Hitesville places, family trees described

Harold Llewellyn Wintz of Clarion discussed some of the early settlers of the Hitesville area (Ripley Township), the Michael Considine clan, some of his ancestors, for a Butler County Genealogical Society meeting earlier this year.
His father was a cousin to the mother of attendee Shirley (Hites) Wirkler, formerly of Hitesville (having lived there in the 1930s and ‘40s), Wirkler said.
PLACES: Hitesville was so named after the names of many of its inhabitants. It had a church, school, post office. The Hitesville Gospel Hall belonged to the United Brethren, which is substantiated at a website chronicling gospel halls (http://gospelhall. org/content/view/245/). According to the Hitesville Gospel Hall history online, The Hitesville Post Office was moved to Kesley, two miles southwest, when the Northwestern Railroad came through Kesley.
Read the full article in the September 29 edition of the papers.