The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
Thursday, Jan. 8, 1907
autobiography OF
Mt. Zion School.

My exact age is unknown, on ac-
count of the obstruction of the
family record, however, that is of
little Importance. My record is
one to be proud Of, and | must
say, my renown has spread far
and wide. was dedicated a long
time ago by the late John Parker
to the service of the nation for
better or worse, sometimes one,
sometimes the other.
If | only could relate to you all
my scenes and experiences, since |
was old enough to remember, it
would cause all kind of joyous ex-
citement, beside weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
| have little memory of my first
habitation, but it was somewhere
in the neighbOrhood of my present
location. The most striking incl
dent of that home, which can
remember, was that of Morgans
Raid. Oh the excitement caused
by that body of men when just at
noon they marched in and devour
ed the contents of about forty
dainty lunch boxes, thanked the
schoo-master, for what he could
not avoid, and were off again.
Those who presided over me in
my first and second locations were
as follows: John Parker, James
Marlowe, Mary Mason, Eliza
Parker, Sarah Woodwork, John
Polling, Clinton Woodard, Martha
Scott, Thomas Dilinger, Albert,
Atkinson, j, H. Atkinson, LennaI
Atkinson, Sarah Stedam, Tena
Stedam, John Cruise, Walter Rus-
ter, John Bolinger, Belle Dona-
haugh, Nina O'Neil, Emma Moore,
Chas. SHINES, Elizabeth Atkin-
son, Eva Stalter, Thos. Mason,
Ethel Kicker, NJ. H. Bolinger,
Joseph McBroom, VIM. White.
We sometimes say that with
age cometh wisdom" and ''We are
no worse for the wear but not
so with me. BY the time the
loggings and all other menagerie
circuses had battered my nerves as
we'll as my desks, floors and win
dows, ! was the worse for the
wear, and badly needed repair.
Being tired of my situation the
patrons decided to give me a
change Of atmosphere, which
might have proven for the worse.
! am now residing In the pleasant
valley of Raccoon Creek you are
all familiar with the site, and you
who know it longest will remember
how near it comes being my birth.
place.
Many vivid recollections Of the
forty little urchins coming daily
to me for what cannot be pur-
chased elsewhere, come to me o'er
and o'er. AS | think of all the
beautiful thoughts manufactured |
under my roof it is not to be won,
dered at that | am as happy as ii
meadow lark singing in the mead
ow of the neighboring farmer.
The names of my guardians,
since my immigratibn )w.o this
beautiful and peaceful valley, are
Sarah Steaam, Allen B. Anthony,
Buckingham, Harley
Violet, Harley Whitcraft, Fred |.
Bright, Callie Cooley, Aletta Har-
'old, Emma Thrush, Frank Groves,
Arthur Murphy. Daisy Harold,
NJ. II. Bolinger, Freda McSherry,
Nellie Mathiott, Bernlce McSher-
y, Mabel McSherry and Clifford
campbell.
You may judge for yourself, as
'ou think of me, what must have
'een the vast store of my know
edge, when, reading, you learn
hat my instruction has been suffi.
lent to enable a number of my
'upils to preside over my benches
n their after years. Those who,
rom my instruction, obtained |
eachers certificates were Thos.
Jason, Winfield Essex, Timothy ,
Jason, Jacob Mason, Walter Rut- i
er, John Bolinger, Ida Il. Groves,
4. II. Bollnger, Frask Groves, {