Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-09-15
The "Sycanore'
A Story of Bristol Township Folk
By c, B. RAY

lieutenant, and came out as captain
Co. F, 77th Regiment, under Col.
Jesse Hildebrand. After the bat
tie of Shiloh he was never able to
walk without crutches. He and
his wife are buried at Stockport.
Alvenia McGrath Lutgen was born
in kennebec county, Maine, Dec. 5,
1910, and died July 16, 1884. Her
father Thomas McGrath was born
in Munster, Ireland, in 1868, ami
died in 1S45. He was married in
Ireland to Ollie Richardson, in
1888. They came to America in
1890 or 81, landing at a little
town called Bath, Maine; then came
TO Ohio. They entered government
land in Bristol township on Bear
Run. Captain Lutgen had eight
children The three oldest were
born in Athens county. and the rest
on Bear Run Sidney, Caroline, Lo-
rinda, Athenus, Juliann, Myra, Mary
and Cicero.
The foregoing family history WAS
furnished by our friend Dolph Hook
who is son Of Lorinda. All the
fault we can find is that he quit too
soon We do remember that Dolphs
father was a soldier We believe
his father was John Hook, but we
do know that Dolph married Alice
Sherlock, and that they are real
pair They have two houses-one
filled with things modern where Al
ice presides as a royal cook, and
they both as real entertainers. The
other house is filled with antiques
of ye olden days; hundreds of dol
lars worth if he wanted to sell. but
he won't sell. Again let us say it IS
worth your while to visit this home
and see this great display and hear
Dolph give the history.
At the beginning of this section
we wondered why anyone would
want to leave Bristol township.
That was this morning, since which
we have been to county seat, and
watched folks go UP and down the
street. Oh yes they have more
than one street in the town, but ey-
erybody breaks for the court house
wall. Why? You answer for your
self. For ourself, we want to meet
folks from all over the county, AMI
watch folks. This is very interest
ing to us We have done this until
we can tell if they are home grown
or not Sometimes we can tell what
township they are from, by their
walk and talk. Oh yes, we started
to tell why some folks left Bristol.
They filled their niche SO full here
that the big world outside called
them, and many of them have been
going on up Many of these folks
have passed on and some are still
swaying the scepter in the colleges,
court rooms, and in fact in all the
varied activities of the busy world.
The folks who have gone out, who
have stuck and staid, are folks that
not only people in their new homes
are proud Of, but whom we Of the
home land speak Of with pride. The
history Of notables is hard to get,
but we will mention them later, if
only to give their names. Gus
Carnes informs us that RED Shirt"
Charlie Coleman who was the son
Of Mary Coleman Lawrence, was the
first soldier killed at San Juan
Hill, Cuba. We are sorry we can't
give date and further details Of
this man, and his death, but he IS
remembered by many of our read
ers.
Times
Bristol folks have had all kinds |
OF times-good times, hard times,
sorrow and sadness, But what we
want to talk about is the division Of
the day and night into hours and I
minutes. In our boyhood we had