Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-02-24
Reinersville

snow possibly supplying no NOR
| than .05 of the total precipitation
of Els inches at this writing. Tn
sun made it's appearance, some
days. The 9Th, 10th, 11th, 20tl
and 21st were totally cloudy. Th'
temperature here has ranged from
eight above to 68 above The 9Th
9th and 18th were the windy days
The moderateness of it's depOrtmen
has made it a most surprising
month. And what it did to the
roads is another scarcely equalled
record. Lewis Metz of Ohio sold 2
horse to Gleason Richardson and M
bought one from Harley Little Mr.
and Mrs. Scott Ferguson of Wes,
Marietta where Mr.. Ferguson is q
filling station attendant, were Mon
day and Tuesday visitors at the Jas
Ferguson home at Otho.--M Mrs. Har-
ry Glines of this village has been
rather severely i'll from an attack
of the flu together with a liver all
ment. Hardesty Bros. is the new
proprietary title of the firm op-
Grating gas station and luncn
people as first-class citizens. TO
the lady making the telephone ap-
pointment at an hour when we had
to be on duty and who explained
her query as one relative to the bur-
ial of a Revolutionary soldier in
Manchester township, we beg to say
that we know of no Revolutionary
soldiers grave in what is now Man.
chester township. The writing which
We did of the Lost cemetery on
the Rodeback farm in 1922 revolv-
ed about an inquiry made by a Kan
sas citizen, Francis Hamaker, as to
his mothers burial place. From his
description, we offered the Rode
back cemetery as clew but the
late William N. Blackburn estaD-
lished the location of her grave as
very probably at Mt. Olive. We did
on another occasion mention some
of the names inscribed on the stones
in this cemetery, but we feel conf
dent that we never referred to any
one buried there as having been a
Revolutionary soldier as the infor-
nation about any of them was very
meagre. While we said we knew of
no Revolutionary soldiers grave in
what is now Manchester township,
we do know of a Revolutionary sol
dier that was buried in Manchester
township and while the body was
not exhumed and removed it is not
buried in Sharon township, of No
bic county. This came about when
the eastern half of Manchester
township, Morgan county, was
struck off in 1851 to form Noble,
the youngest county in the state.
The Revolutionary soldier was the
writer's great grandfather, Peter
Walters, who died Feb. 15, 1884, at
the age of 73 years, and lies in the
Saylor graveyard, Noble county. AS
the original Manchester township,
1922, he had resided in the same
II years at death. Since portion
of Manchester was not struck off to
Noble county for some II years af-
ter his death, he never resided in
Noble county. The record at Har-
risburg, Pa, shows that he enlisted
in the army of the Revolution, Aug
10, 1880, and served under Capt.
Michael Gilbert, and Col. William
Foot. He evidently entered the SER
vice at about 10 years of age, and
probably was not in actual service
more than a year.--For the infor-
nation of the writer of the Meigs
section in the Democrat who was
perplexed by the silence of the Bris-
tol township court record on Il
notable case in which the defendant,
John Harper was charged with the
two days upon the roads, when he
was about %, we are authorized by
the defendant" to say that the
proceedings stopped right in it's ink
found them. The work nor the de-
fendant, neither one, was prosecut.
ed as along came repeal of the law.
That's why no ink tracks of the
magistrate led away in any direction
from the fatal spot and left our
good Meigs correspondent so be-
looked over the constable's shoul~
der and saw repeal standing right
back of him and feared not.--While
we can't believe it to be fraught
with such bloody consequences as
to bring on a boundary dispute Such
as befell the nation in 1845, we are
confirmed in our opinion that friend
Byron, of the Meigs section slip
ped" just a wee bit in his Bristol
he politely referred to our mis-
take" in describing a burial in Oak
Grove cemetery as having taken
place in Muskingum county AS we
once understood it when with a
gang of WPA snowshovelers on the
near-Zero morning of January 30,
1886, the county line, deeply buried
by the snow angled across the Gem
etery east to west and in recogni-
ton of it's location there, we were
warned by our boss that we should
distinguish between Morgan and
Muskingum county snow somewhere
past midway the length of the high
way abutting such cemetery. In
confederation, we We're further ill
formed by John Harper that the
burial in reference took place as
stated in Muskingum county. If
that is right, we happened to get it
so, wholly unconscious of any ex-
treme accuracy. The polite correc-
tion by the Meigs correspondent is
not, however without benefit. Too
many of us know too little of our
own county and such criticisms
whether correctly based or not slim
ulate an interest in local geography.
AS scribbler, we are so far out
classed by Byron of the Meigs sec
ton, that his complimentary refer
ences cause headaches around our
own domestic fireside where the
Thursday inquiry is, "Well, what's
Byron got to say today?" Our stuff
they have read the daily paper
funny page. There is another scribe
to which Byron refers to as Silas
that can really set words in a line
with meaning and charm, his
tribute to his lately deceased moth
er being an epic The Meigs cor
respondent has an unique style all
his own and it gets there and we
suspect like comments of all rural
correspondents they sometimes
come reverberating back The time
is just around the corner when
Silas, Byron and self must lay
aside their pens or "die in the har
ness And somehow, "dying in
the harness." was always a trick
much praised but one we never
thought worthy of emulating in