Shades of the past Today comes a copy of a 100-year-old bill of sale, sent by a former Woodward resident now living in Missouri, Mrs. Clara Scharnhorst Gann, who is the daughter of Rusty Scharnhorst of Woodward.
We quote the bill:
Having sold my farm and I am leaving for "Oregonn Territory” by ox tean, will offer on March 1, 1849 all of my personal property to-wit:
All ox teams, except two teams, Buck and Bob and Tom and Jerry; 2 rnilk cows; one gray mare; one pair of oxen and yoke; one baby yoke; two ox carts; one iron foot of popular weather boards; plow with wood mole board; 800 to 1,000 three foot clap boards; 1500 ten foot fence rails; one 60 gallon soap kettle; 85 sugar troughs made of white ash timber; 10 gallons maple syrup; 2 spinning wheels, 30 pounds mutton tallow; one large loom made by Jerry Wilson ; 300 poles; 100 split hoops; 100 empty barrels; 32 gallons Johnson-Miller whiskey; seven years old; 20 gallons apple brandy; one 40 gallon copper still; 1 dozen real books; two handle hooks; three scythes and cradles; 1 dozen wooden pitch forks; one half interest in tan yard; one 32 calibre rifle; bullet mold and powder horn; rifle made by Ben Miller; 50 gallon soft soap; hams, bacon, and lard; 40 gallons sorghum mollasses; six head of fox hounds all soft mouth except one.
At the same time I will sell my six Negro slaves -- two men, 35 and 50 years old; 2 boys, 12 and 18 years old, 2 mulatto wenches, 40 and 30 years old. Will sell all together to same party as will not split them
Terms of Sale: Cash in hand or not to draw 4 per cent interest with Bob McConnell as surety.
My home is two miles south of Versailles, Kentucky, on the McCoun ferry pike. Sale begins at 8 o' clock A M. Plenty to eat and drink
Published in unknown Woodward Newspaper