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GRANDMA W1LMUTH.Pleasant Story of a Pioneer Womans Life.]-Yesterday Mrs. Jane Wilmnth, of Wyoming,celebrated her ninetieth birthday. She camewith her ptirents, Mr. and Mrs. William Evatt,from Maryland in 1806, and the family settled inthe neighborhood of her present home. Herfather built a little log cabin just below wherethe Wayne Avenue M. E. Church now stands, In Lockland. The father died in 1813, and the next year her mother built a little log house exactly where Mr. John Fox’s residence now stands in Wyoming. Here, September 17,1814, Jane Evatt f was married to Thomas Wilmuth.After the marriage ceremony the bride and groom took a wedding trip, on h^fsebaok. to Cincinnati, she sitting behind him on the same horse, and on their return they went to his home, where his six little children were, Mr. Wilmuth I being a widower. Their home was a log house | of *two rooms, but they considered it very comfortable. This cabin was afterwards torn down and a frame house built very nearly on the same place, and here Mrs. Wilmuth .has lived for seventy-three years.Her husband died In I860, aged one hundred years, and in 18G3 her house burned down. A subscription was started by Mr. John C. Thorpe, John H. Tangeman, R. H. Andrews, and other neighbors, while the house was burning, and a*----J—,,!-g Immediately erected.Id, Mrs. Wilmuth attended school at lool-house tin* stood in the neigh-m present town of Park Place. Her pathway was marked out by the father, who “blazed” the trees through the thick forest that then stood between the old Wayne road and the pike in Wyoming. 8he afterward saw Indians pasajng along the same paths, and squirrels and other wild game were, as she says, “too numerous to mention.”“Grandma” is cheerful and full of intelligent stories of early days. Blie enjoys life, but is “ready to go when the call comes.” Bhe reared the six step-children; all lived to a good old age; and she also had four children of her ow n, three of whom—Mrs. Amanda Hill, Wyoming; Mrs. Ellen Glenn, Fortville, Ind.; Mrs. Mary Lank, Elmwood, 0., still live. The son, Warren, served I during our war, and died in May, 1880, from the I effects of exposure during that time.Many friends gathered to celebrate Mrs. Wil-muth’s eightieth birthday, and received a standing invitation to celebrate the ninetieth “if we all were alive.” Only one of the number,Mrs.Hurin,I has died.Mrs. Wilmuth is one of the number who assembled at the residence of Colonel Reily April 2, 1861, to select a name for the new' town—M'yo-ming. No special invitations are sent out for these jyininersaries, but “the latch-string is always out; and I’ll be glad to see every one who thinks it yorth while to come,” says grandma; “I have g»t the best neighbors and friends that aay one can have.” she says. ’Tis well worth one’s while to visit one who has stood life’s storms so many years and still can be cheerful and affectionate.new dwellin ' When ach an old log sc borhood of t
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Aug 29, 1888
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