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Andrew Johnston (1787-1868) and
Climena Conklin (1792-1874)
Andrew's grave near Sycamore
Andrew Johnston was born two days before Christmas 1787 in Salem, NJ, the son of Daniel and Sarah Anne (Kirkpatrick) Johnston.
In his young years, Andrew and his parents migrated to southwestern Pennsylvania and planted roots in Greene and Washington Counties.
Andrew was united in the bonds of holy matrimony with Climena Conklin (Jan. 23, 1792-1874), also spelled "Conkling," a native of Washington County and the daughter of Capt. John J. and Elizabeth Phoebe (Mills) Conklin.
Eleven children were born to this union. The known names were Maria Tripp, Jane Wick Carrel, Daniel Johnston, Lavina Lively, Andrew J. Johnston, William "Harrison" Johnston, Columbus Johnston, Caroline Johnston, George W. Lafayette Johnston and Roseann Johnston.
Two of the daughters married Caleb Hughes of Mannington, WV and John Lindley of Board Tree, WV.
Early in their marriage, the Johnstons lived in Morris Township, Washington County. Then in 1820 the couple settled on a hilly farm in Center Township in what today is considered the community of Sycamore. There, they "remained until their death," said a profile of their son Andrew in the 1888 book History of Greene County, Pennsylvania, authored by Samuel P. Bates.
When the federal census enumeration was made in 1850, the Johnstons dwelled on a farm in Center Township, Living next door was the family of 29-year-old Daniel Johnston and his wife, 25-year-old Clarissa. Andrew's estate at that time was valued at $10,000, and the census-taker spelled the family surname "Johnson."
Waynesburg Republican, 1868
Cornerstone Genealogical Society
The United States Census for 1860 shows the family continuing to dwell in Center Township, with Andrew's real estate now valued at $12,000 and personal estate $3,000. The only one of their children still at home at that time was son Lafayette, who earned his keep as a farm laborer. Their son Andrew and family resided next door, and two houses away was the family of David and Eliza Johnson.
Sadly, at the age of 78, on July 12, 1868, Andrew died at home. Brief death notices were published in the Waynesburg Republican and Greene County Messenger. The remains were laid to rest in a small private hilltop burial ground.
A prominent marker was erected at the grave. It is still legible today, and upright, although no longer standing on its base. Inscribed on the base is this epitaph:
Go home dear friends dry up your tears,
I must lay here til Christ appears,
Then burst the bands with sweet surprise,
And in my saviour's image rise.
Climena outlived her spouse by six years. During that time she resided in the home of her son Andrew who dwelled in Hunter's Cave..
The spirit of death whisked her away into eternity on Nov. 8, 1874 at the age of 82 years, nine months and 15 days. A short obituary was printed in the Republican.
The family graveyard today is known officially as Johnston Cemetry. It was explored in 2009 by Brad Jarvis who provided driving directions and the names of the two known burials, with his findings published on Interment.net.
Direct descendants David Shaw and the founder of this website also visited the Johnston Cemetery in August 2021. At the time, it was covered in a dense growth of trees and underbrush. Evidence showed that pears and rosebushes had been planted at the site, and that the perimeter was surrounded by wooden fenceposts and remnants of barbed wire which at one time had provided protection.
Above: Andrew's epitaph. Below: descendant David Shaw at the overgrown hilltop graveyard, likely on the old Johnston farm..
~ Daughter Maria (Johnston) Tripp ~
Daughter Maria Johnston (1812-1890) was born on Jan. 29, 1812 in Washington or Greene County, PA, the eldest of 11 children.
She entered into the bonds of marital union with Franz Anthon "Anthony" Tripp (April 8, 1815-1893). He was an immigrant from the Prussia region of in Germany.
About Anthony's early years, the Waynesburg Democrat-Messenger once reported that he:
....was born at Hoscastle, on the bank of the river Weiser, in Germany in 1815, where he lived until October 1840, when wearied with the demand made by the Prussian King for military service, he applied for a passport to the U.S. His application was repeated as the authorities would not permit young men in any instance to go to the United States. Fully determined Mr. Tripp applied to another window for passport to England which was granted. Armed with the permit he arrived in safety as he supposed at the free city of Brehmen [sic] where a vessel was about to start to the United States. Just as he stepped into the boat to be conveyed to the ship, his passport was demanded. Finding it read to England instead of America he was arrested and turned over to the police, whom King William had employed to arrest any of his men, who were about to escape to America. Learning the boat would return again in the evening he determined to take the matter cooly, inviting the officers to drink wine at his expense hoping thus to make his escape. The wine soon had its effect on his captors who began to curse King William, declaring that he only paid them a small fee for returnign his subjects. Taking the hint Mr. Tripp presented each of police with a thaler in connection with the wine, which rendered them entirely oblivious of their duties; he got aboard the ship and crawling in among some boxes, etc., he did not come out until the ship was far out to sea. He landed at New Orleans, where he remained for a short time; he then went to St. Louis, and after a short sojourn there he came to Washington, Pa., where he hired with William Gabby, a farmer. Here he became acquainted with Maria Johnson, daughter of the late Andrew Johnson, of Sargents Mills, this county whom he married in 1841. When he commenced to work for Mr. Gabby he was penniless and did not have any thing. He rented a farm near Lindleys mills, Washington county and commenced housekeeping, he kept sheep on the shares, bnd by industry and economy he managed to save a little money each year. He soon conceived the idea of buying himself a farm, which he did in 1848.
The Tripps established their residence on a 190-acre farm, agreeing to pay $10 per acre with $500 as a down payment and $200 annual installments without interest. Maria joined a church in about 1835 and held her membership for 55 years.
Together, they bore five children -- William Tripp, James Tripp, Annie Carroll, Mrs. John M. Day and Mrs. Nelson Booth.
Then in about 1856, having satisfied his mortgage, he and Maria moved to a farm in Nineveh, Greene County. The farm "was in a very bad condition when he moved onto it," said the Democrat-Messenger in 1893. "He went to work to improving the land, and in a very few years it was one of the best grain and grass producing farms. Last fall he sold this farm that cost him $10 per acre for something more than $55 per acre on an average, to his sons Wm. and James Tripp."
Old bridge in Prosperity, PA
Anthony belonged to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church denomination. When the congregation built a new Unity church at Graysville, he made generous donations. Said the Democrat-Messenger, he "always assisted churches in his community regardless of sect. He was an honest upright man; he never sued a man and was never sued, he was a man of peace."
Maria died in their home at the age of 78 on July 7, 1890. Funeral services were held in the family home, led by Rev. N.P. Kerr of Nineveh. The burial was held at Prosperity Cemetery, under a prominent granite monument they had installed years before. Obituaries were published in the Waynesburg Republican and Waynesburg Democrat-Messenger. The Democrat-Messenger said that she "lived a consistent christian life until her death, her aged companion survives her, they have been married about fifty years and their life has been a very prosperous and happy one."
Anthony outlived her by five years and at the end shared a home with his son William. The angel of death carried him away "suddenly" on Jan. 18, 1893. The Republican and Democrat-Messenger also printed obituaries, the Democrat Messenger saying "He had been in his usual health until forty minutes before his death, he cmoplained of trouble about the heart, and rapidly grew worse until relieved by death." Rev. Byers, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, presided over the funeral.
Son William Tripp lived on the old family farm in Nineveh in 1890.
Son James Tripp made his home in 1890 on the old family farm in Nineveh.
Daughter Annie Tripp ( ? - ? ) was born in (?). On May 8, 1884, in nuptials led by Rev. Hanna, she wed Anderson Carroll ( ? - ? ). News of the wedding was printed in the Waynesburg Republican. They dwelled in England, Washington County, PA in 1890-1893.
Daughter (?) Tripp married John M. Day. The couple migrated to Kansas. Their residence circa 1890-1893 was in Colby, KS.
Daughter (?) Tripp was joined in matrimony with Nelson Booth. They resided at Simpsons Store. Sadly, she was deceased by 1890.
~ Son Andrew Jackson Johnston Sr. ~
Son Andrew Jackson Johnston Sr. (1816-1893) was born on Jan. 18, 1816 in Washington County, PA.
On Dec. 9, 1847, he was joined in wedlock with 26-year-old Phoebe McCullough (April 3, 1817-1899), daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Dunn) McCullough of Greene County.
Together, the couple produced these known offspring -- Sarah A. Heaton, George W. Johnson, Andrew J. Johnston Jr. and Eliza A. Rush..
Andrew's profile in the 1888 History of Greene County
Book naming Andrew and Climena
The first two years of the Johnstons' married lives were spent in Washington County. They then relocated to Greene County and stayed for good.
The Johnstons were farmers and stock raisers throughout their lifetimes. In 1860, they worked as tenant farmers in Center Township, likely renting from Andrew's parents who dwelled next door.
They were longtime members of the local Methodist Episcopal congregation at Hopewell, spanning six decades.
Andrew resided in Center Township for decades and amassed a home farm of 400 acres at Hunter's Cave. In his final years, he was burdened with heart disease.
In May 1893, he traveled by rail to visit a daughter in Washington, PA. He returned and debarked the train at the Sycamore station. Reported the Waynesburg Republican, "After arriving at his home, which is not far from Hopewell church, he complained of illness and gradually grew worse, until death resulted. He was a highly respected citizen and leaves a family."
Phoebe lived for another six years as a widow, and lived with her son Andrew Jr. near Hopewell. After a bout with pneumonia, she died at the age of 83 on April 15, 1899. An obituary in the Waynesburg Democrat Messenger noted that she had "resided on the farm where she died for more than half a century." Burial was at the side of her husband, with funeral services presided over by Rev. G.W. Kelley of Nineveh. Reported the Democrat Messenger, "The casket was furnished by N.W. Carter, of Waynesburg."
Daughter Sarah Ann "Sadie" Johnson (1848-1900) was born in about 1848. She wedded William B. Heaton (Jan. 25, 1849-1922) and dwelled in Sycamore. Two of their children were Lizzie "Florence" Thomas and Frank Heaton. Death swept Sarah away on April 18, 1900. William lived on for another 22 years. Later in 1900, he made a home in Waynesburg with his married daughter Florence and family. He died April 25, 1922.
Grandson Frank Heaton (1870- ? ) was born in Aug. 1870. At the age of 29 in 1900, a bachelor, he resided with his married sister in Waynesburg. At that time, he was a traveling shoe salesman.
Granddaughter Lizzie "Florence" Heaton (1873-1951) was born on March 10, 1873 in Greene County. On July 9, 1892, she wedded 21-year-old Isaac Sparling Thomas (July 1, 1871-1962). Rev. W.J.R. Moore led the wedding, held in Nineveh. At the time of marriage, Isaac lived at Rogersville and was a farmer. The couple resided on Rich Hill Street in Waynesburg in 1900 and on Bridge Street in Waynesburg in the early 1950s. At least one son was born to their union, Frank C. Thomas. Sadly, suffering from heart and kidney disease, Lizzie was felled by a heart attack and died at the age of 78 on April 18, 1951. Her remains were lowered into eternal repose in Greene County Memorial Park. As a widower, Isaac survived his wife by more than a decade. He succumbed to death on Feb. 5, 1962.
Son George W. Johnson (1849- ? ) was born on Dec. 12, 1849. He was joined in matrimonial union with Minerva Boyd (1847-1938) They resided on Hopewell Ridge near Rogersville. Among their offspring were Nora Blanche Bennington, Bertha Ellen Johnston, Irwin Boyd Johnston and Harrison "Harry" Johnston. George passed into eternity on Valentine's Day 1905. She lived for another 33 years. The angel of death led her away in 1938.
Granddaughter Nora Blanche Bennington ( ? - ? )
Granddaughter Bertha Ellen Johnston (1879-1958) was born on Feb. 3, 1879. She never married over her long life. Her years were spent performing housework, with an address in the late 1950s of 47 West Elm Street in Waynesburg. Stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage, she was admitted to Greene County Memorial Hospital and there died on Jan. 3, 1958. Donald Fox of Waynesburg signed the official death certificate. Burial of the remains was in Greene County Memorial Park.
Grandson Irwin Boyd Johnston (1886-1959) was born on Sept. 21, 1886 in Center Township, Greene County. He earned a living over the years as a farmer and carpenter. He entered into marriage with Georgia Inghram Johnston ( ? - ? ). their home was in the rural outskirts of Waynesburg. His later years were burdened with heart disease and hardening of the arteries. Sadly, he was felled by a heart attack and suddenly surrendered to death on Oct. 30, 1959, at the age of 73. The remains were buried in Hopewell Cemetery in Center Township. Alton Johnston was the informant for the Pennsylvania certificate of death.
Grandson Harrison "Harry" Johnston (1888-1968) was born on Dec. 11, 1888 in Sycamore, Greene County. He spent his life as a farmer. He wedded Mary Breese ( ? - ? ). Their home in the 1960s was on the Cameron Star Route near Waynesburg. Having contracted influenza which became bronchial pneumonia, he suffered a heart attack. Eight days later, he succumbed to the angel of death in Greene County Memorial Hospital at the age of 79 on New Year's Day 1968. Interment was in Hopewell Cemetery in Center Township.
Son Andrew "Jackson" Johnston Jr. (1855-1940) was born on June 22, 1855 in Waynesburg. He was a farmer in young adulthood. On Nov. 30, 1886, when he was 31 years of age, and living in Hunter's Cove, he was intermarried with 26-year-old Mary Elizabeth "Libby" Webster (Feb. 15, 1860-1947), daughter of Samuel and Lucinda Webster. The nuptials were held in the village of Rutan, with Rev. James E. Donley officiating. Libby was a dressmaker at the time of marriage. They relocated to Ohio and dwelled in Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, OH. He died there on July 2, 1940. She outlived him as a widow by seven years. She passed away on Jan. 26, 1947.
Daughter Eliza A. Johnston ( ? - ? ) ws born in (?). She grew to womanhood in Hunter's Cove, Greene County. On Oct. 18, 1888, she married carpenter David E. Rush ( ? - ? ) of Harveys, Greene County. Their home in was in Hunter's Cave.
~ Daughter Jane Wick (Johnston) Carrel/Carroll ~
Daughter Jane Wick Johnston (1818-1904) was born in May 1818 in Greene County.
She married Charles Carrel (1809-1883), also spelled "Carroll" at times, a native of Washington County, and of Irish heritage. Charles was a longtime blacksmith and farmer.
Their children were Leeroy William Carrel,William Spencer Bailey Carrel, Sarah Delilah "Leila" Carrel, Columbus Johnson Carrel, Lavina Jane Carrel, C. Milton Blatchley Carrel and George Carrel.
The Carrels resided in Center Township, Greene County in the 1840s and as shown in the 1850 federal census enumeration. By 1860, they had relocated to a farm near Nineveh in Morris Township. The federal census-takers of 1860 and 1870 spelled their last name "Carl."
In 1873, the family was plunged into anxiety and then into grief when three of their children contracted spotted fever. Their daughter Lavina Jane died on Feb. 27, 1873, and son George a short time after at age nine or 10. Another son was not expected to live. The tragic story was briefly covered in the Waynesburg Republican.
The 1880 federal census shows the 68-year-old Charles as "Retired B. Smith" and that Jane was occupied "Keeping house" in Morris Township. Their 32-year-old unmarried son William, 18-year-old carpentry apprentice Sylve McGlumphy and 45-year-old domestic servant Mary Allison lived under their roof that year.
Evidence suggests that he was the same "Charles Carroll" who suffered a stroke at home in Morris Township on Christmas Day 1883, "from which he never rallied" and succumbed four days later on Dec. 29, 1883, reported the Waynesburg Republican. "He was a man of fine social qualities and high business integrity, and was well respected in the community in which he lived... He leaves an aged wife and several grown up children to mourn his death." His remains were lowered into repose in the Hopewell Cemetery at Rogersville.
Jane lived for another 19 years as a widow. She passed away on Aug. 2, 1904.
Farms of "C. Carrel" (48 acres) and "L.W. Carrel" (1½ acres) south of Nineveh, along Brown's Fork, near the Patterson Schoolhouse. 1876 Atlas of Greene County.
Carrel grave. Courtesy David Shaw
Son Leeroy William Carrel (1845-1903) was born on Oct. 12, 1845 in Nineveh, Greene County. He wedded Mary Ellen Tewksberry (Oct. 25, 1851-1922), a native of Athens County, OH and the daughter of T.J. and Elizabeth (McNuelin?) Tewksbury. Their wedding reputedly was held in Athens County. The Carrels produced these offspring -- Lavina Jane "Jennie" Stewart, Kittie Carrel, William Leeroy "Will" Carrel, Donald Leeroy Carrel and twins Olive Mae Shaw and Ola N. Carrel. Sadness cascaded over the family at the death of twin daughter Ola in infancy in 1893. The family made its home for many years near Nineveh, Greene County. Leeroy held high profile public service positions in the community. He was constable and assessor of Morris Township for several terms, county coroner and county auditor. Circa 1903, the year he died, he was a notary public, jury commissioner and township auditor. The Waynesburg Republican said that "He lived not for himself alone but tried to be of some service to all with whom he came in contact." Leeroy passed away at home on Sept. 29, 1903 at about the age of 57. Rev. E.H. Greenlee, pastor of the Nineveh Methodist Episcopal Church, officiated at the funeral service. In a belated obituary published on Jan. 7, 1904, the Republican noted that he "had been in failing health for some weeks and at last that dread disease, typhoid fever, fastened its relentness hold on him and death claimed him after a brief illness of three weeks duration. he seemed to be getting along fairly well and hopes were entertained for his recovery until the Sabbath preceding his death. All that medical skill and willing hands could do was done by his faithful physician, Dr. W.S. Throckmorton, his family and efficient nurse, Mr. Ely, but all proved of no avail.... [He was] a good brother, an indulgent and affectionate husband and father, and a useful citizen. It is a trial, indeed, to part with those to whom we are so closely bound by the ties of nature and think we must face the cold world without the counsel and care of a father but 'Life is but a day at most,' and ere long we too must pass, as do our friends of earth, to the great beyond." Mary Ellen outlived his wife by 19 years. Grief enshrouded her world in 1920 when her 28-year-old daughter Olive Mae Shaw died of kidney issues related to pregnancy. In her later years, Mary Ellen was burdened with acute heart valve problems caused by an insufficient blood flow to her heart. On April 28, 1922, at the age of 70, Mary Ellen dropped dead at her home. Burial was in Hopewell Cemetery near Rogersville. Minnie Huffman of Nineveh signed the death certificate.
Granddaughter Lavina Jane "Jennie" Carrel (July 22, 1872-1960) was born on July 22, 1872 in Nineveh, Morris Township. On New Year's Eve 1900, in Waynesburg, she was united in wedlock with Henry Mason Stewart (Jan. 7, 1865-1938), the son of Peter and Catharine M. (Frye) Stewart of Center Township, Greene County. The pair's brood of offspring included Bernice E. Stewart, Paul Carl Stewart, Wilbur Leroy "Wib" Stewart, Mary Edice Stewart, Thelma A. Stewart, Bertha Michael Stewart, Mildred Jeannette Stewart and Michael J. Stewart. Circa 1920, their home was in Oak Forest, Greene County. The couple were farmers. They resided in 1903 in Oak Forest, Center Township and in the late 1930s in the rural outskirts of Waynesburg. Sadly, Henry contracted pneumonia and died at the age of 73 on Dec. 17, 1938. Interment of the remains was in Rogersville. Jennie's home in 1960 was at 148 West Greene Street in Waynesburg. Burdened with heart and kidney failure, and advanced hardening of the arteries at the age of 87, Jennie died on April 1, 1960 in Greene County Memorial Hospital. W.F. Stewart of Waynesburg signed the death certificate. Her remains were placed into rest in Rosemont Cemetery in Rogersville.
Great-granddaughter Bernice E. Stewart (1903-1998) was born on May 15, 1903 in Oak Forest, Center Township, Greene County. She passed away in Palm Beach, FL on March 15, 1998.
Great-grandson Paul Carl Stewart (1904-1988) was born on Sept. 27, 1904 in Center Township. On July 9, 1988, he died near Oak Forest.
Great-grandson Wilbur Leroy "Wib" Stewart (1906-1988) was born on May 4, 1906 in Oak Forest. Dr. J.W. Grimes assisted in the birth. He succumbed to death in Waynesburg on May 4, 1988.
Great-granddaughter Mary Edice Stewart (1908-2003) was born on Jan. 4, 1908 in Oak Forest. As he had done previously for the family, Dr. J.W. Grimes assisted in the birth. Death swept her away in Carmichaels, Greene County on Oct. 11, 2003.
Great-granddaughter Thelma A. Stewart (1908?- ? )
Great-granddaughter Bertha Michael Stewart (1910?- ? )
Great-granddaughter Mildred Jeannette Stewart (1910-1971) was born on April 4, 1910 in Oak Forest. The family physician, Dr. J.W. Grimes of Oak Forest, assisted in the birth. She succumbed to the spectre of death in Bethel Park, a suburb of Pittsburgh, on Aug. 23, 1971.
Great-grandson Michael J. Stewart (1911?- ? )
Granddaughter Kittie Carrel (1876-1965) was born in Nov. 1876. At the age of 40, on Nov. 1, 1916, she was united in wedlock with 45-year-old Ernest Carl Schwan ( ? - ? ), a German immigrant and son of Carl and Bertha (Hartwig) Schwan. At the time of marriage, she was a teacher, and he was a sheep-herder living in Carpenter, OH. Rev. G.A. Parkinson officiated at the wedding, held in Waynesburg. They are known to have been in Carpenter in 1920. Kittie's final years were spent in Wooster, Wayne County, OH. She surrendered to the angel of death on Oct. 12, 1965.
Grandson Donald Leeroy Carrel (1887-1955) was born on May 15, 1887 in Nineveh, Greene County. He was a longtime steelworker. Having suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, he was taken to Greene County Memorial Hospital, where he died a day later on Oct. 23, 1955, at age 68. Interment was in Rosemont Cemetery in Rogersville. Clarence J. Shaw was the informant for his official Pennsylvania death certificate.
Sprawling Jessop Steel plant in Washington, PA, Edward Carrel's workplace
Edward Carrel's employer
Granddaughter Olive Mae Carrel (1892-1920) was born on Sept. 29, 1892 in Nineveh, Morris Township, a twin with her sister Ola. Olive was wedded to Edward Clarence Shaw (Oct. 27, 1893-1954), a native of Center Township, Greene County, and the son of James and Rebecca (Pettit) Shaw of Rogersville, Greene County. They made their home near Nineveh. Together, the couple bore three children -- Margaret Mae Shaw and twin sons Ernest Carrel Shaw and Clarence James Shaw. The family belonged to the Nineveh Methodist Episcopal Church. Just after giving birth to her twins, Olive became afflicted with acute kidney problems which involved failure of her veins. She died at home just nine days shy of her 28th birthday on Sept. 20, 1920. Funeral services were officiated by Rev. T.H. Mahon at the family home and church. Burial was in Hopewell Cemetery. An obituary in the Waynesburg Republican eulogized that she "was highly esteemed by all her friends" and gave the cause of death as "a short illness of a complication of diseases." Left with three young children to raise, Edward arranged for daughter Margaret to be taken into the home of Olive's sister Kittie Carrel in Wooster, OH. Edward outlived his first bride by 34 years. He entered into marriage a second time with Dorothy Frances VanMarte (1901-1948 ). Five more children were born to the second union -- Dorothy Elizabeth Shaw Anderson, Mary Frances Shaw McMasters, Lorena Rebecca Shaw Anderson, Edward Clarence "Eddie" Shaw II, and Richard Raymond Shaw Sr. After spending most of his adult years farming and raising livestock, Edward became employed in about 1943 at the Jessop Steel Company in Washington, PA. He held a membership in the steelworkers' local union at the plant. As his health declined, Edward was admitted to the Cresson State Hospital in Cresson, PA. After a two-year stay, he died there at the age of 60 on Jan. 24, 1954. An obituary in the Greene County Democrat Messenger noted that he had been "a resident of Nineveh for the past 41 years" and a "member of the Nineveh Methodist Church for 40 years."
Great-granddaughter Margaret Mae Shaw (1918-1968) was born on March 20, 1918 in Nineveh. She was age two at the death of her mother. Her widowed father arranged for her to be taken into the home of an aunt, Kittie Carrel in Wooster, OH, and there she spent the remainder of her life. She was united in matrimony with John H. Rogers (1910-1953 ). They bore together one daughter, Carolyn Mae Rogers. Margaret joined the United Methodist Church and the American Legion Auxiliary. Sadly, at the age of 50, she died suddenly at home on Aug. 1, 1968. An obituary appeared in the Waynesburg Republican, and her remains were brought back to Greene County to sleep for all eternity in Rosemont Cemetery..
Great-grandson Ernest Carrel Shaw (1920-1926) was born on Aug. 24, 1920, a twin with his brother Clarence. He only lived for just under six years. After contracting scarlet fever, his health plummeted and he died just five days later on May 24, 1926. Interment of the remains was in Hopewell Cemetery.
Great-grandson Clarence J. Shaw (1920- ? ) was born on Aug. 24, 1920, a twin with his brother Ernest. He resided in Waynesburg in 1954.
Son William Spencer Bailey Carrel (1848-1930) was born on May 17, 1848. A lifetime resident of Greene County, William resided for many years in Swarts, Greene County. At the age of 45, on May 3, 1901, he and Mary (Wright) Jones ( ? -1928) united themselves in marriage. The nuptials were witnessed by J.A. Rinehart and J.J. Freeland. Mary had been married previously and was widowed in 1897. Thus she brought these offspring to the union with William -- Mrs. Samuel Simpson, Elisha C. Jones and Wiley F. Jones. She also had raised a nephew, William C. Wright, since his infancy. They were farm laborers near Nineveh, Morris Township. In 1921, he and his brother Milton were named in a Washington Observer obituary of their cousin, Mary Louise (Johnston) Miner. Mary was afflicted with cancerous growth on her face and spent her final time on earth in the home of her daughter. She succumbed to the hands of death in July 1928. An obituary was printed in the Waynesburg Republican. William survived his wife by eight years. Suffering from acute heart problems, he died at age 81 on March 2, 1930, at the home of nephew Donald Carrel in Nineveh. His remains were placed into repose in Hopewell Cemetery in Greene County, with Rev. Arthur Sellers. of the Nineveh Methodist Episcopal Church, preaching the funeral sermon. An obituary was printed in the Republican.
Step-granddaughter (?) married Samuel Simpson ( ? - ? ). Their home in 1928 was in Washington, Washington County.
Step-grandson Elisha C. Jones lived in Taylorstown, PA in the late 1920s.
Step-grandson Wiley F. Jones resided in Washington, Washington County circa 1928.
Daughter Sarah Delilah "Leila" Carrel (1851-1920) was born on March 3, 1851 in Nineveh. She passed away in Cameron, Marshall County, WV on March 13, 1920.
Son Columbus Johnson Carrel (1852-1927) -- also known as "Christopher Columbus Carrel" -- was born on July 26, 1852 in Nineveh, Greene County. He was joined in holy matrimony with Armintha Tewksbury ( ? -1926). They produced five daughters and a son -- Minnie Estella Filby, Mrs. I.S. Nichols, Alma Sampson (or "Samson"), Mrs. M.A. Gorsuch, Mrs. R.E. Thomas and Charles Carroll. Sadly, infant son Charles contracted cholera and died on July 25, 1890, with a short obituary appearing in the Waynesburg Republican. Over the years, Columbus earned a living as a laborer. Sadly, Armintha died on July 2, 1926. Columbus only outlived her by a year. He suffered a stroke of paralysis and, after two years of suffering, succumbed in the home of his daughter Mrs. Filby in Washington at the age of 75 on March 24, 1927. Burial was in Washington Cemetery, with Rev. B. Frank Taber officiating. An obituary was published in the Waynesburg Republican.
Granddaughter Minnie Estella Carrel (1877-1951) was born on Nov. 17, 1877 in Greene County. On Sept. 12, 1895, when she was age 17, she married 27-year-old Samuel Filby ( ? - ? ), son of John and Rebecca Filby. The nuptials were heldin the Walton House in Waynesburg, with Rev. W.E. Howard officiating. Samuel was a farmer and resided in Ruffs Creek, Greene County. In about 1919, they moved to Washington, Washington County, and remained there for the balance of their lives. Their home in the early 1950s was at 109 Brady Avenue in Washington. Minnie was burdened with a large goiter for three decades. She suffered a stroke and passed away in Washington on March 28, 1951. Her remains were interred in Washington Cemetery.
Granddaughter (?) Carrel wedded I.S. Nichols. They dwelled in Washington in the late 1920s.
Granddaughter Alma Carrel (1880-1966) was born on Dec. 1, 1880 in Nineveh. she was joined in marriage with Reuben Abel "R.A." Sampson (or "Samson") ( ? - ? ). They resided in 1927 in Washington. The Samsons' address in the mid 1960s was 750 East Maiden Street. She died from heart disease problems in Washington Hospital at the age of 85 on March 16, 1966. Her remains rest in Washington Cemetery.
Granddaughter (?) Carrel was united in matrimony M.A. Gorsuch. They relocated to St. Paul, MN, and were there in 1927.
Granddaughter (?) Carrel was wed to R.E. Thomas. Circa 1927, their home was in Winter Haven, FL.
Daughter Lavina Jane Carrel (1854-1873) was born in about 1854 in Greene County. Her family was plunged into grief when, at the age of only 18, she contracted spotted fever and was dead within a week, passing away on Feb. 27, 1873. In an obituary, the Waynesburg Republican said that "Two more of the family are sick with the same disease. P.S. -- Since writing the above, a brother aged [blank] years has died of the same disease. Another brother is not expected to live." The Republican obituary misspelled her last name as "Carroll."
Son Milton Blatchley Carrel (1858-1937) was born on Feb. 9, 1858 near Nineveh, Morris Township, Greene County. He was a farmer who never married and resided in Nineveh, Greene County. His father was a native of Greene County and his mother of Washington County. In 1921, he was named in a Washington Observer obituary of a cousin, Mary Louise (Johnston) Miner. After his death due to a stroke following years of hardening of the arteries at age 79, on Aug. 8, 1937, interment was in the Hopewell Cemetery in Rogersville, Greene County. Niece Jennie C. Stewart signed the death certificate. Among the mourners who attended the funeral from out of town was Mrs. E.C. ("Kittie") Schwan of Damascus Road in Salem, Ohio, as noted in the gossip columns of the Salem (OH) News.
Son George Carrel (1863-1873) was born in about 1863 near Nineveh, Morris Township. At the age of about 10, in February 1873, he and his sister Lavina Jane and brother all contracted spotted fever. The sister died on Feb. 27, and within a few days, George was gone as well. He was referred to but not named in his sister's obituary in the Waynesburg Republican.
~ Son Daniel Johnston ~
Son Daniel Johnston (1820-1901) was born in May 1820.
He and Clarissa S. "Clara" Russell (1829-1896) were united in matrimony. She was a native of Ohio.
The nine known children produced by their union were Adeline Clymena Gover, Elizabeth Johnston, Archer/Andrew Johnson, Margaret Johnston, James Weston Johnson, Eliza Jane Bennell, Anna Main, Lincoln Daniel Johnson and Mary Etta "Marietta" Ross.
When the federal census enumeration was made in 1860, the Johnstons and their seven children dwelled on a farm in Morris Township.
The family remained in Morris during the decade of the 1860s, and in 1870 took their mail at the Waynesburg post office.
Circa 1890, the Johnstons were in Nineveh, Greene County. They held a membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Clarissa died in the vicinity of Waynesburg on March 1, 1896. The Waynesburg Democrat Messenger gave the cause as "general debility... She leaves a husband and seven grown up children. She was an excellent lady." Burial was the Hopewell Cemetery, with the funeral sermon preached by Rev. Arthur Smith of Nineveh.
Toward the end of his life, Daniel was burdened with heart disease and congestive heart failure. He surrendered to the spectre of death at the home of his son Lincoln at Dunns Station on Aug. 1, 1901, at the age of 81. The Democrat Messenger said he "had spent the greater portion of his life in Morris township..."
Daughter Adeline Clymena "Addie" Johnston (1846-1923) was born on June 25, 1846 in Center Township, Greene County. She was joined in wedlock with Rufus Gover (May 12, 1848-1891), son of Francis A. and Eleanor Gover of Jollytown. Known children born to this couple were Lucy P. Gover, Ida Gover, Charles Gover, Albert Francis "Bert" Gover and Mary E. Gover. They dwelled in Deep Valley in Springhill Township, Greene County. When the federal census enumeration was made in 1880, the family lived next door to Rufus' parents as well as Ralph and Mary J. Gover. The family was cascaded in grief when Rufus died at the age of 42 on March 9, 1891. Adeline survived as a widow for decades. She remained in Deep Valley as of 1900, providing a home for her four youngest children and 79-year-old father-in-law. Her final 10 years of life were spent enduring hardening of the arteries. In late 1922, she went to live in Garrison, Greene County. She suffered a stroke and died three days later on June 15, 1923, just 20 days before her 75th birthday. Interment was in Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Cemetery. Ella Ross of Amity, Washington County provided vital information for the death certificate.
Albert "Bert" Gover (right) resting with cousin William Allen Miner and wife Osta at Hoover Dam Lake in 1936 -- a year after the feat of engineering and construction was dedicated by President Roosevelt.
Great-granddaughter Lucy P. Gover (1878- ? ) was born in about 1878.
Great-granddaughter Ida O. Gover (1880- ? ) was born in April 1880 in Deep Valley, Greene County. Evidence suggests that she never married. She eventually migrated to the West Coast, as had her brother Albert, and dwelled in Orange County. She died on Sept. 23, 1925. She sleeps for eternity in the same cemetery which holds the remains of her brother, Loma Vista Memorial Park in Fullerton, CA.
Great-grandson Charles Gover (1882- ? ) was born in March 1882. He grew up as a farm laborer.
Great-grandson Albert Francis "Bert" Gover (1883-1970) was born on Dec. 27, 1883. He grew up working on the family farm in Deep Valley. He would have been seven-plus years old at the death of his father in 1891. When he was 28 years of age, in about 1911, he was united in matrimony with Ida "Viola" (1881- ? ), a native of West Virginia. The couple relocated to Southern California, where Bert made a living as an oil driller. Together, they produced three known offspring -- Gerald G. Gover, Audrey D. Gover and Burk F. Gover. In 1930, federal census records show the couple and children living on Liberty Lane in Anaheim. In 1936, at the newly opened Hoover Dam Lake in Nevada, he posed for a snapshot photograph with his cousin and wife, William Allen and Osta (Cain) Miner, who also were residing in Southern California at the time. The Santa Ana (CA) Register reported in April 1934 that Bert and Viola were embarking "on a three months visit in the east" and that a farewell dinner was held in their honor at the home of Mrs. M. Hearn in Garden Grove. When the federal census enumeration was made again 1940, the Govers remained in Anaheim, with Bert laboring as a "well puller" in the oil industry. Son Burk worked as a riveter for an airplane factory, son Gerald as a shippling clerk for a citrus house and Gerald's wife Helen as a telephone operator. Sadly, Viola passed away in 1947, bringing to a close their marriage of 36 years' duration. Bert died in Orange County at the age of 86 on Feb. 26, 1970. Interment of the remains was in Loma Vista Memorial Park in Fullerton, CA.
Great-grandson Clarence Gover (1886- ? ) was born in Oct. 1886.
Great-granddaughter Mary E. Gover (1889- ? ) was born in Jan. 1889.
Daughter Elizabeth Johnston (1848- ? ) was born in about 1848. She may have died young.
Son Andrew Johnson (1850- ? ) -- who may also have used the name "Archer" -- was born in about 1850. When he was 20 years of age and single, in 1870, he lived at home and labored as a farmhand. In adulthood, he migrated to Kansas. He is believed to have died in Clay County, KS.
Daughter Margaret Johnston (1852- ? ) was born in about 1852 in Morris Township, Greene County. She may have died young.
Son James Weston Johnson (1854-1936) was born on Sept. 18, 1854 or 1858 (records differ) in Greene County. He wedded Hannah E. ( ? - ? ). They made a home in Nineveh. His final widowed years were spent living at 310 West Spruce Street in Washington, PA. After contracting bronchial pneumonia, he suffered for five weeks and then died from a heart attack at age 78 on Oct. 18, 1931. Warren Johnston of Washington signed the death certificate. Burial of the remains was in the sacred soil of Washington Cemetery.
Daughter Eliza Jane Johnston (1856-1934) was born on Oct. 18, 1856 in Greene County. She wedded Louie Bennell (March 3, 1850- ? ). Their residence in 1901 was in Rices Landing. Eliza may have died on Oct. 30, 1934 in Uniontown, Fayette County, PA.
Daughter Anna M. Johnston (1858-1932) was born in March 1858. She married Thomas J. Main (Dec. 24, 1856-1945), a West Virginia native and the son of William and (?) (Horner) Main. The couple lived in Jefferson, Greene County. Sadly, Anna passed away in 1932. Thomas outlived her by a baker's dozen years. Toward the end, he was admitted to the Curry Home (Greene County Poor House) where he spent the final year and 18 days of his life. Death enveloped him on Christmas Day 1945, one day after his 89th birthday. The cause of death was ruled as heart disease, old age and "debility." Melvin Main, of Rices Landing, signed the death certificate. Interment was in Jefferson.
Son Lincoln Daniel Johnson (1862-1923) was born on March 18, 1862. He may have been named in part for Abraham Lincoln, newly elected president of the United States. Lincoln dwelled at Ruff Creek/Dunns Station, Greene County in 1901. He made a living as a laborer. At the age of 60, burdened with an inflamed gall bladder, he was felled by a stroke and died on June 19, 1923, in North Franklin Township, Washington County. Emma Johnson signed the death certificate. Burial was in Prosperity Cemetery.
Daughter Mary Etta "Marietta" Johnston (1863-1940) was born on March 3, 1863 (or 1866) in Morris Township, Greene County. She entered into marriage with Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Ross (Jan. 16, 1866-1958), son of John Jackson and Sylvenia (Knight) Ross of Greene County. The pair were longtime farmers and established a home in Lippincott, Greene County and later in Marianna, Washington County. Marriette was afflicted in later years with chronic heart disease and a lesion on her mitral heart valve. She died from a cerebral embolism at the age of 74, in Amwell Township, Washington County on March 26, 1940. Providing key details for her certificate of death was William E. Ross of Marianna. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Cemetery. Frank lived for another 18 years in Amity, Amwell Township. Having become senile and then fracturing his left hip in a fall at home, he underwent heart failure and passed away on Feb. 11, 1958 in Washington Hospital. John H. Ross of Amity was the informant for the death certificate.
~ Daughter Lavina (Johnston) Lively ~
Daughter Lavina Johnston (1825-1917) was born on Aug. 8, 1825 in Greene County, PA.
On March 13, 1856, she entered into wedlock with John Lively (March 6, 1830-1904).
The pair bore a brood of offspring including Lavina Jane Sprowls, Nancy C. Hixenbaugh, John Steven Lively, Milton Alexander Lively and James Richard Lively.
Sadly, John died in Marshall County, WV on Feb. 26, 1904.
Lavina dwelled in Smithfield, Wetzel County, WV circa 1915.
By 1917, suffering from hardening of the arteries, she was back in Pennsylvania and resided in the Washington County Home at Arden, Washington County. She died on April 18, 1917. Said the Waynesburg Republican, "She would have been 91 years of age had she lived until the 8th of August." The remains were lowered into repose in the Windy Gap Cemetery, following services conducted by Rev. Samuel Davis.
Daughter Lavina Jane Lively (1857-1945) was born on June 22, 1857 in West Finley Township, Washington County. Circa 1876, she wedded James A. Sprowls (May 5, 1854-1922), son of John and Hannah (Reed) Sprowls. They were longtime farmers and resided in Claysville, West Finley Township, Washington County, PA. Sadly, burdened with heart trouble and an infection of tuberculosis, James surrendered to the angel of death in Claysville on June 7, 1922. L.L. Sprowls, of Boswell, PA, was the informant for the Pennsylvania certificate of death.Lavina lived for another 23 years. At the age of 87, burdened with hypertension and bronchial pneumonia, and having been felled by a stroke, she passed away on May 23, 1945, also in Claysville. Florence Morris of Claysville signed the death certificate. Interment of the remains was in West Finley Cemetery.
Son John Steven Lively (1858-1934) was born on Dec. 13, 1858 in Greene County. On Jan. 8, 1883, he wedded Martha Elvira Riggs (Nov. 25, 1865-1940), daughter of James and Susannah (Ernest) Riggs of Greene County. (Interestingly, John's brother Milton wed Martha's sister Susannah.) At least two sons were born to the couple, John Andrew Lively and Dr. Chauncey Clinton Lively. The Livelys were farmers who lived in Waynesburg.and in the early 1930s in Eighty Four, Washington County. John contracted organic heart disease and a heart valve lesion. When he developed pneumonia, at age 75, he died in Eighty Four on April 1, 1934. Susannah survived him by about six years and remained in Eighty Four. She was diagnosed with cancer of the left breast in 1939 and suffered for about a year. The angel of death carried her away on June 16, 1940 in Somerset Township, Washington County. Burial was in Washington Cemetery. Lena Lively, of Eighty Four, provided key details for the Pennsylvania death certificate.
Grandson John Andrew Lively ( ? - ? )
Grandson Dr. Chauncey Clinton Lively ( ? - ? )
Son Milton Alexander Lively (1860-1934) was born on July 28, 1860 in Greene County. Circa 1885, he entered into marriage with Susannah Jane Riggs (Sept. 19, 1854-1934), daughter of James and Susannah (Ernest) Riggs of Greene County. (Interestingly, Milton's brother John married Susannah's sister Martha.) They lived in West Virginia in 1917. By the early 1930s, they were in Grove City on the outskirts of Columbus, OH. Sadly, the couple died just two months apart. Suffering from chronic heart disease, senility and exhaustion, she passed first, on Feb. 25, 1934, at age 79. His death occurred on April 25, 1934, from the effects of brain inflammation ("encephalitis") and influenza. Charles E. Lively, of Mulford Road in Columbus, was the informant for both of their official Ohio death certificates. Interment was in Mt. Sterling, OH.
Son James Richard Lively (1866-1953) was born on Aug. 8, 1866 in Washington County. On Oct. 28, 1889, he was joined in wedlock with his first wife, Annie M. Aberegg (Feb. 20, 1872-1915). Sadly, Annie is said to have died in Ohio on May 4, 1915, although this is not confirmed. The widowed James lived West Virginia. His second marriage took place on Aug. 13, 1929, with Mary Elizabeth Sterling (Sept. 17, 1917-2003). James died in Wetzel County, WV on Oct. 10, 1953. Mary Elizabeth lived for another extraordinary 47 years after her husband's death. She passed n Oct. 20, 2003.
Daughter Nancy C. Lively (1869-1955) was born on March 13, 1869. When she was 31 years of age, on June 9, 1900, she married James William Hixenbaugh (Nov. 1869-1939), sonof Sampson and Christine (Donaldson) Hixenbaugh. The couple were farmers, and their home in 1917 was in Gale, PA. The family was plunged into anxiety and grief when James was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Unable to eat, and suffering from malnutrition, he died on Feb. 10, 1939 in West Finley, at the age of 69. On his death certificate, Nancy's maiden name was written "Lytle." Burial was in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Nancy endured as a widow for another 16 years. She passed into the everlasting in 1955.
~ Son Columbus Johnston ~
Son Columbus Johnston (1831-1915) was born on June 4, 1831 in Center Township, Greene County.
He spent a majority of his life in and around Center.
On March 5, 1855, when he was about 23 years of age, he wedded Emeline Bane (June 17, 1838-1895), a native of Washington County and the daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Carter) Bane. Their union endured for more than four decades.
Village of Sycamore near the Johnstons' farm
Four children born to this marriage included Nathan Bane Johnston, Elizabeth L. "Lizzie" Rush, Dora May Johnston and Lewis B. Johnston. The family mourned at the death of son Lewis in infancy circa 1865.
Said the Waynesburg Republican, Columbus was "a man of upright character, known for his integrity, and had been engaged in farming and stockraising for many years, in which he was unusually successful. In politics he was a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party. He had been a member of the South Ten Mile Baptist church for over fifty years and led a devoted Christian life."
The couple resided in 1870-1890 near Rogersville, Greene County. That year, Columbus was profiled in the History of Greene County, authored by Samuel P. Bates. The short biography said that he had "made farming his business through life, and by strict honesty and industry has procured a nice home, consisting of 108 acres of land, where he and family reside."
Columbus's profile in the 1888 History of Greene County
Sadly, Emeline passed away just three days before Christmas 1895.
Columbus outlived his wife by two decades. After retiring, he and his unmarried daughter Dora relocated into the Greene County seat of Waynesburg in about 1911.
There, he died at home on Jan. 8, 1915, in the 84th year of his life. Reported the Republican, "He had been ill about four weeks, his death resulting from an attack of grippe." Burial was in Rogersville's Rosemont Cemetery, with the funeral services led by Rev. George C. Harper of the Waynesburg Baptist Church. Inscribed on the face of his grave marker were the words "Ever remembered."
Rosemont Cemetery in Rogersville
Son Nathan Bane Johnston (1857-1941) was born two days before Christmas 1857 in Center Township, Greene County. In young adulthood he resided in nearby Rogersville and made a living as a farmer. On Sept. 7, 1889, when he was 31 years of age, he married 24-year-old Emily Anne Grimes (Nov. 30, 1864-1931) of Lippincott, Greene County and the daughter of Cephas and Mary Ann (Hoge) Grimes. Their wedding nuptials were held at the home of Emily's parents, presided over by Rev. A.J. Meek. They are known to have made a home in Khedive, Greene County in 1915 and continued their farming work. Emily was burdened with chronic heart valve disease and, at age 66, passed away on Oct. 12, 1931. Nathan outlived her by a decade. For the last five years of his life, he suffered from chronic kidney disease, and hardening of the arteries for the last two. Death swept him away in Jefferson Township at the age of 83 on May 7, 1941. They rest under a large stone in Rosemont Cemetery in Rogersville. Fred Phillips of Waynesburg signed the official Pennsylvania certificate of death.
Daughter Elizabeth L. "Lizzie" Johnston (1862-1961) was born three days after Christmas 1862 in Center Township, Greene County. At the age of 26, on Jan. 25, 1889, she entered into marriage with 25-year-old farmer Joseph Lindsey Rush (May 25, 1863-1922), son of Phillip and Catharine Rush of Rogersville. Rev. M. Tilton officiated the wedding, held at the residence of Lizzie's parents. Evidence suggests that they were the parents of Hobart Stanley Rush. Their home in 1915 was in Sycamore, Greene County. Joseph reputedly died in 1922. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. The widowed Lizzie lived for another nearly four decades, with her final years spent on South Morgan Street in Waynesburg. Toward the end, she was admitted as a resident of Curry Memorial Home. The spectre of death carried her away at age 98 on March 2, 1961. Thelma Phillips of Waynesburg was the informant for the death certificate.
Grandson Hobart Stanley Rush (1895-1920) was born on Christmas Day 1895. He labored as a farmer as a young man. In about late 1918, he was diagnosed with a gallbladder infection known as "cholecystitis." After a time, he further developed an infection of peritonitis. On June 10, 1920, he died in Center Township, Greene County at the age of 24. He sleeps for eternity with his parents in Rosemont Cemetery.
Daughter Dora May Johnston (1869-1938) was born on Dec. 18, 1869 in Greene County. She was unmarried in 1915 and lived with her widowed father in Waynesburg. At his death, she was named executrix of the estate and received a large bulk of his assets. It was not until she was age 57 that she was joined in matrimony with widower Johnson Dennis Smith (Sept. 6, 1876-1939), son of George M. and Catharine (Brant) Smith of Pine Bank, Greene County. He and his first wife, Martha Morris ( ? - ? ) had borne eight children, among them Mrs. George McMillan, Paul E. Smith, Mary Smith, Maurice Smith, Sarah Smith, Jack Smith and two who died young. During his working career in Greene County, Johnson had been employed by Manufacturers Light and Heat Company. They relocated to Arizona and in 1929-1938 lived in Condron-Pastine near Tucson, Pima County. The federal census enumeration of 1940 shows Johnson employed by a gas company as a meter reader and collector and stepson Paul as a bank messenger. In 1936, Dora contracted cancer which spread to the stomach, liver and kidney. She surrendered to death at the age of 68 on June 27, 1938. Paul E. Smith of 209 East Jacinto Street signed the death certificate. The remains were returned to Waynesburg for burial. Johnson outlived her by only a little more than a year. On Sept. 4, 1939, he passed away in Tucson. His body was shipped to Waynesburg, where a requiem high mass was sung at St. Ann's Church, officiated by Rev. George P. Angel. Burial was in St. Ann's Cemetery, and his obituary appeared in the Greene County Democrat Messenger.
~ Daughter Caroline Johnston ~
Daughter Caroline Johnston (1833- ? ) was born in about 1833.
~ Son George W. Lafayette Johnston ~
Son George W. Lafayette Johnston (1834- ? ) was born in about 1834.
A bachelor at the age of 26, in 1860, he lived with his parents and provided laborer on their large Center Township farm.
Lafayette may well be the same man who joined the Union Army during the Civil War, mustering in on Sept. 24, 1862. He appears to have been assigned to the 44th Pennsylvania Infantry, also known as the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry," Company F. He was transferred to a battalion on Sept. 9, 1864 and was discharged on June 6, 1865.
Lafayette entered into holy marriage with Maria Taylor (1836- ? ).
The couple's three known offspring were Thomas Francis Johnston, Margaret T. "Maggie" Johnston and Lafayette "Ellsworth" Johnston.
Early on, the Johnstons lived in Morris Township, Greene County. Circa 1870-1880, the family made a home on a farm in Center Township. The 1870 census-taker recorded the estimated value of Lafayette's farm as $8,700. Teenager Samuel J. Wilson lived under their roof in 1870.
In 1880, Lafayette was awarded a military pension as compensation for his wartime injuries. [Invalid App. #382.434 - Cert. #934.540]
Research is underway to determine if he died in November 1896 with an obituary appearing in the Waynesburg Democrat-Messenger on Nov. 20, 1896.
If so, the widowed Maria was awarded the Civil War pension for her support. [Widow App. #645.470 - Cert. #446.683].
Maria moved into the home of her son Ellsworth in Morris Township where she resided in 1900.
Son Thomas Francis Johnston (1863-1927) was born in 1863. He grew up as a farm laborer. He was joined in the bonds of wedlock with Emma Anderson ( ? - ? ). Together, they produced a family of three -- William T. Johnston, Arthur Johnston and Mrs. Oscar M. Leffey. The family rented a home in Amwell Township, Washington County, on the C.W. Redd farm near Pancake, PA. where Thomas earned a living as a teamster. They belonged to the Baptist church. At the age of about 63, death carried him away on May 18, 1927, discovered dead while in his wagon. A physician wrote that he was "found dead ... probably apoplexy." Funeral services were held in the family residence, led by Rev. H.J. DeBolt of the West Washington Methodist Episcopal Church. Interment of the remains was in Washington Cemetery. Arthur Johnston, of Washington, signed the official Pennsylvania certificate of death.
Grandson William T. Johnston ( ? - ? ) relocated to Youngstown, OH and was there in 1927.
Grandson Arthur Johnston ( ? - ? ) resided in Washington, PA.
Granddaughter (?) Johnston ( ? - ? ) was joined in wedlock with Oscar M. Leffey ( ? - ? ). The Leffeys dwelled in Washington, PA in 1927.
Daughter Margaret T. "Maggie" Johnston (1867- ? ) was born in about 1867. Her paper trail has gone cold.
Son Lafayette "Ellsworth" Johnston (1870-1950) -- also nicknamed "Lafe" -- was born on Nov. 26, 1870 in Sycamore, Greene County. On Jan. 15, 1898, he married Columbia Jane Cain (Jan. 2, 1878-1931), daughter of Enoch and Minerva (Farrell) Cain of Swarts, Greene County. Rev. J.D.W. Heazelton presided. Five known offspring in this family were Swart T. Johnston, Frank Johnston, Lewis Johnston, James Johnston and Annabelle Johnston. The United States Census of 1900 lists the family in Morris Township, Greene County, with Ellsworth's widowed mother in the household. The family appears to have remained in Morris for decades, on one or more farms near Nineveh. Ellsworth's work was as a township road supervisor. They belonged to the Nineveh Methodist Episcopal Church. Columbia was diagnosed with heart problems at the age of about 48. She endured the ailment for four years. The family was plunged into grief when she was felled by a stroke and died at the age of 52 on Aug. 8, 1931. Burial of the remains was in Oakmont Cemetery, Waynesburg. Said the Waynesburg Republican, "She had been in failing health for some time." Rev. John H. DeBolt, of the West Washington Methodist Episcopal Church, officiated the funeral service. The widowed Ellsworth made his home in Waynesburg. As his health failed, he moved to Slippery Rock, Lawrence County, where he spent the last five weeks of his life. After enduring hardening of the arteries followed by a heart attack, death cut him away at age 75 on Aug. 19, 1950. Burial was in Waynesburg.
Grandson Swart T. Johnston (1899- ? ) was born in Oct. 1899.
Grandson James Johnston (1903- ? ) was born in about 1903 in Morris Township, Greene County.
Granddaughter Annabelle Johnston (1905- ? ) was born in about 1905 in Morris Township, Greene County.
Grandson Frank Johnston (1906- ? ) was born in about 1906 in Morris Township, Greene County.
Grandson Lewis Johnston (1908- ? ) was born in about 1908 in Morris Township, Greene County.
~ Daughter Roseann Johnston ~
Daughter Roseann Johnston (1836- ? ) was born in about 1836.
Copyright © 2021 Mark A. Miner
Obituaries courtesy of the Cornerstone Genealogical Society in Waynesburg, PA. Generous assistance and content have been provided by David Shaw.


Whether you're heading to the Dawn Service, whipping up some ANZAC biccies, or catching up with mates over a beer, ANZAC Day is a time to come together as a community and recognise the sacrifices made for our country.
Looking to spend ANZAC Day in Sydney? We're hosting activities at a number of our venues. Take the opportunity to raise your glass in gratitude to those that serve, past and present. With live entertainment, two-up and ANZAC activities for kids, we've got something for everyone.
Pop into the Beresford for a spot of two-up from 2pm, hosted by none other than drag queen, Maxi Shields. We've also got DJs spinning from 12pm for good vibes all day.
Join us at The Pav for some family fun. From 10 am to 12 we have face painting and a caricature artist for the kids then two-up running from 1pm – 5pm in the Whale Area.
The Vic's carpark party is back! We've got The Dolla Bill Darlings hosting two-up from 12pm, outdoor bars and DJs from midday AND The Andy Golledge Band performing in the carpark.
Another great spot to spend the day, The Tennyson's two-up kicks off early, running from 9am to 3.30pm. Grab your friends and come along for a game, a beer and a chat.
In the city on ANZAC Day? Head in to Establishment Bar from 8am. Enjoy the vibe, great food and a game of Two-up with a drink in hand. We'll see you there.
We're doing things a bit differently at the ivy, with an ANZAC Day Backpackers Party. DJs will be spinning until late. Looking for a spot to boogie? You've found it.
Sausage sizzle, anyone? Drop into The Grand – we've got an ANZAC Day sausage sizzle on the go from 1pm – 5pm. The perfect spot for a relaxed bite and a cold beer.
Sitting in a prime location opposite Centennial Parklands, Hotel Centennial is the perfect spot to settle in for a long lunch with friends.
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Inspired by Hong Kong street food, Queen Chow Enmore has a fresh take on traditional Chinese. Where all the classics are covered, like barbecued duck and baked or fried dumplings.
Our menu is varied, from our crumbed fish burger to scampi linguine, along with the classics, such as our potato scallop with chicken salt. Pair your seafood feast with a great drop from our sommelier's selection.
Welcome to The Collaroy, an all-day eatery serving freshly shucked oysters, wood-fired pizza and a beachside backdrop you'll find hard to leave. Stay for an afternoon drink on the outdoor terrace and soak up the views.
Part-pub, part-restaurant, part-cocktail bar; each section of The Paddington has its own distinct style. With juicy, brown and sticky-skinned Bannockburn chickens that are hormone-free and air-chilled.


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President finishes decade of tours
Will Finch on June 22, 2018 in News
Photo courtesy of the Office of Government and Community Relations
Of the various duties that belong to the office of a college president, their social and civic responsibilities can be the most difficult to satisfy. A consistent public presence is crucial to successful public outreach, and this week, President G.P. "Bud" Peterson and First Lady Val Peterson traversed Georgia for the tenth year in a row.
"What started out as an effort for Val and me to learn more about our state has become an annual event that involves people from all across campus who come together to plan and execute a truly remarkable trip," Peterson said. And since 2009, President Peterson's summer tours have been his opportunity to gain an understanding of Tech's relationship with its surrounding communities both local and state-wide.
According to Peterson, "the first nine Georgia Tours have been invaluable in helping us get acquainted with the state's citizens, community leaders, current and prospective students and people whose business Georgia Tech had helped improve or create."
So far, the tours have covered nearly 7,500 miles, and this year's venture took him and his wife along 650 miles, through 27 counties, with 30 total events over the span of four days. Alumni and friends were invited to attend one of five free events across the state to network and listen to the president speak about the state of the Institute.
Starting on June 18 and continuing through June 21, Peterson met with alumni, stakeholders and friends of Tech across 11 different cities.
On Monday, Peterson stopped in Hawkinsville, Fort Valley, Macon and Milledgeville. At each destination, Peterson relished in their respective history and culture, specifically commenting on the similarities between Hawkinsville and Tech's mottos and the efficiency of the peach orchards in Fort Valley.
"The word 'orchards' doesn't do it full justice," said Peterson regarding the latter.
The second day of the tour, President Peterson and company enjoyed a breakfast meeting at a local Waffle House, an iconic Georgia-based business chain with connections to Tech through its co-founder and current President — both of whom are Tech graduates.
Other stops on Tuesday included a meeting with the Board of Regents Chairman, a driving tour of the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center and an interview with The Augusta Chronicle before another meet and greet with alumni, friends and family.
As Peterson continued to travel and approach his final destination in Athens on Thursday, he kept daily blogs available to the public to provide commentary.
"Each year, our weeklong road trip seems to get better, and the enthusiasm for our little 'road show' grows," Peterson said.

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In the run up to the municipal election, the probability that the deputy mayor/county representative position for the next four years would not be settled by the electorate was foreseen by the council.
The way it works in Addington Highlands, the councilor who receives the most votes in the ward where the reeve does not reside is offered the position of deputy reeve and joins the reeve as a member of the eight- member Lennox and Addington County Council. Since it was likely that Henry Hogg, who resides in ward 1, would be re-elected, and the two candidates in ward 2 (Bill Cox and Helen Yanch) were acclaimed, a vote among the five-member council was a likely scenario, and a secret ballot is not permissible under the municipal act.
Instead of subjecting themselves to a popularity contest to be played out in public, Bill Cox, who at that time was the deputy reeve, put forward a motion in early October that in the case of a tie, the matter be settled by lot.
Both Yanch and Cox said they wanted the position, so on Monday afternoon (December 1) at the township office in Flinton, that's exactly what was done, although a plastic tub was used in place of a hat.
Reeve Hogg pulled a piece of paper from the tub, unfolded it and read out the name, "Yanch".
This is Helen Yanch's second term as deputy reeve and county representative. She served in that role between 2006 and 2010.
Kirby Thompson was also welcomed as a new representative from Ward 1, along with second term incumbent Tony Fritsch.
Committee appointments – Council is considering whether to alter the roles of the waste management, public works, and recreation facilities committees. They decided to defer appointments to either committee until the next meeting while they consider their options.
Other appointments were made – Kirby Thompson will sit on the Mississippi Valley Conservation Board; Henry Hogg will sit on the Quinte Region Conservation Board; and Bill Cox returns to the Pine Meadow Nursing Home Management Committee, which he now chairs. Helen Yanch and Kirby Thompson will sit as council representatives on the seven-member Addington Highlands Library Board; and Bill Cox, Henry Hogg and Kirby Thompson will sit on the Joint Fire Services Board with North Frontenac. Tony Fritsch remains the council-appointed manager of the Denbigh Community Centre (former schoolhouse). All members of council will sit on the Committee of Adjustment. Finally, Bill Cox was chosen to be the alternate to L&A County Council should the reeve or deputy reeve be unable to attend for any reason.
Zamboni to be resurrected – Community members Dave Miles and Ron St. Peters appeared before Council to talk about the Zamboni that is parked in a shed near the Flinton ice rink. With the support of the Flinton Recreation Club, the two are proposing to have the Zamboni looked at to see if it can be put back in service without too much cost, and are willing to arrange training for volunteer drivers as well.
"We are shy of taking ownership of the Zamboni," said Councilor Bill Cox, but Council offered support for the initiative.
Paul Isaacs proposes committees – Denbigh resident Paul Isaacs also appeared before Council to propose the formation of two new council committees, one to concern itself with the future of the Denbigh ambulance service, and a second on social issues. Council did not take immediate action on either proposal.
Insurance premiums down - Paul Dorman from Jardine Lloyd Thompson Insurance Brokers (JLT), made his annual presentation about the township's insurance policy, which JLT is offering to renew for $$63,929, a slight decrease from last year's premium $64,644.
Council decided to renew the contract with JLT, but next year they will undertake a tendering process for insurance, which is required under their procurement bylaw.
"We need to ask the county to make changes to the Official Plan before it is approved," said Reeve Hogg.
"They said they would not duplicate what we have here, and would make it general, but as time went on they kept adding and adding to it," said Councilor Bill Cox.
One of the issues of concern to Addington Highlands is the plan's insistence that development be concentrated within the boundaries of hamlets.


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Knight Rider given full season
Another show has been given a full season's order.
NBC' Knight Rider has proven it has enough popularity to merit a full season. NBC ordered nine more episodes of the action-drama.
Knight Rides Back
First Herbie (a flop), then Transformers (a goldmine). Now the next Talking Car to hit the screens is Knight Rider. The 1980s original series, starring David Hasselhof as Michael Knight, returns as an NBC TV movie.
Justin Bruening — also known as Jamie Martin in All My Children — will play Knight's son. Believable. He's got those dark, brooding eyes that almost help you forgive him for the fact that his most significant relationship is with his car.


Natamycin is a topical antifungal medication that needs a doctor's prescription to acquire. It works by binding to the sterols in the fungal cell membrane to make it more permeable. This results in a fatal leakage and loss of constituents. As a result, fungal cells die relatively quickly. Natamycin is regularly given to protect against yeast and molds and is proven to be effective against various types of fungal infections, including Candida, Aspergillus, and Penicillium.
Natamycin is generally applied as a gel or cream; although other methods of administration include eye drops and lozenges. The compound can be taken orally, but it exhibits low absorption. Thus, systemic infections caused by yeast are hardly treated with a natamycin pill unless truly needed. Natamycin is not recommended for children.
This is prescribed to kill off fungal infections. It is not as useful for infections caused by bacteria or a viral strain. The mechanics of its efficacy lies in its ability to make fungal cells bigger, causing them to lose essential nutrients.
Some people are allergic to this medicine. There have also been reports of patients experiencing some respiratory difficulties as well as fluctuations in heart rate and blood pressure. At its most severe, natamycin can cause the tongue, lips, and throat to swell. People who experience any change in vision, pain, or allergic reaction to this substance should immediately seek medical attention.
Those who are taking natamycin for an eye infection should finish the full course prescribed by the doctor, even if the condition appears to be cured. Do not use the medicine, however, more than directed.
Natamycin is not meant as a supplement but rather a treatment for an acute fungal infection. As such, there is not one system it supports.
Natamycin is an antifungal medicine that is generally applied as a cream or gel. It can also be used to treat eye infections. It requires a doctor's prescription to acquire as it can cause severe allergies in some people. It is not noted to dangerously interact with any other medication.


Les « romans de la mémoire » renouvellent-ils le roman à thèse ?
Anne LENQUETTE, Les romans d'Álvaro Pombo. Savoir et fiction en Espagne (XXe et XXIe siècles), préface de Geneviève Champeau, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2016.
In "The Children of Silt", the shift to the present had already been identified by Octavio Paz as a key element of postmodernism. We study here how this aspect has been developed in literature, through the analysis of a series of contemporary Spanish short stories.


The part of each rise visible above the surface can be a swirl, a splash, a complete jump into the air, a gulp, a wink in the surface, or just a subtle head poking into the film. Nearly all of them operate by the same biological and physical properties—a trout opening its jaws with the resulting vacuum sucking in a bug, water, and often air.
Rise forms have been studied and characterized over the years, as chronicled in a book titled The Rise by my friend Paul Schullery, in my opinion fly fishing's leading historian. I'm reluctant to give all of these rises names, and I hope you don't try to memorize them or make them part of your lexicon. I just think separating trout rises out into different types will help you recognize what a trout is doing when it leaves a signature on the surface.
Watching rises is, I think, one of the compelling draws of fishing to hatches. By understanding what is going on, I think you'll have a greater appreciation for the amazing adaptation these creatures have for a form of predation that seems gentle but is just as deadly as an orca savaging a penguin.
Let's look more closely at each of these types of rises to see what kind of clues they offer—but I'll warn you they may not be what you expect.
The following is an excerpt from The Orvis Guide to Hatch Strategies by Tom Rosenbauer (Universe Publishing, 2017).
This is the rise you see most often depicted and talked about, with the trout's head poking above the surface, often followed by its dorsal fin and a wag of the tail. The rise form itself is followed up by one or more relatively large bubbles. You'll hear a lot about this type of rise as being a "large mayfly rise," as opposed to a "caddis rise," which is supposed to be more splashy and hurried. But I'm sorry to tell you this type of rise tells you absolutely nothing about what kind of food a trout has eaten. I have seen trout rising to large and tiny mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, grasshoppers, midges, ants, and cigarette butts using this kind of rise.
As a matter of fact, none of the rise forms I'm about to discuss will tell you much about what kind of food a fish has eaten. They will actually tell you more about where the fish is lying in between rises and how abundant the food supply is.
So what exactly does this kind of trout rise tell the fly angler? It tells you that the fish took a fly off the surface of the water, or a fly hanging in the surface film, because when a fish pokes its nose above the surface film, it takes in air that later gets expelled out behind the gill plates. It also tells you that the fish was either suspended a foot or so below the surface before it ate, or that it was lying close to the bottom in relatively shallow water.
If the fish had been deeper in the water, it would have produced a splashier or more violent rise. The fact that the fish was either in shallow water or suspended tells you it did not just come across a single insect by happenstance, rushing the insect from a position close to cover or in deep water. This fish is in position to feed regularly, has been there for a while, and will probably stay there until you spook it, hook it, or the food supply diminishes.
That's about all you can tell from this rise, but knowing that you have a feeding trout that is not disturbed is an opportunity not to be missed.
In this rise, you will not see the head of the trout break the surface. Sometimes this kind of rise has no bubbles at all associated with it, but I have also seen trout rising to subsurface food where the rise did produce bubbles, which are caused by a relatively violent rise where the waves caused by the fish moving subsurface actually form a tiny wave that breaks at the surface. The key here is that those bubbles are typically smaller than the bigger bubbles formed by a trout expelling air behind its gills.
This kind of rise happens when a trout eats an insect anywhere from a half inch to almost two feet below the surface. It is deceptive, because trout sometimes concentrate on subsurface insects and are totally uninterested in food at the surface. You can pound a dry fly over this kind of rise and have either no strikes, some refusals, or occasionally hook a trout. But the best plan is fishing an unweighted nymph, a soft hackle, or an emerger that has not been treated with any fly floatant. Any fly that sits in the surface film or rides on top of it plays against the odds.
Even when sitting directly on top of feeding fish, as I have often done when shooting photos of risers from a blind, it is almost impossible to observe what a trout is eating. So most of my clues to the swirling rise have actually been when fishing nymphs close to the surface or swinging wet flies.
For instance, once I was fishing over a pod of trout on a small tailwater in Colorado and I was having problems catching trout with my dries and emergers, even though I thought I had a pretty good match to the small olive mayflies they were eating. I had tried different patterns, a lighter tippet, changing positions—all with no luck. I had a small Pheasant Tail nymph on my fly patch so I decided to try that out of desperation.
Sure enough, in a couple casts I had a couple fish. No big surprise there, except that when those trout ate my nymph six inches below the surface, they made exactly the same kind of rise form I had observed. And when I finally came to my senses and stopped seeing what I wanted to see (trout eating dry flies), I took a close look at those rises and realized they produced few bubbles and all of them were about the size you'd find in a bottle of carbonated water—not bubble-blowing-sized bubbles.
Thus, when you see this kind of rise, you can try throwing your dries and floating emergers and you might interest a fish. But if all of the rises look like this, you'll be much better off with an unweighted or lightly weighted nymph, or swinging a wet fly or soft hackle over them. Some hatching insects will drift in midwater or close to the surface for anywhere from a few minutes to an hour before most of them attempt to pierce the surface film. So typically after an hour or less the insects start to actually break the surface and fish rise in a more surface-oriented manner.
Sipping rises and head pokes are often found together, with one fish making a sipping rise and the one next to it doing a head poke, or the same fish actually rising with both types in a given feeding period. A sipping rise is a concentric, unhurried rise with no splash and often no bubbles. Even in flat water a sipping rise can be hard to spot, and in poor light conditions or in riffled water you often need to be within 30 feet of the fish to even know it is there. This kind of rise typically indicates insects size 18 and smaller and happens when a trout barely pokes the tip of its snout into the surface film, just enough to induce a tiny bit of cavitation to draw a small insect into its mouth. The head poke is merely a variation of this behavior where you actually see the snout break the surface.
The prey item is probably a size 18 or smaller. With bigger insects, more of the head pokes above the surface and there is usually a bubble or two behind the rise.
The trout is either lying in shallow water or is suspended just below the surface in deeper water. Trout can't rise through two feet of water and sip. They have to be already lying in place very close to the surface.
The fish will continue to rise until the food is gone or you spook it. Trout don't position themselves just under the surface unless food is abundant. They waste too much energy for no gain if no food is present, and they also expose themselves to predators, which is only worth the risk to them if food is readily available.
Finding a bunch of trout rising in a sipping manner is one of the greatest discoveries on a trout stream. Fish eating small insects must eat a lot of them to be satisfied, so rises are often steady and frequent. A casual stroll along the bank often misses this kind of rise without the aid of binoculars or extremely careful observation. Drift boats often twirl right down the bank without giving a second glance, as the occupants are too busy watching strike indicators or pounding streamers to the bank. Because these rises don't move much water and very little disturbance happens above the surface, seeing sipping rises on the far bank of a 75-foot-wide pool is difficult. You really have to get into the water and get close to the fish to see them.
Look for dark triangular shapes that pop up and disappear, especially in riffles. The rings these risers make are completely concealed by the broken water, and about all you can see is a brief glimpse of a trout's head. Often you think you just imagined seeing a head pop up. Trust your instincts. If you think you see a head, stay put and stare at the same area for five minutes or more. The fish may show again, and waiting and watching may also confirm the existence of other trout even closer to your position, trout you would have spooked if you had gone right to the first fish you saw.
Watch the foam lines. Foam lines carry food, and a subtle rise is often spotted when the drifting foam parts for no apparent reason. Depending on your angle in relation to the fish, you might not even see its head break the surface, but you may see it push foam aside.
If you are looking downstream, look for white winks in the water. When a trout sips, you may see the white of its mouth as it opens up to inhale an insect.
Try looking at the suspected position of a trout with and without your polarized sunglasses on. Sometimes glare helps you spot a wrinkle in the surface made by a sipping trout. Glare is especially helpful in spotting rising trout on dark gloomy days or in the evening as light fades, so don't just blindly keep those sunglasses on when conditions don't call for them.
In riffles, I often spot trout by a subtle wink of color in the water. Browns and cutthroats show a flash of brown, yellow, or tan in the water when their heads break the surface. Rainbows and brook trout are typically a green or blue or gray shade.
If you see a place where you suspect fish are feeding, spend time watching the water and looking for irregularities in the current flow. It's truly amazing how close you can be to a big trout making a sipping rise; sometimes trusting your instincts when you see something just a bit different will point it out. But this takes patience because in order to pick up an irregularity you need to spend time developing an image for what is regular.
When a trout rises in what we envision as the classic manner—where it tips up and inhales an insect, eating only those that drift directly above its head—the rise form takes on an elliptical shape that is relatively symmetrical. With smaller insects like midges or tiny mayflies, if the current is uniform that rise form becomes more circular. Unlike the classic rise—where the trout's head, dorsal fin, and sometimes tail break the surface—when only the trout's snout breaks the surface the rise is more circular, especially in slower water.
Sometimes you'll see a rise form—it can be any of the above types—where there is a strong push to one side. This indicates a trout that has moved to one side or the other to take an insect, one not directly in its feeding lane. You often see it when a trout is steadily feeding on one type of insect, perhaps a small mayfly, but suddenly spots something that induces it to move out of its lane to feed. It might be a mayfly that flutters more than others and catches the trout's attention, or it could be bigger prey that it recognizes, like a larger mayfly, grasshopper, large stonefly, or beetle.
You may also see a rise with a dominant downstream push. I find that rainbows in fast water often don't have time to intercept a fly and only spot it when it is directly overhead, thus they turn around and take the fly by rising in a downstream direction. Observing trout for hours in the stream in my backyard, I've come to realize that turning around and rising downstream is more common than we suspect.
There is not much strategy to glean from observing this type of rise because it's often combined with traditional upstream rises, but if you do see a fish rising like this, you should be cautious if approaching it from downstream. The other day I found a large brown trout rising in slow water at the tail of a pool. It was the largest trout I had seen rising in this small stream all year. I carefully approached the tail of the pool from below, really the only option in this narrow stream, and had just prepared to cast when the fish decided to chase an insect downstream. I found myself busted, eye to eye with the fish, which of course bolted for deep water because it had me right in its sights.
The clue you get from this kind of rise is that this fish may be inclined to take something other than the dominant food form, which comes in handy when you can't seem to imitate whatever the trout is eating. For instance, a trout might be feeding steadily on tiny mayfly spinners like Tricos, but you don't have a fly that is small enough. Or perhaps there are so many natural insects that you can't get a trout to notice your fly.
If you see a rise form that pushes hard to one side, this could be a tip that an ant or beetle imitation plopped off to one side of the trout might get a strike when your standard imitations aren't working. In fact, this is often a trick I use whenever trout are making me crazy, refusing my flies or pushing my flies with their noses without inhaling. An ant or beetle or even a big foam dry fly can sometimes do the trick. It's only worth a couple casts though. The fish will absolutely notice the bigger fly and will either ignore it or rush to eat it. The strategy also has the advantage of allowing you to cast off to one side of the fish so you avoid spooking it.
A fish rising to one side or backward can also mean it is interested in what is hatching but there just aren't enough flies in its feeding lane to satisfy it. The advantage here is the same—you can cast off to one side without putting your leader directly over the fish with the chance that you'll spook it. And it can mean that the fish is cruising, which we'll examine next.
In the middle of an extremely heavy hatch, where a half-dozen insects cover every square inch of the water, some trout begin what is known as gulping, which is exactly what the name sounds like. In fact, that is often the aural manifestation of the behavior as well. Fish keep their heads above water and gulp from two to a half-dozen insects without ever submerging their heads. This usually happens with tiny mayfly spinners or midges. On the Missouri River in Montana at the height of a heavy fall of Trico mayfly spinners, a pod of gulping rainbow trout looks just like a riffle from a distance until you realize there is no wind and it is happening in completely smooth water. As you get closer, the heads continuously bobbing up and down make the fish look like they are bouncing on miniature trampolines just under the surface.
If you keep your eye on a single fish, you'll see there is a pause between each series of gulps, as trout have what biologists call "handling time" when the insects are forced from a trout's throat into its esophagus. A trout does this by opening its jaws and opercula (gill covers) and can't eat something at the same time. Rather than blindly "flock shooting" a pod of gulping trout, it's best to observe an individual trout, determine when it has paused, and then either cast your fly right before you suspect it will feed again, or wait until it rises once and then quickly pitch your fly right in front of the fish.
Jumping rises are the ones often portrayed on old gas station calendars and tacky trout art. They are not very common and are often more frustrating than valuable. A single jumping rise, with no follow-up activity of any kind, is one that is typically ignored by experienced anglers, who admire the spectacle but then shake their heads wondering what possessed that fish to clear the water. Sometimes I believe it may be a trout chasing a baitfish or perhaps even a jet-propelled larva like a damselfly or dragonfly nymph. Over the years I've been so frustrated by the single jumping rise that I don't even bother to fish to them.
Shawn Combs and I were floating the Delaware River once with our friend Joe Kraus, who had never fished that river. In fact, he's a small-stream expert and nearly all of his fishing has been in the mountain streams of New England. We were floating in Shawn's drift boat and had approached a pod of sipping trout when a fish about 60 feet upstream made a leaping rise. "Should I fish for that one?" Joe asked. Neither Shawn nor I had even considered worrying about that fish. He's had similar luck with them.
When you see a trout repeatedly jumping and clearing the water, or more than one fish exhibiting the same behavior, you have a better opportunity. Fish doing this are either trying to catch insects hovering just above the surface or dashing after insects skating across the surface. Fish trying to catch insects out of the air take the flies on their way up; fish tracking an insect buzzing across the surface usually take their prey on the way down, after they've cleared the water.
It's usually small trout that exhibit this behavior. They're more eager and less efficient than older, wiser fish. A 20-inch trout seems to have learned over time that trying to catch a caddisfly hovering six inches above the surface is not worth the energy. But occasionally, especially when large stoneflies scuttle across the surface, you'll see a much larger trout clear the water in pursuit. It's quite a spectacle.
When you see this type of rise, it's often caddisflies, as those bugs are very active on the surface. But I've also seen trout leaping for adult stoneflies, craneflies, damselflies, and even midges. Why a trout would spend the energy to clear the water and catch a size 22 adult midge puzzles me, but I've seen it often enough not to question it too much.
During most hatches you'll see different types of rises in the same group of fish. Fish do have distinct personalities. They're not clones eating with the same degree of enthusiasm or body language or strategy. To further complicate the matter, each fish lies in a distinct set of currents that may cause its rise form to look different than a fish just a few feet away. You may even see the same fish rising with different rise forms during the hatch. This could mean that the fish has changed its preference, it is eating a variety of insects, it has moved into a slightly different set of currents, or even that it is just not particular at all about what insect or what stage of the insect it eats.
Mark Raisler, legendary fly shop owner and guide on the Missouri River, advises his clients with about the most succinct statement on fishing hatches I have ever heard: "Treat each feeding fish like you would a small-business plan." It's sometimes effective to use the same fly and technique throughout a hatch, fishing without adjustment to each trout you spot feeding. But your success rate will increase if you stop, observe, and strategize before making a single presentation to each fish you see feeding.
Tom Rosenbauer is a lifelong fly fisher and is the author of more than a dozen books on fly fishing and fly tying, including The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide, and The Orvis Guide to Small Stream Fly Fishing. His Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide Podcast is one of the most popular outdoor titles on iTunes.


WARSAW, Ind., March 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH), a global leader in musculoskeletal healthcare, today announced that Coleman (Cole) N. Lannum has been appointed Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, reporting directly to the Company's President and CEO, Bryan C. Hanson.
Mr. Lannum joins Zimmer Biomet with more than 15 years of Investor Relations (IR) experience in the healthcare industry. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Investor Strategy and Investor Relations Officer for Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he consulted with executive management and the Board of Directors regarding the Company's acquisitions, strategic direction and shareholder value optimization.
Prior to joining Mallinckrodt in 2015, Mr. Lannum led IR at Covidien and Tyco Healthcare for nine years. As Vice President and Investor Relations Officer, he designed Covidien's IR program, oversaw the largest-ever healthcare Initial Public Offering and led the IR effort through the company's merger with Medtronic in 2015.
Mr. Lannum's leadership at Covidien and Mallinckrodt has been recognized with numerous best-in-class honors, including an unprecedented five consecutive awards by IR Magazine for both Best US Investor Relations Officer – Large Cap and Grand Prix – Best Overall Investor Relations from 2011 through 2015.
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At last, they will celebrate Christmas in Ukraine together with the whole Europe. Before now, the Ukrainians celebrated only the Eastern Orthodox Christmas on January 7 after the celebration of the New Year on December 31.
The law of making December 25 an official non-working holiday has been published in the parliamentary newspaper Holos Ukrainy.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the law on November 29. The law also cancels non-working day on May 2, so called Labor Day – former Soviet holiday. The first step to get rid of imperial Russian influence was made when the Soviet Army holiday on February 23, which they still celebrate in RF, was denied.


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Jonathan Schwabish is founder of the data visualization and presentation skills firm, PolicyViz, and a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. There, he is a researcher in the Income and Benefits Policy Center and a member of the Institute's Communication team where he specializes in data visualization and presentation design. His research agenda includes such areas as earnings and income inequality, immigration, disability insurance, retirement security, data measurement, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and other aspects of public policy.
Dr. Schwabish is also considered a leader in the data visualization field and is a leading voice for clarity and accessibility in research. He has written on various aspects of how to best visualize data including technical aspects of creation, design best practices, and how to communicate social science research in more accessible ways. He was named a "visualization thought leader" by AllAnalytics in 2013 and speaks widely on the issues of data visualization, open data, and data use in organizations.
In both positions, Dr. Schwabish helps nonprofits, research institutions, and governments at all levels improve how they communicate their work and findings to their partners, constituents, and citizens. He also teaches data visualization and presentation skills at Georgetown University and the Maryland Institute College of Art, as well as in public workshops. He also hosts the PolicyViz Podcast, which focuses on data, open data, and data visualization. His book about presentation design and techniques, Better Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks helps people improve the way they prepare, design, and deliver data-rich content. He is on Twitter @jschwabish.
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Favourite maps
Just because you can map, doesn't mean you should. To share best practices, we asked our resident geography and cartography geeks for some of their favourites.


Discus and support why am i being forced to have something called one drive on my computer in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; i did not ask for this one drive, do not know or care to know how to use it, i was doing fine without it, 3 weeks ago microsoft put a partition on my... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by FranciscaMesiano, Apr 14, 2019.
I feel if anything new or improved needs to be placed on MY computer, you know, the one I PAID FOR with the WINDOWS I PAID FOR, in the SERVER I PAY TO HAVE ON, it should be my choice not microsoft, and the virtual assistant isn't, now i find out, unless I PAY FOR HELP. Microsoft will have nothing to do with me or my computer problems, I do not know what to do, SS only goes so far in living expenses and a little extra like the computer running on a server, seems pointless any more.
How do I unlock the drive where Windows 10 is installed?
External Hard Drive "is not accessible"
Sorry for the delayed response. Let me continue to assist you further.
The issue here could have been due to fact that the Drive I:\ is encrypted or a flush drive. This forces the computer to not recognize the format and displays the error message. I suggest here to follow the steps below and check if it helps.
Restart the computer and check the issue status.
Hope this helps. Please reply for further queries on this.
This is a way to get Vista to see another hard drive that is not associated with the OS. There is some times when your new hdd doesn't seem to want to work well with Vista. But, there is a solution in it.
Open the Computer Management By doing these steps.
You are now in the Navigation panel of the Computer Management.
When in Computer Management, you then have to allow the new drive to be recognized.
Now in the middle of your screen there is the layout of the Disk Drives that you have. The drives that are partitioned will show by the drive lettering. The others will just show up as having nothing at all in them. Below that there will be the Disk drives that are installed into the computer. You'll see that the primary one will all ways read as "Disk 0". Then you will have Disk 1 and so on. Under the Disks there will also see your CD-Rom drives.. If there is more then one, it will be labeled the same as Disk drives..
On to the Partitioning of the drive in question.
Click to format the drive or Enable Volume. There will be a series of windows that open up. This is Vista's formatting. Just go threw the windows, and make sure everything is the way you want it to happen.
Once the formatting is done, will take some time depending on the drive size.
After you have done those steps, The drive will be up and running threw Vista.
If you are not the Administer to the Os, then you will have to enable it..
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App called One Drive being a pia.
Why am I not being asked for a password?
I have something called a hanging or crashing app?
Why is One Drive downloading files to my computers?
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