Coen Beatty - 90, Aug. 5th
Delphene Beaty - 89, Aug. 22nd
Graveyard Humor
On a grave from the 1880’s in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Under the sod and under the trees lies the body of Jonathan Pease
He is not here, there is only the pod
Pease shelled out went to God
Famous Last Words
I am not the least afraid to die
Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882
Cont’d from last issue…
It was a pleasant sight for me to see their mill, horse barns, kitchen and dining room with tin table ware and the crude sleeping quarters. When the timber was all cut the land was sold to the sons Of Jacob Parten-Heimer. They divided it into three parts and cleared and cleared them and built three houses. They were for Joseph, William and John and here they raised their families. The story of Jacob Partenheimer and his children was written by me and sent to Sandra Benhamin Kokomo as spoken of in the attached letter. As a genealogist she has this story for someone. I cannot take the time or space for it here but it can be obtained from her. Concerning Jacob Partenheimer, Mr. Nordhoff , I want write of an occurrence that may be considered a short coming and as I have stated earlier I would not detract from the reputation of anyone. These were my friends. I helped them raise barns, some 12 of them and helped them roll logs. I taught their children and the best of citizens they were. I could tell of many incidents that I shared with them. But to show how before all our wars, as of now, many people opposed them as did Jacob in WW 1. On Saturday May 25th , 1918 before I was to report to my local Board at Paoli on the following Monday I helped the Partenheimer’s roll logs from a swampy valley on their farm. Anthony Main was also a hired helper.
We dragged the logs together with teams and then with hand spikes we lifted them into heaps. It was wet and they burned poorly. About 2 o’clock in the afternoon it began to rain and we had to go the barn for shelter. The bottle was passed around and Jacob began to oppose the war in severe terms. There were people called hyphenated Americans, that claimed citizenship in both Germany and the US. Mr. Partenheimer and a neighbor were two of these. The older son said, “Dad, you better stop talking like that for the sheriff was just here yesterday and threatened to arrest you if you didn’t.”
Then he was quite.(just a story to read and forget, not to be given any publicity. Told by me only because it is part of this locality.The farm on either side of State Road 164 is now owned by William Merkel and a fertile one it is with broad fields of alluvial soil. The bottom lands were once owned by Axley Williams who lived in a house southeast of the bridge. The Didney Hill Post Office, the first in this locality on the New Albany-Vincennes Road was just south of the bridge where the remains of the old road cross the stream. The hill part of the farm was owned by Earl Mason and James Limp before Mr.Merkel. The Atkins Cemetery and the farm of Warren Atkins to the West will be affected by the Lake. At this point a branch flows into Lick Fork from the East and extends to Wickliffe. The first farm on it belongs to Thomas Zehr. It is an outstanding one due to the fact that the owners were prosperous and good farm managers.