The Titusville Herald from Titusville, Pennsylvania • Page 8

PACK EIGHT tHI T1TUSVILLE HERALD. TITUfVILlE, PINNA. MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1MO WHO WAS WHO ire PLUM TOWNSHIP BY H. W. STRAWBRIDGE Mrs.

Susan Clark was born east of the mountains in central Pennsylvania on Dec. 27, 1818. She was one of seven children of Benjamin and Mary Bierly Ross. As a baby, Susan was baptized in a Lutheran Church. They were of Holland Dutch descent.

The family moved, from Pennsylvania to Trumbull County, 0., in or prior to 1822. After living there a few years they moved back to Pennsylvania. It is said they settled on what is now Kight- liagsr's Corners, a mile east of Diamond. They lived here in a covered wagon until trees could be cut for a log house. They raised flax and Mrs.

Ross carded and spun wool. Record states that the Benjamin Ross family also lived a few years on a tract of land northwest of Diamond. This was in the 1830's. While Susan was growing up, certain young fellow" named William Proper would take apples to her. Her brothers teased her about William.

She claimed at first that she didn't like him. She must have soon changed her mind because they got married, probably in 1838 or 39. William was one of several children of Joseph and Rebecca Beers Proper at Diamond. At that time Joseph was said to be the richest man in Plum Township. William may have been a small man in sire, but it isn't known for sure because he's been dead for such a long Lived oo Homestead Farm William and Susan lived on the present Homestead Farm.

Their log.house then sat near a spring in what is now the front pasture When William's father died in 1843, he willed this 100-acre piece to William. However, when William died in 1845, he was assessed for 200 acres. He evidently acquired another 100 acres. William died June 15, 1845, typhoid fever. He and Susan had four daughters, the last one having been born a few months after her father's death.

They were: Nancy Proper, 1840; Mary Proper, 1842; Elizabeth Proper, 1844; and Rebecca Jane Proper, 1846. Nancy was married to Willian Luce of this area and they lived several years southeast of Dia mond before moving to Lake Wil son, where she died'abou 1912. They had four children, all of whom- are deceased. Mary was married to Benjamin They lived at Fagundus for several years before moving to New York State. She died at MRS.

SUSAN CLARK ville on May 31. 1S80. They had two children who are deceased. Benjamin married Miss Emma' Blanchard of near Maple Hill. They lived for years at Chapmanville, before moving away.

Ben died Nov. 5, 1906, at Robinson, 111., where he was employed. They had two children, one of whom, Carl- Cheney, is living at Meadville. Anna married Sidney Winslow. They lived in this area for a few years before departing to Ohio- She died at Siberling, 0., on April 6, 1924.

They had three children, all now deceased. the youngest, married Miss Cynthia Reynolds. They mainly lived at Meadville where he died in 1940, being the last survivor of a n's children. They had two children, one of whom, Made Schnauber, lives at Meadville. Husked Corn for Living After John Cheney died Susan worked by the day husking corn to earn a living for her family.

She also carded and spun wool, spun flax, knitted and quilted. She'ynade many items, as woolen blankets, socks, and sold them. She worked a lot for the Ira average lize. She wasn't heavy, nor was she thin. She was somewhat jolly and made special effort to cheer a gloomy person up.

She more often did her visiting by walking back and forth rather than by horseback or carriage. This photograph of her was taken around 1894. Family Lived In Log House It has been said that the Cheney family lived awhile in a log house that once stood across the road from the Diamond Cemetery. It is known that Susan lived during the mid and latter 1860's in a house which once sat at the northern end of the present township gravel bank. On Aug.

24, 1864, Doe and Smith of Diamond made an oil lease with Susan on 10 acres. Her land adjoined the creek. Mentioned in the lease is a rafting channel in the creek. There is no record of what was the outcome of any drilling, if there was any drilling. About 1870 Susan married Benjamin Clark of Titusville.

He was commonly called "Ezra" Clark. He had operated a grocery store on the corner of Spring, and Spruce streets. After their marriage they moved into Chapmanville in a one-story house that stood immediately back of the present Floyd Ray house. Susan had been an early mem- aer of the Diamond United Brethren Church. After he last marriage she and Ezxa joined the Chapmanville Methodist Church which hadn't been organized very long.

They remained members of this church until Ezra's death in March, 1880. He died at the Samuel Cheney home at Luce's Corners. Sometime after his death Susan transferred her membership back to the Diamond Church and remained a consistent Christian and faithful member of that church until her death. After her Almira Proper, died in 1882, Susan kept house for her son-in-law, Mr. Proper, for four years.

She also worked at the homes of Henry Ross and John Lindsay. Has Granmother's Quilt Her granddaughter, Mrs. May Morse of Chapmanville, has a red and light colored quilt that her grandmother made. She also has a hammer and a small wood- Jamestown, 1915. They N.

on Sept had eight children, only one of whom is now living Mrs. Mattie Johnson. Elizabeth never married. She died of diphtheria at the home of her sister, Mrs. Cleland, in Fagundus in February or March, 1863.

She was often called Incidentally, her share of her father's estate wasn't fully settled and county officials squandered some" $400 of it. Rebecca married H. H. Jennings of Chapmanville hi 1865. He died in 1880 and she later married John Lindsey.

After his death some years later she married again, to John Buckley. Rebecca died Sept. 9, 1919, in Meadvffle. By her first marriage there were seven children, the only one now living being Mrs. May Morss of Shortly after William Proper's death, Susan and her daughters moved less than half a mile straight south to what was called the Kuhns house, which was bigger and better.

It, too, sat beside a spring which still flows water in the present back pasture of the farm. Hay Raking Interrupted Susan met John L. Cheney who came to Plum Township about 1847 from Chautauqua County, N. Y. may have been that year or the nest that they were married.

It is said that Susan was out in the field raking hay with a wooden hand rake when John arrived and asked her to marry him right then. She consented, went to the house, took a bath, dressed up and they went somewhere to be wed. After the ceremony she came back, put on her old clothes and finished raking her hay! John may have been of Irish descent. It is thought he was a tall man. While they lived at the Kuhns house, John cut down pine trees and made shingles by hand.

John died about 1863. Six children were born to this union, as follows: Almira Cheney, Samuel Cheney, Clarissa Cheney, Benjamin Cheney, Anna Cheney and Levi Cheney. Almira was married to Joseph M. Proper, a Civil War veteran. They lived in Diamond where she died on June 2, 1882.

They had three children, all. of whom are deceased. Samuel married Miss Susie Briggs, and they lived the main portion of their married life at Luce's Corners, a distance north of Chapmanvile. Samuel died April 28, 1939, They had three children, the only living one being Mrs. Ethel Marsh who lives in Troy Center, Clarissa married David Burke, of Alabama, and they at BrMfojd.

Clarissa died djir of her fcrothw, Goodwin family. In fact she was the midwife when the Goodwin twins, Daniel B. and Andrew were born on July 11, 1869. Susan was often called upon to serve as a midwife. She also worked for an Alcorn family in that area.

She called them "All corn." She was as industrious a woman as one could find in those pioneer times. She had helped her husbands to roll logs on heaps for burning. She made her own soap by the old custom of putting wood ashes in barrels, the bottoms of which had sticks anc straw laid in so the lye water could flow out the bottom better. She used to bring ashes over to Morse's ashery in Chapmanville to have celeratus made. She would say that she was taking ashes over to "Moss town' (meaning Morse town).

She hac a plain Dutch accent. She also made chewing gum from pine pitch for her girls to chew. Susan was rather short and en box that belonged to her grandmother. In fact Susan's father, Benjamin Ross, made these two things for her. Mrs.

Morse keeps eggs in the box now. She says her.mother kept salt in it, and her grandmother kept clothespins in it. Another granddaughter, Mrs. Ethel Marsh of Troy Center, possesses a blackbound Bible which belonged to her grandmother. For awhile in 1896, Susan worked for her granddaughter, Mrs.

Susan Camp. After receiving her pay she bought black material and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Levi Cheney, made a black dress. It was two years later that Susan was buried in this very dress. Mrs.

Susan Clark maintainec her home during her last years at the home of her son, Samue Cheney, at Luce's Corners. She always possessed good health, ex cept for a lengthy stomach ail ment from which she fully re covered years before. During the fall of 1898, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cheney went to Florida Sunshine RALPH By ELLIOTT BLAKESLEE To Keep Yourself Alive Five-year-old Mitzi looks on in open-mouthed wonder as her father, Francis M.

Knuckles, gets a new dressing for his injured eye. Struck by flying glass during last year's tornado in St, Louis, Mr. Knuckles was so badly cut that it was feared at first he would lose the sight of his eye. His attendant is Mrs. Charles Lenz, volunteer Red Cross disaster nurse.

Westfield, N. to work in the grape country. Their daughter, Ethel, and a lad named Burdell Huckleberry remained at home with Susan. Susan, nearly 80, still kept busy. She had carried in potatoes, cut corn, milked the cows, etc.

In fact, while milking, she was kicked over twice by a cow shortly before her last sickness. On Thursday evening, Oct. Susan ate a 13, cucumber which caused indigestion. The next day she became very sick and Ethel sent Burdell to Chapma'nville for the doctor. Soon both Drs.

W. H. Quay and W. J. Richey came.

By that time the elderly lady was in extreme' pain from the cramps of indigestion. A telegram was sent to Cheneys at Westfield and Sam came back by horse and buggy, while his wife came by train. She beat him home by one hour. Mrs. Clark died on Thursday, Oct.

20. The funeral occurred the following Saturday afternoon in the Diamond United Brethren Church with Rev. T. E. Evans officiating.

Interment was beside her three husbands and daughter, Elizabeth, in the Diamond Cemetery. Crash Victim Dies CLARION, Pa. (AP)-Jack L. Anthony, 22, of New Bethlehem, died Friday night in Clarion Hospital several hours after he was injured in a two-car collision on Route 66 near here. Pittsburgh Opposes Milk Price Hike PITTSBURGH (AP)-The city of Pittsburgh is opposed to any increase in the.retail price of milk in the Pittsburgh marketing area.

City Solicitor David Stahl made the city's stand on prices official Saturday in a brief filed with the State Milk Control Commission. He said he will appear at a commission hearing in Harrisburg Monday to oppose a request of the Greater Pittsburgh Dairy Industry Assn. for a greater profit margin. At a recent hearing in Pittsburgh it was indicated increased' profit margin would result in a one-cent increase in retail milk prices. Customers in the Pittsburgh area now pay 26 cents for a quart of milk purchased at a store and 27 cents for a quart delivered to their doors.

Stahl said the Pittsburgh area prices "considerably higher than in many other major cities in the United States." AH, SWEET MEMORIES NEWARK, N. J. (AP)-A bill was found here" recently which listed the cost of making home repairs. The carpenter got 25 cents an hour. Four pounds of' nails, eight feet of pine board and 21 hours of work totaled $45.80.

The bill was sent in 1886. PHONE WITH A MEMORY ST. LOUIS (AP) Telephones equipment with a memory probably will go into use on an experimental basis late this year. The equipment, using part of the guidance system for the Nike Zeus missile, was described by William Barnes, a demonstration engineer for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. It works this way: A caller dials a number and gets a busy 'signal.

This activates the memory unit. When the party he is calling hangs up both phones will ring. The equipment also may be used to record messages for a subscriber during his absence. Things are fine at Pine Grove. John Potocki of Corry and his friends, Fred Je-sen of Columbus, built a small house on their Chevy truck, with a small coal stove, table and two sleeping cots inside and took off for a fishing vacation in Florida.

They arrived, Saturday night in front of the new Florida home in Pine Grove recently purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Orville Jackman. After a visit with friends, on Monday morning they went over to the canal connecting Lake Lizzie with Lost Lake, just back of the Jackman home, and began fly casting with artificial bait. After about five minutes, and a half-dozen casts, they hooked a large-mouthed bass and landed it on the bank with the help of a net.

It looked like a small whale. It weighed a few ounces over 12 pounds. Needless to say, they soon had a crowd around them, and cameras were snapping. Mr. and Mrs.

John Weidner are just putting the roof on their new home at Pine Grove. It is built of cement blocks and has awning windows that open from inside. The arrangements inside are very convenient and they will soon be furnishing it. It has two bedrooms and a living room with a picture window looking out over Lake Lizzie. When it is finished, John be able to get back to his fishing which has suffered while he was busy working.

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Humbert have been planting some beautiful new shrubs and fruit trees in their yard around Florida home. "Gib" has so many flowers growing there now that it is difficult to find room for more. Their hospitable latch string is always hanging out for their friends from the North and a smiling welcome awaits.

Plenty of Northern friends stop there. Mr. and Lou Mulvin, who live across the way, have finished some planting in their yard, he is getting anxious to get to his summer home at Canadohta Lake. Mr. and Mrs.

Bruce Shreve live in the next home. Their son-in- law and daughter, -the Allees, left for Union City yesterday. Mr. Shreve was showing his son, Glenn's, very beautiful Florida home. It leaves nothing to be de sired in artistic Florida coloring and funrshing.

The Glenn Shreve's suffered a very anxious time when their son, David, was accidentally shot with a bullet while cleaning his gun. There was anxiety, shared by all the neighbors, until he was pronounced out of danger at the hospital. Now he is again attending his classes at school. Diagonally across the road live the Dennie DeForest family. They are also from eastern Crawford County and used to own and operate a farm on P.oute 8 between Riceville Corners and Union City.

Mrs. Paul St. John, cousin of Mr. and Mrs. Reed St.

John, state grange deputies who are so well known all over Crawford County Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore for 30 years. He played numbers from old Italian masters. The Tallaricos live in a pretty yellow cottage across the street. Tom Cornish, who used to live in Centerville, just stopped at the door. With his slicker and sou'wester and big fish over his shoulder, he looked like the old- fashioned ads for cod liver oil.

The fish was a channel catfish weighing pounds. He caught it in the canal. On Sunday the good people of Pine Grove went 'down to hear the singing of spirituals in the colored people's chapel. It was a stirring experience. The courtesy and friendliness of the people were wonderful.

Outside the open windows there was a choir of mocking birds, and inside the choir of the church marched up solemn procession to choir stalls. A small colored girl with an astonishing ponytail hair-do sat at the piano. But everything was forgotten when the singing started. Feet were patting and hands were clapping softly -and brilliant harmonic effects filled, the church. In a short time wild cries suggesting the jungle broke out and the building rocked.

The elder at the pulpit opened his eyes, leaned back and really let go. The whole congregation were at -it. At the close, the white people were thanked for their presence and invited to speak. At the door stood an old mammy dressed in white stilling the cries of a troubled little baby boy who looked like a black cherub. He was soon smiling.

The silver collection was generous and will help buy windows for the little white place of worship. The ladies of the Pine Grove Community Club gave a chicken dinner on Sunday and they served over 150 persons. The proceeds will help for improvements on the community hall. After the dinner, everyone joined in singing the old heart songs, "Seeing Nellie Home," "When You and I Were Young, and again it seemed wonderful to see elderly retired folks forgetting their age and laughing gether. in Grange work, lives next to the DeForests.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tallarico have just returned from Miami where they attended a piano recital given by their brother, Pasquale. He has been connected with the faculty of the and playing to- IT'S OK WITH ElVIS hours away from his discharge from the U. S.

Army and a return to his brae suede shoes, Sgt. Elvis Presley gave an OK sign at Fort Dix, N. J. He insists he never will abandon rock 'n' roll "as long as people keep appreciating it" To start him on the golden road of his return to show business, the Army gave him $145.52 in mustering-out pay. News of the CHURCHES Emanuel Lutheran' p.

Brownie troop 57; 7:45 p. Lenten vespers. p. children's choir rehearsal; 6:30 p. junior choir; 7 p.

senior choir. p. Luther League roller skating party from 8 to 10 o'clock. a. junior catechetical 10:30 a.

senior catechetical class. Thiel College choir will present its Patrons' Concert Saturday evening at the Greenville High School auditorium. First Presbyterian p. Troop 56 Girl Scouts. meetings of the Women's Association: 9:30 a.

Circle One at home of Mrs. Charles Evans, 528 N. Perry 1:30 p. Circle Two, home of. Mrs.

R. S. Graham, 209 N. Franklin 8 p. Circle Three, home of Mrs.

Jack Gadsby, 3 Bel Air Drive; 8 p. Circle Four, Mrs. J. E. Jack, 412 N.

Perry St. p. Troop 52 Brownies; 6:30 p. junior choir rehearsal; 7:15 p. Troop 91 Boy Scouts; 7:30 p.

senior choir rehearsal; 8:30 Fellowship, home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Pickens, 613 Maxwell Dr. Christian Science to 4-p. reading room open.

to 8 p. reading, room; 8 p. testimony meeting. 4 p. reading room open.

First Baptist p. midweek prayer meeting and school of evangelism; 8 p. Sunday School workers' conference, church social rooms; 8 p. senior choir rehearsal, church sanctuary. p.

Service Class bowling party. YMCA, followed by meeting at church. Calvary Baptist p. prayer service and Bible study. St.

James Memorial Episcopal Boy Scouts. a. Holy Communion; 3:30 p. Brownies; 7:30 p. evensong, litany and sermon; 8:30 p.

adult choir rehearsal. a. Holy Communion; 1:15 p. Episcopa! Church Women's Lenten program p. junior choir rehearsal.

p. junior confirmation instruction. St. Paul's United Church, of Christ p. Lenten worship service.

p. meeting oi the confirmation class. p. choir practice. Evangelical United Brethren Monday through Thursday- p.

m. nightly, "Four Nights for Christ" visitation evangelism pro gram. p. choir practice. p.

men's praye NationalPark Suggested Near Erie WASHINGTON (AP) The National Park Service, in a report potential shoreline recreation areas along the Great Lakes, sug- ests a public park at the mouth of Pennsylvania's Elk Creek. The 850-acre site is 15 miles ovv Erie and 10 miles from Ohio border. A park, the survey would tend to draw thost not interested in, just swimming away from crowded Presque State Park outside Erie. Presque Isle's long sandy beach considered the only good one the three-state area of Ohio, 'ennsylvania and New York. The two year survey, Saturday, was the first of ts type to deal with the Great area.

It came at a tvhen the new St. Lawrence Sea- vay has increased demand for land along the lakes. Fred A. Seaton, secretary of the nterior, wrote the forward to mrvey. He said it is being reviewed by his department, but has seen neither approved nor disapproved.

His department has asked Congress for a law permitting the secretary of the interior to designate not an shore- ines as national recreation areas. The Great Lakes, and the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts are the candidates. Seaton said the survey will help state and local governments "in their consideration of additions to state and local public shoreline areas." Wins His Point i ROME Former King Farouk of Egypt has won a long legal battle to bar the" sale of' a chocolate bar named "Farouk." Three years ago a Milan candy manufacturer put "Farouk chocolate" on the market. The former monarch filed suit, saying it was an unauthorized and undignified use of his name. A Milan court, ruling against him, said Farouk was such a common Arab first name that ht could 'not object.

The king appealed, and Saturday the Rome Court of Appeals ruled in his favor. It ordered the firm to destroy all wrappers carrying ths name, to find a new name for the bar and to pay the king damages. The amount was not disclosed. meeting; teen-time bowling. Sunday, March of the "Loyalty to Christ and His Church" campaign.

First Methodist p. Girl Scouts; 7:30 p. prayer fellowship. p. Methodist Men work night at church; 7:30 p.

Philathea Class meeting in chapel. p. Brownies; 7 p. choir rehearsal; 7:30 p. Pearl Osborne Class.

p. midweek service and Bible study. p. "Talk Back." John Adams, the second president, was the first chief executive to live in the White House. ELECTRICITY IS YOUR CLEANER WAY TO COOK! Your kitchen keeps its bright, brand-new beauty when you cook with a wonderful electric range.

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So, don't worry if you spill soup or will burn off. The broiler pan slips out for quick cleaning. And to keep the range surface sparkling, just wipe it with a damp cloth, You'B enjoy your clean, pleasant, all-electric kitchen. See the newest electric ranges at your dealer's during the All-Electric Kitchen Carnival PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC COMPANY.