HANCOCK COUNTY, OHIO - Biography: Jacob Barnhill ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ***************************************************************************** Submitted to the Ohio USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Hunter Hodgson Tucson, Arizona hodgson@azstarnet.com http://208.199.40.215/genealogy/index.html January 12, 1998 ***************************************************************************** Jacob Barnhill ________________________________________________________ ________________ 1866 Oct 28 Born to Joseph Barnhill and Sarah Funkhouser in Hancock Co OH 1880 Census with parents in Hancock County, Ohio 1893 Sep 1 Graduated Cleveland OH Homeopathic Medical College 1894 Jan 17 Married Alice Victoria Smaltz 1895 July 21 Father died 1899 Mar 21 Twins born and died 1899 July 31 Mother died 1902 Oct 1 Deed recd as settlement of parent's estate 1902 Feb 7 Jacob Walter born 1904 May 19 Kenneth Schmaltz born 1906 Feb 21 Martha Adaline born 1924 May 22 Wife died in Denver, Colorado of TB 1937 Daughter Martha died 1945 Mar Died Napoleon, Ohio ________________________________________________________ _________________ Descendants of Jacob Wheaton BARNHILL Generation No. 1 1. JACOB WHEATON4 BARNHILL (JOSEPH *3, GABRIEL *2, ROBERT *1) was born 28 October 1866 in Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio, and died 06 March 1945 in Toledo, Ohio. He married ALICE VICTORIA SMALTZ 17 January 1894, daughter of LOUIS SCHMALTZ and MARTHA POWELL. Children of JACOB BARNHILL and ALICE SMALTZ are: i. I5 TWIN, b. 21 March 1899, Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio; d. 21 March 1899, Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio. ii. II TWIN, b. 21 March 1899, Napoleon, Napoleon Townshi, Henry County, Ohio; d. 21 March 1899, Napoleon, Napoleon Townshi, Henry County, Ohio. iii. JACOB WALTER BARNHILL, b. 07 February 1902. iv. KENNETH SCHMALTZ BARNHILL, b. 19 May 1904. v. MARTHA ADALINE BARNHILL, b. 21 February 1906; d. 1937; m. R. F. THOMAS. ________________________________________________________ _________________ Physician in Napoleon, Ohio. He graduated from Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland and since 1 Sep 1893 has had a lucrative practice of medicine at Napoleon, Ohio. He is also a chiropractic physician and a staunch Spiritualist. Presbyterian Church. Odd Fellows. Knights of Pythias, Napoleon Lodge No.929 Elks. Democrat. ________________________________________________________ ________________ THE FUNKHOUSER FAMILY by Jacob Funkhouser Page 64 R.D. Barnhill resides near South Whitley, Ind. Dr. W.D. Barnhill lives in South Whitley, Ind. Dr. T.G. Barnhill, superintendent and manager of the Barnhill Sanatarium resides at 208 South Main St., Finley, Ohio. The youngest, Dr. J.W. Barnhill, is located in Napoleon, Ohio. They are all married. ________________________________________________________ ________________ COUNTY HISTORY History of Northwest Ohio. Winters. Jacob W. Barnhill, M.D. is the only homeopathic physician at Napoleon and in Henry County. He has practiced in that locality for more than twenty years, and in that time extended practice has come to him and his services are in demand by many of the very best families of the county. Doctor Barnhill is a thorough homeopath, and his long experience has shown him that people require not so much medicine as proper nursing and cheerful and comfortable environment and surroundings. The doctor has a magnetic personality and this, his patients claim, has been as much a factor in his success as the medicines which he administers. He is a graduate of the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, completing his course there in 1893, and for a short time practiced at Findlay, Ohio, before removing to Napoleon September 14, 1893. He has well equipped offices on Washington Street opposite the postoffice. Doctor Barnhill has also served as county coroner two terms, and is interested in all local affairs. Professionally he is a member of the Ohio State Homeopathic Institute and also the Homeopathic organization of Northwest Ohio. Doctor Barnhill was born in Hancock County six miles west of Findlay, Ohio, October 28, 1866. As he grew up on a farm he attended the public schools and later completed his literary education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he received a certificate to teach, but never made use of it. He is of old Pennsylvania stock. His grandfather, Gabriel Barnhill, was born in Pennsylvania, but early came to Ohio and died in this state. Joseph Barnhill, father of Doctor Barnhill, was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, during the decade of the '30s, grew up on a farm, and subsequently located in Hancock County, where he married Sarah Funkhauser, also a native of Ohio. They spent most of their married lives in Hancock County, where the father died at the age of seventy-three and the mother at seventy-four. They were Presbyterians and he was a democrat. Of their four sons and three daughters, two of the daughters are now deceased, and all those living are heads of families. Two other sons are physicians. Dr. Tobias G. is a graduate of the Homeopathic Medical School at Cleveland, is in practice at Findlay, and is married and has one son named Joseph. Dr. William D. graduated in the same year and same class as his brother Jacob, and has a successful practice at Fort Wayne, Indiana; he is the father of three children: Vaithe, reah and Freda, the daughter, Reah, being married. The other son is Daniel Barnhill, a farmer of Columbia, Indiana and the father of two daughters and one son named Rosa Blanche, Pearl and the son, Coral. Doctor Barnhill was married at the home of his bride five miles west of Findlay, Ohio to Miss Alice V. Smaltz. She was born near Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, January 2, 1870, was reared and educated there and after graduating from a business college taught bookkeeping in a business school until her marriage. Her parents were Louis and Martha Powell Smaltz, both natives of Fairfield County and her father of German ancestry. Her parents were married in Fairfield County and most of their children were born there, but about thirty years ago they located in Liberty Township of Hancock County, where they have since enjoyed an excellent farm home. Both are members of the Christian Union Church and her father is a democrat who has served as trustee of Liberty Township and is county commissioner of Hancock County. Doctor and Mrs. Barnhill had twin daughters who died at birth, and there are three living children: J. Walter, now fourteen, and is in the eighth grade of the public schools, Kenneth S., twelve years old and in sixth grade of the public schools. Martha A. was born February 21, 1906, and is in the fifth grade. Doctor and Mrs. Barnhill are members of the Presbyterian church and fraternally he is affiliated with the subordinate lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Napoleon, with Maumee Valley Encampment of that order, with the Knights of Pythias and with Napoleon Lodge No.929, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically he is a democrat. ________________________________________________________ _________________ FAMILY HISTORY History of the Descendants of John Hottel. P.724 Jacob Wheaton Barnhill, b near Findlay, O., Oct 28, 1866; m Jan 17, 1894, Alice Victoria Schmaltz, a music teacher, b Jan 2, 1871; d of T.B. at Denver, Colo., May 22, 1924, bur. at Napoleon, O. Dr. Barnhill spent his boyhood on his father's farm and received his early education in his native township. He graduated from Cleveland, O. Homeopathic Medical College, and since Sept. 1, 1893, has had a lucrative practice of medicine at Napoleon, O., and also a chiropractic physician. He is a staunch Spiritualist. ________________________________________________________ _________________ INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX IGI Ohio Barnhill, Jacob Wheaton b 28 Oct 1866, Hancock, Findlay to Joseph Barnhill & Sarah Funkhouser ________________________________________________________ ________________ HANCOCK COUNTY, OHIO DEED VOL. 112 PAGE 124 Age 36 Jacob W. Barnhill Know all men by these Presents That Jacob Alice J. Barnhill W. Barnhill and Alice V. Barnhill husband and to wife of Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio in Tobias G. Barnhill consideration of Eighteen hundred and forty six dollars and forty five cents ($1864.45) to them paid by Tobias G. Barnhill of Findlay Ohio, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby remise, release and forever quit-claim to the said Tobias G. Barnhill his heirs and assigns forever the following described real estate situate in the township of Liberty, County of Hancock and State of Ohio towit. The undivided one sixth (1/6) part of the South East quarter (1/4) of section nineteen (19) township one (1) North range ten (10) East excepting, therefrom, twenty (20) acres taken off of the North and of the West half (1/2) of said quarter section. Also excepting from said quarter section a strip of land twenty four (24) feet nine (9) inches wide containing seventy five hundredths (75/100) of an acre. Also excepting from said quarter section a strip of land thirty three (33) feet wide off of the South end thereof containing about eighty-one hundredths (81/100) of an acre. All of said excepted parts having been hereto before conveyed by Joseph Barnhill, the former owner, to other parties leaving a residue of One hundred and thirty eight and forty four hundredths (138 44/100) acres, the undivided one sixth (1/6) part thereof hereby conveyed to said ppurchaser Tobias G. Barnhill. And all the estate, title and inter- est of the said Jacob W. Barnhill and Alice V. Barnhill either in law or in equity of, in and to the said premises together with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belong- ing and all the rents, issues and profits thereof. To have and to hold the same to the only proper use of the said Tobias G. Barnhill his heirs and assigns forever. In Witness Whereof, the said Jacob W. Barnhill and Alice V. Barn- hill, his wife who hereby releases her right and expectancy of dower in the said premises have hereunto set their hands this 30 day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two. Signed and acknowledged in Presence of us: James P. Ragan Jacob W. Barnhill John C. Hogan Alice V. Barnhill The State of Ohio County of Henry ss: Be it remembered that on the 30 day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two before me the subscriber a Notary Pub- Alice V. Barnhill the grantors in the foregoing deed and acknowledged the signing thereof to be their voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial seal on the day and year aforesaid. James P. Ragan, Notary Public Henry County, Ohio Filed October 1 1902 at 2 P.M. Recorded Oct 11 1902 Wm. F. Bloom Recorder ________________________________________________________ _________________ OBITUARY Age 78 Henry County Signal March 8, 1945 Page 1 Dr. J.W. Barnhill Dies Dr. J.W. Barnhill, a veteran Napoleon professional man, died in Toledo Tuesday after a long illness. He was aged 78 years. Some twenty years ago his wife preceded him in death and a daughter Mrs. Martha Elarton died about eight years ago. Dr. Barnhill was a valued member of Napoleon Lodge No. 929, B.P.O.E. He is survived by two sons, Walter Barnhill of Napoleon and Lieut. Kenneth Barnhill, now stationed at Selman Field, Monroe, Louisiana. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock from the Boyer-Walker Mortuary. ________________________________________________________ ________________ Jane Hunter Hodgson Tucson, Arizona hodgson@azstarnet.com http://208.199.40.215/genealogy/index.html ----