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SHEARN WILLIAM. Jackson township; Ros- coe postoffice; born in South Wales, in 1826; set- tled in this county in 1851; son of Henry and Hannah (Gulifer) Shearn; married in 1854, to Zillah Stubbs. Mr. Shearn is the father of seven children, viz : Jonah, deceased ; William, deceased; Bettie H., born February 18, 1859: Sarah E., born October 28, 1860; Ester, born August 21. 1863:
Susannah, born October 5, 1865; Joseph B., born October 30, 1867. Elizabeth H. was married in 1877, to Martin H. Carter.
SHEPLER A. J., Coshocton, photographer, west Locust street ; was born in Coshocton coun- ty, August 22, 1842; son of Peter Shepler, of Ger- man and French extraction; was brought up on the farm until the age of seventeen, when he be- gan to learn photography at Millersburg, Ohio. He has traveled extensively, working in most of the principal cities of the West. By special re- quest, in Anthony's Plutographic Bulletin, he do- scribes the process by which he produced pic- tures exhibited at the Chicago exposition in 1874 Also, in the Philadelphia Photographer, Mr. Shep- ler's improved method of working a tank for wash- ing prints, is given. He is very successfulin hisart. Mr. Shepler was married September, 1560, to Miss Nancy, daughter of James and Mary A. Gray, of Holmes county. Their children are named Laura E., Eddie L., James P. and Henry V.
SHIELDS JOHN, Bedford township; black- smith: postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1819, in Harrison county; came to this county in 1844, and was married in 1844, to Miss Jane Harrison, of this county, who was born in 1820, and died in 1860. They were the parents of six children, viz : Thomas H., William J., Margret J., Minerva A., S. P. and Mary E. Ile, in 1867, married Miss Mary Hillary, of this eounty, who was born in 1834, in Lieking county. Mr. Shields,. besides being a blacksmith, also makes hayrakes and wagons.
SCHOTT M. J., foreman in the Empire mills, Roscoe, Ohio; was born November 5, 1848, in Roscoe; son of Nicholas and Caroline (Rosen- berger) Schott. Young Schott began life a poor boy; but by careful economy and industry, he has been quite successful. Mr. Schott was married to Miss Mary, daughter of John and Margaret Clark. They are the parents of one child, viz: Caroline Estella. Mrs. Schott was born October 9, 1850, in Sandusky, Erie county, Ohio. When two years of age she was abducted from her par- ents. by Clarinda Montgomery (maiden name Mathews), an aunt of the child. She was taken first to Utica, New York ; then to Newark, Ohio; thence to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and finally to Roscoe, where she was rescued by the neighbors of the party holding the childl, then about ten years of age. She was taken by Mrs. Smith, one of the kind deliverers, with whom she found a comfort- able and happy home until her marriage, as stated before.
SHAW WILLIAM, proprietor Central Hotel. corner Main and Second streets, Coshocton, Ohio, Mr. Shaw was born March 5, 1834, in Leesburg, Ohio; son of Uriah and Sarah (True) Shaw. Mr.
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S. was brought up on the farm, where he re- mained until he was about twenty-eight years of age, when he began merchandising in Rogers- ville, Ohio, where he remained about twelve years, when he sold out his stock and moved to Avon- dale and took charge of the Avondale House, which he kept three years and established a wide reputation as a good landlord. In the spring of 1881 he took charge of his present house, which in his care has become very popular. Mr. S. was married first August 20, 1857, to Sarah Garver, who died without children, in 1872. He was married the second time February 26, 1874, to Mrs. Martha, daughter of George and Sarah (For- ton) Wilson. Mrs. Shaw was married first, Au- gust 26, 1866, to llugh Leonard. They became the parents of two children, viz: Mary Grace and Josie Bell. Mr. Leonard died July 12, 1872.
SHROYER C. A , Franklin township; born in Franklin township, August 21, 1842; son of .In- drew J. Shrover: enlisted August 22, 1862, in company D, One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry; participated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, etc. At Winchester, while in the Hospital, was captured and imprisoned in Libby, and afterward on Belle Island, but was exchanged about six weeks afterward; married October 24, 1867, to Mary Craig, of Lafayette township, and has two chil- dren, viz : Jennie L. and Rose Estella.
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SHULTZ ALEXANDER, Adams township; farmer ; postoffice, Evansburgh ; born in Jefferson county, September 24, 1841; son of Jacob and Eliza J. (Cook) Shultz, and grandson of Henry Shultzand Jesse Cook. He enlisted January 1, 1862, in Company G, Eightieth O. V. I, under Capt. Marshall, went into camp at camp Meigs, thence to camp Chase at Columbus, Ohio, thence to camp Joe Holt, thence to Paducah, Kentucky, and from there to Hamburg, Tennessee, thence to camp Clear Creek, Mississippi, and from there was sent to Evansville hospital, Indiana, where he remained seven months, and from there came home, having received his discharge on the 8th of February, 1-63, on account of disability. He has devoted most of his time since then to farm- ing; was also proprietor of Shultz House in Chili for eight years. He lived one and a half years in Tuscarawas county. From there he moved to Adams township. this county, where he is at present living, in very prosperous con- dition He was married January 20, 1867, to Miss Catharine E Geese, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Killian) Geese, and granddaughter of Catharine Geese, and John and Elizabeth (Long) Killian. Mrs. Shultz was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1848, and came to Ohio in May of the same year. They
have two children-Edgar G., born June 4, 1868, and Lydia J., born January 3, 1870.
SHULTZ JACOB, farmer; White Eyes town- ship; a native of Belmont county, and was born February, 1819. In 1840 he married Miss Eliza J. Cook, of Jefferson county. They have four children Jiving: Alex., born 1841, is married and lives in Adams township; Elizabeth, born Janu- ary 1848, is married and lives in Davis county, Indiana; Laura B., born August 28, 1863, and Agnes (., born January 21, 1866, are unmarried and live in Chili. Mr. Shultz enlisted in 1861 in Co. C., Seventy-seventh Pennsylvana Regiment. Hle was in the battles of Liberty, Hoovers' Gap, Pittsburg Landing, Chickamauga, and a number of skirmishes. He was in the service over three years. He is now living on a farm of eighty acres south of Chili.
SHRIGLEY GEORGE J., carpenter and con- tractor, of the firm of Shrigley and Hughes, Co- shoeton, Ohio. Mr. Shrigley was born August 4, 1844, in Adamsville, Sulem township, Muskingum county, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Werts) Shrigley. They were natives of London county, Maryland. Young Shrigley was brought up on a farm; in 1869, went to his trade; came to this city in 1868. He enlisted in company E, One Hundred and Sixtieth O. N. G., and served four months. Mr. Shrigley was married, October 11, 1866, to Miss Lyde, daughter of Rev. J. H. and Rebecca (Sample) Rogers. They are the parents of twochildren, viz: Clara Belle and Hamilton H.
SICKER JOHN H., Linton township; farmer; born August 25, 1819, in Albany county, New York; son of John and Charlotte (Kirker) Sick- er; grandson of Lewis and Margaret (Fratt) Sicker, and of Henry and Margaret' (Campbell) Kirker. His grandmother Kirker was from Holland ; his other grandparents, from Germany. llis grandfather Sicker, born in Wittemburg, Germany, crossed the ocean at seventeen years of age, about 1755, as a German soldier in the English service, and served in the Canadian war. By permission of his general he re- mained here, working on a farm in Schenectady county, New York; while there his employer sent him with two slaves to a Mr. Fratt, in Al- bany county. Fratt invited him to remain over Sunday ; he stayed. loved and married his daugh- ter. In 1835 Mr. Sicker moved with his parents to Linton township, and has lived here since. In 1839 he married Jane Rodruck, daughter of Lewis Rodruck. Children living are-Charlotte, Margaret J., Rebecca, John L., Anna, Elmira and Alice.
SIMMONS CALVIN, farmer; Tiverton town- ship; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1831, September 28, in this county. He was
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married in 1859, to Miss Rebecca J., daughter of S. Day, of Coshocton county, who was born May 3, 1840, in Knox county, and died December 4. 1863. They were the parents of two children. viz : Edwin E., born December 22, 1859; William E., born September 29, 1863. He was married December 18, 1866, to Miss Edla HI. Bailey, daughter of John Bailey, of this township, who was born August 27, 1840. They are the parents of two children : Carlos H., born April 10, 1868, and Benjamin B., born December 6, 1869.
SIMMONS ABRAHAM; Farmer and Justice of the Peace; Tiverton township; P. O. Gann, Knox county: born in 1832, in this township. His grandfather, Abraham Simmons was born in 1764, in Massachusetts, and was married in 1791, to Miss Polly Borden, of Massachusetts, who was born in 1778. They came to this county in 1817. He died in 1846. She died in 1855. They were the parents of six children, the oldest child, Ben- jamin, being the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born in 1796, in Massachusetts, and was married September 19th, 1820, to Miss Lovey Giffin, of Knox county, who was born in 1861 in Indian Wheeling. He died December 4, 1874. They were the parents or five children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in November 1854 to Miss Margaret Winslow, of this township, who was born in 1838. They are the parents of five children-John. died August 9th, 1880; Hetty, Benjamin, died September 6th, 1863; Mary L., died May 6th, 1879, and Sarah E. Abraham Simmons' grand- father Robert Gillin, was born in 1776, in Vir- ginia. He was married in 1800 to Miss Hetty Harris, of Virginia. She was born in 1779. They came to St. Clairsville Ohio in 1800, and to this county in 1807 They moved to Knox county in 1812, and moved back to New Castle, this county, in 1847. Ile died in 1847. She died in 1851. They were the parents of twelve children, Lovey, the mother of Abraham Simmons, the subject of this sketch, being the oldest.
SINDEN WILLIAM, Lafayette township; farmer ; was born in Sussex county, Parish Pen- hurst, England, in 1849; came to America and to this county in 1855. He was married in 1874 to Miss Margaret Shirer, of Muskingum county. They have had two children, Harriet, aged three years, and Clare, one year. Mr. Sinden has lived on what is known as the Miller farm for the past eight years, and is honest and industrious. He visited his native country during the war.
SISLEY PERRY, Bedford township; farmer; postotlice, Tunnel Hill; born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1859, with his mother, his father, Jacob, having died in 1827. in Pennsylvania. His mother died in 1865. They were the parents of seven children,
the subject of this sketch being the sixth. He was married in 1870, to Miss Eliza A. Ogle, of this county, who was born in 1853, in this county. They are the parents of four children : Lora J., William K., Silas T., and Charlie N.
SKINNER WILLIAM T., Keene township; farmer; born February 6, 1800, in Hartford, Connecticut ; son of Nathaniel Skinner, a revolu- tionary soldier, born July 28, 1745, and Margaret (Hunt) Skinner, born September 14, 1757. By a previous marriage to Rebecca Bigelow, born Jan- unary 10, 1750, his father had two children- Rhoda and Mary. ITis two grand fathers were John Skinner and Alexander Hunt. He was married May, 1831, to Mary, daughter of Timothy and Polly (Trowbridge) Emerson, born in 1806. Their children are: Julia, born March 22, 1832; Adeline P., October 28, 1836; Timothy, deceased, born in 1843, and Mary E, in the fall of 1854. Mrs. Skinner died in February, 1860.
SMAILES S. H., Virginia township; born June 7, 1839, in Washington township, Coshocton county, Ohio; son of Thomas and Sarah (McCoy) Smailes. Mr. Smailes was brought up on a farm, and was educated in district schools. At the age of twenty-one years he began life for himself. When the rebellion broke out he enlisted in Company I, Ninety-seventh Regiment, O. V. I., and was in the army of the Cumberland, serving from August 13, 1862. Mr. Smailes was engaged in the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Resaca, Dalton and Kingston, and was mustered out of the service July 27, 1865. In the month of March, 1869, he opened a store in Moscow, where he still continues to do business. He mar- ried Miss Elizabeth A. Spayde, January 2, 1869, daughter of John and Margaret Spayde. They were blessed with four children.
SMART J. S., superintendent of paper-mills, Coshocton ; born May 15, 1843, in Queen's coun- ty, Long Island, New York; son of Robert T. Smart, a native of New York City, of English an- cestry. At eighteen years of age, young Smart took charge of his father's paper-mills, at Troy, New York. In 1869 he went to Great Bend, New York, and superintended a paper-mill. In 1873 he built and was part owner of a paper-mill at Bloss- ville, Oneida county, New York, firm name of Holscad, Parry & Smart ; sold his interest in 1875 and moved to Michigan, and superintended a paper-mill until 1878, when he settled on a farm in Nebraska, and remained one year, when he sold a part of the farm at a good profit and came to this city and entered upon his present duties. Married September 29, 1864, to Miss Margaret Martin, daughter of James G. Martin. They have had three children, one of whom, Grace, died in infancy. Frank Everet and Harry are the two living children.
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SMITHI MISS EMILY, Adams township; teacher; postoffice. Avondale; was born in Adams township; daughter of Daniel and Mary (Funk) Smith, and granddaughter of Edward and Han- nah (Morris) Smith, and of Michael and Savina (Slusher) Funk; also great granddaughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Davison) Smith, and of Bazel and Margaret Morris, Peter Funk, and Frederick and Margaret (Huntsiker) Slusher. Her father was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1803, and came to Clark township in 1836. Iler mother was also born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Oc- tober 1, 1803. They were married June 16, 1833. Emily has one brother, Edward, and one sister, Melinda. She is a teacher of common schools, and, as such has always met with success.
SMITH CHRISTIAN, Adams township; tin- ner; postoffice, Bakersville; born near Berne, in Switzerland, May 3, 1844; son of Peter and Mary (Cower) Smith. He came to America with his parents when he was but four years of age, landing in New York after a voyage of eight weeks. From there he went to Stark county, Ohio, where he remained about fourteen years. Ile enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Fourth O V. I., under Captain Sterl, and served three years. After coming home he worked at his trade, which he had learned with his father before the war. He spent several years in Mis- souri, and, in 1872. came to Bakersville, where he established himself in business. lle was mar- ried in May, 1874, to Miss Mary Shannon, daugh- ter of Isaac Shannon, and granddaughter of Will- iam Shannon. They have one child, Peter, born May 3, 1875.
SMITH JOSEPH, Coshocton; barber; born June 7, 1857, in Zanesville ; son of Joseph Smith, born in Germany. When eight years old he came to this city with his father, and attended the pub- lie schools here until he was thirteen years old, when he went into the Coshocton iron and steel factory to work, and continued there until June, 1876, when he began his trade, and finished it in two years, since which time he has been em- ployed in the same shop, on a salary.
SMITH M. S., grocer and confectioner, corner Second and Chestnut streets, Coshocton; Smith, business manager and salesman. This firm was established July 1, 1879, and occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in J. Gundishei- mer's building, twenty-two by forty feet, where they carry a good stock of staple and fancy fam- ily groceries, confectioneries, stoneware, wooden- ware, sugar-cured and pickled meats, river and Dover salt, flour, salt fish, oysters in season, tobac- eos and cigars; also, pays cash for all kinds of country produce.
SMITH GEORGE, Coshocton ; blacksmith; born November 8, 1851, in Lafayette township; son of John Smith, born in Pennsylvania, of English ancestry. Young Smith was raised on the farm. At the age of twenty he went into his father's shop to learn his trade. In I868, he, with his father, moved to Illinois, but only remained eight months, when all came back to the old home- stead in Lafayette. On returning, George worked at Jacobsport, from which place he came to this city and established a shop on Second street, where he is doing a fair business in smithing and shoeing. Mr. Smith was married in April, 1878, to Miss Mary Duffey, of Lafayette. The result of this marriage is a son, named Charley.
SMITH WILLIAM, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; son of George Smith, de- ceased; was born in England, in 1834. His father was born in England in 1810, and came to this country in 1844, and died in 1873. His mother was born in 1806, and died in 1880. He was married to Miss Ann Taylor, of this county, daughter of Joseph Taylor, in 1859. The chil- dren are as follows: John Wesley, born in 1860; George Clifford, born in 1862; Joseph Sherman, born in 1864; William, born in 1867; Emma, born in 1868; Sarah Catherine, born in 1870; Franklin, born in 1872; Burt, born in 1875, and Richard, born in 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are both members of the M. E. church, and are re- spected citizens of this township. He was super- visor one year in this township; owns some 336 acres of land, in a high state of cultivation, etc.
SMITH THOMAS F., Oxford township; farm- er ; postoffice, Newcomerstown ; was born in Eng- land, and was married in 1857, to Miss Everall, daughter of John Everall, of this township, who came from England in 1830 Their children are as follows : Lawrence Wellington, Laura V .; Mary 1., deceased; Harriet E., John T., M. E. A., George W. W. and Lotta. He has been trustee for two years in this township, and school direet- or. He owns a farm of 230 acres in this county, and is a representative citizen. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren church.
SMITH MRS. ISABELLA E., Keene town- ship; widow of James F. Smith ; born in Rhode Island, September 25, 1811; son of William C. and Hannah (Richmond) Smith. She was born March 5, 1816, near Adams, New York. The daughter of Samuel and Lucinda Crowell, and granddaughter of Solomon Crowell, and Phineas and Sybil Leonard. When a year old she moved to Sackett's Harbor and there lived till about twenty-two years of age, when she came to New Hlaven, Holmes county, Ohio, where she married Mr. Smith, a dry goods merchant of this place, November 14, 1838. In 1842 they moved to St.
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Louis, where Mr. Smith died of throat disease, .April 3, 1863. In 1868 she returned to this county. Their children were: Alice Gertrude, born October 1, 1840, and married January 24, 1860, to Francis C. Sprague, and resides in St. / Louis; Charles F., born October 20, 1842; Frances R., born August 12, 1848; Carrie B., born July 8, 1855, and married to H. Bell, of St. Louis; and William C., born July 24, 1852. Mrs. Smith has one grandchild, Lulu B. Sprague, born Septem- ber 10, 1866.
SMITH JOSEPH, Jackson township; post- ยท office, Tyrone; born in Fayette county, Pen- sylvania, in 1803; son of James and Mary Smith, and grandson of Thomas and Mary Smith ; mar- ried, in 1827, to Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of James and Martha Hastings; settled in Jackson township in 1834. Mr. Smith is an old and much respected citizen of Jackson township, and is widely known as " Uncle Jo Smith." He is the father of twelve children, seven of whom are dead and five living. He had one son, George W., who gave up his life for his country. He was a member of Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I.
SMITH MRS. NANCY, Bedford township; postoffice, New Bedford; born in 1802, in Jeffer- son county, Ohio; was married, in 1822, to Mr. William Smith, of the same county. He was born in 1801, in Virginia; came to this county in 1834, and died in 1864. They were the pa- rents of eight children, viz : Mary A .; Ruth, de- ceased; Matilda, James L .; Richard M., deceased; Nathaniel, deceased; Susan, deceased; and Al- fred L. Richard and Nathaniel were in the Fifty-first O. V. I. Immediately upen the death of Mr. Smith, she purchased the property where she now lives.
SMITH THOMAS, Bedford county, farmer ; P. O. Warsaw ; born in 1846 in this county. His father, George W. Smith, was born in 1810, in Virginia, and was married in 1838 to Miss Lu- cinda Bricker, of this county, who was born in 1814 in Pennsylvania He died in 1850. They were the parents of six children, Thomas being the fifth. He was married in 1868 to Miss Eliza- beth J. Carrell, of this county, who was born in 1848. They are the parents of six children, viz: David C., infant, deceased ; Perry F., Charley G .; John N., deceased, and Nelly. Mr. Smith en- listed in February, 1864, in Company F, Fifty- first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Col. Wood com- manding. He was mustered out in November, 1865.
SMITH HENRY M., Bethlehem township, farmer; was born May 20, 1838, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He was married January 10, 1861, to Miss Isabella Golden, of Washington
county. They had one child, J. Alva, born in 1862. Mr. Smith's wife died April 10. 1864. Mr. Smith enlisted as a private in the Eighty-first O. V. I., of Washington county, and served eighteen months. He came to Coshocton county in 1862. He was married October 22, 1866 to Miss Martha J. Milligan, of Coshocton county, who was born December 4, 1842. They are the parents of seven children, viz : Jesse P., Sarah E., Celia J., Mary L., James H., John H. and an infant. Mr. Smith has always followed the occupation of a farmer, and has accumulated some property.
SMITH T. J., M. D., Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Canal Lewisville; was born November 30, 1846, in Washington township; son of James M. Smith, a native of Ohio. James M. Smith was raised on the farm until about 17 years of age, when he began teaching school, and taught two terms, and in the meantime attended school until he was nineteen years old, when he began the reading of medicine with Dr. Edwards, of West Carlisle, and attended lectures at the Cincinnati college of medicine and surgery, and was gradu- ated February 16, 1879, with the title of M. D. Dr. Smith first practiced his profession at Plain- field, where he remained five years, then located in Coshocton and practiced there a short time, and then went to his present location, where he has an extensive practice. Dr. Smith was mar- ried April 14, 1870, to Miss Olivia Ingraham, daughter of Dr. Ingraham, of Coshocton. This union has been blessed with one child, Stella J. In connection with his general practice, Dr. Smith has been physician to the county infirm- ary two years.
SMITH WILLIAM, M. D., Pike township; born in 1825, in this county. His father, Edward, was born in Ireland, in 1792. He came to this country in 1812, and to this county in 1815. He married Miss Jane Richardson, of this county, who was born in Virginia. He died in 1872. She died in 1876. They were the parents of seven children. William Smith began to read medicine in 1848, under Dr. Simmons, of Bed- ford, this county. He practiced under an act of the State Legislature, it granting a diploma after ten years reputable practice. Ile was married in 1855, to Miss Mary J. McKee, of this county, who was born in 1836, in this county. They are the parents of one child, Maria .A., deceased.
SNEDIKER G. P., Jackson township; Roscoc postoffice ; born in Ohio county, West Virginia, in 1823, settled in this county in 1846; son of Jacob and Eleanor Snediker, and grandson of Garrett and Elizabeth Snediker, and of Joshua and Margaret Porter. He was married in 1856, to Rutha McCoy. His second wife was Edith Ingraham. Mr. Snediker is the father of eleven children. The names of those living are: Will-
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iam, Sarah A., Martha J., Margret, James, Joseph, ! Catharine Madison, daughter of Joseph Madison, Laura Loverna and Charles K.
SNIDER J. T. Keone township; physician; born in Knox county, Ohio, December 2, 1551; son of J. F. and Mary ( Dean) Snider, both born in Germany, and grandson of J. T. Snider and Carl Dean, of Lichten, Germany. His father on- listed November, 1861, in Company K, Forty- third O. V. I., and re-enlisted in the same com- pany in 1863; served to the close of the war, but, broken down in health, he died soon after his re- turn. Dr. Snider attended school at New Castle from twelve to seventeen, then taught school tive years in Ohio, and two, in Illinois. De then be- gan the study of medicine under Dr. McElwee. and graduated at the medical department of the Wooster university, in 1877, and began practicing at Mohawk in March, 1877, and in October, 1878, came to Keenc.
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