Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-10-06

our SchOOl mates May and June a11
Clay. This house has been repaired
and kept painted. The house in tho
west end owned and occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. A. ]. Lindimore, is in the
one would think these houses WEI G
built much later. AS no building
1 permit was required, and the folks
who knew are gone, we will go on
| discussing. The Lindimore house is
! said to have been the birthplace Of
we want to tell of later Jas. X.
Paxton and family; we find he is
often spoken of. We account for
this from the fact that he was
school teacher, merchant, and
Squire.
Likely the first store in. the Vi
entity was on parcel of ground
now owned by Mrs. B. f. Haines
and sister Miss Eta Merwin, at
side of the road. This store was
owned and operated by Jas. Jenkins.
! Another store was nearly opposite,
across the road in the Carnes field.
/ Then j. K. Paxton entered the mer-
camille business, and continued u1-
/ til his death, when his son in-law
Isaac Whitehouse became owner
and conducted the business for
nrany years. The building still
stands and is owned by A. J. Lindi-
more. After the Whitehouse re-
gime, the business changed owners
attempt to give names of owners in
their order. w. H. Hardesty, with
w. H. Gray clerk; w. M. Gorrell,
/ c. H. Bowen, f. B. Torbert, j A
Chambers. d. G. Lawrence and S. l..
Wilson, Web Anderson, L. B. Car
roll, and w. A. Shipley, who had
started in business in part Of his
residence the present home of NJ
and Mrs. Gus Carnes, bought the
| upper store and combined the
stocks in the upper store room. S.
W. Sheridan who started in his
the upper store. He started in the
| house now the home of G.. L. Swal-
| low and family Later Guy Smith
who had started business in the OLD
! home of the PaXtons, now owned
and occupied by Stanley Ray and
family, and later remodeled barn
on his fathers lot in the east end Of
the village, where he held forth for
some time, and then sold out to Mr..
! Sheridan, who moved his stock to
the Smith building.
Mr.. Sheridan sold to Fred Rad
cliff who continued the business in
| the Smith building some time, then
built the most imposing store
building the village has ever had
Later the building was remodeled
and part made into living, where
the Radcliffs continue to live and
conduct the only store in the vii
lage.
Taylor Cunningham who was the
village butcher and restaurateur for
some time, added a stock of mer-
chandise and built up nice busi-
ness. This was in the building
which later was used by Harry
WhitehOuse as blacksmith shop.
and is now used by G. l.. Swallow
as a garage and rabbitry.
The village has been a central
place for folks to congregate. When
you can't get a crowd there is no
use trying elsewhere. The men
gather at the village store even
ings and rainy days, as OF yore, but
the topics discussed are different
from when Ike kept store. One
thing has not changed. The biggest
days work is still done here
We have made an x in our copy
so we can find the place, for we
want at this time to give you some
thing different. We want to tel
you of man who while never a
resident of the township has cast a
mighty influence on the community
an influence that after all these
years is still being felt, and that
will continue on into eternity; a
man who has never been appreciated
as he deserved, and all because he
was and is too deep for those like
ourself who have only SKINNED
along The edges of the great lake
of knowledge. We refer to our
good friend Rev. w. J. Mills, and
we are proud to call him friend.
When we got the following sketch,
we also received a note giving US
authority to add to or take away,
to change to suit ourself; but we
never change anything that is above
and beyond us, so are handing it
in just as the Reverend has writ
ten it, knowing it will be one of the
bright spots in the story, and we
only ask that you read it twice:
Sketch of Life of w. j. Mills
/ was born near Bartlett, Wash
ington county, Ohio, and when
started to a country school to be
This was summer
term taught by very kind, hand
some, little lady named Emily
Dunsmore, who boarded around
and most of the time at our house.
l fell in love with her at first sight,
and it was a great treat to walk
with her night and morning, some
times hand in hand. / still carry
vision of that kind little teacher
in my mind and heart. My summer
schooling was continued only until
became large enough to be Of
some help on the farm, when it was
limited to the three-month term