OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - Know your Ohio: Cleveland Rev War Verterans-pt1 *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 June 30, 1999 *********************************************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio The Kelley Family Collections Newspaper article, Plains Dealer compiled by S.J. Kelley-- 1925 And Then They Went West by Darlene E. Kelley 1998 *********************************************************************** Part 1 in Series of 5 The Rugged Continentals-- While blood thirsty nations seek to destroy this country and the ideals for which it stands, it is well to recall what Cleveland pioneers were Revoluntionary soldiers and what families decended from those, who gave their lives in that long changing struggle, which founded this nation. It is well to remember the names of those old soldiers, some with lasting wounds or shattered health, who donned their faded uniforms, year after year on the fourth of July, to parade though the Public Square to the Merwin House, the Franklin House, Mowrey's Tavern on Superior Street, or the Washington House on Water Street, and to fire their minute guns. I have assembled more than 100 names of veterans, or of families and individuals, who traced their descent to those who served in the Revolution. They never were known as Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution. Those family organizations had not been formed then. But they furnished the family tree that qualified their descendants for these memberships. Cleaveland and Carter-- Old Moses Cleaveland was a Revolutionary Veteran while several of his two surveying parties were of similar descent. Cleveland's first real settler also was of close kinship. He was Lorenzo Carter, who landed there in 1797. Eleazor Carter, his father, enlisted into the Continental Army, served until his company was disbanded and returned home to die at the age of 37, when Lorenzo was a boy of 11. All of Carter's descendants, of course, of Revoluntionary stock. Lucy Carter Hawley, wife of Ezekial Hawley and sister of Lorenzo, who came here with her brother, probably in the same boat, could term herself a true daughter of the Revolution. After the death of her first husband, Carter's mother married Maj. Benjamin Ackley of Revoluntionary fame. They had a son, John A Ackley, who was the first Marshall of Cleveland Village. Asael Adams, jr.,one of the first shool teachers here, was the son of Adams Sr., of Liberty Township, who served four years with the Continentals. Ashley Adams.one of Newburgh's first residents, was the son of a veteran. Pliny Mowry, proprietor of Mowry's Tavern, who lived here before the village was incorporated, often declared his father had fought with Washington. Nathaniel Doan of Doan's Corners, and his brother, Timothy of East Cleveland, among our first pioneers, were sons of a patriot held prisioner by the British during the War. Rodolphus Edwards, tavern keeper of Woodland Hills, one of the first to settle on the Cuyahoga's bank, marched about Public Square in veterans' parades with a handful of Bluecoated men. Philo Scovil, after who Scovil Avenue was named, could shoulder a gun and join these veterans as a son of the Revolution. The Burkes, whose tavern stood on a wooded road far out in Euclid, and the Dilles of the same township, were veterans' sons, while Gov. Reuben Wood, who represented Rocky River and Rockport, and the descedants of Charles Miles, Sr., of Newburgh, qualified as well. *********************************************** Continued in part 2--