Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-06-03


tthe old church yard here last Thurs
day. Mr.. Matson was born in Bris
tol township. He is a retired rail-
road man. Our informant, while a
boyhood playmate, was not as in
quisitive as we feel we would have
been had we been present.
Sometimes when our appetite is
good-and we can find something to
appease 1t, we get to feeling that
perhaps we may stay here a good
while-then we look about and read
names of folks who have gone, and
their history is hard to find Some
time ago, we gave list of names of
folks who had lived in Bristol, but
at the present time not one of the
name is here-now to this list we
add the following, link e Yocom.
BY the way David Yocom died Feb.
|22, 1916; VIM. III. link, Oct. 2, 1852.
Both sleep in the old Baptist ceme-
terry on 2S4 Here's another-Jesse
Burge died Feb II, 1846. WIN.
buried in a marked grave. His mon
ument bears the date Nov. 13, 1845.
Mr.. Yocom was the father of Mrs.
John Coleman (spelled by some
Coalman.)
Mrs. Emmett Woodward is in
poor health. The Woodwards reside
on the S. w. Scott, former Israel
Fouts farm, on Bear run.
Ken Welch and wife, Wayne,
Mich, spent the holiday season with
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
e. Best, and with relatives at Rein
ersville.
Elmer c. Henderson and family,
Columbus. Ernest Henderson and
family, Malta, were at the Hender
son-Risberg home, helping Mr.. Hen
derson celebrate his list birthday.
While at the cemetery Sunday we
met Marion Alcott, Cabin Creek, w.
Va, his daughter, Mrs. e. G.. Stotts,
Charleston, w. Va; son Chas. Al
colt and son of Malta. When we in
quired about Mandy, Mrs. Stotts re-
piled ''She is fine, piecing quilts. She
always anxiously awaits the coming
of the home paper" She is only 80.
Mr.. and Mrs George Fox, sons
Dean and Galen, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McPeak,
Chesterhill.
Mr.. and Mrs Leland Jenkins and
son Jack, Belpre, are spending some
time at the home Of the formers
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Jenkins.
Albert Mcconnell has resigned as
salesman for the Maytag company,
and returns to the Donkey Ball COM
pany.
In speaking of the Bristol school
teachers, we said Mr.. Macklem goes
to Eagleport. We should have said
Tunnel Hill.
The Old Upon Block
A relic of former days, the archi-
lecture Of these means of assistance
to the ladies Of the years when the
people rode horse back. The archi-
lecture of these blocks was charged
to no set rule. 1t may have been a
block sawed off of some log and
set on end-or boards nailed to posts
set securely in the ground-or it
may have been a stump-if conven-
iently located. The one whereon we
are seated as we write. is of the
posts and board type. But it is not
the block we want to call your at
tention to- AS we look from our
seat here, we see or seem to see, the
community of 40-50 years ago. Our
fathers and mothers are coming on
horseback. It's funeral occasion.
It's springtime-the frost is going,
1.-THE bottom has gone out of the
roads. Here comes the procession.
ahead we see the pail bearers, three
men with their wives. They ride up
to the upon block where the ladies
dismount, handing the bride rein
to their husbands, taking off their
riding skirt, which was mostly of
black goods made to fasten around
the waist. When the lady had Sc
cured her skirt to the side saddle,
her husband proceeded to the hitch
ing rack-(another reli" Of the n""t,
and tied the horses. Then came the
horse drawn hearse. Many times
it was necessary to have four big
horses to pull these vehicles Fol-
lowing directly came the relatives.
1t was the custom to convey the rel
atives on occasions of this kind in
express wagons and buggies. Fol-
lowing these many times the rest of