,A·N Ac-c-aUNT

OF

I~t ftltbratiou of ~Ultricau ~ubtptubtuct.

AT CLAY LICK, BY THE

LICKIN~ COUNTY PIONEERS.

TOGETHER WITH AN

ADDRESS, BY DR. COULTER,

ON EARLY TIMES IN THE CLAY LICK SETTLEMENTS.

ALSO,

HISTORICAL SKETCHES

OF THE TOWNSHIPS OF

LI,CKING,BOWLING GREEN, FRANKLIN AND HOPEWELL, &c.

BY

ISAAC SMUCKER.

,. ~ ..

NEWARK, OHIO: CL4RK 8& KING, BOOK AND JOB PRIN'f.f:RS, A~E~ICAN OFFICE. 1869, NOTE.-Acknowledgements are due to the following persons for information furnished and used, in the preparation of the "PIONEER P .HERS," which are here presented in pamphlet form: Richard Green. Rev. Benjamin Green, Mr. Charles Wallace, Mr. Kel'an, Rev. S. Meredith, Mr. Schofield, Jesse R. Moore, Esq., Rev. J. L. Gilbreath, the Messrs. Siglar, Mrs. Motherspaw, John Bixler, EsQ.., Stephen R. Tuck­ er, Esq., Wm. Parr, Esq., Solomon Myers, Samuel B. HulJ, Joseph Hamil­ ton, Esq., John F. Bane, Esq., J. S. Griffith, Mr. Fluke. Geo. Gutridge, Esq., B. D. Sanford, Esq., James Pitzer, Esq., and others. The Pioneers of Licking and Independence Day.

BASKET MEETING AT CLAY LICK.

The meeting of the Pioneers of George Wilson, who has resided in Licking on Clay Lick, in Franklin the State of Illinois for the past 27 township, on Monday last, July 5th, years, I received the following ac­ was a glorious occasion. They met count of what he thinks was the in large numbers in the pleasant first celebra.tion of the 4th of July in grove, at Ellis Chapel, near the fine this county. He was of sufficient spring at the foot of the hill, where age at the time to recollect many of platform anu seats had been erected, !he particulars. He says it was in and there had such a "feadt of rea· the year 1807, and in Newark, on son and .tlow of soul" as is seldom the north side of the Public Square, enjoyed in a life time. All W6re before the grounds were fully clear­ cheerful, joyous, hilarlOus, but it ed of th~ forest trees. A dinner for was all within the limits of becom­ the occasion was prepared by the ing mil'th--everybody was happy. joint work of the two tavern.keepers The day was beautiful, balmy, de­ at the time, Abram Johnson and lightful-indeed we could not have Morris A. Newman. The tables had a finer day in which to celebrate were placed in the form. of a cil'cle the anniversary of American Liber­ --an abundant supply of meats and ty. The occasion presented a scene other provisions were placed· on most emphatically social and frater­ them'-among other thiJlgs a hog, a nal. sheep, and a deer (the latter havlD~ . The veteran patriarchal pioneer been killed by Bannaniah Pugh. J of more than 60 years, Rev. C. They were well roasted and placed Springer, of Muskingum county, on the table standing on their feet. performed chaplain services . The hog had an ear of corn in its .Dr. Wilson was President of the mouth, and was trimmed with let­ day. It is noteworthy that his fa­ tuce. The sheep had a bunch of ther, Archibald Wilson, Sr., in 1807 fennel in its mouth, and was trim­ acted in the same capacity at the med with parsley. The deer, he celebration of independence, in thinks, was decorated with leaves, Newark, 62 years ago. Dr. Wilson vines, and flowers from the forest. addressed the meeting as follows: The President of the day was Capt. ·'Pioneers ot Licking County-we Archibald Wilson,Sr.-by his sid~ have ·met to-day to celebrate the an­ stood the chaplain of the occasion, niversary of American Liberty. It the Rev. John Emmett, a Method­ is a fitting occasion for us to look ist preacher, and the reader of the back and inquire when, and where, Declaration of Independence, Dr. this day waa first. honored by the J. J. Brice. They ·were in the cen­ Pioneers of Licking. During a ter of the circle formed by the ta­ recent visit to an older brather, bles. The Ol'ator of the day was to- 4

have been Archibald Wilson, Jr., ago period, (Rev. C. Spri~ger,) ,,!ho but he having received an injury by in the early years of his ~1ll1stry Im­ a fall from his horse just before, was parted religious instructIOn to the unable to he present. His oration, speaker, were most tender and pa­ in manuscript was read by Dr. Brice. thetic, calling into aJtivity the ten­ The military were out in force, un­ derest· sensibilities of our nature. der the command of Capt. John His eloquence was of the sort that Spencer. After the dinner and ora­ found the way to the human heart­ tion were over, many toasts were of the kind that moved our sympa­ given, which were responded to by pathies, and .called into action the vollies fired by the military. The faculties of our emotional nature. proceedings of the day closed with The acting President of the day, a ball in the evening on the hill, in calling another to the chair, after the the first house built in Newark. address of Dr. Coulter, remalked as The best feeling prevailed---a good­ follows, Capt. M. M. Munson hav­ ly number of Revolutionary soldiers ing, by invitation, been seated on were present, who enjoyed it great­ the platform: ly~ for they looked upon this day as "MR. PRESIDENT-I hold in my their political Sabbath. They had hand a cane made from a branch of assisted in wresting the 'power to the first apple-tree planted in the soil g&vern the then colonies from the of Lickisg, in the year 1800 by Mrs. King of Great Britain, and lodged Isaac Stadden, who at the age of 88, it, as declared on this day to belong, is still with us. She brought· the to the people, without distinction. young root, which is' all it then was, They in this way maiie short work from Northumberland county, Penn­ with the absurd doctrine of the di­ sylvania, and planted it with her own vine right of Kings to rule. Sor­ hands. They both yet liv.e-the tree rowful will it be when the people of continues to bear its fruit and she the United States forget to honor protects it in turn. Thus they have the authors of our freedom, or fail lived mutually depending on each to accord to them honor and praise other for the last sixty-nine years. for placing before the world the true Capt· Munson, you sir, are a "branch princIples· of government, and the of one of the Pioneers of Licking political rights of each individual. county, and you sir have done much Let us to-day, do what we can, as to rescue from oblivion, ihe very our Pioneer Fathers and. Mothers first pioneers of your township, John did In 1807, to keep fresh in the Jones and wife, by placing their minds of our people the great work names in the pages of the history of that was done on the 4th of July, our county. They were the intimate 1776, bv our revolutionary sires." friends of Mrs. Stadden in their early Dr. Coulter, of Columbus, a na­ pioneer life in Licking. Please ac­ tive of the "Clay Lick settlement," cept the cane as a token of her re­ then read a very interesting paper ~ard, together with that of Isaac illustrative:-of early times-of pioneer Smucker and myself, for the signal manners, customs, peculiarities, and service you have rendered the pion­ characteristics. Tears came unbid­ eer cause in Licking county. The den to many an eye, during the read­ cane bears the inscription, "1800- ing of the more tender passages of 1869. To M. M. Munson, from Mrs. his excellent paper. The extem­ Staduen, J. N. Wilson, and Isaac poraneous remarks with which he Smucker." interspersed it, and which were elici­ ted by the presence on the platform Capt. MUllson responded in sub'7 of the speaker's school teacher of st.ance, as follows, as near as can be fifty years ago, (Mr. Samuel B. recollected: Hull ,) now of Columbus, and of his "MR. PRESIDENT-YOU and your Christian minist6lr of the same long ~(}-donors in this handsome gift have 5 effectually surprised me. I have not Capt. M; M. Munson read It paper had the slighest intimation of any on the early settlement and modern intention on your part to bring me history of Franldin Township. be(ore you all this platform as the The two last name] pepers were recipient of this favor. A cane, of prepared by a.nother, and read by course, I did not look for, for you the gentlemen named to accommo- all know that it is an article I do not date their author. ' use, for I am a young man, and for Dr. Coulter, of Columbus, read proof of that I refer to the ladies in the Declaration of Independence this crowd before me. with much force and effect. "I came here to hear from the James R. Stanbery followed in Pioneers about the first settlement some appropriate remarks, in which of this section of our county, and of he gave some of his own early time the)ncidents connected with early recollections of events that transpir­ times in the south eastern townships ed in the locality of the meeting. He of Lieking~ and not to take any pub- adverted to the time when the late lic part, even the least, in the exer- Col. Mathiot and himself practiced cises of this day. law in thejustice's courts of Frank- "My friends, accept my thanks for lin and the region round about. He this highly valued gift. I prize it extended his remarks which were greatly,and I will be more determined well received, and attracted the at­ than ever before to speak well of the tEmtion of the pioneers, who were pioneers of Licki;ng, with voice and frequently put into mirthful moods pen, and defend them, if it ever be- by the speaker. ~omes neees.sary, even with t~is cane Mr. S. B. Hull and lady. and Dr. ltself, of WhICh you are the kmd dO-I Coulter and dauO'hter of Columbus nors." were present. Col.Jb' onathan Hughes, The history of Licking township the onl;9 survivor of the first family was then read by the Secretary of that came into our county, which tbe Society; after which an adjourn- was in 1798, now a citizen of Wash­ ment was had for refreshments. ington Township, was with us, too, Most persons brought their provis- so also were Mr. Preston, of Chat­ ions, it being a ba.sket meeting, but ham, and quite a number from New­ in addition to that an extensive pub- ark; also from Madison, from Un­ lic table loaded with good things,was ion, Licking, Bowling Green, Hope­ set in the church, at which many weil, Granville. and Franklin Town­ participated, including the soldiers ships. Mr. Francis was noticed of the war of 1812. from Mary Ann, and Mr. Southard The exercises of the afternoon from Perry Townships. 1\lr. Payne, were intl'oduced by the invocat.ion of Brownsville, a soldier of the war of the Divine blessing upon the of 1812: now 89 years of age, was meeting by Rev. C. Springer. A present, as were many other aged band of stringed instruments, led by persons of both sexes, including Capt. Loughman, furnished music, Wm. Brown, of Hopewell, and Nan­ giving us the national airs and oth- cy Carson, of Newark. The vener­ ers, such as Auld Lang Syne, ac- able pair who recently celebrated companied by the voice. The ae- their Golden Weddmg. were there commodating musicians gave usYan· too,(Mr. John Coulter and his wife) kee Doodle,--Tramp,Tramp,Tramp, both far beyond their allotted three -The Star Spangled Banner,-Bo- score and ten: naparte Crossing the Rhine,-Hail "Creep kiildly on thou ancient pair, Columbia and others. Whose tottering footsteps downward go, The Secretar\" read a historical A. few more threads of silver there sketch of Bowling Green Township. Will make your locks like driven snow; 1.\lr. C. B. Giffin read a history 0 f But these last years, while death delays; Hopewell Township. A.re the Indian Summer of your days." 6 Many others of the old veteran ocean to o'cean, proclaiming the end pioneers of Clay Lick and the region of the rebellion. They went down round about were there-it was no less gloriously, and are none the indeed a,pleasant occasion to all the less entitled to immortal fame, be­ "old folks" who were present-one cause they were of that ghastly host to remember in their declining years. whose noble lives went slowly oui It was a time for the memory to run in prison, by starvation, that the na­ back to early days-to pioneer ti~es tion might banquet.in perpetual -to the years wh£n we were y

The Customs, Habits and Cha'rfJIcteristic8 of the Pionee'l' Rettlera of Olay Lick Valley.

BY DR. COULTER.

A few are present, who were to the genial rays of. the sun. Only among the first pioneers of the those who have stt'uggJed for scanty neighborhood. They perhaps are crops among these clearings and the only ones who can fully appre- upon the rough and sterile hill sides, ciate first home life, among these the rugged ,and swampy valleys, bills and valleys. Only- those who can ·have a proper estimation of the first cleared off these rough and smooth and' heavily ladened wheat sterile hills, who erected the firs~ a~d corn fields of later ye~r8. Only rough cabins, with their clapboard ~ those who hav~ had to convey little roofs and "puncheon'''' floors, with' sac)s _of corn on horse bank, over blankets and quilts hung up for winding cow paths, along the sides doors and windows, )Vith chimneys of the hills, across the ravines and built of split slabs, sticks, and mud, 'valleys, to the lonely mill, there to often not higher than a man's head, wait for his grist, in ~rder that his can now, by contrast, valqe prQper- family might have some hasty pud­ ly the comforts ot a good .. modern ding for t~eir evening meal, can home. . . -, apprecia~e the variety of bread and . OnI} those who have grubbed up the abundance of bread-material, in the thick under-brush and young our land. ' saplings; who have used ,the ax in The little boy,'iess.than ten years deadening ~ and felling the heavy old, would often, while going up timber, and the maul and wedge in the steep banks" feel his sack 'slip­ making the first ,l'ails, who have ping from under: him, or banging chopped up the trees, piled up the too heavily on one side;· and then brush, and then been almost smok- he felt desolate enough; and many ed blind, while burning the logs sucb calamities these little pioneers and brush, with their fingers and had to meet. Mills were sometimes hands bruised and burned, their out of tIle question, and then the arms begrimed with smoke and hominy mortar would be substltu­ dust, their clothes badly torn and ted. This was one' of the most soiled, can .have any idea, of the primi.tive articles of the country, pleasure there is in contemplating a and made in the most primitlve beautiful smooth lawn, without a style. A log about four feet long, stump, or a log. square at both ends, and twenty None but. those who have first inches in diAmeter, one end resting beld the plough amidst the . roots, on the ground, while upon the oth­ stumps, stones, and trees, while the er a little fire would be kindled, 80 faithful team would be pulling and as to burn deepe~t into the center, jerking it along through all these and in this way a cavity was form­ obstacles, can really enjoy that de-ed, called a mortar, sufIiciel'lt to hold light, that this same ploughman 'a peck or more of corn. Then with feels, whilst bolding the ploqgh, as a pestle, sometimes made heavy, it moves smoothly along without sby the attachment of an iron wedge, root or stump to obstruct it,' while the corn would be beaten until the the mellow soil is being turned up bran or hull came off. This process 8 was assisted by adding a little scald- fully every good woman, with her ing water, from time to time. Af- blooming daughters, would try to ter it became thoroughly dry, and have the prettiest plaids. the bran was blown away, this hom- How many pictures now .come up iny, by being well cooked made an in the memory, as we reVIew these excellent substitute for bread. scenes; the buzzing wheels, the None but those who were depri- clattering looms, the rattling spool­ ved of an education, for the want of whee-Is', the revolving warping bars, a common school system, can see are all before me. the great benefit of our popular Then our cheerful m~thers and mode of instruction. Our pioneers' rosy-cheeked sisters, wIth ener.gy had no school system, and many of known only to pioneers, strugglIng them hardly knew what a school to make their humble homes com­ was. The children who ndwhave fortable and attractive, singing comfortable school houses, good their sweet songs, tripping time to roads and good· teachers, and all the buzzing wheels, or gracefully provided at the public expense, throwing their nimble hands to have but the faintest idea of the catch the rushing shuttle as it desolation and ignorance which pre- smoothly glides through the gaping vailed prior to the commencement warp, with the many-toothed l'eed of our great common school system. I' rapidly made to thump ill the filling Very unexpectedly I find on the threads . .As rapidly they follow one platform with me·to·day myoid Ianother, all bring old home back to school teacherl that taught me to Iview, and we feel that we might be read in words of one syllable nearly very happy, were we there again.- 50 years ago. Blessings on "thy We might hand in the piece, fill the frosty pow," my venerable friend. spools, or turn the quill-wheel, witll You did the best you could for me. a better relish than we did then ;and And you, my venerated friend of not so often ask our mamma to let nearly half a century ago, I had as us run and playa little while. my religious instructor in this ~hen But there are other persons in the l!e,,: country. To y~u, my fnend picture. The good old grandmothe~ Sprmger, and such ~lOneer preach- with serene countenance, seeining el'9, yve. owe much for your self- often to be lighted up with the rem­ saorlficmg labors: . iniscences of earlier years, her foot May Heavens rIChest blese,mgs be on the treadle of the little wheel a yours in your declining years. bunch of tow in her hand, and' a .None but those who ha~e had to bundle by her side, turning the l'alse the flax and prepare 'It for the Iwheel and drawing out the thread, spinning wheel, know how to value which will soon be woven into linen t.he luxury of a cotton shirt. None for the men's trowsers. Occasion­ but the pioneer mothers and sisters, ally she stops and calls the attention who had to spin and weave the flax, of her daughter, or some one of the and to card, spin, color and weave household, who are thumping away the wool, and then form' their with the loom, or buzzing away home-made linen ~nd' c,loth into gar- w~th t~e big wheel, and says, ']'m, is ments, can appreCIate the beauty of thIS tWIsted enough?' or, 'Ahoy IS a muslindelaine or merino dress. In this fine enough?' or, 'Polly· is this order to gratify the sense of the right?' and when they ans~er. and beautiful, all their skill and ingenui- she is satisfied, she faithfully works ty were brought into requisition in on with .the wheel, and the tow coloring their yarns and flannels.- passes into thread, until the dear Some of us can well remember how grandmother is tired, and takes her one neighbor would vie with anoth- after dinner nap. er in getting up a beautiful, brown More frequently the spinner of fulled linsey; and then how care- tow,' was an old girl, who seemed tQ 9 pass through life with little trouble understood. Occasionally we have and less activity~ The little wheel known persons, who though pos­ turned slowly, and the bunches of sessed of much refinement and good tow were not made to disappear sense, still had a yearning for the very fast; the thread was generally wild frontiers, who became restive slack-twistee1, and when it came to and gloomy under the advance of be quilled or woven, it was often re- civilization; who as the rough places marked that "Polly must have been were being made smooth, and the asleep." wil derness to blossom as the rose,felt While Sallie occupied one corner a great desire for the primitve for­ spinnmg, the good grandmother ests, and notwithstanding the hard­ generally had the other, knitting. ships and privations of their early Sallie was very fond ot being lives, were willing to encounter them warm~ and sometimes occupied again. more than her share of the fire-place, Others again are like the squatter and also of the bed, and children in Cooper's Prairie, whose hana was disliked to sleep with her; but she against everyone, and everyone's was faithful in her way, and loved hand against him. Many persons her church and class meeting, when who are unfortunate or vici9us, are her leader did not affront her. constantly inclined to pioneer life, Another intelUgent old maiden The vicious dislike the restraints of lady makes a figure in this picture. society. The unfortunate become She was the flax spinner. Her work unsocial. Most persnns however was well done. She was stately and who seek frontier life, the second. dignified in manner; a devoted time, do so in order to better their christian of the Presbyterian school; fortunes. Theyare willing to en­ and was quite fond of reading and dure the hardships without seeing history. One well rem~mbers her the beauty. in the group, as having encouraged But we said the }>ioneer had joys him to read Pilgrim's Progress, The unknown to the citizens of old settle­ Holy War, and Josephus' Risto- ments. There is joy in the friend­ ry. These works he read with much ship of pioneer life that old settled delight and profit, and he remem- neig;hborhoods know nothing~ of. In bers Nancy Carson as one of the first the solitude of the forest, as .evening persons who encouraged in him a shades,thicken aroud; a few neigh­ taste for reading this kind of htera- . bors call. The good dames, neat ture. and tidy seated around the candle, Whilst there were hardships, pri- with their knitting or sewing, chat vations and even wants that the pres- with each other about all oomestic ent generation can never realize, affairs, whilst their husbands chat our pioneers had joys, delights, ro- about their prospects, the new sett,. mance, and even luxul'ies, that th/il lers that :are coming, the rails they present generation can know noth- have made, the clearing they have ing of. commenced and probably indulge in . There is a beauty in living in the reminiscences of the past, away back midst of wild nature, enjoyed alone in eld Virginia or' Pennsylvania; by our pioneers. This wild beauty mingled with story and anecdote as of our country, has gone forever. best suits the times. Now if these Cooper understood' this well in de- sorial visits were not a feast of rea­ lineating many of the bright and son, they were certainly a flow of st~rling cbaraQters of his works. The soul, very different from the st.iff old trapper loved the beauty of the conventional parties of the present wilderness. He loved to be away day.' from the art and cunning of civilized Then what pioneer does not re­ life. The simplicity of wiltl nature ~ember with delight, the sound of the bad charms for him that fQW people ax, the clearing away or the timber; 10 the beautiful burning of the brush­ toilsome journey across the AIle­ heaps "as .twilight deepened round gheiiies-and after overtaking it well us," still and black: and safely on the way, would pass The ~at wood climb'd the mountain at olllr on and reach Baltimore several days bMk; . • in advance and have a merchant And on their skirts. where Jet the hngermi' day • ready to purchase when the waggon On the shom l1'eenness of the clearIng lay, The brown cabin like a bird'sinelit hung; arrived. Some would take their few With home-lifeseunds the desert air was hundred dollars in currency and re­ stirred, The 1I1eat of sheep along the hill was heard, turn with it in their pockets. Oc­ The bucket plashlDll in the cold sweet well, casionally horrid tales of high-way The pasture bars that clattered as they fell; Dogs barked, fowls tiuttered,cu.ttle lowed; the robbery would be told, and these in­ gate Of the barn-yard oreaked beneath the merry dividuals would come home with weight long faces, and the story reported Of the sun-brown ohildren, lis'ening while they swing. that they had been robbed of every The weloome sound of supper cell to hear; cent. This again was pioneer life-· And down the shadoW7lane in tinklings olear 'I'he pastoral ourfew of the cow-b.U funK." nothing like it now. Instead of four The clearing of a rough piece of or five weeks for your products to greund was often made easy in the be in Baltimore, twenty-four or thir­ anticipation of the tirst crop. Fully ty-six hours is time enough, for the two thirds of the land in this part of heaviest articles you have got. A the county were made to grow to­ draft or check is sent you,:and proba­ bacco as their first crop. No doubt bly without seeing a cent of money some here can remember how am­ you realize the full value of your bitiously they toiled in cultivating crops. tobacco. Each neighbor would try It is impossible for the rising to excel every other in making the generation, or for the young men best crop. For many years this was and women around us, to realize about the only produce in this hilly this contrast. The pioneers alone country that brought any money. can do so, and I sometimes think That man was considered the most that the transition has been so furtunate who could have the earliest great, and the new order of thhlgs ripe tobacco, and then still more so has come on so wonderfully rapid if he succeeded in housing and cur­ that they almost lose their identity, ing it in the finest style. He was and can scarcely believe the evi­ sure then to command the market. dence of their own senses. Those The man who could first have two who do realize these wonderful or three hogsheads of first rate to­ changes, are certainly the most for­ bocco ready for the Baltimore team­ tunate individuals living. They ster, with hi. big waggon and six have revealed to their experience big horses was considered the most the majestic power and love of the fortunate man in the neighborhood. Infinite PrOVidence, beyond any Then the returns would be looked other bdn2's who have ever lived on for with great anxiety. Ahout the the face of the earth. first question to this lucky neigh­ If to experience progress-if to bor on all occasions weuld be "have witness the marvellous workings of you got a return on your tabacco !" GGd, by human instrumentalities, is Banking was then in its pioneer a blessing, our pioneers are blessed condition in this part of the country. beyond aU others. No country has But few understood the sy.tem of had a transition like this country. checks and drafts, by which business All in the old world is tame in com­ is now almost universally, transact­ parison. ed. Many of these tobacco grow­ Land of the west, thourh passing brief ers, and especially if they could bl.lY 'I'he reoord of thine age, Thou .ha.~ 0. na~e that datkene all a little to add to ti.eir cropl woUld On History's Wide pace. mount a horse a few days after their Our pioneers have seen it a11,­ team bad started on its long and have been a part of it, and it is for 11

those who follow after to emulate ~o lie, 8ing with the gr~t poet Whit- their virtues, their industry, and to tIer ~ . make use of their opportunities to Land of the forest and the rook, grow wise and good. Of dark blue lake and might,.. river, Of mountains reared on hiKh to meok i Let us who have been a part of The storm's oareer and lirhtniq'sshoc)[, this mighty coun~ry-who have par­ My own green Land for ever I . Oh 1 never maya son of thine, ticipated in forming its grand insti­ Where'er his wanderin,feet inoline, Forget the sky that bent above tutions,who have lived to realize that His ohildhood, like & dream of IOTe I the Declaration of Independence is

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF LICKING TOWNSHIP.

BY ISAAO SMUCKER.

MOUt{D BUILDERS WORKS. large, and was the largest ,tone The Mound Builders works are mound ever known to the writer. found in various parts of Licking It is the only one of its class in the townehip; the stone mound 8bClHlt township. The earth mound· on flo mile south of Jack~ontown being the plank road between Newark of the greatest magnitude. It was and Jacksontown, en the farm of of gigantic proportions, measuring Mr. Taylor, is one of good size 183 feet in diameter at its base, and much interest attaches to it and wh~n found by the pioneer set- on. ac~ount ef the very careful and tIers was between 30 and 40 feet SCIentIfic examination given it a in hight. Many hundreds of wag- few years ago, by ProfelSlior Marsh on loads of stone were removed of Yale College, and who gave it from it and used in the construc- a .v~ry e~ten8ive notoriety thrQugh tion of the resorvoir and also in Sllhman s Journal, 8IJ well as in a cellar walls in the neighborliood, carefully prepared and well WrItten and in the villages along the Nation pamphlet publication. He found in al road, so that at present it will it animal, reptile, bird and human not probaly average a hight of more bones--copper beads strung together than 8 feet. on fibres whose strands were Btill A tolerably well preserved cofDn en- perceptible-and other stone, cop .. closing a skeleton was found in it per and· bone implements, rare some years ago, with a quantity of specimens of the works of Qur pre­ beads and other trinkets. Other histe>ric iD\1abitants. The explora. but less authenticated findings or tion of this mound was more per­ relics are often named in connect:on feit than that of any other within with this mound, as the "decalogue the limits of our county, and its stone," and perhaps some others yield of archeological treasure wail that require verification. This most generous. G. P. Russel mound is situated on high grou;nd, Esqr. of Harvard College, with a was built of unhammered stone of numller of gentlemen of Newark, tolerably uniform size, and very assis·ted~ in this examillation, and 12 retaiped poseSSlon .of some of those the property of Mr, Jacob Brown­ valuable mound deposits. field, where the indians in early There are also several mounds times made sugar. --'Big Swamp," on the Ian de of Mr. Parr in' the or "Two Lakes," sometimes also Vicinity of the ,great (;ltone moun~ called by the Indians "Big' Lake" already described; and one west and "LIttle Lake," or what we now of the plank road on the farm of call the Reservoir was resorted to J. R. Moore Esq., about two miles by the Indians for the purpose of south of Newark; also one nearly catching fish. That' . there was half a mile east of the Cemetery a an Indian trail through Licking mile north of Jacksontown. These township a.nd along the reservoir, are not remarkable for size nor leading from the mouth of the peculiar in any respect, but one on Wakatonimika, (near Dresden) the farm of the lste Wm. Bussey crossing the Licking river at or at Fairmount is remarkable for size below the mouth of the Bowling it beiLg 115 feet in diameter at its Green Run, to King Eeaverstown, base, with an altitude, at present of near Pickerington or· Lithopolis in 25 feet. There is also near the Fairfied county, about the head banks of the South Fork two miles waters of the Hock-Hocking is a from Newark Oil what is called well authenticated fact; and that "Cochrane hill," a work or fortifi- the Indians in their journies along cation of the Mound Builders. A this trail sometimes loitered or camp­ few acres are enclosed, say between ed for a time, in Licking township five and ten, with a bank several is most probable; and it seems alsa feet high, thrown out, which made to be a well established fact that a ditch inside. Fronting the creek the Wyandots, Delawares, and per­ where the 'b~nks are 'Very steep, haps the Shawnees had more per­ there is ne ditch for a number of manent homes here, than the fore­ rods. So far as the work was oon... going remarks indicate. Little structed it is an accurate oircle. that is entirely reliable however, in There is also an earth enclosure relation to Indian history, ante­ of low banks, and small in extent, riorto the settlement of this county on the· farm of Mr. Ronan half a by the whites is known with cer­ mile south of the foregoing of about tainty. The foregoing trail is doubt one acre in extent. It has a good less the one which Christopher size mound standing in the ditch Gist and Andrew Montour son of a and bank, 30 feet ill diameter and Seneca Chief, followed in 1750, and 12 feet high. it so, Gist was probably the first There is also, on the farm of Mr. white man who passed through J, Sutton, near the ncnthern boun- what is now Licking township. He dary of the township, a small mound was exploring in the interes.t of of earth, and also a fort, or enc.lo- the "Ohio company," a land com­ sure of an oblong square enclosmg pany composed in part of Virginia half an acre or more, whose banks gentlemen, including two brothers have been plowed over and have of Gen. Washington. become almost obliterated. It is . situated near "'fort spring." REFUGEE AlS"D UNITED STATES IIlIL- ITARY LANDS. INDIAN HISTORY~ In 1801 Congress provided for The In.dians it is known hs,d a the survey of 100,000 acres or more camp in early times on the fara of land to be given to those refugees owned by J. R. Moore Esq. ana from Canada and Nova Scotia, who in PIONEER PAPER No. 20, it is .sta­ attatched themselves to the Am'eri­ ted that there was an Indian en­ can cause, during the Revolution­ campment in a large sugar grove ary war, and left their homes or near the waters of llQg. BUD, now were driven from them, and suffer .. 13 ed the loss or confiscation of their back,) and its tributaries, Swamp property, because they favored' the Run, Quarry Run and Dutch Fork oause of the colonies and took sides are its principal streams. The bot· against the mother country. tom lands on these streams are This tract of land extends east- among the best in the County-the ward from the Sciota river forty soil being deep, rich, enduring and eight miles into Muskingum coun- exceedingly productive. A portion ty, and is four and one-half miles of the Reservoir is in the southern wide. Two and a half miles of it are part of this township, and is des­ in Licking county, extending along cribed fully in Pioneer Paper No.25. its whole Southern border, and two 0RGANIZATION OF THE TOWNSHIP. miles of it are in the adjoining Licking township was organized counties. A strip of two. and a in 1801, as one of the townships of half miles wide of the southern part Fairfield County, and then embraced of Licking township, or about one the whole of the territory (except third of it is Refugee hmd, and the h R f ) h' h other two thirds is UDited States tee ugee tract w lC is now the Military or army lands. The 22 Oounty of Licking, and perhaps a ranges of Congress lands adjoin the portion of which is now Knox coun- ty. Thus it continued until 1807, Refugee tract on the south, in when it was reduced to half the Fairfield and Perry counties, and limits of Licking county, by the the two miles or nearly central line formation Ci)f the township of Gran­ through the Refugee tract from ville. By the formation of Union west to east forms the northern township on the west, and of Bow- boundary, of said counties. The r G h b h' 1808 United States Military lands, 0f mg reen 0n t e east, .. ot In , and of Newark township on the which two thirds of Licking town- north in 1810, and of Franklin ship is comprised, were surveyed township also on the east in 1812, pursuant to authority granted by it was reduced to its present lim­ sct of Congress passed June 1st. its. The county lines of Fairfield and 1796. The township of Lickmg Perry, which run through the Res­ except what belongs to the Refugee ervoir, form its southern bound.ary. tract, on the original survey was in the tier of Townships numbered one THE FIRST SETTLERS. and in Range twelve. Phillip Sutton, John Rathbone, John Gillespie and George' Gillespie TIMBER AND SOIL. settled in what is now called Lick- The territory now forming Lick-ing township, in 1801. Benjamin ing township was "well timbered," Green, Richard Pitzer and John abounding at its first settlement, Studden, located themselves there in the usual variety and extent of in 1802, and Major Anthony Pitzer, forest trees, the oak, walnut, hickory Jacob Swisher, and Stephen Robin­ and sugar or maple being the prin- son, and perhaps others, in 1803, and cipal. It. was agre.eably, and in these were the pioneers of Licking about equal proportions, diversified township. by hill and dale-one-third being Mr. Benjamin Green was a veteran low, level or flat land, of superior pioneer who left hiB mountain home fertility-another third 01 its area amidst the Alleghenies, in Western may be called gently undulating, Maryland, in 1799, with a wife and and the remainder is made up of ten children to make a permanent more abrupt and leslS productive ele- residence for them and himself in vations or hills. the then wilderness country of The South Fork of Licking, which the North-West Territory. He forms the western boundary of Lick- spent a year near the mouth of ing towDship, and Hog Run, (recent- the Muskingum, also two years ly ful~y described .by J udg~ Brum- on the Licking bottom belaw 14 Newark, on Shawnee Run, on P. N. ot a minister of that denomination, O'Banon's farm. which he left in (and might be properly ranke~ w:ith 1802 and moved to the Hog Run the pioneer preachers of LlCkmg Valley. In 1822 his wife, with county) but he was tolerant of ~ll whom he had lived nearly half a religions, and as his wife and chIl­ century, died, and he sometime dren were disposed to cherish the thereafter intermarried witn the wi­ Methodist faith, he gave support and dow of David Lewis, the daughter encourage~ent to M~. Shinn's en­ of Theopl!iIus Rees, who survived terprise. The followmg are some him, he dying eight or ten years af­ and perhaps nearly all of the origin­ ter the second marriage, at the ad­ al church members, and those who vanced age of seventy-six years. became such during Mr. Shinn's In Pioneer paper No. 44, prepared ministry, to wit: Richard Pitzer, by Judge Brumback, a native of the Mrs. Pitzer, Jacob Swisher, Mrs. township, the history and merits of Swisher, John Stadden, Mrs. Stad­ the above named and other pioneers den, Sarah Green, and Mrs. Green, are presented somewhat in detail; the wife of Benjamin Green. It was I need not t4erefore here enlarge, a sort of a family church, as the but simply refer you for fnller par­ male members were all sons-in-law ticulars tdthat excellent paper, which of Mr. Green, and the female mem­ was recently published. bers were his wife and daughters; FIRST PREACHER AND CHURCH. Mr. Green .himself was a Bapt;st, aDd as already stated, a preacher, In 1803 Rev. Asa Shinn, then a but a man of tolerant temper and very young but promisin~ minister liberal views. Pioneer preacheni of the Methodist Church, wa·s ap· like Mr. Shinn-pioneers in reli­ pomted to the Hock-Hocking circuit, gious enterprises like Mr. Green and then just organized, and which turn­ his compeers above named, and pio­ ed Qut to be one which it took him neers in the settlement of the wild­ four weeks to travel over. It led erness like those of Licking town­ him into what are now the counties ship, were true heroes in the battle of Fairfield, Licking, Muskingum, of life, and entitled themselves to Coshocton,· Knox, Delaware and the gratitude and kind remembrance Fra.nklin. There was upon it but of the generations that succeeded one regular apPOintment within the them, and who entered into the en­ present limits of Licking county,and joyment of the rich legacies, (the that 'was at the house, (a good sized result of many privations and tOils) double-cabin) of Mr. Benjamin transmitted to ~hem. Green, in the Valley I)f the Hog The great promise of Mr. Shinn's Run. Mr. Shinn's appointment, be­ early career as a Pioneer preacher tore reaching this one, was on the in the West, was fully realIzed on Hock-Hocking River, at or near reaching the full maturity of his in­ Lancaster, and the next one after it tellect, for he became eminent as an was at or near the mouth of the Author no less than as a Divine. It Wakkatomeka, or a few miles be­ is my deliberate judgment that no yond it at the house of a Mr. Wams­ man of a better intellect or of a nigh­ Iy. Mr. Shinn continued his labors er order of pulpit talents has ever for a year, commencing late in 1803 exercised the functions of 8 minister and ending in the autumn of 1804. of the gospel in Licking county. During the' year he organized a His characteristics were well pre­ small society, at the house of Mr. sented in Pioneer. paper No. 31, by Green, and this was doubtless the Rev. C. Springer, to which reference pioneer church in Licking OQunty I can be had. This little pioneer Mr. Green was a Baptist, and un­ church, organized by Mr Shinn, in a til near the close of his life he cabin on Hog Run in 1804, has occasiODally exercised the functions maintained its existence to the pres- 15 ent.day, a.period of 65 ye~rs! The jointly, the church edifice, and are SOCIety bUilt a log church In 1818 or of nearly equal strength in member­ a year later, nea~ where Mr. Shinn ship, neIther probably numbering organized it. This ~as after~ar~s more than twenty or thereabouts. moved to the farm of ReT. BenjamIn Rev. Benjamin Green generally oc­ Green, north o~ where it stood orig- cupies the pulpit on behalf of the ally; and was SIxteen years ago suc- Christian Union Society, and the ceeded by a frame building which Methodist Sooiety isserTed bv inn­ st.ands on the farm of Mr. Anthony erants, appointed to the circuit. PItzer, abo~t two miles from where the original church was built. The THE HOG RUN BAPTIST CHUROH. pulpit of this church has been oecu- The Friendship, or as it is com- pied with a good degree 'of regulari- monly called, "'fbe Hog Run Bap­ ty through the 65 years of its exist- tist Church," (Old School) is one of enee, but the number af its member- the Pioneer churches of Licking ship is at present rather limited. I township, and of the county. It har. give as follows the names of the had a career of more than llfty-eight preachers whe succeeded Mr. Shinn years; and has always exerted a de­ until the year 1810, as shown by the gree ot influence second to but few conference minutes: churches in our county. Its posi- Revs. James Quinn and John tive cre.ed, the. free, fu~l, outspoken Weeks, from 1804 to 1805. James professIOn of ItS doctrines, and the Quinn and Jo!eph Williams, from unreserved declaration of their be- 1805 to 1806. John Weeks and lief, by its adherents-their read i­ James Axly, from 180e to 1807. ness to defend the faith they cherisb, Joseph Hays and James King, fr9m a.nd the avowal and prompt supPQrt 1807 to 1808. Ralph Lotspeitch and by arguments, of their somewhat pe­ Isaac Quinn~ from 1808 to 1809. culiar views, as to faith and ecclesi­ Benjamin Lakin, John Manly and astical usages, have all tended to at· John Johnson, from 1809 to 1810. tract a good degree of public atten­ More than fifty years ago the Revs. tion. The foregoing considerations James B. Finley and C. Springer, together with the wealth tbey repre: the latter still living, and who is sent-their numbers-their long my autvority for this statement, historr and identification with l>io­ held a quarterly meeting in this neer ~lmes, and other causes, have church. They reached it from th. contrIbuted to make. tbls church a Mnskingum region by way of a blind power-a church VIgorous, widely bridle path, which led them mostly known, and of conside~able infiu­ through the woods, a little south ()f ence. The membershIp of this Flint :Ridge. It is probable that church has generally been con sid­ this meeting was held at the time of ~rabl~, .and ~rowde usu.l~y ~ttend the dedication of thefr first church Its mlDlstratIOns. The 'WrIter s reo­ edifice, though not certain. Rev. c."Uection runs back a third of a Noah Fidler Rev. Jesse Stoneman century and more when ~he public and Rev. Le~i Shinn, the brother of services were cond1!cted in an old Asa were also pioneer preachers hewed log church WIth a gallery run­ her~. ning around three side. of it, and when Rev. George Debelt oceupied THE OHRISTIAN UNIoN OHU:ROH. its pulpit. This old log church was The Ch.ristian Union Church a few built in the year 1818, 'fifty-one years ago organized a society with- yeara ago, and was superseded in the in the bounds of this pioneer Meth- year 1860 by a good frame building odist Church, whQse members were, which is still occupied. It is a build~ for the most part, forinerly Method- ing of good eize. and stands on or ists, and members of ~he. Hog. Run near the site of the original one, Church. ThetwQ SOCIetIes OCCupY. near Van BUl'entoWD~ wbere the 16 plank road crosses the north-east- The number of members in the erly braBch of Hog Run. Rev John United Brethren Church is not large, W- Patterson ;vas the first, the pio- but the number in Sabbath School neer preacher of ihis church. The i& 80, Mr. David Kiln b3ll is its Su- church members now number 56. perintendent. Friendship church was organized Feb. 20th, 1811, by Rev. Thomas THE FAIRMOUNT CHURCH. Powell and Rev. John W Patterson. The Fairmount Presbyterian Church The following persons were the ori- was organized March 24th, 1834, by ginal mem'!lers: Samuel Meredith, Rev. Jonathan Cable, assisted by John Simpson, Sarah Patterson, Rev.· W. Wylie and Rav. Jacob Lit­ Elizabeth Meredith, Mary Sutton, tIe .. The original members were John W. P(ttterson, Thomas Dew- Harvey R. Gilmore, Dr. Joseph eese, Susannah Sutton, Cather!ne Mathers, Samuel Dobbins, Charles Deweese, Ann Simpson and Thom- .Wallace, Mrs. Wallace, James Ham­ as Powell. Rev. Mr. Patterson was ilton, Mrs. Hamilton, Sarah Smith, the pastor of this church about a Harriet Smith, Wm. Bounds,Rebecca dozen years @r more after its organ- Cunningham and LucV Gilmore. iZation, and was succeeded by Rev. Rev. Jonathan Cable was the first Eli Ashbrook, Elder Hill, Rev. Geo. pastor and served from 1834 to 1838. Debolt, Rev. Christopher Coffman, . Rev. Ebenezer Buckingham was Rey. Joshua Breese, Rev. John their minister from 1838 to. 1839. ;Parker, ~ev. Matthew Brown, Rev. Rev'. C. N. Ransom, was pastor S. MeredIth, Rev. C. McClellan,Rev. from 1840 to 1846. Zachariah Thomas, and Rev. Be~j. Rev. N. C. Coffin, was pastor from Lamp~on, the· presen~ p~stor, WIth 1846 to 1851. . Rev. ~. MeredIth. aSSOCIate pastor. Rev. H. c: McBride, was pastor JeremIah Gro~e IS ~he Clerk, and from 1851 to 1856. Mr. George GrIffith IS Deacon. This Rev. D H Coyner was pastor ~ociet~ o~ a Churc~ near Lirinville, from 1856'to i857. ' In • WhICh It w.ors~IpB alternately, Rev. H. C. McBride, was pastor whIch was buIlt In 18~8. from 1857 to 1869. THE METHODIST AND UNITED BRETH- REN CHURCHES IN JACKSONTOWN. • The present number of members . . IS 63. The number of Sabbath School Tbe ~enomlDatlOn.s. known as Scholars, (Mr. Charles Wallace, Su­ MethodIsts and United Brethren, perintende:at) is 73. have each a frame Church in Jack- sontown. They are nQt large, but The original Elders were Dr. Ma- may be regarded as. prosperous. ther, A. D. Cal~weIl, Charles Wal­ Each of them is a preaching ap- lace ~nd H. R. GIlmore. The elders pointment on a circuit, and its pulpit of thIS ~hurch at present are Messrs is suppli

THE FIRST SCliOOL TEACHER. the prospectiye q~'i4egroom, and as Mi·. 'Ricliahl Green, whose resi­ maywell be supposed, grated harsh­ dence in Licking township, dates lyon his exultant feelings. The back to 1802, inf0rms me that a l\1r. Squire and the bridegroom however Taylor taug'hL the first School in the fonnd a way out of the dilemma, township, in the Green settlement, which was to stick up the notices, for about the year 1806. Educational fifteen days, and' this was done interests have continued to receive promptly, and the delay put the first a fair share ofthp. patronage and fost­ marriage in our county on Christ­ ering care of the people of Licking mas day, in the :first year of this cen­ township, which is now divided into tury. It has been suggested that the 8 districts, most of them having a wheels of time moved slowly to the good school· house. contracting parties duriBg those fif­ teen days, but Christmas came at PIONEKRS. length, and the pioneer wedding Col. JOHN STADDEN, was an early came off-at least so says Mrs. Isaac settler in Licking township. He came Stadden, who was an eye and ear from Pennsylvania to the "Territory witness, and who I am happy to say North West of the Ohio," during one still Jives. A child was born to of the closing years of the last centu­ these pioneers in 18t>1, which dy­ ry, as a member of a surveying par­ ing in infancy the same year, was the ty, and thus obtained a knowledge first death in Licking' county. of our fine lands. Accordingly he, Col. J o11n Stadden was elected to with his brother, came to the iick­ the office of Sheriff in 1808, being ing valley in the Spdng of 1800, the first one Licking county had. and after erecting a cabin of the His VIrtues entitled him to the esteem most primitive style, a short dis­ of his associates. tance below thejunction of the North ALEXANDBR HOLDEN, Esq., was an and South Forks of the Licking, they early settler in LICking township, proceeded to raise a crop of corn. and was a man of more than com­ On Christmas day of this year he in­ mon capacity, intelligence and schol­ termarried with Betsey Green, whose arship. He was a Squi1-e and County father, Rev. Benjamin Green, had Commissioner from 1817 to 1820, settled upon the Shawnee Run, abont and fro111 1824 to 1827, and was a mile below the Stadden cabin, also elected to the Ohio Legislature early in 1800, or about the same in 1808, in connection with Knox tirr.e the Stadden's came. And this county, which was the year of the marriage was the first one that ever organization of those counties. He took place, in civilized life within the was a man of meritorious character, territory of Licking county. The and ·gellcnt.lly esteemed-was a posi­ late J·udge Smith who was then liv­ ttve man, one of deCision and firm­ ing at the mouth of Licking, and ness, and of marked chul·acter. He was a territorial magistrate, perform­ was an honored Pioneer, and died eel the marriage ceremony. The about 40 years ago. contracting parties inten.ded the Major ANTHONY PiTZER, was also event to have taken place fifteen days an early settler and rendered valua­ earlier, but when Esquire Smith was blemilitary services during the war called upon to ride up the Licking of 1812. He also secured the public to be master of ceremonies at favor to the extent of an· election to this pioneer wedding, he signified to the office of Associate Judge in 1816, Stadd~n that he would go, if the ter­ in which he served seve~al years, ritorial law which required a notice and to a seat in the Ohio Legislature of all contemplated marriages to be in 1818 and 1819. He was a man posted up in two public places in of many excellent qualities, but of the county, had been complied with. limited scholarship and attainments. J'his elicited a negative answer from We have had but few better pioneers, 18 better, ci~izen~, better men among us, Robert Clark, T. H. Fidler, John than Major PItzer. He was a :qative Zollinger, R. Stadden, M. Layton, of Virginia, and came to Ohio, from Geo. M. Gray, James Clark, Thomas .Alleghe~lY county, Maryland, in Deb'owand Samuel Gilliand. 1803, settled on Hog Run, and died Vanburentown is a small village May 14th 1852, aged 86 years . on Hog Rm;l, in this township, 4, . Isaac Gree~, Esq.: and many' other miles from Newark. pIOneers, natIves and emigrants, who were favored by elections to county JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. offices and to seats in both branches Isaac Stadden was the first Justice of the Le.gislature are ~ntitled to of the Peace in Licking township, mention in this connection but I am while it was yet a part of Fairfield already a trespasser on your time county. He was elected at an and patience. election held at the cabin of Elias I will only further name Samuel Hughes on the Bowling Green, in Patterson, Esq., who was elected to January 1802; Hughes being at the the Senate of Ohio in 1848' and same time and. place elected Captain Nicholas Shaver, a pioneer s~ttler, of the militia. who collected the taxes of Licking John Wardeu became Justice of county fr<7'm 1820 to 1822. They the Peace a year or two later; and were both popular and influential. Abraham Wright was next in order OHIO CANAL AND NATIONAL ROAD. and was in office in 1806, and proba- The Ohio Canal along the western bly some years earlier. bou!1dary of the township, and the Alexander Holden, Esq., was NatIOnal Roael running through it among the early magistrates of the from east to west, both constructed township, and was freq untly re-elec­ nearly forty years ago, the former ted. Samuel Hupp, Elijah Sutton, by the State of Ohio, and the latter John Green, Matthew Black, Her­ by the Gene.ral Government, very man Caffry, Eldal!l Cooley, Richard largely contl'lbuted to the conveni- Stadd,en, John Brumback, Samuel ence of the people of LickinO" town- Patterson, Isaac Green, James Pit­ ship, and greatly promoted their ma- zer, Thomas Ewing, James Stewart, terial prosperity. Jesse R. Moore, B. D. Sanford Mar- The National Road runs through tin Dinsmore,Thomas Germai~,John Licking township from east to west. T. Armstrong, John Woolard, Elias The ",,:ork of its survey, location, Pad~ett, F. M. Layton ~nd Oliver grubbmg, gradinO" and McAdamiz- DaVIS, were also among toe Justices ing was accompli~hed during the in- of Licking township, serving pretty tCl'val between the years . 1825 and. much in the order in which they are 18~5. I.n one of the earlier years of named. thIS perIOd Mr. Thomas Harris as Among the early settlers of Lick- proprietor of the land,laid out the ~il- ing township, in addition to those lage ot J acksontown,and named it af- above named were Isaac, Jehu and tel' Gen. Jackson, t.he hero of New- Joseph Sutton, Michael and Adam Orleans, who was the successful ca.n~ Kite,Samuel Davis, Nicholas Shaver did ate in 1828 as well as 1832 for James Evans, John and l\iarti~ the office of President of the U~ited Grove, Anthony Geiger, Samuel States, Mr. Harris .being a zealous Moo~e, John Brumback, Thomas Jacksonian, especially in the cam- HarrIS, Thomas Beard, Samuel Parr paign of 1828. HIS town started off Samuel Hupp, Joseph Kelso Job at a lively pace, and soon became a Ra.t.~bone, George.Orr, J ohn H~ghes, pos~ town of fair promise, but it never WIllIs La~e, DerrIck Crusen, Sam­ attamed to a population much ex- u~l MeredIth, and others. ceeding its present number, wh1ch is THE TOTAL POPULATION OJ' LICKING about 270. The different Post Mas- TOWNSHIP, WAS tel'S in Jacksontown were J as; Swift, In 1830, •• , ••••••• , • • •• • • • • 859 19

In 1840.. • • . • •• • •••• ~ ••••• 12151 The length of this p er precludes In 1850.. • • • • • • . • . • . • . . • • •• 1371 any extended :remar s upon the 1 In 1860.. • . . • • . • . . . . • . . • • .• 1296 I character, customs, h bits and pe- The following exhibit shows how Iculiarit~es of the Pion~e of Licking the vote of Licking township, was town~hlp, I must forego he pleasure cast at the four last Presidential elec- !of domg so, therefore. I conclude tions. In 1856, forJames Buchanan, I with the observation thatt~e majori- 175, John C. Fremont 59 ,Millard' Fil-I ty of the early settlers were Virgini­ more 6. In 1860, for Stephen A. I ans, many of them from the Shenan­ DoughlS 137. Abraham Lincolt;i 57, doah Valley, and that they brought J. C. BreckenridCTe 56, J'ohn Be'll, 2. with them and practiced in this their In 1864, for Ge~rCTe B. McClellan wilderness home, the virtues of in- 216, Abraham Linc~ln 42. In 1868, dustry, frugality, hospitality, neigh­ for Horatio Seymour 216, General borly kindness and integrity which Grant 48. Total votes were 240, so pre-eminently di'Jtinguished their 252-~53--264. progenitors.

HISTORY OF BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP. ----

Bowling Green township was 01'-, authentic Indian history-it has nO ganized in 1808. It is 8 miles long legends of primeval times, from east to west and 2t mil~s wid~ When wild in woods the treacherons from north to south, and is ' wholly, savage ran," in the Refugee Tract. It is bounded but B.O doubt is entertained that both on the south by Perry county, on the mound-builders and our Aborid the north by Hopewell and Franklin ginal Indian pre1ecessors roamed townships, on the east by Musking- extensively ov~r it in pre-historic urn county, and on the west by Lick- times, and probably had a more or ing township. less permanent occupancy of it. The THE MOUND-BUILDERS AND lNDIANS former are traceable by their works, whithin and all arouB.d it.-worl,:s The mound-builders left a few too of gigantic proportions in its samples of their works within the near vicinity; and tradition and limits of Bowling Green tbwnship, general belief locate the Red man on such as the stone mound two miles all sides of it; indeed that condition south-east of Linnville, which is of of things is known to have existecl,by medium size-and one earth mound those still living, who in early life near it, both being near the 'center of were the contempoary of the uncivi­

fession and tatlO'htb the first school 1810 were Pennsylvamans, and most in the township. The settlers who of them from Fayette county. succeded the foreg'oing, after 1804, , 'll' T THE NATIONAL ROAD AND VILLAGES. W ere Edwar d T ay1 01', WI lam ay- lor, Joseph Taylor, Jacob Storts, The National Road runs throuO'h Henry Alex~nder, J ohn ~er:y, J os- the township of Bowling Green fr;m eph McMulhn, Rev. LeVI Shmn, Na- east to west, ,alonO' its northern than Shipps, Elijah Nichols, George: boundary. It was s~rveyed, located Moyer, James Clark, Robert Orr, \' and constructed between the year& Landon Warfleld, William Chapman" 1825 and 1833. The towns of SalDuel Parr, Henry Bickell, Alex-' Brownsville and Linnville, were laid allder McClelland, Wl.'tlter Roberts, i out soon after the final locatiQU of

John Weedman, Mr. Mervin, Willis I' the road, about forty years ago; the

Lake, Sr., J.ac~b and Adam Brown I former by Adam Brown, who named and Joh~ J?lCklllSOll,. ! it after himself, and the latter by Mr. WIlham Harl'ls now 77 years I San,uel Parr who named it afterAd­ ?t age, was brought to this township I am Linn, who was then about to ~n 1804, a?d though. he lived a while Iestablish himself there as its first In Franklm townshIp, has probably merchant. Brownsville grew rapid­ resided more years in Bowling Green ily at first, but has been'-" about sta­ than any other person now in it. i tionary in these latter years. It is • )[1\ iSolomon Myers, who is still I a post town of about 450 inhabi- hVIng, Itt the good old age of eighty-! tants, O. M. Hamilton being Post one years, was the s.on ,of Andre":j Master. Iinnville is also::t post .Myers, one of the 11llll1lgrants or town, J. Lawrence being Post Mas- 21 ter, and has a population of abo~t run about 5 miles. The small sad­ one hundred. dle-bags which contaIned the ex- Amsterdam, half of whIch is in press matter were fast~ned to the Bowling Green township, was al~o saddle, and at the end of each run the brought into existence after the ~o- saddle and saddle-bap's were instant­ cation and during the construct~on ly trallsfered from tl~e almost ex­ of the National Road. Abraham hausted foamiuO' poney to the fresh Boring and George B~rnes being: its one, the rider ~ounted upon him proprietors. and off at full speed without a deten: tion of more than about a minute. THE PONEY FXPRESS. The stations in Licking county were The National Road, for tw~nty Brownsville, Linnville, Etniers, Lu­ years after its completion attracted ray and Etna. Our former fellow­ much travel to it, both of emigriants citizen H. S. Manon and a l\fr. Jones and general travellers, which tave were the Poney Express contractors the villages along it an appeantnce from Zanesville to Columbus, and of considerable life and thrift. Regu- our former fellow-citizen Mr. A. B. lar lines of daily four horse stages Dumm of Newark, then a lad living were also run in those days, and in Brownsville, rode from Zanesville, sometimes they had an additional to Etniers, near Jacksontown. He opposition line, carrying on a very informs me that once on an emer­ vigorous competition with the regu- gency he rode from Zanesville· to lar mail line, which added greatly Columbus In 3 hours and 45 minutes, to the liveliness of the villages on the rider from Etniers to Columbus the National Road. A daily "1?oney bemg sick. Once, when behind Express line" was also run ovdr the time, he rode from Etniers to Zanes­ National Road during a portion of \ ille, (26 miles) in less than an hour the years 1836 and 1837, which for and a half. There were five relaYfil of the time being, increased thednter- horses on his route. Tile enterprise est and excitement of the villages proving unprofitable was abandoned through which it ran, and tended to in t.he year 1837. break up the comparative qulness When rail roads came into use and routine of village life. This emigrants, travellers and four horse poney express was establishe~by the post coaches pretty much abandon­ Hon. Amos Kendall, who was one of ed the pike, and the lIttle towns on the most energetic and enterprising it became dull and ceased to grow. Post-Master-Generals we have had, THE CHURCHES. for the purpose of carrying -vp,luable The first religious society organiz- letters, drafts, very small packages, ed in Bowling green Township, was and important newspaper sli s. Its effected by the Methodists about fif­ speed was more than ten m' es per ty years ago, at the honse of Samuel honr, being twice that of email Parr. Rev's Jesse Stoneman, and sta~e, the schedule time fro ZaneB- Levi Shinn, preached occassio.nslly ville to Columbus (54 mil ) being before the organization of this scici­ five hours,:and the postage 0 matter ety, at the house of Mr. James carried by it was enormous y high. Clarke, who lived in the Southern The writer remembers re iving a part of the township, where also a Newspaper-slip brought by it, COll- clasB was fGrmed at an early day.­ taining Pre!;ident Van Buren's Rey's Asa Shinn, Robert Manley, inaugural addl'csS, in l\far h 1837, Ralph Lotspeitch and James Quinn, which was charged with se enty-jive are believed to have preach6d at cents postage, which by th regular Mr. Clark's in eurly times. In mail would have cost only wo cents. 1807, Bev. Jesse Stqneman preat\led The express ponies were rode by a funeral discoul'se in Bow,ling boys, and put through on ~ fast gal- Green, which was probably the fir~t lop, or a "half run, " each lone being' !funeral sermon preached in the 22

township. In 1821 the socie~' form- I edifice recently vacated by the Melho­ ed at the house of Mr. Pat made Idist society, who had just completed an effort to build a he ed-log their new church west of and adjoin­ church, which however was never ing, the tow:n of Linnville. The completed, :;lud but little use'p, if at Catholic society, after some years, all, as a church. About tl~e year Iwas dissolved, and the church was 1832, this society built a.sm~ll but diverted from sacred to secular uses. neat frame church in Li.nnville,' THE FRESBYTERIAN CHURCH in which, after occupying it a number Brownsville, was organized by Rev. of vears, was sold to the CatllolicB. W 1I. Robinson, in 1845, with eleven In ~1839, they built on a lot adjoin- members. Tbe present church edi­ ing Linnville. the frame structure! fice, a good brICk building, was they now' occupy. The present 1 erected in 1846. It has a member­ membership is about 50, and the I ship of eighty, aud a Sabbath school Sabbath School, superintended by Iof eighty-five pupils, under the suc­ Mr. S. Tippett, has about the same cessIul superintendence of Mr. Wm. number of pupils. Black. Robert Hamilton and Wil- THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH liam Black were the first elders.­ IN BROWNSVILLE, is one of the earlier Robert Morton and Thomas Black societies. It was first organized in have since been added to the elder- /1~16, at the residence of the widow ship. For further details, reference Dickinson,one and a half miles north can be had to Pioneer paper No. 33, of Brownsville, in Hopewell town- written by Rev. H. M. Hervey, who ship, by Rev. James Quinn, where, gives many interesting particulars in 1818, they built a hewed-log in the history of this church. ('hurch which was occupied until There is a BAPTIST CHURCH, about 1830, when the socit:ty was trans· half a mile east of LinnviUe, which fered to Brownsville, where they was built in 1848, which is parl of, built a smaH brick church. rhis or an appendage to the 'Friendship' church was occupied until about 25 or 'Old School Baptist Church at years ago. when the society built a Hog .Run,' in Licking towBship, large, fine frame edifice, which they whose history has been given in cdn­ still use. The number in SOCIety at nection with said township. present, is about sixty-five, and a THE UN1TED BRETHREN, have a. Sabbath School, under the manage- small church in Amsterdam, which ment of Rev. Mr. Caldwell, of sev- stands on the line between the town­ enty pupils. ships of Bowling Green and Frank- THE PROTESTANT METHODIST Ii n~ The society is small, many of CHURCH OF BROWNSVILLE was or- the former members having united ganized about 1830, and s~on there- with th~ socie.ty in Jacksontown', after, built a small frame church'-I b~t pubbc serVIces are still main­ In 1847 the society built a larger tamed hel·e. and better church edifice which is THE CHRISTIAN UNlON denomina- stilI occupied. It has very geIier-1 tion, organized a soc.iety in 1865 ally been a flourishing and influen- I which meets in a school house i~ t\al church .. An exc~llent Sabbath I Lil.lllville. They hav~ not as yet school of mg}:lty pupIls, under the bUIlt a church. The mmisters have superintendence of Mr. J. S. Griffith, been Rev's A. S. Bidclison Wm. is connected with this church, whose Henslee, Benjamin Green, a~d Mr. members number about seventy-five, Underwood. They sustain a Sab­ and a flourishing Bible class under bath school and pulpit ministrations the direction of Joseph Hamilton, is with a good degree of reguln.rity.­ al~o connected with it. This church numbers about fifty In 1840, or the~eabouts, the Ro- membel's, and the Sabbath school man. Cat~olics organized a society seventy, which is superintended by III Lmnvllle, and bought the sml111 Mr. J'3fl.ac Orr. This was the last 23 formed society in the to·wnship.-. ingham, and O. M. Hamilton, (2d Isaac OrI', James Brown, James term. ) Lamp, John P. Swit~~er, Geo. Clark, LinnvHle post-masters; Adam and John Dusthimer, were amOllg Linn, William Tracy, William Orr, the originai members of this church. David Gilland, Thomas Lonon, Da-­ PIONEER PREACHERS oj' BOWLING vid Harris, ~ummel'field Tippett, GEEEN. anll Joseph Lawrence. In addition to the Pioneer preach­ POPULATION. ers named, I give Hev's J. W Pat­ The number of inhabitants in Bowl­ t8rso~1, Jacob Young, Chas. Waddle, ing Green to:wn:ship, in umo, was Mr. McElroy, Abner Goff, .Jacob 1768; in 1840, it was 1464; in 1850, Myers, Joseph Ont'per, Martin Fate, it was 1538; in 1860, it was 1213. Mr. McCracken, W B. Evans, C. The large population of the town­ Springer, George Brown, George ship in 1830, was owing to the fact Debolt, James Hoeper, Jacob Hoop­ that many families, who were then er, Samuel Hamilton, Leroy Swonn- engaged in the construction of the sted, and J. Gilruth. . National Road, had but a temporary JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. residence, and were gone when the The early-time Squh'es of Bowl­ census of 1840 w:as taken. ing Green, were Moses Meeks,Adam VOT,ES FOR PRESIDENT. Winegardner, John Bartholomew, This townshIp has voted as fol­ Alexander Morrison, Wilham Tay­ lows at the last four Presidential lor, Charles Bradford~ Joseph Mc­ elections. In 1856~ for J as. Buchan­ Mullen, William Armstrong, Sam'l an, 145; for J. C. Fremont, 106; Parr, and Baltns Emory, who served Millard Filmore, 2. In 1860, Stephen about in the order named. Those A. Douglas, 138: Abraham Lincoln, of modern times served about as fol­ 90; J. C. Breckenridge, 15 ; John lows: Josepll Hamilton, Joseph Bell, 2. In 1864, George B. McClel­ Johnson, James Hazelton, T. J. lan, 147; Abraham Lincoln, 66.­ Davis, John Bixler, John F. Bane, In 1868, Horatio Seymour, 162; James Orr, Adam Linn, N. M. Fish­ General Grant, 80. The totals were er, A.R. Jordan, F. M. Layton, J. 253--245--213--242. T. Lawrence, James Brown and SUCCF.lSSFUL POLITICIANS. Isaac Orr. John Yontz and Dr_ Walter B. SCHOOLS. Morris, were among the most con- Bowhng Green Township is divid- spicuous. and mfluential pol!ticians ed into six school districts each one of BowlIng Green TownshIp, and havina a school house mo~t of them both attained to the distinction of being b good building;. It is also ,Representatives in t.he State Legis­ united with Franklin .township in a lature; the fo;mer III 1835-36- 37; fractional district. and the latter m 1839-40-41. They were not early· settlers, and did not POST-OFFICES AND POST-MASTERS. remain in the county many years.-­ There are two post towns in The former was identified with the Bowling Green township, to-wit: opposition stage interest, which kept Brownsville and Linnville. The post­ up such a lively competition with the office, in each of them was establish­ regular Neil and Moore Ohio Mail ed nearly forty years ago, and the Stage Company, for a length vf time, post-masters were as follows, and on the National Road. His gentle­ about in the order named. manly bearing, fine address, remark­ Brownsville post-masters; Joseph able suavity of manners, affable de­ Johnson, Moses Brotherlin,. John F. portment and attractive presence, Bane, George H. Hood, John Old­ made him exceedingly popular, and ham, John F. Bane, (2d term) Alex­ gave him great power over his fel­ aDd~r Flowers, O. M. Hamilton, Jno. lows He has long be~n a resident Oldham, (2d term) GeorgeL. Buck- of California. Dr. Morris is a citi· 24 zen of Missout'i, and: has been ,{t}r of the, :veople of Bowling Gre~n Tp. twenty years or more. Bowling Those who Stlpp"Ol't', scb()oJs and Green township has also furnishe,c1 churches as tlley do, ,could not well a repl'esenta,tive in the StaLe Legis,­ fail to' }'each ,the av~rage standard, latltre, in the person of Wi1ham 111 the pl~actice,of the higher virtues Parr, a native of the towBsilip, who and christian graces/ The virtues has served in tbat capacity a num­ usually developed bY'life in the wil­ ber of years, \ derness, we!·o practiced to agqod CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PEOPLE. degree by the frmltiersmen who ~ good degree ot thl'lft and pros­ first settled the town~hip of Bowling perity, the result of industry and Green. ' f1'tlgality, have marked the history

HISTORY OF FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP. ----

Franklin township abounded in outside of this wall is' a; ditch 8 or works erected by the monnd-bllil- 10 feetin width, which was made by ders- Few sections of the Great throwing the earth out'to make' tho West, which teems with ancient embankment: These \vdrks' have' works are more prolific therein than, been plowed over many thDes and this township .. The mound-ltuilde'.'s are gradually disapp'ear,ing:" Within seem to have had a strong attach· this enclosure t4ere stood, t6wards me~t to the region embraced within its centre, and within onu ,hundred the present limIts of this ancient lit-· feet of e'lch other~ three mounds, tIe realm-this locality and the sur- two being of stone. One of the stone rounding country, in w}:lich we : are' mounds had a diameter at the to-day celebrating the ninety-third base of 45 feet, .and the other two anniversary of American Inde- of 30 feet; and all were about 25 l>endence. Theh' works are such, feet high. The two' stone mounds in numbers and lllagnitude, aU were removed n1!lny years ago, by around us, as to warrant the belief Mr. John. Cover, who . found in the hera expressed that they gl'eatly out large one some skeletons within numbered their successo: s the pres-' three feet of the. surface of the ent occupants. ground, which was of persons of very Among tl:.e most elaborate and large size. The stone in these extensive ancient works found in mounds were not oflarge size, and Franklin township were those on the earth, after their removal, was the high hill, which is the most ele- very black, and gave indications of vated ground in the vicinity, a short the presence of fire before and 'soon distance north of Amsterdam, near after the commencment of the to and in a north-easterly direction mounds, perhaps upon the first layer from Fairmount Church in Licking of stoue.or more likely upon altars township. These consisted of a which had been erected upon which circular wall. or embankment,' now sacrifices were offered as an act of oIf.ly a few feet high, enclosing an worship, as was the practice of some area of about eight acres. On the ~ncient nations. 26 By nQ means 'the most insignifi­ nor spada to go'into a more detailed cant of the works ofthemound-buil~ description. ders in Franklin town'ship' 'is th~ There is a fort of low bnnks near large stone mound haIfa Dlile south the center of the· township, in part of the centre of the township, on the on the farm of P. F. Coulter nearly line:between the farms ofMe~srs. ainil~ east of the "Tippett Mound'," Hoskinsan and Irwin. Its diame.J and about the same distance north ter at the base was originally about easterly from the celebrated Stone 40 feet,but it is,much more now, ns mound. an attempt made, many years ago; There is also a stone mound near to open it·~nd. get down, int9·,·th~ the Madison '~ownsltip line,' half at middle, resulted ingr'eatly r~9U:cing mile or more from I Clay' Lick; and its height, (which' was :probably also, one on the farm of A: Inlow, about 20 feet,) by 'throwing the .stone neither of 'which is' of large' size. around on all sides of it and doub~ There, are also earth mounds of ling its original" diameter. The greater or less magnitude .on the ,earth was never reached in the mid~ farms .of H. Trout, n:' Moore, J. dIe, but its.: height was reduced to Smith, J. Brownfield, Mr. Handly's about 10 feet. The late Judge Elna­ " Spring Farm," and also one near than Schofield, of Lancaster, who the Hopewell township line east' of was ,Govermnent Surveyor' during hinds of Mr~ A. Ballou, besides a onQ.01 -the earlier years of the pres .. very few others not mentioned. ent century,' and' as such run the 'There jsbut little if any reliable section lines hel:e, one of whicp. cros.! Indian history in 1tny way idenhfied sed this lll,olind, made an entry up~ with the territory embraced within on his field notes, after designating Franklin township. its " locality, and pronounced it a The township of Franklin was ",singular.JJile of stone.'" Heproba~ composed entirely of United States bly knew but little at that early day, military lands, sometimes called of the w.orks of the mound-builders, army l8~ds, and was a part of t~e part.icUlarly·'of their stone IlD01%S. I exten~ive tract dedicated by' ~1ie Probably the "Tippett mound" Government to the payment of the has attracted as much at~ention as officers and soldiers of the Revolu­ any other in Franklin: township. It tion. ' Congress by an act passed is situated a few hundred yards east June 1, 1796, authorized the survey orthe'road from Newark to LinnvIlle into ranges and townships, of this and'in full view of it, near the for.:. tract, and Franklin township' ap­ mer residence of Mr, James Tipp'et't, pears on the plat of the original on the farm now, owned by' Mt\ H~ survey as in the first tier ef town­ Dusthimer. This moun.d was' 75 ships, in the eleventh range. The feet in diameter and 21 feet high~ surveys into ranges ana townshIps It was opened several years since took place soon: after the authority and a. stone whistld and quite a num­ was granted by Congress, and it ber of human skeletons were ex~ lyas to these surveying parties to humed. Two remarkably W'ellpre-:­ whic~ Elias Hughes and John served crania were taken out, in Stadden, and' perhsps others of our connection with skeletons at 20 feet pioneers, were attached. The sur­ from the top"aridjustabov~ th~level veys in to smaller tracts than to'wn­ of the land around the base of the ships, were made at subsequent but mound. The mound was composed not remote periods. , of layers of earth, charcoal, ashes Franklin township is watered by and' human skeletons. This mound Hog Run,tl.nd:by Swamp Run, which was opened With great care by ~he heads here; and empties into the Messrs. Tippett, and was Qne of the Hog .Ru~ In Lie~ing t~wnshil?; al~o most symmetrical arid interesting of by LIttle 'Clay LICk WhICh heads In jts cla~s, but I have neither time Hopewell township and flows 26 through a corner of Franklin; and ship in and before the year ~812 by' Big Clay Lick which has its when the township was orgamzed, source near the line between the ~tnd named in honor of the distin. townships of Hopewell and Frank- guished American Philosopher, lin, running about five miles through Benjamin Franklin. Isaiah Hos­ the latter. The bottom laRds along kinson, sr., and Moses Sutton, sr., these streams are very fertile, and were elected the first Justices of the the lands generally, though some- Peace, and~they were succeerled by what hilly, are all productive, there Uriah Hull, John Vance, Thomas being but little if any waste land Cummins, Noah Trout, John Bla­ in this township. Corn, the cereals l11ey, John Sain, Abraham Burner, and grasses aU grow w,ell. !:salah Hoskinson, jr., Henry Bur- The townships surrounding ner, jr., Jacob H. Moore, George Franklin, were all settled before it Armstrong, Benjamin Brownfield, was, except perhaps. Hopewell. and George Guttridge. Madison in 1798, Licking in 1801, Franklin town'ship has not now, Bowling Green in 1802, and New- and never has had a village in it, if ark, which corners with it, in 1800. we except a fraction of the mIDia­ The first settlers within the territory ture town of Amsterdam. It has which now constitutes Franklin no stores, no grog-shops, no post­ township were George Ernst, John offices, no manufactories. The peo­ Switzer and Jacob SwItzer, who pIe are almost wholly given to ag­ came in the Spring of 1805, the first riculture, and to the quiet, honest, named from the Shenan.doah Valley successful pursuit of their avoca­ in Virginia, and the two latter from tion, and have attained to a good the "Glades" in Pennsylvania. degree of equality in pecuniary cir­ Mr. John Feasel came in the autumn cumstances, and to as comfortable of the same year, also from the a condition of competency as exists Shenandoah Valley. John Siglar in any portion of our county. The eame to Licking township in 1805, people are sober, industrious, fru­ from Maryland, and on the filst day gal, hospitable, and give no counte­ of March, 1807, he moved into nance or encouragement to vaga­ Franklin township. His son, Wil- bonds, demagogues, busy-bodies in liam, then a mere lad, accompanied other people's matters, to the idle him, and still lives on the farm upon or lazy, to loafers, vagrants, horse which his father settled in 1807. In jockies and speculators, grog-shop 1808 Mr. John Hull joined the fore·. keepers, professional office-seekers, going pioneers, who were further note-shavers, whisky-drinkers, nor re-enforced in 1809 by Mr. Hugh indeed to any who are engaged in Scott, Rev. J. W Patterson, Isaiah such like vicio1!ls and demoralizing Hoskinson, and a Mr. Dustheimer. pursuits. Franklin is literally and A Mr. Fulton came, meanwhile, pre-eminently a rural township in who taught the first school in the which the l'ural virtues prevail. township, in a building in the vi- During the sixty years that have cmity where we are now presenting elapsed since the first-settlement of these incidents and events of pio- the township they have had but neer times. Mrs. Motherspaw, two county officers, and these were daughter of the pioneer John Fea- of the smallest. The late Henry sel, has had the longest residence in Burner was County Commissioner, this township, (64 years) having and Mr. Anthony Pitzer is at pres­ beep brought here in 1805; and ent County Surveyor. But Frank.. Mr. William Siglar the next longest, lin has probably furnished as few (62 years,) or since 1807. representatives for the States' Pris- Mr. John Wilkin, Michael Fry, on as for the State Legislature. as well as Uriah Hull and a few The National Road runs along others, settled in Franklin town- the southern boundary of Franklin 27 town!5hip, being mainly in Bowling hewed. log building in 1818, on the Green; but in several places run­ site of the present building, which nmg a EttIe ways into Franklin, as superseded it in 1851. The c.ur~h atAmsterdam and for Bome disto.nce numbers 36 members, and the sab­ east of it. bath school 65 pupils. Peter Trip­ The Flint Ridge slopes off nearly lett is superintendent. Among the a mile from Hopewell into Franldin early time preachers who ministered township, striking it nea,r the middle to this society were Ralph Lots­ of 11S eastern boundary, and maltes peitch, James Quinn, Jesse Stone­ that portion of the township, to tLe man, Levi Shinn, brother to Asa, extent 0f a mile in width, unusually Isaac Quinn, DaVid Young, Michael hilly, and somewhat mountainous m Ellis, Charles Waddle, Rev. Mr. its aspe6ts and scenery. Little has McElroy, Noah Fidlar, Martin Fate, ever been. done, in the way of at· John McMahon, C. Springer, Alex­ tempts to turn to practical account ander McCracken, Leroy Swormsted the mineral deposits of Frani.:lin and Jacob Young. township. I call to mind one such The Lutherans organized the sec­ effort made about forty years ago, ond church in Franklin township. by Mr. Hugh Scott, one of the early The Lutheran Church in Franklin and enterprising pioneers of the towns'!J.ip, is the pioneer Lutheran towDship, who discovered upon his Church of Licking county, and the land a deposit of iron ore, 'Vhich he Rev. Andrew Henkle, Rev. Peter mined and marketed; by hauling it Schmucker, Rev. Charles Henkle, to the Granville furnace. It was and Rev. Amos Bartholamew, were understood, generally, to have been the Pioneer Lutheran Ministers. The attended with rather ill success, but first named organized the Lutheran whether the enterprise terminated Church in Franklin township in the because of the great distance be­ autumn of 1817, having previously tween the ore and the furnace, and visited and preached to the people consequently, the great expense of in that neighborhood, a few times. getting it to market, or whether the They were settlers from the She­ deposit was worked out and the sup­ nandoah Valley in Virginia, in great ply ceased, or for other reasons, is part,· and had been trained in the riot within my knowledge, at .pres­ Lutheran faith and doctrines. Mr. ent, if it ever was. The mineral George Ernst, Mr. Daniel Mother­ wealth of Franklin township, if it spaw, MI' .•Tohn Feasel, Mr. Henry has any, may therefore be consider­ Burner, Mr. Jacob Wilkins, Mr. ed as having been but slightly de­ Jacob Row, the family of John Wil­ veloped. kins, deceased, and a few others, Schools were early organized,aud with the families of the foregoing, in educatioila~ matters, Franldin has patronized the enterprise of Mr. kept pace with most of her sister Henkle, and soon after the organiza­ townships of Licking county. The tion of the society, they built a township is divided into six hewed-low structure of small dimen­ school districts, and one fractional sions, which answered the double one in which it is joined by Bowling purpose of a church and school Green township. Most or all of house. Rev. Andrew Henkle's fath­ them are furnished with a good er, (Rev. Paul Henkle) a well known school building. Lutheran minister in the ~henandoah The first relgious society started Valley and the successor of the dis­ in Franklin township was the Meth­ tinguished Rev. Gen. Peter Muhlen­ odist Society, which now worships berg, of Revolutionary fame and in Ellis chapel. It was organized memory, had been the religious in­ at the house of John Siglar in 1809, structer of some of these families or a year later possibly. The first and of their fathers and mothers.­ church edifice they erected was a They therefore readily and joyfully 28 etnbraced~·the opportunity pr~sented The. Rev~s Andre.w. and.Charles of having. the gospel preach$d to Henkle, and :Peter. Schmu~ker, who them statedly, by a minister. of their were the first ministers to serve this own· faith, and that too, by the son church were also from the same val­ of the p~stor of, their .fathers and. Jey, and had been intimately identi­ mothers. Sometime previous Rev. fied there with Lutheranism. Them­ Andrew ,Henkle had taken ch~rge of selves or some near. relatives had the Lutheran Church in Somerset, imparted religious instruction to Perry county, and.w:hile.living there most of these Lutheran Pioneers, be­ he, in 1817, organized this chui'ch fore their emigration to this then in Franklin township, and immedi. new country. The Rev. Paul Hen. ately thereafter, was elected pastor, kle, the father of Andrew and Chas. and !'emained such until 1824, when entered the Shenandoah Valley be­ he resigned. It may be remarked fore the close of the last century in passing, that this early-time and preached there many years.­ preacher, who organized this little He reached a great age and contin­ church in this then new country, ued his ministrations in the pulpit fifty two years ago, is still livlDg at to near the close of his life. The the ripe age of 85 years. writer was one of his audIence near After the resignation of Rev. An- fifty years ago, when the venerable drew Henkle as pastor, the church minister was far beyond. the. patri­ remained without a settled mmister .archal age of three score and ten.­ for about two years, but its pulpit He had a large family of sons, all of was suppl~ed with a good degree of iwhom, I think, entered the Luther­ regularity by Rev. Peter Schmucker, an ministry, in the Shenandoah val­ of Newark, then engaged in secular ley, except one. Those now re­ pursuits, but who answered .calls for membered were David, Paul, An­ ministerial services on the sabbath; drew, Charles and Ambrose, making \ and by Rev. Charles Henkle of Som- with the father, six in all. erset,a brother of Andrew, who had The father of Rev. Peter Schmuck­ at that time charge of some churches ~r, the other pioneer preacher, who in Perry county,' sometimes occupied the pulpit of I have stated the fact that the this church, emigrated to this coun­ honored pioneers who organized: try and settled in the Shenandoah this .church in ·the wilderlll.ess were Valley near the commencement of mGstly fr.om the Shenandoah Valley, the present century. Three of his where they a.nd their fathers and sons, (George, Nicholas and Peter) mothers .received their religious in- there entered the Lutheran ministry. strnctien,. and which had been im- Nicholas ministered to the same con~ parted to ,them lDpart at least. by gregation and from the same pulpit, Rev. Peter Muhlenberg, who was, for a generation at least, which Rev. until 1776, the principal Lutheran Peter Muhlenberg had left, when he minister in said valley, and was entered the Revolutionary army.­ moreover, the son. of the founder of The two brothers of Nicholas also the, Lutheran Church in the United performed considerable pulpit la­ States. In 1776, soon after Lord bors in the different Lutheran Dunmore's treachery.to the colony churches of the valley. Rev. S. S. of ,Virgi¢~. became manifest, Rev. Schmucker and his son Rev. S. M. Peter Muhlenberg, then minister In Schmucker, who were son and arand charge, of the Lutheran Church in son (i)f George, and Rev. G~orge Woodstock, abandoned his pulpit Schmucker, sou of Nicholas, also under circumstances of great inter-, making six in all, had each charge es~; which w1l1 be detailed ·hereafter of Lutheran churches in the valley, by Dr. Wilson; and took the field which, in the aggregate run through as a regimental officer of the Vir- a period of many years. Ministra~ ginia line. tiona bv these Shenandoah valley 29 preaooers,.to these Shenandoah val- ·incl'ea~d during· the long and popu­ ley christian emigrants, doubtless lar pas,torate of the present pastor, often brought vivid impressions of Rev. J. L. Gilbreath. old-time religious services to their The first elders were Daniel Moth­ minds, and could not well have erspaw and George Ernst, and those been otherwise than mutally mter- at present in office are Samuel eating. Their voices, or the voices Motberspaw and Alvey Swisher.­ of those bearing their names had Mr. John Motherspaw and Mr. John been heard by these people long be- Orr are the deacons. fore, and here they felt that they The third, last-formed and only were not strangers. other religious society in Franklin In the fall of 1826, Rev. Amos Township is the "Christian Union Barthplomew was called to the Church." It was ,organized during church as its pastor, and he remain- the progress of the late rebellion, ed such about 11 years. and was originally composed of After remaining vacant about a those methodists principally who year, Rev. J. Manning became the held their memb.ership at "Ellis regular pastor, in which capacity he Chapel," in Franklin, and at "Spen­ served the church nearly eight cer Chapel" in Hopewell townships, years. Meanwhile the congregation who did not approve of the attitude had completed the church edifice; of the Methodist Episcopal Church commenced during the pastorate of on Slavery, the War, and collateral Mr. Bartholomew, and have ever questions, or wbo disapproved of since occupied, which is both neat the introduJtion of those secular and commodious. topics into the pulpit. The follow- After remaining vacant about two ing are the names of some of those years Rev. Mr. Richart became pas- who actively participated in the es­ tor, and remained two years. He tablishment of this Church. Wm. was succeeded in a short time by Henslee Esq., Wm. Rutledge, John Rev. G. W. Shafer, who continued Cochran, Mr. Daniel Loughman, the settled minister several years. Zachariah Rutledge, David Wolf, After, the resignation of Rev- Mr. John Wolf. John Snelling, Samuel Shafer the pulpit was supplied for Lampton and Wm. D. Rutledge. aboutone year, by Rev. D. F. Phil- They have built a neat, substantial lips, when Rev. William M. Gil- church which stands near the. town­ breath received a call to its pastor- ship line, between Franklin and ate, which relation continued two Hopewell. The society numbers years. He was succeeded by his sixty or more members and the sab­ brother, the present pastor, in 1854, bath school; which is ,superintended who has therefore sustained the re- by Mr. John Cochran, has fifty p~- lation of settled minister for a peri- pils. . od of fifteen years, being the longest Rev's Benjamin Green and W­ pastorate, by four years, that has Henslee have generally occupied the been known in the history of this pulpit of this church. church during the whole period of The population of Franklin town­ its existence, of fifty-two years.- ship in 1830, was 938; in 1840, it This chu!'ch, now just started upon was 1131; in 1850, it. was 1059 ; and its second semi-centennial career, in 1860, it was 980~ enjoys a moderate degree of pros- Franklin township voted as follows perity, having a membership of al- at th~ Pre~identiaI electIOns since most fifty. It sustains a. prayer and Includmg 1856. For James meeting, and has connected with it Buchanan, 142; John C. Fremont, a. flourishing sabbath school of sev- 34; Millard' Filmore, 5; Total 181. enty-five members, under the super- In 1860, Stephen A. Douglas, 86; intendence of Mr. Harrison Hart- A. Lincoln, 39; J. O. Breckenridge, man. The members have greatly 65; John Bell, 5; Total 195: In 30 1864, George B. McClellan, 141; A'I by a thousand voices, in the spirited, Lincoln, 33; Total 174. In 1868, natural, unartistic style of our prim­ Horatio Seymour, 169; Gen. Grant, itive settlers, in those "grand old 39; Total 208. woods," gave zest to the enjoyment I elose with an inCIdent which, in of the interesting occasion, and the a few days after my arrival in Lick- scenes and incidents thereof are ing county, mtroduced me to the 10- numbered among the memories to cality, an4 to some of the inhabit- be cherished in the hereafter. ants thereof, of which this paper Rev. Zerah H. Coston was the on­ treats. The camp meeting mention- ly preacher present whose name I ed was held within about a mile of now remember. I had heard him the s·pot where we are now celebrat- preach a sermon a short time be­ ing Independence. fore, in front of the old jail, for the In a few days after my arrival benefit of Peter Dimond, then un· here in 1825, I attended a camp der sentence of death. I think how­ meetin2' held in Franklin township, ever, that Judge Fidlar, whom I not far from the large stone mound, had heard perform a similar service some eight miles from Newark.-- i for Dimond, was also present, The meeting was held in a pleasant I though I am not certain. This was and somewhat romantic locality, my first appearance at a Methodist near the western termination of the camp meeting, but not my last. I Flint Ridge. Theweather was de- attended one held near Chatham, lightful--the preaching was good, nearly forty years ago, where I and the surroundings and incidents heard Rev. L. L. Ramline preach of the meeting had a flavor of fresh- his celebrated sermon from the text, ness and novelty about them that eye are my witnesses saith the Lord.' rendered the occasion one decidedly I had heard him preach it once be­ enjoyable. A slender, tall, erect, fore, and it was worth 'repeating.­ long-visaged grave old man, with Few men had a more attractive elongated hair that had passed into style of pulpit oratory than he. I the last stage of the silver-grey hue, also attended one on the Flint Ridge, occupied himself conspicuously as more than thirty five years ago,con­ the chief singer of the occasion-- ducted by our well-known pioneer the venerable leader in the musical veteran, the Rev. C. Springer; and department of the devotional exer- another a few years later, held near cises. His name was Siglar I un- Elizabethtown, under the same derstood, and he sung with spirit, management, at both of which we energy, and much p0wer of voice. had interesting preaching. My last The great· congregation joined camp meeting experience was near him, and they made the welkin ring Frazeysburg, about two years sonorously, while singing those fine ago, where I heard two very able old Methodisn Camp Meeting sermons delivei'ed by Rev~s Philips Hymns. The multitudes gathered of Zanesville, and Felton of C@lum­ for Worship from all the regions bus. I confess to a partiality by round abot!t in these ancient groves, way of variety, for the old style were greatly moved, yea! thrilled camp meeting oratory-to a stronO' by the inspiring notes of the mel. liking to the pulpit in the 'lv'l'lde;' odious minstrelsy. The reverbera- ness, as we had it in days of "auld tions of those sacred songs, as sung lang syne." 31

HISTORY OF HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP.

That the mound-builders or.ce both sides of the township line be­ occupied the territory whicl1 now tween Hopewell and FranklIn. The lorms the township of Hopewell, portion of it in Hopewell township their still existing works afford is on the farm of J. Bixler, in the ample proof. These works consist near vicinity of the Great Western of mounds and other earthworks; C091 Comt>any's possessions. The also of numerous "wells" of various banks are low, and they enclose two depths, ranging from two to twenty mounds, one on each side of the feet. They were doubtless much townshIp line. There is an earth deeper when first dug, but have mound on the farm of Shannon gradually filled up, so that many of Loughman, 150 feet at its base and them are so shallow as to be barely 10 feet high; also one on the, (at'm of perceptible. It may be observed the late George Kregar, 75 feet in that doubts exist, in the minds of diameter, and 15 feet high. There many, as to whether the mound­ is one also on the farm of William builders, or theil' successors the In­ Fisher, and a small stone mound of dians, dug these holes or wells, but flint stones on Mr. John Bratton's the weight of evidence- connects farm, which was 10 feet high before them with the former-the mound­ it was disturbed; besides several builders were workers, the Indians others, mostly of small size. were not. A great deal of curiosity The Flint Ridge 'which is high has been excited as to the objects ground, about two miles wide,rough, sought for, by the people who dug rocky, mountainous in its general these holes; also as to the time when featu::'es. and abounds in buhr and it was done, no less than by whom. flint .,tones. It runs through the I have efpressed my belief that the middle of Hopewell township from mound· builders did it; and, that the east to west, forming at least one time of their construction belongs third of it, and slopes off into l\{us­ to the pre-historic period of our kin gum county on the east, and into country, admits of no doubt. As to Franklin township on the west, the purpose of their construction, which it penetrates but a little ways. Mr. Caleb Atwater, who has been It forms the summit or highest ele­ regarded as good authority on these vation in the township, the land subjects, expresses the opinion that sloping on one side of it to the they wele dug in pursuit of rock north, and on the other to the south. crystals and stone arrow and spear The waters therefore on the north heads, which he thinks were- in great half of the township flow into the repute with the mound-builders. Licking, by way of the Clay Lick, One of the mounds in Hopewe~l Bear Run and Brushy Fork, and on township, is near the eastern bound­ the southern half, by way of several ary line, on the farm of J. J. Van small streams into the Moxahala or Horn, on the north side of Flint Jonathan's Creek. The Flint Ridge Ridge; and there is one also, well abounds in cannel coal, fire clay, and towards the north-west corner of stone-ware clay, but its mineral the township, on the farm of Mr. J. wealth has been but slightly devel­ Barclay. There is an enclosure or oped. The buhr stone was exten­ fort of an irregular fonn, and on sively manufactured in early times 32 and was found to be a good substi- Wm. Hull, Isaac Farmer,., S~uel tute for the French buhr. The geol~ Pollock;, Edward Hersey, John ogical and mineral manIfestatiQns Barth.ol.omew, Jacob Humniell,Thos. present some features that to the Hummell, Timothy Gard, Ja'lles scientific, possess a good degree of Glasgow, Isaac Davis, Jno. Charles, interest. The chestnut and other Ge.orge and Samuel B. Hull, ThQs. growths peculiar to mountain re- Demoss, Ge.orge Kreger, Daniel gi.ons abound on the Flint Ridge, Bowman, Abram Bennett, Samuel and the oak, in different varieties, Farmer, William Wills. Andrew prevails in other p.orti.ons .of Hope- Livingston, Blois Wright, Alex­ well. The land is .of the ('lass re- ander, Charles and Zachariah Shaw, garded as hilly, but it is f.orthe most Archibald Kelso, and the Gibbons' part pr.oductive. No' large water- were early settlers. c.ourses are f.ound in Hopewell, yet . Hopewell tuwnship was .organized springs are not rare,and rivulets are in 1814. Isaac Farmer and Samuel c.oursing their way thr.ough all parts Pollock'were the first Justices .of the .of the t.ownship. Peace, who were elected ea:rly in The t.oWnShIp of Hopewell, like 1815. The former so.on resigned, Franklin, is in the United States and Edward Hersey succeeded him, Military tract .of 2,500,000, acres, and served until 1830, when he re­ or 4,000 square miles, havmg the signed. The latter served until 1818, fQll.owing boundaries: Beginning at when. he was succeeded by William the sQuthwest c.orner .of the seven Hull, wh.o served about 20 years.. - ranges, which is 42 miles west .of the He was, meanwhile, (in 1827) elected Ohi.o river, in the nQrthern bQrder to the State Legislature', in which .of Tuscarawas county, thence S.outh b.ody he served .one year. Esquires fifty miles, to a point in Guernsey Hersey and Hull, were succeeded,by cQunty, east of CQlumbus; thence James Shaw, Smith T. Price, J.ohn due west to the Sci.ota river, at CQl- Herbert, Samuel Winegardner,Nath­ umbus; thence up said stream to the an Henslee, P. S. WestbrQok, Jas. Greenville treaty line, in Marion Beard, Edwin Huff, Stephen R. cQunty; thence north-easterly, with Tucker, J.oseph J. Kelley,Wrh_ Hen­ said line to .old fort Laurens on. the slee, W. Chappelear, Abram Hersey Tuscarawas river; thence due east and J 3cob LQughman. t.o the place .of beginning. The first Grati.ot is situated .on tke Nati.on­ surveys were into range lines five al Road immediately on the' county miles apart, and intQ cross lines file line between Muskingum and Lick­ miles apart, called township lines, ing. It was a post t.own .of about and these townships .of five miles 300 inhabitants one half being in square were then divided into quar~ Hopewell township. It was laid .out ter townships of tW.o and a half by Adam Smith about 40 yea.rs,ago, miles square, or 4,000 acre tl'acts, or very soon after the permanent loca­ military sections. By subsequent ti.on .of the National Road, whonam­ Legislation the undisPQsed-of P.or- ed it in,h.onQr of Gen. Gratiot, then tion .of this tract was subdivided in- in active service as a regular army t.o 100 acre tracts. The range lines rqn officer. It has two churches in it, north and south, and the Township the Episcopal Meth.odists and the lines east and west. On the plat of Protestant Methodists,. each having the .original survey this township js a go.od building, and &enjoying a in the first tier of townships, and gooa degree .ot prosperity. The tenth range. }'or a few more facts former is much the oldest, having and details in regard to these lands been .organized in 1830, soon after reference can be had to the paJ!>er the t.own was laid out. The latter .on Franklin township. has a go.od church, a large society H.opewell t.ownship was first set~ and Sabbath school, but the build­ tIed about the year 1805 .or 1806.- ing is in Muskingum county, 33

There is in the immediate vicinity In 1830 Rev. Robert McCracken of Gratiot, a Baptist church which .arid others organized an Episcopal can, with great pr6priety be classed Methodist Church in Gratiot, which -yv,ith the pi6~eer .c~urches ~f Lick- held its meetin.g~ in a sc~ool aouse, lDg county, It haVlDg been In opera- until 1836, when they bUIlt a good tion since 1821, a pel'iod of48 years. Ichu~~h e~ifice, which is still used. The first Methodi$t society in Lewis Ijams and William Tucker Hopewell township, as well as the' were· mai-nly ,inlluential in the first first of any denomination, was '()r-I establishment of this society. Rev. ganized at the residence of the wid- Joseph Carper and Rev. Abner Goff ow Dickinson, one mile or more I we:-e pionee.r peachers in this church. north of Brownsville,in the year 18161 The first Sabbath school in Hope­ by that veteran preacher of the Wild-I well was organized by this church ern~ss R~v. James QuinI?-' The I in 183.o,M:r;~ Lewis Ijams being the SOcIety bUIlt a log churoh In 1818, Supermtendent. It has now, under and as both stoves and money to pay the Superintendence of Mr. T. S. for them were scarce in those days, Armstrong an average attendance on the Flint Ridge, they warmed of about. 70. ~p in winter by burning charc<;>al In 1832 Revo' Joseph Carper and ill a square wooden box lme~ WIth Rev. Jacob Young organized a stone· and mortar, placed: In the Methodist Episcopal Society in the chur~h~ Rev. J. Mc~ahon, Re.v. western portion of Hopewell town­ Martm Fate, Rev. MIchael Eilts,. ship, with Mr. Samuel B. Hull ar;; Rev. Joseph Carper! Rev., Abner its class leader. It erected a church Goff; Rev. :Tames Qumn, and othe~s sometime after, and the society 'Yere th~ pIOneer preachers of, thls now worship in what is known as little socIety. Mr. Landon War~eld Spencer ChapeL It has a member­ was the class leader. The S?Cle~y I ship of abQut 30, ~~d a Sabbath was transferred to Brownsvllle. lD school of 40 pupils, John Keenen be- 1829, where ~hey ere.cted a brIck ing Superintendent. church of whIch mentIOn was made in the paper on Bowling Green town- Rev. Samuel Hamilton, R.ev. Rob;. Ship. ert McCracken, Rev. Martm Fate, The second society organized in Rev. ~eroy Swormsted; ~ev. James this township was in Of before· the, B. Fmley, Rev. C. Sprmge~, and year 1821, half a mile north. west others were ~mong t~e pIoneer from Gratiot. It was of the Baptist preachers of thIS townshIp. denomination, and· Rev. Thomas Hopewell is divided into school Snelson and Rev. Mr. Caves were districts as other townships, and is among its earliest ministers, and provided with the usual number of Wm. Baker, Jesse Stith, John Park- school houses. Mr. Charles How­ er, and Daniel Scofield succeeded ard, the pioneer school teacher of them. Among its first members Bowling Green, also pioneered some were Adam Smith Daniel Drumm, professionallY' in this township, and Samuel Winegarner, James Redman,. Joseph Evans and George Hursey Thomas White, Is~ac Smith, Mar-j were also pioneers in that profes­ garet .. Wineg~er, and H~nryClay:, sion. baugh~ The society built a church . . 1823 which was superseded by :rhe populatIOn QfIlopeweU town- ~ neat: substantial build~ng.~h~t ShIP w.as 999 by the census of 1830. . ow occupied. The SOClety IS ill b.1S4:0~twas ...... • .. 1150 IS n . d't' bav'n a In 1850 It was ...... 1227 a :O.ourishmg con lion, l.g. -1 In 1860 itwas ...... 1113 bout 40 members. The. orlgma, And remains about the same. deacons were Adam SmIth, and The vote for President since, and includ­ Jas. Redman~ Isaac Smith and Dan'l ing 1856, was cast as follows: Drumm are deacons at present. 34 1856. Senate in 1846. They were early James Buchanan··········.··· .. •·•••• 180 settlers and men of influence. J. C. Fremont ...... - 85 NOTE.-Tbe writer does not feel jus­ Millard Fillmore ... ~...... 10 tified in closing these sketches without Total •••.•.• , •••. •• •• 225 bringing to view a. few of tbe most aged pioneers of these townships, who have 1860. not been mentioned. Stephen A. Douglas ...... 113 MR. T. IVORY resides near Jackson­ Abraham Lincoln ...... 00 ...... 80 town, and is over 90 years of age. He John O. BreckenrIdge .. 00 ...... 23 has lived in Licking township 40 years, John Bell ...... ~ .... 00 .. 00- 8 and is now very feeble. Total...... 224 MRS. SUTTON, widow of tbe late Jehu Sutton, came to J .. icking county in 1804 1864. and has lived in Licking township, 65 George B. McCellan··.········· ••... 139 years. She is over 93 years old and very Abraham Lincoin...... 36 feeble. MRS. MOTBERSPA. w, came to Licking Total·.·· ••..••..•... 175 county in 1805, and still lives in Frank­ 1868 lin township, where she has had a res­ Horatio Seymour ...... 152 idence 101' 64 years. She is between 80 General G:ant... ·· .. ······'·· ...... ···• ,48 and 90 years old and teeble, but in moderate health. Total...... 200 WM. PAYNE is nearly 90 years of age The only Post office in Hopewell and vigorous~ still able to perlorm daily is at Gratiot. The first Post muster labor. He was in the war of 1812, re- was succeed- ceiving his discbarge at No.rfolk Va., was Moses Meek. He in which State he was born in 1780'­ eel by Samuel Winegarne:r, Nathan He has lived here sir.ce 1833, and is a Henslee, William Sims, S. R. Tuck- resident of Bowling Green township. er, F . F . D u tton, L . A . 8 1:,evens, hSAMUEL MUSSELMAN, b V' of Licking.. 7 town- William Redman. and the present sip, was orn in irglma III 1 85, and has lived here 55 years. Although incumbent Stephen R. Tucker, the nearly 84 years of age, he is in good second time. health. " A' I IS' RICHARD GREEN, of Licking town- . T~ele al~ two grICU tur~ oOle- ship, is in his 84th year and enjoys a bes 1ll Hopewell, both holdmg some Ifair share of health and mental vigor.-­ of their meetings in Gratiot. The aHe came here in 1800, ()9 years ago! " Gratiot Farmers Club" was or- SOLOMON MY~RS :was born in Yirginia, . . 865 d h' - and came to LICkmg coullty III 1803.-- gamzed m 1 ,an . as twenty He is now 81 years old, and in full men- members. It meets semI-monthly, tal vigor and health. alternately in Gratiot, and at the SAM'L B. HULL was born in Virginia, house of some member. in 1791, and came to Ohio in 1808. He is . t th " 7jT now 78 years of age and vigoroul':, mell- Th e 0 th er ~oCle y, ~ ..LI a;,mers tally and physically. He and :501omon and Mechanws .Assocwtwn, has Myers long resided in Hopewell town­ not been in operation a year yet, but ship, but are now citizens of Columbus. it has about thirty members, and JACOB MYERS, no,v 77 years old, was meets monthly in Gratiot. These b?rtl. in :Vir~ina, in 1793. and ca;me to societies are living institutions- I.. ICkmg III 1801,ang has had a res.Iden~e .. . here 68 years, much' ot the tIme In thell' meetmgs are well attended- Hopewell townsbip where he now lives their discussions are lively and spiri- enjoymg moderate' health. He was a ted-and the impression is general soldier in the war of 1812. that they are productive of good. WILLIAM BROWN. of Hopewell town- . . ship, came from PennsylvanIa, in 1818, ~l]ham Hull Esq., and Samuel fifty one years ago, and is now 74 years Wmegarner, Esq., can be ranked ot age, and enjoys the full strength and with the most successful of the poli- health of a vigorous' old age. ticians' of Hopewell township; the JAMES HOSKINSON, now 88 years ol.d, former being electeCi. a member of and one ~f the ~arl:v: settlers of Frankhn . Tow nshIp, havmg lIved tbere more than the lower branch of the LegIslature 60 years is still living though trail in in 1827, and the latter to the State health. ' , 35

1idling

BY GREINER & CO.

HE autumll.leaves-how quick theyehange Her han~kerchief about her neck. her Mp Tto purple and to gold, white as snow. a. And each returning season tells that we are She rocked the cradle with one foot. while she growing old; spun her flax and tow- The frosty handy-work of Time on many a She dressed in linsey-woolsey petticoa.t-the crown appears. sbort gown too she'd wear, As we so readily behold among the LIOKING And by kind:words and deeds she'd cheer her COUNTY PIONEERS. noble-hearted PIONEER! The golden dreams of youth are past. yet leave Log-rollings, grubbings, raisings. huskings, a glorious boon; flax-pullings, quiltings were the style, A heart that's full of music, with all its strings And young and old would gather in from many in tune; and many a mile, The songs we sung when we were young; the And mirth, and fun, and frolic, songs and jests, old familiar airs, loud laughs and cheers, Are sweet as music of Eolean harps to the Were the order of the day, and night, with LICKING PIONEERS! the old LICKING PIONEERS! The Indian from his wil[wam home, with sly The young man to his sweetheart then tender­ and stealthy tread, ed his most gracious bow, Made man3" a settlers hair ta stand erect upon And homeward fly the moon's pale light they his head; . bashfully weuld go, The wild beasts of the forest-the wolf, the And the beau who'd thus courting go, would 'panther and the bear, breakfast with his dear Fell by the deadly rifle's aim, when held by In the hamble cabin-home Of the good old the LICKING PIONEER! LICKING PIONEER! His course, by "blazing of the trees," the dar- This gallant beau and ladY fair to church ing woodsman knew, . . would go, to worship in God's temple, And near the narrow bridle-path, the whurmg Where they'd hear of Faith and HOpe and Pen­ pheasant flew; itence, and of the Life Immortal, The dead-wood and the under-brush the roar- And after church they'd homeward move, in­ ing fire clears, . dulging hopes, and sometimes fears, To make room for the rude log-cabm of the And this was evermore called "courting," by LICKING PIONEERS! the old LICKING ProNE ERS ! His hunting shirt of buck-skin, his leggins made These old-time scenes lon~ since have passed, ofleather, "k and fellow -feeling's dead; Hi~ cap of coon or fox skin, the tall worn 11 e a The call to raisings. rollIngs, grubbings, husk­ feather; • f ings, pullings, quiltings is seldom heard­ A pair of fancy moccasins he kept so mce or Good neighborship and the kind deeds of old, ~unday wear- now pertain to other spheres. A lora in the wild, stately forest then. was the And not to this, as practiced in early days by LICKIN6 PIONEER! LICKING'S GOOD oLD PIONEERS! The feast of pork and hominy stood smoking Old pilgrims in the race of life,-our journey's on. the board, nearly o'er, With plates and spoons of pewter, the cup a Our wttering footsteps soon will turn toward hollaw gourd, . the boundless shore, And sauer-krout, pone, fat meat and Johnny We're· passing through the wilderness of Sor - cake comprised the fare rows, hopes and fears, Of the generous, simple-hearted, brave old And soon we'll be"in the land of the leal," with LICKING PIONEER! • "old LICKING'S" PIONEERS! Thenevery man his rifle kept, and swung the We'll soon cross o'er the crystal river, and the city evermore behold, sturdy ax. d d' h l't The wife worked in the gar en, an In er I - Whose walls all blaze with jewels-whGse tIe patch of flax; . streets are paved with gold, She spun, she wove, she sewed, she kmt and Whose pearly gates are ever open, where all Jllied her household care, the shining host appears- And cheered the manly heart of her brave, And where, through gra ce, we hope will ever stalwart :PIONEER! be the home of LICKING'S PIONEBRS I