History of Greene County, Ohio: its people, industries and institutions, Volume II, Part 102

Author: Broadstone, Michael A., 1852- comp
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1440

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Mr. Tindall has been twice married. In 1893 he was united in mar- riage to Flora McFarland, who died in 1899, leaving three children. Charles,

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now living at Xenia, who married Essie Bridgman and has two children, Thelma and Margaret; Nellie, wife of William Powell, of Cincinnati, and Florence, who is now living at Springfield. On August 19, 1908, Mr. Tin- dall married Minnie Mound, of this county, daughter of Leonard and Emily ( Phillips) Mound, the former of whom was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and the latter, in the state of Virginia, and who were the parents of four children, Mrs. Tindall having one brother, Clarke Mound, and two sisters, Daisy, wife of William Kelly, of Xenia, and Florence, wife of Joseph Pinkham, of Goes Station.

J. NEWTON COY.

J. Newton Coy, proprietor of a farm of eighty-one acres in Beaver- creek township, was born in that township on March 17, 1873, son of Adani and Sophronia (Crow1) Coy, the latter of whom was born in Germany and was but six years of age when she come to this county with her widowed mother. Adam Coy was born in Beavercreek township in 1834, a son of Jacob Coy. Adam Coy and Sophronia Crowl were married about 1860 and made their home on what is now the Cornelius Zimmerman farm in Beavercreek township. There they spent the remainder of their lives, her death occurring in May, 1913, and his, in January, 1918. They were tlie parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being Edward, a Beavercreek township farmer, who married Sarah Black and has one son, Russell, who married Martha Dietz and has a daughter, Lucille; Samuel, who died in infancy; Frank, who died leaving two daughters, Bessie and Anna, and whose widow is still living at Zimmerman; Nettie, who married John Brill, of Beavercreek township, and has had thirteen children, all of whom are living save one: and Amy, who is living at Zimmerman, widow of Frank Gray, and who is the mother of six children.

J. Newton Coy received his schooling in the local schools and after his marriage in 1895 began farming on his own account. About fifteen years ago he inherited from an uncle the farm on which he is now living and ever since has made his home there. He is a Republican ; fraternally, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and he and his family are men- bers of the Mt. Zion Reformed church.

On August 29, 1895, J. Newton Coy was united in marriage to Cora Zimmerman, who also was born in Beavercreek township daughter of Cor- nelius Zimmerman. To this union three children have been born, Roy. Crawford and Dorothy, all of whom are at home.

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GEORGE MANN.

Agriculture has been an honorable vocation from the earliest time, and as a usual thing men of humane impulses, as well as those of energy and thrift, have been patrons of husbandry. The free, out-door life of the farm has a decided tendency to foster and develop that independence of mind and self-reliance which characterize true manhood. The name heading this sketch belongs to a gentleman who sprang from good old pioneer stock, and who always displayed the same degrees of energy and worthiness that were ever prominent characteristics of his ancestors.

George A. Mann and his wife, Elizabeth (Palmer) Mann, were of German descent, though natives of Pennsylvania, the foriner born in 1827, the latter in 1746. In 17- they emigrated to Rockingham county, Vir- ginia, where they remained some years, during which time George A. Mann served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. From that county they went to Nicholas county, Kentucky. They had eight children, John, Peter, Jacob, Henry, George, Elizabeth, Charles and David, the last named of whom was the father of the subject of this memorial sketch. While yet in Kentucky, George A. Mann purchased from his son-in-law, Adam Shillinger, two hun- dred acres situated on the waters of the South Fork (now Andersons Fork). The consideration was four dollars an acre and the purchase was made for his two youngest children, Charles and David. Early in the month of March, 1801, Charles and David Mann, the former twenty and the latter eighteen years of age, left their father's home in Nicholas county, Ken- tucky, for the "Territory Northwest of the Ohio" for the purpose of finding and settling on the lands mentioned. They left with the understanding that their father and mother, accompanied by their daughter Elizabeth Shill- inger, and her husband, Adam Shillinger, would follow in their trail in the fall of that year or in the spring of 1802. The boys were on horseback and carried with them such articles as were of the utmost importance and at the same time most convenient to carry, such as axes, a few cooking utensils, some provisions and, above all, the constant companion of the early settlers, their guns. At about noon of a day in the latter part of that month they landed at their destination and immediately set to work to prepare some kind of a shelter. They felled some mulberry trees, which they split into slabs, and with these slabs erected a rude structure somewhat similar in pattern to an Indian wigwam. Into this they carried their effects, and in it they spent their first night on the "farm." The morning must have been a dreary one for them, for snow lay deep on the ground. Without doubt, as they looked out upon it and the scene before them, they longed for the pleasant fireside of their father and the warm meal there being prepared by . the loved and loving mother. Few boys of this day would care to undergo

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such hardships; but the day came and went, to be followed in turn by others, until the time arrived when the crop for the coming year must go in the ground. The boys had labored hard, and why not? They were work- ing for a home. The cabin was already up, the land partly cleared and the ground was being prepared as rapidly as possible for the planting. A morn- ing came that caused them to sink temporarily into deepest despondency. They awoke to find that during the darkness of the night their horses had either strayed or were stolen. A decision was soon reached. Charles would go on the hunt for the missing animals. David would remain be- hind. Hastily bidding each other farewell. they separated; the former on the trail of the horses, the latter to his lonely toil. The day went by: a week followed, and months rolled by before the boys met again. David planted that season three acres of corn, securing seed from a settler named Price, who lived miles away near where Paintersville now stands. Spring passed, summer ended, his crop ripened and was garnered and yet no word from Charles, nor the loved ones from home. But he remained where he was. His nearest neighbors were Aaron Jenkins, Peter Price, and a settler where Waynesville now stands. The latter had a corn cracker that was turned by hand, which he had brought from Virginia. In the fall David would shell a grist of corn, put it in a linen bag which he had brought from home, then throwing it over his shoulder, with his gun in his hand, would trudge through the woods to the settler who owned the corn cracker, and after cracking the corn return home again the same way, a distance of nearly twenty miles. An incident occurred during that summer worthy of mention. One day when the corn was in fine condition for roasting, six big Indians came down the creek and went into the corn patch. Husking off an arm load of ears a piece they carried them down to the banks of the creek where after starting a fire they had a feast. David was a spectator of the scene and while he did not like to see the fruits of his labors going to fill a half dozen lazy savages, he did not say so to them, but allowed them to eat and depart when they were ready.

Charles Mann followed the horses day after day, until he reached the Ohio river opposite Maysville, at which point he learned that animals answering his description had swum the river at that place and had gone in the direction of Nicholas county. He crossed the river and followed on until his father's home was reached, and there he found the objects of his search. On his return home, all thoughts of waiting until spring were abandoned, and preparations were at once begun for an immediate removal to their new home. September found them on their way, and October safely landed in this state. Here they remained; here the boys grew to manhood; here under the sturdy strokes of these brave men grew one of the finest farms in the settlement and here on the 4th day of May, 1821. at (58)

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the age of ninety-five years, George A. Mann passed to his rest, to be fol- lowed at the age of eighty-four in January, 1839, by Elizabeth, the wife and mother. Thus passed from earth to eternity two of those noble souls who were so largely instrumental in preparing the way for succeeding gen- erations.

David Mann was intensely fond of music and made a violin of a gourd, from whose depths he caused the sweetest strains to flow, whiling away many, many lonesome hours. He would often spend a part of the Sabbath day sitting under the majestic oaks, playing on his gourd violin. One day his only sister, who had settled on an adjoining farm, died; music lost its charm and the old violin the touch of its master. It was many years before he sought his favorite instrument again.

Charles Mann married Lydia, the daughter of Aaron Jenkins, and set- tled on an adjoining farm. He died on December 24, 1865, aged eighty- three. His wife, Lydia, died on April 5, 1838, aged fifty-two years.

David Mann married Rachel Irvin. They were the parents of eleven children, namely : Elizabeth, Druzilla, Jonas, Alexander, John, Sarah, David, George, Rachel, Joseph and Henry.

Among the stalwart men of a former generation who exerted an ex- cellent influence in the community during the period of the development of Spring Valley township in the vicinity of New Burlington, the late George Mann, son of David and Rachel (Irvin) Mann, who died at his home in that neighborhood in the summer of 1915, will long be held in grateful remembrance there. Mr. Mann was born in that vicinity, a member of one of the real pioneer families and there spent all his life, becoming a sub- stantial farmer and a man of influence in his community; he having devel- oped a fine bit of farm property just north of the village of New Burling- ton, the place now owned and occupied by his daughter, Mrs. Anna E. Oglesbee.

George Mann was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal church. During the greater part of his life he espoused the cause of the Democratic party, but in later years he had turned the influence of his political convictions to the Prohibition party. His wife, who before her marriage was Rachel Kearns and who was born in the vicinity of Newark, this state, died at the age of forty-six years. He survived her for many years and lived to the great age of ninety-two years, his death occurring at his home in Spring Valley township on July 5. 1915.

To George and Rachael (Kearns) Mann were born four children, namely : Anna E., who now owns and is living on her father's old farm in Spring Valley township, the widow of Augustus S. Oglesbee; Emma, who died unmarried: Horace, now a resident of Whittier, California, and Martha D., widow of the late Dr. Raymond W. Smith, of Spring Valley, a

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memorial sketch in relation to whom is presented elsewhere in this volume.

Augustus S. Oglesbee,· deceased husband of Anna A. (Mann) Ogles- bee, was born near Lumberton, Liberty township, Clinton county, Ohio, on March 31, 1856, and died on January 15, 1909. He was a son of Manly and Phenia (Hiatt) Oglesbee, early settlers of Clinton county, and of Quaker descent. Manley Oglesbee had one hundred acres, part in Clinton county and part in Greene county. He had eleven children, of whom Augustus S. was the sixth in order of birth. Augustus S. Oglesbee grew up on the farm and married and bought a farm of one hundred and seventy acres in Clinton county (in Chester township), which is still owned by his widow. There Augustus S. Oglesbee spent the rest of his life. He was a Democrat. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church, as does his widow.

After Mr. Oglcsbee's death, his widow. in the same year, returned to her father's home in Spring Valley township, this county, to take care of her father. There she lived until her father died and there she continued to reside, the farm belonging to her and her sister, Mrs. Martha D. Smith. Accompanying this sketch is an engraving of the late George Mann and his four grandsons, the only living grandchildren representing the name.

LEONARD C. ADSIT.

Leonard C. Adsit, manager of the extensive plant of the Jamestown Floral Company at Jamestown, this county, was born on a farm in Caesars- creek township, this county, April 3, 1872, son of Silas and Mary (Ford) Adsit, the latter of whom also was born in this county, who are now liv- ing retired at Jamestown. Silas Adsit was born in the state of New York, but was but a boy when he came to Greene county with his parents, the family locating here. He was early trained to the carpenter's trade and later became a farmer. For some years he lived in Indiana and then returned to this county and began farming in Caesarscreek township, where he re- mained until his retirement from the farm. To him and his wife were born five sons, the subject of this sketch having had four brothers, Walter and William, deceased; Louis, who is living at Columbus, this state, and Daniel, living at Jamestown.

Leonard C. Adsit was fifteen years of age when his parents moved from the farm to Jamestown and his schooling was completed in the schools of that place. When seventeen years of age he became employed in a bakery and for six or seven years thereafter followed the trade of a baker. He then became interested in the florist business and at Springfield secured en- ployment in a green house where he became familiar with the business. From

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there he went to Columbus and after several years of additional experi- ence in the greenhouses of that city, went to Dayton, where for three years he was connected with the Miami Floral Company, the largest concern of its kind between Chicago and New York City . Thus equipped by the most thorough practical experience, Mr. Adsit returned to Greene county and, in association with his son-in-law, James A. Johnson, bought the greenhouse at Jamestown and reorganized the same, improving and extending the plant and giving it a new start under the name of the Jamestown Floral Com- pany, Mr. Adsit taking the general management of the plant. This plant consists of seven floral houses, all equipped in up-to-date fashion and the company makes a specialty of pot plants, greenhouse stock and cut flowers of all descriptions. Besides the retail field covered by the company, the James- town Floral Company does an extensive wholesale business.

In 1898 Leonard C. Adsit was united in marriage to Mary Abbey, who also was born in this county, and to this union two children have been born. Louise, who married James A. Johnson, owner of the greenhouses of which his father-in-law is the manager, and Hannah.

MATHIAS KINNEY.

The late Mathias Kinney, a member of one of the pioneer families of Greene county, was born on what is now known as the Snively place, in this county, July 17, 1817, son of Peter and Jane (Quinn) Kinney, natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in 1787 and the latter in 1790, who became early settlers in this county, where their last days were spent.

Reared on the pioneer farm on which he was born, Mathias Kinney received his schooling in the primitive "subscription" schools of that neigh- borhood and as a young man took up the trade of carpenter, with particular reference to barn building, and after a while became a contractor on his own account. He also did some farming, having been the owner of a fine little farm lying on the edge of the city of Yellow Springs, and on that place made his home, spending his last days there, his death occurring on October 8, 1891, he then being past seventy-four years of age. Mr. Kinney was one of the charter members of the old Mud Run Presbyterian church, west of Yellow Springs, and was for years a member of the village council.

Mathias Kinney was twice married and by his first wife, Elizabeth Foresman, was the father of eight children. Following the death of the mother of these children he married, May 16, 1867, Sarah E. Applegate, who survives him and who is still living at the old home place at the edge of Yellow Springs, where she has a very pleasant home. Mrs. Kinney also was born in this county and is a member of one of the county's old families,

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her parents, Elias and Ann Maria (DeHart) Applegate, having come here from New Jersey in 1832. Elias Applegate was a substantial farmer and he and his wife were the parents of eight children, those besides Mrs. Kin- ney having been William, Catherine, Mary. Julia, Margaret, Hannah and Howard. To Mathias and Sarah E. (Applegate) Kinney were born three children, namely: Charles, a farmer of the Yellow Springs neighborhood, who is married and has five children; Edmund, an instructor in the agri- cultural department of the Kentucky State University at Lexington, who is married and has two daughters, and LaBerta, a teacher in the Union school at Yellow Springs. Mrs. Kinney is a member of the Presbyterian church.

PATRICK HENRY ABBEY.

Patrick Henry Abbey, who for more than thirty years was a faithful employee of the great powder-mills plant south of Yellow Springs, but who for the past seven or eight years has been living retired from the active labors of life, is a native of the Emerald Isle, born on March 14, 1842, son of John and Ella (Mooney) Abbey, who were the parents of six children, Ann, Patrick, John, Edward, James and Margaret, all of whom continued to make their home in Ireland save Patrick and his brother John, the latter of whom is now living in Missouri.

When he was fifteen years of age, in 1857, Patrick Henry Abbey made his passage across to the port of New York. He did not find life in the new country agreeable as his youthful dreams had pictured it, but after awhile he found employment in the House of Refuge on Staten Island and there remained until he was about eighteen years of age, when he came to Ohio and after a while became employed in the big King powder-mills in this county. In 1860 Mr. Abbey came to Greene county, his destination being Xenia, and two or three years later, at Xenia, he married Hannah Higginson, who also had come to this country from Ireland. . After his marriage Mr. Abbey found employment in various lines in and about Xenia. but presently he returned to his former employment in the powder-mills and there remained more than thirty years, until 1910, when he retired and has since been living quietly at Yellow Springs.

Hannah (Higginson) Abbey died in 1898 and is buried at Yellow Springs. To her union with the subject were born six children. namely : Mary Ellen, who died at the age of two years; Anna, who also died when two years of age: Lizzie, wife of Charles Roemack, of Chicago; Mary, who married Linn Adzet, now living at Springfield, who has one child, a daughter, Louise, who married James Johnson and has a daughter, Hannah: Anna, who also lives in Springfield, widow of William Jolly, and who has a daugh-

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ter, Margaret; and Margaret, who married Bird Spriggs, now living at Jamestown, this county, and has one child, a son, Patrick Henry, named in honor of his grandfather. Mr. Abbey is a Democrat with independent lean- ings and by religious persuasion is a Catholic.

EDWIN J. LAMPERT.

Edwin J. Lampert, manager of the Engle Floral Company at Xenia, was born at Xenia on September 17, 1884, son of James J. and Catherine (Hornick) Lampert, the latter of whom also was born in this county, daugh- ter of John Hornick and wife, who lived in the eastern part of the county.

James J. Lampert was born in Cincinnati and was there for the days of his boyhood trained to the florist business, remaining there until the days of his young manhood when he was put in charge of the greenhouses of the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia and took up his residence there. Not long after his arrival here he married and about thirty-five years ago established his home on North King street, where hc started a floral establishment of his own and developed an extensive business in that line. Mr. and Mrs. Lampert are still living at Xenia. They have six children, namely: John, who is unmarried and who is still living at Xenia; William, now living in California, who married Miss Heinz, of St. Louis, and has one child; George and Harry, unmarried, who for the past eight years have been operating a wholesale floral establishment at Xenia, and Helen, unmarried, who continues to make her home wtih her parents in Xenia.

Edwin J. Lampert was reared at Xenia and received his schooling in the schools of that city. From the days of his boyhood he was carefully trained in the florist business of his father, and after his marriage in 1910 continuing his interest in the business, but presently moved to 221 Dayton , avenue, where he now has an extensive and thriving florist business, operat- ing the same under the name of the Engle Floral Company. Mr. Lampert's greenhouses are operated in strictly up-to-date fashion and during the time he has been engaged in business there he has developed a trade that covers a wide territory hereabout.

On August 17, 1910, Edwin J. Lampert was united in marriage to Nellie Hamma, of the Yellow Springs neighborhood, daughter of Elmer A. and Harriet (Gowdy) Hamma, both of whom were born in this county. To this union one child has been born, a daughter, Martha Helen, born on October 24, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Lampert are members of the Catholic church.

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GEORGE A. CARLISLE.

George A. Carlisle, a well-known retired hay dealer living at Yellow Springs, was born on a farm in Miami township, this county, June 29, 1840, son of Jehu and Hettie (Batchelor) Carlisle, the former of whom came to this county from Virginia in the days of his youth, married here and here spent the rest of his life, living to the age of eighty-three years. Jehu Car- lisle was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1816, and there remained until 1836, when he came over into this part of Ohio and settled in Greene county. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in Miami township, where he lived until his retirement from the farm and removal to Yellow Springs, where he died twenty years later. His widow survived him for some little time. She was born on what is now the site of the Old Folks Home at Yellow Springs in the spring of 1816, daughter of Robert Batchelor and wife, who had come here from Pennsylvania and were among the first settlers in the vicinity of the medicinal springs around which the village of Yellow Springs later grew up. Jehu Carlisle and his wife were the parents of nine children, namely: Robert B., deceased; George A., the immediate subject of this sketch; John, deceased; James. deceased ; Julia, wife of Henry Confer, of Selma, in Clark county; Mrs. Margaret Muskman, deceased; Towne, a retired lumberman, of Yellow Springs, and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; Will- iam, also a resident of Greene county, and Jessie, who married Lincoln Harner and is now deceased.

George A. Carlisle received his schooling in the Yellow Springs schools and from the days of his boyhood was accustomed to work. During the progress of the Civil War he enlisted, in 1864, and went to the front as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was later transferred to Company K of the One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Regiment, with which he served until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Carlisle became engaged in the garden-truck business, dealing between Springfield and Cedar- ville, and later became engaged in business at Yellow Springs for thirty- seven years previous to his retirement in 1892. Since his retirement he has continued to make his home in Yellow Springs, where he is very com- fortably situated. Mr. Carlisle is a Democrat, with independent leanings.

On September 17, 1861, George A. Carlisle was united in marriage to Margaret Kiser, who also was born in this county, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ellis) Kiser, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in the state of Maryland, who were the parents of eight children, of rwhom Mrs. Carlisle was the third in order of birth, the others being

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History of Greene County, Ohio: its people, industries and institutions, Volume II, Part 102

Author: Broadstone, Michael A., 1852- comp Publication date: 1918 Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen Number of Pages: 1440

Author: Broadstone, Michael A., 1852- comp
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1440