The Greentown Grapevine – 1998-08, 05:08

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Volume 5, Issue 8 " a paper for the people" August 1998
Pioneer Village Adds A Log Cabin
The Lions Pioneer Village in the
fairgrounds grew by one more building
on Monday, July 13 when a log cabin
was moved f? om Arrowhead Springs to
the north end of the Village. The latest
addition joins a centrally located log
cabin, the Hubert Ball memorial shelter,
the Top Ag shelter, a blacksmith shop,
a country store, the woodworkers shop,
and the " Pioneer Village office" in a
growing collection of buildings in the
northeast area of the fairgrounds.
Carolyn Donson and Ruth Spangler
Moore provided information concerning
the history of the cabin, which originally
stood at the corner of 250N and 500E in
Howard Towxiship.
Carolyn: " On May 28,1887 Solomon
Fisher, my Great- Great Uncle, and his
wife Elizabeth owned the land where
the log cabin was. We were not able to
Jind out whether the cabin was there
when he owned it or If it was built
later.
My husband Bill's mother, Esther
Bryan Donson, was born in the cabin
in 1910, when the house belonged to
Elizabeth Fisher, an unmarried woman
( according to the abstract) who
inherited it fiom her father, Solomon
Fisher.
This land changed hands many times
through the years and in I945 my I
Grandparents, John C. andMerle Grau
Shrock, purchased the land with the
cabin on it from Abe and Dora
Gingerich. "
Ruth: '! mIa rried Charles Moore in
1946. At that time his parents, John
" Bert" and Lilly Moore, lived in the
house. They did not have electricity,
even though others around had it by
- then. There was never running water
or bathroom in the house. I remember
when Charlie and I were dating we
would carry the cqal- oil lamps around
the house when we wentfiom room to
room.
n e walls of the log cabin were thick,
and when we went through the
doorways into another room, it seemed
like we were going through a short
hallway. When Bert and Lilly moved
there, someone before had built a small
enclosed porch on the front ( north)
side of the house. It was not large
enough to sit on, so Lilly keptflowers
in it.
The living room was the lower floor
and the stairway in the southeast
corner went upstairs into the only
bedroom in the original log cabin. The
children slept upstairs. There was a
kitchen and a bedroom built onto the
east side of the house. This was where
Mr. andMrs. Moore slept. There were
two stoves heating the house very
comfortably, one in the kitchen and one
in the living room. The Moores used
wood and later coal to heat with. A
small room built onto the back ( east) of
the kitchen is where the handpump was
located. As I remember, there was a
door that went out of the north and
south end of this small pump room."
Carolyn: '! In the early 1960' s, when
Bill and I had hogs in the barn near the
cabin, we pumped water from the old
back porch of the cabin with a pump-jack
( electrically driven). Tke water
ran through apipe fiom the back room
to the barn, a distance of 200 or more
Bet. We don't remember anyone living
in the cabin at that time. In 1965 the
The newest addition to the Pioneer Village, as viewed from the
northwest.
Photo Sy R Jenkins
Shroch gave this ground to my mother, Randy Middlesworth, hopes to
Marjoire Keim Naphew. The lot that eventually add a five foot porch to both
the house sat on was sold and the cabin the north and south side of the building.
was given to Charles Lantz. He moved Donations of money or materials are
it to Lantz's Arrowhead Springs. welcome for the restmtion of the cabin.
The cabin, stripped ofits additions,
but still wearing the added siding, was
moved to Lantz's Arrowhead Springs in
1973. So far as is known, it was never
used, The Charles Lantz family has
now donated it to the Lions Pioneer
Village. The roof was removed to
facilitate moving. A tin roof has been
applied to give quick protection fiom
the elements. The siding has been
removed, windows b e d and missing The cabin as it looked when John
wood replaced. Restoration will halt and Lilly Moore lived in it. View is
during the Howard County Fair, July of west end.
27- August 1. Construction matrager, Photo provided by Mrs. Charles Moore
New Leadership to Welcome Students and Staff
When Eastern Elementary students
begin a new term of studies on August
17, they will greet a new Principal and
Assistant Principal. Upon the
resignation of Linda Singer, the School
Corporation began the search for a new
principal. The School Board voted
Thursday, July 23 to hire Belinda
Sezbenski, former Assistant Principal,
as Principal of Eastern Elementary with
a two year contract and a first year
salaty of$ 65,000. The Board also hired
Douglas Woq as Assistant Principal,
also with atwo year contract and with a
h tye ar salary of $ 60,000.
Sezbenski has been a part of Eastern
School Corporation for the past eighteen
years. She has been Special Education
Co- ordinator for seventeen years and
Assistant Principal for the past three
years. Before coming to Eastern, she
taught at Kokomo, Tipton and Marion
schools in the special education area.
An Eastern graduate, Sezbenski
received her B. A., Masters, and
Educathd speckdkdegrees fiom Ball
State University. She says she is
lodringfarwardtohernewpositim and
working with the staff of Eastern
Elementary.
Sezbenski
DuPouy will be moving back to
Indiana fiom Florida where he has
been teacher, assistant principal and
principal in Manatee County Schools.
Prior to moving to Florida he taught
elementary grades in Greensburg,
Indiana. He received the Bachelor of
Science in Education degree fiom Ball
State ad Masters and Education
Indiana University, Bloomington.
Dupouy said he is excited about being
a part of Eastern Howard School
Corporation.
specialist in Education degrees horn
DuPouy