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Granville as it was by Minnie Hite MoodyThey called themselves JAY-noWest Broadway in the house now owned and operated a popularBefore we leave them to their eternal rest, let’s record the names of as many of Granville’s overland Gold Rush 49-crs as we know. The Reverend Henry Bushncll in his History of Granville. 1889. lists some of them They were: Captain Horace Hillycr, C. R. Start. B. R. Bancroft. Jno Roberts. Alon/o Carter. Rodenc Jones. Evan Jones. Christopher Carmichael. Jno Williams. Jno Sinnct. Israel Dodge. -Briggs, and -Griffith. A Hebron man. William Lyons, who came to live in Granville after his return from California, was also a member of the party.This group crossed the plains. It was fortunate in having joined in Zanesville a group from Zanesville and neighboring towns. A physic tan, Dr. Chandler, from Duncan s Falls, who in spite of being a cripple was alert and active in his profession, was extremely helpful to them. The combined groups.with the addition of parties from Missouri and Iowa, met with plenty of adventure and hardships, but accomplished the joumey from Independence to Sacramento without serious accident or trouble. This was remarkable. considering that epidemic cholera was raging, and more than one group bound for California lost time cn route because of sickness, and even death. The unfortunate casualties had to be buried wherever they happened to die.Notice in the above list of travelers. that several members whose first name was John, appear as Jno. They pronounced it JAY-no. emphasis on the first syllable, and they and other Johns who so labelled themselves, were always addressed as JAY-no. I recall in particular JAY-no Buckland. who lived onthe home of Mrs. Anne Grimes JAY-no Buckland drove the horse-drawn delivery wagon for the Wright Brothers' Grocery, now Fullers.So many such recollections crowd the mind, so let us turn from the 49-crs and present them to today's readers of The Sentinel. In Granville's innocent yesterdays, a mamcd woman was. for idenufi-cauon, always referred to by the name of her husband's profession or occupation Thus: Mrs. Doctor Folleu; Mrs. Doctor Barnes; Mrs. Professor Colwell; Mrs. Undertaker Jones (Mr. “Jake Jones was for many years Granville’s morticum and funeral director.) Mr. and Mrs. Jones lived in the house at the southeast comer of S. Main Street and Elm; his place of business and casket showroom was on Elm Street cast of the house in a building still standing and usefully occupied. The Joneses had a daughter. Miss Lily, who was her father’s assistant, and an adopted daughter, perhaps a niece. Miss Myrtle. An intrepid horsewoman. Miss Myrtle drove the two-horse hearse at funerals and never once had an accident, though the hearse team was spirited and occasionally “acted up on the dn vc to the cemetery. I recall such an incident on the narrow, gravelly Welsh Hills Road, cn route to Grandpa's bunal. Conjecture was nfe when funerals began to be moton/cd. Used to horses, would Miss Myrtle, now middle-aged, I cam to handle a hearse with a gasoline engine? She could and she did. but by that tunc “Jake Jones. Undertaker, had passed away, and Granville had another funeral director, Mr. John Evans, who hadblacksmith shop on the west side of N. Prospect Street—I often had waited long and patiently while he put new shoes on The Black Marc„r p:n(lllf lint iKi rwreifwt e\f |im4»or v nngcr. nui me passing ui unit, eventually phased them out. likewise the horse-shoeing business, and 'Tilling stations” became familiar.Speaking of funerals, a frequent feature of the local past. I may as well mention customs long obsolete, but at one time common in Granville. For instance, as most funerals look place at home. look, and you will notice that the outer doors on the older houses were e xtra wide, permitung the carrying of a casket. Certainly the “front” door of the old house where I live is extra wide, but the west door, to the keeping room (the door now most frequently used) is even wider, which was not for the convenience of pallbearers, but for the huge logs of wood brought in for the giant fireplace, still lobe measured by the presence of a hnck hearth. 12 feet wide.“Crepe” (usually a flowing black ribbon with perhaps a fresh flower or two in season) always was hung on the front door of a house where a dead person lay in state This was done so that passers by would know that a death had occurred Lacking telephones, or without a daily newspaper, word-of-mouth had u pass the news of a death, and thus visitors need not be met at the do** by the fact that perhaps the very person they had come to sec or inquire about, hail indeed passed away.Next week I will tell you about my home in Atlanta and the hoopskirt closet.
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Granville Sentinel
Granville, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 26, 1990
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Janet P.
NA, 06 Feb 2017
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