ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: NOXON, Abraham and Maria (SCHOEFFER) *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Linda R. & Henry L. LIPPS, Kinsman, OH LRLBugsy@aol.com Researching ancestors & descendants of Daniel LIPPS/1792/Greenbriar Co., WV February 28, 1999 ************************************************************************ The following sketch was extracted from History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, Ashtabula County History Then and Now, 1985, A History of the People of the County, By the People of the County: Abraham and Maria (Schoeffer) NOXON When Abraham Noxon and his wife, Maria (always called Maritje), bought a 40 acre farm in Wayne township in 1835 from Lynds Jones, I am sure they had no thought that it would still be the home of Noxons for nearly a century and a half later. Abraham was born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and married Maria in Albany. Both were born around the time of the Revolutionary War. He was the son of a Patriot, Batholomew and Ann (Losee) Noxon whose lands were confiscated after the Revolution. The family moved to Wayne from Middleburgh, Schoharie County, N.Y. They first lived in a log cabin beside a spring in the woods on Hayes Road on lots 93 and 94. All of their ten children were born in N.Y. John, Richard and Bartholomew stayed in N.Y. Peter, his wife, Eliza (Gillette), and family lived in Jefferson for a time and later moved to Buffalo. Pascoe and his large family lived in Wayne a few years and them "emigrated east in a covered wagon" to N.Y. His wife, Sarah, is buried in Monroe cemetery. Their daughter, Helen, married Robert Wilcox Jones and their two children were Lynds Levant and Maizie. Abraham's youngest son, Abram, lived in the Wayne-Andover area. His children were Miriam McDonald, Alice, Helen Bates and Birdsall. Anna, born in Albany, N.Y., in 1795 and husband Peter Shufelt, lived on lot 34. Their children were Noxon, Alonzo, Angelica and Kate Bailey. Evalina married Alonzo Platt and had two sons, Noxon and Joseph, who lived in Cleveland. Almira married first Alonzo Wilder, then Phillip Hanson, the local tailor, and had two sons, Claudius and Thaddeus Hanson. The other daughter, Christine, my great-grandmother, was born probably in 1809. Upon the death of her father, 12 September, 1842, she bought the farm from his estate and made a home there for her mother until Maritje died 11 December, 1863, age 86. Later Christine added more land and some time later a house was built near the highway. From a musical family, she enjoyed the old "singing schools". Christine's eldest son, Schuyler Van Rensselaer Noxon, was born in Schoharie County. He joined the local Black Strings in this area and was said to have paticipated in John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry and would have been hanged if caught. A Bowie knife carried in that raid is in the possession of his great-great-nephew. He was a lightning rod salesman. The other son, Jerome B., was also born in Schoharie County. He married a neighbor girl, Esther Fobes, a descendant of Wayne pioneers. Jerome and "Et" as she was called, had two children, Schuyler Blaine and Lena. After the death of Schuyler V. in Wayne, 12 April, 1884 and Christine in 1898, Jerome came into possession of the farm. Schuyler B. was the next in line, then Schuyler's son, Harold, and lastly Harold's son, Harlan (my nephew), who with his family, make seven successive generations of Noxons to live on the original farm. ----Mildred Noxon Littler ==== Maggie_Ohio Mailing List ====