TT — Deore atc Bellefonte, Pa., March 18, 1927. BUT SINGLE SHAKER LEFT IN OLD HOME Pioneers Built Village After 1,000 Mile Walk. Lebanon, Ohic.—A picturesque set- tlement which existed in Warren coun- ty for more than a century has finally broken up, and today there remains here but one member of the Shaker sect, a denomination that had its genesis in 1805. The remaining member of the Shak- ers is Elder James Fennessy, an aged man who has elected to spend the rest of his life in the community in which he was born and raised. In this thriv- ing little town Elder Fennessy mains with his books, clinging stub- bornly to the old traditions of the Shakers. As far as it is known, there is but one other living person who was a member of this colony. Sister Ellen 'Ross, once a leader in the col- ony, is living with relatives in Indiauvs. Arrival of First Shakers. The first Shaker settlement was founded near here in 1805 when in March of that year three men wearing broad brimmed hats and dressed in the fashion of the early Quakers ap- peared at Turtle Creek, four miles west of Lebanon. They had left New Leb- anon, N. Y., the last day of January and bad made the 1,000 mile journey on foot, stopping for a short time ir Kentucky. The Sunday after John Meacham, Benjamin Young, and Issacher Bates arrived they obtuined permission of the pastor of Turtle Creek church te occupy his pulpit. There followed a revival and the pastor and several members of his congregation were con- verted to “the United Society of Be- lievers,” as the Shakers called therr- selves. The popularity of the new sect ‘spread rapidly. Within a month a ‘dozen families had embraced Shaker- ism and had given their property to the church. Many who became mem- bers owned large tracts of land which they all consecrated to the use of th» church, In May, 1805, the society was duly organized at Union Village. As the years sped by the community pros- pered and gradually acquired more than 4,000 acres of some of the most valuable land in Warren county. The village extended about a mile along one street. The houses and shops were large, many of them of brick and all peat and substantial. Curiously .Garbed. The men wore gray’ homespun, wov- | «n at the village. "The ‘little girls dressed like their mothers and their grandmothers. They wore long-eared white caps without ribbon or lace, except two pieces of white tape for tying under the chin. Beads, neck- laces or ornaments of any kind were banned. Their long skirts were full and plain and gathered in at the waist. They wore straw bonnets, made in the village, called “Shaker bonnets” to this day. The people of this quaint village walked to church in single file, the men going in one door and the women in another. Before dancing, which was part of their worship, the men removed their coats. In 1829 Union Village reached its