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��where he was, whooping, j^elling, and careering through the room, in high and full feather, as though pandemonium itself was unchained. What all this had to do in saving the life of Mr. F., is a mystery we cannot solve. Suffice it to say, such was his lifelong conviction.

" On removing from Worthington Township, Lyons had his hut at Jeromeville, but frequently revisited Greentown and his former neighbor- hood. N. Flaharty, Esq., saw him with a hunting party camped on Pine Run, below his house, as late as 1818 or 1819, when too old to hunt, and he said he was one hundred and sixty. He sold wooden ladles, made b}' him- self, to Mrs. F., had a new suit at the time, and

��a new gun, procured from a gunsmith who lived near Cadiz, on the Brush Fork of Still- water.

" It is said to have transpired that, on leaving a tavern in Lexington, Lyon was followed and killed by a party of roughs, probably stimu- lated by whisky. He had boasted of having ninety-nine tongues of the whites, and wanted one more, which, if obtained, he would die con- tent, or be willing and ready to die. This was construed as a design on his part to murder some one, and it was determined to anticipate him by putting him to death. Soon after, he was found dead, and l^'ing beside a log, near Hanewalts mill, on the Clear Fork."

��CHAPTER LXIIL

��AUBURN TOWNSHIP.*

��SunvEY — '')KG\^izATroN — Physical F-atures— Jkdeuiah Morkhead — Two Hermits — First Settlers — FiBsr

Road — ^Ge(^pge Mykds^Chiikches — Villages.

��TT^HE territory comprising Auburn Township -L was surve^^ed by Maxfield Ludlow in 1807. Until April 8, 1820, it was part of Plymouth Township, which was twelve miles long from east to west, and six miles wide. At that date, this territory was divided by a line through the center north and south, and the west half called Auburn, making it six miles square. Thus it remained until the county of Crawford was organized, in February, 1845, when it was again divided by a line north and south, the four tiers of sections on the west being given to Crawford, leaving the remainder (two tiers) attached to Plymouth. December 0, 1849, Cass being erected out of the east part of Plymouth, these two tiers of sections were attached to the latter, and the whole of Auburn (four by six miles in extent) remained in the northeast corner of Crawford County-. It is


 * Now in Crawford County, formerly in Richland.

��said to be one of the finest townships of land in the State for agricultural purposes, the soil being deep, dark, rich, and the general surface comparativel}' level. It slopes gentl}- to the north, and, in an eai'ly da}-, before the white man began its cultivation, the northern tier of sections were mostly under water for the greater part of the year, as they bordered on the great cranberry marsh lying to the east and north. It has always been considered " swamp land " throughout its northern part, but since it has been cleared of timber and underdrained. it appears as the finest of farming land, there seeming to be no end to the strength and pro- ductiveness of its soil. It is watered on its eastern side by Cuykendalls Run. which rises in the southern part, and, passing directly north through its eastern sections, enters Huron County about the center of the northwest quar- ter of Section 3. On the west side is Honey

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