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Sarah Poe, wife of Adam Kuffel, the youngest of the ten children of Adam Poe, is the only survivor of the family, and lives in Congress village, Congress township, Wayne county. She was born July 15, 1791, in Washington county, Pa., and was married in Columbiana county, Ohio, at her father's house, to Adam Kuffel, a na- tive of Washington county, Pa., in 1809. He was born April 15, 1788, and died March 14, 1868. They removed to Congress township in 1825, and settled on the farm now owned by John Howey. The following are the names of their children : Elizabeth, Catharine, Sarah, Diantha, David, Nancy, Adam, Mary Ann, Isaac, Matilda, Samantha and Wesley. Taber Summerton, of Congress township, is mar- ried to the eldest daughter.
After leaving Pennsylvania Adam Poe removed to the west fork of Little Bea- ver, in Wayne township, Columbiana county, where he entered several quarters ol land. From Columbiana he removed to Wayne county in 1813, bringing with him his wife and youngest son, David, and his daughter Catharine. He first settled in Wooster, his family living on North Market street, and he following the business of shoemaking for three years, on the corner where Dr. Robison has his office, being then nearly seventy years old. He was a tanner by trade, and an excellent shoemaker. He then removed to Congress township, and purchased sixty acres of land from his son, George Poe, and there he lived for nearly twelve years, when, growing old and infirm, he removed to Stark county, where, with his son Andrew, he died, as above stated. He was a member of the old Lutheran church.
Mrs. Kuffel relates the following as the circumstances of his death : A great and enthusiastic political meeting was being held in Massillon. The crowd hearing that Adam Poe, who had killed the celebrated Indian, Bigfoot, lived but a few miles distant, dispatched a delegation after him. When he appeared upon the ground he was wonderfully lionized and made the hero of the day. He was caught and carried through the crowd on the shoulders of the excited multitude. "Ii was a big day," says his daughter, and old as he was, being past ninety, " he had as much pluck as any of the boys."
That day of excitement, however, sounded the death-knell of the mighty bor derer, the iron-nerved heroic Adam Poe. He returned from the political meeting prostrated, enfeebled and sick, and soon thereafter died. A son of Andrew Poe, at whose house Adam died, hurried to the residence of Mrs. Kuffel, at Congress, to inform her of the dangerous illness of her father. She received the news about
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nine o'clock, and being then forty-seven years of age, mounted a horse and rode through the darkness and over uncertain roads, reaching her father's in time only to see him, to whom this world had no terrors, succumb to the King of Terrors and the Terror of Kings.
The terrible encounter of the Poe brothers-Andrew and Adam-with the stalwart chief Bigfoot, occupies a conspicuous page in the annals of our border strifes. It should contribute a most interesting feature to the history of Wayne county, that we are able to furnish with extraordinary accuracy the brief sketch of the brother, Adam, who for over twelve years was a citizen of our county. His sons were among the earliest of the pioneers in Congress township, and made the first improvements in that section, and he was a pioneer of 1813 in the town of Wooster.
The critical reader of our State and border history will perceive in the exploits of the brothers Poe with Bigfoot, the most palpable contradictions, incongruities and transpositions. Even as good an authority as McClung, in his " Western Ad- ventures," published in 1837, substitutes the name of Adam for Andrew, and that prince of brilliant historical muddlers, John S. C. Abbott, in his recent History of Ohio, contradicts himself in the most inexcusable manner on the pages where he seeks to describe the contest.
Royce Summerton and Michael Totten, whose sister was married to Isaac, son of Adam Poe, confirm the statements of Mrs. Kuffel. These gentlemen deride and flout the idea of this use of Adam for Andrew. Adam Poe himself wondered that narrators of the occurrence could be led into such mistakes, and he was often heard to say, " Why, Andrew was wounded in the hand, struck with the little In- dian's hatchet, but you see no wound or scar on mine."
The statement, as furnished by Mrs. Kuffel," and the corresponding testimony of his neighbors, who intimately knew him, and held daily and weekly intercourse and conversation with him, is sufficient, in our judgment, to settle for all time the question upon which historians have been divided.
Mrs. Kuffel's Statement of Adam and Andrew Poe's Celebrated Fight with Bigfoot. -A body of seven Wyandots made a raid upon a white settlement on the Ohio river near Fort Pitt, and finding an old man in a cabin, killed him, stole all they could and withdrew. The news of the murder spread rapidly, and my father, Adam Poe, and my uncle, Andrew, together with half a dozen neighbors, began pursuit of them, determined to visit sudden death upon them. They followed the Indians all night, but not until morning did they get closely upon them, when they discovered a path, or trail, leading to the river.
My uncle Andrew, who, like father, was a strong man and always on the lookout, did not directly advance to the river, but left his comrades and stealthily crept through the thicket to avoid any ruse of the Indians, and, if possible, surprise them. He at once detected evidences of their presence at the river, but not seeing them, he quietly crept down to its bank with his gun fixed to fire. He had not far descended when he spied Bigfoot and a little Indian with him, both of whom had guns, and stood watching along the river in the direction whence the remainder of the party were. He (Andrew) now concluded to shoot Bigfoot, and fired at him, but his gun did not discharge its contents. The situation instantly became terrific.
*Mrs. Kuffel is in full possession of her faculties, lives by herself, does her own work, and delights to dwell upon the exploits of her father and uncle. She won- ders how the names have got mixed, for, says she, " It was Andrew that wrestled with Bigfoot, and went into the water, but it was father (Adam) who shot him."
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The snapping of the gun alarmed the Indians, who, looking around, discov- ered Andrew. It was too late for him to run, and I doubt if he would have re- treated if he could, for he was a great wrestler, and coveted conflict with the In- dians. So he dropped his gun, and bounding from where he stood, caught both the Indians and thrust them upon the ground. Though he fell uppermost in the struggle he found the grip of Bigfoot to be of iron, and, as a consequence, the little Indian soon extricated himself, and instantly seized his tomahawk and ad- vanced with fatal purpose toward Andrew. To better assist and aid the little In- dian, who had the tomahawk aimed at the head of Andrew, Bigfoot hugged and held him with a giant's grasp, but Andrew, when he struck at him, threw up his foot and kicked the tomahawk out of the little Indian's hand. This made Bigfoot in- dignant at the little savage, who soon repeated his experiment with the tomahawk, indulging in numerous feints before he delivered the main blow, which Andrew parried from his head and received upon his wrist.
Andrew now, by a desperate endeavor, wrenched himself from the clutches of Bigfoot, and seizing the gun of one of the savages shot the little Indian. Bigfoot, regaining his perpendicularity, got Andrew in his grasp and hurled him down upon the bank, but he instantly arose, when a second collision occurred, the issue of which threw them both into the water, and the struggle now was for the one to drown the other. Andrew finally caught Bigfoot by the hair, and plunged him in the water, holding him there until he imagined he was drowned, a conclusion in which he was sadly mistaken. Bigfoot was only playing off and soon recovered his position and was prepared for a second encounter. The current of the river had by this time borne them into deep water, when it became necessary to disengage themselves and seek to escape immediate destruction.
A mutual effort was at once made to reach the shore and get possession of a gun and close the struggle with powder and lead. Bigfoot was a glib swimmer, and was the first to reach the bank. In this contingency Andrew wheeled about and swam further out into the river to avoid, if possible, being shot, by diving strategies. The big chief, lucklessly to him, seized the unloaded gun with which Andrew had shot the little Indian. Meantime, Adam Poe, having missed his brother and hearing a gun-shot, inferred he was either killed or in a fight with the Indians, and hastened toward him. Adam now being discovered by Andrew, the latter called to the former to shoot Bigfoot. Unfortunately Adam's gun was empty as was the big Indian's. The strife now was between the two as to which could load quickest, but Bigfoot in his haste drew his ramrod too violently from the gun. thimbles, when it escaped from his hand and was thrown some distance, but which he rapidly recovered, which accident gave Adam the advantage, when he shot Bigfoot as he was in the act of drawing his gun upon him.
Having disposed of Bigfoot, and seeing his brother, who was wounded, float- ing in the river, he instantly sprang into the water to assist him, but Andrew, desiring the scalp of the great chief, called to Adam to scalp him, that he could save himself and reach the shore. Adam's anxiety for the safety of his brother was too intense to obey the mandate, and Bigfoot, determined to not let his scalp be counted amongst the trophies of his antagonist, in the horrid pangs of death, rolled into the river, and his carcass was swept from the eye of man forever. An- drew, however, when in the stream, made another narrow escape from death, as just as Adam arrived at the bank for his protection, one of the number who came after him mistook Andrew in the water for an Indian, and shot at him, the bullet striking him in the shoulder, causing a severe wound, from which he, in course of time, recovered.
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So that it was my uncle Andrew that had the wrestle on the bank with Bigfoot, and the struggle with him in the river, and it was my father, Adam Poe, who shot Bigfoot when he came to shore. The wound that my father received, he got in the fight with the body of six Indians who were overtaken, five of whom were killed, with a loss of three of their pursuers and the hurt done to my father.
The locality on the Ohio river where the struggle occurred is in Virginia, almost opposite to the mouth of Little Yellow creek.
He has a Terrible Fight with Five Indians and Whips them *.- While living on this side of the Ohio two Indians crossed the river, both of whom were intoxicated, and came to Adam Poe's house. After various noisy and menacing demonstrations, but without doing any one harm, they retired a short distance, and under the shade of a tree sat down and finally went to sleep. In the course of two hours, and after they awoke from their drunken slumber, they discovered that their rifles were miss- ing, when they immediately returned to Poe's house, and after inquiring for their guns and being told they knew nothing about them, they boldly accused him of stealing them and insolently demanded them. Poe was apprehensive of trouble, and turning his eyes in the direction whence they came, discovered three more Indians approaching.
Without manifesting any symptoms of surprise or alarm, he coolly withdrew to the house, and saying to his wife, " There is a fight and more fun ahead," told her to hasten slyly to the cornfield near by with the children, and there hide. This be- ing accomplished he seized his gun and confronted the five Indians, who were then in the yard surrounding the house, and trying to force open the door. He at once discovered that the two Indians who came first had not yet found their guns and that the other three were unarmed. So he dropped his gun, as he did not want to kill any of them unless the exigency required it, and attacked them with his fist, and after a terrific hand to hand encounter of ten minutes, crushed them to the earth in one promiscuous heap, and having thus vanquished and suhdued them, seized them one at a time and threw them over the fence and out of the yard.
# This adventure has never been given to the public before, and comes from his daughter.
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHESTER TOWNSHIP
WAS organized March 5, 1816. It is claimed before it was organized that it was known as Chestnut township, or the chestnut region, on account of its great growth of that kind of trees. Its population in 1870 was 1,921. The following is the list of officers of the township, as appears upon the official records :
Justices of the Peace .- John Wilson, August 11, 1831 ; James Stanley, May 8, 1833 ; J. M. Hamilton, September 11, 1834; John Wilson, September 11, 1834; William Walker, August 19, 1837; John Craig, August 19, 1837 ; William Walker, July 6, 1840; John Craig, July 6, 1840; George Emery, June 13, 1843; John Craig, June 13, 1843 ; George Emery, June 4, 1846; Neal McCoy, June 4, 1846 ; William Anderson, April 10, 1847; George Emery, June 2, 1849; John Craig, May 4, 1850; John Beal, April 21, 1852; J. H. Coder, April 19, 1853; John Beal, April 17, 1855 ; J. H. Coder, April 28, 1856; John Beal, April 14, 1858; J. H. Coder, April 19, 1859; Simon Smith, April 13, 1861 ; William Piper, April 21, 1862; Samuel Myers, October 25, 1862 ; John McKee, April 15, 1864; Ingham Wiley, April 12, 1865; William Piper, April 13, 1866; J. A. Raudebaugh, April 8, 1867 ;' William Piper, April 13, 1869; W. Spangler, April 12, 1870; Simon W. Ebert, April 9, 1872 ; Wesley Spangler, April 14, 1873 ; Solomon Firestone, April 12, 1875 ; Wesley Spangler, April 13, 1876.
1858. Trustees-Isaac Wile, Ross McClarran, George McVicker ; Clerk-Dan McFadden ; Treasurer-Samuel Bridenstien ; Assessor-William Mowry.
1859. Trustees-Isaac Wile, Ross McClarran, George McVicker; Clerk-Dan McFadden ; Treasurer-Joseph A. Funk; Assessor-William Mowry.
1860. Trustees -- John Garver, John Myers, John Gill; Clerk-Dan McFad- den ; Treasurer-Joseph A. Funk ; Assessor-Emanuel Smyser.
1861. Trustees-John Garver, John Myers, John Gill; Clerk-D. J. Miller ; Treasurer-Joseph A. Funk ; Assessor-Emanuel Smyser.
1862. Trustees-Levi Stair, Ross McClarran, J. A. Ogden ; Clerk-Dan Mc- Fadden : Treasurer-J. A. Funk; Assessor-Isaac Wile.
1863. Trustees-John Hine, Robert Ewing, W. G. McEwen -; Clerk-Dan. McFadden ; Treasurer-S. K. Beale; Assessor-John H. Shamp.
1864. Trustees-Robert Ewing, W. G. McEwen, William Rumbaugh; Clerk- Dan McFadden ; Treasurer-S. H. Beale ; Assessor-J. H. Shamp.
1865. Trustees-W. H. Rumbaugh, Ross McClarran, Peter Stair; Clerk-Dan McFadden ; Treasurer-Samuel K. Beale; Assessor-John Myers.
1866. Trustees-W. H. Rumbaugh, Peter Stair, Isaac Miller ; Clerk-Dan. McFadden ; Treasurer-S. K. Beale; Assessor-John Myers.
1867. Trustees-Peter Stair, Isaac Miller, William Fahr; Clerk-Dan. Mc- Fadden ; Treasurer-Amos L. Garver; Assessor-Benjamin Norton.
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1868. Trustees-William Fahr, Isaac Miller, Philip Pfeiffer; Clerk-Dan Mc- Fadden ; Treasurer-A. L. Garver ; Assessor-Peter Stair.
1869. Trustees-I. Miller, William Fahr, Philip Pfeiffer ; Clerk-D. McFad- den ; Treasurer-A. L. Garver ; Assessor-A. Smyser.
1870. Trustees-William Fahr, Samuel Fetters, J. A. Ogden ; Clerk-H. W. Peters ; Treasurer-S. K. Beale ; Assessor-Albert Smyser.
1871. Trustees -- Samuel Fetters, Henry G. Rutt, Amos McConnell; Clerk- Dan McFadden ; Treasurer-S. K. Beale ; Assessor-James Hill.
1872. Trustees-H. G. Rutt, Samuel Fetters, E. Cunningham ; Clerk-W. C. Baker; Treasurer-J. A. Funk; Assessor-Frank Snyder.
1873. Trustees-H. G. Rutt, J. C. Zimmerman, E. H. Cunningham ; Clerk- W. C. Baker ; Treasurer-J. A. Funk; Assessor-Frank Snyder.
1874. Trustees-H. G. Rutt, E. H. Cunningham, Henry Haas; Clerk-W. C. Baker ; Treasurer-Samuel Reichard; Assessor-Isaac Miller.
1875. Trustees-E. H. Cunningham, H. F. Zimmerman, Ad. Houser ; Clerk -William C. Baker ; Treasurer-Jonas Berkey ; Assessor-
1876. Trustees-E. H. Cunningham, Samuel Reichard, Ad. Houser; Clerk- William C. Baker ; Treasurer-Jonas Berkey ; Assessor-Frank Snyder.
1877. Trustees-Samuel Reichard, George H. Wagner, W. W. Garver; Clerk S. S. Firestone; Treasurer-Amos McConnell ; Assessor-Frank Snyder.
The earliest settlers in this township were Judge James Robison, Samuel Funk, Phineas Summerton, John Moyers, the Hillis boys and their mother, John Emery, John Lowry, the Cunninghams, Joseph Aikens, James Fulton, Jacob Worst, Adam Rumbaugh, John, Abram and Isaac Myers, Samuel Vanosdall, Phineas Davis, William Stanley, James and Benjamin Wintermarx, Christian Rice, John Piper, Anthony Camp, Michael Mowrey, Phillip Hefflefinger, Daniel and John Pittinger, Nathaniel Paxton, William and Hugh Adams, Benjamin Emmons, Cornelius and Garret Dorland, Abraham Ecker, Thomas Osborne, John Campbell, Thomas John- ston, John A. Kelley, John and David Smith, Jacob Miller, Isaac White, Henry Sapp, John Hern, John Helman, etc .*
Chester township has within its limits two villages and a post-office station at Cedar Valley. New Pittsburg was laid out by George H. Howey, March 6, 1829, and surveyed by George Emery, the plat of which is found on page 197 of book G, at the County Recorder's office, and was recorded May 8 of that year. Jacob Piper assures us that when his father settled in the township there was but one man, a Mr. Loper, living where this village now stands, his cabin being near the creek on the west side. John Hall built the first house and kept the first hotel north of Jo- seph Findley's. West Union or Lattasburg was surveyed by J. W. Hoegner for Jacob Grose, February 27, 1851, the plat recorded January 26, 1854, and found on page 33 of record of town plats. In 1855 the name was changed from West Union to Lattasburg, named after Ephraim Latta. John Fasig built the first house, a log structure on the north-east corner of the Public Square, for a residence and shop. Latta bought out Fasig and began the manufacture of hand sickles. The post-office was established here May 14, 1867, when W. C. Baker received his first appoint- ment, and has since continued. Samuel Bridenstein started the first dry-goods store, and the first settled doctor was Henry Allspaugh. The first person who died in this township is claimed to have been a woman, who is buried in the middle of the road between Lattasburg and the German Baptist Church.
Thomas Pittinger was born in Brooks county, Virginia, July 11, 1791, and re- moved with his father, Henry, to Ohio in 1814, settling east of Rowsburg. In
*A number of these would be in Ashland county now.
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1816 he was married to Kate Smith, who died September 11, 1858. He had by this marriage eleven children, five of whom are living, viz: Alexander, John S., Dan- iel, William D. and Eliza Jane.
Mr. Pittinger is one of the survivors of the war of 1812, and the only volun- teer soldier of that war who carried a musket through Wayne county. He has distinct and vivid recollections of the campaign, and his reminiscences are inserted in another chapter of this book. Times were rough and hard, he says, when they came to the county. Fighting, drinking and quarreling were every-day affairs. A good knock-down adjusted difficulties, and the whole was sealed with a dram. John Smith and Lydia Pittinger were the first couple married in his neighborhood. A child of old Mr. Chasey was the first buried in the Lucas graveyard. His brother Daniel on one occasion whipped John Meeks.
Mr. Pittinger knew the Driskels, old Johnnycake, Baptiste Jerome and Isaac Pew, who bit off Driskel's nose. He drilled in the militia in the olden days at Blacleyville, Reedsburg, etc. Though bordering on to ninety years, he is erect as a column, and when he discusses the scenes and events of 1812 his bright eyes flash, his step quickens, and the old man is a boy again. He joined the Presby. terian church under the ministry of Rev. Beer, at Mt. Hope, in 1834. His son Daniel, with whom he lives, was born November 3, 1825, and was married Septem- ber 6, 1848, to Lydia Shutt. He is a farmer, an honorable man, and a member of the Methodist church at Lafayette, Ashland county, Ohio.
Matthias Camp was born in Westmoreland county, March 18, 1794. He removed to Wayne county in the spring of 1815, first stopping with his brother, Anthony Camp, in Baughman township, where he took jobs of clearing, and did rough carpenter work. He thus continued until the fall of 1821, when, November I, 1821, he was married to Sarah Evans, sister of James Evans, of Orrville, she dying October 24, 1868. In 1823 he settled in Chester, then Perry township, on section I, north-west quarter, and now owned by his son John. Mr. Camp has had the following children: Silas, James, John, Anthony, Mary, Evans, Wesley, Marga- ret, Sarah, Agnes and Matthias. Anthony and Matthias were both soldiers in the 4Ist Ohio, and both dead; the former shot at Lookout Mountain, November 25, 1863, the latter dying of disease at Louisville, Ky., February 16, 1862. Silas was in the same regiment, and received a wound in the same charge. F. W. Eckerman, a son-in-law of Mr. Camp, was in the, same charge, but escaped, though subse- quently wounded at Dallas, Georgia, and dying July 4, 1864. Mr. Camp is six feet high, weighs one hundred and eighty pounds, and is in his eighty-fifth year, and is the noblest specimen of pioneer physical manhood in the county. In his younger years he must have had a Titan's strength. He has been a farmer all his life, and his labors have been well rewarded. He is a sincere, honest, generous hearted man, and for fifty years has been a member of the Methodist church at Pleasant Grove.
John Camp, son of Matthias, was born June 12, 1826, on the old homestead farm, where, with his father, he remained until he was twenty one years of age. He then followed carpentering for twenty-three years, building bridges, barns, houses, school-houses and churches, having erected forty-six barns, six churches, ten school-houses, and thirty-five private dwellings. He is now devoting his atten. tion and time to agriculture, owning a large amount of real estate. He is a most industrious and resolute man, of fine muscular development, like his father, and of remarkable intelligence and memory. He has recently crossed the line into Ash. land county, and with him his father lives. He was married to Miss Ellen, daugh- ter of Arthur Campbell, of Ashland county, and has had eleven children, three of whom are dead. He is a member of the Methodist church at Lafayette.
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Adam Rumbaugh was born April 22, 1793, in Northampton county, Pa., and was married March 16, 1815, to Elizabeth Lauffer, of that county. He died Au- gust 7, 1870. His grandfather served in the Revolutionary war. In March, 1819, he removed to Chester township, settling on the farm now owned by his son Jacob, where he died. He immigrated to the county in a three-horse wagon, bringing his wife and two children, Isaac and John, also harrow-teetli, plows, bedding, etc. The only house between him and Wooster stood on Albert Smyser's place, owned by John Emery, which a man named John Lowry once owned and sold to Michael Mowry for 1, 100 gallons of whisky. The following are the members of his family : Isaac, John, Maria, Henry, David, Solomon, William, Sarah, Hannah, Jacob and Elizabeth. Jacob, his youngest son, was born October 22, 1835, in Chester town- ship, and owns a splendid farm. He was married June 9, 1859, to Mary A., daughter of Michael Mowry, and has three children, and is a member of the Ger- man Reformed church. Solomon Rumbaugh was born December 17, 1826, on the old place, where he worked until be was 29 years of age, and was married August 21, 1855, to Mary, daughter of Abraham Miller, and has six children. Isaac Rum- baugh was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio with his father when three years of age. He has twice married-first, in 1838, to Mary Rumbaugh, of Greene township ; second, in 1854, to Catharine Pfaeifer. He is a farmer, and member of the Lutheran church. Adam Rumbaugh deeded the grounds for what is known as the " Rumbaugh Graveyard," and John Rumbaugh was the first child buried there, having been drowned in a spring, and being but eighteen months old. Henry Rumbaugh was born February 24, 1822, in Chester township, and was mar- ried to Mary, daughter of Christian Rice, May 7, 1844, subsequently removing to . Crawford county. In the spring of 1865 he enlisted in the 197th Ohio Regiment, and April 13 of that year he died of erysipelas, at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Rumbaugh was an esteemed and worthy man, and left behind him a moral, virtuous and influential family, noted for their industry.
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