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UNION VILLAGE.
The Little Warren county Hamlet - Gossip
About Its Improvements - Some of Its
Prominent characters.

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Arne H Trelvik on 31 March 2005
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The Lebanon Gazette October 20, 1892 [copy obtained from microfilm available at the Warren County Genealogical Society]
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UNION VILLAGE.
The Little Warren county Hamlet - Gossip
About Its Improvements - Some of Its
Prominent characters.

SOMEBODY who appears to be personally well acquainted at Union Village writes In the Miamisburg Bulletin about a recent visit to that place, and about what was seen there, and about a great many prominent members of the society. We quote several paragraphs:

Familiar faces at the north family welcomed us and after a generous supper our escort took the homeward track as much in love with the treasured friends at that peaceful abode as your humble servant.

Charles Massie is nearly blind. He feels his loss of vision keenly. He has been a trusty and useful member of the society.

John Goetz is confined to his room by a broken leg which stubbornly refuses to heal.

Ann Maria Myers, eldress at the north, is disabled by a broken arm. The rest of the family are striving to fill the void and are entitled to our sympathies.

A morning ride to the centre in the ministerial carriage behind "Nip and Tuck" was a surprise - an Alladin change. On the left are the broken brick, burned timbers and blackened walls with sashless windows - the evidence of a bad man's revenge on the gentle people who gave him a home and ministered his wants. On the right -like the fabled Phoenix - rising from the ashes, resurrected in vigor, youth and architectural beauty, is the commodious office of the society, vieing in usefulness and chaste ornamentation with any the country can produce. Trenches were made, pipes laid, cisterns built, elevated tanks constructed with an engine to lift and supply water and heat all the surrounding buildings which comprise the centre.

The grounds around the family residence, office, post-office and nurse house are being filled and graded. Stone slabs for walks are being placed in position. Painters and plumbers are working away with an activity that influences the looker on to go home and do something startling, too.

If the water supply is not sufficient it is hinted that an artesian well will be drilled. Every effort is being made for the faithful to work with ease and comfort. This new departure is under the direction and supervision of Joseph Slingerland, called to the ministry from the east. We did not meet him nor aspire to. He appears to have a great undertaking and should be allowed unlimited time to carry out his designs. We did meet the good Dr. Geopper, who is a rough diamond.

In the afternoon we were taken to the west by a kind brother and prepared to look like a stranger to the friend from White Water, of whom we were in quest. We had expected to find her very feeble from an accident that happened several years ago, which obliged her to give up the ministry. We were agreeably surprised and found her condition much improved.

Mary Middleton is at the nurse house, always pleasant and alert, keeping everything trim and looking after the pleasant child, Polly Hunt, aged ninety years.

The society school is taught by Leander Divine. Our short stay did not permit us to visit this cradle of learning.

Visiting the post-office to see if they "miss me at home, there in harmony with his surroundings, like a jewel in its socket, we found Ezra Leggett, courteous and obliging in the duties of his office. This building was erected in 1811, but as it is now remodeled and fitted with plate glass it holds its own and shares in the new birth.

Her smile, and "Yea, I know this woman," were an agreeable tonic, and makes me believe that White Water may contain a veritable "fountain of youth" of its own. Here reside Adaline Wells, Matilda Butler and, Julia Ann Bear. The west is full of pleasant remembrances of the time when it was in full tide of prosperity.

The ministry, from Mt. Lebanon, in New, York, are making their usual visit of inspection to the different communities in the west and perhaps have arrived at Union Village ere this.

Ellen Ross, eldress at the centre, and Miss Goepper, the doctor's niece, are fine specimens of health at the village, and it must be true, as a lady remarked in the Lebanon hack: "The Shakers are looking up."


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