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e NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS f Shelby Independent News: 11 February 1875, Vol. 7, No. 16 |
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S.S. Bloom, Editor and Proprietor |
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Mr. George Fisher has sold his building and restaurant to Mr. Geo. Koch and Mr. Frederick Weaver, from Crawford County. Mrs. William Lupper, of New Bloomfield, Pa., so long a resident of Shelby and Shiloh, is on a visit to her friends in this locality. She came west to attend the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Billow, at Galion. We are informed that on last Monday morning, February 8th., Mr. Lockwood, agent of the B.&O. R.R., at Plymouth, and L.B. Gunsaullus had some difficulty about coal. Words were exchanged, until Gunsaulles pronounced Lockwood a liar, when he, Lockwood, drew a revolver, fired, the ball just missing Mr. G's left arm. Lockwood was arrested, plead not guilty, and was bound over in the sum of $500 to appear on Monday evening for trial. DIED, In Shelby, O., February 2d., 1875, of lung fever, Miss Polly Curran, in the 63d. year of her age. The father of Miss Curran was one of the early settlers of this county. He was an excellent citizen, and an exemplary Christian in his day; and assisted materially in the erection of the first church ever built in Shelby. Polly, being a child of but three years when her father settled in this part of the country, which was then almost an unbroken wilderness, grew up amid the wild and exciting scenes of pioneer life. Affliction and disappointment, with blighted worldly hopes, marked a great portion of her early life. Twice she was engaged to be married, but in each case the young man, upon whom she looked as the partner of her life's joys and sorrows, was stricken down by the hand of death, before the time for the wedding came. Miss Curran was the sister-in-law to our highly esteemed fellow citizen, Mr. Samuel Jones, and lived in his family from the time of his marriage until she died. After the death of her sister, Mrs. Jones, which occurred some seventeen years ago, she took entire charge of her sister's helpless orphan children, given them all the attention an affectionate mother would have bestowed. Subsequently, her little nephew Harry, was left motherless, when, true to her self-denying disposition, she adopted him, and lavished upon him the treasure of her heart's affections. If Harry Curran does not make a noble and useful man, it will not be because she did not make a commendable effort to point him in that direction. Some twenty-five years since, Mr. Jones lost his eyesight. His children grew up, and left home to engage in life's struggles for themselves. One who has not experienced the loss of sight, can have no idea of the gloom which gathered over his life at that time. Through many of these later years of darkness, Aunt Polly, as she was familiarly called, made his home as cheerful as she could, and in a great measure became eyes for him. It has often been remarked by those who knew her best, that she was one of the most unselfish women in all the community. May we all, and especially those whom she blessed and helped here, be permitted to meet and greet her amid the clearer light of the Eternal City. -- J.M. MARRIED, By Rev. N.H. Loose, at his residence, February 4th., 1875, Mr. Martin Furgeson and Miss Mary C. Hisey, both of Shenandoah, O. | ||
We learn that Mr. Geo. Dickerson, aged about 70 years, residing in Plymouth Township, recently fell on the ice, and dislocated his right shoulder.
W.B. Kingsley, our former townsman, has opened a cigar and tobacco store in room formerly occupied by Wm. Fields as a barber shop, and is doing a good business. Give him a call.
OLD FOLKS CONCERT, The old-line singers have volunteered to give a concert at Bowman Hall, in Shelby, on the afternoon and evening of Friday, Feb. 19, 1875, for the relief of our blind friend and neighbor, Mr. Samuel Jones, who, by the recent sickness and death of his house-keeper and best friend, Miss Polly Curran, has sustained an irreparable loss. The people of Shelby and vicinity will be glad to have an opportunity to aid the benevolent enterprise by purchasing tickets. Look out for a big crowd and a good time. Tickets 25 cts. each, can be procured at all the Drug Stores.
DIED, At the residence of her daughter, Mrs. D. Ristine, in Galion, Ohio, on Friday, January 22d., 1875, Mrs. Anna Susan Billow, at the advanced age of 79 years, 11 months and 8 days. Mother Billow was born in the vicinity of Carlisle, Pa, in February, 1795. Her parents, Christian and Regina Ensminger in 1797 moved to a site on Fishing Creek, Perry Co., Pa., not many miles to the north, where her youth was spent in a rude log cabin, of those early days. In this eleven children were born, including the subject of this notice, all growing to man and womanhood. At the age of 18 years, in the Spring of 1813, along with a class of fifteen catechumens, of whom she has been the last survivor for the past thirteen years or more, she united with the Lutheran church then under the Pastoral care of Rev. John Frederick Osterloh. She was married to John George Billow, we think in 1816, inasmuch as she and her husband are recorded as communicants at Mt. Zion Church, November 10th., 1816. They soon after moved on a farm of their own on Sherman's Creek in Sherman's Valley, which they cleared up and improved, making it one of the finest farms in the country. She was the mother of ten children, six arriving at years of maturity. Mr. John Souder's former wife, who died a number of years ago, was a daughter of hers. Adam, David and George Billow; Mrs. D. Ristine of Galion, and Mrs. W. Lupper of New Bloomfield, Pa., are her surviving children. Her husband dying in 1850, she since then lived in widowhood -- most of the time with her children who one after another from 1858 to 1860 moved to Crawford and Richland Counties, Ohio. She has resided much of her time since 1861 in Shelby, being a member of the Lutheran Church and Sabbath School. She never failed to attend either, whenever it was possible for her to do so. She was a most excellent woman, self-denying, and ever ready to forego her own pleasure in order to make others happy. She, among few, could have the satisfaction of looking back over a long life, well spent, and feel that she had not lived in vain. She left five children, twenty-four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren surviving her. The funeral sermon was preached on Monday afternoon, January 25th., in the Ev. Lutheran Church at Galion, Ohio, by Rev. H.B. Miller, from the text found at II Tim., Chap. 4, verses 6,7 and 8, selected by her over twenty years ago, viz.: "For I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand, &c.".
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