The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-09-02

Terrace Park, Hamilton County, with |
q sack of corn on his back single /
shot rang out. Aaron Mercer and |
Tgnatius Ross, on he way back from |
the mill to Columbia, heard the shot |
and found New4 beside the bride
path dead and sscalped. For many |
years the dark, wooded ravine be-
tween Red Bank and Plainville,
where Newell was killed, was called
"Newell's Hollow"
Rely had come to Columbia from
North Carolina. He moved to Gin
cinnati in E94 and on to Hamilton in
1903 where he died in 1850 at eighty
seven. Dpnlavy lived at Columbia
until 1871 then moved to Lebanon,
Warren Cpunty, where he died in
1889. He is buried in the old Presby-
terian Cemetery at Lebanon.
The school next in Ohio after that
at Columbia was the little log one
opened on TIE river bank at Cinein-
natl in 1791s 1t was built in the
midst of a grdpp of cabins and next
to John Ridden blacksmith shop for
security of theschildren against the
Indians. 4
The first teSeher there was an
Irishman named Lloyd whose given
name long has been forgotten. Will
liam D. Ludlow son of Sheriff John
Ludlow, who carae with the family to
Cincinnati in 17s9 when he was five,
went to the school and related that in
1891 the scholars saw the Indians
come right over the hilltop and kill
Henry Hahn, who was clearing his lot
there. That school too, was sub
scription one. .~
By 1900 James White started
school in Cincinnati "next door to
Thomas Williams, the skin dresser"
He taught an Sevening school four
evenings a week for three months,
charging 81 for each scholar. The
scholars had to find the fire wood and
furnish the candles.
In Decembe1@ 1900, Levi Mclean,
the butcher and jailer started a sing
ing school in the court house, teach
ing by candle light. A dancing school
already had been opened in 1899 by
r. Haughton. These too, were in
Cincinnati
In 1898 Francis Dunlavy opened a
subscription school in log cabin put
up by the pioneers themselves in
single day a half mile east of Leb-
anon. It was the first Warren
County school and few that early
were in Ohio.
Dunlavy was self educated. But
his school included all the common
branches, higher mathematics and
ancient languages. Parents paid
slips to $1.50 a semester per pupil
and the scholars came from four or
five miles around, wading snow in
winter to get there. One of them was
four-year-old, red checked Tommy
Corwin-later governor of Ohio. An
other was Enos Williams, first school
teacher in Lebanon village and father
of ]. Milton Williams, builder of the
Durbin Ward mansion now museum
owned by the Warren County Histori-
cal Society-of which, like numerous
- &c. a
member and gladly kicks in his year
ly dues. r.
In 1901 Dunlavy moved his school
two miles northwest of Lebanon and
most of his pupils followed him. He
was teaching there WI len elected to
the Ohio legislature AID turned the
school over to David Spinning, who
taught it in 1sO1-2-3. The school re-
manned open until 1925 when free
public schools began to spread
through the state.
Ohio schools improved little before
the War of 1912. That year Madi-
sonville, Columbia Township, now a
part of Cincinnati, got its first log
school and first teacher-John Wal
lace, red headed Irishman who was
drunk half the time and spent the
other half playing ball with the boys.
Ayers Bramble. then II, who attend
ed the school, related that he was
five terms in getting out of his ABCs.
A Presbyterian mission school was
opened 10 miles above Perrysburg on
the Maumee River in winter, 1928,
by Rev. Isaac Van Tassel. Teachers
were Van Tassel; Reyerends Sackeet
and Coe; Thomas Mackelrath and
"Old Maid" Riggs. Two white child
rem, D. w. and Celia Howard, went to
school with the Indians at Van Tas-
sells mission. About the second day
they would play hockey and never
again would come near the place,
! Howard too, ran away but his par
ents sent him back. The school kept