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On Pc zette I fi an insig paper wh little i It maro-ne-ax-eeklocal “npeople ii soon im their he ill. It a a bill fo to be vc You ndoes thi:Medina lt;Only in for the one out spend a a menta Not v But \ from th tional F giene hlt; hospital how im each onThen* mental “not lr from thisome rrbelieve.Docto the ilinthe pas)call or ;are soi which, warn o breakdcmentalpersonsOnce flt; w wis(onditirh lt;11eseson1 islicit inAerateanentro-bvteeintishe:W,Is.ft*herlot.•binallell-ustso dcppatientr to4“You wonder why LymanBartlett walked (from Hinckley Center) to Berea, instead of riding, and hazard the guess he perhaps did not have a ‘rig’ in which to go. Indeed, he diet have—but, if you had lived in that part of the country in those days, vou would have known ex-actly why lu* walked—because the roads were too bad to take a horse over!“Lvman Bartlett was not the same build a- my father, who was very ‘long-geared’ and didn’t mind riding horseback. Mr. Bartlett was a considerably shorter man, with shorter legs, and also somewhat stouter buildthan father,* * *Many a time my father wenthorseback on errands instead of in a conveyance. That clay (when it was good and gooey) was awful. Equally awlul was the same c lay when it had beenchopped up by rigs and hoofsand then frozen solid.“MY FATHER was wry ffcfltpttj in securing the old Dunham foundry building for the Hinckley grange, and donated considerable work, as did other rnern-j bers in making the foundryt.uildim* over into the grangethe olden days, and occasionally find the name of an ancestor or a contemporary of my parents. Such a one is Lyman Bartlett, whom you mention in “Famous 1 Walks. ‘Lyman Bartlett and his wife, Clara, were friends of my parents. They had a son. now liv-ing in New York State, but I do not have hi? addi e**ftftwas the end of coasting down Hinckley hill.“My parents lived on the north side of the road, a few hundred leet beyond the Maple Hill cemetery and the old Methodist church. The first house, justbeyond the horsesheds of thechurch, was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Fulmer. Across theroad lived by great-grandparent.,J«hn and Martha Wait“Nearby, on the south side of the road, lived Willie and Blanche Wait. His mother, Tamar, lived with them. Another few hundred feet (on north side of road) wits thi home of Joe and Alma Babcock—their son. Glenn, still resides in Hinckley. At Hincklev Corners lived JudsonrljHRind Annette Wait.widow, Jennie, recently celebrated her 100th birthday and now lives with her daughter. Doris, on the ‘Big Hill* in the house that was occupied by Ira Waldo in m\ childhood days, Back to that old Hinckley-Brunswick road ... lived Lyman Chase and wife, and his daughter* and her husband, Lyman and Clara Bartlett. Mrs. Chase was askilled operator of the loom andwove many yards of rag carpet for the residents of Hinckley. A few of the well-to-do had ‘sale carpets* in parlors, but most living and bedrooms were coveredwith rag carpet -much of it woven 1»\ Mr Chase.No, I'm not an octoge narianI *v V v/ 1 AV4u -*THAT HOAD through Hinckley Center led north past thehome of Samuel Rupert, whoseft#
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 28, 1955
Page 10
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Akron S.
OH, USA 12 Nov 2018
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