Journal Of The Sheffield Village Historical Society .
December 2014—Volume 9 No. 4Journal of the Sheffield Village Historical SocietyHoliday GreetingsAutumn foliage frames the new Ford Road Bridge over Black River. The new bridge was dedicated and opened to traffic on November 15, 2013.
Sheffield’s Centennial Reunion—100 Years AgoIn 1915, on Wednesday and Thursday,August 11 th and 12 th, the residents ofSheffield Township celebrated the 100thAnniversary of the settlement of thetownship. The celebration took the form ofa homecoming at Sheffield Center [Burrell& Day Homesteads] and all old and newresidents together with their families wereinvited to the celebration.Printed invitations were mailed to distantfriends and old residents of Sheffield.Those living nearby were notified by Elyriaand Lorain newspapers, asking them toaccept this as their invitation to be present.The following program for the celebrationappeared in the August 3, 1915 addition ofThe Elyria Evening Telegram:WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11At two o’clock in the afternoonBoat Ride up Black RiverStage Ride from Island [Bungart Island] toFrench Creek Hollow [James Day Park]At five o’clockCamp Fire Supper (Basket Picnic)Story Telling, Music, Dancing on the GreenTHURSDAY, AUGUST 12At ten o’clock in the forenoonAssembly and Greetings at the Burrell HomeAt twelve o’clock noonChicken Pie DinnerHistory of Sheffield, First Fifty YearsHistory of Sheffield, Second Fifty YearsMusic and Short AddressesRains in the afternoon of August11th caused the program to be adjustedsomewhat and other features were added.The following description of the celebrationwas assembled from accounts in The ElyriaChronicle (August 12, 1915), The ElyriaDemocrat (August 19, 1915), and Professor G. Frederick Wright’s A Standard Historyof Lorain County, Ohio (1916, pages 160-162).River PilgrimageThe Centennial Celebration began on Wednesday with a launch ride from Todd’ s BoatHouse [near today’s Black River Landing] in Lorain, up the river to a landing near theHyer Farm [at Bungart Island]—a short distance downstream from the mouth of FrenchCreek. They followed the same course as Jabez Burrell did when he brought his family tothe then wild and heavily wooded section of land he had chosen. The trip was far differentthan the original trip as the party were enabled to view from the water the many big plantsand manufacturing enterprises that line the river almost to the mouth of the creek.One hundred years earlier Captain Jabez Burrell, Isaac Burrell, Captain John Day, andCaptain Joshua Smith left Massachusetts to find a suitable place to locate on the land theyhad purchased without seeing it and then return home for their families. Captain Smith andhis son Douglas returned to Sheffield in the fall and were soon joined by Asher Chapmanand Samuel Fitch. They remained on the land during the harsh winter. The followingspring the first family of settlers arrived—Captain Henry Root and his wife Mary [Day]Root, and their six children. In the summer, Captains John Day and Jabez Burrell arrivedwith their wives and nine and eight children, respectively.Picnic in French Creek HollowSome 75 passengers enjoyed the river pilgrimage in honor of the way some of Sheffield’sfounders arrived. At the top of the river bluff, jitney buses met the pilgrims, taking themto French Creek Hollow [today’s James Day Park] for an outside program. A basketpicnic was the first thing on the program, 100 or more enjoying this feature. In the earlyafternoon a light rain began to fall and it was decided to postpone the pageant until thenext afternoon. All were taken to the nearby old Congregational Church, built in 1854,which had been and faithfully restored for the event. Here County Auditor Orville Root,a grandson of pioneer Henry Root, called the assembly to order for the reading of lettersby lamp light sent by distant friends of Sheffield. Short addresses were made by manyof the old time friends, telling many things of interest which happened in those pioneerdays. Celia Durand read a paper, The Sheffield Pioneer Women of the Western Reserveand Asaph Jones sang, One Hundred Years from Today, thus closing the day’s exercise.Homecoming at the Burrell HomesteadOn Thursday August 12, 1915, the Sheffield community and friends assembled onthe spacious lawn of the old Jabez Burrell home, where time was spent in visiting andrecalling old time experiences. Six long tables, seating 50 each, had been arranged onthe lawn and were soon filled with the many people in attendance. The first 300 wereseated at the tables, while many others waited their turn. The chicken pie dinner, with allthe other fixings, were very much enjoyed by all present.Panoramic photograph of the gathering at the Burrell Homestead to celebrate Sheffield’s Centennial. Noted Lorain photographer, Willis Leiter, tookthe picture on August 12, 1915. Note the gentleman in the dark suit at the far left side of the photograph also appears at the far right side. The Village Pioneer—Volume 9 No. 4, December 2014
In the old brick house, which Jabez had constructed in the early 1820s from bricks hefired on the farm, his great grandson Harry and his wife Tempe [Garfield] Burrell hadprepared an exhibit of Sheffield relics, a number of which were brought into Sheffieldwhen the first families arrived. This “curio room” was arranged in the front part of thehouse and was open for visitation bythose attending the celebration. Amongthe relics were a shawl owned by Tempethat was worn by Lydia [Austin] Day,Captain John Day’s wife when she cameto Sheffield, a 100 years earlier; CaptainDay’s silk hat; a 75-year-old bundle offlax grown on the Day Farm; a 1790 mapof Connecticut; a scarf worn by LeonoraBurrell 75 years earlier; a dress made in1790 by Lydia Day and one fashionedby Rhoda Maria Day in 1811; a yarnweaver made by the Shakers and sold toMilton Garfield’s son, Halsey, in 1865; French Creek Hollow, now known asJames Day Park, where Sheffield’sand many other curios.Centennial Celebration began onAssembly in the Old ChurchAugust 11, 1915.After dinner the company again assembled at the old church,where the afternoon’s program was carried out, Orville Rootacting as chairman. Ray Cogswell gave the first fifty years ofthe history of Sheffield, which had been prepared by NormanDay (1803-1880). He spoke of the coming of the first settlers,Captains Jabez Burrell and John Day, from New England in1815 where they had purchased the township from GeneralWilliam Hart of Saybrook. The coming of Captain JoshuaSmith and his son Douglas in November 1815 by ox cartfrom Massachusetts marked the first permanent settlers. Nextcame the arrival of Freeman Richmond, Henry Root, OliverMoon, Milton and John Garfield, A. R. Dimmick, and HenryAustin—some coming by boat as far as Niagara Falls and thenby stage, others by ox cart, and many walking. At the end of thefirst year in Sheffield the population of the settlement reached50 persons. The first white woman was Mrs. Freeman Richmond,who came in February 1816, and the first family with children wasHenry and Mary Root in April 1816. In 1824 when Lorain Countywas formed, the organization of Sheffield Township was the first orderof business. The trustees were Captain John Day, Isaac Burrell, and A. D.Dimmick. Milton Garfield was the first treasurer and Nathan Stevens served asthe first clerk and magistrate of the new township.This double image was possible by running behind the crowd as the panoramic camera slowlyswung from left to right exposing a long, narrow photographic plate.The Village Pioneer—Volume 9 No. 4, December 2014The history of the second 50 years ofSheffield was given by Edith [Austin]Cuddeback. Other historical accountswere read by Charles Crehore, LouisBacon, Everett Day, and Walter Austin.A short address was made by 89-yearold Jesse Lang of Oberlin, who taught inSheffield’s first school. Shirley Burrellof Lorain read an excellent paper tellingof the first newspaper, printed July 24,1829, which was known as The LorainGazette—its subscription price was 2.00a year. This closed the program for theafternoon. Adjournment to the BurrellHomestead then took place, where thenoted Lorain photographer, Willis Leiter,took a panoramic picture of the largegathering. He produced manyprints, which were sold fromhis Lorain studio.Sheffield CongregationalC h u rc h a c ro s s t h eroad from the BurrellH o m e s t e a d w h e reCounty Auditor OrvilleRoot presided over anassembly to celebratethe 100th Anniversaryof Sheffield’s 1815founding.WildernessPageantThe pageant, whichwas to have taken placeWednesday evening,was carried out Thursdayevening, and began by adozen little fairies appearingfrom a distance, dancing tomusic of a Graphophone. Then themusic died away and Indians appeared onhorseback. Halting, they started a fire andbegan getting their evening meal. Soonafterward a covered wagon drawn by twohorses was seen coming down the road. Itrepresented the coming of the first familyto Sheffield. The campfire was started,lighting the whole hollow. Dancing ofmany of the younger and some of the olderones followed, with music by Mr. ClarkCox and Mr. Boyd, two of the old fiddlers.This was one of the happy features of theevening’s entertainment. Mr. Jones sangThe Perfect Day, which closed one of themost successful and interesting gatheringsthat Sheffield has ever witnessed.
St. Teresa’s Sister BlandineSister Mary Blandine was a teacher atSt. Teresa School for some 13 years—1947to 1959. She passed away at an advancedage in 1961 at the Order of Notre Dames’Mother House in Chardon, Ohio. But thereis much controversy, possibly adventure,concerning her early life.Tom Smith, the Law Director of theVillage of Sheffield and a long-timemember of the Historical Society, recentlybrought a book to my attention, Sister, Billythe Kid and Me: Sister Blandina Segaleand Old West Discipline in the 1950s.The book was written by James P. Meskerand published by Burd Street Press ofShippensburg, Pennsylvania in 2011. Jameswas a student at St. Teresa School in thelate 1950s and in fact he rode to school inBrookside’s Bus No. 7, while was I servingas bus guard on the Sheffield Lake run.James had moved from Cleveland toSheffield Lake and entered St. TeresaSchool as a second grader. His teacher,Sister Blandine, was a strict disciplinarian,yet he was enthralled with the possibilitythat she had known Billy the Kid and hadeven sheltered him from a vigilante posse—in her words, “merely giving sanctuary toan oppressed person.” After hearing SisterBlandine make occasional reference toher encounters with Billy the Kid in NewMexico, on the last day of class he finallygot up enough nerve to ask her the question,“Did you really know Billy the Kid?”The last day of school was devoted toan outdoor picnic and softball games.James’ strategy was to engage Sister ina conversation about the picnic food orthe weather, well away from the otherThey went on walking and talking aboutthe Old West. Her references to “the Kid”were like parables that focused on justice.She believed that God’s law was all thatmattered in human behavior. About hidingthe Kid from a posse, she dismissed anyaccusation of misconduct—she consideredmost of the posses as vigilante mobs, notrepresenting true legal authority.At the time Billy the Kid was rampagingNew Mexico, General Lew Wallace wasserving as Territorial Governor. Earlier,James P. Mesker’s 2011 book, Sister, Billy theKid and Me: Sister Blandina Segale and OldWest Discipline in the 1950s.Students and faculty of St. Teresa School (1947). Sister Blandine is standing at the far right (JeanAckerman). students, then spring the question on her.His plan going awry—he jumped off theschool bus and spotting his teacher, heimmediately blurted, “Good morning SisterBlandine did you really know Billy theKid?” All turned silent! She got him in aheadlock and dragged him away from theother students, who turned and quicklyvanished so as not to witness “his demise.”Sister released him, smiled, and askedthat he repeat the question. Asking againand expecting a blow to the head, he wassurprised to hear, “Yes I did.” She wenton to say one must “always, always” tellthe truth when asked a question.Billy the Kid circa 1881 (Hydragyrum).The Village Pioneer—Volume 9 No. 4, December 2014
during the Civil War, General Wallace hadserved in the Union Army. He was givena memorable assignment at the end of theWar—appointed as presiding officer atthe war-crimes trial of Major Henry Wirz,the commander of the Confederate prisonat Andersonville, Georgia. During the 14months that the prison was in operation,45,000 Union soldiers were imprisonedthere, behind a wooden stockade with noshelter and little food and water. In thatshort span of time, 13,000 Union soldiersdied, several being shot by the commanderhimself. Major Wirz was found guilty andhung in Washington, D.C. on November 10,1865 in sight of the Capitol Building—theonly Confederate officer to be hung forwar crimes.As James and Sister Blandine walked, she confided that most of her work, and thedeeds she felt to be true adventure, were her efforts to improve the daily lives of peoplewith whom she interacted while conducting mission schools in New Mexico. She inspiredthe townsfolk of every community she visited to build lodging and schoolhouses for thebenefit of Hispanic and Indian children. James walked and listened as the rest of thestudents played softball. He said thanks to her, boarded the school bus, and was gone forthe summer, keeping Sister’s story a secret.James Mesker’s book is a charming read. It is only 54 pages long, but packed withamusing anecdotes of school days and humorous church duties at St. Teresa. I am sureyou will find it fun, but perhaps a bit puzzling—there is still much mystery surroundingSister Blandine’s identity.General Wallace apparently has similarfeelings as Sister Blandine. While servingas Governor of the New Mexico Territory,he came face-to-face with Billy the Kid in1879, advising him to give up his “perilouscareer.” The Kid’s actual name was HenryMcCarty. He was born November 23, 1858in New York City and shot to death by PatGarrett, Sheriff of Lincoln County, NewMexico in July 1881 after not headingWallace’s advice. A year after meeting theKid, Lew Wallace went on to write perhapsthe most influential religious story of thenineteenth and twentieth centuries, BenHur—A Tale of The Christ. His writingsshow that men are subject to a “HigherAuthority,” perhaps in reference to hisencounter with the Kid.Sister Mary Blandine in her classroom at St. Teresa School in 1953 (Jean Ackerman).Lew Wallace’s epic tale of the Christ, Ben-Hur,published in 1880.General Lewis Wallace, Civil War officer andGovernor of New Mexico Territory from 1878to 1881 (National Archives).The Village Pioneer—Volume 9 No. 4, December 2014Pat Garrett, Sheriff of Lincoln County, NewMexico, the man who killed Billy the Kid.
Brookside’s Bus GuardsIf you attended Brookside or any of the Sheffield Lake orSheffield Village schools after the 1960s, you probably don’tknow what I am talking about, but for years bus guards were anessential part of the transportation of students to and from school.It all started with a horrible tragedy when Brookside School wasonly a year old.Brookside School buses in 1924.Newspaper account of the tragic railway crash (Sandusky Register,October 24, 1924).Lake Shore Electric Railway interurban trolley, westbound in SheffieldLake.On Friday afternoon, October 23, 1924, a happy group of schoolchildren heading home from their studies was converted into one ofgrief and hysteria when a westbound Lake Shore Electric Railwayinterurban trolley car crashed into a Brookside School bus at Stop73, killing three children instantly and injuring 20 others, severalseriously. Some 30 first and second grade pupils were on the busheading toward the lake on Bennett Road [now Abbe Road] whenthe crash occurred; none escaped without scratches or other minorinjuries. A fourth died in the hospital. The dead were all seven- andeight-year-old boys—Albert Owen, William Rath, Frank White,and Andrew Doza. The injured bus driver, 35-year old Elmer Owen,was the father of Albert who was killed in the crash.The dead and injured were rushed to hospitals in passingautomobiles and ambulances from surrounding cities. Scenes atthe hospitals upon their arrival rivaled that of the night of June 28,1924 when the disastrous tornado struck Lorain just four monthsearlier. On October 24th four probes were initiated in an effort to fixresponsibility for the accident. The investigations were conductedby M. J. Brennan, inspector of the Public Utilities Commission;Dr. Miles Perry, Lorain County Coroner; Sheffield Lake Boardof Education, owner of the school bus; and Lake Shore ElectricRailway Company, whose car crashed into the vehicle. The dayafter the crash, the Board of Education announced that an extra manwould ride with the driver of the bus in the future as a precautionagainst a similar accident—“Each of the three Sheffield LakeVillage school buses will carry a guard whose duty will be to watchthe children and guard railroad and street car crossings.while thebus crosses.” Thus began the tradition of Brookside Bus Guardsthat continued for four decades and for three years I was one.The Monday following the tragedy, Brookside, as well asHighland and Vincent, the other two Sheffield Lake Village schoolsremained closed out of respect for the dead children and theirparents. The flags at the schools were lowered to half mast.At an investigative hearing, school officials and persons of thecommunity testified to the carefulness of the bus driver, ElmerOwen. Elmer was aware of the westbound trolley’s schedule andassumed the car had already passed the Harris Road crossing. Thetrolley had been delayed between Cleveland and Sheffield Lake,arriving at the crossing later than usual.The Village Pioneer—Volume 9 No. 4, December 2014
decided not to go home with her friend. Luckily, her girlfriendescaped serious injury in the crash, but heaven only knows whatmy mother’s fate might have been if she were on that bus.Brookside’s 3rd grade class, 1925-1926. Several of these students wereonboard the ill-fated school bus two years earlier. From left to right,top row: Margaret Forster, Leo Bacher, Robert Storch, Mary Fair, JohnTemkovich, Kathryne Root, Fred Ward, Mary Hoff, Ouffelt Huff, MaryHuebuer, Howard Carrick, Miss Shingledecker; bottom row: PhyllisGebhart, Olga Dotzlaf, Margaret Latrain, Naomi Timmons, Elmer O’Neil,Lillian Bauman, Josephine Tarnosky, Helen Poleski, Eugene Lehuishi,Alberta Linsley, Thelma Gebo, Carl Cunningham, Vivian Molenbrock,and Bob Burch (Garfield Farms Landmark Foundation).Newspaper account of the railway’s position on the crash and Brookside’splan to carry bus guards (Lorain Journal, October 25, 1924).The Lake Shore Electric Railway Company’s general manager,F. W. Coen, disclaimed all responsibility for the accident followinga personal inspection of the wreck scene and hearing statementsfrom the car crew and passengers. He stated, “I am positive nowfrom testimony I have obtained from witnesses that the school busabsolutely did not stop before going onto the tracks. The motormanblew his whistle before reaching the crossing. He said he didn’tsee the bus until it was too late to stop the heavy car.”At the hearing, School Board members expressed the opinionthat the County Commissioners should have filled the deep ditchin which the bus was thrown, as the Sheffield Lake Council hadrequested a year earlier, implying that if this had been done noneof the children would have been killed. They pointed out that onlythe portion of the bus crushed in was jammed down against the sideof the ditch. At the same time, the Board members spoke in highterms of Elmer Owen, driver of the bus, whom they consideredone of the best that had ever been hired. S. B. Wilmot, father ofone of the students in the bus, stated, “Elmer Owen was one ofthe best dr
The Village Pioneer —Volume 9 No. 4, December 2014 In the old brick house, which Jabez had constructed in the early 1820s from bricks he fired on the farm, his great grandson Harry and his wife Tempe [Garfield] Burrell had prepared an exhibit of Sheffield relics, a number of which were brought into Sheffield when the first families arrived.
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