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                          DILLSBOROUGH

PAGE 395  Is the residence of that excellent and useful man, Col. Jacob W. 
Eggleston, the Leonidas and champion of Temperance, the kind friend and 
good citizen.  Dr. Martin and his interesting family reside here, also; 
and here is my early and true friend, Thomas Guion, one of the first men 
I ever voted for in this county, and I voted for him repeatedly afterward, 
and loved to vote for him - a gentleman of moral excellence and worth.  
Here, too are my friends, the Wymonds and the Stevensons, the Tibbettses, 
the Vandolaps, the Witheroes, the Knowleses, and others, all good men and 
true - my early friends.  The Rev. Wm. Knowles is an excellent and useful 
man and minister of the gospel. Dillsborough is one of my strong holds all 
the time.  My friends here voluntarily met me at their church, one evening,
and subscribed for sixty-five copies of my book.  Rev. James Murray and his
most pious and estimable lady buried three of their dear children, almost 
at once - a painful visitation.  My worthy friends, Wm. B Miller and James 
Noble, had their hands badly mangled and torn in the machinery of the 
steam mill; Noble lost one hand entirely, and all the fingers upon the 
other.
   Mrs. Layborn Bramble had her breast amputated, diseased with a fearful 
cancer, but died soon after, poor woman.  
  Jacob Hoover's son fell from a tree some twenty-five feet, and broke his 
leg in three places, and was otherwise badly bruised and injured, but 
recovered.
  Mr. and Mrs. George Abraham, on a visit to their friends in Ohio, while 
passing through Elizabethtown, the wagon took fire from a coal which had 
fallen from a pipe; in a moment all was in flame.  Mr. Abraham jumped out, 
but the horses took fright, ran off at a most fearful rate, and Mrs. 
Abraham was burned to a perfect crisp, and returned to her friends a 
frightful corpse.  Many of the fires charged to incendiaries will, in my 
judgment, be taxed to "pipes and cigars," in the final settlement.  The 
wonder is, that every thing is not consumed where they are used.





 Barb Boese     barbwire@midusa.net