production of the Sinclairs was repeated by Mr. Gottfried and
his boys. I am glad to have had them as neighbors. We shared the butcherings,
threshing, shreddings, clover hullings, wood cuttings and other farm work
together. They were helpful in sickness and time of need.
But alas! When the children of these good people had grown and left to
establish homes of their own, they, that had been so good to everyone else,
decided they did not need each other (I suppose). Differences that had long
existed were widened and they began to live alone. After renting the farm for
a few years Hiram sold the farm to George Stevens, a retired
railroad telegrapher from Hazerd, KY.
George
and his wife Grace ( ) began improving the farm. They built
another home and their son Eugene Stevens and his wife Hazel
(Turner) with their boys James and Wayne moved into it.
Later were born Michael and George. Mr. Stevens did not
get to enjoy his retirment too long for he passed way with a herart attack.
His son, Eugene and his mother managed and carried on the farming Into
the middle 1960’s when they sold it to the Knies brothers, Elmer
and Eugene. It is now a part of a very large farming operation by these
young men. Eugene Stevens had been an efficient salesman for the
Mooreman Feed Company and after selling the farm was promoted to District
Sales Manager and served at Attica and Greencastle. Here he was killed in an
auto-train accident. Here lived his wife Hazel, her mother and four
sons. The boys as prepared for by their father are successfully preparing for
and doing their lifes work.
The
final installment of the Memoirs of Fred Dillard will be continued in the next
issue. . .
The George Ash House
Built in 1798 and still in use
Note:
John Ash, father of George Ash, was also the father of Elizabeth Ash who
married Tom Cox in Nelson County Kentucky and came into the Cane Creek area of
Orange County Indiana in 1816. They are my ggg Grandparents.
John and his son Jack Ash were Indian fighters of some note. Jack was killed
by the Indians about the year 1780 but not before he had accumulated 1000
acres of land in Nelson County KY. Old John Ash was considered to be a wealthy
man because of his land holdings in Nelson and LaRue Counties.
Elizabeth Ash
was the daughter of John Ash by his second wife, Arabella Anderson. I figure
John was about sixty years old when Elizabeth was born. His