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10 1 THE PALLADIUM-ITEM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1939 Headstone Tragic Death of Sisters Is Recalled By EMMA HOUGH RHOADS Now in 1939 one may travel in a private down Indiana-27 from conveyance, City to New Garden or on to Richmond without bit of extra expense other than the usual forms of taxation. But on highway's, predecessor, old Newport toll gates or toll houses placed at certain points to collect money for the upkeep of the pike. Jonathan Hough, his brother, and Jonathan's three sons, William, Hiram, and Moses, had farms around Newport. They setelect and there in north 1811. of They Fountain had farms City.

on either side of Whitewater road, their last houses still stand. Also they owned much of the ground over which Newport was built, the present park, Willow Grove cemetery, the land south of Newport or Fountain City on both sides of the pike to halfway between the two covered bridges where a crossing country road led off to the east only. Their land extended east to and beyond Little creek, sometimes called Bull Run, west to where the present railroad extends. At the cross road the land of the Thomases began, Francis Thomas and his three sons, Luke, Isaac, and Clarkson. Isaac adjoined to the Houghs land with land extending on west of the pike through the second bridge to the road leading off to New Garden and other holdings similar to that of the Houghs.

There at the New Garden road began the land of his brother, Clarkson, and beyond down the pike, the land of Luke the pike was constructed long before the bridges. The upper covered bridge was built in 1861. The date was on the bridge and my mother, nearest at hand, boarded some of the constructors in addition to all her household duties. First Gate The first toll gate below Newport was located on the corner of the Jonathan Hough farm to catch the country travel coming to Newport, over that road the other way leading to Richmond. The toll house was a little onestory building built up to the pike.

had indented porch on half its front width, and somewhere on the corner pillar or post was down the securely, sapling extending fastened the rope holding across the pike from its lever a short post or ground fastening. When drawn down the pole caught horses breast high and the driver had to stop and pay in order to proceed. Dear, cheery Thankful Armfield was the keeper I remember earliest and best as I could walk from my grandfather's house to the gate. And Lon Patty, a nephew perhaps lived with her, a young man who has descendants in Richmond now I believe. Others remember earlier attendants.

In the year 1861 it was kept by Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Parker, parthis place, was then ents Mary Harrison Mishio one year old. But after many years, the authorities decided that they were not getting' all the money due them, as much travel came up the pike from Chester, and the counto New Garden, which did not catch at all, so they moved the toll down the pike through the second covered bridge to 1 the Isaac Thomas side of the road leading off to New Garden between the farms. of Clarkson and Isaac Thomas.

Ag we proceeded west down this road for about three blocks perhaps there lay before us first a fringe of beech trees of which perhaps now remains only a burnt trunk of one of the many spreading trees upon whose silvery bark, pairs of sweethearts carved their names in dainty letters and came back in later years to find the letters grown to bold type. The road here turned to skirt the broad New Garden campus with of trees with numerous LowEring hitching racks. We will not follow it, however, but, will view New Garden itself it lies before us. creek flows softly by, on its high bank used also to be a number of trees. There we built our play houses unafraid even though we were neighbors to the little green mounds and white stones of the oldest New Garden cemetery.

Just when it was set off or who was first buried there I do not know. My great-grandfather and great-grandmother, William Mary Hough were both buried there in the year 1823. My educator first cousin once visited our school there and took me to task for not telling him where they were buried. Perhaps that is the reason I was impelled to publish a genealogy in 1935 of our four families paternal and maternal for the benefit of our younger relatives. She gathered thyme and wild verbena from the sunny enclosure for our playhouses.

Tombstone a Warning But there was one gravestone there that caused us to race for shelter when a peal of thunder sounded from the sky. This gravestone mentioned is three headstones, joined together, dated Aug. 13, 1834 of Martha, Charlotte, and Esther, three, sisters, daughters of V. and Hull. One was sick in bed in an upstairs room in a house here now owned and occupied by Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer Hodgin. It seems as if the other two sisters were there to see her when this fatal flash of light- Grahams DRY CLEANER TAILOR DYER KNITBLOCKING FUR RESTYLING I COLD FUR Recalls Bolt That Killed Three -Rozelle Photo. These old buildings once were used as an old meeting house and school at New Garden and later as a community meeting place. -Rozelle Photo.

A triple headstone in the old New Garden cemetery tells the story of what must have been a spectacular and stunning tragedy back in Aug. 13, 1834 when Martha, Charlotte, and Esther, daughters of V. R. Hull were killed by a single of lightning. William Hull now living in Fountain City thinks the girls were sisters of his father, John Hull.

This old covered ed bridge used to carry traffic along the old Newport pike. It was one of two such bridges near Newport or Fountain City. ning came killing all three instantly. Friends had emigrated from North Carolina chiefly on account of its belief in slavery and had settled in this region, many in 1811 and some even earlier. They called their settlement New Garden, for a loved place in North Carolina.

The nearest meeting was Whitewater monthly meeting at Richmond. It belonged at that time to the nearest quarterly meeting of West Branch. Friends wished to have a meeting of their own near at hand, established in the proper in the first month, the twentyninth day, 1814, some New Garden Friends at Whitewater monthly meeting requested that their meeting for worship be established and that they have the privilege of holding a preparative business meeting. The second month, 1814, Whitewater Monthly meeting's committee reported that the meeting had been opened at New Garden In the tenth month of the same year, Garden Friends requested the privilege of holding a monthly meeting among themselves. This request had to be passed on to West Branch Quarterly meeting and the request from New Garden was granted.

Garden monthly meeting was opened and held at New Garden the eighteenth of the third month, 1815. The following men MACHINE SIFTS INDIANA SANDS FOR GOLD BITS DUNDEE, July 14-(UP)Four central Indiana men have a hobby they believe will make their fortune. They are Robert Fields and William Rittenhouse of Dundee, Daniel Rittenhouse of near Morgantown, Byron Edwards of Alexandria. Their hobby is panning gold. The men assert that a mechanical device which they use to remove gold from gravel or sand will be the major factor in making their fortune.

No chemicals are necessary for the separator to operate. And they are keeping the exact process a secret. The machine is operated by hand. Sand or gravel is dumped inside a revolving drum and water is forced through the machine by a diaphragm pump. Then the machine throws out the useless material and the fine particles are tossed on a rocker at the bottom of the machine.

Each day that they have an opportunity they work one of the numerous small Indiana streams, and generally they find traces of gold. have yet discovered the metal in paying quantity, but they believe that their new ideas on recovering gold will eventually bring them a strike. They seldom find more than $2 in gold apiece for their day's work. However, they have found small quantities of copper and silver, one diamond, many small rubies and garnets, and several petrified lizards. Legion Band To Be Heard on Sunday Mrs.

Florence Anderson, local soprano, will be soloist for the concert of the American Legion band to be given in Glen Miller park Sunday evening starting at 8 o'clock. punishment by the teacher. That must have been about 1865. Planning a Marvel It has always been a marvel to me how well the originators At first there were two plannedige rooms, the men's and women's sides with the usual galleries and shutters to close for privacy in business sessions. Then who does not remember the little drop leaf shelf on one gallery rail on the women's side where parties signed their names marriage certifiwedding, cate.

Leading from the women's side was a door connecting with a beautiful waiting room and comfort rooms for the many mothers who took their babies to church then. Years ago the men's room was made into a modern auditorium. The women's side was made into prayer meeting and Sabbath school rooms. The schoolhouse consisted of two large rooms with a hall across building. Years since the half next the church was torn away and the remaining room was used as a community house.

It is now boarded up, no longer usable. bad--we think of the lyceums held it where we learned public speaking and parliamentary usage. We remember the large glass faced cupboard where we had such wonderful books of poetry, fiction, history, and cases of electrical apparatus. New Garden would that thy aftermath might ever be beautiful. RADIO PROGRAMS construction.

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2. Simmons Coil Spring. 3. Comfortable All-Cotton Mattress. Complete Set of Twin Beds, Springs and Mattresses $28.86 Friends from West Branch Quar-1 terly meeting were delegated to attend the opening: Andrew Hoover, William Williams, William Bond, Robert Hill, James Pegg, and John Clark.

Appointed Clerk Elijah Thomas was appointed clerk for the opening day. Jonathan Marine, Daniel Baldwin, Isaac Thomas, and John Pegg were appointed to make choice of a suitable person for permanent clerk. Obadiah Harris, Josiah Lamb, Jonathan Hough, Stephen Thomas, John Pegg, and Charles Baldwin were named to propose names for overseers. Next meeting held Apr. 22, 1815, appointed Ira Hough as first clerk and for overseers, Benjamin Thomas, Junior and Jonathan Hough.

Israel Hough was made treasurer and a delegate to quarterly meeting. Martin Hough was made elder. to the house in which these meetings were held we have no accurate knowledge. We know at least of one of the very early schoolhouses in which meetings may have been held was the old white pebble-dashed one located where now is the new part of the cemetery, by across the the railroad. road south from the church campus, set apart from a tract of the Clarkson Thomas farm.

Clarkson reimbursed himself partly by sale of half the lots allowing the meeting the remainder. The evergreen trees were all donated by Moses Hough from his nursery. The above section was deeded to New Garden Monthly meeting June 8, 1908, by Clarkson and Sarah Jane Thomas. But New Garden meeting grew and prospered and became ious quarters and according to the necessary to have more, commodusual custom of Friends, they planned for a schoolhouse near the meeting house. They builded well and wisely.

New Garden Quarterly meeting drew hundreds of people. Capacity crowds filled the houses and the most able speakers of this denomination were frequent visitors. College graduates instructed in the school, many pupils boarding in from other, points. The meeting appointed its Educational committee who hired teachers, visited and inspected work and arranged for expenses paid by friends. I only know what I know.

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