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 125

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 W. KNOX, eldest son of Robert and Lucy Knox, was born in Springfield township, Jefferson county, Ohio, November 30, 1849. He remained with his father on the farm until he was eighteen'years old. He then attended the MeNeely Normal School at Hopedale, Harrison county, Ohio, for one year, after which he was engaged in teaching in Jefferson county one year. He then went to Owen county, Indiana, where he taught a year, and then returned to Ohio and entered Harlem Springs College, Carroll county. Here he continned for one year and then re- moved with his father to Barnesville. In the year 1871, he taught distriet schools, and the ensuing year was spent in teach- ing in the Barnesville Union Schools. On the 3d of November, 1873, he married Allie Hunt, of Barnesville. He then removed to Mt. Olivet, where he has since been engaged in teaching; has also been in the mercantile business for the past four years. He is the parent of two children : Wilbur H., born November 13, 1874, and Charles E., born October 3, 1876.

WILLIAM H. SEARS was born March 31, 1856. His father, Benjamin Sears, died when he was but two years of age. He ob- tained a common school education at district No. 1, Warren township; married Mary K. Naylor, daughter of Lewis and Rachel Naylor, March 27, 1878, in the Friend's Stillwater church, of which they are both members. He resides on the farm where he was born and grew to manhood. His mother lives with him.

JOHN W. KENNON is a native of County Down, Ireland, where he was born December 22, 1812. He was but about eight years of age when his parents emigrated to America and located in Belmont county. Mr. Kennon was educated at the old log school houses, and was reared a farmer. He married Eliza Du- Bois November 7, 1851, by whom he became the parent of ten children, eight of whom are living, viz .: Jane W., Josephine, Mary E., J. Newell, Agnes, Thomas J., William H., and Annie E. After his marriage he and his parents occupied the same house, the old homestead, till their death, and he remained then until 1875, when he erected a fine residence on his farm, one mile north of Barnesville. He has been called upon at different times to serve as a juror in the United States Court at Cincin- nati, and was a member of the Legislature in the winter of 1868 and 1869. He was a member of the committee appointed to found the site for the State Reform School for girls, which is located at White Sulphur Springs, Delaware, Ohio.

JOHN W. PRICE was born in Warren township, Belmont coun- ty, October 9, 1823; married Malinda Douglass, daughter of William Donglass, (who served from Warren township in the war of 1812) December 22, 1853. They are the parents of six children. Those living are Emma and Robert D. For ten years after his marriage he lived where John Price, Jr., now resides. He then removed to his present location, two and a half miles west of Barnesville. Mr. Price is a farmer, and has been a res- ident of Warren township all his life.

JOHN C. BLOWERS was born in Ann Arundel county, Md., June 15, 1812. He is a shoemaker by trade, having followed it in the winter seasons when a young man. His father died when he was about ten years old, and in 1831 he and his brother Samuel emigrated to Ohio, and were in the vicinity of Flushing for two years, when they went to Mt. Olivet. He made many removals until after his marriage, which occurred January 15, 1839, choosing for his wife Diodamey Campbell. In the year 1841 he located where he now resides, on the pike leading from

Barnesville to Hendrysburg. He is the father of six children, William A., born January 8, 1840; Mary A., born October 22 1841; John M., born May 15, 1844; Asa R., born May 2, 1847 : Thomas B., born November 23, 1848; Samnel W., November 7, 1854. William A. died "April 4, 1858. Mr. Blowers follows farming, owns a farm of 120 acres, underlaid with coal, in which he is quite an extensive operator. His mother died December 9, 1863, aged 90 years, 3 months and 14 days.

DAVID G. HAMILTON was born in Cireleville, Ohio., October 4, 1821. When twenty years of age he went to Guernsey coun- ty, Ohio, to seek his fortune, having not a dollar that he could call his own, and began labor near Washington. Here he worked for different parties by the month and year till he was twenty-five years of age, when he married Mary A. Maloon, De- cember, 1847, by whom he became the parent of four children- James W., Nancy E., John N., and George E .- the eldest and youngest of whom are dead. After his marriage he lived on rented property for five years. Then he bought a farm of 81 acres in Noble county, where he lived but a year, and finally bought where he now resides, He has 80 acres of good land, which abounds in coal of a superior quality.

FRANK M. M.ELTON was born in Kirkwood township, Bel- mont county, Ohio, August 21, 1838, and is a son of Moses and Anna Melton. His father followed merchandizing, and our subject remained in his employ until twenty-eight years of age, when he married Mary D. Smith, of Noble county, Ohio, Sep- tember 30, 1866. Their children are three in number, viz: Willard S., Addie M. and Clyde W. Mr. Melton removed to Mt. Olivet in 1861, forming a partnership with his father in the mercantile business, with whom he continued until he died in 1874, being in the seventy-fifth year of his age. In 1863 he be- gan as a traveling salesman for Smith MeNichols, tobacco mer- chant, for whom he continued four years. Then he was engaged in selling notions one year for William H. Jones; for Davis & Co. and J. M. Lewis, grocers, for two years. He then began for Delaplain & Son, dry goods merehants, of Wheeling, with whom he still continues. He resides in Mt. Olivet.

WILLIAM STANTON, son of Joseph and Mary Stanton, was born in Warren township, September 15, 1839. He was reared on a farm, and was educated at the boarding school at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Henry Stanton, his grandfather, settled near Mt. Pleas- ant in 1810, where he remained but a short time, however, and removed to Goshen township, Belmont county. Here he re- mained till the year 1852, after which he lived with his children until his death, in 1863, he being some seventy-five or seventy- six years of age. Our subject was united in marriage to Jane D. Davis Jannary 27, 1864, and unto them are born five chil- dren, three sons and two danghters, viz: Eva T., Mary E., Joseph E., Francis W. and John L. After his marriage he lo- cated on the farm owned by the heirs of Abel Barnes. He came to the farm on which he now resides in the spring of 1867. In 1871 he began the nursery business, and still continues the same at present, a notice of which is given in another part of this work.

GEORGE STARBUCK, son of George and Elizabeth Starbuck, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, Ohio, March 8, 1814, George was the youngest of a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters. His father was a native of Nan- tucket Island and removed to North Carolina at an early day. He married there and removed to this county in the spring of 1805, and entered the east half of section No. 1, and erected a sort of a tent and covered it with canvas ; drove forked stakes in the ground at a required height, upon which they fixed their beds to protect themselves from the venomous reptiles, among which were the rattlesnakes. In this way they lived until fonr acres of ground could be cleared and planted in corn, when they crected a cabin. In 1810, they built a hewed log house, which is still standing. The land remained in the Starbuck family till the winter of 1875. At the age of two years our subject was left fatherless. He was reared on a farm and was educated in the first schools of the township. In April, 1836, he married Lydia Bailey, by whom he became the parent of eight children-three living, Martha, Jesse and Milton. In 1875, he sold the old farm and removed to Barnesville, where he remained with his son Jesse till the spring of 1878, when he located where he now re- sides. His wife died November 3, 1851. In 1872, he traveled through Oregon and California, riding two hundred and eighty miles in stage.

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JOSEPH W. GARRETSON, son of Asa and Ruth Garretson, was born in Somerset township, Belmont county, Ohio, March 17, 1852. When ten years of age his father removed to Barnesville. He was educated at Mt. Pleasant. On the 5th of March, 1873, he married Melvina Bailey, by whom he has one child, Mary L., born February 14, 1874. Located where he now resides in the spring of 1875; lost his wife by death October 14, 1878, aged twenty-five years. In 1876, he gave attention to the raising of the Chester white hogs, making his purchase from S. H. Todd, of Huron county, Ohio. The same year he began in the ponttry business, breeding light and dark Brahmas, game bantums, &c. His purchases were from Wonderly & Davis, of Dayton, Ohio, W. F. George, of La Porte, Indiana, and C. C. Damarin, Ports- mouth, Ohio. He also at the same time began the breeding of Spanish merino sheep, making his first purchase (twenty-four) from J. H. Keller, Licking county, Ohio. In January, 1879, he made another purchase (eleven) of H. R. Pumphrey, Licking county, and a buck and ewe of Copper & McFarland, Knox conn- ty, Ohio. Has fourteen head of the Humphrey's importation from Spain in 1802. The remainder of his flock are descendants of and bred to combine the blood of the Humphreys, Cock and Jarvis flock, imported from Spain in 1802 and 1810.

PERLEY PICKET, son of William and Rebecca Pieket, was born February 8, 1851, in Maltatownship, Morgan county, Ohio ; was reared a farmer and educated in the common schools, attended Mt. Pleasant school three terms ; taught seven terms; married Rebecca M. Schofield, daughter of Jonathan T. and Abigail Sco- field, of Barnesville. After his marriage he located where he now resides, one mile south of the Friend's boarding school. He is engaged in farming and stock raising.

EDMUND HAYES, son of Bailey and Mary Hayes, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, February 20, 1805. His parents emigrated from Georgia, in 1804, and located two miles east of where Barnesville now stands. Joseph Stubbs, a grand- father to our subject, left Georgia in quest of a home in 1803, and traveled through Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and as far west as into central Illinois. He returned by traveling through Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. He decided to make Ohio his future home, purchased three-quarters of a section of land in Warren township, and in the ensuing spring, 1804, sent Edmund's father to live upon it, and came the following year with his family. Edmund is the second child of a family of sev- enteen children ; thirteen were boys, and sixteen of the family attained the age of manhood and womanhood ; four of whom are yet living. Mr. Hayes was reared, as most children of his day, having an abundance of ont-door exercise and but limited means to procure an education. In his early life, as was the enstom in those days, he labored most of the time for others, at clearing. chopping, &e., always giving his father the proceeds until he ar- rived at the age of majority. In December, 1825, he was mar- ried to Elizabeth Shrigley, a native of Pennsylvania. They are the parents of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters ; all of the children are married except the youngest daughter. Ile has thirty-eight grand-children and five great grand-chil- dren. After his marriage he entered a quarter section of land, and was to pay $1.25 per acre. This land was situate in the east edge of Guernsey county, Ohio. He resided on this property for some three years, when he sold it to a Mr. Finch, and then purchased forty-five acres in Warren township. Here he re- mained for about nine years, when he disposed of this and re- moved to Leatherwood, Guernsey county, and conducted a mill for four years. At the expiration of this time he bought the property on which he yet resides. Mr. Hayes is the oldest man living who was born in Warren township, and still resides in the same. lle was father and father-in-law, uncle and first cousin to forty-nine who served in the war against the rebellion of 1861.

SAMUEL DURNAL, born in Fayette county, Pa., in 1818. Ile removed with his relatives to Flushing township, Belmont conn- ty, in 1826, to Union township in 1827, and Warren township in 1838. He was the son of Samuel and Rebecca Durnal, ner Hall. The latter was a daughter of Spice Hall. Samuel, the elder, died in 1817, fifty-five years of age ; his wife in 1856, soy- enty-two years of age.

The children were: Abner, deceased, married to Delilah Rossal ; Moses, deceased, married to Susan Right, deceased : Hannah, deceased, married to Wm. Burch, deceased ; Samuel, married to Sarah A. Woodland ; Eliza, deceased, married to Samuel Biven, deceased ; Harriet, deceased, married to George

Taylor, deceased, and Phebe, deceased, married to Josiah Wil- son.

Onr subject was married as above stated in 1842 to Sarah A. Woodland, danghter of John and Nancy Woodland, nee Rowans.

The issue of this union is: Isaae H. ; Colston D., deceased : Caroline, deceased; Emeline, deceased; Othy B., married to Elizabeth Kerr ; O. C .. a medical student of two years' duration with Drs. Williams and Judkins, of Barnesville : Mary E. and Rosa Bell, deeeased.

THOMAS C. PARKER, son of Jesse and Anna Parker, was born at Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, Angst 31, 1812, His father was a son of Jacob and Rhoda Parker. They were na- lives of North Carolina, and were members of the Friends' church. In abont 1806 they emigrated to Warren township, Belmont county, on account of the existence of slavery in their native state. Jacob Parker entered the tract of land where Mr. Parker now resides. After a few years they removed to Jeffer- son county and located at Mt. Pleasant where our subject was born, but the exact year is not known. His father had six children ; the three eldest are yet living, Matilda, Thomas and John C. The latter resides on the old Parker farm. Our sub- ject obtained a common school education when at home; but at the age of eighteen he went to Wheeling to learn the trade of a bricklayer with Jaeob Amick, for him he served three years, working at the trade in the summer, and attending school in the winter. He was educating himself either for the practice of medicine or of law ; however, both were finally abandoned, he having become engaged in trade, and finding it more remunera- tive. He did an extensive business at contracting and building in Wheeling till 1842, when he gave it up to his two brothers, who had learned their trades with him. In the meantime he was engaged in speculating and trading on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In 1842 he removed to Barnesville, Ohio, He was united in marriage to Lydia J. Thornburgh, of Barnesville, in 1841. They are the parents of three children, viz: Elizabeth, Edward and Joel ; all are living. After his arrival in Barnes- ville he engaged in farming, dealing in live stock and packing pork. At this date he resided a short distance cast of town. In connection with the foregoing he began the enfinre and packing of tobacco, which he has carried on extensively ever since. In 1846 his wife departed this life, and for a second be chose Sarah Green, February, 1848. They have five children three of whom yet survive. William, the eldest, who resides in Illinois, Jesse and Thomas C., Jr., who are at home. In 1870 he erected one of the finest residences in Belmont county, about one-half mile west- of Barnesville. M.r. Parker owns 480 acres of land, all of which is underlaid with coal of a super ior quality. In 1858, he began the manufacture of Hydraulic cement. This business has been conducted by Mr. Parker most of the time since.

ALEXANDER KENNON Was born in connty Down, Ireland, in 1800, and was the son of Newell and Jane Keunon nee Wilson. The latter died in Ireland, in 1819, at the age of forty-two. The former was a farmer, and our subject attended school and as- sisted in the potato, wheat, barley and other harvests.

In 1821, the father, with his seven children, four girls and three boys, migrated from Ireland and located on section twenty three, Warren township, Belmont county. He purchased one thousand acres of land at prices from tour to ten dollars per acre. The land was heavily timbered, and he leased a large portion of it to parties who for seven years had free rent, pro- vided, during that time they cleared twenty-one acres. He died in 1863, in his ninety-first year. The children were : Alexan- der ; William, married to Elizabeth Kirkwood ; Rose Ann, mar- ried to James Kennon ; Margery, married to David Cowden : Mary, married to Washington Buchanan ; John W., married to Eliza Du Bois : aud Eliza, married to William White. Alexan- der has been twice married, first in 1828, to Margaret, daughter of William and Agnes Dunn nee Dann. She died in 1818, about forty years of age. Their children are. Wm. Newell, Samuel S., James E., Jane W. and Mary Ann. He was next married in in 1852, to Emily Jones. She died in 1878, nearly fifty-seven years of age. Their children are. Amanda, Edwin, Emma and George Chalmers.

DANIEL E. STANTON, son of Edmund and Sarah Stanton, was born Angust. 28, 1850, in Goshen township, Belmont county, (). His father died when Daniel was abont four months old. He was educated at district schools and Mt. Pleasant ; was foreman in Davis, Stanton & Co.'s planing mill for four years, at the end

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of which time be bad the first and second fingers of his left hand sawed off. Married Rebecca D. Bundy, daughter of Chalk- ley and Sarah Bundy. October 9, 1872; have two children- Sarah E., born August 4, 1873; Edwin C .. born September 17. 1877. Came to where he now resides April, 1875.

HOSEA DOUDNA .- Our subject was born in Edgecombe coun . ty. North Carolina, in 1793. His father, John Doudna, was a friend of General Wolfe, and was at the capture of Quebec. He afterwards removed to North Carolina, where he met and mar- ried Miss Sarah KnowIs, of Edgecombe county. They removed with several children to the present location of Hosea Dondna, in the spring of 1805. John Doudna died in 1808, about eighty years of age: his wife, a few years later about the same age. The children were: Penina, deceased, married to James Lils, de- ceased; Hosea, married to to Mary Farmer, deceased; Zilphha, deceased, married to John Edgerton : Asenath, deceased, married to Benjamin Boswell, deceased; Joel, deceased, married to Rebecca Hodgin : Elizabeth, deceased, married to Jesse Daw- son, deceased; and Anna, deceased, married to Peter Sears. Ho- sea Doudna's children Were: Rebecca, married to Andrew Blow- ers; Ann, deceased, married to John Crew, deceased; Joseph. married to Belinda Hobson; John, deceased ; Thomas, deceased, married to Rachel Wood; Robert, deceased; Willoughby, de- ceased, married to Ruth Ann Ervers; Jason, married to Mary Ervers; Hosea, deceased, married to Mary Plummer, and Eph- raim, married to Anna Hanson.

WASHINGTON BUCHANAN, a son of George and Margaret Bu- chanon, nee Henry, was born in 1809, in Kirkwood township, near Warren, Belmont county. His parents with five children, William, George, Wilson, Margaret and Martha, migrated from the vicinity of Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., and located in Kirkwood township in April, 1800. In a few years the Henrys (George H., father of Mrs. Margaret Buchanan) and his family arrived in the same neighborhood. George Buchanan died in 1843, at the age of seventy-six ; his wife in 1821, at the age of fifty. The children born in Belmont county were ; David, John, Andrew, Washington, Elizabeth, Sophia and Casandra. All of the children are deceased with the exception of Wilson, Wash- ington and Elizabeth. William died at manhood; George mar- ried Margery Kennon, deceased, a sister of Judge Win. Kennon, Sr., of St. Clairsville; Wilson married first, Elizabeth Brian, de- ceased; second, Esther Burris; Margaret married William Dougherty, deceased ; Martha, Sophia and Casandra died while young. Our subject was married in 1824, to Mary Kennon, a daughter of Newell Kennon. The children are: John H., mar- ried to Sallie, daughter of Richard Stamp ; Jaue, deceased ; New- ell K .; Margaret, married to William Thompson ; Thomas J., of the firm of Buchanan & Moore, Barnesville ; Eliza ; and Mary Wilson, married to Isaac P. Lewis, of Lewis' Mills.

JOHN R. GIBSON, JR., was born in Calvert county, Md., Janu- ary 6, 1827, and in the following spring his parents, John R. and Rebecca Gibson, with four children, emigrated to Warren township and located where the Chaney heirs now own. Here they remained for some two years, and then they purchased 80 acres in section 29, where our subject now resides, for which he paid $600. His father was married to Miss R. Hunt, by whom he became the parent of eight children, six of whom are living, five sons and one daughter. He served a short time in the war of 1812. Died June 14, 1859, aged 75, and his wife died Febru- ary 11, 1875. Our subject received a common school education. From the time that his father located on this farm, about fitty years ago, he has never been away from home longer than a week at one time. Ile married Susannah Gill, of Guernsey county. March 1, 1849. They are the parents of eight sons- John W., William T., George W., Richard E., Winfield S., Ben- jamin F., Isaac H., and Charles W. He owns a farm of 226 acres, which is underlaid with coal of an excellent quality, and has four banks opened on bis farm. Tobacco has been grown on this farm every year since his father came here. In the year 1865 be raised 17,000 pounds and sold it for $11 per hundred.

FRANCIS DAVIS, son of John F. and Ann Davis, was born in Belmont county, July 9, 1819. His parents emigrated from Ire- land in 1818, and located about two and a half miles from Mor- ristown. He obtained a common school education, and was reared a farmer. His father lived but a short time on the land where he first located, and then removed to Harrison county. There be engaged in the mercantile business until bis death, in 1827. His mother afterward married Israel Wilson, who was

one of the first settlers in eastern Ohio, and they removed about three miles from Freeport, on a tarm. When Francis arrived at the age of sixteen he came to Belmont county and located in Flushing township. In April, 1840, he married Mary Smith, by whom he became the parent of nine children, three of whom are living-Jobn F., Jane D., and William C. He re- sided in Flushing township till 1860, and then removed to War- ren township, where he still resides. In 1864 he moved to Barnesville and engaged in railroading; been interested in the Bank, and has been president of the same since 1875 ; has stock in the gas works at Barnesville; was general superintendent of the ." Quakers' " school building in its erection in 1875, and had the contract for building the Quaker church. He and Jesse Starbuck owned the planing mill, which they erected in about 1871, and which exploded July, 1878. Came to where he now resides in 1873, and built his present residence, opposite the Orphans' Home in 1877 His son, John F., is married and resides in Barnesville. His daughter, Jane D., married William Stauton, and resides near by.

JOHN G. HOYLE, son of Benjamin and Tabitha Hoyle, was born in Barnesville, Ohio, April 10, 1827. His mother died when he wasabout one year old. In 1842 he removed to Mt. Pleasant, and was superintendent of the boarding school for five years, and then returned to his farm again. John was educated at Mt. Pleasant, and was married to Elizabeth Bundy, daughter of Ezekiel and Maria Bundy, October 30, 1850, by whom he is the parent of three children-Simon S., October 31, 1851; Na- than B., August 5, 1854, and Ezekiel B., December 16, 1855. Nathan is dead. The other two are married. He bas resided in Warren township ever since his marriage, and came to his present location, on the Bundy homestead, in 1868.

LINDLEY P. BAILEY was born in Goshen township, Belmont county, Ohio, March 8, 1850. He was educated at Mt. Pleasant and reared on a farm ; married Elizabeth S. Stanton July 26, 1871. They are the parents of four children-Edward M., Oscar J., Anne and Clara. For one year after his marriage he lived on Isaac Vail's farm, and then removed to his present lo- cation, some two miles east of Barnesville on the B. & O. R. R. Before his marriage he taught school, but since he has been a grower of sheep. In the fall of 1878, he turned his attention to the South Down. The first he purchased was from George J. Hagerty, of Licking county, Obio, which took the premium at the Ohio State Fair. Bought from John I. Holly, of New Jer- sey, a sheep from the Webb flock of England. He purchased other fine sheep from different parties. His sheep is of the finest quality, and he has taken great pains in improving his stock.

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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 125

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