and five children were well submerged in the water. A resident on the bank seeing the catastrophe, mounted his black steed, an excellent swimmer, came to the rescue, and by swimming around from side to side of the team kept them in line for the shore. Our informant says the heart-rending sighs of that mother is vivid and distinct yet in memory, and that in the short stop near the shallow shore, the father in the excitement, carried every member of the family ashore.

The Pioneer Trail Resumed.

Barney, John, Alfred, Oliver, Asa, Martha, Hannah, Amanda, and Lucinda.
      Thomas Bayman owned a quarter section adjacent to Reed and James Hoel and was related to the latter. He and old Billy Hole were soldiers of the War of 1812, by which England learned the high seas were free and the Star Spangled Banner had better be courtesied to. Brave patriots! Honored be thy memories!
      Of Bayman's family there were Harve, Washington, Mansfield, Charley, Nancy, Hannah, Mariah, and Martha, and of them a goodly posterity well known.
      Aaron Greer owned half a quarter north of "Watty" Brandon, adjoining English to the east. He was a citizen well known and active in the church. Two of his sons were preachers and two were doctors, and another was the writer's early teacher and friend in his youth, though he and his good wife have "passed over," their kindness lives still in our memory. The family was well known, especially in earlier years. Of them were Joshua, James, John, Stephen, Abner, David, Ruth, Catharine, Jane, Maria, and Rachel.
      Henry Swisher owned a quarter section north of James Brandon and south of "Watty," He was the primitive blacksmith of the settlement and old Aunt Rhoda was a distinguished Grandma too. Of their children were Joseph, John, William, Benjamin, Abner, Sarah, Nellie, and Rhoda. They were well known up to the middle of the century, and Joseph as active in the church a quarter of a century after. On the south-west corner of this farm was the second school house of the upper part of the settlement, the first one was located on the hill a little distance east and south, across the deep hollow from the James Brandon homestead, and was constructed like, and cotemporary with, the one mentioned as that on the village site. But the second one, as above, was quite an academic affair. Its logs were hewn and it had two windows of nine panes of glass, 8 x 10, though it had the big fireplace, the cabin roof, and the puncheon floor. Here the youth and children of Swisher, and English, and Brandons, and Dunwoodys, and Ward, and Taylor, and Long and Greer, and Davidson, and Metzcar, and Pitsenbarger, and

Smith, went to school. Among the teachers were Samuel Dunwoody, Richard Brandon, Joseph Swisher, Greer and Miss Annie Moore. From the debris of the old fireplace has grown a tree of considerable dimensions, gazing at which my muse came and I wrote a poem I call,

"The Old School House."

I looked upon that sycamore

   Of Zacheus, I thought;

Within those walls the ancient youth

   By Uncle Joe was taught.

And Rev. Richard Brandon too

   Was also once their teacher,

Until another call he got,

   Then, went to be a preacher.

The boys upon the old Beech trees

   Did cut their sweethearts name;

Of her, no doubt,, they thought far more,

   Than e're they thought of Fame.

But where are now this ancient youth,

   Who on these school grounds played?

Some's old and gray, some's far away,

   Most in their graves are laid.

But upon high, in the by-and-by

   They'll meet again they say,

Youth's fountain nigh, will ne'er run dry

   In the land that's far away.

Of knowledge's well in that heavenly dell

   We'll drink again and again;

We'll sing our songs as we float along

   On the' Heavenly ocean, main.

In orchards there, there's fruit most rare,

   We'll pluck in the by-and-by;

At home up there, there's holy air

   And the people never die.