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The Baughman family, of Muskingum county, children have been born: William W., born Sep- Ohio, was first represented in this country by tember 9. 1854, married to Mary Showers, daugh- Christian Baughman, grandfather of Solomon S. ter of Alvah Showers; Solomon L., born August Baughman, who emigrated to America with his 4, 1859, married Louisa Eicher, daughter of Adam family from Germany about the year 1791, and Eicher, by whom he has three children-Chester, lived and died in Pennsylvania. His son, Chris- Herbert (deceased) and Esther Rosa (born Novem- tian Baughman (father of our subject), in 1812 came ber 15, 1891) ;- Roceilla Alice, born January 21, to Muskingum county, Ohio, at which time he had 1863, and died June 14, 1890; Florence A., born but 50 cents in money, but was the possessor of October 25, 1868. The three eldest children of three horses. He purchased 163 acres of land in the family died in infancy. Mr. Baughman gave Bush Creek township, which he greatly improved his children good educational advantages, and before his death, and on which he passed the re- William taught school for several terms. Mr. maining years of his life. He was born November Baughman has always been a patron of education, 26, 1785, and died August 3, 1836. Elizabeth, and has acted as a director in his school district his wife, was born January 24, 1785, and died for many consecutive years. He and his wife and November 8, 1866. Their children were as fol- children are members of the Lutheran church and lows: John. born September 16, 1804, and died manifest much interest in the advancement of the July 23, 1879; Jacob, born October 3, 1805, and cause of Christianity. He has been a Republican was murdered August 29, 1863; Christian was in politics since the organization of that party, but born April 27, 1807, and died April 30, 1886; prior to that was an old line whig.
Joseph was born December 11, 1808, and died Jesse M. Baughman was born on the 24th of September 20, 1862, from injuries received from October, 1829, and his youth was spent upon a being thrown from a horse; Adam was born Feb- farm and in attending the subscription schools uary 3, 1810, and died September 18, 1877; George that were started in the vicinity of his home. was born February 14, 1813, and is a resident of Owing to the inferior character of the schools at Clay township; Andrew was born June 1, 1815, that peroid, and to the fact that his services were and died December 28, 1888; a daughter that died required in clearing the home farm from timber in infancy comes next; David was born May 19, and underbrush, he only attended about thirty days 1820, and lives in Clark county, Ill. ; Samuel was throughout the year and then did not advance as born May 17, 1822, and lives in Newton township; rapidly in his studies as he should. He was mar- Elizabeth was born February 27, 1824, and is a ried October 19, 1854, to Elizabeth Ziegler and resident of Ottumwa, Iowa; Solomon S. was born soon after settled on the farm on which he now June 14, 1827, and is a resident of Brush Creek resides and on which he was born. Their union township, and Jesse M. who was born October 24, was blessed in the birth of the following children: 1829. The father of these children was a demo- James H., who died at the age of five years; crat politically and a man of unblemished reputa- Delilah E., wife of Clark I. Weaver; Lewis E., a tion. He possessed the characteristics of the prominent and successful educator, and now prin- German people-honesty, frugality and industry cipal of the Dresden high school (began teaching -and was for many years a worthy member of the when he was eighteen years of age and followed Lutheran church. Solomon S. Baughman, the this occupation for five years at Chandlersville; twelfth child of Christian Baughman, was born on he is married to Anna Day); Cora A. is superin- the old Banghman homestead in Brush Creek tendent of a department in the McIntire Home, at township, and his early life was spent in a man- Zanesville; Lucy J .; Mary L. and Abbie M. Mr. ner common to the sons of pioneer families. His Baughman is comfortably fixed, financially, and he educatiou was limited to the imperfect system of and his wife are members of the Lutheran church, subscription schools in vogue at that time, but the with which they have been connected for many most of his time was spent in endeavoring to years. His wife's grandfather, Andrew Zeigler, subdue the wilderness. He was married on the was the founder of the Zeigler family in this 27th of March, 1851, to Miss Susannah, daughter county and was one of its earliest settlers, and it. of William and Susannah Swingle, of whom men- is the impression of one of his grand-daughters
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that he was a school teacher, but this is not cer- and there, their children, sixteen in number, tain. Samuel Zeigler, his son, was probably born were born: Mary A., Nancy A., Perry, Sarah, in this country and was married to Rachel, daugh- Archibald, Rachel J., William, Elizabeth, Margaret ter of Jacob Spangler, a pioneer of this section. L., Martha S., Thomas, Elias, Bersheba, Isaac S., Samuel Zeigler resided for many years near and George and Lee. Mr. Beal was a man of com- was manager in charge of the salt works at, or fortable circumstances; was the owner of 160 near, that place. About 1854 he removed to Vin- acres of land. He and Mrs. Beal held member- ton county, Ohio, where he resided until his death, ship in the Old School Baptist church, and Mr. which occurred February 23, 1886, at the age of Beal was deacon for many years. In politics he seventy-seven years. His wife was born in 1812, was a republican. He had one son, Archibald, in and to them a family of twelve children were the civil war. He enlisted in Company K, Eighty- born: Nancy, Elizabeth, James, Alfred (deceased), fourth Illinois regiment, and served as sergeant, Martha (deceased), Margaret, Levi, Mary, Mason, and was at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., William, Samuel and David. Mrs. Zeigler now resides in Hamden, Ohio.
where he was captured by the confederates, but was retaken by the Union troops the same day,
William Beal, Dresden, Ohio, a prosperous agri- and died January 5, 1863, from exposure. Isaac culturist of this region, successfully manages his Beal lived to be eighty years of age, and died farm of 389 acres, and inherits the thrift and on his farm in Guernsey county, December 26, energy of his German ancestors. His grandfather, 1887. He was one of the old pioneer settlers, George Beal, was a farmer of Beaver county, and cleared up a great deal of wild land. His Penn., and was married to Miss Nancy Sparks, widow is still living, and is now in her eightieth who was the daughter of Capt. Sparks, who served year. Their son, William Beal, owes his nativity in the Revolution. To them were born these chil- to Guernsey county, Ohio, where his birth occurred dren: William, Sarah, Elizabeth, Rachel, Debo- November 3, 1841, and he was liberally educated rah, Margaret, Elias, John, Isaac, George and in the common schools. His father, who had but Nancy. William was in the War of 1812 and John limited educational advantages himself, was de- served as common pleas judge of Blackford county, termined to send his children to school, and Ind. Mr. Beal was a deacon in the Baptist young William attended school in the winter and church, and a man of moderate means. He came worked on the farm during the summer months to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1814, and settled until twenty-two years of age. He selected as near Birmingham, where he remained until his his companion in life Miss Sarah A. Morgan, death, when about eighty years of age. His son, who was born December 4, 1845, daughter of Isaac Beal, and the father of William Beal was Washington and Mary (Lake) Morgan, and their born in Beaver county, Penn., in 1807, and re- nuptials were celebrated on December 24, 1863. ceived but a limited education. Some of his To them were born three children: Spenser L., brothers were quite well educated. Isaac was Elroy and Jane E. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. seven years old when he came with his parents Beal settled on a farm in Cass township, this to Guernsey county, and he grew up in the county, and sadly afflicted was Mr. Beal while liv- rough school of pioneer days, working on the ing there. A disease that was epidemic in the farm and attending school when he could find county entered the family, and Elroy died Aug- time from his duties. He was married in Guern- ust 17, 1870; Mrs. Beal died on the 20th of the sey county, Ohio, October 14, 1830, to Miss Jane same month, Spencer L. on the 22d, and Jane Neal, who was born June 12, 1812, and who was E. on the 27th, all within ten days of each the daughter of William and Mary A. (Sheridan) other. On October 2, 1871, Mr. Beal married Neal. William Neal was born in Ireland, and Miss Charity E. Butler, who was born December came to Maryland, where he married and settled. 17, 1844, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Mc- He afterward emigrated to Ohio and settled in Gee) Butler. [See sketch of Joshua Butler. ] Belmont county, then in Harrison, and finally in William Butler was born in Brook county, Va., Guernsey county, where he died in his sixty-sixth July 20, 1810, and was a school teacher for some year. His companion, Mary A. Sheridan, who time, although a carpenter by trade. For many was the aunt of Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan and the years he was a preacher in the Old School Baptist cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee, died March 1, church, and moderator of the association for 1874, in her ninety-fourth year. Their family quite a number of years. He was married to consisted of thirteen children: Sarah S., Rachel, Miss Elizabeth McGee, January 4, 1838. She was John, James, Mary A., William, Jane (wife of born August 3, 1815. To them were born three Isaac Beal), Elizabeth, Thomas, Lee, Archibald, children: Honor, Henry J. and Charity E. He Asbery S. and Alexander G. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac was a self-educated man, a substantial farmer, and Beal settled in Guernsey county after marriage, a man who was of great benefit to his community
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in its early days. He died June 16, 1885. After township. Both himself and wife are members of marriage Mr. and Mrs. Beal settled on the farm the Lutheran church. He died January 26, 1876, where they now live, and here all their children at the age of sixty-seven years. In politics he were born: Isaac T., John W. and Perry L. In was a republican, and a strong union man during politics Mr. Beal is a republican, and has held sev- the war.
George W. Bell, his son, and the sub- eral of the township offices. He and Mrs. Beal ject of this sketch, was born May 19, 1832, on his are members of the Old School Baptist church, in father's farm, in Adams township. He received a which he was clerk for several years and is now common-school education, learning farming in deacon. He is deeply interested in school matters, early life, and married Elizabeth C. Vinsel, daugh- and is educating his sons at Dresden. Mr. Beal is ter of John and Mary (Bogue) Vinsel. John a well-informed man, and keeps thoroughly abreast Vinsel was from Loudoun county, Va., and of with the times. This family is widely known and Dutch ancestry of old colonial stock. He was the father of two children: William H. and Elizabeth highly respected in Muskingum county.
George W. Bell, Adamsville, Ohio, is one of C., and came to Ohio in 1844, settling in Monroe the most prominent farmers of Adams township, township, where he owned 648 acres of land, and and the largest landholder. John Bell, his grand- was a well-to-do farmer. Himself and wife were father, was from Westmoreland county, Penn., of members of the Lutheran church, and in politics Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. He was a farmer, he was a republican. He lived to the age of sixty- and married Rachel Stillwell, also from Pennsyl- two years, and died August 26, 1856. After his vania, and of Scotch ancestry. He came with his marriage, George W. Bell settled on a farm in family to Muskingum county and settled in Adams Adams township, belonging to his father, where township on a farm, now owned by John R. Bell. he lived one year and then moved to a farm which He was the father of ten children: One daughter, Mrs. Bell had inherited from her father, and Elizabeth, Haley, John J., Mary A., William, resided there twelve years. He then came to his Nancy, Catherine, Sarah, James and Amy. Mr. present farm, which he bought of Jacob Gaumer's Bell bought his land of the original settler, and it heirs, and has been in the family for three genera- had a clearing on it. This tract contained eighty tions. It was entered by Jacob Gaumer in 1819. acres, besides which he bought eighty acres of Mrs. William Bell, the mother of our subject, is Willis creek, Adams township, and eighty acres in yet living at the advanced age of eighty years, Hocking county. He lived to be seventy-eight with her faculties well retained. Mr. Bell is one years of age, was a member of the Fairview Method- of our practical farmers, owning 780 acres of land, ist church, and his wife was a member of the Bap- all in this township. He is an excellent business tist church at Adamsville. In politics he was an man, and has accumulated a handsome property. old line whig, and was a quiet, civil man, of excel- To Mr. and Mrs. Bell have been born six children: lent character, industrious and hardworking citi- Susan A., Mary A., Mariam E., Rachel J. (deceased zen. His education was limited to reading and at the age of three years and nine months), Carrie writing. William Bell, his son, was born February E. (deceased at the age of two years and nine 9, 1809, in Westmoreland county, Penn., and came months), and Charles B. In politics Mr. Bell is a with his father's family to Adams township when democrat. He is a man whose judgment is a young man. The trip was made in one of the respected, and he is serving his fifth term in suc- old-fashioned Pennsylvania wagons. He had a cession, some fourteen years, as justice of the common-school education. He married Rachel peace. He has also been treasurer, clerk and Gaumer, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Sturtz) trustee. Both he and Mrs. Bell are members of Gaumer. The father was the grand-uncle of Hon. the Lutheran church, and Mr. Bell has held the Daniel H. Gaumer, of Zanesville. [See sketch. ] To office of warden and deacon for the past twenty Mr. and Mrs. Bell were born seven children, two years. He has also been a liberal contributor to of whom died in infancy: George W., Jacob J., the cause of religion, is public spirited, in favor of Elizabeth C., John R. and Jared C. After his good schools and roads, and served on the board marriage Mr. Bell settled on a farm now occupied of education for years, and clerk for fifteen years. by his son, John R. Bell. He entered this land Mr. Bell is a man of broad and liberal views, and which consisted originally of eiglity acres, and was a is a member of the Grange. He stands high as very active, energetic man of good businesscapacity, one of the practical and substantial farmers of careful and economical, attending strictly to his this region. own affairs, letting politics alone, and became very John L. Bennett, Frazeysburg, Ohio. This successful. He bought land from time to time is one of the most remarkable families that Mus- until he owned 640 acres in one tract, besides 173 kingum county has produced. They are remark- acres, making 813 acres, all in Adams township, able for many things, but most of all for those with the exception of fifty-three acres in Monroe sterling traits of character which enable a humble
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pioneer family to live through the vicissitudes of pox in Pittsburg and was buried in Alleghany, pioneer life, to multiply, and become a power in Penn., December 24, 1871, in the fifty-sixth year the land for good; training up their children to of his age. Neither of them ever married. Samuel be honorable and valuable citizens until to-day, learned the printing business and followed it for a their descendants number hundreds of the best of number of years, but at the time of his death was the land. The grandfather of John L. Bennett, employed in a bank. Early in the spring of 1816 and the founder of the family in America, was three families emigrated from Jefferson and Fred- James Bennett, who emigrated when a young man erick counties, Va., to Jackson township, Muskin- with his brother from England and settled among gum county, Ohio, where they arrived on May 1 of the Quakers of Pennsylvania. He afterward went that year, making the journey with four-horse to the Valley of Virginia, married Jane McCormick teams. These families were Robert Drake, wife and late in life removed to the west part of Ohio, and four sons, Richard C. Mendenhall and wife paying a visit of a few days to his son Joshua on and three children, and Joshua Bennett and wife the way. He afterward removed to Indiana, and and three children. They cut and blazed their there died. Joshua Bennett, his son, and the way from Zanesville, taking two days to travel father of John L. Bennett, was born March 23, sixteen miles. A vacant cabin on the hillside, 1788, in Charleston, Jefferson county, Va. His south of the homestead, served them as shelter mother died a few months after his birth. He re- until a hewed-log house was built. Here two ceived about six weeks' schooling, but being fond children, Maria J. and Martha, were born. of reading became well posted on the current topics In June, 1825, another installment of Virginia of the day. His youth was spent on his father's emigrants arrived in their neighborhood, composed farm and in teaming between Winchester, Va., and of Grandmother Mendenhall in her "caryall," John Baltimore, Md. He drove a six-horse team and Wimmer and family, Henry Shepherd and family, hauled immense loads on the large wagons of those and Hugh Reed and family in their wagons. days. He experienced religion when about seven- Grandmother Mendenhall had a huge log house teen years of age, and was a liberal friend and built for herself adjoining that of uncle Chancy supporter of the church all his life. The itinerant Mendenhall, where she resided until her death in preacher was always cordially welcome to his 1833, when in her seventy-fourth year. Nearly house. His first marriage occurred in Jefferson five and a half years after locating here, on October county, Va., to Miss Jane Mendenhall, who was 12, 1821, Jane Mendenhall, wife of Joshua Bennett, born November 25, 1784, and who was the daugh- died. On January 30, 1823, he married Amelia ter of Samuel and Hannah Mendenhall. To them Channell, widow of Joseph Channell, and by this were born six children: Hannah and Lydia (twins), union became the father of six children, one Uriah P., Samnel, Maria Jane and Martha. Of daughter and five sons, all now living, and all these three are now living, and were present at the present at the last Bennett reunion in 1888. family reunion held near Frazeysburg, Ohio, at the Their names are: Samantha, John Lee, George residence of Joshna Bennett, in 1888. Their W., Alpheus J., Joshua B. and Leonidas M. The names are Uriah P., Maria and Martha. Jane Men- mother of these children lived to be eighty-three denhall was a Quaker, and her son, Uriah P., says years old, and died in 1873 on the old homestead. of her: "My mother was a Quaker, and my recol- She lived to see her youngest child nearly forty lection of her is that she was of the plainspoken. years of age. She was a devout Christian. Joshua amiable kind, and I have often wished that I had Bennett was a man universally esteemed and re- inherited a large measure of the sweetness of her spected, held the office of township trustee, clerk disposition. As I look backward now from my and treasurer, and was commissioner two terms standpoint of more than three score and ten, it (six years) for said county. He died June 30, seems to me that she was always trying to show 1860, at the age of seventy-three. He was a life- the bright side of life as affording more rational long member of the Methodist church, and held and enduring happiness than the dark side, and to the office of steward and trustee for years. He me the pleasant memories of her are favored with contributed liberally of his means to build up the an admiration for the plain dress and plain speech church in Frazeysburg. In politics he was for- which showed so constantly the presence of the merly a whig, but in later years he affiliated with law of human kindness of heart. She never seemed the republican party. He was industrious and to lose her power of self control, the calm repose enterprising and accumulated quite a fortune. taught her in childhood by her Quaker parents." His son, and the subject of this sketch, John L. Lydia died February 2, 1813; Hannah died here Bennett, was born August 28, 1825, and his mother on the old homestead May 7, 1882, in her seven- was Amelia Channell, whose parents, John and tieth year. At birth she was very small and would Rebecca (Bagley) Channell, were natives of Vir- not have filled a quart cup. Samuel died of small ginia. Mr. Channell was born in 1767, and was of
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English descent. He was one of the earliest set- his horses standing in the field, he mounted a tlers of Zanesville, on the west bank of Muskingum saddled horse, and hastily gathering a number of river. He was a noted Indian trader and hunter. men, rode rapidly to that city, and was one of the At one time an Indian came to him and wanted to first to volunteer to pursue the raiders. Mr. Ben- trade him a bear. When asked where it was the nett was very patriotic and would gladly have Indina replied, "Only up here a little ways." enlisted earlier in the war, but the demands of a Mr. Channell went with the Indian and frequently young and dependent family prevented him. He asked where the bear was, but received about the is a man of high character and one of the county's same answer. They finally reached the Bowling best citizens.
Green country, near the present site of Newark, John H. Best, ex-city clerk and hardware mer- about twenty-five miles from Mr. Channell's home, chant at 172 Underwood street, is well known in and there found the bear, which weighed 600 the city and is as popular socially as he is success- pounds, and which he bought, paying for it a ful in business. He is a native of Zanesville, Ohio, cambric shirt. It was in this tramp that Mr. born April 19, 1847, and is a son of Valentine and Channell saw and admired the land east of Newark Miranda (Fox).Best, the father a native of Zanes- about two miles, and afterward bought 300 acres, ville, Ohio, and the mother of Maryland. The paying $2 per acre in furs. His grandson, our grandfather, Valentine Best, was a native of the subject, well remembers the old hunter and the Emerald Isle and immigrated to the United States stories he told. He died October 29, 1835. in the at an early date. He was one of the first settlers sixty-eighth year of his age. John L. Bennett of Zanesville and is well remembered by the old res- was born on the old homestead, in a log house, and idents of the city. He distilled the first whisky received a very meager education. He married ever made in Muskingum county, and located in Thresa M. Baughman, November 16, 1848. She what is now the Third ward. There is now an ad- was born April 11, 1825, and was the daughter of dition known as "Best's addition to the Third Henry and Elizabeth (Porter) Baughman, the ward." The grandfather died in 1819. Valentine
father a native of America, but of German descent. Best Jr. was but little over a year old when his Mr. Baughman came to Muskingum county, Ohio, father died and he was educated in Zanesville, re- in 1812, and settled on a farm in Jackson town- ceiving such schooling as those early days afforded. ship. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and He learned the tinner's trade and carried on house was at the battle of Bladensburg. He was the furnishing and hardware business for forty years father of thirteen children. To Mr. and Mrs. or more. He was well known and respected all Bennett were born six children: Louisa (born over the county. He was councilman of the village September 18, 1849), Joshua Hugh (born January of Putnam in 1854. His death occurred in 1876. 12, 1851), Charles Homer (born March 19, 1855, He was the father of six sons and four daughters, and died May 12 of that year), Alva Lee (born five of whom are now living: Solan M., John H .. March 26, 1858, and died February 22, 1875), Laura, Mary and Ida. John H. Best was reared Elmer E. (born June 20, 1862), and May (born and educated in Zanesville and at an early age April 19, 1866. After marriage Mr. Bennett engaged in the tinnery business which he has car- settled near the old homestead, and resided there ried on for twenty years. In 1863 he enlisted in until March 16, 1886, when he moved to his present the United States navy and served one year, being home, which is a part of the old estate. In 1871 only fifteen years of age at the time of enlistment. his wife died, and Mr. Bennett has never remar- He was all through the Red River expedition. In ried. He is a member of the Methodist church, 1867 he was united in marriage to Miss Lunetta and has been church trustee and class-leader. In Arter, who bore him six children, three now politics he is a stanch republican, and he has living: John V., Mamie and Reuben. In 1886 held the office of township trustee for twenty years. Mr. Best was elected city clerk, served four On May 2, 1864, Mr. Bennett enlisted in company years, and was assessor of the Fourth ward for five H, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was in service at years. The Best family is one of the oldest and Baltimore. Prior to this he was a member of the best respected of Zanesville. All Mr. Best's broth- United States guards for nine years, and was a ers were soldiers. Socially he is a member of the member of the company that pursued John Morgan Masonic fraternity, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pyth- and their raiders in their memorable hostile incur- ias, G. A. R. Post No. 81 and the Mystic Circle. sion through Ohio in 1864. He assisted in the Capt. Andrew Jackson Blizzard, Frazeysburg, capture of some of the raiders. During this raid Ohio, is one of the oldest residents of Jackson Mr. Bennett rode night and day for nearly six township, and a descendant of one of the oldest days, and endured great fatigue. He was in his pioneer settlers. His grandfather, Thomas Bliz- meadow mowing when he heard the news that John zard, came from eastern Virginia in 1808, and Morgan was about to attack Zanesville. Leaving brought his family, consisting of his wife and
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