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Old 10-30-2010, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Cortland, Ohio
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Mary Thomas Waddell

Her father was the owner of Niles Firebrick Co. and the Ward-Thomas house located on the south side of Niles off of rt 46. The Ward-Thomas house is the home of the Niles Historical Society.

Niles Historical Society Home Page

"Built in 1862, the Ward Thomas House was the home of two prominent Niles industrial families. James Ward, who built the house, was a pioneer in the iron industry in the Mahoning Valley. He built puddling plants, Falcon Nail and Iron Company and the Russia mill for manufacturing steel.

The second owners were John and Margaret Thomas who came to this country from Wales. The Thomas family founded the Niles Firebrick Company and later, Mahoning Valley Steel. The Thomas family occupied the house until 1969 when the property was deeded to the City of Niles. Through the efforts of Clare Westenfield, a local attorney, the house became the home of the Niles Historical Society."
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Old 10-30-2010, 11:58 AM
 
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(probably a cousin or uncle of the Warren Packard)

Cool story on how he met his second wife:

MR. PACKARD'S ROMANCE.; THE MAINE SCHOOL-GIRL'S ESSAY THAT INDUCED A PROSAIC OHIO WIDOWER TO MARRY AGAIN http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...89D85F4C8784F9
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Old 10-30-2010, 12:18 PM
 
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This next few are from the old Youngstown Township Cemetery and were moved to Oakhill by the families.........eiww






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Old 10-30-2010, 12:31 PM
 
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(darn it Northwoods, i'm in the shot again!)























Anyone know what this symbol at the top is
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Old 10-30-2010, 12:37 PM
 
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Some lovely homes in the area................Yikes!








Some German for you:














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Old 10-30-2010, 12:47 PM
 
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After a quick bite at the Jib Jab in Girard we decided to stop at Niles Union Cemetery. The main reason i wanted to go there was to get some shots of the Heaton Family Plot. If you're familiar with the Bruce Springsteen song Youngstown you know that the Heaton name is significant in Mahoning Valley history.

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Here in northeast Ohio
Back in eighteen-o-three
James and Dan Heaton
Found the ore that was linin' Yellow Creek
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannonballs
That helped the Union win the war

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy worked the furnaces
Kept 'em hotter than hell
I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer
A job that'd suit the devil as well
Taconite coke and limestone
Fed my children and make my pay
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
Sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the Ohio works
When he come home from World War Two
Now the yard's just scrap and rubble
He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
That won this country's wars
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

From the Monongahela valley
To the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalachia
The story's always the same
Seven hundred tons of metal a day
Now sir you tell me the world's changed
Once I made you rich enough
Rich enough to forget my name

And Youngstown
And Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven
I would not do heaven's work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell
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