Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-06-30
Reinersville

Local creeks were bank full Sun
| day night and early the following
| morning from 1.95 inches of rain
| which started with heavy down
pour at 2:45 p. NJ, Sunday Owing
] to the Doggy condition of the
{ ground, Monday, wheat harvesting
was generally retarded, though
| there were local instances where
| binders We're at work
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold H. Hill ar
rived here last Friday evening for a
| brief visit with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. L. Hill and Mr.. and Mrs,
| W. NJ Smith On their return to
| companied by Mrs s. L. Hill, who
| will spend week with them
The next time we get a door step
| seat to a prize-fght radio broad
| cast, We'll have our cigaret lit We
| missed the Lewis-Schmelling face
massage act by two puffs.
Dan Fowler, a retired city mail
carrier of Ashtabula, and a son of
| the late Nathan Fowler, visited his
| uncle, Miner L. Fowler, and aunt,
Mrs. John Lowe, of this place, the
latter part of last week. Accom-
panying him were his son, Charles
Fowler, and friend Kenneth Wes-
sen. The visitors were guests of the
Harry Glines home in the village
Sunday, on which day they return
ed to Ashtabula.
Harry Hutchins, brother of J. c.
Hutchins, of this place, was cam
didate for the state senatorial NOM
ination from the 3Sth district of
Minnesota, which included Mr.
Hutchins' home in ST. Paul.
Statistics are said to prove that
the average life-span has been
heightened. With the jittery con-
dition of the present generation,
this is hard to believe. The demise
of lady at the age of 80 is record
ed in this weeks news and the fact
that she is survived by two brothers
81 and 7S, impresses us that the
earliest settlers in this country were
8 strikingly hardy race to bequeath
such long lives to their descend
ants. The deceaseds father lived to
to be 80, and her husbands father
lived to be 93 If anything is proved
about longevity it would appear to
be that long-life is inherited-and
ent from the one today.
Georganna Ford Patterson
Funeral rites for Georganna Ford
Patterson, who departed this life at
her home near Philo, at $3.50 a. M,
Sunday, were held here Tuesday af-
ternoon at 2:30 p. m. The deceas-
ed was born in October, 1856, and
was approaching her 82nd year. Her
demise followed a contributOry i'll
ness of paralysis of four months du-
ration, climaxed by heart ailment
Georganna Patterson was born at
Reinersville, and was one of fam
| lily of nine children born to John c.
Ford and his wife Hester Ann Mack
tie county, Delaware, in 1845, and
after a brief residence in Harrison
| county, they, the same year, settled
here for the remainder of their
lives. Thus the deceased's family
history has been interviewer into the
life of this community for period
of SO years. The deceased became
the wife Of Joseph F. Patterson, and
they resided near here on what is
| now the Charles Haines farm, in
Noble county, later disposing of this
farm and locating near here in Nor
gan county. Probably 80 years ago
they located near Philo, Muskingum
county. Her companion, Joseph
franklin Patterson, passed away at
their Philo home, October %, 1892,
at the age of 70. To this union were
born two daughters, who survive,