USA > Ohio > Muskingum County > 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 82
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117
446
HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY.
pitality and the attention given their guests. Mr. mother was a widow) and secured employment in a and Mrs. Fairall had the misfortune to lose their mercantile establishment, his compensation being home by fire in 1884. It was a beautiful resi- his board and clothes. In 1835 he came to Ohio, dence, erected at a cost of about $2,000 ten years by steamboat to Cleveland, and finally reached previous, and there was but small insurance. Zanesville, where, on October 6 of that year he as- When a young man Mr. Fairall taught school in sumed charge of the hardware business under the Jackson township several terms, and taught one firm name of Fillmore, Patterson & Co., the Messrs. term after marriage. He has been extensively en- Patterson being his former employers. Mr. Fill- gaged in buying and shipping cattle to Pittsburg, more has continued this business, and is now one Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York city, and of the oldest merchants of the city and the oldest during the war was one of the most extensive ship- hardware dealer in the state. The firm above pers in this part of the county. The maternal mentioned continued for three years, but in 1838 it grandfather of Mrs. Fairall was Reuben Romine, of became Fillmore & Co., and existed as such for five Fauquier county, Va. He was a wealthy man and years, after which Mr. Fillmore was alone until 1862, a large slave owner. He died in Virginia. His when he became associated with his son, William wife was Lydia A. Smallwood. She rode horse- A. and William A. Cassel. In 1878 he disposed of back from Virginia to Coshocton county on two his interest in this concern, and in February, 1880, different occasions, and the last time she was over he established his present business, which is a seventy years of age, and came in company with prosperous and popular one. No man engaged in her son, Reuben Romine, to visit her daughter, business in Zanesville has been more fortunate in Mrs. Tallifero Vickers. She was a great weaver, establishing and maintaining a high reputation and, although wealthy, she taught all her children than has Mr. Fillmore and his stock embraces a to work. Mrs. Tallifero Vickers was presented large and comprehensive stock of general hard- with two slaves at the time of her marriage, but ware. In 1875 he erected the Fillmore block on her conscience would not let her rest, and she re- Main street, which is one of the best and most turned them to Mr. Romine. The male slave, substantial in the city, in 1858 he erected a resi- Henry, was afterward sold for $1,400. Mrs. J. W. dence on the outskirts of the city, in the Third Fairall was born in Fauquier county, Va., on the ward. He also erected the fine double residence old Vickers homestead July 7, 1825, and was but of A. P. Pinkerton, in Putnam, in which suburb three years of age when she came with her parents he is also the owner of the old Buckingham home- to Ohio. All her brothers and sisters were born in stead. He resides on Putnam avenue. He is a Virginia except James A., the youngest, who was stockholder and director in the Ohio Iron com- born in Washington township, Coshocton county, pany, of which he was one of the organizers in Ohio.
1857.
He assisted in establishing the Brown
E. E. Fillmore, of Zanesville, and one of the Manufacturing company, and took an active part oldest living pioneers of Muskingumn county, is a in securing the extension of the Pan Handle rail- native of Clinton county, N. Y., his birth occurring road from Dresden Junction to Zanesville. He is in the year 1812. He is a son of Septa and a member of the Episcopal church and subscribed Eunice (Edgerton) Fillmore, natives of Connecti- liberally toward the erection of the St. James cut, and who immigrated to the state of New York church, and also assisted in establishing the Cen- about the year 1794, when that country was a vast tral Ohio, and the Cincinnati, Wilmington & wilderness. There they resided in the backwoods Zanesville railroads, having been a stockholder in cabin of pioneer days, undergoing all the vicissi- each. In 1836 he married Miss Margaret Arthur, tudes incident to pioneer life. There the father a native of Lancaster county, Penn., and daughter died in 1823 at the age of forty-nine years, fol- of Rev. William Arthur, a Presbyterian minister. lowed by his widow in 1861, at the ripe age of She died in 1877 aged sixty-five years, having eighty-three years. The father was captain of a borne her husband three sons and two daughters, company in the War of 1812, and was a partici- one dying in infancy and only two living at the pant in the battle of Plattsburg. At the time of present time: William A. and Graham E. Al- his death he was a colonel in the state militia. Of fred died from a disease contracted while in the his family of eleven children one died in infancy, Union army. William A. and Alfred were both but the others reached maturity. E. E. Fillmore in the Morgan raid. Although originally a whig was the sixth of the family, was brought up on a in politics, Mr. Fillmore is now a republican, his farm, and acquired his knowledge of books in the first vote was cast for William H. Seward for gov- subscription schools which were in vogue during ernor of New York in 1833. When starting out his youth, but only attended a few weeks during in life for himself he had only $300, which he had the winter months. When fifteen years of age he saved while clerking. In the early history of the left home and went to Buffalo (at which time his public schools be served three terms as a member
447
HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY.
of the board of education, and was thrice elected formed church, and in politics a whig, and died in county commissioner on the republican ticket. One 1839, the year that William A. was born. His wife of his early ancestors, John Fillmore, was born near is yet living at the age of ninety years. William Boston in 1702, his father having come to this coun- A. Findley was born in New Concord, Ohio, Octo- try from Wales. From this man sprang all the ber 10, 1839, was here educated and graduated Fillmores of this country, including President Fill- from Muskingum college in 1862. He then entered more, also Rev. Gleason Fillmore, whose widow the theological seminary at Allegheny City, Penn., still lives near Buffalo at the age of one hun- and was licensed to preach in 1865. His first dred and three years. in
The father of E. E. charge was the East Eleventh Street church, of Fillmore was born 1774. While dis- New York city, where he remained some time, and charging his duties as commissioner Mr. Fill- later went to Kansas, where he assisted in estab- more introduced a new departure in bridge lishing several churches, and in building one at building, and did much good work in that capacity. Chetopa, Kas., in 1870, of which he was pastor. He introduced the system of putting abutments He then went to Independence, Mo., in 1873, where back into the banks to allow for freshets, and he has since that time been engaged in evangelical aprons to protect the bridges, and a number of the work. While in Allegheny City he married Mag- structures which he erected are in good preserva- gie Gordon, a daughter of Samuel Gordon, a tion to-day, the most noteworthy being one at the prominent merchant of that city, who was born in mouth of Flat run in Wayne township, where 1843. Their union has been blessed with eight nineteen bridges had previously been washed out, children: William G., Frank D., Eddie, Harry thus saving the county many heavy expenditures. P., Ralph, Howard, Emery and Florence, all liv- When Mr. Fillmore first went to Buffalo in 1827 it ing. He and his family reside at Independence, consisted of between 3,000 and 4,000 inhabitants, Mo. and there were but three steamers on Lake Erie George Fisher, one of the leading farmers of running from Buffalo to Detroit: "The Enter- Highland township, Muskingum county, Ohio, prise," "Henry Clay " and "Niagara." The first was a son of George and Ester (Piper) Fisher. steamer on Lake Erie was called the "Walk-In- The father was also a son of George Fisher, a The-Water." She was lost.
native of Germany. When quite young, about
John Findley was a native of Muskingum the time of the Revolutionary war, the gran dfather county, Ohio, and the son of David and Jennie was kidnapped and brought to the United States, (Mitchell) Findley. The father was born in Alle- where he was sold. He grew to maturity in Balti- gheny county, Penn., and was related to Gov. more, Md., and here he married a German lady. Findley and Dr. Findley, of Pennsylvania. David They were the parents of a family of twelve or Findley married in Pennsylvania, and located in thirteen children, among which were three boys: Union township, Ohio, on a large tract of land, Thomas, Jacob and George (the father of our sub- where the town of New Concord now stands. He ject). The father of this family died in Mary- assisted in laying out the town, was a public- land. George Fisher, the father of our subject, spirited man, and gave liberally of his means for was born in Maryland, here reared and married public buildings and colleges. He reared a family Miss Piper, the daughter of George Piper. After of eight children: Matthew, Able, William, John, marriage Mr. Fisher moved to Washington county, David, Samuel, Martha and James, all married, Penn., and then to Harrison county, Ohio, where and all deceased, except the wife of John, who is he settled on a farm. He was a gunsmith by now ninety years of age, and unable to be about. trade. He died in 1816, and was a soldier in the David Findley lived to be over ninety years of War of 1812. His wife died in 1856. To them age, and died in this county. He was at one time were born seven children: Eli, George, Jacob, judge of the county, in politics a whig, and a mem- Eliza, Caroline, Ester and Mariah, Of this fam- ber of the Associate Reformed church, later known ily our subject and Ester are the only ones living. as the United Presbyterian church. His son, John George Fisher was born in Harrison county, near Findley, married in Elizabethtown, Penn., and New Concord, Ohio, in 1808; he attended the dis- shortly after came to New Concord to live on a por- trict schools of that county, and in 1833 married tion of his father's farm. His wife (formally Jane Mary Welch. They had a family of four children, Westbay, daughter of Henry and Hannah West- all deceased; Samuel, Walker, Elizabeth and bay, of Elizabethtown, Penn.), was born in 1802. Jacob. His wife died in 1844, and our subject They were the parents of nine children, William married a second time, Mary Spray, daughter of A., onr subject, being the youngest of the family. John and Elizabeth (Fowler) Spray. Her par- Jolin Findley was a prominent man in the county, ents were natives of Harrison county, Penn., and and took a great interest in church and school of German descent. They lived in Maryland and matters. He was a member of the Associate Re- from there came to Ohio where they died. Mr.
448
HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. .
and Mrs. Fisher are the parents of six children: and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteers, and took Milton, now living in Missouri; Eli, living at part in the following engagements: Winchester home; Addison, is married and lives near the home in June, 1863, where he was taken prisoner place; William, is married and lives near home; and sent to Richimond and from there to Bell Caroline, now Mrs. Poulson, lives in Indiana, Island, where he was almost starved to death and and Seneth, living at home. They have two then paroled. He was afterward at Locust Grove, grandchildren, Mary and George. Mr. Fisher Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and was came to Muskingum county, Ohio, about 1864, then transferred to the Shenandoah Valley and and bought a farm. He has added to this until took part in the engagement at Opequan, Fisher's now he owns one of the best in the county of 300 Hill, Cedar Creek and others. He was next trans- acres well improved, and he is one of the richest ferred to the Army of Potomac, and was at Peters- men in this township. Himself and wife worship burg, Sailor's Creek and the surrender of Gen. at the Associate church of Bloomfield, in which he Lee. Besides these battles he took part in about has been an elder for some years. He is a public- 100 skirmishes but was never even slightly wound- spirited man, was justice of the peace of his town- ed. He was mustered out of the service on June ship for fourteen years, and takes a great interest 26, 1865, and received his discharge July 1, 1865. in politics, sympathizing with the republican On March 8, 1865, he was married to Miss Eliza- party. Although a man of eighty-four years he beth Mangold, a native of Muskingum county, is still managing his farm, but has retired from Ohio, and of German descent. She departed active work. His son, Eli, is a practicing phy- this life on January 27, 1885, at which time she sician in this county. was forty-one years of age. Mr. Fisher's next
Henry Fisher, farmer and stockraiser of union was to Mrs. Jennie (Darner) Border, a na- Muskingum county, Ohio, was born in Erie county, tive of Muskingum county, born March 19, 1842. N. Y., October 27, 1836, and has been a resident She is the eldest of five children born to Samuel of Muskingum county since 1850. His parents, and Margaret (McClurdy) Border, the former of Clark and Martha (Knowlton) Fisher, were worthy whom was born and reared in Muskingum county, and upright people, and his father was a native of where he still resides, and the latter born in Vermont, born April 23, 1798. He was of En- Zanesville. They were married on June 4, 1841, glish origin and for two years was a resident of and four of the children born to them are still Canada, after which he settled in New York, and living. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are the parents of two years later came to Coshocton county, where one child: Ralph A., who was born July 21, 1887. he remained for about seven years, following the To Mr. Fisher's first union the following children calling of a school teacher. After one year's resi- were born: Elmer E., born April 30, 1866, is em- dence in Mercer county he returned to Coshocton ployed in a steel mill in Pennsylvania; Mary county, and two years later came to Muskingum Ellen, born December 12, 1868, became the wife county, where he died in July, 1874, at the age of of F. Elsworth Voorhies and is residing in this seventy-seven years. His wife was born in Ver- county; Alice E., born September 18, 1876, re- mont in 1082, was married in 1820 and died in sides at home, and Mabel E., who was born July 1847. Three years after her death Mr. Fisher 22, 1882. By her first marriage Mrs. Fisher be- took for his second wife Miss Mary Myers, but came the mother of two children: Eva I, who five years later he was again left a widower. His became the wife of Charles F. Briles, resides in third union was consummated in 1856, Miss Mar- Fountain county, Ind .; and Maurice E., who garet Dean becoming his wife. She was born in makes his home with his mother. Mr. Fisher has this county and is now a resident of Newton town- accumulated all he has of this world's goods by his ship. There were eight children born to the first own exertions and has succeeded where many marriage, one to the second and one to the third. others would have failed. He conducts his affairs Of the eight children only three are now living, with good judgment and is wide awake to the in- but the children by the other two marriages sur- terests of his section. He and his wife hold vive. The subject of this sketch commenced life membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, as a farmer's boy, and in 1866 commenced follow- and he is a member of the G. A. R., Hazlett post ing the same calling for himself. In 1872 he pur- No. 81. Politically he is a republican and has al- chased a farm of forty acres which he sold after ways taken much interest in the political affairs of owning two years, and then bought the farm his county. He has added to the natural attract- which he now occupies, a fine and well-improved iveness of his farm by the erection of a commodi- tract of 160 acres, well watered and well improved ous and handsome dwelling-house at a cost of $1, - with good buildings, fences, etc. On August 20, 200, and everything about the place indicates that 1862, he enlisted in the Union army and was a man of thrift and perseverance has the manage- made a member of Company F, One Hundred ment of affairs. Although he only received a
449
HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY.
common-school education in his youth he is an ex- by Col. Nathan Fleming. In 1867 he built a fine, ceptionally well-informed man, and keeps in con- substantial brick residence, beautifully situated, stant touch with the current topics of the day.
and this is now one of the pleasantest homes in Mrs. Beth Ann C. (Beall) Fleming, Nashport, Licking township. Mr. Fleming was a man uni- Ohio. The Fleming family is one of the repre-
versally respected, and held the usual township sentative ones of Ohio, and amongits members are offices. He was a kind-hearted and liberal man, many people of distinction and renown. Daniel and always gave a helping hand to the poor and Fleming, husband of our subject, and the son of needy. He was a stanch republican in politics, as Col. Nathan Fleming, was born on the old home- was his father before him, and always advocated stead, now occupied by his widow, July 26, 1818, the principles of that party. Mr. Fleming passed a
and received but a common-school education.
At quiet, unpretentious life, and accumulated a hand- an early age he began tilling the soil, his father some property, which he left to his children at his leaving much of the management of the farm to death, which occurred June 29, 1868, when about him, and on September 17, 1837, when about fifty years of age. He had given his children twenty years of age, he married Miss Amelia every advantage for an education, sending them to Wood, who was born November 4, 1817. She Zanesville, Mount Vernon and Granville, He was was the daughter of Benjamin Wood, an old pio- a prominent citizen, was universally respected, and neer settler of Licking township, Muskingum came of one of the best and most noted families of county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming's union was the United States. His second wife, Mrs. Beth blessed by the birth of four children: Benjamin Ann (Beall) Fleming, reared with all the tender- W., Thomas C., Albert G. and Amelia A. His ness of a true parent, Mr. Fleming's motherless wife died March 8, 1848, and on February 8, 1849, children, and the bond of attachment is as great he married Mrs. Beth Ann Carter Beall, a native between them as though she were their own mother. of Ohio county, W. Va., born at Roney's Point His second marriage resulted in the birth of the February 3, 1827. She was the daughter of Nin- following children: Harriet L., Henry B., Helen nian and Harriet (Smith) Beall, and the grand- M., Edward (died in Irville at the age of thirty- daughter of Bazil Beall, who was a very wealthy four years), Fremont (died in infancy) Laura L., man, and a great slave owner. Bazil Beall moved William M., Frank M., Ulysses G., Joseph D. and to Ohio county, Va., at an early day, and in that Annie B. Harriet L. Fleming married H. R. state received his final summons when sixty-five Ward, of Newark, and became the mother of two years of age. He left an extensive property to his children, Mabel L., and Annie F. Henry B. mar- sixteen children, who are named as follows, as far ried Fannie Tanner, and followed farming in Pleas- as remembered: Ell Ann (died), Ell Ann, Beth ant Valley. They have one child: Daniel C. Ann, Lee Ann, Syll Ann, Mary Ann, Nancy, Jo- Henry B. was killed by the cars while crossing the seph, Benjamin, Citizen, Samuel and Ninnian. Baltimore & Ohio railroad on the evening of July The father was of Scotch descent. Ninnian Beall, 31, 1891. Helen married Charles C. Colney, and the father of our subject, was the father of became the mother of two children: Frank C., thirteen children, all of whom, but one, lived to (drowned at the age of eight years), and Bessie E. be grown: Mary, Bazil and Henry (twins), Nin- Edward married Alice B. Hueston, and was the nian, Nancy (died in infancy), James, Lee father of two children: Earl S. and Lenora, who Ann (died at the age of twenty-three), Louisa, was burned to death at the age of ten years. Alfred, William, Beth Ann, Harriet and Caroline. Laura L. married John W. Woodruff, and they Mr. Beall moved to near Wheeling, West Va., and became the parents of two children: George W. in 1835 brought his family to Ohio, settling in and Joseph D. Mrs. Woodruff died October 29, Bowling Green township, Licking county, where 1890. William married Miss Ida Woodward, who he bought land. This he increased from time to bore him three children: Bertha, Edith and For- time until he owned 2,000 acres. He became very rest. Frank M. married Ella M. Francis, Ulysses wealthy, and was a large dealer in horses and cat- G. married Nora G. Francis, and became the father tle. In Virginia he had been a slave owner, but of one child: Mary E. Annie B. married Albert not as extensively as his father. He was a Method- I. Woodward, conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio ist in his religious views, but his wife belonged to railroad, and they have two children: Ethel F. and the Presbyterian church. He died in Licking Edith L. Mrs. Fleming has thus reared a large county at the age of sixty-two, leaving a large family of children, and has seen most of them set- property to his descendants. He was an old-time tled in life and the parents of children. She is a Virginia pioneer, and an excellent business man. kind-hearted and very pleasant lady, and remem- Daniel Fleming always lived on the old home- bers very well the incidents of long ago. The fol- stead. He was born in the old log house with lowing are the marriages of the children by the double doors, and afterward lived in a house built first wife: Benjamin W. was a soldier in the Civil
450
HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY.
.
war. He married and had one daughter, Marilla. cleared a few acres and built a house. He was He draws a pension from the government, and pre. several years in clearing his estate, and frequently fers to live in the pleasant quarters of the soldier's added to the original tract until he owned 500 home at Dayton. Thomas C. is in the grocery acres of fine farming land, situated in a beautiful business at Columbus. He married Miss Annie valley. He prospered and in 1845 built a large Smith of Mount Vernon, and has one daughter, dwelling. He was well known to the early settlers, Maud. Amelia married John W. Blizzard Jr., of and held a number of local positions, being town- Frazeysburg. Albert G. was a soldier and died ship trustee for some time. His death occurred of typhoid fever at Baltimore, during the war. on February 3, 1889, at the age of seventy-five Mrs. Fleming is now sixty-five years of age. Her years, and his wife died at the age of seventy- four. eyesight is remarkable, and she can see to read and She was a member of the Methodist church and sew in the evening without glasses. She retains Mr. Fleming was a believer in that doctrine. He all her faculties and bids fair to live to a good old retired from business in 1884 and resided in New- age. Mrs. Fleming resides on the old homestead, ark the latter part of his life. He was a member which is a fine tract of land of 150 acres, and this of the Masonic fraternity at Newark and Irville. is managed by her son, Joseph D. Fleming, who He gave his children all excellent educational ad- is a capable young man. He graduated at the vantages. John M. Fleming, like his father before Commercial college at Zanesville, and is the owner him, chose farming as his occupation through life. of fifty acres of land in his own right. The Flem- He inherited the old home place from his father, ing homestead is a substantial brick residence of and on December 14, 1882, he married Miss Lou modern architecture, and is very comfortable and A. Stump, daughter of Leonard and Catherine convenient, its spacious interior being well arranged (Claypool) Stump. Mr. Stump descended from an and filled with evidences of culture and refine- old pioneer family of Muskingum county, and his ment. It is situated in a beautiful valley sur- father, James Stump, was a farmer of Licking rounded by picturesque hills and an abundance of township, Muskingum county. The latter was trees and shrubs.
born in Virginia, and came to Ohio with his
John M. Fleming, farmer, Frazeysburg, Ohio, father at a very early day, settling near Irville. one of the prominent planters of Jackson town- James Stump was a prominent farmer, as was also ship and a descendant of one of the old and much his son, Leonard. The latter is the father of respected families of Muskingum county, Ohio, seven children: Sue S., Mary C., Sarah M. (died was born October 30, 1857. His grandfather, Col. at the age of fifteen), Lou A., Fannie E., Emma J. Nathan Fleming, was one of the original pioneers and Lenora. John M. Fleming is one of the of Muskingum county, and located here in 1804. prosperous citizens of Jackson township and a de- He was commissioned in the militia of the state scendant of sturdy pioneer ancestry. Many mem- April 3, 1812, by Jonathan Meigs, was promoted bers of this well-known family have become emi- to major October 29 of that year, and held that nent in different walks of life, and all are well position until October 5, 1818, when he was pro- respected and honored. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming moted to lieutenant-colonel. His son, Albert Flem- have a pleasant home, and an air of culture and ing, was born on the old homestead at Irville, Feb- refinement pervades their pleasant rooms. Mr. ruary 13, 1813, and this property is still in the Fleming is a practical farmer, and stands deserv- hands of the Fleming family. Albert started out edly high in the opinion of all, being a young for himself as a farmer, equipped with a common- man of character and ability.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.