Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-08-16
Number Z
WELL REMEMBERED FORMER
RESIDENT HERE ON VISIT

| MT. ana Mfs. W. u. SlmOndS or
lGalesburg, ILL.,, arrived here last
FRIDAY evening. Mrs. Simonds was
formerly Catherine (Kittie) Court
wright, a daughter of Rev. C. w.
ICourtwright and wife, former Nc
! lConnelsville residents Mr. Court
wright was for some years superin-
ltendent of the McConnelsville
schools. leaving here in 1882, and
will be remembered too by older res
lidents as former pastor of Bristol
land Deerfield Presbyterian churches
and as having done other pas
toral work at Pleasant Grove and
Cross Roads churches. 1t is inter
esting to know that he is a gradu
ate of Princeton university and of
Miami university, at Oxford, 0.
Rev. and Mrs Courtwright were
the parents of 3 children and ten
CT them are still living The par
ents are both liying-their home be-
ing in Oakland, Cal, and three of
the daughters-Mrs. Birdie Glenn
and Misses Gertrude and Elizabeth
Courtwright, and one son Dana
Courtwright also reside in that
place. The father is 84 years of
age now and Mrs. Courtwright is
so. The other Courtwright children
living besides Mrs. Simonds and the
ones mentioned, are Mrs Stella
Stimson who resides at Terre Haute
Ind: Miss Alice Coutwright also OF
Terre Haute, and who is i'll much
of the time; Chas. H. CourtWright
who is employed with coffee i'm
porting house in New York City;
Fred of Chicago, and Robert Morris
Courtwright, employed with a rub
Der concern at Buffalo, n Y. While
the Courtwright family were living
in this section of Ohio, they resided
for a time in the country in this
county. and it was while living on q
farm on Meigs creek, that one of the
children-a daughter Sadie was
burned to death. She was buried
in McConnelsville. Another daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mabel Padelford, died
Wash
The object of Mr. and Mrs.
ISimonds' visit in Ohio at this time,
is to attend reunion of the Court
wright family which is held IN Co
Ilumbus this Thursday Mrs.
Simonds will be the only representa-
tive of her fathers family at this
reunion. The reunion is of the fam
lily and connections of John Court
wright. John Courtwright who was
lof Fairfield county, this state, resid-
ed at Lithopolis and was the father
of Rev. c. w. Courtwright This
family reunion has been held each
year for IS years, at Columbus Last
year there were about 25U persons
attending. 1t will be neld at Frank
lin park this year
Mr. and Mrs. Simonjs came en-
down here to the lattef's cid home
town, to greet old friends and ac-
quaintances, and Sunday attended
services at the Presbyterian church.
They stopped while here at the
Kennebec hotel. They went on
down to Marietta to spend Tuesday,
and Wednesday left for Columbus.
Mrs. Simonds' husband is dean of
: K"oX college at Galesburg, H., and
q of the department of literature.
He Is author Of a book on English
literature, used in eastern colleges,
and of other important works Mrs.
Simonds besides rearing her three
daughters and seeing them through
d. college, has done some other very
) important educational and civic
. work, among which is that Of having
worked three years, time of the
world war. with the New England
7 Woman's Division of the National
Civic Federation, following which
. she did Red Cross work in nine
counties of Illinois, and is at present
chairman of the state work pertain
ing to social industrial conditions in
Illinois.
The oldest of her three daughters
: is married and resides at Macon,
H. The second one is a journalist
. and does publicity work for the
Northern Pacific railway, being To-
Gated at st. Paul. The youngest
daughter graduated from college in
June and is employed for the coming
, year as head of the Latin depart
| ment in the Glenellyn, H., school.
In this connection local people
/ will be interested to know of the
) present whereabouts of another de-
, scendant of the Courtwright family,
. and that is Miller Davfs. 1t will be
, recalled that the first husband of
Mrs Stella Courtwright Stimson
: was the late Charles Davis of Nc
, Connelsville, son of Frank A.
Davis, former editor of the Morgan
, County Democrat. Miller Davis is
their son. He is married and has
two children. He resides in Terre
Haute, lnd.. and is a memDer or the
law firm Stimson, Stimson, Stimson
& Davis One of the Stimsons of the
firm is his stepfather, one is his
stepbrother and one is his half
. brother
After Rev. Courtwright and fam
ily left here in 1882 they were To-
Icated in different places, Mr.. Court
wright's largest pastorate being at
haywood, Ill. For the past 26
years his home has been in Oak
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