeting of the Hancock County
Pioneer Association.

The regular meeting of the Hancock
County Pioneer and Historical Associa-
ton was held at the Court house, last
Saturday, the 9Th.
The meeting was called to order by
President Wiseley, at l o'clock, and the
minutes of the previous meeting read
and approved.
The Constitution was so changed as
to make the qualifications for member
ship a residence of Hancock County
since 1s45, instead of 1910, as heretofore.
The following officers were then elect
ed for the ensuing year:
Observation-Disclosures Parker.
Vice President Richard Dukes
Treasurer Brown.
Erecutioe Committee &C. E. Jordan,
Samuel Howard, George Todd, Squire
Carlin, Adam Cramer, 8. F. Dulin,
Henry Lamb.
On a call for remarks from pioneers.
SQUIRE CARLIN gave In the following
experience.
There is now living in Hancock Coun-
ty only one person who was full grown
when came here, In 1926. The lady Is
here to day. Her name is Mrs. Judge
Wilson. l came here to take up my
residence in November, 1926, and have
lived here ever since. My fathers fam
lily was the first white family in Huron
county. While living there, when was
about five years of age, went out after
q bucket of water, when 1 saw about
fifty Indians about a quarter of a mile
off, running rapidly toward our house.
was frightened and ran in the house
and got behind my mother. Ihad hard
ly got in the house when an Indian, all
covered with blood, came running in the
door, and seeing ladder that led into
the loft, he ran up that. A few minutes
after about fifty Indians came into the
house hunting for the first Indian.
Some of them ran up stairs, when the
hunted Indian jumped out of the win
dow and ran of, with the Indians shout
ing after him. A few hours after most
of them came back, and my father asked
them what was the matter. They said
that the Indian they were chasing was a
witch, and that they had killed him.
In 1912 my father and family were living
on the Maumee, when he heard of HulPs
surrender. We got the news at noon
and left at one o'clock, taking only what
my mother and the children could carry.
In our retreat we passed through Find
lay, where men were at work cutting
timber for the fort. We went off to
Bellcenter, and stayed two years. In
1914 went with my father to the vicin-
ity of Ft. Meigs, On the Maumee, and
raised a crop. That fall some other
boys and myself had made arrangements
to cross the river and shoot pigeons. but
my father hired me out to dig potatoes,
SO that did not get to 60. The two
boys that did 60 were killed by the
Indians. The settlers then all went into
the fort, and stayed several months.
When l came here, in 1926, neighbors
were very scarce, and we often went five
to eight miles to attend log raising. /
traded and sold goods to Indians and
whites for twenty-six years in Findiay.
used to often travel through the coun-
try to Indian camps for the purpose of
trading. Once run out of provisions,
and for three days lived on boiled corn.
saw what supposed to be a number of
coons roasting in front OF a fire. With
out stopping to ask for it, helped my
self to quarter of it and ate it. latter
wards found out that it was foxes the
Indians were roasting for their dogs, that
had eated. used to have a big trade
in furs. During one winter purchased
4, 900 deer skins and 1000 coon skins.
Mr.. Jonathan Parker then contribu-
ted the following interesting pioneer
sketch:
Mfr. President;--At the last meeting of
this Society | was appointed to write an
essay to be read at this meeting, on pio-
neer life in Hancock county.
l don't know whether rightly under
stand the meaning of that word, but /
suppose it means my early experience in
Hancock county. As l lived a short
time before came here, / will ask the
privilege of going back few years In
order to get fair start, but on that
head / will not detain yon long. / will
do like preacher who took for his text,
''The world, the flesh and the devil."-
He said he would be very brief, and he
would speak few words concerning the
world, touch lightly concerning the flesh,
and hasten as fast as possible to the
devil.
You must not think would compare
coming to Findlay, when did, to 60
ing to the devil; but l will tell you
what ] do think you take a young
man of the present day aud put him to
sleep, and take him away and set him
down In place like Findlsy was when
came here and wake him up and tell
him to 20 to work and make living, l
think he would look around and con-
clude he was well on the way toward his
Satanic majesty's dominions.
l can't trace my ancestors very far
back, and perhaps it is best. 1t will be
with he as it was with a man by the
name of Stanberry / once knew. He
was a man OF note in his day; a lawyer
by profession, and once d .asuber of
the Ohio Legislature, also a member of (
Congress. heard a man tell the story
who was a member of the Legislature
at the same time. He said when the
labors of the day were through a good
many of the members were gathered in |
the room talking; some telling what |
great things their ancestors had done; |
some had shot an Indian, and others
had shot ut a sauaw. One of the mem.
bers stepped up TO Stanberry and asked
him il any of bis ancestors had done |
any great things. He said hs guessed |
they had from all he could learn-some |
Of them had been hung for stealing |
horses.
l have never learned that any of |
mine were hung, but have learned that
my grandfathers on both sides were SOL
iiers In the revolutionary war, and both |
learned the trade that almost all that
class of men that ! ever knew had learn
I'd, an thar WIS to love good liquor
Ny gfandfa: her on my fathers side low
ID it SO well that it killed him, and LEFT
his family very poor, as drunkards almost
invariably do.
There is q passage in the old Testa-
nent which says the iniquities of the
ather shall be visited on the children
wen to the third and fourth generation
md / believe that it is SO. I am of the |
bird genel alton, and think have felt
he pressure of that sentence all through
ny life.
have heard my father say when he
for himself he was very Ioor.
He was farmer, and a renter in Lou
lon county, Virginia, where was born,
u the year 1908.
The Psalmist says the children of the
ust man shall be like olive plants around
lis table. / was the third plant, and
hree more sprang up after me In the old 1
about AS fast as such plaLtI
an come together. My father began to