Hi all. Time to travel back in time... >From the Barnesville Enterprise, dated Thursday, October 20, 1881. "Somerton Several families in the neighborhood are preparing to move west in a week or so, some to Kansas, Iowa, &c. Wm. P. Smith and wife, who have been visiting friends and relatives here for several weeks, will return to their home near Humeston, Lucas County, Iowa, next week. At the band festival last Saturday night, the amount received was near $75. Miss Cora Hodgin was the successful contestant for the gold necklace and Will Detling came out ahead for the cane. Mrs. Edith Maring, aged about seventy years, died October 10. For years Somerton had been her home and we had learned to love the kind old lady, whose life was one of sweetness and resignation to whatever came. Her husband died a number of years ago, and since then her children had been her comfort and support, and when she died four sons and three daughters wept around her bier. For nearly two years she had been a helpless invalid, and in all that time nothing was left undone which loving hands could do to soothe her suffering. Our schools will open next week, for the fall and winter terms. Stanton & Broomhall go East this week for the winter styles in millinery and fancy goods. Rev. Cobbledic, of the M. E. Church, has been returned here for another year. Misses Anna Barnes and Lou Claudy and Mrs. C. P. Selby, of Barnesville, are visiting in Somerton. The Misses Benninghous, of Baltimore, are visiting Mrs. Miles. Mrs. Campsy Rhinehart, of Belleville, Ohio, has come to spend the winter with her father, Mr. Starbuck. Thomas Haines is very sick. John Burcher has traded with the Yocum heirs for their interest in the steam mill, and he now owns it all." (end of article) I have a few others I'll be sending through from this same newspaper. The areas covered will be Sandy Ridge, Mt. Olivet, Goshen Twp. and Flushing. Sharen Bowers in Columbus, Ohio but my roots are in Belmont County