General Notes

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2  PLAC 22154
2  SOUR S332582
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004

ID: I25524
Name: Susanah MOOMAW
Sex: F
Birth: 18 JAN 1830 in <Ross Co.,OH>
Death: 4 MAR 1892 in Trading Post,Kansas
Burial: Rt 2 Pleasanton KS,cow pasture
IDNO: 22154
Note:
[daveanthes.FTW]
Data source is Robert A. Moomaw, 2475 Underwood #377, Houston TX 77030. His e-mail address is BobMoomaw@@juno.com

Reference: 22154
Notes: lived at Trading Post, KS after 1867
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From a tape by George B. Cole, Sr. in 1961 - transcribed by Melba Smith Cole

Pleasant G. Hare married Susannah Moomaw in Illinois. They lived there on a farm and when the Civil War broke out, my grandfather thought that he ought to take part in it. So he took his family to Kansas. There he homesteaded a farm, built a house, did not have enough money to fence the place but had it staked out. Then he went back to Illinois and joined the regiment (I do not remember the exact group, but that information is in the possession of Claude Simpson of Pullman). He had several children at this time; my mother, Mary Helena Hare, was at that time about 12 years old. She had an older brother, Freight; a couple of brothers younger than she, and a sister.

The children broke out the farm with a team of oxen. They were called Buck and Berry. Buck was a short, stubby animal; somewhat, I guess, like a Durham. And, Berry was a long, rangy animal with long horns. Both of them were patient workers and the children could handle them. My mother, Mary, would drive the oxen, and her brother, my Uncle Freight, would hold the plow. The breaking up of the original sod was not easy. It had been there for centuries with sod and grass, and it was hard to break up. There were hundreds of small animals that were burrowed in the ground. The children soon learned to handle these animals and insects so that when the plow would plow up a snake's nest, they would jump and run and get away from the snakes. But they'd plow up nests of snakes and the snakes would be running every way.

When the migrations were on from the east to the west, many times people would come through with the covered wagons, with all their furniture, oxen, and everything else. And they would camp where they could pasture their animals in the evening and between times on the growing wheat or oats or whatever crops my grandmother and her children were raising. The children would be out cultivating the crops and when they would see the people coming to camp, they would become very much concerned and immediately would go and report to Grandmother. They soon worked out a procedure, when such a thing would happen: They would loose the oxen and mother would climb up on old Buck, which was the short one, and immediately start for the house. And my Uncle Freight would keep old Berry, the long-horned animal, and he would lead him over to where those animals were. Old Berry learned that he was to get those animals out of there. And so he would simply turn him loose, and old Berry would make for those animals and sometimes he could horn them and pitch them around with ease. Then, of course, the people would run out there with all kinds of pitchforks and guns and threaten to kill the animal if he didn't take him off. And so Uncle Freight would say "Okay, I'll take him off if you take your animals off our crops."

Well, about this time Grandmother would be showing up with the shotgun. When she got there she would say to the men, "Now you just saddle up or pack up your things and get away from my place. I'm going to give you just so long to do it. Now get going." Well, that was about the final thing. They generally got going without any question. Or they would make a solemn promise that they would not let the animals destroy the crops. Then Uncle Freight would bring old Berry back and they would yoke up the oxen again and finish their cultivation or take the implements back to the barn.

This was more remarkable because my grandmother Hare was a small woman. She was only about five feet two or three inches tall, and she only weighed about 100 pounds. She was black-haired and had brown eyes, but she had a positiveness about her. When she told people that she was going to shoot, they knew very well that was exactly what she meant.

A number of things happened like that, as they do happen in a new country. But none of the children were ever hurt. They were very cautious. They never got hurt and they never had any fires.
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Change Date: 9 NOV 2002 at 15:26:14

Father: David MOOMAW b: 28 AUG 1785 in Lancaster Co. PA
Mother: Mary MYERS b: 6 MAY 1803 in Lancaster PA

Marriage 1 Pleasant George HARE b: 10 MAR 1824 in Ross Co OH
Married: 2 JUL 1850 in Chillicothe OH
Children
Euphrates Alden HARE b: 22 MAR 1851 in Ross Co.,OH
Mary Helena HARE b: 6 FEB 1854 in Ross Co.,OH
Rose Ann HARE b: 23 NOV 1855 in <Ross Co.,OH>
Frances Saloma HARE b: 7 JUN 1857 in Ross Co.,OH
Durrilda M. HARE b: 24 DEC 1859 in Ross Co.,OH
Uriah Marion HARE b: 31 JAN 1861 in <Ross Co.,OH>
Fletcher David HARE b: 1 FEB 1863 in <Ross Co.,OH>
George Bronlow HARE b: 19 JUN 1865 in Ross Co.,OH
Albert Pary HARE b: 24 OCT 1869 in <Ross Co.,OH>
James Boston HARE b: 20 SEP 1871 in <Ross Co.,OH>