The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-08-28
VOLUME 8.
"reminiscences of McConnelis'
burg hy a PIttsburger.


enioved Editor Barron's articles
on "Fifty years Ago in McCon
uellsburg," and as l spent my
boyhood in the old village, l can
not refrain from giving some OF
my recollections.
Judging from the names OF the
persons mentioned by Mr.. Bar
ron, he deals with the generation
Immediately preceding mine, but
his letters. have brought to my
mind many incidents of my boy
hood.
AS | have said, l was born and
reared in McConnellsburg.
The first school teacher l went
to was Mrs. Sterrett the second
was Mr.. Andrew Irwin, and my
third was Miss Eddy. was one
of the first scholars that sat in
the brick school house that was
built alongside of the Court
House, and l was greatly surpris-
ed to find it torn down on my Wis
it to McConnellsburg year ago.
Mrs. Sterrett, Andrew Irwin and
Miss Eddy were grand, good
teachers. Many an hour | spent
under their instruction happy,
happy schoolboy days! Mrs.
Sterrett and MIR. Andrew Irwin
have gone to their long and hap
py homes. Miss Eddy, l do not
know anything about. l have not
heard from her for years. Then,
there was singing school teach
er in my boyhood days by the
name of Allen. He taught sing
lug in the Hall, opposite to where
Thomas Greathead lived-or the
old Greathead homestead; and,
now, if we kids those days did
not make that old Hall ring, l
would not tell you! | want to tell
you one. of the songs we sang. 1t
went like this. "Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg; Delaware, Dover !;
Maryland, Annapolis Virginia,
Richmond'-then came the cho-
rus: ooh! Pennsylvania is the
State That ranks with any num-
Der, 1t is the state that has been
great, For iron, coal and lumber" "
And then continuing on-New
York, Albany New Jersey, Tren-
ton, &c.
Perhaps it may not be out OF
place to name over some OF the
good citizens of McConnellsburg.
There was Thomas Greathead,
David Agnew, Elias Davidson, Da-
vid Fore, Anthony Shoemaker,
David Shoemaker, Squire King,
Jacob Stoner, Samuel Sinner,
Jacob Mcdonald, old Johnny
Cook, the hotel keeper, Henry
Sheets, Michael Cook, James
Downes, George Downes, Samuel
Irwin, Johnny Mccormick, Gid
con Prim, Charles Scissor, Sam
uel Peightel, David Goldsmith,
John Cunningham, John Spriggs
(colored), John Bender (the old
stage driver), Albert Hohmann,
David Hughes (well versed in pol
itics) DR.. Samuel Elliott Dufheld
(the man was named after), Jno.
Smith (the old sale and auctlon
crier), John S. Robinson, George
A. Smith Qawyers), and then
comes the good old man, the reV'
N. u. White (the Presbyterian
preacher), John Eitemiller, John
Hook, Christian Boerner (the tail
or), Isaac Divelbiss, David Dun
lap, Conrad Orth (the butcher),
William Hoke (the tanner) and
many others that will take up too
much time to mention now.
Conrad Orth was an eccentric
old German, and we boys used to
have a great deal of fun with him.
/ remember one time, in particu.
lar, we boys gathered at his
slaughter house near Daniel
>Fore's barn and he drove bull
lochfrom the pen into the slaugh.
ter house to be slaughtered. This
bullock was wild and it was with
much difficulty that Mr.. Orth got
the animal into the slaughter
house. But how to kill the vicious
brute after he had it in, was the
next question that confronted Mr..