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 124

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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WILLIAM E. BUNDY, a son of Ezekiel and Maria Bundy, was born in Warren township, March 11, 1843. He was reared a farmer and educated at Mt. Pleasant and Westtown, Pennsyl- vania ; the latter place he attended two years. Married Rebecca Doudna, April 24, 1864, by whom he became the parent of three children -- Elmer C., born February 11, 1865; Agnes M., born Octo- ber 11, 1871 ; Bertram H., born May 27, 1876. After his marriage he resided about a mile and a balf north of Barnesville, where they remained till the spring of 1867, and removed to the farm owned by Joel Doudna, where he still resides. Mr. Bundy was formally engaged in the cultivation of tobacco, in which he was very successful. In 1873 he raised on three acres of ground a crop hie sold for $650. In 1876 he turned his attention to the breeding of Merino sheep.

JOHN H. BUNDY, son of Ezekiel E. and Sarah S. Bundy, was boru July 25, 1854. Was educated at Mt. Pleasant und Duff's College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On the 26th day of March, 1873, he was married to Mary D. Doudna (daughter of Thomas

and Rachel Doudna) by whom he has one son, Thomas C., born January 5, 1874. After his marriage he lived one year where Daniel Stanton now resides, on the Hezekiah Bailey farm, then on the old Hoyle farm one year, and from thence to where he now lives on the old Starbuck farm. He owns 190 acres, which contain abundant coal, and engages in farming and wool-growing the latter of which he makes a specialty.

PETER SEARS, JR .- We will premise this sketch with the fol- lowing allusion to our subject's ancestry : Paul Sears was a na- tive of France, and whilst young in years migrated to the Uni- ted States, accompanied by his three brothers, Reader, Richard and Daniel. Reader went to the Indian war, and was gone for a long time before he returned. He remained at home for a short period, went back to the war and then farther west. He was never afterward heard of. Richard married and had two children-William and Polly. He died when young. Daniel enlisted and served in the revolutionary war, but no tidings of him ever were known. Paul married Elizabeth Butler, by whom be became the parent of ten children, Mary, Martha, Goditha, Sarah, John, Tabitha, Elizabeth, Ann, Margaret and Jemima. John Sears married Sarah Pecples, by whom he had nine children, Paul, Elizabeth, Huldah, John, Sarah, Martha, Samuel, Peter and Anna. He was a blacksmith by trade, which he followed till middle life, when he followed wheel-wrighting, and being a natural genius, be supplied his wants at other me- chanical trades, carpentering, silversmithing, tanning and shoe- making, &c. Died in 1800. Peter Sears, the father of Peter Sears, Jr., was born in Prince George county, Viginia, April 5, 1787. He migrated to now Somerset township, Belmont county, Ohio, in 1806, where he remained one summer, and then re- turned, but came back again in the spring of 1809. Here, on March 14, 1810, he married Anna Doudna (daughter of John and Sarab Doudna,) who was born in Greenville county, North Car- olina. They settled in Wayne township, entering a quarter section, where they made several improvements in the wilds of the forests of Captina, by putting up a log house and stable, and then selling to a more fortunate emigrant. Four successive im- provements were made, each advancing in price, which enabled them, about the year 1820, to hold the last quarter for a home. He reared a family of twelve children : Sarah, born December 14, 1810; Martha, born January 9, 1812; Zillah, born July 30, 1813; John, born November 10, 1814; Peter, born May 20, 1816 ; Paul, born February 1, 1818; David, born September 14, 1819; Huldah, born September 3, 1821; Ann, born August 30, 1823; Benjamin, born June 23, 1825; Josepb, born May 10, 1827; Eliz- abeth, born March 29, 1830. All are dead but Peter and David. Peter Sears, Sr., departed this life July 12, 1863, in the seventy- seventh year of his age, and his wife, Anna, died November 5, 1878, aged ninety-two years. Peter Sears, Jr., was born in Wayne township, received a common school education, and en- gaged in teaching for a number of terms. On the 1st of Jan- uary, 1851, he married Phariba Bundy, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Bundy, of Colerain township, who were pioneer set- tlers. This union resulted in four children : Mary B., born Octo- ber 11, 1852; Sarah D., born Angust 11, 1854; Benjamin S., born January 22, 1857; Edwin W., November 29, 1858. After his marriage he came to where he still resides, and which has always been his home since, save from 1861 to 1864, when in Iowa. The house in which he resides was built by Thomas Williams, who entered the southwest quarter of section 2, in Warren town- ship. Here he was residing in the winter of 1806-7, when his wife, Prudence, made and sold butter to Thomas Hunnientt, an- other emigrant, who had just arrived. Saving the money thus received until spring, she took it, mounted a horse and went alone to Redstone, Pennsylvania. Here she bought fruit trees, which she carried home ; and having done this much, she would plant them with her own hands. They grew and furnished an abundance of excellent fruit. Some of these trees are still liv- ing and in bearing; one of them was measured in February, 1879, and was nine feet four inches in circumference at the smallest point between the roots and forks, and ten feet at eighteen inches above the ground. It has four large branches, one of which measures four feet in circumference; another five feet, another five feet two inches, and the other five feet eleven inches. These measurements were taken at eighteen inches from the junction. This is believed to be the largest apple tree in Belmont county. Growing near it is a pear tree, also very large and fruitful. In 1879 it measured seven feet six inches in circumference, and about forty-five feet in height. In the kitchen of this house is one of the old fashioned fire-places, seven feet in length. Its well worn jams, used instead of a grindstone

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to sharpen the knives ; the crane, with hooks attached, whereon were suspended the kettles containing the substantial dinners of those days; the bakeoven (still in keeping) where many pies, loaves of bread and "corn dodgers" have been baked by placing tire both above and below them, and the mantle shelf above the fireplace, extending its whole length and supported by wooden pins, all tell of the " good old days, in the early times out west." There are also in the house an old-fashioned loom, two wheels, a large and a small one ; the large one was used for spinning wool, (rolls) and the other for flax and tow. Also a pair of hand-cards, used for making rolls of the wool before the carding mill was invented, a pair of " fliers" and a distaff belonging to the small wheel. These things. although not in use at present, are in good working order, and Mrs. Sears had in her early life manufactured many yards of wearing apparel, coverlets and table linen. She had also woven many yards of carpet,

JOSEPH J. SEARS, a son of Benjamin and Esther Sears, was born February 24, 1853, in Warren township. Was reared a farmer and educated in common schools. Learned the trade of a carpenter with David Patterson of Barnesville, beginning when nineteen years of age. This occupation he followed till 1873, then he engaged in the lightning rod business, and pur- sued the same in 1874. He also sold fruit trees for a short time, and then again resnmed his trade as carpenter and joiner. Mar- ried Ruth E. Shy, October 21, 1875, by whom he is the parent of two children; Cora A. and Lillie E. Came to where he now resides April, 1877. He is a breeder of light and dark Brahmas and Plymouth Rock chickens. His stock is from the best strains in the United States.

BENJAMIN STANTON, son of Edmund and Sarah Stanton, was born in Goshen township, Belmont county, Ohio, April 22, 1849. His father died when Benjamin was only two years old, and was reared by his grandfather, Benjamin Hoyle, with whom he resided until his marriage. He was educated in the common schools and at Mt. Pleasant. Married Elizabeth T. Plummer, daughter of Robert and Jane Plummer, October 27, 1870. They are the parents of two children-Wilfred L. and Howard A. Soon af- ter his marriage he came to where he now resides and has dealt in sheep ever since. In 1877, he began breeding Merino sheep of the flock of Jacob Keller of Licking county. His sheep are of the best quality.

WILLIAM FRAME, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Frame, was born October 2, 1790, near Winchester, Virginia. His parents removed to Harrison county, Ohio, some four miles from Cadiz in about 1810. Married Ruannah Thomas, September 28, 1814. They reared a family of four children-all boys. William died May 4, 1823. Two of his sons are living-Aaron and James. His wife is still living, and is in the 91st year of her age.

AARON FRAME, eldest son of William and Ruannah Frame, was born June 18, 1815, in Harrison county, Ohio. Educated in the common schools of that day. At the age of seventeen he began to learn the trade of a carpenter with T. T. Larkin, and served an apprenticeship of four years. He then started in bus- iness for himself, following that trade for twenty consecutive years. On September 1, 1836, he married Tabitha Thompson, by whom he is the parent of eleven children-eight of whom are living, five sons and three daughters. In 1837, he bought a saw mill and nine acres of land in Shortereck township, Harrison county, Ohio, operating the mill in winter and following his trade in summer. He owned this mill for about nineteen years. In the spring of 1856, he removed to Cedar county, Iowa, where he followed farming. Here he lost his wife, June 14, 1860, and married his second wife, Achsa Smith, a native of Guernsey county, September 29, 1863, and returned in the following spring to Warren township, Belmont county, Ohio, where he now re- sides, near the Friend's boarding school. His second wife died October 2, 1875. Mr. Frame has-quit his trade, and follows it only when called upon by some of his friends, for advice or planning and superintending. Was foreman of the carpenter's work on the boarding school building, until his wife became so ill that she had to have his care, and the work fell to another. He has built and superintended other important buildings.

ELI STANTON was born in Goshen township, Belmont county Ohio, February 12, 1835. When two years of age his parents removed to Warren township, two miles north of Barnesville, where they both died. He was educated at common schools and Mt. Pleasant. Married his first wife, Mary P. Bundy, danghter

of John Bundy, December 9, 1857, by whom he became the pa- rent of three children-Wm. H., Sarah B. and Emma C. In 1858 he removed to where he now resides. His wife died December 6, 1871. On July 30, 1873, he married his second wife, Deborah H. Bandy, widow of Chalkley Bundy, by whom he has one child, Nathan E. Mr. Stanton is a dealer in short horn cattle. His stock is from G. J. Hagerty of Licking county, Ohio, and T. F. Joy of Delaware county, Ohio.

LEWIS NAYLOR was born October 11, 1819, in Smithfield town- ship, Jefferson county. Ohio, and is a son of James and Rach- el Naylor. Ilis father was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, April 24, 1777, and when eleven years of age he went to Balti- more city, and worked in the store of his uncle, Oliver Mathews. Here he remained until a man grown, when he began the trade of a blacksmith, and afterwards conducted a shop, employing many men. In 1811, he purchased a team and drove through to Jef- ferson county, Ohio, where he settled and still continued his trade until his health failed him, when he began merchandizing, bringing his goods over the mountains from Baltimore by stage. He crossed the mountains sixteen times in eight years. Whilst engaged in this business he accumulated a considerable amount of property, but in 1819, he erected a grist and saw mill, which proved to be a poor investment, In 1837, he removed to Belmont county, and located near Somerton, where he did con- siderable in land speculating, until he became advanced in years and was cared for by our subject till his death, which occurred March 7, 1864, in the 87th year of his age. In 1845, Lewis Nay- lor began cabinet work and carpentering, in the town then called Little Morristown, known at present as "Slabtown." He final- ly made carpentering a specialty, which he continued steadily till 1854, when his family and himself had the ' typhoid fever, since which he has been engaged in farming, where he resides, in eastern Warren township. He married Rachel Bailey May 7, 1840. They are the parents of nine children ; seven are liv- ing ; all are married but one daughter.

JOSEPH C. GRIER, a son of Thomas and Mary Grier, and grand- son of Henry and Anne Grier, was born March 4, 1829. He married Jane W. Kennon, daughter of Alexander and Margaret Kennon, December 1, 1857, by whom he became the father of five children, three of whom are living: William M., Ilenry K., and Albert E. After their marriage they remained with Thos. Grier on the old homestead, where our subject was born, and where he died Jannary 28, 1870. His widow still owns the old farm, His grandfather, who entered section 28, in Warren township, in 1805 or 1806, had a family of eight children : John, Thomas, William, Henry, Catharine, Elizabeth, Anne and Mar- garct. At the date of his death, in the fall of 1813, he gave each of his sons a quarter of the above named section. Thomas fell heir to the southeast quarter of the section, where he resided till about 1840, when he completed the brick house in which Mrs. Grier pow resides. Thomas married Mary Ferrell January 5, 1814. They were the parents of twelve children, eight of whom grew to the age of majority : Henry, Mariah, Matilda, Elizabeth A., Margaret J., Joseph C., Hannah 1 .. and Harriet, Thomas Grier was a soldier in the war of 1812, under Captain Thomas Shannon, and acted as orderly sergeant of the company to which he belonged. He died January 4, 1870, in the eightieth year of his age. His wife departed this life June 18, 1862.

THOMAS HUNT, a native of Calvert county, Maryland, was born June 24, 1806, and married a Miss Buckingham, by whom he had three children. After the death of his wife he emigrated to Belmont county abont 1836, and on the 14th of December, 1837, married Nancy Dyre. By this union he was father of six chil- dren, viz. : Thomas B., John W., Sarah A., Rebecca G., Philip D. and Joseph H. The eldest is dead. They resided in several different places in Warren township; the longest at any one time was twenty-one years on the Dr. Mackall farm, where our subject departed this life, December 25, 1862. In early life he sought and found redemption in the blood of Christ, uniting with the M. E. Church. He maintained the deportment of an orderly and consistent Christian till death. In 1871, his widow and family removed to the farm where she yet resides, about one and a half miles north or Barnesville.

PHILIP G. DYRE was born in Fairfax county, Va., June 15, 1774. Of his early life not much is known; but in 1803, he embraced religion and united with the M. E. Church, In De- cember, 1811, he emigrated to Ohio and located on the farm which he occupied till his death. His house had been a regular

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preaching place for forty-five years previous to his death, and a home for the way-worn itinerant. Father Dyre's life for fifty- eight years fully exemplified the spirit and purity of the Gospel, " walking worthy of the vocation wherewith he was called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering." He was not " broke by sickness in a day." but worn by slowly rolling years, with the blessings and sympathies of a numerons posterity. He married Sarah Davis about 1798, and reared a family of nine children, two sons and seven danghters. Mr. Dyre departed this life, May 2, 1861.

MILTON S. DICKS was born in Henry county, Indiana, May 28, 1840. His father was a saddler and Milton worked in his shop till nineteen years old, when he began the blacksmith trade with his brother, William Dicks. with whom he served one year and then worked as a journeyman for a year in Illinois and Kansas. He returned to Indiana, followed farming for a time and then worked in a shop of his own for four years. He then removed to Belmont county in December, 1874, and located in the eastern part of Warren township, where he still runs a shop. He mar- ried Rebecca Arnold, of Indiana, April 4, 1864, who died October 4, 1867. For his second wife he married Margaret C. Smith, a native of Monroe county, Ohio, December 21, 1871. They are the parents of the following children: Hibbard H., Ella M., and Ethel ; the latter, deceased.

WILLIAM A. FRAME, son of Aaron and Tabitha Frame, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, July 23, 1853. He attended school at Mt. Pleasant and at Westtown, Pa., and was reared a farmer. After he became twenty-one years of age he began wagonmaking, at which he worked for two years. He married Florence M. Outland, March 29, 1877, by whom he is the parent of one child, who was born September 16, 1878. Of late years he has been following the carpenter trade.

DANIEL P. CHANEY, son of John and Elizabeth Chaney, is a native of Warren township, Belmont county. His father was born in Calvert county, Md., July 18, 1799, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was a carpenter by trade, following the same for many years, and was married to Martha Stamp Jan- uary 1, 1828. They had two children; both are dead. His wife died August 25, 1830. He then married Elizabeth Pront, July 18, 1833. By this marriage he became the father of five chil- dren-Sarah E., born May 1, 1834; John W., born August 3, 1835; Martha A., born October 8, 1837; Richard T., born Feb- ruary 23, 1839; and Daniel P., born October 22, 1841. During the latter year Mr. Chaney emigrated to Belmont county, and located on the present site of Mt. Olivet. Here he remained for twelve years, and then bought the farm on which his sons, William and Daniel, reside. He died Angust 15, 1874. He had been a member of the M. E. Church for 47 years previous to his death, forty of which he was elass-leader and steward. Our subject married Martha M. Grier June 4, 1874. They have three children -- Annie E., born June 13, 1875; Nora A., born Janu- uary 13, 1877 ; and John H., born October 19, 1878.

JOHN W. CHANEY was born in Calvert county, Md., Angust 3, 1835 ; was educated at Barnesville and the Ohio University, at Athens. He attended the latter institution two years. On the 12th day of_ May, 1859, he was united in wedlock to Sarah R. Ogg, by whom he is the father of the following children : Mary E., born August 9, 1861 ; Ellen R., born April 16, 1863; and John, born July 24, 1869. After his marriage he removed to where he yet resides, on a part of the old homestead.

JAMES NUZUM was born in Ireland, March 28, 1808. When he was ten years old his parents emigrated to America ; his mother, however, never reached the American shore; the long and te- dious voyage of eleven weeks was more than she could endure, and she died on the vessel. They located south of Barnesville, but after seven years removed to the farm yet known as the Nuzum bomestead, where our subject's father died at the age of 86 years. When our subject was twenty-five years of age he returned to Ireland for his sister Margaret, who, when they left, was too young to endure so long a voyage. Mr. Nuzum mar- ried Permelia Hare, February 8, 1837. He is the father of eight children by this union : John R., born March 1, 1838; Jane L., born October 28, 1839 Joshua Il., born October 31, 1841; Betsey A., born December 6, 1843 ; Julia A., born September 21, 1845 : James P., born February 25, 1848; George T., born June 29, 1850; and Sarah E., born June 23, 1853. After he was first married he resided where John Price now lives, and then re-

moved to where he now resides, about one mile west of Barnes- ville. On this farm is the old fort, full particulars of which are given in this work.

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, a son of William and Ann Campbell, was born in Warren township February 6, 1836. His business is farming. In 1859 he went to Pike's Peak, during the gold excitement, but soon returned and married Mary J. Dew, Feb- ruary 20, 1866, by whom he has four children, viz .: Annie B., Nettie M., Harley L., and Nellie L. Campbell. He remained on his father's farm four years after his marriage, then near Barnesville two years, and then on the farm of his father one year, after which he removed to where he now resides, on the old Hyde farm.

JOSEPH H. DOUGLASS, son of George and Eleanor Douglass, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, December 14, 1844. His occupation from boyhood has been farming. On the 10th of February, 1872, he married Annie M. Stewart, who was born April 8, 1848. They have two children, viz : Charles D., who was born November 30. 1872, and Jennie E., born April 20, 1876. After his marriage he removed to where he now re- sides, one and a half miles northwest of Barnesville.

THOMAS RICHARDSON, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in about the year 1787. When a young man he resided in Ohio county, Virginia, and at an early date removed to Belmont county, where he married Penelope Dyre, in the year 1843, and by whom he became the father of six children, two sons and four daughters ; both sons are dead. He had previously been married to a Miss Sarah Wilson, who died. His death occurred in the fall of 1860, leaving his widow and four daughters, viz : Mattie E., Naney, Ann A. and Mary C. to mourn his loss.

GEORQE DOUGLASS, JR., son of George and Eleanor Douglass, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, on the farm where his father yet resides. He married Martha E. Stamp March 10, 1863, and is the parent of four children: Richard G., James C., Joseph E. and Eleanor S. After his marriage he removed to Morgan county, Ohio, where he remained three years, and then to where he now resides, on the old Jones farm. His farm is underlaid with excellent coal. His principal busi- ness has been the growing of tobacco.

RICHARD H. STAMP, son of Stephen and Lorenna Stamp, was born in Calvert county, Maryland, June 18, 1809. His pa- rents died when he was small, after which he went to live with his brother William, with whom he remained till he was twenty years of age. He then began the trade of a carpen- ter with his brother-in-law, John Chaney ; they worked togeth- er for some ten years. Mr. Stamp followed his trade regularly till he came to Ohio. He married Eleanor Sunderland, January 15, 1835, by whom he is the parent of ten children, six of whom are living; two sons and four daughters. He emigrated to Bel- mont county in 1841, and located where he now resides, near Mt. Olivet. Mr. Stamp embraced the canse of religion when seventeen years old, nniting with the M. E. Church, since which he has maintained the deportment of a consistent Christian. He has been class leader of the Mt. Olivet Church ever since he emigrated to Ohio.

THOMAS SHANNON, son of John and Rachel Shannon, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, May 27, 1823. His fath- er was a son of George Shannon. Our subject obtained a com- mon school education, and was reared a farmer. In 1850 he went to California, where he remained until 1852. On Novem- ber 26, 1856, he married Mary Sells, of Kirkwood township, by whom he is the parent of three children: Anthony, Sarah C. and John E. Mr. Shannon has always followed farming, save the two years whilst in California.

ALBERT G. BROOMHALL was born in Chester county, Pa., June 8, 1809, and when seven years old his parents emigrated to Goshen township, Belmont county. In 1832, they removed to Guernsey county, and in the year 1859, they located in Warren township, Belmont county, where the father of our subject died, July 30, 1861 ; his wife died in Guernsey county. April 1, 1864. Our subject is by trade a chair manufacturer, at which he was engaged for many years. He married Rebecca Tussey, a native of the state of Delaware, September 17, 1852. They have but one child, Sarah Catharine, who was born June 23, 1853. Mr. Broomhall came to where he resides in March, 1863. His farm

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is rich in coal, and he gives employment to several men in the winter season mining, &c. His son-in-law, Robert H. Malden, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, November 14, 1851. When about fifteen years of age he began traveling, and followed the same for five years, visiting some twenty states of the Union and all of the territories, after which he returned to Belmont connty, and was married March 21, 1877. He is the parent of one child, Albert C. Malden, who was born November 15, 1878.

JAMES E. KENNON, son of Alexander and Margaret Kennon, was born September 6, 1838. His education was obtained at the common schools and the Barnesville Academy. He mar- ried Harriet E. Wetzel, danghter of Martin and Elizabeth Wetzel, supposed to be a descendant of a brother of Lewis Wetzel, on the 7th of January. 1872, in Highspire, Dauphin county, Pa. They are the parents of two children, Martin A., and Margaret E. The former is dead.

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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 124

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