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was good and Samuel Hill und John McNeill pres.
entity erected store building Of logs. They sold
tea coffee, sugar, salt and whisky In the grocery
line and blue calico, brown muslin, cotton chain
and straw hats with few ladies' hats and other
ornamental feminine apparel in their dry goods
department.
John McNeill's right name was John McNamer
He quickly made fortune Of about $4,000 and
wooed and won Ann Rutledge. Then he left to
bring his mother and sisters from New YORK.
long delay broke of the engagement and Lincoln
then won Ann. McNamer returned to find Ann
dead Of fever.
Town Gets 4 Postoffee.
"On Christmas day in 1899" the historian goes
on to say, "a post office was established In Ne"
Salem and Samuel Hill made postmaster.
George Warburton then built a store building ana
put In a stock Of goods, but soon sold out 10 the
ChrisInan Brothers, one of whom, Isaac T., De
came postmaster on November "a 1881. william
Clary, the brother Of John, who gave his name 10
the grove where he settled In 1919. erected ana
became proprietor OF Clary's grocery Then came
Doctor Allen who erected a dwelling across the
street south from the Hill Mcneil store
in addition TO his professional duties Doctor
Allen conducted a Sunday school. He was an
ardent temperance man and formed the first TEN.
meeting was In his residence In the log school
house erected shortly before this time on the hill
side south of New Salem Doctor Allen was both
cred as TO whether 1t was right wrong to
gage In the practice Of his profession on Sundays
and compromised the matter by relieving the sick
but giving his earnings on that day wholly to the
work Of the Lord
Then. during the summer OF $780, Henry On.
stott moved from Sugar Grove, erected dwelling
and established cOOpers shop supplying the
kegs and barrels for the -four and meal made at
the MILL and the containers for the cured pork
shipped by iatboat to the markets of the South,
generally from Beardstown. TO which place 1t was
hauled In wagons
Denton offut Arrives
During the summer of 1881, Denton Offut on
his return from iatboat excursion to New Or.
leans contracted for lot IA north of Main street
and erected a store building. the deed thereto be-
ing dated September of that year. Then came
rush Of other setters-Philemon Morris, a tap.
ner. erected a dwelling and established a tan
yard; Joshua Miller, u blacksmith and wagon
maker. built a residence and established n shoD.
Alexander Furgeson and Peter Lukins, the shoe.
makers: Robert Johnson. the wheelwright, who
made looms. spinning wheels and furniture; Mar
tin Waddell, the halter. who made hats out OF
rabbit fur, wool and the fur of other animals: the
Bale family headed by Jacob Bale, who bought
and operated Hlll's carding machine and store
house for wool; the Herndon Brothers, shopkeep.
ers, who established a store west Of the James
Rutledge residence and inn. and In part of the
house of Joshua Miller which was double, lived
his brothern-lnw. Jack Kelso whose wife kept
boarders occasionally and who himself was the
champion hunter and fisherman Of the village.
Henry Since came In the fall of 1881 and sold out
at the end of year to Doctor Regnier Also
came Doctor Duncan. David Wherry Isaac Bur.
ner, Edmond Greer, Isaac Golamer, Robert and
William McNeely. Caleb Carmen moved there
from Rock Center after Trent left and made
shoes.
"Thus the town soon became self,supporting.
and had 1t not been for the fact that It was almost
inaccessible except from the west there 10 no rea