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An Old Pioneer. - Under this heading the Xenia Gazette of last week speaks of a gentleman known to many of our citizens: Our office one day last week was honored with the presence od the old veteran in years, Mr. Sylvanus Cornell. He was born in Canada 1789 whence he removed to the state of New York, where he resided for a number of years and then emigrated to Ohio about sixty-five years ago and now lives at his quiet home in Warren county just across the Greene Co. border. He owns property in this county. If he lives until the 29th of July next he will have reached his 81st year. For a number of years prior to 1810 he was employed in rafting lumber on the Ohio river from Olean Point to Cincinnati. He then married and went to farming in which avocation he still continues. Like most pioneers inured to toil and hardship he yet finds something for his hands to do. He reared an interesting family of eleven children three of whom with his beloved wife have departed to the land of rest. In 1849 he mated with a second companion and the twain give cheer and happiness to each other's waning years on the old homestead. Mr. Cornell was an intimate personal friend of Gen. Harrison, Gen. Gano, Gen. Lytle, old Nicholas Longworth and many other of Ohio's early settlers. He remembers well the first years in the history of the Queen City of the West. When we saw him on Wednesday last he was robust in health and lithe of limb for one so old and gave evinence of passing many years yet of active life. Noble old hero, may his remaining days be days of pleasantness and all his paths be peace. Source: The Miami Gazette, Waynesville, Ohio, June 8, 1870, [copy obtained from microfilm available at the Warren County Genealogical Society] |
by Arne H Trelvik 3 March 2007 |
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