Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-02-18
jefferson County Registerings.

toeTTerson County Registerings.
i The Charlestown Free Press
says that the board of education
has determined to establish a
graded public school in that
town, and has purchased, with
that end in view, the large Office
building erected by the Improve
ment Company. The board paid
800 for it-$7 900 in cash and
the two school buildings now in
use, valued at $500.
Mr.. Joseph Welshans, who is
one of the oldest men in Jeffer-
son county, celebrated his sSth
birthday last Saturday, and dur
ing the day received the congrat-
ulations of many of his friends.
He has his second eye sight, and
every day reads his favorite
newspaper, the BALTIC. american,
and other journals and books,
without the use of glasses. Mr..
| Welshans was blacksmith by
trade, as was his father before
him, although he has not worked
at his trade for many years. He
has never used any Intoxicating
liquor or chewed tobacco, al
though he enjoyed his pipe once
in while. He can detail occur
rences of seventy-fve or eighty
years ago with a precision that
seems marvellous, and he has a
great store of interesting remin-
iscences. In his youthful days he
says that most of the people here
spoke German, most of the set
tiers here having come from the
Dutch counties of Pennsylvania.
He was born and raised in Shep-
herdstown and lived here all his
life. The brick building occupi-
ed as store by Miss Ellen
Welshans was built by his father
for a blacksmith shop something
like hundred years ago. Mr..
Welshans built his present dwell
ing house himself. He tore down
a house on that site which was
said to have been the first build
ing used as a tavern in Shep-
herdstown. 1t was kept by Hen
ry Sheetz. He says that most of
the original dwelling houses have
been torn down, although he re-
members where most of them
stood. Mr.. Welshans had hap
py marrSied life of fifty years.
His wife died abodtt-5 years ago.
EvER-BUsY DEATH.-A couple
of weeks ago Miss Mary E. Grim,
who lived with her brothers near
Bakerton, this county, came to
Shepherdstown to visit her sister,
Mrs. Sarah Jones. Wednesday
she was taken suddenly ill, and
by Thursday a violent case of
pneumonia was developed. Fri
day afternoon about four o'clock
she died. Soon after she became
i'll she said she believed she
would die, and sent a messenger
to her home for her burial clothes,
which she had made couple of
years ago and neatly packed
away. Within the past year she
had frequently expressed the be-
lief that she would not live to see
another birthday, and she had
all the arrangements for her fun
eral provided for. She was "a
years, 2 months and 30 days old.
Her remains were buried at Sam
pie Manor on Sunday.
Mrs. Emma J. Cation, wife of
Mr.. John Will Cation, who lived
at Bakerton, this county, died
Unexpectedly on Friday of last
week. Besides her husband. she
leaves six little children to mourn
| the irreparable loss of a mother
1.-THE youngest of them being on
| ly about a month old. Mrs. Ca
| ton, who was daughter of the
late John Grit. Moler, was about
30 years of age.
| Mrs. Catharine Bazzel, mother
of the wife of Mr.. w. Lemen, d.
ed at the residence of Mr.. Lemen,
in Berkeley county, last Thurs
| day, aged II years. The funeral
service was conducted at Marvin
Chapel on Saturday by Rev. J.
R. Van Horne. Register.
500 Good Envelopes, with your ad-
dress printed on, for $3.50, at this office.