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SAM EVENING NEWS; YITBSDXr, HJNE 13, 19liigoES-HascssBorn-orld’shurrit,dingylien go. ■ yearsi Civil nil dcr in his ilist inAmer-nbassa-II was y Pres-ks nine , Uer-sli, Yid-vll War •ces and I of thenand oni ros nU-ii King oflam a offvy Bern-alile dis-i ll New less, then ■ nt his ex-l perl'iim-y goes to n’s three un.! from his ir started, n constant:alIkand night t lie leading ■ ohnnnis,’’ a i gypsy girl, lacriliced for lover. Her after haBy MISS KATE HERONHISTORIAN FAYETTE COUNTY CENTENNIAL.(Continued from Yesterday.)John Conner moved from Conners-ville to Noblesville in 1S23 and died while on a visit to Indianapolis, in Avhose history he figured largely, being one of the ten who selected thesite as the capital of the State.When John Conner left Conners-ville he sold all of his business interests and real estate to Abraham B.Con well.The late Mrs. Anna Merrell told me John Conner sold his home to aMr. DeCamp and he in turn to her father, Abraham Conwell. This house was north of the Mirror factory or near the home of Lewis Heinemann. The house stood on a small liill and faced the river bottom.It was considered the finest house in the. city or county. She remembered well a great forked willow tree that stood in the corner of the yard. It was a great place for the boys to go to make whistles out of the willow branches.On the grounds in the river bottom, just below the Mirror factory owned by L. J. Heinemann, there is every indication of the site of the old mill owned by John Conner. Mr. Heinemann was fortunate in interviewing a number of old men that have since gone to their permanent borne, that well remembered the old mill and its location.For miles and miles grain was hauled. Men would cam]) out for the night, as accommodations could not lie obtained for all at the small tavern.There was a. tannery and a “still house’* near the old mill. The old one-story brick bouse that was torn down to be replaced by the Cain flats, was built of the brick of the old still house.1 have copied the following from an old book' published in IS 11), named “The Indiana Gazetter.”Connersville is pleasantly situated on the White Water Valley canal, having the river on the east and sou t.li. On the west there is a range of beautiful hills from the to]) of which can be bad a line view of the town and a large scope of rich and well cultivated country stretching off to the north apd oast. From its pleasant location, the salubrity of its climate, its valuable water privileges, the productiveness of the surrounding country, and from the enterprise of . itscitizens Connersville bids fair to be one of the best towns in Eastern Indiana. It has six lawyers, five physicians. four nreachers, six teachers, two druggists, thirty merchants and I \\ mechanics. There are in the town seventy brick and dwelling bouses, threePresbyterian, Methodisttian. fourteen stores, bouses, one woolen factory, grist mills and and oil mill.The elevation of Connersville above tide water is. at the Court House,Xir foot. White River XI 7.(18 feet at (oven was buif.Favette countv iin«1(10 frame churches,— and Chris-fi v eware,three.ready for use. By such a light the women spun and sewed and the men read to them, from a book, when books could be obtained. Many a cut of thread was spun, many a yard of linsey woven, and many a frock and pantaloons were made by these flickering lights.Both men . and women were clad in linen and linsey, all their own manufacturing. A few wore buckskin breeches anci moccasins. The women would color the linen thread with coppers. Apple tree baric was used for green, peach leaves for yellow', walnut baric for brown, wild touch-me-nots for orange, madder for red% indigo for blue. The color wanted was obtained by boiling in large iron kettles. With these colored threads the weaver could strip the material he was weaving.When dresses were made of the fancy linen they were as proud of them as if a dress of silk. Once in awhile the fortunate ones woud buy six yards of calico, which was an extra full pattern. When it was made up with two strings, sewed on the waist in the back and brought around and tied in front there was a self-satisfied air about the person.A woman with any artistic taste converted chain and rags, colored with these home-made dyes, into beautiful and durable carpets.For amusement they had entertainments of various kinds, such as barn-raising, wool-picking, apple-cut-tings. A big dinner was always expected at the barn-raising. The appJe-cuttings were in the evening. About fifteen bushels of apples wouid he cut, ready for drying. Refreshments of cake and cider was served. Then dancing would begin to the tune of a one fiddler.From a letter of Samuel Little: “Paths leading from cabin to cabin passed around large trees or logs and over streamlets, led us through the tangle of spice-wood or pawpaw in our neighborly visits, and highways were marked out and corduroy bridges bore us over the marshes on our way to market, public worship, or to mill in our wagons, uphill and down the same, and through streams which were all without bridges. The .stump roots and logs gave the beaten track a serpentine direction, which required great skill in the teamster.We had but little money and we spent but. little. ' Our food grew on our farms, and our clothing was home-made, growing in the flax patch or on the sheeps’ back, and its manufacture was mostly domestic.“The flax pulling and wool-picking were frequently done by combinative or neighborhood frolics, and here their fingers ached after pulling the burr and stiek-tights out of the wool/’Over the doorway of these cabins was suspended the indispensable rifle, a crain, with its ever-singing kettle was suspended in the fire place. When one could afford it a Dutch11taSbtlTtcPititoflt;Wind a y d i such y small ] a days, freshmIt wfifty to on hor peril a ptaut, es. In would their aMotlBrooky rison c was co rade w rels of cabins, the oufromground.me key canoe Twenty canoe, twenty A s ; wheat with a and th separat and th f u tu re Doct today, use for cines hdoctor did wnU’1 *
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Connersville Evening News
Connersville, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 13, 1916
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Indiana U.
IN, USA 08 Mar 2018
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