History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 35

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

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JOHN N. HINES owns and resides upon an excellent farm of eighty-six acres in Notting- ham Township. Harrison County, and has im- pressed himself as one of the progressive agri- culturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native county, where he is a scion of a representative pioneer family.

John Newton Hines was born in Cadiz Town- ship, this county, on the 16th of July, 1879, and is a son of James M. and Elmira J. (Car- son) Hines, the former of whom died on the 12th of May, 1919, and the latter of whom still resides in the county of her birth, her ances- tral record tracing back to an early period in the history of Harrison County.

James McMahan Hines, son of William and Isabella ( Hitchcock) Hines, was born in Harri- son County on the 5th of March, 1844, and here he received the advantages of the common schools of the period. His father was born in Allegany County, Maryland, March 19, 1800, and was four years of age when his parents, Rudolph and Sarah ( Huff) Hines, came to Jef- ferson County, Ohio, whence about a year later they removed to what is now the State of West Virginia, where they remained eight years. In the spring of 1814 Rudolph Hines came with his family to Harrison County. where he se- cured land and began the development of a farm in the midst of the virgin forest. Here he and his wife remained as honored pioneer citizens until their deaths, he having been ninety years of age when he passed away and his widow having soon followed him to eternal rest. They became the parents of twelve chil- dren.

February 15, 1827, recorded the marriage of William Hines to Miss Isabella Hitchcock, daughter of John and Jane (McMahan) Hitch-

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cock, and thereafter they remained on the old homestead farm of his father until they both passed away, Mr. Hines having been eighty- seven years of age at the time of his death, in 1887, and his wife, who was born January 24, 1806, having survived him by several years. . Mr. Hines was prospered in his earnest activi- ties as a farmer and at one time was the owner of 300 acres of land. He was first a whig and. later a republican in politics, and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Epis- copal Church. They became the parents of ten children, one son having died in infancy, and the names of the other children being here re- corded : John R., Sarah Jane (Mrs. Gillespie Haverfield), Lemuel Browning, William Fletch- er, Mary Ellen (Mrs. Joseph McBeth), Samuel Montgomery, James McMahan, Thomas Hogg and Ezra Lawson, the last two sons having died when young.

Rudolph Hines, the founder of the family in Harrison County, was a son of John Hines, who immigrated to America from Germany prior to the war of the Revolution, in which the son Rudolph served as a soldier in the Continental Line, his later career as a pioneer in Ohio having been noted in a preceding paragraph.

John McMahan Hines, father of him whose name introduces this review, went forth as a representative of Harrison County in the Civil war. On the 7th of August, 1863, he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Independent Battalion of Ohio Rangers, with which he served in the mountains of Kentucky, where he took part in many skirmishes and other minor engagements. After serving about seven months he returned home, but on the 2d of February, 1864, he re- enlisted, as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, which was a part of the Army of the East, with which he continued in service until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received July 31, 1865, at Balti- more, Maryland. November 3, 1868, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hines to Miss Elmira J. Carson, a daughter of Elijah and Margaret (Mahaffey) Carson, the former of whom was born in Maryland, of Welsh ancestry, and the latter of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. John Carson, father of Elijah, was one of the sterling pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, where his death occurred in Not- tingham Township. Elijah Carson was a farmer and shoemaker in Nottingham Township, be- came one of the staunch supporters of the pro- hibition party and served many years as justice of the peace. He was born in 1810 and died in November, 1887; his wife was born in 1803, and died in 1884. They became the parents of seven children. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hines established their home on the farm which con- tinued to be his place of residence during the remainder of his life and on which he died May 12, 1919, as previously noted. Mr. Hines was a staunch republican and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic.

John Newton Hines acquired his early edu- cation in the district schools of Cadiz Township. and he remained at the parental home until his marriage, October 25, 1899, to Miss Lida E.

Mallernee, daughter of Lemuel J. and Lida E. (Brown) Mallernee, of Stock Township. After his marriage Mr. Hines began farming in Not- tingham Township, where he has since contin- ued to follow this vocation, save for two years during which he was similarly engaged in Stock Township, and two years in Cadiz Township. The names and respective dates of birth of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hines are here given : Ora O., March 6, 1901; Alma Florence, March 9, 1904; Cloyd D., August 8, 1907; and Victorine P., February 11, 1919.

Lemuel J. Mallernee, father of Mrs. Hines, was born in Nottingham Township, this county, on the 5th of July, 1851, a son of Levi and Eleanor (Johnson) Mallernee, the latter a daughter of Benjamin and Eleanor Johnson, pioneer settlers in Harrison County. Levi Mallernee was born in Nottingham Township, this county, February 12. 1816. and was a son of Emanuel and Rachel ( Matthews) Mallernee, the former of whom was born November 3, 1779, and the latter on the 13th of December, 1788. a daughter of Francis and Mary Matthews. Emanuel Mallernee came from Jefferson County, Ohio, to Harrison County about the year 1804, and became a pioneer farmer in Nottingham Township, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. The names and re- spective birth-dates of their children are here recorded : William, March 30, 1807; Aquilla. January 6, 1900; Mary Ann, August 7, 1811; Matthew, October 12, 1813; Levi, February 12, 1816; Emanuel, November 3, 1818; Lewis C., May 18, 1822; and Elizabeth, May 25, 1825. After the death of his first wife, June 24, 1828, Emanuel Mallernee eventually married Miss Hannah Eaton, and they became the parents of three children : Benjamin, born October 4, 1830; Rachel Ann, born August 13, 1832; and Jared, born September 10, 1834.

As a young man Levi Mallernee established a livery stable at Cadiz, and this he was con- ducting at the time when, on the 4th of July, 1840, he met with an accident that caused the amputation of his right arm, which was vir- tually shot off in the discharge of a gun at the time of a patriotic celebration at Cadiz. A short time thereafter he removed to Notting- ham Township, where he continued his associa- tion with farm industry during the remainder of his active career. He passed the last few years of his life at Deersville. Franklin Town- ship, where he died on the 1st of June, 1880. December 6, 1838, he married Miss Eleanor Johnson, who was born in Nottingham Town- ship, January 27, 1820, a daughter of Benjamin and Eleanor Johnson, and she passed away De- cember 23, 1863, three days after the birth of the youngest of her nine children, whose names and dates of birth are here noted: David Turner. November 18, 1839: Emanuel, March 22, 1843; Mary Ann, March 25, 1846; Benjamin J., February 10, 1849; Lemuel J., July 5, 1851; Lydia Ann, August 3, 1854; Caroline L., August 26. 1857: Eleanor Jeanette. July 18. 1860; and Kinsey C., December 20, 1863. For his second wife Levi Mallernee married Mrs. Jemima (Garner) Hines, and they became the parents of three children-James G., born October 10,

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1866; Levi E., born October 20, 1868; and Ruth J., born January 6, 1871.' After the death of his second wife Levi Mallernee married Rachel Crabtree on the 1st of June, 1879, and his death occurred exactly one year later. Mr. Mallernee was a republican in politics and was for many years prior to his death a zealous member of the Baptist Church.

Lemuel J. Mallernee was reared and educated In Nottingham Township, and he has to his credit a long record of successful association with farm industry in his native township. In 1878 he purchased and removed to a farm of eighty-three acres in Stock Township, and there he remained until his death on December 24, 1920. In 1869 he married Miss Lida E. Brown, daughter of Elisha Brown, and her death oc- curred in 1881. Of the two children of this union Mrs. Hines, wife of the subject of this review, is the younger, and Cloyd A., who mar- ried Miss Mabel Mount, resides at Dennison, Tuscarawas County. For his second wife Mr. Mallernee married - Eleanor Shissler, daughter of David Shissler, and she passed to the life eternal on the 11th of March, 1918. Of the second marriage were born two children : Bertha, who is the wife of William Flaherty, and Es- tella, who is the wife of Sherman Busby.

DAVID CUNNINGHAM. It has been the pleas- ure of Mrs. Laura Phillips Cunningham, of Cadiz, to commemorate the name of her hus- band, the late David Cunningham, who from 1859 until his death, December 14, 1917, was a member of the Harrison County bar and an attorney at law in Cadiz. Since the coming of David Cunningham, the grandfather, in 1812, the name has been identified with the history of Harrison County. David Cunningham, the lawyer for so many years, was born March 1, 1837, after the family had lived many years in Nottingham Township, but his father, John Cunningham, was born, October 29, 1808, before the family left Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

The David Cunningham who brought the family name to Harrison County was born May 6, 1783, in Pennsylvania. On December 23, 1806, he married Mary McLaughlin, and they came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County on their bridal journey, riding on horse back, and when they located their new home in the forest the trees had to be cut away for their cabin home in the wilderness. He later donated the land and helped build the first church in the community.

On February 23, 1829, John Cunningham married Nancy Sharp in Harrison County. He was a farmer and spent most of his life in Nottingham Township, finally moving to Cadiz, where he died August 17, 1870. The Cunning- ham home in Nottingham Township was a brick farm house built in 1825, the fresco and wall decorations in it being the handiwork of David Cunningham, senior, who had done some- thing of that line of work in Pennsylvania. Two children were born there to John Cunning- ham : Mary, who married Eldred Holliday, and David, who spent his years of business activity in Cadiz. Throughout its history the Cunning-

ham family has been identified with the United Presbyterian Church.

While David Cunningham had the common school advantages afforded him in Nottingham Township, he was ambitious and later attended Franklin College, graduating in the class of 1857 from that well known Harrison County educational institution located in New Athens. He was reading law in the office of the Hon. John A.' Bingham of Cadiz at the time of the breaking out of the Civil war, and with other young men of the community he enlisted in August, 1861, and when the young men of Harrison County were formed into Company B of the Thirtieth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he was unanimously chosen captain. This regiment became part of the Army of the Potomac, and Captain Cunningham was its com- mander in some of the hard fought battles- South Mountain, Antietam, the Second Battle of Bull Run, Vicksburg and others.

On November 29, 1862, Captain Cunningham was commissioned a major on account of his bravery and efficient military service. As major he was in command of the regiment at Vicks- burg and Jackson, but on account of serious illness caused by continued exposure in the low lands of Mississippi, on September 20, 1863, he was forced to resign and two days later was honorably discharged from the Union Army. However, before his discharge, Major Cunning- ham was brevetted colonel, a military recogni- tion highly appreciated by him.

When discharged from the Union Army Colonel Cunningham returned to the study of law in Cadiz, and in 1866 became prosecuting ' attorney in Harrison County. In 1871 Colonel Cunningham was elected to the House of Rep- resentatives in the Ohio Legislature by the re- publicans of Harrison County. In 1876 he was a member of the Electoral College that decided in favor of President Rutherford B. Hayes in a contested election, in 1896 he was a member of the National Republican Convention that nomi- nated William Mckinley for president of the United States, and also served as a member of the constitutional convention.

Colonel Cunningham was chairman of the commission named by the United States Govern- ment to locate the position of the Ohio regi- ments engaged in the great battle of Antietam, and to superintend the placing of the monu- ments to commemorate the bravery of the sol- diers who fought in that battle. All of his life Colonel Cunningham was interested in the mili- tary affairs of Harrison County. In 1866 he became a director of the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, and in 1881 became its presi- dent. He filled this position continuously until 1910, when he voluntarily resigned.

On October 13, 1859, while engaged in the study of law, Colonel Cunningham married Laura Phillips, of Cadiz. She is a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Williams) Phillips. Thomas Phillips was born in 1792 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died in 1871 in Cadiz. In 1816 he married Elizabeth Williams and brought her as a bride to Cadiz. His first business venture was to build a brick hotel on the corner of Steubenville and Warren streets,

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and beside conducting the hotel he engaged in the manufacture of shoes, employing a number of men in his shoe factory.

A few years later Mr. Phillips was appointed postmaster, and served the community sixteen years in that capacity. For twenty years he was a justice of the peace in Harrison County. His wife was a daughter of Bazaleel and Jane (Blair) Williams, and their children were: Adaline, Rachel, Mary, William, John, Caroline, Laura and Martha, all born in Cadiz. It was Laura who became Mrs. David Cunningham, and who now commemorates her relatives in the history. Her father, Thomas Phillips, was a son of William Phillips, whose time of life was from 1763 to 1854, and whose wife was Rachel Hamilton. Their children were: Robert, Jane, William, Mary. Margaret, Eliza, Thomas, John and Martha. They were all born and reared in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

The children born to David and Laura Cun- ningham are: Mary, wife of John M. Sharon, of Cadiz; John, who married Mary Welch, lives in Evanston, Illinois; Ralph, who married Ada Schreiber. lives in Pittsburgh; Helen is the wife of E. V. Rawn and they live in Hopkins- ville, Kentucky. Mrs. Cunningham maintains her residence in Cadiz.

JOHN A. MCAFEE, who is now living virtually retired at New Rumley, Harrison County, proved well his ability and progressiveness dur- ing many years of active association with farm industry in his native county, and is a well known representative of a family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of Harrison County for nearly a century.

Mr. McAfee was born in Rumley Township, this county, on the 23d of April, 1856, and is a son of James McAfee, Jr .. who was living re- tired at New Rumley at the time of his death, April 25, 1898. James McAfee, Jr., was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1817. and was a son of James and Mary (Wybel) McAfee, both likewise natives of Penn- sylvania, where the former was born in 1785 in Washington County, and where the latter was born in 1790, a daughter of George and Polly (Rummel) Wybel, who came from Ger- many and established their home in the old Keystone State, whence they later came to Ohio and gained pioneer experience. James McAfee, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a son of James McAfee, a native of Ireland and a very early settler in Washing- ton County, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife remained until their deaths, their children having been three sons and four daughters. The death of James McAfee, the original American progenitor, occurred about 1795.

James McAfee II was reared to manhood in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and received educational advantages somewhat superior to those accorded to the average youth of the lo- cality and period. In 1823 he numbered him- self among the pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, where he settled on the northwest quarter of section 24, Rumley Township, and instituted the reclaiming of a farm from the forest wilds. In the early days he found requisition for his

effective services as a teacher in the pioneer schools of the county, and he was known as a man of fine intellectuality and high ethical standards-one well qualified for leadership in popular sentiment and action. He was a re- publican in politics, and both he and his wife were zealous and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which they maintained affiliation in Harrison County. In 1832 Mr. McAfee sold his original farm and removed to North Township, where he continued his farm operations until the early '50s, when he purchased the old Custer homestead at New Rumley, and established his residence in the house which figured as the birthplace of Gen. George Custer, the distinguished army officer who met death in the historic Indian massacre which perpetuates his name. Mr. McAfee died in the year 1876, his wife having passed away several years before.

James McAfee, Jr., was about six years of age at the time when his parents established their residence in Harrison County. where he was reared on the old home farm in Rumley Township, and in the meanwhile profited duly by the advantages afforded in the pioneer schools. In 1840 he married Miss Letta Gordon, daughter of David and Libbie (Archibald) Gordon, and they became the parents of three children-Mary (Mrs. Martin Kail), Elizabeth ( Mrs. John W. Finnicum), and Letta Manbeck (died in March, 1882). Mrs. McAfee died in the year 1846, and in 1849 James McAfee, Jr., wedded Mrs. Margaret ( Hendricks) Ackerson. By her first marriage she had one daughter. Catherine. Mrs. McAfee was born August 6, 1823, a daughter of Peter and Catherine ( Web- ster) Hendricks. Mrs. Margaret (Hendricks) McAfee was summoned to eternal rest in Sep- tember, 1878, and was survived by three chil- dren-Andrew, who died in 1889; James ( fourth of the name), who became a successful farmer in Rumley Township; and John A., who is the immediate subject of this sketch. In October, 1880, James. McAfee, Jr., contracted a third marriage with Miss Sarah Jane Gundy, daugh- ter of William and Susanna (Gotshall) Gundy, and she died in 1892.

James McAfee, Jr., remained on his farm in Rumley Township until 1889, when he retired and established his home at New Rumley, his residence having there continued until his death, on the 25th of April, 1898. He was originally a republican, but his earnest convic- tions eventually led him to become actively affiliated with the prohibition party, of whose principles he continued a staunch advocate during the remainder of his life. He was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a man who ever commanded secure place in the confidence and regard of those with whom he came in contact in the varied relations of life.

John A. McAfee acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of Rumley Township and supplemented this by attending Scio College for two terms. He was a young man when he began his independent career as a farmer in Rumley Township, and a generous success attended his vigorous and well directed

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enterprise in connection with agricultural and live-stock industry. He continued his active association with the work and management of his farm until the autumn of 1917, when he removed to New Rumley, in which village he has since lived practically retired and in the enjoyment of the peace and prosperity which should ever crown years of earnest and effective endeavor. He is a republican in political al- legiance, and he and his wife are earnest mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Rumley, of which he has served many years as a trustee, and is a trustee at the present time. In 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McAfee to Miss Susanna A. Manbeck, who was born and reared in Rumley Township and who is a daughter of William and Isabel A. (Miller) Manbeck, the former a native of Rum- ley Township and the latter of German Town- ship, this county, their marriage having been solemnized June 25, 1849, and both having been residents of Rumley Township at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of fourteen children: John, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel Heidy), Daniel, Charles R., Sarah Mar- garet (Mrs. Michael B. Boor), Maria Catherine (Mrs. William Long), Marianda Andora (died in early childhood), Susanna Almira (Mrs. John A. McAfee), Isabel Angeline (died young), Phoebe Jane (Mrs. Reid Arbaugh), Jacob Mil- ler and Thomas Ellsworth (twins, the latter dying in infancy), William Austin, and Omer W. (died in January, 1917). Mr. and Mrs. McAfee have four children: Edward E., a farmer in Rumley Township, married Miss Florence Kohler, and they have four children- Dorothy May, Bertha Marie, Blanche C. and Edna Josephine. Ross S., who resides at Jewett, this county, married first Hattie Kohler, who met her death from a stroke of lightning. This occurred while she and her mother-in-law were engaged in seeding cherries at the McAfee home. A storm coming up, the two ladies went to the barn to put the buggy in its place. On their way back to the house, and while under a small apple tree, a bolt of lightning struck the tree and the younger woman was instantly killed, while the older woman was knocked senseless, the bolt having ripped her shoe down the back as though cut with a knife. Ross S. McAfee's second marriage was with Laura Hall. Eva M. is the wife of Homer E. Sawvel, of New Rumley, and they became the parents of four children, of whom three are living-Ruth (died at the age of seven years), John Leo, Charles E. and Henry Dwight. Margaret Isa- bel is the wife of Lester G. Amos, of Rumley Township, and they have one child, Coyla.

ALFRED B. MANBEOK needs no further evi- dence than the general appearance of his fine farm estate in Rumley Township, Harrison County, to determine his status as one of the progressive and successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in his na- tive county, but aside from his achievement in this important field of enterprise he gained dis- tinctive prestige in the pedagogic profession, as a representative of which he gave nearly thir-

teen years of effective service as a teacher in the schools of Harrison County.

Mr. Manbeck was born at New Rumley in the township which is his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was Jan- uary 10, 1876. His parents, Joseph and Bath- sheba (Bishop) Manbeck, likewise were born in this township, and the latter was a daughter of John and Naomi (Martin) Bishop. Her father came from Pennsylvania and was an early settler in Rumley Township, where he developed an excellent farm and where he re- mained until his death, at the patriarchal age of ninety-six years, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest. Their children were eleven in number, namely : Hiram, Frederick Z., Oliver, Susan, Lucinda, Rebecca, Henrietta, Vermelia, Louise, Bathsheba and Bethia.

John Manbeck grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Pennsylvania and be- came one of the pioneer representatives of farm industry in Rumley Township, Harrison County, where he stood exponent of loyal and liberal citizenship until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. His first wife died when a comparatively young woman. They became the parents of seven children-John, Jr., Samuel, Jonathan, James, Joseph, Mary and Diana. After the death of his first wife Mr. Manbeck contracted a second marriage, and of this union was born one son, William.

Joseph Manbeck was reared on the pioneer farm of his father and passed virtually his en- tire life in Rumley Township, his death having occurred in 1901 and his wife having passed away in 1895. Both held membership in the United Brethren Church. Their children were nine in number: Elizabeth (Mrs. John C. Glover), Mary Edith (died in early childhood), John W., Harry O., Edward O., Alfred B., Della (wife of Ralph W. Riley of Trumbull County), Viola (Mrs. Joseph Croghan), and Goldie A. (deceased ).

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 35

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