C.M.L. Wiseman

arius Smith.

C.M.L. Wiseman (left) was a student of Darius Smith about 1836. Wiseman was married to Mary E. Parr.

Smith lived in Forest, but it is unknown if he taught in Forest.¹ Wiseman attended school with Frank Stinchcomb and Nathan Baker. They were both dead by 1902, but Smith, who may have lived in Erie, Ohio in 1850, was still living in Forest at that time.

There is also a Civil War Pension Index listing for a Darius Smith who was with Company I, 8th Ohio Infantry.

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Former pupils of R.B. Bell, who taught school in Hardin, Marion, Wyandot and Hancock counties for 53 years, held a picnic in Gormley park at Forest, in his honor. Mr. Bell, aged 82 years, now is mayor of Caledonia.²
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ussel B. Bell.

Russell Bell (b. Aug 1848, OH) was married to Lorinda Bell (b. May 1848, OH). The Bells had five children; Mazie Bell (b. Mar 1878, OH), Erin Bell (b. Jun 1879, OH), Lorrel Bell (b. Nov 1881, OH), Lena Bell (b. Aug 1884, OH), and Cartha Bell (b. Aug 1891, OH). In 1880 they lived in Richland township, Wyandot county. By 1900 they moved to New Bloomington & Larue villages, Marion county.

Lorinda may have been from Portage county. If so, her parents would be John
and Susan M. Bell. Lorinda’s father was a blacksmith.

aple Top School.

SCHOOL IS SOLD
The Forest rural school board met Monday night. Mike Wise purchased the Maple Top school building south of here. The Hardin County Bank Co., was named as depository for school funds.³

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 ¹The Wiseman family and the old church at New Salem : a brief sketch written by the author for his children and for gifts to a few personal friends. Columbus, Ohio: Press of F.J. Heer, 1902, 38 pgs.
 ²Van Wert Times Bulletin (Van Wert, OH) 31 Jul 1930, p.4, c.5.
 ³  The Marion Star (Marion, OH) 3 Feb 1932, p.7, c.1.