Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-07-02

needy and procedure in the manage
ment of finances and clerk business
in all township matters. The ques-
tion of procedure brought out many
whimsical viewpoints, some of which
exposed the officials amazing lack
Of insight into the first fundamentals
OF accounts, according to Mr. Can
non. He learned there that some
clerks issue 700 checks a month,
which magnifies generally the i'm
portance of the clerkship. Tuesday
morning, 1870, the thunder roar
ed the wind blew; it was the noise
of falling dew.--The death of two
persons in remote places and in
widely separated regions carried in
the columns of the Democrat last
week, revived in the minds of the
older people about the village an
imagery of them when they once
lived in our midst In the death of
Mrs. Emma Elliott Harmon Ross, at
the age of 80, and who was laid
away, at GAINESVILLE, June 27, men,
ories are revived in the writer's
mind of her and her residence here.
The Elliott home occupied an emf
Of the village and the homestead lay
mainly east, but extended west to
include the bottoms of Little Olive
Green creek. To this parcel of land
whose separate legal identity was
long ago absorbed by it's annexation
by purchase to the estate of r. A.
Arrick, there still clings the appella-
tion of "Elliott place." though the
home has yielded to a partial de.
pletion from the carpenters hammer
and the site Of it made further for
saken as residence by the normal
abandonment of the public road
which led by. Here they lived for
many years and here her parents
dled. And within the Reinersville
cemetery rests her father, Mark Ell
lott, who died at the age OF 76,
Oct. 10, 1883, and her mother, Eliz-
abeth, Betsy Elliott, who died at
the age of IA, Jan. IA, 1895, as a
result of her falling from a horse.
Emma Elliott was twice married,
her first marital associate being
James Harmon, to whom a son, Will
lis, and daughter, Mrs. Effie Hark-
ness McGinnis, were born The son,
Willis, is still family remembered by
the writer though his departure for
the west and his subsequent death
in Illinois are impressions we have
that are blurred by the mists of
many years. After her marriage to
O. w. Ross, Emma Elliott Ross con-
tinued to reside with her husband
for a short time on the old home
stead here, her husband during this
occupancy serving Manchester town
ship as a trustee. The family re-
moved from here in the neighbor-
hood Of 40 years ago. Mrs Viola
Grandstaff of this place, whose
knowledge of this community and
it's earlier residents extends back
with more studied accuracy into
the past than any living resident of
Manchester township, informs us
that aside from Mrs Nancy Brill.
who as sister of Mrs. Emma Ross
still survives. she had one deceased
sister, Mrs. Sarah Smoot. Another
death of person whose life here
is more remembered by people of
the community because her resi-
dence here was of later decade
was that of Mrs. Stanton (Oda)
Macklem which occurred at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Maude
Yost, at Perry. Okla. The data con-
cerning her life is unobtainable
here, but she was intimately known
here by about all the middle aged
and older class of people who were
residents of the place 35 years ago.
She being one of as many as eight
children of Rev. and Mrs. Perry Orr,
she came here in her youth while
her father was the M. P. pastor on
this circuit. Here she met and mar
ried Stanton r. Macklem. They lat
er resided in the west, but subse-
Quently returned and located at
Reinersville, occupying the present
James Shriver home in about 1896
After approximately six years of
residence here, the parents and
three daughters -Maude, Blanche
and Gladys, moved to GAINESVILLE.
The writer was profoundly touched
by the sad news and a feeling of
the deepest sympathy prevails, es-
pecially for the aged husband who
is still remembered and admired by
so many here.