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Author: JLONGO4
Surnames: PIONEERS OF MEDINA VILLAGE. Hotchkiss,Lyons, Knapp,Warner, Foster, Morse, Allen,
Daniels and many more
Classification: immigration
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Dear Sally,
Thank you so much for your posting.I would like to give you a little more information. I
have been researching Medina Village in Lenawee County about 7 months. I grew up in Medina
Village in the 1950's and worked in Medina store while I was in high school. I used to
listen to all the old-timer stories about Medina Village when it was a thriving village.
Now that I am retired, I am making it my mission to write about it's people and
places. It has been like finding a needles in a haystack.It is really is slow progress. I
have incorporatedinformation from most of the usual sources, but I am trying to break new
ground.
Pictures are so hard to find, although I was able to find some old Medina post cards on
Ebay, And Hazel Monahan at the Hudson Museum has been very generous. I also have
interviewed some of the older generation still living in or near the village. I have
relied heavily on the scrapbooks and articles from the Hudson Post Gazette (1852-present).
So far, I have produced a Medina Historical Calendar and a 24"X36" foldable map
and I am doing a pictorial history book(1834-present). The history book takes lots and
lots of time and effort. I have been tracking down people who grew up there and asking
them to tell me their experiences. I am calling it VOICES FROM CHILDHOOD. Ed Potter (owner
and editor of the Hudson Post Gazette) told me when he was a boy, he and his best friend,
Lemoyne Shadbolt (c.1939) were fishing south of the store when they looked in Bean Creek
and saw all the beams and boards of the Medina Mill (torn down in 1912) still there under
the surface of the water.
You asked me what else I want to know about Medina. The answer is everything. What I
really am looking for are photos of the buildings, businesses, families, street
scenes...everything. I have made some progress but have a long way to go. I am trying to
keep the memory of Medina alive. I have entered alot of information on FINDAGRAVE. It is
really quite an epic. I would love it if you could give me some pointers of finding
photos of the early PIONEERS of the Village and then locating their present day
descendants: Cook Hotchkiss, Lauren Hotchkiss, Rev. William P. Warner, John Knapp, Mamre
Knapp,John C. Hotchkiss, George Washington Moore, John R. Foster,Suffrenus Dewey, John
Ripley, John D. and Abigail Sutton,Abner Griffith, Aldrich McLouth, Ebenezer Daniels,
Artemus Allen, Alvah Stone, Deacon Oliver Hotchkiss, Annis Darr Family, Lozier Family, and
many, many more.
I am told by two people that there is a book about Medina Village, C. 1953. But, I have
yet to find it.
Hope to hear from you again. Thanks for responding. Sincerely, Joyce Blaker Longo.
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