Thanks to modern Dr's,and medicine, I can , and am,hiking the south birm of RT 125 [Ohio Pike-Beechmont Ave] near my home between Bethel and Bantam. And,at 1\2 mile east,and 1\2 mile west,I'm seeing 2 early farm homes, and seeing the out-lines of the James Shotwell- [?]Thomas Shelton JP-Elder- OT Brown stagecoach inn-farm house. And,I may soon come into view,down Sugartree,of the 1810 era Michael Strickland farmhouse [and area of his blacksmith shop?] I'm puzzling over 2 features of the frame 2 story Cape Cod of [?Jesse Justice?] , Robert Justice, Wm Penn Justice, and,in my memory,the Roger Queal family. [estate?] 1st, it's angled with the highway. Did the road,1820 era, follow a differnt path. 2nd,it has far too many windows for a very,very old house,, though I've been told the floor joist are round,not sawed. Rev Jesse Justice built cabin[s] near the spring in the back yard in 1805, when he 1st purchased 540 acres the same day as Thomas Page,George Swing,and Michael Strickland. NJ Methodists. Page's 400 acres just south became John Simpson Jr's in 1818, and the old brick Page built burnt down, 1900 era,with multiple loss of life. President Grant's parents were married in it in 1821,by Rev Moses Edwards,of next farm south,and,once,Lyon's Farm,NJ. As I walk west, I'm passing Butch Loudoun's, which was given to Miami U by Hubert and Rosalie Harris Douglass. It was Ed and Anabelle Justice Harris's when I was a kid,and earlier Cliff Justice,and built[?] by the Johnson's who went to Tell City,Indiana,and headed the National Civil War Vetran's Group, the "Grand Army of the Republic" . Some kid paid for vandelizing Johnson's tall spire in the Old Bethel cemetary ,with critical injuries from the tombstone falling on him. It's the typical brick built here 1810-50's. 2 stories. Plain front. Central door on 1st floor,and 2 windows each side. 5 windows wide across the 2nd story a few are 3,or 7,but 5 is most common. No windows on the narrow ends,for it's 1 room wide,and fireplaces on each end. Kitchen wing of 1 1\2 stories,with a little stairway,up to the low 'Hired man's room " above the kitchen,that did "not" open onto the rest of the 2nd floor,and the daughter's rooms,til Rosalie made an opening. Brick,and sometimes of frame, perhaps only the log cabin was more common in Clermont. Indeed,there was a similar brick exactly here,til my grandparents tore it down in 1903,to build this huge old frame. But,they saved everying from the old brick,and used it building this house. Brick,doors, woodwork are all here,just not on the ground floor. A high foundation,and 11 brick flues used mist of the brick,and they hid the last bit in the walls. This huge,seedy old frame swallowed that 1830's bricks. Even nails The aged large, hammered square nails from the 1830's were reused in this 1903 house. But Savil Justice married his Blackman twin in 1824,and 1st moved her into a log cabin here. She was 16,like my Mary Hitch Ely,and my Mary Ann Fox Fagaly, and my -whoever. And her twin m Wesley McClain, and ran the Nicholsville store. Once,for many,many years,their ancestors had been Bargaintown,NJ neighbors.