Henry County Genealogical Society Newsletter
Volume 19, Number 4, July – August 2005
A PUBLICATION OF:
The Henry County Genealogical Society
P. O. BOX 231
DESHLER, OHIO 43516
www.henrycountyohiogenealogy.org
The Henry County Genealogical Society Newsletter is now published bi-monthly. The editor reserves the right to accept or reject any material submitted. The Newsletter is copyright protected, but the Society gives permission for material to be copied for personal research and to other chapter newsletters for their use. Any other use of this material should carry written permission from the Henry County Genealogical Society and acknowledge the source. Annual membership is $10.00 for 1-2 people at the same address.
Meetings will be held quarterly or as announced in the newsletter. Publications for sale are listed on the last page with the newest ones appearing on the first page.
We print all queries that are related to Henry County – membership is not required. Send queries to Henry Co. Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 231, Deshler, OH 43516 or to the editor as “Query” at wendypen@wcnet.org. After May 2016, queries may be directed to our website and will appear there.
Officers:
President – Jim Rebar
Vice President – Maurice Weaks
Treasurer/Membership Chmn. – Lucille Van Scoyoc
Corresponding Secretary – Phyllis LaRue
Recording Secretary and First Families Chmn. – Kathy Bishop
News Reporter – Clara Ellen Courtney
Newsletter Editor – Karen Sunderman
Webmaster – Jim Rebar
MEETINGS
Jul 18, 2005, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Work night and business meeting.
August 2005 – No Meeting
See you at the Fair!.
NOW ONLINE…
There is now an index to the Estate Records in the Henry County courthouse on our website. Also look for chattel tax records, mortality records, marriage records, and veterans records plus the 1830 census on the site.
TIPS YOU CAN USE …
Rhonda Casler, speaker for the June meeting, had some good tips for researching Henry County courthouse records:
Recorder’s Office – Records begin 1847. E-mail requests accepted: recorder@henrycountyohio.com. Public access to indexes. Online indexing bega1990; 2003 indexing includes images. Genealogy requests will be completed as staff time allows.
Probate Court – Records begin 1847. Ee-mail: probate@henrycountyohio.com. Marriage indexes will be searched by court personnel; other indexes open to public. No online information.
Clerk of Courts – Records begin 1847. No e-mail requests accepted, public access to indexes, no online information. Pprepayment plus SASE required.
We urge you to keep in mind there are very few early records.
QUERIES
We accept any queries relating to Henry County. There is no charge and you do not have to be a member to submit your query.
DON’T FORGET
The first West Central Ohio Genealogical Workshop will be held October 22, 2005 at St. Marys Theater in St. Marys, OH. Dr. George K. Schweitzer will conduct three seminars:
- Rivers to Trails to Roads to Canals to Trains (migration)
- Researching in Burned-Out Counties
- Civil War Genealogy
Registration begins at 8 a.m. with opening remarks at 9:00. The seminar concludes at 3 p.m. There is free parking. Pre-registration (due by Oct. 15) is $30. Registration that day is $35. Lunch is included. Send registration to: West Central Ohio Genalogical Workshop, P. 0. Box 298, St. Marys, OH 45885.
ANOTHER REMINDER
Some Henry County births are recorded only in a card file in the Probate Court office. Be sure to check for those additions to the Birth Records. There are also volumes devoted to additions and corrections of Birth Records. They are called Corrections and Late Registrations. All corrections after 1908 were sent to Columbus.
From FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE 2003 – 101 Best Genealogical Websites
www.accessgenealogy.com – A useful online starting place, with genealogy-related news plus lots of links and also a source for data, especially Native American roots. Other resources cover military records, cemeteries, biographies, census records, immigration, African-American ancestry, vital records and more.
www.cyndislist.com – Cyndi Howell’s exhaustive catalog of links–more than 180,000, sorted into 150+ categories. A search box now makes this site easier and faster to use.
WE ARE THE CALLED (Submitted by Clara Ellen Courtney)
In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts, but instead breathing life into all who have gone before.
We are the storytellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us; “Tell our Story!” So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and wept? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors; “You have a wonderful family. You would be proud of us”? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt, somehow, there was love there for me? I cannot say; it goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do.
It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying, “I can’t let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh.” It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish, how they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, joy and grief, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family.
It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth. Without them, we could not exist and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach that we might be born who we are, that we might remember them. So we do, with love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation, to answer the call, and take my place in the long line of family storytellers.
From The Henry County Signal, 25 Jan 1883:
But one piece of real estate was sold at the recent delinquent tax sale in Henry County and that a town lot in Deshler, which brought about $2.75.
F. MARGRAT will offer at Public Sale at his residence six miles down the river opposite Damascus, on Monday, Jan. 19th, 1883 work horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, wagon, harness, farming utensils and kitchen furniture generally. Those popular auctioneers, Blackman & Drummond will try the sale.
Pensions have recently been granted to Lieut. D. M JONES, Otto HONNECK and G. W. LAWRENCE. Mr. JONES received back pay ammounting to $869.06; Mr. HONNECK $835.00 and Mr. LAWRENCE $1240.40. Thus has the Government done an act of tardy justice to three deserving men.
DEATHS—KING, Charlie, infant son of Levi and Della KING, died Jan. 4, 1883, aged four months and ten days.
MARRIAGES — Walter – HAHN On Jan. 21st, 1883, at the Lutheran St. Paul’s Church by Rev. L. DULITZ, Mr. Frederick WALTER and Miss Caroline HAHN.
1904 LEDGER SHEET
This ledger sheet was found stuck in one of the books from the courthouse. A notation says” “Nov. 2nd 1904 Received of W. T. CHENEY J.P. 80 cents for John ROBERTS as const. John ROBERTS, Earl ROBERTS
Although we don’t know what store this ledger sheet comes from, we can see the kinds of items our ancestors bought and used in their daily lives. I don’t know why some items are listed separately and some entries are for “groceries.” If anyone knows what Vitas was, please write. All entries were spelled according to the original as well as I could make it out. One entry stumped me but I wrote it as I saw it–Cissan Paubers, or possibly Panbers.
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Feb. 29
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1 Pair Boots |
3.00
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Apr. 28
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Corn |
.20
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29
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Sugar |
.12
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28
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Kraut |
.10
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29
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Oat meal |
.10
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28
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Salman |
.25
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29
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Salman |
.10
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28
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Sug |
.11
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|
29
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Salt |
.05
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29
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Patatoes |
.60
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|
29
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Overalls |
.75
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29
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Oil |
.25
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29
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Syrup |
.10
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29
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Gloves |
.25
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29
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Jug |
.10
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29
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Vitas(?) |
.10
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29
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Vinegar |
.20
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29
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Baking Powd |
.15
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29
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Beans |
.10
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29
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Corn meal |
.20
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29
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Rice |
.16
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May 14
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Sug |
.25
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29
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Soda |
.08
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14
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Starch |
.10
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29
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Gloves |
.25
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14
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Salman |
.15
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29
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Thread |
.05
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14
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Corn |
.25
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29
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Pickles |
.10
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14
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Vitas |
.10
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29
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Crackers |
.10
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14
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Soap |
.05
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29
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Stock food |
1.00
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14
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Shoe polish |
.10
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Mar. 10
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Groceries |
.46
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14
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Gause Shirt |
.30
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11
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Corn starch |
.10
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14
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Salt |
.05
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|
11
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Lemans |
.15
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19
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Oil |
.26
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11
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Soap |
.05
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19
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Crackers |
.20
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18
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Groceries |
.91
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19
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Apricats |
.15
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30
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Peruna (?) |
.90
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19
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Flour |
1.40
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30
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Vitas |
.10
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21
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Chese |
.16
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Apr. 8
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Groceries |
1.17
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21
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Sug |
.27
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12
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Flour |
1.35
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21
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Corn |
.12
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12
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Crackers |
.20
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21
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Oysters |
.10
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12
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Vitas |
.10
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21
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Chocolate |
.10
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12
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Raisins |
.10
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21
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Lemons |
.25
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12
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Soda |
.10
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21
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Tea |
.15
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12
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Salman |
.10
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21
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Hominy |
.04
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23
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Groceries |
4.33
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21
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Pat. Medicine |
1.00
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28
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Chese |
.32
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28
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Gloves |
.50
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May 25
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Sugar |
.25
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June 23
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Flour |
1.40
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25
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Vanilla |
.10
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July 2
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Sug(ar?) |
.50
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26
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Thread |
.10
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2
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Picks |
.05
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26
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Pins |
.05
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2
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Matches |
.05
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26
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Lemons |
.25
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2
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Choc(olate) |
.10
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26
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Corn |
.13
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2
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Soap |
.15
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June 2
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Sug(ar?) |
.40
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2
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Chese |
.22
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2
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Cookies |
.12
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2
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2 boxes cans |
1.10
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2
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Pepper |
.10
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9
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Underware |
2.00
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2
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Apricats |
.15
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9
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Chese |
.13
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2
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Pickles |
.10
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9
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Corn Crisp |
.15
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2
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Vanilla |
.10
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9
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Sug |
.15
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11
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Oil |
.28
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9
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Oil |
.26
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11
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Sug |
.25
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15
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Corn Crisp |
.15
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11
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Sug |
.10
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15
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can Cissan Paubers(?) |
1.00
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11
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Sal Soda |
.10
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16
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Sug |
.25
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11
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Chocolate |
.10
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16
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Apricats |
.20
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11
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Soap |
.05
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16
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Tea |
.15
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11
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Coffee |
.16
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16
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Lemons |
.25
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11
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Grape Nut |
.15
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26
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Vinegar |
.20
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11
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Cookies |
.12
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26
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Sug |
.25
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11
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Peaches |
.20
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26
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Corn crisp |
.15
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11
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Calico |
1.08
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28
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Soap |
.05
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11
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Favorite Prescription |
1.00
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28
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Raisins |
.10
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17
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Beans |
.28
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28
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Choc |
.05
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17
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Sug |
.11
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28
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Yeast foam |
.05
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17
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Hominy |
.08
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28
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Baking Powd |
.15
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17
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Corn |
.25
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28
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Salman |
.10
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17
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Bread |
.05
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28
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Sal Soda |
.05
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17
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Grape Nut |
.15
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28
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Chese |
.14
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23
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Can Rubers |
.40
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28
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Tomatars |
.10
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23
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Rice |
.16
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Aug. 2
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Sug |
.25
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23
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Peaches |
.12
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2
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Tapoca |
.07
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23
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Bananas |
.05
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2
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Corn |
.30
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23
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Soap |
.10
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2
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Coffee |
.15
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23
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Yeast Foam |
.05
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2
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Lemans |
.15
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23
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Sug |
.25
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5
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Overalls |
.75
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23
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Salt |
.05
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5
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Shirt |
.50
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5
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Chese |
.23
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$44.62
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SHEEP CLAIM RECORDS 1892-1897
(Claims made when sheep were destroyed or injured by dogs, paid from dog license fees)
| Marion Townsip | ||
| J. C. MANNING | A. S. MEYER | W. F. DRURY |
| Henry MANGUS | M. J. DIETRICK | John MANGUS |
| Emerson B. CHEADLE | Henry DOCHENHOUSE | Christ PFAHLER |
| John A. DIEMER | John A. WESTRICK | A. DOODING |
| Henry BOESSLING | C. PFAHLER | Henry DOCHENHOUSE |
| John A. WESTRICK | Jacob WESTRICK | John DEIMER |
| George HEMRICKS | Henry EICHOFF | Henry GOBREGER |
| Henry PACEY | Leonard BUTTER (BUTLER?) | A. A. McGUIRE |
| S. R. HASHBERGER | C. DECKO | C. HARSHBARGER |
| SHELLY and BROTHER | John V. MYERS | O. N. CREADER |
| Fred ROTHBAR | F. BOSTELMAN | H. BOESLING |
| John ROTHBAT (sic) | Deitrich WIT | F. H. LANG |
| H. H. MILLER | O. H. CREAGER | J. MYER |
| Charles VAJEN | Henry EICKHOFF | Christ MYERS |
| William DECKER | C. A. DECKER | I. B. STEVENSON |
| H. H. MULLER | Christ PFAHLER | Joseph MANGAS |
| Joseph OEDY | Michael OEDY | Andrew JANIN |
| William DECKO | Christ PFAHLER | C. A. DECKER |
| William DECKO | Christ PFAHLER | Joseph MANGAS |
| Charles KOSSOW | Henry SCHWEIBERT | Christ SCHWEIBERT |
| Norman BLINN | Lewis MURRY | Archibald HAYS |
| Brothers SHELLY (see above) | H. MEYER | Joseph THORN (?) |
| George MEASEL | L. HITT | C. SEEDER |
| Mrs. Anna BRUNS | H. WITTE | H. LANG |
| Christ. PFAHLER | Henry DACKENHAUSEN | Henry KOITHAHN (?) |
| Henry DACKENHAUSEN | Christ PHALER | Henry KOITHAHN |
| Charles KOSSOW | H. SCHWEBERT | C. F. COSSOW |
| Henry SCHWEIBERT | C. F. KOSSOW | C. COSSOW |
| Charles F. COSSOW | H. SCHWEBERT | Charles KOSSOW |
| J. W. BISHOP | J. H. MORRIS | J. H. BISHOP |
| Joseph BISHOP Sr. | J. H. MORRIS | J. H. BISHOP |
| Monroe Township | ||
| STRUBLE and SMITH | W. R. AURAND | John SCHULTY |
| A. IMBER | H. FURHOP | Lewis BERMAN |
| William HELBERG | Geo. BREMER (?) | Henry PRIGGE |
| Lyman CONRAD | Wm. HARMS | GILHLAND |
| Earnest ACLERMAN | John FAHRER | Edward MILLER |
| W. H. BOOHER | C. AUSTERMILLER | Wm. CANNON |
| CLARK & HEFFLINGER | Ed Detmer | F. W. HOFF |
| John GLICK | Wm. LATTA | Joseph D. GLICK |
| Richard ORDWAY | P. GILLILAND | Wm. HARMS |
| Arthur SWEENY | J. C. MEYERS | J. BUNTZ |
| Wrn. KRUSE | C. KRUSE | H. SPORING |
| F. H. ARPS | G. HAASE | H. HAHN |
| C. F. DECKO | C. A. DECKO | H. BOESLING |
| Fred DAMMANN | John BUNTZ | Arthur SWEENY |
| Fred G. ARPS | Henry COHRS | Reuben LITZENBERG |
| John WELLS | Elbert PACKARD | D. A. BAUMGARDNER |
| Clinton E. BAER | Asa BABCOCK | John WELLS |
PIONEER SKETCHES (from the Henry County Signal, 18 Feb 1886), by Rev. N. B. C. Love
[Ed. Note: Rev. Love was a Methodist Pastor in Deshler, OH. Later he pastored the Old (Indian) Mission Church in Upper Sandusky, Wyandot Co., OH.]
This is a continuation from the last issue of an account of his capture by the Shawnee and living with the Indians at the Auglaize R. near Defiance, OH in 1790-91 written by O. M. Spencer and related by Rev. Love.
The dress of the Indian women consisted of an under garment of calico or linen extending six inches below the waist and fastened at the neck with a silver brooch, a petticoat of a yard and a half of blue cloth with white selvedge, wraped (sic) around the waist, and fastened with a girdle. This coat came below the knees, then a pair of leggings of the same cloth sewed so as to fit the leg neatly, leaving a border down each side at the seam with an inch and a half of cloth projecting, which was filled (with) ornaments. The feet were covered with moccasins. These were often curiously wrought with beads and porcupine quills, and small tin bells. Besides these the more wealthy women covered the bosoms, shoulders, sides and edges of their garments with silver brooches. A compny of these dusky maidens in full dress made no appearance, amid the bowers of Nature’s formation.
About the last of July the Indian prophetess visited the village below, taking Spencer with her. He gives a fine pen portrait of two eminent chieftains whom he met. The first was the subordinate chief Waw-paw-waw-qua. He had a beautiful young wife who received his visitors very graciously and set before them dried corn and beans boiled, seasoned with dried pumpkin. The boy thought it first-rate.
The next chieftain called on was the distinguished Blue Jacket. He was noble in bearing as a Roman, six feet tall and finely proportioned, very muscular, his eyes bright large and piercing, his forehead high and broad, his mouth wide and his nose aquiline, his countenance open and intelligent, expressive of great decision. He was only second to Little Turtle, having acquitted himself with great bravery in the defeats of Colonels HARDING and St. GAR. George Ill commissioned him as brigandier (sic) general. He was dressed when the boy Spencer saw him in a scarlet frock-coat richly laced with gold and confined around his waist with a richly colored sash and had on red leggings and moccasins with costly ornaments. On his shoulders he wore gold spanleets and on his arms broad silver bracelets, while from his neck hung a massive silver pendant and a medallion of His Majesty, George III.
His lodge was ornamented with rifles, war clubs, bows and arrows and other impliments of war, while the skins of deer, bear, panther and wolves were numerous and used as seats and beds. He had two daughters fairer than most Indian women, and indeed quite handsome in the eyes of Spencer. He also had two sons who had been educated by the British.
He was brave in battle and generous to subdued enemies, but he was powerless to restrain his more savage warriors who delighted in the sufferings of their enemies. Only the gospel of the loving Christ was sufficient to remove the savage trend of the hearts of the best among the Indians. The British in 1790, the year Spencer was a prisoner were paying a price for scalps of the frontiersmen and their families. Not a compliment to that government, nor its Christian charity.
The notorious Simon GIRTY was a visitor at Blue Jacket’s, this July day, 1790. The keen black eyes and thoughtful brain of Spencer measured him fully. We have not seen a better pen picture of him than the following:
“He had a low forehead, his eyebrows contracted meeting above his short flat nose; his grey sunken eyes averting the ingenious gaze, his lips thin and compressed and his countenance the very picture of a villain.”
He wore an Indian costume and did not have on his person any ornaments. A silk pocket handkerchief was tied about his head, hiding an ugly scar, which he claimed an officer in St. Clair’s army had given him with his saber. But an Indian told Spencer that a drunken Indian had hit him with his tomyhawk (sic) in a drunken row. He carried two silver mounted pistols and a short broad dirk. He boasted of his exploits and the numbers of white people he had killed.
Girty was born in Northwestern Pennsylvania. His father was an Irishman and very intemperate. His mother proved unfaithful and her parmour (sic) killedhis father. Girty’s boyhood was spent in Northwestern Ohio. He returned to civilized life. He took part in Dunmore’s war in 1774, on the side of Virginia, and was a true friend of Simon Kenton. He was at this time intimately acquainted with Colonel Crawford. He was often at Crawford’s hospitable on the Youghiogheny (sic). He aspired to the hand of Crawford’s daughter, but was defeated. This may account for the refusal to save Crawford from the merciless fury of his Indian captives. He was vindictive and savage.
Toward Simon Kenton he acted entirely different. In 1774 Kenton was brought a captive to the Mac-a-shack towns. He was put under sentence of death and was to be burned at Wapotomika just below the present village of Bansfield, Logan County, OH Girty came to see him and successfully used his influence to secure his release.
His headquarters, up to the time of Crawford’s defeat, were at Sandusky with the Wyandots. He had great influence over the half king principal chief of the Wyandots.
During this period he engaged in marauding expeditions to the settlements. We are told by C. W. Butterfield, from whose works, “Crawford’s Expedition Against Sandusky,” we get the greater part of the facts concerning Girty, that he attempted to kill or capture David ZIESBERGER, missionary at Tichtenan, a Christian Indian village on the banks of the Muskingum, two and a half miles below Coshocton. A trader from Sandusky by name of McCORMAS gave timely warning.
In 1781 the Chistian Indians escaping from the unprovoked massacre of their brethren at Gnadenhutten came with their missionaries, HECKEWELDER and ZIESBERGER, to Sandusky. The Wyandots received them kindly but Girty conspired against them and sought their lives.
Girty secured their expulsion and appointed a Frenchman to drive them like cattle before him to Detroit. He led them to Detroit, treating them very kindly. Girty sought afterwards to kill the Frenchman for disobeying orders.
We cannot occupy space in giving the history of this savage Irish American. In 1790 he was in the defeat of HANNER, and St. Clair in 1791, and saw the defeat of the Indians by WAYNE in 1794. He had more to do in uniting the tribes against Wayne than any other man. He had his residence for a while on the site of the present town of St. Marys. After the defeat under Wayne, Girty sold his town to an Irishman by the name of MURRY. At one time he resided near an island in the Maumee, five miles above Napoleon, OH called Girty’s Island.
He finally after the War of 1812, moved to Canada, where he lived in obscurity and darkness.
Girty was not the only renegade. There were many others, but of less note.
Such were some of the men the pioneers had to meet. Great and noble warriors, blood thirsty savages, and murderers and thieving renegades; and the soldiers of a government professing to be Christian yet a heathenish strategy and cruelty, seeking to throttle the young American republic.
From the HENRY COUNTY SIGNAL 28 Sept 1882:
Miss Lou DITTENHAVER started Tuesday for Leadville, Colorado.
Mr. P. HOCKMAN and wife and little daughter Rillie of McClure, OH, spent Sunday in Napoleon, at the residence of Mr. L. WELLS.
Mrs. C. McEWIN of Nelsonville, OH, is visiting her many friends and relatives in Damascus Twp. and also her cousin Mr. L. WELLS of South Napoleon, Sunday last.
Geo. H. SHERMAN and Paul C. DULITZ left Monfday for Chicago where they intend to spend the Winter attending Lectures in the Medical College.
Mrs. Fannie R. DODD, wife of Mr. E. C. DODD, died on Monday last of Consumption.
From THE HENRY COUNTY SIGNAL, 26 Oct 1882 (Deshler Items)
Harve HARPER, Clarance TRUMAN and Doug. McCAEG were invited by Sheriff DAUM to appear before the Grand Jury on Wednesday and tell what they know about the obstruction that was recently placed on the Jerkwater railroad. [Anyone know anything about this railroad? Please write the editor.]
FromTHE HENRY COUNTY SIGNAL 4 Jan 1883
Holgate has 6 Saloons. One for each inhabitant.
Mr. Philo SUYDAM and Al. LOWERY left last Monday for McClure, where they have opened up a Shoe-shop.
Dr. WUSFERFELT, an old and respected German citizen, died at his residence in this place on Friday last of Pneumonia; funeral services were held at his late residence on Sunday.
Mr. Wm. TRAVIS, for the past two years almost entirely disabled by Consumption, died on New Years day, leaving a wife and three small children in destitute circumstances. The Ladies’ relief society will find them a worthy object of their charity.
There was great joy in the household of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Van Den BROEK on Sunday morning last. A daughter was born to them healthy and handsome and the first out of six children. [Italics added.] Mr. V. was so elated that he bought a keg of beer and a box of fine segars (sic) and treated the boys to all they wanted.
Mr. Wm. BENSKIN and wife, the former a son-in-law of Mr. Wm. BACK, made the latter a visit on Tuesday, leaving their two small children at home.
RIDGEVILLE ITEMS– An annual election of officers for the M. E Sunday School last Sabbath resulted in choosing the following: Supt., M. D. RAND; Asst. Supt., J. C. WORDEN; Sec., Miss Carrie REYNOLDS, Asst. Sec., D. A. FAUVER; Treas., W. J. JOHNSON.
