Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-02-09
ReinerSville

/ Saturday Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Col
lins of this vicinity attended the
t,funera1 of her father, Frank Nc
Peak, 63, Of Dale.
| Paul Lewis of Braxton county, w.
Va, was here last week and report
edly has arranged for the purchase
Of the Taylor brothers Crank
Fitch farm, which lays somewhat
back from highway 78, west of the
village.
| Dorset Kincaid spent Sunday
with his ailing parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
! Newman Kincaid at Chesterhill
Mr. Kincaid operates hardware es-
ed by prostate gland trouble. Mrs.
kincaid is also in poor health, but
able to be about her household
duties
Caldwell Journal: Harry Heron
of Caldwell has been appointed to
succeed Reuben Parks as game
warden of Noble county" Both, the
former incumbent and his successor
are well known and highly regarded
here, the new appointee being the
husband of the former Miss Frances
Ford of this place and McConnels-
vile. Mr.. Parks was efficient, but
his license to ''hunt illegal hunt
ers" was of the wrong political col
or for the year SO.
lone Bricker bucket for sale!"
shouts our fellow scribe, Byron. We
take up the cry in Manchester
township, Gentlemen, what are we
bid for this almost new bucket?
What? What do we hear? Only
SO cents? Going at half-a half
"a half! Is so cents-one-half dol
lar-four bits, all that we are Of
fcred Once, twice, and sold to the
short, bespectacled gentleman in the
back row. That gentleman knows
his bucket and all the strings to it.
Charles Elliott and son Denzil
were in attendance at the GAINESVILLE
stock sale, Monlay
An Old Relationship Tangle
Herschel Mclaughlin handed us
this clipping from his former home
county, West Virginia paper: "Coe
Jenkins, rs, farmer, Of Tesla, BraX-
ton county, West Virginia. who
died Monday probably left behind
him the most complicated list Of
relatives that could be found any
where This is what happened: Coa
married the daughter of his daugh-
ter in-law and thus became the step
son-in-law of his own son and later
the great grandfather of his own
child. However, it has been pointed
out that this all happened without
Jenkins breaking any laws agaist
marriage to close blood relations.
Alva Jenkins is a son of Coe Jenkins
and is married to the former Mrs
Emory Rifle. His wife has from he1
first marriage a daughter whom Coe
Jenkins married for his second
wife. Thus Alva Jenkins became
step son-in-law to his step daughter
and step father-in-law to his own
father Later, daughter was born
to Coe Jenkins and his second wife.
making Alva Jenkins a step grand
father of this child of his fathers
Coe Jenkins. A father of the steI
great grandfather, then became
step great grandfather of his own
child and Alva jenkins besides be-
ing step grandfather, was also a
half-brother to this child Of his
father.
1t happened before, but it was
mainly after the great Civil war that
numerous white canvased wagons
rolled out of this section carrying
emigrants to the Far West" title
that then applied to almost any ter
ritory west of Ohio and Indiana
The most of the emigration from
this section, including areas of Nor
gan and Noble counties was for the
obvious reason of cheaper homes
directed toward such states as Iowa
and Missouri. Then, too, the
topography, the climate, the SINH
larity of crops gave to certain Of
these 800-miles-away regions,
home-like atmosphere SO necessary
to the settlers contentment in his
new-found home. AS part Of this
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