The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-30
MRS. EMELINE C.
LAND, RICHMOND
PIONEER, DEAD
Seniity Cause of Death -
Was Born Here on June Is,
1929.

Mrs. Emeline Gaar Land. Widow of
Horatio Nelson Land. died Of old age
at her home on North Thirteenth
street. about 10:45 o'clock Sunday
evening, following few ds = :. fail
ing health during which tir she had
been confined to her bed. Surviving
are one daughter, Mrs. Alma Holton.
of Laporte, Ind: one son, Harry Land.
and the grandchildren. Walker Land,
Ter, Emeline Land and Ray Holton.
Funeral services viii be held from
the home at o'clock Wednesday aft
ernoon. Burial will be in Earlham
cemetery. Friends may call at the
residence Tuesday evening and
Wednesday.
Mrs. Land, who was the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonas Gaar, was married
to Horatio Nelson Land, pioneer,
1854. Her husband died February 1.
1898. Her father was cabinet max
er and undertaken. In 1879 he and his
brothers purchased the plant which
afterwards became known as the
Gaar-Scott Company.
She was q member Of the first tenn
4
Mrs. Land had lived the entire
ninety years Of her life in Richmond.
| She was born in the city June 16,
1929. Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
mas Gaar, resided in the third square
south of what is now Main street on
| South Fourth street. Her father was
native of Virginia, having been born
| in Culpepper Court House. Her moth
er was Sarah Watson, a Kentucky
girl
Housekeeper at Nine
/ Both parents moved to Richmond
from Kentucky to avoid participation
in the slave traffic, their families be-
ing bitterly opposed to enslaving ne
| groes.
AS young people, they grew up IN
the little village of Richmond, where
they were married. Mrs. Land was
the second Of eight children. Her
brothers and sisters included Milton
Gaar, Abraham Gaar, Samuel w. Gaar.
Fielding Gaar, Mrs. William B. Scott.
Mrs. Elizbeth Campbell, and Mrs. Fan
ME M. Jones, all deceased.
i Born of strict Baptists, and reared
according to the necessities and ideas
of the age, Mrs. Land was taught
housekeeping and knitting before she
was nine years old. She started to
school In one room log cabin schol
house which stood next to the site
1 occupied now by st. Andrews church.
The next year she went to the little
red brick school house" which stood
where Finley School is now, between
Fourth and Fifth streets on South B.
After that she attended a school
Fourth and A street, and her educa-
ton was completed in the Friends
school, then situated on the Ft. Wayne
avenue andfNorth Seventh street tr1-
& angle.
Recalled Pioneer Days.
Mrs Land took much pleasure in
recalling happenings Of 1910 and be-
fore, when she was little girl in
short calico dresses.
'tThen every one had his garden,
said Mrs. Land. "A public market
was held twice a week, however. The
country people would bring in pro.
duce and sell it in the middle Of the
street on South Fifth street. Water
melons wouldn't sell for five cents
apiece, and market people could not
get rid of apples at the outrageously
high price of twelve and a half cents
bushel Eggs were three cents a
i
| scale Of living was lower IN those
days.
Basil Brightwell owned the only
, dry goods store in town, and the old
covered bridge over the Whitewater
was still under construction, travellers
having to ford the river"
Mrs. Land remembered the cholera
epidemic of 1910, and the fact thai
a colored woman in the village died
: and was taken by the Land home or
i an improvised hearse. The cholera
lasted several months. and took of
a large number of the residents"
: "In those DAYS South Fourth and
Fifth streets were the only streets
! in the town that were laid out. South
5 E street was one of the principa
!. streets entering the town. This roat
entered from the east and was Dor
: dered by deep woods, which though
f not inhabited by wild animals. was
rather gruesome walk at night" Mrs
7 Land often said Not until severa
: years after 1910 did farmers begin t.
r clear this woods, planting corn, oat;
i and wheat on the land, which was
very fertile.
walking down South Fifth stree
in 1910, one stepped knee deep il
dog fennel," said Mrs. Land. On Soutl
E street about where Sixteenth ane
Fifteenth are now. was large orchard
] at the edge of the forest"
Mrs Land remembered the Metho
= dist church in the old Mather Till
:. factory building; Hicksite Friends
church on Seventh street, Presbyter
: ian church on South Fourth, and
United Presbyterian church not ia
i from the present site Of the Finle
. school. The county court house wa
at Salisbury, Indiana, now extinct, bu
v then located between the villages o
v Richmond and Centerville on a lin
= with the National road.
o Flag Flown At End OF