I'm weeping already. Amanda,of Savil,of Rev Jesse Justuce lived where I type.Our treasures include her diary,and autograph book [signed by 2 sisters of Pres Grant. 2 tombstones,as close as any to Old Bethel Methodist -mother church of the Jersey settlement in mid Clermont Coi,Oh. 1805,her grandfather sold farms n Swedesboro,NJ to come to this Bethel,Oh farm. 1815,her others,James and Ruhama Blackman came from nw of Atlantic City. 1818 her grandfather Blackman built the present Old Bethel church on his sister Sarah Blackman collins farm 1803,Sarah and Rev John Collins,and colony came. She had lost brothers to the sea, and didn't want to loose sons also. 1807 is the nearby tombstone showing she failed. Her son,buried by the original log church on Corker's Run 1824,Savil Justice married Ruhama,a 16 year old Blackman twin and I can see the site of their 1st log cabin,and the depression where they dug clay,for brick,for their 2nd house-in my yard. Both were old enough to remebember the long trip from s NJ,VIA LAND,AND RIVER,TO e Cincinnati. 1827,their 2nd,Amanda was born, and she kept a diary from her late teens til her early,and sudden death. My daily hikes east are almost to the cabin of a young couple she went to nurse thru the cholera. But,she came home, and quickly died, and the wedding dress she had made to marry Edward Wilshire Salt was her burial clothing. Jan 9th,I stood between the tombstones [2] of Amanda and her parents and siblings,and the adjoining one of E.W.Salt, and her sister,Ann C,who married him. Amanda's 14 year old brother, Lewis V Justice died slowly,in 1847, and his grandmother, raised Elizabeth Wilson,on Woodbury Creek,NJ took to her own bed then,and died the next day. Amanda's diary starts out with the teen age Amanda,and friends, making house calls to cheer up old Silas Williams,a mile north. And then comes a wedding of Williams nephew,John to Nacky Smith, at Old Bethel, and not thru the last 90% of the diary did old Silas Williams get another visit. Young John had been the real object.of her calls. Maybe,I'd better post data I remember hearing here- Silas Williams had come as a young farm hand,from N WALES,SE Pa with the John Simpson's. And made a trip back near Bucks Co,Pa to bring his desc sister's little boy,John Williams,to live with him. Welsh. The teen age Amanda Justice had her grandfather,James Blackman, and Justice and Latta uncle's in downtown Cincinnati that she often visited. He father hauld many loads of hay,and on of cherries,to Cincinnati,from ' this farm. James was Methodist class leader for Wesley Chapel,downtown on e 5th,where P+G's towers now are. And his brother,Rev Learner Blackman's tombstone was found under that church. Lot of little boys in the Jersey settlement namd for the eccentric traveling minister,Lorenzo Dow,or for Rev Learner Blackman, who drowned at the Cincinnati river ferry in 1815. I'VE LONG GUESSED Lardner Clark was his grandfather,and namesake,on the Little Egg Harbor River,of NJ. dUSK,TIME FOR 1 LAST HIKE.