SOURCES:
*Mcduffie.ged
*FRED GAHIMER, 8114 Cresthill Dr., Indianapolis, IN 46256;
*History of Waggoner family & History of Ritchey family:
"Methodist Episcopal circuit rider in Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas counties in Kentucky, and in Rush and Shelby Counties in Indiana. He performed many marriages in Kentucky, including some of his children. The Nicholas/Harrison County line ran through his property near Cynthiana, Harrison Co, Kentucky.
In the fall of 1826, John & Mary Catherine and their extended family moved to Orange Township, Rush County, Indiana with a large group of relatives. Those included: Gilbert Ritchey, Matthew & Susan (Ritchey) Busby, John Ritchey & family, Eve and John Ritchey and Adam Ritchey, along with Robert McDuffie and brother Gabriel McDuffie and their families.
When they arrived in Orange Township, the whole region was covered with primeval forest and nearly destitute of the appliances of civilization. The nearest cabin was seven miles away, the mill so distant that a trip for meal or grain was quite an undertaking, and little to console the incomer except the abundance of game and the fine fish that wriggled in the clear, unpolluted streams.
John, with his sons, had to clear a trail through the dense forest between his newly entered land and St. Omer, a distance of seven miles straight south as the crow filies. John spoke no English. His eldest son, John, Jr, had already married Robert McDuffie's daughter, Nancy, in Kentucky the year before, and they had brought their newborn son, William A. Waggoner, with them in emigrating to Indiana.
One of the earliest school houses was built in the southwest corner of the Philip Redenbaugh farm. Having no glass, the windows were made of paper greased with coon oil, to let in some light, but protect from weather. At one such township school in 1829, the teacher, George Winbro, gave his students whiskey on their last day of school. At another such school, an irate parent of a student who had been punished by the teacher the day before marched into the schoolhouse and started shouting at the teacher, causing the students to jump out the windows through the oiled paper.
John and Mary Catherine Waggoner were buried in a small plot on the Redenbaugh farm near the schoolhouse, John in 1827, and Mary Catherine in 1841. Both the schoolhouse and the small cemetery have long since disappeared into the earth's bosom.
*Mcduffie.ged
*FRED GAHIMER, 8114 Cresthill Dr., Indianapolis, IN 46256;
*History of Waggoner family & History of Ritchey family:
"Methodist Episcopal circuit rider in Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas counties in Kentucky, and in Rush and Shelby Counties in Indiana. He performed many marriages in Kentucky, including some of his children. The Nicholas/Harrison County line ran through his property near Cynthiana, Harrison Co, Kentucky.
In the fall of 1826, John & Mary Catherine and their extended family moved to Orange Township, Rush County, Indiana with a large group of relatives. Those included: Gilbert Ritchey, Matthew & Susan (Ritchey) Busby, John Ritchey & family, Eve and John Ritchey and Adam Ritchey, along with Robert McDuffie and brother Gabriel McDuffie and their families.
When they arrived in Orange Township, the whole region was covered with primeval forest and nearly destitute of the appliances of civilization. The nearest cabin was seven miles away, the mill so distant that a trip for meal or grain was quite an undertaking, and little to console the incomer except the abundance of game and the fine fish that wriggled in the clear, unpolluted streams.
John, with his sons, had to clear a trail through the dense forest between his newly entered land and St. Omer, a distance of seven miles straight south as the crow filies. John spoke no English. His eldest son, John, Jr, had already married Robert McDuffie's daughter, Nancy, in Kentucky the year before, and they had brought their newborn son, William A. Waggoner, with them in emigrating to Indiana.
One of the earliest school houses was built in the southwest corner of the Philip Redenbaugh farm. Having no glass, the windows were made of paper greased with coon oil, to let in some light, but protect from weather. At one such township school in 1829, the teacher, George Winbro, gave his students whiskey on their last day of school. At another such school, an irate parent of a student who had been punished by the teacher the day before marched into the schoolhouse and started shouting at the teacher, causing the students to jump out the windows through the oiled paper.
John and Mary Catherine Waggoner were buried in a small plot on the Redenbaugh farm near the schoolhouse, John in 1827, and Mary Catherine in 1841. Both the schoolhouse and the small cemetery have long since disappeared into the earth's bosom.
SOURCES:
*Mcduffie.ged
*FRED GAHIMER, 8114 Cresthill Dr., Indianapolis, IN 46256;
*History of Waggoner family & History of Ritchey family:
"Methodist Episcopal circuit rider in Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas counties in Kentucky, and in Rush and Shelby Counties in Indiana. He performed many marriages in Kentucky, including some of his children. The Nicholas/Harrison County line ran through his property near Cynthiana, Harrison Co, Kentucky.
In the fall of 1826, John & Mary Catherine and their extended family moved to Orange Township, Rush County, Indiana with a large group of relatives. Those included: Gilbert Ritchey, Matthew & Susan (Ritchey) Busby, John Ritchey & family, Eve and John Ritchey and Adam Ritchey, along with Robert McDuffie and brother Gabriel McDuffie and their families.
When they arrived in Orange Township, the whole region was covered with primeval forest and nearly destitute of the appliances of civilization. The nearest cabin was seven miles away, the mill so distant that a trip for meal or grain was quite an undertaking, and little to console the incomer except the abundance of game and the fine fish that wriggled in the clear, unpolluted streams.
John, with his sons, had to clear a trail through the dense forest between his newly entered land and St. Omer, a distance of seven miles straight south as the crow filies. John spoke no English. His eldest son, John, Jr, had already married Robert McDuffie's daughter, Nancy, in Kentucky the year before, and they had brought their newborn son, William A. Waggoner, with them in emigrating to Indiana.
One of the earliest school houses was built in the southwest corner of the Philip Redenbaugh farm. Having no glass, the windows were made of paper greased with coon oil, to let in some light, but protect from weather. At one such township school in 1829, the teacher, George Winbro, gave his students whiskey on their last day of school. At another such school, an irate parent of a student who had been punished by the teacher the day before marched into the schoolhouse and started shouting at the teacher, causing the students to jump out the windows through the oiled paper.
John and Mary Catherine Waggoner were buried in a small plot on the Redenbaugh farm near the schoolhouse, John in 1827, and Mary Catherine in 1841. Both the schoolhouse and the small cemetery have long since disappeared into the earth's bosom.
*Mcduffie.ged
*FRED GAHIMER, 8114 Cresthill Dr., Indianapolis, IN 46256;
*History of Waggoner family & History of Ritchey family:
"Methodist Episcopal circuit rider in Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas counties in Kentucky, and in Rush and Shelby Counties in Indiana. He performed many marriages in Kentucky, including some of his children. The Nicholas/Harrison County line ran through his property near Cynthiana, Harrison Co, Kentucky.
In the fall of 1826, John & Mary Catherine and their extended family moved to Orange Township, Rush County, Indiana with a large group of relatives. Those included: Gilbert Ritchey, Matthew & Susan (Ritchey) Busby, John Ritchey & family, Eve and John Ritchey and Adam Ritchey, along with Robert McDuffie and brother Gabriel McDuffie and their families.
When they arrived in Orange Township, the whole region was covered with primeval forest and nearly destitute of the appliances of civilization. The nearest cabin was seven miles away, the mill so distant that a trip for meal or grain was quite an undertaking, and little to console the incomer except the abundance of game and the fine fish that wriggled in the clear, unpolluted streams.
John, with his sons, had to clear a trail through the dense forest between his newly entered land and St. Omer, a distance of seven miles straight south as the crow filies. John spoke no English. His eldest son, John, Jr, had already married Robert McDuffie's daughter, Nancy, in Kentucky the year before, and they had brought their newborn son, William A. Waggoner, with them in emigrating to Indiana.
One of the earliest school houses was built in the southwest corner of the Philip Redenbaugh farm. Having no glass, the windows were made of paper greased with coon oil, to let in some light, but protect from weather. At one such township school in 1829, the teacher, George Winbro, gave his students whiskey on their last day of school. At another such school, an irate parent of a student who had been punished by the teacher the day before marched into the schoolhouse and started shouting at the teacher, causing the students to jump out the windows through the oiled paper.
John and Mary Catherine Waggoner were buried in a small plot on the Redenbaugh farm near the schoolhouse, John in 1827, and Mary Catherine in 1841. Both the schoolhouse and the small cemetery have long since disappeared into the earth's bosom.
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