CHAPTER XXI.
History of the Towns and Townships
of Belmont County

BARNESVILLE
pg. 308 - 335

JAMES BARNES, THE FOUNDER OF BARNESVILLE.

HIS ANCESTORS

ENTERING LANDS

OLD ORCHARDS

OLD MILL AND FACTORY

ITS BELL

TOBACCO TRADE.

RELIGIOUS VIEWS.

HIS RAILROAD IDEA

HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE, ETC.

THE OLD PULTNEY ROAD

FIRST TAVERN

     The first tavern kept in Barnesville was on lot No. 57.  This house is still standing and occupied.  It was kept by Henry Barnes, a nephew of James Barnes.  The tavern had as its sign, swinging from a corner to a post beyond the sideway, the important information:

"LIQUOR AND ENTERTAINMENT."

     This symbol of good cheer for the traveler and grog for the jolly, was scrawled in lampblack letters, uncouth and straggling, like the "big hand" of the ancient schoolmaster, on a plain board without border.  Barnes, the boniface of the humble little tavern, was a shoemaker, and the first one too that ever "plyed" an awl in the village; but on Saturdays he had no time to wax an end, or pound a sole.  These days were the balance sheets - occasions for the jars, discords and troubles of the rustic denizens of the neighborhood.  Whisky was three cents a drink, and large tumblers and bountiful supplies occasioned many a blacked eye.  As a rule, the quarrels would be satisfactorily adjusted and at night they parted friends.
     To Barnes' tavern, and his good whisky is to be traced to habitude of the residents of the township, to congregate in Barnesville on Saturdays - a custom of universal obligation even unto the present day.

GINSENG GATHERERS.

OLD TOWN WELL.

MEASURES TAKEN TO FORM A NEW COUNTY WITH THE SEAT OF JUSTICE AT BARNESVILLE.

THE PETITION, ETC.

SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES,

FIRST BURIAL.

     As before recited, the old graveyard and church site were donated to the Methodist Episcopal church by Mr. Barnes, and this gift was made in pursuance of a proviso made to his partner in trade, Rev. Round, before the latter settled in Barnesville.
     The first person whose remains were there buried, was Daniel Davis, a youth who died in the summer of 1808.  The Rev. Round preached the funeral sermon under a large sugar tree that stood about the center of the burial ground.  The day was clear and hot, and not a breath of air in motion.  The woods were dressed in their richest foliage, but the leaves stirred not on their drooping branches.  The reverend gentleman took his station at the roots of the tree, with a little stand-table covered with a white cloth, before him, and on the table lay a large family Bible with brass clasps to the lids - while around him were seated, among the plants and flowers of the wild woods, the friends and relatives of the departed boy.  After singing then his clear solemn voice, pronounced the first funeral sermon delivered in the township.

OLD LOG CHURCH.

OLD BRICK CHURCH.

LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.

FEMALE SEMINARY.

ACADEMY.

LAWYERS.

     WILLIAM S. TANYHILL

     JOHN DAVENPORT

     LITERATURE.

     The first effort at "periodical literature" at Barnesville, was made by the lady students of Davenport and Adler's "Classical Institute," then held in the old academy building.  It was a little paper of four pages, 8x10 to the page, and was published weekly during the terms of hte institute for the years 1856 and 1857.
     It was printed at Zanesville, Ohio, and was published by the Philliphonian Society" of the Institute.  At first it was called "The Gleaner," and the editress was changed every term.  Finally it was called "Literary Casket" and had "Excelsior" for its motto, and Miss M. L. Talbott, now Mrs. M. L. Walton, as permanent editress.
     That little paper crowns with honor every one connected with its career.  Judging by the editorials, it were a pity that Mrs. Walton did not continue to wield the pen.
     The Gleaner and Literary Casket were supported by the talents and purse of the lady students of the institute, and were circulated gratis.

THE "INTELLIGENCER."

THE "ENTERPRISE"

THE TOM YOUNG GUARDS OF BARNESVILLE.

A CONDENSED HISTORY OF FRIENDSHIP LDOGE NO. 89, OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS, OF BARNESVILLE, FROM ITS FIRST ORGANIZATION, A. D. 1827, UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME, BY AN OLD PIONEER, COL. BENJAMIN MACKALL, WHO ASSISTED IN ITS INSTITUTION.

TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES.

THE METHODISTS AND THEIR CHURCHES.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CONTRACT.

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST AND THEIR CHURCHES.

FRIENDS' MEETING-HOUSE.

A. M. E. CHURCH.

NOTABLE MEN OF BARNESVILLE.

     HON. JOHN DAVENPORT

     DR. CAROLUS JUDKINS

     DR. BENNETT

     DR. AFFLECK

     DR. HOOVER

     DR. WILLIAMS

     DR. MACKALL

     SAMMY WILLIAMS

     M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL.

GREEN MOUNT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.

SOUTH CEMETERY.

EDUCATION.

COLORED SCHOOLS.

     But little had been done for the education of colored children in Barnesville out of the public funds, until the year 1855.  Mr. Jesse HargraveMorris Hilton,
John Robison, Solomon Coles, a colored gentleman, had been their first and only teacher up to that time.  He was paid partly out of the public moneys, and partly out of the private purse of the parents of the children.  In that year a school district for colored children was formed, a room rented on Arch street, and Miss H. F. Price employed as teacher.  In the year 1868 a commodious brick school house for colored children was put up on the Somerton road, a few hundred yards south of the town.  The building is sixty feet in length and twenty-nine feet in width, one story high and has two rooms.  The house is surmounted by a belfry to which a bell is attached.
     Mr. F. H. Jackson, a colored teacher, taught the first school kept in that house.  Mr. J. H. Betts, also a colored teacher taught the second school.  He was followed successively by the lady teachers, to-wit:  Miss Anna Edson, Mrs. Garretson and Miss L. H. Ellis.  They were succeeded by the following colored gentlemen, in order named:  Daniel Guy and Daniel F. Caliman.  Mr. Caliman is the present teacher.

POSTOFFICE AND OFFICERS.

BARNESVILLE DISTRICT FAIR ASSOCIATION.

FIRES AND ACCIDENTS.

ACCIDENTS.

GAS WORKS.

BARNESVILLE FOUNDRY.

BUCKEYE BURIAL MANUFACTORY.

NAIL FACTORY.

DRUG STORES.

MUNICIPAL ORGANIZATIONS.

ROYAL ARCH MASONS,

ODD FELLOWSHIP.

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.

SHARON ENCAMPMENT I. O. O. F.

DRUIDS.

RED MEN.

     A Wigwam of Red Men was erected at Barnesville in the year of 1872.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK.

CITY HALL.

BUSINESS NOTES.

BARNESVILLE WOOLEN MILLS.

CHASE'S MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS.

COLPITTS BROS.

CHARLES A. LITTLE,

BARNESVILLE COAL WORKS.

EDGAR, HOGUE & CO.

BUCHANAN & MOORE,

ALBERT HOTEL.

HIBBARD A. DENT.

MISS JENNIE PICKERING.

A. B. CREW & CO.

ABRAHAM KELLEY,

BARNESVILLE AT PRESENT.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

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