The History of Miami County, Ohio, Part 64

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


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C. F. MEDARIS, farmer ; P. O. Conover ; was born in Shelby Co., Ohio, Feb. 20, 1851, and is a son of Washington Medaris, who was born in South Carolina in the year 1796 ; his boyhood days were spent on the farm, receiving only a limited education ; at the age of 14 years, he, with his parents, emigrated West, locating in Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio; at 22 he engaged in blacksmithing, which he con- tinued working at during life ; in 1833, he removed to Shelby Co., purchasing a farm of 80 acres in Perry Township, where he now resides, at the advanced age of 84. Near 1821, he married Elizabeth Psalter, who was a native of Clermont Co., Ohio, and died in Shelby Co. about 1840 or 1841. He married, for his sec- ond wife, Matilda A. McDavitt, of Miami Co. Mr. Medaris was raised on the farm, and received an ordinary education ; he came to this county in December, 1868, where he has since resided. Jan. 23, 1875, his nuptials with Miss America J. Harcourt were celebrated ; she was born on the farm where she now resides ; they have one child-Percy H., born Feb. 15, 1876. Mrs. Medaris is a daughter of Fran- cis A. and Martha S. (McDavitt) Harcourt ; Francis A. is a native of England, and immigrated to America about the middle of the nineteenth century ; Mrs. Harcourt was born in Franklin Co., Ohio, in 1825, and immigrated to Miami Co. about 1832, where she has since resided.


ISAAC J. MERRITT, farmer ; Allen's P. O .; was born in Brown Township, Miami Co., Dec. 19, 1851, and is a son of Joseph and Ann (Munger) Merritt, who was born in Virginia Jan. 18, 1812, and Joseph in Warren Co., Ohio, Jan. 31, 1815. Their marriage was celebrated May 26, 1836, and they have, since 1834, been resi- dents of Brown Township, Miami Co .; their children were nine in number, of whom two were stricken with diphtheria in 1860-61 and passed away; seven are now living, viz., Mary E., now Mrs. W. Vanzant ; Margaret J., now Mrs. J. Maxwell ; Martha A., now Mrs. D. Spencer ; Amanda, now Mrs. George Leise ; Henry H., Isaac J. and Della, now Mrs. John Manning. Our subject was raised on the farm and received the privileges of the common schools, thereby obtaining a medium education, and is now cultivating the old farm, in Sec. 5, Brown Town- ship. Jan. 27, 1878, he married Miss Josephine Vaughn, who was born in Greene Co., Ohio, Feb. 11, 1856 ; she is a daughter of John and Emily Vaughn, who were both natives of the same county ; Isaac and Josephine have one child-Lawrence E. The grandparents of Isaac J. were Isaac, Sr., and Margaret (Carter) Merritt, who were both natives of Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Warren Co., Ohio, where they married, and, in 1834, removed to Miami Co., where their decease occurred.


S. L. MIOVER, farmer and stock-raiser .; P. O. Fletcher ; was born in Greene Township, Shelby Co., Jan. 7, 1835 ; in his boyhood days he assisted in farm duties in the summer season and in winter enjoyed the privilege of the schools, which he improved at home until obtaining a knowledge sufficient for teaching, in which he engaged at the age of twenty ; soon after, he commenced the study of medicine, in connection with the task of teaching ; in the winter of 1857-58, he attended a full term of lectures under the instructions given at the Eclectic Medical Institute, and the following year located in Cridersville, Auglaize Co., Ohio, as a practicing physician ; there he labored until 1864, when he retired from the pro- fession and took up farming on his present farm of 80 acres, in Sec. 19, Brown Township, Miami Co., which he purchased six years later ; previous to this, he purchased 40 acres in Sec. 13 of the same township, which he has since sold. June 12, 1859, his marriage took place with Mary J. Darling, who was born in Allen Co., Ohio, Nov. 25, 1842. Their niece, Emma Earnhart, lives with them.


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T. S. MOORE, farmer and stock-raiser ; P. O. Allen's ; was born in Mont- gomery Co., Ohio, Feb. 29, 1832, and is a son of Isaac Moore, whose biography will appear in the memoir of J. M. Moore. T. S. was brought up to farm labor, and, receiving a limited education, remained at home until his majority : then he began life for himself, engaging in the carpenter's trade, which he followed six years ; he then tried farming in Johnson Township, Champaign Co., remaining there until 1873, when he sold out and removed to Miami Co. ; he purchased 80 acres of land in Sec. 2, where he has since resided. His marriage with Miss Caro- line H. Mathews was celebrated Oct. 26, 1855 ; she was born in this county in 1835 ; they have an adopted son-William C. (Mathews) Moore, a nephew of Mrs. Moore. Her parents, John and Ann M. Mathews, were both natives of New Jer- sey, born early in the nineteenth century, and emigrated to this county, where they both died ; they were the parents of seven children, of whom three are now living. JOHN W. MOORE, farmer and stock-raiser ; P. O. Conover; was born in Dearborn Co., Ind., Feb. 18, 1830, and is a son of Isaac Moore, whose biography will appear in this work. John, when about 6 months old, with his parents, emi- grated to Montgomery Co., Ohio, remaining there about two years ; in 1833, they removed to Miami Co., where they have since resided ; here John W. received a limited education, and assisted his father on the farm until 18 years of age, when he began the trade of a wheelwright ; he carried on business seven years in Lena ; then engaged in farming upon rented land six years ; in 1860, he bought 80 acres of good land in Sec. 8, where he has since resided, and is nicely situated for life, with comfortable buildings, adding by purchase 40 acres more in Sec. 1. Oct. 26, 1853, he united in marriage with Hannah Howland, who was born in Miami Co. Aug. 4, 1833 ; they have two children, viz., Albert H. and Faran I. Mrs. Moore is a daughter of Albert and Caroline Howland, whose genealogy will appear under M. Duncan's sketch in this work.


J. M. MOORE, farmer ; P. O. Allen's ; is a son of Isaac Moore, who was born in Wooster Co., Md., July 18, 1804, where he was brought up to agricultural pur- suits, and received a limited education ; in 1818, he, with his parents, emigrated to Indiana, locating in Dearborn Co., where the parents lived many years and died at an advanced age ; Isaac remained at home until 1825, when he came to Dayton, Ohio, working on the canal for several years. In January, 1829, he married Mary Watkins, of Montgomery Co., Ohio, born Dec. 15, 1811 ; in 1833, they emigrated to Miami Co., locating on Sec. 2, Brown Township, where he bought his present farm and was duly engaged in cultivating it until 1868, since then living a retired life. His wife departed this life Aug. 28, 1878 ; they had eight children, of whom five are living. J. M. was born on his father's present farm July 25, 1842 ; he was raised to farm labor, which he is still engaged in on the home farm ; in his younger days, he received a limited education. Fel .. 9, 1864, his marriage with Frances A. Slack was celebrated, who was born in Bucks Co., Penn., Jan. 19, 1843 ; they have two children, of whom both are now living, viz., Charley and Clara.


TIMOTHY MORTON, farmer ; P. O. Conover ; was born in Howell Town- ship, Monmouth Co., N. J., Feb. 22, 1799, and is a son of John and Mary (Long- street) Morton, who were both natives of New Jersey ; they had eleven children, of whom Timothy is the only one now living ; John Morton was one of the patriots of the war of Independence, where he served a period of six months ; he and his wife both died at advanced ages. Our subject was left very early in life to battle for himself, and spent his boyhood days farming with various people until 16 years of age; then he commenced work in a manufactory of all kinds of cloth, which he followed until 1831 ; at this time, he emigrated to Ohio and bought his present farm of 60 acres, in Sec. 11, Brown Township, Miami Co. ; this he has changed from its primeval state to a good degree of cultivation. Mr. Morton has held the office of Supervisor in Brown Township eight years, and feels interested in for- warding all public improvements. In New Jersey, in 1820, he married Mary Gurney, who was a native of that State, and died in Brown Township, Miami Co., in 1858; by this union there were six children, of whom five are now living. In


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December, 1859, Timothy Morton married for his second companion Mary J. Ayers, of New Jersey, who was born in Burlington Co. May 9, 1808, and is a daughter of Zadock and Mary (Smith) Green ; she has buried two husbands and is now liv- ing with the third one.


JOHN PARTINGTON, farmer and stock-raiser ; P. O. Fletcher ; was born in Shelby Co., Ohio, Oct. 8, 1838, and is a son of Joseph Partington, who was born in England, Aug. 7, 1800, and in early life obtained a common education ; he remained in his native country until 10 years of age, when, with his parents, he embarked at Liverpool, England, on the vessel Aldebaran ; after reaching the United States they settled near Baltimore, Md., where they remained until 1831, when they emigrated West and located in Shelby Co .; the parents both died in Ohio, Mrs. Partington in Dayton, and Mr. Partington in Shelby Co .; Joseph, now in the 80th year of his age, resides with his son, our subject, who was brought up on the farm and procured his education in the common schools of Shelby Co. In 1857, he commenced in life for himself, by farming on rented land, which he continued until 1868, when he and his father purchased their present farm of 105 acres, in Sec. 15, Brown Township, Miami Co., where they now reside. June 17, 1869, his marriage with Eleanor Search was celebrated ; she was born in Pennsyl- vania in 1849, and emigrated West with her parents when but a child, locating on Sec. 15, Brown Township, Miami Co., where they now reside ; the children of Mr. and Mrs. Partington are three sons-Elba, Joseph R. and Charles Partington.


THOMAS J. PENCE, farmer ; P. O. Conover ; was born in Lost Creek Town- ship, Miami Co., Feb. 24, 1847, and is a son of James T. and Nancy (Shidler) Pence ; James was a native of Lost Creek Township, and Nancy of Pennsylvania ; they had by this union seven children, all of whom are now living. Our subject was raised on the farm, where he assisted his father in the agricultural duties con- nected therewith, and in his boyhood days enjoyed the privileges of the district schools, where he obtained a common education, and since his majority he has im- proved the same by self-study, particularly in the science of mathematics ; in 1868, he purchased his present farm of 80 acres, in Sec. 8, Brown Township, Miami Co., which is under good cultivation, and since has also purchased 80 acres in Wells Co., Ind. Dec. 18, 1848, he married Mary E. Blackford, who is a daughter of David and Sarah A. Blackford.


JOHN S. REEDER, deceased, was born in Bucks Co., Penn., in 1819, where he grew to manhood on the farm, and obtained a common-school education. In 1842, he married Letitia P. Pownall, also a native of Bucks Co., born in 1821 ; after their marriage, John was variously engaged until 1851, when they emigrated West, locating in Fletcher, Miami Co .; remaining there but two years, they removed to Sec. 21, Brown Township, where they afterward purchased 80 acres ; this John cultivated till his death, which occurred Feb. 19, 1875 ; he was the father of ten children-Margery A., Esther P., Martha R., Ellen K. (deceased), Miles P., Eliza J., William H., Mary E., John E. (deceased) and George W. Letitia is a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Anderson) Pownall, both natives of Pennsylvania, where John died ; Elizabeth afterward came West, and died in Miami Co. Miles P., whose name is above given, was born in the same county and State as his father, in 1851 ; was raised on the farm where he now resides, and manifests an enterpris- ing interest in its cultivation. His marriage with Rhoda A. Covault was cele- brated in 1871 ; two years later she departed this life, Feb. 28, 1873; Sept. 16, 1875, he married Sarah J. Frazier, a native of Shelby Co., born Aug. 16, 1853; one child, Lou E., has been given to them.


G. H. RUNDLE, manufacturer of patent medicines, and more particularly of Porter's Pain King, known far and wide, and which has given satisfaction wherever it has been tried ; P. O. Fletcher. The manufacturer of this valuable article is G. H. Rundle, who was born in Westchester Co., N. Y., in 1847 ; he led the usual life of a farmer's son, and obtained his education in the common schools of his native State ; in 1871, he emigrated West, locating in Lima, Ohio, where he purchased the right of W. L. Porter to manufacture the Pain King; he was soon duly engaged Q


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in the chemical compounds, where he remained until five years ago, when he located in the above village, and now is filling large demands for his medicine; he has erected a complete laboratory, where he engages considerable assistance. The nuptials of G. H. Rundle and Amanda Hance were celebrated Nov. 3, 1874; she is a daughter of Alfred Hance, whose biography will be seen in this volume.


SAMUEL SAYERS, deceased, was born in Staunton Township, Miami Co., in 1810; he was raised to the life of a farmer's son. In 1832, he married Jane Sims, who was born in Virginia, in 1809; soon after their marriage they settled in Springcreek Township; remaining there one year, they removed to Brown Town- ship, locating on Sec. 35, which they cleared and greatly improved; of the build- ings we make particular mention; they are large, commodious and the best fire proof secured buildings in the township of Brown. During his life Mr. Sayers pur- chased several farms, of which he was the owner when his decease occurred, May 29, 1877 ; during life he assisted each of his children, who were seven in number, to nearly $4,000 worth of real estate. His family are Martha J., the wife of John H. Mathers, in Mason Co., Ill .; S. F., Francis D., now Mrs. James M. Moore, of Champaign Co., Ill .; Margaret A., wife of Paul W. S. Pence ; Sarah E., now Mrs. Alexander M. Deweese; Annette S., wife of James M. Caven, of Shelby Co., Ohio, and Harriette E., the widow of John R. Mckinney. Mrs. Sayers is a daughter of James, Sr., and Margaret Sims, both natives of Virginia ; they emigrated to Ohio in 1830, locating on Sec. 35, Brown Township, where he accumulated considerable wealth, and passed from the stage of life in 1862, Margaret, his daughter, preced- ing him seventeen years.


PETER SHANKS, retired farmer; P. O. Fletcher. Peter Shanks was born in what is now the incorporated city of Cincinnati, Aug. 15, 1795, and is a son of Joseph Shanks, who was born in Delaware, and of German descent. He married Mary Clawson, of Holland birth and Welch parentage; she emigrated to Amer- ica in her youthful days, and the marriage was celebrated in Pennsylvania about the time of the war of independence; they afterward came West as far as Hamil- ton Co., Ohio; there they remained a few years; they then located in Montgomery Co., Ohio, where Mary died, and was interred in the Sugar Creek Baptist Cemetery of Washington Township, and Joseph afterward went to Indiana, and died in Del- aware Co., near Muncie, at the age of 95 years, 11 months and 9 days; the chil- dren by the above marriage were ten in number, of whom Peter is the only one now living. He was raised to farm labor,in Montgomery Co .; here he, when but a boy of 17, entered the service of 1812, under Capt. Richard Sunderland and Maj. Price, and secondly he was under Capt. Lemon, of Clark Co., Ohio; they were at Detroit, Mich., when peace was declared ; Mr. Shanks is now one of three patriots of that war living in Brown Township. About 1817, he entered 160 acres of land in Sec. 29, Brown Township, where he at once commenced to open out a farm from the unbroken forest, and erected a hewed-log house; the roof was of shingles (which in that day were a rarity) ; in this he spent many days; at present he has his farm well improved, but has diminished it to 80 acres, from the fact that he, during life, has nobly assisted his children. May 10, 1821, he married Leah C. Schenks, and the following August located on the above-described farm. Their children were eight in number, two died in infancy, and four are now living; Mrs. Shanks died May 13, 1839, in the faith of the Baptist Church, of which she was a member for twelve years. Nineteen years later, Mr. Shanks married for his second wife Martha J. (McCarr) Neff; she died April 27, 1861, leaving two children, of whom one died in infancy, and the other is now living. Mr. S. has been a devoted member of the Lost Creek Baptist Church, since 1827, in which faith he firmly stands in 1880. Since the election of Gen. Jackson for President, he has been a decided Democrat, at which time he cast his first vote.


B. F. SIMMONS, farmer ; P. O. Fletcher; was born in Spring Creek Town- ship, July 24, 1848, and is a son of Peter J. and Elizabeth (Denman) Simmons ; about the middle of the nineteenth century they moved to Indiana, locating in Clinton County, where Peter passed from the stage of life ; he and Elizabeth were


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the parents of four children, of whom two died previous to the death of Peter, and the two surviving ones were left in their mother's care for a short time. B. F. soon found a home with his uncle L. R. Simmons, of Brown Township ; there he grew to manhood and was taught farming ; in his earlier days he enjoyed school privileges, obtaining a common education ; he now owns 1654 acres of land in Secs. 32 and 33, Brown Township, and is well situated for life. Sept. 19, 1870, he married Miss R. J. Sanders, born in Springfield Township, Miami Co., Jan. 17, 1846; four children are the fruits of this union, viz., Elmer E., Effie M., Judson W. and Harry ; Mrs. Simmons is a daughter of E. and M. Sanders, now both deceased.


CHARLES SIMMONS, farmer ; P. O. Fletcher ; is a son of Peter Simmons, who was born in Pennsylvania, 1795, and, when a boy 12 years old, with his parents, emigrated to Ohio, and located in Brown Township, where they lived and died. Peter was a devoted farmer in the pioneer days, and during life accumu- lated a good farm in Sec. 36, Brown Township. About 1827, his marriage with Elizabeth Bowersox was celebrated, who was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1802, and died in Brown Township. 1875, Peter dying six years previous ; they were the parents of ten children, of whom five reached maturity, Charles being the third son. His great-grandfather, Philip Simmons was of German birth, and in, 1763, embarked for the Western Continent. Charles Simmons was born in Brown Township, January, 1831, and was brought up to farm labor, and received a common education in the pioneer days ; he entered the path of life for himself in' 1852, and has, by hard labor and good management, accumulated 135 acres of land in Secs. 31 and 36, which is well improved. He has recently been elected to the office of Township Trustee, which office he now holds. In 1856, he married Phebia Reader, who was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, in 1838; they were the parents of thirteen children, of whom nine are now living, viz., Emma E., William H., Mary C., George O., Nannie, Rosa E., Theresa J., Albert and Alice. Mrs. Simmons is a daughter of Simeon and Nancy (Howell) Reader ; he was born in Montgom- ery Co., Ohio, in 1813, and she in Pennsylvania, in 1818.


LEVI R. SIMMONS, farmer; P. O. Fletcher; is a son of Jacob Simmons, who was born in Pennsylvania about the close of the eighteenth century, and came with his parents to Ohio the first year of the nineteenth century ; they settled near Dayton, Ohio, where they remained until six years following, when they removed to Miami Co .; there they lived and died, but Jacob in after years mar- ried Mehitable Rollins, who was a native of Vermont, and five years his junior ; they both died in Brown Township, he at the age of 61, she at 82. The subject of this memoir is a first cousin to Charles Simmons, under whose sketch a history of the ancestry will appear. L. R. was born in Brown Township, Jan. 25, 1825 ; bis boyhood days were spent on the farm in summer, and in winter at school, thereby receiving a limited education ; about 1843, he began teaching, which remained his winter occupation until 1863, and devoted his attention mostly to farm labor; he has during life, by good business habits and industry, accumulated considerable property, of which a portion is nearly a full quarter of land in Sec. 33, Brown Township, which is well improved. He has been elected to, and held, various offices of the township. Oct. 27, 1848, he married Sarah Eyer, who was born in Pennsylvania, Jan. 24, 1824 ; her parents were both natives of the same State.


J. W. T. SUBER, farmer and thrasher ; P. O. Conover ; was born in Brown Township, October, 1841, and is a son of George Suber, whose biography will be seen under the memoir of W. D. Suber, in some part of this history. J. W. T. was raised on his present farm, and obtained a common education ; he entered upon self duties in 1861, and has since hired his interest in his present farm of 110 acres in Sec. 8, purchasing of the other heirs until he now owns the full farm ; he has as fine a location as any in that vicinity. Mr. Suber, when but a boy, was taught by his father the principles of the thrashing machine ; he has devoted, almost exclusively, the thrashing season to that occupation, which is one of the


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necessary features of every well-tilled country ; in the fall of 1869, Mr. Suber thrashed 52,000 bushels of grain, and, on the same separator, hulled 600 bushels of clover seed in the winter of 1879-80 ; he has shown himself capable of follow- ing that line of business with credit to himself and benefit to his customers. Oct. 20, 1864, he married Elizabeth Verdier, who was born in Green Township, Shelby Co., Ohio, Sept. 2, 1844; they have had four children, of whom three are now living, viz., Lucinda J., Laura L., Edwin T., and Roy F., deceased.


W. D. SUBER, farmer ; P. O. Conover ; was born in Bucks Co., Penn., May 31, 1825. His father, George Suber, was also a native of Pennsylvania, born Nov. 12, 1796, and was of German descent ; he grew to manhood in his native State. March 1, 1821, he married Elizabeth H. Duer, who was born in Pennsylvania Oct. 18, 1800. and was of Irish descent; they immigrated to Ohio in 1829, locating temporarily near Dayton, Ohio ; in 1830, he entered the northwest quarter of Sec. 8, Brown Township, Miami Co., where they permanently located, and, taking it from its wilds, made it their future home, where he (George) passed away in Sep- tember, 1860, and Elizabeth in August, 1872 ; they were the parents of nine chil- dren, of whom seven are now living. W. D. was brought up on the farm, where he nobly assisted his father in opening up a farm; owing to the scarcity of school privileges that William had in his boyhood days, his education is limited ; in 1850, he started in the world to battle for himself as a farm laborer, with no means ; he continued working, and gradually laid by some of his earnings ; in 1853, he pur- chased 160 acres of prairie land in Illinois ; this he held until 1865, when he sold the same and purchased his present farm of 80 acres in Sec. 7, Brown Township, Miami Co., and has since bought 86 acres in Champaign Co. March 30, 1854, his marriage took place with Mary A. Caven, who was born in Spring Creek Town- ship, Miami Co., Oct. 26, 1834; by this union they had five children-Sarah J., born Feb. 28, 1855 ; James W., born March 27, 1857 ; John C., born Nov. 19, 1858; George W., born Sept. 9, 1870, and Orel M., born July 21, 1877. Mrs. Suber is & daughter of John and Aseneth (Ross) Caven; they were, for many years, resi- dents of Spring Creek Township, where Mr. Caven died in 1872. Mrs. Caven still survives.


JOHN M. STITH, teacher ; P. O. Allen's, was born in Fairfield Co., Ohio, Oct. 23, 1852, and lived on a farm until 16 years of age, receiving a limited education ; during the summers, from 1868 to 1871, he attended the Fairfield Union Academy, also a short course at the Ohio Wesleyan University ; in the winter of 1869-70, he taught his first school, in Fairfield Co., where he continued three winters ; in the fall of 1875, he located in Shelby Co. and taught in Miami Co .; in 1878, he removed to Lena, this county, where he has since resided. The marriage of John M. and Chloe Hutcher was celebrated in Delaware Co., Ohio, Oct. 13, 1874; she was born in Franklin Co., Ohio, Feb. 8, 1855 ; one child-Maude, was born to them May 19, 1876 ; died May 17, 1879. Mrs. Stith, in early youth, obtained a com- mon education, and afterward improved the same at the Otterbein University, at Westerville, Ohio, and is now engaged in teaching, with her husband, in the com- bined schools of Lena and Conover, where they have held their positions for the past two years, and are engaged for the ensuing year. They have, since residing in Lena, purchased their present property, which consists of 8 acres in Sec. 1, Brown Township, also a quarter-section near Carrolton, Greene Co., Ill.




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