Hi there!
Glad you are enjoying the Silverheels web site. As for the picture in the link to the Morgan Co. web site - I imagine it is under copyright.... I 'lifted' it from their web site to use as a link --figured they wouldn't mind. But they might mind it being used for other purposes - if it came to their attention.
Think you'll be contributing any stories or memories to the site? Hope so!
Take care - more later.
Leila

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How interesting! Bernie is related to a lot of people from that area .. .it was fun when we first began corresponding - I would mention someone friend's name and Bernie was related. Or a favorite teacher - Bernie was related! lol
Good luck with your search! And please, keep sharing anything you find of interest on Silverheels!

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My grandfather, Christian Gottlieb Schneider (aka C.G.), was born in 1867 on the Schneider Farm on Big Run in Noble County, seven miles from Lowell. C.G. worked hard on the farm as a youth and earned money by, among other things, making axe handles for sale (I still have one).

Shortly before his marriage in 1897 he had saved enough to purchase the furniture and undertaking business established in 1869 by Franz Schneider (who was no relation to C.G.). The property consisted of a two story brick house and a three story brick store building on Canal Street in Lowell.

When the 1913 Muskingum River Flood came, C.G. moved what he could of the contents of his store to the second and then to the third floor, but it did no good. With his establishment gone and the village in a shambles, C.G. felt that there would not be enough business for two firms in Lowell. He contacted competitor H. Spies & Son with an offer either to buy or to sell. Spies bought and C.G. relocated with his family to Belpre. The business itself continues to this day, after nearly 140 years, as the Cawley & Peoples Funeral Home.

According to a recent item in the Ohio State Alumni Magazine, “the [1913] flood, which caused hundreds of deaths and massive destruction statewide, is still considered Ohio’s greatest natural disaster”. Certainly it dramatically affected the lives of many on the Lower Muskingum.

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I should have added this to the last story Every year when I tilled up my garden in Ohio ,I came up with several marbles ,from very old glass ,to the old ceramic ,to clay ones from real old times .I have an old half pint cream bottle full of them . It shows almost a complete history of marbles. The house I lived in was over 100 yr`s old ,and during the coal mining days I`m told it sat on sand stones a couple feet or so off the ground .When they dug the basement for it they dumped the dirt where I had my garden .I can just see a couple of kids sitting under the house in the shade ,playing marbles. I even found pieces of old (smoking ,pipes ) .If I would have done a real archaeology dig ,hard telling what I would Have found . Bernie

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Bernie found a poem titled "The Devil's Tea Table" credited to S.Q. Lapius. And the layout and words in the poem perfectly match the poem I found credited to James Ball Naylor. Interesting that the poem was published under both names - don't you think?

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