Posted on 03/18/2010 4:07:56 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
American Minute for March 18th:
70-years-old, he visited his friend William Worth one evening, ate some milk and bread, read out loud from the Bible, laid down on the floor to sleep and never woke up.
This was how John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, died on MARCH 18, 1845.
Johnny Appleseed's father, Nathaniel, was a Minuteman who fought the British at Concord in 1775.
Johnny Appleseed collected seeds from apple cider presses in western Pennsylvania and planted nurseries from the Alleghenies to central Ohio, giving thousands of seedlings to westward bound pioneers.
He lived at harmony with Indians, bringing them medicinal plants.
During the War of 1812, Johnny Appleseed heard the British had incited an Indian attack, so he ran 30 miles from Mansfield to Mount Vernon, Ohio, to warn settlers.
Bare foot, wearing a mush pan over his eccentric long hair and an old coffee sack over his shoulders, Johnny Appleseed had a unique devotion to nature and the Bible.
He called an apple blossom a "living sermon from God" and often quoted the Sermon on the Mount.
Poet William Henry Venable wrote: "Remember Johnny Appleseed - All ye who love the apple - He served his kind by word and deed - In God's grand greenwood chapel."
What a neat picture - and memory! Well, you never know. One day you can ask Johnny Appleseed in heaven if that was one of his apple groves....
LOL - oh TMI - (the maypole dance picture...LOL)
You are so right!
We don’t have to be in the Church of the Global Warming following the High Priest Al Gore to be responsible with the great gifts God has given us in HIS CREATION!
Glad you pointed that out..,..
You are very welcome! God bless!
Thanks for the ping!
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