Angleton

My Grandma Grace Anglin wrote a piece about Angleton for the family book in 1968.  A part of it is copied here for you.

Angleton Store and Post Office - A Fond Memory

When Millwood was in its infancy, Isaac Anglin settled on what is now the Lester Gay farm. He, also, owned a section of land, which he divided among his four children, one of whom was W.B. Anglin, who was born there.
In 1871 W.B. Anglin was married to Ellen Rusher. They lived east of Clunette on the Elam Anglin farm, later moving back to the Millwood farm. This part of the country was new. Roads were corduroy and impassable. Buggies were not in use. People walked to small towns for groceries. So W.B. Anglin started a grocery store in one room of his log house in order to meet the emergency of the times.
Later on he built a new home and the store which was known as "Angleton " . In 1877 he enlarged his store and made it into a General Store.
The early settlers braided hats of wheat straw and sold them at the store. They also brought produce such as eggs, butter and potatoes to exchange them for groceries and dry goods. Beef hides and old rags were, also, brought to the store for exchange.
Sugar, crackers, and salt were kept in barrels. The store carried dried staples such as fruits, beans, dried pork, dried beef, rice, cracked corn, rolled oats, raisins, prunes, and English currents.
The store carried patent medicines and many ailments were taken care of ( thus cheating the doctor of a dollar). Shoes and boots were sold along with many other necessities. It also served as a post office.
A Star route from Warsaw served offices at Monouquet, Clunette. Angleton and Millwood. W.B. Anglin was appointed postmaster at Angleton. At first the mail was carried by mule wagon, driven by Conrand Hinkle and his stepsons, Ed and Will Herschberger .
Picture in your mind the mule team lazily moving along the road.
As they came near a dwelling where children were watching them, Will Herschberger, who had a sense of humor, would yell " Over the hills to the poor house, and the mules would break into a run.
This amused the children and gave Will a thrill. Later the mail wagon was drawn by two black horses. 
The post office was discontinued about 1898, and free mail delivery took it's place. It was a rare treat to have the mail daily after having it ,only,once or twice a week.
A little before that, in 1897, W.B. Anglin bought a stock of groceries from a mister Newman at Clunette and operated a store there. This venture did not prove to be profitable, so in a short time the stock was taken to the Angleton store. For several years two Huckster Wagons were run from the store.
As the roads became improved, people went to town to shop and country stores did not thrive. The Angleton store was closed in 1902. The old store building was moved back from the road and used for implements and a , later,  garage.
When W.B. Anglin died in 1923, the home was retained by Washington Irving Anglin, who had a family of eight sons.

 Summer. It really is summer. Out my front window, across the park,  is a view of the city beach already populated by sun bathers and swimmers at eleven o'clock in the morning. In a few minutes (around 11:30) I will walk out into my herb garden and gather herbs that I can use in my protein shake. The oils in the herbs are at their height at this time and, therefore, they smell and taste better. Because drinking a green shake is not appealing to me but I need more spinach in my diet; I fool myself by using fresh mint. A mint shake is supposed to be green-right? Now it is very yummy!!
Today is a great day for the Anglin family. Uncle Jack is being interviewed by WFYI , an Indianapolis tv station, for their special on Indiana's Bicentennial which will be aired in July. He was a teen when electricity came  to us. He said my grandmother was afraid that the "juice" coming through the wires would drip out so she placed pans at the outlets. I lived there, at Angleton, for a time as a three and four year old. Suppers by coal-oil lamp is one of my treasured memories.

When I first became aware of my husband's family being descendants of a man that came to "the new world" on the Mayflower I thought it was a hoax. As the lady on the phone was asking me questions about my children's names and birth dates, visions of those fake family crests came to mind. I don't think I hung up on her (she said she lived here),  but I am sure I cut her off without any answers.
We had been married almost 20 years and no one in the Long family had clued me in about this fact. Apparently,they knew Edward Doty was on the Mayflower but he was not a Pilgrim or a member of the crew: he was a lowly indentured servant. Plus he got in typical teenage trouble with the "law" after they landed. So no big deal?
After a bit of research I was appalled that he was so disregarded. He helped construct most of the buildings in the settlement. Lived through that horrific first winter helping bury half of the population. Became an outstanding member of the community and his daughter Desire married Miles Standish's son Alexander.
  Here is the timeline from the Mayflower to the Long family here in Indiana.

1620 Edward Doty(1) on the Mayflower, lands close to what is later called Plymouth Plantation.He does sign the Mayflower Compact.
1678 Edward's son, Samuel,(2) moves from the original settlement to Piscataway( now N.J.) He has joined the militia and marries Jane Harmon.
1740 After two generations ; Samuel(2) and his son, Samuel (3), then John (4), who is the fifth child of third generation Samuel, is born there in Piscataway, grows up and signs a lease for 300 acres at Basking Ridge, N.J. , 1739-40. Then John is recorded living in Morris N.J. 1746. There are reports of John being scalped while fighting Indians.
1790 In that year's census for Westmorland Co.Pa. John's son , Sam(5)appears along with his kin, Daniel and Johnathan.
1810 Sam(5) is in the Vandango Co. Pa. census.
1829 His son ,Sam(6) has moved to Butler Co. Oh. Other members of that migration group include son Joseph(7) who was born in Pa. Both Sams live out their lives there in Ohio along with Joseph,s mom, Ketura ,who is reported to have lived to the age of 110 there .
1837 Joseph Doty (7), having married Effie (Euphima),Thompson in Butler county, Oh. Then pays 200.00 for 40 acres in Warren Co. In. , around the town of Independence In. 
1868 After Joseph's(7) daughter, Euphamia(8) is married to Henry Harrison Gerrard, April 16, 1861. They move over the state line to Iroquois, Ill., where they have 3 children, including our own Zillah Euphamia(9). They move back to Indiana where Zillah(9) grows to womanhood and marries John Long.
1904 Zillah Euphamia(9) has a son Gaylord Washington Long(10) who grows up in Morroco, In.. He joins Gast Construction road crew, moves to Warsaw In. on a job,where he meets and marries Martha Hoover from Syracuse. In. They settle here and have 3 children including Glen Gaylord Long(11) born in 1932. He grew up and married me, Janice Diane Anglin.

 

Aunt Anna Rapp, at 17, wrote about a teenage similar to mine. No tv, no cell phones, no computers, no electric dishwashers (except in resturants). We read, listened to the radio, went to movies, cruised around in cars, went to dances, ect. Here is her recounting of this day on June 4 , 1941. She was out of school working for my uncle Herm (her older brother)as a live in baby sitter:
 Dear Diary. Up at 7:00 Breakfast. Read until David got up. Cleaned up the house. Helped get dinner (they called lunch dinner)Done dishes. (She always used done instead of did.)Listened to radio stories. Mowed the lawn -Liz and I. ( Liz was Herm's really pretty wife). We played catch. Done chores. Got supper. Ate. Stacked dishes.
Heard Fred Allen, Glen Miller,Kay Kiser and other good programs. Played with David . To bed at 9:15.

I was seldom  allowed to stack the supper dishes. The daytime radio was mostly soap opras like "Our gal Sunday" and Stella Dallas.

Junes I Remember
There are the usual reasons a school age girl would be thrilled when June arrived; end of school ect. For me it was especially happy because I got to stay at my Grandparents farm where I  spent most of my preschool years. 
Dewy Sunday mornings at "Angleton" included visiting the fragrant pink rose bush just off the front porch. I was allowed to pick one or two blossoms to pin to my dress or hair after an inspection by Grandma Grace. Then a clean handkerchief had a nickle tied into the corner for Sunday school offering. These are comforting memories. When my daughter who is mother of school aged kids wonders if she is "getting through"  she should know she has great powers.
One of the biggest events of Junes on the farm was the annual strawberry fest. Picking, baking, and ice cream making is all written about in my June 20, 2011 post.

Well, it is already June ...Hard to believe. It was great to have Grace and Nick here to do the Stonypoint visit Sunday, and go to Leesburg next morning to watch the parade. We always finish that occasion by toasting my  world war two uncles with our favorite beverages at The Keg. I thank God every day that my Uncle Jack is still with us and treasure early childhood memories of my wonderful Uncle Bill who was killed in France; reference video posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 for Grace's reading of those details.
An early  hazy memory is, being picked up by uncle Bill in G. Grace's kitchen. The little blue satin dress I was wearing was new and I was admonished not to get it dirty. That is when uncle Bill gave me a chocolate ice cream cone someone handed him. Because he was still holding me when G. Grace came into the room, he was the one who got scolded. At that time in the world, if you stained a fabric like satin, you would just throw it away.