A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 97

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612

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The affairs of the mill company were closed and since that time he was not engaged in any business up to the time of his death, which took place, June 17, 1869. His wife preceded him a few years, her death taking place September 21, 1864. Both died at the homestead on Rose Ridge and were buried from All Saint's church of which " they were members. Their children are: Henry, born October II, 1829; William Oscar, born September 10, 1831, and died September 11, 1832; Margaret K., born June 8, 1833; Thomas F. C., born Oc- tober 26, 1835; Wyllys, born March 18, 1838; Mary Clingman, born June 4, 1840; William Foote, born February 24, 1843; Aaron Kinney, born May 10, 1845: Eunice Foote, born September 19, 1847; Faneuil, deceased, and Loren. Nine of the eleven children are now living ( 1900.)

Mr. Hall was a man of affairs while in Portsmouth. In 1829 and 1830, he was elected a fence viewer in Wayne Township. Only the most prominent men in town were elected to that office. He was a Mason and a member of Aurora Lodge. In 1839, he was elected town treasurer. In 1844, he was a director of the Portsmouth In- surance Company. In 1850, he was a school trustee of the town. In 1860, he participated in the great Union meeting held at the Biggs House on January 16. He was a Whig and a Republican, a first class business man of excellent judgment and great force of character.

Octavo V. Hall

was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, August 18, 1813. His occupation was that of a brick layer and plasterer. He was one of a family of three sons and two daughters. He built the John Neill house on Third and Market streets. His father was Abraham Hall, who

DAVID HAHN.

THE LAST OF THE STAGE DRIVERS, BORN 1810-DIED 1894.

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built a house on the site of that occupied by John Dice on Second street, the timber for which was cut in the rear of the premises on Fourth street. The house was moved away many years ago to give place to the present residence of John Dice. Abraham Hall was a stone and brick mason, and made headstones and monuments for the cemetery.

Octavo Hall married Rebecca Sappington, September 22, 1832. She was born June 24, 1807, and died February 18, 1887. Her fath- er was James Sappington of Maryland, who came to the Northwest Territory in 1795. He was a ship carpenter, and had a wife, three daughters, and two sons,-Thomas and Elias. Thomas enlisted in the war of 1812, and died on his way to Sandusky. He was a civil engineer. Elias died while living in Sandusky.

James S. and several others who afterwards became prominent as early settlers of this vicinity, came down the Ohio river in keel boats. They floated to the mouth of the Scioto river and then cordelled their boats up the Scioto to one-half mile above the site of Piketon, where they located. There James Sappington entered 168 acres of land, and in 1797 sold it to Sargent and located three miles below Pike- ton. The children of Octavo V. Hall and Rebecca, his wife, were : Mary Francis, deceased ; James Hall, deceased; Marietta Kendall ; Josiah, deceased ; Maria, deceased, wife of Judge Martin Crain ; Cor- nelia, deceased; and J. Clark Hall. He and all his family are buried on the home place near Piketon, with the exception of Mrs. Crain.

He was a member of the Whig party, and a member of the origi- nal Methodist Congregation of Portsmouth. On June 19, 1838, he was appointed Deputy Town Marshal. In 1840, he was an Overseer of the Poor in Wayne Township. In 1841, he was a Health Officer for the Third ward, and in 1842, he was elected a councilman for three years from the Third ward. He went to California in Febru- ary, 1850, and returned in 1851. He died February 6, 1851.

David Hahn

was born April 4, 1810, at Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virgin- ia, a descendant of a German family, which settled there before the Revolution. At the age of fourteen he left home and being large for his age became a stage driver, driving four horses over the Al- leghany Mountains. David Hahn was a born driver and drove over all the principal lines of the United States. He had a knack of managing horses-the gift of nature. The horses all behaved for him. If his shade could come back and mount the Seventh street fire engine and take the lines, the horses would go off like lambs. He was gifted to train animals and did the training for the famous Van Amberg, and for the old time Stickney circus. He was a great friend of Dan Rice and was identified with the floating palaces that in

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former days traversed the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. His secret in animal training was in their diet and this secret went to the grave with him.

David Hahn came to Portsmouth when a young man, and be- came a driver on the stage line between Portsmouth and Columbus and stuck to the job until the stage line was discontinued. He was the last survivor among the Jehus of the old stage coaching days in Portsmouth. His stage horn has waked the morning echoes many a morning before the sign of the "Golden Lamb" on Front street. But David Hahn was something more than a stage driver. He was a patriot. June 20, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Battery L First Ohio Light Artillery. He gave his age as forty years when in fact he was fifty-two. What might have been expected, and what usually happens in such cases, happened in his case. December 4, 1863, he was discharged on account of physical disability.

At the age of forty-six years he was married to Mrs. Susan Clark, widow of Joseph Clark. They had one child, Mrs. Balser H. Andres.

On June 19, 1869, David Hahn was appointed driver of the city fire engine, No. I, and he served until April, 1876. The city never had a more faithful servant. He died on August 6, 1894, at Ports- mouth, Ohio, and was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery. His death was noticed in the New Mail and Express and in all the big dailies of the country and in all the dramatic papers, and it was stated that in driving over the Alleghanies, he had carried General Jackson, Henry Clay, Presidents Harrison and Tyler. When last he drove from Co- lumbus, the coaches stopped at Pim's Hotel on the site of the present Sixth street M. E. Church.

William Hard

was born September 9, 1820, in Green Township, Scioto County, Ohio. His father was Ezra Hard, a native of Arlington, Benning- ton County, Vermont. His father was born December 3, 1773, and came to Ohio in 1812. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church. He died December 22, 1867, in Green Township. He was married December 3, 1796, to Mary Cook Perkins, a niece of Captain Cook, the explorer. His great-grandfather, Elisha Hard, had a son of the same name. His grandmother Hard's maiden name was Mary Benedict. His mother's father Moses Perkins was a drummer in the Revolutionary war. For record see Revolutionary Soldiers herein.

Our subject attended school in Green Township. Rev. Landon Taylor was one of his teachers. He left school at the age of seven- teen and became a farmer. He was married April 15, 1845, to Try- phena McMullen, daughter of James McMullen, of Greenup County, Kentucky. Their children were: Mary Cook, who married Henry

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B. Boynton, both deceased. (She died September 13, 1883, and he died July 17, 1887.) He has a son Frank Lee at St. Albans, West Virginia. Dora E. is at home. William Carroll resides in Boise City, Idaho. A daughter, Viola Belle, died in infancy, and Charles Ells- worth is the editor of the Portsmouth Blade. Mr. Hard lived the life of a farmer until November 10, 1869, when he came to Ports- mouth. The family lived two years on Ninth and Chillicothe streets, and then purchased the lot on the southwest corner of Sinton and Gal- lia streets. His father was a Whig, and he was a Democrat until the war broke out, when he became a Republican. He has been a mem- ber of the M. E. church since 1852, and attends Bigelow. He never belonged to any secret orders, except the Sons of Temperance. He is the youngest of twelve children by the same mother, four of whom died in infancy. Of these there were eleven sons and one daughter. He has never been out of the county twelve months since his birth. He keeps a clear conscience, does the duty nearest him, and does not allow a wave of trouble to roll across his mind.

Moses Hayward

was born in Lebanon, Connecticut in 1766. His father, Caleb Hay- ward, came from Scotland, in 1700, and located in Connecticut. His father was a sea captain with quite a large family of Children, of whom Moses was the youngest son. His father, Caleb, would spend a portion of his time on the sea, and a portion on his farm. When our subject was twenty-one years of age, in 1787, he went to Ver- mont where he had an older brother.

He married Hannah Smith in Norwich, Vermont, in January, 1793. He had the following children : Lora, born January 8, 1794, married Joshua Cutler, and has one son living in Nebraska; Rhoda, born March 12, 1796, married Thomas Brown; Betsey, born June 27, 1798, died an infant; Moses, born October 30, 1799, married Julia Reynolds. Our subject has one son in Iowa, Horace: Mrs. Sophia Merril, a daughter, resides in Parsons, Kansas; Phillip Smith, born June 4, 1801, married Elizabeth Keyes. They had an only child, Sarah Ann Noel, born July 15, 1826, and married to John Harrison Noel, lately residing near the city of Portsmouth on the Chillicothe Pike. Her mother, Elizabeth Keyes, was a sister of James Keyes, and she married John Harrison Noel, August 1, 1852. Moses Hay- ward's son Orange was born September 8, 1802, and died October I. 1822, unmarried. His son Zenas was born December 14, 1803, and was married twice, first to Rebecca Ewing and then to Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Judge David Mitchell. Mrs. Salome Mckinley, widow of James McKinley, was a daughter. He also had two sons, Virgil and Mitchell; another daughter, Mrs. Mary Kenyon, wife of Dan Kenyon, lives at Santa Clara, California. Moses Hayward's son. Leonard, was born January 16, 1805, married Mary Ann Mus-

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grove and located in Jackson County. Their grandchildren only are living.

Our subject also had a daughter, Betsy, born June ,13, 1806,

and married Lloyd Orm. They had a family of three children : Mrs. Condit of Kansas, was one of them. She married Sey- more Pixley and had children: C. L. Pixley, Dr. M. S. Pixley and Mrs. Joseph Merril. Moses Hayward's daughter, Phi- lura, was born October 16, 1808 and married John Orm. She was the mother of Mrs. A. B. Cole, Mrs. James Richardson and Mrs. John Richardson. Eliphaz, a son, who was born May 14, 1810, and married Mary Cadot, daughter of Claudius Cadot. Frank Hayward of Ironton was a son of this marriage. Another daughter, Sarah Ann, was born September 17, 1811, and died in childhood January 27. 1816. Another son, Hiram, was born February 10, 1813, and (lied at the age of fourteen days. Moses Hayward's daughter, Mar- tha, was born February 9, 1814, and married John Miller Salladay. Her children are George W. Salladay and Mrs. Lora Bierley.

Moses Hayward left Vermont in 1814 and went as far west as Pittsburg where he remained two years. He came to Scioto County, in 1816, and located in Vernon Township at Chaffin's Mill, where he bought land. A great many people called him Howard, instead of Hayward; and he sold the land on which the Howard Furnace is built, and the Furnace was named for him, assuming that his name was Howard, instead of Hayward. He had sixteen children, all told, ten boys and six girls He was a very energetic man. He built roads, churches and schools. He was not a member of any church. At one time, he was a Mason, but gave it up. He was of an inven- tive turn. At one time, he made gun powder, at another time, he manufactured buckskin gloves, and at another time, he had a fad for raising hops. There was no experiment he was not willing to try. Shortly before his death he had $10,000 in government bonds. He had ten surviving children, and gave $1,000 to each of them. His wife died August 2, 1834, and he never remarried. At one time, he was also a distiller, and distilled corn. Like the native born Yankee, there was nothing he could not do when he tried He was a success- ful farmer and a man of strong character. He lived to be ninety-four years of age. and died October 2, 1860.

Eliphaz Hayward

was born May 14, 1810, in Windsor County, Vermont. His father was Moses Hayward, and Eliphaz was the youngest child. He was married to Mary Cadot, the oldest daughter of Claudius Cadot. Aug. 24, 1837. They had six children: Claudius Cadot Hayward, died single, in Santa Clara, California, in 1893, aged fifty-four years; Philura Elizabeth Hayward, married John W. Hatch, a farmer of Marion County, Illinois, who formerly lived near the old Red School

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House above Portsmouth, Ohio, on a farm now owned by Mr. Peebles ; Charles Eliphaz and Augusta Ann died of cholera in 1849: Francis Edwin resides in Ironton ; and Mary B., married J. B. Fullerton, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, a farmer and book-keeper. Mr. Hayward died November 22, 1850, near Wheelersburg, in the Lower French Grant.

Patrick James Stuart Hayes

was born near Dublin, Ireland, March 17, 1790. His father was Richard Hayes, and his mother's maiden name was Anne Cummins Stuart. He was the eldest son. When about ready to enter college, having been prepared for that purpose by a private tutor, his father died suddenly. From that sense of duty, which always controlled his every act, he gave up his cherished ideals to assist his mother in the rearing of his younger brothers and sisters. Making surveying and kindred subjects his professon, he was successful. Later, when through his help, those younger sisters and brothers, according to choice, had settled on the Continent, in India and Australia, he travel- ed in the Orient, finding there in the philosophy of the Ancients'. "passing race" much that was congenial to a meditative mind. Re- turning to Ireland, he married Alice Fitzgerald, and then came to America, the home of the "coming race." Stopping for a time in Canada and New York, his journey ended in Portsmouth, Ohio. In politics, he was independent, voting locally for the candidate he felt would best discharge the duties of the position. In Federal politics, he recognized, in 1860, that the union of states could be best preserved through the supremacy of the party supporting Abraham Lincoln, and voted accordingly. He was a devoted member of the Catholic Church, and there was nothing cynical in his view of life. He could see with a hopeful spirit, the pathos and the pity of it, knowing that some day the mystery of it would be untangled. He died in 1870, his wife having preceded him by many years.

George Hereodh

was born in Green County, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1789, of Ger- man parentage. His boyhood was spent on the farm and he learned the carpenter's trade. His educational facilities were limited to the common country district school, and as is prevalent in all the new countries, the school term was generally limited to the winter months, when farm work was slack. He served in the War of 1812, under General Harrison. After the campaign of the Miami and Maumee terminating with the battle of Fort Meigs, he was detached to super- intend the building of boats to transport the army to the Ohio river at the mouth of Big Miami, where General Harrison finally settled and passed the remainder of his life excepting time served as President at Washington. After the War. George Hcreodh returned to his home in Pennsylvania, and in 1815, was married to Elizabeth Kendall.

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daughter of Jeremiah and Rhoda Kendall, both natives of Scotland. She was a sister of General William Kendall. Elizabeth Kendall was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1796. George Hereodh had six children four of whom lived to maturity : Rhoda, who married William B. Russell; Sarah, who married Robert Russell, and after his death, married Levi Kirkendall, now resides on the Hereodh homestead nine miles from Portsmouth: George W., of Chicago, Il- linois ; and Emma, the wife of W. A. Marsh. A few years previous to the building of the Ohio Canal, he removed with his family to Ohio and settled in the Ohio Valley, nine miles from Portsmouth. He and his brother-in-law, General William Kendall, built a mill and saw mill at the lower falls of Scioto Brush Creek, and built two steamboats, the Diana and Belvidere. When work commenced on the Ohio Canal in 1826, Mr. Hereodh took and completed several con- tracts of stone work, viz : the Elbow lock, and a lock below that one, near the mouth of the canal, the Hereodh lock and the Camp creek culvert. On July 4. 1859, Mr. Hereodh suffered a stroke of paraly- sis which completely paralyzed his left side. He never regained the use of himself, and died February 16, 1861, from an attack of pneu- monia after about a week of sickness. His widow died February 23. 1866. In politics, he was a Whig, as long as that party was in existence, but did not aspire to office ; and never held a political of- fice above a township office. In his early manhood he joined the Methodist Church, but after his marriage he joined the Baptist Church, to be with his wife in her religious views. After complet- ing his last contract on the Ohio Canal, he burned brick and had a church erected on his farm, in fulfillment of a promise that he had made to Mrs. Hercodh, before he went into contracting on the canal. The church was called Bethany and was of the regular Baptist de- nomination. He was generous and open hearted to both educational and religious institutions. It afforded him more pleasure to give than to receive. In the last thirty years of his life he made it a point to give one half of his income to charity. The world was better that he lived.

Jacob Hibbs, Sr.,

was born November 5, 1793, in Pennsylvania. His father was Aaron Hibbs, who settled near Locust Grove, Adams County, Ohio, about 1800, and died there in June, 1852, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. His mother's maiden name was Catharine Humphreys, who died in October, 1846, in her seventy-seventh year. Our sub- ject's early life was passed in helping to clear a farm in the woods, and his educational advantages were very meager. He was mar- ried March 3, 1814, to Rebecca Lucas, daughter of Judge Joseph Lu- cas. To them were born eleven children: Aaron, born February 15, 1815, died unmarried April 15, 1837; Hannah Humphreys Lucas,

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born July 12. 1817, married Reason Wilcoxen, and now living near Freeport, Ill .; Joseph Lucas, born April 8, 1819; George C., born July 27, 1821, died unmarried ; Ursulina, born June 5, 1823, died un- married, October 6, 1855; Rebecca Lucas, born August 3, 1825, married William B. Russell, died September 10, 1885: John A. T., born January 18, 1829, was never married, and resides at Council Bluffs, Iowa: Jacob C., born April 3, 1830, residing at Portsmouth ; Robert Lucas, born April 23, 1832, died near Alexandria, D. C., No- vember II, 1862, a member of the Twelfth United States Infantry, regular army; Sarah C., born June 26, 1834, who resides in Hills- boro, Highland County, Ohio; Van Buren, born January 13, 1839, served through the entire war of the Rebellion; was private, Cap- tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, and died in Mattoon, Ill., in November. 1869. Our subject served in Captain David Roop's Company at the time of Hull's surrender, in the war of 1812. He took an active part in political matters from 1810 to 1848, and was always a strong Jackson Democrat. He held the office of school trustee for a num- ber of years, but held no other offices. After his marriage he set- tled in Union Township, Scioto County, Ohio, where he died July 12, 1852. His wife died October 20, 1853. They were members of the Disciple church. Mr. Hibbs was a man of great firmness and moral courage ; and was noted for his determination and positiveness of character. He took great pride in the education of his children ; and did all in his power to give them a good start in life.

Hon. Samuel Hunt, Jr.,

was born July 8, 1765. He never married. Hon. Samuel Hunt, as he is now usually called, possessed natural abilities of a very high or- der, to which, what he accomplished in life,-though he attained some eminence-was hardly proportionate. Deciding on the profession of law, he entered himself as a student in the office of Benjamin West, and, in 1790, was admitted to practice. He established an office at first in Alstead, but soon removed to Keene as a more suitable loca- tion ; and after continuing about five years in the profession, he gave it up; for what reason is not definitely known; but it is usually sup- posed that it was on account of the many details which are essential to a successful practice of it. and to which he had a great aversion. He is described by the late John Prentiss as "an eloquent advocate who early retired from the bar." His talents adapted him to lit- erary pursuits, and his inclination led him also in that direction. He became, therefore, a contributor to the famous "Farmer's Museum," which had been established by Joseph Dennie at Walpole. Dennie was afterwards editor of the "Port Folio" at Philadelphia, which may be said to have been the first popular magazine established in the country. The "Museum" was sustained by the "Literary Club," which consisted of the following persons, all of whom were or had

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been members of the bar: Joseph Dennie who was editor of the "Mu- seum"; Royal Tyler, of Brattleboro, Vt., afterwards Chief Jus- tice of Vermont; Roger Vose of Walpole, who also became Chief Justice ; Samued Hunt, whose popular talents ultimately secured his election to Congress ; and Samuel West of Keene, son of Rev. Sam- uel West, D. D., of Boston, and nephew of Hon. Benjamin West, of Charlestown, a most brilliant advocate and eloquent orator. These were all men of fine abilities, keen wit, and no inconsiderable culture, whose superiors have not probably been since consolidated in the country. The combined talents of the club produced a paper which became exceedingly popular, and which was taken and read with in- terest by many educated persons in other states.

Mr. Hunt, soon after giving up his profession, went abroad, with the double purpose of improving his mind and benefiting his health. He was absent nearly three years, the greater part of which time was spent in France. He spent considerable time at Bordeaux. From a letter to Dr. Oliver Hastings, written from that place in answer to one communicating the death of his brother, a promising young lawyer at Windsor, Vt., it appears that he was in very low spirits, and without any plan or settled purpose for the future. To the ques- tion, when he expected to return to America, he replies, "Perhaps soon, perhaps never." His brother had been very dear to him, and his death, when he was so far away from him, in connection with some sad circumstances which had transpired previously to his leav- ing Charlestown, had probably at that time produced an unusual de- pression of spirits. He, however, after an absence of about three years, returned home, and settled down in Charlestown to the busi- ness of a gentleman farmer. In this he continued, engaging moder- ately in politics, till 1802, when he had so attracted public attention that on the occurrence of a vacancy in the state's representation in Congress by the resignation of Hon. Joseph Pierce of Alton, he was appointed to fill his place. His term expiring in the 7th Congress, he was re-elected to the 8th in 1803. At the close of this term, not desiring a re-election, as he had business in view that would wholly occupy his attenton, he was succeeded by the Hon Caleb Ellis of Claremont. The business referred to was the formaton of a colony for the settlement of a large tract of land, of which he had come into possession in Ohio. In this project he enlisted some dozen or fifteen persons in Charlestown, by holdng out to them the inducement of the acquisition of a fortune more speedily than it was likely to be obtained in any other way. Hunt made the journey to Ohio on horse-back, accompanied by Miss Cynthia Rigg, whom he had en- gaged to be his housekeeper, while the others sought their land of promise on foot. All arrived in Ohio in safety, and commenced their settlement in French Grant, as the place was called. But the lo- cation proved so unhealthy that nearly all of them were very soon

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prostrated by sickness, and it is related that at one time there was not a person in the company able to wait upon the rest, and that all the attention and nursing they had was from one Indian squaw, who did little more than to bring them water from a distant spring with which to quench their thirst. The fever proved fatal to Mr. Hunt, who died on the 7th of July, 1807, at the age of 42, and was buried on the bank of the Ohio a few yards from Mrs. Clay's house at Hav- erhill, Ohio. The colony was broken up; and of those who went out to it from Charlestown, only three survived to return.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 97

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913 Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans Number of Pages: 1612

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612