A Tribute To Fallen Vietnam War Soldiers From Washington Co. Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday May 30, 2005 15:48:25 A database of fallen U.S. Soldiers from Washington County, Ohio was compiled on Memorial Day, May 30, 2005 in honor of these men who gave their lives for their country. This database contains information about the following men: John Adkins Meredith Lee Barnett Francis Wayne Beagle Darl D. Bennet Thomas Michael Brockmeier Scott Rondal Coplin Ronald Charles Dailey James Herbert Dye Samuel Gary Harris Burl Denton Hewitt Robert Allen Hill James Edward Hodge Steven Michael Janeda Dennis L. Phillips Charles William Piatt Daniel Lee Quimby Thomas Warren Roberts Joseph Delmar Rutter, Jr. David Clifton Scarbrough Ronald Lee Spence Larry David Stollar Gary Douglas Tackett Frederick W. Taylor Donald Keith Vadakin Copy and paste this link into your browser: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/t/Debra-Nitsche/FILE/0151text.txt Early Incidents In Lawrence Township Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday May 23, 2005 02:14:26 History of Washington County, Ohio 1788-1881 By H. Z. Williams & Bros. Pg. 664 It appears from and entry in the township book bearing date May, 1819, that the township was troubled with pauper preachers. An order directed to REUBEN McVEY, constable, reads: "Whereas, a certain person calling himself a preacher, is likely to become a township charge, you are hereby directed to order said preacher out of the township." In 1839, ELISHA ROSE, a well known citizen of Newport township, engaged in a horse race with a man named HINKEL, on the banks of the Little Muskingum near the mouth of Archer's fork, which proved fatal to his life. A purse of three dollars was put up and the contestants started on the race. When ROSE had reached the terminus, he arose in his saddle and looked for his opponent. The horse at that moment stumbled and pitched the rider against a rock. ROSE died in a few days from the wound, and his estate recieved the purse. In 1859, PORTER FLINT and one of the MITCHELL boys were drowned in the Little Muskingum at Proute's mill. A raft which they were floating became unmanagable at the mill dam, and both were precipitated into the stream. The most abhorrent of the many cases of drowning in the township, occured at Cow run. A daughter of one of the workman one day went to a tank to get some oil with which to start a fire. While she was stooping over the top of the tank, her foothold gave way, and she was taken from the reservoir in a lifeless condition. THOMAS FLEMMING was drowned at Chamber's mill below the mouth of Cow run, while running lumber over the dam. First Laws Of The Northwest Territory Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Sunday May 22, 2005 03:14:29 Historical Collections of Ohio By Henry Howe Vol. II ©1888 FIRST LAWS. The following extract was published in 1886 in the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. It is of interest in connection with the first steps toward law and order. The article is under the caption of THE GRANDSON OF OHIO’S FOUNDER. There lives in Chillicothe to-day an aged man who is the last grandchild of Rufus PUTNAM, who led the first colony of settlers to Ohio in 1788. The grandson bears the full name of his distinguished ancestor, Gen. Rufus PUTNAM, and he has in his possession a great many relics of historical interest and a large part of his grandfather’s correspondence and private papers and manuscripts. Gen. PUTNAM is president of the Northwest Pioneer Association, and has a lively interest in all matters bearing upon the early history of the Northwest Territory. Among the old papers which he has put into my possession is the subjoined schedule of laws for the government of the colony at Marietta, printed and posted in 1788. “The emigrants, under the command of Gen. Rufus PUTNAM, landed their boats at the upper point of the Muskingum river, Marietta, on the 7th of April, 1788, where they unloaded their effects. The boards which they brought with them for the erection of temporary huts were landed and properly disposed of. A large tent was put up for the Governor of the colony, Gen. PUTNAM. And in this tent he transacted all the business of the colony. On the 9th of April, 1788, the Governor’s chart of laws was read by his private secretary, Gen. Benj. TUPPER, and approved by the members of the colony association. “First—Be it ordained by the Officery and Council, that said territory be one district, subject to be divided into five districts, as future circumstances may make it expedient. “Second—Be it ordained that the Governor and his officery may make such laws, civil, criminal and military, for the colony, but not to conflict with the laws of the original re-established United States laws of 1787. “Third—Be it ordained that the Grand Council be composed of three Supreme Judges and three Territorial Association Judges, before whom shall be tried and decided all the business of the colony, civil, criminal and military. “Fourth—The Grand Council will hold their sessions 5th July, 7th, 9th of April and second Wednesday September, annually, where all claims against the association must be presented and canceled. “Fifth—Be it ordained that the Governor receive at the rate of $40 per month for his services while performing the duties of his office. All other officery and Grand Council $1 per day while in the performance of their duties, martial, military, musicians, chaplain, singers and teachers of schools. “Sixth—Be it ordained that all permanent emigrants into the Territory shall be entitled to 100 acres of land free, within the Northwest purchase. “Seventh—Be it ordained that all pioneers and their descendants may become life and benefit members of the Emigrant Association, Northwest Territory, by paying $1 per annum to the Governor, for the use of the association. “Eighth—Be it ordained that all members must entertain emigrants, visit the sick, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, attend funerals, cabin-raisings, log-rollings, huskings; have their latch-strings always out. “Ninth—Be it ordained that all members of the colony, from the ages of eighteen to forty-five, must perform four days of military duty per annum. All uniformed companies may drill once a month, dates and places fixed by their officers. Officer drills once a year. “Tenth—Be it ordained that all members of the colony must celebrate 22d February, 7th April and 4th July, annually. Also in a proper manner observe the 28th November, 25th December and 1st day January, annually. “Eleventh—Be it ordained that every member must keep the Sabbath by attending some place of religious worship agreeably to the dictates of his own conscience. “Twelfth—Be it ordained that common schools should be established so soon as emigration to the Territory is sufficient. “Thirteenth—Be it ordained that a library of historical and school-books be established at the Governor’s headquarters, and that Gen. McINTOSH, who is now engaged in writing a history of the colony, will serve as legal agent for that purpose; also, Col. Timothy FLINT act as an assistant. Also, that all official appointments be made by the Governor of the Colony and confirmed by the Grand Council. Be it further ordained that the (Metropolis) be named (Marietta), in honor of Queen Marie Antoinette, of France, who gave aid and influence during the darkest days of the Revolution. Ordered that three copies of this territorial chart of ordinances be copied and posted, as ordained: One at Fort Harmar, one at the East Point, and one at the Stockade. These ordinances to take effect on the 1st day of May, 1788 (Queen Marie’s birthday). “By the Governor of the Northwest Territory, 9th of April, 1788. “RUFUS PUTNAM" “By his Private Secretary, N. W. T., “BENJAMIN TUPPER.” “N.B.—Amendment April 7, 1802. The title Governor erased and President instituted. Also, the fee of $1 per annum to $1 for life. (Commissions to those entitled, $1.) True copy from original, price per copy, $1.” Gen. PUTNAM is the father of John PUTNAM, who had a foreign appointment under the Cleveland Administration, and of Rufus PUTNAM, the editor of the Ross County Register. Ohio's First Criminal, Marriage and Divorce Laws Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Tuesday May 03, 2005 10:39:27 Excerts taken from the book: Early Ohio Events, by Harley Barnes, Painesville, O., 1886 September 6, 1788 -- The first criminal law was published in Marietta. Flogging, confinement in the stocks and pillory, binding out labor, foreiture of estate, and death, were among the penalties imposed. This act contained the earliest temperance law within present Ohio limits, viz: "If any person shall be convicted of drunkenness before one or more justices of the peace, the person so convicted shall be fined, for the first offence in the sum of five dimes, and for each succeeding offense, and upon conviction, in the sum of one dollar; and in either case, upon the offender's neglecting or refusing to pay the fine, he shall be set in the stocks for the space of one hour." November 23, 1788 -- The first marriage law as enacted. Judges, ministers and Quakers were authorized to perform the ceremony. Publication of bands must have been first made, or a license procured from the Governor. July 15, 1795 -- The first divorce law of the Territory was adopted from the statues of Massachusetts. Divorce a vinculo was allowed “where either of the parties had a former wife or husband alive at the time of the solemnizing the second marriage; or for impontency, or adultery, in either of the parties.” Divorce from bed and board was also allowed in cases of extream cruelty. Exclusive jurisdiction was vested in the general and circuit courts. --End of excerts-- --NOTE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) : VINCULO MATRIMONII -- A divorce. A vinculo matrimonii, is one from the bonds of matrimony. Such a divorce generally enables the parties to marry again. Memoir of Major Jonathan Haskell Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Saturday May 21, 2005 20:51:20 MEMOIRS OF THE EARLY PIONEER SETTLERS OF OHIO With Narratives Of Incidents And Occurrences In 1775 By S. P. Hildreth, M. D., 1854 Pages 345-49 MAJ. JONATHAN HASKELL MAJ. JONATHAN HASKELL was born in Rochester, Mass, the 19th of March, 1775. Like the larger portion of the New Englanders of that day, he was brought up on a farm, and received only a common school education, which fitted him for conducting the usual concerns of life to which he might be called. At the commencement of the war of Independence, when he was twenty years old, he was engaged in agriculture. How early he entered the army is not known. In 1779 he was aid-de-camp to Gen. Patterson, of the Massachusetts line, and was commissioned as a lieutenant. He continued to serve until the close of the war, either as an aid, or in the line of the army. When the Ohio Company was formed, he became an associate, and moved out there in company with Capt. Devol’s family, in the autumn of 1788. In 1789 he united with the Belpre settlement, and commenced clearing his farm. On the breaking out of the Indian war, in January, 1791, he received the appointment of captain in the regular service, and went to Rochester, Mass., where he recruited a company, and returned to Marietta in December; where he was stationed for the defense of that, and the adjacent settlements; as the troops had been withdrawn form Fort Harmar in the fall of 1790. After the defeat of Gen. St. Clair, he remained at Marietta until March, 1793, when he was commissioned as a captain in the second sub-legion under Gen. Wayne, and joined the army on the frontiers that summer. He was stationed at Fort St. Clair, where he remained until June, 1794, when he was appointed to the command of the fourth sub-legion, ranking as a major, although his commission was not filled until August, 1795. In a letter to Griffin Greene, Esq., whose relative he married, he gives a sketch of the campaign which defeated the combined forces of the Indians and closed the war. “HEAD QUARTERS, MIAMI OF THE LAKE, August 29th, 1794, Sir: The 28th of July the army moved forward, consisting of about eighteen hundred regulars and fifteen hundred militia, from the state of Kentucky, passing by the way of St. Clair’s battle-ground, now Fort Recovery. We then turned more to the eastward, and struck the St. Mary’s in twenty miles, where we erected a small fort, and left a subaltern’s command. We then crossed the St. Mary’s, and in four or five days’ marching found the Auglaize river, and continued on down that stream to its junction with the Miami of the lake; distant one hundred miles from Greenville, by the route we pursued. At this place we built a garrison, and left a major to command it. The army then marched down the river forty-seven miles from the new garrison, and on the 20th inst., at nine o’clock in the morning, came up with the Indians, who had posted themselves in a position chosen as most favorable for defense. The troops charged upon them with the bayonet, and drove them two miles, through a thicket of woods, fallen timber, and underbrush, when the cavalry fell upon and entirely routed them. Our line extended two and a half miles, and yet it was with difficulty we outflanked them. One of the prisoners, a white man, says the number of the Indians engaged was about twelve hundred, aided by two hundred and fifty white men from Detroit. Our loss in the action was two officers killed, and four wounded, with about thirty privates killed, and eighty wounded. The Indians suffered much; about forty or fifty of their dead fell into our hands. The prisoner was asked why they did not fight better? He said that we would give them no time to load their pieces, but kept them constantly on the run. Two miles in advance of the battle-ground, is a British garrison, establishing last spring, which we marched round within pistol shot, and demanded a surrender, but they refused to give it up. Our artillery being too light, and the fort too strong to carry by storm, it was not attacked, but we burnt their out-houses, destroyed all their gardens, cornfields, and grass, within musket shot of the place, and all below for eight or nine miles, without any opposition. On the 27th we arrived at this place, where we have a fort, and shall halt a few days to rest. We have marched through the Indian settlements and villages for about sixty miles, destroyed several thousand acres of corn, beans, and all kinds of vegetables, burned their houses, with furniture, tools, &c. A detachment has gone into Fort Recovery for a supply of provisions for the troops, and when it returns, we shall march up the Miami sixty miles, to where the St. Marie’s unties with the St. Joseph’s and destroy all the corn in that country.” This letter describes, in plain terms, the ruin and devastation that marked the course of the American army. It might have been considered a wise policy to devote to destruction the dwellings, cornfields, gardens, and in fact every species of property that belonged to the hostile savages, but it was also a most cruel policy. The British troops, in their inroads amongst the rebel settlements of the Revolutionary war, never conducted more barbarously. The Indian villages on the Miami and the Auglaize, were snugly and comfortably built--were furnished with many convenient articles of house-keeping and clothing. They had large fields of corn and beans, with gardens of melons, squashes, and various other vegetables. Mr. Joseph Kelly, of Marietta, then a boy of twelve years old, and for several years a prisoner with the Indians, who treated him kindly, and was adopted into a family as one of their own children, was living at this time with them at the junction of the St. Mary’s and Auglaize, the spot where Maj. Haskell says the army would next go, to complete there work of destruction. Mr. Kelly was there when an Indian runner announced that the American troops had arrived in the vicinity of the village. His friends had not expected them so soon, and with the utmost haste and consternation, the old men, with the women and children, the warriors being absent, hurried aboard their canoes, taking nothing with them but a few kettles and blankets, not having time to collect any provisions from their fields and gardens. The sun was only an hour or two high when they departed, in as deep sorrow at the loss of their country and homes, as the Trojans of old when they evacuated their favorite city. Before the next day at noon, their nice village was burnt to the ground, their cornfields of several hundred acres, just beginning to ripen, were cut down and trampled under foot by the houses and oxen of the invaders, while their melons and squashes were pulled up by the roots. The following winter the poor Indians deprived of their stock of corn and beans, which were grown every year and laid up for their winter food as regularly as among the white people, suffered the extreme of want. Game was scarce in the country they retreated to on the west of the Miami, and what few deer and fish they could collect, barely served to keep them alive. It was a cruel policy; but probably subdued their Spartan courage more than two or three defeats as for many years thereafter until the days of Tecumseh, they remained at peace. After the close of the war, Maj. Haskell returned to his farm at Belpre, where he died in December, 1814, He was considered a brave man and a good officer. Several of his descendants are living in Washington county. Family of Mansur and Rebecca (Howe) Warren Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday May 18, 2005 03:34:08 MANSUR WARREN, son of John, was born Oct. 31, 1767, in Dudley, Mass., married REBECCA HOWE, daughter of CAPT. PERLEY and TAMAR (DAVIS) HOWE, May 27, 1794, in Killingly, Conn., where she was born June 15, 1770. (Her father was a captain in the Revolutionary War.) He was a shoemaker and farmer and in 1820, removed from Dudley to Belpre, Ohio where he died Sept. 27, 1822. CHILDREN: 1. FANNY, born Nov. 20, 1796, Dudley, Mass, went to Belpre, Ohio, with her parents, m. there OLIVER R. LORING of that town in Dec. 1820. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Washington County, Ohio. She died there June 13, 1828, and he died Nov. 21, 1873, 3 children. 2. JOHN, born Jan. 7, 1799, Dudley, Mass., moved to Belpre, Ohio in 1820, died of yellow fever June 8, 1822, at Port Givson, Miss., whither he had gone with a flat-boat loaded with funiture, lumber, etc., from Louisville, KY. 3. DAVIS HOWE, born Aug. 25, 1802, Dudley Mass, went to Belpre, Ohio with his parents, accompanied his brother to Port Gibson, Miss., d. there of yellow fever June 4, 1822. 4. ERASTUS, born June 23, 1805, Dudley, Mass., died in the summer of 1822 in Belpre, Ohio. The widow REBECCA WARREN married Dr. HOBSON BEBEE of Athens, Ohio, Apr. 3, 1826. He died the Aug. 28, 1834. They had no children. She wedded, third, COL. ICHABOD NYE, a prominent citizen of Marietta, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1839. He was born Dec. 21, 1862 in Tolland, Conn., and died Nov. 27, 1840 in Marietta. She died Oct. 15, 1850, in Belpre, and is buried there with her first husband. Some descendants of Arthur Warren of Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, by Warren Wodwen Foster, 1911, Pg. 82 Charlotte Scott And The Lincoln Emancipation Memorial Henry Burke burkeh@charter.net Monday May 16, 2005 12:49:58 Lincoln Emancipation Memorial Lincoln Square, Washington D.C. This article is a tribute to both President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of Emancipation Proclamation and to Charlotte Scott's contribution of gratitude for being freed by the Proclamation Emancipation. The Emancipation Proclamation made it crystal clear to everyone, that the principal cause of the American Civil War (1861-1865) was the issue of slavery and exemplifies the view held by all African Americans who were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Some present day historians express an opinion that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free slaves. This view is based on the provision that pertained only to freedom for slaves in the states in rebellion, and the fact that the Confederacy chose to disregarded the Emancipation Proclamation. Since Abraham Lincoln was the legal president of the all the United States, including those states in rebellion, the Emancipation Proclamation was perfectly legal. While the states in rebellion did choose to ignore this fact, President Lincoln did continue to pursue his goal of winning the Civil War and thus he enforced his Executive Order. Another important aspect related to the Emancipation Proclamation was authorization for the enlistment of black soldiers in the Union Army. The first memorial to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln, was initiated on the day of Lincoln’s death by Charlotte Scott, was an ex-slave from Lynchburg, Virginia, who at that time was living in Marietta, Ohio. On April 15, 1865 when the news arrived that President Lincoln had been assassinated! Charlotte was employed by her former owners, Dr. and Mrs. William S. Rucker and was serving breakfast. Upon hear the tragic news the entire Rucker household experienced shock and grief! Finally Charlotte was the first to speak, "Well well" she exclaimed, "Now the best friend to colored people is dead; we colored people ought to raise a monument to his memory!" Immediately Charlotte went to her room and gathered her small savings ($5.00). This she had saved from the first wages she had earned since her freedom had been granted by President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation issued in September 1863. She handed her $5.00 to Dr. Rucker and requested that he place the contribution in the hands of someone who would be able to organize a fund drive among colored people for the purpose of building monument for the martyred president. Dr. Rucker sent Charlotte's $5 contribution to an acquaintance, General T. C. Smith, a cavalry officer in the Union Army, who then transmitted the funds to James Erwin Yeatman, a Southern born philanthropist and civic leader in St. Louis, Missouri. During the Civil War, Mr. Yeatman was a director of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the president and also directing head of the Western Sanitary Commission, the organization responsible for providing hospital and emergency services for Union Civil War soldiers. Mr. Yeatman welcomed Charlotte's mission to build the monument and immediately began. On April 26, 1865, he published General Smith's letter in a St. Louis newspaper, and he made the Western Sanitary Commission the agency responsible for securing the funds. "The Sanitary Commission will receive contributions and see that same are judiciously appropriated as intended." In response contributions in the amount of $12,150, (subsequently the amount increased to $16,242), were received from "Colored" soldiers stationed at Natchez, Mississippi, under the command of General J.W. Davidson . The fund was further increased by contributions from other “Colored” sources and with accrued interest from investment the fund totaled to over $21,000. **The result of Charlotte Scott’s $5.00 contribution culminated in the 12 foot Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation Monument, designed and sculptured by American artist Thomas Ball. The figure of President Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation document in his right hand, and with his left hand, lifting the figure of an emancipated slave. The Monument was dedicated on April 14, 1876, the 11th Anniversary of President Lincoln's death. The Lincoln Emancipation Monument now stands in Lincoln Square on East Capital Street, in Washington D.C. A 1892 Marietta Register article stated, that a few years after the Civil War was over, Charlotte Scott returned to Lynchburg, Virginia, where Mrs. Rucker had given to her. On last contact in 1876 she was still living there. (The Lincoln Emancipation Monument is not to be confused with the Lincoln Memorial.) Biography of Seaman Sprague Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Sunday May 22, 2005 02:03:41 Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1891, Pg. 580 & 581 SEAMAN SPRAGUE is the proprietor of a valuable farm in Pike County, pleasantly located on section 9, Kinderhook Township, which he is managing with excellent financial results. He is a native of Ohio, born in Washington County, April 3, 1831, and comes of one of the oldest families of that State. His father, Jonathan Sprague, was born in Nova Scotia and when quite young was taken by his parents to Massachusetts where they remained until he was eighteen year old. They then removed to Ohio and the third family to locate in Washington County. There grandfather Joshua Sprague engaged in trapping and hunting and he built the first oven in that State. Our subject’s father and uncle Sprague built a blockhouse in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. He it was who cut the first brush that was ever cut in Beverly Township by a white man. He was a millwright and a farmer by occupation and he built and operated two mills in Washington County until they were past their usefulness. He sawed the lumber that was used in the construction of the famous Blennerhasset house on Blennerhasset Island in the Ohio River. Mr. Sprague married his first wife in Washington County, Ohio, and they had five children: Joshua, Wayne, Jonathan (who died at the age of eight-six years in 1800), Mary and Cynthia, all of who are deceased. Mr. Sprague married for his second wife Susan Owens, the mother of our subject who was born in Massachusetts. She bore him five children, as follows: Elijah who is now seventy-two years old; Seaman, Benjamin (desceased), and two daughters. Seaman Sprague was the second son of the family and was reared in his native county under the influence of pioneer life. He attended school in a rude log house furnished with puncheon seats which had stakes for legs. He remained with his father until he was nineteen years old when he was married in 1840 to Mary DeVol. She was born in Washington County, Ohio, and there the young couple settled on a farm on which they resided until 1852. In that year in the vigor and prime of a stalwart manhood our subject and his wife came to Pike County, journeying thither by water and first located two miles south of Kinderhook village on a tract of eight acres of wild land. Mr. Sprague afterward added forty acres to his first purchase, and fenced his land and placed upon it many neat improvements including a barn. He and his wife were among the first settlers of the township, being the third family to locate here. They subsequently went to Missouri and they remained four years but they liked this part of the country much better and at the end of that time returned to Pike County and Mr. Sprague bought the place comprising one hundred and eight-two acres where he now resides. He has here a neat and attractive home, his dwelling being a substantial two-story frame house which is comfortably furnished. He gives his attention to general farming and from his rich, well-tilled land raises good harvests and has his farm well stocked with cattle, hogs and houses of good grades. Our subject and his wife are people whose many pleasant qualities of head and heart and whose genuine integrity of character have contributed to make them highly regarded in the community of which they are valued members. To them has vouchsafed an unusually long wedded life, and on the 25th of November, 1890, if all is well they will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage morn. To them they have come seven children, four sons and three daughters, named as follows: Silas, served three years in the Union army; William, David, Mary Matilda, Eliza, Lucy and Merrit. Mr. Sprague is a stanch Republican in politics and cast his first Presidential vote for the illustrious grandfather of our present Chief Magistrate. He has been School Director and has never been found wanting in all that goes to make a good citizen. He is a Deacon of the Baptist Church and contributes liberally of his means to the support of the society giving $100 this year to the church. 1912 Truck Farms (Letter To The Editor) Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Sunday May 22, 2005 14:47:13 Weekly Advocate (Newark, Ohio) Thurdsay, Aug. 15, 1912 page 3 col 3 TRUCK FARMS NEAR MARIETTA BRING RESULTS Cary W. MONTGOMERY Tells of Trip Through a Very Prosperous Coummnity of Farmers. Editor of the Advocate: I have been visiting the trucking districts about Marietta and I fnd here, like I find nearly every place a wonderful difference at least in the seeming prosperity of nearby communities. I first visited what is known as the west side district. This is about a mile out ofrom Marietta and along the west bank of the Muskingum river. The farms are small, average probably 20 acres, and I only found one renter, all the others are owned. They have pretty, good houses, kept well painted with nicely cared for lawn about them. The principal crops grown in this west side district are early cabbages, tomatoes and cucumbers. The tomatos are all staked. I did not see a tomato patch any were about Marietta, but what was staked. After they get these crops off, ranging from the middle of July for the cabbage to the middle of August for the tomatoes and cucumbers; they put this land in cow peas and some of the growers after the frost kills the peas sown them; this is ploughed under until next spring. It is remarkable on this same soil what a grownth the peas will make in such a short time. If the fall is favorable for curing, some of the earlier sown peas are cut for hay, but primarily they are grown for the improvement of the land. The truckers use quite a quanity for fertilizer, some applying it broadcast, and some applying it in the hill; one man’s method with tomatoes was about this way: He plows the land early in the spring, farrows cut and frives his stakes tor tomatoes distributes about 500 (could be 800) pounds of a 2-8-5 fertilizer in the furrow and begins cultivation. By the time the tomatoes are read to set the fertilizer is throughly mixed with the soil and ready to start the plant growning. I next went up the Ohio about five miles out from Marietta. This district once grew watermelons, but finding canteloups more profitable the watermelons wee dropped, but in a few years blight came and now many of the growers are putting in tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes and other truck crops and at the same time trying to raise ather farm crops. To all appearances they are not succeding as well as the Muskingum valley grower. Up the Ohio I found them nearly all renters and the smallest farm I was on was 50 acres and the largest rented farm was 164. This was their first year on that farm. It seemed to me that for the trucking business the farm did not want to be very large. The tenant would have no interest in sowing the cow peas and rye if he were not going to be on the farm the next year. Those up the Ohio people have a very long haul and a very sandy road over which to haul making a very heavy drag. The B. & O. R.R. so far this year has shipped out three hundred and twenty cars of produce from Marietta. ----Cary W. MONTGOMERY July 1913 - Cutler News Debbie Noland Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday May 16, 2005 19:02:06 Taken from: The Daily Register-Leader; Monday, July 21, 1913 Pg. 2 Col. 5 CUTLER July 21--Mr. T. G. France and son, Carlin, and Mr. Marion Henry went to Columbus, Sunday, on the excursion. Mr. and Mrs. Frankhauser, of Shadyside, W. Va., are spending a short time with Mr. and Mrs. Cowan. Mrs. Rarden, of Athens, is stopping a few days with her sousin, Mrs. Fletcher Graham. Misses Florence Bailey and Myrtie Dunbar spent Tuesday with friends in Bartlett. Mrs. Alice Evans, of Buffalo, New York, is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Croy. The lates news from Danson Morris, who is ill with typhoid fever, is he is slightly improved. The well that was being drilled on the farm of Mrs. T. T. Dunbar came in, Saturday, a ten barrel well in the Big Injun. Mr. and Mrs. Bracken, of Bernard, Kansas, spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Theo., Dunbar. Mr. Bracken left this country forty years ago, and this is his first trip back, of course he notes many changes and sees few familiar faces. Extracted from orginial newspaper. Not microfilm. Adaline Smith Obituary - Dies in Pomeroy, Ohio - 1903. Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Sunday May 22, 2005 23:41:36 Marietta Daily Times Friday Afternoon, April 24, 1903 Mrs. D. C. Smith--Adaline Smith, wife of D. C. Smith died Sunday at theri beautiful hime on the hill beyond the cemetery, after an illness of many years, and was buried Tuesday in Beech Grove cemetery, the funeral being held at the house , conducted by Rev. Turnbull. Deceased was 76 years, 6 months and 17 days old and was born at Marietta, coming to this city may years ago and residing here ever since. She leaves an aged husband and three children--Pomeroy Democrat. Where To Get Washinton County Records Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Sunday May 22, 2005 19:36:18 County Records COURT RECORDS FROM 1790 Includes Divorce Records ---Clerk of Courts 205 Putnam Street, Marietta, OH 45750, (740) 373-6623 Ext. 254 Email: ClerkofCourts@washingtongov.org LAND RECORDS FROM 1788 ---County Recorder 205 Putnam Street, Marietta, OH 45750; 740-373-6623 Ext 235 or 236, Fax: 740-373-9643 Email: Recorder@washingtongov.org PROBATE RECORDS FROM 1789, MARRIAGE RECORDS FROM 1789, BIRTH & DEATH RECORDS FROM 1867-1908 ---Clerk of Probate Court, 205 Putnam Street, Marietta, OH 45750, (740) 373-6623 Ext. 254 Email: Probate@washingtongov.org DEATH RECORDS FROM DECEMBER 20, 1908 to 1944 ---Ohio Historical Society Website: http://www.ohiohistory.org/ BIRTH and DEATH RECORDS FROM 1908 TO PRESENT INSIDE MARIETTA CITY LIMTS ONLY ---Washington County Health Department 342 Muskingum Drive, Marietta, OH 45750, Phone: 740-374-2782, Fax: 740-376-5810 Email: vitalstats@washingtongov.org ALL BIRTH RECORDS AFTER 1908 and DEATH RECORDS AFTER 1944 ---Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics Website: http://www.odh.state.oh.us/VitStats/vsmain1.htm Washington County, Ohio Flood Photos Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Monday May 23, 2005 02:30:17 The Washington County, Ohio Sheriff's Office has Flood Photos CDs for free. You can also download photos in Parts 1 and 2 (zip files) for free. These are very good pics. Visit the WCSO website for more information. http://www.washingtoncountysheriff.org/index/floodphotos/flood_info.html Recommended Reading.... Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Wednesday May 18, 2005 12:07:24 Want to know more about the operation of the Underground Railroad in Washington County, Ohio?? Recommended readings: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN OHIO Tells about Ohio's role in the Underground Railroad and the reason behind the naming of it. Also, a secret coded memorandum written by David Putnam and a note written by John Stone, both from Washington County, Ohio. Others mentioned are, Rush R. Sloane of Sandusky, Ohio; Tice Davids, a runaway slave from Kentucky; Abram Allen, a Quaker of Oakland, Clinton County, Ohio; Horace Holt of Rutland, Meigs County; and Levi Coffin, a Quaker of Cincinnati, Ohio, called the president of the Underground Railroad. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/t/Debra-Nitsche/FILE/0149text.txt UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (History of Belpre, Ohio) Chapter XII Underground Railroad-- Passing Fugitives from Station to Station --The Kidnapping Case in 1845 -Case of Moses Davis -- Escape of Harry and his Wife -- Company of Fugitives on Farm of Mr. Hovey and Their Escape -- Speaker Treated to Rotten Eggs http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/t/Debra-Nitsche/FILE/0025text.txt Other website LINKS that appear on various pages of the LINKS website that pretains to The history of the Underground Railroad in Washington County, Ohio. Be sure to check them out. Henry Robert Burke's Southeastern Ohio Underground Railroad in Marietta, Washington County Area Including Map of Wood Co., Virginia Plantations Washington County, Ohio & The Underground Railroad Ephraim CUTLER and the Ohio Constitution Henry BURKE'S Website History Of The Underground Railroad in Washington Co. The 'Slave Narrative' of Mrs. Sarah Francis (Wood) Burke ESCAPE OF JANE - The True Story of the Underground Railroad A Family Journey To Freedom http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/index.html Slavery Sparks Family's History African-American History in Washington County Photo's of the Underground Railroad Stations, Plantations & Maps http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/page2.html Black Laws of Ohio 1804 Slavery in the Ohio River Valley http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/page4-5.html Underground Railroad Map Researching Slave Ancestors Tradegy on the Muskingum River http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/page6-5.html Ohio and The Underground Railway-- Pt 1A 1B Thomas Ridgeway (Abolitionist) Barlow Underground Railroad Station William "Uncle Billy" PEYTON (1792-1919) http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/page7.html American Slavery As It Is - Testimony of 1000 Witnesses -----Several Washington Co. names mentioned http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory2/page8.html Another Genealogy Spam Going Around Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Thursday May 26, 2005 12:43:26 SAVE YOUR EUROS, DOLLARS, and POUNDS. Another variant of the so-called Nigerian scam e-mail is making the rounds again and fooling some genealogists. The e-mail may appear to be sent by a barrister,(attorney) representing the estate of some long-lost relative you never knew you had (your last name may be inserted into the e-mail message) who perished along with his family in a car or airplane accident recently. The scammer will claim to have gone to a lot of trouble to find you in order to give you a share of the (usually) millions of dollars available if you'll just forward your bank account information to him or send him some money. He may claim to have found you through RootsWeb. Do not respond to such scams. The country involved is not always Nigeria. Ghana, South Africa and other West African states are sometimes mentioned. Occasionally the scam operates from other countries, such as the Netherlands (Amsterdam), the United Kingdom (London), Spain (Madrid), or Canada (Toronto). The United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert about this Nigerian scam. Americans who receive an offer via e-mail from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria -- or any other country, for that matter -- forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov There are myriad variants of this scam -- including "winning notifications" from a lottery company, fake charities, and fake church scams. Ignore them all. Save your money for genealogical research. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/nigeralrt.htm http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 25 May 2005, Vol. 8, No. 21. REPRINTS. Permission to reprint articles from RootsWeb Review is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, provided: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 25 May 2005, Vol. 8, No. 21.