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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 74 Today's Topics: #1 Scott's History, Judge Chaney cont [Matboyd@aol.com] #2 Scott's History of Fairfield Co, s [Matboyd@aol.com] #3 Fw: Jeremiah Armstrong ["Maggie Stewart" Subject: Scott's History, Judge Chaney cont Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Personal recollections of Judge Chaney "There was another method of bridging the low, marshy, or swamp lands. These were called "pole bridges" or "corduroy bridges". They were common all over the West. The following was the manner of constructing them: Poles or logs were cut from the woods, of the length of ten or twelve feet, and laid down side by side across the raod for the distance to be corduroyed. Then on top of this ground-structure was placed a foot or more of earth dug up along the sides, it it were not under water, or hauled in on wagons. This bed of earth filled the space between the logs or poles, and when suffifciently packed made a passably good road. And it was a part of the work of the Supervisor to repair these roads by adding additional earth when the logs became too much exposed by wearing or the washing rains." "On the north were the Indians; and west, in Indiana, the county was still newer and less promising, much of it still in a condition of nature. We therefore concluded to remain in Bloom Township; for, however much we might have desired to re-cross the mountains back to my native and older State, we were too poor to do so." "At the time of my settlement here, I mention the following names, who, with their families, were my predecessors in Bloom, and my neighbors: Abram PLUMMER, Henry TUMLINSON, Henry DOVE, Chaney RICKETS, Charles RICKETS, Rev. Geo. BENNADUM, Rev. Elijah SPURGEON, Isaac MEASON, Martin FELTNER, the COURTRIGHTS, Zebulon LEE, Dorsey MEASON, Henry HIMEBAUGH, Major BRIGHT, the GLICKS, and the ALSPAUGHS. " "In Violet Township I mention; Abram PICKERING, Jacob PICKERING, Samuel McCOLLUM, George WELLS, George LONG, Jonathan LOOKER, Mordecai FISHBAUGH, the CRAMERs and the KRANERs, the DONALDSONs, Frederick BAUER. All the foregoing, and others, were residing here in 1812. Not over two or three of them are living now." "In the early years of my residence in Bloom Township, I bought a mill on Spring Run, near me (Spring Run is fed by three or four springs), where for several years I run a grist-mill, a saw-mill, and a distillery, which enabled me to form the acquaintance of a pretty wide circle of citizens." "At the time of my settlement, the Lutherans and German Reforms were the principal religious denominations of the neighborhood. The Betzer Church was their place of meeting in common. The church is situated four miles north-east of Lithopolis. There was also a church south of Lithopolis, know as the Glick Church. Both are still meeting places." "I was elected Justice of the Peace in 1821, 1824, and in 1827, serving in all three terms, or nine years. I served as Township Trustee twenty-three years. In the Ohio Militia, old system, I served at various times as Major, Colonel, and Paymaster." "In the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, I was elected to the Legislature as Representative of Fairfield County. In the spring of 1831, the legislature elected me as one of the Associate Judges of Fairfield County." I"n the fall of 1832 I was elected to the Lower House of Congress, from the district composed of Fairfield, Perry, Morgan and Hocking counties. Was re-elected from the same district in 1834 and in 1836. In 1842 I was again returned to the Ohio Legislature, Lower House, and was at that session elected Speaker. In 1844 I was elected to the Ohio Senate, the term being two years; and again in 1855 returned to the Lower House." "In 1832 my friends placed my name on the Presidential electoral ticket, and I had the honor of helping to make Andrew Jackson President of the United States. In 1851 I was a member of the constitutional Convention that framed the present Constitution of the State of Ohio. I am now within a few days of the close of my eighty-eighth year, and in the enjoyment of good health." From the friends and long acquaintances of Judge Chaney, I have received the information, that never once during his public life did he solicit office. But, when placed in nomination by his political friends, he entered into the spirit of the canvass, and helped the ticket through. In parting with the venerable Judge, as he grasped my hand cordially, he remarked,while his voice swelled up in volume and animation, that, whatever his life may have been, there was one thing that he was proud of, and that was the good opinions of his neighbors and constituents. That good opinion has been merited. and how blessed it would be, if every one could say at the close of life,that he, or she, was proud of the good opinions of their acquaintances. jNest the Statement of B. W. Carlisle ] ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:48:28 EST From: Matboyd@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <2d.1a94e0c.25e62e3c@aol.com> Subject: Scott's History of Fairfield Co, sketches Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Personal Recollections of Judge John Chaney, of Winchester At my strong solicitation, Judge Chaney consented to give me the following statement of his private and public life. He remarked that he had often been ased for similar statements, and that he had concluded now, in view of the near approach of the close of his very long and somewhat eventful life, and because he was pleased with the plan and design of the history of Fairfield county, to give me the statement, especially as I assured him that his numerous and life-long friends asked for it. "I was born in Washington County, Maryland, on the 12th day of January, 1790. At the age of four years, and at the beginning of my recollections, my father removed to and settled in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. When I was fourteen years old, my father died. The family then consisted of my mother, three sisters, one brother and myself. Three or four months subsequent to my father's death, my brother died. The death of my father left the family very poor. He was a generous man, and underwrote his friends, who were unfortunate, until he lost his farm, which was a good one, and nearly all his loose property. From my fourteenth to my twentieth year the care of the family devolved almost entirely on myself. In the fall of the year 1810, I came west to Fairfield County, Ohio, stopping first on the spot where the village of Waterloo now stands, on the Ohio canal. I did not remain there long, but went over into Pickaway County, where I stayed until the fall of 1812, when my health having become poor, I returned to Bedford county, Penn. In the fall of 1815, my health having been restored, I again came west and settled in Bloom Township, near its northern border, in the same community where I have resided up to this time; my present home being in the village of Canal Winchester, which was a few years since struck off into Franklin County with a tier of sections, the Fairfield line skirting the east border of the village. In the fall of 1816, I married Mary Ann Lafere, of Bloom Township, and went to housekeeping in a log-cabin fourteen feet square. Its floor was made of rough puncheons split out of forest trees. It had a clapboard roof and clapboard loft, was one low story high, had a stick and mud chimney, wide open fireplace with the primitive back wall, jams and hearth. It was a very rude and humble home, but we were as happy as kings. Our living was that of the frontier settlers. We worked hard and were poor; but did not doubt the future, for our aims were set. We intended to live correct and honourarble lives, and take the chances of the coming years. There were wolves and wild turkeys in great abundance, and now and then a bear. There were hawks of a great many varieties, which have nearly entirely disappeared; and the owl were hooting about the woods all the time. The whole country was new and wild. The little farms were small, and fenced in with rails; and the dwelling houses were log-cabins; and the stables and barns were built of logs. At the time of my settlement in Bloom Township, the price of a day's work was a bushel of wheat, or two bushels of corn. Cash was seldom paid for work, and when it was, twenty-five cents a day was the wages. Almost everything was paid for with trade. A few things had to be paid in cash. The taxes were cash; and coffee and a few other commodities commanded cash, when anybody could get it to pay with. Our markets, whatever they amounted to, were at Lancaster and Franklinton. The little mills of the settlements sometimes went dry, and we had to go all the way to Chillicothe or Zanesville to get our grain ground. The streams were not bridged, and in the muddy seasons of the year the roads were sometimes desperate. I made rails for fifty cents a hundred, and cut cord wood for twenty-five cents a cord. My sisters having married, I went and brought my mother out to this county. She subsequently went back on a visit, but was taken sick there and died, and was buried beside my father. I went, and was with her during her last illness. Our schools were the primitive schools of the early West. After the passage of the first Ohio School Law, we built a little log school-house at the cornerings of sections 1, 2, 11, and 12. We obtained a lease of the land for that purpose for thirty years. The log school house stood a great many years, when it was removed, and a brick built on the same ground, which is still standing. (I am not positive whether he said the brick house was built on the same site, or in the same district. - Ed) We accepted the situation, and struggled on to better times and better life. There were no inducements to change our habitation. Ohio was rapidly filling up, and with every revolving year conditions were improving. Markets were improving, and by slow degrees we began to have better roads. Rough bridges began to be constructed over the smaller streams. The first bridges were made of logs cut from the forests for sills and butments, and the top, or platform, was made of slabs split from sections of trees, and generally hewed to a level, on the upper side, with the broad-ax, or leveled down with the foot-adz. These were the first or primitive bridges; but after saw-mills became plenty, oak planks of the thickness of one and a half or two inches were used for the platform. Cont. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 02:18:01 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <1ab101bf7e99$7abd8500$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Jeremiah Armstrong Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- Franklin Co. Oh Biographies A new message, "Jeremiah Armstrong," was posted by Ruth Ficarra on Sat, 12 Feb 2000 It is a response to " Franklin Co. Ancestors," posted by Sys Admin on Wed, 16 Jun 1999 --- NAME: Ruth Ficarra EMAIL: ruthficarra@mindspring.com DATE: Feb 12 2000 QRYTEXT: Mr Armstrong was taken captive when about five year of age near Blannerhassett's Island on the Virginia side of the Ohio River. When the Indians attacked the cabin that the family lived, his two eldest brothers were absent at mill.The attack being sudden and unexpected , no effectual resistance could be made. His father escaped through the roof of the building-his mother and three younger children were killed. After the massacre the Indians held a council to determine what they should do with him- considering him too young to walk-one of the Indians agreed however to carry him if he could not walk fast enough. He was adopted into the familyof the Indian who so generously saved his life, and remained in the family until after the defeat of the indians by Gen. Wayne ( some six years later)While with the Indians - they were for some time encamped on the west bank of the Scioto river , about a half a mile below the city nearly on the spot where Mr. Eaton's residence is lo! cated, and where the road leads across the river to Green Lawn Cemetery. He and his brother Robert Armstrong are listed as being two of the first settlers in Ohio....1852 Columbus City Directory source. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 02:20:37 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <1ab501bf7e99$7bf345e0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Hon. Gustavus Swan Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- Franklin Co. Oh Biographies A new message, "Hon. Gustavus Swan," was posted by Ruth Ficarra on Sat, 12 Feb 2000 --- NAME: Ruth Ficarra EMAIL: ruthficarra@mindspring.com DATE: Feb 12 2000 URL: http:// QRYTEXT: Judge Swan was oe on the earliest practitioners in Franklin County, commencing as early as 1812 or '13. Possessing a strong and well-balanced mind- he seldom suffered himself to be drawn into the social gatherings for carousal, or into the violent colision with his fellow beings.There are one or two instances, however which we recollect-which proves when excitement gained the ascendancy over his reason,-it was no half-way affair. In 1818 - the Editor of the Ohio Monitor made some remarks about the Judge, which overcame his forebearance-meeting the editor at the door of Dr. Goodales store -( now occupied by Kilbourn, Kuhns & Co.)without wasting time with words- he seized by his collar, dragged him to a large mud-puddle in the street and soused him in with one hand, and with the other applied mud and water to the editors face. When Mr. Swan had throughly saturated his opponent with the contents of the mud puddle- he raised him to his feet and without doing him any other injury- he walked away....In 1820 at the winding up of Court, in Delaware , the usual parting ceremonies of song &c took place, by the members of the Bar and others. The morning after in passing along the street, we heard several persons expressing great exultation at having being induced Mr Swan to joined them, and as the cup went around , enlivened by the song and anecote,-Swan had become wild with excitement,-had thrown off all restraint- and at midnights hour burst forth into the street, shouting and running. We never heard of Mr. Swan's being drawn into an occurance of the kind afterwards, and presume it was the last time, he ever suffered his reason to overcome. An individual, indulging frequently in such scenes of excitement,-may live very fast,-but all my observation teaches he cannot live very long...Of all the attorneys who were engaged in business in Columbus and Franklintonup to 1819 the Hon. Gustavus Swan is the only one within our recollections- and he is undoubtly indebted to his temperate and regular habits, for life and his present robust and healthy appearance at the age of probably sixty-five years.....Columbus City Directory 1852. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 02:19:04 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <1ab201bf7e99$7b4cf3c0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Charles Scott Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- Franklin Co. Oh Biographies A new message, "Charles Scott," was posted by Ruth Ficarra on Sat, 12 Feb 2000 --- NAME: Ruth Ficarra EMAIL: ruthficarra@mindspring.com DATE: Feb 12 2000 QRYTEXT: Charles Scott came to this place in 1825, from near Chillicothe , then nineteen years old-commenced work in the office of George Nashee and P.H. Olmsted-his motto was " go ahead , when there is work to do"- by close application and energetic effort , he soon made larger bills then any other journeymen in the office. He gave a large part of the proceeds of his labor to his father , who had a young family by a second wife. In 1829 -30 Mr. Scott was absent from the city some year or more, as the agent of the late Horton Howard in collecting claims- on his return , he found his father in bad health , and out of work and the family in want of the common necessaries of life- he at once advanced the necessary funds to place them in a comfortable condition and continued to do so -until the family grew up to a mature age, although his father died shortly after his return to the city. In a few years although thus benevolent , he accumulated a sufficient sum to commence a Job of! fice in connection with S.E. Wright. In 1834 , Mr Bailhacle , proprietor of the Ohio State Journal, was so mortified at being beaten by Warren Jenkins for Justice of the Peace, that he concluded to sell out. Messrs. Scott and Wright were the purchasers-since which Mr. Scott through all the various changes of the Editors of the paper has been principal proprietor of the Journal and has bent all his energies to make the paper in mechanical execution , equal at least to any other published in the West, and probably of the Union; and the office second to none, in materials and fixtures, for the facility and execution of work. Mr Scott has fully and honorably obtained the height of his ambition- and any one wishing to examine a model printing office, by calling on Charles Scott at the counting room, will be politely conducted through his extensive buildings to the several departments for printing, stereotyping and binding. Mr. Scott by industry and perseverance has accumulated a ha! ndsome property- and from his liberality in providing and protecting his step-mother and her children when they needed it ,- deserves a long life to enjoy it...One other act of Mr. Scott's life deserves remembering and commendation. In 1833 Mr. Scott had in charge Horton Howards Printing establishment. During the prevalence of cholera in the city, Mr Howard's family and the family of his son-in-law Harvey D. Little were attacked by the disease- and six out of nine( the number of the two families) died- (Mr Little and two children Mr. Howard, wife and daughter barely saved). To obtain the proper help for nurses was out of the question, Mr Scott generously volunteered his services as nurse, and continued to do all that could be done , for the sick , and dying, and dead until they were laid in their graves.....Columbus City Directory 1852........ . -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #74 ******************************************