1816-1916 Cedarville Centennial Souvenir

Took a courage truly heroic in men of an iron will, For there was a wilderness of forests, there were trees both great and small, And the task to fell these giants that were large and very tall, Required a skillful axe-man with endurance almost divine, But it was in fact accomplished by your father's sire and mine. Their implements of culture wer e homely, strong, and crude, The axe, the saw, the sickle, and the log-chains multitude, The rake, the hoe, the log-sled, the scythe, the adz, and plane, The auger, square, and cross-cut, to sever the logs in twain, The flail to thresh the cereal, the home-made wooden plows, The bells upon the horses, and also on the cows, The wagon, strong and heavy with its schooner, boat-like, bed, The home-made flaxen garments, the milliner's gear for head, The swifts, and loom, and hackles, the flax-break and the reel, The scutching-knife, and knitting-needle, and the wooden spinning– wheel. They had bees for fun and frolic, they had huskings, quiltings, too, ~.~./\1 '\.,tF ~ v 1 .v-v , VzA.V D!,./1/] vyvrrp,~✓ -. t1c,7 «L 'i 7,"" j ~ ,. .,.. {) _ ('\ ; KU & J N t C W • I, ' ~ · • l-~ ~ -~#· J/JX ~/S63 ~d~ ciu.,,c ~ t5loif, µ ~ ~oyM• SECEDER CHURCH ~ ,(\ t,vv...~ CCAti~ Cb~ Large gatherings for the log-roll in this country all so new; Their home was a humble cabin made of logs and clap-boards broad, Inlaid with puncheon flooring, or the bare and level sod; In this cabin a loft and window, a latch-string in the door, A cradle, trundle-bed, old bureau, but no carpet on the floor; A fireplace wide and spacious with a crane to swing the kettle, For the frying and boiling, too, were in vessels made of metal. Theirs a life of. toil and labor, but it brought to them a pleasure, As they worked 'mid stumps and tree-tops for their food and earthly treasure. · They builded here their cabins, their churches, and their school, Erected family altars, and observed the Golden Rule; They laid for us foundations and opened for us a way. They fashioned well the order we love and pdie today.