otts.

J.S. Botts was a Presbyterian Elder in Mt. Blanchard in 1875 and attended a meeting of elders in Lima.¹

Nelson Yant has been in the employ of Struble, the hardware man, for several years. Nelson is a promising young man.²

ant.

Nelson Yant was married to Ella and lived at Vanlue village in 1900. He was a tinsmith by trade. He was born in Ohio in September, 1860 and married his wife Ella around 1894. She was also from Ohio; born in October, 1861.

Helen Louise Kear

Grace Wilcox

ilcox.

Grace was the Forest high school Valedictorian for 1937.

ear.

Helen was the Forest high school Salutatorian for 1937.

dler.

Frank Adler (b. 1855) was 21 when he started building barns in 1876 when he and Adam Wilch of Van Buren Twp. were asked to build a 60x45' barn with 16' posts.

Referenced in the newspaper clipping to the left are: Frank Adler, Adam Wilch, Nicholas Redick (m. Margaret Boehm), Adam G. Pifer, Fred Wertenberger, John Glick, Peter Gossman (1840-1923; m. Mary Eva Nusser), Michael Traucht (1852-1935; m. Anna Maria Bormuth), John P. Wilch (1796-1870; m. Margaretha Elisabeth Jung [Young]), John D. Bame, John Beach, _ Scott, Good Hope church, Keller church, and George Adler. (c1936)

hurch.

Rev. Games was pastor in the Methodist-Protestant faith in 1907. He and Rev. J.C. Williams of Arlington, Ohio went to Chicago to attend a meeting to arrange for unification of the M.P., Congregational and United Bretheren churches.³

olomon Shafer.

In 1907, Solomon Shafer having a slight indisposition mistook a bottle of medicine and took a dose from one used for horses. He survived.⁴ C.L. Shaw, the funeral director at the time, missed out on getting Solomon.

cRoy Hammond.

McRoy Hammond was a school instructor and superintendent of schools in Hancock and Wood counties for 40 years. He retired in 1925.

He first taught in various Hancock county grade schools for fifteen years, then became superintendent at Vanlue for five years. From Vanlue he went to Middleton township in Wood county for four years. Then, for the next five years he headed the schools in Liberty township, Wood county.

After the Liberty township job he went to Risingsun for four years. In 1918 he returned to Hancock county and was superintendent of the Arlington schools for seven years.

He was born on January 11, 1864 at Texas, Ohio, Henry county to Squire and Emaline (Ballard) Hammond. He had eleven brothers and sisters. On April 17, 1887 he married Nora Smith. McRoy and Nora had one daughter who married M.D. White and one son, Clarence Hammond, who died before his parents.

He died December 22, 1944 in Mt. Blanchard and was buried in the Mt. Blanchard cemetery through the services of the Dally funeral home. He had been a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge and the Methodist church at Mt. Blanchard.⁵

     

 ¹The Mount Blanchard News (Mt. Blanchard, OH) 1886.
 ²Allen County Democrat (Lima, OH) 19 Apr 1877, p.2, c.3.
 ³The Arlingtonian (Arlington, OH) 20 Mar 1907, p.3, c.4.
 ⁴ibid. 24 Apr 1907.
 ⁵The Arlingtonian (Arlington, OH) 27 Dec 1944, p1. c1.