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Henry County Genealogical Society Newsletter MEETINGS May 16 , 2005, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
June 20 , 2005, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
WE ARE PUBLISHING ... Northwest Signal Obituaries 2004 Vol. XVIII (2004). The cost is $14.00 plus $2.00 postage and handling. Henry County Death Records Vol. I (1867-1877). The cost is $10.00 plus $2.00 postage and handling. Henry County Census 1900 Vol. III (includes Damascus, Harrison, Liberty, and Washington Twps., Liberty Center, McClure, Napoleon Village). The cost is $18.00 plus $2.00 postage and handling. Henry County Census 1900 Vol. II (includes Bartlow, Monroe, Richfield, Deshler and Malinta. The cost is $18.00 plus $2.00 for postage and handling). (See sample page.) Henry County Census 1900 Vol. I includes Napoleon Village, Napoleon Twp., Freedom twp., Ridgeville Twp. The cost is $18.00 plus $2.00 postage and handling. NOW ONLINE... Henry County Marriage Records 1847-1898 are now online. Go to
our web site and click on marriages. Search by surname. We want to thank Steve Badenhop and Jim Rebar for all their work on this site. SEND APPLICATIONS FOR FIRST FAMILIES to Kathy Bishop, P.O. Box 231 Deshler, OH 43516 by May 31. 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.ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY Two family histories compiled by Carole Werling have been donated to the Edwin Wood Library: ANDREW Family Additions and WERLING Family Book. Thank you. MARK YOUR CALENDAR 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; and 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 Genealogical Workshop, P.O. Box 298, St. Marys, OH 45885. REAL QUOTES FROM CORRESPONDENCE WITH LDS CHURCH "Our 2nd great grandfather was found dead crossing the plains in the library. He was married 3 times in the endowment house and has 21 children." "He and his daughter are listed as not being born." "I would like to find out if I have any living relatives or dead relatives or ancestors in my family." "Will you send me a list of all the Dripps in your library?" "My grandfather died at the age of 3." "We are sending you 5 children in a separate envelope." Funny, we get some queries that are as clearly confusing as these! --Ed. 68th OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY From The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 Vol. V. The 68th was organized in Nov. and Dec. 1861 at Camp Latty, Napoleon, OH and mustered out July 10, 1865 at Louisville, KY. Due to the huge amount of information, only the soldier's name, his company, rank, age and pertinent information such as being wounded or killed is included here. Note that being detached to a colored regiment does not mean that a soldier was black. Colored regiments had white officers. COMPANY D
From The Henry County Signal, 2 November 1882 FLORIDA MENTION - As the Signal correspondent from this place is either immured in business or else has taken a trip West for the benefit of his health, I will collect a few items for your paper that it may not be thought the election returns have entirely crushed our little burg. Republicans philosophically accept the situation. Republicans that stay at home on election day are the ones that are found wanting in time of our country's greatest need. It is hoped ere another election rolls around they will have resolved to be no longer a nonentity but come out and vote for somebody. If you feel you cannot affiliate with Republicans, vote with some other party, but be no longer a drone. Weddings seem to be the order of the day at present and young groomsmen can be seen at any time upon our streets. At the residence of Jas. E. SCOFIELD, Sunday Oct. 22nd by J.
E. SCOFIELD, J. P., Mr. Martin LOSE and Miss Jennie SCOFIELD were united in
the holy bonds of matrimony. The happy couple who are now just setting sail
out upon the Sea of Life are among the most popular and esteemed of our young
people and many and sincere are the wishes from hosts of warm friends
for their future happiness and prosperity. The bride is one of the
most lovable of Florida's fair daughters and may she prove truly an helpmeet
for her husband. Miss Kitty KROTZNER having spent a fortnight or so with her
sister Mrs. G. D. LONG, of Napoleon, returned home Saturday evening. Martin BRUBAKER talks of emigrating to Nebraska in a few weeks hoping thereby to benefit the health of Mrs. Brubaker which is very delicate indeed. Two nieces of Mrs. Fred LENHART, Sr., of Plymouth, IN, are spending some days with her. Dr. J. M. STOUT moved his family and effects to Holgate last week. Wil DANCER has moved into the house occupied by Dr. STOUT. Our popular shoe maker, V. KIMMICK, has also moved to Holgate. Wonder if there is any danger of Florida moving to Holgate. Seymour HOPKINS and family have returned from their pleasure trip to Kansas. Came back last week and have been staying with the familys (sic) of Capt. G. K. SMITH and Dr. PARRY. Have purchased property in Holgate and removed there today. Defiance congratulates Holgate upon her acquisition and Napoleon sends greeting. Miss Mollie REYNOLDS of Toledo is visiting her uncle Dr. PARRY. Jack CARPENTER and wife, nee Miss Nellie BARR, visited at grandpa Barr's part of Friday and Saturday. This week they intend removing to Pleasant Lake, IN. At last Florida possesses a barber. Christ BRUBAKER is now ready to accommodate all that call upon him. The BRUBAKER Bros. have another kiln of tile ready to burn. Jasper SMITH and family spent Sabbath in town. Mrs. Harry LEMON of Fulton county and Mrs. Charles BELKNAP visited friends in town last Friday. Friday morning we thought all the ladies of Florida must be leaving as they kept passing by twos, by threes, by fours and occasionally one, and all bent in one direction. We came to the conclusion there must be a mass meeting or woman's convention out North of town, but we finally learned it was a sewing bee at Martin BRUBAKERS. Judging by their smiling faces as they came home they must have passed a happy day and we hope evidences of good works were left behind them. With uncle Davie BRUBAKER, 24 guests were entertained; have failed to learn how much sewing was done by him; perhaps he may have been one of the knotters. PIONEER SKETCHES (from 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.] In presenting this first installment of Pioneer Sketches, I
give due credit to such authors as I draw material from, as I claim it is my
right to draw the facts of history from any reliable source, Rev. Oliver M.
SPENCER I knew when I was a boy. He was presiding elder in the Ohio Annual
Conference M. E. Church. His account of his captivity was published as a Sunday
School book, and is now out of print.
It is hard to realize the fertile and cultivated fields of Northwestern Ohio; dotted as they are with flourishing villages and cities, inhabited by a civilized and educated people, were, at the commencement of the present century the property and homes of a rude, barbarous and brave race. This race felt itself aggrieved by the approach of the American backwoodsmen, and the British government by unfair means fostered this feeling. Large quantities of British gold went into savage purses decorated with the scalps of pioneer women and children. To be able to comprehend the difficulties of pioneer life, it is important to get a correct view of the character and strength of the foes our fathers and mothers had to meet. It will not be just to look upon every Indian who fought against them as prompted only by a thirst for blood. Many of them were true patriots and fought for their homes and the graves of their fathers. These aboriginals often did the things by nature contained in God's written law, and even a law unto themselves, their thoughts accusing or excusing them. They may have been somewhat under the influence of Christian teaching, which had been given their forefathers by French Jesuit priests, but it must have been slight, as it was never great, and more than a hundred years had elapsed since these missionaries visited them. Whatever of good was imported to them by the British traders and soldiers was more than neutralized by selling them rum, of which they were passionately fond. They received kindly their own friends and treated with respect the missionaries who visited them. Never did they so much as offer an insult to the missionary of horticulture. JOHNNY APPLESEED who time and again, without arms, passed in safety through Northwestern Ohio. The first we know of him, through the old people, was in 1801. For many years he visited many parts of Central Ohio. He lashed two canoes together and from Pennsylvania he passed down the Ohio to Muskingum River, and ascending that stream until he reached the mouth of White Woman Creek and still onward up the Mohican into Black Fork to the head of navigation. Other trips he made as far as Detroit by the way of Ft. Sandusky and up the Maumee to Ft. Defiance. The places he planted his apple seeds were near the residences of the savages and the pioneers. The dress he wore was very simple often being nothing more than a sack made of coarse material with holes in it for his head and arms. This remarkable man had great love for children and unbounded sympathy for humanity. He was a welcome guest anywhere in the cabins of the settlers and the lodges of the Indians. By the latter he was known as the great medican (sic) man. They looked upon him as having supernatural power, as he could thrust pins into his flesh without evincing any signs of pain. Any wounds or sores he would sear with a red hot iron and then cure the bum. He warned the settlers of danger, passing from settlement to settlement immediately after Hull's defeat in 1812. The notion entered his head that the weed known as dog-fennel was anti-material and procuring large quantities he sowed some in Ohio near every house he passed. The last years of his life he spent entirely in Northwestern Ohio and eastern Indiana. He had planted seed over nearly a hundred thousand square miles, and now in 1847 when seventy-four years old, he died in Allen county, Indiana. No one knows the place of his burial. He was a Swedenborgian in faith, and everywhere he talked his doctrines. No opportunity was lost in this direction. He also taught kindness to animals and children. This strange man was never harmed by the Indians. O. M. SPENCER The writer has in his possession a little book published in
1834, now out of print, written by O. M. Spencer, of the Ohio Conference of
the M. E. Church, being a narration of life among the Indians of the Maumee
Valley in 1790-91. Through it we learn something of the strength
and character of the foe the pioneers had to meet and subdue before they
could occupy the valleys of the Sandusky and Maumee. She removed the remains of her husband to the vicinity of her cabin on the north side of the Maumee, opposite Defiance, and buried them in a sitting posture, facing the west. In the grave were also placed a tomahawk, pipe and rifle. She thought it would be a great satisfaction to the spirit of her husband, as it lingered during its few years of probation near the sleeping remains to watch the plumed and painted warriors as they passed on their way to repel the invaders of their homes. And then she could daily visit his grave and commune with his spirit. After a while she thought his soul would migrate to the happy hunting grounds in the far West, beneath the setting sun, there to find plenty of game and revel in sensual delights. By his grave she planted a post six feet high, painted red and black, and hung on it the sixteen scalps of enemies he had secured. The family of this Indian woman consisted of a dark Indian girl, 15 years old, and a half Indian boy of 11. These were the grandchildren of Cooh-Coo-Chee by her only daughter, the wife of a Mr. IRONSIDES, Englishman and Indian trader. The boy was reported to be the son of Simon GIRTY. His grandmother called him Simo-nee. The girl she called Qua-say. This Indian prophetess lived in a bark lodge 14 x 16. The frame
was composed of poles set in forks, fastened in the ground. These supported
the eave and ridge poles, while others firmly tied with hickory bark formed
girders and rafters. This frame was covered with long strips of elm bark seven
or eight feet long and one and two feet wide, were fastened to the poles
with thongs of leather. At the western end was a narrow doorway six feet
high, closed when necessary with a single piece of bark. There were two
apartments separated by a bark partition. The inner one was the spare
bedroom, the pantry, and at times the sanctuary where she performed her incantations.
The outer room on each side had a low framework on which were spread
her deer skins, serving for seats and beds. Mr. Spencer tells us the river abounded in fish--no net men
nor dams to hinder their coming up. The Indians gigged and shot them with arrows.
For the anglers we suggest that the supply of the finny fellows may
be great again if the impediment should be removed. The household furniture consisted of a large brass kettle for washing and sugar making, a deep, close-covered copper homing kettle, a few knives, tin cups, pewter and horn spoons, sieves, wooden bowls, baskets of various sizes, a hominy block, and four beds and bedding, comprised of a few deer skins and blankets. This lodge was of the aristocratic sort, much better furnished than most Indian homes.
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