History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 100

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry
Publication date: 1921
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Number of Pages: 678

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John Kinsey Waggoner was born in Loudon Township on the 29th of September. 1868, and his early education was obtained in the schools of Carroll and Jefferson counties. He has al- ways given his attention to farm enterprise, and his devotion to his widowed mother has been equaled by her maternal love and solici- tude. In July, 1890, Mr. Waggoner was united in marriage to Miss Verna Campbell, who was born in Loudon Township and who is a daugh- ter of Jesse and Isabel (Scott) Campbell, like- wise natives of this township and representa- tives of honored pioneer families of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Waggoner have three children : Clada is the wife of Earl F. George. of Mechanicstown, this county; Martha I. is the wife of Thomas Markley, of Carrollton; and Mabel is a popular teacher in the public schools at Minerva. Stark County, her older sisters likewise having been successful teachers prior to their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Waggoner and their daughters are active members of the .

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Presbyterian Church, in which he is serving as an elder. He is a republican in political senti- ment and action, and is actively identified with the Amsterdam Grange.

JESSE H. SUTTON. Carroll County farm land repays well those who spend their days culti- vating it, for it is fertile, well-watered and con- veniently located with regard to transportation facilities. Therefore some of the most level- headed men of this locality are agriculturists, and one of those who has devoted his life to farming is Jesse H. Sutton of Harrison Town- ship, a veteran of the World war. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, July 17, 1892, a son of Charles F. and Elizabeth Ada (Beresford) Sutton. The family moved to Lee Township, Carroll County, when Jesse H. Sutton was three years old, and until he was eighteen years old he attended the Straw Camp School in that township, and assisted his mother in operating her 160-acre farm. After that time, Jesse H. Sutton attended the White Hall School in Har- rison Township until he was twenty, the family having come to this township, where his mother bought thirty-four acres of land. After leav- ing school, Jesse H. Sutton spent about six years as a farm hand, working for the neigh- boring farmers. For six months he worked for the Timpkin Roller Bearing Company of Canton, Ohio, as a machine hand.

Under the selective draft Mr. Sutton was called into the United States Army at Carroll- ton, September 21, 1917, and sent to Camp Sher- man, where he spent six weeks as corporal in Company E, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, Eighty-third Division and was then transferred to Camp Perry, where he spent six weeks on the rifle range. So proficient did he prove himself in the latter, that he was re- turned to Camp Sherman and served for five months as drilling instructor. In May, 1918, he was sent to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and sailed for Liverpool, England, June 5, 1918. After a stay in that city of three days, he was sent to Southampton, and from there to Havre, France. Two days were spent at the camp at Havre, and then he was stationed at Longues, France, in the central training area, for five weeks. Sent to Italy, he was at Villa Franca, where he was in the Piave trenches. From then until the signing of the armistice he was on the Tagliamento River fighting the Austrians. Following the armistice he was at the Venetian Plains and different Italian cities, and was then returned to Venice. After four days he was sent to Albania, across the Adriatic, and spent five months in doing guard duty at Zelenica, Albania. From there he took boat to Genoa, Italy, and came home on the "Canopic," and landed at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, April 15, 1919, and after a week there had the satisfac- tion of participating in the big peace parade in New York City. Returned to Camp Sher- man, after a week he was mustered out, May 2, 1919. He belongs to the American Legion at Carrollton.

On July 21, 1919, Mr. Sutton was married to Mary Eleanor Scarlott, a daughter of Albert F. and Elvina May (Miller) Scarlott, of Harri-

son Township. Mrs. Sutton's great-grandfather, William Scarlott, entered land from the Gov- ernment in Loudon Township, Carroll County, and she was born on that homestead. William Scarlott married Eleanor Scott, and both died on their farm of 117 acres, which was inherited by their son, John Scarlott, who married Eliza Williams, and they had five children, of whom Albert F. Scarlott, Mrs. Sutton's father, was the second. Albert F. Scarlott lived on this homestead nearly all his life, and was there married. In 1904 he moved to a farm of 160 acres of land near New Harrisburg and there died July 20, 1919, but his widow survives him. His death was occasioned by an accident when he fell from a grain stack. Mrs. Sutton is the eldest of her parents' three daughters. her sis- ters being Lois E. and Sarah Emma.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Sutton settled on the Scarlott homestead of 160 acres in Harrison Township, where Mr. Sutton is carrying on general farming. He is a stock- holder of the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton, and he is a charter member of the New Harris- burg Grange. Possessed of strong convictions Mr. Sutton prefers to select his own candidates, and so votes independently. The Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg holds his member- ship. A young man of excellent character, and pleasant personality, he has a wide circle of friends in his neighborhood, and is held in the highest esteem by all who know him.

ALBERT DICKERSON, M. D. For many years the late Albert Dickerson, M. W., was numbered among the foremost physicians and surgeons of Harrison County, having an extensive and lu- crative practice in New Athens, where, by his genial manners, kindly courtesy, and profes- sional skill, he endeared himself to all classes of people. A son of Adam Dickerson, he was born, April 27, 1857, in New Athens Township. Harrison County, Ohio.

A life-long resident of Athens Township, Harrison County, Adam Dickerson was born December 11, 1806, and died February 26. 1878. He was a miller and a farmer, and a man of prominence in his community. He married Jane McFadden, whose birth occurred February 14, 1819, and her death March 6, 1896. Both were members of the Methodist Church, with which they united when young. They reared a family of ten children, as follows: Elizabeth, born December 28, 1836; Sarah, born April 11, 1838; Joshua, born September 24. 1840; Margaret Jane, born April 26, 1842; Rebecca, born May 21, 1844; Samuel, born February 12, 1846; Adam, Jr., born March 10, 1848; William J., born June 30, 1851; Mary E., born January 5, 1854: and Albert, born April 27, 1857.

Dr. Albert Dickerson received his preliminary education in the rural schools of Athens Town- ship, and having decided to enter upon a pro- fessional career, for which his native talent and acquired forces well fitted him, he entered the Louisville Medical College, at Louisville, Ken- tucky, where he was graduated in the spring of 1889, with an excellent record for scholarship. Immediately locating at New Athens, Harrison County, Doctor Dickerson made rapid strides

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in his profession, his skill in diagnosing and treating the various ills to which human flesh is heir winning him the confidence of the peo- ple. and an extensive patronage. His death, which occurred September 7, 1903. was a loss not only to his family and friends, but to the entire community, and was deeply deplored by a host of friends and acquaintances. He was a man of sterling character, and a valued mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Doctor Dickerson married, January 23, 1879, Ella Dickerson, a daughter of Thomas Hudson and Hannah (McCoy) Dickerson. She was born in Harrison County, Ohio, November 4. 1856, and is of pioneer ancestry, her paternal grandfather, Hiram Dickerson, having been an early pioneer of Cadiz Township. Doctor and Mrs. Dickerson became the parents of three children, namely: Anna Dora, wife of George A. Dunlap, of Jewett, Ohio, who have one child. Vivian M: Ethel Blanche, who married Harry Miller, has four children. Gwendolyn A .. Lil- lian W .. Ella Elizabeth and Mary C .; and Adam W., who married Bessie F. Thomas, has one child. Ella Marie.

Mrs. Dickerson survived the Doctor, and mar- ried for her second husband. December 2, 1914, John F. Adams, a successful farmer of Stock Township. becoming his second wife. Mr. Adams's first wife, Amanda B. (Bargar) Adams, passed to the higher life March 9, 1912, leaving three children. Olive Belle. wife of A. O. Fin- nical ; Ernest O., of Canton. Ohio: and Elzie Day Adams.

JOHN F. ADAMS. In his productive enterprise as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-raisers of his native county. Mr. Adams is the owner not only of his well improved and attractive homestead farm of sixty acres in Stock Township, but also of a valuable farm of 142 acres in Nottingham Township. He has long maintained secure vantage-ground as one of the vigorous and successful exponents of farm enterprise in Harrison County and is one of the substantial and representative men of the county in which the Adams family has been one of prominence since the pioneer era.

Mr. Adams was born in Stock Township, on the 20th of March, 1846, and is now one of the venerable native sons still resident of this town- ship. He is a son of Percival and Mary Jane (Downs) Adams, both of whom passed their entire lives in Harrison County. Percival Adams was born in Cadiz Township, this county. September 10. 1820, and was a son of Thomas Adams, who was born in Pennsylvania. about the year 1790, and who came from the old Keystone State to Ohio in 1815. Here he married Miss Charity Blair, a daughter of John Blair, and they became the parents of ten chil- dren. I'pon coming to Harrison County Thomas Adams and his wife established their home in Cadiz Township. but in the early '30s they removed to Stock Township. Later he became a successful farmer in Nottingham Township, where he died in 1855, his widow passing away in 1866. He held membership in the Preshy- terian Church and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church from her child-

hood until her death. Mr. Adams was a whig in politics and was a staunch abolitionist in the period prior to the Civil war.

Percival Adams was reared under the condi- tions and influences of the pioneer days and eventually became one of the successful farmers of Stock Township, where he owned a farm of 184 acres. in section 1. He was a republican in politics, was influential in community affairs and he and his wife beld membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their marriage was solemnized March 27. 1845, Mrs. Adams having been born August 26, 1822, and having been a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Mckinney) Downs, the former of whom was born in Carroll County. Ohio, in 1797, and the latter of whom was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. January 22, 1797. Mr. and Mrs. Adams became the parents of seven children : John F. is the immediate subject of this re- view ; Albert B. was born May 23, 1849; Eliza J. was born March 14, 1851, and died November 14. 1887: Richard M. was born August 27, 1853; Thomas P. was born . December 3, 1857: James B. was born July 12. 1860; and Maggie B. was born December 13. 1865.

On the old homestead farm John F. Adams was reared to strong and self-reliant manhood. and in his youth he profited by the advantages afforded in the district schools. Energetic and ambitious, he initiated his independent career by engaging in active operation on a farm ad- joining his present home place. In 1878 he purchased his present residential farm, upon which he has made excellent improvements and he made each succeeding vear count in progres- sive achievement, so that he has well earned the substantial prosperity that has attended his activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser, he having given special attention to the breed- ing and reising of sheep and having made this a profitable feature of his farm enterprise.

Taking an active interest in everything per- taining to the advancement of his community and giving a loyal allegiance to the republican party, Mr. Adams has never had any ambition for public office, though he gave three terms of efficient service as assessor of Stock Township. He and his wife are leading members of the Asbury Chapel, Methodist Episcopal, of which he has served as steward for fully a quarter of a century and of which he had previously been a trustee for five years.

In 1869 Mr. Adams wedded Miss Amanda B. Bargar, a daughter of John C. and Isabel (Day) Bargar. and she was summoned to the life eternal on the 9th of March, 1912. the three children who survive her being: Olive Belle. who is the wife of Albert O. Finnical; Ernest O .. who married Leota Chaney and who resides at Canton, Stark County ; and Elza Day Adams. whose first wife. Louisa Finney Brough, died in early womanhood, leaving three children- Tacy May, Bessie and Helen. For his second wife Mr. Adams married Minnie Fitch, their one child being Veda and their home being at Freeport. Ohio.

On the 2d of December, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of John F. Adams to Mrs. Ella (Dickerson ) Dickerson, widow of Dr. Albert

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Dickerson, to whom a memorial tribute is dedi- cated on other pages of this work. Mrs. Adams was born in Harrison County, November 4, 1856, her grandfather, Hiram Dickerson, having been one of the prominent and influential pioneers of this county. She is a daughter of Thomas H. and Hannah (McCoy) Dickerson, who were honored citizens of Cadiz Township at the time of their deaths. January 23, 1879, recorded the marriage of Miss Ella Dickerson to the late Dr. Albert Dickerson, whose death occurred Septem- ber 7, 1903, and who is survived by three chil- dren-Anna Dora, the wife of George A. Dun- lap, mother of one child, Vivian M .; Ethel Blanche, the wife of Harry Miller and the mother of four children-Gwendolyn A., Lillian W., Ella Elizabeth and Mary C .; and Adam W., the maiden name of whose wife was Bessie E. Thomas, their one child being a daughter, Ella Marie.

JAMES BRAY CRAMBLETT. For nearly two score years intimately identified with the de- velopment and advancement of the agricultural interests of Harrison County. James Bray Cramblett, of Moorefield Township, is profitably engaged in general farming and stock-raising, his land being fertile and well adapted to the production of the crops common to this section of the country. A son of the late John P. Cramblett, he was born, July 25, 1858. in New Athens, Harrison County, Ohio.

His paternal grandfather, Ephraim Cramblett. spent the larger part of his life in Belmont County, Ohio, his death, however, occurring in New Athens, Harrison County. He became the father of three children, Ellen, Elizabeth and John P.

Born and reared in Belmont County. Ohio. John P. Cramblett served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade when young. and subse- quently established a smithy at New Athens. where he built up an extensive patronage. con- tinuing a resident of the place until his death. in March, 1916. He married Keziah Shivers, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Norris) Shivers, who reared seven children, Samuel. Hannah, Sarah. Mary, Lew, Amanda and Keziah. Her father was a carpenter by trade. and followed it in New Athens during his active life. Keziah (Shivers) Cramblett died in early womanhood, leaving but one child, James Bray Cramblett, the subject of this sketch, who was then an infant, scarcely a year old. John P. Cramblett subsequently married for his second wife Mary Fisher, and they became the parents of one child. Alice, who died unmarried.

James Bray Cramblett received his early education in the district schools of New Athens. Having a natural aptitude for mechanical pur- suits, he learned the blacksmith's trade when young, and worked at it for about ten years. Making a change of residence and occupation in 1882, Mr. Cramblett came to Moorefield, Township, and soon after bought the valuable farm of 110 acres on which he has since re- sided, and on which he has made substantial improvements. As a general farmer and stock- grower he has met with undoubted success, his efforts having been richly rewarded. Although

not an office seeker, Mr. Cramblett is much In- terested in local matters, and for one term served very satisfactorily as township trustee.

On March 12, 1879, Mr. Cramblett was united in marriage with Anna Harvey, a daughter of James Harvey, Jr. Her paternal grandfather, James Harvey, Sr., was a pioneer farmer of Moorefield Township, where he took up a home- stead claim from the Government, and cleared a good farm. He married Susannah Condon, and to them the following children were born: Milton, James, William, Levin A., Susan, Elea- nor, Anna, Ruth, Betsey, John and Allen, the two last named dying in infancy. James Harvey, Jr., father of Mrs. Cramblett, was born in 1832 in Moorefield Township, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for many years Mov- ing to Uhrichsville, Ohio, in 1871, he resided there until his death. He married Margaret Clark, who was also born in Moorefield Town- ship, where her father, Samuel Clark, was a prominent farmer and blacksmith. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Ha- thorne, three children were born, as follows: Margaret, who became the wife of James Har- vey, Jr .; Elizabeth; and Mary, who died in infancy.

Into the home of Mr. and Mrs Cramblett five children have been born, namely: Harry, who married Fannie Campbell, and has one child, Ila ; Otis married Dessie Showber; Grace mar- ried Charles Blemler, and has one child, Don- ald; Gretta ; and Chester, who married Ruth Mills, and has two children, Wanda and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Cramblett are liberal supporters of the Methodist Church and Mr. Cramblett is a republican.

JOSEPH V. LAWLER was one of the veterans in the ranks of the newspaper fraternity in Ohio at the time of his retirement therefrom six years ago, and has to his credit a splendid record in connection with the publishing of The Carroll Chronicle, a democratic paper estab- lished in Carroll County after the close of the Civil war. He made the Chronicle a power in political affairs in Carroll County and was the youngest democratic editor in the state when he assumed charge of that paper, the active management of which is now vested in his sons, who are well upholding the journalistic prestige of the family name, as well as that of political influence and the formulating and directing of popular sentiment and action. Mr. Lawler has been postmaster at Carrollton since President Wilson was elected for his first term, besides which he held this office also under the admin- istration of President Cleveland.

He has been liberal and loval in the further- ance of the best interests of his home city and county, and is one of the essentially representa- tive citizens of this section of the Buckeye State.

Mr. Lawler was born at Carrollton, Septem- ber 15, 1848, and is a son of Fenton and Hannah (Easley) Lawler. Fenton Lawler was born in Queens County, Ireland, and was a lad of fifteen years when he came to the United States, in company with his widowed mother, four of his brothers and three sisters, the eldest brother having at the last moment decided to remain

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in his native land, where he passed the re- mainder of his life, his remains resting beside those of his father in the cemetery at Mount Mellick, Ireland. The mother was a member of the Society of Friends, but became a com- municant of the Catholic Church after coming to America. The family home was established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Fenton Law- ler was reared to maturity and where was sol- emnized his marriage to Miss Hannah Isabelle Easley, who was born in Armstrong County, that state, as one of a family of seventeen children, sixteen of whom grew to maturity and were noted for their longevity. The Eas- leys or Islichs were farmers of Pennsylvania German descent and trace their ancestry back for 150 years. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lawler continued their residence in Pitts- burgh, for a time and resided in Steubenville, Ohio, until May, 1843, when they established their home at Carrollton, which was then an unpretentious village. Here Mr. Lawler pro- vided a home and established himself in the weaving business, he having served a partial apprenticeship to the weaver's trade before leav- ing his native land. He supplied the jeans and yarn that were used by the people of this sec- tion until the time of his death, which occurred on the 8th of April, 1852, and left his wife with seven young children. Mrs. Lawler was not only a devoted mother but also a woman of marked resourcefulness, so that she kept her children together and provided ways and means for their maintenance. Revered by all who came within the circle of her gracious influence, she attained to the age of seventy-two years and passed to the life eternal in 1887, her re- mains being laid to rest in the English Catholic Cemetery at Canton, Stark County. Thomas, first born of the children, died in Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen months; Andrew Easley, the second son, died at Effingham, Illinois, in 1861; Mary Ann became the wife of Matthias Waggoner and both died in the State of Minne- sota; Elizabeth became the wife of J. T. Champer of Terre Haute, Indiana, and is now living; Sarah Helen became the wife of John Duffy and they established their home at Can- ton, Ohio; John W. died at the age of nine months; Helena died in 1892 at the age of 46; Joseph V. Is the subject of this sketch; James F. was a yearling when his father died. The parents were devout communicants of the Catholic Church and in the early days mission- ary priests were occasionally entertained in and celebrated Mass in their home.

Joseph V. Lawler is indebted to the public schools and early academies of Carrollton for his initial educational discipline, which was supplemented by the service in printing estab- lishments that have consistently been termed the equivalent of a liberal education. His initiation into the mysteries of the "art pre- servative of all arts" was solemnly perpetrated in 1859 in the office of the Carroll Free Press, of which paper Col. Jacob Weyand was then editor and publisher. After six months of for- tifying experience in this office this boy was for a time employed In the office of the Carroll Democrat, and he continued his active service

in printing office work until 1866, when he as- sumed the dignified office of teacher in a district school. He taught two winter terms, and in the interim worked at the printer's trade at Oil City, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, and at Steubenville, Salem and Canton, Ohio. This statement indicates that he fol- lowed the itinerant policies common in the print- ing trade at that period. and each experience broadened his mental horizon.

Between the years 1863 and 1871 the demo- crats of Carroll County had no paper to rep- resent their interests, and as a result of their importunities Mr. Lawler became the executive functionary in establishing the Carroll Chroni- cle, of which he became publisher and Thomas Hays was made editor, though Mr. Lawler assumed editorial charge two years later. be- coming possibly the youngest democratic editor in the Buckeye State. The Chronicle was owned by a stock company, composed of twenty-five influential men of the county, but in 1874 they turned control of the paper over to Mr. Lawler. Under his administration the paper gained a large circulation and its prestige has continued to the present time, completing in March, 1921, a cycle of fifty years. It has been potent in advancing the cause of the democratic party, its editorial policies have been carefully formu- lated and maintained, and it has at all times been a faithful representative of community in- terests in general.

Mr. Lawler was elected three terms (nine years) as a member of the board of education of Carrollton, and his first appointment to the office of postmaster was incidental to the first term of President Cleveland's administration. He retained the office both terms and when President Wilson was elected to the presidency, Mr. Lawler again received commission as post- master. an office in which he is giving a char- acteristically efficient administration.

The year 1872 recorded the marriage of Mr. Lawler to Miss Emma McGregor, daughter of the late Archibald McGregor, who was a man of fine intellectuality and sterling character, and an early settler of Canton. Ohio, where for more than forty years he was editor of the Stark County Democrat, always taking an active in- terest in school affairs. In recognition of this service the Canton School Board named one of their schools after him, the building being com- pleted in 1921, nineteen years after his death. Mr. McGregor's memory was a marvel as he could recite nearly all of Burns' poems and many of the longer classics. At the age of ten he could recite Pope's Essay on Man with rare prompting.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 100

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Number of Pages: 678

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry
Publication date: 1921
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 678