Meigs County OhArchives News.....Meigs County Telegraph July 10 1855 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Cotterill-Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com July 1, 2004, 11:08 am microfilm Meigs County Telegraph Pomeroy, Ohio Tuesday, July 10, 1855 The Emigration to Iowa Having just returned from a trip to Fort Dodge, Fort Des Moines, Iowa City, Muscatine and other points in the interior, we can testify to the most rapid emigration that ever in any one season flooded the State. Seek whatever thoroughfare you may, and you will find it lined with emigrant wagons. In many instances large droves of stock of a superior quality are met with. On our last day's drive into Iowa City from Fort Des Moines, we met 69 covered wagons seeking a home in the valley of the Des Moines. It is safe to say that the emigration to Iowa this year, will be double that of any preceding year. Dubugue Express [the above was in the Meigs Co. Telegraph July 10, 1855 followed by the below paragraph] The Ohioan who attempts a journey over the fertile and beautiful plains of that great Prairie State will be surprized, at almost every village, and in almost every stage coach, to find some old friend and neighbor from the Buckeye State. Inquiries have satifified us that the emigration to Iowa is more numerous from this State than from any other in the Union. Almost without exception they are persons of intelligence, character, and means. They have farms of one or two hundred acres here, but they have families growing up about them, and, as they could sell their Ohio lands at - from $20 to $70 per acre, and could buy just as good land in Iowa for $1.25, they are rapidly making the exchange. It seems by the above from the Dubugue paper, that this operation is going on with increased vigor. LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE Post Office at Pomeroy, July 1st, 1855 Andress Geo Alexander Georgiania Atkins Samuel J Angrep Cleve Bone Margaret Bell B P Baley Arley Ball Marion Bruner Geo Colins Wm Cross Ellen Cassut S Colins M W Curtis Josiah Dooley John Davis Jenkin Dadley & Co. Davis Wm Davis Kate Russell M J Fisher A C Fisher John Gary Hiram Gross Chas Gaul J Grimm A Hogg S. G. Higgins M M Henson & Hubbard Harper John B Jo?ling Robt Jones Evan Johnson Geo O Jones Elisha Kieppel Geo Kincade Geo Kaiser Charles Suikart Geo McLain T Manty Holland McKinsey John McCulloch John Marshall Josephine More Mary McLure Mary Newell Sally Pullins Wm Probe J Power Mary Robins James Rees Rowland Rybald Peter Rove Legrant Reichert Lewis Reitter Alex Sandborn S Schilling Peter Sharon L C. Smith G. S. Schneider C F Stephen George Snider Wm. Staals Mr Simms Elizabeth Skeen Geo M Smith Wm Shafer Geo Thomas Jonathan Townsend S. R Thomas John J Turner John Vance John Werling Charles Williams E R Wine Henry Wahan Michael Weeks Geo D Yeager Samuel Yreher Catherine Young Annah Ziggafoos, Isaac At my instance an attachment was this day issued by James B. Young, a justice of Peace, in Bedford Township, Meigs County against the property and effects of Henry Hill, a non-resident of said County, dated this 5th day of June, 1855. Ziba Winget TO THE CREDITOR OF JOB H. HALL, DECEASED On the 15th day of Sept., A. D., 1854, the Probate Court of Meigs County declared the estate of Job H. Hall, deceased, to be probably insolvent; and on the 22d of June 1855, said Court extended the time for the presentation of claims against the estate for six months. Creditors are therefore required to present claims against the estate, to the undersigned for allowance, within six months from the time above mentioned, or they will not be entitled to payment. N. R, Nye Administrator of Job H. Hall, deceased. Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb