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Hannah (Mendenhall) Diggs, Winchester. Her great-grand- father's name was Mordecai Mendenhall, living in North Car- olina. The whole connection were millers and millwrights, and he among the rest.
Her grandfather, Stephen Mendenhall, was born about 1750, and raised thirteen children to be grown and married.
He came to Richmond about 1814; moved to Clinton County, Ohio, soon afterward, and died there about 1822.
Her father was Nathan Mendenhall. He was born in North Carolna (Randolph or Guilford County) in 1773; came to High- land County, Ohio, in 1806; moved to Clinton County, Ohio, and remained in that county till 1837; came in that year to Ran- dolph County, Ind., and settled near Unionsport. He was mar- red in North Carolina to Ann Harlan, who was born in 1772.
They had nine children, viz., Edith (Cowgill), 1799, lives in North Manchester, Ind., and is the mother of fifteen children; Hiram, 1801, had ten children, and died in 1852 June 30-the same day that Henry Clay died; Olive (Hadley), 1803, had seven children, and died in 1840; Maria (Hartman), 1805, four children, died in 1872; Elizabeth (Ruble), 1806, one child, died in 1874; Nathan, 1809, ten children, died in 1861; Hannah (Diggs), 1811, three children, is now living (1881); Rebecca (Lewis), 1813, has one child, and resides in Oregon. She moved to California in 1854, and to Oregon in 1855, and that has been her home ever since that time.
Nathan Mendenhall, father of Hannah M., died in 1847, and his wife in 1857.
Hannah (Mendenhall) Diggs was born in 1811; married Littleberry Diggs in 1841, and has had three children, viz., Francis, farmer in Kansas; Ann Eliza Watts, wife of Isaiah P. Watts, attorney in Winchester, and Circuit Clerk of Randolph County (1881-1886).
Hannah's husband, Littleberry Diggs, died in the winter of 1846, and she has lived a widow ever since.
Her mother's name was Harlan, who was the daughter of Enoch and Edith Harlan, North Carolinians.
Enoch Harlan lay a corpse when his daughter (mother of Hannah Mendenhall) was twenty-one years old.
His father was William Harlan, son of Ezekiel Harlan, son of George Harlan, son of James Harlan.
Enoch Harlan had ten children, born between 1770 and 1792. Rebecca (Harlan) Hampton, daughter of Enoch Harlan and aunt of Hannah Mendenhall, is now living in Lee County, Iowa in her eighty-ninth year.
Hannah Mendenhall's great-grandfather (on her mother's side) was Nathaniel Carter, who was a ribbon weaver in Dublin, son of a rich man in that city by the name of Nicholas Carter. Nathaniel came to America, away back in 1600 and odd, to see the country, and liked it so well that he stayed. He taught school all the rest of his days, living to be a very old man.
Her great-grandparents on her father's side were Mordecai Mendenhall and Charity (Beason) Mendenhall. Her grand father's name was Stephen Mendenhall, and his wife's name was Elizabeth Rich, and her father and mother were John Rich and Sarah (Frasheur) Rich. Her great-grandparents on her mother's side were William Harlan and Margaret (Farlow) Harlan. Her grandparents were Enoch Harlan and Edith Carter, and Edith Carter's parents were Nathaniel Carter and Ann McPherson.
Hannah's parents were Nathan Mendenhall and Ann Harlan.
George Harlan, son of James Harlan, was born in Old En- gland, Jannary 11, 1650.
Ezekiel Harlan, son of George and Elizabeth Harlan, was born in Ireland, July 16, 1679.
Hannah Harlan, daughter of George and Elizabeth Harlan, was born in Ireland, February 4, 1681.
Moses Harlan, son as above, born in Ireland, December 20, 1683. Aaron Harlan, born in Ireland October 29, 1685.
Rebecca, August 17, 1688; Deborah, August 28, 1690; Eliza-
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William Harlan, son of Ezekiel Harlan, was born on Sun- day, September 1, 1702. His wife was born September 1, 1703, and died June 12, 1767, at 6 o'clock A. M.
Their children were: Mary, born June 26, 1722; William. May 15, 1724; Jonathan, July 15, 1726; James, September 29, 1730; Sarah, September 23, 1732; Stephen, March 12, 1740; George, February 1, 1743; Enoch, December 27, 1745 or 1746, and died October 18, 1794.
Nathan Harlan, son of Enoch Harlan, was born January 10, 1770, and died about 1840, seventy years old.
The other children of Enoch Harlan were: William, born October 6, 1771, died 1844, aged seventy-three years; Ann, born October 19, 1773, mother of Hannah Mendenhall, died 1857, aged eighty four years; Nathaniel, born October 9, 1775, died 1824, aged forty-nine years; Jonathan, September 7, 1777, died 1846, aged sixty-nine years; David, born January 2, 1780, died 1871, aged ninety-one years; Solomon, born February 13, 1782, died 1869, aged eighty-seven years; Hannah, born March 20, 1784, died 1842, aged fifty-eight years; Enoch, born February 26, 1786, died 1866, aged eighty years; John, born May 9, 1790, died 1876, aged eighty-six years; Rebecca, born August 3, 1792, living in Iowa, aged eighty-nine years.
A truly remarkable family for their age, nine of the number ranging from sixty-nine to ninety-one years, and averaging eighty- one years.
Solomon Harlan, a son of Enoch Harlan, and uncle of Han- nah Mendenhall, born February 13, 1782, had children as follows: Rebecca Ann, born August 12, 1816; John M., born February 18, 1818; David Faris, born December 25, 1819; William Fos- ter, born December 25, 1821; Rachel Fallis, born February 19, 1824; Jonathan born March 26. 1826; Solomon Haynes born August 27, 1831; Jane Faris born April 22, 1840.
Hannah has lived for twenty-two years in Winchester spend- ing some time, however, in Iowa and Kansas.
She is much troubled with rhenmatism, but is otherwise lively and active. She delights greatly in reading, and spends her time largely in that way.
Her husband emigrated from North Carolina soon after the first settlement of the county.
She is mild and quiet in disposition, bearing the frailties of advancing age and the pains of her afflictive complaint with a patient and cheerful spirit, and giving to the young and rising generation an example that they would do well to follow.
NOTE .- The above "ancestral" account has been given for several reasons:
1. It is very remarkable in itself.
2. It is wonderful that it should have been preserved.
3. The memory of Hannah Diggs is marvelous for one so old (eighty years) holding almost the entire record given above, names, dates and all. She has, however, a written record con- taining the account in full. Few families could match the sta- tistics furnished by Mrs. Diggs.
Elisha Garrett-father of the lady who furnished this sketch -graduated at Farmers' College, Ohio, with Lindley Ninde, Daniel Hough, etc. He became a lecturer on temperance and abolition; taught school at Williamsburg, Ind., Memphis, Tenn., etc .; till he married Hannah Wright and settled on a farm on Cabin Creek. He was elected County Auditor in 1858 or 1859. but died while in office, at Cleveland Water Cure, a few days before the breaking-out of the war. He was very active and enthusiastic in the work of temperance, education, politics, etc .; he was a Methodist, a Republican, a member of the I. O. O. F., etc. ; his age was thirty-eight, and he was buried in the Friends' Cemetery, on Cabin Creek; his wife, also, is dead, and his orphan daughter, Miss Lillie A. Garrett, resides with her aged grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Solomon Wright, near the month of Cabin Creek, and makes it her business to care for the wants of their old age, and to smooth their pathway to the tomb.
Ind., in 1818. They had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. Emily Jane was one of the students at the first opening of Earlham College, near Richmond, Ind. She had been for several years Clerk of Friends' Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, as also of Richmond Yearly Meeting: she was greatly beloved and deeply lamented.
Abram Heaston, noar Winchester, was born in Germany about 1755; came to America and to Virginia before he was grown; married Matilda Short; emigrated to Randolph County, Ind., in 1833, settling three miles south of Winchester, and pur- chasing land second hand. He was nearly seventy years old when he came to the West, and died in about a year (about 1834): his wife died in Virginia; he had seven children. Five of them came to Randolph County, viz., Evelina, David, Samuel, Eliza- beth and Virginia; he was a farmer and a tanner, and followed the business of a tanner till he came to this county; he was a Presbyterian and a Democrat. Abram Heaston was the maternal grandfather of William Turner, formerly residing near Salem, now near Camden. Jay Co., Ind.
Anna Maria Baker (Butterworth, Moore), Winchester, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1813; in 1832, she married James Butterworth, who was an Englishman, having been born in that country in 1810; he was a mechanic, and removed from Balti- more, successively to Pittsburgh, Dayton, Richmond, and finally. in 1836, to Winchester; they had four children, who are all liv. ing in Randolph County, three of the four being residents of Winchester. Mr. Butterworth was killed in 1845 by the bursting of a cannon. It had been used by one of the parties in the cam- paign of 1844, and had been taken and spiked and hid by the other party in a straw stack; and, upon being found several months afterward, in the efforts by Mr. B. to "unspike " the gun, it exploded, und Mr. B. lost his life. His widow married Mr. James Moore (elsewhere mentioned) soon after, in 1846. with whom she lived till his death, in 1875, and she now resides in Winchester with her son-in-law, W. W. Canada, Esq .. who married her youngest daughter, Carrie E. Moore.
Mr. Butterworth was an active business man, owning a saw- mill, a grist-mill, a carding machine, a wagon shop, etc. Mrs. Moore seems in good health and spirits, and looks back upon the checkered scenes of her varied life with mingled satisfaction and sorrow -- sorrow at the loss of two husbands, and satisfaction at seeing a large family grow up under her motherly hand to a life of activity, respectability and usefulness.
James Moore, Winchester, was born in North Carolina Janu- ary 1, 1809; removed to Virginia, and then to Fayette County, Ind., when a child about 1815. He used, when a mere lad, to spend much time with the Indians, tramping through the woods in their company, visiting their traps, often spending the night in their wigwams.
He removed to Jay County when that region received its early emigration (in 1837 or 1838), and, in 1845, he moved to Winchester, residing in or near that town until his death. in 1875. Mr. Moore was three times married, and was the father of nine or ten children, his third wife having, also, before her union with him. heeu the mother of four children by a previous mar- riage, forming in all a family of some fourteen children. Eleven of them are still living, as follows: Five in Randolph County, one in Jay County and one in Madison County, one in Fayette County. Ind., one in Kansas, one in Illinois and one in Texas. Mr. Moore was a gountine pioneer, and an active, successful hun- ter of the olden time. his exploits dating back, some of them, to his boyhood days. Before he was grown, he shot a huge bear in a high tree. The unwieldly creature fell through the branches to the ground, seeming to shake the earth as it struck. The weight of the giant monster was 600 pounds. His third wife was Ann Maria Baker (Butterworth), who is still living, some account of whom is given elsewhere.
Harvey Patty, late of Winchester, was born in Ohio; came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1835; married, first, Martha Jane Armfield, and then Malinda Maulsby; he had five children his first wife died in 1848, and he died in 1856. He kept store in Huntsville; afterward, he moved to Winchester and kept the
Emily Jane Harris, Winchester, wife of Dr. J. M. Harris, died at. Winchester January 15. 1881, aged fifty-two years; she was born in 1829, being the daughter of David and Jane Hampton, the latter still living at cighty-five years old. David Hampton came from Ohio (Warren County) to Randolph County, | Franklin House hotel; he finally went to Economy, and, while
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he was preparing to go to Kansas, he fell sick at Economy, and died there in 1856. He was an early Abolitionist; had been a Whig, was a strong temperance advocate, and every way an esti- mable and excellent man.
Ernestus Putman, father of Mrs. Edward Edger, was a resi- dent of Virginia, working at Harper's Ferry, Va., during the war of 1812, and came to New Madison, Darke Co., Ohio, from Washington City, in 1819; he was the father of ten children, six boys and four girls, eight of whom are still living-David, re- sides at Palestine, Darke Co., Ohio; Ernestus, resides in Colo- rado; John, resides in Texas; James, resides in Ohio: Aaron, resides in Indiana; Jane (Edger), resides in Winchester; Nancy (Blount), resides in Kansas, wife of Gen. James Blount; Eliza- beth (Kilpatrick), whose husband was an Abolitionist in Kansas during the early tronbles in that State, being intimate with John Brown; he was killed by Indians, being shot by them from an ambush and pierced by nine bullets.
Ernestus Putman, the younger, was a merchant in Winches- ter in partnership with Charles Avery for several years. Mr. Putman was active during the war in various ways, going Sonth several times in charge of boats with sanitary supplies and for bringing home returning convalescent soldiers: ho now resides in Colorado.
Mary (Martin) Reeder, Winchester, was born in 1798, April 16, in Hamilton County, Ohio; in 1798, she was married, in Warren Connty, Ohio, in 1815, to David Reeder, who died in 1821; she came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1822, and has re- sided here ever since that time, having been a widow for sixty- one years; she is the mother of three children, two of whom are now living; she early learned the tailoring business, working at it nearly all her life. Mrs. R. has resided in Winchester since 1822, or nearly sixty years.
Every house now standing in Winchester has been built since she came to the town. She lived for a long time (thirty-one years) in a log house; and for the last twenty years in her present resi- dence, and all that time on the same lot, on South Main street, on the same premises with her son, Martin A. Reeder. The building east of Riley Hiatt's hardware store was (part of it) built abont the same time that Mrs. Reeder settled in the town.
She is still hale and strong, though more than eighty-four years old, having her sight and hearing good, but failing considerably in her memory. She has been an earnest and energetic pioneer, and retains the plain and sturdy simplicity of her early years. She spends much of her time with her son, Martin A. Reeder, who has built a neat residence upon the same premises. They two have resided in the town longer by far than any others now living.
Peter Reinheimer, Winchester, was born in Schuylkill County, Penn., in 1815; came to Fairfield County. Ohio, in 1837, and to Germantown, Ind., in 1838, and to Now Paris, Ohio, in the same year; took a horseback trip to Philadelphia in November, 1839; returned to Centerville, Ind., in March, 1840: married Elizabeth Irwin in 1841; went to New Paris, Ohio, in 1840, and moved to Winchester, Ind., in 1865, which has been his place of residence up to this time.
His business has been as follows: Chair shop. in New Balti inore, Ohio, one year, 1837; journeyman, in Germantown. Ind., and New Paris, Ohio, 1838 and 1839; chair shop, in Centerville, Ind., in 1840; chair shop, in New Paris, Ohio, from 1840 to 1849; livery business, from 1849 to 1851; grocer, etc., from 1851 to 1865; hotel-keeper in Winchester. from 1865 to 1882.
Mr. R. is a Republican; his father and uncles were all Democrats; he gave his first vote for Van Buren, in 1836, but voted for Harrison in 1840, and has been a Whig and a Repub- lican ever since. Mr. R. has a fine reputation as a landlord, and his business has been thriving and prosperous. He has had eleven children. eight sons and three daughters; seven are living, five sons and two daughters, and four are married.
Gideon Shaw was born March 22, 1821, in Warren County, Ohio; he came with his father, Joseph Shaw, to Greensfork Township, Randolph County, Ind .. in 1831, occupying the south- easternmost tract in the township and county; he worked as a farmer till twenty-five years old, moving to Spartansburg in
1847, and entering the stock business with Ralph M. Pomeroy, Pomeroy furnishing the capital and Shaw doing the work. They also put up a saw-mill and ran it for a time. In 1852, he bought ont the store of Henry Hill, sold the mill, and before very long took the goods to Iowa, in 1855. In 1857, he returned to Spartansburg, and, in 1865, moved to Winchester, which has been his residence ever since. Since 1857, his sole business has been that of a loan broker.
He married Clarkey Corbitt, daughter of Richard Corbitt, be- fore 1847; she died in 1848. In 1852, he married Minerva (Elison) Ireland, who is still living. He has had four children, all living. In politics, he was a Whig till Know-Nothingism arose. Since then he has been a Democrat. At one time, he was a Methodist, but does not belong now; has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for twenty-six years. For twenty years past, he has done an average business of $50,000 a year, never having been sued in his life.
Mr. Shaw, when young, had only eighteen days' schooling (when about eighteen years old); when twenty-five years old, he could not write his name; his first wife was his teacher, and by her he obtained an education sufficient for business. Mr. Shaw says that forty-eight years ago. he first saw Thomas Ward, who came at that time, being only about fourteen years old, to Mr. Shaw's home, riding on a beautiful bay pony, buying coon-skins and such like. Mr. Shaw is now a prominent citizen, reputed wealthy, and a leader in the political party to which for twenty- eight years he has belonged.
W. W. Smith was born in Tennessee in 1811; came to Ohio in 1819, and to Randolph County, Ind., in 1822, and has been a resident of the county for sixty years. He married Lonisa Elzroth in 1840; they have had nine children, seven of whom are living, all grown and three married. He was a farmer's son and is a farmer still: he traveled extensively while young; he held the position of Deputy Sheriff during the terms of Sheriffe Gar- rett, Irvin and Forkner, and has been Constable for twenty-three years; closing this part of his career in 1863. His life has been an active and varied one, and he still enjoys a good measure of health and strength.
Jesse Way, son of John Way, blacksmith, was born in South Carolina (Marlboro District) in 1808; he came to Randolph County in 1817, married Fanny Diggs in 1829, and Lucinda Turner in 1833; he has had eleven children, three only living; he has been a farmer, a merchant and a business man, a clerk and a boarding-house keeper. At one time, he was a prominent citizen, being for three years a member of the Board of Directors of the State Bank of Indiana. But he was unfortunate in pork speculations, the bane and ruin of so many dealers in those times, and lost his property. He has been all his life, however, estimable and upright and trustworthy and highly respected. He was for twelve years (1833 to 1845), a merchant in Winchester, he has been a Friend, an Abolitionist (in early times a Whig), in later days, a Republican. He still resides in Winchester, that place having been his home for abont fifty years.
Mr. Way has been a resident of Randolph County for about sixty-five years, and has witnessed, in the duration of his own life, what strauge and mighty transformations have taken place from a deep and hideons and far-away wilderness to the land of won- drous beauty which our eyes now behold. The number who have dwelt for sixty-five years in this-Randolph County -- is small indeed, and growing rapidly less; and. erelong, the last pioneer will have been called home, and that noble and hardy band will live only in the memory of their posterity, or will, iu many, alas! how many cases, be utterly and forever forgotten.
Robert Way, son of John Way and brother of Jesse Way, was born in South Carolina in 1803, and came to White River. Randolph Co., Ind .. in 1816, with Paul W., Henry H., William and Robert Way and William Diggs, in his fourteenth year. Robert Way married Judith Wilson, daughter of George T. Wil- son (see statement) in 1826, they had five children, only two now living; he died in 1876, at the age of seventy-three years.
He was by occupation a blacksmith; in religion, a Friend, and afterward, a Methodist; in politics, s Whig, and then an Abolitionist, and still afterward, a Republican; he was a man of
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steady, reliable habits, moral, upright, trustworthy and an honor to his business and to the community. His widow, Mrs. Judith Way, still resides in Winchester, where she has been living for forty-five years. She is a woman of active temperament, en- joys good health, and is highly esteemed by her neighbors and friends. (See Reminiscences, by Judith Way).
Sylvanus White was born in 1834 in Randolph County, Ind., being the son of Jacob A. White; he has been a plasterer by trade since he was sixteen years old. He was in the army four years five months and ten days, enlisting in the Eighth Indiana Infantry for the three-months' service; then in the same regi- ment for three years, and veteranizing at Indianola, Texas. He was at home but twice during the whole war-once on veteran furlough and once at another time. He was never wounded and never lost a day's duty. He was a private and for two years was a color-bearer. He married Jennie Seagraves in 1866, and they have four children, all living; in politics, he is a Repub- lican.
John W. Williamson was born in 1804, in Frederick County, Md .; he removed to Pennsylvania about 1820, his father having died shortly before that time; in 1824, he went to Kentucky and became a dry goods clerk, continuing for three years; he studied law, but his health failed, and he was obliged to give up the profession; he kept for a time a hotel in Proble County, Ohio; taught school eighteen months near Dayton, Ohio, and shortly after that married his wife. They removed to Abington, and re- sided also at Dalton and at Hagerstown. At one time, he repre- sented Wayne County in the Legislature. In 1851, Mr. W. re- moved to Buena Vista, Randolph County.
He received, in 1853, an appointment as railroad agent at Winchester for the Indianapolis & Bellefontaine Railroad. He kept this position for fourteen years, till 1867, about which time he was chosen Recorder of Randolph County, and, after the ex- piration of his torm, he continued in the office as Deputy with Recorder Brown, till his health failed. His disease was con- sumption, to which at length he was forced to yield, falling in death May 9, 1877.
He was active in business and faithful and trustworthy in every relation of life; he lived respected and died lamented. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, Preble County, Ohio, in 1830, and lived a member of that body forty-seven years. He was a Master Mason, joining Winchester Lodge, No. 56, March 18, 1854, and the Royal Arch Chapter, June 24. 1857. His remains were interred at the Maxville Cemetery; his age was seventy-two years, five months and twenty-five days. In politics, he was an energetic and enthusiastic Republican.
ALEXANDER ALMONRODE.
Alexander Almonrode, & farmer, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., August 16, 1827. He is the son of George and Margaret Almourode, Bud is the ninth of a family of ten children, of whom four are living. His parents were born in Germany, and came to the United States early in life and settled in Virginia, Rockbridge County. They moved to Preble County, Ohio, in the year 1834, where his father died the year following : his mother came to this county in 1838, and settled near where Alexander now lives, where she died in 1865. Alexander came to this county with his mother and younger brother at the age of eleven years. They settled in the woods upon an eighty-acre traot, and they three, assisted by s few of the older brothers, cleared up a very desirable form. His educational advantages were very much limited, but he acquired a sufficiency to transact all business in his line. His schooling was confined to the subscription schools of his day, which were in a very primitive state. He was married to Miss Delilah Jane Pierce July 4, 1850. She is the daughter of Thomas and Lydis Pierce, and was born in this county September 21, 1831. She was raised in this county, and received & limited education from the common distriot schools. Mr. and Mrs. Almon- rode settled on the farm where they now reside in 1850, soon after their mar- riage. At that time, there were eighty acres of land with no improvements with the exception of a deadening of six acres. They battled against poverty for a number of years, but finally through industry and frugality have secured A beautiful farm of 280 acres, with 140 under a high state of cultivation. This farm is well improved, being underdrained and cultivated scientifically. The farm buildings are both ornamental and convenient, of modern architect- ure, and beautifully located in & grove of forest trees, s sketch of which is given in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Almonrode are the parents of ten children. The lives of only four of them have been spared. The majority of their de- ocased children died in infancy. Their living children are as follows : An- thony R., born July 24, 1852; Thomas A., February 12, 1857; Luther F., February 20, 1865 ; Sarah E. B., September 9, 1869. Anthony and Thomas
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