HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

short time after this little incident Rager packed his household effects and
left the place to go further west, declining all the inducements brought
to bear to persuade him to stay.
    Several of the Center Point women, neighbors to the Rager family,
who volunteered their services in helping pack up the household goods
for shipment, related afterward that they had seen Mrs. Rager take a
stocking from concealment in a bed-tick, in which, as they supposed,
were valuables of a private character. But after the circumstances at-
tending Rager’s leaving Ohio became known to them, they expressed the
belief that the stocking taken from its hiding place in the bed-tick was
the family bank.
In Memory of Revolutionary Soldiers.
    On the Fourth of July, 1906, as many as two hundred or more in-
terested citizens of the county assembled at the Zenor cemetery, on Birch
creek, to pay their respects to the memory of Lawrence Thompson and
Amos Kelley in the formal dedication of the monuments erected by the
county to designate their resting places. Thompson and Kelley were
Revolutionary soldiers, whose graves were unmarked for nearly three-
quarters of a century, when the board of county commissioners made an
appropriation for the erection of suitable monuments to their memory.
    The exercises of the day were opened at 2:30 p.m., an old soldier
present named Kerr officiating in the capacity of chaplain to the occasion.
The Declaration of Independence was read by T. M. Robertson, followed
by an appropriate address by Peter T. Luther. John C. Moss, of Ash-
boro, and R. L. Kennedy, of Center Point, also delivered talks in re-
sponse to calls made upon them. Practically little if anything is known
by the present generation of Amos Kelley and his descendants, but there
are survivors of the Thompson family yet resident in the county, per-
haps of the third and fourth generations in the line of descent, including
James L. Boothe and William H. Boothe, well known citizens. Law-
rence Thompson was the great-grandfather of Absalom B. Wheeler, de-
ceased.
    There he in the Zenor cemetery, also, a number of veterans of the
Second War for Independence and of the heroes of the Rebellion. Of
the former are Thomas Wheeler, William Robertson, Amos Hedge,.
Alfred Poteet and Jacob Gibbons; of the latter, John Wilson, Caleb
Nash, John T. Morgan, Nathaniel Morgan, Richard Witty, Samuel Butt.
The day was an ideal Fourth of July and the occasion in celebration
of the date the first and only one of its kind in the history of Clay county.
Township Salaries Sixty Years Ago.
    The board of trustees of Harrison township, on the 8th day of
March, 1847, levied a tax of 2 1/2 cents on the $100 of taxable property of
the township and 2 1/2 cents on the poll, to raise the necessary revenue to
def ray the current expenditures of the township for the succeeding year.
On the same day, in compliance with the request of the township board,
the treasurer submitted his financial report as follows:

    “To the Honorable Board of Trustees of Harrison Township—Your
treasurer begs leave to report to your honorable body that there is no
money in the treasury, nor never has been since I have held the office.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
“PETER COOPRIDER,
“Treasurer Harrison Tp.”