1816-1916 Cedarville Centennial Souvenir

25 years, and principal of a large school for young ladies. The Board erected a splendid building for this school in Cairo. The day that it was to be dedicated, Theodore Roosevelt came down the Nile from Africa, and Miss Kyle invited him to make the dedicatory speech, which he did to the delight of the great audience present. Samuel Kyle was Associate Judge of the County Court for 35 years, County Surveyor for 20 years, and Ruling Elder in the U. P. Church for 40 years, and was said to be the best posted in Church History of any layman in the county. Judge Samuel Kyle built on his farm a large frame barn in 1808, which is -still in use. OLD STO:\IE HOUSE, 1820 FLAX Another family, that of Little David Jackson, may be mentioned. He was educated for a preacher, but throat trouble prevented. He built a stone house 50 rods east of Massie's Creek Cemetery in 1820, and reared a family of eight daughters, three of whom married preachers, two went to Africa as missionaries, and the rest became school teachers. His house sheltered many a runaway slave on the underground railroad. A spring gushes out of the bank, and he built his house over this fountain, and pumped the cold limpid water up into the kitchen. This home, once prominent, is now forsaken and in decay. THE DESERTED HOUSE "Gloom is upon thy silent hearth, 0 silent house, once filled with mirth; Sorrow is in the breezy sound Of thy tall poplars whispering round. The shadow of departed hours Hangs dim upon thy early flowers; Even in thy sunshine seems to brood Something more deep than solitude." Robert Jackson moved his family from eastern Ohio to Clark's Run and bought in 1814 the farm now owned by William Stevenson. His son, Robert, Jr., was sent to the legislature as representative in 1833. About that time he also received a commission and was General of Militia of Greene County, which he held till 1837. He was