USA > Ohio > Ross County > Pioneer record and reminiscences of the early settlers and settlement of Ross County, Ohio > Part 9
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13
Pioneer Record of Ross County, Ohio.
Pioneer Names, etc., by Michael Beaver, Jr.
Michael Beaver, Sen., emigrated to Ross county from Vir- ginia in 1800. His family consisted of Michael, Joseph, Eliza, Susan, and Elias. He purchased a section of the military land on Deer creek. He served in the Revolutionary war, and his son Michael in the war of 1812. The wife of the latter died in 1860, aged seventy-nine years. Peter Jackson was a justice for several terms, and had been in the Revolutionary war. John Baker, John Kirkendal, and Stephen Timmons. The latter was the first Methodist preacher, in 1796. William Noble still lives, at the age of eighty-eight years. A. Davenport. B. Rhine- hart's sons, John, Jacob, Henry, and Abel, are prominent and useful citizens. They were early settlers, having come in 1796. Jacob was a captain in the war of 1812, and his brothers were all members of his company. Abner and Benj. Kerns were drovers in the war of 1812. Colonel John Mace and Andrew Mace were sons of Jacob Mace, an early pioneer. This family have occupied prominent positions in civil and military affairs. J. S. Mace is now sheriff of Ross county. He is a man of in- fluence and an efficient officer. John Thompson, Jesse Grimes, Hezekiah Ingham, Isaac Ingham, and James Whitesides were in the war of 1812. George Bennett was the first blacksmith, and Len. Warner the first potter. William and Isaac Warner were carpenters. The Warner family were Quakers. Philip Mencil was a captain in Colonel Clark's regiment. This regi- ment was mustered out in 1813, on the farm of M. Beaver, on Deer creek. Anson Watts, who was also in that war, is still living, eighty-five years of age.
Ancient Works.
On Mrs. Steel's farm is a large earthwork, with two miles of wall, several large mounds, squares, gateways, and bastions. There is a circle on Mr. George Shearer's farm a mile long, with embankments six feet high. There is a large mound and circular fort on Mr. Wood's farm.
109
Harrison Township.
Harrison Township.
Township Officers.
James T. Search and Hiram Creamer, Justices ; Frederick Wheeland, L. Freeman, and John Strauser, Trustees; Samuel Nichols, Treasurer; James Search, Assessor; Warren Walters, Clerk.
On the east side of Walnut creek, adjoining Hocking county, the country is mountainous, with narrow valleys be- tween. The prominent sugar-loaf peaks, covered with the evergreen spruce and cedar, were as late as 1805 famous hunt- ing grounds for bear, panthers, wolves, wild cats, foxes, elk, deer, wild turkeys, and smaller game. Black, racer, copper- head, rattle, and garter snakes were very abundant. Mr. Han- son killed a racer which was sixteen feet long. Big Foot, the Indian chief, called this the bad ground-the habitation of bad spirits. It was considered unsafe to travel through it either on foot or horseback unarmed. It was a noted hunting park for both the Indians and the white hunters. The township is thickly settled along the valleys of Walnut and Sugar creeks. The high hills are too steep to cultivate, and the soil too poor to produce profitable crops. Walnut creek is twenty miles long, rising in Colerain and emptying into Scioto river.
Early Settlers.
Samuel Hanson and family, who emigrated in 1798; Louis Graves, George Stanhope, James and Bennett Arinesly, Joseph Vangrundy, George Bishop, Daniel Ream, Anthony Raypole, John Lewis, Joseph Farmer, George and John Robuck, Wil- liam Johnson, Andrew Thompson, William Lockard, John Ort- man, Stephen Ross, Thomas Hanks, James Carothers, and Samuel Nichols were all carly pioneers of Harrison township.
IIO
Pioneer Record of Ross County, Ohio.
The following were in the service during the war of 1812 : Colonel Wm. Johnson, Captain Abram Moore, Major Abraham Lewis, Drum-Major John Ortman, Lieutenant George Stan- hope, Edward Satts, Abner and Thomas Ezra, Joseph Van- grundy ; Samuel Moore, still living, aged eighty-eight years; Joseph Moore, John Young, Joseph and John Hanks, Daniel Ulm, A. Raple, Lawrence Russell, and Hugh Dalahan.
Mr. Aaron Syms informs us that the great abundance of game in this region drew to it daring hunters from all parts of the country, and especially Kentucky. Major A. McClundy, the companion of Boone and Kenton, visited this region in 1778, and made his headquarters at the old earth fort. The second day after he arrived his dog Sago started up a mon- strous he-bear, and immediately attacked it. The bear seized the dog, and started off with him, hugging him with a tight grasp. The major followed, and when near enough to shoot without injuring the dog, fired, but only wounded the bear. The enraged animal now dropped the dog, and made a des- perate attack on McClundy, who, after a severe, close fight, succeeded in killing him with his knife. During a hunt of ten days on the waters of Walnut and Salt creeks, McClundy killed thirteen bears, nine wolves, six panthers, and three wild cats, besides other game.
III
Springfield Township.
Springfield Township.
Township Officers.
Joseph Smith and Aaron Elliott, Justices ; Leonard Moore, Andrew J. Cryder, and Thomas McNeal, Trustees; Warren Senff, Assessor ; Joshua Seney, Treasurer ; Jacob Cryder, Land Appraiser.
Early Settlers-East Springfield.
In 1805, Thomas and John Arthurs, and Thomas McNeal, Sen., emigrated from Brooke county, Virginia, and settled in East Springfield. Thomas Arthurs' family consisted of two sons and one daughter. Samuel, the eldest son, served in the war of 1812; Thomas, the other son, was a lieutenant in Cap- tain Wall's company ; they are both living. Mr. McNeal's father came from Scotland, and was a lieutenant in the Indian wars after the Revolution. All of the family moved West, with the exception of Thomas, his oldest son, who is still a resident of this township, and all are now dead; their names were Nancy, William, Samuel, and Jonathan. Thomas is now eighty years of age, and has served his township as trustee and justice several times.
The Indian traces were plain in this region in 1805, and many arrow heads and stone axes are yet picked up in the fields. Mr. McNeal says he has often counted as many as eighty Indians in a squad, passing through from Old Town to Salt and Raccoon creeks to obtain lead and hunt. They gener- ally returned with their pouches full and their horses loaded.
Many of the early pioneers were noted hunters. Garrett Boots, Philip Walden, Elisha Carpenter, Henry Hershaw,
II2
Pioneer Record of Ross County, Ohio.
Joseph Taylor, Martin Overly, C. Neff, George Boots, Leslie Malone, Daniel Ducher, John Cummins, James Caruthers, Wil- liam Pendleton, James Useley, and B. McNeal were all famous hunters and trappers.
The following are the pioneers who came to this township before the war of 1812 :
Adam, Alexander, and Joel McClintie; T. Jones, Samuel Hershaw, Benjamin Deamons, Amos Taylor, Daniel Armstrong; Zachariah, Isaac, and Samuel Welsh; James and Samuel Kil- gore, Andrew Young, Thomas Wilkins, Caleb and William Odell, Joseph Harness, Felix Renick; James, Henry, and A. Cartwright; Philip Argrebright, Jacob Shane, Geo. Pat- more, Thomas Orr, William Zebulan, Thomas Hanks, Zachariah Linton, Hugh and Michael Dalihan, Benjamin Carnes, Philip and Stephen Roos, Aaron Doll, Peter Yeaker, James Redman, Francis and Richard Malone, Leonard Neff, Edward Satts, R. Murphy, A. Claypool, and Benjamin Hilton.
Colonel Sifford, a resident of West Springfield, though not a pioneer, was an early settler, and a man of influence and enterprise. He is now a representative from Ross county, and has served as United States marshal, county surveyor, and commissioner, and has held other important trusts.
The first duel (so called) fought in the Scioto Valley was in 1793. While the pioneers were exposed to the attacks of Indians, a stockade fort was maintained at the old station on the Scioto as a place of retreat. One morning, John Vanasaw, a noted hunter, shortly after leaving the fort on a hunt, saw an Indian rise from an ambush, decked and painted in war cos- tume. Both raised their rifles to their shoulders at the same time, and fired. The Indian fell, and Vanasaw, fearing there might be other Indians about, returned to the fort and reported his duel.
Casper Senff, grandfather of Michael Senff, emigrated from Germany in 1773. He was a king's hunter, and served as a spy in the Revolution. Michael came to Ohio in 1803, served in the war of 1812, and died in 1845. His sons were Michael,
II3
Springfield Township.
Jr., Jesse, Andrew, George, and John. Michael, Jr., owns the old farm, and is a great fruit grower.
There are two streams in East Springfield, Dry run and Lick run, and one sulphur spring.
Early Settlers-West Springfield.
Michael Cryder, Sen., served as commissary in the Revolu- tionary war, and emigrated to the Scioto Valley in 1796. He brought with him his wife and six sons, John, Henry, Michael, Emanuel, Jacob, and Daniel, all remarkable for their size and physical strength. They settled in what is now West Spring- field ; all are now dead, and few of their descendants living. About the same time, Henry Musselman came from Kentucky to the Scioto, and erected the first mill on the river, for many years the resort of all the neighboring settlers. He was one of the first justices in the valley, and owned the land where Hope- town stands, and gave it that name. He died at the age of eighty-five years. Jacob Mace and John Cryder emigrated in 1788; were relations of Michael Cryder; some of their descend- ants are still living. Jacob Weider came from Pennsylvania in 1799, and settled near Hopetown, where he lived and died, aged eighty-eight years. His family are all dead or gone West, except Mrs. Julia Downs, who still lives in the township. Mr. Weider was proprietor of a tavern and distillery at Barley Forks, now Hopetown. Frederick Overly came to the Scioto Valley in 1797, and his son John still lives on the old farm. Barton Overly came at the same time. Zachariah Jones came to Scioto in 1798, and is still living, in the one hundredth year of his age. Alexander, Samuel, and Daniel McRoberts, Archi- bald McFarland, George Wheeland, and Philip Hines emigrated in 1800. Zachariah Jones, Samuel McRoberts, David Cryder, and Jacob and Isaac Imnell served in the war of 1812.
Ancient Works.
In Springfield township are many old forts, mounds, and circles. One fort, containing some twenty acres, has walls ten
114
Pioneer Record of Ross County, Opio.
feet high, with gateways on three sides. The north side is inclosed by a circular embankment not quite so high. The gateway on the south side has two embankments, forty fcet apart, reaching down to the river. At a number of places in the inclosure, holes in the earth seem to indicate where wells had been dug. Many axes, arrow heads, animal teeth, etc., have been found here.
The celebrated Mount Logan is in this township, overlook- ing the Scioto river and Chillicothe. It was named after the celebrated Mingo chief, Logan, and is a great resort for celebra- tions, picnics, etc. The view from it is one of the finest in the valley.
115
Green Township.
Green Township.
Before Pickaway county was organized, Green township took in all the Indian towns on Sippo and Congo creeks. Major John Boggs' land was all in Ross county until Pickaway was organized. He was an early pioneer to the valley, having emi- grated from Pennsylvania in 1796. His father, Captain John Boggs, served during the Revolution, and at the close of the war he moved and settled at the mouth of Boggs run, opposite Boggs Island, below Wheeling, on the Ohio river. He raised his family here until 1798, when he sold his land and descended the Ohio to Portsmouth. He then ascended the Scioto in a keel-boat to the station near Chillicothe. From there he trav- eled on foot to look after land. After traversing the valleys of the Scioto, he selected his land at the foot of the Pickaway plains, now known as the Crouse and Renick farms, and erected his cabin near the elm tree, noted as the spot where Logan delivered his celebrated speech in 1774. John Boggs, Jr., went back to Wheeling and married, and returned to his new home, where he cleared the land given him by his father. In 1803 he shipped the first flat-boat of flour to New Orleans. When the war broke out in 1812 he went as captain, but was soon promoted and served during the war as major. He lost his first wife, and married, for his second, the widow of Captain James Taylor, of Zanesville, Ohio, and died soon after his return to his old home. He was the last of the first pioneers on the plains, and was the father of nine children-William, Martha, Lemuel, John, Nancy, Moses, Lydia, James, and Sid- ney. James is the present owner of the farm, and has erected a circular board fence around the Logan trec. The
II6
Pioneer Record of Ross County, Ohio.
farm is dotted with ancient mounds. One, on the north bank of Congo creek, measures one thousand feet around and is thirty feet high. On the land entered by Captain Boggs, in 1796, were the Indian towns called Squaw Town, Cornstalk Town, and Black Mount, all on Sippo creek.
James Boggs, son of Major Boggs, was killed by the Indians while on a hunting excursion with several young men on the Stillwater. William Boggs, brother to the Major, was taken prisoner by the Indians in 1793, and kept as such until Wayne's treaty with them at Fort Greenville in 1795, when he was released and sent home. On his arrival there he was dressed in Indian costume, and his father did not know him at first sight. He left, but returned next day and made himself known, and, like the Prodigal Son, was kindly received by his father, who exclaimed, " This, my son, who was lost, now is found ; was dead, but now is alive."
John Boggs was an Indian spy, and well known by them ; they often waylaid him in order to get his scalp, and disliked him because he was a brave, fearless scout and forest ranger. They often made William run the gauntlet, and on one occasion he had to run seventy five yards and jump into a hut, in the door of which they had placed a large squaw to keep him out; but he, knowing what he had to do, started, and was pushed very hard, the squaw standing in the door. He struck her with his head, and knocked her clear across the cabin and almost killed her, the Indians laughing themselves almost to death at her expense and calling him a brave man.
The following names of early pioneers were handed in by Rebecca Wolf, daughter of Captain Wolf, who was eleven years old when her father settled on Congo creek in 1796 : James Burns was in Hull's surrender. Mark Clark, John Shark, David and Samuel Demery, George Fry, Thomas Single, and William and Matthew Ferguson were all farmers, and served in the war of 1812. John Crouse built the first mill on Kini- kinick creek, and was a man of enterprise and a useful citizen. John Clernson, the first postmaster, died aged ninety years.
II7
Green Township.
Dr. Edward Ostrander was the first physician. Hugh Little was in the Revolution in 1776. John Liebery, Daniel Godman, J. Entricher, John Saxe, Thomas McGrody, William Dresback, John Eyestone, Benjamin Mark, J. Hedge, Elias Moore, Benja- min Steel, Samuel Evans, Dr. Shannon, W. S. French, J. Pep- per, O. Justice, Abram Jones, John Gay, George Smith, M. Morgan, M. Price, Samuel Forkins, William McCoy, James Rogers, J. Bardles, were all early pioneers. M. Ferguson was the first distiller, and Henry Neil the first merchant. Hugh Forseman, James Torbett, William Beston, John and Joseph Creston, Samuel Knox, David Hare, John and James McMur- phy, William Snodgrass, J. Young, Jacob and John Sailor, Caleb, James H., and J. Bush, George, James, and M. Ricke, George Frybark, Thomas Duncan, John McDonald (Indian trader), Isaac, Richard, and James Morris, Henry Hueston, Thomas Emerson, Thomas Barr, David Thomas, Abram Claypole, Isaac Brink, Jacob Leeding, E. Reed, D. Stark, John Snider, B. Midshere, L. Steely, James Burns, Eli Maschell, John Grimes, A. Jones, and Thomas Lingeral were in the war of 1812. H. May, A. Pontious, N. Wilson ; M. Slipes, the first mail car- rier ; William Hamilton ; C. Dennison, the first tavern keeper ; Samuel Hill, John Dresback, M. Gruger, M. Godrich, Jacob Wagner, John Young, Henry Bell. The above-named first pioneers were brave and hardy men, a majority of whom were farmers. But few are now living. Perhaps Rebecca is the last of the pioneers of 1796.
Captain George Wolf emigrated with his father's family to the Pickaway plains in 1796. Captain Philip Wolf was an Indian spy during the Revolutionary war. After arriving at the plains they entered their land on Congo creek, on the tract on which Colonel Lewis camped in 1774. George Wolf went out as captain of a mounted rifle company, and marched to Upper Sandusky. After the close of the war he returned home and cultivated his farm till 1859, when he died. His second wife is still living. Captain Philip Wolf was the father of nine children-Mary, George, John, Elizabeth, Joseph, Rebecca,
I18
Pioneer Record of Ross County, Ohio.
Catherine, James, and John. Rebecca Wolf is the only one of the family now living. She lives on the old farm, and never was married. Franklin Wolf, son of George, is living on the part of the old farm where Colonel Lewis camped. Captain Wolf's children by his first wife were Mahala, born in 1804; Elitha, born in 1808; John, born in 1810; George, born in 1812; Harrison, born in 1813; Emerson, born in 1815; Frank- lin, by his second wife, in 1835. Mrs. Captain George Wolf is now living in Kingston; she is seventy-three years old, but enjoys good health and good company.
On the farm of the late Captain Philip Wolf, near the waters of Congo creek, is the place where the Indians got their lead. The mine has not been found, but large pieces of lead have been picked up. In 1860 Henry Wrench found a piece weighing over a pound, nine-tenths of which were pure lead. The mine is supposed to b'e within the limits of Colonel Lewis' encampment on the waters of the Congo, which flows through a fertile valley and empties into the Scioto. In this valley is supposed to exist one of the richest veins of lead in the State. A celebrated chief among the Delawares proposed to discover the mine to Philip Wolf for a given sum, but he declined the offer. Along Congo creek was the Indian trail. Starting at Old Town, it went in a southeast direction to Grandier Squaw Town. It left Black Mount and Cornstalk Town to the north. Both these towns were situated at the foot of the plains. The Indian trail, after passing through Camp Lewis, went on to Mount Logan, and from there to Fort Gower on the Ohio.
On the land of William Snodgrass was the Indian grave- yard. It is a mound one hundred and fifty feet in circumfer- ence and fifteen feet high. . It was dug into by John Young in 1830, and skeletons exhumed. The mound is half a mile south of Colonel Lewis' camp, and close by the ancient Indian trail leading from Old Town to Fort Gower.
Captain Slover was taken prisoner at Crawford's defeat, and was condemned to be burned at the stake; but through a kind Providence, he was released and made his escape. He
119
Green Township.
was confined in a death-house at Grandier Squaw Town, with two Indians to guard him. He loosened his bonds while the sentinels slept, got out of his cell, stole an Indian pony, and made his escape to Wheeling. He told the people of Wheeling that it was the best pony he ever rode ; he never parted with it. Colonel Lewis expected to give the Indians battle at their towns on the waters of the Sippo and Congo, but the second conflict was prevented, Governor Dunmore overtaking Colonel Lewis in person, and turning him back when the Colonel was in sight of these towns.
Captain William McMeahen, a Revolutionary veteran of Virginia, had two horses stolen by the Indians. He got on their trail and followed them to Squaw Town, where he saw his horses. The Indians were out on a circle hunt, but he met a squaw that could talk broken English, who told him where the horses were, but advised him not to take them, as the Indians would kill him. She concealed him in her cabin and fed him until the Indians returned home. She then made a way for his escape. When he arrived at Wheeling his wife had gone home to her father, believing that he had been killed by the Indians. He told the people that he had never seen so fine a country ; that the scenery and the richness of the soil sur- passed all description, and that he was impressed with the belief that some of his posterity would, at no distant day, become occupants of those fertile plains and beautiful and wide-spread valleys on the Scioto, and his impressions were verified. The widow of Major Boggs was his daughter.
120
Pioneer Record of Ross County, Ohio.
Concord Township.
The territory of Concord may, in truth, be called classic ground. Here, for past ages, the different Northwestern tribes of Indians annually met to hold their convocations; here once burned their council fires; here the clear, shrill voices of their chiefs, braves, and orators could be heard; here was their ancient home in times of war and peace-Old Chillicothe. But they have disappeared. Old Town, their ancient metropolis, has passed into the hands of the pale faces, and is now called Frankfort. Concord township is generally level, and the soil rich and productive. It is watered by the North fork of Paint creek and its tributaries. Harrod branch and Old Town run are the principal branches in the township. Paint creek de- rived its name from a Delaware chief; it heads in Madison county, flows through a fertile valley, and empties into Paint river near Chillicothe. At Old Town the allied tribes collected in 1774, marched forth and met Colonel Lewis, and fought the memorable battle of Point Pleasant, and after their defeat in this battle, they returned to these fields, collected their forces, and took their stand at Old Chillicothe. This was their strong position in their mode of warfare, and here they prepared themselves in anticipation of the enemy, or "Long Knives," to make a desperate struggle for their country and their town. The second conflict was prevented by Earl Dunmore cross- ing the Pickaway plains from Camp Charlotte and heading Colonel Lewis, when the Colonel and his royal army had ar- rived in sight of two of their towns on the east side of the Scioto and on the east side of Congo creek. Here, in person, Governor Dunmore turned Lewis back, he having made a
I2I
Concord Township.
treaty with the chiefs and agents under a large elm tree, the spot where Logan delivered his celebrated speech. This tree was fenced in, and is carefully cared for by James Boggs, the grandson of Captain John Boggs, the original owner of the noted farm and son of the late Major John Boggs.
Records of Pioneers.
Dr. D. Miller, grandfather of Dr. D. A. Miller, was a sur- geon during the Revolutionary war under General Rufus Put- nam, and witnessed the battles of Brandywine and Cowpens. John Miller, his son, was born in Maine, and emigrated to Marietta in 1806, and settled on one of General Putnam's farms on the Muskingum. He moved to Athens in 1810, and in 1812 he, with his company, was ordered out in the general call. He was a noted hunter. Daniel A. Miller, his son, an early emi- grant to the Scioto Valley, resides in Roxabell, and is a suc- cessful magnetic physician.
The following names of early pioneers were handed in by Dr. Miller: Hon. Jesse P. Shepherd, a merchant; he repre- sented Ross county in the legislature, and made a good mem- ber. Jacob Pancake, the first innkeeper, was very popular and extensively known; he is now living retired on his farm. Jacob Fisher emigrated in 1800; a farmer. Jacob Fisher, Jr., a farmer and hunter; killed a she-bear and three cubs on his own farm, and also a large panther and other game; he was a Presby- terian, a good man, useful citizen, and much beloved. Jacob Briggs was an carly pioneer; a large farmer; a Presbyterian; a man of enterprise and energy. Captain Harrod, an early pioneer to Ross county, by occupation a farmer ; he was a cap- tain of militia. His brother, General Harrod, was in the war of 1812; his father, Major Harrod, was in the war of 1776, also under St. Clair in 1791. Captain Thomas Harrod was killed by the Indians while plowing his corn near the mouth of a tribu- tary of Paint creek. The creek from that time was called Har- rod's creek. A company of men pursued the Indians to Old
122
Pioneer Record of Ross County, Ohio.
Town, on the Little Miami, but did not overtake them. On their return they fired at game, which so terrified the settlers that they all retreated to block-houses. The Indians, in 1773, took Colonel Daniel Boone prisoner near the Three Islands, and got him within seven miles of Old Town, when he escaped. General Simon Kenton and Captain Slover run the gauntlet at Old Town in 1788, also at Squaw Grandier and Cornstalk Towns. Captain Wesley McGinnis, Lieutenant John Westhart, Captain H. Mener, and David Carr run the gauntlet in Old Town in 1794. Westhart, who died at Watertown, said Old Town, in 1794, had over one hundred wigwams in it. Captain Slover says in 1783 it had some two hundred cabins and huts. Samuel Willy and J. Johnson were the first constables; David Anderson, first treasurer and clerk of Concord ; James Souther- land and Fletcher Goldsberg were early pioneers and useful men. F. Wells says Captain Thomas Harrod was killed by a white man in 1802, and was buried at the mouth of now Har- rod's creek, near the Bloomington road. Benjamin Goldsberg, who served in the war of 1812, under Colonel Wm. Clark. Robert and James Stewart, A. Robison, Berry Sane, and Benja- min Sane, aged ninety, who killed three bears in 1798, and Peter Shannon, were all in the war of 1812; Robert Galbreth, first merchant, T. Rittenhouse, second ; John and H. Haynes, Mor- ris and Wm. Latta, and John Fetters were all farmers; Rev. R. Finley, first M. E. preacher; Rev. J. Carothers, first Presbyterian preacher. Adam Mallow was a major, and H. Mallow a captain, in the war of 1812. F. Mills, Esq., aged seventy-three, J. W. Connel, Charles and Samuel Briggs, Samuel Johnson, Henry McAdam, Wm. and James Cochran, Isaac Pancake, Wm. Rows, Robert Stiner, Wm. Anderson, Wm. Cupper, G. and William Haws, John Bush, Isaac Story, Charles and N. Primit, Wm. Dixon, and T. McBolster were all farmers and stock merchants. Mrs. Mary Branick is one hundred and eight years old, lives three miles north of Frankfort, blind and very feeble; her husband, Nehemiah Branick, and his brother Philamon, were
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.