History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 103

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

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(Slater) Moore, the former of whom was born in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, in 1837, and the latter in Fayette County, Penn- sylvania, April 27, 1841. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Moore was solemnized April 3, 1862, and they continued their residence on their old home farm, in Moorefield Township, until their death, Mrs. Moore having passed away Janu- ary 18, 1919, and her husband on the 10th of October of the following year. They were members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of three chil- dren-Alice, the widow of A. C. Dunlap, who later married J. S. Wallace; Charles S. and Addie (wife of Dr. Edward D. Moore). John- son Moore was a son of John and Elsie (John- son ) Moore, the former of whom was born Au- gust 4, 1809, in Jefferson County, Ohio, and the latter was born October 6, 1811, a daughter of William Johnson, who was one of the early settlers of Moorefield Township, Harrison County. John Moore developed one of the fine farms of Moorefield Township, where he re- mained until his death, May 14, 1874, his chil- dren having been three in number-Mary (Mrs. Jackson Ray), Johnson and Albert.

Joshua Dunlap, grandfather of him whose name introduces this record, was born in Ath- ens Township, Harrison County, May 11. 1823. and his death occurred September 4, 1879, on his farm, in Athens Township. In 1847 he mar- ried Miss Nancy G. Watson, daughter of Rob- ert S. Watson, she having been born January 30, 1823, and her death having occurred in 1884, both having been influential members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven children: John D., who was born August 29, 1848, and who died on the 15th of the following October; Watson, who was born October 13, 1849, and who became a pros- perous farmer in Athens Township; Adam C., who was the father of the subject of this review and who was not yet thirty-three years of. age at the time of his death; Rachel A. (Mrs. J. L. Scott) was born July 8, 1853; Mary J. (Mrs. Winfield Scott) was born April 27, 1855; Louisa B. (Mrs. John Webb) was born August 9, 1856, and died July 29, 1879; and Susan (Mrs. John P. Dunlap) was born May 29, 1858.

After the death of her husband Mrs. Alice (Moore) Dunlap married, August 29. 1895. James S. Wallace, who is a representative farmer of Moorefield Township and of whom in- dividual mention is made on other pages of this volume.

After the death of his father John M. Dun- lap was taken, with his widowed mother, into the home of his maternal grandfather, where he passed the period of his boyhood and early youth. He profited by the advantages afforded in the public schools at Moorefield and later completed a one year's course in a business college at Wheeling, West Virginia. He has continuously maintained his home on his pres- ent farm-the old homestead of his maternal grandfather, and has here achieved distinctive success in his agricultural and live-stock enter- prise. His political support is given to the democratic party and he and his wife hold mem- bership in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church.

September 26, 1911, recorded the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Ava Tedrick, daughter of Samuel H. and Eliza (Madden) Tedrick, of Guernsey County, and the one child of this union is a sturdy little son, Donald T., who was born February 26, 1914.

JAMES S. WALLACE, who is one of the able exponents of farm industry in his native town- ship of Moorefield, Harrison County, bears a name to which attaches the highest of honors. as well as much distinction in this section of the state of Ohio, by reason of the faithful and exalted service of his grandfather, Rev. Will- iam Wallace, an able and revered clergyman of the Presbyterian Church and one of its pioneer representatives of central eastern Ohio. Rev. William Wallace was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1787, a son of John and Mary ( Anderson) Wallace and a scion of staunch Scotch ancestry. He attended Jeffer- son College. Pennsylvania, and in the spring of 1821 he was licensed to preach the Gospel by presbytery of Steubenville, Ohio. He became a domestic missionary through the new settle- ments in eastern Ohio, and among the Presby- terian churches which he organized in Har- rison County were those at Nottingham and Freeport. to the pastoral service of which he gave himself for eighteen years. He died on the 18th of December, 1841, after nearly twenty years of earnest service in the ministry. Of him it has been written : "He was faithful and sucessful as a pastor, mild and amiable as a man and Christian, tender and kind as a hus- band and father." June 1, 1815. marked the marriage of Rev. William Wallace to Miss Mary W. McWilliams, who was born March 17, 1797, a daughter of David and Mary ( Wilson) Mc- Williams, who in that year came from Penn- sylvania and settled in Belmont County. Ohio, where they passed the residue of their lives. Mrs. Wallace survived her honored husband by nearly thirty years and passed to eternal rest in 1869. They became the parents of ten chil- dren, of whom David B .. father of the subject of this sketch, was born April 3, 1825, on the old Wallace homestead in Moorefield Township. He was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer history of Harrison County and passed his entire active life as a farmer in his native township, where his death occurred June 8, 1905. He was a zealous and influential mem- ber of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, which had been organized by his father. and of this church his venerable widow is still an active member. On the 25th of March. 1857. was solemnized the marriage of David B. Wal- lace to Miss Margaret Dickerson, who was born in Harrison County. December 30, 1834. and who is now one of the venerable and loved rep- resentatives of a prominent pioneer family of this county. She is a daughter of Joshua and Belijah (Lafferty) Dickerson, natives of Fay- ette County, Pennsylvania. whence they came to Harrison County. Ohio. in an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace became the parents of six children : William D .. born February 6. 1858. became the pioneer settler in what is now the state of South Dakota : James S .. of this sketch,

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was born November 23, 1859, on the old home farm in Moorefield Township; Mary E., who was born February 28, 1862, became the wife of John Dickerson, of Moorefield Township; Joshua A. was born August 12, 1864, and is now deceased; Lillie B., who was born August 9, 1867, is the wife of John McConnell, of New Athens; and Lewis V., born October 13, 1869, is in the southwest.

To the district schools of his native township James S. Wallace is indebted for his early edu- cation, which was supplemented by his attend- ing the Northern Ohio University, at Ada, Har- din County. As a young man he gave two years to effective service as a teacher in the district schools, and about the year 1885 he initiated his independent career as a farmer in his native township, where he has since continued his successful activities in this important domain of industrial enterprise. About 1887 he became associated with his uncle, William A. Wallace, in the purchase of the present home farm, of which he later became sole owner, by purchas- ing his uncle's interest in the property. This farm comprises about 165 acres, and Mr. Wal- lace owns also a third interest in another farm, of 170 acres, in the same township. All of the buildings on his home farm have been erected by Mr. Wallace and these, with other improve- ments, attest to his progressiveness as well as his success. He is a staunch republican in poli- tics and served three years as trustee of Moore- field Township. He is an active member of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. as was also his wife, whose death occurred October 19, 1919.

On the 29th of August, 1895. Mr. Wallace was united in marriage to Mrs. Alice (Moore) Dun- lap, widow of Adam C. Dunlap.

EDWIN F. MOCULLY, who was elected township trustee of Lee Township, Carroll County, in the autumn of 1919, has proved a loyal and efficient official and given further evidence of the civic and communal progressiveness that had previ- ously marked his course in his native county. Farm enterprise has engaged his attention dur- ing the major part of his active career and he now owns and resides upon one of the admirable farm estates of Lee Township. where he finds ample stage for his vigorous activities as an ag- riculturist and stock-raiser.

Mr. McCully was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, in the year 1865. and is a son of William and Virginia (Smith) McCully, the latter being a granddaughter. William Mc- Cully likewise was born in Carroll County and was a son of Thomas McCully, to whom must be ascribed a due measure of pioneer distinc- tion in this favored section of the Buckeye state. Thomas McCully was born near Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, and settled in Harrison Township. Carroll County. Ohio, about 1830. the Ferrell family having settled in' Fox Township. near Mechanicstown. The names of both fami- lies thus early became prominently associated with farm industry in this county. William Me. Cully was reared and educated in this county and after his marriage he established his resi- dence on a farm in Harrison Township. He not only held prestige as a substantial farmer. but

also operated a saw mill for a number of years. He was born in the year 1844, his life was worthy in every sense, and he attained to vener- able age, his death having occurred on the 3d of May, 1919. Mrs. Virginia (Smith) McCully died in December, 1876, when but thirty years of age, and of the four children Edwin F., of this re- view, is the eldest; William died at the age of thirteen years; P. O. McCully married Nora Long and lives in Carrollton; and Matilda is the wife of James Snively, of Loudon Township. There are two half brothers and two half sisters.

The district school at Cold Spring Run af- forded Edwin F. McCully the major part of his early educational discipline, and as a boy and youth he contributed his quota to the work of the home farm, besides assisting his father in saw-milling operations. At the age of twenty- five years he went to Garrett County, Maryland, where he found employment as a teamster in the lumber woods. In 1894 he returned to his native county and rented a tract of land in Center Township. There he farmed about two years. and thereafter he was engaged similarly on rented land in Washington Township. In 1901 he purchased his present farm, of 184 acres. in section 29, Lee Township. and this

he has made one of the model rural estates of the township. On the homestead he erected the fine, modern house now occupied by the family, and he has erected other excellent buildings. Mr. McCully is a vigorous and thoroughgoing farmer, and his progressiveness and well or- dered activities have brought to him a generous measure of success in the domain of diversified agriculture and in the raising of horses, cattle, sheep and swine. He served four years as a member of the school board of his district. and in the autumn of 1919 he was given further evidence of popular appreciation of his char- acter and ability, in that he was elected town- ship trustee, as candidate on the ticket of the democratic party, in the ranks of which he is staunchly aligned. He and his wife hold mem- bership in the Church of the Disciples.

April 3, 1892, was recorded the marriage of Mr. McCully to Miss Jennie Thomas, who was born and reared in Garrett County, Maryland, a daughter of Elijah and Barbara (Frazee) Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. McCully have six chil- dren : Virginia is the wife of Donald George. of Lee Township; Emma is the wife of William Rutledge. of Union Township; William F. mar- ried Miss Anna Rutledge and they reside in Lee Township; and James Perry, K. Earl, and Carl E. remain at the parental home.

JAMES G. COMPHER, county commissioner and one of the successful farmers of Harrison County, owns and operates a farm in Moore- field Township. He was born in this township on July 29. 1864, a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Hall) Compher. Peter Compher was born in Moorefield Township, April 25, 1828, there he spent his entire life, and died November 8. 1913. His wife was born in Belmont County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Carver) Hall, her birth occurring February 16, 1834. She died in Moorefield Township, June 4, 1892. Her father, Thomas Hall, was a farmer of Flushing

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Township, Belmont County, Ohio, where he spent practically all of his life. The children born to Thomas Hall and his wife were as fol- lows: George, Hiram, Catherine, James, Mary E., Polly, Lucy, Thomas and Jane. Peter Com- pher and his wife had children as follows: Wil- bur Gilham, who was born February 16, 1857, died August 7, 1903; James G., whose name heads this review ; John G., who is mentioned at length below. Mrs. Compher was a devout member of the Baptist Church and a lady of fine Christian character.

James G. Compher attended the district schools of Moorefield Township, and learned farming in all its details from his practical father. When he reached man's estate he began farming for himself in Moorefield Township, and has spent practically his entire life in this calling, with results which can not help but be gratifying. At the time of his marriage he located on his present farm of 168 acres of land and here he is carrying on a general farming and stockraising business.

On February 14. 1885, Mr. Compher was united in marriage with Jennie Dunlap, born in Moorefield Township, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Ellen (Bethel) Dunlap, and they became the parents of the following children: Leona B., who was born November 16. 1885; Charles. who was born March 4. 1887, married Sadie Clemens, their children are James M., Helen Mildred and Alice Leona, and they live in Moorefield Township: Mary Edith, who was born on June 5, 1889, married Carl Kirkpatrick of Dover, Ohio, and they have one child, Mar- jorie Catherine; and Floyd, who was born April 28, 1891, married Mary Brewer, and lives at Moorefield.

In the fall of 1916, Mr. Compher was elected commissioner of Harrison County and has since held that office. Mrs. Compher belongs to the Stillwater Baptist Church, but Mr. Compher is not a member of any religious organization.

John G. Compher, brother of James G. Com- pher. is also a farmer of Moorefield Township. and was born in this township, November 5. 1867. He was reared on the homestead and educated in the local schools.

On December 20, 1888, John G. Compher was united in marriage with Laura R. Rowland, a daughter of George and Margaret (Moore) Row- land. After his marriage Mr. Compher began farming for himself in Moorefield Township. and in December, 1918. he bought his present farm near Moorefield, where he has lived since August. 1919. This farm comprises 184 acres and on it he carries on general farming and stockraising. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Compher became the parents of the following children : Ada Lovina, who married first Morris Brenner. and second. James Hiney, has two children by her first marriage-Mildred and Paul; Ross G .. who is second in order of birth; and Gertrude. who married George Wood, has twin daughters, Evelyn and Ethelyn.

The Compher family is one of the well-known ones in Harrison County, and these brothers have added to its prestige by their upright and honorable lives and useful work as agricultural- ists and citizens.

RODOLPHO S. HIBBS. One of the constructive citizens and good business men of Harrison County, well known throughout this region for his dependability and uprightness, is Rodolpho S. Hibbs, provision merchant, banker and farmer, residing at Piedmont. He was born in Flushing Township, Belmont County, Ohio, April 18, 1860, a son of John R. and Lydia Pler- son (Smith) Hibbs.

John R. Hibbs was born at Smyrna, Guernsey County, Ohio, a son of Amos Hibbs, who was also born in Guernsey County, Ohio. By trade Amos Hibbs was a cabinetmaker, and he made many of the coffins used by the early settlers of Guernsey County. He married a Miss Rat- · cliffe, and they became the parents of the fol- lowing children : John R., William G., Amos and Barkley.

In about 1889 John R. Hibbs moved to Pied- mont, Harrison County, Ohio, and dealt in farm implements and bought wool, building up a large business which he continued until his death in 1908. His wife, who was also born in Guernsey County, Ohio, was a daughter of Amos Smith, a homesteader in Guernsey County. She died in December, 1900, having borne her husband three children, namely : Rodolpho S., who was the eldest born; Oscar B., who died in 1915; and Clarence J., who lives on the old homestead in Guernsey County. Both parents were members of the Society of Friends.

Rodolpho S. Hibbs attended the schools of Guernsey County, the high school at Antrim, Ohio, and the college at Mount Union, Ohio. As a young man he entered the educational field and taught school for one term, but found that his abilities were such as to fit him for a busi- ness life, and in 1883 he entered upon the handling of produce under the name of A. G. Greenfield & Company. On January 1, 1890, the name was changed to Goodman, Hibbs & Com- pany, and Mr. Hibbs is still operating under it, and conducts a general produce business, han- dling poultry, eggs, butter, hay, grain, and also buys wool. Mr. Hibbs owns a fine farm of 150 acres of land in Moorefield Township. In 1900 he and Mr. Goodman organized the first bank of Piedmont under the name of the Piedmont Deposit Bank, which was conducted as a private institution until 1914 when it was reorganized as a state bank, and as such is now carried on, Mr. Hibbs being one of the members of its board of directors.

On September 15, 1881, Mr. Hibbs was united in marriage with Ruth S. Doudna, of Barnes- ville, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph F. and Belinda Doudna. Mr. and Mrs. Hibbs became the par- ents of the following children: Fred J., who married Wilhelmina Sterla, has three children, Ruth, William and Elizabeth, and lives at Bridgeport, Ohio; Myrtle D., who married E. G. Frizzell, a merchant of Piedmont, has two children, Stella and Clifton; and Floyd E., who married Edith Conway, has two children. Ed- win and Ralph, and lives at Martins Ferry. Ohio. Both Mr. Hibbs and his wife belong to the Piedmont Methodist Episcopal Church, and take an active part in its religious and civic bet- terment work. Mr. Hibbs belongs to the Free- port Lodge, A. F. & A. M. and to the Modern

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Woodmen of America. A sound man of natural business ability, Mr. Hibbs has been able to expand his various ventures in a healthy and legitimate manner, and in doing so has broad- ened the commercial horizon of his community. His connection with any undertaking, so reliable is he, guarantees its soundness to his fellow citizens, and he is accepted by them as one of the men of whom any locality can well be proud.

JONAH D. WILSON. In the sketch dedicated to his younger brother, James A. Wilson, on other pages of this work, are given adequate data concerning the family history of Jonah D. Wilson, who is numbered among the representa- tive farmers of Moorefield Township, Harrison County, where his agricultural and live-stock enterprise is staged on a well improved farm of 1501/2 acres.

Mr. Wilson was born in Moorefield Township, February 25, 1866, and is a son of the late James and Eliza (Davidson) Wilson. He was about seven years old at the time of his father's death but his widowed mother remained on the old home farm, where he was reared to adult age, in the meanwhile profiting fully by the advantages afforded in the district school locally known as the Science Hill school. He remained with his mother on the farm until his mar- riage, in 1891, but in the meanwhile he was engaged in conducting a general store in the little rural hamlet of Estep, not far distant from the home farm. In 1893 he removed his stock of goods to the village of Tippecanoe, but six months later he sold the stock and business and returned to Moorefield Township. The follow- ing spring he engaged in farming in Notting- ham Township, where he continued to be thus engaged during the period of five years. Ile passed the following two years at Piedmont. where he was employed at railroad work, and the following twelve years found him engaged in farming in Green Township. He then sold his property in that township and established his home on his present well improved farm, in Moorefield Township.

In 1891 Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Jeanetta Finney, daughter of Jo- seph H. and Margaret Finney, and they have two children-Earl L. and Vera Jean. Mr. Wil- son gives his support to the republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church. Their only son, Earl L., was one of the patriotic young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's service in connection with the great World war. He entered service July 25, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, was assigned to Company M, Three Hundred and Thirty-third Infantry. In the 2d of the following September he embarked in the port of New York City, for France, and the transport disembarked its young soldiers at Southampton, England, on the 10th of that month. With his command Mr. Wilson then proceeded to France, where his regiment was assigned to the Eighty-fourth Di- vision of the American Expeditionary Forces. In October, however, he was transferred to Com- pany H, Three Hundred and Sixty-fourth In- fantry, Eleventh Division, and he was with this

regiment in service back of the front lines when be was attacked with the influenza, which re- sulted in his being confined in the hospital from October 15, 1918, until January 15, 1919. On the 18th of January he rejoined his com- pany, and on the 25th of March the command embarked for the return trip to America. Mr. Wilson returned with his comrades to Camp Sherman, and there he received his honorable discharge on the 25th of April.

JAMES A. WILSON, who has worthily won his prestige as one of the progressive and success- ful representatives of agricultural and live-stock industry in Harrison County, resides on the old homestead farm, in Moorefield Township, which was the place of his birth. Here he was born on the 4th of August, 1873, and his father died on the same day. He is a son of James and Eliza (Davidson) Wilson, and his father was born and reared on this same farm, where he passed his entire life and where his parents, James and Sarah (Brock) Wilson settled in the pioneer days, upon coming to Ohio from their native state of Virginia. As previously stated, James Wilson, Sr., died August 4, 1873, while still a young man, and his widow survived him by more than forty years, her death having oc- curred March 22, 1914, on the home farm which became her place of abode at the time of her marriage, August 4, 1846. She was a woman of gracious personality and marked business ability, as shown in her effective management of the farm after the death of her husband. James Wilson first married Miss Nancy J. Tar- bert, who was born in 1896, a daughter of James and Nancy (McCollough) Tarbert, and she was survived by one son, Madison. Mrs. Eliza (Da- vidson ) Wilson was born in Washington Town- ship, this county, and was a daughter of Jonah and Sarah (Joice) Davidson. Jonah Davidson was born in Allegany County, Maryland, July 4, 1804, and in 1812 his parents, Samuel and Mary (Drake) Davidson, came to Harrison County, Ohio, and became pioneer settlers on the land which they here obtained from the Government, in Washington Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the father having been a member of the Methodist Protestant Church and the mother a birthright member of the Society of Friends; she was born in the state of Pennsylvania. Jonah Davidson was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer era in the history of Harrison County and here, in 1829, he married Miss Sarah Joice. their only child, Eliza, who became the mother of him whose name introduces this review, hav- ing been born October 26, 1832. Mrs. Davidson died in 1859 and her husband survived her by thirty years, his death having occurred June 16, 1889. James and Eliza (Davidson) Wilson became the parents of three children-Jonah D., Sarah B. and James A.

James A. Wilson has always lived on the old home farm, as previously stated, and here is the owner of 120 acres of the excellent land of Moorefield Township. He acquired his youth- ful education in the public schools and his youth- ful experience well fitted him for later suc- cessful achievement in connection with farm

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industry, in which he has made a record of thrift and progressiveness. His political support is given to the democratic party and he is serv- ing at the time of this writing as a member of the school board of his district. He is also a steward of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he and his wife are earnest and honored members.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 103

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