MARIETTA GHOST STORIES
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Monday September 20, 2004 17:34:46
I couldn't think of a better month than October to share with you some well known ghost stories of places in Marietta, Ohio.
Visit the website of HAUNTED MARIETTA, and read the ghost stories about The Anchorage; The Castle; The Lafayette Hotel; Levee House Cafe and Players Theatre.
This site also has historical photo's of these places.
http://www.hauntedmarietta.com/stories/index.php
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Biography of Franklin McNeal
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Tuesday September 28, 2004 01:30:04
FRANKLIN MCNEAL
After having followed agriculture, surveying, and in his younger years following the teacher's profession for a brief period, Franklin McNeal directed his energies to the fruit industry and after he came to California, settling in Solano county during 1895, he devoted himself to horticulture with gratifying results. The various occupations in which he engaged indicate the versatility of his mind. It is possible for him, through sasatility of his mind. It was possible for him, through sagacious judgment and painstaking industry, to accumulate a competence and eventually he retired from manual labor, renting his farm and enjoying in contentment the comforts accumulated during a long and useful extience until his death, February 3, 1812.
Ohio was the native commonwealth of Franklin McNeal, and April 8, 1839, the date of his birth. When he was a boy Ohio was at the extreme edge of civilization. Beyond it were the vast forests, the uncultivated paraires, the wild animals and the yet wilder savages. There were few schools in the Buckeye state and the children of the pioneers became mored skilled in farming or in the domestic arts tha in literary lore. Through arduous efforts, however, it was possible for Mr. McNeal to secure a fair knowledge of the three R's, and when he became a teacher in young manhood he was qualified for thorough work with the pupils. During the Civil War his sympathics, always eagerly enlisted on the side of the Union, led him to offer his aid to the country and he was accepted as a private in Company I, One Hundred Forty-eighth Ohio Infantry. Assigned to duty in Virginia, he acted as a guard on the James river for some time and was also went to other points near the border line between the two armies.
Upon receiving an honorable discharge at the close of the war Mr. McNeal returned to Ohio and for several years made his home in the vicinity of Marietta. When he followed the the tide of emigration that drifted toward the west he first settled in Illinois and for some time held a position as deputy surveyor of Christian county. Going still futher toward the west, he settled in Kansas and took up a homestead near Clay Center, the county seat of Clay county, where he tilled the soil in the summer and taught school during the winter months. In addition he engaged to some extent in surveying, and defined a large number of boundary lines in that new country. Upon leaving Kansas for Calafornia he brought with him considerable capital, representing the result of years of arduous labor, and this capital was largely invested in his fruit farm in Solano county. Here he owned twenty-one acres, on-half in apricots and the rest in peaches, all bearing.
The first wife of Mr. McNeal bore the maiden name of Mary Alexander and was a native of Ohio. At her death she left two daughters. Bernice is the wife of O. W. Bryant of Monrovia, and they have one son. The other daughter of that union, Blanche, is Mrs. Charles Cahill of Vallejo. Mrs. McNeal was Miss Jessie Stacy, a native of Lowell, Ohio, and the mother of one daughter, June Louise McNeal, attending the Winters high school.
In faternal relations Mr. McNeal held membership with the blue lodge of Masonry, and his wife has been a leading worker in Yosolano Chapter 218 Eastern Star at Winters, of which she is past matron. The Republican party recieved the ballot of Mr. McNeal in all national elections. In common with other old soldiers, he found much to interest him in the activities of the Grand Army of the Republic and was a member of the post in the several places of his residence, contirbuting with kindly generosity to the philanthropic work conducted by the organization.
History of Solano and Napa Counties California. Written by Tom Gregory and Other Well Known Writers
Published by the Historical Record Company 1911
--Extracted by Debbie Noland Nitsche
Franklin McNeal was the son of William & Miltilda (Bellows) McNeal. He was born and raised in Waterford Township, Washington County, Ohio. He married 1. Mary Alexander in Wash. Co., Ohio. They had 3 daughters, Blanche, Ollie, & Bernice. He married 2. Jessie Stacy on April 20, 1890 in Wash. Co., Ohio. They had 2 children. A son, who died as an infant and a daughter, June.
Franklin McNeal is the author of an unpublished manuscript written between September 1879 and June 1881 about his grandfather, John McNeal and his life during the time he was in captivity of the Delaware Indians. There is a narrative about John McNeal, as well as other members of his family written on page 624 in The History of Washington County, Ohio 1788-1881 by H. Z. Williams.
His daughter Bernice (McNeal) Bryant is the author of the book, "The McNeal Family In America Descendants of Andrew McNeal and Margaret McDonald" She was born May 5, 1885 in Waterford Twp., Washington Co., Ohio and died May 2, 1975 in Santa Cruz, CA.
To view Franklin's manuscript, copy & paste this link into your browser:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/t/Debra-Nitsche/FILE/0039text.txt
To view photos of Franklin & Bernice, copy & past this link into your browser:
http://hometown.aol.com/washcopeople2/page20.html
The manuscript and photos are now owned by Mrs. Guy "Thelma" McNeal of Odessa, Texas.
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The Family of Daniel Park Green
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Thursday September 02, 2004 02:14:04
Portrait and biographical record of Johnson and Pettis Counties, Missouri
Chicago: Chapman Pub. Co., 1895
DANIEL PARK GREEN, a farmer and stockraiser of Pettis County, residing on section 23, township 45, range 21, was born in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio October 14, 1837. He is the son of Charles Wesley and Susan (Park) Green, the former born in Watertown Township, Washington County, Ohio in January, 1812, and the latter a native of Onieda County, N. Y. His mother was taken by her parents to Ohio at the age of two years, and grew to womanhood in Washington County, where in 1832 she became the wife of Charles W. Green, a farmer and trader of the county.
While his educational advantages were as good as the common schools of the time afforded, our subject has gained his present fund of information mainly by observation and systematic reading. He worked for his father until twenty-two years of age, when he began for himself, recieving at first $8 per month. In 1859, during the oil excitement he went to Virginia but remained there a short time. On his return to Ohio he was employed in making salt in Noble County, receiving $30 a month and his board.
During the Civil War Mr. Green volunteered in the Ohio National Guards, in 1873, and his regiment, proceeding to Virginia, took part in the engagements in the valley of the Shenandoah, on the Peninsula, on the James River, around Petersburg and Richmond, and at Monocacy.After a service of one hundred and thirty days, he was honorably discharged from the army. Later he attempted to re-enlist, but as he had become crippled in the feet from marching through the sand, they refused to accept him for futher service.
In company with two other men, in 1866, Mr. Green came to Pettis County and bought a sawmill, which he set up on Flat Creek, south of Sedalia. During the two ensuing years he did a thriving business and was prospered, saving a neat sum of money.
In 1868 he went back to Ohio, and in Washington County, on the 20th of February, he married Miss Eliza Carlin, with whom he had been acquainted before going to Missouri. He brought his bride to Pettis County, and soon afterward sold his sawmill and embarked in agricultural pursuits on land purchased by his father. This place he as “grubbed” and placed under cultivation, and improved with a substantial set of farm buildings. He now has one hundred and thirty-seven acres of as good land as may be found for miles around, and is justly proud of the thrifty condition of his estate.
Mrs. Green was born in Adams Township, Washington County, Ohio, October 16, 1839, and is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Cherry) Carlin. One child has been born of her marriage, a son, Duty C., whose birth occurred on the old homestead October 30, 1871. In boyhood he received a good education, and he is a lover of good literature, keeping well informed on all subjects of the day. October 18, 1894, he married Miss Lillie F. Botts, of Flat Creek Township, Pettis County. She was born in Lamonte, this county, September 11, 1867, and is a daughter of David M. and Parlee (Thomas) Botts. In
religious belief our subject and his wife hold membership with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Sedalia. Since casting his first Presidential ballot for Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, he has been loyal to the principles of the Republican party, and his son also supports that political organization.
(Susan Park Green is the daughter of Elisha and Sarah (Blair) Parke. And the sister to Robert, Salmon, Mary, Ruel, John, Hannah, and Finette Park(e) from Washington County, Ohio).
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Biography of William Cole
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Wednesday September 01, 2004 19:40:58
Portrait and Biographical Album of Wapello County, Iowa
Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1887
Pg. 311
WILLIAM COLE, at present a retired farmer and resident of Kirkville, Iowa, was born in Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio, Sept. 28, 1810, and is a son of Abijah and Susan (Kathcart) Cole. His father was a native of Connecticut, a tanner and shoe maker by trade, and died in Wayandotte County, Ohio, in 1850. His mother died in April, 1823, in Washington County, Ohio.
Before reaching his majority, William Cole learned the trade of a stonemason, which occupation he followed for fifteen years in his native State.
In 1833 he was married to Miss Elizabeth B. Patton, born in Washington County, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1813, and the daughter of Thomas Patton. Of this union there were born ten children, who are recorded as follows: Ann a. is the wife of H. C. Kirkpratrick, and lives at Winchester, Kan.; Irene D., the wife of D. H. Cline, lives in Oskaloosa, Kan.; William W. married Miss Julia Daney and lives in Kansas; T. T. married Miss M. J. Picker, and lives in Richland Township; John L. was next in order of birth; Mary E., the wife of M. E. Holloway, lives in Mahaska County; Susan M. is deceased; three others died in infancy. Mrs. Elizabeth Cole departed this life Sept. 19, 1881, and was buried in the Kirkville Cemetery.
Mr. Cole is the owner of fifty-six acres of land in Richland Township, together with three dwelling’s houses in Kirkville. He has held the office of Justice of the Peace for six years, and politically is a Greenbacker.
Extracted by Debbie Noland Nitsche
Sept. 2004
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Members of The Society of Montana Pioneers
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Thursday September 02, 2004 03:54:22
Society of Montana Pioneers
Published by The Society in 1899
Members Pg. 76
CHARLES COOPER, born in Washington County, Ohio, November 21, 1829; went across the plains to California in 1850. Place of departure for Montana, California; route traveled, overland; arrived at Alder Gulch, October 13, 1863. Occupation, miner. Residence, Helmville.
Members pg. 99
ROBERT H. CRAWFORD, born in Washington County, Ohio, March 2d, 1835. Place of departure for Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah; route traveled, overland via Snake River; arrived at Bannack, October 20, 1862. Last address, Bozeman.
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Military Commissions of William Bond Mason
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Saturday September 11, 2004 22:26:45
**First Commission
"To William Mason --- Greeting.
Reposing special trust and confidence in your Loyalty, courage and goos conduct, I do, by vertue of the power vested in me, hereby appoint you to the office of a Sergeant in a Company of Artillery in the County of Washington and Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio.
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Sergeant for which this shall be your sufficient warrant, and all inferior officers and Soldiers of said Company, are hereby commanded to obey you as such, and you are yourself to observe and follow such orders and instructions as you shall from time to time receive from one of your superior officers.
Given under my hand and Seal at Marietta, the County of Washington and Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio, this 23 day of May in the year of our Lord 1790".---Signed by: E. Sproat, Liet. Commanding the Militia Washington County.
The other commissions are:
**Second---William Mason Lieutenant of Militia in the county of Washington Aug. 5, 1797, signed by Winthrop Sargent, Sec.
**Third---Appointing William Mason, gentleman "Lieutenant" in the 1st Regiment of milita in the county of Washington, dated June 13, 1801. Signed by Arthur St. Clair.
**Fourth---Appointing William Mason, "Captain" in the 1st Regiment. Dated Aug. 18, 1803. Signed by Edward Tiffin, Gov.,and William Creighton, Sec. of State.
**Fifth---Appointing William Mason "Captain" in the 8th Co. of the 1st Brigrad of the 3rd Division of the militia in the county of Washington. Dated Apr. 28, 1804. Signed by Edward Tiffin, Gov.,and William Creighton, Sec. of State.
(The above information was taken from the Mason Genealogy, written by Mary Eliza Mason in 1911. Pg. 213. William Bond Mason was her Great Grandfather)
(5th Great Grandfather of Debbie Noland Nitsche)
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Captivity Of Daniel Convers
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Friday September 17, 2004 05:05:28
I found a very interesting story in Pioneer History of the Ohio Valley And The Northwest Territory, written by Samuel P. Hildreth - Published in 1848.
It’s about the Indian capture of 16 year old Daniel Convers not long after the Indian War had ended in Waterford, Ohio in 1796. The story tells about the events that led up to his capture, and the events that took place along the way as he was taken to Sandusky and sold to an Chippewa Indian who adopted him into his family. The story also tells of David’s escape, the kind man and the British officers who helped him along the way to get back to Marietta.
Others mentioned by name in the story are:
Jonathan Sprague
Nehemiah Sprague
Daniel Davis
Indians of the Chippewa, Wyandot, and Ottawa Tribes
Mr. Whitaker, an Indian Trader
La Ponce, a Frenchman
Colonel M’Kee
James Van Sheicke Riley, an Indian Trader and later a
Postmaster in N. Y.
Major Smith, a British officer
Mr. Seacorn, a tavern keeper
Thomas Shaw, one of the prisoners taken at Big Bottom
This is a must read!!
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/t/Debra-Nitsche/FILE/0129text.txt
Feel free to print this story out.
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Lyman Roach's Capture & Imprisonment During The Civil War
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Monday September 13, 2004 22:00:38
Genealogy and History - The Family of Hugh Mason, William Mason and Allied Families - Written by: Mary E. Mason, 1911
Official and War Records - Page 221
LYMAN ROACH--166--At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Battery C. First O. V. Light Artillery Co. K. and served to the close of the war. I give the story of his capture and imprisonment as related by him. Cap. M. B. Gary was on the 13th day of Dec. 1864, in position on the west bank of the Savannah river, opposite the head of Hutchinson’s Island in Ga. with his Battery C. of the First O. V. L. A. I, being a member of the Battery walked down to the waters edge, looked out in the middle of the stream at gun boat that had just surrendered and thought I would love to take a pull at one of those fine yawls that were tied along the shore, when Cap. Gary made his appearance of the scene and said, “Roach can you row a boat?” I told him that I could and that I was anxious to show him how I could feather my oars. I was a boy 18 years old. Cap. Gary, Lewis Hettinger and myself rowed over and around the gunboat. We started back and decided to drop down on Hutchinson’s Island. Landed on the flood gate to a rice field where we were met by an armed force. We, being artillerymen, were unarmed and compelled to surrender. Later we were sent across to the Georgian Shore and taken to the old U. S. prison. After about two weeks we were taken across the Savannah to South Carolina and were marched to a village called Poketalego. Were in company with about 300 prisoners of war. After resting for a few hours, Cap. Gary and I were put at the head of a column and marched through the town and back of it perhaps one half mile into a small cave under the long branches of a high live oak tree that was covered with moss. We were lined up with thirteen others, Gary and I still at the head. There being fifteen, the same number of guards took their positions in front. The Cap. said to me that this was our last march. Just then the officer in command of the guards stepped to the head of the column and began giving order in the manual of arms. Just at the firing point a general, I think his name was Hurd, with his aid came in sight, having been informed in the town what was going on and knowing the utter disregard of the rules of war of some of his men, had upon his fleet hours made the race and come in time to save fifteen lives. They were taken back to Poketalego. Later going to Columbia and I to Florence, S. C. Ninety days later we again met at Annapolis, Md. Released at Wilmington, N. C. March 20, 1865. Was mustered out June 1865. Is Postmaster at Texarkana Tex. (1909).
William Roach not yet 15 years of age enlisted at Marietta, O. Served 9 mos. in Co., C, 18th O. V. I. Was a member of the G. A. R. Post of Bellefontaine, O.
Extracted by Debbie Noland Nitsche
Sept. 2004
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Map & Route The First Settlers Took From Massachusetts To Ohio
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Monday September 20, 2004 17:20:58
ROUTE OF THE PIONEER CARAVAN WHICH WILL RECREATE THE TREK OF THE SETTLERS OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY
http://www.primaryresearch.org/PRTHB/Dane/Gendall/map.jpg
(Copy & paste this link into your browser).
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Biography of Austin Barber
Debbie Noland Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Wednesday September 01, 2004 20:38:26
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois
Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1891
Pgs. 281-282
AUSTIN BARBER. Among the honored citizens of Pike County who have been well rewarded by Dame Fortune for their years of toil and assiduity in the gentle man above named. This venerable now occupies a cozy home in Pittsfield where he is surrounded by all the comforts that money can purchase and enjoys the pleasures and friendships make life worth living. His landed estate consists of seven hundred acres, most of which is near the county seat, and so has an additional value beyond that depending upon its fertility and improvement.
The natal day of our subject was October 31, 1809, and his birthplace Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. He is of English descent in both lines and his parents Levi and Elizabeth (Rouse) Barber, were natives of New England. The former was born in Vermont October 16, 1777, and was one of the first settlers in Marietta, Ohio, where he died at the age of sixty years. His business was that of a merchant, and he held the position of Postmaster many years, also serving for a considerable period as a Member of Congress, and did a great deal of surveying in Ohio and Kentucky. Politically he was a Whig, and was a personal friend of Henry Clay. Mrs. Barber went to Ohio with her parents during her girlhood and spent long years in Marietta, dying there in her fifty-ninth year. The family included four sons and one daughter, all being now deceased except our subject. David died in 1877; Elizabeth was the wife of Dr. Felix Regnier, both being now dead; Levi died in infancy and another son, who was given the same name, breathed his last in 1888.
Austin Barber passed his early school days in his native place, and then persued his studies two years in the Athens (Ohio) College. His first connection with business life was a clerk in his father's store and Assistant Postmaster. He remained with his parents until he had grown to manhood, and in September, 1833, first set his foot on the site of the town which is now his home. That was the year in which Pittsfield was platted, and first lots having been sold in May preceding the arrival of Mr. Barber. This gentleman and Robert R. Greene established a store under the style of Greene & Barber, caring a stock of general merchandise, in which they continued to deal until 1841. The business was then closed out and the partners removed to Florence, on the river, where they carried on a general store, ran a steam flouring mill and handled large quantities of produce and pork.
In 1847 the gentle men returned to Pittsfield and Mr. Barber engaged in farming, an occupation in which he continued until 1870. The land which he operated was a fine tract one mile from Pittsfield, in what is now Newburg Township, and is still in his possession. He remained on it until 1853, when he was elected County Clerk on the old Whig ticket, and in order to fully discharge the duties of his office he gave over his agricultural persuits for a time. When his term of two years had expired he retired to private life and devoted himself with renewed ardor to his former occupation. In 1839 he had erected a dwelling which still stands in a good state of preservation. The weather-boarding was of black walnut, and having been kept well painted, is a good as the day it was put on.
The first marriage of Mr. Barber was solemnized in 1838, in this county, his bride being Miss Caroline Johnson, a native of Missouri. She shared his joys and sorrows until 1850, when she passed away, leaving three sons---Levi, a merchant in Kansas; George, a resident of Pittsfield; and Austin D., a farmer in Hancock County. three daughters who were born of this union died in infancy. the second wife of Mr. Barber was Emily W. Raynard, with whom he lived happily twenty-seven years. Mrs. Emily Barber was a devoted member of the Christian Church, and our subject has been identified with the same body thirty years.
Mr. Barber represented Pittsfield two terms on the Board of Supervisors. His political adherence was first given to the Whig party, his initial vote having been cast in 1832, and for may years past he has been a stanch Republican, his last ballot having been given to Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Barber is an enthusiastic sportsman, and although now in his eighty-first year he has by no means given up hunting. He is hale and hearty and can see to shoot as well as ever, and it is no unusual thing for him to kill nineteen prairie chickens out of twenty shots. He makes an annual hunting trip to the West, and no member of the party enters more heartily into the spirit of outdoor live than Mr. Barber. Few men possess a more genial, kindly nature than he, or can call a greater number of their
acquaintances by the royal name of “friend.”
Extracted by Debbie Noland Nitsche
Sept. 2004
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Did You Know???.............
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Friday September 24, 2004 13:06:16
Did you know that Washington County, Ohio once had a library called The Coon-Skin Library???
The reason, it got the name of The Coon-Skin Library was because in the autumn of 1802, the people of Ames, then in Washington County had a public meeting for the purpose to devise a plan to improve the roads. Talk was made to build a road that connects the Sunday creek settlement with Federal Creek. It was suggested that a library would supply what was needed, but the settlers had no money. Josiah True suggested that a way to pay for it, was to catch coons, and send the skins to Boston with Esq. Samuel Brown who was to go there the next summer. The men of Ames were active in hunting the coons and other furs. They were sold, and books were purchased. At first 50 books were selected by Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler & Rev. Thaddeus Harris. Other books were added time to time.
Ames is now a township in Athens County, Ohio.
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FAVORITE LINKS
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Friday September 24, 2004 13:53:00
Below are a few very interesting stories that was found in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. These are on the Ohio History website. Copy and paste the total weblink into your browser.
*WOMEN ON THE OHIO FRONTER: THE MARIETTA AREA Written by Mildred Covey Fry
---(THIS IS A MUST READ!!)---
http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=009055.html&StartPage=55&EndPage=73&volume=90¬es=&newtitle=Volume%2090%20Page%2055
*THE PEOPLE OF OHIO'S FIRST COUNTY (Vol. 49)
http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=00491.html&StartPage=1&EndPage=40&volume=49&newtitle=Volume%2049%20Page%201
*LUCY BACKUS WOODBRIDGE, PIONEER MOTHER
January 31, 1757--October 6, 1817
(Vol. 44)
http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0044405.html&StartPage=405&EndPage=442&volume=44¬es=&newtitle=Volume%2044%20Page%20405
*JAMES BACKUS: CITIZEN OF MARIETTA, 1788-1791
http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0045161.html&StartPage=161&EndPage=172&volume=45¬es=&newtitle=Volume%2045%20Page%20161
*THE GERMAN PIONEERS
http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=000255.html&StartPage=55&EndPage=63&volume=2¬es=&newtitle=Volume%202%20Page%2055
You can also access these links on page 6 of the LINKS site.
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Dear Ancestor
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Sunday September 19, 2004 03:50:59
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundered years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder as you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
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Grandma's Apron
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Friday September 17, 2004 14:00:50
My Uncle Larry Noland sent this to me. I thought I would add it to the newsletter.
GRANDMA'S Apron
The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath; but along with that, it served as a holder for removing hot pans from the oven; it was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken-coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those old aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids; and when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling-wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled it carried out the hulls. In the fall it was used bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out on the porch and waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields for dinner.
It will be a long time before anyone invents something that will replace that old-time apron that served so many purposes.
-Author unknown-
Do you all remember the old aprons?
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New "LINKS"
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Sunday September 26, 2004 06:11:18
WASHINGTON CO., OHIO HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY “LINKS”
http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/page6-5.html
PERSONAL WEBSITES & FAMILY HISTORIES
*TAYLOR'S From S.E. / Eastern Ohio
MARRIAGES
*Various Marriages in Washington County - Database of 851 marriages.
*SKIPTON MARRIAGES (1820-1925)
PHOTOS
*Digital Shoebox Collections
*Debbie Noland Nitsche's Scrapbook of Wash. Co., Ohio Images
*Flood Photos - September 2004 (Ed Osborne’s site)
*Marietta Under Water - Flood of 2004 (Marietta Times Photos)
EARLY SETTLERS
*Lucy Backus Woodbridge, Pioneer Mother (January 31, 1757--October 6, 1817)
*James Backus: Citizen of Marietta, 1788-1791
*The People of Ohio’s First County
*Women on the Ohio Frontier: The Marietta Area - Written by Mildred Covey Fry
*The German Pioneers
CEMETERIES
*Mound Cemetery - DAR Revolutionary War "MEMORIAL PLOT" MARKERS (Read by Millie Fry & Frances Parlin)
*Rainbow Cemetery (Photos of RICE Family Headstones) Nathan Rice, a RW Soldier
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
*Tradegy on the Muskingum River
MISC. HISTORY
*History of floods in Marietta, Ohio
*Marietta's Example of a Settlement Pattern in the Ohio Country: A Reinterpretation
*Address of Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes
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New Photo's of PLACES in Washington County, Ohio
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Sunday September 26, 2004 06:13:48
OLD PHOTO'S OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO - PART 3
http://hometown.aol.com/washcopics/index.html
PAGE 34
Sept. 2004 Flood (6 Photos) Submitted by Millie Covey Fry & Larry Noland
Residence of David Skinner home on Front St. (Cira 1800's)
Farm Residence of L. P. Pond in Dunham Twp. (Cira 1800's)
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New Photos of PEOPLE in Washington Co., Ohio
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net
Sunday September 26, 2004 06:17:13
FAMILIES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OHIO
http://hometown.aol.com/familiesofwashco/index.html
PAGE 14
---All photos submitted by Bob Denton
William Newton Hamilton
William, Donald Alexander, David Hamilton & Samuel Knox Alexander
David Hamilton (2 Photos Abt. 1910? & 1920)
Samuel Knox Alexander (1908)
Old Long Cabin on Archer's Fork
Samantha Hamilton (3 Photos)
Ann Eliza Hamilton
David, Sarah N. (Mathers), William & Amanda Hamilton
Elizabeth Hamilton (2 Photos)
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---All photos submitted by Bob Denton
William Newton Hamilton
Samanth Hamilton & daughter, Beulah (2 Photos)
David & William Newton Hamilton
Buelah Hamilton
Don Hamilton with 1914 Graduation class of Marietta Commerical College
Donald Hamilton (2 Photos - One was taken about 1915)
Donnie Hamilton (abt. 1900)
Donald Hamilton ( Taken about 1910 +/- with one of the bands arond the Marietta area.)
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---All photos submitted by Bob Denton
James Allexander
Jerome Davis & Sarah Tice Davis (His Wife)
Jerome & Sarah Tice Davis (3 pics)
Jerome, Sarah Tice, and Gordon Davis
Sarah Davis (1950's)
Jacob Gitchell Davis
Mary Eliza Ferris Davis
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---All photos submitted by Bob Denton
Franklin (F.C.) Davis and Wife
Jacob, Mary & Franklin Davis
Mrs. Mary Eliza Davis with Jerome as a child
Martin V. Tice
Martin Tice
Hester Ann Haught Tice
Jerome Davis
Martin V. Tice & Sarah Tice Davis Her son, Gordon Davis. His son Howard David
Hester Ann Haught Tice
Lora Haught, Emma Decker, June Gutberlet & Leroy Gutberlt
Headstones of Mercy Haught & Lavinia (Weaver Haught)
Lawrence Church, Dart Cemetery
Bob, May & Nellie Davis Hamilton, Sarah, Jerome & Gordon Davis
Nellie Hamilton and friend
Nellie Hamilton & Anna Bayless
Jerome Davis, Bill and Bob Denton
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---All photos submitted by Bob Denton
James Alexander (group pic)
Donald & Nellie Davis Hamilton, Sarah Tice, Bob, Donnell and May Hamilton Denton
Don and Robert Hamilton (His son)
Donald Hamilton and Nellie Davis Hamilton
Don Hamilton
Ford Alexander (2 pics)
Ford Alexander's Business in Taft, California
Glenn Alexander
Post card from Ford Alexander to Don Hamilton
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---All photos submitted by Bob Denton
Nellie Davis Hamilton & May Hamilton Denton With Nellie's Horse, Maude.
Ford Alexander Drilling For Oil
Ford Alexander Striking Oil
Addison & Mary Hamilton With Baby
1919 Family of John Hamilton
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---Photos submitted by Brenda Perkins
The Berry Home On Gilman Street Submitted by Brenda Perkins
George Berry In His Spanish American Uniform
Warren Berry & Neighbor
Warren Berry
1954-5 Bert, Mahala, George & Ted Berry
1938 Viola Berry Racer & UK Person in Roanoke, VA
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---Photos submitted by Thelma McNeal
Ermina H. (Munkton) McNeal (w/o Dr. Cromwell McNeal)
Franklin McNeal
Ason McNeal
Elias McNeal
Thomas McNeal
Bernice (McNeal) Bryant
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---All photos submitted by Sue Armann
Family of Alexander & Flora Dennis
James & Anna (Dennis) Boyce On Wedding Day in 1915
James & Anna Boyce With Their Children (Circa 1921)
John & Anna (Nessleroad) Boyce With Their Children (Circa 1906)
Children of John & Anna Boyce (Charles, Goldie & Maude)
Bill & John Bocye (Circa 1909)
1913 Sylvia (Boyce) Blair
Henry & Sylvia (Boyce) Blair
Merriman, Sr., & Henrietta (Kirkbride) Willison
Merriman, Jr., & Armenia (Wright) Dennis
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New Photos of HEADSTONES in Washington County, Ohio
Debbie (Noland) Nitsche
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Sunday September 26, 2004 06:15:28
"OLD" HEADSTONES LOCATED IN WASHINGTON CO., OHIO
http://hometown.aol.com/washcoheadstones/index.html
WATERTOWN TWP.
Henry Cemetery -- (John & Anna McNeal)(William & Matilda Bellows McNeal) Submitted by Thelma McNeal
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