The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-09
TELLS OF BUILDING
OF EARLY BRIDGE
Mrs. Edith Huddleston, of
Dublin, One of the Early
Pioneers of Wayne
IS STILL VERY ACTIVE
Although 80 Years Old She
Walks a Mile or Two Ev-
cry Day for Exercise.
is STILL VERY ACTIVE


DUBLIN, Ind, Dec. 9.-The oldest
person living in Dublin is Mrs. Editha
Huddleston, who was born on farm
near Fairfield, Franklin County, Ind,
October IA, 1924. Her father, Isaac
Brown, brought his five motherless
children here that year and he worked
at the construction of the abutments
of the Dublin bridge. The abutments
were built that year and the frame
work the year following. This bridge
has become a noted landmark in as
much as it is the only one of the
many bridges built by the United
States Government that remains stand
fng in Indiana.
Mrs. Huddleston and a few other
people still living here remember the
lettering on each gable end of the
bridge which was defaced years ago
by Notwithstanding the bridge,
General John c. Milroy, Superintend-
ent Eastern Division, Cumberland
Road" because it extended from Cum
berland, Maryland. 1t was intended to
complete it to st. Louis but the work
was cut short by President Fillmore
when he vetoed the appropriation of
it was only partially completed
through Indiana.
Sees President Fillmore.
Shortly after this veto President Fill
more came in a stage over the road
and stopped for dinner and to change
lin. The road was SO muddy and the
stage so heavy that a roadwagon was
fitted with a large queensware crate
for a carriage to draw the honored
guest farther west. When he was
about to leave Dublin a crowd of men
congregated about him and demanded
to know why he stopped the compile
ton of the road and his only reply was
that the appropriation of money for
this purpose was class legislation and
therefore it was unconstitutional.
While the stone masons were work
ing on the Dublin bridge a few Meth
odists were trying to get enough of
their people together to organize a
class here but they lacked one mem
Der and were about to abandon their
effort when James Bradshaw, a labor
err at the bridge, Joined them and made
good their organization. Bradshaw left
soon afterward and was never heard
of again. The charter members of the
Methodist church in Dublin We're Aft
ed Pierce, Mary Grove Margaret
Faulkner, Abigail Wisner, William
Faulkner and James Bradshaw. There
first pastor was Robt. Burns.
Sad Accident.
Mrs. Huddleston relates the sad in
cident of 1888. Mrs. Susan Vannuxem,
by mistake, got hold of a can of arse
mic and thinking it saleratus she used
it to make biscuits for herself and FAM
lily. The entire family was poisoned
and Mrs. Vannuxem and one young
daughter died. Their tombstone in the
cemetery here records their death of
November 10, 1928. One descendant
came here a few months ago to see
their tomb and took photographs of
their resting place.
In the summer of 1910, Miss Brown
was married to Jesse Huddleston, who
died in 1855 leaving her with six chill
dren living and two infants dead. Her
oldest son is the oldest person living
in Dublin that was born here Two sons
and one daughter still live here, one
son living in Louisville, KY, and one
daughter in Union-City. She is now in
the S9th year of her age and she walks
from one or two miles almost every
day.