History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 113

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

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February 25. 1892. recorded the marriage of Mr. Fawcett to Miss Mary Smith, who was born at Kilgore. this county, a daughter of John H. and Emma J. (Stenger) Smith, natives of Loudon Township and representatives of old and honored families of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett have two children, Ralph S. and Lucile, both of whom remain at the par- ental home. Ralph S. gives much of his time to his technical service as a driller of oil wells for the American Gas Company. He married Miss Minnie Wile, and they have two sons. James Wendell and John Kenneth.

It is worthy of mention that Mr. Fawcett has marked talent as a musician, as a skilled player on the cornet. He initiated his career as a member of a band when he was but fifteen years old, and since that time has been a mem- ber of several different bands organized in his native county. Since 1900 he has been the leader of the Kilgore Band, in which his son plays the slide trombone, his daughter the E-flat bass, while William Shearer, a partner of Ralph S. Fawcett in drilling oil wells, plays the bari- tone horn in this band, which has attained to a high degree of proficiency.

PETER K. HERSTINE has developed a valuable farm in Rose Township of Carroll County and is recognized as one of the leading representa- tives of the agricultural class in that section.

He was born in Fairfield Township, Tuscara- was County. Ohio. October 13, 1856, son of Joseph Triver and Rachel (Kollar) Herstine. The family was an old established one in West- moreland County. Pennsylvania. The grand- parents were Abraham and Catherine (Zim- merman) Herstine. who were married in West- moreland County and were the parents of five daughters and three sons. When Joseph Triver Herstine was five years of age the family moved to Tuscarawas County and later to Owen Coun- ty. Indiana. Joseph T. Herstine died in De- cember. 1903, and his wife on March 19. 1908.

Peter K. Herstine acquired his early educa- tion in the public schools of Owen and Clay counties. Indiana, and when he was nineteen the family returned to Tuscarawas County. where he attended several winter terms of school in Fairfield Township until he was twenty-two. He also assisted on the farm and on March 27. 1891, he married Emma Magda- lena Worner, daughter of James Christopher and Catherine (Wertz) Worner, of Fairfield Township. Her father was thirteen years of age when his parents came from Wuertemberg. Germany, and settled in Tuscarawas County, where he married and where he died February 23. 1909, Mrs. Herstine's mother passing away September 13, 1913. She was the oldest of

three sons and five daughters, all of whom are living. Mrs. Herstine attended the Possum Hollow School until she was sixteen, and was twenty-nine when she married.

After his marriage Mr. Herstine located on a sixty-acre farm adjoining his present home, and was a renter there for nine years. He made progress. supported his family and ac- cumulated the means which enabled him to pur- chase his present farm of forty-five acres. He took the land comparatively undeveloped, built a good home. and has been doing well ever since. He is a carpenter by trade, and that occupation has fitted in well with his farming enterprise, enabling him to keep busy prac- tically the entire year. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church and he is independent in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Her- stine have two children: Leona Idella and Glenwood Harold, both at home.

CHARLES W. SIMMONS passed his entire life in Carroll County, save for the period of his gallant and patriotic service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and he was a rep- resentative of one of the honored pioneer fam- ilies of this now opulent and progressive section of the Buckeye State. Mr. Simmons was born in Loudon Township, this county, on the 24th of November, 1841. and he passed the closing years of his life on his well improved farm in Lee Township, this county. where his death oc- curred January 5, 1918. He was a son of William and Elizabeth ( Albaugh) Simmons. the former of whom was born near Hagerstown. Maryland, December 3. 1795. and the latter August 11, 1800, a daughter of John Peter and Leah (Cook) Albaugh, who were numbered among the sterling pioneers of what is now Carroll County, Ohio. William Simmons was a lad of about ten years when he accompanied his older brothers. John, Adam and Jacob, to Ohio, and here he remained in the home of his brother Adam until he had attained to his legal majority. In March, 1820, he married Miss Elizabeth Albaugh, and they established their home on an embryonic farm of 155 acres which he had previously purchased, in Loudon Township. Carroll County. The young couple had as their domicile a log cabin of the true pioneer type. and with the passing years Mr. Simmons reclaimed much of his land from the forest and developed a productive farm. On this old homestead he remained until his death, December 22, 1876, his widow having passed away February 1. 1883, both having been zeal- ous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Simmons having been a staunch re- publican in politics. They became the parents of eight children-Levi, Mary, John. Sarah, Ma- tilda, Eliza, Charles W. and Jacob. Charles W. Simmons was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the common schools of the locality and period. He repre- sented Carroll County as a soldier of the Union during the closing period of the Civil war. On the 14th of February. 1865. he enlisted as a private in Company A. One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regi- ment commanded by Col. Thomas E. Welds,

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while James E. Phelps was captain of Com- pany A. The command was assigned to an in- dependent brigade of the First and Second Divisions, Department of the Cumberland, and Mr. Simmons accompanied his regiment in turn to Murfreesboro, and Cleveland, Tennessee; Dalton, Georgia. from which latter point it proceeded to Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the 10th of May. In that locality the regiment re- mained until July 20, when it moved to Nash- ville, Tennessee, where he continued to be sta -. tioned until September 19, when it was ordered to Columbus, Ohio, where Mr. Simmons re- ceived his honorable discharge on that date, his services having thus continued for several months after the surrender of Generals Lee and Johnston. In later years he vitalized the associations of his military career by his appre- ciative affiliation with the post of the Grand Army of the Republic then maintained at Har- lem Springs, Carroll County. nearly all of the comrades of this post having now passed away, so that the organization has lapsed.

After the close of the war Mr. Simmons re- sumed his active association with farm enter- prise in Carroll County, and after his mar- riage. in 1883, be resided on his well improved farm of eighty acres, in Lee Township. until his death, his widow still remaining on this place and their sons having active management of the same. Mr. Simmons erected the sub- stantial buildings on this farm, including the attractive house, and here he continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower until the close of his life. A man of inviolable integrity in all of the relations of life, he commanded secure place in the con- fidence and esteem of all who knew him, and his influence in community affairs was ever benignant and helpful. He was a staunch re- publican and he served several terms as trustee of Lee Township. He had served also as a trus- tee of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kil- gore. of which his widow likewise is an earnest member.

On the 12th of August, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Simmons to Miss Ellen Hosterman, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, and who is a daughter of the late Peter and Rebecca ( Hibbs) Hosterman. Of the children of this union the eldest was Mary, who was born May 20, 1884, and whose death occurred April 27, 1917. She became the wife of Oscar Shepard and is survived by four children-Harold. Ellen, Earl and Joseph. William. who resides at Carrollton, the county seat. married Miss Jessie Brooks and their only child. Martha Marie. died in early childhood. Frederick, of Lee Township, married Miss May MeIntyre and they have one daughter. Pauline. Bert F .. likewise associated with farm industry in Lee Township, married Miss Ruby Cogsil and they have one child. Mary. Jesse and Earl remain with their widowed mother on the old home farm and have active charge of its opera- tions. Jesse was in the nation's military ser- vice in the late World war, as a private in the Ninety-first Division, which was called into ar- tive service overseas. After the close of the war he received his honorable discharge. in

May, 1919, and he then resumed his activities on the home farm.

HUGH MILTON RINEHART, one of the substan- tial farmers of Rose Township, has earned the right to be considered one of the prosperous agriculturists of Carroll County, and his fine farm of 115 acres shows the result of his prac- tical knowledge and hard work. He was born in Rose Township, May 7, 1864, a son of George and Harriet ( Wall) Rinehart, of Pennsylvania- German stock, and grandson of David Rine- hart, who was born in Westmoreland County. Pennsylvania, and was a farmer. He married Elizabeth Snyder and they came to Ohio, locat- ing on a farm near Waynesburg, Stark County, his father, Valentine Rinehart. accompanying them. Subsequently David Rinehart moved to Rose Township and settled in the woods two miles south of Magnolia, where he built a log hut. in which the family lived for a time. There were four sons and two daughters in the grandparents' family, of whom George Rinehart was the eldest. Mrs. Rinehart died April 5. 1896, ber husband having died in 1891. He was born June 12, 1816, and they were married June 3, 1837.

George Rinehart resided in Rose Township until 1882, when he moved to Sumner County. Kansas. By his first marriage he had three sons and one daughter, namely: David Oliver, who lives at Ford, Kansas, is married and en- gaged in farming; John Elmer, who lives at Canton, Ohio, married Eva Minckley, and they have two sons and two daughters; Hugh Mil- ton. who was the next in order of birth: and Sarah Elizabeth, who is Mrs. John Parks of Kansas, has two sons and two daughters. There were two sons and one daughter born of the second marriage of George Rinehart.

During the winter terms until he was nine- teen years old, Hugh Milton Rinehart attended District School No. 9, in Rose Township, and took one summer course at the Magnolia Nor- mal School. During the remainder of the year until he left school, he worked on either his grandfather's farm, or that of his Uncle James Rinehart, and then began working for neigh- boring farmers as a farm hand, and was so engaged until 1881. Going back to his grand- father's farm, he remained on it for a year.

On February 4, 1886, Mr. Rinehart was mar- ried to Rosa Belle Finefrock, a daughter of George and Belinda ( Worley) Finefrock, of Sandy Township. Stark County, Ohio, of Penn- sylvania-German stock. The grandfather John Finefrock married Elizabeth Harple, and they had four daughters and five sons. The members of the family for many generations have been farmers and stockbuyers. Mr. Finefrock. fa- ther of Mrs. Rinehart. died at Waynesburg. Ohio, at the age of seventy-four, and her mother died in April, 1886, aged fifty-four years. Mrs. Rinehart attended school at Waynesburg until she was sixteen years of age. and then re- mained at home until she was married.

After his marriage Mr. Rinehart bought eighty-two acres of land in Rose Township, and lived on that farm for thirty-three years. when he moved on the R. P. Beatty farm of 115 acres

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in October, 1919, and is now carrying on general farming and specializing in raising Shorthorn blooded stock cattle. This farm is one of the best improved in the county, the buildings being splendidly adapted for their several purposes, and furnished with electric lights and other modern improvements. A re- publican, Mr. Rinehart is active in his party, and was elected trustee of Rose Township for six years, in a strongly democratic township, and has also served on the School Board. The Lutheran Church of Waynesburg holds his membership.

Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart have three children, namely : Erna Elizabeth, who married Benja- min Domer, of Waynesburg, has four children, -L. Gidbert, L. Milton, Eileen and Ivan Fran- cis, and one who died in April, 1918, at the age of eighteen months, little George Arthur; Sarah Olive, who married Harvey E. Sherer of Mag- nolia, has two children,-Hugh George and John Glenwood; and George William, who married Jessie Olive DeFord, August 15, 1920, and lives with his parents.

George William Rinehart attended the district schools of Rose Township and the Magnolia High School. On July 24, 1918, he was called to the service under the selective draft, at Car- rollton, and sent to Camp Sherman, where he was placed in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade, and trained as such for a month, when he was transferred to Com- pany B. Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Machine Gun, Eighty-fourth Division, in which he was a buck private. He was then sent to Camp Mills, Long Island, for a week, and then sailed for Quebec, Canada, on Labor Day, on an English ship, and landed at Liverpool, Eng- land, with a convoy of twenty-two Ivessels. From Southampton, England. the unit sailed for Havre, France, where three days were spent, following which five days were taken up with a trip to Bordeaux, where they arrived October 29, 1918. He, with the rest of his command, was sent to the training area and transferred to Company A, Thirteenth Machine Gun Corps, and he was under fire all through the Argonne campaign until the signing of the armistice. He was also under shell fire in the Meuse engagement and becoming sick was sent to the hospital. After he recovered he was sent to London, and from there to different points in France. Transferred to the Fifth Military Po- lice, he was sent to Arlen, Belgium, and then to Esche, Luxemburg, on police force there, and he was placed on detached duty, and remained in that principality until in March, 1919, when he was transferred to Trier, Germany. Two days later he left for Savoy, France, and fin- ally sailed on the "Ryndam." hospital ship, June 19, 1919, and landed in New York City. June 29. For four days he was at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and was then returned to Camp Sherman, and mustered out July 9. 1919. as a first-class private and returned home. He is a member of Waynesburg Post No. 432. Ameri- can Legion, and is chaplain of his post.

Hugh Milton Rinehart has become one of the best-known men in agricultural circles in this part of the state. Because he has known

how to carry on his work and taken an Interest in it he has achieved a more than ordinary success. He and his wife display an open- handed hospitality not very generally found today, and welcome to their beautiful home their many friends whom they entertain de- lightfully. As a public official he justified the confidence displayed in him and has every rea- son to be satisfied with what he has accom- plished in life.

Ross P. BUCHANAN. Belonging to that class of workers whose practical training, quick per- ceptions and great capacity for painstaking la- bor have advanced them to positions of agricul- tural leadership, Ross P. Buchanan is known as one of the substantial citizens of Union Township, where he owns a large and valuable property which produces not only all the stand- ard crops of the locality but a high grade of oil as well. He is a native of Carroll County. born on a farm in Monroe Township February 10, 1870, a son of Samuel and Ann (Rutledge) (Griffin) Buchanan.

The great-grandparents of Mr. Buchanan, Samuel and Susanna Buchanan, natives of Pennsylvania, came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1800, and there purchased a large tract of land, on which they spent the rest of their lives in agricultural pursuits. Their son. Jobn Buchanan, followed in the footsteps of his fa- ther, and applied himself to farming. first in Harrison County and later in Carroll County, where he owned a valuable property in Union Township. John Buchanan married Mary W. Pittenger, and among their children was Sam- uel Buchanan, who was born in Union Town- ship and there grew to manhood and married Mrs. Peter Griffin, a widow, who had one son by her first marriage, William Ira, who now resides with Ross P. Buchanan. Ann ( Rut- ledge) Griffin was a daughter of Robert and Jane (Brooks) Rutledge, natives of Ireland, who were brought to the United States as chil- dren, their respective families settling in Union Township, where they met and were married. After the union of Samuel and Ann (Rutledge) Buchanan they bought a farm adjoining that of Mr. Buchanan's father, but soon moved to Monroe Township, where they spent a few years. Returning then to Union Township, they purchased the old family place, to which Mr. Buchanan added until he had 240 acres, all brought under cultivation and containing numerous improvements. On this farm Mrs. Buchanan died January 11, 1907, Mr. Buchanan surviving until March 24, 1920. They were the parents of the following children: Mary E .. who married James Brackin, of Union Town- ship: Ross P .; and Lettie J., who married How- ard Lytle, of Union Township.

Ross P. Buchanan attended the public schools of Union Township and Mount Union College. Alliance. Ohio, after his graduation from which he became a teacher in the district schools. This vocation he continued to follow for twelve years, becoming one of the popular and highly efficient instructors of Carroll County. but in the meantime continued to reside on the home

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farm, where he assisted with the operations during the busy summer months. Following his marriage he acquired possession of the home- stead on which he has lived since he was two years of age, and on which he carries on gen- eral farming and stock raising, being a well- known and successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle. He is a capable agriculturist and able business man, and is held in high esteem by those with whom he has been associated. His farming property is made doubly valuable by the presence of sixteen producing oil wells.

Mr. Buchanan was married November 5. 1908, to Miss Lizzie Long, who was born in Union Township, a daughter of William and Nancy (Shotwell) Long, the former a native of Union Township, Carroll County, and the latter of Tuscarawas County, this state. Her grandpar- ents were Alexander and Nancy (Scott) Long. natives of Ireland, and Jacob and Mary (Car- lisle) Shotwell. the former a native of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan have no chil- dren. Mr. Buchanan is a republican in his po- litical allegiance, but has not sought public office. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as steward and class leader.

THOMAS M. SMITH. No better farm land can be found anywhere in Ohio than that of Car- roll County, and the fine agricultural properties in this region show that the persons owning them are developing the natural resources to the utmost and realizing from their industry a fair income and excellent living conditions. One of these enterprising citizens is Thomas M. Smith, owner of seventy acres of valuable land in Harrison Township. He was born in Union Township, Carroll County, March 23, 1859, a son of David and Margaret Ann (McElderry) Smith and grandson of David Smith. who moved from Washington County, Pennsylvania, Washington Township. Carroll County. Ohio, and there was engaged in farming until his de- mise. He and his wife had three sons and one daughter, and of all their children David Smith was the eldest, After his marriage the younger David Smith moved to Center Township and there passed his life. His widow survived him, but she, too, is now deceased. They had five children, of whom Thomas M. Smith was the second in order of birth.

Growing up in his native county. Thomas M. Smith attended the Cold Spring School until he was eighteen years old, during the winter months, and the remainder of the year made himself useful under his father's watchful su- pervision, in this way learning farming in all of its details and laying the foundation for his future prosperity. At the age of twenty-one years he was married to Luella J. Orin, a daughter of John and Amelia (McCully ) Orin, of Harrison Township. Following his marriage Mr. Smith was engaged in farming in Center Township for one year, and then moved on his present farm, where he has since carried on general farming with profitable results. He has always given a sincere support to the principles and candidates of the democratic party. The Presbyterian Church at New Harrisburg, Ohio.

affords him expression for his religious faith. and he is one of the most active members of the congregation. In every respect he measures up to the best conception of American manhood, and he and his wife are held in great esteem by their neighbors.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, Todd Orin Smith, who is now state chemist of the State of New Hampshire, with headquarters at Dur- ham, New Hampshire, which important position he has held for eleven years. He was gradu- ated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada. Ohio, following which he took a course in the Bloomington, Indiana, College, and also graduated from the Valparaiso, Indiana, Uni- versity.

PERRY HARSH. A visit to Carroll County will disclose excellent conditions among the farmers. The land is not only fertile but ad- vanced and intensive farming has made it pro- duce to its fullest extent and crops raised here are banner ones. The buildings are mod- ern and the premises are well kept and orderly. One of the men who has proven by his suc- cess that it pays to devote time and attention to farming is Perry Harsh of Harrison Town- ship, and he was born in this township. on the farm adjoining the one of ninety-eight and one-half acres which he owns and operates.

Perry Harsh is a son of Philip and Rachel ( Wyman) Harsh. and grandson of Lewis Harsh, who married Sarah Thomas, and of their thirteen children Philip Harsh was the youngest born. The grandparents came to Brown Town- ship, Carroll County, from Pennsylvania. and there both died. the grandfather prior to the birth of his youngest child.

Philip Harsh moved to Harrison Township after he reached his majority and settled on his homestead of 160 acres, where he died in 1913. His first wife. who was the mother of Perry Harsh, died in February. 1881, and he was afterward married to Sarah Galier, and they had two children. He was a farmer all his life with the exception of the time he spent in the army during the war between the two sections of the country, he having enlisted in Company I, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry. but was taken sick and was discharged on account of disability. Later he re-enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During his periods of service he took part in some sharp skir- mishes, but did not participate in any important engagements.

Until he was twenty-one years old Perry Harsh attended the country schools and at the same time assisted his father in the farm work. and remained at home until he was thirty-one years old, at which time he was married and moved to his present farm, where he has since been occupied with a general line of farming. with very gratifying results. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg. which he is serving as trustee, and he is super- intendent of the Sunday school. As a member of the National Grange at New Harrisburg Mr. Harsh is receiving and giving assistance. and he is serving it as assistant steward. All his

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life he has been a hard worker and is reaping the harvest of his industry.

On September 11, 1912, Mr. Harsh was united in marriage with Sarah Elizabeth Westfall, a daughter of Samuel Wesley and Mary Ruth (Beamer) Westfall, of Washington Township, Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Harsh have two daughters, Elizabeth Marie and Ezma Ruth.

HARVEY P. LEYDA. The production of food has become the most important industry of the country, and the men engaged in it are recog- nized as citizens of importance. One of the men of Carroll County who has found in farm- ing a congenial occupation and a source of profit is Harvey P. Leyda, who operates a rented farm of 107 acres in Harrison Township. He was born in Harrison Township in 1883, a son of David and Samantha (Pottoll) Leyda. His grandfather Leyda came to Harrison Town- ship at an early day, becoming the owner of a fine farm. He and his wife had five children. of whom David Leyda was the youngest. David Leyda was always a farmer, and he lived on his valuable property of 227 acres in Harrison Township until his death.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 113

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