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USA > Ohio > Huron County > History of the Fire lands, comprising Huron and Erie Counties, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of the prominent men and pioneers > Part 51
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Money received $07.00
Money paid out. 00.00
Amount remaining in treasury 00,00
Due Elihu Clary, per order from trustees for a blank book pur- chased. 1.00
Total amount of expenditures for the year. 1.00
Signed: JAMES ASHLEY, Treasurer.
Attest: ELIHU CLARY, Township Clerk.
It will be seen from the above report that no charge was made by township officers for services rendered. Such was the case for eight or ten years subsequent to the organization of the township.
The poll book of an election in Peru for State and county officers, held October 10, 1825, contains the names of twelve electors, as follows: Simon Raymond, Abner Mack, Thomas Tillson, William Smith, Wyatt Cook, Hibbard Smith, Henry Adams, Elihn Clary, Newell Adams, Joseph Ruggles, James Ashley, Rich- ardson Eaton. Wyatt Cook, Hibbard Smith and Newell Adams were judges of election, and Elihu Clary and Henry Adams, clerks. In the list of can- didates we find the name of Henry Adams, who received one vote each for governor and county com- missioner. At the election for justice of the peace. held October 9, 1821, there were forty-six votes polled, of which Thomas Tillson received forty-four, and Henry Adams and Thomas Prentice one each.
INCIDENTS.
Aunt Polly Pierce used to relate many incidents of pioneer life in Peru, only one of which, however, touching her own experience, has been preserved. In the summer, 1816, accompanied by her little dog, she went through the dense forest on a brief visit to her father-in-law, Alden Pierce, in Greenfield. The fam- ily supplied her with a quantity of provisions, which she carried home with her, and, when within a mile of her cabin, she encountered a huge bear, which seemed intent on making a meal, either of the trav- eler, her provisions, or the dog. The heroic woman, however, was determined that old bruin should have neither, and, taking her provisions under one arm, and the dog, crouched through fear at her feet, under the other, ran for dear life to her home, which she reached in safety, but not a moment two soon, as the brute was but a few rods behind her when she arrived at the door of her cabin.
The following incident in the life of Levi R. Sut- ton will serve to illustrate the difficulties the early
settlers experienced in obtaining breadstuffs for their families, before they could raise their own grain. In the spring of 1818, being nearly out of corn for bread, he sent a man with some maple sugar to Cold creek to exchange for corn, which, when obtained, was to be taken to Hunt's mill to be ground. The man, failing to return within a reasonable time, Mr. Sutton mounted an old horse that ran in the woods and started in search of him, and met him about ten o'clock on his return home, but without either flour or the sugar. He had sold the sugar to a man in Venice, who expected to have some corn to pay for it in about two weeks. Mr. Sutton proceeded to Venice, but the man who purchased the sugar was absent from home and did not return until the following day. He had on hand a small quantity of corn, but it was desired by a few of his neighbors, who pre- vailed upon the owner to pay Mr. Sutton the money for his sugar, which was accordingly tendered, but which Mr. Sutton refused to receive, telling the man the situation of his family with respect to food, the double journey to Venice, his long waiting for his return, and so forth, and the man finally let him have the corn. Mr. Sutton then took it to the mill at Cold creek, got it ground just before night, and then returned home, where he arrived, to the great joy of his family, about midnight.
MILLS.
The first mill in this township was built by Daniel Mack in the year 1816 or '17, on the East branch, a short distance below the bridge in Macksville. Short- ly after he put in a run of stone for grinding grain. This was a great convenience to the settlers living in this township and in Bronson, as it saved them long journeys in order to obtain their grists. Mr. Mack subsequently erected a grist mill on the location of the present grist mill in Macksville, using the same run of stone.
In 1820 or '21 Charles and Richard Gardner built a saw mill on Haron river where that of Charles Smith now stands. A few years after, Charles Gardner es- tablished at the same place a fulling mill and a card- ing machine. He operated these mills about six years and then sold them to Alanson Archie.
In the spring of 1823, Munson Pond moved into the township from Knox county and shortly afterward, in partnership with Robert S. Southgate, erected on the East branch of the Hnron, the location of the present saw mill of Henry D. Williams, a saw mill, with a building designed for carding and cloth dressing, but was finally occupied by Prince Haskell, Jr., as a grist mill. Haskell was afterwards bought out by Messrs. Southgate and Pond, who then sold a fourth interest in their mills to Carlos Keith, a son-in-law of Mr. Pond. The present grist mill in the village of Macks- ville was built by Ezra Smith in 1831. He operated it until his death, some ten years after, when the mill was bought by a Mr. Palmer of Monroeville. A later owner was Thomas Thuomey, of whose widow the
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present owner, Jacob Boehm, purchased the property some thirteen years since. The mill has three run of stone. The main building is forty-five by sixty feet, three stories high with basement. The mill can be run by either water or steam, the engine being a thirty horse power.
The grist mill of J. D. Mason, situated on the Huron, in the southwest part of the township, was erected by Pickett Lattimer in the year 1840. He operated it about twenty years when he sold to the present proprietor. The building is forty by sixty feet, three stories, and has three run of stone.
There is also a saw mill at this point, established originally by Lattimer, but it has since been rebuilt. It is now owned by J. D. Mason. The first mills at this place were established by Thomas Parker who built a combined saw and grist mill in 1821.
THE VILLAGE.
Macksville, the only village in the township, is sit- nated on the East branch of the Huron, near the east town line. It derived its name from Daniel Mack, the original owner of the land on which the village stands. The town site was subsequently owned joint- ly by Moses C. Sanders, John Nelson, John Atwater and John G. Taylor. We find in several successive numbers of the Clarion, in the summer of 1822, a no- tice, published by the above gentlemen, announcing their intention of making application to the court of common pleas at the fall term of that year to change the name of the village to Lima. Whether the ap- plication was made, or made and denied, we are not able to say, but the name was not changed. Dr. Sanders kept the first store here in a small log house. Macksville was formerly a place of considerable activ- ity. At one time there were four stores, two distil- leries, three breweries, two asheries, and a hotel which frequently kept twenty to twenty-five teams and team- sters over night. This was before the time of rail- roads and when the wagon trade was something im- mense. The place has now four churches, a school, one general store, one flouring-mill, two blacksmith shops, one cooper shop, one carriage shop, one harness shop, one paint shop, a shoemaker, a tailor and a broom maker. The post office is also located here, the name of which being Peru the village is generally so called.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
DEAN CLAPP.
It is a pleasure to record, on the pages of history, the deeds of a meritorious life as an example worthy to be imitated by the young. And such, emphati- cally, was the life of him whose name stands at the head of this page.
Mr. Clapp was born among the green hills of Ver- mont, in the town of Barnard. Windsor county, January 15, 1805. His father, Benjamin Clapp, was a native of the same State, and was prominently iden- tified with its agricultural interests. He was placed by his fellow-citizens in many important positions, at one time holding the office of judge. He was born October 11, 1762, and was married to Polly Dean, March 23, 1788. She was born in Windsor county, February 26, 1762. Their family consisted of eleven children, the subject of this sketch being next to the youngest. They both lived to a green old age, the husband passing away June 26, 1840, followed by his wife February 22, 1848.
His parents being in limited circumstances, young Dean received the benefits of only a common school education. On arriving at maturity. he was married, May 19, 1828, to Betsey M., daughter of Dr. Samuel and Mercy (Southgate) Danforth, who was born in the place first named above, December 30, 1805. The young couple, seeing no hope of bettering their con- dition in the place of their birth, turned their atten- tion to the far west; and, in the fall of the year after their marriage, gathered their worldly effects together and started for "the land of promise"-their western wilderness home.
On their journey to Ohio, they stopped at Alexan- dria, New York, where he obtained work in teaming and harvesting; but, unfortunately, he loaned two hundred dollars of their capital to irresponsible par- ties; so that, on reaching their destination, they had but sixty-five dollars remaining. They purchased a piece of wild land in Peru township, Huron county, paying fifty dollars down, which left them only fifteen dollars to begin with. Not a tree had been cut, and they had but a few articles, brought with them from Vermont, with which to commence housekeeping, when they moved upon their farm in the winter of 1830. But perseverance, industry and energy must win the day at last. And so, by their united efforts, they were enabled to build themselves a home, and leave to their children an inheritance, accumulated by endeavors of which their descendants may justly be proud.
Mr. Clapp was always engaged in agricultural pur- suits. He was prominently connected with the Huron county agricultural society, having been one of its first incorporators, and having held the office of presi- dent and trustee for many years. On his death, the board of trustees passed appropriate resolutions.
In politics, Mr. Clapp was a republican, and held many offices of trust in Huron county. He was county commissioner in 1852, one of the members of the first board of trustees of the infirmary, and ap- pointed by the governor of the State as one of the appraisers of the school lands located on the Western Reserve. In religious belief he was a Universalist and, for many years, was deacon and trustee of the First Universalist Church of Peru. His death occurred December 14, 1865; and seldom, in any community,
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has the loss of a citizen been more deeply felt. He was always a trusted friend and neighbor, a kind husband and father, and in him Peru lost one of its most prominent pioneers.
Mr. and Mrs. Clapp had three children, whose names and brief domestic history are as follows: Aro D., born July 22, 1830, was married February 3, 1858, to Helen, daughter of Aruna and Mary Ann
Eaton, of Pern. They reside on a farm located in Norwalk township, and have a family of two children, and Mrs. Clapp resides with them. Mary Isabella, born January 18, 1834, is married to Dr. Alfred Terry, a dentist, of Norwalk. Henry Seymour, born October 21, 1841, married Sarah, daughter of Alvin and Parmela Brightman. of Bronson. He resides at the old homestead in Peru, and has two children.
MR. R. B. ELLSWORTH.
MRS. R. B. ELLSWORTH.
RANSOM B. ELLSWORTH.
Ransom B. Ellsworth, born in Windsor, Vermont, November 11, 1800, at an early age removed to Onta- rio county, New York. He married there Eliza Prentiss, and the young couple removed to Fairfield, Huron county, and settled about half a mile north of the present village, being one of the very foremost pioneers of the township, and sharing the severe toil of clearing and improving. He was the first justice of the peace elected in Fairfield, and held the office for three years. He moved into Peru township in 1829, and lived for about one year at the little village of Macksville. His wife died the same year. In 1831, he married his second wife, Louisa Barker, and re- moved to his present location, lot number three, in the Parker tract. His second wife died in 1847, and in the following year he married his present wife,
formerly Mrs. Susan Morey, born in Dutchess county, New York, December 8, 1813, but since 1847 a resi- dent of Peru. She had one daughter, Georgianna, who married D. Brooks, and is resident in the town- ship, and a son, Willard, now in Flat Rock, Michi- gan. Mr. Ellsworth has had in all eleven children, three of whom are living, viz: Amanda (Mrs. N. Edwards), in Minnesota: Allen, in Toledo, and Maria (Mrs. J. Drury), in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth are now aged respectively seventy-nine and sixty-six. Mr. Ellsworth is one. of those men who, having begun in a new country, empty-handed, the struggle for a livelihood for himself and family, has succeeded in gaining that condition in life which allows him the ease and comfort which he has so well earned by years of toil and privation. He has a finely cultivated farm of about sixty-five acres, and a comfortable home.
GREENFIELD.
ORIGINAL OWNERS.
FOR explanation of the following table the reader is referred to the history of Wakeman township.
GREENFIELD, TOWN NUMBER TWO, IN THE TWENTY- THIRD RANGE.
CLASSIFICATION NO. 1, SECTION 1.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
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Andrew Rowland 1568
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Thomas F. Row- land
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Thomas Fitch's
heirs
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142
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Hannah Fitch's heirs
141
2
7799
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44
111
16
John Hubbell
32
16
17
Ephriam Penfield
19
12
7
Widow Mary Pen- field
139
14
1
20
14
9
Stephen Jennings 195 Jabez Perry
18
0
Eleazer Osborn, Jr 181
2
9
Eleazer Osborn, Jr 15 0
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CLASSIFICATION NO, 2, SECTION 2.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss. Classified by.
An't Classed.
Samuel Smedley
John Smedley
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10
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Samuel Smedley Samuel Smedley and others Walter Bradley =
381
15 16
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David Annibal
43
18
10
43
18
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Samuel Smith
19
16
9
17
19
16
John Williams
116
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9
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19
Dudley Baldwin
7
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16
47
5
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180
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180
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0
George Burr
15
16
10
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15
16
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John Banks
22
12
2
44
12
Joseph Sherwood
9
15
6
9
15
6
Sam'l Whitney, Jr
26
10
2
26
10
2
John Morehouse, (two rights)
249
4
5 Zalmon Bradley 3
17
3
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CLASSIFICATION NO. 3, SECTION 3.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss. Classified by.
Am't Classed. €
Ebenezer Bertram
144
3
Samuel Rowland
26
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3
James Buckley
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Justin Jennings Luce Burr
4
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16
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11
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4
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6
15
19
6
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46
13
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Jona. Middlebrook
4
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Joseph Sprag Benj. Squire
1
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64
6
16
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Samuel King
5
18
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Josiah Buckley
9
6
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8
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Rewil Thorp
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Ann Godfrey
3
18
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Ebenezer Monroe David Burr
10
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210
14 16
616
Capt. Titus Hurl- burt
1961
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Capt. James Lam phire
238
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72
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James Lamphire, Jr 34
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CLASSIFICATION NO. 4, SECTION 4
Original Grantees.
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John Morehouse 219
4
Zalmon Bradley 44
121
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Sam'] Sturges
231
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Sam'] Taylor
9
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18
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Nehemiah Banks
4
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Samuel Penfield James Knapp
33
8
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0
PHYSICAL FEATURES,
The surface of the township is generally undulating. The Huron river enters it about a mile west of the southeast corner, runs a winding, but, generally, northwest course `through the township, and leaves it a little less than a mile east of the northwest cor- ner.
There are several small tributaries, the largest of which is the west branch, which drains the western part of the town.
The original varieties of timber, east of the river, were principally white wood, black walnut, beech and maple, with some white oak, butternut and basswood. West of the river, white and black oak, hickory, beech and maple were the leading varieties. The soil is a loam of a sandy or gravelly nature, east of the river, and a clay loam west of it.
There is a stone quarry on the east bank of Huron river, owned and worked by Elias Easter. It was first opened by Ezra Smith, at an early date. The quarry underlies a considerable tract of land, with a dip to the southeast, extending into Fairfield town- ship, and is sandstone of the newer formation. The stone varies from an inch to twelve inches in thick- ness, and is largely used for building and flagging. There exists also, on the farm of Mr. Easter, bog iron ore, but in what quantity is not known.
In 1847 or '48, Mr. Harlan E. Simmons, while plowing through an excavation on his farm, made by a large uprooted tree, came upon two copper kettles, one a five-pail, and the other a three-pail kettle, the latter within the former, and both lying bottom upwards. By whom they were buried, and for what purpose, can, of course only be conjectured, but they were evidently buried at an early period, both as indicated by the appearance of the vessels, and by the size of the tree under which they were placed. One of the kettles is now in the cabinet of relics of the Fire-lands Historical Society, and the other in the possession of Alonzo L. Simmons.
SETTLEMENT AND SETTLERS.
The first person that came into the township of Greenfield, for the purpose of settlement, was William MeKelvey, Jr., who arrived from Trumbull county in the year 1810. HIe purchased one hundred and
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€ 415
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Samuel Rowland
476
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116
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John Williams, Jr
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Jonathan Matther
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James Knapp
14
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Jabez Perry's heirs 83
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Samuel Rowland
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Widow Abigail Burr 58
Samuel Penfield Mary Penfield
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1095
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139
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515
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Andrew Rowland Daniel Hurlburt
126
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Zecheriah Sauford Jehiah Whitehead
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six acres of land of Caleb Palmer, of New Haven township, on lot number twenty-five, in the second section of this township, paying for it in work. In 1811, he cleared eleven and a half acres and sowed it to wheat. He had harvested his crop and was putting it in stack when the news of Hull's surrender reached the settlement. He immediately returned to Trum- bull county, where his father and the rest of the family were then living, and joined the army as a volunteer for six months. In the spring of 1814 he returned to Greenfield, bringing, with a four-horse team and wagon, his brother-in-law, Truman Gilbert, and his family. His wheat had been burned during his absence, evidently by the Indians. The loss was considerable, as breadstuffs were then high. He after- wards bought fifteen bushels of the wheat left in stack by Erastus Smith, on his flight to Trumbull county, for which he paid forty-five dollars, thresh- ·ing it himself. Judging from the yield of Mr. Smith's crop and the price he received for what he sold, Mr. McKelvey's loss was about twelve hundred dollars. In December, 1817, he married Saloma Ash- ley, daughter of James Ashley, of Peru township, and built a distillery the same year on Huron river, on lot twenty-six, section two, the upper story of which he occupied as a dwelling. A number of years afterwards he built a log house on his farm on the center road, where Robert Arthur now lives, and took up his abode there. He moved to Hardin county in 1835, remamed six years and then returned to this township, where he has since resided. His first wife died in 1853, and in the fall of 1854 he married Mrs. Electa Grant, with whom he is now living at Green- field center. Mr. McKelvey was born in Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, July 21, 1790. In 1804 he and his father, William McKelvey, Sr., came to Ohio, selecting a location in Palmyra township, Por- tage county, the rest of the family following the next year. In 1806 or 1807 the family removed to Trum- bull county. William McKelvey, Sr., removed to this township in 1815, and settled on lot twenty-six, in the second section. In 1819 he moved to the town- ship of Plymouth, Richland county, where he after- wards died.
Truman Gilbert settled on the north and south center road, on lot thirty-six. He subsequently moved to York township, Sandusky county, and died there.
The first family that settled in Greenfield was that of Hanson Read. Mr. Read was a native of Connec- ticut and was born June 4, 1:82. While a boy, his parents removed to Bath, New York. In 1810, he married Elizabeth Powers of Beavertown, Pennsyl- vania, and in April, 1811, removed to this township in company with Abram Powers (his wife's father), Jacob Rush (his hired man), James Wilson, who sub- sequently became a settler in this township, Caleb Palmer, who settled in New Haven, and John Laylin, who settled in Eldridge, now Berlin. They reached Greenfield on the first day of May, after a tedious journey. For a great part of the way there was no
road, only such as the emigrants cut as they traveled. The first night in Greenfield the family slept on the ground under a tree.
A short time after their arrival, Abram Powers went into the woods in search of the cows, and the day being cloudy, lost his direction. and wandered about for five days and nights before reaching his home. He subsisted on roots and berries, and came in very much exhausted. Every effort had been made by his associates to find the lost man, but with- out snecess. Mr. Read built his cabin in the fourth section on lot number thirty-two. It, indeed, was a lonely dwelling, being among the very first in what is now Huron county. The first year of their settle- ment the family had to go to Cuyahoga county, or to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, with their grist, and to Mansfield for the few groceries they needed.
April 25, 1812, their son Franklin was born, which was the first birth of civilized parents in the town- ship and one of the earliest in the county.
In 1814, Mr. Read sold his farm to James Wilson, and commenced, with Mr. Powers, the erection of the grist mill on Huron river, as mentioned elsewhere, Soon after it was built, Mr. Read sold the mill to a man by the name of Carkhuff, and moved to the township of Norwalk, about a mile and a half south of where the village of Norwalk now is, purchasing his land of Samuel B. Lewis. Mr. Read built a saw mill here in 1817-18, and a gristmill in 1821, the first in the township. In 1826, he removed to Perrysburg, Ohio, and took a job of road-making on the turnpike. He lived but a few months after his settlement there, and his family subsequently returned to Norwalk township. Mrs. Read afterwards became the wife of Perez Miner, whom she also survived, and finally removed, with a son, to Ingham county, Mich- igan, where she subsequently died. There were six children, all boys, and all of whom are living. Frank- lin, the eldest, resides in Norwalk township, a mile south of the village, aged sixty-seven; James resides in Ingham county, Michigan; Eli and Dennis live in Wisconsin; Abram lives in Missouri, and Ransler in Indiana.
In October, 1811, a little company, consisting of Erastus Smith and family, of wife and three chil- dren: Samuel C. Spencer, a brother of Mrs. Smith, Cyrus W. Marsh, and Buel Ensign started from Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, for the Fire-lands, arriving in Greenfield about the first of November. They brought with them two wagons, four yoke of oxen, three cows, and twenty-three hogs. After cross- ing the Cuyahoga they were strictly pioneers. The country was a vast wilderness, not a house to be seen on their route west of the Cuyahoga river, until the lonely cabin of Hanson Read, in Greenfield, was reached. Mrs. Smith and her children remained at the house of Mr. Read until the men could roll up a house, which was built on the place now occupied by Hiram Smith. The house was indeed a primitive dwelling place when the family moved into it, being
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
without a door or window, and had only a few feet square of puncheon floor. A door and window were soon provided, however, made also of puncheons, and the family lived in comparative comfort through the winter which was a very severe one. It was with dif- ficulty that the cattle were wintered through. They subsisted largely on shrubs, and twigs of trees which were cut down for them to browse on. The hogs ran in the woods, and fed on the abundant mast, or "shack" which the forest yielded. The next spring these hogs all went back to Vernon, in Trumbull county, where they were subsequently found by Mr. Smith, on his return, during the excitement of the war of 1812. Mr. Smith was born in Hartland, Con- nectient, January 7, 1284, and migrated with his parents to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1799. Decem- ber, 19, 1805, he married Miss Fanny Spencer, daugh- ter of Samuel and Lydia Spencer, also of Hartland, Connecticut, who moved with their family to Trum- bull county, in 1802. Mr. and Mrs. Smith resided in the township of Vernon, in said county, until their removal to Greenfield, as previously stated. Erastus Smith was a man of much force of character and in- telligence, and was for years one of the leading men of the settlement. He was foremost in favoring and promoting everything pertaining to the general im- provement of the infant settlement. His death oc- curred July 16, 1820. Mrs. Smith is yet living and will have reached the advanced age of ninety-four years, if she lives until December 2, 1829, She was in the truest sense, a helpmeet of her husband, shar- ing with him the many privations of that early time with a remarkable courage. She retains a wonderful memory of early events, and has been our main reli- ance in the collection of facts embraced in the history of this township. There were seven children, viz. : Martin, (deceased), Lydia, now Mrs. Dennison Bas- com, living in the township of Norwich; Truman and Erastus. (deceased); Lester, residing in Bronson; Hiram, residing in Greenfield, on the old homestead; and Henrietta, (Mrs. Thomas Cone, deceased.) Mrs. Smith has living, three children, twenty nine grand- children, and forty great-grand children. the oldest child being seventy years of age, and the oldest grand- child twenty-three.
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