Jefferson Township (part 2 of 15)

The Coming Of The Gowdv F.Xmily

In February. 1845, James Gowdy (then sixty-eight years of age), beng solicited Insome of his children, gave the following account of his ancestry, and contemporary connections : "My progenitors on my father's side were Welsh and Irish. They emigrated from Ireland in A. D. 1707. and settled in the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania. My grandfather's Christian name was James. He had four children wlm Hved to maturity, viz. : Adam, who died young and single: John (my father) ; Robert and Jane. My father was born on the fifth day of November, 1742, in N^ew Castle county, Delaware, and removed, with some others of the family, into Pennsylvania, about 1760, where he married Abigail, the youngest daughter of John Ryan, about 1772, with whom he lived about fort}--two years, and liad eleven children, six sons and five daughters, all of whom li\-ed to marry and raise families, except Mary, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 13th of April, 1775, and died in Greene county, Ohio, the cjth day of June, 18 1 2. James w-as born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the 20th day of ^lay. 1777: Samuel, born 9th of January, A. D. 1780; jRobert. burn on the 4tli of April. 1782 : .Martha. Ixirn on tlie 27th of January, 1785, married John jii'ily. and h;id one son, James; Jane, born on the 31st of May, 1787; John, born u\\ the 3d of August. 1789; .\lexander, born on the 2d of April. 1792; Ryan, born on the 3d day of February, 1795; Abigail, born on the I7tli of July. 1797; Sarah, born on the 6th of March, 1803. This in brief is the beginning of the large connection of that name, coming to Greene county. Ohio, in icSo;."

James Cio\\d_\', the subject uf this sketch. eldest son of John and Abigail Gowdy. was born in Lancaster county. Penns_\lvania. ijii the 20th day of May,. 1777. and died at his home, in Xenia, Ohio, December 24, 1853, aged seventy-six years, and is buried in the old Associate Reformed graveyard. East Third street. The first trace that we find of Mr. Gowdy as a merchant, is when he entered into partnership with his brother, Samuel, in the mercantile anil cabinet business in the fall of 1802 at Mt. Sterling, Montgomery county, Kentucky. The brotliers carried on the above business on a moderate scale there for three years to some advantage, having the post office to keep part of the time. In the fall of 1805 James took part of the goods and removed to Xenia. Ohio. His brother. Samuel, having closed their business in June. 1800, nl-o cn.me. with the balance of their stock. -lia. They also had their younger III i.-.^r. Ryan, to assist them in their wi rk ill the stcre. he then being a small boy. I hev were the first merchants who made a permanent stand with store goods in Xenia. They continued in business as partners with mutual satisfaction for five or six years, and increased their store capital and gained some real estate in town, anil land in the country, until the spring or summer of 18 14, when they dissolved partnership by mutual consent, and each of them ran stores of their own for five or six years, when Samuel sold his store and settled on a tract of woodland near the town. James Gowd}- continued in the business, with the aid of hs younger brother. Ryan, and an apprentice, John Ewing. who was related to his first wife. When Ryan became of age, he left the store and a second apprentice was taken, William Perkins. Mr. Gowdy had several partners from time to time. John S. Perkins was also one of ]Mr. Gowdy's apprentices. John R. Gowdy (eldest son of Samuel) was taken in as a member of the firm on the 5th of July. 1833, which ijartnership continued until near the time of his death, in ]\Iarch, 1834. Then Alexander G. Zimmerman and John A. Gowdy (son of Robert) were taken into partnership under the firm name of Gowdy. Ewing & Company and continued until the 12th of August, 1836, when John A. Gowdy settled with the firm and moved to Illinois. The above firm continued until the 19th of July. 1838. when Janies Gowdy, Sr., sold out his interest in the firm to John Ewing and Alexander Zimmerman, and took the firm's share in a branch store which they had established in Jamestown, Ohio, about eighteen months before, in which store John McBride had an interest of one-half. James Gowdy attended the store. During the above time of thirty-six years in the mercantile business, he had reason to be thankful that he had had no serious misfortune in busi- ness, excepting some considerable losses sustained by crediting- persons who became insolvent, or proved dishonest. During this time he purchased several lots in Xenia, and his father's farm, two and one-half miles west of town, and a small farm between the two last mentioned places, and put up some valuable buildings in town, and some cheaper ones which he rented at a moderate price. Mr. Gowdy was a loser by his Jamestown store, and it was discontinued in 1844. Altogether he was in the dry goods business for forty-four years. He had married Joanna, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Townsley, January 27, 1814, with whom he lived three and one-half years until her decease and that of their only child, a daughter, which took place on the 25th of July, 1817. His wife was then twenty-eight years old. He married a second time, November 11, 1819, ]Miss Sarah Brown, who resided at the time in Clark county, Ohio. She was the daughter of John and Margaret Brown, late of Xorthuml)erland county, Pennsyh'ania, where she was born and reared, and with whom she Ii\'ed nine years or more, until the time of her death, ^March 6, 1829, at the age of forty years. She was the mother of his children, six sons and one daughter, viz. : John Brown, James Ryan, George W'., Abigail Joanna, Samuel Philander and his twin brother, not named. He was married the third time, on the 23d day of April, 1832, at Mansfield, Ohio, to ]\Iiss Jane Purdy, daughter of Patrick and Jane Purdy, of Richland county, Ohio. They lived a married li^e eleven years until her death on the 24th of July, 1843, aged fifty-one years. Of this marriage there were no children.

was also treasurer c^f the Greene Count\- Bible Society for o\'er thirty years, and during all that time his laljor was untiring and valuable. For twenty-three years he was treasurer of the Greene County Colonizaii(.)n Si ciety, and his zeal in that cause was ardent. He had been a member of the Associate Reformed church since its fir.st organization, and contributed of his means to the erectii.n nf three successive buildings for that church. hi all the benevolent enterprises of the day for the relief of the suffering and the goo-d of his felK.iw men, or the spread of the gospel. Air. Gowdy cnuld be relied upon.

And, nijw. in concluding this sketch of this old pioneer father, listen to his own words : "On a review of my past life, what shall I say, but that goodness and mercy has followed me all my life long? If 1 should Count the instances, thev are more than can be numbered by me. Upon the whole review of my eventful life, I have much reason to set up mv Ebenezer, saying: 'Hitherto hath the Lord helped me.' and trust that He will not leave me wnen I am old and gray-headed grown, till to this age His strength and power to all to come, I have shown."

He was born in ]\Iercer countv. Kentucky, on the 3d of February, 1795, and died near Francona, June 6, 1863, aged sixty-eight years. He came to Xenia, Ohio, with his brother, Samuel, in the spring of 1806. His eldest brother, James Gowdy, had come to Xenia the year previous, and had established himself in the mercantile business near the corner of what is nowknown as Greene and Main streets. He had purcliased lot Xo. 34. and had his caljin store opened and ready tor trade. Young; Ryan, tlien a lad of eleven years, accepted a clerkship in his brother's store, and there continued until he was of age, when he commenced l)usiness for himself. He made his mark in improving Xenia. In 1827 he built that large and substantial brick house on the southwest corner of Main and Detroit streets, known as the "Xunnemaker corner," (present site of the ".\llen building)."' His next move was to the northwest corner of Detroit and Market streets (present site of the Reformed church), where he opened a store and made more improvements. Sulv sequently he purchased a large brick house on Main street, opposite the courthouse (the same buiding that was burned on the night of the 3d of August. 1845. and in which two young men, James Kenney and William Steele were murdered). Here, in partnership with his brother. Col. John Gowdy, he opened another store. A few years later he went to Missouri, but did not remain long in that state. Returning to Xenia he opened a grocery and provision store on the northeast corner of Main and \\'hiteman streets (present site nf William Hannon's grocery). In 1833 he was elected commissioner of Greene county, and on the 4th of July, 1836, he met with the board for the last time. While he was a member of the board a costly and for those days a \ery superior county jail, was erected, a little back of the northeast corner of the public square. It was also mainly through his efforts and influence that a large two-story brick market house on the north side of the public square was built. He was also in the years 1819 and 1820 treasurer of Greeaie countv. In i8-iS ' ;^ --nd up his business in Xenia.

sold out, and the ne.xt year \\ent to California by the overland route, and from thence to Oregon, a flyinig trip, but soon returned to San Francisco. He was unfortunate in the land of gold. In a letter he wrote in 1 85 1, he said he had traveled hundreds of miles in California, and could find nothing which he could do. He returned in 1852. Though a business man of early training and mature experience, he preferred teachirig school, and became a successful instructor. In this j)ursuit he was so successful that he never lacked for employment. He had been teaching in Richland county some three years previous to his death. He was taken ill of typhoid fe\er. During his sickness of five days he was conscious to tlie last, expressed a desire to see his brothers, naming one of them. His last words in declining to take medicine, were: "Xo use; it would not do any good.'' Of his prospects in another state of existence he was entirely reticent. In his younger days without being foppish he went generally elegantly dressed, the ''glass of fashion and the mould of form."' He had some eccentricities, was versatile, fluent in conversaton, of ready wit. original and mirth-inspiring humor, and when he chose, of pungent sarcasm. He had transacted much business, traveled far, gone through many ups and downs in his journey through life, and was well versed in the knowledge of human nature. After life's fitful fever he sleepeth well.

In the first enun"',en';tion of Caesarscreek township, taken in 1803. appears the name of John Heaton. From the old records we find that his place of nativitv was Vir- ginia ; that prcnious to his coming to Ohio he married Sarali, daughter of Jolm Warden ; lie had also purchased in Caesarscreek township eighty acres of land. Some time i,n the year 1823 he died, and was buried in the "Old Mercer graveyard," about four miles south of Xenia, on the Bullskin pike. He left his widow, Sarah Heaton, with the following children: three sons and six tlaughters, namely : Ebenezer, John and Joseph Heaton; Elizabeth (Heaton) Millarfl, Sarah (Heaton) Worrel, Lydia (Heaton) Eaton, Phebe (Heaton) Elam, Parmclia (Heaton) Rogers, Hannah (Heaton) Peterson. His will was recorded May, 1823, in Book E, page 70.

James Collier was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, ou the 4th day of January, 1774. and died in Xenia, Ohio. April 17, 1S51, aged seventy-seven years. In 1786 his family emigrated from Virginia, their destination being Kentucky, but on account of his mother's health, they stopped on the River Holstan, in what is now East TeiTnessee, and there remained until the following summer, when the journey was resumed until they reached their destination in Kenlucky, some eighteen miles north of Crab Orchard. Here he passed his early youth and manhood on the frontiers of what has been so aptly called the "dark and bloody ground,"" among a people who, for enterprise, hardihood and self-reliance and true heroism of character, have never been surpassed in the annals of the human family.

In 1794, being twenty years of age, he served as a spy in the Xich-a-jack campaign. He was with Col. William Whiiley, who had organized in Lincoln county, Kentucky, some six hundred brave Kentuckians. Mr. Collier"s place as a spy was in advance of the army that was advancing against the Chikamongas Indians while General Wayne, with a well appointed and disciplined army from Ohio, was marching to join them. The result of Wayne's victory, at the Maumc'e Rapids, in Ohio, is so well known that it is needless to repeat. But it is a fact of local history that it is well worth preserving that he who is the subject of this sketch and whose body is now laid to rest in our own beautiful Woodland, was also there two years later, March 13, 1796.

At Holes Station, in Montgomery county, Ohio, on the nth of April, 1796, Amos Wilson raised his log cabin, the first ever erected for the residence of a white settler within the present limits of Greene county, and soon after he assisted to raise the third house built in the same neighborhood. This is conclusive evidence that our old pioneer friend and fdlow townsman of Xenia was well acquainted with John Wilson and his boys, and his coming into Greene county was at the time the Wilsons first settled here.

of Bellbrook, Ohio. Two months later :Mr. ColHer made a trip to Fort Defiance, in June, 1796. traveling on Wayne's trail, or military road. He performed the journey alijne and on foot, sleeping on the ground, with no shelter but his blanket; he was well armed, and had no other dependence fur self-protection but his trusty rifle, and his courage and presence of mind. The object of his lonely journey through the wilderness was the recovery of stolen horses, an object which he failed to accomplish. He returned some time during the same month and took up his residence in this county, at which time there were not more than a dozen settlers within its present borders, nor was the county organized until seven years afterward.

There can be no doul)t but what Mr. Collier made his home for a while in the Wilson and Mills settlement, near Clio, or Ferry, as it is now called. We next find him located on the farm of Capt. Xathan Lanime, a soldier of the Revolution, whose land was niirth of the present town of Bellbrook. We have also from the old records of the county evidence that he was present at the house of Peter Borders, on Beaver, when the county was first organized, and was appointed to take the enumeration of Sugarcreek township. He received that appointment May 10, 1803, and commenced the work August 3, 1803, and finished on the loth of the month, reporting the names of seventy-one, wiio, at that time, were residents of what is now Sugarcreek. then comprising all of Spring Valley and a portion of what is now Xenia township, that were over the ages of twenty-one years.

Seven days" work! We are filled with wonder and surprise when we read his report. And think of the condition of the country at that early day ! Covered with the primitive forests, no roads, or pikes, as now - nothing but bridle paths for pack horses, that led from one settlement to another.

First Election Ix Sugarcreek

On the 2 1 St of June, 1803, the electors of Sugarcreek township held the first election in the township, at the house of Mr. James Clancey, whose cabin at that time was located on the present site of the town of Bellbrook. Our honored old pioneer was one of the candidates for the office of township lister, and Joseph C. \'ance, the father of Governor Vance, was a candidate for clerk at the same election.

Moves To Xenia

In the spring of 1805 he takes his departure from Sugarcreek township, and moves to Xenia. He was at this time acting as dqnity sherifY, under William Maxwell, who had on the 17th day of December, 1803, resigned his position as associate judge, and had been elected sherift of the county. Capt. Xathan Lamme had previous to Mr. Maxwell's election been the sheriff (by appointment), but finding that it interfered too much with his large landed interest, had resigned. ]\lr. Collier continued to act as deputy until 1807, when he was elected sheriff.

Mr. Collier served out the constitutional term. While he held this office the county was the temporary residence of certain desperate characters, whose lawless acts of vio- lence and crime, had driven them to the frontiers l:)eyond tlie jurisdiction of laws, or out of reach of tlie ministers of justice. Numbers of them were ronfederated together at different points, forming a chain of communication, all the way from Kentucky to Canada. Tiiey would warn each other of approaching danger; would mutually assist each other in rescues, escapes and concealments. They would receive, conceal and convey stolen property from oaie to the other, which rendered detection and conviction very cliflicult. Several daring robberies were committed in the cuuntv. It was no unusual circumstance in those days for citizens, on retiring to rest, to bar the door securely, and place a gun and ax at the bedside ready for self-defense in case of a nocturnal attack. An instance of their audacity and success may suffice to illustrate the state of the times.

John Wolf Robbed

Thirteen robbers, armed to the teeth, with faces concealed with black crepe, one night entered the house of John \Volf. Sr.. a citizen near the site of the village of Byron, and robbed the owner of about four hundred and fifty dollars in specie. Not satisfied with the amount nf booty obtained, they threatened the owner of the house witli torture, proposing to pinch his fingers in a vise, unless he infnrnied them where more money could be found. They would have carried their threats into execution but for the opposition and influence of one of their number, more human than the rest.

perseverance was such tliat they had neither rest or security. He, with his assistants, hunted them from their hiding places, surrounded their houses in the night season, and arrested every one he could lay his hands on. until, finally, they were all either captured or driven from the county, and the citizens were left in peace and security of life and property.

Coroner Of Greexe Couxtv

He was, in 181 4, elected coroner of Greene county, and continued in that office until the year 1820, when he was succeeded by David Connelly. He was again chosen coroner in 1826. and continued in that office until 1830.

Removes To Xexi.V.

We will now return to the time when Mr. Collier removed from Sugarcreek to Xenia. It is said that the first person buried in the pioneer graveyard at Bellhrook was the wife of James Collier. He afterward married the daughter of Jacob Smith, who was a man of note in the early history of the county. The same Jacob Smith, whose body our Masonic brethren removed from tlie Harblne farm and reinterred in ^^^:lodland cemetery, Xenia, in 1898.

It must not be supposed that ^Ir. Collier had nut been in Xenia previous to 1805 : his dutv as deputy sheriff would oftimes bring him to Xenia, and besides that we find in the old records of the county the following: "On the 15th day of November, 1804. Joseph C. Vance conveyed to James Collier lot

No. 60, see book 3, pages 3 and 4, Records of Deeds : and again a year later on tlie 8th day of November, 1805, \\'illia:ii A. Beatty. director of the town of Xenia, conveyed to James Collier lot Xo. 58, book A, page 156.

On lot Xo. 60, facing on Detroit street, about twenty feet back from tlie inside line of the sidewalk, Air. Collier erected in the summer of 1805 his cabin, a one-story, hewed-Iog, witli two windows down stairs, and witli a do(jr in tlie center, witli what is called one-half window up stairs over the two windows to give light into the attic room above. That building is still standing in Xenia to-day (1899) and belongs, I believe, to a Mrs. Middleton, and is the first house east of the colored high schcx)l building, East Market street, Xenia. It has been weatherboarded outside, and is still in prettygood condition. When thev were removing: the old Collier house the original home of Air. Collier was just back of it. and was bought by Mr. Aliddleton and removed to its present site. It was in this building that Mr. Collier and his young wife, nee Raclit.l Smitli. daughter of Jacob Smith, commenced their married life.

Wq find the following in the records of the proliate court, under date of June 5. 1805: "Married by the Rev. Joshua Carman. James Collier to Rachel Smitli."

It seems quite natural to see the name of James Collier enrolled among the nations defenders in the war of 1812. as will be seen from the following taken from the ofiiciul records: "I do hcre1)y certify that James Collier did volunteer under the proclamation of the governor and the circular of General Harrison, on the 15th day of September, 1S12, and the said Collier did act the part of a faithful soldier during his continuance in my company, and is hereby discharged. Given under my hand this the 5th day of January, 1813. Daniel F. Reedev. captain."

This house was built the summer after Jiis return from that tour of duty in the army. W' hen first erected it consisted of one room and hall fronting on Detroit street. V, ith two rooms in the rear. It was a woixlen frame, liuilt over with brick; as was jokingly said at the time of its erection, it was "a frame house weatherboarded with 1-rick." It was opened as a public house before being finished, the front room being the bar-room. In 181 4 the south end was built. Reuben Hixon, who removed to Lebanon, made the bricks, and some l)rickmason5 from Kentucky put them up. Alathew Alexander, the father of Captain John Alexander, (lid the wood work. The north end was built some years later. At the time the first part was erected there were two other brick houses in Xenia. besides the court house: one of them stood wiiere ( 1859) John F. I'atton's drug store used to stand, and the other on the ground now occupied by John Knox's saddle shop, or near that.

The cimrl and l)ar put up at the Collier Plouse from the commencement, and it was far known and noted as a tavern. Recruiting officers boarded at the Collier House in the time of the war of i8i_'. and a British officer and liis servant, who were prisoners 01 war, were there on parole. Court niarslials, courts of inquin,- and courts of appeal were frequently held in this house by militia officers. The office of commissioner of insolvents was kept in it until the law abolishing imprisonment for debt went into operation. The first regular ball in Xenia came oft at the Collier House. Such was the .scarcity of females who could, or would, dance that girls were enquired after, and brought to town from a distance of eight or ten miles. It was kept by Mr. Collier as a public house for twent\--nine years, and for a while the regular mail stage stopped there.

The Iniilding- next to where now stands the Reform church, and which formed an addition to the Collier House, was built by Phillip Good, father of Judge Good, of Sidney, Ohio. Dr. Joshua Martin lived in it when he was first married, and continued to live there until he had a house built, which hfc occupied until the time of his death.

Peter Pelham, Esq., one of the Greene county commissioners in 1812, and for several terms afterwards, and also who was the first auditor of Greene ctxmty in 1820, also lived in this hijuse. He was born in Boston. Massachusetts, in 1747, and he was noted for his ardent piety, benevolence and numerous charities. He died in 1822. Many of the oldest citizens of Xenia still remember the old land mark, extending nordi from the Gallowav buildings to the south line of the present Reform church on Detroit street. In the files of the Torchlight, of July, 1859, appears a notice that it is to be sold, "this noted property w'ill be sold at pultlic sale by the executors of the estate of the late James Collier."

equals in interest the history of this now dilapidated structure. It is a relic of the old times, the times of bridle-paths and corduroy roads, of horseback traveling and saddle bags, dating before turnpikes had entered inthe imagination of men in the west. Mr. and Mrs. Collier never had any children to brighten their home, and the ones we have had in our county by that name were the children of his younger brother, Moses, who was ten years younger than James, a sketch of wliom will appear further along. .Vnd as so much could be said of James Collier, we will for fear of wearing the patience of the reader close this history by adding .1 tribute to his memory as furnished by his old and intimate friend, Thomas Coke Wright, who says, when asked if he had anything to say, after the death of his old friend, in the year 1851 : "He, like many of the old pioneers, had his strong points of character, which stamped iiim with originality. The incidents of his early life evinced that he was enterprising and resolute. He originally had a good constitution and much hardihood and powers of bodily endurance, which enabled him to endure cold and the inclemencies of the seasons with iminmity. If while hunting in the tall woods of the west, night finding him far away from any human habitation oi- shelter it made little or no difference to him. Kindling a fire from a fiint and steel, he would pass the night without a tent or blanket, or other covering than the canopy of heaven. He possessed much firmness and decision of character, and when his mind was made up, his purpose fixed, it was no easy matter to turn his determination. He possessed the faculty of concentration in a great degree, and whate\'er he engaged in he pursued with all his mind and all his miglit. If employcil in scune out-door labor and it came on to rain, and his mind intent on tiie business on hand, he has been known to continue on as though unconscious that any rain was falHng. In all his dealings he was strictly honest, and trutli was an idol with him. Xot one particle would he swer\e from the literal naked facts and woukl tolerate neither ideality nor embellishments, but adhere to the simplicity of truth in all his narrations and statements.

'"Most cordially did he detest falsehood and meanness in every station in life; he was always the good honest worthy citizen, discharging e\ery duty as a public officer and private citizen to the best of his skill and ability, faithfully and honestly. In his friendships he was sincere and true, and hi.s attachments ceased only with life. His men^ory was \ery retentive, and was richly stored with a \ast number of facts and incidents, historical and biographcal, concerning early times in the west, which he could relate with an accuracy and minuteness of detail that was truly surprising. He could point out and correct more errors, which have found a place in western history, than perhaps any other man now livmg, and could his biography have been written, connected with all the information he possessed, it would have pro\-en a treasure to western history. It would have preserved numerous facts, now lost fore\'er, and corrected di\-ers errors in accounts already given to the pul)- lic, which will now go down to history as true. For instance. Butler in his history of Kentucky says: "In the attack of Colonel Bowman made on Old Town in July, 1 779. the Indian chief. Black Fish, the one who had headed an expedition against Harrodsburg. and liad taken Boone prisoner, was killed." Whereas, that same Indian was killed in Kentucky early one Sunday morning, w ithin three miles of where Mr. Collier was at that time. He had broken into a settler's house, and was engaged in a desperate struggle on the flo(ir with the owner of the premises, when his daughter, a brave young woman, seized a hunting knife, flew to the assistance of her father and stabbed the Indian. The Indians were ashamed to have it known that their famous war chief had fallen at the hands of a white squaw, concealed his rank and name at the time, and afterwards countenanced the report that he had fallen in battle.

"Judge Burnet in his notes says that early in 1796 the British government surrendered the northern p'jst, including Miami and Detroit. The posts were delivered to General Wayne, while Air. Collier was at Fort Defiance in June, 1796. General Wilkenson one morning reached that post and sat upon his horse in company with his staff officers on the lianks of the Auglaize river opposite the fort until a salute of fifteen rounds had been fired from a twelve pounder. He had Ijeen to Detroit, and [n conversation with Mr. Collier Informed him that the inhabitants of Detroit treated him with coldness and reserve, except one young Frenchman, who invited him to his mother's house, where he was received with kindness and treated with hospitalitw And farther the post would have been surrendered to him, but for the want of men he could not take possession. In the following September he saw General \\'ilkenson on his way to Detroit with part of two regiments of men to take possession : the surrender was made of course to him in pursuance of the stipulations nf Jay's treaty made in 1793."

Robixsox'S History Of Greexe Couxtv

For a vear or so previous to his death lie hatl been intinii. and was frequently subject to severe attacks from wiiich liis recovery seemed duuljtful, and it was a common remark among his friends tiiat the old pioneer was failing fast. Still from every attack he recovered again, so as to be up and ahiiul. until about seven weeks previous to his death he was again prostrated with dyspepsia. As the days progressed his system wasted away to a mere shadow ; he took riot a particle of nourishmient for twentythree days, yet he continued to live with a tenacitv beyond any example ever seen by tlie many friends who Wiere in attendance or daily \isitcd him. He continued i)erfcctly in liis senses, and was not only resigned In die, but willing and imjiatient for that event to take place. At length worn out nature viekled. and he fell asleep without a sigh or struggle. And thus he has gone, one of the early pioneers of Greene county, who was here nearby when the first improvement was made within its limits. On each memorial day in our own beautiful Woodland can be seen two flags and the flowers that are still put there to commemorate the brave acts of the two brothers who were both soldiers in the war of i8i J. James and Moses Collier.

Moses C0Li,Ier

The younger brother of James Collier was born in Rockbridge county. Virginia. on the 4th day of January, 1784, In 1786 when he was but two years old his family emigrated from Virginia, their destination being Kentucky, but in consequence of his mother's health thev stopped nn the river Holstan, in what is now east Tennessee, and th.ere remained until the following summer, when the journey was resumed until thev reached the place of destination in Kentucky some eighteen miles north of Crab Orchard. Here he continued to reside with his parents in Lincoln county and spent his earlv youth. The next we hear of our old pioneer friend was in 1797. when he was making his home with his brother James on the land leased from Captain Nathan Lamme. He was then a mere boy, thirteen vears old, and his brother James twentythree, and it is said by a Bellbrook historian that they lived in a cabin near the present residence of John Kable, north of Bellbrook, being central part of section ^^-5, 6. Moses is said to have been remembered as the first assessor of the township. (That is a mistake, as the book which contains that enumeration has been found, and is now in the vault of the auditor's office, and shows that it was James and not Moses.)

In the fall of 1805. at the October election, we find for the first time the two Collier brothers. James and Moses, voting in Xenia township. This was the first vote cast bv Moses in Greene county, and he was now twenty-one years old. A year previous he had bought of Joseph C. Vance, director of the town of Xenia. lot Ko. 128, nowowned by President Fay, as the !\Iiami Powder Company. He was one of the best surveyors that Greene county evei had. and he served the count)' in that cajiacity from 1817 until 1829. when he was elected tri represent Greene county in the lower house of the legislature.

as such until the year 1840. He was married, September 19. 1810, to Miss Elizabeth Small, bv Rev. Joshua Carman, The result of this marriage was six sons and four daughters: P'ranklin, David, James, Jr.. Albert, Theodore and Ira, sons, and daughters. Mrs. Pugh Sterritt, Mrs. Daniel Job. Miss Ruth Collier, residing at Yellow Springs, and Mrs. Joseph Linkhart, of Xenia. After little more than half a century of married life he died at his residence on Clifton road, November 28, 1861. after a brief illness. For more than half a century he resided here, and during the long period had ranked worthily among the best men in the county.

In addition to what has been said before, Moses Collier filled the position of clerk of the coxin of inquiry of the militia of Greene county. Away back in the years 181 oii-ij. when the county was under the old system of valuation, he was assessor of real estate, making his last assessment in 1840. He was among the first men. in tlie then town iif Xenia in 1816 to enroll liis name as a stockholder in the first library association that was organized in the town. Later on, upon the organization of the old Xenia Lyceum, he contributed many valuable works, and contril>utions were more important in that day when books were scarce than it would be now. Of the early settlers of this countv Mr. Collier was about the last one left, and he was at the day of his death standing almost alone as the representative of the men who felled the forest and opened the fields of the ]\Iiami valley. He was a soldier for a brief tour in the war of 1812, under Captain Robert McClelland, to go to the relief of Fort Wayne. At his funeral a large concourse of neighbors and friends

So much can be written of this township that one is at a loss where to commence. We find that on the lofh day of May, 1803. Greene county's first associate judges met in the house of Peter Borders, in Beavercreek township, on the farm known at this time (1900) as the Harbine farm. for the purpose of laying off the county into townships. This township was the place of commencement ; Sugarcreek was designated as No. i. It was and had been the gateway into the county -of almost all of the early pioneers. And in order to avoid repetition of what has been written in the fomier part of this book as to its organization and boundaries and who were the people that were living in the county at that time would refer the reader to that description. ]\Iost of this work has been compiled from the old records of the county that had b>een carted away to different out of the way places in the court house which was this year ( 1900) torn down, as well as in the one that was torn away in 1842, and which had been built in 1806. It has been said that "Moses Collier was remembered as "being the first to take the enumeration of Sugarcreek township."' That is a mistake. James Collier was the one who made that enumeration, as his book has been found, and in it he says. "I commenced the work Augtist 3, 1803. and completed it August 10, 1803." In this connection we quote from a statement furnished by John L. Elcook. assisted by Silas Hale, in 1874. He says: '"Some seventy years ago the spot where

Bellbruok now stands was a wild unbroken wilderness. Herds of deer roamed through the forest and occasionally a bear was to be seen. The first house in the county had not long been built, and stood about half a mile north of the present village of Clio, or Ferry, on what is now known as the Abner Wilson farm."

It was raised on the 7th day of April, 1796, and belonged to Daniel W'illson. one of the early pioneers of the county. It was ciinstructed of unhewed logs, and like the other cabins of early days had no floor but that afforded by the broad breast of mother earth. Other cabins of the same kind were, however, soon built.

.\ mill Stood on the southern part of the farm now owned by Thomas Brown and was the first mill of which we have any record in the Cdunty. It was a hand mill, and the neighbors from si.x or seven miles around came here to grind their grist. Sometimes as many as seven and eight met at the mill, and this number in those days was a crowd ; but by "spelling each other ar the crank" they soon got the grain ground and left contentedly for honw. One of the srones of this mill is now in the possession of ]\Ir. Brown, who has collected quite d cabinet of curiosities and relics, and has, it it said, one of the finest collections of mineralogical and geological specimens in the state. This mill stone is about fourteen inches in diameter, and three inches thick on the circumference.

First Settlers

Among the first settlers in the vicinity of what is now known as Bellbrook were Joseph C. Vance, Captain Nathan Lamme, John McLean, John C. Hale, Ephraim Bowman. James Barrett and a few others. (For a complete list see Sugarcreek township, first part of the book.) Joseph C. Vance located and settled op the land lying east of the street that leads to Alpha. Here he built a cabin, which was the first dwelling erected on the ground that was long afterward laid out for the town. It was built of rude logs and stood a littlj to the rear of where Ephraim Bumgardncr's paint shop used to stand. This cabin was afterward sold to James Clancey, and was used by him for a kStchen^, he, to meet the growfing wants of trade, having erected a finer and more commodious log house, in which he kept tavern.

And here we may remark that Joseph Vance, the e.x-governor and son of the above Joseph C. Vance, is remembered by the school children of that day as a young man in "liuckskin breeches'' and the driver of an ox cart on the "Pickney road." What visions o-f future glory haunted his mind while engaged in this humble occupation' we shall never know. But that he was not cntirelv disappointed in his aspirations we may safely judge. The "Pickney road" derives its name from "Pickney pond," near Harbine's, bv which it ran. It is the same road that is mentioned as leading to Alpha.

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Entered the land now owned by David Clemmer. John Xave and the widow Lamnie. Tlie comi>iler of this sketch has in his possession a list, or roll, of the officers of the sixteen Virginia regiments of the Continental army who had received land bounties in tlie \'irginia military district in Kentuckv and Ohio, and among the number is the name of Captain Xathan Lamme, who received four thousand acres. He came to Sugarcreek townshij) in tlie year 1797. and entered his land in sections 33 and 27 (3.6), northeast of Bellbrook. He built a cabin on the hill north of the Washington mill. He served as a volunteer in the Lord Dunmore war and participated in the battle of Point Pleasant, at the mouth of the Great Kanawha, under General Lewis, which lasted from dawn of day until sundown, and it was a hard fight and bloody battle. And during the war of the Revolution he was ff und wearing for eight years the uniform of a captain with honor to himself and country. At the organization of Greene county, Ohio, Xathan Lamme was appointed sheriff. but on account of his large land estate lie only served three months and resigned. \\'illiam Maxwell, who was at the time serving- as one of the first associate judges, resigned that position and accepted the place made vacant by Mr. Lamme. Mr. Maxwell with his able deputy. James Collier, served two terms, when Mr. Collier was elected. Thus from away back we have the precedent for the deputy to take the place of the principal, which has been kept up with few exceptions to the present time. It is said of Captain Lamme tliat he was intimately acciuainted with Simon Kenton, whom he had often entertained for weeks in his log cabin as the old pioneer passed to and fro from Kentucky to his lands in Champaign county.

In the pioneer graveyard in Bellbrook is buried this grand old hero of the war of the Revolution. He died in 1834, aged eightynine years, ilen of higher rank and less worth have had expensive monuments erected by a great government, while this one is almost forgotten.

Mr. Lamme had five sons, Josiah, W'illiam, James, Samuel and David ; also two daughters, Anna and Martha. Of the five sons, all of them took part in the war of 1812. The following is a sketch of his } oimgest son :

Mr. Lamme was born in Kentucky. January I. 1 791, and removed with his father to the late residence on the banks of the Little Miami in 1797. where he was residing when the tocsin of war was sounded between this country and Great Britain. He joined the citizen soldiery first as a substitute under Captain Robert McClelland at Xenia, from whence he was marched to Uppei' Sandusky to meet the northern invaders and their red allies. After his discharge he volunteered under the immortal Harrison to the relief of Fort Wayne, then beseiged by the Indians, after which he volunteered twice, thus serving four distinct campaigns during the war. X'otwithstanding his pioneer and Kentucky heroism placed him in the front ranks in defense of his country, he was emphatically a man of peace, a good soldier, "a good citizen, a dutiful son. a provident husband, an indulgent parent and a kind neiglibor. It appears that while the Lammes were Virginians, yet like many from that state who came to Ohio in the late Civil war they were true to the "stars and stri])es." We tind from good authority that Captain Lamme after the war of the Revolution was shortly afterward in Kentucky, and it is no doubt but that is wiiere he became acciuaiiileil with Simon Kenton.

First School House Ix Bellbrook

On the site of the present beautiful residence of Jacob Haines, Jr., and surrounded by a forest of stately oaks and sugar trees stood the first school house in the community. It was a large log building and had a huge fireplace at either end. Here the future \-illage fathers dnmed o\-er their dogeared spelling books, and between the "rule of three" and the master's "birch" spent many miserable days. The seats were not tl:e varnished comfortable affairs with which school houses are now furnished, but rude plank or puncheons resting on pins at a slight angle. The writing desks were ranged around the walls and were made by driving wooden ]iins into auger holes bored in the logs, so that they stood at a proper angle; on these pins were placed boards or planks to serve as a rest for the copy book. Glass was very scarce, and altogether too e.xpensive an article to have in a school house, and this temple of learning was innocent of sash or pane, but necessity is the mother of invention, and a large greased paper was stretched over the window, which in a measure supplied the deficiency and admitted some light at least. This house w'as afterward torn down by Stephen Bell, and a dwelling erected in its

In a sketch written, I think, by Rev. Thomas Beveridge, of the life of Rev. Robert Armstrong, as to the cause of his coming to .\nierica, he says: "Four members of the .\ssix-iate church having settled in the same neighborhood in the vicinity of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1796, namely: James L'.ain, Adam Goodlett, Thomas Robinson and James Pringle, took council together at a prayer meeting on the best means of obtaining a dispensation of the gospel among them. Among the early records of the county James Bain's name appears on the aforesaid records in 1804. He settled in Sugarcreek township, Greene county, the same year as Mr. Armstrong, which was on the 2d day of September, 1804, which was the date Mr. Bain came into Sugarcreek township. He settled the land now owned by Archibald Berryhill's heirs, north of Bellbrook, northeast section 32 (3.6). He built a cabin near the present farm house. Subsequently he erected a malt house west of the cabin. He was a school master, combining the two avocations of teaching the school and brewing beer. He is a man remembered as combining many other seemingly uncongenial professions. It is related of him that he would rise very early in the morning, proceed to his "clearing," work until his good wife, Sarah, who died Xovember 17, 1818, at the age of forty-five, would blow the horn for breakfast, after which he would proceed to his school, and the faithful horn would call him to dinner, and at evening the sound of the horn echoing through the woods gave welcome warn- ing to tlie boys and girls that the dreary hard day's work of school was done, but called the master to his clearing and the maul and the wedge.

He was a soldier of the war of 1812, and was in the company of Captain Ammi Maltbie, wliich was a part of the First Regiment, Second Battalion and First Division, and the fact that he was the owner of a private "still" is no reflection upon him. The most of the old pioneers, leading men in the church and other good works, did not at that time think it a sin to have about and make their own liquors. It is said of him that while teaching that, in addition to that, he \\ou!(l make one hundred rails a day by his early rising. He laid out and sold to tlie Associate or Seceder congregation the site for the church and burial place, the strip of land now known as the "Pioneer Associate graveyard." It had been the opinion of some in the neighborhood that this lot was donated with certain peculiar conditions, but this is a mistake ; the deed reads thus : "This indenture made and concluded this 8th day of June. 1816, between James Bain, of tlie county of Greene, etc. \\'itnessed that said James Bain for and in consideration of the sum of three dollars to him paid doth grant, bargain, etc.. a certain lot of ground enclosing the church, knmvn bv the name of the Sugarcreek meeting house. The deed is given without reserve." And in that place, first line of graxxs, near the east line, south corner, he sleeps the long sleep of death. Mr. Bain was Ijorn in the year 1748, and died August 9, 1832, at the age of seventy-fi\e years.

The Pickney Road

was the gateway by which so many of the early residents of the county entered was on account of this road. It was the tirst beaten track through thf wilderness leading from Cincinnati through Lebanon extending north through what is now ]\Iain street, Bellbrook, north toward Al])lia. past what was then known as Pickney pond, from which the road is supposed to have taken its name. Over this road the early settlers received their supplies of salt and iron and such other commodities as they could not produce for themselves. It required long absences from home and laborious travel to go to Cincinnati then w ith a load of ground corn and exchange it for salt and return home again. After a time this road became more of a thoroughfare, the demand for supplies for the growing settlements continued to increase, and large teams of belled horses began to make regular trips carryingloads of flour and returning with merchandise.

-Another road leading from this one was called the "Beer road," because it was used iiiostly by our old pioneer friend, James Bain, to transfer from his place in the liollow, back of what is known as the Pioneer graveyard, to Dayton his beer. The main road crossed the .Miami at what is now the "Upper" mill and passed north of where Bellbrook now is. and e.xtended toward Centerville. Over this route the mail was carried weekly to Xenia.

or 1805. as Mr. Collier removed from Captain Xatlian Lamme's farm to X'ciiia in the snmmer of 1805. Xo stone or marker can 1)6 fonnd of her grave.

Joseph Robinson, Sr

The oldest tombstone standing has inscribed npun it the name of Joseph Rubinson, Sr., who died March 6, 1806, aged seventy-two years. This tombstone is of great historical interest to some who are descendants of his, who were at this time living in Xenia. He was the grandfather of the grandfather of our ex-deputy clerk of courts. Miss EcHth Robinson, and was the great-grandfather to ^\'illiam .F. Trader, attorney at law, and others. Mr. Robinson, Sr.. has two sons also buried here, one of whom Joseph, Jr., was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his brother, Edward, who died October 17. 1845, at the age of seventythree years.

Major William Rogers

Xot far from this lot where the pioneer Robinson family are buried is another grave. It also is of local interest to some living at present in Xenia. It is the grave of Major William Rogers, who was a soldier in the war of 18 12, and w'lio was the father of Amuicl Rogers and his brother Luke. He was the grandfather of Mrs. Joseph Milburn. On his tombstone is the following record: "Born September 7, 1774- Died December 3, 1815." He built what was called the Roger's mill, the first water power mill erected in Sugarcreek township.

Alexander Berryiiill

was a native of Augusta county, Virginia, and at the age of nineteen vears volunteered in the American army, under the command of General Nathaniel Greene. At the battle of Guilford Court House, Xorth Carolina, in the heat of the engagement his company was surrounded by the merciless, victorious British, commanded to give up their arms, and on doing so he was struck on the head with a sw"ord which produced a se\ere wound, the scar of which remained until the day of his death. He was held a prisoner by the captors two years, then exchanged, returned to his home, and after some years he married and settled on a farm. Mr. Berryhill's wife was a niece of Charles Thompson, of Revolutionary fame, and secretary to the first continental congress, a man of sonw executive ability and a lover of liberty. To them were born eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. Their names were James, William, John, Alexander, Margaret, Samuel. Archibald, Rachel, Matthew, Elizabeth and Franklin. Mr. Berryhill's father, John, was a native of Ireland, who settled in Virginia at an early date and there reared a famil_\-.

We have lingered longer at these two historic graves, the graves of those illustrious representatives, than we had intended, so '.vith feelings of almost re\-'erence we take our departure from the tombs of Alexander and Rachel Thompson Berryhill, only stopping long enough to copy the inscriptions that tell of the time of their death. Alexander Berryhill died in September, 1823, aged fifty-nine, his wife, Rachel, in 1838. They came to Ohio in 1814.

Robixsox'S History Of Greexe Couxty James Baix

Along the east line near the south corner apparently in the first tier of lots,' hidden by a cedar tree whose branches reach the ground, is the grave of James Bain. After parting the liranches his tombstone appears in sight, and by his side are buried some of his children and his faithful wife, Sarah. As you stand and gaze involuntary you listen if perchance to hear the sound of the horn that called him from labor in the school and from his work i'.i the clearing. Mr. Bain died August 9, 1832, at the age of seventy-five years. As we have a sketch of his life elsewhere we will proceed to the next, which is the grave of

\Mio first came in.to the county in 1S17 and was related to ^Ir. Bain. He died August 9. 1835. aged forty-seven years. He had also a brother Robert. Xot far from this lot, going north, is the grave of

William Baix

A\'ho was a son of James Bain. Sr.. and was well known in Greene county, and is still remembered by some of the older inhabitants as a genial and well disposed man. Not far from his grave toward the west is the grave of anotlier well known pioneer,

William Law, Sr

^Ir. Law first came nito Greene county in 1804 from Kentucky and settled in Sugarcreek township. He has a number of descendants yet living. His son, Jesse Law, who was a soldier in the war of 1812, and who was for years a resident of Xenia township, is still rememljered by many in Xenia and throughout the county. \\'illiam Law, Sr., died January 26. 1826, aged seventysix years. Xot far from where ^Mr. Law is buried is th.e grave of

George Watt, Sr

This grave is of more than usual interest, and as we take our place in front of the stone that marks the last resting place of this hardy old pioneer, George Watt, listen to the story of his life.

In the year 1820 he left his home in Belfast. Ireland, with his family. His destination was the L'nited States of America, state of Ohio, county of Greene, where they arrived the same year. His brother, Hugh, had preceeded him to this country. Hugh, who was six years younger, and who was the father of the late Dr. George Watt, of Xenia, had settled in 181 7 not far from Cedarville, whilst George, the elder, settled in 1820 on the hilltops west of the Little ?iliami river between what is known as the "Indian Riffle" and the old Eureka mill. George Watt, Sr., was the father of George Watt, Jr., who lived in the house on the southwest corner of Market and West streets (present home of Mr. Collins, the carpenter), whilst two other sons, Hugh and Andrew, removed to Indiana. James \\'att. the fourth son, died in Xenia ; he never married. James and Andrew made applications to become citizens of the United States in 1840. which were granted. He had also four daughters: Mrs. Betsey Dodd, wife of John Dodd. Sr. : ^Irs. Samuel Smeigh: Mrs. Jane ^IcClellan, wife of William, of

Siigarcreek : and Margaret, who was single. Of liis children, I think, Mr.s. Samuel Snieigh, mother of Mrs. George Kendall, is the only one living. Mr. Wan, who was born in 1765, came to America in 18 jo. and died in 1845, aged eighty years.

The Gowdv Family

Not far from the grave of Cieorge Walt, Sr., is the grave of John Goudy. as the name is spelled on the tombstone. Along side of him is buried his good wife, Ann Gowdy. What time Mr. Gowdy came and settled in Sugarcreek town.ship is no-t known. This much is known : He was there previous U) 1803, as his name and that of his son, Andrew Gowdy, appear on the first enumeration taken of the aforesaid township in 1S03. Mr. Gowdy died November 13, 1807, at the age of seventy-seven years. His son, Andrew Gowdy, was married to Mary ]\Ic- Connell. l-'cbruary 7, i8of), i)v the Rev. Robert Armstrong, and from his tombstone we learn that he was born April 2. 1777, and died September 25, 1818, aged forty-one years. There are living in Xenia ( 1900) one son and one daughter of Andrew Gowdy, namely, our venerable and resi>ected townsmen who has spent so many years of his life in nur midst. .Alexander Gowdy, now in his eighty-seventh year, living on W^est Main street, and his sister, Mrs. Jacob Miller, residing on East Main street, mother of Mrs. Joseph M. I\Iillnn-n. John Gowdy, Sr., was a native of Pennsylvania, removing from there to Kentucky, and thence to Ohio at the date given. Other children he had beside Andrew: One son, John, who was a soldier from Greene county in the war of 1812, and William Gowdy, who went to

Kentucky, and removed Rev. Armstrong to this place in 1804. John removed to Franklin, Indiana, as did two other sons, Robert and Thomas. His daughter, Ann, Xovauber 8, 1804, was married to Air. James Bull, and it was an event that was made historical by our old pioneer friend, Hugh Andrew, who was one of the guests at the wedding. He says: "Th2y were there from Dan to Beersheba." Another daughter of John Gowdy, Xancy, born August 14, 1817, was married to Jesse Law, a well known pioneer of Greene county. The children of Andrew Gowdy were John, Jane. Adam, Susanna, Alexander, Mary Ann and Eliza.

But to mentii/U all of the illustrious dead that are buried here would make this article tiK) long, so we pass these graves and go to the next and last that we sliall mention, which is the grave of Captain Nathan I.amme, a gallant soldier of the Revolution, and by his side his son, David, a soldier of the war of 1812. A brief sketch of both will be found elsewhere in fhis book.

One of the early settlers of Greene county was John Hutchison. He came from Bourlwn county, Kentucky, in 1806. He and Mr. Frazier had married sisters by the name of Finley in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and because of slavery they only remained in Kentucky some ten years. John Hutchison bought a farm one mile southeast of Bellbrook. the east line along the Miami, now known as the Alorris farm. He was a weaver and while he worked at his trade his sons George, John, Andrew, Samuel and William cleared and cultivated the farm.

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George and Sarah. Juhn and Andrew, William and Martha ( Sterrett ) were twins. Samuel, May (Jobe) and Jane (McClure) were "not in it." John cultivated the farm after marriage to Ellen Clancey, April 24. 1822, until he bought one hundred acres near Xenia, a half mile northwest of the fair grounds, now the "Shoup farm," which he sold in 1835 ^''"^^ moved to Shelby county, near Sidney, and died in Sidney at the age of eighty-six years. His father and mother died in the same week of fever and are buried in the "Upper graveyard," he at the age of fifty-five years. He belonged to the first board of trustees of the First United church of Xenia, and tlie family came on horseback to church. And what a task in the absence of con\-eniences must ha\-e l)een the rearing of such a family. The mother dare not leave one of a pair by itself when she went to the spring to carry water, but carried one on the back, another under one arm, leaving one hand for the bucket. Andrew came to Xenia to learn the tailor trade with Mr. Currie, and pursued it until the last day of his life. He died in 1865 at the age of sixty-nine years. He was the father of W. C. the merchant. Mrs. Gevirge Ebright and Miss Emma, who are still li\- ing in Xenia.

Samuel Log.Vn

Died at Bellbrook, Ohio, X'ovcmlicr 21, 1873, at the age of sixty-eight years. He was an old bachelor, and had made his home with Mr. Samuel Pogue for a long time past. He was one of th.e most eccentric and ])eculiar men of our age. One of his oddities that we have no record of any one else copying was that he would not accept any more than seventy-five cents per day from any one for doing work. He was a good workman, and made a good hand at carpenter work. But he always said that seventy-five cents was all that a day's work was worth, and would not accept any more. He began life a poor boy without a dollar, was always industrious, made a good living, wore good clothing and saved six thousand dollars, which he earned by a day's work at seventyfive cents per day. In the western and southwestern part of this county are still standing in fair condition houses that he built }ears ago. He would go to some of the farms where the residents were living yet in their cabins, cut down the trees and hew the timbers for the frame of a house, and in the fall wcjuld ha\'e the aforesaid families lixing in their new homes. The old maxim would hold good in his case, "It is not what we make, but what we save that makes us wealthy." "Old Honesty" would be a fit inscription for his monument. In his will he gave Mrs. E. Pogue seven hundred dollars ; William Duck fi\e hundred : Miss Kate Hawkins two hundred dollars : and one bundled dollars to. Miss Bell : and the remainder tr the Parker heirs.

He was a pensioner under the act of June I. 1832. Application was made for same September 15, 1832, he being then seventyfour years of age. The pension was granted May 3, 1833. He was a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. At the outbreak . of the war of the Revolution in this country lie was a member of Colonel Dunlap's regiment. Captain Askew's company, of the

Pennsylvania militia. He was then a private soldier in that regiment. July 28. 1777. the United States government called his regiment into actual service; he was then ])romoted to the position of orderly sergeant of his company, which position he filled with honor for seven months and fifteen days. After the war was over he emigrated t<j the state of Kentucky, locating near Lexington, and from Kentucky lie removed to Ohio, where he arrived in 1804, settling in Sugarcreek township. Greene county. The old records of the county show that he was a useful man hoth in church ami state, and lived to a good old age, when he died and was buried in the Associate church yard. West Market street, Xenia, the site now co\-ered by the school house of th it name, lie was afterward taken up and l)uried on the lot of his son, Aaron Torrence, in Woodland cemetery, Xenia. Mis oldest son. William, was a soldier in the war of 1812. He had beside William three sons, Aaron : John, who was the father of Henry Torrence, ex-recorder of Greene county: and David, who was the father of Finley Torrence, of the firm of 'McDowell & Torrence : also four daughters, namely : Elizabeth. Ann. Mary and Clarissa.

He was born on the 3d day of September. 1704. in Stokes county. X^'orth Carolina. His parents were Jesse Sanders and Sarah Reddick. They were both natives of X'orth Carolina. On the 15th day of December, 1804, the father of Jesse with bis family and household goods departed from old Carolina in wagons via Virginia and

Lexington, Kentucky, to Cincinnati, arriving in Greene county on the 13th day of February, 1805, and immediately settling in Sugarcreek township ( now Spring \''alley township) on what was then called military lands. He bought his land (two hundred and forty acres) of Colonel Xathaniel Massie, one of the first settlers of Ross county, Ohio, [n 1806 he died. In December, 1807, his wife followed him. The oldest of the children, Forace, died in Laporte, Indiana, in 1869, having been through life a farmer and mechanic. John died in 1812 in Spring V^allev township. Jemima married Jeffrey Saulsbury. a farmer of Warren county, Ohio, and died in 1S14. Jane married Isaac Beason. a farmer of Wayne county, Ohio, and died in 1809. Susanna never married, and died in 1809 in Wayne cnunty, Ohio. Jesse, the subject of this sketch, died at his home in Spring Valley township, May 21, 1880, aged eighty-eight, and is liuried in Woodland cemetery, Xenia.

During the war of 1812 Mr. Sanders performed a cons])icui)us part as a member of Captain John Clark's company. He had thmugh life followed farming. He was nnirried, on the 5th day of Xovember, 1840, to Elizabeth Simerson, a native of this county. Her parents were natives of Maryland, and very early settlers of Greene county, coming in 1801. They were the parents oi four children. Politically he was a Democrat ; voted first for General Jackson. Religiouslv he was by birth and early training a Quaker, but on account of joining the armv was expunged, and ever afterward preferred to have a creed not circumscribed by the doctrines of any church. Mr. Sander's name will forever live as one of the pioneers of Greene countv. Ohio.

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Josiah Elam and liis wife, Sarah A. (Porter) Elam. settled in what is nowknown as Spring \'alley township in the spring of 11-^03. Mr. Elam was a native of Culpeper county, Virginia, and was born in 1753. He had in 1801, previous to his settling in O'hio come out and selected a place for his future home, entering one thousand acres of land on Caesar"s creek. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and in the French and Indian war held a captain",; commission under General St. Clair in the Indian campaign of 1791. He died February 28. i8ji, aged sixty-nine years, and is buried in the Elam graveyard in the orchard in front of what was known as the Ambrcjse Elam farm. The old home is situated live miles south of Xenia near the Burlington pike. His family consisted of six sons and four daughters ; one of his sons, John, was a soldier in the war of 1812. The wife of Josiah Elam died September 25, 1850, aged seventy-nine years, and is buried at his side; also his wife's mother, Susanna Porter, who died October 21, 1821, aged eighty-four years.

Henry Updyke was the eldest son of Captain Albert Updyke, a soldier of the Re\olution, from Xew Jersey. Henry was born in Bethlehem, Xew Jersey, Xovember 16, 1774. and came to an untimely death by an accident in 1825. While digging a well on the Steele farm a mattock fell on him while he was down in the well. He was buried in what was known as the Methodist Episcopal church yard, which was on the southwest corner of Thomas White's farm. Afterward his body was removed with other deceased members of the family to the cemetery at Dayton, Ohio.

He built the brick house on the farm and owned the land on which the west part of Bellbrook now stands. He, with Stephen Bell and James Clancey, laid out the town in 1815. In another place in this took is a notice inserted in the "Vehicle," a paper published in Xenia in 1815, Samuel Pelham, editor, in which notice is given of the sale of the aforesaid lots. It is said there was some trouble in selecting a name for the place, but at length Air. Updyke suggested the name of Bellbrook, which was at once agreed upon and adopted. As can be seen, the town takes its name in part from the name of one of its founders, Stephen Bell, anil the latter part of it from the numerous streams and rivulets in that vicinity.

James Clancey

In tracing the history of the old pioneers of the county it is a source of regret that our records do not extend farther back than 1803. James Clancey's name appears on the roll of the first enumeration that was taken of the free white male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one. He was a native of Virginia, and had located in what is now known as Sugarcreek township, Greene county, and on the present site of the village of Bellbrook some time previous to 1803. It might be truthfully said of him that he was a tavern keej-jer fnmi "away back." As has been said elsewhere he had i)urchasecl tlie first cabin that Iiad been erected by Joseph C. Vance, in 1797, to be used as a kitchen to his new tavern, whicli he had completed, to accommodate liis large and growing trade. His bar-room was the resort of the choice spirits, in more senses than one, of the surrounding country. On the long winter evenings they would congregate around the huge fireplace and after sundry visits to the bar would while away many hours in recounting their adventures \\ ith the Indians and bears as the case might be. Many a weary tra\-eler slaked his thirst and found a comfortable bed beneath their hospitable roof. Captains Robert McClelland, .\nimi Maltbie antl Captain John Clark had each recruited and taken fmni the township full companies of men, and during the war of 181J, and after, Clancey's tavern was matle "headquarters," thc\- would often meet here with the rank and file of their companies and fight over their battles again and again. So much can be gleaned and gathered here and there even after so long a time of this historic old township that one hardly knows when to stop. One petition of cur subject. Mr. Clancey, to kee]> tavern in Bellbrook. the original of which the compiler of this sketch has in his possession as custodian of the county, we will here co])y : "To the honoral.ile judges of the court of common pleas of Greene county. The petition of the undersigned free holders of Sugarcreek townshi]> humbly represent to yi>ur honors that we conceive a i)ublic house of entertainment in said township would conduce to the public convenience. We therefore recommend James Clancey. one of our citizens, as a man of good character and in e^-ery way calculated to keep a public house. \\ e therefiire pray your honors would grant him a license for that purpose and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. Signed. January. the 22d, 1816, John Hutchison, .\ndrew Bird. Joseph Gillispie, James Gillispie, David Lamme, William Standley and Alexander Armstrong."

Rev. Robert Armstrong, on his first arrival from Kentucky in answer to a call to become pastor of the Associate or Seceders, as they were then called, preached first at the house of James Clancey, present site of Bellbrook, to he following families : Esq. John and his brother, Joseph McKnight, John and Joseph C. Vance, whose son was afterward governor of Ohio ; Captain Nathan Lamme; \\'illiam and James Tanner; the three Snodgrass brothers, William, James and Robert : two Snowdens. James and Jacob; Abraham ^'an Eaton and others. .\ few of these were meml)ers of the Associate Reformed and Presbyterian churches, but were glad to listen to ^Ir. Armstrong.

About 182P Mr. Clancey removed to near Flat Rock, Indiana, with his family, all but I'.is son. Dr. James Clancey. Jr.. who had about one vear previous formed an alliance fur life with the daughter of Dr. William Frazier, which event reads as follows : "August 12, 1819. married at the home of the bride, Mr. James Clancey, Jr., to Miss Sarah Frazier, daughter of Dr. William Frazier."

James Clancey. Sr.. on his arrival at his new home. Flat Rock, Indiana, purchased eightv acres of land, and not far from the creek erected his cabin, where he continued to reside near two of his former Greene county nighbors, Mr. Van Pelt and Mr. Avery, until 1822, when his life's work was done and he was called home, and was buried in the graveyard not far from his home, where Conn's creek empties into Flat Rock.

Back fruni the mcutli of Conn's creek in the fork thus formed was the graveyard in which was iiut away all that was mortal of James Clancey, Sr. After his deatli his two sons. CJeorg^ and William, returned to their old home. Rev. J. F. Hutchison, of Xenia, is a grandson of Mr. Clancev, and many other citizens here and elsewhere are the descendants of this grand old pioneer. The first election ever held in Sugarcreek townsliij) was by order of the court held in the house of James Clancey, and it was for years the voting place of the .'ownshi;,.

Stephen Bell

Stephen Bell was born in Xew Jersey, August J 8, 1774. and was married to Aliss HannalT Scudder in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, in 1795. Of this union there were born ele\ en children, viz. ; John S., William, Charles, Aaron, Rebecca, Mary, Xaoini, Permelia, Casander, Benjamin ant! Franklin J. Little is known of his early da\s except that he learned the trade of a millwright in the east, and there being a demand f^r that kind of skilled labor in the west he with his family mo\-ed to Ohio in the early ])art of 1812, stopping for a short time (jn the James Trnvler farm west of Xenia.

.\I)out 1813 or J 8 14 he bought out and iiKjvcd on the farm now owned by Jacob Haines, living on that property at the time of the marriage of his five daughters, so you can imagine the (dd property has seen some fun within its walls. He worked at his trade while living there and helped to t)uild several mills on the Miami river, and also built a mill for Henry Updyke on Sugar creek just above the Escj. Ferguson property. The older Bellbrook "boys" can yet remember the old frame where so often they have played "hide and seek" after it played out as a mill. About the year 18 15 Stephen Bell and Henry Updyke purchased of James Snowden the southeast of centei of section 2 (2.6) ; the lands embraced all of east part of the above section, being then all the western part of Bellbrook. The town had been surveyed and laid otif in lots and a notice sent to Mr. Samuel Pelham. editor of the Vehicle, a paper publisheil in Xenia. calling attention to tlie new town, anil also to the date when the sale would take place.

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The subscribers hax'ing laid out the town of Bellbrook in the county of Greene. Sugarcreek township, on the great mad that leads by James Clancey's ta\-ern, leading from Lebanon to Urbana, and where the road crosses leading from Franklin to Wilmington. The lots in said town will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder on Saturday, the 7th day of October, ensuing. Tlie terms of the sale will l)e made kn(jwn on the day of sale. The situation of the town is healthy^ and convenient to springs which can be easily conveyed through the town. Saw and grist mills within a mile, .\djoining the town lands is a stream of water on which all kinds of machinery may be erected. Signed, September 19, 1813.

Tlie limits of the town as then laid out extended north to the alley that runs between the properties of George Webb and Samuel Willi lUi^'hliy. On the to the street that runs from this alley south. On the south to what is known as the lower street. And on the east to the street that runs frum the southeast corner of David Rape's lot north to a large rock that still is to be seen a little west of the two apple trees on "HoiikiiTs Hill." The lots were in Xo. 84, each fi)ur rods wide and ten rods long on each side of Main street. The first sale of lots on the date above stated took place; Aaron Xutt, an old pioneer of Centerville, Montgomery county, Ohio, was the auctioneer on this occasion.

Mr. Bell about the year 1832 or 1833 sold this farm where his children had grown up to manhood and womanhood and liought a farm across the road (reaching from the south line of the new cemetery to the north line of the Lewis Kemp farm, and on which is built all that, part of the town east of North Main street ) from the venerable Judge Jdlrn McLane. on which stood the tavern then kept by William Edwards. where the young men and maidens often met to while awav the evening hours in the d^untry dance.

In 1838 ]\rr. I'ell had a se\-ere attack of western fever, and Iowa then being the Eldorado of Xnrth America he sold his farm to Ca])tain John C. Mur|)h\'. intending to move there, but his wife dying in May, 1839, changed his iilans for his future course in life. He served one term in the legislature of Ohio as a representative from Greene county. From 182J to 1828 he served Greene county as one of her county commissioners. In 1839 he married the widow

Daughterty, of Springfield, Ohio, and made that place his home, where he was an honored citizen, serving as the first mayor of the city, and afterward li\ing a quiet, unassuming life until the time of his death, May 14, 1852, It is said that Mr. Bell in his old age, knowing that time with him would soon close, and having a mental dread of being laid away in the cold, cold ground, where no kindly eye or loving friends could ever see him again, he had a vault built in the Green Mount cemetery east of the cit\', corner of Main street and Green Mount avenue, Springfield, Ohio. He was placed therein and there he is to-day resting to ail appearances as natural as the day he fell asleep. One of his great-grandsons visited the vault a few days ago, and on coming home remarked, "How much grandfather looks like Uncle Benedict."' The body was petrified. Mr. Bell was also a soldier in the war of 1812, under Cajstain Robert Mc- Clelland.

John McLane entered the land on which \\'illiam Huston now resides. His cabin, which was erected near the site of the present residence, was rudeh- constructed of rough logs. He was a bachelor, and here with no other companion but a dog and his rifle he lived. Often at night, while reposing on his lonely couch, he heard coming from the depths of the forest solitude around him the piercing scream of the wild cat and the hungry hcui of the w-olf. To protect himself from these beasts he each night made and kept a large fire in front of the entrance to his abode. Even at that day he was known as a "queer genius." and many are the anecdotes told of his eccentricity. One of these we will relate. While at various log rollings in the sui:rounding country he had heard the settlers boasting much of tiie prowness of their dogs in fighting wild cats. This made IMcLane feel a little envious, and one day while out hunting his dogs treed one of these animals. Xijthing could have pleased John better, and he immediately set about to see what kind of wild cat dogs his were. Setting his gun by the side of a tree he Ijegan to climb tiie one "outer was the cat," but he had not climbed within more than ten feet of the "varmint" when it rolled up its back, set its hairs all the wrong way and looked him right in the eye. He tried to draw off its attention, but no, said he, "No whar would it look but right in mc c\-e." He licgan to descend the tree slowly and cautiously at first but more rapidly as he neared the ground. Once again on solid earth he grasped his rifle and, after (|uieting the "buck ager" that had taken possession of him, brought it to his shoulder and sent the ball crashing through the brain of his foe. He used to sa_\' when relating" this adventure that it was the only time in his life that he was "skared," and that it was the first and last time that he e\er tried to shake a ])ainter "offen" a tree. John ]\lcLane came from Lexington, Kentucky, and entered the land where his body lies buried. He came some time jire- \-ious to 1803, as his name appears on the records at that date. 'J'he associate judges a])piiinted him on the 15th of Xovember, 1804. to be (3ne of the commissioners in place of Jcihn Sterritt, who bad resigned. We also find that he was one of the associate judges nf (ireene county, and while he may not have lieen a well educated man, he was a man of good judgment and sterling worth. It is said of him that being a bachelor, and having no children of bis own, he used to speak his mind pretty freel_\- when speaking of our legislators, who would enact a law that would compel him to pay for schooling other people's children, and denominated such as "a set of dung-hill gods," from which he jirayed to be delix'ered.

The compiler of this sketch paid a visit to liis tomb one bright day in June, 1899, and was well repaid for the \isit. Leaving the cars at Shoup's Station, on the Panhandle Railroad, I started from there due sou:th toward !Mt. Zion church, which is about two miles fri:)m said station. I stopped at the home of Capt. Benjamin Darst to inquire as to where was the tomb of John McLane, and was told that it was at least three miles from his home, and "Yonder is my horse and in that shed is my buggy : you .shall not walk," and, in almost as short a time as it takes me tt^ write abotit it, the captain had me seated in his buggy. "And now for the direction: keep right on the direction south, that \'ou ha\'e been in coming here: cross the p'ike that leads past ]\It. Zion, contiinie the same direction until you come to another pike that leads toward Dayton; tiu-n to the right and go about two miles, which will lead you to where, on your right hand, you will find a building that used to be the "toll-gate house:" at that place near you w ill find a narrow lane on the right : drive north about one-half mile and in the woods on the left you will find it." I did not forget a single direction that the captain gave me, and was soon there. .\nd, clim1)ing the fence, soon had transferred fnim the tombstone to my book tlie following : "Here hes the remains of John McLane, who died Uctol>er 21, 1848, aged eight} -three years and ele\-en months.

With the words that I have copied from liis liroken tombstone still ringing in my ears " Let no one distiuMj my iuimble cot", it looked as though his wish had been respected, and for fifty-one years no one had been near that lonely grave. Back from the lane, over the fence I had worked my way among the thick underlinish and \'ines, and there about twelve feet from the fence was a stone enclosure about four feet in height, the walls two feet thick, the end next to the east about eight feet from out to out, and twelve feet long from out to out, the one acre of ground that had been reserved for a burial place. It looked as though in the past the primitive lorcst had been cut off, and the present growth of trees had grown to their present heig^'ht.

The walls tlial kind friends had erected around where his bodv had been laid were broken and had fallen inward from either side, and had hid from \"iew the grave of John IMcLane. Out from among the stones had sprung up grape \-ines at least two inches in diameter. The tombstone was broken, /)ne half of whicli was supported and kept from falling by the \-ines aforesaid. The woiid in which this one acre of ground had T)een reserved and in which was the tomb, <loes not look unlike it did wdien its owner used to travel through it near one hundred years ago, 'Tis true tlie white man has destroyed the wild game that was so plentiful in the days of Mr. IsIcLane l>nt the face of nature remains unchanged ; as you stand and gaze, the silence of this spot seems unbroken and while standing alone you almost expect to see some of the objects that used to be seen, to hear the cry of t!ie wild cat. or the howling of the wolf. 'Tis a scene both wild and wierd and well repaws a visit.

John C. Hale, Sr

John C. Hale was a son of James Hale, who was lx)rn in England in 17,17. He first settled in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1767. He removed to Blair county, Penns} Ixania. How long he resided in the latter Plate is not certain. He removed from Pennsylvania to Mason county, Kentucky, where he died in iSor or 1802. His home in Kentuckv was on Clark's run not far from P>rant's Station, nine miles from ]\Iaysville. John Hale had taken to him.self as wife Miss Catherine Baird, who was born in 1774, and was of Welsh descent. Of this marriage there were born eight children : Rebecca, Joseph, Lydia, John, Hannah, James, Thomas and Silas.

In 1802 the widow came to what was tlnn the Northwestern territory with her cliildren and settled in that parr that is no\v known as the great state of Ohio, county of Greene and Sugarcreek town-^hi]j. In the first enumeration of the male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one taken by James Collier and completed August 10. 1803. we find the names of three of Mr. Hale's children, who were of the required age, namely : Joseph, John and Thomas. James

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Hale"s name appearing first on tlie list of voters October, 1805. and Silas, the last son, voting for the first time in April. 1826. After 1810 none are left in tlie county save John and his son. Silas Hale. Jr. In the year 1802 John Hale built a log cabin on the present site of the residence of William Lansing. In this cabin our late venerable friend, Silas Hale. Jr.. was born, and near it. when a child, he matle a narrow escape from being devoured by a hungry bear, but through the efiforts of his mother he was rescued. The floor of this cabin was made of planks sawed out by hand, there being a; that time no sawmills in the neighborhood, and but few in the county. This cabin was afterward torn down, hauled to Bellbrook and re-erected by Joseph Gillespie at the rear of tlie house in which ^Irs. \'aughn used to live. The method of sawing plank in that day was novel : the log was first hewn square, then lined on two opposite sides, one erid of it was raised to a scaffoling, so that it stood on such an incline as to admit of one standing under and another on top of the log both using the saw with ease. Those days have passed and gone, and the savage "swish" of the saw as it is drawn by steam or water power is now heard in the land. John Hale, the subject of this sketch, removed from the county to Kosciusko county. Indiana, in 1838. He was born Xovenil)er 25, 1775, and died in Kosciusko county September 25, 1845, 3'"^^! was buried in the Dunkard graveyard in Jackson township, that county.

Silas Hale, Jr., son of John, took unto himself as a wife, Miriam Updyke, daughter of Henry and Catherine Updyke. .-'v sketch of Henry Updyke as one of the founders of the town of Bellbrook appears in this book. To Silas Hale and liis wife were born ten children, seven sons antl three daughters. Mr. Hale was born August 26, 1803, and died June 20, 1889. Mrs. Hale, the widow of Silas, was born February 5, 1814. and was in 1S99 still living, and it ;s hoped that she will l>e left for many years to be what she ever has been, a source of pleasure to her numerous friends, children and grandchildren. To the descendants yet living of this family it is a pleasure to meet them, and kindly thoughts of them you will have when j-ou say g(X)dbye.

Moses Walton

Moses Walton, one of the pioneers of Greene county, was born i;>n the 27th day u' June, 1809, in what is now Spring \"alley township. His parents were Edward Walton and Deborah Allen. His father was one of the earliest pioneers of Greene county, coming in 1806 from Virginia. He was born on the 30th of January, 1777, in Shenandoah county, Virginia, and belonged to a family who bore their part in the Revolution. The Walton family, of four brothers, originally came from England, and in 1664 settled near Philadelphia. They were the advance of William Penn's Quaker colony. Tlie Walton family to-day. on both sides, hold to the creed of their forefathers. The father of the subject of this sketch departed this life on the 10th day of April. 1867. in Spring Valley township, having reached the advanced age of ninety years and seven months, and was buried in the Caesarscreek Friends' churdi^ard. south of New Burlington. He had through life been a farmer, and a man of stanch integrity and usefulness in society. At the age of twenty-two

Mcses began life on liis own resources as a farmer, in Spring \'alle}', wh^re he ever afterward resided. On the 30th day of Octol)er, iiS34, lie was united in marriage to Mary Cook, a daugliter of John Cook, one of the first pioneers of Warren county. She died March 13. 1844, aged twenty-eight years, leaving h\e children. On the ist of October Mr. Walton was united in marriage to ivachel Reagon, a daughter of Reason Reagon, one of the early pioneers of Warren county, Oliio. She died April Jo. 1844, aged twenty-three years, leaving one child. Mr. Walton was united in marriage to Deborah Johnson, a daughter of Josepli .\. Ji'hnson. an early ])ioneer of Highland county, on the 19th of Sei)teml)er, 1849. ^'''- ;ii;d Mrs. Walt<in were the parents of eight cliildren. Mr. Walton died January 8. 1887,

His name is found upon the records of (jreene county. Ohi(j, first in the enumeration of the inhabitants of Sugarcreek township of the year 1S20. At that time he was the owner of lots Xos. 9, lO and 28 in the town of Bellbrnok. and afterward ran a hotel in that place, and was also constable in Sugarcreek township. "On the 30th of Ainil. 1827, personally appeared in court ( ilie court of common pleas lor the county of Greene, being a court of record in the seventh circuit of the state of Ohio) Richard Cunningham, a resident ot said county, aged seventv years, who tirst being duly sworn, according to law. doth on his oath say and make the following declaration in. order to obtain the priivision made by the acts of congress of the 18th of ^larch, 1 818, and the i8th of May, 1820, "That he, the said Richard Cunningham, enlisted for the term of three years, some time in the spring of the year 1777, in Franklin count\ , in the state of Pennsylvania, in the company commanded by Captain Crawford, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dunlap, in the line of the state of Pennsylvania on the military continental establishment. As well as his recollection serves him, lie knows that at the battle of Brandywine he was commanded by Colonel IJunlap, but at the battle of Germantown he w as under the coinmand of General Armstrong. Then when that part of the army to which he belonged went into winter cpiarters at \'alley Forge he was detained to drive a public team, which he followed for a consideraljle time, after which he was attached to and did duty in a ril1e company under various officers, in scouting or spying parties: the names of these latter officers he does not now recollect. That he continued to serve in this latter species of service until the expiration of his term of service, when he was honorably discharged at the town of Lancaster, in the state of Pennsylvania, having previously received a certificate in the state of New Jerse_\'. .Soon after his discharge he volunteered his services for one year, and served as a rifleman for that time in scouting, spying, etc. He was afterw-ards out for nine months in General Mcintosh's caml-aign against the Indians as a pack-horse man. and served one year in the late war {1812) under Lieutenant John Hopkins, of the corps of rangers (I think from Warren countv, Oliio)." He had one son by his second wife. Richard S. Cunningliam, who at this time (1827) was fifteen \-ears of age.

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His pension was ailmved. and he was placed on tlie roll May 4. iS^^^. His pension commenced ^larch 4. 1831, at the rate of eighty dollars per year.