CARROLL COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WASS, WESLEY I. B. (1887)

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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887
Page 548-549

        WESLEY I.B. WASS, farmer, section 5, Union Township, came to this
county in March, 1865, and purchased the farm entered by William P. Rice.
He was accompanied by his wife and two children. Mr. Wass was born in
Carroll County, Ohio, March 18, 1837. He grew to manhood in his native
county, his education being limited to the common schools of his father's
district. His father, Samuel Wass, was born in Derbyshire, England, in
1790. He was reared and married in England, and in 1818 came to America
with wife and two children,s settling in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They
lived there a short time, then removed to Stark County, Ohio, thence to
Carroll County, where the father entered land from the Government. He was a
wheelwright by trade, and also rode the Methodist circuit for many years.
The parents come to this county with their son Wesley, and the farm was
purchased by both. They lived here until the mother's death, then the
father went to live with other members of the family. He died in 1876,
lamented by all who knew him. The mother, Phebe (Ward) Wass, was born in
Devonshire, England, in 1792, and died in Decatur, this county. Both are
buried in the Monroeville cemetery. The mother was the first school-teacher
in Carroll County, Ohio, and organized the first Sunday-school in Brown
Township. She taught school free of charge, from purely philanthropic
motives. Our subject was married May 2, 1861, to Miss Elizabeth D. Pottorf,
who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1842, where she was reared and
married. Her parents are Jacob S. and Hannah (Gillmore) Pottorf, the father
born in Pennsylvania, and the latter in Ohio; they are not living in
Carroll County. Mrs. Wass died March 6, 1875, aged about thirty-four years,
and is buried Union Bethel cemetery. There were eight children in the
family -Luella A., born February 26, 1862, wife of R.K. Erwin; Lucy L.,
born March 30, 1863, became the wife of John A. Barkley; Emory D., born
April 12, 1866; Mary O., born November 24, 1868; Alice S., born May 1,
1871; Charles, born March 2, 1875. Mr. Wass married for a second wife,
Caroline Wagner, who was born in Germany, and came to America with her
parents, who settled in Ohio. She died July 12, 1881, leaving two children
-Daisy D and Maude E. Politically Mr.Wass is a Republican, and has served
as township trustee. His paternal grandparents died in England. The
grandfather of his wife, Andrew Pottorf, was of German descent, and died in
Carroll County, Ohio.


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