Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-05
Death Of n Pioneer Mother.

A correspondent to last weeks Sentinel
furnishes the following historical sketch
of Mrs. SARAH KIMBERLIN who was bur-
led on Beaver Creek, on the 21st ult:
Mrs. Sarah Kimberlin, mother of the
late Treasurer, George Kimberlin, died at
her home on Beaver Greek, Thursday,
June goth. The funeral services were con
Quoted by the Rev. w. Miller. There were
a goodly number in attendance notwith-
standing the rain and mud. Mother Kim
berlin was born in Lancaster county, Pa,
in 1895, and at the age of twenty married
Henry Kimberlin, and shortly after, they
moved to Wayne county, Ohio, where they
lived some four years About this time
the Maumee Valley began to receive atten-
ton as place Tor investment and Mr..
Kinberlin with his family moved to this
county, and in the month of May, 1881,
settled on the Maumee, at the mouth of
Beaver Creek. Here they lived and toled
undergoing all the hardships and incon-
veniences of II new country, for the coun-
try at that time was an almost unbroken
forest filled with wild beasts and still Wild
er savages. To those who now look over
this country with its fine dwellings, itscul.
tivated fields and good roads, It's school
of the trials haIdships and difficulties of
the men and women who first settled here.
To give our readers an idea of the Difficult
ties the old pioneers had to encounter
viii relate little milling incident. Mills
were scarce in those days and they had to
go to Cold Creek, below Fremont, or to
Monroe, Mich. The folks ran ont Of bread
stuff and concluded to 60 to mill, no very
easy task. There was n man living over
the river where Providence now stands by
the name Of Meinard, who proposed to Mr.
Kimberlin TO furnish the team two yoke
OF oxen) il Mr. X. would furnish the wagon
which was agreed to. They loaded the
wagon with about twenty-five bushels of
wheat and corn, and taking their camp
outfit and the necessary provisions for the
journey started to mill through the woods
with only road brushed out as they term
it) TO Cold Creek, below Fremont, o., some
sixty miles away. but when they reached
the mill they could not get their grinding
| done there, then they returned To Perrys-
burg, Il forgot to say there was small
One-hOrse mill thcre) which took two
weeks, but meeting the same difficulty
there, Mr.. Meinard left the team and came
on foot to get inslruciions what was best
| to 10. Then they started him to Monroe,
Mich, where, after being gone three weeks
longer and having travelled about two hun
dred and twenty miles there and return,
making five weeks in all, he arrived home
with his grinding. During the time OF
their absence from home going to mill the
folks had to use what is called a CRATER
made from piece OF tin, pnnched full oi
holes with nail and then fastened on a
board. With this instrument the girls
would CRATE corn for bread Some more
favored ones who had coffee mills would
grind corn and buckwheat in their coffee
mills for bread. Such are the circumstan-
ces that surrounded Mrs. Kimberlin's early
pioneer life, but she lived to see her family
all grown up. settled in lite and in far dif-
ferent circumstances than those of her
younger days. She was n member of the
church for nearly sixty years, and dnring
her life time her house VIVA the home Of
the weary itinerant Here he always found
a shelter from the storm, a warm hearth
and cheerful welcome, She died in the
full triumph Of living faith in her Lord
and Master and leaves large circle of
friends and relatives TO mourn her loss; hut
our loss is her eternal gain. PARsNIP,