The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-05-14
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was pooa and Samuel Hill and John Mcneil pres
emily erected a store building OF logs Ihey SOU
tea coffee, sugar. salt and whisky In the grocer!
line and blue calico. brown muslin, cotton ciaili
and straw hats, with few ladies' hats and other
ornamental feminine apparel In their dry goooS
department
John McNeill,s right name was John McNamer
He nuickly made fortune of about $l2,OOO ana
wooed and won Ann Rutedge. Then ne ieft 10
bring his mother and sisters from New fork- a
long delay broke off the engagement ana Lhcoin
then won Ann McNamer returned to nnu ALL
dead of fever.
Town Gets Postofice.
ION Christmas day in 1922" the historian goes
on to say "a post Office was estaDiisneu III 80 W"
Salem and Samuel Hill was made postmaster,
C.aoroe Warburton then built store building anu
nut in stock of goods but soon sold out 10 ,ne
Chrs1nan Brothers. one OF whom, isaac r, DC
came postmaster on November "a 1851. "i'i
Clary. the brother Of John, who gave ms name "
the grove where he settled in, 1919, ereeteo anu
became proprietor Of Clary's grocery. Then came
Doctor Allen, who erected a dwelling across ,he
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 nrst tein
nerance society in the community. Inc place VI
meeting was in his residence or IN the log schooi-
house erected shortly before this time on the MIL
side south Of New Salem Doctor Allen was both
cred as to whether it was right or wrong TO en-
pare in the practice Of his profession on Sundays
and compromised the matter by relieving the sick
INT giving his earnings on that day wholly to the
work Of the Lord
~rhep. during the summer of 1880. Henry On
stott moved from Sugar Grove, erected dwelling
and established a cooper's shop, supplying the
kegs and barrels for the flour and meal made at
%lc pfoip for tho
shipped by fatboat to the markets of the South.
generally from Beardstown. to which place it was
hauled in wagons.
Denton offut Arrives.
"During the summer of 1881, Denton Offut, on
his return from hatboat excursion to New Or
leans contracted for lot IA north of Main street
and erected store building, the deed thereto be-
ing dated September of that year. Then came
a rush of other settlers-Phemon Morris, tan
ner, erected a dwelling and established tan
yard: Joshua Miller, blacksmith and wagon
maker. built q 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 who established store west of the James
Rutlcdge residence and inn, and in a part of the
house of Joshua Miller. which was double, lived
his brother-in-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 out
q the end of a year to Doctor Regnier. Also
c.me 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
Il shoes.
.srhus the town soon became selfsupporting,
and had it not been for the fact that it was almost
inaccessible except from the west there Is no rea-