if'*.**/A:««ifcll#:*!!*.-' *.*. w.* v. V jVft £2?? ■ ■ r*KE ^‘WvSft.*-*. - . ■. * A w \ J t vv^'^O'T, V ’ ■ ‘ * • V V* Wyv w W-,. .vxw,.;;; vvvlt;;*'’f WNW/, t ‘AA^V.;.'RANKIN NOUSE, RIPLEY, ONI Q.. PIRST STATION ON .., » * GROUND RAILWAY OP UNCLE TOMS CABINTNE JAMES NUNT NOME ON EAST SANDUSKY STREETilwfUDNEY NYDE.WfiRWWPS*(EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the first Installment of .a history of- Ohio’s “Underground Railroad”, of Civil War Days -written “by- Ralph M.. Watts, Meehan lcshurg High. School coach, and a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan.)rf/v-(Iflechanlcsbujg High School Coach and Graduate of Ohio Wesleyan.)ONE who has sojourned in the .quiet little village of Mechanicsburg can hardly realize that at. one time in thev»c»«:t. if t.hn .srp-na of shirrincr• eventsdo by these men, saying ‘Til kill the denco (where the Emalihe McCrpcklin stations. One was - operated by Erastus horses first1” His bold affrontry again home is located today). Young “Sale” Martin; another, b: Ephriham Cranston,