and an affectionate father. He has left a wife and seven children to deplore his loss-a loss which to them can not be repaired. Let them, however, not despair; for that good Being who has summoned the father away will be to the orphan a better father, and to the widow a kinder husband. Let them confide in him. Signed,

ACQUAINTANCE.

His son, Anthony Wayne Wright, who is the possessor of the old forest homestead, and the author of this brief record, hands in the relic below described: A fawn-skin purse, made by his father and used by him during the war of 1812, when he was in the black swamps defending his country.

MOTTO OF JOHN WRIGHT.

There is nothing purer than honesty, nothing sweeter than charity, nothing warmer than love, nothing richer than wisdom, nothing more steadfast than faith. Those united in one mind form the purest, the sweetest, the warmest, the richest, the brightest, and the most steadfast happiness.

Mrs. John Wright was a woman of enterprise, industry and business habits. During the war of 1812, her husband being a soldier in that campaign, she, with the help of a small boy, cultivated and gathered nine acres of corn, amounting to four hundred bushels; the boy plowed the corn, and Mrs. Wright hoed it. She died in 1852, regretted by all. Mrs. Wright was a kind and benevolent woman; good to the poor; she was attentive to the sick and afflicted, and an excellebt nurse; the sick had confidence in her prescriptions and advice. She was proberbial for her charities and benificence; her latch.string was always out; at her bountiful table the hungry were fed; she was a kind companion, an affectionate mother, and an obliging neighbor and true christian.

ANTHONY WAYNE WRIGHT

Was born March, 1812, and is in his 60th year. Mr. Wright married Sarah Wright February, 1833, by whom he had three children, Margaret, Jasper, and Samantha Jane. Mrs. Wright died October 19th, 1840. In 1843 he married Mary Caylor, daughter of Jacob Caylor, by whom he had one son, J. A. Wright, who married Jane Deriens July 20th, 1871.

Jasper Wright, son of Anthony Wayne Wright, was in the late rebellion as one of the hundred day men. He lives on the east side of Sugar creek; he married twice, and has one child by each wife, Mary G. and Essie C. Amos Wright, son of John Wright, is dead; he lived on the northeast bank of Sugar creek; he married Susana Rankin; their children were Emily R., Maria L., Theodore L. Alice A., William Wallace, and Cyrus R. Wright. Allen L. Wright married Ary Turner, by whom he had four children, Huldy A., Heson, Chas. W., and John A. Wright. Margaret married Harry Iron, and moved to Kansas; both dead; had six children, five living and one dead. Rachael married Aaron Hyer; she is dead, leaving one daughter; lived on Sugar creek. Isabel is living in Jay County; her husband, Abraham Medsker, is dead. David Wright was an early emigrant; he was in the war of 1812; is dead. Hosea Wright, farmer, was in the war of 1812; he came to his death by the falling of a tree. Jonathan Wright was a son of Gabriel Wright, and was a noted hunter of Kentucky and the Northwest. His hunting excursions were on the head-waters of Paint and Rattlesnake. He killed buffaloes, elk, bears, wolves, panthers, deer, and other game in abundance. He was the companion of Governor Heath, Witzell, Wolff, Boggs, Stoner, McKay, and other celebrated hunters. He was a brave scout, fearless and daring; he settled on Indian creek, and died about 1805. Caleb Wright emigrated to Fayette County in 1807. He was a single man; when the war of 1812 was declared by Congress, he volunteered as an Indian spy, and continued in that critical and dangerous capacity, traversing the hills, plains, valleys, and swamps, for one year; his living was wild meat, his hidingplaces, the black swamps, his covering, the blue sky, and his raiment was the wild hunters' costume; he was brave, fearless, and daring, penetrating the camp and secret hiding dens of the savages and the enemy.

PRESENT CITIZENS.

Jas. Beatty, Joseph Marks, David Persinger, Milton Seiner, Nathan Marks, Lewis Coffman, Isaiah Sellars, John Seiner, Eli Craig, Aaron Hire, William Bitzer, William Long, Mar

tin Rowe, John Stukey, Thomas Worthington, Thomas Connor, Samuel Allen, John T. Cox, John House, George McDonald, Matthew Owens, Samuel Marks, James Holbrook, James Homes, Elias Priddy; D. M. Craig, J. W. Craig, J. B. Cole, L. Hany, Wm. Darick, M. Craig, John Mitcheler, J. N. Rowe, Joseph Beatty, David Rowe, Levi Burnett, Amos Goldsbery, George Hidy, A. M. Wright, J. C. Connor, Eli Connor, Joseph McVey, Joseph Seiner.

STAUNTON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Dry goods, Craig Bros. and J. N. Rowe; manufacturers of boots and shoes, James Holbrook and Wm. Bay; butcher, John Mitchener; church, M. P.; wood shop, R. B. Cole and Jonn Rusler; carpenters, P. R. Craig, John Mitchener, Joseph Beatty, and John Rusler; grocery, Elias Priddy; blacksmiths, R. B. Cole and Wm. Long; compounding and pratice of medicine, James Matthews and L. J. McCorkle; postmaster, Eli Craig; school houses, three; teachers, David Ellis and Mr. Norton; wholesale Yankee notions, wagons, William Gray and T. J. Craig; woolen and cloth manufacturer, James Holmes; undertaker, John Mitcher.

JASPER TOWNSHIP.

ROBERT BURNETT emigrated from Virginia to Fayette County, in 1810; a single man, worked around until 1812, when he settled or squatted on government land; he married in 1812 Susannah Bush, by whom he had six sons and five daughters, viz: Henry, John, Jesse, Thomas, Elihu and Absalom. Mr. Burnett, was out in the war of 1812; he belonged to a volunteer company of rifle; he served a tour as Captain of Militia, also as Clerk and Trustee of Jasper Township; he was also appointed by the County Commissioners road viewer; in religion a Unitarian; his first wife died in 1839; his second wife was the widow of Jacob. Coler; she was the first woman married in Fayette County, in 1810, the time the lines were run by David Creamer, first County Surveyor. Captain Burnett, by profession, was a surveyor, and run out a great number of County and Township roads. Henry Burnet visited California in 1848, did well, and cleared $13,000; he lives in Clinton County, a farmer and stock merchant. John Burnett was County Surveyor, and made a good one; was frequently called on in other counties; now a farmer, etc. Jesse and Thomas kept a cabinet shop in Washington; both dead. Elihu Burnett, by profession a gardner, was in the late war. Absalom, was private clerk under Col. Miller in the late war and now an Engineer on the Peru Railroad, Indiana. Names of the Captain's girls: Sidney, Rebecca, Neomah, Catherine and Susan. Sidney lived and died a single woman; a pleasant, kind girl, much regretted; she was a ready nurse, and her presence among the sick was ever acceptable. Rebecca married Alvaro Figgins, by whom she had one son; both dead; she married J. L. Mark, Esq., of Jasper station, who holds the office of Justice, and is now Postmaster; he is a man of business qualifications; he is also a merchant, by whom she had one son and daughter. Neomah married J. L. Mark,

by whom she had four children, two living and two dead. Catherine is married and lives in Washington; her husband, Joseph Plumb, keeps a furniture store; by trade a cabinet maker; they have but one child living, a daughter, who married James Farley, now living in Indiana. Susan married James Brooks, and lives in Indiana.

Captain Burnett, in 1813, leased a tract of land in Union Township of Mr. Bush, and lived there until 1821, when he moved to his own land, which he purchased of Pendleton, of Virginia, all in the woods. On his first lease the surroundings were a dense forest. There was an ancient Indian camp on the bank of Sugar Creek, where the Indians would stop on their route from Fort Clark to Old Town. The Captain says squads of them would stop there and rest on their annual hunts. The majority, however, had emigrated to Logan County. He says deer were plenty, and he would frequently shoot them; wolves were in great abundance; they could at any time be seen skulking in the woods; sheep had to be secured within high enclosures, and hogs in close pens; bears were few; elk had emigrated to the West; turkeys, coons, opossums and other small game were in abundance. The Captain, being something of a marksman, kept his family well supplied with fresh meat. Mills there were none; horse mills and hand mills were all the early pioneers had; they frequently used the hominy block and grater; sometimes a journey to the Scioto mills by some of the pioneers would be made; roads were Indian trails and deer paths. The Captain says hordes of wild hogs infested the woods; he describes them as having tushes like rams' horns, head and nose long and sharp, legs long and close as the rabbit, when provoked to anger more dangerous than any beast of the forest, and in the chase could distance the hound or the trained fox steed; he says these wild hogs nest in jumbles on the banks of Sugar Creek. Snakes were rather plenty; he killed once a monster, the largest he ever saw, he thinks, and was perhaps as old as Methuselah, as the life of a snake is 1,000 years, agreeably to snakeology historians. He says that grass on the prairies. would grow as high as a horses back, and the runs and natural holes and pools afforded water for stock the entire season.