History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 5

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

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Joseph F. Strausbaugh attended the district schools of Green and Archer townships, and at the same time learned to be a farmer. When he was a young man he began farming, and has

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continued in this line ever since, and has also worked considerably as a carpenter. His home- stead comprises fifty-seven acres of well-im- proved land.

In 1883 Mr. Strausbaugh was married to Helen Dudgeon, a daughter of William Dudgeon, and they became the parents of the following children : Ray V., who married Ethel Walker, and has two children, Eugene and Paul, and lives at Steubenville, Ohio; Metta, who married Harry Coen and lives at Mingo, Ohio; Lola, who lives at Canton, Ohio; Doyle, who is a veteran of the great war; and Frank, who is also a veteran of the same mighty war. Mr. and Mrs. Strausbaugh belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jewett, and are held in the highest esteem by their associates in the church just as they are by their neighbors.

Doyle Strausbaugh entered the service on April 2, 1918, and was trained at Camp Sherman. On June 28, 1918, he sailed for France from Hoboken, and landed at Brest, France. He served with Company F, One Hundred and Third Infantry, Twenty-Sixth Division, and was in the Saint Mihiel and Verdun offensives. On April 5, 1919, he landed at Boston, Massachusetts, and was discharged on April 24, at Camp Sherman.

Frank Strausbaugh entered the service in September, 1917, and after he was trained at Camp Sherman he sailed for France in June, 1918, landing at Brest, France, after which his command, Company L, Three Hundred and Thirty-Second Infantry, Eighty-Third Division, was sent to Italy. He returned to the United States about the middle of April, 1919, and was discharged at Camp Sherman May 1 of that year. This is the only family in Archer Town- ship to have two sons in the overseas service, and were also fortunate inasmuch as the stars in their service flag did not turn to gold, and the young men were returned home safe and sound in spite of active participation in some of the hard-fought engagements of the last days of the war.

HENRY S. BARRIOKLOW. While Henry S. Bar- ricklow, of Cadiz, is a native of Harrison County, having been born December 10, 1847. in Athens Township, his ancestry dates back to Holland. His great-great-grandfather, Daniel Barricklow, and a brother, Darrick Barricklow, came from the lowlands of Holland to America, settling in Middlesex County, New Jersey. The brother Darrick settled on Long Island. In Holland the name was spelled De Barick of the Baricks, but the later generations Americanized it. Joseph Barricklow, father of Henry S., was born June 12, 1805, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Phoebe ( Bartow) Barricklow, the mother of Henry S. Barricklow, was born May 21, 1813, in Guernsey County, Ohio. She was a daughter of Eli and Charity (Leverage) Bartow, the fam- ily being of French-Canadian stock. The Bar- tows were among the pioneers of Harrison County. There was but one house in Cadiz when they came to the county. They had lived for a time in Guernsey County.

The grandfather, Hendrick Barricklow, was born in 1772 in Middlesex County, New Jersey, and he married Maribah Ogelvee, who was born in Cecil County, Maryland. Conrad Barrick-

low, of the preceding generation, was born in 1742, in Middlesex County, New Jersey. The Barricklows certainly belong to the Colonial period in United States history. The wife of Conrad Barricklow was Sarah Miller. He was a Minute Man in the War of the Revolution, and was wounded at the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey. There were five children in this Colo- nial Barricklow family: Anna, 1768; Daniel, 1770; Hendrick, 1772, to whom H. S. Barrick- low traces his lineage; John, 1775; and Farring- ton, 1777. Few families have more record of their colonial ancestry.

As a young man Hendrick Barricklow learned the tailor's trade in Fayette County, Pennsyl- vania, but later he abandoned the trade and worked on flat boats up and down the Ohio River. In 1800 he moved with his family to Athens Township, Harrison County, where he bought a quarter section of land, the title or patent being signed by President James Madison when the property was transferred from the Government to him. He died in April, 1852, on this land he had acquired from the Govern- ment in Harrison County.

The children born to Hendrick and Maribah Barricklow were: Sarah, John, Joseph, Ann, Henry, Julia, Conrad and Farrington. The four- older ones were born in Pennsylvania and the others in Ohio. There is Revolutionary ances -- try in both the Barricklow and Ogelvee families: Joseph Barricklow became a farmer and stock- man in Harrison County, buying the homestead of his father and dying there April 13, 1875, while his wife died February 29, 1895. They were members of Rankins Methodist Church. Henry S. Barricklow is their oldest son. His sister, Maribah, who died in 1919, was married twice, wedding Simeon Pickering and Washing- ton J. Vance. The brother, Joseph E. Barrick- low, who died in 1905, married Mary' Walker.

In 1882 Henry S. Barricklow married Lizzie B. Haverfield. She died September 13, 1883, and in 1893, Mr. Barricklow married Lizzie Mc- Fadden. Their children are: Harold J., Bes- sie, Mary Helen, Pauline, Henry S., Jr., and Gretchen. The family are members of the Meth- odist Church in Cadiz. Harold J. Barricklow was the first Harrison County boy to enlist in the World war. He was in a Tank Brigade and had six months overseas service in France.

H. S. Barricklow has extensive farm interests and until 1916 when he located in Cadiz he had always lived in the country. Up to one year ago Mr. Barricklow owned 738 acres of which he has since sold 147 acres. Beside city prop- erty In Cadiz, Columbus, Ohio, and Fargo, North Dakota, he owns land in Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, in North and South Dakota which, added to his Harrison County land, makes Mr. Barricklow one of the largest land owners of eastern Ohio. He also holds large interest in coal and oil lands. For more than thirty years he has been a direc- tor of the Harrison National Bank in Cadiz, and for the last few years has been vice president of that institution. While Mr. Barricklow has always lived in Harrison County, his business activities are not confined to one locality. He has been a successful man and has accumulated sufficient property to take care of him when he ceases business activities.

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HORACE G. KERR owns and is giving his atten- tion to the vigorous operations of the fine old homestead farm which figures not only as the place of his birth but also as that of his father, the latter's parents having come to Harrison County in 1828 and here established their home on this farm in Cadiz Township, the place hav- ing been at that time a tract of forest land, with no improvements, and theirs having been the herculean task of reclaiming the land to cuiti- vation. James Kerr was born and reared in Scotland, and after his marriage he and his wife removed to Ireland, where the wife and mother died. Their son Alexander was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and in the early years of the nineteenth century he came with his father to America. They settled near West Liberty, Ohio County, West Virginia, and there James Kerr remained until 1850, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he passed his declining years in the home of his son Alexander and where he died in 1856, at the age of eighty-eight years.

Alexander Kerr was reared to manhood in West Virginia, and among his early experiences after coming with his father to America was that of clerking for a time in a mercantile es- tablishment in the City of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. In West Virginia, which was at that time still a part of Virginia, he married Mary Blair, a daughter of Raunel and Annie Blair, of Brooks County, and in 1828 he and his wife came to Harrison County, Ohio, and estab- lished their home on the frontier farm which has been developed into the well improved homestead now owned by their grandson, Horace G., of this review. Mrs. Kerr passed to eternal rest in 1838, at the age of forty years, and Mr. Kerr was seventy-four years of age at the time of his death, about the year 1860. Of the chil- dren the first born, Elizabeth, died in childhood, as did also the second, Mary Ann; Jane never married and was about seventy-four years of age at the time of her death, as one of the revered pioneer women of Harrison County; Alexander B., father of Horace G., was the next in order of birth; and Evelyn died when young. The re- ligious faith of the family was that of the Presbyterian Church, and incidental to the re- ligious differences in the church relative to the question of slavery, Alexander Kerr, who was an uncompromising abolitionist, was led to se- cede from the parent church and become one of the organizers of the local branch of what was known as the Free Presbyterian Church. A man of strong convictions and will power, he was a leader in community sentiment and ac- tion. and in the period leading up to the Civil war he was actively identified with the historic "Underground Railroad," through the medium of which many fugitive slaves were assisted to freedom. He served several years as trustee of Cadiz Township. It is worthy of note that this sterling pioneer was opposed to the use of whis- key, the drinking of which was in those days taken as a matter of course, and that he was the first man in his community to abolish the use of whiskey by men working in the harvest fields -a regulation to this effect having been adopted by him on his farm and he having stood firm against all protests against his action.

Alexander B. Kerr, owing to the conditions of time and place, had limited educational ad- vantages in his youth, and he early began to bend his youthful energies to the arduous work of the pioneer farm. He passed his entire life on this old homestead and was the owner of a well improved farm of 140 acres at the time of his death. In 1857 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Lucy Smith, who was born in Tuscara- was County, Ohio, in December, 1832, a daugh- ter of William and Mary Smith, her father having been a soldier in the War of 1812 and having passed the closing years of his life on his farm in Washington Township, Harrison County. His widow was a resident of Steuben- ville, Jefferson County, at the time of her death. Alexander B. Kerr continued to give his close attention to the work of his farm until the exigencies of the Civil war resulted in a fur -. ther call for volunteers in 1863, when he left his wife and children on the farm and went forth to aid in defense of the Union. In that year he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Sev- entieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served in defense of the national capital and later took part in the famous campaign and varied battles of the Shenandoah valley of Vir- ginia. Though he was never wounded or cap- tured, he was prostrated by fever and was con- fined several weeks in a military hospital. Upon the expiration of his term of enlistment he re- turned home and resumed the management of his farm, three and one-half miles west of Cadiz and consisting of 140 acres. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the repub- lican party, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and he and his wife held mem- bership in the Presyterian Church. Of their children Horace G., of this sketch, is the second in order of birth, and in his home remains his only, an elder, sister, Mary who has never mar- ried; William died in January, 1901, in his na- tive county : and two children died in infancy. The devoted wife and mother passed to the life eternal September 19, 1881, and Alexander B. Kerr died in October, 1907, honored by all who knew him. It may be recorded that his maternal grandfather, Raunel Blair, was a patriot sol- dier in the war of the Revolution, after the close of which he secured land in Ohio County, Vir- ginia (now West Virginia), but the closing years of his life were passed in the state of Vermont. the Blair family having been founded in New England in the early colonial period of our na- tional history.

Horace G. Kerr was identified with the activi- ties of the old homestead farm from the time of his boyhood, and is now owner of this valuable farm of 140 acres. From 1883 to 1885 he was engaged in the livery business at Cadiz, and thereafter he conducted a shoe store at that place until October, 1887, when he became a lo- comotive fireman on the Panhandle Railroad. He continued to be thus employed until 1891. and in 1893 he returned to and assumed active management of the old home farm, in the opera- tion of which his vigorous and well directed ac- tivities have brought to him substantial returns.

In 1880 Mr. Kerr married Miss Emma Lewis, daughter of Reed and Millie Lewis, of Harrison County, and the one child of this union is George

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B., who married Miss Norma Cooper and who has been engaged in the drug business at Bartles- ville, Oklahoma, since May, 1912. The second marriage of Mr. Kerr was solemnized in April, 1901, when Miss Carrie A. Hines became his wife. She was born and reared in Cadiz Town- ship as were also her parents, Daniel and Mar- tha (Laughlin) Hines, who there passed their entire lives. Mr. Hines died April 9, 1910, and his wife passed away in March of the following year. Both were active members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. They became the par- ents of three children : Ina B., who died when young: Jessie, the wife of James Frazier; and Carrie A., wife of Mr. Kerr, is the youngest of the number.

ROBERT BROTHERS, former county auditor of Carroll County, has spent most of his active life in railroad service and is a clerk in office of the W. & L. E. Railway Company at Carrollton.

The record of his family runs back into the pioneer times in Carroll County. His great- grandparents were Stephen and Elizabeth (Cas- tleberry) Brothers, who were among the first settlers in Brown Township, Carroll County, where they bought land and made a home in the wilderness and where both of them spent the rest of their years. In their family were twelve children, Benjamin, Joseph, William, Isaac. Levi, John, Abram, David, Francis, Jacob, Margaret and Mrs. Yengling.

Of this family Levi was born in Maryland June 22, 1799, and was a youth when brought to Carroll County. He married Lydia Clark, who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, Septem- ber 13, 1799. They were married in Columbiana County and during 1820 moved to Carroll County and settled in Brown Township. A por- tion of their farm is still owned by their son Richard Brothers. This land had been entered by Richard Vaughn, grandfather of Lydia Clark, who was the daughter of George and Anna (Vaughn) Clark. A great-grandson of George Clark, Henry Clark, now owns the old home- stead. Levi Brothers and wife were the parents of thirteen children, and those to reach mature years were George, Joseph, Lydia, Stephen, John, Austin, Fannie and Richard. Three of the sons, Austin, John and Stephen, were soldiers in the Civil war, all were wounded in battle. John being shot through the chest and Austin through the mouth. These soldier brothers are still liv- ing except Stephen, the oldest of the family, who died about 1908.

Richard Brothers, father of Robert Brothers, was born in Brown Township of Carroll County September 13, 1840, and has spent his life of practically fourscore years in that same com- munity. He attended common schools and select schools at Minerva, and after his education turned his attention to farming. At one time he owned a hundred acres of the old home- stead, and still retains fifteen acres. In March, 1920, he moved to Minerva, and is now living re- tired. He is a democrat, but the only office in which he has consented to serve has been as a member of the school board.

In 1867 Richard Brothers married Miss Mary J. Woods, a cousin of Isaac B. Woods and a daughter of Robert Woods and granddaughter

of William Woods. The Woods family were pio- neers near Waynesburg in Brown Township, and other references to the family are made on other pages. Richard Brothers and wife lived to cele- brate their golden wedding anniversary, and she died November 26, 1919. To their marriage were born seven children: Frank W., Levi C., Robert, Lulie, William, Lydia and Joseph.

Robert Brothers, who is a member of the fourth generation of the family in Carroll County, was born in Brown Township August 3, 1873, and spent his youth in the environment of the old homestead. He attended district school there, later completed a course in the Ohio Nor- mal University at Ada, and for two years was a successful teacher. In 1893 he began railroad- ing with the Pennsylvania system at Cleveland, where he remained about five years. In 1899 he returned to Carroll County and was elected and served one term as county auditor. After retir- ing from office with a creditable record he en- gaged in the hardware business for two years at Carrollton, but for the past seven years has given all his time to his duties as freight agent.

Mr. Brothers is a democrat and for many years has been influential in party circles. He is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.

February 26, 1907, he married Miss Gertrude Sterling, who was born at Carrollton, July 6, 1873, daughter of Milton C. and Jane Elizabeth (Atkinson) Sterling. Her father was born at Carrollton in 1843 and died in 1897. Her mother was born at Carrollton in 1846 and died in 1903, being a daughter of Isaac Atkinson, a relative of the Isaac Atkinson whom history calls the father of Carroll County. Milton Sterling was a son of Samuel Sterling, and this family is also represented elsewhere. Milton Sterling was reared and educated at Carrollton, worked in the Sterling drug store and was in business for himself many years, and since his death the business has been continued by his daughters, Mrs. Frank Ebersole and Mrs. Robert Brothers. This is the oldest drug store in the county. Mr. Sterling was a republican and a member of the Methodist Church. He and his wife were sur- vived by two daughters, Fredalina, who gradu- ated from the Carrollton High School in 1890, and was a successful teacher for seven years, until her marriage to Mr. Frank Ebersole. The other daughter, Gertrude, who became Mrs. Brothers, was also educated in the Carrollton High School.

EMMETT A. TAYLOR, cashier of the Freeport State Bank, is one of the reliable financiers of Harrison County, and a man who stands very high in public confidence. He was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, Au- gust 24, 1865, a son of James and Louise (Thompson) Taylor, and grandson of William and Margaret (Gillespie) Taylor.

James Taylor was born in Belmont County, and his wife was born in Morgan County, Ohio, she being a daughter of Samuel Thompson. On her mother's side she is descended from the Dunn family of Morgan County. James Taylor was a farmer of Wheeling Township, Belmont County, for a number of years. The children born to him and his wife were as follows: Em-

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mett A., William, Nannie and Mary, the last named child dying when small.

Emmett A. Taylor was reared on his father's farm in Wheeling Township, and he acquired his educational training in the schools of his neighborhood. After he reached his majority he began farming, but was not content to re- main in the rural districts, and so in 1903, left the farm and went to Cambridge, Ohio, where he was weighmaster and pay roll clerk for the Forsythe Coal Company for eight years. Leav- ing that concern, he became shipping clerk for the Hoyle & Scott Lumber Company, and held that position for three years. The last three years he lived at Cambridge he was manager of the Cambridge Ice & Storage Company and of the Guernsey Creamery Company, the two latter companies being owned by W. C. Brown of Columbus, Ohio. In October, 1918, Mr. Tay- lor came to Freeport to accept the position of cashier of the Freeport State Bank, and since then has continued to discharge its duties.

On May 17, 1899, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage with R. Nelle Coleman, a daughter of Joseph and Eliza Coleman, and they have one daughter, Audrey L. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Presbyterian Church and earnest in their support of the church. Mr. Taylor is a member of Freeport Lodge No. 415, F. & A. M., and Uhrichsville Chapter No. 114, R. A. M. He is a man who has steadily won his way in life through his fidelity and uprightness, and he holds the confidence not only of those who are closest to him, but all with whom he is brought into contact.

WILMER C. EDWARDS is the owner of a fine farm of 108 acres in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, a property which he purchased in 1918. and he also owns twenty-three acres in Athens Township. He is proving himself one of the vigorous and resourceful exemplars of agricul- tural industry in his native county and is a representative of a family that was founded in the Buckeye State in the pioneer epoch of its history. Ignatius Edwards, his great-grand- father, was born and reared in Pennsylvania and came with his family to Ohio in the early part of the eighteenth century and established a home in Belmont County. His son, Henry Edwards, was reared to manhood in Belmont County, and as a young man was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Schatzer, with whom he finally estab- lished his home at Charlestown. a little village in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, where he engaged in the work of his trade. that of shoe- maker, and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Their children were six in number-John, Ignatius, Henry, Jr., Ra- chel, Martha and Jane. The father not only followed his trade but also engaged in farming in Cadiz Township, an unassuming, reliable citizen of sterling character.

Henry Edwards, Jr., father of Wilmer C., of this review, was born in Belmont County, April 30, 1842. When he came to Harrison County he first settled in Athens Township, but the year 1881 established himself upon a farm in Cadiz Township, where he remained until his death in 1891, his venerable widow still remaining on the old homestead at the time of this writing,

in the spring of 1920, and being a devoted mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church, as was he also. Mrs. Edwards, whose maiden name was Eliza- beth Deyarmon, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, November 24, 1844, and is a daughter of David and Sarah (Paxton) Deyarmon, early settlers in that county. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards became the parents of four children who at- tained to years of maturity, and of the number Wilmer C., of this review, is the youngest ; Lo- rena Bell, now deceased, became the wife of Edward Philpott and is survived by three chil- dren-Craig, Flora Bell and Mary; Alice, the second child, remains with her widowed mother on the old homestead; Lizzie Catherine, de- ceased wife of Charles Hagadorn, became the mother of three children-Harold, Raymond and Donald.

Wilmer C. Edwards was born in Athens Town- ship, Harrison County, December 18, 1879, and his early educational discipline was obtained mainly in the Science Hill School in Short Creek Township. He has been continuously associated with farming enterprise from the time of his early youth, and came into possession of his present excellent home farm in 1918, as previ- ously noted in this sketch. He is one of the pro- gressive farmers and stock-growers of the younger generation in Cadiz Township, and he and his wife have a host of loyal friends in their native county, both being members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his political allegiance being given to the republican party.

In 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Edwards to Miss Clara Warren, eldest daughter of James and Elizabeth Warren, of Cadiz Town- ship, and they have a winsome little daughter, Leone, who holds gracious sovereignty in the attractive family home.

CHARLES F. BARNES has been continuously en- gaged in school work since 1894 and has been a popular and successful force in connection with educational affairs in his native county. He is now superintendent of public schools for a dis- trict comprising six townships in the northeast- ern part of Harrison County, including the vil- lage schools at Scio, where he maintains his residence.

Mr. Barnes was born in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, on the 10th of March, 1869, and is a son of John G. and Ada J ( Figley) Barnes, the former of whom was born on Bel- mont Ridge, Harrison County, on September 18, 1840, and died on April 22, 1873, and the latter was born in Moorefield Township, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Guthrie) Figley. Joseph Figley was one of the representative farmers of Harrison County for many years, and his father, Adam Figley. was one of the sterling pioneer settlers of the county. Joseph Figley and his wife were zealous members of the Pres- byterian Church. They became the parents of three children : Ada J., Thomas J., and Robert Marion, and two sons, who died young. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this re- view were Richard and Susannah (Dorcy) Barnes. Richard H. Barnes was born Septem- ber 6, 1827, in Prince William County, Virginia, and was a young man when he came to Ohio, where he became a pioneer in the work of his

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 5

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