Annals of our ancestors; one hundred and fifty years of history in the ...

12 ANNALS OF OUR ANCESTORS
work, and beyond them the women and children around the
cabins.
Some six years before our ancestors settled in Cincinnati,
General Wayne's impetuous onslaughts had brought about
peace from the Indian raids, and the pioneers were not in constant
danger as at the first. As we gather up the history of
the past century we are glad to think our grandparents were
so fortunate in the selection of a place to found a home. They
builded more wisely than they could then know when they
stopped where they did; they made their choice all unconscious
of the future, not forecasting the development that part of
Ohio was to see nor dreaming what the coming years would
bring to them and their children.