GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 875 Maria, who married Moses Hamilton and moved to the Rising Sun neighborhood in Indiana ; Nellie, who married Joshua Dormand and moved to Van Buren county, Iowa ; Nettie, who married James Armstrong, who also went to Van Buren county, Ohio, and thence, in 1849, to California ; Jane, who also went to Iowa; and Ephraim, who married Ann Rook and moved to Knox county, Illinois. Eleven Driskill was but twelve years of age when his father died and he early was thrown on his own resources, beginning work on the farm of his uncle, Ben Shockley, at a wage of forty dollars a year, which he never received. After his marriage to Lucinda Hamilton he established a home of his own in Highland county and his wife died in Clinton county in 1858. He later married Harriet Dormand, of Boone county, Kentucky, and in 1860 located on a farm in the vicinity of the village of Utica, in Clark county, Indiana, where he remained for ten years, or until 1870, when he returned to his old home in Highland county, this state, and there spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on October II, 1889. He was a Democrat and a member of the Christian church. To Eleven and Lucinda (Hamilton) Driskill were born eight children, namely : Ephraim„ a retired farmer, now living at Reesville and whose wife, Hester Ann Chapman, died in 1904; Martha Jane, who married Riley Michaels, of Highland county, and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased; Joseph, the immediate subject of this biographical sketch ; Mary Elizabeth, who married John W. Thomas, of Lynchburg, this state; Ann Eliza, who died in 1850, at the age of six years ; Sarah Lydia, who died at the age of four years, and Henrietta Clarissa, wife of Alonzo Smith, of Lynchburg, and Nancy. Ellen, who died in infancy. Joseph Driskill was thirteen years of age when his mother died and when his father moved to Indiana he was taken into the home of Isaiah Brewer, a farmer of the New Vienna neighborhood, in Clinton county, his schooling thus being completed in the Hoskin school and in the Hart school in their neighborhood. On September 2. 1861, he then being not sixteen years of age, he enlisted in Company G. Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Capt. I. T. Moore, Col. Thomas Kilby Smith, which command he joined at Lima, and to which he remained attached until he received his final discharge in September, 1865. During this service Mr. Driskill suffered more than the usual vicissitudes of a soldier's life, was twice captured by the enemy, for nine months held in the horrid prison pen' at Andersonville, twice escaped death when many of his companions were lost in river disasters, and during his Andersonville experience contracted a trouble with his eyes that developed upon his return from the army and from the effects of which ever since the spring of 1876 he has been totally blind. Upon leaving Lima with his company late in the fall of 1861 Mr. Driskill was 876 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO headed for Ft. Donelson, but that point meantime having been taken by the enemy his company was diverted to Paducah, where they helped in the erection of a fort and were then sent up the river to Corinth, but the high stage of water compelled a landing at Shiloh, where on April 6 and 7 they participated in the great battle at that point and where Mr. Driskill received a wound which kept him in the hospital until the following August. He rejoined his company at Memphis, Tennessee, in December, 1862, and thereafter participated in the campaigns in which his regiment was engaged until taken prisoner on July 22, 1864. He saw service in the siege of Vicksburg from May until the fall of that city on July 4, 1863. He then-went on to Jackson, aided in taking that city, then on into Georgia to take part in the Atlanta. campaign, where he was captured, July 22, 1864, with eighteen hundred others and was sent to Andersonville prison, where he was held until the close of the war in April, 1865. He took boat at Augusta, Georgia, went to Savannah, Georgia, and Hilton Head Island, took ship there for New York City, landing June 10, 1865. The boat they started on struck a snag and sank. Mr. Driskill managed to reach shore and later at Robinson's Ferry boarded the "Jeff Davis" with forty other ex-prisoners of war. Besides these returning soldiers the boat carried a heavy cargo of cotton and three hundred negroes. Before they had been out long the vessel caught fire and in effort to escape the flames seventy-five were drowned. Mr. Driskill and four of his companions managed to float ashore on a bale of cotton and on June 10, 1865, he finally reached New York City. In good time he reported to his command and in September, 1865, was granted his final discharge. Mr. Driskill formerly was a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at New Vienna and is now a member of the local branch of the Union Veteran Legion at Newark. He was the youngest 1861 recruit in the Legion in the state,- and was also the baby of his regiment. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Driskill returned to the Isaiah Brewer farm in the vicinity of New Vienna and there remained until his marriage in the summer of 1871, when he began farming on his own account in that neighborhood. In 1888 he bought the Doctor Morely farm a half mile south of Centerville, and there remained until September 2, 1896, when he moved to the village of Sabina. Two years later he sold his farm and bought thirty-five acres three miles southeast of Bowersville, where he made his home for seven years. On July 8, 1908, he moved to Bowersville, where he has since made his home. In 1913 he had his present comfortable house erected there, at a cost of four thousand dollars. He and his wife are members of the Disciples church. In June, 1871, in Clinton county, Mr. Driskill was united in marriage to Josephine Shepard, who was born at Snow Hill, in that county, February GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 877 12, 1852, daughter of William and Sidney Shepard, the former of whom, a blacksmith and farmer, died at Bowersville on May 1, 1905. William Shepard's widow survived him, her death occurring at Dayton in March, 1909. They were the parents of fifteen children. To Joseph and Josephine (Shepard) Driskill were born five children, namely : Cora A., who married Thomas Pavey, of Sabina, now deceased, and had eleven children, Taylor, Alma, Faye, Joseph, Margaret,. Catherine, Helen, Delbert, Thelma, Fannie and Evelyn Pauline; William T., born on August 8, 1873, now connected with the fire department at Newark, who married Rosanna Worley and has one child ; Lewis L., June 19, 1875, who died in 1912, leaving a widow, Edna Matthews Driskill, and two children, Edith and John W., now living at New Vienna ; Margaret, who has been twice married, her first husband having been Alva Higler and her. second, Albert MacNiel, of Charollet, North Carolina, and has one child, a daughter, Frances ; and the Rev. J. Denver Driskill, March 11, 1888, a minister of the Disciples church, who married Mattie Taylor and has three children, Joseph, Ruth Olive and Anna Lee. Mrs. Josephine Driskill died on November 5, 1911, and on January 18, 1914, Mr. Driskill married Estella J. Myrick, who was born in Clermont county, this state, daughter of George F. and Elizabeth (Butler) Myrick, the latter of whom died in Clermont county and the former of whom is now living at Macomb, Illinois. George F. Myrick and wife had two children. Mrs. Driskill having a brother, Chester A. Myrick, unmarried, a ranchman at Lodi, California. CHARLES EWING COOLEY. Charles Ewing Cooley, one of Greene county's well-known and substantial farmers, living in Cedarville township, on rural mail route No. 2 out of Cedarville, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Goes Station, in this county, and has been a resident of the county all his life. His father, William Cooley, was a native of. New York state, of old Colonial stock, his mother having been an Alden, a direct descendant of John Alden, the Puritan, whose romantic marriage to his wife Priscilla forms the basis of one of the most delightful poems in the English language. William Cooley came to. Ohio from New York during the days of his young manhood and in time became one of the leading farmers in the Goes neighborhood in Xenia township. For years he was a constant contributor to the old Xenia Torchlight and was one of the best-known men of his generation in this county. He was a member of the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia, for years an elder in the same, but became affiliated with the Third United Presbyterian church in that city upon the organization of the latter, and for many years he was the superintendent of the Sabbath 878 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO school at Goes. William Cooley died on the home farm on August 30, 1884. He was twice married, first to Jeanette Dean, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Campbell) Dean, pioneers of this county, to whom further reference is made in this volume. Upon the death of his first wife, William Cooley married Julia Parry, a school teacher at Cedarville and a daughter of Col. Walter Parry, who had earned his title as commander of the Greene county militia during the old days of the "muster." One of the daughters of Colonel Parry married the Rev. Ebenezer Curry and went with her husband to Alexandria, Egypt, where both died in the missionary service. Colonel Parry was a substantial landowner in the Jamestown neighborhood, but when his children began to require better educational advantages he moved to Cedarville, where Julia Parry completed her schooling and where she was engaged in teaching at the time of her marriage to William Cooley. To that union were born several children. Charles E. Cooley, son of William and Julia (Parry) Cooley, was reared on the old home farm in the neighborhood of Goes in Xenia township and the schooling he received in the neighborhood school was supplemented by the training he received at home. He was married in the spring of 1884 and after the retirement of his father-in-law, John Kyle, he and his wife moved to the latter's old home place one mile south of Cedarville, where they have since made their home, Mrs. Cooley having inherited the place after her father's death. On April 9, 1884; Charles E. Cooley was united in marriage to Mary Jeanette Kyle, who also was born in this county, a daughter of John and Martha Jane (Orr) Kyle, both members of pioneer families in Greene county. John Kyle was born on December 5, 1825, son of Judge Samuel and Rachel ( Jackson) Kyle, the latter of whom was a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (McCorkle) Jackson, pioneers, further reference to whom is made. elsewhere in this volume, as is also reference to the Kyles, who were among the foremost settlers of the Cedarville neighborhood. Judge Samuel Kyle was for thirty years a member of the bench of associate judges in Greene county and also for years served as county surveyor. He was a ruling elder in the Associate Reformed church at Cedarville. Judge Kyle was twice married and by his first wife,. Ruth Mitchell, was the father of six children. After the death of the mother of these children he married, February 17, 1815, Rachel Jackson, and to that union were born fifteen children, of whom John Kyle was the seventh in order of birth. None of the sons of Judge Kyle were under six feet in height and the tallest was six feet and seven inches in height. Judge Kyle was a Pennsylvanian, born in the vicinity of the city of Harrisburg, and was but a boy when his parents moved from that state to Kentucky and settled in the Cynthiana neighborhood, whence he came up into the valley of the little Miami and bought twelve hundred acres of government land, the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 879 tract on which the village of Cedarville later sprang up. John Kyle and Martha Jane Orr were married on April 9, 1850, and immediately thereafter located on the farm one mile south of Cedarville, where the Cooleys now live, and there they continued to reside until their retirement from the farm and removal to Xenia, where their last days were spent. They were members of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia. They were the parents of four children, of whom Mrs. Cooley was the third in order of birth, the others being Samuel J., who died in infancy; Martha R., wife of Joseph Tate, and John Riley Kyle, who is living at Mansfield, Ohio. To Charles E. and Mary Jeanette (Kyle) Cooley have been born four children : Edna, born on August 8, 1886; Martha, April 19, 1888 ; and Wilbur, April 2, 1890, who is married and is assisting his father in the management of the home place; Harold Parry, born October 18, 1894, died on March 1, 1911. The Cooleys are members of the United Presbyterian church. EDWARD O. BULL. The founder of the Bull family in Greene county was William Bull, a Revolutionary soldier, who came over here from Virginia in 1803, purchased a tract of land on Massies creek and there established his home, becoming there one of the most influential members of the old Scotch Seceder settlement. This pioneer was the father of six sons, Asaph, John, James, Thomas, Richard and William, and two daughters, Ann and Mary, the descendants of whom in the present generation form a numerous connection hereabout. Edward O. Bull, one of the' most progressive young farmers of Cedaryille township and the proprietor of a fine farm of one hundred acres on rural mail route No. 3 out of Cedarville, is a member of the pioneer family above referred to. He was horn in the village of Cedarville on July 15, 1889, son of Rankin and Elizabeth (Orr) Bull, the latter of whom was a member of one of Greene county's pioneer families. Rankin Bull was early trained to the trade of carpenter and after a while became a building contractor on his own account, carrying on his operations in that line at Cedarville until his removal to a farm in his home township, where he spent his last days. He was a Republican and a member of the United Presbyterian church. Rankin Bull was twice married. His first wife, Elizabeth Orr, died on May 2, 1905, and on July 7, 1908, he married Malinda Turnbull. By the first marriage he was the father of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being Raymond Samuel Bull, born on June 15, 1890, who is farming in Cedarville township; Arthur R. Bull, born in July, 1895, who also is farming in Cedarville township, and Edna M., born on May 9, 1902, who died on July 10, 1904.   880 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   Reared on the home farm, Edward O. Bull received his early schooling in the Cedarville public schools and supplemented the same by a year at college, after which, in 1908, he resumed his place on the home 'farm and there remained until after his marriage in the fall of 1913, when he bought the farm on which he is now living, the old Mobley place of one hundred acres in Cedarville township, where he has since made his home. Mr. Bull has made extensive improvements on the same, remodeled the farm house, put up a silo, enlarged his farm plant by the erection of additional buildings and in other ways has made of his place one of the best-improved farms in that section. He is also giving considerable attention to the raising of live stock, making a specialty of Duroc-Jersey hogs and Shorthorn cattle.   On October 20, 1913, Edward O. Bull was united in marriage to Carrie S. Townsley, who also was born in Cedarville township, daughter of Frank and Effie (Fields) Townsley, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union one son has been born, Ralph Edwin, born on January 31, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Bull are members of the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville and Mr. Bull is a Republican.   ALBERT ANKENEY.   The Ankeneys have been represented in this section of Ohio ever since the year 1827, when Samuel Ankeney, then nineteen years of age, and the eldest of the ten children of David Ankeney, left his home in Washington county, Maryland, and came into Ohio with a view to selecting a spot for the settlement here of the family, David Ankeney having decided to move over here into the country out of which such excellent reports were coming back East. In 1830 David Ankeney followed with the rest of the family and settled on a tract of land in Madison county, not far east of South Charleston, and there he and his sons put out some corn, but not liking that point on account of the level ground, presently moved with his family, in the fall of that same year, down into Greene county and bought a tract of two hundred and ten acres in the Alpha neighborhood in Beavercreek township and there decided to locate. He did not live long, however, to enjoy his new home or to develop the same in accordance with his expectations, for on the evening of November 2 of that same year he died suddenly, in the forty-second year of his age, and his widow was left with the ten children to carry out the plans which the family had made for the establishment of a permanent home in this county. She was born, Elizabeth Miller, in Maryland, in the Hagerstown neighborhood in Washington county, and survived her husband for more than twenty years, her death occurring on December 23, 1852, she then being sixty-two years of age.   The progenitor of this branch of the Ankeney family in America was   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 881   Dewalt Ankeney, who in 1746, he then having just reached the age of conscription in one of the kingdoms of what is now Germany, was brought to this country by his maternal uncle, Casper Dewalt, in order to keep the lad out of the army into which all his older brothers had been drafted, Uncle Casper Dewalt and his nephew embarking at Rotterdam, Holland, and coming over on the vessel "Neptune" and landing at the port of Philadelphia. Dewalt Ankeney, then about eighteen years of age, was trained to the trade of shoemaking and later, during the Revolutionary. War, made shoes for Washington's soldiers at Valley Forge. He became a farmer and the owner of a tract of land in the vicinity of Clear Springs, in Washington county, Maryland, where his last days were spent. Dewalt Ankeney was twice married, his first wife having been Mary Jane Dormer, by whom he had two children, Peter and Christian. His second wife was Elizabeth Frederick and by that union he was the father of ten children, five sons, John; Henry, David, Jacob and George, and five daughters. It is well to note, in passing, that the Dewalts, the family of Dewalt Ankeney's mother, were French and had fled from France into Germany during the time of the Huguenot persecution. Dewalt Ankeney became a considerable landowner, his large farm being given the name of "Wellphased," and his last will and testament disposing of his estate is now in the possession of his great-greatgrandson, Albert Ankeney, of this county, the subject of this biographical review.   Henry Ankeney, second son of Dewalt and Elizabeth (Frederick) Ankeney, grew up on the home farm in the Clear Spring neighborhood in Maryland and after his marriage established his home on a farm in that same neighborhood and became a farmer on his own account. Among his sons was David Ankeney, the Ohio pioneer, whose plans for developing a farm in Greene county were suddenly checked by his death in 1830, as set out above,' and whose body' for nearly ninety years has been at rest in the Xenia cemetery, but whose name is perpetuated in this section and whose memory is cherished by the large connection of the Ankeneys and related .families based upon his establishment of his home here in pioneer days.   As the eldest of the ten children left fatherless by the death of David Ankeney, Samuel Ankeney assumed the responsibility of developing the home place and in assisting his widowed mother to keep the family together. He married Margaret Gettard, who was born in the neighboring county of Warren and who had come up here into Greene county as a child with her parents, Henry and Catherine (Catick) Gettard, the family settling in Beavercreek township. After his marriage Samuel Ankeney continued his home on the home farm, of which he eventually became sole proprietor, and later became the owner of the neighboring farm of two hundred and seven-   (55)   882 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   teen acres now owned by his son Horace, thus being the owner of four hundred and twenty-seven acres of land. On that place he spent his last days, his death occurring in the year 1867, he then being fifty-nine years of age. Samuel Ankeney and his wife were members of the Beaver Reformed church and he was for years one of the officers in the same. Politically, he was a Republican. His widow survived him for more than thirty years, her death occurring in 1898, she then being eighty-five years of age, and her body was laid beside that of her husband in the Beaver cemetery. They were the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being Joan, widow of Frederick C. Trebein, and who is making her home with a daughter in the South ; Elizabeth, now making her home at Xenia, widow of the Rev. W. G. Morehead, who was for years president of the Xenia Theological Seminary, and Horace, former representative in the Legislature from this district and the owner of the farm adjoining that of his brother Albert.   Albert Ankeney, elder son and third child of Samuel and Margaret (Gettard) Ankeney, was born on the place on which he is now living and which he for years has owned, December 15, 1846, and has always lived there. The house in which he was born was a large two-story log house with a veranda on two sides, overlooking the beautiful valley of the Little Miami, and which in its days was regarded as a rather pretentious dwelling house. In 1872 he built on the same farm the brick house in which he is now living and which has ever since served as a place of residence for himself and family. Upon completing the course in the old Beaver grade school Albert Ankeney entered Miami University and was graduated from that institution in 1868, the year in which he cast his first vote and the year in which he was married. Their father having died the year previously, Albert Ankeney and his brother Horace divided the estate, buying the interests held by their sisters, and in the division Albert acquired the home place of two hundred and ten acres and his brother, the farm adjoining, which their father had bought some time after beginning his operations in this county, and the brothers thus have ever since carried on their operations side by side. Since 1873 Mr. Ankeney has given considerable attention to the breeding of pure-bred Shorthorn cattle. He is a Republican and for four terms served as trustee of Beavercreek township. Of late years Mr. Ankeney has been living more or less retired from the active duties of the farm, the operations of the same having been taken over by his sons, Horace M. and Albert S. Ankeney.   On November 5, 1868, Albert Ankeney was united in marriage to Alice Maude Stoddard, who was born at Oxford, in Butler county, this state, daughter of Prof. Orange. N. and Eliza (Wheeler) Stoddard, whose last days were spent at Wooster, this state. Prof. Orange Nash Stoddard at   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 883   the time of his daughter's marriage to Mr. Ankeney was professor of science in Miami University at Oxford, but later transferred his connection to Wooster University and at the seat of the latter institution he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. To Albert and Alice M. (Stoddard) Ankeney eight children have been born, namely : Mary, who married Dr. J. L. Phythian, now living at Newport, KenKtucky, and has one child, a daughter, Margaret T.; Samuel, who died at the age of four years; Horace M., who married Mrs. Nora Slifer and owns and is operating a part of the home farm, living in a house nearby the old home place; Helen and Josephine, both also at home ; an infant who lived but a few days; Margaret, who died at the age of twelve years, and Albert S., who completed his schooling at Heidelberg College at Springfield and is now giving his attention to the home farm. The Ankeneys are members of the Beaver Reformed church and for thirty-five years Mr. Ankeney has been an elder in the same. Their home is on rural mail route No. 10 out of Xenia.   DANIEL M. BAILEY.   Daniel M. Bailey, former trustee of Silvercreek township and one of the well-to-do farmers of that township, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life with the exception of a Short period during the days of his early childhood when his parents were living in Illinois. He was born at Port William, in the county of Clinton, September 18, 1846, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Moorman) Bailey, both of whom also were born in this state, the latter in Silvercreek township, this county, daughter of Micajah and Anna (Johnson) Moorman, Virginians, who had come to this county during pioneer days. Micajah Moorman was twice married and was the father of seven children, three sons and four daughters. The Moormans were Quakers.   Daniel Bailey was one of the six children born to his parents, who were Virginians and early settlers in this part of Ohio, the other children having been Robert, James, Louisa, Almeda and Judith. James's daughter, Ester, was the wife of Governor Stubbs of Kansas. Reared in this state, Daniel Bailey was trained to the trade of brickmason and followed that trade until his death, working in and around Jamestown, Morrow and Port William, and during the time of his residence in this county got a piece of land, male a clearing and established a home in the woods in Silvercreek township, later moving with his family to Watseka, Illinois, where he was killed by an accident at a mill-raising in 1850.. His widow returned with her family to this county, driving through, and her last days were spent here, she being sixty-three years of age at the time of her death. To Daniel and Elizabeth (Moor-   884 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   man) Bailey nine children were born, namely : Susanna, deceased ; Almeda, deceased; Granison, who served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, being mustered out as captain of Company H, Third Missouri Cavalry, later conducted a grocery store at Jamestown, from which place he moved to the old Moorman place and died while on a visit to Chicago ; Barcley, who also served as a Union soldier, a member of Company A, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and spent his last days on a farm in the Jamestown neighborhood in Silvercreek township; Elizabeth, now living at Eureka, Kansas, widow of David Fogle ; Addison, who died in childhood; Daniel M., the subject of this biographical sketch ; Josiah, deceased, and Isaac, who died in infancy.   Daniel M. Bailey was but a child when his widowed mother returned to this county from Illinois with her family. He thus grew up here, receiving his schooling in the local schools and from the days of his boyhood became accustomed to "doing for himself." Among the boyhood "jobs" he held was one as a teamster at Camp Nelson in 1861 when he was but fifteen years of age, he having gone there with his brother Barcley to haul supplies for the soldiers. He later was employed for a year or more as a brakeman on the Erie railroad. After his marriage he began farming on a place south of where he is now living and was there for three years, at the end of which time he bought a fifty-acre farm in that same neighborhood and there made his home until 1887, in which year he bought the farm on which he is now living, the old Smith place, and has ever since made his home there. Mr. Bailey has an excellent farm of one hundred and twenty acres and has made numerous substantial improvements. For the past four years or more Mr. Bailey has been living retired from the labors of the farm. He is a Republican, having cast his first ballot for U. S. Grant, for President, and never missed an election since. For some time he served as director of schools in his home district and as trustee of the township.   In 1871 Daniel M. Bailey was united in marriage to Flora Glass, Who was born in Silvercreek township, this county, daughter of Vincent and Delilah (Stanley) Glass, the latter of whom was born in Madison county, this state, September 15, 1815, daughter of John and Susanna (Beaver) Stanley who had come to Ohio from Virginia and settled in Madison county, later moving to the Mechanicsburg neighborhood in Champaign county. John Stanley and his wife were the parents of twelve children. Vincent Glass was born in Campbell county, Virginia, June 3, 1815, the fourth son and the sixth of the twelve children born to his parents, William and Lovina (Ross) Glass, who came with their family to Ohio in the second decade of the past century and established their home in Silvercreek township, this county, where they spent the remainder of their lives, William Glass living to the age of eighty-three years and his wife, eighty-four. Vincent Glass   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 885   was but a lad when he came to this county with his parents and here he grew to manhood and in turn established a home of his own and became a well-to-do landowner in Silvercreek township. To Vincent and Delilah (Stanley) Glass were born ten children, of whom Mrs. Bailey was the eighth in order of birth, the others having been Susanna, Louisa, James A., Elias, William, Lucinda, Emaline, Rebecca and Charles, all of whom grew to maturity and married.   To Daniel M. and Flora (Glass) Bailey have been born five children, daughters all, namely : Carrie, who died at the age of twenty years; Della, wife of C. M. Burr, a Silvercreek township farmer; Ida, wife of Wilbur Hughes, who also is farming in Silvercreek township; Bertha, wife of Lee Earley, who is' engaged in the grain business at Bowersville, and Dora, wife of Bonner Jones, a Silvercreek township farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey arc members of the Disciples church, he having served as elder almost fifty years and have ever taken an interested part in the general good works of the community.   SEYMOUR WADE.   Seymour Wade, trustee of Silvercreek township and one of the progressive farmers of the Jamestown neighborhood, owner of a pleasant home in the outskirts of the village and of an excellent farm of one hundred and fifty acres in the neighboring township of Jefferson, is a native son of Ohio and a resident of Greene county since the spring of 1894. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of the city of Wilmington, in the county of Clinton, August 30, 1865, son of James R. and Martha C. (Sherman) Wade, both of whom were born in that same county, the former in 1843 and the latter, August 30, 1845.   James R. Wade was reared as a farmer and continued engaged in that vocation all his life, becoming the owner of an excellent farm in the vicinity of Wilmington, where he spent his last days, his death occurring on July 8, 1901. His widow survived him for more than ten years, her death occurring on March 18, 1912. They were the parents of seven children, all of whom are living, namely : Seymour, the immediate subject of this biographical sketch ; Charles, born on August 26, 1866; Joseph, June 7, 1870, George W., September 20, 1872; Laura E., August 17, 1875; Carrie, March 10. 1878, and Cora, April 13, 1880.   Seymour Wade was reared on the home farm in the neighborhood of Wilmington, receiving his schooling in the schools of that city, and remained at home until his marriage in the fall of 1888, he then being twenty-three years of age. He then became engaged in farming on his own account in his home county and there remained until the spring of 1894, when he bought   886 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   a farm of one hundred and fifty acres in Jefferson township, and on March 11 of that year took possession of the same, continuing to make his home there until in October, 1912, when he bought a tract of a fraction less than twenty-one acres just on the north edge of the corporation line of the village of Jamestown and moved to the same. Mr. Wade continues to operate both tracts and has done well in his operations. Mr. Wade is serving as trustee of Silvercreek township, rendering a useful public service in that connection.   On November 14, 1888, in Greene county, Seymour Wade was united in marriage to Mary Olive Hawes, who was born in Greene county, a daughter of James M. and Nancy (Parker) Hawes, both of whom were born in Clinton county, the former on February 4, 1840, and the latter, January 7, 1840. Mr. Hawes died on September 3, 1912, and his widow, December 29, 1916. James M. Hawes enlisted in Company E, Ninety-fourth Ohio Regiment, August 9, 1862, and because of disability was discharged February 2. 1865. In August, 1865, he married Nancy Parker and they settled in Greene county, where they spent the rest of their lives, he dying on September 3, 1912, and she, on December 28, 1916. They were the parents of three daughters, Mrs. Wade having had two sisters, Edna and Cora, the latter of whom is still living, the wife of David Lynch, of Jefferson township, this county. Edna Hawes married Joseph Cory and both she and her husband died on the same day, August 12, 1912, leaving one child, a son, Arthur Milton Cory, who is now making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Wade. The Wades are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.   DANIEL BENJAMIN EARLY.   Daniel Benjamin Early, one of Greene county's substantial farmers, now living retired in the pleasant village of Bowersville, was born on a farm in Jefferson township and has lived in this county all his life. He is the son of Daniel Early, whose last days were spent at Bowersville, to which place he had retired upon leaving the farm.   Daniel Early was born on February 18, 1830, a son of Daniel and Rachel (Hesidine) Early, both of whom were born in. Kentucky, who had come to Ohio and had established their home, the former dying at the age of sixty-nine years and the latter, at the age of seventy-three. They were the parents of three children, those besides Daniel having been John, who married Agnes Shinn and continued farming until 1890, when he moved to Washington Court House, and Sallie, who married John Carlisle and in 1885 moved to Greenfield, where both she and her husband spent the remainder of their lives. In 1855 Daniel Early, Jr., came to Greene county and located on a farm four miles from Bowersville, in Jefferson township.   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 887   where he continued engaged in farming until his retirement and removal to Bowersville, where he and his wife spent the rest of their lives, his death occurring there in 1900. His widow survived him for ten years and was sixty-seven years of age at the time of her death in 1910. They were members of the Methodist Protestant church and were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being the following : Lavina, who married Henry Allen Bingaman, a farmer of Jefferson township, and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased ; Rosie, who is now living at Bowersville, widow of David Haughey; Mary A., now living in Maryland, widow of William Lewis, and Clara, wife of A. B. Lewis, a farmer living west of Bowersville in Jefferson township.   Daniel B. Early was reared on the home farm in Jefferson township, receiving their schooling in the neighborhood district school, and remained at home until his marriage in the spring of 1877, when he located on a farm west of Bowersville and there established his home, continuing to make that his place of residence until 1906, in which year he bought a house in Bowersville, moved to that village and has since made his home there. He still owns his farm of one hundred and sixty acres and takes a proper interest in the operation of the same.   On March 17, 1877, Daniel B. Early was united in marriage to Ella May Fisher, who was born in Highland county, this state, daughter of Sanford and Lucinda (Schermerhorn) Fisher, both of whom also were born in that county, but who in later life made their home at Bowersville in this county. Mrs. Lucinda Fisher died in 1894 at the age of fifty years and Mr. Fisher is still living. He is a member of the Reformed church, as was his wife, and they were the parents of two children, Mrs. Early having a brother, George Lewis Fisher, born in 1862, who became a resident of Xenia in 1880, married Rosa Tillif and is now connected with the service of the traction line.   To Daniel B. and Ella M. (Fisher) Early five children have been born, namely : Alice, who married Frank Beard, a farmer living east of Bowersville, and has three children, Wilbur, Ona and Bernice ; Emma, wife of Lisle Conner, a Ross township farmer ; Daniel Lee Early, grain dealer at Bowersville, who bought the elevator there in 1904, and who married Bertha Bailey, daughter of D. M. Bailey, of Silvercreek township, and has two sons, Eldon and Paul; Rosie, who married Lester Bradds, of Upland, Indiana, and who now, with her husband, is attending Taylor University, she studying music there and he taking a theological course with a view to entering the ministry ; and Elvie, wife of Ray Garringer, a farmer, living in the neighboring county of Fayette. Mr. and Mrs. Early are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bowersville and Mr. Early is an ardent Prohibitionist.   888 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   JAMES M. TIDD.   James M. Tidd, a Silvercreek township farmer and the proprietor of a well-kept farm on rural mail route No. 2 out of Jamestown, has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of Washington Court House, in the county of Fayette, August 21, 1868, son of William W. and Lavina (Glass) Tidd, the latter of whom was born on the farm on which her son James M. is now living, a daughter of William and Lucinda (Stanley) Glass, both members of pioneer families in Greene county and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume.   William W. Tidd was born in Pocahontas county, Virginia, in 184o, and was ten years of age when his parents, John B. Tidd and wife, came to Ohio with their family and settled on the Dawson land in this county, their first home here being made in an old log house that had been built for church purposes. John B. Tidd cleared a hundred acres of land there, but later disposed of his interests in this county and moved over into Fayette county, where he got another farm and where he spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife were members of the Church of Christ and their children Were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, of whom William W. was the second in order of birth, the others being Josiah, who married Mary Johnson and continued farming the home place ; Samuel, who married Lucinda Glass and moved to Delaware county, Indiana ; Charles, who married Cynthia Robinson and continued farming ; Newton, who married Arminta Steward and made his home in Indiana; Hamilton, who died unmarried, and Mary, who married Bascom Williams. Reared as a farmer, William W. Tidd followed that vocation all his life. For seven years after his marriage to Lavina Glass he made his home in Fayette county and then for three years was engaged in farming in Silvercreek township, this county, later returning to Fayette county, where he made his home for sixteen years, at the end of which time he. returned to Greene county and bought the farm on which his wife was born, a portion of the old Glass estate, now owned by his son James M., and there he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on March 12, 1911, he then being seventy-one years of age. His widow survived him for five years, her death occurring March 12, 1916, she then being seventy-four years of age. William W. Tidd was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Disciples church at Jamestown. They had two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Myrtle, wife of Alva Lucas, a farmer, living in the vicinity of Mechanicsburg, this state.   James M. Tidd was reared on the farm, receiving his schooling in the local schools, and as the only son of his father, was a valuable aid to the latter even from the days of his boyhood. After his marriage he con-   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 889   tinued to reside on the home farm, taking charge of the same after his father's retirement from active labor, and in time bought the farm and has since been operating it. In addition to his general farming he has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock and is doing well.   On July 8, 1889, James M. Tidd was united in marriage to Retta Sodders, who was born July 20, 1871, at West Lancaster, in Fayette county, this state, daughter of A. J. Sodders and wife, the former of whom, a veteran of the Civil War, was engaged in the grocery business there, and to this union two children have been born, Bessie, who for five years was engaged in teaching school in this county and who married Ernest E. Hill, a farmer living in New Jasper township, two miles south of Jamestown, and Ray B., a Jefferson township farmer, living east of Bowersville, who married Chloe Garringer and has one daughter, Helen Louise. Mr. Tidd is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Disciples church at Jamestown.   DANIEL OSCO SPAHR.   Daniel Osco Spahr, one of the substantial farmers of New Jasper township and former trustee of that township, now living retired in the village of New Jasper, was born in that township, on February 15, 1863, son of Daniel Erwin and Nancy (Fudge) Spahr, both of whom were born in that same neighborhood and who spent all their lives there, the latter dying in December, 1912. She was born in the neighborhood of the Hazlitt school house on January 28, 1832, daughter of George Fudge and wife, who were the parents of seven children and both of whom died of typhoid fever in the early '50s.   Daniel Erwin Spahr, who died at his home in New Jasper township on August 2, 1891, was born on a farm about a mile east of the place on which he died, August 1, 1830, son of William and Sarah (Smith) Spahr, the latter of Whom was born in Hardin county, Virginia, in September, 1807, and .died at her home in this county on March 25, 1888. She was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Kimble) Smith, who came with the Philip Spahr family to Ohio from Virginia in 1814 and further reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume. William Spahr was born at Morefield, in Hardin county, Virginia, now included in West Virginia, May 3, 1805, and died at his home in this county on October 1, 1891. He was a son of Philip and Mary (Shook) Spahr, the former of whom was a son of John Spahr, a native of Germany. In 1814 Philip Spahr and his family came to Ohio and settled on Paint creek, in the neighboring county of Fayette, but a year or two later came over into Greene county and established their home in what is now New Jasper township. Philip Spahr had a farm of three hundred acres just south of the present village of New Jasper. He was a   890 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   Whig and he and his wife were earnest Methodists. They were the parents of ten children, of whom William, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the last-born, the others having been John, who made his home in Silvercreek township; David, who died six months after his marriage to Catherine Tressler ; Eli, whose last days were spent in Jay county, Indiana ; Gideon, who made his home in Sugarcreek township; James, who became a farmer in Jay county, Indiana ; Mary, who married Judge Whiteman and also moved to Jay county, Indiana ; Nancy, who married Joseph Lyons and moved to that same country; Dorcas, who married the Rev. James Smith, a Methodist minister, and Temperance, who married Judge John Fudge, for years an associate judge of the court of Greene county.   William Spahr was about ten years of age when his parents settled in this county and here he grew to manhood. After his marriage to Sarah Smith he established his home on a farm he had bought in the vicinity of his father's place and in 185o built on that place, one mile south of the village of New Jasper, the substantial old red brick house that is still serving as a dwelling house there. In addition to his farm of more than one hundred and fifty acres there he owned a farm of four hundred acres in Jay county, Indiana. He was originally a Whig, later a Republican, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. On December 12, 1829, William Spahr was united in marriage to Sarah Smith and to that union were born twelve children, of whom Daniel E., father of the subject of this sketch, was the second in order of birth (with his twin brother, Philip D.), the others being Jacob L., who moved to Jay. county, Indiana, where he enlisted as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War and died in service in 1863 ; Philip D., twin brother of Daniel E., who became a substantial farmer in New Jasper township and there died in 1914; ; Mary, who married C. Martin, a New Jasper township farmer, and whose last days also were spent in that township; Elizabeth A., who married the Rev. Cornelius Turner, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church ; Sarah Temperance, who married Barley Gates ; the Rev. William E. Spahr, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, who died unmarried at the age of forty-six years ; Katurah E. and Catherine L., twins, both now deceased, the former of whom married James Saville and moved to Washington county, Iowa, and the latter of whom married John Bales, who is now living in Xenia ; Susan T., who died unmarried at the age of twenty-three years ; Phoebe A., who is still living on her farm in New Jasper township, widow of John M. Boots, and David C., a widower and well-to-do farmer, who is now making his home with his sister, Mrs. Boots.   Daniel E. Spahr grew up on the home farm and received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood. On August 26, 1852, he married Nancy Fudge and later established his home on the farm of one hundred and   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 891   seven acres he had bought a half mile east of his father's place and there spent the rest of his life. He was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the New Jasper Methodist Episcopal church, he being for years a teacher in the Sunday school. To Daniel E. and Nancy (Fudge) Spahr were born six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being the following : George H., a school teacher and landowner, who died at Warren, Indiana, in July, 1917; William A., a retired farmer of this county, now living at New Jasper ; Albert H., also a retired farmer, now living at Dayton ; Charles E., a farmer, living at Bowersville, and Sarah C., wife of George Camden, of New Jasper.   Daniel O. Spahr was reared on the home farm and received a good education in the schools of that neighborhood. When twenty years of age he was given charge of his father's farm and after his marriage, when twenty-two years of age, continued to make his home there, operating the farm until his father's death, after which he rented the place from his mother and continued to live there until 1906, when he bought a tract of one hundred and fifty-two acres of his grandfather Spahr's old place west of there and on that place made his home until 1915, when he turned the management of the farm over to his son, Raymond G. Spahr, and moved to the village of New Jasper, where he had since made his home. Mr. Spahr is an ardent Republican. For some time he served as constable of the township and then was elected township trustee, a position, he held by successive re-elections for thirteen years and to the duties of which important office he gave his most intelligent and painstaking attention. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at New Jasper and he is one of the stewards of the church.   On January 20, 1886, Daniel O. Spahr was united in marriage to Clara A. Gordon, who was born at Grape Grove, in Ross township, this county, daughter of Enos and Mary Jane (Downey) .Gordon, and to this union six children have been born, namely : Roy C., born on June 12, 1887, who completed his schooling at Antioch College and for a time taught school, now living at Xenia, who married Bessie Mitchner and has two children, Helen and Marvin; Bessie Belle, July 27, 1888, who also finished her schooling at Antioch and for a time taught school and who married Homer Rogers, a bookkeeper in the Peoples Bank at Jamestown, and has one child, a son, Leslie; Lela Edna, September 3, 1889, who also attended Antioch and taught school and who married Robie Bartlett, of Xenia township, and has four children, Melville; Williard, Lenora and Vesper ; Raymond G., September 23, 1890, who, as noted above, is now operating his father's farm and who married Clara Conklin and has one child, a son, Russell ; Russell Osco, April 20, 1898, who died on November 9, 1899; and Reva Clare, April 1, 1903, now a student in the Xenia high school.   892 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   Enos Gordon, father of Mrs. Spahr, was born in the neighboring county of Clark on October 15, 1842, and died at his home in Jamestown, this county, where his widow now lives, December 2, 1916. Mrs. Gordon was born in Ross township, this county, October 3, 1842, and has lived in this county all her life. Enos Gordon was a son of George and Margaret Ann (Miller) Gordon, both of whom were born in the Donnelsville neighborhood in Bethel township, Clark county, and who not long after their marriage became residents of Ross township, this county. After his marriage Enos Gordon for some time continued farming in Ross township and then bought a farm in Silvercreek township, making his home there until his retirement and removal to Jamestown, where his last days were spent and where his widow is still living. To Enos and Mary (Downey) Gordon were born five children, those besides Mrs. Spahr, the eldest, being Emma, wife of George A. Miller; of Marion county, Illinois; Viola, who is living in New Jasper township, widow of Addison Strong; Luella, wife of Elmer Hargrave, of Sabina, in the neighboring county of Clinton, and Archie, a dairyman and stock buyer at Jamestown.   H. GLEN SHEPARD, D. V. S.   H. Glen Shepard, well-known veterinary surgeon at Osborn, was born on a farm in Wayne township, Montgomery county, January 14, 1876, son and only child of John William and Naomi Shepard, both of whom were born in that same county and are still living there on a farm.   Reared on the home farm, H. Glen Shepard received his schooling in the schools of his home neighborhood and was from boyhood a valued assistant to his father on the farm. He later became employed with the Davis Bicycle .Company and while thus engaged became one of the most famous amateur bicycle racers in the Middle West, in 1897 winning the championship in the tri-state (Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky) road race between Dayton and Cincinnati. For three years (1896-98) Mr. Shepard continued active as a bicycle racer and during that period broke three records. In the meantime he had been turning his attention from the bicycle to the horse and entered the veterinary department of Ohio State University at Columbus, being graduated from that institution in 1904, with the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery. The Doctor opened an office at Osborn and has ever since been engaged in the veterinary practice there, having had an extensive practice throughout the counties of Greene, Montgomery Miami and Clark.   On October 30, 1904, Dr. H. Glen Shepard was united in marriage to Jennie Edna Hare, who was born in Columbus, this state, daughter of Edward and Martha Hare, the former of whom was born at Reading,   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 893   Pennsylvania, and the latter, at Beecher City, Illinois, who, after their marriage, located at Columbus, where Edward Hare spent his last days and where his widow is still living. Doctor and Mrs. Shepard have one child, a daughter, Helen Verna. The Doctor is a Republican and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past noble grand of the same; a member of the Woodmen of the World, through all the chairs of which he also has passed, and is also a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.   SILAS M. MURDOCK.   Silas M. Murdock, one of the best-known and most substantial farmers of Cedarville township and the proprietor of the old Judge Kyle homestead place, in that township, was born in Wayne township, in the county of Clinton, but has been a resident of Greene county and of the Cedarville neighborhood ever since he was a boy. He was born on July 4, 1848, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Richards) Murdock, both of whom were born in the same parish, in the vicinity of Ballymony, in County Antrim, Ireland, and whose last days were spent in the village of Cedarville, in this county.   Robert Murdock was a son of John Murdock and wife, who spent all their lives in their native Ireland and who were the parents of eight children, Martha, Robert, Jane, William, John, Thomas, Nancy and another, all of whom came to the United States save William and Nancy. Robert Murdock was twenty years of age when he came to this country in 1825, landing in the city of Philadelphia, where he secured employment. There he met and married Elizabeth Richards, who was born in the same parish as was he, but whom he had never met in the old country. After their marriage, about the year 1835, Robert Murdock and his wife came to Ohio and located in Wayne township, Clinton county, where Robert Murdock bought a tract of two hundred and twenty-five acres, on which he continued to reside until he sold the place and came with his family to Greene county, buying a farm of one hundred and seventeen acres in Cedarville township, where he made his home until his retirement from the farm and removal to Cedarville, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, his death occurring there in 1876, he then being seventy-five years of age. His widow survived him for nearly twenty years, her death occurring in 1895, she then being eighty-two years of age. Robert Murdock and his wife were members of the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) church and their children were reared in accordance with the rigid tenets of that faith. There were six of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born, the others being as follow : John, now deceased, who formerly was the owner of the farm on which Silas M. Murdock now lives ; the Rev. David Murdock, a   894 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   minister of the Reformed Presbyterian church, now living retired at Howard Lake, Minnesota ; Mary, unmarried, who is living at Cedarville ; Martha, now deceased, who was the wife of James McMillan, a farmer living two or three miles east of Cedarville, and Hugh, a well-known Cedarville township farmer, -a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume.   Silas M. Murdock was born in a log house and his first schooling was received in a little log school house in Wayne township, Clinton county. He was nine years of age when his parents moved with their family into Greene county and the rest of his schooling was received in the Kyle school house in Cedarville township. As the youngest son, he remained on the farm during the days of his young manhood and after his marriage in 1871 he continued to make his home there, his father retiring and moving to Cedarville about that time. His first wife died in 1879 and the next year he left the farm and went to Cedarville, where he remained until 1887, when he bought from his brother John the farm on which he ever since has made his home, the old Judge Kyle place of one hundred and thirty-eight acres on the Kyle road in Cedarville township, and which John Murdock had improved in excellent shape, having erected there in 1883 a fine .brick house, which still stands. The old barn on the place was destroyed by fire in 1908 and in that same year Mr. Murdock erected a substantial new barn. Mr. Murdock is progressive and in addition to his general farming he has given considerable attention to the raising of Merino sheep.   Mr. Murdock has been twice married. On January 13, 1871, he was united in marriage to Jennie Little, daughter of Robert and Mary Little, and to that union was born a son, Robert Walter Little, on June 19, 1875, who died at his father's home, unmarried, July 30, 1917. Mrs. Jennie Murdock died on March 4, 1879, and on October 18, 1883, Mr. Murdock married Mary Helen Andrew, who was born at Preston, Indiana, August 19, 1846, daughter of Thomas Scott and Jane Elder (McClellan) Andrew, the former of whom was born in this county and the latter, at Wooster, in Wayne county, this state. Thomas Scott Andrew was born on a pioneer farm in Xenia township, this county, in 1816, son of James Andrew and wife, the latter of whom was a Scott, who came to Greene county from the Carolinas and established their home on a farm on the Fairfield pike in Xenia township in the first decade of the past century. James Andrew and his wife were Seceders and active members of the old church of that faith in the community in which they lived. Thomas S. Andrew grew to manhood on the old home place and married Jane Elder. McClellan. who was born at Wooster in 1817, daughter of John McClellan end wife, the latter of whom was an Elder, natives of Scotland, who had come to Greene county from Wayne county and had settled on a farm five miles south of Xenia. After his marriage Thomas S. Andrew went to Indiana, where he remained for two or   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 895   three years, at the end of which time he returned to this county and bought a farm of one hundred and fifty-two acres three miles west of Cedarville, in the township of that name, where he made his home until 1867, when he disposed of his interests there and moved over into Montgomery county, where he bought another farm and where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1888. His widow survived him for six years, her death occurring in 1894. They were members of the United Presbyterian church. There were five of their children, of whom Mrs. Murdock was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow : John, now deceased, a veteran of the Civil War, who was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro and who upon his return from the army went to St. I.ouis, where he engaged in the drug business and where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1904 ; James H. and Thomas Beveridge, who are engaged in the mercantile business at Cedarville, under the firm name of Andrew Brothers, and Elizabeth, wife of W. B. Stevenson, of Cedarville.   To Silas M. and Mary Helen (Andrew) Murdock three children have been born, namely : Ralph Andrew Murdock, unmarried, who is operating a garage at. Cedarville, continuing to make his home with his parents; Ina May, who was graduated from Cedarville College in 1907 and is at home, and Elizabeth Jane, wife of the Rev. Walter W. Horton, pastor of the United Presbyterian church at Alberton, Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Murdock are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Cedarville.   JOHN F. COY.   John F. Coy, farmer and cement contractor, living on rural mail route No. 12 out of Dayton, a resident of Beavercreek township, this county, was born in that township on October 10, 1852, son of Jacob H. and Rebecca H. Coy, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, together with a general history of the pioneer Coy family in this county. Reared on the home farm in Beavercreek township, John F. Coy received his schooling in the common schools and after his marriage in 1877 began farming on his own account in Montgomery county and continued thus engaged until his wife's death in 1895, after which he moved to Dayton, where he became engaged in operating a sand pit. Not long afterward he took up general contracting in cement work and continued in this latter line for about seven years, or until 1912, when he returned to farming and has since made his home with his brother, Charles Coy, in Beavercreek township, later also resuming his former vocation as a cement contractor. Mr. Coy is a Republican.   In March, 1877, John F. Coy was united in marriage to Martha Ellen Merrick, who also was born in this county, daughter of John and Mary E.   896 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   (Prugh) Merrick, and who died in 1895. To that union were born three children, Arlie M., now living in Dayton, who married Stella Banky and has three children, Leona, Elmer and Orville; Lucy, wife of Van Hollingin, of Dayton, and Margaret, wife of J. T. Seber, a railroad conductor living at Dayton.   RAYMOND W. SMITH, M. D.   The late Dr. Raymond W. Smith, of Spring Valley, who died on August 18, 1916, was a native son of Ohio and had lived in this state all his life, a resident of Greene county since the days of his young manhood. He was born on a farm southeast of Hillsboro, in Highland county, November 30, 1862, son of Henry B. and Elizabeth C. (Griffith) Smith, both of whom also were born in Highland county, who are now living retired at Spring Valley, in this county, where they have resided since 1905.   Henry B. Smith was born on July 9, 1832, son of Henry and Lydia (Bane) Smith, the former of whom was a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland, who came to Ohio in 1815, by way of Kentucky, and settled on a farm in the neighborhood of Hillsboro, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and were the parents of ten children, Aquilla, Parmelia, Elizabeth, John, Richard, Clinton, Catherine, Russell, Henry B. and Wesley. Henry B. Smith grew up on the home farm and remained there until his marriage in the spring of 1855, after which he located on a farm in the vicinity of the village of Marshall in his home county and there became engaged. in farming, the owner of a fine place of one hundred and three acres, on which he and his wife resided until their retirement from the farm and removal to Spring Valley in 1905. He is a Democrat and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.   It was on May 11, 1855, that Henry B. Smith was united in marriage to Elizabeth C. Griffith, who was born on a farm in the vicinity of Marshall, in Highland county, this state, daughter of William H. and Margaret D. (Howe) Griffith, the former of whom was a native of Kentucky and the latter of Virginia, who were married in Highland county, where their respective parents had settled in pioneer days. Of the eleven children born to William H. Griffith and wife five grew to maturity, those besides Mrs. Smith being R. H., Arminta, Lottie and John F. To Henry. B. and Elizabeth C. (Griffith) Smith were born ten children, nine of wohm grew to maturity, namely : Prof. Russell Smith, who married Emma Cluxton and is now living in Cleveland, a teacher in the high school in that city ; Prof. William Smith, principal of the high school at Dallas, Texas, who married Lulu McMurry, of New Jasper; Lettie, who married A. A. Monett and is   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 897   now living at Reno, Nevada; Emsley 0., deceased; Dr. Raymond W. Smith, the immediate subject of this memorial sketch; Prof. John Smith, who married Olive Tingle, also a teacher, and is now teaching in the schools of Brookville, this state; E. D. Smith, who married Martha Frazer and is engaged in the practice of law at, Xenia; Harley Smith, also of Xenia, formerly a teacher, who has been twice married, his first wife having been Emma Shidaker and his second, Mrs. Snyder; and Carrie, wife of Allan McLean, a Xenia undertaker.   Raymond W. Smith received an excellent education in the days of his youth and early began teaching school, for some years being thus engaged at New Jasper, in this county. After his marriage in 1888 he continued teaching, meanwhile giving his attention to the study of medicine, and presently entered the Louisville Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1893. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Smith located at Spring Valley, where he continued successfully engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in the summer of 1916, a period of twenty-three years of continuous practice in the same place. During that long period of unselfish labor Dr. Smith endeared himself to the whole community and his passing was sincerely mourned. The Doctor was ever a helpful force in his community and as one of the county newspapers, in an appreciation published after his death, said : "The many things of this community that he helped to formulate and mold will miss the forcefulness of his touch." The Doctor was a successful business man as well as a practitioner and besides the property he had in Spring Valley was the owner of some valuable farm lands. He was a member of the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is his widow. The Doctor's relations with his church were of a peculiarly close character and, as the newspaper appreciation above quoted said following his death : "The church of this community is at this time by his removal facing a peculiar and awful vacancy, for one of its most interested and beneficent friends has gone to take his place in the Infinite Bliss of the Great Beyond."   Since her husband's death Mrs. Smith has continued to make her home in Spring Valley, where she has long been very pleasantly situated. Doctor Smith was much attached to his home and in that connection it is not regarded as unseemly to quote further from the newspaper article above mentioned, which. said of him that "his going away from us is to leave a home and a family he most dearly loved; for the environments give evidence that no sacrifice was too great for him to make." Mrs. Smith was married on August 23, 1888. She was born in this county, Mattie D. Mann, daughter   (56)   898 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   of George and Rachel (Kearns) Mann, the former of whom also was born in this county, son of pioneer parents in Spring Valley township, and the latter in the vicinity of Newark, this state. George Mann was a successful farmer in the vicinity of New Burlington. He and his wife were the parents of four children, as will be noted in a history of the Mann family in this county set out elsewhere in this volume. To Doctor and Mrs. Smith were born two sons, Carl Emsley and George Henry, the latter of whom received his schooling in the Spring Valley schools, the Xenia high school and at Cedarville College and is now living at home. Carl Emsley Smith, who was educated at Antioch College and at the Ohio State University, is now (1918) serving with the National Army, attached to the supply corps of the Three Hundred and Twenty-second United .States Field Artillery, in the war against Germany.   CHARLES N. SMITH.   Charles N. Smith, a veteran of the Civil War and one of the best-known citizens of Greene county, a retired farmer and active trader, now living at Jamestown, is a native son of this county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in New Jasper township on November 9, 1841, son of Daniel and Lucinda (Spahr) Smith, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a member of one of the first families to settle in Xenia township.   Daniel Smith was born in Virginia in 1803 and was but three months of age when his parents came to Ohio with their family and settled in Greene county, where he grew to manhood and became a successful farmer, the proprietor of a farm of five hundred or six hundred acres. Daniel Smith died on the home farm in New Jasper township about 1873. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow : Silas, deceased; James M., deceased; David S., deceased; Mrs. Mary E. Brown, of New Jasper township; Daniel B., of Xenia; Jacob N., of Xenia ; Mrs. Alice St. John, deceased, and Mathias, the present superintendent of the county farm.   Reared on the home farm in New Jasper township, Charles N. Smith received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and was early trained in the ways of practical farming. He was but nineteen years .of age when the Civil War broke out and on October 9, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until his honorable discharge in January, 1864. He immediately re-enlisted and continued serving until the close of the war, receiving his final discharge on July 25, 1865, after a service of nearly four years. Mr.   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 899   Smith participated in Sherman's memorable march to the sea, was captured by the enemy and was confined in Libby Prison, having been one of the last prisoners released from that historic place of detention. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Smith returned home and not long afterward was married and settled down on his grandfather's old place in New Jasper township, where he continued successfully engaged in farming and trading until his retirement from the farm and removal about 1890 to the village of Jamestown, where he ever since has made his home. For the past thirty-five years Mr. Smith has served as assessor of the township. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and, fraternally, is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the oldest member of the latter order in Greene county. Mr. Smith is an ardent disciple of Izaak Walton, it being his custom to go away to Michigan every summer on a fishing trip..   As noted above, it was not long after his return from the army that Mr. Smith was married. His wife died at Jamestown on April 15, 1908. She also was born in this county, Hulda W. Browser, daughter of Thomas Y. and Sarah (Hurley) Browser. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith were born three children, Lester A., Minnie B. and Sarah L., the latter of whom is living at home with her father. Lester A. Smith, who is also living at Jamestown, married Lillian Weed and has one child, a daughter, Martha. Minnie B. Smith married Thomas Riggs, of Dayton, and has one child, a son, Jack Nelson.   ROBERT A. ROSS.   Robert A. Ross, a well-known farmer and landowner of Greene county, now. living retired at Bowersville, his farm two miles north of that village being operated by his sons, Ralph and Earl Ross, was born in Monroe county, Virginia (now in West Virginia), July 3, 1845, son of James A. and Martha (Nickell) Ross, both of whom were born in that same county, the former a son of Robert Ross, who came to Ohio and became a resident of Greene county.   James A. Ross grew up in his home county in Virginia, married there and remained there until 1847, when he came with his family to Ohio and located on a farm of two hundred and seventy-nine acres in what in 1858 came to be organized as Jefferson township, this county. That farm was partly cleared when he took possession of .it and he set about getting the place under way for cultivation, but was struck by a falling tree in 1851, receiving such injuries to his head and breast that he died eighteen months