Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-02-22

the ears-and the mark was record
ed-they were not sure whether in
the township, or county. Some
farmers continued to mark their
stock after they had their land
fenced, but most of them quit
When it came time to butcher they
hitched horse to a sled and with
their rifles and in most cases a dog,
started. When a hog was killed it
was loaded on the sled and hauled
to the place where the water was
being heated. In case the hog
"squealed" the dog caught and held
it until the gunner arrived and
dispatched 1t.
They carried me back to Nor
gan's raid, having helped hide the
horses in the hollows They related
the fact that they had some colts
which were not hidden Neither did
they hide the harness. They thought
afterwards that had Morgan's men
found the harness they would have
known there must be some horses
somewhere, as the harness would
not fit the colts. Our older readers
will remember quite a number of
men were recruited and sent to Ma
rietta to head Morgan off, but he
came above and crossed at Eagle
port, at the Mckinney farm to be
exact. "Jim Parmiter walked back
from Marietta and carried his
drum" A man by the name of
Saltkill at one time owned the land
where we are writing, which was
later owned by David L. Jenkins,
now by Chas Crooks. What we
started to tell, one day Mr.. Saltkill
told his son to plow as long as he
could see. 1t was moonlight, SO
the boy plowed on, coming in just
as the father was starting to the
barn in the morning. When the
father said 'you are getting an ear
ly start" and the son replied, 81 am
just coming in, you told me to plow
as long as could see" They
couldn't vouch for the truthfulness
of this.
A Bristol Girl of 81 Makes History
We have told you Of the 16 young
ladies who rode the gray horses in
the parade At this time let us tell
you this in Mandy's own words: 81
had just got up, did not have my
shoes on or my hair combed, when
1 looked out and saw funny look
ing machine on the street. | hur-
ried and got my shoes on, went out,
and found the machine had pulled
over to the Ford garage; I went
over and found it was the first
Crosley automobile in Morgan coun-
ty. The owner asked me why don't
you take ride in it? I said 1
would like to, when he bade me
get, in, which I did, and they took
me over town" We wish our read
ers may get as much pleasure from
reading this chapter, as we did from
the time (Which was far too short)
we spent with our friends. The
next time we will have our friend
John Fox help us and have Ibe, Bill
and Pearl present.
AT first thought we had in mind
the rest of the conversation had
nothing to do with Bristol town
ship, then we scanned our notes
again and find they recited a selec-
tion from McGuffey's reader; dis
cussed world events; talked of Alex
ander, Hitler, Napoleon, baseball.
Had it anything to do with Bristol?
Think of it, folks of their age, not
only able to be up and about, but
able to teach us younger folks, be
we ministers, lawyers, or laymen,
if we had sense enough to be taught,
which calls to our mind the follow
ing which we read in a recent copy
Of Grit: eve get more mileage out
of life if we never shift our mouths
into high gear until we are certain
our brains are turning over"
We have always been interested in
gathering and writing the story our
township and county has to tell,
md have always enjoyed listening
as these wonderful folks relate from |
heir store house We always feel
small, yea, very small, when we get
n their company,-but thank God
We have sense enough to listen
md pencil in our way what today |
s our story-but some day will bel
searched in the files of the Demo-
rat, by lawyers and laymen, to
prove the lineage of clients and
hose interested The above was
written yesterday-today we met a |
nan on the street who wanted to
Know ABOUT some relatlVeS. we lOlu
lin if he would go with us to the
DOT of Kennebec avenue, We would
how him a woman who would tell
Tim more in 10 minutes than we
ould if we talked all afternoon-
nd she did-and her name is Man
ly Smith. And we want to say at
his time that if there is honor in
ny of our work, the greater part
S due you who have furnished the
Material. We may have said this
may again-and then