The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-17

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~ somet1me apout tne year 1881 tnere
was law passed 10 make ROAD from
the mouth OF the Little kanawna to
some goant on Cneat or furtner east.
my nasner was one OF tne COMMISSION
ef Ine nrst part OF the road was,
u peheye, made from Clarksburg
eastward. was once Win tne CONS
mstsioners as far as Minear's on the
Valley river viewing and making the
sToaG me commissioners tnen COM
mencea viewing from clarKspurg TO
Etne ONO river, out would gel iost N
coming back. Iney5 then STARTED with
q compass &C Slarksbnrg, and ran q
due west course and struck the Ohio
river SIX or eight miles below MAR
ietta, They then marked the road
pack to Ciarkaburg Keeping the west
3 line Tor q guide. Tue road was then
+ cut out. On my tathers return from
one Of these trips ne found my moth
en- SICK IN November or december.
z 1sS. 4 he also came home sick. A
lew days after my mother dded can
say but little about her as scarcely
had sense to know ! had mother be-
Z tore sne was gone. Old MI. Morgan
Morgan mas told me tnat sne under
stood the Scriptures better than any
other person he ever knew. She. l
believe. held to the Church OF Eng
land. Sne was buried at the west end
Of Clafksburg. Two years past when
was at Clarksburg went to see II
4 could md any Sign OF the grave. I
ttred g man to pale It in, which had
been done about % years before. She.
~ beHere, was a woman OF strong
mind and high temper. / had by this
time become familiar with a gun and
the woods. Killed turkeys and some
deer. For some years the Indians
had not been very bad or done much
mischief Once In Clarksburg was
at draft to furnish men to be sta
TONED on the frontier. My father
stood draft but got clear. Some little
I went TO school, but spent much Of
my time in Clarksburg playing ball,
&c. But ! never could find agree
able company with those high frolick-
ling people, for never attempted to
dance more than two or three times
"a my HE. ! believe that in the fall
OF 1888 my father married again.
believe in the year 1880 went
with the commissioners to the Ohio
river to view the road made. While
I. a tan 1uto a.. A. ~.