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." For three years or more Mr. WAID had been thinking of buying a farm for his oldest son, or Guinnip P., with the intention of his making a life home of it, so on January 29, 1885, he purchased of Rev. A. S. Goodrich one containing nearly 100 acres, known as the Jabez Goodrich farm (Jabez Goodrich was father of Rev. A. S.), situated on the State road four miles east of Meadville, two miles west of Blooming Valley and less than a mile from the home of F. C. WAID. Our subject offered Mr. Goodrich $45 per acre for the property, and they agreed not to survey it but simply "chain” it. Calling Martin Carpenter, of Blooming Valley,. to come and see fair play between old friends (and for that matter relatives), Mr. WAID and Mr. Goodrich took each an end of the chain, and January 28, 1885, though a bitter cold day, tramping around and through deep snow drifts, and frequently having to change their course, they finally reached their point and found the measurement to be 97 acres and 124 perches, which would bring $4,390. On examining the amount, Mr. WAID protested that it did not look well. " Permit me, Archibald," said he, “to change that sum." "What!" exclaimed Mr..Goodrich. "Oh I call it $4,400, " quietly returned Mr. WAID. This business transaction was completed January 20, and Mr. Goodrich returned to the field of his ministerial labors at Ridgeway, Elk Co., Penn. The purchase of this farm almost at his very door, after going all the way to east Tennessee for the same purpose, as already narrated, reminds Mr. WAID of a former transaction. When he was teaching school and had some opportunity of looking about him, especially in quest of a partner for life, he failed to find the object of his choice, but on coming home he discovered in his parents' kitchen a young lady doing housework, and that young lady is now Mrs. F. C. WAID. "If I am as well satisfied with the farm I have just bought," says Mr. WAID, "I will indeed be contented." Our subject has also a little property (three houses) in the Second Ward, east side Green Street, city of Meadville, and a wood lot situated about two miles east of his farm in the adjoining township, Richmond, and forty five acres bought of Daniel Smith, April 10, 1'14, lying south and adjoining the farm, but in Mead Township, and which has been very much improved since purchased. The last timber on this lot was removed during the mouth of March, and at present it is in meadow, except about five acres, which is used as pasture. Our subject says there are three things he can always love - a book, a newspaper and a friend. In connection with books there is another thing Mr. WAID dearly loves - the Sunday-school, which has with him but one term, and that is not yet out. His parents taught their children to go to Sabbath-school in childhood at the old State road, and our subject was there last Sunday and wishes to continue. In youth he bought a very small Testament and for several years he carried it in his pocket instead of a plug of tobacco. He was satisfied then and is yet with the choice he made. "I cannot remember the time when my father," says Mr. WAID, "did not take from one to three or four newspapers; I loved to read them. Since we were married we have taken the papers; we began with one but now take seven or eight; the Meadville Weekly Republican, then I think known as The Spirit of the Age, has been a weekly visitor with us ever since we were married. S. S. Sears took my name as a subscriber in 1854. He who would have friends must show himself friendly and there is a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Acting on this rule will bring friendship by deserving it and especially so when we have the aid of that Friend spoken of. The earth in her bountiful goodness produces all the necessaries of life, but what is life without the interchange of thought?" On his farm, on the north side of the State road, is a field, nearly all meadow, 100 acres in extent, it having contained its present number of acres since 1873. There is and has been since this land was cleared a lane on the east side of this field, also a lane on the west side, a sugar bush on the north end of the lot and a young grove of 130 sugar maples at the northeast corner. The north end of this field gently slopes to the north. Near the sugar bush is a never- failing spring in addition to the one about to be spoken of, and on the beautifully rising ground, perhaps eighty rods from the sugar bush, is a hay-barn. There are also several handsome shade trees (maples) that adorn the field, which is most beautifully located and is just sufficiently undulating to be free from the monotony of a constant level or from abrupt hills. In addition to the natural rolling and graceful surface which nature has given to this Most attractive portion of the earth, she has supplied it with an abundance of the Lord's best gift to man-pure, sparkling water. Near the east side of the field is one of the most abundant and never-failing springs to be found in all the country, its crystal-like current gushing from the earth and flowing diagonally across the entire field, thus supplying it ad libitum, with over refreshing water. Like Jacob's well of old, this spring supplies water to all who may come, when, by reason of drouth, other sources fail. People passing by exclaim, "How beautiful that field is! What made it so? Labor?" Yes, the work and indomitable perseverance of two or three generations have made this fair meadow what. it now is. Here our subject's grandfather, Pember WAID, and father, Ira C. WAID, toiled for many long years, spending a large portion of their lives, assisted by other help, on these same acres, and Mr. WAID himself feels that he will never regret having devoted much diligent toil to improving and beautifying that field. But there was something more than more manual labor employed, thought had to precede and accompany the work that brought this luxuriant meadow to its present beautiful and productive condition. This field, containing, according to the deed, "100 acres and allowance," was purchased October 7, 1823, of Jared Shattuck, for the sum of $500. What a change in value and appearance it now presents, over sixty years from the date of its purchase." More to follow! Kathy Brubaker Volunteer Genealogist Linesville Historical Society kbrbkr@toolcity.net