The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-11-22

DUWN lhE klYEk
ASliTTIE HISTORY or HIVES
VILE RURAL ROUTE WIG AND
WHAT CAN BE SEEN AZ oNc THE
LINE.
A man who don't like anybody, q
man who likes everybody a woman
who has for over fifty years washed
her head and feet every morning in
cold water, she didn't mention her
hands in her conversational neither
did the writer, but he saw them. "a
man who would rather tell a lie on.
credit than the truth for cash. The
writer has been accused Of that, but
would prefer the cash occasionally. a
man who was never drunk in his life.
a man who has been drunk thousand
times and has done as much for the
cause Of Christianity and humanity
as the other fellow and thousand
times more.
A man who is SO Jealous that he
cans rest himself, nor wouldn't lei
his neighbors II he could help IT,. a
woman the same way A man thet
hates a dog bad enough to put out
poison that would, kill all theA dogst
and children in the country II theyl
would eat it. A woman who is ninety-E
nine years old and attended the great
feast and celebration which took place
in the Morgan bend Of the Monongs-I
hela river in honor and memory Of
the hand to hand and face to face bat
tie and victory won by David Morganl
over the Indians.
This great and well preserved speci-
men Of female humanity, who II not
the Oldest woman in tie county, is
surely among them and altho' 36,165
days and nights have passed over her
head which would be inclined to i'm
print the signs Of age on her face and
form, still possesses per cent. Of
vitality which a verdict pertaining
to anatomy would surely be- rendered
to her as remarkable.
AS to her habits during the SO years
she has drunk the water and breathed
the West Virginia air, and lived the
life Of good, moral woman and as
to the fashions that have sailed high
and drifted low within the last ten
decades, one especially the writer will
venture to say she refrained from.
Ind that was lacins tight to make her
self beautiful, as she bears the marks
If woman who had more sense than
% think that there ts cny beauty in
constant misery.
The writer wifi not ak for space to
,ay more on the subject, but the great
east which was then new custom
n this section It surely would be in
eresting to hear her tel how hun
lreds Of men, women and children !
:ame for miles on horse back, some
'iding COWS and oNer, some walking
or miles. there not being such thing
IS buggy or carriage IN what is now
Marion county at that time. hut there
night have been moro or her callher
eft to tell the tale but no doubt the ,
roublc was great many of them ,
aced too tight.
This remarkable wcmar's name IS
hrs. Rachel Hawkerberry, widow of
'acob Hawkenberry.
Another old land mark on the rural
QUITE Is Mr.. John Michael, who tips :
he beam of time at r,nety.two years
md Is as hale, hearty end jolly as a :
10Y, and naturally co'r!H hn called a :
peclmen of health ard physical man. !,
Iood only for the 1850 DAYS and !.
lights that have passed over his head /,
,hich has left evidence that earthly
ime will leave its mark on any face :
r form.
A race track at Riyesvllle macadem-
1ed with muscle Shells on the land
ow owned by join = Phillips, of
'airmont, supposed to hose been made
" the Indians. This sight Is located q
uartcr OF mile from the river in
Ugh fiat field Of about ten acres.
The monument erected on the lands
+ ex-Sherif 2. G. Morgan in memory I:
f the famous and blood curdling bat.
les bGtween the Morgans and the
indians of early and frontier days, and
'on't forget twenty-four prohibition
'otes at Rivesvi1le.
LONE STAR.
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