History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 36

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

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Alfred B. Manbeck gained his preliminary education in the district schools of Rumley Township, and thereafter attended Scio College for a short time. His ambition made him an avidious student, and that he profited fully by the advantages that were his is shown by the fact at the age of eighteen years be proved him- self eligible for pedagogic service and became a teacher in the district schools. He continued his work as a successful and popular teacher for a period of somewhat more than thirteen years, and in the meanwhile his service and continued study brought to him marked intel- lectual advancement. During the eight years which he taught in the district schools he gave five years to teaching in the Cole school in Rumley Township. During the last five years of his service as a teacher he held the position of principal of the public schools at New Rum- ley. At the time of his retirement he held a five-years' certificate as a teacher.

In the spring of 1907 Mr. Manbeck engaged in farm enterprise in Rumley Township, where he is now the owner of a well improved farm of 200 acres, which he has made a center of successful agriculture and stock-raising, his at- tention being given specially to the breeding

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and growing of live stock of high standard. A man who gained his higher education largely through self-discipline, during many hours of earnest application to study, it was to be taken for granted that in connection with farm en- terprise Mr. Manbeck should manifest the same fine ambition and progressiveness, and his achievement in the later field, as in teaching, stands to his enduring honor. He is a repub- lican in politics, takes a broad-minded and loyal interest in public affairs, especially in his home community and native county, and he served two years as a member of the election board of Harrison County, besides having been its clerk for one year. He and his wife are zealous and valued members of the United Brethren . Church at New Rumley, of which he has been a trustee for several years and in which he is serving also as classleader at the time of this writing, in 1920.

April 27, 1898, recorded the marriage of Mr. Manbeck to Miss Vinnie L. Naragon, daughter of Irvin Naragon, of Miller's Station, Ohio, and of this union have been born six children : Her- man W. entered the Students Army Training Corps in preparation for service in the World war, was mustered in October 18, 1918, and received his discharge on the 11th of the fol- lowing December. He is now associated in the work of the home farm. Marlin N. died at the age of one year. Alton K. is, in 1920, a stu- dent in the Scio High School. Lois U. is at- tending the district school. Francis E. and Ve- nus L. died in early childhood.

JOHN BRICKER. One of the very earliest fam- ilies to settle in Harrison County in Green Township was that of Bricker, which has been represented here by members of at least four generations. Of the third generation was the late John Bricker, who recently died at the age of nearly eighty-five, one of the oldest native sons of the township. His great length of years was accompanied by industrious and good man- agement of his landed interests and a stanch upholding of the best standards of citizenship.

The years of his old age were spent in the same house where he was born December 11. 1835. The Bricker family originated in Penn- sylvania, and his grandfather, Anthony Bricker. came with his wife, Margaret, to Harrison County in 1804 and entered a quarter section · of Government land in Green Township. An- thony Bricker acquired other land holdings, and was a man of notable business enterprise. oper- ating one of the pioneer mills in the community. He died January 25, 1813, leaving over a sec- tion of land to his descendants. His children were George, Henry, John and Elizabeth.

John Bricker, Sr., the third son, was born in Pennsylvania May 9, 1793, and was about eleven years of age when his environment was trans- ferred to the wilds of Harrison County, Ohio. After reaching manhood he took up the interests to which his early training had qualified him, those of farmer and stock man, and at the time of his death he owned 340 acres. He never neglected the duties of good citizenship, and for many years was a trustee of Green Township. He and other early members of the family were

active in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. On Saint Valentine's day in 1833 John Bricker, Sr., married Anna Busby, who was born in Harrison County February 27, 1812, daughter of John Busby, another pioneer of the county. John Busby, Sr., and wife had three children, David, who never married, John and Elizabeth, the latter becoming the wife of Dr. William Beadle.

The late John Bricker came to manhood at a time when schools were largely of the sub- scription variety, and his early advantages were chiefly confined to the fundamentals of learn- ing. He learned industry and the lessons of thrift and self reliance on the home farm with his father, and at the age of twenty-two he and his brother David became managers of the old homestead. Except for a brief residence at Laceyville John Bricker lived all his life at the homestead where he was born. He is remem- bered as a good farmer, a thoroughgoing man in everything he undertook. For a number of years he had 230 acres in use for general farm- ing purposes, and was always interested in livestock and made livestock growing the source of his revenue. He handled sheep and cattle, and at one time raised fast horses and was a lover of good horses at all times. Mr. Bricker died on July 3, 1920, In the same house in which he was born.

The late Mr. Bricker was twice married, and children and grandchildren survive to hold his memory in respect and honor. May 31, 1864, he married Lucinda, daughter of Henry and Mary Bricker. She died May 24, 1879, mother of the following children : Annie Elizabeth, born August 19, 1865, widow of A. W. Laughlin; George Henry, born December 24, 1866; John B., born September 26, 1869, deceased; William Beadle, deceased, born April 5, 1872; David E., deceased, born May 8, 1874; Charles E., de- ceased, born December 27, 1876.

September 8, 1881, Mr. Bricker married Mar- garet Jane Holmes, who survives him and 1s an active member of the Methodist Church at Cadiz. She is a daughter of Robert and Ann J. Holmes. To the second marriage were born two children, Holmes V. on August 10, 1882, and Ralph C., who was born February 28, 1884, and died February 14, 1896, at the age of twelve years.

RANKIN DELMER LEE. Not only has Rankin Delmer Lee been connected with the agricul- tural interests of Harrison County for a number of years, but he still owns his fine farm in Archer Township, and has been connected with other enterprises of Jewett, where he now makes his home. He was born in Perry Township. Carroll County, Ohio, June 23, 1852, a son of Thomas M. and Mary (Mccullough) Lee, and grandson of James Lee, one of the early settlers of Harrison County. For a number of years James Lee operated a large' tannery at Cadiz, Ohio, and there be maintained his home. He married a Miss Crough, and they had the follow- ing children : Rankin, Allison and Thomas M.

Thomas M. Lee was born at Cadiz, Ohio, and his wife was born in Archer Township, Har- rison County, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph Mc-

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Cullough. For a few years after reaching man's estate Thomas M. Lee taught school, but later began farming in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and when in 1862 he moved to Archer Township he continued in that calling until 1893, at which time he moved to Jewett. He died in this city in 1907. His wife died some years before him, passing away in 1893. Their children were as follows: James Allison, Joseph M., Rankin Delmer, Jennie, Emmett C. and Ross. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lee belonged to the Presbyterian Church.

Rankin Delmer Lee went to school in Perry Township, Carroll County, and Archer Town- ship, Harrison County, but did not go. beyond the eighth grade. Having learned farming un- der his father's supervision, Mr. Lee engaged in farming for himself in Archer Township, and remained on his farm until 1893, when he moved to Jewett. Two years later he went into the milling business, and for the subsequent eleven years operated the grist-mill at Jewett. He still owns his fine farm of 140 acres in Archer Township, but continues to reside at Jewett.

On December 31, 1879, Mr. Lee was united in marriage with Anna Smilie, a daughter of Rob- ert and Hannah Smilie, and they have the fol- lowing children: Jessie, who married O. B. Groves, of Jewett, now resides in Stephen- ville, and they have three children, Ralph, Paul and Evaline Jane; Thomas DeWitt, now resid- Ing in Steubenville, married Ella Carson of Hopedale, Ohio, and they have three children, Vernon, Louise and Robert; Mary E, unmar- ried, now teaching music in Steubenville: Anna Ruth, who married Byron Arbaugh, of Jewett, now an attorney of Canton, Ohio; Pauline E., teaching school at Witten, near Wooster; Jean, a student at the University of Wooster, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee and their family all belong to the Presbyterian Church of Jewett, in which Mr. Lee has been a trustee for a number of years. He is one of the highly esteemed men of his community, and having spent practically all of his life here, is deeply interested in the progress of this region and willing to do any- thing within reason to aid in advancing the neighborhood, although he is not in favor of a wasteful use of public funds no matter what the object may be.

JACOB STAHL. Although many years have passed since the late Jacob Stahl was called from the scene of his earthly activities he is still remembered with kindly affection by the older generation, and his children are showing in their upright lives the effects of his example of industrious and thrifty habits and honorable methods of doing business. He was born at Jewett, Rumley Township, . Harrison County, Ohio, February 24, 1833, and his farming activi- ties were carried on in his native township.

Jacob Stahl was a son of John and Mary Ann (Condo) Stahl. The birth of John Stahl took place in Maryland, July 16, 1810, and his wife was born in York County, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 28, 1813, and their marriage took place at Cadiz, Ohio, March 28, 1832. She was a daugh- ter of Jacob and Margaret (Shuss) Condo. John

Stahl was a son of Jacob Stahl, who was born in Maryland, August 13, 1784, and he married Elizabeth Shilling. In 1816 he brought his wife and children from Maryland to Rumley Town- ship, Harrison County, Ohio, and settled in sec- tion 36. Here he lived until his death, which occurred in 1845. He and his wife had the following children: William, who married Su- sannah Carnaga ; Elizabeth, who married George Summons; John, who was third in order of birth; Lydia, who married Jeremiah Condo; Margaret, who married Peter Manbeck; Cath- erine, who married Abraham Gotchall; Susan, who married Abraham Kimmell; Mary, who married Daniel Hilbert; Matilda, who died young; and James, who married Elizabeth Shuss. The Lutheran Church held the member- ship of the entire family.

Reared in Rumley Township, John Stahl be- came one of the prosperous farmers of the county and the owner of over 200 acres of land, the present city of Jewett standing on his old homestead. He laid out the original town of Jewett in 1851, and lived in it until his death, taking an active part in its affairs, especially those connected with the Lutheran Church of the place, which he assisted in organizing, and of which he and his wife were very active members. John Stahl and his wife became the parents of the following family: Jacob, whose name opens this review ; Margaret, who married Thomas Lucas, is deceased, as is also her hus- band; Catherine, who married Arnold Wheeler, and both are deceased; Mary Ann, who is the widow of David Hazellett; Susan, who died in childhood ; Samuel, who also died in childhood; and Samantha Jane, who was the youngest.

Jacob Stahl went to the district schools of his neighborhood, and grew up to be a farmer. As a young man he began farming on his own account and also dealt in stock, and in March, 1867, he bought the farm in Rumley Township, three-quarters of a mile north of Jewett, on which he resided until his death. His original purchase was 136 acres of land, and on it he carried on general farming and stock raising. His death occurred in 1872, and since then his sons John Thomas and Joseph have been operat- ing the place, doing general farming and stock- raising and specializing on sheep. The sons have rebuilt all of the buildings, so that they are now in splendid condition and thoroughly modernized, and have added to the farm until they now have 182 acres. This property is one of the best in the county, well kept and finely cultivated, and the entire premises reflect great credit upon the owners. The two brothers and two sister live on the old place, and they are excellent farmers. The members of the Stahl family belong to the Lutheran Church of Jewett the grandfather assisted in organizing.

Jacob Stahl was married to Catherine Knouff, a daughter of John Knouff, and she died No- vember 21, 1855, leaving one son. John Thomas. After her death Jacob Stahl was married to Elizabeth Kimmel, a daughter of Jonathan and Maria Kimmel, and they became the parents of the following children: Samuel, who was born June 16, 1858, died when small; Martha, who married Samuel H. Mikesell, has three chil-

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dren; Lena, Lawrence and Anna Maud; Mary, who married M. L. Arbaugh, has two children, Paul and Norris; Catherine, who lives on the farm; Joseph, who married Lillie Shilling, has two children, Margaret Elizabeth and Cather- ine Marie; Anna Maria, who lives on the farm. Mrs. Stahl survived her husband for many years, but was taken away September 21, 1916.

The history of the Shilling family, with which Joseph Stahl is connected by marriage, is also worthy of preservation. Mrs. Lillie Stahl, wife of Joseph Stahl, is a daughter of Franklin Shilling, and granddaughter of Jacob Shilling, one of the pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, who was born in Maryland, as was his wife, Christena Steffin. In an early day Jacob Shil- ling came to German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and conducted the mill in the vicinity of Franklin, but later on moved to Rumley Township, where he owned a farm. He and his wife had the following family: John, Ellas, William, Jacob, Martin, Franklin and Mary Ann, who married James Laughlin. Both he and his wife belonged to the Lutheran Church.

Franklin Shilling was born in Rumley Town- ship, June 8, 1835, and he attended the schools of his native township. On January 11, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, Seventh-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for service In the war be- tween the states. He received his honorable dis- charge May 2, 1865. During the intervening :period he participated in the following battles: Siege of Nashville, battles of Stone River. Hoo- 'ver's Gap, Tennessee, Dug Gap, Georgia, Chicka- Imauga, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, Buzzard's Roost Gap, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, At- lanta, Jonesboro and others of less importance. at all times proving himself a brave man and faithful soldier.

In 1867 Franklin Shilling was married to Margaret Knepper, a daughter of John and Hannah (Custer) Knepper. After their mar- riage Mr. and Mrs. Shilling continued to live at Jewett until 1886, at which time they moved to the farm they still occupy. It comprises sixty acres, and on it Mr. Shilling is doing gen- eral farming. Mr. and Mrs. Shilling became the parents of the following children: Lillie D., who is Mrs. Joseph Stahl; William Clyde, who married Cora Mack, has a son, William, and they live at Denison, Oblo; Robert Wilson, who married Emma Boyd, has two children, Robert B. and Helen Louise: Harry Franklin, who is the fourth in order of birth ; and Paul D., who married Golda Hosterman, and they have two children, Mary Ruth and Dorcas May.

Robert Wilson Shilling is a physician and surgeon, and during the World war served with the rank of first lieutenant in the medical branch of the service. He was for a year at the Moss- ley Hill Hospital at Liverpool, England. Upon his return to this country he received his hon- orable discharge, and he resumed the practice of his profession at New Somerset, Ohio.

LAWLIS BROTHERS (Marion and John). When they left the farm for the oil fields working together was when Marion and John Lawlis

first advertised in a business way as Lawlis Brothers, and now that they are farming again they are still Lawlis Brothers and own property together. They are sons of Cyrus W. Lawlis, who lived in Monongahela County, West Vir- ginia. Marion Lawlis was born February 2, 1866, and John was born November 18, 1869, in West Virginia. Their parents always lived there.

Cyrus W. Lawlis was born September 26, 1835, and Sarah A. Brewer, was born February 15, 1838, in the same community. They were married November 8, 1863, and always lived in Monongahela County. Mrs. Lawlis was a daugh- ter of Enoch and Margaret (Wolford) Brewer, the father a Monongahela County farmer. Her brothers and sisters were: Justice, Ephraim, Mary Jane, Martha, Elizabeth, Violinda, Sam- uel and Margaret. The Brewers were Baptists.

The Lawlis family were pioneers in Monon- gahela County, John Lawlis, father of Cyrus W. and grandfather of the two Harrison County Lawlis Brothers, having been born there Febru- ary 11, 1812, and the grandmother, Elizabeth Fleming, October 30, 1816, and their marriage day was November 30, 1834. Their children were: Cyrus W., through whom Lawlis Broth- ers are descended ; Melissa, born February 15, 1838; Clara, October 29, 1840; Orlando, Decem- ber 20, 1842; Mary Ann, in 1845; Evelyn C., May -15, 1847; Lydia C., February 16, 1850; Jerome, April 8, 1854; James L., July 8, 1856, and Victoria A., November 12, 1858, the children numbering as many as most Ohio families of the period. The Lawlis family were members of the Christian Church. Cyrus W. Lawlis died June 5, 1872, aged thirty-six years, eight months and nine days. Few families anywhere fur- nish more exact data than have Lawlis Broth- ers. Some families do not possess sufficient record to give out any information about them- selves.

This West Virginia father died while yet a young man. The Lawlis children are: Rosena, born August 21, 1864; and Marion and John, of Cadiz Township. Their mother now lives with John Lawlis in Cadiz Township. When the fa- ther died the mother and sons continued farm- ing in Monongahela County until the sons went to the Pennsylvania oil fields. They were edu- cated in the district schools of Monongahela county and at the school known as Mountain Tea College. The boys worked at home until 1888, when they went to the oil fields and did teaming, taking contracts for oil field jobs. In 1897 they went back to the old home farm in West Virginia. They remained there until March 31, 1903, when they removed to Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio.

Lawlis Brothers had already bought a farm of 157 acres, and they both lived on it and worked together until 1908, when they bought another farm of 145 acres about a mile from there. They have always farmed together. They are breeders of registered Hereford cattle, and combine farming and livestock, making the pec- nies count in all their dealings.

On November 29, 1890, Marion Lawlis mar- ried Laura J. Ridgway, daughter of Zachariah and Elma (Ramsey) Ridgway. Their children

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are: Harry C., born January 18, 1892; John M., born March 2, 1893, died August 29, 1903; Iva Ethel, born April 6, 1894. The mother died April 29, 1895, and sixteen years later, in Janu- ary, 1911, Mr. Lawiis married Flora, daughter of William and Mary (Hennis) Medley. At this time Mr. Lawlis removed to the second farm the brothers had purchased. The children of this marriage are: Elmer E., born March 5, 1912; Lindsay C., April 6, 1915; and Mildred V., Au- gust 5, 1917. Mrs. Lawlis is a member of the Methodist Church in Cadiz.

On May 7, 1893, John Lawlis married Mary, daughter of J. J. and Rebecca (Lemley) Whar- ton. On February 5, 1896, was born a daugh- ter, Claudia Lucile. Mrs. Lawlis died October 21, 1897, and his mother is the home maker there. Lawlis Brothers are good farmers and know how to make the money. They contribute to the Methodist Church in Cadiz, and they are members of the Lodge of the Maccabees. Con- ditions of agriculture in eastern Ohio are not very different from what they had known in West Virginia.

GEORGE MCCONNELL PATTON, Civil war veteran and well-known citizen of Harrison County, re- siding at New Athens, was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, April 9, 1844.

The Patton family is of Scotch-Irish descent. Samuel Patton, grandfather of George M., was born in County Down, Ireland. He was by oc- cupation a sea-trader being part owner of a ves- sel which traded between Dublin and New York. In early manhood in the above trade he be- came a citizen of the United States, receiving his papers of citizenship at the hands of Presi- dent Washington while his family remained in Ireland. He invested his money in flax-seed and sailed for Ireland, but the vessel was wrecked on the coast of Ireland in 1798, and the ship and cargo lost. Samuel Patton saved his life by swimming to shore.

He married a Scotch girl, Jane Friar, of County Down, on May 3, 1803. Samuel and his family sailed for America and landed at Phila- delphia on August 1 of that year, and spent the following winter in Wheeling, West Vir- ginia. He took up a section of Government land in Belmont County, and in the spring of 1804 he settled on this land, where he and wife spent the remainder of their lives. He became the father of three sons, James, William and John. James died in infancy in Ireland. John died in his seventeenth year.

William, son of Samuel, was born in Ireland in 1800 and was reared in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, where for many years he was a successful farmer. He died in Belmont County. He married Ann Clark, who was the daughter of Alex Clark, of Belmont County. William Patton and wife became the parents of the fol- lowing children : Samuel, Margaret, John, Ellen, Alex. C., Carrie, Calvin W., Sylvanus, all of whom are deceased; James B., George M., the subject of this review; William L. and Thomas L., living.

George M. Patton was reared in Belmont County, where he attended the common schools. On August 5, 1862, he enlisted in Company B,

Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which regiment he served throughout the war, taking part in every skirmish and battle in which the regiment was engaged. In 1862 he was wounded at the battle of Perryville, Ken- tucky, and at the battle of Atlanta, in 1864, he was again wounded, having spent three months in the hospital after each wound. In June, 1865, he was mustered out of the service.

Following the war Mr. Patton returned to his old home in Belmont County, where he contin- ued to reside until 1868, in which year he re- moved to his farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. In 1908 he moved into the village of New Athens, and has since lived in retirement from active business.

On January 1, 1868, in Belmont County, Mr. Patton was united in marriage with M. Louise Campbell, who was born at Uniontown, Ohio, on March 29, 1848, the daughter of Dr. John Camp- bell. She died in 1904, leaving the following children : Mary Olive, who married Rev. James B. Ely : Carrie Downing; who married Rev. A. A. Giffen ; Albert Belmont married Dr. Beatrice Armstrong ; Jay B., who married Ella Watson; Margaret Keoka, living with her father; Clark Campbell, M. D., who married Marie Kellogg. In 1886-7 Mr. Patton served as a member of the Ohlo Legislature, he having been elected on the republican ticket from Harrison County. He is a member of James Love Post No. 686, G. A. R., Department of Ohio. He is also a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

THOMAS B. PATTON. Since April 1, 1816, the name Patton has been in the annals of Harri- son County, and Thomas Burns Patton, the hardware dealer in Hopedale, has seen fit to honor his ancestry by causing them to live again in the pages of history. The Commemorative Record says of the founder of the Patton fam- ily in Ohio: "In every community are to be found those who are recognized as leaders." M. M. Patton, born in Fayette County, Pennsyl- vania, September 3, 1815, was only a babe when his parents brought him to Harrison County. While there was a family of ten children born to Joseph and Sarah (Burns) Patton, John, Sarah, Joseph and Margaret are older than M. M. Patton, and there were five children when the family came to Ohio. After the family reached Ohio the following children were born: James, Mary, Cynthia, David and Ann.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 36

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