JOHN LOCKE

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Mifflin Co. Pa abt. 1795 he moved to the area of Upper Blacklog Valley. Huntington Co. Pa and began building his cabin recently after the Commonwealth purchased the land from the Indians for homesteading. This is where he meet his wife Margaret ( Peggy ) Ramsey b. 1782. the daughter of Thomas Ramsey and Margaret Burd. I believe the children of John and Margaret Locke to be Eliza, Evaline, Selea, Jane ( Jennie ), William E, Elizabeth, Philip, and Simon. I believe all of these children were raised in Locke Valley and as time has past, Their seeds have been spread all over this glorious earth!</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="189fbb70.jpg" border=0 width="507" height="439" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> John Locke cleared the land and made a living by tilling the soil. There were other homesteaders around but no others in Blacklog Valley at the time. There was a fort several miles away where the settlers had to go every evening and then back to their cabins in the morning, not knowing if their cabin would be standing. The Lockes were very lucky that their cabin was never burned by the Indians because they had burned many cabins that the homesteaders had built.</div> <bR> <div> There is little record of the time witch describes life in Locke Valley for John Locke, his sons, and others who settled there during the early nineteenth century. John Locke and his sons, and Grandson Thomas owned more than 1100 acres of continious land parcels along both sides of Craig Run. John Locke held 400 acres. His first son Selea owned two continuious parcels totaling nearly 330 acres. John's second son William had a 50 acre farm. Philip Locke owned two side-by-side parcels totaling a bit over 230 acres. Selea's son Thomas had a 91 acre parcel on the east side of Craig Mountain and west of Aughwick Creek. John Locke's great grandaughter, Alma Albott wrote an account for <I><B>The Valley Log</B></I>, a Huntington Co. Pennsylvania, newspaper, witch describes the daily life of her mother, Charlotte, and grandparents, Richard Madden and Elizabeth Locke on their Clay Township family farm. The article richly portrays the living conditions and daily family chores as they were for her grandparents and others in and near Locke Valley during the first few decades and so forth.    </div> <bR> <bR> <div>     <I>In those days women worked at the side of their men. They cut down trees and built a log cabin.They sawed the logs all the same length, 16 feet. Then they hewed two sides of the log flat with iron wedges and a pole ax. when they got enough logs, they built their cabin one story and a half. Then they got yellow clay which they wet to soften it. They put the wet clay in the cracks inside and outside.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="196e0900.jpg" border=0 width="480" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>     For the roof they split logs and made slabs and covered the cabin. Again they used yellow clay. They had a slab floor on the second floor or loft, as they called it, but the floor in the kitchen consisted of pounded yellow clay. When it got dry it got hard, something like cement but not as lasting, They had no steps on the inside to go up to the loft. They had to go outside and climb up a ladder to go to bed. Their beds were bunks nailed to the wall, one above the other one. They called them trundle beds. Their bedding was straw ticks for mattresses. They would get ticking and make their ticks out of that, sew them with their fingers, no sewing machines in those days.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>     Mother used to tell us of times when they had a blizzard. In the morning their bed would be covered with snow., and the floor would have as much as an inch of snow on which had sifted in through the cracks. The youngsters would bounce out of bed, grab their shoes, and climb down the ladder into the kitchen where Grandma would be getting breakfast on the fireplace. They did all their cooking on the fireplace. No one had a stove those days. When they baked bread, they had iron pots with lids on them. They called them Dutch ovens. Across the fireplace was an iron rod. They would build a big fire and get a lot of red hot coals. They put a loaf of bread in a Dutch oven, set it on those red hot coals, and piled coal on top. In a certain lenght of time, the bread would be baked. When they cooked something, they put it in an iron pot, and hung it over the fireplace. They did not have any fancy cooking like we have today. They didn't have very much equipment to work the farm with, not even a wagon. All their hauling was done on a sled, both winterand summer. Later on, when their family kept getting larger, they built a couple more rooms on to theircabin and weather boarded it, put board floors in it, and got a cook stove.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="18b348c0.jpg" border=0 width="564" height="396" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>     (Children)  only had three months of school each year.The rest of the coldweather months the girls sewed, quilted, spun, and weaved. They made all their clothing by hand, even the men's shirts. They raised flax on the farm. It was a soft plant and full of seeds. In the fall they would cut it and store it in the barn. In the winter the women would scutch it. They used wire brushes to comb the flax, stripping all he seeds off. Then it went to the carding machine. They would card it into a soft yarn. Also, they raised sheep that they sheared twice a year. After the wool was washed, it went into the carding machine. Whenit came back, it was long strips three feet in length and thick as a quarter. Then the women would spin it into yarn. I loved to see mother spin. So did the cats! They loved to play with the yarn when they got a chance.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>     The women would knit all their stockings, mittens, hoods, and caps for the men. And out of the flax yarn and wool they would weave them together half and half. That was linsey-woolsey. The women made their petticoats out of it. You see the flax was linen, and when mixed with wool, it made a warm strong material that would wear for years.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>     The men's work consisted of cutting down trees, sawing them up for firewood, splitting rails, and building fences.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> I will post other information as I  learn of it!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <script language="Javascript1.2">  </script>  </B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>