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[leaann1@bellsouth.net] #4 RALPH POMEROY BUCKLAND (Sandusky C [leaann1@bellsouth.net] #5 A Reminiscence (Tom Hawkins) [leaann1@bellsouth.net] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:00:07 EST From: CrowSH@aol.com Subject: Grant Taylor obit Sandusky, OH Daily Register, 15 Jan 1931, pg. 2, col 6 Captain Taylor of Toledo Dies at Home Here. Long Prominent in Affairs of Veterans; Had Been in Hospital for One Month. O.S. and S. Home, Jan. 14 Captain Grant S. Taylor, 60 a well-known resident of Toledo, died Wednesday morning in the Home Hospital. Funeral services will be held in Toledo Saturday afternoon and burial will be made in that city. Captain Taylor entered the Home a month ago. He was a prominent Spanish- American War veteran and organizer of the Army and Navy Union in Toledo. He was superintendent of the Franklin Printing and Engraving Co and had been active in affairs of veterans in Toledo for many years. He was past president of the Sons of the American Revolution, commander of Isaac R. Sherwood Garrison, Army and Navy Union, and a member of Egbert Camp, Spanish War veterans, and the Military Order of the Serpent. He is survived by his widow, two sons, one an announcer at radio station WSPD in Toledo, and two sisters, one being Mrs Dolly House of Norwalk. (Editorial comment by submitter - his sister was Mrs Helen Mixter of Norwalk) ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:00:05 EST From: CrowSH@aol.com Subject: Grant S. Taylor Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Register No. 13, 117 Application and Discharge of Grant S. Taylor Co. E, 10th Ohio Inf., Lucas Co, OH. Admitted 16 Dec 1930 to the Home Hospital. Died 6:35 a.m. Jan. 14, 1931 State of Ohio, ErieCo, Grant S. Taylor an applicant for admission to the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Sandusky, being first sworn in according to law makes true answers to the ensuing questions as follows: 1. Name in full: Grant S. Taylor 2. Present residence: Toledo, Lucas Co, Ohio 3. Date of birth: 18th day of October 1868 4. Where born: Erie Co, Ohio 5. How long a citizen of Ohio? All my life 6. Have you resided in Ohio the last year past? Yes 7. In what war did you serve the United States Government: Spanish American Enlisted June 28th 1898 at Toledo, OH, lst Lieut. Co E, 10th O.V.I. Mustered out as 1st Lieut. Co E, 10th O.V.I. March 23d 1899 at Augusta, GA. 8. Nature of disability: (blank) 9. Degree of insanity: (blank) 10. Marital Status: Married 25 Nov 1925 Maiden name of wife: Mary R. Shuman 11. Do you receive a pension: Yes Amount per month: $6 Certificate #1,243,955 12. Have you property: Yes What is the value: $4,000 13. What is your occupation: Supt. Franklin Printing Co. 14. How are you supported: Labor & Pension 15. What family have you living: Wife, 2 sons, 1 daughter 16. Name and address of nearest living relative: Mary Taylor (wife) 906 Clay Ave, Toledo, OH Signature of applicant: Grant S. Taylor Sworn to before me by the said Grant S. Taylor and signed by him in my presence this 15th day of December 1930 and I certify that the foregoing affidavit was read over and fully explained to him by me before he was sworn to the same. Signature: Esther A. McKernan, Notary Public SURGEON'S CERTIFICATE: Dec. 15th, 1930 - carcinoma of the neck, right side, non-operative. Signed by the surgeon of the Home. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:50:01 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: SARDIS BURCHARD (Sandusky Co.) Historical Collections of Ohio Henry Howe LL. D. Published 1904 copyright 1888 Sandusky County SARDIS BIRCHARD, was born in Wilmington, Vt., January 15, 1801. He lost both parents while yet a child, and was taken into the family of his sister Sophia, who had married Rutherford Hayes. In 1817 he accompanied them to Delaware, Ohio. In 1822 his brother-in-law, Mr. Hayes died, leaving a widow and three young children. Mr. Birchard at once devoted himself to his sister and her family. He never married, but through life regarded his sister's family as his own. He was a handsome, jovial young man and a universal favorite. In the winter of 1824-5, with Stephen R. Bennett as a partner, he bought and drove a large drove of fat hogs from Delaware to Baltimore. "Two incidents of this trip," says Knapp, in his 'History of the Maumee Valley,' "are well remembered. The young men had to swim their hogs across the Ohio River at Wheeling, and came near losing them all by the swift current. In the meantime they were overtaken by a tall, fine looking gentleman on horseback, who had also a carriage drawn by four horses with attendants. He helped Mr. Birchard to get the hogs out of the way, chatted with him, and advised him to dispose of them at Baltimore as the best market. This gentleman, as they soon ascertained, was none other than Gen. Jackson, then on his way to Washington after the Presidential election of 1824, in which he was the highest in the popular vote, but not the successful candidate, for the election being thrown into the house John Quincy Adams was chosen." In 1827 Mr. Birchard removed to Fremont, then Lower Sandusky, and engaged in selling general merchandise. He was largely patronized by Indians, because he refused to sell them liquor. Mr. Birchard found the Indians very honest in their business transactions, and when any of them died with debts unpaid they were settled by Tall Chief, their leader. Mr. Birchard was very successful in his business ventures. He was connected with the first enterprise that opened river and lake commerce between Fremont and Buffalo; was instrumental in securing legislation for the construction of wagon roads, and later, largely interested in the construction of the first railroads of the Maumee Valley. He contributed largely to benevolent objects. The Birchard library is a gift from him to the city of Fremont. He died in 1874, bequeathing his estate to his nephew, ex-president Hayes. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:52:42 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: RALPH POMEROY BUCKLAND (Sandusky Co.) Historical Collections of Ohio Henry Howe LL. D. Published 1904 copyright 1888 Sandusky County RALPH POMEROY BUCKLAND, was born in Leyden, Mass., January 20, 1812. When but a few months old his father removed to Ohio and settled in Portage County. He was educated at Kenyon College, studied law, was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1837, and the same year removed to Fremont. He was married to Charlotte Broughton, of Canfield, in 1838; was a delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1848; elected to the Ohio Senate in 1855, serving four years, during which time his bill for the adoption of children became a law. In 1861 he was appointed Colonel of the seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which afterwards, with other regiments, became noted as "Buckland's Brigade." He commanded the Fourth Brigade of Sherman's Division at the battle of Shiloh, and was made Brigadeer-General November 29, 1862. He commanded a brigade of the Fifteenth Army Corps at Vicksburg and the District of Memphis for two years, resigning from the army, January 9, 1865, to take his seat in Congress, to which he had been elected while on duty in the field. March 13, 1865, he was brevetted Major-General of volunteers. He served two terms in Congress and has held many important offices of trust; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1876. From 1867 till 1873 was president of the managers of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, and government director of the Pacific Railroad, 1877-80. He has done much for the improvement of the city of Fremont and is one of its most respected and beloved citizens. For two years ex-President Hayes was associated with gen. Buckland as his law partner. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:32:52 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: A Reminiscence (Tom Hawkins) Historical Collections of Ohio Henry Howe LL. D. Published 1904 copyright 1888 Sandusky County A Reminiscence With some Poetry from "The World's Wonder." When on my original visit to Fremont, I called on an elderly gentleman, Mr. Thomas L. Hawkins, who was the keeper of the magazine in Fort Meigs at the time of the siege. I found him at his home. It was in the gloom of the evening; no light in the room where he gave me his recollections of its events. My mind being in an unusually receptive condition, and having no use for my eyes in the darkness, my ears did double duty; so I remembered every word. The incidents I thus gathered will be found under the head of the history of the siege of Fort Meigs in Wood County. I was not then aware that Mr. Hawkins was a cabinet maker, a local preacher in the Methodist church, and, greater than all, a poet! This discovery was reserved for my last visit, and it came from Mr. Hayes' library, wherein is a copy of a small volume entitled, "The Poetic Miscellany and World's Wonders;" by Thomas L. Hawkins. Columbus: Scott and Bascom, printers, 1853. Our poet allowed his muse to help him in his business, and so he brought her to his aid in advertising his stock in trade, washboards and mops. These verses have the charm of old-time rusticity; carries back my mind to the days of the fathers, even before the arrival of the cook-stove. I remember when they were unknown, and the people largely farmers, there being but few cities. Often have I seen, when a youth, on wash-days, huge kettles hanging by cranes over great kitchen fires, filled with snow to melt for soft water; a dinner pot over the fire for a boiled dinner, the usual menu for wash-days; and while the women of the family were bending over the wash-tub, some young girl or boy would be standing by a pounding-barrel, pounding the clothes prior to the rubbing process. Pounding the clothes seemed to have been a common duty of the children of the family, who stood on stool to get the proper height. The pounder was a round block of wood, perhaps eight inches long and weighing perhaps five to ten pounds, into which was inserted a long handle, as in a broom, for a lifter, which both hands grasped during the pounding operation. With every washboard and mop sold by the poet was attached a card, with its poetic advertisement. The Washboard Take notice that I, Thomas Hawkins the younger, Than old Tom, my father, more active and stronger, In my journey through life, have found in my way, What some call ash Wednesday, men's wives call wash-day. However enduring the conjugal life, This day brings a cloud on the husband from wife; The dogs and the cats must stand out the way, And all about the house dread the coming wash-day. To make the day pleasant, I've long studied how, To bring back the smile on the dog and the cow; To cheer the poor husband, the clouds blow away, And smiles light the wife on that gloomy dark day. The machinist for this has exhausted his skill; In inventing machines poor woman to kill; No valued relief, I'll venture to say, Has loomed up as yet to dispel the dark day. The washboard alone must end all the strife, With a love-helping husband to cheer up the wife, To straighten his rib, and show well he may, With a few hearty rubs on that dark steamy day. We have boards of this kind for both husband and wife, We'll venture the price, 'twill end all the strife, Which are fluted both sides; then come, come away, And buy of our sunshine to dispel the dark day. The Mop The wife that scrubs without a mop Must bend her back full low, And on her knees mop up the slop And little comfort know. And he who loves a cleanly wife, And wants to keep her clean, Would make her smile and end all strife By buying this machine. And can you thus your wife displease, With her sweet smiles dispense, And make her scrub upon her knees, To save some twenty cents? (Which is the price of the mop) You hardened wretch! Pull out y'r cash, Untie your money-stockings, And don't neglect to buy this trash From your old friend, Tom Hawkins. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #107 *******************************************