Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-29
The Sycamore
A Story Of Bristol Township Folk
a Ctoyv Of Prisfpl To,
Py c. B. RAY

and family now reside, For many
years she taught in the schools Of
Illinois, and is now drawing
teachers pension from that state
She never married. and lives in
GAINESVILLE. The Simon Cool family
lived on the farm now owned by w.
D. Hancher, the south of which Is
the Bristol Mel gsville township line.
Mrs. Cools name was Cassie. She
w~s rnNred by DR.. Clark. The Cools
moved to Kansas many years ago,
end we are unable to find anyone
WHO knows anything Of them of late
years. Perhaps some of our west
err readers can tell us about this
family. Perhaps some of our read
ers have the idea that all tie folks
in Bristol have been successful.
While it is true that one does not
hove to go as high here as some
places to be successful. and on the
other hand successful folks are not
looked on as gods.
In the court docket as made by
George Glenn, ]. P s. from which we
have been copying, we find another
case dated Jan. &. 1868. which
writing covers some three or four
RACES of the journal We only wish
10 give the names mentioned: r. J.
Jenkins, Jas. K. Paxton. Leonadus
Davis. Jas Cunningham, F. M.
Hemnfeld, Samuel Wells. Hamrden
Polinger. George Hagerman. We
wonder how many Of our readers
can tell whose trial these witnesses
were called for.
AS soon as we get the chores
done and our supper we will take a
list of names and call on our en-
cvc1opedia and after George Roberts
tells us, we have material for a lot
of copy. We fear our friend Mrs.
when we referred to profits of the
Kansas wheat crop, as we have not
heard from her. When we write
we see not only the men and women
of other days, but our readers. We
have been fortunate in having been
in many of the homes of Morgan
county, and through our writing got
acquainted with a majority of Nor
gan county folks. 1t is surely nice
TO be able to spend the winter In
the south land, and the hot sum-
mcrs in the north land, but to us
the greatest pleasure we could wish
for would be to talk with our read
era Have them tell of their fore
fathers and their part in the MAX
ing of history. We are so glad that
folks are learning that history is
more than discoveries, settlements,
wars, and the few events as given III
our school text books under that
head. Many historical events are
occurring daily and many times at
the time of the happening only a
limited space is given the event in
some home transportation many
years later some writer spends
much time hunting up and weaving
the threads together, and then we
, call it history. What we mean is
many babe has been born of par
ents of whom no one outside their
Immediate neighborhood knew any
thing. The child rose to heights OF
renown and even the cabin where
they were born, became shrine.
Our mind wanders back but few
wears. when in the little frame
school houses scattered over our
township little frizzle headed boys
run their finger along the lines OF
well worn readers, or wrote num-
bers on states, then spit on them
and rubbed them out, and wrote
again, or with shaking knees stood
before the school on Friday after
moons and ''said pieces" 1t is true
some of these boys don't down at
the first attempt, never to appear
on the public platform again. But
some kept on and were overcomers.
Some of them went on to stand up
and say pieces in church pulplts, In
court rooms, in colleges, etc. At
this time our mind goes back to the
boyhood of our friend Geo. O. Nc
Gonagle Through the courses as
taught at the old Election school,
until he had mastered the branches,
until he had the nerve to go before
the three wise men and be exam