The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonSearight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
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The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon
Searight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
Cumberland Road; Pennsylvania -- Biography
The home of the regular wagoner was on the road, and a good home it was,
in so far as mere subsistence and stimulus to the senses were concerned,
and it is his nativity, that the author has endeavored to note. Regulars
and sharpshooters are listed herein indiscriminately, but a majority of
the names given as of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, are those of
sharpshooters. The residences and homes of the following old wagoners
could not be accurately ascertained, but they are familiar names, all
well remembered by old inhabitants of the roadside, viz: William Kieger
(a lively fellow, and a "regular"), James Dunbar, William Keefer, Rafe
Rutlege, Samuel Jackson, Benjamin Hunter, David Greenland, John
Strauser, Jacob Cox, Jonathan Whitton, Gus Mitchell, Samuel Dowly, James
Patton, Joseph Freeman, James Hall, William Purcell, Samuel Rogers, John
Nye, Israel Young, James Davis, Jacob Beem, Isaac Young, Martin Irwin,
James Parsons, James Kennedy, Isaac Shaffer, John Lynch, Michael
Longstaff, George Nouse, Peter Penner, James Shaffer, John McClure, John
Cox, William Cox, Joseph Cheney, Frank Mowdy, Caldwell Shobworth, James
Jolly, Andrew Sheverner, Jacob and James Layman, John Crampton, Henry
Smith, William Miller, John Miller, Henry McGruder, Elias McGruder,
Michael Miller, John Seibert, Henry Stickle, Ezra Young, Jonas Speelman,
David Connor, Eli Smith, Jacob Everson, Nathaniel Everson. Joseph Shaw,
James Irvin, John Chain, William Wiglington, Doug. Shearl, Marion
Ritchie, John Vandyke, John Alphen, Daniel Carlisle, George Burke,
Thomas Ogden, Michael Abbott, Charles Genewine, Herman Rolf, Isaac
Manning.
The following letters from Jesse J. Peirsol, now a prosperous farmer of
Franklin township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, of vigorous health and
unimpaired memory, furnish a graphic description of life on the road in
its palmy days:
December 3, 1892.
MR. T. B. SEARIGHT:
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