Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Pease, Ziba W. August 1, 1832 - 
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ZIBA W. PEASE, famer and blacksmith, sec. 32, Hersey Tp., Osecola Co., Mich., 
was born Aug. 1, 1832.  His 

father, Samuel Pease, was born in Connecticut in 1877, and was one of the 
first settlers of the Wyoming 

Valley, Pa.; was a miller by occupation, and passed the winters in trapping 
and hunting.  His grandfather, 

Samuel Pease, was born i Glastonbury, Ct., March 14, 1760, and enlisted in 
1777 to serve in the war of the 

Revolution; he took out a deed of land in Wilkesbarre, Pa., Jan. 6, 1795; was 
with the army under 

Washington at the crossing of the Delaware; fought his last battle at 
Yorktown, and was present at the 

surrender of Lord Cornwallis.  A significant fact and worthy of record is that 
six of his descendants 

fought on the same ground in the war of the Rebellion, to defend the liberty 
established by their 

ancestors.

The Pease family of the United States are descended from Robert and John 
Pease, two brothers who came from 

Ipswich, Essex Co., Eng., in the ship Francis, Capt. ZJohn Cutting, and landed 
at Boston in April 1631.  In 

1634 they settled at Salem, Mass., and not long after, John went to Martha's 
Vineyard, and is claimed as 

the founder of the Pease family there.  John Pease, Jr., of Salem, was the 
ancestor of the Enfield branch 

of the family, and of his descendants, the whereabouts of over three thousand 
living male members are 

known.  But one is positively recorded as in any way connected with the 
Confederate army - Capt. Allen S. 

Pease, whose "Tactics" were adopted in the discipline of the army of the 
Confederacy.  Dr. John C. Pease, 

one of the founders of the Hartford Times in 1816, and Dr. Calvin Pease of the 
University of Vermont, who 

originated and published the present school laws of that State, are of the 
same family.

Mr. Pease of this sketch enlisted in the war of Rebellion, Aug. 30, 1863, in 
Co. K, 11th Pa., Vol. Cavalry, 

and on going to the front was at once introduced to the fortunes of war 
at "Deserted House," Feb. 12, 1863, 

followed by an engagement at the seige of Suffolk, Va., from April 11 to May 
4, at North Anna Bridge, July 

4, 1863, Bottom Ridge Feb. 6, 1864, Reams' Station June 29, 1864, Charles City 
Cross Roads Oct. 1, 1864, 

and skirmishes without number.  He was at Lee's surrender at Appomatox, and 
went thence to Lynchburg, where 

he spent eight days patroling rebel prisoners, and on his return to Richmond, 
received intelligence of the 

assassination of Abraham Lincoln.  After a tarry of two weeks at Richmond he 
went to Staunton, W. Va., 

where he spent three weeks, going thence to Charlottesville, Va.  Three months 
later he went to Richmond 

and was mustered out of the United States service.

In the fall of 1868 he located at Big Rapids and worked at blacksmithing until 
the following spring, when 

he located a homestead claim of 56 acres on sec. 32 of Hersey Tp., of which he 
has made a valuable farm.  

He was one of the pioneer settlers of the township, and politically is a 
Republican.  He is a member of the 

G.A.R., and is actively interested in the temperance movement of the day.  He 
was married Sept. 17, 1854, 

to Rhoda M., daughter of David and Betsey (Stanton) Dix, natives of 
Pennsylvania and residents of that 

State.  Mrs. Pease was born June 30, 1839, in Preston, Pa.  She became the 
mother of nine children, as 

follows:  Lucinda J., Jan. 17, 1856 (Mrs. T.B. Hardman); Drusilla J., Nov. 18, 
1857 (died Jan. 6, 1862); 

Francis M., March 13, 1860 (died April 14, 1862);  Hattie A., March 10, 1862 
(Mrs. J. Vanatter); Bertha, 

June 29, 1866; Carrie E., May 14, 1868, Nellie W., Oct. 17, 1870 (died Aug. 
10, 1873); Charlie W., June 9, 

1873; Eddie J., Sept. 24, 1875.

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