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Robert J. Eason married Jennie Hollingsworth, daughter of Doctor Hollingsworth and wife, and to this union two children have been born, Carrie, who married Doctor Boulger and has two children, Robert and Janet, and Robert H. Eason, of North Lewisburg. In his political belief Mr. Eason is independent. He is a Knight Templar Mason and has for years taken a warm interest in Masonic affairs.
SETH S. WINDER.
Seth S. Winder, a retired farmer of North Lewisburg, Champaign county, was born on December 14, 1841, in Zane township, Logan county, Ohio. He is a son of Thomas and Hannah (Wileman) Winder, both natives of Clark county, Ohio, where they grew up and were married. In 1841 they moved to Logan county, Ohio, where they spent the rest of their active lives on a farm. He died at the age of seventy-seven years and she when seventy-three years old. They were life members of the Friends church.
MR. AND MRS. SETH WINDER
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Their family consisted of ten children, named as follows: John, Edward. Aaron, Elizabeth and Abner are all deceased; William lives in North Lewis- burg, Ohio; Maria W. is the wife of Caleb Lewis and they live in North Lewisburg: Seth S., of this sketch: Deborah is deceased; and Seneca, who lives in Marion, Indiana.
Seth S. Winder grew up on the home farm in Logan county and there he attended the common schools. There he engaged in farming until 1898. in which year he moved to North Lewisburg, Champaign county, where he has since resided. He sold his farm in Logan county and bought his pres- ent home and several lots where he now lives. He has a fine cherry orchard and raises small fruits and garden truck.
Mr. Winder was married in the fall of 1869 to Margaret A. Linvill, who was born in Wayne township, this county, where she was reared and educated. She is a daughter of Hanes and Ann Linvill. To Mr. and Mrs. Winder four children have been born, two of whom died in infancy; Lena M. married Frank Christopher and they reside in Washington Court House, Ohio, and have two children, Marion and Margaret; Seneca married Alberta Hadley; they live in Marion, Indiana, and have one child, Lowell. Mr. Winder is an ardent supporter of the temperance cause. He has been a member of the Friends church all his life.
WINFIELD TAYLOR SHRIGLEY.
Winfield Taylor Shrigley, a well-known and substantial retired farmer of Wayne township, this county, and former trustee of that township, now living at Cable, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, August 31, 1847, son of James and Eliza ( Shaffer ) Shrigley, the former of whom was a native of this state. born in Noble county, and the latter, of Virginia, born in Loudoun county. They were married in Noble county and later moved to Coshocton county, where for years James Shrigley was engaged in the mines and where he spent his last days, his death occurring there in 1892. he then being seventy-two years of age. His wife had preceded him to the grave a year, her death having occurred in 1891, she then being seventy- three years of age. They were the parents of five children. of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being as follow: John F., a farmer and carpenter, of Roscoe, this state: Albert, a farmer, also of Roscoe: Emily J., deceased. and Mary, widow of John Pickerel, of Cable.
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James Shrigley was a veteran of the Civil War, having served as a member of the One Hundred and Forty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the hundred-day service, and was stationed at Point of Rocks ou the James river.
Reared in Coshocton county. Winfield T. Shrigley received his school- ing there and early began working in the mines. In the spring of 1864, he then being but sixteen years of age, he enlisted for service during the con- tinuance of the Civil War, as a member of Company F, Eightieth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but on account of his youth and undersize he was rejected and his ambition to become a soldier thus was thwarted. He mar- ried in 1871 and continued to make his home in Coshocton county, where he became engaged in farming, until the early eighties when he came to this county and bought a farm of fifty-six acres in Wayne township, one and a half miles west of Cable, and there he made his home until the fall of 1916, when he retired from the active labors of the farm and moved to Cable, where he is now living and where he and his family are very pleasantly situated. Mr. Shrigley is a Republican and ever since coming to this county has given local politics his earnest attention. For six years he served the public in the capacity of trustee of Wayne township and in other ways he has given ungrudgingly of his services in behalf of the public.
Mr. Shrigley has been twice married. It was in 1871 that he was united in marriage to Martha Pickerel, of Virginia, a daughter of William and Sarah Pickerel, and to that union two children were born, Mary Belle, who died when seventeen years of age, and one who died in infancy. Mrs. Martha Shrigley died in 1876 and on October 19, 1880, Mr. Shrigley mar- ried, secondly, Mrs. Rebecca J. (Loder ) Williams, widow of William Will- iams, of Coshocton county. William Williams was a farmer and saw-mill man. He died in 1877, at the age of twenty-nine years, leaving three chil- dren, namely: Minnie Fay, who married Forrest Gatton, of Toledo, Ohio, and has two children, Mildred and Pearl; Alpha E., who married William Morgan, living near King's Creek, this county, and has one child, a son, Wendell, and Bertha, who married Wilbur Young, of Cable, and has one son, Linville.
To Winfield T. and Rebecca J. ( Loder ) Shrigley two children have been born, Winfield, now engaged in the insurance business at Springfield, this state, who married Floy Taylor and has two children, daughters both, Phyllis and Virginia, and Letha May, who married S. B. Skidmore, a farmer, living near Cable, and has one child, a son, Robert Maxwell. Mrs. Shrigley is a member of the King's Creek Baptist church and both she and her hus-
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band give their earnest attention to the general good works of the conmu- nity in which they live. Mr. Shrigley is a member of the. local. lodge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and has for years taken a warm interest in the affairs of that order.
WILLIAM A. NUTT.
The late William A. Nutt, for years one of the best-known grain dealers in this part of the state, an honored veteran of the Civil War, who died at his home in Urbana in 1911, was a native son of the old Buckeye state and lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of Sidney, in the neighboring county of Shelby. March 28, 1843. a son of Irwin and Barbara (Persinger ) Nutt, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Virginia, who spent their last days on their well-established farm near Sidney.
Irwin Nutt was born on January 31, 1811, at Centerville.' in Montgoni- ery county, this state. and there grew to manhood. On February 25. 1834. he married Barbara Persinger, who was born on September 27, 1812. in Botetourt county, Virginia, and who was but three years of age when her parents came to this state and settled on a farm in the neighborhood of Xenia, where she grew to womanhood and where she was married. After his marriage Irwin Nutt established his home on a farm in Shelby county. not far from Sidney, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, nseful and influential residents of that community. Irwin Nutt was a good farmer and developed a fine piece of property there. He also for years was actively engaged in the grain business and he and his sons estab- lished a grain elevator at Pemberton and later at Quincy, Ohio, doing a fine business in that line. He and his wife were active members of the Metho- dist Episcopal church and took an earnest part in church work, as well as in the work of developing the schools in their home neighborhood, and were in other ways influential factors in promoting proper social conditions there- abouts. They were the parents of seven children, of whom but one, John Nutt, of Los Angeles. California, is now living.
William A. Nutt grew up on the home farm in the vicinity of Sidney and received his schooling in the Sidney schools. Upon President Lincoln's second call for volunteers to help suppress the rebellion of the Southern states in 1861 he went to the front as a member of Company F. Twentieth
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Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, attached to the Second Brigade, Third Division, which company was commanded by his brother, Captain Nutt, and with that command served until the close of the war. being mustered out with the rank of sergeant-major. For eleven months of this period of serv- ice Mr. Nutt was attached to the hospital staff. He had the honor of march- ing with Sherman to the sea and during his long service participated in some . of the most stirring engagements of the war.
Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Nutt returned home and for some time thereafter was engaged in the road-contracting business. While thus engaged he was married and later engaged in business at Quincy. in partnership with one of his brothers. the firm operating elevators, as noted above, and he was thus engaged at that place until November 1, 1898, when he moved to Urbana and was there engaged in the grain business until his death on November 30. 1911; having then been continuously engaged in that line for a period of forty-three years, during which time he became known as one of the leading grain men in this part of the state. Mr. Nutt was an ardent Republican and ever took an active part in local political affairs, but was not a seeker after public office.
It was on December 10, 1872, that William A. Nutt was united in marriage to Eleanor (Campbell) Lilley, who was born at Columbus, this state, April 22, 1852, daughter of Capt. Mitchell and Amanda (Brooks) Lilley, the former of whom was born in Augusta county, Virginia, July 18. 1819, and the latter, near Paris. Illinois, October 4, 1830. Capt. Mitchell Lilley, who, as noted above, was a Virginian, was reared at Columbus, this state, to which city he had gone to make his home with an uncle when ten years of age, his parents having died in Virginia. When the Mexican War broke out he enlisted for service and was promoted to the rank of captain in service. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he went to the front as captain of a company and served in that capacity until his health failed and he was honorably discharged with the brevet rank of colonel. Captain Lilley was a bookbinder by trade and for years had charge of the Ohio state bindery at Columbus, one of the best-known and most influential residents of that city. He and his wife were the parents of thirteen children, five of whom are still living, three sons, Alexander, William and Thomas M. Lilley. and two daughters, Kate, wife of J. H. Haller, and Anne, wife of W. C. Willard. Mrs. Nutt survived her husband for about three years, her death occurring at her home in Urbana on March 14, 1914. She was an earnest member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, as was her husband, and both were active in local good works. Mr. Nutt was an active member of
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W. A. Brand Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Urbana, and ever took a warm interest in the affairs of that patriotic organization. He also was a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
To William A. and Eleanor (Campbell) Nutt six children were born, two sons and four daughters. The sons, Wilbur and Thomas, both died in childhood and the daughters, the Msses Lilley, Besse, Harriet and Hazel Nutt, are still living at the old family home in Urbana, where they are very pleasantly and very comfortably situated. The Misses Nutt are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church and have ever given their earnest attention to church work and other local good works, as well as to the general social activities of their home town, and are helpful in many ways in helping to promote such movements as are designed to advance the common welfare of the people of the city and of the county at large.
JAMES MAGRUDER POYSELL.
James Magruder Povsell, one of the best-known of the older citizens of Urbana, a retired marble cutter and an honored veteran of the Civil War. who has been a resident of Urbana for the past half century or more, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born at West Liberty in the neighboring county of Logan, September 28, 1841, son of John and Sarah ( Stafford) Poysell, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania. of German stock, and the latter in England, whose last days were spent in this state.
John Poysell was trained in Pennsylvania as a mill man and followed that vocation all his life. He was married in Pennsylvania and later came over into Ohio, driving through to Springfield and later moving up to West Liberty, where he worked about a feed-mill and a saw-mill, and there spent the remainder of his life, one of the best-known residents of that place. For fifty years he was a class leader in the Methodist church and was ever active in local good works. After his death his widow made her home in Urbana. where she spent her last days. They were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being as follow : Samuel, who served three years as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, a member of Company E, Ninety-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and met his death by drowning in the Mississippi river ;
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Frank, now deceased, who was a printer at West Liberty and at Springfield : John M .. now deceased, who was a miller at West Liberty; William W., who went to the front during the Civil War as a member of Company E. Ninety-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. in which he served for three years, during a portion of which time he was held a prisoner at Ander- sonville prison, and was later drowned in the Mississippi river, meeting death at the same time as did his brother. Samuel, mentioned above, both brave soldiers of the Union, and Sarah, who married William Taylor and is now deceased.
James M. Poysell was reared at West Liberty, receiving his schooling in the schools of that town, and there learned the trade of a marble cutter and was working at the same when the Civil War broke out. On August 7, 1862, then being under twenty-one years of age, he enlisted for service in the Union army as a private in Company 1. Ninety-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the same regiment in which his elder brothers were serving. He enlisted for the three-year service and joined the regiment at Cincinnati, under Capt. William Beatty and Col. J. W. Varner, the command being assigned to the Second Brigade, First Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, Army of the Gulf. Thus engaged Mr. Poysell participated in the battles of Arkansas Post, Bayon Mississippi. Ft. Hinneman, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Big Black River; was present for fifty-two days during the siege of Vicksburg, then took part in the battles of Carrion Crow Bayou and Grand Coteau and on November 3. 1863, was taken prisoner by the enemy and was held a prisoner on the Red river for about five months before being exchanged. After rejoining his regiment he participated in the Red river expedition. the regiment later moving to Mobile Bay, he thus partic- ipating in the battles of Ft. Morgan and Ft. Gaines, in the siege of Mobile, and in the battles at Ft. Blakely, Spanish Fort and at Whistler, Alabama. the latter battle being fought on April 13, 1865. four days after the surrren- der of General Lee at Appomatox Court House. Upon the conclusion of the war the Ninety-sixth Ohio was returned North and on July 29, 1865. at Camp Chase, this state, Mr. Poysell was mustered out with the command with which he had served for one week less than three years.
Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Poysell returned to his home at West Liberty and there resumed the pursuits of peace. taking up his old trade as a marble cutter, and there remained for about eighteen months, at the end of which time, in 1867, he moved to Urbana, recognizing the better opportunities for the exercise of his skill in that city. A few months later he married and established his permanent home in that city,
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continuing his operations as a marble cutter until his retirement from active labor may years later, since which time he has been living quietly retired.
It was on January 7, 1868, a few months after he located at Urbana. that James M. Poysell was united in marriage to Mary Eliza Marsh, who was born in that city on September 1, 1848. daughter of Leonard and Anna E. ( Richardson ) Marsh, the former of whom was born in Baltimore, Mary- land, and the latter in the city of Urbana, a member of one of the old fami- lies of Champaign county. Leonard Marsh was but a boy when his parents moved from Baltimore to Urbana and in the latter city he grew to man- hood, there learning the trade of a tailor, which vocation he followed the rest of his life, both he and his wife spending their last days in Urbana. To James M. and Mary Eliza ( Marsh) Poysell three children were born, namely : Leonard Ross Poysell, an electrician, who was accidentally killed at Stanton, Illinois. August 16, 1909: Louella, who died on April 16,00- at the age of nine years, six months and five days, and Laura. who, since the death of her mother on June 11. 1916. has been housekeeper for her father. Mr. Poysell and his daughter are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church and have ever given their earnest attention to the affairs of the church and the general good works of the community. Mr. Poysell is an active member of W. A. Brand Post No. 98, Grand Army of the Republic. at Urbana, in the affairs of which patriotic organization he has for years taken a warm interest. and has filled nearly all the offices in that post at one time and another.
THOMAS J. POLING.
Thomas J. Poling, farmer and carpenter, living in Rush township. Champaign county, was born in Union county, Ohio, March 29. 1868. He is a son of George W. and Sarah Jane ( Hudson ) Poling. The father was born in 1838, in Virginia, and the mother was born in Rush township. Champaign county, of an old family of that township. He was a son of Samuel Poling, a native of Virginia, who moved here in an early day. mar- ried here and established the family home in Rush township. Later in life he made his home with his son, George W., and died there. His family consisted of six children, namely: Emanuel, who established his home in West Virginia; Daniel first lived in Rush township, this county, later moving to the state of Nebraska; George W., father of the subject of this sketch; Minnie married Charles Oliphant and they live in Iowa: John, who lived
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many years in Rush township, this county, died in the village of North Lewisburg; the youngest child, a daughter, died in infancy.
George W. Poling grew up on the home farm and was educated in the rural schools. He was fourteen years old when his parents moved to Rush township. After living in Union county, Ohio, three years he moved back to Rush township, then moved back to Union county and died there in 1889. He devoted his active life to general farming. His widow sur- vived twenty years, dying in 1909. To these parents three sons were born, namely: Charles died when two years old; O. H., born in 1866, died in 19!0, was a carpenter by trade and lived at home; Thomas J. of this sketch.
Thomas J. Poling grew up on the home farm and was educated in the home schools. He continued to live on the home farm until the death of his mother. He learned the carpenter's trade when a young man and has med working at it, becoming a highly skilled workman and his services have been in good demand. He has also followed farming since his boy- hood. He owns a good farm of one hundred and sixteen acres in Rush township.
Mr. Poling was married on November 20, 1910, to Mrs. Bessie M. Beltz, who was born in Union county, Ohio. She was the widow of Howard Beltz, and a daughter of Bert Moore and wife of Logan county, Ohio. Mrs. Poling had no children by her first marriage but adopted a daughter- Ximena, who lives at home and is attending school at Woodstock.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Poling, namely : Clifford. who is at home; and Richard, deceased.
Politically, Mr. Poling is a Republican. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Woodstock, Ohio. He is a member of the Metho- dist Protestant church at North Lewisburg.
GEORGE A. SCEVA.
The late George A. Sceva, a soldier of the Union army during the Civil War and for years a substantial farmer of Union township, who died at his home in that township on January 19, 1914, and whose widow is still living there, was born on that farm and lived there all his life. He was born on August 28, 1839, son of Aaron and Mary Sceva, both of whom were born in New Hampshire. Aaron Sceva came to Ohio in the days of his young manhood and worked as a blacksmith in this county. He married in New
MR. AND MRS. GEORGE A. SCEVA
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Hampshire and later became engaged in farming in Union township, remain- ing there until 1848, when he went to Utah on a prospecting trip and there died, leaving his widow with four children, Mary Jane, George A., Ange- line and Charles. His wife died in Union township.
George A. Sceva was nine years of age when his father left for the West and from the days of his boyhood, as the elder son, he was a valued aid in the labors of improving and developing the home farm. He received his schooling in what then was known as the Sceva school house, in the neighborhood of his home, and continued at home helping in the work of the farm until his mother's death, when he and his brother Charles assumed the management of the place and continued farming together until the latter's death, after which George A. Sceva bought from his sisters their interest in the place and continued farming the same as sole proprietor. He did well in his operations and as he prospered added to his holdings until he became the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and seventy-one acres and was accounted one of the substantial farmers of that section, remaining there until his death, on January 19, 1914. During the Civil War Mr. Sceva served as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regi- ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Urbana, in the affairs of which patri- otic organization he took a warm interest. He was a Republican and for some time served the public very acceptably as trustee of Union township, and was for nineteen years a member of the local school board, during that time doing much to advance the cause of education in his district. For more than thirty years he was a member of the Methodist church at Mutual and for some years served as a member of the board of trustees of the same.
On March 30, 1871. George A. Sceva was united in marriage to Isadore Middleton, who was born in this county, in Wayne township, daughter of Thomas and Susanna ( Hess) Middleton and a member of one of the old families of Champaign county, further and fitting mention of which family is made elsewhere in this volume. Her father was also a native of Wayne township and her mother was a native of Virginia. They were married in Wayne township, but later moved to Union township, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of six children, of whom Mrs. Sceva was the third in order of birth, the others being Amanda (deceased), William, Jacob (deceased), George and Rachel. To George A. Sceva and wife six children were born, of whom but three are now liv- ing, Henry, of Mutual, who married Nora Leavitt and has three children, (18a)
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Paul, Mabel and Martha; William, who married Emma McCoy and has two children, Francis and Elizabeth, at home, and Essie, who is at home with her widowed mother and is employed in a millinery store in Urbana. The Scevas have a pleasant home in Union township and have ever taken an interested part in the general social affairs of the community in which they live. Mrs. Sceva is a member of the Methodist church at Mutual and her daughter, of the Baptist church at Urbana, 'and both take a proper inter- est in the various beneficences of these societies.
GEORGE W. LINCOLN.
In the memorial annals of the Woodstock neighborhood there are few names held in better memory than that of George W. Lincoln, for years one of the most substantial farmers of Rush township, president of the Wood- stock Bank, an extensive breeder of live stock and in other ways actively identified with the interests of that community, and whose widow, Mrs. Marcia M. Lincoln, a member of one of the old families of Champaign county, is still living at her pleasant home in Woodstock.
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