Shandon Ohio Church- Reverse Side

The original civil war era photo of the congregational church in Shando, Ohio built in 1855. Physical description: black-and -white print (photograph), 10X12.5mm (Cabinet Photo)This Ebay purchase was made by librarian Trenton Boyd and donated to the Medical Sciences Library. It is noted that historically, the predominate Welsh community originally known as New London was renamed Shandon, and also referred by locals as "Paddy's Run" Ohio. The building of the Congregational Church of Shandon, Ohio in Butler County was completed in 1856 and the bell was hung in the steeple in 1865. This is the church that Mark Francis as a young boy and his ancestors worshipped. "John A. Scott, who has long held precedence as one of the representative farmers of Butler county, resides upon a well improved farm, which was owned and developed by his father. This attractive rural home is located near the village of Shandon, from which it receives service on one of the rural mail routes. John Albert Scott was born at Shandon, this county. In January, 1855, and is a son of James and Anna C. (Jones) Scott. James Scott was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, where his father, John Scott, was a pioneer farmer. James Scott represented his native state as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and he was twenty-one years of age when he established his residence at Shandon, Butler county, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of shoemaker. There his marriage was solemnized, and five years later he and his wife removed to the farm now owned and operated by their only son, the subject of this sketch, this being the old homestead of Thomas F. Jones. Mrs. Anna C. (Jones) Scott was a daughter of John C. and Jane Jones, both of whom were born in Wales, and many of the older residents of Butler county will recall that Mr. Jones numbered among the seven persons who met a tragic death in the collapse of the Congregational church building at Shandon, many years ago. Of the two children of James and Anna C. (Jones) Scott the subject of this sketch is the younger, and his sister, Anna, is the wife of Mark Francis, dean of the veterinary college at College station, Texas, their son Bebb having been one of the gallant young. soldiers who served with the American Expeditionary Force in France within the period of the World war, he having been wounded in action, when "going over the top" with his comrades.” (Source: Memoirs of Miami Valley, Volume III, [Chicago, Robert O. Law Co.], 1919, p. 632