Brewster Higley, Jr., and his sister, Susan Higley, were
teachers at some time in this log school-house. Mr. Samuel
Halliday taught many terms in a house on the school lot, and
continued to teach in different neighborhoods until the brick
school house was built, where he taught until his election as
Auditor of Meigs county, which office he held for twenty-four
years, having been elected in 1825.
"First school-house was a small log cabin, built about 1809
on the ground now occupied by the lower graveyard in Mid-
dleport. The first teacher in that house was Jared Gaston,
in 1810. The second teacher was Sally Higley, afterwards the
wife of Daniel C. McNaughton, and the next term of school
was taught by John Gilliland, who continued to teach about
one year. The second school-house was built of hewed logs
a short distance above Leading creek, on the Ministerial Sec-
tion, and was designed for a meeting house, as well as a
school-house. It was in this house that the first Courts of
Common Pleas were held for the county of Meigs in the year
1819." Recollections, John C. Hysell, Esq., who lived with
his father where the Rutland road came out to the river at
the mouth of Bone Hollow, their home for eight or nine years,
while he was a boy of sixteen years.
Joel Lowther was born in Loudon county, Virginia, August
4th, 1741. He was a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pen-
sion. He made his home at the house of John Stevens in
Rutland, and died there November 7th, 1853. After his death,
the Military Record was examined by Jesse Hubbell, then
acting Justice of the Peace, who found that record made him
one year older than his own account, which made him 112
years, 3 months and 3 days old, at the time of his death.
