Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-01-29

in the township, but does not live
ont 1t. Samuel Gibbs, farmer
and shoe maker, owned and lived
on the farm now the home of Mrs.
Blanche Gorrell on N. 76. The par
ents of Samuel
=. 3. Llndlmore, county school
examiner and teacher in the Rose
Farm schools, who started the Jour-
ney in house that stood near the
Bear Run bridge, is preparing a
writing for US which will bear a
| title something like "A man now
living who has seen soldiers of all
wars in which Uncle Sam has been
| engaged. The same man attended
the first successful soldiers reunion
which was held at Caldwell, O.,
with $4,000 soldiers present. which
leads us to wonder what Caldwell
folks would do with that many
men, not saying anything about the
men not soldiers, women and chill
dren today. With what our friend
Clarence furnishes and what we
may be able to gather, we feel those
interested in our early history will
read with interest and preserve it.
We find the name Hamer: Those
in the township 1867) were Wal
lace, Bell and Josephine, enrolled
In the Robinson school; T. ".
Chambers, teacher. AS yet we are
unable to find their parents names,
or where they lived, but the name
has not been worn by anyone here
in our time. VIM. II. Cool and his
wife Nancy We're with their daugh-
ters Sadie Frances and Nettie. Sadie
married w. w. Harper of the Har-
per Wholesale Grocery company,
which bears his name in GAINESVILLE.
FRANCES, who married High Bell.
Mr.. Bell was connected with his
father-in-law in the Bristol store.
Nettie was twice married but the
names of both gentlemen fail to
come to us at this time. Mayhap
we have told you before but we
can't resist telling it here, Mrs.
Bell was operated upon for tumor.
The operation was the first we had
ever heard of. 1t was performed
in the home, now owned by Mrs.
Bessie Martin and occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Dunlap. Mrs.
Bell improved and lived for some
four years, dying in GAINESVILLE.
While the name Cool is often men-
toned Goods Store,'' and so on,
no one of the name is here. When
we noticed the grave of Mrs. Mary
stephenson and the monument IF
her husband, John, we recalled the
fact that the latter sleeps in the
grave occupied by Mr. Cool, before
relatives had the remains removed
to GAINESVILLE. Isaac Hauke. with
his wife and several children lived
In the old home on what is known
to this day as the Massey farm,
now owned by Miller brothers. Mr..
Miller was veteran Of the Civil
war, living to a ripe old age His
death occurred in Newark where
he and Mrs. Hauke had resided for
several years. Their children are
scattered
Jesse Gibbs with their children,
now the home of Miss BurdeIIa
Henderson. Samuel Gibbs left no
children. Jesse Gibbs lived for
many years just over the line in
M Musklngum county on state route
284. He married Mary Hempfield.
They We're the parents of three chill
1ren, one dying in infancy Coda,
who lives NJ n1I
Dewey who is rural carrier out of
he Cumberland office. John Woods
lame appears as a pupil in the
Robinson school. The Woods own
I'd and lived on the J. J. Bell farm,
)r was it Johnson's who lived
here? We feel we should tell you
hat much of what we are writing
S what might be called a memory
est. In fact we feel it will bring
more facts to light should we mako
mistakes. We note W. F. Light
liZer, former county commissioner,
who was injured and died follow
ng the wreck at Douda, 1902, and
lis brothers Reuben and Tilghman
we're pupils of Robinson school
Their father, Henry, and family,
ived in Bristol, later moving to
Meigsville, where their deaths oc-
cured. J. D. and wife Nellie
Mrs. Tina Spencer
widow of Robert, and
Robert, jr., and family are carry
ng on the names, but none are left
n Bristol.