Tax levy

The Fort Loramie Community Service Club had as its guest speaker, Rich Wallace of the Shelby County Historical Society. He spoke of the upcoming tax levy that the local museums will be placing on the ballot this fall. Jim Rosengarten of the Fort Loramie Historical Assn. also gave a few comments. All in attendance recognized the need to support the museum.

Website

If you are interested in Russia sports check out the Fish Report.

http://fishreportonline.coffeecup.com/site/

Grisez School photo

Grisez School

Grisez School is located at the intersection of Brandewie and Loy Roads in section 15 of Cynthian Twp. It was built in 1888 by J.W. Bower. The 1875 map shows a previous school farther east on Loy Rd. in Section 23.

The school closed in 1936 and the students transferred to Ft. Loramie School. A reunion was held in 1988. The building is used for storage now and is kept in good condition.

D. Snow
Frank Loy
H.H. Short
Mr. Groff
Bernard Barhorst
Ann Sommers
Goldie Martin
Martha Remlinger
Ellen Nischwitz
Marie Freytag

Doy you have any information or old pictures or do you know any dates for the teachers?

One-room schools

These schools in McLean Twp. and Cynthian Twp. became part of the Ft. Loramie School District except for Deiters and Dirksen that were merged into Minster District. Looking for information, pictures, names of teachers, etc. We can copy photos and return them. Or you can scan and email them to us yourself. Let me know what you have and we can tell you if we don't already have it.

Basinburg - Rt. 66 & Loy. Lindhaus Grove was behind it. Nobody seems to remember this school.

Deiters - East of Minster on Wilkins-Fortman & Schmitmeyer-Baker. Closed in 1928.

Dirksen - Dirksen Rd. just south of Auglaize Co. line.

Grisez - Brandewie & Loy Rd. Cynthian Twp. Closed 1936.

Hopewell - Cecil Rd. in Cynthian Twp. Closed in 1950.

St. Patrick

Sherman - Barhorst Rd. & Rt. 705. Closed in 1954.

Short - Galley Rd. Cynthian Twp. Closed in 1936.

Walkup - Rt. 705 & Brandewie. Closed in 1950.

Civil War casualties

This is our list of people who died in the Civil War who were from McLean or Cynthian Twps. Many more were in the war and survived. Someone should update the list and the ones for WWI and II and other wars. It would be a good job for a Civil War or military buff.

John August
Samuel Austin
George Baker
Joseph Beckman
Samuel Chambers
James Clawson
Jacob Edwards
Thomas Edwards
Frank Kemper
Joseph Kistner
James N. Luckey
Charles McMullen
John B. Morehead
William Penrod
Henry Tholmier

From the newspaper

Minster Post, 20 July 1906. "To buy or trade, a large cactus plant with 5 foot leaves. Enquire at Quinlin's drugstore, Loramie."

31 August 1906. " Druggist Quinlin has made a gift of the large cactus plant to Rev. Mueller. He will send the plant to Carthagena where it will be planted in the park there."

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !!

Photo

This is the Christmas Market in Lingen, Germany. Most towns have one. Lingen is in the state of Niedersachsen and the district of Emsland in the northwestern part of Germany. Families that came from there were Lammers (one of them), Gels and Gerling.

December photo