MAHONING COUNTY OHIO  -  Entry from July 1, 1932 Mahoning Dispatch-Jackson Township History
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This is a local history article that mentions my 4g-grandpa 
John Pearsall. 
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Entry from July 1, 1932 Mahoning Dispatch- 
Jackson Township History - installment --
by Harley Tuttle

    "The early traditions of Jackson township contain no records of mighty 
achievements of hunters and if there were any great fishers the account of 
their fishing has been lost.  Like many of the other townships in this 
section there was an abundant supply of wild game.  My, how some of our 
hunters of to-day would rejoice to go out and kill deer and bear within a few 
rods of the back door!  It  seems almost impossible to some of us to think 
that one day there were deer, bear, wolves and probably rattlesnakes in great 
numbers on all sides of where he (sic) live in comparative peace and quiet.  
The destruction of some of this game was not a matter of sport, but of 
necessity.  There are kinds of wild game which cannot be tamed or taught to 
be good neighbors.  Such criturs were the wolves.  There was but one way to 
deal with them and that was to eliminate them.  This the early settler did.  
Added to the necessity of doing this to protect the flocks and herds was a 
bounty on the wolf scalps.  No need to say more.  This made the destruction 
of the beasts a means of replenishing the pocket book of the settler which 
never was too fat.  
    One night Joseph Pierce lost all his sheep, a drove of seventeen, except 
three, by these marauders.  John Pearsall, one of the early settlers in the 
eastern part of the township was chased by a pack of these varmints one 
night.  They always seemed to be up to their deviltry in the silent watches 
of the night when honest folks were in bed.  At the time Mr. Pearsall was 
unarmed, but he procured a club and waded in on the pack and used it to such 
advantage that he was enabled to reach home without injury."