Adams County OhArchives Biographies.....Fenton, Jeremiah 1764 - May 10, 1841
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Author: W.W. Sellman (1965)

Jeremiah Fenton was born in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1764.  His father, 
also named Jeremiah, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  After the war the 
family moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where about 1789 Jeremiah married 
his first cousin, Rosannah Lawrence, daughter of John and Catherine Lawrence.  
Their children were William (m. Mary or "Polly" Kendall), Elizabeth (m. Joseph 
Eyler), Delilah (never married), John (m. Ruth Corns), Jesse (m. Mary 
Lawrence), Catherine (m. Benjamin Eckman), Jeremiah (m. Elizbeth Crozier), mary 
(m. John Baird), George (never married), Benjamin (m. Elizabeth Smith), and 
Joseph (never married).

In 1806 Jeremiah Fenton brought his family ot Ohio and settled on a farm two 
and one-half miles northwest of Winchester in Survey 1043, on the Fincastle 
road. Here he resided until his death, May 10, 1841.  His wife died September 
25, 1845.  They are both buried in the old cemetery in Winchester.

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