Thursday, August 16, 1984
David and family headed for Northern Michigan in Mary and Ken’s van at 4:00 p.m.
Tto Columbus at 10:45 to sign Awards letters in Jim Strider’s office for OAHSM. 26 awards given for 85 entries. I wrote notes on a few and underlined time of ceremony on program being sent. To library about 2:00 and found Thomas Bickel in 1820 census. Just a few lines above Henry Sheneman. Right age to be Julia Ann’s father not her brother. So now I have another two first family ancestors. Hope I can find their graves. Lived on border of Mechanics and German Township in Tuscarawas County probably now Holmes county.*
[* Mechanics Twp is just south of Millersburg, Ohio so this does not place it in Tuscarawas County. German Twp is in Harrison County.]