Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-12-26

Of folks were never interested and
thus have no history of their fam
lily. After looking the folks of long
ago over in memory, we have de-
cided they were much like folks OF
today. If any difference they were
better. We always give ladies
and the dead the benefit OF the
doubt. It always seemed funny to
us about folks. Some folks ike
liquor, some money, some women,
and some men and some, oh you
know But the funny thing-the
fellow who breaks the fourth COM
mandment, whoops and makes
loud noise about one who cracks
the third Or sixth and V. V.
Likely this is all right, sort of acts
as governor on the community.
But did you ever notice the fellow
who points out the mistakes of his
neighbors, f1inches most when the
spotlight is turned on him? And
now comes letter from Mrs. Eliza
Wells, with a sketch of the Strong
sisters, Easter and Ellen. The
home of these good women was
across the hollow south of the C..
E. Dewitt home. These women new
er married. Mrs. Wells says "The
Keyes' moved to Meigsville and liv-
ed neighbors with Easter and Ellen
Strong from 1875 until 1898, when
they were taken by Mr.. and Mrs.
John Boles (Mrs. Boles was a
daughter of their brother James
Strong) and cared for until their
DEATH Ellen died Sept. %, 1898;
Easter, Oct 20, 1893. When they
moved to that farm it was all in
timber Men cut logs and put their
house up. They often told me that
they would grub and burn brush
until dinner time, and then crate
meal to make bread for dinner, and
bake it in an iron oven, with lid, on
an open fireplace. They had lived
there long enough to have a bear
ing apple orchard, and 20 acres, all
cleared, when we moved neighbors
to them in 1875. The reason l know
they had bearing orchard-the
first call they made, they brought a
basket of old fashioned Russets,
Belleflowers and Rambo apples.
You know how that would look to
hungry kids. They had a brother
JOHN WHO MTS. WeilS tuiuhS uIcu
in 1892 Easter and Ellen were
members of Emery church, joining
before the Civil war. We remem-
Der these old folks. In our boyhood
they wove carpets and rugs. The
old home has long since been torn
down, and like many other spots in
our county, little, if anything, is left
TO show that these good folks labor
ed that they might have home and
the necessary things of life. We
are sure they had not many things
that folks of today call "necessi-
ties but we are not SO sure but
that they were happier than per-
sons of today. That was before the
day of a dollar down. 1t was cash,
or they wouldn't buy. Easter, Ell
len and John all sleep in the Emery
cemetery Many Of our readers no
doubt will be unable to trace the
connection Of these folks with folks
of the present age C. S. Strong,
Morgan county auditor; w. D. Mat
son, editor McConnelsville Herald,
A. II. Humphries, with sales tax de-
partment, are all related to these
folks. Tomorrow we expect to yls-
it the old graveyard and gather
names and dates so that we may be
able to gather the history and write
it into the record, so that coming
generations may know of the life
and works Of those who sleep at
Emery. In spite of the fact that to-
morrow never comes, we got to the
cemetery-found we had picked a
raw cold day for the job, neverthe-
less we continued until we had all
the names and dates in our Fast
Mail, and now the work is only be-
gun. With the interest already