HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                          533

Mrs. Tribble, each of whom had a son named William. To distinguish
them by way of identification the other boys and girls at school nicknamed
them, respectively, “Basket” and “Toler.” This little frame house, in
which was the best quality of poplar and oak timber, when sold some
years ago by Dr. Rodney Grimes, was purchased by George Lash, who
moved it onto his premises near by and converted it into a granary. This
site, at the time of the building of the church and school-house, was in
Washington township.

                    Recollections of Canal Days.
    William Campbell, of Center Point, ex-trustee of Sugar Ridge town-
ship, who is now within sight of his eightieth mile-stone, in rehearsing
his recollections of canal days, says that in his youth he frequently
accompanied John W. Ecret, who operated the boat, “Belle of Bowling
Green,” down the river to the dam, then down the side-cut to the junc-
tion, and at different times helped load the boat with corn on the old
George Reed place, near the present Old Hill bridge, for shipment to the
Toledo market, first shelling the corn on the ground alongside the canal.
He relates, also, that his brother, Martin Campbell, when about twenty-
one years old, was in feeble health, with apparently no promise of recov-
ery, and used to accompany Ecret on his round trips for pastime and
diversion, and later as an assistant on the boat, until to the happy surprise
of his family and friends, he was completely restored to health and is yet
living.

                    Remarkable Case of Fasting.
    On the 16th day of May, 1893, appeared in the Indianapolis Daily
Sun the following contribution from the Brazil correspondent of that
paper:
    “The most remarkable instance of fasting on record is that of little
Cora Fugate, the thirteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Fugate, living at Hadleytown, a suburb of Brazil, who has now abstained
from food for over ten weeks. Cora is one of a family of five children,
three sons and two daughters, her parents both living, at about middle
age. The youngest member of the family, a little boy of about eighteen
months, died of measles in February. While living, Cora was the baby’s
constant companion and guardian, and between them there was the most
fervent affection. After the boy’s death the sister refused to be com-
forted and became melancholy. She declined to eat, and startled her
parents and the family by the declaration that she had resolved to die
that she might be reunited with her little brother in the spirit land, and
that she had chosen to carry out her purpose by means of starvation.
The case of Dr. Tanner, who fasted voluntarily for a period of forty
days, elicited the attention of the scientific world and the comments of
the press everywhere. The voluntary and persistent fasting of Cora
Fugate is now just on the border of doubling Dr. Tanner’s time, while
her tender age, even though other things were equal, renders the case
doubly interesting and remarkable. Her protracted abstinence and the
corresponding depletion of the vital forces have brought on conditions
of mental weakness and aberration at times bordering on dementia. Aside
from a devout religious conviction on the part of the mother, which is
thought to have been either transmitted to or most effectually impressed
upon the daughter, there are no idiosyncrasies about the family. The
father is a sensible, substantial, honest and industrious laborer, who has