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tention to buying stock through the Western States, and driving them over the mountains to the Eastern markets, and during this business of seven- teen years' duration, there was but one year in which he did a losing bus- iness; the sixteen years were successful, and yielded him good profits. His business life has been one of activity, crowned with success, having accu- mulated a large amount of property. His principal fault in life has been in being too kind-hearted and accommodating for his o wn financial good, as he has paid over $40,000 security money. But, notwithstanding these mis- fortunes, he has an ample competency left, and a clear conscience that he has faithfully discharged all obligations, no matter how unjust some of them may have been. Mr. Withrow has been employed to settle up a great many estates in his community, and has filled many of the important offices of his county and township, and is one of the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Newport, of which he has been a member since the winter of 1854, and has filled most of the important offices of the church. Samuel, the youngest child of Mr. James Withrow, married Charlotte Rankin and resides in London; is engaged in farming, which has been his principal business through life.
John Stroup was a native of Pennsylvania, and settled on the Buffen- berger land about 1810, where he remained through life. He devoted his life to farming; had a family of five sons and two daughters; one now sur- vives, and is a resident of Range Township, now Widow Nancy Timmons. John Phifer, a native of Virginia, emigrated to Madison County about 1810, and located on Paint Creek, on what is now known as the Buffenber- ger land. He was a blacksmith by trade, which business he followed, in connection with farming, through life. He had a family of three sons and four daughters, all now deceased. Mr. Phifer was an exceptional man for honesty, integrity and uprightness of life. Industrious and faithful in business, kind hearted and liberal, ever ready with his means and influence to aid in every moral progress and improvement, and died at a good old age, loved and respected by all who knew him.
George Phifer, son of the above, married Tabitha Dean; was also a blacksmith by trade, which business he followed several years. After his marriage, he located at London and became one of the active business men of that place. He erected the Phifer House; also the block on the opposite side of High street now occupied by Wolf's clothing store and others. During this time, he was carrying on an active business as a farmer and stock-dealer, and was also for several years engaged in the tanning busi- ness-in all which enterprises he was remarkably successful, and died pos- sessed of a large amount of property. Abraham, son of John and brother of George Phifer, married Ann Withrow and settled near his father; de- voted his life to farming; was very prosperous. and at his death owned 600 acres of land and several thousand dollars in money. John, the third sou, died when young. The daughters were named Dolly, Clara, Betsey and Nancy. All married and had families, and became prosperous and good citizens.
Peter Buffenberger a nativo of Virginia. while a young single man, emigrated to Madison County, Ohio, and in 1810 located on Paint Creek, in this township. and entered at once largely into the stock business on the prairie, and was very successful. About 1816, he fenced in a large tract of these prairies. He accumulated a large estate, and when, at the advanced age of seventy-five years, married a young lady. Miss Angeline Hutson, by whom he had two children-Eugene and May. The former married a Mr.
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Crawford. of New York. Mr. Buffenberger died a few years after his mar- riage, leaving his family 4,200 acres of fine land, besides 700 acres which he had previously deeded in fee simple to his wife. His wife subsequently married for her second husband Mr. Colburn, and they now reside in New Jersey, and Mary, her youngest daughter by her first marriage, who is un- married, resides with them. About 1810, George Linson, a native of Vir- ginia, settled on Paint Creek, just below the Buffenberger tract of land. He was married in Virginia, and came here in very limited circumstances; entered upon the stock business; was very successful and made money rap- idly, becoming the owner of over two thousand acres of excellent land. He was the father of five sons and two daughters, of whom two now survive- Margaret, now Mrs. Shough; and Jesse. The former resides in Pleasant Township, this county; the latter in Fayette County.
George Chappell settled near Walnut Run about 1810, and remained a resident of this township till death. He was a native of Virginia; mar ried Margaret Green; had four sons and two daughters, all deceased but two -- Thomas and Charles, who are now residents of Illinois. Mr. Chap- pell served as a Justico of the Peace for many years, and while in that office used his best efforts to get parties to compromise, and thus avoid all litigation, if possible: was a most excellent man and faithful officer. John C. Jones, though not an early settler of Paint Township, having settled here in 1844, yet he was born in East Tennessee in 1817, came to Ohio in 1821, grew to manhood, and has been prominently identified with the growth and progress of the county from a very early day. He has served as Direct- or of the County Infirmary, as a Justice of the Peace, as Township Trustee and other minor offices. He is now quite advanced in years, having spent a long and useful life, devoted to the interests of his county and the com- munity in which he has lived. Rev. William Sutton, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was, it is believed, born in Virginia, but be- came a settler of Paint Township about 1810, locating on the Hume land. He married Hannah Coberly; resided here but a few years, when, as a Methodist minister, he had to adopt the itinerant life they live; but the greater portion of his life was spent in the service of the ministry within Madison County. He died at Mt. Sterling, although his home and residence at the time of his death was in London, and there his body was taken for inter- ment. He was an excellent man and faithful Christian minister Lewis Higgins, a native of Virginia, settled on the Hume tract of land about 1811. Reuben Gregg, a native of Virginia, emigrated to Chillicothe in 1810, and to Madison County in 1811, and located in Paint Township, about half a mile below where the village of Newport is now situated. He married Phobe Harpole, and remained a resident here till his death. Thomas Coberly, a native of Virginia, emigrated to Ohio and purchased 100 acres of land in Paint Township about 1810. upon which he located, and where he resided till death. He was an industrious, hard-working pioneer, and raised a family of four sons and three daughters. Of these, William served in the war of 1812, and subsequently became an extensive farmer and trader, which occupations he followed through life. James Chapman was born in Frederick County, Va., in 1801. In 1816, he became a settler of Paint Township, and subsequently married Ann Chapman. a native of Virginia, by whom he had nine children; three now survive. Mr. Chapman is now eighty-one years of age, is hale . and hearty, with good eyesight. and is now one of the few early pioneers vet surviving.
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ERECTION OF PAINT TOWNSHIP.
Although the territory which now comprises Paint Township began to be settled up as early as 1804, yet it was the last township but one to be erected. On the records at the court house we find the following: June 7. 1853-" A petition was presented to the Commissioners, asking for a new township, to be called Paint Township, to be composed of parts of the town- ships of Stokes and Union. Beginning at the county line near Peter Slaughter's, thence running an easterly direction to the line of Range Town- ship; thence a northerly direction with the original township line to the corner of Stokes and Union Townships; thence northeast so as to include Baskerville's, and to continue in that direction far enough to include Rob- ert Reed. or some point so as to get enough territory; thence a northwest- erly direction to the line of Clark and Madison Counties at some point north of William T. Jones'; thence a southern direction with the county line to the beginning. Therefore, it is hereby ordered by the Commissioners of Madison County, that the foregoing described territory, or as near as may be deemed proper, be, and is. established a township, which shall be known by the name of Paint; and be it further ordered that Henry Alder, Survey- or for the county of Madison, and John T. Maxey, proceed to survey and establish the lines and boundaries of said township, erecting proper monu- ments at the several corners thereof. Ordered by the Commissioners that the legal voters within the territory heretofore described meet at the resi- dence of James Phifer, on Saturday, the 25th day of June, 1853, and there and then proceed as provided by statute in such cases, to elect all necessary officers for said township."
June 6, 1855-"A number of citizens of Union Township presented a petition that the line dividing the townships of Union and Paint be so changed that they may be included within the boundaries of Paint Town- ship, to wit: Beginning at the angle in said line between the residence of Washington Withrow and H. Langham; thence north so as to include John Ham, Sr .. John C. Jones and Job Coberly, Sr., in Paint Township; thence near a straight course to the junction of the Midway & London Turnpike road and the old Xenia road, that being the Paint Township line, or near that place where the Paint Township line strikes the old Xenia road." The petition was granted, and Nelson Baker appointed to survey the line.
OFFICIALS OF THE TOWNSHIP.
There appear to be no records preserved until 1864. Since that date, the following have served as Township Trustees: 1864, J. W. Eachus, Jo- seph Plowman and Benjamin Tyler; 1865, J. C. Jones. David Stroup, Jr., and John Stone; 1866, Robert Reed, John C. Jones and David Stroup, Jr .; 1867, Robert Reed, E. T. Linson and David Watson, Jr .; 1868, E. T. Linson, Washington Withrow and S. W. Bonner; 1869, W. Withrow, J. W. Eachus and David Watson, Jr .; 1870, Steel Douglass, David Watson and J. W. Eachus; 1871, David Watson, R. A. Niel and Steel Douglass; 1872, J. W. Eachus. David Watson and R. Samuel Niel; 1873, David Watson, Edmond Hill and William Kilgore; 1874, John C. Jones, M. A. Baskerville and William Kilgore; 1875, William Kilgore, M. A. Baskerville and David Watson; 1976. M. A. Baskerville, David Watson and Benjamin . F. Tyler: 1877, Joseph Ploughman, John Eachus and M. A. Baskerville; 1878, John W. Eachus, John T. Vent and Joseph Ploughman; 1879. Rob- ert Watkins, George Bodkin and John Paulin; 1880, John T. Vent, N. C. Rice and S. Bonner; 1881, Austin Hutson, N. C. Rice and J. O. Sifrit;
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1882, present incumbents are Washington Withrow. John C. Jones and Austin Hutson.
Township Clerks -- 1865, Steel Douglass; 1866, Henry McCann: 1867- 68, Henry McCann; 1869. Henry Tyler; 1870, C. M. Evans; 1871, Henry Tyler: 1872, Heury Tyler; 1873-74, James S. Cleeland: 1875, G. B. Can- non: 1876. Elam Blaugher: 1877. Thomas Durkee: 1878-79. T. C. Durkee; 1880, Marion Jones: 1881-82, Samuel Vent.
Justices of the Peace -1854. Stephen Maxey and William B. Basker- ville: 1857. Job Coberly, John Correll and Stephen Maxey; 1858, William B. Baskerville: 1860. Steel Douglass; 1861, John T. Maxey; 1863, Jesse Coberly: 1864, John T. Maxey: 1866, Steel Douglass and Franklin Tyler; 1867. Jesse Coberly; 1870, H. W. Rowland and George Bodkin: 1873, Steel Douglass and George W. Bodkin: 1876. George Schurr and G. W. Coberly: 1880. William Keever and George W. Bodkin: 1881, James S. Cleeland.
Treasurers-1865. S. H. Watson: 1866-73, S. H. Watson; 1874-78, V. L. Buel; 1879. Gideon Peck: 1880. E. A. Blaugher: 1881, C. Durkee; 1882. C. Durkee.
Assessors-1866, Benjamin Linson: 1867, E. R. Florence; 1868-69, E. R. Florence: 1870, Benjamin Linson: 1871, E. R. Florence; 1872, John T. Hutson: 1873. Benjamin Tyler: 1874-75, John Crawford; 1876. A. E. Osborn: 1877. A. E. Osborn: 1578, John F. Armstrong; 1879. Frank Mitchell: 1880, Edward Florence: 1881-82. Winfield Coberly.
Constables ---- 1865-66. JJames Jewell and Adam Rider; 1867, V. L. Buel: 1868. William Clevenger and Washington Coberly; 1869, S. White and M. W. Cannon: 1870. W. T. Bethards and S. White; 1871, J. Schick- dants and W. T. Bethards; 1872. George Hull and S. O. McColum; 1873, George Hill and Peter S. Hill: 1874. Thomas Bethards and Jonathan Car- ter: 1875. Peter S. Hill and William Clevenger: 1876. Peter S. Hill and George Miller: 1877, E. A. Blangher and Stephen Maxey: 1878, Daniel Kulp and George Hull: 1879. J. W. Osborn and E. C. Duff: 1880, George Hull and David Sutherland: 1881, George Hull and William Yeath; 1882, William Yeath and A. C. Bodkin.
CHURCHES.
One of the first organized churches in Madison County. if not the first, is the Methodist Episcopal Church now located at Newport. this township. In 1807. at the house of Jonathan Minshall, a class was organized by Rev. Mr. Lakin, with three members-Jonathan Minshall and wife and David Watson, with the former as Class-Leader. Meetings were held and preach- ing occasionally had at the house of Jonathan Minshall till. in 1809, David Watson's father having located near David's place, meetings were held at his place until in 1822, when David's mother died, after which the meet- ings were held at David's house. As the neighborhood became settled up, the class grew and increased in numbers. Between the years 1816 and 1820, there was held each year. for two or three years, a camp-meeting in this neighborhood. which was probably the first of the kind ever held in Maidson County. People came to these meetings from many miles dis tant, and camped in tents, and had many very enjoyable meetings. At one evening meeting, twenty-four persons joined the church, under the preach- ing of Rev. Alexander Morrow. The church held their meetings in private houses nntil the building of a public schoolhouse, about 1831-32, when the services were held in the schoolhouse, which was erected where the ceme- tery is now located. Here the church continued to hold their services till
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about 1850, when the society erected a church edifice about one mile east, at Newport. They erected a good, substantial frame building, at a cost of about $700. This building served the society until about 1872, when the present brick house. 56x32 feet, was erected, at a cost of about $4,500, and is a very neat and comfortable house of worship. well finished and woll fur- nished. At the time of the erection of the first church building. the society numbered about twenty persons. Since that time, the church has been served by the following ministers: Rev. Mr. Smith. John Stewart. Joseph Brown. Mr. Crum. Archibald Fleming. Mr. Spahr. Samuel Tibitt, J. T. Miller. Mr. Pitzer. A. Alexander, Mr. Heath. Mr. Vananda. A. R. Miller. I. Bradrick. Mr. King and Rev. Mr. Mackey, who are now the present pas- tors. In November. 1872. the new church was dedicated. Joseph Trimble preaching the dedicatory sermon. The membership is now about one hun- dred. Trustees, Samuel Coberly, William Withrow. John Paulin. William Clevenger, David Watson and Washington Withrow: Stewards are Wash- ington Withrow and David Watson: Class-Leaders. Samuel Coberly and W. Withrow. In connection with the church, they have had a good. Hour- ishing Sunday school since the erection of the first church edifice. It now numbers about sixty scholars, with James Buell as Superintendent.
Protestant Methodist Church .- In 1850. a few persons met at the school- house, then located' where the cemetery now stands, and, under Rev. Rameth Hussey, were organized into a class. consisting of the following persons: Presley Rains, wife, three sons and one daughter: James Jewell and wife: Elias Forbis and wife; Joseph Stroup and wife: Gideon Peck and wife; Isabel Stronp, Josie Watson. Sarah Jones, Polly Wagoner and Elizabeth Sif. rit: and perhaps one or two others whose names are not now remembered. Elias Forbis was Class-Leader. The society held their meetings at the schoolhouse for three or four years. In 1854-55, they erected their pres- ent frame house in Newport, which was completed and dedicated to service the same year, and it is believed that Rev. A. H. Trumbo delivered the dedicatory sermon. The membership is now about twenty-five. with Rev. T. D. Howe as their minister, and Amos Gregg as Class-Leader, who has served as such more than twenty years. Trustees, James Evans. John W' Vent, Singleton Yates. Amos Gregg and Uriah Thornburg.
CEMETERIES.
For many years the early settlers had their family or neighborhood burying-grounds. One of these was on the John Phifer farm, where sev- eral of the Phifer family and many of the people of that neighborhood found their final resting-place: but now nothing remains to show that there was ever a grave made there, the ground being used and cultivated for grain. Another was on the Hume land. Some bodies. however, have been removed from here and deposited in more permanent and well-preserved cemeteries. This ground is, however, st Il inclosed by a fence, but no more persons are being buried there. The only one which has become a perma- nent burial-place is the Withrow Cemetery. This was first established as a family burying-place of the Withrow family, and was probably first opened by the reception of a body of a child of William Crider, after which it be- came the general burying-place for the neighborhood, and thus continued till about 1870, when it became the property of the township. Originally there was but one acre of ground fenced in. The Trustees then purchased six acres of David Watson and added to it, so that it ow contains seven acres, and is well fenced in, and laid out in walks. with good graveled roads
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and walks around"them, with good shade and ornamental trees, making it a very pretty rural cemetery, and a fit depository and resting place for the dead.
SCHOOLS.
The first school, it is believed, in Paint Township, was held in a cabin on Jonathan Minshall's land, Samuel Harvey being the first, or one of the first, teachers, the school, like all early schools, being supported by sub scription. The teacher received about $15 per month for his labors. The first schoolhouse was of the pioneer, primitive kind-round logs, puncheon floor, slab seats and greased paper windows. The first public schoolhouse was erected on the ground now embraced in the cemetery. This was a hewed-log house, and was then considered quite neat and comfortable. This house was succeeded by a frame one. erected on the same ground about 1847. This house was used for school purposes till about 1872, when the present brick was erected, at a cost of about $1,500. This is now known as District No. 2. The township now has nine subdistricts, and all have good briek houses. costing from $1,500, to $2,000, except in Subdistrict No. 8, which is a good frame house. The schoolhouses and the schools are perhaps in this township equal to if they do not excel those of other town- ships of Madison County.
TOWNS.
This township contains but one small village within it borders. In 1849, the land where Newport now stands was owned by Ephraim Freshour, and in that year he laid off some lots for the town, and donated one lot for school purposes. James Coberly erected the first house, in which he lived till his death. The second was built by Elias Forbes as a dwelling for himself. The first blacksmith was James JJewell. He was succeeded by Henry Ro- land. About 1851-52, John Coberly built a steam saw-mill in the town, with the old kind of upright saw. which. after some years. was supplanted with a circular saw, and is now owned by Jackson Coberly. Elias Forbes was the first wagon-maker. The first store was opened by Napoleon Moore, who erected a building and put in a general stock of goods in 1854. The post office was established in 1856-57, with James Gossard as Postmaster. The present Postmaster is Thomas Durkee. The village now contains about one hundred and fifty inhabitants: has one general store, one grocery, two blacksmiths. one wagon-maker, one carriage painter; and contains two churches. and one schoolhouse with two departments -one for the small and one for the larger scholars.
ROADS AND PIKES.
This township is supplied with good roads and free turnpikes, passing through it and leading in all directions to the important towns in other townships and counties. Through the northwest corner of the township passes the Jefferson. South Charleston & Xenia Turnpike: running in a northeast and southwest direction through the township, a little west of the center. is the old London & Xenia road: then further east is the Madison & Fayette Turnpike. the London & Bloomingburg road, and the Yankeetown road. the latter forming the boundary line between Paint and Union Townships for two to three miles. Through the northwest part of the township, and running nearly parallel with the Jefferson. South Charles- ton & Xenia Turnpike. passes the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Rail. road. and, although there is no town on its line within Paint Township. yet they have a way station called Florence.
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CHAPTER XIV.
OAK RUN TOWNSHIP.
THIS was the last township erected in Madison County, and is one of the smallest in territory and the most irregular in its contour and boundary lines, and another peculiarity it has is in not possessing a single town or village within its limits; hence it is purely a rural township. On March 5. 1856, a petition was presented to the Commissioners of Madison County, signed by Robert C. Amos and others, asking for the erection of a new township to be composed of parts of the townships of Range, Pleasant, Fairfield and Union: "Beginning at the southeast corner of the land of John Dun, in Pleasant Township; thence northeasterly with his line cross- ing Deer Creek to his corner; thence with his northerly boundaries to the James Innis Surveys, thence with the James Innis Surveys to Deer Creek; thence up Deer Creek with the Fairfield Township line to the north line of the land formerly owned by John Harrison, deceased; thence westerly with the line of said Harrison to the John Jones road; thence westerly with said road to the La Fayette road; from thence a southwesterly course to north- westerly corner of Jesse Rea's land and corner with Maxwell Murray; from thence southwesterly with Jesse Rea's line crossing the land of Robert Arm- strong to Levi Springer's northeast corner; thence with Springer's south- east line to the Yankeetown road; thence southeasterly with said road to the southeast line of the lands of David and Isaac McClimans, and with the west line of Joseph Morgan's; from thence to the beginning. Wherefore, it is hereby ordered by the Commissioners of Madison County that the fore- going described territory be and is hereby established a township, which shall be known by the name of Oak Run Township; and be it further or- dered that Henry Alder, Surveyor of the county of Madison, and Edward Fitzgerald, meet at said Fitzgerald's on March 24. 1856, and proceed to survey and establish the lines and boundaries of said township, erecting monminents at the several corners thereof. Ordered by the Commissioners that the legal voters within the territory heretofore described, meet at Har- vey's Mills on Monday, the 7th day of April next, that being the first Mon- day of said month, and then and there proceed as provided by the statutes in such cases to elect all necessary officers for such township.
On June 2, 1856, a petition by citizens of Oak Run Township was pre- sented to and granted by the Commissioners, changing the west line of Oak Run Township as follows: "Down the London & Yankeetown road to the line of William Johnson, Sr., and William Johnson, Jr .; thence with their line to a branch of Bradford's; thence with the meanderings of said branch to the line of Thomas Foster, and thence with the line of him and James McClimans to the west line of John Foster, bounding with I. and W. Mc- Climans; thence with their line to John Foster's southwest corner, being two black oaks; thence in a direct line to the northwest corner of James W. Rob- inson and corner to land bought of said Robinson by I. and D. McClimans, near Bradford's Run; thence with the line of said Robinson and I. and D. McClimans to their corner in the line of Joseph Morgan."
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Oak Run Township, April 17, 1856: " In pursuance of notice the quali fied electors of Oak Run Township, Madison County, Ohio, met and organ- ized by calling Jonathan Harvey to the chair, and Jeremiah Rea as Secre- tary, and then viva voce declaring Jeremiah Thomas, Jonathan Harvey and Robert C. Amos, Judges of Election: Jeremiah Rea and Mitchel Lane, Clerks of Election. The above officers being qualified according to law, the poll-book was then opened, and the electors of said township proceeded to elect by ballot the following officers, to wit: John Foster, Jonathan Har- vey and Robert C. Amos, Trustees; Jeremiah Thomas, Treasurer; Jeremiah Rea, Clerk; David Lewis, Constable; Mitchell Lane and Jonathan Farrar, Supervisors, and Dr. D. Warner, Justice of the Peace. The township was now in complete working order; the boundary lines of its territory definitely and satisfactorily established, and all necessary officers duly elected and qualified for the duties that might devolve upon them during the year 1856. The above election was. in accordance with the orders of the Commissioners, held at Harvey's Mills. From the record books of the township we find elections have been regularly held each year since 1856, at Harvey's Mills, until 1881, when they had erected a good township house at the corner of Robert Rea's land, where the Harvey Mill road strikes the London & Mt. Sterling pike, since which the elections have been held at the township house.
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