The History of Miami County, Ohio, Part 109

Author: W. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1880
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Number of Pages: 1051

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D. A. YOUNCE, physician, Covington ; is a son of Abraham Younce, & Ger- man Baptist minister, and a native of this county, now residing in Preble Co., Ohio, who has been preaching for forty years. The subject of this sketch was born June 2, 1837, in this county, and was reared a farmer, having a common-school educa- tion ; after he attained his manhood, he followed farming for eight years; while lifting a heavy box, he broke a ligament in his hip, by which he lost the entire use of his leg; a kind friend prescribed a remedy, and, by adding several oils, he effected a cure ; during his lameness, he began the study of medicine; by the addition of several more oils, he effected many great cures ; he is the patentee of D. & A. Younce's Indian Cure Oil, which is sold in seventeen different States be- sides his own ; he treats all chronic diseases. He married Miss Catharine Westfall, and their children are-Sarah A., Rosetta, Mary Ida, Elizabeth J., Martha E., Davis E., R. Delley, Belle, Clara A. and William C.

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ENOCH BEERY, farmer ; born in Fairfield Co. Ohio, in 1823 ; is the son of Isaac Beery. a native of Rockingham Co., Va., whence he emigrated to Fair- field Co., Ohio, in 1806; he entered a quarter-section of land, erected the pio- neer log cabin and established a home in the wilderness ; bear's meat and corn bread furnished a large portion of his daily food. He was a minister in the Ger- man Baptist Church twenty-five or thirty years, traveling on horseback and on foot over Fairfield, Hocking and Perry Cos. He married Mary Cradlebaugh, of Lan- caster Co., Penn. ; seven sons and five daughters were reared on the same place ; Isaac B. died in 1851, aged 74 years, and his wife in 1850, aged 65 years. Enoch was reared on a farm, and farming is his life's occupation, in which he takes much pride ; he may be considered an enterprising and successful farmer. He has been twice married ; first, to Mary Hatfield, in 1849, who was born in Union Town- ship ; she died in 1869, a faithful member of the German Baptist Church. He married, in 1870, Mary J., daughter of Jonathan Coate, a son of James, and grand- son of Marmaduke ; Jonathan was one of the prominent and enterprising citizens of Newton Township ; he served twelve years as Commissioner of Miami Co., and was an active member of the Friends' Society ; at one time was sent before the State Legislature to ask them to exempt the Quakers from military service in the late war ; he died May, 1872 ; was married three times, and had a family of thir- teen children. Enoch B. had seven children by his first, and one by his second, union, one dying in infancy. Mrs. B. had two children by her marriage with Mr. Coate. Mr. B. and wife are faithful members of the German Baptist Church, in which he has been a Deacon for nearly thirty years.

RICHARD W. BRANDON, farmer ; P. O. Laura; was born in Newton Township in 1836, and is the son of I. P. and grandson of Richard Brandon, an early settler of this county. Richard's father came from Ireland at an early day and located in Virginia, where Richard was born, and married to Anna Piersol in 1809 ; she still survives and is deserving of more than a passing notice ; she was born in Loudoun Co., Va., April 18, 1788 ; her father, born in England, came to Vir- ginia when only 6 years old, and served in the war of 1776, with a Virginia regi- ment. Anna was twice married, and had eleven children. Isaiah, father of our subject, was the oldest child, and was born in Bourbon Co., Ky., May 6, 1810; when 16 years old he came to Miami Co., where his death occurred Feb. 1, 1878. He married Sarah, daughter of Amos Hall, of Carolina; six sons and six daughters were the issue of this union ; all grew up, were married, and living till within a year, when the oldest daughter, Martha, died. The spirit of 1876 had a well-marked outcrop in the fourth generation in the late war, which received five of the sons, and four of the sons-in-law, all entering the service as members of Co. B, 71st O. V. L, and all as privates but H. K. McConnell, who had a Second Lieutenant's re- cruiting commission ; when mustered out, the sons' ranks were R. W., First Corporal; Samuel, First Lieutenant ; Amos, Brevet Major ; E. R. and I. V., Privates ; the ranks of the sons-in-law, H. K. McConnell, Brevet Brigadier General ; A. E. Dun- can, Assistant Surgeon ; William McConnell, First Lieutenant; John R. Johnson, Sergeant ; all returned home ; they participated in the battle of Shiloh, Jonesboro, latter part of siege of Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, two days' fight at Franklin, Nash- ville, Tenn., numerous skirmishes, and, at close of war, were sent into Texas, where they suffered severely by change of climate. Richard, our subject, was married in 1855 to Mary A., daughter of John McConnell, of Ireland, who came to this country when about 4 years old with his father. Of the eleven children born to this union, two have died.

WILLIAM H. CADWALLADER, farmer and teacher ; P. O. Pleasant Hill ; he was born in Adams Co. in 1844, and was a son of John Cadwallader, who was

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born in Bedford Co., Va., Dec. 31, 1799 ; he emigrating first to the Kanawha Salt Works, where he remained about two years, and then came to this State ; he located first in Highland Co., in which and Adams joining, he lived till he came to this county in the fall of 1856 ; he settled here on the southwest portion of Sec. 13, and in this township passed the remainder of his life, his death occurring April 2, 1879, aged 79 years 3 months and 2 days ; he was a minister of the German Baptist Church for fifty-five years, and during the latter five years of his life was a min- ister of the Congregational Brethren Church of Pleasant Hill, of which he was the founder ; he was a man who taught the principles of Christianity, not only by pre- cept, but by his daily walk, and his death was a loss to the church and community. He was married to Anna King about 1823 ; she was born in 1801 in Virginia, she moved to Highland Co., Ohio, with her parents, when she was quite small ; her death occurred July 25, 1864, or 1865; six sons and four daughters were the issue of this union. The subject of this sketch is the ninth child of the family, and was reared on the farm ; his early education was received in the common school of his day, and so well did he improve his time, that he qualified himself for the profes- sion of teaching, which he entered about 1865 ; this profession he has since con- tinued during the winter months, devoting his summers to farming; he finds his political creed in the Republican party, and his religious creed in the Congre- gational Brethren Church, of which he is Secretary.

JAMES H. CALDWELL, farmer ; P. O. Bradford ; born on his present farm in 1841 ; is the son of James, who was born in Pennsylvania, June 8, 1798, and was the son of Stephen and Margaret C. The former died in 1801 at the age of 42. James, Sr., followed smithing his entire life ; he emigrated to Ohio about 1832 or 1833, and located first in Darke Co. In 1835 or 1836, he purchased the quarter-section in the extreme northwest angle of Newton Township ; here he died in 1861 at the age of 63 years. He married Hannah Bouey, born in Emmetsburg, Md., in 1814, who bore him two sons and three daughters; two sons and one daughter deceased. Hannah Caldwell died when J. H. C. was a small child. The subject of this sketch, is the youngest of the family ; he has made farming his life occupation. In this pursuit he is a success ; he combines industry with skill and experience ; integrity being the ruling principle in all his business transactions. He finds his political creed in the Republican party, in which he is an ardent worker. In religion, he and his wife belong to the Christian Church. Mr. Caldwell has served the people as Township Trustee, dis- charging his duties with fidelity and zeal. He married in 1861, Eunice M., daughter of Joseph Pearson (see biography of F. Deeks); of their six children, four survive.

MARMADUKE COATE, deceased ; was born in South Carolina in 1738, and came of an illustrious Quaker family of England. In Besse's "Sufferings of the Quakers, " and John Whiting's " Persecution Exposed," we find frequent mention of one Marmaduke Coate, of English notoriety, who was again and again arrested for non-compliance with the intolerant requirements of the parish priests; he was one of the faithful Quakers, who suffered imprisonment and proscription during the Qua- ker persecution of England ; for liberty of conscience, he suffered imprisonment at sundry times from 1670 to 1685, with short intervals, in all about fifteen years, one of the longest terms on record. All these persecutions could not move him from his steadfast adherence to the right ; he was of Hambridge, Somersetshire, En- gland ; he died about 1689, and left, among other children, a son Marmaduke, who married Ann Pole, daughter of Edward and Mary Pole, originally of Wales, but late of Battlehay, near Wiveliscombe, Somersetshire, England. Marmaduke was imprisoned at Ilchester, the place of his father's long confinement, in Somersetshire in 1683, for attending a meeting at Gregory Stoke, three miles from Curry Revel which latter place appears to have been his place of residence ; his mother, Edith, was imprisoned at the same time. He immigrated to America, and settled in Han- over Township, Burlington Co., N. J., in 1690; the house which he built was partly constructed of materials brought from England, probably the leaden window-sash, and the 5x7-inch panes of glass. He died Dec. 15, 1729, aged 77. an

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Elder in the Society of Friends. He reared a family of five children, among whom was William. Our subject was a direct descendant of this William, probably a grandson. He was married to Mary Coppick, who passed ten or twelve years of her early life as a captive among the Indians. He came to Ohio and located in Newton Township in 1806, where his death occurred Sept. 25, 1822, at the age of 84. His children were, in order of birth, Esther, Moses, Henry, Samuel, Sarah, James, William, John and Jesse, from whom have sprung numerous descendants.

ROBERT COATE, farmer ; P. O. Pleasant Hill ; born in 1844 ; is a son of John Coate (for a history of his ancestors, notice the sketch of his brother Benjamin J.), and was reared on a farm and afforded the opportunities of a common school education, which was so well improved that he was early qualified for the profession of teaching ; this he followed for about four years, when he abandoned it and turned his attention entirely to farming, which he has since continued. His mar- riage with Miss Elizabeth Jones was solemnized in August, 1866. She is a daughter of Alexander Jones, and a descendant of early settlers. Four children have been born to this union, three of whom are deceased ; the one living is Julia Mary. Mr. and Mrs. C. are members of the Friends' Church, in which they were both reared. Mr. C. is no political aspirant, but has been three times elected to office of Township Trustee, the duties of which he has discharged with commendable zeal.

JOSHUA COATE, farmer; P. O. Pleasant Hill ; was born near the place where he now lives in 1821 ; he is the son of James and grandson of Marmaduke' Coate. James was the fourth son; he came to the Stillwater Valley with his father, and located on a farm now owned by Wenger. His first marriage was cele- brated before he left South Carolina, and his wife's death occurred before his im- migration ; he was again married after coming here, to Laurana, daughter of Sam- uel Teague; by this union he reared a family of four sons and two daughters- Jonathan C., now deceased ; Samuel T., Joshua, Thomas E., Mary and Esther. James Coate was born in South Carolina in 1777, and died in Miami Co. in 1838 or 1839 ; his wife, Laurana, was born in South Carolina in 1786, and her death occurred a few years ago at the age of 75. years ; they were both faithful members of the Friends' Church. The subject of this sketch has always lived on a farm ; he remained at home till he reached majority, and was married to Adila Jenkins in 1842 ; she was born in 1821 in this county, three miles south of Troy. After the marriage of Joshua Coate, he located on the homestead two years, and then moved to Montgomery Co. ; at the end of fifteen years, he purchased his present place; a family of nine children, two of whom have died, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Coate. Mr. Coate and family were reared in the Friends' Church, and are now faithful members of the society.

BENJAMIN J. COATE, deceased, was one of the prominent citizens of New- ton Township, and a son of Jesse, and grandson of Marmaduke Coate ; he was born in 1813, in Darke Co. He was married in 1835, to Mary Jones, a daughter of John, and granddaughter of Wallace Jones. Wallace Jones emigrated from South Car- olina to this State, at an early day, with his family of four sons and two daughters ; he settled near West Milton, where he and wife passed the remainder of their lives. John Jones was the second child of this family, and was born Nov. 21, 1797; he had no early educational opportunities, but after he had grown to years of matu- rity, he procured a spelling-book, and while working in the shop (being a smith by trade), would learn with book in one hand, while blowing the bellows with the other, and in this way was soon able to read his Bible. Such a will as this always wins, and we are not surprised to soon find him a prominent minister in the Friends' Church ; in this capacity he became an efficient worker, traveling through many parts of the United States ; he departed this life in Eastham, Iowa the 5th day of the 8th month, 1877, at the advanced age of nearly 80 years ; his wife still sur- vives at the age of nearly 80 years. John Jones had a family of six sons and four daughters, of whom Mrs. Coate was the oldest. Benjamin J. Coate moved on Sec. 27, Newton Township, in 1836, where he passed the remainder of his earthly career,

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his death occurring Sept. 19, 1870. He was reared in the Friends' Church, of which he and wife were consistent members. Seven sons and six daughters were the issue of this union, all living to maturity but one-Josias, the third son, died in the fall of 1864, at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., while in his country's service. He was a member of the 86th O. V. I., C. K.

B. C. COATE, farmer ; P. O. Pleasant Hill ; was born in 1850 where he now resides. He is the son of John and Nancy (Finney) Coate, and a direct descend- ant of Marmaduke Coate. John Coate was born in 1807 in Union Township, and was the son of Samuel Coate, and grandson of Marmaduke C. Samuel C. was born in South Carolina in 1772, and at the age of 28 married Margaret Coppock, a native of South Carolina. In 1804, he immigrated to Ohio ; he was one of a family of nine children, who, with their parents, emigrated about the same time. He located on Sec. 5, now within the limits of Union Township. He reared a family of six sons and three daughters. His death occurred in February, 1869 ; his wife died in the spring of 1847. John Coate was the fourth child of this family ; he was twice married-first to Phobe Miles in 1830 ; she was a daughter of Jonathan Miles ; she died in 1838, leaving a family of three children, two of whom are still living. His second marriage was celebrated in 1842, with Mrs. Nancy Crew ; she was born in North Carolina in 1808, and when quite young her parents immigrated to this State. They located in West Milton, which consisted of one frame house- then vacated-and four log cabins. Here she passed her youth. John Coate reared two sons-Robert and Benjamin C .- by his second union ; he died March 11, 1871. He was reared in the Friends' Society, of which he was always a faith- ful member. Our subject's life has been that of a farmer. His early education was acquired from the common schools, and the high school of Pleasant Hill. His marriage with Miss Esther Coate was solemnized in 1869. She is a daughter of Joshua C., and a descendant of early pioneers. Two sons have been born to them. Mr. and Mrs. C. were both reared in the Friends' Church, of which they are now consistent members.

JOSIAS COATE, farmer; P. O. West Milton ; is the son of Jesse Coate and grandson of Marmaduke Coate, who was a native of South Carolina; he raised & family in his native State, of seven sons and two daughters, to wit: Moses, Henry, Samuel, James, William, John, Jesse, Lydia and Sarah. Early in the beginning of the present century, they cast their fortunes in the wilds of Ohio; of this fam- ily, Moses and Samuel led the way, in 1804, locating first in Montgomery Co .; here they halted one year, and raised a crop ; in the following fall of 1805, these two brothers were joined by the rest of the family, when they all pressed their way farther northward up the Stillwater, some locating in what is now Union, and some in Newton ; of the latter was the head of the family and a portion of the children ; they located on land in Sec. 32, and constituted one of the first families in the township. An incident in the early life of Mary Coate, wife of Marmaduke, is deserving of more than a passing notice. When only a small girl of three or four summers, she was captured by a tribe of Indians, and held by them till she was about 12 years old ; her maiden name was Mary Coppock. Jesse Coate was the youngest child of the family. He celebrated his marriage in 1809 or 1810, with Mary Johnson, a native of Tennessee, and a relative of the late President Johnson ; after living on various farms for a few years, he located on the place where our subject now resides, and there passed the remainder of his life ; he met with a fatal accident, being crushed by a saw-log rolling over him, which caused his death July 8, 1837; the death of his wife occurred Dec. 4, 1865, at the advanced age of 76 years; they were the parents of nine children, to wit : Eles- nor, Benjamin J., Josiah, Elizabeth, Thomas, David, Mary, Sarah, Julian J .; of these, four are now living. Our subject, the third son of the family, was born in 1816, Dec. 9 ; he remained with his father, assisting in farm duties, till he reached his majority. He was married, in 1838, to Miss Sarah Tucker, a native of Warren Co., Ohio ; she emigrated to this county, with her parents, in 1836; six children

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have been born to this union, one of whom died; all were married, the deceased daughter leaving one child and husband to mourn her loss.

THOMAS H. COATE, blacksmith, Pleasant Hill ; was born in McMinn Co., Tenn., in 1828; he is of English descent and son of Miles and Mary (Umphsus) Coate. They emigrated to Ohio in 1832, making the journey on horseback. They settled in Newton Township, where Mrs. C. died, when our subject was only 15 years old. Mr. C. again married and moved to White Co., Ind., and in 1863, enlisted in the late civil war; the 7th of November of the same year he died while in the service, at Knoxville, Tenn, aged nearly 60 years. Our subject was raised on a farm till 15 years old, when he was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade and served a term of three years ; blacksmithing has been his chief occupation, giving his attention to some extent to farming. He was in the late war, as member of the 147th O. N. G. He is no political aspirant, but has several times been elected to township offices, which he filled with entire satisfaction. He is a chartered member of the A., F. & A M., of Pleasant Hill. Is the present and was the first resident W. M. He has been married twice, first, May 15, 1849, to Louisa J. Evans, who died June 14, 1854; second to Susannah Jones, of English descent, in 1855 ; three children were born to the first union, all died in infancy, and ten to the sec- ond, eight of whom still survive.

SAMUEL COATE, farmer ; P. O. Pleasant Hill ; is a son of Henry Coate, and was born in Newton Township in 1840. His boyhood was passed on a farm, and he thus early became accustomed to the art of farming, which has always been his occupation. His early education was limited to the common schools of his day. His mother was taken from him, by death, when he was only 6 weeks old, after which he was placed under the care of his aunt until he reached the age of 10; at this time he returned to his father's, where he passed the remaining years of his minority. He was united in marriage with Miss Nannie A. Barker May 5, 1863 ; she is a native of Boone Co., Ind., born in 1843. Mr. and Mrs. C. were the parents of three children, of whom one is deceased. They are both members of the Friends' Church.

JAMES COATE, confectioner, Pleasant Hill ; born in this township in 1839 ; is of English extraction, and the son of Jonathan C. and Elizabeth Coate; Jona- than C. was born in this township, where he passed his entire life in the occupation of farming. The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life and accustomed to its duties ; at his country's call for volunteers to suppress the rebellion, Mr. Coate bade adieu to his family and the comforts of home, and took his place among the patriots of the Union on the battlefield ; he was a member of the 1st O. V. C., par- ticipated in the Atlanta campaign and the battles of Rome, Ga., Selma, Ala., and Columbus, Ga .; this latter fight occurred after the war had really closed, that fact being unknown to them ; they proceeded from this place to Macon, Ga., where they were met by a flag of truce, announcing to them that the armies had agreed upon an armistice ; from there they went to Atlanta, and shortly were transferred to the Department of South Carolina; the regiment was then divided up into numerous small parties and scattered over the State to preserve peace and quiet ; our sub- ject was located in the various places of Orangeburg, Florence, Darlington, Charles- ton and Hilton Head; at this latter place, he embarked on a steamer for New York, and from there to Columbus, Ohio, where he was honorably discharged on the 29th day of September, 1865; during his service, he received several slight wounds, but none severe. In the spring of 1870, he embarked in the mercantile business, which he carried on extensively till the financial panic that swept under so many of our enterprising business men, when he was compelled to reduce the magnitude of his business ; he carries a large stock of goods, which he disposes of at lowest prices. He has held the office of Township Trustee, and also School Director ; has been foremost among those who have taken an active interest in the railroad enterprise of this place. Mr. Coate was united in marriage, in 1860, to Miss Mary J. Pearson, a native of Newton Township ; they are the parents of seven children-five sons and two daughters.

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J. C. COPPOCK ; farmer, P. O. Pleasant Hill ; was born in 1812 in Union Township, and is the son of William C., who was born in Newberry District, S. C., in 1807 ; he came to this State in company with his mother and some of his brothers, and located in Newton Township. He celebrated his marriage with Miss Eunice Cothran in 1809 ; she was born in South Carolina in 1793, and emi- grated to this county with her parents in about 1808, and settled in southern part of Newton Township. Alexander Cothran, the head of this family, met with an untimely death soon after coming here, a falling limb striking him on the head and crushing his skull. After the marriage of William Coppock, he located at Ludlow Falls, in Union Township, and began farming for himself ; the privations and hard- ships of pioneer life proved too severe on his constitution, and, in 1812, death re- moved him from his home in the wilderness. His widow was subsequently married to Henry Coate, when they moved further up Ludlow Creek, where she died at the advanced age of 73 years. Henry Coate was the son of Marmaduke Coate. Our subject passed through all the experience incident to pioneer life, and, at the age of 16, his step-father being a smith by occupation, he was placed in the shop and learned the trade ; his chief employment in the shop was forging the old-fashioned hand sickles ; this business he continued about seven years, when the demand decreased and he abandoned it and turned his attention to farming, which has since been his occupation. He has been married three times, first to Miss Sarah Jay in 1833, she died Oct. 25, 1842 ; her death was a loss to the Friends' Church, of which she was a life member, and the community in which she lived ; three sons were born of this union, all of whom are still living. His second marriage was celebrated with Mrs. Sarah Conway, formerly Miss Alridge ; she was an Eastern lady, and emigrated from Providence, R. I .; her death occurred Jan. 2, 1871, aged .50 years and 18 days ; three children were born of this union, one of whom is dead. His third marriage occurred in May, 1877, with Miss Barrett, a descendant of South Carolinans ; her ancestry coming here early in the history of this county. Mr. Coppock, after his first marriage bought the old Marmaduke Coate farm and moved on it ; he subsequently purchased the place where he now resides ; he has a fine water-power flouring and saw-mill; the mill stands on the site of the first mill in the township. Although no political aspirant, Mr. C. has been twice elected to the office of Justice of the Peace.

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The History of Miami County, Ohio, Part 109

Author: W. H. Beers & Co. Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1051

Author: W. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1880
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1051