History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 47

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

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Samuel A. Webb acquired his early educa- tion in the schools of his native county and in his youth gained a full quota of experience in connection with the activities of the home farm. In his independent career as an agriculturist and stock-grower he continued his operations in his native township until the spring of 1908, when he removed to Marion County, Kansas. After two years of farm enterprise in the Sun- flower State he returned to the old home county and has since given his active and effective supervision to his well improved farm of 101 acres, which is one of the excellent places of Athens Township, and which is on rural mail route No. 3 from Cadiz, the county seat. He is one of the enterprising and progressive agricul- turists and stock-growers of his native county, and is a popular representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section of the state. Mr. Webb is a staunch advocate and supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and his secure place in popular esteem in his home community is evidenced by his hav- ing served since 1916 as trustee of Athens Town- ship, in which office he has done his best to further the civic and material welfare of the township. He and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens, Ohio.

November 8, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Webb to Miss Flora Fitch, who was born near Moorefield, this county, and who is a daughter of William K. and Hannah E. (Watt) Fitch. both natives of Belmont County, Ohio, and members of old pioneer families, residents of Ohio for more than 100 years. The father was born July 21, 1844. and the mother on the 17th of June, 1852. Within a short time after his marriage, which occurred in 1870, Mr. Fitch established his residence on one of the excel- lent farms of Moorefield Township, Harrison County, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, Mrs. Fitch having died June 25, 1915, and her husband having passed away July 14, 1919, both having been zealous members of the Nottingham Presby- terian Church and both having stood high in communal esteem. Mr. Fitch was a member of the order of Masons. To Mr. and Mrs. Webb have been born five children, all of whom are living except the first, Samuel A., who was born August 30, 1903, and died August 11, 1905: John J. was born October 15, 1907; William Walter, October 2, 1910; Harold Woodrow, Oc- tober 4. 1914; and George Francis, December 26. 1917.

HARVEY SHIELDS is giving his able manage- ment to the fine old homestead farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, that figures as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred on the 10th of November. 1861. The general appearance of the farm. consisting of 100 acres, gives to the observer the immedi- ate deduction that its owner is a man of energy and progressiveness, and Mr. Shields takes great pride in keeping the old homestead up to the highest standard. He is a son of Jack- son and Abi (Goodwin) Shields. the former of whom was born in 1827 and the latter on the .

22d of May, 1829, a daughter of Jesse and Anna Goodwin. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Shields was solemnized September 25, 1854, and they continued their residence on the old home farm until the death of Mr. Shields, on the 28th of February, 1906, his widow still remaining in the home that has been endeared to her by the memories and associations of many years. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here recorded : Martha (Mrs. John R. Sergant), July 8, 1855; Davis H., June 14. 1858: Ruth Anna, February 16, 1861: Harvey (subject of this sketch). November 10, 1861; Lydia (Mrs. Thompson Matson), May 5, 1863: Mary R. (second wife of Thompson Matson), February 18, 1866; and Tacy, July 7, 1871.

Jackson Shields was a son of Benoni and Lyda (Woodward) Shields, both natives of New Jersey, where the former was born August 6, 1780. and the latter September 16, 1782. their marriage having here been solemnized. In 1829 Benoni Shields became a pioneer settler in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he reclaimed a farm from a virtual wilderness and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. their eleven children having been born prior to the removal to Ohio, and the fam- ily name having been worthily linked with the history of Harrison County for nearly a century.

Harvey Shields was reared and has continu- ously remained on the old home farm, and his early education was obtained in the public schools of his native township. He is familiar with every nook and corner of the farm, which has been his home from the time of his birth, and this knowledge he has utilized in gaining the maximum returns from his progressive ac- tivities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. The farm comprises 100 acres and is equipped with good buildings and other modern improve- ments. Mr. Shields is a republican in politics. and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Adena.

June 4, 1902. recorded the marriage of Mr. Shields to Miss Sadie B. Wilson, who was born and reared in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, a daughter of James and Eliza (David- son) Wilson, both likewise natives of Harrison County and representatives of honored pioneer families. James Wilson was a son of James and Sarah ( Brock) Wilson, who were natives of Virginia and who were early settlers in Moore- field Township. Harrison County. James Wil- son. Jr., passed his entire life in Moorefield Township and succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead farm, his death having there oc- curred in 1873. He first married Nancy J. Tar- bet. and she was survived by one son, Madison. The marriage of Mr. Wilson to Miss Eliza Da- vidson was solemnized August 4. 1864. and they became the parents of three children. Jonah D .. Sadie B. and James A. Mrs. Wilson long sur- vived her husband and was about eighty-two years of age at the time of her death. She was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a daughter of Jonah and Sarah (Joice) Davidson, natives of Maryland. Samuel, father of Jonah Davidson, came to Harrison County in 1812 and settled in Wash- Ington Township, where he and his wife. whose

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maiden name was Mary Drake, passed the re- mainder of their lives. They became the par- ents of three sons and three daughters. Jonah Davidson was born in Allegheny County, Mary- land, July 4, 1804, and thus was about eight years old when the family came to Harrison County in 1812. Here he was reared to man- hood and here in 1829 he married Miss Sarah Joice, their one child having been Eliza, who was born October 26, 1832, and who became the wife of James Wilson, as previously recorded. Mr. Davidson died June 16, 1889, his wife hav- Ing passed away in 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shields have two children : Harold Wilson, born August 21, 1904; and Harvey Raymond, born May 5, 1907.

E. C. ROGERS owns and resides upon an excel- lent farm of 152 acres in Nottingham Township, Harrison County and aside from the prestige that is his as one of the substantial agricultur- ists and stock growers of his native township, his is the distinction also of being of a family that was founded in Harrison County in the year 1808. the family name having been closely linked with civic and industrial progress in the county during the long intervening years.

E. C. Rogers was born in Nottingham Town- ship on November 3, 1868, and is a son of Will- iam F. Rogers, who was born in Cadiz Town- ship, this county, October 28, 1834, and who was a resident of Nottingham Township at the time of his death, December 27, 1909. He was a son of William and Susan (Carson) Rogers, the former of whom was a son of Joseph Rogers. William Rogers was born in Maryland, Novem- ber 30, 1798, and thus was about ten years old when the family came to Ohio in 1808 and set- tled in what is now Cadiz Township, Harrison County, where his parents passed the remain- der of their lives and where he was reared to manhood under the conditions marking the early pioneer days. Here he married Miss Susan Carson, who was born August 14, 1803. They became the parents of ten children: Sydonia, John B., Jesse B., Hannah, Nancy C., William F., Barrett, Susanna, Lydia and Calvin. After his marriage William Rogers continued as a farmer in Cadiz Township until 1856, when he purchased and removed to a farm in Notting- ham Township, the place later passing into the possession of his son William F. Here William Rogers remained until his death, April 28, 1863, his wife having died May 25, 1844, and both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the while his political al- legiance was given to the republican party.

William F. Rogers gained his early education in the common schools of the early days, and, as already noted, he eventually became the owner of the farm purchased by his father in Nottingham Township, in which part of the county he continued his successful activities as a farmer during the remainder of his active life. As a young man he married Miss Hannah Ham- ilton, who was born and reared in Tuscarawas County, where her father, William Hamilton, was a representative farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and she survived him by ten

years, her death having occurred March 7, 1919. Of their children E. C., immediate subject to this review, is the eldest; Ernest E. resides at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County; Nancy Vir- ginia is the wife of James L. Nash, of Cadiz Township, Harrison County.

E. C. Rogers is indebted to the district schools of his native township for his youthful educa- tion, and he remained at the parental home un- til his marriage in 1893, since which time he has resided continuously on his present farm, except for an interval of one year. He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is one of the progressive citizens of his native township.

February 14, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mrs. Rogers to Miss Leonora Hines, daughter of James M. and Almira J. (Carson) Hines, repre- sentatives of sterling pioneer families of Har- rison County. James McMahan Hines was born March 5, 1844, a son of William and Isabella (Hitchcock) Hines, his father having been born in Allegany County, Maryland, March 19, 1800, and having been four years old when his par- ents. Rudolph and Sarah (Huff) Hines, came to Ohio and first settled in Jefferson County. The family home was established in Harrison County in 1814, and the parents were venerable pioneer citizens of this county at the time of their deaths. Rudolph Hines was a son of John Hines, who came to America from Germany prior to the War of the Revolution. Rudolph Hines served as a soldier of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution, and after coming with his family to Ohio he remained in Jefferson County until 1806, when he removed into what is now the state of West Virginia, where he remained until 1814, when he estab- lished the family home in Harrison County, Ohio. Here he developed a farm from the wilderness and here he died when ninety years of age. His children were twelve in number. William Hines married, February 15, 1827, Miss Isabella Hitchcock, daughter of John and Jane McMahan Hitchcock, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ireland. William Hines passed the remainder of his life as one of the substantial farmers of Harrison County, where he died September 7, 1887, aged eighty- seven years. His widow who was born January 24, 1806, survived him by several years and died in her ninety-fourth year, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine chil- dren, of whom James M. was the sixth in order of birth.

James M. Hines was nineteen years old when he tendered his service in defense of the Union. August 7, 1863, he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Independent Battalion of Rangers, Ohio Volun- teers with which he participated in numerous minor engagements in the mountain districts of Kentucky. He continued in service about seven months and then returned home. On the 2d of February, 1865, he re-enlisted as a mem- ber of Company B, One Hundred and Ninety- Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was at- tached to the Army of the East, and he con- tinued in service until July 31, 1865, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Hines

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became one of the successful farmers of his na- tive county, was a republican in politics, and maintained affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. November 3, 1868, he married Miss Almira Jane Carson, daughter of Elijah and Margaret (Mahaffey) .Carson, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Pennsyl- vania. John Carson, father of Elijah, was one of the pioneer settlers of Harrison County, and here Elijah followed the trade of shoemaker in connection with farm enterprise. He served many years as a justice of the peace, and was in later years a staunch advocate of the princi- ples of the Prohibition party. He was born in 1810, and died in November, 1887; his wife was born in 1803, and died in 1884. Their children were seven in number. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hines became the parents of five children, one of whom died in infancy; Leonora is the wife of the subject of this sketch; Alexander L. is deceased ; and James Kinsey and John Newton still reside in Harrison County. Mr. Hines died on the 12th of May, 1919, and his widow remains on the old homestead farm in Cadiz Township.

In conclusion is given brief record concern- ing the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers: Craig M. now resides at Marion, Ohio, where he is traffic manager of the Pollak Steel Company. Harry Adell, engaged in farming in Nottingham Township, married Miss Mabel Smith, and they have one child, Robert Cloyd. Frederick H. re- sides at Marion, this state, where he is a clerk with the Pollak Steel Company. He married Clara I. Finical, of Cadiz Township, the daugh- ter of A. O. and Ollie D. Finical. Clara Fay, James F. F. Carson and Veda Virginia remain at the parental home. Craig Mckinley Rogers represented Harrison County as a gallant young soldier in the late World war. He entered the service June 24, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was assigned to Company A, Three Hun- dred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division. From Quebec, Canada, he sailed for France September 2, 1918, and upon arriving in France he was transferred to Headquarters Company of the Three Hundred and Sixty-sec- ond Infantry, Ninety-first Division. As a clerk of his company he was with this command on the Belgian front, and he returned to the United States April 15, 1919, his honorable discharge having been given to him May 1, 1919.

WILLIAM F. DUNLAP, whose death occurred November 26, 1920, was a representative farmer and honored citizen of Athens Township, Har- rison County, and a member of one of the oldest and most influential pioneer families of this county. Within the pages of this publication will be found many references to the family, which has played a large and worthy part in the civic and industrial development and up- building of the county.

William Finley Dunlap was born in Athens Township August 2, 1858, and was a son of Samuel and Mary Jane (Dunlap) Dunlap, the former of whom was born in Athens Township December 24, 1825, and the latter of whom was born in Moorefield Township, a daughter of Adam and Jane (Pattison) Dunlap, who were numbered among the very early settlers of

Moorefield Township, even as the parents of Samuel Dunlap were pioneers of Athens Town- ship, the two branches of the family still hav- ing many representatives in Harrison County. Samuel Dunlap was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days, passed his entire life in Athens Township, and was there the owner of a valuable landed estate of 489 acres at the time of his death. He was a son of Robert and Mary (Pattison) Dunlap, both natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in the year 1794, a son of Adam and Re- becca (Work) Dunlap, who came to Harrison County and settled in Athens Township in 1812, there passing the remainder of their lives as sterling citizens who endured their full share of the trials and hardships of life on the fron- tier. Adam Dunlap was influential in pioneer politics, as a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and he was one of the founders of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. His death occurred September 22, 1830, and his wife passed away May 20, 1846. Robert Dunlap developed one of the pioneer farms of Athens Township and was one of the leaders in community affairs. As a democrat he served in various township offices, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Nottingham Pres- byterian Church. They became the parents of six children : Hugh P., Samuel, Nancy, Rebecca, Mary and Robert, Jr., all now deceased. Mr. Dunlap died March 2, 1860, his wife having passed away September 29, 1852.

Samuel Dunlap, like his father and grand- father, had the sterling qualities of mind and heart that made him specially well equipped for leadership in community sentiment and action, and he was called upon to serve in local offices of public trust, including those of township clerk and township trustee. In his youth he was for a time engaged in teaching in the rural schools, but his active career was mainly marked by close and successful association with agricultural and live-stock industry in his na- tive township. He and his wife were zealous members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, in which he served in various official positions, including those of trustee, treasurer and deacon. His marriage to Mary J. Dunlap was solemnized in 1857, and of their three chil- dren William F., of this review, was the eldest: Emily became the wife of John A. Jamison and is now deceased; and James P. is deceased. Samuel Dunlap passed to the life eternal June 29, 1882, and his widow died on the 18th of August, 1900, the remains of both being laid to rest in the Nottingham cemetery.

William F. Dunlap acquired his early educa- tion in the district schools of Athens Township, and he continued to be associated with the ac- tivities of his father's farm until about four years after the death of his father. In 1886 he purchased his homestead farm, which he developed into a splendid estate of 569 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and stock- raising, with special attention given to the rais- ing of sheep. Mr. Dunlap long stood well to the front as one of the leading farmers of his native county and in all of the relations of life he well upheld the high honors of the family

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name. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party. He served as township trustee and was influential in public affairs in his community. He and his wife held member- ship in the Presbyterian Church at New Athens.

On the 29th of October, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Mary H. Dunlap, who was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Rea) Dunlap. To Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap were born seven children: Emma Belle, born August 1, 1886, is the wife of Ralph Moore, and they reside in Moorefield Township; Samuel P., born December 15, 1887, married Miss Pearle J. McFadden, and they also reside in Moore- field Township; Clyde C., born September 29, 1891, is at home; Sara L., born November 14. 1894, married George H. Knight, of Short Creek Township; Finley B., who was born February 2, 1898, died March 28, 1909; and the younger children of the home circle are Alfred R., born September 4, 1899; and Clarke H., born May 3, 1902.

OLIVER FRANKLIN DRUM, a well known Cadiz Township farmer, was born October 3, 1882, in Monroe County, Ohio. His father, David M. Drum, who was born April 15, 1856, as well as the mother, Delilah Jane (Eddy) Drum, born June 16, 1856, were natives of Monroe County. The paternal grandparents, John B. and Sarah ( Piatt) Drum, were early settlers in Monroe. In the maternal ancestry, Adam and Perdilla (Straight) Eddy and the Drums all lived in the same community. John B. Drum was a Civil war veteran, and was at the front two years. After the war he did carpenter work combined with farming. The following children called him father: Harvey, David, Eugene, Delbert, Lindsay, Adelaide, Viola and Evelyn.

The children in the Eddy household were: Delilah Jane, Frank and Jefferson. It was the oldest daughter who became Mrs. David M. Drum. The father was a farmer in Monroe County. For many years Mr. Drum combined carpenter work with farming, but recently he only does farming and cares for livestock. His children are: Oliver, Frank, Roscoe, Etta, Jo- sephine, Vernon and Homer. The two younger sons were in service in the World war.

Vernon Drum enlisted June 7, 1913, going at once into training at Camp Alfred Vail in New Jersey. He was in the Signal Corps, Company C. One Hundred and Ninth Foreign Signal Bat- talion. He went to France, landing at Brest July 18th, only six weeks after entering the service. He did service in France and Italy, returning from overseas one year and one day from the time he landed in France.

Homer Drum was stationed at Camp Sherman from the time he enlisted, May 30, 1918, a week and a day earlier than his older brother. For several months he served as sergeant in the Eighth Company, Second Training Battalion, at Camp Sherman and later as field clerk. The Drum family belongs to the Christian Church in Cadiz. The grandfather, who died in 1905, was a Civil war soldier and a regular attendant at post meetings of the local G. A. R. There is sufficient military spirit in the family.

In the different generations in the Drum fam- ily carpenter work has been combined with farming, and after completing his common school education in Monroe County, Oliver Frank Drum simply walked in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. The carpenter and the farmer are both valuable adjuncts to any community. The farmer must have shelter as well as the rest of the world.

On Christmas day, 1911, Mr. Drum married Frances Eleanor Thompson (see sketch of Em- mett Thompson), who has always lived in the community. For six and one-half years they have lived on a farm half a mile northeast from Cadiz. They have all the advantages of the town and live in the country. Mrs. Drum is a member of the Methodist Church in Cadiz. Through several generations her relatives have been Methodists.

CHARLES C. DICKERSON is fortified both in practical experience and by careful study of ways and means in the furtherance of his suc- cessful activities as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, and his well improved farm of one hun- dred and eight acres is eligibly situated in Cadiz Township. Mr. Dickerson was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, January 2, 1868, and is a son of Samuel C. and Mary E. (McCoy) Dickerson, both likewise natives of this county, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer era. Samuel C. Dickerson was born. in Athens Township May 19, 1840, and he passed the closing period of his life in the city of Ca- diz, the county seat, where he died August 27, 1918. His father, John C. Dickerson, was like- wise born in Harrison County, a fact which de- notes clearly that the family was here estab- lished at a very early period in the history of this now opulent section of the Buckeye State. Mrs. Mary E. (McCoy) Dickerson, who still maintains her home at Cadiz, is a daughter of Frank McCoy, who was long engaged in the work of his trade, that of shoemaker, in Moore- field Township, where he continued to reside until his death.

Samuel C. Dickerson gained his early edu- cation in the common schools of Harrison County and the major part of his active life was devoted to farm enterprise, though he was for a number of years proprietor of the grist mill known as the Dickerson mill in Athens Town- ship, the same having originally been operated by water power and he having supplied it with steam power. He finally sold this mill and re- sumed his active association with farm indus- try, besides becoming a successful buyer and shipper of live stock. In the late '90s he re- moved from his farm to Cadiz, where he lived practically retired during the closing period of his life. He was a man of sterling attributes of character, resourceful and progressive in his business activities and loyal and liberal as a citizen. He and his wife became zealous mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, and his political allegiance was given to the demo- cratie party. Of the children the eldest is Eliza Florence, who first married Samuel Breen and after his death became the wife of Thomas J.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 47

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