The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory, Volume 2, Part 18

Author: Durant, Pliny A. ed; Beers (W.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1410

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"I was born January 5, 1805. I remember leaving Virginia. My father and family, of which I was one, moved out to Ohio in a wagon. We had five horses. We drove seven or eight head of cattle, and were five weeks on the way. We first settled near Centre. This was in the fall of 1811. I remem- ber of attending meeting there. It was held in a hewed-log house. When we moved to Lytle's Creek, my father built a hewed-log house, twenty by twenty-four feet, one story. It was built near a spring on the hillside, about one hundred yards north of the creek, a short distance east of Ogden, and near where the railroad now is. My father planted out an orchard soon after, a few of the old trees of which are still standing. A few years afterward, he took the house down and moved it from the hillside where first built to the top of the hill, where there was a better situation. When he rebuilt it, he weather- boarded it. This house is still standing, and is in a fair state of preservation, and is still occupied as a family residence. When we first moved, there was no clearing, except about four acres across the creek on the bottom, which had been cleared up by Charles Stout, who then lived near where Rodney Jenks now lives. He had opened up a small clearing there, but was not the owner of the land, but only a renter, or squatter, upon it. Samuel Andrew had a small clearing where he lived. Nathaniel Carter had made a small beginning -

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on his land, bought of Lytle, and lived in a log house south of the small creek, " or run, that passes through the Carter farm. Benjamin Howell made the first clearing on the Howell farm. Charles Howell made the first clearing on the Quinby farm. He was the son-in-law of a man by the name of Stout. He moved away afterward, Joseph Stratton having bought 150 acres of Lytle and divided it between his sons, Micajah and Joseph. The latter built the one- story frame house on the Quinby farm, but, as he was single himself, rented it. Joseph Stratton lived where Caleb Moore now lives. He built the old two- story frame house that is still standing there. Micajah Stratton built the brick house on the Rodney Jenks farm, recently taken down. I attended school in a small log house on the Stout farm, cast of Lytle's Creek. This was in 1814. I also went to school at a schoolhouse on Nathaniel Carter's place. We went to Springfield to meeting until the Lytle's Creek Meeting-House was built. It was built in 1817. In 1820, my father built a frame barn, the first one in the neighborhood. Persons came quite a distance to see it. It is still standing. It is twenty-four by fifty foot. I remember that, after the rafters wore raised, in a feat of daring, my cousin, Reuben Chow, walked on the points of the rafters from one end of the barn to the other. We went to mill at the John Hadley mill, on Todd's Fork, until the Holaday Mill was built. They ground wheat and corn on the same stone. They ran the bolt by hand."

John Holaday settled on what is now known as the Asa Green farm in 1814. He came from Virginia. His wife's name was Susannah, daughter of Robert Fort- ner. They had a family of eight children-Hannah, Robert, William, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, John, Susannah and Jesse. He built the brick house in which Asa Green now lives in 1830, and afterward sold his farm to Asa Green, and moved with his family to Jefferson Township, this county.

Samuel Andrew was born in Orange County, N. C., December 14. 1783. He was the son of William and Hannah Andrew. He married Delilah, daugh- ter of John and Susannah Baker, of Chatham County, N. C., October 17, 1805. He came to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Greene County, where he resided for two years, and then settled on Lytle's Creek, on the farm where he resided until the time of his death, on the 18th of July, 1871. His wife died in 1856. Both are buried at Springfield. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He had four children-William B., John, Hannah and Susannah.

William B. Andrew, his son, was born July 21, 1806. He married Ruth, daughter of John Hadley, and was the father of ten children, to wit: Eliza Jane, Hannah, Samuel, Delilah, Isaac H., John T., William H., Jacob, Lydia and Wilson. His wife died October 19, 1852. In 1868, he removed to Henry County, Iowa, where he afterward died. All of his children are still living, and reside in Iowa. William B. Andrew was a man of considerable promi- nence, politically and otherwise. He was an ardent Whig and Republican. He was several times elected Township Trustee, and, in 1864, County Commis- sioner, in which office he served for three years. .

John Andrew, son of Samuel, married Jane Mc Whorter. He removed to Fayette County, where he resided for several years, and then removed to Ver- non Township, and afterward to Lebanon. After the death of his first wife, in 1854, he married a Mrs. Roach. He had three children-Mary E., John W. and Robert. -

Hannah, daughter of Samuel Andrew, married Jacob Hale, of Adams Township, who died in 1849. She is the mother of three children-William, Alfred and Susannah. The two sons reside in Adams Township.

Susanna, daughter of Samuel Andrew, married John McFadden in 1847. She, with her husband, lived at the home farm, caring for and comforting her father and mother in their last years of life. John McFadden died July 6, 1871,

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at the age of fifty-six. They had seven children, to wit: Samuel, Martha Jane, Esper Ann, Mary E., James L, Laura D. and John W.

Henry Andrew, brother of Samuel Andrew, and son of William and Han- nah, was born February 12, 1777. His wife was Jane Mills. He came to Ohio at an early day, and settled on a farm adjoining that of his brother Samuel, near Sligo, now owned by John G. Outcalt. He had seven children, to wit: Robert, John, Hannah, Joseph, William, Jonathan and Sarah. He removed to Jefferson Township some years afterward.

James Andrew, brother of Samuel and Henry, came to Ohio about the same time they did. He for many years lived in what is now Adams Township. He was the father of nine children, to wit: Ira, Eden, Minerva, Calvin, Cyrus, Miles, Mary Ann, John Wesley and Emily. Of these, Eden, Miles and Emily live in Adams Township.

Samuel Chew came to Ohio at an early day. He married Abigail Green, sister of Rouben Green, and was the first settler on what was afterward known as the John Anson farm. He had four sons -Isaac, Ephraim, John and Reu ben; and three daughters-Alice, Mary and Ruth.

Joshua Moore was the son of Thomas Moore and Sarah Moore, of Centre County, Penn. He was born on the 17th of October, 1791. He came to Ohio in 1811. He married Nancy, daughter of Joseph and Theodocia Stratton. They lived in Wilmington for a year or two after they were first married, and then moved to Adams Township and lived in a small house near where Harris Moore now lives. He soon after bought fifty acres of land of David Stout, who lived where Haines Moore afterward lived. He afterward bought out John Sheridan, getting eighty-one acres of him, and moved to the farm on which he lived up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 7th of February, 1874. He sold the Stout farm to his brother Haines about 1821, soon after he bought of Sheridan, and afterward, in 1838, he, in connection with Haines Moore, bought out Nathan Stalker, he taking so much of the Stalker farm as lay on the south side of Lytle's Creek, and his brother taking the residue. Nancy, . his widow, continued to reside at the home place until her death, which took place in December, 1881. Both are buried at Springfield. They had a fam- ily of twelve children, as follows: David S., who died in infancy; John Haines, Sarah Ann, Micajah, William, Joseph, Harriet, Nancy, Joshua, Benjamin (who died in infancy), Jehu C. and Seth .. William died single, November 14, 1877; Seth died single, September 8, 1865, at the age of twenty-six; John Haines married Ruth Lindley; she died in 1869, at the age of fifty-one; he now resides in Wilmington, having married a second wife, whose name was Mary Hines; Micajah resides in Adams Township; Sarah Ann Linton, in Union Township; Nancy Harvey, in Adams Township; Joshua, in Wilmington; Jo- seph resides in Warren County, and Jehu in Pennsylvania.

Haines Moore, brother of Joshua, came to Ohio about two years after his brother Joshua did. He lived on a farm in Union Township, near the Adams Township line, for many years, and raised a family of children. His wife was Eliza Antram, daughter of John Antram. A few years ago, they moved to Wilmington, where they have since resided.

Caleb Moore, brother of Joshua and Haines, came from Pennsylvania about 1832, and, soon after, bought the Joseph Stratton farm, on Lytle's Creek, where he has since resided. He was born about the year 1800. His wife's name was Nancy, daughter of Andrew Jack, who was a Revolutionary soldier. They had a family of six children, as follows: William, John, Harris C., Hannah, Emily and Nancy Ellen. Nancy Moore died about 1845, and Mr. Moore afterward married Martha Miller. They had two children-Ethelbert J. and Martha Adaline.

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John and Isaac Moore, were two other brothers of this family, who came to Ohio about 1832. Isaac married Susannah Groon, daughter of Reuben Groen. He died October 6, 1840, at the age of twenty-eight. John Moore married Ann Moore, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Centre County. Penn. He was born on the 31st of August, 1798. She was born July 6, 1805. Some time after their marriage, they moved to near Nowcastle, Henry Co., Ind., where he died. They had a family of several children. She married again, her second husband being John Evans. They moved to Jasper County, Ind., where she died about 1875. Elizabeth Moore, widow of Samuel Moore, who died in Pennsylvania, camo to Ohio about 1832. She lived for a few years on the farm of Joseph Stratton, Jr., afterward the Quinby farm, and then bought about twenty acres of the Stalker farm, where she afterward lived until a few years before her death, when she moved to Sligo. She died on the 13th of August, 1874, in her eighty-sixth year. Her father, Andrew Jack, came to Ohio with her, and made his home with her until his death. She had seven children, whose names were as follows: Melinda, Nancy, Sarah Ann, Melissa, Eliza, Evaline and Samuel. Eliza married Joseph W. Slack, and Samuel mar- ried Sarah Jane Hadley, daughter of William and Sophia Hadley.

George Maden, Sr., was one of the pioneers of Adams Township. He settled on what is now the Jabez Hadley farm. His first wife was the Widow Reynolds, whose maiden name was Harvey. There were four children by this union, viz., Eli, George, Elizabeth and Edith. His second wife was Elizabeth Carter, sister of George Carter. By this marriage there were eight children, viz., Hiram, Solomon, John, Nancy, Rebecca, Mary, Ruth and Deborah. He died at an advanced age, and is buried at Lytle's Creek, as was also his wife, Elizabeth. George married Mary Chew, daughter of Samuel Chew and a sis- ter of Isaac, Ephraim, John and Reuben Chow. He moved to Indiana, where he has since died. Elizabeth married a man by the name of Reeves; Edith married Joseph Stubbs; Solomon married a Robbins; John died single; Nancy became the wife of Henry Harvey, both of whom are now dead; Rebecca mar. ried Reuben Chew, son of Samuel Chew; both are dead; Mary married Amos Harvey, brother of Henry Harvey; Ruth married Robert Hunt, son of Jacob and Lydia Hunt; Deborah married a man who lived in Indiana.

Eli Maden married Hannah Harlan, daughter of Enoch Harlan. They had six children, viz., Harlan, John, George, Hiram, Rowena and Rebecca, all of whom, except Hiram, reside in Adams Township. Harlan Maden, son of Eli, married Marguerite Osborn, a daughter of William Osborn, Sr., and Hi- ram married William Harvey's daughter, Hannah Harvey. Eli Maden died a few years ago.

Hiram Maden. son of George Maden, was born January 28, 1792, in Or- ange County, N. C. He emigrated with his father to Ohio. He was married twice. His first wife was Susannah, daughter of Jehu and Sarah Stuart, of Wayne County, Ind. They were married about the year 1826. She only lived a few years after the marriage. She is buried at Lytle's Creek. There were three children by this marriage, viz., Sarah, George and Jehu. About the year 1834, he married a second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Su- sannah Osborn. There were seven children by this union, viz., William, John, Eli, Elizabeth, Hiram, Susannah and Thomas Elwood ..

Hiram Maden died in April, 1871, in the eightieth year of his age. His wife, Elizabeth, died January 10, 1866, at the age of sixty-two. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. He was a very useful citizen. and a consistent mem- , ber of the Society of Friends. He was a teacher in his younger days, and afterward a surveyor of much practice. Next to Nathan Linton, he has prob- ably done more surveying in Clinton County than any other person.

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Jeremiah Kimbrough was a native of Rowan County, N. C. He was born on the 15th* of September, 1778. His wife was Sarah Mendenhall, a sister of Nathan Mendenhall. They were married in 1799, in Rowan County, N. C. They came to Ohio in November, 1809, with their family, which then consisted of six children. In the spring of 1810, he bought about one hundred acres of land in the Murray Survey and settled upon it, opened up a clearing and built a cabin. This was afterward known as the Goorge Carter and Micajah Strat- ton farm. It is on Todd's Fork, near the northeastern part of the township. In 1812, he sold his farm to George Carter, and moved to Tennessee, but, not liking the country, he came back without unloading his wagon. He then bought the farm on which John Hornada now rosidos, where he lived until 1828, when he sold it to his sou Thomas, and then bought the Isaac Harvey farm, on Todd's Fork, near Springfield, where he rosided until his death, Au- gust 15, 1850. He died while in a carriage with his son Eli, on their way from Wilmington to his homo. His widow died in 1859, while at her daugh- ter's, Elizabeth Howell. . They had a family of eleven children, all of whom are living except two, their names and order of ages being as follows: Thom- as, born September 18, 1800; Elizabeth, born January 3, 1802; Susannah, born March 13, 1803; Hannah, born in October, 1804; Charity, born July 3, 1807, Sarah, born in January, 1809; Mary, born in November, 1810; John, born May 26, 1812; Ira, born in the year 1815; Edith, born in the year 1820; Eli, born in November, 1821.

Elizabeth was the first child married. She married Benjamin Howell. Susannah married Robert Hollcraft; she resides in Randolph County, Ind. Hannah married William Ballard, son of John Ballard; she resides in Grant County, Ind., having married a second husband by the name of Kerwin. Charity married Lewis Hiatt, son of Josse Hiatt; she died in 1863. Sarah . married John Whitson, son of John Whitson, Sr .; she now resides in Grant County, Ind. Mary married Caleb Townsend, son of John Townsend; she re- sidos in Iowa. John married Domice Beach, daughter of Benjamin Beach; he died October 18, 1854. Ira married Clara Howland, daughter of Barnabas Howland; he now resides in Harvoysburg. Edith, married Hiram Daugh- erty; she now resides in Indiana. Eli married Margaret, daughter of John Townsend; he now resides in Grant County, Ind. Each of these unions was productive of numerous offspring, so that the grandchildren of Jeremiah Kim- brough would probably aggregate one hundred, and his descendants would probably now number three hundred. But two of the children -- Thomas and Elizabeth-now reside in Adams Township.

Thomas Kimbrough married Elizabeth, the daughter of Jesse Hiatt, a brother of Lewis Hiatt. They were married on the 4th of April, 1822, and recently passed their sixtieth marriage anniversary. They now reside with their son, Demetrius, in the western part of Adams Township, near the Lebanon road, and both are in the enjoyment of reasonable bodily health and mental vigor, considering their advanced age. His wife, when a child of seven or eight years, resided with her father near Wilmington, and passed over the ground where Wilmington now is when it was an unbroken forest, save where two small cabins were erected, some distance apart-one near where the City Hall now is built, and the other to the north of it. They are the oldest couple residing in Adams Township. They have had a family of nine children, as follows: Martha, who married James Spray; Sarah, who married John Bra- zil; Jeremiah; Mary, who married John W. Richardson; Edith, who married William Edwards; Jesse; Susannah, wife of Harlan H. Hadley; Demetrius,

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who married Esther Bangham; Charity, wife of Aaron Harvey, son of Will- iam Harvey and grandson of Isaac Harvey.

Jeremiah Kimbrough, oldest son of Thomas Kimbrough, was born October 14, 1827. In 1849, he married Esther, daughter of Eli and Sarah Harvey. By this union there was one child, whose name is Louisa. His wife died De- cember 18, 1859. His second wife is Rhoda, daughter of Eli Hadley, and sis- ter of Micajah and Thomas Hadley. Jeremiah Kimbrough has resided in Adams Township since its first formation. He is held in high esteem by all who know him. He is a prominent member of Springfield Monthly Meeting. John Johnson was an early settler. He lived on the north side of Lytle's Creek, on the Haines Moore place. His wife was a Ballard. He sold his land to Henry Tibbetts, who sold to Nathan Stalker, who sold to Moore. His daughter Rhoda married Abel Thornberry.

Robert Howell was one of the carly settlers in Gates' Survey, on what is known as the Indian Branch. The land is now owned by Micajah Moore. He built a cabin near by a large spring that flows out from near the roots and under the branches of a spreading beech tree. He planted a nursery there, and set out an orchard of apple and peach trees. Some of the apple trees are still standing. He had quite a family of children, among whom were Charles, Benjamin, John, William, Jeremiah, Thomas, Robert, Ruth and Nancy. He settled there probably prior to 1810. All of the family went farther west prior to 1823, except Benjamin. Charles Howell made the first clearing on the Quinby farm. . Charles Howell's wife was the daughter of Charles Stout, who lived near where Rodney Jenks now lives.

Benjamin Howell was born July 14, 1792. He emigrated to Ohio with his father. He was married, about the year 1820, to Elizabeth, eldest daugh- ter of Jeremiah Kimbrough. He was the first settler upon what is known as the Howell farm, which at that time consisted of 100 acres in the Dudley Sur- vey. This was in 1820, directly after his marriage. Here he cleared up a' farm, and afterward purchased sixty-seven acres of what was once known as the Robert Howell place. He had a family of ten children, as follows: Jere- miah, Jedidah, Riley, Aaron, Patsy, Henry, Adeline, William, John and Ben- jamin. Benjamin Howell died July 2, 1855. Elizabeth Howell, his widow, is still living, and makes her home with her son-in-law, William Biddlecome. George Carter was born March 8, 1782. He was the son of John and Ann Carter, of Orange County, N. C. His wife, Miriam, was born on the 2d of February, 1787. She was the daughter of Jesse Wilson and Elizabeth, his wife, of Randolph County, Va. He came to Ohio in the year 1812, and set- tled about one mile west of Lytle's Creek Meeting-House, on what was after- ward known as the Micajah Stratton farm. For forty years or more, he was a teacher. He taught in many different places, always with success. He was a kind-hearted man. He was a minister in the Society of Friends, being consid- ered one of the ablest in the church, especially upon doctrinal points. But few persons exerted a more potent and widespread influence for Christianity than he. He was the father of seven children, their names and order of ages being as follows: Jesse, John, Samuel, Wilson, Cyrus, Louisa and George. Two of the sons died after arriving at manhood-George, on the 8th of Jan- uary, 1845, at the age of twenty-two years and eight months. Both are bur- ied at Lytle's. Creek. Of the other children, Jesse married Melinda Bently. Some years before his death, he emigrated to Kansas. Afterward, while back on a visit in Ohio, he died at Lewis Hunt's. He is buried at Grassy Branch. John married and resided near Bloomington, where he died a few years ago. . Cyrus married Susannah Nickerson, and resided for many years in Clinton County, but a few years ago he removed to Howard Lake, Minn., where he now

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resides, having married a second wife. Some of the children were born in North Carolina. Both parents lived to a ripe old age. George departed this life on the - day of --- , 18-, and Miriam on the 19th of January, 1876, at the age of ninety years eleven months and eighteen days. Both are buried at Grassy Run.

Nathaniel Carter was born on the 21st of June, 1779. He was the son of John and Ann Carter, of Orange County, N. C., and a brother of George Carter. His wife's name was Nancy, daughter of. John and Susannah Baker, of Chat, ham County, N. C. They came to Ohio in 1812, and settled in Dudley's Sur- vey, between where the villages of Ogden and Sligo now are, he having bought a piece of land of William Lytle. He was a well-to-do citizen, and a member of the Society of Friends. He was the father of six children, as follows: Jane, born on the 17th of February, 1802, who married Samuel Gaskill; John B., Enoch, Susannah, Ann and Delilah. Susannah married Asa Green; Ann married William Holaday; Nathaniel Carter died March 3, 1843, in his sixty- fourth year; Nancy, his widow, died November 5, 1863, at the age of eighty- two, surviving him more than twenty years.

.John Baker Carter, son of Nathaniel and Susannah Carter, was born February 1, 1802. His wife's name was Sarah Smith. He was the father of six children, to wit: Mary, Nancy, Jane, William, Nathaniel and Asa, all of whom are still living. He now resides in Waubaunsee County, Kan. While in Ohio, he resided on a portion of the farm formerly owned by his father.

Enoch Carter, son of Nathaniel and Nancy Carter, was born December 28, 1808. His wife was a Faulkner. He resided for many years on a portion of the farm on which he was born and raised. He was the father of ten chil- dren, as follows: David, Nathaniel, John, Rachel, Samuel, Hiram, Phoebe Ann, Elizabeth, Jane and Susannah. Both parents are now dead.

Conrad Smith was a pioneer. He settled on the Smith farm, in Gates' Survey, about 1815. His wife was Elizabeth McDaniel. He had a family of five children, viz., John, George, Daniel, Abigail and Susannah. John mar- ried Mariah Smith; Abigail married Samuel Wingfield, and Susannah married Aquilla Reese. The two daughters now reside in Illinois. One of the brothers lives at Harveysburg. Conrad Smith and his wife have been dead several years. They were both highly respected by all who knew them.

Both are buried at Lytle's Creek.

Daniel Smith, son of Conradand Elizabeth Smith, was born in 1809. His wife was Ann Hartman. For a few years after their marriage, they resided northeast of Wilmington. They then removed back to the farm, and lived there with his parents until their death, and until the time of his death, which occurred March 30, 1880. He was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery. He was a man strictly honorable in all his dealing's, and of kind and benevolent dispo- sition. They had a family of five children, viz., George H., Joseph H., John C., and James E., and a daughter who died in girlhood, named Mary E. George, Joseph and John all volunteered in the service of the United States, and were gallant and brave soldiers. They were members of Company G, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. George died in February, 1878, while Sheriff of Clinton County, Ohio, to which office he had been elected in 1876.

Nathan Stalker settled on Lytle's Creek as early as 1809. His wife was Mary Ballard, daughter of David Ballard. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was one of the first members of Lytle's Creek Meeting. He sold his farm to Joshua and Haines Moore, and moved to Indiana, where he afterward died. The orchard which he planted is in part still standing. He lived on the hill, near by where Harris Moore now lives. He had a family of eight children, Elean -.

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or, Lydia, John, Eli, David. Mary, Sarah and Rhoda. Eleanor, Lydia and Sarah - all died after reaching womanhood, single, and are buried at Lytle's Creek.

Cornelius Hobson, was a settler on the Micajah Moore place as early as 1816. He sold his farm about 1820 to John Osborn.

John Newlin settled on the Oliver Moore farm as early as 1809. He had several children, among whom were Eli, William and Lydia.

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The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory, Volume 2, Part 18

Author: Durant, Pliny A. ed; Beers (W.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago : W. H. Beers Number of Pages: 1410

Author: Durant, Pliny A. ed; Beers (W.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1410