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(Continued From Page 1C)William Slider, died while fighting a fire on Warrior Mountain, to which he had moved after being dispossessed. Owen’s wife, who came with him on his return to Allegany County, died the winter of 1946.One of his hobbies, hunt went on to write, was building bee hives and many of the stands made by him were sold to bee cul-turists. Honey was one of his staple articles of diet. His study of the habits of bees taught him much, he said, and there wasn’t much about bees he didn’t know.Some days the only person Mr. Slider saw was the mail man. The only time there was any traffic at all over the Green Ridge wilds (1946) was during the hunting season.Mr. Slider said he never shot anything himself but he didn’t object to others who did enjoy hunting. He said he liked the company that the hunting season always brought.When asked if he was contented living alone on an isolated mountain top, he replied:“I have found absolute contentment — absolute,” and he accent-
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Cumberland Sunday Times News
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Oct 16, 1994
Page 22
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