MARKELSVILLE, Perry County, Pennsylvania
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PREFACE
In the summer of 1865, the first data for these pages was gathered. Since that time the work has been pursued with whatever of vigor time and circumstances would permit. Here a fact, and there an incident were jotted, until all the available sources of information were sought out, the old men and women wherever possible were visited, and their narratives heard and noted, all the old and most of the recent files of county newspapers were ransacked. Letters were written to many persons, not all of which were answered, and the facts of much of the descriptive part of the history first obtained or former versions of them verified from their replies. Valuable aid is hereby acknowledged from the works of Sherman Day, I.D. Rupp, Rev. D.H. Focth, J. R. Sypher, Hon. Thomas H. Burrowes, Hon. Samuel P. Bates and several series of articles which appeared in the county papers, one under the nom de plume of Philanthus.
Since September, 1871, holidays and leisure time from the routine of daily duty
in the school-room have been given to the preparation of this volume until at
the end of eleven months of persistent work, the MS is read to be placed in the
hands of the publishers, and from them the book to be sent forth to be
criticised and compared with others of a similar kind. Whether it will
receive the dictum of good, bad or indifferent is a question of moment after
having finished the most ordinary undertaking; but it becomes of much greater
consequence when years have been given to its accomplishment, hence it is with
no little degree of solicitude that the author sends forth this first born of
this intellect. Go then, history of my native Perry, and may others have
all the pleasure and none of the trials in reading and studying your pages that
I have had in composing and writing them."
No one who has never attempted to collect materials for even a short article of
by-gone events, can reckon the degree of difficulty that attends a labor of this
kind. Often the most careful research, from title page to finis, of a
large volume of old records, you are not able to add a half-dozen lines to your
manuscript. Writing local history is an elegant work for leisure, and
cannot be hurried beyond that spended pace.
SECTION I. INTRODUCTION
SECTION II. THE WAR RECORD
Chapter I: Revolutionary War, 1775-83
Chapter II: War of 1812-15 (Description)
Chapter II: War of 1812-15 (Muster Rolls)