History of Fayette County : together with historic notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and all other authentic sources, Part 71

Author: Dills, R. S
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Dayton, Ohio : Odell & Mayer
Number of Pages: 1070


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Jonathan, the father of our subject, was born August 22, 1804, and in later years, settled with his father as above. mentioned. His wife, Adah Smith, was from Pennsylvania. They were parents of six children : Jackson, Harriet K., Eliza Ellen Smith, Charles, Jonathan, and Lewis. Jackson, the oldest son, died in California. The father still lives near Good Hope, this county, and has been an active Christian and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for a great many years.


Henry, the grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in the war of the revolution. Lewis and Jonathan both served in. the late civil war, and fought for the Union. Our subject served in the 168th O. N. G. under Captain Lewis Painter. The regiment cam- paigned in this state and Kentucky.


Charles Painter was married January 10, 1860, to Cynthia Ann, Roberts, daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Perry) Roberts, of Highland County. Her father's family consisted of nine children : Eliza, Jesse, Jane, Susan, Hannah, James, William, Cynthia Ann, and George H. Mr. Roberts, by a former marriage in Virginia, was the father of nine. children.


Mr. and Mrs. Painter have had born to them twelve children : Edward Estell, born January 9, 1861; Jesse Fremont, born August 1, 1863, died February 13, 1874; William Carey, born September 22, 1864 ; James Morris, born December 1, 1865 ; Harley Smith, born February 22, 1867; John Wesley, born December 25, 1868 ; Frederick Ja, born November 15, 1870, died December 18, 1874; Charles Eskridge, born October 15, 1872 ; Eldridge B., born April 1, 1876 ; Mary Olive, born March 11, 1879 ; infant son, born June 3, 1881.


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Mr. Painter and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which denomination Mr. Painter is. a class leader. They have occupied their present home since 1860. They are comfortably fixed, and their children are healthy and intelligent.


Mr. Painter is a Republican, and for years past has served his township as trustee.


JAMES PRIDDY.


The grandparents of James Priddy-James and Martha (Rowe) Priddy-were natives of Virginia, and came to this state in 1816, settling in Perry Township. They were the parents of William, Elias, Andrew, George, and Lucy.


Elias, the father of James, was born in Virginia, in 1796, and came to this state with his father's family, and in later years mar- ried Rebecca, daughter of Ebenezer Haines. His children were George, Evaline, Strawther, Martha, Jane, Lucy, James, Emily, Mary Amanda, Elizabeth, and Eliza.


Strawther married Mrs. Ellen (Brown) Wheatley ; Martha mar- ried James Smith ; Lucy married Fletcher Zimmerman ; Emily married Elby Wilson ; Mary married Jonathan Painter; Amanda married Joseph Doster; Elizabeth married W. F. Bryan; and Eliza married Nahum Merchant.


James Priddy was born in this county and state, February 27, 1839, and was married December 18, 1866, to Mary E. Todhunter, daughter of John P. and Martha J. (Binegar) Todhunter, of the same township. Mrs. Priddy was born May 10, 1844. The fruits of this marriage have been six children: Aurora Grace, born Oc- tober 21, 1867; Myrta G., born October 11, 1870; Florence Luetta, born January 11, 1873; Leota Blanche, born August 12, 1875 ; .. Arthur Esto, born June 27, 1878; and Ethel Alma, born Novem- ber 16, 1880.


Mr. Priddy has a creditable record as a soldier, and did service during the late civil war as a member of Company A, 1st Ohio Cavalry. His company was commanded by Captain John Robin- son, of Washington, and served on special duty as escort to some of the distinguished commanders of the Union forces ; among them, Kilpatrick, Meade, Pope and Shields. The field of travel em- braced Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.


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Our subject now occupies what is known as the " old Crothers farm,"-composed of one hundred acres of good farm land. He is the head of an interesting family, deals squarely and prospers continually. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church:


HARRISON REES.


Solomon Rees, the grandfather of Harrison Rees, came to this county, in 1806, and built and operated a brewery on the lot now owned by John Kneedler, in the suburbs of New Martinsburg. This was long before the town was thought of. Sampson, Hiram, and Owen, were his sons. The first two were born in Virginia, and Owen was born on the way from Virginia to this state, and on that account was afterwards known as "Owen Rees the traveler." Hiram and Mary (McVeigh) Rees, the parents of this subject had ten children : Sarah, Harrison, Isaac, Mary Ann, Noah, Ruth, John, Martha J., Rebecca, and Emily. Hiram first settled on Rattlesnake. He afterwards followed coopering and farming.


Our subject was born at the present site of New Martinsburg, November 13, 1816, and attended school in the pioneer school house, of round logs, puncheon floors and slab benches. Among his teachers, were Zena Wilcox, William Jury, and Jacob Todhun- ter.


He was married December 25, 1838, to Margaret, daughter of Rees and Mary (Madden) Ellis. This marriage ended in the death of the wife, nearly thirty years later, November 1, 1868. Mrs. Rees was a woman of remarkable piety, and was much devoted to a prayerful study of the Bible. She died childless. Mr. Rees was again married, on the 13th of October, 1869, to Mrs. Ann (Dill) Daugherty, relict of Joseph Daugherty, who died in the army, a member of Company C, 114th O. V. I. They had six children born to them : Noah A., Joseph H., William H., Mary M., Alice H., and Anna May. By her marriage to Mr. Daugherty, Mrs. Rees is the mother of three children : Eliza E., Libbie, and Nancy J.


Our subject spent a brief time in Champaign County, in 1844 and 1845; but with this exception, his life of sixty-five years has been spent in the vicinity of the village of New Martinsburg. He began his business of shoe making in 1848, and has ever since given his main attention to that trade.


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In the year 1849, he was elected constable of his township, and with the exception of two years, he has been successfully re-elected to that office. He has also assessed the chattels of Perry Township every year, save three, since 1854. Mr. Rees has been an Odd-fel- low for the past sixteen years. He is widely known in the county, and much esteemed for honesty and integrity. His wife is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


WOODSON SMITH.


Peter Smith, the grandfather of Woodson Smith, was a native of Germany. He came to America near the close of the Revolution, settling for the first five years in Virginia. He then removed to Kentucky, and during his residence there, became personally ac- quainted with Daniel Boone of historic fame. Adam Smith, the father of Woodson, was born in Virginia, five years previous to the removal of the family to Kentucky. His wife was Ann Woodson, daughter of Judge John Woodson, of Kentucky. The Woodsons are of French descent. To Adam and Ann Smith were born two sons and two daughters, Woodson, Maria, Wesley, and Betsey Ann. He came to Ohio in 1821, and settled on the " Woodson Sur- vey," near where his descendants now reside. The land in that section was then valued at $1.50 to $2 per acre. Adam Smith died in Iowa in 1860; his wife died in 1832.


Our subject was born in Ohio, February 11, 1821, and was edu- cated in the pioneer school-house, with puncheon benches for seats and greased paper for window-glass. He was married August 16, 1843, to Henrietta Limes, daughter of William and Athalia (Doster) Limes, who were settlers east of New Martinsburg as early as 1811. Mrs. Smith was born in 1823. To their union was born two sons, Harvey, born July 8, 1844, and Leander, born October 4, 1846. Harvey married Levina Irvin and is a resident of Fayette County. He is the father of one son, Tucker, and one daughter, Lulu. Leander married Mrs. Henrietta Cox, nee Bennett. She died April 2, 1876, aged 31. To Leander and his wife two daughters were born, Della, born February 11, 1870; Ella, born May 3, 1875. Leander is a member of the I. O. O. F., and served with credit in the war as a member of Company "I," 168th O. V. I., under Captain Lewis Painter. Our subject was one of the throng of adventurous spirits who sought the gold fields of California when


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the precious ore was discovered there. He left Ohio in March 1852, spent more than five years in the trip from first to last, and returned to his home in August, 1857. He recounts many thrilling stories of his experience in the cities of Mexico, Acapulco, Vera Cruz, and other important places visited by him and his party. He is a mem- ber of the F. & A. M. at Greenfield. Mr. S. built his present brick residence in 1876, at a cost of $5,000. He is the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and twenty-five acres of land on the Buena Vista pike, two miles east of New Martinsburg.


ISAAC SMITH.


Isaac Smith is a sturdy blacksmith of New Martinsburg, and plies his trade diligently, year after year. He was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, January 28, 1822; he is a son of Anthony Smith, a native of New Jersey, who came to Ohio soon after it was admitted into the Union. Our subject learned his trade with William Gold, of Tarlton, Ohio, and on the 19th of April, 1846, he was married to Mary Smith, daughter of S. Smith of New Jersey. The fruits. of this union were six children : Melissa J., Elizabeth Ellen, Ann Maria, Clara Adelia, Alice, and Orpha. Previous to his residence in New Martinsburg he spent a number of years in Pickaway County, and seven years in Vinton County. He located in New Martinsburg in 1862, and has since then given his trade his princi- pal attention.


ROBERT R. TEMPLETON.


Robert Templeton, the subject of this sketch, was born May 14, 1794, in Washington County, Pa., and came with his parents to Ross County, Ohio, in 1812, settling near the site of the town of Kingston. He was married to Miss Jane, daughter of John Beaty, of New Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, on the 23d of November, 1820. Mrs Templeton died in 1872. Mr. T. is the father of eight children, Mary Ann, Eliza J., Agnes T., David W., Margaret, John B., Robert A., and J. Carnthers. Of these Mary Ann and Marga- ret are dead. Mr. Templeton came to Perry Township, (then a part of Wayne and Green) in April, 1822. He here lived on a farm ten miles south of Washington and three miles east of Martinsburg, . until the death of his wife, when he sold his home farm and has


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lived with his son John on the farm adjoined to the one he sold, until recently. His son Carnther's wife dying, the father, sympa- thizing with his son in his great loss, and wishing to minister to him in his affliction, went to reside with the stricken one.


Mr. Templeton has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Greenfield for over forty years. In early life he was a Whig; in later years a Republican. He is decidedly anti-secret society in his sentiments, and on the subject of temperance and the use of tobacco, he gives forth no uncertain sound.


Commencing life a poor man, he has amassed a fortune, so that he can give to each of his children a handsome start in life.


J. B. TEMPLETON.


This gentleman is a native of Perry Township; was born Feb- ruary 28, 1833, and is the son of Robert R. Templeton. He served in the 168th O. N. G. in the rebellion, and, with his regiment, was captured at Cynthiana, Kentucky, and paroled, after which he was kept on duty in Cincinnati.


October 8, 1856, he married Catharine Lucas, whose father, Ezra Lucas, was born at Marietta, Ohio, April 16, 1789. It is thought that Mr. Lucas was the first white male child born in Ohio. He was a lineal descendant of the Puritans of Plymouth. His parents came to Marietta in 1788 with the first immigrants, and remained two years, then went to Washington County, Pa., on account of the depredations of the Indians. Ezra Lucas came thence to Ohio, probably in 1810, and was married to Isabel McKinzey, April 2, 1811, and settled in Ross County. To them were born twelve chil- dren, of whom Mrs. Templeton is the youngest. Mr. Lucas died in September, 1861.


Mr. Templeton, as well as his wife, is a member of the Presby- terian Church at Greenfield, of which he has been a deacon eight or ten years, and has recently been elected elder.


He has three hundred and nine acres of excellent land, well im- proved. His family consists of six children : Melva J., Albertus L., Annie I., John C., Robert E., and Katie E.


LEVI TRACY.


Wornel, Solomon and William Tracy, sons of John Tracy, of the


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State of Maryland, came to Ohio about the year 1805, and settled first in Jefferson County, and each took a part in the war of 1812. John, the father, resided thirty iniles from Baltimore, and it is said of him that he rolled into the city the first hogshead of tobacco ever offered to the market.


Wornel, the father of our subject, married his first wife, Lem- mons, in Maryland. She died in that state, leaving three children," Sallie, John, and Tempy. After coming to Ohio he married a Babb, by whom he had nine children, Rebecca, Jasper, William, Levi, Elizabeth, Hannah, Joseph, Nancy, and Mary. The Tracys were of Scotch descent; the Babbs were from Switzerland.


Our subject was born near New Martinsburg, Fayette County, Ohio, May 4, 1811. His education was of the pioneer kind, and was obtained in light doses, in attending the old-fashioned log school house. More attention was given to clearing up the farm than storing the mind with knowledge. He was married May 17, 1832, to Catherine Smith, daughter of Peter Smith, native of Ken- tucky. She died September 16, 1864, having borne eight children : Harriet, Martha, Lydia, Wesley, Asbury, Maria, Miranda, and Lawson.


Mr. Tracy married his present wife, January 23, 1866. She was Mrs. Lydia Branch, nee Brown, daughter of Lemuel G. and Anna (Trowbridge) Brown. The Browns were among the early settlers of Marietta, Ohio. She was born May 19, 1826. By her first mar- riage she had five children : Henry, Charles, Lemuel E., John, and Lucy. Two daughters have been the fruits of her marriage to · Mr. Tracy.


Our subject located where he now lives in the year 1832, having partially cleared the tract some years previous. He is thoroughly versed in the usages and customs of the early days, and never tires in reciting the thrilling incidents of his backwoods experience. At his first marriage, he began the erection of a house in which to move, and, without assistance, had it ready for occupation in thirty days. He was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, Feb- ruary 25, 1846, and has ever since been found in his place, bearing a large share of the burdens of the Cochran society, in which he held, for many years, the position of leader. He has lived to see the wilderness of his boyhood blossom and bear rich fruit as the results of honest toil on the part of the hardy pioneer and his successor.


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ALFRED TODHUNTER.


Alfred Todhunter, farmer and stock raiser, was born on the farm which he now occupies, one and a half miles southeast of Martins- burg, on the 22d of July, 1819. On the 28th of May, 1846, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John King. To them have been born five children : John T., Sarah P., Robert M., James R., and Rachel M. Of these, Sarah is dead; John, Robert, and James are married, and reside in this township; and Rachel lives with her parents.


Mr. and Mrs. Todhunter are consistent members of the Meth- odist. Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Odd-fellows, having regularly passed all the chairs in a creditable manner.


Though they commenced life poor, by industry and economy they have amassed a competence, and own one hundred and twen- ty acres of good land, well improved, and beautifully located. In addition to this, they have one hundred and thirty-eight acres near Martinsburg, on which his sons live, and one hundred acres in Kansas. Being out of debt, Mr. Todhunter is contented and happy.


Mr. Todhunter's father, Richard Todhunter, a native of Vir- ginia, came to Ohio probably in 1810, and died in 1867, ninety years old. His mother survived her husband a few years.


AUGUSTUS WEST.


Mr. West was born in Madison County, Virginia, March 20, 1814. His father being a slave, he took the name of his mother, a free colored woman, Dilcie West, who supported her family by selling cakes and other pastry which she baked. She was the mother of sixteen children.


Mr. West came to Ohio in 1837, and settled in Highland County, three and a half miles from Hillsborough, where he resided three years ; thence he moved to a farm on Falls Creek, and remained three years. Moving from there he came to Fayette County, and bought fifty acres of land, on which he lived fifteen years. Selling this land, he purchased one hundred and seventy-seven acres, eleven miles south of Washington, where he has resided for twen- ty-two years, surrounded by many comforts.


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He married Harriet Payton, in Culpepper County, Virginia, by whom he had eleven children. She died in 1873. He married his second wife, Mary Ootes, in 1877.


Mr. West is a member of the Baptist Church, and a Republican. His wife is a Methodist. Two of his sons served in the army in the late war. Andrew was a member of the 27th Michigan In- fantry, and was killed at Honey Hill, North Carolina, in 1863. William was wounded in the battle of the wilderness.


JAMES WILSON.


James Wilson, farmer and teamster, is the second son of William and Sarah (Santee) Wilson, natives of Ohio. He was born October 3, 1825. His father's family consisted of ten children : Eli, James, Sarah, William, John, George, Joseph, Cynthia, Sophia, and Mar- garet. The parents died in Highland County, near Centerfield.


George Santee, the maternal grandfather of this subject, served in the war of 1812, and died near Petersburg, Highland County, at an advanced age.


Our subject was married, May 11, 1854, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Dow- den) Wilson. She was a native of Ohio, and was born April 5, 1823. By a previous marriage she is the mother of two children : Margaret J., born February 11, 1844; William O., born May 5, 1847.


Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are the parents of six children: Sarah F. A., born January 28, 1855; married John Cooper. Thomas L., born September 17, 1856; Samuel A., born June 21, 1859; John E., born February 3, 1862; Samantha F., born January 2, 1864 ; Alwilda E., born July 20, 1866.


JAMES ZIMMARMON.


The parents of Mr. Zimmarmon came from Virginia to Ohio at an early date, and settled in Wayne Township. After staying there some time, they moved to the western part of Perry Town- ship, where they died.


Mr. Zimmarmon was born September 26, 1826, and on the 19th of July, 1849, he married Elizabeth Waln. Mrs. Zimmarmon was born March 27, 1833. To these parents have been born ten chil- dren : Sarah E., Mary Frances, Joseph H., Jacob W., Clara Aun,


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Eli Wesley, James Sherman, Grant, Irena, Mary, Aldo Layton, Alonzo, and Almeda. The last two are dead.


Mr. Zimmarmon owns two hundred acres of land, favorably lo- cated, and well improved. Stock-water is in abundance.


He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican.


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EARLY SETTLEMENTS.


Inasmuch as Wayne Township adjoins Ross County-settled sev- eral years prior to Fayette-and because several of the Ross Coun- . ty pioneers removed across the border at a very early date, Wayne can, perhaps, lay claim to the honor of being the first township within the present limits of Fayette in which the whites located permanently.


The land now owned by John H. Bryant, and located on the north fork of Paint Creek, near the Ross County line, was origin- ally settled by one Wolf, who came from Virginia to the above- mentioned tract in 1796-the first settler in the township. Our in- formant (Mr. Bryant) remembers seeing the date, "1800," on the chimney, but had good authority that the cabin was erected four years before. The cabin was constructed of heavy and substantial timber, and a part of the beams is now used by Mr. Bryant for gate posts, while others were brought into requisition when his barn was built. Upon this land is a perpetual spring of clear and cool water, which undoubtedly induced Wolf to locate in its imme- diate vicinity. The writer was shown the original " smoke house" · used by Wolf, which has since been converted into a “spring house." Wolf is described as a tall, powerful man, who made hunting and Indian killing his vocation during his lifetime. He died here, and was buried near White Oak, on Hamilton's Run. His descendants removed to the West. One of them was met in Indiana, about twenty years ago, by a citizen of this county. Since that time, however, nothing has been heard of the family.


The old Bryant homestead, which is now occupied by Speakman, was settled about 1815, by Philip Louderman, a Virgin- ian, and relative of Wolf.


Alexander Hamilton, another relative, settled on the opposite side of the north fork of Paint Creek, on the present Dr. Judy


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farm. His family consisted of a wife and seven children, some of whom are still living. His body reposes in the White Oak burying place.


William Harper was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, where he married Nancy Faris, a native of the same county. Acconi- panied by their eight children, they immigrated to this township in 1803, settling on lands now in the possession of Robert Harper, which at that early day consisted of one continual tract of dense forest, inhabited solely by the red man and wild animals. Two children were born here, and thus the family consisted of ten chil- dren-five sons and five daughters-all of whom arrived at the age of maturity. Of these, Robert was born February 22, 1806, and is the oldest person now living in the county who was born within its limits. The elder Harpers were members of the Presbyterian Church, but afterward connected themselves with the Baptist, and died in the latter faith-he at the age of eighty-four, she of eighty- six.


Another noted pioneer was Benjamin Davis, who was born in in South Carolina, thence removed to North Carolina. In 1802 he came to this state, settled in Highland County, where he remained till 1807, when he took possession of land now owned by his grand- son, William Davis, three hundred acres of which formed a part of the Griffith survey, No. 738, and was purchased of Pope.


He erected a rude pioneer cabin on the opposite side of the branch, south of his grandson's residence, in which he lived many years. He was married to Ann Stafford in North Carolina. Their matrimonial relation was blessed by eight children, all of whom are deceased save one son, Joseph, who was living in Iowa when last heard from.


It is said that Davis purchased, in 1781, a book, for which he paid forty-five dollars; and to protect himself from being robbed by some literary individual, wrote on the inside of the cover this inscription :


" Don't steal this book, for fear of shame, For above, there is the owner's name."


' This simple but expressive rhyme has been handed down to this generation, and is frequently used by "the young idea" of the present.


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Davis died in 1837, and at his death his son Jacob purchased of the remaining heirs the old homestead. He was born March 28, 1802, and in the fall of that year accompanied his parents to this state. He was married, April 13, 1826, to Ellen, daughter of Wil- liam Wilkinson, of Virginia, who bore him seven children : John, Nancy, Benjamin, William, Susan, Ellen, and Jacob. John resides in Missouri; Nancy is married to Abner Dickson, and resides in this township; Benjamin is deceased; Susan departed this life when but ten years of age; Ellen is married to William Thorp, an ex- tensive cattle dealer at Washington C. H .; Jacob A. was a member of Captain Greener's company (E), First Regiment Fayette County Militia, and was drowned in the Ohio River, at Scott's Landing, during the Morgan Raid; William at present owns and farms the old homestead.


Of the father it is said, that though he lived threescore years, he was never interested in a law suit, as plaintiff, defendant, or witness. Mrs. Davis was a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, her mother being among the first of those who introduced Methodism into Elkhart County, Indiana. Davis died November 1, 1860; his wife, July 31, 1872.


Samuel Sollars was born in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1784; married Elizabeth Train, and in 1808 left their native state for Ohio, the family, at that time, consisting of one son, John, then about thirty months old. The husband had taken a trip to Ohio in the spring previous, and selected a tract of land em- braced in a survey on the present Highland County line, on which Laban Records had squatted at or about the same time.


After having cleared and planted about twenty acres of this land in corn, Sollars returned for his wife and child, and brought them to their future home in the same year, the trip being made by means of a wagon, drawn over the rough roads, and through the dense forests, by three horses.




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