Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-08-03

! place of J. G. Murduck, ex-sheriff
In the Mt. Carmel cemetery we find
but two soldier graves, both Civil
war, George Garrett and Philip
| Howard. This cemetery surrounds
| the Mt. Carmel church, and is taken
care of by the church folks, and the
| folks interested. The Mt. Zion Gem.
etery has the following soldiers bur.
! there: w. T. Flanders, Lemon De.
vol and Thomas Dutton.
Facts and Fancies
In our boyhood we heard lot OF
| talk about the men and women who
cleared the forest, built homes
schools and churches. We thought
that they were wonderful, and did
wonders. We still do-but we feel
there are folks right here in Bristol
who are doing, and have done as
much or more than did they. AS an
example of what we mean, let us
tell you about our friend, the late j.
F. McGregor: "Jimmy's" father
died when he was only a boy. While
he left a good farm, he also left a
good sized debt When Jimmy went
to a man who has gone down in the
history of the county as a leader in
financial matters and wanted to bor-
row money to take care of the in
debtedness, he refused him, and ad-
vised him to give it up saying "You
can't do it, boy" but Jimmy wasn't
the giving up kind, and he found a
man who not only lent him the mon
ey, but advised him to SOW every
acre in wheat he could. You will
remember this was after the time
when all the tools needed to SOW
wheat was a double shovel plow to
tear up the ground-then after the
grain had been sowed, broadcast, a
limb, or brush was dragged over the
ground to cover the grain. Neither
was it in the time of the modern
machinery we have today, and he
won-not only paid the debt, but
built new buildings, bought more
land, bought many of the modern
tools and appliances for the farm
and home, gave to the church, and
the needy, and had plenty left.
While we wrote, much about him
when he could read it, and have
spoken of him during the years
since he went on, there is still much
that we have not written-but let
us tell you this before We go to the
next subject, many farmers, both
old and young, benefited by his ad-
vice, especially in regard to sheep.
Speaking of men, and women,
while we went to more teachers
than the boys and girls of today get
to go to, and while we have heard
more preachers, so that we should
be a much better man, but that isn't
what we want to call your attention
to. OF all the teachers and preach
ers, how many of them made an i'm
preston on you? How many of
them have you followed on through
the years. Why?
Looking Back
Those who can go back with me
and Revs. Fisher, Stevenson, C. B.
Taylor, at Bristol, F. A. Brown, Has
tings, Gale at Salem, McConnels-
Vile and Carmel, and Davidson and
Stewart at Lebanon; Pierce and the
Moodys at Meigs, may take front
seats. I may want to ask you few
questions. But let us tell you about
Davidson. He was an Englishman.
We remember a sermon he preached
on hell. We imagined we could
smell the rimstone-perhaps we
could smell better then.
We expect we have told you about
the covered bridges-but we want
to tell you here, we saw six recent
ly in less than one hours ride
There was, or is, one more in the
township, we didn't get in sight of.
We have often wondered what
would happen if the folks who lived
here 100 years ago were all dropped
off at their former residences with
no one to explain the things we
have that they never saw, or perl
haps dreamed Of. On the otherl
hand, were they to be let off at the
seat, and told to locate their
old homes, we suspect they would |
not know which way to start. InI
fact we have travelled over parts Of |
the county where we were fairly |
well acquainted, in which during |
our absence, roads had been built |
and some changes made, and wei
were lost until we got our bearings. |
Then with all the improvements, |
cutting Of timber, rails
ing and razing that has taken place
in the century, nae thinks they
would be amazed.
While we don't care to tell a fish
story, we feel we should tell you
about the fish. The
township has three creeks, all call
ed Meigs with the designations
''Manns Fork" Boals Fork" and
Little Creek" The latter runs
short space on the east
side of the township from Otho
south along and through lands of
Garner butcher the Fergusons,
Christman and w. o. Workman. The
other two drain the rest of the
township. Boal's fork enters the
township in sections four, and five
one branch running little way
in five, before meeting the other
branch. The other Manns Fork en-
ters at the northwest corner of Sec
ton 80, running three and half
miles east and only one mile south,
Joins the other at the middle of the
south side of section 21, the west
branch running so near the south OF
the township. takes most of the !