History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 130

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co.
Number of Pages: 1096

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Mr. Edwards has always been identified with this county. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards. He served out his time of enlistment and received an honorable discharge. He established his business in 1874, and has built up quite an ex- tensive trade. Mr. Edwards is a practical mechanic, and a live business man. He is taking the lead in this branch of trade, and all who wish anything in his line will do well to call and gel

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his prices, as he keeps in stock a complete and extensive line of goods at all times.

EGGLESTON, EUGENIO R., M.D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Portage county, Ohio, July 28, 1838. He is of English descent. When about fifteen years of age, young Eggleston began clerking in a store in Munson, Ohio, and continued there until September, 1861, when he enlisted in company G, Forty- first Ohio volunteer infantry, and was with the army of the Cumberland. He was appointed orderly sergeant of the com- pany, and sergeant major, and in June, 1862, he received a second lieutenant's commission in the same regiment, and in 1863 he was commissioned first lieutenant, and appointed adju- tant of the regiment, and in 1864 he was brevetted captain, with others, for meritorious conduct. He resigned in October, 1864, and returned home. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. T. H. Sweeney, of Chardon, Ohio, and graduated in February, 1874, at the Cleveland Homeopathic college. He came to Mt. Vernon, Olio, in the fall of 1875, and has since been practicing with eminent success.

Dr. Eggleston was twice married. His first wife was Anna M. Davis, of Geauga county, to whom he was married in Sep- tember, 1862. They had one child, now living. His wife dy- ing, he married, June 17, 1876, Mrs. Abbie A. Darby, nee Thompson. His wife is also a physician of the same school, having graduated at the same college in 1876.

EGGLESTON, BYRON, M.D., was born near Chicago, Illi- nois, September 29, 1836, in an Indian tent of the Cherokee tribe; received his education at Utica, Ohio, and read medicine with his father, Hiram Eggleston, M.D., and attended lectures at Springfield, Illinois, after which he commenced practicing, and has been located at several different places, but now at Mt. Vernon, where he expects to remain; was married May 27, .860, to Miss Elizabeth Ann, daughter of John Hearns, of Mt. Vernon, by whom he has had four children, three of whom are living. Amanda Ann, born November 21, 1862; John Hiram, January 7, 1865; Carey Evan, August 9, 1868; Adella, October 10, 1872. Amanda Ann died May 15, 1870.

ELLIOTT, JOEL (deceased), Berlin township, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1775, and was married in 1807 to Hannah Gibson, who was born in Maryland in 1779. They have the following children, viz: Gideon, Amos, and Mary. Mr. Elliott died in 1849, and his wife, Hannah, died in 1852.

Mr. Elliott came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and in 1828 came to this county, settled in the woods in this township, built a cabin and lived in pioneer style. Amos and Mary are living on the home place.

ELLIOTT, MRS. MARTHA, one of Mt. Vernon's early settlers, died at her late residence on East High street, Decem- ber 3, 1879, in the eighty-first year of her age. Mrs. Elliott, whose maiden name was Miller, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1799. Her father, the late Reu- ben Miller, sr., wishing to better the condition of himself and family, concluded to remove to the western country. With his wife and children he started from Philadelphia in the fall of 1805, and after a tedious journey of twenty-two days, he ar- rived at Pittsburgh, then a town of less than four thousand in- habitants. Here Mrs. Elliott was reared, and received a good education, and April 11, 1816, she was united in marriage to Samuel Elliott. They remained in Pittsburgh until April, 1829, when her husband concluded to remove to Mt. Vernon, where

he formed a partnership with his brother, Alexander Elliott, in the mercantile business. Mrs. Elliott was the mother of ten children, of whom four were born in Pittsburgh and six in Mt. Vernon.

ELLIOTT, JAMES, of Monroe township, a retired farm- er, was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1808. He was the second child of William and Elizabeth Elli- ott, nee Eaton. His parents immigrated to Ohio in 1816, with a family of five children. They settled in Mt. Vernon. Being a miller by trade required him to change residence from place to place, wherever he could procure employment. He died near Fredericktown in June, 1840. His wife survived him for some years.

The subject of this notice learned the milling trade with his father; he also learned the carding business, and followed card- ing and milling for some years. He has been principally en- gaged in farming since 1835. He has been successful in all his undertakings, making his own way in the world, until he now has a competency in life. He was married to Miss Hannah B. Perry November 11, 1830, who was born in Knox county March, 1811. By this union they had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, eight of whom are living. His wife died in April, 1875. He was afterward married to Miss Mary E. Martin, in April, 1877. Of the children of Mr. Elliott, Joseph, a farmer, resides in Liberty township; William, farmer, in Monroe town- ship; Rose, married to Jacob Young, farmer, Monroe town- ship; Orange H., farmer, Monroe township; Elizabeth; James B .; Alice May, married to Leander Farquhar, Gambier.

ELLIOTT, GIDEON, Fredericktown, mayor, was born in New Market, Frederick county, Maryland, March 9, 1811, came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and in 1828 located in Berlin township; remained there fifty years and then removed to Fredericktown, where he has remained ever since. He was married in 1835 to Rebecca Roberts, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1815. They had a family of four children, vız .: Henry R., born in December, 1835; Ellen, born in 1837; Charles, now deceased; Edwin, in July, 1844, who was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Ohio National guard, died during the service in Virginia, July 15, 1864.

Mrs. Rebecca Elliott died in January, 1858, in Berlin town- ship.

Mr. Elliott was married in 1860 to Cordelia A. Shafer, daugh- ter of Henry Markley.

Mr. Elliott was elected mayor of Fredericktown in 1879, and reelected in 1880.

Henry Elliott resides in Berlin township and is engaged in farming.

Ellen was married to Levi Cassell, who is engaged in the dry goods business in Fredericktown.

ELLIOTT, HENRY R., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in this township in 1835, and was married in 1859 to Elma Willits, who was born in this town- ship in 1837. They have two daughters, Lamyra W., born in 1860, and Mary E., in 1862. Mr. Elliott is one of leading and enterprising farmers of this township. He owns a beautiful farm, a part of the Ellicott section, and has the best buildings in this township, built after the modern style. He has done much to promote the general interest of the county; is enterprising, liberal and honest in all his dealings.

ELLIOTT, ANDREW, Liberty township, superintendent of the county infirmary, Bangs post office, was born in Coshoc-

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ton county, Ohio, January 13, 1842. He was born and raised on a farm, attended the public schools, and has followed farm- ing as his occupation.

In 1872 he moved to Harrison township, Knox county, and subsequently to Jackson township. In the spring of 1880 the directors of the county infirmary appointed him as a competent and trustworthy man to take charge of that institution. He makes a worthy officer, being kind but firm to the inmates, and judiciously manages the affairs of the farm and institution to general satisfaction. He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Theresa Blue, of Coshocton county, to whom he was mar- ried in 1865. They had one child, Milton. In 1872 his wife died. In 1877 he married Miss Olive Myers, of Perry town- ship, Coshocton county. She is an efficient governess.

EMERSON, J. W., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1823, and was married to Charlotte McCaron, who was born in Columbi- ana county, Ohio. They had the following family-Ida and Frank W. Ida Emerson was married to Noble Gray. They have one daughter, Stella May, who was born in 1878. They reside on the homestead.

Mr. Emerson came to Ohio in 1846, and located in Wayne township, this county. For thirty-four years he has lived on the same farm. Thomas Emerson, his father (deceased), was born in Ireland in 1760, and came to America in 1800. He was married in the United States to Margaret Craven, who was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They had two sons- James, born in 1821; John W., 1823. Thomas Emerson died in 1866 at the age of one hundred and one years. Mrs. Mar- garet Emerson died in 1861.

They emigrated to this county in 1846, located on a farm in Wayne township, now the residence of John.

Mr. Emerson was engaged in the Revolutionary war, and was one of the pioneers of this county.

ENGLE, MARTIN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born January 21, 1823, in Howard town- ship. His father, Elias Engle, came from Pennsylvania in 1805, settled in Butler township, remained there a few years and then removed to Howard and built and conducted a distillery twenty years. He was married in 1853 and settled in Howard township, where he still lives. He has had the following fam- ily of children: Rosa, John, Mary, William, and Artance. Rosa died when six months old, John early in life, and Mary in the seventeenth year of her age, in 1873.

ENGLISH, A. U., Fredericktown, painter; was born in Co- shocton county in 1854, and was inarried in 1877 to Elizabeth E. Shaffner, who was born in Knox county in 1857. Mr. English learned the carriage painting in Fredericktown; com- menced in 1870. He is a skilful workman, and is now engaged with the firm of Stephens & Scott.

EVANS, THOMAS, Mt. Vernon, is a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he was born July 24, 1797. When about fifteen years old his parents moved to Catawissa, where he resided until 1818, when he went to Milta to learn the trade of plasterer, and there he remained until 1841 working at his trade. He married Miss Martha Doubler, by whom he had two children, one son and one daughter. Mrs. Evans died April 15, 1825. He married his second wife, Phebe Nevins, in 1826, by whom be had three children who died in infancy and five who are still living. In 1841 he came to Knox county and

settled three miles northwest of Mt. Vernon in Morris town- ship, and engaged in farming. On November 25, 1843, he lost his wife and married his third wife, Mrs. Ann Rogers, nee Cooper, by whom he had one son. His third wife died October 25, 1854, and the following year he married his fourth wife, . Mrs. A. Young, nee Mitchell, who is still living. She is a daughter of William Mitchell, one of the earliest settlers. Mr. Evans came to Mt. Vernon to live in 1849, and remained about four years. He then bought a farm one mile west of town where he lived twenty years, and then moved back to Mt. . Vernon to spend the balance of his days in retirement.

EVANS, DAVID (deceased), Hilliar township, was born June Io, 1813, died March 11, 1873. He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until about the year 1845, when he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Hilliar town- ship, on the Columbus road, where he remained until his death. He married Miss Elizabeth Lemley, of the same county. She died January 19, 1873. They had ten children, viz : Harriet, wife of M. B. Weaver, of Milford township; Ruhamah married Jacob Annett, and died in Illinois ; Barzillai was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer in- fantry, died while in service; Martha Ann (deceased), wife of Russell Bird; James L., deceased; George L., deceased; Oliver C., farmer, resides on the homestead ; Emma V., wife of Timothy Squires, of Miller township; Sarah M., deceased ; Louisa E. resides on the homestead. Five members of this family died during the winter of 1872 and 1873, viz: Martha A., George L., James L., and Mr. and Mrs. Evans. Those who died previous were Ruhamah and Barzillai, and Sarah M., leaving four of the original family yet living.

EVANS, OLIVER, farmer, Hilliar township, was born in Knox county, March, 1854; is a son of David and Elizabeth Evans, nee Lemley, who were born in Green county, Penn- sylvania, June ro, 1813, and October r2, 1816. They were married in Pennsylvania, and about 1848 came to Ohio, settling in Hilliar township. They had a family of ten children, four of whom are living, viz : Harriet, married to B. Weaver ; Annie, married to Timothy Squires ; Oliver and Louise, who live at home.

Four of the family died within a few months of each other ; the first to be taken was the mother, who died January, 1873; death soon after claimed James and George, and March II, 1873, the father followed those who had "gone before." One of the family, Barzillai, died while in the army, and Ruhamah, wife of Jacob Annett, died in the west, thus leaving but four re- maining. Oliver, at the age of nineteen, was left in charge of the farm, and has succeeded in carrying it on successfully.

EWALT, JOHN, deceased, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1760. About 1790 he married Miss Elizabeth Bonnett. They emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, in 1815, and located on land now owned by their son Isaac, in Clinton township, about two miles west of Mt. Vernon.

The erection of a brick dwelling house had been commenced on the land prior to his purchasing it, which he completed, and used as a residence during the remainder of his days. August 19, 1828, he deceased, his companion surviving him until in February, 1844.

They reared a family of eleven children: John, Sophia, Henry, Anna, Richard, Sarah, Isaac, James, Samuel, Robert, and Eliza; all have died except Sarah, Isaac, and Samuel.

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EWALT, ISAAC, farmer, fourth son of John and Elizabeth Ewalt, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-third day of February, 1806. In 1815 he came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton town- ship. He was reared on a farm, and has followed farming and stock raising as his vocation.

In 1829 he married for his first wife Miss Margaret Rinehart, born in 1807, daughter of Christian and Mary Rinehart. They settled on the old homestead, where he is now living. They reared one child, a son, John, who is married and lives in Hil- liar township, this county. In 1834 his wife died. In April, 1836, he married Miss Eunice Rush, by whom he had eight children; four sons, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, and Robert, and four daughters, Martha, Margaret, Eunice, and Alice. In 1869 he erected and moved into his present residence on his father's home farm, where he and his wife are now living.

EWALT, SAMUEL, farmer, sixth son of John and Eliza- beth Ewalt, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, Octo- ber 18, 1810, and was brought to Knox county by his parents in 1815. He was reared a farmer and has made farming his avo- cation through life.

On the sixth day of January, 1836, he married Miss Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Nathaniel and Isabella Johnson, nee Adams. Miss Johnson was born in Hampshire county, Vir- ginia, August 2, 1809.

They settled on the Ewalt homestead, Clinton township, re- mained about five years and moved to Mt. Vernon, where they lived three years, then returned to the home farm again, re- mained one year, then, in 1846, they moved on a part of the Johnson homestead, in same township, where they are now liv- ing. They reared a family of five children, viz: Isabella A., Isaac N., Manley J., Emma J., and William B., all living.

EWALT, MRS. ELIZA, nee Ridell, was born in Wayne -ounty, Ohio, December 25, 1819, where her father had located in 1813. She was married to Robert Ewalt, August 4, 1836.

Mr. Ewalt was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, and came to Knox county, Ohio, with his parents, in 1815.

After their marriage they located on a farm about two miles west of town, upon which they lived until 1869, when they moved to Mt. Vernon and located on East Gambier street, where she still lives. They had four children, two of whom are iving: Rebecca, who lives at Valparaiso, Indiana, and Anna E., who lives in Chicago.

Mrs. Ewalt still owns the home farm; Mr. Ewalt has passed to the better world.

EWALT, WILLIAM D., farmer, and a leading citizen of Liberty township, was born in Morris township, February 21, 1828, and is the son of Richard D. and Phebe Douglass. Mr. Ewalt was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. The Doug- lass family came to Ohio in 1805; the Ewalt family in 1816.

The subject of this notice spent his youth on the farm and had the advantages of the common schools of those days. In 1850 he went to California by way of the Isthmus, and remained there about eleven months, but on account of sickness he re- turned to Ohio and resumed farming. He has resided in Lib- erty township about forty-five years. He is well situated, own- ing a well-improved farm which he has made by his industry. He has held the office of township clerk for seventeen years and has made an acceptable officer. Politically Mr. Ewalt is a Democrat, and takes a great interest in the success of the prin- ciples that are advocated by his party. He is well known by

the leading men of his party all over the county, for his great zeal in what he consider to be right. He is an esteemed citizen, and has the confidence of the public.

He married Rispah Moxley, a native of Maryland. They had thirteen children, ten of whom are living, viz: Cassius R., Stepen D., Frank L., Dallas R., Clement V., Allen W., Colum- bus, Flora Ellen, Cora E., and Hattie M.

EWALT, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Clinton township January 8, 1830. His grandparents were among the early settlers of Knox county. His grandfather, John Ewalt, came from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1815, and settled in Clinton township, purchasing about one thousand acres of land. He was married to Miss Bonnett, and by her had a family of eleven children. Three are yet living: Isaac, father of the subject of this notice, who lives about one and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, and Sarah Kenton, who resides in Wayne county, Ohio.

Isaac Ewalt was born in Pennsylvania. He was married to Margaret Rhinehart, who died about 1834. He was again married to Eunice Rush.

The subject of this sketch spent his young days on a farm in Clinton township, with his father. In 1854 he came to Hilliar township. He was married in August of the same year, to Miss Elizabeth Henry, and the young couple began life in a log cabin on the farm, on which he now resides. The cabin was so open that, to use his own words, he could throw a cat through the openings. Things went well, and in this cabin they lived until 1856, when they erected their present pleasant dwelling. The old log cabin is no more, but memory still gives it a pleasant place in life's voyage.

When Mr. Ewalt first came to his farm, there was but little improvement. Those who see the farm now, and saw it twenty- six years ago, can truthfully say: "What a great change !" In- dustry did it.

Mr. Ewalt is a social and pleasant gentleman. He has the esteem of those who know him, and the confidence of those with whom he deals. His marriage has been blessed with two children: Aaron O., at home, and Ida Mary, married to James Huddleson, farmer, of Delaware county.

EWALT, J. M., was born May 7, 1840, in Clinton township, Knox county. After finishing his education he taught school until the opening of the war in 1861. He enlisted in August, 1862, in company A, Ninety-sixth, Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served about eight months, when he returned home and worked on the farm until 1871, when he was elected to the office of county auditor, and reelected in 1873. In 1875 he took his present position-cashier in the bank.

EWERS, JOHN G., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born January 22, 1815, and was married August 7, 1845, to Amanda Fidler, who was born November 5, 1826. They have the following family of children: Rebecca Jane, born September 19, 1846; Lafayette, March 19, 1850; Abner, September 12, 1852; James Fenton, February 16, 1856.

Deaths-Rebecca J., September 12, 1850; Lafayette, March 19, 1861; Abner, January 18, 1855; Arminda. August 4, 18 ---; Maitha, mother of John Ewers, March 2, 1836, aged forty- seven years five months and two days.

James F. Ewers was married March 24, 1880, to Alice E. Armstrong, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, Novem- ber 15, 1857.

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EWERS, WILLIAM, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this county in 1817. His father, Robert, was born in Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in 1812 and entered land in this township, and returned to Pennsylvania. In 1815 he came back to Ohio and located on his land. They had twelve chil- dren, six of whom are now living.

EWERS, DAVID, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township, December 23, r819, was married in 1842, to Almina Johnson, who was born in Wayne township, March 19, 1819. They have one daughter, Frank, born November 23, 1848, and was married to Leander Caywood, and at present resides in this township. Mr."Ewers is the owner of a well improved farm in this township, with good buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Ewers are both members of pioneer families.

EWERS, GEORGE J., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county, in 1848, and was married in 1877, to Annetta Adams, who was born in Berlin township. They have one son, Frank, born August 31, 1878.

EWERS, ROBERT S., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township. He is a son of Thomas Ewers, and is engaged at the carpenter trade, and is a skilful mechanic.

FADELY, L., farmer, Milford township, was born in Shenan- doalı county, Virginia, March 3, 1815. His parents came to Ohio in the fall of 1823, and settled in the northeast part of Morgan township, where the father died, his wife surviving him a number of years. The subject of this notice remained at home until he was twenty years of age. He then began life for himself. He worked at whatever was offered; was saving, lay- ing up a little at a time, until he had earned two hundred dol- lars. He then bought a forty-acre tract of land, leaving a bal- ance of four hundred dollars to be paid. He succeeded in paying this amount; was industrious and economical, and has succeeded in obtaining his first object, a farm. He is now a leading farmer of the township, and for his industry and integ- rity has the esteem of the people of the community. In 1835 he was married to Miss Catharine Warrick. They have six chil- dren living, viz : Mary Jane, married John W. Myers ; Thomas P., druggist in Richwood, Ohio; Elizabeth, Matilda married A. Moreland. His second wife was Angeline Atherton, and have one child, Charles R.

FAIRCHILD, JOHN L., retired, Fredericktown, was born in Woodbury, Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1818; came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and was married in 1849 to Lucinda B. Runnian, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1823. They had two children, Mary, born in 1851; John, 1853.

Mrs. Fairchild died in Mt. Vernon in 1877. Mr. Fairchild's occupation has been a tinner, and sheet-iron smith He was engaged in Mt. Vernon in this business for some years, has lived in this county for over forty years, and at present is resid- ing with his son in Fredericktown.

John was married to Sabra E. Talmage, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Stella S., born 1879. Mr. John Fairchild is engaged in the insurance business.

FAIRCHILD, FRANK L., of the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Company, Mt. Vernon, was born in Lorain county, Ohio,

December 4, 1843, where he resided until 1865. During the earlier part of his life he was engaged on the home farm and at- tending school at Oberlin. For two years after leaving school he was engaged as book-keeper in a dry goods house in Ober- lin. At the expiration of those two years, 1865, he came to Mt. Vernon, and was engaged by the firm of C. &. J Cooper & Co., as book-keeper, where he remained until January I, 1868, when he was admitted as a member of the firm, in which he still remains.

FARMER, VAN B., farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, July 5, 1828, a son of Nathan and Esther Farmer, by whom he was reared and educated. On the twentieth of November, 1850, at the age of twenty-two years, he married Catharine Staats, a daughter of Joseph and Catharine Staats, who was born in Butler township, Knox county, July 11, 1829. After his marriage he remained one year on the home place with his father. He then moved to Butler township, on a farm owned by his mother-in-law, where he lived one year. He then moved back to Harrison township, and soon after purchased a farm of forty acres in Brown township, where he then moved and remained four years. He then sold said farm and bought a small farm near Millwood, and at the same time bought a share in the home place, located in Harrison township. He lived on the farm near Millwood about six years, and then sold it and moved on a part of the home farm, where he at present resides. Mr. Farmer made a business of teaching school during the intermission for eight winters.

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History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 130

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co. Number of Pages: 1096

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co.
Number of Pages: 1096