History of Clinton County, Ohio Its People, Industries, and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, Part 128

Author: Albert J. Brown (A.M.)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1108


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ber 2, 1853; James M., August 12, 1855; Harvey W., October 13, 1857, and Emma B., September 1, 1859. Robert Clemons, the father of these children, who was a farmer by occupation, came to Ohio about 1846, and brought his family with him. They were members of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Robert Clemons died on August 15, 1891. The father of Robert Clemons was Robert Clemons, Sr., a farmer by occupation, who removed from Virginia to Missouri in an early day and there spent the remainder of his life.


Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Joiner have no children. Mr. Joiner owns three hundred and twenty-eight acres of land in Wilson township, located three miles from Sabina. In 1004 he built a handsome and commodious house on his farm, and has made many other Improvements on his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Joiner are members of the Methodist church and Presbyterian church, respectively.


HARRY HALL.


Harry Hall, a resident of Midland. Ohio, and a well-to-do farmer of Clinton county, is descended from patriotic stock. Mr. Hall was born in 1886, at Pansy, in Clinton county, n son of James Samuel and Dora Jane (Deck) Hall, the former born on June 25, 1560. at Pansy, and the latter, in 1861, near Jeffersonville, in Fayette county, Ohio.


The paternal grandparents of Harry Hall were James and Priscilla ( Statler) Hall, the former a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, born near Newark, and the latter, born near Pansy. James Hall was a son of Reuben Hall, a native of Muskingum county, n blacksmith by trade and a pioneer of the Panay neighborhood in Clinton county. who lived retired after coming to this county. His son, James, the grandfather of Harry Hall, enlisted in Company I. Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on October 12. 1864, and served with distinction until July 15, 1865. He died on July 20, 198. He was a school teacher and farmer by occupation and lived near Pansy the most of his life, the first five or six years of which he spent in Midland City on a small farm, where his grandson, Harry, now lives. He had two brothers, Jonathan and Joseph, the latter of whom was a soldier in the Mexican War, and the former, a soldier in the Civil War. Priscilla Statler, who became the wife of James Hall, was a daughter of Samuel and Mary ( Harris) Statler, of Virginta, early settlers at Pansy and large landowners, Their son, Isaac, who was a soldier In the Civil War, survived the war, and is still living.


Mr. Hall's maternal grandparents were Edward and Rebecen ( Robison) Deck. natives of Fayette county, Ohio. Edward Deck was a farmer by occupation. He and his wife emigrated to Illinois, where they both died within the same week, leaving Mr. Hall's mother an orphan at the age of six years. Rebecca Robison's parents were natives of Virginia and early settlers of Fayette county. Ohlo. Her mother before her marriage was Nancy Allen. Five brothers of Rebecca Robison served in the Union army during the Civil War.


James Samuel Hall, who received the rudiments of an education in the common schools of Pansy and Midland City, farmed with his father for some time and then entered the hotel business about 1889 in Midland City, at the same time managing a farm of seventy-five acres near Midland, and three hundred acres near Pansy after his father's denth. About 1005 he retired from the botel business, but continued to live in Midland until his death. To him and his wife was born but one son, Harry, the subject of this review.


Harry Hall was educated in the schools of Midland City, and after leaving school was engaged as a telegraph operator, having learned that art at Midland City. He not only worked In Midland City, but also at Chillicothe, Ohio, and at Seymour, Indiana, In the latter two places being employed in the dispatcher's office. After six years at the telegrapher's key, he returned to Midland City, and has since been engaged In general farming.


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On June 30, 1914, Harry Hall was married to Florence Moon, of Midland, the daugh- ter of B. V. Moon. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which they take an active interest, while fraternally, Mr. Hall is a member of the state and national grange. He has served as clerk of the corporation of Midland, and is now a member of the town council of that village.


WILLIAM TURNER RANKIN.


William Turner Rankin, a native of Burtonville and a farmer of Jefferson township. was born In August, 1579, the son of John and Margaret (Stroup) Hunley Rankin, both natives of Obio.


The paternal grandparents were John and Jane Rankin, natives of Ireland, who located in Clinton county enrly in life and who were pioneer farmers near Port William. The maternal grandparents were James and Mary ( Smith) Stroup, both of whom lived and died In Highland county. Ohio, James Stroup was a farmer by occupation.


Mr. Rankin's father, John Rankin, was educated in the public schools of Clinton county, and farmed near Port William and Burtonville. He died in 1895 in Clinton county, and his widow died ten years later in the same county. They had two children. Mrs. John Rankin was the mother of two children by ber previous marriage.


William Turner Rankin was educated In the local schools and engaged in farming upon attaining his majority. In 1909 he purchased fifty-four acres of land in Jefferson township, upon which he now lives. Mr. Rankin is engaged in general farming and has attained a satisfactory measure of success.


On February 10, 1905. Mr. Rankin was married to Nellie MeCullum, a untive of Clinton county, who has borne him one child. Marjorie Helen.


Mr. and Mrs. Rankin attend the Methodist Episcopal church, and they are members of the local organization of the grange.


LEWIS JEFFERSON SPICKARD, M. D.


Dr. Lewis Jefferson Spickard, for years past a well-known physician in Blanchester. Ohla, was born In Hillsboro, In Highland county, Ohio. September 5. 1800, the son of George and Mary Ann (Tedrick) Spickard, both natives of Highland county. The paternal grandfather of Doctor Spickard, Alex Splekard, who married a Deeds, was a native of Highland county and his wife of Greene county. The paternal great-grand- father of Doctor Splekard was Alex Splekard, a native of Ireland, who came to America early in life and served in the War of 1812. After that war, he located in Highland . county, where he beenme a farmer and where he died. His son, Alex Spickard, was also a farmer by occupation and lived and died in Highland county. The maternal grand- father of Doctor Spickard was John Tedrick. n native of Virginia, who married a Barton and settled in Highland county in pioneer times and became a well-known farmer there.


George Splekard received the rudiments of an education in the schools of Highland county and became a farmer, but died at the age of thirty three years. To George and Mary Ann Spickard but two children were born. Robert, who died in Infancy, and Lewis J .. the subject of this sketch.


Lewis Jefferson Spickard received a common-school education in Highland county and, after finishing the common-school course, entered Ohio Medical College at Cincin- nati, from which he was graduated in 1597. Immediately afterward he took up the prac- tice of his profession at Russell Station, Ohlo, but. after being there for four and one- half years, moved to Highland, where he practiced for two and one-half years. In 1901 he moved to Blanchester and, for the past fourteen or fifteen years, has been continuously engaged In the practice of his profession at that place. during which period he has built up a large and flourishing practice and enjoys the confidence of the public, who believe in his professional ability and who admire bin as a man and citizen.


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Iu 1883 Doctor Spickard was married to Frankie Shepherd, who died on March 2, 1890, after having borue him one son, Raymond, who is a dentist at Hyde Park, Clucin- mati. In 1:97 Doctor Spickard married, secondly, Ethel Bazell, of Lawrence county, Ohio.


Doctor and Mrs. Spickard are members of the Christian and Methodist Episcopal churches, respectively. Fraternally, Doctor Spickard is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Clinton County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Association and is prominent in the affairs of both organizations.


FRANK D. SAVILLE.


Frank D. Saville, formerly a successful motorman and conductor of various street. interurban and electric railway lines and now a successful farmer of Jefferson town- ship, was born on the farm where be now lives in Jefferson township. October 24, 1883, the son of Joseph C. and Sarah A. (Oliver) Saville, natives of Virginia and Marion township. Clinton county, Ohio, respectively. The paternal grandfather of Frank D. Snville was Joseph Saville, who died in Virginia. His maternal grandparents. Benjamin J. and Eliza Jane (Clelland) Oliver, after their marriage settled on the farm, where their daughter Sarah, the mother of Frank D. Saville, was born. Benjamin J. Oliver erected excellent buildings which are still standing. He and his wife died on this farm.


Joseph C. Saville was ednented in the schools of Virginia and, after completing his education, came from Virginia to Ohio, settling in Clinton county. He was accompanied by a number of companions and they made the trip from Virginia to Ohio on horseback. He married in Greene county and became a successful farmer there. After the death of his wife. he moved to Clinton county. He began farming in Clinton county on the farm now owned and occupied by Frank D. Saville and owned there ninety-six acres of land, on which he put up excellent buildings. Joseph C. Saville also took a minor part in the Civil War, but was not an enlisted soldier. His horses were commandeered for use in the I'nion army and he went along to care for them. He and his wife were the parents of three children, Ora B. (deceased). Frank D. and Emmett L. who lives on the old farm.


Frank D. Saville was educated in the public schools of ('linton county and, except for two years, has always lived on the old farm. During these two years, he was a conductor and motorman on an electric railway line ju Callfornia and on an Interurban road running out of Cincinnati. Mr. Saville has added ten acres to the old home farm. He is engaged in general farming, but specializes in thoroughbred Poland-China hogy.


On March 20, 1910, Frank D. Saville was married to Mattie Ross, the daughter of Jobu R. Ross, who is referred to elsewhere in this volume. To this union has been born one son, Homer Francis. Mrs. Saville is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and an active worker in the varlous church enterprises.


JOHN FRAZEE.


Among the well known business men of Blanchester, this county, is Jobn Frazee. who was born in that city. June 27. 1848, the son of John and Elizabeth ( Robinson) Frazee, the former a native of Warren county, Ohio, and the latter, of Susquehanna county. Pennsylvania.


The paternal grandparents of Mr. Frazee were Isaac and Elizabeth (Lee) Frazee, both natives of New Jersey. The paternal great-grandparents were John and Elizabeth Frazee, also natives of New Jersey, where they lived all their lives. Isaac Frazee came to Ohio in 1805, settling in Warren county, where he purchased five hundred acres of land from Jonathan Dayton, the original deed for which was signed in 1787. Dayton purchased this land from Scott Sims, who received a patent from the government. Isaac Frazee served in the War of 1812, and moved to Blanchester about 1832 or 1833, where


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be entered into a partnership with W. H. Baldwin, and with whom he conducted a general store until his death.


The maternal grandparents of Mr. Frazee were John and Sarah ( Ryder) Robinson, natives of Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, who, in 1837, moved to Brown county, Ohio. John Robinson was a farmer by occupation, and died in Brown county. His widow later moved to Blanchester, where her death occurred.


Educated In the common schools of Warren county. John Frazee moved to Blanchester with his parents, and during a few years of his early life, was engaged in the mercantile business. He served as justice of the peace until 1857, when his death occurred. He had been active in the councils of the Democratic party, and a member of the blue lodge of the Masonic fraternity. His wife was a widow at the time of his marriage to her. and was the mother of three children by a former marriage, namely : Melissa, who became the wife of Francis Hartman; Martha Williams, unmarried, and Ambrose N. Williams, formerly judge of the probate court of Clinton county. By his marriage to Mrs. Williams John Frazee's father had two children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the elder. the other child having been Sarah Elida, who died at the age of twelve years


John Frazee was educated in the schools of Blanchester, and learned the trade of a house painter, which occupation he followed for twenty years. Subsequently he became associated with Alex Crosson in the retail lumber business in 1880, and is still engaged In this business.


In 1880 John Frazee was married to Mra Martha J. (Sircoulomb) Williams, of Westboro, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Frazee are members of the I'niversalist church, in whose welfare they are deeply interested, while fraternally, Mr. Frazee is a member of the blue lodge of the Masonic fraternity. Politically, he is an old-line Republican, and served four terms as mayor of Blanchester. as well as several terms as a member of the town council. He is a highly respected citizen of the town and county, where he has lived all his life.


MOSES G. MADDEN.


Two of the best-known citizens of Wilson township and, in fact, of Clinton county. are Moses G. and Solomon Madden, brothers, who, with their sister, Rachel, occupy the old Madden homestead of one hundred acres in Wilson township and which was pur- chased in 1850.


Moses G. Madden was born in Wilson township, this county, on October 10. 1837. He and his brother, Solomon, are the sons of Solomon, Sr., and Ruth Madden, who were among the early settlers of Clinton county. Solomon Madden. Sr., was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, September 20, 1793. and immigrated to Clinton county in 1811 with his parents. George Madden. the father of Solomon, was born in 1759 in Penn- sylvania, near Philadelphia, the son of Barnabas Madden, a native of England, who immigrated to the American colonies before Revolutionary days. Solomon Madden, Sr., married Ruth Robbins, of Wayne county, Indiana, March 11. 1819, and they settled in Adams township. this county. where they lived for seventeen years, at the end of which time they moved to what is now Wilson township, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on October 6. 1849. His widow lived to be more than eighty years old. She was the daughter of Moses Robbins and was born in Randolph county. North Carolina, August 8, 1802. and settled with her parents in Wayne county, Indiana, in 1817. Moses Robbins was born in North Carolina in 1770 and was the son of John Robbins. born in 1734. The latter was a Baptist minister and a chaplain In the American army during the Revolutionary War. He died in 1834, having reached his one hundredth year. George Madden, the father of Solomon Madden, Sr., was twice married. His first wife


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was a Mrs. Reynolds and to this marriage there were born two children, one of whom was Francia, He married, secondly, Elizabeth Curter.


George Madden was a soldier in the American Revolution. During the war Eliza- beth Carter and her father carried him from the battlefield after he had been wounded. Later he and Elizabeth were married, very much to the chagrin of the latter's father, he having opposed the marriage because he did not believe in war and did not want his daughter to marry a soldier.


To Solomon, Sr., and Ruth ( Robbins) Madden were born ten children, Elizabeth, Cyrus, Alice, Jobn, Mary Ann, Solomon, Jr., Henry, Moses G., William H. and Rachel. Of these children, Solomon, Jr., born on March 11, 1832, Moses G. and Rachel are the ones referred to in this sketch, and they are the only living members of the family. William H., Moses G. and Solomon, Jr., were soldiers in the Civil War. William H., who enlisted in the Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. under Colonel Moody, was taken with typhoid fever soon after enlisting and returned home and died. After his death, Moses G. and Solomon enlisted, simultaneously, on May 2, 1864, in the Que Hundred and Forty-uinth Regiment, Oblo National Guards, and became a part of the Army of the Cumberland, under Gen. Lew Wallace. Moses G. and Solomon, however, were separated. The latter was taken prisoner at Perryville, Virginia, but escaped in about one hour and rejoined hla regiment. Moses G. was engaged in the battle of Monocacy and in several minor skirmishes. He received an honorable discharge on August 30, 1884, at Camp Dennison, his brother, Solomon, receiving his discharge in the same month.


Moses G., Solomon and Rachel Madden are all devout members of the Friends church and none of them has ever married. They all live together on the old home farm in Wilson township. Moses G. Madden was elected trustee of Wilson township in 1870 and held the office for many years. Both he and his brother vote the Republican ticket and have been more or less active in the councils of the party for many years.


EPHRAIM KIRBY MILLER.


Ephraim Kibby Miller is a successful farmer of Jefferson township, where he owns a farm of seventy-eight acres. He was born near Cuba in Washington township. this county. July 20. 1873. the son of C. C. and Electra E. ( Kibby) Miller, natives of New Vienna and Clarksville. this county, respectively, the former of whom was born near New Vienna on March 26, 1837.


Mr. Miller's paternal grandparents were Isaac and Margaret ( Hildebraut) Miller, the former born on July 30. 1812, near Farmers Station and the latter. November 26, 1820, In Hunterdon county. New Jersey. His paternal great-grandfather was Isaac Miller. who was born on February 5, 1777, the son of Peter Miller, a native of Wales, born about 1740, who came to Amerien and settled near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he married Catherine Rhodes, a native of America but of Dutch descent. They were mem- bers of the Lutheran church. Peter Miller was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, but never returned from that war. Isaac Miller, Sr., was the first of the family to come to Clinton county. He came at the age of twenty years with a party of surveyors to the present site of Farmers Station. It was his work to keep the company in fresh meat. He was a splendid shot and had no difficulty in providing abundant game. From Clinton county, be accompanied the party to Kentucky and thence to Tennessee with John MeKibben, the owner of the estate in Clinton county which they had come to survey. In 1801 be returned to the vicinity of Farmers Station. Isunc Miller, Jr., was a farmer during his entire life in the vicinity of Farmers Station.


The maternal grandparents of Ephraim Klbby Miller were Ephraim and Margaret Nancy ( Vandervort) Kibby, early settlers on the present site of Clarksville. Ephraim Kibby was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1795 and was a farmer by occupation.


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He died on August 14. 1876. Ephraim Kihby's father was an early settler in what is now Hamilton county. Later he moved to what is now the neighborhood of Hopkinsville. Warren county, and settled on land owned by Capt. Alexander Hamilton, opposite the great bend in the Miami river. His history Is referred to elsewhere, in the biographical sketch of J. C. Miller, presented elsewhere in this volume.


C. C. Miller, the father of Ephraim Kibby Miller, spent all of his life in Clinton county. He was a farmer by occupation, but had taught school during his young man- hood. He owned n farm in Washington township, but spent the last thirty years of his life In Jefferson township. He was a soldier in the Civil War and, after the war. belonged to General Sherman Post No. 300, Grand Army of the Republic. C. C. and Electra Miller were the parents of ten children. E. T .. L. N., P. V., Malcolm. Cora. Nina. Grace, Ephraim K., Bertha and I. C.


Ephraim Kibby Miller was educated in the public schools of Jefferson township and bas always been a farmer. He owns seventy-eight acres in Jefferson township and is n general farmer and stockman.


On February 27, 1902, Ephraim K. Miller was married to Lillian Pursel, of Adams county, the daughter of Frank Pursel, and to this union has been born one daughter. Marjorie E., born on December 26, 1902.


WILLIAM GARNER.


There are few families living in Clinton county today which have become more numerous than that of the Garners. William Garner, a well-known farmer of Clark township and for twelve years a trustee of Wilmington college, was born just a short distance from Martinsville in Clark township. November 12, 1850, the son of James Garner, who married Grace Moon, born in this county in 1523, a daughter of Joseph Moon.


In 1915 the Garner family held its twenty-fourth annual reunion in Clinton county. The earliest known ancestor of this family was John Fusha Garner, a native of Tennessee or North Carolina, who bad a son, James Garner, who was married about 1793 to Mars Moon. and who subsequently located in Clinton county. Mary Moon was the daughter of Joseph Moon, but not the Joseph Moon heretofore referred to. To James and Mary ( Moon) Garner were horn fifteen children, William, John, Joseph, Riley. Ira, James, Rebecca. Elizabeth, James, Jr .. Jane. Polly, Nancy, Matilda. Sarah and Elizabeth. Of these children, William, who was born on April 20. 1794, married Ann Hockett, a native of Clinton county, born on August 1, 1797. They had thirteen children: John. born In 1818; Elizabeth Andrew, 1819: James, 1820; Ruth Andrew. 1822; Jesse and Mary, 1823 and 1825 respectively, who died in childhood: Rebecca Pyle, 1827: Susann Greene, 1829; Jeptha, 1831, who was a physician in Tennessee; Nancy, 1833, who died In childhood ; Riley, 1835: Rachel Moore, 1836; Martha Coppock. 1538. John. the second child born to James and Mary ( Moon) Garner, married and had six children, Mary. Amos, Irena, Polly. James and Elizabeth. Joseph, the third born, married and had seven children. Silas, James, Mary, Martha, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Nancy. Riley. the fourth born, married and had nine children. Sallie. Joshua. Rebecca, Louisa, Olive. Mary Ellen. Will- Inm. Susan and Emiline. Ira, the fifth born. married and had ten children. Martha A .. Joseph. Milton. Richard. Pleasant. Isabel. Rebecca. James, Axn and Mary Matilda, James, the sixth horn, married and had eight children, Rachel, Ellen, John, Elbridge, Jefferson, George, Romeo and Bessle. Rebecca, the seventh horn, married and had seven children. Joseph, Riley. John, Sallie, Mary. Ann and James, Rebecca's family lived In Utah. Elizabeth and James, the eighth and ninth born, died in infancy. June. the tenth born. married and had seven children. Lydia, William, Asa. Reuben, Mary Jane, Jabez and James. Polly. the eleventh born, although married had no children of her own. She. however, adopted ten children. Nancy, the twelfth born. married and had eight children, Elizabeth, Zimrine, Asn, Mary. Ann, James, John and Pleasant. Matilda, the thirteenth


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born, married and had five children. Eliza, Jefferson. James, Mary and Martha. Sarah, the fourteenth born. married and had six children. Slas, William, James, Leander, Albert and Mary Ann. Elizabeth, the fifteenth child, married and had four children, Mary, Rachel, Edom and Matilda Ann.


William Garner, the subject of this sketch and the fourth born in a family of eleven children, was educated in the public schools of Clinton county and became a farmer. First. he rented land. but. in 1898, purchased forty-eight acres of land in Jefferson town- ship, where he now lives. In 1910, Mr. Garner erected a comfortable house, and has been engaged in general farming for some time.


On January 1. 1874, William Garner was married to louisa Hammer, who was born at Westboro, this county. on July 19, 1854. a daughter of John and Drusella ( Lane) Hammer, and to this union five children have been born, Hattie, Frank. Etbel, Cecil E. and Velma, all of whom have taught school.


So far as the records are available, the Garner family have all been members of the Friends church. Mr. Garner served for twenty-five years as a member of the school board in this county and for eleven years in the same catmeity in Brown county. Ohio. and was a member of the board of trustees of Wilmington College for fourteen years.


PHILIP A. STEWART.


Philip A. Stewart is a well-to-do farmer of Jefferson township. Clinton county, where he owns and farma ninety acres of land. He was born on the farm where he now lives on August 5. 1874, the son of Minor D. and Amanda J. ( Mossman) Stewart.




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