husband of Mary Hartwell died at 33 years∼Levi Prentice and his wife Mary Hartwell began housekeeping in a log house that stood on or near the spot where the Thos. Neill house now stands (in 1913) in Mustcash, Ohio. They made a business of raising cattle and horses and fising in Sandusky Bay on Willow Point. Game of all kinds that was natural to northern Ohio was plentiful in Mustcash at that time. Deer often went in droves of twenty or twentyu-five head and wild turkeys were also plentiful. Mr. Prentice spent but little time on hunting. He would occasionally kill a deer when they were handy. There was very little land cleared and fences at that time. Cold Creek Prairie and Neill's Prairie were unfenced and commons, where stock could graze from early spring until late in the fall and sometimes all winter. The same prairie afforder good wild grass ethat they mowed with scythes and made into hay and stocked on the ground for the purpose of feeding their stock in winter, always plowing a circle around the hay stacks, fourteen or fifteen furrows wide as a protection against the prarie fires that swept the prairies every fall.
husband of Mary Hartwell died at 33 years∼Levi Prentice and his wife Mary Hartwell began housekeeping in a log house that stood on or near the spot where the Thos. Neill house now stands (in 1913) in Mustcash, Ohio. They made a business of raising cattle and horses and fising in Sandusky Bay on Willow Point. Game of all kinds that was natural to northern Ohio was plentiful in Mustcash at that time. Deer often went in droves of twenty or twentyu-five head and wild turkeys were also plentiful. Mr. Prentice spent but little time on hunting. He would occasionally kill a deer when they were handy. There was very little land cleared and fences at that time. Cold Creek Prairie and Neill's Prairie were unfenced and commons, where stock could graze from early spring until late in the fall and sometimes all winter. The same prairie afforder good wild grass ethat they mowed with scythes and made into hay and stocked on the ground for the purpose of feeding their stock in winter, always plowing a circle around the hay stacks, fourteen or fifteen furrows wide as a protection against the prarie fires that swept the prairies every fall.
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Died 12 of April
1834
In his 33rd year.
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Married Mary Hartwell, October 13, 1824.
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