Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-04-02

surprised and ruthlessly destroyed
in 1871. The pioneers Of Windsor
township were largely from the
New England states. Robertson in
his history of Morgan county from
which we are taking excerpts says
Of the pioneers, they were intelli-
gent, moral and progressive. The
county is indebted to these New
Englanders for the introduction Of
fruits, apples, pears, peaches, and
cherries.
Windsor township was organized
as an integral part Of the county
in the summer of 1919. Its terri
tory has since been enlarged by the
incorporation into the township of
large part of Roxbury township,
formerly in Washington county.
The date of actual permanent set
tlement by white settlers may safe
ly be set down as 1856. After
Wayne's victory and the treaty of
peace with the Indians. The pic
neers not only followed the river in
their search for homes, but built
their cabins there until all the bot
tom land had been taken, after.
which those who came later began
improving the hill land. While we
will write more extensively of these
early settlers, we want at this time
to mention the fact that Nathan
Dearborn who came to the town.
ship in 1911 was the first coroner
of Morgan county, and served as
sheriff at the first term of court in
McConnelsville. Our attention was
called to this name on account Of
the fact that we remember his son.
H. p, who at that time, 1890, own
ed and lived on the Gessel, former
Albert Singree farm, on state route
II, near the Pleasant Grove church.
We believe his name was Perkins.
Anyway old folks of the neighbor-
hood called him 'Perk." AS yet
we are not able to decide who the
first permanent settler was 1t
seems that during the years 1900
ed.
We have arrived we We're about to
say in the south, but after looking
out the window, we thinking of
yesterday we can't help wondering
if We shouldn't be careful. AS we
are to write at large it might be
we'll for us to tell you about the
village where we are to reside and
mail our column from. AS we look
out the south window we notice
what looks like band stand On
a little farther we see the school
buildings. The school carries the
name Windsor" 1t will be re-
membered the name of the village
was changed from Windsor to
Stockport when the railroad came
There appears to be quite a num-
fact that there seems to have been
several who have taken up, or down
their residence in the cemetery. We
presume all the dead ones have
been buried. AT any rate we haven't
seen any dead ones walking
around. We find there are quite a
number of business places here, and
that is to be the subject OF our
writing. So 49,.
Churches
We feel we should tell you of
the churches first. At the present
time there are only two--Methodist
and Church of Christ. First let us
tell you that we learn that Chris
tianity has come side by side with
evil, as proven by the following:
In the early days of the village a
man and his wife lived in a two
story house, on one side the man
sold liquor. on the other the wife
held religious services. We are in
formed that the Catholic folks
years ago held services on the Sill
yer Heels farm.
Following the death of Kinda
Hook, the residence was trans
formed and used as church, where
folks Of that faith worshiped for
several years. On account of the
small membership and the improve
ed roads making it possible for
them to drive to the McConnelsville
church in few minutes, the mem
bership transferred to that church.
The Presbyterians had an organiza-
tion here which has been discon-
tinued. We won't try to tell you
how long at this time, but later we
hope to give you the dates and his
tory of these organizations. When
we say history we mean the folks
who have carried on.
We are having this published SO
that those OF you who know the |
history of the old home town may
know that we want you to tell us
about the town and folks past and |
present. We are glad that every
one we have contacted has been |
very kind. We had talk with |
Mayor Brannon, who has held the
office a quarter of century and |
seems good to continue through the |
second quarter. He is with US in |
our hunt for facts.
(To be continued)