NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Enoch Enochs (1887)

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Transcribed by Deb Murray.

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Elisha, Henry, Enoch and Jesse Enochs were brothers. Their father's name
was Enoch Enochs, and he also settled on Duck Creek after his sons had been
here some years. He removed to the vicinity of Harriettsville and there
died in 1835. He was in the Indian wars in West Virginia and eastern Ohio,
and also a soldier of 1812. Enoch Enochs, Jr., married Margaret Tice, and
lived near Harrietsville. In 1878 he removed to Tyler County, W. Va., where
he died in 1886. Elisha Enochs and his brother Jesse lived in what is now
Stock Township. There were several daughters of Enoch Enochs, Sr., who
married before coming to Ohio, and nearly all settled in this vicinity.
Hannah was the wife of Henry Grandon; Elizabeth married Isaac Morris;
Rebecca became the wife of James Archer; Rachel, the wife of Frederick
Crow; Sally married Jesse Davis; Lydia was the wife of Nathan Lincicum;
Phebe married Joseph Archer and Amy married Matthew Gray. (There is an
editor's note that this information came from Henry Archer, of East Union,
a descendant of the Enoch family and are doubtless correct. However, the
editor did note that they had received statements from other parties which
vary from the above in some particulars.)

Elisha Enochs was one of the most prominent pioneers. He settled on Duck
Creek near where the village of Carlisle now stands, in the year 1806. The
Enochs were of German descent. Elisha married Nancy Archer. At the time of
their settlement, their nearest neighbors were fifteen miles distant. The
Indians still occupied the country as a hunting-ground, and it abounded in
game and fish of all kinds. Elisha Enochs manufactured powder in a small
way, doing all the work by hand, and the settlers for miles around came to
him to purchase it. On the morning after the family arrived in their new
home they found themselves short of provisions, and Mr. Enochs shot a young
bear on the ground where Carlisle now stands, to supply them with meat.
The Enochs were veritable frontiersman, and quite a number were killed or
scalped by the Indians. Elisha and Nancy Enochs reared a large family which
became scattered through Ohio and farther west. Their son Henry was born
March 27, 1807, and is believed to have been the first white child born in
the township. Like all frontiersman, he early became accustomed to the use
of the gun and lived almost entirely in the woods, doing very little
farming. He married Jane Miller, and entered land on Middle Creek near
Middlesburg, where he remained until about 1848, when he removed to
Lawrence County, Ohio, where he died April 2, 1886. He reared a large
family. Five of his sons were in the late war, and the family was
represented in almost every important campaign of the Rebellion. The sons
who were in the service were John M., a captain; Elisha, corporal; W.H.,
brigadier-general; A.O., captain; and Clum, lieutenant. The Enochs were
nearly all Methodists. In politics they were Whigs and Republicans. Elisha
Enochs, Sr., was the first justice of the peace in the old township of
Enoch, in Monroe County, which was named after the Enochs family. He was
treasurer of Monroe County in 1827-8, and one of the county commissioners
in 1829. He was a Methodist class-leader forty years.

Enoch Enochs, Sr., was somewhat noted as a hunter. he was a man of great
ingenuity, especially as a gunsmith. He also made bedstead and other kinds
of furniture. The Enochs generally were men of strong physical development.


History of Noble County, Ohio Published by 
L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887
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