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ADDITIONAL PERSONAL NOTES,

Colonel Levi Barber was born in Connecticut in 1777 and emigrated from Vermont to Marietta, Ohio, in 1799. He settled in Harmar, where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1833. His wife was Eliza Rouse, whom he married about 1802. She was born in Rhode Island in the same year as was her husband, and died in 1830. To them were born five children, viz: David, living in Carthage, Illinois; Elizabeth, deceased; Austin, residing at Pittsfield, Illinois; Levi, who died in infancy, and a second son Levi, living in Harmar.

David Barber, nephew of Colonel Levi Barber, came to Harmar in 1819 from the State of New York, where he was born in 1799. In 1827 he married Miss Lydia N. Stanley, who was horn in 1807, in Connecticut, and whose parents emigrated from that State in 1813, settling at Marietta. To Mr. and Mrs. David Barber have been born nine children, of whom four survive: Eliza, widow of Oscar D. Chapin, lives in Saginaw, Michigan; Levi A. resides in Bay City, Michigan; Julia is at home; and Electa W. is the wife of A. B. Chapin, of Saginaw, Michigan. In 1823, Mr. David Barber entered into mercantile business in Meigs county, Ohio, and, after remaining there nearly twenty-three years, returned to Marietta and continued in business, first with Levi Barber and then with his son Levi A. Since 1875, he has been a retired merchant, quietly enjoying the reward of his toil.

Hugh and Celia Brenan, natives of Ireland, emigrated to this country from the West Indies in 1840, and settled in Marietta. He was engaged here in general merchandise until his death, in 1869. They had twelve children, of whom Joseph, William, Francis R., and Celia (Mrs. Van Buskirk), are living. The three brothers are engaged in the grocery business in Marietta, each having a store of his own. Joseph was born in the West Indies in 1829, and was eleven years old when he came to Marietta. Since 1852 he has been engaged in the grocery business.

William Corner, who came in 1795, was from Macclesfield, England, where he was born February 3, 1789. He died August 17, 1878. He worked two years for General Israel Putnam. His wife's name was Sally Maxon, born in 1782, died in 1854. Of the children, Henry W. married Lucinda Robb, and is in Kansas; Lucy married James Anderson, who is now dead ; Celinda married J. P. Sandford, and Mary E. was the wife of Benjamin Posey. Two children died in youth. The first land cleared on the Little Muskingum was by William Corner. Mrs. Sandford says that Henry Maxon cut the first tree in Ohio.

Another of the very early settlers was George Corner, who came to the township in 1795. He was born in England in 1783, lived with General Putnam when a boy, was a surveyor, and married Susanna Burlingame, who was born in 1790. She was a granddaughter of General Putnam. The places of residence of the living members of the family are: Persis R., Barstow, Iowa; George S., Marietta township; John B., Virginia; Mary S. Leggett, Iowa; Edwin L., Oregon; Susan B. Mackey, Newport township; Elizabeth P. Rood, Marietta. Henry H., Rebecca, Maria Racer, Sarah F., and Melville R., are dead.

Joseph C. Cole was another old resident, who came in 1802. He was born in 1769, in England, and engaged in farming and especially in raising small trees and nurseries. His wife, Polly Case, lived from 1781 to 1847, while he survived her until 1866. Children: Mary E., still lives on the old homestead; Candis is dead, as is Joseph C.; F. C. married Mary S. Dye, and Richard C. was unmarried; both are now dead.

Jacob Ebinger was born in Sweigern, Germany, in 1825, came to New York in 1847, lived for two years at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and then came to Marietta, since which time he has been in the harness business. In 1849 he married Catharine Abendschan, who died in 1876. Eight of their nine children are living.

From Massachusetts emigrated William Fay, in 1832, who died at home in 1866. For many years he was deacon in the Congregational church. In 1812 he married Elizabeth Lankton, who was born July 23, 1790. Their children were: Levi L, who married Caroline Hill first, then Minerva Batchelor; Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Gillman, and now dead; Bula S., now Mrs. Dr. James Tenney, of Toledo; William A., married, and in Springfield, Ohio; Solomon P., in Boston, married to Marie Brigham; Catharine A., in Marietta, and wife of Archibald Ewing; Eunice S., wedded to Dr. Johnson.

In 1863, section nine furnished a home for Jacob Hendershot, who was a native of this State and born in 1825, although he came to Marietta from Virginia. He had a farm there on which several oil-wells were drilled, but sold out and came here. His wife was Mary S. Joy, born in 1835 and married in 1855. One child died young; another, Ella Adaline, is now at home.

Stephen Hildreth, father of Calvin, came to Washington county in January, 1814, having left Shirley, Massachusetts, the November previous. He was a son of John Hildreth, and a descendant of Richard Hildreth, who came to this country from England in 1650, and settled in Massachusetts. John Hildreth was a native of West-

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ford, Massachusetts.. He was twice married. His second wife was Elizabeth Gates, by whom he had six children, viz : Simeon, Sallie, Stephen, Lemuel, Betsey and Polly.

Stephen Hildreth was born July 15, 1777, and married Miss Cynthia Brown, who was born October 9, 1783, in Shirley, Massachusetts. On coming to this county, he bought the farm now occupied by his son and grandson. He died here in 1858, his wife having preceded him, dying in 1823. They had four children—Calvin, born April 1, 1804, in Shirley, Massachusetts ; Mary, born February lo, 1806, in Bath, Maine ; Rebecca Ann, born August 29, 1808, in Charlestown, Massachusetts; Louisa, born August 4, 1811, in Shirley, Massachusetts.

Calvin married in 1830 Miss Susan E. Maxon, who was born in Fearing township, this county, in 1807. There have been bOrn to them two children, Stephen B. and Cynthia, the latter dying in infancy. Stephen B. was born on the old farm October 19, 1831; married in 1856 Miss Oladine S. Hill, who was born February 26, 1834. The issue of this marriage is one child, Zenas Brownhill, born August 21, 1878.

Thomas Hutchinson was born in the block-house at Marietta, in 1794. He married Nancy Warren, who was born in Massachusetts in 1802, and is still living, having been a widow since 1841. Four of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are living: William resides in Harmar; Susan, wife of Rev. Irwin, lives in Kansas; Dudley is in Iowa; and Julia resides in Kansas. The eldest son, William W. Hutchinson, born in Harmar in 1822, married Phoebe Sutton, born in New York in 182z. Two of their six children are living, both in Harmar. Mr. Hutchinson has been a farmer during the most of his life, but is now in the grocery business in Harmar.

Lewis Lehnhard came to Marietta in 1838, having emigrated from Germany, where he was born in 1818. He has always followed the carpenter business for a livelihood. He married Elizabeth Cimmer, born in Germany in 1821. Four of the five children of this marriage are living—Lewis C., Lucinda, wife of Harman Angart; John H., who married Carrie L. Miller; Mary E., wife of Lewis Blohm. Mr. Lehnhard and his brother, John, are the only surviving members who organized the Evangelical church.

John Lehnhard was born in Germany in 1809, and married Christina Bescardor, a native of Prussia. In 1836 he landed in Baltimore, where he was married to Catharine Philipina Bock, by whom he has had twelve children, seven of whom survive. In 1838 Mr. Lehnhard came to Marietta. He has been a carpenter during his whole life.

Jacob Lorenz, a native of Germany, born in 1817 came to this country in 1846. Soon after his arrival at New Orleans he went to Louisville, Kentucky. In 1847 he married Catharine Reiter, and after a residence of two or three years in Louisville he moved to Marietta and settled in Union township. Mrs. Lorenz came to the county with her mother, Magdaline, who died here in 1859, aged eighty-nine years. Her father died in

Germany. Henry and Mary Lorenz, the parents of Jacob, died, he in 1855 and she in 1861. To Jacob Lorenz have been born ten children, six of whom are living: Henry, Charles, Catharine (Shafer), Jacob, David, and Wilhelmina. Mr. Lorenz now lives in Marietta.

William W. Lucas was born in New Jersey in 1844, and came to Marietta in 1860, and after remaining but a short time went to Athens, where he was employed by the Marietta & Cincinnati railroad company for two years, when he left for Philadelphia, and in 1864 was again employed at Marietta, where he has since been ticket and freight, and, since 1877, exgress agent of the Marietta & Cincinnati road. In 1875 he married Marion Curtis. They have three children.

Emery Luthringer, sr., was born in Alsace, France, in 1809. He emigrated to America, and lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until 1857, when he removed to Marietta where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1871. His wife, Agatha Dryer, is living with her son Joseph. She was born in Alsace in 1805. Their two sons are Emery and Joseph. Emery is in the tin business in Harmar. He was born in 1839 and married Mary M. Shilshott, who was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1842. Joseph, born in Germany in 1842, came to Marietta with his parents. He married Margaret Henn, born in New York city in 1846. Five of their seven children are living. Since 1867, Mr. Luthringer has been in the tin and hardware business in Marietta.

In the year 1815 came William McAllister from New Hampshire, and settled on section sixteen. He was born in 1768 and died in 1819. A son of this farmer, John, was born in 1807, and married Olive F. Owen in 1834. Mrs. McAllister was born in 1815, and is still living. Mr. McAllister died in 1880. Their daughter, Mary, became Mrs. William Cecil in 1867. Mr. McAllister was much interested in meteorology, and kept a record of semi-daily observations for twenty years. Another son, Madison, married Sallie Whitehouse in 1842, and his second wife, Harriet Posey, in 1867. Two children—Kennett and Mahala. William's wife died in 1865, at the extreme age of ninety-three. Other children are Rebecca and Irene, now Mrs. Ebenezer Buell.

In 1829 John C. McCoy came to Harmar from Richland county, and engaged in the tailoring business. He moved to Athens county in 1856, where he died in 1875. He was one of the first Abolitionists in the county of Washington. He was born in Virginia in 1792, married Mary Comley born in 1799, and died in 1829. Two of their six children are living, viz: W. W. in Harmar, and Asa S. in Bloomington, Illinois. William W., born in 1822, came with his parents to Harmar. He was married in 1850 to Elizabeth Davis in St. Louis, Missouri. Six of their ten children are living. Mr. McCoy is a contractor and does a large business. His father was the mayor of Harmar about 1843. His brother Asa graduated from Marietta college in 1849, and is now a Methodist minister.

Gottlob Meister, born in Germany in 1821, arrived in New York in 1847, lived over a year in Philadelphia,

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and in Cincinnati until 1855; where he was engaged in the tanning business. Coming to Marietta he went into partnership with Ebinger and Killinger. He afterwards became a partner of A. Roemer. He now has a business aggregating about thirty thousand dollars per annum. In 1844 he married Elizabeth R. Stuhr, born in Germany in 1824. Eight of their twelve children are living, all in this county.

John Miller, father of Robert T. Miller, was born in Westchester county, New York, in 1777 and came to Washington county in 1806. He died in 1840. His wife was Jane Taylor, born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1769. They had three children, one of whom only survives: Robert T. He was born in 1809 and in 1838 married Marietta Fuller, who was born in Rhode Island, in 1812. Her parents, Charles and Nancy Fuller, were early residents of this county and died here. Mr. Miller was county infirmary director from 1854 to 1860. His farm east of Marietta was entered by Colonel Robert Taylor, who came to the county. from Rhode Island in 1799.

Jacob Miller came to Marietta in 1858, and started a bakery and confectionery and a mineral water establish. ment. Born in Germany in 1830, he emigrated in 1847, stopping first at Erie, Pennsylvania, and then removing to Cincinnati, where he lived ten years prior to coming to Marietta. From 1874 to 1880 he was a member of the board of education. In 1859 he married Mary Keller, born.in Germany in 1842. By her he has had seven children, six of whom survive, and all at home.

Of the later additions to the population of the township, was John W. Miller, who married Margaret J. Scott, and had a family of five young children, namely: Fannie, Abbie, Bertha, John and Sarah. The father, however, died some time ago.

Another citizen of the township, Mr. C. A. Miller, married Margaret Bell in 1869. He served two years and ten months in the Seventh Ohio volunteer corps.

Marcellus J. Morse was born in the town of Marietta, in 1812, and died in 1880. He married Louisa Shankland, who was born in Virginia in 1813. They had five children, but two of whom are living: Kent, residing in Indianapolis, and William M., of Harmar. The latter was born in 1843 and married Charlotte Palmer, born in 1843. To them have been born three children : Jennie, Laura and Frank. Mr. Morse has been an engineer on the Marietta & Cincinnati railroad since 1861. He is at present a member of the city council of Harmar, and is also a member of the school board. The elder Mr. Morse was sheriff for two terms, also a member of the council and board of health at Harmar. During Grant's administration, he was inspector for this district.

John Otterbein emigrated from Germany to this country in May, 1860. Soon after his arrival in Marietta the war of the Rebellion commenced, and Mr. Otterbein enlisted as private in company F, Thirty-ninth regiment, and was mustered out of service as a commissioned officer in August, 1865. Soon after his return to Marietta he opened a meat market, which he carried on for a short time, and then engaged in the sale of liquors until 1875.

Richard Pattin, sr., was born in 1806, married Miss Mary Smith, who was born in 1807, and was the father of six children, three of whom are living: Sabra, widow of Luther Burlingham, living in Harmar ; William S. residing in Portsmouth, Ohio; and Richard, jr., of Harmar. He was born in 1839, married Amanda Wells, born in 1844, and has three children living and one dead. Mr. Pattin is the superintendent of the Lubricating Oil Company.

Among the colonists of 1788 was Azariah Pratt, who married Sarah Nye, by whom he had ten children, three of whom survive. Their son Elisha was born in 1798, in the block-house standing on the corner of Second and Washington streets. In 1826 he married Lydia Smith, who was born in 1800, and died in 1851, six years before the death of her husband. Their only child, Sarah M., was married in 1852, to Alexander McGirr, born in 1825. They have four children, all living at home. Mr. McGirr entered the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio national guard, company A, as sergeant, and was honorably discharged in September, 1864.

Benjamin Racer was one of the very first settlers, for he came to Marietta in 1789, and settled in Newport township. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1785, and died in the township in 1872. His business was farming and hunting. For many years he lived in the garrison at Marietta, and has mentioned that he heard the gun that killed Robert Warth. His wife, Susannah Holdren, was born March, 1784, and died in 1833. Their son David married Maria Corner, and afterward Susan Flagg; Francis D. is single; William P. married Hattie Fulton, and is in Marietta; Charles' wife is Margaret Day; E. 0. married Jane Posey; Susan is the wife of S. B. Smith; all these live in Marietta. Grace's husband is James Stanley, of Salem; Cynthia is Mrs. John A. West; and Annie is the widow of Thomas Alcock; Dennis, Benjamin, Dudley, Mary, Sophia, Rachel, and Elizabeth are dead. E. 0. is a farmer on the old homestead, living in a house built in 1831.

In 1811, Joseph Leonard Reckard emigrated to Marietta township from Massachusetts, where he was born in 1795. He engaged in the blacksmith trade and the manufacture of axes. In 1816, he married Delilah Jennings, born in Pennsylvania in 1798. Six of their eleven children are living. Mr. Reckard opened the first livery stable in Marietta, in which business he continued until his death, which occurred in 1870. His son, Joseph L. Reckard, who continued the business, was born in 1839; he married Mary E. Morse, who was born in 1839. They have two children.

Alfred J. Richards commenced the dry goods business in Marietta in 1875, having for six years prior to that time been in the employ of W. H. Buell. He was born in 1849, and married Sarah Eggleston, born in Philadelphia in 1853. They have one daughter.

William Rowland came to Newport township in 1816, originally from Maryland, where his birth occurred in 1790, but immediately from Pennsylvania. He died in

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1854 He was a farmer and trader, and held the office of justice of the peace several times. His wife, Ann E. Clark, born in 1799, died in 1876. Several children were born them : Eliza J. is now Mrs. William Thorniley; Thomas married Amanda Neal, and with Charles, whose wife was Jane D. White, and Lewis C., who married Barbara McKibben, is in Newport. Virginia A. married J. B. Hovey, of Marietta; George W. married Paulina Ann Corner and lives in Marietta township. Rufus H. is the husband of Charlotte Rood, and resides in Kansas. William (dead), was wedded to Catharine P. Cline and went to Illinois. The rest died young.

In the year 1820 Thomas J. H. Sandford arrived from England and made his home on section four of Marietta township. He was born October 15, 1776, and died in 1823. He had served in the British navy, was paymaster on board a British man of war in the East Indies. His wife was Mary Broadhurst, who was born in 1790, and died in 1867. His son, J. P. Sandford, married Celinda Corner, and has had nine children. Eliza C. is unmarried; S. H. married Caroline Haas. Seven children died young.

John Schneider was born in Germany in 1827, and came to this country in 1846, and has since been engaged in the brewery business in Buffalo, Cincinnati and Harrison. In 1879 he opened a brewery in Marietta. In 1853 he was married to Elizabeth Zapf, by whom he has five children. Mr. Schneider's aged father is still living in Germany.

Henry Schwitzer, born in Prussia in 1821, came to Baltimore in 1848, then to Wheeling, and shortly afterward to Harrison county, where he worked at his trade for two years. In 1851, coming to Marietta, he engaged in the wagon-making trade. He was married to Elizabeth Lehnhard, born in Germany. They have three girls and three boys, of whom two are at home.

Edward Shaldon was born in New Jersey in 1789, and died in 1847, in Marietta township, where he settled in 1818. Of the six surviving children, Elizabeth, wife of Caleb Thornily, lives in Marietta township, as does Eliza. Sarah was born in Gallia county in 1836. She marrried Henry Reckard in 1857. He died in 1872.

Mr. George P. Stevens came to this county from Portage county, in 1867. He engaged in the mercantile business in 1870, in which he continued for six years. In 1879 he was elected a member Of the board of education of Harmar, and in the spring of 188o was elected mayor of Harmar, which office he still holds. Mayor Stevens and his father, Dr. Stevens, who is still living in Harmar, established and mainly built up the rolling-mill, which was successfully conducted while it had their attention. In 1863 Mr. Stevens was married to Harriet Harmond, and has one child.

John D. Strauss, born in Germany in 1819, emigrated to Virginia in 1848, coming to this county on foot in 1850. He lived, until 1851, on land purchased in West Virginia, and has since lived in Marietta. Until 1861 he worked at the cabinet-making business, and then bought the mill in partnership with F. Coleman, and in 1873 he retired from the firm. In 1878 he again bought the flouring-mill, which is now operated under the name of the Buckeye Flouring Mill, by Strauss, Elston & Co. In 1853 he married Caroline Zimmer, who came to this county with her parents, who died several years ago. Seven of the eleven children of Mr. Strauss are living, six being at home. Mr. Strauss has been in the city council for two terms.

John Strecker, born in Germany in 1804, came to the United States in 1846, and settled in Pittsburgh, and after one year had passed he came to Marietta. His wife was born and died in Germany prior to Mr. Strecker's emigration. Their son, George, came to this country with his father. In 1856 he married Johannah Abenchoen. Eight of the nine children are living. George Strecker, in 1868, started the Harmar boiler works, which are still in operation.

Ernst Styer was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, in 1798; emigrated to this country in 1837, and afterwards came to Marietta. Here he has resided since, except two years when he lived at Vicksburgh, Mississippi, working at his trade, that of carpentering. William, a brother of Ernst, came over from Germany in 1838, and to this county in the spring of 1839. He was born in 1806. His trade has also been that of carpentering, and he also spent some months in Vicksburgh.

His oldest son William has been a druggist in Cincinnati, and now resides in Marietta.

William Thornily was born in England in 1774, and in 1795 emigrated to New York city, where he was soon afterwards married to Elizabeth Markham, born in London in 1775. Soon after their marriage they emigrated to Ohio, and settled on a farm in Marietta township. Mr. Thornily was at one time in the merchandise business, both at Marietta and Pittsburgh. Of a family of seven children, but one survives, viz., Augusta Beswick, living in Iowa.

Philip Van Thornily was born in New York city, in 1799, and came with his parents to Marietta township. In 1830 he married Nancy C. Martin, who was born in Virginia, in 1811. Eleven children have been born to them, seven of whom are living. Farming and boat-building have principally engaged Mr. Thornily's attention, but for some time previous to his death he led a retired life upon the garden spot of his large farm, which from year to year he distributed among his children. He died April 26, 1881, after an illness of a few weeks, in his eighty-second year.

William Thorniley, another son of William Thorniley, sr., was born in the township, section two, in 1808, and died in 1853. His business was that of shipping produce. He married Esther A. Smith, who was born in 1813. There were born to them: Samuel, who married Frances Middleswart; Thomas J., who died young ; Elizabeth M., who is now Mrs. Samuel King; Augusta B., who is Mrs. George Harness ; Eliza D., who is the wife of Daniel Reynolds, of Warren; and Laura J., who married Timothy Buell, of Marietta township.

Major John Thorniley came to Marietta township in 1795, from Cheshire, England. Born July 17, 1780, he died in Marietta township, August, 1844. He was in

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the War of 1812, captain under General Harrison, major in Washington county militia, and one of the seven members who formed the first Baptist church in Ohio. His wife, Mary Compton, was born in 1788, and survived her husband till 1875. Their children married as follows: William, to Eliza J. Rowland; Mary Ann, to Aaron Howe, of Illinois; Thomas E., to Mary C. Ralston; John, to Jane Temple, Harmar; Elizabeth, to Lemuel Wells, in Missouri; C. S. to Betsy Sheldon, in Marietta; Adaline, to James C. West, in Marietta township; James is unmarried, and lives in Marietta; John, Thomas, and George are dead. William T. is now seventy years old, has never lain on a sick bed, and all his teeth are as sound as ever. His marriage was in 1834, and the living children are Minerva A., wife of M. B. Gates, of Ironton; Rinaldo R., married to Mary Snyder, in Newport township; Alice, now Mrs. H. Scott, of Marietta; Newton I., married to Clara S. Kidd, also in Marietta; John R. died young.

Colonel William West settled in Marietta township. section eight, in 1829. He was born in 1796 at Bull Run, Virginia, and served six months in the War of 1812. He married Elizabeth Compton, born in 1794 in Virginia, near Winchester. Four of their nine children are living, viz: John A., James C., William W. and Thomas J. The elder Mr. West served two terms as county commissioner, was infirmary director, and held other important offices. During the war he was a strong Abolitionist, and made the first speech of that character in the county. .He owned three hundred and ninety-five acres of land. Of his children, the eldest son, John A., was born in 1821 in Virginia ; and married Cynthia Racer, who was born in 1819 in this county. Two of their three children are living: Henry C. and Leslie C. Their daughter Lelia (Hoffman) died in 1880, leaving one son. Mr. West owns a farm at the mouth of the Little Muskingum. He has been trustee of his township nineteen years. His son Henry C. married Phebe McKibben, and has two children. Leslie C., the second son, married Arvilla Middleswart and lives in Kansas. James C., the second son of William and Elizabeth West, was born in 1824, married Adaline Thornily, who was born in Marietta township in 1832. Their sons, George F. and James W. are living. Mr. West has been an important officer in his township. He owns a farm of nearly two hundred acres of land.

Robert Williams was a native of Carnarvonshire, North Wales, where he was born October 31, 1762. He emigrated to this country with his wife and three oldest children, in 1794, and after living some ten years in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, removed to Washington coun ty in 1804. The following year he located on a farm four or five miles east of Marietta, in what afterwards became known as the "Fuller settlement,"—several members of a family of the name of Fuller settling there, whose farms adjoined one another. Robert Williams built himself a substantial log house, the best for many miles around. He was naturalized a citizen of the United States in 1808, and the naturalization papers are now in posession of his daughter, Mrs. Greene. Mr. Williams first married Jane Roberts, who died in 1816. He afterwards married Mrs. Mary H. Needham, widow of Noah Needham. He had six children by his first wife. David, the oldest, was a Methodist minister. Thomas was a farmer of this county. Of the four daughters, Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Baker removed to the west several years ago; Mrs. Winters, at her death, resided in Cincinnati, and the other died in childhood. By his second marriage there were five children, three daughters and two sons, twins. The two oldest daughters, Mrs. Susan W. Greene and Mrs. Mary A. Rood, reside in Marietta. The other daughter (Margaret) died quite early. One of the sons, Rev. John Williams, lives in Ottumwa, Iowa; the other, William, died in 1860. Robert Williams died April, 1843, aged eighty-one, and his wife, Mary, in 1857. Of the children of Mrs. Williams, by her first husband, only one lived to years of maturity, the late M. H. Needham, of Marietta, a well known architect, who died in 1878.

John Willis was born in Washington county, in 1839. In the year 1859 he married Rosa E. Grimes, who was born January 13, 1835. To this couple were born six children, four of whom are still living, viz: Osmer M., who is attending medical college at Columbus; Arthur C., Lemuel C., and Freddie N. Mr. Willis was elected superintendent of the county infirmary in 1877. This infirmary was erected in 1841, on land (one hundred and sixty acres) purchased for that purpose in 1839. Mr. Willis has been for nine years a pastor in the Methodist Episcopal church, but for the greater part of his life has been a farmer.

Stephen Wood was born in Tyler county, West Virginia, in 1809. He came to Marietta in 1829, and worked in the Phcenix mills, and was also connected with a ferry boat across the Ohio. He married Elizabeth Kennedy, who was born in 1811. Eight children still survive, viz: D. H., A. S., W. W., B. F., Mrs. Mahala Oliver, Mrs. Sarah J. Akerson, Mrs. Mary 0. Bunch, and Mrs. Martha S. Pflug. Mr. Wood died in 1876. He was a temperance man from 1846 until his death. He joined the United Brethren church in 1856.