Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-08-20

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Granite Falls, Wash, and brother
Will CT Lebanon, o., and myself of
Wenatchee, Wash. My earliest
recollections are of the village OF
Rowland where my father was the
| 'storekeeper. From there he mov-
ed to near Museville, where he con-
duced a store for a few years, and
afterward moved to the Hannah
and Ann Carlin farm, my mothers
girlhood home and also mine.
Katherine Carlin married John
Culver, and they lived on the last
of the four adjoining farms, where
later Wood Smith and family lived
and which is now owned by Ray
Smith. They were the parents of
| five sons-Asa, Levi, John, Thomas
and Robert, and four daughters
Nancy Jane, Mary Ann, Betty and
Harriet l believe Aunt Katie, >
as we knew her, died about 1897,
in her eighties, while Uncle John s
| death occurred several years earlier.
! Nancy Jane and Mary Ann remain
! ed unmarried and lived in the
parental home until after their
parents death. They later moved
+ to Rural Dale, where their deaths
occurred, and they were buried in
the Blue Rock cemetery, as were
Uncle John and Aunt Katie. Betty
married Perley Roberts, and they
lived in the Pisgah neighborhood,
and were buried in the Pisgah GEM
etery. They were the parents of
four children. Three sons survive
Edwin of the same neighborhood: !:
Fred who lives near Morganville,
/ believe, and Charles living in
North Carolina.
Harriet married Robert Nc
Gregor. They lived for several
years, where Emma Wilson now
now by George Garrett, near Row
land, and still later they bought
the James Howard farm, where
Roberts death occurred. Several
years later Harriett's death occur
red and they were buried at the
Bristol cemetery. They We're the
parents Of four daughters, three of
whom survive-Mrs. Dora Camp
bell of the Bristol vicinity: Mrs
Will Heron, near Neelyville. and
Mrs. William Johnson, of McCon-
nelsville. One daughter, Mrs. Ida
Little, is deceased.
The son Robert Culver married
Prudence Richey, and they lived on
the home place until after the par
ents death. They were the par
ents of four sons-Will, Ora, Hiram
and Finley, and three daughters,
Jennie, Alice and Mary. Will and
Ora are deceased; Hiram lives at
Hettinger, North Dakota, and Fin
lev at Duncan Falls. Jennie also
lives at Duncan Falls. Mary, (Mrs.
Ethan Greer) and Alice (Mrs Har-
old Gifford) live in East Bloom
Of my great grandfather, Asa
Culver CUncle John Culver's faith
err l know little except that he was
a minister of the gospel Or "circuit
rider" / imagine his home was
the Culver farm, since the Culvers
and Carlins were inter-related, two
of his children marrying brother
and sister of the Carlins. When I
was at the Blue Rock cemetery |
failed to find his and his wife's
graves there, though | believe Jen-
ME Culver told me he was one of
/ the organizers of the Blue Rock
church / think perhaps he might
be buried in the old Bristol Bap-
tist cemetery-the first church I
believe in the neighborhood. One
of his great grandsons-Roy Gift
ford (Alice Culver Gifford's SOM is
following in his footsteps, studying
for the ministry. 1t is related of
him that once he met a couple of
young fellows who very fippantly
inquired his business. He replied
that he had been sent to seek his
| fathers asses and thought he had
| found two of them.
OF the Smith family l cannot re-
late much. Wood Smiths father,
| Alexander Smith, resided On what
was the Smith farm, adjoining the
Culver farm. The house and barn
are both gone now. He had one
sister, Derinda Smith Howard. Her
husband was Philip Smith, Civil
war soldier. Of their family only
Jane Sevall, widow of Benton Sc
vail survives. Of the Alexander
Smith family only Zoa Dickinson
(widow of j. G.. Dickinson) sur
wives. I believe that Alexander's