(This transcription is of Lucas County only)
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It is natural we become attached to the land of our nativity, the scenes of our childhood, the birthplace of our early hopes and aspirations, and the battle ground of life's joys and sorrows.
We come to live its mountains and its plains, its rocks and its rivers, its forests and its prairies, and all the surroundings of the spot of earth that we have learned to call our home, have charms for us that time cannot efface.
The poet has thus beautifully expressed this truth:
"We view in each crag,
A friend's familiar face,
And clasp the mountain,
In our mind's embrace."
It is this attachment for our homes which creates the demand for history, especially the history of counties, or other localities.
We desire to ascertain all that we can about this particular locality and the people who formerly occupied it as their home. What kind of people were they? How, or in what manner did they walk, talk, eat and dress? What were their ideas, and what did they do in the way of improving and developing this home?
We start out in search of this information, but at the very threshold of this inquiry we are met by the sad fact that but a very few of the pioneers who sought homes in this county are now living, and hence the answers to many of the questions we would propund to them are buried in the graves of early settlers.
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