BIOS: CARLISLE, Sarah Fairfield County, Ohio 1795-1876

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	Statement of B. W. Carlisle

The following is, in substance, the statement of B.W. Carlisle, 
in regard to 
his mother and others of the first emigrants into the Hocking Valley:

"Mrs. Sarah Carlisle was a resident of Greenfield Township for the full 
period of sixty-four years, ending with her death on the 14th of January, 
1866, at the residence of her son. She was one of the 
pioneer mothers of this county. She, with her father's family, 
in true pioneer fashion, came with 
wagons, rifle-guns and trusty dogs, passing through where the city of 
Lancaster now stands, when nothing was there but an unbroken wilderness. 
Where Lancaster is, no white man had settled."

This was in 1799. Across the prairie,near the present residence of Mr. 
Mithoff, was a small encampment of Indians. "Her father, John Edwards, 
located on Buckskin, west of Chillicothe, in that year, 
where she underwent the hardships and enjoyed the novelties 
of pioneer life, until the fall of 
1802, when she was married to James Wilson, 
brother of old Colonet Robert and 
Nathaniel Wilson, formerly residents of Hocking Township.
" She moved with her 
husband on the farm now owned by her son, B.W. Carlisle, 
in Greenfield Township, the same year of her marriage. In 1807, 
she was left a widow by the 
death of Mr. Wilson.

"Subsequently, she was united in marriage to 
Thomas Carlisle, on the 23d day 
of January, 1813, with whom she lived 
until the fall of 1844, when she was 
again left a widow by the death of her sicond husband."

Mrs. Sarah Carlisle descended from Scotch parentage, 
who were Presbyterians, 
she herself uniting with that church in Lancaster 
soon after her first 
marriage, Rev. John Wright being pastor.

Mrs. Margaret Ewing, late of Pleasant Township, and 
mother of Thomas E., 
William and James Ewing, was Mrs. Carlisle's sister. 
She, also, with her 
husband, were among the earliest settlers of Fairfield County. 

Mrs. Carlisle was fond of dwelling on the scenes and 
incidents of the pioneer age, and had a fund of highly 
interesting anecdotes and amusing incidents to 
narrate. Among her early acquaintances of the new settlement, 
she often spoke of the following persons: 
the Whites, the Coateses, the Bradshaws, the 
Wilsons, the Stewarts, the Lackeys, the Greens, the Biggerstaffs, the 
Builderbacks, the Burtons, George Sanderson, and numerous others.

Mrs. Carlisle saw Lancaster spring from the wild woods, 
where the white man never trod before. 
She spoke of the first two cabins she remembered - one 
near the present steam-mill at the foot of 
Chestnut (Jail) Street, on the canal. 
She lived to see Lancaster a flourishing city of over five thousand 
inhabitatnts. Like most of the women of frontier life, she was an expert 
horseback rider. 
She often rode from her home in Greenfield to her father's, 
forty miles distant, in a day, carrying her baby on her lap.

An incident of her romance is well worth telling, 
because such occurrences were common to the pioneers. 
Returning from Lancaster, she came upon a young 
fawn in the woods, at a point somewhere near the 
cabin of Joseph Hunter. She knew it had strayed from its mother, 
and springing dextrously from her horse, 
she threw the bridle over a limb, made chase, and 
captured the little spotted 
fugitive, carried it home, and raised it as a per.

Her second husband, and father of the present B.W. Carlisle, 
who is remembered as Thomas Carlisle, late of Greenfield 
Township, entered what is known as the war of 1812 the same 
year of his marriage, viz.: 1813. He served 
in Captain Richard Hooker's mounted men, who went to the 
relief of Colonel Croggan, who was besieged by the Indians at Sandusky.

Thomas Carlisle came from Virginia, and settled in 
Fairfield County in 1811; was married in 1813, and lived on 
what is known as the Carlisle farm until the time of his death, 
in 1844. Mr. Carlisle was an active business man and a 
highly useful citizen. He served many years as a 
Justice of the Peace. At the 
time of his death, he was one of the acting 
Commissioners of the county.



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