Addresses, Memorials and Sketches Published by the Maumee Valley Pioneer Association; To Be Delivered at the Reunion at Delta, O., Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1899 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...large double house, and each brother with his family, lived in either part. Joshua and his brother Edgar, were owners of the grist mill, and Joshua and his oldest brother, Richard, owned the saw mill. These mills were located on a small mill stream, which emptied into the Sandy River about a mile below, which river in turn emptied into the Kenebec a mile further down. Brice says he remembers seeing the mill dam and the mill destroyed by flood. My mother has often told me the story, which she learned from Hepzibah, that it was on account of the loss of these mills, and being too much discouraged on account thereof to attempt to again rebuild them, that Joshua resolved to remove to the west. These mills had only been rebuilt a few years before, possibly within a year, prior to the time the flood swept them out. It was in the spring of 1817 that this loss occurred, and they spent the summer in preparing for the journey to Ohio. Brice states as another reason why his father desired to leave Maine, was that every winter he was afflicted with ulcerated sore throat, the same disease of which Joshua's father had died. The hope of finding a milder climate, was one of the strong incentives which induced him to come to Ohio. "The trip was commenced in September. In addition to Joshua and his wife and five children above named, they were also accompanied by Rachel Hilton, Hepzibah's sister, then a young woman of 18 or 19 years; and also by a young man named Hilton, who was a second cousin of Hepzibah, and whose first name Brice cannot recall.He states that this young man was a brother of Jesse-Hilton, who had come to Ohio before that time, and who then lived at Hillsboro, in Highland county, Ohio. After their arrival in Ohio, this...