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
Aaron Wyatt, James Andrews, Alfred Haney, Wash Bodkin, William Crawford,
Charles Cherry, William Hammers, Addis Lynn, Harry, Nelse and Jack
Hammers, Nimrod, Joseph, Jack and William Sopher, John and Joseph
Pomroy, William and Watt Whisson, John McCollough, William Miller, son
of Charley, the old tavern keeper west of Hillsborough; Robert
McIlheney, John McMack, Thomas, Joshua and William Boyd, John Parsons,
Matthew Davis, one of the oldest, and still living at Brownsville; John
W. Boyce, George Wiggins, brother of Harrison, the old fox hunter of the
mountains; Robert Bennett, William White, David Reynolds, James
McIllree, Fred Buckingham, Thomas and William Noble.
William Noble died in Washington, Pennsylvania, Jan. 26, 1894.
Robert McIlheny, after relinquishing the reins and whip, became an agent
for the sale of the celebrated Hayes buggies, of Washington.
John Parsons left the road to take charge of a hotel in Bridgeville,
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Alfred Haney went South, became
baggagemaster on a Southern railroad, and was killed in an accident.
Charley Cherry had the manners of a savage, and was called "the big
savage man," but it is not known that he ever wantonly shed the blood of
a fellow being.
James McIlree drove between Washington and Wheeling.
Hugh Drum was called "Mickey Murray." He lingered for a while on the
road after its glory departed, and pushed out for New York, where he
engaged to drive an omnibus. What became of him in the subsequent
shifting sands of time is not known, but presumably he has gone to the
unknown world.
[Illustration: MATT. DAVIS.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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