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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
A.
Abels, James D. 613
Adair, William J 763
Albin, Perry M. 531
Allison, Richard M 907
Amos, John M.
544
Anderson, Charles M. 818
Anderson, John 813
Anderson, Matthias C. 813
Arbuckle, Alexander W.
725
Arndt, David 608
Arndt, Howard 608
Atkins, Robert H. 791
Atkins, Robert N 599
Ault, Charles M.
650
Austin, Charles R. 783
B
Bair, James
505
Banta, Charles Levi 517
Barber, Nathan H. 894
Barnes, John W. 670
Barr, James R.
926
Bayless, Osmond M. 533
Beckett, John C. 477
Bell, Oscar
604
Bell, William H. 674
Bennett, Arthur
625
Berry, John S. 909
Berry, Oscar J.
758
Bierly, William F
492
Bird, Frank E.
852
Black, Archibald L. 787
Blair, William H.
839
Bond, John H.
685
Bonnell, Thomas A 482
Bostwick, John A.
554
Bostwick, Nathan
555
Bown, Herbert H.
529
Braden, Daniel E. 899
Bradford, William N. 654
Bratton, John B.
770
Bratton, Samuel, Jr
511
Brown, J. Marshall
550
Brown, Turner 889
Brown, William H. 648
Bruner, John L. 600
Burgess, Samuel M 494
Burt, David S.
728
Burt, John M.
762
C
Cain, Albert R. 672
Cale, John W. 801
Campbell, James
468
Carnes, Samuel C. 578
Carter, Samuel 610
Casey, Charles L. 501
Catholic Church in Guernsey County. 480 Clark, John Bargar 945
Clark, Richard J 572
Clark, Stephen B
519
Clark, Thomas C. 571
Cochran, Alexander 615
Coen, Alexander
596
Combs, James G. 822
Combs, John M. 811
Conner, Silas W. 658
Conroy, Dennis 967
Cowden, David L. 919
Cowden, William N 919
Craig, Samuel A 662
Cubbison, James
588
Cubbison, Pulaski
587
D
Davis, Carson B. 800
Davis, William H. 688
Davis, William H., Jr. 776
Deselm, Wilbur D. . 736
Dickerson, George W. 715
Dilley, Ephraim M.
877
Dilley, James L. 834
Dollison, Joseph B. 627
Dowdall, William W. 673
Druesedow, Anton E.
697
Dyson, Joseph W.
526
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
E
Eagleson, Alexander G. 679
Eagleson, Thomas 534
Eagleton, William 913
Heaume, William E. 528
Heiner, Charles A. 722
Henderson, James C. 796
Hilderbrand, Benjamin I.
858
Hoopman, Elijah B. 750
Hoopman, James A. 756
Hoopman, Parmer E. 757
Hoopman, William H. 512
Hunt, William A. 789
Hutton, William A. 874
Hyatt, John H.
946
Hyatt, Noah
947
J
Jackson, Coleman B. 881
Jackson, Samuel 746
Jenkins, David J. . 884
Johnson, Samuel M. 642
Johnston, Andrew S. T. 597
Johnston, Francis 597
Johnston, Willard B. 624
Johnston, William F. 921
Joyce, Benjamin B.
558
K
Kaho, George S. 695
Keenan, Isaac W. 560
Koontz, Henry A. 862
Koren, Joseph
812
L
Laughlin, James
854
Lawyer, William M. 524
Lee, Benjamin F. 882
Lepage, Nathaniel 837
Linkhorn, L. S. 768
Linn, David 548
Lofland, Gordon 486
Lowry, Orlando F. 514
Luccock, Howard W. 656
Lynch, Edward
845
H
Hall, Edward 911
Hall, Isaac W. 586
Hall, John R. 585
Hartley, Leon C. 929
Hartley, Milton L. 929
Hawes, James F. 779
Hawes, Joseph 780
Hayman, Jacob H. 682
Heade, Wilson S. 521
Eagleton, John 913
Eaton, James E
612
Eaton, Philip W.
606
Enos, Benjamin F 515
Evans, William P. 836
F
Fairchild, John T. 861
Ferguson, Ira 503
Ferguson, Joseph 629
Finley, John F. 778
Finley, Samuel
777
Fishel, John B.
774
Forbes, Robert S. 786
Forsythe, Homer A. 901
Forsythe, William R.
923
Fowler, Thomas W 951
Frame, Roland S 793
Frost, John W. 622
Frye, Charles W 771
Frye, George W. 581
Frye, Henry F. 760
Frye, William K. 761
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Gable, John E. 496
Galbraith, Henry) P 828
Gander, David C. 710
Gander, Homer S. 767
Gibson, William H. 619
Graham, Richard C. 552
Grant, John Roland
961
Green, Elmer E.
932
Green, Fred F 876
Green, James 931
Green, Willoughby B. 937
Gregg, John B. 537
Gregg, William D. 589
Gregg, William J. 590
Groves, Samuel C. 773
Mc
McBurney, James R. 607
McConnell, John M. 579
McCourt, James 737
McCracken, Alexander 868
McCreary, James H. 690
McCreary, John L.
781
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
McCulloch, Allen R. 898
McIlyar, Clyde R. 659
McKim, Martin V. 617
Mckinley, Thomas W. 717
McMillen, George A. 700
M
Mahaffey, John P. 498
Marsh, D. Dillon 640
Mathews, Edward W., Jr. 500
Mathews, Edward W., Sr. 465
Meek, Erastus F.
824
Merry, Abraham M. 968
Millhone, Elijah
871
Moore, Andrew Bines. 832
Moore, Hiram K. 896
Moore, Isaac 708
Moore, James W. 878
Moore, Robert B.
798
Moore, Ross 527
Moore, Thomas I.
708
Moore, Wiley O.
576
Moorhead, Joel 539
Moorhead, John S.
843
Morgan, John H. 484
Morton, Isaac 633
Moser, William M. 831
Murray, Alexander R. 631
Murray, James
631
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Nash, John H. 735
Neeland, Elijah 705
Nelson, Edwin M. 686
Nichols, W. G. 972
Nicholson, Andrew W. 747
Nicholson, Jacob 806
Nicholson, John L. 809
Nicholson, John R. 755
Nicholson, Ulysses G.
749
Nosset, David W. 564
0
Orr, Charles A. 508
Ogier, John, Jr. 541
Oldham, Isaac A. 885
Oldham, Isaac J. 669
Orr, James Clinton 507
P
Patton, James E. 543
People's Bank, Pleasant City 493
Peters, James B. 952
Pitt, Albert E. $16
Potts, Benjamin O. 677
Pryor, James A. 820
Purdum, U. C. 546
Purdum, Zachary 546
Pyles, Thomas 943
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Ramsey, William T. 784
Rankin, Daniel L. 804
Reasoner, Lynn S. 635
Reasoner, Thomas H. 636
Reynolds, John 661
Riddle, Lincoln O. 759
Riggs, Eugene C. 887
Ringer, Arthur G. 667
Robins, James E. 583
Robins, John, Sr 583
Robins, Martin L. 584
Rogers, Lawson A. 815
Rogers, Lilburn C.
940
Rosemond Family 933
Rosemond, Fred L.
936
S
St. Benedict's Catholic Church 480
Salladay, George 567
Salladay, Jacob W. 916
Salladay, Lewis F. 573
Salladay, Warren 574
Sarchet, Cyrus P. B. 463
Sarchet Family 457
Sarchet, Moses 162
Sarchet, Thomas, Sr. 458
Schick Brothers 949
Schick, Frank L., Jr.
950
Schick, Frank L., Sr.
949
Schick, John B. 951
Scott, Nathan B.
733
Scott, Robert T. 866
Secrest, George M.
792
Secrest, Harrison
851
Secrest, Jacob F.
591
Secrest, James M.
850
Secrest, James W. 808
Secrest, Noah E. 739
Secrest, Noah E. 713
Secrest, William 795
Shaw, George R. 727
Shepler, Robert I. 765
Sheppard, Benjamin F. 470
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Sheppard, Charles S. 602
Sheppard, William S. 970
Sherby, Michael 562
Trenner, George S. 644
Trenner, Obediah E. 847
Trott, Elza D. 752
True, Alfred J. 565
Turner, George 488
Turner, William H.
488
Simpson, William L. 621
U
Upton, William H.
476
V
Vankirk, Samuel C.
917
Veitch, Henry H 891
Vessels, John A. 965
Vorhies, Elmer E. 892
W
Wagner, Rev. J. H.
480
Wall, Andrew
720
Warne, Clinton D. 691
White, Isaac N.
676
Williams, Henry L. 523
Williams, Robert N. 743
Wills, Theodore M. 856
Wilson, Henry H. 638
Wilson, James M. 963
Wilson, Samuel, Sr. 638
Wilson, William C.
964
Wilson, William H. 569
Wires, John 731
Woodworth, Henry P. 902
Wycoff, Albert E.
714
Temple, Edward
704
Temple, Lafayette 704
Temple, William
704
Thompson, Bert M. 473
Thompson, Ebenezer F.
829
Thompson, John A.
864
Thompson, William 829
Trenner, Benjamin 693
Shriver, John W.
692
Shriver, Mark Gordon 699
Shriver, Michael E. 698
Siegfried, Jacob B.
536
Siens, Milton H. 557
Skinner, James A.
647
Smith, Ernest W. 724
Smith, Frank R. 509
Smith, George M. 942
Smith, Jeremiah R. 869
Spaid, Chaise J.
971
Spaid, James E. 859
Spaid, Thomas A.
702
Stage, William M.
827
Stage, William S. 827
Stevens, Alpheus L.
472
Stewart, James B. 574
Stone, Elias D. 848
Stout, George H. 924
Strauch, Matthew
719
Stubbs, Isaac E. 652
Suitt, William C.
665
T
Taylor, Alexander A. 904
Taylor, David D. 592
Taylor, Joseph D. 953
Taylor, Orlando R. 842
Y
Yeo, William B.
741
Young, Ora F.
712
Z
Zahniser, Robert W.
915
COL. CYRUS P. B. SARCHET.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
THE SARCHET FAMILY.
The Sarchet family were among the first to settle in this county, being among the number of families that emigrated from the island of Guernsey (France) in 1806, and as the family have been prominent in the history of this county, which was named for the island they came from, it may be of interest to the reader of local history to know something in detail of the ancestry as well as of the members of the family who have left their impress on their adopted country.
The Sarchet family, of the island of Guernsey, Europe, were descend- ants of the De Souchets, of the north of France. Thomas, a son of that fam- ily (who were zealous Catholics), obtained, during his minority, a French Bible, which he persisted in reading, against the protest of his father and mother, as also the parish priest, who threatened the anathemas of the church. The Bible is still in the Sarchet family as a precious relic. Through fear, he fled from his home to the island of Jersey, from there to Guernsey, where he assumed the name of Sarchet. This was about the year 1670. He married and had one son. This son married and had two sons, Thomas and Peter. who became the heads of two families in Guernsey. Thomas, John, Peter and Nicholas were the sons of Thomas, and Peter, the only son of Peter, and, these five sons having all emigrated to Guernsey county, Ohio, the name is now extinct in the island of Guernsey.
Thomas, the elder son of Thomas, succeeded to the patrimonial estate, the old "Sarchet mansion," a massive stone structure of the olden time, with fourteen acres of land attached. He was a cultivator of fruits and vege- tables for the market of St. Petersport, and also a carter or drayman of the city. John was a ship's blacksmith, a maker of chain cables and anchors; a man of more than ordinary ability, shrewd and cunning ; he was an advocate of free trade, and represented the Iron-master's Union of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, before the ways and means committee of the House of Representa- tives of the United States, in a report advocating free-trade in iron. His report was bitterly assailed by Henry Clay, as coming from a dirty-handed
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smuggler of the island of Guernsey ; the report was sustained by Albert Gal- liten, in an able speech, wherein he pronounced that, though John Sarchet's hands were dirty, it was from honest toil, and that his argument was un- answerable.
Peter Sarchet was a carpenter, and Nicholas was a blacksmith, each of whom were quiet, frugal, industrious men, filling their places in society with credit to themselves and families.
Peter, son of Peter, was a gentleman of leisure and means, with the title of Sire Peter.
THOMAS SARCHET, SR., the pioneer of the Guernsey families of Guern- sey county, Ohio, was born in the parish of Saint Samson, island of Guernsey, in Europe, June 29, 1770, and was married to Anne, or Nancy Birchard, a daughter of James Birchard and Esther Gallienne, of the parish of La Quartie, in the year 1789, to whom were born four sons and two daughters, Thomas, David, Peter B., Moses, Nancy and Rachel, all of whom were born in the island of Guernsey.
In the year 1806, when all Europe was under arms and the eagles of the first Napoleon were spreading from kingdom to kingdom, and kings and crowns were at his disposal, the island of Guernsey, in the English channel, between the two great contending powers, was made the rendezvous for the troops of England and her allies. The inhabitants were compelled to sup- ply the troops with provisions, and "press-gangs" were over-running the island, pressing all able-bodied men into the English service. Thomas Sar- chet, a philanthropist and Christian, opposed to war, resolved to seek a home in the New World of the West. The old ancestral home, the home of Victor Hugo, the French republican, who would not follow the lead of the "man of December" during his exile, was disposed of, and in May, 1806, Thomas, John and Peter Sarchet and Daniel Ferbrache, a brother-in-law, with their families, boarded a fishing smack at Saint Petersport, bound for a Jersey port, where they were to take passage in an English emigrant ship bound for Nor- folk, Virginia. On the voyage to Jersey the smack was boarded by a "press- gang" and two young men named Simmons, who were passengers bound for America, were taken from the boat. On arriving at Jersey, Thomas Sarchet appeared before the governor of the island and demanded the immediate re- lease of the two young men, which he succeeded in obtaining. This is men- tioned to show a distinguishing trait of his character-a heart that went out after the distressed and oppressed.
The English ship, commanded by Captain McCrandal, a son-in-law of Sire Peter Sarchet, was convoyed by an English man-of-war out of the Eng-
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lish channel into the ocean until it was thought the ship was safe from the French cruisers, when the farewell and lucky journey was extended and the ship and escort parted. After being a few days out, a French cruiser was sighted in full pursuit. A canvas had been prepared for such an emergency, and soon the name of the ship was covered by "The Eliza of Boston" and the American Jack proudly floated to the breeze. The French cruiser not being aware of the ruse, and the United States and France being on good terms, gave up the chase. The ocean voyage was calm and pleasant, without any unusual occurrence, excepting the death of a child of the Ferbrache family, the body being wrapped in a sheet and consigned to the ocean, after the im- pressive burial service of the Episcopal church had been read by the captain, to await the day when "the sea shall give up its dead."
The landing was made at Norfolk, June 3, 1806, and shipping taken for Baltimore, Maryland. At that city, wagons, horses and equipments for the overland journey were procured, and they passed out of Baltimore June 16th, the sun then being in total eclipse. The point of destination in the west was Cincinnati, Ohio. The journey over the mountains was a long and tiresome one, beneath the hot, sultry sun of July and August. Arriving at Cambridge, August 14, 1806, the town being just laid out and the underbrush cut off Main street, a consultation was had with the proprietors of the town, Jacob Gom- ber and Zaccheus A. Beatty, which resulted in a determination to stop and set- tle. A brush tent was hastily built near a spring, on land in what is now known as Lofland addition to Cambridge, and here "their wanderings were o'er."
Thomas Sarchet purchased lot number 58, corner Main and Vine streets, as then known, and at once began the erection of a hewed log house, which was completed in the summer of 1807, and is still standing (October, 1910). It is the oldest landmark of the pioneer settlement in Cambridge, it having been weather-boarded, however, which greatly preserved it intact all these years- one hundred and three. There pioneer Sarchet lived the remainder of his days, dying April 21. 1837, aged sixty-seven years, and there also his good wife resided until her death, April 2, 1849, aged eighty-three years.
A number of years before his death Mr. Sarchet lost almost entirely the use of his limbs and had to be carried to his church, a duty that was cheer- fully performed by his religious brethren, as a tribute to his worth and their esteem for the old father of the church whose great delight was in communion with the saints. He sang with rapturous delight one of the old Methodist hymns :
"My latest sun is sinking fast, My race is nearly run."
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The funeral services of Thomas Sarchet and Anne Sarchet were con- ducted by Rev. Cornelius Springer, with whom they had fellowshipped, both in the "Old Side" and "Radical" church. He died early in life : his children all lived to be three score and ten.
Thomas Sarchet was not a man of leisure ; he was a busy man-a man before whose strong arm the "wilderness was made an habitation, and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose." He began to take hold of such enterprises as the necessities of a new country required. He made a journey to Pittsburg with pack horses to procure salt. He made a journey to Phila- delphia, for store goods, and opened out the first store in Cambridge in the spring of 1808. Prior to this he had leased the "saline lands," at Chandlers- ville, Muskingum county, from the state of Ohio, and there began the manu- facture of salt. These saline springs had been used by the Indians, with their rude implements, for salt making, which led to the reservation by the state. He continued to make salt from these springs until about the close of the war of 1815, when he bored the old Sarchet well, where he owned a section and a half of land, and continued to manufacture salt until the fuel gave out and the works were abandoned. This was an artesian well. The water was forced twenty feet above the surface by gas, and flowed many years. While engaged at the salt works at Chandlersville a nephew. Daniel Ferbrache, fell into the "cat-hole." and was so badly burned that his death followed in a few days. An account of his sufferings, Christian resignation and triumphant death, pub- lished in the Methodist Magasine, from the pen of Thomas Sarchet, entitled "Passing Through the Fire," was read with interest and largely copied into the secular papers of the day, as showing how well Christians could die.
Strength and agility were traits prided in by the pioneer settlers, and it was not unusual for reputed "bullies" to engage in the then manly (now brutal) sport of the prize ring; but no bully ever bantered Thomas Sarchet. He was known as the "strong man," and was said to have carried, on a wager, upon his back, one thousand pounds, from his dray into a mill at Saint Petersport. Guernsey. At house-raisings and log-raisings, when the weight seemed too heavy for the force applied, his brave "Ho, boys, heave," meant the log must move.
A member of the Wesleyan connection of the church in Guernsey, and a licensed exhorter. he brought with him and his family the nucleus of the Methodist Episcopal church of Cambridge, organized from the "French Class," of which he was the leader, by the Rev. James Watts, in 1808. His house became the place for preaching, and his home and hospitality was open and free to the horseback itinerant of the early church. Many of the great men
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of the church, of sacred memory, partook of his bounty, and reposed in quiet and security beneath his hospitable roof. Among the number may be named Bishops McKendree, Hedding, Soule, Waugh, Hamline, Morris and J. B. Fin- ley. John P. Durbin, Charles Elliott, James Quinn, David Young and others whose names have been forgotten.
When "mutual rights," the rock that split in twain the Methodist Epis- copal church, began to be agitated, opposed as he had been to the kingly pre- rogative in the old country, he became an advocate of lay delegation and against the tenure for life of the office of bishops, and when the final split came he went into the new organization, and, in a large measure, built the first Methodist Protestant church, at his own expense, in Cambridge, in the year 1832, and continued in it, as he had been in the old church, a leader and a pillar. His reason for leaving the "Old Side" church, as it was called during those heated days of controversy, and connection with the "Radicals," as the new organization was styled, he had published by John Hersh, then editor of the Guernsey Times, and circulated throughout the places where the disturb- ing question was most agitated. His reasons were based on the republican idea of equality and fraternity, with no privileged sect. But, like all reform- ers, he lived in advance of his days, and as all that was demanded then has become a part of the polity of the Methodist Episcopal church of today, ex- cept the life tenure of bishops, his reasons, which he bequeathed as a legacy to his children, may be accepted as not coming from a fanatic without reason.
The fruit trees planted in Cambridge were carried on horseback by him from the Putnam nursery at Marietta, where he procured seed and planted a nursery, from which the older orchards of Guernsey county were derived.
He held no civil office higher than road supervisor. He lived and died enjoying the fullest confidence of the people in his honesty and integrity of character, and it came to be a saying, "If Thomas Sarchet says so, it must be true." He had no blot upon his character, unless the necessities of the pio- neers in converting their surplus grain into alcoholic liquors in order to secure a market, might be called a blot,-when ministers and laymen drank from the same bowl,-for he was a brewer of beer and a distiller of whisky.
As the pioneer, he was followed in 1807 by James Birchard, William Ogier, Thomas Naftal, Thomas Lenfesty, Daniel Hubert, Sire Peter Sarchet and John Marquand, with their families, and John Robin, Peter, John and Nicholas Toroade, Nicholas Poedwin, Peter Corbet, Nicholas Sarchet, and Peter Langley, young men.
The following is a roster of the family of pioneer Thomas Sarchet :
Thomas, born July 2, 1790; married Catherine Marquand; sons, Solo-
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mon, Thomas Y., Charles M .; daughters, Nancy, Anne, Martha Matilda, Maria, Lucinda.
Nancy, or Anne, born December 5, 1793; married Capt. Cyrus P. Beatty; sons, John A., Thomas, Zaccheus; daughters, Nancy B., Ellen, Rachel.
David, born November 14, 1797; married Mary Hill, Margaret Britton, Jemima De Hart, Mary Toroade ; sons, Simon P., Fletcher B., David T., Al- pheus T., Elmer G. ; daughters, Nancy, Margaret, Elizabeth and Rachel.
Peter B., born May 6, 1800; married Catherine Holler, Martha Mc- Cully, Mary Mitchell; sons, Thomas H., Joseph H., John M., Cyrus T. B., George M. ; daughters, Harriet, Lorette.
Moses, born April 17, 1803; married Martha Bichard; sons, Cyrus P. B., Thomas, James B., Charles J., John H. ; daughters, Nancy B., Rachel M., Harriet J.
Rachel M., born April 14, 1805 ; married John P. Beatty; son, Zaccheus .A. : daughters, Anne M., Margery L., Sarah K., Ellen A., Harriet A., Mar- garet MI. and Cecelia F.
MOSES SARCHET, son of Thomas and Ann Sarchet, natives of the island of Guernsey, was born on that island April 17, 1803. His parents emigrated to this country in the autumn of 1806, locating at Cambridge. Moses Sar- chet married, on March 23, 1826, Martha Bichard, daughter of James and Rachel Bichard, who were also from the isle of Guernsey, coming here with Thomas Sarchet and his little colony. Mrs. Moses Sarchet was born in 1805. The children born to Moses and Martha (Bichard) Sarchet were as follows: Nancy B., Cyrus P. B., Rachel M., Harriet Josephine, Thomas, James B., Charles J. and John H., eight in all.
At the death of Cyrus P. Beatty, Mr. Sarchet was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas, which office he held for fifteen years. He was twice mayor of the city of Cambridge, and for many years a justice of the peace and superintendent of the National pike a number of years. Was twice nominated for representative of Guernsey county and in each campaign was defeated by the Democratic party, he always voting the Republican ticket. He was a busy man and yet always found time to entertain his friends in a hospitable manner. He had hosts of friends, who mourned his death, which occurred September 9, 1890. He was buried in the cemetery at Cam- bridge, September IIth. His wife died March 1, 1887. At the date of her death there were twenty-eight grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. She was sixty-four years an acceptable member of the Methodist Episcopal church. As a mother, she ordered her household well. As a neighbor, she
MOSES SARCHET.
MRS. MARTHA SARCHET.
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was kind, obliging and charitable. At her request, she was buried beside her four sons, and now the husband rests beside her. She sleeps the sleep of the just.
CYRUS PARKINSON BEATTY SARCHET was born in the house formerly owned by his grandfather, Thomas, this structure having been built the third one in Cambridge, and, with the exception of three years in his early man- hood, his entire life has been spent in this vicinity. He is the eldest son of Moses and Martha (Bichard) Sarchet, and was born November 17, 1828. His ancestors were French Huguenots, who at an early day took up their residence on the island of Guernsey. The original spelling of the name, it is supposed, was Sauchet, the French form of which would be De Sarcha. and some of the family have taken that name.
About 1670 one Thomas Sarchet, a zealous Catholic, obtained a French Bible, which he persisted in reading against the desires of his parents and the parish priest, and at length was obliged to flee from his country, going to Guernsey, having stopped for some time in the isle of Jersey. This Bible is mentioned elsewhere in detail in this work, and is still in the hands of the family here. Thomas married and had two sons, as shown in the accompany- ing genealogy. Upon arriving in America in 1806, and at Cambridge, Ohio, August 14th of that year, they found the hamlet just platted. The father bought a lot at the corner of Wheeling avenue and Seventh street and erected a log cabin, a part of which was still standing in the eighties, in a good state of preservation. Within this log house the grandfather, Thomas Sarchet, lived until his death, April 21, 1837, and his wife died there a dozen years later. His children all lived to be four score years of age.
Moses Sarchet, the father of the subject of this memoir, was born April 17, 1803, and died in Cambridge September 10, 1890. At the age of sixteen years he entered the office of his brother-in-law, C. P. Beatty, as assistant clerk of the court of Guernsey county, holding such office until his marriage, in March. 1827, when he removed to his farm four miles north of Cambridge. For a long period he was engaged in the manufacture of salt, at the old Sarchet Salt Works north of this place. This salt well was in this county, it being constructed early-about 1815-and kept in active use until 1840. After the death of Mr. Beatty, Moses returned to fill out his unexpired term. and from September, 1828, to September, 1842, was clerk of the common pleas court of Guernsey county, during which time he was also township clerk, county school examiner, and overseer of the township poor. In 1847 he was the Whig candidate for representative, but was defeated.
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