History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 18

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

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slave to freedom. He and his wife were mem- bers of the Seceder Church. Their children were eleven in number.

John H. Hammond assisted in the reclaiming and development of his father's farm. By close application he gained a really liberal education, as gauged by the standards of the locality and period. His marriage occurred in 1845, and he continued to devote himself to farm enterprise until the outbreak of the Civil war. In Septem- ber, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, One Hun- dred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and with which he took part in a few engage- ments, with the rank of second lieutenant. Prostrated by fever, he was compelled to leave his regiment and return home, but in 1864 he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Seven- tieth Ohio Regiment, with which he served in defense of the City of Washington. He was a staunch republican and he and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church. In 1868 Mr. Hammond engaged in the dry-goods business at Harrisville, and in 1872 he became associated with his younger son, Anderson N., in the hardware business at Cadiz, in which village he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They had only the two sons, of whom the subject of this memoir was the elder.

Alexander J. Hammond acquired his early education in the common schools of Harrison County and an academy at Savannah, Ashland County. He remained on the home farm until he was seventeen years of age, when his youth- ful patriotism was no longer to be denied ac- tion, as shown by his enlistment in the spring of 1864 as a member of Company C, Ninety- eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He partici- pated in General Sherman's Atlanta campaign, including the battles of Kenesaw Mountain and Peachtree Creek and the siege of Atlanta, and thereafter was with Sherman's forces on the historic march from Atlanta to the Sea. He continued in active service until the close of the war, and received his honorable discharge in August, 1865 He then returned home, but within a short time thereafter made a trip through the West, and upon his return to Har- rison County he became associated with his brother in conducting a hardware store at Cadiz. In 1878 he here engaged in the dry- goods business, and for many years thereafter he conducted one of the leading establishments of this kind in Harrison County, with a large and representative patronage.

Mr. Hammond was unfaltering in his support of the principles of the republican party and served about ten years as clerk of Cadiz Town- ship. He was affiliated with the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a zealous member of the United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, as is also his widow. He served sixteen years as superintendent of the Sunday school of this church. A man of the highest principles, of gracious personality and abiding human sympathy and tolerance. Mr. Hammond won to himself the staunchest of friends and was essentially one of the repre- sentative men of his native county at the time of his death.

In 1870 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hammond to Miss Charlotte Hunter, who was born and reared at Cadiz and of whose parents specific record will be given in appending para- graphs. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond became the parents of two children-Percy Hunter and Helen. The latter married George Carnahan, of Cadiz, and she is deceased. Percy H. Ham- mond has achieved distinction as a dramatic critic and literateur, and at the present time holds the position of dramatic critic for the Chicago Tribune. He married Miss Florence Carnahan, and their son John, a graduate of Harvard University, saw service with the United States Marine Corps during the period of the World war.

Mrs. Charlotte (Hunter) Hammond is a daughter of Joseph R. and Letitia (McFadden) Hunter. Her father was born in Westmore- land County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1802, and was a son of Cyrus Hunter, who was a member of the staunch Presbyterian colony which early migrated from Fauquire County, Virginia, to western Pennsylvania. Cyrus Hunter came with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio and took up Government land in Wayne County, as one of the earliest settlers of that county. Later Joseph R. returned to Pennsylvania and worked at the trade of cabinetmaker in the City of Pittsburgh. Upon his return to Ohio he established himself in business at Cadiz, Harrison County, as a manufacturer of furni- ture. He developed this into one of the leading manufacturing industries of this section of the state, and long continued as one of the leading business men and honored and influential citi- zens of the county, where his death occurred April 4, 1886. He was a man of commanding presence and classical facial contour, and had eminently the qualities that make for leader- ship, though his environment was such that these never came into full play. Through broad and well directed study and reading he became a man of specially high intellectuality, and his memory was phenomenal in its compass and ready response to every demand. As a Jack- sonian democrat he was active in politics in the early days, and he gained reputation as a force- ful public speaker. He was a staunch aboli- tionist, and thus was led to espouse the cause of the republican party at the time of its forma- tion, but, loyal to his convictions, he voted for the democratic nominee for governor in 1883, and for the democratic presidential candidate in the following year. As a young man he had read law under the preceptorship of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of state under the administration of President Lincoln during the Civil war, and though he never applied for ad- mission to the bar he found his technical knowl- edge of much value in connection with his business activities, as well as in his service as justice of the peace and as mayor of the City of Cadiz. Concerning this man and his distinct character the following words have been writ- ten : "He was a man of strong prejudices, and when he took a position that he thought to be right, nothing could change him. For the last twenty years of his life, not being in active business, he gave his time to reading, and was one of the best informed men in the county. In

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English and Roman history he had even the minutest detail of every event at his tongue's command. He was a member of the Presbyte- rian Church, was leader of the choir of a church of this denomination while in the City of Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, and for many years was the precentor of the church at Cadiz. He stood high as a man of honor and integrity in the community where he was best known. To his friends he was companionable, sympathetic and affectionate, yet dignified."

March 24, 1835, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hunter to Miss Letitia McFadden, daughter of Samuel McFadden, who was a leading mer- chant at Cadiz in the early days. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter celebrated their golden wedding anniversary the year prior to his death, and his widow survived him by only a few days, she having passed to the life eternal April 12, 1886, and his death having occurred on the 4th of that month. Of their seven children, the daughters Mary and Lydia preceded them to the life eternal; Rev. Cyrus J., D. D., is a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church in Penn- sylvania ; Judge Samuel M. is a resident of Newark, Ohio; William H. is editor and pub- lisher of a paper at Chillicothe, Ohio, in com- pany with his younger brother, George F .; Lydia is the deceased wife of William H. Arnold; Mary died when young, in 1859: and Charlotte is the widow of the subject of this memoir. Mrs. Letitia Hunter was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1815, a daughter of Samuel McFadden, who came with his family to America and first settled in Philadelphia, whence he came to Cadiz, Ohio, in 1831. Here he was a prosperous merchant for many years prior to his death. Of this noble and gracious woman the following estimate is well worthy of perpetuation in this connection: "She was a Christian, having all the noble virtues that this name implies kind, gentle, charitable, and, withal, possessing a happy, cheerful disposition. There are few households in the town of Cadiz to which she had not been called as ministering angel in sickness or to console in death. During her long life she was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Her influence in church affairs was more than local, she having been the means of influencing Bishop Simpson to enter the ministry. She also organized the first Presbyterian Sunday School in Cadiz and was a teacher in the school for many years. She died without regret for action or word, full of years, as one whose mission on earth was com- pleted."

WILLIAM R. FLOWERS, one of the prosperous exponents of farm industry in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, is a scion of a family whose name has been identified with Ohio annals since the pioneer period and with the history of the United States since the co- lonial epoch, within which representatives of the name established their residence in the historic old commonwealth of Virginia.

Mr. Flowers was born in Gallia County, Ohio, January 31, 1873, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Sophia (Richey) Flowers, the former of whom was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the latter in Short Creek Township, Harri-

son County, where her father, Andrew Richey, was a pioneer farmer and a member of a family that has been one of prominence in this section of the state since the opening period of the nineteenth century.

Benjamin Franklin Flowers was a son of Charles and Sarah (Jordan) Flowers, the for- mer of whom was born in Loudon County, Vir- ginia, and the latter was born near Cumberland, Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of Adam Jordan. Charles Flowers died in Tennessee while serving as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he was a member of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His eldest son, Adam, served during three years of the Civil war, was captured by the enemy and was held a prisoner of war for eight months and three days. Aaron and Jesse, the next two sons, died in childhood. Harris died while serv- ing in the Civil war. Benjamin Franklin was the next in order of birth, and the other children were David, Christianna, Mary and Rachel. Aaron Flowers, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life in Virginia, where he was a prosperous planter in Loudon County.

Benjamin F. Flowers was reared and educated in Gallia County, where he was engaged in farming until his removal to Muskingum County, and finally he went to Mason County, Virginia, where he now maintains his residence. His wife passed away in 1903, survived by three children -William R., Elizabeth and Maude.

The public schools of his native state afforded William R. Flowers his early education, and from his youth he has been continuously asso- ciated with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing. In 1887, when fourteen years of age, he came to Short Creek Township, Harrison County. where he lived about fifteen years in the home of David Minteen, and in the spring of 1914 he purchased and established his home on his present farm, which comprises eighty-three acres and upon which he has made numerous improvements, especially in moderniz- ing the farm buildings and the installing of an effective private electric-light plant. He is pro- gressive not only in his farm enterprise but also as a liberal and public-spirited citizen. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Harrisville.

November 27, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Flowers to Miss Alice C. Dickerson, who was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of William and Gabriella (McCoy) Dickerson. Mr. and Mrs. Flowers became the parents of two children-Edgar D., who remains at the paternal home, and Alice Carrie, who died at the age of four months. Mrs. Flowers passed to the life eternal on the 4th of May, 1903, she having been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 15th of August, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Flowers to Miss Carrie Keyser, daughter of John and Martha (Heaton) Keyser. John Keyser was born and reared in Belmont County, Ohio, and finally he removed to and engaged in farming in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he remained until about the year 1894. returning then with his family to his native county, where he passed the remainder of his

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life. His children were eight in number- Emma, Amos, Charles. Alvin, William, John (died at the age of three years), Carrie and Laura. Mr. and Mrs. Flowers have no children.

JOSEPH S. LODGE is a man whose career has shown his full appreciation and utilization of the opportunities offered for achieving success in connection with farm industry, and is num- bered among the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Short Creek Township, Harrison County.

Mr. Lodge was born in Wheeling Township. Belmont County, Ohio. June 26, 1853, and in the same county were born his parents, Thomas and Rebecca J. ( Smith) Lodge, the latter having been a daughter of Joseph S. and Rebecca (McMillen) Smith, pioneer citizens of that county, where Mr. Smith was a farmer by voca- tion. Thomas Lodge was born and roared in Richland Township, Belmont County, and was a son of Abner and Tamzen (Nichols) Lodge, who were born and reared in Loudon County, Virginia, and whose marriage was solemnized in their native state. In an early day they came to Belmont County, Ohio, where the father re- claimed from the forest wilds a productive farm and where both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been earn- est and birthright members of the Society of Friends. Their children were eight in number -Thomas, Abner, Harmon, Laban, William, Emily, Mary Elizabeth and Christena.

Thomas Lodge was reared under the condi- tions of the pioneer period and in due course of time became one of the substantial represen- tatives of farm enterprise in his native county. He was the owner of one of the valuable farms of Wheeling Township, Belmont County, at the time of his death in 1911. His second wife passed away in 1904. His first wife was Nancy Ellen ( Merritt) Lodge, and she was still a comparatively young woman at the time of her death, the three children of this union having been Sarah Elizabeth. Abner and John M. The last named died in 1911, and his wife died March 17, 1920. Thomas and Rebecca J. (Smith) Lodge became the parents of seven children-Joseph S., Emmett (died in early childhood ). Thomas, William S., Nancy E .. Mary A., and Alice. The parents were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.

Joseph S. Lodge gained his early education in the district schools of his native township, and there also was staged his initial activity as an independent exemplar of farm enterprise. He continued to be engaged in farming in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, until 1885, when he purchased and removed to his present farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. Here he has gained merited success in his vigorous and well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and is the owner of an ex- cellent farm of 149 acres, his live-stock opera- tions being principally in the raising of sheep. His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

As a young man Mr. Lodge was united in marriage to Miss Mollie V. Smith, who has been his devoted companion and helpmeet during the

long intervening years. She was born on the island at Wheeling, West Virginia, and is a daughter of John and Anna ( Ferguson) Smith. John Smith was a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, while his wife was born in Belmont County, Ohio. In 1888 they removed to Oak- land, California, where he died in 1906, while his widow died there in 1911. They were the parents of eleven children, ten of whom grew to manhood and womanhood and of whom six are still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Lodge have been born five children-Harold, who married Bertha Cooper, and they have one son, Joseph Wayne and they reside in Smithfield; Hazel, who died in early childhood; Clarence R., who married Zilda Johnson, and they have one daughter, Emma Marie, and reside at Shepherds- town ; John B., who attended Dana Music In- stitute, Warren, Ohio, in 1914, 1915 and 1916, taking instruction on the piano and on tuning, receiving his diploma in the latter branch, and since then he has been teaching and tuning, and also plays in orchestras; and Mary Elizabeth.

ISAAC B. WOODS effectively proved his re- sourcefulness in the unequivocal success which attended his activities as one of the representa- tive farmers of his native county and is now living retired in the pleasant village of Malvern, as one of the sterling and highly esteemed citizens of Carroll County and as a representa- tive of one of its honored pioneer families. His maternal grandfather, Christian Barkdoll. here established a home in the year 1816. He took up a tract of land in what is now Harrison Township and instituted the reclamation of a farm from the forest wilds, with a pioneer log cabin as the family domicile. The paternal grandfather, William Woods, was probably born in the State of Virginia, and was a scion of a staunch English family that was founded in the historic Old Dominion commonwealth prior to the War of the Revolution. He was in the British army but deserted and joined Americans. Born and reared in Virginia, William Woods there remained until the early part of the nine- teenth century. when he came to Ohio and first settled in Jefferson County, where was solem- nized his marriage to Mary Pugh, a daughter of Isaac Pugh. He continued his residence in Jefferson County until 1833, when he came with his family to Carroll County and established his residence in Harrison Township. He was a leader in his community, where he was called upon to serve in various local offices of trust, he having been a democrat in politics and he and his wife having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in connection with which he became the founder of what was known as Wood's Chapel. He was one of the strong and worthy pioneers of the county, and here his death occurred in 1856, his wife having passed away seven months previously. They be- came the parents of ten children-Elizabeth, Isaac, George (father of the subject of this re- view ), John, Robert, Jane, Mary, Margaret. Nancy Ann and Thomas.

Isaac B. Woods was born in Brown Township, Carroll County. August 20, 1840, and is a son of George and Catherine (Barkdoll ) Woods, the former of whom was born in 1813 and the

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latter in 1811. George Woods was about twenty years old at the time of the removal of his par- ents from Jefferson County, where he was born. to Carroll County. In Harrison Township his father became the owner of a large tract of land. As a young man George Woods engaged in farming in Brown Township, where he re- claimed much of his land from the forest, and later he returned to Harrison Township, where he continued as an exponent of farm industry until his death in 1867, when but fifty-four years of age. His wife survived him by a quarter of a century and was one of the venerable and revered pioneer women of Carroll County at the time of her death in 1898. Both became earnest members of Wood's Chapel, mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and their son Isaac B., of this sketch. now owns the land on which this pioneer Methodist Church was erected, on ground donated for the purpose by his grand- father in Harrison Township. George and Catherine Woods became the parents of six children-Margaret Jane, Lucinda. Isaac B .. Elizabeth, Mary and Catherine. In politics George Woods adhered to the ancestral faith and was a staunch democrat.

Isaac B. Woods was about twenty-seven years old at the time of his father's death, and was reared to manhood in Harrison Township, where he received his early education in the common schools of the period, later having attended the graded school at Malvern, besides which he attended Harlem College at Harlem Springs, this county, for one term. Like his father and grandfather, he became a successful representa- tive of farm industry in Carroll County. where he became the owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of 312 acres. Of this property he sold 160 acres about the year 1905. and in 1919 he sold another portion of the property, though he still retains in his posses- sion twenty-six acres, constituting one of the best farms in Harrison Township and now rented to an approved tenant. On the 12th of November, 1919, Mr. Woods and his wife re- moved from their farm to the village of Mal- vern. where he has since lived virtually retired and where he owns an attractive and modern residence. He has been influential in public affairs in his native county and served seven and one-half years as county commissioner, be- sides which he gave equally effective service during his incumbency of the office of trustee of Harrison Township. He is a republican in po- litical allegiance and is actively affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity at Carrollton. as well as with the Commandery of Knights Templar and the Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of Cleveland. When it is stated that he is an appreciative and honored member of Mckinley Post. Grand Army of the Republic, in the City of Canton, an organization named in honor of the late President Mckinley, whose home was in that city, it becomes evident that Mr. Woods was one of the patriotic young men who went forth from Carroll County to defend the Union when the Civil war was precipitated upon the nation. In November, 1861. he enlisted as a private in Company A, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he continued

in service three years, the while he lived up to the full tension of the great conflict, was made corporal of his company and took part in many important engagements, besides numerous skirmishes and other minor conflicts. It may be noted that he participated in the battles of Iuka, Farmington, Corinth, Port Gibson, Clinton, Jackson, siege of Vicksburg and the battle of Missionary Ridge, which was the last in which he took part, his honorable discharge having been received November 5, 1864.

Christian and Elizabeth (Peters) Barkdoll, maternal grandparents of Mr. Woods, were born and reared in Maryland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Carroll County, Ohio, in 1816, their home being estab- lished first at Carrollton, where Mr. Barkdoll followed his trade, that of carpenter. About 1835 removal was made to a farm in Harrison Township, where the grandfather died in 1863, his widow having passed away about 1875, at the remarkable age of ninety-one years. They had five children-Catherine, Margaret, Sarah, Mary and Nancy.

In 1867 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Woods to Miss Sarah J. Masters, who was born in Carroll County on the 30th of August, 1844, a daughter of William and Mary (Thomp- son) Masters, who were pioneer settlers in that township. Mr. and Mrs. Woods are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, and in 1917, while still re- siding on their farm, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, the occasion being made one of gracious entertainment extended to their children and their many devoted friends in their native county. To them have been born ten children : Catherine first married Ed- ward Tresler. who is survived by three chil- dren. Vina, Oneta and Basil, and she is now the wife of William Marshall, a prosperous farmer of Carroll County. Ada is the wife of D. Grant Orin, of this county, and their one child is a daughter, Pauline. George C. is a representative dentist of Magnolia of his native county. The maiden name of his wife was Minnie Griffith, and they have two children. Florence and Margaret. Elva is the wife of O. J. Tipe. and they live in Pittsburgh, Penn. sylvania. They have two children, James and Sarah Jane. Emma is the wife of Frank L. Harsh, of Carroll County. They have no chil- dren. Perrl is the wife of Frank Cooper, of Harrison Township, and their two children are Sarah Jane and Emerine. James B., who is another of the substantial farmers of Carroll County. married Miss Juanita Fields, but no children has been born of this union. Vern is the wife of Charles C. Shaffer, of Canton, Ohio. William Francis died at the age of three years. Charles Marion died at the age of ten years.

WILLIAM A. LEWIS has shown in his active career a marked versatility and has been identi- filed with varied lines of business enterprise, In- cluding intrepid onslaughts into the field of newspaper publishing, and he is at the present time conducting a specially appointed grocery store in the Village of Malvern, Carroll County, where his substantial and representative patron-

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 18

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