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Subject: Re: [OHGUERNS] Taverns
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:04:40 EDT


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<< >Hi Pat.....This Bob Curtis in San Antonio, Tx....originally from
Cambridge,
>Oh....and I noticed your reply below regarding
>the Tavern Picture. I was wondering if there were any tavern pictures in
>the area just east of Cambridge on what is E 40.
>I believe there was a tavern about 2 to 4 miles east.....near the Scott
>brick home....owned, I believe by the Scott family.
>In that area now is Memorial Gardens Cemetery. ...but could you see if
there is a picture
>of a tavern near the area I defined? Thank you
>very much for letting me intrude.

Bob, You are NOT intruding, but I do not have a copy of Wolfe's stories,
etc.

One of the families I am researching in Guernsey County are the STEWARTS.
some time ago, I received the following information from someone else:

"On page 888 of Wolfe's Stories is a picture of the "Stewart Tavern" in
Guernsey County owned by William Stewart. Caption reads: One of the oldest
buildings in Guernsey County is the Stewart tavern in Winterset. It was
built in the early days of the Steubenville road and became famous as a
hostelry on that thoroughfare. Stagecoach drivers changed horses there, and
wagoners and drovers kept their horses and stock in the yard at night. The
tavern received its name from William Stewart who was its proprietor for
many years. It later was the residence of Thomas Lenfesty, who was the
Winchester (Winterset) postmaster".

I am not even sure that this is my William STEWART, since there were several
in Guernsey in this time frame. But my STEWART family was involved in the
Grocery business (I have several brass stencils for Teas, Coffees,
Groceries, etc). If anyone can share a copy of the photo, I would be
delighted too ....

--
Pat Asher >>
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Pat, that was me who gave you that information. I have a copy of the book.
I am looking at the picture as I write, but alas, my scanner is not
functional. So sorry folks.
There are 4 illustrations in Wm Wolfes book of taverns, that I have
identified. Pg 230, the "Penn Tavern Doorway"; "The Geary House" pg 231; Pg
888 the "Stewart Tavern"; and pg 549, the "Tingle Tavern". There are other
taverns that have various amounts of descriptions. On pg 233 is listed
"Tavern food"; pg 816, "Tavern Mysteries"; page 229, "Taverns on the National
Road"; and page 197 "Taverns on Stuebenville Road". There are other Tavern
descriptions interspersed throughout the book, but not listed in the index.
What you had described above is a caption under the picture of The Stewart
Tavern.

I will NOT attempt to transcribe the many pages of tavern information here,
however, I will identify some of the names associated with these taverns.

It might do well to preface this with the opening paragraph on page 229.
TAVERNS ON THE NATIONAL ROAD
"Taverns were numerous- To accommodate the travelers on the National Road
back in the days when there was a continuous stream of stagecoaches, freight
wagons, people on horseback and pedestrians passing over it, taverns and
wagon-houses were erected at convenient distances from each other. It would
seem that "keeping tavern" must have been profitable, because they were
almost as close together as are the filling stations along the same
thoroughfare today. According to one report they averaged more than two to a
mile between Wheeling and Zanesville. Many of these, no doubt, were homes
open to travelers, and not regular taverns."
The below names were names of taverns or tavern keepers, unless otherwise
noted, on the National Road in Guernsey Co. Ohio.:
Bradshaw
Isaac Gleaves
Dan Edson
Billy Armstrong
Ferrell's tavern
Swan's tavern
Colonel Orr
Hays tavern
Andrew Moore
Joseph Kugler
John Warner - first had the Penn tavern
Penn Tavern (still standing in 1943)
Greenberry Penn
Peter Corwyn (built Penn Tavern)
Sam Grimes (bootblack, cook and stable boy for Penn tavern
William Moore
John Carlisle
Aaron Patterson's home was Leeper's tavern
Sam Smith
Creighton
Widow Drake
John McLaughlin
Peter Colley (prev had tavern in Claysville, PA)
Simon Beymer
Henry Beymer
Endley's tavern
Clements' tavern
Ankeny tavern
Bazil Brown
Joshua Davis
John Beymer
D.V. Frazey
James Stevenson
James Smith
Geary
Griffith
Devolld
Endley tavern
John Woodrow (last proprietor of Endley)
John Beham
Nyce farm
Captain Thomas Cook
Thos. Bradsaw
Charley Scott
Jake Haines
B.A. Albright
Robert McMurry
Charley Miller
Judge Speer's tavern
Stewart Speer
John Magiffin (permanent guest of Speer's)
Katy Wetzel (permanent guest of Speer's)
David Laird's tavern (Cassell's Station in 1943)
Mankaps
Grummond's tavern
William McDonald prop. "Fountain Pump" tavern

"Wagon-Houses were more numerous than the taverns. These were places
affording hospitality to those engaged in the freight traffic, and to stock
drovers. A wagon-house was usually a large log or frame building with a
commodious yard and watering troughs and barns. Sometimes as many as a
hundred horses would be unhitched in a single wagon-hbouse yard at the end of
a long day's work. The accommodations for sleeping offered by the
road-houses were often nothing more than room on the floor to spread a
blanket before the great fireplace."

"Days were once required for journeys along the National Road that are now
made in a few hours. Taverns were needed for the many making frequent stops
for food and rest, and they thus became a distinctive feature of the old
road."

Marilyn in Ft Worth TX
Researching the following direct lines;
Belmont Co.: GILLESPIE, MCCORMICK, MCKNIGHT, RANKIN, THOMPSON,
Guernsey Co: ARMSTRONG, BAIRD, BENNETT, COOKE, GILLESPIE, HENDERSON,
MCCORMICK, MCCLEAN, PATTERSON, THOMPSON
Harrison Co.: ANDERSON, MCKNIGHT, MOORE, ROGERS,
Knox Co.: PATTERSON
Tuscarawas Co.: BENNETT, ROGERS, STEWART

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