Biographical and historical memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio. Embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the county and a record of the lives of many of the most worthy families and individuals, Part 117

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inence in his profession quite flattering for one so

One of the prominent residents of Union town- young in years, and in the murder trial of Ohio vs. ship, Muskingum county, Ohio, is Charles S. Elizabeth Hannold, charged with infanticide, he Wylie, residing on a farm about two miles from managed the case with skill, discretion and ability. New Concord, born November 14, 1843, in Rich The trial occupied a week and after a deliberation Hill township. He was the son of Thomas and verdict of acquittal. of twenty-one hours the jury returned with a Ann R. (Starrett) Wylie. The father was born in Union township in 1821 on the farm now owned

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by Wilson White. He was the son of Moses battle he was taken sick and sent home. Later he Wylie and wife (formerly a Miss Young, whose rejoined his regiment and took part in the battle father was a Revolutionary soldier), and one of of Bennettsville, when he was again taken sick ten children-five sons and five daughters: Samuel, and received his discharge at Fort Schuyler, N. Y. Moses, Oliver, Thomas, John, Mary, Flora, Eliza- He was injured in the foot, for which he received beth, Margaret and Sarah Jane. Moses Wylie a pension. After the war he went to work in a

settled in Ohio about 1803. His father was a sawmill, and in 1870 married Caroline W. Haynes,

man of some wealth and sent his son John, with daughter of Abraham and Casander (Wartenbee) money to take up land in this county, which is now Haynes, born in Union township, July 31, 1850. occupied by the White, Jamison and McCloud The Haynes family are early settlers of this families. The tract of land settled by Moses was county. Mrs. Wylie was one of a family of eight 255 acres just northwest of New Concord. He children: Harriet. John, Elizabeth, Agnes, Abra- was a very successful farmer, a member of the ham D., Caroline W. and Selina A. (twins), and Reformed Presbyterian church, and died in 1852. Mary Catharine. All but Elizabeth and Mary His son Thomas, and the father of Charles S., Catharine are living. Mr. and Mrs. Wylie are the was reared in this neighborhood and attended Fox parents of eight children: Frank F. (an infant), creek district school. Here he married and Alva A., Roxana R., Harry H., Minnie M., Dora I. moved to a rented farm in Rich Hill township, and Mary O. The children are all at home, and where he farmed five years, then bought seventy Mr. Wylie is doing all in his power to give them acres of land and upon it built a log house and good educations. He and his family are members barn. It was unimproved at the time and he set of the Reformed Presbyterian church, in which he to work and soon had a good farm well cultivated. is interested as well as in school matters. Polit-

In 1880 he left this neighborhood and moved to ically his sympathies are with the prohibition party. Fair Grove, Tuscola county, Mich. He has He has a farm of seventy acres on which he is retired from business and is living with his son. raising stock, but gives most of his attention to He is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian fruit growing, in which he has been very successful.

church and in politics a prohibitionist. He has William M. Wylie, a farmer residing near ever been an active church worker and has held Frazeysburg, Ohio, is descended from Welsh an- many offices in the same. His wife, formerly Ann cestors. At a remote period his lineal progenitor R. Starrett, was the daughter of Joseph and Ann emigrated to Scotland and finally to Ireland, living Starrett of South Carolina. Joseph moved to for some time in each country. Three brothers of Pennsylvania and there married and moved to this family came to America a short time after the Rich Hill township. He was the father of fifteen close of the Revolutionary war -William, Joseph

children; Charles, an infant, Samuel, James, John, and John, the former of whom was the grand-

George, Ann R., Hannah, Elizabeth, Jennie, father of the subject of our sketch. He came to Mary, Margaret, Sarah, Nancy and Elleanor. Our this country about 1790 and was a pioneer settler subject's mother was reared and educated in Rich of Muskingum county. He married Rebecca Mc- Hill township and died in Union township in 1878. Clung, daughter of a soldier who was killed in the

She was the mother of seven living children: War of 1812, and to them the following children Charles, the eldest; Hannah J., who died at the were born: William, John, Joseph, Rebecca, Isa- age of fourteen; Sarah, who died in Michigan about bella, Sarah, Eliza and Martha. Mr. Wylie located 1886; James R., is living at Coultersville, Ill., a min- in Hopewell township, cleared a fine tract of land ister of the Reformed Presbyterian church and was and made a good home for his family, and although educated at the Muskingum college and Theo- of small stature he was hard-working, resolute and logical seminary at Allegheny city, Penn. He is persevering. He built one of the first brick houses a man of family; Anna M., now Mrs. Mills, living in that part of the country and became a substan- ing in Ohio; Margaret E., died in 1882 in Michi- tial farmer. He endured all the vicissitudes and gan; and Joseph S., a miller of Fairgrove, Mich., privations of pioneer life, but he always attended and married. She had been for years a member strictly to his own affairs, and this, no doubt, was of the Reformed Presbyterian church and greatly the secret of his success. He died in 1853 at the devoted to church work. Charles S., her son and age of eighty years, a devout member of the Re- our subject, was reared on the farm where he now formed Presbyterian church at the time of his lives since he was four years of age. He attended death. His son Joseph was born on the original Fox creek district school and when he was twenty homestead in March, 1810, and although reared in years of age enlisted in Company A, Seventy-eighth the early life of a frontiersman, took much interest Ohio Volunteer infantry, taking part in the follow- in obtaining an education and was first an attend- ing battles: Vicksburg, Brush Mountain, seige of ant at the old log schoolhouse near his home, Atlanta and many others. In the last named afterward entering college at Granville, and, as

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was the custom in those days, worked his way on from the heirs of his father-in-law and here has a farm. In this way he was enabled to attend since made his home. He has always taken much college several terms and thus gained a good edu- interest in educational affairs and for twelve years cation, becoming an especially accomplished Latin has been a school director. When the country scholar and a good mathematician. He taught at needed his services he enlisted as a private in Com- an early day in Zanesville and then in Muskingum pany I, Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer infantry, and township, and many of his early days were spent served one year. He was in the Atlanta campaign in this manner. In 1836 he married Nancy Brown, and in that most famous raid in history-Sher-

a daughter of David and Margaret (Motier) Brown, man's march to the sea. He was in the siege of near Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, the former Savannah, Bentonville, and was at the grand re- of whom came from Pennsylvania to Ohio about view at Washington, D. C. He was then honorably 1800, being one of the early teamsters across the discharged and returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Allegheny. His children are as follows: William, Wylie are members of the Reformed Presbyterian Elizabeth, Jane, Margaret, Martha, Sarah, Nancy, church and he has held the office of deacon and Annie, Euphemia, Mary, and three that died in has been ruling elder in the same for many years. childhood, in all twelve daughters and one son. He is a prosperous and entirely self-made man. Mr. Brown was a leading man of his day, was a Although he began life with nothing he educated strong Jacksonian democrat, and was a personal himself and accumulated a handsome property. friend of old Gen. Ewing and the Shermans. He He has a fine fruit farm and one year shipped held the office of county commissioner, was a sol- 2,500 bushels of peaches and this year 1,200 dier in the War of 1812, was a substantial farmer, bushels, all of which was fine budded fruit. He and lived to the ripe old age of ninety-one years. also has excellent apples and pears. His home is Joseph Wylie, the father of William M. Wylie, a beautiful and comfortable one, and here taste, whose name heads this sketch, became the father refinement and hospitality reign supreme. Mr. of six children: William M., Annie M., Martha J., Wylie ranks as a man of undoubted integrity and David B., Rebecca E. and Joseph H., all of whom good business ability. His children are receiving were born in Muskingum township on a farm. the advantages that only wealth can procure, and Both Mr. and Mrs. Wylie were members of the are making the most of their opportunities, prom- Reformed Presbyterian church. Mr. Wylie was ising to become a comfort and solace to their cut off in his prime by pneumunia, having been a parents in the waning years of their lives.

Frederick Wolford, grandfather of Michael

successful farmer and one of the most capable ed- ucators of the county. William M. Wylie was born Wolford, farmer, Frazeysburg, Ohio, was a January 11, 1837, and received a practical educa- Pennsylvania German. He married Miss Eliza- tion in the common district school, later attending beth Caskner, and they moved to Ohio, settling Dresden High school. He followed teaching for in Coshocton county, Washington township, some- about ten years, one year in Frazeysburg and time prior to the War of 1812. He was the father three in his own district, and it may be said that of four sons: Godfrey, John, Jeremiah, and in this respect he was his father's equal. Febru- Daniel. Mr. Wolford died in Washington town- ary 28, 1866, he was married to Ella Dunlap, ship. He was a good hunter, and depended daughter of William and Eleanor (Rennison) Dun- largely upon his skill as a marksman to supply lap, the former of whom came from Ireland in his family with meat. At that early period there 1818 and settled on the farm now occupied by Mr. were plenty of deer, bears, wild turkeys, and other Wylie, in 1828. He first, however, worked as a game. He trained his sons to be good marksmen, weaver in Philadelphia. He married in his native and kept the family supplied with buck-skins, from land and became the father of ten children: Rob- which the hardy pioneers made much of their ert, John, James, William, Mary A., Jane, Margaret, clothing. His wife lived to be ninety years of Ella, and two that died in childhood. Mr. Dunlap age. Daniel Wolford his son, was born March 4, cleared his farm from the heavy timber and by 1811, and received a common-school education. hard work succeeded in making a comfortable home He became familiar with the duties of the farm for his family. He was a stone mason also, and at an early age, and when grown, married Miss helped to build the lochs on the Ohio canal. He Stacy Slaughter, daugliter of Samuel and Mar- was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian garet Slanghter. [See sketch of Samuel Dunn. ] To church, and died at the age of seventy-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Wolford were born eleven children: He was a straightforward man, well known for his Jeremiah, Samuel, Sarah E., Nathaniel, Elizabeth, kindness of heart and generosity. William M. Margaret, Michael, William H., Frederick, Mary Wylie and his wife are the parents of four children: C., and one who died when a babe. After marriage Maggie E., Zonetta, Idella and Elmer J. After Mr. Wolford settled in Washington township, re- his marriage Mr. Wylie purchased his present farm sided there a short time and then moved to the

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Auglaize river, in western Ohio. After a residence sack, so relieved him of almost all of his things. there of a few years he returned to Jackson town- They started for Resaca, Ga., and after two ship, Ohio, and settled on Samuel Slaughter's days' fight they went to Adairsville. After a hard- farm, where he remained a few years. Although fought battle they marched two or three days and he resided on several different farms he spent the then were allowed to rest a few days. Mr. Wol- principal part of his time in Jackson township. ford was then put on guard duty; that is to guard He died at Eaton, Ohio, at the age of fifty-seven the regiment's baggage that was sent back to years, while on his way to Indiana. He was a Bridgeport, Ala. and remained there until the member of the Christian church, and in politics fall of Atlanta, Ga. Later he was with Gen. was a stanch republican. He was an honorable Thomas, and was in some very sharp engagements upright citizen, sober, and industrious, and was a with Gen. Hood at Spring Hill, Franklin and loving father and husband. He was a trustee of Nashville. From the Ninety-seventh Ohio regi- Jackson township for several years. He left eight ment Mr. Wolford was transferred to the Twenty- children and all are yet living. Michael Wolford sixth Ohio regiment, and with them started for was born September 20, 1845, in Jackson township, Texas. It was a very hard trip for him as he was and received but a limited education in the common sick at the time the regiment started. They first schools. He assisted his father on the farm, and went to Cairo, Ill., and from there down the Mis- on the 12th of March, 1868, when twenty-three sissippi river to New Orleans. He was sick for one years of age, he married Miss Mary A. Chaney, month and unable to be on duty. They then took daughter of Emanuel and Margaret (Ashcraft) the steamer for Indianola, Tex., and were on the Chaney. Mr. Chaney was of a Maryland family Gulf of Mexico for six days and nights, and after that was among the early settlers of Coshocton landing had twelve miles to go to camp. Mr. county. He reared a family of six children: Wolford was again taken very sick and the physi- Martin, Martha, Mary A., Elizabeth, Jonathan, cian said there was no hope, he could not live and Lodema. Mr. Chaney was a successful farmer, until morning. After two months' severe illness he and died at the age of seventy-five years. His had improved enough to start for home, but father, Joseph Chaney, brought the family from through his illness was reduced in weight from Maryland to Ohio, at an early day. Michael Wol- 200 pounds to eighty pounds. He was honorably ford settled on a farm in Jackson township and discharged in November, 1865, and was one of the resided there until 1884, when he bought his soldiers of Jackson township who saw actual battle present farm consisting of 217 acres, in Jackson and faced the enemy in many hard-fought battles. township. When but nineteen years of age, or in Mr. Wolford is a self-made man and began with 1864, young Wolford enlisted in Company F, nothing. He assisted his father financially, and Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served was in the service of his country, and has been very until November, 1865. While at Columbus, Ohio, prosperous. To his marriage were born three living he was taken very sick and for three months was children: Howard A., Lyndon J., and George E. unfit for duty. At that time there came an order Mr. Wolford is an industrious, upright citizen, a for all recruits to be sent to the front, and Mr. man of excellent judgment, and is surrounded by Wolford was sent to Cincinnati, there he remained a host of warm friends. In politics he is a strong only one day when he took the boat for Louis- republican.

ville, Ky. From there he went to Nashville, David Woodruff (deceased) was a native of Tenn., where he was captured by a guard and Cumberland county, N. J., born November 12, kept one week, when he was sent to Cleveland, 1773, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Tenn. There he remained two weeks, was sent Muskingum county, coming here as early as 1813. to Knoxville, Tenn., and as they were building He was the son of David and Hannah Woodruff, a fort he was put to work, working eight hours and the grandson of David Woodruff who was a a day. This did not suit him very well as native of England and who passed his entire life he would much rather have been in the thickest there.

David Woodruff Jr. (father of subject), of the fight, so lie made up his mind to try and was also born in England and was the founder of find Gen. Sherman and his troops. He received the Woodruff family in America. The subject of a pass from the commanding officer, took the first this sketch, David Woodruff third, was married in train and went South, got along very nicely until his native state to Miss Deborah Mulford, on he reached the headquarters at Rocky Face, March 9, 1800. She was a native of New Jersey, Ga. When he left the train he could hear born January 27, 1776. They resided in their the musket sound. He started for the regiment native state until 1813 and then with their chil- on foot, which he found ready for battle, and the dren, three in number, emigrated to Ohio, making first person he met was his brother. His brother the journey in wagons. After arriving Mr. Wood- told him he could not march with so heavy a knap- ruff leased land near Stovertown and there resided

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until about 1819, when he entered eighty acres of infant unnamed. Three of these children, Stephen, school land, the same on which his son, David Mary and Charles, were school teachers and all fourth, now resides. He built a cabin, began clear- have good English educations. Mr. and Mrs. ing and improving his farm, and here he and wife Woodruff are acceptable members of the Baptist passed the remainder of their days, he dying on church with which they have been connected since March 23, 1844, and she on December 13, 1858. July 4, 1853. The Woodruff family have not been He had previously been married twice, first to La- wanting in patriotism, as three of the sons re- vina Dare, who died without issue. To his second sponded to the call of their country in its hour of marriage was born one child, N. F., whose birth need and fought with great bravery until the occurred on October 16, 1798. To his third union, country was wrested from the clutch of traitors and to Miss Deborah Mulford, were born nine children; the flag again waved over an undivided people. Stephen, born August 12, 1801 was drowned in Stephen and Calvin enlisted in October, 1861, in Brush creek in 1822; Hannah, widow of Ichabod Company A, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, Randolph, was born September 21, 1803, resides but were soon after transferred to the front, in in Illinois; Gemala, born March 13, 1805, died in the army of the Potomac, and later served under childhood; Noah (deceased), was born January 13, Gen. Gilmore. They were in the battle of Winches- 1807; Rachel (deceased), was born February 2, ter, March 23, 1862, and then in numeroussmall en- 1809; Phoba (deceased), born January 23, 1811; gagements until the battle of Fort Waggener David, born February 1, 1813; Julius (deceased), where Calvin was wounded by a piece of shell. was born June 18, 1816; and Lavina (deceased), Stephen died in the hospital at Washington, May born March 11, 1819. In making their journey 30, 1862. Calvin veteranized at Hilton Head, S. C., from New Jersey to Ohio, and after they had returned with the army to Alexandria in 1864, reached Zanesville on the way to Brush creek, a thence to Yorktown, from there to Bermuda commotion appeared in the brush and a number of Hundred, served under Butler in his siege of the men, including Mr. Woodruff, loosened their Petersburg, and then with the army crossed the dogs, which immediately pounced upon and killed James river and participated in the numerous en- a bear on the spot where the Market house now gagements before Richmond in the fall of 1864. He stands. Mr. Woodruff and his dogs subsequently took part in the pursuit of Gen. Lee's army which killed a bear where the Lutheran church of this was forced to capitulate on April 9, 1865. Calvin township now stands. David Woodruff, third, was taken prisoner at Farmville and was robbed whose name heads this sketch, was a man of some of his clothes, watch and valuables by the confed- educational attainments, taught the first school in erates. A few days later he was retaken. He en- the township, and was its clerk for many years. listed as a private, passed the successive grades His son, David Woodruff fourth, was born in and was commissioned first lieutenant in 1864. Pennsylvania, and was a babe in his mother's arms He was discharged May 15, 1865. James Wood- when the family settled in the wilds of Muskingum ruff enlisted February 23, 1864 in Company A, county. He has seen the entire development of Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, and joined the country from its primitive state to its present the regiment at the front soon after enlistment. prosperous condition. In the subscription schools He participated in all the battles in which the then in vogue he learned to read and write and regiment engaged and was made corporal in 1864. cipher in the few parts of terms he attended. He In August, 1865, the Sixty-second regiment was remained with his father until the age of twenty- consolidated with the Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteer one, when on June 12, 1834, he was wedded to infantry. On December 12, 1865, James was dis- Miss Mary Barker, a native of Perry county, Ohio, charged. Calvin settled in Oskaloosa, Iowa, born February 22, 1814, and the daughter of John where he served two terms as sheriff of Mahaska

and Mary (Chamberlain) Barker. Mr. Barker and county. James resides in Columbus, Ohio. He family came from New York to Perry county, Ohio, was married on December 16, 1866, to Miss Susan in 1809, bringing their household goods in wagons. C. Crane, daughter of James Crane, of whom After his marriage Mr. Woodruff settled in Brush mention is made in this volume. To them have Creek township, and after the death of his father been born six children: Charles Edwin (deceased), removed to the old homestead, where he has since Willard Warner, Willis Warren, Stephen Ray- made his home. For thirty-one years he served in mond, Mary Lucinda, and an infant deceased. In tlie capacity of school director, which evinces the 1888 Mr. Woodruff removed to Columbus, Ohio. interest he has always taken in educational He is a member of the Moxahala lodge No. 144, matters. To Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff have been I. O. O. F., Patriotic Order Sons of America, No. born eleven children: Stephen (deceased), Calvin, 43, Knights of Pythias 129, of Birmingham, Iowa, Philena, Tamson (deceased), James, Mary, Nancy and the National Union at Columbus, Ohio. E., Charles, Eliza (deceased), Sarah L., and an Benoni Yaw, farmer and stockraiser, New

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Concord, Ohio. In tracing the genealogy of the of Dick Johnson who killed Tecumseh, the Indian Yaw family we find that the first emigrant to this chief. She died about 1869, and was a member of country was Lawrence Yaw, who was born in Ger- the Presbyterian church for about thirty years of many, and who came to America in the early part her life. Benoni Yaw, subject of this sketch, was of the eighteenth century, making a settlement in born in Washington county, Ind., April 22, 1823, New Jersey, where he probably reared a large and when a child came to this county with his family. Among the children was John Yaw, Sr., parents. His early scholastic advantages were who married Miss Elizabeth Teeple, and reared a in the common schools of the neighborhood, and large family, his children being named as follows: when twenty-four years of age he branched out for Sallie, married a Mr. Bradberry, and lived to be himself. He married Miss Anna Dixon, a daughter one hundred and three years of age, (she was of John and Elizabeth Dixon, of Guernsey county, known in the neighborhood as Aunt Sally Brad- Ohio, and a native of that county, born in 1822. berry); Susan, married a Mr. Hineline; John Jr., To this union were born four children: Maggie, who died about 1882, when eighty-five years of who died when ten years of age; Anna, is the wife age, and who was the father of Oliver Yaw [see of Jamas Bayier, of Shawnee, Perry county, Ohio, sketch]; William, father of subject; Polly, who who is a railroad man; B. D. Yaw married and died in New Concord, was twice married, her first engaged in business in New Lexington, Perry husband being Mr. Smoch (later she married a county, this state; and Merron S., resides a home, Mr. Chambers); Elizabeth, married a Mr. Smith and for the past twelve years has been permanently and moved to Illinois; and Peter, who died in Ken- engaged in the breeding of fine road horses, being tucky or Tennessee. The father of this family the owner of some good registered stock. Mrs. reared his children in New Jersey, and about 1813 Yaw died in 1862, in full communion with the he settled on a farm where Bluford Yaw now lives, Presbyterian church, in which she was one of the in this county. He took up and also bought land active members. She was a good, Christian woman. and became one of the prominent men of his lo- Mr. Yaw was married to his second wife, Mrs. Kate cality. He served through the Revolutionary war, Ewitt, in 1864. Her maiden name was Cherry, and died in this township in 1836, when over and she was the daughter of James T. and Mel- ninety years of age. He was a member of the vina (Mitchell) Cherry. Mr. Cherry was a native Presbyterian church, and his wife, who was also a of Muskingum county, Ohio, born in 1813, and he member of that church, died in 1840. Of their was the son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Thomp- children only John Jr., William and Mary made son) Cherry. His grandfather, Rufus Cherry, was permanent homes in this county. The balance of Irish descent, and was probably the first of his died in other states and we now find the Yaw name to establish the Cherry family in that county. family in almost every state in the Union. William Of his children Nathaniel is the only one of whom Yaw, father of Benoni Yaw, was born in New Jer any record is kept. The latter was born in West- sey, and there grew to manhood. He came with moreland county, Penn., and by his marriage to his father to this county, but ventured from there Miss Thompson became the father of nine sons to Indiana, and later still to Kentucky. He was and three daughters: James, Thomas, William, married in the former state to Miss Margaret John, Harvey, Nathaniel, Smith, Elias, Mary, Johnson, and a family of seven children was the Eliza, Emma, and a son who died in infancy. He result; only five of whom reached mature years: was married the second time and three children Benoni (subject), Laney, married John Smock, a were born to this union: Joseph, Ella and Anna. resident of this township, and died in 1887, leav Nathaniel Cherry moved to Muskingum county at ing two children, Bluford, a farmer of this town an early date, and settled in Columbus, Ohio, ship; Milton, a farmer of this township, married where he reared his family. He died while on a and reared a large family, nearly all the children visit West, when eighty years of age. His second now living in the county. He died in 1870, and wife was Miss Kate Ewing, who is now living. Naoma, died abont 1863. William Yaw and wife Mr. Cherry was a prominent man in the county. located in Muskingum county in 1834 on a farm and was a great hunter in his day, being one of settled by the family in 1815, and there remained the best shots of the community. James Cherry, until the former's death in 1885, when ninety-four the eldest of his children, and the father of Mrs. years of age. He was a member of the Presby- Yaw, was born in this county, as before mentioned, terian church. In politics he was at one time a and he attended the early schools of the township. whig, but later he cast bis vote with the demo- On the 27th of February, 1834, when twenty years cratic party. Industrious and thoroughgoing, he of age, he married Miss Melvina Mitchell, who became a prosperous farmer and was universally bore him three children: Kate E., now Mrs. Yaw; respected for his many excellent qualities. His Robert M. was a resident of Florida, where he wife was a native of Tennessee, and was a cousin died about six months ago, and he has one child,

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Edward; and James N., married, resides in Keo- near Norwich on the 6th of February, 1842, and kuk, Iowa. Mr. Cherry was a member of the the daughter of John and Sarah (Williamson) Presbyterian church, and died May 30, 1856. He Galager, natives of Pennsylvania and Germany was a democrat in politics and cast his first presi- respectively. John Galager was born in 1812 and dential vote for Jackson. Early in life he was a when only six weeks old was brought by his cabinet maker, but later he engaged in the nursery parents, Peter and Mary (Ghirt) Galager, to this business near Zanesville, and carried this on for county. They settled on a farm owned by John, some time. He was postmaster for two years at and there the parents passed the remainder of Putnam and later moved to the farm where he their days. They had been members of the Pres- spent the remainder of his days as a farmer and byterian church for sixty years .. Their children, nurseryman. He was an active politician in county eight in number, were named as follows: Eliza- affairs. His wife, who is still living, was born in beth, James, Rachel, Jane, Hettie, Hannah, Mary Zane-ville, in 1812, when the town was first started, and John. All are now deceased. The father and she was the daughter of Dr. Robert Mitchell, was a weaver by trade but owned land and carried and grand-daughter of George Mitchell, who came on farming. John. Galager was a life long mem- from Scotland and settled in Westmoreland county, ber of the Presbyterian church, and in his political Penn. Dr. Robert Mitchell studied medicine and views was for many years a democrat, but later after marriage he came at once to Zanesville advocated the principles of the republican party. where he was one of the first physicians. In 1834 He was a wealthy farmer and followed that occu- he was elected to congress. He served as briga- pation until his death in 1885. He married Miss dier-general in the War of 1812. His death oc- Williamson when about twenty-two years old. She curred in 1848. He was the father of thirteen was the daughter of Abraham and Barbara Will- . children. His wife died in 1864. They were mem- iamson, of German and Irish birth respectively. bers of the Presbyterian church, and Dr. Mitchell After coming to this country her parents first was a democrat in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Yaw are settled in Virginia and the father served in the War the parents of four children: James H., who is at of 1812. To them were born eleven children: home; William E., married, and at home; Edward Ralph, Catherine, Abraham, Jacob, James, New- L., who is in the livery business at New Concord; ton, Henry, William, Mary, Sarah and John. Of and Fred C., who died when four years of age. these only one is now living, William, who is a Mr. and Mrs. Yaw hold membership in the M. E. resident of Taylorville, this county. Mr. Yaw's church, and he and his sons affiliate with the mother-in-law was the eighth in order of birth of democratic party. Mr. Yaw is a member of the the above mentioned children. Abraham William- Masonic fraternity, Norwich Malta lodge No. son and wife were with the Methodist Episcopal 108, and is a Chapter Royal Arch Mason He has church and are both deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. held office in the lodge and has been a member Galager were born six children: Martha J., who since 1850. He is at present engaged in farming is a resident of this county and township; Mary E., and s ockraising, owns some fine thoroughbred died when only three months old; Barbara, is the Jersey cattle, all registered stock. He is also rais- wife of William Self, of this county; Hester, wife ing some fine standard horses. Mrs. Yaw was of subject; James W., a resident of Norwich; and born in 1840, and by her first union became the John, who is living in this state. The mother of mother of these children: Henry, Enna L., these children was born in 1813 and died in 1852. Charles H., L. U. and Pollock.

she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal and

Bluford Yaw, farmer and stockraiser, New the father a member of the Presbyterian church. Concord, Ohio, was the third son born to the union Mr. and Mrs. Yaw are the parents of four chil- of William and Margaret (Johnson) Yaw [see dren: Barbara A., born on the 22d of March, sketch of Benoni Yaw], his birth occurring in 1875, married C. Hammond, and is now residing Indiana on the 11th of July, 1833, and when but a at home; John L., born November 10, 1876, and baby his parents took him to Muskingum county, is at home; James W., born April 3, 1878, at home; Ohio, where he has resided all his days on the farm and Hettie I., born September 8, 1880, at home. taken up by his grandfather, John Yaw. He Mr. Yaw is a member of the Methodist Episcopal attended the district schools of the neighborhood, and his wife a member of the Baptist church, both and when twenty-one years of age he engaged in being great church workers. Mr. Yaw is a demo- farming on the place where he now lives. He crat in his political views. He is a man of public owns the farm of sixty acres owned by his father spirit, and has liberally sustained all public enter- and grandfather before him, and is one of the prises. successful and prosperous tillers of the soil in the Oliver P. Yaw, a prominent farmer of Union community. He was married in 1874 to Miss township, Muskingum county, Ohio, was born on Hester A. Galager, a native of this township, born the farm where he now lives on the 19th of Septem-

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ber, 1843, and was the youngest in order of birth years of age he enlisted in Company G, Seventy- of ten children born to John and Joanna (Brown) eighth Ohio infantry, and was attached to the Yaw, the father a native of New Jersey, born in Seventeenth Army corps, serving three years and 1796, and the latter of New York state, born in eleven days as a private. Some of his principal 1802. [For sketch of the paternal graedfather, engagements were Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, William Yaw, see biography of Benoni Yaw. ] Jackson (Tenn. ), Raymond, Champion's Hill, John Yaw came with his father to Muskingum siege of Vicksburg, Meridian, Big Shanty, Peach county at an early date, and the latter took up the Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, siege of Atlanta, farm on which Oliver is now living. He was mar- and was with Sherman to the sea. He was ried in 1823 to Miss Brown, and resided on his honorably discharged at Beaufort, S. C., returned farm until his death on the 8th of October, 1884. to Muskingum county, and is now a pensioner to He was a quiet, unassuming man, and was well a small amount. After returning to that county respected by all. In his religious views he was he settled with his father, who was getting along with the Presbyterian church of New Concord, and in years, and assisted him in farming the place. in politics he voted with the republican party. All Mr. Yaw was married in October, 1869, to Miss worthy enterprises received his hearty support, Elizabeth J. Harrison, who was born in Putnam especially when relating to education or religion, county, W. Va., on the 12th of August, 1851, and and he was universally liked. Mrs. Yaw resided is a daughter of John W. and Elizabeth S. (Kirk- in Perry county with her parents until nearly patrick) Harrison. Mrs. Yaw was one of ten grown. She died on the 1st of January, 1877. children, seven now living, born to the above Their family, consisting of ten children, seven of worthy couple, who emigrated from West Virginia whom are living, are named as follows: Lawrence, to Indiana, and settled in Carroll county, where a resident of Terre Haute, Ind .; William, resides they received their final summons, the father dying in New Plymouth, Vinton county, Ohio (he was an in 1870 and the mother in 1877. Of their children, ensign of the Thiry-first Ohio Volunteer infantry, John L. ran away from home and enlisted in the and served over three years. He was twice army when but fourteen years of age; Margaret, wounded, first struck by a minie-ball and later a Elizabeth, Mary C., Edith J. M., Virginia A. and portion of one ear was shot off. He was a brave James Mc. Mrs. Yaw was educated in Indiana, and faithful soldier and saw some hard service); and was there married to Mr. Yaw. Since that Margaret, died at the age of twelve years; Joseph time they have lived on their present farm. To died when two years of age; Hannah J., is now their marriage were born four children: Nora M., the widow of William Pierce of Westmoreland wife of Frank McCormac, resides in Putnam, county, Penn. ; Elizabeth, wife of George Bailey, of this county; Elizabeth J., at home; John H., Lovington, Moultrie county, Ill .; David R., is now at home, and Frederick L., also at home. The a resident of Pittsburg, Penn. ; (he was a soldier in family are associated with the M. E. church. Mr. the Seventy-eighth Ohio infantry and served Yaw is a democrat in politics, and has held a eighteen months, participating in some of the number of the local offices. He is a careful and prominent engagements, viz .: Resaca, Kenesaw progressive farmer, and has acquired his posses- Mountain, Atlanta, and was with Sherman to the sions by honest work and good management. It is sea); Rebecca C., the wife of Robert Daine, a satisfaction to say that such a man stands high resides in Emporia, Kas .; Mary was the wife of socially and in a business way. He owns 100 Alexander Smith, died in 1889 when fifty years of acres of land and is engaged in general farming. age, and Oliver P., the subject of this sketch. The latter's early life was passed in assisting on the farm, and he received his education in the schools of the neighborhood. When eighteen be Chapter XX.

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Biographical and historical memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio. Embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the county and a record of the lives of many of the most worthy families and individuals, Part 117

Author: Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 642

Author:
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642