The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-03-13
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONs.
BY THE EDITOR.


voters in the year 1928. Our nearest
neighbors were the Corns. Old George
Corn was perhaps 80 years Of age. He
had been married twice, and often boast
ed that he had 20 children. His sons
Jesse, Samuel, William and Peter were
all voters, and his youngest son. James,
might have been old enough. Jesse and
Samuel resided within a quarter of
mile of US, and they were good neighbors.
Abner and Joseph Phillips resided
mile south of US, and their brother Mar
tin was perhaps old enough to vote, but
think Wilson was not 81 at that time.
James Carnes, their brother-in-law, a
crippled man, was voter. Old Peter
Seel, who settled there in lS14-two
years before the organization of the
county, and who was the first tax
payer in the township, resided where
John Phillips now resides. On the farm
where John Thomas now resides, Silas
johnson then resided Old John Nc
Kenzie resided a couple of hundred yards
east of Johnson's residence, on the side
of the hill. He was my first school
master. 1 think he had two sons who
were voters, and my recollection is that
their names were Washington and Alex
ander, or Wash. and Aleck. On the
present Phillips farm, resided old Bob
Massie. His sons Jonathan, Jephtha
and Moses were voters, and perhaps
James was old enough to vote. There
were so many of the Massie family, and
SO many of the same name, that they
were sometimes distinguished by nick
names. Jephtha was a tall, large man,
with long body and rather short legs,
and he was called "Big Jep," and Long
Mountain Jep." Nose was known as
"Kebbin Nose" He had a short, quick
way of talking, and one time he was
complaining about high taxes, and un-
dertook to say that he expected after
a while we would have to pay taxes for
our cabins, and he had it, 1--WE will hev
to pay texes for our kebbins;" hence his
nickname. Jonathan was a deaf and
dumb man.
l do not remember whether George
Crump or John Shoemaker resi- led on
the Thomas McNeal farm. 1t was about
that time that Crump sold out to Shoe
maker. He was no relative of the John
Shoemaker now residing in that town
ship.
Nearly a mile north of Robert Massie's
farm, resided his brother, Moses. Sew
eral of his sons were voters. Lewis, Jep,
Bob, and perhaps John, were old enough
to vote. Bazel and Nose were small boys
near my own age. Jep was small man,
and was known as Little Jep."
A quarter of mile north of Massie's
resided old Jesse Kelly. His three sons,
James, John and Jesse, were voters, were
married, and not living with their father.
Half mile north of Kelly's, resided his
brother-in-law, my uncle, Solomon Mack
ley, where John Thomas now resides, g
quarter of mile west of Portland. Ny
cousins John and James Mackley
were then voters. North of my uncle's
residence, on the Mrs. Price farm, resid-
ed my brother-in-law, James Kelly, and
a short distance north of him were John
and James Walton. A little farther
north was DR.. Gabriel McNeel, and his
sons William and James, who were then
old enough to vote. just north of this,
where John Williams now resides, was
James Fullerton, father of H. H. Fuller
ton, lately of Jackson. North of this,
and near the line of Franklin township,
resided Joel Arthur. All his sons were
married except Azariah, who yet resides
on the old farn. The other sons were
Benjamin, Stephen and Lewis. Benja-
Minis farm joined his fathers on the
west. Next west of Benjamin Arthur's,
resided William Fl. G. Jenkins This is
just south of Vaughn's Station. Mr..
Jenkins son Joseph was a voter, and l
think Azariah, William and perhaps An
drew, were voters. Adjoining the farm
of Mr.. Jenkins, and west of him, was the
farm of Enoch Ewing.
1t is my impression that Amos Jenk.
ins, brother of VIM. Fl. G. Jenkins, and
George Yeager, and his father, Philip
Yeager, resided in the edge of Jefferson
township, but it may have been in the
edge of Franklin. George Yeagers wife
was Jenkins, and Amos Jenkins, John
and James johnson married sisters oi
George Yeager.
Now l get farther west, over on the
Black Fork of Symmes' Creek, where re
sided old Amos Jenkins. He had seven
sons, four of whom were voters, Berry
Josiah, Really and John. In the same
neighborhood was John Shoemaker, still
| there.
In the northwest part of the township
resided John Horton, whose sons James
and William, and perhaps Joseph, were
voters. I am not certain but Samuel and
Lewis Radabaugh, brothers of Horizons
wife, also resided in that locality. AT
the mouth of Hewitt's Fork, resided
John White, whose sons James and Tho
mas were voters, and his sons-in-law
j ohm and Lewis Harmon
A mile or two up Hewitt's Fork resid
ed John Walls, and then there were nc
inhabitants south until you reached the
head of Hales Creek, near the present
location of Monroe Furnace. There re
sided John, Thomas and Matt Farley
George W. Slack, and others A mile
east, in what was known as the Flat Hol
low, now Gallia Station, resided John
James and William Whit South, near
the county line, Samuel and David Nor
gan Whether Eur, Felt and Job Accord
and their father, John Accord, and old
Henry Luster, were in this county or the
edge of Lawrence, near the present loca