A Little piece of Paradise… College Hill, Ohio - SELFCRAFT

who had succumbed to water or something else. He was asleep on the road with two hams by his side.The boys ‘sneaked’ the hams, and later on they were devoured with éclat at the Union SanitaryCommission picnic at Colerain. Every farmer they met declared they had heard the yarn oftenenough. The majority, however, gathered their horses together and drove them into the weeds thatgrew as high as a house in the Miami bottom.Venice owes George Richards a debt of gratitude to this day.”Another Morgan story from The Daily: 32 “Morgan crossed the Ohio below Louisville andheaded north, then west, direct for Cincinnati...On toward Mt. Healthy he came, and Branch Witherbyand his sons joined the ranks of the other ‘minute men’ hurrying in the direction of his possible path.But he had passed, cutting across to Glendale and then on up the river.One amusing incident that occurred that late summer day in `63 is well remembered. Astorekeeper of Mt. Airy named Memmel had a fine white horse and Morgan’s men heard of it.Memmel had the start on them, leaped on the animal and rode it into a barn down the road. He wentoutside, shut the big door and folded his arms. When Morgan’s men came along and asked him if hehad seen a white horse being ridden along the way, he replied: ‘Well, I didn’t see any. Fact is, I’vejust woke up a bit ago,’ and they passed on.”32 The Daily, Old College Hill Well Still Serving Thirsty, September 5, 1927116