The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-08
VOLUME 3.
OTHER "REMINISCENCES.
Suggested by Editor Barron's
Article.

IIl)llOk NEW > LII .yOui ioSu'
of April "a, 1902, under the title
"Fifty Years Ago." Editor Bar
ron speaks of several gentlemen
whose names are familiar to macy
Of the older readers of the News.
| may be able to give little in
formation respecting some of the
persons and places mentioned by
him which may possibly interest
some readers of the News.
The old church building in
which Fulton county's first court
was held, still stands as a monu-
ment of the past, but has been va
Gated for several years. The Ger
man Reformed congregation have
erected a very neat church build
ing on their lot one half square
north of the court house and jail.
Judge jeremiah S. Black is
dead. Mr.. Barron speaks of the
Judge as being San inveterate
user of tobacco. AS a compen-
sation for the money he spent for
tobacco, the Judge did his own
shaving, and always carried in his
grip" a splendid shaving exit.
The writer of this, during the
year 1859, was clerk in the Wash
ington Hotel at Bedford, then
kept by Mrs. Dominick Cook, a
German woman, who provided
well for her many boarders. She
was, indeed, a good "cook". At
this hotel Judge Black stayed as
often as he came to Bedford
While there on one occasion the
Judge made me a present of his
shaving kit. He probably bought
a new and better one. The outfit
he gave me consisted of an Amer
ican razor, with an American ca
gle engraved on the blade, su-
Perior metallic strap manufactur-
ed by Ira Freeman at Sandy Hill,
N. Y, and a soap box and brush.
The whole outfit is still in a good
state of preservation, and still in
use by the writer, though receiv-
ed forty.three years ago.
Judge Black in after years be-
came resident of York county,
Pa. He epurchased fine property
and a splendid residence on an
elevation east of the city of York,
which gave him fine out look.
The Associate Judges-Hon.
Samuel Robinson and Mark Dick
son are both long since dead, as
is also Sheriff David Fore, and
Prothonotary Geo. Wilds. Judge
f. M. Kimmel moved from Som
erset county to Chambersburg at
which place he died several years
ago.
John Cessna, John w. Mower,
Wilson Reilly, and the Barclays
--allare dead.
John H. Filler, who with James
B. Boggs "eked out living by
teaching the town school" became
editor of the Fulton Repu blican
during which time he won the love
OF Miss Louisa M. Bohn, daugh-
ter of John w. and Mary Bohn,
who then resided in the building
that is now the home of the Fulton
County News.
Their young married life, how
ever, was of short duration; for
on the. Bird day May, 1851 the
spirit of Louisa M. Filler took it's
flight to the God who gave it.
1t was sad day, to the young
husband, and to the father of the
young wife, to see her body placed
in the grave, beside that of her
mother who had preceded her
nine years before.
In 1858 John II. Filler married
Miss Libbie Reamer, of Bedford,
Pa. Her father formerly owned
the large farm, and stone mansion
on the turnpike nine miles west
of McConnellsburg.
To this woman four children
We're born, one of whom and the
father, are IL g only survivors.
In 1859 under Buchanan adj
ministration John Ii. Filler was
employed in Washington, d. G.
In 1861 he recruited a company
of Bedford county sons, reported
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