Sulphur Springs, Ohio

In 1872, he began teaching school in Sandusky Township, this county, and taught three winter terms. The second term was a school at State Line, and the third was in his own district. On Sept. 24, 1874, he united his fortunes with Lovina Spahr - daughter of Geo. A. and Catharine (Cover) Spahr, who came from Columbia Co., Penn., and settled in this county upward of forty 3ears ago. Mrs. Crall was born in this county, Nov. 8, 1852. They have one child, Eva L., born Oct. 14, 1877 ; they reside where Mr. Crall's parents bought and settled, when they came here in 1852. They own 75 acres of well-improved land, and reside in the substantial brick residence which was built on the premises over 44 j^eai's ago.

Passage source: History of Crawford County and Ohio : Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Crawford County ... Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc, published 1881.

DR. M. M. CARROTHERS, pliysician. Sulphur Springs ; was born in Vernon Township, this county, Feb. 8, 1845 ; is the youngest of eight children, and, like most young men who are brought up to farm-life, his time was occupied between the duties of the farm and attending school ; but he showed a decided taste for the latter, and a desire for general knowledge, which has been duly gratified. In May, 1864, he enlisted in the 163d 0. N. G., and served until the following September, that time being the expiration of his term of enlistment. He then returned home, and in the following November he began teaching school, and taught five winters, living at his father's and helping on the farm in the summer months. When about 23 years of age he began the study of medicine with Dr. A. E. Jenner, of Crestline ; he studied there three years, including two terms of lectures - first, at the Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati ; second term of lectures was at the University of Wooster, in Cleveland, where he graduated in February, 1872. That same spring, he came to this village and began the practice of his profession, and was favored with a patronage beyond the most sanguine expectations ; his medical skill is daily growing in favor. He is a young man, quiet and unassuming, and not given to any display, but understands thoroughly his profession, as his success attests. He owns a valualile property in the village, and the only two-story brick residence there at this writing, and is otherwise well prepared, financially, to enjoy life. On July. 1872, he united his fortunes with Mary Wert ; she was born in Sandusky Township, this county, Jan. 7, 1846. They have three children - Carrie M., Eva E. and John R.

Passage source: History of Crawford County and Ohio : Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Crawford County ... Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc, published 1881.

J. H. FRY, deceased ; was born in the Canton of Zurich, in Switzerland, Nov. 14, 1791. His passport to this country bears date March 11, 1817 ; he landed at New York, and went thence to Chambersburg, Penn., where he resided several years, when he resolved to come to the West, and in 1824 he came to Crawford Co., entering 160 acres of Government land, west of where the village of Annapolis is located. In January, 1827, he married Catharine - daughter of Thomas Williamson, and in ' 1833 they sold out, but purchased 160 acres [ about half a mile north of where the village is [ located, of one Matthias Markley; this location Mr. Fry made his home until he was called hence by the messenger of death. They were , quite prosperous in their farming pursuits, and i were also blessed with a family of ten children I - Henry, Elizabeth, Catharine, Thomas, Alfred, I Hannah, John. Sarah, Joshua and Francis, all of whom are living except Elizabeth. Mrs. Fry was i born in Schuylkill Co., Penn., October, 1809, and I came to Crawford Co., Ohio, with her father's family, in 1826 ; they located on the Broken Sword, in Liberty Township, but in 1829 they moved to St. Joseph Co., Mich., with seven of their children, four sons and three daughters. There Mrs. Fry's mother, Mrs. Williamson, died, and, after the death of his wife, Thomas Williamson went, with others, to California, and died in San Francisco in 1846. While they resided here, their daughter Polly was married to Jacob Whetstone ; she and Mrs. Fry being the only members of the Williamson family to remain here. For j-ears Mr. Fry had been a member of the Lutheran Church, and on 5Iarch 11, 1875, he received the summons to enter into the full enjoyment of a higher and better life. His widow still survives, and although her 72d year is rapidly approaching, she is as quick, both mentally and physically, and as ambitious as many who have scarcely passed eighteen summers. Her memory is replete with incidents of pioneer life, when this district was almost an unbroken forest, and when neighbors, though

Passage source: History of Crawford County and Ohio : Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Crawford County ... Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc, published 1881.

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Read the whole chapter on Liberty Township - it names this place 35 more 35 times.