scalped by Indians. This paper by Mr. Silas Jones is repro-
duced in this history. The fact that the Warth brothers
carried the first United States mail between Marietta
and Gallipolis, brought out the letter of Col. David Barber, of
Harmar, who was present at the reading by the secretary,
Mr. George McQuigg. Before the reading of the letter, Mrs.
E. L. Bicknell placed an "In Memoriam" in the secretary's
hands which he read as preparatory to the correspondence
with Col. Barber.
"I come today to speak of the dead, of funerals without
hearse, and burials in graves hollowed out by kindly neigh-
bors, and mourned sincerely by loving hearts. The pioneers
who died were laid in plots of ground not held by any special
tenure, often private burial places convenient of access to the
families bereaved. In the subsequent changes of ownership
of land; in the wide scattering of relatives; these places have
been neglected, and graves of our ancestors have too. often
been lost. Allow me to call attention to a "burying ground,"
I use the Quaker term, as most befitting, situated on the farm
of my late father, N. Bicknell, and the portion now owned by
me. It is in all respects a pioneer graveyard. There have
been no interments in it for forty years. Here are the graves
of Mrs. Abigail Lindley, who drove the first carriage from
Athens to Great Bend; Mr. Haviland Chase, from Otsego,
N.Y., whose tombstone is marked with the compass and
square: Isaac Laveaux Roberts, also with compass and
square. He was grandfather of the well-known Capt. William
Roberts, steamboatman, of Letart, O. Mr. Smith and wife,
and Mrs. Smith, second, wife of John Smith, mother of Mr.
Thomas Smith, and great grandmother of Prof. Thomas S.
Carr, of Syracuse, O. Mr. Duncan, a Scotchman, and his
wife, who came from Scotland, with the famous Nahum Ward
colony. Mrs. McDaniel, of the same Scotch company, Mr.
George Warth, wife and daughter. Two children of Charles
and Lydia McClain, nee' Roush, little ones-"Mary Jane and
