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 136

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

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William N. Reynolds, who was reared on the home farm and was educated in the public schools of Martinsville and Wilmington, has been engaged in farming all his life. Until 1907 he rented land, sharing the profits. In 1907 he bought a farm of one hundred and fifty acres in Green township. On September 7, 1854. William N. Reynolds was married to Cynthia Jane Brown, who was born in I'nion township, this county .. December 18, 1865, daughter of Jobn 8. and Charlotte ( Routh) Brown, the former of whom was born in Kentucky in 1817 and the latter in Clinton county, in 1825. The paternal grandparents were Elisha and Polly (Alexander) Brown, who settled in Green township, this county, in 1829, but who, after reaching advanced years, removed to Indiana, their last days being spent in Huntington county, in that state. Mrs. Reynolds' maternal grandparents were John and Jennie ( Moon) Routh, both natives of Tennessee, who were married in that state. After their marriage, they came to Ohio, settling in Clinton county, some time before 1825, locating on a farm in Clark township. They died near Martinsville. Mrs. Reynolds' father owned one hundred and sixty acres of land in Union township. He died in 1900, and his widow died in 1910. They were the parents of five children, Francis Marion (deceased), Daniel R., Polly. Jexsle and Cynthia Jane.

To Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds eight children have been born, as follow : Anna Bell, who married Charles A. Ward and has two children, Marjorie and Donald R .: Cora Bessie, who married Ray Murphy and has three children, Fred, Maxine and Glen R .; Oscar B., deceased ; Orville N., who married Rose Slacker of Union township, and bas one child, Herbert ; Charlotte, John P., Georgia Opal and David H. are at home, Mr.

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and Mrs. Reynolds are members of the Christian church at New Antioch and their children have been reared in that faith. Mr. Reynolds votes the Republican ticket and takes a warm personal interest in good government. He is a substantial farmer and a good citizen who is held in high regard by all who know him.

JAMES H. TERRELL.

The late James II. Terrell was one of the most widely known farmers in the whole history of Clinton county. Born on March 29, 1846, he was the son of Israel A. and Sidney (Huff) Terrell, the former of whom, born in Highland county, Ohio, in 1818, died in 1906, and the latter, born in 1827, died in 1902. The late James H. Terrell died in this county, April 9, 1900. His father moved to Clinton county in 1848 and settled in Wayne township, on a farm. The country was a wilderness at the time and roads were not even laid out. He fenced his garden and his yard with cordwood and. during his life, cleared and drained a great deal of land, at one time being the owner of about eleven hundred acres, nearly half of which he had cleared himself. That times have changed and the standard of living and wages have also changed is very clearly proved by the fact that the carpenter who built Israel Terrell's house worked for thirty-seven and one-half cents a day, and the hewer worked for twenty-five cents. At the time of his death, Israel A. Terrell was the vice-president of the New Vienna Bank and a stock- holder in the bank at Leesburg. He was one of the most energetic men of the com- munity and it was an admitted fact that he could cradle more wheat than any other man in his neighborhood. He was the very soul of honor and believed strongly in edu- cation. In fact, he was one of a hundred men who helped to endow Wilmington Col- lege. Israel A. and Sidney Terrell were the parents of six children, James H., the sub- ject of this sketch, Allen I., Sarah, William, Charles and Annie.

Of the remote Terrell ancestry, it may be said that William Terrell, who was born In 1650, came to America in 1670 at the age of twenty years with two brothers, who were sent to this country by the English King as explorers and hunters and who, for their services, received large tracts of land in Virginia. William Terrell had a son, Davil, who was born in 1675. and who died in 1757. He and his wife reared a family of twelve children, one of whom was David, who was born in 1698. David. Jr., married three times, the first time, Sarah Johnson, the second, Sarah Clark and the third, Martha Johnson and was the father of nine children. The great-grandfather of James H. Ter- rell was another David Terrell, who was born in Lynchburg. Virginia, in 1703, and who died In 1858. He married Mary Anthony, who also died in 1858. They had come to Ohio in 1806 and located near Highland, in Highland county, where they reared eight children : Pleasant. Christopher, David, Joseph, Mary, Judith, Sarah and Elizabeth. The father of these children was a justice of the peace in Fairfield township for about quarter of a century. He was a great hunter and loved to spend his time in the wilderness.

Pleasant Terrell was born in Bedford county, Virginia, in 1791, and died In 1837. He married Esther Haines, who died in 1846. They were the parents of six children. David. John. Israel, Mary, Narcissa and Ruth. They came to Highland county, Ohio, from Virginia, stopping awhile in Cincinnati, where Pleasant Terrell learned the brick- mason's trade.

The Inte James H. Terrell was educated In the common schools of Wayne township and later attended Earlham College at Richmond. Indiana. Before he became of age, he served as deputy treasurer of Clinton county for three years and then moved to a farm in Green township, where he farmed until 1885. He then moved to a farm in Wayne township, where he Hved the remainder of his life. He became an extensive breeder of Shorthorn cattle and was a leader In the development of pure-bred live stock in the county.

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On December 13, 1871, James H. Terrell was married to Edith H. Nordyke, who was born on January 8. 1846, in Green township, daughter of Henry and Phoebe (Rich) Nordyke, and one of four children born to her parents, the others being Thomas, Aaron and Caroline. Henry Nordyke was a well-known farmer in Green township, this county. To this union were born six children : Tasso, who married Millie Terrell and has two children, Lois A. and Paul J .; Edith Eva, who married J. W. Woody and has two chil- dren, Mary and H. Clayton ; Bertha B., who is at home; Mary Anna, who is the wife of A. J. Hollowell and has two children, Edith E. and Esther; J. Gurney and C. Clayton, both young farmers of Wayne township, who are also at home. All of the Terrell chil- dren have attended Wilmington College and four are graduates of that Institution. Tasso and C. Clayton Terrell are also graduates of Haverford, both having won a scholarship while attending Wilmington College. C. Clayton Terrell also attended the Ohio State Agricultural College for one year. Edith Eva Terrell, after her graduation from Wilmington College, completed a course as a trained nurse at Cincinnati and from 1902 until 1900 was a missionary to Cuba.

The late James H. Terrell was a man greatly honored by his fellow citizens, having been elected to the state Legislature In 1883, and re-elected in 1885 without opposition. This is unusual, from the fact that he was the first representative from this district, for many years. to serve two consecutive terms. He secured the passage of numerous bills pertaining to agriculture, among these being one directed to eradicate diseases among live stock and which led to the adoption of the present law on that subject. He was also a member of the state fair board and secured the passage of a bill by which the fair grounds were purchased for fifty thousand dollars. During his legislative career. he served as chairman of the finance committee of the House. He was especially inter- ested in the state experiment station and obtained large appropriations from the govern- ment for that work.

Mr. Terrell was a member of the Society of Friends. His energy was continually expended in developing the social and religious conditions of his community. He was brond-minded and public-spirited and was endowed with superior abilities that made him a leader among the citizens of the county. He was a frequent contributor to the press along both religious and secular lines. His popularity was due to his unselfish devotion to the causes that have made Clinton county famous.

AARON E. DOUGHEMAN.

Aaron E. Doughfman, the well-known superintendent of the Blanchester Light Com- pany sluce January 19, 1906. was born on September 6. 1876. in Clermont county, Ohio. the son of William and Margaret Doughfman, the former of whom was a farmer in Clermont county, who, in 1884, came to Clinton conuty and located at Cuba, later removing to Blanchester, where his death occurred. Six children were born to William and Margaret Doughfman, of whom Aaron F. was the youngest. the others being Charles, Ada, Henry. John and William.

Aaron E. Doughfman received his elementary education in the public schools of Blanchester, and later took a correspondence course in electrical engineering, being n student of the course given by the International Correspondence School at Scranton, Pennsylvania. Mr. Doughfman's Arst position was as a fireman on the Baltimore & Ohio railway, a position which he held for eighteen months After that be was sta- tionary engineer for the Blanchester home factory for about three years, and then night engineer at the Jamestown, Ohio, lighting plant, after which he held the position as head engineer at the Xenia, Ohio, light plant. He then started a plant at New Vienna. Ohio, where he worked eight months. after which he became head engineer at the Wilmington light plant, and during his service of three and one-half years at Wil-

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mington, assisted in the construction of a new plant. In January, 1906, Mr. Doughfman took charge of the light plant at Blanchester, where he has since been located.

In 1001, Aaron E. Doughfman was married to Ida Lever, of Blanchester, and to this union one daughter has been born, Hannab.

Fraternally, Aaron E. Doughfman is a member of the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Knights of Pythias, and the National Association of Stationary Engineers. Mrs. Doughfman is a member of the Baptist church.

ELIJAH Q. BERNARD.

Elijah Q. Bernard, a prosperous farmer of Green township, this county, was born In the township where he lives on December 30, 1874, son of Charles B. and Josle (Credon) Bernard, the latter of whom, a native of Wayne township, this county, is now deceased. Charles B. Bernard, after the death of his first wife, married Lummle Cox of Highland county, Ohio, by whom he has had five children: Bessle, who mar- ried Edward Larlek ; Jessie, deceased ; James : Frank and Sallie. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Larick had one child, Bessie, now deceased. Elijah Q. Bernard is the only child born to his father's first marriage.

Mr. Bernard was reared on the farm and was educated in the public schools of Green township. He is a farmer by occupation, and owns one hundred and thirty acres of land, where general farming and stockraising are carried on. This land is a part of the old homestend, where his grandfather, George Washington Bernard, settled upon coming to Clinton county and where his father was born. Elijah Q. Bernard Is an up-to-date farmer in every respect, and is keenly interested in ralsing Percheron horses, at the present time owning one of the finest stallions in Clinton county.

The complete history of the Bernard family may be found in the biographical sketch of James K. Bernard presented elsewhere in this volume. Charles B. Bernard, father of Elijah Q., was born on January 17, 1846, In Clinton county, son of George Washington Bernard, one of the county's most active pioneers.

On November 6, 1895, Elijah O. Bernard was married to Jessie Hunter, of Wayne township. this county, and to this union four children have been born, all of whom are living. as follow : Claude, Evelyn, Herbert, and Helen.

Politically, Elijah Q. Bernard, is a Democrat. He is an active, enterprising citizen and he and his family are held in high regard In the neighborhood in which they live.

JOHN C. BORING.

John C. Boring, the proprietor of seventy-three and one-half acres of land in Green township, this county, where he has lived continuously for the past twenty-two years, was born in that township on May 16, 1542. the son of Lafayette and Elsie (Collet) Bor- ing. Lafayette Boring was born In Harrison county. Virginia, October 2, 1811, and his wife was born near Louisville, Kentucky. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Boring were Thomas and Ruth Boring, pioneers of Clinton county, the former of whom died In 1864. The maternal grandparents were John Collet and wife, both of whom died the state of Kentucky.

Lafayette Boring was a young man when he came to Clinton county, Ohio. He was a farmer in this county and owned one hundred and twenty-two acres of land. He died in Green township, February 11, 1883. His wife had passed away many years previously, when their son. John C., was a small child. They were the parents of five children. of whom two. Elizabeth, the first-horn, and Mary, the fourth in order of birth, are derensed. The living children are Ruth. John C. and Absalom.

Jobn C. Boring, who was reared on a farm in Green township, and educated in

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the public schools, is a well-known citizen of that township. He was married on Octo- ber 2, 1864, to Almira E. Mckenzie, who was born in Union township, this county, the daughter of William and Lucinda ( Morton) Mckenzie, both natives of Clinton county, Ohio. William Mckenzie was a son of John McKenzie, a pioneer of this county and a prominent citizen in the early life of this section of the state. William and Lucinda ( Morton) Mckenzie are both deceased. To John C. Boring and wife five children were born, Nettie Jane, Mary Etta, Geneva Louisa, Minnie and Cordelia, all of whom are liviug. The mother of these children died on March 6. 1911.

The venerable John C. Boring was a soldier in the Civil War, having enlisted on May 2, 1864, in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-nluth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served one hundred days, and took part In the battle of Frederick City. Politically, he is an adberent of the principles of the Republican party.

Mrs. Boring was an active member and worker in the Christian church at New Antioch, where ber loss was most keenly felt. She was a loving mother and devoted wife.

WILLIAM D. JARRELL.

Nothing is sweeter in all the world than the love of a dutiful and worthy son for an aged mother. No one ever adequately may tell the story of a mother's sacrifices or the anxious hours and days through which she passes while her children are being renred to manhood and womanhood. Sons and daughters cannot fully repay the debt of gratitude they owe their mother. It is her unselfish spirit which comforts them in sorrow, inspires them when they are downeast, and ministers to them when they are sick and affleted. It was altogether praiseworthy for the country, by common consent, to set apart one day in each year called "Mothers' Day," when the thoughts of the people may turn to the unselfish life of the mothers. William D. Jarrell, a modest and unassuming man and resident of Wayne township, this county, has bad an opportunity to do more for his mother during her declining years than falls to the lot of most men, and it is a credit to him and a credit to the community in which he lives that his love for this dear old mother is the kind which finds an expression in the unselfish devo- tion with which he is making comfortable this evening the of her life.

Mr. Jarrell was born on October 29, 1866. In Richland township, this county, and his father, Benjamin Jarrell, who was born in 1816, in Orange county, Virginia, died in 1900. Since that time his mother, who, before her marriage to Benjamin Jarrell, was Sarah E. Massie has lived with her son, William D. She was born in Adams county, Ohio. September 27, 1838, and is now near the age of eighty years. She is a daughter of William and Cynthia Massie, the former of whom was a farmer of Highland county, Ohio, a member of the Methodist church, and an active church worker all bis life. She was one of thirteen children born to her parents, the others being Philena, Nancy, Henry Benjamin, Simon, Spencer, Elvira, Mary M., Alfred, Ellis, Himan T., Amanda and Sanford. Of these children. Himan T. died while young. The great-grandparents on Mr. Jarrell's maternal side were Benjamin and Nancy ( Lovejoy) Massie, the former of whom was a native of Richmond, Virginia, and who, when a young man. surveyed this section of Ohio. Later in life be taught school.

Mr. Jarrell's paternal grandparents were William and Mildred (Campbell) Jarrell, the former a farmer of Orange county. Virginia, who came to Ohlo In 1854. locating in Wayne township. this county, where he followed farming the remainder of his life. William and Mildred (Campbell) Jarrell were the parents of five children, William, James, Benjamin, Permelia and Mary.

The late Benjamin Jarrell was educated in the common schools of Orange county, Virginia, and when a young man engaged in the milling business, which occupation he followed all his life. He first owned a mill in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, and

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then removed to Richmond, that state, where he operated a mill for fourteen years. In 1854 he came to Ohio and settled in Highland county, where he operated a mill for two years. Two years later he removed to Centerville, where be built a mill, but Inter he sold that mill and removed to Leesville, where he built and for many years operated a mill at Lees Creek, Richland township, this county, which his son, William D., now operates. Benjamin Jarrell and wife were the parents of five children, of whom James and Thomas died early in life. William D., the first born and the subject of this sketch, has never married. Fanule married George Snow, and Sopbronia is the wife of Isaac Summers Benjamin Jarrell was a Democrat and an earnest member of the Christian church.

William D. Jarrell was educated in the common schools of Wayne township. When u Ind of fourteen he began his apprenticeship in the mill owned by his father, and has been in the milling business since that time, a period of thirty-five years. Upon the death of his father he took absolute charge of the mill, and has built a part of it. He has both a grist- and saw-mill. and does custom milling of all kinds. He also buys wheat, corn and oats, and sells four and feed. He also does a custom-sawing business, and has a large patronage.

Mr. Jarrell is Democratie and fraternally is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a splendid man, not only in the home relationships of life, but in his business relations as well.

JOSEPH W. WILLIAMS.

Joseph W. Williams is one of those successful farmers of Green township who has had much to do with the agricultural development of Clinton county. He was born in Highland county, this state. May 23, 1865. son of Daniel and Mary ( Hatcher) Williams, both natives of Highland county, the former born in 1837, and the Intter ju 1843. Mary Hatcher was the daughter of Peter and Sophia ( Miller) Hatcher, both natives of Vir- ginia, who emigrated to Highland county early in its history. They were fnrmers by occupation and members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Peter Hatcher voted the Democratic ticket. He and his wife both died in Highland county, the former at the age of eighty-five years, and the Intter at the age of seventy-four.

Daniel Williams la the son of Thomas Williams and wife, ploneers In Highland county, Ohio, who owned one thousand acres of land which they had entered from the governnient. Both died in Highland county. Daniel Williams is a farmer and still lives in Highland county, where he owns about six hundred acres of land. Though now living retired, he continues to look after his farm property and is known as rather an extensive cattle raiser, keeping ordinarily from seventy-five to one hundred head during the summer. He is a Democrat in politics and member of the Presbyterian church, as was his wife, who died on January 10, 1015, at the age of seventy-two years. They were the parents of seven children. Mary Almeta, Priscilla White. Joseph W .. Joshua San- ford (deconsed), Olive Bertie, Thomas Elmer and Jennie Florella.

Joseph W. Williams was renred on the farm and was educated in the public schools of Highland county. In 1904 he came to Clinton county, and purchased one hundred and sixty-nine acres of land in Green township, where he has since been engaged in general farming, also being known as an extensive cattle feeder.

On March 5, 1890, Joseph W. Williams was married to Mary Jane Brown, of High- land county, horn at Rainsboro in 1866, granddaughter of John Davis, a native of Cul- peper county. Virginia, and a pioneer in Highland county, who died at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife, Jane ( Miller) Davis, died in Highland county at the age of eighty-seven years. To Joseph W. and Mary Jane ( Brown) Williams have been born two children, Mary Josephine, born on October 24, 1895, and Harry Dann. April 30, 1900.

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Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and, fra- terwally, he is a member of the grange. On another page in this volume will be found a portrait of the Williams family. This was taken from a photograph made in 1910, at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Daniel and Mary (Hatcher) Williams, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of John H. and Priscilla White (Williams) Heistand, and the twentieth anniversary of the marriage of Joseph W. and Mary Jane (Brown) Williams.

CHRISTOPHER C. BERNARD.

Christopher C. Bernard is a well-known farmer of Saldina, this county, whose great-grandfather. Thomas Bernard, was a prominent Virginia planter and wholesale dealer of Richmond, Virginia, and a soldier in the Revolutionary War, who fought at Brandywine. Germantown, Mommouth, Stony Point and other places.

Christopher C. Bernard was born on July 2, 1872, In Green township, this county, son of James K. and Keslah (McVey) Bernard, both natives of Clinton county, the former of whom, born on June 19. 1835, In Green township. died on September 5, 1007. and the latter, born on January 19, 1838, In Wayne township, was the daughter of Christopher and Catherine ( West) MeVey. Mrs. James K. Bernard was one of eight children born to her parents and was the third in order of birth, the others being James, Henrietta, Robert, Edman, Benson, Eliza Jane and Alkana.

The paternal grandparents of Christopher C. Bernard were George W. and Har- riet (McConnell) Bernard, the former of whom was born on September 13. 1799, in Goochland county, Virginia, and the latter, October 12, 1810, in Brown county, Ohio. George W. Bernard emigrated from Virginia to Highland county, this state, in 1807. with his parents and in 1832. located on the farm in Green township, this county, where he spent the remainder of his life. He owned over four hundred acres of land and was engaged in general farming. George W. and Harriet (McConnell) Bernard were the parents of nine children. Thomas F., James K., Mary E., John W., Matilda J., George W .. Charles B., Martha H. and Elijah M. Harriet ( McConnell) Bernard was the daughter of James and Sallie (Downing) McConnell, natives of Pennsylvania, who emigrated to Brown county, Ohlo, Jater, In 1821, coming to Clinton county, George W. Bernard was the son of Thomas and Mary ( Hicks) Bernard.

The father of Thomas Bernard and the great-great-grandfather of Christopher C., the subject of this sketch, was William Bernard, a native of England, who married Mary Flemings. They were early settlers in Virginia and he owned three thousand acres of land. He was a wholesale dealer in Richmond, Virginia, and lost most of his property during the Revolutionary War. His son, Thomas, was a Revolutionary soldier, who fought In various Important battles of that war.

The Jate James K. Bernard was educated in the common schools of Green town- ship and when a young man began farming in that township and farmed there prac- tically all his life, having been the owner of about two thousand acres of choice land in Green and Wayne townships. In 1903 he retired and removed to New Vienna, where he spent the remaining four years of his life, passing away in 1907. His widow,. the mother of Christopher C., still lives in New Vienna. They were the parents of nine children, as follow : John R., who was born on July 23, 1862: George W .. August 14. 1863, Harriett C., August 16, 1864; Charles O., October 30. 1805: Martha. Febru- ary 23, 1867: James E., April 3. 1868; Christopher C., July 2. 1872: Cornetta. Feb- ruary 7, 1876, and Owear, September 13, 1878. The late James K. Bernard was n Democrat.

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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 136

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

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