Champaign County, Ohio - The whole text, 1881 (part 16 of 32)

William and Huldah Downs, and many of their descendants, emigrated from New Jersey about the year 1816, and settled on King's Creek, opposite to where Lyjnan North lived. The old people were buried nearly sixty years ago in the cemetery near Alfred Johnson's mansion, in Wayne Township. Some of their descendants still live in Salem Township. William and Joseph Downs, nephews of the above named William and Huldah Downs, about the same year (1816), settled on King's Creek, a little north of Ezra Read's home, where William erected a woolen factory, and died at that home fully sixty years ago, and was buried in the Johnson Cemetery above named. Joseph Downs died in the year 1858, on his farm, adjoining Mount Tabor, and wTas buried in the old Friends' Cemetery, one mile east of Mount Tabor ; his venerable widow, aged 85 years, now lives in North Lewisburg. In 1818, Robert Reed and family, his son Joel Reed and family, emigrated from New Jersey and settled on King's Creek, one mile west of Lyman North's home, where they lived many years. The older members of the family are now all deceased ; some of their descendants live in Urbana.

In the winter of 1826-27, Dr. Samuel A. Latta taught school in a log cabin schoolhouse on the farm now owned by David Fulweider ; he also taught a grammar school at night, which schools were both largely attended. This was the first grammar school I attended. An exhibition was held on the last day of this school, which was attended by a large concourse of people. At the close, Dr. Latta preached an able sermon, and very good order was observed. In 1818, Mr. Cowgill opened a smith-shop near the east line of Salem Township. Among his regular customers were William H. Baldwin, Nathan Moffitt, Enos Baldwin, Isaac Gray, Jehu Gray, Asa Gray, Matthew Mason, Isaac Mason, James Craighill, Matthew Stewart, Archibald Stewart, John McAdams, Isaac McAdams, John Taylor, William Taylor, David Taylor, Ezra Read, Lyman

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North, Aaron L. Hunt, Col. John Thomas, Alexander Thomas, Griffith Evans, Isaac Evans, Isaac Thompson, Joseph Downs, William Mayse, Thomas Humphreys, Nathaniel Hunter, Alexander Hunter, Thomas Hunter, and Bethuel -Samples. This was the beginning of a friendship with Mr. Cowgill and each and every one of the venerated persons above named, which continued through life.

Lost Child In The Woods And Prairies In 1821

A little daughter of Mr. Cowgili's, then about four years old, had been in the habit of going with some of the family to the nearest neighbor's, William H. Baldwin. She one afternoon assumed the responsibility of going alone ; she went straight to the neighbor's, when Aunt Elizabeth soon started her home, and went with her near to the crossing of the Urbana rop,d, and watched her along the path until she thought the little girl would surely get safe home. Somehow, she missed the way, and took down south along the Urbana road, which was then a mere pathway. Her track was seen in the road, but, as it happened, she was not seen by any one until after sundown. She had traveled partly along the Urbana, and along paths and through woods, barrens and prairies, and crossed King's Creek, which is said to have been one-third larger fifty years ago, than at present. In the evening, after sundown, she was found along a cow-path, among the plum and hazel bushes, near the present home of Matthew Stewart, Esq. A man named Lyman Olds then lived near Kingston ; his boys were out hunting their cows, and met the little girl along the path ; they asked her where she was going, she said " goin' home." The boys took her home with them, their father talked with her, and she told him where she had been, told him her name, and answered every question directly and to the point. Lyman Olds made ready as soon as he could and took the little girl to the house of John McAdams, Esq. As soon as it was ascertained that the -child was lost, almost the whole neighborhood turned out to search for her, a number of women were of the company. Near 11 o'clock at night, several men were stopped about one-fourth mile south of where Kennard now is, consulting about the best mode of search, when some one said, " Listen, I hear a call." We listened, and at the distance of about one mile we plainly heard a loud, clear call borne upon the quiet air of that calm, clear night in August, Isaac McAdams said, " That is mother's voice. I know the child is found." The men then started on a run in the direction of the call. Soon after, tin horns sounded from several of the neighboring houses ; it seemed to be a time of great and general rejoicing - the child was found. Lyman Olds said the little girl talked to him incessantly on their journey that night, told him what each member of the family were doing when she left home, the names of all the horses and cows on the farm. She arrived at home about midnight, to the great joy of her parents and the family, her mother being sick at the time. A company of Indians were camped a few days before on the east fork of King's Creek, near where Cable now stands. It was feared by some that the Indians had taken the child.

The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad was the pioneer road in Ohio; it was surveyed in 1832, and finished building in 1848. It is now known as the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad. It is now one of the most noted thoroughfares in the State ; running across Salem Township from a point south of Saratoga Mills to Logan County line, near West Liberty.

The New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, first known as the Franklin k Warren Railroad, afterward as the Atlantic k Great Western Railroad, was surveyed in 1855, and trains first ran on this road through Salem Township in 1865. This road is now about equal in commercial importance with the Cincinnati, Sandusky k Cleveland Railroad. It crosses Salem Township from a point at about the junction of King's Creek and Mingo Valleys, running down King's Creek Valley to join the line of Urbana Township, near Urbana. The Pan Handle Railroad, now known as the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad, was surveyed in the spring of 1852, and built immediately thereafter. A great business is now done on this road. It is probably equal in importance to any road in this part of Ohio. It crosses the east line of Salem Township at a point near " Round Prairie," on the south Fork of King's Creek, running down the beautiful valleys of King's Creek and Dugan to join the line of Urbana Township, very near the line of the New York, Pennsylvania k Ohio Railroad.

The town of Kingston was not regularly laid out. It has been growing seventy-five years, since 1805, when Salem Township and. Champaign County were established. The writer was at this town sixty-three years ago ; a blockhouse was then standing near Taylor's Mill, which mill was built by John Taylor, a Virginian, in 1810. In 1814, and for some years thereafter, Simon Kenton lived near the mill, and used frequently to come here to mill, riding on his pony with a bushel and a half of corn under him to get ground to make his pone of. Kingston is now a flourishing village of about 300 inhabitants, containing two fine churches and two good schoolhouses near. Rev. Benjamin Gehman lives near this village.

Kennard is situated on the New York, Pennsylvania k Ohio Railroad, seven miles north of Urbana. Samuel H. Robinson was proprietor and laid out this town in 1864. The village contains near 200 inhabitants. One good church, one good schoolhouse, one large grain warehouse and one post office, which was the first post office in Salem Township.

William and Alex Madden, brothers and native Virginians, reside near this town. William is about eighty years of age, in very feeble health. Alex is aged about seventy years, and is strong, robust and healthy.

[Since the writing of Salem Township history, Rev. William Haller has passed away. He took a deep interest in the Champaign County History, and assisted in placing on record many interesting historical facts known only to himself. The following obituary notice appeared December 9, 1880, in the columns of the Citizen and Grazette , of Urbana, Ohio, and is so fitting a tribute to the man and his works that we gladly make place for it. - Publishers.]

" Rev. William Haller, an old and highly esteemed citizen of this county, died at his residence in Salem Township, Thursday morning, December 2, aged about eighty years. The deceased was one of the early pioneers of the county, having resided here for some sixty-five years, and was highly appreciated by all who knew him for honesty and integrity. In early life, he embraced religion, and for some sixty years has been a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His life has been one of activity and usefulness, and at a ripe old age has been gathered to his fathers. ' Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.' For many years, the deceased has been a contributor to the columns of the Citizen and Grazette.

" The subject of the following sketch was born at Mayslick, Mason County, Ky., on the 5th day of August, 1801. In 1812, his father came to Ohio, at a time when the war cloud was gathering between this and the mother country, and landed in Urbana on the 12th of October of the above year; William then being a lad of eleven years of age. His father, John Haller, subsequently,, in 1814, settled near the mouth of Nettle Creek, where William grew to the? years of manhood. He had, prior to his leaving Kentucky, at the age of nine years, professed conversion, and shortly after his emigration to Ohio, at the age of thirteen years, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church under the labors of Rev. Robert W. Finley. At the age of nineteen years, he was licensed as am exhorter, and three years later as a minister. In 1825, he married Sarahs daughter of Ezekiel Arrowsmith, who died ten years later, leaving him three children - Fletcher, Lewis and Emily Jane. The year following her death, in 1886, he married Jane, his former wife's sister, who died in 1851, leaving him two children, Sarah and Lavenia. In 1855, he married Myrtilla Bishop, his now bereaved widow, by whom he had one child, who appropriately bears his father's name. Shortly after his first marriage, he built his first cabin at the old homestead, in Mad River Township, now occupied by his son-in-law, Elijah. Hanna. Here he continued to live until after the death of his second wife,, when he removed to the hill one mile west of Urbana. He finally removed to Kingston, where he lived either in the village or vicinity, until the day of his death, December 2, 1880. Coming into the county as he did, when the country was a comparative wilderness, he grew up to years of manhood, and watched with more than ordinary interest the rapid development from time to time. He was a man of more than ordinary attainments, and always imparted his information for the benefit of others, with great pleasure. He was a modest, unassuming, self-sacrificing man, and the people of the Mad River Valley are indebted more to him than any other man for its moral and religious element. He was for many years a contributor to the paper which contains this notice of his life and death. In this he will be missed, as in all other circles of society, for, though dead, his works do follow him. His funeral services took place in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kingston, under the direction of the venerable Rev. D. Warnock, assisted by Rev. S. F. Conrey, Rev. B. Gehman, and the Pastor, Rev. G. H. Kennedy. The Hymns 979 and 990 were sung by the choir in a manner never to be forgotten by those present. A very large and sympathetic congregation was present to show their regard for a man who had no enemies. His remains were borne by request, by his old neighbors west of the river, namely : J. D. Powell, J. M. McFarland, F. N. Barger and T. S. McFarland. Thus has a good man passed away, whose memory will be revered for generations to come. His remains were at his request laid in the Talbott Graveyard, beside those of his, second wife. Peace to his ashes."

Wayne Township occupies a position in the northern tier of townships, being second from the eastern border of the county, bounded north by Logan County, east by Rush Township, south by Union and west by Salem.

Its extent is four and five-eighths miles from east to west, and seven and one-fourth from north to south, containing a little more than thirty-three and a half square miles, or about 21,460 acres.

The original proprietors of the land were Osborn, Smith, Tidball, Evans, Denny & Barreth, Stubblefield, Kinney, Goode, Pelham, Means, Poe, Frazer, Ladd & Norville, Galloway, Calderwood, Browder, Peterson, Morton, Barreth, Ladd, Dun, Herbert, Pomroy, Sears, Heth, Black, Hoffman, Campbell, Keane, Armstrong, Butler, Latham, Washington.

The original surveys have been subdivided into farms, and these subdivided into smaller tracts, until the boundaries are difficult to ascertain. The direction of the lines of survey conform precisely to the " Ludlow Line," which is nearly twenty degrees west of north. This line crosses the extreme southwest corner of the township, leaving only twenty-one acres - a modest, right-angled triangle, on the west.

Agriculture is the leading pursuit. Considerable attention is given to stock-raising and wool-growing, though the latter has not, of late years, received as much attention as formerly. Hogs, horses and cattle receive especial attention. The people, for the greater part, are native born and are descendants of Kentuckians, Tennesseeans, North Carolinians and Virginians. Nearly 10 per cent are foreign-born, the Irish predominating.

Originally the township comprised the territory of Rush, but in 1828, was divided, and a separate organization given to the east half. The records to be had, and from which information is to be taken, fail to give very definitely, the first official acts of the township officers.

It is probable that as early as 1811 the first election for township officers was held. It was the custom then to hold elections at the house of some one of the citizens of the township, and the houses of Isaac Gray, Reuben Paxton, Robert Stephens, Peter Black, Ebenezer Miles and Jerry Baldwin are mentioned as having at various times been used for that purpose.

Previous to 1828, the names of Abishai Hoisington, Anson Howard, Ezra Winget and John Organ appear as having served as Clerks of the township in the order named ; the latter having served for several successive years.

In April, 1830, John Shaul was elected Clerk, and his successor, Wesley Hughes, was elected April 2, 1832. George N. Swisher served two years, and on the 7th day of April, 1834, Thomas Cowgill, Jr., was elected. On the day of the Presidential election, November 1, 1844, Thomas Cowgill resigned the office, having held it more than ten years. Daniel Vertner was appointed by the Trustees for the unexpired part of the year, and on the 7th day of* April, 1845, Robert Archibald was elected to this office, and was reelected and continued to serve until the 6th day of September, 1852, when he resigned, and Solomon Linville was made Clerk by appointment, for the unexpired part of the year. April 4, 1853, John P. Wilson was elected, and served one year; was succeeded by Solomon Linville. Daniel Vertner was elected in April, 1855, and continued as Clerk until April, 1858, when he was succeeded by J. W. Barley, who held the office till April 4, 1864. William McMullen served from 1864 to 1865. Joseph A. Linville served from April, 1865 to April 1867, and was succeeded by Charles A. Barley, who filled the office till November 3, 1868, when the Trustees appointed Milton Beck to fill the vacancy. George Woodward served in 1869-70, and Jacob H. Craft was elected April 4, 1870, and continued in the office until he resigned in October, 1874. He was succeeded by James K. Graham by appointment. James Murphey was elected in April, 1875, and resigned the following November. Charles M. Graham was appointed for the unexpired part of the year, and was elected and served from 1876 to 1878. He was succeeded by John A. Galloway, April, 1878. Mr. Galloway is the present efficient incumbent.

Justices Of The Peace

Before Rush was cut off from Wayne, and up to 1822, the name of David Hurley appears on the records as a Justice of the Peace. But, if there were other magistrates before this, the records fail to show it. John Shaul, Thomas Irwin and James Devore served before the year 1826. Peter Igou was elected at the house of Jerry Baldwin, January, 1828. His election was successfully contested by St. Leger Beck and Martin Flaherty, and a new election was ordered, which was held on the 8th day of February, 1828, when Igou was again elected, and his term of office began on the 16th of the same month. William Organ was commissioned a Justice of the Peace February 1, 1830. Peter Igou was re-elected in February, 1831. William Organ was re-elected in January, 1833, his second commission bearing date February 1, 1833. Igou was succeeded, February 1, 1834, by the election of John Stowe. Peter Igou was again elected, at the house of John Holy cross, February 15, 1836. John Stowe was re-elected January 16, 1837. David B, Williams was commissioned February 25, 1839, and Robert Pennington May 24, 1839, and was succeeded by Lester Ware. David B. Williams was re-elected February 15, 1842. John J. Harlan was elected November, 1844, and was re-elected November 26, 1847, resigning July 1, 1848. He was succeeded by Andrew McBride, who was elected July 20, 1848. C. 0. Johnson was elected August 17, 1850, and was succeeded by William Thomas August 29, 1853. Silas Igon was elected April 4, 1853, and was succeeded by Alexander Pickard on the 7th of April, 1856. William Thomas was re-elected, his commission being dated August 29, 1856. William R. Clark was elected April 4, 1859, and resigned on the 5th of September following. His immediate successor was John W. Barley, who was elected on the 24th of the same month. William Thomas was again elected, his commission being dated September 21, 1862. James W. Hunter succeeded Barley, his commission bearing date October 15, 1864. William Thomas served continually until November, 1874, when he was succeeded by Aaron Mitchell. James W. Hunter was succeeded by John Middleton, Jr., April 1, 1867, who was re-elected April, 1870, serving six years in all. James W. Wells was elected April, 1873, and re-elected April, 1876, his six years ending with the election of John A. Gallaway, April, 1879. Mr. Gallaway is the present incumbent. Aaron Mitchell served one term of three years. He was succeeded November, 1878, in the election of F. M. McAdams, the present incumbent, who was re-elected October 12, 1880.

Of the Trustees who served the township in its early organization and previous to 1840, we find the names of Thomas Cowgill, Sr., Henry Fairchild, Silas Hale, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Irwin, James Williams, Erastus Burnham, Jeremiah Baldwin, James Devore, Sylvanus Smith, James Mitchell, 'Thomas Lary, Jesse Johnson, Thomas Goode, Sr., St. Leger Beck, Paul Igou, John Stowe, Aaron Gutridge, Simon Miller, Matthew Mason, John Middleton, William Organ, John J. Harlan and James Gray.

During the same period, the office of Township Treasurer was filled bv ^Thomas Irwin, Isaac Gray, William Organ, John Miller and Otho Johnson.

Topography, Etc

The surface of the township is diversified with hill and valley. The southern portion is high and level ; the western boundary borders on Dugan Prairie, and comprises some of the finest lands in the country. The northern part is occupied by the valley of Mingo, and is noted for its beauty and fertility. The central part is more hilly and uneven than the other parts of the township. In the southeast is a locality known as the " Ridge," but, the surface of that neighborhood being nearly level, it is reasonable to conclude that this appellation was the result of some other cause.

King's Creek is the principal stream. It has its source in the marshy lands in the vicinity of Cable, a little south of the center of the township, runs a southwesterly direction, and empties into Mad River near the southwestern border of Salem Township. This stream furnishes power for several mills.

Spain's Creek is a small stream, and has its source a mile east of Mingo, flows an easterly direction and passing through the northwestern part of Rush Township, and through North Lewisburg, empties into Darby, in the edge of Union County. The center of the township is on the Morecraft farm, a hundred yards southeast of the residence of Samuel Pennington.

Numerous springs of excellent water abound in different parts of the township ; and, in parts where springs are lacking, water is obtained by digging to the depth of from twelve to forty feet. The surface of the land is, in many parts of the township, underlaid with excellent gravel in inexhaustible quantities, supplying the necessary material for the numerous improved roads which traverse the country in nearly every direction.

The original roads of the township seem to have been laid out without regard to section lines, and with the object in view to avoid acclivities and declivities as well as ponds, swamps and other hindrances to travel. In succeeding years these errors were corrected to some extent, but even at present few of the highways traverse the country in a direct route. The result is, that the farms in the township, many of them conforming to the roads, are irregular in shape, and have their beauty greatly marred.

The first of these extends from west to east, and is known as the " Urbana and Woodstock Pike." It enters the township near the " Breedlove Pond/' and, running an easterly direction via Cable and Clinton's Corners, passes out at the farm of Peter Black, on the east line. The length of this road within the limits of the township is nearly six miles. This was built in 1868. The North Lewisburg Pike extends from the C., C. & I. C. Railroad, west of Cable, to North Lewisburg via Middletown, a distance within the township of about four miles. This road was built about the year 1869. The Woodstock and Mingo Pike was built in 1871. Its length in the township is about four and a half miles, and it extends from Woodstock to the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, in Mingo; some years later (1877) this road was extended to the line of Logan County, a distance of nearly two miles. In the summer of 1876, the Mingo & West Liberty road was constructed. Two miles of this road is within the township limits. It was built by Joseph Chamberlin. The Mingo Kingston road via Kennard was built in 1877. The Clinton- Stafford road, extending from the Clinton Corners westward to near the western border of the township, was built in the summer of 1880 by Joseph Chamberlin and Cyrus Guy.

These roads, though they have been constructed at a cost of more than $50,000, are the pride of the township, and have added to the value of real -estate vastly, besides rendering travel pleasant and easy at all seasons.

The early settlers were not slow in taking measures to give their children the advantages of education. The majority of the first citizens felt keenly the need of education themselves ; it is not strange, then, that they sought to give to those who would come after them the advantages of good schools.

Isaac Gray built, with some assistance from a few neighbors, a house which was used for a schoolhouse. It was put up about 1813 or 1814, and was situated a short distance southeast of the present site of Carmel Church. A description of this house would answer for the schoolhouses of that day generally. It was constructed of unhewn logs, covered with clapboards held in place by weight poles. The interstices between the logs were daubed with clay mortar. The loft was covered with rails laid closely together, and these were plastered with mud from the upper side. A large fire-place with an outside stick chimney was at one end ; the floor was made of puncheons split from large logs and hewn into shape. These were sometimes fastened to the sleepers by nailing, but generally held in position by their own weight. The seats were often of split logs, sometimes of sawed slabs. The writing desk ranged along one side, and was held in a slanting position by pins driven into the wall.

The door swung on the outside, and was fastened on wooden hinges. The windows were destitute of glass, but in its place greased paper was used, admitting; a feeble light.

The teachers of that day were thorough in what they pretended to teach * they were determined to impart, and the pupil was as determined to learn. A common trait in the youth of that day was an invincible determination to learn.

Several schoolhouses of this description were built in the township in an early day. In the succeeding years, as people became abler to incur the expense, they built better schoolhouses, but it can hardly be said with truthfulness, that, with increased school advantages, education became correspondingly more general. North Salem, a house erected for and used as a Methodist meeting house, and of which mention is made elsewhere, was used also as a schoolhouse from 1824 to 1880.

The schoolhouses constructed during the last decade are in keeping with the progress of events in educational matters, and compare favorably with school buildings in the rural districts throughout the State. The Board of Education has of late years adopted the practice of building of durable material, having in view the unquestionable principle that the best is the cheapest. There are eleven school districts in the township at present ; two of these (Mingo and Cable) maintain two schools for the winter season.

During the school year ending August 31, 1880, the total amount of money expended for school purposes was $3,880.86. Average price paid teachers per month, ladies, $25; gentlemen, $37. The same year, there were enrolled, males, 277 ; females, 246 ; total, 523 ; whole number of both sexes between the age& of sixteen and twenty-one, 143. The value of school property is estimated at $7,000. Number in the various branches - alphabet, 66 ; reading, 409 ; spelling, 422 ; writing, 358 ; arithmetic, 319 ; geography, 268 ; grammar, 138 composition, 5 ; oral lessons, 509 ; drawing, 45 ; algebra, 23 ; geometry, 6.

Religious

Methodism in Mingo Valley. - In the year 1821, a number of persons of Methodist extraction met at the house of Alexander St. C. Hunter (where William Winder now lives), for the purpose of organizing a religious society. Of the number was Alexander St. C. Hunter and Sarah Hunter, Thomas Hunter, Robert Goode, his wife and mother, Lydia Russell, and her daughters Hester, Rebecca and Lydia. These persons formed themselves into a class, as designed by Wesley, and for two or three years thereafter continued to meet at this house for social religious worship. By the year 1824, the society had attained numbers and strength, and they determined to erect a house of worship for their accommodation. Robert Goode, Peter Igou, William Sharp and Isaac Sharp served this people as class leaders. Having determined to build a church, they were not long in carrying their resolution into practical effect. Money was scarce. Few of them had any bank accounts or funds of any kind, but, with them, to resolve was to do. Material and labor was at once promised. The house was soon built, and the society felt a pardonable pride in its possession. But of this house let us say a word. It was situated on the farm now owned by B. R. Tallman. Lydia Russell gave the site. Each of the principal members contributed labor or material. The house is described as being of unhewn logs of the surrounding, forest ; the roof was of clapboards, held in place by weight-poles ; a large fireplace occupied part of the south end, and a low, long window on the north end.

The door was a plain plank one, with wooden hinges, swinging outward when opened, and fastened with a wooden latch fifteen inches in length, and fastening to a huge catch, like a figure 4. The door was at the east front, and on this front was a shed or porch, designed to shelter and accommodate parts of the congregation when the capacity of the interior was overcrowded, as was often the case. The seats were made of split logs, made smooth on the split side and supported by pins for legs.

This church was called North Salem. And who, think you, preached to this people ? Such worthies of the church as John Strange, Samuel Brown, John F Wright, Francis Asbury, William H. Raper, Alfred Lorain, James A. Donahoe, Westlick and Robert Brandreth. This rude house was the principal house of worship for all the surrounding country, from 1824 to 1831, when it was abandoned for one of more pretensions, situated near by, on the site of the mansion of the late Thomas Hunter, erected in 1866, now occupied by his widow, " Aunt Nancy," and her youngest son, Hale. This house was not built for a house of worship but for a schoolhouse, and was considered the best schoolhouse in all the land at that day. It had a stove in the center, a shingle roof, a batten door hung with iron hinges, and the logs were hewn on two sides. The interstices between the logs were daubed with mortar made of lime and sand, and the general appearance of the house indicated progress. In this house, the Word was proclaimed from 1831 to 1838 by Obadiah Johnson, Joshua Boucher, George W. Walker, Michael Marlay, David Warnock, James Smith and A. Wambaugh.

In 1838, preaching was established at a schoolhouse situated on the right bank of Spain's Creek, half a mile southeast of the present residence of Nelson B. Johnson, and was sustained with more or less permanence until about 1847, when, the township having built a frame schoolhouse on the farm of Highland Mead, near the present site of the " White Schoolhouse," the preaching was changed to the new house, and, up to 1851, the ministry was by Joshua Boucher, Silas Chase, Isaac B. Cartlitch (1841-42), T. A. G. Phillips (1843),. William Litsinger (1844-45), William Beamer (1846), Elijah H. Field, Wilson Smith, James A. Donahoe (1847) (1848), Philip Nation (1849), A. U. Beall (1850), David Warnock and Thomas M. Thrall (1851). Thus, after years of meandering, the people of the valley were without a permanent place of worship, and, for the greater part of the time, were dependent upon others for the use of a house, they determined to join with the fragment of the society of Strange Chapel (a preaching-place in the southern border of Monroe Township, Logan County), and erect a church building that should meet their necessities as a society. The result was the building of u Salem."

It has been with no small difficulty that the foregoing data have been gathered as to the ministers who have in all this time preached to the people of Mingo Valley. How much greater the task, then, to tell who filled the pews and supported the work. The Hunters, Martins, Devores, Russells, Coxes, Millers, Larys, Morgans, Everetts, Goodes, Spains, Inskeeps, Sharps, Igous, Thomases, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, saints and sinners - each filled a place and discharged a duty in a way peculiarly their own.

Salem Methodist Episcopal Church. - This house of worship was built principally in 1851, and was of brick. Its dimensions were 40x50 feet. The site was donated to the society by Joshua Spain, and was on the southwest corner of his farm, nearly half a mile south of the Logan and Champaign County line, on the east side of the road leading from Mechanicsburg to West Liberty and Middleburg. The building of this house was a necessary result of two facts - (1) Strange's Chapel having, as a society, become too weak to be selfsupporting ; and (2), the Salem society of the Mingo Valley being without a place of worship suitable to its needs.

The principal contributors to the necessary funds were members of the two societies named. Joshua Spain, Hudson Haines, Thomas Hunter, Alex St. C. Hunter, Abram Martin, David Martin, William Evans, Isaac Sharp, John Haines, John S. Hunter, James W. Hunter, Theodric Goode, Salmon Cole and Thomas Everett paid the greater amount.

The contractor for the erection of the house was William Shafer, of North Lewisburg. The total cost was, perhaps, $1,200. The dedication took place August 23, 1852, and was conducted by Rev. Michael Marley. The hymn sused on the occasion was number 970, and reads :

The dedicatory sermon which followed was of unusual power, and altogether -eharacteristic of the intellectual giant preacher. The sermon of the afternoon was preached by David Warnock.

The winter that followed 1852-53 was one of great in-gathering to the Salem Society. A gracious revival ensued under the labors of Thomas D. Crow and Wesley Denit, assisted by Rev. - Garbison, and about thirty were added to the membership of the society, of which number many remain faithful to this day.

In the years which followed (1853 to 1869), the following-named ministers preached to the society : G. W. Harris, James D. Kendall, G. W. Harris, Thomas Andas, J. T. Bail, John Vance, Samuel Brown, - Sullivan, Wilson Smith, David Sharp, James Manning, N. McDonald, W. N. Williams, D. W. Sargeant, W. B. Jackson, T. E. Fiddler, Wesley Webster, J. Verity, S. Deem, James McHugh and H. M. Curry. In 1868, a proposition was discussed to rebuild or repair Salem, and, the village of Mingo having sprung up in the adjacent valley on the A. & G. W. R. R. (now the N. Y., P. & 0. R. R.), it was finally determined to rebuild at Mingo, and abandon Salem. Accordingly the necessary steps were taken, and during the year 1869 active preparations were made toward the building of the

Mingo Methodist Episcopal Church. - The site was donated by J. B. Brinton, being the north half of Lot No. 15 of the original plat of the village. The contract was let to Henry T. Raymond, and was completed early in October, 1869. The cost of this house was about $1,500. The principal subscribers to the fund were Thomas Hunter, David Martin, Abram Martin, W. J. Sullivan, Jonathan L. Guthridge, Bowen Fisher, Nelson Johnson, Alfred Johnson, Sylvester Spain, John S. Hunter, Joseph B. Brinton, Simeon L. Russell, Nathaniel C. Hunter, John Lee, J. A. Ryser and C. Austin.

H. M. Curry, D. R. Staley, David Whitmer, Jesse M. Robinson, Allen W. Tibbits, John S. Pumphrey and Henry Miller, have filled the pulpit since its dedication. Jennie Sparks, of London, Ohio, conducted a wonderful revival meeting in the winter of 1879-80. F. M. McAdams, Lorenzo F. Lary, Joseph B. Brinton and Marion Guthridge have severally acted as Superintendents of the Sabbath school, which is well sustained since March, 1870.

Pleasant Run Baptist Church. - This society was organized at Middletown November 5, 1886, Revs. Thomas J. Price, Daniel Beaver and William Fuson being present. Jesse C. Phillips was made temporary Clerk. Otho Johnson was made permanent Clerk on the 3d day of December the same year ; and Holdridge Chidister and Isaac Wilson were made Deacons the same time. On the first Saturday in March, 1837, H. Chidister, Isaac Wilson and Otho Johnson were made a committee to take the initiatory steps for building a house of worship, and, in December, 1838, Otho Johnson was made Superintendent of the work of building a house on a lot procured by the committee at a cost of $10.

During the years 1839, 1840 and 1841, the society labored diligently to complete the house, and early in 1842 it was nearly enough completed to be occupied. The original membership of the society were John Johnson and Margaret Johnson, Holdridge Chidister and Mary Chidister, Isaac Wilson and Rebecca Wilson, David Wilson and Mary Ann Wilson; John Martin and Elizabeth Martin, Boyd Richardson and Mary Richardson, Nicholas Swisher , and Sarah Swisher, Hester Morecraft and Mercy Wells, Joseph Swisher and Jane Swisher, John Doak and Rachel Doak, Elizabeth Graham, Elizabeth Holloway, Eunice Graham, John Graham, Thomas Wilson and Locke Wilson.

For nearly thirty years, this society enjoyed a reasonable degree of prosperity, including in its membership many of the worthiest members of the society of the surrounding country, and numbering among its ministers some of the foremost and most prominent preachers of the Baptist denomination.

Of these, mention may be made of Price, Fuson, Carr, Bunker, Davis, Line, Martin, Thomas, Cleveland, Hale, Eppert, Williams, Chidister, Platts, Hawker, Dye and a few others., all of whom have passed to our common destiny, the grave.

With the building of the A. & G. W. R. R. (now the N. Y., P. k 0. R. R.), through the valley of Mingo, and with the laying-out of the village of Mingo in 1866, it was thought best to abandon the Pleasant Run house as a preachingpoint and establish a society and build a suitable house of worship at Mingo. This was finally done, and the old brick which had served so long and so well was purchased by Simeon Morecraft, and we believe is now owned by his heirs. The house of late years has been used as a preaching point by the Friends.

Cable M. E. Church. - In the year 1853, Hiram Cable began the erection of a house of worship in the village of Cable. He was assisted by a number of persons of various religious denominations, and it was his design to make it the property of the Presbyterians, but to be free to others when not occupied by that people. The house was built 50x60 feet, and was a frame with a

Mr. Cable, not receiving the encouragement he had expected, and finding it would be a heavy financial burden on himself, concluded to sell it in its unfinished condition, and accordingly a number of Episcopal Methodists bargained for and bought the building for $350. Prominent among these purchasers were Samuel Organ, John Morgan, W. E. Fuson, Daniel Bell, J. L. Guthridge, Frank Baldwin and James W. Hunter. The house was completed, not without many sacrifices and difficulties, for the society was neither rich nor large, and was finally dedicated in due disciplinary Methodistic form by Rev. J. Weakley, of the Cincinnati Conference. The house, from first to last, cost about $1,200, and is a substantial frame, finished in good style, meeting the wants of the society, which has now become larger and more prosperous. Rev. John T. Mitchell assisted not a little in the plans that led to the successful building of this house, and his name is held in grateful remembrance by the Methodists of Cable. Since the society organized in the year above named,, they have been ministered to by John G. Black, John Vance, James T. Bail, David Warnock, David Whitmer, William Paul, W. B. Jackson, Wesley Webster, Allen W. Tibbats, T. E. Fiddler, D. L. Hayward, S. W. Carey and G. H. Kennedy. This society supports a flourishing Sabbath school.

The Sanctuary. - This was a church erected nearly north of the present residence of Alfred Johnson, and was built in the year 1842, by Isaac G. Thomas, carpenter. It was built by a small society of Congregational Methodists, whose Pastor at the time was Andrew Williams. It was erected on the farm of Mingo Thomas. Polly Thomas, Joseph Johnson and wife, Mrs. Perry and her family constituted the principal membership originally. After a few years the society grew weak, and finally went down, though during these years several noted religious revivals occurred. From 1850 to 1860, the Protestant Methodists occupied the house by consent, and the people of the surrounding country heard the Gospel tidings as aforetime. From 1860 up to 1866, the Baptists preached at u The Sanctuary," after which, the Mingo Baptist Church having been built, this house was abandoned as a preaching point, and was afterward removed and became a thing of the past.

Mingo Baptist Church. - This society was, for the greater part, the result of the going-down of the Baptist society at Middletown. Mingo being a thrifty village, situated on a railroad, it was natural that the abandoning of Pleasant Run house of worship would result in the creation of a society, and the building of a church here. It seemed so ordered. The house is a substantial frame and well built. The building was dedicated by David Scott, on the 3d day of February, 186T, the sermon being from the 24th chapter of Matthew, 14th verse. "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations ; and then shall the end come."

The cost of the building was about $1,200. The principal members at the time of this organization, wrere Joseph Miller and wife, Ed M. Morgan and Lizzie Morgan, Abel North and Elizabeth North, Silas Igou and Merdie Igou, David Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson, Jonathan Johnson and Sarah J. Johnson, Hannah Gray, Elizabeth Gray, Huldah Thomas, Lizzie Johnson and others.

David Scott, W. S. Kent, W. R. Thomas, William Wilbur and B. J. George have preached to the society since its organization, and the society has had a steady and healthful growth for some years past. A vigorous Sabbath school ismaintained the year round, superintended by Darius T. Runkle.

Carmel Friends Church . - The Carmel society took shape as early as 1825 ; the present house was built in 1873, in the western border of the township. Previous to this, the society occupied a meeting-house on the same site, and which was built in 1832. Still earlier the same people worshiped at what is now known as Ryan's, in Salem Township, nearly two miles further north. The early preaching was generally held at the houses of Thomas Cowgill, Sr., W. H. Baldwin and John Robinson. These families, with those of John Miller, Henry Cowgill, Lydia Gray, Jesse Baldwin and others, constituted the membership in its earlier history. Eli Cowgill and Abrilla, his wife, since 1866, have from time to time ministered to this people. They are a progressive, spiritual society, and support a prosperous Sabbath school.

Jenkins Chapel. - This church was built in 1863, and was dedicated in April, 1864. It is a frame, 46x50 feet, and cost $1,200. This house is the successor of " Clinton's Meeting-House," which stood 200 yards further east, and was built about the year 1842, as a result of the missionary efforts of Andrew Williams, a Congregational Methodist preacher of great zeal in his day. He enlisted in this building enterprise, William Clinton, Benjamin Spillers, James Sheward, Oliver Jenkins, David Edwards and some others, each of whom contribute^ labor and material for its construction. In this meeting-house the United . Brethren and the Methodist Protestants worshiped harmoniously for several successive years. Fredric Hendrix and Samuel Downey were the principal United Brethren preachers before 1845. Thomas Howe, of the Methodist Protestants, formed a class about 1845, of which Milton Beck, Oliver Jenkins and wife, Mr. Outram and wife, with a few others, constituted the number. The United Brethren society also maintained a small class under the leadership of James Sheward, previous to 1846 ; but it was finally determined to unite the two societies in one, and the society became strictly of the Methodist Protestant order. John Lawson, Abbot, Callahan, Plummer, S. B. Smith, O. P. Stevens, A. Trumbo, T. W. Spring, A. C. Hall, E. W. Winans, H. M. Ravenscroft, W. M. Creamer and T. B. Graham have preached to this society during the latter years.

The present Stewards are : James Outram, Marion Corbet. Leader, Amasa Corbet. Trustees, R. P. Jenkins, William Rudisill and Henry Nincehelser. Sunday-school Superintendent, Thomas McCarty.

Cable Christian Church - Was organized about 1860, but preachers of that denomination had labored in the vicinity at intervals for several years previous. Michael Riddle, of Ashland, was the first preacher, his labors lasting four years. The house is a substantial brick, and well situated. The original cost was not less than $1,500. Alexander Pickard, Evans Perry and John C. Guthridge were the first Elders, and Alfred Whitridge, Clerk. John C. Guthridge, George McCulley and James Durnell are its present Elders.

The original membership was about twenty ; its present strength is near eighty. The church sustains a flourishing Sabbath-school, David Perry, Superintendent.

The following ministers have preached to the society since its organization : Michael Riddle, Noah Walker, John Durnell, Benjamin Lockheart, James Goodwin, James Mathews, William Mathews, A. Clark, James M. Henry, Frank Parker, George Morse, John Erritt, S. A. Griffin, A. H. Moore, W. H. Martin, Jesse Roberts, Q. A. Randall.

Mount Olivet or Sodom Camp Ground - Half a mile to the north of the village of Cable, is the site of Mount Olivet, or Sodom Camp-meeting Ground. The lands are now owned by the heirs of James Morecraft, deceased. The association was established in 1833, and held its annual meetings in the month of August each year, until 1839, when it was discontinued. The attendance at these meetings was usually very large, especially on the Sabbath. The meetings were in charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the membership and ministry of this denomination from far and near tented on the ground, and usually remained from beginning to end. The preaching, as is usually the case at camp meetings, was of a high order, coming from such distinguished divines as William H. Raper, George W. Walker, R. 0. Spencer, John F. Wright, Joshua Boucher, Michael Marley, A. Wambaugh, Silas and Ebenezer Chase, and many others, who, though dead, continue to speak in the influence for good which follows the life of the servant of God.

Politics, Population, Etc

The first election held in the township was held October 8, 1811, but the record fails to show the drift of political sentiment at that time. The number of electors at that election was thirty-one. In the year 1840, the voting strength of the township was 245, of which, as shown elsewhere, the Harrison electors received 191 votes, and the Van Buren electors fifty-four votes.

The above figures give the political complexion of the township, and serve to show the very slow rate at which the voting strength of the township has increased in the past sixty- nine years. The annual increase has been less than five votes.

The political pot never simmers in Wayne; it always boils. The campaigns of 1840, 1863 and 1880 gave evidence of the very intense heat to which political feeling can be aroused, and many incidents might be recounted showing the extent of party enthusiasm. In 1840, the people ran wild in their logcabin demonstrations, and all the ordinary and extraordinary means known to the manipulators of political machinery were used to forward the cause of the respective candidates.

The Buckeye Log Cabin Song

Oh what, tell me what, then, will little Martin do ? He'll follow in the footsteps of Rice and Stewart, too, While the log cabins ring again with Tippecanoe.

Population

The earliest township election, of which we have any record, was held at the house of Isaac Gray on the 8th day of October, 1811. Abraham Hughes, Nathan Norton and John Paxton were Judges, and Basil Noel and Wesley Hughes, Clerks.

That the above is the poll-book of the first election held in the township cannot be stated with accuracy, but it serves to show who were the voters and householders at that early day.

The Presidential election of October 13, 1840, was one of great moment, and if we credit the statement of those who participated in it, many of whom remained to tell how it was, we are led to believe that all other campaigns were quiet ones in comparison to it. The poll-book and tally-sheet were kept on the same sheet of unruled foolscap, of very ordinary quality, but is well and neatly done, in the handwriting of Thomas Cowgill, Clerk, who still lives in and is a citizen of the township.

The following names are copied from the poll-book of the election held in the township of Wayne, county of Champaign and State of Ohio, on the 13th of October, 1840. William Organ, James Gray and John J. Harlan, Judges, and Thomas Cowgill and Daniel Vertner, Clerks, of said election, were severally qualified as the law directs, previous to entering upon the duties, of their respective offices :

Of this vote*the Harrison electors received 191, or 77 per cent of the entire vote; the Yan Buren electors received 54 votes, or 23 per cent of the entire vote.

Sketches Of The Pioneer Families

Spain.- - Willis Spain came to Ohio, with the family of his father, in 1805. He was born in Dinwiddie County, Va., in 1796. His father, Hezekiah Spain, who died in 1827, bought one thousand acres of land on the east line of Wayne Township and on Spain's Creek, paying $2 per acre. On this farm his son Willis has lived about seventy years. He (Willis) married Nancy Spain, a distant relative of the family. They reared five sons and a daughter - Lemuel, Henry W., Fletcher, Newton, H. Wright and Elizabeth. These all married, and, in due time, the name Spain became a very common one in that locality, and remains so to this day. Mr. Spain early became accus'tomed to the rude life of a frontiersman, and as the native Indians frequently camped on the creek near the farm, he grew familiar with their mode of life, but never once thought of turning Indian himself. He embraced religion at fifteen years of age, under the preaching of Hector Sanford, at the house of his father, and has been in the church ever since. He has never been a party to a lawsuit; has gone twenty-eight miles, to Springfield, to mill ; has paid 25 cents postage on a single letter ; has shot wild game from his door-step ; remembers that before the year 1828, they procured salt at McLain's, on Buck Creek, at $4 a bushel. They depended on the oak mast to fatten their hogs, and many times they fattened rather leanly on it. Though poor in purse, in that early day, it was always his aim to welcome the preachers of the church of his choice, and no preacher of the Methodist Church lacked for food, shelter and welcome. He remembers such preachers as Shaw, Young, Sanford, Henkle, Collins, Sale, Bascom, Trader, Cecil, and others of pioneer reputation. The worthy old man and his wife still live - more for the next world than this.

Johnson. - William Johnson came to Ohio from Western Pennsylvania in 1804, and settled on what has since been called the Paul Igou farm. He died in 1820. His four sons - Jacob, Barnett, William and Otho - figured prominently, as did their father, in the earliest settlement of the township. , He built a house, in 1806, near the present residence of Maria Hunter, having bought of James Denney three hundred and thirty-seven acres of land, including the present site of Mingo.

Jacob Johnson, the oldest son of William Johnson, married Martha McFarland, a widow, in Virginia, in 1790. Her maiden name was Boggs. She bore two children by her first husband - John and Moses McFarland - both of whom came with her to this State. Jacob was the father of eight children. Of these, Mary, William, Lavina, Hiram, Nelson B., Jane and Alfred grew to mature years. He bought four hundred and seventy-eight acres of land in Mingo Valley, of James Denney, in the year 1804 or 1805, at $2.50 to $4 per acre, and moved on to it in April, 1805, and raised a crop of com the same year ; the Indians had raised a crop on the same land the previous year. Hiram, Nelson B. and Alfred succeeded their father in the ownership of these lands ; it is now owned entirely by Alfred. [For further record of the Johnson family, see the biographical department of this volume.] Mary became the wife of Robert Blair. Lydia married Joseph O'Neil in 1826. After the death of Blair, Mary married Col. John Thomas. He died in 1851, and his widow finds a comfortable home with her sons, Ivan B. and F. M. Thomas, in Salem Township.

Barnett Johnson, the second son of William Johnson, came to the State with his father, having married Elizabeth Best before leaving Pennsylvania. His children were Nancy, William, John, Lydia, Ellen, Barnett and Joseph. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, and died 1816.

Otho Johnson built the brick house now occupied by James Hunt, and, with his brother Barnett, owned the lands comprising the Atkinson farm, extending east to the survey line - Main street, Mingo. In 1833, Otho purchased a stock of goods of O. M. Herron, his nephew, who, a few months before, had established a country store on his uncle's premises, and had also established a post office - probably the first in the township - which was called Johnson's Store. This enterprise proving unsuccessful, the business and post office were abandoned in 1835, and in 1838 Mr. Johnson sold his farm to Cephas Atkinson for $25 per acre, and the next year moved to Hancock County, 111., where he died about the year 1870.

James Deyore was born in Washington County, Penn., and came to Ohio and settled on the B. R. Tallman farm about the year 1805. Pie occupied, under a lease for twelve years, after which lie bought for $3.50 per acre, the farm now owned by his grandson, Aaron W. Devore, south of Mingo. He served as Justice of the Peace for some years. His children were Hester, Elizabeth, Moses, John, Joshua, Jacob and Mary. Hester married Matthew Wilson ; Elizabeth married John Inskeep ; Moses' first wife was Rachel Inskeep, his second Jane Wilkins ; John married Betsey Buckler ; Joshua married Elizabeth Sparks ; Jacob married. Lydia Organ ; Mary married Thos. Ballinger.

Gray\ - Isaac Gray came to this county in October, 1811, and settled in Wayne Township, near where Samuel Pennington now lives. He was born in North Carolina in 1762, but moved to Grayson County, Va., in 1801. Iiis wife was Lydia Robinson, her father, John Robinson, being- a native of Maryland. Mr. Gray had nine children, all of whom were born before he came to Ghio. He purchased of John Ballinger a squatter's right or lease at the place above mentioned, and remained eighteen months. For this claim, he traded two horses and a wagon, and with the right he received the corn raised thereon the same year. In 1812, he purchased of John Barrett, a Dutchman, a tract of one hundred and fifty acres of land, now owned by Jacob H. and B. A. Linville. For this land, he paid two horses and a wagon. He improved this land and erected the house now on it. He spent the remainder of his days here, dying in the year 1831, at the age of sixty-nine. His wife was an ardent 'Quaker, and their house was for many years not only a preaching place for the early missionary preachers of that denomination, but a place of rest and welcome as well. Here Mildred Ratliff, John Garwood, Phineas Hunt, Priscilla Hunt and many others preached the Gospel. Mr. Gray served the township for many years in various capacities, and the elections were often held at his house. His oldest daughter, Elizabeth, became the wife of Ross Thomas. She lived and died at the Henry Breedlove farm. John, the oldest son, married Ellen Thomas, daughter of John (Mingo) Thomas. He died in 1836. Hannah married Richard Thomas. She died in 1829. Jehu died unmarried in 18221 Mary married Aaron Guthridge, in 1819. They had no children. Her husband died in Mingo March 17, 1874, aged eighty years. Mary still lives, and, at the age of eighty-four years, is noted for her remarkably well-preserved mental faculties and her great store of pioneer reminiscences. It is safe to say that no man or woman in Central Ohio has at command such an inexhaustible fund of old-time information. She is the only survivor of the once numerous family of Isaac -Gray. Asa married Mary Ann Johnson for his first wife. Plis second wife was Catharine Walker, who still lives. He died in 1870, and is buried at Ryan's, in Salem Township. James married Hannah Robinson, and occupied the homestead until his death, which occurred in 1850. His widow died in September, 1874. Rebecca married Samuel B. Lippincott. She died in September, 1831. Rachel married Samuel Taylor. She died in 1845.

Of the mother of this remarkable family, something more deserves to be said than that she lived and died. When the country was entirely new, and the roads and means of travel were very difficult, she served her fellow-beings as a nurse in times of sickness. For years, from far and near, her services were eagerly sought and freely bestowed on the suffering. By day and night, in sunshine and storm, over roads next to impassable, sacrificing her own personal comfort, enduring fatigue, without pecuniary reward, she cheered the faint, raised the fallen and comforted the dying. She outlived her husband twelve years, dying in 1843.

Morecraft. - Hester Morecraft came to Ohio, with her family, about the year 1812, and settled near the present site of Cable, not many rods from the " Eden Home" of Joseph W. Johnson. She had five sons and two daughters. Richard was the oldest son, and was never a resident of this part of Ohio. He lived and died in Cincinnati. James lived in Northwestern Ohio during the greater part of his life. Samuel, we think, became a citizen of Auglaize County. Polly married Jesse Wickson. Jonathan was never married. He was widely known throughout the country ; was a man of great muscular strength, with courage to act when imposed upon, but not quarrelsome. Wa& a man of laborious habits and remarkably fine social qualities. He accumulated considerable property, and his aged mother found a comfortable home with this, her favorite son, until death claimed him. He died in 1835, in his thirty-seventh year. It was a favorite remark of his mother, u I have raised a number of sons, but only one Jonathan." Nancy married George Williams, and lives in Kingston, at an advanced age.

Simeon married Elizabeth Rice. They raised two sons and one daughter - James, John and Mary. He purchased the farm on which his son John now lives, of Everett Green, in 1850. The house was built by Wesley Hughes in 1834. Simeon was a man of frugal habits and was very industrious, and was esteemed for his excellent social qualities. He died in 1876, at the age of seventy-two years, leaving a handsome fortune to his heirs.

Hester Morecraft deserves to be remembered in history along with Lydia Gray, as a woman who lived to bless her race. She gave much of her time tovisiting the sick and ministering to the afflicted. There was no trial too great for her if enduring it brought relief to the sick ; there was no sacrifice toocostly if, suffering it, she brought comfort to the afflicted. Her services as a nurse were sought for many miles around, and her skill in this important sphere was acknowledged wherever she was known. She was an ardent Baptist, and the light of her Christian life outlives her fleeting breath.

Igou. - Peter Igou figured prominently in the business affairs of Wayne' Township from 1820 to 1850. He came to the township about 1820, from Ross County. He bought a tract of wild land and settled on it, on the left bank of King's Creek, near Mason's mill, which is now owned and occupied by Susan Wright, her son and daughter. His first wife was a McKenzie.. His second wife wTas Elizabeth Purtlebaugh, now the consort of B. F. Madden. By his first marriage, he had three sons and three daughters, who grew to manhood and womanhood. Silas, the oldest son, married Merdula Johnson. He studied law, and became noted as a practicing local attorney and politician. He died about the year 1877. John married Hannah J. Thomas for his first wife, and Sarah Heffiebower for the second. He is a farmer of large experience, and lives on the Dunlap farm, on Buck Creek. Aaron, the youngest son, died in 1852, and was unmarried. Mary Ann became the wife of William Johnson, and, after his demise, she married Eley Hallowell. Elizabeth married A. Evans, and lives in Cincinnati. Amanda became the wife of William Jenkins, and, with her husband, lives in Indianapolis.

Mr. Igou sold his farm to Thomas Baldwin, and bought the farm now owned by Martin M. Dickinson, in the southwest part of the township. About the year 1848, he built the Pearce corner, in Middletown, where, in 1852, hedied. Igou was a man of generous heart, liberal in his views, fond of discussion, well read on the current topics of the day, gifted in conversation, a little too fond of litigation, a professed Universalist, a good neighbor and a kind husband and father. He served the township as Justice of the Peace for several successive years, besides filling other places of trust.

Paul Igou came to the township several years later than his brother Peter. His life and character differed from that of his brother widely. Paul settled on a piece of land southwest of Mason's mill, and adjoining the Richard Baldwin farm. He was a man greatly given up to making money by hard work, and many good stories are told of him, showing his rude habits. His wife wTas Ellen Westbrook, a native of Ross County. He had twelve children; eleven of them lived to be men and women. The sons were Lewis, Joseph, Marion, Harrison and Reuben ; the daughters were Martha, Mary, Mahala, Susan, Elizabeth, Melinda and Nancy. Lewis died unmarried about 1856. Joseph (married Frances Day, of Illinois. Marion married Elizabeth Bolley. Harrison married Nancy Blubeck, Reuben died in his youth. Martha married Aaron Gray, and died in Illinois March 1, 1877. Mary married John Wildman, and lives in Christian County, 111. Mahala married George Keeley, and lives in Iowa. Susan married Samuel Ervin ; her husband was murdered by John Spyers, in the year 1877. Elizabeth married George Smith, of Christian County, 111., and is a resident of that county. Melinda married William Westbrook, of Christian County, 111., she and her husband died in the year 1870, leaving four children. Nancy married Alexander Marshall, of Illinois ; she died in 1871.

Paul Igou lived in Wayne Township and pursued his inclination of hard work and making money until the year 1853, when he moved to Christian Dounty, 111. He still lives, at the age of eighty-three, and is reported to be wealthy. He sustained the character of an honest man, was rude in his manners, a great reader, a fine talker, careless in his attire, fond of company and lived well about his house. Though he knew how to make money and how xo keep it, he was a man of liberality and extensive hospitality.

Matthew Mason was a native of Virginia, and was born in 1789. He came to Ohio about the year 1824. He was the principal partner in the building of the mill on King's Creek, which bears his name, and was, during a long and busy life, a man who never ceased in his efforts to accumulate wealth. He was a man of many good qualities, lived well, worked hard and dealt squarely with his fellow-men. He carried on a distillery in connection with Mason's mill for some years, and died October 3, 1869, in his eighty-first year. He was never married. His brother John was older, lived more secluded, was -somewhat eccentric and lived to the ripe age of ninety-five years. He outlived Matthew a lev/ years.

Alexander Saint Clair Hunter was born in Virginia in the year 1795. Came to Ohio in 1811, and settled in the Mingo Valley, near the present -village of Mingo, and on the farm now owned and occupied by William Winder In 1821. He was an active Methodist, and at his house was held the first Methodist class-meeting ever held in the valley, and out of which grew a society which still lives, after nearly sixty years have passed. His two sons, John S. and James W., were born natives of Mingo Valley. John S. married Charlotte Moots in the year 1868, and James W. married Sarah L. Price in 1858. James moved to Illinois in the year 1867. John S. is a citizen of Mingo, and is noted for his retentive memory and quiet, social habits. The daughter, Mary Ann, died at the age of twenty-four. Sarah Jane married William -Johnson in 1844, and lives near Cable.

Cephas Atkinson was born in York County, Penn., in the year 1790. His wife, Abigail Oren, was a native of Tennessee, and was born in December, 1795. They were Orthodox Friends, and were married by the rights of their church at Center Meeting, in Clinton County, Ohio, in the year 1815. They began life in a very humble manner, moving to a rude cabin on a lease in the neighborhood, and hauling their worldly effects upon a one-horse sled. By the strictest economy, in the course of a few years he was able to purchase a hundred acres of land in Greene County. This he occupied and improved, and in due time bought a tract of a thousand acres in Clark. He gave his attention to stock-raising, and prospered continually. In the year 1838, thinking to better his condition generally and provide for the future of his increasing family, hesold his lands in Clark and bought of Otho Johnson, in the Mingo Valley, the farmnow owned and occupied' by his son in-law, James Hunt. This farm comprises 333 acres, and included the farm of Mafia Hunter, as well as the site of Mingo Village. Mr. Atkinson paid $25 per acre for these lands, and his object in coming to Champaign County was to give more attention to raising grain and less to the stock business - a plan which he never fully executed. He became the father of a large family, eight of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, but the older sons were never permanent residents of Wayne Township. Near the close of life, he purchased 1,500 acres of land in Madison County. Of his family, the following brief summary may be made : Isaac married Nancy Gray, of Greene County. Levi married Mary B. Phillips, of Madison County. Johnmarried Nancy Phillips, of Madison County. Joseph was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Edwards; his second, Alice Gladden. Jane married William Hannah, a Scotchman. William married Lucinda Fleming, a widow. Margaret C. married James Hunt, of Highland County, and is the only child whobecame a permanent resident of Champaign County. Thomas married Louisa Owen, of Kentucky. Mr. Atkinson and wife, as has been stated, were mem bers of the Orthodox Friends' Church, were piously devoted to its doctrines and usages, and never faltered in their adherence to the principles of peace which this denomination is known to advocate. At one time in his life, Mr. Atkinson, in obedience to his peace principles, refused to train at a general muster. He was fined, and, refusing to pay the fine, the officer levied upon and sold theside-saddle of Mrs. Atkinson. Mr. Atkinson was born, cradled and nurtured in the anti-slavery sentiments of his church, and from early manhood to ripe old age he spoke, prayed, sacrificed and planned to free the oppressed and striie the shackles of bondage from the limbs of the black man of the South. His house, in the Mingo Valley, was known as a place of refuge for the panting fugitive pursued by the master who would drag him back to bondage. The escaping slave always found in Cephas Atkinson a friend - one who secreted, fed and clothed him, and forwarded him to the next place of safety. He neither recognized nor obeyed a law of the land which made him a slave-catcher, but he did recognize a higher law that offered liberty to the bondman and equality before the law to all. A volume might be written of the underground railroad experience of this conscientious old Quaker, but, unfortunately for the historian, the record is buried with the martyr. The crack of the whip of the slaveowner, the baying of the blood-hound, the groans of the oppressed slave, have become things of the buried past, and are now only spoken of as relics of tho barbarism of the days gone by. Cephas Atkinson was scrupulously exact in his dealings with men, paying and exacting the last penny ; uncompromising in his views, positive and unwavering in his devotion to a principle, liberal toward the church, diligent in business, fervent in spirit. He died possessed of a large estate, valued at nearly $100,000. Though he did not live to seethe realization of the hope of his life (the extinction of slavery), yet he died in the shadow of coming events which foretold freedom to the oppressed. He died in November, 1860, aged seventy. His wife died in December, 1875,. aged eighty years.

Benjamin, and his wife, Mary, came at the same time. They were of German stock, and well calculated to subdue the wild forests around them. Benjamin died in the year 1834, and his wife died in 1840. Their children were David, Abram, Rachel, Mary and Susan.

Isaac Everett and his wife Margaret came to the township in 1810. He was born in Virginia and she in Pennsylvania. They settled one mile west of the village of Mingo, and besides clearing up a farm succeeded in raising a family of seven sons and two daughters - Samuel, Joseph, John, Francis. Isaac., Thomas, Archibald, Mary and Elizabeth. Mary married Daniel Cowgill, and Elizabeth is the wife of David Martin.

William Middleton was born in 1802, and came to Wayne Township from Brown County in August, 1824. He settled on the Ridge, on the headwaters of Treakles Creek, and occupied that farm nearly fifty years. His first wife was a Middleton, by whom he had seven children. This wife died in 1838. Thomas and John C., his sons, became citizens of the township. The latter did honorable service in the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Elizabeth married Jehu Guthridge ; Sarah E. married Jefferson Applegate. His second wife, Estavilla Guthridge, bore eleven children - Rachel, Martha, Fannie, Diantha, Eliza J., Laura, Cyrus W., William G., Ida and Melatiah. Uncle Billy sustains the reputation of a man of honesty and integrity, and now lives near his old homestead at the age of seventy-eight.

John Middleton, Sr., and Elizabeth his wife, came to Wayne Township from Brown County in 1833. They were natives of Fairfax County, Va., and were born in 1778 and 1773 respectively. The husband was precisely five years the wife's senior. Mrs. Middleton's maiden name was West. They reared a family of six sons and ifre daughters - William, Letta, James, Ellen, Susan, Winnifred, Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Sarah, Geo.rge and Edward. William, the oldest of the family, was twice married. His first wife was Rachel Middleton, who died in 1838 ; for his second wife he married Estavilla, daughter of William Guthridge. Letta married David Hatfield. James married Margerie Gillespie ; he died in Iowa. Ellen married Stephen Thompson. Susan married Abraham Thompson. Winnifred died at the age of fourteen. Thomas was twice married; his first wife was Ibbie Keeley ; his second, Mary Bailor. John married Mary, daughter of Samuel McCumber. Elizabeth married Hamet Hatfield for her first husband, and Evans Perry for her second. Sarah married Hiram Durnell. George died at the age of eighteen. Edward married Elizabeth Clinton. These sons and daughters, with their families, in time became quite numerous, and at one time outnumbered any other name in the township. Mr. Middleton purchased a tract of land in the southeast part of the township, near the source of Treakle's Creek; paying 87 cents per acre for a part of it, and $1. 50 for the rest. He lived surrounded by his family, devoted himself to subduing the forest, and took some interest in the affairs of the township. He died in 1873, at the age of ninety-five. His wife died the same year, aged ninety years.

Boyd Richardson was a native of Grayson County, Va. He came to Ohio in 1814, and bought and cleared a farm in the southern part of the township. Fie was a staid Baptist, and was noted as a man who attended to his own business. He took the world easy; ate, drank, slept and enjoyed himself more than one in a thousand. He was a great hunter in his youth, and in his older days he enjoyed telling of his youthful exploits, hair-breadth escapts and deeds of daring. He died in 1862.

Jack M. Sally was a native of Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1814. At one time he owned the Paul Igou farm. Fie became dissipated in his habits in the prime of life. He was charged and found guilty of stabbing Thomas Blocsom in a drunken affray, on the way from Urbana. The parties were in a wagon, and were more or less under the influence of whisky. They disagreed, quarreled and fought. Blocsom got the better of Sally, and Sally drew a pocket-knife and stabbed his assailant in the ribs, from the effects of which he died in six days. Sally was tried, found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. Through the efforts of his step-son, Hiram Durnell, he was reprieved by Gov. Wilson Shannon, after serving a part of his term. He died at th.e house of Elijah Breedlove, about the year 1844.

Thomas Wilson was born in the State of New York. He came to this township from Clark County, in the year 1832, and settled on the farm on which he lived and died, nearly a mile southeast of Middletown. He bought the land of Gallaway, the original proprietor, for $1.25 per acre. He married Lockie Pemberton, in the year 1827. She was born in Clark County. His children were James, Hiram, William, Isaac, David K., Margaret, Catherine, Hannah and Cinderella. Three daughters and two sons survive the father. Mr. Wilson died about 1875.

David Wilson was born in Pennsylvania in 1803. He came to Wayne Township in 1832. By his first wife (Owens) he had no children. By his second wife, whom he married in 1844, he had seven daughters - Sarah, married William Corbet ; Rebecca, married Marion Corbet ; Nancy J., married Amasa Corbet; Christina, married Aaron W. Devore; Margaret, unmarried ; Nettie, married Coleman Spain; Emma, married Oliver Haines; Laura Alice, died, aged eleven. These two brothers, Thomas and David, were for nearly half a century the substantial citizens of their neighborhood, and their influence for good did much to mold the society about them. David died in March, 1876, aged seventy-three years.

Jefferson Dempcy was born in 1802, and came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1835. He bought a piece of land nearly a mile west of Brush Lake, paying $3.50 per acre for it. He continued to reside on his farm about thirty years. His wife was of Quaker origin and a most excellent woman. They reared a family of four sons and three daughters. Their sons were Ezekiel, Ezra L., Isaac and Marshall L.; the daughters were Anna W., Margaret E., and Mary M. Ezekiel married Ann E. Cox. Ezra L. married Lucretia Pennington and resides within the township ; has an interesting family. Isaac married Hannah Wilson. Marshall L. married Sallie Hunter. He served with distinction as an officer in the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the rebellion. He resides at Cleveland, and has twice been elected Representative from Cuyahoga County to the General Assembly of Ohio. Anna married John Swisher, and lives in Pennsylvania. Margaret E. married L. C. Guthridge, and lives in Mingo. Mary M. married Charles A. Barley, and lives in Illinois.

William Clinton came to Ohio in November, 1837, and settled at Clinton's Corners, January 1, 1838. Married his first wife, Sarah Parker, in Maryland, December, 1814. By this wife he became the father of three children*- - Thomas, Margaret and Sarah. Thomas went to New Mexico nearly forty years ago : Margaret married Edward Middleton ; Sarah was the first wife of Thomas Douglass, of Goshen Township. Mr. Clinton married for his second wife Peggy Gary ; by her he had three children - Henry, Margaret and

Elizabeth. Henry died at the age of eighteen. For his third wife he married Polly Guthridge, daughter of William Guthridge. He had no children by the third wife. S'"

John B. Paden was born in Cumberland County, Penn., on the 15th day of August, 1800. He came to Champaign County in 1833, and settled in Wayne Township his present residence, in 183T. He was a weaver by trade, but gave most of his time to farming. Served the township six successive years as Constable. Married his first and second wives in his native State. Married his third wife in the year 1841, in this county. His two sons, Ross and James E., did honorable, service as soldiers in the war of 1861-65, being members of Company H, sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Paden is a full cousin of James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States.

Ezra Lamborn came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1835. He bought a j tract of TOO acres of land, west of Brush Lake, east of Cable, paying $2.50 an I acre for it. He had three sons and two daughters - Marshall, Nathan, Ezekiel, Margaretta and Rebecca. Marshall married Mary Cone ; Nathan married Laura I Burnham, and Ezekiel married Ella Gray. Margaretta married Ephraim Woodward ; Rebecca married David Edwards.

William Lary, born in 1800 ; came to Ohio in 1826, and the same year | settled in the northeast part of the township, near the present residence of I Sylvester Spain. The land was owned by his cousin, Thomas Lary, and, in 1829, was sold for $1 an acre. Mr. Lary moved with his family, in 1829, to the Peppermill, in Salem Township. Afterward he again became a citizen of Wayne, and lived for thirteen years on the Camby farm, now owned by John Tehan, in Mingo Valley. In 1843, he bought fifty acres of land of Reese 1 Miller, southwest of what was then Mead's Mill, near the Big Spring. Here he resided until the year 1864, when he died, aged sixty-four years. He had I seven sons. Of these, John H., James M. and Ira W. are well-known citizens j of the township ; the others are non-residents. He had two daughters - Martha

Elijah Breedlove came from Ross County Ohio, and settled in the westend of the township, in 1832, on the farm now owned by his son, Lewis I. He was born in Virginia. Was a man of great business energy, and contributed largely to the business prosperity of Wayne and Salem Townships. He had four sons - William, Lewis I., David C. and Thomas H., who became citizens of the township. His youngest son, Thomas H., made a creditable record as a soldier in the sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and bears honorable scars that attest his devotion to his country. One daughter, Mary Ann, is the wife of E. W. Stafford, of Urbana. Mr. Breedlove died in 1861.

* Richard Baldwin was born in Virginia in 1795, and came to Ohio in 1805. His wife was Elenor Williams. He became a citizen of Champaign County in 1824, living in Salem Township up to 1839, when he purchased land in Wayne Township and settled thereon. He bought the farm now known as the Wright farm, near Mason's Mill, paying for a part of it $1.25 per acre, and for the rest about $12 per acre. He owned six hundred and twenty-seven acres. In 1848 or 1850, he built the mansion now occupied by the relict of M. A. Wright. This house cost $4,000, besides the labor not estimated. Mr. Baldwin engaged extensively in farming and stock-dealing, and at one time was the leading live-stock trader in the King's Creek Valley. He died in 1870. Wilson, his oldest son, married Mary Ann Johnson ; Sophia, the oldest daughter, married William R. Clark ; John died at the age of five years; Isaac Newton lives in Cincinnati and is unmarried ; Mary Ann married Amos M. Wilson ; Luretha married Joseph W. Johnson; Hannah E. resides in Cincinnati; Richard Watson died in the service of the country (see his record elsewhere) ; Eliza E. married George W. Cable, and now lives in Iowa ; Sallie 0. married John M. Hunter, and lives in West Liberty, Ohio; Clara M. married Moses Taylor; she died in 1878.

Eli and Abrilla Cowgill. - This worthy couple are natives of Ohio, and though belonging to the present generation, deserve a niche in the temple of history. The husband is the son of Thomas Cowgill, Sr.,, who came to Ohio in 1817. The wife is a native of Logan County, and the daughter of Joshua Antrim. They are ministers of the Friends' Church, and in years past have resided on their farm, west of Mingo. In June, 1876, they left their native country to visit churches of their denomination in different parts of Europe. They labored nine months in Ireland and Scotland, then crossing the German -Ocean, spent some weeks in Norway, visiting the humble Norwegian in his hut and partaking of his hospitality ; then, crossing the Skager Rack, they spent some time in Denmark, visiting a few members of their church ; then through the Prussian dominion ; saw the very old cities of Altona, Hanover and Hamburg. Next, they traveled in Germany and Holland, and at length reached London in August, 1877. Then, in the northern part of England and Walesthey spent nine months, receiving marked recognition at the hands of the dignitaries of the church and State. They re-embarked for home April 16, 1878, and reached their native heath May 5. They now reside at Camp Chase, near Columbus.

Thomas Cowgill, Sr., was a native of Virginia ; his wife, Sarah Antrim, was of the same State. The were members of the Friends' Church. They came to Ohio and settled in Columbiana County in 1801. In 1817, they came to Champaign County and settled in the western part of Wayne Township, near the Carmel meeting-house. Mr. Cowgill was for many years a Trustee of the township and sustained a high reputation for honesty. His family consisted of seven sons and four daughters - Henry, Daniel, Thomas, Joseph, Levi, John and Eli ; the daughters were Ann, Susannah, Sarah and Lydia. Of these only Daniel, Thomas, John and Eli survive. These sons and daughters of this early pioneer became staid citizens of the country. They adhered to the doctrine of the church in which they had a birthright. Thomas A. Cowgill, a grandson of this subject, served the county as Representative in the State Legislature repeatedly, and was made Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Sixty- Fourth General Assembly.

The War Record

The citizens of Wayne Township have reason to be forever proud of her soldiery during the great contest of 1861-65. In common with the men of the county and State, the men of this township gave a prompt response to the call of the Government at the outbreak of the war, and through the yeals that followed all her demands were answered cheerfully and readily. From Bull Run to Appomattox,- from east to west, from first to last the brave sons of Wayne Township bore a part, and bore it nobly and well. No duty was too onerous, no sacrifice was too costly that they did not do and suffer. The record which does not make them "heroes in history and gods in song," will do them injustice. The splendor of their achievments will never be shrouded in oblivion.

The following is an incomplete list of the men who* bore arms from Wayne- Township. After the lapse of so many years, it is not strange if many a noble,., heroic soul has been overlooked, and his name left out of this historic roll-call. It was designed to give a correct account of each, but the means of information at command prevent it. It will be seen that the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer- Infantry, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry were the regiments and commands to which the major part of these men belonged. A volume instead of this brief sketch is due to each of them.

William Clinton. - Born in Cumberland, Md., October 8, 1794. Served in the war of 1812, in Capt. Conner's Company of Col. Stoner's Regiment of infantry - served two months. Enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, October, 1861, at the age of sixty-seven. Served three months and three days; discharged. Went with the "Squirrel Hunters" to Cincinnati in the fall of 1862.

Isaac Wilson enlisted and served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guards, one hundred and twenty days under Capt. John Barley.

John Wilson enlisted in Comply H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. McAdams. Injured at Cedar Mountain, Va., and, in consequence, was discharged. -

John M. Larue served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guards, one hundred and twenty days under Capt.. John Barley.

C. M. Smith, Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, died at Portsmouth, Va., July 28, 1864; buried at Hampton National Cemetery.

Joseph Vertner enlisted April, 1861, in Company K, Thirteenth Ohio Three Months' Men - Capt. Corwin. Re-enlisted in the Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served three years ; wounded ; died in the spring of 1868.

Rollin J. Devore, Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisted August, 1862. Served to the close of the war and was mustered out with his regiment.

Marshall L. Dempcy, First Lieutenant of Company - , Sixty-sixth Ohia Volunteer Infantry. Resigned March 23, 1863. Served as a member of tho Sixty-fourth General Assembly of Ohio.

Alexander Swisher enlisted in Company E, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, July, 1862 ; killed at Richmond, Ky., August 3, 1862 ; buried as unknown in national cemetery at Richmond.

Thomas W. Organ, Sergeant of Company H, Capt. William Mayse's Company, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from May, 1862, to September 25, 1862. Second service : Re-enlisted at the re-organization of the Eightysixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry for six months, under Capt. Robert Lysle. Was present at the capture of John Morgan.

Marion Organ. - Born in 1813. Enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in October, 1861 ; contracted disease, and after twenty-two months of sickness died at home, June 24, 1864, in his thirty-third year.

James M. Lary. - Born in 1828. Served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty -fourth Ohio National Guards, under Capt. Barley - May, 1864; discharged September, 1864.

William S. Russell. - Born in 1835. Enlisted in Company A, Eighteenth Regular Infantry, Capt. Henry Douglass, August 16, 1861. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability at Columbus, Ohio, October 1, 1863.

James Swisher. - Born in 1849. Enlisted as a private in Company E, Fifth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, August, 1863, at Columbus. Wounded at Dallas, Ga.; discharged at Camp Dennison August, 1865. Author of " How I Know."

Milton Wilson, private Company F, One hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, under Capt. Barley ; enlisted and served from May to September, 1864, one hundred and twenty days in all.

Joshua Hale, Corporal of Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Served in Capt. Barley's Company from May to September, 1864.

Calvin Stokes, private Company H, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. William Mayse; served three months. Re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guards, and served four months in the hundred days' service.

David Gray enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, October, 1861, under Capt. Fulton. Taken prisoner at Port Republic, June 9, 1862 ; exchanged. Mustered out and discharged with his regiment.

Newton Gray, Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died at Cypress Hill, Long Island, November 3, 1862 ; buried in Cypress Hill National Cemetery.

Albin Cox served as a private in Company F, One hundred and Thirtyfourth Ohio National Guards, from May to September, 1864, Capt. Barley commanding.

Henry Cox served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Capt. John Barley commanding. Enlisted May, 1864, and served till September, 1864. Service one hundred and twenty days.

Wilson Cox served one hundred and twenty days in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Ohio National Guards, under Capt. Barle^, from May to September, 1864.

Thomas Jefferson Vertner, a member of Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, served one hundred and twenty days under Capt Barley.

William H. Thomas enlisted in Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. McAdams, October, 1861. Missing at Port Republic, June 9, 1862 ; was probably killed.

James Thomas served in Company - , Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Captain - served afterward in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, one hundred and twenty days.

Manly Hill enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Infantry in April, 1861. Was taken prisoner and paroled at Shiloh ; was exchanged, returned to duty, and served to the end of his term.

Oliver P. Devore, Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died August, 1862, at Alexandria, Va.; buried in National Cemetery at Alexandria.

Lawler Chidister, Company A, Sixth-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, killed at Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862. Buried among the unknown in Staunton National Cemetery.

James E. Paden born in 1838 ; private in Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohiq Volunteer Infantry; contracted disease in the service, and was discharged on account of disability ; died at home, March 4, 1865.

Ross Paden, born in Pennsylvania in 1833 ; served in Company H, Sixtysixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; enlisted October, 1861 ; discharged in March, 1862 ; died September 20, 1873.

Jonathan L. Guthridge, born in 1833; Company A, Capt. Fulton, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; unlisted October 14, 1861 ; wounded in left leg at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862; the leg was amputated; discharged October 27, 1862 ; pensioned ; Postmaster at Mingo, Ohio.

George Black, born in 1844 ; Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry under Capt. McAdams ; participated at Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettvsburg, Atlanta and other battles ; discharged with his regiment, June 17, 1865.

John Graham, born in 1844; enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, October, 1861 ; wounded at Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862, and discharged on account of his wounds in November following; re-enlisted in the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and served to the close of the war ; pensioned.

Robert Simpson, born in 1833; served first under Capt. John A. Corwin in the Thirteenth Ohio three months' service in 1861 ; enlisted October 31, 1861, in Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry; promoted to Lieutenant and afterward to Captain, and transferred to Company A ; taken prisoner at Port Republic, June 9, 1862, and suffered in prison at Lynchburg and other prisons till September 7, 1862 ; re-enlisted as a veteran ; wounded in the hand at Peach-Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864 ; mustered out with the regiment.

Cyrus W. Guthridge, born in 1830 ; enlisted in Company - , Ninetyfifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; taken prisoner at Richmond, Ky., August 3, 1862, and paroled ; was afterward exchanged and served his full three years.

James B. Pease, private Company D, Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; captured by the enemy at Chickamauga, September, 1863 ; prisoner at Andersonville, Macon, Libby, Smiths' Tobacco Factory and Belle Isle eighteen months and seven days, and exchanged ; was blown up with the Sultana on the Mississippi, floated fifteen miles on a plank, and was rescued by colored men ; restored to his regiment and honorably discharged,; lives in Kansas.

William Evans, born in 1827 ; enlisted and served in Company H, Sixtysixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; engaged at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Lookout Mountain ; served thirty-four months.

Foster Morgan, private in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; enlisted in October, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran ; made a good record ; mustered out with the regiment.

William McMullen, private in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; enlisted in October, 1861 ; wounded at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862 ; leg amputated ; pensioned.

James Sheward, born in 1819 ; served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards one hundred and twenty days ; discharged. September, 1864.

William A. Williams, born in 1839 ; enlisted in Company D, Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, September 10, 1861; participated at Stone River, West Liberty and Ivy Mountain; served on detached duty several months with pontoneers, term of service three years and one month ; discharged with his regiment, October 10, 1864.

George G. Gilbert, born in 1844 ; enlisted under Capt. William Mc- Adams, Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1861 ; discharged June 26, 1862, on account of physical disability,

Sylvester Spain, born in 1837 ; enlisted May, 1864, in Company F, Capt. Barley, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards ; served one hundred and twenty days ; honorably discharged.

Booker R. Durnell, born in 1838 ; enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, December 22, 1863 ; at the charge on the rebel works at Kenesaw, Ga., June 27, 1864, he was probably killed and buried with the unknown ; nothing definite was ever ascertained as to his fate ; he was a brave soldier.

Lewis Z. Sheward, born in 1842 ; served as a private in Company D, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was taken prisoner and paroled at Richmond, Ky., September, 1862 ; died of disease in Indiana, May 9, 1863 ; buried in Marion Cemetery as unknown.