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 205

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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GEORGE C. PORTER was born in Salem township, October 11, 1838. He was a son of James Porter. He received a common school education, and was reared a farmer. Began the trade of a millwright and followed that until the opening of the rebel- lion, when he enlisted as a private, and was promoted until he" reached the rank of captain of company D, 98th O. V. I. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged. Upon his re- turn home he engaged in carpentering, which occupation he still follows. On the 26th of September, 1865, he was married to Elizabeth S. McCoy, by whom he has three children,

EPHRAIM CABLE (deceased) was born in now Island Creek township, Jefferson county, O., March 15, 1787; was the first white child born in the county, and perhaps the first in what is now the state of Ohio. His father moved hither in 1785, and built the block house at Cable's Ferry, known as Cable's block house. Ephraim Cable was married to Sarah Clemens in 1819. They were the parents of fourteen children, eight sons and six daugh- ters. Five sons and three daughters are still living. He fol- lowed farming during his lifetime; was a soldier in the war of 1812, in which conflict he bore an honorable part. His death occurred on the 4th of September, 1875.

SANFORD CABLE, a son of Ephraim and Sarah Cable, was born on the old farm, (where he yet resides) July 4, 1835. In Octo- ber, 1860, he was united in marriage to Margaret Bell. This union resulted in four children-William, George, Mark E. and Robert. Mr. C. has always been engaged in farming.

WILLIAM W. CABLE, son of E. and S. Cable, was born in Is- land Creek township, April 19, 1823. On the 24th of March, 1859, he married Sarah Bell, and reared a family of two children -Lewis A. and Ross W. His occupation is farming.

JOHN YOCUM, son of John and Sarah Yocum, born in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, April 19, 1831. On the 3d of May, 1853, he was united in marriage to Eliza Whit- son, of Brooke county, West Virginia. They have a family of ten children, three sons and seven daughters. Since his mar- riage he resided in Steubenville township until 1875, when he came to his present location. He was in Company D of the 157th Regiment O. N. G. His business for the past ten years has been packing ice, which he sells at wholesale or retail. He preserves for sale during the proper season from 1.500 to 2,000 tons.

LEAMON W. MARTIN was born in Sistersville, O., December 9, 1843. His parents died when he was young, and when but three years of age he was brought to Steubenville and lived with Asa Travis. He has followed butchering for ten years. Married Sarah Priest, of Brooke county, W. Va., March 18, 1875, by whom he is the parent of one child, Elijah J. In 1876 he moved to his present location, on Wells' creek.

LEONIDAS H. WALKER, son of Dr. P. A. and Amanda E. Walker, was born in Island Creek township, November 24, 1854. He received a common school education, and followed farming, which occupation he still pursues. Married Sallie J. Robertson March 11, 1878. They have one child, Florence W.

GEORGE A. WATSON, son of George and Sarah Watson, was born in Island Creek township July 30, 1822. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and emigrated from Washington coun- ty in about 1819, and settled on a farm of 120 acres in Island Creek township. He was of Irish descent. Our subject was married March, 1844, to Jane Clark, of Knox township. They have one child, Sarah J. After his marriage he resided on the old home farm, and in 1872 he came to his present location, where he owns 214 acres of land (sec. 9).

DAVID W. MCCULLOUGH, son of Alexander and Bethanna Mc- Cullough, was born at East Springfield, Jefferson county, Ohio, December 24, 1843, and was reared on a farm. Attended Har- lem Springs College for two years. After leaving school he taught one year. When the rebellion of the Southern States took place he enlisted in Company E, 52d Regiment, as a pri- vate, and served till the close of the war. Received wounds in the charge mnade at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, being struck in the breast and shoulder. On October 26, 1871, he married Sarah J. Watson, by whom he has one child, Clark W. He and his father-in-law reside together.

JESSE L. FLEMMING, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Flemming, was born in Island Creek township June 21, 1819, and began blacksmithing at the age of sixteen years, In 1840 he started a shop and has carried on the business ever since. He also opened a store in 1850, and has been merchandizing as well. On August 15, 1839, he married Sarah Smith, by whom he had seven children, three sons and four daughters. He had two sons who served in the rebellion. The father of our subject was a native of New Jersey, and settled in Jefferson county with a family of seven children in 1815. He died June 30, 1840, at the age of 63, and his wife died in 1849 at about the same age. Those of his children still living reside in Island Creek town- ship.

WESTLEY A. WARDEN, son of Samuel and Sarah Warden, was born in Knox township, Jefferson county, Ohio, March 31, 1846, His father died when Westley was very young, and his widowed mother, with six children, removed to Island Creek township. On the 12th of August, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, of the 98th Regiment, and served until the close of the war. He was never off duty but a short time. Married Eliza J. Morrow, of Island Creek township, January 18, 1872 ; came to his present location in 1873, where he owns eighty acres of well improved land.

ALEXANDER .M. SHANE, was born on the farm upon which he now resides, February 26, 1832. When about sixteen years of age he began the carpenter trade which he followed seven years. On Jannary 6, 1856, he was united in marriage to Jane C. Carr. By her he reared a family of seven children, two sons and five daughters. Came to his present location in 1877.

JAMES SHANE, decased, was born in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1806. Married Catharine Morrison,

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and reared nine childred. Two of his sons, John and Abraham, served in the rebellion. The former died as a prisoner at Sauls- berry, in 1863. His widow still survives, aged seventy years.

SAMUEL STILL, son of Daniel and Barbara Still, was born in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, February 15, 1843. October 1, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company B, of the First W. Va., V. I., serving three years and two months. He was shot in the right shoulder, at Moorefield, West Virginia, where they were encamped, and were unexpectedly attacked by the enemy. He was wounded by a revolver shot. At the battle of Port Republic, June 9, 1862, he was taken prisoner and kept at Lynchburg and Belle Isiand for three months. On the 13th of December, 1867, he married Sarah J. Yocum. This union re- sulted in seven children-six living. Been living on his pres- ent place since 1868.

BENJAMIN T. COE, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Coc, was born in Island Creek township, March 6, 1833. On the 3d of October, 1844, he married Esther M. Freeborn. They bad a family of ten children, two sons and four daughters are living. He resides on the farm upon which his father settled in 1810. His father was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania. Our subject's grandfather bought section 25, November 8, 1799, ot Thomas Edgington, and paid $1,760. Benjamin Coc, deceased, settled on the north half as above mentioned, and remained there until his death in 1842. His widow died January, 1867, aged seventy-four years.

MATHEW STARK, son of James and Elizabeth Stark, was born in Cross Creek township, September, 1832. Married Mary J. Stone, October, 1854, by whom he reared a family of five chil- dren : Howard, Adaline V., George W., Harry R., and Charles W. Mr. Stark removed to Island Creek township in 1875, where he has a farm of eighty acres. For the last twenty-five years he has followed threshing during fall and winter, and farms in the summer seasons.

SAMUEL HUSTON, whose parents were John A., and Jane L. Huston, was born in Island Creck township, February 28, 1850. He was left an orphan at the age of thirteen. In 1867 he enter- ed Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and grad- uated in 1869. Married Sarah T. Porter, September 2, 1873. This union resulted in one child, John A. The father of our subject John A. Huston, Sr., was born in 1812, in this township. He was married three times. First, in 1835, to Isabella Steph- enson. She died August 21, 1841. He then married Nancy Marquis, August 25, 1842. She died May 2, 1848. His third wife was Jane T. Fleming, to whom he was married, April 24, 1849. He died November 17, 1863, and his wife November 26, 1877, aged 66. Willian S., (deceased), Andrew, who resides in Missouri, and Lizzie S., deceased, were chrildren of his first wife. Wilson S., who is of his second wife, lives in Iowa. Of his third was born Samuel, Mary, (deceased) and Martha. Our subject's grandfather was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, April 1762. He was married to Elizabeth Simunds, and reared a family of six children. He migrated to Jefferson county, in 1809, and located permanently on section 2, Island Creek town- ship. He died December 5, 1836. His wife died July, 1852.

DANIEL M. ABRAHAM, son of D. C. and Mary Abraham, was born on the farm where he yet resides, May 26, 1829. He mar- ried Susan McClure, of Allegheny county, Pa., March 2, 1854, by whom he had five children-one dead. In about 1851 he re- moved to Stenbenville, Ohio, where he engaged in the lumber trade for about one year. After his marriage, ho located on the farın where he now resides, and which was settled by his father at an carly day. He owns 160 acres. Mr. A. is a member of the M E. Church.

JAMES LYONS, the only child of James and Isabel Lyons, was born on the farm where he now resides, Angust 12, 1817. Onr subject's father located on this tract in 1803, and in 1816 he mar- ried Isabel Louther. Ile died here in 1854. The subject was married twice. His first wife was Mary McComis, whom he wed- ded June 25, 1838, and reared three children. On March 29, 1813, she died, and then he married Hannah B. Markle, June, 1845. By her he reared a family of seven children.

E. B. SHEPHERD, a native of Pittsburgh, was born February 18, 1818. He learned the machinists' trade, which he followed for a while, and was engineer on a steamboat for fifteen years. On the 73-B. & J. Cos.

1st of July, 1841, he married Martha Close, and reared a family of five children. In 1840 he lost his right arm while firing a can- non. In 1871 he purchased the property where he now resides, and the mill known as the Browning Mill, which he conducted until 1878.

JAMES T. MARTIN was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, No- vember 21, 1828, and when he was ten years of age his parents, John F., and Mary Martin, removed to Jefferson county. In 1852, our subject went to California, where he engaged in min- ing, and returned home in 1859. In 1860 he went back again and remained until the fall of 1867, when he paid another visit home, returning in the spring of 1868. In 1874 he came back again and commenced farming. On the 30th of December, 1876, he was married to Sarah Davis, by whom he has one child.

DANIEL A. MORELAND, son of David and Arty M. Moreland, was born March 31, 1838. in Jefferson county, Ohio. He was a soldier in the late rebellion and was wounded May 27, 1864, at Dallas, Georgia. On January 9, 1865, he married Mary A. Findley. He is the father of six children. In 1866, he was elected assessor of Island creek, which office he has held ever since.

BEATTY MCFARLAND, a native of Adams county, Pa., was born February 27, 1806. He came with his parents, who settled in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1812; and was married to Minerva Arnold, October 31, 1837. She died February 12, 1875. In 1841 he was elected justice of the peace of the above named township and has held the office ever since- making a period of 38 years.

PAUL CASTNER .- Our subject was born in Island Creek town- ship, Jefferson county, Ohio, September 26, 1845, and was united in marriage to Mary H. Paxton, November 3, 1870. He has a family of four children. He has an ice-house on Will's creek and during the summer season follows teaming.

ISAAC GRATON, son of R. and F. Grafton, was born in West- moreland county, Pa., July 25, 1797. His parents migrated and settled in Jefferson county, in 1812, and purchased two hundred and forty-eight acres of unimproved land in section twenty-three. His father was killed by lightning when about sixty years of age. Isaac was married twice; in 1823 to Jane McFarland, by whom he had a family of eight children. For his second wife, he married Caroline Lowry (nee Daniels) in 1865. Mr. Grafton is eighty-two years old and his wife. sixty-nine ; both are members of the Presbyterian church.

JOHN D. GRAFTON, son of Isaac Grafton, was born March 10, 1834; married January 21, 1858, to Sarah J. Palmer, by whom he reared a family of seven children. His occupation is farm- ing.

DARIUS DAVISON was born of Samnel and Matilda Davidson, in Springfield township, Jefferson county, Ohio, July 20, 1830. He received a common school education and occasionally taught winter schools. In 1855 he purchased a mill near Amsterdam and began in the milling business. On January 26, 1857, he married Margaret Arnold. This marriage resulted in three children. In 1872 he came to his present location in Island Creek and bought the mill owned by James Scott. Our sub- jeet's father was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and born in 1796, and came to Jefferson county, in about 1806; married Matilda Morrison, reared seven children and died in 1874.

WILLIAM ELLIOTT, whose parents were James and Elizabeth Elliott, was born in Brooke county, W. Va., March 1, 1841, and in Angust, 1858, he went to Steubenville to learn the blacksmith trade, where he worked for three years. When the war broke ont he enlisted as a blacksmith in the First W. Va. cavalry, com- pany L, and served till JJuly 1, 1865. In February, 1866, he came to his present location, Pleasant Valley. March 12, 1868, he was married to Kittie Scott. They have (wo children.

JAMES BLACKBURN was horn in Wayne township, Jefferson county, Ohio, April 1, 1814. He learned the milling business and removed to Island creek in 1834, and operated a mill for his father on Wills creek. In 1835, he was married to Nancy Han- len. This marriage resulted in six children. In 1852, he re- moved from the county for several years, and in 1859, he pur-

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chased the mill known as the Browning mill. He conducted this mill until 1871, and then removed to his present location. He has been carrying the mail for three years. Thomas Black- burn, our subject's father, was born it Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1792, and migrated to Jefferson county when a young man, and was married in 1813.

JAMES COOPER, a native of this county, was born of Ephraim and Amelia Cooper, February 11, 1806, and married Matilda Henry, by whom he had eight children. After the death of his first wife he married Elizabeth Powell, who is also dead. He removed to his present residence, on the banks of the Ohio river, opposite Brown's Island, Mr. C. is perhaps the oldest man liv- ing who was born and yet resides in the county.

EPHRAIM COOPER was born near Baltimore, Maryland, and is of English extraction. Whilst yet a young man, Mr. Cooper and William Campbell, both about the same age, used to hunt considerable in now West Virginia, along the Ohio river. Finally they ventured across the water and tried their skill in the ter- ritory. This was as early 1795. These two purchased section 7, in now Knox township, Jefferson county. In 1798, Ephraim, the subject, removed permanently ou this land. He and Camp- bell built the first cabin on the State road, between Wills Creek and Yellow Creek. In 1803, our subject married Amelia Cotter, by whom he reared a family of eight children. He diedin 1852, on the old farm upon which he located. His wife died at the age of eighty-nine. His mother lived to be 992 years of age.

GEORGE AULT, the subject of this sketch, was a son of Andrew Ault, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was born on the 23d of August. 1803, in now Island creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio. On March 9, 1826, he married Marga- ret Sisler, by whom he reared nine children. In 1852, he went to California and remained for nineteen years, following mining and cattle dealing. His brother Philip served in the war of 1812.

WILLIAM STARK was born of James and Elizabeth Stark, De- cember 7, 1820, in Cross Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio. On the 28th of September, 1843, he married Elizabeth Winters. This marriage resulted in two children. He farmed till 1848, when he began as a traveling salesman for the firm of Beatty & Co., of Steubenville, with which firm he continued till 1852, after which he bought property in Island Creek township. He has held the office of county commissioner since 1873. He was a soldier for a short time in the rebellion and served under Col. McCook.

MOSES Ross was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1772. In 1803, Moses, his brother Robert and their mother, removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, and located on the farm where his sons yet reside, in Island Creek township. In 1804, he married Eliz- abeth Ramsey, who was born in 1782, by whom he reared nine children. He died in 1855. During the war of 1812, he was paymaster of a regiment. James and David Ross own the home- stead. Our subject's father, John Ross was a captain in the Rev- olutionary war, and served all through that struggle for liberty under General Washington,

THOMAS B. NIXON, whose parents were Andrew and Jemima Nixon, was born in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, February 15, 1821. When fifteen years of age his parents removed to Monroe county, Illinois, and located opposite St. Louis. Here he was educated and learned the carpenter trade, but his principal business through life has been farming. In 1846, our subject returned to Jefferson county and settled in Is- land Creek township, and in 1847, he married Mary Crawford, by whom he reared nine children. He owns 230 acres of well improved land. In 1872, Mr. Nixon was elected infirmary di- rector and served three years.

REV. JOHN C. MCCRACKEN Was born in Armstrong county, Pa., March 23, 1850. At the age of seventeen he began school teach- ing and taught the greater part of his time prior to entering eol- lege. He entered the Sophomore class at Washington and Jet- ferson College in 1872, and graduated in 1875. In the fall of the latter year he began a course at the Western Theological Seminary and completed the same in the spring of 1878. The following June he married Emma Hiil. He first began in the ministry in Indiana county, Pa., and then came to his present field. He has charge of the Two Ridge Presbyterian and Pleasant Hill churches.

MOSES COE was born in Island Creek township on the farm where he now resides, October 30, 1822. He owns 154 acres of land. He was the oldest son of Moses and Esther Coe, who came from Washington county, Pa., in 1815.

SAMUEL MORTON .- William and Mary Morton were the pa- rents of our subject, who was born in Fulton county, September 2, 1811. He settled in Jefferson county in 1838 ; married Eliz- abeth Winters, July 5, 1841. They reared a family of four ehil- dren. He has a farm of seventy acres, upon which he settled in 1854. Mr. M. and wife are members of the M. E. Church at Wintersville.

Ross WINTERS was born on the farm where he now resides, September 22, 1814, and was married August 29, 1839. They reared two children. William Winters, the father of our subject, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., in 1777, and came to Jeffer- son county in 1802. In about 1808, he came to where bis son now lives, where he died in 1849.

WILLIAM L. RHINEHART was born in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, May 27, 1848. He obtained an academ- ical education and taught school for a livelihood. During the Southern war he enlisted as a private, August 15, 1862, in the 98th regiment and served until the termination of hostilities. In 1868, he married Martha Winters, by whom he reared a family of three children.

J. B. RICHMOND .- The subject of this sketch was born in Meigs county, Ohio, May 4, 1850. At the age of sixteen he began at- tending school at Bethany College, W. Va., where he continued three years. Was deputy sheriff under Samuel Johnston two years and Alexander Smith one year. His occupation at present is farming.

DAVID GLADDEN (deceased) was a native of Washington county, Pa., and born November 8, 1796. His parents removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1800, and settled on section 20, now Island Creek township. Our subject married Elizabeth Winters, January 21, 1819, This union resulted in four daughters. Mr. Gladden died March 25, 1859, but his widow, who was born Sep- tember, 2, 1798, still survives.

ANDREW H. COE .- Our subject was born in Island Creek town- ship, June 3, 1826. On October 28, 1858, he married Mary F. Foster. This union resulted in six children. Mr. C, was a member of Company E, 157th O. N. G., during the rebellion and was under Col. McCook.

JOHN STARK was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, January 3, 1852; married Lenora Coe November 24, 1871. They have two children. He and wife are members of the Two Ridge Presby- terian church. His, vocation is farming.

ADAM BELTZ was born in Franklin county, Pa., January 28, 1829. His parents came to Jefferson county, Ohio, when Adam was very young, He learned the carpenter trade with hisfather, which oeeupation he has always followed. On the 10th of April, 1859, he married Mary A, Porter. Mr. B. came to his present location in 1863, where he owns thirty-five acres of land,

EDWARD MCCONNELL was of Irish birth and born in May, 1835; was reared a farmer and gardener. In 1854, he inigrated to America, first settling in Pittsburgh, In 1869, he settled in Brooke county, W. Va., opposite Steubenville, where he fol- lowed gardening till 1876, and then he removed to his present residence. He owns eighty acres of land, most of which is in fruit trees; strawberries, raspberries, &c. He was married twice, first to Betty J. Kennedy and then to Anna McCauslen. He bad two children by the former and six by the latter.

JAMES MCELROY was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, Novem- ber 17, 1812, and in 1835, he was united in marriage to Sarah McCauslen, by whom he brought up five children. In 1837, he moved to Wills creek and operated a grist mill for some five years. In 1842, he embarked in the lumber business in Steu- benville, and continued in that business until 1852, when he came to his present location. He owns 125 acres and is now en- gaged in farming. Our subject's father, whose name was also James, was born in Washington county, Pa .; married Mary Mitchell in 1808, and removed to this county a short time after. He died in 1858, aged seventy-six years. His wife's father, Na-

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thaniel Mitchell, served all through the Revolutionary war, and for three years was one of General Washington's body guards.

SAMUEL S. VAUGHAN,-The subject's father, James Vaughan, was born in Washington county, Pa., in 1795; married Eleanor Goudy in 1818, and migrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, and lo- cated in Island Creek township, where he died in 1863, and his wife in 1865. They had but two children-Samuel S., our sub- ject, and Elizabeth. Samuel was the eldest and was born Feb- ruary 24, 1823. He was united in marriage to Rebecca A. Walker, by whom he became the parent of six sons and one daughter, In 1859, he came to his present location, where he owns a farm of 270 acres.

.JOSEPH MILLER was born in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, October 25, 1834. He learned the trade of a weaver. His parents migrated to America when he was about eighteen years of age and settled in Pittsburgh. In 1859, he went to Cal- ifornia and followed mining for four years and then returned to Pittsburgh. In 1870, he removed to West Virginia, where he remained two years. In 1872, he removed to Jefferson county, Ohio. He owns sixty acres of land in Island Creek township, where he now resides. In 1868, he was married to Mary A. Eichenlaub and has four children.

ANDREW C. AULT was born in Steubenville, May 3, 1833. In 1845, his parents removed to Island Creek township, on the old farm where his grandfather settled in 1799. Andrew was edu- cated in the Normal School at Hopedale. In 1858, he married his first wife, Sarah J. Wilkins, and by her had three children. She died in October, 1864, and in September, 1866, he was again united in marriage to one Mary C. Robertson, which resulted in four children. He owns 162 acres of land.

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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 205

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