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]teaMrworking memoersnip.A subscription paper is being circulated for building a new church at Zion j (Baptist), on Deercreek. The old |we i church still standing has been buillt ^ about seventy years, and is not suited ttj,, at present for public worship. In the rof church cemetery are interred nearly all I lie the first settlers of the Deercreek val-! er( ley. On the monument of one branch of the Ater family, may be read “Geo.A ter, born in Germany 1745: emigrated to Virginia in 1765, settled on Deercreek in 1779; died 1820; was in the I tw War of the Revolution under Gen- laneeral Washington.” Abraham Ater died Sr 1855, aged 79. Here also are the fami- (r lies of Isaac Ater and Jacob Ater, de- thscendants of grandfather George Ater. anHere are also the Baker’s, the Hull’s and Hatfield’s, together with a part ofw:shbnearly all who settled on Deercreek inan early day. What fond memoriescluster around the names of those old I ccpioneer fathers and mothers, liovv fond- blt;lv we love to hear the stories of their I S1valor and noble deeds of the sacrificesmade to secure homes for themselves,nlt;and their posterity after them; hard was ] the toil to clear up the mighty forests and great was the danger from stub. | ec born foes and wily beasts that lingered all around, to prevent, if possible, the I j, settling of these rich and beautiful val-1 ai leys. Be it said to their honor, that with strong nerves and a mighty will 1 the dense forests were cleared up: strong oxen with a wooden mold plow I a served to turn over the rich, black loam, | g in which to grow the golden corn from which were made the only bread they had. Peace to their dust. w. p.\vSin
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Circleville Democrat and Watchman
Circleville, Ohio, US
Fri, May 11, 1888
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