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VWVA HKUPKI) MIN W AKHome Of Rum fieldsThisof logs Salemami PictureII HARRISmodest home, partly built lust off State Route 325 inTownship, Meigs County,■ was long that of the Rumfields, whose members were connected by : marriage with other pioneer colored families now living on Briar Ridge, near the Gallia County line. These families came into theSalem wilderness nearly a centurv•* »ago and were the fir^t colored people to locate in that part of western Meigs Countv. They al-o were people who helped to win the Civil War by actual fighting and suffering. MOne of the best known of the 1 early Rumfields was Hiram, whose«. Vhome address was Hanesville (this almost forgotten community once {was a posloffiee and was near thejunction of State Routes 325 and 124'. Hiram Rumfield was horn in Athens Countv in 1841, son of Peleg and Rachael (Petit) Rumfield.Peleg Rumfield served one year in the Union army and was sent back to his home in Meigs County, where he settled near Hanesville in 1860, because of illness. He died in 1862 from his army experiences. His son. Hiram, served three yearsin the Seventh Ohio Cavalry' and*took part in many battles with this outfit. Because of exposure and privations in the army his health was never good after the war.Hiram Rumfield married in Gallia County Sarah Gomer, daughter of Ezekial Gomer and they were the parents of two children, Ella and Eldora. Mrs. Hiram Rumfield was first married to Henry Norman, who was horn in Washington County, O. in 1824, and who dierl in Andersor.ville Prison in 1864. He was a soldier in the Second Virginia Cavalry'.The Corners, parents of Mrs. Hiram Rumfield, were the first colored people to settle in the township of Salem. Her father wasa man of great enterprise and widely respected. He came from Wellington. Mass, bought andcleared 610 acres of wild land and left a farm to each of his children, all of whom settled in the Briar Ridge area. He was born in 1786 and died in 1852. By her first marriage Mrs. Hiram Rumfield had two children, America and Ida.Hiram Rumfield was a farmerfor years The home shovwi abov# once stood across the road from its present site and was first mainlybuilt of logs. The foundation of an-is nearby.that of Mrs.other R u m f i e 1 d c a h i n The home pictured isAlice Ward.Nearby is thernont Stevens fa of Mr. Stevens His two children Club work and 1 at the last Menlome of the Fre-nily. The mother was a Rumfield. are active in 4-H is son won prizes s County fair for a fine voung registered HerefordC»he showed. 'The Stevens home is the old place of the Henry Norman family.Three male members of the pioneer Gomer famih which came toWOhio from Now England before the Ciyil War, still reside on Briar Ridge. There are also two Johnsons remaining there of another of the old Salem colored families. The land holdings of these families extended into Gallia County, and into Vinton County as well. Several residents of the area also still bear the name of Rumfield.esivAir'cs.NOTICEis herein given that application was made on the 16th day of Yugust, 1950, b\ the Western Union Telegraph lt;ompany tolt; he Federal CommunicationsCommission to close the B O Railroad ojh*rated agency office at Sfewart. Ohio. If the application is granted substitute ser-viee i11 I** available throughthe Western rnion Telegraph Company’s office at Vthens, Ohio, by telephone from 7:30 A. M. to 8:00 I\ M. Monday
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Athens Sunday Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Tue, Sep 05, 1950
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