CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - Joseph W. Quaintance, bio, "1902 History of Crawford County, Ohio"

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There is a biography in the 1902 History of Crawford about Joseph W.
Quaintance, living in Holmes.  He was born in Steubenville, Jefferson Co., 
OH on 8/31/1828, son of Fisher and Sarah Ivey Quaintance.  Fisher and Sarah 
had 10 children: Ann, widow of Henry Peasely in Ada, OH; Eli P., who farmed 
in Holmes and is deceased; Susanna, wife of John Talbott is also dead; Hannah 
died in childhood; Ira died in Newton, Iowa; Dawson lives in Putnam Co, OH; 
Joseph W. the subject; Charles and George, twins, George being dead and Charles 
living in Bluffton, Allen Co., OH.; Sarah Jane is also dead.  Fisher was born 
in Cumberland Co., PA on Oct. 12, 1793, son of Joseph and Susanna Quaintance 
of German Ancestry, who moved to Jefferson Co., OH when Fisher was young.  
Fisher moved with his parents, wife and 6 children in 1829 to Crawford Co., OH, 
Holmes Township.  Fisher died in 1866.  Sarah Irey Quaintance was a native of 
Loudoun Co., VA, born on Jan. 25, 1792, daughter of Philip and Hannah Irey, a 
second cousin of John Brown.