ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: NOXON, Jerome B. & Esther (FOBES) 
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Jerome B. and Esther (Fobes) NOXON


     Jerome Noxon was born in Schoharie County, N.Y., 12 June, 1837, son of
Christine Noxon.  He came to Wayne with his mother and grandparents when a few
months old.  He died on the family farm in Wayne, 21 September, 1911.  
     He was well-read and interested in better methods of farming.  He and his
brother sold lightning rods for a time.  Then they added more acres to the
family farm and Jerome began dairy farming.
     In those days cows were milked in the summer time and dried off in the
winter.  Milk was taken to the cheese factory in the hollow next to the house
and made into cheese.  Hogs were fed whey from the factory.  The story goes
that the hogs would get drunk when the whey quickly fermented from the heat,
and that they then behaved just like humans.  Some would be quarrelsome; some
would sit back on their haunches and squeal; some would just lie down and
sleep it off.
     On 4 February, 1873, Jerome married Esther Maria Fobes.  She was born 13
June, 1847, daughter of Franklin J. and Eliza (Miller) Fobes.  
     One of his grandsons once told me that Frank did not wish to transport
arms for John Brown but consented when offered a $5.00 gold piece.  He
enlisted for the Civil War when Esther was 15.  Her mother was very frail and
it fell to Esther to be the mainstay of the family.  There were six younger
brothers and sisters to be taken care of, the youngest being only three months
old.  With no conveniences the children had to do the field work, care for the
animals and the house.  Times were very hard and there was no money.  Even in
her eighties, Esther still washed wheat from the farm grain bin and cooked it
on the old wood and coal stove for her morning meal as she did in her youth.  
     Before her marriage, she and her sister, Florence, had a millinery shop
in Jefferson, then she became a busy farm wife.  It was said that she stirred
off a barrel of maple sugar each spring for shipment to N.Y.   Never idle, she
always had time to help others.  She sewed for all her relatives and friends,
making coats and trousers.  She knitted, tatted, dyed materials and hooked
them into rugs, pieced quilts to the end of her life even with failing
eyesight.  Always lively, alert, witty and philosophical, she listened to all
the world news on her radio until her death 14 March, 1942, nearly 95 years of
age.  
     Their daughter, Lena, taught in Vernon and married John Edward
Boetticher, an educator.  She held diplomas from several music schools and
gave private vocal lessons, taught music and other subjects in the Warren
schools until she retired in her 70's.  She was choir director in a Warren
church when she broke her hip at age 87.  Born 15 April, 1885, she is still
living and will be 100 years old soon.
     Esther and Jerome's son, Schuyler B. Noxon, will be the subject of
another sketch.
----Mildred Noxon Littler  


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