THE DECATUR PRESS

Friday August 12, 1853
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PIONEERS

Mr. E. F. Dyer has kindly furnished us with the name of those who have been in Decatur county 25 years and upwards that attended the (Pioneer) celebration. They were over one hundred:

H. H. Talbott, Samyel Bryan, Edward Warthen, C. W. Rozel, C. Carter, R. E. Saunders, Gabriel Woodfill, Hiram Hooten, G. W. McLaughlin, James Freeman, S. A. Donnel, Wm. Hooten, H. Self, Wm. Draper, J. H. Clark, P. Aldrich, J. Isgrigg, James E.Hamilton, Alexander McCoy, James Gageby, John Stewart, Silas Stewart, B. Loyd, R. Lemaster, John Hughes, James Morgan, G. W. Sider, Wm. Hamilton, Thomas Piles, Eli Critser,Wm. Hillis, Wm. Grant, James Demoss, Jacob Smith, John Bryson, Daniel Kisling, John Chambers, H. Bryson, Orville Thomson, A. R. Meek, G. A. Anderson, Thomas Donnel, John Donnel, John H. Elder, James W. McCland, Jackson Lowe, Joseph Collins, Daniel Coy, John Thomson, John Ritchie, Wm. Hudson, Noah Kendle, Sam Howard, Owen Reily, D. G. Bryant, J. F. Howard, T. Bailey, W. Thomson, Wm. M. Elder, N. Moulton, Jacob Stewart, Joseph T. Kisling, J. H. Pemberton, John Lemaster, Ezra Lathrop, Seth Lowe, T. J. English, Wm. Myers, Thomas Perry, Richard Johnson, Wm. Carper, Abram Carper, John F. Rozel, A. M. Elliott, I. G. Hanway, J. M. Clemens, John Meek, Wm. Newman, Archibald McKee, David Montague, Samuel Inman, W. Hamilton        Joseph Bonner, Wm. Brownfield, John Hindman, Ben Draper, R. Lathrop, Thomas Lanham, Johnson Miller, Daniel Thorp, H. S. Burk, Thomas Power, Henry Mozingo, J. Johnson, Daniel Swem, T. C. Pemberton, David Hillis, Robert Hamilton, David Garrison, A. C. McCoy, G. Marlow, James Saunders, Nat. Patten, T. J. Glass, H. Marlow, A. Marlow, A. McCoy, Leonard Percy, G. W. McConell, A. Rickets