Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-04-27

The pens were fashioned by the
masters" pen knife from goose qullls
brought by the children. The lead
pencils for ruling the writing paper
were made by hammering a piece of
lead into the required shape. These
were usually attached to a string
worn about the neck for convenience.
The books were a varied assortment,
the blue covered elementary Speller"
figuring predominantly
The teachers who taught in that
old school house, so far as mentioned
in the journal, were Michael Handy,
William Jewell, Henry Tiffany, An
dros Garfield, Huldah Howe, Sophro-
MIA Deming, Aurelia, Randolph ana
Mortimer Hibbard.
February 1, 1841, father Hibbard ar
rived today from his home in Dover,
Athens county. We were very glad
to see him.
February 5. Father left today on
his journey home. He has bought a
farm and expects to move on it in
September.
This farm consisted of eighty acres,
forty each, side of the Maumee road,
one mile east of the present village of
Spring Hill. One mile east of Rev.
Elisha's farm was the farm of Ran
dolph Hibbard, half brother of Morti-
mer.' This farm is now owned by Dr.
Borden and occupied by James Hib-
bard. The old log house built for
Randolph Hibbard was torn down last
year, having stood seventy-five years.
June 6. We have today received
the painful intelligence that Uncle
Ambrose is no more He is gone, and
has left US to remember his many
acts of kindness to us.
Judge Rice died of hemorrhage soon
after reaching New Orleans, where
he had gone with physician-nurse in
the early part of 1841.
February a, 1912. We have lived
in Clinton township, Lucas county,
four years today.
April 8. Left the old cabin and
moved into the new house.
This new house was a double log
house with two large rooms and a
smaller room at each end. There were
stairs leading up to two large low
rooms above. It had long, covered
porches at the front and back. There
was double fire place in the center,
giving an opening into each of the
two large rooms This house stood
about sixty rods east of the present
village and on the north side of the
Maumee Road, which then curved well
to the north, skirting the great pond,
south and little to the east of the
house. The road then continued west
on the north side of the old school
house hill, and then ran diagonally
across to the southwest corner of the
present village. Just south of the
road, under the bank of the hill on
which the house stood, was a very
fine spring of flowing water. 1t was
from this spring and hill that the
name Spring Hill was given the farm
several years before the village was
laid out.
July "a. We had temperance
lecture here today. the first ever held
in Clinton township. There were
about hundred here. Father Hibbard
addressed them If anything deserves
the name of glorious it is the tenn
perance cause. May it spread from
the east to the west, from the north
to the south, until not drunkard is
left in the land.
In 1843 Dover township, Lucas
county, was organized at Maumee and
an election ordered to be held at
M. D. Hibbard's, August seventh. John
J. Schnall, Elisha Hibbard and Willard
Church were chosen Judges; Joseph
Jewell and Jason Hibbard, Clerks of
said election. Moses Ayers, Willard
Church and Alonzo Butler were elect
ed Trustees; Joseph Jewell, Clerk;
William Jewell, Treasurer; Elijah
Bennett and George Tiffany, Con-
stables; Elisha Hibbard and Newell
Newton, Overseers of the Poor.
"The first settlers" this writer says,
were elijah Bennett, Peter Lott, M.
D. Hibbard, John J. Schnall, Moses
Ayers, Willard Church, Alonzo But
Ter, Jacob Hoffmire and Elisha Hib-
bard" Unless Mr.. Hoffmire claimed
both names there is evidently a mis-
take made in his name, as it is usual
ly given as William.
About this time, or little later
the "Men of the West" that is, the
western part of Lucas county, began
to agitate the question Of the forma'
tion of a new county. Among Rev
Elisha Hibbard's papers are copies Of