Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-05-11
| The A STORY
EsIc - Bristol Township Folk
&/HAl]<fkOI By C. B
By C. B. RAY

down into sort of hollow place,
where stands an old house which
not so many years ago was happy
home The family bought a farm
out on a state road. In their old
home they could not see any neigh
bor's house; when they saw any
one coming they knew they were
either coming to their house. or
were lost. Today you could not
persuade them to move back, and
the old home is not for sale
Bristol looks good to us always,
but the springtime is the greatest
of all seasons. The pioneers who
wanted the county seat over on the
Little Creek, in all probability had
little idea Of how Morgan county
was situated. or perhaps they did
not care about the folks over to the
west. The location as we under
stand it would have been only three
miles from the east line of the
county With the mode of travel
we had up until the advent of the
automobile, there would have been
folks on the west side of the county
who would never have an oppor-
tunity to visit the county seat This
place was brought into prominence
no doubt by the fact that it was on
the old stage coach route, and folks
of that day did not even dream that
railroads and motor busses, or that
airplanes would make the trip from
Marietta to GAINESVILLE in about the
same time the driver of the coach
was changing teams.
While this is a story of Bristol
township, we feel that anything that
concerns the township is admissible,
so we wish to say here that those
who laid out the county seat, figur-
ed too much space for building, and
rot enough parking space for autos.
But they never thought of folks
coming from all over to do their
trading, attend shows-and see the
crowd on Saturday evenings. In our
boyhood, very few Bristol folks
went to town in the evening.
Daniel r. Van Oster and Mary
(Sis) A. Lindimore, We're married
June 27, 1874, in Morgan county,
Ohio. and came to Missouri in 1877,
with their two sons-Geo. H., born
1875, and Charlie, born 1875. George
and his wife live at Syracuse, Kan
sas, and Charlie with his mother;
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Van Oster and
family with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Henry Lindimore and family.
Oct. %, 1873 at Montrose Mo. He
with his wife and eight children
still lives in Missouri Jesse was born
June 8, 1883. He with his wife
I and two children lives at Montrose,
Mo Harry was born April 27, 1884,
and died Dec. 10, 1898. They (the
.
. to Garden City in 1885. William
1 was born May 20, 1888, and with
his wife and six children lives at
/ South Coffeyville Kan. Mae was
born Jan. 13, 1890. She is Mrs.
Walter Bean of South Coffeyville,
Kan. She and Mr.. Bean have two
boys and two girls. Alonzo was
born Feb. 8, 1892 He and his wife
have seven children. Edna and
Maude (twins) were born Oct. 10,
1894, and both died soon after
birth. Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Van
Oster and all of the family except
George II, and Charlie, went back to
Missouri in 1887 Louisiana was
born Feb. 13, 1897. She and her
husband Lloyd Duncan and two
daughters live in Goshen, Ind. Mr..
and Mrs. Daniel Van Oster came
back to Garden City, Kan, in March,
1919. Daniel died Aug. Is, 1921,
and was buried in Garden City. Mrs.
Mary Van Oster has eight children
living, 90 grandchildren, and six
great grandchildren. She is 78
years Of age. and docs her own
work She lives at III, 9th street,
Garden City, Kan. The above was
furnished us by Mrs. Josie Donmyer,
and was written by Mrs. George Van
Oster. You will note we have not
given the address of some of these
folks. Mrs Van Oster says "The
children are not any good to write
to their mother, and we do not
know where all of them are, SO just
left it - Mother sure enjoyed
the papers, as she remembers all
the old timers, and thinks she may
hear from some of the Van Osters |
in Ohio. She also says that in the |
issue of March 3, '32 someone told |
of the Van Oster and Lindimore |
families leaving Ohio, with a colt |
the boys were riding, and asked |
whether it was rode all the way or
traded off. Mrs. Daniel Van Oster
said that the colt was traded off, 1t
was not shod, and got sore feet,
making the trade necessary" If we
could get Mrs. Van Oster, Amanda
Smith and Lafe Lindimore together,
we would soon have copy for an
other years writing. Thanks, my
wasfarn friends