Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-05-18

which they too bought $50 acres
from the government. This land is
in Morgan county, and Joined the
land owned by his father Patrick
Sherlock. They spent their entire
life on this farm, and reared their
family of six children namely:
John, James, Thomas, Mary, Anna,
and Katherine. James married Ra-
chel Reed and they had four chill
dren-Louis, Laura, Elizabeth and
Charlie. Thomas married a western
lady, Rilla Darling. they were par
ents of one child, Eddie. His home
was in Denver, Col Katherine
married Samuel Reed. To them
were born three children-Amelia,
Jessie and Clarence Mary never
Gormley, and had eight children
Mollie, Arthur, Katherine, Rose,
Frank, Glare, Celia and Zita. Mol
lie, Katherine and Glare are deceas-
ed. John married Mary Welsh, and
born to them were six children
James NJ, Thomas E.. John NJ, AL
ice, Fred and Vincent s., deceased.
Now let us tell you about the
cemetery at the mound. The fol-
lowing known graves are there:
Three children of DR.. Kelly, Pat
rick Touhey, Nancy Cahill, Bridget
Cahill, Annie Waters, John Maher,
James Maher and eight or ten un-
marked graves. In our reading OF
inscriptions on tom bstones. we have
found many peculiar things. On the
monuments in the Hackney ceme-
terry we noticed what we thought
were the letters 81. III. So After
consulting Father Preston, we find
the characters are the first three
Of the letters of the Greek word,
which compose the sacred name
Jesus. We are quite rusty on the
Greek. and we find the up-tO-date
composing room of the newspapers,
do not carry the Greek letters in
their cabinets But the English let
ters will give you an idea of what
we mean. Some of the laymen in
formed us that the characters meant
"Jesus Savior of Mankind" Which
is going only a little farther than
the explanation of Father Preston.
When you look at these monuments,
we hope you may see as do we, that
these folks are saying to us, as we
stop to read, "Jesus the Savior of
Mankind"
Should we spend months gather
ing material, we would no doubt be
able to add much to the writing,
and yet leave out much. At this
time we feel we should offer this
work TO the folk interested, and per-
haps later, with the help of Father
Preston and all who know the his
tory. write more extensive his
tory, with a title "The Catholic
Church in Morgan County,"
John Duffy
John Duffy was Irish. He came
to America prior to 1912, for we
find he was a soldier of the war of
1912; was working in Baltimore,
Md, in 1917; came to Meigs creek.
CUnionville). in 1919 The date of
his death is lost. His grave, at the
west end of the wooden bridge at
Unionville, is marked by small
cannon and several cannon balls,
which were placed there by the
O'Neal family. But no dates are
found there. We are sure his death
occurred before the cemetery at
Hackney was laid out, else he would
have been buried there Perhaps
the records show it, but for the ben
eft of those Of you who do not have
access to the records we want to tell.
Father Epping the first priest to
hold services here was in charge in
GAINESVILLE, when the first church
was built, and John Duffy who was
a carpenter worked on the building
John O'Neal came over with Alex
ander Campbell. On the way over,
Mr. Campbell told Mr. O'Neal of his
plans TO organize a new sect They
We're great friends, and many letters
passed between the two after they
separated and after he founded his
church. James O'Neal's monument
was made from the jamb stone in
their old home, it being his wish
that the stone should mark his
grave. The wife's name is also on
the stone. Graves Of other members
Of the family buried here. are un-
marked Thomas, Peter, Mary and
Sarah. John is buried at Column
bus.
Regardless of church affiliation or
sectarian belief, the people of Cen
ter are proud of this old church
proud Of the hard working, honest,
hospitable, honorable, Coz fearing
folk, who have been, and are a part
of the old church