Identifier: ohioarchological16ohio (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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their fathers and has furn-ished a means by which the traditions of the race have to someextent been preserved. A very large per cent, of the populationof the settlement have been church members and church goers,and the church has never failed of the active assistance of thebest people of the community. Regarding education as the handmaid of religion the pioneerWelshman soon took steps to establish a school as early if not 208 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. earlier than the organization of the church. John H. Philipps hadbeen a school teacher in Pennsylvania and immediately upon hisarrival in 1806 began to instruct the youth of the neighborhoodat his cabin. He was the first teacher in the log school houseerected in 1806. In 1825 The Old Stone School House waserected. This building is still standing, and is located about amile and a half northeast of Granville. The Old Stone School House is as dear to the hearts ofthe people of Welsh Hills as Liberty Hall is to the American
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THE WELSH HILLS CHURCH. people. The school conducted here was large for a countryschool, sometimes numbering as high as sixty in winter and fortyin summer. The building was abandoned in 1858, when a mod-ern school house was built in another part of the settlement. Before leaving Wales nearly every adult who settled onWelsh Hills had learned a trade and few, if any, were farmersbefore settling on the Hills. As a result the Welsh pioneer wasan awkward but ambitious farmer. His success is due not tohis adaptability to fanning, but to his economy and thrift. He Welsh Settlements in Ohio. 209 was a small farmer and few undertook to cultivate so much as200 acres. He believed in reclaiming a small tract of ground andgradually extending his operations. Every grain was harvestedand every garnered grain was saved. They were supporters ofthe temperance cause, and early in their denunciation of slavery.18 Welsh Hills school contributed twenty-nine soldiers for theUnion Army. Six soldiers of the W

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