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REv. Joas Boro settled in Wayne Township on his large trami of land of 1,000 acres, in 1843, and moved to Marietta in 1945. He was a man of talent; he belonged to the Covenan- ter arder ; he was a son of Dr. John Royd, and grandson of General Boyd, of the revolution.
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DANIEL DAVIS emigrated from Virginia to Fayette in 1818, and settled in Wayne Township. His sons, who came with him, were : G. W., Thomas. Joseph, Robert, and Polly. G. W. Davis, farmer and millwright, carpenter and black- smith; he occupies the old homestead. Thomas is dead ; Joseph was in the war of the rebellion, and belonged to the cavalry, and died of sickness; Robert's occupation, a shce- maker, in Rockville; never was married ; Polly married Dan- iel Figgins, a farmer. G. W. Davis had five sons -- Armanus, James M., Henry C., Scott H., and Milton. They were in the late rebellion, and returned home sound. James was a lieutenant in the 114th O. V. I.
CAPT. JOHN LOWERY was in the war of 1812; he was an early settler; says he is now lo1 years old, aud lives on his farm; he still walks about, but is rather feeble. His wife is still living.
JOHN HOPPER was an early settler ; he is dead. Ilis sons are Jacob, John, Hinton, and Henry; the girls are Betty, Naney, Polly, Margaret, Jane, and Sarah. Jacob, Sarah, and Polly are dead ; John is a farmer, and lives in Indiana ; Hin- inn owns the old homestead, and is a farmer and large land- holder ; Henry lives in Missouri; Margaret married Abraham McCoy, farmer, trader in stock, &c .; balance of the girls live outside of the county ; Polly is dead; Sarah died in Fay- ette County, Nancy, wife of John Hopper, want to Indiana on a visit and died ; she was an excellent woman.
The following are the children of Benjamin Davis, omitted by Mrs. Ellen Davis in her record, but given in by Benjamin Davia, Jr. :
John, Biram, Joel, Zeruhable, Ester, Sarah, and Polly. Jolin was a fanner aud farmer; Hiram is a farmer, and the father of thirteen children; had five boys in the late war ; Joel, farmer ; Zerubabie is dead; girls all married; Sarah and Polly are dead.
WILLIAN SNYDER was an carly settler; he was a farmer abil wholesale stock shipper. John Sayder, brother to Wil- Viami, is dead ; was a farmer. William Snyder, Jr., lived on the old farm until 1868, and then sold out and moved to To pek4, Kansas.
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PERRY TOWNSHIP.
BY S. FISHER AND T. MOON.
This Township is one of the original Townships, -tales from the territory of Ross. It is well watered by the several bran- eles of Paint running through; the surface is generally level and very productive ; farmers wealthy and their improve- ments good and substantial. The following are the nap es of pioneer and early settlers handed in by Samuel Fisher, Faq , and T. Moon : Robert Irvin, farmer and surveyor; John King, a minister and served in the way of 1012, I was a farmer; John Orr, merchant and farmer; Samuel Edwards, farm- er and mill-wright, and was in the war of 1812; Robert Scott, a farmer and served as Justice of the Township two terms; Robert Anderson, farmer, was in the war of 1812; David Garriuger, carpenter; James Crothers, farmer; he served as an Associate Judge two terms; he was a man of talent and influence, and ably represented the County in the Legislature two terms; William S. Cockerill, farmer and school teacher. was in the war of 1812; John Priddy, a neat farmer and be- nevolent man; John Smith, farmer; Barnabas Cochran, farmer; Solomon Tracy, farmer, was in the war of 1812, a bravo man; Warner Tracy, & farmer; John Beard, farmer; Mathias Van- danno, farmer; he served as a soldier in the war of 1812, a man well known; Samuel Sollars, farmer; Conrad Goodright, farmer, was in the war of 1812; Samuel Mooney, former and was a Judge of the Court; Richard, Jacob and Alnar Tod- hunter, were all farmers and good neighbors; Robert Dyre, a farmer, and served Perry Township twenty-one years as Justice of the Peace, and Fayette County nine years sa a Com- missioner; he was a man of prominence; his constituents placed confidence in him; James Smith, Sr., was a neat farmer; Isaac Henderson, farmer and trader; William Ling's farmer and tanner: John Doster, Nathaniel Bonner, Isaac MicAdams aud Thomas Me Adams, were all successful and hardy farmers. Thomas Stout erected the first mill in Perry Towusbip; Jobu
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Christy was the Srst school teacher in the Township. The first Methodist class organized in Fayette County was held in John King's cabin; the class leader was the venerable Jobn King, father of Methodism in Fayette County. William Pierson and his father were farmers; Thomas Ellis, farmer and first cooper, was the founder of the village of Martinsburg. 'The first school-house in the Township was built on the farm of Robert Scott, Esq., the first church on the farm of Barna- Las Cochran; the first store was kept by Thomas Ellis, Jr., in Martinsburg; first house carpenter, David Garringer.
MOUNDS AND RELICS.
Large skeletons have been exhumed from an amient burial depot on the farm of William Bush; one was found in au up- right, erect position. There was, as late as 1811, on Indian camp near a large Sulphur Spring on the farm of Robert Scott, Esq., also a mound on the same farmu.
Cedar Bluff is a place of note, wild and romantic, called by the Indians Mollie's Leap. Cadar Pond is a deep water under the cliff's, surrounded by tall and majestic Cedar trees. It was in early days a place of great resort by noted and dar- ing linutere, a celebrated place for game. It was the property of Mathias Vandeman, who was the original owner, but has unp fallen into the hands of Anderson Iriom, Esq.
NAMES OF EARLY PIONEER HUNTERS.
George and Samuel Vipiger, James Stewart, John Hase, David Baldwin, John Gest and Hamer II. Harmer.
SECOND SETTLERS.
WILLIAM SMITH, tanner; John Orr, merchant and farmer, also stock dealer; Z. Bryant, farmer and blacksmith; Matthew Anderson, farmer and stock dealer; William Sturgeon, farmer and miller; William King, farmer, justice, school teacher atal minister; Elias Brakefield, William Merchant and John C. Capps, all successfal farmers; Sningol Hains, farmer, stock dealer, and breeder; Trustin Adama, large farmer and retired merchant, Anderson Irwin, Harrison Britton, Isaac Johnson,
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Jacob Brakefield and Nathan' Cory, are all enterprising farm- ers, stock dealers and importers; Alexander Beatty, farmer and wholesale stock merchant: Robert Templeton, farmer; William Bush, farmer, stock raiser and breeder; Robert Adams, farmer and laborer; Albert Adams, farmer: James Watt, George Meade, James Devoss, Louis Doster, Peter Stout, Wil- liam Eyre, Joseph Tracy, Thomas Cockerill and John Tod- hunter, farmers; Levi Ellis, Henry Lewis and Geshrow Der- dew, a retired merchant and nursery man, a useful mau in so- ciety; Richard Williams, stone cutter and merchant, the first of his ocupation, the most honest and honorable, is an en- terprising citizen and a useful man; Thomas Fishback, wheel- wright, a good mechanic; Amos Todhunter, a good practical tilier of the soil; Alfred Todhunter, a successful worker it good soil; Harman Ellis, farmer and school teacher, William Chew, farmer and a successful producer; Levi Tracy and San- uel Fisher, farmers.
ECHOOLS, CHURCHES, ETC.
The number of school-houses within the Township is nige; five are new and four rather on the old pioneer order. The number of churches, four, three Methodist and one Quaker, or sometimes called Friends. There is also one water mill on Main Paint, owned by William Sturgeon. There is one town or village, called New Martinsburg. It is a flourishing town, having three dry goods stores, one drug store, our gro- cery and two blacksmith shops, all doing a good business.
TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS-1870.
WM SMITH, John Todhunter and William Wauin, Trust- ees; Clerk, U. Ellis; Treasurer, Elmer Welchimer; Landview- er, H. Ellis; Constable, I. Reese; Assessor, HI. Reese; Jus- tices, W. A. King and R. E. Jones.
Physicians in Martinsburg are, Doctors Jones and Mormon, men of talent and succesful practitioners.
Perry Township claims to have the oldest citizens in the County. The following are their namos, a majority of whora have emigrated to the haven of repose: Richard Tolefero, age 96; E. C. Hans, 84; Jacob Todur, 80; John Beaty, 60; Peter
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Stout, 81; William Lancing, 97; Thomas Green, 85; Eli Goods, 98; E. Jones, 86; William Carson, 82; Phillip Stout, Sr., 87; Willliam Stout, 78; all serrved in the wars of the Revolution or 1812. William Gary, Reese Gary, Jonathan Hand, Thom- as Ellis, Solomon Reese, William Fyers, Jacob Kellen, W. Merchant and Lewis Goodnight, ages not reported; were, and ore, tillers and improvers of the soil and did their duty in subduing the forests of Fayette, and making fertile fields; they are, as the poet says:
"The mighty fathers of the West, Their arduous labors Heaven has blessed."
I am through with the names and records handed in by Mr. Samuel Fisher and Capt. Thomas Moon, who has recently
NEW MARTINSBURG DIRECTORY.
From the maps of Fayette County, 1967. Williams & Kred- ler, dry goods, grocers, hardware and notions, Main street; M. P. & T. K Perdue, dealers in nursery trees, flowers and shrubbery; J. S. Jones, physician and surgeon; Willam Eyre, Peter Stout, P. W. Smith. Mrs. Doster, Louis Doster, J.T. Dos- fer. Present settlers: II. S. Orr, A. V. Orr, W. HI. Orr, J. S Orr, Maithew Anderson, W. A. King, A. R. Iron, II. Britton, J. M. Johnson, Trustin Adams, S Tracy, F. A. Tracy, James Pridy, El Brakefield, Jefferson Brakefield, T. R. Cockerill, T. G Cookerili, James Smith, Barkiy Doster, J. P. Todhun- ter, A. R. Todbunter, Barney Eldrick, Wm. Eyre, Jabez Smith- Len. Kilis, John Fisher, Samuel Fisher, David W. Et- lis, Lewis Carson, George J. Booden, T. R. Perdue, Eli Coop- er, Joseph Walm, Joshua Walm, Ambrose Carson, William Carson, Alfred Todounter, William Jury, D. Brown, Elijah Doggett, Jacob Todhunter, HI. B. Lines, C. Doggett, N. Bales.
BALLAD TO JOE BROWN, AN EARLY PIONEER BAKER OF THE
NORTH WEST. Air-Am T a Soldier, etc. Joe Brown, he was a baker man. A baker minh was Jop, ile ne'er was known to want for aught, And yet he kneaded dough.
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To never cheat his customers, This man was early faught; And yet his loaves were always hght, Ifis pie crust rather short,
And he was generous hearted too, And kind unto the needy, And neut an tasty in his dress, Although his cakes were seedy.
With him none dare to bandy jokes, Whene'er be sought the marts, For well they knew his repartees, Were sharper than his tarts.
When age at last, o'ertook the nien, His form grew hent and sore, And like the cakes ho used to bake, His head was frosted o'er.
And when he died, alt mourned his LOSS With no sectarian bias, For he had been a friend to all, A good man and a pie-ous.
INS EPITAPH.
Beneath this crust of uphenved earth A pioneer baker lies, And like the rolls he used to mould, We hope at last he'll rise.
Len. Ellis, R. P. Ellis, John Peitsmeyer, Samuel Massie, Elijah Ellis, R. and T. Ellis, Jonathan Denton, Z. Smith, R. Ayers, James Cockerill. Joseph Doster, M. Doster, A. W. Carter, Thomas Cockerill, Lewis Doster, J. U Giller, M. Dates. Win. Line, J. D. Lucas, Samuel Crooks, E. W. Linee, James Bonnos, J. T. Bounor, William Taylor, F. Lucas, Joash Bonnor, Thomas MeLeory, Thomas Wallice, Joseph MoGregor, James McConnett, Burgess Ball. A. B. Adams, John Bush, A. Adams, JJ. Bush, widower; William Bush, C. Z. Nead, James Bush, A. Beatty, John Solars, George Monroe, James Devoss, Allen Sollars, William Rogers, Alexander Beaty, N. Corey, Teddy Ritter, N. Coffman, Hlirem Lines, A. Jones, Levi Brakefield, J. Brakefield, Jacob Brakefield, J. N. Johnson, M. Johnson, James Patterson, A. Walker, W. H. Scrill, Anderson Iron, Nathan Edwards, Ellas Tracy, M. Scott. N. Pope. Samuel Ficcer, W. A. King, Thomas Bedoss, A. Walker, William King, S. Coffman, John King, Z. Bry- ant, Benj. Tomple.
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BRIEF RECORD OF THE AUTHOR, -GEN. BUFUS PUTNAM.
BY REQUEST.
GEN. PUTNAM'S native home was Marietta; his father was the late Judge Putnam, of Putnam, Ohio; his grandfather, Gen. Rufus Putnam. Gen. Putnam served during the last war with England, as Major of martial music at Fort Zane, Capt. Herron, U. S. At the close of the war he went to live with his grandfather, with whom he lived until the death of the old pioneer, 1823. Daring his residence with the old General, he attended the Military Academy at West Point one terms, in 1821, Le cancelled in martiel music and manual of the sword ; ho returned home aud was appointed by Gen. Rey- nolds, Brig. Major, which honor he held until 1826, when he emigrated to Illinois, where he was re-appointed by Gen. Her- rick, to the same office, in which he continued until 1823, when he was appointed Adj't. Gen. of Illinois, by Gov. Rey- r.vids. He served in that office during Red Bird, the Chief's invasion of Prairie Du Chien. In 1829, he returned to Ohio, with Capt. Brubacker, a cattle merchant, of Clark County. Arriving in Springfield, he stopped with his brother, Rev. F. Putnam, one night and left the next day for Putnam, Ohio; being well pleased with Springfield ; after remaining a short time at home, he returned, and engaged as clerk in the store of P. Spinning and B. Brubacker; at the expiration of one year he returned home and engaged in the store of Bvebing. ham & Co., as salesman for one year, and then opened store in Putram. In 1832, be visited Springfield and married Miss Mary D. Hciskell, youngest daughter of John Heiskell, Esq .; returning home he continued in business one year, and moved to Dayton, and engaged in merchandising, farming etc. While in Montgomery County, he held several civil offices. In 1534, he sold out and moved to South Charleston, and entered in's business with Mr. Heiskell in selling goods. In 1835, he was appointed Major Gen. by Gov. Lucas, during the Bor- der war; ja 1839, he was appointed and commissioned, by Gov. Vante, Major General 5th Division O. M., which honor
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he held until 1838. In 1837, he was elected and comoissioned Col. 24 Infantry Regiment, 2d Brig., 5th Division O. M .; which honor he held until 1842, when he was appointed Col. of Cavalry, by Gov. Corwin. On June Ist, 1846, he tendered himselfand regiment to Gov. Beaty, for the prosecution of the Mexican war. He served several terms as Mayor of South Charleston. On the death of his father and mother in Put- nam, he moved to the old homestead, and entered into business with E. Elder, and kept the Post Office. His wife's health failing, he moved to Springfield, and engaged in business antil 1852, when he moved to Greenville, and purchased the Herald Office, where he and his son, J. HI. Putnam, conducted the office until the death of Mrs. Putuam, in 1854, when he sold out to his son, and moved to Licking County, aud heut in the sheep business, until 1857, when he took a Western trip, not returning to Newark. for three years. He was President of Foit Rowe Institute trom 1859 to 1862, and from 1862 to 1:35, General Instructor of Cavalry and Music, at Fort Rowe Institute, by Gov. Todd.
PROM HON. A STAGG'S SKETCHES.
GEN. PraNAM, by occupation a merchant, is thoroughly schooled in Military tactics; he has been commissioned by different Governors from Lieut. to a Major General. Judge Putnam, of Putnam, was his father, and General Putnam. who greatly distinguished Himself in the Revolution, his grandfath- er. Gen. Putnam is the father of three sous: John ;' .. Rufus and William R., all served as officers or soldiers in the last war. Gen. Putnam is the author of several pioneer works, and tales of backwoods adventures. B. W. C. & N. B .-- While on his Western tour; he was appointed by Gov. Medary, of Minnesota, Adj't. Gen., during the Spirit Lake war, 1857-8; and at Eaglesport, on the Muskingum, during Morgan's raid through southern Ohio, he Was chosen Chief Commander of the assembled militia forces there, to Icad the invader. He is now G. G. M. R. of the Pioneer As- soriation of Ohio, which was organized April 8, 1783. Con. Putnam from a child, has been an aspiring military character; as a martial musician he never had his superior; he may be called a natural musician.
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GEN. HARRISON.
GEN. HARRISON was quite a botanist ; one flower he pre- ferredl above all that adorned the prairie, -- the Mocasin flow - er, that grew on Paint bottoms at an early day ; a choice medi- cal herb by the Indians. The leaves were in the form of an Indian mocasin, its stalk like their war club, her Rower like the caps they used for water. The poet thus describes it :
THE MOCASIN FLOWER. I. Far off on the plains where the Buffalo roams, Where the gopher and prairie dog dig themselves holes ; Where the tempest tossed oaks in their majesty tower, Grows the belle of the Prairie -- the Mocasin flower.
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With no glaring color she dazzles the eye, Full often the traveler passes her by, But the creamiest salmon and pink is thy dower, The belle of the Prairie, -- the Mocasin Flower.
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Her home is in the West, and she loves it so well. That naught can repay her for breaking the speil. Remove her from thence, and she dies in an hour, The bolle of the Prairie,- the Mucasin Flower.
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As pure as a maiden in fancy and form, She bows, but she ne'er will yield to the stormì, And proudly she stands, though the tempest may lower, The Belle of the Prairie, -- the Mocasin flower,
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A waxon-veined cup she upholds on her stein, In wait for the dow,-God's most beautiful yeni -- She refreshes her heart with the gift of the shower, The belle of the Prairie,-the Mocasin Flower.
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The pioneer blesses the gentle eyed lass, That yeups through the wiry Buffalo grass, And naught och His rough, manly brow has power, Like the belle of the Prairie, -- the Mocasin Flower.
VII Then hail to the beauty and pride of the West, And long may she giadden the pioneer's breast, . None titter to blossom in Rovalty's bower, Than the belle of the Prairie, -- the Moonsin Flower.
FREDERICK BERLEY, chief' in Earl Dunmore's war, 1774 ; the Revolutionary war, 1776 and the Indian war of 1791. He he was a noted hunter ; his home in the deep forest, his lodg [ Sig. +]
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ing in caves, dens and rocks. He possessed a strong constitu- tion, suiting the times in which he lived ; a bermit by choice. One of his hunting camps was on the waters of Sugar Creek. He killed, during his life, according to his MSS. sixty bears ; ninety-six panthers ; one hundred and six wolves; one thou- sand elk and deer; eleven buffalo and ninety-six Indians. He often hunted with Kenton, Boone, Wolf, Boggs, Slover, Hughes and Weitzel. He died in his cabin, aged one hundred and one years, ou the waters of the Mohican, where the neigh- bors erected a monument to his memory. During his pro- tracted life, he run the gauntlet at Sandusky, Squawtown, and Oldtown, now Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio .- Ectract from Ross Pioncer Record.
From the Ross County Pioneeer Record .---
THE YEARS TO COME.
My transient hour, my little day, Is speeding fast away ; Already hath my sunimer sun Half its race of brightness run. Ah me! I hear the wintr'y blast,
My life of life will soon be past ; The Rush of youth will all be o'er,
The throb of joy will soon be oe'r,
And fancy, mistress of my lyre. My trembling heart,-prepare, prepare. For skies of gloom, thoughts of care,
Sorrows of wants will make thee weep, And fears of age will oe'r thee creen; Health that smiled in blooming pride, Will eease to warin thy sluggish tide; Tho shaft of pain, the point of woe, Will bid tho current cease to now. And, who, alas, shall then be nigh 'To soothe me with affection's sigh ; To press my feeble hand in their's, 'To plend for me in silent prayers, And cheer me with the hopes that shed,
Rapture co'r a dying bed. Days of the future, cease to roll,
Upon my wild affrighted soul
Mysterious fate, I will not look Within thy dark eventful book. Enough for meto feel and know, That love and hope must shortly go; "That joy will vanish, fancy fly, And death dissolve the closest tie. Ee'n now, while moans my pensive rhyme,
I list the warning voice of time. And oh ! this sigh, this start of fear, Tells me the night will soon bo bare,
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GEORGE ROUGUNER emigrated to the Scioto Valley about 1789, frem Virginia, and located on the South bank of Paint River. He was a fearless, brave man. He had a deadly ha- tred to the Indians. as they had killed his father in 1771, at Point Pleasant. His father was an Indian spy under Lord Dunmore ; he lived by bunting game, and would kill every straggling Indian that he could see. His hunting excursions were on the waters of Paint and Rattle Snake. One of his headquarters was at Cedar Pond and Cliffs, a noted place for bears, wolves and panthers; here he often met the famous and fearless hunters of Hocking and Kentucky. When the In- dian war of 1791 broke out, he became an Indian spy under Gen. Harmar; finding it unsafe to live unprotected, during a bloody war, in his cabin, he went to Fort Harmar. After dic treaty of Wayne with the Indians, in 1775, he went to Water- ford on the Muskingum, where he lived until the war of 1812, when he voluntered uneer Gen. Cass, and was killed by the Indians in 1813. S. Ross County P. R. 12.
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GREEN TOWNSHIP.
BY H. C. JOHNSON.
Organization of officers for 1871: Esquires, two-Robert S. Jones and Willisom Syford ; trustees, Robert Cox, Jonah Merchant, and Solomon Depoy ; treasurer, James W. Tracey ; clerk. Richard Woods; constable, R. M. Walm, assessor, W'm. Bordon.
First meeting-house creeted in 1836; denomination. V. M .; for 1871, three P. M. First school-house, 1819, on the banks or' the Little Wabash. The walls of said house were built of logs as nature hewed them ; roofed with clap-boards, nailed on with poles; seais made by splitting a pole into two equal paris; windows made by greasing paper and pasting it over the cracks where it would be most convenient for the scholars. School-houses for 1871-6 frame structures, with all the latest improvements for country school-houses. First store in 1835, kept by L. D. Vickers First blacksmith shop on the banks of Rattlesnake, in 1833; Wm. Merchant was the proprietor. First hotel, kept by John Rowe, in 1838. First dis- Allery ia 1818, run by Thomas Moon, Sr .; second ir. 1840, owned by Abraham Crispin. First shoemaker, David Brad- shaw, 1817. First school teacher, Ebenezer Christy, 1819. First preacher, Robert Dobbins, 1815. First doctor, Zinr- merman, a half-breed Indian, 1810. First wagon-maker, Abram Bush.
Green Township was laid out in 1810; it then covered the territory where Perry, Concord, and Jasper Townships now are, they having been taken from it since then. The soll of the township is mostly a black loam, and is very productive for corn and whoat where it is drained. At present, 1871, there are about 100,000 rods of secret drains. The streams running through the township are: Lee's creek, Rattlesnake; Wabash, and MeCoy's run.
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RECORD OF T. G. JOHNSON.
WILLIAM JOHNSON emigrated from Virginia io Ross County in 1810, in company with Judge MeCracken, and settled in Hellard's Bottom, on Paint creek. His family consisted of a wife and one child; he remained there until the spring of 1816, by which time their family had increased to four- Auna, Thomas, George, Sarah, and William Henry. While John D. Johnson was in Ross, the war of 1812 was declared, and he enlisted and served two tours under Gonerai Beatal Harrison, and served his third tour under General William H. Harrison in 1814. He moved in 1816 to Fayette County, theu a frontier, and settled in Green Township. He pur- chased 100 acres of land from Jesse Rowe, Jr., on which he located and improved. In 1830 he added 200, and in 1832 he added 120 acres. He died in 1833. When he arrived in Fayette County in 1816, he was, already stated, the father of five children, and before he died he was the father of thirteen. The following are the names of the rest : George, Sophia. Otho. Isaac M., James H., Eliza Jane, Caleb If., and Mary HI. He held several township offices, such as trustee, supervisor, school director, &c. Thomas Johnson, oldest son of William, was five years old when he came to Green Township; the whole country was almost an unbroken wilderness, inhabited by Iodians and game of every species ; the Indians would pass through his father's field, crossing fences, and adbereing to their ancient trails. Deer were plenty ; he says he bas seen twenty in one gang. Bears would occasionally pass through the vicinity. Wolves were plenty ; he says he has seen eight in a gang. Turkey and other smaller game was in abundance. Hle lived with his father, working on the farm until he was hear 20 years old, when he entered as an appren- tice with % W. Hogler, of Washington, to learn the cabinet trade ; he lived with Hegler two years, and learned his trade, and then continued to work more or less until he was mar- ried, which was in his 23d year. His wife's name was Amelia Beeler, the daughter of George Beeler, who was in the war of 1812. Mr. Johnsoy, soon after his marriage, rented a farm on Sugar oreek, where he remained one year, and then por-
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