Jose / French Genealogy Page

by: Jim Jose

Note: Scroll down mid-page for the "It's In The Book" Family History video series.

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For researching UK connections, use: https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/new?locale=en

In the following animations, this color denotes *direct* ancestry.

French Side:

OOOORosebelle Peak (born 1853) OOOOOOOOOJohn Bryan French (born 1844)

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The children of Rosebelle and John Bryan French:

OOOOSis. Paschal (born 1866, diff. mother)OOOOLeo Davis French (born 1867, diff. mother)OOLucinda A French (born 1869, diff mother)OOSis. Werburga (born 1871, diff. mother)

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OOOOElizabeth French (born 1875, diff. mother)OONora French (born 1879)OOOOOOOOOOOOJosephine French (born 1880)OOOOOOOOOSis. Perpetua (born 1881)

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OOOORichard French (born 1883)OOOOOOOOOOAnna French Vessels (born 1885)OOOOOOOJames French (born 1886)OOOOOOOOOOOLula French (born 1888)

OOOOEugene(Gene) French (born 1890)OOOOOOOLaura French (born 1892)OOOOOOOOOOOAlice French (born 1893)

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On the Burns Side:

OOOOMargaret Scully (born 1832)OOOOOOOOOOJames Thomas Burns "Byrne" (born 1829)

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Son of of Margaret and James Burns:

OOOOCharles Edward Burns (born 1858) OOOOOOFrances Catherine Mattingly (born 1864)

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Daughter of Frances and Edward Burns:

OOOOMary Lillian Burns (born 1890) OOOOOOOOGeorge Eugene French (born 1890)

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The son of Lillian and Eugene French:

OOOORichard Maurice French (born 1914)OOOOOSara Jane Webster Furgerson (born 1919)

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On the Ferguson Side:

OOOOElizabeth Stanley (born 1833)OOOOOOOOOOOOJames Lafayette Clark (born 1832)

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The daughter of Elizabeth and James Clark:

OOOOMartha Lutitia Clark (born 1850)OOOOOOOOWilliam Joseph Furgerson (born 1845)

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The son of Lutitia and William Clark:

OOOO(Clarence?) Furgerson (born 1890)OOOOOOOOOAnn Antice Blankenship (born 1887)

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The parents of Ann Antice Blankenship:

OOOOOOOSarah Dinah Chamness (born 1856)OOOOOOOOOThomas Gilbert Blankenship (born 1852)

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Jose Side

OOOOSarah Scott (born 1838)

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The children of Sarah and William Jose:

OOOOWilliam Jose (born 1858) OOOOOOOOOOOSarah Virginia Jose Stites (born 1860)OOOODr. James Edward Jose (born 1873)

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OOOOLebbeus Zevely (born 1831)

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The Granddaughter of Etha Malinda Miller and Lebbeus Zevely (wife of Dr. J E Jose):

OOOOHattie Belle Huddleston (born 1877)OOOOOODr. James Edward Jose (born 1873)

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Son of Hattie Belle and Dr. James E. Jose:

OOOOJames Everett Jose (born 1906)OOOOOOBonne DeJaquelene Hopper (born 1905)

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Parents of Bonne DeJaquelene Hopper:

OOOOIda McCord (born 1867)OOOOOOOOOOOOLogan Edwin Hopper (born 1850)

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Other children of Hattie Belle and Dr. James E. Jose:

OOOOLillian Lee Jose (born 1904)

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"It's In The Book" Video Series

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OOOOThe Missouri Jose Family OriginsOOOOOThe Jose Family In Cornwall Prior To 1848OOThe Story Of Bill Dick Jose 1848-1933OOOOOThe Jose Family - Loose Ends

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OOOThe French Family In AmericaOOOOOOOOOThe Story of James FrenchOOOOOOOOThe Children of John B. & Rosebelle FrenchOOOThe French Family - Loose Ends

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Colesburg Kentucky

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Biographies:

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The story of Sarah Scott born in Holbeach Bank, Lincolnshire 1838

(wife of William Jose, daughter of Thomas Ascott)

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Thomas Ascott - transatlantic Ship's Record "Joseph Badger" 1850

OO 2 Accounts of the Voyage, as well as Passenger List

Maria (Curtis) Ascott, with daughters Mary Ann (w Hepsibah) and Sarah Scott - transatlantic Ship's Record "Ellen Maria" 1853

OO 9 Accounts of the Voyage, as well as Passenger List

ONote: In the account given above, it was stated that son/brother Ambrose Scott was not listed on either ship, but he is known to have made the journey. At this writing it was noticed that there happens to be a listing for a "James Askew" age 22 on the Ellen Maria (the ship that his sisters and mother took). Owing to the switching around of surnames that was going on with the Askew/Ascott/Scott family at this time, this could be Ambrose Scott (although, his given age would be off by a few years).

A Write Up On Maria Curtis' niece (thru brother Charles Henry Curtis) "Jane Maria Curtis" - who along with her mother, eventually made the journey to Utah (she was 1st cousin to Sarah Scott).

Maria L. Ascott (daughter of William Ascott and Elizabeth Hobson, 1st cousin to Sarah Scott)

Saxthorpe (Thomas and William Ascott/Askew's birth place) ...to Holbeach

Recent Saxthorpe

Holbeach on the map.

Recent Holbeach - in very old times it was thought that the area looked like Holland (very flat farm land), so combine Holland with beach and you get Holbeach.

OOOIt used to be only 2 miles from "The Wash" which is coastal, but because of drainage put in in the 1700s and 1800s, it is now 10 miles from the coast.

Holbeach Bank (Sarah Scott's birthplace) in relation to Holbeach.

All Saints Parish in Holbeach, built in the 14th century. All of these Scott (Ascott/Askew), Curtis ancestors likely spent time here.

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OIn doing this genealogy the old fashioned way, for English research the FreeReg website has been invaluable:

https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/new?locale=en

O Quote: "It turns out that these particular ancestors moved around a lot rather than being landowners in one location for generations. FreeReg has a click button on their search engine for "Nearby Places", which has really come in handy. It searches the parish registers from all of the surrounding villages from a given location. It is much easier to see families together, and they seem to have some records that are not on Ancestry or FamilySearch.
O I have been able to make much more progress on our Francis ancestors with this site, and am getting to know a lot of the villages from north-central Norfolk this way. Hopefully this will aid you in researching the Curtis family ancestors as well".

O Ralph Mize (cousin)

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Margaret Scully - 3rd Gr. Grandmother, born: Co. Offlay, Ireland

(wife of James Burns, married in Kentucky 1858. Born 1832.)

Scully Family Kilcormac Parish Register info - Ireland

Scully Irish Family Grave and Inscription

James and Margaret Scully - Ship's Passenger Record 1852

Scully Land - Present Day

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Dr. James Edward Jose biography - born: 1873 in Canaan, Missouri

(Written and Compiled by cousin: William Livingstone - grandson of Lillian Jose, daughter of Dr. Jose)

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Arial view of the Jose Farm in 1968 (near Jefferson City, Missouri)

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Family Historical Events:

1680 - The birth of William McCord, Isle of Skye, Scotland (7th great-grandfather). He was a grandson of the Scottish Clan Chieftan James Duncan MacKorda (9th great-grandfather), who was killed at the Battle of Killiecrankie Pass in Scotland in 1689 (fighting on the side of the Jacobites - loyal to the deposed King James II). Subsequently William's father, John Duncan MacKorda (8th great-grandfather) with his wife Mary McDougall, escaped to Stuartstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland with John's sons and Mary's newborn son (Mary was the other boys' step-mother). The spelling of the name was changed to MacCorde (and eventually McCord) around 1705. William and his wife Martha Ann Sawyer came to America around 1720 settling in what was then Chester County, PA (Chester Co. later became Lancaster Co. after 1729, and is now Dauphin County - in the area of the town of Hershey, PA). William was one of the founders of the Derry Presbyterian Church (Hershey, PA) in 1724. It is likely that he and his wife were buried there.

1712 - The birth of David McCord in Stuartstown, Northern Ireland (6th great-grandfather). His family came to Pennsylvania when he was a child. Called "David the Weaver," he had a plantation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (now Dauphin County). Native Americans in league with the French.. led by Shingas, Chief of the Turtle Clan of the Delaware (Lenape) Tribe, killed David and his wife Jane Lowry (6th great-grandmother) on 4 April 1758 (his brother William & 27 other people had been killed two years prior at Fort McCord by the same band, on 1st April 1756). In this April 1758 raid,.. four of David's children were captured; David, James, Jane/Jean and Margaret (released a year and a half later). Another son.. John McCord (5th great-grandfather), was in the barn feeding the horses and the raiders did not find him. William, yet another son, outran them and escaped.

1725 - The birth of (6th great-grandfather) Samuel Wilson Sherrill, Cecil Co., Maryland. He was one of the "Overmountain Men" who made the trip to the Revolutionary War battle of King's Mountain in South Carolina. Thomas Jefferson called it "the turn of the tide of success" in the War. Samuel survived the war, and settled on the Nolichocky River in Washington Co., Tennessee with his family. He was also a signer of the Wataugan Petition in 1772, pertaining to the newly formed "Wataugan Association".. for what later would become the state of Tennessee. His daughter was Catherine Sherrill, the wife of John Sevier.. 1st Governor of Tennessee. In addition, Samuel's wife Mary Preston Davidson (6th great-grandmother) was sister to Whig General William Lee Davidson, who was killed at ill-fated Revolutionary War battle at Cowan's Ford (Mecklenburg Co. North Carolina). He, with only a few men to command.. was mortally felled by a musket ball to the chest while trying to hold off the British soldiers from crossing the Catawba River under orders from Gen. Nathaniel Greene. Nashville's "Davidson County" is named after Gen. Davidson.

1747 - The birth of (5th great-grandfather) Shadrach Inman, in Salisbury District, Burke, North Carolina. He met and married Mary Jane McPheeters (5th great-grandmother) in 1767. They had 12 children. Shadrach fought in the Revolutionary War, commissioned as Captain. He served from Jan. 5, 1774 to May 7, 1777. After the War, he moved his family to Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, where he built a plantation. Both he and Mary Jane are buried there. Unfortunately, but common for those times.. he was a slave owner - and in his will, he left these slaves with his children. Shadrach was a popular name in the Inman family for several generations. The story goes that this Shadrach, along with his brothers Meshach and Abednego, went hunting with their guide.. the infamous Daniel Boone, and were attacked by Indians. Meshach was killed, Shadrach was wounded by a spear, and Abednego was wounded in the head by a tomahawk. Boone and Shadrach escaped, and Abednego hid in a hollow log for 9 days, without food, until he was finally able to stagger home.

1749 - The birth of John Chamness (5th great-grandfather) in Orange County, North Carolina. John's father (Anthony Chamness) was from Whitechapel, Middlesex (London). Anthony came to Maryland as an indentured servant in February of 1724 at the age of 15. After serving his term, he married Sarah Cole and settled in North Carolina. The Chamness family were active Quakers. There is a story about son John (5th great-grandfather) that is of interest.. seeing as how we are descendants of his union with the new wife Sarah Sally Berry. He had first been wed to Charity Haworth. The story relates as follows:

O "John Chamness, husband of Charity Haworth was but sixteen years old when they married. Some years later, John deserted his wife and their children, and it is likely she never knew what became of him. The following story, seemingly truthful, has been preserved by some of the descendants of their son Micajah (Micajah was born about 1767): A few years after he left them, the family struggled along as best as they could.. and at one point their horses had wandered away. Micajah, being the one on whom they most depended, was sent in pursuit of the horses. He wandered from his home among the hills and mountains, and knew not the way back home. Night was coming on when he drew near to a dwelling among the hills. Wisdom, not the folly of his youth, impelled him to present himself at the door of the humble home.. knowing that he was lost and needed help to find his way back. He was invited to remain for supper and stay overnight. Having wandered nearly all day without dinner, he was a very hungry boy, and quite willing to partake of their humble fare. All that the story reveals is that the cabin was occupied by a man and a woman (no mention of children). The boy, whether questioned or not, revealed his identity to the man.. telling him that his father had abandoned the family, and they were left to get along the best they could. The man was silent. The night passed, and when breakfast was over the man informed the boy he would go far enough with him to find the road that would lead him to his home. When they had walked together as far as necessary for the man to go, they sat down to rest and talk. Up to this time the man was holding a secret; he knew the boy, but the boy did not know the man. John Chamness, the man, now revealed to Micajah that he was his father.. and rehearsed to him the story of the trouble that had existed between himself and the mother; and furthermore, pledged him to keep it a profound secret within his own breast. Micajah returned home, grew to manhood, married, reared a large family, lived to old age, and when nearing the close of his life, gave to his family this story.. which loyalty to his own father had prompted him to keep within his breast for all the years intervening from youth to old age".

1772 - The birth of (4th great-grandfather) Charles Ephraim McKinney in Burke County, North Carolina. As an adult he settled in McKinney Gap, NC near the Tennessee border in the Appalachian Mountains. Charles had at least 4 wives (some count 6) and over 40 children. After his death at age 86 he was commemorated by a 19 year old neighbor (Jacob Carpenter) as follows: "He mad brandy all his life never had no foes got alon fin with everibodi nod him. Cild 75 to 80 hogs a year and womin never had no words bout his having so many womin.” It is said regarding Charlie’s nightly lodgings; when he chucked his bedroll into their cabins, each in turn chose to accept it or not.. thus determining where he slept on any given night. Countless DNA related McKinney cousins can be found on Ancestry and other genealogical websites. We descend from wife Rachel Inman (4th great-grandmother).

1815 (Fall) - Forebear Zachariah Riney (5th great-grandfather) was teacher to Abraham Lincoln (age 6) in rural Kentucky for a brief period. He was one of Lincoln's very few teachers during his lifetime. Lincoln recalled him in the 1860s as having the admirable qualities of being "strict, but fair". Zachariah lived to be 96, and spent the last two years of his life living with Trappist Monks. More info can be found here:

Further information on Zachariah Riney, and a first hand rememberance of Lincoln by Zachariah's daughter Susan (Riney) Yeager.. who is also a forebear of ours.

1858 - 1881 : Three Jose Brothers (distantly related to us - possibly through Richard Jose b. 1706 and Ann Allen b. 1711) strike it rich near Tocopilla, Chile'. *Story*

1862, December 12th - According to members of extended family, on this date our married forebears.. (3rd great-grandparents) Willis Madison Huddleston and Sarah Mary "Polly" Ferrell, were executed ("bushwhacked") on their front porch in retribution of Willis's serving in a military capacity for the Union side (US Civil War). This left their several children orphaned. The veracity of this event seems to be supported by their dates of death being the same.

Thomas Jose, who is mentioned in the following account is our Dr. Jose's uncle - who when arriving from Cornwall, settled in Northeast Ohio to work in the iron industry. His brother William (2nd great grandfather) and his mother Elizabeth (3rd great grandmother) continued to travel onward to start their new lives in Missouri. Thomas was to later die at the Niles Iron Works described below, in a boiler explosion that occurred Nov. of 1871 (age 38). His professional life turned out to be more closely akin to the mining work that they all had left behind in Cornwall, compared to the work his brother William chose for himself in America (Wood Milling / Farming).

1865 (end of the US Civil War) - Creation of the NILES IRON WORKS

In 1865 the project of building a rolling mill in Niles, Ohio was conceived by William Davis, George Harris, and James Harris. They were joined by Corydon Bean (age 41) and Thomas Jose (age 32 - Corydon was Thomas' older brother-in-law). On the 10th of August the works were completed and set in operation. After the company had been organized, A. M. Blackford, and subsequently James Russell, became members of it. Business was carried on under the firm name of Harris, Davis & Co. The mill cost $50,000. The works at first consisted of three boiling furnaces, three heating furnaces, one sheet mill, and one ten-inch train of rolls. While under the management of this firm, the capacity of the works was considerably enlarged. The product was six tons of sheet iron, or sixteen tons of sheet and bar iron per day. In 1870 Mr. Davis disposed of his interest, and the firm then became Harris, Blackford & Co. This firm failed and made an assignment. The works then came into the hands of C. H. Andrews & Co., who rebuilt and enlarged the mill in 1872. The works have since been run by the Niles Iron company, producing bar, sheet, rod, skelp and band iron, the annual capacity being twelve thousand net tons. L. G. Andrews is president of this company and L. E. Cochran secretary. The puddling department has been removed to Youngstown, and we understand that the remainder of the works will follow. [Source: History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties, OH. Published: Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bros. VOL. I 1882 ].

Ida McCord's 1st Husband, *Frank Childers'* young demise - A Speculative Theory

1888 - (Great-grandmother) Ida McCord was married previously, before later marrying (great-grandfather) Logan Hopper. His name was Frank Childers (pictured). They were married in Baxter, Arkansas in 1886. Less than two years later they had a son - Frank Buell Childress, born January of 1888 (Childers and Childress seem to be interchangeable surnames for some reason). At this time father Frank was 21 years old. He is known to have died young, and it can probably be deduced that he died not long after the above picture was taken (young couples during this time usually kept on bearing children for several years). Something that complicates doing research in this time frame is that nearly all 1890 Censuses were destroyed by fire in Washington, DC in 1921. So, we can't know for sure what the status for this couple was at that time. I searched for a Frank Childers passing within the time frame - and the only entry I could find was related to a strange circumstance that happened in Birmingham, Alabama in December of 1888. I found a Frank Childers named in the pages of a couple of newspaper accounts (one account wrote the name as Childress). Someone might wonder why he would be in that location at all - they married in northern Arkansas, and Ida was known to have migrated to southern Missouri during these times. I think they were perhaps both living there. It was common for young men to go to work for the railroad, and during the research I found a railroad map from that time that had a route from southern Missouri to Birmingham, Alabama. This could explain why he was there - there were many railroad workers that became involved in the drama. It later became known as The Hawes Murders,.. and it is quite a tragic tale. A local prominent father (a railroad man) had his young children and wife killed (performed some of the acts himself) so that he could be free to join a woman that he had married illegally in another location. He was found out, and arrested and thrown in jail. Word spread and a mob formed outside the jail (some were railroad workers). The mob was determined to take justice into their own hands - and when they stormed the jail, the sherriff and his deputies unloaded on the men killing quite a few. One of the names on the list was Frank Childers (Childress). Richard Hawes was later found guilty and publicly hanged. Frank Childers' burial place is not known to this day, further obscuring what potential clues there might have been to work out the mystery. When Ida remarried a handful of years later,.. she married a local law man - Logan Hopper, who was 17 years her senior. Was Logan aware of the tragedy and stepped in (when he became widowed himself)? It's thought provoking to think that we descendents of Logan and Ida Hopper might not be here at all if it weren't for the outcome of this random tragic tale.

1932 (May) - Event at the L. and G. Mine, Hockerville, Oklahoma. Half Great-Uncle James Littlefield Hopper (age, almost 38) was seriously damaged by dynamite going off prematurely while in his care. To quote a cousin who is descended from him: "He was putting explosives in a hole and went back and put another stick of dynamite in.. and it blew up. He lost both hands and it blinded him in both eyes. They gave his wife his hands, and she buried them at the homestead". James Littlefield Hopper lived the rest of his life coping as best he could, and lived to the age of 75. He was by accounts a kind and good-natured man. On his grave stone it reads: "And the Lame shall walk and the Blind shall see".

Noteable Forebears

1st Cousin 8x Removed - George Washington - 1st President of the United States (Coffee side)

1st Cousin 7x Removed - William Blount - an American Founding Father, statesman, and land speculator who signed the United States Constitution. He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and led the efforts for North Carolina to ratify the Constitution in 1789 at the Fayetteville Convention. He served in the North Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War. He was appointed by George Washington as Governor (1790–96) of the new "Southwest Territory", which later became the state of Tennessee. When he realized that he couldn't beat John Sevier as first "official" Governor (when Tennessee became an actual State), he chose to become one of the first two U.S. senators from Tennessee (1796–97). In 1797, he was charged with conspiring with the Cherokee and the British to conquer Spanish Florida. The Senate voted to expel him in July 1797. (McCord side)

5th Great-Grandaunt - Catherine "Bonnie Kate" Sherrill - 3 times the 1st Lady of Tennessee, as wife to Tennessee Governor John Sevier (they were the first to serve TN in this capacity). (Zevely side)

6th Great-Granduncle - William Lee Davidson - Colonel, Brigadier General in the Revolutionary War. The man for whom Davidson County, Tennessee (Nashville) is named. (Zevely side)

2nd Cousin 11 times removed - Benjamin Franklin - Drafter and signer of the US Declaration of Independence, Printer and Inventor.. many other accomlishments. (Clark side)

The View From Carn Marth in 1837 (Jose History)

The following is a *first hand* official account, written by a Royal employee.. at the hill of Carn Marth, Gwennap, Cornwall in 1837. This was written at the same time that William Jose (2nd great grandfather - who later immigrated to Missouri) was living there (age 11 at the time). His father and mother, William and Elizabeth (ages 34) would have also been there.. as well as brother Thomas, (age 9), who later settled in Northeast Ohio working in the iron trade.

Written by William Jory Henwood, F.G.S., regarding the Gwennap Mining District. It can be found in Volume V of the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall;

"To one unaccustomed to a mining industry, the view from Carnmarth, which is a rocky eminence of 757 feet, is full of novelty. Over a surface neither mountainous or flat, but diversified from sea to sea by a constant series of low, undulating hills and vales, the farmer and the miner seem to be occupying the country in something like the confusion of warfare. The situations of the Consolidated Mines, the United Mines, the Poldice Mine, etc., are marked out by spots a mile in length by half a mile in breadth, covered with what are termed 'deads' of the mine, i.e. slatey, poisonous rubbish, thrown up in ragged heaps, which at a distance give the place the appearance of an encampment of soldiers' tents. This lifeless mass follows the course of the main lode (p. 241) (usually east and west), and from it, in different directions, minor branches of the same barren rubbish diverge through the fertile country, like the streams of lava from a volcano. The miner, being obliged to have a shaft for air at every hundred yards, and the stannary laws allowing him freely to pursue his game, his hidden path is commonly to be traced by a series of heaps of 'deads' which rise up among the green fields and among the grazing cattle like the workings of a mole.

Steam-engines and whims (large capstans worked by two or four horses) are scattered about, and in the neighbourhood of the old as well as of the new workings are sprinkled, one by one, a number of small whitewashed miner's cottages, which being neither on a road nor near a road, have, to the eye of a stranger, the appearance of having been dropt down apropos to nothing. "Early in the morning the scene becomes animated. From the scattered cottages, as far as the eye can reach, men, women and children of all ages begin to creep out; and it is curious to observe them all converging like bees towards the small hole at which they are to enter the mine. On their arrival the women and children, whose duty it is to dress or clean the ore, repair to the rough sheds under which they work, while the men, having stripped and put on their underground clothes (which are coarse flannel dresses), one after another descend the several shafts of the mine by perpendicular ladders to their respective levels or galleries. As soon as they have all disappeared a most remarkable stillness prevails--scarcely a human being is to be seen. The tall chimneys of the steam engines emit no smoke, and nothing is in motion but the great 'bobs' or levers of these gigantic machines. "As soon as the men come to grass they repair to the engine-house, where they generally leave their underground clothes to dry, wash themselves in the warm water of the engine pool, and put on their clothes, which are always exceedingly decent. By this time the maidens and little boys have also washed their faces, and the whole party migrate across the fields in groups and in different directions, to their respective homes. Generally speaking, they no look so clean and fresh and seem so happy that one would scarcely fancy they had worked all day in darkness and confinement. The old men, tired with their work and sick of the follies and vagaries of the outside and the inside of this mining world ,plod their way in sober silence probably thinking of their supper. The younger men proceed talking and laughing, and where the grass is good they will sometimes stop and wrestle. The big boys generally advance by playing at leap-frog; little urchins run on before to gain time to stand upon their heads, while the maidens, sometimes pleased and sometimes offended with what happens, smile or scream as circumstances may require. As the different members of the group approach their respective cottages, their numbers, of course, diminish, and the individual survivor of a large family performs the last few yards on his journey by himself."

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