MONROE COUNTY OHIO - Excerpt from the Monroe County Republican, 1937 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed to the Ohio part of the USGenWeb Archives by: John McDonald November 28, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAILEY, Mary Zillah (daughter of Vincent Dailey) Excerpt from story published in the Monroe County Republican, Oct. 28th & Nov. 4th, 1937. By Forrest S. Hogue, who taught the Plainview (Rice) School for almost 40 years. The first actual settlement in the district was in 1840, when a Mr. Leek built his cabin about a hundred yards south of the present school house. Some few reminders of this homestead may still be seen. Another cabin was erected a little later about midway of what we call the Barnard Hill. Here a Mr. Beaver with his wife and 15 children lived for some years. It is told that Mrs. Beaver, during the late 1840's, in order to help support the family, did washing for the more well-to-do families of Antioch. She walked to and fro each morning and evening, a distance of about four and half miles and knitted continuously as she went. Original owners of farms, followed by present owners (1937): Mr. Rice - Carl Kinsey H. Barnard - Henry Barnard S. Barnard - Roger Briggs Capt. William Dougherty - Haud Hendrix Mr. Menamie - Philip Pickens John Phillips - John Thomas Isaac Phillips - Rex Kindall Mr. Piatt - William Foraker George Andrews - Victor Colvin Philip Truex - Marion Covert Tom Moffett - Janie Bonam George Eickleberry - Henry Bonam John Drum - Pearlie Briggs Mr. Dunn - Tom Dillon George Foraker - Arthur Weddle Mr. Stewart - Denver Haught Thomas West - Oliver West Samuel Cox - Paul Pickens Nathaniel States - Earl West Jacob Hall - Pete Edington Place ... The houses and other buildings of our early settlers were typical of pioneer times. Some of the earlier ones were of round-log structure being later replaced with hewed logs. Windows were made of oiled papers. The floors of split-log, the roofs of clap-board and the fire place of stone with "tobacco stick" chimneys. ...Mrs. Oliver Sloan, the mother of Grandma Emma Hogue related a somewhat similar occurrence. She was sent early of a morning to a neighboring cabin to "borrow fire." While hurrying through the thick timber, she came upon a sleeping bear. Returning hurriedly to the cabin, she called her father who succeeded in killing the beast after following it for some time. (My note - Mrs. Oliver Sloan was Mary Zillah Dailey, the daughter of Vincent Dailey and this incident probably happened in Seneca Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio, where she grew up. She was the grandmother of Forrest S. Hogue, who wrote this article.) ...Among a page-long list of civil war veterans who lived in the district was: Peter Dailey - imprisoned at Andersonville - Uncle of Mrs. Emma Hogue.