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Note: N22 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mckaughan/combined/fam00652.htm
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Old Settlers' Association
Speech by
J. M. Smyth
Historian
Printed in
The Eureka Herald
September 6, 1906
So much has been said in former addresses by former historians about the early settlement of this county that I have been at a loss to find material on that line for this address. This is a semi-centennial year for the early settlement of this county. Mr. Tucker, in an address delivered July 4, 1876, speaks of the Mississippi Colony, which settled in Lane township in 1856, but, I am sorry to say, gave no names or particulars.
This colony came from Tishmingo county, Mississippi, in 1856 and from Mr. Isaac T. Ozburn, who as a young man came with his father and family as one of this colony. I got the names of most if not all of them. They were Samuel McKeg and son, John, who was a man of family. John and Thomas McDaniel, who were sons-in-law of Samuel McKeg and their families, and Allen Thompson, who was well known in Salt Springs Township for several years later. Also Henry Ozburn and a large family of boys and girls, and Henry Allen and W.T. Yowe.
Henry Ozburn, who spelled his name different from the Indiana family, who came to the same locality in April, 1857, was a man of pleasing manner and hospitable disposition. He had, as I remember, six sons and four daughters, and in 1859, when my father located in the neighborhood, the Ozburn home was the center of society for the young people. His house was built in the edge of the timer, and a fine shell bark hickory grove near the house, was a fine place for camp meetings and gatherings of this kind, and I can well remember the ox teams and old-fashioned Pennsylvania wagon beds used to see in this beautiful grove at these camp meetings. Mark Robinson, a celebrated Methodist elder, used to conduct these meetings. He at one of these meetings scored the young people for attending the country dance, or Hoe Down, as they were called, and said to them in his Sunday sermon, "I have a daughter and I would rather see her step four feet and woddle like a bear than be caught in the ball room."
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