Traveling Through Time With the Shelby County Historical Society

Pioneers

Pioneers were a special breed of people who could built, hunt, plant crops and gather food.  The first settlers had to make do with what was available at the site where they chose to live; to remove the forests, kill the wild animals and transform this wilderness, was the task set before them.  The work was slow, tedious, constant and hard, with inadequate shelter and the ever present threat of Indian attack.  The life expectancy of pioneer men, women and children ranged between 30 and 40 years.  Discover how early settlers survived despite very harsh living conditions.  Return to Archives Page

  • John Carey - Volunteers Restore Long Neglected Hardin-Area (Carey) Cemetery
  • Franz Eicher:  Pioneer Faced Long Road from Germany to Shelby County, Ohio
  • Henry Sherman:  History of Himself and His Family A Story of Immigration from Germany to Shelby County, Ohio