The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 December 1935 — Page 5

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935.

HISTORY OF£YRACUSE ■ SETTLED IN IMS w« ■ n — ■, ,»■» The following is taken from, th* history of Syracuse and Lake Wawaaae. compiled by George W. Miles, and printed in the Syracuse Journal weekly, in 1909: I told you last week that in 1870, and later, up to the building of‘ the Baltimore 4k Ohio railroad, our village had grown to have 37 or 38 dwelling houses, and to contain as many families that constituted a total population of about 200 souk. At least six of these houses had been built during the ten years immediately preceding that date; so in 1861 there were probably 30 families her*, and hardly more than 150 people, all told—nan, old and young, and women and children. And that was the year, as you all so well know, when the immortal Lincoln was first inaugurated president of the United States, and the dreadful war for the preservation of the Union began. •* And you should know, too, th it conditions in the country surrunding the viilrge were much different from what they are now. The best improved farms, yet consisted of comparatively small areas of cleared land, made up of little fields still dotted with stumps large and small and surrounded by great forests. And the men who owned them had long struggles yet before them, ere they should have their debts cleared away and comfortable homes made for their wives and children.*

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Many of tbem lived in log bedses of the-rudest and cheapest construction aud the practice , of the sternest economies and all sorts of «slf*deb nials wrs the common custom. It '* would be little wrong to say that the entire community was struggling e against poverty. I have told you that ' a few years before, Mr. Defrees' bank here had been awed for e tax purposes for one-half as much . as all the remainder of the personal g property in the entire township, s And yet, during the four years a that followed, this village of Syracuse and the country immediately 1 surrounding it gave up at least 114 . able bodied men, who went off to a the south at th.i president’s call, to , offer their lives in support of his . determination that this great government of the people, by the peot pie and for the people, as he said, 1 should not perish from the earth, i | Os these men fully one-half were ! married and left behind them wives I and children to be supported, they knew not how, during their absence. Oh, the labors and sacrifices of those mothers, known in those trying days as war widows! How they toiled, and what economics and selfdenials they practiced that their lit- ’ tie ones might not go hungry to bed while their minds were far away and their hearts were being eaten out with fear and apprehension! How | they haunted the little poetoffice, | kept tor a time by good "old Johni nie” Bushong, and later by Sharon I Hall, anxiously looking for testers from the front, and how their trembling hands feared to open them ■ when they came! But 1 cannot draw such a picture for you that you will understand it all. Your own imagination must do it for I have told you how many people Were here, i and what propoi tion of them were I in the army. Imagine 60 wan widows ‘in this poor little community. And | then 60 more mothers and fathers • wi.h s*>ns in the army, many of ' them mere boys still of tender years. And then imagine, if you can, the fear, the apprehension, the dread of hearing the news each day that all anxiously waited for, of the battles fought and the names of the killed, wounded and musing. How the • newspapers that reached the village 1 2 or 3 times a week, when the mails ■ wete brought across from Goshen, , were almost bieathless’y lead, and with whi-t die d lest the name of a husband, or father or son, or brother, or friend should appear among • the lost. Os those who enlisted from here, James Vannamon, son of Harvey and brother of Harrison, afterward treasurer of Elkhart county, and | half brother of Mahlon, who later | also became a soldier, was taken 1 prisoner early in the war and shut up in Libby prison at Richmond, where he died a miserable death from starvation. George William Gordy, oldest brother of- C. M. Gordy, now of this, place, sickened and died in a hospital at Paducah, Ky. His father. I John Gordy, sent Uncle Zebedee Widner after his body and it was brought back and buried in the I cemetery here.

George Ep«rt, bratbar. of Thomas, was tahoe.-prisoner -jHjd- was probably saved from the horrors of-Ander-sonville or Libby by being drowned, with many others, by the breaking of a pontoon bridge while ho was being taken off south by the confederates. John Searfoss, son of the late » Peter Searfoss and brother of Daniel and Thomas, and John Gonderinan were both killed in the battle of Crab Orchard, Ky. Oliver Cromwell, who lives in Syracuse, received a shot that destroyed one of his eyes, and he lay hovering between life and death for a long time in a hospital to which his wife, Alice, went to nurse him. David Rosenberger received* a bullet in his ankle that made him a cripple for the few years after the war that he survived. Theodore Sheffield came home deaf from disease conti acted during his service. Os all those who left home in the strength of vigorous manhood, hardly a one was there who, on his return, was not broken and wrecked by diseases created by exposure and hardships, one of the chiefest of which latter was insufficient, bad and illy prepared food. I have been at some pains to collect a list of all those who enlisted from here, for it makes up a roll of honor that must not be omitted from this history. There is no record of them except that stored in the memories of those who lived hero during the years of the war. If my list is not complete. I appeal to any one to give me the names of any who are left out. For the list as 1 have it, 1 am much indebted to Mr. Frederick Butt. It te as Oliver Cromwell Henry I. Mitchell Thomas Edgar John Widner Levi Akers Zechariah Joseph Bushong Thomas Mobley Carlisle Phebus Reuben Hoover James Vannamon Elias Hoover J. N. Brady John Searfoss Thus. J. Brady Geo. Wm. Gordy Wesley Westlake John Coy Thomas Epert ' John Bonar John Will rd David Snyder Lewis Butt Seth Meloy Fred Butt Isaac Carpenter John Sloan Thomas Oram Eli Holloway Jeremiah Holsinger Ed. F. Holloway Aaron Weaver Aaron Portxman Martin* Weaver George Epert Levi Weaver Jacob Rentfrow Cyrus Weaver Moses Rentfiow Michael Nicolai John Juday Simeon Bunger Conrad Strieby Theo. Sheffield William Strieby Daniel F. Ott John B. Strieby S. B. Stiffler Samuel Strieby Wm. Nyce Joel B. Strieby Lewis Jarrett David Strieby A. M. McClintic Daniel Strieby John Stuard Eli Grissom Ena Brown David Tully Shephard Cory William Tully Jacob Funk Henry Tully A. J. Kitson Eli Bushong Alfred Kitson Milton Phebus Hezekiah Bushong Amos King Rufus Dennis Edw. E Miles Wm. Bowld Samuel Akers James Benner Jeremiah Snyder Samuel Wyland Allen Ruple David Brady Adoniram Cory Mahlon Vannamon Alonso Cory Morgan Snyder David Megarity Horace Malcom Jeremiah Searfoss Benj. Kauffman Hiram Grissom Massilon Haney Jacob Wolf Harvey Footer Daniel Brown John Miteo Noble Hall William Funk Philip Fancil Jas. H. Guy Benj. Hentxell Frank Stewart Rants Acker George Snyder Adam Juday David Roeonbarger John Gonderman Benj. McCrary Goo. Sharp Levi Ott Abraham Brower William Crow John Jones Robert Edsall The first regiments made up to fill the earlier calk of President Lincoln were from all over the state. The first from the above nam- i •J to enlist were —signed to the ninth and 29th infantry regiments and the second Indiana cavalry. In the autumn of 1861 came the forming of the 13th infantry regiment in northern Indiana, and Aaron Weaver, George Epert, Cyrus Weaver, John B. Strieby and others enlisted for service in it. This rvgin»nt was engaged in many battles, the principal one being Chicamauga where the late Henry M. Stoner, formerly of this place, from which he was elected sheriff of Kosciusko xnmgty, while carrying the regifell with a bullet in his shoulder. la tttywinter of 1861-62 came the forming of the 48th regiment at Camp Ellis in the old fair ground this aide of Goshen. More than2o of those above named became members of it, including Cromwell. Uhell, Edgar, Gordy, Meloy, Carpenter, Hoitxinger, Portxman. the Rentfrows and others. TLte regiment also saw much hard service during the remaining years of the war. Next came the 57th, in 1862, and Levi Akers, John Widner, Zechariah Hendrickson, Joe. Bushong, Reuben Hoover, EU Holloway, Robert Edsall and probably others joined it from here. It was in the hottest of the bloody battle of Murfreesboro, or Stone River, but luckily no one from here was killed there. Next came the 74th, to which belonged of the foregoing, Thomas Epert, John Bonar, Hiram Bonar, David Snyder, Alfred Kitson, Da- . rid Megarity and others. Alfred BePfe,. ■ ■■ . .■* ■ Sh. ..

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borts was also-.a member of this regiment * but* Jm anßsfdd Thom "Leesburg. The 7hth.- was formed in 1862 and saw hard service. In the last year of the war came I the formation of the 152nd in this ; vicinity. To this regiment Syra- • cuse furnished more than 25 men, • some of them, boys who had been too young to join the earlier ones. But the surrender of Lee and the all of the confederacy came within a few months. And now imagine if you can the effect on the people of this village, of the news that Richmond had fallen, that Lee had surrendered, that those of our soldier boys who had survived would return to their families and friends. I started out in this letter to to write the history of the Grand Army post of Syracuse—Lake View Post No. 246. But after telling you of the real grand army of Syracuse that existed during the war, I find there is not much of interest o be added. The post was organised in the fall of 1883, and had then on the roster the names of some 70 members in all. Among them 1 find, besides those who enered service from Syracuse, the following: William Wallis John W. Setter Henry M. Stoner Francis M. Corn Jonathan Culler Alfred Roberts John Dullinger Win. Colwell John Hurd Elias R. Tobias John T. Howard Addison Warner James W. Orn Geo. W. Proper Preston Fuller C. Hammon C. E. Flaggart I. J. Chilcote Abram M. Jones Charles Wead H. N. Callander Wm. H. Pence H. W. Case C. V Smith Most of these have been and some of them now are citizens of the town and their names, too, belong On the roll of honor first mentioned. CONCORD Those who were gvests of Mr. and Mrs. James Dewrrt, Sunday, were Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Deaton, Mrs. Belle Strieby, Mrs. Mildred Hibner. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ketring of Syracuse spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Coy. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews and Mrs. Kate Mathews of Goshen spent Saturday afternoon at the Jacob Bucher home. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart were guests at the Paul Buhrt home Sunday. . Mrs. Kate Mathews of Goshen is spending a few days st the Ernest Mathews home. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Good of So. Bend spent Saturday and Sunday at the Guy Fisher home. Alphus Brady, Mis. Hattie Brady and daughter of Ligonier spent Thursday at the William Wyland home. , Rev. Duker and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sparklin of Milford were guests of Irvin Coy and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Coy spent Saturday evening at the Chester Stiffler home. George Strieby, Mrs. Marie LaCount and son Corlyss were guests, Thursday, of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Brower in Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs Ernest Mathews, Mrs. Kate Mathews were callers at the homes of John Roop and Ralph Neff, Sunday afternoon. Miss Meriam Fisher of Goshen spent Sunday with her parents. WESTEND Mr. and Mrs. Jay Rensbarger and family of Detroit, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Oxro Rensbarger of South Bend were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rensbarger. Mr. and Mra. F. Warbel, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rensbarger were guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. Linderman, Tuesday. Those who enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Weybright were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Culler and daughter of Goshen; Mr. and Mrs. J. Weybright and family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gall and family. Those from Bethany who spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Miller near Bourbon were: Mr. and Mrs. Harley Gall, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gall, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Weybright, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gall and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Weybright and family, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Eisen hour and baby. J. O. Weybright spent Saturday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. John Stout. His mother, Mrs. Susanna Weybright, who has been ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Huber, west of Waterford, was taken to the home of Mrs. Stout last •* Mrs. John Cripe of Goshen spent last week with her father, Albert Warstler. Mr. and Mrs. John Holmer and family of South Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Niles spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Donald Weybright in Nappanee. Jess Metz spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sheffield. Mr. and Mrs. L. Neff moved, Friday, from the Milo Troup farm, to Bremen. C« Troyer has bought a farm

northeast of. Goshen and wiH move soon. ‘ \ < ••; •« . Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boyts left the last of the WHk. fpr to spehdthi winter there, x Mrs. Ida Treesh is spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neff at Fair Lawn. Mr. and Mrs. John McGarity spent Sunday in Nappanee at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Drake, who are both very ill. Mrs.. John Morehouse, who was operated on, in the hospital in Elkhart Saturday, is doing nicely. B. H. Doll, who is in the Elkhart hospital, is improving. The doctors hope to save his leg. Mrs. J. F. Rowdabaugh and daughter are spending a week near Silver Lake with Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Isley. Mr. Isley, her father, is seriously ill. Mr. Rowdabaugh and son Billie spent Sunday there. SOLOMON’S CREEK Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lockwood, Mr. and Mrs. Orval Lockwood, Miss Evelyn Lockwood and Mell Prickett spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lockwood. The boys and girls from this church have organised basketball teams. Mr and Mrs. Raymond Vail and little son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Roach and daughter Belva. The descendants of the John C. Juday family held their annual Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hire of Ligonier Miss Opal Ott spent Sunday with Mrs Vic Niles. Mr. and Mrs. John Darr, Mrs. Hattie Darr of Goehen, Mr. and Mrs. Manford Mishler and son of New Peris, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smaltz and son of Leeeburg, Rev. and Mrs. Eiler and son of Young America enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Allie Darr and Henry Whitmer. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hapner and daughter spent Sunday with Mrs. Lilly Shively of Kale Island. Miss Bernice Whistler and Velma Disher, who work in Goshen, spent Sunday with their parents. Glen Kehr and family have moved into the property of Mrs. John Good. Miss Velma Disher called at the Vic Niles home, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and" Mrs. Kenneth Hapner I and daughter spent Thanksgiving ; with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale j Umbenhour. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Jones spent Sunday afternoon in Goshen. The Parent-Teachers meeting, held at the Hex school last W'ednesday evening was well attended. A good program was furnished by the pupils. A number from this place attended the Mahala Hillibish sale in Benton, Saturday. Harold Wadell of Manchester college spent the week end with hte parents. Rev. Dobbins has begun hte meetings at the Burr Oak church. A number from this place attended, Sunday evening. Preaching service Sunday morning, before Sunday school. FOUR CORNERS. Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr called at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Purdy, Sunday. Miss Ketring of Syracuse is working for Mra. Ralph Disbar, who was hurt in an automobile accident, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Snyder entertained atThanksgiving dinner: Mr. and Bushong and family of Syracuse; Mr. and Mrs. Darr and family, Mr. and Mrs. Deithrick and family from Goshen; Mr. and Mrs. Chris Darr and Mr. and Mrs. A W. Geyer. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hapler of near Nappanee were visitors at the home of her brother, Clint Callander. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dteher were Chicago visitors. Robert Berkey te helping Clint Callander at corn husking. Mrs. A. W. Geyer spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deithrick near Goshen. Mr. and Mra. Earl Darr and children of Goshen spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Geyer. DISMAL Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilkinson and Mrs. Mary Wilkinson entertained a number of friends and relatives, Thanksgiving Day. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kline entertained relatives from Mishawaka, Thanksgiving. A number of relatives and neighbors gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claus Bo beck, and had a "shower" for their son Harold and wife last Thursday evening. They received many beautiful and useful presents. Mr. and Mrs. Merrit Lung and family had as dinner guests. Thanks giving: Miss Adalis Bamberger of Goshen; Roy Miles of Milford; Edwin Lung of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Catherine Beck is spending a few days with Mr. and Mra. John Beck in Cromwell. Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, Mrs. Roy Wilkinson, Mrs. Ray Wilkinson and two daughters were in Ligonier, Tuesday. Mr. and Mra. Thomas and two sons spent Thanksgiving at Wolf j

Lake with Ms. atfd Mts. Kimmel. Mr. and Mrs.... Harnish of Fort Wayne were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lung and Wilbur Lung on Thanksgiving Day. i The following guests were enter- : tained at the Virgil Bobeck home on : Thanksgiving: Mr. and Mrs. Ed < Hire and family of Albion; Mr. and | Mrs. Hively and three children of ■ Cromwell; Mr. and Mrs. Lyman ' Hire and family of Kendallville; and i Mr. and Mrs. Max Burley of Lig- • Qnier. SOUTH SIDE Those who took Thanksgiving dinner at the Frank Warbel home were: Walterißex and wife'' of Avilla; Richard Snider and wife of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Warbel of Syracusje Harry Warbel and wife and son of Elkhart; Mr. and Mrs. Lercy Gosey and daughter of Goshen. i. Mrs. Dan W'arbel took dinner with Mrs. Jane Jones one day last week. Mrs. Elmer McGarity’s brother from Elkhart, and her nephew and niece drove over in their new car, Friday afternoon to call on her. Frances, Marjorie and Merl Laughlin were Thursday afternoon visitors in the Wassel Gordon home. Bud Ringler and Elmo Burson were Sunday visitors in the Noble Ringler home. Mr. and Mrs. Merl Laughlin called on Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dean, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Grissom called on Mr and Mrs. Tom Dempsey last Thursday. Ola Ketring and Helen Garrison w’ere callers at the Noble Ringler home, Friday. ZION. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mike Kuneff of Mishawaka. Mrs. Mildred Hibner is spending a few days with Msr. Belle Strieby and Mr. and Mrs. She: man Deaton. Joseph Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold LeCount spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nicolai of Solomon’s Creek and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Miller of North Webster spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Miller and family. M«s. Russell Miller leturned home® after spending a few days with her parents in Albion. RICHVILLE Miss Neva Shuder spent Thanksgiving with her patents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shuder. . Orlo Chiddister and family of I Butler spent Thanksgiving with John Emmert and family. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blue were Fort Wayne visitors Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strieby

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were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Ott. — Mrs- Edith Allen and Mrs. Ed Kirinison of St. Joseph spent Several I days at the James Brown home. John Emmert and a group‘of F. iF. A. Boys from Millersburg spent 'Tuesday and Wednesday in Chicago ! at the Live Stock show. j Farrell Ott and family, Robert I Strieby and family, Mr. and Mrs. ! James Brown and Mr. and Mrs. i Rachael Hire. The Misses Neva and Wilma Jane Shuder, Martha Hire and Maxine Blue 'spent Friday afternoon, with Miss Betty Blue. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Granger, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Snyder of Mishawaka were Sunday visitors at the J. Stettler home. Mrs. Lentx of Elkhart is visiting Mrs. R. Hire.

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