History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and incidentially historical collection pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley, Part 116

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 728

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JOHN COLE, the youngest son and ninth child of Archibald and Elizabeth Cole nee Wood, was born in Barnesville iu 1821. His parents were married at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1803. The fol- lowing is a copy of the marriage license, viz :

" State of Ohio, Jefferson county, ss. :

" Permission of marriage is given unto Archibald Cole and Elizabeth Wood, and ministers of the Gospel duly licensed and justices of the peace within said county or others authorized by law to solemnize marriages, are hereby empowered upon the ap- plication of the aforesaid parties, to unite them together as hus- band and wife. Given under my hand and the seal of the said county of Jefferson, at Steubenville, the third day of November, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three. JOHN WARD, Clerk,"

Archibald Cole and family removed to Barnesville in 1815. He is said to have been the first carpenter and cabinet-maker to " take up" a permanent location in the place. He worked at the trade for many years, served as class leader in the M. E. church for several years, and died in 1855, nearly eighty-three years of age. His wife died in 1852, nearly sixty-four years of age. John Cole was married in 1846, to Harriet Hibbard, danghter of Caleb and Matilda Hibbard, nee Stowe, of Harrison county. She died in 1873, in the forty. ninth year of her age.

ABRAHAM KELLEY was born in Hollidaysburg, Blair county, Pa., August 22, 1839. When quite a small child his parents re. moved to Huntingdon, and from thence to Pittsburgh, where they both died, leaving our subject an orphan. He had sisters, however, old enough to perform the household duties, and he and they kept house, When he was eleven years old they moved to Salesville and lived there for two years ; then for about the same period of time at Quaker City, and in Angust, 1854, came to Barnesville. In 1856, our subject began the trade of a saddler with N. Patterson, with whom he served four years ; worked as journeyman a year longer; enlisted to serve in the war of the rebellion, August 8, 1862; was a member of company B, 126th O. V. I., and served till June 25, 1865. He was in a number of engagements ; was a prisoner several times, and underwent many hardships and privations. After his return he again worked for Mr. Patterson some four years, and since has been in an es. tablishment of his own. He married Anna Leeke, November 15, 1863, who died several years afterward, and he then married her sister, Sarah J. Lecke, on the 28th of November, 1878.

RICHARD E. FRASJER .- He is a native of Culpepper county, Virginia, and was born on the 4th of March, 1804. His parents were James and Sarah Frasier. The latter was a daughter of Richard Evans, a companion of William Penn, Wm. Frasier, the father of James, came to Delaware a few years prior to the revolution.

James E. Frasier and family cante to Behinont county on the 24th of December, 1817, and located on a tract of land near St. Clairsville. He died in 1846, nearly seventy years of age. With the exception of six months as a soldier in the war of 1812 (in which his son Thomas served ten days), his life was that of a quiet farmer. His wife died in 1853, nearly eighty-three years

of age. Of their children, Elizabeth, Phoebe, Richard E , Al- sinda, Juliann, Emily and William are living and Thomas, Townsend, James, Whalen and Mary are dead. Richard E. was a farmer till 1841, at which time he removed to Barnes- ville, and for nineteen and a half years we find him engaged in store keeping. In 1862 he purchased a private residence form- erly known as the Piper House, renovated and enlarged the same, and it has since been known as the Frasier House.

He was married in 1840 to Eliza Cowgill, daughter of Ralph and Mary Cowgill. One child, Worthington, is the only living issue of the union.

JOSEPH F. DU Bois was born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 20, 1837. He was reared on a farm. Married Lydia Gregg, a daughter of Abner Gregg, February 1, 1860, Mr. Du Bois has made various removals since his marriage, but has resided most of the time in his native county. In 1866 he removed to Barnes- ville, Ohio, where he yet resides. On June 1, 1878, he opened a coal bank on the farm of John W. Kennon, which is known as the narrow-gange coal works. They are sitnate on the Barnes- ville and Hendrysburg turnpike, about one mile north of Barnesville. The vein is four feet thick, and the coal is of a su - perior quality.

ANNIE E. BAILEY, daughter of John H. Piper, was born in Barnesville, Ohio, September 23, 1842, and on the 29th of No- vember, 1859, married William C. Bailey. Mr. Bailey was first lieutenant of Company A, 4th Regiment W. Va. V. I., in the Rebellion. At the expiration of sixteen months his health failed him, on account of which he was discharged. In the spring of 1861 they removed to Gallipolis, Ohio, and two years later re- turned to Barnesville, where Mr. Bailey departed this life De- cember 9, 1874, leaving his wife and one daughter, Ada E., to monrn his loss. Mrs. Bailey was assistant in the post office for four years, and is engaged in the millinery and fancy goods trade at present on Main street.

G. W. HANCE was born in Barnesville October 3, 1848. He is a shoemaker by trade; learned the same of N. Patterson, with whom he served two years, and then worked as a journey- man for four years. The first shop he kept for himself was on Arch street, and in May, 1877, came to his present location on Main. Our subject served as a private in the Rebellion. Enlisted in the fall of 1864 and served till the close of the war in Company D, 60th Regiment O. V. 1. Married Martha Hinton on Decem- ber 22, 1870.

THOMAS D. MARIS was born in Belmont county, Ohio; re- ceived a common school education, and learned the stone-entting trade with I. Rutter, of Barnesville. On the 15th of February, 1855, he was united in marriage to Miss Rachel A. Fisher. daughter of John H. and Mary Fisher, who was born January 30, 1837. By this union were two daughters, viz : Mary H., who was born November 26, 1856, and died Jannary. 6, 1861; Allie E., was born March 16, 1858. After his marriage he re- sided in Somerset until 1866, when he removed to Ilinois. He was taken sick, and after an absence of abont three months re- turned to Barnesville, Ohio, where he died April 21, 1866, llis widow survives him.

JOHN BRADFIELD, SR., was born March 23, 1813. at Knaves- boro, County of York, England. Emigrated to America, May 6, 1827, and landing at Baltimore, June 18th of the same year. lle arrived at Barnesville, Ohio, in July, locating on a farm in that vicinity the same fall, where he remained until 1841, when he commenced the dry goods business in connection with the purchase of tobacco there and elsewhere. In May, 1812, he married E. A. Shannon, daughter of Thomas Shannon, by whom he became the father of six chiktren, now living-four boys and two girls. Mr. Bradfield is still engaged in the dry goods husi- ness, assisted by his first and third sons as partners, at the corner of Main and Chestnut streets, in the room formerly ocenpied by James Barnes & Sons. At the time they started there were five stores in the place, Mr. B. is the only one who has continued in business up to the present time, and his store constitutes the largest dry goods house in the town. His transactions in to- bacco amount to thirty or forty thousand dollars annually, Ho also operated largely in wool from 1865 to 1875, when his sons succeeded him. Mr. B. has never sought official dis- dinction, hnt whenever his fellow townsmen have seen tit to elect him to offices he has tilled them cheerfully.

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C. R. ROWANS .- Our subject was born in Belmont county, O., July 26, 1856; was educated at the Barnesville Union School. At the age of fifteen years began teaching, and taught sixty- seven months in Belmont and Guernsey counties, forty of which were in Bethel district, Warren township. In 1876 he began the study of law with J. H. Collins, and was admitted to the bar January 3, 1878, passing an examination before the Supreme Court of the state, On the first day of April he began prac- ticing. Office, East Main street.

EDWARD T. PARKER, son of Thomas C. and Lydia J. Parker, was born September 4, 1844, in Barnesville, where he obtained a common school education. He followed farming till twenty- two years of age, when he began the manufacture of cement, packing of tobacca, general dealer in grain and seeds, white lime, white sand, plaster of paris, stoneware and fertilizers. In 1871, T. C. Parker & Sons built the warehouse, 40x150 feet, at the B. & O. R. R. station at Barnesville, which is owned at present by our subject and his father. On the 29th of April, 1873, he mar- ried Josephine Kennon, daughter of the Hon. John W. Kennon, of Warren township. He is the father of three children : Wil- liam K., Blanche T. and Harry W. Residence on North Chest- nut street, Barnesville.

MARX ALBERT was born in Prussia, June 26, 1823. His father being a butcher, his son Marx learned the same trade. At the age of seventeen years he was taken into the cavalry and served six years. In 1844, he began at the military school at Berlin, where he remained two years, and then served for a time in the regular army. Emigrated to America in 1847, remained in New York for a short time and then came to Wheeling, where he remained till 1849, and then removed to Monroe county, O. In December, of the same year, he married Melissa Gaits, In 1869, he came to Barnesville and completed the building in which he resides at present, and began keeping hotel.

WILLIAM H. BARNES, grandson of James Barnes, the founder of Barnesville, and was born in this place, December 24, 1839. In 1861, enlisted as a private in company B, 3d regiment, O. V. 1,, and served until April, 1863, when he lost his left foot in the battle of Stone River. On the 15th of December, 1868, he was married to Orrell A. Vance. Our subject is a photographer. He first began to learn his trade with his father-in-law, with whom he stayed till 1874, when he opened a gallery on Arch street. Came to his present location on Main street, in the spring of 1876.

HEZEKIAH BAILEY, son of Micah and Mary Bailey, was born in Warren township, October 23. 1821. He obtained a common school education, and was reared a farmer. Married Elizabeth Bandy, daughter of William and Sarah Bundy, December 31, 1845, by whom he became the parent of seven children-Sarah, October 15, 1846; Mary, November 16, 1848; Demsey, Febru- ary 5, 1851, Melvina, May 6, 1854; Almeda, March 8, 1856; Adaline, August 26, 1858; Lucinda, January 9, 1864. All are living but one-Melvina. They resided where Daniel Stanton now lives from the time of their marriage till Mr. B.'s death, which occurred October 19, 1872, when Mrs. Bailey removed to Barnesville, where she now resides. Residence on East Main street.

JAMES SHANNON PARKER was born in Warren township, Bel- mont county, Ohio, October 7, 1853 ; lived on a farm till fifteen years of age, when he began teaching school and taught for three years. In 1871 he removed to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where his brother lives, and was crier in the United States court there for four months. His brother Isaac C. is United States Judge of the Western District of that state. From thence he removed to St. Louis, where he remained some two years and . became collector for the Missouri & Pacific Railroad, and then returned to Belmont county, Ohio. Married Lydia A. Barnes December 24, 1877, by whom he is the father of one son, Fred- erick W. He started a grocery and provision store on Main Central, Barnesville, in 1877.

ELI KENNARD, son of William and Rachel Kennard, was born near Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, February 23, 1816. His father migrated to Jefferson county abont 1814, from Bucks county, Pa. Eli was his only child from his first wife. He was a Friend minister and did a great deal of traveling in the cause of that church. After remaining there for about three years, they moved to Colerain township, Belmont county, where they

lived until 1824, and thence to Monroe county, where Jerusalem now is, and in 1854 to Somerion, this county. About three years later they located in Warren township, two miles east of Barnesville, where he died in 1862, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and at which place his widow resides. Our subject re- ceived a liberal education in common schools and at Mt. Pleas- ant. He used to teach occasionally. On the 3d of April, 1844, he married Mary Edgerton, daughter of James and Anna Edger- . ton, who were early pioneers of the county. This union re- sulted in nine children-Anna, William, Jesse D., Mary E., Rachel (who is dead) Abbie W., Sarah, Alfred E. and Elizabeth. William and Jesse are married, the former residing in Philadel- phia, and the latter in lowa. Eli resided awhile at Jerusalem after his marriage, then in Somerton, and in 1856 removed to Barnesville, where he lived for eight years, and then went to Linn county, lowa, remaining there four years. After the ex- piration of that time, returned to Barnesville, and here resided ever since. In 1852 or 1853 he became a partner of Israel Palmer, who was a tinner, and by so doing learned the trade, which he has been engaged in the greater part of his time since. In 1857 he began the hardware business in connection with his trade, which continned nntil 1864. His shop is located on Arch street, Barnesville, Ohio.

ALLEN FLOYD .- The subject of this sketch was born in Bel- mont county on the 30th of December, 1822, and is a son of Michael and Elizabeth Floyd, nee Allen. His father was a na- tive of Marion county, Virginia, and his mother a native of Greene connty, Pa. His grandfather, Henry Floyd, was a sol- dier of the revolution, serving in the Continental army eight . years. and afterwards followed farming in Marion county, Va., where he died about the year 1839. Michael Floyd followed farming for fifty years and died in 1853, aged 69 years. His wife died in 1855, aged 67.

Our subject raised a company of volunteers for the 176th (). V. I. in 1864, to serve in the war against the rebellion, accom- plishing the same in three weeks' time, and served as captain for one year. After his return from the war he located in Barnesville, where he has resided ever since. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Harper in the year 1848, and is the parent of four children, three of whom are living. He is at present a Jus- tice of the Peace-having served nine years in that capacity in Noble county, and seven years in Barnesville.

HENRY STANTON was born, June 27, 1847. He was reared a farmer. Married Mary Bailey, March 8, 1871, by whom he be- came the parent ofone child.

JOHN W. STEPHENS, SR., was born near Frankfort, Germany, November 4, 1820, and when twelve years of age his parents emigrated to America, stopping in Wheeling a few months, and then removed to Belmont county, Ohio. When fourteen years of age our subject began merchandizing. He married Catha- rine Dirolf, of Columbus, September 6, 1846, after which he re- moved to Athens county, Ohio, and embarked in the dry goods trade. He continued this for five years, removed to Wheeling and sold stoves for four years, then came to Barnesville in 1855, and continned the sale of stoves till 1863, when he engaged in the liqnor trade, which he still continues. In 1873 he began the manufacture of cigars, and expects to make it a specialty in the future.

M. N. CRAWFORD, a native of Washington county, Pa., was born March 5, 1809, and when a small child his parents removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, and located near Smithfield. He studied medicine with Dr. Leslie, and practiced the same for many years. He married Mary A. Laws, of Barnesville, De- cember 11, 1834, whose parents came to this place in the fall of 1815. Her father was a justice of the peace for twenty con- secutive years, and a class leader in the M. E. Church for thirty years. In 1864 they removed to lowa, where Mr. Crawford died February 26, 1865, and also two of his danghters. His widow removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1867, where one of her sons died. In April, 1869, she returned to Barnesville, where she has since resided. One son served against the Rebellion. Of nine children, three sons and six daughters, three daughters alone survive, Residence on North Chestunt street.

JOHN W. STEPHENS was born in Wheeling, W. Va,, December 8, 1849, and when young his parents removed to Barnesville. He learned the trade of a jeweler, and, after working in Wheel- ing, Cincinnati and Columbus for several years, returned lo

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Barnesville in 1873, and has been working at his trade ever since. His store is on Sonth Chestnut street. He married Martha E. Campbell July 8, 1874.

EDWARD T. HANLON, son of William Hanlon, was born in Cross Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, April 5, 1838. His father was a native of New York state, and moved to JJef- ferson county, Ohio, in 1825; married Elizabeth Duvall in March, 1828, by whom he became the parent of ten children, four of whom served against the Rebellion, viz. : William H., Samuel M., Oliver C., and Edward T., our subject. Samuel was killed at Peach Tree creek, Georgia, July 19, 1864; Oliver died in West Virginia. When our subject was but a child his parents removed to New Alexandria, Jefferson county, and, as he was weakly and nnfit for labor, he attended school most of the time. He tanghe school a number of terms, and finally his health be- came so poor that he went to Illinois, and for two years traveled through many parts of the west. In the fall of 1859 he re- turned to Jefferson county and began the study of medicine, which he continued till the opening of the war, in 1861. He en- listed as a private August, 1862, in Company E, 52d Regiment O. V. I., and served till May, 1865. After his return from the war he embarked in merchandizing with his brother in Barnes- ville. In the spring, 1876, he came to his present location on Arch street, where he keeps a grocery and provision store. He married Nancy Daniels, a descendant of the Danfords, July, 10, 1873.

ISAAC PERRY was born in Belmont county, Ohio, July 15, 1823. When two years of age his father died, and he lived with Christian Baker until sixteen years old. He then began to learn the trade of making wagons with Jonas Bernhard, of Morristown, with whom he served five years. In 1845 he came to Barnesville and began labor in a shop of his own and con- tinued till 1849, when he began work for James MeLish, for whom he continued five years. In 1865 he erected a shop on South street, west of Chestnut, where he yet holds forth, man- ufacturing farm and spring wagons, wheelbarrows, sleds and harrows; does repairing, painting, &e. On February 4, 18-47, he married Sarah E. Piper.

RUDOLPH GAMENTHALER, a native of Switzerland, was born in 1834. In 1850, he began the trade of a jeweler, and in 1862, re- moved to Besanson, France, where he remained for six years and then emigrated to America, locating in Barnesville, O., November, 1868. For some five months he worked in a shop on Chestnut street and then came to his present location on Main street. He married Ellen Sieverling, February 5, 1874. At the age of twenty-three years he began mnster according to the laws of Switzerland and followed it for six years, and was in actual mil- itary service for some four months.

FRANK R. LYLES was born in Warren township, Belmont county, Ohio, October 18, 1843. He followed farming until he arrived at the age of twenty-two years, when he began as a drug- gist in Wheeling, where he remained one year. He then lo- cated in Barnesville, continning the drug business. Ile married Carrie A. Graligny, of Beallsville, Ohio, December 25, 1871. The names and births of his children are as follows: Alma, No- vember 10, 1872; Maud M., December 20, 1875; William A., April 13, 1877. Ile has been engaged as a grocer since 1872. He built the property he now ocenpies on Main street, some three years since.

ROBERT M. CONNER was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, June 2, 1823. When eighteen years old he began the trade of a tan- ner. This he has followed the principal portion of his life ; mar- ried Agnes Marquis, of Morgan county, Ohio, in 181; he is the father of seven children. He has lived in different places in Ohio; came to Barnesville in 1873, and began work in the tan yard of William Reed, Sr., where he still remains.

J. M. GARDNER .- He was born in Barnsville in 1827. His parents were Joseph and Susannah Gardner, nee Brookbank. They were married in 1804, and removed to Barnesville in 1815. Joseph Gardner will be remembered as one of the first shoemak- ersin Barnesville. He "stuck to the last" till 1833, and from that date till death was a farmer. He died September 3, 1840, fifty- nine years of age; his wife October 19, 1850, sixty years of age. The children were: Nancy, deceased ; Louisa, deceased; Wes ley, deceased ; Rev. Asbury ; Emily, deceased : Maria, deceased ; Rebecca; George, deceased ; Susan, deceased ; Julia and J. M.

Gardner. The latter has been a farmer, packer and shipper of tobacco. He has served as city clerk, township clerk, justice of the peace (twelve years), mayor of Barnesville, and is acting at present as notary public.

CHARLES H. LITTLE was born in Allegheny county, Pa., No vember 29, 1851. When three years of age his parents removed to Nashville, Tennessee, where our subject learned the trade of a carriage maker. Young Little served as an independent scout in the rebel army for one year, under General Vandorn. For quite a number of years he worked as a journeyman in many different places. In 1876, he located in Barnesville, where he still pursues his trade. He married Maggie Arm- strong, of Wheeling, September 2, 1874.

ABRAHAM C. HOGUE, a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, was born in a log cabin near what is known as the " Rock Houses," on the 7th of April, 1826. His parents removed to Mt. Pleasant whilst he was but a mere child. Here he received a common school education, and at the age of eighteen he began to learn carding and spinning. He served an apprenticeship of three years, and after having finished his trade he worked as a jour- neyman, working at various places. In the spring of 1851, he found his way to Hendrysburg, Belmont county, and engaged with Taylor, Tidball & Co., remaining in their employ three years. During this period he formed the acquaintance of Cynthia Sells, whom on the 28th of March, 1854, he led to the marriage altar. After this he rented a woolen factory on Wheel- ing creek, Ohio, conducted it for nine months and then return- ed to Hendrysburg, where he was made superintendent of the " Effort Mills," for two years, and then became a partner, re- maining as such for four years. In 1865, he removed to Barnes- ville, and in partnership with William Barlow, started the Barnesville Woolen Mills, which he is still operating. Mr. H. assisted in weaving the first figured silk ever manufactured in the United States, and also assisted in organizing the primitive Odd Fellows' lodge in Belmont county.

G. V. RIDDLE, dentist, was born in Washington county, Pa., December 1, 1847. In 1860, his father removed to Guernsey connty, Ohio. Our subject attended Mt. Union College for a while, and has devoted a great deal of his time to teaching, hav- ing taught some forty-two months. One year (1868) he taught in Illinois, and the balance of the time in Guernsey county, Ohio. In September, 1875, he married Maggie McCall, of Cambridge, formerly of Belmont county. In July, 1876, he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Hunter, of Cambridge, with whom he re- mained until 1878 and then located on Main street, Barnesville, Ohio.

MOSES W. EDGAR was born in Greene county, Pa., in 1838. When a small boy his parents removed to Monroe county, Ohio. Mr. Edgar enlisted as a private, September 19, 1862, in company C, 116th O. V. 1., and served till the close of the war. He mar- ried Catharine Clegg, April 22, 1860, who died June 16, 1861. He then married Sarah M. Watt, January 31, 1867, and came to Barnesville, April 15, 1867. The principal work of his lite has been operating a saw mill.

WARREN TOWNSHIP .*

At the commencement of the present century Warren town- ship was a wilderness. The woods, in rich and native grandenr, stood monarchs of its hills and valleys. The prostrate bodies of great trees, which age or storm had felled, lay scattered over its surface, while about and around their mouldering forms vines crept and wound, giving them pronder sepulchre than pomp and show ever bestowed on prince or noble. Wild beasts roamed undisturbed through its jungles, or lodged in safety amid the security of its fastnesses. The axe of the pioneer had never gleamed in its sunlight, nor had the voice of song or utterance of love ever broken the depths of its silence How great the change in seventy-nine years !

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History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and incidentially historical collection pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley, Part 116

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 728

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 728