Note: Irene Rose Warner: "Dad said that Grandpa was ordained into the Baptist ministry at the log church at Polkadotte - the one that Lewis Rose hand hewed the logs at the time the structure was built. I wonder if Grandpa knew that at the time."
Francis Davis was second wife. She died of tuberculosis and Arthur married Frances's sister, Erma for his 3rd. wife.
These facts were given to me by my dad, Walter Daniel Rose, in regards to Arthur Rose:
Arthur Rose attended school in the "old Bethesda" school. This school set on a hill above the Oscar Elliott Farm on SR 775 near the Bethesda Church, Walnut Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio. When the school was torn down, Curt Elliott from Mudsoc hauled the pieces of the old school on his truck to Arthur Rose's place in German Hollow where it became "the old chicken house ". I remember playing inside this old school building on the farm.
When he got out of school, Arthur Rose farmed for a while then he moved to Springfield, Ohio where he worked as a conductor on a street car. He also worked at the Robbins-Myers Plant.
Grandpa Arthur had a half brother named Jay Holdridge and Jay had a boy named Clarence. They farmed in the Deer Creek Bottoms at Mechanicsburg near Chillicothe. My dad, Walter Rose, states that he remembers "Uncle Jay ". Grandpa also raised sheep. Grandpa had one old buck sheep that was "meaner than a snake" and he tamed him down by giving him a plug of chewing tobacco when he had to work with him. Dad says it took a long time for people to figure out just how grandpa tamed old Buck.
Dear Grandpa
I think about you every day. Thank you for taking me rides on your old green, belt driven, 47 Model B John Deere Tractor. We could hear you Coming up the "old holler". and that tractor making put-put, put-put noises. Us kids used to call it "Paw Paw's Put Put" - and it was always such a welcome sound because when we heard it, we knew you were on your way to our house.
Thank you for holding me on your lap and teaching me Bible verses. I'm glad you helped me to understand them by giving me the examples of people and things in my own life. You explained it so well. I'll never forget them.
It was hard to say good bye - I love you so much and I'm proud that you were my "paw paw". The day will come when we can sit together on the porch or under the old maple tree again. But, you and I will both be needing different occupations. There will be no employment for ministers or nurses. Heaven has no sinners needing saved and there will be no sickness nor death.
Maybe we'd better just go ahead and sharpen up the old plow shares - there will be plenty of hungry mouths to feed.
Love "Reenie"
Tuck this one away for future reference: Morse or Morris Blazer or Blazier used to stay with Grandpa. He was hired to work on the farm and he lived in the house with them while he worked jobs on the farm. Shucked corn, put up hay, etc. WDR