| This article was printed in "The Sidney Journal" on Friday, November 13, 1896. Entitled RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD MAN, the writer is identified only as ‘J.M.’ The author takes us back to what life was like in Shelby County, Ohio for its early pioneers. "As we look back down the path of life it seems impossible that we should have come so far. Those old landmarks and familiar places which we knew in our boyhood days are almost covered by the mist of three-quarters of a century. In 1808 my father came from Virginia to Fairfield County, Ohio. He moved all of his possessions, including a wife and two little children, on a two wheeled cart. The roads were bad, and there were many streams to ford. Many times tangled thickets and woods covered with a dense growth of underbrush impeded their progress. In many places the old primeval forests had not echoed the sound of the woodsman's ax, and the wild bird’s song had not been disturbed for centuries. The wolf, bear and deer still roamed over the hills and valleys undisturbed, except by the Indian hunter. Father hitched two horses to the cart, one ahead of the other, and after many weary days and nights reached his new home, then in the Far West, Fairfield county. Soon afterward he moved to Pickaway county." |
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