Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 September 1874 — Page 3

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(|rl«r Nkt'tclM'H tli ol feumo or Our OIl Cili/.niN. WSI. CASd.N', Of Walnut township, was born in Ivlge-

liolil District, JSont.li Carolina, Nov. 8, |7!t!t. In 1803, when he was four years old, his parents removed willi him to Ohio. In lRl.'i he moved into Indiana Territory, now Union county, near where the town of Liberty now stands. He remembers well many of the incidents of the war of 1812. lie tells of the excitement in his neighborhood when the news of Hull's surrender was received, and the promptness of the militia in responding to the calls of the •utficers, their musters, drills, etc., in preparation to receive the British forces. Me was too young at that time, but like many other boys was exceedingly :mxions to serve his country.

Me lived in Union county until ISIS. Puriug his residence there he held many (.Hires of trust. First he entered tin* Clerk's ollice as a deputy, under Kdghill Hurnside, the father of e.\-( iovernor and (ieneral A. K. Burnside. I!e served as Constable five years, and then served as deputy ltecorder for three years, when he was elected to the ollice oi Recorder. In this position he served the people for thirteen years and six months, resigning the ollice of Recorder to accept that ol Sheriff, which lie filled for four years.

Me removed to Montgomery county in 1S-1S, and settled on the farm on which he still resides, about two miles northeast of Fredericksburg (Mace.) Me was married in 1S2I! to Miss Martha Davis, of Ohio, who is still living. Although one of the oldest men in Walnut town--hip, he still retains many of the traces of his youthful days. Many persons are more broken in .appear,ince at the age of ."0 ye us than Mr. O.ison. Me is very fond of jesting, is an unflinching Deinoera I and takes a deep interest in political ail'airs, and can always be found ready to discuss them freely. 1 le takes the papers and is well posted.

'.WILLIAM KKNNKUY,

Of Union township, was born in Rockbridge county, Va., ."^ept. !•"), 17011. Me resided in Rockbridge county until October, IS.'Sii, when he moved with his family, consisting of a wife and three children, to Montgomery county and settled on the farm now owned by Mrs. Line on the Indianapolis State road between Fredericksburg and CrawfordsvilIt*. In ISotl he moved to Minnesota, where he lived two years and then returned to Montgomery county. Of his entire family but one is now living, a son with whom he is spending bis old lays. Me burie.l one child before leaving Virginia, one in Minnesota, and two and his companion in Montgomery countv, the latter last Spring. sr.M. w.uui, I'f I'nion township, was born near Madisonviile, Hamilton county, Ohio, .January 28, I SOL He moved to Union county, Indiana, April

it, ISIS,

and settled

where the town of Liberty now stands. He assisted in cutting away the brush and trees to build the first Court House in Union county. He donated 10 days labor and his father flOO toward the building. He was married to Miss Lvdia Lit fuze in the year 1S2". He moved with his wife and family to Montgomery county in the Fall of 1833 and settled on the farm where he now resides, -II years ago. The laud was then in the green wood*, not a stick amiss, not as much as a deadening on the farm. 1 Ie went to work and erected a log cabin, moving into it without any lioor except that which natiue had provided. He thus continued his labors year after year until he succeeded in opening out a good farm. He has raised a family of eight children. Three of them and the companion of his youth lie has buried. His daughter and granddaughter keep house for him, and he

•••till carries on farming to some extent, and stock raising. He has been a subscriber and reader of the Jorii.VAL ever •^iiiee it was published and does not think that lie ever failed to receive a single number of the paper mhoc its. first issue.

WILLIAM T. II.A KUIS.

Of Walnut township, was born in Western Virginia, January IS, ISOti. lie remembers the excitement of 1S12, when 'lie boys were getting ready to go to 'he war. lie came to Union county, this State, in 1822 and resided one year and then went to Ohio to learn the tanner's trade at a little town called West Liberty. His boss, Rev. John Vaughn, died few years ago at l'errysville in •liis StaU After serving four years an hu apprentice he went back on a visit to Virginia, und in the Spring of 1828 he returned to Union county, Indiana, and lured us "a jour taiiuer at various yards,

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at the end of one year married Aliss •"Nillie McClainc, April 13, 1829. In 1833 I'e moved to Ioone county, near Jauies1'iwn. [n

le

moved to Hendricks

'Ounty. In ]S!-i(i he moved back to IVjone, and in 1840 cauie to .Montgomery, ^tiling a few miles cast of Ladoga. In 'W0 ho moved to Fredericksburg, at that time better known as Frogtown. Pie vilhige consisted of four log hut.*,

occupied by'Joseph Wliitelv, Warren Stanford, Dr. Frank West and Win. Herndon. Soon after his arrival here he bought the lot on which he still lives of Evi Martin and started a tannery. He continued this business for about eighteen years. The second initial in his name was given liiin after his arriral in Fredericksburg, to distinguish him from others of the same name. Uncle Billie readily accepted the additional "T," which stands for tanner. Since he abandoned his tannery he has been working at shoe making, which trade he still follows. He has raised nine children, eight of whom are still living. One died in the Union army near Vicksburg, Miss., during the siege of that place. Me claims to be the oldest citizen of Fredericksburg now living. Me enjoys tolerably good health. His wife is still living and the aged couple continues to keep house to themselves.

Among the war veterans who sat upon the rostrum at the pioneer meeting on the 17th was

SAMt i:i, WATsON",

Of Ripley township, who was horn in Pennsylvania in 171)ti, and is therefore 7S years ol age. His father was a native of Ireland and his niothei of Scotland. At four years of age young Watson was left an orphan by the death of hi inothe In lS't-1 his father, with two other families, bought a small flat boat and embarked on the Monongahela river, having for their destination Cincinnati. They had on board three familcs and their household goods, besides two horses, a cow, poultry, pigs, etc. Their boat was so frail that they had to tie up during every gale of wind, and at night they had to throw their cable around some friendly tree, and were lulled to sleep bv the hooting of owls and howls of wolves.

They landed at Cincinnati, which was then but a small village, in the Sprimr of 1804, seventy years ago, and camped jusi outside the town for a week, while Mr. Watson's father hunted a farm to rent. Me rented a place l(i miles from Cincinnati, on Mill creek, and lived thereon two years, when he purchased a small farm, paying all his means as a first payment. But owing to poor markets he was forced to give it up and a^ain become a renter. At that time they could not sell even pork for money. Their wearing apparel was made from flax and tow, and Mr. Watson says that till fourteen years of age lie never wore anything but tow linen shirts and pants, Winter or Summer. Their foot gear was buck skin moccasins, the leather for which they dressed with their own hands. Indian meal Johnny cake and milk was their principal diet.

In 1812, at the age of sixteen Sammy was apprenticed to a wheelwright for a term of five and a half years. In those days it was the best trade a boy could learn. The spinning wheel took the place of the piano and sewing machine of to-day. He was to serve all those five years for bis board and clothes. About this time he went to a common school six months, which was all the schooling he ever received. Having acquired but the rudiments of a common school education, he by self-culture and study through life became not only an aeurate business mau, but one of the best posted talkers in many miles around.

In October 1813 he was drafted to serve six months in the American army. His boss objected to his going, on the ground that his time belonged to him, but Sammy responded to his country's call, and as the militia were not uniformed by the Government he was fitted out with a suit of home made linsey, a kind of cloth one half flax and the other half wool. His brigade, under Col. Zumolt, quartered at Lebanon, Ohio, and marched from thence to Urbuna, which was then the extreme frontier town. Thence they went to Fort Meigs, but as Gen. Harrison had already defeated the British at the battle of the Thames in Canada, and Tecuniseli, the great Indian statesman and warrior, had fallen, active hostilities were not again resumed und the desire of his heart, to be in a battle, was not gratified.

Tiie rations of the soldiers at that time were bread, pork, beef and whisky. fV'Xyoung Watson did not drink his whis. by, but sold it and pocketed the nior.ey, and to this'extent was a whisky dealer

He served six months, received four months' pay, and returning home handed over to his boss every dollar received except $1.50 which he spent on his journey. At the expiration of his apprenticeship, iii 1817, he was cast adrift by his master without a dollar in his pocket or a decent stitch of clothes to his back. But he had what Franklin says is better than an estate, a good trade, and leiisiug a shop and tools he went to work, getting one half he could make, and soon had good clothes and money in his pocket. The price of work then was $3 per set of six chairs, £3.50 for a flax wheel and $3 for a wool wheel, lie could make a set of chairs or it wheel of either kind, in day. After working journey work a year, he bought a kit of tools and set up shop for himself, and his boarding costing him but $60 per year he saved a deal of money. He was married September 2, 1S21, to Mary Ann Stonebraker, with whom he lived happily and prosperously for fifty vears. ,.

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In 1S24 he came to Crawfordsvilie, and from his savings entered 80 acres of land in Ripley township, which is apart of the magnificent farm which lie owns to this day. Three years afterwards lie moved his family, consisting of himself and three children, to his land, and built a small log cabin and log shop. At that time there were but 17 families in Ripley township, Rob't Gilkey, llob't Taylor, John Ramsey and Jacob Elmore being among them.

The veteran Toliver Larsh was then a day laborer, clearing up land by the acre. He cleared the first land on Watson's farm. Watson did not clear land or plow. Me could make GOO rails a day by working at his trade. Every body must have wheels and chairs, and Watson alone could make them. Living was cheap. Deer there were by the hundred and wild turkeys by the thousand. He could buy a saddle of venison for 10 cents or about half a cent |er pound. Corn meal was but 12J cents per bushel. He and Wm. Gilkey once bought a fat steer for $7, which made 400 pounds of beef and after selling the liide.and tallow they got the beef for almost nothing.:

His first Christmas dinner in his new home, December 25, 1827, was roasted wild turkey, corn bread, wild honey and milk, and the aged pioneer says that it was the happiest meal of his life. Me helped cut the first county road in Rip-

the news of the death of some dear one

reached our ears. To what an immense

degree that feeling was increased if we

learned that the body could not be iden-

ified and brought home, and still more terrible the feeling if owing to the circumstance of a hasty retreat some other calamity of war the body could not be buried there. We have known the widows of deceased soldiers, the mothers of large families, to spend the last dollar they could procure (which was sadly needed to procure the necessaries of life for their children) to bring the remains of their husbands home for decent interment. What a look of contentment would rest upon the face of such widows compared with those who could not thus honor the remains of their companions. When we hear of a steamboat explosion we first inquire how many were lost. Next were the bodies all recovered, could they be identified, &c. The officers of the line spare no pains to recover the bodies, they drag the river miles, surviving friends offer large rewards for certain bodies known to have been aboard. Why do they offer these rewards'? That the remains may be decently buried. What a relief it is to mourning friends if they are enabled, no matter what the cost, to recover the body and bury it in the church yard at home. This is natural, it is humane, it is praiseworthy, it is a manifestation of a Christian feeling of respect for the remains of our departed friends. We look upon the self-denial of the war widow, with her dependent orphans, with a feeling akin to adoration. We say she loved her husband as only a woman can love, and yet about ninety per cent, of the dead lie unburied within the corporate limits of the city of Crmvfordsville. Theeflluvia rising from their remains salutes our nostrilson every Htreetaud alley in your city, crying loudly to us individually and to the city authorities for burial. How is this? Physiology informs us that our body is destroyed and renewed every three months and a half upon an average. What becomes of our bodies that are destroyed while we yet live? A portion passes off from the lungs as carbonic acid gas, a small portion by perspiration both sensible and insensible, and a portion by exfoliation of the epithelium of the surface of the skin. But by far the greater portion

pa-sses off as fecal and urinary discharges which are deposited in open privy vaults all over your city. Physiologically speaking, the remains of your dead are deposited in your open privy vaults and are continually being deposited there for years without burial or disinfection. Let us take a view of this in the aggregate. Suppose you have three thousand five hundred inhabitants in your city, now every three months and a half you have thirty-five hundred dead bodies de-. posited in your privy vaults. This will be an average of thirty-three per day. Think of this all ye who admire the selfdenial of the war widow or the devotion of surviving friends of a victim of a steamboat explosion. Thirty-three putrefying bodies left in open vaults in your city every day! &&.'•

ley township, which runs from Clark's only paid when the spirit left our bodies, mill north to Judsrc Taylor's. The .Supervisor had a bottle, and at noon went to sleep. The boys built a pen of fresh cut logs around him, covered it over with the same, and le.'t liiin alone in his irlory. A volume would not contain all the incidents of these early times. Mr.

'Watson has filled various public posi- Now collect the contents of your privy lions." Hefore leaving Ohio lie was Cap- vaults, hog pens and stables and throw tain of Militia, and knew Scott's tactics them into this vault. Now throw in

by heart, lie was one of the first- School Trustees of Ripley, and helped organize the first public school of which the ve eran James Gilkey, Auditor of this county from

'ii'i

to 'oil, was for many years

teacher. He was township Treasurer from '."2 to '5H and the books of the township yet show that when lie loaned any of the public funds he "covered" the interest into the, treasury. He served as township trustee two years, and Ripley has never had abetter one. His notes

It is just as true that these are decaying human bodies as that our bodies de-1 cay after death. Suppose you had actually thirty-three human corpses deposited in open vaults in your city, would you make an effort to have them buried Would not the city fathers make an appropriation to bury the dead, would not the taxes levied for such a purpose be cheerfully paid And yet it is true you have thirty-three human corpses added to your ce-spools every day, just as true as "Dust thou art and unto dust! thou shalt return." Many seem to think that when God issued this decree He did it upon long credit, that it was paid and

Such is not the case. We return to dust as rapidly before as after death. The moment we begin to live that moment we begin to die. Hut let us lake another view of this in the aggregate. Dig a large shallow vault near the center of your city, build an open shed over it.

thirty-three dead bodies every day, add' water enough to keep this mass in a semi fluid condition, which is actually done in urinary discharges in your privies. Now compel every one of your inhabitants to enter this shed from one to three times per day and remain from three to five minutes per visit, and you have some idea of what is actually occurring in your city every day. You at once say it is horribly disgusting. Whvil would invite

an epidemic of disease into our city,

have always been worth 100 cents to the compared with which the one that visitdollar, and after doing business for him- ed Shreveport a year or so ago would be self ")7 years he has never sued a man, a very small affair. Again, divide your been himself sued, or paid a cent of cost.

1

During the late war we all, or nearly

wl,,dl wou!1 fil! 0lir

thirty-five hundred inhabitants into fain-

He stands six feet in his stockings, is Hies of seven and you have five hundred straight as an arrow his eye is not dim families of live stock. You have nilC. or his senses yet clouded. The lesson of horses, hogs and cattle sufficient to give his life for the young is that a life of in-1 each family one head of such live stock dustry, economy, integrity and temper- whose bodies are destroyed much more ___ ance is always sure to win. rapidly than ours. Suppose they are the same. Then you have live hundred car-

Jlury lie Dead. casses of live stock to throw into your

pUi,ijc cesspool every three nionths and a

[)(llf Agail)) the colldition of

all, realized the feeling of utter desola- .e privies built foi the accommodation t'on

hearts when

uf your 1)llblic chools? Sllppc)se you

ll ive three hun(Jred and fiftv

utP

children

nding these schools. During a term

of tliree an(l a ll!lU mo

dred and fiftv de

„ths, three hun-

,,

are ast into

these vaults averaging about three per day. Xow are those privies cleaned and disinfected daily, once a week, once a term Are they ever cleaned or disinfected I fear not. We see our children's health begin to tail. The roses fade from the cheek and are supplanted by that peculiar yellow, dusky hue indicative of disease. We see that our child can not attend school regularly on account of its health. We visit the schools, we find the house all that could be desired. We find the teachers alive to their duties and that they realize to some extent the responsibility resting upon tbeui. We find our children are allowed proper exercise at proper intervals and return home sorrowing that we will be obliged to keep our child from school. Ask such a parent the condition of the priyy of schools and he will tell you he did not fancy a visit to such a loathsome place. Of course not, but be will place his children in a situation that they are obliged to visit it from one to three times per day. Why is it your board of health do not tell the people of *11 this and how to remedy the evil? Let each private family keep dry earth dust if you please, which costs nothing but the gathering and pulverizing, may even be gathered upon any clay ro'ad near your city witl out that trouble, and disinfect their privy vault every day and clean it once a week. Let your school board employ a laborer whose duty it shall be to disinfect the privies once a day and clean them every Saturday and cast the contents to some farmer's compost heap, who shall enter into an agreement to keep this heap dry and covered with dry earth and thus prevent the escape of odors offensive to the nostrils and injurious to the health of our citijKMis. Coal ashes or dry earth are all the disinfectants necessary. Sand or wood ashes will not do.

Perhaps Mohe.

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lOO Pieces Fruit of the Loom. lOO Pieces Lonsdale Muslins.

DRY COODS.

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Call attention to their

NEW BRAND BLACK ALPACAS,

Mohairs and Turkish Brilliantines.

We claim tlmt these gonrixnre superior to any on die market. Thov are more perfectly made, itn purer and better inulerial worked into Ihetn. They are colored bv a now nroeess, whirl) gives ur 'l*stT5UH Mwk (hut is retained :ind does not ehan^e into brownish hue an in other Alnaea?*. \v Iirt* marked prices le**, making thein the best bargains on the market.

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Drugs and Chemicals

PAINTS, OILS, PUTTY, WINDOW GLASS, YAltNISllES, BRUSHES,

Remember 66 E. Washington St., Indianapolis.

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CAMPBELL & HARTER.

YOUNG GENTLEMEN! Tour Attention

FOB OIVE MOMENT!

We shall receive (luring August and September nearly

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WORTH OF

English, German and American

AND

Fancy Cassimere Suitings

Embracing some of the handsomest styles ever offered in this market. Reserve your orders for something

CAMPBELL & HARTER

NEW DRUC STORE.

NEW DRUO STORE.

SMITH & HAMRICK,

PERFUMERY, SOAPS, COMBS, LAMPS, SPONGES, RUBBER GOODS, Etc., Etc.

ESnEKELDA, the BEST 5 K.\T in the

NO. 5, NATIONAL BLOCK, Crawfordsvilie. Ind.

DRY COODS.

Gtrand Display of New Goods

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MUSI.INS.

lOO Pieces Wamntta Muslin. lOO Pieces Casco Muslin.

Table Linens, Nnpkius and Toweln in great abundance, all of which we are offering nt quotations: Our dre.Hs Making and Merchant Tailoring Departments ate in full blast, iviid give satisfaction every time, iti regard to fit ami price.

CAPT. NICHOLSON, formerly of Crawfordsvilie, will bo pleased to nee all his friends andciistomers and offer them bargains.

MABLE WORKS.

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MARBLE WORKS,

NO. i:i GREEN STREET,

CRAWFORDSYILLE, IND.

American and Italian Marble Monuments, Tombs. Headstones, Tablets, &c., Of Latest Designs. Also Scotch Granite Direct from the Quarries in Scotland.

When peddlers tell you that they have finer M»rble, do better work, or at lower prices, just remember that they are peddlers and are jxud for their talk. Come and nee.

Kew York wo cau

ADAMS & HATCH

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