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Memories of Pella Childhood and Family Tales
A nostalgic Geauga-esque reminiscence in Pella recounts hazelnut hunts near the McCage place and a large cornfield by the Big Mill, with memories of the Curtis and Hamilton families, Aunt Eliza Olney, and cousins. It recalls childhood games, wildwood wanderings, a coal discovery near Alex Moore, and a March 1864 rabbit chase ending in a blizzard that halted ambitious hunters Gordon Clarke and Hardy Moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wildwood
McCage
Henry G. Curtis
Blattner’s Brewery
Robert Hamilton
Mr. Curtis
Jim Hamilton
Pella
H. A. Milton
Milton
Jim
Mittie
McClatchey’s Mill
Hardy
William Olney
William
Eliza
Des Moines
Durham
Charlie Moore
Eliza Olney
Jasper
Knoxville
Nossman
Alex
Stallard
Africa
Iowa
Gordon Clarke
Hardy Moon
Mighty Hunter