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grandfather.The other two brothers (named Jake and Sol) moved on westward to the Ohio Valley. They had worked for Thomas Jefferson when he was building Monticello. Their father acted as a foreman over a large number of slaves who helped to level off top of the knoll on which Jefferson’s home is built.About 1936 while walking through the woods in the valley on the east side of Green Hidge (where the first Slider home was built) Owen found a silver vessel that might be a teapot or a water pitcher.Because it has an inner lining with an insulating air space between the outer and the inner wall, it was - probably a closed-top pitcher in which water would stay cool in a comparatively long time. In any case, it was very old. The theory advanced by Slider was that it belonged to the Jefferson household and was given or sold to one of his great uncles who left it behind when leaving for the west.In 1836 his grandfather moved up from this valley to the top of the ridge where the present (1946) home was built. There, Owen A. Slider was born in 1873.For 110 years some of the Sliders lived in the old house except for a period when Owen Slider’s father was “lawed out of it*’ as he expressed it during the period of the Mertens apple orchard promotion.As a young man, Owen Slider got the travel urge and left home in his late teens to “seek his fortune.” He worked in lumber camps, Hunt wrote, in Tucker County, W.Va., and from there went into the oil and gas field of the Mountain State.He found relatives at Sis-tersville and Littleton, W.Va., and was married. He lost a leg in an oil field accident in 1900; and then began work as a stone cutter. He specialized in enormous grindstones.In 1931, his father having died, he returned to the ancestral home, Hunt wrote. The father, Qoflortinnfi -
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Cumberland Sunday Times News
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Oct 16, 1994
Page 21
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