Milroy High School - Yorlim Yearbook (Milroy, IN)

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Y O R 192 6 I IM Autnhzngrexphrral Srketrh lls IROPPSSOR l0llN I SH Xl Llx Xhth Rmfuemls to xllllili School lllston To my former puplls and frlends whom l learned to know and love l hare jotted down some of the thlngs on which my mind loves to dwell l have glven you a llttle of my pedigree and as l wrlte l wonder If any who read lhls can say tl at only one llfe separates hlm from the life of George Washing on and wl at IS a Conestoga wagon3 Also what IS the mystery and the source of cu ahve power that comes to a woman who does not change her name when sl e marrles3 These were some of the Pennsylvania Dutch super stltlons Wllh whlch my young llfe was closely lntermmgled l do not carry garden tools throu h the house and many other things like that come to me at times 0 Ol' IPNXSXI X XNIX Ill llll S'l'0l lx You leave asked me for a sketch of my llfe Well l want to take you tack to the year ISI6 Here are two men Michael and ohn the elder 19 xilchael They are both chaucks not closely related They are from the auck neighborhood along the llne of Pennsylvania and Maryland north of Baltimore These men are my two grandfathers the elder Mlchael IS my lwther s father and John IS my motl e s father Nllchael was a soldier ln the Re olutlon and John a soldler ln the X ar of 1812 ohn married Rebecca emmon and moved to Ohio rn I8 l 6 My father al o was a young soldier m that ame war and was at Fort McHenry when the rockets red glare The bombs burstlng ln alr etc nsplred Francis cott Key to wrlte The tar Qpangled Banner Sl' ffl I 1 I' XY XSIIINK peal mg of my father l desire to tate that he lived while George Wash mgton llved Are you surpr1sed3 Well Washington due ln I799 My lather was born ln I796 thus only one llfe between my llfe and George Washington s S818 llllflllf ll PN Nl' l l'axe referred to Rebecca Lemmon to slow how l carve by my name lohn Lemmon l used to wrlte my name l..em and Lemmon but that was long ago Yes l passed throuch that stage and l am known ln Rush County as Lem chauck and that suits me Well back again my maternal grandfatl er received a grant of one scctlon of land ln Ohio for his services ln the War of l8l2 and ln l8l 5 came west on horseback to look at his posses sxon and next year ln a Conestoga wa on brou ht his family My father came wlth them l thmk he was thlnklng of the little daughter Mary fmy motherl tven then oon a stave lxre was started between Mansfield and Delaware I0 11. -1. ...l ..T... J 0 O 5 7' x X- ... ' Q v ' , '4 1 v , . . 1 ' 1 . ' 7 fy . . ' 3 ' ' ' r ' ' ' ' ' ' ' -vw 1 1 1 ' A ' . , , . , j , . , . 1 . L' , . , .'. ' . 5 I , , c I ' I' . H , . . ,Z J . 1 I. . s S . , . I . . Q . .. Q .. I g' n' 'L., . l'l.0.' I T0 S II I S I '. H .' i'l'0N c' x D , ., . ,,.. d . , . I'.L'.' ' I J, l. 1.1 AGE . ' A - u . ..I .. .J .. . D - v :J ' P 1 A k' ru ' I , I ' - , , W . . Y F SJ ' . , 1 1 , , 5. D '.

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YOR 1926 I IM and my grandfather s house was a station A box on a beech tree was called hauk s Post Ofhce but box and tree have been gone more than I00 years The post office IS stlll Qhauck although the town founded by this ploneer 'md named for hlmself ohnsvllle IS nearly as old as the post office K QI UNI Slll'RSlllION My mother drd not change her name when she marrled and because of this was thought to have some sort of mysterious power for l remember tha chlldren with chlldren s allments were often brought to her to be cured Shr- would simply make them a llttle glft of a plece of cake or a but of maple sugar and that was enough to cure wlsoopmg cough measles mumps etc ulte a simple remedy thlnk ye3 l am number eleven ln the llst of chlldren born of my father and mother md there were three younger than myself Fourteen children and all full Hooded Chaucks And to day l alone am left BURN HH8 XX HX DRIYFK l was born eptember 8 l848 My boyhood was spent on the farm l xttended private school for my uncle s and father s famllles furnished sufh uent children for one teacher so l attended school ln grandfather s own house 1hen ohnsyllle started a public school and there l was to be Much of my time was spent IH rldmg colts and breaking oxen O yes l was a real ox clrn er l drove four yoke of oxen ln one team many a time ln cleaning out the mill race lVly father had a blg grlst mlll and a race one mlle long l drove the ox team tandem and l llked lt and could do lt agam l broke two little calves and kept them together untll they were slx years old the prettlest yoke of oxen l ever saw l thou ht that they were mlne but when my mother died my father had died ln l862 and there were eleven children yet llvlnv l found cut that l owned only one eleventh of my beautlful ox team K IFNDN OI Il Rlll X My mother died on my seventeenth blrthday and my guardian sent me away to school Durlng the slx years l was ln Otterbem at Westerville Ohio l began teacflng worlt fut l kept up my work ln college and my dlploma IS dated l87Z Otterbem IS a Unltecl Brethren college and IS among the first Amerlcan colleges that admitted colored students Of course that was all rlght wlth me for my father was a rank Abolltlonlst and m fact was a con ductor on the Underground Railway and of course you know what that YXICZIIIS lllNlI+N I0 lil Nll lOl X FX l came to lndlana ln 1872 and had been ln the state just exactly long enough to vote for Grant for president l worked that summer and fall ln ln dlanapolls for the Republican ctate Committee There l saw Horace Greeley the Democratlc candidate against Grant After that campalgn l took a school m Rush County to complete an unfinished term Thirty years after that my IZ -ummm. mm m J mmm R- . Ll ' , , . . .. -. . . ' -' 1 y - H . -. . L . J . - . - fy, 1 V , Y ww rx v . . . t A t . 1 n . . L Q , L v , . , . , . Q . , . y E . . ' ,, -H . ' . . I . . . , .J , . . c , ' , . , . A . , v v - y v7 . 5 , x D :av ,. . 1 ' - . ,vw - - 1 fu- 1 1 - .il .. . 2 ul. v - - v - -, 1 1 v K 4, v v y ' , a , .. ,. -4 v - -1 ' . n t . n . .J - , - n , .