History of Delaware County and Ohio, Part 139

Author: O. L. Baskin & Co; Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 818


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Oct. 15, 1867, he was appointed Assistant Revenue Assessor of one of the divisions of Delaware Co., which he held one year. At the spring election of 1868, Mr. Doty was elected Justice of the Peace in Oxford Township, and resigned the posi- tion the following fall. At the October election of 1868, was elected Auditor of Delaware Co; en- tered the office March 1, 1869; was re-elected in 1870, and again to the same office in 1871. November, 1873, returned to Ashley, and in a few weeks buried his wife. In April, 1874, was elected Mayor of Ashley. In January, 1875, purchased of M. B. Shoemaker his hardware store in Ashley, which he is still managing. June 24, 1875, was married to Miss Mary E. Pierce.


HARRISON DOTY, runs a planing mill in Ashley ; was born at Woodbury, Delaware Co., Ohio, Nov. 6, 1840 ; when 14 years old, he be- came an apprentice of H. L. Cross, at Ashley, Ohio, learning the wagon-maker's trade; in 1858, he purchased an interest in Lincoln Township, Mor- row Co., where he remained until August, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. C, 96th O. V. I., and en- tered the army of the Mississippi; he was in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post ; in 1863, he was placed on detached duty, and given charge of a saw-mill to saw lumber for pontoon bridges for crossing the swamps west of Vicksburg; he was at the battle of Port Gibson, and helped to construct the floating bridge over Bayou Pear, from the dwelling houses of Port Gibson, and was at the battles of Champion Hills, Black River Bridge; the charge of Vicksburg from 11 A. M. to sunset ; he also participated in the siege and capture of that place ; at the battle of Grand Chateau he was taken prisoner, and was held fifty- three days ; he afterward took part in the capture of Forts Gaines and Morgan, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, and unfurled the first regimental colors in front of the last-named fort ; he was with Gen. Banks up Red River ; his brigade fought in the last engagement of infantry at Whistle Sta- tion. In July, 1866, he married Miss Phoebe Benedict, who died in December, 1870, leaving one son. Dec. 21, 1871, he married Miss M. E. Carpenter, and in 1873 moved to Ashley, and en- gaged in the saw and planing mill business. His parents were of the first pioneers of Delaware Co. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.


JOSEPH S. DIXON, cooper, Ashley ; was born Jan. 25, 1832, in Rockingham Co., Va., the son of Wm. and Elizabeth Dixon ; his father was born in Virginia, and his mother came from En-


gland ; Mr. Dixon came with his parents to Ohio in 1842, and.settled in Gallia Co., near Gallipolis ; when 16 years, of age, he went to Ironton, Ohio,. and worked in a brickyard ; at the age of 18, he went to Gallipolis and learned his trade, working two years ; he afterward ran on the steamboats of the Ohio, Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers in various positions ; worked at his trade several years at Chillicothe, and then as a journeyman cooper in Cincinnati, St. Louis, La Salle, Peoria, Beards- town, Naples, Milwaukee and Chicago, back to Cincinnati, then to Columbus, and back to Chilli- cothe-this took about three years. He was mar- ried, May 12, 1854, to Sarah A. Campbell, and remained in Chillicothe until 1861 ; then came to Ashley, opened a shop and bought town property. Enlisted in August, 1864, in the 176th O. V. I., and went to the Army of the Cumberland ; he re- mained with the regiment until the close of the war, and was mustered ont at Nashville, Tenn .; the regiment took part in the battle of Nashville. In the spring of 1868, he sold his property in Ashley, and moved to Stanton, Ohio, and went into the huckster business on a large scale; he failed and came back to Ashley, bought lots in town, built him a house and soon after a shop. He has been Constable and Councilman, member of the School Board, Street Commissioner, and is now Marshal of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon have had five children-William Fullerton, born Feb. 12, 1855, and died Jan. 19, 1875 ; Sarah Elizabeth, born Sept. 10, 1857 ; Charles Roney, born April 20, 1859 ; Josephus, born Dec. 7, 1860; Alice Belle, born Jan. 12, 1873, but died the same day. Sarah Elizabeth was married, May 24, 1874, to Frank H. Clay, now with G. O. Griswold, of War- ren, Ohio, as book-keeper. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the orders of Masons and Odd Fel- lows.


JOSEPH EVANS, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Ashley ; son of Maurice and Susannah (Thomas) Evans ; his father was born in Wales about 1790, and emigrated to America about 1840, and settled in Franklin Co .; he died in Newark ; they had ten children-Jane, Maurie (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), Evan (deceased); Joseph, Sarah, Susannah, Maurice, two infants (deceased). Our subject was born in Aug. 1, 1829, in Wales, and came with his father to America; he was married in 1855, to Elizabeth J., a daughter of Rev. Owen and Mary (Evans) Thomas ; her father was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, and emigrat-


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ed with his wife to America at an early day ; they settled in New York City for some time, and then came to Columbus, Ohio, where they re- mained some time, and then finally made their settlement in Radnor Township, Delaware Co., where he died in 1868 ; her mother is still living on the same farm they settled on, and is hale and hearty at 66 years ; they had ten children-Mary (deceased), Elizabeth, Ebenezer (deceased ), David, enlisted in the army and was killed during the siege of Vicksburg; Joseph, enlisted in Co. E, 66th O. V. I., was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg in the left arm ; Margaret, Sarah ; three died when small; she was born in 1832 in Columbus, Ohio; she has six children by her marriage with Mr. Evans-Mary M., Joseph O., David M., Owen W., Edwin T., Lulu E. They settled after marriage in Franklin Co., and in 1876 they bought the present farm of fifty acres of Joseph Horr, and have since been on the same ; they are members of the Presbyterian Church of Ashley ; he votes the Republican ticket ; the family have generally been healthy.


HUGH L. ECKELS, farmer; P. O. Ashley ; was born at Milltown, near Harrisburg, Penn., June 11, 1837 ; the son of James M. and Catharine Eckels ; came with his parents to Ohio in 1841 he attended Mt. Hesper Seminary, and in 1857-8 the O. W. University at Delaware; he was mar- ried, Oct. 14, 1858, to Ervilla Coomer, daughter of H. N. Coomer, and lived at Ashley for several years and taught the school; then purchased a farm in Morrow Co., near Mount Gilead, which he sold in 1868, and lived north of Mount Gilead, where he engaged in the stock business ; in 1871 he bought a farm in Westfield Township, Morrow Co., where he remained until 1874; in 1875 he came to Ashley; they have had ten children-Allen E., James H., Artie M., Jerry C., Lena B., Joanna J., Harry W., William B., Arthur P. and a babe, two of whom are deceased ; Mr. and Mrs. Eckels are members of the Presby- terian Church.


JAMES M. ECKELS, retired, Ashley ; was born in Cumberland, Penn., Dec. 5, 1819 ; the son of Samuel and Agnes Eckels, natives of Pennsylvania ; he learned the cooper's trade when a boy with his father, which he followed until 1841. March 2, 1835, he married Catharine Livingstone, of Pennsylvania ; he then went to Milltown, which was his home for six years; dur- ing this time, he came to Ohio on horseback, and bought a farm on Alum Creek, in Oxford Town-


ship ; in 1839, he came out to Ohio again on horseback, and paid for his farm of eighty-nine acres ; in 1841, he moved to Ohio in a wagon, and put up a hewed-log house on his farm; in June, after he came, Mr. E. organized the first . Sabbath school in Oxford Township; after he came to Ohio, he joined the society of Presbyterians at Ashley, and, in 1854, built the Presbyterian Church-the first built at Ashley ; in 1859, he engaged in the mercantile business at Ashley, and kept a variety store ; his wife died in the spring of 1863, and he lost his dwelling-house by fire in the fall. of the same year. In May, 1866, he married Mrs. Sarah Clifton, daughter of Jesse and Mary Miller, of Zanesville ; he purchased the Ashley Hotel and kept it for seven years, and then built him a comfortable house, where he now lives a retired life. Mr. E. had by his first wife nine children-Hugh L., Agnes (deceased), Sarah R., Margaretta, Mary (deceased), Joseph C., Eliz- abeth B., Emma and William deceased. Mrs. Eckels, nee Mrs. Clifton, has five children living- David H. Clifton, Mrs. Kate Sharp, Mrs. Augusta Martin and Mrs. Isabella Coomer.


EDWARD EVANS, farmer ; Sec. 3; P. O. Leonardsburg ; the subject of this brief biography was born in 1816, in the province of Wales, and emigrated to Columbus, Ohio, in 1841, and there worked at any honest work he could get to do, continuing under such disadvantages until he married, in 1845, Mary, daughter of John Lewis ; she was born in 1825, in Wales, and came to America when 9 years old. Mr. Evans and his companion began a lonely life-financially poor - in Morrow Co., Ohio, soon after marriage, and, in 1847, they had concluded to risk their means on a wider field of labor, and bought fifty acres of land in the green woods, which received the strictest attention of their willing hands, until now, in their old days, it presents a beautiful little, arable farm which blesses them yearly for their . early days' labors. Perhaps but few have undergone the trials, that this old couple have ; they have devoted almost a lifetime to Christian- ity, having joined the Baptist Church at an early day, to which they have devoted their lives and their share of finances. Mr. Evans has been Town- ship Trustee and Supervisor, and held many other offices ; they have had one child-John F., mar- ried Rose N. Shultz, daughter of Benjamin Shultz; he died April 10, 1877.


JOHN FORD, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Leonards- burg ; is a son of Timothy and Mary Ford ; his par-


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ents were born in County Kerry, Ireland, and emi- grated to Ohio about 1859, and settled in Delaware City one year, and then moved to a farm ; his father died in 1865, and his mother died March 16, 1874; they had teu children -William, John, Michael (dead), Thomas, Hannora, Mary, Kate, Julia, Sarah, Timothy ; subject was born in 1831, in Ireland, and emigrated to Delaware, Ohio, in 1852, and engaged in working on the railroad, and then worked on a farm for Joseph Dunlap for about three years; was married in 1861 to Joanna, a daughter of John and Mary (Flaherty) Farris ; she was born in 1834; Mr. and Mrs. Ford have had six children -Thomas, John P., Hannora, Timothy ; two deceased. After mar- riage they settled on the present farm of 52 acres, which he bought of William Blair, and has improved the same; he has in all 78 acres of well-improved land, attained entirely by their own labors. He takes an interest in educating his children. He votes the Democratic ticket.


A. L. FOUST, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Ashley ; is a son of Henry and Mary (Olds) Foust ; his parents were born in Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio in about 1800, and finally settled in Dela- ware Co., and had sixteen children, nine of whom grew up Mr. Foust was born in this county, in 1839, where he has always remained, and assisted in the welfare of the community in which he lived. He was married in 1871 to Loretta, a daughter of Sullivan Smith, by whom he was blessed with three children-Archie H., Mabel R. and Claude C. His wife was born in 1851, in Morrow Co. They are now living on his brother's farm of 52 acres, which is well improved ; he has been Con- stable for several years, but the most of his life has been devoted to rural labors. Farther men- tion of the Foust and Olds families will be made in this township history.


MAHIEL GALE, farmer; P. O. Leonards- burg; is a son of Nathanael C. Gale, who was born in 1807, in Pickaway Co., Ohio, where he remained but a short time, and then moved with his parents to Franklin Co., settling north of Worthington where they farmed; soon after set- tling there, the grandfather of our subject was drowned while crossing the Whetstone River, the canoe being thrown over the dam. At the age of 13, Nathanael began working at $4 per month, and was married June 12, 1828, to Chloe Smith ; they rented for awhile, and in 1843 bought 50 acres, where they now live, which is the fruit of his own labor. This union blessed him with eleven chil-


dren-Mahala, Sylvester, Mahiel, Phoebe, Harriet, Lorenzo, Eliphalet, Sophronia, Naomi, Sophia, (infant died unnamed); Nathaniel and wife are Methodists; she died Sept. 12, 1879. Our sub -. ject was born in 1834, in what is now Morrow Co., and was married in 1858 to Elizabeth, a daughter of John Sherman. Her father was born at Norfolk, Va., and emigrated to Ohio about 1830 and settled in what is now Morrow Co .; her mother's maiden name was Martha Herold ; they had thirteen children. Mrs. Gale was born May 30, 1839 ; she has blessed her husband with twelve children-William, Robert S., Leroy, Elsie K., Chloe A., Mary E., Matilda E., Harriet R., Samantha C., Martha H., Charlie M., John. They settled on their present farm in 1870, buying the same of Enoch Henry ; he has brought the same to a fine arable quality.


D. H. HINDMAN, lawyer ; P. O. Ashley ; was born in Indiana Co., Penn., July 31, 1827, the son of David and Margaret Hindman, who were natives of same State. He learned the car- penter's trade when he was 15 years of age, at which he worked until 1850, when he married and began farming. Mr. Hindman came to Ohio in 1854 and settled in Morrow Co., near Iberia ; he lost his wife in the same year. In 1858, he moved to Cardington and completed the study of law and practiced there two years, when he went to Kosciusko Co., Ind., and returned to Carding- ton in 1870; in April, 1878, he came to Ashley. Mr. H. has held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Township Trustee, and is now the only lawyer in Ashley. He has been twice married; his first wife was Sarah Arnold, of Wayne Co., Ohio, by whom he had three children-Joseph and David, deceased, and a daughter, Eliza, living. He was married, May 3, 1866, to Margaret A. Stewart, of Morrow Co .; they have had three children, only one of whom is living-Catharine A. Mrs. Hind- man is a member of the Baptist Church.


AMASA HOLT, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Ash- ley ; is a son of Iven and Nancy (Meredith) Holt. His father was born in Ohio, and mother also ; they had nine children-John, James, George, Amasa, Frank, Louisa, Charles, Mary (dead), Lu- cretia. His father is dead and mother is still liv- ing. Our subject was born March 15, 1834, in Morrow Co .; at the age of 11, he went to live with his Uncle Meredith, with whom he lived for eleven years. He then went to Steuben Co., Ind., where he engaged in painting fanning-mills for his brother John. He returned in one year to Mor-


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row Co., where he farmed for his father. Was married, Jan. 12, 1859, to Delight, a daughter of Jacob and Almira (Birch) Vanbrimmer. Her parents had five children-John, Delight, Levan, Amanda, Martha. She was born in 1840 in Indi- ana. Mr. Holt's union blessed him with three children-Nancy, married James Coleman ; Ed- ward, Walter. They settled after marriage on a farm, renting of the Shoemaker heirs. In 1861, they bought forty-three acres of Lewis Wornstaff, and afterward a small tract of Nelson Houseworth, and at another time he bought twelve and one-half acres of William Brown-making in all about fifty-seven acres, attained entirely by their own labors, except $150 from his father; he has lately built a house on the same worth about $1,000. He has taken interest in educating his children ; he has been School Director and Super- visor of Roads. Politically, he is a strict Repub- lican, having cast his first vote for that party. Mr. Holt's grandfather Holt was a drummer in the Revolutionary war, and his brother Charles served three years in the war of the rebellion. His wife had two brothers in the late war; one died from exposure and the other had his arm taken off .by a shell.


SILAS JENKINS, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Ashley ; is a son of Martin and Mary (Brown) Jenkins ; his parents were born in Virginia, and emigrated to Delaware Co. among the early settlers and made his first settlement in Oxford Township, where the subject now lives, and bought eighty acres of land at 12} cents .per acre; his father died May 24, 1862; his mother is still living; they had four children-John W., Silas, Jonathan, Benjamin ; Silas was born May 5, 1840, on the present farm where he has always remained. He was married, Dec. 15, 1862, to Emeline, a daugh- ter of William and Marilla Smith ; her parents had eight children-Lorenzo, Winfield, Leroy, Genoa, Luseta, Mandana, Jennetta, Emeline; Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have had five children-Elmer M., Gladdes, Olive, Addie; they came in possession of the present farm in 1865, by buying out the heirs; he now owns 150 acres of well-improved land among the best land in the country. He is a mem- ber of the Baptist Church, in which he has taken quite an interest.


BENJAMIN LEA, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Ashley; is a son of Jacob and Mary (Hadley) Lea; his father was born in Worcestershire, En- yland, also his mother; they had five children- William, Anna, Sarah, Esther, Benjamin. Our


subject was born in 1807, in Worcestershire, En- gland, were he remained engaged in weaving car- pet and attending school until he was 19 years old, when he enlisted in the British service, and served over a year; he then returned home and en- gaged at weaving until 1832, when he came to America with Thirza Holmes, to whom he was married the day prior to his starting; they made their settlement in Westchester Co., N. Y., where he remained about seventeen years, and then moved to Delaware Co., settling in Porter Town- ship, where he remained four years, and then, in 1855, he came to Oxford Township, where he has since lived ; by his first marriage, he had six chil- dren, but two now survive, George B., Thirza A .; his first wife died while he was in New York, and he was again married to Mary A. Allison, by whom he had one child, Alexander; she died while he was in Porter Township, and he was again married to Nancy, a daughter of Rev. Thos. W. Wigton, who is mentioned in the history of Berkshire Township, by whom he has two chil- dren-Thomas W., Eurania A .; she was born in 1817 in Sunbury, Ohio; Mr. Lea now possesses 180 acres of well-improved land, attained entirely by his own labors ; while in New York, he was engaged in weaving, and was a member of the Putnam Lodge, I. O. O. F. He holds an inter- est in the Presbyterian Church ; he has always advocated the temperance movement. His first vote was cast for Jackson, and he afterward voted the Whig ticket until the organization of the Repub- lican party, to which he has since given his aid ; his son George B. served three years in the 96th O. V. I.


ALEXANDER MARSH, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Ashley; was born in 1820, in Franklin Co., Ohio ; his father, Josiah, was born in the State of New York, and emigrated to said county in 1812, where he farmed, and in 1857 he transferred to Concord Township, where he is now living. His mother's maiden name was Jane Simmons. Mr. Marsh remained with his parents until married, which was in 1842, to Catharine, daughter of William Evans; she was born in-1820, in Virginia, and emigrated to Ohio at an early day, with her parents ; she and her husband began farming by renting of his uncle, J. Marsh, for five years ; they then moved to Grundy Co., Ill., and there farmed for one year, after which they returned, like all the rest of those who leave Delaware Co. "We bid them good-by, knowing that we will soon hail their return." They then farmed


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one year in Concord Township; afterward settled on their present farm of 210 acres, which is the fruit of their own labors; they have improved their farm from the green woods. They have five children-Cornelius, Viola, Monroe, Purlyett, Jas- per. Cornelius enlisted in the 184th O. V. I., and Monroe in Co. E, 174th O. V. I. Mr. Marsh has been Township Trustee two terms and has held his share of other offices. He has chopped wood at 372 cents per cord. He started in life with but little resource; as an exemplification of this fact, we may mention his first tax-receipt was 10 cents.


ANDREW MYERS, stock-dealer, Ashley ; was born in Lancaster Co., Penn .; he was the son of Frederick M. Myers, and came to Ohio in Septem- ber, 1865, when he settled in Oxford Township, this county ; in 1871, he opened a meat store in Ashley and also in Delaware. He has held the office of Councilman ; was Mayor of Ashley three terms, and is at present a candidate on the Repub- lican ticket for County Infirmary Director. He was married to Elizabeth Killinger, of Pennsyl- vania, Feb. 28, 1747 ; they have had eight chil- dren, two of which died in infancy, and one, Sam- uel, after reaching manhood, was killed by the bursting of the ring used in firing an anvil, on the 4th of July, 1878. Mr. Myers is a stanch Re- publican.


J. C. MALONEY, farmer ; P. O. Leonards- burg; is a son of Cornelius and Joanna (Sulli- van) Maloney ; his father was born in Ireland and emigrated to America in 1850, and died in Que- bec, soon after landing. Our subject was born in June, 1824, in Ireland, and emigrated to the State of New York in 1847, and remained there until 1849. He was married in 1847, to Mary, a daughter of Philip and Ellen (McCarthy) Ferris ; her parents were born in Ireland and emigrated to Canada in 1841; she was boro July 22, 1827. Mr. Maloney began steamboating at the age of 20, from Toledo to Detroit and Buffalo, continuing the same for over three years, and then worked some time on a canal-boat. After marriage, he kept boarders, and he worked by the month. In 1852, they came to Ostrander, and Mr. Maloney worked on the Springfield Railroad; in 1853, they moved to Olive Green, where he worked awhile on a proposed railroad ; they then went to Kentucky, where they again worked on a railroad; in 1854, he worked at the iron works, hauling for the com- pany, and continued until December, when they moved to Ashland, Ky., and there bought prop- erty and erected a house, where they lived some


time, during which he was hauling; they subse- quently transferred to Clark Co., Ky., where he worked for a railroad, which sometime afterward became insolvent, and Mr. Maloney lost $2,200 ; he then began working on a turnpike, continuing at that some two years, and then moved to Madi- son Co., and there worked on another pike, until 1863, when they moved to Oxford Township, where he had bought fifty acres of woodland. Mrs. Maloney came back from Kentucky by railroad, and Mr. Maloney managed to bring three teams through in a period of twenty-one days. The only company he had was a daughter, 11 years old, and a younger son ; the father managed the ox team, the daughter the horses, and the son the single buggy. They began on the present farm of 175 acres, as soon as they returned; Mr. Maloney was very industrious, and wished to meet his pay- ments, which he did by hauling 1,449 cords of wood for a man, which paid for all of the first fifty acres of his said farm, except $9. He now makes a specialty in raising stock and grain. The union of this industrious old couple blessed them with ten children-Cornelius, born Nov. 15, 1850, de- ceased ; Mary E., June 11, 1852 ; Kittie A., 1853; Cornelius, deceased, Sept. 2, 1854 ; Mary M., deceased, Oct. 20, 1855 ; John P., Aug. 20, 1857, is one of Oxford Township's best teachers ; Margaret A., born Sept. 16, 1859, deceased ; Thomas S., Dec. 23, 1860; James D., July 6, 1862 ; Ellis M., Aug. 22, 1865.


ALBERT OLDS, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Ash- . ley ; son of Ezra and Theda (Washburn) Olds ; his father was born in Luzerne Co., Penn., in 1790, and emigrated to Ohio in the spring of 1808-09, settling, for two years, near Galena, and then settled on the farm now owned by Albert ; his father was in the war of 1812; he died Nov. 18, 1858 ; his mother is living with Mr. Olds, and is 76 years of age ; they had twelve children -- Charles, Miles, Albert, Abigail, Sarah, Mary (io- fant), John, Benjamin, Eliza, Milo, Madison ; they were members of M. E. Church ; his father was once Commissioner of Delaware Co., and was Justice of the Peace for many years; his first election to this office was in 1813; his mother was from New York State; her father emigrated to Ohio about 1814, settling at Delaware City ; she was one of nine children. Our subject was born in 1828, in Delaware Co., where he has always remained. He was married, Dec. 3, 1857, to Louisa, daughter of Joseph and Charlotte (Loof bourrow) Thurston ; her parents had ten


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children-Wilson, Alfred, Fannie, John, Elmore, Louisa, Jerusha, Lucretia, Della, Clara ; they are now living in Delaware City; his wife was born Aug. 6, 1839; they have seven children-Wil- lard (deceased), Charles, John, Bertie, Fannie (infant, deceased); infant born in 1880 ; he has seventy acres in the present farm, the old home- stead of his fathers, and seventy-seven acres in another tract, attained partly by his owo labors and management. They are members of the M. E. Church, in which he has taken great interest financially as well as spiritually. He makes a specialty in stock-raising ; his father's house on this place was used for the first church spire in this part of the township. The Olds family will be prominently mentioned in the township history.




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