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                         COLE'S CHAPEL

PAGE 394  Named in honor of the Rev. Eleazer Cole, an early settler, and 
an acceptable and useful minister of the gospel.  He and his good lady 
have passed away, but their names and memories are fondly cherished still.
  Here resides that excellent man, Daniel Kelsey and his kind lady,
daughter of father Cole, with an interesting family of children, grown up 
and mostly settled around them.  When one year old he fell into the fire, 
burnt one of his hands to a crisp, and measurably lost it use forever.
  His horse, taking fright, ran away, capsized his buggy, threw him and his
daughter overboard; both were sadly frightened and seriously injured.  
His son Israel and Lorenzo Wright were both badly bitten with copperheads 
- suffered much, but recovered.
  Nathaniel Wright was killed at his house raising.  A log slipped upon 
the skids, came down suddenly, and crushed him to death.  He died in great 
bodily pain, but in peace of mind, in 1820.
  Reed Crandall, an old and good citizen, fell from his horse last summer, 
and well nigh broke his neck - will, in all probability, be crippled in 
his shoulder for life - had his house and goods all consumed by fire, in 
1817.
  The Rev. Mr. Nelson laid me under obligations of gratitude for the 
interest manifested in my behalf. Harvey Cole and other early settlers 
reside here, loved and honored.  John Cole had one foot cut clean off, 
with a mowing macine, and the other badly wounded, and crippled for life.
  Father Kelsey was much beset with wild beasts, as were his neighbors, in 
their early settlement.  In broad daylight a bear came to his very door, 
fell afoul of one of his large hogs.  Hearing the outcry, he rushed to her 
relief - he let up - took to the woods - and the dogs after him - treed, 
and then he shot him, took his hide and "tanned his jacket."



Barb Boese     barbwire@midusa.net