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                                  HART'S MILL


PAGE 393  Owned by William Hart, an early settler, an excellent and good 
citizen.  Mill consumed by fire in 1843, full of grain, and no insurance.
  Daniel Paul had a little girl burned to death, her clothes having caught 
fire by a candle, and four others badly injured by the explosion of a 
powder keg.  One is totally blind, an inmate of the State Asylum, smart 
and intelligent.  Throwing crackers about at Christmas was the cause of 
the explosion.  Children, be careful with powder, it is a dangerous 
plaything.  Ann Eliza Stepp, a little girl, inhaled the hot steam from the 
nose of a boiling tea-kettle, and soon after died - poor little thing. 
  John Campbell was killed at a log-rolling, a large log passing over him, 
leaving him a mangled corpse.
John Sellers and Israel Seaborn, both hung themselves in 1855, and Isaiah 
Dowess[should be Dower's] shot himself throughthe heart delibertately, in 
1854.  Benjamin Hall was badly bitten by a copperhead, in 1823.  Alexander 
Boyle died with a fearful cancer, in 1853.  James H. Connell was badly 
injured at a raising, in 1844 - jaw bone broken all to smash, but 
recovered.  Mrs. Eliza Kennett was thrown from her horse, and killed upon 
the spot.  The babe in her arms was uninjured, as by a miracle.




Barb Boese     barbwire@midusa.net