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Newspaper
Traer Star Clipper
Location
Traer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1973
Page
25
The account recalls isolation and camaraderie among first settlers in Washington County. It notes their bashfulness, boldness, mutual aid, and hospitality during pioneer days, contrasting harsh solitude with later progress and the steady spread of roads, mills, schools, and commerce as civilization advanced.
The tale centers on Captain S. A. Russell, Crawfordsville lawyer and legislator, famed wit and speaker. It recalls his 1860 campaign anecdote about Henry Clay Dean, a fiery Democratic orator, in Washington, and a humorous dream quarrel with Satan over Dean’s oratorical prowess and alleged lies.
An 1873 tornado near Jackson and Cedar townships described by A J Rankin of Washington Iowa. He recalls a barrow pulled by three mules, a roaring cloud, a barn lifted and scattered, and the wind’s quick passage before safety. Nearby fences damaged. red barn noted. barn pieces later found embedded a mile away.
L F Sigafoose of Washington Iowa recalls his 1844 birth in West Virginia and 1850 move to Iowa. He describes family land south of Washington bought for 1000 dollars, two log cabins, later marriage and purchase of his current farm, and enlistment in August 1862 in Company K 22nd Iowa serving three years. He notes his voting record.
GEO. VAN WINKLE of Brigh ton recalls his Iowa ancestors arriving from Ohio in 1841 to help build the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi. He notes many Indians, horse thieves later punished, life in a log house and school, and a Rusvel visit where he passed a camp of Indians that frightened his sister.
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