History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 131

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

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ing snake-like to the rebel works and taking him away unperceived. He was never unable to do duty, and never received a scratch, though in every engagement in which the regiment was engaged. At Jonesborough the regiment captured two pieces of artillery, and more prisoners than there were men in the regiment. The nearest he came to getting shot was at Kenesaw, where his gun stock was shattered by a ball. He was in the great re- view at Washington, at the close of the war.

ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.

OLDHAM, R. D., pioneer farmer and miller, was born May 7, 1814, in Cambridge township, Guern- sey county, Ohio, and migrated to Licking county about April 10, 1838. His parents are Thomas and Nancy Oldham. The former was born in Al- legheny county, Pennsylvania; the latter in Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, within two miles of the Virginia line. Mrs. Oldham's maiden name was Davis. R. D. Oldham located in St. Albans township, purchasing ninety-eight acres, and con- tinuing to add until he had four hundred and thirty acres. He married Commillar Brill, September 22, 1836. They had one child, Mary Elizabeth, born May 25, 1846, who graduated at the Granville college, June, 1867. She married George Mc- Laughlin, January 10, 1871, and died May 17, 1873. Her mother died August 20, 1867. Mr. Oldham's second marriage took place October 14, 1868, to Sarah Carlock, who was born July 24, 1816, and died June 1, 1880. Mr. Oldham is one of the most enterprising citizens of this county. He has erected buildings in the township costing over eight thousand dollars. He has cleared and improved about two hundred acres. He has met with loss after loss, by death and fire. November, 1840, he contracted with Paul Roberts to run a grist-mill in Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, for three years, at twenty dollars per month. He remained there two and one-half years, making enough money to pay for his first purchase in the township. November, 1844, they took a little girl, Rachel Robert, to bring up, and gave her an excel- lent education. She was prevented from graduat- ing on account of failing health. October, 25, 1866, she married W. T. Chambers, and now lives in West Virginia, five miles from Wheeling, at Elm Grove. They have five children-Harry, William, Samuel, Mary, and Sarah.

BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.

PHERSON, JOHN R., farmer, born in Perry county, Ohio, December, 17, 1833, the son of Robert Pherson, who emigrated from Ireland in 1793, when twenty years old, settled in Perry county in 1808; He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was at the siege of Fort Meigs. His mother, Mar-

garet McCormick, was from Maryland. In 1851 he married Caroline Beall, a Virginian by birth, who emigrated to this township with her father, Ninian, about 1835. Nine children resulted from this union-Henry, Mary, Anna, William, Irvin, Frank, Hattie, Clara, and Laura. Mr. Pherson lived in Henry county, Ohio, one year-1854-55 -then returned to Burlington township, this county, where he remained until 1863, when he came to the farm where he now lives.

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP.

PATTON, THOMAS, farmer, born in 1846, in this county. His father, Joseph Patton, was born in 1795, near Derry, Ireland. He came to Philadel- phia in 1821, and to this county in 1835. He was married in 1837 to Miss Jane Lusk, of Fairfield county, Ohio. She was born in 1808, in that connty. He died in 1875. They were the parents of four children. The subject of this sketch is the third child. He was married in 1879 to Miss Sarah Lar- imore, of this county. She was born in 1856, in this county.

PATTON, CLEMENT M., farmer, born in 1839, in this county. He was married in 1872 to Miss Car- oline E. Boyd, of this county. She was born in 1854, in Coshocton county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children-Morton, Joseph, and Susannah.

PRESTON, W. N., miller, born in Newton town- ship, September 22, 1845. His grandfather, Nathan Preston, was born in 1777, in Mary- land. In 1794 he left home, coming to Chilli- cothe, this State, where he remained for several years without his parents knowing where he was. He went to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where his parents had moved to in the meantime, and was married in 1808 to Miss Mary Belt, of that county. He died in 1846, and she died in 1857. They were the parents of ten children. Jacob, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the sixth child. He was born in 1814, in New- ton township. He was married in 1837 to Miss Elizabeth Harding, of this county. She was born in 1815, in Hagerstown, Maryland. He died in 1866. She is still living in Illinois. The subject of this sketch is the third child. He was married in 1873 to Miss Annie M. Sellers, of this county. She was born in 1850, in Knox county, Ohio.

FALLSBURY TOWNSHIP.

PAINTER, WILLIAM, farmer and stock raiser, a son of John and Margaret Painter, born in Mus- kingum county, October 12, 1827. He remained with his father and farmed on the shares for about five years, after he became of age, and during this time he married Julina S. Robinson, October 26, 1852. She was born in Fallsbury township,

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March 5, 1830. After his marriage he made a purchase of eighty acres of land in this township, to which he moved and began housekeeping. He carried on farming and carpentering in connection. This he continued till about the fall of 1861 or 1862, when he sold his farm to his brother John. He then purchased the farm known as the Robin- son farm, near Robinson grove, or Painter run, where he moved the fall following, where he has since remained. He was a member of the home guards, and was called into service May 2, 1864. They were ordered to report at Newark, and from there they were taken to Camp Chase, where they were mustered into service May 11th. They left there for Martinburgh, West Virginia, landing there the fourteenth. There they were divided into squads to do guard duty. Companies F and B were sent to North Mountain, West Virginia. While there the subject of this sketch was taken prisoner, July 3, 1864, and was marched by the rebels from North Mountain to the pike; July 4th to Martinsburgh, where they halted till the morn- ing of the fifth; from there to Winchester, a dis- tance of twenty-two miles. On July 6th they marched to Middletown; next to Woodstock; from thence to Edinburgh, distance twenty-two miles; then halted till the morning of July 8th; from thence to Newmarket. On the 9th they marched to Harrisonburgh, where he remained sick in the hospital till September 3rd; from there by stage to Staunton; September 4th by rail to Richmond, where he was put in Libby prison, and remained till September 23d. On the 24th he was paroled and took the boat for Akins, where they were met by Union soldiers. On the twenty-fifth they "boarded the steamer New York, and headed for City Point; from there to Harrison's Landing and Fort Powhatan ; from there to Fortress Mon- roe; thence to Annapolis, Maryland; from there to parole camp; thence to Camp Chase, where he re- ceived his discharge October 1, 1864; from there he came home and assumed his old business, farm- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Painter are the parents of eleven children, as follows: Thona V., born De- cember 9, 1853; Florence O., August 8, 1855 ; John W., February 16, 1857; Sarah M., Septem- ber 18, 1858; David H., November 11, 1860; Jonathan E., November 29, 1862; William E., January 1, 1865 ; Ira C., March 22, 1867; Walter E., March 18, 1869; Myrtle S., January 4, 1872; Arthur B., September 12, 1874. John W. died March 25, 1857. Mr. Painter is a consistent member of the Baptist church of Fallsburgh.

PAINTER, JOHN W., farmer, born in Muskingum county; October 22, 1829; was brought to Licking county, when a boy, by his father, where he was reared, and became a man; shortly after that, he

married Margaret Sperry, daughter of Ezra and Abigail Sperry. She was born in Muskingum county, January 24, 1834 After his marriage Mr. Painter purchased a farm of eighty acres of land to which he moved, and remained about two years. He then sold this, and rented a farm of William S. Brown, where he remained seven years. He then made a purchase of the farm known as the Walnut Grove farm, containing eighty acres, where he then moved, and now resides. About one year after moving on this place, he made a purchase of the Brown farm, of one hundred and sixty acres, which makes in all two hundred and forty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Painter are the parents of two chil- dren: Amanda C., born October 28, 1853, and now married to N. H. Tilton, residing in Martins- burgh, Knox county; Adda A., born June 4, 1858. Mr. Painter is a consistent member of the Predes- tinarian Baptist church.

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.

PYLE, ROBERT .- Mr. Pyle was born in Bowling Green township February 22, 1839, his parents, John and Sarah Pyle, having removed to Licking county from Jefferson county, Virginia, in 1830. He is the fifth child of a family of seven children, and is the only one who resides in this county. His two brothers have established themselves in Stark county, Illinois. Two sisters live in Kansas, and the other two in the adjoining counties of Muskingum and Perry. At eighteen years of age, he left the place of his nativity for Stark county, Illinois, where he was engaged in agricultural pur- suits until the breaking out of the wir. December 7, 1861, he enlisted in company K, Forty-seventh Illinois infantry, and remained in the service three years. During this time Mr. Pyle participated in seventeen battles, among which were those at Corinth, Iuka, Jackson, Mississippi; Pleasant Hill, Louisiana; Siege of Vicksburgh, etc. The regiment to which he belonged, was one of the brigade commanded by General Joseph Mower. At the close of the war Mr. Pyle returned to Licking county, and united in marriage with Mary J. Mc- Kelvey, the daughter of James and Anna Mc- Kelvey, March 16, 1865. His four children are: Clara A., James Edwin, Thomas H. and Anna Gertrude. He is engaged in farming. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church.

GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.

PAIGE, NATHANIEL, deceased, was born in Hard- wick, Massachusetts, April 14, 1776. He received 1 good common school and business education Is 1795 he migrated to Rutland, Vermont, where he learned the clothier trade with his older brother May 30, 1798, he married Pheba Smith, of R land, Vermont, born December 19, 1779, deg

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ter of John Smith. They settled in Rutland, Vermont, where he engaged at his trade car- rying on the business himself, manufacturing and fulling all kinds of cloth. He continued in the business until in 1815; he with his wife and six children migrated to Licking county, Ohio, located in Centerville on T. Little's farm; remained until the spring of 1816, he purchased and moved on a farm east of the D. M. Baker farm. He then turned his attention to farming, and followed that as his vocation. In 1820 he sold his farm, near D. M. Baker's, purchased and moved on the farm now owned by his son, L. D. Paige, in the southwest corner of Granville township, where he passed the remainder of his days. His com- panion deceased September 13, 1867. He sur- vived her until January 6, 1869. They lived together nearly seventy years, and reared a family of ten children: James, deceased, born in Ver- nont August 25, 1799; Eliza, deceased, born in Vermont June 15, 1801; Smith W., deceased, porn in Vermont August 15, 1805; Marietta, born n Vermont September 20, 1807; Nathaniel M., deceased, born in Vermont, August 20, 1809; Lafayette, deceased, born in Vermont June 20, 1812; Pheba L., born in Vermont, January BI, 1815; Mercy A, born in Ohio August 25, 1817; Lucius D., born in Ohio August 21, 1821; Henry C., born in Ohio June 25, 1825. Five of he above named children are now living. Mr. Paige taught vocal music for a number of years n this vicinity.

PARSONS, RALPH, deceased, was born in Hart- ord county, Connecticut, October 12, 1807. He vas a cabinet-maker by trade and followed that business as a vocation for a number of years. In 831 he migrated to Ohio and located in the northern part of the State, where he, in company vith H. K. Kendall, carried on the mercantile usiness about three years. In the spring of 1834 e came to Granville, this county, and established general store, which he conducted with success, ealing in dry goods, groceries, notions, boots, hoes, hats, caps, in fact, everything that was kept 1 a country store, until the time of his death, which occurred October 1, 1874. On the thirtieth ay of April, 1835, he married Miss Laura O., aughter of George W. Case. Miss Case was orn in East Hartford, Connecticut, December 11, 816; came to this county with her parents in 823, and located in Granville. Mr. and Mrs. arsons settled in Granville, where she is now liv- ig. They reared a family of five children: eorge C., John F., Francis R., Caroline C., and [ary F. John F. and Mary F. are now deceased.

PARSONS, GEORGE C., eldest son of the afore- .id Ralph Parsons, was born in Granville, this

county, March 30, 1838. He received his education in Denison university. In 1856 he engaged with A. P. Stone, of Columbus, as salesman in his dry goods store, with whom he remained about one year. In 1857 he returned to Granville, and entered his father's store as salesman, and remained as such about seven years. In 1864 he became a partner of his father in the business, the firm name then being R. Pasons & Son, who conducted the bus- iness with success until the death of his father in 1874. The son then took charge of the business, and the house is now known as George C. Parsons, dealer in dry goods, notions, boots and shoes, hats, caps, hosiery, etc. In fact his business room, twenty by thirty feet, is well filled with everything in his line of business.

PITTSFORD, DAVID, deceased, born in Wales, near the line between Wales and England, June, 1762. He was a slater by trade, and followed that as his vocation forty-five years. In 1797 he married Ann Davis of Wales. In 1801 he, with wife and two children, Mary and William, migrated to America,, and located in Chester county, Pennsylvania; re- mained there until 1816 when they migrated to Lick- ing county, Ohio. They located in Granville town- ship, on a farm now owned by their son, James Pittsford, where he engaged in clearing away the timber, and cultivating the soil as his vocation, which he followed until he died, September 30, 1842. His companion survived him until Febru- ary 27, 1863, aged ninty-one years and six months. Their union resulted in six children: Mary, born in Wales, June 19, 1798; William (deceased), born in Wales, June 12, 1800; John (deceased), born in Pennsylvania, October 2, 1802; Elizabeth, born in Pennsylvania, June 9, 1804; Isaac (deceased), born in Pennsylvania, October 1, 1807: James, born in Chester county, June 15, 1812, came with his parents to Licking county, Ohio, in 1816. He was educated in the common schools of Gran- ville township. The most of his school-boy days were spent in the old stone school-house. He fol- lowed teaching school as his vocation for fourteen winters, all his teaching being done in Granville and adjoining townships. He was reared a farm- er, and he followed farming and stock raising as his principal vocation. He was elected infirmary director of Licking county, in 1860, and served until 1863; he was then elected county commission- er and served until 1869. ' Mr. Pittsford has also held various township offices. He was married to Mary Jones, September 27, 1838; she was born in York State, August 16, 1816, and is the daughter of David R. Jones, who migrated to Licking coun- ty, Ohio, in 1837. They settled on the home farm, where they are now living, Their union resulted in seven children, Pheba A., Mary E., Susan, David

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B., John E., William H., and Franklin J., all of whom are living except Pheba A., who died March 4, 1864

POND, AARON, was born in York State, October I, 1808. He was brought to Licking county, Ohio, by his parents, in 1812, who settled in Granville township. He is a cooper by trade, and followed coopering as his vocation for twenty years. He has also been engaged in various other business. He married for his first wife Electa Biglow, March 20, 1831. They settled in Granville township, where they remained three years, then removed to Granville, where he is still living. Their union resulted in three children, one son and two daugh- ters. His wife deceased 1837. He married for his second wife Lydia Handle. Their marriage resulted in two children, one son and one daughter.

HANOVER TOWNSHIP.

PHILLIPS, JOHN, post office, Clay Lick, a farmer by occupation in the southern part of Hanover township, on the Mt. Sterling road. He is the son of Simeon and Elizabeth Phillips, and was born March 12, 1827, in Green county, Pennsylvania. He with his parents came to this county in the fall of 1845, and settled on the farm now occupied by the subject of this sketch. Simeon Phillips died April 7, 1870. His widow lives with her son, William, at the old homestead. John was married November 30, 1851, to Jane Lake, the daughter of Elias and Charlotte Lake, and was born Jan- uary 16, 1842, in Franklin township. Her mother came to this county at the age of fifteen, from Virginia, and her father was born in this county. As the result of this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Phil- lips have three children, two boys and one girl: William Henry, Benjamin Franklin, and Sarah Louisa. William Henry was born June 6, 1853; Benjamin Franklin born August 1, 1854; Sarah Louisa born June 12, 1859. The latter died October 23, 1862.

HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.

PAYN, THOMAS M., farmer, born in 1853, in this county. His grandfather, Jesse Payn, was born in 1790, in Virginia. He came to this county in 1804. He was married in 1815, to Miss Sarah Lair, of this county; she was born in 1796, in Vir- ginia. He died in 1866. They were the parents of nine children. John S., father of Thomas M., was the sixth child; he was born in 1828. He was married in 1852, to Miss Annie M. Harris, of this county; she was born in 1834, in Knox county. They are the parents of six children. The subject of this sketch is the oldest. He was married in 1878, to Miss Luella Baker; she was born in 1853, in this county. They are the parents of one child, Clinton B.

POTTER, T. B., farmer, born in 1847, in this county. His father, William Potter, was born in Virginia in 1804; came to this county in 1818 with his father. William Potter, sr. William Potter, sr., died in 1853. His wife died in 1866. They were the parents of eight children. William Potter, jr., w25 the fourth child. He was married in 1828 to Miss Eliza Dewel, of this county. She was born in 1804. in New York. She died in 1832. They were the parents of two children. Mr. Potter again mar- ried in 1834, Mrs. Julia Dewel, a widow. Mr. Potter died in 1849; she in 1876. They were the parents of seven children. The subject of this sketch was married in 1868 to Miss N. E. Morri- son, of Delaware. She was born in Jefferson coun- ty in 1848. They are the parents of two children.

POST, E. J., farmer and sorghum maker, born in 1841, in Passaic county, New Jersey, came to this county in 1863. He was married in 1863 to Miss Louisa Condit, of Delaware. She was born in 1843 in Delaware county. They are the parents of six children-Chauncy, Schuyler, Alice, Kelly, and Lula living, and Sarah D., the oldest, de- ceased. In connection with his farming he makes sorghum molasses, having all the necessary ma- chinery to make a first-class article. He has a very large custom.

PUMPHREY, H. R., Hartford, Licking county, Ohio, breeder and shipper of thoroughbred Span- ish merino sheep. He breeds only registered sheep, which are registered in the United States registry. His sheep are from the Atwood and Hammond families.

JERSEY TOWNSHIP.

PIERSON, ORVILLE A., born in this township, February 8, 1849. His father C. N. Pierson, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, December 8, 1815: was a shoemaker by trade, and emigrated to Jersey about 1840; here became a member of the firm E P. Pierson & Co., consisting of his brother, him- self, and two Condits. The business of the firm was varied and extensive; besides a large stock of the goods generally carried in a country store, the company had a harness shop, a shoe shop, and an extensive tailoring establishment. He remained in the firm till his death, March 19, 1866. He had long been an elder in the Presbyterian church, and died respected by all, leaving seven children-Jo- seph, killed in the freight yard at Columbus by an engine in 1874; Maria (Condit), of Champaign county, Illinois; Janet (Crane), of Wayne county; Walter, who enlisted in the One Hundred sed Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, was captured at North Mountain, and died in Millen prisen Georgia, November 15, 1864; O. A., whose mine heads this sketch; Caleb, a house carpenter, d.

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Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Julia (Notestein), of Wayne county ; John, a young child, died in 1865. At his father's death O. A. took his place until the affairs of the firm were settled up, then on Febru- ary 14, 1867, while yet a mere youth, though a prac- tical shoemaker, began business for himself, opening a shoe shop of his own, the success of which is at- tested by the fact that he has constantly employed from one to five workmen; married June, 1874, to Angeline Anderson, of Indiana. Their children are Nelson, John, and a yet unnamed infant.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.

PRICE, JOSIAH W., pioneer farmer, was born February 4, 1829, in Newark township, where he remained with his parents until March, 1853. He married Hannah M. Davis, April 15, 1852. Mrs. Price was born April 11, 1832, in Granville town- ship. In March, 1853, they moved to Liberty township, where they now live, previously purchas- ing one hundred and five acres of land, to which he has added sixty-one acres. They had six chil- dren, three boys and three girls, four of whom are living-Isaiah M., George W., Ida A., and Bertha M. Edward Price, father of the subject of this sketch, was born July 17, 1797, in South Wales. He was a weaver by trade, and married Mary Pittsford, July 26, 1825. She was born June 19, 1798, in South Wales, and emigrated in 1801 to the United States, locating in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1816, when they came to the Welsh Hills, in Granville township. They have two children-Thomas, liv- ing in Newark township, and the subject of this biography. Edward Price died December 26, 1878; his wife survives him and is living with her son. Mr. Price is one of the enterprising farmers of the township. The family belongs to the Welsh Hills Baptist church.

LICKING TOWNSHIP.

PANGLE, JAMES, son of Joseph Pangle, was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, April 18, 1808. He remained with his parents until he was eighteen years of age, receiving a limited education, then served an apprenticeship of three years and six months in learning the tanner's trade with Martin Funkhouser, of Winchester, after which he followed various pursuits until the fall of 1831, when he came with his parents to this county, where he was married to Miss Mary Lanham, who was born in Page county, Virginia. She died in her eightieth rear. The result of their marriage was two chil- ten-both girls: Elira Ann, born July 30, 1835; latilda J., born January 25, 1837. Elira Ann was Ist married to William Gill, June 23, 1860; sec- lad marriage, to Isaac L. Holmes. Result of said arriage, six children-Mary Frances, Elva V., E

Louisa J., James P., dead, Aurelia V. Matilda J. Pangle was married to George Wheeler, September 8, 1870, and has three children-Aura, Eva Irene, and Lillie Gay. Mr. Pangle commenced the busi- ness of farming on Peter Coffman's place in New- ton township, then moved to Cherry Valley, re- mained there two years, then bought the place he now lives on in 1848 (in this township), all woods at that time. He worked his stone quarry twenty- six years, cleared and worked his farm also. Mr. Pangle says he never was sued, nor did he ever sue any body. He has taken the Newark Advocate forty-five years, and expects to as long as he takes any paper. He is now in his seventy-third year, and is quite active, although his physical constitu- tion is beginning to give way.

PRIEST, MARSHAL, post office, Hebron, was born in 1797, in Culpeper county, Virginia. He was the son of John and Dorcas Priest, and came with his parents to Fairfield county in 1812, and subse- quently removed to this county. He was married to Jane Davis of Knox county. They had seven children-Frances, Darcus and John (twins), Eliz- abeth, Mariah, William and Mary Magdalene. They are all married except Mary M., who lived with her father until his death. Mrs. Priest died in 1876, aged sixty-three. Mr. priest died June 25, 1880, aged eighty-three years. He was always a farmer; was a straightforward man in all his busi- ness.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 131

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

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