Deering Grocery in Elm Grove, Ohio was owned and operated by Bob and Aldena Deering. The Post Office was also located in the back of the store.

Threshing on the Roy Ware Farm 2 miles south of Buchanan on 772 in 1919. Left to right: Wes Mitchell, Fred Mitchell, Otto DeWitt, William Hamilton, Roy Ware, E. L. Ware, Elmer Newland and the water boy on the mule Sam Pollard

During the Civil War only one advance was ever made by the Confederate Army into Ohio • General John H. Morgan crossed the Ohio River into Indiana then rode with... his cavalry into Ohio north of Cincinnati • "Morgan's Raiders" traversed the southern portion of the state passing near present-day Pike Lake State Park • Eventually he and many of his men were captured in southwestern Columbiana County near Salineville • Less than five months later General John Morgan and six of his men escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary and returned to the Confederacy Also during this historic period the family who farmed this valley found a wounded soldier collapsed in their field • The unconscious union soldier never revived • His name, unit, or hometown were never known • Today a solitary headstone below the dam at the base of a large oak tree marks the grave of this casualty from a tragic war.

During the Civil War only one advance was ever made by the Confederate Army into Ohio • General John H. Morgan crossed the Ohio River into Indiana then rode with... his cavalry into Ohio north of Cincinnati • "Morgan's Raiders" traversed the southern portion of the state passing near present-day Pike Lake State Park • Eventually he and many of his men were captured in southwestern Columbiana County near Salineville • Less than five months later General John Morgan and six of his men escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary and returned to the Confederacy Also during this historic period the family who farmed this valley found a wounded soldier collapsed in their field • The unconscious union soldier never revived • His name, unit, or hometown were never known • Today a solitary headstone below the dam at the base of a large oak tree marks the grave of this casualty from a tragic war.

Sioux Post Office existed in the 1890's on the Jasper to Idaho road. The man in the center without coat and with suspenders was Earl D. Parker "Mick" who in his young manhood, later, lost an arm at the shoulder in a saw mill accident. Mr. Parker was for several years Prosecuting Attorney for Pike County. He was considere one of the best trap shooters in the State of Ohio, even handicapped as he was, loading and wothewise caring for his own guns and equipment. He was considere one of Pike County's foremost attorneys and his relputation in that field of endeavor was state wide.

If I have the right Parker he was born in 1893 and according to the 1940 census lived at 308 E. North Street, Waverly with his wife Floisse.

1913 Flood damage to N& W tracts north of Waverly