History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 82

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

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He whose name initiates this review was about five years old when his parents went to California, and he was taken into the home of his maternal uncle. Crawford Moorehead, of Lee Township. Carroll County. Here he was reared to adult age, and in the meanwhile he did not neglect the advantages offered in the district schools of the locality. After the death of his uncle he remained with his widowed aunt on the farm until she, too, passed away, in the spring of 1876. On the 6th of December of the following year he married Miss Margaret J. Taylor, daughter of John and Mary (Swick- ard) Taylor, of Jefferson County. He then worked a farm in Lee Township, and after re- maining on this place two years, with incidental attention given to the mining of coal in this locality, he purchased a farm of eighty acres in the south part of Lee Township. About ten years later he sold this property and purchased eighty acres of his present farm, one mile north- west of Harlem Springs. Later he added fifty- five acres to his farm property, but by the sub- sequent sale of two acres the tract was reduced to its present area-133 acres. Mr. Finnicum has always been known as an earnest and in- dustrious exponent of farm enterprise, and his success as an agriculturist and stock-grower has been such as to attest his good judgment and his close application to productive indus- try. For a number of years he gave consider- able attention to the digging of coal during the winter seasons, an appreciable amount of coal having been mined on his own farm. He is a republican in political adherency, has served as a member of the election board but has had no desire for public office. He has always been ready to do his part in the furtherance of measures and enterprises advanced for the gen- eral good of the community and his is an in- violable place in popular confidence and good will.

In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum: James D. is a resident of Raymond, Washington ; Charles M. resides in the city of Minneapolis. Minnesota ; John F. maintains his home at Car- rollton, judicial center of his native county ; William Albert is a progressive farmer of Lee Township; Alanson is engaged in farming in Columbiana County ; Jesse W. died at the age of about thirty years: Crawford R. remains at the parental home and is associated in the manage- ment of the farm; Mary Eleanor is the wife of James Nape, of Washington Township, Carroll County : and Annie C. is the wife of Perry Roudebush, of Lee Township. Two of the sons. Jesse W. and Crawford R., represented Carroll County as valiant young soldiers with the American Expeditionary Forces in France dur- ing the World war, and while in service both contracted influenza. Jesse W. having been con- fined in a hospital in France for ten weeks and

having virtually sacrificed his life in the cause of patriotism, as he did not long survive after his return to his native land, his death occur- ring in Canton, Ohio, on the 7th of May, 1920.

FRANK B. SPIKER is a representative of the fourth generation of the Spiker family in Har- rison County. within whose gracious borders his paternal great-grandparents settled in a very early day, upon immigrating to Ohio from Penn- sylvania. in which latter commonwealth the original American progenitors established a home upon coming from their native Holland, in the colonial period of our national history. The great-grandfather took up Government land in what is now Stock Township, Harrison County, and began reclaiming a farm in the midst of the primeval forest. Here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and en- dured the hardships that fell to those who thus established homes on the frontier, in the late part of the eighteenth or early part of the nineteenth century. Christopher Spiker. grand- father of him whose name introduces this re- view, was born on the pioneer farm in Stock Township, in the year 1806, and he became one of the substantial farmers of his native town- ship. where he also operated a grist mill in the early days. He was seventy-two years of age at the time of his death. in 1879, his wife. whose maiden name was Ara Carnes, having passed away in March. 1870.

Frank B. Spiker was born in Stock Town- ship, Harrison County. December 3, 1863. and is a son of John W. and Nancy (Crawford) Spiker. both of whom were likewise born and reared in Stock Township and the latter was a daughter of Josiah Crawford. John W. Spiker was born July 31. 1833. and remained until his death on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. He became the owner of a valuable landed estate of nearly 600 acres and was one of the leading agriculturists and sheep-growers of Stock Township, besides which he became associated with his sons in the buying and shipping of live stock. a portion of his farm property having been situated in Franklin Town- ship. He was a staunch republican. was an honored and influential figure in his community, served many terms as township trustee and in 1889 he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners, in which office he served with characteristic loyalty and efficiency. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Deersville. in which he held for many years the office of trustee. He was eighty-three years of age at the time of his death. December 30. 1916, and his wife passed to eternal rest at the age of eighty-one years, on the 3d of January. 1913, their children having been five in number-Edward C., Flora, Frank B .. Crawford and Birdella.

The early life of Frank B. Spiker was passed like that of the average farm youth of the lo- cality and period. and he profited duly by the advantages of the district schools of his native township. He continued to be associated with the activities of his father's farm until the time of his marriage. in 1900, since which time he

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has maintained his residence in the village of Deersville, Franklin Township, where he con- tinues to conduct a large and prosperous busi- ness in the buying and shipping of live stock, with which line of enterprise he has been ac- tively identified for fully a quarter of a cen- tury, besides which he gives a general super- vision to his farm property, in Franklin Town- ship. For the past several years he has been one of the owners of the grist mill at Deers- ville, but he has given but little of his time to the active management of this industrial enter- prise. He is a republican in political allegiance and he and his wife are members of the Pres- byterian Church in their home village.

In the year 1900 was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Spiker to Miss Mary Belle Fulton, and they have one child, Helen B. Mrs. Spiker was born and reared in Nottingham Township, this county, and is a daughter of William P. and Emma J. (Cunningham) Fulton. William P. Fulton was born in Nottingham Township, Har- rison County, on the 23d of October, 1835, and was a son of William and Elizabeth (Pugh) Fulton, the former of whom was born at Steu- benville, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 25, 1806, and the latter in Nottingham Township, Har- rison County, February 6, 1813, their marriage having been solemnized on the 3d of May, 1832. Mrs. Elizabeth Fulton was a daughter of Will- iam and Bethsheba (Johnson) Pugh, both na- tives of Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days, Mrs. Pugh having been a daughter of Benjamin Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. William Pugh became the parents of seven children-John, Benjamin, Ellis, Enoch, William, Jr., Elizabeth and Rachel. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Pugh became the wife of John Heavilin, and they became the parents of two sons, Byron and Albert, the last mentioned having served as a soldier in the Mexican war. John Pugh, the founder of the family in Harrison County, came here from Maryland and in Nottingham Township he re- claimed from the wilderness the farm now owned by Marion D. Barrett. Here he reared his two sons, David and Willam, and his sev- eral daughters, and here he and his wife re- mained as sterling pioneer citizens until the close of their lives.

The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Spiker were Philip and Hannah Fulton. Philip Ful- ton was a pioneer school teacher at Steuben- ville, Jefferson County, and among his pupils was Edward M. Staunton, who later served as secretary of war in the cabinet of President Lincoln. Mr. Fulton later became a pioneer farmer in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest and where he was a leader in community affairs, he having served many years as justice of the peace. He and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which they reared their children- Alexander, William, Philip, John, Hannah, Jane, Mary, Eliza, Julia and Sarah. The son William became a substantial farmer and stock-grower in Nottingham Township, where he owned at

one time 464 acres of land and where he achieved special success as a sheep-grower. His children were eight in number-John Calvin, William P. (father of Mrs. Spiker), Alexander, Winfield Scott (died while serving as a Union soldier in the Civil war), Hannah (died at the age of four years), Rachel, Louisa and Ellis.

William P. Fulton was reared and educated in Nottingham Township and he represented his native county as a soldier in the Civil war. In the autumn of 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he continued in service until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received July 19, 1865. He took part in numerous engagements, including the battles of Jonesboro, Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Rome, Kenesaw Mountain and Bentonville, and was with Sherman's forces on the historic march from Atlanta to the sea. At the close of hos- tilities he participated in the Grand Review, in the City of Washington. Thereafter he was numbered among the prosperous farmers of his native township until about 1800, when he pur- chased and assumed charge of the grist mill at Deersville, where he and his wife have since maintained their home. Here Mr. Fulton is an appreciative and valued member of John A. Norris Post, No. 495, Grand Army of the Re- public, and his wife is a member of the Chris- tian Church. July 5, 1866, recorded the mar- riage of Mr. Fulton to Miss Emma J. Cunning- ham, daughter of William and Jane (McCul- lough) Cunningham, of Nottingham Township, and of this union have been born four chil- dren : Winfield Scott resides in the City of Columbus, Ohio; William Marshall maintains his home at Spokane, Washington; Mary Belle is the wife of Frank B. Spiker, the subject of this sketch; and. Bessie is the wife of Lance Bargar, of Deersville.

EDWARD C. SPIKER, whose excellent farm of 120 acres lies partially within the corporate limits of the Village of Scio, Harrison County, where he maintains his residence, not only gives his supervision to this farm but has been for many years engaged in the buying and shipping of live stock, in which he was formerly asso- ciated with his father and brother. In the personal sketch of his brother, Frank B., in the preceding sketch of this work, is given ade- quate review of the family history, so that a repetition of the record is not here demanded. Suffice it to say that Mr. Spiker is a popular representative of one of the sterling pioneer families whose name has been identified with Harrison County history for more than a century.

Mr. Spiker was born on the ancestral home- stead farm, in Stock Township, this county, and the date of his nativity was May 19, 1860. He continued to be associated with the work and management of the home farm until his mar- riage, in 1893, but in the meanwhile he had devoted nine years to successful service as a teacher in the rural schools of his native county. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in North Township, and there

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he remained until the autumn of 1917, when he removed to his present fine farm, lying partly within the Village of Scio, in the same township. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.

The year 1893 recorded the marriage of Mr. Spiker to Miss Anna J. Miller, daughter of John and Margaret (Smith) Miller, of Franklin Township, and the one child of this union, John J. M., is a member of the class of 1923 in the University of Ohio, at Columbus.

RICHARD HETHERINGTON is one of the leading men of Fox Township, where he owns a valuable farm, although he devotes his attention to coal mining as boss of the Sterling Coal Company. He was born at Salineville, Ohio, October 6, 1876, a son of Richard and Jane (Vasey) Hetherington, natives of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, where they were married. The father was a miner in England, and continued to work at that calling when he came to Salineville, Ohio, for a time, but the last twenty-five years of life he was in the liquor business. His death. occurred about 1902, but the mother survived him until 1912. They had thirteen children, of whom the living are as follows: William and Robert, both of whom live at Salineville, Ohio; Maggie, who is Mrs. Henry Westlake of Saline- ville; John T., who lives at Cleveland, Ohio; Richard, whose name heads this review; and Charles, who lives in Fox Township.

When he was fourteen years old Richard Hetherington began digging coal, and has re- mained in the coal-mining business ever since. At one time he and his brothers, William, Charles and Robert opened a coal mine in Fox Township, which was a drift one, and three years later sold it to the Sterling Mining Com- pany of Cleveland, after which Mr. Hethering- ton worked in the mine for two years. At that time he, William Hetherington, Richard Hether- ington, Mathew Smith and Herman Granpner opened another mine in Fox Township and con- ducted it for about four years, and sold it to the Sterling Coal Company, Limited, of Toronto, Canada. They then leased the Y. & O. Mining Company of Barton, Ohio. Six months later Mr. Hetherington engaged with the Ster- ling Coal Company as mine boss, and has since held that position. In March, 1907, he bought a farm in Fox Township, which his sons con- duct. Since making his purchase he has sold thirty-nine acres of the farm.

On January 20, 1897, Mr. Hetherington was married to Lula Saltsman, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Martin and Eliza (Van Dyke) Saltsman, natives of Jefferson and Athens counties, Ohio, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Hetherington became the parents of the following children : Walter Leroy of Salineville, who married Verona Grove; Erma, who married Fred Everitt of Salineville, has one son, Fred, Jr .; Harold, who is on the home farm; Ernest, who died in infancy; and Helen, Richard and Delmar, who are at home.

Mr. Hetherington and his wife attended the public schools of their several neighborhoods. The Christian Church holds Mr. Hetherington's membership, and for several years he was a deacon, and has always been interested in its progress. A republican, he has served as trus- tee of the water works and cemetery, and as a member of the school board at Salineville. Fraternally he belongs to Salineville Lodge No. 435, I. O. O. F. In every relation of life Mr. Hetherington measures up to the highest con- ception of American citizenship, and has fairly won the prosperity and good standing in his community he now enjoys.

HOMER WHITE One of the widely known citizens and substantial farmers and stock- raisers of Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, is Homer White, who was born in this township April 12, 1860. His parents were Joseph T. and Mahala (Johnson) White, both of whom were born also in Franklin Town- ship. William Johnson, the maternal grand- father, was an early pioneer in this section, coming when a large portion of the land was yet heavily timbered and the home of many Indians. The children of William Johnson were four in number, namely : Sarah J., who married John Czatt; Harriet, who married Moses Gor- don; Caroline, who died young; and Mahala, who became the wife of Joseph T. White.

Joseph T. White, the paternal grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, married Hannah Rodgers, born in Hamilton County, Ohio. They came in pioneer days to Franklin Township, Harrison County and lived and died on their farm. They were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had chil- dren as follows: Wiliam Pinckney, Joshua. Warner, Joseph T., Charles, Permelia, Anna and Hannah, the two last named still surviving.

Joseph T. White the second, spent his entire life as a farmer in Franklin Township, and both he and wife died on the old homestead there. They were quiet, industrious, virtuous people and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Four children were born to them, namely : Alice, who is the wife of Wilson E. McGonegal; Homer, who is a representative citizen of Franklin Township; Jesse, who died at the age of seven months; and John, who married Bertha Wallace, of Carroll County, and still lives on the old homestead.

Homer White obtained his educational train- ing in the Weaver School, in Franklin Town- ship, and gave his father assistance on the home farm. For one year after his marriage, he resided at Uhrichsville, Ohio, but then re- turned to the home farm, which he conducted for the next seven years. In 1894 he purchased his extensive farm in Franklin Township, con- sisting of 200 acres, which property has closely engaged his attention ever since. He finds gen- eral farming and moderate stock-raising under his progressive methods quite profitable although requiring careful and intelligent management.

On May 17, 1886, Mr. White was married to Ellen Cecil, daughter of Richard and Jane (Bliss) Cecil, and they have five children :

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Della, who resides at home: Earl M., who lives on one of his father's farms, married Birdie Hines, and they have two children, Helen and Lewis Homer: Frank B., who is assisting his father since released from military service; and Forest M. and Florence Opal, both of whom are at home.

Frank B. White has an honorable record testifying to cheerful and efficient duty well per- formed during his five months' service in the National Army. He entered service in July, 1918, and was sent to Camp Sherman and as- signed to the organization for foreign service when the armistice was signed. The young sol- dier received his discharge in December, 1918, and returned to his home.

For many years Mr. White has been active in politics to some extent and has been called upon to serve in important township offices. For four years he was a trustee of Franklin Township, and for a like period served on the township board of education. The family at- tends the Christian Church, of which Mrs. White is a member.

BENJAMIN F. PRICE has wisely followed in the footsteps of his honored father in his con- tinuous and successful association with the great basic industries of agriculture and stock- growing, of which he has long been a substan- tial exponent in his native township. He was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, on the 20th of October, 1847, and is a son of the late Joel and Sophia (Leas) Price, the former of whom was born in Jefferson County, this state, January 9, 1805, and the latter was likewise a native of that county, where their marriage was solemnized on the 24th of May, 1836. Mrs. Sophia Price was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Leas, who were born and reared in Adams County. Penn- sylvania, where their marriage occurred and whence they came in an early day to Jefferson County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives as sterling pioneer citizens, their children having been seven in number-Leonard, Maria (Mrs. Miser), Sophia (Mrs. Joel Price), Jacob, Margaret (Mrs. Finnicum), Eliza (Mrs. Reukenbrod), and William. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Joel Price was a native of Germany and became an early settler in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he reared a fam- ily of six sons and six daughters. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Joel Price continued their residence in Jefferson County until 1846. when they came to Harrison County and settled on a tract of land which had been secured from the Government, by the father of Mr. Price. There the passing years marked the develop- ment of one of the fine farms of Franklin Township, and there Mr. and Mrs. Price con- tinued to reside until their deaths, when vener- able in years. Both were earnest and influen- tial members of the Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs, in which Mr. Price served as a trustee and also as treasurer. The dates and respective dates of birth of their children are here made a matter of record: Jacob L., Sep- tember 13, 1837; Catherine. September 30, 1839:

William H. H., October 14, 1841; Elizabeth, November 4, 1843: Sarah J., October 29, 1845: Benjamin F .. October 20, 1847; George W., De- cember 3. 1849 (died October 28, 1864), Leon- ard. August 23, 1852; John L., December 30. 1854: and Mary M .. December 28, 1859.

Joel Price was a grandson of Josiah and Mary ( Frazier) Price. the former of whom was a native of Wales, whence he set forth for America when a young man, in company with his two brothers, one of whom was drowned at sea while on the voyage, he having fallen over- board and having swam for half a day before he succumbed, his pleadings and those of his brothers having not availed in causing the cap- tain of the vessel to attempt a rescue. Benja- min Price, father of Joel, was born in New Jersey. December 12. 1768, and his wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Beebout, was born September 5. 1766. The parents became pio- neer settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the death of the father occurring September 15. 1853.

Benjamin F. Price gained his youthful edu- cation in the pioneer schools of Franklin Town- ship and in a well ordered school then main- tained at Feed Springs. He thereafter con- tinued his association with the activities of the old home farm until his marriage, in 1876. when he established his home on the farm which has continued to be the stage of his effective enter- prise as an agriculturist and stock-grower dur- ing the long intervening years. The excellent buildings on the place were erected by him. and the farm comprises 166 acres. On the place Mr. Price has a number of pure-bred Shorthorn cattle and Percheron horses, but he has not specialized in the raising of these types of live stock. He is a republican in his political proclivities and he and his wife are active mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs.

On the 7th of February, 1876, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Price to Miss Mary R. Barkley, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Andrew and Rebecca ( Welch) Barkley. Mr. and Mrs. Price have two children-Edgar K. and Lura M .. the latter being the wife of S. Garfield Hitchcock, of Franklin Township. Edgar K. Price, who has for the past twenty years main- tained partnership association with his father in the operations of the home farm and who individually owns eighty acres in Franklin Township, was born in this township on the 7th of December. 1878, and his early education was obtained in the public schools at Feed Springs. He has always remained with his parents on the old homestead, and for twelve or more years he also did effective contract work in the drill- ing of oil wells. besides which he has leased Inds for oil prospecting and is still actively identified with oil production enterprise. He pins his political faith to the republican party and he and his wife are members of the Pres- byterian Church at Feed Springs.

October 3, 1900. recorded the marriage of Edgar K. Price to Miss Jessie E. Melaney. daugh-

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ter of John and Ella Melaney, and she died May 1, 1906, leaving no children. On the 19th of August, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Price to Miss Elizabeth Wenger, who was born in Switzerland, daughter of Rudolph and Miriam (Crepps) Wenger, and the one child of this union is Benjamin R., who was born June 13, 1909.

CHARLES W. PALMER. The history of Monroe Township would not be complete without some mention of the Palmer family, which has been established within its confines for several gen- erations, and many of whose representative men have been actively connected with agriculture in all of its branches. One of these representatives who has achieved a notable success as a farmer is Charles W. Palmer, born in the township September 4, 1876, a son of Richard R. and Frances Elvina (Gamble) Palmer, and grandson of Nicholas Palmer, the latter one of the early farmers of Monroe Township, who lived here until toward the close of his life when he moved to Carroll County, Ohio, and there died. He married Jane Maxwell and their children were: Eliza, Richard R., Martha Jane and Robert.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 82

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