This weekend, friends, Im going to tell you a story that was imparted to me thanks to modern technology, which found it in an 1877 edition of the Greenville Democrat, which heard it from the Mount Vernon Democratic Banner, whose correspondent claims to have heard it years earlier directly from the lips of Nathan Headington himself.

In the early decades of Knox County, settlers came from all over and made living arrangements as best they could. Nathan Headington, or Old Nath as he eventually became known, came to Ohio from his native state of Virginia, where he was born around 1805.

He arrived in Knox County in the 1820s, and married a woman na…

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