SE Perry County = Worst in the US?

[IonRedline08]

I've lived in Ohio, and it is bad. But I have seen the same in other states, such as West Virginia and rural North Carolina. It is sad, but that is what happens when all of the decent paying manufacturing jobs go elsewhere

[carrollcowboy]

it is right there for you to see.depressing

[FloridaandOhio]

According to the state of Ohio, 1.1 million residents are on food stamps. That is 1 in 10 residents. The state is losing population to the western U.S. and the southeast. My daughter lives in Huron county. Jobs are going away daily there. Factories closing or threatening to close. I have a couple of cousins that live in Erie county and they are both unemployed. My daughter worked for Giant-Eagle in Norwalk and they closed after only being open a year. Sad. My daughter can't wait to move. She has been looking at Florida, Georgia, and even California as places to escape to. As of tonight she was leaning towards the Atlanta area.

[patty1019]

hi,

i'm searching for my biological family in perry county and saw your post about hemlock. i have some leads on them which is where you come in. you see, i last saw my real mother over at roseville in 1991 at the pottery festival over at the museum. she approached me but i had no idea i was adopted at that time. i've only known for about 8 years and i'm almost 50. i believe i could locate her if i could speak with some of the native indians over in that general area between shawnee to crooksville/roseville. i was told at a very young age that i was shawnee. i saw my real mother when i was around 8 at the shawnee, ohio christmas toy giveaway. i was taken there to get something for christmas because my family was from over in that general area. while there my real mother's women friends who looked native indian approached me and bowed to me as they were saying my ancestor was a very great man. she later approached me in the auditorium as my adopted mom was out of the room. she gave me a doll which she said had been mine. when my adopted mom saw her she attacked her physically and beat her with her fists. my real mom tried to defend herself but people in the audience had to pull my adopted mom off my real mom. my adopted mom yelled to her that she was unfit but my real mom yelled that i'd been stolen from her. my adopted mom proved herself to be a mean, hateful person all her life except for those occasional periods of sanity. she passed away in 05. my real mom tried to hand me contact information at roseville but my adopted mom saw her give it to me and rushed over and took it out of my hand. then she drove my real mother off with her threats. my mother is about my height of 5'2" or less. she had brown shoulder length hair and was thin. from what my son's neurologist told me i probably inherited a rare form of epilepsy from her as it's transmitted mother to daughter. this doctor also said that the parent who passed it to me has to be full-blooded native indian or near to it for my son to have gotten it from me. we're written up in the medical journals as the very first known case of this happening. this doctor, world ranked, needs this parents medical history for this epilepsy in order that my son and i get better treatment for this epilepsy. i've been disabled with this epilepsy since 1986 and i'm told that the parent who has it would have it twice as bad as i. with these clues, even though you've been gone so long, i'm hoping that you still have some connections with the area, enough to see what you can find out with the clues i've given you. i'm hoping and praying as i always do with this search that's lasted for over 8 years now. i know this may be a long shot but long shots have a way of paying off big in this search. they've yeilded more quality results than the leads i thought were the best. i know my real dad worked at the congo mine and was hurt badly there at the mine opening when i was about two or three. that would make it 1960 or 61? he was hit over the head with a board. i witnessed the attack which was carried out by my adopted dad to be when i became three years old. even with a photographic memory such as mine the mind can still hide a whole lot of things especially when so much trauma has occurred at such a young age as i went through. i'm trying all other avenues at this time including looking for what i believe was the name saundra warner? that's as close as i have right now. if this sounds familiar or you can ask people in the area that you came from i'd be so grateful. it's like a treasure hunt only the treasure is my real mother. i don't think my real father survived to old age from the attack when i was three but who knows, miracles do happen. let me know if you're interested in helping with this or if you can. i look forward to hearing from you soon.

Originally Posted by J.W.R.

I was raised in Hemlock ohio and went to miller high . I moved away in 1970 to fined work and now i'm retierd after 30 yr. working for the city of Bucyrus ohio. Miss the old stomping grounds very much. I still get down to see some of the places I use to go and the place I miss the most believe it or not is the schools. I miss looking up the hill in shawnee and not seeing the old school house. What memories that i have of that place. AS I GET older how i wish i would have done things differently. I have made a lot of mistakes in life but i,m glad i was born in S.E. OHIO perry county in a little town called HEMLOCK.
JOHN W.ROSTASH
NEVADA, OHIO

[JCreek]

I am from Perry County and I'm glad I am. Granted, I'm from northern Perry County but am thinking about moving south. For Perry County being such an awful place to live, we sure are having a lot of move-ins. I've seen much worse places to live than Perry. I would never trade the rolling hills of Hopewell Twp for any other place on Earth. As far as I'm concerned, I hope all of the city and suburb, no common sense, ignorant people stay as far away from Perry County as possible. We don't want you here anyhow! Our county may be poorly run and have a ridiculous sheriff's department but we deal with it. People choose to live the way they do and don't mind, you shouldn't either. I would die if I lived in Columbus. It's only good enough to go the bar downtown every now and then. Believe me, we're proud of where we're from!

[Ohioan58]

I always get a chuckle when we drive through New Lex to visit family, and you see this "welcome" sign in its downtown citing "Mr Donald Dutiel" - the local slumlord. An imposing petty local authority figure over poor white trash. One thing that area could do to improve its image is to tear down that freaking sign. It's like shoving a town bully in your face.

IMO - Morgan County seems pretty clean in comparison, although I am well aware that it's also poorer than sh*t per capita.

[Pumpkin Eater]

Somerset is just as bad. It's smaller and its slums are not on the main streets. If you just drive through it on 22 or 13 you won't see the trashy part.

New Lex suffers from the good ol' boy network running things and the slumlord Dutiel. They won't even build a new reservoir when the existing one is always getting dangerously low.