Continued from Part 3 THE GIRLS BOARDING SCHOOL BUILT IN 1910. It required a great deal of work to repair the Stanton home to get it in readiness for the school, having to lay a pipeline for several rods to connect with the Childrens Home water system, and to overhaul the system in the house. At the expiration of ten days, everything was in readiness for the school. The twenty-two girls and the teachers lodged in the building. The exercises at the end of the term were held on the lawn. A large barn door was used for a platform on which the six girls graduating were seated. With all the inconvenient ways of getting along, the teachers thought that the scholars made as good progress as they would have done in the old building. There were two terms held before going to the new building the first of the year in 1911. This was a memorable experience, and enjoyed by all who had a part in conducting the school. ___________________________________________________________________ Recaps and additional data: WILLIAM G. STEER, the author of the article above (from pages 125 to 131 of The Little Home Histories In Our Early Homes, Belmont County, Ohio), was the son of JAMES STEER, JR. and MARY GREEN. His birth on May 13, 1856 was reported in the meeting minutes for Short Creek Monthly Meeting, Jefferson County, Ohio. He married 1st LOUISA D. PICKETT on Apr 18, 1879 and married 2nd Eliza Hall on May 7, 1925. ~~~~~ JAMES STEER, JR., the father of WILLIAM G. STEER (and the son of James Steer and Ruth Wilson). He was born in 1827 in Colerain, Ohio and died Mar 2, 1917 in Belmont County, Ohio. [I apologize for not knowing my source for the dates of birth and death here. JLA] ~~~~~ WILLIAM GREEN (the father-in-law of James Steer, Jr.; the wife of James was Mary Green) ~~~~~ SAM BETTS (a colored man employed by James Steer to drive oxen) ~~~~~ LEWIS NAYLOR (a cane-grower and Quaker residing at Sandy Ridge) ~~~~~ RUTH BAILEY (a cousin of William G. Steer who helped in the production of molasses at the James Steer farm) ~~~~~ BENJAMIN HOYLE (bricks used in the primary schoolhouse built in 1835 were made on the Benjamin Hoyle farm. By the 1940 s, that parcel of land was known as the L. J. Taber farm) ~~~~~ SINCLAIR SMITH (some time after 1866 he, along with James Steer, donated new desks for the school house) ~~~~~ PETER SEARS, b. Apr 4, 1787 d. Jul 12, 1863 (prior to 1866, he lived and died in a house that was later used as a school) ~~~~~ WILLIAM H. SEARS (a grandson of the Peter Sears identified above) ~~~~~ School teachers: ISAAC N. VAIL, THOMPSON FRAME, LINDLEY B. STEER, LYDIA MILLHOUSE, MARY CALEB BUNDY, ELIZABETH SMITH LIVEZEY. ~~~~~ JONATHAN T. SCHOLFIELD (around 1860, he made a business of shredding corn husks in his barn, then hauling them to Wheeling, West Virginia for sale as mattress stuffing) ~~~~~ HENRY DOUDNA (in 1864, his home on Sandy Ridge was also the home of Jonathan T. Scholfield) ~~~~~ PERLEY PICKETT (a partner with William G. Steer in a corn husk shredding business during the winter of 1880) ~~~~~ SARAH PICKETT WALTON (one of 18 "boarding school scholars" who crowded into William G. Steer s wagon bed for a winter sleigh ride in 1880; apparently the only student of that ride still living when the above article was written in the 1940s) ~~~~~ WILLIAM PICKETT (father of Louisa D. (Pickett) Steer and father-in-law of the author, William G. Steer) ~~~~~ JAMES FRAME (a great uncle of William Pickett who claimed to have had personal contact with George Washington prior to and during the Revolutionary War) ~~~~~ WARREN E. PICKETT, Washington, Pennsylvania (possibly a brother of the author s wife) ~~~~~ JOHN BUNDY b. Feb 17, 1813, d. Sep 18, 1898 (fifth child of William Bundy and Sarah Overman; was at the James Steer barn-raising when his brother, Chalkley Bundy, was injured) ~~~~~ CHALKLEY BUNDY b. Feb 24, 1823, d. Dec 1, 1866 (tenth child of William Bundy and Sarah Overman. Chalkley was injured in a accident at a barn-raising on the James Steer farm in 1865. Although he seemed to recover from the accident, it was blamed for his early death the following year) ~~~~~ DEBORAH H. (HANSON) BUNDY (second wife of Chalkley Bundy; married him Dec 7, 1864) ~~~~~ DAVID EDGERTON (suffered a badly-sprained ankle in an accident in 1879 while engaged in moving a barn on the James Steer farm. The author, William G. Steer, injured his spine in the same accident and was laid up for six weeks) ~~~~~ Sources: (1) "Little Home Histories in our Early Homes, Belmont County, Ohio", pages 125-131. (2) "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy", Vol 4. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THAT'S IT. THOUGHT MAYBE OTHERS WOULD ENJOY THEM TOO Barb !^NavFont02F0F49000ANGHHGZHV4AD7CF Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/mindex.html *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* God Put Me On Earth to Accomplish a Certain Number of Things. Right Now I am so far behind, I will never die. --- Unknown *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with good health, good friends, and more than enough good luck. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*