The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1913-01-10
Stories of Long Ago

taken beyond the limits I danger-and
would load up wagon without scarcely
taking a look at the driver. Conse-
ouently the msn behind the team ab-
sentmindedly kept OF driving and has
not heen heard from since.
When % years OF age he was married
to Miss Helen Belly, formerly of Byron,
n. Y but who had moved to this coun-
ty couple of years before A son and
daughter were born to then within the
next few years, and they are both living
at nome with their parents at this time
They are Henry and Lula May Sher
man.
Mr.. Sherman, after being 10 a number
OF lines OF trade, took up the seed and
grain business, starting store OF this
kind about the year 1888, and has been
engaged in this line continuously since
that time. He bought the old court
house and moved it to its present loca-
tion on Main street, where he can be
found morning, noon and at nightfall,
either in his Office doing the many things
connected with the clerical part or
around the building taking part n the
physical labor of unloading hay and
grsin, as the case might be. One would
doubt the assertion of Mr.. Sherman's
10 years At they depended upon the ap-
pearance of the man, but he assures US
that his birth occurred 10 1897.
Oue Interesting occurrence related
bearing on the time of this early imml-
grafton to and from this country folio rs:
The trip made by the elder Sherman was
with horses from their home to Batavia,
then on To Buffalo, where they boarded
the United States" for Detroit. The
boy was wonderfully impressed with the
flag floating fiom the mast and was filled
with patriotism, an impression that still
has its effect upon him.
The "cream" horses were the pride OF
the whole family and could not be left
behind, so that settled the question of
how they should reach Buffalo. This
little story deals with the fate OF the
team, 80 we will take up the tale where
a man by the name of Butler, then living
near here, few years after the arrival
OF the Sherman family had an attack of
homesckness which reached the malig-
liant form, and be simply had to go back
to his native New York or die.
He made his plans to go and 90 at
once, sacrificing everything, and among
other deals that he made recklessly was
to offer his farm OF 200 acres to the
owner OF the cream horses All he asked
for the land was the exchange for the
horses, wagon, harness and few other
minor things to 60 with it. The deal
went through-and so did the team. In
going from Detroit to Buffalo by boat a
terrific storm came up aud everything
was in a turmoil. The boat was heavily
loaded with freight and the captain or
dered all OF this KIDD OF weight thrown
overheard. 1t was bad enough to see
household goods go into the sea, but
when the woeful tioings reached the
passengers that the boat was still Unsafe,
the horses, too, had to he sacrificed.
Messages were written and fastened to
the horses necks, telling those on shore,
II they happened to reach land, how it
happened. One OF the cream horses
was discovered alive, but was useless,
while the fate OF the other was unknown.
Farm, horses, household goods in ex-
change for the privilege of living in the
old scenes.