History of Preble County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Part 56

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Nathaniel Brown was born in 1807, and in 1829 was married to Sarah Nixon, by whom he has had three chil-

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dren -- Mrs. F. A. Beall, living in Israel township; Mrs. John Stephens, in Eaton; and John Brown, in Cincin- nati.

William Brown was born in New Jersey about 1781. In 1816 he moved to Ohio, and about 1819 settled in section two, of Israel township. His wife, who was Eliz- abeth Van Skiver, was born in 1794, and is still living in Israel township. William Brown emigrated first to War- ren county, Ohio, where he stayed for a year, and from there moved to his present farm. He died in 1873, leaving a wife and two children: Barclay, aud Sarah Ann, wife of Joseph Borradaile.

Barclay Brown was born in 1822, and in 1849 he married Sarah Mullin, born in 1831. They have had five children, four of whom still survive. Mr. Brown owns one hundred and four acres of land in section one, Israel township.

Thomas Brown was born in South Carolina, in 1792, and emigrated from that State to Ohio in 1816, and about 1819 settled in Israel township, section twenty- seven. His wife was Elizabeth Hamilton, born 1798, and died in 1847. They have had nine children, one of whom (John) is dead: Jane, Andrew, Samuel, William, Eliza, James H., Israel and Margaret are living.

Andrew Brown was born in 1821, and in 1849 married Eliza Smith, born in 1828. They have four children now living. Mr. Brown owns one hundred and forty-two acres of land, which is under good cultivation.

The Smiths were old settlers of Preble county, and natives of Kentucky.

Samuel B. Gilmore, son of William and Martha Gil- more, was born in Virginia in 1801. . When but a boy he came with his parents to Preble county, where they settled in Israel township, where Margaret Gilmore now lives. In 1828, Samuel Gilmore married Margaret Mc- Mahon, who was born in Ireland in 1806. She was the daughter of David and Sarah McMahon, who settled in Butler county at an early day. To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gilmore were born four children, three daughters and one son: Sarah is the wife of J. P. Smith; James I. is married and lives at home; Martha J. the wife of James Ramsey, lives in Tennessee; and Mary is the wife of Hugh Ramsey. Mr. Gilmore died in 1836, and his widow resides in the old place, which consists of one hundred and forty acres of land.

Jonathan Paxton was born in Rockbridge county, Vir- ginia, in 1778. In 1817 he emigrated to Franklin coun- ty, Ohio, and the next year he moved to Preble county, and settled in section twenty, of Israel township, where he died in 1852. His wife, Agnes Gilmore, who was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1783, died the same year that her husband died. They had seventeen children, all of whom lived to raise families. Five of these are still living: James S. resides in Erie county, Ohio; Jonathan resides in Israel township; Alexander P. resides in Israel township; Mary G., wife of Thomas McDill, lives on Four Mile creek at the old mill; Elizabeth, wife of James Gavin, lives in Missouri.

Alexander P. Paxton was born in 1826. He married Rosanna C. Wilson, who was born in 1828, in Israel township. They have had eight children. Mr. Paxton

has been road commissioner of the Fair Haven and College Corner turnpike since 1859.

Jonathan Paxton, jr., was born in Israel township in 1819. In 1852 he married Elizabeth Jane McQuiston, who was born in 1831, and who died in 1879. They have had five children, all of whom are now living. Mr. Paxton owns a farm of sixty acres, which is under a good state of cultivation.

Robert Gilmore Paxton was born in Rockbridge coun- ty, Virginia, in 1799. His wife, Mary Ann McDill, was born in 1800, and is still living. In 1818 he emigrated to Preble county and settled in section eighteen of Israel township. He was justice of the peace in Israel town- ship, and served during the years 1840-46. Of their children, Agnes, wife of James McDill, lives in Israel township; Samuel M. lives in Israel township; John C. is in Israel; Jane, wife of William Wilson, lives in Iowa; Martha Ann, wife of Alexander Orr, lives in Israel town- ship; Robert G. is in Israel, and Louisa lives with her mother in College corner.

Robert G. Paxton was born in 1838. His wife, Eliza- beth Jane Graham, was born in 1847. To them three children have been born. Robert resides on the old M'ome farm in section twenty-nine.

Samuel M. Paxton was born in 1827, and in 1850 mar- ried J. Simpson, who was born in 1831, and died in 1867. Four of their five children are still living. Sam- uel Paxton resides in section twenty-nine, where he owns one hundred and sixty acres of land.

John C. Paxton was born in 1829. In 1853 he mar- ried Mary Ann Pinkerton, who was born in 1833. She was the daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Pinkerton. Her father, born in 1805, died in 1862; and her mother, who is the daughter of William McCreary, sr., is living in Peoria county, Illinois. She was born in Israel town- ship in 1808, on the McCreary farm.

Benjamin Morton settled in 1819. He was once a native of New Jersey, and was born in 1787. He was married to Hannah Jenney, who was born in 1795. He died in June, 1854, in this township, and his wife in Oc- tober, 1850. They had a family of thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters. Ten of them are now living, to-wit: John and Samuel (twins), the former in Edgar county, Illinois, and the latter in Dixon township, this county; Sarah, wife of Joseph McDivitt; Ashir, Ben- jamin, and Israel, all in Edgar county, Illinois; Hezekiah, in this township; Margaret, wife of Nathan Huffman, in Dixon township; Hannah, wife of Simeon Sutten, living in Harrison county, Missouri; and William, who resides in Gasper township, this county. Samuel Morton was born in 1819, in Warren county, Ohio, and in 1856 mar- ried Miss Susan Kinney, who was born in 1832.

When Benjamin Morton moved into the woods of Israel he and his family camped by the side of a log until he could erect his cabin. In this cabin they lived for about fourteen years, during which the land was cleared of the forest and brought under cultivation. The place is now occupied by Mr. Borradaile.

William Morton, who was born in 1838, was married. in 1874, to Emma Isabel Dooley, daughter of Silas

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Dooley, jr. To them has been born one child, Fanney I., born in 1876. Mr. Morton has owned the farm of one hundred and sixty-seven acres, on which he now re- sides, since the year of 1862.

William Asay was born in New Jersey in 1784, and died in 1858. He married Rachel Shaw, born in 1785, and who died in 1862. There were nine children born them, two of whom survive, Joseph and Samuel.

Samuel Asay was born in 1823. In 1845 he married Perthia Cupp, who was born in Kentucky in 1820. They have had two children, one of whom is now living.

Joseph Asay was born in New Jersey in 1812. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1815, and settled in Warren county. After a stay of five years they moved to Preble county and settled in section eleven, of Israel township. In 1837 Joseph Asay married Catharine S. Brown, who was born in Kentucky in 1817. They have had two children-both daughters -- born to them, one of whom is living, Susan B., wife of Abraham H. Ballin- ger.

Mr. Asay owns a farm of four hundred and forty acres in Preble county.

Isaac Ballinger was born in New Jersey in 1776, and died in 1852. His wife, Hannah, was born in 1780, and died in 1862. In 1822 he emigrated with his fam- ily to Ohio and settled in Israel township, section twelve. He had seven children.

Abraham Ballinger, sr., was born in New Jersey in 1801; his wife, Beulah Brown, was born in 1805. Abra- ham Ballinger, jr., was born in Israel township in 1835. His wife, Susan Asay, was born in 1840. They have had four children, all of whom are living.

David T. Wilson was born in Preble county in 1826. His parents, Daniel and Catharine (Rock) Wilson, were among the early settlers of the county, coming from South Carolina. David Wilson married Mary Jane Orr, born in 1835 in Israel township. Six children were born to them, all of whom are living.

Of the nine children born to Daniel and Catharine Wilson, seven are living: John R., Mary A., widow of Henry C. Blake, now residing in Iowa; David S., resid- ing in Israel township; Rosannah C., wife of Alexander P. Paxton; William lives in Iowa; Sarah, wife of John Lee, lives in Nebraska. Thomas D. lives in Iowa; Elizabeth is dead, and James B. died in 1864, while in the war of 1861-5.

Joseph Marshall was born in Ireland in 1801. From Ireland he emigrated to Georgia with his parents, and from there he came to Ohio in 1819. They moved back to Georgia after a short stay in Ohio. In 1837 Joseph Marshall moved again into Ohio and settled in Preble county, where he died in 1861. His wife was Mary Ann Trimble, of Georgia. Six children were born them: John, James, Matthew, Joseph, Daniel, and a child who died in infancy.

William D. Borradaile was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1816. From New Jersey he moved to Ohio, and in 1831 settled in section two, of Israel town- ship. He married Priscilla Brown, who was born in 1821, and died in 1874. Her parents emigrated to Ohio,

from New Jersey, in the fall of 1815, and settled in Warren county. In 1818 they moved to Preble county and settled in Israel township, section two. William D. Borradaile's parents emigrated to Ohio, from New Jer- sey, in 1831, and settled in Preble county. W. B. Bor- radaile was elected justice of the peace in Israel town- ship in 1860, and has held that position ever since. He has had eight children, five of whom are living.

John Marshall, sr., was the first representative of the family who settled in Preble county. He emigrated with his family from Ireland and settled in Israel town- ship in 1820. His son Robert, born in Ireland in 1810, married Margery M. Sample, who was born in 1815. They had eight children, as follows: John, David S., Margaret R., deceased, and a child who died in infancy ; Mary A., Sarah M., Elizabeth and Rebecca Ellen. John Marshall was a graduate of Miami university, and afterward prepared himself for the ministry, but on ac- count of partial loss of hearing he gave up the ministry and engaged in teaching school. He taught the Morn- ing Sun academy, and was school examiner for a num- ber of years. He married Margaret Swan. He died in 1873 and his wife in 1879.

James Graham was born in Virginia in 1790. From this State he emigrated to Ohio, and in the fall of 1822 settled in section twenty-one, of Israel township. In 1815 he married Margaret Whitman, who was born in 1794, and who died in 1839. Eleven children were born to them, six of whom survive: Samuel, Andrew, Thomas, William, Harriet and Joseph.

Samuel Graham was born in Virginia in 1822, and came to Ohio with his parents. In 1843 he married Isabel McClanahan, who was born in 1820. They have had six children, three of whom survive.

Dr. Eli Gilmore was born in Rockbridge county, Vir- ginia, in 1795, and came to Ohio with his father in 1825, and immediately began the practice of medicine. He lived for many years on the farm in section eleven, now occupied by Samuel Asay. His wife, Clarissa M. Clay- ton, was born in 1802. They were the parents of eight children who grew to maturity: Mary C., wife of David Ramsey; William J., ex-supreme judge of Ohio, now living in Columbus; Robert M .; Martha C., wife of Hugh B. Ramsey ; Elvira, who died near Greencastle, Indiana; Alexander; Esther; and James A., judge of the court of common pleas at Eaton. Dr. Gilmore's professional ca- reer is noted in the sketches of physicians.

Thomas Scott emigrated from Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1817, and settled in Gratis township, near the village of Winchester. He entered one hun- dred and seventy-two acres of land, which is now owned by Samuel S. Scott. Thomas Scott was born in Bur- lington county, New Jersey, in 1780, and died on the farm in Gratis, where he first settled in 1842. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Smith, was born the same year and in the same place as her husband. She survived him, and died in Israel township in 1853. They had ten children, four living and six deceased. The survivors are: Abner S .; Mrs. Sarah Simmons, of Fair Haven; Daniel, residing in Cass county, Indiana,

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and Samuel, who, as above stated, occupies the old homestead near Winchester.

Abner Scott was born in 1807, in Burlington county, New Jersey, and was a lad of ten years when his par- ents came to Ohio. He married Esther W. Hunt, who was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1812, and in 1828 came with her mother to Preble county, her father, John Hunt, having died in New Jersey in 1824. Mrs. Hunt died in 1859, in her seventy-fourth year. Mr. Scott is the father of six children, as follows: Mrs. L. Gable, of Eaton; John, deceased; Mrs. David Owens, deceased; Mrs. Lewis Gillingham, who resides on a part of the old homestead of George Washington, near Mt. Vernon; Joseph P. in Israel, and Mrs. James Elliott in Greenville, Darke county.

Joseph P. Scott was born in Israel township, in 1847. In 1872 he married Hannah Maria Dugdale, born in Richmond, Indiana, in 1845. Two of their three chil- dren are still living.

John Herron was born in South Carolina in 1806, and died in Israel township, in 1853. His wife Jane Doug- las was born in 1807, and died in 1877. They settled in Israel township on the farm in section nineteen. They were the parents of five children, three of whom are living, viz: John C., Martha Hamilton, and Mary, wife of Samuel Marshall, of Butler county.

John C. Herron was born in 1846. In 1870 he was married to Mary N. Paxton, who was born in 1849. Their four children are living.

Samuel Buck was born in South Carolina in 1801, and died in 1863. His wife, Margaret C., was born in South Carolina in 1805, and died in 1876. Their children are: Thomas M., Mary J., Sarah M., William, Eleanor, Mar- garet A., John P., Robert A., and a child who died in infancy. John P. Buck was born in Israel township, in 1839. He married Minerva Lane, who was born in Indiana. Four children have been born to them, all of whom are living, viz: Effie, Mary, Samuel, and Arthur. Mr. Buck owns two hundred and eighty-five acres of well improved land.

Matthew Wilson came from Kentucky in 1828, and located in section thirty-four, Israel township. His wife was Jane McQuiston, who bore him eight children, three are now living: Mrs. Hugh McQuiston, Jane, and Will- iam. William Wilson, back in 1838, was engaged in the dry goods business at Fair Haven. In 1840 he pur- chased a farm north of that village, where he resided two years. In 1842 he bought where he now resides in section thirty-three. He was born in 1812, and was married to Jane Brown in 1833, and has had twelve chil- dren, six of whom are living.

Robert M. Wilson was born in Kentucky, in 1812, and died in 1871. His wife was Sarah Leech, born in 1799, and died in 1866. They had five children, three of whom are living: Charles A., born in 1856; Robert M., born in 1860; and Sarah L., born in 1865. They own a farm of one hundred and thirty-two acres, which is in a good state of cultivation.

Robert Rock was born in 1808. His wife was Jane Hamilton, who was born about 1815, and who died in

1852. They have had three children-Mary Jane, who married James A. Morrow, living in Washington county, Iowa; Andrew B., living in Israel township; Nancy R., who died in infancy.

Andrew B. Rock was born in 1837. He married Mar- tha F. Worden, who was born in 1848. Five children have been born to them, all now living. He owns a farm of about eighty acres in Israel township.

Hamilton was born in 1828 in Israel township. His wife was Sarah J. Ramsey, born in 1830. In 1872 he died in Israel township. About 1866 he was elected trustee of the township. Seven children have been born to them, three of whom are living, viz .: Mary, Hannah and Eliza, living at home.

John Hamilton was born in section twenty-four of Is- rael township in 1831. He married Martha Herron, who was born in 1842. Eight children have been born to them.

Gavin McMillin was born in Ireland in 1789. In 1825 he moved to Ohio from South Carolina, and settled in section thirty-six of Israel township. His wife was Ro- sanna Ronalds, born in 1806. She now resides in Greene county, Ohio. Thirteen children were born them, four of whom are now alive. John R. McMillin, son of the above was born in 1834. In 1872 he married Har- riet Louisa McCreary, who was born in 1842. They have had four children, all of whom are now living. Gavin McMillin was for many years pastor of the cld Covenanter church near Morning Sun.

William Maddock was born in South Carolina about 1788. From that State he moved to Ohio and settled in Israel township. His first wife was Hannah Stubbs, by whom he had nine children, four of whom are now alive. His second wife was Sarah Huffman, a Kentuckian. They have had seven children, four of whom are now living.

Edward Maddock married M. J. Felton, daugh ter of Edward Felton, an old settler of Gasper township. They have had six children, four now living. He is giv- ing a good deal of attention to raising of pure stock. His farm contains about two hundred and thirty acres.

James Cook settled in Israel in the year 1831, remov- ing here from Butler county, Ohio. His father died in that county in 1819. His mother came with him to Preble county and lived until 1874, dying at the great age of ninety-six years. Mr. Cook was born in Hamil- ton county, Ohio, in 1809; was married in 1837 to Mary McDill. She was born in 1817, and died in 1851. They had six children, as follows: Jane E., Thomas M. (de- ceased in 1868), James M., William C. (died in 1863), and his sons who died in infancy. James Cook, the father, is a prominent member of the United Presbyteri- an church at Morning Sun, and was elected elder in 1840. His son, James M., resides in this township near Morning Sun. He was born in 1842; married Mary A. Logan in 1871. She was born in Indiana in 1846. They have three children.

John B. Orr was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1811, and died in 1843. In 1832 he moved to Preble county, and settled in section sixteen of Israel township. His

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wife was Jane Porter, born in 1812. She is the daughter of Rev. Alexander Porter, who came to Israel township from South Carolina in 1814. Mrs. Orr is the mother of four children, two of whom are living.

Alexander P. Orr was born in 1832, and in 1853 he married Martha Paxton, who was born in 1835. They have four children. Mr. Orr owns the old homestead farm, on which his grandfather, Rev. Alexander Porter, settled. The big willow tree mentioned hereafter is on their place, near the spring, back of the house.

Israel Brown was born in Israel township, section eighteen, in 1833. In 1866 he married Anna Eliza Mann, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1841. They have a family of three children. Mr. Brown has one hundred acres of land in section twenty-seven, his father's old homestead.

Caleb Shera, a native of Ireland, born in 1805, emi- grated with his parents to Franklin county, Indiana, in 1821. In 1835 he removed to Preble county, and set- tled in this township, in section thirty-one, where he has since resided. In the spring of 1832 he was married to Sally Shaffer, born in Butler county, Ohio, 1812. He has served as township trustee four years. Has a good farm, with excellent improvements. He has a family of six children.

Joseph Marshall was born in Ireland in 1801. Mat- thew and Sarah (Grimes) Marshall were his parents. The Marshalls emigrated from Ireland to Georgia, and in 1819 to Ohio, where they remained but eighteen months, when they returned to Georgia. To Matthew and Sarah Marshall were born seven children -- Joseph, Jane, Eliza- beth, William, Sarah, Matthew, and Mary, who lives in section twenty, Israel township, with her nephews.

Joseph Marshall was married to Mary Ann Trimble, a native of Georgia. In 1837 they removed from Georgia to Preble county, and settled in Israel township, where Mr. Marshall died in 1861. To them were six children born, of whom Matthew and Joseph are still living on the home place. The others were John, James, a child that died in infancy, Daniel.

Samuel B. Gilmore was born in Israel township in 1837. His wife, who was Ellen E. Brown, was born in 1840. In 1878 he bought the saw-mill at Morning Sun, owned by Philip Murray and James A. Brown, and has since then been engaged in this business. He has had eight children, six of whom are living.

James A. Magaw was born in Israel township in 1839. His wife was Grizella C. Brown, born in 1848. Mr. Magaw farms about one hundred and sixty-five acres of land in section twenty-three. The family consists of four children, all of whom are living at home.

Edward Hawes was born in Wayland, Massachusetts, in 1815. In 1834 he moved to Boston. After three years he moved to Illinois. From there he moved to Butler county, Ohio, where he lived two years. In 1839 he moved to Indiana, but moved back to Ohio in a year or two, and settled in Fair Haven. He lived there for thirteen years, and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1854 he closed his business, and moved to Iowa. He afterwards moved back to Fair Haven, and engaged in

the general store business which has been his business .ever since. He was married to Mary Jane Walden, born in 1828, in Butler county, Ohio. He has had five chil- dren, three of whom survive.

Henry Marshall was born in Georgia in 1804, and died in 1871. His first wife, Martha Ramsey, was born in 1809, and died in 1837. To them were born four chil- dren: Eliza (dead), William, who lives in Iowa; James L. in this township, and John P. (dead). James L. was married in 1860, to Caroline E. McClanahan, and has had eight children, seven of whom are living. Henry Marshall married for his second wife, Sarah Mc- Creary, who was born in 1805, and is still living. By his second wife he had three children, only one of whom, Mary Jane, is living.

William Hays settled in section three, Israel township, at an early day, and died in 1835. His wife, Elizabeth Ramsey, was born in 1798, and lives in Mercer county, Ohio, with her daughter, Rebecca Wiley. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Hays were six-four sons and two daughters: Rebecca, wife of Rev. Preston Wiley, lives in Mercer county; John G. and William R. live in Israel township ; Robert in Iowa; as is also Thomas R.

William Ramsey Hays was born in 1828, and in 1859 married Miss Elizabeth Jane Marshall, who was born in 1840. Eight of their nine children are living, and all at home; Isabella A., Margaret E., Lydia M., Mary E., John Henry, James C., William B. and Walter. Mr. Hays is the possessor of three hundred and fifty-five acres of land in Israel township. He resides in section three, where he is the possessor of two hundred and five acres.

John G. Hays was born in section three of Israel township in 1824. His wife, Mary J. Williamson, was born in 1827. She is one of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Williamson, both of whom died many years ago. To Mr. and Mrs. Hays seven children have been born, all of whom are living: Elizabeth, wife of W. A. Ramsey, of Israel township; W. A. living in Iowa; John M. in Fayette county, Indiana ; James H. living in Connersville; R. M., Rhoda R. and Mary M. living at home.

James Hamilton was born in 1842, in Israel township. His wife, Sarah D. Newton, was born in 1843, in Somers township. They have four children, all of whom are living.

John B. Johhston was born in 1842, and married Alice E. Brown in 1869. She was the daughter of George and Margaret Brown, and was born in 1850, and died in 1879. Two of their three children are living-Luther R. and Harry E. He owns eighty-two acres of land in sec- tion twenty-three.

Joseph Cramer was born in Franklin county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1814. From Pennsylvania he emigrated to Ohio in 1845, and settled in Israel township, near Fair Haven. In 1838 he married Mary J. Ramsey, born in 1814. Joseph Cramer's father was a descendant of some Cramers who came from Holland, and were among the first settlers of New Amsterdam-now New York city. Joseph Cramer had seven children, three of whom sur-

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vive. He owns two hundred and twenty acres of land, which is under a good state of cultivation.

William Douglas, sr., was born in Pennsylvania in 1769, and died in 1854. His wife, Ann Douglas, was born in 1774, and died in 1839. Their five children are dead.

William Douglas, jr., the fourth child of the above, was born in Pennsylvania in 1805. In 1837 he was married to Eliza Coulter, who was born in Ireland in 1814, and came to Pennsylvania when she was eight years old. In 1837, just after their marriage, they re- moved to Preble county, and settled on the farm in Is- rael township, where Mrs. Douglas still resides with her sons. To Mr. and Mrs. Douglas have been born nine children, of whom eight are living -- Thomas C. married Sophia Hungsinger, and lives in Indiana; Margaret Ann is dead; William A. married Mary Ramsey; James H. married Jane McDivitt, and lives in Somers township; Robert A. had for his first wife Jennie Crose, and for his second, Isabella Coulter; Isabella Douglas married Robert Irwin; John C. married Eva Teague; and Ben- jamin B. and Samuel J. are living at home with their mother. They have charge of the home farm, which is under a good state of cultivation.

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History of Preble County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Part 56

Author: H. Z. Williams & Brothers Publication date: Publisher: Number of Pages: 559

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