The First John Eves Marker

 

The First (lost) Monument

                This typewritten page came to me. I sent it to Ethel Henrie for comment. Frank Bartlow Jr. gave me some verbal history on it also. Not all of this is in the book.  Because of the condition of the original, I have OCD it to share here. What was very interesting is that the Bi-centennial Commission had placed a new monument on the rumored site of this original.

 

STONE MARKER

 

Through the efforts of Charles and Ellen Russel Eves, a stone marker was placed at Larry Spring, so-called for Larry Flynn, whose passage across the Atlantic was paid by John Eves, for which he was to serve him for a certain number of years. However, he stayed with him as long as he lived.

 

This stone marked the site of the first cabin built by John Eves and his son, Thomas in 1771. It was built of logs, and for a roof had shingles, split, and three feet long, laid 18 inches to the weather and fastened on by poles and hickory witches. The floor was made of logs split in two pieces and laid split side up with one end in the ground and the other on posts to level up.

 

A short ceremony, marking the laying of the stone was held; witnessed by a handful of interested folks. After Charles Eves gave a short history of the site, John W. Eves turned over the first shovel full of ground followed by three-year-old Charles Herbert Henrie III .turning the next, as he was told by Ellen Eves that he was an eighth-generation descendant..

 

Sadly, no pictures were taken of the ceremony. Mae Dennen, now 90 years old, took a picture later the same day.

Note by Ethel Henrie

Maybe the Charles Eves history in the Bloom library has something on the subject. I think 1931 is the date.