. History of Morrow County and Ohio. , additions havebeen made at different times, until the yard atpresent comprises sixteen acres. It is a private ceme-tery owned by nine men, who are trustees for have absolute control of all portions not soldto lot-holders, and the lots are held in trust bythem. These men are John Blinn, Floyd Sears,Warren Swetland, John Allison, John McGuire,Col. A. H. Brown, Jonathan Burnett, DanielChase and Rowland Rogers. There are 500evergreens in it, many of them being over a footin diameter. These consist of Norway and Scotchpine, American and black spruce,
. History of Morrow County and Ohio. , additions havebeen made at different times, until the yard atpresent comprises sixteen acres. It is a private ceme-tery owned by nine men, who are trustees for have absolute control of all portions not soldto lot-holders, and the lots are held in trust bythem. These men are John Blinn, Floyd Sears,Warren Swetland, John Allison, John McGuire,Col. A. H. Brown, Jonathan Burnett, DanielChase and Rowland Rogers. There are 500evergreens in it, many of them being over a footin diameter. These consist of Norway and Scotchpine, American and black spruce, balsam fir, arborvita), hemlock, weeping and other willows, Irishjunipers, lilac, horse-chestnut, hard and soft maple,roses, etc. The situation commands an extensiveview of all that region of country, and the pros-pect from the higher points would delight the eyeof a landscape gardener. Many costly and beauti-ful monuments mark the last resting-spot of theloved dead. The Ewart vault contains the ashesof four members of that HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY _-i8 ® 465 hL^ CHAPTER XVIT. HARMONY TOWNSHIP-FIRST SETTLEMENT—EARLY SOCIAL CUSTOMS—PIONEER CHURCHES AND THEIR SUCCESSORS—SCHOOLS, ETC. pioneers. Under the operation of such influences, THE history of the settlement of a new countryis an interesting study—to note the causesthat determine the actions of the pioneer, and markthe guidings of that divinity that shapes ourends, rough hew them as we may ; and, whenthe current of emigration sets in like the flowingof an ocean tide, the waves of population advan-cing and receding, gaining force with every advance,and each time conquering a wider area—to markhow the wilderness is lost in the landscape dottedover with fruitful farms and pleasant homes. The tide of emigration to which the county ofDelaware owes its early settlement, flowed in fromthe South and Southeast, along the old Granvilleroad by the Alum Creek trail, and up the Olen-tangy River, settling up, principal
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