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Lieutenant Coles was of a noble character. He was always ready to go where duty called, regardless of danger or consequences. He was of a most courteous, affectionate disposition; and his memory will long be cherished in the neart of hearts of all who knew him. He was as brave and chivalrous a sol- died as ever wore the blue. It seems a pity that his generous young life should be extinguished under such painful circumstances.
Thomas Waller Terry
was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, February 9, 1841, and died at Camp Burnside, Kentucky, March 3, 1864. At the breaking out of the Rebellion. he was a stu- dent at Marietta College. He was under age, but felt that call of patriotism which stirred in the breasts of so many of our noble sons, to serve his country in her hour of need. Like a dutiful son, he telegraphed to his father, "The boys are going; may I go too. ' The answer flashed back instantly, "Go, but don't get shot in the back." He volunteered in Company G. First O. V. Infantry, April 16, 1861. After serving till June 11, 1861, he was discharged to receive an ap- pointment as Cadet in the Military Academy at West Point, and entered at once upon the duties that he might the better be fitted to serve his country.
After having been there nearly two years. he wrote to his father asking his consent to resign. and return to active service in the army. He was urged to remain and graduate, but he still insisted on resigning.
In one of his letters to his father. he says: "Father. I wish you to give me your consent to resign. as I cannot study here while I know my country needs my services in the field, and I think it is my duty to go, as it is every other young man's. While I write. our very Capitol is being threatened by rebels, and I wish to be one who can say in after years with pride, 'I helped to defend it.' I must go."
He left West Point in June, 1863, and came home. There not being any new regiment forming in this state at the time, he enlisted in Co. I the First Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, as a private October 20,, 1863. He was. on November 23, 1863, made Second Liontenant. The command was ordered in January, 1864, to move from Camp Nelson, Ky., to Camp Burnside, Ky., imme- diately. The commanding General S. S. Fry appointed him Acting Assistant Quartermaster, and placed him upon his staff. He drew his mules, some five hundred, part of which had been broken and the remainder young and un- broken. The drivers too were about as green as the mules. He loaded up and left the second day after receiving the order. The weather was cold and wet, but he put his command through much sooner than was expected, and was high- ly complimented by the General commanding. The supplies being very short, he was compelled to return for more. He made three trips through the mud. rain and snow, on the last of which he was sick all the way with a very severe cold. Typhoid fever set in, and he breathed his last in a neat ce- dar cabin, built by the officers and the men expressly for him. on the banks of the Cumberland River. March 3, 1864. His last words were: "Forward. March!" showing that he thought he was at the post of duty. and ready to go forward in the service of his country. He loved his country more than he loved his life. His remains were sent home and interred in the family lot in Ports- mouth's Greenlawn. The regiment of which he had been a member passed reso- lutions highly honorable to him as a soldier and an officer. So did the officers of the Division with which he was connected. They say: "His efficiency and
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energy as an officer, his social and genial disposition, his honorable deport- ment, integrity and patriotism, made him a much-loved favorite in this com- mand. The patriotism which caused him to leave West Point before graduat- ing, to enter the service of his country and die thus early in life, affords an ex- ample of disinterested patriotism worthy of emulation." This was signed by Brigadier-General S. S. Fry. His classmates at West Point passed complimen- tary resolutions. They say that by his "gentlemanly bearing, and many social qualities, he had won the respect of all his companions;" and that "had he lived, lie would have made one of the brightest ornaments of his profes- sion." His classmate and roommate at West Point, in sending the resolutions of the class, and their determination to erect a monument to his memory, thus expresses himself: "I was his roommate and intimate friend for a year, and during the whole of that time, I always found him high toned, honorable, and generous to a fault. I could not have loved a brother better than I loved him." Much more might be quoted from resolutions and letters, testifying to his high and honorable character, his integrity and patriotism, and fidelity to duty. We will close this imperfect sketch by a brief quotation from a letter written by his bereaved father to his classmate at West Point, soon after his death. "Thus passed from earth, and I hope and trust to heaven, a true patriot, a true friend, and a beloved son, one that thought more of his country than he did of his own life."
John R. T. Barnes
was born near Waverly, Ohio, May 17, 1830. His father was William Barnes and his mother's maiden name was Nancy Ann Talbott. His father was an Adjutant in the war of 1812 and at the time of his death in 1846 was a Major- General of the Ohio Militia, appointed by the Legislature. His grand-father, John Barnes, was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. and held a Lieutenant's commission in the 7th Virginia. The family lived on a farm one mile south of Waverly at the time of John R.'s birth, and till he was fourteen years of age, when his parents took up their residence in that village. As a boy, he worked on a farm, hunted or fished as boys of the time did. He had a common school education only. His parents were devout members of the Methodist Church and he was a member of the same, from boyhood. His mother died January 5, 1846, and his father the day following. John entered the store of his elder brother, William T. Barnes as a clerk. He became a part- ner in 1842 and remained in the business ten years when he sold out to his brother, William, and went to Chillicothe, where he clerked for William Car- son for some six years.
In 1858, he went to Portsmouth and became a clerk for William Elden. Here he formed many fast friendships among the men of his own age. In Portsmouth, he had connected with the Presbyterian church and lived up to his profession. When the war broke out, he was fired with the war fever and on April 16, 1861, enlisted in Company G First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, for three months. He wanted some of his young friends to go with him and went to Waverly and secured as volunteers with him Abisha Downing who afterwards become Major in the 73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Asa F. Couch who afterwards became a Captain in the 73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Gordon F. Lauman, severely wounded at Vienna, Virginia. With these young men he followed the Company to Cincinnati where he and they joined it. They were sent to Alexandria, Va., and by oversight, or a blunder, of the commanding officers, a train was sent forward on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in- stead of having the country scoured by scouts to develop the enemy. Near Vienna, the train of flat cars loaded with soldiers, moving in advance of skir- mishers, in rounding a curve, was shot into by a rebel batterv. in ambush. in Company G alone, six were killed besides those killed from other companies. Barnes was mortally wounded. His left elbow was shot away and he received internal injuries. He was sent back on a flat car and died in one half hour af- ter reaching camp. His life was needlessly sacrificed, as were those of the others killed in the same encounter. He and his companions who lost their lives at the same time, were first buried in a field by the roadside between Washington and Alexandria, near a little bay just where the Orange and Alexandria Railroad bears away from the Potomac, toward Orange C. H. The official record says he was interred at Camp Lincoln, on the Loudon and Hamp-
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shire Railroad. He was buried in a coffin, the only one which could be obtained in Alexandria. The others were buried in their blankets His brother, James Q. Barnes, after the death of his brother, went on and joined Company G and served with it, until it was mustered out, in place of his brother, without being enlisted, or mustered, and without pay. He was in the Battle of Bull Run. July 21, 1861. This same brother became First Lieutenant of Company D, 73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was made Captain of Company I same regiment, September 25, 1862. He was wounded October 29, 1863, in the battle of Lookout Valley and was mustered out December 31, 1864.
Thus perished in his youth, one of the most noble hearted of the young men of our country. He was of honorable ancestry, of pure morals, and led a correct, upright life. He was a model among young men .. The figure of the soldier on the top of the Soldiers' Monument in Tracy Square, Portsmouth, Ohio, was intended to represent him. His life was lost by the want of military knowledge, on the part of his commander, like thousands of others in the same war, and in other wars, but it cannot be said to have been wasted, because his noble example and those of his companions who met a like fate will be remem- bered while the Republic lasts.
Walter P. Stewart
was one of the young men of Portsmouth, Ohio, whose life was sacrificed for his country. He was the son of William Stewart and Jeannette Bryden, his wife, born in 1845, near Raven Rock in Washington Township. He spent his whole life in the vicinity of Portsmouth. He enlisted in Battery L. First Ohio Light Artillery, August 21, 1863, at the age of eighteen. He was in all the battles in which that battery participated until October 8, 1864, when he was captured near Harrisonburg, Virginia, and taken to Libby Prison. He was ex- changed April 11, 1865, but his confinement in prison ruined his health, and his father procured his discharge June 26, 1865, at New Creek, West Virginia. and took him home, but only to die there. The whole battery was discharged and mustered out July 4, 1865. He died July 9, 1865. only five days after the battery was mustered out. He was, at enlistment, a handsome youth, fair, florid and pleasant to look upon, and his life and character were as attractive as his personal appearance. The grief of his aged father at his untimely death, when all were rejoicing on the return of the soldiers, was pathetic. He visited his grave daily and kept it in order as long as he lived. The memory of this land- some and brave young soldier is precious to all who remember him, and to the coming generation who will read this work. The writer, who was a soldier of the civil war, himself, commends the example of this noble youth who gave his life, a sacrifice to his country. John R. T. Barnes was the first man to die in the service of his country from Scioto County June 17, 1801 and Walter P. Stewart was the last. The memory of his life will be cherished while the Re- public endures.
SPANISH WAR, 1898. Company H, 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Company organized at Portsmouth, Ohio. Called into service by Governor of Ohio, April 25. 1898. Marched to Camp Bushnell. Columbus, Ohio April 28. 1898. Mustered in U. S. service, May 9. 1898. Left Camp Bushnell. May 14. 1898, via Big Four R. R. en route for Camp Geo. H. Thomas, Chickamauga Park. Ga. Arrived at Camp Geo. H. Thomas, May 17, 1898. Left Camp Geo. H. Thom- as, Ga., for Newport News. Va., July 21, 1898 via C. & O. Railroad. Arrived at Newport News, Va., July 25. 1898. Embarked from dock at Newport News, Va .. on lighter. July 28, 1898 for U. S. Transport St. Paul. Boarded U. S. Transport St. Paul at 5 p. m., July 28, 1898. Left harbor at Ft. Monroe, Va., July 29, 1898, at 6 a. m., en route for Island of Puerto Rico. Arrived off coast at Arroyo Aug- ust 2, 1898, at 4 p. m. Embarked on lighter for shore August 4, 1898, at 6 p. m .. landing at Arroyo. Occupied Guayama from August 5. 1898. to October 5. 1898; Caguas, October 7, 1898 to October 27, 1898. Embarked for U. S. from San Juan, October 29, 1898 on U. S. Transport Chester. Arrived at New York, N. Y., November 4, 1898. Left New York same date, via B. & O. R. R., for Washing- ton, D. C. Arrived at Washington, D. C., November 5, 1898, 10 a. m. Received by President Mckinley 1 p. m. Left Washington, D. C., 4 p. m. of same date via
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B. & O. R. R., for Columbus, Ohio. Arrived at Columbus, Ohio, November 5, 1898, at 11 a. m. Oral furlough granted from November 6, 1898 to January 4. 1899, was Telegraphic instructions A. G. O. by Melvin W. Rowell, 1st Lieut. 5th U. S. Cavalry, Chief Mustering Office, Columbus, Ohio.
The following is a list of officers and privates when the company was called into United States service:
R. S. Prichard. Captain; J. W. Smith, Second Lieutenant; Forest Briggs, First Sergeant; C. C. Wilhelm, Second Sergeant; Andrew Foster, Third Ser- geant: W. Trimmer, Fourth Sergeant; R. C. Newman, Fifth Sergeant; Charles McGuire, Corporal; George Oldfield, Corporal; Joseph Bratt, Corporal; C. M. Searl, Corporal; Harvey Wills, Corporal; Charles Reed, Corporal; E. L. Pat- terson, Corporal; John Getz, Musician; Sam Williams, Musician; B. J. Alger, Frank Alger, Preston Anderson, B. S. Andre, Perry Adams. Fred Armstrong, Harry Adams. Mont Bybee, Al Barber, E. M. Bumgardner, John Birmingham, E. S. Boren, Charles J. Bush, Matt Bush, Francis Bush, Charles Barr, David Armstrong, George A. Batterson, William Cooper, Joseph Crull, R. W. Calvert, W. L. Cole, Caswell Chapman, V. A. Cunningham, H. W. Donaldson, R. M. Dav- idson, L. E. Distel, Asberry Davidson. Daniel H. Dodge. D. C. Davis. Mitchell Evans, Kinney Funk, Robert George, O. B. Gilbert, Ed Hicks, Evans Harris, J.
Haubert, Charles E. Hood, George E. Hood, S. E. Johnson, William Johnson. David Johnson. Wells H. Jones, C. M. Kinney, J. W. Kinney, William Kelley, Ike Krick, E. K. Mckeown, Ned McGuire, Henry Morrison, J. L. McMonagle, W. D. McMonagle, H. D. Mole, Alex. Meade, Charles E. Molster, Harry W. Mathiott, A. M. Messer, G. B. Moore, R. N. Matthews, W. A. Masters, J. E. Monk, George Mann, James McDaniel, Charles Noel, William Peebles, W. P. Reed, A. G. Rein- ert, C. E. Reinert, Oscar Rodgers. George E. Rowe, Joseph Redman. J. B. Scott, W. C. Sturgill, Byron Schriver, Walter Stone, J. F. Stewart, J. W. Shela, James Skelton, M. W. Thompson, Floyd Thurman, Charles Taylor, Joseph Turner, W. E Thomas, Edward Wells, Henry Winter, Charles Whitman, E. R. Wheeler, John Youngman, Edward Zeek.
The following were the promotions during the service of the Company: James W. Smith, Captain; Kinney P. Funk, First Lieutenant; Russell C. New- man, First Sergeant; Samuel A. Williams, Sergeant; George G. Oldfield, Ser- geant; Denver Crull, Corporal; George A. Batterson. Corporal: Asberry W. Davidson, Corporal; John L. McMonagle, Corporal; Byron D. Schriver, Cor- poral; William P. Reed, Corporal; Charles S. Noel, Corporal; Floyd E. Thur- man, Corporal; Roy N. Matthews. Artificer; Fred M. Armstrong, Musician: Wil- liam D. McMonagle, Wagoner. Those who died in the service were: Daniel H. Dodge, Elbert L. Patterson, Henry M. Morrison, Kurt Sparks and Forrest Briggs.
Daniel Hezekiah Dodge,
the son of George Lyons Dodge and Sarah Louise (Tibbs) Dodge, was born De- cember 24, 1875. on the Dodge homestead farm in Madison Township, Scioto County, Ohio. He grew up in the County and attended the common schools. He entered the employ of Peter Brushart as Assistant Manager of his company store in Pike County, Kentucky and remained there until the fall of 1897, when he came to Portsmouth and entered a local business college and left his studies there to respond to his country's call.
He enlisted in the 4th O. V. I. Spanish War and died in Guyama, Porto Rico, August 10, 1898. His remains were brought home and interred in Green- lawn October 31, 1898.
Elbert Lee Patterson
was born near McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio, January 15, 1881. His father was James L. Patterson, at one time "Editor of the Times" at Ports- mouth. Ohio. His mother died when he was three years old. He came to Portsmouth in 1893, when his father took charge of the "Portsmouth Times." He graduated from the Portsmouth High School at the age of 16, and for one year was an efficient reporter on his father's paper, "The Daily Times." Elbert Patterson was a member of Co. H 14th Regiment "Ohio National Guard" and when the Company was called into the Spanish War, he left Portsmouth with it April 26, 1898 He went with the regiment to Camp Chickamaugua, and af- terward embarked with it from Newport News for Porto Rico, where his regi-
DANIEL H. DODGE. [PAGE 256.]
FORREST BRIGGS. [PAGE 257.]
HENRY M. MORRISON.
[PAGE 257.]
ELBERT PATTERSON. [PAGE 256.]
MEMBERS OF CO. E, 4TH O. V. I., SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE.
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ment arrived August 1, 1898. He was taken sick and it was apparent that he would not live to return home. His father was notified, left at once for Puerto Rico, and reached Ponce, the morning of his death, just 40 miles from Guyama where he was lying. His father did not arrive until after his death, but brought his body home. Elbert Patterson was a young man of excellent morals and beloved and respected by all who knew him. He died October 16, 1898, at Guyama, Puerto Rico.
Henry McCall Morrison
was born January 19, 1879, on the Morrison farm in Nile Township. He was the eldest child of James Hiner Morrison and Ara McCall, his wife. He ob- tained his education at the Elm Tree school. His parents moved to' Portsmouth in March, 1895. He worked awhile in one of the shoe factories and then sold merchandise for a Cincinnati house. He enlisted in Company H, 14th O. N. G., in February, 1896. When the Spanish-American War broke out, he with his Company enlisted in Company H, 4th O. V. I. for two years. He left Ports- mouth, April 26, 1898. The regiment went first to Chickamauga and then to Puerto Rico. He was in excellent health until September 17, when he was taken with typhoid fever and went to the hospital. He left Puerto Rico Oc- tober 21, 1898, on the hospital ship. Missouri, and died at two o'clock p. m. on the 26th of October, 1898, and was buried at sea, at 8 p. m. His physician informed him he would die. He took the announcement most calmly and hero- ically and gave the physician the address of his parents and friends and passed away. He was a youth of great promise, admired and loved by all who knew him.
Forrest Cecil Briggs,
the son of Joseph and Ermina (Thurman) Briggs, was born in Clay Township, Scioto County, Ohio, July 21, 1872. He was the eldest child, and had two sis- ters, Cora and Aletha. He was reared on the Briggs home farm, attended school in the country until he was eleven years of age and worked with his father on the farm during vacation. He then attended the Portsmouth schools for five years. He did not complete the High School course, but entered the River City Business College in 1885, and completed a course in bookkeeping and stenography, after which he was employed in the Norfolk and Western Rail- way Office. He became a member of Company "H", 14th Ohio National Guards July 2 and served five years. He was with the Regiment as First Sergeant dur- ing the Logan County Riots. At the breaking out of the Spanish-American War he was mustered in the United States service with his Company as First Sergeant. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant August 2, 1898, on merits. His Company was transferred at once to Chickamauga, where his health be- gan failing. It was soon ordered to Puerto Rico where the service and climate bore heavily upon his weak constitution. He was taken sick October 27, with typhoid fever, and was transferred to Fort Hamilton, New York, where he died November 10, 1898. His father reached him three days before his death, and in his delirium he was performing his duties as an officer. 'His commission as Second Lieutenant was sent him on the 2nd of August, but was never presented to him. His body was brought to Portsmouth, and he was buried with mili- tary honors on Sunday afternoon November 13, 1898, in Greenlawn Cemetery. He seemed to have an inborn taste for a soldier's life, for when a boy he took great interest in the Portsmouth High School Cadets. He had been a member of the Sixth Street Methodist Church since the age of fourteen, and attended the Sabbath School of that Church regularly.
He was a young man with a most kindly and generous disposition, al- ways seeking to do something for others. He was a model youth in every respect, and died a Christian soldier. He had the affection and respect of all of his comrades. His funeral was one of the largest ever held in Scioto County.
CHAPTER VII.
THE CENSUSES AND TAX DUPLICATES OF SCIOTO COUNTY.
Population of Scioto County, Ohio, by Minor Civil Divisions 1810 to 1900.
TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES AND WARDS.
1800
1810
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
County total
3,399
5,750
8,740 640
913
18,428 1,648
24,297 1,751
29,302 2,203
33,511 2,211
2,337
2,158
So. Webster village.
288
174
401
650
1,094
1,410
2,093
2,948
1,667
Otway village
484
696
872
896
927
1,148
1,102
1,764
New Boston
507
582
965
974
2,345
2,513
1,882
1,935
1,751
1,332
Haverhill
Harrison Tp.
686
1,102
1,486
1,032
1,325
1,340
1,269
Jefferson Tp
258
469
566
578
840
1,227
559
919
1,008
915
Madison Tp ..
591
837
830
1,367
1,583
1,578
1,852
1,608
1,664
Morgan Tp.
369
265
280
686
758
1,019
934
1,035
Nile Township
524
725
860
1,004
1,176
1.473
1,905
2,018
1,862
Upper Lower.
879
917
1,015
1,674
1,873
1,965 480
2,274
2,401
2,500
Wheelersburg.
88
504
494
358
Rarden Township:
1,583
Rarden village Rush Townshipt
638
778
1,032
Union Township
541
322
674
575
605
1,070
552
1,168
1,282
1,104
Lombardville.
Henley
Valley Township
724
951
1,018
1,039
Lucasville.
317
542
902
1,105
1,554
1,924
1,481
1,074
918
Washington Tp.
505
690
653
706
956
1,085
1,131
1,223
1,269
Wayne Township.
1,068
1,157
4,230
6,432
10,592
11,321
12,394
17,870
Portsmouth City
527
1,063
4,011
6,268
10,592
11,321
12,394
17,870
First Ward
2,240
1,773
1,688
1,719
Second 4
2,309
2,050
2,112
Third
1,412
Fourth
1.924
Fifth
2,727
Sixth
4,023
Seventh "
3,953
Franklin Township
117
Seal?
6 6
379
Upper !!
496
Scioto
" Formed from Brush Creek Township since 1890.
1 Formed from Union Township 1867.
# Formed from Jefferson Township 1860.
{ Part to Brush Creek Township, and balance to Pike County,
! Part to Upper tier of Townships in Scioto County, and balance to Lawrence County.
{ Probably Vernon, and entered there in this table.
(258)
35,377
40,981
Bloom Township
205
200
323
445
Brush Creek Tp.
274
Clay Tp.
Green Tp
Buena Vista.
354
Porter Township Sciotoville
296 939
443
Vernon Township
2,252
1,760
1,552
1,476
1,764
2,479
1,935
2,013
2,937
1,554
2 405
2,437
307
396
398
1,844
11,192
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TAX DUPLICATES.
Tables Showing Total Population and Increase.
Scioto County.
Portsmouth.
Census year.
Population.
Number.
Per cent.
1810
3,339
1820
5,740
2,411
72.2
1820
527
1830
8,740
2,990
52.0
1830
1,063
536
101.7
1810
11,192
2,452
28.1
*1840
1,844
781
73.0
1850
18,428
7,236
64.7
1850
4,011
2,167
117 5
1860
24,297
5,869
31.9
1860
6,268
2,257
56.3
1870
29,302
5,005
20.6
1870
10,592
4,324
68.0
1880
33,511
4,209
14.4
1880
11,321
729
6.9
1890
35,377
1,866
5.6
1890
12,394
1,073
9.5
1900
40,981
5,604
15.8
1900
17,870
5,476
44.2
"Not shown separately from Wayne Township.
Increase-Urban and Suburban
Census year.
County.
Portsmouth.
Balance of county.
Cens. y'r.
County. Portsmouth.
Per. Cent.
Bal. Co.
Per Ct.
1820
2,411
527
1,884
1830
2,990
536
2,454
1840
2,452
781
1,671
1840
11,192
1,844
16.4
9,348
83.6
1860
5,869
2,257
3,612
1860
24,297
6,268
25.8
18,029
74.2
1870
5,005
4,324
681
1870
29,302
10,592
36.2
18,710
63.8
1880
4,209
729
3,480
1880
33,511
11,321
33.8
22,190
66.2
1890
1,866
1,073
793
1890
35,377
12,394
.35.0
22,983
65.
1900
5,604
5,476
128
1900
40,981
17,870
43.6
23,111
56.4
Tax Duplicates of the Town of Portsmouth Between the Years 1815 and 1840.
- It is believed in the first years of the town it had its own duplicate, or was represented in the Tax Duplicate of Wayne township.
In 1825 the town taxes collected were $205.48. The only information bearing on this subject will be the Budgets of the town and city of Portsmouth, to which reference is had.
Tax Duplicates of Scioto County Prior to 1840.
No copies of the Tax Duplicates of Scioto county prior to 1840 can be found. There are none in the State Auditor's office, and none in the office of the County Auditor. Doubtless they were sold for waste paper. We can now learn nothing in regard to them except what can be found in the Commissioners' Journals.
In 1816 the amount of the County Tax Duplicate collected was $1,600.
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