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Jacob Claypool was a man of unusual business capacity, honest, correct and with the ability to dis- patch business, a great quality in a business man. 'H : was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and belonged to the Lancaster society. He was a liberal
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contributor to the expense of building the present church edifice, but did not live to see it fully dedicated. But few men lived in this county more highly esteemed in life or more sincerely lamented in death.
Jacob and Margaret Claypool were the parents of three daughters and six sons. Emma was born April 2, 1800. She married Joseph Grubb October 19, 1820. Reverend Thomas A. Morris, then the Metho- dist pastor at Lancaster, afterwards a Bishop, officiated. She died May 20, 1832. They were the parents of Jacob Grubb, long a well known and wealthy farmer of this and Ross County. Elizabeth was born August 17, 1801. She married Stephen Yale March 12, 1822, and died September 10, 1823. Mary was born January 12, 1803, and died August 13, 1823. Albert was born December 5, 1806. He was married to his first wife, Rachel Hooker, daughter of Richard Hooker, of Tur- key Run, March 25, 1826. His second wife was a Miss Rebecca Mounts, of Warren County, Ohio. Al- bert Claypool was a splendid specimen of the physical man. For many years he was a large and prosperous farmer in this county. He reared quite a family of children, who filled or are filling honorable and use- ful positions in life. Albert late in life moved to Warren County, where he died November 2, 1862.
Wesley Claypool was born February 15, 1810. He married Catharine McNeil November 9, 1830. He died June 25, 1877. His wife died February 22, 1879, at her home in Chillicothe, Ohio. Wesley Claypool was a man of more than ordinary ability and in his prime a successful farmer and cattle feeder. He represented Ross County as a Whig two or three times in the Gen- eral Assembly of Ohio. He was a man of fine appear- ance, companionable and made friends. His farm at
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High Bank, below Chillicothe, was a fine one and well managed. Felix was born March 8, 1812, and died September 1, 1826. Jacob was born July 23, 1816, and died May 26, 1835, in the city of Philadelphia. Issac Claypool was born Januarv 29, 1821. He mar- ried Nancy Meason August 17, 1843, the daughter of John Meason. She was born January 22, 1821, and died October 16, 1855. He married a second wife, Sarah A. Pierce, March 18, 1858. She was born in Dover, New Hampshire, November 15, 1836; she died March 18, 1893. Annie E. Cosgrove was his third wife. They were married August 1, 1895. She was born in Mifflin county, Penn., April 9, 1843, and died very suddenly March 23, 1898. Isaac Claypool has been all his long life a farmer and lives upon the farm and in the house where he was born. His father train- ed him to purchase, drive and handle cattle, and in this he was successful. He was the life long friend of John T. Brasee, and when a young man purchased for him his feeding cattle. Mr. Brasee had implicit con- fidence in his judgment and in his integrity. For a young man to have had the confidence and friendship of John T. Brasee was an honor to be proud of. Isaac Claypool commenced his career with two hundred acres of good land. He added to this farm from time to time until it became one of the very largest and best in the county. The home farm of 600 or more acres is a beauty and the admiration of all who behold it. Mr. Claypool has reared and fairly educated a large family of children. He is a public spirited citizen, liberal and generous. He is a Republican, but never took an active or aggressive part in politics. His sons repre- sent the family in politics. He spent three years of his life in Lancaster, but upon his second marriage moved
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to his farm. His sons were Jacob, who married Tru- phenie Weist, daughter of Jacob Weist, was born Aug. 26, 1846. He lives upon a good farm near Hookers. He has been president of the Agricultural Society and received a very complimentary support for County commissioner. James Bruce married Elizabeth Peters, daughter of Newton Peters. He was born Oct. 23, 1850. He resides upon his farm adjoining his brother Jacob. He is a good farmer and a breeder of fine horses. Frank P. married Elizabeth Prindle, daugh- ter of Myron Prindle. He was born April 16, 1859, and resides in Lancaster. John Reber married Henri- etta Carnes, daughter of John Carnes. He was born March II, 1861, and resides upon the home farm with his father. His wife is one of the stylish young dames of Greenfield. Isaac Claypool's daughters are Anna, Mary, Emma Eliza McCowan, Nancy Jane Caldwell, Ida Pierce Shell, Ada Maud Creighton.
Albert Claypool had three sons, Felix, James and Jacob. Felix was born Aug. 7, 1827 and died in New York City Sept. 2, 1865. James died Feb. 14, 1873, at his home in the state of Illinois. Jacob died at Ran- toul, Illinois, July 5, 1891. His wife was a Rankin, of Licking County, Ohio. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Cochran, was born in 1832, and lives in Emporia, Kan- sas. Martha Cochran was born March 12, 1834, and died Oct. 10, 1868. Florence Edith Mounts was born Nov. 26, 1872, and lives near Clarksburg, Ohio. 'Ber- tha B. Howell was born March 25, 1875 and lives at Fulsom, New Mexico. Josephine married E. B. White, of Lancaster, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1864. She was born Aug. 26, 1843. White is a successful business man of Lancaster. His son, Albert Claypool, has lit- erary talents and possesses high merit as a writer of
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sketches. He is well read and has seen much of the world. He was born Oct. 5, 1865. He married Miss Daisy Swartz, daughter of Joel Swartz. She was one of the belles of Berne township.
Wesley Claypool had three sons, but they did not live to reach man's estate. This was one of the sor- rows of Wesley's life. Four of his daughters lived to marry and raise families. Margaret Ann married W. R Foster, of a prominent Ross County family. Sarah E. married George Davis, one of the foremost busi- ness men of Portsmouth in his time-both now dead. Jane P. married Dennis Rennick, of one of the pio- neer families most widely known in the Scioto valley. They lived for a year or two on the south side of the Van Meter prairie, two miles east of Lancaster. Wes- ley Claypool opposed this union and held out for some time, but the sight of the first born child, when able to be fondled by him, melted the old man's heart and all was forgiven.
"The silence often, of pure innocence,
Persuades, when speaking fails."
A Winter's Tale. -
James Claypool, born in 1730, the founder of the family we have described, had a brother named John, born in 1832, who had a family of boys, and lived in Hardy County, Va. There was also a Philadelphia branch, large and respectable. There were in all branches twenty-three John Claypools. Levi Clay- pool was a Virginian and a grandson, on his mother's side, of Mathias Miller, a familiar Virginia name.
Norton Fravel Claypool, who was a very promi- nent citizen and farmer on the Licking river, near the
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Black Hand, was a son of Levi. Norton was a very fine looking man, as the writer well remembers. He reared two sons, who are very intelligent business men. Wm. O. Claypool, of the T. B. & W. Railroad, and Edward A., of Chicago, Ill. The Claypool family produced many preachers, lawyers, doctors and pro- fessors.
There are but few families in the United States able to trace their lineage back through English records five hundred years. There are but few families, if any, that have a cleaner record than the Claypools.
THE MEASON, CHERRY AND BEAR FAMILIES.
Thomas Meason, Sr., of Berkeley County, Virginia, was born February 22, 1707. Elizabeth, his wife, was born April 2, 1721. They moved to Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Their children, twelve in number, were : Hannah, born May 3, 1737 ; Samuel, born November 8, 1739; Isaac, born August 15, 1743; George, born February 6, 1746; Rachel, born November 6, 1749; Sarah, February 15, 1751; John, February 22, 1753; Thomas, July 17, 1755; Joseph, July 7, 1759 ; Anne, January 27, 1761 ; Mary, January 22, 1763, Elizabeth, May 11, 1765.
Colonel John Meason, seventh son of Thomas, was born February 22, 1753, in Berkeley County, Va. He married Hannah Frost, who was born December 23. 1751. They moved to Fayette County, Pa. They were the parents of ten children .- Isaac was born November 20, 1773, and died February 26, 1845 ; Eliza- beth, born April 2, 1776; Martha was born May 20, 1779; Hannah was born June 1, 1782; John was born September 7, 1784; Nancy was born May 4. 1787; Mary was born May 9, 1789, Thomas was born June
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18, 1791 ; Francis, January 20, 1794 ; and George, Jan- uary 12, 1798.
Isaac Meason, son of Thomas Meason, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1773. He married Rached Cherry, daughter of Ralph Cherry and Annie Meek, his wife. She was born June 17, 1774. Ralph Cherry died April 25, 1836.
Isaac Meason and wife came to Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1799, and settled near the present Summit church in Greenfield, where the Masons still own the land. They were both buried in the Wells graveyard near Hooker.
They were the parents of nine children : John Mea- son, son of Isaac was born March 26, 1795; Ralph Meason, was born September 29, 1797, and died No- vember 15, 1799; Hiram Meason was born May 10, 1799, and died June 3, 1802; Jeremiah was born Au- gust 1, 1801, and died May 18, 1825, and was buried in the Wells graveyard. Elijah was born March 20, 1804, and died January 31, 1823 ; Enoch was born Au- gust 24, 1806, and died July 28, 1822; Isaac Whatcoat was born February 21, 1809, and died April 25, 1852, and was buried in Wells graveyard. Nancy Miranda was born October 14, 1811 ; she married Mr. Baxter, moved to Lima, and died there. George Wesley was born April 11, 1814, and died January 16, 1847.
John Meason, son of Isaac and Rachel, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, five miles northeast of Uniontown. Anna, his first wife, was born in May, 1798, and died Jan. 11, 1830, aged thirty-one years. She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Bear. The second wife of John Meason was a Miss Elizabeth Haver, sister of Peter Haver of Walnut township.
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John Meason lived a long and honorable life near the summit in Greenfield and died in 1876, aged 84 years. He was the father of seven children.
Rachel was born December 10, 1817. She married Solomon Clippinger and moved to Iowa.
Mary was born October 17, 1819. She married John Neel, and moved to Lima, O. Nancy was born January 22, 1821. She married Isaac Claypool. Her sons, Jacob and James Claypool, are prosperous farm- ers and reputable citizens of Greenfield. Elijah E. was born January 26, 1823. He lived for years on the George Meason farm at. the Summit. Isaac Jerome was born September 30, 1825; he died young. Sallie Elizabeth was born November 10, 1827; she married Elijah Winters. Their son, John M. Winters, is now postmaster of Carroll, Ohio. Anna Miranda was born January 3, 1830. She was the second wife of Samuel Baxter, late of Lima, Ohio.
Isaac Meason was one of the most noted of the pio- neers for strength and activity. Few men, if any, among the pioneers could throw him in a wrestling match and only Walter McFarland, his friend and neighbor, could lift a heavier load.
He once met a famous athletic Indian in a wrest- ling bout. His friends feared that he had found his match, but he threw him three times in succession. At the raising of Hooker's barn, Walter McFarland car- ried one of the square plates a few steps, that required six men to lift it and place it upon his shoulders. Such were the amusements of the pioneers. Every neigh- borhood had its champion.
John Meeks, Dorsey Meason, the Cherry brothers and the Bears were neighbors and relatives of Isaac
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Meason. The old people were buried at the Wells graveyard.
Nathaniel Cherry, Ralph Cherry, Thomas Cherry and William Cherry, late of Walnut township, were sons of Thomas Cherry, a relative of the Greenfield Cherrys. They are all dead and but few of their de- scendants remain in the county. Mrs. Wm. Murphey and her children, of Millersport; Frank Cherry and sisters, of Lancaster; Mrs. Samuel Wiseman and Brook Cherry, of New Salem; Mrs. Lightnecher, of Thurston, are about all that remain in the county.
Dr. Leonidas Meason, son of Dorsey Meason, lives in Bluffton, Indiana.
George A. Meason, son of Dorsey, is another, and lives in Montpelier, Indiana.
Francis Meason, daughter of Col. John Meason, married Judge William Salter in Fayette County, Pa. They moved west and were carly settlers in Portsmouth, Ohio, where Judge Salter was a leading citizen and one of the pioneers in the manufacture of pig-iron.
Samuel Baxter, whose two wives were both Mea- sons, was for many years a business man of Lancaster. He studied law with Governor Medill and located in Lima, O., where he was a successful man and acquired property. Dr. Samuel Baxter, son of his first wife, is a prominent business man of Lima.
Henry and Alfred Neel, sons of John Neel, located in Toledo, O. They are prominent and very success- ful business men of that city.
Dr. George F. Meason, son of Elijah E. Meason, lives in the city of Milwaukee, John in Columbus.
Felix N. Meason, son of Isaac Whatcoat Meason, lives in Carroll, O. A daughter of George W. Meason married John Stanbery, of Greenfield.
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CHERRY FAMILY
Ralph Cherry, son of Thomas and Rachel Cherry, was born July 10, 1744, and Anne Cherry, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Meek, was born June -, 1750. Were married October 10, 1765. They were the par- ents of three children.
I. Moses, born July 10, 1766, died January I, 1782.
2. Jeremiah, born July 24, 1772, died August 16, 1801.
3. Rachel, born January 17, 1774.
Ralph Cherry, Sr., was an early settler on the head waters of the Hockhocking, and formerly was one of the first emigrants to Westmoreland County, Pa. He died in Greenfield township, July 22, 1820, aged 77 years. His wife Anne followed him on September 27, 1822, aged 72 years. Their remains lie in the old Wells cemetery at Hooker; also their children.
Here their relatives, the pioneer Measons and Meeks were buried.
Jeremiah Cherry, son of Ralph and Anne, married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Hannah (Frost) Meason, in 1794. Three children were born to them.
I. Ralph Cherry, Jr., born February 23, 1795.
2. Sarah, born May 14, 1797.
3. John Meason Cherry, born March 16, 1800.
Rachel Cherry, sister of Jeremiah and daughter of Ralph and Anne Cherry, married Isaac Meason, son of John and Hannah M., in 1794.
Ralph Cherry, Jr., married Ruth Martin, who died in 1826. He afterwards married Mrs. Sallie Comer, daughter of John and Elizabeth Bear, and removed to Allen County. Their descendants live in Allen, Au- glaize and Union counties.
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Sarah Cherry married George Bear in 1816 and subsequently moved to Allen County. Descendants moved westward. Coffey County, Kan., contains a large number. Van Wert County, Ohio, is the home of some others of the family.
BEAR FAMILY
John and Elizabeth Bear emigrated from Rocking- ham County, Va. Their children were:
Katie, who married Philip Lamb, and whose de- scendants, the families of Philip, Jr., and Peter Lamb, reside in this county. George W. Lamb, of Hooker ; Noah, John and Irvin, of Carroll, are sons of Peter Lamb. The daughters are Mrs. Henry Coffman, Mrs. Belle Beatty, of Carroll, and Rachel Flood, of Lancaster. Polly married James Steadman and moved to northern Ohio.
Sarah Bear married twice. First David Comer, second Ralph Cherry, and moved to Allen County, Ohio.
George Bear married Sarah Cherry, sister to Ralph Cherry, in 1816 and removed to Allen County, Ohio.
Betsey Bear married Daniel Miller in 1817 and lived in Allen County. Joseph Miller, a son, resides with his daughter, Mrs. George Kester, of Greenfield township.
Adam Bear married a Steadman and moved to Iowa.
Anne Bear married John Meason in 1817. (See Meason family.)
Coffey County, Kansas, is the home of a large num- ber of the Bear descendants; also Van Wert and Au- glaize Counties in Ohio.
For the preceding sketch of the Cherry, Bear and Winter connections of the Measons, the writer is in-
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debted to Mary E. Winter, of Carroll; a daughter of Elijah Winter and granddaughter of John Meason.
WINTER FAMILY
Jacob Winter was an early settler in Walnut town- ship, born in 1760, died in Baltimore in 1827. He had two sons, Benjamin and Abraham. Benjamin died young in 1829, but left seven children.
Samuel, the oldest, lives in Effingham County, Ills., and is a farmer. He was captain in the army during the rebellion. He married Jane Turner.
Isaac, a merchant tailor in Charleston, Ills., mar- ried Kate Strode, of Hocking township.
Esther, born 1821, married Wm. Lee, moved to Iowa and now lives in Clinton. Have a large family in Iowa and other western states.
Elijah, born 1823, was married to Sallie E. Meason in 1846, and who died in 1873 leaving seven children. In 1875 he married Catharine Berger and has two children by this marriage.
Of this union Cora M. is the wife of F. E. Wilson, superintendent Lithopolis schools, and Frank E., the youngest, is telegraph operator at Valley Crossing.
Benjamin Winter, born 1825, married Elizabeth Miller, of Walnut township. Have two children, Wal- ter, a farmer near Baltimore, and Emma, the wife of Eugene Yontz, of New Salem, Ohio.
Family of Abraham Winter, son of Jacob Winter. born 1787, lived and died in Pleasant township. Had three children.
I. Hannah, married Valentine Cupp, who was killed at Chicamauga, Colonel Ist O. V. C.
2. Margaret, married Lafayette Pickering, Cap- tain Ist O. V. C.
3. Daniel, died in Nebraska in 1899.
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Kate Strode, the wife of Isaac Winter, Charleston, Ills., was a niece of Geo. H. Strode. Her mother's second husband was Daniel Devore, of Lancaster. O.
Family of Elijah M. Winter, born 1823, married in 1845 to Sallie E. Meason, of Greenfield township, were the parents of seven children.
I. John Meason married Frances Effie Gierhart. Is now postmaster at Carroll.
2. Mary E., oldest daughter, now resides in Car- roll. Assists in post office work.
3. Jennie A., married W. G. Waller, a farmer in Fayette County, O. Have three sons, Harry, Scott and Ralph.
4. Alice F., married J. Scott Chenoweth, of Lon- don, Ohio, who is now county treasurer.
5. George W., died in 1881, aged 21.
6. Charles C., married Esther E. Gorham. Now live at Continental, Ohio. Is agent for the N. Y., Chi. and St. L. R. R. Has been in R. R. work for twenty years. They have one son, Fred E., who is telegraph operator for the Pullman Car Co., Chicago.
7. William B., married Mollie Turner, of Mason, Ills. Has been in the employ of the Chicago and East- ern Illinois R. R., also the Illinois Central, for ten years. Is now located at Pullman. They have two daughters.
Mrs Winter died in 1873, and by a second marriage with Miss Katherine Berger in 1875 two children were born. Cora M., who is now the wife of Frank E. Wilson, superintendent of the Lithopolis schools, and Frank E., telegraph operator at Valley Crossing on the C. H. V. R. R.
E. M. Winter died July 14, 1898, aged 75.
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SKETCH OF THE HOOKER FAMILY
Thomas Hooker is the first of his name of whom the writer has any account. He lived near Ricetown, Maryland, and ten miles from the city of Baltimore. Of his family we know nothing except his son Rich- ard and his descendants. Thomas Hooker died March 24, 1744.
His son Richard was born September 24, 1701. He married a woman named Martha. Of her family we know nothing. Richard Hooker was a farmer and tobacco planter, as we learn from his old account book and family record. The following quotation from said book gives some insight into his character :
" Grace, wisdom and understanding is a fine thing." Signed : RICHARD.
He died September, 1781, at half past five o'clock in the afternoon. His wife, Martha, died August 13, 1781, aged 69 years. They were the parents of thirteen children, viz .: Margaret, born the 15th of Novem- ber, 1732; Barny, born the 28th of November, 1734; Eurath, born December 4, 1736; Charity, born March II, 1739; Aquilla Hooker, born February 22, 1741; Mary, born January 1, 1743 ; Richard Hooker, Jr., born on the 20th of October, 1745; Jacob Hooker, born 22d of June, 1748; Ruth, born 17th day of September, 1751 ; Susan, born March 17, 1753; Samuel, born 16th of November, 1757; Sarah, born May 28, 1762.
Of this family of thirteen children we can learn nothing, except as to Richard, Samuel and Eurath, the sister, of whom more later on. There is a record of the birth of Kezia Hooker, January 6, 1761, in the handwriting of Richard, and the presumption is that she was one of his children, making the number thir-
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teen. From an entry in his family record it would appear that his daughter Margaret married Dutton Land, and that his daughter Ruth married Lathrop Cole.
Samuel Hooker, Jr., with his brother Richard and his sister Eurath, came to Ohio and settled in Green- field township, Fairfield County, in 1810. He married Rachel Belt, daughter of Richard Belt, of Maryland. She was born November 11, 1767. Soon after his arri- val in this county Samuel purchased of Gen. James Wells 665 acres of land for the sum of $8.00 per acre. It was a valuable and beautiful section of fertile land, just west of Hooker Station. The deed for this land is dated October 1, 1810.
Samuel Hooker, Sr., was a man of sterling quali- ties, a good citizen and one highly esteemed in his neighborhood. He and his wife raised a large family - one of the largest and most prominent of Greenfield township. After a long and useful life he died Octo- ber 3, 1842. His wife survived him, but passed to her long home February 7, 1853. Their children were Mary, born December 21, 1787; Jared, born May 20, 1789: Milcha, born January 17, 1793; Samuel, born February 17, 1797; Richard, born February 17, 1799; Rachel, born August 28, 1801.
Rachel married a Mr. Pickens, and subsequently moved to Wabash County, near Attica, Indiana. Milcha married William Stanbery, of Greenfield. Mary was the second wife of John Stanbery, and step- mother of of the present John Stanbery, of Greenfield. Jared must have died while yet a young man. Richard, son of Samuel, married Phoebe Tallman, a daughter of a prominent man named William Tallman, who then
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owned a good farm adjoining Jedediah Allen, near Royalton, Ohio. Phœbe was born August 4, 1805.
Richard Hooker was always a prominent respected citizen of Greenfield, and the father of a large family of children. He died in 1885, at the age of 86 years. The children of Richard and Phoebe were: Jared, born in 1828, and who married Sallie Manson, of Lan- caster ; Samantha, born in 1830, and who married Thomas Trimble, son of the old pioneer, Col. William Trimble; Richard, born in 1831, and who married a daughter of David Foster, of Lancaster, Ohio; Nancy, born in 1833, and who married George Little, of Lan- caster, Ohio; William Henry, born in 1836; Samuel Henry, born in 1839; George W., born in 1849. He married a daughter of William Rippey, of Lancaster, Ohio. Samuel Hooker, Jr., brother of Richard, was born February 17, 1797, and married Sarah Shull, whose parents lived at that time near what is now Buckeye Lake. He was a highly respected citizen of Greenfield, and reared a large family on the farm now owned by M. S. Vought, near Hooker Station. The children of these parents were: Samuel L., who mar- ried Miss Lydy, Daughter of S. Lydy, the proprietor of the "Swan Hotel," which stood on the site of the present Mithoff House; Samuel was a lieutenant in Company A, First Ohio Cavalry; John, who married Miss Lydia Alspaugh, daughter of John Alspaugh, who resided near the Rock Mill; Martha, who married Hosea B. Tong, both of whom are dead; Orpha, who married E. S. Carr, of Fayette County, Ohio; Sarah, who married Darius Wise, son of Rev. Wise, of Lan- caster ; Loretta, who married Captain James M. Som- mers, who was killed at the head of his company, Sixty-first O. V. I., in one of the last battles of the
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civil war; Mary, who married George W. Alfred, who was Probate Judge of Hocking County ; Louise, who married M. K. Wright, of Jeffersonville, Ohio; and Rachel Elizabeth, who married John G. Reeves, a prominent attorney of Lancaster, and by marriage a double second cousin of Richard Hooker, Jr., of Tur- key Run.
Richard Hooker, the bachelor of the family, who came to this county, was a son of Richard and Martha Hooker, of near Ricetown, Maryland. 'He arrived in this county with his brother Samuel in the year 1810. He was born October 20, 1745, and died in the year 1823, August the 5th. He was near 60 years of age when he landed here, was a bachelor and a man of means and ability. He soon became a large land owner and prominent in the county and in Lancaster, Ohio. In 1816 he was elected a member of the Board of Direc- tors of the First Lancaster Bank, and he was four times a representative and twice a senator in Ohio Legisla- ture. He gave farms to each of the children of his brother Samuel. The farm on which John Stanbery now lives is one of them. Reber Allen lives upon one of them. It is now 77 years since his death, and there is no one living who knew him; hence our sketch is very brief. Too brief, we have no doubt, for a man so highly esteemed in his day and generation. When or where his sister Eurith died, we have not been able to ascertain. She did not marry. Richard was buried at the old Hooker graveyard, which holds the dust of many of the best pioneers of this county.
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