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to Lucy Ann Terrell, the daughter of Jerre Terrell, of Wheeling township. She died in April, 1897. By his first marriage William Temple was the father of four sons and four daughters: Alexander, deceased; Isaiah, living on a farm adjoining that of LaFayette; Samantha, deceased; Harriett, who mar- ried James Elliott, of Coshocton county, Ohio; Lucinda, deceased ; Martha J., deceased ; William, deceased ; and Lafayette. There were no children by the second marriage.
LaFayette Temple spent his childhood and youth on his father's farm, and received his education in the country schools, keeping busy on the farm in vacations. On May 18, 1892, he was married to Ella M. Gibson, the daugh- ter of William P. and Jane ( Kennedy ) Gibson, residents of Kimbolton, now. deceased. To this union seven children have been born : Paul H., Grace E., one who died in infancy, John L., Foster G., Edith J. and William D., the latter named for his grandfather. Mr. Temple has spent his life on the farm first entered by his grandfather, which consists of one hundred and sixty acres in the Birds Run valley, one mile south of Guernsey station, Wheeling town- ship, Guernsey county. He is prosperous and is a raiser of fine sheep, horses and cattle, making a specialty of good horses, his motto being the "best is none too .good." In politics he is a Republican and he has been active in public matters. In 1908 he was elected a member of the board of county com- missioners, and was president of the board. In 1910 he was re-elected, and is an honest and faithful public servant, enjoying the full confidence of the peo- ple. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and his family are members of the United Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Temple is sup- porter, and the services of which he regularly attends. He is. a man of high character and sterling integrity, respected by all classes.
ELIJAH NEELAND.
Prominent in the activities of the village of Hartford, in which for many years he has cast his lot, is Elijah Neeland, who was born at Claysville, Guern- sey county, Ohio, on June 20, 1854, the son of James and Marinda ( Galloway ) Neeland.
James Neeland came from county Tyrone, Ireland, when he was about twenty-one years of age. He died on August 24, 1900, aged about eighty. In 1841 he came to Cambridge, Ohio, and there learned the blacksmith's trade under James Davis, and after three years went to Claysville, where he kept
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a blacksmith shop for the rest of his life, fifty-six years. While in Cambridge learning his trade, he married Marinda, the daughter of Elijah and Susan ( Rector) Galloway. Elijah Galloway was born on October 19, 1789, near Washington, D. C., in Maryland, of German ancestry. Susan Rector was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, on May 24, 1804, from which place her parents moved to Belmont county, Ohio, where Susan was married to Mr. Galloway on January 25, 1820. The young couple moved to Guernsey county and entered half of a quarter section of virgin forest land from Congress, purchasing the other half from a neighbor. Here, amid pioneer hardships, they built a log cabin, and raised a little corn to make bread for food, and a little garden. The next year more land was cleared, and they raised wheat and tobacco. Mrs. Galloway bravely did both a man's and woman's part, and worked in the tobacco while carrying her baby. Later they got beyond these hardships, and established the home which has since been that of the Galloway family, and where their fourteen children were born and reared to maturity. They all wore homespun clothes of flax and wool, and the family cooking was done on the big eight-foot fireplace with its big backlogs and swinging crane. Elijah Galloway died on February 19, 1858, aged sixty-nine, his wife on January 1, 1889, aged eighty-five. Both were active members of the Methodist church, Mrs. Galloway being a charter member at Claysville. James Neeland and his wife were also life-long members of this church, taking lead- ing parts in church work. James Neeland was a plain, quiet and hospitable man and a very worthy citizen. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, one of whom died in infancy, while the following grew to maturity, and were all living until 1907: Mrs. Susan Burman, of Van Buren, Ohio; Andrew Neeland, of Leipsic; Mrs. Ellen Sheppler, who lived near Cumber- land, and died in 1907; Mrs. Sarah Frazier, of Zanesville, Ohio; Elijah, of Hartford; Mrs. Mary Foulk, of near Claysville; Mrs. Elizabeth Hammond, of New Concord; Mrs. Grace Moore, of Zanesville; James, Jr., a carpenter and builder of Claysville: John B., of Hartford.
Elijah Necland lived at Claysville until he was twenty-five years old, and learned the blacksmith's trade from his father. In April, 1879, he came to Hartford, Guernsey county, and for a time ran a blacksmith shop, then was for many years a blacksmith at the mines. Once or twice in his life he has been away from that work for a few years, but it was his main occupation until November 15, 1909, when he left the occupation. He also has a farm of eighty acres adjoining Hartford on the north, and in 1910 he platted about twenty-six acres into town lots as an addition to Hartford. This is an un- usually well situated tract for town lots, and will prove a valuable addition
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to the residence district of Hartford. Mr. Neeland has in his possession sev- eral deeds from the government, one dated in 1807, signed by Thomas Jeffer- son, a patent to Joshua W. Satterthwaite for land in section 4. Valley town- ship, a part of which is the land which Mr. Neeland has just platted for an addition to Hartford.
On October 27, 1886, Mr. Neeland was married to Jessie F. Robins, the daughter of Peter D. and Deborah (Thompson) Robins. Fifty-three years before, lacking three days, the minister, the Rev. G. Keil, who married them. had married her parents, and three years previously her parents had cele- brated their golden wedding. For the early history of the Robins family see sketch of Dr. James E. Robins. Mrs. Neeland has in her possession a silver cup brought from the isle of Guernsey by her grandparents, engraved June 23. 1777. Peter D. Robins was in early life a miller, owned a large farm, and later engaged in wool buying as his main business. He was an influential citizen in his neighborhood. Deborah Thompson was the daughter of James and Mary Thompson. Her father was born near Senecaville, Ohio, and her mother was from Pennsylvania. Mr. Neeland's father is a Methodist and Mrs. Neeland's father an Evangelical Lutheran ; both were faithful members of church and their homes were always stopping places for the preachers and church people, and Mrs. Neeland's mother has been known to get supper for the preacher even as late in the night as two o'clock, after the late protracted meetings.
Peter D. and Deborah Robins were the parents of fourteen children, namely : John William, deceased, of Cambridge ; Mary Jane, who died at the age of thirteen ; James Thompson, who, as a soldier in the Civil war, was accidentally shot by another Union soldier : Madison, deceased, of Cambridge ; Harrison, a commission merchant in Baltimore; Alexander, of Cambridge ; Peter Hubert, of Eureka, Kansas: Martin Luther, deceased, father of Dr. James E. Robins, whose sketch see ; Martha Maria, the wife of E. J. Milhone, deceased : Charles Abraham, of Eureka, Kansas ; Rosa E., who married Henry Moss, of Cambridge : and Jessie F., the wife of Elijah Neeland.
Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Neeland are the parents of one son, Harold Robins, now a student at the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, Ohio, in his second year. Mr. Neeland has held various township offices, has been school director, and was township trustee for five years. Both he and his wife are faithful members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Neeland is a man who has striven to do his duty in every situation of life as he has seen that duty, and his neighbors all testify as to the true value of his character and life. In his community he is much esteemed.
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THOMAS I. MOORE.
One of the oldest living residents of Valley township is Thomas I. Moore, who enjoys the peculiar distinction of having spent his entire life on the farm where he was born, on October 20, 1827. He is the son of Isaac and Elizabeth ( Hickle) Moore. Isaac Moore was born in 1802, and about 1825 walked from his home on the Big Capon river in West Virginia to Guernsey county to look at the land, his brother Joseph accompanying him. He had been married in Virginia to Elizabeth, the daughter of Stephen and Susannah ( Hoover ) Hickle, both of whom were natives of Hampshire county, Virginia, where Stephen Hickle was born on August 20, 1767, and Susannah Hoover on January 19, 1779. They later came to Guernsey county, where they spent the remainder of their lives on a farm along the Clay pike. They were the par- ents of the following children: John, born on June 30, 1797; Jacob, on February 8, 1799: Stephen, on June 21, 1801; Abram, on May 29, 1803; Timothy, on October 7. 1805: Elizabeth, on January 23, 1808; Rachel, on April 4, 1810: Mary, on June 30, 1813; George, on April 24, 1815; Sarah, July 30, 1817, and Isaac, on December 27, 1821.
Isaac Moore bought one hundred and sixty acres in what is now the southwestern part of Valley township near Opperman, a portion of the town of Opperman being built on that land. There he lived and reared his family. Within a year after they came, their house was burned down, leaving them not even a change of clothing. The neighbors came and helped build a new house that was finished in a day, and were very. kind in assisting them to make a new start, after the pioneer fashion of helping each other. Thomas I. Moore was the only son of Isaac Moore, but he had nine sisters, namely : Susan, born August 10, 1829: Rebecca, September 20, 1831 ; Sarah, Novem- ber 30, 1833; Mahala, January 16, 1835: Mary, December 6, 1836; Rachel, December 25, 1839; Elizabeth, February 15, 1843; Harriet, March 28, 1846; Rhoda, May 16, 1848. Isaac Moore and his wife were among the founders of the Bethel Methodist church and he was active in church and school work, giving the ground on which the school was built, where his son and grandson both attended. He died in 1882, and was a man of considerable influence and much esteemed in the community in which he lived, and which he had helped to convert from a wilderness into a prosperous farming district.
Thomas I. Moore has lived all his life on the home farm. His recollec- tions of early times are vivid, when deer, wild turkey and other game abounded, and the family lived in a log cabin with a puncheon floor, wore clothes homespun and woven from home-grown flax, and had not even
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andirons for the fireplace, but used stones instead. As an infant he used to roll on the floor on a deer hide, and his mother would sometimes give him a piece of venison to suck, tying it by a string to his toe, so that he could not swallow it and strangle. The first lumber floor which was put in the cabin he remembers quite distinctly, as that was a great advance in prosperity and luxury.
Mr. Moore served during the Civil war in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio Regiment, with an honorable record. On December 5, 1850, he was married to Margaret Gander, the sister of David C. Gander. whose sketch see for her family. She was born in 1830 on Salt creek, near the Muskingum county line, and when she was seven moved to Spencer township. where she grew to maturity. Four children were born to them, Isaac W .. a child who died in infancy, Rebecca Elizabeth, who married Fillmore Spaid, of Hartford, and Rachel Alice, the wife of O. R. Taylor, of Pleasant City. In the winter of 1853. Thomas I. Moore and his brother-in-law, Jonathan Gander, went into partnership in a saw-mill, and for twenty years continued in partnership with saw-mills and threshing-machines. Except for this. Thomas I. Moore's interests have been confined to farming. He and his wife are both members of the Bethel Methodist church and are highly respected in their community.
Isaac WV. Moore was born on July 22, 1852, and grew up on his father's farm. While his father was gone to war, Isaac W., then a boy of twelve, had to do a man's work on the farm, and he well remembers when Morgan's raiders passed their home. In 1874 he married Mary Adeline Finley, the daughter of Joseph and Jane (Johnson) Finley, who was reared near Old- ham's Station, north of Cambridge. To this marriage three children were born, Charles Albert, Marion Milton and Ida Olive. In 1885 he and his family moved to northwestern Kansas where he took up a homestead and a tree claim of one hundred and sixty acres each, and here lived for sixteen years. In 1890 his wife died here. In 1901 Isaac W. Moore, who had by this time accumulated a half section of farming land besides his tree claim, sold his stock and implements, left the farm with his sons, and himself returned to the old home farm in Guernsey county, Ohio.
Charles Albert Moore married Minnnie Haseley, and has a half section of land of his own three miles from Colby, seven miles nearer that town than his father's farm. Marion M. Moore married Ethel Hutchinson, and lives on his father's farm, while he also owns one hundred and sixty acres of his own.
On August 3, 1904, after his return to his native county, Isaac W. Moore
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was married to Harriett A. Larrick, the daughter of Benjamin Larrick. Isaac W. Moore is an active member of the Bethel Methodist church. He lives with his father on the old farm, which Thomas Moore, the father of Isaac and Joseph Moore, entered for them from the government in 1825. Thomas Moore never came to this county to live but he and his wife went to Missouri, and there spent their days. Three generations of Moores have owned that farm, and three generations were born there, four generations lived together on it for some years, and it has never been out of the family since it was entered from the government.
Thomas I. Moore and his wife have had the very exceptional privilege of passing sixty years of wedded life together, the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding occurring on December 5. 1910, and all their children and grandchildren and two great-grandchildren were present, except Ida O. Moore, who was teaching in Leavenworth, Kansas. Their married life has been a beautiful example of domestic felicity. Both of them have very vivid recollections of pioneer days, and can talk entertainingly of the early life of the county. They have seen their children and grandchildren taking active and useful places in the work of the world, and they themselves in their later days are enjoying the deserved esteem of those who know them.
DAVID C. GANDER.
The present sketch is concerned with a resident of Byesville whose ac- quaintances are many in Guernsey county, and who by the worth of his char- acter has made many friends and has in life been successful. David C. Gander was born in Spencer township, Guernsey county, Ohio, near Cumberland, on June 30. 1844, the son of David and Rachel ( Shull) Gander. His father was born on October 10, 1800, his mother on January 16, 1803, and after their marriage they came from the neighborhood of Capon Springs, in West Virginia, to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled on Salt Fork between Zanesville and Chandlersville, whence they later moved into Spencer town- ship and located about three miles from Cumberland. Their children were, with the dates of their births : Samuel H. Gander, January 23, 1824; Rebecca, October 2, 1825: Jonathan Shull, December 22, 1827; Margaret Shull, Feb- ruary II, 1830; Barbara Anne, April 27, 1833, died on December 25, 1833; George Washington, January 6, 1836; Elizabeth Catherine, December 16, 1840; David Cross, June 30, 1844. The father of these children died on
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June 18, 1871, the mother on September 18. 1869. David Gander farmed all his life, beginning with a small farm, but adding to it until he owned three hundred and sixty acres. He held various township offices, and was promi- nent in his community, taking an interest in public affairs.
David C. Gander grew up on the home place, and enlisted in Company C. One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio Infantry, serving with an honor- able record. After the war he came back to his home community and re- turned to farming. On November 1. 1868, he was married to Rhoda Moore, the sister of Thomas I. Moore, whose sketch see for her ancestry. She was born on May 16, 1848, in the southwest part of Valley township. where her brother now lives. To this union were born nine children. Wilbur Grant was born on September 19, 1869, and now lives in Newark, an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio railway. Rachel Elizabeth was born on February 18, 1871, and died in June, 1894, just six weeks later than her mother. Cora Olive was born on June 3. 1873, and died on September 1, 1876. Harrison Ross was born on August 17, 1875, and is now a miner, living in Pleasant City. Homer Strawl was born on March 4, 1877, and is now a mine super- intendent. Anna Maude was born on January 18, 1879, and married M. B. Buckey, of Oklahoma. Robert Halley was born on September 22, 1880, and is employed in the shoe business in Cambridge. Alice Irena, who was born on January 19, 1884, and Florence Ethel, born on August 9. 1888, are at home with their father in Byesville.
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gander lived on the old home farm in Spencer township until 1885, when they moved to Kansas, where he bought a farm and they lived for about a year and a half, when, because of Mrs. Gander's failing health, they sold out and returned to Ohio, living for four years in the northern part of Jackson township. They then moved near to Byesville, and it was while here that Mrs. Gander contracted measles and pneumonia at the same time, in her already weakened condition, and died on April 28, 1894. She was a good woman, a faithful wife and conscientious mother, and she and her husband were both active in the work of the Meth- odist church.
Mr. Gander continued to live on the farm until May, 1901, when he moved to Byesville, and engaged in teaming, which he found at that time to be a lucrative business. Since his childhood Mr. Gander has been an ardent Republican, taking an active part in the councils of his party. He has lived to see his children taking an active and useful work in the communities in which they live, while he himself is still in the harness. Widely known in the county, he is well liked by all
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ORA F. YOUNG.
One of the well known and prominent citizens of Pleasant City, Valley township, is Ora F. Young, who was born in East Union, Noble county, Ohio, May 26. 1866, and is the son of William and Sarah ( Robinson) Young. Wil- liam Young's parents came from Anne Arundel county, Maryland, and located near what is now Temperanceville, Noble county, at that time a portion of Belmont county. William Young grew up on the farm and later in life be- came a miller, following his trade for forty-five years in Sarahsville, Summer- field, Sharon, Olive, Byesville, Hartford and Point Pleasant or Pleasant City. He married Sarah Robinson, daughter of Solomon Robinson and wife. She was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1828. when she was six years of age. They came in emigrant wagons in typical pioneer fashion, went on to Big Meigs creek above Pennville, near a Quaker settlement in Morgan county, Ohio. They afterwards moved back to Sharon, where William Young engaged in the milling business. After their marriage they moved to East Union, where the elder Young engaged in the milling business until 1873, then came to Pleasant City and engaged in the milling business the rest of his life, dying in 1897, his widow surviving until 1907. He had been a soldier in Company G, One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He and his wife were life-long members of the Method- ist Episcopal church. Their family consisted of nine children, namely : Mrs. Nancy Shriver, wife of Nicholas Shriver, living near Caldwell; Mrs. B. F. Lee, of Byesville: Mrs. Francis Rebecca Secrest, wife of J. M. Secrest ; John M .. of Cambridge ; Mrs. Jennie Speers, wife of Europe Speers, of Cambridge : Flora, wife of Charles Robins. of Eureka, Kansas: Mrs. Ida M. Secrest, of Cleveland, wife of W. T. Secrest; Martha died in 1876; Ora F .. of this re- view.
From the time he was six years of age. Ora F. Young lived in Pleasant City. After his father got too old to work in the mill, he took up the work, which he followed until 1908, in which year he went into business for him- self in Pleasant City, wholesale and retail flour and feed. He erected one of the most substantial business houses in the town, which he now occupies. It is of tile and concrete, is neat, well arranged and attractive, and he has car- ried on a very extensive business ever since. He has been very successful as a business man in whatever he has turned his attention to.
Mr. Young was married in 1889 to Amanda Crow, of Noble county. daughter of John and Elizabeth (Wilson) Crow. Her death occurred on May 22, 1894, and on June 7. 1900, Mr. Young was married to Belle McCoy,
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daughter of Alexander McCoy, who was county commissioner of this county. and whose death occurred in 1891. His wife was Jane Johnson, descended from a pioneer family from Braddock. Pennsylvania. The McCoys were also a prominent pioneer family, having come from Pennsylvania. One daugh- ter, Virgil Amanda, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Young.
Since 1895 Mr. Young has been a local preacher in the Methodist Epis- copal church, and he has been a member of the church thirty-one years. He is a class leader, steward and a Sunday school teacher, and was superintendent of the Sunday school for twelve years. He was township clerk for four years. beginning when he was only twenty-two years old. In all his positions of public trust he has been very faithful in the discharge of his duty and has won the commendation of all concerned. His first wife was a Methodist, as is also his present wife.
Mr. Young is a successful business man, a fluent and interesting speaker and a man whom to know is to respect and admire for his industry.
NOAH ELWOOD SECREST.
Much is to be found within the covers of this volume regarding the Secrest family, but too much could not well be said, owing to the fact that its members have been prominent in Guernsey county in various walks of life from the early pioneer days and they have borne reputations of high grade citizens, unassailable and irreproachable, and have played well their parts in the drama of civilization. A worthy representative of this old and influential family is Noah Elwood Secrest, of Valley township, of whom the following paragraphs deal. He was born on his father's old home farm a short distance east of Hartford, this township, on June 9, 1855. He is the son of William and Mary ( Buckley) Secrest, highly esteemed old residents of Valley town- ship, who are mentioned in a separate sketch in this work.
Noah E. Secrest grew to maturity on the home farm on which he worked during his boyhood and youth and attended the district schools. He followed farming most of the time, but also did some teaming, remaining with his father until he was thirty-four years of age. He was married in 1879 to Mary R. Jackson, who was born and reared at Pleasant City, this township, the daughter of Samuel and Virginia (Trott) Jackson, a well known and highly respected family here. This union has resulted in the birth of four children. namely : Carl Dwight, who lives at Belle Valley, this county, working as a
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foreman for a construction gang at the mines : Ella Violet and William Jack- son are at home ; Melba Virginia is attending school at Pleasant City.
In 1888 Mr. Secrest bought a farm of one hundred and four acres one mile south of Hartford, where he has since made his home. The house, a cosy, substantial and attractive one, stands on top of a ridge, overlooking the valley, commanding a view of several towns and a most inspiring panorama of field and farm as well. From it the lights of Cambridge may be seen at night and in another direction one can see at a distance of eighteen miles. He has a most excellent farm which he has brought up to a high state of im- provement and cultivation and which is one of the choice places of the town- ship. He carries on general farming and stock raising in a most successful manner and is regarded as one of the leading agriculturists of his community.
Mr. Secrest is a loyal Democrat and he is more or less active in local party affairs, having served his township as trustee in a most acceptable man- ner. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Pleasant City, and in his religious relations he holds membership with the Lutheran congregation, while Mrs. Secrest belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.
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