FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - HISTORY of Madison Township:  Chapter 4, Summary
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December 5, 1998. Brief summary from the book, History of Madison Twp., Canal
Winchester and Groveport, by George Bareis. (Summary by Louise Keller Schlaff)
Sources used by Mr. Bareis included the following: Martin's History of Franklin
County, Scott's History of Fairfield County, Hill's History of Licking County,
Williams History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Studer's History of
Columbus, Lee's History of Columbus, Howe's Historical Collections, Graham's
Map of Franklin County.

                                 CHAPTER 4

.......Among the very first settlers was George Tongue, who located on George's
creek..on the southeast quarter of section No. 7, as early as 1802 0r 1803.
(There were others before him. Do you know any of them to send their names to
me?)
       By 1805 quite a number of others settled in the township, among them
John Kalb, Geo. Kalb and wife, John Stevenson(Revolution War Veteran buried on
Stevenson farm land in Madison County. See Columbus newspaper items.
Spelled Stephenson in the records,he also owned a Tavern at Franklinton with
his brother, William Stevenson who had a farm at Wright and Bowen roads. They
were from Baltimore, Maryland), William Stevenson and family of five boys and
two girls, all from Maryland (This is my ancestral family. Louise)

Stauffel Kramer, Charles Rarey and sons, Adam, Benjamin, William, Charles and
George, and James, Samuel, and Robert Ramsey from Pennsylvania; Elias Decker
and family, William D. Henren and wife, Esau Decker and Exekiel Groom from New
Jersey; Mathew and Samuel Taylor and families from Nova Scotia; John Guffy from
Kentucky and others. From 1805 to 1810 many from the eastern states as well as
the adjoining counties of Ross and Fairfield located in the township. Among
them were Lewis(Ludwig), Phillip, George, John, Michael, Adam and Jacob Kramer,
all brothers, and their families from Pennsylvania; John Schoonover and
family(later found at Lima, Ohio),Ralph and Elijah Austin,John Decker, John
Craun, Jonathan Lee and wife, Thos. Gray, Geo. Smith, Jacob Weaver, John
Tallman, John Sharp and wife, Samuel Brown, Sanuel Bishop, John Swisher,
Fredrick Peterson, Phillip Pontius, Alex Mooberry and family, Abednego Davis,
Matthias Wolf, John and Jacob Gander, Emmer Cox, Wm. Elder, Billingsley Bull
(buried at the Vandemark Cemetery on Wright and Bowen roads),Daniel Kramer,
Abraham Harris, Geo. Rohr and sons, Cubbage Needels and wife, Henry Whetzel and
family, David Wright, John Wright, Joseph Wright, James McClish, John Kile and
family, and a few years later, but early enough to help bear the burdens and
hardships incident to a pioneer's life in those days, were Henry, Harmon,
Andrew, Daniel and John Dildine, Jacob Rhoads, Henry and Fredrick Bunn, Michael
Rohr, Adam Havely, Christian and Adam Sarber, the Daylongs, John Rager, Zebulon
and Elias Leigh, George Seymore, Samuel Murphy, Peter Long, Wm. Patterson,
Wesley Toy, Philip King, Thomas Needels, John, Philomena and Andrew
Needels,.....Farley, Edward Hathaway, Greazy Harrison, ---Hoshor, Wm. Fleming,
Jacob Powell,---Francisco, Wm. Perrin, Dr. Wm. Riley..and others

Among the first and best known of the few colored persons in the township was
Black Charlie, Charles Hatton, who was brought to the township from Maryland by
Wm. Stevenson (as a companion from Maryland of his youngest daughter, Ann Boone
Stevenson Hopkins Stevenson.)  After her father William's death, Chas. Hatton
lived with Ann B. Stevenson and her family until he died. He was good-natured,
polite, a friend of the children, and always had a bright new penny for them.He
could speak "Pennsylvania Dutch." Thomas Gray brought a colored man with him
from Maryland in about 1810s, who was known as Black Sam. Others, known to
persons about Winchester, were Yellow Nick (Nick Gossage), Reuben and Samuel
Gloyd.

(Copy this as #2 in a series currently appearing here. More is coming from this
interesting history book.)


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