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By Larry Shields soap box under the eves of the house. A recent letter to the Salem News con When his father died, Ewing put the tained a tip about a new book called letters in a safe deposit box, where "Sherman At War," written by Joseph they stayed for 30 years. H. Ewing of Wheaton, MD. Ewing saw no urgency in revealing Ewing, a career soldier and military them to the public. As a combat veter~ historian married the former Jaqueline an and especially as a military histo June Van Hovel of Salem, whose sister rian, Ewing recognized history had is Gerry Sullivan, wife of Salem artist already been well laid in regards to and former syndicated cartoonist, Ed Sherman. He certainly understood the Sullivan. significance of the correspondence, So a Salem connection to this new however he chose to simply hold on to work was established through this them, letting his mind work over what unexpected letter. he would do with them in good time. Joseph H. Ewing is a New Jersey Ewing kept a lifelong interest in native, but he is the son of Neal H. Sherman, and even as he worked into Ewing, and the grandson of Philemon his Army retirement editing the "Army B. Ewing of Lancaster, Ohio. Museum Newsletter," he kept the let Philemon B. Ewing was the son of ters in the back of his mind. Sen. Thomas Ewing of Lancaster. Sen. He was historical officer at Head Ewing took in a 9-year-old boy whose quarters at the Far East Command, in father, a judge of the superior court of Tokyo and at First U.S. Army Head Ohi_o died in 1829, leaving a wife and quarters on Governors Island, N.Y. 11 children. After doing a piece on the Sherman The boy, said to be the brightest of letters for the American Heritage the lot, was William Tecumseh Sher Magazine in 1987, Ewing said he man, destined for Civil War greatness wanted to make further use of the let as a Union general and to become one ters. "I never thought about a book, so I of Ohio's most famous sons. wrote something that read to around All of this lineage makes Joseph 15,000 words, they (American Herit Ewing great-nephew of the general. age) wrote back and said they could During the Civil War, Sherman only do it if it was 10,000 and I said, 'I penned many correspondence, some to didn't want it.' " his foster father and foster brother. The publisher then told Ewing they Joseph Ewing said Sherman was a pro were, "going to get a rewrite man on lific writer and the bulk of his letters them. I thought well, hell, I'm not have been widely published and even going to have somebody rewrite my more widely studied. stuff. They were cautious in what they Untll the December 1991 publishing changed. They didn't change very date of Joseph Ewing's "Sherman At , much, they changed the lead. War," 27 letters Sherman vvTote to Sen. "And then after having done that," Ewing and Sherman's foster brother Ewing continued, "I sold the letters at before and during the Civil War, auction in New York. This 'presented a General Sherman is best remembered for saying 'War is hell.' escaped public viewing. little problem later. And after selling Years ago the letters were kept in them I split what I got with my sister ing it and it'll be sometime.' Ewing, wanting to use his letters. the attic of the house of his father, and my brother's kids. "Then later, I went to Ohio Universi Ewing told the historian he was Neal H. Ewing, in Roselle, New Jersey, "Then after that, I figured I'll some ty and they said they would like to writing a book and, "I'd be happy to let from whom he inherited them. Ewing thing about the letters, I wrote it. Kent have them," Ewing said. you have them after the book is out. recalls his father telling about the let State University wrote and said they'd Later still another historian from Then he got kind of mad about this for North Carolina, supposedly compiling ters shortly before he died in 1953. heard about it and they'd like to have Tum to next page ~ The letters were kept in a wooden my manuscript. I said, 'I'm just start- every letter Sherman wrote, contacted some reason and he contacted Mor ningside House, (Ewing's book publisher) and said in effect I have no right, nor has the publisher any right, to use these letters since they've been sold, and he (said he) got permission and copies from the owners of the let ters for his book." "I knew that he was wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on it, but I knew that I had sold the physical letters and Sen. Thomas Ewing, is the great the ink on them, but I hadn't sold the gr andfa ther of Joseph Ewing, words," Ewing explained. author of the book "Sherman At But the North Carolina historian liVar." Joseph Ewing is married to said Ewing had to have permission Jaqueline June Van Hovel of from every Sherman descendent. Salem. Sen. Thomas Ewing was "Which was absurd, of course," Ewing the foster father of Civil War Gen. observed. William Tecumseh Sherman. "Morningside said they didn't want !his Library of Congress drawing of Gen William Sherman's army enter Joesph Ewing is the great-nephew to put a lot of money in this and then m.g S~vannah, Ga. is in Joseph Ewing's book "Sherman At War," a Mor of Gen. Sherman. get found out, they didn't seem to know ningside House release on saJe for $24.95. The book features Civil War-era themselves about that. letters from the famous Union general who was born and raised in Lan know at all who or what the word is. "I called up 10, maybe more, of Sher caster, Ohio. He never used punctuation. man's relatives," Ewing continued, "all some archival conference where they sure," Ewing said, "the context of the "I had a run-in with the publisher," of '.~·horn were very happy to say it's OK could discuss it." sentence would suggest the other Ewing continued, "this is a historical V· ~ .::e them. And then I went to a Ewing said the letters do not add words," Ewing explained. thing. Historical letters as they were law.:er over in Silver Springs (MD) a any new facts of knowledge of Sher "In a sentence he would use a word written and Sherman, a hundred years copyright a.ud patent lawyer and man's life, but they do him "more to life and I'd go, 'what in the dickens is that ago, used language that's not politically correct today. Three times he spoke of expl:o ~tl l~ an to him and he said, 'Oh, size." word?' And see a word here, and see a :•'s nl · problem.' The letters were difficult to read, word here, and that must mean so-and 'niggers' and so I copied it down as it - toitl my brother I was going to go owing to Sherman's disregard for punc so and yes you could tell it was so-and- was," and the editor changed it to to L~is lawyer and he said, 'you're going tuation and capitalization. "It's terribly so. " 'blacks.' to get soaked, they'll charge you $500 hard to read them; his writing is horri There were places Ewing had to "And I said,. 'my God,' and he got for that.' Anyway, we found out that all ble. I just went about it with persis leave blank where there we;e words he pretty mad and insisted he was going that was necessary was permission of a tence, just took one letter at a time and couldn't decipher. "Tb.ere are places single person, one descendent, one heir after a time I'd be exhausted, that's for where I don't know. Where you don't Tum to next page ~ of Sherman's was all that was neces sary for approval. And I got 10. "And then somewhat later I got sent What a the bill and it was for $2,100. But it was funny," Ewing continued, "I talked. Pharmacy to two people in the Library of Con gress in the national archives, which is Was Meant To Be! the copyright department, and the man Because your last wishes there said, 'yes, you have to get permis Store Hours: 9-6 M-F, 9-1 Sat. are so important sion from the descendents.' Offering Free Delivery and "And he was a very respected person. Fast Friendly Service ~ And when I finally let them know FREE\(. ·~~ about it, they were very surprised and ------.~ \
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Andrew would leave his estate sol By Anne Stuart But after initially celebrating Liz ely to Abby, leaving his spinster Associated Press Writer zie's acquittal, Fall River society daughters destitute. Some suggest And then there was the dress. shunned her for the rest of her life. that she intercepted draft documents Three days after the murder, Lizzie With their parents' estate, Lizzie that day outlining just such a burned a garment in the kitchen and Emma bought a stately 14-room transaction. stove. She did so in front of Emma mansion on "the Hill," still a showp As a Borden, a well-known name and a friend, Alice Russell, saying lace of grand homes. Lizzie changed in Fall River even before the killings, that - despite the oppressive heat her name to Lizbeth and traveled Lizzie likely yearned for a more - she wanted to get rid of an old frequently, but still made local comfortable life. She was known t(.. frock stained by paint. The odd tim headlines. favor fine clothes and jewelry, and if ing raised questions even among One local newspaper annually is indisputable that she lived more Lizzie's supporters. "I am afraid, marked the case's anniversary, in Ia vishly after the murders than Lizzie, the worst thing you could one case reminding readers that "no before. have done was burn that dress," man - or woman" had ever been Not surprisingly, some theorists Alice Russell would later testify that convicted of the crime. suggest an illicit affair. Under one she told her friend. In 1897, Lizzie was accused of ste theory, Abby discovers Lizzie and Investigators also learned the Bor aling two paintings from a store in Bridget in an embrace. Under Joe Ewing is the great-nephew of den household wasn't a happy one. Providence, R.I. The allegations another, Andrew and Lizzie learn General Sherman. Several years earlier, upset because weren't unprecedented. Historians they are in love with the same Andrew had deeded property worth say that, before the murders, Lizzie woman. In both scenarios, Lizzie $1,500 to his wife, Lizzie stopped lifted items from local jewelers, who panics, fearing she might be forced addressing Abby as "Mother" and quietly billed her father and "the out of the house. This was, after all, began calling her "Mrs. Borden." bills were always paid," said Mar the sexually repressed Victorian era. The daughters dined apart from tins, of the Fall River Historical Soci Some social historians suggest Liz their parents. And the family mem ety. zie was acquitted either because the bers, who already triple-locked the - In 1905, Emma abruptly left the all-male jury simply couldn't accept house's outside doors, began locking home they called Maplecroft. She that an upper-crust young woman to change it. Anyway, I told him that their bedrooms, bureaus and closets moved to New Hampshire, and the could commit such a heinous act - the word at least, if he was going to against each other. sisters never spoke again. Emma or that they couldn't condemn her to change it, has to be 'Negroes.' A week after the murders, Lizzie never explained her departure, death even if she had. It had been "So he did change it and he put it in was arrested. She remained in jail though some chalked it up to Liz more than 100 years since a woman brackets to indicate this wasn't his until her trial the following June. zie's frequent entertaining of socially had been executed in Massachusetts. word. The word was substituted for Through detailed newspaper unacceptable "theater people," parti Inevitably, some suggest the maid another one," Ewing said. accounts, the case captivated the cularly her dose friendship with an did it. But why? By all accounts, Of interest to local historians is ,a world for 13 days. While murders actress named Nance O'Neil. Years Bridget was loyal to Abby Borden. letter Sherman wrote to his foster weren't, of course, unknown in the later, in a rare interview, Emma said And why, at a time of strict class brother Phil Ewing from camp on the 19th century, a double murder was she still believed her sister innocent. consciousness and anti-Irish senti Big Black River 18 miles east of Vic still highly unusual, one charging In her later years, Lizzie was often ment, didn't police target Bridget ksburg, July 28, 1863. the victims' daughters rarer still and seen feeding birds and squirrels at instead of her mistress? Paul Fletch Confederate Brig. Gen. John Hunt one involving a socially prominent Maplecroft. The late Russell Lake, er, a Bristol Community College pro Morgan was raiding Ohio at this time. family practically unprecedented. who lived near Maplecroft when he fessor who has extensively studied Morgan, disobeying orders, crossed into Evidence included Andrew Bor was a child, told Martins and others the case, puts it this way: "If there Ohio under the pretense that many in den's skull. Prosecutors tried to that Lizzie was "the nicest little old was any way to pin it on the Irish Ohio were sympahtetic to the Southern match the hatchet wounds to an ax lady I ever knew," the kind who maid, they would have." . cause. head found in the house. always bought a glass of lemonade Others suggest that Lizzie's uncle Morgan swept up from Cincinnati Lizzie did not testify. Her inquest when neighborhood kids set up their or her sister sneaked back to do the toward the south central part of the testimony, which contained some stands. job. The most recent theory targets state. Said Sherman, "I was in hopes statements that strained credulity, Emma and Lizzie died 10 days an illegitimate half-brother, William, Morgan would pay Lancaster a visit in was excluded from evidence. (Lizzie apart in 1927, and are buried side who supposedly hanged himself his course and give Charley --- a call, had said, for instance, that she spent by-side in the family's cemetery plot. nine years after the murders. but I suppose he had wasted his fire about 20 minutes in the stuffy barn Lizzie's headstone reads "Lizbeth." There are those who blame an out before he got that far. Our last loft eating pears on the hottest day Lizzie left the bulk of her estate to sider. Lizzie herself told investiga accounts are that with a fragment he of the year.) the Animal Rescue League of Fall tors Andrew recently had been passed through Massieville. She spoke only two sentences dur River, with a smaller bequest to a threatened by a disgruntled tenant. Massieville is on the Scioto Trail in ing the proceedings. ''I am innocent. similar organization in Washington, Several neighbors reported seeing Ross County, just south of Chillicothe, I leave it to my counsel to speak for D.C., because, her will said, "I have strange men around that day. One a good 40 miles southwest from me," she said as the trial closed. been fond of animals, and their need newspaper headline blamed "a Lancaster. "It is not your business to unravel is great, and there are so few who drunken farmhand." In another letter to Phil Ewing dated the mystery, but simply to say care for them.' In any case, plenty of others took eight days later (Aug. 5) Sherman com whether this woman is guilty - A century later, lots of people still credit. According to newspaper mented on Morgan's capture here in think Lizzie got lucky - especially accounts, more than 50 people wrote that's all," Lizzie's attorney, former to Lizzie's attorney to claim that Columbiana County. Morgan was cap Massachusetts Gov. George D. because Abby told Dr. Bowen the tured two days prior to Sherman's Aug. day before the murder that she they had committed the murders. Robinson, told the jury. "Not who . Perhaps Lizzie left her own due in 28 letter, to Ewing. In his Aug. 5 letter did it, how could it have been done, believed her stepdaughter had been to Ewing, Sherman wrote, "The Cap poisoning her food. (Others cite the a poem by an obscure Scottish poet, but did she do it?" Allan Cunningham. Lizzie had the ture (sic) of Morgan's entire command The jury decided there wasn't 100-degree heat - and lack of a is creditable to Ohio, but the State refrigeration - and say the meals p9em carved into the fireplace man enough evidence to prove that she tel at Maplecroft and requested it should not let her Regiments in the had. were simply rancid.) Field dwindle down to tens instead of If Lizzie did do the hatchet job, sung at her funeral: "Lizzie Borden Acquitted!" read "The green leaf of loyalty's begin hundreds." the next day's headlines. "It Took money was most likely the motive. Morgan's Monument is located in Perhaps she resented the miserly ning to fall. the Jury but an Hour and the Crowd "The bonnie White Rose it is with south-central Columbiana County on ":'ay~ of her father, who, despite his in the Court Cheered Wildly. The ering an' all. Route 518 about seven miles south of Poor Young Woman, Overcome six-figure estate, sold eggs from his Lisbon. For more on Morgan's capture ''But I'll water it with the blood of With Joy, Hastens to Her Home." tarm on the way to work and usurping tyranny, see the July 28, 1992 edition of Another paper reported that 2,000 refused to equip his house with Yesteryears. "And green it will grow in my ain people gathered outside the Borden electricity,_ indoor plumbing or a countree." Members of a kindergarten play performed in the Salem Memorial Building in 1927 were: (front row, from left) Ruth Schmidt, Marge Kniseley, Betty Hester, Frances Webster, Joseph Morris, Paul Myers, ?, John S. Myers, and Murice Sechler; (second row, from left) Polly Silver Riley, Ernest Judd, Frank Stone, George Hanson, Bettie Rogers, William Haifley, Betty Culberson Jackson, Bruce Krepps and Mary Jane Britt. This photo was supplied by Paul (3 Spades) Myers. ·
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Art Rush smiles for the photogra pher in this photo taken in 1987. By Lois Firestone RT RUSH HAD READ about A Mary Jo Matthews, a Mann ington, West Virginia girl when he was in college and she was crowned beauty queen at West Virginia Uni versity for three consecutive years. . During her senior year, she reigned as Queen Shenandoah the Roy Rogers and Art Rush tape the opening for one of the showings of Roy's feature films on the Roy Rogers-Dale Sixth at the Apple Blossom Festival Evans Happy Trails Theater aired on the Nashville Network in the 1980s. in Winchester, Virginia. That same year she represented the state of West Virginia at the Rhododendron Festival in Asheville, Nor th Carolina. After eraduation Mary Jo headed for Broadway where she appeared in several musicals - among them "Bandwagon/' "Flying High" and "Let 'Em Eat Cake." She was signed bv Columbia Pictures and featured Vl~ith Carole Lombard and John Bar rymore in "20th Century." Placed under contract to Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, her first role there was with Robert Taylor in "Society Doctor." Art had followed her career, and told friends about his interest in the young starlet. Knowing he wanted to meet Mary Jo, Nelson Eddy hosted a party for her and invited Art. They were married five months later, on Oct. 28, 1935. Mary Jo retired from show busi ness but continued to compose mus ic and lyrics; several were published by the Paramount-Roy Rogers Music Co. and Famous Music of New York. The couple had two sons, Dr. Wil liam A. Rush, a general surgeon in San Jose, Calif., and Robert Nelson Rush, a teacher in Burbank, Calif. Unlike show business executives Roy Rogers' horse, Trigger executes his tricks under the guidance of his trainer, Randall, during a visit to who are like fish out of water once Hanoverton in the 1950s. Youngsters from the Hanover Grade School gather to watch in the front yard of Harvey they're removed from the Holly and Elizabeth Trough. Elizabeth is Art Rush's sister. wood scene, Art was as much at home in the business world as he television series and specials on tor of Thousand Trails Inc., the of a projected chain across the was among the stars. His career was three national networks. largest network of recreational vehi United States. totally different than Elvis Presley's Art marketed and merchandised cle parks in the United States, with In 1986, Roy, Dale and Art flew to manager, Colonel Tom Parker, for more than 400 products with Roy 93,000 members and 43 parks. Knoxville, Tennessee where Roy and instance, because of his successful Rogers Restaurants as the liaison He worked with Roy and Dale background as a producer in the between Roy and the Marriott Corp. Rogers and the executives of the recording field and several radio and Art was also the executive coordina- -Happy ~TFails Resort in Arizona,; one· Roy and Dale pose with their spa niels on their ranch in this card sent to Elizabeth Trough on a recent Christmas. This bronze statue Roy gave to Art who kept it on his office desk for artists reach the success they years. Art's sons gave the bronze deserve." to the Roy Rogers Museum to be The exciting and memorable years displayed in the special section of Art's career have been heightened which honors Art Rush. by his relationship with Roy and Dale which spanned 48 years. "I have been· in the entertainment industry 57 years and if I were to .d~eD. search another 57 years for two ('~''-'.( 1:':'\ ::~·10.~ . ~~y;·; superstars as fabulous as Roy and -.i,;;.~r~ontmued from page 7_,,,_,,f.'f.;:)!-:1 Dale I doubt if it would happen," ~:1 ------0"' Art said shortly before he died in 1989. "As Roy and Dale have said, Dale taped new openings and clos 'the three of us have been over a lot Over 5 million youngsters were members of the Roy Rogers Riders Club ings in color at Cinetel Productions of rough trails together but we have who watched Roy and Trigger in theaters on Saturday mornings. Roy for the Nashville Cable Network. remained as vital and alive as ever. came onto the movie screen riding Trigger, talked to the children, recited Dale's feature motion pictures were We three have enriched each others' the cowboy prayer (Trigger bowed his head) and then turned the "meet seen weekly and three times on lives in immeasurable fashion.' " ing" over to the theater owner who ran a Rogers feature picture. Saturdays on the Roy Rogers-Dale Art passed away in January 1989 Evans Happy Trails Theater on the following an accident, a few months Nashville Network. after Mary Jo's death. His sister When the Pacific Pioneer Broad Helen died in 1987, his brother Mal casters honored Art in November colm in 1989 and his other brother, 1982 on his 50th year in show busi Clarence passed away in 1990. Eli ness, it was Dale Evans who pre zabeth Rush Trough still lives in sented Art with a Diamond Circle Hanoverton, remembering fondly A ward, saying "This goes to a mem the siblings with whom she never ber who has helped hundreds, and lost touch and remained close we do mean hundreds, of talented throughout their lifetimes.
Art, Dale and Roy at the Rogers Museum in Victorville, Calif. where a special section has been set aside as a memorial to Art. The 32,000 square The 1922 Hanover High School basketball team stands in front of the foot building is built like a fort and contains a collection of Rogers school. Clarence is third from left, standing, and Art is fourth from left, memorabilia, executive offices and the Happy Trails Shop. standing.