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The subject of this sketch died June 2, 1845, in his sixty-ninth year; his companion survived him till December 14, 1859, when she died, aged nearly sixty-nine years.
DUDGEON, MOSES, farmer and stock-raiser, post office Gambier; fourth son of Simon and Nancy Dudgeon, born in Harrison township, Knox county, January 31, 1818, where he t'as reared and enured to the hardships of a pioneer life.
The subject of this sketch remained with his father until the age of twenty-six years, when his father gave him a quarter section of land in Allen county, which he owned about three years, when he exchanged it for an interest in the old homestead in Knox county, where he at present resides.
December 26, 1844, he was united in marriage with Hannah, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary Devare, born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, where she was reared until at the age of eight years, when her parents both died. She was then brought to Knox county by Daniel Sawyers, with whom she lived.
Mr. Dudgeon is at present the owner of two hundred and forty acres of land, and has also held quite a number of offices of trust in said county and township, being county commis- sioner, justice of the peace, and treasurer.
The union of Mr. and Mrs. Dudgeon resulted in five children, as follows: Marvin, Lyman, Mary, Simon, and Angie, who are all living.
DUDGEON, DAVID, farmer and wool-grower, post office Gambier; fourth son of Simon and Nancy Dudgeon, born in Harrison township, Knox county, April 11, 1820. He received an education, and at the age of twenty-one years he went to Allen county, and remained about five years, In 1845, when in Allen county, he purchased two hundred acres of land, then came back to Knox county, and then went to farming for his mother. About a year after returning home he sold his land in Allen county to his brother Thomas, for the sum of nine hun- dred dollars, and then purchased a share in the home-place,
where he continued to remain and farm, purchasing shares in the home-farm. This he continued about eight years, by which time he had become the owner of three hundred and fifty acres. On February 10, 1848, he was united in marriage with Mary J., a daughter of Asa and Catharine Freeman, born in Knox county, Butler township, August 2, 1831. Their union resulted in eleven children, viz: Martha, Eunice, Ann, Lydia, William, Jessie (died May 21, 1863), Andrew, Caroline, Lee, Reuben, and Jane.
In April, 1880, he purchased seventy-four acres in Pleasant township, Knox county, at a cost of three thousand seven hun- dred dollars, which he deeded to his daughter, and which she now occupies.
DUKE, WILLIAM, marble cutter, Fredericktown, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1849. He came to Ohio in 1863. He commenced the manufacture of gun stocks with Hoover & Fisher, and worked at that business till 1865. In 1871 he went to Newark, Licking county, and engaged in the manufacture of tombstones. He was married in Newark in 1874 to Emma J. Sasser, who was born in St. Louis. They have two children, viz .: Luther James, born November 22, 1874; Cora Mabel, March 17, 1877. Mr. Duke came to Fred- ericktown April 1, 1879, and is engaged with John Getz in the manufacture of monuments and tombstones. He is a good me- chanic, and an active citizen of the county.
DUN, J., farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard' was born in Wheeling, Virginia. His father came to this county in the early days of his son's life, and died shortly after. Mr. Dun has lived all his life in Knox county. He was married in 1865 and settled in Howard township. He had five children, two of whom died in iufancy, and the other three are still living.
DUNCAN, JAMES, JR., teacher, Fredericktown, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1846; came to Ohio in 1857, and was married in 1871 to Lucy A. Mitchell, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1848. They have two children- Cloyd, born in 1873, and Bessie, born in 1875. Mr. Duncan was educated at Washington and Jefferson college. He is now superintendent of the union schools, of Fredericktown. He enlisted in the late war as a member of One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guard, and served out his time and received an honorable discharge.
DUNCAN, WILLIAM H., mechanic, Union township ; post office, Gann. He was born March 7, 1829, in Baltimore, Maryland. At twelve years of age he enlisted in the United States navy, remained five years, and then went to Cincinnati and remained five years. He then went to the Mexican war aud was gone two years. After being discharged, he went to Cincinnati, and then to Baltimore, then to Mt. Vernon, and worked at his trade eighteen months. In 1855 he was married to Miss Swats, and settled in Mt. Holly, and remained there until the Rebellion, when he went out with Colonel H. B. Ban- ning, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained until the close of the war. Since that time he has paid strict attention to the boot and shoe business. He was married to Miss E. Johnson in 1865, and she only lived about ten years after. In 1877 he married Miss H. Comstock. He has the following children: William, Margaret, Louisa, Margaret, Benjamin, Ira M., Cora Lee, and Lucy Fisher. His grandchild, Viola Minnie, is living with him.
DUNCAN, JAMES SR., Fredericktown, retired farmer, was
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born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1806, and came to Ohio in 1837. He was married, in 1841, to Mary McKowen, who was born in Virginia in 1814. They had the following family, viz .: Thomas, born July, 3, 1842; George, born April 3, 1844; James, jr., born May 5, 1846; Albert, born April 19, 1848; Charles, born November 11, 1849; Mary, born May 26, 1851; Charles Albert, born June 26, 1854; Norris, born November 1I, 1856.
George died November, 1862; Thomas died in Wayne town- ship January 11, 1861; Albert Charles and Charles Albert died in Pennsylvania; Norris in Ohio.
Mary Duncan was married to W. H. Lane, and resides at Lindsey. Mr. Lane is engaged in the practice of medicine at that place.
Mr. James Duncan, sr., was a farmer by occupation, and has lived in this township since 1857. In 1868 he moved to Fred- ericktown, and has always been one of its enterprising citizens.
DUNHAM, WILLIAM E., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Clinton township in 1831, and was married to Martha King, who was born in Knox county. They have the following family: Clarence, born December 25, 1853; Clara, born in 1856; Jefferson, February, 1862; Della, October, 1863, and Alna, January, 1875.
Clarence died May 25, 1854; Clara died May 10, 1872.
Mr. Dunham came to this township with his parents in 1832, and since then has been a resident of this county. He has ac- cumulated by industry and frugality, a very handsome property, consisting of a fine residence with a well improved farm. He was elected treasurer of Knox county in the fall of 1871 by a large majority, and filled the position with honor and credit to himself and to his party. The vote of his own township, which is Republican by about one hundred majority, gave Mr. Dun- ham a majority of one hundred and ten.
DUNHAM, JACOB, deceased, a native of New Jersey, and a soldier of the Revolution, was born on the ninth day of October, 1757. He married Miss Sarah Outcelt in 1787, born in New Jersey August 21, 1767. They settled in New Jersey, where they remained until 1820, when he, with his wife and family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Morris township; where they lived about seven years, and then moved on a farm in Clinton township in 1827. In 1829 he purchased and moved on the farm now known as the Dunham homestead, and owned by their son, Jacob Dunham, in the same township, where he deceased July 6, 1839. His wife died in 1859, aged ninety-two years and somne months. They reared a family of eight children: Lydia, born in New Jersey July II, 1791; Jemima, in New Jersey May 6, 1795; John, in New Jersey Au- gust 9, 1797; Hiram, in New Jersey March 3, 1798; Jacob, in New Jersey November 6, 1802; Jehu, September 10, 1803; Frederick, in New Jersey February 15, 1807, and Margaret, in New Jersey November 14, 1810.
All of the above named are deceased except Jacob, who is living on the old home farm, at the age of seventy-eight years, highly esteemed by all that know him.
DUNN, JOHN, Brown township, farmer, and a son of George and Alice Dunn, was born in Licking county, Ohio, March 26, 1834. His early life was spent on a farm. In 1857 he married Miss Elizabeth Divan, of Licking county, and settled there. Their union resulted in one child-a daughter. His companion deceased in 1859.
In 1864 he came to Jelloway, this county, where he married
Miss Mary E. Tilton, of Jefferson township, in October, 1864, daughter of Josephus and Sabina Tilton, born in 1842. They settled near Jelloway, and remained until 1864, when he pur- chased and moved on the farm, where they now reside in Brown townshship, about three-fourths of a mile northeast of Jelloway. They have a family of five children-three sons and two daugh- ters. He has made farming his vocation through his life.
DURBIN, SAMUEL, Fredericktown, deceased ; was born in Pennsylvania about the year 1780, and married to Rebecca Collins, who was born in 1783. They had the following chil- dren, viz: John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Clemency, James, Sarah, Charity, Margaret, and Samuel. He came to Fairfield county at a very early day and afterwards to Morris township, this county, in 1808. He was the fourth settler in this township, and cut his road from Mt. Vernon and cleared and improved the farm (now the Grant farm) in this township. Mr. Durbin died April 22, 1822.
DURBIN HENRY P., Morris township, fariner, post office, Mt. Vernon ; was born in Clinton township in 1842, and mar- ried in 1864 to Mary Chilcoat, who was born in Pennsylvania, Huntingdon county, December 4, 1837. They have the follow- ing children: Thomas E., born January 23, 1866; Jessie A., born September 9, 1870; Rhoda E., born April 9, 1873; Willie R., born November 28, 1874; Miles S., born November 26, 1878. Mr. Durbin has resided on his present farm in Morris township fifteen years.
DURBIN, BAPTIST, deceased, Union township, was born in Maryland in February 1816. He emigrated to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1825, where he married Miss Catharine King, in November, 1825. She was born in Belmont county, Ohio, and is the daughter of John King. They settled in Belmont county; remained until 1832, when they moved to Knox county, and located in Howard township, on a farm two miles north of Howard village, where they passed the remainder of their days.
His wife died in August 1854. He survived her until July 26, 1878. They reared a family of eleven children: John, Benjamin, Jane, William, Mary, Trecy, Sarah C., Margaret, Baptist, Al- exander, and Emma C. All are now living except Baptist who died in 1874.
DURBIN, JOHN, farmer, Union township, the oldest son of Baptist and Catharine Durbin, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 26, 1862, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1832.
He was reared a farmer and has made farming and stock rais- ing his principal vocation. He commenced working at the carpenter and joiner trade, at the age of twenty-one years, and has followed that business to some extent in connection with farming. In April, 1852, he married Miss Lucinda Sapp, born in Union township, Knox county, May 11, 1831, daughter of Levi and Mary Sapp, nee Colopy. They settled in Union township on the Sapp homestead, where the lived a few years, and after living on several farms in Union township, he pur- chased, in 1860, and moved on the farm where they are now living, one-half mile north of Danville. At this time he owns three farms, one in Jefferson township, one in Howard, and the one he is living on in Union township. 'They have ten children, five sons and five daughters. He filled the office of township treasurer four years.
DURBIN, BENJAMIN, Union township, farmer, second son of Baptist and Catharine Durbin, was born in Belmont
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county, Ohio, May 8, 1828. On the nineteenth day of Janu- ary, 1858, he married Miss Margaret, daughter of William and Bridget McNamara, born October 20, 1833. They settled in Howard township, Knox county; remained until 1864, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Union township, one-half mile north of Danville. They have four children, one son and three daughters. He was brought up a farmer, and has followed farming and stock rais- ing. At present he owns two farms, one in Jefferson, besides the one he is living on in Union township.
DURBIN, RAPHAEL, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. He was born October 26, 1834, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. In 1845 he moved to Knox county and settled in Howard township. He was married April 16, 186r, and a short time afterwards settled on his farm. His father died in 1852 and his mother in 1873. They have nine children, Mary, Anna, Charles, Joseph, John, Margaret, William, Fran- ces and Leo.
DURBIN, PETER, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. He was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, Janu- ary 31, 1835. His father came to Ohio in 1843 and died in 1852. His mother died in 1873.
They raised ten children, who are settled in Howard township: Marion, Susan, Rachel, Peter, Simeon, John, Margaret, George Benedict, and Pius. They now own six hundred acres of good farming land.
DURBIN (DAWSON), MRS. RACHAEL, post office, Howard, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and came to Knox county in 1836 with her father, and settled on the L. Pealer farm. She was married to John Daw- son April 1, 1846. Mrs. Dawson and her husband remained on the old farm nntil 1859 when they came to their present farm. Mr Dawson died July 1, 1855, and left Mrs. Dawson with two childrer, James and Louisa who still remain with her. Mrs. Dawson's father died in 1838, and her mother lived with her until 1869, when she too passed away.
DYE, VINCENT E., blacksmith, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Richland county, June 15, 1841, and was married November 13, 1874 to Ellen M. Smith, who was born September 3. 1848, in Coshocton county, Ohio. They have two children, viz .: Clyde L., born January 30, 1875; Earl W., January 14, 1878. Mr. Dye learned blacksmithing with David Paxton, and has been engaged in that business ever since he came to Waterford in 1874. He does custom work and is a first class workman, as all can testify that have employed him.
DURBIN, THOMAS, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born March 29, 1849, in Howard township. His father, Basil Durbin, was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Knox county in 1830, and moved to the farm where his son now lives, in 1850. He died July 5, 1865, and left his little home to his son Thomas Durbin, who was married to Hattie Porter, Oc- tober 27, 1879. Thomas Durbin's mother was born in Balti- more county, Maryland, in 1806, and came here in 1826. She still remains with her son, but is very feeble.
DUSENBERRY, WILLIAM, was born in Bethlehem town- ship, Coshocton county, Obio, November 2, 1840. In 1867 he removed to Butler township. April 4, A. D. 1867, he was mar- ried to Matilda A. Schrimplin. They have had eight children, viz: Jackson, born February 24, 1860; Ida Annis, January 24, 1870; Fannie Alice, August 9, 1871; Rose Ellen, October 9,
1872; Romaine, November 24, 1876; Sarah L, March, 1879. Two dead not named.
Mr. Dusenberry was a member of company K, Thirty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Thomas H. Ford command- ing, during the war of the late rebellion.
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EBERSOLE, JOHN, was born in Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, June 10, 1786. He made a visit to Knox county, . Ohio, in 1812, to see his parents, who were living here on a farm north of town, in Middlebury township. He then returned to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in milling. He was married in the fall of 1824 to Miss Mary Ann Johnson, and removed to Ohio in the fall of 1825, and lived in the house with his parents that winter. In the spring of 1826 he removed to his farm in Morris township, containing two hundred acres that his father had purchased for him. He erected a cabin to live in, and a log barn and smoke-house; the latter is still stand- ing. In 1834 his wife died, leaving him with three small chil- dren, the eldest eight years of age, viz .: Elizabeth, Matilda, and Rebecca. Elizabeth was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylva- nia. He never married again after his wife died, but removed to his mother's, north of town, and lived there one year, and then returned to his farm, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was industrious, economical and frugal in his habits.
A friend contributes the following memorial sketch of Mr. Ebersole:
John Ebersole (Uncle John, or Dutch Johnny, as he was called by us boys since about 1840) was a very peculiar man. His greatest peculiarity was his being strictly honest and considering everybody so until he found them otherwise. He was an easy man to do business with as long as there was no deception practiced on him; but the man who would decieve him once never would have an opportunity to do so again, as he would never do business with him again on any terms. If he was a man's friend he was a firm one; if he was not his friend, he would have nothing to do with him. He was a man of few words. We venture to say that no man ever lived in Morris township as many years as he did, who had the power of speech, who talked less than he did. The writer has been in his com- pany for hours that he did not speak. We remember going to see him once on business, and seeing him in a field near the road whetting his old Jerusalem-bladed scythe, we hastened on to get there before he started in. We accosted him-"Good morning, Uncle John; I came down to see about -. " He said not a word; stuck his whetstone into its place and swung his broad bladed scythe into grass, and all we had to do was to wait pa- tiently until he mowed across the field and back, when he at- tended to the business without further ceremony. Another time we visited him on business and addressed him as usual and told him our business just as he laid up a sheep to shear it; as soon as that sheep was sheared we got an answer, and a favorable one, as no man granted favors more readily than he did to those who treated him as he deserved.
EBERSOLE, WILLIAM, farmer, Morris township; post office, Fredericktown; was born in Knox county in 1831, and married in 1866 to Matilda Ebersole, who was born in this county in 1827. Mr. Ebersole owns an improved farm, with good buildings. He enlisted September 11, 1862; was a mem- ber of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment,
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Ohio volunteer infantry, and was honorably discharged January 8, 1865.
His father, John Ebersole, deceased, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1786, and was married to Mary A. Johnson, who was born in the same county, same State. They had three children-Elizabeth, Matilda, and Rebecca. John Ebersole died in 1873. His wife, Mary, died in 1832. They located in this county in 1812.
EBERSOLE, JACOB C., farmer, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne township, this county, June 1815; was married No- vember 23, 1837, to Harriet Worthington, who was born in Virginia. They had four children to-wit: Elizabeth, born September 8, 1838; George W., March 7, 1840; John D., Feb- ruary 10, 1844, and Sheridan O. Mrs. Harriet Ebersole died August 15, 1850. Mr. Ebersole was afterwards married to Caroline M. Stevens, who was born in New York. They have two daughters, viz: Sarah E., born November 29, 1851, and Harriet B., February 16, 1855.
Mr. Ebersole settled on an improved farm where W. Coursen now resides, in Middlebury township. He moved to Frederick- town in 1854; has been street commissioner in this place twenty- two years, and is a member of one of the pioneer families of the county.
EBERSOLE, DAVID, farmer, Wayne township; post office, Fredericktown; born in Knox county in 1834, and was married in 1863 to Elizabeth Kreider, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1828. They have the following chil- dren: Rosalia E., born November 19, 1865, and Charles D., June 23, 1873.
His father, John Ebersole, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1788 and came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1814. He was married May 5, 1812, to Elizabeth S. Kreider, who was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. They had the following family: Jacob C., born June 18, 1815; Eliza, December 14, 1818; John E., July 12, 1820; Joseph D., Febru- ary 15, 1823; Emily, December 11, 1826; Jefferson, May 14, 1828; William, July 26, 1831; David, August 19, 1834, and Henry, November 19, 1837. William Ebersole was a soldier in the late war-a member of company G, Ohio volunteer infantry, and received an honorable discharge.
EDWARDS WILLIAM E., physician. He is the son of Moses and Catharine Edwards, he was born near the town of Union Bridge, Carroll county, Maryland, in 1827, came to Ohio with his father's family in 1832, lived in Coshocton county four years, came to Knox county in 1836. He was married to Sarah Paulina Heath, of Richland county. His father died when he was young. He supported the family until twenty-five years of age; he then engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. Aaron Edwards and attended lectures at the University of Michigan, commenced practice in Putman, Muskingum county, in the spring of 1855, came to Fredericktown in the fall of 1859, removed to Amity, this county, remained there twelve years, then returned to this place with his family, two sons and one daughter. He joined the Methodist Protestant church, afterwards united with the Methodist Episcopal church and is still a member; also a member of the Independence Division Sons of Temperance, also Ellicott Lodge 267, I. O. O. F., also No. 170 F & A. M.
EDWARDS, McKENDRE TREMONT, deceased, son of W. E. and Sarah P. Edwards, was born in this place on the
thirteenth day of March, 1856; removed to Amity, this county, with his father's family, when in his third year, in 1859; remained there twelve years and returned to this place in 1871. In the spring of 1872 he went into the office of the Fredericktown Independent to learn the printing business, under the direction of W. S. Ensign, now of the Cardington Independent. He con- tinued in that office when it passed into the possession of Dr. C. W. Townsend, and until the paper suspended, when he went to Cincinnati, where he remained a few months, and in 1875 he returned to this place, purchased the material of the Independent office, and on the twelfth day of June, 1875, he issued the first number of the Fredericktown Free Press, starting in business in his nineteenth year, a poor boy, without influence, money, or more than a common school education. As a journalist he was complimented by his patrons and brother journalists as a success. He continued to issue his paper until September 24, 1880.
On the twenty-eighth day of September, 1876, he was married to Ada J., daughter of Abram and Mary Stephens, of this place. On the twelfth day of June, 1877, they were given a son, William Morris Edwards. On the nineteenth day of March, 1878, his wife died of consumption. In 1876 he was con- verted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church, under the labors of Rev. J. A. Kellam, but he wandered from his father's house and fell among thieves, and they stripped him and left him for dead; when he "came to himself," and discovered his destitution, he started back, and the father met him while yet a great way off, and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and his end was peace.
He was a member of Ellicott Lodge No. 267, I. O. O. F., and Washington Camp No. 33, P. O. S. of A.
EDGAR, J. K., deceased, Pike township; born in Washing- ton county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and was married in 1846 to Elenor Chiddister, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1826. They had five children; Orlando P., born in 1847; Wil liam M., in 1848; Auretta J., in 1851; Miranda O., in 1856, deceased; and Frank C., in 1860.
Mr. J. K. Edgar was a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained in the service until his health became impaired. While in the war he contracted a disease of which he died at his home in Amity, January 18, 1865, at the age of forty-six years and six months. He was a brave soldier and a Christian, and was highly respected by all who knew hini. He was a member and an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church, but afterward joined the Disciple church, and was an official member of that church until his death. His widow, with her son, Frank C., lives in Amity.
EDWARDS, C. W., Fredericktown, dealer in stoves, tin- ware, and job work, was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, in 1838, and was married in 1869, to Emma Rinehart, who was born in Knox county. They have two children, viz: Clemmie, born 1871; Willie E., in 1877.
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