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POST OFFICE.
The only post office Perry Township has ever had, was establish- ed at Martinsburg, in 1851, with Gersham Perdue as postmaster, who retained the position fifteen years. Since his resignation, the following named gentlemen have had charge of this office : J. W. Kneedler, E. W. Welsheimer, Jacob Perdue, J. W. Barrett, and Dr. J. S. Jones, the present incumbent.
TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION AND OFFICERS.
Perry Township was organized in 1845. The first officers were : Trustees, Joseph Waln, William Wilson, and Albert Adams ; treasurer, James Mooney; clerk, Lewis Todhunter; constables,
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John F. Doster and Jonathan Jones; justices, Thomas Ellis and Robert Eyer; judges of first election, Jacob Todhunter, Jacob H. Geller, and S. C. Terril; clerks, Thomas Ellis and Amos Tod- hunter. The present officers are: Charles Painter, L. C. Smith, and G. W. Hadley, trustees; Jacob Perdue, clerk; D. W. Ellis, treasurer; Harrison Reese, constable; W. A. King and Harrison Limes, justices.
TOWNSHIP EXPENSES.
The first settlement of the trustees, April 6, 1846, shows the expenses of the township, from its organization to that time, to have been as follows: Clerk, $7.12; Joseph Waln, for services as trus- tee, $4.00; William Wilson, for record book and paper, and for services as trustee, $5.43; Albert Adams, for services as trustee, $2.25; G. Perdue, for services as clerk of election, $1.00; Jacob H. Geller, for services as judge of election, $2.00; total, $21.80.
In contrast, we give the expenses of the township for the year ending March 7, 1881, which are as follows: For school purposes. including state fund, $2,454.31; general township expenditures, in- cluding relief to poor and road expenditures, $3,508.87. Total re- ceipts from all sources, $6,395.14. Balance on hand, $2,886.27.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
MATHEW ANDERSON.
Mathew Anderson, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of Robert Anderson, who was a native of Virginia. He came to Ohio in 1816, and settled on the waters of Buckskin Creek, in Ross Coun- ty, where he remained but three years, when he removed to Fay- ette County, in 1819, soon after which he married Miss Sarah Rowe, daughter of Jesse Rowe, who was one of the pioneers of the coun- ty. They were the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter: Isaac married, and died; Jane married, and lives in the neighborhood; John was unmarried, and died at the age of twen-
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ty-two. The father died December 2, 1878, at the advanced age of more than eighty-four years. The mother died some six years pre- vious. They lived together as husband and wife for more than fifty years, and were devoted Christians, both members of the Method- ist Episcopal Church.
Mathew, our subject, was born October 23, 1821, and married Miss Mary A. Davids, October 28, 1847, with whom he lived six years, when she died, leaving no children. Mr. Anderson married for his second wife Mrs. Kaylor, daughter of William Merchant. One daughter was the fruit of this marriage, now the wife of John Rowe, living in the neighborhood. Mrs. Anderson lived but four years, when Mr. Anderson was again a widower. IIe married for his third wife Miss Sarah D. Adams, daughter of Albert Adams, Esq., residing near Greenfield, Ohio, and sister to Rev. Colonel Adams, of the 81st O. V. I., whose history appears elsewhere in this work. They have three children, two sons and one daughter. Isaac Newton, a very promising child, fell into the well and lost his life, when but eighteen months old. Nancy Ruth, a young woman of seventeen, is absent from home, attending school at Greenfield, Ohio. Albert Porter is but fifteen years of age, weighing one hun- dred and fifty-seven pounds.
Mr. Anderson owns and lives on a most magnificent farm of a thousand acres, located on the Anderson pike, one mile west from the Washington and Martinsburg pike. He has been, all his life, a man of great energy and industry. But few men have performed so much hard labor on the farm, in the way of clearing up lands, raising large crops (sometimes five hundred acres of corn in a sea- son), and feeding stock, as has Mr. Anderson. He has done a very large amount of business during the last twenty-five years, assum- ing great risks at times, and sometimes sustaining heavy losses ; but by great energy and perseverance, and, as he puts it, the " bless- ing of a kind Providence," his latter days, financially, bid fair to be better than the past. He is a straightforward, Christian gentle- man, assisted by a most estimable wife.
GEORGE D. BORDEN.
Anthony Borden settled in Greene County, Ohio, near Bellbrook, about the year 1803. He was a native of New Jersey. His chil- dren were Thomas, Enoch, Wesley, Asher, Margaret, and Sarah.
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Enoch, the father of this subject, was a tailor by trade. His wife, Ellen Stoby, was a native of Scotland. Mr. Borden died in August, 1875; his wife died in September, 1879. They were the parents of seven sons and five daughters : Margaret, William, George D., An- drew, James, Mary Jane, Ann Amelia, Louisa, Christopher and John (twins), and Ida. William married Martha Ann Binegar; is a teacher, and lives in Green Township. Andrew married Amanda Mooney, and lives at Ada, Hardin County. John married Fanny A. Puckett. Ida married Russell Fishback.
George D. Borden, the subject of this sketch, was born in Greene County, Ohio, November 19, 1844, and is a farmer by occupation. He was brought up to farm labor; and availing himself of com- mon school advantages, attained a fair education. He enlisted in Company G, 73d O. V. I., October 11, 1861, and shared in all the eventful battles and campaigns of that regiment, first in the Army of the Potomac, and afterward under Sherman, in his eventful cam- paigns. He was mustered out with his regiment, at Louisville, Kentucky, July 20, 1865, having made a proud record as a soldier of the Republic. The Borden family have resided in New Mar- tinsburg since February 2, 1854.
WILLIAM M. BREAKFIELD.
John and Susan (Harmon) Breakfield, the grandparents of this subject, were natives of Virginia, but were of German stock. The husband died in Virginia, in 1820, and four years later his widow, with a large family of fatherless children, came to Ohio, and set- tled temporarily in Pickaway County. In 1827, the widow came to Fayette County, and purchased a tract of one hundred and forty- four acres of unimproved land in Perry Township, for which she paid four hundred and fifty dollars.
John and Susan Breakfield had twelve children: George, Bar- bara, John, Katie, Peter, Henry, Jacob, Sallie, Elias, Susan, Eliza, and Mary Ann.
Jacob Breakfield, the father of our subject, was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, in March, 1802. His wife was Lydia Miller. To them six children were born: Jeremiah, Susanna, Harriet, Sarah C., William M., and Joseph H.
Our subject is the fifth child of the family, is a farmer and stock raiser, and was born October 31, 1842. He was married January
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16, 1869, to Olive Welsheimer, daughter of William H. and Ma- hala Welsheimer. Her father was a native of Virginia ; her mother was born in Ross County, Ohio. Mrs. Breakfield was born Janu- ary 4, 1847.
Mr. and Mrs. Breakfield have had born to them two children : Harrold E., born May 18, 1870; Minnie M., born January 20, 1873. Our subject served during the late civil war, for a term of four months, in Company I, 168th O. N. G., from May, 1864, till Sep- tember, 1864. His company was commanded by Captain Lewis Painter.
Mr. Breakfield has been farming on his own account since 1867. He owns a fine farm of one hundred and twenty-one acres, on Sur- vey No. 660, Christian Febiger original proprietor. He built a fine house in 1879, at a cost of three thousand dollars, and now lives at his ease. A fine barn was also erected, and all the surroundings give evidence of taste and comfort.
JOHN C. CAPPS.
. Dempsey Capps, the grandfather of this subject, came to Ohio from Virginia in an early day, settling first on the Ohio River, and afterward removing to Highland County, where he raised a large family. Among these were William, James, Elijah, Rhoda, and Elizabeth, besides sons and daughters whose names are lost.
William and Margaret (Pope) Capps were married in Highland County, about the year 1812. They were the parents of the follow- ing-named children: Sidney, Polly Ann, Elmira, John C., Eliza- beth, Elijah, Cerilda, Curtis H., Jane, Adeline, Eliza, William, and James.
John C. Capps was born in Highland County, Ohio, April 23, 1820, and is a farmer by occupation. He spent several years of his early life in Indiana and Illinois. He was married, May 28, 1847, to Jane Anderson, of Fayette County. She is the daughter of Robert and Sarah (Rowe) Anderson, and was born August 5, 1824. The Andersons and Rowes were Virginians, but emigrated to Ohio early in the nineteenth century, settling on the Little Wabash, where some of their descendants still live. The children of Robert and Sarah Anderson were Isaac, Mathew, Jane, and John.
Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Capps: Sarah E., born May 31, 1848; married Robert Todhunter, October 8, 1866; has
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three children ; lives near New Martinsburg. Margaret Elmira, born May 14, 1851; married Levi Bryan, October 13, 1870; hus- band died October 18, 1877; has two living children. Mary Jane, born January 25, 1853; married Henry Johnson, January 8, 1870; lives in Green Township. Robert William, born November 28, 1855 ; married Anna A. White in November, 1875; died February 24, 1881; was a favorite child, a promising young man, and much beloved; leaves onė son, Virgil Leroy, born July 17, 1877.
Mr. Capps came to Ohio from Illinois, in the year 1844, and in 1859 bought of John Merchant the farm on which he now resides. The farm comprises one hundred and forty-five acres, and shows signs of careful culture. His wife and himself are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and have been, from early life, con- sistent and useful Christians.
Jesse Rowe, the grandfather of Mrs. Capps, was an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a power for good in his day and generation. He is said to have been the founder of the first society or class of Methodists on the Little Wabash, and was the builder of " Rowe's Chapel," one of the first houses of worship in Perry Township. He used to tell, in his eccentric way, that "all the swarms came from his hive." He established a Sabbath-school in his barn, about the year 1826. Who can tell the value of one good man in a community ?
JAMES COCKERILL.
James Cockerill, farmer, was born in this county, June 7, 1828. Till within the last five years, he lived on the farm on which he was born, four miles northeast of Martinsburg. In 1876, he moved to his present home, one and one-half miles northeast of Martins- burg. He owns one hundred and twelve acres, well improved, ninety acres of which is in a high state of cultivation.
Mr. Cockerill enlisted as a private in the 168th O. V. I., and was captured with his regiment at Cynthiana Kentucky, and paroled. In politics, he is proud to be called a Republican.
On the 3d day of September, 1862, Mr. Cockerill was married to Mary V. Hadley, whose father, James Hadley, migrated from North Carolina, to this state, in 1807, being four years old, and who now resides in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana. Her mother died, in March, 1865, in her fifty-fifth year. Mrs. Cockerill was
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educated at Earlham College, and at the S. W. Normal Institute. Prior to her marriage, she was a prominent teacher, who never failed to get a certificate. In all, she taught sixteen terms.
Mr. and Mrs. Cockerill are the parents of five children: Ina Bell, William J., Freddy, who died in infancy, Nellie S., and Wal- ter R.
Mr. Cockerill is a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Cockerill is a member of the Friends, by birthright, and is connected with Walnut Creek Preparative, Hopewell Month- ly, Fairfield Quarterly, and Indiana yearly meetings.
THOMAS G. COCKERELL.
Thomas G. Cockerell, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of Wil- liam S. and Anna Cockerell, who were natives of Virginia. They emigrated to this state, in 1812, and settled near where the Hock- ing River empties into the Ohio, but a short distance below Ma- rietta. In 1821 they removed to this county, and settled on the waters of the Wabash ; where in about one year Mrs. Cockerell died. They were the parents of nine children, five sons and four daugh- ters : Elizabeth, married and now is deceased ; William, married and now is deceased; Milly, married and now is deceased ; Samnel, married and lives in Iowa; Eldridge, died when quite young ; three died in infancy.
Mr. Coekerell married for his second wife Phæbe Mooney, by whom he had nine children, two sons and seven danghters: Mary A., married but is deceased ; James, married and lives in the neighborhood; Lydia J., married and lives in the neighborhood ; Harmanus, married and is deceased; Amanda, married and lives in the vicinity ; Eliza, married but is now a widow, living near Washington ; Hannah, married and is deceased; two died in in- fancy. In 1855, Mrs. Cockerell died. After remaining a widower for two years, Mr. Cockerell married for his third wife, Eliza Mooney, sister to his second wife ; she lived but five years, and died. Mr. Cockerell remained single for two years, when he married Mrs. Doster, a widow lady of the neighborhood for his fourth wife; she lived nine years and died. Mr. Cockerell died December 19, 1879, having lived more than ninety years.
Thomas G., our subject, was born in 1812, consequently was by the first wife, and was married September 29, 1831, to Miss Silvitha
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Cochran, daughter of Barnabas and Charlotte Cochran, who were of the pioneers of this state, coming to this county from New Jersey in 1806. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran have long since died; hon- ored and respected by all who knew then.
Mr. and Mrs. Cockerell have nine children, seven sons and two daughters : William Newton, married and lives on his grandfather's old homestead ; Martha J., now a widow, living in the county ; Edward Estell, (named after Rev. Edward Estell,) married and lives in the neighborhood; Jacob, married and lives near his father; Thomas, married and lives on the home farm; Samuel S., married and lives near Jeffersonville, this county; James W., married and lives on the old homestead; Amelia O., single and remains at home; Eldridge W., single and remains at home.
Four of the sons were in the army during the late war, two serv- ing three full years. Four of the sons removed west and remained awhile, and then returned back to this county.
Mr. Cockerell and wife feel that they have been highly favored in life. They have seen their family of nine children grow up to manhood and womanhood ; one son and daughter remaining at home with them. Seven of their children are married, and have families, all well to do in life, and living in the same county with their parents.
Mr. Cockerell owns and lives on a fine farm of four hundred and fifty acres, situated on the pike leading from Washington to Mar- tinsburg.
SAMUEL DEVOSS.
Among the skillful mechanics of this county, we take pleasure in mentioning Samuel Devoss, who carries on his business of car- riage making and general repair shop, in New Martinsburg, in the shop formerly occupied by Jesse W. Barrett. . He was born in Adams County, this state, September 5, 1840. The Devoss family came from Kentucky and settled first in Ross County, 1815. Jonas Pettit, the maternal grandfather of our subject, died in southern Ohio before the year 1840.
The parents of our subject, David and Rachel (Pettit) Devoss, had eight children : Arrietta, Samuel, John, William, James, George, Frank and Mary. The oldest daughter, Arrietta, is a graduate of Granville Female Seminary, and lives in Missouri, .
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near Fulton; John works at the blacksmith business, in Scioto County ; William resides in Fulton, Missouri; James works at wagon making, in Scioto County, and George works at blacksmith- ing in the same county ; John served in the late war, on the side of the Union.
Our subject learned his trade at Portsmouth, with C. Moffitt, and in 1858 began business for himself, at Rockville, Adams Coun- ty, this state.
In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, 22d regiment O. V. I. After his discharge, and a brief taste of civil life, he again enlisted, this time in Company F, 81st O. V. I., in which he served till 1864, serving three years; afterwards he re-enlisted in the same regi- ment as a recruit, serving in Company D. His total term of serv- ice, was but sixteen days less than four years, and during the whole time he never spent a day in the hospital on account of sick- ness. His regiment participated at Pittsburg Landing, Iuka, Cor- inth, Kenesaw Mountains, and many other hard fought battles of the war.
Our subject married Margaret Ellen Ellis, in June, 1871; to this union, one child, Setta Jane, was born, and died at seventeen months of age. Mrs. Devoss died, October 4, 1873, aged twenty- two years. For his second wife, he married Nancy Terrell, daughter of Thomas Terrell, of Perry Township. The fruits of this union have been born : Flora, Bertha and David Garfield.
Mr. Devoss began business in New Martinsburg, in 1870, and his workmanship and attention to business, give him a steady trade year after year.
George Colven, the great-grandfather of our subject, died in 1864, at the age of ninety-eight years. He was a pioneer mail carrier on the frontier in his youth, and transported the United States mail in a canoe on the Ohio River. He was attacked on one occasion by Indians, and, though wounded seven times, he made his escape by strategy.
Mr. Devoss is a Republican of the ardent order and an honest man, deserving of success in his business.
ELIJAH ELLIS.
Of the descendants of the early pioneers of Perry Township, none is more deserving of mention than Elijah Ellis. He was
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born near the site of New Martinsburg, this county, October 1, 1817, and is the oldest son of David and Hannah Ellis, who settled in Perry Township, in 1799, near where Elijah now lives. The house in which he was born was destroyed by fire, in the year 1877.
The parents of our subject were of Quaker stock, and their son is piously devoted to the doctrines and usages of that society of Christians. The Ellises came from Tennessee in the year above named, actuated by a desire to live in a country free from the curse of slavery.
Our subject was married, in May, 1844, to Jane Jury, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Fisher) Jury. To this marriage, five children were born: David William, born May 17, 1845; Joseph R., born June 9, 1846; Cyrenius, born November 10, 1848; Mar- garet E., born April 25, 1850, married Samuel Devoss, since died ; Isaac L., born November 17, 1852, died June 11, 1857. Mrs. Ellis died, December 5, 1852, aged twenty-six years.
On the 6th of January, 1859, Mr. Ellis was again married, to Mrs. Eliza B. Ogborn, widow of the late Samuel F. Ogborn, of New Jersey. She is the daughter of Abel and Rhoda (Johnson) Thornberry. Her grandfather, John Johnson, was an early settler in the State of Indiana. He erected the first court house in India- napolis, and his residence there was the first brick building erected in the city. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and for years kept a temperance hotel in the same city. Mrs. Ellis, by her first marriage, became the mother of two sons : Henry M. and Isaac F. Henry M. served in the 73d O. V. V. I. during the war of the rebellion, and Isaac F. was a lieutenant in an infantry regiment of Indiana volunteers. He was captured by the enemy at Richmond, Kentucky, in the fall of 1862, paroled and exchanged. Mr. and Mrs. Thornberry were the parents of the following named children : Lydia J., Eliza B., Mary Ann (died an infant), Mary Ann, Rachel B., Susan J., William J., and John Thomas. Lydia J., Eliza B., Mary A., and William J., still live. The latter is a minister of the Society of Friends.
The father of Mrs. Ellis came to this state in 1799, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. In the prime of life he traveled from New Orleans to Leesburg, this state, on foot. He served as a men- ber of the Legislature of Indiana, in the years 1833 and 1834, from Wayne County, and was also a member of the city council of
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Richmond, Indiana, several successive years. He erected several mills in and near Richmond, Indiana, and one or more in Michigan. He was a man of remarkable qualities, a mathematician of some note. He embraced religion in the latter years of his life, and died a glorious and peaceable death at the age of seventy-five years.
Mrs. Ellis has in her possession a photograph group representing five generations of the family : Abel Thornberry, Eliza B. Ellis, Henry M. Ogborn, Ella D. Reese and Clara Reese. At the birth of Henry Thornberry, the great-grandmother of Mrs. Ellis could have said : " Arise, my son, and go to thy daughter, for thy daughter's daughter has a son." Eliza B. Ellis was a great-grandmother at the age of fifty-eight, and now has two great-grandchildren, who have a great-great-great-great-great-aunt. The oldest of this line is Ann Nordyke, aged eighty-two ; the youngest, Laura Grace Reese, aged one year.
Thomas Bales, the great-grandfather of Eliza B. Ellis, was the first white preacher who crossed the Alleghanies. He was suspi- cioned, and taken by the British as a spy, during his ministry among the Indians. His real character becoming known, he was released and permitted to preach unmolested. At his death, in 1801, he was buried in a rude coffin hewn out of a butternut log, in com- pliance with his own request.
THOMAS ELLIS.
The Ellis ancestry were from Wales. They came to America in the latter part of the sixteenth century, settling in Pennsylvania. Later, some of the stoek moved to Virginia, and afterwards to Tennessee.
Thomas, the son of Enos Ellis, was born in Pennsylvania, but came to Ohio from Tennessee about the year 1799, and settled in Fayette County, on the present site of New Martinsburg, when the-surrounding country was an unbroken wilderness. He was the father of Phœbe, Thomas, Elizabeth, Margaret, Reese, David, Mary Ann, and Rebecca.
David and Hannah Ellis were the parents of our subject. Their children were: Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Elijah, Sophia, Thomas, Morris R., Levi, James, David, jr., Lydia M, and Hannah E.
Our subject was born near New Martinsburg, Ohio, December 6,
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1820. He was married to Mary Ellen Bennett, in the year 1848. Mrs. Ellis was born May 5, 1830, and died January 19, 1864. To this union five children were born : Martha Jane, born June 9, 1851, died December 28, 1875; Hannah Armilda, born March 28, 1853, died November 22, 1876; Rebecca Ellen, born February 12, 1855, died April 22, 1869; Mary Ann, born October 21, 1859, died February 19, 1880.
Mr. Ellis was married to his present wife-Mrs. Mary Levey, nee Arthur-on the 20th of October, 1870. She was born in Ken- tucky, November 30, 1826. By her first husband she is the mother of five children, two of whom are deceased.
The early life of Thomas Ellis was given to hard labor. The death of his father occurring when Thomas was yet a lad, the care of the family devolved upon himself and his brother Elijah. As a consequence, the education of Thomas was much neglected. He has had a painful experience in the loss of a family of prom- ising children. In early manhood he spent much time on the road as a teamster, and before the days of railroads has wagoned farm products to Cincinnati, Chillicothe, and other markets. .
Mr. Ellis is a member of the Friends' Society, worshiping at Walnut Creek. His people are nearly all members of the Society of Friends, and the descendants of his ancestry number several score in Perry Township.
Dates of births in the Ellis family : Thomas Ellis, March 2, 1772; Lydia Ellis, December 19, 1774; Martha, February 26, 1794; Hannah, June 6, 1795; John, February 25, 1799; James, January 21, 1801; Rachel, October 28, 1802; Levi, May 9, 1804; Margaret, June 1, 1806; Thomas, March 5, 1808; Solomon, February 28, 1810; William, September 30, 1814; Reese, April 30, 1816.
On the farm where Mr. Ellis lives are a number of apple trees which grew from sprouts planted by Grandfather Thomas Ellis in 1799. The fruit is called the " Tennessee Apple," and was brought from Tennessee.
ROBERT S. EYRE.
The Eyre ancestry were from England. John Eyre, the grand- father of this subject, was a Virginian. His children were Robert, Hannah, Samuel, Nancy, and William. William Eyre was the youngest of his father's family, and was born in Virginia in 1802.
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The family came to Ohio in 1804, settling at the falls of Paint Creek, in Ross County. After John Eyre's death, his widow mar- ried Judge James Mooney. Soon after this the family settled in Perry Township, this county.
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