By the Name of Rice

Rice, recently died, but a younger daughter in school
that winter, Mrs. Laura Barnaby, now resides in Pasadena,
Cal. and is in her 91st. year. What a school it
must have been and what a teacher! He had been an
officer in the American Revolution. He helped to capture
and to guard Major Andre, and died at 95 years
and 8 months, after living to greet Louis Kossuth to
the City, of Alliance. And at least two of this Hero's
pupils are living in this year of Grace. 1911 ! !
Verily his works have not "followed him" very rapidly,
and it has been an hundred and fifty and five years since
he began them.
In March, 1833, the young Chas. Hawley, was taken
violently ill, for the first and last time in his 87 years
and was cared for at the home of Casper Williams until
"Harvest time." In July he went to Cleveland, on
foot; worked for a short time in a little shop on
Superior Street, north side, about 1-2 block from the
"City Square." He walked thence to Milan, in Huron
County; thence to Lower, Sandusky and on to Tiffin, in
Seneca Co., where he sewed in
until the
latter part of Oct.
a tailor shop,
IF When he returned to Salem, Nov. 1st. 1833, he had
$40.00 in cash and enough cloth for a new coat. During
this winter he again attended school and in the Spring
of 1834, went to Damascus, O., where he established
himself, in a neat little
shop on the south side of Main
St. (
"Old State Road" )
about a half block west of the
centre of the village.
While attending school in Salem he had met Margaret
Pettit, (also born in Nov. 1811) and one day, in May
1834 saw her, with her younger sister, Charity, coming
through town, walking down to the office of their older
brother, Dr. Wm. Pettit, M. D. He followed them
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