The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-23


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was good, and Samuel Hill and John Mcneil pres
emily 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 McNeirs right name was John McNamer.
He quickly made fortune" of about $12 600 and
wOoed and won Ann Rutledge. Then he left to
bring his mother and sisters from New York. A
long delay broke off the engagement and Lincoln
then won Ann. McNamer returned to find Ann
dead of fever
Town Gets Postoffice.
ION Christmas day in 1922" the historian goes
to say, "a post Office was established In New
Salem and Samuel Hill was made postmaster.
George WarburtOn then built store building and
put in a stock of goods, but sold out to the
Chrisman Brothers, one of whom, Isaac p, be-
came postmaster on November "a, 1881. William
Clary, the brother of John, who gave his name to
the grove where he settled in 1S19 erected and
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 Sunday school. He was an
ardent temperance man and formed the first tenn
perance society in the community. The place Of
meeting was in his residence or in the log school
house erected shortly before this time the hill
side south of New Salem. Doctor Allen both
cred to whether it right wrong to
gage in the practice of his profession on Sundays
and compromised the matter by relieving the sick
but giving his earnings that day wholly to the
work of the Lord.
Then, during the summer of 1890 Henry On
stOtt moved from Sugar Grove erected a dwelling
and established a coOper's shop, supplying the
kegs and barrels for the dOur and meal made az
the mill, and the containers for the cured pork
shipped by flatbOat to the markets of the South,
generally from Beardstown, to which place 1t was
hauled in wagons.
Denton oHut Arrives.
During the summer of 1881, Denton Offut, on
his return from fatbOat excursion to New Or.
leans contracted for lot IA north of Main street
and erected store building, the deed thereto De-
ing dated September of that year. Then came
rush of other settlers-PhilemOn Morris, a tan
ner erected dwelling and established tan
yard; Joshua Miller, blacksmith and wagon
maker, built a residence and established shop:
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 Hills carding machine and store
house for wool; the Herndon Brothers, shopkeep-
erS, VINO eStaDhShed f store west of the James
Rutledge residence and inn and in a part of the
house of Joshua Miller which was double. lived
his brotherin-law 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 ont
at the end of a year to Doctor Regnier Also
came Doctor Duncan, David Wherry, Isaac Bur-
ner, Edmond Greer, Isaac Goilamer Robert and
William McNeey. Caleb Carmen moved there
from Rock Center after Trent left and made
shoes.
Thus the town soon became self-supportng
and had 1t not been for the fact that it was almost
inaccessible except from the west there is no rea-