History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 120

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

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HARVEY L. THOMPSON was born in Carroll · County, Ohio, on June 7, 1842. He was the son of Gabriel D. and Elizabeth ( Allen) Thompson who were born in Maryland, and who later re- moved to and became residents of Carroll County, Ohio, where the following children were born. viz. : Gilbert, Lydia Ann, Antoinette, How- ard, Bathsheba, Harvey L., Joseph and Sarah A.

Harvey L. Thompson grew up as a farmer's son, acquiring a practical knowledge of farming and also a common school education such as the country schools of that day afforded, and there the seeds of patriotism took deep root in his heart, and he later manifested his loyalty by enlisting in the service of his country on August 13, 1862, as a private in Company A, 126th Regiment O. V. I.

He was promoted to corporal and then to ser- geant, and took part in quite a number of the bloodiest battles of the Civil war, among them Harper's Ferry, Second Bull Run, Spottsylvania, Petersburg, Cedar Creek, and many others, and was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864. After his discharge in 1865, Mr. Thompson returned home and still desiring a better educational training he entered the Hope- dale Normal College at Hopedale, Ohio, in 1865, and later became a student of the Scio College at Scio, Ohio, following which he taught school a few years and then went into business with N. E. Clendennin at Conotton, Ohio, where they conducted a general store.

On August 3, 1871, Harvey L. Thompson was united in marriage to Maria Shambaugh, born August 22, 1844, a daughter of Michael and Het- tie (Hazlett) Shambaugh; Michael Shambaugh being one of the sturdy, honest and strictly re- liable, as well as successful farmers of Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and whose family were as follows: James, Elizabeth, Mary, Simon B., Adam H., Charlotte, Maria, Jane, John and Philip. Mr. Shambaugh was for many years one of the pillars of the United Brethren Church at New Rumley and led a truly and exemplary life, his family all being reared in this faith and uniting with the church. In 1874 Harvey L. Thompson having been elected treasurer of Harrison County, with his family removed to Cadiz. Ohio, where he served as treasurer for two terms, with a highly creditable record : while Mr. Thompson's aspira- tions were for a higher education along literary and other educational lines, he sacrificed these in a degree and chose the rural life, purchasing a farm in Archer Township, Harrison County, on which he resided until his death which oc- curred on February 3, 1907, and which is still known as the home farm. He was a good business man, possessed with rare social quali- tles, a great reader. and one of Harrison County's prominent men.

Harvey L. and Maria (Shambaugh) Thomp- son were the parents of the following children :

Simon Edwin, born July 9. 1872, served as re- corder of Harrison County six years, he was married to Mildred R. Ryder, of Scio, Ohio, whose children are Andrew R., Marie, Harvey (deceased), Margaret and Frederick, S. Edwin dying in 1910. B. Frank Thompson, born Au- gust 28, 1874, married Charlotte A. Probert of Richmond, Ohio, an accomplished musician widely known as a composer and teacher. Their children are Anna Doris. and Harvey Duard. Charles H. Thompson, born November 30, 1876, married Jennie Spence of Jewett. Ohio, their children are Charles Spence and Donald. Mary C., born October 30, 1878. single and living at home. J. Paul, born January 13, 1880, who is now an attorney at Cleveland, Ohio, married Georgella Ikert. of East Liverpool. Ohio. Nel- lie, who died in 1888, aged six years. Fred A .. born June 16, 1888, married Carrie Grove of Jewett, Ohio, their children are as follows: Forrest, Mary Florence, John, Gwen and Eva.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Thompson were mem- bers of the Methodist Church of Jewett, Ohio, of which religious organization their children are all members. Mrs. Thompson is a lady of more than ordinary ability and refinement and of a literary and artistic temperament. her natural talents. She still remains on the farm in company with her daughter Mary. and at this writing still radiates an influence for good in all community welfare. and in trying to carry out the desires of her late husband for the best interests of the family and community at large.

FREDERICK L. ROOF. That a main has attained to venerable age is a matter of little more than biographical significance, but if those years which give him this status have borne their evidence of worthy character and worthy achievement, then the life record of that man can not fail to offer both incentive and inspira- tion. Frederick L. Roof, who is now living in retirement in the village of Dellroy, Carroll County, has passed the eightieth milestone on the journey of life, and in the evening shadows that lengthen from the golden west there is to be discerned in his career the transfiguring glow of large and worthy service as one of the world's workers and the gentle radiance indica- tive of nobility of character and loyal steward- ship. He is one of the venerable native sons still residing within the borders of Carroll County and is in every sense entitled to recog- nition in this history.

Mr. Roof was born on the old family home- stead farm, in Monroe Township, Carroll County. November 28, 1841, and is a son of Frederick and Sarah (Albaugh) Roof, to whom was given a due share of pioneer distinction in this favored section of the Buckeye State when Frederick Roof entered Government land in Jef- ferson County in 1812. The memory of Mr. Roof compasses much of the period of development and progress in Carroll County. and his boyhood and youth were marked by effective service in connection with the reclamation and other ac- tivities of the home farm. the while he at- tended during the winter terms the pioneer schools of the locality. His sturdy young man- hood brought to him the graver duties and re-

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sponsibilities born of patriotism, and in 1862 he enlisted, at Carrollton, for service as a sol- dier in the Civil war. He became a member of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and thereafter experi- enced the full tension of the great conflict through which the integrity of the nation was preserved, his service having continued until the virtual close of the war, in 1865, in which year he was mustered out and received honor- able discharge. After the tragic death of Presi- dent Lincoln Mr. Roof was one of those honored by appointment to service as bodyguards at the bier of the martyred President, in which con- nection his service continued twenty-four hours, in alternate watches of four hours' duration. He took part in the second battle of the Wilderness and many skirmishes and other minor engage- ments, and finally he suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever, as a result of which he was placed in a hospital at Harper's Ferry and was at one time reported dead. He recovered, how- ever, in due course of time and after his return to bis native county he married Miss Sarah Ann Tressel, daughter of Daniel and Abbie (Al- fred) Tressel. The marriage was solemnized in the year 1867, and concerning the children resultant therefrom it may be stated that the eldest is Daniel Ira, who married Miss Bird Eick, of Tuscarawas County, their home being now at Canton, that county, and their one child, Gladys, being a young woman of eighteen years at the time of this writing, in the winter of 1920-21. Emmet C., the second son, is individu- ally mentioned in an appending review. Ada Florence is the wife of Alva Hoobler, of Rose Township, Carroll County, and their daughter Zana is the wife of Jeremiah Baxter, of Dell- roy, and they have two children. Earl and Wayne. Lloyd Clark Hoobler, their son, is again residing in Carroll County, after having served loyally as an American soldier in con- nection with the great World war, be being an active member of the American Legion. Daisy May is the wife of Walter Beatty, of East Liverpool, Ohio, and they have four children : Frederick David, Donald, Dorothy, and Eliza- beth. William Howard, the fourth son, resides at Dellroy. Maude Pearl died in childhood, on the 1st of January, 1885. Grover Cleveland is actively associated with farm industry in Cen- ter Township, Carroll County. Alfred Loy and Lewis Franklin, youngest of the sons, are spe- cifically mentioned in sketches that follow this article.

Frederick L. Root, to whom this review is dedicated, gave virtually his entire active ca- reer to the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, in connection with which he gained substantial success and high standing. After the close of the Civil war he resumed his association with the activities of the old home farm, which comprised at that time 160 acres. This property came into his possession and with the passing years he added gradually to the area of his landed estate in Carroll County until it comprised 280 acres. This finely im- proved property still continues in his possession, and offers lasting evidence of his ability and progressiveness as a farmer and business man.

He has so ordered his course in all of the rela- tions of life as to merit and receive the un- qualified esteem of his fellow men. and has been a loyal and public-spirited citizen. He has never deviated from the line of strict allegiance to the cause of the democratic party, and while not imbued at any time with desire for office, his civic loyalty was shown in his effective service as trustee of Monroe Township. He and his wife are earnest communicants of Emman- uel Lutheran Church, in Rose Township. He remained on the old home farm until 1916 and since that year has lived retired in a pleasant home in the Village of Dellroy.

EMMET C. ROOF. In the preceding brief re- view of the career of his honored father is given adequate information concerning the hon- ored pioneer family of which Emmet Clark Roof is a popular representative in Carroll County, where his activities are centered on his excellent farm of 120 acres, in Rose Township, and situated on rural mail route No. 1 from the Village of Sherodsville.

On the old family homestead farm in Monroe Township, Carroll County, Emmet C. Roof was born September 30, 1871, and an appreciable part of his active career has been marked by continued and successful alliance with the basic industry of farming, under the influences of which he was reared. In the Atwood District School of Monroe Township, Mr. Roof applied himself to study in the gaining of his rudimen- tary education, and from the age of ten years to that of sixteen he attended the Atwood School. In the meanwhile he had not lacked practical discipline in connection with the work of the home farm, and after leaving school he continued to be identified with its operations until he had attained to his legal majority. Thereafter he gained broadening experience by means of his travels and services in the ca- pacity of stationary engineer, to which work he gave his attention sixteen years. Within this interval he worked at various places, including Akron and Cambridge, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, besides which he followed his vocation for a time in connection with coal mine operations in different sections of Ohio. From 1901 to 1903 he was a conductor on the street-car lines of the City of Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania. He finally returned to his native county and to the vocation with which the family name has here been long and promi- nently identified. In 1911 Mr. Roof purchased a farm of 114 acres in Rose Township, but in 1914 he purchased and removed to his present model farm of 120 acres, in the same township. Here he has since continued to put forth his best efforts as a vigorous and progressive agri- culturist and stock-grower, and he takes loyal interest in all things touching the welfare of his home township and native county. He has had no ambition for political preferment but is a stalwart in the local ranks of the democratic party, besides which he is found actively affili- ated with the Atwood Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and the Carroll County Farm Bureau.

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In May, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Roof to Mrs. Olive (Bartchy) Motter, widow of Henry E. Motter and a daughter of John J. and Ida (Stewart) Bartchy, the latter a daughter of the late Dr. E. P. Stewart, of Carroll County, Ohio. Mrs. Roof was born at Bakersville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1882, and she was nineteen years of age at the time of her graduation in the high school. Mr. and Mrs. Roof have no children, but their pleasant rural home is brightened by the presence of Mrs. Roof's three children by her first marriage Rosa Elba, Evelyn Ida and Harry Blake.

ALFRED L. ROOF is associated with his young- est brother, Lewis F., in progressive farm en- terprise on one of the fine landed estates of Monroe Township, Carroll County, where they utilize in their operations a tract of 280 acres, besides which the subject of this sketch indi- vidually owns eighty-nine acres in the same township. The brothers are numbered among the most enterprising and successful farmers of the younger generation in their native town- ship and on other pages of this work individual mention is made also of the younger brother.

Alfred Loy Roof was born on the old home- stead farm, in Monroe Township. October 20, 1888, and was the fifth in order of birth of the six sons and two daughters of Frederick L. and Sarah (Tressel ) Roof. Alfred L. received the advantages of the district schools and at- tended the village schools of Dellroy for one term. At the age of twenty-four years he in- itiated an apprenticeship to the trade of tele- graphist, at Bayard, Columbiana, County, and after perfecting himself in the art he continued to be employed two years as an operator in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Within this period he held positions at various places, including Alliance, Malvern, Waynes- burg, Steubenville, Brilliant, Martins Ferry and Yorkville. Thereafter he passed one year as a tire builder for one of the great rubber-manu- facturing companies in the City of Akron, and he then returned to the old home farm, in the operations of which he is now associated with his youngest brother, under partnership rela- tions. The brothers exemplify utmost vigor and progressiveness as agriculturists and stock- growers and are contributing materially to the prestige of their native county as a center of farm industry. Mr. Roof is a staunch demo- crat. is affiliated with the Grange at Atwood, and he and his wife are zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church in Rose Township, of which he is serving as a trustee.

The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Mr. Roof to Miss Floy Sharp, daughter of Samuel C. and Margaret Elizabeth ( Beamer) Sharp, of Sherodsville, and they have a fine little son, Chester Loyd, who was born in 1917.

LEWIS F. ROOF is a young man who is fortified with the energy and practical experience which conserve success in connection with productive farm enterprise, and in this basic field of in- dustry he is associated, under partnership alli- ance, with his brother, Alfred L., of whom in- dividua' mention is made on preceding pages.

They have active charge of the fine old home- stead farm of 280 acres, in Monroe Township, Carroll County. On this farm Lewis Franklin Roof was born, the youngest of the six sons and two daughters of Frederick L. and Sarah (Tressel ) Roof.

Mr. Roof was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and in the meanwhile continued to attend the Atwood public school until he had attained to the age of seventeen years. He has been continuously associated with the activities of the old home farm from his boyhood to the present time and here is a vital and progressive exponent of modern methods and policies of agriculture and live-stock enterprise. He is a staunch democrat, and his personal popularity in the home community was significantly shown when. in the fall of 1919, he was elected trus- tee of his native township, for the regular term of two years. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Vil- lage of Dellroy.

June 12. 1915, recorded the marriage of -Mr. Roof to Miss Myrtle W. McQueen, daughter of John H. and Cora A. (Teeter) McQueen, of Dellroy, and the one child of this union is Wayne Francis, who was born in the year 1916.

WILLIAM BIGGER is one of the progressive farmers whose activities give to Archer Town- ship a distinct prestige as one of the most attractive and productive divisions of Harri- son County, and further interest attaches to his achievement by reason of the fact that he is a native of this township, where his birth occurred on the 22d of April. 1869. His father, John M. Bigger, was born in Crawford County, Ohio, September 29, 1839, and his mother, whose maiden name was Jennie Mitchell. was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, October 31, 1845, a daughter of Robert and Eliza Jane (Atkinson) Mitchell. Robert Mitchell was born in Archer Township, as a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of Harrison County. and here his death occurred in 1894. his widow, likewise a native of Archer Town- ship. having passed away in August, 1904. Robert Mitchell was born January 5, 1816, and was a son of John and Mary ( Hines) Mitchell, whose marriage was solemnized in Cadiz Town- ship, this county, where the latter's father. Rudolph Hines, was an early settler. James Mitchell was born in Scotland and was a youth when he came to America. After remaining for a time in Maryland he came to Ohio and located at Steubenville, whence he shortly after- ward came to Harrison County. He reclaimed and improved one of the fine farms of the county and here both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been zealous members of the Seceder Church. later known as the United Presbyterian Church, and his political allegiance having been given to the whig party. He died at the age of seventy- two years. His brother, Robert, served under Gen. William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812. Robert Mitchell, son of Jobn. passed his entire life in Archer Township, where he be- came a representative farmer and influential citizen, his political support having been given

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to the republican party and both he and his wife having been earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church. Of thei .: five children Jennie, the mother of William Bigger, was the firstborn. her marriage to Jobn M. Bigger having been solemnized February 2. 1965. Her death occurred June 30, 1871. and her in- fant child died on the 22d of the following month, and two children, Laura and William, survived her.

John M. Bigger was a son of William and Sarah (Dunlap) Bigger. William Bigger was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and remained in the old Keystone State until he came to Ohio and numbered himself among the pioneer farmers of Crawford County, where he remained until his death. Thereafter his widow removed with her children to Jefferson County, their children having been six in num- ber-Leander. Samuel, John M., Joseph, Sarah (Mrs. John A. Kithcart). and Helen, the last named having remained unwed. William Big- ger was a member of the United Presbyterian Church. from which his widow eventually trans- ferred her membership to the Presbyterian Church, of which her children likewise became members, she' having passed the closing years of her life in Jefferson County.

John M. Bigger was a young man when he came from Jefferson County to Harrison County, and he passed the remainder of his life in Archer Township. He followed the trade of carpenter, besides becoming the owner of one of the excellent farms of the township, and he was one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of the county at the time of his death, on the 3d of May, 1916. Of the children the eldest is Laura F., who is the wife of John William Freshwater and has one daughter, Mary Helen; William, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; the next child. a son. died at birth; and Jennie L., who was born June 21, 1871, died on the 22d of the following month, as previously noted.

William Bigger acquired his early education in the district schools of Archer and Cadiz Townships, and he has been actively associated with farm industry from his youth to the present time. In the late '80s he initiated his independent activities as a farmer, in Archer Township, and since 1908 he has resided on his present fine farm of eighty-three acres, upon which he has made many improvements, includ- ing the remodeling and repairing of the build- ings. The attractive home is situated about one and one-half miles northeast of Cadiz, the county seat, and in that village Mr. and Mrs. Rigger are active members of the United Pres- byterian Church. Mr. Bigger is loyal and lib- eral in support of all things tending to advance the welfare of his home community and native county, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party.

November 3, 1892. recorded the marriage of Mr. Bigger to Miss Maude Chaney. daughter of James and Margaret ( Haines) Chaney, both likewise natives of Harrison County, where the former was born February 24. 1831, and the letter on the 27th of April, 1841. James Chaney became one of the representative farmers in

Cadiz Township, but passed the last few years of his life in Green Township, where his death occurred August 30, 1902. his widow having passed to the life eternal on the 14th of Feb- ruary, 1906, and both having been members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of these children-N. A., Mary H. (Mrs. John A. Dunlap), William. James Beatty. Oscar E .. Maude (Mrs. William Bigger), and Laura Belle (died May 26. 1903). Mr. and Mrs. Big- ger became the parents of six children-Wilma, Lucille, Robert Clayton, Clarence, Bertha Irene and John M. Lucille is the wife of Walter Patterson and they have three children. Laura Louise and Mary Lee and Margaret Irene, the latter two being twins, born December 21, 1920. Robert Clayton Bigger was one of the young men of Harrison County who were called into the nation's service in connection with the World war. He entered Camp Sherman on the 5th of September, 1918, and there his death occurred on the 2d of the following month. he having been a victim of the epidemic of in- fluenza. Clarence Bigger married Miss Nellie Carson and they reside at Cadiz and have one daughter, Grace Elizabeth, born February 12, 1920.

JOHN YOUNG. A man of sterling ability and worth, John Young holds high rank among the more progressive agriculturists and able busi- ness men of Stock Township, and is in all re- spects a valuable citizen of his community, ful- filling his duties as such with fidelity. A son of the late Robert G. Young, he was born July 6, 1864, in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, of Irish ancestry.

His paternal grandfather, also named John Young, was born, bred and educated in Ireland. Having married at an early age. and feeling the need of broader opportunities for supporting his young and growing family, he immigrated, soon after the birth of his third child, to the United States, and located, with his family. in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Coming from there to Ohio. he bought land in Stock Township, Harrison County, and having partly cleared the farm now owned and occupied by his grandson, he there continued a tiller of the soil until his death, June 10. 1861. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Martha Mc- Doogal, nine children were born, as follows- John. William, Jared, Robert G., Leonard, Mary, Susan, Jane. and Elizabeth.

Born in Washington County. Pennysivania. on February 11, 1822, Robert G. Young came with his parents to Stock Township in boyhood. and bravely assisted his father in the ploneer labor of redeeming a farm from the wilder- ness. In 1852, desirous of trying the hazard of new fortunes. he, with his brother Leonard, his brother-in-law, George Sproul. James Mc- Doogal and two other companions trekked across the country from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Sacramento, California, with an ox team, being six months on the road. The majority of the little band subsequently returned to Ohio, his brother Leonard, however. being accidentally drowned while on the return trip. After a stay of seven years in the Golden State, Robert

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G. Young returned to Stock Township, and, with the exception of one year spent in Tuscarawas County, and two years in Washington Town- ship, Harrison County, was engaged in farming on the parental homestead, where his death occurred on September 16, 1884.

Robert G. Young married Mary Jane Sproul, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a daughter of William and Sarah (Gillis) Sproul, and they became the parents of three children, namely : James S., John, with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned; Mary, wife of L. W. Baker.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 120

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