History of Rush County, Indiana, from the earliest time to the present : with biographical sketches, notes, etc., together with a short history of the Northwest, the Indiana territory, and the State of Indiana . seeking homes in the wilderness, without money. They werecompelled to rough it. The trusty rifle furnished the meat, forbear, deer and turke\ were found in great numbers. The familyof Thomas and Matilda Hall consisted of nine children. Theywere: William S., Jane, Elizabeth, Joseph, Jacob A., Aaron S.,John F., Sarah A. and Thomas S., all of whom lived to father died July 27
History of Rush County, Indiana, from the earliest time to the present : with biographical sketches, notes, etc., together with a short history of the Northwest, the Indiana territory, and the State of Indiana . seeking homes in the wilderness, without money. They werecompelled to rough it. The trusty rifle furnished the meat, forbear, deer and turke\ were found in great numbers. The familyof Thomas and Matilda Hall consisted of nine children. Theywere: William S., Jane, Elizabeth, Joseph, Jacob A., Aaron S.,John F., Sarah A. and Thomas S., all of whom lived to father died July 27, 1862, and the mother January 23, S., during his boyhood and youth attended but a few termsof school, averaging two months to the term, and remembers wellhis first day at school. On the morning of that day his father,with an axe, trimmed the brush out of the way, and a neighbor,William Dickey, who had a daughter to send, took his old grayhorse and plowed a furrow as a path to the rude log cabin styledthe district school house. It had no floor. The door was madeof boards split out with a frow. In erecting the cabin, a log wasleft out on three sides which furnished plenty of light. The fire-. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. 86l place occupied the other side of the building. It was in suchbuildings as we have described that the boys and girls of pioneerdays secured, under trying circumstances, a limited building was on the Indian trail to Connersville, and frequentlythe Indians returning home intoxicated, would menace and frightenthe scholars, and many remained at home through fear of to the age of seventeen, Williams health had been poor, andhe now resolved to learn a trade. He, therefore, went to Cincin-nati, Ohio, and engaged with his uncle, Joseph Hall, as an appren-tice, to learn the trade of cabinet maker, thinking probably, that attimes he could attend school, but in this he was disappointed as histrade kept him employed. He managed, however, t
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