History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 110

Author: N. N. Hill, Jr.
Publication date: 1881
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Number of Pages: 826


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1801. About 1831 he located in Liberty town- ship, this county, where he remained about forty- six years on the same farm. He married Eliza Ramey, February 12, 1831. To them were given eight children, viz .: Louisa, Pencie R., Emeline, Caroline, and two who died in infancy, Maria M. and Lewis. The father died September 19, 1879; Louisa, December 22, 1841, and Emeline, January 19, 1864. Lewis W. enlisted in company B, Sev- enty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, February 27, 1864, and participated in the following engage- ments : Resaca, Dallas, and Kenesaw Mountain. In front of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and near At- lanta again on the twenty-eighth of July, at Jonesborough, Ship's Gap, and from thence with Sherman to the sea; constituted the city guard at Savannah, and was in several skirmishes, viz: Columbia and Bentonville. He received his dis- charge at Louisville, Kentucky, July 15, 1865. He returned home and married Mary E. Severn in 1866. They had four children, viz .: Joseph W., Johnny, Sylvester and Olden. Johnny died in infancy. John Barbour, the subject of this sketch, was a faithful member of the Freewill Baptist church at Concord. He was one of those peacea- ble, quiet men we meet but once in a lifetime. His demise was regretted by the entire communi- ty. Miss Pencie Barbour and sister are engaged extensively in dress-making, and their reputation is second to none in the county.


BATTIE, ELISHA, blacksmith, wagon and car- riage manufacturer, was born March 16, 1835, in Baltimore county. His parents, Elisha and Jemima Battie, with their four eldest sons, emigrated to Ohio about September, 1835, locating near Hebron. Elisha, sr., was born January 31, 1798, and died May 31, 1866; Jemima, his wife, was born Febru- ary 5, 1805, in sight of Bunker Hill monument. Her maiden name was Jemima Stansberry. At eighteen years of age the subject of this sketch be- gan his present trade, at which he has continued nearly all of his time. He was employed by the Government during the fall and winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, building boats at Bridge- port, Alabama. He worked at his trade in Cedar county, Iowa, Berlin, Wisconsin, and Fort Scott, Kansas. He married Hellen Gregory, Novem- ber 15, 1866, who was born December 18, 1846, in Monroe township, near Johnstown. Her parents, Madison and Sarah Gregory, were born, the former in Maryland, the latter in Vir- ginia. They emigrated to Licking county in an early day, locating near Utica. The subject of this sketch began life without any help, and, by hard work and strict economy, has won himself a good home. They have four children: Pearl, Cora. Mark E. and Broom.


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BOWMAN, SAMUEL, merchant, was born June 4, 843, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he re- eived his education. He is well fitted for his alling. His beginning was that of a clerk for [enry Hamilton, of Baltimore, Maryland, in which apacity he continued about seven years, changing calities from time to time. October, 1879, he egan with a small stock of groceries, and has dded a full line of dry goods and sells about nine r ten thousand dollars worth of goods yearly. 'he citizens of Alexandria may well be proud of Ir. Bowman as a merchant. He is sociable, hos- itable, and ranks among the enterprising mer- hants of Licking county. He married Martha 1. Jordan, December 17, 1874. They have two hildren : Maud, born January 12, 1876, and Cora, orn July 10, 1877.


BUTLER, CHARLES, farmer, was born July 16, 804, in Blanford, then Hampshire county, Massa- husetts. His parents emigrated to Granville De- ember, 1805. He spent his early life in Gran- 'ille township, where he received his education at he district schools. He is one of the active, ener- jetic pioneers of this county, and took an active art in introducing the common school system. He married Philota D. Pratt, of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, April 25, 1829. They had six children: Martha M., born January 26, 1830; Elias D., born May 22, 1834; Caroline A., born Decem- Der 17, 1841; Sarah J., born July 4, 1842; William H., born November 19, 1846; Corwin C., born July 26, 1850, all of whom are living and have children. Mr. Butler is a man who is respected by the entire community, and is still an active old gentleman.


BUXTON, MRS. C. A., widow, was born August 13, 1834, in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia. No- vember 2, 1859, she married David Buxton, who was born October 6, 1799, in Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont. They have one son, Rufus, born July 21, 1864. Mr. Buxton died July 12, 1879. He was a man of reserved opinions, and a consistent member of the Congregational church. He emigrated to Johnstown, Licking county, about 1834, and about one year later came to Alexandria, where he remained until his death.


UNION TOWNSHIP.


BEAUMONT, WILLIAM, superintendent of the in- firmary, post office, Union station. He was born in St. Albans township June 6, 1831, and followed farming as a business until he was twenty-five years old; he then engaged in the mercantile busi- ness in the village of Alexandria, Ohio, continuing for the period of thirteen years. He received the appointment of superintendent of the infirmary February 1, 1880, and at once entered upon the duties of his office with the energy and devotion


to business which has heretofore characterized him. Mr. Beaumont was a prominent man in his township, filling offices of importance for many years. He has been master of the St. Albans lodge, No. 491, Free and Accepted Masons, for six years. He is a very pleasant and agreeable gentleman, well calculated for the important place which he fills. He was married to Miss Laura Webb October 16, 1856, two children being the result of this union.


BURCH, HOMER C., merchant, post office, He- bron, was born in Muskingum county, July 12, 1842; came to Hebron in 1859, and in September of that year, engaged in the milling business, which he followed until the tenth of August, 1861, when he enlisted in company H, Thirty-first Ohio volun- teer infantry; he. re-enlisted in 1863, and served until the close of the war, the last year being de- tailed orderly on General Beard's staff; General Beard commanded Third division, Fourteenth army corps; Mr. Burch was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, and captured at Ringgold, Georgia, but was parolled in a short time; he was married on the tenth of July, 1861, to Miss Kate Smith, a native of this county ; they have had six children: Delbert C., fourteen; Harry, twelve; Willie (deceased); Winnie Gertrude, eigl t; Georgie H., six, and Maude, four. In 1878 company K, Seventeenth Ohio national guard, was organized in Hebron, and Mr. Burch was elected captain by acclamation, his commission bearing date Decem- ber 7, 1878; his company was named Atherton guards when organized, in honor of Gibson Ather- ton, who represented the thirteenth Congressional district in Congress. The company has the re- putation of being the finest in the regiment, hav- ing won the badge at their first encampment in August, 1879, at Camp Hoagland, Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. Burch deals extensively in groceries and everything pertaining to a first class village store.


BURCH, H. D., grocer, post office; Hebron, was born in Muskingum county in 1846; he was mar- ried in 1869, to Miss Candace Ruick, and they had four children: Otto E., Frank C., Rosa L., and Bertie T. He enlisted in 1862, and served three years, going out in company A, Tenth Ohio volunteer cavalry, as private; was promoted to bugler; had his horse captured on two different oc- casions; has been postmaster here since 1870; is first lieutenant of the Atherton guards ; he has been engaged in his present business since 1869, and has made it a success by honorable dealing ; he and his wife are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church, he having been identified with that denomination for the past twelve years.


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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.


BELL, WILLIAM, SR., Utica Ohio .- He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1809, and came to Knox county with his father in 1816, and located on the farm joining the one on which he now lives. He married Nancy R. Hanger, Novem- ber 11, 1830, daughter of Jacob Hanger, of Knox county. She was born January 29, 1813. They went to housekeeping in the house now owned by Robert McFarland, where they lived some three years, then moved to the vicinity of Martinsburgh, lived there one year, then moved to Licking county, where he has been living forty-five years. He now owns fifty acres of land, where he has lived for thirteen years; also forty-eight acres adjoining, in Knox county. They have eight children-Aman- da, Hiram, Phidelia, Irene, Mary E., Catharine H., Alvira and David G. Amanda was married to George Hughes, and died September 8, 1865, leav- ing four children. Hiram is now living in Knox county, Ohio. Phidelia was married to Peter Crum- rine, and died December 5, 1860. Irene now lives in Utica, and is the wife of John McFadden. Mary E. lives in Utica, and is a widow. Catharine is now living in Wisconsin, and is wife of Felix Bennett. Alvira lives in Utica, and is the wife of C. C. Hughes. David G., is now teaching school in Knox county. His home is in DeKalb county, Indiana, where his wife and one child are living. The subject of this sketch is one of the early set- tlers, and remembers the Indian squaw being shot and her thigh broken by John McClane. She was taken to Mr. Bell's father's and cared for. Mc- Clane was sent to the penitentiary for twenty years. The squaw, after remaining at this place two days, was carried by Indians to Mt. Vernon on a ham- mock made of bark. She died from the effects of this wound some two weeks after going to Mt. Ver- non. McClane, after serving ten years of his time died in the penitentiary. Cortland McPeek, hus- band of Mary E. Bell, was a soldier in the late war for three years.


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CARVER, RANDOLPH, farmer, Bennington town- ship, was born in 1852, in this county. His father, J. W. Carver, was born in New Hampshire county, New Jersey, in 1805. He came to this county in 1812 with his father. He was married in 1827 to Miss Mary Livingston, daughter of Peter Living- ston, of this county. She was born in 1805. Mr. Carver died in August, 1879. Mrs. Carver died in October, 1879. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom are living. The subject of this sketch was married in 1874 to Miss Eliza Moore, daughter of V. R. Moore, of this county. She was born in 1855.


BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.


COOPERIDER, GEORGE, Bowling Green township. John Cooperider emigrated to Licking county from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1815. He had twelve children: John, Andrew, Emanuel, Peter, David, William, Jacob, Philip, George, Lewis, Abraham and Anna Margaret, settled in Licking, Perry and Fairfield counties. His son, Emanuel, preceded his arrival here by one year, having pre- viously married Elizabeth Shelly, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Six children resulted from this union, three of whom died in early life. The remaining three, Anna Margaret, wife of George Bixler, John, and George, the subject of this sketch, reside in this township. George was born Febru- ary 25, 1818, in this township, is a farmer by occu- pation, and has always lived here. He married Margaret Trout, of Perry county, April 10, 1845. They are the parents of ten children: Sarah E (died); Emanuel W., living in Perry county; Joel, a physician in Petersburg, Mahoning county, Ohio; George, a Lutheran minister in Baltimore, Mary- land ; Martha, Martin L., John H., Charles, Noah and Herman.


BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP.


CONARD, JOSEPH, farmer and stock-dealer, was born in 1819, in this county. His father, Nathan Conard, was born June 5, 1779, in Loudoun coun- ty, Virginia. He was married in 1800 to Miss Hannah Butcher, of Hampshire county, Vir- ginia. She was born January 7, 1779, in Hamp- shire county. They came to Fairfield county, now Knox county, in 1805. They came to what is now Licking county in 1807. He died September 20, 1854. She died January 28, 1871. They were the parents of ten children: John, born June 28, 1801, died August 28, 1861; Jonah, born January 1, 1804, died April 20, 1866; Sarah, born Decem- ber 24, 1805, died September 20, 1877; Mahlon, born February 28, 1808; Amos, born April 20, 1810; Elizabeth, born February 16, 1812; Anna, born July 18, 1814; Nathan, born July 21, 181 ;. died July 6, 1880; Joseph, born August 7, 1819; Cyrus M., born February 18, 1823.


CONARD, C. M., farmer and stock-dealer, Bur+ lington township, was born in 1823, in this town- ship. His father's name is Nathan Conard. C. M. Conard was married in 1846 to Miss Phoebe Long. She was born in 1826, in this county. She died April 4, 1859. They were the parents of three children. He again married, in 1860, Miss Sarah Kinsey, of Knox county. She was born in Coshocton county in 1830. They are the parents of nine children.


CONARD, MRS. HANNAH .- Mrs. Conard born in the State of Virginia, in 1779, whi


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the Revolutionary war was in progress; became wife of Nathan Conard, and settled in Licking Inty in 1806, while it was yet a part of Fairfield inty, and died January 28, 1871, at the great of ninety-two years. Mrs. Conard knew from erience what it was to live in the wilderness, I to endure the toils and, to some extent at least, privations incident to life on the frontiers. She ¿ highly esteemed as a wife and mother, and as : of the oldest and best of the pioneers of :king.


EDEN TOWNSHIP.


COLVILLE, JAMES W., was born in Shenandoah inty, Virginia, April 30, 1795. He was a sol- :r in the War of 1812, and came to this county 1826; was married to Leah Baker in 1827, and on thereafter settled on the farm in Eden town- p, where he lived fifty-one years, and where he :d after a protracted illness, November 7, 1878, his eighty-fourth year. He was a son of Major Iville, who, in the valley of Virginia, had at- ned some distinction by his military and civil vices, and by his integrity and intelligence as a gistrate and legislator. Rev. Peter Schmucker, 10 was also from Virginia, was the officiating ergyman on the occasion of Mr. Colville's mar- ge, July 26, 1827. Mr. Colville was an acting stice of the peace of Eden township upwards of enty years, and was highly esteemed by his ighbors, and by all who had the pleasure of his quaintance, which was not by any means a lim- :d number. He was a man of considerable in- rmation, a patriotic man, a useful, industrious tizen, an accommodating neighbor, an upright, st magistrate, a kind husband, an affectionate ther, an honest man, a warm-hearted friend.


ETNA TOWNSHIP.


CONINE, JACOB F. ESQ .- The death of the sub- ct of this sketch took place at his residence in tna township June 6, 1880, at the age of seventy- :ven years. Squire Conine was born in Morris ounty, New Jersey, July 10, 1803, came to this ounty in 1840, served a year as a soldier in the lexican war, doing duty as a member of Captain ohn R. Duncan's company of rangers on the Rio irande line. He was a gentleman of extensive iformation, conscientious, patriotic, intelligent, and Iways exerted a favorable moral influence. Squire 'onine had acquired a good degree of scholarship, nd had written some acceptable historical papers or the Pioneer society.


FALLSBURY.


COLVILLE, JAMES, ESQ., son of James W. Col- ille, esq., was born in Eden township, Licking ounty, Ohio, June 29, 1836. He intermarried rith Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Jor-


dan Hall, esq., November 8, 1866. He now lives in Fallsbury township, where he has lived thirteen years, having served as justice of the peace for six years. Squire Colville has devoted himself industriously and successfully to agricultural pur- suits and stock raising; he has also been engaged, more or less, for sixteen years at school teaching, and filling positions in his township involving more or less responsibility. His ancestors, paternal and maternal, were immigrants to Licking county from the Shenandoah valley, in Virginia, where his grandfather, Major John Colville, was a prominent man for many years, being a representative in the Virginia legislature, and occupied other positions of prominence. His relatives of old were also ac- tive in the Revolutionary war. He is a grandson of Aaron Baker, one of the veteran pioneers of Licking, who moved to this county from Rocking- ham county, Virginia, in 1803, and settled two miles north of Newark. His mother, Leah Baker, was then only three years old, and is still living in this county, at the age of eighty years. She was one of the hardy, vigorous race of pioneer women who courageously encountered the toils, hardships and privations incident to life on the frontiers, and who is now, after a life of great activity, energy and industry, calmly and resignedly near its close. FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.


COOPER, JAMES .- Mr. Cooper, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Cooper, was born in Marshall county, West Virginia, January 15, 1820. His parents were farmers, and James adopted this as his avocation, following it in his native place until 1868, when he came to this county, liv- ing six years near Brownville, then removing to this township, where he has since resided. He was elected justice of the peace for Franklin township in April, 1879, and is a member of the orders of Odd Fellows and Masons. Mr. Cooper has been twice married. His first wife was Drusilla Linville, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, whom he mar- ried April 20, 1848, and by whom he had five children. Of these only Elizabeth V., and Mary B. survive. His wife died December 31, 1859. His second marriage was with Jane Buchanan, of Marshall county, Virginia, solemnized May 15, 1860. Of his eight children by this marriage, five are living : Flotilla Ann, Ella Jane, Carrie Spen- cer, John Henry, and James Buchanan.


CONNEL, JOHN .- Mr. Connel was born in Madison township, April 2, 1830. When he was six or seven years old his parents moved to New- ark. He there learned the carpenter trade and worked at it in Newark until 1878, when he pur- chased the farm upon which he now resides, and removed to the country. Mr. Connel was married to Mary E. Goodwin, of Newark, January 10,


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1856. Their children are Ada E., George W., Nettie B., and Stella May.


COULTER, PRESTON F .- Mr. Coulter was born in Franklin township, October 21, 1827. His father, John Coulter, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was born, Decem- ber 19, 1796, and when only one or two years old his parents moved to Butler county, Ohio, and afterwards, in 1810, to Licking county. His mother, Matilda Pumphrey, was a Virginian by birth. He was married May 30, 1851, to Lydia E. Dodd, of Belmont county, Ohio, who is one year and seven days his junior. His children are, Horace M., born July 3, 1852 ; Eva M., born July 13, 1854; Mary A., born May 1, 1857; John C., born March 18, 1859, and died February 28, 1862; Lorin, born September 8, 1861; May, born Octo- ber 14, 1863; Rollin, born May 30, 1866; Edwin Stanton, born June 9, 1868; Frank H., born March 20, 1870, and Howard E., born August 29, 1875. Since his marriage Mr. Coulter has resided in Madison, Bowling Green and Frankiin town- ships successively. His occupation is farming and stock raising, also makes a specialty of raising and selling fine sheep.


COULTER, W. C., son of John Coulter, one of the early settlers of this county, was born in this township March 13, 1832. His early life was active and varied. He taught school at seventeen and the next year attended school at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio. He was then employed about eighteen months in building telegraph roads in this State and in Indiana. He next went west with a flock of sheep and remained there two years when he returned to Licking county. He remained here five or six years and then spent two years along the Ohio river in Scioto county, Ohio. In 1860 he returned to this town- ship and has remained here since. In 1855 he married Catharine Irwin, of this township. He has two children, Lenora and Ella M. Mr. Coul- ter is an extensive sheep grower, and has imported a valuable stock of sheep from Vermont into this county.


CUMMINS, MRS. SARAH A., was born December 8, 1821, in Guernsey county. She married John Cummins November 28, 1841, who was born in Rockingham, Virginia, August 30, 1814, and was the son of Thomas Cummins and Mary Bowers. Mr. Cummins was a farmer and a member of the United Brethren church. He died September 4, 1858. Mrs. Cummins' parents are from Cumber- land valley, Pennsylvania. Her father, William McVicker, was born April 5, 1778; her mother, Sarah A. Lisney, was born March 18, 1786; her brothers and sisters are Jonathan C., born April


II, 1802; James, born August 21, 1803; William, born March 3, 1806; Alexander, born December 25, 1809; Aaron, born August 11, 1812; Achor, born December 2, 1813; Samuel F., born April 3. 1816; Rebecca, born February 21, 1819; John C, born February 13, 1824; Stephen, born March 4, 1827; Mary, born May 3, 1829. Her children are Mary Jane, wife of Harrison Moore, of Kansas; Sarah T. (deceased); Lora H., wife of William Griffith, of Lima township; John, William T. (de- ceased), David, Martha Ann (deceased), Sylvester, and Rena May. Mrs. Cummins is a member of the Presbyterian church.


COURSON, JAMES S., was born August 24, 1843, in Bowling Green township. His father, Alexander, and his grandparents, Isaac and Jane Courson, came from Pennsylvania. He was born and bred a farmer, but during the last seven or eight years, has followed stone masonry as a trade. Until within a few months he has resided in his native township. His brothers and sisters living, are: Ananias, of this county; Cornelius, living in Memphis, Tennessee; Charles W., who resides in Missouri; Mary Ann, wife of John Abraham, of Oskaloosa, Iowa; Nancy, married to Harvey Dust- himer, of this township, and Martha J., the wife of Abram Eby,, living in Bowling Green township. Mr. Courson was married November 27, 1879, to Rachel Irwin, daughter of Hamilton and Catharine Irwin. Mr. and Mrs. Courson. are members of the Methodist church.


GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.


BAILY, L. B., Concord, Hancock county, Iowa. His father, John B. Bailey, came from New York to Ohio in 1837, locating near Granville. He went to Wisconsin in 1861, and to Iowa in 1864. where he died in 1875. He was the parent of four sons, one of whom, Rolla, was killed by light- ning in 1876. Smith was a farmer on the Pacific coast. John B. and L. B. are farmers at Bailey's Grove, Iowa. L. B. Bailey was born near Gran- ville. He left Ohio in 1868, was married in 1864 to Miss F. A. Ocian, of Wisconsin. They are the parents of two boys, Charles and Edwin B.


CASE, GROVE, was born in Connecticut January 20, 1800. He was brought to Licking county, Ohio, in 1807, by his parents, Major Grove and Cinderilla Case, who settled in Granville, where they deceased. He died in 1836 or '7, aged fifty- six years. His wife survived him until January, 1867, aged eighty-seven years. Major Case built the well-known house in Granville, in which be kept hotel from 1810 until 1814 or '15. He served as major in the War of 1812; was at Fort Meis when besieged. He, in company with Silas Wa cbell, erected the first grist-mill in Granville tom


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ship. He was the father of four children-three sons, born in Connecticut, viz: Grove, Norton and Jarvis; one daughter, Lucinda, born in Granville. All of the children are living, except Norton, who deceased in March, 1879. Mr. Case was reared a farmer, and has followed farming and stock-raising, as his vocation. He married Laura Carpenter, of Delaware county, Ohio, May 15, 1821; born October 10, 1797; daughter of Nathan Carpenter, a soldier of the War of 1776. They settled on North street, Granville township, Licking county, Ohio, on the farm now occupied by his grandson-in-law. He erected the residence, now n use, in which they lived for fifty-six years. In October, 1877, they moved on the farm where hey are now living, which he had purchased in 1876. Their residence is a fine brick sturcture. l'hey reared a family of three children: Lucius A. narried Polly Rose, in 1844, daughter of Levi Rose, and he deceased July 3, 1866; Laura J. died it the age of seventeen years; Lucy C. married ames Sennett, and died two years after her mar- iage.


CLOUSE, REV. NOAH .- The parentage of Mr. Clouse was on the father's side, High Dutch, and in the mother's side, English, who settled in New- England in very early times. One of his grand. athers served seven years in the Revolutionary war, The place of their nativity was Washington county. Pennsylvania, where they lived to an advanced age. The subject of this sketch, Mr. N. Clouse, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the irst of October, 1813. He received a moderate elect school educatich while young-good for hose days. Having attained his majority, he noved to Ohio, and located in Tuscarawas county n the . spring of 1835. On the twenty-third of October, 1835, he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Ashbrook, whose parents came of the ld English and Dutch nationalities, and settled on he borders of the States of Virginia and Pennsyl- ania, where her parents were born. From thence hey removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, here they were blessed with a family of two sons nd four daughters. Mrs. Rebecca Clouse nee Ashbrook was born in Washington county, Pennsyl- ania, July 4, 1806, and is still living, enjoying an ctive, old age. The religious life of Mr. Clouse egan at the time of his conversion at the age of ourteen years, and continued in a special call to he ministry of the Baptist denomination in the ear 1841, when he was licensed to preach by the )over Baptist church, and was subsequently rdained in the same church in the year 1843. During these calls to preach, the exercise of his jind led him to seek the means of a better educa- ion for the duties involved. He studied as the




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