Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-14
On the Grand Rounds.
A Jaunt Through Portions OF
belmont and Harrison
Counties.

mont and southern part of Harrison eOun-
ties, while our mind is vivid with pleas
ant recollections, our heart rent with the
partings incident to separating from
whOle-sOuled friends, the hand with
which we pen these lines still burning
with the warmth impaired by the fare
well grasp, and before that kindly hu-
man feeling engendered by social inter
course, and so seldom seen in the ordi-
nary walks or felt in the common affairs
of men, has been eliminated by the sto-
ical, outside, contact with our fellows in
the hurly-burly incident to commercial
clash, we desire to indite a letter for the en-
tertainment of your many readers, which
we hope may prove of some interest to
at least few, if our muse but will at
tend. h- t'H .i.7..-i'.'.- .,-i
10 ..-it FLUSHING.
AS you are doubtless aware, Flushing
is among the oldest towns of Belmont,
and not the least in Importance. The
country surrounding it was settled
largely as early as 1910, and the town it
self was plated in or about the year
1918, by one Jesse Foulk. Among the
early settlers were the Holloways, Bal
leys, BransOns, and Turners-the most
of whom your correspondent is inform
ed, came from "old Virginia" the "moth-
er of Presidents" The most of the piO-
neers of this section, it appears, came
from the States OF Maryland and Vir-
ginia, and yet many of them were also
pioneer advocates of civil liberty. and
during the days of rampant abolition
ism and the 'undergronpd railroad
Flushing was way-statlun; the time
being within the recollection of their
descendants when these sterling old
Roman pioneers safely spirited away the
refugee fleeing from slavery, blood
hounds, degradation and chains, to the
next station north, whence he was qui-
etly transported still further until his
weary and trembling feet rested upon
the soil of liberty-beyond the bounds
of Republic, the shiboleth and chief
stone of the corner of which was boast
ed civil and religious liberty-an inter
esting paradox at this day of our Ma
tion's history. i'i f,
OLD LANDMARKS. t
We visited the site of Joshua Tur-
ner's cabin. This man, with his family,
imn,igrated from Virginia to this beau
tiful, healthful, and productive country,
in about 1910. He was the the father of
Judge Allen c. Turner, formerly of Cad
liz, but now of Lincoln, Neb., and father
in-law of Jesse Brandenburg, whose use
full and worthy descendants are found
for the most part in this neighborhood,
happy and prosperous. Lemuel Bran
denburg, Esq, of Steubenville, very
kindly pointed out to us the site Of the
old stable, house, grape arbor, and
spring, and the direction of the path
way that the old disciple of cold water
was wont to tread for his drink. Every
thing is gone but the site and spring. 1t
is related that these old people-Joshua
and his wife-lived here until they be-
come blind of age, and when told that
they must leave the beloved old log cab
in, and for the rest of their allotted time
dwell with relatives and friends, the de-
crepid old man cried like a child, and
wept bitter tears at the thought of being
thus cruelty torn away from old-time
associations. These old people are dead
have passed away-their old cabin has
passed away, with nothing but the in
definite recOllections of man to mark the
spot; and thus the old landmarks of our
pioneers, to whose indOmitable perSeve-
rance and great sacrifice, we of the pres
ent day owe our country. the greatest
boon God ever vOuchsafed to man on
earth. Jesse Brandenburg is dead, but
his name lives in the minds and hearts
of his old-time neighbors and friends,
carved there, as in granite, by his many
good and charitable deeds. He was an
eccentric old gentleman, who, according
to tradition, promised to seat the devil
on sundry occasions, but it is currently
believed that the feat was never per-
formed, as he was not one of that kind
of individuals whom his Satanic majes-
ty troubled very much. He was SOL
dier in 1912, and at one time a candidate
for the Legislature on the Abolition
ticket Community and the Church lost
a pillar and a great light, the slave, the
unfortunate man, lost friend, and his
children loving and exemplary parent
but we are assured that earth's loss
was heavens gain. ....
..5.... SPRINGS AND FORESTS.
Oft in our walks our companion would
call our attention to broad and expan-
sive fields, over which in his bOyhOod,
waved the stately forest trees, but now,
alas, with their refreshing shade had
forever, and with them the
cool refreshing springs at whose Drinks
he and his play-fellows had wont to
queneh their boyhood thirst-places
where the springs had dried up entirely,
leaving no trace of their former exis-
tence behind, and places where the stream
had detected from its former course.
Our attention was called to spot where
years agone stood huge weeping will
low, beneath whose boughs and from
among whose spreading roots gushed
forth a spring of cool, clear, pure water,
where often man had quenchcd his
burning thirst, but now, behold, a place
as dry as arid sand, whilst at distance
Of fifty feet to one side stood a large,
luxuriant walnut, and 10, to-day, beneath