sma Yale University Library 39002012980935 Countp,0/fio 0 '¦ 5-|4-on-in-law of Valentine Reber, was a merchant for many years in Royalton and did a thriving business. This was between the years 1840 and 1880. His second wife was a daughter of Dr. Reber, of Brandon, Miss., a niece of his first wife. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 128 Ezra Schleich was a merchant of Royalton about 183s to 1840. Samuel Busby lived there as early as 1826 and '27 and then his son, J. T. Busby, was born. Busby removed to Baltimore where he and a brother- in-law, Fetter, started a store in 1829. Alfred McVeigh taught school there prior to 1840 and was a justice of the peace up to the time of his election as cpunty auditor. John D. Schleich lived there a few years, and there Col. Newton Schleich attended school. Next to Dr. Silas AHen, Dr. Ezra Clarke was an early physician of Royalton. He came there from Vermont. He was father-in-law of Dr. Miner, of Lithopolis. He came to Lancaster to live in 1823. He died in the year 1830 and was buried in Zane Cem etery. Dr. Rogers, from Vermont, practiced in Roy alton in 1830. Dr. M. Z. Kreider lived in Royalton a few years, but came to Lancaster about 1832 or 1833. Dr. Paul practiced medicine in Royalton for a number of years and died there. He had one or two daughters and three or four sons. Joseph H. Clements married his oldest daughter. They moved to Illinois where the wife was accidentally burned to death and Clements died of disease. Dr. Paul sent for the children and brought them up in Royalton. The oldest son, Joseph Clements, married a daughter of Professor Freed. Dr. Frisbie lived for some years in Royalton. He had two daughters. One of them married Edward Hay. They moved to Hancock county. Dr. Frisbie, in his old age, went to live with them and died there. Paul and Frisbie were Vermonters. Dr. Frisbie married a second wife. She lived in Middletown, Vt., and was the widow of Orion Clarke, an attorney of Middle- 124 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People town, during his life. He brought his bride to Royal ton and her two sons, W. C. a-id Arthur. W. C. Clarke, who died but recently, married a daughter of Dr. Miner, of Lithopolis. JUDGE BEATTY John Beatty, who was born and reared near Colfax, married Delilah, daughter of Nicholas Beery, Jr., and moved to the Tent in Pleasant township, where he operated a tannery. There, in 1836, May 8, their son, James H. Beatty, was born. About the year 1840 he moved to Royalton, Ohio, where he was a tanner, mer chant and stock dealer until the year 1857, when he moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. James H. graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1858 and then joined his parents in Iowa, where he studied law. In 1872 he went to Utah and served some years as U. S. attorney. In 1882 he moved or located in Bois City, Idaho. For ten years past he has been United States District Judge for the Pacific slope, residing in Bois City. At this writing his parents are both dead. His grandmother was a sister of Frederick Sites as is the wife of the late Dr. Luke Helmick, of Baltimore, Ohio. Dr. E. L. Miner was born in Middletown, Vermont, June 9, 1797. He was educated at Castleton College and graduated there in 1818. He then studied medi cine, and moved to Royalton, Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1820. In the year 1825 he moved to Centerville, now Lithopolis, where he lived an honorable and useful life for 45 years. He was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church of Lithopolis and the organizer of the Sunday Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 125 School. Dr. Miner was during his life a prominent and useful man. The state of Vermont gave to Fairfield County a number of good men, beside Dr. Miner, Dr. Ezra Clarke, Dr. Silas Allen and his four sons. Dr. Torrence, E. B. Merwin, an attorney, and Dr. Paul. William Slade, son of Ex-Governor Slade, was an attorney of Lancaster. Dr. Rogers and Dr. Frisbie. Other New England states gave us Beecher, Scofield, Sherman, Creed, Foster, Converse, Peck, Whitman, Dr. Hyde, Pennsylvania, McCracken, Kreider and Sanderson. New York gave us Stanbery, Clark and Brasee. Virginia gave us Thos. Ewing and Judge Irvin. All bright, brflliant, educated men, who were chiefly instrumental in estab lishing the civilization we now enjoy. JOHN HUMRIGHOUS For 55 years Mr. Humrighous was an undertaker of Royalton — in that time he buried 2,500 people, within a radius of ten miles. At the time of his death in 1893 he was the second oldest undertaker in the United States. He was born on the Huston farm near Roy alton in 181 1. He married Magdaline Wagner near Carroll, Ohio. They were the parents of five children. Their daughter Mary Ann married H. S. Smith, of Bloom township. John W. married Mary Ann Reber, daughter of Thomas Reber. He is now a retired farmer of Shelby- ville. 111. Irvin married Mary Allen and moved to Shelbyville, 111. Lewis married Ellen Murry, Henry married Mary E. Strayer. Henry and Lewis live upon the old home place and carry on their father's old business. 126 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People THE ALLEN FAMILY The Allen family has been prominent in Fairfield County for one hundred years. The pioneer. Dr. Silas Allen, was a man of education and character, and his descendants were numerous, and throughout their long career have maintained the reputation of their distinguished ancestor. Samuel Allen (the first) came to America from B'ridgewater, Somerset County, England, in 1620, and settled in Baintree, Massachu setts. His wife's name was Ann, but we can not give the surname. Their son Samuel (the second), was born in 1632. A daughter, Sarah, was born in 1639, married Joseph Standish, a son of Miles Standish, of the " Mayflower." This Samuel, the second, married Sarah Partridge. Their son Samuel (the third), was born in 1660. He married Rebecca Carey in 1685. Their son Samuel (the fourth), was born in 1686. Their son Timothy, was born in 1691, and was the grandfather of General Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame. Rebecca died in 1697, and Sam uel (the third), married Mary Alden, a daughter of Joseph, a son of Captain John Alden, made famous by Longfellow in " Miles Standish," and the first man to land on Plymouth Rock. To this union were born six children, viz.: Joseph, in 1701, Benjamin, in 1702, Mary, in 1704, Rebecca, in 1706, Matthew, in 1708, Seth, in 1710. This family, about the year 1727, moved to Connecticut, and settled at Norwich, later they moved to Centerbury, Conn. At Norwich, Jo seph Allen married Rebecca Fuller, of Preston. Their son, Barnabas, was born February 24, 1729, at Nor wich. Barnabas married Elizabeth Fuller, daughter of Randolph Fuller, in 1752. Their son, Silas, was born in 1754. He was educated and studied medicine. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 127 He married Mary Cleveland, daughter of Samuel Cleveland, May i6, 1776. She was a fourth cousin of Moses Cleveland, the founder of the city of Cleve land, Ohio. She was also related to Grover Cleve land's ancestors. Soon after their marriage, with others of their family. Dr. Allen and wife moved to Middletown, Vermont. Their children were Lemuel, Jared, Rebecca, Anna, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Jedadiah, who was born in 1781, and Whiting, born in 1782. In the year 1800, Dr. Silas Allen, with his family and several neighbors, in all forty persons, left Mid dletown, Vermont, for the West, intending to go as far as the Mississippi river. Arriving in Fairfield County, they found the country on Tobey creek so inviting that they concluded to remain there and be come permanent settlers. In the course of time Whit ing and Benjamin Allen moved with their families to Delaware County, Ohio, where they were prosper ous and respected people. Whiting Allen married Mahitable Searle, one of a family, of the 40 emigrants mentioned. A descend ant of this Searle family married a daughter of George Ewing, of Iowa City, Iowa, and resides there in charge of a newspaper. Amos S. Thomas, of Lancaster, is a great-grand son of Whiting Allen. Mrs. Eliza Meeker was a daughter of Lemuel Allen, and died aged 93 years. Dr. Silas Allen lived an exemplary and useful life in his new home, reared and established his family, and at the age of 71 years, September 7, 1825, departed this life. His body was buried in the grave yard at Royalton. Jedadiah Allen, fourth son of Dr. Allen and Mary Cleveland, married Sarah Bull, about the year 1803. 128 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Their children were, Rachel, born 1809, Howard, born in 181 1, Lyman born in 181 3. Rachel became the wife of Thomas Reber, and died near Upper San dusky, Ohio. Howard married a daughter of John Leist. He was a farmer and successful in business. He was the father of John and Jesse Allen, who now live on the old Allen homestead. Howard was the father of Sarah, widow of the late Henry Reber ; Mrs. L. J. Silbaugh is a granddaughter. Lyman Allen mar ried Eliza, daughter of Valentine Reber, in 1836, and spent his life amid the scenes of the early struggles of his pioneer ancestor. His children were Charles, Clinton and Mary, now dead ; and Flavins, bom in 1842. Magdalene born in 1844, Elnora born in 1846, Ethel born in 1848, Valentine Reber, born in 1851, Rachel bom in 1853, and died June 22, i860, Olive, born in 1858. Lyman Allen died November 16, 1894. Jedadiah Allen was one of the best known men of Amanda township. He was a fine business man, full of energy and industry, and accumulated a large estate, a part of which he bequeathed to the " Ohio Wesleyan University." The late Jacob Beck was his executor. Jedadiah died September 5, 1856, at his modest home in Royalton. Valentine Reber Allen married Effie Courtright in the year 1877. She was a daughter of Zephenia Courtright, one of the prominent and well known men of Fairfield County. Their children are Pearl, now deceased, Eugene Huber, Effie Marie and Mary Etta. V. R. Allen is one of the respected farmers and citizens of Greenfield township. Dr. Hogue, Presbyterian, of Columbus, held ser vices at an early day in the home of Lemuel Allen. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 129 So far as known, however, the family are now and have been for three-quarters of a century, Metho dists. There are many families in this county con nected by blood or marriage with old historic Amer ican families, and none more prominently so, than the Allen family. Harding and Jerome Allen were sons of Lemuel. They both moved to Delaware County, Ohio, and later Jerome moved to Shelbyville, Illinois. COLE BROTHERS Thomas Cole, and a brother, Broad Cole, came to Fairfield County in the year 1801, and settled in Amanda Township. They came from Huntington County, Penn. Broad Cole was a Methodist, and Bishop Asbury, on his first journey to Ohio in 1803, preached at his cabin in the afternoon of a week day. Mr. Broad Cole did not remain many years in this county, but moved to Pickaway County, where he died and was buried. His son Shadrick was a man of some prominence and was a Methodist preacher of local reputation. A son of Shadrick Cole moved to Nebraska. Thomas Cole, born March 15, 1757, was one of the prominent early citizens of Amanda Township, and he lived there during his life. His son Broad Cole married a daughter of Samuel Peters and lived and died upon the farm now owned by Felix Swope. His son Thomas Cole of Amanda Township is one of the intelligent and worthy men of the township and an old school Baptist preacher of more than local repu tation. RUSHVILLE. AN INTERESTING SKETCH ABOUT ITS PIONEERS. CHE village of Rushville was laid out at an early day by a man named Montgomery and Joseph Turner, latter being owner of the -land. Mont gomery kept a tavern there as early as 1804. A man named Owens was the first merchant. What became of him or his family is not known. A man named Plummer erected the first mill near the village. The descendants of Turner still reside in the vH- lage or in the county. Daniel Baker, one of the most prominent men of the early period, was a native of Maryland. When a young man he learned the trade of a carpenter with William Duffield of Lancaster, whose dwelling stood where the courthouse now stands. He married Mary McNamee of Walnut township, and lived for a time on the farm now owned bv Mrs. Boyer, on the Salem pike. There his son Milton was born November 28, 1815. Daniel Baker moved to Rushville in the year 1817, and died there in the year 1855. He was during his life a very highly esteemed citizen and a very zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He built their house of worship in Rushville, but in what year we cannot state. .A,s late as 182 1 the Methodists worshipped at Rich land chapel near Daniel Stevenson's. Baker was a fine carpenter and built most of the early homes in and about Rushville. His son, Milton Baker, a very exemplary citizen, is now in his 84th ' (130) Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 131 year, the oldest man of Rushville, having lived there 82 years. He has had a long life and it has been a useful and honorable one. A daughter of Daniel Ba ker married a McFee ; they are the parents of Wilber and Homer McFee of Lancaster, Ohio. The wife of Daniel Baker was a daughter of Thomas McNamee of Walnut township. He owned the land where'Henry Musser now lives. There were several McNamee brothers ; Job and Adam lived in Walnut, George and Moses lived and died in Mary land. The McNamees were prominent people and the owners of good land. One of their sisters married a Shane and one of his daughters was the first wife of James Ashbrook. Job McNamee of Kankakee, Illinois, is a son of Job, Sr. A sister of Job was the first wife of the late John Lamb. The second wife of John Lamb was the Widow Gafford of Baltimore, Ohio. John Baker, a brother of Daniel, was once county recorder of this county. His wife was a daughter of Judge Swayze. Another brother was Rev. Job Baker, who was an early Methodist preacher in this vicinity, but went South, and after a long career, died in Texas. Rev. Henry Baker and Rev. Samuel Baker, neph ews of Daniel Baker, were Methodist preachers. Rev. Henry Baker was stationed in Lancaster, Ohio, in tlie year 1840. J. H. Baker, son of Rev. Henry Baker, became a newspaper man and was elected Secretary of State for Ohio and Minnesota some thirty or more years since. He now resides at Mankato, Minn. As has been stated, Owens was the first merchant. In 1821 there came to Rushville one who soon became 132 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People its distinguished and well known merchant, William Coulson. He was a native of Pennsylvania, but came to Rushville from the town of Barnesville. He was a brother-in-law of Hon. John Davenport, who at one time was a member of Congress from Ohio. Wil liam Coulson transacted a very large business for 20 years. Sold many goods and dealt largely in tobacco. When the Ohio Canal was completed in 1831 he formed a partnership with his son-in-law, Michael Ruffner, and opened a store in Baltimore. He also built a large warehouse and a flouring mill. The warehouse is still standing but useless for that pur pose. William Wing was a rival of the firm, and they made a very disastrous failure in 1841 or 1842. Mr. Coulson never recovered from this failure, and resorted to teaching school for a living. He was an effective local preacher of the Methodist Church. He was a man of fine presence, of fine mind and well informed. He lived beyond the age of 90 years. His children were Louisa, who married Michael Ruffner, and died in Baltimore, Ohio. Mike Ruffner, before going to Baltimore, ran a small store in Pleas antville, Ohio ; he had formerly kept a tin and copper shop in Rushville. After the death of his wife, he courted and married a girl who lived with William Wing, and with her moved to Greenup, Illinois, and set up for a doctor without much preparation for so responsible a profession. His body was buried at the cemetery near Casey, Illinois, along with many other Fairfield County people. Ann Coulson married Dr. Hyde, the most promi nent man of Rushville, and a very fine scholar. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 133 Mary Coulson married G. W. Ritchie, who was a merchant in partnership with his brother-in-law, Na thaniel Coulson. Susan married W. B. Lewis, who was a merchant and justice of the peace ; the}' reared a nice family. Dr. Lewis and John Lewis, the merchant, both of Rushville, are their sons. Lydia Coulson married for her first husband, Joel Beckwith of Somerset, Ohio. For her second hus band, she married Lewis Peters of Nebraska, Pick away County. She is still living, the widow of Mr. Peters, with her step-son Dr. Peters. Nathaniel Coulson succeeded his father in busi ness, with G. W. Ritchie as his partner, and later he was in business for himself. Late in life he moved to Edina, Missouri, where he died. Thomas Coulson married for his first wife a Miss Tallman of Greenfield township. She was said to be the handsomest young woman in Fairfield County. For his second wife he married a daughter of the late Joshua Clarke. He has lived in the West for over 45 years. For some years he lived at Trinidad, Col orado, where he died a short time ago. John Davenport Coulson was a school teacher, and died while yet a young man. William Coulson, Jr., died before he had attained his majority. The grandchildren of William Coulson are numer ous and highly respected people. .Some years after the coming of Coulson to Rush ville, C. G. Wilson- & Co., of Zanesville, opened a store there. This store was managed by Gilbert McFad- den, who in time became the sole proprietor. He lived in Ru.shville many years, an honest, upright life, and 134 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People after the war, moved to Hillsboro, Ohio. He died in a few years after settling in Hillsboro. William Reed of Baltimore, Maryland, came to Rushville about 1850, and opened a store, which he operated a few years. He then closed out and removed to Chicago, Illinois. W. B. Lewis was a merchant in Rushville for a number of years. He was a good citizen, but did not leave much of an estate. Rev. Henry Fernandes was a pioneer preacher and a very popular one for many years in Fairfield County. In his old age he ran a small store in Rushville. After his death his daughters became teachers in Chillicothe, Ohio. Mansfield & Kelley were merchants in Rushville in 1840. Brooke & Lewis were there in 1849 ^"^^ 1850. Joseph G. Nourse, a well educated man and a very thorough business man, was a merchant for several years in Rushville, going there in about the year 185 1. From there he moved to Cincinnati, where he died of smallpox. He married a daughter of the late Orren Abbott of this county. William Hutchinson, Asa Dennison and Bud Kerr were merchants in later years. Dr. Simon Hyde and the elder Turner were the early physicians of Rushville, and Dr. Nathaniel Wait still earlier in West Rushville. Dr. Wait was the father-in-law of the late John Van Zandt. Rushville is located upon a high bluff, just where Rush Creek enters the great canyon, which is the wonder and admiration of all who visit the locality. Here is the high bridge, 45 feet above the waters of Rush Creek. It is an interesting old town, one of the earliest of the county, the home and trading point of Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 136 many famous old pioneers, whose names even will be lost to history, unless soon gathered up and preserved in some permanent form. This generation cannot learn too much of the his tory of the prominent people of forty or fifty years ago. Dr. Simon Hyde, late of Rushville, Ohio, father of Eber Hyde and Mrs. Dr. Lewis, of this city, was a giant in intellect, a famous scholar and an eminent phy sician of that period. When quite a young man two of his brothers were sent to college. Young Simon was not of robust health, and remained with his pa rents upon their farm near Norwich, Connecticut. As his brothers laid aside their books, he took them up and alone and unaided mastered the college course. He was a fine Latin, Hebrew and Greek scholar, and was especially fine in mathematics. Of the latter, astron omy was his favorite. During his long life he was a student of the Bible, and always read it either in the Latin, Greek or Hebrew. At about the age of twen ty-three years, he left his Connecticut home and made his way the best he could on foot to Ohio. This was about the year 1815. On leaving home he said to his mother : " You will find in my trunk some old papers which you may be interested in after I am gone." Like all mothers under similar circumstances, she lost no time in mastering the contents of the trunk. Among other interesting papers found was a complete almanac, calculated for twenty years, as perfect as any pro fessor of astronomy could have made it. His first stopping place in Ohio was Franklinton,* on the Scioto river. He remained there two years, but was so af flicted with chills, that he concluded to try the hill country, and removed to Rushville, where he continued to reside until his death. There he taught school and 136 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People completed his medical studies. He became a very pop ular and successful physician, and his practice extended over a very large extent of country. He would call to see a patient ten miles distant, would then be called upon to go further, and in this way his trips often ex tended over two or three days. He was somewhat eccentric, but possessed a generous heart. At about the age of forty years he married a daughter of Wil liam Coulson, then one of the prominent merchants of Fairfield County. This union was blessed with eleven children, four dying in infancy. The sons were Dr. William Hyde, of Detroit ; Eber, of Lancaster ; Solon, of Columbus ; Joseph K., of Rushville, and Rodney,* of Adams county, Ohio. The daughters were Mrs. Dr. Lewis, of Lancaster, and Mrs. Harmon, of Columbus, Ohio. His boys were principally taught by their father, in which employment he spent his leisure hours, and in which he took great delight. He was a strong, rugged-looking man, kind and affectionate to his fam ily. His daughter Mary (Mrs. Lewis) was educated at Lee Female College, Massachusetts. Dr. Hyde was a man of great endurance, and of great physical strength. " He never felt fear." This was demonstrated on one occasion in a very singular and dramatic manner. He was called to visit, in great haste, one of the Wilsons, just west of West Rushville, and as he approached the old bridge over Rush Creek, not so high as the present one, he saw a drove of cattle near the west end. He pushed on, however, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the drover, who urged him frantically to stop. Seeing the doctor determined to cross first, he took off his coat and met him in the center of the bridge, and caught 137 Of Fairfield County, Ohio. his horse by the bridle. The doctor very cboly dis mounted, and remarking, " I will teach you better than to stop a doctor in a hurry to visit a patient," picked up the drover, raised him over the bridge railing, and dropped him into the water, some ten feet below. Then, as calmly as he got down, he mounted his horse and rode off. Dr. Hyde died at the advanced age of 79 years. His life was pure and honorable, devoted to his family, and to the good of his fellow men. The poor and unfortunate always found in him a friend. The good that he did lives after him. "Greater is he that easeth men of their pains, than he that taketh cities." — Oriental Proverb. OLD TIME TAVERNS. mANY of the first taverns of Lancaster and Fairfield County had odd, and to the present generation, singular names. Historical characters and animals were drawn upon without stint, and by long association, many of those dear old names revive in the aged and middle-aged sweet memories of the past and associates and friends long since gathered to their fathers. One of the most striking signs of the early period was that of Samuel Graybill, two miles out of Lancas ter, on Columbus pike, where the old home still stands. This tavern was called the Green Tree. And there was painted on the sign a large tree, and a pack of hounds, and Graybill on horseback, with a fox on a leaning tree, ready to spring. Fox hunting was the joy of GraybHl's life. Another country sign was the Blue Ball, at the Rock Mill, where George Lantz now lives. This was kept by King, famous for his good fare. One of the early signs was that of Jacob Beck, on Columbus street, where Wm. Getz now lives. On his sign was a large Buck, and with the name of Jacob Beck. The F. A. Shaffer tavern was in early days called the Washington, with a picture of the general on the sign. Another Washington tavern was in Thornville, kept for some time by Dr. Mayne, before he became a doctor, and settled in Basil. We refer to the father of the late Dr. Wash. Mayne. (138) Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 139 Jacob Walters kept tavern some years -where the Betz house now stands. He called his house the Wil liam Tell, after the famous hero of a Swiss legend. There was a picture of the famous myth with drawn cross-bow and arrow. Col. Noble's tavern was called the Union as early as 1819. It was a log house, but weatherboarded. It burned down in 1832 or '33, and a new brick building of two stories was erected in its place. This was called the Phoenix, after the fabled bird of heathen mythology ; presumably because it had risen from the ashes of the old Union. This tavern was owned by a company — and in about five years it was sold to Darius Tallmadge, and by him greatly im proved, and the name changed to "Tallmadge House."' Another famous hostelry was where the Mithoff now stands. The sign was ornamented with the picture of a large swan. Col. Sager was one of the famous landlords of this inn. There was an old-time tavern on the north side of Main street, near the canal, caHed the "Golden Sun," with a picture of that luminary in a blaze of glory. Another old tavern sign will be remembered by a few of our readers. The "Black Horse," kept by Allen House, on East Main street. The building stood near where the fine Binninger residence now stands. No one could go down Main street east and fail to see the black horse. House is said to have entertained Gen. Santa Anna on his way to Washington, incognito, after his battle of San Jacinto. One of the famous old-time taverns was kept by the Nyes, in Tarlton, and another by Col. Sager, of Oakland. Col. Sager's wife was a Smith, cousin of Robert, of Pleasant township. The Nyes preserved 140 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People for forty years two autograph letters from Henry Clay, who always took his meals at their house. The good old names are now out of fashion, and only exist in memory, and the modern styles predomi nate. Such as Hotel Martin, The Kirn, The Mithoff. The modern hotels excel the old in comfort and ¦convenience, but you cannot convince old-timers that the good fare and good cheer of the old taverns were not the best. In the old bar room at Fred Shaffer's more than a dozen travelers have been seated and made comfortable, and the evening spent in enjoyable conversation. At least six lawyers have been known to lodge in one room at old-time taverns, and while a game of cards amused the players, the others with a single candle prepared their cases for the next day. FAIRFIELD COUNTY FAIR. THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL ATTRACTION OF SOUTHERN OHIO. CPIE first county fair was held in the year 1852, There had, some years previous, been an effort made to organize a fair, but it did not succeed, although some prominent men were at the head of it. John T. Brasee, John Reber, Daniel Kutz, Darius Tallmadge, John Shaeffer, Isaac Claypool, John Van Pearse, Daniel Keller, David Huber, John Gill, James AV. Pearse, and the Ashbrooks were the leading men in the enterprise, and gave it their time freely, and the full benefit of their example and influence. The site was on what is now known as the Caffee addition to Lancaster. Eight acres were fenced off, the canal answering for the west side fence. John Reber purchased a boat load of lumber in Cleveland to build the fence. This lumber he afterwards sold with very little loss, and the society did not have much to pay. John Reber was the first president,Judge John S. Brasee the first secretary, and John Shaeffer the first treasurer. On the second day John T. Brasee delivered a pre pared speech to a large and attentive audience. Capt. Joshua Clarke pronounced it the finest speech that he had ever heard. Judge Brasee remembers the speech and says that it was a fine effort. The premiums offered were small, compared with those paid now, but they drevif a fine exhibit of stock. ' (141) 142 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Krasee, Reber, D. Kutz, D. Huber, John Gill and Ash brooks were exhibitors of fine stock. The entire re ceipts amounted to $825. This sum paid the prem iums and all expenses. James W. Pearse exhibited a saddle horse, ridden by his daughter, now Mrs. Matlack, of Lancaster, then a bright and handsome young woman. An accident of some kind caused her to be thrown from her horse, but she was not injured. In 1853 ^'"- Reber purchased the Wright farm, and reserving 13 acres for a fair ground, sold the farm again at a price that gave him the 13 acres without cost to the society. On this spot, with many additions, the fair has been held for forty-six years. John T. Brasee wrote the original constitution, and it was adopted at a meet ing held at Shaeffer's hotel. Reber, D. Kutz, David Huber and Brasee at that time were breeders of fine shorthorn cattle, and Brasee of mules. From this small beginning referred to, the fair has grown to vast proportions. The early fairs were noted for very large displays of good horses in all classes. At several fairs the number of horse entries was in ex cess of two hundred, and this at a time when trotting, as it is now understood, was unknown. Reber's splen did stud of thorough lired horses was always a great attraction. Of the outsiders who never held office in the society, but who worked for the interests of the fair for weeks at a time. Dr. Davidson, druggist, is one of the most noted. Dr. Davidson for many years exliibited fine hor.^es, dropping in after Reber's death. 143 Of Fairfield County, Ohio. The old-timers are nearly all gone, and a new gen eration runs and patronizes our fair. It is still a very live institution, and in good hands. Men are at the helm who wear the mantle of the pioneers in the work with becoming grace and honor. In the years 1858 and 1859 John A. Fettus was the President, C. M. L. Wiseman, Secretary, and Joseph C. Kinkead Treasurer, there were over 200 horses shown for premiums in the ring. Among them "Old Hoiatoga" and a splendid array of his colts from one to four years of age, the best among them "Chieftain" owned by Brown of Thonville. Sold as a five year old to Sam Crim for $1800. FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN THE WEST. J- SOME OF ITS SONS WHO HAVE OBTAINED DISTINCTION WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. CHE great West is well sprinkled with Fairfield County people. The traveler can scarcely stop anywhere without meeting their smiling, friendly faces. They greet the visitor from the heart and their hospitality is unbounded. Of those who have become wealthy and attained prominent positions and influence in financial circles, Andrew Jackson Snyder, of Kansas City, Missouri, is the most striking and distinguished figure. His youth was one of toil and hardship, but he was honest and in dustrious. Before he had attained his majority, he was at work on the farm of the late Frederick Lamb, O'f Walnut township, at ten dollars per month. Tiring of the farm, he started for the West, and falling in with a recruiting officer, he enlisted in the regular army and served five years. He was a fine specimen of the physical man, tall and well propor tioned, and was one of the finest types of the athletic American soldier. When he left the army he settled in Montana, then a wild and lawless country. He was soon elected sheriff of his county, an office that then required nerve, strength, courage, and good common sense. The office was no sinecure, for he had to deal with toughs, outlawed characters, robbers and murder ers. Through the perilous times of his official life he faithfully performed his duty and brought many men -.," . (144) Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 145 to justice. In his official career he accumulated some money and concluded to go to Missouri, which he did. There he met, wooed, won and married a good woman. Kansas City was then attracting the attention of enter prising men and thither he went. He soon became a leading dealer in cattle and prominent at the stock yards. He prospered and invested in land, stocked it with cattle, and soon earned the title of "Cattle King." His ranch on the plains was said to contain 45,000 acres. He became interested in one of the leading banking institutions of the city and soon was elected its president, a position he still holds. He has long been rated a very wealthy man. Fairfield County has sent out few men (if any) who have been as success ful in life as the poor boy of fifty years ago, known as Andy Snider of Indian Creek, Ricliland township. He is devoted to his family, has a fine home and lives in style becoming to his position and wealth. His wife is one of the accomplished and fine looking wo men of her adopted city. She is the daughter of Noah Beery and the grand-daughter of John Beery, brother of George and Abraham Beery. Her father moved to northwest Missouri many years ago. Two sons blessed their union, one of whom, a fine young man, died just as he was budding into man hood. The other son is a promising man. He married the daughter of General Richard Oglesby, the bosom friend of Abraham Lincoln and a distinguished ex- soldier. Fairfield County gave two other men to Missouri who achieved distinction. Samuel Reber and John W. 10 146 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Noble. Judge Reber was a son of Valentine Reber, a very prominent pioneer, and was born near Royalton, Ohio. He received a good education and studied law in Lancaster. After admission to the bar he removed to St. Louis, Mo. Here he practiced his profession with success and closed his career on the Common Pleas bench. Judge Reber married a daughter of Gen. Wm. J. Reese. He left a widow and a large family of child ren. He was himself a member of a very large family of brothers and sisters, all of whom filled honorable and respected positions in life. The best known of his brothers in this county were Thomas and Henry. Ly man Allen, Wm. L. Clement and Andrew Peters were brothers-in-law. Of this large family but two survive, Mrs. Huber, of Seneca County and Joseph, of Inde pendence, Mo. His brother John was at the time of his death one of the wealthiest men in Pickaway County. John W. Noble was a son of Col. John Noble, one of the pioneers of Lancaster, and for years an honored citizen of both Columbus and Cincinnati. His son John was born in Lancaster a year or two before the Colonel took up his residence in Columbus. We can barely claim him as a Lancaster boy, and must divide the honors with Columbus. His youth was spent both in Columbus and Cincinnati. We do not know where he studied law or when he settled in St. Louis. This ¦is known, however. He graduated at Miami Univer- .sity and was a classmate of President Harrison. The .acquaintance then formed ripened into friendship and had much to do with his selection in after years as Secretary of the Interior. He was a very capable Cabinet officer, and those who had occasion to meet him pronounced him a courtly gentleman. He returned Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 147 to St. Louis and resumed the practice of law. His brother, Henry Clay Noble, another Lancaster boy, practiced law in Columbus and was for some years a partner of Henry Stanbery. ENOCH BEERY SEITZ Enoch Beery Seitz, son of Daniel Seitz, who died in this county was born near Berne, Fairfield County, Ohio, in the year 1841. His parents were farmers and the widow moved from Fairfield to Darke County, where young Seitz was brought up. Pie graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1870. He was a teacher in the public schools of Green ville for a number of years. He early displayed great aptness for mathematics and devoted his leisure hours to solving the hidden mysteries of numbers. He was a contributor tO' several magazines devoted to mathe matics, among them the Mathematical Visitor and the Educational Times, of London, England. His original investigations astonished the world and he was soon classed as one of the great mathematicians of the world. He furnished over five hundred model solu tions to the School A^isitor, in which he displayed great ingenuity and ability. His special branches were " Average and Proba bilities," and in them he was acknowledged the super ior of any man in the whole world. Pie ranked with and stood side by side with Wool- home, the mathematical champion of England. He was a born mathematician, and when a mere boy as tonished his teachers by displaying an ability beyond their comprehension. 148 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People In the year 1880 he was the fifth American to be honored by being elected a member of the London Mathematical Society. For some time previous to his death he was a professor of mathematics at the State Normal School of Missouri, located at Kirksville. This brilliant young man died in the prime of life, aged 37 years, in the year 1883. His fame is world wide and his works will endure forever. His remains were buried at Greenville, the scene of his early labors and triumphs. Dr. Williams, of this county, was a great mathe matician, but he did not come in contact or touch with the mathematicians of the world, hence his reputation is local, while the name of his friend is known and honored wherever mathematics is taught throughout the world. The mother of Prof. Seitz was a Beery, a prom inent family in this county for nearly 100 years. She was a daughter of Abraham Beery, of Rush Creek. GREENFIELD ACADEMY, ONE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S EARLY EDUCATIONAL INSTI TUTIONS. A FULL LIST OF STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED THIS POPULAR SCHOOL. 6REENFIELD ACADEMY was the most cele brated and deservedly popular institution of learning known to Fairfield County. It was founded by Dr. John Williams in the year 1835, and ran a successful career of eleven years, clos ing in the year 1846. Dr. Williams was one of the great scholars and educators of the time, and he drew about him and to his school many young men who had a thirst for learning, and who subsequently filled honorable posi tions in life. AA'^e give herewith the names of students who at tended Greenfield Academy, alphabetically arranged and without regard to the term or years of their attend ance. There is no measure of value for such services as Dr. John Williams rendered to the people of this county during his useful life. STUDENTS OF GREENFIELD Albright, Henry. At-wood, John. Albright, Jacob. Beck, Geo. AV. Albright, John. Beery, Geo. AV. , who Anderson, Boliver. was a lawyer of Up- Anderson, S. H. per Sandusky, where Arnold, Doctor. he died recently. Ashbrook, E. P., who Beery, Simon, who is now living at died at Urbana, AVindsor, Illinois. Ohio. Atwater, De AV. C. Biddison, A. (149) 150 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Black, Charles. Black, Henry. Black, John. Black, D. S. Bookwalter, Rev. Isaac H. Brasee, John S., an eminent lawyer of Lancaster, Ohio. Brook, James, of Greenfield. Brundidge, J. H. Breck, Samuel. Bush, Samuel G. Campbell, Jas. Carlisle, Jas. B. Carlisle, Jefferson. Carlisle, Basil AV. , was a prominent citizen of this county, filling with credit many im portant poistions. Carlisle, Jas., died out in Arkansas many years ago. Carnoy, Theo. AV. Cherry, John. Carnes, AVm. Carnes, Arthur. Carpenter, Doctor David, of Chicago. Carpenter, H. AV. Chaney, Oliver P. Chaney, Hugh. Chaney, James. Claypool, Isaac. Clemens, Alfred. Clement, Jos. AV. Cole, Rev. Thos. Collins, John A. Collins, Jesse. Coulson, Henry. Cunningham, Jno. Darnell, of Groveport. Davidson, Dr. A. Dennison, Nelson AV. , studied law, married Miss Manson, mov ed to Iowa, v/here he died. Drake, Rev. Lem. Dubble, Henry. Ewing, David. Ewing, John.. Ewing, Thos., recently killed by an accident in New York City. He had a distin guished career, was Judge of the Supreme Court of Kansas, a major general, a member of Congress, and a distinguished lawyer. Finck, Elias. Finkbone, AV. H. Finnefrock, T. P. Flattery, Jonathan. Flattery, Josiah. Freed, Abraham. Mr. Freed, or Prof Freed, was a farmer and teacher all his life. He was a ripe scholar and a suc cessful educator. Garaghty, Edw. Graybill, Edward, who some years since was the treasurer of Fair field county. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 151 Graybill, Isaac. Graybill, Samuel G., became Clerk of the Court for Shelby County, 111. He mar ried a Carlisle. Glasscock, Samuel. Green, Thomas. Greiner, Christian. Greiner, Jacob. Grubb, John Q. A. Harrison, Dixon A. Harrison, Jonas. Havens, Joseph. Hay, Peter. Hay, Joseph. Hedges, Samuel. Huber, George, Hendershott, John. Hooker, Jared Hooker, Richard. Hooker, Samuel. Homrighouse, L. Huber, Horace. Hutton, John. Hutton, Wm. Hite, Geo. Ingman, Henry. Irvin, John. Jenkins, AVm. Keller, Simon P. Kemerer, Em'l. Kistler, Reuben. Kerns, Isaac. Kreider, E. C. , now the postmaster of Jacksonville, Illinois. Langworthy, O. P. Lewis, Ed., Chilli cothe. Lefever, H. C. Lockart, Thomas, mar ried a sister of E. C. Kreider and moved to California, where he died. Lyle, Aaron. McCleery, Jas. McNeill, Dr. Robt. McNeill, Robt. McFarland, John. Martin, Evi. Martin, Samuel, Miller, Jas. Miller, Joab. Miller, W. B. Miller, John C. Moore, Levi. Nourse, Jos. G. Orman, Henry. Pence, David. Poorman, Daniel. Perry, Horace. Perry, O. H. Peters, Zebulon. Peters, Newton. Palmer, D. Peters, AV i 1 s o n, of Marion, Ohio. Radebaugh, John. Renshaw, Jos. Roland, Samuel. Salter, AVilliam. Sanderson, St. C. Sanderson, Alex. Sanderson, Geo. Schleich, Newton. Shaeffer, Chas .F. Shaeffer, Fr. AV. Shaeffer, John. Shaeffer, Henry. Shaeffer, Dr. A. H. 152 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Shisler, Reuben. Shisler, Emanuel. Shisler, Abraham. Staley, J. J. Sites, Geo. L. Smith, Amos. Sprague, N. H. Stage, Napoleon. Stanbury, of Greenfield. Sweitzer, John. Strunk, Gabriel. Talbot, Edward. Talbot, Benjamin. Tallmadge, Jas., son of Darius Tallmadge, and brother of T. AV. Tallmadge, of Wash ington. He went first to California, thence to South America, where he died. Tallman, Douglas. Tallman, brother of Douglas. Tong, H. B. Trowbridge, Reese. Van Meter, Ezra. A^'an Pearse, John. Wagenhals, Dr. Philip M. , a once distin guished physician of Lancaster. He died in Columbus, O. Weakley, Otho Weaver, Samuel. Weaver, Solomon. White, Thomas. Whitehurst, M. C. Wickizer, John, stud ied law with H. H. Hunter, and moved to city of Blooming- ton, Illinois, where he became Mayor. Williams, Alfred, now a clerk in State De partment, Washing ton, D. C. The only son of Dr. John Wil liams He was at one time prosecuting at torney of this county. He married Miss Hof- fler, niece of H. H. Hunter. Williams, Willis. Williams, James. Williamson, Levi. Wilson, Ambrose. Wright, Silas H., late Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Fair field County. Williams, E. C. Wright. Wm. Wygum, Geo. J. Zink, and Zimmerman, supposed to be of Lancaster Courtright.Rev. Gast and Mc- Carty. Nigh, Elias, was a merchant of Lancas- MISCELLANEOUS ter a few years; he then studied law -jnd moved to Trontin, Ohio. Scott, Rev. Wm. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 153 Glick, Elias. Wilson, Thos. A. Hamilton, Geo. Hunter, James. Flattery, Lucas. Coleman, Michael. Courtright, Cyrus. "Sharrk, Wm. Finkbone, Henry. Beall, Rev. Isaac. Pugh, Jas. Lewis, E. E. Forgay, Jas. Collins, Enoch, Tomlinson, Aaron. Oren, Jesse. Peters, Jas. W lies, Jacob. Flattery, Wm. S. Graham, Benj. R. Huntwork, Jacob. Twigg, John F. Ford, John T. Griffith, Jos. Nisley, A. Fling, Geo. Jones, David. Gulp. Lewis. McNeill, Corbin. Meyers, Lewis. Meason, Isaac. Foster, F. A., Jr. Hardy; Thos. E. Pratt, F. H. Havens, Jos. M. Schneider, John. Kerns, Abner. Griffith, David. Griffith, James, Beery, Samuel S. Koontz, S. C. Beach, Thos. Reedy, Conrad. Cox, John. Ricketts, Jesse. Julian, L. F. Benton, O. Buchanan, Wilson. Crawford, of Crawford county, O. Nigh, Jared. Stripe, Jacob. Soliday, John; he stud ied medicine and en listed in the Union army; died near Sa vannah, Ga. Albright, Geo. Hoshor, W. Runner, F. A. Harmon, John. Young, Wm. Peters, Henry W. Paul, Truman E. Meason, Elijah. Seeds, James. Poorman, Henry H. Snively, Wm. J. Collins, Philemon. Fairchild, Wm. W. Connell, Col. John M., studied law and lived most of his life in Lancaster; he was the first Colonel of the 17th Ohio, Union army; he was also a member of the Ohio State Senate. Shaw, Virgil E, Gierhart, Melvin. Ebright, Enoch. 154 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Peters, Sam G. Welsheimer, Phil. Black, Wm. H. Reber, Henry, of Pick- Benadum, Aaron. away. Allen, Theodore. Henderson, David. Carr, Richard. Miller, Jonathan. Newkirk, Michael. Daugherty, Wm. Havens, Isaac B. Baughman, Oliver. Walters, Jacob M. Tallman, LaFayette. Rutherford, C. W. Rockey, Esq. L. L. Schneider, Henry. The little red brick school house, known as Green field Academy, was torn dovyn a few years since and a frame dwelling erected in its place. The old building was about five miles distant from Lancaster, on the Carroll pike, and just a few yards this .side of the Pres byterian church in Greenfield township. Of the boys whose names have been recorded, but few remain. Death has claimed the large majority of- them. Dr. David Carpenter, Dr. H. AV. Carpenter, Judge Bra- see, Oliver P. Chaney, E. C. Kreider, are well known men. E. P. Ashbrook, now more than four score, is living in Illinois. Isaac Claypool is also one of the living, as is L. L. Rockey, of Liberty. David Pence and Samuel H. Anderson are well known farmers of Pleasant township. There is a tradition that James G. Blaine attended Greenfield Academy, but it is a mistake. Mr. Blaine, while on the car in full view of the old brick acad emy, said to the writer, " I did not attend the school of Dr. Williams, I was only a visitor in Lancaster in 1840." ' EARLY PEDAGOGUES. J- SOME EARLY AND WORTHY TEACHERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY. T7IE will name a few teachers of old time who m.m.1 ^^''^ good scholars, especially in certain ^^^ lines, and many of them taught fairly well. The schools of the period we refer to were taught in log school houses, benches without backs, with writ ing desk along the wall; many of the houses were poorly heated and destitute of every comfort or con venience. The scholars ranged from six years up to stalwart men and women of about twenty-one years. Many of them were rude and unruly and went to- school for fun. The teacher who kept good order was rare and he had his hands full. The rod, a good hickory, was relied upon by the teacher. In many cases boys were flogged unmercifully — they deserved it, and parents seldom interfered. Indeed, it was cus tomary for fathers to tell their boys, if your are whipped at school and I hear of it you will get an other at home." There was one well authenticated case when the teacher was told that he could never manage the school and the names of the rowdy boys were given to him. He procured a few good hickory withes and on the first day of school he met the boys at the door, ask ing each his name. He severely flogged each one and told them that that was the way he commenced, and if necessary he would keep it up. The parents did not complain and he conducted the school without any trouble. The boys who received the flogging had (155) 156 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People broken up two or three schools. Then schools were a very poor place to study, but if the teacher had a fair chance, good places to get instruction, and the ambi tious boy thirsting for learning fared very well in spite of his surroundings. Occasionally a teacher could be found unworthy of the name. A school was once taught in Pleasant township by one of this class. A visitor noticed a Latin book on his desk and inquired if he taught Latin. He replied in the negative and his attention .was called to the book. He then remarked that one of his scholars had used that book for his reading lesson since he came to the school — and he thought the language was rather strange. On another occasion one of his scholars came to him to explain a page of his arithmetic devoted to bookkeeping. The teacher told him that he could not explain the matter as it referred to surveying. We are pleased to know that there were not many such teachers, even among the old-timers. To the list of old teachers we must add the names of Thomas Ewing and Hocking H. Hunter — their teaching was only temporary. One of the greatest liberties taken with the teacher by the scholars, and tolerated, and in many cases encouraged and promoted by the parents, was the barring out of the master at Christmas time, if he refused to treat the school. Two or three bushels of apples were generally more than- sufficient to satisfy their wants. If the teacher refused — and they often did— the door was barred, the windows defended and the master kept out until he relented, if it required a whole week. This custom was universal 60 years ago — all old men re member it. In the Reber district, south of Royalton, one of the old fashioned Irishmen referred to previously, was bar- Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 157 red out. He came to the school house and demanded entrance. The reply was, treat and you can come in. Faith and I will, but it will be meself, he replied, and wended his way to Royalton and began to get quite tipsy. This was kept up for a day or two. On one oc casion he climbed to the roof and placed a board over the chimney in order to smoke the boys out. A few of the parents who were near got upon the roof, took the old fellow by the heels, swung him clear of the building and threatened to drop him to the ground if he did not agree to treat. This was one of the crude things peculiar to pio neer times — what was fun to them would be called rough and vulgar now. One of the greatest features of the old-time schools was the spelling match, one school against another, or the half of one school against the other half. These matches created great excitement and filled the houses. There were numerous scholars in a township who could spell every wc^rd in AA'^ebster's American spelling book. The father of James Buchanan, of Basil, was one of the oldest teachers of this county, and a worthy man. The father of Thomas Pugh was a well known teacher and brought up two of his sons to the same profession. Isaac Kerns, more recently a commissioner of this county, was a teacher for many years. I All have passed to the great be5^ond and many of them have been forgotten. Would that the names of all could be rescued from oblivion and placed upon a tablet of enduring bronze, that the children of this and succeeding generations might at least read the names of those who in times past taught the young idea of their forefathers how to shoot. 158 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People The Centennial History gives a very full account of Lancaster teachers. The schools of pioneer days were not numerous. Previous to 1830, when our common school system was adopted by the Ohio legislature, all schools depended upon private subscription. A teacher was selected and employed and the parents of each scholar paid his or their proportion of the expense. Parents too poor to pay tuition had to be content with such instruction as they could give their children at home, and in most cases this was very limited. In this day of good schools and thorough teach ing it is a mistake to suppose that the early schools, few as they were, were without merit and ability on the part of the teachers. Thomas Ewing bears wholesome and worthy tes timony to the ability and scholarship of his first teach er in those early days — an Irishman whom he grateful ly remembered. There were many teachers in Ohio and Fairfield County in the early days who came from Ireland or were sons of Irish parents. They were good teachers and good scholars — especially were they good in grammar and mathematics. But unfortunately, many of them were intemperate and rather dissolute in their habits ; often bachelors who tramped from one neigh borhood to another — and like the old minstrel immor talized by Walter Scott, welcome wherever they hap pened to stop or tarry to teach a school. An Irish man named AA^elsh was an early teacher of this class and he was a great favorite. One of the first men to teach school in this county was John Goldthwait. The school was in the Mc Cleery district in Greenfield township. Goldthwait Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 159 came from Massachusetts, having been born in the city of Springfield. He came to this county from Athens, where he had taught in the year 1801. He died near New Salem in the year 1829. He was a good m,an and upon his modest tombstone is inscribed his hope of immortality. He was a lover of fruit and the people of Fairfield County owe him a debt of gratitude on that score. He established a nursery and brought from Marietta the scions of Golden Pip- pen, Newtown Pippin, Seek-no-Farther, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet, American Golden Russet or Pearmain and that rare apple, the Vanderver. He planted the first orchard in the county on the old Levering farm near the camp ground. Peter McMuIlen was one of the early teachers, a very successful one and a good scholar. New England, Maryland, New York and Virginia gave to Fairfield County several teachers of the class referred to. John T. Brasee and Salmon Shaw were able teach ers, but better educated than the class referred to. James Allen, of Maryland, came to this country at a very early day and settled in Walnut township. He was a good common school teacher, and beloved and re membered by his pupils. Simon Ortman was another old-time teacher. He also came to Walnut township from Maryland. Josiah Smith came from Connecticut and for sev eral years taught school. Late in life he was a promi nent citizen of Hardin County. Father Monroe was a good teacher of the early period of the common schools. He came from New England. One of his last schools was taught in Bre men. 160 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People A man named Brent taught school for years in the neighborhood of Pleasantville. He came from Win chester, Va. A brother of his was cashier of the Bank of the VaHey of Virginia. Brent was dissipated, but withal a good teacher. Dr. Simon Hyde was one of the early teachers and the best scholar at that time in the county. He came from Connecticut. Father Bryan, long a resident of Pleasantville, was an Irishman, a fair scholar and a good teacher. He was the grandfather of Dr. Gilliam, the eminent surgeon of Columbus, and great-grandfather of Attor ney Gilliam of this city. We had one old-time teacher who was on his last legs when he came to the county. He was competent, but dissipated. He was tolerated, but in time could not procure a regular school. He opened one on his own account for boys. On one occasion he had a spell ing class on the floor and he remarked, "Boys, I am going to pronounce a word (of course the word was such as to excite their risibilities) and if any of you laugh I will whip you like h ." Of course they all laughed immoderately, but no one was whipped, for the teacher joined in the merriment. Doubtless there are men still living who attended his school. A witty Irishman, named Skenmore, taught school in Berne township in the year 1813, and was called a very good teacher. John May and a Mr. J. Addison had previously taught there. This was in the Carpenter or Koontz district. Henry Camp taught a German school in Pleas ant township and Abraham Winters taught one in English, both prior to 1810. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 161 John Griffith and John Grantham taught school in the Murphy district prior to 1830, and as early as 1824, in Walnut township. Richard Clarke was one of the early teachers of Madison township. The late John Crook states that John Addison taught in the Koontz, or Prindle district in the year 1809. He was a good natured man and was liked by his scholars. A Mr. Burrows and Hocking H. Hunter afterwards taught in the same district, and in later years a beloved brother of the writer, long since dead, William Wirt Wiseman. Warren Case and his sister, Sarah, taught school in Royalton as early as 1810, and Henry Calhoun in 1812. In addition to James Allen, previously mentioned, Jesse Smith, was a very prominent early teacher in Walnut township. A. Cole and W. H. Coley were early teachers in Hocking township. Bartholomew Foley and Thomas Paden were teachers in 1828, in the Koontz school house in Berne township. Paden was afterwards a merchant in New Salem. He married a Miss Frey, of Rushcreek town ship. James Hunter, uncle of the late Andrew Hunter, was an early teacher in Hocking township and was one of the first to teach a school in Lancaster. A Mr. Watsbaugh and a Mr. Irvin were very early teachers in Pleasant township, near the Trimble farm. Eli Ashbrook, of IHinois, in his young days was a good teacher in Pleasant. 11 162 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Thomas MeGee, Thomas Moore and John Young were early teachers in the Barr district, Amanda town ship, also John Cunningham. Moses Stutson and Solomon Grover were early teachers in the Landis district of Madison township. Samuel Shaw was an old-time teacher of Liberty township. He was a giant and when bad boys fell into his hands they trembled. Many teachers were cowed and compelled to give up their schools. Not so with Samuel Shaw. He was a match for the stoutest boy or the largest school. Dr. Bryson, of Millersport, and the late Dr. Aldred, of Carroll, were competent and successful teachers in their younger days. The wife of Dr. Bry son was an Aldred. The first wife of Dr. Aldred was a Crawford, a relative of tne late Jacob Van Meter Crawford, of Berne township. Abraham Winters, who taught school as early as 1810, lived on Pleasant Run, northwest of the Taylor Huber farm. He came early from Rockingham Coun ty, Virginia. He reared two daughters who were once belles of the township. The oldest married Col. Val entine Cupp, who, while gallantly leading his regiment, was fatally wounded at Chickamauga. His wife is also dead. The other daughter, Margaret, married Lieu tenant Lafayette Pickering. Pickering has long been dead, but the once handsome girl is still living. Mar garet Winters lived in the days when horseback riding was popular, as well as a necessity. She was a daring and accomplished equestrienne and captured more than one prize at the County Fair. We will name a few good teachers who taught in and about Rushville after the time of Simon Hyde, the greatest scholar of his time. John W. Fauble was Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 163 one of them. He afterwards married a daughter of Rev. James Quinn, and became himself a Methodist preacher of the Ohio conference. Isaiah Bell, born and raised on Pleasant Run, was a teacher for some years and then entered the Ohio conference as a popular preacher. John Mason Dick, grandfather of Rev. Dick, of the Ohio conference, was one of the early teachers. Robert J. Black taught school fifty years ago, or about that time, in Rushville. He resides upon his farm in Rushcreek and is now a cultivator of and an. authority on fruit. Rev. Anderson, pastor of the Presbyterian church of West Rushville, was for some years the teacher of a popular select school. Wm. Coulson, after his failure as a merchant, was a good teacher. He lived to a good old age, passing his ninetieth year. The venerable David Pence, grandson of Emanuel Ruffner, in his early days, was a successful teacher. His only daughter is the wife of Joseph S. Sites, of this city. He is a distinguished member of one of the large and distinguished pioneer families of this county. Most of the school houses in which the forego ing pioneers taught were built of round logs chinked and daubed and a single log cut out of suffi cient width for windows. The fire places in many in stances were as wide as one end of the building, and huge logs used for fuel. The seats were made of slabs with round legs at each end and destitute of backs. The schools were all taught on contracts signed by each patron, agreeing fo pay a stated price for each pupil. 164 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People In one instance a public-spirited citizen, father of Broad Cole, built a school house and employed Abra ham Cole to teach the school at eight dollars per month and invited his neighbors to send their children and pay pro rata share or not, as they chose or were able. There were no special school hours then. The teacher was there at daylight and had a good fire ready to receive his pupils, make them comfortable and go to work. There were no gold or steel pens in those days ; all were made with pen-knife of goosequills by the teacher. Fancy a teacher at that interminable task now. As stated above, the early school houses had huge fire places, some as wide as the building, and in one case, and perhaps others, the back logs — children rais ed in our modern home never saw a back log — were drawn in by horses, ropes being run through the cracks between logs. All middle age men will remember the ten plate stove used to warm school houses and in universal use, with big letters on the side, "Made by John Moore, Mary Ann Furnace." This furnace and foundry was located in Licking County, on the Licking river, a few miles from Newark, east. Moore, the proprietor, was a famous man, for is it not fame to be known to thousands of school children? He was the father of Mrs. Judge Silas H. Wright, long a resident of Lan caster, now of Washington. This same stove once adorned and warmed the country and village stores and many farm houses. Many readers of this sketch will be reminded of a dear old friend. A friend that gave them comfort and never Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 165 boasted of it. A friend around which the scholars gathered at noon time of cold days, chatted and ate their lunch. But alas, the stove has gone and others have taken its place, and saddest of all, the scholars, most of them, are gone and others have taken their place. PIONEER PREACHERS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH WHO WERE FAMOUS IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY no set of early pioneers are more entitled to re membrance in these sketches than the self-sac rificing traveling Methodist preachers of the early days. Many of them were without much edu cation to speak of, but they were earnest, pious. God fearing men. They were plain men, and dressed in clothing intended for service and not for show, made upon a uniform pattern, round cutaways. , Bishop As- bury's suit was made of homemade cloth. In one case, cloth and suit were both made by a lady friend and presented to him. They traveled horseback, fording creeks and swimming rivers. In many cases it re quired four weeks to make the rounds of the circuit, and often preaching in some cabin every night. On such circuits the people came ten and fifteen miles to attend the service. This was especially the case on Sunday. They were cheerful men, happy men and good conversationalists, and they were received with open hand wherever they stopped. Happy the family so highly favored. The parents rejoiced for the op portunity to converse and for the influence for good the visit of the preacher would have upon the lives of their children. Senator Ewing understood this when he gave a thousand dollars in his will to Catholic priests, as a slight evidence of his regard for the early priests, who (166) Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 167 made his home their home, and assisted him, as he ex pressed it, in raising his boys. The hearty reception given the preacher was not confined to Methodists. — Presbyterians and Baptists gave them hearty welcome. This is acknowledged by Bishop Asbury in his journal. The first pioneers to preach in this county, and have charge of a circuit, were Jesse Stoneman and James Quinn. They both lived to a great age and their memory is still cherished. Stoneman, after closing his career as a preacher, settled on a farm in Perry county. He, with his family, is buried at Thornville. James Quinn preached for nearly forty years, in this and adjoining counties, and closed his career in Highland County. He was buried near HHlsboro, Ohio. He has several relatives in this county, or more properly his wife, who was a daughter of Ed ward Teal. James Axley preached in this county in 1805. He was a "rough diamond" and was kept on the frontier all of his life. Being at Chillicothe, he, with another minister, were entertained by Governor Tiffin, a Meth odist. A part of the evening meal was stewed chicken. — Axley took his portion in his fingers and stripped the bones and then threw them to a dog sitting on the carpet near him. This was probably the first car pet he had ever seen in a dining room. On his way to Mississippi Territory, to which he had been as signed, he preached in Nashville. The minister there was afraid he would make a break and gave him a word of caution. Soon after commencing his dis course a gentleman entered, the minister whispered, " That is General Jackson." Axley exclaimed : " Who cares for General Jackson ! He will go to hell as quick as anybody else if he does not repent." After the close 168 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of the services Jackson came forward, took him by the hand, and thanked him for his frankness and fear lessness. James B. Findlay preached here in 1811, and he was on this district as late as 1842. He was a distin guished preacher of his time. He, with Rev. Jacob Hooper, who lived near New Salem, were mission aries to the Wyandot Indians, at Sandusky, in 1821. The city of Findlay is named for one of his family. James Gilruth was a famous preacher of early days. He was in this county in 1823. He was a man of great strength and fought the rowdies at camp meetings. He, as late as 1842, after the close of his ministry, moved to Davenport, Iowa, where his daugh ter opened a seminary. The distinguished Dr. Ky- nett, who died a few days since in Philadelphia, mar ried one of his daughters. Charles Waddle from 1814 to 1834 was a very distinguished preacher. People came long distances to hear him at camp meeting, and the name of Charles Waddle, was famous in a large region. He fell from grace and left the church. The writer saw hini a few years since in Pleasantville, where he lived a short time with his son, a broken down, sorrowful looking old man, unknown and unhonored in a region where his eloquence had once delighted thousands. Jacob Young was a distinguished preacher in this county in 1820, and about the year 1841 he closed his ministry here. He was a good man and his life was an inspiration. His oldest son, Wheeler Young, is the present sheriff of Franklin County, Ohio. Michael Ellis was an earnest, faithful and pious preacher, as early as 1817. Thomas Batton, of the Boys' Industrial School, married a niece of his. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 169 Leroy Swormstedt was a somewhat famous preacher in this county in 1825. He was for many years manager of the Methodist Book Concern at Cin cinnati. James Laws was here as early as 1826. His oldest son was born in Lancaster. His sons were for many years and still are commission merchants of Cincinnati. Henry S. Fernandes was a preacher in this county in 1829. He was in charge of the church at Athens in 1837, when the great revival of that year brought many students into the church, among them Rev. Joseph M. Trimble. He spent his old age in Rush ville, and made a very modest living selling goods. In 1830 one of the very distinguished and elo quent preachers was Samuel Hamilton. Thomas A. Morris, afterwards bishop, preached in Lancaster one year (1820). Joseph M. Trimble, W. H. Sutherland, R. S. Foster, (now a bishop), M. Dustin, Colonel G. Moody and S. M. Merrill (now a bishop) were distinguished and eloquent Lancaster divines in their prime. Tallmadge Foster, son of the bishop, is an attorney of Cincinnati. Rev. Joseph Carper was once a distinguished preacher of this region. He was a man of intellect, fine presence and a splendid speaker. He died thirty or more years since in Perry County, Ohio. His son. Homer Carper, was for many years a distinguished lawyer of Delaware, Ohio. Homer once met a gen tleman of Athens, who told him that if he would go to Athens he could spend a month or two in that county and stop every night with a friend and admirer of his father. Rev. Joseph Carper officiated at the wed ding of the writer, 45 years ago. 170 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People David Young was another good man, who preached as early as 1826. His home was in Zanes ville. He married the widow of John Mclntire, foun der of Zanesville, and son-in-law of Ebenezer Zane, founder of Lancaster, Ohio. Moses A. Milligen was a preacher here as late as 1841. His brother, Lamsden P. MiHigen of Indi ana, was a Knight of the Golden Circle, tried and convicted of treason, and sent to the Ohio peniten tiary. The kind heart of Lincoln consented to his liberation. The writer met him in Huntington, Indi ana, a few years since. He referred to Ohio and his early life there and spoke of his brother. Rev. Milligen. The famous Peter Cartwright preached at the early camp meetings in this county. He was a " rough diamond," but possessed many good qualities as a pioneer preacher. He moved late in life to Illinois and settled near Springfield. His name is immortal, for it will be forever associated with Abraham Lin coln. In 1847 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, and Abraham Lincoln was his opponent and defeated him. His aged widow met with a singular death. She was attending a quarterly meeting. During the gen eral class, she arose and gave her testimony in a clear but impassioned style, and after she had brought the people to a high state of excitement by her eloquence and zeal, she closed by saying, " I am waiting for the chariot," and immediately sank into her seat a corpse. The preacher in charge arose and immediately ex claimed, " The chariot has come." Hay tells this in his life of Lincoln, and it is corroborated by a min ister still living, who was present at the time. EARLY SPORTS J- AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE PIONEERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY. nOTWITHSTANDING the many and trying pri vations of the pioneers, they were not destitute of amusements — not the cultured lecture or refined opera, but healthful and satisfying. It is doubtful if there is any community a happier people than were the first settlers of this country. Men's amusements were rude and mostly in the open air. Neighbors were brought closer together, communities mingled and there was a hearty inter change of hospitality. Hunting with the rifle was indulged in by all classes, both to obtain game for food and for amuse ment. There were many famous hunters and a poor shot was the exception. Thomas Cherry killed fifty deer in one winter, one bear and other game. William Murphey, in his early years, killed 63 wolves and a panther. He also killed with his rifle, or his dogs, raccoons, foxes and wild cats to the num ber of 600. For many years he was a dealer in pel tries. Another method of amusement, common to every neighborhood, was the shooting match, or target shooting. A prize or prizes were offered for the best shot, or one set of half a dozen or more would shoot against the same number for the prize, which was a deer, steer, or more frequently turkeys. The contest (171) 172 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People would last, sometimes, an entire day, and always half a day. Christmas was always a favorite day for a shooting match, and sometimes on election day. The contest was one of great interest for the best off-hand shots and all the neighborhood would be on hand. This amusement continued up to within the memory of men now living. The expert squirrel hunters loved the match. The amusement which laid in the shade all other forms was the fox hunt. The hunters, mounted on trained horses, following a pack of fifteen or twenty hounds, in full cry, over hill and dale, re gardless of fences or other obstructions, the fox oc casionally in sight, the hounds always, and their music reverberating from hill to hill. Abraham Applegate and Major Cox used to say that the most glorious music in the world was made by a pack of fox hounds, of a frosty morning in October, in full cry. Apple- gate was so much of an enthusiast upon, this subject that he was anxious to visit England for the sole pur pose of seeing and hearing a pack of thoroughly trained hounds in an open country, in full cry. He knew the voices of his dogs, and could tell whether old Bet or Spot was in the lead. Two of the most noted fox hunters of the early period were William Murphey, then of Walnut township, and Samiiel Gray- till of Greenfield. Both were grand old hunters and grand old men. Both could set a horse when 80 years of age with the best of them, and remain in the saddle to the end of the chase. Mr. William Murphey kept a kennel of hounds as late as to be within the memory of the writer. They were somewhat trouble some and expensive. Their principal food was mush. Trouble and expense was not counted by such sports men as William Murphey. Of later years Major Cox, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 173- Abraham V. Applegate and Dr. A. Davidson were noted fox hunters and often followed the hounds. A pack of hounds, in full cry, would stir the blood of Dr. Davidson. — George Fetters is about the only lover of this fine sport left. He keeps a hound or two to remind him of the days that are gone. The writer remembers what was called a circle hunt in the year 1848 in Pleasant township. The lines of men were about four miles square, all in command of Colonel Thomas Duncan. At the sound of his horn the lines moved to the center and met near C. Rugh's. Three foxes were gathered in, one of which got away. It was a jolly day, enjoyed by hundreds of excited people. Labor was turned into amusement. Log roll ings, house and barn raisings and corn huskings, even the wheat harvest ; all contributed to the general fund of amusement. Strong men tested the strength of each other and sometimes their tempers. Wheat was cut with the sickle or hook, as the cra dle and machinery were then unknown. A gang of men, 10 or 15, went into the field with their hooks, cut through a land about three feet wide and bound the sheaves on the way back. Fifteen men would cut about what is now done with a binder in one day. The owner of the field generally tried to get the best reaper to lead the field, as it was called, and sometimes he was paid extra. But woe to the leader if it were found out — his hide would be the forfeit, as they called it. Taking his hide meant laying him in the shade. Isaac Wilson, late of Greenfield, but in early life, of Richland township, was a great leader, one of the best men with a sickle in those days. He was best in 174 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People many things. He was a mighty man, and he who insulted him did it at his peril. Horse racing in the early days was very popular, though it was not introduced to any extent until thor oughbred and blooded horses came to the state. Each neighborhood had scrub horses to run from loo to 300 yards. As early as the thirties, Chaney Rickets of Pickerington, then Jacksonville, owned some good horses and that point was somewhat famed for this amusement. About 1838, Benjamin Yontz came out to this county from Maryland and brought with him some well bred horses. Cupbearer and others. He had a fine race track built just south of New Salem and kept it up for some years. The pioneers were a hardy race and it is safe to conclude that the outdoor work and outdoor sports had much to do with it. The people of Europe, especially of the continent, have plenty of outdoor amusements, and this may be one reason for their content and apparent happiness under conditions to which Americans would not sub mit. The writer is old enough to remember one old- fashioned fox hunt and confesses to a weakness for the music and excitement of the chase. A fox at full speed in the distance, his long brush in line with his back and nose, fifteen or twenty hounds, many of them handsome, stretched .out for two hundred yards, running at full speed, their noses to the ground, all in full cry, but each with a different note. Many men well mounted, their horses going at full speed, and the best trained clearing fences, jumping ditches, the voices of the riders, shouting and calling out names Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 175 of favorite dogs. I hear old Spot, she's in the lead now, old Bet leads the pack and so on, for they all know their dogs. Sometimes the riders were left far behind, but the music and the cry of the leader could be heard afar off. Who would not have enjoyed such a scene with old BHly Murphy as leader ? And his smile of triumph when, in at the death, he found that his favorite dog had captured the prize. Major Cox used to say that the man who did not love the music of the hounds had no music in his soul. REMINISCENCES OF SEVERAL FAMILIES PROMINENT IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY. " Old friends are the best friends. " " Sing me a song of the earlj- days. " — Riley. CHE early settlers of Fairfield County, then in cluding Perry and Licking Counties, were a hardy race of men and women. People of large frame, strong and active. Brainy men, and intelli gent for their opportunities, and usually possessing rare good common sense. In brief sketches it will not be possible to even name all worthy to be remembered ; we can only select a representative type here and there of the long list of worthy men. The great majority of the people of this county are better educated than the people of 60 years ago, and have read more books and light liter ature, but in strength of character and strong intellect, they are not superior, if, indeed, equal. The men of the early days read the Bible, Milton's Paradise Lost, Homer's Illiad, and a few other books of like charac ter, and they read them well — they thoroughly di gested their contents. A few such books are worth more than a whole library of the present day fiction. Rev. Foster was the first Lutheran preacher to preach in Lancaster. He lived in Thorn township, now in Perry County. He settled there at a very early day with his six stalwart sons and gave each a farm. His son Andrew married a sister of the late Thomas Anderson, of Pleasant township. His son Samuel (176) Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 177 married a daughter of Jacob GraybiU, and lived all of his life near Lancaster. He was a well known char acter to all old citizens. He was the father of the late Col. Sam Foster, of Columbus, and Geo. W. Fos ter, of Cincinnati ; also of the late Mrs. Alvah Perry. Rev. Geo. DeBolt was the first Baptist preacher to preach in Lancaster. He settled in Walnut township prior to 1806, being one of the first settlers. He was a "hard shell" preacher of the most pronounced type. A good speaker and an intelligent man. But he could not deliver a discourse without severely berating other denominations. Sixty years ago, yes, 50 years, a weed known as dogfennel was the curse of the country. Every lane and byway and the public road was full of it, and every common white with its bloom in the season. During a revival season at the Methodist church in New Salem DeBolt preached to his congre gation at Union Chapel. He called their attention to the revival services and warned them that if not more faithful and active in their religious life the Methodists and dogfennel would take the country. He raised a large family, all of whom filled a re spectable and useful position in life. One of his sons, Reason DeBolt, studied law, married a daughter of the late Wm. McCleery, of Greenfield township, and moved to Trenton, Missouri. He rose to some emi nence. He was a captain in the civil war, and with Gen. Prentiss, was captured at Shiloh and taken to Libby prison. Returning to Missouri, he was elected a member of congress from that state. Reason was one of the first schoolmates of the writer. Edward Teal was one of the early settlers of this county, and in many ways was a remarkable man. 12 178 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People He came from Maryland, and first settled on Pleasant Run, near where Amos Webb now lives. Ir his cabin, or near it, at this place, the first class of Methodists in this county was formed. Teal afterwards moved to what has since been known as the Ashbrook farm, now owned by the heirs of H. G. Miller. On this farm he and his family are buried. Bishop Asbury visited Teal in 1803, and re cords in his journal that Teal owned 1200 acres of as good land as could be found in the country. A daughter of Mr. Teal married Rev. James Quinn, the first man to preach in this county, in the year 1799. The Teals were at one time very prominent people, but death has claimed most of them. Perry Teal, a grandson, and Mrs. Townsend Reed, a granddaugh ter, are about the only ones left of the old stock. Of the many distinguished men who honored Greenfield township by their residence there, one of the most striking figures was Walter McFarland. He came to the township as early as 1798, and en tered at once upon a long, industrious and honorable life. Walter McFarland was over six feet in height, well formed and well proportioned. He was a man of great strength and activity, and renowned for his herculean feats. No man could match him at the end of a hand-spike. No man could carry a timber of the weight he could lift and walk off with, with ease. For sixty years he was one of the prominent men of his neighborhood and of the county. His fine presence attracted the attention of strangers and commanded their respect. His son John, now an old man, is a resident of Lancaster. One of his daughters married David Keller, now a prominent banker of Shelby Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 179 County, Illinois, and one married Capt. A. R. Keller, late of this city. One daughter married the late Capt. Rigby. JOHN LEITH There are but few of this generation who ever heard of John Leith. He was a farmer, and hved two miles from Pleasantville, in Walnut township. His father emigrated from Leith, Scotland, to South Caro lina. His mother was a native of Virginia. John was born on the Peedee river, March 15, 1755, and was left an orphan at five years. His uncle took charge of him and soon apprenticed him to a tailor, who took him to Charleston to live. In three or four years he ran off and made his way to York, Pennsylvania, where he engaged himself to a farmer, with whom he re mained four years. He then made his way to Fort DuQuesne, afterwards Fort Pitt, now Pittsburg. Here he engaged himself to an Indian trader, and they took a stock of goods to an Indian village on the Hock- Hocking, then called the "Standing Stone." We find upon examination of some authorities that this was about the year 1772 or 1773. His employer left him here at the age of 17 years in charge of the store and went to Fort Duquesne for more goods. The Indians confiscated the goods and carried Leith off a prisoner. He remained in captivity 16 years and had a varied experience. A part of this time he clerked for British Indian agents in various locahties — for three or four years at Upper Sandusky. At the time he lived near Mt. Pleasant there was a white woman with the In dians, but he did not give her name. This is the first white woman known to have lived on the spot where Lancaster stands. In 1779, while still a prisoner, he was married to Sallie Lowry, also a prisoner. This 180 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People took place at Coshocton. He was 24 and she was 18 years of age. His wife had been a prisoner since a mere child. They lived two years in Gnadenhutten. Two children, boys, were born to them. Samuel was born in 1780, and died in Fairfield Cx>unty in 1820. He was the second white child born in the Tuscarawas valley. In 1786 he, with his wife and two children, escaped from the Indians, leaving near Sandusky, with a supply of parched corn, and made their way on foot through the wilderness, in winter time, a distance of 200 miles to Fort Pitt, where they arrived in safety, having subsisted on the parched corn. He lived for a few years in Pennsylvania, for a time in Robbstown, and was for a time a partner of David Duncan, a trader. During these years he became religious. In the year 1795 he built a boat and loaded his goods and family, and floated down the Ohio to Marietta. Here they tried to push his boat up the Muskingum, but met with an accident, and boat and goods were lost. For several years after this accident he had a sad and varied experience. His wife died and left him alone. In a year or two he married a Mrs. McKee, and with her moved to Guernsey County, and from there to Fair field. This was about the year 1816. He died in the year 1832. His first wife was a sister of Jane Lowry, who was also a prisoner among the Indians, and be came the wife of John McNaghten, a pioneer of Wal nut township. His son, George W. Leith, lived for many years near Nevada, Wyandotte County, Ohio, and if we mistake not, was associate judge of the Com mon Pleas court. Leith was a very enthusiastic mem ber of the Methodist church, and related a wonderful conversion and experience in a pamphlet written for Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 181 him by Ewel Jeffries and printed by the Lancaster Gazette, in 1831. Rev. Samuel Hitt brought him into the church. REV. DAVID JONES Among the noted visitors to the spot where Lan caster now stands, the name of Mr. Jones cannot be omitted. Rev. David Jones lived at Freehold, New Jersey, and so far as known, was the first preacher to visit the territory of Ohio. He was a Welsh Baptist. In 1772, he, with Gen. Geo. Rogers Clarke and several other adventurers, left Fort Pitt for the lower Ohio, Louisville being the destination of General Clarke. On this trip Jones preached to Indians and scattered settlers wherever he found them. Rev. Jones made the return trip in 1773, overland. We give a passage from his journal : " February 9, 1773, came safe to Mr. McCormick's, at Standing Stone. This town consists chiefly of Delaware Indians, and is located on the Hock-Hocking creek. Though it is not wide, yet it admits large canoes and peltry is thus transmitted to Fort Pitt. Overtook here Mr. David Duncan, a trader from Shippenstown, on his way to Fort Pitt." Here was a trading post kept by a white man, a stopping place for others, and a wandering missionary 27 years before Lancaster was thought of, and corroborative of Leith's story as to a trading post. It is highly prob able that Leith was there and that Jones saw him. During the war of the revolution Rev. David Jones was a chaplain attached to the command of General Anthony Wayne, of the Pennsylvania line. He was a very eloquent man and did much to cheer up the soldiers and maintain discipline at Valley Forge. He told the disheartened soldiers "that a shad would as 182 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People soon be seen hacking up a tree as a revolutionary soldier turning his back on the enemy or going to heH." Robert McClellend, the famous Indian scout, of General Wayne's army, visited Mt. Pleasant, or Stand ing Stone, a few years after the visit of Jones, but as a spy, and accidentally finding a white girl, heroicaHy fought off the Indians for a day and night and rescued her from a horrible fate. He became a resident of Lancaster in 1800, and kept one of the first taverns. His daughter married Thos. Hart. They reared a large family. J. B. Hart, Judge Samuel Hart, Mrs. Borland and Mrs. Stambaugh were children. McClelland spent his old age on a farm in Perry County. He was born in western Pennsylvania. He has many relatives there and in Pittsburg ; also near SteubenviHe, Ohio. His uncle Robert was a pioneer of Jefferson County. His family was a large and prom inent one. They were Scotch-Irish. McNAGHTEN The McNaghten family was for near 90 years quite prominent in Walnut township. The ancestor of this family was Thomas McNaghten, a Scotchman, who came to America prior to the revolutionary war. Like thousands of other good Scotchmen, he settled in Penn sylvania. One writer, Fiske, states that more than 500,000 Scotch-Irish came to the United States and set tled in the interior and western part of Pennsylvania and the valleys of Virginia and North Carolina. Another writer. Hunter, avers, and gives ample authority and names of public men, that they were the prominent Indian fighters who defended the frontier for 40 years against the Indians. And that they were the prominent leading men who settled in Kentucky Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 183 and Ohio and left the impress of their genius and enter prise upon the institutions and laws of those states. The Scctch-L'ish were undoubtedly a great people and a great factor in western civilization. More prominent and useful men of that race adorn the pages of Ohio history than of any other. Whoever, therefore, has a trace of Scotch-Irish blood in his veins, has reasons to be proud of a noble ancestry. John, the son of Thomas McNaghten, married Jane Lowry, a sister of Sallie Lowry, who was the wife of John Leith, referred to above. Like her sister, she had been a prisoner among the Indians, and after her escape or redemption, married John McNaghten in Western Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio. This was prior to 1806, but we cannot give the year. He was a taxpayer here in 1806. He settled two miles northeast of Pleasantville in what has been known a century as the Elm flats. Here he purchased land enough to give each of his children a farm — the sons, John, Thomas, James, Neal, Alexander, 160 acres each ; and the daughters, Mary, Jane and Elizabeth, 80 acres each — a 50 per cent, discrimination unworthy of his Scotch blood. In a few years the sons and daughters, except Thomas, sold their lands and left the country ; Neal going to Wheeling, and the others to the west. Neal became quite a prominent citizen of Wheeling — was respected and esteemed for many good qualities of head and heart. He was a gentleman of elegant man ners and fine presence, a man who attracted attention on all occasions. Thomas McNaghten was the repre sentative man of this family, and lived a long and hon orable life in this county. He was always the noted and prominent man in his township, and distinguished for his integrity and other good qualities. During all 184 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of his life he was a leading member of the old school Baptist church. Every third Sunday found him in his seat in the northeast corner of the church at Pleasant Run, surrounded by the fine heads of Jonas Friend, Col. Ruffner, Christian Baker, Jonathan Peters, Tunis Ashbrook, John Ashbrook and Jacob Kagy. As goodly a company as any man ever worshipped with. His first wife was Rebecca Young. Their children were Jane, Mary, Araba, David, Noah, Owen, John S. Children by his second and third wives were Hiram, Cyntha, Rebecca, Harrison, Thomas J., James M. and Tunis. David married Amelia Ashbrook and they spent their lives on a farm near their old home. One of their favorite sons was killed in the charge upon Fort Wag ner and was heard of no more. Noah McNaghten was for 30 years a very promi nent farmer of Richland township. His wife was a daughter of Tunis Ashbrook. No better citizen lived in his time than Noah McNaghten. He has been dead a number of years. His widow lives with a daughter near Boston, Massachusetts. Owen McNaghten mar ried a daughter of Christian Baker and became an ex cellent and prosperous farmer of Walnut township. He reared a good famHy of children. He has been dead a number of years. Tunis McNaghten lives in Frank lin county, Ohio. He is a prosperous farmer. Both he and his brother Thomas were valiant soldiers in the Union army. Thomas J. McNaghten is the present postmaster of Pleasantville. He married the youngest daughter of Tunis Ashbrook. Thomas J. is an exem plary citizen and follows in the footsteps of his Bap tist father, he being one of the leading members of the Pleasant Run church. Of FairfiMd County, Ohio. 186 The descendants of John McNaghten are very num erous in Ohio, Indiana, IHinois and Iowa; also Penn sylvania and West Virginia, and an honor to the sturdy race from which they sprang. We have traced but one family, as that is the only one in a marked manner identified with Fairfield County. We would be glad to give more information in regard to this branch, but it is difficult to obtain re liable and full information. We fear that many people will, when too late, wake up to the fact that their family history is lost. The writer is trying to preserve what is yet obtainable, and to stimulate others to do likewise. THE WELL-KNOWN PETERS FAMILY It is not known in what year the ancestor of the Peters family came to America, or from what country. He settled in Philadelphia as a married man and two sons were born, Jacob and Henry. Henry was twice married but was not blessed with children. Jacob was born in Philadelphia and married there. He moved to Baltimore where he reared his family of three sons and one daughter. We cannot give name of daughter, but can only state that she mar ried a man named Burns. The sons were John, Jacob and Samuel. Samuel, the ancestor of the famHy, the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia Sep tember 27, 1772. He died at his home in Amanda township, Fairfield County, O., September 10, 1829. His wife was Mary Stevenson, daughter of Daniel Stevenson, of Baltimore county, Md. She was born September 28, 1773, and died in Fairfield County Feb ruary 15, 1861, aged 87 years. Their oldest son, Henry Peters, was born October i, 1796. They came to Ohio 186 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People April, 1812, and lived for five years on what is now the Frank Stevenson farm. Daniel Stevenson was born September 21, 1737, and died September 3, 1829. Ruth, his wife, was born January 24, 1743, and died January 12, 1834. They were the parents of ten children. They came to Ohio several years earlier than Peters and his wife. The wife of Samuel Peters was a model woman and mother. She was a daughter of Daniel Stevenson, one of the early pioneers of Richland township, and on whose land the first Methodist church in the county was erected. The eld homestead now belongs to Edward Stevenson, a grandson of the pioneer. There were several brothers and sisters of the Stevenson family, Daniel, Jesse, Mordecai, Edward, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hampson are those remembered; most of them were born in Maryland and came to Ohio with their father as early as 1803. James Hampson, during life a very prominent farmer of Pleasant township, was a grandson of Daniel Stevenson. Frank Stevenson, son of Mordecai, occupies the old homestead, one of the best farms in Fairfield County. Mrs. John Greer is a granddaughter of Daniel Stevenson. The children married and settled upon farms in the neighbor hood, where most of the old stock lived and died. Daniel Stevenson, the pioneer and father of this large family, was a very prominent man of the early days and much respected for his sterling character. He was a Methodist and gave the ground for the first church in the county. He entertained Bishop Asbury on one or two of his visits to this county, and it was on his land where Asbury conducted the first camp meeting held in the county. The church referred to was built of hewn logs. A few of our readers will Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 187 remember the big broad axes used to do this work, and with what skill a few of the pioneer workmen could use them, and with what skill the corner men could notch the logs perfectly, and carry up their corner, a perilous job, but performed by hundreds of men. We have digressed and now return to the his tory, briefly, of the Peters family. Mr. Peters and wife came in the year 1812 to Fair field County and settled two miles north of West Rush ville, on Rushcreek, at the mouth of Snake run. Here they remained for about the space of five years, when they purchased land south of Royalton, (now owned by Benjamin Haas) and opened up a farm and endured the hardships incident to pioneer life. Here they spent their lives, living the quiet life of farmers and rearing a large family of children. Mr. Peters was a man of sterling character and possessed good business qualifi cations. He was prominent and beloved in his neigh borhood, and exerted an influence in the community far above the average. His success in rearing a large family to honorable ana useful lives, is evidence of many good qualities and ability as a parent — the good wife and mother comes in here for a large share of credit. His sons were Henry, Nathan, Robinson J., Ebenezer, Wesley, Gideon, Stevenson, Lewis and Andrew, most of whom lived to old age and all excep tionally fine business men. Nine brothers, possessing better business ability, or more successful in business will be hard to find among the pioneers, or at any other period. They were stalwart men, most of them of commanding presence. Take this family, the Steven son family, the Beery family — ¦ where can you find such large families of stalwart, robust long-lived men? 188 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Where can we find such men, even in small families? Are we degenerating? Henry Peters at an early day moved to Marion County and when the Wyandotte Indians sold out he moved to Wyandot County. He was a good man, a sagacious man. He prospered and made good invest ments. He died a few years ago in Upper Sandusky, and left to his heirs quite an estate. Upon the death of his brother Gideon in 1844 he took charge of his children and reared them as a father, and at his death they were well remembered. Nathan Peters moved to Marion County at an early date. He engaged in farm ing for a number of years and was successful. His old age was spent in Marion where he owned a fine home. His son Harvey was for many years a leading druggist of Marion. Ebenezer Peters moved at an early day to Marion County where he was a prosperous farmer and stock dealer. Like all of his brothers he was a good business man and respected and honored by his neighbors. He died some years since at an advanced age. In middle age he resided in Marion where he took an active part in politics and assisted in electing our fellow citizen Samuel A. Griswold county auditor. His son Irwin Peters is stHl living. The Peters name is one that is honored in Marion and Upper Sandusky. Stevenson and Lewis became farmers and located in Pickaway County, near Nebraska P. O. Like their brothers they were successful in business, accumulated property and lived in good style. They were among the prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that vicinity. Lewis Peters was an unusu ally intelligent man, of good social qualities and a man Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 189 of influence and very highly esteemed. One of his sons married a daughter of Rev. John W. White, once well known in Lancaster, and resides in Upper San dusky. Both gentlernen are dead. A son of Steven son, a man of some parts, occupies the old home. The second wife of Lewis Peters was a daughter of Wm. Coulson, a distinguished pioneer merchant of Rushville. A son of Lewis Peters, Hon. S. R. Peters, of New ton, Kan., is an old Pickaway County boy, born in Wal nut township in 1842. He is a graduate of Delaware University, and served through the war as a member of the Seventy-third regiment, O. V. I., coming out of the service as captain. He went to Kansas following the war, and in a little over a year after settling in that state his political career began. He was a member of the State Senate, judge of the Ninth Judicial District, a very trying region to hold court. He was three times elected to the difficult position without opposition. In 1883 he was elected at large to the Forty-eighth Con gress. In 1890 he declined further congressional hon ors, preferring to practice his profession. Judge Peters is now postmaster at Newton and editor of the Kansas Republican, published in that city. He also practices law. Judge Peters' wife was Amelia C. Doan, daugh ter of Rev. John Doan, and they were married in Cir cleville in April, 1867. Mrs. Peters was a universal favorite in Washington society during their residence in that city. Dr. W. L. Peters lives in Circleville. Gideon Peters learned the trade of a tanner and for some years conducted the business at the foot of Main street. He was a prominent member of the Meth odist church in the forties. He died in the prime of life in 1844. He married a Stevenson. 190 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Wesley Peters lived most of his life in Hocking township. He was a quiet citizen and unassuming in his manners. A man to be liked and trusted upon first acquaintance. In the late years of his life he lived on " Hallelujah Heights " near town. His wife was an Ingman. For a year or two he was president of the Fairfield County Bank. He died at an advanced age. His son John W. Peters is a very prominent Methodist preacher of the Cincinnati Conference. Henry Will Peters, Samuel Peters, Silas and James were his sons. Sallie, his youngest daughter, resides in Champaign, 111. Mrs. Thomas Strode and Mrs. George Hoffman reside near Lancaster. Mrs. Euens in the West; Dr. Wesley Peters, of this city, is a grandson, as is Mr. George Peters, of Hocking township. A daughter of Silas Peters is the wife of George Lamb, of Hooker. Robinson J. Peters was one of the prosperous farm ers of this county. He married a Galligher of Amanda township and for some years was a farmer in that township. About middle age he came to Hocking township, and was botti a farmer and capitalist. He was a money maker from the start and pursued his business with unflagging courage and industry. He was a shrewd business man and seldom made a mis take in his investments or business ventures. He was a judge of good land and owned fine and productive farms. He died at a great age having passed, by two or three, his eightieth year. Zebulon, his oldest son, passed three score and ten, inherited good business qualities, industry and integrity. He has reared and educated an interesting family. His oldest son Henry is the Vice President of the Fairfield County Bank. Frank is a farmer of Greenfield township. A daughter Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 191 married George Cunningham. Zebulon's wife was the daughter of Mr. Jacob Beck. His son Will is a part ner in the firm of N. R. Butler & Co. Newton Peters, another son and now a gray-headed man, married a daughter of David Eversole. Thev have reared quite a large family of children. Two of the sons, Robinson and Charles are promising young farmers of Hocking township. A daughter married James Claypool. One of R. J. Peters' daughters married Thos. Cochran and another Thos. Whfley. Andrew Peters married a daughter of Valentine Reber, a sister of one of the best of Fairfield County's men, Henry Reber. Andrew Peters was a good and successful farmer and cattle man. He made money and at one time owned i,6oo acres of very fine land. He was prominent in Fairfield County, and was elected County Commissioner in 1854. He lived beyond four score years. His son Milton is one of the large farmers of this county, owns a fine home and lives in elegant style. Frank lives upon a 300 acre farm in Pickaway County and John in the same county on a like farm. The only daughter married George Creed and lived and died upon a farm near her old home in Amanda township. Her son, Frank Creed, is a promising young man. A daughter of Sam'l Peters married Wm. Brum field, one of the first brewers of Lancaster. They lived for many years upon their farm near town. Broad Cole married one of the daughters. He was a well known farmer forty years ago and resided .it the big spring, where Felix Swope now lives. The Coles were early settlers and at the house of the pio neer. Bishop Asbury preached in 1803 the first sermon heard in the township. 192 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Thos. Cole, son of Broad, is an old school Baptist preacher and a very worthy man. One of the daughters married Daniel Walters and they spent their lives upon a farm in Amanda township. Judge Festus Walters of the Common Pleas Court of Circleville, is their son. He has attained quite a prom inent position at the bar. The venerable Elizabeth Williamson, widow of Isaac N. Williamson, is a daughter of Samuel Peters and the only one now living of this large family of sons and daughters. She has lived beyond four score years and may be often met in town in fair weather. This is a brief sketch of a, very remarkable family and in all respects a very worthy one. Prominent, influential and highly esteemed wherever known. THE ASHBAUGH FAMILY The Ashbaugh family of Rushcreek left Hunting ton County, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1799, for the Ohio country, and arrived safely at the cabin of Col. Samuel Carpenter, December 31, 1799, where they remained over night. That night a child was born to one of the families and was named David Ashbaugh. The parents were John Jr. and Catharine Miller, his wife. The family that left Pennsylvania consisted of John Ashbaugh, sr., and wife, and their sons, Jacob, Joseph, Frederick and Andrew and his two daughters, Mary and Patsy, and John Ashbaugh, jr., and wife. They came in company with Joseph Miller, wife and daughters Elizabeth and Rachel. Rachel Miller, in about twelve months became the wife of Edward Young and reared a large family of children. She was the mother of the late Mrs. Jacob Moyer. The party floated down the Ohio from Pitts- Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 193 burgh on flatboats, or family boats, landing at the mouth of the Hockhocking. The men came up the valley on foot and on horseback, and the women, with the goods, in canoes, to the mouth of Rushcreek. Here the goods were placed upon pack horses and the party made their way to Col. Carpenter's cabin on foot. From Carpenter's they traveled through the woods to a spot since known as the Neely farm and now as the Weaver place, near Bremen. Here a small plat of ground had been cleared the previous spring by Joseph Miller, John and Joseph Ashbaugh. Elizabeth, a daughter of John Ashbaugh, sr., was left in Pennsylvania. She had previously married a Mr. Saxton of Huntington, and there she lived with her family until her death in 1822. Mr. Saxton was a mechanic. He manufactured nails by hand, a slow process, but then the only method. Four sons were born to them, viz : John, Joshua, Joseph and William. John Saxton learned the trade of a printer and came west at an early day and commenced the publication of a weekly paper called the Repository, at Canton, Ohio. John Sax ton was a man of ability and of high character and was, all of his useful life, a distinguished citizen of Canton, Ohio. He was the father of James Saxton, the banker, and the grandfather of Mrs. President McKinley. We gather from this that Mrs. McKinley is a third cousin of the late John Ashbaugh. EHzabeth Ashbaugh, Mrs. McKinley's great grandmother, was the aunt .of John Ashbaugh, of Lancaster, Ohio. Joshua Saxton learned the printer's trade and made his way to Canton, Ohio, when a young man and assisted his brother in the publication of his paper. 13 194 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People In 1838 he moved to Urbana and established a weekly paper called the Citizen. He was always a promi nent and useful citizen of Urbana, and like his brother John achieved much more than a local reputation. Many years ago the writer had the pleasure of meeting both brothers in their respective editorial rooms in Urbana and Canton. Joseph and William Saxton, sons also of Elizabeth Saxton, settled at an early day in Washington City. Joseph was a fine scholar and a very brilliant me chanical genius. He was a silversmith by trade. Prof. Bache pronounced him the greatest mechanical genius the world ever saw. He was a member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia and of the Royal Society of London, England. He made the city clock of Philadelphia, still to be seen and heard at Independence Hall. He spent nine years in Paris and London and while there invented the first mag netic machine capable of producing a spark. He exhibited his machine in the presence of thousands of people in London and was honored by the presence of forty scientists. He was received with great honor while abroad. He invented and made the machinery of the United States mint at Philadelphia. He in vented the electric clock in the department of weights and measures in Washington, D. C. John Ashbaugh once visited this cousin and was very cordially received. Joseph and Jacob, sons of John Ashbaugh, sr., moved at an early day to Kentucky and the family lost all trace of them and their descendants. Patsy, the daughter of John Ashbaugh, sr., mar ried Mr. A. Ray and died young. Mary, a daughter of John, sr., married Samuel Ray. They were the parents of two daughters, one Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 195 of whom became the wife of Wright Larimer, and the other the wife of Isaac Larimer. Catharine, a daughter of John, sr., married Asa Johnson. They were the parents of the late Edward Johnson, of Rush Creek. Andrew Ashbaugh married Esther Ray, of Hunt ington county, Pennsylvania, and after coming to Rushcreek settled east of Bremen on the farm now owned by A. Grafts. Their children were John, Wil liam, Abraham, Samuel, James and Robert, Catharine, Jane, Margaret and Elizabeth, who married George Orndorff. Their daughter, Margaret, married Wil liam Rowles, who now lives with a second wife near Pleasantville, Ohio. Andrew, at an early day, sold his farm to his brother Frederick and moved to Perry county, where he reared his large family. John, the oldest son, was born October 24, 1808. He worked on the farm until 21 years of age. He worked for William B. Lewis, of Rushville and learned the carpenter trade. While in RushviHe he witnessed the great fight between Isaac Wilson and a man named Maxwell, who came from the east on pur pose to whip Wilson. A large crowd of people formed a circle and the combatants fought to a finish. Max well was at the close of the fight put to bed and was under the care of a doctor for several weeks. John Ashbaugh was for some time a partner of Jacob Moyer in the building business. In 1839 he married Mary Beery, daughter of George Beery, and engaged in the mercantile bus iness in Bremen, and so continued until the year 1854. He traded in horses, tobacco and packed pork. 196 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People In 1854 he sold out to Simon and Thomas E. Beery. He then purchased the Lieb farm north of Bremen. In 1870 he purchased the Albert Claypool farm, east of Lancaster, where his son George now lives. In 1874 he moved to Lancaster, where he died Novem ber 10, 1895. His children were George B., Josephine and Kate. George married Mary A. McCandlish, of Bremen ; Josephine married Dr. Rankin, of Bremen ; Miss Kate resides with her mother in Lancaster. Kate Rankin married Samuel Porter, of Mus kingum County; Viola married Jessie Rowles of Bremen ; Nellie married Victor Coen, of New Mexico ; Grace and Florence Rankin are with their parents in Bremen. WiHiam iVshbaugh, brother of John, married Julia Cohagen and lived on a farm near Rushville. His death occurred in 1892. John J., his son, married Jennie Davis, daughter of David Y. Davis, of Rushcreek. He lives on the old Davis farm and is a highly esteemed citizen of his township and a veteran of the civil war. George was accidentally killed in Indiana. Robert married Miss Franks and lives in Rushville, Ohio. James lives in Columbus, Ohio. Hiram was a farmer and died in Indiana. Mariah, daughter of William, mar ried William Work and lives near Rushville. Eliza beth married Charles Rowles, of Bremen. Jane mar ried William Stuart and now lives, a widow, in Bucyrus, Ohio. Margaret married Isaac Mast — both are now dead. Abraham Ashbaugh, brother of William and John, married a Miss Linton and moved to Tama county, Iowa, where they died. Samuel and James lived and died in Perry County. They were farmers. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 197 Robert, son of Andrew, was a carpenter. He was a soldier of the Union army and lost his health in the service. He died a few years since in Columbus, Ohio. His widow and son, George, live in Columbus. Another son lives in Wheeling, W. Va. (Hart). Catharine, daughter of Andrew Ashbaugh, mar ried Washington Adcock. They lived in Perry county, Ohio, and reared a large family. Adcock gave each of his children a farm and has several hundred acres left. Jane married John Cohagen and both are now dead. Children of this couple live, or did live, near Pickerington, Ohio. Margaret married Anderson Crooks. Fred Ashbaugh, brother of Andrew, married Mary Zinsser, of Rushcreek. Three of their children moved to new homes in the north and west. One of the daughters married George Spangler. Their daughter, Miriam, married Joseph Stukey, son of Judge Stukey, who in time moved to Jasper County, Missouri. Their son, W W. Stukey, lives in Lan caster, Ohio, also a daughter, Clara Good. Eliza married Robert Shugart of Lancaster, and died there. John Jr., brother of Andrew, married Catherine ^Miller of Pennsylvania. They settled on a farm near Jerusalem church, east of Bremen. They reared a family of ten children. Joseph married Elizabeth Musser and moved to Perry County, Ohio. David was born January i, 1800, in the cabin of Col. Samuel Carpenter, if tradition is correct, where the parents were over night before going to Rushcreek. He lived and died in Rushcreek, below Geneva. 198 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Andrew, son of John Jr., married Elizabeth, daughter of Amos Davis, a very prominent Rushcreek man. Seymour married Catherine Leckrone and moved to Effingham county. 111. Margaret married Geo. McCandish. They lived a few years on a farm and then moved to Bremen, ^vhere McCandish, for some years, was a merchant. They were the parents of Mrs. Geo. Beery Ash baugh. Elizabeth, daughter of John Jr., married Absalom McCormick of Perry County. The Ashbaughs have been prominent people in Rushcreek township for loo years. They were all .o-ood business men in their line and maintained throughout their long career an honor able record. THE BEERY FAMILY The Beery family has been for more than 130 years one of the largest and most prominent in the valley of Virginia. They were, originally, from Berks county, Pennsylvania. A branch of this family, or rather two branches, came, or began to come, to Fairfield County as early as 1800, and settled in Rushcreek township. Nicholas Beery of Rockingham County, Virginia, was the founder, or ancestor of the Fairfield family we propose to sketch in this paper. He was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, was twice married, and reared a family of sixteen chil dren. His first wife was a Miss Keller, an aunt of the late Hon. Daniel Keller, of Fairfield County. Their sons were John, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Henry, George and Nicholas. Their daughters were Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 199 Barbara, Elizabeth, Martha, Mary and Susan. The second wife of Nicholas Beery was a woman of Rock ingham whose name we cannot give. Their chHdren were Joseph and Christopher, Margaret and Fanny. All of the children, except Barbara, who married Mr. Blosser, came early to Fairfield County. John, son of Nicholas, married Margaret Shaeffer and settled just east of where Berne Station is now located. Their sons were Noah, David, Abraham and Nicholas. Noah married, for his wife. Miss Rader, who was a daughter of John Rader, of Rockingham County, Virginia, and for his second wife, a Mrs. Smith, and moved to N. W. Missouri, where he pros pered and was a respected and influential citizen. A daughter of his married Andrew J. Snider, at this time a wealthy stock dealer of Kansas City, and presi dent of the First National Bank of that city. A son, Chester A. Snider, of Mr. and Mrs. Snider, married a daughter of ex-Governor Oglesby, of Illinois. An other son, a very promising young man, died in Cali fornia. David married a Hufford and moved to Missouri. Abraham married a daughter of Frederick Friesner. He moved to Logan, Hocking County, and lived and died there. Nicholas married a sister of Frederick Sites. He moved to Missouri. John, the son of Nich olas, Jr., raarrfed a sister of Jacob Huber and moved to Auglaize county, Ohio. Delilah married John Beatty. Their son, J. H. Beatty, is United States Dis trict Judge of Idaho. Elijah Beery of Sugar Grove, was a son of Nicholas. The only daughter of John Beery, Elizabeth, mar ried John Coffman, near Carroll, the father of the late Samuel Coffman and grandfather of Benjamin. 200 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Jacob Beery married Nancy Geil, in Virginia. Upon their arrival in Fairfield, they settled on a farm on Upper Raccoon, now owned by Frank, a son of Lewis Beery. Later in life they moved to Wyandot County, Ohio, where they died. Abraham Beery married Catharine Fast and they settled on the bluff', north side of Raccoon and one mile east of Berne. Their son, Abraham, married a Miss Elizabeth Weldy and moved to Decatur, Indiana, where he still lives. Their son, Joel, married Sarah Huddle and moved to Darke county, Ohio. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Abraham Geil and they lived and died in Rushcreek. Their daughter, Cath arine, married Joseph Swartz, and lived near Mount Tabor church. They were the parents of Joel and Rev. Andrew Swartz and Mrs. Sheldon. .Sarah, daughter of Abraham, married Henry Swartz of North Berne. Later in life Mr. Swartz moved to Illinois. One of his sons married a daugh ter of Samuel Jackson. He enlisted in the Union arm.y and died in the service. Ex-Mayor Swartz, of Columbus, is their son. Rebecca, daughter of Abraham, married John Turner. Turner died leaving his widow with a fam ily of small children. Jacob B. Turner of Bremen, all of his life a reputable and influential citizen of this county, is one of the sons of this couple. A brother resides in Bremen and Peter in Lancaster, Ohio. Their son Emanuel, now deceased, was a minister in the Evangelical church. Mr. Turner's widow mar ried John Shoemaker. Mrs. Shoemaker is stiH living near Bremen, Ohio. Their son Eli is a Methodist preacher. Fanny, daughter of Abraham, married Emanuel Sites, who became one of the highly es- Of Fairfi,eld County, Ohio. 201 teemed citizens of Pleasant township. George Sites and attorney J. S. Sites, of Lancaster, are sons of Emanuel. Mrs. John E. Miller and Mrs. Frank Beery are daughters, and Drs. H. C. and E. F. Sites, ¦of Ft. Wayne, Ind., are sons. Delilah, daughter of Abraham, married a Mr. Samuel Bear and they moved to Darke County, Ohio, where Bear died. Late in life she became the wife of Emanuel Sites. Mary married George Swartz and moved to Hancock Coun ty, Ohio. Another daughter Barbara, married a Mr. Daniel Huddle. Samuel, one of their sons, is a min ister. They reared a good family. The oldest of Abram's girls married Joel Shaeffer, a long time county commissioner. Isaac Beery, son of Nicholas, came to Fairfleld County a single man. He married Mary Cradle- baugh, a daughter of the first German Reformed preacher in this county, Rev. Cradlebaugh. Her brother, Andrew Cradlebaugh, of Circleville, was the father of Col. John Cradlebaugh, an attorney of some prominence. Isaac Beery was a Dunker preacher of consider able prominence and of high character. He lived on the original section purchased by his father, south of Hartzler's mill on Raccoon. George, son of Isaac, was a dentist and lived and died in Royalton and was buried there. Andrew died a single man. Levi mar ried a Miss Short and moved to Iowa, where both died. Jesse married Rebecca Larimer, moved west and died there. Elijah Beery, son of Isaac, married, but we can not give the name of his wife. They moved to Miami County, (Jhio'. Isaac also married and moved to Miami County, Ohio. Enoch, son of Isaac Beery, Sr., married a lady of Perry County, 202 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Ohio. They moved to Miami County, Ohio, where he still lives. The horse trainer, named Beery, who- occasionally visits Lancaster, is a son of Enoch Beery. Delilah, daughter of old Isaac, married a Mr. Ward, of Miami County, where they lived and died. Catharine, daughter of Isaac, married Daniel Sites or Seitz, and they lived about one mile south of North Berne. Enoch Beery Seitz, one of the famous math ematicians of the world, was their son, and was born on the farm in Berne. He was a brilliant scholar when a boy and always in advance of his teacher. The mother of Prof. Sites is still living in Green ville, aged 92 years. Noah Sites or Seitz was killed in the Civil AVar. Elizabeth Beery, daughter of old Isaac, married James Stuart, of Rush Creek. Charles Stuart, of this city, is their son. Maria Beery married a Mr. Fristo and moved to- Miami County, Ohio. Priscilla married a man named Hillis and they moved to Missouri, where they died. Henry Beery, son of Nicholas, settled near Sugar Grove. We can not give the name of his wife. His son-in-law and Henry, his son, live near Sugar Grove. Elijah was a prominent citizen of that vicinity for sixty years. George Beery, son of Nicholas Beery, Sr., was born in 1783. He married Catharine Cradlebaugh in 1809, a sister of his brother Isaac's wife. They were prom inent and influential people and they reared a large and interesting family. George Beery was a well- known man — a farmer and merchant by turns. He was the original proprietor of the village of Bremen and the first merchant there. He died on his farm six Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 203^ miles east of Lancaster, in 1856. He was the best known of his numerous brothers and numbered among his friends many prominent men of Lancaster. He came to Fairfield County in 1800. The numerous sons of George Beery were all good business men and they made a success of life. Samuel married Catharine Hull and was a farmer all of his. life. He built the fine brick residence just east of Lancaster. He died in the prime of old age. His. widow married Samuel Black. John married Mary Black and lived and died upon his farm near Bremen. Joseph died while yet a young man. Isaac was for a few years a merchant in Bremen, but moved to Upper Sandusky, where he married a daughter of Dr. Fow ler, a wealthy farmer near Little Sandusky. He was, in connection with his brother Anthony, a prosperous merchant in his new home. Anthony married a Miss Sherman. George studied law and settled in Upper Sandusky. He married Ann McDonald, of Lancas ter. In the last few years of his life he was president of the First National Bank of Upper Sandusky. Simon was for several years a prominent and suc cessful business man of Bremen. He married Mel- vina Grove, and late in life moved to Urbana, Ohio. He owned a fine farm on Mad River. Noah died young. Solomon was a farmer of this county and is now a prosperous one near Upper Sandusky. He married Louisa Hammack, of this city. Thomas Ewing Beery married a college mate, a Miss Witt, of Indiana. He married the second time a Miss Os borne. He has been for many years a successful busi ness man and a highly esteemed and influential citizen of Wyandot County, Ohio. Christena, daughter of George Beery, married Charles Stuart and lived near- -204 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Bremen. Mary married John Ashbaugh and lived many years near to and in Bremen. She is a well pre served woman, on the shady side of eighty, and after a long and useful life she enjoys the peace and com fort that comes to those who fairly earn it. Barbara, the oldest daughter of old Nicholas Beery, married a Mr. Blosser and lived and died in Virginia. Elizabeth married Rev. Jacob Geil and settled on lower Rush Creek. He was a Mennonite. Martha married a Comer and lived on what is now the George Clover farm. They were the parents of Isaac Comer, an old-time tailor of Lancaster, Ohio. Mary, daughter of Nicholas, married Rev. Henry Stemen. They came to Rush Creek, southeast of what is now Bremen, where they reared a large fam ily. Rev. Stemen was an earnest, zealous Mennonite preacher, and always spoke in the German language. The Beerys were of Pennsylvania German descent and all understood the language. Susan married Abra ham Beery, a distant relative of her father. They settled in lower Ruch Creek. Joseph and Christopher, sons by the second mar riage of Nicholas Beery, married sisters by the name of Miller, came to Fairfield and settled on lower Rush Creek. Margaret married a Mr. Kechler and lived on Raccoon in Rush Creek township. Fanny mar ried Mr. Joseph Hite, of Walnut township. His old farm is now owned by Kemp Brothers, at Thurston. This completes such record as we are able to give of the Nicholas Beery family, one of the largest fam ilies ever known in the county, and second to none in sterling worth and good citizenship. Their descend ants still fill a large space in this county and are num bered by hundreds, and in every western State Beerys Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 205 are to be found or some of their collateral relatives. Daniel, Frederick, Lewis and George Beery, Berne township people, and Samuel, Abraham and Christian Beery, old Lancaster residents, were relatives of the Nicholas Beery family and highly respected people. Abraham was Mayor of Lancaster and father of Dr. George Beery. THE ASHBROOK FAMILY The valley of A'irginia gave to Fairfield County mail}' distinguished and honored citizens ; but that val ley was not alone in furnishing emigrants to Ohio and Fairfield County in particular. Hampshire County, in the valley of the south branch of Potomac, gave us the Ashbrook, Peters and Claypool families, as distin guished and as highly respected as any that adorn the annals of our county. The first Peters of which we have record, was born October 27, 1749. His wife was born October 2'/. 1759. Tliey were the parents of Mrs. Aaron Ashbrook and the late Jonathan Peters. They lived to a great age. Jonathan and Gershom were their sons, both highly respected and intelligent men. They spent the latter years of their life in this county. Jonathan lived on the old DaAid Pence farm, in Rich land township. One of his daughters i.^ the wife of AA'illiam Friend. .\ son, Edward, lives in the same vicinity. Gershom reared a large family, living at one time in sight of Columbus, where Orrin Peters was born. One son is an attorney at Princeton, Illinois. Moore and Orrin are wealthy manufacturers of Cin cinnati. Orrin married Miss Eckert, of this city. Both are well known. A sister of these gentlemen, Deborah, was the mother of an esteemed citizen of Amanda township, John Quincy Adams Blue. J. Q. A. Blue married a Galligher, a connection of the Robinson Pe- 206 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People ters family, but in no way related to his mother. His son, George, married a daughter of Henry Reber. Her mother was an Allen, daughter of Howard Allen, who married a Leist. Abigail Peters married Aaron Ash brook. The Ashbrook family has been traced to Eng land and back into the misty past. There is a legend that long ago a gentleman walking upon the banks of a brook noticed a small boy standing near an ash tree. He inquired his name but the little fellow did not know it. He had compassion upon him, giving him the name ¦of Ashbrook, certainly beautiful, appropriate and well chosen, and as such it has come down the centuries. Aaron Ashbrook was born in Hampshire county, Vir ginia, January 7, 1780. Abigail Peters, his wife, was born in the same county January 7, 1782. They were married December 22, 1800. Two children were born to them in Virginia. About the year 1805 they came to Ohio, by v/agon and settled in Pleasant township. Their old home stood on the bluff between the resi dence of James Hampson and John M. Ashbrook. There they lived a quiet life, rearing a large family of children and died at a good old age. They lived to see their children well established in life, honored and respected by their neighbors and fellow citizens. They were distinguished members of the old school Baptist church at Pleasant Run and Aaron Ashbrook was always a conspicuous figure in that congregation. As were his sons John and Tunis after him. Aaron Ash brook was at the time of his death 85 years of age and his wife Abigail died at the great age of 94 years. Aaron Ashbrook had three brothers. Rev. EH who lived in Licking county, and one of whose sons is a prominent business man of Newark, and a son-in-law of the Rev. George DeBolt, the pioneer Baptist Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 207 preacher. Thomas and William were the names of his other brothers. Thomas lived in Pickaway county until about 44 years of age, when he moved to IHinois. He was a fine man and a favorite with his relatives. William Ashbrook lived first in Pleasant township, but moved later to Amanda township where he died. His wife was Amelia Peters, sister of Mrs. Aaron Ash brook and Mrs. Blue. Both lived to a good old age. Their sons were Absalom, Mahlon, Edward and Wil liam. Absolom is dead. He was a farmer in Amanda township. Edward is stiH living in Amanda township at the age of 82 years. Mahlon lives in St. Joseph, Mo., at the age of 86 years. WiHiam lives in Ashville, Pickaway County, Ohio.* Ira and William, sons of William, are farmers near Cedar Hill, this county, Samuel, their brother, is a ^rain dealer of Circleville, Ohio. George A., son of Absolom, is a farmer in Pickaway County. Frank, another son is a farmer in Bloom township. Monroe and John, sons of Absalom, reside in Kansas. James, a son of Edward Ashbrook, is a popular merchant at Newark, Ohio. Thomas M., a brociier, is an implement man of Somerset, Ohio. E. L. Ashbrook, the popular young Republican of Amanda township, resides on the old homestead with his father. Mrs. L. D. Cole, daughter of Edward, lives in Columbus. There were three sisters in this family, Minerva, Ivy and Cecelia. Benjamin T. Dunnick, of Pickaway County, mar ried Minerva. She is living with a daughter Ivy at * The three brothers died recently at their respective homes. 208 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People East Ringgold. Their daughter, Amelia, is the wife of James M. Steward, a farmer and breeder of Marcy, Ohio. Daniel R. Kellerman, at one time a prominent farmer of Amanda township, married Ivy. They reared a large family of children and gave them a good education. Prof. Kellerman, of the Ohio University,, is their son. One son is a Universalist preacher. Some years since D. R. Kellerman and some of his sons moved to near Humboldt, Kansas, where Kellerman recently died. Their youngest daughter. Dory, married a Williamson, and lives in Bluffton, Indiana. Benjamin Bowman married Cecilia, and moved to the state of Illinois. Of the Peters family there were several sons, viz. : Jonathan, Gershom, Rev. Mahlon, John, Tunis, Rev. James and Absolom and four sisters, Katy, Abigail, Deborah and Amelia. Most of them lived to a great age, filling out honorable and useful positions in life. Their descendants are scattered far and wide, and but few of them are known to each other. Gershom was for some years Associate Judge of Franklin County. During at least a part of their lives the Peters brothers lived in Pickaway and Franklin Counties. Aaron Ashbrook's children were : Tunis P., Fan nie, John M., James A., Katherine, Eli P., Deborah,, Amelia, Adaline, who died young. Tunis Peters Ashbrook was born December 19, 1801, in Hampshire County, Virginia. He received such education as the new Ohio country afforded. He married Anna, daughter of David Pence and granddaughter of Emanuel Ruffner. Their chHdren are Aaron P Ashbrook, of Kansas ; Mrs. Noah Mc- Naughten, of Massachusetts; Mrs. John HHl, of Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 209 Pleasantville; Mrs. Emanuel Kraner, of Pleasant- vHle ; Mrs. Sain, -now of Parsons, Kansas ; and Mrs. Thomas McNaughten, of Pleasantville. Tunis P. Ashbrook was a fine farmer, an intelligent and upright citizen, respected and honored by aH who knew him. He divided a handsome estate among his children. He belonged to a lovely and affectionate family. It used to be said that the Ashbrooks shook hands if they met twice in the same day. Tunis died March 6, 1866, aged 64 years. A finer looking gentle man than T. P. Ashbrook seldom visited Lancaster. His face was an index to his character. John M. Ash brook was born January 2, 1809. He married Katha rine Armstrong, of Lancaster. She is living at Gen eva, Nebraska, in her 8 ist year. John M., was a live, competent business man and a good farmer. He ran a whiskey distillery for a good many years with some success. He owned and tHled for years large tracts of land. His wealth at one time was estimated at $125,000. He was a liberal man, hospitable and kind, and his money was freely spent. His house was the home of Baptist preachers for forty years and Baptist people, and the latch string was out to all comers. His house was a free hotel, always full. His hospitality was unbounded. The writer can say what he was too generous to admit, he was greatly imposed upon. He was a public spirited citizen in the best sense of the word. He, with David Huber, pro jected the Pleasantville Academy, and carried it to com pletion. In this he took great interest, for he was the friend of education and had a local pride in securing the Academy. The meeting of citizens in Pleasantville, which gave the project endorsement and insured suc- 14 210 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People cess, was called by Eli P. Ashbrook. This meeting was addressed by Dr. A. P. Miller, Col. J. M. Connell, Hon. C. D. Martin, J. C. Hite, and Judge G. Peters. A good brick building was soon built and Prof. Freed and others have distinguished themselves there and edu cated many young men. P. S. Wiseman was chair man. Having succeeded so well in securing an Academy for Pleasantville, he became intoxicated with success and local pride. We must have a railroad, he said, and he and David Huber went to work. He headed the subscription by thousands, and became responsible for rights of way and other matters and took contracts and involved himself in many ways for many thousands of dollars, all of which, he eventually paid with his hard earned dollars. No man ever worked with greater en thusiasm than did John M. Ashbrook for this railroad. He believed that it would be a paying investment. Be sides the loss of thousands of dollars, he gave two years of his time to this road, for which he did not receive a penny. It was sad to see a noble, generous, unselfish, enthusiastic, hopeful, energetic man like John M. Ash brook go down. He did not survive the disaster more than three or four years. He closed up his railroad ¦matters, paid his debts, gathered his family together and turned his face toward the AVest, and resolutely sought a new home among strangers. The place he loved, to which he had given his time and fortune, he was to see no more. Home, the graves of his father, friends and neighbors were henceforth to be but a memory. He died August 17, 1885, aged 76 years. He has a son in Hebron, Nebraska, O. A. Ashbrook, who married a daughter of Thomas Duncan. He is now postmaster of Hebron, Nebraska. John, a brother. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 211 is a citizen of Geneva, Nebraska. He is now a soldier at Manilla in the First Nebraska Regiment. James and Levi live in Denver, Colorado. Wm. Stewart married Blanche and lives in Geneva, Nebraska. He is assistant cashier of a bank. Rev. Wesley Brandt married Jennie, one of the daughters, and lives in the West. Anna lives with her mother in Geneva, Nebraska. Mrs. Jacob Ulrick, of this city, was the wife and widow of Tunis, a son of J. M. Ashbrook. He died of disease contracted in the army. John and Tunis Ashbrook were lovable men, kind, considerate, generous, courteous and Christian gentle men. James A. Ashbrook was born August i6, 1811. His wife was Rebecca Kagy. James was a farmer for years in Pleasant township, but in later life moved to Coles County, Illinois. He died January 24, 1879, aged 76 years. Eli P. Ashbrook was born in Pleasant township, December 10, 1816. He was well educated for the times in which he lived, and during his young years was a successful school teacher. His first wife was Adaline Shaw, daughter of John Shaw, a much respected farmer of Rushcreek. His wife's broth ers were O. P'. Shaw, J. W. Shaw and Andrew Shaw, all well known to your readers. His second wife, Mary, was a daughter of Andrew Shaw, a number one citizen of Rushcreek township,' and a brother of John Shaw. Joseph Shaw, near West Rushville, is his brother-in-law. E. P. has had a checkered career. He farmed for some years and finally invested money in the distillery busii-ress. Fire came and swept away most of his in- 212 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People vestment. He then moved West and settled in Mat- toon, Illinois, where he was for some time engaged in the woolen mill business. He now lives a retired life at Windsor, Illinois, being now nearly 83 years of age. Eli P. was always an elegant gentleman, indus trious, energetic and honest, and left a host of friends behind, when he left old Fairfield. His oldest daughter, Laura, lives in Ada, Ohio, and one of his sons is a druggist at Mansfield, Ohio. Another is a prosperous man in Washington State. Two other daughters are happily married and live, one in Mattoon and one in Chicago, Illinois. Fanny Ashbrook was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, January 3, 1804. She married Lewis Kagy, long a good farmer of Walnut township. They reared three beautiful daughters, and inteHigent girls they were. Aaron Kagy, for years the great stock buyer of this county, was Lewis Kagy's son. Mary married Jacob Walters and lives at Webster City, Iowa. They had the misfortune to lose an only daughter by fire, her clothing having taken fire. Laura married James Church. Rebecca married first, Ben. Walters. She married again, this time to a wealthy farmer near Ottawa, Illinois. Mrs. Kagy died, aged 93 years. Deborah Ashbrook was born May 26, 1819. She married David McNaughten, a farmer of Walnut town ship. The great sorrow of their lives was the loss of a dear boy, Aaron, at the assault upon Ft. Wagner. He sleeps in an unknown grave, no one in this county saw him fall or is able to tell anything about his death. David died, aged 65 years. Deborah died December, 1897. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 213 Katherine Ashbrook was born March 26, 18 14. She married Samuel Walters, a farmer of Walnut. She died October, 1891. Her children live in the West. Amelia Ashbrook was born August 19, 1825. She married William Cherry, a farmer of Walnut. They were the parents of twelve children. She died Novem ber 2, 1877. The Cherry children are married, three or four live near the old home, the others in the West. It is surprising to learn how the old families are locked together by marriage. The two Peters families, the Stevensons, Rebers, Ruffners, Leists, Aliens, Ash brooks, Claypools and Shaws are bound together hke an endless chain. The writer .is indebted to Eli P. Ashbrook for information furnished. The Ashbrooks were well posted politicians. When parties divided during President Jackson's term, they espoused the cause of the Whig party. They were ardent supporters of Gen. Harrison and Henry Clay. In 1848, the writer was present at a township Whig meeting held in KeHer's school house. Tunis P. Ash brook was president. At this meeting Uriah C. Rut ter, then a young school teacher, was a speaker, and de voted his time to a defense of the tariff. He acquitted himself so well that the president requested him to prepare a speech for the next meeting. In 1856 they became Republicans, and for the re mainder of their lives gave their time, their means and influence to that party, conscientiously believing, that in that way, they were but serving their country. Their families were represented in the Union army by active, brave and intelligent young men — and while they were fighting the foe with undaunted courage, their fathers were active, patriotic supporters of the Gov ernment at home. 214 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Captain Aaron P. Ashbrook returned in safety from the war, and was for many years a popular citizen and an active leading Republican of this county. Reason Ashbrook, a prominent citizen of Coles County, Illinois, formerly lived in this county and be longed to one branch of this family. THE PETERS FAMILY (TUNIS, REV.) Jonathan and Martha (Thompson) Peters, came from Hampshire County, Virginia, in 1816, first stop ping at the home of William Ashbrook, about a mile from the old homestead. Jonathan Peters was a son of Tunis Peters, who lived in Hampshire County, Virginia. Tunis Peters' father and mother emigrated from Holland to the Shenandoah Valley, and raised a family there in the first half of the eighteenth century. Tunis' wife's maiden name being Francina Adams. Tunis and Francina Peters reared a family of thirteen children in Virginia and emigrated to Picka way County, Ohio, following their chHdren after they had married. Jonathan Peters married Martha Tho-mpson in Virginia and came to Pickaway County and afterward removed to Fairfield County. Jonathan was one of the pioneer school teachers, living at the time — April 30, 1822 — near Millersport on what is now known as the Martha Henderson farm. Jonathan's stay here was short, he having said that he would not give a dollar an acre for such land as was about him. The experience of having to pen his cows in an enclosure to prevent them becoming mired in the swaley lands of the community, was such that Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 215 he was very wHling to remove, which he did in 1823, to the vicinity of Logan, Ohio. A few years after living there, his father, Tunis Peters came from East Ringgold, Pickaway County, to visit him, and died September 24, 1826, at his home. On the prevailment of his mother he removed and lived with her in Pickaway County, Ohio. The ancestor of Mrs. Peters was John Thompson, who came from Ireland at the age of sixteen, as a stowaway, and upon his arrival at Baltimore he was sold for his transportation to the highest bidder. He afterward became a wealthy and respected farmer of Hampshire County, Virginia. In 1844 Mrs. Peters died, leaving a large family of children. Jonathan again married, this time a widow Harmon, aunt of Dr. G. A. Harmon, of Lan caster, and mother of Amos T. Harmon, of Columbus, whom Peters reared to manhood. In 1848 Jonathan again moved to the place upon which he died, it being three miles east of Pleasant ville, Ohio, and the place is yet known as the Jonathan Peters farm. PHILIP PETERS. Philip Peters married Mary Ashbrook and settled at a very early day in Walnut township, Fairfield County. He died and was buried in that township in 181 7, near what is now Millersport. Their daughter, Mary, was born January 10, 1812. Left an orphan at five years, she was taken into the family of her uncle, Peter McGee. In February", 1834, she was married to John Pittsford, of Granville. They settled in Baltimore, where Pittsford was a merchant. Their daughter, Martha, who married Isaac Frickbone, was born in the brick house now owned by S. S. Weist in 216 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Baltimore. In 1843, Pittsford exchanged his goods for a farm near Kirkersville, to which they moved, Pittsford died in March, 1847. In 1849 Mrs. Pittsford married Myron Merchant, who died m June, 1866. In October, 1868, she married Alfred Hatch, of Delaware, Ohio, who died in Mjay, 1871, leaving her a widow for the third time. Mrs. Hatch is still living, 89 years of age. The Peters stock were long-lived people. TUNIS PETERS, SR. Tunis Peters, sr., married Francina Adams, and they reared a family of 13 children in Hampshire county, Virginia. We have written briefly of Jonathan and Philip and will now mention others of the family. James Peters married his cousin, Nancy Peters, Samuel Peters married his cousin, Amelin Peters, Abigail Peters married Aaron Ashbrook, Deborah Peters married Michael Blue, Katie Peters married Reverend Eli Ashbrook, who moved to Licking County, Ohio; Tunis Peters, jr., married Eve Glaze and settled in Franklin County. The Peters Dash Company was owned by his sons, of Columbus, Ohio; Gersham Peters married Susan Glaze and settled in Franklin County ; Parmelia Peters married William Ashbrook and they settled in Amanda township, Fair field County, Ohio; John Peters married Cynthia Biddle and settled in Pickaway County, Ohio; Absa lom Peters married Phama Sarsher and settled near E. Ringgold, Pickaway County, Ohio. THE KAGYS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY The Shenndoah Valley, of Virginia, was settled largely by Pennsylvania people, both English and German speaking people. They emigrated from Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 217 Berks, Lancaster and York Counties, Pennsylvania. There were Mennonites, Dunkers and Primitive Bap tists among them. From the year 1806 to 1840, in almost every year many families came from that valley to Fairfield County. Samuel and Reverend John Wiseman, Abraham Winters, the Millers, Mur- phys, Ashbrooks, Beerys, Freeds and hundreds of other families all came from that splendid valley. Of the many families referred to, none were larger or more highly respected than the Kagys. They were a hardy race, descended from hardy Swiss ancestors. But few of this large family now reside in Fairfield, for as the children grew to years of maturity, they married and either moved north to Seneca and Han cock Counties or to Marion, Cumberland and Effing ham Counties, Illinois. This family produced many men of considerable prominence and ability, farmers, lawyers, doctors, ministers, teachers and merchants. Honorable John Seitz, of Seneca County, was the son of Lewis Seitz, whose wife was a Kagy. Rudolph Kagy, a native of Switzerland, came first to Pennsylvania. From there he moved to the valley ot Virginia, and he was the founder of the family that came to the county in 1833 and settled in Rushcreek. CHRISTIAN KAGY, Son of Rudolph, the second, was born September 14, 1 77 1, in Pennsylvania, and went to Virginia in 1781. He was married to Mary Bibler in 1796; they were the parents of ten children. He moved to Fairfield County in 1818 and died September 3, 1831. Lewis B. Kagy once lived on the Goldthwait farm in Walnut township, and was the oldest son. He was born January 15, 1798. October 9, 1823, he married 218 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Francina Ashbrook. He died May 12, 1872, in Illi nois ; his wife lived to be 93 years of age and died in Illinois, April 27, 1897. They were the parents of seven children. Abigail died in infancy. Aaron was born April 2, 1826. He married Eliza Mauk, of Walnut township ; they now reside at McCool Junction, Nebraska. For five years, beginning in 1850, Aaron Kagy was the largest and busiest stock buyer in Ohio ; he drove his cattle in lots of 100 to Baltimore, Maryland. He failed in 1854 and involved many of his friends. His father and father-in-law endorsed for him and their farms were sold to pay his debts. Mary Kagy, the oldest daughter, was born May II, 1828. She married Jacob M. Walters and with him moved to the West ; she now lives, a widow, in Webster City, Iowa. Laura C. was born March 19, 1832 ; she married James T. Church, son of Isaac Church, of Lancaster, and now lives, a widow, in Chicago, Illinois. John M. Kagy was born April 8, 1834; he mar ried Mary P. Beckwith. He has lived in many parts 01 the West and now resides at Boseman, Montana. Tunis A. was born April 26, 1830; he was drowned July 3, 1853, in the Emberras river, IHinois, where he was visiting. Rebecca Kagy was born March 4, 1836. Her first husband was Benjamin Walters, brother of Jacob M., husband of Mary. Her second husband is Moab P. Trumbo, to whom she was married February 26, 1856. They reside on a fine farm near Ottawa, 111. The three daughters of Lewis B. Kagy are good women and exceptionally good looking. They were belles 01 Walnut township. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 219 Francis Kagy, daughter of Christian, was born July 20, 1800, in Virginia. She married David Bretz, May 19, 1822, by Reverend Snellson. David Bretz was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1798. He was the son of A^alentine and Elizabeth Bretz. Thev lived near the old home and reared ten children. Lewis K. Bretz, a son of David, married Elizabeth Seitz, February 7, 1849, i^ Seneca County, Ohio. Eliza E. married G. W. Harshbarger, February 20, 1878. W. J. Bretz is a single man, of Wyandot, Ohio. Francis A. Bretz married W. J. Stinemetz, No vember 15, 1887. The two last named were daughters of Lewis K., who died August 11, 1771. Abraham K. Bretz married Mary Ann Perkey, of Seneca County, Ohio, August 27, 1854. Elizabeth Bretz married Ziba E. Meyers, October 20, 1844, of Seneca County, Ohio. Samuel Bretz, son of David, was born September 13, 1828. April 14, 1853, he married Anna Seitz, daughter of Lewis Seitz. One of them, Mr. George A. Bretz, is a Baptist preacher, of Albion, Indiana. Valentine Bretz, married Sarah A. Telford, Sep tember 27, 1855. He died June 11, 1886, from the effects of a wound, received at the battle of Stone River. One of his sons, residing in Michigan, mar ried a Stinchcomb. Mary Bretz married Noah Einsel, of Seneca County, Ohio, March 11, 1852. Barbara Bretz married Daniel Seitz, of Seneca, County, Ohio, February 4, 1862. She is now a widow and resides in Cleveland, Ohio. 220 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Christena Bretz married W. A. Watson, Septem ber I, i860. They reside at Van Buren, Ohio. George W. Bretz, son of David Bretz, starved to death in Libby Prison, June 26, 1864. Abraham B. Kagy, son of Christion, was born September 17, 1802. He married Sarah Hall, daughter of Daniel Hall, August 11, 1826. A. B. Kagy became a distinguished citizen of Findlay, Ohio, and later of Ewington, Effingham county, Illinois. Daniel Hall, son of A. B. Kagy. May 16, 1827, was the date of his birth. He enlisted in the Thirty- fifth Illinois in 1861, and died in the service of his country. Benjamin F., son of A. B. Kagy, was born Febru ary 27, 183 1. He married Martha J. Stams, February '6, 1853. He filled important positions of honor and trust in Effingham County, Illinois. Barbara Kagy, daughter of Christian Kagy, was born in 1804. She married John Bretz in 1820. They were the parents of eleven children. Their son Chris tian was a soldier in the Mexican War. He served as a clerk in the State Department at Columbus, Ohio. Their son, Simon Peter, was a Union soldier. Elizabeth Kagy, daughter of Christian, was born December 28, 1807. She married John Hall, son of Daniel, who came to Walnut township in 1804. They were married March 18, 1828. Rebecca Kagy, daughter of Christian, was born November 16, 181 1. She was married to James A. Ash brook, November 10, 1836. They were the parents of nine children, viz: Lewis K., John Monroe, Abigail' Ann, Mary Catharine, Maria Amelia, Aaron Tunis, Francina Deborah, James Scott and Samuel Clinton. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 221 Lewis K. married Cyntha Chism. John Monroe married Margaret Fuller. They reside near Hum- bolt, Illinois. Abigail Ann married Robert Groves. They are the parents of thirteen children. Mary Catharine married Joseph Vance Hill, June i6, 1861. They reside at Seward, Nebraska. Mary Amelia mar ried Isaac Bowers, of Kansas. Frances Deborah, was born April 6, 1849, in Fairfield County, and was married to Lafayette Green, March 26, 1867. They now reside near Ottawa, Kansas. James Scott married Almira Gray. Samuel Clinton was born June 17, 1854, in Fair field County, Ohio. He married Sallie C. Brown December 23, 1875. He is now the postmaster at Humbolt, Illinois. Christian Kagy, jr., son of Christian, was born in 1817, married Nancy Delancy in 1839, and moved to Effingham county, Illinois. Samuel Kagy, son of Christian, was born January I, 18 19, in Ohio. He married Hannah Baker, of Perry County, Ohio, February 6, 1840, and moved to Han cock County, Ohio. Susan, daughter of Christian, never married. Rudolph Kagy, brother of Christian and Jacob, was born November 5, 1773, in Berks county, Pennsyl vania, and moved with parents to Virginia, in 1781. He married Hannah Siple in 1796. From Rocking ham County, Virginia, he moved to Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1819. They were the parents of twelve chil dren, viz : John, Jacob, Christian, Abraham, Catharine, Barbara, Hannah, Elizabeth, Mary, Rudolph, Henry and Doctor Martin Kagy. Rudolph, sr., died August 5, 1829. His wife died November 21, 1871. 222 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People John was born January 17, 1797. December 3, 1820, he married Catharine Hite. They first moved to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1S27, and from there to Marion County, Illinois, where both died at an ad vanced age. John Kag}- was a man of ability and high character. He reared a family of ten cliildren. His son. Dr. John Kagy, was a distinguished citizen of Seneca County, Ohio. John Benjamin, son of John, was born January 9, 1S30. In 1S60 he moved to Salem, Illinois. He studied law with Judge Silas L. Bryan, father of AA^il- liam J. Bryan, and became his partner. He married ]\Iarietta Black, a native of New York state. They were parents of eleven children. Levi M. Kagy. son of David Kagy and grandson of John, is a lawyer of ability at Salem, Illinois. Levi D. Kagy, son of John, was born October 24, 1838. He was at one time elected auditor of Seneca County. He married Frances Ann Lamberton, and they now reside in Fostoria, Ohio. Jacob Kagy, son of Rudolph, never married. Christian Kagy, son of Rudolph, married Ann Hite, daughter of John Hite, and moved to Marion County, Illinois. They were the parents of twelve children. Elizabeth, their eldest child, was born November ¦ 19, iSj('i. She married Samuel E. Stevenson, May 18, 1848, and they moved to Marion County, IHinois, where Stevenson became a wealthy and prominent farmer. John Hite Kagy, son of Christian and .Anna Hite Kagy, married Hannah J. Furry, October 9, 1859. Lewis Hite Kagy was a farmer of Marion County, Illinois. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 223 Hannah, daughter of Christian and Anna Kagy, was born May 24, 1838. She married Noah R. Steven son, son of Mordecai. The writer remembers Noah as one of his pupils at the Snake Run schoolhouse in 1849. Abraham Kagy, son of Rudolph, brother of Chris tian and Jacob, was born December 23, 1803; he mar ried Barbara Pugh, December 27, 1823. They were the parents of fifteen children. They moved at an early day to Seneca County, Ohio. Catherine Kagy, daughter of Rudolph, was born in 1805 ; she married Andrew Hite in 1826. They were the parents of thirteen children; this large family moved at an early day to Marion County, Illinois. Barbara Kagy, daughter of Rudolph, was born November 10, 1807; she married Lewis Seitz, August 24, 1823, and moved to Seneca County, Ohio. They were the parents of fourteen children. The Honorable John Seitz was one of their chil dren; he was born in Seneca County, Ohio; he mar ried Cecelia J. Hite, of Marion County, Ohio. John Seitz was a reader and a man of ability; he served in both branches of the Ohio Legislature and was in 1880 the Greenback candidate for Governor of Ohio. He obtained notoriety and was well known to all Ohio politicians. Two daughters of Lewis Seitz married into the Bretz family of Seneca County. Lewis Seitz died July 12, 1890. Hannah Kagy, daughter of Rudolph, was born in 1812, in Virginia. She married John Crooks, of Berne township, this county ; they were the parents of nine children. Hannah died at the age of 42 years and John Crooks in 1895 at the age of 92 years. 224 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Mrs. Henry Bumgardner, of Berne, is one of the daughters. Elizabeth, daughter of Rudolph Kagy, was born in 1813. She married John Beaver. One of their daughters married Edward Turner, of Richland township, and they were the parents of eleven children. Mary Kagy, daughter of Rudolph, was born Janu ary 8, 1814; she married Hesekiah Kanode, December 12, 1833. Rudolph Kagy, son of Rudolph, was born Feb ruary 18, 1818; he married Anna Seitz, December 16, 1838. They moved to Seneca County, Ohio. Their son Abraham was a capable man, a Union soldier, and filled several positions of honor and trust. Henry Kagy, son of Rudolph, was born March 10, 1821, and moved to Seneca county, Ohio, in 1837," he married Phoebe Miller. Doctor Martin Kagy was the seventh son and youngest child of Rudolph Kagy ; he was born August 20, 1825 ; he married Christena Walters. He was a teacher and studied medicine; he practiced medicine a year or two, and was then elected clerk of the Common Pleas Court, Fairfield County. This ended his career as a physician and politics spoiled what might otherwise have been a useful and profitable career. He died August 24, 1898. With this we close the sketch of Rudolph and Hanna Siple Kagy. Jacob Kagy^ son of Rudolph second, of Virginia,, and brother of Christian and Rudolph, was born No vember 3, 1776, in Shenandoah County, Virginia; he married Rebecca Bibler, a sister of Christian's wife, April, 1 810; he came with his family to Fairfield County, and settled in Walnut township in the year Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 225 1818. They were the parents of five children, Barbara, John, Isaac, Jerretha and Lewis. Barbara was born August 23, 1812; she- married Daniel Rinehart, of Walnut, in January, 1837. They were the parents of six children. Daniel Rinehart moved about 1840 to Effingham County, Illinois, where he became a prominent merchant and a popular and useful citizen. Three of his sons are men of prominence and two of them lawyers. John Kagy was born September 15, 1844; his first wife was Isabelle Stevenson ; his second wife was Mary Jane Camp. Late in life he moved to Marion County, IHinois, where he died November 22, 1878. He left seven children. Issac Kagy, son of Jacob, died unmarried in 1852. in the state of Illinois. Jerretha Kagy was born July i, 1824, and married David Grove, September 2, 185 1. They were the parents of eight children. She died November 5, 1895. Lewis Kagy, son of Jacob, was born August 18, 1 83 1 ; in 1 85 1 he married Julia Spitler; he died March, 1886. Jacob Kagy was all of his life one of the best men of Walnut township; he was one of the pillars of the Primitive Baptist church. His memory is precious to all who knew him. There are but few of the names of Kagy, Bretz, Spitler and Ashbrook remaining in this county, but Seneca County, Hancock County, Ohio, Effingham County, Illinois, and Marion County, Illinois, gained what Fairfield lost, viz., hun dreds of good citizens, men of character and ability. Christian R. Kagy, son of Rudolph Kagy and grandson of Henry Kagy, of Shenandoah county, Vir- 15 226 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People ginia, came to Fairfield County, in 1833, and settled in Rushcreek township. He was born December 13, 1795, and in 1824 he married Barbara Blosser. By this marriage he had one daughter, Barbara. His first wife died soon after their marriage and in 1827 he was again married to Barbara Hoffman. By this marriage six children were born to him, viz. : Rudolph, Frederick, Franklin, David, John and Christian C. His daughter, Barbara, married Elijah Brandt, of Rushcreek township, March 19, 1845. Their son, David, married Rachael Wilson and resides west of Bremen, Ohio. Mary Brandt married Enos Young, February 9, 1869. Christopher Brandt married Maria E. Westen- berger, October 5, 1875. They are the parents of twelve children. Lewis M. married Arminda J. Page, February 25, 1875- Rudolph Kagy, the eldest son of Christian R. Kagy, was born October 27, 1828, in Page County, Virginia, and married Annie Alexander, May 19, 1857, a sister of Mrs. Robert J. Black. Two children were born to this couple. Nettie T. Kagy, born February 21, 1861. She was educated at the Pleasantville Acad emy and at the Female Seminary, Oxford, Ohio. She was married to John A. Gravett, of Lancaster, Ohio, December 5, 1888. They reside at Salida, Colorado. James Josiah Kagy was born July 9, 1863. He was educated at the Pleasantville Academy and at Dayton, Ohio, May 17, 1893, he was married to Ida M. Fisher. They reside on a farm near Pleasantville. Rudolph Kagy died July 28, 1889. He had lived the life of a farmer in Fairfield County for 59 years. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. '2'27 At the time of his death he was a member of the Fairfield County Agricultural Board. He was a good citizen and highly esteemed by all who knew him. Frederick Kagy, son of Christian R., was born February 8, 1830. He lived wilh his brother, Rudolph, and died at his home, April 3, 1890. Franklin Kagy, son of Christian K., was born July 24, 1831, and January 20, 1853, married Ellen Jane Alexander. They were the parents of eleven children. They were active and prominent members of Bethel Presbyterian church in Rushcreek township. Their son, Harrison B., lives west of Bremen, Oliio. Their daughter Maggie Ann, married Thomas A. Pugh, one of the clear-headed educated farmers of Greenfield township. John Williams, their son, was born November 28, 1859. He was educated at the Ohio Normal School, Ada, Ohio. After teaching acceptably for many years, he engaged in farming. In the year 1885, he mar ried Jennie Stuart, of near Bremen. Ella Dora, their daughter, married George McCandish, of Rushcreek. Hattie Florence, another daughter, married Mr. Bert Stuart, of Rushcreek. Melnotte Kagy, ninth child of Franklin Kagy, made her home with her uncle, Rudolph, until her marriage with Banner E. Friend, December 27, 1893. John Kae:y, son of Christian R., was born near Bremen, February 3, 1835, and lived all of his life a respected citizen on the old home farm. He married Tennie Stuart, November 21, 1861. They reared and educated eleven children. They were not only pupils of the common schools, but several 228 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of them at the Pleasantville Academy and the Normal School, of Ada, Ohio. This is an educated cultured Christian family, an honor to Rushcreek and the name they bear. Christian C. Kagy, son of Christian R., was born March lo, 1837 ; he was a veteran Union soldier. He married Maria J. Stuart, sister of his brother's wife. He was a soldier of the Sixty-second Ohio, and, broken in health, he died July, 1897. Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas were enriched by the blood of the Kagy family. There were and are many able and distinguished men in the connection. The best known and ablest man with Kagy blood in his veins, was the late Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, whose mother was a descendent of a Kagy. Of this large and extraordinary family, fully three-fourths were members of the Primitive Baptist church. There are however, Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Reforms, Dunkers and Mennonites among them. The writer of this sketch knew many of them and had access to an exhaustive history of the Kagy family by Franklin Kagy, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Anna Hite, daughter of Squire John Hite, who resided just west of the old school Baptist church in Pleasant township, married Christian Kagy. Catherine Hite, a sister of Squire John Hite, mar ried John Kagy, a son of Rudolph Kagy. Squire John Hite, was a first cousin of Reverend John Hite, the father of Samuel and Jacob Hite, of Lancaster, Ohio. John Henry Kagy, of one branch of this family, died with "old John Brown" Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 229 THE RUFFNER FAMILY One of the famous old pioneers of Fairfield County was Emanuel Ruffner. He was born and brought up in Shenandoah County, Va., and there he married Elizabeth Grove. He belonged to a very large and highly respected Virginia family — a family more or less distinguished in that state. One of the Ruffners was a man of fine education and culture, and an author of some repute and was well known at Richmond. One of the family was in early times a proprietor of the great salt works at Charleston, the same where Senator Ewing earned the money to put himself through college. The descendants of this man still live in Charleston, and two of them are large wholesale grocers of that city. The principal hotel is called the Ruffner. Emanuel Ruffner came with his family to Ohio in 1805 and settled on the land now owned by his grand son and daughter, William Friend and wife, one and one-half miles from West Rushville, Fairfield County. He came there when the Murpheys, Ijams, Wilsons, Rowles, Teals and Stevensons were his only neighbors — all distinguished as early pioneers of that vicinity. He was a teamster in the Revolutionary War and his son John drove a team for him in the war of 1812. Emanuel Ruffner was a man of force and integ rity, a good citizen and a very useful member of society. He reared a large and interesting family ; his daughters were exceptionally fine women and married good men and reared large families. His son John married Mary Rhodes and settled on a farm on the south fork of Licking, in Licking 230 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People County, Ohio, where he lived and died. His sons were farmers. David has been dead some years ; John still resides upon a farm near Hebron, O. He had but one daughter and she resides in the same vicinity. John Ruft'ner's farm contained five hundred acres. Jacob Ruffner, son of Emanuel, married IMagda- lene Bibler. He lived upon a farm near the Stevenson camp ground. His son Jonas married Susan Rhodes and the}- lived upon a portion of the home farm. His sons were Jacob, Joseph, Levi and Xoah. Jacob was the famous soldier of the 17th Ohio, known to all the old boys as "Kate" Ruffner, a name not soon to be forgotten — not while a 17th veteran lives. Joseph resides upon the old liome farm. A daughter of Jonas married A. M. Stewart ; Sarah married Jacob ^last ; Emeline married John Frey ; Rebecca married John Harman. Isaac Ruffner, son of Jacob, Sr,, married Miss Stuart of Rushcreek township. His son David mar ried a J\Iiss Harman and they moved to ]\Iercer County, O. Stewart Ruffner, the teacher, married a daughter of Hiram McXaghton and lives in Richland township, a respected and useful man. Thomas Ruff ner, son of Isaac, is a hopeless invalid. Edward mar ried Minnie Shaw, daughter of .J. AA'. Shaw, and lives on the old home farm. Mary, daughter of Isaac, married Caleb Copeland's son. Jacob Ruffner, son of Jacob, Sr., married a daup,h- ter of Caleb Copeland. Their son Caleb married a daughter of Reuben Phillips. Maria married in Del aware County, Ohio, George Ruffner married in Perry County, Ohio. AAllliam married a Miss Zink and they live in Sugar Grove, Ohio ; Clara married Jacob Biggs, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 231 and they live in Morrow county, Ohio ; Eliza married William Geiger and they live in Licking County, Ohio. Cynthia Ruffner married John Hanover and they live in Morrow County, Ohio. Margaret married Thomas Beery and they live in Pleasant township, Ohio. Ola married Ira Spitler and they live on the Freed farm in Pleasant. Barbara, daughter of Jacob Ruffner, Sr., married David Tussing and they moved to Findlay, Ohio Magdalene married John Holliday of Rushcreek Anna married WiHiam Cruit of Perry County, Ohio Rebecca married Samuel Swartz; Mary married John Henthorn; Emily married Jesse Rowles and recently died in Bremen, Ohio. Emanuel Ruffner, son of Emanuel, married Bar bara Harshbarger. He was a fine blacksmith and lived many years near New Salem. His weight was far in excess of 300 pounds. Late in life he moved with his family to Cumberland County, 111., near the town of Greenup. Colonel Joseph Ruffner, son of Emanuel, Jr., mar ried Rhoda Davis of Licking County, Ohio. He lived a long life on the old Ruffner farm in Richland. He was one of a half dozen old Virginia gentlemen who often met in Lancaster and spent a social afternoon. No one who ever knew him can forget his courtly manners and gentlemanly bearing. He was every inch a gentleman and a good and useful man. He reared two daughters. They married brothers, John and William Friend, who were the sons of another grand old man of Richland, Jonas Friend. They in herited the old Ruffner homestead and have lived upon it and are prosperous farmers. An old elm tree is one of the landmarks of this old place ; its spreading 232 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People branches cover a space of ground 104 feet in diameter. The honored dead lie in a handsome spot near the elm tree. Barbara Ruffner, daughter of Emanuel, Sr., mar ried David Pence in Virginia and came to Ohio in 1807, carrying their infant daughter, the future Mrs. T. P. Ashbrook, resting upon a pillow, they being on horseback. They spent the winter in a cabin on the Ruffner place, and in the spring moved to their new home, in the woods, where the Peters family now live, on Indian creek. David Pence was a fine farmer, and he reared a large family. He was a stanch mem ber of the Baptist church. On one occasion Rev. George DeBolt, a long-winded preacher, spoke two and one-half hours. Pence got tired of it and rose to leave the church. DeBolt called out: "Brother Pence, can't you lis ten as long as I can talk?" Pence replied: "Enough is enough of anything. I am going to feed my horses." Aaron Pence, the oldest son, married a Miss Hand, near Hebron, O. ; Joseph married a sister of Aaron's wife. Annie married Tunis P. Ashbrook. Lienor married for her first husband Benjamin Miller; the second was George Shoemaker. She is the mother of Mrs. J. C. Hite of Lancaster and lives with her, now 93 years of age. Mary married Jacob Staker and they moved to Hancock, where they are now wealthy people. Rebecca married David Fall and they moved many years since to Jones County, Iowa. Elizabeth married Abraham Spitler and they have always lived in Pleasant. Seville married S. P, Wea ver and moved to Putnam County, where Weaver has Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 233 been a very prominent citizen. Sophia married George Miller and moved to Iowa. David Pence, Jr., married Henrietta Pugh of Wal nut township. David was a teacher when a young man, but since his marriage he has been a farm.er. As a citizen no man stands higher in this county and he has but few equals as a good farmer. He once took the Fair prize for the best ten acres of corn, run ning above loo bushels to the acre. Mrs. J. S. Sites of this city is his only daughter. Mr. Pence is a reader and a very intelligent man. In early life he was a Democrat, but the effort to enslave Kansas made him a Republican. A physical infirmity prevented his being a soldier, but he has unbounded admiration for the veterans. Mary, daughter of Emanuel Ruffner, married Wil liam Hill, a prominent citizen of Walnut township. She died in a year or two after marriage in the year 1829. Her only child, John R. Hill, now living in Pleasantville, owns the farm she inherited from her father, on Indian Creek. John married an Ashbrook. Ann Ruffner married Thomas Kraner and they lived on the farm given them by Emanuel Ruffner. Their son Joseph married Elizabeth Geiger; Emanuel married Elenor Ashbrook; Susan Kranor married Benjamin AA'^arner, but did not live many years, when AVarner married a Miss Miller. Eli Rowles, a prom inent citizen of Pleasantville, married a daughter of Emanuel Kraner. Magdalene Ruffner, daughter of Emanuel, married Christian Baker, a remarkable couple in many respects. Christian Baker represented this county in the Ohio Legislature two terms. He was not distinguished for ability beyond good common sense, but a purer or 234 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People more conscientiously honest man never served in any legislature. Their daughter Mahala married David Smith, and they moved to Greenup, 111. Louisa married William Risler and they moved to the same neighborhood. Mary Ann married H. B. Eyman, once a very prom inent citizen of Richland township. His sons have become well known business and professional men. Christian Baker Eyman is a farmer of Walnut and made a good run for commissioner recently. Lou Eyman is a druggist of Lancaster, Ohio ; Dr. Eyman is superintendent of the Cleveland, Ohio, Lunatic Asylum, and enjoys some distinction. Susan Baker married Owen McNaghten of AA'alnut township ; Rebecca married Lewis Collins, now a res ident of the state of Illinois. Samantha married Thomas Clayton. Samuel Baker, the eldest son, married Miss Rinehart. Emanuel Ruffner Pence Baker married Louisa Stoneburner. He studied law in Lancaster and hved here a few years. But he did not make a success of the law and abandoned it for the drug business in Thornville, O. AA'hile living there he was elected a member of the Ohio Legislature and served two terms. Baker was a very clever man. He reared a family. One son is manager of the Peruna Drug Co. owned by the wealthy patent medicine man of Colum bus, Dr. Hartman. Bal<:er's long name gave him an noyance at times. It was often the subject of jest. The bad boys called him many nicknames. Susan Ruffner, daughter of Emanuel, married Daniel Keller. Keller became a very remarkable man, distinguished for his good common sense, rare judg ment and fine business qualities. Plis integrity was Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 235 never questioned nor his honor smirched. He rep resented this county in the Ohio Legislature in 1849 and voted with his party for Chase for Senator and for the repeal of the black laws. He served as a trustee of the Ohio State University and his vote determined the location on the Neil farm, north of Columbus. His chief reason for favoring that par ticular farm was owing to a fine spring on the prem ises. This spring was strong enough for farm pur poses, but soon became inadequate for a college. The late Hon. V. B. Horton, who was one of his 'associates, is authority for the above statement. Daniel Keller owned several faims and all had good springs of good water. He was the bosom friend of Gov. Medill, by whom he was highly esteemed. He was a great partisan, a Democrat of the old school. By the time he became an old man there had been great changes in parties and party principles and his living sons and grandsons were active working Republicans. Daniel Keller and wife were the parents of ten children. .Simon married Ellen Sites of Pleasant township. He died in the prime of life. His son married a daughter of John Beery and lives near Bremen, Ohio. Joseph married Mary Lamb, daughter of Peter Lamb. He died in the prime of life. Mrs. Showalter of Lancaster is a daughter. Emanuel married a daughter of Reuben Emick, who lived at one time on the farm now owned by David Pence. Emanuel Keller has been for many years a farmer in Missouri. David Pence Keller married a McFarland, and moved to IHinois, where he prospered. He is now a banker and a man of means. He is a prominent cit- 236 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People izen and a very intelligent man". He at one time represented his county in the legislature of Illinois. Augustus Ruffner Keller married a McFarland. He was a man of many accomplishments and a gen tleman highly esteemed for his ability and many good ¦qualities. Catharine, daughter of Daniel KeHer, married J. R. Shaver ; they moved many years ago to LaSalle County, 111., where Shaver has been a prosperous farmer. Sophia married John Caldwell and settled on a farm near the old home. Laura married Jonas Hite; they lived on a farm near the Baptist church in Pleasant township. They were the parents of Levi Hite, the attorney. Martha A. married William L. Rigby, a farmer, but late probate judge of Fairfield County. Susan married William Medill, a nephew of Governor AVil liam Medill, of Lancaster, O. Mr. Medill is the owner of good farms and he understands their man agement. He now resides in Lancaster, but his farms are not neglected. Emanuel Ruffner, the ancestor of the large family sketched above, lived to be 91 years of age and died June 4, 1848. His first wife, Magdalene, died November, 1822, aged 65 years. His second wife, Elizabeth, died December i, 1842, aged 63 years. Elizabeth, daughter of Emanuel Ruffner, married M. Garner ; she died in Pleasantville in i860. There was a large Ruffner connection in the old neighborhood, all related to Emanuel, but the exact relationship we cannot state. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 237 Benjamin Ruffner, Sr., lived on what has since been known as the Augustus R. Keller farm. He was the father of David, Benjamin and Noah Ruffner. Noah lived and died on the old farm. He married a daughter of Jonas Friend. David lived near Millers port and was for many years a prominent man. He married his cousin, a daughter of Daniel Ruffner. Benjamin married a daughter of William Lamb. He was a great business man and very prominent sixty years ago. He ran a large whiskey distillery for several years at Hebron, Ohio. He finally failed in business, moved west and settled on a farm near Fort Wayne, Ind. THE ROWLES FAMILY This family was of English and Scotch origin, but the exact date of their coming to America is not known. William Rowles is the earliest name found upon Eng lish records. He was born July 9, 1682, and died Nov. 17, 1750. His son Christopher Rowles, was born May 9, 1708. This record was found in a bible printed in London in 1716. John Rowles the immediate ancesrer of the Fairfield family, lived near Baltimore, Md. He was born April 11, 1734 and died aged 67 years, in 1804. The name of his wife was Sarah. They had four sons and several daughters. Jesse, Jacob, Nicholas and William were the sons. Jesse and AVilliam came to Ohio in 1803. William lived a few years with Jesse; then returned to Maryland and married Sarah Cham berlain. He returned to Ohio and lived until 1838 in Franklin County, when he moved to Missouri, where he died in October, 1854. His son, Reuben, lives in Missouri and John in California. His daughters, Mary, Ann, and Eliza, married brothers, named Barbee of 238 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Grove City, O. Of this family was ex-Sheriff Barbee, who married Joseph Leib's daughter. Jesse Rowles was born in Baltimore county, Md., Nov. 9, 1772. He married Elizabeth Murphey, daugh ter of Rev. John Murphey, and Esther, his wife, March 27, 1798. She was born June 2, 1777, and died in Bre men, Nov. II, 1843. Jesse Rowles died May 7, 1835. Jesse Rowles came to Fairfield County with his family in 1803 and settled on a quarter section of John Mur- phey's land, since known as the Spence farm. Here he gave his attention to farming, making an occasional trip to Baltimore with a freight team. George Clum, an old wagoner, was often in his company. In early life he was a millwright and worked on the big mills at EHicott's mills, Maryland. Jesse Rowles was an Episcopalian, and he never united with any church in this county. He lived a good life and reared a good family. Their descendants are very numerous and all Christian people. Rev. J. F. Kemper, of Seward, Neb., is a Methodist and a grand son, one we hope, worthy to wear the mantle of John Murphey. There are numerous teachers in the family, good business men, good farmers. THE DAUGHTERS. Arabella Rowles, was born July 14, 1817. She married her cousin, Theodore Murphey, April 9, 1842. She was the mother of a family of children mentioned in the Murphey sketch. Lydia Rowles was born in Pennsylvania, January 25, 1799, and died in Bremen at her sister's home, Mrs. King, in 1853. She never married. Charlotte, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Rowles, married Morris Smith, of Thorn township. Perry County, Ohio, March 24, 1844. Smith came at an Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 239 early day from Stamford, Conn. Pie was a typical Yankee, plain, frugal and inteHigent. He was a good farmer, fond of horticulture and a great reader. He was thoroughly well informed and while working his farm and rearing a family of eight children, studied medicine for the pure love of learning. His children inherited his tastes and formed an interesting family. Their mother was an excellent woman, fond of her children and her home. Everet, lives in Nebraska, James M., at New Salem, and Mary and sister in Del aware, Ohio. Mr. Smith was born July 27, 1814, and died July 14, 1893. Althea was born August 31. She married Asa Kemper, April 20, 1843, ^ most excellent man of near Thornville, Perry County, Ohio. Mrs. Kemper died October i, 1861. They educated their famHy of three children. Mrs. Abbie Tillotson lives at Table Rock, Neb., and Rev. James F. Kemper at Seward, Nebraska. Elizabeth was born December 6, 1806. She married Thomas King of Rushville. Mr. King and she were married in 1828. He died in 1832. In 1853, the widow married H. Barbee, of Grove City, and moved with him to Prospect, Marion County, where she died May 3, 1887. Barbee is living in Columbus, 84 years of age. Mary M. King, of Westerville, is the only living descendant of Elizabeth A. Rowles.. Mary Ellen Rowles was born December, 18 19, and died in 1834. She was unmarried. Sarah Louisa, a teacher , never married. She was born May 7, 1809, .ind died Nov. 9, 1842. John Murphey Rowles was born September 23, 1804, on the Spence farm. — He married Mary Ann Morrow in 1829. She was born in Mifflin County, Pa., February 15, 1809. He was a farmer and moved upon 240 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People his farm, north of Bremen in 1830. They reared and educated ten children. For many years he was a wag oner and drove a six horse team with produce to Bal timore, returning with goods. The merry music of the bells cheered him on his way. He died July 10, 1878. His was a Christian home and his family a happy one. His children were wont to gather about him before the old fashioned fireplace and hear the story of his trips to old Baltimore. Death has since made sad inroads upon his once happy circle and those joyous occasions are only a memory to those that are left. His daughter, Mrs. Johnson, died Sept. 27, 1882. Florence died May 30, 1890; Adelia died January, 1898. Mrs. Ellen Kelsey lives near Bremen ; Caroline, who married R. D. Grant, lives in Grove City; Mrs. Jennie Shelhamer in Bremen. James R. Rowles lives in Pulaski county, Indiana. John Rowles was a member of Company C, Cap tain John Wiseman's Co., 46th Ohio. He was 24 years of age when he enlisted. He was killed early in the morning of the first day, April 6, 1862, in the battle of Shiloh. Fifteen of his comrades fell upon that fatal field of battle. "The Southland holds their dreamless dust" and the mocking birds sing their requiem. Cap tain and comrades are all together now. " On fame's eternal camping ground. Their silent tents are spread." John Rowles was first sergeant and favorite of his company. He was a fine, manly, generous fellow, and as brave and gallant a soldier as ever carried a mus ket. His voice is no more heard in the happy homes of Rushcreek, but his memory is fondly cherished by many loving hearts. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 241 " Brave boys -were they, Gone at their country's call." William, son of Jesse and Elizabeth Rowles, was born January 5, 1802, in the State of Maryland. He was brought to Ohio in 1803. He was brought up to farming, and when old enough he was entrusted with his father's team of six horses and carried produce to Baltimore and returned loaded with goods for Rush ville merchants. Just when he ceased to be a wagoner we cannot state. January 13, 1826, he was married to Maria Stuart of Rushcreek township. They settled upon a tract of land, since known as the Kelsey farm, once owned by Daniel Kelsey. In a short time they moved further down Rushcreek to what is known as the beaver dam, below the present town of Bremen. There he devoted his time, prin cipally to raising tobacco, then the great staple of Rush creek farms. The farmers of Rushcreek sold their product to Joseph Ijams & Bros., West Rushville, or to WiHiam Coulson of Rushville, then great merchants. This to bacco was taken east by great wagons, or by the Ohio Canal from Baltimore, Ohio. Both firms had branches and warehouses at the latter place. This tobacco trade was a great boon to the farmers, and enabled hundreds to pay their debts and secure titles to their farms. In the end many good farmers were heavy losers by the disastrous failure of both firms. George Beery and Hedges, in 1835, opened a store in the new viHage of Bremen, then but recently laid out by Beery. John Ashbaugh was a merchant later, as were the sons of George Beery, Isaac, Brooks and 16 242 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Simon. The tobacco they purchased was shipped by canal from Lancaster. John Holliday was kept busy for weeks at a time hauling their hogsheads to Lan caster. Conestoga teams came from Baltimore with goods and returned loaded with produce. The last one seen in Bremen was driven by a negro slave from Baltimore. His master had agreed to free him at a certain time if he proved faithful and true and give him the team and wagon. He had but two years to serve when he came to Bremen. He drove a splendid team of heavy bay horses, six in number. He rested them for a week in Bremen. He then put on an extra load — 10,000 pounds of bacon cured by John Ashbaugh. The entire population turned out to see the team pull up Rush creek hill. He rested them for a moment at the foot. Took each horse by the bridle and touched him with his whip, and mounted the saddle horse, pulled the line and they moved like clock work, without a break or stop to the top of the hill. William Rowles and wife while living at Beaver Dam, about the year 1832, joined the Presbyterian So ciety at Bethel, four miles southeast of Bremen, under the pastorate of Rev. Francis Bartlett. In 1836 he purchased the farm of Ralph Cherry, who married the youngest daughter of Joseph Leib, Sr., the same farm where Thompson Rowles recently lived. Upon this farm he continued to live up to the date of his death, which event occurred, September 9, 1863. His wife outlived him thirteen years — dying at the age of 63 years. He reared and educated a family of children, an honor to their name and their township. After the organization of the Bremen Presbyterian church, Octo- Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 243 ber 21, 1844, Wm. Rowles and wife changed their membership from Bethel to Bremen. Of this new church, Wm. Rowles, John Ashbaugh and Daniel Rode- hafer were the first elders. WHliam and Elizabeth Rowles were the parents of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. Jesse, the eldest, married Emily Ruffner, a sister of Jonas Ruffner and a daughter of Jacob Ruffner. They liyed upon a farm until recently and reared a family of children. Mrs. Rowles died February 2, 1899, aged 66 years. A daughter married the late J. J. Elder. Their son, Jesse A., married a daughter of Dr. Rankin. Jesse Rowles now lives in Bremen. A daughter married Dr. Driver. John S. Rowles married Elizabeth Larimer, daughter of Wright Larimer, once a leading man in Rushcreek. They lived upon a farm south of Bremen. John S. died in 1897. He had a family of nine chil dren. Wm. Rowles married Rebeccah Larimer, a daughter of Isaac Larimer, once a prominent man of the county. His first wife was Margaret Orndorf. They live upon a fine farm in Pleasant. They are the parents of nine children. David Rowles married Mary Holliday. They are both dead. The wife was a daughter of Zebulon Holliday. Charles Rowles mar ried Elizabeth Ashbaugh, a daughter of Wm. Ash baugh. They live upon a farm near Bremen. They reared a family of eight children. Thompson Rowles married Rebecca Holliday, a daughter of John Holli day. They spent many years on the old home place. One of their daughters married a son of John Q. A. Blue. Isaac Rowles married Ella Lehman. The wife died some years since. Isaac owns a fine farm near Bre- 244 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People men. His second wife was Rebecca R. Musser, daughter of David Musser. Eli Rowles, in 1872, married Ann M. Kraner, grand-daughter of Tunis P. Ashbrook. She died about one year since. They lived in Pleasantville. Eli has been for some years a grain merchant. He received a good. big vote for County Clerk. - Mary Jane Rowles married Edward Thompson. She has been dead for some years. Emily Rowles married D. S. Black. She is also numbered among the dead. Sarah E. Rowles did not marry. She died at the age of seventeen. Thompson and Jesse Rowles married Baptist wives and they are now of that faith. Every third Sunday, though living eight miles from the church, finds them with their families in their pews. The other members of the family are of the faith of their parents, Presby terians. RUSH CREEK PRESBYTERIANS Rev. Charles Work and his brother, distinguished Presbyterian clergymen, were brought up at old Bethel. A plow boy at the head of the first church of Cincin nati is something for Bethel to be proud of. Dis tinguished lawyers, distinguished clergymen and merchants honor the names of both Bethel and Rush creek — Leib, Work, Davis and Beery. We must refer more fully to the Presbyterians of Rushcreek. In 1803 missionary workers of the associ ate Reform Presbyterians came from Kentucky and held services in a tent. A church was soon buHt just over the line of Pleasant, two and one-half miles west of RushviHe and south of MaysviHe pike one-half mHe. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 245 In later years this society was known as the United Presbyterians, most of its members were Rushcreek people. They still sing Psalms, but have introduced modern music on account of their children. Rev. John Wright, organized the Rushcreek society in 1806 and in 1807 a two story hewed log house was built in what is now Jockey Hollow on Joseph S. Shaw's farm, two miles south of West Rushville. This society worshiped here untH 1830. William Larimer and Wil liam Trimble were elders, when a brick church was built in West Rushville. The church (the old log) was abandoned and a part of the society went to West Rushville. Of this society David Y. Davis was an elder, a part to Bethel and a few to the United Pres byterians. The logs of the old church were used to build a shop in the village. The Bethel church build ing was erected in 1828. Amos Davis, a public spir ited man, furnished the lumber and was a liberal con tributor. The subscriptions were mostly in produce. One man subscribed so much wheat to be delivered at Leib's mill. Jacob Moyer, father of John and Thomas of Pleasant, and David Miller were the contractors. Moyer died here ; Miller in Iowa. Jacob Moyer, John Larimer and Amos Davis were the first elders. Rev. John Wright preached for them once each month. Rev. Francis Bartlett became the regular pastor in 1832. Many of the members were Scotch-Irish, they were strict with their children and almost invariably raised good families. As previously stated Wm. Rowles married Maria Stuart. She was the daughter of pioneer parents, William Stuart and Maria Henderson, known as Scotch-Irish. Stuart's mother was a Thompson. They were both born in Ireland. The father came to the 246 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People United States in 1796 when twenty years of age. I'he mother came in 1797. Their parents settled in Penn sylvania. Here they became acquainted and were married February 18, 1801. A few years after their marriage they came to this county and settled near what is now Bremen. In a few years they were owners of a halt section of land, a part of which is now within the cor poration of Bremen. They built a comfortable home on the bluff just north of the present village where they spent a peaceful, honorable and useful hfe, rearing a family of children. One of their best known sons, Thompson Stuart, highly esteemed and useful man, was born March 20, 1816. He married Rebecca C. Holliday, daughter of Zebulon Holliday, another sturdy and vigorous man of Rushcreek township. The wedding occurred April 20, 1845. He purchased a part of the old Stuart homestead and lived the life of a farmer to the end of his days in sight of Bremen. They reared a family of seven children. Mrs. Charles Perrin of Columbus, Mrs. W. B. Henry of Lancaster, Mrs. N. W. Good of Logan, W. J. Stuart of Springfield, Mrs. W. C. McCandish, Zebu lon and Wesley of Bremen. Thompson Stuart was an honored member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died Dec. 15, 1898, aged eighty-two years. His father-in-law Zebulon Holliday was a staunch Methodist and was devoted to his church. The writer has known him to attend a quarterly meeting twelve miles from his home. Fifty years have come and gone since that occasion. The brothers of Thompson Stuart were Charles, William and James, Charles Stuart of Lancaster, who Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 247 married a daughter of Christian Rudolph, is a son of James Stuart. Alexander T. Stuart the great merchant of New York is claimed as a cousin of WHliam Stuart the pio neer. Both were born in the same neighborhood in North Ireland. We cannot close without referring to the early schools of Rushcreek. The first was taught by Chris topher Welty in George Beery's kitchen. The second by Joseph Osborn in the kitchen of Joseph Leib, Sr. The late David Y. Davis attended the last named. THE WILSON FAMILY OF RICHLAND In the spring of 1800, WiHiam Wilson, of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in company with his three sons. James, William and Michael, started for the Ohio country — with a pack horse to carry their camp equip age. They arrived at Rushcreek on the i6th day of May, and camped near the great spring now owned by Mrs. William Friend. They spent the summer here, and made some progress in clearing land, but were too late to raise a crop of corn. In the fall Wil liam AVilson left his boys in camp and returned to Pennsylvania for the remainder of his family. He soM his property and started for Ohio, arriving at his camp on Rushcreek on the 27th of November. At Zanesville they crossed the river on a ferry boat with difficulty, as it was covered with ice. They spent the night on the west bank with a brother of Col. Ebenezer Zane. After leaving Zanesville they fell in company with George Sanderson, whose horse, on the way, came near dying with the colic. He was relieved by a liberal use of bear's oil. Whether applied extern ally or given internally we cannot state. Sanderson 248 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People was then the mail carrier. Nearly the entire route from Zanesville was through the forest over Zane's trace. They found two cabins at the crossing of Rush creek near Whitmore's orBinckley's in Perry County. A Mr. Atkinson and Peter Zarley were living there. They reached the camp of the boys at sunset — when the family was united, thirteen in all, without house or home. B'ut strong hands soon put up a cabin. Their nearest neighbor was S. Chaney, who lived near where West Rushville now stands on what is now the Barr farm. He kept a log cabin tavern, undoubt edly the first in the county. Other neighbors lived on the section north of their location, viz. : Fredrick Heck, Ben. Johnson and a man named Smith. AVilliam Brown, a fine scholar, the Loofberrys, S. Hammel and J. Wilson lived in the neighborhood. Moses Plumme in 1800, built a small tub mill, as it was called, on Rushcreek where the high bridge now stands. In two or three years this mill was carried off by a flood and Plummer moved to Muskingum county, Ohio. There is some question as to who built the flrst water mill in Fairfield County. Plummer, Loveland and Smith, or the Carpenters — all three were built in 1800. So tradition and history says. In 1801 William Turner came to the settlement and purchased the section where Rushville now stands. S. Hammel and James Wilson purchased 30 acres of Wil liam Turner and built a small mill and a whiskey dis tillery, just below the site of the Plummer mill. In the fall of 1801, other emigrants came in. Among them Isaac Thomas and WHliam Ijams, and settled on the land since owned by Mr. Spoon Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 249 About 1803 John Murphy settled on what has since been known as the Lamb section. His son William, soon after their coming, was killed by the falling of a log while raising the timbers of a school house. This is the first school house in Fairfield County of which we have any account. About this same time Edward Teal, Christly Smith, Robert Chaffin and John Shepler came into the neigh borhood, to the north. Teal purchased 1200 acres of good land, now the Ashbrook neighborhood. He was the father-in-law of Rev. James Quinn, the first Meth odist to preach in Fairfield County. John Manly and Judge David Swayze came about the year 1803, and settled in the Elm flat. Emanuel Ruffner, father of the late Col. Jos. Ruffner, settled on a part of the Wil son section in this same year, or near that time. David Pence came about the same time. Daniel Stevenson, with a large family, settled in or about 1803 on the sec tion north of Wilson. Edward Murphy came to the neighborhood about this time and courted and married Sarah Murphy, daughter of John Murphy. Edward settled on the section south of Wilson and Ruffner. He kept tavern — was a farmer, and he also purchased the mill and distillery of Hammel and Wilson and operated them for a while. He was a good citizen, and he and his wife were hospitable and amiable peo ple. They reared eighteen orphan children, some of them black. William Wiseman was a settler of this period. He lived near West Rushville. He was the son-in-law of William Ijams; was an old soldier of Gen. St. Clair's army. Peter Ruffner, another early settler of this period, lived near Edward Murphy on the old State road. He was a farmer and distiller, but died young. He left three or four sons, Benjamin 250 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People S., Abraham, Martin and Michael. Martin was killed by the Indians in what is now Ashland County, Ohio. A full account of this tragedy may be found in Howe's History of Ohio. Michael was a merchant in Rush ville, Pleasantville and Baltimore, and lately a doctor in Greenup, Illinois. Henry Huddle came about 1803 or 1805. He married a daughter of John Murphy. He was the first man to improve the Foresman mill site on Rushcreek. He built at an early day a grist mill and a distillery. In a few years he sold out to Solomon Linville, and in time Linville sold to George Foresman; the section now belongs to his grandson of Circleville. There is not a vestige of the old miH left, and the exact spot cannot, with certainty, be pointed out. William Wilson was a prominent man in his township, and very much esteemed. He was the first justice of the peace elected in Richland town ship. Thomas and Isaac Ijams were early justices of the peace, and Thomas Ijams represented Fairfield county in the legislature. Wilson reared a large family of children. Thomas Wilson lived an old bachelor on the old home to a good old age. He was a gentleman of the old school, kind and generous, and lived a quiet, happy life. David lived many years on a part of the old home section, but before the civil war moved to Tipton, Mis souri. David was a prominent man and would have attracted attention anywhere. He was a man of fine presence and a good conversationalist. He was enter taining and agreeable. Isaac Wilson was all his life a farmer of Fairfield County. At the time of his death he owned the best farm in Greenfield. Isaac was an active, powerful man, a leader in early times, and the man around whom everybody rallied when they wanted Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 251 a brave and invincible leader. He was the father of the late J. W. Wilson, of Greenfield. Michael Wilson lived for some time in Vinton county, and was living as late as 1852. Benjamin died in New Orleans. Robert Paden, an old citizen of this county, near Baltimore, married a daughter of William Wilson. James Wilson and William Wilson spent most of their lives on a farm near Uniontown, Ohio. Joseph, one of the eight sons, lived on a farm near Rushville. Mary, daughter of William Wilson, married a hat ter of Zanesville named Herron. Their daughter, Mary, was for years a teacher in our Lancaster schools. Another daughter made her home with Thos. Wilson, and became the wife of Alfred Melick. The third daughter married Chas. Nourse, father of the late Dr. Nourse. Catherine Wilson married Gen. John Williamson, and after his death she became the wife of Col. Wm. Sumner. She was for many years a leading lady of Lancaster. The father of Gen. Tom Ritchie married a daughter of William Wilson. The General was a farmer and a popular man. He represented the Perry district in Congress and sent Phil. Sheridan to West Point. Mrs. Mary Work, of this city, is a daughter of David Wilson, and Mrs. W. M. Leiby is a great- granddaughter of the old pioneer, WiHiam Wilson. Mrs. Ada Wiseman is a great-granddaughter. Isaac Ijams was the father of Isaac, John and Wil liam. William Ijams was the father of Richard and Howard. Thomas Ijams was the father of John, Joseph and Frederick. Eight men who were for many years prominent in business, in and about West Rush ville. Joseph was especially distinguished as a mer chant and dealer in tobacco. His splendid six-horse 252 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People teams used in his business are still the talk of the old people. He failed in business in 1841, and moved to Iowa. One of his sons became a prominent man in the West. The first Methodist church built in Fairfield County was Richland chapel. It was a hewed log structure as plain as plain could be. It stood near the old grave yard, and in sight of the home of Daniel Stevenson, not far from Wilson's. Those in the neighborhood who were Methodists or patronized that church prior to 1805, were Daniel Stevenson and wife, Isaac and Thomas Ijams, John J. Jackson, John Sunderland, Edward Teal, Samuel Hammil, David Swayze, Wil liam Wilson, Jacob and Philip Sain, William Turner, John Murphey, WiHiam Harper, John Manly, Thomas and John Bond and Isaac Wiles and their families. Thomas and David Wilson were staunch Metho dists. Jesse Stoneman, James Quinn and Asa Shinn were the first men to preach to these people. Bishop Asbury preached to them in 1803, and again at a great camp-meeting in 1807, when over 1000 people were in attendance. Bishop McKendry preached there, James Axly and Peter Cartright, James B. Findlay and Bishop Roberts. The writer gleaned most of the facts in this sketch from a manuscript left by the late Thomas WHson, an authority that will not for a moment be questioned by those who knew him. THE MURPHEY FAMILY The Murphey family was quite a large and promi nent one in pioneer times in this county. Edward Murphey examined the country in 1798 and '99 and returned to the East. In the year 1800 his father. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 253 William Murphey, and three sons, William, Benjamin and Edward, settled near where Millersport now stands. Rev. John Murphey, a local Methodist preacher, and a brother of WiHiam, came in the same year and purchased a section of land about one and one-half miles west of Rushcreek. He built a cabin near the spot where a large brick home was after wards built by his son-in-law, Edward Murphey, which brick house is still standing. It was in this cabin where Bishop Asbury spent his first night in Fairfield County and where he preached in 1803. Benjamin Murphey died early and we have no record of him, except that he paid tax in 1806 and moved to Licking County. William Murphey, son of the pioneer, became a very prominent and well known man in Walnut town ship. In his early years he was a hunter and Indian trader and carried his fur on pack horses to Winches ter, Va., and with the proceeds purchased a section of land, on which he in a few years built a brick house. He was born in Virginia in 1774 and died in the year 1854. He was a famous fox hunter and up to within a few 3'ears of his death kept a large pack of hounds. He could ride a horse to perfection and clear the best fences. His first wife was Hester Whittaker, either a sister or a daughter of Eli Whittaker, one of the early pio neers of Walnut. Whittaker's wife was a sister of Thomas Cherry. The mother of the late Gen. Jas. M. Comly, editor of the Ohio State Journal, was a Whittaker. They lived near New Lexington. Thomas, John and Dakin Whittaker were sons of Eli. Mrs. Elijah Kemper, Mrs. John S. Manley, Mrs. Geo. B. Wiseman, Mrs. Geo. Haver and Mrs. Asa 254 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Murphey were his daughters., all well known people of the past. Murphey's second wife was a daughter of Joseph Holmes, a grand old pioneer of Walnut township. The family of William Murphey consisted of one son and five daughters. James Wilson Pearse, who when a boy, was a clerk along with John D. Martin in N. R. Usher's store at Monticello, in 1833 married Eliza Murphey. They lived upon a farm near Mil lersport. Their children were William, living in Newark, and Mrs. Matlack, of Lancaster. James Ball, for many years a popular justice of the peace, married Belinda. Ball was a fine looking gentleman and much esteemed. Their son, James Ball, lives in Fostoria, Ohio, Mrs. R. Morrison in Bowling Green, Ohio, and two daughters, nice maiden ladies, in New ark, Ohio. Hester married a Mr. White, of Penn sylvania. She is a well preserved and handsome elderly lady, and lives with her children in Wester ville, Ohio. Dr. Van Metre, of Circlevile, married Nancy, the youngest daughter. Rachel Murphey married John Pugh. They were the parents of the late Byron M. Pugh. William, the son, was born in 18 18 and received a good education, besides inheriting 350 acres of land. December 25, 1849, h^ was married to Mary Jane Cherry, daughter of Thomas Cherry, of Walnut. She was born August 22, 1830. They were the parents of eight children, one of whom died young. Edward Murphey, brother of William (the old hunter) married his cousin, Sarah, daughter of John Murphey, and a sister of Elizabeth Rowles. They were married in 1801 by William Trimble, a justice of the peace. Edward built a cabin on his father-in- Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 255 law's farm and in late years a large brick house, which is stHl standing. In his log house he kept a frontier tavern for a number of years. Mrs. Murphey was a famous woman in her time. She is credited with rearing 32 orphan children, in addition to her own family of five. Color made no difference to her. She raised Joseph Blanchard, well known in Lancaster, and Isabelle, the wife of old Perry Cooper. Edward Murphey died in the fifties. His wife outlived him several years and became the second wife of Asa Mur phey, who at the time lived near Carroll. Theodore, the son of Edward and Sarah Murphey, married Arabella Rowles in 1840, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Rowles. They spent their lives upon the old Murphey farm in the peaceful pursuit of agri culture and the rearing of a family. Arabella Mur phey died in 1848 and Theodore married a second wife. The sons of Theodore Murphey were Edward N. Murphey, now a guard in the Ohio Penitentiary, Henry, the present postmaster of West Rushville, Pierson E. Murphey', a grain and produce dealer of West RushvHle, F. A. Murphey, also a resident of West Rushville. The Murphey family has always been a highly respectable one and allied by marriage to many of the best families of the county. CHILDREN OF JOHN MURPHEY. Elizabeth Murphey, wife of Jesse Rowles and mother of Mrs. Theodore Murphey was born June 2, 1777. She was married March 27, 1798. She died in Bremen, Ohio, November 11, 1843. Another daughter of Rev. John and Esther Mur phey married Edward Teal, Jr., and they moved to Ox- 256 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People ford, Butler County, Ohio. He was a son of a grand old pioneer and the father of a large family. Althea Murphey married a Mr. Roland and moved to Ash land County, Ohio. Achsa Murphey married a Mr. Bailey and moved to eastern Ohio. Nelly Murphey married Henry Huddle and they moved to Augusta County, Virginia. John and his wife, Edward and his wife, Theodore and his wife are buried in or near West Rushville. When on their way to their new home in the wilderness, Mrs. Mur phey learned of the death of her mother, Mrs. Peddi- cord, in Pennsylvania. This news almost broke her heart, already full of sorrow. She could not leave her family and return, and like other brave pioneers, under circumstances of distress and sorrow, she turned her face to the west and bid home and mother adieu forever. They followed Zane's trace through an unbroken forest to Rushcreek. Here in a lonely cabin with her husband and children she spent what was left of life. The frequent visits of Bishop Asbury and other pio neer Methodist preachers, who preached in their cabin and enjoyed their hospitality, was about all there was to cheer them in their isolated home — no roads then, no churches, no schools, no newspapers, and but few books. All they learned of what was going on in the world was from an occasional letter from the East, on which the postage was twenty-five cents, or from pass ing travelers or itinerant preachers. We omitted in its proper place the name of Basil Murphey, son of William. His family moved to Del aware, Ohio. One of his daughters. Miss Linda, an elderly maiden lady, resides there. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 257 MURPHEY FAMILY SUPPLEMENT. The second wife of Theodore Murphey was Mar garet Alford. Their daughter married Alexander Huston and they live on a farm near the old home stead. As long as sixty years ago three sisters lived here with their mother, named Murphey. They lived for a while in the old Peck dwelling, opposite Hotel Martin. We can not learn the name of the father but he was a relative of John and Edward Murphey. In 1842 Lydia married Joel Radebaugh, then in the clerk's office, but' later Probate Judge of Fairfield County. The judge died a year or two since in Ta- coma, Washington, leaving a widow and one son, Randolph Foster Radebaugh, named for Bishop Foster. Rachel married William Winthrop Sifford, whom John Sherman, in his autobiography, named as one of his school-mates. They moved to Indianapolis and Sifford died there. Elizabeth was a mHliner and at one time had a fine store in the Collins' block. She married a Mr. Key, a gentleman from Wheeling, Va., about 1859. They in a year or two moved to Wheeling. Key was one of the famous family of that name, immortalized by the " Star Spangled Banner." He is said to have inherited a fortune after going to Wheeling. Their son went to Texas and became a cowboy. He mar ried the handsome daughter of an Indian chief. His wife died young and left three children. These he took to Wheeling and placed them under the care of his mother. The writer met him on his way return ing to Texas, and had this story from his own lips. 17 258 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People THE HOLMES FAMILY William M. Holmes, the ancestor of the Holmes family, came from England to Baltimore, Maryland, in or about the year 1700. His wife. Honor e Wells, was born December 10, 1724. They were married when she was in her i6th year. Their children were, Lenorah, born 1742; William, born 1746; James, the subject of this sketch, was born February 13, 1748; Sarah, 1750. She married Colonel Alex. McLain, of Uniontown, Penn. ; EHzabeth was born February 12, 1753. She married George Wells, and they settled in Union township. Licking County, Ohio. Thomas, born 1755, settled in Licking County; Alexander, born 1757, was killed in the revolutionary war. William M. Holmes died March 10, 1758. His widow married Richard Brown, November 17, 1759. Brown was colonel under General Washington. He lived in Pennsylvania at that time. They moved as early as 1796 to Holliday 's Cove, on the Ohio river, near the present town of Wellsburg, Va. Colonel Brown died February 8, 181 1, aged 71 years. His wife died March 28, 1816, aged 90 years. Their •daughter Rachel married General James Wells who settled on the Hooker farm in 1801, and whom we wHl sketch in another paper. General Wells was a brother of the George Wells mentioned — the hus tand of Elizabeth Holmes. The Holmes family was prominent in the history of this county. The family of the founder, James Holmes, Sr., consisted of thirteen sons and one daugh ter. They were all married and all reared families with one exeception. Thirteen sons, remarkable for longevity, good character and business ability. The oldest sons were Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 259 very well educated and filled important positions in life. James Holmes, Sr., was a soldier of the Revo lution, and after the war ended he settled in Wash ington County, Pa., where he married Ann Whittaker, a sister of Eli Whittaker. He had quite a family of boys before emigrating to the west and they received a good education for the time in which they lived. He belonged to the hardy people known as the Scotch Irish. He came with his family to Fairfield County in 1802. He purchased the land which lay between the William Murphey farm and what is now Millersport. On this farm he built the first brick house in that part of the county. But on this farm in an ordinary log house he reared his large family. They began to leave soon and settled upon tracts of their own. The Murpheys, Whittakers, Crawfords, Havers and Cherrys formed a fine pioneer neighborhood. They intermarried and raised large families, and for one hundred years their influence has been one for good. James Holmes lived to be 79 years of age and his wife 69 years. They were buried near the home of Alex ander and James, Jr., at the Wells graveyard or George's Chapel, one-half mile north of Luray, in Licking County. James Holmes was slightly lame, caused by a wound received in the Revolutionary war. He was a man of sterling qualities, and very prominent in his neighborhood. He built the first brick house in Walnut township. Thomas Holmes, a brother of James, settled in Union township. Licking County, Ohio. He died, aged 78 years, and was buried at George's Chapel, near Luray, Ohio. Alexander Holmes was the eldest son of James. He was well educated in Pennsylvania. He married a daughter of the first William Murphey and a sister 260 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of Mrs. John Van Buskirk, of Licking County. He settled upon the farm where he Hved and died, in Union township, in 1802. He was a fine surveyor and was for some time employed as a land surveyor for the government. Subsequently he was elected county surveyor of Licking County. He surprised and disgusted his father by early predicting that the Ohio Canal would some day be buHt and would pass through his farm. A prediction that came true. He reared a family and lived to an advanced age. His body is said to have been buried on his farm. Alexander Holmes was much more than an ordi nary man. About the year 1808 he was appointed an Associate Judge of Licking County and served one term. In 1825 Governor DeWitt CHnton, of New York, commenced the Ohio Canal by throwing a shovel fuH of earth at the Licking Summit. Licking and Fairfield Counties united in celebrating this event. Governor Clinton was received by a com mittee from each county. Judge Holmes and Judge Wilson for Licking and Judge Scofield and Colonel John Noble for Fairfield. Thomas Ewing delivered the oration and Gottlieb Steinman furnished the din ner. Judge Holmes at this time was one of the most distinguished men of Licking County. In his early life, in the woods, his father and mother and son Eli paid him a visit. On the way, in the forest, they noticed a smoke and soon saw the fire. Mrs. Holmes filled her pipe and gave it to Eli to light for her. Going to the fire he found a family living and keeping house in a hollow sycamore tree — where they had lived for one year. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 261 Thomas Holmes, son of James, was born in Penn sylvania, and came with his father to Ohio. He mar ried Rachel AA'^ells, his cousin. She was a daughter of George AA'ells, who married Elizabeth Holmes, a sister of James Holmes. George AA'ells lived in Union township. Licking County, and both he and his wife were buried at George's Chapel. Thomas Holmes pur chased a section of land north of what is now Carroll. He was there as early as 1806, and a tax payer. He lived an honorable and useful life and left a good name as the heritage of his children. He died Octo ber 14, 1847, aged 68 years. Rachel, his wife, died January 8, 1845, aged 59. They were both buried at the Carroll cemetery. They were -the parents of five sons. Thomas, James, George. Alexander and Richard. All dead but the last one named. AA'esley Holmes, a Carroll merchant, is the only son of George Holmes. He married Catharine Aldred, a sister of Dr. A. T. Aldred, late of Carroll. Elizabeth, daughter of George, is the wife of Cap tain O. B. Brandt, a farmer near Carroll. They live on the old home place. ]Mary, daughter of George, married Dr. Hummel, of Baltimore. James Brandt, an energetic young man, is a grandson. James, son of James, and grandson of Thomas, is a farmer on the old AA'hittaker place, and also runs the creamer^-. He was brought up by James Picker ing and wife. Henn- Holmes, brother of James, is the present mayor of Carroll. The daughters of James, son of Thomas, are ^Irs. G. AA'. Luckey, Mrs. George Groves, of Dayton, Aliss Florence of Indiana. Ella, wife of Postmaster Kraner, of Pickeringfton ; Maria, wife of Samuel Ludwig Reeves, superintendent of workhouse, at Columbus, Ohio. Richard, son of 262 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Thomas, married Miss Miller. They were not blessed with children. Richard is the only grandson of the pioneer, James Holmes, living so far as we can learn. The daughters of Thomas Holmes, son of James, the pioneer, were Mrs. Nancy Bayless, of Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Taylor. She died a short time ago. They had lived a married life of sixty-five years. Henry Taylor is a grand old man. Rachel married for her first husband Dakin Whit taker. Her second husband was James Pickering, grandfather of the Lancaster postmaster. Harriet hiarried George Tong, a grandson of W. H. Tong, the man who entertained Bishop Asbury the first time that he preached in Lancaster, in 1807. If correctly informed, this brother of George went to California. Alexander, a brother, became blind and spent his last years with Mrs. Taylor. TONG George Tong married second time to Nancy Har rison, widow, March 17, 1818. George Tong died October 10, 1825. Nancy (wife), AprH 10, 1826. THEIR CHILDREN. George Tong, born Augu.st 14, 1819, married Har riet Holmes, September 7, 1843. Margaret Tong, born September 17, 1821, married Amos Drimell, 1838; Elisha Smith, 1844. Nancy Tong, born August 30, 1823, died in infancy. The Tongs were prominent in Carroll for many years. They were good citizens and fine looking men. Thomas Holmes, Sr., owned a fine section of land just north of Carroll, running to Walnut creek. Sarah married John W. Smith. They have both been dead some years. Henry T. Smith, of Lancaster, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 263 is their son, and Thomas, another son, lives in Indiana. Marietta, the daughter, is the wife of Dr. Stewart of Pickerington. One of the chief characteristics of the Holmes family is good looks, and }ilrs. Stewart is not deficient in this respect. AA'illiam Holmes, son of James, was born in Penn sylvania and received some schooling there. He lived as early as 1803 on a fine farm in Licking County and late in life moved to Janesville, AA'isconsin, where he died. He was an associate judge of Licking County from 1820 to 1830. Richard Holmes, son of James, married a Cherry and moved to Schoolcraft, ^lichigan, where they lived and died upon their farm. James Holmes, Jr., was bom in May, 1785. in AA'ashington county. Pa. He came vrith his father to Fairfield County in 1802. His wife was Elizabeth AA'ells, and the}" were married in 1806, and settled upon a farm in Union township. Licking County, Ohio. His wife ^\'as a sister of Mrs. Thomas Holmes, and had several other relatives in this township. George, Rich ard. Joseph, AA'illiam and Bezeleel AA'ells. A ^lethodist church was built in that neighborhood in 1812 and called "AA'^ells' fleeting House." In late years a brick church was built and called "George's Chapel. Here also is the AA'ells, Hand, Ford and Holmes graveyard. Rev. George Callahan, a farmer and Methodist preacher lived in this neighborhood many years. His wife was a AA'ells. Callahan was bom in 1766, in Pennsylvania, and died in Jerse}- township. Licking County, in 1839, aged 73 years. 264 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People He was a circuit rider in western Pennsylvania and in the year 1787 crossed the Ohio and preached at Carpenter's fort, while a company of soldiers stood guard to protect the white people from the Indians. Philip Ford, the grandfather of James and Charles Pickering, married a daughter of this Rev. George Callahan. He was the first M. E. preacher in Ohio. James Holmes, Jr., owned and improved four or five different farms in his life time, selling the last one in 1833, and moving to Fairfield County. In 1835 he moved to Hebron and became a merchant, in which he failed. He was wealthy and did not lose all. When he died his body was embalmed and placed in a vault at George's Chapel. His wife gave direc tion to bury her body in the grave, which was done. This old settlement and the graveyard is an inter esting spot. James Holmes was county surveyor for several years. Samuel Holmes moved at an early day to Marion, Ohio, where he reared and educated a small family. He was for several years the county surveyor, an important ofiice in a newly settled county. He has been dead at least sixty years. Several of his chil dren died young in years. His son Samuel was deputy postmaster of Marion from 1849 to 1853 under Samuel A. Griswold, now a resident of this city. He moved from Marion to Sycamore, in Wyandot County, where he died. A daughter of Samuel Holmes married James S. Reed, an old merchant of Marion and at the time of his death the leading banker and one of the wealthy men of Marion. He was an accomplished business man, well informed, and had few, if any, equals in the Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 266 city of Marion. His wife outlived him but is now dead. Samuel's sons, Richard and Charles, are both dead. George, a son of James Holmes, Jr., married Sarah Gill, a sister of John GiH. A daughter married James Harvey, who began his business career selling tobacco and whiskey to the laborers on the national road. When Holmes failed as a merchant, Harvey bought the stock. His wife died early, and he married Miss Hand, a wealthy woman. He then moved to Newark and was rated the richest man in Licking County. Reason Holmes, son of James, moved to the state of Michigan and spent his life upon a farm. Roland Holmes, son of James, went to Missouri at an early day, married there, and died childless Basil Holmes was a physician and married a Miss Cochran. He died near Kirkersville, Ohio, at Eli's house. Lemuel Holmes, son of James, moved to Wisconsin, was a farmer and reared a family. Eli Holmes settled upon a farm first in Walnut township and in the early days ran a distillery on section four. In late years he purchased a farm near Kirkersville and spent his old age there. He was a fine looking and much respected gentleman, and an enthusiastic member of the Meth odist Episcopal Church. Eli Holmes married a daughter (Sallie) of Rich ard Brown. She was a granddaughter of Edward Brown, brother of Colonel Richard Brown, father of Rachel Wells or Mrs. General James WeHs. Mrs. Brown was a Whittaker, a sister of old Dakin and Eli Whittaker. When quite old Holmes moved to Putnam, Ohio (Zanesville), where he died. Archibald Houston married his daughter, Amanda. His son, James H. Holmes, is a pension clerk in 266 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Washington, D. C. His daughter, Catharine, married Josiah Whittaker. His son, Eli, lives in Milford, Illinois. Basil, in Terra Haute, Indiana. His daugh ter, Nancy, married Enos Wilkins, of Granville, Ohio. Joshua Holmes, son of James, moved to Indiana and died there. He was the father of the late Mrs. James Ewing, of Pleasant township. Mrs. Ewing's daughters were handsome, like their mother, and were well educated. The eldest married a schoolmate named ZoUars, of Licking County, Ohio. He was a lawyer and they moved to Fort Wayne, Ind. He was for one term a Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana. Mrs. Bennett, the other daughter, lives in Chicago, 111. Mrs. and Judge Zollars are prominent people of Fort Wayne, and delightful people to meet. Joseph Holmes, son of James, lived and died in AValnut township, near Buckeye Lake'; the farm is now owned by John Zollinger. He married a sister of Peter, George and Jerriah Haver and of Mrs. D. Pope, Mrs. Thomas Cherry, Mrs. John Meason and Mrs. John Brandon. A bevy of sisters noted for good taste and fine manners. They were prominent in a fine circle of nice people. Of the Methodist Church he was an honored and consistent member. He lived to a good old age, respected and honored by all who knew him. He was a fine talker and it was a great pleasure to hear him at his best. He was a good look ing man and his daughters, Mrs. Aldred and Mrs. Whittaker, were handsome women. Peter Holmes was the oldest son of Joseph. When about thirty years of age he started from Cin cinnati to New Orleans and was never heard of after wards. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 267 William Holmes, son of Joseph, moved to near Fort Wayne, Ind. He became a stock dealer and soon moved to Pittsburg and engaged in the stock commis sion business at East Liberty. He died a few years since. Joshua, George and Reason were (farmers. George lived a short time in Lancaster. George mar ried a Reese, and Reason married a Thompson, and they spent their lives upon the old home farm. Upon the death of Reason, in due time, his widow married Peter Cool. Rebecca was the second wife of WiHiam Murphey, Sr. Hester died young. Elizabeth mar ried David Cherry. He died in a few years and his widow married John Aldred, who recently died at Pataskala, Ohio. Nancy married John Whittaker and they moved to New Lexington, Ohio, where they were prominent and highly esteemed. Nancy Holmes, daughter of James Holmes, and the only daughter, married Charles Brown and they moved to Uniontown, Penn., where they spent their lives. Charles Brown and Nancy Holmes were married September 9, 1819, and moved immediately to Fayette County, Pa. Mr. Brown died on their farm in Fayette September 14, 1835. Colonel Alexander McLean, who married Sarah Holmes, was a very able and distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the legislature and filled many important public offices. He was a civil engineer of distinction and represented Pennsyl vania in the survey of Mason and Dixon's line, which was completed in 1783. He died in Uniontown, Fay ette county. Pa., December 7, 1834. Colonel Alex. McLean had six brothers and all were surveyors. Three of the oldest assisted in the 268 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Mason and Dixon survey prior to 1766. On account of opposition on the part of the Indians of the ".Six Nations" and of the Delawares and Shoshones. Mason and Dixon's line was not completed untH the year 1783. The finishing work was done by Colonel McLean and his brother John. Colonel McLean was born in York Co., Pa., in 1746, and located in what is now Somerset County, Pa., as a surveyor in 1765. He married Sarah Holmes at or near Storrstown, Pa., in 1775. This sketch is not so complete as we could wish, but for want of information it is the best we can do. What is known of so large and so remarkable .1 family is worth preserving. THE WELLS FAMILY. The ancestry of Gen. James Wells and Col. Rich ard Brown : James Wells, an Englishman, was founder of the family in the United States and lived in or near Bal timore, Md. St. Paul's Parish Register of that city gives his wife's name as Ann, and children as James, born 27th January, 1716; Prudence, born March 16, 17^0; Rich ard, second son, born 13th March, 1722; Ann, born 17th February, 1729; Alexander, born 12th March, 1727 (father of Bezaleel Wells, of SteubenviHe) ; Honor, born in October, 1724 (Brown Bible gives this date December 10, 1724-5). This last named child, Honor, married, first Wm M. Holmes, founder of the family of that name in Ohio. As his widow, she married Col. Richard Brown, November 17, 1759. There were three children of this marriage : Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 269 Rachel, bom December 29, 1760, became the wife of Gen. Jas. AA'ells, in Pennsylvania, April 24, 1775. Richard, only son, was a surveyor, member of the Virginia State Legislature, etc. Married, settled and died in the Panhandle, where his descendants live at present. Margaret, the youngest, married Madden and settled in Indiana. The Brown ancestor, also English, married Nancy Stevenson, in Baltimore County, Md., and settled there. Their family numbered sixteen. Edward, one of these children, was grandfather of Mrs. Eli H. Holmes. Another was Col. Richard Brown. ."V third Nancy, was mother of Gen. James AVells. The husband, Richard (James?) AA^ells was a brother of Honor AA^ells-Holmes-Brown and son of the founder of the family of James Wells. Honor M-as both aunt and mother-in-law to Gen. James AA^ells and his brother, George, who married Elizabeth Holmes, sister of James Holmes. Sr. — children by her first husband. Nancy Brown, wife of Richard (or James?) Wells, (son of the founder) and family probably, resided in Frederick County, JNId. Xancv Stevenson Mas no doubt related to Daniel Stevenson of Richland. I. Richard, who was likely their oldest son, mar ried a Miss Holmes, then !Miss Brown, moved to Ken tucky-, thence to Missouri, where he died. 2. Alexander, a volunteer in the army of Gen. St. Clair, was killed by the kick of a horse at Ft. Wash ington (Cincinnati), Ohio. 3. George, bom in 1745, was the father of Wil liam AA'ells, the founder of AA'ellsville, Ohio. 270 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 4. James, born in 1751, married Rachel, daugh ter of Col. Richard Brown, in Pennsylvania, April 24, 1775, etc. 5. Thomas, born in 1758; farmer, settled near Maysville, Ky. ; paid remembered visits to his relatives in Ohio; owned slaves and held those belonging to his brother. Gen. James Wells. 6. John, born in 1764, youngest son, was a man of great prominence in Somerset, Pa., where he died. He laid out the towns of Bedford and Somerset, that State, as surveyor; was justice of the peace, associate judge, etc. His descendants are worthy successors. Next to nothing is known of the six sisters of these men. Mary, born in 1748, married John Dodd ridge. Patience, born in 1758, married a Baptist min ister, named Kerr, and settled in Kentucky. The father of this family, Richard (or James?) Wells, married a second wife and had another six sons and six daughters — 24 children in all. Most, if not all, of both families came West, The father lived, after leaving Maryland, in Penn sylvania, in the " Panhandle," in Kentucky, and died in Ohio in 1808, in Ross county. Gen. Wells settled in Somerset county, Penn., a year or two before the Revolution. He served in that war, as did his father-in-law. Col. Richard Brown, and his cousins, James and Alexander Holmes. He was once surprised by the Indians and pur sued for a long distance, finally securing a horse he made his escape, not, however, until wounded four times by the bullets of the Indians. He was a prominent man in Somerset county and filled positions of honor and trust. In April, 1795, he Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 271 was made an associate judge of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. From Somerset County he moved to Holiday's Cove, on the Ohio, where his father-in-law then lived. This must have been in 1798 or 1799. Here his daughter, Sarah, married Samuel Tallman, and they took up their residence in Wellsburg, Va., a town near the old home, and named for the Wells family. The exact date of Gen. Wells's coming to Ohio can not be given, but it must have been in the fall of 1801. He built a cabin on what is now known as the Trimble or Hooker place, in the woods; and when the land sales took place he purchased 1,280 acres in one body. He was a justice of the peace for Greenfield at one time, and gave his attention to farming. General Wells was a member of a very distin guished family, and his own reputation was that of an able, upright man. His sister, Mary, married John Doddridge. Their son, Joseph, was a clergyman of the Episcopal church. Philip was a distinguished law yer and had few equals in the West. He was also a very distinguished Congressman, and died in Wash ington in 1832. The late Joseph G. Doddridge, of Lancaster, was a grandson of Mary Wells. Elizabeth Wells, a daughter of Richard Wells, mar ried George Hammond. They were the parents of Charles Hammond, the most distinguished lawyer and editor in the West of the early days. Upon the death of Judge Sherman he took his son, Lampson, and reared him in his family. The Hammonds had a family of 16 children. One of the daughters was the wife of the late Judge Hood, of Somerset, Ohio, and the mother of W. C. Hood, once State Librarian of Ohio. 272 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Bezaleel Wells, the founder of SteubenviHe, and a distinguished banker and manufacturer, was a cousin of James Wells and George, of Licking County. Alexander CampbeH, a very distinguished preacher and founder of the Campbellite Church, married a Wells. The descendants of Rev. Callahan (Picker ings, of this town) claim that Rev. George Callahan married a daughter of Bezaleel Wells. He had but two daughters, who married — one, Katharine, married John McDowell, and Rebecca married Rev. Philander Chase. We have not been able to find the name Callahan in the Wells history. Mary Brown Wells, daughter of General Wells, was born August 31, 1776, at 12 o'clock M. She married Thomas McCall, a Scotchman. They lived upon a farm in Greenfield. Mrs. McCall died in 1828, aged 52 years. McCall died at Jones Gibbony's, in 1853, aged 84 years. They were buried at Hookers. Priscilla, a daughter of this couple, married William McCleery, in 1829. She died May, 1844, aged 38 years. Their daughter, Maria, married Reason A. DeBolt, who became judge and a member of Con gress from Missouri. DeBolt was a son of a pioneer Baptist preacher of that name. Sarah McCleery married George W. Beck, of Hocking township, in 1854. Rachel Wells McCall married Jones Gibbony in 1837. She died whHe this sketch was being written, June 7, 1899. Gibbony died in 1883. Emaletta married W. W. McCrea. Philemon Mc Call Gibbony married Minerva L. Smith in 1875. John T. Gibbony married Agnes Winebumer. Rich ard Reeves McCall married Juliet Wells in Jefferson City, Mo., in 1849, a relative of his mother. Sarah, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 273 daughter of James Wells, married Samuel Tallman at Wellsburg, Va., March 28, 1801, and came to Fair field county in 1804, and died November 13, 1837, aged 53 years. Like the McCalls, both were buried at the Hooker graveyard. Benjamin F. Tallman married Nancy C. Tallman, of Virginia, in 1839, and died in Shelby County, 111., in 1877, aged 73 years. He was a son of Samuel Tallman. Richard Brown Tallman married Mary Boone Taylor in 1834. James Wells Tallman married Mar- garetta Minter, 1833 ; died in Knox County, Missouri, 1859, aged 57 years. Cynthia Ann Tallman married Levi White, of Hughsville, Va., in 1859. This lady was a grand daughter of Samuel Tallman. When a young woman she was pronounced the most handsome visitor to Fairfield County. .She was the mother of 12 children. Mary Tallman, daughter of Samuel and Sarah, married Thomas B. Head in 1827. She died in Stew art, Iowa, in 1875, aged 69 years. Rachel Wells Tallman, daughter of Sarah and Samuel, married J. B. Dorsey in 1828, and died at Kirkersville in 1832, aged 22 years. Nancy Tallman married Reuben Evans, of Zanes ville, Ohio, in 1830. She is the only daughter of Sam uel Tallman living. Cynthia Ann Tallman married Thomas Roe, of Zanesville, Ohio, in 1847. She died in 1891, aged yy years. They were the parents of Mary Josephine Roe, a woman of education and culture, and the author of a very good genealogy of the Wells family, to which the author is indebted for names and dates. 18 274 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People [Annie Sophia, her other daughter, married Dr. E. W. Mitchell, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is an only son of Rev. James Mitchell, a M. E. minister, well known in this county.] Honor Dianah Tallman married George W. Wilson in 1835. She died in 1840, aged 25 years. Margaret Elizabeth Tallman married Thomas Coulson, of Rushville, in 1841. She died in 1844, aged 20 years. Coulson subsequently married one of the daughters of Joshua Clarke, and now lives in Trin idad, Colorado. Rachel Wells married William Wilson, son of Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., October 14, 1802. She died in 1842, aged 55 years. Wilson came with his father to this county in 1798, from Cumber land County, Penn. He died September 26, 1851. Their daughter, Minerva Wells Wilson, married Joseph Lynn. She died at the age of 36 years. Na thaniel Wilson died in 1846, aged 38 years. Honora Calista Wilson married James McCleery in 1826. She died in 1890, aged 80 years. Amanda, their daughter, married Aaron Kistler in 1852, and died in one year. Lucretia McCleery married Peter Hay; they live near Sedalia, Mo. Samuel McCleery married Mary Levering in 1869. WiHiam Wells McCleery married Mary Norton, of Marion, Indiana, in 1877. WiHiam is a successful merchant in his new home. He was, in his young days, teacher of the North Grammar School, Lancas ter, Ohio. Theodore McCleery moved to the West several years since. Charles W. McCleery is a rising young lawyer of Lancaster, a man of character and abHity. He married Laura Acton in 1884. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 275 Lizzie Jennetta McCleery married Levi Hengst in 1 88 1. He is a very fine farmer and prospering. Cynthia Elizabeth Wilson married Rev. Barnett Miller in 1841, and moved to San Antonio, Texas. Rachel Wilson married Owen Smith in 1839, and moved to Montezuma, Indiana. She died in 1873, aged 57 years. Their daughter, Minerva Louise, mar ried Philemon McCall Gibbony in 1875. James Wells Wilson married Rose Ann Wolf, of Pickaway County, Ohio. Mr. Wilson owns the old Wolf farm and other good land beside, in that county. It is cultivated by his thrifty sons. Mr. Wilson owns a splendid farm in Greenfield, and one in Berne, this county. He is one of the sturdy, industrious old farm ers, who have come down to us from a former genera tion, bringing with him the good old habits of the early days — a plain, honest, straightforward man, who attends to his own business and knows very well how to go about it. He has prospered and is independent, but he is the same James W. Wilson that we knew long ago — a plain, unassuming old man. He is an intelligent man, and can tell what he knows in very good English. His sons are good farmers and good citizens. Wil liam Harvey Wilson married Mary Skeeters in 1844; they lived at Montezuma, Indiana. He died in 1862, aged 41 years. Maria Louise Wilson married Henry Pence in 1846, and moved to Bradyville, Iowa. Ambrose Whit- lock Wilson married Elizabeth A. Leach in 1871, and died in Kentucky in 1881, aged 52 years. James Wells, son of General Wells, was born Octo ber II, 1789, "betwixt the break of day and sunrise" (Family Bible). He inherited a good farm. He mar- 276 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People ried Cynthia Ann Reeves in Ross County, Ohio, in 1815. He died May 9, 1834; his widow died in Jeff erson City, Missouri, July 26, 1874, aged yy years. It was her daughter who married Richard Reeves Mc Call. Nathan Wells, her brother, was the only grand child of Gen. James Wells, bearing his sir name ; there are but three great-grand sons who represent it at present. Honora B. WeHs married Samuel Reeves, June 12, 1812; her second husband was David Rank, of New .Salem, Fairfield County, married June 25, 1845. She died November 18, 1874, aged 82 years. David Rank was one of the best of men, true and lovely in life and character. His first wife was a sis ter of James McCleery, by whom he had a large family of children. A granddaughter married Captain John Wiseman, 46th Ohio Infantry. She was named for his second wife, Honora. He was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylva nia, and came at an early day to Fairfield. John, son of Gen. Wells, at the age of 35 years, was lost on the Mississippi river. Ann Brown Wells married Aaron Foster, of Ross County, Ohio, May 28, 1834. She died June 4, 1858, aged 59 years. She was buried at Lattaville, Ross County, Ohio. Margaretta Madden Wells married Benjamin Mackerly, March 7, 1828, and lived near Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio ; she died September 22, 1873, aged 72 years.Thomas McCall came from Pennsylvania to Ohio. He served some years as a justice of the peace. His Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 277 large family is now widely scattered. Three of his grandsons. Reeves, McCleery and Gibbony, were sol diers. Samuel Tallman was the son of Benjamin Tail- man, who moved from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Rockingham County, Virginia. Samuel Tallman and wife came to Fairfield on horseback, bringing two small children. A brother — William — relieved them of the burden and carried one of them. She rode a gray horse, which refused to move a step when it scented a rattlesnake, until it was killed. Samuel was a cabinet maker by trade. Thomas Head came from Bedford County, Penn sylvania. He was a farmer and a contractor on the canal. J. B'. Dorsey was a millwright by trade. Reuben Evans came from Pennsylvania. He was introduced to his future wife, Nancy Tallman, by his uncle, Brumfield. After their marriage the young couple were escorted to their Zanesville home, a dis tance of forty miles, by a large party on horseback. Thomas Roe was born in Ireland, and was brought to America when a child. He was a merchant and a farmer. He v/as introduced to his wife while both were on a visit to Somerset, Ohio. George W. WHson belonged to the Somerset branch of that family. Margaret Tallman Coulson, who died at 22 years of age, was pronounced a very handsome woman. 278 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People WELLSVILLE, OHIO. The honor of founding this town is claimed for Alexander Wells and William WeHs, by their friends. It is doubtless true that WiHiam laid out the town; but both men were largely interested in it from its beginning. William Wells was a son of George Wells, who lived and died in Licking county, Ohio. William was reared by grand parents, and did not follow his father to the West. He was always a prominent man of Wellsville, and acted as magistrate under Governor St. Clair, a position of more importance than that of justice of the peace now. The magistrates met at stated intervals and constituted the Court of Quarter Sessions — ¦ now superceded by our County Common Pleas. His son, Alexander, was a prominent man of Wellsville, and the local historian. The man who, in an address, applied Dr. H. Scott's school house anec dote to Lancaster, instead of Clark County, where it belonged. The office of Associate Judge was one of import ance and honor, in the first fifty years of Ohio. The judges settled estates, appointed administrators and granted licenses, performing the duties now pertaining to the office of Probate Judge, and were also members of the Common Pleas Court. ' THE WELLS BURYING GROUND. In the year 1810, Gen. Wells deeded a part of sec tion 29 to Samuel Hooker, Sr., anti in that deed dis tinctly reserved one half acre for a burying ground, and there he and his wife were buried. It was then known as the Wells' graveyard, where a majority of Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 279 his descendants, who since died in this county, were buried. It became, however, the burial place of all of the old pioneers of the neighborhood, and many of their descendants. It is fairly well cared for, and held as a sacred spot by the people of Greenfield. Alexander Wells a few years since delivered an address referring to old times. He said : " In 1828 there was a debating society in Lancas ter, Ohio; the meetings were held in a school house The subject of railroads was discussed. In a day or two one of the members (Dr. Harvey Scott) received a note signed by a dozen of the solid men of the neigh borhood, to this effect : ' You are welcome to the use of the school house to debate all proper questions, but such things as railroads are impossibilities, and are impious, and will not be allowed.' " Mr. Wells is greatly in error and unwittingly slan ders Lancaster. The occurrence he refers to took place in Clark County, Ohio, and was related by Dr. H. Scott in his history of Fairfield County. General Wells received his patent from the United States Government, for section 29, August 24, 1809, and for section 28, February 10, 1809. When he came to Greenfield in 1801, the lands were not for sale, and he was a squatter. The lands were sold in 1802 or 1803, at public auction, to the highest bidder, and the best land between the home of the General and Lan caster sold as high as four dollars per acre. Patents are not always evidence of the date of purchase, as families have been known to occupy land 60 years without the patent. After the death of General Wells, a portion of his lands, probably one section, became the property of Richard Hooker. Richard and Samuel Hooker lived 280 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People long and honorable lives upon this land, and the sta tion, the graveyard and the farm are called Hooker. General James Wells had eleven children, three of whom died early, and it is known that his descendants to this time number 500 souls — six generations. Nathaniel Wells settled in Union township. Licking County, at an early day, near the point known as Heb ron. He was nearly related to Gen. Wells. He was a farmer, and lived and died in that neighborhood. His sons were : John Wells, who was a " 49er," but remained only five years in California, when he re turned to Baltimore, Ohio, where he died. He was the father of Mrs. Dr. J. H. Goss. Basil died in Cali fornia. Jesse moved to Illinois and died there. Daniel lived in Newark, Ohio. Samuel lived in Lick ing County ; George in Kansas City ; Franklin moved to Iowa ; Narcissa lived in Newark, Ohio. A Dr. Ferguson, of Hebron, married a WeHs. One of his daughters married Mr. Tomlinson, of Indian apolis, Indiana, who became very prominent there. One daughter is a preacher, another is a doctor. L. Calvin Sutphen, brother of Captain Sutphen, married Mary, a daughter of Dr. Ferguson. He died early and his widow married Mr. Brush, treasurer of Perry County, and they moved to Zanesville, Ohio. McCLEERY. James McCleery and two brothers came from Ire land to America in 1740; they were, however, born in .Scotland. They settled in Lancaster County, Penn sylvania. James McCleery died, leaving two sons, James and Joseph. James came to Fairfield County in 1814, and died in 1826. His sons were James and WiHiam, who Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 281 married in the AVells family, John and Joseph. The latter married a daughter of an early pioneer of this county, John Shepler. Joseph reared a family of beau tiful daughters ; with but one exception, Mrs. Perry Teal, they are all dead. The daughters of James Mc Cleery were : Anna, wife of John Morgan, of Green field ; Mrs. David Rank, of Walnut township ; and Maria, wife of Abraham Hedges, of Hocking. Joseph McCleery, son of James, came to Fairfield County in 1820, and died here. He left a son, Jos eph, who lived many years southwest of Lancaster, three miles. Mrs. Christian Neibling, a daughter, was born August I, 1795, and died in Kansas, March, 1885, aged 89 years. Mrs. Balser Rutter was a daughter of Joseph Mc Cleery. Both daughters have many descendants in Ohio and Western states. Samuel Wells Tallman, the fourth son of Samuel Tallman, is a bachelor, living in the West. TALLMAN SKETCH. Sarah Wells married Samuel Tallman at Wells burg, Virginia, March 28, 1801. At the time she was boarding with her Doddridge relatives attending school, and he one of the support ers of the Episcopal church there. They set up housekeeping in that town, and moved thence to Fairfield County, Ohio, 1804. She was given to extend great hospitality, and possessed of wonderful energy and fine business foresight. Their homestead farm was the one on which Hooker Station is now located. This point was a favorite camping place with In dians moving to the West. 282 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Here too, it is said, the Governor of the State came to lift the first shovelful of earth for the Lateral Canal, and dined under the Tallman roof. Samuel Tallman was a man " whose word was as good as his bond," and led a most exemplary life. He was a carpenter and cabinetmaker, and built many of the log houses put up in Greenfield township in his day. He died at the early age of 50 years. This couple were buried beside her parents, in the Wells' family burying ground, now known as Hooker's. None of their immediate descendants live in Fair field County at present. The ancestry of Samuel Tallman is of interest. He and his father were born in Berks County, Pennsylvania. His father and grandfather, William Tallman (Born in Rhode Island) moved to Virginia (Rockingham County) during the time of our national struggle for independence. The son was a member of Armand's Corps as part of his military service. It was in Virginia that Samuel TaHman grew to man hood. His grandmother was Ann Lincoln, sister of John Lincoln, great-grandfather of the late president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. His mother, Dinah Boone, was cousin to the famous Daniel Boone. These Boone fathers lived on adjoining farms in Pennsylvania. Their father, George Boone, was a Friend in faith, a friend of William Penn, and one of the earliest, permanent settlers in Berks County. Benjamin Tallman, father of Samuel Tallman, and Dinah Boone-Tallman, his wife, settled at Canal Win chester, Ohio, where they died. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 283 Their youngest son, John, lived and died at the same place. The late Judge Tallman Slough was a grandson of this man. Their eldest son, William, and daughters Susannah Harrison, and Amrah Scothern, lived in Pickaway County. Phebe, daughter of William Tallman, was the beloved wife of Richard Plooker, of Turkey Run. Samuel Tallman preceded his family to Ohio to prepare a home for them. His wife, Sarah, came out with her brother-in-law, William Tallman, horseback, each of them carrying a child. The gray horse she rode belonged to her companion, and each time it scented a rattlesnake, refused to proceed until it had been killed. Sarah, a sister of Samuel Tallman, was ancestor of the Hintons of Highland County. Three of his sisters married three Harrison brothers. One of these sisters, Marie, did not come to Ohio, also two brothers. One other of these sisters, Susan nah, has already been named. The third lived in Fair field County. Her husband, John Harrison, was killed in the War of 1812, and is buried at Fort Meigs, this state. Her second husband was George Tong, a wid ower, whom she married in 1818. He was a man of nobility of character, and much loved by the young. Two children of this marriage grew up, Margaret and George, who married Harriet Holmes. For this Tallman sketch we are indebted to Miss M. J. Roe, of Gilbert, Ohio. THE WILSONS. Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., was a native of Scotland. He with his parents were staunch Cameronian Pres byterians and followed their leader, Robert Cameron, 284 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People in an effort to free their church from the domination of Charles the Second of England. The Presbyterians under Cameron met the English commander, the Duke of Monmouth, June 22, 1679, at Bothwell Bridge and were defeated. Cameron and many of his followers were captured, among them Na thaniel Wilson, then but 19 years of age. Cameron's hands were cut off with his own sword and it was then returned to him. As a mark of favor he presented it to Nathaniel Wilson, his youthful fol lower. Wilson managed to make his escape, bearing with him the sword of his leader. The persecution of the Presbyterians continued and he was obliged to flee the country, which he did, and landed in America. He settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where he married, reared a fam ily, and died in 1753, bequeathing to his eldest son, Nathaniel, the old Scotch Bible, the sword of Cameron and his Presbyterian faith. This son, Nathaniel, con tinued to reside in, Pennsylvania until the year 1798, when he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Fairfield County. The old home is about three miles west of Lancaster. He built himself a cabin and placed over the door the famous sword of Cameron, and over it in large letters, " The Sword of the Lord, and of Gid eon." Nathaniel Wilson died in 181 5 and bequeathed the old homestead to his son Nathaniel, the man most gen erally referred to, when people speak of Nathaniel Wilson. Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., was an associate judge of the first court of this county. In 1817, N. Wilson, Jr., set aside a plat of ground for burial purposes, and to insure it from desecration. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 285 conveyed it 'to the President of the United States, October 24, 181 7. I'he ground he subsequently en closed by a high and strong stone wall and a young cedar of Lebanon was planted in the center, said to have come from Palestine. It is said that he took a personal interest in the work and was always there, and occasionally read a chapter from the old Scotch Bible. This stone enclosure was to be enclosed by a good fence, and to provide for keeping it up he planted a grove of locust trees near his home, and in his will of April 12, 1838, he gave the grove to President Martin Van Buren, to be used as provided in his will. These interesting land marks, of long ago, are still attractive spots and are visited by many people. We regret to see the grove despoiled by the present owners of the old home. " Woodmen, spare that tree." Mr. Wilson died May 12, 1839, before he had com pleted the wall of his burial ground. His son Gustin Wilson, completed the work and complied with his father's will so long as he lived. Nathaniel AVilson, Sr., was one of the first county commissioners. Nathaniel Wilson, Jr., had four brothers, AVilliam, Robert, James and Samuel, and two sisters. Nathaniel Wilson married a Pennsylvania woman. They were parents of five children, two sons and three daughters. One son while yet a young man was killed by a falling tree, that he was cutting down. Gustin Wilson was born in 1806 and died in 1882. He married Margaret McClelland, niece of Col. John Noble. He was a most estimable man, a good citizen, a good farmer and a staunch Presbyterian. Like all good men he revered and honored the memory of his father. 286 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People His son Harvey is a clergyman of tha Presbyterian Church and resides at Mackinac, Mich. Zella Wilson, daughter of Nathaniel, married Ste phenson Peters, son of Samuel Peters of Amanda township. They settled in Walnut township Pickaway County, where members of the family still reside. Norman Peters occupies the homestead. Alice Wilson, married Nathan Peters, son of Sam uel. Nathan moved to Marion, Ohio, where he spent a long and useful life and reared a good famHy. Mrs. Peters was buried in the stone graveyard beside her parents. Mendana Wilson married Joel Gallagher, a brother- in-law of Robinson J. Peters. They became owners of the old Nathaniel Wilson homestead and spent their lives there, in the peaceful pursuit of agriculture. A grand-daughter of this couple married Dr. Reese of Lancaster, Ohio. One of the daughters of Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., married a Larimer and they lived upon a farm in the neighborhood. Another married a Mr- Crocket of Tennessee. James Wilson married a Miss Edwards in 1802, but did not live long, dying in 1807. His son John WHson lived to an old age on a part of what is now the Carlisle farm. Pfe sold out to Major Carlyle and moved to Shelby County, Illinois. The widow of James Wilson, for her second husband, married Thomas Carlisle in 1813, and they reared quite a large family. Their son, B. W. Carlisle, was a prominent man and a State Sen ator. Mrs. Carlisle was a sister of Mrs. Margaret Ewing, mother of Thomas E., William and James Ewing. Her Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 287 father lived in Ross County. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Thomas Carlisle came from Virginia in 1811, and died on his farm in 1844. He was a justice of the peace and a county commissioner. One of his sons. Dr. Carlisle, died in Arkansas. One of his daughters married Christian Graybill of Illinois ; another George Allen of Illinois ; another John C. McFarland, and another a banker at HHlsboro, Ohio, Mr. Barrere. Mrs. Carlisle died January 14, 1866. Robert Wilson, son of Nathaniel, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania in 1774 and died on his farm in 1844. His wife was Jane Donovan, who was born in 1777. She died in 1865, aged 88 years. Newton D., born in i8ii, died young; Josephine M., born in 1810, died young. James Madison was born in 1812, and lived and died a bachelor in California. He was a soldier of the Mexican War. Elizabeth WHson, daughter of Robert Wilson, Sr., was born in 1813. She married F. A. Foster, a Lancaster, O., merchant. She died in the year 1898. She has a son living in St. Louis, and one living in Cincinnati, Ohio. Robert Wilson, son of Robert Wilson, Sr., was born in 1817. His wife was Mary Sweitzer, whose .parents came from Switzerland. They were the parents of five children, two of whom are dead. Robert Wilson was a farmer all of his life and a good one. He was one of our best citizens, esteemed by his neighbors. We had no better citizens than Robert Wilson. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church. Daniel Webster when here visiting Senator Ewing in 1833 caHed upon Robert Wilson and enjoyed his hospitality. 288 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Smith Kerns Wilson, son of Robert Wilson, Sr., was born in 1821, and married a Miss Coney. He was for many years a prominent farmer of Hocking town ship, and hoping to better his condition, he sold out and moved to Tennessee, where in a short time he was killed by the bullet of an assassin. His family left the in hospitable country and moved to Colorado. We have not been able to learn what became of the Cameron sword. It seems to have been lost. Such a rare relic ought to have been preserved. Samuel Wilson, son of Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was married to Miss Jane Martin. He came with his father to Ohio in 1798. He lived upon the farm where Frank Peters now lives. They were the parents of five or six children. Samuel was in the war of 1812 and died soon after his discharge. His widow died at the home of her son in Peoria, 111. Elizabeth a daughter of this couple was born in 1809 and married John M. Woodward, a carpenter, in 1833. Woodward worked upon the old Presbyterian church. He lived for a time in Logan and died in Bluffton, Indiana, in i88i. His wife died in Lan caster, in 1895. Their son Samuel lives in Columbus, and Asa B. Woodward lives in Madison, Iowa. He is a steamboat captain. Sarah J., married Jacob Bum gardner, a Lancaster blacksmith. Margaret married James Ruff of Logan. Lorain married William Stuckey, son of Joseph Stuckey, of Carthage, Missouri. Ruth married Augustus Magoon in Logan, Ohio. Josiah Wilson, son of Samuel, lived and died in Peoria, Illinois ; never married. John Wil son, son of Samuel, lived in Franklin County. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 289 Margaret Wilson married William Thompson. They lived in Ross and Brown Counties, and finally in Illinois. Samuel Dudley Wilson, son of Samuel, was a farmer and a merchant in Washburn, 111., and moved from there to Peoria, 111., where he died. WHliam WHson, son of Nathaniel, Sr., married Rachel, daughter of General James Wells and lived upon the farm now owned by his son James Wells Wil son. We refer the reader to the sketch of the Wells family for information in regard to his family. THE CRUMLEY FAMILY. The ancestor of the Crumley family was Valentine Gramlich, who immigrated to this country from the Duchy of Wiliertemberg, Germany. He arrived at Phil adelphia September 19, 1749. Valentine and his sons founded the Lutheran Church at Weisenberg town ship, in Lehigh County, Penn., soon after their settle ment in that county, in 1749. Valentine Crumley was a man of influence and high standing in his county, and a leading public spirited citizen. He was the father of five children, viz., George, who died near Danville, Penn. ; Paul, who died at the old homestead ; Daniel, Ann M., and Christian moved to Ohio as early as 1805. Gramlich soon became Crumley. Three sons of Paul moved to Ohio in 181 5 — Jonathan, Jacob and Paul. They settled in Pickaway County, Ohio. Paul died March, 1826. He left four sons, James, Stephen, Thomas and William. William was born in Pennsylvania March 19, 1813, and he died May, 1888, aged 75 years. He was the father of the Hon. T. E. Crumley, late a trustee of the Boys' Indus trial School, and State Senator from Pickaway County, Ohio. 19 290 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Daniel Crumley, late of Bloom township, was a son of Christian Crumley. He was born in Bloom town ship, December ii, 1807. He married Miss Jane Beeten, daughter of Peter Beeten. She was born July 5, 181 1. Their children numbered fourteen, and nine of them preceded him to the grave. Those living at the time of his death, November 30, 1891, were Mrs. A. W. Killits, of Chicago, 111. ; Mrs. T. J. Arnold, Lancaster, Ohio; Mrs. W. H. Stallsmith, Girard, Ohio; E. M. Crumley, Springfield, Ohio, and A. I. Crumley, Lithopolis, Ohio. Daniel Crumley was a very prominent and useful man in his township. He was a Justice of the Peace for twelve years, and was for several terms a town ship trustee. He was a very competent administrator on estates, and settled up twenty-five in his life time. His second wife was a Mrs. Buxton of the County of Licking. Mr. Crumley was an upright, honorable man, widely known and highly esteemed. He was a bro ther of Conrad Crumley of Hocking township, and grandfather of Frank Crumley of the Lancaster Gazette. Conrad Crumley, son of Christian and Salome Crumley, was born in Penn township, Northampton County, Penn., on the 24th of January, 1802; his par ents were Lutherans and the infant Conrad was bap tized and brought up in that faith. In the year 1803 Christian Crumley with his fam ily, left Pennsylvania to seek a new home in Ohio. They made a temporary stop in Lancaster, and during that time one of his children died. He purchased a section of woodland in Bloom township, built a cabin and moved his family to the new home, about one mHe Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 291 west of Rock Mill. Here young Conrad remained un til he became a man. He assisted his father in clear ing up his farm, and tasted the joys and endured the privations of pioneer life. When i8 years of age he was confirmed a member of the Lutheran Church, and to the end of his life was a faithful member and a con sistent Christian. His membership at this time was at the Glick church. Rev. M. J. Steck, pastor. On two occasions Christian Crumley loaded flat boats at Gallipolis for New Orleans. Conrad drove the team that carried, or drew, the produce to load these boats. He made nine trips in one winter, through an almost unbroken forest to Gallipolis, a distance of one hundred miles. February 23, 1824, Conrad Crumley was married to Miss Mary M. Feller. He then settled upon a quarter section of land donated by his father, entirely in the woods. He lived in a rude cabin and devoted his energies to clearing up his farm, where his son Daniel now resides, in Hocking township. Here he lived a quiet, peaceful life for forty-one years, and reared a large family of children, eleven in number. Two of his sons were in the Union army. After the war two of them, George and Daniel, were in Columbus and took passage on the same coach with Colonel McVeigh and family. The coach was upset and McVeigh and his son were killed. The Crumley boys remained with the family and brought the dead to Lancaster. When a friend spoke to the old man and praised his boys for their good conduct, tears came to his eyes and he replied : "I am proud of my boys." 292 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Conrad Crumley was one of the grand old men of the past, one whose example for good was felt in a very large circle of acquaintances. He was for a number of years a trustee of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Lancaster, and later of Trinity, near his home. He died March 8, 1879, aged yy years. He had been married 55 years. His son David married Sarah, a daughter of the late Daniel Ward. John Married Catharine Miller of this county. Peter married Catharine, a daughter of the late George H. Strode. Daniel married Rebecca Strode. They live on the old Crumley farm. Daniel was a Union soldier during the war. George married Ma tilda Brobst. Mary became the wife of Daniel Hoff man. Elizabeth is thfe wife of Amos Graham. All are farmers and have fine homes in the neighborhood where they were born and raised. There are many grandchildren and great-grand children of Conrad Crumley, but the list is too long for special mention. THE GRAHAM FAMILY The Graham family is not a large one, but for one hundred years it has been an honored and respected one in the United States, and for seventy-five years well known and esteemed in Fairfield County. Wil liam Graham was one of the early teachers of Fairfield County, a class of men who deserve immortal honor, for they taught under great difficulties and were faith ful and earnest in their work. Arthur Graham, the ancestor, was born in Tyrone county, Ireland. He came to the United States about the year 1791 and landed in the city of Baltimore. He was then 19 years of age. He came with an uncle Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 293 and several cousins, but it is not known that any one of his own family ever came to America. He married Nancy Hanna, who was reared about five miles below Hagerstown, Md. To them were born three sons and two daughters. William, the oldest son, was born near Hagerstown, June 4. 1799. Eliz abeth, the second child, married Leonard Bumgardner. Samuel married Nancy Thomas. James, the fourth child, married Nancy Givens. James died in 1896 in Scioto County, Ohio, aged 90 years. Fanny, the youngest daughter, married James Givens and they lived and died in Pike County, Ohio. Arthur Graham was a man of giant strength and famous for his feats in that line. He at one time carried nine bushels of rye some distance and ascended five or six steps with the burden on his back. These things are remembered, for the strong man was in pioneer times the pride of his neighbors. William, of whom and his family we have more particularly to sketch, at the age of twenty-two years married the widow of John C. Flood, whose husband was a soldier of the war of 1812, and died in the hos pital at Norfolk, Va. She was the mother of the late John C. Flood and Washington Flood of Lancaster, Ohio. The Floods were Virginia slaveholders, and the grandfather of John C. and Washington willed them an interest in his slaves. These slaves were eman cipated thirty years before Abraham Lincoln issued his famous proclamation of emancipation. William Gra ham and his wife lived on Patterson creek, Hampshire County, Va. On the 20th of October, 1822, he placed his family and his belongings in a Conestoga wagon drawn by four horses — wife and babe, his two step- 294 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People sons, and two nephews, Henry and August Burnham, constituted his family. They turned their faces to the far west, and crossing the north branch of the Potomac at Washington bottoms, made their way to Carter's tavern, five miles west of Cumberland, and followed the emigrant road over the mountains to Brownsville, thence to Washington, Penn., and on to Wheeling, on the Ohio river. In crossing the river their cow refused to go upon the boat and swam the river ; becoming confused, she turned back to the shore whence she started. In time she was got over, but swam the river three times in so doing. From Wheeling they passed through St. Clairsville, Cambridge and Zanesville, over the old Zane trace. This was before the national pike was built. Arriving at Lancaster, they turned south to Madison township, where William Graham had, while in Virginia, rented a farm of one PhHip Welsheimer. When he reached the farm he found that it had been sold to Major John V. Pearse. Here his trouble began. For two weeks he hunted for a farm, without success, leaving his goods in his wagon. He was finally compelled to place his family in an old school house with a dirt floor. Here his family remained over winter, he teaching a school in the neighborhood, his wife and boys taking care of the team and cow. In the spring of 1823 he rented the Robert Cisna farm, one mile west of Lancaster, now owned by Dr. C. E. Reese. Here they lived six years. During these years his sons, George and Amos were born. In ,1829 they rented the Christian King farm, the same where Charles Creed now fives. About this time King built the oil-mill, afterwards changed to a grist mill, and lately torn down by Henry Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 295 C. Weaver. About the year 1832 he bought 80 acres of school land, to which he moved his family in 1833, and where his family was reared. The old Graham home is familiar to all Hocking township people. His wife died at this home June 12, 1869. In the year 1870, Mr. Graham sold his farm and moved to Logan, where he married Mrs. M. A. Lyons. He died in Logan, February 8, 1875. His widow sur vived him several years. The daughter, the six-months babe that came over the mountains in the wagon, on the 6th of April, 1844, married C. F. Griner. Griner was a fine scholar and a special friend of the late Dr. John Williams. He was the architect and builder of the famous stone wall around the graves of Nathaniel Wilson and family. He broke down soon after this work was completed and for several years was an invalid. He died leaving a wife and five children. William A. Griner, of Delaware, Ohio, Edward Griner, a soldier of the Union army, now deceased ; George G. Griner, also a soldier, who died in a Louis ville (Ky.) hospital; C. F. Griner, now deceased, and Susan, wife of William Barr of Amanda, were his children. His widow became the third wife of Fred A. Shaeffer. George Graham, son of William Graham, married a daughter of John Morgan, whose wife was a McCleery. He lived near Carroll and reared a family of children. In 1875 he moved to DeWitt County, Illinois, where his wife died and where his children married. He married a widow named Stone. He moved to Kansas, back to Illinois, and from there to Oklahoma, where he now resides. 296 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Amos, the youngest son of William Graham, mar ried Elizabeth, daughter of Conrad Crumley. Amos was a school teacher in his young days and well qual ified for the profession. But he soon settled down as a farmer and has ever since followed that occupation, either in Amanda or Hocking township of this county. He has been successful and owns a fine home — once owned by F. A. Shaeffer. He reared a good family of boys and girls, and enjoys the happiness that such a family only can bring to a parent. One daughter married S. E. Cullumber and resides in Pickaway County ; Francis and Myrta reside at home ; George A., John L., Dr. W. C. and Edward Boyd are good bus iness men, highly esteemed, and are prospering. Amos Graham and family are prominent members of the Presbyterian Church. THE CLAYPOOL FAMILY. "Not to know from whence we came, not care any thing about our ancestors, is to detract from the honor and gratitude due them." The Claypools were distinguished people among the pioneers of Licking, Fairfield and Ross Counties. They were of the bluest blue blood of Virginia and able to trace their ancestry back in an unbroken line to a time when English history was little more than a tradition. James Claypool lived at Waldrum Park, North amptonshire, England. Like other gentlemen of the period he was granted a coat-of-arms June 17, 1583. John Claypool married Elizabeth, the favorite daughter of Oliver Cromwell. The tomb is pointed out to visitors, in Westminster Abbey. James Claypool, brother of John, witnessed the signature of WiHiam Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 297 Penn to the charter of Pennsylvania. Norton Clay pool, brother also of John, was the first to emigrate to America. Betsy Ross, who lived in Philadelphia, and mar ried a John Claypool, made the first United States flag, the stars and stripes. Her portrait and the history of the flag was in the magazines during the last year. We cannot go into full details of this large family, but must be confined to the Ohio branch. The grandfather of Jacob Claypool, who came to this country, was James Claypool. He lived and died on Lost River, Hardy County, Virginia, on the south branch of the Potomac. He was born February 14, 1701, and died October 9, 1789. His son James was born December I, 1730. He married Margaret Dunbar, October 31, 1753. She was born November 20, 1736, and died March 26, 1813. James Claypool died August 11, 181 1. They were the parents of nine daughters and three sons. The daughters of James Claypool (b. 1730) and Margaret Dunbar were (in order of birth) : I. Ann, m. Archibald Wilson; 2. Hannah, m. 1st John Watson, m. 2nd William Evans ; 3. Jane, m. William Peppers; 4. Margaret, m. David Thomas; 5. Esther, m. Jeremiah Jacobs ; 6. Ruth, m. Robert Denton ; 7. Rachel, m. John Berry; 8. Rhoda, m. Joseph Jeffer- ies ; 9. Elizabeth, m. John AVoolard ; 10. Tirzah, m. Wesley Blizzard. The sons were Abra ham, Isaac and Jacob, and that was the order in which they were born. Abraham was born in Hardy County, Virginia, AprH 2, 1762. Abraham was one of the very early settlers of Ross County, Ohio. He reared a family of children, most of whom moved to Fountain and other counties of Indiana. Abraham was a very prominent man and represented his county several 298 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People terms in the Ohio Legislature. This was prior to i8to. His descendants are distinguished people of Indiana. Solomon Claypool, of Indianapolis, was Common Pleas Judge at Covington on the Wabash, and an able lawyer and an upright man. He is a pleasant gentleman to meet, cordial and sincere, as the writer found him. He is one of the distinguished men of Indiana. Edward F. Claypool is a business man of large wealth and resides in Indianapolis. Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, daughter of Austin B. Claypool, and widow of Henry Clay Meredith (son of General Solomon Meredith), was the business manager of the Board of Lady Managers, World's Fair, and wrote the official report of the board for Congress. Mr. A. L. Claypool, the brother-in-law of John Bookwalter, and living in Springfield, Ohio, is a brother of Judge Claypool. Abraham Claypool married Elizabeth Wilson. Isaac Claypool was born February 7, 1769. He mar ried a Miss AVilkin and they settled in Ross County They were not blessed with children. Jacob, the Fairfield pioneer, was born March 17, ^775- He married Margaret Baker, of Rockingham County, Virginia, March 5, 1799. They came to Ohio about October 21, 181 1. The wife died June 22, 1828. He was married the second time to Mrs. Neil, of Ross County. Jacob died October 27, 1843. He first came to Ohio in the year 1805 and purchased the original farm on which Isaac his son now lives. It had been occupied by squatters up to that time, James Brooks, a Mr. Crook and Drake Taylor. The place was called "Yankeetown" by the early settlers. He built a hewed log house for his family — the same, in part, now oc cupied by Isaac Claypool. Jacob Claypool received Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 299 a good education, especially in mathematics, and he qualified himself for a land surveyor. During the first twenty years of his residence in this county he was largely engaged in that business. The papers he left behind are beautiful specimens of drafting. He was methodical, accurate and an accomplished penman. His superior education and fine mind soon gave him' a leading position in the county and in Lancaster, where he was highly esteemed. Upon the organization of the Lancaster Bank in 1816 he was elected one of the directors, as was his neighbor Richard Hooker. In the same year he was elected to the lower House of the Legislature, was reelected in 1818 and again in 1822. In 1824 he was elected a member of the Ohio senate. He supported the preliminary legislation that secured for us the Ohio Canals and the Common School system. He was one of the first Fairfield County men to drive cattle to the Eastern markets and he continued the business to within three years of his death. His son Isaac, when a youth, accompanied him on such trips to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. In the year 1826 the Barrett Woolen Mill at the upper falls of Hockhocking burned down and the owner was unable to rebuild. The Legislature gave authority for a lottery and the Common Pleas Court appointed Jacob Claypool, Samuel F. Mccracken and John Creed com missioners to conduct it, and in this way it was rebuilt and leased for a term to Joshua Clark and Colonel John Noble. Jacob Claypool was a man of unusual business capacity, honest, correct and with the ability to dis patch business, a great quality in a business man. H t was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and belonged to the Lancaster society. He was a liberal ¦300 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People contributor to the expense of building the present church edifice, but did not live to see it fully dedicated. But few men lived in this county more highly esteemed in life or more sincerely lamented in death. Jacob and Margaret Claypool were the parents of three daughters and six sons. Emma was born April 2, 1800. She married Joseph Grubb October 19, 1820. Reverend Thomas A. Morris, then the Metho dist pastor at Lancaster, afterwards a Bishop, officiated. She died May 20, 1832. They were the parents of Jacob Grubb, long a well known and wealthy farmer of this and Ross County. Elizabeth was born August 17, 1801. She married Stephen Yale March 12, 1822, and died September 10, 1823. Mary was born January 12, 1803, and died August 13, 1823. Albert was born December 5, 1806. He was married to his first wife, Rachel Hooker, daughter of Richard Hooker, of Tur key Run, March 25, 1826. His second wife was a Miss Rebecca Mounts, of Warren County, Ohio. Al bert Claypool was a splendid specimen of the physical man. For many years he was a large and prosperous farmer in this county. He reared quite a family of children, who filled or are filling honorable and use ful positions in life. Albert late in life moved to AVarren County, where he died November 2, 1862. Wesley Claypool was born February 15, 1810. He married Catharine McNeil November 9, 1830. He died June 25, 1877. His wife died February 22, 1879, at her home in Chillicothe, Ohio. AVesley Claypool was a man of more than ordinary ability and in his prime a successful farmer and cattle feeder. He represented Ross County as a Whig two or three times in the Gen eral Assembly of Ohio. He was a man of fine appear ance, companionable and made friends. His farm at Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 301 High Bank, below Chillicothe, was a fine one and well managed. Felix was born March 8, 1812, and died September 1, 1826. Jacob was born July 23, 1816, and died May 26, 1835, in the city of Philadelphia. Issac Claypool was born January 29, 1821. He mar ried Nancy Meason August 17, 1843, the daughter of John Meason. She was born January 22, 1821, and died October 16, 1855. He married a second wife, Sarah ,\.. Pierce, March 18, 1858. She was born in Dover, New Hampshire, November 15, 1836; she died March 18, 1893. Annie E. Cosgrove was his third wife. They were married August i, 1895. She was born in Mifflin county, Penn., April 9, 1843, and died very suddenly March 23, 1898. Isaac Claypool has been all his long life a farmer and lives upon the farm and in the house where he was born. His father train ed him to purchase, drive and handle cattle, and in this he was successful. He was the life long friend of John T. Brasee, and when a young man purchased for him his feeding cattle. Mr. Brasee had implicit con fidence in his judgment and in his integrity. For a \oung man to have had the confidence and friendship- of John T. Brasee was an honor to be proud of. Isaac Claypool commenced his career with two hundred acres of good land. He added to this farm from time to time until it became one of the very largest and best in the county. The home farm of 600 or ihore acres is a beauty and the admiration of all who behold it. Mr. Cla\'pool has reared and fairly educated a large family of children. He is a public spirited citizen, liberal and generous. He is a Republican, but never took an- active or aggressive part in politics. His sons repre sent the family in politics. He spent three years of his life in Lancaster, but upon his second marriage moved 302 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People to his farm. His sons were Jacob, who married Tru- phenie Weist, daughter of Jacob Weist, was born Aug. 26, 1846. He lives upon a good farm near Hookers. He has been president of the Agricultural Society and received a very complimentary support for County commissioner. James Bruce married Elizabeth Peters, daughter of Newton Peters. He was born Oct. 23, 1850. He resides upon his farm adjoining his brother Jacob. He is a good farmer and a breeder of fine horses. Frank P. married Elizabeth Prindle, daugh ter of Myron Prindle. He was born April 16, 1859, and resides in Lancaster. John Reber married Henri etta Carnes, daughter of John Carnes. He was born March 11, 1861, and resides upon the home farm with his father. His wife is one of the stylish young dames of Greenfield. Isaac Claypool's daughters are Anna, Mary, Emma Eliza McCowan, Nancy Jane Caldwell, Ida Pierce Shell, Ada Maud Creighton. Albert Claypool had three sons, Felix, James and Jacob. Felix was born Aug. 7, 1827 and died in New York City Sept. 2, 1865. James died Feb. 14, 1873, at his home in the state of Illinois. Jacob died at Ran- toul, Illinois, July 5, 1891. His wife was a Rankin, of Licking County, Ohio. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Cochran, was born in 1832, and lives in Emporia, Kan sas. Martha Cochran was born March 12, 1834, and died Oct. 10, 1868. Florence Edith Mounts was born Nov. 26, 1872, and lives near Clarksburg, Ohio. Ber tha B. Howell was born March 25, 1875 and lives at Fulsom, New Mexico. Josephine married E. B. White, of Lancaster, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1864. She was born Aug. 26, 1843. White is a successful business man of Lancaster. His son, Albert Claypool, has lit erary talents and possesses high merit as a writer of Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 303 sketches. He is well read and has seen much of the world. He was born Oct. 5, 1865. He married Miss Daisy Swartz, daughter of Joel Swartz. She was one of the belles of Berne township. Wesley Claypool had three sons, but they did not live to reach man's estate. This was one of the sor rows of Wesley's life. Four of his daughters lived to marry and raise families. Margaret Ann married W. R Foster, of a prominent Ross County family. Sarah E. married George Davis, one of the foremost busi ness men of Portsmouth in his time — both now dead. Jane P. married Dennis Rennick, of one of the pio neer families most widely known in the Scioto valley. They lived for a year or two on the south side of the Van Meter prairie, two miles east of Lancaster. Wes ley Claypool opposed this union and held out for some time, but the sight of the first born child, when able to be fondled by him, melted the old man's heart and all was forgiven."The silence often, of pure innocence, Persuades, when speaking fails." A Winter's Tale. — James Claypool, born in 1730, the founder of the family we have described, had a brother named John, born in 1832, who had a family of boys, and lived in Hardy County, Va. There was also a Philadelphia branch, large and respectable. There were in all- branches twenty-three John Claypools. Levi Clay pool was a Virginian and a grandson, on his mother's side, of Mathias Miller, a familiar Virginia name. Norton Fravel Claypool, who was a very promi nent citizen and farmer on the Licking river, near the 304 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Black Hand, was a son of Levi. Norton was a very fine looking man, as the writer well remembers. He reared two sons, who are very intelligent business men. Wm. O. Claypool, of the T. B. & AV Railroad, and Edward A., of Chicago, 111. The Claypool family produced many preachers, lawyers, doctors and pro fessors. There are but few families in the United States able to trace their lineage back through English records five hundred years. There are but few families, if any, that have a cleaner record than the Claypools. THE MEASON, CHERRY AND BEAR FAMILIES. Thomas Meason, Sr., of Berkeley County, Virginia, was born February 22, 1707. Elizabeth, his wife, was born April 2, 1721. They moved to Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Their children, twelve in number, were : Hannah, born May 3, 1737; Samuel, born November 8, 1739; Isaac, born August 15, 1743; George, bom February 6, 1746; Rachel, born November 6, 1749; Sarah, February 15, 1751 ; John, February 22, 1753; Thomas, July 17, 1755; Joseph, July 7, 1759; Anne, January 27, 1761 ; Mary, January 22, 1763, Elizabeth, May II, 1765. Colonel John Meason, seventh son of Thomas, was born February 22, 1753, in Berkeley County, Va. He married Hannah Frost, who was born December 23, 1 75 1. They moved to Fayette County, Pa. They were the parents of ten children. — Isaac was born November 20, 1773, and died February 26, 1845 ; Eliza beth, born April 2, 1776; Martha was born May 20, 1779; Hannah was born June i, 1782; John was born September 7, 1784; Nancy was born May 4, 1787; Mary was born May 9, 1789, Thomas was born June Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 305 1 8, 1791 ; Francis, January 20, 1794; and George, Jan uary 12, 1798. Isaac Meason, son of Thomas Meason, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1773. He married Rached Cherry, daughter of Ralph Cherry and Annie Meek, his wife. She was born June 17, 1774. Ralph Cherry died April 25, 1836. Isaac Meason and wife came to Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1799, and settled near the present Summit church in Greenfield, where the Masons still own the land. They were both buried in the Wells graveyard near Hooker. They were the parents of nine children : John Mea son, son of Isaac was born March 26, 1795 ; Ralph Meason, was born September 29, 1797, and died No vember 15, 1799; Hiram Meason was born May 10, 1799, and died June 3, 1802 ; Jeremiah was born Au gust I, 1801, and died May 18, 1825, and was buried in the Wells graveyard. Elijah was born March 20, 1804, and died January 31, 1823 ; Enoch was born Au gust 24, 1806, and died July 28, 1822 ; Isaac Whatcoat was born February 21, 1809, and died April 25, 1852, and was buried in WeHs graveyard. Nancy Miranda was born October 14, 181 1; she married Mr. Baxter, moved to Lima, and died there. George Wesley was born April 11, 1814, and died January 16, 1847, John Meason, son of Isaac and Rachel, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, five miles northeast of Uniontown. Anna, his first wife, was born in May, 1798, and died Jan. 11, 1830, aged thirty-one years. She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Bear. The second wife of John Meason was a Miss- Elizabeth Haver, sister of Peter Haver of Walnut township. 20 306 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People John Meason lived a long and honorable life near the summit in Greenfield and died in 1876, aged 84 years. He was the father of seven children. Rachel was born December 10, 1817. She married Solomon Clippinger and moved to Iowa. Mary was born October 17, 1819. She married John Neel, and moved to Lima, O. Nancy was born January 22, 1821. She married Isaac Claypool. Her sons, Jacob and James Claypool, are prosperous farm ers and reputable citizens of Greenfield. Elijah E. was born January 26, 1823. He lived for years on the George Meason farm at the Summit. Isaac Jerome was born September 30, 1825 ; he died young. Sallie Elizabeth was born November 10, 1827 ; she married Elijah Winters. Their son, John M. Winters, is now postmaster of Carroll, Ohio. Anna Miranda was born January 3, 1830. She was the second wife of Samuel Baxter, late of Lima, Ohio. Isaac Meason was one of the most noted of the pio neers for strength and activity. Few men, if any, among the pioneers could throw him in a wrestling match and only Walter McFarland, his friend and neighbor, could lift a heavier load. He once met a famous athletic Indian in a wrest ling bout. His friends feared that he had found his match, but he threw him three times in succession. At the raising of Hooker's barn, Walter McFarland car ried one of the square plates a few steps, that required six men to lift it and place it upon his shoulders. Such were the amusements of the pioneers. Every neigh borhood had its champion. John Meeks, Dorsey Meason, the Cherry brothers and the Bears were neighbors and relatives of Isaac Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 307 Meason. The old people were buried at the Wells graveyard. Nathaniel Cherry, Ralph Cherry, Thomas Cherry and William Cherry, late of Walnut township, were sons of Thomas Cherry, a relative of the Greenfield Cherrys. They are all dead and but few of their de scendants remain in the county. Mrs. Wm. Murphey and her children, of Millersport; Frank Cherry and sisters, of Lancaster; Mrs. Samuel Wiseman and Brook Cherry, of New Salem; Mrs. Lightnecher, of Thurston, are about all that remain in the county. Dr. Leonidas Meason, son of Dorsey Meason, lives in Bluffton, Indiana. George A. Meason, son of Dorsey, is another, and lives in Montpelier, Indiana. Francis Meason, daughter of Col. John Meason, married Judge William Salter in Fayette County, Pa. They moved west and were early settlers in Portsmouth, Ohio, where Judge Salter was a leading citizen and one of the pioneers in the manufacture of pig-iron. Samuel Baxter, whose two wives were both Mea- sons, was for many years a business man of Lancaster. He studied law with Governor Medill and located in Lima, O;, where he was a successful man and acquired property. Dr. Samuel Baxter, son of his first wife, is a prominent business man of Lima. Henry and Alfred Neel, sons of John Neel, located in Toledo, O. They are prominent and very success ful business men of that city. Dr. George F. Meason, son of Elijah E. Meason, lives in the city of Milwaukee, John in Columbus. Felix N. Meason, son of Isaac Whatcoat Meason, lives in Carroll, O. A daughter of George W. Meason married John Stanbery, of Greenfield. 308 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People CHERRY FAMILY Ralph Cherry, son of Thomas and Rachel Cherry, was born July lo, 1744, and Anne Cherry, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Meek, was born June ¦ — , 1750. Were married October 10, 1765. They were the par ents of three children. I. Moses, born July 10, 1766, died January i, 1782. 2. Jeremiah, born July 24, 1772, died August 16, 1801. 3. Rachel, born January 17, 1774. Ralph Cherry, Sr., was an early settler on the head waters of the Hockhocking, and formerly was one of the first emigrants to Westmoreland County, Pa. He died in Greenfield township, July 22, 1820, aged yy years. His wife Anne followed him on September 27, 1822, aged 72 years. Their remains lie in the old Wells cemetery at Hooker ; also their children. Here their relatives, the pioneer Measons and Meeks were buried. Jeremiah Cherry, son of Ralph and Anne, married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Hannah (Frost) Meason, in 1794. Three children were born to them. I. Ralph Cherry, Jr., born February 23, 1795. 2. Sarah, born May 14, 1797. 3. John Meason Cherry, born March 16, 1800. Rachel Cherry, sister of Jeremiah and daughter of Ralph and Anne Cherry, married Isaac Meason, son of John and Hannah M., in 1794. Ralph Cherry, Jr., married Ruth Martin, who died in 1826. He afterwards married Mrs. Sallie Comer, daughter of John and Elizabeth Bear, and removed to Allen County. Their descendants live in Allen, Au glaize and Union counties. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 309 Sarah Cherry married George Bear in 1816 and subsequently moved to Allen County. Descendants moved westward. Coffey County, Kan., contains a large number. Van Wert County, Ohio, is the home of some others of the family. BEAR FAMILY John and Elizabeth Bear emigrated from Rocking ham County, Va. Their children were : Katie, who married Philip Lamb, and whose de scendants, the families of Philip, Jr., and Peter Lamb, reside in this county. George W. Lamb, of Hooker; Noah, John and Irvin, of Carroll, are sons of Peter Lamb. The daughters are Mrs. Henry Coffman, Mrs. BeUe Beatty, of Carroll, and Rachel Flood, of Lancaster. Polly married James Steadman and moved to northern Ohio. Sarah Bear married twice. First David Comer, second Ralph Cherry, and moved to Allen County, Ohio. George Bear married Sarah Cherry, sister to Ralph Cherry, in 1816 and removed to Allen County, Ohio. Betsey Bear married Daniel Miller in 1817 and lived in Allen, County. Joseph Miller, a son, resides with his daughter, Mrs. George Kester, of Greenfield township. Adam Bear married a Steadman and moved to Iowa. Anne Bear married John Meason in 1817. (See Meason family.) Coffey County, Kansas, is the home of a large num ber of the Bear descendants ; also Van Wert and Au glaize Counties in Ohio. For the preceding sketch of the Cherry, Bear and Winter connections of the Measons, the writer is in- 310 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People debted to Mary E. Winter, of Carroll ; a daughter of Elijah Winter and granddaughter of John Meason. ¦WINTER FAMILY Jacob Winter was an early settler in Walnut town ship, born in 1760, died in Baltimore in 1827. He had two sons, Benjamin and Abraham. Benjamin died young in 1829, but left seven children. Samuel, the oldest, lives in Effingham County, Ills., and is a farmer. He was captain in the army during the rebellion. He married Jane Turner. Isaac, a merchant tailor in Charleston, Ills., mar ried Kate Strode, of Hocking township. Esther, born 1821, married Wm. Lee, moved to Iowa and now lives in Clinton. Have a large family in Iowa and other western states. Elijah, born 1823, was married to Sallie E. Meason in 1846, and who died in 1873 leaving seven chHdren. In 1875 he married Catharine Berger and has two children by this marriage. Of this union Cora M. is the wife of F. E. Wilson, superintendent Lithopolis schools, and Frank E., the youngest, is telegraph operator at Valley Crossing. Benjamin Winter, born 1825, married Elizabeth Miller, of Walnut township. Have two children, Wal ter, a farmer near Baltimore, and Emma, the wife of Eugene Yontz, of New Salem, Ohio. Family of Abraham Winter, son of Jacob Winter, born 1787, lived and died in Pleasant township. Had three children. I. Hannah, married Valentine Cupp, who was killed at Chicamauga, Colonel ist O. V. C. 2. Margaret, married Lafayette Pickering, Cap tain 1st O. V.-C. 3. Daniel, died in Nebraska in 1899. Of Fairfield. County, Ohio. 311 Kate Strode, the wife of Isaac Winter, Charleston, Ills., was a niece of Geo. H. Strode. Her mother's second husband was Daniel Devore, of Lancaster. O. Family of Elijah M. Winter, born 1823, married in 1845 to Sallie E. Meason, of Greenfield township, were the parents of seven chHdren. I. John Meason married Frances Effie Gierhart. Is now postmaster at Carroll. 2. Mary E., oldest daughter, now resides in Car roll. Assists in post office work. 3. Jennie A., married AV. G. Waller, a farmer in Fayette County, O. Have three sons, Harry, Scott and Ralph. 4. Alice F., married J. I^cott Chenoweth, of Lon don, Ohio, who is now county treasurer. 5. George W., died in 1881, aged 21. 6. Charles C, married Esther E. Gorham. Now live at Continental, Ohio. Is agent for the N. Y., Chi. and St. L. R. R. Has been in R. R. work for twenty years. They have one son, Fred E., who is telegraph operator for the Pullman Car Co., Chicago. 7. William B., married Mollie Turner, of Mason, Ills. Has been in the employ of the Chicago and East ern Illinois R. R., also the Illinois Central, for ten years. Is now located at Pullman. They have two daughters. Mrs Winter died in 1873, and by a second marriage with Miss Katherine Berger in 1875 two children were born. Cora M., who is now the wife of Frank E. Wilson, superintendent of the Lithopolis schools, and Frank E., telegraph operator at Valley Crossing on the C. H. V. R. R. E. M. Winter died July 14, 1898, aged 75. 312 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People SKETCH OF THE HOOKER FAMILY Thomas Hooker is the first of his name of whom the writer has any account. He lived near Ricetown, Maryland, and ten miles from the city of Baltimore. Of his family we know nothing except his son Rich ard and his descendants. Thomas Hooker died March 24, 1744. His son Richard was born September 24, 1701. He married a woman named Martha. Of her family we know nothing. Richard Hooker was a farmer and tobacco planter, as we learn from his old account book and family record. The following quotation from said book gives some insight into his character : " Grace, wisdom and understanding is a fine thing." Signed : Richard. He died September, 1781, at half past five o'clock in the afternoon. His wife, Martha, died August 13, 1781, aged 69 years. They were the parents of thirteen children, viz. : Margaret,_ born the 15th of Novem ber, 1732; Barny, born the 28th of November, 1734; Eurath, born December 4, ,1736; Charity, born March II, 1739; Aquilla Hooker, born February 22, 1741 ; Mary, born January i, 1743 ; Richard Hooker, Jr., born on the 20th of October, 1745; Jacob Hooker, born 22d of June, 1748; Ruth, born 17th day of September, 1751 ; Susan, born March 17, 1753; Samuel, born i6th of November, 1757; Sarah, born May 28, 1762. Of this family of thirteen children we can learn nothing, except as to Richard, Samuel and Eurath, the sister, of whom more later on. There is a record of the birth of Kezia Hooker, January 6, 1761, in the handwriting of Richard, and the presumption is that she was one of his children, making the number thir- Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 313 teen. From an entry in his family record it would appear that his daughter Margaret married Dutton Land, and that his daughter Ruth married Lathrop Cole. Samuel Hooker, Jr., with his brother Richard and his sister Eurath, came to Ohio and settled in Green field township, Fairfield County, in 1810. He married Rachel Belt, daughter of Richard Belt, of Maryland. She was born November 11, 1767 Soon after his arri val in this county Samuel purchased of Gen. James Wells 665 acres of land for the sum of $8.00 per acre. It was a valuable and beautiful section of fertile land, just west of Hooker Station. The deed for this land is dated October i, 1810. Samuel Hooker, Sr., was a man of sterling quali ties, a good citizen and one highly esteemed in his neighborhood. He and his wife raised a large family — one of the largest and most prominent of Greenfield township. After a long and useful life he died Octo ber 3, 1842. His wife survived him, but passed to her long home February 7, 1853. Their children were Mary, born December 21, 1787; Jared, born May 20, 1789: Milcha, born January 17, 1793; Samuel, born February 17, 1797; Richard, born February 17, 1799; Rachel, born August 28, 1801. Rachel married a Mr. Pickens, and subsequently moved to Wabash County, near Attica, Indiana. Milcha married William Stanbery, of Greenfield. Mary was the second wife of John Stanbery, and step mother of of the present John Stanbery, of Greenfield. Jared must have died while yet a young man. Richard, son of Samuel, married Phoebe Tallman, a daughter of a prominent man named William Tallman, who then 314 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People owned a good farm adjoining Jedediah Allen, near Royalton, Ohio. Phoebe was born August 4, 1805. Richard Hooker was always a prominent respected citizen of Greenfield, and the father of a large family of children. He died in 1885, at the age of 86 years. The children of Richard and Phoebe were : Jared, born in 1828, and who married Sallie Manson, of Lan caster ; Samantha, born in 1830, and who married Thomas Trimble, son of the old pioneer, Col. WHliam Trimble; Richard, born in 1831, and who married a daughter of David Foster, of Lancaster, Ohio ; Nancy, born in 1833, and who married George Little, of Lan caster, Ohio; William Henry, born in 1836; Samuel Henry, born in 1839; George W., born in 1849. He married a daughter of William Rippey, of Lancaster, Ohio. Samuel Hooker, Jr., brother of Richard, was born February 17, 1797, and married Sarah ShuH, whose parents lived at that time near what is now Buckeye Lake. He was a highly respected citizen of Greenfield, and reared a large family on the farm now owned by M. S. Vought, near Hooker Station. The children of these parents were : Samuel L., who mar ried Miss Lydy, Daughter of S. Lydy, the proprietor of the " Swan Hotel," which stood on the site of the present Mithoff House; Samuel was a lieutenant in Company A, First Ohio Cavalry; John, who married Miss Lydia Alspaugh, daughter of John Alspaugh, who resided near the Rock MiH ; Martha, who married Hosea B. Tong, both of whom are dead; Orpha, who married E. S. Carr, of Fayette County, Ohio; Sarah, who married Darius Wise, son of Rev. Wise, of Lan caster; Loretta, who married Captain James M. Som- mers, who was killed at the head of his company, Sixty-first O. V. I., in one of the last battles of the Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 315 civil war ; Mary, who married George W. Alfred, who was Probate Judge of Hocking County ; Louise, who married M. K. Wright, of Jeffersonville, , Ohio ; and Rachel Elizabeth, who married John G. Reeves, a prominent attorney of Lancaster, and by marriage a double second cousin of Richard Hooker, Jr., of Tur key Run. Richard Hooker, the bachelor of the family, who came to this county, was a son of Richard and Martlia Hooker, of near Ricetown, Maryland. He arrived in this county with his brother Samuel in the year 1810. He was born October 20, 1745, and died in the year 1823, August the 5th. He was near 60 years of age when he landed here, was a bachelor and a man of means and ability. He soon became a large land owner and prominent in the county and in Lancaster, Ohio. In 1816 he was elected a member of the Board of Direc tors of the First Lancaster Bank, and he was four times a representative and twice a senator in Ohio Legisla ture. He gave farms to each of the children of his brother Samuel. The farm on which John Stanbery now lives is one of them. Reber Allen lives upon one of them. It is now yy years since his death, and there is no one living who knew him ; hence our sketch is very brief. Too brief, we have no doubt, for a man so highly esteemed in his day and generation. When or where his sister Eurith died, we have not been able to- ascertain. She did not marry. Richard was buried at the old Hooker graveyard, which holds the dust of many of the best pioneers of this county. Richard Hooker, always known in this county as Turkey Run Hooker, or Dick, was a near relative of Samuel, Sr., and Richard Hooker, Sr., of Greenfield township, Fairfield County, Ohio. He came to this 316 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People county early in the century, at least as early as 1804 or 1805. He was the first of the name to settle here. January 6, 1806, he was married to Nancy Tallman, by Thos. McCall, J. P. His wife was a daughter of William Tallman, who then lived upon a farm adjoin ing that of Jedediah Allen, in Amanda township. Wil liam Tallman was a good man, a good citizen, and pros pered financially. In later years he moved to a farm adjoining that of his son-in-law, but just over the line in Pickaway County, where he owned about one sec tion of land. William Tallman donated the land for the East Ringgold cemetery, and there he and his wife were buried. His father, Benjamin Tallman, and also his wife, were buried in the same cemetery. John, a brother of WiHiam, had a daughter named Mary, who married Fred Slough. They were the parents of Judge Tallman Slough, of the Common Pleas Court, Lancas ter, Ohio. Another brother, Samuel, married a ¦daughter of Gen. James Wells, the first owner of the Hooker farm, in Greenfield township. The sons of William Tallman were George, Hin- ton, James, Thomas and Benjamin. George settled first in Chillicothe, and later moved to near New Hol land, Pickaway County, Ohio. He was the father of Mrs. Rev. B. N. Spahr, late of Columbus, Ohio. This George Tallman reared Wilhelmina Slough in his family. Pie promised her an equal share in his estate with his children. He died suddenly, without mak ing a will, and his children, who possessed his noble traits of character, carried out his promise, giving the young girl an equal share of the estate. Hinton moved to Delaware, Ohio, where he was a prominent merchant and miller. George Spahr, a great-grandson •of William Tallman, is a prominent citizen and busi- Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 317 ness man of Columbus, Ohio. James TaHman married Mary Bell and moved to West Virginia and later to the west. In 1811 Richard Hooker purchased 160 acres of land of .Abraham Moyer, southwest quarter of section 20, on Turkey Run. He had previously entered sec tion 19, and moved there, improved it, and built a grist mill. The mill race can yet be distinguished, but there is no trace of mill or the dam. The Cedar Hill and Circleville pike passes diagonally through section 19, and the mill was just north of the crossing of Turkey Run. Mr. Hooker gave one acre of ground for a grave yard and school yard, also for the site of the present Baptist Church. Up to 1830 the services of this so ciety were held in the Hooker school house. William TaHman's section was just over the line in Pickaway count)', west of and adjoining the Hooker land. One half of the section is now owned by the Peters and Blues ; Claypool owned the section north of and ad joining Hooker. On the land of this one family the sightseer could ride three miles — a tract unsurpassed in beauty and fertility. From the hill south of the Hooker residence is to be had the finest landscape view in this or any other county. MHton Peters now owns a large part of the Claypool farm, and his fine home is now one of the landmarks of the neighborhood. Mr. Hooker was a very prominent and influential man. Some time prior to 183 1 he moved his family to Holliday's Cove, Brook County, Virginia, where they immediately took a prominent position in the society of the neighborhood, and of SteubenviHe and Wellsburgh. In the year 1831, October 5, Mr. Hooker died. He made a will and gave to his son Richard 500 acres of 318 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People section 19, range 19, of Fairfield County. This land Richard sold in less than a year to George Reigle, Sr. The Reigles and Kigers own the greater part of it. A section of land hardly surpassed by any other in the county. The children of Richard and Nancy Hooker were Phoebe, Elizabeth, Mary, Nancy, Richard, Eman uel, John Randolph, George and Tallman. Phoebe married Albert Claypool, March 26, 1826, and they settled upon a large farm adjoining and north of that of Mr. Claypool's father-in-law. Two daughters of these parents are still living ; the sons are dead. Rich ard Hooker, Jr., married Susan Graybill, February 13, 1828, Rev. Michael J. Steck officiating. Mary HOoker married Dr. Cowen, of SteubenviHe, Ohio. Elizabeth married a Mr. Shear, and he dying, she moved to Cal ifornia. Nancy married Dr. Stanton, a brother or near relative of Edwin M. Stanton. The widow now lives in Washington, D. C. Of Mary, George and Tallman, we have no information. After Richard, Jr., sold his large farm he moved to SteubenviHe and became a merchant there. Later he married a second wife, gave up merchandise, and went to Texas, where he met with financial reverses. He is said to have met with a violent death in the south. Major Eman uel T. Hooker, believed to be the son of Richard, re turned to this county some time before the civil war. He enlisted in the Union army, in the First Ohio reg iment, and was made a lieutenant of Company A. He was promoted to Captain, and served with his regiment until 1864, when he was regularly discharged. He was afterwards made major of one of the newly organ ized Ohio regiments. January 16, 1865, he married Rebecca J. Hutchins, of Lancaster. He had three chil dren by his first wife : Jessie, of Lancaster, who mar- Of Fairfield Courdy, Ohio. 319 ried Henry Dysinger ; Fannie, of Fairfield County, who married Thomas Williamson ; George, a son, supposed to be living in Canton, Ohio. He had a daughter by his second wife. Major Hooker died in Lancaster a few years after the war and was buried in Elmwood cemetery. Mary L. Ely, daughter of Dr. Stanton, and grand daughter of Richard Hooker, of HoHiday's Cove, is the wife of Rev. J. H. Ely, Episcopalian, College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio. Holliday's Cove, and Brown's Island, Virginia, were famous places in pioneer times. In this neigh borhood many people who have become distinguished were born and reared. The Brown's, Doddridges, Wells, Tallmans, Hammonds, Wrights, and other dis tinguished famiHes had their habitation here. Col. Richard Brown, the original proprietor, was born in Maryland, eight miles from Baltimore, in 1740, and died February, 181 1. Prior to 1800 he purchased 1,150 acres of land, including Brown's island, of 350 acres. It was this land the greater part of which Richard Hooker, of Turkey Run, owned at the time of his death in 1831. We close this sketch of a very remarkable and hon ored pioneer family, one that took part and were prom inent in the social life of their respective townships, and the schools and churches, doing all that was re quired of good citizens. All were farmers and owned and cultivated large farms of the best land in the county. The families with whom they intermarried, the Tallmans and Stanberys, were large and highly respected, and all have left numerous descendants of unblemished reputation. 320 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People SOME MARRIAGE RECORDS George Tallman married Jane Douglas, and they were the parents of Mrs. B. N. Spahr. Jonathan Hays married Elizabeth Hooker, in the year 1809, Richard Hooker, J. P., officiating. We can't state to what family Elizabeth belonged. James TaHman married Polly BeH, March 16, 1808, and moved to the Cove, Brook County, Virginia. Thomas Tallman married Eleanor Cole, August 14, 1823, by Rev. Henry Matthews. Benjamin Tallman married Rebecca Hedges, Oc tober 5, 1823, by Rev. Henry Matthews. William Tallman married Rachel Rush, of Amanda township, April 17, 1834. This was doubtless the father-in-law of Richard Hooker and his second wife. Benjamin Tallman married Sarah GlanviHe, De cember 24, 1833. Hinton Tallman married Amanda M. Thompson, May 5, 1836, by Rev. Solomon Mineer. Hinton and his brother George were able business men, of high- character, and were greatly esteemed wherever known. THE REBER FAMILY AND THE BRIGHT FAMILY — PIONEERS ALL John Bernhard Reber came from one of the German states to America in the year 1738 and settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania. His descendants have been numerous in Berks County forone hundred and ninety- three years. One of his descendants, Morris Reber, is at this time a resident of Reading, Berks County. John B. Reber was the ancestor of the family of this county (Fairfield). Peter and Valentine, brothers, belonged to the third or fourth generation from Bernhard. They left behind them eight brothers and sisters. When Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 321 the Amish came to this county in 1835 they told John Reber that he had many relations in old Berks County. Valentine and Peter Reber, brothers, came to Fair field County from Berks County, Pennsylvania. Peter came here a single man in 1801 and made his home in Lancaster. He married a daughter of Frederick Arnold, a farmer living north of town. They reared a large family. Peter was a hotel keeper and owned considerable property in town. John Reber, a dis tinguished merchant of Lancaster, and George Reber, a lawyer, were his sons. David Bright, Sr., married a sister of the Rebers and came to this county in 1800 and settled where Jacob Bright now lives in Green field. Peter Reber and his family are more fully sketched in " Centennial Lancaster." Valentine Reber was born in Berks County, Penn sylvania, and came with his young wife, who was Magdalena Van Reed, to Fairfield County in 1805. He had in 1803 visited the country and decided to make it his home. He purchased Section 10 of Amanda township, upon which he made his home during his life. He was an intelligent, industrious, enterprising and influential man. He reared a family of thirteen children, all of whom filled an honorable position in life, and left to their children the immortal heritage of a good name. Valentine Reber was a member of the Ohio Legislature in the year 1820. He left to his children each 160 acres of land, or its equivalent. He died in the year 1828, still in the prime of old age. His widow married for her second husband, William Stage, but the union was not a happy one. His old home stead is now owned by the heirs of Henry Reber. Thomas Reber, the oldest son, was born in 1806, 21 322 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People and married Rachel, the daughter of Jedediah Allen, a famous man of the neighborhood. He lived for some years on the Allen farm, but later moved to Wy andotte County and purchased of the Armstrongs or at government sale, a very fine farm near Upper San dusky. Here he lived and prospered, accumulating a fine estate. A Sandusky banker told the writer that Reber's bank balance never fell below $25,000.00. His son Felix lived and died in Marion County, Ohio. Reber found on his farm, when he purchased it, a good brick home, one that had been used by Arm strong, a half-breed, as a hotel. The writer, when a youth, spent one night in this famous hotel and partook of fruit grown in the old Indian orchard. This fine farm adjoins one equally as good, but not so large, of another Fairfield County man, Solomon Beery. Mr. Reber has been dead several years. John Reber, one of the sons of Valentine, was raised upon his father's farm, but early engaged in selling goods at Adelphi, Ohio, in which he was not successful. He gave up the business and commenced farming and cattle feeding in Walnut township, Pick away County, Ohio. In this he was very successful and before he had reached three score and ten he was a very wealthy man for the period in which he lived. He was a bachelor, lived in good style, was hospitable, kind and generous, and before or at his death, divided an estate of $400,000.00 among his relatives. A nephew resides upon his old home farm. John Reber was highly esteemed. Dr. William Reber married Susan Huston and moved early to Brandon, Miss., where he spent his life. He reared two, daughters known to the writer, one of whom became the wife of W. L. Clement, late Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 323 of Royalton, Ohio. Both, so far as we know, reside in the state of Mississippi. Charles Reber married Belinda, the daughter of a farmer near Groveport, Ohio. They made their home there, and there Mr. Reber died in 1849. Thorn ton Reber of this county is his son, and Mrs. Clarke Williamson, is a daughter. His son Henry lives near Circleville. A daughter married George Ashbrook, a son of Absolom Ashbrook. They reside in Pickaway County, Ohio. James Reber married Catharine Stage and he spent his life in Pickaway County. James Reber was a very amiable man, a good citizen, and a Christian gentle man. His son AA^Hliam resides upon the John Reber homestead. '' Joseph Reber married Sallie Dum and late in life moved to Jackson, Missouri. He is the only one of the eight brothers now living. Samuel Reber secured a good education, studied law in Lancaster, and being admitted to the bar, re moved to St. Louis, Missouri. There he became prom inent and was elected Judge of the Common Pleas Court. Judge Reber was an elegant gentleman and very much esteemed. He married Margaret, the daughter of General William J. Reese of Lancaster, Ohio. He died while yet a young man and left quite a family of children. Henry Reber married Sarah Allen, daughter of Howard Allen. He became owner of his father's old home and Section 10. Here he lived in good style, rearing a nice family of children. Henry was an ex ceptionally fine man, honorable in all of his dealings, a just and liberal man. He was a reader and was posted on all political matters. He was a man of 324 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People affairs and calculated to lead in any walk of life. He died while there yet seemed to be many years of usefulness before him. Joseph Hedges, George Blue and Dr. Beery married his daughters. He had but one son, Henry Clay. A daughter of Valentine Reber, whose name we cannot give, married Jonathan Huston of Pickaway County, Ohio They reared a large family of children. Eliza married Lyman Allen, the son of Jedediah Allen. His sons were Reber, Flavins and Clinton. Reber lives near Hooker ; Flavins in Jackson County, Missouri; Clinton died in Missouri. One of the daughters married Emmitt Defenbaugh, Nora mar ried Ed. jGriner, Etta married William Griner. Mar garet married Silas Wolfly of Delaware, now a wealthy tanner. Mary married John Allen, son of Howard. Rachel died young. Anna married Andrew Peters and they began life upon a farm near the old home. They both lived to a good old age and led an exemplary life. Success crowned their lives and they left their children a fine estate. Alice Peters married George Creed ; their chil dren were Frank, Ann, Fannie and Emma. Mrs. Creed died suddenly October 7, 1896. Milton Peters, son of Andrew, lives upon a fine estate in Amanda township ; Frank and John in Pickaway County. Pauline Reber married William L. Clement, for many years a prominent merchant of Royalton, Ohio. Their children were John, Charles, William, George and Mary. His second wife was Ann Reber, daugh ter of Dr. William Reber. They had two children. Mary Reber married Horace Huber, son of Philip Huber. They moved to Seneca County, Ohio, where Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 325 Huber died. His wife is the only daughter of Valen tine Reber now living. Their children are John and Eugene. We regret that this sketch is not more complete. It is next to impossible to procure full information of the pioneer families. What can the children of the honored dead be thinking about to neglect this matter? The Rebers, who were church members, were Methodists, prominent in the church and influential in the circle where they lived. But few, if any, pioneer families have a better record. The thirteen children, like the thirteen on an adjoining farm (Samuel Peters), grew to man's estate and lived long and useful lives. Jacob Dum, whose farm adjoined the Peters' home, settled there in 1833. He reared a family of thirteen children. Three such families on adjoining farms is remarkable. But what is more remarkable, the thirty-nine chil dren became men and women, and, without exception, filled honorable and useful positions in society. David Bright, Sr., one of the early pioneers of Greenfield township, married Sarah Reber, a sister of Valentine Reber. They came from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Fairfield County, in the year 1800, and settled where Jacob Bright now lives. David Bright cleared up a farm and like many other pioneers ran a whiskey distillery near his home, which, like all of its kind, proved a great injury to the neighborhood. Mr. Bright reared two sons and four daughters. He died at the very early age of 42. David Bright, Jr., was born in 1812. He married Catharine Arnold for his first wife; his second wife was Susan Gesselle, who still lives at the advanced age of 87 years. David Bright was a very substantial 326 Pioneer- Period and Pioneer People man, highly esteemed for his industry and integrity, and his skill and judgment as a farmer and business man. Greenfield honors no better citizen than David Bright, Jr. His son Charles married Catharine Carnes, one of an estimable family of Greenfield. Charles moved to near Findlay, Ohio, where he owns a large and fertile farm. He represented Han cock County in the Ohio Legislature a few years since. Samuel married Rebecca Fisher of Greenfield, daughter of Samuel Fisher. He lives upon a good farm in Walnut township. He is a wide-awake far mer and devoted to his business. Raised a Lutheran, on account of new location he became a very devoted Methodist. Emma married Adam Fisher, son of Daniel Fisher of Greenfield. They live in a splendid home in Wal nut township near Pleasantville. James married Mary Rugh, daughter of Christian Rugh. Their fine mansion overlooks one of the finest 300-acre farms in AValnut township. James is a good farmer, a money maker and a money saver. Julia married William Spangler, son of Jacob Spangler of Pleasant. Luther married Alma, daughter of Jacob Rugh Brandt. He owns the old Abrams homestead in Green field township. He is a sturdy farmer and not afraid of hard work. His build and face remind us of the picture of his grand namesake, Martin Luther. John R. Bright married Sarah Rife, daughter of John Rife. He owns the old David Bright home stead, a magnificent place, and is a good, industrious farmer, who raises good crops and whose word is always good. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 327 John Bright, son of David Bright, Sr., married Sarah Arnold, daughter of Jacob Arnold. John was a good farmer, good manager and a successful man. He reared a large family. Thomas married Rebecca Bush, daughter of Sam uel Bush. He is a good farmer near No. 8. Mary married John Fisher, son of Daniel of Greenfield. Louise married Ben Haas. Haas is one of the Infirmary Directors of this county. Warren married a Holliday of Rushcreek. Levi married Louisa Miller, daughter of David Miller. He owns a fine farm near Millersport, Ohio. George has never yielded to the charms of fasci nating maidens, and remains a bachelor. Jacob married Annie Heffner of Pennsylvania. George and Jacob farm the original Bright farm. William H. Bright married Ella Myers, daughter of Michael Myers. Nelson married Mahala Miesse, daughter of Solomon Miesse. Sarah Bright, daughter of David, Sr., married Thomas Fetters. They reared a very large family of sons and daughters, a family highly respected and an honor to Thomas Fetters, who was a good man. Mar garet married Daniel Arnold; they were the parents of Monroe and Jerry. Diana married a Boyer and lives near Pleasantville, a widow. Susan married Abraham Graybill ; they moved in an early day to Findlay, where they reared a large family of children. John Bright, the brother of David Bright, Sr., spent the greater part of his life on his farm on Poplar creek, Liberty township, Fairfield County. He was married three times and reared quite a family of chil dren. Two of his sons own the old home farm of over 328 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 300 acres, and are very prominent men in their town ship, and well known throughout the county. John, Jr., lives at his ease in Baltimore, and Enoch upon his farm. John Bright, Sr., was one of the founders of the Evangelical Church in this county and upon his farm the first house of worship of that denomination was built. Moses Bright is a son of a deceased brother of Enoch. Four of the best known old-time citizens of Lib erty, married daughters of John Bright — Alexander Miller, Daniel Langle, John Swartz and Henry Lan- gle. They all reared families and the connection is very large and widely extended. They were all good men and worthy of the high esteem in which they were held. John Bright was a man of integrity, whose word was good everywhere he was known. His de scendants bear an honored name and worthily main- lain the reputation of the old pioneer. THE REAM FAMILY Abraham Ream, the first person by that name to settle in Ohio, was born ip Reamstown, Pa., in the year 1746. His wife's name was Rosannah, and there were born to them fourteen children — six sons and eight daughters. Of this number twelve were born in Pennsylvania. In 1798, Abraham, together with his family, removed to Fairfield County, Ohio. His was the sixth family of white settlers to settle in this county. It is stated that he journeyed from his Penn sylvania home to Pittsburg in wagons ; from thence on a flat-boat down the Ohio river to the mouth of the Hockhocking. He then wended his way up that stream in dugouts or canoes as far as the great falls (now one mile above Logan) ; thence by land up the stream, till he reached a point on its banks now known Of FairPAd Comity, Ohio. 329 as the Ream's mill. In this beautiful and fertile part of the valley he entered four and one-fourth sections of land. These purchases were made at auction, against a Kentuckian, at Chillicothe. The price paid for some of the land first bought was nearly four dollars per acre; for some of the rest, as low as one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. In 1804 Abraham Ream built the mill which still retains his name. He and his sons were strong and fearless men. They were also great hunters, killing many bears, deer and other wild animals in the adja cent hills. Abraham was also a man of some business qualifications, was industrious, accommodating, socia ble and was a member of the Reformed Church. He died in 1824, and his wife in 1826. Their remains He buried in the Ream graveyard. The following named were the sons and daughters of Abraham and Rosannah Ream : I. Elizabeth, the oldest, was born April 4, 1776; was married to Peter Rudolph, Sr., who also came along with her father from Reamstown to Fairfield County. Their children were Joseph, William, Peter John, Abraham, Henry, Daniel, Samuel, Polly, Mar garet and Delilah. Elizabeth died April 12, 1861. 2. Sampson was born June 27, 1877 ; was married to Anna, sister of Judge Joseph Stukey. Their union was fruitful of thirteen children, as follows : Jonas A., who married Hannah E. Wilkinson ; to whom were born Thaddeus Hector, Cadorsus Plantagenet, Mois ten Constantine, Victoria Grace Arena, Florence, Alice, Pocahontas and Mary. Mrs. Charles W. Tow- son is a daughter of the second wife of Capt. Jonas A. Ream, who was Miss Ely, the teacher of a select school in Lancaster for several years. Jonas A. Ream was 330 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People captain of the Black Hawk company, Berne township boys. Samuel married Nancy Schisler; their children were named Sarah, Joseph and Rachael, all of whom died young. Noah A. married Nancy King ; he after wards moved to California. Eli and Absolom were unmarried and both died in the Mexican war. Eliz abeth was married to George Westenbarger. Barbara was wedded to John Fartig. Martha married Jacob Poff. Joseph Adam died single in California. Four others died young. Sampson's feats of physical strength and skill would lead one to conclude that he was not mis-named. If he never slew a lion, yet his. exploits among wild animals only a little less ferocious than the king of beasts would at least lead one to- associate him with his Bible namesake. 3. Rosannah was born December 11, 1778. She married John Panebaker. They were the parents of John, who died in his fourteenth year. William, who married Rachael Kelley; their children were George, Elizabeth, Rosan and Rachel. Abraham married Eva Kremer ; there were born to them Daniel, Susan, Eva, Hannah, Catharine and Mary. Rachel died in her eighteenth year. Samuel was united in wedlock to- Sarah Erick. Rosannah died December 2, 1839. 4. William Ream was born Septemeber 16, 1780. He was both a farmer and tanner. Was married to Anna Hess ; their children were Adam and Lydia. Their children were Rosan, Rachel, Elizabeth, WH liam, George, Henry, Josiah, Lydia Jane. WiHiam died September 30, 1845. 5. Julia Ann was born January 31, 1782. She was married to Isaac Shaeffer. They were the parents of the following named children : Jacob, Isaac, Johh, Delilah, Judy and Sarah. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 331 6. Maria Barbara, born October 15, 1783, was married to Abraham Shaeffer, and had born to them the following children : Joel, Samuel, Abraham, Jacob, Daniel, Judy and Nettie. 7. Absalom was born December 11, 1785. His children were Rosan, Abraham and Absalom. Was a farmer and went to Missouri, where he died. 8. Rachel was born September 9, 1787; was married to Lewis Hershberger, but had no issue. 9. Adam was born April 22, 1789, and died April II, 1805. 10. Abraham was born September 21, 1791, and died in Michigan in the war of 1812. II. Mary was born October 28, 1793. Mary was married to Judge Joseph Stukey and to them were born Noah, Abel, Aaron, a daughter who died young; Solomon, whose children are Rosa, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Zwingli and Ella; Joseph whose children are William, Clara and Emma; Daniel, to whom were born Edward, Albert, William, Charles, Robert and Agnes. Rosa, who married the Rev. Rike ; two sons, one named Joseph, were born to them. The husband having died, Rosa then married Robert L. Sharp ; they were the parents of five children, viz : Anna, Lee, Agnes, WiHiam and Robert. Mary Ann. 12. George Ream was born June 21, 1795; died June 8, 1833. George owned the farm north of the Ream's mill On which still stands the large brick house. Was captain of the Third company. First reg iment. First brigade of the Seventh division of the Ohio' militia. His marriage with Catharine Ludwick was fruitful of six sons and one daughter. Of these, Daniel, the eldest, was born August 2, 1821. Daniel owned the mill property, which was carried on most 332 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People successfully while he lived. He was the first sergeant of the regiment of which his father was captain. Was a worthy member of the Lutheran Church, of good habits, led an exemplary Christian life and was held in Iiigh esteem by all who knew him. Daniel was mar ried to Catherine Osenbaugh and to them were born children as follows : Julia, who died in her twelfth year ; George, who died in infancy; Lewis Melanchthon, who married Mary Eliz. Plout; Daniel, still single; Clara, whose husband is Capt. Albert Getz ; and Eliz abeth, who also died young. Abraham, the second son of George Ream, was born December 17, 1823 ; was married to Sarah Bumgardner September 9, 1847. Their children are Solomon, who married Ida A. Lusk ; Mary Catherine, who married John S. Crook; and Lewis, who wedded Caroline Seiffert (nee Johnson.) Abraham died October 11, 1854. It affords the writer, a son of Abraham, exquisite satisfaction to be able to speak on commendable terms and to testify to the ¦excellent Christian character of his deceased father. Those who knew him best speak of him as being a typical representative of the best manhood of his day. He was an earnest Christian, a kind husband and a loving father. His religion was of a type that always made him joyful and happy; was a member of the Reformed Church, of which he was at various times secretary, treasurer, deacon and elder. He also held the offices of township clerk and justice of the peace. When twenty-one years of age he was also elected first lieutenant of the Black Hawk Braves of the First brig ade. Seventh division, Ohio mihtia. Abraham owned the farm located one-half mile north of the mHl, which he bought of a Mr. Daniel Wilson. George Ream, Jr., was the third son of George Ream, Sr. The writer Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 333: has no record of the date of his birth, but his death took place September 17, 1842. Rosannah was bom April 27, 1826 ; was married to Wm. Stallsmith. Their children are John F., who married Mary P. Welsh; William H., who married Emma Crumley; Catherine Elizabeth, who died young; Charles Edwin, who died in infancy; Emma C, who married Henry Zang- meister; Joseph L. wedded Minnie Courtright; Frank L. died young; Minnie and Callie S. are twins. The first married J. Luther Faler, and the latter Frank Sallee. Jacob was born June 5, 1827; was married to- Caroline Fulse, to whom were born the following named children : Rose, Kate and Louisa. Jacob died April 7, 1855. Joseph Ream was bom June 25, 1830 ; married Susan Braucher, to whom were born Estelle, Winnie R., Calvin B. and Frank C, all of whom are living; Ella, Daniel, George John and the twins, Jos eph and Isaac, are dead. Joseph Ream is the only one of the seven children of George Ream still living. He resided a long time in Lincoln, Ills., where he served eight and one-half consecutive terms as county treasu rer. His present postoffice address is Bronaugh, Ver non County, Mo. Lewis was the seventh in number of the children of George Ream; no accurate dates have been furnished of his birth and death. The widow of the elder George Ream was afterward married to Rev. John Wagenhals. Their children are Cather ine, who was married to the Rev. George Harter ; Rev. Samuel, who married Eva Shaeffer for his first wife and Nellie Hamilton for second wife; Mary, who was married to David Emmitt; David, who died when about five years old. Grandmother's death took place May 30, 1883. She was the mother of eleven children. Her life was beautiful, sweet, and even-tempered. She 334 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People was kind and amiable, and was loved by all with whom she came in contact. 13. Catherine, daughter of old "Abraham Ream, was born December 17, 1799. Her marriage with Henry Annes Hensley was fruitful of five children, viz : Tobias, Adam, Jacob, Christian and Rosan. Cath erine died November 9, 1849. 14. Sarah was born December 30, 1801 ; was unmarried and died from the effects of a stroke of lightning. Her age was 18 years and six months. This completes the sketch of the Abraham Ream family down to the third generation. Another line, starting with Jacob, a half-brother of old Abraiham's, is not given in this extract. It will be observed that the Ream family were quite numerous and prolific. Being widely intermar ried, also, the relationship was a very large one. Jn the course of time, however, numbers of them removed to other and newer parts of the country, so that now the Reams may be met with in nearly all sections of the North and West. Some of these, however, emi grated directly from Pennsylvania or from Europe, as the various spellings of the name would indicate. These are Ream, Reahm, Riehm and Reeme. In conclusion, let it be borne in mind by the present and after generations inheriting for their patrimony the Ream name, that whatever be the pride of honorable lineage, of heroic deeds, noble lives and acts well done, after all — "Honor and fame from no condition rise. Act ¦well your part, for there all the honor lies." Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 335 [The writer is indebted to Rev. Solomon Ream, of Wilton Junction, Iowa, for the foregoing sketch of an interesting family.] THE VAN METRE FAMILY Jan Gysbesten Van Metre was the founder of the Van Metre family in America. In the year 1663 he emigrated from Bommel, a city in South Holland, and settled in New LTtrecht, on Long Island, near New York. He had one son, also named Jan Gysbesten Van Metre. This son married twice, and left several sons and daughters. The eldest son was named Jan Van Metre. He, with several members of the family, in 1709, left New Utrecht, and settled in Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, which is just across the bay, opposite Long Island. Kryn Jan was a great Indian trader, and in his expeditions was the first white man to penetrate the valley of the South Branch of the Potomac. He was so impressed with the beauty and fertHity of the country that he induced his sons, John and Isaac, to secure a grant of land, embracing 40,000 acres, from Governor Gooch, of Virginia. This land was in the valley of the Opequan creek, and of the South B'ranch of the Potomac. The grant was made in 1730. In 1735 they conveyed 10,000 acres to Jos. Hite, a Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Ger man, and ancestor of the venerable Jacob Hite, of Lan caster, Ohio, who was the first settler on the land. The Van Metres did not remove to A^irginia till about 1740. Three brothers, John, Isaac and Jacob, were the first, but later on several others from Monmouth joined them. Jacob Van Metre, who settled east of Lancaster, was the grandson of John, one of the grantees under Gov. Gooch. Daniel Van Metre, who settled west of Lancaster, was descended from Isaac, 336 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People the brother of John, and one of the co-grantees. They were a very prolific family, and their descendants are now settled across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They were very patriotic during the revo lution. Ten Van Metres went to the war from Mon mouth County. New Jersey and Virginia sent as many more. Colonel. Garrett Van Metre was County Lieu tenant for Hampshire County, and was very prominent tHl the end of the struggle. He was the grandson of Isaac, one of the grantees, and was the uncle of John I. Van Metre, of Ohio. The name of Van Metre has been a familiar and well known one for one hundred years in Fairfield County. The family has been by blood and by mar riage one of the largest in the county. Jacob and Daniel Van Metre were natives of Virginia, but came to Fairfield County from Westmoreland County, Penn sylvania. They were cousins and friends, but entered land ten miles apart in this county. They came to this county with families in 1799. Daniel settled on the edge of Muddy Run prairie, eight miles west of Lancaster, and became the owner of a large and pro ductive farm. In 1805 he told Bishop Asbury that a tenant had raised 100 bushels of corn per acre. The old bishop spent his first night in 1803, west of Lan caster, with Judge Van Metre, and enjoyed his hos pitality on several occasions. In 1803 Daniel Van Me tre was appointed an Associate Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions. He met with reverses later in life and involved his cousin Jacob. He was bondsman for Judge Sherman in 18 17, and was then a heavy loser, for a time at least. It is generally understood that he died poor. He had one son who went to Cincinnati, studied and practiced law there. His sister Mary Of FairP.eld County, Ohio. 337 lived with him. Both are long since dead and their names are unknown to the present generation. Jacob Van Metre entered 1,280 acres of good land, a part of which has ever since been known as Van Metre's prairie. This was a body of land between the glass works and the stone quarry, and was often from one to three feet under water. Van Metre's land was one mile wide and two miles long. His cabin stood where Van Applegate's house now stands, and there he Hved and died. In 1803 he was appointed by the Court one of the County Commissioners. He was an old-fashioned Virginia gentleman, who took life easy, and enjoyed the amusements of the neighborhood. He was fond of fine stock, was a fox hunter, and many of his descendants possessed the same traits. He bailed his cousin at one time and was compelled to sell 500 acres of his land to pay the debt. The name of his wife was Catherine De Moss. She was born in 1752, and died in 1816, aged 64 years. She was a Dutch- French woman of good qualities. Jacob Van Metre was born in 1745 and lived to be 93 years of age. He died in 1838. A few trees of his old orchard, planted in 1802, are still standing and bear fruit. His daughter Josina married Rev. Hickman, of the Baptist Church, while they lived in Virginia. This family moved to Indiana, and became quite prominent there. Rebecca Hickman married Abel WilHams and they lived for a time at Millersport, moving from there to Indiana. Her daughter married Judge Buckles, of Muncie, Indiana. Rebecca married James Pearse, in Virginia. They came to Fairfield County from Virginia in 1800, bring ing with them on horseback their infant son, John Van 22 338 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Metre Pearse. They lived in a cabin in the Van Me tre settlement. John Van Metre Pearse grew up there and married Diana, the daughter of John Carpenter. They spent their lives in or near Lancaster, and reared a small family of children. Miss Bina, a woman of literary taste and culture, and Mrs. Swinhart are the surviving children. John Carpenter lived on what is now known as the, Geisy farm, and there Mrs. Pearse was born. Van Pearse was a lover of fine stock. He bred, bought and sold horses, making that his chief business. He numbered among his many friends Col. Van Trump and Rev. Wm. Cox. They were warrrt per sonal friends during life. Van Pearse was very de cided in his likes and dislikes, but kind and generous. He was a captain in Col. Collins' cavalry regiment and served on the frontier in 1862 and '63, and to the close of the war. He found homes for his brother Frank's orphan children. They were well brought up and mar ried well. They were very pretty girls. James Wilson Pearse married Eliza Murphey, daughter of Wm. Murphey. Their children were Wil liam, of Newark, and Mrs. Matlack, of Lancaster. He was a farmer and horse dealer and a prominent and well known man. He was married three times. His second and third wives were named Ward, of Balti more, Ohio. He reared a large family. One son married a daughter of Joshua Clarke. One a daugh ter of Joseph C. Kinkead, both well known Lancaster women. His son, James Wilson, married a Miss Frances Bowser, another Lancaster woman, of Fort Wayne. Frank married a Miss Nettie Lane and lives in Fort Wayne. Lewis Pearse, son of James Pearse, married Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 339 a Virginia girl, a relative of his mother, Catharine Van Metre. She was good looking and refined and was an excellent mother. One of her daughters, an elegant and handsome girl, married William Renick, one of the distinguished men of Pickaway County. The other married a Lewis Sweyer. Joseph Pearse married Delilah Walker and the fam ily moved to the west. His daughter married Dr. Koontz, of Cedar Rapids. Frank settled in Kentucky, married there and dying left young children. They were brought to Ohio and found homes among their friends, two of them with Mrs. Geo. K. Wheat, and they married in Wheeling — Mrs. Isett and Mrs. Hen- dershott. Another married John Richards, in Lancas ter. She died early and left a handsome daughter. Miss Maud Richards. Andrew Pearse married a daughter of David Car penter, of Bald Hill. They settled on a fine farm in Madison township, where. John Landis now lives. Salem, John and Jerry were well known men, sons of theirs. Elsie Van Metre married Walter Applegate. They lived upon the old home place on Pleasant Run, and Jacob Van Metre spent his old' age with them. Mrs. Applegate lived to be 94 years of age. Their best known son was Abraham Van Metre Applegate. Abe Applegate took the world easy. He loved fine horses, fine chickens, fine dogs, and a good fox hunt. He could ride to hounds with the best of them and clear the fences. He was a great reader, especially in the line of his taste, and was well informed. He was an inter esting talker, and could write a good letter. The Rev. Wm. Cox admired him, corresponded with him and praised his letters. He could trace the pedigree of fine 840 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People stock back to the Godolphin Arabian. He was one of the last representatives in this county of the Virginia gentlemen of sporting taste. He was fond of a good horse race, but with all a moral man, and he died a Christian. There was but one Abe Applegate. Josina Applegate married John Shook. She is said to have been a very intelligent woman. She was the grandmother of Dr. William Shook, of Canal Winchester, who, after the death of his mother, found a good friend and mother in Mrs. Samuel Beery. Sarah Van Metre married Samuel Crawford. They settled upon a farm near Wm. Murphey, in Walnut township, and raised a large family. Jacob Van Metre Crawford was their son. His first wife was an Apple- gate. His second wife was Sarah A. Hull. They lived east of Lancaster, on a part of the old farm of the Van Metres. W. H. Huber married a daughter; Mr. Pratt, of Columbus, married Alice; Lulu married R. Shallenberger ; Eva is not married. Catherine Crawford married A. Morrison ; Marga ret married Harrison Applegate; Elsie married Rich ard Buffington ; Priscilla married Lewis Fink ; Emeliza married Dr. T. A. Aldred, and they lived in CarroH. Two sons died young. Samuel Crawford and wife were buried at New Salem. Catharine Van Metre, the youngest daughter of Ja cob, married for her first husband Thomas Armstrong. He was a native of North Ireland. Soon after his marriage he built a carding mill, run by water, on Pleasant Run, near the old Hull cabin, as it is now known. He died in a few years, leaving two children, Thomas J. and Eliza. The latter married David Ren shaw. Thomas J. Armstrong married Jane Ann Rhodes, whose mother was an Arnold. They lived Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 341 for some years in the neighborhood and then moved to Kansas, where they died a few years since. David Renshaw and wife reared a family of chil- ¦dren. They were good people and highly respected. Dr. Renshaw lives in Sugar Grove ; Ransom, the hor ticulturist, at the old home place. Mrs. Daniel Ham- mack lived for many years with the old grandmother. Mrs. Weeks lives in Lancaster David Renshaw was a charming fifer and his good music was enjoyed and is remembered by many admirers. Robert Armstrong had a brother John who lived near Thornville, Perry County. He died there, leav ing a widow and a young daughter. A Mr. Buriff married the widow and they reared the daughter. She became the excellent wife of John M. Ashbrook and is still living in Geneva, Nebraska, aged 87. About the time of Robert Armstrong's death Robert S. Hull came into the neighborhood and took charge of the fuHing mill. He was from New York. In time he married the Widow Armstrong. Their daughter, Sarah A. Hull, married Jacob Van Metre Crawford, her cousin. Catherine Hull married Samuel Beery. They lived several years near Bremen, and then built a stately home near Lancaster, where Mr. Beery soon after died. A few years after his death his widow married Samuel Black, a native of Ireland. Mr. Black is a very intelligent and worthy gentleman. Like most Scotch- Irish, they are both staunch Presbyterians. Robert L. Hull lived but a few years after his marriage. A brother of his, Benjamin Hull, came out to Ohio, courted and married the widow. In a few years he died and Mrs. Hull spent many years alone, or with her grandchildren, in the home where she had been happy with three different husbands. 342 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People She was the youngest and the last to die of her fam ily. They aH sleep their last sleep on the Applegate hill. Mrs. Hull was much more than an ordinary woman, bright and intelligent, and a good talker. Ben jamin Hull brought with him from New York a young son, F. C. Hull. He went to Chicago at an early day and was engaged in the real estate business in which he made a large fortune. He left $5,000,000 to his niece, who was his bookkeeper, of this she gave $1,000,000 to the University of Chicago. She is one of the very wealthy women of Chicago. Colonel John Van Metre, the son of Jacob, lived and died on the prairie. He was born in 1871 and died in 1845, aged 64 years. His house stood just west of Ashbaugh's spring. The old log building was still standing in i860. He served during the war of 1812 in Captain Sanderson's company. He was a fine pen man, the only one in the company, and was made first sergeant and kept the company's rolls. He was sur rendered and paroled at Detroit. He came home and re-enlisted in the 27th U. S. Infantry. He was twice married. First to Anna Neely. His second wife was Margaret Young, a sister of the second wife of Thomas McNaghten. He was a colonel of the Ohio MHitia, and filled other minor offices. His life was spent upon his farm. He was a genial, witty and cheerful man and made many friends. After his death his family received a land warrant for 160 acres of land. His son Jacob located this warrant and lives upon the land in the state of Iowa. Colonel Van Metre was a plain man and lived in plain style, and was much esteemed by his fellowmen. Rebecca, daughter of John Van Metre, married John A. Heberling, whose business was that of a Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 343 butcher. One of his daughters married a Syfert, and moved to Columbus ; another married John Rada- baugh and they live in Columbus ; another married William Selby and they moved to Peoria, Illinois; another married a Drinkle, who died, and the widow then went to California where she married again. Cynthia Ann married John Shrieves, a native of Rhode Island. He was a butcher by trade. They reared three or four sons, one of whom, Harry, was a fine looking, sprightly fellow. He went west, to Ne vada, and married well, but died in a few years, leaving an only daughter. His widow is living and his daugh ter, Mrs, Teresa Joise, in San Francisco, California. John Shrieves lives in Franklin County, Ohio. Mrs. Shrieves is still living in this city at the age of 87 years, and is a bright, clever old lady, of the old style. Mary married Alfred Snider; Catharine married James Craiglow — their descendants, the Harvey Denton family, live in Lancaster. Mrs. Denton has quite a family of children. Old Lancaster people all remember Harvey Denton. Elsie married a Mr. Alford of Illinois. Jacob, the son of John Van Metre, moved many years ago to Iowa. He reared a family of five children, who married well and are prosperous, useful citizens of the Hawkeye state. The daughters of James and Rebecca Pearse were Priscilla, Josina, Catharine and Rebecca. Priscilla married Ezra Van Metre, a brother of Mrs. Lewis Pearse, and they lived in Pickaway County. Josina married Joseph Clem. They moved to Mis souri long ago. Rebecca married Daniel Winner. She was the mother of a handsome Wheeling lady, Mrs. George K. Wheat, as kind and generous as she is hand- 344 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People some. A son of Daniel Winner has become distin guished as a lion tamer, with Barnum's show. Catharine married Gabriel Carpenter, a son of old David, of Bald Hill, now the Prindle farm. Gabriel lived on his farm below town and reared a large and interesting family. His son, Seymour David, studied medicine in Lancaster about 1847, and after gradu ating, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In 1850, or about that time, he prevailed upon his father to sell his farm here, pay some debts, and invest in a farm adjoining the town. Thither he moved his family and there he prospered and his children married well and succeeded in business. That farm has long since be come a part of the city of Cedar Rapids. Gabriel Carpenter and wife lived to a good age, respected and admired by all who knew them. Dr. S. D. is a well preserved man of 70 years or more — with a history of good deeds and a useful life behind him. He reared a good family, now scattered and gone from him. He lives a quiet, unobtrusive life in Chicago, Illinois. Colonel John I. Van Metre, late of Pike County, Ohio, was a distinguished man and a relative of Jacob Van Metre. He owned and lived upon the finest farm of 2,500 acres in the Scioto Valley. He represented his district in Congress. A son of his studied law and made his home in Chillicothe. He was, for many years, a distinguished citizen of the ancient metropolis. Colonel John I. Van Metre was a typical Virginia gentleman of the old school. He was a reader and well informed. The writer once met him at his stately home and was charmed with his fine manners and gen tlemanly bearing. Ella, daughter of Colonel John M. Connell, mar ried a Van Metre. They live near Salt Lake, Utah. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 345 John E. Van Metre and Dr. Van Metre, of Picka- "way County, were brothers and relatives of the Fair field family. John E. married his cousin, a sister of Mrs. Lewis Pearse. Dr. Van Metre married Nancy, daughter of William Murphey, and a sister of Mrs. James W. Pearse. The father of Ella ConneH's hus band married a Miss Beall of Wooster, Ohio, a sister of Mrs. Rev. WiHiam Cox, well known here. THE COURTRIGHT FAMILY Among the very early pioneers who settled in Fair field County, were two brothers, Abraham V. Court- right and John Courtright. They came from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the. year 1801. They were intelligent, brainy, hardy, upright men, and they left the impress of a good character and good life upon the community in which they lived. For nearly one hundred years the Courtrights have been a numerous people in Fairfield County, and among the foremost men of their township. Abraham V. Courtright married Elizabeth Mc Farland, a sister of Walter McFarland. They reared a large family of children, who in time reared other large families, and they all proved themselves worthy of their hardy pioneer ancestors, of Bloom township. Their children were Abraham V., William, O. P. Courtright, John, Zephaniah, Cyrus and Effie. Abraham V. was born in 1810, and for his wife married Susan Fellers. They lived a long and useful life in Greenfield township. Their old mill west of the Summit church is still one of the old land marks of the neighborhood. Winfield Scott Courtright, a prominent citizen of Columbus, is their son. 346 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People William C. was borh in 1813, and for his wife married Catharine Drake. O. P. Courtright was born in 181 5, and married Sarah Harman of Ross County, a relative of Dr. G. A. Harman of Lancaster, Ohio. John Courtright was born in 181 7, and for his wife married Anna Morehart of Bloom township. Zephaniah was bom in 1819, and for his wife married Sarah WHliamson, a daughter of George Wil liamson. Zephaniah was a very intelligent man and an enterprising and prosperous citizen. No man was more highly esteemed in Bloom township or in Fair field County, among those who knew him. He died at a good old age, leaving a handsome estate, and, what is far better, a good name. We write thus of him because we knew him best and esteemed him highly. Their family consisted of two sons, Silas and Abraham, and four daughters. Mary resides on the home place with her brother Abraham, a leading farmer and stock man of Bloom. H. J. Kneisley mar ried one of the daughters. They own a part of the old home place, but reside in Carroll, where Kneisley is a grain merchant, and a live, wide-awake individual. Reber Allen, a great-grandson of the old Vermont pio neer, Dr. Silas Allen, married one of the daughters; they reside on a nicely improved farm on the Colum bus pike near Hooker. Another daughter married Andrew Jackson Musser, late Treasurer of Fairfield County ; they reside in the city of Lancaster. Cyrus Courtright was born in 1821, and for his wife married Catharine Switzer, a step-daughter of Walter McFarland, and a sister of Mrs. Rev. Joseph Roof and of Mrs. "Robert Wilson. One of their daugh- Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 347 ters married Levi Hite, a grandson of Daniel Keller. He has a son who is an attorney in Columbus, Ohio. Effie Courtright was born in 1827; she married John W. Wilson of Greenfield township. One of their daughters married Thomas Carlisle, son of B. W. Carlisle. Another married Henry Lehman of Des Moines, Iowa. We regret that we have not the data to say more of the other families mentioned. Each couple reared families of children more or less numerous. John Courtright, Sr., one of the two pioneer brothers, married Elizabeth Grubb. Their children were Abraham, John Jacob, Jesse D., and Sallie, wife of George W. Custer. Abraham married Catharine Snider. John married a Miss Crist. Jacob also married a Crist. Jesse D. married a Miss Stout of Clearcreek town ship. Dr. George S. Courtright of Lithopolis, where he is a prominent citizen, was a son of Jesse, as is Judge Courtright of Circleville, and Dr. Alvah Court- right. Most of these people lived to old age and reared large families, but we cannot go farther into details for want of information. Jacob and John we knew well and they were men of character and highly esteemed. Of the old stock all are now dead, except the ven erable John Courtright of Lithopolis and Cyrus of Pickaway County. John's health is fair and his mind bright, and he seems to enjoy life, and would no doubt be willing to live it over again. A sister of Abraham V. Courtright, Sr., married a Wheeler. Their son Samuel is an attorney of San- 348 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People ¦dusky, Ohio. He learned the harness trade with Nick Little and was one of the live boys of the town in 1848 and 1849. He studied law and located in Sandusky years ago. He was one of the company un der Captain Ira Tripp, that broke up the Negro cele bration in August, 1848. At that time many people winked at and applauded their conduct. Now such •conduct would meet with universal condemnation. Judge Samuel W. Courtright of Circleville is a descendant, as we learn, of John Courtright, Sr., a son of Jesse D. Courtright, and brother of Dr. Court- right. He is a very prominent man of his adopted home and a bright Freemason. He was born in Bloom township and owns a good farm thfre. John E. Courtright and Ezra were, a few years since, quite prominent men in Bloom. They were of the third generation. Like most of their family who passed middle life, they have gone to the land of eter nal rest. Of this once prominent family but few represen tative men remain. THE W^ILLIAMSON FAMILY Theodore Williamson, the pioneer and the ances tor of the large family in this county, was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1774. He came to Ohio and settled in this county near Royalton in the year 1807. He died April 15, 1870, aged 96 years. His wife was Miss Rhoda Prater, of Virginia. She died September, 1857, aged 79 years. They were the par ents of a large family of sons and daughters. aH of whom were farmers and reputable citizens. The old est son, George W., married Elizabeth Kemp. They Hved on the farm now owned by Albert Williamson, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 3491 near the upper falls of the Hockhocking. He died December lo, 1879. His wife died January 19, 1889. Their oldest son, Theodore Williamson, married a sister of Henry Alspach. He lived for years on a fine farm near Hooker, and was known as the neatest and best farmer of that vicinity. He sold his farm and moved to Omaha, to which city his sons, Sey mour and Charles, had preceded him. He now lives near Columbus, Ohio. Seymour married a Bookwal ter; Charles married Miss Annie Wiseman of Lan caster, Ohio. Henry, son of George, married a Miss Tipton. He owns a good farm in Bloom township,. but makes his home in Lancaster. He was a Union soldier, and left his right arm in Southern soil. Albert, son of George, married Rose Dysinger. He owns the home farm, but rents and conducts an implement store, or warehouse, in Lancaster. Sarah married Zepheniah Courtright, ; Zona married Wil liam Coffman ; Lorinda married John E. Courtright ; Elizabeth married Isaac Bollenbaugh, and Amanda married John Coffman. A good family of children survive Zepheniah Courtright and wife. Abraham Courtright and his sister Mary reside upon the home place of 300 acres. One of his daugh ters married H. J. Knisely, a farmer and grain dealer of Carroll, Ohio. Another daughter married Reber Allen, and another daughter married Andrew J. Musser, late treasurer of this county. Silas, a son of Zepheniah Courtright, lives near the upper falls of Hockhocking. Jacob P. Williamson, son of Theodore, was born in 1804. He died March 16, 1876, aged 72 years. He married Elizabeth Odell and Hved upon the home 350 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People place of the pioneer, Theodore. William, his son, married Flora Dysinger and moved to Indiana. Silas J. Williamson, son of Jacob, was born De cember 14, 1831. He married Susanah Kiger. He lives on the old pioneer farm. John, son of Jacob, married Hannah Cruit. George, son of Jacob, mar ried Anna Kiger and moved to Wells county, Indiana. Alonzo, son of Jacob P., married Dora, daughter of Daniel Kellerman, and moved to Bluffton, Indiana, where he is a very prominent banker and citizen. Rhoda, daughter of Jacob, married John Madden ; they live on Muddy Prairie, near Amanda. Cholista married James Robinson and died some years since. Etta married David Cole, and they moved to Wells county, Indiana. Catharine married George Otis. Emma married Robert Cruit, one of the prominent and successful farmers of Hocking township. Isaac Newton, son of Theodore, the pioneer, mar ried Elizabeth Peters, daughter of Samuel Peters. She is living at a very old-age, but is well and hearty, bright and happy, in the home so long endeared to her by toil and happiness. Mr. WiHiamson died December 16, 1890, aged 82 years. Mr. Williamson was a good farmer and a lover of and a judge of good fruit. His son Theodore married a daughter of Henry Alspach. Rufus was a Union soldier and was killed in battle. Joseph married a Miss Harrison. Tunis married Ella Alspach, daughter of Joseph .A.lspach. Samuel died young and did not marry. Mary married G. Stanbery; Althea married Frank Philbrick ; Anna married Clay Johnson ; Emma never rharried. John Williamson, son of Theodore, married a Miss Ingman. He died recently. His home was on Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 351 a farm near Royalton. His son, Clark Williamson, married a daughter of Charles Reber and a grand daughter of Valentine Reber. His daughter married Dr. Silbaugh of Lancaster, Ohio. Milton William son married a Miss Groff and they live on the home place of John Williamson. Henrietta married George Ward, Sophia and Maria are single women. Silas, the son of Theodore, married Lucinda Shawan, a sister or niece of R. W. Shawan, the great merchant of Tiffin, Ohio. Shawan, in early life, worked upon a farm in Amanada township, and fed cattle in the winter for a small sum of money per month. He went to Tiffin at an early day, prospered and was rated a millionaire. We know but little of the family of Silas William son. His son Thomas married a Miss Hooker. Wil liam Williamson, a son of Theodore, married Catha rine Grifiith and moved to Missouri, where they died. Levi Williamson, son of Theodore, married a daugh ter of James Grantham, and moved to Iowa, where they died. Eliza, daughter of Theodore WHliamson, married George W. Halderman, both long since dead. Ara married Henry Huber, who once lived where George Creed now lives. They moved to Shelby County, Illinois. Zero married Enos Prater and they moved to Ross county, Ohio. Both now dead. This completes the record of the children and grandchildren of the old pioneer so far as we have been able to trace the family. On the farm near the house of SHas J. Williantson, in sight of the Royalton road leading from Lancas ter, there are two very remarkable elm trees. They were found there by the pioneer, Theodore William son, and preserved. Eighty-two years ago they were 352 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 15 inches in diameter. One of them measures 2^ feet from the ground, 20 feet in circumference. The other 23 feet. Their tops cover a space of ground 90 feet in diameter. Apple trees planted 75 years ago still bear fruit. LARIMER-CHANEY The Larimer family were citizens of Rushcreek township as early as 1802. Robert Larimer was the first resident to die and Phoebe Larimer the first to marry. Her husband was WiHiam Martin, the son of a pioneer. Ebenezer Larimer was a prominent man among the first settlers ; Isaac, Sr., James, Joseph and John Larimer were other members of the family. Isaac and James were in Capt. Sanderson's company in 1812, and with their comrades were surrendered by General Hull at Detroit. Joseph and John were in the second company raised by Capt. Sanderson. Wright Larimer and Isaac Larimer were well known, popular, useful and honorable men of a late period. Fifty years ago they were the prominent Democrats of the township and received favors at the hands of their party. Isaac Larimer was a member of the Ohio General Assembly in the years 1848 and 1849, representing Fairfield, Hocking and Perry Counties. The Whig and Democratic parties were so nearly a tie that two Freesoilers held the balance of power and dictated legislation. They knew their power and ruled with an iron hand. They proposed to the Whigs to repeal the Black Laws and elect Salmon P. Chase United States Senator and that they should have the Supreme Judge. The Whigs declined the offer. It was made to the Democrats and accepted. Daniel Keller, Isaac Larimer and H. C. Whitman, Senator, voted with the Freesoilers. Of Fairfield Comity, Ohio. 353 All that the Democrats got out of this combina tion was a Judge of the Supreme Court and the satis faction of defeating the Whigs and Thomas Ewing for Senator. They builded better than they thought ; they drove the entering wedge that finally disrupted parties. The election of Chase gave new life and strength to the Freesoil sentiment throughout the north, and it soon became apparent that the watchword of parties would be slavery or anti-slavery. The Whig party went down before it and the result was the formation of the Republican party. Chase led in this preliminary skir mish, and from that day to the present, fifty years, Ohio statesmen have been influential leaders in public affairs. The vote of Keller, Larimer and Whitman was denounced in unmeasured terms by the Democrats of this county, both in public and in private ; indigna tion meetings were held in some townships. Larimer became disgusted with the treatment he received and ever after followed the fortunes of Sen ator Chase. He became a leading and active Repub lican and voted for Chase for Governor of Ohio, and for General Fremont and Abraham Lincoln for Presi dent. Chase had him appointed a mail agent from Zanes ville to Morrow in 1861, but the work proved too hard for him and his eyes gave out. He resigned and re turned to his farm. In a year or two he sold out and moved to Darke County, Ohio, where he died a few years since. He left two daughters in this county who are highly esteemed — one, Rebecca, is the wife of Wilham Rowles, the other, Elizabeth, is the wife of 32 354 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People a relative of William, John S. Rowles. William Rowles is the present owner of the old homestead of John M. Ashbrook, a beautiful farm of good land. Mr. and Mrs. Rowles have about reached three score and ten years. They are the happy parents of ten children. JUDGE CHANEY Judge Chaney was one of the brainy and enter prising pioneers of Fairfield County. He was always a leader in his township and for his opportunities one of the foremost men of Fairfield County. He was blessed with good common sense, good habits, good morals and was in all respects an exemplary citizen. He was born in AA'^ashington County, Maryland, Jan uary 12, 1790. When four years of age his father moved to Bedford County, Pa. There he died when his son John was fourteen years of age. ISoon after his father's death, his only brother died, leaving the mother and three sisters in very poor circumstances. His father owned a good farm but lost it by endorsing for friends. From the age of fourteen to twenty he supported his mother and sisters. In the fall of 1810 he bade adieu to his family and made his way to the West, and landed in Fairfield County, near the site of Waterloo. He did not remain, but went over to Pick away County, where he remained two years and then returned to his Pennsylvania home. In the year 181 5 he returned to this county and settled in Bloom town ship. In the fall of 1816 he married Mary Ann Lafere and went to housekeeping in a log cabin fourteen feet square. He said that he was poor, but did not doubt the future, as he intended to live a correct life. He made rails for fifty cents per hundred and cut cord wood for twenty-five cents per cord. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 355 Notwithstanding his poverty, having learned of the serious illness of his mother, he went to Bedford, Pa., and remained with her to the end and buried her by the side of his father. "Honor thy father and mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." He returned to his home and began anew the struggle of life in the new country with undaunted courage. The country rapidly improved and every year saw a change for the better. He met with many discouragements and sometimes longed for the old home, but poverty kept him in Ohio. He was too poor to move. A few of his early neighbors were Henry Dove, Chaney Ricketts, Abraham Pickering, Jacob Picker ing, Mordecai Fishbaugh, Isaac Meason, the Court- rights, all were living near him, previous to the year 1812. He was soon able to purchase a mill, saw-mill and a distillery and the business brought him in contact with people over a wide extent of country. This prop erty was on .Spring Run, about one and one-half miles west of Carroll. He was elected a justice of the peace for 1821, 1824 and 1827, serving nine years. He was trustee of Bloom township for a period ¦of twenty-three years. He was also a major, colonel and paymaster in the old style Ohio militia. In the years 1828, 1829 and 1830 he was elected to the lower house of the Ohio legislature where he served the public with distinction and honor. In 1831 the legislature elected him an associate judge of Fair field Conimon Pleas Court. In 1832 he was nominated as candidate for Con- ,gress. Judge Irvin was his competitor. The prelimin ary work was done at the general muster, three-fourths 356 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of the militia voting for him. This ended the contest, Irvin retired and Chaney was elected in October. The district was Fairfield, Perry, Hocking and Morgan. He was re-elected in 1834, and again in 1836. Having served three terms in Congress he returned to his farm and the stern duties of life. In 1842 he was again elected a member of the legislature and in 1844 he was elected State senator from the Fairfield district. In the year 1855 he was again returned to the lower house of the legislature and served one term. In 1832 he was a presidential elector and voted for Andrew Jackson. In 1 85 1 he was elected a member of the Consti tutional Convention that formed our present constitu tion. His associate was Col. Wm. Medill. His pub lic career closed as a legislator in 1855. A wonderful career, when we consider his situation and prospects in 1816. He lived a correct live, improved his oppor tunities and made friends and success followed — and the fortune that looked so dark and gloomy became bright and brilliant. There is no instance in this county of so many distinguished honors being con ferred upon a plain, unassuming farmer. It is said of John Chaney that he never solicited office, they came unsought. When ninety years of age, he, with the writer, made his last call upon some old friends. He said to John T. Brasee that he had all his Hfe been opposed to slavery. That he leamed to hate the institution from what his mother told him of it. It was an interesting interview to witness, but sad to see the old men part, never to meet again. Brasee soon bid adieu to earth and Chaney died in two or three years at Canal Win chester. Both began life as penniless orphans, both Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 357 achieved distinction and honor and both accumulated wealth. Both were honest, fearless, just men. Judge Chaney reared three sons who have been quite prominent men in this and Franklin County. James was all his life a farmer of Bloom township. Dr. Chaney, of Canal Winchester, has represented Franklin in the Ohio legislature. Oliver P., in his young days was a clerk for Reber & Kutz, in Lancas ter. He made the trip to Europe with his friend, John Reber. Since that time he has resided in Canal Winchester, where he dealt in grain and bred fine horses. He owns the old home farm in Bloom town ship. He is an intelligent man and a worthy son of the old Judge. REED, DENNISON AND SLAUGHTER The Reed and Dennison families were among the ¦early pioneers of Greenfield township, Fairfield Coun ty, Ohio. There were three of the Reed brothers, viz., James, William and Huston. The land first owned by the Reeds lies just west of the farm of James W. Wilson. James, whose children resided on the farm until quite recently married Nancy Hood, a girl of the neighbor- liood, but whose family is now unknown in the township. James and William Reed were among the very early settlers of the township. They built and operated one of the first salmi Hs on the Hockhocking River at a very early day. Huston Reed came out from Pennsylvania with an only daughter and only child, and made his home with his brother William. The girl grew to woman hood and became the wife of John M. Schoch, a Ger man, who at that time worked at the Barrett Woolen Mill, near the upper falls of the Hockhocking River. 358 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People After marriage he moved to near Canal Winchester, where he again worked in a woolen mill. He soon ex changed this business for that of a tavern keeper in Canal Winchester, and was long well known to Lan caster people as the landlord of the stage station. His son, John M. Schoch, still keeps open the old-time tavern. The family of James Reed has been weH known in their township for one hundred years, retaining the old home farm until within a year or two. William Reed married a Miss Black in Pennsyl vania before emigrating to Ohio. When war was de clared in 1812, he enlisted in the company of Captain Sanderson and served until his death, which occurred in camp at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He died of the measles and necessary exposure incident to a camp and army life. His wife, finding herself a widow with two chil dren, determined to return to Pennsylvania. Twenty- five acres of land was set off as her share of the estate of the Reeds, and her brother-in-law, James Reed, assisted her to return to her old home. He secured the services of Hiram Owens to accompany her, and the two made the long journey on horseback, each carry ing a stout boy before them — Rufus Reed and John B. Reed. In future years Rufus was a prominent merchant of THfin, Ohio, and John B. a prominent mechanic of Lancaster, and a brother-in-law of H. H. Hunter and George H. Smith, and father of the late Rufus Reed. Richard Dennison was an Englishman, and in his young days a British soldier, a member of the King's Guard. He understood the tactics, and often gave his Of Fairfield Coimty, Ohio. 359 young neighbors lessons. He was a shoemaker by trade. In what year he came to the United States is not known ; when he did come he settled in Pennsylvania. There he met, wooed and won the widow of WHliam Reed. After their marriage they moved to Ohio and settled on the widow's share of the Reed farm, now owned by Mr. Markwood. The year of their coming is not known, but it was prior to 1818, in which year their son James was born. A second son. Nelson, studied and practiced law in Lancaster, but he died while yet a young man. Nelson married Amanda Manson and moved to Iowa. A daughter married a Tarlton merchant. This merchant was a Mr. Julian, late of Circleville. This couple in their old age moved to Tarlton, where they died and where they were buried. James Dennison grew up in Greenfield, and received such education as the county afforded. At the proper age he went to Lancaster and was soon apprenticed to the business of a tanner, with William V. Thorne and James M. Pratt, who conducted a large tannery at the foot of Broad street. Having completed his apprenticeship, he went to Tiffin, Ohio, and became a partner of his half-brother, Rufus Reed. After a few years they failed in business and he returned to Fairfield County. He soon formed a partnership with a young tanner in Tarlton, Allen Hamilton, brother of Col. WiHiam Hamilton. Their business was a success and was continued for some years. William Lynch worked for them in 1852, and Captain Roby in 1855. Both at the time were single men, but not long so to remain. They courted sisters, Maria and Ann Slaughter, daughters of Judge Robert 360 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People F. Slaughter. The young ladies at that time lived on the hill just this side of Clarksburg. The gallants were accustomed to make the trip from Tarlton on horseback and remain during their convenience. There were no buggies and moonlight rides in those days. Dennison married Maria and took his bride to Tarl ton. Later, Hamilton married Miss Ann and took her to Tarlton. Some j'ears later Hamilton moved to Columbus where he made investments that made his widow a fortune. James Dennison moved to Kansas City in 1859, when it was a mere river landing. He followed his business for a year or two, when he became a leather merchant, which business he followed successfully, making a small fortune. It is said that his wife traded a good cow for an acre of land. That acre is now in the heart of the city. Dennison lived in Kansas City during the civil war, and being a northern man of pronounced principles, he was often in danger of his life, the same having been often threatened. About the year 1884 he closed up his business, disposed of property and moved to Los Angeles, California, just in time to make investments that made him another fortune. Dennison and wife lived a delightful life for fifteen years in the land of sunshine and flowers. He died October 7, 1899, leaving his wife and three children. Mr. Dennison had a long, varied and useful career. He was a prominent and honored citizen in Lancaster, Tiffin, Tarlton, Kansas City and Los Angeles. He was an intelligent, honorable, courteous gentleman, highly esteemed and respected where he died. He was one of the many distinguished men, born in Fair field Countv, who made fame and fortune in the west, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 361 and who to the day of his death remembered, with pleasure and affection, the fair fields over which he roamed in early life. His widow was recently killed in Kansas City by a street accident. THE BRANDT FAMILY OF THE EARLY DAYS A NUMEROUS AND HONORABLE ONE " The brief duration of our families, as a hereditary household, renders it next to a certainty that the great grandchildren will not know their father's grandfa ther." Thus wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne. But since his time, in many parts of our country, especially in Pennsylvania and New England, people are waking up to the importance of family history. " In this the closing year of the nineteenth century it is fitting to write up the events of the past," and espe cially the history of the families that settled and cleared up this country and brought it to its present state of civilization. Among the early settlers there were but few families if any, who stood higher than the Brandts. Three sons and one daughter of the original stock came to Fairfield County from Pennsylvania. Ludwig Brandt in 1745 left his home in Germany and came in a sailing vessel to America. He had a long, stormy and perilous passage, but the time passed away pleasantly in the society of a pretty German girl, Catharine Mueller, whom he met on the vessel. They landed in Philadelphia June, 1745, were married July 4, and settled at Htimmelstown, Dauphin County, Penn sylvania. To this union came five sons and four daugh ters. Adam, the second son, was the father of Jacob, Adam and David Brandt, and their sister, Mrs. Jacob Pence. Ludwig Brandt, a relative of Adam Brandt, founder of the Fairfield County family, came to this 362 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People county as early as 1800. He purchased about 500 acres of land, since known as the Pence and John Brandt farms. On this land he paid taxes up to 1806. About that time he returned to Pennsylvania and sold his land to Adam Brandt and Isaac Pence, who in time settled his son-in-law, Jacob Pence and his sons Jacob and Adam upon it. Jacob Pence and wife, in May, 1802, left Pennsyl vania, came through an unbroken wilderness to this county, and settled upon a part of this land — the tract now owned by Geo. B. Brasee, for more than 50 years known as the Pence farm. Mrs. Eve Metzler Brandt, mother of Mrs. Pence, with the sons, Jacob and Adam, came out on horseback and made a visit of two weeks in 1805, and the long journey homeward was made in the same way. Jacob Brandt married Frances Baughman, of Cum berland County, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1808, and departed the next day in a two-horse wagon for Ohio, making the trip in two weeks, about as soon as it could be made now. They settled near Mrs. Barbara Pence's, now the Reefe farm. Adam Brandt was married to Rachel Dunlap in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1812, and on the day of his marriage started in a two-horse wagon for the west. They did not make the quick trip recorded of Jacob. Their trip was a tedious one. They took a farm near their brother Jacob, where they spent their lives, the farm now owned by H. M. Brandt. David Brandt, the oldest of the brothers, came to Greenfield in 1814, and settled upon 80 acres of land, on what is now the Baltimore road, the Brooks farm, six miles north of Lancaster. Besides being farmers, Adam was a shoemaker and David a saddler and school teacher. He taught school Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 363 in the winter season from 1815 to 1838, in both the German and English languages. He took an interest in politics, and served as a Justice of the Peace for several years. The son Isaac inherited many of the good qualities of this old scholar and has been recognized in Iowa as a good politician and distinguished citizen for many years. He was a member of the Iowa Legislature, Deputy State Auditor and Postmaster of Des Moines under Harrison. He has kindly sent in for this sketch an old Whig song of 1840, from which we make an extract : "THE HERO OF TIPPECANOE." " Ye jolly young Whigs of the nation. And all ye sick Democrats, too. Come out from amongst the foul party. And vote for old Tippecanoe." Chorus — " And vote for old Tippecanoe, And vote for old Tippecanoe, Come out from amongst the foul party. And vote for old Tippecanoe." He sends also a brass medal or badge, with like ness of General Harrison, which was worn by himself in 1840. " When parties were formed David Brandt became a Whig and was a close friend of Thomas Ewing, Sr., Henry Stanbery, John M. Creed and Col. Van Trump, all of Lancaster. In the presidential election in 1828, Fairfield County was almost unanimous for General Andrew Jackson. In Greenfield township, in which -David Brandt Hved and voted, there were but two votes cast for John Q.- 364 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Adams, and they were cast by David Brandt and Ja cob Graybill. When the votes were counted out the Jackson men said that the two Adams men must accom pany them to Lancaster — they wanted to exhibit them as curiosities. They went and had a grand good time. General Sanderson and Thomas Ewing said they were jewels found in Greenfield township. In 1836 the political campaign assumed a wider range. Parties had been organized. The Democratic party nominated Martin Van Buren as their candidate for president, and the Whig party nominated General William Henry Harrison. Fairfield County cast 2,906 votes for Van Buren and 1,846 votes for General Har rison. Greenfield township nearly divided her vote between the two candidates. In 1840, the memorable political campaign in the history of our country, the Democratic party placed Martin Van Buren in nomina tion for the second term, and the Whig party nomi nated General William Henry Harrison for the second time and dubbed him the hero of Tippecanoe. In June, 1840, General Harrison visited Lancaster. There was a wonderful gathering of the people. It seemed as if the hills and valleys, and the highways and byways were alive with people, with coons and coonskins, buckeyes and log cabins. It was the largest gathering ever held in Lancaster up to that date. It was soon followed by a monster gathering of the Democrats, which excelled that held by the Whigs. The speakers were Governor Wilson Shannon and William MediH. In September there was a joint discussion on the polit ical issues of the campaign between Richard M. John son, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, Wil liam Allen, on the Democratic side, and Thomas Cor win and Samuel F. Vinton in behalf of the Whigs. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 365. The meeting was held in the woods near the foot of Mt. Pleasant. This meeting eclipsed all other gather ings held in the county, and the friends of each party returned to their homes satisfied that they would win the day. Fairfield County cast 3,318 votes for Van Buren and 2,463 votes for Harrison. Greenfield town ship, in which the Brandts were numerous, gave a small majority for General Harrison. The ticket voted at the presidential election in 1840 was only for electors. Ohio was then entitled to 21 electors. Their names were: WHIG TICKET, 184O. William R. Putnam, Resin Beall, Alexander May hew, Henry Harter, Aurora Spafford, Joshua Collett, Abram Miley, Samuel F. Vinton, John I. Van Meter, Aquilla Toland, Perley B. Johnson, John Dukes, Otho- Brashear, James Ruguet, Christopher S. Miller, John Carey, David King, Storm Rosa, John Beatty, John Augustine, John Jamison. This ticket in Greenfield township was voted by Da vid Brandt, Sr., and David B'randt, second; Adam Brandt, second ; Adam Brandt, third ; Jacob Brandt, Sr., and Jacob Brandt, second ; John Brandt, first ; John Brandt, second; George Brandt, Martin Brandt, Jesse Brandt, and Henry M. Brandt, Jacob Pence, Adam Pence, Philip Pence, Joseph Pence and Henry Pence. These, with eight sons-in-law, mSde 21 straight votes for Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, from the Brandt fami lies. Adam Brandt, Sr., voted for Van Buren. David "Brandt, Sr., was the father of seven sons and five daughters. David Brandt, Sr., died October 27, 1851, aged 78 years. On April i, 1899, his children were all dead except David Brandt, second, who lives in Eaton, Delaware County, Indiana, aged 84 years. 366 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People and Isaac Brandt, who lives in Des Moines, Iowa, aged 72 years. Barbara Brandt Pence was the mother of seven sons and four daughters. Barbara Brandt Pence died April 7, 1850, aged 72 years. All her children were dead on April i, 1899, except Henry Pence, who lives in Nodaway County, Missouri, aged 79 years. Jacob Brandt, Sr., was the father of five sons and five daughters. Jacob Brandt, Sr., died December 15, 1849, aged 67 years. All his sons and daughters were dead on April i, 1899, except Adam Brandt, third, who lives near Lancaster, Ohio, aged 88 years ; John Brandt, who lives in Barnes, Kansas, aged 82 years, and Jesse Brandt, who lives near Carroll, Fairfield County, Ohio, aged 80 years. Adam Brandt, Sr., was the father of seven sons and six daughters. Adam Brandt died March 26, 1844. On AprH i, 1899, aH his children were dead except Henry M. Brandt, who lives near Carroll, aged 80 years, and Elizabeth Brandt Martin, aged 72 years, who lives near Carroll, Ohio. The families of the Brandts were generally large. There were two, however, that were very large, of the second generation. Adam Brandt, second, the oldest son of David Brandt, Sr., married Rebecca Cooper, in Greenfield township, on September 10, 1821. They raised a family of seventeen children, nine sons and eight daughters. Adam Brandt, the third, the oldest son of Jacob Brandt, Sr., married Elizabeth Rugh, on' March 7, 1833. They raised a family of fifteen children, six sons and nine daughters. The second, third and fourth generations are now living in all parts of this great country, in the east. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 367 west, north and south, some in Cuba and some in the Philippines. There are two traits of character that predominate in the Brandt families — that of Christianity and pat riotism. Ninety-five per cent, of the Brandts and their descendants are members of Church. Ludwig B'randt, who came to America in 1745, was a member of the Dunkard Church, and also his grandsons, who came to Fairfield County in the first years of the nine teenth century. The younger generations, however, have not remained in the faith of their fathers, for now they are members of a great many different religious denominations. Several of them are ministers and have taken high rank as evangelists and ministers of the Gospel. Their patriotism was developed in the revolutionary war. Adam Brandt and Martin Brandt were with General Washington during America's great struggle for independence. In the war of 1812 many of the Brandts were under the command of General Wayne and General Harrison. In the Mexican war in 1846 the third generation of Brandts were with General Taylor and Scott, when they entered the halls of Montezuma. In the war of the rebeHion the name of Brandt was upon the muster rolls in ten of the northern states. They marched with Sherman to the sea and were with General Grant at the surrender of Appomattox. In the late Spanish-Cuban war the Brandts were among the first to enlist in the war for humanity's sake. The blood of the Brandts has stained the battle fields from 1776 to 1899. The Brandts as a general rule were farmers, me chanics, merchants and business men. Some became 368 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People quite noted as horticulturists, particularly in the line of having fine orchards of apples, peaches, pears and cherries. On the farm that was settled first by Jacob Brandt, in 1808, is a pear tree that is among the oldest fruit bearing trees in the state of Ohio. The main stock is a white thorn. It was grafted with pear in April, 1809, by Jacob Snyder. It has been bearing now for 85 years. It is 50 feet in height and covers an area of about 40 feet. It has yielded in one year as high as 35 bushels of pears. Adam Brandt, second, had in 1850, one of the larg est and best apple and cherry orchards in the county. From 1840 to i860 a large number of the second gen eration emigrated, going to Indiana, IHinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin. The third and fourth gen erations are still more widely scattered, while quite a number still remain in Fairfield County, and are classed among our best citizens. Adam Brandt, son of David Brandt, and long known by his neighbors as B'oss Brandt, lived and died in Greenfield. He was born in Pennsylvania, June 24, 1800. His wife, Rebecca Ann Cooper, was born in Virginia, August 5, 1802. Her father emancipated his slaves and was forced to leave Virginia. He brought his family to Lancaster as early as 1806, and followed the business of harness maker. The young people were married September 10, 1821. To this union were born 17 children, nine sons and eight daughters, 14 of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Six sons and three sons-in-law were in the Union army. Cap tain O. B. Brandt, who enlisted as a private, was cap tured and taken to Richmond, and endured for many months the horrors of Libby prison. He married Ehzabeth Holmes. Henry C, Jonathan C.Isaac C, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 369 WiHiam H. and Wesley L. were the other soldiers. The soldier sons-in-law were Samuel Radebaugh, who died in the service ; Samuel Apt, and S. S. Wiest. Nine good soldiers for one family is a record unap proachable in this county or any other. At the close of the war they returned to their homes and usual occupa tions, and are among our best and most respected citi zens. Adam Brandt died in June, 1874, his wife hav ing preceded him to the grave, dying in 1870. The de scendants of the pioneer brothers are divided into many large families. The two Adams, one a son of Jacob and the other of Daniel, being the largest. A daughter Harriet, is the wife of N. S. Ebright. Of the children of Adam Brandt and his wife Elizabeth Rugh, daughter of Solomon Rugh, Jacob R. Brandt is the most widely known member, a good citizen and a pop ular man. He reared and educated a large family of children. Mr. Brandt, besides being a good farmer, is a splendid mechanic — a famous bridge builder. He is the legitimate successor of Jonathan Coulson in that hne. A few years since he was the Republican candi date for County Commissioner, and came within 265 votes of an election. Jesse H. Brandt, of Bloom, a good man, and once a brave soldier, is a brother of a Rev. John Brandt, of St. Louis, Missouri. He, too, was a good soldier. Mrs. Madison Kemerer is a sister, with whom Adam Brandt resides, aged 88 years. Willliam Brandt, of Basil, is a son of this Adam. James Brandt, a justice of the peace in Cincinnati, is a grandson. The descendants of Adam Brandt, of Pennsylvania, who purchased 500 acres here in 1800, and sent out his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Pence, and his sons, Jacob, Adam 24 370 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People and David, to subdue the forest and till the land, are more numerous than any family we can recall. They are not like the sands of the sea, too numerous to be counted, but it would be a very tedious job. The family of Adam Brandt, second, " Boss," alone numbered 17, 11 of whom married and reared families. The Brandts were plain, quiet, intelligent, and indus trious farmers, discharging every duty pertaining to good citizenship. The word of a Brandt was always good, and their integrity beyond any question. This is a family of good old Scripture names. Their parents were famil iar with the Bible, and they have certainly fulfilled one injunction of the Scriptures, "increase, multiply and replenish the earth." For this sketch we have qdoted largely from a man uscript of Isaac Brandt, of Iowa, kindly furnished by him for the purpose. COLONEL SAMUEL SPANGLER ONE OF THE GREATEST OF PIONEERS Colonel Samuel Spangler was one of the very dis tinguished men of Fairfield County. Distinguished for great ability, integrity and in a rare degree as a Dem ocratic politician and legislator. From 1825 to 1850 his influence in his party was second to no man in this county. He was consulted by all of the party leaders, including Governor Medill, and in many things his wish was law, and in all things his opinions were weighty and influential. Eight or ten years before his death the township in which he had spent his life. Perry, was cut off from this county and added to Hocking. This embittered the closing years of his life and made him unhappy, for Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 371 he loved old Fairfield, the county he so long served and helped to make famous. S.3muel Spangler was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1783. His father was a farmer, and when Ohio was attracting the first settlers he sold his farm, intending to move west, but before he was ready to start his money became worthless and he abandoned the trip and apprenticed his son Samuel to a cabinet maker in Harrisburg. He was to have received three months schooling each year during his term of service. He had a hard master, and received but three months schooling during the whole term. When twenty-one years of age he bid adieu to his parents, and with the family of George Defenbaugh emigrated to Ohio; after leaving Lancaster they cut a road through brush and timber to Perry township. This was in the year 1801. Cabinet makers were undertakers, and he was soon called upon to bury a woman on Clearcreek. There were then no saw mills in, Fairfield County. He cut down a dry walnut tree, split it into puncheons, and with ax and adz dressed them down sufficient to make a rude coffin. . In 1807 he married Miss Susan Fogler of the neigh borhood. She was born in Pennsylvania September 25, 1788. Both she and her husband were of German descent. To them were born one son who died in in fancy, and three daughters. The daughters were : Barbara, who married Ezra Wolfe; Minerva, who married Alexander McClelland ; they settled near Adel phi and reared seven sons and one daughter. Elizabeth married John Karshner and they settled near Adelphi. To them were born five sons and five daughters. Up to the time of his marriage Colonel Spangler had a very poor education, but thirsting for knowledge 372 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People he began at the foot and purchased Cobb's speller, a grammar, geography and an arithmetic. He possessed fine natural ability and soon became thorough master of these rudimentary books, and throughout his life he was a student and reader, and a thoroughly well informed man. In the first twenty-five years of his life in Ohio he had a few very intelligent neighbors, the most prominent being Dr. Ballard, of Tarlton, Joseph Shumaker and Esquire Foust. Otis Ballard, now of Toledo, sold goods in Tarlton in an early day, and speaks in high praise of Colonel Spangler at that time. He served as a justice of the peace in Perry township for twenty-one years. In 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, he was a member of the lower house ot the Ohio Legislature, and again in 183 1. In 1832 he was elected a State Senator and was re-elected each year for nine years, closing his public career in 1842. As a legislator he took part, and a prominent part, in the legislation that secured for us the Ohio Canal and our common school system. This was the most inter esting period in the history of Ohio, and this legislation so ardently and ably supported by Spangler was the turning point in the history of Ohio. When reference is made to the real beginning of Ohio, we go back to the canals and the common schools. At the Democratic State Convention in 1836, and again in 1838, his friends presented his name as a can didate for Governor. One authority states that he came within two votes of securing the nomination. He was the special friend of our benevolent insti tutions and gave them his special care and support. During his public career he was the friend and inti mate of such Democrats as Governor Medill, John Brough, Sam Medary and Micajah T. Williams, one Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 373 of the fathers of the public works. In 1843 Colonel Spangler retired from public life and gave his attention to his farm and his family. About this time both he and his wife became members of the Lutheran Church, and lived consistent Christian lives. Colonel Spangler was a Christian in every sense of the word, both at home and abroad. For the war of 1812 he raised, a rifle company and served his country in two campaigns as Captain of his company. During the sickness of his Colonel he was the acting Colonel of the regiment. His service in the army was such as to receive special complimen tary mention by his superior officer. Colonel Spangler was a successful farmer and busi ness man for his day, and gave each of his chHdren a farm, and some money was left them at his death, De cember 13, 1863. His body was buried at the Adelphi cemetery, a few miles from his home. His wife died July 7, 1871, and was buried by his side. Colonel Spangler was six feet, one inch in height, straight as an Indian, finely proportioned, and a man of commanding presence. He loved a fine horse and was a splendid horseman. He was a great hunter, and in the early days was very successful, killing as many as seven deer in one day, and shooting plenty of game from the windows of houses he was finishing. Samuel Spangler Wolfe has his watch, books and cane. The cane was cut on the Mt. Vernon estate, Virginia, by Governor Medill, and presented to Colonel Spangler. The men of this county, who have come down from the period in which Colonel Spangler lived, speak of him in the highest terms. 374 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Like Dr. Williams and Dr. Hyde, he educated him self without a teacher, and while not so great a scholar, he was great in many things, self made and self reliant. The writer is indebted to Salem S. Wolfe for valu able information. Valentine Wolfe, one of the honored pioneers of Madison township, was born and raised near Fred erick, Maryland. About the year 1814 he, with his family, emigrated to Ohio, and cast his lot in Madison township, where he raised his boys and sent them with good habits and strong constitutions out into the world. His sons were Ezra, Salem and Isaac. James Rice, long an honored and esteemed business man of Lan caster, was a step son. James Rice was for quite a number of years a partner of George Ring in the woolen mill business, at the foot of Broadway, Lancaster. He was also a partner of Silas Hedges for a short time in the dry goods business, and in his old age was the clerk of John Work in the tin and stove business. He was the father of William P. Rice, who died in Cali fornia, and whom John Sherman mentions as one of his schoolmate at Howe's Academy. He is men tioned by the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, who vis ited his factory and complimented his goods in the year 1825. Ezra Wolfe married Barbara, daughter of Col onel Samuel Spangler. He settled on a farm, two miles south of Clearport, where he lived a prosperous, useful life, and where he reared a large family of children. His sons were Salem Spangler, Samuel V., Dr. M. F. Wolfe, of Parsons, Kansas; Charles F., of Ottawa, Kansas, and John L., of Humboldt, Kansas. Salem S. Wolfe is a very prosperous man, and a highly esteemed and respected citizen of Adelphi, Ohio. He at one time represented Hocking County in the General Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 375 Assembly of Ohio, serving two terms. Samuel V. Wolfe, of Clearport, is one of the very successful farmers of this county. He is intelligent, a good citi zen, a leading man of his neighborhood and of the Methodist Church. He lives in good style and dis penses a generous hospitality. The other brothers are unknown to the writer, but it is known that they stand well in the communities in which they live. The daughters of Ezra Wolfe were Mrs. Jacob Beck, Mrs. Charles Eversole, Mrs. Jacob Miller and Mrs. Salem Shaeffer. Salem Wolfe was born near Frederick, Maryland, in the year 1809. He came to Ohio with his father in 1814. In the year 1830 he was married to Jane Young, a daughter of William Young, one of three brothers who were pioneers of Madison township. She was a cousin of Mrs. Isaac Strickler. He early moved to Lancaster, and served an apprenticeship to the tanning business with Pratt & Thorne. In 1849 he bought the tannery at the foot of Main street, and conducted it for a few years. In 1853 he sold his tannery and purchased a fine farm in Madison township, to which he removed his family. He continued to live there, f#ming, serving as justice of the peace and township clerk, and perform ing other duties devolving upon a good citizen, for seven years. In 1854 he sold his farm and purchased the old home place of Judge Irvin, just south of Lancaster. To this farm he brought his family and continued to reside there until 1869, when he sold out and moved into Lancaster. Here he spent a quiet old age among old friends, and departed this life in the year 1875. His body was buried at Clearport. 376 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People His son Ezra is a resident of Lancaster. During most of his life he has been an accomplished teacher of instrumental music. Band was his specialty. John N. Wolfe, son of Salem, is a resident of Lan caster. He is an engineer by profession, devoting his time principally to surveying. He is the present very competent city engineer. The youngest daughter of Salem Wolfe married H. W. Griswold, now of the Gazette. She died sev eral years since. Two daughters live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Jessie and Jennie Griswold are grand daugh ters. Isaac Wolfe, son of Valentine, came with his father in 1814. He married a sister of Martin Landis, and lived for many years on a farm near Clearport, where he also operated a flouring mill. He moved from Mad ison to Pleasant township, where he spent a few years of his old age. He died in Lancaster at the home of Mrs. Jacob Giesey, his daughter. Isaac Wolfe was a most excellent man, and was highly esteemed where he lived. A grandson. Perry Wolfe, lives in Lancaster, devoting most of his time teaching school. The Spangler-Wolfe families are connected with many honored people of Madison — the Youngs, Shaeffers, Millers, Stricklers, Landis, Hay and Becks of Hocking. JOHN AUGUSTUS One of the early associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas was John Augustus, of Clearcreek township. He was on the bench as early as 1825 or '26, and served five years. He was a prominent man in his day, and highly esteemed. He spent the greater Of Fairfield County, Ohio. S77 part of his life in Clearcreek township. His farm was a little south of the old Shartle tavern, this side of Tarlton. He was buried in the Augustus graveyard, which was on or near his farm. His family consisted of two sons and five daughters. His son David was a farmer, but for a few years of his life he lived in Lancaster. His son John was a merchant for some years in Tarlton. He failed in business and moved west, where he died. Col. Wm. Hamilton, surveyor of Amanda town ship, married his daughter Rebecca. Col. Hamilton was a first-class surveyor and a good farmer. Mrs. S. J. Wolfe (Mary Hamilton) is a granddaughter of Judge Augustus. Daniel Ream of Madison township married Sarah Augustus. Late in life he moved to Jackson County, Mo., where he died. What relation he was to the Abraham Ream family we cannot state. He had a brother named Samuel and another named John, who in his old age made cigars in Lancaster. The father of Daniel Ream was Samuel, who came from Germany. His mother's name was Susan Wunderlick, daughter of Count Wunderlick. His mother died, and was buried at Carlisle, Penn., Sam uel Ream, the father, died at Daniel Ream's home, and was buried at Mechanicsburg, this county. Ream had a sister, Polly, who married Moses Wetzel. Mrs. Mary Summers, daughter of Daniel, lives in Kansas City, Mo. Robert Barnet of Madison married Elizabeth Au gustus. She died in a short time after her marriage. Rev. Thomas Drake, once well known in Lancas ter, married Hannah Augustus. Drake was a provost 378 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People marshal here during the war. He went from here to. Somerset, O., and engaged in merchandising. So far as we know he is now dead. John Earhart, a miHer by trade, married Mary Augustus. Both are now dead. There are children of Daniel Ream living, but we do not know of any one bearing the name of Judge Augustus. Ream, Hamilton, Drake and Barnet were men of the highest respectability, and in all respects good and useful men. So little attention has been paid in this, county to family or pioneer history that but few people now living ever heard of Judge Augustus. Forty-five years ago Col. Hamilton was the county surveyor of this county. We venture to say that not five men in fifty are aware of that fact to-day. Daniel Ream was a splendid man. How many men in the county remember him? Thomas Drake cut quite a figure here 38 years ago. He is now forgotten. Such is fame ! THE SHARP FAMILY The political history of the family of Joseph Sharp, Sr., one of the first settlers of Belmont County, Ohio, is one of the most remarkable in the history of the state. Robert H. Sharp, of Sugar Grove, was on Satur day nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for representative. Conceding his election in Novem ber, and that he will serve the usual two terms, his family will have served the state as members of the house and senate of the general assembly of Ohio in an unbroken line of succession from the first legisla ture to the end of Ohio's first century. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 379 Joseph Sharp, Sr., was one of the prominent men of Belmont County in its early history. He was a member of the first Ohio legislature, and in 1804 and 1805 a member of the senate. He was returned to the house in 1807 and was re-elected for the years 1808, 1810 and 1813. Joseph Sharp, Jr., reared a family in Belmont County, and about the year 1838 settled in this county on a fine farm just below Sugar Grove, where his son, William, now resides. He soon became a contractor on the Hocking Canal and built for the state what has always been known as Sharp's dam on the Hockhocking. He was a man of energy and force of character, and soon became prominent in his new home. In 1842, just six years after coming to the county, he was elected a member of the Ohio legisla ture. He served but one term and returned to the management of his farm. He lived to a good old age, rearing a large family. One of his daughters is the wife of Daniel Stukey. His sons, William and George, are farmers ; his son James studied medicine and practiced his profession for years in Sugar Grove and later in Lancaster. From here he went to Kansas City, Mo., where he lived a few years and then returned to Sugar Grove broken down in health. He was recently killed by a railroad accident near his home. Robert L. Sharp, son of Joseph, Jr., was also a farmer near his father. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, of good habits and good standing in his neigh borhood. He was a good business man and wise enough to invest early in Kansas City property, which became valuable. He was elected a member of the Ohio legislature in the years 1864 and 1865, and served with credit to himself and honor to his constituents. His son, Robert, just nominated for the same office, -380 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People will doubtless be elected. He is a young man of good habits and good character. He resides upon his father's old farm. In addition to his farm he manages, with profit, a good stone quarry. There is everything in the past history of his family to stimulate him to an honorable and useful career. A century of honorable living and precept is behind him, and a future, such as he may make it, is before him. That he may prove worthy of the high honor conferred upon him and of the esteem in which he is held, is the wish of all who -know bin . PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA AND NEW JERSEY. ARTZ 3'"~ACOB ARTZ came to Fairfield County about the year 1818, from Rockingham County, Va., He was one of the many hardy sons of Rock ingham County who for half a century dom inated the eastern part of this county. His wife was a Homan and their home was on a farm just south of Berne Station, more recently owned and improved by his son, John Artz, now 76 years of age and a resident of Lancaster. Jacob Artz died in the prime of life, along in the thirties. His widow, in due time, married Nathan Weatherby. They lived upon the ho-me farm until their death. Weatherby was a well known man sixty years ago. He came here from New Jersey, where he had been a tanner. For several years he was a citizen of Lancaster. In 1832 and 1834 he was the sheriff of Fairfield County and enjoyed a season of popularity. After leaving the sheriff's office he became a horse dealer, and was a great patron of the turf. No race meeting of his day was complete without Nathan Weatherby and in most races his colors were worn by the very fast horses. After his marriage to Mrs. Artz he became a citizen of Berne township, where he continued to deal in and breed good stock until the day of his death, about the year 1848. He came to his death in a very singular manner. He never could bear the sight of blood without fainting. im), ,382 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People He was kicked by a horse and when he supposed the wound had healed he told his step-son, John Artz, that . he would like to look at it. He did so and saw a trace of blood ; he fainted and died immediately in the arms of John Artz. GRIFFITH Isaac Griffith was a native of Lancaster County, Penn. His wife was a Quaker woman, but her name is unknown. He came with his family to this county in the year 1818, his son Isaac and wife being mem bers of his family. They lived, during the winter, in Christian King's home, that stood near where Dr. Boerstler now lives. There William Griffith, son of the younger Isaac, was born. In the spring of 1819 the family moved to a farm near Amanda, where the old gentleman purchased about 300 acres of good land, known in part as the Leather's farm. A part of this land, if not all, is now owned by the heirs of M. A. Leist. Isaac Griffith, the elder, has been dead more than 44 years. His sons were Isaac, James, John, Elliott and Samuel. The mother was named Polly Williams, the son of Isaac 2d, was William, whose first wife was a Welshamer. His second wife was a daughter of the late Isaac Kerns. He has lived all of his life at the old home place of his father, on the pike near the crossing of Clearcreek, but very recently moved to Amanda. Isaac was another son and there were three other brothers of William, viz: Elliott, Samuel and John. James Griffith, son of Isaac, was married in Penn sylvania. The wife was a sister of James Lytle. The sons of James were Thomas, Isaac, Samuel and Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 383 WiHiam. Thomas married a Walters, granddaughter of Samuel Peters, the founder of the Peters fam- ily. Thomas Griffith owns one of the finest farms in Amanda township. He is a very prominent and useful citizen, and his wife a most estimable woman. William, brother of Thomas, resides upon a good farm near Hooker. His wife is the daughter of the late Joseph Gundy. They live among good people and are highly esteemed. John Griffith, brother of James, married Polly Sweyer, daughter of John Sweyer, a once famous Lancaster tavern keeper on the Shaeffer corner. His wife was a niece of Col. John W. Noble and Henry Dubble, old-time Lancaster people. Samuel, brother of John, married a Miss Young, a daughter of a pioneer of Madison township. His only child, a daughter, married Robert Wiley, son of John Wiley, in his time the great cattle man of this county. He at one time owned 1,500 acres of Clear creek land. Elliott, brother of Samuel, married a daughter of Isaac Shaeffer, who lived where Samuel V. Wolfe now resides. The sons of Elliott Griffith were Isaac, Jasper, George and William. This family, in its history of eighty years in this county, has made an honorable record and has made alliances by marriage with many distinguished families. They have owned, and still own large farms of fertile land, which they cultivate with skill and profit. They have been, and still are prominent in many neighbor hoods. In politics they are Republicans, with a Whig an cestry. William, who was born in Lancaster in No- 384 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People vember, 1818, voted for General Harrison in 1840, and Lincoln in i860. Frederick Leathers, of whom Isaac Griffith pur chased his land, was one of the very first settlers of his neighborhood. His name appears among the tax payers ot 1806. He kept an old-fashioned tavern on the old Circleville road. This tavern was kept open by Isaac Griffith, Sr., until 1854, He was one of the land marks in the early days. Philip Shartle kept a tavern on the old Chillicothe road. He was the grandfather of Isaac Julian, Julian's mother is still living. She lived in Lancaster in 1804, Farther north on the old road was the Kirk- wood ho'Use. It was near this house where Thomas Ewing and his deputies arrested a gang of counter feiters, who were tried, convicted and sent to prison in 1818. A HISTORY J- OF A PROMINENT RUSHCREEK PIONEER FAMILY LEIB 3'~'OSEPH LEIB came with his wife from York County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, very early in the century, but the exact date is not known. They settled on Rushcreek, in Rushcreek township, two miles north of Bremen. His wife was a sister of the mother of Hon. Daniel Kel ler, late of Pleasant township. They were good, old fashioned German people, spoke the German lan guage, and read the German Bible. They were Chris tian people and members of the United Brethren church. They were a thrifty couple, honest and in dustrious. Like all the pioneers, they spun their flax on the small wheel, this being the work of the old women ; the young maidens spun the wool on the large wheel, walking barn floor, or some other large floor, for many miles, carrying the thread for a few cuts of yarn. They colored their yarn and wove their own cloth and then made it into garments. Mothers and daughters often clothed, in this way, a family of eight to twelve persons. The good old mothers were de voted to their families and loved their work and en joyed it. Joseph Leib secured about one section of land which he held until his children were old enough to occupy it. He built a mill on his home place which was run by the water of Rushcreek. This was the 25 (385) 386 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People second mill built on Rushcreek. The old mill is stHl standing. The old road which crossed the creek at the mill came up the bank of the creek — and that is why the old brick house, built by George Beery seventy- five years ago, the Ashbaugh and the Weaver houses, now stand so far from the road. In the old brick house Solomon Beery was born, but we believe that his brothers and sisters were born in the old cabin on the same farm. } Joseph Leib and wife had a family of four gons and seven daughters. Joseph, David, John and Elias were the sons. Joseph married Clarissa Allen — she came from Waterford, Connecticut, to Rushcreek to teach school. Joseph broke up the school by marry ing the teacher. Miss Allen was of the same family as Dr. Silas Allen, of Royalton, Ohio. Joseph suc ceeded his father as master and owner of the old home stead and spent his life there. His son, Samuel Leib, is a distinguished and wealthy lawyer of California. His son Joseph is a horse breeder in Champaign County, Illinois. Hamilton died of disease contracted in the army. A daughter married Mason Pauley (half brother of M. C. Miller), of Champaign County, Illi nois. Another daughter married Sheriff Barbee of Columbus, and still another a wealthy Californian. Mrs. Joseph Leib was an educated, cultured wo man, and took an interest in the education of her children. They attended school for a time in Lan caster. W. H. Kooken of the Gazette, attended the wedding of two of the daughters, and at the marriage of the second one he was the groom's best man,and Miss Elizabeth Doty was bridesmaid. There was a large attendance of friends and thej- spent the night there. What sleep the gentlemen indulged in was at Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 387 the barn — as the house was too small for so large a party. The morning after the Fauley wedding the whole party drove to Michael Miller's for the wed ding breakfast. The young people had jolly times at such weddings and greatly enjoyed themselves. John married a Miss Williams of the neighbor hood and moved to Crawford County, Illinois. There he engaged in farming and there he died. His son. Captain John Leib, lives in Illinois, and his sister Jane lives with him. Benjamin and James are both western farmers. Daniel Leib married Barbary Les lie. He moved to Highland County, Ohio, in 1839, where he purchased a farm and a flouring mill. In a few years he fell through a hatchway in his mill and was killed. His widow moved, with her family, to Westerville, to educate her children. Joseph, David and Enos were sons, but their place of residence we cannot give. Elias Leib married Delilah Hill from the neighborhood of Rushville. He once owned the fine farm now owned by the Ashbaugh heirs above Bremen, and up to middle life was a prosperous far mer. He sold his farm and opened a dry goods store in New Salem in the spring of 1850. In two or three years he moved his stock of goods to Millersport, where he hoped to make some money. Fate was against him and in a few years he closed out his business at a loss. He dealt largely in grain, and his losses in this trade broke him up. Amos and Henry grew to be young men at Millersport, and from there Henry ventured out upon the world. He married Kate Sites, daughter of Frederick Sites of Pleasant township. In three or four years his wife died. He then went west and now resides in Oberlin, Kansas. He has been treasurer of his county. 388 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Amos D. Leib married Elizabeth Pope of Walnut township, an estimable woman of many accomplish ments. Mr. Leib lived and died in or near Millers port. Mrs. Leib's mother was a Haver, one of several gentle and refined sisters. A son and daughter sur vive A. D. Leib. The daughters of Joseph Leib were as follows : Catharine married John Frey and they settled on a farm adjoining the old home or near it. Dr. M. Frey of Logan, was their son. Their son, Henry Frey, married a daughter of John Shaw. A daughter married Thomas Paden. Benjamin Frey married Mary Leib ; they had no children. They lived and died on a farm near the old home. Margaret married William Black of Perry County, Ohio. A daughter whose name we cannot give married a Mr. Mains from a northern county. Barbara married Frederick Fisher; they were farmers, but spent their old age in Bremen. Susan married Amos Davis. He was a good old Presbyterian and highly esteemed. Pie owned a farm and a mill at the bend of Rushcreek near Geneva. They were the parents of Mrs. Samuel Doty, long a well known and highly esteemed lady of Lancaster, and the wife of a once prosperous merchant of the old firm of Kinkead & Doty. Amos Davis, in his old age, moved to Indiana, where he died several years since. Elizabeth married Ralph Cherry, for many years a substantial citizen of Walnut township. Late in life with a large family they moved to Hancock County, Ohio. Their eldest son was named Joseph, for the old grandfather. The Leib family received Christian training and had set before them every day a good example, and Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 389 through four generations their training has borne fruit in the good lives and good character of a widely ex tended family. The old German father and mother had family worship morning and night. It was the custom for hoth to pray, first the old father and then the old mother. Their prayers were not empty sounding words — it was " the language of the soul," and a •deep impression was made upon the knecHng children. "From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs,'' That makes her loved at home, revered abroad, Princes and lords are but the breath of Kings, "An honest man 's the noblest -work of God." Samuel F. Leib, the eminent lawyer, resides at San Jose, California. He is a trustee of the Stanford University of California. The wife of Joseph Leib, Sr., was a German woman named Elizabeth Seitz, and as stated, a sister of the mother of Hon. Daniel Keller. She was a true pioneer helpmate. Like Ger man women of that period, she did a man's work. She learned to run the mill, and has been known to do it and handle sacks of grain for a day at one time. She could stand in a half bushel measure and shoulder a sack of wheat. Mr. Leib died in 1839 and his wife a few years later, in 1841, both aged 72 years. That is the record upon the grave stones. The first deed on record in the name of Joseph Leib is dated August, 1817, for about 300 acres of land on which the old mill now stands. The grantors were Carpenter & Shallenberger. The soldier record of this family is a good one, part of which has already heen given. There were 17 children, 11 of whom only, lived to be well known. 390 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Elias Leib had three sons in the army. Amos Davis Leib was a member of Company F, First Ohio Cav alry. He served until near the close of the war, when ill health compelled him to resign. He served for some time as regimental quartermaster and at the time he left the service he was acting Brigade Quartermaster. He served with distinction and retired with honor. It could not have been otherwise, for he was a man of ability and a patriot. He retired to his Island home, Buckeye Lake, and spent the remainder of his days in useful occupation and the society of his family. He took great interest in the success of the Republican part)^ and gave much of his time in its service. He was often a delegate to county conventions and once or twice at least to state conventions. He was an alternate to the Cleveland convention, and was then elected an alternate, pledged to John Sherman, to the Chicago convention. He attended this convention, accompanied by his wife. He died in December, 1892. Henry F. Leib was a member of Captain Perry's Company, the 90th Ohio Infantry. He served hon orably throughout the war and returned with his com pany to Lancaster. He was Regimental Adjutant at the time of his discharge. He is now a prominent politician of Kansas, and at present is the postmaster of Oberlin. Elias Newton was a soldier in the 196th Ohio, and belonged to General Hancock's corps. He now resides- in Marengo, Iowa. Joseph H. C. Leib resides at Prai rie City, Iowa. The wife of Joseph Leib, Jr., Miss Allen, was an- educated woman from Waterford, Connecticut. She was a relative of General Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame. She died in the year 1864 or '65. Joseph Leib, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 391 Jr., lived to be 80 years of age, and died at his father's old home. Both were buried near the old people in a pretty cemetery on the old farm. A few days before his death he sent for Joseph, the son of his old friend, Andrew Shaw. He told him that he had once wronged his father and could not die in peace without confes sion and restitution. He said that when a young man he and a companion escorted two young women to some kind of a gathering and that Andrew Shaw and his companion took the girls from them, or as it was called, cut them out, in other words, the girls treated them rudely, gave them the mitten. Partly for revenge and partly for mischief, he and his friend followed them home and cut the stirrups from their saddles. He told Joseph that he desired to pay the value of the stirrups to him, and asked him to name the amount. The money was declined and the debt for given. Sixty years had rolled around and time failed to efface the wrong he had done from his memory. Joseph Leib was a good man and this story will not lessen the esteem in which he is held. THE PIGEON ROOST SWAMP One of the beautiful locations in this county is the Fletcher chapel, a handsome Methodist Church, in the northeast corner of Liberty township. It is situated on the south line of the fine estate of Isaac Finkbone. In the graveyard adjoining lie buried the remains of old Dr. Waddel, the GiH brothers, the Clicks, the Par- rishes, Cools, James Jeffries and Elias and Amos D. Leib. Dr. Waddel's grave is marked by a handsome mon ument. The Gill brothers all have handsome granite 392 Pioneer Period ar.a Pioneer People monuments and their graves are kept in good order. This place is about six miles from Baltimore, two from Kirkersville, and five from Millersport. From the graveyard to the south and east is as fine a land scape as can often greet the eyes. The fine homes of Fred Mauger, W. K. Thompson and others in Walnut township, and Luray, and many fine homes in Licking county, backed by a range of beautiful hills ; and the old Pigeon roost swamp, now a paradise of farms and the fertile valley of the Licking are in full view. A drive from this point over a zigzag road to Luray is one long to be remembered. One-half mile north of Luray, on the hill, is the old Wells-Holmes burying ground. In 1812 a church was built here of logs, on the land of George Wells, Sr., and called the " Wells Meeting House." Later a brick church was built, but time has changed things and the church is no more. George Wells, Sr., was buried here October 2, i83i,and his wife, EHzabeth (Holmes), ^August 16, 1827. George Wells, Jr., was buried here November 9, 1848. Thomas Holmes, a brother of James Holmes, Sr., was buried there October 8, 1822, aged 78 years. James Holmes, Sr., of Walnut township, Fairfield County, was buried there in 1823, and his wife, Anna (Whittaker), in 1829. James Holmes, Jr., in 1848, aged 62 years. All prominent, influential men. The graveyard is not very well cared for. From this grave yard, looking west, over the Licking, is a prospect as fine as can be seen in any county in Ohio. Fertile farms and beautiful homes greet the eye in great numbers. W. K. Thompson lives a mile or two south of the Pigeon Roost swamp, in Walnut township, Fairfield Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 393 'County. Forty years ago the Pigeon Roost swamp was about the size of one section of land, but not square. It was covered with a forest and the ground from one to two feet often under water. Here miHions of pig eons roosted annually, and it was a great resort for sportsmen in the season. The swamp was just over the line, in the county of Licking. Mary HartweH Catherwood, of Hoopestown, Illi nois, is a fine story writer. She lived in the Thomp son neighborhood when a young girl. She has recently completed a novel entitled " The 'Queen of the Swamp." The story deals with the swamp and the scenes and incidents of the neighbor hood during her childhood. People and traditions are mentioned and preserved, and she states that the work was a labor of love in honor of her old home. Three- fifths of the Ohio part of the book are drawn from Walnut township, Fairfield County. We learn that Mary HartweH Catherwood was edu- 'cated at GranvHle, and that her mother was a Thomp son. She lived near Thompson's when lo or 12 years of age. Her father lived for a time on the Stoolfire farm, between Luray and Hebron, Ohio. After the death of her parents she lived with her grandfather Thompson, who had moved to Hebron. While quite young she taught a school near Aetna, Licking County, and boarded with Dean German, the father of Mrs. Jacob Ulrick, of this city. Mrs. Ulrick and she were very good friends. Mrs. Ulrick pre- -serves a photograph taken when Mary HartweH was ¦about 18 years of age. Judging from the picture she "was as handsome as she is now bright and entertaining. Her first short story was written for a Newark paper. She has written several good novels for the Century 394 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Magazine. She was a bright, ambitious girl, with no limit to her aspirations as a writer. And with all very modest, sensitive and retiring almost to a degree of timidity. Her ambition, her talents and industry have been rewarded, and she now enjoys the distinction due her as one of the leading western authors. She is one of the contributors to the forthcoming book of James J. Piatt, entitled the " Hesperian," of which only i,ooo copies will be printed. It is to be an edition "de luxe." Mary HartweH Catherwood's present home is Hoopestown, Illinois. A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE BLOSSER FAMILY, OF RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. J- BY C. E. KAGY. OF the pioneer families who in the early part of the nineteenth century sought homes in the then western wilderness none are better known of those who located in Rushcreek township than the Blosser family. There were four brothers who came to this town ship about the year 1805 or 1806, viz : George, Jacob, Abraham and Isaac Blosser. They came with their families from near Lancaster, Pa., and by the usual overland and water ro'Ute, the only mode of travel in those days. When they reached the Ohio they floated down that river to Marietta and from there they came to this neighborhood on horseback, bravely enduring all the hardships incident to traveling in that early day. GEORGE BLOSSER In company with Jacob Hunsaker, while search ing for a suitable location, came across a big spring located on the land now owned by John Rodafer, and sat down there, declaring that they would go no farth er. There he built his cabin and lived a number of years, raising a large family. His sons were John G., who married Sallie Welty; George, known as "Little" George, who married a Miss Brenneman ; Jacob and Isaac Blosser. The first three lived in Hocking Couiaty. Isaac lived in this township. His family consists of (39,5) 396 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People ten children, first, Solomon, who married Miss Jane Myers and live on one of their farms just east of Bremen. Their children are Frank, who married Miss Shoemaker; Zetta, who married Albert Brehm and lives near Somerset ; Xema, Bessie and Pearl. Isaac Blosser, Jr., and his family live in Hocking County; Frederick and William live in Perry County. The daughters are Mrs. Thomas Garrison, Mrs. Mason Lutz, and another sister livine in Straitsville, Ohio. We were unable to learn the names of the other mem bers of this family. The daughters of George Blosser were Lydia, who married William Young and lived on the little farm just east of Bremen, now occupied by John Funk. Their family were Mrs. Jerry Moyer, Mrs. Mason King, Mrs. Matilda Kuhn, James Young and John Young, whose life 'was sacrificed to save the Union, in the late civil war. Polly married Beno-na Black, who built the first log cabin on the site of the residence of the late Joshua Blosser. Lewis Black, of Sandusky Soldiers' Plome, is a son. They moved to Iowa in an early day. Sallie married Christopher Welty and resided near what is now Max, Ohio. Mrs. John Sanderson is a grandchild of Christopher Welty. Rebecca married Lewis Stoltz, of Perry County, and Margaret married John Geiger. Rev. G. W. Geiger of the U. B. church, is a son of John and Margaret Geiger. JACOB BLOSSER and wife lived on the old Hufford farm, just south of here, now owned by George Ruff. He had one son, Geprge Blosser, known as "Big" George, who married Miss Dorcas Hufford and moved west about the year 185.7- Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 397 ABRAHAM BLOSSER and wii'e lived near Geneva, in this township. They had one son, John Blosser, and three daughters, viz: Katie, who married David Ashbaugh; Barbara, who married John Derr and Mollie, who was married to Mr. Matthew Lecrone. ISAAC BLOSSER was the other of the four brothers who decided to. try their fortunes in this country. He was born near Lancaster, Pa., where he grew to manhood and mar ried Miss Elizabeth Kauffman. To this union there were born fourteen children, one dying in infancy. The other thirteen grew to manhood and womanhood, and married, nearly all of them raising large famiHes. Isaac Blosser settled on the farm now occupied by his youngest son, Samuel Blosser, one and one-half miles east of here and lived there until his death, which occurred June 1845, ^t the age of 68 years. Four of their children were born in Pennsylvania. The other ten were born at the old homestead. As ]the children grew up they assisted their father in clearing the heavy forest, and attended school just across the road after the district was organized at that place. The oldest son, John I., married Hanna Hufford. They had six children, four of whom died within two weeks' time. The other two were Mrs. Augustine Palmer, living south of here, and Mrs. Hufford, widow of the late Daniel Hufford and mother of John Huf ford, of this township. Polly married Peter Stemen and formerly lived in what is known as Dutch Hollow, on the farm owned by the late Abraham Beery. Later they moved west to Allen County, Ohio, where they reared a large family, most of whom, with their children, are now residing 398 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People in the western part of the state, following the different vocations of life, mostly successful tillers of the soil. Andrew married Sarah Mericle and lived in Plock- ing County, where they died, Mrs. Blosser passing away in the year 1863. Their children numbered four sons and five daughters. The oldest son, John, married Miss Fickle and had two children, one daughter, now deceased, and one son. Amos was a prosperous farmer living two miles south of here, who married Miss Lutz. Their children are Harry Nellie and Clarence. Isaac married Miss Margaret Gulp and resides in Hocking County. Noah married Miss Jennie Oatley and lives near Logan. Emanuel married Miss Elizabeth Gulp and moved with his family from Hocking to Montgomery County, near Dayton, where thev now reside. Elizabeth married George Wolfe and lives near Maxville. Their children are Noah ; Martin, the pres ent probate judge of Perry County, Sarah, Julia, Nancy, Andrew, Emma, Frank and Matilda. MatHda Blosser married Henry Brennemen and moved to Elkhart, Ind., where he died. She after wards married Rev. Hurst, of the Menonite church. She died about six years aeo. Sarah married William Nunemaker. There are two sons : Andrew, who is the newly elected treasurer of Hocking County, and Charles, who married Miss Derr and lives in Logan. Lydia married Jacob Hoover and lived in Perry County, afterwards moving to Hocking county, where he died. She afterwards married Noah Brenneman, Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 399 a former resident of this township. She has now been ¦dead about thirteen years. Malinda married Dr. H. A. Mumaw, a successful practicing physician of Elkhart, Ind., who is also con nected with the normal school of that place. Their children are Mrs. Phoebe Kolb, Andrew and Clara Mumaw. Andrew Blosser afterwards married Mrs. Mow- ery, whose husband was killed in the blowing up of a boat on his return from the war, leaving a widow with thirteen children. This union was blessed with a pair of twins, which with the two sets of children made an interesting family of twenty-four. One of the twins was Andrew, Jr., who recently resided here with his family, but now lives in Junction City. Their children are Mazie and Herman. The other twin was Lucy, who married a Mr. Poling, both of whom are now deceased. The fourth child of Isaac Blosser was Nicholas, who married Elizabeth Hufford and lived in Perry County, near Maxville. Nicholas Blosser died in the year 1866. Their children are Solomon Blosser, who married Miss Hun saker, and have a large family now living in Hocking County. Noah H., now a successful physician of Logan; Isaac, Eli and Nicholas, Jr., all three having moved to Michigan soon after the war. Catherine Blosser married Samuel Good and resid ed in this township until their death. They reared a large family of children, who are among the most influential citizens of the community. Rev. N. W. Good, of Columbus, one of the most successful minis- 400 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People ters of the Ohio conference of the M. E. Church, is a member of this family. Isaac Blosser, Jr., married Mary (Polly) Reedy and resided a short time in Perry County and after wards removed to Iowa with their family. Nancy married Christian Berry and moved to Michigan, where they died a number of years ago. Barbara married Reese Pugh. They lived in Bremen and different parts of this county and after wards moved to Iowa. Elizabeth married Abraham Miller and resided in Liberty township, near Baltimore. They raised a large family who were counted among the most high ly respected citizens of the northern part of this coun ty, where most of them still reside. Martha married Oliver Grove, late of this town ship, and a brother of Mrs. Noah Blosser, of this place. Their family numbers seven children, all Hving in Bremen. The oldest, Isaac Grove, was born in 1845 and at the time the war broke out was sixteen years of age, but, on seeing the "boys'" leave for the front, he was filled with the spirit of patriotism and joined Company "B," Seventeenth Ohio volunteer infantry, and saw some hard service. He served three years and re-enlisted, coming home at the close with the record of a good soldier, and not yet twenty-one years of age. He married Miss Lou Hilliard. They live in Bremen where he is section foreman on the C. & M. V. R. R. They have an adopted son, Roy. Caroline Grove is now Mrs. Oscar Seifert. Her son, Mr. George Evans, is a popular conductor on the C. & M. V. R. R. Her daughter, Clara, married Ira Grim, of this place, a brakeman on the C. & M. V. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 401 Nan Grove married John Naginey, formerly a farmer of this community, but now engaged in the manufacture of carpets. Lewellyn Naginey married Ursia Moyer, and lives near Bremen. Eura Naginey married George Moyer and at present resides on the A. Graffis farm. Emma married Frank Wright. Lil- lie, Ida, and Samuel are still with their parents. WiHiam Grove married Miss Emma Wolfe a suc cessful school teacher of this township. Their children are Nellie, Florence, Hazel and Hattie. • Samuel Grove married a Miss Hamilton, of Rush ville. Their children are Maggie, Dora, Harvey and Ruth. John and Harvey Grove are still single and live with their mother. Abraham Blosser married Miriam Graffis, sister of A. Graffis, of near this place. They lived several years in Hocking County, then in Michigan, and now in Tennessee. Their family consisted of eight children, only two of whom are now living. Noah Blosser was born in January, 1830, and is now in his seventy-second year remarkably well pre served for a man of his years. He received a com mon school education and worked on his father's farm until he grew to manhood. He and Miss Matilda Grove were married June 10, 1850, and for fifty years have been constant residents of this township living most of that time on a farm and followed tilling the soil. During the stormy period of the sixties when President Lincoln was calling for volunteers, Mr. Blosser volunteered his services and enlisted in com pany F, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volun teer Infantry, leaving a wife and eight small children 26 402 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People at home to battle for the comforts of life while he was fighting for his country. He served out the time of his first enlistment, though at one time on account of a severe spell of sickness, was very near death's door, the physicians having given him up to die, and but for the careful nursing of his faithful comrad, Mr. J. J. Ashbaugh, he would never have reached home aHve. After getting his discharge, he re-enlisted for one year or during the war, in company D, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, January 30, 1865 and served the full year, returning to his anxiously waiting family about the first of February, 1867, with the record of a p-ood soldier, ready to begin anew the battles of life. Mr. Blosser has served this township a number of terms as trustee, in all about fourteen years, and with credit to himself and the people of the township. He and his estimable wife are now living in Bremen in their comfortable and commodious home on the corner of Mulberry and Main streets, enjoying the fruits of their many years of unremitting toil. They have a family of nine children, aH grown to be useful and industrious citi zens. The oldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Samuel McVeigh, and for a number of years lived at the old Huston homestead, having recently disposed of the same, they are now living temporarily in the Mrs. John Kinnen property. Their children are Mary, who married Clinton Moyer, and have one daughter, Dorothy; Leland, Nellie, Dallas and Joseph. John Blosser married Miss Dell Glenn. They have four children. Dean, Orra, Dewey and Leota. They are at present living in Lancaster. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 403 ; Laura Blosser married William Sanderson. Their children are, Charles and Frank, both exemplary young men. They live on a farm just over the line -in Perry County. Charles I. Blosser, for a number of years one of Fairfield' County's most successful teachers, now of Vanwert, Ohio, married Miss Clara Huston. About fifteen years ago they moved to Vanwert County where he has not missed a year in teaching school, having taught together, twenty-four winters. Their children are Hattie, Otis, Emma, Xema and Ruth. Stephen Blosser married Miss Zetta Davis. They live on the old Huston homestead in the eastern part of this township, having recently, with brother Samuel, purchased the property of their brother-in-law, Samuel McVeigh. The children of Stephen and Zetta Blosser are, George, Verda, Meda, Fred and Clarence. Sarah a bright little girl died a few years ago from the effects of a severe burn caused by her clothing having caught fire. Samuel Blosser is still working in "single har ness' and at present is associated with his brother -Stephen in the agricultural business. Robert Blosser married Miss Maggie Black and for a number of years managed one of Dr. H. C. .Brisons farms near Hebron. He is at present a bridge carpenter on the C. & M. V. R. R. Their children are Glenn, Emile, Dewey and Ross Wayne. Noah Blosser, Jr., is still of the opinion of his .brother Samuel that it is good for a man to be alone. He was for a number of years a clerk with H. M. Shel- ,hamer,of this place, and now is head clerk in a large -shoe store in Chillicothe, Ohio. 404 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People George Blosser, the youngest son of the Noah Blosser family, married Miss Anna Shull and is fore man of a section on the C. & M. V., located at Clarks- ville, Ohio. They have two children Russell and Edna. Samuel Blosser, the youngest son of Isaac Blos ser, Sr., married Miss Betty McDougal and resides at the old homestead, having spent his whole life on the farm where he was born. Like his brother Noah, when his country was calling for men to fight her battle he offered his services, enlisting in company C, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio Volun teer Infantry, and served the loo days for which he had enlisted. Providence has seemingly dealt very harshly with him, as he has buried a loving wife and five children. Yet he lives in the abiding hope that the Lord knoweth best, and that whatever He does will be redound to His name's honor and glory. The children of Samuel Blosser now living are, Libbie who married E. B. Conner. They live in Bremen and have two children. Mr. Conner is the efficient clerk in G. A. Staker & Company's drug and furniture store, and also clerk of the Bremen corpora tion. Edward Blosser, married Dora Myers. They live on the home farm which he manages for his father. They have one daughter. May. CELIA BLOSSER Celia Blosser married George McCandlish. Mr. McCandlish died several years ago leaving a widow and two small children, Lee and Ruth. The children not living were Isabel, Ida, who married Samuel Focht, Simeon, and Effie, both of whom died young, and Joshua, whose death occurred Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 405 a few months ago. Joshua married Miss Myrtle Moyer a grand-daughter of George Blosser, who came from Pennsylvania. They had one daughter, Inez. Samuel Blosser afterward married Mary Beery Schatzer, widow of the late David Schatzer. To this union was born one son, Samuel, Jr. Samuel's mother married John Welty, who owned the farm now occupied by Solomon Blosser, where they lived until Mr. Welty's death, after which she made her home with her son at the old homestead until her death which occurred about twenty years ago at the ripe old age of ninety-four. SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. CHE Sons of the Revolution of Columbus, Ohio, have furnished the following list of such sol diers, who lived in Fairfield County. We have not attempted to verify the list, but take it for granted that it is substantially correct. There are other names that we believe properly belong to this list — Rev. John Wiseman, buried at New Salem; James Holmes, buried at Wells graveyard. Licking County, and Gen. James Wells, buried at the Wells graveyard, near Hooker. William McFarland, father of the late Walter McFarland, buried at Wells grave yard. The descendants of these men claim with confi dence that they were soldiers under Washington; but we have not the data to verify it; also, Michael Rice, of Hocking township. Emanuel Ruffner was a team ster in the war of the revolution. Dr. Robert Wilcox was a surgeon in the Revolu tion; John and George Hill, both died in Walnut township : Rev. Cradlebaugh, of Rush Creek township. THE FOLLOWING IS THE SONS OP THE REVOLUTION OF COLUMBUS LIST. John Alspach, Michael Alspach, David Buffing- ton, Jonathan Burnside, Joshua Burton, Benjamin Car lisle, Benjamin Cave, Jonathan Center, John Colman, Johnson Cook, Low Courts, James Crawford, Joshua Critchfield, John Cross, William Davis, PhHip Ebright, Thomas Elsey, Chris. Embrek, Henry Eyman, John (406) Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 407 Fisher, Henry Fitzgerald, Elijah Hedges, Michael Hansel, William Hopwood, Ephraim Hubbart, Edward Irvin, William Johnson, John C. King, Daniel Lam- brecht, Robert McClelland, John Martin, James Mor ris, John Murphey, Walter Newman, William Priest, Jacob Ream, John Reynolds, William Rigby, Elijah Russell, Mathias Sheets, William Shumaker, John h (c)hlife, David Smith, Jonathan Smith, Peter Stur geon, Thomas Torrence, Benj?min Turner, Bernard Valentine, George Valentine, Peter Woodring, David Wright, Christian Young. THE FRIEND FAMILY. J- 3"— OHN FRIEND, Joseph Friend, Jacob Friend, Jonas Friend and William Friend, five brothers, came to Ohio from Friend's Cove, Bedford County, Penn., early in the last century, the brothers who first came, with their aged mother, set tled in Thorn township, Perry County; but later aH save William, came over to Fairfield and during their lives were well-known and honored citizens of Walnut, Richland and Pleasant townships. The mother and four of the sons are buried in the Methodist grave yard at New Salem. Jonas, who was an honored member of the Primi tive Baptist Church during his life, was buried in the Ruffner graveyard, located on what is now the Mrs. W. W. Friend farm, in Richland township. WiHiam Friend and Banner Friend, sons of Joseph Friend, were prominent farmers, one of Walnut and the other of Pleasant township. W. W. Friend, John Friend and Elijah were sons of Jonas. They were good citizens and led an honorable and useful life. The two first named married daughters of Col. Joseph Ruffner. The wife of Jonas Friend was a sister of the late Thomas Rissler, of Richland township. The writer was well acquainted with Jonas and William Friend. They were Christian gentlemen of the best type and honored and respected by all who knew them. Elijah Friend and wife, Mrs. W. W. Friend, Es- tella Bauman and family, Elizabeth, the widow of the late John Friend, J. W. Friend and family, Mrs. Ed- (408) Of Fairfield County, Ot 409 ward Geiger of New Salem, Mrs. Jacob Barr and chil dren, Mrs. Nettie Leith and Mr. and Mrs. L. Eyman and family are descendants and relatives of Jonas Friend. Mrs. Elmira Puller of Rushville, Samuel Friend and Mrs. Dr. Lewis of Rushville, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Love of Perry County, descendants and relatives of William Friend. Mr. and Mrs. William Eyman and family, Mr. and Mrs. William Mast of Thurston, Mr. and Mrs. Orren Friend and family, Mr. and Mrs. Banner E. Friend and family. Will and Charles Holliday, de scendants of Joseph Friend. George W. Friend of Hardin County, is a son of John Friend, Sr. The late Jacob Friend of Pleasant- viHe, was a son of Jacob Friend, Sr. THE YOUNG FAMILY. BY C. F. KAGY. 771 ¦'•^¦^ ^^^^ coming of the Youngs to this neigh- C &. I borhood, begins, the history of Rushcreek ^^r township, which really began in the year 1799, when the Ashbaughs found their way up from the Ohio to this locality, having come here from Pennsylvania. The Youngs are of Irish descent, David Young, the great-granafather of H. W. Young, having been born in County Cork, Ireland, in the year 1753, and emigrated to Virginia about 1770 and settled soon after in the State of Maryland, near Hagerstown, at which place Edward Young, the pioneer of this township, was born. Shortly after this time the family moved to Juniata County, Pa., where the family grew to manhood, and in 1799, Edward Young, four sisters and two half brothers left their home in the Keystone State to try their fortunes in the then far West. Edward Young, after looking around for a suita ble location, decided to take up the land now owned by Mrs. Mary Young and her sons, just east of Bre men, at whose place the reunion of the Young family was held recently. Here he built his cabin and here his ax was laid at the root of the forest tree, his sisters making their home with him and keeping house for him until the spring, April 2, 1802, when he married Miss Rachel Miller, who had come here with her parents, arriving on New Year's day, 1800. To this union (410) Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 411 were born eleven children, eight sons and three daugh ters. (i) Asa died in infancy. (2) David married Susan Beery and resided for a short time in this township, and about i860 moved to Putnam County, where most of their descendants now reside. (3) John married Elizabeth Edwards of Seneca County, Ohio, where they lived and died. Their three grand-children are (i), Mrs. Jane Cridelbaugh, who lives near Springfield, Ohio; (2), Rachel Hawkins of Council Grove, Kansas, and (3), Mary , who lives in Tiffin, Ohio. (4) Margaret Young married Jacob Moyer and resided for a few years in Rushcreek. From there they moved to Walnut, near New Salem, and from- there to near Colfax, on the land now owned by their sons, Thomas and John Moyer. Their children are : Edward Moyer, who married Miss Rebecca Davis and resided in Missouri, where his children now live. After the death of his first wife, he remarried and now resides in Columbus,, Ohio. (2) Thomas Moyer married Catharine Jack son. They have three children — (i) John, who is managing his father's farm; (2), Lizzie, who married' a Mr. Eversole, a prominent grain merchant of Illinois; (3) Jennie is a highly accomplished young lady, having completed a course in a college of fine arts in both Cincinnati and Chicago. (3) John Moyer married Jane Collins. Their children are, first, Sadie, who married Prof. Chatterton, who died about five years ago at Lancaster, leaving a wife and two little girls, Bessie Belle and Lucile. The other daughter of John is Miss Belle, who is living with her parents ;, 412 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People (4) Margaret Moyer married George Cruit and re sides one mile west of Lancaster. They have three children, all living at home at present. (5) Laura Moyer married Rev. John Beery of the M. E. Church. They have seven children and reside at present in the State of Nebraska. (6) Mary Moyer married Capt. J. B. Eversole; she is now a widow and lives with her five children at Olney, III. (7) Lydia Moyer married James Stewart. They reside at Corea, Iowa. They have Ave children. Her first husband was Isaac Beery. (5) James Young married Nancy Lehman, both of whom and all their children are now deceased. (6) William Young married Lydia Blosser and resided most of their lives on the little farm now owned by the Funk brothers, just east of Bremen. Their children are (i) Mary, who is now Mrs. Jerry Moyer. Her children are (i) J. W., who married Miss Me- linda Shane and have one daughter, Ethel. (2) Llewellyn, who married James Paxton. (3) Myrtle who married Joshua Blosser (now deceased). She has one daughter, Inez. (4) Inez who fives with her parents. (2) John B. Young, who enlisted in Company E, Forty-sixth O. V. L, and died from ex posure received at the battle of Shilo. (3) Thomp son, who married Laura Hannum of Indiana. They are both dead and left four children, who now reside at Marion, Indiana. (4) Matilda married George Kuhn and lives at present at Fostoria, Ohio. They have seven children. (5) Kate married Mason King and resides in this township. They have seven chHdren, namely: Court, Tony, Belle, Karl, Frank ^ and . (6) James, who left here about eighteen years ago and located in Pennsylvania where he married. They have three children. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 413 (7) Enos Young married Mary Brandt and re sided on the old homestead until his death, which oc curred about fifteen years ago. Their children are ( i ) Edward, a prosperous young farmer, who married Car rie Alexander and now resides on a part of the old homestead. (2) Wilbur, who is still single from choice and is living with his widowed mother, manag ing the farm. (8) Thomas Young married Catherine Moyer. To this union were born four children, (i) Jacob, who married Josie Irvin, of Warren, Ind. Their three children are : ( i ) Rose, who married Samuel Ken nedy, a banker of Warren, Ind. (2) Blanche, who married WHliam Bond, and (3) Ernest, who is single and resides at home. (2) Henry W., the second son of Thomas Young, married Matilda King. They have a pretty country home two miles north of Bremen, where Mr. Young is extensively engaged in the rais ing of small fruit and many varieties of garden seeds. Mr. Young's record as a citizen, soldier and public servant is an enviable one and worthy of emulation. Their chHdren now living are : ( i ) Rev. E. E. Young of Germantown, Ohio, a graduate of Heidelberg col lege at Tiffin, and now a successful young minister of the gospel. His wife was Miss Anna Shock, of Tiffin, Ohio. (2) Charles Young, a successful tiller of the soil, married Miss Guyton ; they have one son, Cecil, and live near Avion, Ohio. (3) Arthur O. Young, also a farmer, married Miss Lillie Kagay, and at present are making arrangements to move near Mil lersport, where they will look after the farm of Mrs. Helser, of Thornville. (4) Miss Blanche Young and (5) Walter Young, both of whom are still residing with their parents. 414 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People (3) John M. Young, a third son of Thomas Young, married Hanna Hite, and are residing with their children at Butler, Ind. (4) William E. Young, the fourth son of Thomas Young, married Clarissa Neeley. Mr. Young runs a blacksmith shop at his country home. They have one son, James, who is living at home, two and one-half miles east of Bre men, and assists his father in the shop and on the farm. (9) Elizabeth Young married WiHiam Black, and resided on their farm two miles west of Bremen, where Mr. Black died twelve years ago. Their children are : (i) John Black, who married Miss Laura Musser. They have seven children, one son and six daughters, the two oldest, Abbie and Leefe, being married. The former married Mr. Hoskinson and live in Newark, and the latter married Mr. Stover and live in Hebron. The other children are Belle, Blanche, Maude, Edna and Harry, all of whom live with their parents in He bron. (2) James Black married Miss Groff. Mr. Black was accidentally killed on the C. & M. V. R. R. a few years ago, leaving a widow and eight children. Lizzie, the oldest, married Mr. Will Huston of West Rushville. They have one child. The other children are Gertrude, Rebecca, Clara, who makes her home with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs John Stuart; Bessie, Nellie, Leila and Orland. (3) The other daughter of William Black was Miss Mary who died about a year ago, since which time the widowed mother has made her home with her son, John, at Hebron. ( 10) Mary Young married George Groff, brother of William Groff of this place. She is now a widow and lives at Pleasant Plains, Ind., with her daughter, Mrs. Wildermuth and family. Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 415 (ii) Edward Young married Amanda Kindler and now lives at Warren, Ind., where he is a success ful practicing physician. They have two children who now live with them. It is unlikely that any other family of this neigh borhood has a better military record than the Young family. Edward Young's brothers served in the war of 1812 and during the Civil War eight grandsons of Edward Young went to the front to help put down the rebellion. They were Elias, Hezekiah, J. B., T. E., J. G., J. M., and H. W. Young, and Edward Moyer. J. B. died from exposure received at the battle of Shiloh. H. W. Young fell wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. Edward Moyer spent about fifteen months in southern prisons. John Miller, John Ashbaugh and Joseph Ashbaugh cleared a patch of ground, planted corn arid potatoes, and built a cabin in the spring of 1799 on what is now known as the Weaver farm. They then returned to Pennsylvania for their families. They were the first settlers of Rush Creek township, and the first to make an improvement. See "Ashbaugh family." THE WISEMAN FAMILY. ISAAC Wiseman and his wife, Elizabeth, the an cestors of the Wiseman family, of this county, emigrated from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Rockingham County, Virginia, soon after the war of the Resolution. A large family of sons and daughters were emigrants with him. John, Samuel, Isaac, Jacob, Abner, William, Joseph. The family remained but a few years, living on Linnville creek, and with the exception of Samuel, moved farther south to Monroe County, Virginia. Samuel, about the year 1805 or 1806, moved with his family to Fair field County, Ohio, and settled on Walnut creek, in Walnut township, where he reared a large family. Jacob and Abner moved to Kentucky, and Isaac to Gallia County, Ohio, where they left many descend ants. Rev. John Wiseman, a local preacher of the Methodist Church, commissioned by Bishop Asbury, reared a large family in Monroe County, Virginia, and late in life, at the age of 60, moved to Ohio, accompa nied by his entire family of married and single chil dren, with one exception, Aaron Morgan and wife. He settled temporarily on the farm- long known as the Pence farm, in Pleasant township. In less than a year he moved his family to a farm adjoining his brother Samuel, but in Perry County. Here he spent the years of his old age in a quiet, peace ful and uneventful life. He was farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, wagon maker, cabinet maker, shoe maker and preacher, and (416) Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 417 in all, a good, conscientious workman. His son Joseph was a distinguished local mathematician, a weH in formed, capable man. He served five years as Asso ciate Judge of Perry County. His son, Philip S. Wise man, father of the writer, lived a part of his life in Walnut township, Fairfield County. In the year 1848 he was the Whig candidate for representative for Fair field County. He was a man of good, common sense, a reader of books, and such papers as the National In telligencer, and was well informed. He reared a large family and died at the early age of 55 years. He was president of the public meeting in Pleasantville in 1861 when the Pleasantville Academy was organized. Ann Wiseman married George Stinchcomb. They were the parents of the late Captain James W. Stinch comb. Jacob G, was a farmer and good citizen of Perry County, Ohio. ) Sallie married Thomas Brattin and moved to Chil- Hcothe, Ohio. Their great-grandson, Charles Lindly, of New York, married a daughter of Ex-Governor Denver at Wilmington, Ohio. Simon Wiseman, Samuel and Andrew, sons of Jas. and grandsons of John, were soldiers of the Union army. The first two named died in the service. Theo dore, son of Joseph Wiseman, was a Union soldier and died from disease contracted in the service. Captain John Wiseman, son of Philip S., was a captain in the Forty-sixth Ohio regiment. He died a few years since in Chicago, Illinois. Rev. John Wiseman was a soldier of the Revolution under General Washington, and was one of the suf ferers at Valley Forge. He died in 1842, more than four score years of age. The descendants of Isaac 27 418 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People Wiseman are numerous in many western and southern states. C. M. L. Wiseman, son of Philip Smith Wiseman, and Pricilla Lewis, was born January 15, 1829, near New Salem, Ohio. His educational advantages were the common schools and a good circulating library, the columns of the Saturday Evening Post and the grand old National Intelligencer, the organ of the Whig party. He taught a common school for five or six terms in Fairfield County. He then traveled four years for C. W. James, of Cincinnati, in the western states. On November 25, 1853, he married Mary E. Parr, of Perry County, Ohio. AprH i, 1855, he moved to Lancaster and served as Deputy Sheriff under William Potter. Later he was deputy clerk of the Common Pleas Court, under John Radebaugh. He served four years as sec retary and treasurer of the Lancaster Starch Company. In i860 he was elected chairman of the County Repub lican Committee, and conducted the Lincoln campaign. May 16, 1861, he was made Postmaster of Lancaster under Lincoln, on the recommendation of John T. Brasee and V. B. Horton. Four years later he was reappointed on recommendation of Carey A. Trimble. He was reappointed Postmaster by Andrew Johnson, on recommendation of Hon. Thomas Ewing. Again reappointed by General Grant on the recommendation of Hon. John Sherman, serving in all 13 years. He served acceptably as Chairman of the Republi can County Committee five terms. Was many times a delegate to district and state conventions. In one state delegation, when Senator Ewing was a delegate and the chairman. The most pleasing and acceptable, aye, honorable public duty that he was ever called upon to perform was to preside at the great meeting held in Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 419 the Lancaster City Hall, in memory of General U. S. Grant, shortly after his death. The man, whose praise was on every tongue, and whose fame had encircled the earth. He served five years as steward and financial officer of the Boys' Industrial School, five years as in spector for the B'oard of Underwriters of the city of Columbus, six years as state agent of the Home Insur ance Company, and six months as special inspector for the Home Insurance Company, of New York. No vember I, 1900, he married a second wife, Mrs. P. E. Collins. He is believed to be the only survivor of those who took an active and decided stand in the organiza tion of the Republican party of Fairfield County. At that time the old Whigs were reluctant in giving up their grand old party, and the young men perfected the organization of the new Republican party. His children are : Henry Clay, of Springfield, Ohio; Mrs. Charles E. Williamson, of Omaha, Ne braska; Mrs. Joshua Clarke, Mrs. F. C. WhHey and Charles Philip, of Lancaster, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth and William Tecumseh, deceased. He is in " Life's late afternoon Where long and cool the shadows grow,'' and will soon be " In the twlight," the evening hour of life. Not bedtime yet! The full blown flower Of all the year — this evening hour — With friendship's flame is bright; Life still is sweet, the heavens are fair. Though fields are brown and woods are bare. And many a joy is left to share Before we say good night. 420 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People And when, our cheerful evening past. The nurse, long waiting, comes at last. Ere on her lap we lie In wearied nature's sweet repose. At peace with all her waking foes. Our lips shall murmur ere they close Good night and not goodby. — O. W. Holmes. INDEX. Associate Judges 31 Asbury, F. Bishop 34, 63, 178 Attorneys, Early ;. . . 31 Ashbaugh, David 102, 192, 197 Achey, Jonatlian ;. . . 110 Amanda Township 121 Allen family 126 Academy, Greenfield *. . 149 Amusements 171 Applegate, Abe 172 Associate Judges 31 Ashbaugh family 192 Ashbaugh, John 195 Aslibaugh, John J. 196 Ashbrook family 205 Ashbrook, Aaron 206 Ashbrook, E. L 207 Ashbrook, T. P 208 Ashbrook, J. M 341, 209 Ashbrook Eli 211 Ashbrook Fanny 212 Allen, Lyman 324 Armstrong, John 341 Augustus , Judge 376 Artz, Jacob 381 Artz, John 381 Brasee, John T 141, 356, 58 Beck, Jacob, Sr 96 Beecher, Phil 31, 33, 54 Boyle, Hugh 31 Brough , Jno 59 Baptist Church 35, 64 Blaine, J. G 75, 79, 154 421 422 Index. Berne Township 100 Bloom Township 104 Buckeye Lake 105- Basil 10& Baltimore 112 Beatty, Judge 199, 124 Baher, Daniel 130> Baher , Henry, Rev 131 Baher, J. H 131 Blue Ball Tavern 138: Brasee, John S 141 Blosser, Noah 401 Beery family 198 Beery, Nicholas 198: Beery, John 199^ Beery, 'Abram 200^ Beery, Geo 202 Beery, T. E 203 Beatty, J.. H 124, 199- Blue, J. Q. A 205. Bumgardner, H 224 Baker, C 233: Beery & Hedges 241 Brandt, O. B 260 Bear family 309 Bright, David, Sr 325. Bright, David, Jr 325 Bright, John, Sr 327 Brandt family 361 Brandt, Ludwig 361 Brandt, Jacob 362, 36S Brandt, Adam 362, 366 Brandt, David 362, 365, 363 Brandt, Isaac 363 Brandt, Boss 368 Blosser family 395. Common Pleas Judges 32, 33 Clerk of Court 31 Court House 31 Converse, James 41 Coates, Samuel 42' Index. 423 Connell , John 45 Creed, John 45 Clark , Joshua 51 Creed, John M 60 Catholic Church 64 California Expedition 82 Court of Quarter Sessions 30 County Commissioners 30 Churches 34 Clear Creek 104 Coulson, Wm 132, 101 Cole family 134 Cole, Broad ' 134 Cartwright, Peter, Rev 170 Cox, T. B., Major 172, 175 Carper, Joseph, Rev 169 Clinton, DeWitt, Gov 260 Callahan, Geo., Rev 263 Carlisle, 287 Crumley Family 289 Claypool, S 296 Claypool, Jacob 298 Claypool, Albert 300, 302 Claypool, Wesley 300, 303 Claypool , Isaac 301 Claypool, Abraham 297 Cherry Family 308 Carpenter Gabriel 344 Courtright Family 345 Chaney, John 352, 354 Catherwood, M. H 393 Death List of Lancaster 84 Duke of Saxe Weimar 68 Distilleries 36, 37 Davidson, Dr. A 142, 172, 173 DeBolt, Rev 177 Debolt, Reason 177 Dennison, James 357 Drake, Thos 377, 378 Davis, Amos : 388 Evangelical Church 35 424 Index. Effinger, .Samuel 50 Eagle Ohio 47 Ewing, Thos 56, 166, 260 Early Merchants 44 Early Sports 171 Fairfield County Fair 141 Foster, Rev. Wm 176, 177 Fetters, Thos 327 Friend Family 408 Ohio Canal 112 Gist Christopher 7 Groghan , George 7 Gazette 53 Glick Church 34 Grist Mills 36 Greenfield Township 102 Goldthwait, John 105 Graybill Tavern 138 Gill. John 142 Graybill, Samuel 172 Graham Family 292 Greenfield Township in 1840 364,. 365 Griffith Family 382 Griffith, James 382 Griflith, Thos 383 Huber, David 37, 141, 142 Hunter, H. H 57 Howes Academy 65 Humrighous, Jno 125 Hyde, Simon Dr 135 Hocking Valley Railroad 69 Holmes, James 258, 259 Holmes Family 258 Holmes, Alex 259, 260 Holmes, Thos 261 Holmes, Wesley 261 Holmes, James 261 Holmes , James , Jr 263 Holmes, Samuel 264 Hooker Family 312 Hooker, Samuel Sr 313 Index. 426 Hooker , Samuel Jr , 313 Hooker, Richard Bachelor 313, 315 Hooker, Richard 314 Hooker, Samuel 314 Hooker, Richard of Turkey R 315, 316, 317, 318 Hamilton, Col. Wm 377 Irvin, W. W 33, 54, 55 Jones, David Rev 181 Kauffman , George 36 Kreider, M. Z., Dr: 62 Keller, D. P 178, 235 ¦Kagy Family 216 Kagy, L. B 217, 218 Kagy, Rudolph 221, 226 Kagy, Martin Dr 224 Kagy, Jacob 224 Kagy, C. R 225 Keller, Daniel 234, 235, 353 Noble, John Col 50, 260 Noble, John W 145, 146 Lutheran Church 63 Lancaster Academy 65 Lancaster Bank 66 Lancaster Library 69 Lateral Canal 69 Latta Family 72 Legislature 33 Latta , John 45 Lynch, Gen 100 Leist, John 104 Liberty Township 106 Leonard Henry 108 Lincoln, Abraham 170 Lewis , Tilman 34 Leith, John 179 Larimer, Isaac 352, 853 Leib, Joseph 385 Leib, Joseph Jr 385 Leib, A. D 388 Leib, Samuel F ; 389 Leib, H. F 390 426 Index. McColloch, Elizabeth lO- McColloch, Samuel 10- McColloch, Frank 15 McColloch, Noah Zane 15 McColloch, William 15 McColloch, Samuel Jr 15 Mclntire, John 23, 170 Mclntire, Sarah 23, 170 Methodist Society First 34, 35, 252, 63 Merchants Early 44 Mechanics Early 47r Mechanics, 1810 to 1830 50i Maccracken, S. F 45 Merwin, E. B 55 Medill, William 59' Methodist E. Church 35, 34, 63 Madison Township 101 McNamee, Job 131 Murphey, Wm 172, I'ZS McNeill, J. B 94 Miner, E. L., Dr 124, 125 McCleery, Wm 177 McFarland, W 178 McFarland, J. C 178 McClelland, R 182 McNaghten, Thomas 182, 184 McNaghten, John 183 McNaghten, Noah 184 McNaghten, Owen 184 McKinley, Mrs 193; Murphey Family 253 Murphey, Wm 253 Murphey, Ed 249, 254 Murphey, John 253,255, 237. 249 Matlock, Mrs 142 Murphey, Elizabeth 256 McLean, Alex 268 Mason and Dixon Line 267 McCleery, James 274 McCleery 280 Meason Family 304 Index. 427" Moyer , Jacob 411 Pleasant Run Baptist Church 35 Prosecuting Attorneys 33^ Prehistoric Forts 38 Physicians Early 61 Presbyterian Church 63, 104, 244 Private Schools 64 Public Schools 18,30, 65- Professional Men 54 Pleasant Township 100 Phoenix Tavern 139' Pearse, James W 142" Pedagogues Early 155 to 165- Pioneer Preachers 166 Peters, Samuel 183 ' Peters Family 183 Peters, S. R 180- Peters, Andrew 191, 324 Peters, Jonathan 205, 214 Peters, Gershom 205, 214 Pleasantville Academy 210 - Peters, Rev. Tunis 214, 216 Peters Philip 215- Presbyterians of Rush Creek 244- Pence, David 232 Pence, D., Jr 233 Pearse, John V 338* Pence, Jacob 362 Pence, Barbara 366 • Pigeon Roost S 391 Quinn, James, Rev 42, 167, 178 Richland Chapel 34, 252 Rush Creek Presbyterian 34 Reber & Kutz '. . ¦ ST Ring, George 50, 38 Richland 101 Rush Creek 101 Rock Mill 103- Royalton 120- Rushville 130 Ruffner, Michael 132, ¦428 Index. Reber , Samuel 145 Ruffner, Eml 229 Ruffner Joseph, Col 231 :Ruffner, B., Sr 237 Rowles Family 237 Rowles, John 237 Rowles, John, Sr : . ; 238 Rowles, John 240 Rowles, Wm., Sr 24] Ruffner, Peter 249 Ruffner, Michael 250 Reese, David 48 Rodebaugh, Joel 256 Roe, Thos 273, 277 Rank, David 277 Reber Family 320 Reber, Valentine 321 Reber, John 322 Reber, Samuel 323 Reber, Henry 323 Ream Family 329 Ream, George , 333 Reed, Wm. James 357 Ream, Rheem Daniel 377 "State vs. Pealt 32 Slaughter, Judge 31, 54, 357 'Saxe Weimar, Duke 68 Sanderson, George 47, 53 Sherman , C. R., Judge 55 Sherman, John 87 Sherman, W.~T., Gen 91 Stanbery , Henry 57 ' Sturgeon Family 70 Stuckey, Joseph 100 ' Shaffer Tavern 138 Snider, A. J 144, 199 :Seitz, Enoch Beery 202, 147 School Teachers Early 155 to 165 ¦ Stevenson, Daniel 186 Saxton, John and Joshua 193 ^Saxton , Joseph 194 Index. 429* Stukey, W. W 197 Seitz, Enoch Beery 147, 202, Seitz, Daniel 202 Stuart, Thompson 246 Sturgeon, Thos 71 Sterrit, Price 71 Schoch, J. M 357, 358 Spangler, Samuel 370 Sharp, Joseph 378, 379- Sharp, R. L 379 Sharp, R. H 378 Soldiers of Revolution 406- Turkey Run Church 36 Tallmadge, Darius 37, 60, 141 Tavern Keepers Early 49 Taverns' Old Time 138 Teachers Early .• 155 to 165 Teal, Edward 177 Turner, John 200 Tong, Geo 262 Taylor , Henry 262 Tallman Family 281 Tallman, Wm 316 Tallman, George 316 "Violet Township 102 "Van Metre Family 335- Van Metre, Daniel 336 "Van Metre, John I 344 Wolf, Ezra 374 Wolf, Salem 375 Wolf, Salem S 374 Wolf, Isaac 376 Wilson, James, Dr 62, 71 Walnut Township 105 Williams, John, Dr 149, 65 Waddle, Rev. Charles 168 Walters, F., Judge 192 Wiseman, P. S 417, 210 Work, Charles, Rev 244 Wilson, William 247 Wilson Family, Richland 247 430 Index. Wilson, David 250 Wilson, Isaac -. 250 "Weatherby, Nathan 381 Wells-Holmes Graveyard 392 Wiseman Family 416 Wiliamson, John, Gen 48 Wells Family 268 Wells, Richard 270 Wells, Gen. James 270 Wellsville 278 Wells Grave Yard 279 Wilson Family 283 Wilson Nathan 284, 285 Winter Family 310 Wagenhals, Rev. John 333 Williamson Family 348 Whitman Judge ' 353 Wolf, Valentine 374 Young Family 410 Zane, Ebenezer 9 Zane, Silas 13 Zane, Jonathan 14 Zane, Andrew 13 Zane, Isaac 14, 16 Zane , Elizabeth 13 Zane, Austin B 13 Zane, Samuel 12 Zane, Daniel 12 Zane, Noah 48 Zane, John 48 , ,LE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 9002 01298 0935 ^',