Excerpt from Biography and Recollections of Rev. William Hanna, From the Year 1826 to Year 1880 William hanna, the subject of the following pages, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, on the 6th of May, 1820. His parents were Isaac and Martha Hanna. The former died when William was six years old; the latter when he was a little past eight. He had one sister, (eliza, ) two years older than himself, who died in the State of Iowa, at the age of thirty-three. A brother Henry is still living in the west. These three children, ...
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Excerpt from Biography and Recollections of Rev. William Hanna, From the Year 1826 to Year 1880 William hanna, the subject of the following pages, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, on the 6th of May, 1820. His parents were Isaac and Martha Hanna. The former died when William was six years old; the latter when he was a little past eight. He had one sister, (eliza, ) two years older than himself, who died in the State of Iowa, at the age of thirty-three. A brother Henry is still living in the west. These three children, together with the parents, composed the little family that used to gather around their sparkling wood fire and listen to the bark of the wolf, and occasionally the scream of the panther, while perhaps some surly bruin was making his evening meal on some luckless pig Or long wooled sheep, that he had stolen from the little log fold by which the cabin barn was surrounded. Although these fightings were without, and consequent fears within; al though their corn bread, their hog and hominy, were coarse; yet they were happy, until the rude hand of death was laid on the father. Then there was a blank; then, though with an aching heart, the poor widow had to meet the stern realities of life; her children had to be provided for. And, as William was the oldest boy, he was under the necessity of early learning and enduring the hardships of frontier life. Thus, when the sack of corn or Wheat was filled, the feeble, consumptive mother and her three children might be seen gradually raising it higher, rail by rail, until it had reached the summit of the fence, from which it was easily deposited on the back of the gentle old pony, whose business it was slowly and surely to tote it through the woods and mud a distance of four miles to mill. On these occasions William was mill boy. Reminiscences of these trips are still remembered by the writer. On one occasion, in descending the hill to the creek, the rider discovered that it would be highly dangerous to allow the horse to drink, in consequence of the sack having slid so far forward; but the horse being the senior, and despising what he deemed the undue caution of his junior rider, persisted in having his own way, and thus precipitated both sack and boy into the creek. Instantly rolling the sack out of the water, our hero rode back to where he had passed a man splitting rails, who soon replaced the sack, and allowed him to go on his way whipping, if not rejoicing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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