350 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Councilman Bradfield solitary and alone protested against the resolution, exclaiming—"I go for fighting him like 'ell." The "Trestle" being no longer in danger, Col. Charlesworth put his forces in motion and marched back to Barnesville. No sooner had the Colonel and his army arrived at the town than an uncertain report became general that Morgan, having reached about the center of Harrison county, had suddenly turned south and would strike the C. 0. R. R. at or near the town of Belmont. The Colonel at once seized enough freight ears to carry his men and was soon encamped on the old Fair grounds of Belmont. The Colonel was escorted on all sides by throngs of citizens anxious for the real play of blood. The Colonel remained at Belmont until the following Sunday, but Morgan did not not come, and he, with his troops. returned to Barnesville. So the pluck and prowess of the departmental company and Capt. Eaton's militia were not put to the test by the horrors of a battle field. The citizens returned to their homes, and could only say what they would have done had Morgan come. In a few weeks after the capture of Morgan, another company of Warren township citizens was mustered into the "departmental corps," with Hamilton Eaton as captain, George Nuzum as Find and Tyson .Rowley as Second lieutenant. In the fall of 1863, the reported raid of the rebels by the way of Canada once more put the people of Ohio into a fever of excitement. The State Adjutant-General issued an order commanding the departmental companies of Warren township to march to Erie, Pa. The companies refused to obey the order, and appealed to General Brooks, at Pittsburgh, commander of the Departmental Corps, for instructions. he answered that they were not subject to state control, as they were in the service of the United States, but that they might use their own pleasure. Having received Gen. Brook's instructions, they promptly obeyed the order of the Adjutant-General, and were transported to Erie by rail. They were absent about ten days, having a good time generally, when they returned to Barnesville. They performed no other or further service, and were honorably mustered out of service at the close of the war. PIONEER LIFE. MR. JOHN REED. As an illustration of pioneer life in Warren township we present a couple of incidents in the life of Mr. John Reed, the first settler in the southwest part of the township. Mr. Reed has many descendants living in Belmont, Noble and Guernsey counties, and at the same time a wide circle of old friends and acquaintances scattered throughout those counties, so that whatever may be said of him, or related about him, cannot fail to interest many people. Mr. Reed was an old Methodist, whose conversion dated back almost to the time when the M.. E. Church was organized in the United States. He was born in "Old Virginia," and came to Warren township in 1805, locating upon section 31, where he resided until his death. So soon as enough Methodists had settled about him to form a society he .organized one, and preaching and religious worship were. held at his dwelling-house for many years. He was one of the principal agents in having Bethel Church house erected, and at the church he worshiped until he was called from his labors to his reward. The following incidents in his " life in the woods" have been kindly furnished us by one who gives them in the very words of Mr. Reed: RENCONTRE WITH A BEAR. "When I came to Warren township there was a settlement east of Barnesville and another southwest of me, near where Calais, Monroe county, now stands. These were my nearest neighbors. I built a cabin, cleared a patch, and raised a little corn, depending on my rifle for meat. I had one hog; it was a black hog. It was in a lot I had fenced tor the purpose. In the fall I went to the settlement near Calais called the Carpenter settlement. There I bought a white hog and brought it home and turned it in with the other hog. It was getting towards evening. Wolves and bears were pretty plenty in those days. I went into my cabin and sat down. I hadn't been there long till I heard a hog squealing. I bounded to the door, and saw the black hog, as I thought, dragging the white hog around the end of a log. I started for the lot. When I started the dog started also. I bid him go back, When I got there, to my surprise, it was a black bear instead of the black hog. And no sooner had 1 appeared than it quitted it and attacked me. I had nothing to defend myself with, only my feet, which 1 used pretty freely. The dog had disobeyed orders, which he seldom done, and came in reach of the scene at the same time. While I fought in front the dog attacked Bruin in the rear. After a pretty severe conflict we put the bear up a tree. I called to Patty, my wife, to bring me the gun, which she did. With a well-directed aim I brought Bruin down." AMUSING INCIDENT. "In those days there were copperhead and rattle snakes that we dreaded as well as bears and wolves. I was cutting weeds in the yard late one evening, and something started up my pants leg. The idea of copperhead instantly entered my mind. I grabbed the thing with both hands and called to Patty to come quick. She did so very fast, asking What shall I do, John?' 1 yelled, 'Unbutton my pants there it bit be quick ''there there it bit me again.' 1 finally got my pants off, and when I came to an examination of the imaginary copperhead, it proved to be a bull-frog. It had scratched me with its toe-nails, and 1 thought I was awfully snake-bitten." Among the earliest settlers in Warren township was John Doudna, who moved here from North Carolina about the year 1804. .He entered the lands on which he lived until his death, which took place in 1863, at the age of ninety years. The lands are situate one mile and a half southwest of Barnesville, on the Boston road. Bears, wolves, panthers, wild cats, wild turkeys and deer were then common in the woods; and the deer and turkey were hunted for food. He had a large flint-lock shot gun that he brought with him from North Carolina, and he often killed from three to five turkeys at a single shot with it. One of his neighbors having had some sheep killed by wolves, he and Zadock .Boswell, who lived adjoining him, set two or three guns for them. The guns were placed star fashion, their muzzles pointing inwards to a trap as a, common centre. From the trap strings extended to the triggers of the guns, so that when the bait was disturbed the triggers were pulled and the guns discharged. It was harvest time and ho was up late putting up hay; and when he had gone to the house and was about to go to bed he heard the guns go off .He immediately went to Boswell's and they went to see the result. It was entirely satisfactory as a large wolf' lay dead at the trap. At another time he and his son was hunting a hog and found a den of wolves. He left his son to watch while he went for help. When they came back he determined Putnam like, to enter the den. So. he tied a rope to his leg that those on the outside could pull hint out if he wanted out faster than he could get out himself He took his gun and crawled several feet under the rock, thinking he might shine " the old one's eyes, as the)' called it, and shoot her. But he could not see her and the litter of whelps could get so far back into the crevices of the rocks that he could not reach them. But he was not to be outdone in that way ; so he went to work and made a large stick trap, which he "set" on the side toward the den and then walled up, the mouth of the den at the sides of the trap so that the old ones could not get in or' the young ones out. In the morning four or five of the young ones were in the trap, but the old ones were no where to be seen. He then posted his friends about the den at different points and made one of the whelps howl. That brought the old one in sight of the men in ambush and a well directed shot brought her to the ground. Next night another young one was caught in the trap and the den broken up. Copperhead and rattlesnake's were very annoying to the early settlers of Warren township and they were very numerous about the residence' and farm of Mr. Doudna. One evening about dusk his daughter heard the goslings complaining in their coop. She went and lifted one of them out and it died almost instantly. Raving procured a light she looked into the coop and there lay a large rattlesnake, which no doubt was the murderer of the gosling. The feelings of the young lady can better imagined than described. LAST DEER. When Dr. Carolus Judkins and his brother Joel came to Barnesville from North Carolina, they were accompanied by a young man named Joseph Brown, a hatter by trade. Brown threw a stone with great force and precision of aim. As they were coming over the mountains one day late in the evening, an opossum was seen near the roadside, a full hundred yards PAGE 351 MISSING FROM THE REPRINT USED FOR THIS WORK 352 - HISTORY OF BEtMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES dignant exclamations. The dedication ceremonies were converted into an uproarious religious tumult. Men shouted and yelled, women screamed and uttered prayers to Dylks to have mercy upon them, while he stormed and snorted. As Dylks descended from the pulpit, McCormick exclaimed : "Behold our God!" and the believers fell on their knees and worshiped him. When partial order was restored, McCormick announced that the next meeting would he held that night a week, and the congregation was dismissed. "The violent demonstrations of the Dylksites on Sunday night disgusted some who were wavering, and drove them back to the ancient landmarks, while they increased and confirmed the indignation and hatred of the non-professors. The lofty pretensions of the avowed God were soon put to the test. We must have a miracle—some evidence of his stupendous powers must he produced—simple declamations will not do, were expressions everywhere resounding in the ears of Dylks' deciples. He saw the necessity of some act to confirm his claims, and promised to make a seamless garment, if the cloth was furnished him." Dylks was given the opportunity but never performed the miracle. The indignation of those who had not been drawn into the delusion soon grew to an organized opposition to the pretender and his faith, and culminated in a mob. Dylks was arrested, taken before a justice of the peace and tried, but the magistrate finding no law to punish him acquitted him. The mob was unsatisfied, but Dylks escaped to the woods, pursued by his shouting accusers who hurled at him a volley of stones. The pretended God had been put to flight, and for several weeks he kept himself secreted from the fury of his enemies, who hunted him as a fugitive. But his trusty followers aided him during his disappearance from the public, and their faith appeared to increase during the persecution. Finally Dylks reappeared and announced to an assemblage of his followers that he must set up his kingdom on earth, or his "New Jerusalem," at Philadelphia. At the same time he revealed to them that Rev. Davis, Michael Brill and McCormick were his apostles "Peter," "Silas" and "Paul," that they must go with him to Philadelphia to assist him to establish the "peat city," and the very next morning these deluded men started with Dylks to journey the whole distance on foot. This was in the latter part of October, and they traveled directly eastward, by the highways, by-ways, across fields, through forests, and over mountains. "When they arrived to within about three miles of the city, the road they were pursuing forked. Dylks now said : 'Faithful apostles, it is now necessary for us to separate for a time. Paul and Silas will take the south fork of this road. I and Peter will pursue the north. We meet again where the light from heaven shall shine brightest within the city, for there will New Jerusalem begin to expand to fill the earth. They parted. McCormick and Brill went on, and in due time arrived at the city, but saw no light. They journeyed the city over, but still no light. Day after day they traveled the city, street by street, trembling between hope and fear, but still found no light. The light never came, nor did Dylks or Davis. Having remained until the last vestige of hope vanished, with sorrowings and weepings, foot-sore and moneyless, they set their faces towards Baltimore, where they arrived in due time. Here, from the pledge of their tobacco crop, which was still in the hands of a commission merchant, they procured funds and went home by stage. They made a truthful report of the events of their journey, suppressing nothing. The effect of Dylks' trickery upon the brotherhood was scarcely perceptible. They had become too deeply imbued with the bewildering influence of the delusion to yield it up, no matter what the defeat to their expectations might be, or how dastardly so ever .Dylks should act. Mr. Taneyhill adds to the foregoing: "The firmness with which the followers of Dylks adherred to their faith is really surprising ; for it is very doubtful, indeed, whether any one of them ever yielded up his belief in him as verily and truly God. Although death came and to off one after another of the believers,' who, according to the faith, should never die, still those who remained were as unwavering in their belief as before." The Rev. Davis returned about seven years afterwards and preached one sermon in which he declared that he had seen Dylks ascend to heaven, and that he would return to earth to set up his kingdom. Davis then left and was never heard of afterwards. Mr. Taneyhill adds to his account an anecdote entitled " The Rattlesnake Man," which is of local interest, and is as follows : "The following incident illustrates how the children were corrupted It was communicated to me by an eye-wtiness of the facts related : "In the summer of 1850, a large man, about thirty-five years old, stopped for dinner at the hotel of Mr. Robert Mills, in Barnesville, Ohio. He was dressed in an uncolored homespun suit cut after the plain style of the old Methodists, and wore his hair and beard long and disheveled. He had a fine horse, saddle and bridle, and on the valise pad was strapped a small flat box. Having dismounted, he carefully unstrapped the box, and carried it under his arm into the sitting-room of the hotel. When invited to dinner, he took the box with him, and put it on the floor by the side of his chair. After dinner he brought the box into the bar-room, and instantly inquired if any one wished to see a rattlesnake ; if so, he would show one for a dime apiece. A purse was soon made up. The stranger opened the box, and a large rattlesnake, having eighteen rattles, emerged from it and coiled itself on the floor. It was lively, and rejoiced to see its master ; it shook its rattles, threw open its mouth, and shot out its tongue. The snake was fangless. One of the spectators seeing this inquired the cause. 'When I caught it, I took it up and knocked out the teeth with my jack-knife.' Were you not afraid to take hold of it ?' 'No ; for had it bit me, it would have done me no harm. I shall never die ; I shall live three hundred and fifty years, precisely from this year, and shall then be transferred into the New Jerusulem without seeing death.' " He then proceeded for over an hour to expatiate upon the claims of Dylks, saying that he had often seen him in the spirit —had frequent conversations with him ; and he had been informed by Dylks that before the end of the present century, he should descend to earth and establish -a kingdom of universal righteousness ; but the building of the New Jerusalem would be deferred for three hundred and fifty years. The stranger gave his name as Moses Hartley ; he resided in the mountains of what is now West Virginia. He lived in the Salesville settlement at the time .Dylks made his advent, had seen, and heard him preach. He had just been on a visit to the Temple, the only place, he said, where true religion had ever been revealed to man."' BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF WARREN TOWNSHIP. JAMES STEER, JR.-A certificate was produced at New Garden monthly meeting, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1737, for Isaac Steer, his wife, Ruth, and daughter, Catharine, from county Antrim, Ireland, dated May 7, 1736. Their son, John Steer, produced a certificate to New Garden monthly meeting, held June 30, 1729, from Ballenderry, Ireland, dated February 11, 1728. He married Rachel Evans February 21, 1732, and removed to Fairfax county, Virginia, where he died. James Steer, son of John, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married Abigail Edgerton, of Lancaster county, Pa., May 21, 1761. His son James, father of our subject, was born July 29, 1781, in Frederick county, Virginia. He was married to Ruth Wilson July 29, 1819, at Freeport, Ohio, and located at Cole-rain, 0. Ruth Wilson was born October 20, 1794, in West Pennsylvania. They had five children, as follows: Israel, born September 14, 1820 ; Abigail, February 9, 1822; Martha, October 20, 1823 ; Rachel, August 28, 1825 ; James, Jr,, our subject, born, June 17, 1827. Ruth Steer died in the year 1828. James Steer, Sr., then married Ann Lupton, at Colerain, March 30, 1830, to whom were born Nathan, December 27, 1830; Joseph, September 23, 1833. James, Sr., died May 20, 1839, and his wife departed this life February 4, 1853. James Steer, Jr., was married to Mary Green, October 26, 1853. Their children's names and births are as follows: Anna Mary, born October 24, 1854; William G., May 18, 1856; Joseph, April 14,1858; Rachel G., April 16, 1860; Elizabeth. January 7, 1863 ; Charles, February 4, 1865 ; Rebecca, November 23, 1867. Abby, January 12, 1871.. The last two are deceased. Anna Mary Steer was married October 24, 1878. Mr. Steer had always resided on the old homestead, in Colerain township, Belmont county, Ohio, until 1865, when he came to his present location in Warren township. He owns a farm of 230 acres two miles east of Barnesville. The greater portion of his farm is underlaid with excellent coal. He has a bank opened, which gives employment to several men during the winter season, and supplies several of his neighbors HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 353 with fuel. His farm is known as the old homestead. of the Green family. When Mr. Steer first located on this farm he. did an extensive business in the coal trade. He is a member of the Stillwater church: WILLIAM GREEN, a son of William and Mary Green, nee Broadwood, was a native of the county of Northumberland, England, and was born at Peckriding, near Allendale, on the 11th of December, 1790.. His mother died December 22, 1799, and his father in August, 1.817 ;. both wore interred in the Friends' burial ground, near Allendale, England. William Green, whose name stands at the head of this sketch, was married to Rachel Hoyle, daughter of John and Sarah Hoyle, on the 30th of May, 1831. Rachel was born November 4, 1799, at Roundhay, in the county of York, England. Her mother, whose family name was Pickering, departed this life in the year 1802, and was buried at .Leeds, county of York, England. Her father died in 1826, and his remains rest at Smithfield, 'Jefferson county,. Ohio. The names and births 'of the children of William and Rachel Green are ashere recorded : Hannah was born at Richmond, Jefferson county,. Ohio, February 17, 1822 ; Joseph, December 20, 1824 ; Sarah, February 19, 1826 ; Mary was born at Barnesville, Ohio, February. 20, 1828 ; Rachel, February 28, 1830 ; William, Jr., March 24, 1832 ; John, April 26,1.834 ; Rebecca, April .7, 1836; Lydia, August 6,1838; Benjamin, May 8, 1841; Josiah, April 5, 1844. Those living are Hannah, Joseph, Sarah, Mary, Rebecca and Lydia. Rachel Green. is still living and is in the eightieth year of her age. She resides with her son-in-law, James Steer.. She retains all her faculties,. except that of hearing, which has gradually become impaired. She has received second sight, and can read the finest print and the most difficult handwriting as readily as when young without the aid of spectacles. ROBERT PLUMMER, JR., is a son of Robert and Rachel Plummer and a grandson of Abraham and Sarah Plummer, whose chil- dren's names are as here given: Samuel, born June. 12, 1763; John, July 6, 1765 ; Robert, Sr. August 7, 1771. 'Robert Plum- mer, Sr., married Rachel Talbott, October 3, 1793, and became the parent of five children; as follows : Elizabeth, born January 1, 1795 ; John, October 11, 1796; Abram, November 3, 1799 ; Mary, February 1, 1809 Robert Plummer, Jr., the subject of this sketch, born February 25, 1813. Robert Plummer, .Sr., departed this life in July, 1814. His widow' married for a second husband, Caleb Engle, .February 28, 1816. She died April, 1856. In connection with the history of the Plummer family we here give a record of John Talbott's family, who was a father-in-law of Robert Plummer, Sr. John Talbott was born. November 20, 1785 ; married Mary Johns,. January 22, 1760 ; she was born December 9, 1740. They were the parents of thirteen children : Benjamin, born May 11, 1762 ; Joseph, June 26, 1764 ; John July 3, 1766, Elizabeth, September 29, 1767 Susanah, July 15, 1768.; Ann, May 8, 1771 ; Samuel, December 18, 1774.; Rachel, November 21, 1775 ; Peggy, November 9, 1776 ; Kinsey, June 21,1778 Mary, January, 5, 1780 ; Deborah, April 9, 1782 ; Rebeccah, January. 1, 1784. All of them came from Maryland and located in Belmont and Jefferson counties about the same time, except John, Samuel and Peggy. The latter, however, came at a later date. Robert Plummer, Jr., whose name heads this sketch, was born on the farm on which he now resides, which was entered by his grandfather in 1801, who received the patent for the same in .1802. The following is an extract from the patent : "Memoir of Robert Plummer's estate: Top lot of land, situate in section No. 10, township 8, range 6, of the. survey known as the Northwest Territory; Granted by `Thomas Jefferson, President, and James. Madison, Secretary of State, by letters patent to Abraham Plummer in the year 1802." Abraham Plummer and his son Robert, Sr., came from Maryland to Warren township, Belmont county, at the time above mentioned, and located on the farm described. This was the fourth family- in the township, and the first family of Quakers. They hired a wagon and teamster to bring -them out to the wilderness. One can hardly imagine the difficulty in traveling in those days, but in order that the reader may have some conception of the progress made, we will simply state that they were three days in traveling from Morristown to where they finally halted for their future home, a distance of some six miles. This was rather late in the spring of the year, and here they were in the midst of an unbroken forest without even a cabin, and where no sound could be heard, save that of the wild beast and birds, with which .their new habitation abounded. But they realized that there was no time for delay, .and immediately began the 45—B. & J. Cos. erection of a small cabin. This was made of logs or poles, cut and put up by Abraham Plummer and his son Robert, whilst Robert's wife .did the chinking with moss. The roof was .made of hickory bark, the first layer being placed with the sap side up, and the second placed so as to break the joints of the first, with the bark side up. This, when exposed to the sun, became so shriveled and drawn together, that rain could scarcely penetrate it. The ground was the floor ; a quilt served as a door, and greased paper was used instead of glass for the window. Here they remained until fall, when they had erected a „more suitable cabin for passing the long and dreary winter. A small patch of land was cleared and planted in corn the first summer. They had to go to St. Clairsville for flour. John Greer was their nearest neighbor, be being one mile distant. But how great a change has seventy-eight years wrought. The old log cabin has long since returned to dust, and in its stead is seen the stately mansion. The dense forest, which for so many centuries had clothed the hills and valleys with the impenetrable shade, of its foliage, has gradually yielded to the untiring stroke of the sturdy woodman ; and as a recompense thereof, we now behold the same hills and valleys transformed into beautiful fields and gardens, yielding beautifully to the labor of the husbandman. Instead of the straggling trail and pack-horse, we have the macadamized pike, the railroad, and the iron horse, rushing by with almost lightning speed. On this old farm the subject of this sketch grew to manhood, and has lived upon it his whole life. His education was obtained at the common schools. He was married to Jane Bally, September 28, 1834, They are the parents of nine children, eight of whom are yet living. Their names and births are as follows : Mary, born December 11, 1837 ; Abram, October 20, 1839 ; Rachel, January 11, 1842; Joseph, February 16, 1844 ; Micajah, May 18, 1846 ; Hannah, July 13, 1848 ; Elizabeth, September 17, 1850; Lydia (deceased).April 17, 1853 ; John, April 24, 1856. His children are all married but the youngest; Abram, Micajali and Hannah are in Kansas ; Hannah married William Hoyle. The remain- ing ones are residing in Belmont county. All who know Robt. Plummer recognize in -him a public spirited citizen, a sincere friend, a devoted husband, and a true Christian. He is a devout and prominent member of the Friends' Stillwater church, and by his life fitly exemplifies its teachings. BENJAMIN BAILEY is a son of Stephen and Tabitha Bailey, and was born in Somerset township, Belmont county, November 18, 1812. His grandfather's name was Edmund Bailey, the name of whose wife is unknown, and he was the parent of the Micajah, named children : Jesse, Micajah, Matthew, James and Stephen. The latter, the father of our subject, was born in Loudon county, Virginia, November 15, 1777, and married Tabitha Patterson in the year 1807, by whom he became the father of six children-Elizabeth, William, Benjamin, Exum, Rachel, and Stephen. The two former and the latter are dead. He came to Belmont county in 1807, and soon after his arrival he was married as above stated, and located in Somerset township, four miles south of Barnesville. He entered the land and cut the first stick of timber upon it. The patent, which he received is signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. On this farm Benjamin was born and grew to manhood, and here he also reared a family. He resided upon it until 1874, when he removed to Barnesville, but he still owns it. Our subject married Lucy Crew, daughter of Isaac and Judith Crew, August 7, 1834. Their children's names and births are as follows: Tabitha, (deceased) born June 29, 1835; Eli C., (deceased) March 11, 1837; Phebe, August 13, 1838; Elizabeth, January 6, 1841; William L., January 17, 1844; Sarah A., July 18, 1848; John D., November 27, 1850; Lewis, (deceased) .February 12, 1853; Stephen, August 2, 1855 ; Benjamin, (deceased) December 13, 1857 ; George W., December 25, 1858 ; Isaac H., June 2, 1861, Mr. Bailey always followed farming until his removal to Barnesville, and for forty years he has been a grower and packer of tobacco, many years buying large amounts. He has also been a crier at sales for forty years, and still follows the same. His religious faith is that of the Society of Friends. EDMUND T. HIBBARD, son of Hiram and Sarah Hibbard, was born in Barnesville on the 2d day of November, 1845. At the schools of his native town he obtained a liberal education, and when some seventeen years of age he began to learn the trade of a tailor with John N. Hunt. He remained' some two years and enlisted as a private to serve in the war against the Rebellion in July, 1867, being a member of Company E, 129th O. V. I., and served nine months. After his return from the war he 354 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. resumed his former occupation with J. T. Thornberry, for whom he continued to work for !bur years. He then went to Battle Creek, Michigan, and learned the trade of cutting, after which he and George Morrow embarked in business on Main street, Barnesville. At the expiration of one year he and A.. E. Dent formed a partnership, and in March, 1872, they associated themselves with J. AV. n, and removed to the present location, opposite the Frazier House. On the 30th day of October, 1869, he married Mary A. McGaw, of Barnesville. They are the parents of one child, Mabel, who died at the age of six years. AMASA FRAME, son Of Aaron and Tabitha Frame, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 26, 1859. He .was educated at common schools and at Mt. Pleasant. His father was engaged in different pursuits until Amasa arrived at the age of majority. .11e worked with his father. Married for his first wife Elizabeth R., daughter of William and Sarah Kennard, September, 1864. She only lived about eight months. On October 28, 1869, he married Rachel E., daughter of Robert and .Jane Plummer. By her he became the parent of two children-Elizabeth .K., born November 22, 1871 ; Clara E., born January 15, 1875, In 1870 he and his brother Thompson erected a shop on Sandy .Ridge, and began the manufacture of wagons and the sale of lightning rods. In the spring of 1872 he came to Barnesville and started a general carriage shop, (air account of which is given elsewhere in this work.) in the spring of 1878 he again engaged in the lightning rod business, and in which he still continues. Office, on Main street, Barnesville, 0. ROBERT Y. PRICE.-The subject of this sketch is a native of Calvert county, Md., where he was born .February 21,1815, and is the son of Robert and Keziah Price. In the ensuing spring his father, accompanied by Benjamin Bowen, his brother-in-law, together with their families, started on their long and tedious journey to the small cluster of cabins known as the town of _Barnesville, Belmont county, Ohio. They came to Baltimore by water, at which place they employed a teamster to haul them as far as Pittsburgh. They reached their destination in October of the same year. Robert's education was obtained at subscription schools ; he was reared a farmer, and followed the same for his father until twenty-eight years of age. On the 2d day of March, 1843, he was united in marriage to Margaret Nuzum, daughter of Joshua and Ellen Nuzum, natives of Ireland. Seven children are the fruit of this union, Viz : Benjamin, born February 28, 1844, and is a dentist in Iowa City, Iowa ; John, born April 12, 1846, is a farmer in Warren township; Theodore, born July 26, 1848, is a farmer in Warren township; Winfield. born May 22, 1852, and died when some eleven months of age ; born Nay 4, 1854, is also a fanner of Warren township; Lucy E., born October 14, 1856, married George W. Wilson, who resides in Lake Port, California ; Mary A., born Juno 28, 1860, the only one of the family not married. Directly after Mr. Price was married he moved to the farm now occupied by Charles Griffin, where he remained for five years, and then removed to the farm on which he now resides. His farm is un derlaid. with coal of an excellent .quality. The principal crop grown by Mr. Price is tobacco; however, he raises a sufficient quantity of the different kinds of grain for his own use. His farm is situate in section No. 32, Warren township, three and a half miles from Barnesville. it has become renowned, owing to the fact that on it are located the celebrated track rocks, a history of which is current, and which are fully described elsewhere in this work. CALEB BUNDY - This is the earliest ancestor of the Bundy family of whom we can obtain any record. He Was born at an early period of the eighteenth century, though what particular year can not be ascertained. The only facts pertaining to his history are, that his wife's name was Elizabeth, to whom was born a son, Demsey, July 16, 1740. Demsey was married in about the year 1767. Of his wife nothing is known other than her name; Mary, and unto them were born the following children : Milisent, December 11, 1769; Mariam, March 15, 1771 ; Ruth, August 22, 1773; David, August 11, 1775; Zadock, September 20, 1777; William, January 1, 1780 ; John, May 22, 1782 ; Mali 2d, July 4, 1784 ; • .and Mary, born J my 31, 1786. Demsey departed this life, April 10, 1798, and his wife, Mary, March 21, 1804. WILLIAM BUNDY, SR., son of Domsey and Mary, and grandson of Caleb Bundy, was born in North Carolina, January 1, 1780. He married Sarah Overman, date not known, by whom he is the parent of eleven children.. Their names and births are as follows : Mary, .February 25, 1805 ; Ezekiel, July 26, 1807 ; Eli, March 13, 1809; Charity, March 2, 1811 ; John, Feb- ruary 17, 1813 ; Nathan, October 16,1814; Sarah, January 29, 1817 ; William, .October 10, 1819 ; Demsey, August 8, 1821; Chalkley, February 24,1823 ; and Elizabeth, born June 28, 1826. Those living are :John, William and Elizabeth. William Bundy, Sr., departed this life; June 21, 1828, in the forty-ninth year of his age, and his wife, Sarah, in May, 1853. He migrated to Belmont county, Ohio, in the spring of 1807, and located on Captina creek; but after he had remained there a short time, became dissatisfied. with the choice he had made for his future home, and removed to the farm known at present as the Beard farm, some two miles south of Barnesville. .Here he purchased eighty acres of land on which he erected a frame house and painted it red. It went by the name of the red house as long as a vestige of it remained. He afterwards traded this farm for the one known as the old. homestead of the Bundy family. Mr. Bundy made 'this trade with Thomas Marshall, and received three hundred and twenty acres for the eighty above mentioned. The land was in a state of nature, having • no improvements whatever, but a small log school house. In this he remained till he could build a more suitable dwelling. On this farm he ended his days. He was of the society of Friends or "Quakers," and reared his family under the discipline of the rigid honesty and simplicity characteristic of that people. His descendants are numerous in this township. EZEKIEL BUNDY was born July 26, 1807. He was ason of William and Sarah Bundy. Married Maria Engle, October, 21, 1830. His children areas follows : Sarah, born August 6,1831; Elizabeth, August 11, 1834; Nathan, August. 22, 1837; Caleb,, July 23, 1839 ; Rachel, October 22, 1841 ; William E., March. 11, 1843; Mary J., May 20, 1845 ; .Martha A.., January 10, 1848; Annie M., January 25;1850. On January .11, 1851, his wife Maria died. His second wife was Sarah Stanton, the widow of Edmund Stanton nee Hoyle, whom he married September 29, 1852. By her 'he had the following children : John 11., born July 25', 1853; Hannah H., October 22, 1855 ; Ezekiel, August 31, 1857; Chalkley C., May 27, 1859 ' . Sarah A., born May 6, 1861. Sarah, Nathan and Caleb, by his first wife, are dead. Hannah, Ezekiel, Chalkley C. and Sarah, of his last wife. The subject, Ezekiel Bundy, died November 22, 1866. WILLIAM BUNDY, JR., son of William and Sarah Bundy, was born in Belmont county, October 10, 1819. He was reared on a farm and was educated at common schools. he married his first, Prudence Wood, of Belmont county, December 12, 1842, by whom he had one son, Allen S., born November 23, 1843. His wife died May 2, 1844. On June 30, 1847, he married Asenath Doudna. She bore the following named children: April 4, 1848, a son ; Prudence, April 3, 1844; T.. Clarkson, December 18,1850; Joel P., October 12, 185 2 ; Almedia, October 28, 1854 ; Hyaline, August 6, 1856; Charles, January 19, 1859; nil: win O., March 29, 1861 ; Rebecca H., January 3, 1863. Our subject, shortly after his first marriage, located on the farm on which he now resides. Was elected from Belmont county to the Legislature and served in the winters of 1876 and 1877. THOMAS H. BUNDY was born December 18, 1850. Educated at Mt,. Pleasant and in Chester county, Pennsylvania. Married Rachel C. Crow, October 31, 1878. Spent the years of 1872 in Oregon and 1876 in Texas. JEPTHA BUNDY was born in Warren township, on .April 14, 1850; was reared a farmer, and educated at Mt. Pleasant. On the 27th of March, 1872, he married Mint Dawson, by whom he has one child, Clara. L., born .July 18, 1874. He resides on the old homestead. JEFFERSON BUNDY, a son of Demsey and Ann Bundy, was born May 24, 1854. Reared a farmer and educated at Mt. Pleasant. Took a commercial course at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Married Jennie L. Smith, July 24, 1878. She resided at Quaker City, Guersey, county. Ile follows farming on the old homestead. NATHAN BUNDY, son of Ezekiel and Maria Bundy, was born August 22 1837. Educated at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and at Westtown, Pennsylvania. He Married Anna Staunton, N roll 30, 1859. By her he became the parent of three children Joseph S., Caleb L. and Mary M. They first lived after mar- HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 355 riage, about ono mile north of where his widow now resides. In 1865 they removed to .Barnesville. Was surveyor and engineer on the Somerton and Barnesville, Hendrysburg and Barnes-. ville, St. Clairsville and Warnock turnpikes. He also aided in the geological survey of the state made between the years 1870-74. Was engaged in the dry good business in Barnesville from 1872 to 1874, when his health failed him and he sold his store and died August 20,-1874. Shortly after the death of her husband, Mrs. Bundy removed to the country, and in the spring of 1875 she came to her present location, about two miles east of Barnesville, on the B. & 0. R. R. DEMSEY BUNDY, son of William and Sarah Bandy, was born August 28, 1821. He was feared on a farm. Married Ann Hood, April 26, 1843. Their children's names and births are as follows : Emily, February 4, 1844; Amanda, May 25, 1846. After the death of his first wife he married Ann Crew, November, 1848. By her he had the following children : Jeptha, horn 'April 13,1850 ; Melvina, July 7, 1.822 ; Jefferson, May '24, 1854. He was married to his third wife, Rebecca W. Smith. of Guernsey county, Ohio, April 30, 1857. Amanda, by his first wife, Jepthaand Jefferson by his second wife, are living, Demsey Bundy departed this life April 28, 1877, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. He moved to the farm where his sons now reside shortly after his first mar- riage where he remained until his -death. His widow . re- moved to where she now resides in November, 1877, near the Friends' church in Warren township. Her mother lives with her, who is in her eighthy-sixth year. CHALKLEY BUNDY, son of William and Sarah Bundy, was born February 24, 1823. Married Sarah Doudna, March 27, 1844. The births and names of his family are as follows : Lindley,. January 28, 1845; JoelOctober 22. 1846, (dead) ; Na- than W., June 11, 1848; Lucinda, September 11, 1850; Rebecca D., December 11, 1853 ; Emma, December 1, 1856 (dead); Mary E., May 23, 1860, Chalk ley, June 5, 1862, (dead). His wife died August .1, 1862. He married for his second wife, Deborah 11• Bundy, December 7, 1864. He died December 1, 1866. LINDLEY BUNDY, son of Chalkley and Sarah Bundy, was born January 28, 1845. Was reared a farmer and received a common school education. In December, 1870, he married Ruanna Frame, by whom he became the parent of three children-Sarah C , born December 6, 1871 ; Carver T., August 9, 1874; Tacie B. October 28, 1876. Mr. Bundy resides on the farm where he was born, and in the old brick house that his great grandfather, William Hody, built in 1811. In 1801 Jonathan Taylor entered section eight, and Win. Hody received the patent from Washington city, signed by .Thomas Jefferson, which has remained in the family name ever since. He is a breeder of short horned cattle. He first purchased from T. F. Joy. of Delaware, in 1874, "1 at different times purchased of G. H. Hagerty, of Licking county. He is also a dealer in South Down sheep. He owns two hundred and ten acres of land. NATHAN W. BUNDY, aeon of Chalkley and Sarah Bundy, was born June 11, 1848. Educated at common schools and Mt. Pleasant. On October 6, 1869, he married Anna S. Dawson, by whom he has two children—Aurora E., born July 10, 1870.; Russell C., born August 22, 1877. He resides on a part of the old section six) a portion of which section is still in the name of the. family. WILLIAM E. BUNDY, a son of Ezekiel and Maria Bundy, was born in Warren township, March 11, .1843. He was reared a. farmer and educated at Mt.. Pleasant and Westtown, Pennsylvania ; the latter place he attended two years. Married Rebecca Doudna, April 24, 1864, by whom he became the parent of three children—Elmer C., born February 11, 1865; Agnes M., born October 11, 1871; Bertram H., born May 27, 1876. After his marriage he resided about a mile and a half north of Barnesville, where they remained till the spring of .1867. and removed to the farm owned by Joel Doudna, where he still resides. Mr. Bundy was formally engaged in the cultivation of tobacco, in which he vas very successful. In 1873 he raised on three acres of ground a crop he sold for $650. In 1876 he turned hits attention to the breeding of Merino sheep. JOHN H. BUNDY, son of Ezekiel E. and Sarah S. Bundy, was born July 25, 1854. Was educated at Mt. Pleasant and Duff's College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On the. 26th day of March, 1873, he was married to Mary D. Doudna (daughter of Thomas and Rachel Doudna) by whom he has one son, Thomas C., born January 5, 1874. After his marriage he lived one year where Daniel Stanton now resides, on the Hezekiah Bailey farm, then on the old Hoyle farm one year, and from thence to where he now lives on the old Starbuck farm. he owns 190 acres, which contain abundant coal, and engages in farming and wool-growing the latter of which he makes a specialty. PETER SEARS, JR.-We will premise this sketch with the following allusion to our subject's ancestry : Paul Sears was a native of France, and whilst young in years migrated to the United States, accompanied by his three brothers, Reader, Richard and Daniel. Reader went to the Indian war, and was gone for a long time before he returned. Be remained at home for a short period, went back to the war and then farther west. He was never afterward heard of. Richard married and had two children-William and Polly. He died when young. Daniel enlisted and served in the. revolutionary war, but no tidings of him ever were known. Paul married Elizabeth Butler, by whom be became the parent of ten children, Mary, Martha, Goditha, Sarah, John, Tabitha, Elizabeth, Ann, Margaret and Jemima. John Sears married Sarah Peeples, by whom he had nine children; Paul, Elizabeth, Huldah, John, Sarah, Martha, Samuel, Peter and Anna. Tie was a blacksmith by trade, which he followed till middle life, when he followed wheel-wrighting, and being a natural genius, he supplied his wants at other mechanical. trades, carpentering, silversmithing, tanning and shoemaking, &c. Died in 1800. Peter Sears, the father of Peter Sears, Jr., was born in Prince George county, Virginia, April 5, 1787. He migrated to now Somerset township, Belmont county, Ohio, in 1806, where he remained one summer, and then returned, but came back again in the spring of 1809. Here, on March 14, 1810, he married Anna Doudna (daughter of John and Sarah Doudna,) who was born in Greenville county, North Carolina. They settled in Wayne township, entering a quarter section; where they made several improvements in the wilds of the forests of Captina, by putting up a log house and stable, and then selling. to a more fortunate emigrant. Four successive improvements were made, each advancing in price, which enabled them, about the year 1820, to hold the last quarter for a home. He reared a family of twelve children : Sarah, born December 14, 1810 ; Martha, born January 9, 1812 ; Zillah, born July 30, .1813; John, born November 10, 1814; Peter, born May 20,1816 ; Paul, born February 1,•1818; David, born September 14, 1819; Huldah, born September 3, 1821 ; Ann, born August 30, 182:3; Benjamin, born June 23, 1825 ; Joseph, born May 10, 1827; Elizabeth, born March 29, 1830. All are dead but Peter and David. Peter Sears, Sr., departed this life July 12, 1863, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, and his wife, Anna, died November 5, 1878, aged ninety-two. years. Peter Soars, Jr., was born in Wayne township, received a common school education, and engaged in teaching for a number of terms. On the 1st of January, 1851, he married Phariba Bundy, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Bundy, of Colerain township, who were pioneer settlers. This union resulted in four children : Mary B., born October 11, 1852; Sarah D., born August 11, 1854; Benjamin S., born January 22, 1857; Edwin W., November 29, 1858. After his marriage he came to where he still resides, and which has always been his home since, save from 1861 to 1864, when in Iowa. The house in which he resides was .-built by Thomas Williams, who entered the southwest quarter of section 2, in Warren township. .Here he was residing in the winter of 1806-7, when his wife, Prudence, made and sold butter to Thomas Hunnicutt, another emigrant, who had just arrived. Saving the money thus received until spring, she took it, mounted a horse arid..went alone to Redstone, Pennsylvania. Here she bought fruit trees, which she carried home ; and having done this much, she would plant them with her own bands. They grew and furnished an abundance of excellent fruit. Some of these trees are still living and in bearing; one of them was measured in February, 1879, and was nine feet four inches in circumference at the smallest point between the roots and forks, and ten feet at eighteen inches above the ground. It has four large branches, one of which measures four feet- in circumference; another five feet, another five feet two inches, and the other five feet eleven inches. These measurements were taken at eighteen inches from the junction. This is believed 'to be the largest apple tree in Belmont county. Growing near it. is a pear tree,. also very large and fruitful. In 1879 it measured seven feet six inches in circumference, and about forty-five feet in height. In the kitchen of this house is one of the old fashioned fire-places, seven feet in length. Its well worn jams, used instead Of a grindstone 356 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. to sharpen the knives ; the crane, with hooks attached, whereon were suspended the kettles containing the substantial dinners of those days; the bakeoven (still in keeping) where many pies, loaves of bread and "corn dodgers'. have been baked by placing fire both above and below them, and the mantle shelf above the fireplace, extending its whole length and supported by wooden pins, all tell of the " good old days, in the early times out west." There are also in the house an old-fashioned loom, two wheels, a large and a small one ; the large one was used for spinning wool, (rolls) and the other for flax and tow. Also a pair of hand-cards, used for making rolls of the wool before the carding mill was invented, a pair of " fliers " and a distaff belonging to the small wheel. These things, although not in use at present, are in good working order, and Mrs. Sears had in her early life manufactured many yards of wearing apparel, coverlets and table linen, She bad also woven many yards of carpet. JOSEPH J. SEARS, a son of Benjamin and Esther Sears, was born February 24, 1853, in 'Warren township. Was reared a farther and educated in common schools. Learned. the trade of a carpenter with David Patterson of Barnesville, beginning when nineteen years of age. This occupation he followed till 1873, then he engaged in the lightning rod business, and pursued the same in 1874. He also sold fruit trees for a short time, and then again resumed his trade as carpenter and joiner. Married Ruth E. Shy, October 21, 1875, by whom he is the parent of two children, Cora A. and Lillie E. Came to where he now resides April, 1877. He is a breeder of light and dark Brahman and Plymouth Rock chickens. His stock is from the pest strains in the United States. BENJAMIN STANTON, son of Edmund and Sarah Stanton, was born in Goshen township, Belmont county, Ohio, April 22, 1849. His father died when Benjamin was only two years old, and was reared by his grandfather, Benjamin Hoyle, with whom he resided until his marriage. He was educated in the common schools and at Mt. Pleasant. Married Elizabeth T. Plummer, daughter of Robert and Jane Plummer, October 27, 1870. They are the parents of two children-Wilfred L. and Howard A. Soon after his marriage he came to where he now resides and has dealt in sheep ever since, In 1877, he began breeding Merino sheep of the flock of Jacob Keller of Licking county. His sheep are of the best quality. WILLIAM FRAME, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Frame, was born October 2, 1790; near Winchester, Virginia. His parents removed to Harrison county, Ohio, some four miles from Cadiz in about 1810. Married Ruannah Thomas, September 28, 1814. They reared a family of four children-all boys. William died May 4, 1823. Two of his sons are living-Aaron and James. His wife is still living, and is in the 91st year of her age. AARON FRAME, eldest son of William and Ruannah Frame, Vas born June 18, 1815, in Harrison county, Ohio. Educated in the common schools of that day. At the. age of seventeen he began to learn the trade of a carpenter with T. T. Larkin, and served an apprenticeship of four years. He then started in business for himself, following that trade for twenty consecutive years. On September 1,.1836, he married Tabitha Thompson, by whom he is the parent of eleven children—eight of whom are living, five sons and three daughters. In 1837, he bought a saw mill and nine acres of land in Shortcreek township, Harrison county, Ohio, operating the mill in winter and following his trade in summer. He owned this mill for about nineteen years. In the spring of 1856, he removed to Cedar county, Iowa, where he followed farming, Here he lost his wife, June 14, 1860, and married his second wife, Achsa Smith, a native of Guernsey county, September 29, 1863, and returned in the following spring to Warren township, Belmont county, Ohio, where he now resides, near the Friend's boarding school. His second wife died October 2, 1875. Mr. Frame has quit his trade, and follows it only when called upon by some of his friends, for advice or planning and superintending. Was foreman of the carpenter's work on the boarding school building, until his wife became so ill that she had to have his care, and the work fell to another. He has built and superintended other important buildings. ELI STANTON was born in Goshen township, Belmont county Ohio, February .12, 1835. When two years of age his parents removed to Warren township, two miles north of Barnesville, Where they both died. He was educated at common schools and Mt. Pleasant. Married his first wife, Mary P. Bundy, daughter of John Bundy, December 9, 1857, by whom be became the parent of three children-Wm. H., Sarah .B. and Emma C. In 1858 he removed to where he now resides. His wife died. December 9, 1871. On July 30, 1873, he married his second wife, Deborah H. Bundy, widow of Chalkley Bundy, by whom he has one child, Nathan E. Mr. Stanton is a dealer in short horn cattle. His stock is from G. J. Hagerty of Licking county, Ohio, and T. joy of Delaware county, Ohio. LEWIS NAYLOR was born October 11, 1 819, in Smithfield township, Jefferson county, Ohio, and is a son of James and Rachel Naylor. His father was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, April 24, 1777, and when eleven years of age be went to Baltimore city, and Worked in the store of his uncle, Oliver Mathews. Here he remained until a man grown, when be began the trade of a blacksmith, and afterwards conducted a shop, employing many men. lri 1811, he purchased a team and drove through to Jefferson county, Ohio, where he settled and still continued his trade until his health failed him, when he began merchandizing, bringing his goods over the mountains from Baltimore by stage. he crossed the mountains sixteen times in eight years. Whilst engaged in this business he accumulated a considerable amount of property, but in 1819, he erected a grist and saw mill, which proved to be a poor investment. In 1837; he removed to Belmont county, and located near Somerton, where he did considerable in land speculating, until he became advanced in years and was cared for by our subject till his death, which occurred March 7, 1864, in the 87th year of his age in 1845, Lewis Naylor began cabinetwork and carpentering, in the town then called Little Morristown, known at present as "Slabtown." He finally made carpentering a specialty, which he continued steadily till 1854, When .his family and himself had the typhoid fever, since which he. has been engaged in farming, where he resides, in eastern Warren township. He married Rachel Bailey May 7, 1840. They are the parents of nine children ; seven are living ; all are Married but one daughter. JOSEPH C. GRIER, a son of Thomas and Mary Grier, and grandson of Henry and Anne Grier, was born March 4, 1829. He married Jane W. Kennon, daughter of Alexander and Margaret Kennon, December 1, 1857, by whom he became the father of five children, three of whom are living: William M., Henry K., and Albert E. After their marriage- they remained with Thos. Grier on the old homestead, where Our subject was born, and where he died January 28, 1870. His widow still owns the old His grandfather, who entered section 28, in Warren township, in 1805 or 1806, had a family of eight children : John Thomas, William, Henry, Catharine, Elizabeth, Anne and Margaret, At the date of his death, in the fall of 1813, he. gave each of his sons a quarter of the above named section. Thomas fell heir to the southeast quarter of the section, where he resided till about 1840, when he completed the brick house 'in which Mrs. Grier now resides.. Thomas married Mary Ferrell January 5, 1814. They were the parents of twelve children, eight of whom grew to the age of majority : Henry, Mariah, Matilda, Elizabeth A., Margaret J.; Joseph C., Hannah L. and Harriet, Thomas Grier was a soldier in the war of 1812, under Captain Thomas Shannon, and acted as orderly sergeant of the company to whichhe belonged. He died Salutary 4, 1870, in the eightieth year of his age. His wife departed this life June 18, 1862. THOMAS HUNT, a native of Calvert county, Maryland, was born June 24, 1806, and married a Miss Buckingham, by whom he had three children. After the death of his wife he emigrated to Belmont county about 1836, and on the 14th of .December, 1837, married Nancy Dyrc. By this union he was father of six Children, viz. : Thomas B., John W., Sarah A.., Rebecca G., Philip D. and Joseph H. The eldest is dead. They resided in several different places in Warren township ; the longest at any one time was twenty-one years on the Dr. Mackall farm, where our subject departed this life, December 25, 1862. in early life he sought and found redemption in the blood of Christ, uniting with the M. E. Church. He maintained the deportment of an orderly and consistent Christian till death. In 1871, his widow and family removed to the farm where she yet resides, about one and a halt miles north or Barnesville. PHILIP G. DYRE was born its Fairfax county, Va., June 15. 1774. Of his early life not much is known; but in 1803, he embraced religion and united with the M. E. Church. In December, 1811, he emigrated. to Ohio and located' on the farm which he occupied till his death. His house had been a regular HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 357 preaching place for forty-five years previous to his death, and a home for the way-worn itinerant. Father Dyre's life for fifty- eight years fully exemplified the spirit and purity of the Gospel, 'walking worthy of the vocation wherewith he was called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering." He was not broke by sickness in a day," but worn by slowly rolling years, with the blessings and sympathies of a numerous posterity. He married Sarah Davis about .1798, and reared a family of nine children, two sons and seven daughters. Mr. Dyre departed this life, May 2, 1861. MILTON S. DICKS was born in Henry county, Indiana, May 28. 1840. His father was a saddler and Milton worked in his shop till nineteen- years old, when he began the blacksmith trade with his brother, William Dicks, with whom he served one year and then worked as a journeyman for a year in Illinois and Kansas. Ile returned to Indiana, followed farming for a time and then worked in a shop of his own for four years. He then removed to Belmont county in December, 1.874, and located in the eastern part of Warren township, where he still runs a Shop. He married Rebecca Arnold, of Indiana, April 4, 1864, who died October 4, 1867. For his second wife he married Margaret C. Smith, a native of Monroe county, Ohio, December 21, 1871. They are the parents of the following children : Hibbard H., Ella M., and Ethel ; the latter, deceased. WILLIAM A. FRAME, son of Aaron and Tabitha Frame, was bern in Harrison county, Ohio, July 23, 1853. He attended school at Mt. Pleasant and at Westtown, Pa., and was reared a farmer. After he became twenty-one years of age he began wagonmaking, at which ho worked for two years. He married Florence M. Outland, March 29,.1877, by whom he is the parent of one child, who was born September 16, 1878. Of late years he has been following the carpenter trade. DANIEL V. CHANEY, son of John and Elizabeth Chaney, is a. native of Warren township, Belmont county. His father was born in Calvert county, Md., July 18, 1799, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. he was a carpenter by trade, following the same for many years, and was married to Martha Stamp Jan- uary 1, 1828. They had two children; both are dead. His wife died August 25, 1830. He then married Elizabeth Prout, July 18, 1833. By this marriage he became the father of five children—Sarah E. born May 1, 1834; John W., born August 3, 1835; Martha A., born. October 8, 1837; Richard T., born February 23, 1839: and Daniel P., born October 22, 1841. During the latter year Mr. Chaney emigrated to Belmont county, and located on the present. site of Mt. Olivet. Here he remained for twelve years, and then bought the farm on which his sons, William and Daniel, reside. He died .August 15, 1874. He had death, member of the M. E. Church for 47 years previous to his death, forty of which he was class-leader and steward. Our subject married Martha M. Grier June 4, 1874. They have three children-- Annie E., born June 13, 1875; Nora A., born January 13, 1877; and John H., born October 19, 1878. JOHN W. CHANEY was born in Calvert county, Md., August 3, 1835; was educated at Barnesville and the Ohio University, at Athens. He attended the latter institution two years. On the 12th day of May, 1859, he was united in wedlock to Sarah R. Ogg, by whom he is the father of the following children : Mary E., born August 9, 1861 ; Ellen .R., born April 16, 1863; and john, born July 24, 1869. After his marriage he removed to where he yet resides, on a part of the old homestead. JAMES NUZUM was born in Ireland, March 28, 1808. When be was ten years old his parents emigrated to America ; his mother, however, never reached the American shore; the long and tedious voyage of eleven weeks was more than she could endure, and she died on the vessel. They located south of Barnesville, but after seven years removed to the farm yet known as the Nuzum homestead, where our subject's father died at the age or 86 years. When our subject was twenty-five years of age he returned to Ireland for his sister Margaret, who, when they left, was too young to endure so long a voyage. Mr. Nuzum married Permelia Hare, February 8, 1837. He is the father of eight children by this union : John R..; born March 1, 1838; Jane born October 28, 1839 Joshua H., born October 31, 1841; Betsey A., born December 6, 1843; Julia A., born September 21, 1845; James P., born February 25, 1848 ;. George T., born June 29, 1850; and Sarah E., born June 23, 1853. After he was first married he resided where John .Price now lives, and then removed to where he now resides, about one mile west of Barnesville. On this farm is the old fort, full particulars of which are given in this work. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, a son of William and Ann Campbell, was born in Warren township February 6, 1836. His business is farming. ln 1859 he went to Pike's Peak, during the gold excitement; but soon returned and married Mary J. Dew, February 20, 1866, by whom he has four children, viz.: .Annie B., Nettie M., Harley L., and Nellie L. Campbell. He remained on his father's farm four years after his marriage, then near Barnesville two years, and them on the farm of his father one year, after which he removed to where he now resides, on the old Hyde farm. JOSEPH H. DOUGLASS, son of George and Eleanor Douglass, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, December 14, 1844. His occupation from boyhood has been farming. On .the 10th of February, 1872, he married Annie M. Stewart, who was born April 8, 1848. They have two children, viz : Charles D., who was born November 30, 1872, and Jennie E., born April 20, 1876. After his marriage he removed to where he now resides, one and a half miles northwest of Barnesville. THOMAS RICHARDSON, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in about the year 1787. When a young man he resided. in Ohio county, Virginia, and at an early date removed to Belmont county, where he married Penelope Dyre, in the year 1843, and by whom he became the father of six children, two sons and four daughters ; both sons are dead. He had previously been married to a Miss Sarah Wilson, who died. His death occurred in the fall of 1860, leaving his widow and four daughters, viz : Mattie E., Nancy, Ann A. and Mary C. to mourn his loss. GEORGE DOUGLASS, JR., son of George and Eleanor Douglass, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, on the farm where his father yet resides. He married Martha E. Stamp March 10, 1863, and is the parent of four children : Richard G., James C., Joseph L. and Eleanor S. After his marriage he removed to Morgan county, Ohio, where he remained three years, and then to where he now resides, on the oltl Jones farm. .His farm is underlaid with excellent coal. His principal business has been the growing of tobacco. RICHARD E. STAMP, son of Stephen and Lorena Stamp, was born in Calvert county, Maryland, June 18, 1809. His parents. died when he was small, after which he went to live with his brother William, with whom he remained till ..he was. twenty years of age. He then began the trade of a carpenter with his. brother-in-law, john Chaney; they worked together for some ten years. Mr. Stamp followed his trade regularly till he came to Ohio. He married Eleanor Sunderland, January 15, 1835, by whom 1u is the parent of ten children, six. of whom are living; two sons and thin. daughters. Ile emigrated to Belmont county in 1841, and located where he now resides, near Mt. Olivet. Mr. Stamp embraced the cause of religion when seventeen years old, uniting With the M. E. Church, since which he has maintained the deportment of a consistent Christian. He has been class leader of the Mt. Olivet Church ever since he emigrated to Ohio. THOMAS SHANNON, son of John and Rachel Shannon, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, May 27, 1823. His father was a son or George Shannon, Our subject obtained a common school education, and was reared a farmer. In 1850 he went to California, where he remained until 1852. On November 26, 1856, he married Mary of Kirkwood township, by whom he is the parent of three children : Anthony, Sarah C. and John E. Mr. Shannon has always followed farming, save the two years whilst in California. ALBERT G. BROOMHALL was born in Chester county, Pa., June 8, 1809, and when seven years old his parents emigrated to Goshen township, Belmont county. In 1832, they removed to Guernsey county, and in the year 1859, they located in Warren township, Belmont county, where the father of our Subject died, July 30, 1861 ; his with died in Guernsey county, April 1, 1864. Our subject is by trade a chair manufacturer, at which he was engaged for many years. married Rebecca Tussey, a native of the state of Delaware, September 17, 1852. They have but one child, Sarah Catharine, who was horn June 23, 1853. Mr. Broomhall came to where he resides in March, 1863. His farm 358 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. is rich in coal, and he gives employment to several men in the winter season &c. Ills son-in-law, Robert H. Malden, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, November 14, 1851. When about fifteen years of age he began traveling, and followed the same five years, visiting some twenty states of the Union and all of the territories, after which he returned to Belmont county, and was married March 21, 1877. He is the parent of one child, Albert C. Malden, who was born November 15, 1878: JAMES E. KENNON, son of Alexander and Margaret Kennon, was born September 6, 1838. His education was obtained at the common schools and the Barnesville Academy. He married Harriet Wetzel, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Wetzel, supposed to be a descendant of a brother of Lewis Wetzel, on the 7th of January, 1872, in 1Iighspire, Dauphin county, Pa. They are the parents of two children, Martin A., and Margaret E. The former is dead. JOHN W. KNOX, eldest son of Robert and Lucy Knox, was born in Springfield township, Jefferson county, Ohio, November 30, 1849. He remained with his father on the farm until he was eighteen years old. He then attended the McNeely Normal School at Hopedale, Harrison county, Ohio, for one year, after which he was engaged in teaching in Jefferson county one year. He then went to Owen county, Indiana, where he taught a year, and then returned to Ohio and entered Harlem Springs College, Carroll county. Here he continued for one year and then, removed with his father to Barnesville. In the year 1871, he taught district schools, and the ensuing year was spent in teaching in the Barnesville Union Schools. On the 3d of November, 1873, he married Allie Hunt, of Barnesville. He, then removed to Mt. Olivet, where he has since been engaged in teaching; has also been in the mercantile business for the past .four years. He is the parent of two children : Wilbur H., born November 13, 1874, and Charles R, born October 3, 1876. WILLIAM H. SEARS was born March 31, 1856. His father, Benjamin Sears, died when he was but two years of age. He obtained a common School education at district No. 1, Warren township; married Mary K. Naylor, daughter of Lewis and .Rachel Naylor, March 27,1878, in the Friend's Stillwater church, of which they are both members. He resides on the farm where he was born and grew to manhood. His mother lives with him. JOHN W. KENNON is a native, of County Down, Ireland, where he was born December 22,1812. He was but about eight years of age when, his parents migrated to America and located in Belmont county. Mr. Kennon was educated at the old log school houses, and was roared a farmer. He married Eliza :DuBois .November 7, 1851, by whom he became the parent of ten children, eight of whom are living, viz.: Jane W., Josephine, Mary E., J. Newell, Agnes, Thomas J., William H., and Annie F. After his marriage he and his parents. occupied the same house, the old homestead, till their death, and he remained then until 1875, when be erected a fine residence on his farm, one mile north of Barnesville. He has been called upon at different times to serve as a juror in the United States Court at Cincinnati, and was a member of the Legislature in the winter of 1868 and 1869. He was a member of the committee appointed to found the site tor .the State Reform School for girls, which is located at White Sulphur Springs, Delaware, Ohio. JOHN W. PRICE was born in Warren township; Belmont county, October 9, 1823; married Malinda Douglass, (laughter William Douglass, (who served from Warren township in the war of 1812) December 22. 1853. They are the parents of six children. Those living are Emma and Robert D. For ten years after his marriage he lived where John Price, Jr., now resides. Be then removed to his present location, two and a half miles west of Barnesville. Mr. Price is a firmer, and has been a resident of Warren township all his life. JOHN C. BLOWERS was born in Ann Arundel county, Md.. June 1S, 1812. He is a shoemaker by trade, having followed it in the winter seasons when a young man. His father died when he was about ten years old, and in 1831. he and his brother Samuel emigrated to Ohio, and were in the vicinity of Flushing hr two years, when they went to Mt,. Olivet. he made many removals until after his marriage, which occurred January 15, 1839, choosing for his with Diodaniey Campbell. In the year 1841 he located where he now resides, on the pike leading from Barnesville to Hendrysburg. He is the father of six children, William A., born January 8, 1840; Mary A., born October 22 1841 John M.., born May 15, 1844 ; Asa R1, born May 2, 1847; Thomas B., born November 23, 180; Samuel W., November 7, 1854. William A. died April 4, 1858. Mr. Blower: follows farming, owns a farm of 126 acres, underlaid with coal, in which he is quite an extensive operator. His mother died December 9, 1863, aged 90 years, 3 months and 14 days. DAVID G. HAMILTON was born in Circleville, Ohio, October 4, 1821. When twenty years of age he went to Guernsey county, Ohio, to seek his fortune, having nova dollar that he could call his own, and began labor near Washington. Here he worked for different parties by the month and year till he was twenty-five years of age, when he married Mary A. Maloon, December, 1847, by whom he became the parent of four children-James W., Nancy E., John N., and George E. the eldest and youngest of whom are dead. After his marriage he lived on rented property for five years. Then he bought a farm of 81 acres in Noble county, where he lived but a year, and finally bought where he now resides, He has 80 acres of good land, which abounds in coal of •a superior quality. FRANK M. MELTON was born in Kirkwood township, Belmont county, Ohio; August 21, 1838, andis a son of Moses and Anna Melton. His father followed merchandizing, and our subject remained in his employ until twenty-eight years of age, when he married Mary D. Smith, of Noble county, Ohio, September 30, 1866. Their children are three in number, viz : Willard S., Addie M. and Clyde W. Mr. Melton removed to Mt. Olivet in 1861, forming a partnership with his father in the mercantile business, with whom he continued until he died in 1874, being in the seventy-fifth year of his age. In 1863 he began as a traveling salesman for Smith McNichols, tobacco merchant, for whom he continued four years. Then he was engaged in selling notions one year for William H. Jones ; for Davis & Co. and J. M. Lewis, grocers, for two years. He then began for Delaplain & Son, dry goods merchants, of Wheeling, with whom he still continues. He resides in Mt. Olivet. WILLIAM STANTON, son of Joseph and Mary Stanton, was born in Warren township, September 15, 1839. He was reared on a farm, and was educated at the boarding school at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Henry Stanton, his grandfather, settled near Mt. Pleasant in 1810, where he remained but a short time, however,. arid removed to Goshen township, Belmont county. Here he remained till the year 1852, after which he lived with his children until his death, in 1863, he being some seventy-five or seventy-six years of age. Our subject was united in marriage to Jane D. Davis January 27, 1864, and unto them are born five children, three sons and two daughters, viz : Eva T., Mary E,, Joseph E., Francis W. and John L. After his marriage he located on the farm owned by the heirs of Abet Barnes. He came to the farm on which he now resides in the spring of 1867. In 1871 he began the nursery business, and still continues the same at present, a notice of which is given in another part of this work. GEORGE STARBUCK, son of George and Elizabeth Starbuck, was born in Warren township; Belmont county, Ohio, March 8, 1814, George was the youngest of a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters. His father was a native of Nantucket Island and removed to North Carolina at an early day. He married there and removed to this county in the spring of 1805, and.entered the east half of Section No: 1, and erected a sort of a tent and covered. it with canvas ; drove forked stakes in the ground at a required height, upon which they fixed their beds to 'protect themselves from the venomous reptiles, among which were the rattlesnakes. In this way they lived until four acres of ground could cleared and planted in corn, when they erected a cabin. In 1810. they built a hewed loghouse, which is still standing. The land remained in the Starbuck family till the winter of 1875. At the age of two years our subject was left fatherless. He was reared on a farm and was educated in the first schools of the township. In April. 1836, he married Lydia by whom he became the parent of eight children—three living, Martha, Jesse and Milton: In 1875, he sold the old farm and removed to Barnesville, where he remained with his son Jesse till the spring of 1878, when he located where he now resides. His wife died November 3, 1851. In 1872, he traveled through Oregon and California, riding two hundred and eighty miles in stage. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 359 JOSEPH W. GARRETSON, son of Asa and Ruth Garretson, was born in Somerset township, Belmont county, Ohio, March 17, 1852. When ten years of age his father removed to Barnesville. He was educated at Mt. Pleasant. On the 5th of March, 1873, he married Melvina Bailey, by whom he has one child, Mary L., born February 14, 1874. Located where he now resides in the spring of 1875; lost his wife by death October 14, 1878, aged twenty-five years. In 1876, he gave attention to the raising of the Chester white hogs, making his purchase from S. H. Todd, of Huron county, Ohio. The same year he began in the poultry business, breeding light and dark Brahmas, game bantums, &c. His purchases were from Wonderly & Davis, of Dayton, Ohio, W. F. George, of La Porte, Indiana, and C. C. Damarin, Portsmouth, Ohio. He also at the same time began the breeding of Spanish merino sheep, making his first purchase (twenty-four) from J. H. Keller, Licking county, Ohio. In January, 1879, he made another purchase (eleven) of H. R. Pumphrey, Licking county, and a buck and ewe of Copper & McFarland, Knox county, Ohio. Has fourteen head of the Humphrey's importation froth Spain in 1802. The remainder of his flock are descendants of and bred to combine the blood of the Humphreys, Cock and Jarvis flock, imported from Spain in 1802 and 1810. PERLEY PICKET, son of William and Rebecca Picket, was born February 8, 1851, in Malta township, Morgan county, Ohio ; was reared a farmer and educated in thb common schools, attended Mt. Pleasant school three terms taught seven terms; married Rebecca M. Schofield; daughter of Jonathan T. and Abigail Scofield, of Barnesville. After his marriage he located where he now resides, one mile south of the Friend's boarding school. he is engaged in farming and stock raising. EDMUND HAYES, son of Bailey and Mary Hayes, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, February 20, 1805. His parents emigrated from Georgia, in 1804, and located two miles east of where Barnesville now stands. Joseph Stubbs, a grandfather to our subject, left Georgia in quest of a home in 1803, and traveled through Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and as far west as into central Illinois. He returned by traveling through Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. He decided to make Ohio his future home, purchased three-quarters of .a section of land in Warren township, and in the ensuing spring, 1801, sent Edmund's father to live upon it, and came. the hallowing year with his family. Edmund is the second child of a family of seventeen children thirteen were boys; and sixteen of the family attained the age of manhood and womanhood ; four of whom are yet living. Mr. Hayes was reared, as most children of his day, having an abundance of out-door exercise and but limited means to procure an education. In his early life, as was the custom in those days, he labored most of the time for others, at clearing, chopping, &c., always giving his father the proceeds until he arrived at the age of majority. In December, 1825, he. was married to Elizabeth Shrigley, a native of Pennsylvania. They are the parents of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters; all of the children are married except the youngest daughter. He has thirty-eight grand-children and five great grand-children. After his marriage he entered a quarter section of land, and was to pay $1.25 per acre. This land was situate in thc east edge of Guernsey county, Ohio. He resided on this property for seine three years. when he sold it to a Mr. Finch, and then purchased forty-five acres in Warren township. Here he remained for about nine years, when he disposed of this and removed to Leatherwood, Guernsey county, and conducted a mill for four years. At the expiration Of this time he bought the property on which he yet resides. Mr. Hayes is the oldest man living who was born in Warren township, and still resides in the same. He was father and father-in-law, uncle and first cousin to forty-nine who served in the war against the rebellion of 1861. SAMUEL DURNAL, born in Fayette county, Pa., in 1818. He removed with his relatives to Flushing township, Belmont county, in 1826, to Union township in 1827, and Warren township in 1838. He was the son of Samuel and Rebecca Durnal, nee Hall. The latter was a daughter of Spice Hall. Samuel, the elder, died in 1817, fifty-five years of his wife in 1856, seventy-two years of age. The children were : Abner, deceased, married to Delilah Rossal ; Moses, deceased, married to Susan Right; deceased ; Hannah, deceased, married to Wm. Burch, deceased ; Samuel, married to Sarah A. Woodland ; Eliza, deceased, married to Samuel Biven, deceased ; Harriet, deceased, married to George ALEXANDER KENNON was born in county Down, Ireland, in 1819, and was the son of Newell and Jane Kennon nee Wilson. The, latter died in Ireland, in 1819, at the ago or forty-two. The former was a farmer, and our subject attended school and assisted in the potato, wheat, barley and other harvests In 1821, the father, with his seven children, four girls and three boys, migrated from Ireland and located on section twenty-three, Warren township, Belmont county. He purchased one thousand acres of land at prices from four to ten dollars per acre. The land was heavily timbered, and he leased a large portion of it to parties who for seven years had free rent provided, during that time they cleared twenty-one acres. He died in 1863, in his ninety-first year. The children were : Alexander ; William, married to Elizabeth Kirkwood; Rose Ann, married to James Kennon ; Margery, married to David Cowden ; Mary, married to Washington Buchanan ; John W., married to Eliza DuBois ; and Eliza, married to William White. Alexander has been twice married, first. in 1828, to Margaret, daughter of William and Agnes Dunn 'nee Dunn. She died in 1848; about forty years of age. Their children are, Win. Newell, Samuel S., James E., Jane W. and Mary Ann. He was next married in in 1852, to Emily Jones. She died in 1878, nearly, fifty-seven years of age. Their children arc, Amanda, Edwin, Emma and George Chalmers. DANIEL K STANTON, soli of Edmund and Sarah Stanton, was born August 98, 1850, in Goshen township, Belmont, county, 0. His father died when Daniel was about four months old. He was educated at district schools and Mt. Pleasant ; was foreman in Davis, Stanton &     mill for four years, at the end 360 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. of which. time he had the first and second fingers of his left hand sawed Oft Married Rebecca I). Bundy, daughter of Chalk-ley and Sarah Bundy, October 9, 1872 ; have two children-- Sarah E., born August 4, 1873 ; Edwin C., born September 17, 1877. Caine to where he. now resides April, 1875. HOSEA DOUDNA.—Our subject was born in Edgecombe coon ty, North Carolina, in 1793. His father, John Doudna, was a friend of General Wolfe, and was at the capture of Quebec. He afterwards removed to North Carolina, where he met and married Miss Sarah Knowls, of Edgecombe county. They removed with several: children to the present location of Hosea Doudna, in the spring of 1805. John Doudna died in 1808, about eighty years of age; his wife, a few years later about the same age. The children were: Penina, deceased, married to James Lils, deceased ; Hosea, married to to Mary Farmer, deceased; Zilphha, deceased, married to John Edgerton ; Asenath, deceased, married to Benjamin Boswell, deceased; Joel, deceased, married to Rebecca Hodgin; Elizabeth, deceased, married to Jesse Dawson, deceased.; and Anna, deceased, married to Peter Sears. Hosea Doudna's children were: Rebecca, married to Andrew Blowers; Ann, deceased, married to John Crew, deceased; Joseph, married to Belinda Hobson ; John, deceased; Thomas, deceased, married to Rachel Wood; Robert, .deceased; Willoughby, de ceased, married to Ruth Ann Ervers ; Jason, married to Mary Ervers ; Hosea, deceased, married to Mary Plummer, and Ephraim, married to Anna Hanson. WASHINGTON BUCHANAN, a son of George and Margaret Buchanon, nee Henry, was born in 1809, in Kirkwood township, near Warren, Belmont county. His parents with five children, William, George, Wilson, Margaret and Martha, migrated from the vicinity of Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., and located in Kirkwood township in April, 1800. In a few years the Henrys (George H. father of Mrs. Margaret Buchanan) and his family arrived in the same neighborhood. George Buchanan died in 1843, at the age of seventy-six ; his wife in 1821, at the age of fifty. The children born in Belmont county were; David, John, Andrew, Washington, Elizabeth, Sophia and Casandra. All of the children are deceased with the exception of Wilson, Washington and Elizabeth. William died at manhood; George married Margery Kennon, deceased, a sister of Judge Wm. Kennon, Sr., Of St. Clairsville; Wilson married first, Elizabeth Brian, deceased.; second, Esther Burns; Margaret married William Dougherty, deceased ; Martha, Sophia and Casandra died while young.. Our subject was married in 1824, to Mary Kennon, a daughter of Newel Kennon. The children are: John H., married to Sallie, daughter of Richard Stamp Jane, deceased ; Newell K.; Margaret, married to William Thompson ; Thomas J., of the firm of Buchanan & Moore, Barnesville; Eliza ; and Mary Wilson, married to Isaac P. Lewis, of Lewis, Mills. JOHN R. GIBSON, JR., was born in Calvert county, Md., January 6, 1827, and in the following spring his parents, John R. and Rebecca Gibson, with tour children, emigrated to Warren township and located where the Chaney heirs now own. Here they remained for some two years, and then they purchased 80 acres in section 29, where our subject now resides, for which he paid $600. His tattier was married to Miss R. Hunt, by whom he became the parent of eight children, six of whom are living, five sons and one daughter. He served a short time in the war of 1812. Died June 14, 1859, aged 75, and his wife died February 11, 1875. Our subject received a common school education. From the time that his father located on this farm, about fifty years ago, he has never been away from home longer than a week at one time. He married Susannah Gill, of Guernsey county, March 1, 1849. They are the parents of eight sons-John W., William T., George W., Richard E., Winfield S., Benjamin F., Isaac H., and Charles W. He owns a farm of 226 acres, which is underlaid with coal of an excellent quality, and has four banks opened on his farm. Tobacco has been grown on this farm every year since his father came here. In the year 1865 he raised 17,000 pounds and sold it for $11 per hundred. FRANCIS DAVIS, son of John F. and Ann Davis, was born in Belmont county., July 9, 1819. His parents emigrated from Ireland in 1818, and located about two and a half miles from Morristown. He obtained a common school education, and was reared a farmer. His father lived hut a short time on the land where he first located, and then removed to Harrison county. There he engaged in the mercantile business until his death, in 1827. His mother afterward married Israel Wilson, who was one of the first settlers in. eastern. Ohio, and they removed about three miles from Freeport, on a farm. When Francis arrived at the age of sixteen he carne to Belmont county and located in Flushing township. in April, 1840, he married Mary Smith, by whom he became the .parent of nine children, three of whom are living—John F., Jane p.; and William C. He resided in Flushing township till 1860, and then removed to Warren township, where he still resides. In 1864 he moved to Barnesville and engaged in railroading; been interested in the Bank, and has been president of the same since 1875; has stock in the gas works at Barnesville; was general superintendent of the "Quakers'." school building in its erection in 1875, and had the contract for building the Quaker church. He and Jesse Starbuck owned the planing mill, which they erected in about 1871, and which exploded July, 1878. Came to where he now resides in 1873, and built his present residence, opposite the Orphans' Home in 1877 His son, John F., is married and resides in Barnesville. His daughter, Jane D.; married William Stanton,. and resides near by. JOHN G. HOYLE, son of Benjamin and Tabitha Hoyle, was born in Barnesville, Ohio, April 10, 1827. His mother died when he was about one year old. In 1842 he removed to Mt. Pleasant, and was superintendent of the boarding school for five years, and then returned to his farm again. John was educated at Mt. Pleasant, and was married to Elizabeth Bundy, daughter of Ezekiel and Maria Bundy, October 30, 1850, by whom he is the parent of three children—Simon S., October 31; 1851; Nathan B., August 5, 1854, and Ezekiel B.., December 16, 1855. Nathan is dead. The other two are married. He has resided in Warren township ever since his marriage, and came to his present location, on the Bundy homestead, in 1868. LINDLEY P. BAILEY was born in Goshen township, Belmont county, Ohio, March 8, 1850. He was educated at Mt. Pleasant and reared on a farm ; married Elizabeth. S. Stanton July 26, 1871. They are the parents of four children—Edward M., Oscar J., Anne and Clara. For one year after his marriage he lived on Isaac Vail’s farm, and then removed to his present location, some two miles east of Barnesville on the B. & O. R. R.. Before his marriage he taught school, but since he has been a grower of sheep. In the fall of 1878, he turned his attention to the South Down. The first ho purchased was from George J. Hagerty, of Licking county, Ohio, which took. the premium at the Ohio State Fair. Bought from John L Holly, of New Jersey, a sheep from the Webb flock of England.. He .purchased other, fine sheep from different parties. His sheep is of the finest quality, and be. has taken great pains in improving his stock. ISRAEL WILSON, JR., son of Israel and Martha Wilson, was born in Pennsylvania, June 9, 1807, and when about four years of age, his parents removed to Harrison county, Ohio. Here our subject on November 29, 1827, married Catharine Davis, and remained there until 1861, and then removed to Warren township, Belmont county, Ohio. They reared a family of nine children-William C., Martha, Elisha, Jane, Ann Eliza, Mary H., Rachel D., Israel J. and Joseph D. All are dead but Ann Eliza, who resides on Sandy Ridge, near the Quaker school building, where she and her mother came in 1875. Israel Wilson died April 16, 1865, and his wife July 21, 1878. WM. TALBOTT was born in Maryland, December 17, 1797. When six years of age his parents removed to Rockingham county, Virginia. In 1815 they migrated to Belmont county, Ohio. On December, 24, 1818, William married Rebecca Murphy, by whom he became the parent of eleven children, nine of whom are living-seven boys and two girls. All are married. Our subject located on the farm upon which he now resides in 1823.. and wife died, August 29, 1877. The names of his chil- dren nd dates of birth are as follows : John, June 16, 1821; William, February 14, 1823; Delilah, July 25, 1827; Mary J., May 31, 1829; James M., April 18, 1831; Israel, March 9, 1833; Marinda, February 7, 1835; Maria F., April 23, 1836; Francis M., January 15, 1831 ; Ellery, January 15, 1841 ; Levi C., July 6, 1842. JAMES M. TALBOTT was born April 18, 1831 ; reared on a farm and received a common school education. Is engaged in farming, stock dealing and real estate speculations. In 1871 he removed to Kansas, where he remained until the fall of 1875 HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 361 LEVI C. TALBoTT was born July 6, 1842, on a farm where he was reared and educated. On December 26, 1878, he was married to a lady of Noble county, Ohio. He owns a farm on the National pike, one mile west of Lloydsville. HISTORY OF KIRKWOOD TOWNSHIP. Kirkwood formed one of the first four original civil townships and extended from the Ohio river to now Guernsey, in which part of said county was included. It was erected November 25, 1801, and named in honor of Robert Kirkwood, the pioneer. On February 24, 1802, and August 15, 1804, Richland, Pease and Union were erected from the eastern portion. In January, 1810, part of its western territory was included in the establishment of Guernsey connty. March 14, 1817, sixteen sections were taken off the northern end of the township in connection with twelve from Union township to create Flushing, since which time it has remained unchanged, with a square of thirty-six sections. EARLY SETTLEMENT. The first settlement in Kirkwood township was made on section eight, in 1800, by three brothers, Joseph, William and Barnet Groves, who migrated from Pennsylvania with their families, located and made improvements on this section. In 1802, a man by the name of McBride located and made some improvement on section eleven. In 1802 or 1803, John Israel settled on section two. John Bradshaw settled on section thirty two in 1803 or 1804. In 1804, Hugh Gilliland and family settled on section twenty-five, and Hugh Ford on same section and John Heaney on section one during the same year. In 1804 or 1805, John Burton settled in the township ; John McClain settled on section twenty-five ; Anemias Randall on section thirty-two. In 1805, Thomas Perkins and family settled on section seventeen. In 1805 or 1806, James McKinney settled in the township. In 1806, Ralph Cowgill settled on section thirty-one. William Spencer settled in the township in 1805 or 1806. In 1808, Robert Griffin settled near where Egypt is now located. Thomas Griffin settled in the township about the same time. In 1807 or 1808, John Honnold, Josiah McColloch, John Jarvis, John Marsh, Francis Hall and Hugh McMahon, made settlements in the township. Thomas Barret settled on section thirty-two in. 1807 or 1808. In 1808, Robert Waddell made his first improvements in the township. In 1808 or 1809, James Sheppard settled on section twenty-three. Daniel Conner and Basil Ridgeway made settlements in the township during the same years. Mathias Graves settled on land one-half mile east of where Hendrysburg now stands in 1808. In 1809 or 1810, Thomas Greene settled on section twenty-nine. Isaac Midkiff settled in the township in 1810 or 1811. Philip Ward settled on section 17 in 1811. John Ball on section sixteen the same year. Charles Harvey, Nicholas Gazaway and the Moores were among the early settlers. Jacob Barnett settled in the township in 1813. William Bratton in '1814. Abner Moore in 1814. John McFadden, in 1815. Alexander H. McCormick, in 1815 ; Alexander McKeever, in 1816 ; Rev. John McPherson, in 1816 ; Lewis Jones, in 1816 ; Henry Acton, in 1817; Eli Taylor in 1817; Patrick Hamilton, in 1819; Samuel Boden, in 1821 ; Joseph Reynolds, in 1824 ; Charles Smith, in 1826; Samuel Smith, in 1824; Robert Armstrong, in 1823. And there are many others who were here in an early day and endured the hardships of a pioneer life, labored hard to clear away the dense forests, make improvements and prepare the soil for cultivation. Some of them are mentioned in the history of Sewellsville. INCIDENTS. In about 1798 a party of hunters were camping at a spring near where Jonathan Perkins' dwelling now stands. One evening when they returned to camp one of their party, by the name of Robinson, was missing. Diligent search was made for him, but he could not be found. They supposed him to be carried off a captive by the Indians, as there were some in the neighborhood at that time. In 1807 there was a gun barrel and some human bones found on the Perkins, farm, section 17, which were thought to be the remains of Robinson. In honor of this unfortunate man one branch of Stillwater creek bears his name, and is known as Robinson's branch. In 1818 or 1819, near the centre of the township, John Clark was killed by a tree falling on him. In 1820 a man by the name of Gilbert was found dead in the 46 - B. & J. Cos. dam. His shoes were lying on the bank, and the remainder of his clothing was on his body. It was supposed that he had drowned himself. Henry Roberts was found dead in the dam one morning. His horse was standing near the water's edge and the man's body in the water. In 1827 or 1828 there was a man killed while raising a tobacco house by a log rolling on him. His name was on known. In 1830 Samuel Douglass, while holding a log on a hillside, the log rolled, struck him on the head, and killed him instantly. In 1830 or 1832 James Gould was killed on the road leading north from Hendrysburg. He was on his way home from town with his oxen and cart. The cart was upset, and a plow that was in the cart fell on him. The shear striking his side killed him. In 1844 or 1845 William Jarvis was killed, while raising a house by a log falling on him. In 1849 William Johnston was found dead on the hillside above Hendrysburg, supposed to have been killed by the horses and wagon running over him. In 1851 there was a destructive fire in Hendrysburg, burning a steam flouring mill, storeroom, and dwelling house also a stable with one horse was consumed by the flames. In 1852 Philip Spear, a carpenter by trade, was killed while tearing down an old frame house, by one side of the building falling on him. In 1856 or 1857 George Lewis and his son, Samuel, were killed in the coal bank at the old woolen mills by the bank falling on them. In 1869 Louisa. C. Pox was murdered by Thomas Carr on the farm now owned by Daniel Mummy. An account of this is found elsewhere. LODGES OF HENDRYSBURG. MANCINNETTA LODGE No. 360, I. O. O. F., Was organized in 1860, by W, C. Earl, grand master, with five charter members, Moses Milton, Dr. P. R. Chapman, D. J. Spear, A. C. Hogue and A. J. Heaney, Officers elected were : A. C. Hogue, N. G. D. J. Spear, V. G. A. J. Heaney, R. S. Dr. P. R. Chapman, P. S. Moses Milton, Treasurer. Others were soon added to their number. The lodge was prosperous and in good working order until 1864, when on account of so many of their members going to the war, they surrendered their charter to the Grand Lodge of Ohio, and it was not until in 1876, that by a petition sent to the Grand Lodge by A. J. Heaney, D. S. Spear and A. C. Hogue and others of the old members, that a new charter was granted to them. Since the reorganization of the lodge, it has been prosperous. Their membership at present is twenty-eight. They met in Susan James' Hall until in 1877, then they in company with John Parks erected a building in the western part of Hendrysburg, the upper room of which is used by the I. O. O. F. lodge and the lower room by Parks for a store room. Present officers are : C. M. Tidball, N: G. William Goodin, V. G. Alfred Hutchison, R. S. W. S. Henderson, P. S. Job Dillon, T. KIRKWOOD GRANGE No. 911 Was organized in May, 1874, with Barnet Taylor, Master. They meet in one room of the Hendrysburg school house. The membership at present is about sixty, with James A. Sheppard, Master. HENDRYSBURG READING CLUB. This society was organized December 4, 1874, with seven charter members. Officers elected were : Dr. E. D. Straw, president. R. A. Heaney, Nice president. John Davis, recording secretary. W. H. Davis, corresponding secretary. Wilford Wesley, librarian. 362 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. They occupied one room on the school building until in March, 1878, they moved their quarters to the hall over the drug store, where they hold their meetings at present. Membership at this time is twelve, with Frank Dillon, president. E. S. Swan, vice president. Carl Agy, recording secretary. W. B. Davis, corresponding secretary. W. L. Culberson, librarian. William Wesley, treasurer. The society is in good standing and their library is filled with interesting and valuable books. HENDRYSBURG DIVISION No. 37, S. S., was organized June, 1876, with twenty-six charter members, by A.. M. Collins, D. G. W. P. The following officers were elected : John Davis W. P. Elizabeth A. Davidson, W. A. Etta Hamilton, P. W. P. Clarkson McKeever, R. S. Katie Chapman, A. R. S. William F. Shepherd, F. S. Etta Hamilton, Treasurer. John Rail, C. Kate Gray, A. C. Sadie McKeever, I. S. John Conner, O S. Rev. M. J. Slutz, Chaplain. John Davis, D. G. W. P. They held their meetings at Susan James, Hall about one year. Then they moved their quarters to a room in the school building, which they are occupying at present. The membership at this time is thirty. The lodge is in a prosperous condition, with Jesse Burson W. P. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF KIRKWOOD TOWNSHIP. John Israel was one of the first justices of the peace in Kirkwood township. John McPherson, T. Lacock, Mead Jarvis, A. Moore, Wm. B. Beall and John H. Johnston have also been justices. Barnet Taylor, who has filled the office for twenty-one years, is one of the present justices, and Joseph Erich, the other. SCHOOLS. In 1809 or 1810, there was a log cabin school house erected on the Cowgill farm in section 31 near the southwest corner of the township. John Stewart kept the first school in this house, and continued teaching there for several years, David Long and J a Ines _Round also taught several terms in this cabin. In about 1810 or 1811, there was a cabin school house built, on then William Green's but now Silas Sheppard's farm, near where Sewellsville is now located. William Jarvis and William Mitchell taught several terms in this house. In about 1813 or 1814, there was a cabin house built on James Greeneltch's farm. James Greeneltch taught in this house for several years. There was an old log cabin house fitted up for school purposes, near the center of the township, in which William Mitchell and David Long taught several terms of school. There were several terms of school kept in an old cabin house that stood on the limn now owned by James K. Murphy, in the north central part of the township. In an early day there was a cabin house erected for school purposes south of where Hen- drysburg is now located. There were also several terms of school taught in different parts of the township in cabin houses. The teachers were paid by each family that sent children to school, paying according to the number they had in attendance during that term. In 1822 the township was divided into nine school districts, all of which were supplied with hewed log houses as soon as it was possible to do so,. Some of the teachers who taught in the hewed log houses were Jesse Cowgill, Norman Shamblin, William Gregg, Wm. Doudle, Pardon Cook, David Harris, Moses Marsh, Richard Cross, Henry Long and a Mr. Sidle. The hewed log houses have long since been torn away, and their places filled with good frame buildings. At -present the township is divided into eleven school districts, four of which are supplied with good brick houses, and the other seven with frame buildings. The schools are in good standing, and supplied with competent teachers. HENDRYSBURG SCHOOL. Before the erection of a house for school purposes in the vicinity of Hendrysburg, there were several terms taught in private residences in the neighborhood, and a few terms taught in the old Christian Church building, which was a log structure, located one-fourth of a mile north of town, by Moses Milton. Benjamin Eaton taught a term in his own residence in the winter of 1831-2. William Tidball kept a few terms in his dwelling house. Robert Barkley and a Mr. McGinnis were among the early teachers in the neighborhood. In 1839 there was a frame school house erected at the east end of town 28x30 feet. David Tidball taught the first term of school in the new building. On account of the number of scholars being too great for one teacher, the district was divided and a frame school house built. The schools were carried on as separate districts until in 1870, then the two districts united and formed a union school. They erected the present school building, which is a fine brick structure 36x60 feet, containing four rooms, three of which are used for school purposes. The fourth room has been used by the Hendrysburg Reading Club, until March, 1878, and since then the temperance society have been holding their meetings there. The school is in a prosperous condition under the management of Oliver S. B. Grimsley, principal, assisted by E. F. Swan and Miss Ellie Barber. HENDRYSBURG. The village of Hendrysburg is located on the National pike in the south central part of Kirkwood township, section fourteen. The pike was built through this part of the country in 1825-6. Charles Hendry purchased the land that is now occupied by the town shortly after the pike was completed. He first engaged in the mercantile business, meeting with success. In 1826 or 1827 he erected a steam fronting mill which brought people to the place and gave rise to the laying out of a town. In 1828, Mr. Hendry., employed Mr. Briggs, a surveyor, to lay out and make a plat of a town which he called Hendrysburg in honor of his own name. The lots extend on both sides of the pike, across a quarter section, except a short distance on the north side of the pike at the east end of the village, being 52 feet on the street or pike. A number of lots were at once sold and small log dwelling houses erected thereon, that have since been . torn away and frame buildings erected in their stead. The first, building of any consequence was erected by William. Tidball, be ing a dwelling house with a store room in connection, in which be enaaged in the Mercantile business for several years. Since 1867 it has been used for hotel purposes .by Mrs. Conner. In' 1843 there was a woolen mill built by a joint stock company on the present site of the distillery, which was operated with success for a number of years, manufacturing :all kinds of woolen goods until in 1860 it was abandoned. The steam flouring built by Charles Hendry, in 1826 or 1827, was owned and operated by different men until in 1851, it was destroyed by fire. Another mill of the same kind was at once erected in its stead on the same ground, operated about one year and was also consumed by fire. In 1849-50, the flouring mill known as the National Flouring Mill, was erected a little northwest of where, the old woolen mill stood, by Christopher Shaffer. It contains three run of bars, two for flour and one for chopping feed. The capacity of the mill is one hundred barrels of flour per day. It has been owned and operated by several parties since its erection. Since 1871 it has been operated by Job Dillon. In 1862 the old woolen mill building was purchased by Christopher Shaffer, converted into a distillery, and has been used as such since that time. At present it is operated by William Henderson, and owned by the Shaffer heirs, In 1837-8, the M. E. Church society erected a brick church building, which was used for church purposes by the society. until 1869; they then tore away the old building, and erected the present frame structure for church uses, in which they worship. The Christian church society erected a church edifice in the village in 1869, which they hold their meetings in at present. In 1854 Messrs. E. Combs and McCartney built the Hendrysburg flouring and saw mill at the east end of the village. At present it is owned and operated by Trimmer & Hill. At present the village contains about eighty-five dwelling houses, with a population of about 375. It contains three dry goods stores, two grocery stores, one drug store, postoffice, with David McCoy postmaster, two physicians, one dentist, two wagon shops, four blacksmith shops, one HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 363 distillery, two saloons, two steam flouring mills, one with saw mill in connection, one livery and sale stable, two hotels, one school building containing four rooms, two churches, I. O. O. F. Lodge, Reading club, temperance organization, &c., and one Grange Lodge. EGYPT. In 1826 James Lloyd erected a flouring mill on Stillwater creek, section 3, Kirkwood township. In a few years he built a saw mill near the grist mill. He did a flourishing business for many years, during which time there were several buildings erected. Some parties engaged in the mercantile business, and there was a blacksmith shop built, and everything went on well. The place was called Egypt, and is known by that name for many miles. But nothing remains at this time to mark the place but old buildings, all the business and people having forsaken it. The mills have not been in use for several years. SEWELLSVILLE. Near the spot where sections 28, 29, 34 and 35 corner in Kirkwood township, Belmont county, Ohio, was a grand old spring of pure, cold water, which served as a watering place for the pioneers of the settlement that was made in close proximity to it about the year 1815 or 1816. The settlement was known by the name of "Union," after the name of the log meeting house, which was also built near this spring in 1819, and of which the writer will speak more at length in another place. In 1807 Francis Hall settled and built a cabin on section 29. Alex. McBratney and Robert Griffin also settled on the same section in 1808, Basil Ridgeway, Thomas and William Green in 1809. John Hunter, Philip Lykes, Sr., Jesse Pennington and Philip Lykes, Jr., settled on section 35 in 1812. William Frizzell, Henry Gregory and Thomas Miller, on section 28, in 1809; John Jarvis, Philip and Mead Jarvis and David Shay, on section 34, in 1810. The location of the village proper, is on the dividing ridge between the waters of Skull fork, and Robinson,s fork of Stillwater, and is on the line of the western terminus of the coal region of the county. The settlement was called "Union" up to the year 1831, when on petition of Thomas Beeks, John Cole, Mead Jarvis and others, a postoffice was granted under the name of Sewellsville, with Peter Sewell first postmaster. Mr. Sewell and family emigrated from Maryland in 1828, stopped a short time with Francis Hall, then moved on to New Rumsley, in Harrison county, Ohio, where his brother James Sewell was living. Here they remained till the next spring, 1829, when they returned to what is now Sewellsville, and settled on the lot now adjoining the M. E. Church on the south. Peter Sewell was a cabinet maker, and supplied the neighborhood with good furniture for a number of years. He was also noted as a fifer and drummer in martial music. He and his estimable lady, Susan Sewell, and their son, T. M. Sewell, are now at this writing living in the town of New Athens, Ohio, the son being a prominent teacher in Franklin College. But it will occupy too much space to give even a brief sketch of all the pioneers of this place, and the writer will be excused for only mentioning the names of prominent individuals who were connected with the history and business of the village. The successors of Mr. Sewell to the office of postmaster, were William Jarvis, John Anderson, J. R. Ball, Isaiah Mitchell, John Widdoes and Joshua Young, present incumbent, who took charge of the office in 1865. The first church organization was in 1818, under the pastoral labors of Rev. Thomas Ruckle, (Methodist Episcopal) who first preached in a log cabin near where the brick church now stands, which was also used as a schoolhouse. A class was organized with Basil Ridgeway leader, and met at his house, about a mile north from where the church building is now located, for a year and a half, when the log meetinghouse above mentioned was built in 1819 in the bounds of what was then known as Barnesville circuit. At the time this house was built the leading members in the society were Ridgeway, Thos. Miller, Zachariah Marsh, Mead Jarvis, Thomas Frizzell and others. The leading ministers who supplied the work up to 1837, when the present brick church was built were Thomas Ruckle, John Carper, Daniel Limerick, William Knox, Thomas Taylor, (John McPherson, local,) Pardon Cook and C. E. Wei-rich. Under the pastoral labors of the two latter ministers an unusual display of Divine 'power was manifested in the month I - 26 - B & J. Cos. of September and continued through the winter of 1836-7. Over one hundred persons professed saving faith in Christ, and united with the church, and the meeting is known to the present time as Charley Waddell,s great meeting, a local preacher who labored successfully with Cook and Weirich. The old log house now being too small to accommodate the congregation, arrangements were made the following spring for building a more commodious house. The contract was let to James Young, of Wrightstown, Ohio, to make the brick and finish the building, 45x56 ½ feet, 16-foot story, ready for service for the sum of $—. The house was finished in the fall of 1837, (Theodore Bailey, boss bricklayer,) and was dedicated by Rev. Edward Smith, P. E., on January 1, 1838. The principal ministers on the charge from 1838 up to present time were C. D. Battelle, S. R. Brockunier, G. D. Kinnear, Charles Thorn, John Shirer, Israel Archibold, P. K. McCue, N. C. Worthington, J. W. Baker, James Mclllyar, M. J. Slutz and R. S. Straitt, present pastor. All of whom were eminent divines, and did noble work for the advancement of Christianity. The church membership at present numbers 125; church property valued at 82,000. A prosperous Sunday School in connection with the church has been in operation over forty years. In 1855 a Methodist Protestant Society was organized, and a neat frame building, 30x40 feet and twelve foot story, was erected a little west of the village, principally through the labors and influence of John Sheppard, one of the pioneers of Methodism in the neighborhood, with T. Lawson, pastor. The principal ministers in this church who supplied the work were: H. T. Lawson, William L. Baldwin, George Hessey, John M. Woodard, J. P. King, Thomas Schott, J, B. McCormick, E. S. Hoagland, and L. W. Link, who was the pastor in 1877, when the society disbanded, after continuing twenty-two years with moderate success. A Sunday School was carried on most of the time, composed chiefly of the same scholars that made up the M. E. Sunday School. Church property valued at $1,000. As before stated, a log cabin stood near the church building. which was used as a school house. It had split puncheons for seats, without backs. It is not clearly defined who taught the school in this house during the first few years of the settlement, but in 1829, David Harris, (afterward justice of the peace, and probate judge of Belmont county for a number of years) built a cabin on what was afterwards known as Odell's hill, and opened a school in the autumn of the same year. John Barry and Angeline McPherson were his successors for some years afterward, when the old school house went down and the Union scholars went to the adjoining districts, one on the north and the other on the south, since known as Orr's and Armstrong's school houses until about the year 1846, when a handsome frame school house was built on the hill at the west end of the village, on a lot purchased of Philip Jarvis, known as No. 12 and finished after a more modern style, with board seats and writing desks, black board, &c. In the winter of 1847-8, .D. McMoore taught the first school in the new house. About the year 1832, the Ohio state school law was passed providing for the payment of teachers from a public school fund, which was divided into state, county and township and collected by the county treasurer. Section sixteen was also set apart in each township for school purposes. Among the leading teachers in sub-district No. 12 (Sewellsville) from 1847 up to the present date, were: D. McMoore, Charles Gordon, Mary Penn, Anna R. Livingston, L. A. Davidson, Eliza J. Kennon, Michael Crouse, Mary Rosemond, Howard Anderson, Linn, Hamilton, N. M. Crawford and Simeon Rosengrant. T. M. Sewell, also taught a select school in 1869, in the old building used by Dr. Dallas for an office. In 1869, a more commodious school house was built by the township, on the same spot where the old one stood, and furnished with patent writing desks. The room is 22x38 feet, with ten-foot story, finished in handsome style, .with a good bell. Cost of building, $1,400. The school now enumerates eighty scholars. In 1830 Mr. Wiley kept a small store in a hewed log house, on the lot now owned by John Sheppard. In 1831 Hugh McMahon bought and carried on the store in same building, until September, 1832, when he died of cholera. Having been to Wheeling for goods, he was taken sick on the way home, and died soon after his arrival. He was buried with his bed and clothing on the same lot, and a plain sand stone slab marks his grave. Mead and William Jarvis also sold dry goods and groceries from 1835 to 1843, during which time William Jarvis kept the postoffice. Joseph Wheat, of Wheeling, Va., also sold goods here in 1840-1-2, and in March, 1843, moved his goods back to 364 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Wheeling in sleds, there being about eighteen inches of snow at that time. William Jarvis was killed in May, 1844, by a log falling on him at a tobacco house raising on the lands of Thos. Beeks, about a mile from the village. He was affable and courteous toward his neighbors, and was sadly missed by his friends and the community at large. Dillon Pickering, Carron & Alexander, John Widdoes, Isaiah Mitchell and Joshua Young were the dry goods merchants from 1843 to present date. Philip Lykes and Solomon Shearo were the first blacksmiths in the place. Shearo worked in a small shop on the lot, since known as the Alexander Ran property. Lykes• first occupied a cabin opposite Shearo, on the lot afterterward known as the Dallas property. The smithing business was handed down to the third generation in the .Lykes family. From 1820 to 1850, they occupied a shop on the lot east of where Shearo worked. Samuel Cavender, William and Joseph Garven. Jeremiah Sheppard and Joseph Junkins were the blacksmiths from 1850 up to date. Cavender was a No. 1 blacksmith, and perhaps worked here at an earlier date than 1850. Obediah Miller, Maline Odell, William Akers, David James and J. B. Widdoes were shoemakers in the village, Dr. James Hood, of Fairview, was the principal physician in this part of the country up to 1841, when his son-in-law, Dr. L. J. Dallas, settled in the village and commenced and continued the practice of medicine (old school) until the spring of 1859, when he sold out and moved to Douglas county, Kansas. Dr. H. C. Davies also practiced the eclectic system in Sewellsville and vicinity from 1845 to November, 1851, when he died of typhoid fever in the twenty-ninth year of his age. A handsome marble monument marks his last resting place in the village cemetery. Dr. Davies was a very promising physician, and it is one of the mysteries of Providence that he was called away from earth in the midst of his usefulness. Dr. William Lindsey, a student of Dr. Davies, and who was attending the medical lectures at Cincinnati at the time of .Davies, death, was called home and took Davies, practice, and has been a practicing physician up to present time. The writer of this brief sketch of Sewellsville has endeavored to give the main facts regarding the rise and progress of the village., If, however, any errors may appear with regard to names or dates, it is expected that a generous public will make a reasonable allowance for the imperfection of finite memory. The present population of the village is 150. SALEM M. E. CHURCH. This society was organized in about 1810 or 1812, with eighteen or twenty members. They held their meetings in private residences until in 1813 or 1814, they erected a hewed log church building near the western line of section ten, in Kirkwood township. Their benches in the house were small logs split in halves, the flat side shaved smooth, holes bored, and sticks put in for legs, which they used for seats for several years, then made seats of boards. Their fire place was a box set in the middle of the house with dirt in, on which they made the fire. This they used until in 1816, when they made a fire place, and built a stone chimney in the center of the house. This house they used as a place in which to worship, until in 1840 ; then they erected the present frame structure, situated near where the old log building stood, in which they hold their services. The society has been very prosperous. The membership at present is eighty, in 1846, on account of their number being great it was divided into two classes, and continues so at present. EARLY MEMBERS. Mr. Honnold and wife, John Clark and wife, Mrs. Thos. Major, Mrs. Waddell, George Waddell, John McFadden and wife, Henrietta Murphy, Sarah Moore, Eleanor Waddell, John Fox, and many others. MINISTERS. Revs. Knox, Thorn, Archibold, Springer, Wolfe, C. Waddell, Gee. Waddell, Worthington, Mel Ilyar, Huston, Vertican, Feitt, Coil, Shaw, Rhodes, Slutz, and many others have been ministers in the circuit. Rev. Strahl is the present pastor. CLASS LEADERS. The first class leader was John Fox; 2d, Isaac Midkiff, who acted in that capacity for about twenty-five years; 3d, Alex. Carr Skadden, for ten years ; 4th, Samuel Douglass for six, years; 5th, Earl Douglass for three years; 6th, Jonathan Perkins fifteen years. William G. Major has been leader of class No. 2 for ten years, and is still filling the position. John T. Grove is leader of class No. 1 at present. BURYING GROUND. Near the church is the burying ground. In 1815, there was but one ;rave, and that was the grave of .;._man by the name of Dallas. But since that time many of the first settlers, or those that suffered at the hands of a pioneer life, have been laid in their long resting place in this cemetery. In passing by the ground it is plain to be seen that the monster death has been doing its work in that Vicinity. In this 'burying ground can be be seen a monument, erected by the citizens of the neighborhood in memory of :Louisa C. Pox, who was murdered by Thomas Carr in 1869. SEWELLSVILLE M. E. CUURCH Was organized in about 1813 or 1814, with fifteen or twenty members. They held their meetings in private houses until in 1815 or 1816, they bnilt a hewed log house near where the present brick structure stands, which they used for church purposes, for several years, and en account of the increase in membership, they were compelled to erect an addition to their church building to accommodate all. The society has been very prosperous. During one revival, over one hundred persons connected them selves with the church, making their membership over two hun Bred at that time. They used their log church until in 1830 or 1831, then they erected the present brick structure, which they have used since that time. Their Membership at present is about one hundred. EARLY MEMBERS. Basil Ridgeway and wife, Mead Jarvis and wife, William and John Jarvis, Zacariah, Edward, Moses, John, Jr., and Charles Marsh, John Davies and Mrs. Davies, Philip Lykes, Robert Frizzell and wife, Nathan Frizzell and wife, and many others were among the early members of the church. The ministers that were pastors of the Salem M.. E. Church, were preachers for this church society. HENDRYSBURG M. E. CHURCH. This church society was organized in 1835, by Rev. Thomas Buckle, with twelve members, viz : Andrew Barnett and family, John Gilbert and wife, Andrew Foreman, Jonathan Dnnn, Dan- iel Renner, James Hutchison and John Casey and family. They met in an old log cabin one-fourth of a inile east of town, for a few years. In March, 1836, Price Murphy deeded the society a lot, on which the present frame church stands. In 1837 they began the erection of a brick church building 30x40, which was finished and dedicated in 1838. This church edifice was used by them until in May, 1869, by which time they had erected and dedicated the frame structure which is used by the society at the present time. The society has been very prosperous, many have been brought into the church, who have long since passed away. Their membership at this time is 116. MINISTERS. Revs. S. Y. Kennedy, John R. Cooper, Charles Edwards, John S. Nesley, Andrew Huston, P. W. Vertican, John Coil, C. Teitt, Daniel Rhodes, Joseph Shaw, M. J. Slutz. R. S. Strahl is the present pastor. CLASS LEADERS. Robert Ralston, Absalom Butler, Andrew Ralston, Samuel Keifer, Lewis Jones, John Anderson, Allen Floyd, Robert P. Major and L. D. Jones, have been class leaders in the church. STEWARDS. John Anderson, Robt. P. Major, L. D. Jones, David Hill and A.. S. Taylor. At present the Hendrysburg M. E. Church, the Salem M. E. Church and the Sewellsville M. E. Church, belong to one circuit, known as the Hendrysburg circuit, which belongs to the East Ohio Conference. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 365 CONCORD M. P. CHURCH. In 1830 Rev. George Waddell and wife, James Waddell and wife, Richard and William Shoars, Richard Palmer, Moses Mil- ligan and some others, withdrew from the Salem . E. Church Society, and organized a society known as the M. P. Church Society. In 1832 they erected a hewed log church on section 17, Kirkwood township. Others connected themselves with the church after its organization,. They continued as a church society until in 1850, then they ceased to exist as an organization. Revs. Henry Heherling, James Winn, Rev. Linder and Rev. Brown, were ministers for this organization. SEWELLSVILLE M. P. CHURCH Was organized by John Sheppard in February, 1856, with twelve members. During the summer of the same year they erected the present frame church building, 30x40, which was used by them for church purposes while the society continued to be an organization. For a number of years it was prosperous, and their membership numbered about sixty. But on account of their membership becoming so small, it has not been considered an organization since the winter of 1877-8, then they held their last meeting., And since that time the church building has not been in use. .Revs. Henry Heberling, J. W. Case, B. T. Lawson, Joseph Edwards, Wm. L. Baldwin, John M. Woodward, J. P. King, Thomas Scott, Thomas Orr, Samuel Lancaster, E. S. Hoagland and F. W. Link, were ministers for the organization. HENDRYSBURG DISCIPLE CHURCH. In 1862 Elder E. A. Mires, a minister of this denomination, preached an occasional sermon in the school house in Hendrysburg. At that time there were but five or six members of this organization in the village, and no organization nearer than Morristown. By the occasional sermons preached, the number of members were increased, and continued in that manner until in the winter of 1866-7, when Rev. Mires, assisted by other ministers, held a series of meetings in the M. E. Church, by which their membership was greatly increased. Then-they organized into a society, and steps were taken to bring about the erection of a church for their own use, in which they succeeded, and during the year 1869, their house, which is a frame structure, was cempleted, at a cost of $3,500, and dedicated by Elder A. E. Mires. The society was organized by A. E. Mires, assisted by Elder Carlton, of Bellaire, Ohio. LEADING MEMBERS. Charles Smith, W. Carter, Daniel Carrol, H. B. Fowler, McLaughlin, Sr., Margaret Heaney, Nancy Heaney, Lucinda Murphy, Villa Carter. Mary Wilkins, and many others. MINISTERS. Elder Ridge was their minister for eighteen months, Elder E. J. Gantz for a period of six months, and Andrew Linkletter their pastor for one year. Others have preached for them occasion: ally, and held protracted meetings, through which means many have been taken into the church. Their church building is a frame structure located in the western part of the village. At this time the church is not in a very flourishing condition, their membership being considerably reduced in numbers. EGYPT UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. This church society was organized in 1842 or 1843 by Rev. David Finley. John McCormick, the McWilliams, the Scotts, the Hoods, and some others were among the first members of the society. Shortly after the organization they erected a church building on section ten in Kirkwood township. It is a frame structure, and is still standing. Rev. David Finley was their minister for several years. Revs. Clark, Boyd, .Reed and Love have been regular ministers fop this society. Others have preached for them occasionally as supplies. At one time in the past this was a strong organization, but has been made weak by its members moving from the neighborhood, and thus its membership has become so small that they have no more regular preaching in this church. The church building is still allowed to remain and mark the place where God's people did meet and worship. Near the church building is the burying ground used by the society where the bodies of many of its first members were interred. REFORMED DISSENTING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. This society was organized in 1809, by Rev. Alexander McCoy, Among the early members were Robert Griffin and Wife; Geo. Buchanan and wife, Andrew Dougherty and wife, Thomas Griffin, John Thompson and others, It was the first organization of the kind in the township of Kirkwood. They held their meetings in private residences until 1815, then they built a hewed log house 20x22 feet for church purposes near the southeastern corner of Kirkwood township, in which they held their meetings until in 1836, then they erected a stone church building near where the old one stood, that was used by them for church purposes until in 1855, then they abandoned the old. stone structure and connected themselves with the U. P. Church society at Fair-. view, Ohio. Revs. John Patterson and John Anderson were ministers for the society. The old stone structure has since been torn away, and nothing remains to marl: the spot except the burying ground where some of the pioneer members were .buried, THE MURDER OF LOUISA C. FOX, A BEAUTIFUL GIRL ONLY FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE.-THOMAS D. CARR THE MURDERER.- HIS, CONVICTION AND EXECUTION. No little excitement prevailed amongst the people of Belmont county, upon the announcement of the murder of Louisa C. Fox, daughter of John Fox, of Kirkwood township. She was a beautiful girl of only fourteen summers. On the 21st day of January, 1869, the cold-blooded murder was committed by the hand of Thomas D. Carr, who had become infatuated with her beauty and graceful manners. Because she refused giving him her hand in marriage he took her life. He was a notoriously wicked fellow, being engaged in all mariner of vices; confessed to have taken fourteen lives in cold-blood, and had attempted to murder five other persons, but in which he was unsuccessful. He was born in Sugar Hill, West Virginia, in 1846, and was the fourth son of a family of five children. At an early age he lost all respect for his parents, and they no longr had power or influence over him. He grew from bad to worse—from one degree of sin to another—until finally he was swung off into eternity on the gallows. Soon after the perpetration of this last murder, he was arrested and lodged in the county jail at St. Clairsville,. to await his trial. At the March term of 1869, the grand jury found a bill against him for murder in the first degree. On the 6th of March, he was arraigned at the bare of the court and entered a plea of "not guilty." Esquires D. D. T. Cowen and O J. Swaney were assigned by the court as his counsel, and Lorenzo Danford, Esq., assisted the.prthe prosecutingney, J. W Shannon. At the summer term, Thursday, June 17th, the cause came on to be tried—Judge Jjohn Sohny, on the bench. The jury was composed of the following gentlemen : Solomon Howie, Samuel P. Davis, Lee Evans, John A. Grove (Goshen township) William Patterson, Thomas Pyle, Allen Bond, John A.. Neff, James Kerr , Isaac Meek, Alexander McElravy and John A. Work—good and lawful men of Belmont county. Three days were occupied in taking evidence. At noon on Tuesday the jury came into court with a verdict of murder in the first degree. It; is said his counsel managed the case with great ability, and it was 110 fault of theirs that he was not acquitted. On Thursday, June 29th, he received his sentence. After being asked by the court if he had anything further to urge why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon him, he replied in the negative; whereupon the judge directed that the prisoner should be taken hence to "the jail of the county, and there safely and securely be kept. until Friday, the 20th day of August, A. D., 1869, and that, on that day he be taken to the place of execution, and between the hours of nine o,clock in the morning and four o,clock in the afternoon of the same day, that he be hanged by the neck until he be dead." The execution did not take place, however, until March 24, 1870, owing to exceptions being taken and a writ of error granted. When the death warrant was read, Carr laughed loudly, and said he did "not care a d—n if it was to be to-morrow," On the 8th of March, 1870, Carr signed a confession, which he had dictated to an amanuensis, relating the details of his acquaintance and intimacy with his victim, and all the circumstances connected with the murder, which was published in pamphlet form. The substance, in brief, of this confession was, that while he was digging coal for Mr. Alexander Hunter, the girl came to live at his brother-in-law's house (Robert Wallace); that there he began a courtship with her ; that they frequently vowed that " nothing but death should separate thorn," and that she promised to marry him ; that her parents also gave their consent, notwithstanding her age ; that he had provided cloth- 366 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. ing for her and the wedding day had been fixed ; that Mrs. Hunter had interposed good advice to the girl ; that her parents broke their promises and compelled her to reject him that he then became desperate, and that while she was going from Mr. Hunter’s to her father's, he overtook her and murdered her, cutting her in a dreadful manner with a razor. He then skulked about the neighborhood until the next day, when he tried to kill himself, first by shooting himself with a gun and then cutting his throat. The citizens then captured him. His wounds were afterward dressed by physicians, and as soon as he was able to be conveyed, he was taken to St. Clairsville and lodged in the county jail. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. THOMAS PERKINS, was born in Prince George county, Maryland, in 1742. He married Casander Castell, of the same county, and reared a family of four children—Francis, John, Samuel and Rebecca. In 1805, Mr. Perkins, with his wife and two of his children, Samuel and Rebecca, came to Belmont county, Ohio, and entered one quarter of section seventeen, in Kirkwood township. They lived in a little shanty a few weeks until a log cabin could be erected, in which they lived a number of years, then built a hewed log house, in which Mr. and Mrs. Perkins passed the remainder of their days. Our subject died in 1837, at the age of ninety-five years, and his wife in 1820. In 1809, John Perkins, second son of the above, came to Belmont county, Ohio, and located in Kirkwood township. SAMUEL PERKINS, third son of Thomas Perkins, was born in Prince George county, Maryland, in 1788, and came with his parents to Belmont county in 1805. He was reared a farmer, which occupation he followed throughout his life. He served eight months in the war of 1812. In 1.810, he married Elizabeth Hart and settled on his father's farm, where he resided until his death., There were nine children born to them—Rebecca, Delila, Maria, Casander, Nelson Jonathan, William, Lethe and Moses, our of whom are Still living—Rebecca, Jonathan, William and Moses. The other five died during the winter of 1842--3, of scarlet fever. Mr. Perkins and his wife were consistent members of the M. E. Church, and esteemed by all who knew them. Mr. Perkins died, April 27, 1861, and his wife, April 13,1875. JONATHAN PERKINS, a son of Samuel Perkins, deceased, was born in Kirkwood township, Belmont county. Ohio, June 15, 1820. His education was acquired by what could be obtained in the cabin school houses of his minority days and close application to his books at home. He married. Rebecca Major, February 8, 1846. They settled on a farm owned by his father, remained six years, and in 1852 purchased and moved on the farm, where they are now living. They reared a family of five children, two sons and three daughters. Mr. Perkins connected himself with the M. E. Church in 1843; was ordained deacon ; a local preacher in 1864, and since then has been engaged in the ministry a part of his time. He served as justice of the peace from 1859 to 1871. JAMES MCLAUGHLIN was born in Fayette county, Pa., August 1, 1808. He was reared a farmer. In 1826, at the age of 18 years, he commenced work in a stillhouse, and followed distilling until in .1831. He made several trips down the Ohio river to New Orleans when a young man as a boatman. He married Elizabeth Peirsel May 1, 1831. Ile, with his wife and one child, whose name was John, Migrated to Belmont county, Ohio, and settled in Kirkwood township on section 17, where they remained until in 1846, when they purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in section 16. Six children were born to them in Belmont, two of which are deceased. Mary, James, Jane and Jasper W. are living. MATTHIAS GROVES, deceased, was born in Frederick county, Va., in 1784. He was reared a farmer, and followed that as his occupation through life. He married Sarah Coblin, of the same county, in 1804. He migrated to Belmont county, Ohio, with his family, and located in Kirkwood township, one half mile east of where Hendrysburg is now situated, in 1808. He and his wife died many years since. He reared a family of six children— Lovina, Susan, William, George, Margaret and James, all of whom grew to be men and women, married and reared families. At present only three of the number are living, George, Margaret and James. ELI TAYLOR was born in Chester county, Pa., October 13, 1793. He came to Belmont county, Ohio, and located in Kirkwood township in 1815. He married Lydia: Sheppard, (born June 24, 1795,) daughter of John Sheppard, deceased, in 1817. He settled on the farm now owned by James Sheppard, section 23, Kirkwood township, and followed farming during life. They reared a family of six children—Barnet, Guly M., Abijah F., Silas, Talithacumi, and Mary J,, all of whom grew to be men and women, married, and reared families. They were members of the M. E. Church. He died in November, 1852, and his wife died in February, 1872. ROBERT GRIFFIN, a native of Ireland, settled in Kirkwood township with his wife and five children near where Sewellsville is now located, in the spring of 1807. He leased a farm, on which he lived eight years, and in 1816 he purchased land on which he settled and remained the rest of his life. He followed farming, and reared a family of' six children—James, William, George, Henderson, Robert and Margaret, all of whom are deceased, except Henderson, who is living in Kirkwood township. Our subject died October 14, 1819, and his wife died in 1837. JAMES McCOY.—In 1801, James McCoy, a native of Ireland, settled in Wheeling township, Belmont county, Ohio, four miles northwest of St. Clairsville. He married Miss Ruhannah Phillips, daughter of Evan Phillips, of West Virginia, in 1802. (Her father lived in the fort at Wheeling during the Indian troubles, and afterwards moved with his family to Belmont county, Ohio.) They reared a family six children; two sons, David and Hugh, and four daughters, Jane, Hannah, Margaret and Mary. Jane, Hannah and Margaret are dead. In 1809 or 1810, Mr. McCoy, with his family, moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1827. His wife survived him until in 1836. DAVID McCoy, a son of the above named James McCoy, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 5, 1804. He was taken to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1809, by his father, where he remained and followed farming as his vocation until in 1842, when he came to Hendrysburg and engaged in the grocery business for one year, then manufactured fanning mills until in 1849, and since that time has followed various occupations, merchandising, keeping hotel, &c. At present he is postmaster at Hendrysburg and engaged in the grocery business. He married Margaret Ralston, nee Casay, in 1864, and settled in Hendrysburg, where they are now living. JAMES W. HEANEY.—In Fayette county, Pa„ June 30, 1800, James W. Heaney was born. He was brought to Belmont coup ty in 1803, by his father, John Heaney, who settled in Kirkwood township, two and one half miles southeast of where Hendrysburg is now located. John Heaney was a soldier of the volution and died in 1813, aged sixty-three years. He reared a family of eight children—Thomas, Catharine, Rosanna, Nancy, Ellen, John, James W. and Roland—all of whom are deceased, except James W., our subject, who is living in Hendrysburg, and is seventy-nine years of age. He was reared a farmer, and afterward learned the shoemaker trade, which he has followed as his principal vocation during life. He married Lucinda Combs in 1821. They reared a family of five children--James H., Robert A., Mary, Ellen and Agnes, all of whom are living. They have made their home in Hendrysburg since 1842. They have twenty-three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Robert A. Heaney enlisted in company K, 15th Ohio regiment, in the spring of 1864 and served until the close of the war. LEWIS JONES was born in London county, Virginia, September 10, 1791. He migrated to Belmont county in 1816, and mar- ried Rebecca McPherson in 1817. They settled in Kirkwood township, where he remained and followed farming as his vocation. The reared a family of nine children—Allison, John Mc. Josiah, Amos T., Lorenzo D., William M., Samuel L., Delila and James. Amos T. and Delila are deceased. Our subject died, April 21, 1871. His companion is still surviving him and is eighty-three years of age. SAMUEL MEAD.—In Loudon county, Virginia, in 1770, Samuel Mead was born. He followed teaching school when a young HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 367 man, having taught nine years at one place and in the same house. He married Sarah Whitacre, of Loudon county, Va. In 1816 he, with his wife and three children. moved to Belmont county and settled in Goshen township on a farm ; remained about two years, then moved to Warren township, and located in the northeast corner of the township, (a part of his land extended into Kirkwood township) where he lived during the remainder of his life, and followed farming as his vocation. he was the father of nine children, viz., Asenath, Benjamin, Phineas, Clementine, Amanda, Enfield, Louisa, Semina and Milo, all of whom are living. He filled the office of justice of the peace for eight years, and was respected and esteemed by till who knew him. His wife died in 1856. He departed this life in 1861. PHINEAS MEAD, a son of the above named Samuel Mead, was born in Loudon county, Virginia, November 9, 1812, and came to Belmont county with his parents in 1816. He followed teaching school as his occupation, when a young man, for several years, and was one among Belmont county’s early teachers. He married Sarah Brown in 1839. They settled on the farm where they are now living, in Kirkwood township. There were born to them seven children, three sons and four daughters. One son and two daughters are dead.. He has followed farming as his vocation ever since his settlement in Kirkwood township. THE GROVES. In the year 1800 three brothers, Joseph, William and Barnet Groves, migrated from Pennsylvania to Belmont county and settled and made some improvements on section 8, in Kirkwood township. Not being prepared to enter the section when the proper time arrived, some party made it their business to go to the Land Office at Steubenville and enter the land on which they had made their improvements. Then they moved their quarters to the eastern part of the township, located, and made improvements on section 3, and entered the same. They were the first actual settlers in Kirkwood township. There is a brick dwelling house standing on the farm at present that was erected by William Groves in 1818 or 1820. They were all men of families, and have been dead several years. WILLIAM GROVES was the father of eleven children—three sons, Joseph, William and Barnet, and eight daughters, Nancy, Rebecca, Martha, Lovina, Margaret, Sarah, Rachel and Mary, all of whom are deceased. He was a natural mechanic, and could make almost anything out of wood or iron that he wished to. He made the first spinning wheel that was used in the township and erected the first grist and saw mill on Stillwater creek. He was called a professional hunter and trapper, and spent considerable of his time in that way.' JOSEPH GROVES, a son of the above named William Groves, Was born in Pennsylvania in 1795. He came with his parents to Belmont county in 1800. He was reared a farmer, and followed that as his principal vocation during his life. He married Elizabeth Fox in 1822, and settled on the farm now owned by his son, Matthias Groves, where he remained until his death. He reared a family of six children—William, Samuel, Matthias, Margaret, Elmina and Rachel. Margaret is deceased. His wife died in 186:3, and he departed this life in March, 1876. JAMES SHEPPARD was born in Maryland in 1776. He was a tanner by trade. He married Hannah Gatchel in 1798. In the fall of 1809, he with his wife and four children moved to Belmont county, Ohio, and located in the eastern part of Kirkwood township, on the Wilson farm, remaining one year, during which time he purchased land in the central part of the township on which he made improvements, and Moved his family in 1810. His first residence was a round log cabin 18x20, one story high, with one small window, and a quilt hung up for a door. In this they lived until in 1816. Then he erected himself a two story hewed log house, in which he lived during the remainder of his life. He was considered one of the most successful farmers in Belmont county, and was an extensive land holder, owning at one time over 1,200 acres of land in the county. He was always a warm friend to education, and did all in his power for the advancement of the cause. He assisted in building the first school house that was erected in the township, and took a prominent part in the erection of several houses for school purposes both before and after the township was divided into districts. He held several township offices, and followed his trade for several years in connection with farming. He reared a family of thirteen children: Nathan, Malinda, John, William, James, Samuel, Isaac, Amos, Elizabeth, Mary, Job, Emanuel and George. Six of the number are still living—John, William, Samuel, Isaac, Amos and George. his wife died in 1838 ; he died in 1843. WILLIAM SHEPPARD, a son of James Sheppard, deceased, was born in Maryland, January 5, 1808. He was brought to Belmont county by his father, as above stated, in 1808 or 1809. his education consisted of w hut could be obtained in the log cabin school house in Kirkwood township, in an early day. he was reared a farmer, arid has followed that as his vocation. during life. Ile married Martha Honnold, daughter of John Honnold, January 11, 1831. His wife died June 10, 1841, leaving three small children, He married for his second wife Margaret Groves, daughter of Matthias Groves, deceased, December 7, 1841. Their union resulted in nine children, three of which are living. He has been a resident of Kirkwood township since 1809, and at present is living in the western part of the township, near Fairview, his farm lying along the National pike. ELI T. SHEPPARD, a son of the above named William and Margaret Sheppard, was born in Belmont county, September 26, 1842. He received his education at Fairview, Guernsey county, Ohio. He read law with John A. Bingham, of Cadiz, Ohio, three years, and then attended law school at Cleveland six months, He commenced the practice of law in Cadiz. At the age of twenty-seven years, in 1869, he was appointed as United States Consul to China, filled the position eight years, and then returned home in 1877. He remained a short time, and then was employed at Yeddo, Japan, as international judge, and has been filling that position ever since. He married Miss Lyda Lewton, of Cadiz, in 1856, and has his wife and three children with him in Japan. RALPH COWGILL was born in Berks county; Pa. 1775. He went to Virginia when a young man and there learned the blacksmith trade. He married Mary Carter, of Virginia, and in 1806, he, with his wife and six children, moved to Belmont county, and located in Kirkwood township, on section thirty-one. His first improvement was a round log cabin, in which he lived for a few weeks, then he erected a hewed log house with shingle roof, (it being the first shingle roofed house in the township) in which he lived during the remainder of his life. There is a hewed log barn still remaining on the farm in a good state of preservation, 26x63 feet, that was built by him in 1808. He owned one section of land (No. 31) and followed farming during his sojourn in Belmont county. He reared a family of nine children, viz : Margaret, Isaac, William, Aquilla J., Tamer, Jesse, Sarah, and Ralph. All are deceased except three, Isaac, Aquilla J. .and Eliza. He died in 1840 ; his wife survived him until 1851. AQUILLA J. COWGILL, a son of the above named Ralph Cowgill, was born in Loudon county, Virginia, September 28, 1801. He came to Belmont county with his parents in 1806, as previously stated, and located on the farm where he is now living. His education was acquired in a log cabin school house that stood on his father's farm. He was reared a farmer and has followed farming during his life. He married Margaret Clark in 1842, and settled on the farm where he is now living. Their union resulted in two children, (sons). His wife died in 1856, and in 1857, he married Sarah Milner. They are spending their old days in peace, surrounded by all the comforts of life, and esteemed all who know them. THE GILLILANDS.—In 1804, three brothers, Morgan, Thomas and James Gilliland, single men, migrated from Virginia to Belmont county, Ohio, and commenced improvements on section twenty-five, Kirkwood township, the land being entered by their father, Hugh Gilliland, a few years previous. Their first improvement was the erection of a log cabin, and in the fall of the same year their father came on with the remainder of the family, consisting of wife and six children, John, Jesse, Susan, Rachel, Hannah and Ruth. They all lived in the cabin house for some time, and then a better one was erected. Thomas, Morgan and John served in the war of 1812, under the command of Captain Bentley and returned home at the close of the war. All of them have long since passed away. The father, Hugh deceased in 1817. THOMAS GILLILAND, born in Ohio county, Va., in 1793; married Margaret Cowgill, daughter of Ralph Cowgill, deceased, in 368 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES 1814 ; reared a family of five children—William,. Susannah, Mary E., Ruth A. and Eliza M. He died in 1845 ; his wife died in 1840. WILLIAM GILLILAND. a son of Thomas and Margaret Gilliland, deceased, was born August 25, 1815, on the farm where he is now living. He married Amanda Beans, daughter of Levi Beans, in 1853. They have a family of six children, two sons and four daughters. He was reared a farmer and has followed that as his vocation during his life. At present he owns a farm containing about three hundred acres, under a good state of cultivation. His wife died in 1874. JOB DILLON, SR.—in Virginia, December 9, 1770, Job Dillon, Sr. was born. He married Catharine Colley October 11, 1798. In Sr., 1804 he, with wife and three children, migrated to Belmont county, and located in Richland township, where.he purchased land and followed farming as his vocation. Their' union resulted in eight children—Levi, Nancy, John, David, Peter C., Benjamin F., Job, and Hannah. Four of them are still living, John, Benjamin E., Job and Hannah. Our subject died in June, 1816, aged 46 years. His wife remained on the farm with her two sons, Benjamin F. and Job, until in 1855; then they sold and moved on a farm near Egypt, in Kirkwood township, where she remained until her death, which occurred in 1862, at the age of 82 years. The sons remained on the farm for one year, then rented it, and worked at their trade until in 1863, when they sold it and purchased a grist and saw mill on Stillwater creek, which they operated until in 1866.. They then sold out their mill on the creek and purchased the National Flouring Mills in Hendrysburg, which they own And are operating at present with good success. Peter C. Dillon, fourth son of Job Dillon, Sr., was engineer on the Mozell steamer on the Ohio river, and was blown up at Cincinnati, April 26, 1838. BARNET TAYLOR, a son of Eli Taylor, deceased, was born in Kirkwood township, Belmont county, Ohio, April 24,1818. His education was obtained in the common schools of those days, and he was reared a farmer. At the age of nineteen years he commenced work at the manufacturing of fanning mills, which he followed for three years, and then commenced working at the carpenter trade, which he has followed in connection with farming. He married Letitia S. McPherson, daughter of James McPherson, in 1840. They settled in Sewellsville, where. they remained until in 1858; then he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living.. Their .union resulted in ten children, seven of whom are living. They have been members of the M. E. Church for over forty years. Mr. Taylor has been class-leader in the church at Sewellsville for thirty years. He has filled the office of justice of the peace for twenty years. JAMES E. TAYLOR, a son of Barnet Taylor, served four years and five months .in the war of 1861. He enlisted in Company I, 5th Ohio Cavalry, in October, 1861, as a private; served as a private for a short time, then was promoted to lieutenant, and from that to captain of Company M, same regiment, in which capacity he served until discharged from the service. ASARIAH S. TAYLOR enlisted in Company M, 9th Ohio Cavalry, October, 1863, and served until the close of the war; received his discharge and returned home. JOHN ISRAEL–In Baltimore county, Maryland, June 13, 1749, John Israel was born. He married Rachel Clarry, May 5, 1787, In about 1799, he with his wife and family, migrated to Belmont county. He located in the eastern part of the county, on Short creek ; remained about two years and then moved and settled on section two, in Kirkwood township in 1801 or 1802, where he passed the remainder of his days. He was a surveyor by profession and made many of the first surveys in the county. He made the survey and plat of the town of St. Clairsville. He filled the office of justice of the peace for several years, being one of the first in .Kirkwood township. He was the father of twelve children, eleven of whom grew to be men and women; viz : Eleanor, Priscilla, Amelia, Sarah, Basil, Clary, Ann, Robert, Samuel, Benjamin and Reuben. All ate deceased except Robert and Ann. He deceased January 30, 1822. His companion died, March 2, 1852. ROBERT ISRAEL was born January 27, 1806, in Kirkwood township, Belmont county. He married Mary Taylor, daughter of Noble Taylor, April 1, 1830. They settled on the old farm in Kirkwood township, section two, where he remained and followed farming as his vocation until in 1872 when he moved to Morristown and is living a retired life. He reared a family of six children, one of which is dead. His wife died in 1857. He married Mrs. Elizabeth Harper in 1859, who is still living. They are members of the Disciples church. THOMAS HEANEY, a son of John Heaney, was born in Fayette county, Pa., October 15, 1784. When a young man he came with his parents to Belmont county, being in 1804. He married Margaret Boyd, daughter of John Boyd, Esq., in 1809, who bore him three children, two of vrhom are living—Nancy and Margaret. He made his first improvements on the farm. now owned by his son, A. J. Heaney, where he lived and followed: farming as his vocation until deceased. His wife died, February 9, 1813, leaving two small children. He then married Margaret Griffith, January 4, 1815. They reared a family of six sons--John, Robert, William, Thomas, James E. and Andrew, J., and two daughters—Sarah J. and Rebecca. All of the last named are deceased except. three, Robert, Sarah J. and Andre J. His wife deceased July 1, 1862, aged seventy-two years an six months. He departed this life in his eighty-first year, Mai 1.7, 1864. He was known as one of Belmont county,s noble men.. He served six months in the war of 1812, under the command of Captain Conner. HISTORY OF UNION TOWNSHIP. Union lies in the northwestern part of Belmont county, an is bounded on the north by Flushing and Wheeling townships,.. OD the east by Wheeling and Richland, on the south by Goshen, and on the. west by Kirkwood. The following is obtained from the commissioner's books, bearing date August 15, 1804: "Ordered by the Board of Commissioners, That they think it requisite to divide Kirkwood township or district and form a new district or township, according to the wish of the inhabitants, which is as follows : To include the eighth township of the fifth range according to the old survey, together with a fractional part of the ninth towhship north of the aforesaid town- ship between that and the county line, and to be known by the name of Union township. The first meeting of the electors is to be held within said township at the house of Duncan Morrison." In 1817 twelve sections were taken off the northwestern portion and added to Flushing in the erection of said township. In the same year six sections from the northeastern portion were . detached from Union and attached to Wheeling, leaving it with its present boundary as above given. This township is nearly square, containing about thirty-six sections. The surface is quite undulating, but the soil, generally speaking, is rich and productive. Numerous springs of clear and limpid water burst forth along the indentations of the land, forming many sparkling rivulets which find their way into small streams and then creeks. In this township rises the headwaters of Wheeling and McMahon's creeks, the former flowing in a northeasterly direction from the township, and the latter a southeasterly. A dividing ridge extending from east to west rises near the centre of Union, causing most of the streams to run a northeast and southeast direction. Coal, lime and sandstone are found in abundance throughout the township. Strata of the former range from three to five feet in thickness. A number of banks are operated, but the coal taken out is not made a foreign merchandize. EARLY SETTLERS. TO tell the readers who was the first settler of what is now Union township would, at this late day, be an impossibility. Prior to Wayne's great victory the Indian ruled chief monarch. But when he, was forced to recede from his happy hunting ground to look up another, the pioneers began to come in rapidly, and locate the land. Among other early settlers the following are given : In 1801 Jonathan Ellis migrated to Belmont county and settled in Union township in section 3. At a very early day he built a grist mill on said section on a branch of Wheeling creek. it was probably the first grist mill in the township. it has been torn down over a quarter of a century. Duncan Morrison located in 1801. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 369 David Bevy settled on section thirteen about 1802. John Dever settled on same section in 1801. Joseph Gilley settled on section two along in 1803. Thomas Marquis and William Marquis settled in this township in :Wont 1803, the former locating on section seven, and the latter on section three. Samuel McCune located on section eight in about 1803. William Dunn settled on section five in 1802 or 1803. Robert Patterson settled on section four in 1803 or 1804. Win. Boyd settled on part ef the same. section (4) in the same year. Leonard Hart settled near Morristown in 1804. James Broomhalt settled on section thirteen in 1805. David Hogue settled in Union township in 1803. Abner Hogue located on section eight. Solomon and Samuel Hogue near the same time on section eight. In 1805 Allen Bond settled on section fourteen, Noble Taylor, Sr., settled on section thirty-two. Levi Barnes settled on section fifteen. Joseph Mead, James Drennen, Richard Freeman, Samuel McWilliams, Barnet Groves, Moses Milligan, Barnabas Curtis, Nathaniel Bell and David Conner were among the early settlers. Robert Mitchell was an early settler in Morristown. He was a drummer in the revolutionery war. Mrs. Lippencott says that Mrs. Robert Mitchell used to say the hardest day,s work she ever done, was to cut patches and mould bullets for the soldiers in 1776. During the war of 1812, this old drummer beat his drum for recruits in Morristown. The custom with him was to drum a while until a crowd had gathered around him, then he ceased playing, placed his drum down upon the ground on the head, laying a silver piece on it, and who ever stepped up and lifted the money, was considered enlisted for the service. REMINISCENCES. Mr. Robert Israel says that a man named Groves, living in this township at an early day, was noted as a successful hunter and trapper. He at one time made a very narrow escape from being killed by a deer. Whilst out a short distance from his house he spied a large buck several rods in advance of him drinking at a small stream. He leveled his rifle upon it and fired, but the shot did not prove fatal and the buck turned and made for Mr. Groves, who was in such close proximity that to attempt a retreat would have been dangerous. As the deer came by at him he sprang behind a bush and caught the buck by the horns as it dashed against the same, and held it thus until his brother, hearing his cry, ran to his assistance and shot it. A Mr. Wineman lost an arm by "piping" in the woods for turkeys. He followed hunting and gathering ginseng for a livelihood. One day while out hunting for wild turkeys, he secreted behind a log and began to call. Another hunter heard it and mistook it for a wild turkey, approached the spot, seeing something dark behind a log fired and shot Wineman’s arm off. Mrs. Lippencott says that Lorenzo Dow (who will be remem- bered as an excentric Methodist preacher), passed through Morristown in 1812, She remembers him well. He came riding into town on horseback preaching at the top of his voice, and opposite Squire Morrison's hotel he stopped and talked to the people in great earnest, entreating them to turn from their sins. His last words were to them (as he waved his hat above his head), "the very stars of heaven are witnessed against you." When Captain Conner,s company of 1812 started for the seat of war from St. Clairsville, it stopped at Duncan Morrison's hotel for dinner. This company after their return were paid off in Morristown. Mr. Lippencott says Dr. Evans was paymaster. He recollects bow they looked as they stood in dress parade opposite his father,s residence with blue bunting shirts on trimmed with fringes at the bottom, awaiting further orders. In 1818, says Squire Robert Morrison, was the year that Barney Groves met his death. In the winter of this year he bad driven to town in a sled, to which his team was attached, to do his trading as was his habit. After making what purchases he desired and selling his produce he started for home, but his horses unfortunately took fright, after driving a mile or so, and they ran along the road for some distance and finally became unmanageable. As they approached a large tree near the roadside the horses ran on either side, liberating themselves from the sled, which struck the tree with such, force that Mr. 0. was thrown out and injured internally, causing death in a few hours. He was not discovered for nearly an hour after the accident had occurred, was picked up and carried into a school house near by, where he lived but a short time. Mr. John Lippencott says that two men named respectively Arnold and Williams, robbed the United States mail sometime in the month of February, 1818, on Boden hill. The post carrier was drawn from his beast, tied to a tree with the bridle and 47—B. & J. Cos. relieved of his shoes by the robbers, who went through the mail, leaving him bare-footed in the snow. Ile liberated himself in some way, Went to Morristown and raised the alarm. A posse of men immediately set out in search of the robbers. Arnold was captured in Jefferson county and Williams in Pittsburgh. Both were incarcerated, but the latter broke jail, stole a horse, upon which he made his escape, and was never heard of after wards. The former stood trial, was convicted and sent to the penitentiary, where he subsequently died. Georg Graham was thrown from a fractious animal near Morristown in 1819, as he was on his way home, and killed. EARLY TAVERNS. Duncan Morrison took out license to keep hotel near Morristown in 1803. William Hill kept a public house near the toll gate west of Morristown in 1806 or 1807. Jacob Holtz kept hotel east of town three-quarters of a mile in the year 1806-7. Noble Taylor kept a hotel on section thirty-two for a number of years. Edward Milner kept hotel three miles east of town in 1808-9. FIRST CAMP-MEETING It is claimed that the second camp-meeting ever in Belmont, county was held in Union township in the year 1809. It was conducted by the Methodist Episcopal brethren. The attendance was very large and people came in great crowds from the adjoining counties, owing to its novelty. MILLS. Robert Griffith built a grist mill on the land now owned by Robert Alexander in about 1816. McWilliams built a mill north of town in 1816. It is now in the possession of a Mr. Kennon, and still in operation. PLAINFIELD CHURCH. The first church organization that was effected in Union, was the Plainfield congregation of the denomination of "Quakers," or "Friends." This society erected a church building of hewed logs on section 3, in 1806, which house was superseded in 1835 by a new edifice of frame 30x50, a little larger than the first one. The building is still used by them. FIRST SCHOOLS. The first schools of which can be obtained any knowledge in Union township, were taught in log cabins, one situated on section 21, and another on the farm now owned by Oliver Taylor. As to who the teachers were, it is impossible to say. A Mr. Greenlech taught for a time in the latter named house. At that early day schools were kept but three months in the year. To be able to read, write and teach the rudiments of arithmetic, was all that was thought necessary, while a knowledge of "the rule of three" was considered the grand desideratum of human wisdom. Teachers received for their compensation from $10 to $15 per month. SOLDIERS OF 1812. The following named persons served in the war of 1812: Joseph Wiley, John Ault, Jacob Auldfather, James Clark, John Gaston, Wm. Boyd, Abe Riddle, Thomas Riddle, Nicholas Gas-away. POPULATION. The assessor reports for 1879, 427 males above twenty-one years of age, in Union township. At the October election in 1878, it polled 406 votes. It contains a population of about 2,000 i n habitants. TOWNSHIP OFFICERS FOR 1879. Justices of the Peace—William Barber, David G. Perry and Robert Morrison. Trustees—John Vaneuran, James Dallas and Hugh Barber, Constables—F. Conner and David L. Wilson. 370 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. MORRISTOWN. This village is situated a little south and west of the center of Union township, on the National pike, about eleven miles west of St. Clairsville. It was surveyed and laid out into lots by John Zane and William Chapline, of Wheeling, April 14, 1802, and received its name from one of the first settlers, Duncan Morrison, an early justice of the peace, and who started a tavern here in 1807, and entertained his customers as best he could in a one story log house. The town was first built upon the Wheeling road, but when the National pike was finished, the town was built along that thoroughfare. Mrs. Hazlett carried on merchandizing from about 1806 to 1830. John Eaton carried on a store for several years, and in 1821 he was succeeded by his sons William and John, who continued until 1850. .E. W. Brooks began in the dry goods business in 1822, and continued until about 1827. MISCELLANEOUS. Nicholas Rodgers started a tannery very early, and carried on that business until 1830. Alexander Morrison carried on the saddler trade. He commenced along in 1814, and continued until about 1845. Squire Robert Morrison started a saddler shop in 1823 or 1824, and run it until 1850. John Milner carried on blacksmithing in 1817. Richard Bazwell was a shoemaker, and run a shop in 1818. James Holliday was a hatter, opened out a shop in 1818, and followed that business until 1835. Samuel Clark also engaged in the same business in that year, and continued hutting until 1840. Wm. Harvey kept hotel in 1806. Wm. Gott was an early tavern keeper, and followed the business for a number of years. Mr. Lippencott kept hotel from 1815 to 1827, when his son, John Lippencott, succeeded him, and kept until 1865. Dr. Alexander Gaston commenced the practice of medicine in Morristown in 1811. The following is a list of the postmasters of Morristown, given in the order in which they served: Duncan Morrison, Dr. Alexander Gaston, Alexander Morrison, John Eaton, Samuel L. Price, Robert Morrison, J. H. Arnold, Robert Morrison (again), J. .R. Mitchell, Robert McKelvey, John Lippencott, J. V. Fisher, Joseph Henderson, J. W. Lippincott and Wm. Metcalf. Morristown has two mails a day, and a stage line (daily) to the railroad, a distance of three miles. On January 7, 1853, the village was incorporated and at an election called for that purpose the following persons were elected as the officers of the incorporation : Mayor—Peter Bramhalt. Clerk—Joseph R. Mitchell. Treasurer—Stephen Gregg. Councilmen—T. S. Ambrose, Dr. R. Hamilton, R. S. Clark, J. W. Henderson and J. J. Handy. The present officers (for 1879) are as follows : Mayor—D. H. Davis. Clerk—W. Fenton. Treasurer—Thomas Walker. Marshall—John McConeaughy. Councilmen—William Clark, A. J. Hogue, Lewis Murdaugh, Jesse Tracy, W. B. Morgan and T. S. Ambrose. Before the days of railroads this village drove quite a lively trade. But now its business is somewhat curbed, although it remains quite an enterprising village. It contains a population of about 600. The following is a summary of business : Four dry good stores, 1 tin shop, 2 drug stores, 1 tanyard, 1 steam grist mill, 2 hotels, 2 saddler shops, 3 shoe shops, 2 hardware stores, 4 doctors, 3 blacksmith shops,.] wagon shop, 1 dentist, 1 undertaker, 1 livery stable, 3 tailors, 3 dressmakers, 1 job printing office, 1 painter, 3 carpenters, 1 silversmith, 4 stone- masons, 3 bricklayers, 1 barber shop, 2 hucksters, 2 stock dealers, 2 veterinary surgeons, 4 churches. SCHOOLS. Sixty years ago there stood a hewed log house upon the present site of the town hall, which was used for a school house for many years, and it is thought the first school taught in the village was in this building. Mrs. Lippencott attended school here for awhile, and she says the earliest teachers within her recollection, were Dent, Thomas Weir, the &tiler of Gen. Weir of St. Clairsville, John Hagarman, Skigans, Horatio Huntington, Burnside, Masters, Wm. Hunter, Billings, Bangs, &c. In 1835 this building was' replaced by a DOW one built of brick, which was used until about 1863, when the present comfortable brick was erected on the old Wheeling road. This structure contains three departments. Since its erection the schools were never known to be in a better condition. The present faculty is composed of John Bond, R. Moffet and Miss T. Harvey. The old school house is now occupied as a town hall. MORRISTOWN STEAM MILL. This flouring mill was erected by a joint stock company in 1856, and began operations in the spring of 1857. The company continued for about three years, when James Eaton, one of the stockholders, agreed to take the mill and pay off all incumbrances, but failing in the undertaking, it felt into the hands of Fisher & Lippencott, who run it until in 1866, when it was sold to Israel Murdaugh, who is the present owner. It contains two run of buhrs, with a capacity of forty bushels per day. An excellent quality of flour is manufactured at this mill. FIRST INTERMENTS. Henry Earl's body was the first to break the sod of the M. E. burying ground. His burial took place along about 1828. Smith T. Price was the first person buried in the Union Cemetery in 1844. EULALIA LODGE No. 196 I. O. O. F. On the 23d of January, 1852, this lodge received its charter, and on April 19, following, it was instituted by the Right Worthy Grand officers of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, who were as follows : N. G. Williams, R. W. G. M. Alex. Glenn, R. W. G. S. L. E. Leleecovey, D. G. M. Jonn P. Fratian, G. W. W. F. Slater, G. T. The following named gentlemen were the charter members: H. D, McCarty, Wm. Lynn, J. J. Handy, 0. G. Metcalf, Andrew Fulton, Philip Hanover, Samuel Hanover, Solomon Hanover, Henry Seligman. After the formation, the following were chosen as its officers: H. D. McCarty, N. G. O. G. Metcalf, V. G. Andrew Fulton, Treasurer. W. C. Gaston, Secretary. Since its organization it has initiated 149. Hendrysburg and Belmont lodges have been taken from the membership of Eulalia lodge, leaving them a membership of 25. It meets in its own hall, which is 40x40, and cost the society $1,500. PRESENT OFFICERS. D. R. Davis, N. G. George Barnes, V. G. David Hogue, Secretary. Isaac Merdoch, Treasurer. This society is in a flourishing condition; attendance good, and meetings both profitable and interesting. MORRISTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. In an early day Mr. John Perry, Mrs. Margaret Hazlett, Mrs. Rachel Gaston, Mrs. Martha Eaton and Mrs. Martha Morrison, were accustomed to hold prayer meeting and pray for the outpouring of God's holy spirit upon this town. Desiring to have preaching, they commissioned John Perry to apply to the Presbytery of Steubenville, and request the appointment of preaching at Morristown. With him they sent six dollars, raised by the above named parties, with which to pay the preacher. Rev. Abram Scott was appointed to preach. He preached twice for them for the six dollars—two Sabbaths in the spring of 1822. Another purse was raised, and for a specified sum Rev. A. Scott preached about one Sabbath in each month, until September 25, 1824, then the church society was organized by Rev. Wm. McMillin, O. D., at the house of Dr. Alex. Gaston, now occupied by Mrs. Mary Harris. He preached for them one-half his time, until April 11, 1832, when he died. They held their meetings in the old log school house and private residences until in the spring of 1828, then the brick church building which they had erected the previous year, was dedicated, clear of debt. Cost of building, $750. The building committee were Dr. Ephraim Gaston, Nicholas Rogers and John Perry. The congregation worshipped in this house until 1848, when it was torn away, and the present brick building superseded it, on the same site at a cost of $1,400, which was finished and dedicated in 1849. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 37l The building committee were Dr. E, Gaston, Robert S. Clark, John Lippencott and Nicholas Rogers. MINISTERS. Rev. Joseph Reed served as pastor of the church until October 1, 1834, a term of two and one-half years, giving one-half of his time. Rev. Richard Campbell served as a stated supply about one year and deceased in 1835. Gave all his time. Rev. John C. Tidball was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1801. Migrated to Belmont county, Ohio. Was installed pastor of Morristown Presbyterian Church, August 22, 1836, and remained as such until in April, 1839. Rev. Wm. College was pastor for one year until in April, 1840. Rev. Alex. Ewing was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1813. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Ohio in October, 1839. He was called to take charge of the Morristown congregation in the spring of 1841; was ordained and installed minister of this church on tho third Wednesday of June, 1841, by the Presbytery of Steubenville. He gave one-half his time to this congregation until his death, which occurred March 25, 1849, and was buried in Morristown. Rev. Samuel Boyd was installed pastor of this church in the spring of 1850, and remained with them until in 1853. Rev. John B. Graham was born in New York, October 31, 1806, He married Miss Margaret Graham, of New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1833. He was chosen minister of this church December 24, 1855, gave them one-half his time until December, 1865, then the pastoral relations ceased. Rev. Henry Clovis Pringle was born in New Concord, Muskingum county, Ohio, November 12; 1844. He was educated at the Muskingum College and the Theological Seminary of Allegheny City ; was licensed to preach by the Zanesville Presbytery in April, 1866. By a call sent from the Morristown church for him, he was dismissed by the Zanesville Presbytery in September, 1867, and received by the presbytery of St. Clairsville, October 1, 1867. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Morristown church society November 26, 1867, and remained until April 25, 1878, His pastoral relations ceased at his own request on account of ill health. He married Miss Ella H. Clark, of Morristown, November 26, 1872, and is still living in the town. Rev. Fitzgerl is the present pastor. RULING ELDERS. Two and probably three Elders were elected at the time of the organization. John Perry, Samuel Boden and Arthur Morrison, who served until death removed them. John Perry deceased May 20, 1862, aged eighty-one years. Samuel Boden died November 30, 1832, aged sixty-four years. Arthur Morrison died September 3, 1839, aged seventy years. Nicholas Rogers was elected. October 26, 1835, and served until his death, which occurred March 24, 1862, aged seventy-three years. Wm. Harvey was elected in 1839 ; dismissed by certificate in 1850. Robert Morrison was elected October 26, 1835. Robert S. Clark was elected November 19, 1841. John Lippencott elected July 4, 1857. Wm. Tidball elected July 4, 1857. Joseph Harper, elected July 4, 1857 ; discharged by certificate in 1867. Robert McKelvey elected November 12, 1870. Jacob P. Hoover elected August 11, 1877. MORRISTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH. This society was organized by Rev. William R. McGown, with twelve members, in 1836. They held their meetings in an old brick building that is now used for a carpenter shop, for one year. In 1837 the present brick structure was erected by them, and dedicated to the church society by Rev. William R. McCown, in which meetings have been held since that time. The church membership at present is about ninety-five. As pastors of the organization we will mention— Rev, William R. McCown, first minister, and remained several years. Rev. Robert Sedwick, who served them a number of years. Rev. Thomas Irwin, for about ten years. Rev. William R. Mayberry, for about two years. I-47—B. & J. Cos. Rev. William Squib, four or five years. John Covert, for several years. Rev. G. G. Boyd is the present pastor. The present deacons are .Joel Bell and William Clark. The present clerk is David L. Ewing. MORRISTOWN CHRISTIAN CHURCH. WRITTEN BY THE PASTOR. This church was formed by the uniting of two congregations. which worshiped near the village of Morristown—one east of and the other west of the village. Hence the history of this church is essentially history of these two congregations down to the year 1862, when the union took place. The older of the congregations was called the Stillwater church, and was situated about three miles west of the village, and a short distance south of the National road, on the farm of Mr. Noble Taylor. Like very many of the Disciple churches in Eastern Ohio, this congregation was at its commencement (1822) a Regular Baptist Church, but the principles and truths, as preached by Alexander Campbell and others, soon caused a division, and fully three-fourths, if not more, renounced their allegiance to the Baptists and formed the Stillwater Christian Church. This occurred in the year 1824 or 1825. Their old pastor, William Lee, also changed his church relations, and continued ministering unto them for several years. Their meeting places were usually private dwellings and school houses. About the year 1832 the congregation concluded to build a house, and soon constructed one of hewed logs near the village of Hendrysburg. The prominent members in the church at this time were the Conner, Dallas and Tracy families. After taking possession of their house of worship the congregation steadily grew in numbers and influence. Upon the death of William Lee, their old pastor, _Robert Cook was chosen as their minister. During his pastorate, which begun in 1834 and closed in 1837, and in the year 1835 Robert Israel and Jesse Tracy, with their families, united with the church, and have ever since contributed very much to its success. The old church at Stillwater, being very weak, since so many had gone to the Disciples, the latter concluded to buy out the interests of the few that remained. For this purpose Christopher Hoover and Jesse Tracy were selected, and they purchased, for the small sum of twenty-five dollars, all the interests held by the Baptists. A new organization was at once effected, and the first elders appointed by the church were Joshua Tracy, Abner Millison and Robert Israel. The two last mentioned are still members of the eldership. The deacons were Jesse Tracy and Samuel Williams. About the year 1840, the Disciples divided the state into districts, corresponding to the congressional districts. Thus, this church became incorporated into the Sixteenth district, with seven other congregations. The eight congregations at once co operated and employed three.ministers to preach for them, and at destitute places. These preachers were John Flick, Charles VanVoorhis and Alexander Hall. Some years afterward they were succeeded by L. M. Harvey, Mordecai Harper, Harrison Jones and Joseph Dunn. In the year of 1852, a number of the members living west of the church, at a village called Mt. Olivet, concluded to form an independent organization, and succeeded in building a house of worship, thus materially lessening the membership of the parent congregation. Nevertheless they worked on faithfully, and, by the help of evangelists, held their ground very well. Among the many evangelists that visited this church and held meetings, with more or less additions, were Alexander Campbell, the renowned leader of the reformation, and his venerable father, Thomas Campbell ; also, Dr. W. A. Belding, Sidney Rigdon, James, Nathan and David G. Mitchell, John It. Hunt, A. S. Hayden, A. B. Green, J. J. Moss and A. Gardiner. This brings their history down to 1861, when they entered into an agreement with the Auburn church to build a church in Morristown. The house of worship used by the Auburn congregation was situated three miles northeast of Morristown, on Wheeling creek. Previous to its organization, R. B. Atkinson frequently had preachers come and address the people in his own dwelling, and in the summer season he arranged his barn for meeting purposes. Quite a number of Disciples were at that time living in that neighborhood and in the villages of Flushing and Uniontown, and under the leadership of R. B. Atkinson and William Mar- 372 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. tin, they concluded to organize and build a house of worship. For this purpose a meeting was called on the 10th day of September, 1853, and money was at once subscribed for the contemplated building. The church rapidly pushed their work on, and by the 19th day of November, 1854, it was ready to be occupied. Accordingly, on that day, the congregation met and effected a permanent organization. The elders chosen and elected were Walter McFarland and William Martin ; the deacons were B. B. Atkinson, William Snedeker and Joseph Russell. From this time the church grew and prospered until it was united with the new congregation at Morristown. One hundred and twelve names are found on their register. A vacancy occurring in the eldership, Jonathan Carpenter was elected to fill it in the ycar 1858. A young man named Adam Cordner was ordained to the ministry on the 23d day of June, 1857. To-day he is a successful minister of God's word, in the state of :Iowa. Among the preachers who visited the church and held meetings are found the names of William Mechem, Joseph Dunn, L. M. Harvey, Jonas Hartzel, A. S. Hayden, John Flick, T. A. Newcomb, Adam Cordner, A. E. Myers, Alexander Hall, Mendel and Frame. A flourishing Sunday school was always conducted here during the summer season, but slept during the winter, as was the usual custom of the times. The question of building a honse of worship and of uniting the two congregations began to be agitated in the spring of 1860, and stops were at once taken to carry out their plans, as the following record shows : "At a meeting of the Disciples of Christ, composed of the Still . water and Auburn congregations, held in Morristown on the 8th day of May, 1860, it was resolved unanimously to erect a meeting house in Morristown. On motion, it was resolved that the house be built of brick ; forty feet wide, fifty feet long, and eighteen feet high, complete with baptistery and bell. On motion, a committee of seven were appointed to act as a building committee. The following were appointed : Richard B. Atkinson, Samuel Dallas, Jesse Tracy, Robert Israel, Isaac Adkins, Adam Cordner and Joseph Loper. On motion, the committee was empowered to appoint some person to solicit aid." Of this meeting R. B. Atkinson was chairman, and Adam Cordner secretary. The building committee at once went to work, and the house was completed by the month of May, 1862. The church record gives the following of the whole transaction : "In the year 1860 the congregation. of the Disciples of Christ meeting in the neighborhood of Morristown, known as the Stillwater congregation, having to rebuild their house of worship, and it was thought best by a number of the members, and also by some of the Evangelists, to place the house in Morristown, and unite the Stillwater and Auburn congregations into one ; and a conference being held it was agreed that these congregations would unite and build a good house in the aforesaid town. and constitute one church, retaining the Auburn house for occasional meetings. A committee was appointed consisting of the following members: Robert Israel, Jesse Tracy, Lemuel Dallas and Isaac Adkins of the Stillwater congregation, and R. B. Atkinson, Adam Cordner and Joseph Loper of the Auburn congregation: as a building committee. They then secured lot No. 1 in the village of Morristown, and proceeded to build thereon, the lot costing one hundred and seventy-five dollars. By a liberal subscription of the members of the two congregations, and the many friends of both, the requisite means for the building was obtained. In May, 1862, the house being completed, and having secured the services of Elder A. E. Myers for the occasion, it was opened for religious worship, in the presence of a very large audience, by a discourse on the "Consecration of Things and Persons." On Tuesday, the 26th of May, the congregation was organized by the members enrolling their names and electing the following officers : For Elders, Abner Millison, Robert Israel, R. B. Atkinson and Jonathan Carpenter. For Deacons, Jesse Tracy, Robert Tracy, Elisha Skaggs, Samuel Williams and William Snedeker. This congregation, being thus organized, agreed to be known as the Christian church of Morristown, and to take the Word of God as their only rule of faith and practice in all matters of religion." Thus the congregation was fully organized and in complete working order, numbering eighty-five members. A. E. Myers was at once chosen as their minister, which position he held for nine years. Under his charge the church grew in every respect, and his influence is apparent still. Below we give a brief summary of his labors: In 1862, number of additions, 6; in 1863, 14 ; in 1864, 6 ; in 1865, 21 ; in 1866, 35 ; in 1867, 22 ; 1868, 20; in 1869, 19 ; in 1870, 39, making a total of 182. During this period there was a decrease of 97, by letters, death and exclusions. The congregation 'at the close of his pastorate numbered one hundred and seventy. Nearly all to whom letters were given went to the west and 'formed at least two congregations, one in Missouri and the other in Iowa. About the year 1868 the members of this congregation living near the village of Burr's Mills, concluded to purchase of the Methodists a meeting house, situated about a mile and it half south of the station. They did not sever their connection frem the present congregation, however, until about 1870. This new congregation, now known as Bethesda, took off about twenty members from Morristown. Mr. Myers also frequently preached in the village of Hendrysburg, and the Disciples there concluded to build a house of worship, but still remain under the care ef the old congregation. The house was completed and dedicated by Mr. Myers, in the year 1869. About 1872 they effected a permanent organization, which took off thirty-six more from the old congregation. Thus five congregations have been formed by the members of this church, and at times it looked as though it was seriously weakened. A strong determination on the part of its ministers and members to succeed has kept the congregation up to a high standard. The careful and wise labors of Mr. Myers have not been lost, and it may be truthfully said that he did more for the cause here than any other man. His name will always be held in grateful memory and esteemed highly by the entire congregation. During the last six months of his ministry Prof. S. A. Crenshaw, of Bethany College, labored with him. L. South- mayd, of Steubenville, assisted the two pastors in their most successful meeting; held early in the year 1870. Mr. Myers closed his labors in the month of August, 1870, immediately after the adjournment of the Yearly Convention of the district, which had been held with the church that month. The congregation not being able to find a suitable man to take charge of it, did not employ a minister until the first of April, 1871. In January of that year William A. Ridge held a meeting for the church, resulting in thirty additions. He was at once called to take charge of the church, and entered upon his duties in April. He remained with the congregation about eighteen months, or to the fall of 1872. N. McLeod filled the pulpit during the summer months of 1873. L. Southmayd was again called to hold a protracted meeting for the church, which he did in January, 1874, resulting in twenty-seven additions to the membership. N. W. Cramblett was then chosen as their minister. He began preaching for them on the first of March, 1874, and closed his labors in March, 1875. He was succeeded in the spring of 1875 by Joseph Dunn, who remained with the congregation but a very 'few months. W. H. Woolery preached for the congregation during the winter of 1875-6, and was succeeded by W. F. Parker, who preached for them one year, adding eighteen members to the .church. He closed his labors July, 1877. The church:was again without a preacher until the month of January, 1878. E. J. Gants was then chosen as their minister at the close of a successful meeting resulting in forty additions to the church. Seventy were added to the church during the year 1878. Mr. Gants is now entering upon his second year with this congregation, and it is hoped that the prosperity of the church will daily increase. The officers of the congregation are at present (1879): Minister—E. J. Gants. Elders—Robert Israel,* Jesse Tracy, Abner Millison, ;Jonathan Carpenter. Deacons—Lemuel Dallas, William Snedeker, John Atkinson. Sunday School Superintendent—W. G. Todd. Clerk—Dr. A. J. Hogue. The Sunday School numbers about sixty scholars, and the church has enrolled one hundred and twenty-seven names. Over six hundred have held their membership with this congregation since its organization. Three young men have been sent out from it as ministers, namely: I. J. Spencer, now pastor of the Paca Street Christian Church, Baltimore, Md. ; Edgar W. Dallas, now in Texas, and Marcellus Thompson, soon to graduate as a minister in Bethany College. The prospects for the future are bright, and it is hoped that this congregation may reap a glorious reward. * Resigned March 2, 1879. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 373 THE M. E. CHURCH OF MORRISTOWN Was organized about the year 1828, by Rev. John McPherson, assisted by Rev. Walter Athey, and was then a part of the Barnesville circuit. In 1854, the Morristown circuit was formed and included three other congregations. in 1863, the Hendrysburg circuit was taken from Morristown circuit, so that at present the circuit is composed of two congregations. Jane Hatcher was the first member. Amos Gulie was the first class leader. At the present time there are about one hundred members belonging to this congregation. In 1830, they-rented the Episcopal church, in which they held worship until in 1835, when they built their first church building, which was used for a number of years, but has recently been displaced by a more modern and commodious building. Owing to there not being a complete record, we are unable to give a list of the ministers that have had charge of the congregation since its organization. Rev. W. B. Starkey, the present minister, has had charge of this congregation for the last three years. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. JOHN MCCALL was born August 21, 1808, on the farm upon which he now resides. He assisted his father in clearing the land ; carried their guns out into the clearing as well as their axes, both being very essential in an early day. At the age of twenty, he commenced the tanner's trade. After serving a full apprenticeship he started for himself, on very limited means. To aid the enterprise along he raised tobacco and sold it, and in this manner got a fair start. He carried on a shop for about twenty-five years. After the demise of his father he purchased the old homestead and engaged in tilling the soil, which he has followed ever since. JOHN LIPPENCOTT was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., September 3, 1801. In 1815, his parents migrated to Belmont county. They came down the Ohio river on a flatboat and landed on Wheeling Island, where they camped out two days and nights before a team could be procured to carry them to Morristown. On the 21st day of April, that year,. they reached their destination and settled on the lot where William Handy now lives, where his father engaged in the hotel business and continued until 1827, when our subject succeeded him.. On the 11th of September, 1823, he was married to Miss Charity Gaston, who was born near St. Clairsville, July 27, 1803. She was a daughter of Dr. Alexander Gaston, who migrated from Brooke county, Va., in 1800, and settled near the village. Dr. Gaston was accompanied by two men, who helped Min. cut the timber and build a cabin on his land. They camped out two weeks under the cover of their wagons, and were often awakened from their slumbers by the howling of the wolves which infested the forests. His family consisted of a wife and three children. For several years after their settlement they went all the way to Washington, Pa., to purchase their groceries. At the time Dr. Gaston,s mother settled in Washington, the place contained but four houses. He followed blacksmithing for a couple of years. Read medicine and began the practice of the same in 1809. in 1811, he removed to Morristown, where he died in 1825. He had an extensive practice, which took in Woodsfield, Middletown and Freeport. The subject of this sketch has seen the following distinguished gentlemen : James Monroe, in 1819; General Jackson, in 1824; met Henry Clay frequently ; Daniel Webster and his son breakfasted at his house in 1830; saw Almonte and Santa Anna, the Mexican statesmen and generals, in 1853, as they were carried prisoners from their homes to Washington City. He and his wife have been members of the Presbyterian church for over fifty years. He has served as elder for twenty years. He has entertained at his hotel persons who traveled on horseback all the way, from New Orleans. In early days there were no banks west, and merchants would travel in companies of eighteen and twenty persons together, carrying leather bags containing about $2,000 in Spanish eagles. This aged and much respected Couple are living near the spot where they spent their childhood days. WASHINGTON HOGUE was born in Loudon county, Virginia, December, 1813. In 1828 he migrated to Belmont county, and located on section eight in Union township. He was married to Miss Phoebe Gregg, in 1836. Their family consists of four children—three sons and one daughter. JOSEPH MCCALL was born on the 12th of September. 1806, on section twenty-four. He was reared a huller, and has followed the plow ever since. In 1816 he was married to Miss Naveni Bevan. He is the father of two sons—Joseph and Thomas. M. S. WHITE is a native of Virginia. In 18o5 he migrated to Belmont county with his parents. After he grew up to manhood, he settled in Union township, on section thirty, and engaged in tilling the ground. In 1826, he married Miss Eliza Clanahan, which union resulted in nine children--five of whom are still living. In 1854 he lost his wife by death, and in 1856 he married Miss Rebecca Yonaly, and by her he had five children —two boys and three girls. He has always been a successful farmer. JOHN LYNN was born in Belmont county in 1819. He settled in Union township in 1831, on sections 15, 20 and 21. On the 6th of June, 1867, he married Miss Martha Milner. His family consisted of eight children-two boys and six girls, four of whom are still living. In 1K3 he was called to mourn the loss of his companion, who was a kind and affectionate wife and mother. He has followed farming, in which business he .has been very successful. ELI NICHOLS.—Our subject was born in Loudon county, Virginia, in 1834 ; 'migrated with his parents to Belmont county in 1837. They settled on section eight. At the age of thirty-six he married Miss Margaret C. Welling, and located on part of the old farm, formerly owned by his father. They have a family of four children—two boys and two girls. As a farmer (which occupation he has followed for nearly all his life) he has been very successful. SAMUEL POLLOCK.—Our subject's birth occurred in Washington county, Pa., on the 11th day of January, 1818; came with his parents to Belmont county in 1831. He remained with his father until he was thirty-three years of age. Married Miss Jane Scott in 1851, and then located on section sixteen, on the land known as the Winder farm, where he still remains. tie follows farming and stock raising. He fills the office of elder in the Presbyterian Church, of which he and his wife are members. They have a family of six children living. Mrs. P. is in her fifty-eighth year. CALDWELL DUNN.—M. D. was born on the 12th of April. 1817, in Belmont county ; was reared a farmer and is now living on the old homestead, upon which his father first settled in 1802. He formed the acquaintance of Miss Sarah Nichols, an estimable young lady, and in 1844 he was united to her by marriage. Their union has resulted in eleven children—nine of whom are still living. He is a successful and well-to-do farmer. CALVIN POLLOCK was born in Belmont county, January 21, 1838. On December 8, 1869, he was married to Miss Aggie J. Henry. He located on the old farm of his. father, and has remained there ever since. He has followed farming from a child up. He is one of the elders in the Presbyterian church, of which he and his wife are members. His farming has been profitable. CHARLES HARROW, a native of Belmont county, was born on the 1st of November, 1867, and reared by his father. Charles assisted his father in clearing up the old homestead. As soon as he arrived at the proper age he was set to work. It was no small matter at that early day to prepare farming land. By working one day and going to school the next, alternately, he was thus enabled to obtain his education. At the age of eighteen his father believing Charles hardly stout enough to endure the work necessary to be done on the farm, induced him to learn the harness trade, and he soon became quite an expert at it. He followed this trade for about seven years. On the 13th of March, 1832, he married Miss Rachel Sharp. They were members of the Crabapple Presbyterian church. On the 20th of December, 1877, his wife died, at the age of 71 years. He is in his 73d year, and is now living with his nephew, Thomas Welling. BENJAMIN HOWELL was born on the 8th of March, 1812, in Belmont county. On the 5th of February, 1837, he married Miss Elizabeth Willis, who was born April 24, 1815. She bore him eight children, five of whom are living. She departed this 374 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. life on the 30th of May, 1864, in her 49th year. She was a devoted member of the M. E. Church. On the 24th day of October, 1867, he was married again, to Miss Sarah McElroy, who was born in 1830. By her he had but one child, now dead. He is a farmer by occupation, and is now residing on the land entered by his grandfather in 1803. His widowed daughter is keeping house for him. WILLIAM DUNN was born in Lancaster county, Pa., October 7, 1774. He married in 1799. He had a family of nine children, five boys and four girls. He migrated to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1802, settling in Union, on section eleven ; served his county in the legislature nearly twenty years ; elected justice of the peace for his township a number of years. He served both positions with honor, and discharged his duties with fidelity. he died on the 27th of January, 1858, and his wife, January 21, 1865. He was aged eighty-four and his companion eighty-six. Mr. D. was also a general in the militia, and served to years in the state senate. WILLIAM BOYD, a native of Maryland, was born July 3, 1789. His father migrated to Pennsylvania when our subject was but four years of age. In 1800 he migrated to Belmont county, arriving on the 31st of October, on the farm now owned by Robert Boyd, about a mile from the place where he died. He was a cooper by trade. :Ile married Miss Agnes Patterson, who bore him ten children, viz : Mathew, Margaret, Mary, Ann, Clark, William, Robert. and Nancy. Mr. B. died in his eighty-eighth and his wife in her seventy-second year. Mr. Boyd was a soldier of the war of 1812 and witnessed the surrender of Detroit by General Hull to the British, August 16, 1812. P. R. CHAPMAN, M. D., was. born in Washington county, Pa., November 5, 1815; educated in the same county; attended Washington College in 1834-5. In 1836 he went to Jefferson county, Ohio, where he studied medicine under Dr. Leslie. In 1839 returned t9 Washington county and taught school in the neighborhood of West Middletown. Located in Hendrysburg in March, 1840, to practice medicine. In the fall of 1841 he was married to Miss Sarah Groves, daughter of Joseph Groves, near Egypt, Belmont county. In 1863 he removed to Pennsylvania, where he resided on a farm. In 1865 he moved to Morristown, and continues the practice of medicine. He has been a successful practitioner. His family consists of four sons and one daughter. Two of his sons married. ROBERT BOYD was born in Belmont county November 30, 1802. He engaged in farming and coopering. In -1831 he was married to Miss Matilda Baggs. They had twelve children, seven boys and five girls. Three of the children are dead. His death occurred June 8, 1872, aged 70 years. He and wife (who is still living) belonged to the U. P. Church. M. L. CUNARD was born in Loudon county, Virginia, March 16, 1816; migrated to :Richland township, Belmont county, where he remained for a few years, and then removed to Union township, locating on section 10, where he lived until his death, which occurred on the 25th of June, 1874, aged 58. A wife and five children were left to mourn his loss. He was a farmer by occupation. ALEXANDER HARROW.—The subject of this sketch was born in Allegheny county, Pa. In 1802 he and his brother started for Belmont county for the purpose of entering land. His brother entered land on the Piney Fork of Short creek, and he entered section 12 in Union township, and then returned to their home. The next year (1803) he, in company with James Dunn, returned to his land and located section 11 in connection with the former named section. There were hut two acres cleared on each farm, with a brush fence around it, which had been built by the Indians. In the fall of that year they cut down the trees, hewed logs, and erected cabins, after which they again returned to their former home. In the winter of 1804 Mr. Harrow was married to Miss Jane Keel, and also Mr. Dunn look a wife, and the party returned to their new home among the wild forests of Ohio. Mr. H. had a family of eleven children, four ofwhom are still living. Here he, in company with his neighbor, Mr. Dunn, cleared his land and tilled the ground and lived the remainder of his life. He died July 17, 1859, aged 83 years. His wife died on the 20thof March, 1862, at the age Of .82. May they rest in peace. MATHEW McCALL was born in 1777, in Washington county, Pa. In 1803, he married Miss Nancy Sharp, who was also a native of the same county, born in 1795. Their union resulted in nine children, six of whom are living-Jane, Joseph, John, Nancy, Mathew, Mary, Alexander, Thomas and Margaret. John now owns the old place which his father entered. In 1801, they migrated to Belmont county, Ohio, locating on section eighteen, Union township. His father followed farming during life, and was one among the early settlers of this county. In those days wild animals were in abundance, such as bear, wolves and deer. Many nights did he lay on the loft of his log cabin, with his gun by his side to shoot wolves that were prowling around. His family was called to mourn his death, April 18, 1838, at the age of 65 years. His widow survived until October 21, 1864, when she departed this life, aged eigyty-four years. They were members of the Seceder church. AMOS NICHOLS was born November 2, 1799, in Loudon county, Va. In 1821, he married Miss Maria Brown, who was also a native of the same county, born in 1807. Their union resulted in nine children, six sons and five daughters, six of whom are living. In 1838, they migrated to Belmont county, Ohio, locating on the place formerly known as the David Hogue farm. In 1845, he erected the present building, which is now occupied by his wife, daughter and son-in-law. In 1871, he died at the age of seventy-one years. His widow still survives, aged sixty-nine years. They espoused the Friends, faith. ABNER KENNON was born in 1801, in Pennsylvania. At the age of five. years he was brought by his father to Guernsey county. In 182'6 he married Miss Margaret Phillips. This union resulted in nine children, six sons and three daughters, five of whom are living. In 1844, he moved to Belmont county and located on section twenty-eight, Union township. He owns a grist mill and saw mill, which were built a number of years ago and are now operated by his son-in-law. Mr. Kennon was a great hunter in his day, as game of all kinds was plentiful. In 1864, his family was called to mourn the death of their mother. She died at the age of fifty-two years. he still survives, aged seventy-eight years; is smart, intelligent and quite a reader. JOHN POLLOCK was born March 5, 1795, in Washington county, Pa. He married Miss Nancy Hays, April 26, 1817, who was also a native of the same county, born in 1798. This union resulted in fourteen children, ten of whom are living. In 1818, he migrated to Harrison county and located in Georgetown township. He remained until 1831, then moved to Belmont county, locating in Union township, on section nine, near Wheeling creek. He followed farming as his vocation through .life. On February 26, 1861, his family was called to mourn his death. He died at the age of sixty-six years. His widow, who still survives, is aged eighty-one years. They were both devoted members .of the United Presbyterian church ; while living he held the office of elder for a number of years. JAMES LYNN was born in Virginia in 1784, and in the same year was brought by his father to Harrison county, Ohio. In 1807 he married Miss Isabel Shepherd. Their union resulted in five sons and three daughters, all of whom are living but one. In 1818 he moved to Belmont county, located in Wheeling township, and while there followed farming and merchandizing. After continuing in that business a short time he sold out, moved to Union township, located on parts of sections 15, 20 and 21, and followed fat ming the rest of his life. He died in 1869, at the age of eighty-five years. His widow still survives, aged seventy-eight years. JOHN MERCER was born in Virginia ; migrated to Belmont county and settled in Union township in 1800, locating on section thirty. He brought with him his wife and family, consisting of seven children. When he arrived he found a little log cabin, in which he and his family took shelter, He then went about clearing the land and tilling the soil, in which he was quite successful. The land that he entered still belongs to his descendants. In 1822 or 1823 his family was called to mourn his death. He died at the age of sixty: His widow survived until in 1850, when she died, aged eighty years. Of his family there were ten children in all, only two of whom are living, Lydia Cannon and Amy Brock.