Adair County News, August 11, 1909
The other day Mrs. Grider, an aunt of Mr. W. C. Grider, this place,
heard her reel going and went to see the cause. A large snake had
crawled on the wheel, starting it. The snake could not get off and the
neighbors were called in and for several hours watched the very
remarkable sight, the snake keeping the wheel going for nearly half a
day.
The Adair County News,
August 22, 1900
Mr. R. C. Eubank, this city, will be sixty-eight years old next month.
He is living in the house in which he was born. He has never lived
anywhere else, and has no intention of ever leaving the location of his
birth. His family room was the one in which he first saw the light of
day, his special apartment since his marriage, about forty-five years
ago. This room was plastered in the days of honesty, ninety-odd years
ago, and at this time remains in perfect order, not a piece having
fallen off, and looks as though it had not been on the ceiling but a few
years.
In olden times there was a deer lick near his spring, and it was given
out by the first settlers of this country and the information retained
by succeeding generations, that many deer were killed at this place, and
the spring was a camping point for Indians and the first hunters of this
country. The stone spring-house was built after the country was settled,
more than one hundred years ago. It is now in a perfect state of
preservation. The spring is a bold stream and Mr. Eubank says it will
furnish water for a hundred more years if the water does not run away.
He is not expecting to be here when it runs dry, but as long as he lives
he will keep up his adopted custom of visiting it every morning, and
lifting a goblet passing it to a friend, saying:
"This is sparkling water, the beverage prepared by God himself to
nourish and to invigorate his creatures and to beautify their footstool;
and thus you see its countless drops unite and blend in one, so we may
as one unruffled stream blot out the stains of black intemperance."
There is not a more jovial man in Adair county than Mr. Eubank and his
friends are numerous.
[Mr. Robert C. "R. C." Eubank was born
on September 17, 1832 to Joseph & Nancy Eubank; married Miss Mary Ann
Dudley in March, 1854; and departed this vale of sorrows on July 19,
1904 in the house where first he drew a breath His remains were
interred in the Columbia City Cemetery, there to repose in sleep
eternal.]
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