Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; Made Up of Personal Reminiscences of an Early Life in Menard - Scholar's Choice Edition
Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; Made Up of Personal Reminiscences of an Early Life in Menard - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Onstot

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781297307812

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Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; Made Up of Personal Reminiscences of an Early Life in Menard
Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; Made Up of Personal Reminiscences of an Early Life in Menard

Author: Onstot

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015792333

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Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; Made Up of Personal Reminiscences of an Early Life in Menard County, Which We Gathered in a Salem Life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg Life from 1840 to 1850; Including Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln a
Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; Made Up of Personal Reminiscences of an Early Life in Menard County, Which We Gathered in a Salem Life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg Life from 1840 to 1850; Including Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln a

Author: T. G. B. 1829 Onstot

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781341455025

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Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; Made Up of Personal Reminiscences of an Early Life in Menard County, Which We Gathered in a Salem Life From 183
Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; Made Up of Personal Reminiscences of an Early Life in Menard County, Which We Gathered in a Salem Life From 183

Author: Thompson Gains Onstot

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781230413372

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... spot of ground about twenty feet in diameter and when we had ten acres of wheat to thrash we would haul a couple of loads and lay it down on this ground and I would ride the horses around on it until we would get dizzy; then I would turn them and go the other way as long as I and the horses could stand it. Then Brother G. would say: "While you are resting take my fork and stir up the grain." I thought it was a queer way to rest, but generally obeyed. I think we could thrash and clean about one acre a day. Goodpasture was from the billy part of Tennessee and commenced farming in the Sangamon bottoms. He was a fair preacher; not of the sensational kind, but of the doctrinal sort. The history of Menard county would be incomplete without an extended notice of Hardin Bale, the eldest son of Jacob Bale. As early as 1836 he was running the carding machine in Salem. He was an expert machinist. The main building was a frame about forty feet square. A shed on the north covered the incline wheel which was forty feei in diameter and stood at an incline of twenty-five degrees. On this wheel two oxen furnished the motive power. A large siil operated by a lever in the side of the mill held the wheel still, and it was set in motion by letting the brake loose. The cogs in this machine were all made of wood. With this rude machinery all the carding machines were run. First was the picker, which made the wool ready for the first machine. After going through this it was left in bats ready for the finisher, and came out in rolls. It was then done up in bundles and tied up. Hardin took toll out of the wool after it had been run through the picker. In 1841 he moved his machine to Petersburg and established it on Main street, four blocks south of the...