Clinton County, Ohio - Chapter 14: The Military History of Clinton County, 1882 (part 6 of 14)

Those brothers had two sisters, Martha and Lydia. Isaac Harvey's wife's maiden name was Lydia Dicks. He lived near Springfield, and built a brick house on his farm in 1814, which is still standing, and is now occupied by Thomas Pyle. He had three sons and six daughters. His sons' names were

William, Harlan and Simon D. ; liis daughters' nameB were Nancy, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Martha, Lydia and Ruth. His son William married a young lady by the name of Crew. He owned the land where Harveysburg was afterward laid out by him. His daughter Nancy married Archibald Edwards. Elizabeth became the wife of Enoch Harlan, Rebecca the wife of Jonathan Hadley, Martha the wife of Aaron Antram, Ruth the wife of a man by the name of Towel. Eli Harvey's wife's maiden name was Mary Stanfield. He settled between Lytle's Creek and Todd's Fork, near their junction, where the Widow Howard now lives. He had one son, William, and three daughters, Ann, Mary and Cynthia. He died on the 14th of April, 1822, at the age of sixty years. Joshua lived on the south of Todd's Fork. He was married three timeB. His first wife was a Morrison. His second wife was Mary Moon, the sister of James Moon. His third wife was a Chew, a sister of Reuben, Isaac and John Chew. He had five children by his first wife - Caleb, Hannah, Simon, Levi and Robert. Jehu and Nancy were children of the second wife, and were twins. Samuel and Abigail were children of the third wife. All of this family now living reside in Indiana. Caleb Harvey settled where hiB son Isaac now lives, about one-half mile southwest of Springfield. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Jesse and Hannah Towel, of North Carolina. They had seven children, Jesse, Joshua, Hannah, Eli, Rebecca and Elizabeth. His wife died on the 27th of June, 1825, at the age of forty-eight. He died the 12th of December, 1830, at the age of fifty-four. The oldest three children were born in North Carolina. Their son Joshua died in 1831, leaving a daughter, Nancy, who was raised in the family of her grandfather. Caleb and his wife were both buried at Springfield. William Harvey, the brother of Isaac, Eli, Joshua and Caleb, married Mary, daughter of David and Sarah "Vestal. They had five children, John, Eli, David, Sarah and Elizabeth. The three boys were born in North Carolina. William Harvey died December 5, 1858, at the age of eighty-eight. His widow, Mary, died in 1863, in the ninety-sixth year of her age. Both are buried at Springfield. Of the two sisters of these brothers - Martha and Lydia - Martha married Jacob Hale, Sr., and Lydia married John Hadley.

Eli Harvey, son of William, was married twice. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of John and Mary Fallis. He lived on the Lebanon road, about two miles west of Todd's Fork. He was born in North Carolina, in 1803, and died in April, 1872, at the age of sixty-nine. His wife, Sarah, died in July, 1835, at the age of thirty. His second wife was Ruth, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Fisher. He was buried at Springfield. His first wife's children's names were Lydia, Mary, William Penn, Esther, Ann and Sarah. The children by his second wife were Joseph, Isaac, Hannah, John, James and Sinai. The former two died in infancy. Of this family of eleven children, only five are now living.

Isaac Harvey, son of Caleb, resides near Springfield. His wife is the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Edwards, of Warren County. They have had nine children, Caleb, Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Rebecca, William, Nathaniel, Abigail, Jesse H. and Enos F.

Simon Harvey was the second son of J oshua Harvey. After his father's death,, he became the owner of a large portion of his father's farm. He built a house on the Lebanon road, where the village of Sligo was afterward laid out. He was Treasurer of Adams Township for a great many years. He raised a family of seven children.

Henry Harvey was a son of Caleb and Mary Harvey, of Wayne County, Ind. His wife, Ann, was the daughter of George and Elizabeth Maden. Both are now dead. They had a family of ten children, three of whom died in in- fancy. For many years lie was an Indian Agent, a position which he held with credit to himself and to the Government. Previous to his death, he, with his family, moved to Kansas.

Preserved Dakin emigrated from the State of New York, and settled on what was afterward the Lebanon road, near Lytle's Creek Meeting House, on the farm now owned by John Hornada, in 1806. He soon afterward purchased a large tract of land in Chester Township and removed there. Mordecai Mendenhall settled on Todd's Fork in 1806, and built a mill there, which was afterward known as the Fallis Mill. He sold it to Jonathan Wright. He had a brother, Nathan Mendenhall, who lived on a farm in the same vicinity. Nathan Mendenhall was a brother-in-law of Jeremiah Kimbrough.

In the year 1804, Joshua Nickerson came from New 'York and settled on Todd's Fork, about one mile above the Harvey settlement, on the farm now owned by Evan Hadley, whose wife is a grand-daughter of Nickerson. He had three sons and one daughter. His sons' names were Clark, David and Artemas. The daughter's name Susannah. She married William Morrow, and afterward lived in Warren County, west of Clarksville. Clark Nickerson married Martha Ashby. Both have been dead for many years. They had five children, three sons and two daughters. The sons' names are James, Joshua and David. One of the daughters married a McKay, and the other became the wife of Evan Hadley. Artemas Nickerson married Elizabeth Reed. Both are now dead. They had six children, Susannah, Amanda, Mary, Elizabeth, Abigail and Samuel R. His daughter Mary married William L. Hadley. She now resides in Wilmington, and is well known as a leading member and minister of the Society of Friends. David Nickerson, brother of Artemas and Clark, married a Spencer, and afterward removed to Indiana.

A man by the name of Wrightsman was the first settler on the Rayburn farm. He gave the land for the graveyard at Lytle's Creek. He sold his farm to Mahlon Stratton in 1816, and moved away.

John Hadley was born on the 23d of September, 1770, in Chatham County, N. C. He was the son of Joshua and Ruth Hadley. His wife was Lydia, daughter of William and Elizabeth Harvey, of Orange County, N. C. , and a sister of Eli, Isaac, William, Caleb and Joshua Harvey. They came to Ohio in 1806, and settled near Todd's Fork. They were married in North Carolina, in Crane Creek Monthly Meeting, as early as 1794. They were the parents of twelve children, their names and the order of their ages being as follows: William, Simon, Elizabeth, Joshua, Jacob, Isaac, Eli, John, Thomas, Jonathan D., Ruth and Jane, all but four of whom were born before they came to Ohio. Of these, Joshua died in infancy, and Thomas at the age of nineteen. In connection with his brother-in-law, Eli Harvey, he built and afterward became the owner of what was for a long time known as the Hadley Mill, on Todd's Fork. Both he and his wife were consistent and influential members of the Society of Friends, and mombers of Springfield Monthly Meeting. He died in 1832, in his sixty-second year His widow survived him twenty years. Both are buried at Springfield.

William Hadley, eldest son of John and Lydia Hadley, was born on the 18th of July, 1795, in North Carolina, and came to Ohio with his father. His first wife was Sarah Lindley. She diod on the 28th of April, 1829. They had seven children, Jonathan, Deborah, Thomas, who died in infancy, Eleanor, Eli L., Mary and Milton. He afterward married Susannah Thatcher, widow of Thomas Thatcher. She was a daughter of Joseph Stratton. He died October 23, 1845. There were two children by the second marriage, Sarah and William. William Hadley died October 23, 1845. Susannah Hadley, for many years of the latter part of her life, made her home with Theodocia Hadley, her daughter, at whose residence, in Vernon Township, near the line of Adams Township. She died on the 18th of August, 1880, at the ripe age of eighty-six years. She was buried at Springfield.

Simon Hadley, son of John and Lydia Hadley, was born November 1, 1796, in North Carolina, and came to Ohio with his father. His wife's name was Ann, the daughter of Thomas Kersey, Sr. He was a resident of Adams Township from the time he came to Ohio to the time of his death, which occurred on the 13th of May, 1870. His wife died September 28, 1843. Both were buried at Springfield. They had seven children, Jabez, Rebecca, Lydia, John, Julia, Ann K. and Mary M. Simon Hadley, some time after the death of his first wife, married Mary I. O'Neall, a widow, whose maiden name was Ingham. She was formerly from New York.

Jacob Hadley, son of John and Ruth Hadley, was born the 3d of March, 1801, in North Carolina. He came to Ohio with his parents when but five years of age. His wife was Mary, daughter of Beale and Mary Butler, of Wayne County, Ind. He was a successful farmer of Adams Township, where he resided until about 1868, when he removed to Wilmington. He was a strict member of the Society of Friends, highly respected by all who knew him, and a minister of considerable ability. He clung tenaciously to the teachings and doctrines of the Friends in all their purity and simplicity, and was adverse to yielding to the innovations in their manner of worship which have prevailed for the last fifteen years. He died on the 11th of February, 1879, at the age of seventy- eight. His wife died on the 20th of July, 1858, at the age of fiftyseven. Both are buried at Springfield. They had seven children, their names and the order of their ages being as follows: Samuel H., Eliza Ann, William Beale, Elwood, Mary B., Susannah Jane and Naomi.

Isaac Hadley, son of John and Lydia Hadley, married Lydia, daughter of John Hazard. They had seven children, Calvin, Elizabeth, Phoebe, Elmira, Henry, Rebecca and Harriet. Isaac Hadley died July 22, 1839, at the age of thirty-six. His widow afterward became the wife of James Smith. He died, and she afterward married William Pyle, son of Jehu Pyle, Sr.

Eli Hadley, son of John and Lydia Hadley, was born on the 27th of September, 1804, and died November 29, 1854, at the age of fifty. His wife was Abigail, daughter of Reuben and Rhoda Green. She died the 30th of April, 1837, at the age of twenty-eight. They had five children, Mahala G., Gulielma, Thomas, Micajah and Rhoda.

John Hadley was born the 15th of April, 1810. He was the son of John and Lydia Hadley. His wife was Ann, daughter of John and Elizabeth Wildman, of Clark County, Ohio. They had seven children, to wit: Hiram, Elizabeth, Margaret, Deborah, Henry, Ruth and Seth. Deborah and Ruth both died in infancy. John Hadley's wife died on the 21st of April, 1848, and was buried at Springfield. For many years he resided near Springfield, on the farm now owned by Hiram Coates. He, after the death of his first wife, married Rhoda Stanton, a widow, and afterward lived at Springboro, in Warren County. He died in March, 1882, and is buried at Springfield.

bom August 10, 1812. His wife was Susannah Clawson, daughter of William Clawson. They had four children, Louisa, Mahlon, John William and Evan. Jonathan D. Hadley died about 1872, at Clarksville. His widow died at Wilmington in 1874, and both are buried at Springfield.

Jane, the youngest child of John and Lydia Hadley, married Seneca Wildman, and, with her husband, removed to Iowa more than twenty years ago. She is the only one of the family now living. All deceased members of the family are buried at Springfield.

Jonathan T. Hadley was born on the 14th of March, 1793. He was the son of Simon and Elizabeth Hadley, of North Carolina. He emigrated to Ohio in 1810, and settled in what is now Adams Township, near the line of the county of Warren. He married Rebecca, daughter of Isaac Harvey. He had nine children, their names and the order of their ages being as follows, viz. : Elizabeth, Lydia, Samuel L., Ruth, Isaac, Simon, Deborah, Milton and Harlan H.

Jonathan T. Hadley deceased in 1880. Rebecca Hadley, his wife, died on the 20th day of June, 1876, aged eighty-one years. Both are buried at Springfield.

William Hadley, son of Joshua and Ruth Hadley, and a brother of John Hadley, emigrated from North Carolina to Ohio in 1816, and settled in Vernon Township. His wife was Sarah, daughter of John and Ann Clark, of North Carolina. He settled on what is now known as the Marshall farm, on Todd's Fork. He died in 1842, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife died in the month of February, 1837, at the age of sixty eight years. They had a numerous family of children, as follows: David, Mary, John, Ruth, Jonathan,

David Hadley, eldest son of William and Sarah Hadley, of North Carolina, was born on the 27th of April, 1794, emigrated to Ohio in 1815, and settled near Clarksville. His wife was Sarah, daughter of David and Hannah Lindley, of Orange County, N. C. He died in the year 1852. Sarah, his widow, is living, and is now in her eighty -seventh year. They had ten children, to wit: Hannah, William L., Samuel, Mary, Isaiah, David, Sarah, Lindley, Chambers and Abraham.

With the exception of the Harvey family, the Hadley family was by far the most numerous of any one family among the earlier settlers of the western part of Clinton County. They were, and are probably yet, either directly related to or connected with one-half of the families of that portion of the county. With but few exceptions, all were or are members of the Society of Friends, and are influential and respected citizens. Many have, from time to time, moved to other counties of the State, and to other States, especially to Indiana and Iowa.

Nathan Harlan and William Harlan were brothers, and sons of Enoch Harlan, of Guilford County, N. C. They came to Ohio in 1805, and settled about one mile from Springfield - Nathan on land since known as the Joseph Coate farm, and William on land now owned by Harrison Mullen and Milo Hale. William married in North Carolina, his wife being Charity Kimbrough, a daughter of Jeremiah Kimbrough. They had nine children, as follows: David, Margaret, Jonathan, Ruth, Nancy, Enoch, William, Nathaniel and Edith. Nathan was the eldest son. He also married in North Carolina, his wife being Sarah Hunt, the daughter of a minister of that name. They had nine children, as follows: Lydia, Enoch, Martha, Nathan, Edith, Prudence,

North Carolina with their mother, and, after a short residence in Highland County, settled in the same vicinity in the spring of 1807. He married Lydia Hale, daughter of Jacob Hale. He has been dead but a few years. They had the following-named children: Jacob, Elizabeth, Rebecca, James and Warren.

All of this family except Nathaniel settled in the vicinity of Springfield and Oakland, all living near each other. David and Solomon were the last to come, arriving in 1811. Their mother's name was Edith. She was a sister of Elizabeth Harvey, who came to Ohio in 1806, with her eons, Isaac, Caleb, Eli, Joshua and William. Both were widows. Elizabeth Harvey was born on the 16th of August, 1736, and died the 16th of February, 1832, in her ninety-sixth year.

Ezekiel Hornada was bom in North Carolina, Randolph County, on the 26th of February, 1796. He came to Ohio in 1806, with the Harvey brothers and their families. Isaac Harvey was his uncle by marriage. His mother's name was Dicks. Having been left an orphan at an early age, he was bound out to Isaac Harvey, in whose family he was raised. He married November 11, 1818. His wife was Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Hadley. He was the father of twelve children, to wit: John, Jehu, Isaiah, Jane, Simon, Mary,

William, Eleanor, Lydia, Eli, Isaac and Louisa. Of these, Jehu died at the age of fifteen; Jane, Simon, Eli and Isaac, before they had reached the age of two years; and Mary, at the age of thirty-five. His wife died in 1850, and was buried at Springfield. He assisted Isaac Harvey in building his house, a brick one, still standing, in 1814. He did the principal part of the hauling.

. He went to school to Warren Sabin, at the Harvey Sehoolhouse, in 1809. He went to school afterward to Hiram Maden and Thomas Kersey, who taught at the sehoolhouse on Nathaniel Carter's farm. Some years after his marriage, he bought the John Abernathy farm, on the Lebanon road, some two miles west of Todd's Fork, and built the brick house now standing upon it in 1832. Some time after his first wife's death, he married again. For two years preceding April, 1882, he lived in Sligo. He has recently removed to Indiana, at the age of eighty-six. He resided continuously in what is now Adams Township for seventy-six years, more than three-quarters of a century, a period of time never equaled as yet by any other citizen of the township, and only nearly approached by Asa Green and Armenia Hale. One cannot but reflect upon the many exciting incidents, perils and privations through which he has passed, many of which he relates with a simplicity and clearness that are very interesting. He has lived to see what was at that time an unbroken forest gradually disappear before the advancing tide of emigration and civilization. The wild turkey and the deer, then so plentiful, have disappeared, and with them the wolf and bear. Where, but a few years before his coming, the wild Indian lurked and lingered, or swiftly glided on his war-path, the iron horse, with fiery breath and shrill neigh, for nearly thirty years has been coursing along on glittering rails of iron. Schoolhouses, churches and villages have sprung into existence with a rapidity which, to him, must appear like enchantment. He well remembers the storm of 1806 that prostrated the timber southwest of where Sligo now stands. He says that the wild turkeys were so plentiful for some years after he came to Ohio that they afforded an abundance of food through the fall and winter seasons for the settlers, and that to him it appeared as if the hand of Providence provided for them. He says that often he has seen wild turkeys in droves by the hundreds, and that in the fall and winter they became very fat. It is to be regretted that circumstances were such that he could not spend the remainder of his days among scenes so long familiar to him. John Hornada, eldest son of Ezekiel Hornada, now resides on the pike about one mile east of Sligo.

Reuben Green was born in Grayson County, N. C., on the 28th of July, 1770. On January 5, 1797, he married Rhoda, daughter of David and Mary Ballard. He emigrated to Ohio in the fall of 1811, and first settled near Centre Meeting-House. In 1813, he bought 175 acres of land of William Lytle, on Lytle's Creek, where he settled and lived the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and, for many years preceding his death, he sat at the head of Lytle's Creek Meeting. His wife died on the 10th day of February, 1843, at the age of sixty- eight years. He died on the 25th day of December, 1852. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. He was the father of twelve children, their names and the order of their ages being as follows: Isaac, Mary, David, Lydia, Robert, Asa, Anna, Abigail, John, Susannah, Rowland and Rhoda. Isaac died at the age of ten; Lydia, in infancy; and Anna, at the age of fourteen. Mary, the eldest, married Mordecai Walker; David married Mary Jessup; Robert married Mahala XJnthank; Abigail married Eli Hadley, son of John and Lydia Hadley; John married Mary Ann Walk ins; Susannah married Isaac Moore, son of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Centre County, Penn.; Rowland married Absillet Thomas, of Wayne County, Ind. ;: and Rhoda married Daniel Young. Of this family of children, Asa and John are the only living representatives. John Green lives in Logan County, Ohio,, and has a family of six children. David and Rowland for many years lived in Union Township, Clinton County. Rowland died in Indiana in 1881.

Asa Green was born on the 5th day of January, 1805, in Grayson County, N. C. ; came to Ohio with his father in 1811, with whom he lived until he was married. His wife was the daughter of Nathaniel Carter. They were married at Lytle's Ci'eek, in Friends' Meeting. Both he and his wife are still living at their farm, adjoining the village of Ogden, once known as the Holaday farm, and immediately west of the farm on which his father lived. They raised a family of eight children, their names being as follows: Jane, Reuben,

Mary Ann, Cyrus, Gulielma, John C., Samuel G. and Nancy Emily. All the children are livirg except Gulielma and John. The following is a brief sketch of some of the earlier scenes and events of his life, obtained from him for insertion here:

"I was born January 5, 1805. I remember leaving Virginia. My father and family, of which I was one, moved out to Ohio in a wagon. We had five horses. We drove seven or eight head of cattle, and were five weeks on the way. We first settled near Centre. This was in the fall of 1811. I remember of attending meeting there. It was held in a hewed-log house. When we moved to Lytle's Creek, my father built a hewed-log house, twenty by twenty-four feet, one story. It was built near a spring on the hillside, about one hundred yards north of the creek, a short distance east of Ogden, and near where the railroad now is. My father planted out an orchard soon after, a few of the old trees of which are still standing. A few years afterward, he took the house down and moved it from the hillside where first built to the top of the hill, where there was a better situation. When he rebuilt it, he weatherboarded it. This house is still standing, and is in a fair state of preservation, and is still occupied as a family residence. When we first moved, there was no clearing, except about four acres across the creek on the bottom, which had been cleared up by Charles Stout, who then lived near where Rodney Jenks now lives. He had opened up a small clearing there, but was not the owner of the land, but only a renter, or squatter, upon it. Samuol Andrew had a small clearing where he lived. Nathaniel Carter had made a small beginning on his land, bought of Lytle, and lived in a log house south of the small creek, or run, that passes through the Carter farm. Benjamin Howell made the first clearing on the Howell farm. Charles Howell made the first clearing on the Quinby farm. He was the son-in-law of a man by the name of Stout. He moved away afterward, Joseph Stratton having bought 150 acres of Lytle and divided it between his sons, Micajah and Joseph. The latter built the onestory frame house on the Quinby farm, but, as he was single himself, rented it. Joseph Stratton lived where Caleb Moore now lives. He built the old twostory frame house that is still standing there. Micajah Stratton built the brick house on the Rodney Jenks farm, recently taken down. I attended school in a small log house on the Stout farm, east of Lytle's Creek. This was in 1814. I also went to school at a schoolhouse on Nathaniel Carter's place. We went to Springfield to meeting until the Lytle's Creek Meeting-House was built. It was built in 1817. In 1820, my father built a frame barn, the first one in the neighborhood. Pei'sons came quite a distance to see it. It is still standing. It is twenty- four by fifty feet. I remember that, after the rafters were raised, in a feat of daring, my cousin, Reuben Chow, walked on the points of the rafters from one end of the barn to the other. We went to mill at the John Hadley mill, on Todd's Fork, until the Holaday Mill was built. They ground wheat and corn on the same stone. They ran the bolt by hand,"

John Holaday settled on what is now known as the Asa Green farm in 1814. He came from Virginia. His wife's name was Susannah, daughter of Robert Fortner. They had a family of eight children - Hannah, Robert, William, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, John, Susannah and Jesse. He built the brick house in which Asa Green now lives in 1830, and afterward sold his farm to Asa Green, and moved with his family to Jefferson Township, this county.

Samuel Andrew was born in Orange County, N. C., December 14, 1783. He was the son of William and Hannah Andrew. He married Delilah, daughter of John and Susannah Baker, of Chatham County, N. C., October 17, 1805. He came to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Greene County, where he resided for two years, and then settled on Lytle's Creek, on the farm where he resided until the time of his death, on the 18th of July, 1871. His wife died in 1850. Both are buried at Springfield. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He had four children - William B., John, Hannah and Susannah.

William B. Andrew, his son, was born July 21, 1806. He married Ruth, daughter of John Hadley, and was the father of ten children, to wit: Eliza

Jane, Hannah, Samuel, Delilah, Isaac IL, John T., William H., Jacob, Lydia and Wilson. His wife died October 19, 1852. In 1868, he removed to Henry County, Iowa, where he afterward died. All of his children are still living, and reside in Iowa. William B. Andrew was a man of considerable prominence, politically and otherwise. He was an ardent Whig and Republican. He was several times elected Township Trustee, and. in 1864, County Commissioner. in which office he served for three years.

John Andrew, son of Samuel, married Jane McWhorter. He removed to Fayette County, where he resided for several years, and then removed to Vernon Township, and afterward to Lebanon. After the death of his first wife, in 1854, he married a Mrs. Roach. He had three children - -Mary E., John W. and Robert.

Hannah, daughter of Samuel Andrew, married Jacob Hale, of Adams Township, who died in 1849. She is the mother of three children - William, Alfred and Susannah. The two sons reside in Adams Township.

Susanna, daughter of Samuel Andrew, married John McF addon in 1847. She, with her husband, lived at the home farm, caring for and comforting her father and mother in their last years of li Ee. John McFadden died July 6, 1871,

Henry Andrew, brother of Samuel Andrew, and son of William and Hannah, was born February 12, 1777. His wife was Jane Mills. He came to Ohio at an early day, and settled on a farm adjoining that of his brother Samuel, near Sligo, now owned by John G. Qutcalt. He had seven children, to wit: Robert, John, Hannah, Joseph, William, Jonathan and Sarah. He removed to Jefferson Township some years afterward.

James Andrew, brother of Samuel and Henry, came to Ohio about the same time they did. He for many years lived in what is now Adams Township. He was the father of nine children, to wit: Ira, Eden, Minerva, Calvin, Cyrus, Miles, Mary Ann, John Wesley and Emily. Of these, Eden, Miles and Emily live in Adams Township.

Samuel Chew came to Ohio at an early day. He married Abigail Green, sister of Reuben Green, and was the first settler on what was afterward known as the John Anson farm. He had four sons - Isaac, Ephraim, John and Reu ben; and three daughters - Alice, Mary and Ruth.

Joshua Moore was the son of Thomas Moore and Sarah Moore, of Centre County, Penn. He was born on the 17th of October, 1791. He came to Ohio in 1811. He married Nancy, daughter of Joseph and Theodocia Stratton. They lived in Wilmington for a year or two after they were first married, and then moved to Adams Township and lived in a small house near where Harris Moore now lives. He soon after bought fifty acres of land of David Stout, who lived where Haines Moore afterward lived. He afterward bought out John Sheridan, getting eighty-one acres of him, and moved to the farm on which he lived up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 7th of February, 1874. He sold the Stout farm to his brother Haines about 1821, soon after he bought of Sheridan, and afterward, in 1838, he, in connection with Haines Moore, bought out Nathan Stalker, he taking so much of the Stalker farm as lay on the south side of Lytle's Creek, and his brother taking the residue. Nancy, his widow, continued to reside at the home place until her death, which took place in December, 1881. Roth are buried at Springfield. They had a family of twelve children, as follows: David S., who died in infancy; John Haines,

Sarah Ann, Micajah, William, Joseph, Harriet, Nancy, Joshua, Benjamin (who died in infancy), Jehu C. and Seth. William died single, November 14, 1877; Seth died single, September 8, 1865, at the ago of twenty-six; John Haines married Ruth Lindley; she died in 1869, at the age of fifty-one; he now resides in Wilmington, having married a second wife, whose name was Mary Hines; Micajah resides in Adams Township; Sarah Ann Linton, in Union Township; Nancy Harvey, in Adams Township; Joshua, in Wilmington; Joseph resides in Warren County, and Jeh"u in Pennsylvania.

Haines Moore, brother of Joshua, came to Ohio about two years after his brother Joshua did. He lived on a farm in Union Township, near the Adams Township line, for many years, and raised a family of children. His wife was Eliza Antram, daughter of John Antram. A few years ago, they moved to Wilmington, where they have since resided.

Caleb Moore, brother of Joshua and IlainoB, came from Pennsylvania about 1832, and, soon after, bought the Joseph Stratton farm, on Lytle's Creek, where he has since resided. Ho was born about the year 1800. His wife's name was Nancy, daughter of Andrew Jack, who was a Revolutionary soldier. They had a family of six children, as follows: William, John, Harris C. ,

Hannah, Emily and Nancy Ellen. Nancy Moore died about 1845, and Mr. Moore afterward married Martha Miller. They had two children - Ethelbert J. and Martha Adalin§.

John and Isaac Moore were two other brothers of this family, who came to Ohio about 1832. Isaac married Susannah Green, daughter of Reuben Green. He died October 6, 1840, at the age of twenty-eight. John Moore married Ann Moore, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Centre County, Penn. He was born on the 31st of August, 1798. She was born July 6, 1805. Some time after their marriage, they moved to near Newcastle, Henry Co., Ind., where he died. They had a family of several children. She married again, her second husband being John Evans. They moved to Jasper County, Ind., where she died about 1875. Elizabeth Moore, widow of Samuel Moore, who died in Pennsylvania, came to Ohio about 1832. She lived for a few years on the farm of Joseph Stratton, Jr., afterward the Quinby farm, and then bought about twenty acres of the Stalker farm, where she afterward lived until a few years before her death, when she moved to Sligo. She died on the 13th of August, 1874, in her eighty-sixth year. Her father, Andrew Jack, came to Ohio with her, and made his home with her until his death. She had seven children, whose names were as follows: Melinda, Nancy, Sarah Ann, Melissa,

George Maden, Sr., was one of the pioneers of Adams Township. He settled on what is now the Jabez Hadley farm. His first wife was the Widow Reynolds, whose maiden name was Harvey. There were four children by this union, viz., Eli, George, Elizabeth and Edith. His second wife was Elizabeth Carter, sister of George Carter. By this marriage there were eight children, viz., Hiram, Solomon, John, Nancy, Rebecca, Mary, Ruth and Deborah. He died at an advanced age, and is buried at Lytle's Creek, as was also his wife, Elizabeth. George married Mary Chew, daughter of Samuel Chew and a sister of Isaac, Ephraim, John and Reuben Chew. He moved to Indiana, where he has since died. Elizabeth married a man by the name of Reeves; Edith married Joseph Stubbs; Solomon married a Robbins; John died single; Nancy became the wife of Henry Harvey, both of whom are now dead; Rebecca married Reuben Chew, son of Samuel Chew; both are dead; Mary married Amos Harvey, brother of Henry Harvey; Ruth married Robert Hunt, son of Jacob and Lydia Hunt; Deborah married a man who lived in Indiana.

Eli Maden married Hannah Harlan, daughter of Enoch Harlau. They had six children, viz., Harlan. John, George, Hiram, Rowena and Rebecca, all of whom, except Hiram, reside in Adams Township. Harlan Maden, son of Eli, married Marguerite Osborn, a daughter of William Osborn, Sr., and Hiram married William Harvey's daughter, Hannah Harvey. Eli Maden died a few years ago.

Hiram Maden. son of George Maden, was born January 28, 1792, in Orange County, N. C. He emigrated with his father to Ohio. He was married twice. His first wife was Susannah, daughter of Jehu and Sarah Stuart, of Wayne County, Ind. They were married about the year 1826. She only lived a few years after the marriage. She is buried at Lytle's Creek. There were three children by this marriage, viz., Sarah, George and Jehu. About the year 1834, he married a second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Susannah Osborn. There wore seven children by this union, viz.. William, John, Eli, Elizabeth, Hiram, Susannah and Thomas Elwood.

Hiram Maden died in April, 1871, in the eightieth year of his age. His wife, Elizabeth, died January 10, 1866, at the age of sixty-two. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. He was a very useful citizen, and a consistent member of the Society of Friends. He was a teacher in his younger days, and afterward a surveyor of much practice. Next to Nathan Linton, he has probably done more surveying in Clinton County than any other person

Jeremiah Kimbrough was a native of Rowan County, N. C. He was born on the 15th* of September, 1778. His wife was Sarah Mendenhall, a sister of Nathan Mendenhall. They were married in 1799, in Rowan County, N. C. They came to Ohio in November, 1809, with their family, which then consisted of six children. In the spring of 1810, he bought about one hundred acres of land in the Murray Survey and settled upon it, opened up a clearing and built a cabin. This was afterward known as the George Carter and Micajah Stratton farm. It is on Todd's Fork, near the northeastern part of the township. In 1812, he sold his farm to George Carter, and moved to Tennessee, but, not liking the country, he came back without unloading his wagon. He then bought the farm on which John Hornada now resides, where he lived until 1828, when he sold it to his son Thomas, and then bought the Isaac Harvey farm, on Todd's Fork, near Springfield, where he resided until his death, August 15, 1850. He died while in a carriage with his son Eli, on their way from Wilmington to his home. His widow died in 1859, while at her daughter's, Elizabeth Howell. They had a family of eleven children, all of whom are living except two, their names and order of ages being as follows: Thomas, born September 18, 1800; Elizabeth, born Januaiy 3, 1802; Susannah, born March 13, 1803; Hannah, born in October, 1804; Charity, bom July 3, 1807, Sarah, born in January, 1809; Mary, born in November, 1810; John, born May 26, 1812; Ira, born in the year 1815; Edith, born in the year 1820; Eli, born in November, 1821.

Elizabeth was the first child married. She married Benjamin Howell. Susannah married Robert Hollcrafr.; she resides in Randolph County, Ind. Hannah married William Ballard, son of John Ballard; she resides in Grant County, Ind., having married a second husband by the name of Kerwin. Charity married Lewis Hiatt, son of Jesse Hiatt; she died in 1863. Sarah married John Whitson, son of John Whitson, Sr.; she now resides in Grant County, Ind. Mary married Caleb Townsend, son of John Townsend; she resides in Iowa. John married Demice Beach, daughter of Benjamin Beach; he died October 18, 1854. Ira married Clara Howland, daughter of Barnabas Howland; he now resides in Harveysburg. Edith, married Hiram Daugherty; she now resides in Indiana. Eli married Margaret, daughter of John Townsend; he now resides in Grant County, Ind. Each of these unions was productive of numerous offspring, so that the grandchildren of Jeremiah Kimbrough would probably aggregate one hundred, and his descendants would probably now number three hundred. But two of the children - Thomas and Elizabeth - now reside in Adams Township.

Thomas Kimbrough married Elizabeth, the daughter of Jesse Hiatt, a brother of Lewis Hiatt. They were married on the 4th of April, 1822, and recently passed their sixtieth marriage anniversary. They now reside with their son, Demetrius, in the western part of Adams Township, near the Lebanon road, and both are in the enjoyment of reasonable bodily health and mental vigor, considering their advanced age. His wife, when a child of seven or eight years, resided with her father near Wilmington, and passed over the ground where Wilmington now is when it was an unbroken forest, save where two small cabins were erected, some distance apart - one near where the City Hall now is built, and the other to the north of it. They are the oldest couple residing in Adams Township. They have had a family of nine children, as follows: Martha, who married James Spray; Sarah, who married John Brazil; Joremiah; Mary, who married John W. Richardson; Edith, who married William Edwards; Jesse; Susannah, wife of Harlan H. Hadley; Demetrius,

Jeremiah Kimbrough, oldest son of Thomas Kimbrough, was born October 14, 1827. In 1849, he married Esther, daughter of Eli and Sarah Harvey. By this union there was one child, whose name is Louisa. His wife died December 18, 1859. His second wife is Rhoda, daughter of Eli Hadley, and sister of Micajah and Thomas Hadley. Jeremiah Kimbrough has resided in Adams Township since its first formation. He is held in high esteem by all who know him. He is a prominent member of Springfield Monthly Meeting.

John Johnson was an early settler. He lived on the north side of Lytle's Creek, on the Haines Moore place. His wife was a Ballard. He sold his land to Henry Tibbetts, who sold to Nathan Stalker, who sold to Moore. His daughter Rhoda married Abel Thornberry.

Robert Howell was one of the early settlers in Gates' Survey, on what is known as the Indian Branch. The land is now owned by Micajah Moore. He built a cabin near by a large spring that flows out from near the roots and under the branches oE a spreading beech tree. He planted a nursery there, and set out an orchard of apple and peach trees. Some of the apple trees are still standing. He had quite a family of children, among whom were Charles, Benjamin, John, William, Jeremiah, Thomas, Robert, Ruth and Nancy. He settled there probably prior to 1810. All of the family went farther west prior to 1823, except Benjamin. Charles Howell made the first clearing on the Quinby farm. Charles Howell's wife was the daughter of Charles Stout, who lived near where Rodney Jenks now lives.

Benjamin Howell was born July 14, 1792. He emigrated to Ohio with his father. He was married, about the year 1820, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Jeremiah Kimbrough. He was the first settler upon what is known as the Howell farm, which at that time consisted of 100 acres in the Dudley Survey. This was in 1820, directly after his marriage. Here he cleared up a farm, and afterward purchased sixty-seven acres of what was once known as the Robert Howell place. He had a family of ten children, as follows: Jeremiah, Jedidah, Riley, Aaron, Patsy, Henry, Adeline, William, John and Benjamin. Benjamin Howell died July 2, 1855. Elizabeth Howell, his widow, is still living, and makes her home with her son-in-law, William Biddlecome.

George Carter was born March 8, 1782. He was the son of John and Ann Carter, of Orange County, N. C. His wife, Miriam, was born on the 2d of February, 1787. She was the daughter of Jesse Wilson and Elizabeth, his wife, of Randolph County, Ya. He came to Ohio in the year 1812, and settled about one mile west of Lytle's Creek Meeting-House, on what was afterward known as the Micajah Stratton farm. For forty years or more, he was a teacher. He taught in many different places, always with success. He was a kind-hearted man. He was a minister in the Society of Friends, being considered one of the ablest in the church, especially upon doctrinal points. But few persons exerted a more potent and widespread influence for Christianity than he. He was the father of seven children, their names and order of ages being as follows: Jesse, John, Samuel, Wilson, Cyrus, Louisa and George.

Two of the sons died after arriving at manhood - George, on the 8th of J anuary, 1845, at the age of twenty-two years and eight months. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. Of the other children, Jesse married Melinda Bently. Some years before his death, he emigrated to Kansas. Afterward, while back on a visit in Ohio, he died at Lewis Hunt's. He is buried at Grassy Branch. John married and resided near Bloomington, where he died a few years ago. Cyrus married Susannah Nickerson, and resided for many years in Clinton County, but a few years ago he removed to Howard Lake, Minn., where he now resides, having married a second wife. Some of the children were born in North Carolina. Both parents lived to a ripe old age. George departed this

Nathaniel Carter was born on the 21st of June, 1779. He was the son of J ohn and Ann Carter, of Orange County, N. C. , and a brother of George Carter. His wife's name was Nancy, daughter of John and Susannah Baker, of Chatham County, N. C. They came to Ohio in 1812, and settled in Dudley's Survey, between where the villages of Ogden and Sligo now are, he having bought a piece of land of "William Lytle. He was a well-to-do citizen, and a member of the Society of Friends. He was the father of six children, as follows: Jane, born on the 17th of February, 1802, who mai'ried Samuel Gaskill; John

B. , Enoch, Susannah, Ann and Delilah Susannah married Asa Green; Ann married "William Holaday; Nathaniel Carter died March 3, 1843, in his sixty - fourth year; Nancy, his widow, died November 5, 1863, at the age of eightytwo, surviving him more than twenty years.

John Baker Carter, son of Nathaniel and Susannah Carter, was born February 1, 1802. His wife's name was Sarah Smith. He was the father of six children, to wit: Mary, Nancy, Jane, William, Nathaniel and Asa, all of whom are still living. He now resides in Waubaunsee County, Kan. While in Ohio, he resided on a portion of the farm formerly owned by his father.

Enoch Carter, son of Nathaniel and Nancy Carter, was born December 28, 1808. His wife was a Faulkner. He resided for many years on a portion of tJie farm on which he was born and raised. He was the father of ten children, as follows: David, Nathaniel, John, Rachel, Samuel, Hiram, Phoebe Ann, Elizabeth, Jane and Susannah. Both parents are now dead.

Conrad Smith was a pioneer. He settled on the Smith farm, in Gates' Survey, about 1815. His wife was Elizabeth McDaniel. He had a family of five children, viz., John, George, Daniel, Abigail and Susannah. John married Mariah Smith; Abigail married Samuel Wingfield, and Susannah married Aquilla Reese. The two daughters now reside in Illinois. One of the brothers lives at Harveysburg. Conrad Smith and his wife have been dead several years. They were both highly respected by all who knew them. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek.

Daniel Smith, son of Conradand Elizabeth Smith, was born in 1809. His wife was Ann Hartman. For a few years after their marriage, they resided northeast of Wilmington. They then removed back to the farm, and lived there with his parents until their death, and until the time of his death, which occurred March 30, 1880. He was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery. He was a man Btrictly honorable in all his dealings, and of kind and benevolent disposition. They had a family of five children, viz., George H. , Joseph H., John

C. , and James E., and a daughter who died in girlhood, named Mary E. George, Joseph and John all volunteered in the service of the United States, and were gallant and brave soldiers. They wore members of Company G, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. George died in February, 1878, while Sheriff of Clinton County, Ohio, to which office ho had been elected in 1876.

Nathan Stalker settled on Lytle's Creek as early as 1809. His wife was Mary Ballard, daughter of David Ballard. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was one of the first members of Lytle's Creek Meeting. He sold his farm to Joshua and Haines Moore, and moved to Indiana, where he afterward died. The orchard which he planted is in part still standing. He lived on the hill, near by where Harris Moore now lives. He had a family of eight children, Elean- or, Lydia, John, Eli, David. Mary, Sarah and Rhoda. Eleanor, Lydia and Sarah all died after reaching womanhood, single, and are buried at Lytle's Creek.

Isaac Stout settled on Lytle's Creek on the Isaiah Stout farm about 1807. He cut the first stick of timber on the Stout farm. His wife's name was Susannah. They had the following- named children, viz., Jesse, Sarah, Phoebe, Lydia, Rebecca, Matilda, Isaac and Isaiah Stout.

Isaiah Stout lives on the home place, and is the youngest son of Isaac and Susannah Stout. His wife's name was Lucinda Hardesty. He has a family of several children, all of whom are grown up and married.

Charles Stout was a first cousin of Isaac Stout, and was the first settler on the Rodney Jenks place. David, his brother, was the first settler on the Haines Moore place, and built the mill there on Lytle's Creek, afterward owned by Joshua Moore. It ground corn only. It is related that Charles Stout had a cow that got fast in the mud in a boggy place by a strong spring on his land, and that the wolves attacked her and nearly killed her. The wolves killed his dog also. He then went to Highland County, got a wolf-trap, set it, and caught a very large gray wolf.

John Pyle was born August 5, 1766, in Chatham County, N. C. About the year 1815, he moved to Washington County, Ind. In 1823, he came to Clinton County, Ohio, and settled on the farm now owned by William S. Riley. His wife's name was Ruth. He had a family of six children, viz., William, Sarah, John, Jehu, Mary and Edith, only two of whom came to Ohio with him. These were William and Jehu. Two daughters married and settled in Indiana. His children were all born in North Carolina, where his wife had deceased previous to his moving to Indiana. He died January 20, 1846, in the eightieth year of his age. He was noted for being a remarkably good hunter. He would go into the woods and kill deer when no other person could.

Jehu Pyle, Jr., son of Jehu and Ruth Pyle, was born on Christmas Day, 1795, in Chatham County, N. C. His wife was Esther, daughter of Joseph and Docia Stratton. She was born on the 4th of February, 1804. About 1832, Jehu Pyle, Jr., in connection with his brother William, bought the Samuel Southwick farm on Lytle's Creek, near its mouth, the tract purchased consisting of several hundred acres. John Pyle moved to and lived at what is now known as the Esther Pyle or Snowden farm, where he continued to reside until the time of his death, which occurred the 29th of January, 1859. They had a family of eleven children, viz., Joseph and William, who were twins, David S., Abigail, Caleb, Nancy, Lindley, Mary, John, Melinda and Emily. Of these, Joseph, Abigail, Caleb, Nancy, Lindley and Mary died in their youth. John died in 1856, in the sixteenth year of his age.

William Pyle married Rebecca Garner. He has a family of several children. For some years, he resided in Indiana, but is now a resident of Adams Township. He was boim July 16, 1822.

David S. Pyle was born on the 27th of September, 1824. His wife was Sarah T. West. She died in 1856. He afterward married Nancy Fisher. There were five children by the first marriage, and three by the second. Esther Pyle, widow of Jehu, resides with her son-in-law, Snowden, and is now in the seventy-ninth year of her age.

William Pyle, Sr. , son of Jehu and Ruth, was bom March 11, 1788, in North Carolina. His wife was Mary, daughter of William Hadley. She was born on the 17th of July, 1792, and died the 7th of February, 1848, at the age of fifty-six. There were nine children by this marriage, viz., Samuel, Jehu, Mary, Ruth, John, David, Sarah, William and Ann Maria. He married again. His second wife, Abigail, died in 1853. He afterward married Lydia Smith, whose maiden name was Hazard. He died July 20, 1875.

Samuel Pyle is the only one of this family who resides in Adams Township. Jehu, David and Ann Maria are dead. Others reside in Indiana and Iowa. Samuel Pyle was born on the 22d of September, 1812. His first wife was a daughter of Thomas Austin, who settled on Todd's Fork as early as 1807. They had the following named children: Ann Eliza, Emily, Caroline. Amanda, Henry, Thomas, Melissa, Clark and Arthur. His second wife was Harriet McMillan. He resides in the southern part of the township, and is universally esteemed by all who know him.

Samuel Southwick was an early settler on Lytle's Greek, on the Jehu Pyle, Jr., or Snowden farm. He bought, about 1830, the Eli Harvey farm, near the mouth of Lytle's Creek. He afterward sold out to Jehu and William Pyle, and moved to Indiana. He was married four times. His first wife was a daughter of David Stearns; his second wife was a sister to his first wife. His third wife was Susannah Jenks, only sister of David Jenks. This marriage was about 1820. He had five children, two of them by his third wife. Their names were Philo and Riley. His son Emory married Harriet Humphreys. Southwick laid out a graveyard on his land, containing about an eighth of an acre, which he reserved in his deed to Pyle. Two of his wives are buried there, and two of his children, the first grave being that of one of his children.

Benjamin Farquhar came to Ohio in 1805, from Maryland. His wife's name was Rachel, a daughter of Jonathan and Susannah Wright, who came from Maryland about the same time. They had the following-named children: Uriah, born January 5, 1795; Cyrus, born July 4, 1796; Allen, born July 18, 1798; Jonathan, bom April 21, 1800; Josiali, born February 19, 1802; Susannah, born October 16, 1804; Edwin, born July 3, 1807; Rebecca, born September 9, 1810; and Rachel, born September 18, 1815. He bought land and settled in what is now the extreme northeastern part of Adams Township. Uriah studied medicine with Dr. Lathrop, of Waynesville. He came to Wilmington in 1816, practiced medicine for about twenty years, and then removed to Logansport, Ind. His wife was Keziah Elam. Cyrus married Lydia, daughter of Richard Fallis. Allen married Louisa Stockdale; Jonathan studied medicine with his brother. While visiting a patient, he was thrown from his horse and injured, from the effects of which he died. He was not married. Edwin died in infancy; Rebecca married Isaac Strickle; Susannah married Dr. Lytle, of Logansport, Ind.; Rachel married John Cadwallader. Benjamin Farquhar died in 1827, at the age of sixty-one, and is buried at Centre.

Josiah Farquhar, son of Benjamin, married Abi Linton. He lived on the Farquhar farm until his death, April 9, 1838. His children were Benjamin, Nathan, Francis and Caroline. Nathan and Caroline died in infancy. Benjamin and Francis both reside in Wilmington, as doeB their mother, Abi Sparks, she having married again, her second husband being Dr. Sparks. Both are prominent business men, and members of Friends' Church.

David Stearns was an early settler. He lived in the southwest part of Adams Township. He had three sons, Melzar, Luther and Harvey, and two daughters. He came from Massachusetts in 1813. Melzar Stearns owned about two hundred acres of land in the T. Baytop and Dudley Surveys. It whs afterward owned by Samuel and Jehu Pyle, sons of William Pyle, who bought it after his death, which occurred about 1834. His wife's name was Achsali Cranson. He was buried at the Southwick Graveyard. He was a farmer, and for several years kept a dairy, and made cheese and butter. He was a very influential citizen. He had three sons, Cranson, Seneca and Harrison, and a daughter Sarah. Cranson married Catherine Elliott, widow of David Elliott, whose maiden name was Shaffer. She had two children by her first husband, a son and a daughter, Mary. The son lives in Venice, Butler County, and the daughter, who married A. McNama, resides in Wilmington. Cranson Stearns is still living at Mainville.

Henry LeValley lived on the Joseph Anson farm. John Stackhouse afterward owned it and died there in 1820. He was the first person buried at Lytle's Creek.

Simon Grey was the first owner of the farm where Mahlon Stratton now resides, and lived there at an early day. His wife was Mary Reese. He built the house in which Stratton now lives, in 1835. David Jenks did the carpenter work.

Joseph and Mahlon Stratton were cousins who settled on Lytle's Creek in 1809. Joseph Stratton was born at Campbell Court House, Va., June 2, 1769. His wife was Docia Morman, who was born May 2, 1773. She died October 5, 1823, and was buried at Lytle's Creek. He lived on what is known as the Caleb Moore farm. He married a second wife afterward. His children by the first marriage were Micajah, David, Susannah, Nancy, Joseph, Esther and Benjamin. There were two children by the second marriage, one of whom, Rebecca, died when a young lady, and Edward, who is still living. He died February 7, 1831 , and is buried at Lytle's Creek. Mahlon Stratton was the first settler on what was known as the Rayburn place. His wife's name was Sarah. Both lived there until their death. He donated the land for the burial-ground at Lytle's Creek, where he and his wife were both buried. They had eight children, viz,, Levi, David, Mary, Sarah, Rachel, Elizabeth, Susannah, Esther and Mahlon.

Thomas Kersey, Sr.,, was born September 15, 1759. He was the son of William and Hannah Kersey, of Guilford County, N. C. His wife's name was Rebecca, daughter of John and Ann Carter, of Orange County, N. C. She was born July 11, 1759. He came to Ohio and settled on Todd's Fork in 1812, on land adjoining that of John Carter, his brother-in-law. He had six children, three boys and three girls. The boys' names were John, Thomas and Carter; the girls' names were Mary, Nancy and Rebecca. He died August 10, 1865, and was buried at Lytle's Creek. John married a Steddom; Carter married a Lindsey; Mary married Eli Millikan, and Nancy married Simon Hadley.

Thomas Kersey, Jr., was born January 27, 1793, in Guilford County, N. C. ; came to Ohio with iris father iu 1822. His wife was Letitia, daughter of Samuel and Martha Craig, of Warren County, Ohio. He died September 7, .1870, in his seventy-eighth year. His widow survived him two years, and died May 11, 1872, in her seventy-second year. They had six children, Ann, William, John, Hannah, Martha and Rebecca. The parents are buried at Lytle's Creek.

William Osborn was born in North Carolina August 1, 1778. His wife's name was Susannah Foust, daughter of Philip Snotherly, of North Carolina. They were married in 1799; came to Ohio in the fall of 1815, and, after living a year or two on the Samuel Harvey place on Lytle's Creek, afterward owned by Thomas Rich, he bought 100 acres of land and settled on it in J. Roberts' Survey, in the extreme southern part of the township. They were

Thomas Osborn married Margaret Reynard, daughter of Adam Reynard. He died July 18, 1838. He had the following-named children: William, Susannah, Adam, Peter, Catharine Mary, Elisha, Margaret and Thomas.

John Osborn, son of William, married a daughter of Preserved Dakin. They had a family of several children, none of whom now reside in the township of Adams. J ohn Osborn moved to Kansas several years ago.

Peter Osborn married Sarah, daughter of John Hadley. His wife died August 22, 1853; he died November 17, 1874. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. He was an influential citizen of Adams Township, and a member of and a minister in the Society of Friends. They had a family of eight children, viz., Alfred, Charles, William H. , Sarah Jane, John Thomas, Ruth Ann, Elwood and Eli, all of whom are living except Eli, who died in infancy. All reside in Clinton County. A few years after the death of his first wife, Peter Osborn married Eliza Trueblood, widow of Cyrus Trueblood, of Indiana. Two children wore the result of this union - Mary E., who became the wife of James Smith, and Adeline Osborn.

William Osborn, Jr., was married December 25, 1834, to Hannah Hadley, daughter of David Hadley. He had five children by this union - David S., Mary Emily, William, Isaiah H. and Seth. William Osborn remained single after the death of his first wife until 1881, when he married Theodocia Hadley, widow of Eli L. Hadley, whose maiden name was Thatcher.

Charles Osborn married Elizabeth Fulgum. He resided on the home farm, of which he became the owner after his father's death. They had thirteen children, viz., Sarah, Isaiah, Mary Jane, Michael W., Peter, Caroline, Elizabeth, Charles W., Calvin, Lydia, Clark, Frank and Delphina. Isaiah died at eight years of age, and Calvin at twelve. Plis wife, Elizabeth, died October 28, 1864, and he afterward married Jemima Clark, a widow. Charles Osborn deceased on the 1st of Tanuary, 1876, at the age of sixty-four years. He is buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Jacob Hale was one of the first settlers on Todd's Fork. In 1805, with Isaac Harvey and John Hadley, he came to view the country. They traveled on horseback, coming through Highland County. They found it a "goodly land." They returned to North Carolina, resolved to part with their possessions there, and remove with their families to Ohio as soon as possible. Jacob Hale was largely engaged in business there, and owning considerable land it took him some time to close up his affairs. The three, Hadley, Harvey and Hale, were all brothors-in-law, Hale having marriod Martha Harvey, and John Hadley her sister Lydia. They selected a tract of land on Todd's Fork, then owned by Robert Pollard, since known as the T. Baytop Survey, No. 2, - 372, as suitable for making them a home, with othors of their family who were expected to come with them to what was then, to them, the far West. This survey contained over two thousand acres of land, and was purchased by Isaac and Eli Harvey, jointly, from the owner, at Richmond, Ya. , for this purposo. In 1807, Jacob Hale came with his family to Ohio, and settlod on Todd's Fork, and bought over three hundred acros of said survey. All of his children, except tho youngest, wore born in North Carolina. Their names and order of their ages are as follows: Samuel, Elizabeth, William, Eli, Ruth, Lydia, Jacob, Martha, Joseph, Armonia, Mary and Emily. Of these Elizabeth married James Massie; William married Mariah Sabin, sister of Warren and Zebulon Sabin; Eli Hale married Ann Hadley, daughter of William Hadley; Lydia married John Harlan, who settled near Dakin's Corner; Jacob and Martha were twins; Jacob married Hannah Andrew, daughter of Samuel Andrew; Martha married Hiram Mendenhall, son of Nathan Mendenhall, whose wife was Nancy Harlan; Joseph Hale's first wife was Rowena Harlan, and his second wife was Sarah Sewell; Armonia Hale married Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Edwards; Mary married Isaac Goldsberry; Emily died in infancy.

Armonia Hale was born in Randolph County, N. C. He came to Ohio with his father when he was about three years of age. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Edwards. He resides on the farm where his father settled when he first came to Ohio* He is an industrious and useful citizen. He has resided continuously on the same farm for over seventy-five years. His family consisted of the following-named children: Joseph, Elwood, Milo, John, Edward and Jacob, sons, and Martha and Ann, daughters.

John Anson came from New Jersey in 1817. He died in 1848, at the age of seventy- eight. His wife's name was Hannah. Both are buried at Lytle's Creek. They had the following-named children: Samuel, Evaline, David, John, Isaac, Benjamin, Thomas, Andrew, Joseph and Clinton. Joseph resides in Adams Township. He and Andrew are the only members of the family now living.

Jacob Hale, son of Jacob Hale, Sr., was born July 12, 1802, in Randolph County, N. C. His wife's name was Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Delia Andrew. She was born January 7, 1812. He died about the year 1844; his widow is still living. They had three children - William, Susannah and Alfred. William Hale and Alfred both reside in Adams Township, and are prosperous farmers.

Jesse Thatcher was born August 1, 1815, and was the son of Thomas and Susannah Thatcher, and a brother of Joseph and David Thatcher. He died in May, 1882, in his seventy-seventh year. He was the father of quite a large family of children. His wife was a daughter of Adam Rhinard, an early settler in Union Township.

David Jenks was born October 23, 1790, in Rhode Island, and raised in Massachusetts. He was the son of David and Susannah Jenks, and came to Ohio in 1818, and first settled in Butler County. In 1824, he came to Adams Township and bought about seventy-five acres of land of Samuel Gaskill, who had bought it at the administrator's sale of John Stackhouse, who died in 1820, he having bought it of a man by the name of LeValley. His wife's name was Thankful, daughter of Thomas Fish. She died June 9, 1830. They had seven children, as follows: Achsah, Joseph, Lorenzo, Rodney, Harriet, Alden and Thankful. He afterward married Keziah JesBup, by whom he had one child, Amanda. He died January 5, 1854, and was buried at the Southwick Graveyard, as were both his wives. Keziah, his widow, only survived him about three months.

Rodney Jenks, son of David, was born May 2, 1823. He married Sarah Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Byard. They had five children - George, David, Hannah Ann, Alden and Martha Ellen, only two of whom, George and David, are now living. Rodney Jenks resides near Ogden, on what was once known as the Micajah Stratton farm.

Isaiah Quinby was born in Lancaster County, Penn, January 30, 1799. He married Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Elijah and Sarah Moore, of Center County, Penn. They emigrated to Ohio in 1826, coming down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati in a skiff. He first settled in Warren County, near Hisey's Mill, where they lived for a few years, and then removed to Chester Township, near Oakland, where they resided until the fall of 1839, when they removed to Adams Township, near Lytle's Creek, where he purchased a farm of one of the Holaday's, being the same since owned by Joseph Stratton, Jr. They had eleven children, viz., Sarah Jane, Aaron B., Josephine E., Thomas M., Miriam E., Ezra A., Mercy Ann, Isaiah W. , Elijah, Hannah Sophia and Jesse Cutler. Josephine, wife of R. A. Washburn, died July 23, 1859, and is buried at Lytle's Creek. She left one child, Josephine by name. Mercy Ann, wife of George Gillett, died at Bedford, Iowa, in July, 1873. She left three children. Sarah Jane and Elijah died in infancy.

Elizabeth Quinby died December 23, 1858, and is buried at Lytle's Creek; she was a member of the Society of Friends. Isaiah Quinby married a second wife, by which marriage there was one child, Harris Quinby; he resides in Iowa. Isaiah Quinby moved to the vicinity of Hawleysville, Page Co., Iowa, in 1866; he died in March, 1873, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, and is buried at Hawleysville.

Dr. William W. Sheppai'd, of Sligo, Clinton County, is a practicing physician of large experience. He is the son of Levi Sheppard, and -was raised in Wilmington; he came to Adams Township in 1848, where he has since resided continuously, except a few years spent in Illinois. His wife'B name is Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Riddle; they have had three children, viz., Shotwell, Rachel and Levi. Their daughter died a few years ago, and is buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery. Dr. Sheppard was born March 20, 1821. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Society of Friends, and enjoy the confidence and respect of all who know them.

By A. H. Harlan, New Burlington, Ohio Geological Structure

THE rocks composing the foundation of our superstructure are of the Hudson period, Lower Silurian age, and paleozoic era of the world's formation. These rocks are of the class limestone, and were formed from a " calcareous organic sediment " at the bottom of the sea. In other words, they were composed of the lime- like substance of the shells of the mollusca, or sea-living animals of that period, and from an argillaceous or clayey matter carried into the sea by the ever advancing and retreating waves upon the land. To use the words of J. S. Newberry, Esq., the chief geologist of the Ohio survey: "In the advance inland of the sea line, the first deposit from the sea would be what may be termed an unbroken sheet of sea beach, which would cover the rocky sub-structure of all portions of the continent brought beneath the ocean. Over this coarser material would be deposited a sheet of finer mechanical sediment, principally clay, laid down just in the rear of the advancing beach ; and, finally, over all, a sheet of greater or less thickness of calcareous material, destined to form limestone when consolidated, the legitimate and only deposit made from the water of the open sea." These rocks in time, or as centuries followed centuries, and the ever and unceasing changes of nature went on, became covered with drift, first of blue clay, then followed by alluvium, from which in time sprang forth vegetation, and when found by the settler of the eighteenth century, was covered by an unbroken forest. Looking upon this scene with an eye for the beautiful and mysterious, an admiration and reverence for the Power that wrought these mysteries, one cannot but see that the conclusions had been drawn and the result known ages before the completion of this great sub-structure. No mistakes were made, but, on the other hand, these laws, when once set going, continued on and on in an unceasing performance of their duties until the end had been reached and made ready for the coming master-stroke of this great architect, man.

If we could but follow man from his first appearance upon earth on the high table-lands of Central Asia, up through the long ages of his wanderings in a darkened and benighted condition, until the closing years of the eighteenth century of the Christian Era, when we find him planted upon the shores of the New World; if we could have passed with him through all his battles for civil and religious freedom, and witnessed his many attempts at establishing a government shorn of all prejudices and superstitions; or if to-day we could look back upon him (in all these ages) with a supernatural vision, we could but re-admire the mysterious workings of the Prime Architect and Builder of all this. But space forbids, and we can only refer to him as he emerges from his baptism of blood in that century, and find him again established with civil and religious liberties as his chief corner-stones; but at what a sacrifice!

Location

The township of which I write is located in the extreme northwestern corner of Clinton County, and is bounded on the east by Liberty and Union, and on the south by Adams, each and all sister townships of Chester. On the

From east to west, its width is four and eighty-seven hundredths miles; from north to south its length is six and thirty-one hundredths miles, and it contains within its boundaries thirty and seventy-three hundredths square miles. Its altitude above low water at the suspension bridge, on the Ohio River, at Cincinnati, is about four hundred and fifty feet; above the sea level, about nine hundred feet. The declination is from northeast to west and south. Before the organization of Clinton County, about one-fourth of the lands now embraced in our township belonged to Warren, and prior to that to Hamilton County. At the establishing of Clinton County in 1810, it was one of the three townships into which the county was subdivided, viz., Chester, Richland and Vernon, and was by far the largest in both area and population of the three. The boundary lines of that day are, however, in great part but tradition of today, so that just where the lines were that separated Chester from her sister townships the writer of this cannot fully determine. Enough for the purpose to say, however, that they included all of Liberty, a part of Wilson, then on a line south so as to include Wilmington, and to a point where a line drawn west would include the northern half of Adams. It then followed the line of Warren to Greene, and the latter to the place of beginning.

It remained in this form until the year 1813, when Union was established from Chester, Richland and Vernon; hence the name. In 1817, Liberty, and the now west part of Wilson, were taken, to be followed in May, 1849, by the -southern part of Chester, going to form the northern part of Adams; since then no further change in the territory has been made.

Of the larger streams or water- courses of the county, none extend for any distance within our corporate limits. The waters of Dutch Creek coming in below the center of our line on the east, flow but a few miles southwest, then join with those of Todd's Fork, just without our borders. Anderson's Fork, in its long, zigzag wanderings across the plains of Richland, Wilson and Liberty, to enter our borders on the east, stops but briefly to lave the soil of Chester, and then glides into Greene, re-entering inside the lines, however, in time to flow southwest across our northwest corner, and unite with the waters of Caesar Creek as they enter northwest and flow southeast. Then these two journey on for a short distance only, when they by a southwest departure, disappear into Warren. But the tributaries of these streams are sufficient and proportionate to the drainage necessary for the lands, the principal ones of which are Buck Run, Turkey Run, Trace Branch, Jonah's Run and Layton's Run. These, with the exception of the latter, are tributaries of Caesar Creek, the former of which rises in Liberty Township on the lands of Allen Hiatt and flow westerly through the former into the latter, entering Caesar Creek at the point where it departs into Warren. The directions of the three remaining tributaries of this stream are from east to southwest, with, however, one exception, and that the latter, which has a northwest by west course until after passing out of the township, when it assumes more of a northwest course. Layton's Run is a tributary of Dutch Creek, and rises on lands now owned by Newton McMillan and the heirs of Job Jeffries, flows southeast, and enters the lands of Emma Buckley.

As I said in the beginning, the lands of Chester were covered with a dense growth of forest trees, the following in part being the species to which they belonged: Oak, beech, cottonwood, black walnut, hickory, buckeye, butternut, elm, ash, sassafras, gum, thorn, ironwood, honey locust, hornbeam, maple and poplar; and while these species of the flora of our laud wore not confined to any one section of it, yet some grew more numerous than others, and the exv ceptions I shall note are the oak, maple, beech, hickory, poplar and sycamore. Of these, the former grew in all its majesty and beauty in the neighborhood of Oakland, the maple over all the territory, the beech likewise, as well as the hickory, while upon the water-courses we find the sycamore, and on the hillsides and adjoining, the poplar.

The surface of our township can be divided into two classes, viz., the northern half undulating, but not so as to seriously interfere with its cultivation or allow of lands that cannot in some manner be utilized. The southern half has, properly speaking, more of a level cast, and in the early days was somewhat retarded in its settlement and cultivation. The soils of the township are well adapted to all kinds of small grain, and, in fact, to the various kinds of agricultural pursuits. The principal crops are corn, wheat, oats, flax, hay, and Irish potatoes, while in some localities rye and barley are raised every year; they are not, however, considered in these statements as belonging to our crops. The breeding and raising of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs are also engaged in quite extensively, and many fine animals of each breed are to be found in our township.

The lands in Chester, as indeed all those in the county, are of a class known as " the Virginia Military Lands, " and were surveyed, entered and patented for and by the soldiera of the Continental establishment of Virginia, in the war for independence, or their heirs-at-law. Virginia had in that war two classes into which her troops were divided. First, the Continental, or, under the National Government; second, State troops, or militia. Virginia, as you are already informed in this volume, claimed under three separate charters from the crown of England, bearing date April 10, 1606, May 23, 1609, and March 12, 1611, all the lands then known as the "Territory Northwest of the River Ohio," which, on March 1, 1784, she conveyed to the National Government, through her Delegates in Congress, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Samuel Hardy and Arthur Lee, reserving, however, so much as would become necessary to discharge a debt then existing against her, and going to her soldiers who had enlisted under certain acts passed by her, and by which they were entitled to lands for their services. To this the National Government consented, and by so doing brought into history the lands referred to. The territory set apart consisted of a tract of land of 6,570 square miles, or 4,204,800 acres, situated between the Scioto and Little Miami Rivers, with a frontage on the Ohio River covering that distance. It then extended north until the head-waters of all south-running streams were reached; hence, Clinton County is one of the counties embraced therein.

In Chester there are eleven complete and eighteen fractional surveys, covering 20,123 acres; and, while it is not my intention to go into a full and detailed history of the original settlement of each survey, I propose to occupy considerable space in that direction, for I am frank to acknowledge that the searching out of these early, and in fact, earliest settlers, has been to me a source of peculiar compensation; and I am fully persuaded by the hearty co-operation I have everywhere met with throughout the length and breadth of our township, that the plan will be met with general satisfaction by all. These patents, then, open the history of our township, in the earliest days of the present century, and, as my pen takes up the thread that will weave into history the lives and life-work of those noble heroes and heroines who cut from out their primeval covering the fine farms that now bask in the sunlight and thrift of the prosperity everywhere manifested within our borders, I cannot but feel that to other hands should this task have been given - hands far more efficient, minds with far larger capacities and talents than mine own. Realizing then, as I do, the great labor before me, and that where weeks have been employed, months should have been consumed in the work, I reluctantly accept the trust, and enter upon it with the intention of giving, as far as I go, a true narrative of the events surrounding the settlement of our township.

Warp And Woof

James Robertson was a soldier in the war for our independence, a Lieutenant for three years in the Continental establishment of Virginia. By the laws of his State, 2,666§ acres of land were his. He did not return, but his life went out, as did thousands of others in the grand struggle wherein, upon the one side was engaged a monarchy with all that the name implies, and on the other a people whose chiefest desires were civil and religious freedom, equal and exact liberties. Philip Barbour was his heir-at-law. Albert Gallatin in time became the assignee of Barbour, and on the 18th day of October, 1787, entered Survey No. 571, "situated on the lower side of Caesar Creek," and containing 766§ acres of land. A patent did not follow until the 3d day of April, 1804, two years after the Territory had been made a State, seventeen years after the entry had been made, and five years after it had passed from the hands of Gallatin and been settled upon.

James Jenkins was a native of Redstone, Fayette Co., Penn., and was during the Revolutionary war a most bitter and uncompromising Tory. He left Pennsylvania soon after peace was declared, for the reason probably that peace to the country was but the beginning of war to him - in other words the return of his neighbors to their homes after months of privation and suffering (battling for their country), surrounded him with anything but a social and friendly atmosphere. His destination was Tennessee, which he reached, and where he died.

Twelve years after Gallatin entered Survey 571, or in the year 1799, Aaron, a son of James Jenkins, came from Tennessee and purchased the entire tract of land. He was accompanied by his wife and a part of his family. He erected thereon a hewed-log house, of the double pattern so common in those days. His family consisted of five children, three sons and two daughters, his sons Baldwin and James, he gave all of the survey, excepting fifty acres off the southeast corner, which he gave to his daughter Lydia. To his son Aaron he gave lands he had purchased near where the village of Port William is today. No record is given of his last child. The survey was situated partly in Greene and partly in Clinton, and while the settlement of this man then as now was wholly without the province of Clinton County, the children arriving at manhood and womanhood, with one exception, became settlers in Chester Township.

Charles Scott was a Brigadier General, and, under warrant 815, entered 11,666§ acres of land in the " Territory Northwest of the Ohio River." On the 5th day of September, 1800, he entered Survey No. 3,916, consisting of 800 acres, and adjoining Gallatin on the east. The patent followed July 18, 1801, in the name of Nathaniel Massie, and was signed by Thomas Jefferson as President of the "United States.

George A. Mann and his wife Elizabeth were of German descent, though natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in 1727, the latter in 1746. In 17 - , they emigrated to Rockingham County, Va., where they remained some years, and from there they went to Nicholas County, Ky. They had eight children - John, Peter, Jacob, Henry, George, Elizabeth, Charles and David. While yet in Kentucky, George Mann purchased of his son-in-law, Adam Shillinger, 200 acres of a 400-acre tract of land he owned in 3,916, situated on the waters oE South Fork (now Anderson's Fork). The consideration was $4 per acre, and the purchase was made for his youngest two children, Charles and David. The others had married, and were settled in Kentucky. Early in the month of March, 1801, Charles and David Mann, the former twenty and the latter eighteen years of age, left their father's house in Nicholas County, Ky., for the " Territory Northwest of the Ohio," and for the further purpose of finding and settling upon the lands last mentioned. The understanding had between the father and sons was that he, in company with the mother, his son-in-law, Schillinger, and his family, would follow in the fall of that year, or the spring of 1802. The boys were upon horseback, and carried with them such articles as were of the utmost importance, and at the same time of the most convenience to carry, such as axes, a few cooking utensils, some provisions, but above all the constant companion of the early settlers, their guns. At about noon of a day in the latter part of that month, they landed at their destination and immediately set to work to prepare some kind of a shelter. They felled some mulberry trees, which they split into slabs, and with these slabs erected a rude structure somewhat similar in pattern to an Indian wigwam. Into this they carried their effects, and in it they spent their first night on the "farm." The morning must have been to them a dreary one indeed, for a snow lay deep on the ground. Without doubt, as they looked out upon father and the warm meal there being prepared by the loved and loving mother. Few boys of this day would care to undergo such hardships; but the day came and went, to be followed in turn by others, until the time arrived when the crop for the coming year must go in the ground. The boys had already up, land had been partly cleared, and ground was as rapidly as possible being prepared for the planting, when a morning came to them that caused them to feel that the last straw had been applied. They awoke to find that during the darkness of night their horses had either strayed or were stolen. A decision was soon reached. Charles would go on the hunt for the missing animals; David would remain behind and await his return. Hastily bidding each other farewell, they separated, the former on the trail of the horses, the latter to his daily toil. The day went by; a week followed, and months rolled away before these two boys again met. David planted that season three acres of corn, going to a settler named Price, near where Paintersville now stands, for his seed. Spring passed, summer had ended, his crop ripened and was garnered, and yet no word from Charles, nor the loved ones at home. But he must remain where ho was. His nearest neighbors were Aaron Jenkins, Peter Price (where he got his seed corn), and a settler where Waynesville now stands. The latter had a corn-cracker that turned by hand, which he had brought with him from Virginia the year before. An incident occurred during the summer that I will mention here: One day, when the corn was in fine condition for roasting, six Indians came down the creek (Anderson's Fork), and went into the corn patch. Husking off an arm load of ears apiece, they carried them down to the banks of the creek, where they started a fire and had a feast. David was a spectator to the scene, and, while he did not like to see the fruits of his labor going to fill the bellies of a half-dozen dirty, lazy savages, he did not say so to them, but allowed them to eat and depart when they felt ready. In the fall, David would shell a grist of corn, put it in a linen bag (brought from home), then on his shoulder, gun in hand, would trudge through the woods to the settler with his corn-cracker, and, when done, home again the same way, a distance, going and returning, of nearly twenty miles.

Charles followed the horses day after day, until he reached the river, opposite Maysville, at which point he learned that animals answering his descrip- tion had swam the river at that place and had gone in the direction of Nicholas County. He crossed the river and followed on until his father's house was reached, when he there found the objects of his search. On his return home, all thoughts of waiting until spring were abandoned, and preparations were at once begun for an immediate removal to the new home. September found them on the way, and October safely landed in this State. Here they remained; here the boys grew to manhood; here, under the sturdy strokes of these brave men grew one of the finest farms in the settlement; and here, on the 4th day of May, 1821, at the age of ninety-five years, George Mann passed to his rest, to be followed, at the age of eighty-four, in January, 1839, by Elizabeth, the wife and mother. Thus passed from earth to eternity two of those noble souls who were so largely instrumental in preparing the way for succeeding generations. And now, while, as in the case of the J enkins family, their settlement was without the county, yet their lands extended over, and all but one of the family became residents of Clinton. Charles Mann married Lydia, daughter of Aaron Jenkins, and settled in the stone house on the place now owned by Yolcah Weaver. He was a member of the first jury that ever sat in a State case in Clinton, it being the State of Ohio against Cornelius Quick. Horse-stealing was the charge upon which he was found guilty, and the sentence of the court was "That he be whipped on his naked back fifty stripes, on Saturday, October 27, at 2 o'clock P. M."* He was the father of several children, and died December 24, 1865, aged eighty-three years eight months and twenty -three days. His wife, Lydia, died April 5, 1838, aged fifty-two years. David Mann married Rachel Irvin; they had several children, but one of whom came into the township; he died June 29, 1856, aged seventy-two years five months and nine days; his wife, Rachel, died August 7, 1873, aged seventy-three years four months and twelve days. Two of the sons remaining in Kentucky afterward came out, Henry and Jacob. The former purchased the fifty acres owned by Lydia Jenkins Mann, and settled upon it, where his son John now lives. This was in the year 1809. Jacob came and settled upon a part of this place, but soon after purchased land in what is now Washington Township, near Cuba, and remained there. The George Mann now living in that township is his son. Henry died February 4, 1858, aged nearly seventy-nine years; his wife, Rachel, died March 25, 1862, aged seventy-six years eight months and twenty-eight days. John, now an old man, occupies his father's homestead, and ere many years he, too, will be called to his rest.

The Lucas Family

The members of this family originally came from New Jersey, where they were among the earliest settlers of that colony, receiving with others land grants from the crown. The elder Lncas of those I shall mention removed, from New Jersey in the eighteenth century, and settled in Kentucky. Thomas Lucas, a son of his, had six children, all sons, viz., Thomas, Abraham, Ebon ezer, John, Caleb and Francis. He left Kentucky in a very early day, and came to Fort Washington, now Cincinnati, probably in 1785, j" where he remained some years. While here, his son John enlisted under Gen. Harmar, in his campaign against the Indians, in which it was supposed he lost his life, as he never returned from that ill-fated expedition. Caleb, another son, accompanied Gen. Wayne as far as Greensville, Darke Co., Ohio, in his expedition against the Indians, in the capacity of a teamster. The family then came to Columbia, and from thore to Lebanon, where the parents died. In 1802, Caleb Lucas purchased of Abijah O'Neal, a land speculator at Lebanon, f Aa Fort Washington was not erected until 1781), the next year alter Cincinnati was settled, probably it was not earlier than 1789. - P. A. I).

150 acres of land in 3,916 adjoining on the south the lands of George Mann, and wholly in Clinton County (then Warren). He came here the same year, settled and built upon it a hewed-log house, the consideration being fully explained by the following, now in the possession of the family:

Received, August 6, 1804, of Caleb Lucas, at the hands of Samuel Martin, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, it being one-half of the price of one hundred and fifty acres of land, which the said Lucas purchased of me, the said lands being the property of Col, Massie, the other half payable in twelve months from this date, said lands lying on Anderson's Fork, adjoining Aaron Jenkins.

He began at once to clear his land. Before coming here he had, however, married, about the year 1797, Mary Price, who was bom in Rockingham County, Va., February 8, 1782; he, October 28, 1776. Nine children were born to them, as follows: Thomas, October 13, 1799; Sarah, March 29, 1802; Catharine, December 10, 1804; Elizabeth, February 7,1807; Mary, March 18, 1809; Rachel, April 13, 1811; Frederick, February 22, 1814; Caleb, February 1, 1817 ; and Ebenezer, October, 1819. He, soon after settling here, sold to hia brother Ebenezer fifty acres off the east side of his place, part of lands now owned by Levi D. Shambaugh. At the time of hia settlement here, the Indians were quite numerous, though not troublesome. Among the many who at that time were frequent visitors to this settlement was Roundhead, a chief of the Wyandots, and, being an excellent marksman, never failed to call upon Mr. Lucas for a test of skill in the use of the rifle at a mark. He was always made welcome by Mr. L. , and many times their shots were placed side by side at a distance of 100 paces. His neighbors at this time were George Mann, Aaron Jenkins, his brother Ebenezer, and a few others. The nearest, mill was the corn-cracker referred to, at the place where, as I said, Waynesville now stands. The nearest trading-place was Lebanon, and that through an almost unbroken forest.

But the peace and prosperity of these settlers was not long to continue, at least not for many years. In 1811, war again broke out over the frontier and these brave men had to look the danger squarely iu the face and prepare for it. In 1812, Caleb Lucas was elected Captain and I feel that the following will not be out of place at this time:

It being certified to me that you are duly elected Captain of the Fourth Company, Sixth Battalion, Third Brigade, First Division of the Militia of this State :

Now Know You, That by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and Law's of said State ; and reposing special trust and confidence in your courage, integrity, fidelity and good conduct, I do, by these presents, commission you as Captain of said Company, hereby authorizing and requiring of you to discharge all and singular the duties and services appertaining to your said office, agreeably to law, and such instructions as you shall from time to time receive from your superior officers.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great seal of the State of Ohio to be affixed, at Chillicothe, Ohio, the third day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twelve, and in the thirty -sixth year of the independence of the United States of America.

September 12, 1817. This is to certify that the within named Captain, Caleb Lucas> has resigned the within commission, in consequence of his having served five years.

Among the many old papers now in the possession of his son, Ebenezer (who yet resides on the old place and until but a few years ago, in the old house, and who married a daughter of David and grand-daughter of George Mann), I copy the following:

This 22d day of September, 1807, received of Caleb Lucas 1 dollar and 33 cents, it being in full for the present year for county and State tax.