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SlidersamongearlysettlersIn 1946 Bill Hunt wrote about a man named Owen A. Slider who was then 73 years old. He lived in a large log house built by his grandfather in 1836 on Green Ridge, about 20 miles east of Cumberland.When Bill Hunt talked with him Slider showed him a rough stone slab about six feet high at the head of a spot he had selected for his burial place. It was alongside the grave of a Negro, an escaped slave who stopped at the Slider home on his way north years before the Civil War. He became attached to the household and, at the request of the family, stayed on until he died at the age of nearly 100 years.Mr. Slider had just recently put the stone into place, and was still working on the design and lettering. He was cutting a double eagle into the flint-like stone.Also cut (not very deeply), was his name, the date of birth and the word “Died.”Bill Hunt wrote that Mr. Slider remarked with a grin that “If I decide to put that death date on myself, I’m going to make it Christmas Day 1968. Then I’ll be merely 95.”Owen Slider was a descendant of one of Allegany County’s first settlers and was a philosopher and sage, Hunt went on to write.First of the Sliders to settle in Allegany County was Owen Slider’s great grandfather, one of whose sons, John, was Owen’s grandfather.turn nmflintv /nomnrl
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Cumberland Sunday Times News
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Oct 16, 1994
Page 21
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