OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 51 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 51 Today's Topics: #1 Oh-Paulding Co. Photo (McCullough, [Archives ] #2 Fw: Tid-Bits -- part 71 B ["Maggie Stewart, OH Archives" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200604202306.k3KN6Dh12067@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Paulding Co. Photo (McCullough, Sons) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Paulding County OhArchives Photo Group.....McCullough, Sons Of Samuel & Sarah March 1912 ************************************************ 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: Jacqueline Thompson Thompson119@verizon.com April 20, 2006, 7:06 pm Source: Family Photo Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/paulding/photos/mccullou58gph.jpg Image file size: 64.1 Kb Sons Of Samuel W. McCullough And Sarah A Immel (Emmal) Top row Left to right Alfred Martin ,George Aarron ,Fielding (Mack) Bottom row left to right LutherClark,HomerFranceGoldie Eblins,Hirram Freemont McCullough. The Mccullough brothers of Samuel Webster McCullough and Sarah A Immel also spelled Emmal This photo taken at Farmers resturaunt that was owned by samuel Webster and Sarah A Immel In Paulding ohio . Alfred married Goldie Eblin, George mrried Teresa Slattery, Fielding married Golda mae Baughman, Luther married Sarah Jan Graham , Homer Married Hazell Nunn, Hirram Married Julia Ann Curtis.. Additional Comments: Hirram married Julia 8-21-1904 Paulding he was b. 9-5-1882 paulding oh. Homer married Hazel In paulding 5-5-1906 he was b 4-30-1884 d.3-5-1974 Luther married Sarah J Graham 10-6-1930 he was b 4-4-1886 Ethal their sister b 1888 died 1907 Alfred married Goldie Eblin 10-17-1914 he was b. 6-10-1890 d.10-5-1974 george married Teresa rose Slattery 1913 he was b. 6-25-1892 d. 1-3-1986 Fielding McCullough Married Golda mae Baughman 3-21-1922 he was b. 1-7-1898 d. 2-17-1942 all were born in paulding county ohio Hirram and fielding later moved ot Michigan although Fielding is burried in Prarie chapel cemetary Oakwood ohio. alfred George and Homer all lived in Paulding county until they died. Hirram Located to Calhoun co Michigan where he died. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photo has been resized/compressed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Project ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/paulding/photos/mccullou58gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:57:37 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart, OH Archives" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <006101c664ef$5917a140$0301a8c0@margaret> Subject: Fw: Tid-Bits -- part 71 B Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene & Kathi kelley" To: Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 4:36 PM Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E Kelley Feb 26, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Ohio And Then They Went West Know Your Ohio by Darlene E Kelley Tid-Bits -- part 71 B Notes by S Kelly +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tid-Bits - Part 71B. Formation of Washington County, in Ohio. The ancient works at Marietta, which, although not more remarkable than others in the State, and not as extensive as some, are more generally known as been so frequently described and alluded to by travellers. These works is on a elevated plain, above the present bank of the Muskingum, on the east side, and about a half a mile from its junction with the Ohio. They consist of walls and mounds of earth, in direct lines, and are square and circular forms. The largest square fort, by some called the town, contains forty acres, encompassed by a wall of earth from six to ten feet high, and from twenty-five to thirty-six feet in breadth at the base. On each side are three openings, at equal distances, resembling twelve gayeways. The entrances at the middle are the largest, particularly on the side next to the Muskingum. From this outlet is a covert way, formed of two parallel walls of earth, 231 feet distant from each other, measuring from center to center. The walls at the most elevated part, on te inside, are twenty-one feet in height. This forms a passage of about 360 feet in length, leading by a gradual descent to the low grounds, where, at the time of its construction, it probably reach the river. Its walls commence at sixty feet from the ramparts of the fort, and increase in elevation as the way descends towards the river; and the bottom is crowned in the center, in the manner of a well-funded turnpike road. Within the walls of the fort, at the northwest corner, is an oblong elevated square, 188 feet long, 132 feet broad, and 9 feet high; level on the summit, and nearly perpendicular at the sides. At the center of each of the sides, the earth is projected, forming gradual ascents to the top, equally regular, and about six feet in width. Near the south wall is another elevated square, 150 feet by 120, and eight feet high, simular to the other, excepting that instead of an ascent to go up on the side next to the wall, there is a hollow way ten feet wide, leading twenty feet towards the center, and then rising with a gradual slope to the top. At the southeast corner is a third elevated square, 108 by 54 feet, with ascents at the ends, but not so high nor perfect as the two others. A little to the southwest of the center of the fort is a circular mound, about thirty feet in diameter and five feet high, near which are four small excavations at equal distances, and opposite which other. At the southwest corner of the fort is a semi-circular parapet, crowned with a mound, which guards the opening in the wall. Towards the southeast is a smaller fort, containing twenty acres, with a gateway in the center of each side and at each corner. These gateways are defended by circular mounds. On the outside of the smaller fort is a mound in the form of a sugar loaf, of a magnitude and height which strikes the beholder with astonishment. Its base is a regular circle, 115 feet in diameter; its perpendicular altitude is thirty feet. It is surrounded by a ditch four feet deep and fifteen feet wide, and defended by a parapet four feet high, through which is a gateway towards the fort twenty feet wide. The early settlers at Marietta establshed a graveyard abound their now famed mound; also another at Harmer. It is one of the most interesting spots of the kind in the country. Here lay the remains of many of the emiment characters who laid the foundations of the commonweath. Here lies General Rufus Putman, who died May 24, 1824; Return Jonathan Meigs, who died at Marietta March 22, 1825; Rev. Daniel Story, who died Dec 30, 1804; Capt. Nathaniel Saltonstall, his wife and two children; Col. Jesse Hilderbrand, who died April 18, 1863 in the service at Alton. Ill.; Commodore Abraham Whipple; Dr. Samuel Hildreth; Dudley Woodbridge; Maj. Anselm Tupper; Lydia Mc Kawen; Ruth Clark; Dudley Tyler; Stanton Prentiss; John Green; Gen. Benjamin Tupper; and many more distinguished people. Marietta has suffered from three epdemics in 1807, 1822 and 1823. Within these three years,-- Dr. Hildreth sent to the medical journal in communication -- " the town has been uniformally healthy." The sickness in 1807 was principally intermittant and remittent fevers. These diseases were prevalent up and down te Ohio river for hundreds of miles, and more malignant and fatal at various points than at Marietta -- notably so at Galipololis. The spring of the year had been a very wet one and all throughout the summer there were two or three rainy days for every fair day. The low grounds were covered in many places with stagnant water, and crops were in some localities, entirely ruined by the excess moisture. The elements of the disease was in existance in July when the fever made its appearance, and in the following month there were scarcely a family residing in the bottom lands which was not afflicted by it. The disease carried off a considerable number of the people at Marietta and Washington County, but the number of deaths after all was not large compared to the number who were sick with the fever. The epidemic of 1822 exceeded that of 1807, and was simular in nature but proceeded from an exactly opposite condition of the weather. It had been very dry and hot, and very little rain and when it did rain, there was lightening. Lightening the great purifier of the atmosphere along with strong clearing wind from the north or northwest which usually came during the season, did not happen. Hot winds blew almost constantly from the south. The Ohio and Muskingum were reduced by the drought, so that "they were mere brooks as compared with their usual size." The water was covered with a foul scum, and a green mold gathered upon the rank grass which grew along the shores and down into the beds of the streams. Dr. Hildreth's opinion was that " the fever had its origin from the sandbars and beaches of the Ohio river laid bare by the great drought." Some people thought that the disease was imported by the almost constantly blowing south wind. The fever varied from the mildest intermittant types,up to the genuine yellow fever. Ague, cholera morbus and dysentery were also prevalent. At one time, within a single square mile containing a population of twelve hundred souls, four hundred were sick with some form of the disease. Dr, Hildreth had about six hundred cases to care for between the 1st of July and the close of November. The fever was most widely disseminated in September, havng first appeared upon the " plain " or higher ground in June. In July most of the cases were in Harmar, and in August became more troublesome at the " Point. " The proportion of deaths was about one to every sixteen of the persons affected. The people became much alarmed as the season advanced and deaths became more numerous. On September 15th a public meeting was held at which the commitees were appointed to visit the sick, and supply them whatever necessities they would be lacking. Then on the 18th another meeting was held. The reports of the committes showed that over a hundred was sick at Marietta. Resolutions were adopted to set forth the rules that the distressed situation called for the most exertions that each one needed to encourage each other in visiting and helping the sick. Rev. S.P. Robbins agreed on a day of fasting and prayer on the Saturday of Sept. 21st, to be held at the Congregational Church. It was not until however, the hard frosts came in November that the epidemic was stopped. No less than ninty five died in Marietta township during June, through October 1822 and were buried in the Mound cemetery. The sickness of 1823 seemed to be a new breaking out of that of 1822, but, unlike the epidemic of that year, was not confined to the water courses of their immediate vicinity. R.M. Stimson, a newspaper writer, in reveiwing the subject stated " the weather was pleasant, with every prospect of a salubrious summer. " But how sad the disappontment was when the sickness broke out in June and prevaded nearly all parts of the west. The country was deluged with rain in June and July, with very little thunder and lightening and no heavy winds. Every spot that could hold water was filled with it. Field of wheat and corn were ruined and grass rotted, the lowlands exhaled noxious vapors, so anyone passing were obliged to put their hands to their noses and hasten through some disgusting areas. In ploughing in rich bottom lands, instead of the pleasant odars that usually arise from fresh plowed land, a sickly smell would be sent forth. The rains ceased in August, but the systems of the people had become charged with miasma. The disease was more malignamt and fatal in the country than in town, especially in rich bottoms, where weed grew in many places to the enormous height of fifteen to eighteen feet. In spite of draw back on the corn in the early part of the summer, the crop heavy from its luxuraint growth and almost without cultivation, otherwise famine would have followed, for their were not enough well persons enough to care of te sick, let alone to cultivate their farms. The whole number of persons interred in the Mound cemetery during July, through October was one hundred and forty one." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tid Bits continued in part 72. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:59:19 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart, OH Archives" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <006d01c664ef$95db81f0$0301a8c0@margaret> Subject: Fw: Tid-Bits - Part 72. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene & Kathi kelley" To: Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:13 AM Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley Feb 28, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Ohio And Then They Went West Know Your Ohio Tid-Bits - Part 72. by Darlene E. Kelley notes by S. Kelly [ ] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tid-Bits -- Part 72. My Reminiscence of Marietta Society [ Hon E.D Mansfield, when a very young child, came with his family to Marietta. He told in his Personal Memories of his father Col Jared Mansfield, of a interesting memory when they first took up residence at Marietta, Ohio. This was his story; ] +++++++++++++ " My father's removal to the West, which took place in 1803, required a long journey, much time and a good deal of trouble. There were no public conveyances west of the Allegheny. Whoever went to Ohio from the east had to provide his own carriage and take care of his own baggage. At this time, there was really but one highway from the East to the West, and that was the great Pennsylvania route from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. It professed to be a turnpike, but was really only a passable road, and on the mountains narrow ad dangerous. It was chiefly traversed by the wagoners, who carried goods from Philadelphia to the West. A private carriage and driver, such as my father had to have, was the abhorrence of the wagoners, who considered it simply an evidence of aristocracy. They threatened and often actually endangered private carriages. My mother used to relate her fears and anxieties on that journey, and, as contrasted with the mode of travelling at that present day, the journey was really dangerous." " Arrived at Marietta, Ohio, my father established his office, there for the next two years. At first, some trouble arose from differences of political opinions at Marrieta. Political excitement at the election of Jefferson had been very high -- perhaps never more so. Gen Rufus Putham, my father's predecessor as Surveyor-General, had been a Revolutionary officer and a Federalist, while my father was a Republican ( now called Democrat ), and supposed to be a partisan of Jefferson. This political breeze, however, soon passed over. The people of Marietta were, in general, intelligent, upright people, and my father not one to quarrel without cause. The Putnams were polite, and my parents passed two years at Murietta pleasantly and happily. I, who was but a little child of three or four years of age, was utterly oblivious to what might go on in Marrieta society. Two things, however, impressed themselves upon me. They must have occurred in the summer and spring of 1805. " The first was what was called ' The Great Flood.' Every little while we hear about exraordinary cold, heat, or high water; but all these things have occurred before. The impression on my mind is that the river Ohio rising so high as to flood the lower part of Marietta. We lived some distance from the Ohio, but on the lower plain, so that the water came up into our yard, and it seems to me I can still recall the wood and chips floating in the yard. However, all memories of such early years are indistinct, and can only be relied on for general impressions. As I was four years old at the time of the Marietta flood, it is probable that my impression of it are correct. " The other event which impressed itself on my mind was the vision of a very interesting and very remarkable woman. One day, and it seems to have been a bright summer morning, a lady and a little boy called upon my mother. I played with the boy, and it is probably this circumstance which impressed it on my mind, for the boy was handsomely dressed, and had a fine little sword hanging by his side. The lady, as it seemed to me, was handsome and bright, laughing and talking with my mother. The lady soon became historical -- her life a romance and her name a theme of poetry and a subject of eloquence. It was Madame Blennerhassett. " It is seventy years since, Wirt, in the trial of Burr, uttered his beautiful and poetic description of Madame Blennerhssett and the island she admired. Poetic as it was, it did less than justice to the woman. An intelligent lady who was intermate with her, and afterward visit the courts of England and France, said, she had never beheld one who was Mrs. Blennerhassett's equal in beauty, dignity of manners, elogance of dress, and all that was lovely in the person of woman. With all this, she was as domestic in her habits, as well acquainted with housewifery, the art of sewing, as charitable to the poor, as ambitious for her husband, as though she were not the " Queen of the Fairy Isle." She was as strong and active in body as she was graceful. She could leap a five-rail fence, walk ten miles at a stretch, and ride a horse with the boldest dragoon. She frequently rode from the island to Marietta, exhibiting her skill in horsemanship and elegance of dress. Robed in scarlet broadcloth, with a white beaver hat, on a spirited horse, she might be seen dashing through the dark woods, reminding one of the flight and gay plumage of some tropical bird; but, like the happiness of Eden, all this was to have a sudden and disastrrous end. The " Queen of the Fairy Isle " was destined to a fate more severe than if her lot, had been cast in the rudest log-cabin. " During my father's residence at Marietta there appeared in the Marietta papers a series of articles in favor of the schemes of Burr, and indirectly a separation of the Western and Eastern States. These articles were censured by another series, signed ' Regulus,' which denounced the idea of separating the States, and supported the Union and the administration of Jefferson. At the time, and to this day, the writer was and is unknown. They are mentioned in Hildreth's " Pioneer History," as by an unknown author. They are in fact, written by my father, and made a strong impression at the time........... " Here let me remark on the society of the past generation as compared with the present. There is always in the Present time a dispostion to exaggerate either its merits or its faults. " Those who take a hopeful view of things, and wonder at our inventions and discoveries, think that society is advancing, and we are going straight to the millenuim. On the other hand, those who look upon the state of society today, especially if they are not entirely satisfied with their own contention, are apt to charge society with degeneracy. They see crimes and corruptions, and assert that society is growing worse. " Let me here assure you that this is not true, and that while we have all reason to lament the weakness of human nature, it is not true that society is declining. No fact is more easily demonstrated than that the society of educated -- and they govern all others-- is in a much better condition now than what it was in the days succeeding the Revolution. The principles and ideas that caused the French Revolution, at one time, brought atheism, and free thinkers into power in France, and largely penetrated American society. " Skepticism, or, as it was called, free thinking, was fashionable; it was aided and strengthened by some of the most eminent men of the times. Jefferson, Burr, Pierrepont Edwards, of Connecticut, and many men of the same kind, were not only skeptics, but scoffers at Christianity. Their party came into power, and gave some sort of official prestige to irreligion. But this was not all; a large number of the revolutionary army were licentious men. Of this class were Burr, Hamilton, and others of stripe. Hamilton was not as unprincipled a man as Burr, but belonged to the same caste of society. No one can deny this, for he publshed enough about himsef to prove it. Duelling, drinking, licentiousness, were not regarded by the better class of society as the unpardonable sins which they are now regarded. At the time wine, spirits and cordials were offered to guests at all hours of the day, and not to offer them was considered a want of hospitality. The consequence was that intemperance is now chiefly the vice of laboring men, but then it pervaded all classes of society. " Judge Burnet, in his ' Notes on the Northwest,' says that nine lawyers cotemporary with himself, in Cincinnati, all but died drunkards. We see, then, that a large measure of infidelity, licentiousness and intemperance among the higher classes, society was not really in so good a state as it is now. At Marietta were several men of superior intellects who were infidels, and others who were intemperate; and yet this pioneer town was probably one of the best examples of the society of pioneer times. " I have said that my father was appointed to establish the meridian lines. At that time but a part of Ohio had been surveyed, and he made Marietta his headquarters. " In the rapid progress of migration to the West his surveys also were soon necessary in western Ohio and in Indiana, Indiana was then an unbroken wilderness, although the French had etablished the post of Vincennes. This was one of a line of posts which they established from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico with a view to holding all the valley of the Mississippi. There may have been a settlement at Jeffersonville, opposite Louisville, but except these there was not a white settlement in Indiana. It became necessary to extend the surveyed lines through that State, then only a part of the Northwest Territory. For this purpose my father, in 1805, in the month of October, undertook a surveying expedition in Indiana. As it was necessary to live in the wilderness, preparations for doing so were made. The surveying party consisted of my father, three or four surveyors, two regular hunters and several pack horses. The business of the hunters was to procure game and bring it into camp at night. Flour, coffee, salt, and sugar were carried on the pack-horses, but for the meat the party depended on the hunters. They went out early in the morning and returned only at night. As the surveying party moved only in a straight line, and the distance made in a day was known, it was easy for the hunters to join the others in camp. " It was in this expedition that some of those incidents occurred that illustrate the life of a backwoodsman. One day the hunters had been unfortunate. and had gotten no game, but brought in a large rattlesnake, which they cut into slices and broiled on the rocks of the fire. My father did not try that kind of steak, but the hunters insisted the flesh was sweet and good. On another day a hunter was looking into a cave in the rocks and found two panthers' cubs. He put them in a bag, and afterwards exhibited them in New Orleans. Here let me say, that prosperity will never know the kinds and numbers of wild animals which lived on the plains of the Ohio. Some are already exterminated east of the Mississippi, and can only be found on the mountains of the West. A citizen of those days will probably be astonished to hear that the buffalo was once common in Ohio, and roamed even on the banks of the Muskingum; but such was a fact. " A large part of Ohio was at one time a prairie, and the vegetation of the valley very rich. The wild plum, the pawpaw, the walnut, and all kinds of berries were abundant, so that Ohio was as fruitful and generous to the Indians and wild animals as it has since been to the white man. In the valleys of the Muskingum, the Scioto and the Miamis were Indian towns where they cultivated corn as white men do now. Marietta, Chillicothe, Circleville, Cincinnati, Xenia, and Piqua are all on the sites of old Indian towns. The wild animals and the wild Indian were as conscious as the civilized man that Ohio was an inviting land--- a garden rich in products which God had made for their support. But man was commanded to live by labor; hence, when man, the laborer, came, he supplanted man, the hunter. " The animals most common in Ohio were the deer, the wild turkey, squirrel, buffalo, panther, wild pigs, and wolves. All these were found near Marietta, and all but the buffalo subsequently near Cincinnati. " It is not my purpose, however, to go into the natural history of Ohio. The inhabitants of the woods fast disappeared before the man with the spade. I, myself, saw birds and animals in the valleys of the Miamis which no man will hereafter see wild in these regions. I recollect one bird which made a great impression on me -- the paroquet -- much like the parrot, its colors being green amd gold, but much smaller. This bird I have seen at Ludlow station in large flocks. I was told it was never seen east of Scioto. " Our residence at Marietta lasted two years. In 1803, Ohio was admitted to the Union, with a constitution which continued until 1850. The first constitution of Ohio was, I thought, the best constitution I ever saw, for the reason that it had the fewest limitations. Having established the respective functions of government, judical, executive, and legislative, it put no limitation on the power of the people, and in the democrative govrnment there should be none. For half a century Ohio grew, flourished, and prospered under its first constitution. It was the best and brightest period Ohio has had. It was the era of great public spirit, of patriotic devotion to country, and of the building up great institutions of education which are now the strength and glory of the State. In forming educational institutions I had some part myself, and I look upon that work with analloyed pleasure." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tid-bits continued in part 73. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V06 Issue #51 ******************************************