Wayne Township

Wayne Township

Wayne, numbered 13 in the list of townships, and oc- I cupying range 3, contains an area of five miles square, and is one of the seven townships forming the southern tier of Columbiana. Its boundaries are Centre township on the north, Washington on the south, Madison on the east, and Franklin on the west.

The west fork of Beaver Creek flows through the township from the northwest corner to the middle of the eastern boundary, and affords good water-power.

Coal-beds are plentiful, but the lack of railway facilities confines the value of the mineral to the limits of a small home consumption. The same reference may be made to deposits of limestone, fire-clay, iron- ore, sandstone, and flagstone. The latter, found in the Sloan flag quarry, upon the farm occupied by Mrs. Eliza McCord, is said to yield flagstones of a superior quality.

Wayne is a productive farming region, and is noted for its picturesque scenic endowments. High elevations dot the surface in every part, and from their summits views of a wide sweep of fertile hill and plain, relieved by woodland scenes, are presented in a particularly engaging form, was for some time a lonely settler in a howling wilderness, until, early in 1803, new-comers began to gather in the township. Among them wrere Adam Poe, father of the Indianfighting Poe family, who built his cabin near where Samuel Ewing now lives ; John T. Parker, who was the first justice of the peace in the township; James Hoge, a government surveyor; Patrick McKaig, the Thompsons, Armstrongs, Hutchinsons, Sheehans, and McLaughlins.

In 1804, Gideon Gaver settled the place known as the Gaver farm, where is now Gaver post-office; John Armstrong and William King, upon that part of Wayne now included in Franklin township. In 1805, James Figley occupied the place now owned by John Meister, and James Donaldson the farm upon which James, his son, resides.

John Fleming, who moved into Wayne in 1815, purchased the farm on section 9 entered by John T. Parker, and upon that farm his son John still lives. His nearest neighbors were Gideon Gaver, on the east, in section 10 ; Janies Donaldson, on the west; James Armstrong, on the north, upon section 4; and James Hoge, who, with Donaldson, lived on section 8.

Section 7, now in Franklin, but then in Wayne, was in 1804 settled by William King, who came in from Pennsylvania with his wife, two daughters, and three sons, John, Hugh, and Thomas. Besides entering other land, Patrick

McKaig entered section 7 with William King. When the latter settler located, there was no settler on the west between his place and the Tuscarawas River.

Wm. Grafton (who died in 1878, aged ninety-four), with his brother William, came in from Maryland, and settled, in 1813, upon land entered by one Leiper, upon section 14. Leiper owned a small tract of 22 acres, now owned by Rev. Robert Hayes, and situated in Wayne. This he sold to Geo. McLeest for a pair of ear-rings, McLeest, who was a dealer in jewelry, finding that method of payment much more to his liking than the disbursement of money.

One Starkey is said to have led the van in the matter of sturdy service at the forge, and was accounted a blacksmith of more than ordinary excellence and of marvelous physical strength.

An early settler was Capt. James Wormington, who died in Wayne at the age of one hundred and three, and who claimed that sixty years of his life had been passed upon the sea in the naval and merchant-marine services.

Gottleib Nothdurft and John Meister were time honored citizens, natives of France, and boasted of having fought under the first Napoleon, with whom, Meister related, he shared the terrors of the famous retreat from Moscow.

Many of the early settlers in Wayne were from Pennsylvania and Maryland, and were generally people of more than ordinary energy and thrift, while they were as a rule intelligent and warm advocates of religious worship, which they took speedy measures to secure for the settlement as soon as practicable. There were some, too, who belonged to the rougher class of backwoodsmen ; who prided themselves especially on their physical prowess ; were ambitious to be known as "scalp-lifters;" regarded civilization and its refinements as fit only for women ; always went attired in the traditional buckskin breeches, hunting-shirt, and skin cap, and were, in short, a wild aud boisterous band of freelances, who rejoiced in their freedom from conventionalities and in a roving existence.

Indians were plentiful, but not dangerous. They roamed about at will, and, although they were never troublesome, beyond being thieves and beggars, their presence was always attended with apprehensive fears among the settlers, and the atmosphere always seemed easier to breathe when the red -ski ns were not about.

Many stories are still extant of the superstitions prevalent among the early settlers, and of the ceremonies observed in warding off the evils which were foretold by persons claiming to be versed in the knowledge of dispelling the influences of witchcraft; but this superstitious belief, it is but justice to believe, obtained only among a few of the most ignorant, and never passed current among the intelligent members of the community.

Wild and savage animals roamed the forests in those days, and their prowlings and frequent ravages occasioned frequent and serious alarm to the settlers. The yell of the panther and the mournful howl of wolves were familiar sounds to the pioneer ear, and the protection at night of the household from the probable attack of the one, as well as special guarding of domestic animals from the approach of the other, exercised the watchful concern of the settler, and gave him no end of anxious fear. The last panther killed in the township was in 1832, - and hunting such and kindred animals had frequently engaged the attention of the bold backwoodsman, - wheu in a grand rally by a half-dozen hunters the beast fell by the hand of Daniel Lindesmith, a noted deer-slayer and an unerring rifle-shot. Deer-slaying was a favorite pastime, and bear-hunting much affected, while the pursuit of the venomous rattlesnake, although a dangerous sport, was a not uncommon pastime.

It is told that even as late as 1832, John McLeest owned the only cart in his neighborhood, and that he also owned the first wagon seen in the township. The calls upon him for the use of those articles were frequent from all sides, and left him but little opportunity to §erve with them his own needs. So also was it with the first grain-cradle brought into the township, and owned by William Grafton.

The farmers struggled hard and diligently to eke out a living, but that work in a new country is a slow and difficult process, and it is still a saying in Wayne that no sooner had a farmer paid his taxes for one year than he began directly to save all the money he could make to pay taxes for the next. Squire John T. Parker, of whom mention has already been made, performed, iu 1808, the first marriage ceremony known in Wayne, the parties married being Thomas Culbertson and Betsey Porter. Marriage ceremonies in those days were neither brilliant nor stylish affairs, but they were joyous occasions nevertheless, and, although the bridegroom might appear in shirt sleeves, barefoot, and with but one suspender supporting his pantaloons, and the bride in home-spun frock, they were happily content and with their friends made the time a jolly one.

Wayne sprang promptly to the rescue upon the outbreak of the war of 1812, and many of her best citizens gave their services in the conflict. It was during the progress of the war, when the people were keenly alive to alarms and apprehensions, that a rapidly-spread report of a threatened Indian incursion into the township caused feverish excitement and the rapid flight of many families to places of better security. The alarm proved happily a false one, and after a brief absence the refugees returned, but it was long before they settled into a peaceful conviction that the day of trouble was past.

The first justice of the peace, as has been noted, was John T. Parker, who was elected upon the organization of the township, and after him Patrick McKaig, chosen in 1809, Thomas Roseburg, in 1812, and John Shivers were the pioneer justices.

Wayne is a strictly temperance township, and in 1832 organized a temperance society, which was followed directly afterwards by the organization, at Bethel church, of a similar society. Such good fruit did these movements bear that since 1850 not a drop of liquor has been sold within the limits of the township, as goes the report.

Of the men who were born and reared in Wayne, Thus. J. McKaig, Wm. W. McKaig, Wm. Armstrong, and Jos. F. Williams, have served as State legislators; Clement V. Me-

Kaigand M. Travis entered the ministry; John Armstrong served as the treasurer of Columbiana County three consecutive terms; Wm. Armstrong was associate county judge; Hiram Oaver was county commissioner for ten years; Joshua S. Sloan probate judge and county treasurer in Iowa, his brother Robert judge of the court of common pleas, and Geo. J.-Luckey superintendent of public schools in Pittsburgh.

Organization

Wayne was organized in 1806, and included originally a territory of six miles square, embracing thirty-six sections. Upon the erection of Carroll County, in 1832, Wayne lost a row of sections to Washington on the south, and one to Franklin on the west, so that its area of territory is now included within twenty-five sections, measuring five miles square.

For the years 1807 to 1816 there arc no existing township records; from the latter date to 1879 they are, however, complete, and the list of township trustees, clerks, and treasurers who have served during that period is here given :

From an old record has been compiled the following list of voters in Wayne township in 1828: John McPherson, James Hoge, John Davis, James Sharp, David Scattergood, Robert Urquhart, Allen McLain, Alexander Hoey, James Johnston, Francis Russell, William Coburn, James Coburn, Samuel Hunter, James Hunter, Patrick McManus, Benjamin Scattergood, Thomas Patterson, Sr., Thomas Patterson, Jr., Samuel Grafton, William McClure, William Grafton,

Bethel Presbyterian Ciiurch

The first Presbyterian minister to perform stated labor in Wayne township was Rev. James Robertson, a graduate of St. Andrew's University, Edinburgh, Scotland, who began in 1818 to preach within the present bounds of the Bethel congregation. He preached two Sabbaths in each month, occupying a tent for public worship in the summer, and dwelling-houses in the winter. The tent was put up on a field now owned by Rev. Robert Hays, and then near where William Grafton lived. Mr. Robertson was an earnest, faithful worker, and labored with much success against such inconveniences as a want of church organization, extended journeys over bad roads, and a generally crude condition of civilization.

In 1821 a church organization was effected as a branch of the Yellow Creek congregation of Madison township. The early church records having been lost, a list of the original members is not obtainable, but it is known that Andrew Adams, Thomas Patterson, James Welch, and Richard Gilson were the ruling ciders chosen at the organization.

Directly upon that event, it was of course deemed necessary to have a house of worship, and, Thomas Patterson donating two acres of land for a grave-yard and church site, a double-hewed log house was, by the united efforts of

" Resolved, That the congregation of Yellow Creek he divided, and that that part of the congregation where the new meeting-house is built be known by the name of Bethel congregation, and that Rev. James Robertson be considered the stated pastor of that congregation."

The name of Bethel was originally chosen in honor of a church of that name in the Pittsburgh Presbytery, and Mr. Robertson, who was called, had all along been preaching for the congregation. He organized the church of Bethesda, in Franklin township, and until 1827 preached for that and Bethel congregation. The joint membership of the two churches was 202 in the year 1825, previous to which there had been spirited revivals and liberal accessions to the church membership. Mr. Robertson retired from the pastoral charge at Bethel in 1827, and, continuing his ministry elsewhere until 1848, retired from active life in that year, and in 1856 died, in the eightieth year of his age, at the house of his son-in-law, George Sloan, with whom he had passed his declining days. From 1827 to 1835 the church depended upon stated supplies and such as could be best obtained. Revs. John Cook, Thomas Hughes, Nims, Dunlap, Harper, John B. Graham, James Cahoon, and others occupied the pulpit to 1848, Mr. Graham having served as pastor for thirteen years. In 1843, Robert Travis and John McDonald were added to the eldership, which included also the four elders who were selected at the church organization in 1821. Following Mr. Graham, the preachers at Bethel were Revs. M. E. Johnson, who labored from 1848 to 1849, and Rev. Robert Hays, the present pastor, who was settled in 1850, and who for a period of thirty years has uninterruptedly served the congregation.

In 1852 the old church-building was succeeded by the substantial frame edifice now in use. In 1854, the church membership, which in 1850 was but 30, had risen to nearly 100. In that year, John Roley, Angus Noble, Richard Gilson, and Andrew S. McIntosh were added to the eldership; in 1865 the additions were Alexander McIntosh, Daniel Grafton, Daniel Rose, Hiram Nothdurft, Alexander Roley; and in 1871, William Gilson, John Nims, Thomas B. Patterson, and William T. Cameron. The church has now a membership of 230, and is exceedingly prosperous.

Lebanon United Presbyterian Church

Upon an application being made to the Monongahela Presbytery for one of their number to administer the Lord's Supper and organize an Associate Reformed congregation in Wayne township, Rev. James Brown was delegated, and Aug. 12, 1831, in a grove near Mrs. Fleming's house, in Wayne township, the organization of Lebanon congregation Associate Reformed church was formed. The Session consisted of Rev. James Brown as moderator, and Elders William Miller, John Homer, Isaac Buchanan, John Walker, and John Collins. The following persons were then admitted to communion : David McKinley, Charles and

Elizabeth Spence, James and Mary Jamison, Andrew Scott, John and Mary Black, Samuel McCoy, Alonzo and Mary McLain, Samuel and Jane Hunter, Abigail Fleming, Elizabeth and Mary Black. William and Harriet Armstrong, Elizabeth and Hannah McCoy, Anna, Elizabeth, and Anna Maria McMillan, Mr. and Mrs. William Bindsley, William Wallace, Margaret Bindsley, Margaret Patterson, Mrs. Mc- Coy. Aug. 15, 1831, James Jamison and William Armstrong were chosen elders. At the second communion, held at the house of the Widow Fleming, Thomas and Elizabeth McQuoid, John and Margaret Bindsley, and William and Jean Robertson were admitted to membership.

The first preachers were Rev. James Brown and James Walker, and the first called pastor Rev. John Donaldson. William Bindsley was chosen an elder in 1838, and in 1812 the additions were John Young and John McMillan.

The second stated pastor was Rev. Wm. II. Jamison, and after him Revs. James Golden, I. N. White, and H. H. Brownlee, the latter being in charge June, 1879, when the membership was GO.

Preaching was for some time held in a grove and at M rs. Fleming's house, until the erection of a small frame church, near the site of the present edifice, which was erected in 1858. The present elders are John McMillan, Robert McQuoid, D. D. McIntosh, Samuel Ewing.

Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church

In 1837, Joseph Paxton, a blacksmith of Elk Run township, began to preach occasionally at the house of Thomas Cross, in Wayne township, to a company of people who worshiped as members of the United Brethren church. Cross lived north of John Fleming's, where John Patterson now resides. Paxton, Alexander Biddle, and others preached at Cross' house about two years, and then changed the place of worship to the house of Peter Coss, who lived upon the place now occupied by John Rule. Isaac Crubaugh was the first class-leader of the United Brethren organization, which, not long after the transfer to the house of Peter Coss, was reorganized as a Methodist Episcopal congregation, with Peter Coss as class-leader. A log church was built upon the latter's farm, and there services were held until 1848, when the present church-building was put up. Latterly the congregation has not met for worship at the church, save at irregular and lengthened periods, owing to the difficulty of obtaining preachers in a circuit (the Hanover) already taxing to its utmost the powers of the preachers assigned thereto.

The present trustees are John McGeehan, David Mc- Devitt, Samuel Williams, Wm. Patterson, and Wm. Mc- Gaffick. The last class-leader was Harrison Benson.

The first Methodist Episcopal preaching in Wayne was held m 1825, at the house of Gideon Gaver, now occupied by Joseph Bindsley. There was preaching there every fortnight until about 1840, when the members of the congregation generally joined the Pleasant Grove congregation.

Schools were properly regarded as necessaries, and soon after settlers began to multiply measures were taken to look after the education of the young.

The first teachers were McClurg, Hugh Lee, David Hoit, and David McDonald ; after whom came Hugh Reid, Wm. Dunn, Joseph Hunter, Erastus Lee, a deaf man, and Jessie Robertson. Mr. Lee was noted as an excellent teacher and a wonderfully accomplished penman. A famous school-teacher was " old man Powell," a whitehaired, white-bearded old man, who taught in 1827. Besides his duties as pedagogue, he followed also the business of making walking-sticks, which he supplied in considerable numbers to his aged neighbors.

Wayne now enjoys liberal educational advantages, and six district schools provide for the rising generation an abundant fund of preliminary education.

Post-Offices

Gaver and West Beaver are the two post-offices in the township. At the first named, Robert L. Fleming was the first postmaster, and after him officiated Samuel Ewing, George Elliott, Wm. 0. McCord, and Jas. Trunick.

The post-office at West Beaver was established in 1849, when Wm. Phillips was appointed postmaster, after whom the appointees were David McLean, John Robinson (1853 to 1861,) Robert Morrow, and John Robinson (present incumbent, second term), from 1863 to this time, and still in office.

The first burial-ground laid out for public use was the one now adjacent to Bethel church, for which Thomas Patterson gave the land in 1821. The first white person who died in the township was James Armstrong, who, in 1807, lost his life by a congestive chill, consequent upon a bath in the creek.

A solitary grave, marked now by a clump of bushes, near where the first township school-house stood, is where John Roley buried a child in 1820. The land has been plowed times without number, but that spot has remained undisturbed all these years.

The first person buried in Bethel church-yard was one McCartney, a crazy man, who after a roaming existence of careless freedom, died in the confinement which his symptoms of violence demanded.

Justices Of The Peace

The justices of the peace who have served in Wayne from the organization to the present time, 1879, have been John T. Parker, Patrick McKaig, Thomas Roseburg, John Shivers, Isaac Morgan, James McCord, John Robinson, Samuel Ewing, and David W. Todd.

Wayne has within its limits no villages, although there are two postal stations, known as Gavers and West Beaver. Gavers, named in honor of Gideon Gaver, an early settler, has a store, but with that its semblance to a village ceases, since the neighboring dwellings are all farm-houses.

Grosser, Benj. R., son of Adam and Margaret (Roach) Grosser, b. Carroll Co., Ohio, s. Wayne, 1854, Farmer and Carpenter, p. o. add. Millport. Crumbley, Josias, son of Wm. and Mary (Druggan) Crumbley, b. Allegheny Co., Pa., 1831, s. Wayne, 1831, Farmer, p. o. add. Salineville.

Wayne Tp. 1840, Farming and Stock-Growing, p. o. add. Salineville. Peden, James, son of Wm. and Mary (Dennis) Peden, b. Washington Co., Pa., s.

Ruhl, John C., son of Jeremiah and Mary (Cruser) Ruhl, b. WestTp., Columbiana Co., 1830, s. Wayne, 1875, Farmer and Stock-Grower, p. o. add. Gavers. Stewart, Thomas D., son of James and Sarah (Robinson) Stewart, 1). Hancock Co., West Va., s. Wayne, 1823, Farmer, p. o. add. West Beaver.

Yellow Creek Tp. And Wellsville

Andrews, Thomas R., son of Joseph and Dinah (Elliott) Andrews, b. Ashland Co., Ohio, 1844, s. Wellsville, 1859, Bookkeeper, Bridge and Building, C.

1834, Proprietor Restaurant and Eating Saloon, p. o. add. Wellsville. Creighton, Mary C., daughter of Henry and Catharine (Boyce) Creighton, b. Columbiana Co. 1854, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Davidson, Kenneth F., son of David and Margaret (Frazer) Davidson, b. Twinsburg, Ohio, 1833, s. Wellsville, 1835, Foreman of Paint-Shop of C. & P. R. R. Co., p. o. add. Wellsville.

Fisher, Samuel L., son of George F. and Mary (Havens) Fisher, b. Norwich, England, 1821, s. Wellsville, 1859, General Merchant, p. o. add. Wellsville. Fogo, Jr., Wallace, son of Wallace and Harriet (Walker) Fogo, b. Columbiana Co. 1849, Machinist C. & P. R. R. Shops, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Frasier, William 0., son of Daniel and Euplienia (Oglevie) Frasier, b. Columbiana Co. 1834, s. Wellsville, 1873, Proprietor Planing-Mill, Sash- and Door-Factory, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Forbes, John, son of Alexander and Christina (McGillivray) Forbes, b. Scotland, 1825, s. Columbiana Co. 1829, Farmer, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Harper, David II., son of James and Elizabeth (Hay) Harper, b. Beaver Co., Pa., 1832, s. Wellsville, 1865, Painter C. & P. R. R. Co., p. o. add. Wellsville. Jenkins, John M., son of Joseph and Sarah (Dungan) Jenkins, b. Beaver Co., Pa., 1795, s. Wellsville, 1824, Attorn ey-at-Law, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Kelly, Thomas II. B., son of Daniel and Mary (Wilcox) Kelly, b. Columbiana, 1841, Stationary Engineer C. A P. R. R. Co. Shops, p. o. add. Wellsville. Malone, Elemelic, son of David R. (Oliver) Malone, b. Columbiana Co. 1820, Carpenter C. & P. R. R. Co. Shops, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Menough, John W., son of William and Mary (Ramsey) Menougli, b. Columbiana Co. 1839, Foreman C. & P. R. It. Co. Shops, p. o. add. Wellsville. Martin, James, son of Robert and Agnes (Huston) Martin, b. Penn Valley, Pa.,

0., 1841, s. Wellsville, 1869, Superintendent of Schools, p. o. add. Wellsville. McGregor, Giles, son of John and Margaret (McBane) McGregor, b. New York City, 1828, s. Wellsville, 1848, Proprietor Steam Saw and Planing Mill, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Co., Pa., 1826, s. Columbiana Co. 1848, Farmer, p. o. add. Wellsville. McBane, James, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Noble) McBane, b. Columbiana Co. 1835, Farmer, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Pearson, William, son of William and Dorothy (Henderson) Pearson, b. Yorkshire, England, 1843, s. Wellsville, 1860, Clerk P. and C. R. R. Co., p. o. add. Wellsville.

Stevenson, Samuel, son of James and Hannah (Gervin) Stevenson, b. Philadelphia, 1828, s. Wellsville, 1840, Proprietor Foundry and Machine Shop, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Smith, Philip N., son of William C. and Jennie (Bailey) Smith, b. Columbiana Co. 1852, s. Wellsville, 1878, Attorney-at-Law, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Sheets, Frederick, son of Christian and Nancy (Lozier) Sheets, b. Columbiana Co. 1837, s. Wellsville, 1866, Photographer, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Taylor, Elias S., son of Elias C. and Betsey (Bagg) Taylor, )>. West Springfield, Mass., 1826, s. Wellsville, 1854, Bridge-builder, p. o. add. Wellsville.

White, Philip, son of William and Elizabeth (Kolpfgen) White, b. Prussia, 1829, 8. Wellsville, 1872, Assistant Master Mechanic, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Wooster, William M., son of John C. and Margary (Williams) Wooster, b. Jefferson Co., 0., 1839, s. Wellsville, 1866, Superintendent Gas Company, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Williams, Basil E., son of Abraham and Mary (Beck) Williams, b. Washington Co., Pa., 1828, s. Columbiana Co. 1874, Liveryman, p. o. add. Wellsville.

Young, P. ('., son of David and Susannah C. (Cleaver)t Young, b. Columbiana Co. 1848, s. Wellsville, 1875, Attorney-at-Law, p. o. add. Wellsville.

County

Elser, Solomon, son of Jacob and Margaret (Greenamyer) Elser, b. Springfield Tp. 1832, s. Beaver, 1849, Farmer and J. P., p. o. add. North Lima.

Frederick, Lyman, son of Z. M. I', and Mary (Betz) Frederick, b. New Lisbon, 1847, s. Beaver, 1875, Farmer and Teacher, p. o. add. E. Lewistown.

Greenamyer, Jacob, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Monasmith) Greenamyer, b Milton Tp., Mahoning Co., 1832, s. Beaver, 1830, Farmer, p. o. add. East Lewistown.

Hilbish, Henry, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Kreller) Hilbisli, b. Freeburg, Snyder Co., Pa., 1836, s. Beaver Tp. 1870, Pastor Reformed Church, p. o. add. North Lima.

Bruff, Joseph, son of James B. and Sarah (Morris) Bruff, b. Damascus, 1827, Farmer, Conveyancer, and Notary Public, p. o. add. Damascovillo.

Blackburn, Josiali H., son of Thomas J. and Anna (Fenton) Blackburn, b. Clearfield Co., Pa., 1841, s. Green Tp. 1855, Flour Merchant, p. o. add. Greenford.

Hendricks, Henry, son of Wm. and Catharine (Detwiler) Hendricks, b. Westmoreland Co., Pa., 1819, s. Columbiana Co. 1823, Farmer, p. o. add. Greenford.

Lewis, John H., son of Jesse and Susannah (Sperry) Lewis, b. Montgomery Co., Pa., 1814, s. Columbiana Co. 1841, Attorney-at-Law, p. o. add. Greenport.

Stoffer, John B., son of Jacob and Susan Stoffer, b. Franklin Co., Pa., 1812, s. Columbiana Co. 1832, Merchant, p. o. add. Wasliingtonville.

Weikert, Jacob, son of Peter and Fanny (Smith) Weikert, b. Adams Co., Pa., 1791, s. Columbiana Co. 1823, Retired Farmer, p. o. add. Greenford.

Walters, Henry, son of John and Catharine (Stombaugh) Walters, b. Adams Co., Pa., 1811, s. Columbiana Co. 1818, Farmer, p. o. add. Wasliingtonville.

Ward, T. B., son of Peter and Amy (Galbraith) Ward, b. Abbeville Dist., S. Carolina, 1815, s. Columbiana Co. 1818, Farmer, p. o. add. Salem.

Atkinson, William, son of George and Elizabeth (Moore) Atkinson, b. Salem, Columbiana Co., s. Smith Tp. 1859, Farmer and Stock Dealer, p. o. add. Boswell.

Springfield Tp., Mahoning Co

Dressel, Gottleib, son of John Martin and Anna (Raith) Dressel, b. Wurtemberg, Ger., 1817, s. Springfield, 1866, Farmer, p. o. add. Petersburg.

Floor, R. Lee, son of Jacob and Agnes (Sclieaffer) Floor, b. Berlin Tp., 1853, s. Springfield, 1868, Physician and Surgeon, p. o. add. New Middleton.

Kurtz, Jacob H., son of Henry and Catherine (Loher) Kurtz, b. Stark Co., Ohio, 1837, s. Springfield, 1842, Farmer arid Minister, p. o. add. Poland.

Kneasel, John G., son of Andrew and Barbara (Schwartz) Kneasel, b. Germany, 1825, s. Springfield, 1832, Hotel Keeper and Farmer, p. o. add. Petersburg.

Swisher, James P., son of John K. and Martha (McClure) Swisher, b. Beaver Co., Pa., 1828, s. Springfield, 1828, Insurance Agent, p. o. add. Petersburg.

Smith, George J., son of Yalentine and Catharine (Johnson) Smith, b. Springfield Tp. 1838, Dealer in Merchandise and Drugs, p. o. add. New Middleton.

Shearer, Samuel J.,son of Jacob R. and Rebecca (Jacobs) Shearer, b. Columbiana Co. 1836, s. Springfield, 1869, Merchant and Distiller, p. o. add. New Springfield.

Warner, R. Elton, son of S. S. and Emiline (Howe) Warner, b. Schenectady Co. 1851, s. Springfield, 1877, Physician and Surgeon, p. o. add. New Springfield.

Welker, John, son of Philip and Catharine (Piper) Welker, b. Cumberland Co., Pa., 1809, s. Springfield, 1842, Hotel and Farmer, p. o. add. New Middleton.

Wright, R. N., son of Samuel and Sarah S. (Wisner) Wright, b. Stark Co., Ohio, 1848, s. Springfield, 1878, Plow Manufacturer and Foundry, p. o. add. New Springfield.

Zuller, Louis, son of Randall and Barbara (Mollo) Zuller, b. Bavaria, 1824, s. Springfield, 1844, Proprietor of Hotel and Farmer, p. o. add. Petersburg.