To David M. Waid dmwaid@provide.net and other WAID researchers in Crawford County. Here is the information I found on Pember Waid in the "History of Crawford County, PA, 1885." "The day Mr. WAID informed his parents that he was about to get married, his mother said to him, "Well! If you do so, my son, you will have to work for a living." Shakespeare says there are "tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything;" and the following homily from the pen of Mr. WAID himself, in reference to his love for labor, will testify that he fully endorses the aphorism, "there is good in everything." "If I have to say it for myself," says Mr. WAID, "(and there is truth enough in it to bear me out), over thirty years of my life have been spent in the solution of that problem, and I am not yet tired, for - I LOVE LABOR. I know it is a saying few utter, but I am one of those few, and today I thank my mother for so much advice given in so few words. That knitting represented in her portrait in this volume means something. I am truly glad the days and years of my life have passed so joyously on the farm. It is written in the good Book: "The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich and He addeth no sorrow with it." Prov. x,22. How true it is!" Mr. WAID was married on his twenty-first birthday, April 23, 1854, which, falling on a Sunday, he claims caused no interruption to daily labor. The partner of his choice, Miss Eliza C. Masiker, is a daughter of Jacob and Clarissa (Wood) Masiker, early settlers of Randolph Township, this county, and who came from Hinsdale, Cattaraugus Co., NY. In Jacob Masiker's family were eight children: Ara, Willis, Matilda J., Eliza C., Avery W., Moses, James H. and George K. Moses was a soldier in the One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was in several battles and was wounded in the right elbow, having almost lost the use of that arm ever since (he owns sixty acres of the old homestead in Randolph Township, this county, and there resides); James H. was a soldier in the Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks in front of Richmond; George K., being in Iowa, enlisted in a regiment there and died in the hospital. Jacob Masiker died January 30, 1860, and is interred in Blooming Valley; Clarissa, his widow, died several years after in Cattaraugus County, NY, the land of her nativity. "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favor of the Lord." (Prov. xviii,22). Jacob Masiker had but two daughters and Mr. WAID says he has often thought, and has had time enough since his marriage (over thirty years) to think how fortunate he and Mr. Cutshall were in finding them when they did. The words of Solomon proved literally true. They had found "a good thing," even if they failed somewhat in their expectations. "To Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. WAID have been born three children, viz." Franklin I., married to Maggie E. Moore, March 15, 1877; Guinnip P., married to Anna M. Slocum, March 31, 1881, and Fred F., born March 6, 1868. Boys seem to predominate in the WAID family, for the children of Ira C. WAID and those of R.L. WAID were all boys, and Francis C. has made no change to the seeming rule, but, as the family record shows, George N. has outstripped his parents or either of his brothers in raising a family. Franklin I., after marriage, lived with his father-in-law, having charge of the farm which he worked for about three years; then in 1880-81 he worked on C.A. Buell's farm. In 1882 he took charge of part of his father's farm. In 1883 he went to Knoxville, East Tenn., where he found a place as Superintendent of Col. William H. Easiley's farm of over 1,600 acres at Muddy Creek Station, Loudon County, on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad. Here he remained about one year. In October of 1883 his parents visited him and they then had the happiness of seeing, as the Colonel remarked, "the sunny South, even Knoxville, the garden of the world." Mr. WAID supplies the following short and suggestive account of something he saw on Col. Easiley's farm: "One morning the Colonel called for me at the residence of my son, Franklin, and took me a horseback ride over his farm. After looking over a portion of his large farm, we came to his cornfield of 100 acres, and as we rode into the corn, which was planted about four feet apart each way, the height of the stalks and ears surprised me. I had seen corn in the West, but this was the east Tenn. Though sitting on a large horse I had to reach up as far as possible to touch the ears of corn, which beat anything in this line I had ever seen. My son had cut one of the tall stalks of corn and laid by to show us when we came how tall corn grew in Tennessee. The stalk measured sixteen feet, four inches and had two ears; one ear I have now, which I brought home. In company with George N. WAID and G. W. Cutshall, I again went to east Tennessee, December 14, 1883 with the intention of buying a farm for my son, but did not purchase, not being suited. The farm was near Greeneville, Greene Co., East Tenn., known as the College farm, owned by Mr. Williams. We visited, near Greeneville, the family burial-place of ex-President Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United States. His three sons are interred here." At present Franklin I. is in the employment of George Bush, of Warren County, Penn. Guinnip P. is living on the old homestead, where his paternal grandparents lived, and is doing, as his father was wont to before him-working part of the farm on shares. He began work on the farm immediately after marriage. Fred F. is a rising young man whose commend- able disposition endears him to all who know him. At present.he is attending school and, like his father, loves his book, and does his part manfully on the farm. During the past summer Fred wanted a little piece of ground on which to plant potatoes and beans and to till for himself, and his interest in the crops being half, he said, as they were not very good, he would take $5. His father paid the money and thought nothing more of it. But in a few days Mr. WAID went to the bank and Mr. Dick, the banker, asked him if he had a boy by the name of Fred. Mr. WAID said "Yes." "Well," returned Mr. Dick, "he has left $10 here and taken a certificate." This was a surprise to Mr. WAID, and he began to think his son had commenced younger than he did himself in that line of business. The other $5 Fred had earned little by little. On Monday morning following his wedding Mr. WAID at once commenced an engagement on the farm with his father, at $15 per month, working eight months in the year, for about four years and teaching school the remaining four months. (It may not be inopportune to mention here that long before railroads were built in this county, and even for many years after, Ira 0. Waid's residence was known as the "Drovers' Home." It was the regular stopping place for drovers, summer and winter, and our subject has seen as many as three droves of cattle on the old homestead at a time, in charge of fourteen men, for his mother to cook for, and that by an old-fashioned fire-place, as she was among the last in the community to introduce a cook-stove into the house. One drove of cattle, numbering 600 head, from Texas, once put up at the "Drovers' Home," the largest that ever passed that way.) More to follow! Kathy Brubaker Volunteer Genealogist Linesville Historical Society kbrbkr@toolcity.net