Chapter III (continued)

    Rebecca married Jesse Marshall, and moved to Illinois.
    John Van Buren is a preacher, and while a young man preached many a times in the old Lutheran church referred to in Chapter 1.  He has been married three times, but to whom or as to how many children, we cannot say.  Neither can we tell just where he is  A card from Rev. Homer W. Tope, of Chicago, Ill., recently stated that there is a Rev. Tope at Racine, Wisconsin.  I wrote at once to that place, but have received no answer.
    Matilda married B.J. Perkins, a railroad conductor on the Pan Handle, be we do not know the address.
    Elizabeth married James Manbeck, a farmer, but we do now (not?) know their location.
    Frances married Jacob Finnicum, a farmer, of near New Rumley.  He shot himself, and she afterward married a man by the name of Beardmore, who works as a potter at Liverpool, O.
    11.  Nancy's husband and history must be nameless with us at this time.
    12.  Fanny has likewise escaped from further notice.
    13.  Delilah's history is unknown also.
A word as to the town of Salem:  As observed, this was not a town when the Topes came to Ohio.  But afterwards it grew to quite a flourishing and aristocratic place, with a number of fine brick buildings.  It is three miles north of Unionport,, the latte on the Pan Handle railway.  Salem is in th direct line of the old stage route between Steubenville and Canal Dover, and used to be a great place for taverns, as hotels were then called.  It was a great place for musters.  Mrs. Betts tells of a funny when a crowd came into town to muster.  A rain muddled the road, but they got a lot of corn-stalks, rolled up their pants legs and waded through the mud in the bare feet!  Of late years the town has gone down.  The population is not over 300.  As already noted, the post-office names is Annapolis.  The writer lectured in the town in the fall of 1892.