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Lions Club News & Join Us for a Roaring Good Time
Festival Plan Meeting Tues. May 20 6pm in Fire Station-jump in, keep informed on Suffield's Giant Red Monkey.
Jump off of the couch - get active - get involved!
Memorial Day Parade May 26 2pm line up at 1pm
Ceremony in front of the Townhall honoring Veterans-1pm
Suffield Township Historical Society
1273 SR 43
Suffield, Ohio 44260
Meets the third Monday of every month in the Townhall basement.
Free Parking
Veterans Listing
Suffield Township Historical Society President Josephine Demboski tells me that the Society is compiling a list of all who served our Country in the Armed Forces and of the wars and assignments they participated in. One of our fallen, Howard Royer, is entombed at Pearl Harbor in the USS Arizona and others have served in unremembered places and actions.
Accounts and listings are coming in.
Near the bottom of this webpage is a picture of Urias Paulus' stone from the Civil War and there are others in our cemeteries who served as far back as the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Our Township needs to make an effort to put the cemeteries in shape as sites to remember and honor those who have gone before us.
As the monument in front of our Town Hall says, “Lest we forget.”
Lets get moving on this as Memorial Day nears.
Did you know that Genealogy is among the top 5 most popular hobbies? There is even a Genealogy Online for Dummies book. At $4 a gallon gas, you can easily get it from www.amazon.com and at a good price too. It can be in your mailbox within a week.
Got News?
Call
Pauline
Persons,
Suffield's Record Courier Reporter of the Social Scene, 628-3994.
Shown above in her “News Duster”, Pauline's column is
titled, “Around Suffield” and it “focuses on any
news, events, celebrations, awards, family joys, and things around
Suffield.” Pauline says everyone enjoys hearing about what is
happening in Suffield. It is the happening place you know.
The below picture of Carl Rufener, Jr. was taken in Lexington, Ohio at an antique tractor auction. To paraphrase a 60's motorcycle slogan, “You meet the nicest people at an antique tractor auction.”
Antique stores, auctions, and stores are a nice place for springboards of discussion to inform our descendants of how our families and communities arrived at where we are today.
The above picture of the green John Deere 2-popper distributor cap shows the magneto wire in the center and the two spark plug wires to going to the 2 cylinders that gave early John Deere tractors the distinctive putt-putt-putt sound. To even the power between putts, a large flywheel was used to store the energy from each putt. A similar application is being considered in today's urban buses to capture the energy dissipated by stopping to be used as a flywheel assist in starting the bus to move forward.
The
Suffield Historical Society is a really interesting place to visit
and learn more about how we came to be.
Bob
Longbottom is our curator
Some
residents browse through pictures and memorabilia relating to their
great Grandparents and great-great Grandparents.
The
museum space is already filled to capacity.
Urias
Paulus aged 16 years, 10 months, 13 days died June 29, 1865 in a
Nashville Hospital, being in the Army 5 months. An Author said that
he thought Urias died of measles while in the hospital.
He was in Co. R. 184 ?? possibly Ohio Volunteers.
Can you students guess what army and what war he was in?
Does anyone know anything about him or where he lived in Suffield?
The Paulus name also shows up in Suffield's History as Constable, Township Trustee and Road Supervisor.
The above Constable badge was acquired and donated to the Suffield Township Historical Society by the Mike Mathia family.
The above old timey fire apparatus shows how much we have advanced in the science and art of fire suppression.
