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CONTENTS
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Lifestyle
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Always A Christmas Tree For Bonnie Wellness
Exploring Health Savings Accounts
The Greatest Gift A Special Christmas Memory
History and Mystery At Founders’ Cemetery
Happiest Season of All At White Pillars Christmas House
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Recipes Games & Puzzles Crossword & Sudoku Answers Holiday Events Word Search
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Always A Christmas Tree For Bonnie Story and Photos by BEVERLY KERR
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hristmas trees appear in every room of the home of Bonnie Perkins, whose love for trees began back in childhood. Even though her mother wasn’t into decorating much for Christmas, there was always a tree at her grandmother’s house. Bonnie remembers vividly one special tree there. Her grandmother decorated the tree with their gifts - hankies with Disney characters on them. Under the tree were bright oranges, a special treat. Once she married Floyd Perkins, they always had a cut tree for Christmas. Now since she has so many trees, they are of the artificial kind. Her pet project for the past 15 years has been Wonderland of Trees, her favorite of everything she’s ever done. This charity display and auction attracts area artists with a flair for creativity as they produce trees and holiday decorations that inspire, while raising money for the hospital. Not only does Bonnie help with the display of this Christmas paradise in the lobby of Southeastern Medical Center, but she also frequently is awarded several prizes. This past year she won the People’s Choice and Best of Show Awards. When someone wins awards year after year, you know they must have a magical touch.
Usually she gets an idea “sometime during the end of the year and the first of October.� Once the tree is decorated, spotting the pine beneath can be difficult. Any place the pine peeks through, Bonnie places a flower and the entire tree blooms in the color of her choice. Her home is a showcase of holiday spirit. Many years, it’s been part of the Christmas Tour of Homes with people clamoring to get a look inside this beautiful house. It usually takes her a couple of weeks to decorate, and even though Bonnie is 82 years old, she climbs the ladder with ease. A favorite tree can be seen in one of her spare bedrooms. One year Bonnie had a bowl of costume jewelry that she wasn’t quite sure how to use. She also had many strands of pearls, as during that time in her life, she wore pearls frequently. It crossed her mind to give them to Goodwill. Then one evening she was resting in bed when an idea came to her. She would use the jewelry on a Christmas tree. That year the Jewelry Tree won all three awards at the Festival of Trees: People’s Choice, Best of Show, and Most Creative, but then it was sold at auction. Early the next day, Bonnie’s son and daughter arrived at her home with their families. They were carrying the
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Photo Left: The largest tree, nearly 24’ high, stands in the window of Bonnie’s living room.
Photo Bottom Right: Every year, Bonnie decorates a tree for the lobby of the Guernsey County Visitors & Convention Center. Photo Above: The glass trees in Bonnie’s hands are Wonderland of Tree Awards for Best of Show and People’s Choice.
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Jewelry Tree as they had purchased it for their mother. Today this tree is special to her for just that reason, more than for winning awards. Her living room contains the largest tree, which nearly reaches the 24’ ceiling. Also there is a beautiful fireplace built from two box car loads of copper ore sent from Colorado. An ornate chandelier from Spain adds a special touch to this room as well. No matter how beautiful everything appears, it’s a house to be lived in and enjoyed. Grandchildren enjoy games of hide and seek behind the furniture, and toys can often be found scattered around the rooms. Her humble beginnings have made Bonnie appreciate her good fortune, but she assures everyone that it came from hard work. Floyd and Bonnie stayed busy all through their life. Photo Right: The copper ore used to make the main fireplace in the home came from Colorado.. Photo Top Right: During the summer months, Bonnie’s yard overflows with flowers, waterfalls and a koi pond. Photo Bottom Right: This family portrait has the most important spot in Bonnie’s hallway.
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Even though Christmas trees are her passion, she also enjoys flower gardening, her fish ponds, grandchildren, and helping others. Something she looks forward to once a month, is going with garden club members to make crafts with the residents of Cardinal House. The most exciting thing she has done in her life was taking a cruise around the world with her late husband, Floyd. For 101 days, Bonnie said she “lived a life of nothing but luxury” while seeing places like the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Egypt. Even though Bonnie has enjoyed homes in Florida, thoroughbred Tennessee Walking horses, antique cars and lovely surroundings, no one’s life is ever all perfection. She has had her sorrows too. This gracious lady always makes people feel special wherever they happen to meet her. Her advice to others would be, “Look for the good things in life. Find something happy about every day.” Contact Bev at GypsyBev@hotmail.com or follow her blog at www.GypsyRoadTrip.com
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WELLNESS
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ealth savings accounts are specialized savings accounts that allow people with specific health insurance plans to set aside money to pay for qualified medical expenses. These funds are deducted before taxes are withdrawn. Health savings accounts are a popular option among American workers and also provide another option for Canadians who need to pay medical bills that provincial programs do not cover. HOW DO HSAS WORK? Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) enable people to put money aside for use throughout the year on allowable healthcare needs. Some HSAs are offered in addition to health insurance through company plans, or health insurance providers may market them separately to individuals. Some financial institutions also support their own HSA. People decide how much to contribute to an HSA account each year, although there may be governmentmandated minimums. In the United States in 2017, the limit was $3,400 for an individual and $6,750 for a family, according to the financial resource NerdWallet. Health Equity says that those who have an HSA account own the account, even if they change health
plans, retire or change employers. WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Unlike flexible spending accounts (FSAs), HSAs are restricted to people who participate in high-deductible health plans only, states Canada Insurance Plans. Highdeductible plans often have lower monthly premiums, but come at the cost of these higher amounts that must be paid before insurance kicks in, states HealthCare. gov. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service defines a high deductible health plan as any plan with a deductible of at least $1,300 for an individual or $2,600 for a family. When HSAs are combined with high-deductible health plans, people may be able to lower their monthly health insurance premiums, all the while having a cache of savings to use toward eligible expenses. HSA BENEFITS HSAs can lower monthly health insurance premiums or offset some of the costs people pay for out-of-pocket
health-related services, such as insurance copayments or services not covered by other insurance. HSAs are used primarily for tax benefits. Contributions to HSAs are made pre-tax and are tax-deductible. Because a person is taxed after making an HSA contribution, individuals are taxed as if they make less money, thereby lowering their income tax. Another possible benefit for some people is that HSAs can be invested in mutual funds, stocks and other investment tools to generate even more money. Health Savings Administrators, which helps clients invest their HSA funds, says some people find that investing in HSAs enable them to see greater savings that can be put toward retirement than in more traditional 401(k) or IRA contributions. High-deductible plans and HSAs are not for everyone, particularly people who require a lot of medical coverage throughout the year, necessitating high medical costs. People are urged to talk with a tax advisor to see if an HSA might be the right option for them.
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RECIPES
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Ingredients: 4 ounces pancetta, cut into 1⁄4-inch cubes (see note) 3 tablespoons olive oil, plus more if necessary 1 pound Yukon gold potatoes, unpeeled, scrubbed and quartered Kosher salt
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Freshly ground black pepper 10 ounces cremini or brown mushrooms, quartered 6 garlic cloves, peeled and halved crosswise 2 teaspoons dried thyme Several fresh thyme sprigs for garnish (optional)
Directions:
1. Arrange a rack at center position and preheat the oven to 400 F. 2. In a large, heavy, ovenproof frying pan (preferably cast iron) set over medium heat, sauté the pancetta until golden and crisp, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon to drain on paper towels. 3. Remove all but 2 tablespoons of the drippings from the pan. (If you don’t have 2 tablespoons, add olive oil to make this amount.) When hot, add the potatoes and sauté, stirring, until they start to take on a little color, 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and place the frying pan in the oven. Roast for 15 minutes. 4. Remove the frying pan from the oven and add the mushrooms, garlic and the 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Add the dried thyme and season with more salt and pepper. Toss to coat well. 5. Return the pan to the oven and roast until the potatoes are golden brown and tender and the mushrooms are softened, about 15 minutes more. Remove the frying pan from the oven and stir in the reserved pancetta. If desired, garnish the center of the pan with fresh thyme sprigs. Serve warm. Note: If buying pancetta from a deli, ask for it to be cut thickly into 1⁄4-inch slices. Prepackaged pancetta is often thinly sliced.
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Turkey Roulade with Cranberry Chutney
Ingredients: 1 sheet puff pastry 1 pound turkey meat from turkey breast and/or thigh meat, cut into 1-inch chunks 3 eggs 1⁄2 cup chicken stock 1⁄4 cup Marsala 2 tablespoons unsalted butter Unbleached all-purpose flour, for the pastry 1⁄2 cup celery sliced on the diagonal 1⁄2 cup sliced button mushrooms 1⁄2 cup Cranberry Chutney, plus more for serving Fresh parsley sprigs for garnish
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1. Following the instructions on the package, thaw the puff pastry. This will take 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the type of pastry. You should be able to unfold it without it breaking. Set aside. 2. Pulse the turkey in a food processor until it is the consistency of ground beef. Add 2 of the eggs, the chicken stock, the Marsala, and the butter. Pulse again briefly, until just combined.
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3. Roll out the puff pastry on a floured surface until it is a 12- or 13-inch square. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the pastry on top. 4. Form the minced turkey mixture into a log and position it down the center of the prepared puff pastry. Make an indentation down the length of the turkey and place the celery, mushrooms, and cranberry chutney along the indentation. Cover the indentation with the meat, forming a log once again. 5. Wrap the puff pastry around the turkey, neatly folding the ends and top together, rolling or tucking the edges together, and pinching to seal any gaps. Make the pastry-covered log as round as possible, like a Yule log — try to avoid a flattened version, like a strudel. 6. Preheat the oven to 450 F. 7. Combine the remaining egg with 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl or cup. Stir well until completely mixed. Brush the roulade with the egg wash, being careful to brush every bit of the exposed pastry. 8. Bake for 10 minutes at 450 F, then reduce the heat to 375 F. Continue to bake for 30 to 45 minutes longer, until the pastry has risen and is a toasty, golden color and the turkey has reached an internal temperature of 165 F. Generally speaking, once the pastry has cooked, the meat will be cooked, too. Remove the roulade from the oven. Transfer it to a serving platter, using the parchment paper to help you. Allow to rest for about 10 minutes. 9. Slice and serve, garnishing with the parsley and accompanying with a bowl of extra cranberry chutney. Cranberry Chutney 1-pound bag fresh cranberries 2 navel oranges, unpeeled, cut into 6 wedges and then into thin slices 1⁄3 cup golden raisins 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1⁄2 teaspoon whole cloves 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger 1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt 1⁄2 cup apple cider 1⁄2 cup honey, preferably cranberry honey 1⁄4 cup apple cider vinegar
1. Pour the cranberries into a 2-quart pot. Add the oranges, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, salt, apple cider, honey, and vinegar. Bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat to low and simmer until the chutney thickens, about 20 minutes. 2. Remove from the heat and serve warm or, if you prefer, chill and serve cold.
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n mid December of 1967 my fifth grade teacher Mrs. Cirullo’s class included a thin, pale student named Pamela. Most of my fellow students avoided interacting with her. They thought Pamela was strange for wearing the same yellow and red flowered dress to class nearly every day and often, to my dismay, told her so. I still remember the anxiousness and trepidation in her pretty light blue eyes which seemed to be holding onto a secret she felt the need to tell. Sitting next to me during recess, Pamela explained in the softest voice that her family financial problems would mean no gifts for anyone in her six member household this Christmas. She and her older siblings had decided they could accept this fate for themselves, but couldn’t their four year old brother Joey have an inexpensive toy perhaps? Sadly she revealed to me, both parents had silently nodded no. While wringing her small hands together she confided in me her fear that Joey, excited and filled with the joyful spirit of holiday anticipation, was just too young to understand the concept of being ‘too poor for Christmas’. Our eyes met shortly before the dreaded recess bell rang out its loud call to return to lessons. Reaching for her left hand, I gave her fragile fingers a light squeeze in a last ditch effort on my part to render her some kind of sense of comfort or hope.
“I may have something at home I could bring in for Joey... it wouldn’t be brand new, but it would be something.”
“My mother cried and Joey loved the truck and car set! He played with it all Christmas day and even took it to bed with him that night and every night since, thank you for the gift!”
“I may have something at home I could bring in for Joey” I said, with a lilt of encouragement, adding “it wouldn’t be brand new, but it would be something.” Then we quickly walked back to class. Pamela blinked her now sparkling eyes at me and mouthed, so no one else could hear, “Could you?” as we returned to our respective seats. Smiling back at her, my head nodded yes while I tried to think of what I could give her. Being somewhat of a tomboy, I had often enjoyed playing with race car tracks and train sets. I thought that I must have some kind of small toy left that would solve my friend’s dilemma. After arriving home from class, I began to assemble an assortment of old forgotten toys. I picked up a plastic car hauler truck with four colorful cars in blue, green, yellow and red. It would have to do, I thought, as I could find nothing else suitable for a four year old little boy. Since I had sought approval for my plan from my mother, she suggested we include a diminishing roll of holiday wrap along with half a roll of scotch tape. “Perhaps,” she wisely advised, “the family may not have enough money for these items as well.” This made perfect sense to me so we included them in a paper grocery bag along with the toy. I felt the confidence of a mission accomplished, with my mother playing the role of supportive co-conspirator. That evening time seemed to creep along slowly, filling me with great anticipation. To think that I might have some small contribution to a child’s creative sense of wonder, along with fulfilling a
loving sister’s only Christmas wish, made me smile. The secret Santa toy delivery would take place at the end of the following school day, the last day before Christmas break. Seeing pure joy on Pamela’s radiant face as I opened the brown paper bag to show her the truck and cars taught me several lessons; that sometimes it’s the small gesture that means the most and that compassion and empathy can equal joy. I don’t remember what I received for Christmas that year in 1967 but I’ll never forget the ear to ear grin on Pamela’s face that first day back from school vacation when she whispered to me in our crowded elementary school hallway, “My mother cried and Joey loved the truck and car set!” She sweetly added, “He played with it all Christmas day and even took it to bed with him that night and every night since, thank you for the gift!” I cupped my hand to her ear and whispered back, “You’re welcome... that makes me so happy too!” Since that fateful day that Pamela felt confident enough to share her only Christmas wish with me there have been many more gifts for others whenever I’m in a position to lighten another’s emotional burden or put a smile on a child’s face. Fifty years ago, as a child, I learned in Mrs. Cirullo’s class that it truly is better to give than to receive. Thanks Pam for the greatest gift of all. Ruth lives in a small cabin with her husband Ray and little dog Miko near Peoli in Northeast Guernsey County. She can be reached via email at ruthdickson@ymail.com
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LOOKING BACK
HISTORY AND MYSTERY
AT FOUNDERS’ CEMETERY “ Th e re re m a i n e t h t h erefore a rest for the people of G od.” — Inscription on the gravestone of Elizabeth Willson, one of the last burials at Founders’ Cemeter y, 1861
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ometime around the year 1800, pioneer John Chapman came home from a day’s work of clearing fields to find his wife in a panic. Their eldest child, three-yearold Margaretta, had vanished! She had last been seen playing in their cabin’s yard about Story by RICK BOOTH four miles east of presentday Cambridge. An extensive search proved fruitless. As a last possibility, a band of Indians was suspected of having snatched the child and spirited her away to the west. A marker in Cambridge’s Founders’ Cemetery tells the rest of the story. Mr. Chapman followed the Indians for three days and got his daughter back without resorting to violence. This is just one of the fascinating stories behind the stones in Cambridge’s Founders’ Cemetery. It is also only half of the story.
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The other half of John Chapman’s story concerns the motive for the kidnapping, which is far less savory than the rescue. Shortly before he lost his daughter, Mr. Chapman had killed a deer, dressed it in the field, and hung it in a tree until he could retrieve it the next day. When he returned, he found two Indians trying to take the deer for themselves. So he simply ambushed them, killing one outright with a blast from his gun, and scaring the other away. This was not a good way to keep peace in the neighborhood! The next day, two Indians, presumably well armed, showed up at his cabin and forced him to accompany them to a “discussion” of the matter with their chief at Old Town, an Indian village located near today’s Byesville. Mr. Chapman, fortunately, already knew the chief and also discovered, to his own great good luck, that the Indian he had killed was a Miami, and not of the local chief’s tribe. If he would simply pay off the local tribe with whiskey and gunpowder, it was explained, they’d forget the whole thing. Chapman paid up quick! It was a few days later when the little girl was taken — by three Miami Indians making for the west side of the state. This was likely an act of retribution. Yet as the cemetery stone tells, Margaretta Chapman was rescued and restored to her family. By way of happy ending, she grew up, married a local man named Daniel Burton in 1818, and went to housekeeping near Byesville. A local legend reports that Margaretta’s brother was also named John Chapman and became better known as the famous Johnny Appleseed. That legend is, however, false. Johnny Appleseed was old enough to be her father and was born in Massachusetts, the son of Nathaniel Chapman. But the Indian story is good enough!
THE MAKERS AND SAVIORS OF THE CEMETERY
Three who preserved the cemetery. Left: Col. C. P. B. Sarchet, recorded 1894 notes Middle: Mary A. Stone, recorded stones in 1901 Right: Mary McMahon, willed 1927 restoration
the cemetery’s residents. A few years later, in 1901, Miss Mary A. Stone made another pass through the overgrown, weed-infested property, recording as best she could all the inscriptions she could read. Hers is the most complete list of precisely who is in the cemetery FOUNDERS’ CEMETERY continues on pg 18
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When Jacob Gomber and Zaccheus Beatty platted and founded Cambridge in 1806, they set aside about half an acre just south of the town’s main platted lots to serve as a burial ground. This was the beginning of Founders’ Cemetery. The first burial there is said to have been a child of James Oldham, placed in the lot’s northwest corner. The year is not known, nor is there a known marker. A widening of Turner Avenue, adjacent to the cemetery, in the 1800s may even have covered the grave. The earliest known dates inscribed on stones at Founders’ are from 1817, exactly 200 years ago. By 1835, the half acre was full, so by purchase of land, the cemetery was quadrupled in size to two acres, extending it toward the east. This extension became full over the next two decades, at which point Cambridge purchased six and a half acres of land from the Morton family to make the new City Cemetery on South 11th Street. This cemetery lasted four more decades before reaching capacity. Finally, in 1899, the city purchased 40 acres of land from Col. Joseph D. Taylor to make Northwood Cemetery, which continues to be used and even extended today. Though occasional family plot burials continued in Founders’ after 1858, when the new City Cemetery opened, the older cemetery may have actually experienced a net loss of population. To keep families together, a number of bodies were disinterred from Founders’ and moved to the new cemetery. Some left “forwarding addresses” on their stones at Founders’ to explain to descendants where their bodies had gone. Isaac and Sarah Oldham, the original owners of the old Cambridge State Hospital site, were among those so transferred. Finally, the last known burial at Founders’ was that of Joseph D. Tingle in 1891. When burials went to the new City Cemetery, Founders’ Cemetery gradually went to seed as its upkeep became less and less a concern to current city residents. Trees grew and stones toppled. Were it not for two dedicated historians more than a hundred years ago who recorded the stones’ inscriptions and the stories behind them, the blight of time might well have erased most of what we know of the early settlers who rest there. In 1894, Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet wrote a series of ten articles for the Jeffersonian newspaper, recording his memories of the people named on the stones in the cemetery. He did so in somewhat geographical order. His articles are the main historical foothold we have on
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FOUNDERS’ CEMETERY continued from pg 17 and when they died, though she missed a few that Col. Sarchet had noticed in 1894. Perhaps a bush had grown and blocked a stone’s view here and there between their two excursions into the brush. A third cemetery preservationist of note was Mrs. Mary Catharine Green McMahon. In her will, she directed that money from her estate be used to repair the cemetery to good shape and especially fix or replace her relatives’ markers with family names McMahon, Green, Moore, Gomber, and Beatty. Though she herself is buried with her husband at Northwood, her 1927 death led to a massive cemetery cleanup, new markers for many of the town founders, and erection of the tall obelisk honoring, especially, the Gombers and the Beattys. It stands like a smaller version of the Washington Monument just inside Founders’ Southgate entrance. In the years since Sarchet and Stone recorded the cemetery residents’ names and inscriptions, most of the stones they witnessed have degraded to partial or complete illegibility, if they’re even still there at all. To Sarchet, Stone, and the McMahon restoration effort, local history owes much. WHAT THE DEAD DID IN LIFE
Amidst a mind-numbing wilderness of genealogical relationship detail in Sarchet’s 1894 articles are many interesting notes on the careers and life events of those buried in the cemetery. Taken together, a picture of an active frontier community emerges. At least one family member of each of the following individuals lies in Founders’ Cemetery: William Graham hauled goods on the National Road “in the days when six horses and the white covered wagons were the engines that moved the freight from west to east and from east to west.” George Tingle, Joseph Holler, and John Keeran kept taverns, and Jacob Metcalf was employed in far-off Wheeling, managing that city’s Monroe House. John Nevin, a baker, drove his delivery wagon about town with a sign saying “Buy your daily bread.” Mitchel Atkinson was an early blacksmith. And John Fogle was a partner in the Simons Foundry located about a block west of the cemetery on Turner Avenue. There they cast all sorts of iron implements, some of which were patented locally. Nicholas Martel was perhaps the first “salt boiler” making salt for the local community. He came from the Isle of Guernsey and claimed descent from the famous Charles Martel who won the Battle of Tours in the year
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Approximate look of baker John Nevin’s wagon.
732, thus keeping Western Europe safe from Moorish invasion. Joseph Cockrel worked at the Gomber Mill, located near the north end of today’s Guernsey County Justice Center (i.e. jail and police complex). Peter Corbet, another early settler from Guernsey, not only ran a mill near today’s Buffalo; he took the milled flour by flatboat down Wills Creek to the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers and perhaps as far as New Orleans on the Mississippi. PETER CORBET FLATBOATED FLOUR DOWN WILLS CREEK. MICHAEL ROGERS ENGAGED IN CANAL BOATING.
Michael Rogers had water-borne work of a different sort, getting involved with the canal boat business at Newcomerstown. Jesse Johnston was the local hatter. John Clark tried to strike it rich as a “Forty-Niner,” going west to California in 1849 during the gold rush. Whatever his fortune was there, he was back home by 1857 when, most unfortunately, he died. Edward Roseman was a weaver, as was also Joseph Neelands who made “woolen coverlets, webs for homespun cloth, linen, and carpets.” Gunsmithing was Theodore Ross’s trade. He married into the Beatty family. Daniel Eberle brewed beer and ale a little bit east of Cambridge. He died long before Prohibition, but may have endured heckling by Col. Joseph D. Taylor’s mother, who fought drinking everywhere. John Sayre, an “eccentric” Guernsey Isle immigrant, made his living as a plasterer. After his wife died, he apparently made a bit of a fool of himself trying to find another woman to marry. Louis Kearnes was a town tailor, whereas R. H. Dilley
LOOKING BACK died in 1826, has a large marker in good shape near the cemetery entrance. He holds the Founders’ Cemetery longevity record at age 106! VETERANS’ STORIES
No cemetery in Guernsey County likely has more Revolutionary War veterans than does Founders’, but identifying precisely who they were and where their graves are is a source of massive confusion. Captain Thomas Cook’s grave is marked with certainty at the cemetery entrance. Other Revolutionary veterans are surely there, but most of their gravestones have deteriorated beyond recognition. A Captain James Jack is almost certainly among them. Col. Sarchet, however, published a somewhat different list of the names of veterans of the Revolution he believed were in the cemetery in his 1894 articles than he did in his 1911 History of Guernsey County. Other sources of veteran information differ further. There appear to be more identifiable graves of FOUNDERS’ CEMETERY continues on pg 20
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sought part of his patrons’ disposable income as a town jeweler. Joshua Wilson was one of the earliest land surveyors in the area. It was an important job as settlers sought to homestead the tracts they bought in the wilderness. Thomas Bryan was a Cambridge Township constable, and his wife was an Ohio Stage Company agent, working with that stage coach line. Brothers Isaac and Frederick Moss were barbers, as were George Smith and Moman Morgan. Andrew Marshal built the first county jail, shortly after Guernsey County was formed in 1810. John Alter made and sold saddles and, probably, related horse and wagon paraphernalia. Andrew McConehay may have been the first person in the county to make money selling coal. The coal mining industry dominated county employment in the late 1800s and early 1900s. There were also traditional professionals connected to Founders’. Several doctors are there, a few lawyers, a congressman named James Martin Bell, generic merchants and storekeepers, and a former editor of the Guernsey Times newspaper, John A. Beatty. As times changed and Cambridge became less rustic, music and art careers became possible. Martha Mathews was the first piano teacher in the area. James Smith started out as a portrait painter and became the first local photographer when “painting with light” became possible. His brother served as postmaster. Finally, Andrew Fessler was the first to deal in tombstones for Cambridge. He, too, is buried at Founders’. Before he died, he had a lot of business. There may be twice as many burials in Founders’ Cemetery as the names we know of. Many graves went unmarked, including a large section of the southeast corner of the field. The poor, the suicides, and some who sought no marker lie there. Of the approximately 450 named individuals thought to be buried at Founders, though, only about three-fourths have known ages and dates of death. Of these, one-third died before the age of 20. One-fifth did not reach five. The stones tell the story of a raging typhoid fever epidemic in the “sickly fall” of 1846. Eighteen markers record deaths in September and October of that year. The unrecorded ones likely were many more. The McMurrey family lost four of its members in October alone. A smaller surge in deaths occurred in 1833 when scarlet fever stalked the town. Yet not everyone died young. Thomas Bell, who
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FOUNDERS’ CEMETERY continued from pg 19 as the first colored citizen of Cambridge. Dick O’Ferrell was another. Moman Morgan was the first black barber. A great abolitionist story is associated with the burial of William R. Buchanan. He served as a lawyer in a famous incident in 1854 called the “Slave Rescue Case.” Two young slave boys were to have been transported by an agent from the Wheeling area to Kentucky by way of travel on the Ohio River. Since Wheeling was in Virginia at the time, and slavery was legal in both Virginia and Kentucky then, this was legal. But ice, in the cold December of 1854, made travel on the river impossible, so the slave agent decided to take a train to Kentucky through Ohio. When Peter Sarchet noticed the boys on the train as it stopped at Cambridge, he pulled them off and declared them free. The agent protested, but attorney Buchanan won the case a few weeks later at the courthouse. If only Dred Scott had been so lucky! JOHN BEATTY’S LEGACY FOUR TYPES OF VETERAN STARS FOR THREE WARS.
Though Jacob Gomber and Zaccheus Beatty owned the land and platted the town of Cambridge, there is one more founder, perhaps even more fundamental, to remember. Zaccheus Beatty established his half-interest in the land of Cambridge in 1801, but he did not choose to live there then. Instead, he invited his father, John Beatty, and brother-in-law, Jacob Gomber, to go settle the tract. John Beatty and family are believed to have arrived in 1803 and were likely responsible for building the first bridge over Wills Creek near the present Viaduct bridge location by the end of that year. It is even possible that the name “Cambridge” itself was just family wordplay for having come to Ohio to build a bridge. No other strong historical connection of the extended Beatty family to other towns named Cambridge has ever been found. Gomber bought the second half-interest in the land in 1805 from a man named Biggs. And so the two brothers-in-law — Zaccheus and Jacob — set out to plat and make their town the very next year.
veterans of the War of 1812 in the cemetery than of the Revolution. After all, that war occurred when Cambridge was young. John Clark, the “Forty-Niner,” appears to be the only known Mexican War veteran there. His tombstone is in bad shape, but at least it is known. And finally, though Founders’ began shutting down for interments two years before the Civil War, it appears there is at least one Civil War soldier buried there, having died in military service in 1863. Sgt. Henry Bumgardner, a veteran of the battles of Murfreesboro and Stones River, drowned accidentally while crossing the Elk River in Tennessee with some fellow soldiers. He was 23 years old. In addition to American conflicts, there are survivors of events in Europe as well. Francis Donsouchet once fought for Napoleon, and John Ferguson was said to have been an “Irish rebel” in the 1790s, likely in specific reference to an Irish uprising against British rule in 1798. “CITY OF CAMBRIDGE” CROWNS JOHN BEATTY’S GRAVE It was John Beatty’s 1803 move to Ohio, and the deterThe more things change, the more they stay the same. mination of his son and son-in-law to build a town there, REMEMBRANCE OF SLAVERY that made the City of Cambridge. He, his family, and the There are reminders of the days of slavery at Found- pioneer citizens are all still with us. They lie in restful — ers’, too. At least two former slaves are buried there. and perhaps even proud — sentry at the “south gate” to The Beatty family held slaves in Maryland or Virginia. their city. Their memory still lives on at a place called They became free when they accompanied the family to Founders’ Cemetery. Ohio, apparently willingly. “Tobe” Beatty was described
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Their first year in 2015, only the bottom floor was opened. Not wanting to go into debt, they increased their merchandise as quickly as possible. Their plan obviously worked as last year they opened the second floor as well. Now all nine rooms are full of Christmas items you probably won’t find anywhere else locally. Popular items include the Dept. 56 Village sets which include Dickens houses as well as those of Charlie Brown. They believe they are the only store in the state of Ohio that sells them. They also sell Christopher Radko glass holiday treasures, created in Polish artisan factories. Each piece is hand crafted from the glass blowing and silvering process to the delicate painting work. These magical
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