Ohio University, whlle a public university, was headed for many years by Presbyterian ministers. Rev Jacob Lindley (born in PA) was the first president of Ohio University, and organized the first Presbyterian Society in Athens about 1809. After his retirement from his position of President of Ohio University, he eventually returned to the area of PA where he was born. During this time he began corresponding with a Dr Cossitt, who was influential in the Cumberland Presbyterian sending missionaries to western PA.... after meeting with them, Rev Lindley found beliefs that were close to his heart. This lead to him breaking with the Presbyterian Church and takng up with the Cumberland Presbyterians. (The relationship between these two threads of Presbyterianism was not cordial.) In 1832, the first Cumberland Revival was held in Alexander, OH - the church that was formed here became the Alexander Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the cemetery behind it is known as the Cumberland Cemetery. Many congregants of the local Presbyterian churches broke away and joined the new congregations. The rift between the churches was wide and angry. In the early 1840, Rev Thomas A Welsh (my g-grandfather) was called from Belmont County, Ohio to serve as minister of the Alexander Church, which he did until his death in 1893. While serving the Alexander Church, Rev TA Welsh also established the Harrisonvile Cumberland Presbyterain Church, and the Presbyterain Church in Wilkesville. While the Cumberland Presbyterian Church today has it's strong hold in the south, it was established in the early 1800's in PA, and, as a whole, was NOT sympathetic to the south. Rev TA Welsh was ANTI-slavery and anti-south. The disagreements between the Cumberland Presbyterians and the "Old-School" was not an issue of North/South, but of theology. SueEd NY --- SGates1949@aol.com wrote: > The Bulletin says: On Tuesday last the Supreme Court of Ohio decided > the long-pending suit of the The First Presbyterian Society of > Gallipolis, > in connection with the Hocking Presbytery, plaintiff, vs The First > Presbyterian > Society of Gallipolis, in connection with the Athens Presbytery. The > case > has long been on the docket -- about twenty years --- in one form or > another. Years ago there was much bitterness in our midst about the > struggle, and there was scarcely an individual in the community who > did > not "take sides." It will be noted that after the long and vexatious > litigation, > the "Old School" has triumphed. > > > > > Sharon Lee Gates > > > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > Please keep your topic related to genealogical research > in Gallia County, Ohio. > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/

I have so much enjoyed ready the excerpts transcribed from the Athens Messenger. Keep up the good work! There is insight to be gained by what was sent is as newsworthy, as well as what the editor decided to publish! I'd like to know if the Society has ever published the list of the Gallipolis Post Masters. Boone County (WV) Genealogical Society did that in their history book. Apparently, it be be obtained readily from the US Postal Service. I'd love to read the list! Sharon Lee Gates

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger August 5, 1875 GALLIA The colored Brass Band, of Gallipolis, are complimented for their extra style of playing. As a natural consequence the calaboose, at Gallipolis was full on the night of Bill Allen's meeting there. A very large proportion of those in attendence (sic) at the late Democratic meeting, at Gallipolis, were ex-Virginia rebels. The general drift is that William Allen failed to make an immensely good impression at Gallipolis on the 21st inst. The Gallipolis Bulletin says that the late Tabernacle meetings at that place were very successful and that the M. E. Church, under whose auspices they were held, will be greatly benefited by them. The Democracy, of this county, were indebted to Scioto county for the cannon "that so grandly boomed out a welcome to the incoming masses," on the occasion of Bill Allen's meeting, as they were equally indebted to the old rebel strongholds of West Virginia for the masses themselves. Charles Woods, son of a wealthy farmer residing about two miles from Adamsville, Gallia county, hung himself last week, in his father's barn. --- Trouble arising from a bastardly suit is supposed to have brought on a depression of spirits, which resulted in the act. He was only nineteen years old. ---[Gallipolis Journal. Gallipolis is being successfully worked by thieves. Thursday night the sample room of the Dufour House was entered, and five hundred dollars in notes and checks and six hundred dollars worth of goods taken, belonging to Callahan and McKeever, peddlers. The night before nearly every house for two squares on Third street was entered, and money, jewelry, clothing, &c., taken.

Sharon, I was going to make a list of all the Gate's certificates that were donated and I forgot. I am kind of under the weather , Spring is not kind to me... allergies. I know you would like to have a list so I will try and do that very soon. Cheryl SGates1949@aol.com wrote: I appreciate your remembering this when you were going through death certificates and the like! The Gallia County bunch is the best of the best! (Smile) I can't believe all my Gates ancestors, except poor old Moses, who "took an apoplectic fit in front of Solomon Hayward's" and died there, left and then stayed in Charleston, Virginia, now West Virginia! I can't wait to come visit y'all! (Smile) Sharon Lee Gates ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== Please keep your topic related to genealogical research in Gallia County, Ohio. Be Well, Do Good Work , Keep In Touch --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Better first dates. More second dates. Yahoo! Personals

This is also a ancestor of William Smeltzer, MD of Columbus, Ohio from what I understand. > > > >GALLIA > > > >Smeltzer Mill, on Raccoon creek, ground its first grist of new wheat > >on the 8th. > > This "Smeltzer" is probably an ancestor to Melvin Smeltzer who owned a > landscaping business in Gallipolis for many years, some of you might > remember his children, Bob and JoAnn.......and others I cannot remember. > > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > Check the address you are replying to before sending your message. >

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 29, 1875 GALLIA The Gallipolis Cadets have received their uniforms. They have a large and enthusiastic Hayes Club in Gallipolis. Horse stealing has, latterly, been carried on with unusual spirit and animation in this county. James B. Aleshire, of Gallipolis, has been appointed to a cadetship in the Military Academy of West Point. Mrs. Grubb is in jail, at Gallipolis, for shooting and wounding a hotel clerk named West, for "talking" about her. By falling from a scaffold at the Union School House, in Gallipolis, recently, Mr. W. H. Johnson, painter, was slightly hurt. John N. Beard, Esq., who is referred to as one of the most active and energetic young business men of Gallipolis, died on Monday of last week. An unoccupied house in Addison township, belonging to Thomas Shaver, was recently, burned down. Supposed to have been struck by lightning. Charles Adkins is his name. He stole a mare from his cousin, Wellington Bruce, last Thursday, and cantered Rosinante to Gallipolis, where he disposed of her to Leopold Frank for $30. Two Martin women were, recently, sent to the jail of this county, by Judge Unroe, for an assault with intent to murder another woman. They were subsequently taken out with a writ of habeas corpus.

On 4/7/2005, "JAR422@aol.com" <JAR422@aol.com> wrote: >Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. >Transcribed by Joyce Robinson > >Athens Messenger >July 22, 1875 > >GALLIA > >Smeltzer Mill, on Raccoon creek, ground its first grist of new wheat >on the 8th. This "Smeltzer" is probably an ancestor to Melvin Smeltzer who owned a landscaping business in Gallipolis for many years, some of you might remember his children, Bob and JoAnn.......and others I cannot remember.

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 22, 1875 GALLIA Smeltzer Mill, on Raccoon creek, ground its first grist of new wheat on the 8th. Grasshoppers are uncommonly numerous in the neighborhood of Gallia Furnace. Subscription papers were last week in circulation to uniform the Gallipolis military company. Commissioner John E. Mills, of this county, was thrown from his carriage, recently, and somewhat bruised about his face and head. A large and enthusiastic Hayes' Club has been organized in Gallipolis and similar organizations are to organize in every township in the county. Stephen M. Neal's store at the lower end of Gallipolis, was burglarized recently and $500 in notes and accounts and about twenty dollars in money taken. A female child was born in Walnut township, on Wednesday, the 7th inst., without legs and with but one arm. Otherwise the child is perfect and in good health. The Tabernacle services at Gallipolis continued last week to be attended to the full seating capacity of the tent. Good order and warm interest has all along characterized the meeting. On Monday evening, of last week, a Mrs. Grubb, living just below the Thomason House, Gallipolis, shot and wounded Mr. John West, clerk, for, as she alleged, talking about her.

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 15, 1875 GALLIA A Tabernacle meeting is in progress in Gallipolis. July 26 is the date on which commences the Gallia County Teachers' Institute. Bill Allen has declined to fill the appointment made for him at Gallipolis on the 21st. Mrs. Reuben Aleshire, of Gallipolis was last week seriously injured by being thrown from a buggy. The old Methodist Church building in Gallipolis has been torn down and a parsonage is to be forthwith erected in its stead. Mr. John Betts, of Gallipolis, lost half of his hand recently, by its coming in contact with the planer of a saw mill in which he was at work. The Welsh citizens of Gallia and Jackson counties will hold a grand "Eisteddfod" -- a literary and musical festival -- at Oak Hill, on the 7th day of October, 1875. Mr. Henry Baxter, clerk in a drug store in Gallipolis, lately received painful injuries by the breaking of a carboy of Sulphuric acid which he was handling, the contents of which enveloped his clothing. The Gallia County Democratic Convention met in Gallipolis on Saturday, and nominated a strong ticket, with R. Alshire, Esq., of that city, at the head for Representative. Wm. Courtney, colored, dangerously stabbed a man named Jackson, in Gallipolis one night last week, the latter having interfered to prevent the former from whipping a boy.

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 8, 1875 GALLIA The jail of this county is undergoing repairs. The Teachers' Institute, of this county, will commence Monday, July 28th. Prof. Chase is to have charge of the Gallia Academy during the ensuing year. Green township, Gallia county, Grangers talk of establishing a Granger's store. A Tabernacle meeting, to continue for several weeks, commences to-day, the 8th, at Gallipolis. Ex-Governor Hayes will address the citizens of this county, at Gallipolis, on the 5th of next month. The first interment in the Mound Hill Cemetery, near Gallipolis, took place on Saturday, the 26th ult. The gas in an old salt well in Gallia county exploded the other day, blowing the accumulated rubbish quite a distance. The Firemen, of Gallipolis and neighboring towns, had a platform dance in the public square of that city on last Saturday evening. The colored people of this county are making preparations for a big meeting at Harrisburg, on the third Sunday of this month. The Methodist congregation, of Gallipolis, are holding Sabbath school and services in the Court House during the building of their new church. The recent Republican Convention, of this county, was the largest ever assembled in the county. Hon. E. A. Stone was re-nominated for the Legislature.

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger July 1, 1875 GALLIA The contract price for building the M. E. Church, at Gallipolis, is $13,500. A Tabernacle Tent meeting will be held at Gallipolis, commencing, July 8th. Mr. Joseph Mauck, of Cheshire, was striken (sic) by palsy on Friday night, June 18th. The Gallia county Republican Convention met on Saturday, to nominate a county ticket. The Bulletin says "meat theives (sic), sneak thieves and all other sorts of thieves are getting numerous hereabouts." The Fire Department of Gallipolis will have a Fourth of July platform dance on the public square on Saturday evening. J. F. Fry, aged 33, recently had one of his feet cut off while working about a portable saw-mill on the farm of Ephraim McCormick, in Green township. Miss Bettie Holcomb, of Vinton, while riding in a buggy with her mother in Meigs county, on Sunday, of last week, was thrown out and badly bruised. She will recover. Mr. Alexander Baird, of Morgan township, is lying at his home dangerously ill from poisoning by Paris Green, which he had been applying to potato vines for the destruction of Colorado bugs.

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger June 24, 1875 GALLIA The Gallipolis city boundaries are to be extended. The dedication ceremonies of Mound Hill Cemetery, near Gallipolis, recently. Taxes in the city this year will be $2,22 on the $100. Last year they were $2,60. The Teacher's Institute of this county will commence its session on the 26th of July. The smoke-house of Mr. James E. Mills, of Green township, was recently burglarized. The jail of his county is empty. A military company has been organized in Gallipolis. Prof. E. E. Spaulding, of Painesville, Ohio, has been selected to Superintend the Gallipolis Public Schools the coming year. In this county they have 10 candidates for Sheriff, 6 for Treasurer and 20 for the other offices, subject to the dedision (sic) of the Republican County Convention. Some fisherman set fire to woods in the rear of Mr. David Smith's house, Huntington township, recently, and about seventy-five acres of woods were burned over. The horses attached to a mail hack recently took freight (sic) in front of a hotel in Gallipolis and ran 4 1/2 miles in the country before they were stopped, yet when caught not a buckle or strap broken or missed. The mail bags in the hack were also safe.

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger April 29, 1875 GALLIA Mrs. Ann Hutsinpiller, of Gallipolis, died suddenly on Saturday night 17th inst., of heart disease. W. D. Graham, of Clay Chapel, Gallia county, has planted twenty acres of his farm in potatoes. There is a lady in Cheshire, whose hair, genuine, is fifty-six inches long, and she only weighs 103 pounds. Robert E. Dunn, Stephen S. Jones and Charles J. Switzer during the late term of the District Court in Gallipolis, were admitted to the bar. Mrs. S. R. McCormick, of Green township, has a flock of 16 sheep. --- This Spring seven of the ewes gave birth to 12 lambs, five of the seven having twins. Dr. R. M. Baine, who has been practicing medicine in Gallipolis for several months past, died of consumption on the 16th inst. His remains were taken to Cambridge for interment.

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger April 22, 1875 GALLIA A tabernacle meeting will be held shortly at Gallipolis. A telegraph office has been established at Cheshire. There are at present nine prisoners in the Gallia county jail. The new postmaster at Gallipolis, Mr. Mullinex, entered upon his duties Friday, 9th inst. The Gallipolis Journal says that it learned that Dr. W. A. Jenkins died while enroute (sic) to the Asylum in Athens. The managers of the Gallia County Agricultural Society have fixed the 6th, 7th and 8th days of October as the time for holding their next annual Fair. A tenement house on the Blessing farm, near the Blessing bridge, Gallia county, occupied by Mr. Jacob Fierbaugh, was burned on Wednesday, 14th inst. The Pomeroy colored band and the Gallipolis colored band played a match on the Public Square in Gallipolis, recently. Both are said to have done well.

Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger March 25, 1875 GALLIA Gallia county supplies the Pomeroy market with beef cattle. Samuel A. Nash, Esq., is a candidate for Mayor of Gallipolis. "Have you shot anybody" is the daily morning salutation at Cheshire. Mr. James Mullineux has been appointed and confirmed Postmaster at Gallipolis. The tax duplicate of the City of Gallipolis for 1874 is $1,949,339, and the tax collected thereon $50, 682.81. The old Regular Baptists are carrying on a protracted meeting at Bethlehem, Rocky Fork, under the conduct of Rev. Mr. Adkins. The conditional subscription papers for the Gallipolis, McA. & C. Railroad Company are, the Journal says, being liberally subscribed by the substantial citizens of Gallipolis. The children of Alfred and Mary White who settled in Gallia county sixty years ago lately had a reunion, after a separation of thirty-two years at the house of Mr. Rufus White, in Perry township.

James Merrill Gates, hmm... wonder where that Merrill came from. My 3rd great grandmother is Jemima Merrill who married John Morgan. Her father is *believed* to be Joseph Merrill. John and Jemima married in 1833 in Harrison County, Ohio, but moved to ole' Gallia some years later. Alcinda Morgan, their daughter married my gg grandfather, George F. Hixon. While their other daughter Julia was the first wife of my great grandfather, William G. Tope. So on the Merrill line I get twice the bang for my buck :-) Anyone know anything about this Merrill line out of Virginia? Linda Tope Trent lindatrent@zoomnet.net > while looking I came upon Margaret Wigner Gates. Her husband signed the > the form as the informant.... He middle name is MERRILL Gates, it is not > your James Madison...

That was very interesting! -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Hazlett [mailto:charlie@hazlett.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:25 PM To: OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OHGALLIA-L] March 11, 1875 - Athens Messenger I found the item concerning Katie King to be most interesting and I did a google search and found it even more interesting. Check it out: http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/spiritcontrols/katieking.htm On 4/7/2005, "JAR422@aol.com" <JAR422@aol.com> wrote: >Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed >by Joyce Robinson > >Athens Messenger >March 11, 1875 > >GALLIA > >The Gallipolis municipal election promises to be exciting. > >There is a rumor that spiritualism of the "Katie King" order is gaining >a foothold in Ohio township, near Bush's Mill. > >There have been some twenty additions to the membership of the >Presbyterian Church at Gallipolis this winter. > >At the recent spelling match at Gallipolis Miss Langley was declared >the winner of the prize. > >Gallipolis has petitioned for an enlargement of her boundaries. > >There will be three terms of court in this county next month : Special >session of the Common Pleas April 1st; District Court on the 16th, >and regular term of Common Pleas on the 27th. > >Mrs. Frazier, wife of Alexander Frazier, died at the residence of her >husband in Cheshire, after an illness of two days, on the 23d ult. > >At Cheshire recently, Daniel Mauck, assignee of C. L. Guthrie, >auctioned $5,500 worth of notes and accounts for $27.00 -- which >amounts to about 1/2 cent on the dollar. > >"Skunk Hollow Skinnings" is the way "W. L. R." heads his >communications to the Gallipolis Journal. > > > > > > >==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== >If you want to unsubscribe to the list, send an email to >OHGALLIA-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe in the text >of the email. > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== Check the address you are replying to before sending your message.

Joyce, Just wanted to thank you again for continuing these newspaper items. I enjoy and appreciate them more each time I read them.. Mary Lee One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JAR422@aol.com> To: <OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:57 PM Subject: [OHGALLIA-L] March 18, 1875 - Athens Messenger > Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. > Transcribed by Joyce Robinson > > Athens Messenger > March 18, 1875 > > GALLIA > > C. W. Bird is the Republican nominee for mayor of Gallipolis. > > Dr. Newton, postmaster at Gallipolis has recently been critically ill. > > Within the past week, great numbers of wild geese have passed over > Gallia county northward bound. > > Mr. Charles Henking, one of the oldest and worthiest citizens of > Gallipolis, suddenly died on Tuesday of last week. > > A "pome" furnished the editor of Gallipolis Journal by a prisoner in the > jail was up to the proper literary standard in everything but "rhyme, > grammar, sense, punctuation, capitalization, meter, truth and spelling." > > The Bulletin says: On Tuesday last the Supreme Court of Ohio decided > the long-pending suit of the The First Presbyterian Society of > Gallipolis, > in connection with the Hocking Presbytery, plaintiff, vs The First > Presbyterian > Society of Gallipolis, in connection with the Athens Presbytery. The case > has long been on the docket -- about twenty years --- in one form or > another. Years ago there was much bitterness in our midst about the > struggle, and there was scarcely an individual in the community who did > not "take sides." It will be noted that after the long and vexatious > litigation, > the "Old School" has triumphed. > > > > > > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > If you want to unsubscribe to the list, send an email to > OHGALLIA-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe in the text of > the email. > >

How neat I am in Lakewood, CO. Carrol ----- Original Message ----- From: " Pam C." <plculver@pcisys.net> To: <OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [OHGALLIA-L] Re: OHGALLIA-D Digest V05 #144 > That's because it's really beautiful here. ;) > Pam > ----- Original Message ----- > > > You know what is interesting about that is that quite a few of the people > > from Wayne County, Il retired to Colorado Springs and Pueblo, CO. > > > > Karen > > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > Check the address you are replying to before sending your message. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 4/5/05 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 4/5/05