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WASS - CARROLL COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:32:22, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CARROLL COUNTY PART 5 HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 THE DANIEL MCCOOK BRANCH CONTINUED 4. Robert Latimer McCook, born at New Lisbon, Ohio, December 28, 1827. He studied law in the office of Stanton & McCook, at Steubenville, then removed to Cincinnati, and in connection with Judge J.B. Stallo secured a large practice. When the news reached Cincinnati that Fort Sumter had been fired upon he organized and was commissioned colonel of the Ninth Ohio regiment, among the Germans, enlisting a thousand men in less than two days. He was ordered to West Virginia, put in command of a brigade, and made the decisive campaign there under McClellan. His brigade was then transferred to the Army of the Ohio, and took a most active part in the battle of Mills Spring, in Kentucky, where he was severely wounded. The rebel forces were driven from their lines by a bayonet charge of Gen. McCook's brigade and so closely pursued that their organization as an army was completely destroyed. Gen. McCook rejoined his brigade before his wound had healed, and continued to command it when he was unable to mount a horse. His remarkable soldierly qualities procured him the rank of major-general and command of a division. He met his death August 6, 1862, while on the march near Salem, Alabama. He had been completely prostrated by his open wound and a severe attack of dysentery, and was lying in an ambulance which was driven along in the interval between two regiments of his division. A small band of mounted local guerrillas, commanded by Frank Gurley, dashed out of ambush, surrounded the ambulance, and discovered that it contained an officer of rank, who was lying on the bed undressed and unable to rise. They asked who it was, and seeing that the Federal troops were approaching, shot him as he lay and made their escape, as the nature of the country and their thorough familiarity with it easily enabled them to do. This brutal assassination of Gen. McCook aroused intense feeling throughout the country. The murdered commander was buried at Spring Grove cemetery, and his devoted soldiers and friends, at the close of the war, erected a monument to his memory in Cincinnati. 5. Alexander McDowell McCook was born on a farm near New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, April 22, 1831. He entered the United States Military Academy, at West Point, and graduated in the class of 1852. At the opening of the war he was promptly made colonel of the First Ohio regiment which he led among the very earliest troops to the relief of the capital, and commanded at Bull Run, or Manassas. He became a brigadier-general in September, 1861, and commanded a division under Gen. Buell in the Army of the Ohio. he was made a major-general for distinguished services at the battle of Shiloh, and was placed in command of the Army of the Cumberland, with which he served during the campaigns of Perryville, Stone River, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, and Chickamauga. Gen. McCook subsequently commanded one of the trans-Mississippi departments. He is now colonel of the Sixth regular infantry. 6. Daniel McCook, Jr., was born at Carrollton, Ohio, July 2, 1834. He was rather delicate and over studious, and with a view to improving his health entered Alabama University at Florence, from which he graduated with honor. He returned to Ohio with health greatly improved, and entered the law office at Stanton & McCook at Steubenville. After admission to the bar he removed to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he formed a partnership with William T. Sherman and Thomas Ewing. When the war opened that office closed and each of the partners soon became general officers. Daniel McCook, Jr., was captain of a local company, the Shields Guards, with which he volunteered, and, as a part of the First Kansas Regiment, served under General Lyon at Wilson's creek. he then served as chief of staff of the First Division of the Army, of the Ohio in the Shiloh campaign, and became colonel of the Fifty-second Ohio Infantry in the summer of 1862. He was assigned to the command of a brigade in General Sheridan's division and as such continued to serve with the Army of the Cumberland. He was selected by his old law partner, General Sherman, to lead the assault on Kennesaw mountain. After all the arrangements for the assault had been made, the brigade was formed in regiment front, and four deep. Just before the assault Colonel McCook recited to his men in a perfectly calm manner the stanzas from Macaulay's Horatius, in which occur these lines; Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate; "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods. "And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast?" Then he gave the word of command and dashed forward. He had reached the top of the enemy's works, and was encouraging his men to follow when he was riddled with minnie balls, and fell back wounded unto death. For his courage and gallantry in this assault he was promoted to the full rank of brigadier-general, an honor he did not live to enjoy, as he survived but a few days. He died July 21, 1864, and was buried at Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati. 7. Edwin Stanton McCook, was born at Carrollton, Ohio, March 26, 1837. He was educated at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, but preferring the other arm of service, when the civil war began he recruited a company and joined the Thirty-first Illinois Regiment Infantry, of which his friend, John A. Logan was colonel. He served with this regiment at the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, where he was severely wounded. In his promotion he succeeded General Logan, and followed him in the command of regiment, brigade and division throughout the Vicksburg and other campaigns under Grant, in the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns and in the march to the sea under Sherman. He was promoted to the rank of full brigadier and brevet major-general for his services in these campaigns. He was three times severely wounded, but survived the war. While acting governor of Dakota and presiding over a public meeting, September 11, 1873, he was shot and killed by a man in the audience who was not in sympathy with the objects of the meeting, and was buried at Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati. 8. Charles Morris McCook was born at Carrollton, Ohio, November 13, 1843. He was a member of the freshman class at Kenyon College when the war began, and although less than eighteen years of age volunteered as a private soldier in the Second Ohio Infantry for three months' service. Secretary Stanton offered him a lieutenant's commission in the regular army, but he referred to serve as a volunteer. At the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 he served with his regiment, which was covering the retreat of the shattered army. As he passed a field hospital he saw his father, who had volunteered as a nurse, at work among the wounded, and stopped to assist him, the regiment passing on. As he started to rejoin his company young McCook was surrounded by an officer and several troopers of the famous Black Horse cavalry who demanded his surrender. His musket was loaded, and he quickly disabled the officer, and, as he was highly trained in the bayonet exercise, kept the other horsemen at bay. His father seeing the odds against the lad called to him to surrender, to which he replied, "Father, I will never surrender to a rebel," and a moment after was shot down by one of the cavalrymen. His aged father removed his remains from the field, and they were afterwards buried at Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati. 9. John J. McCook was born at Carrollton, Ohio, May 25, 1845. He was a student at Kenyon College when the war began, and, after completing his freshman year, enlisted in the Sixth Ohio Cavalry. He was promoted to a first lieutenancy on September 12, 1862, and was assigned to duty on the staff of General Thomas L. Crittenden, commanding a corps of the Army of the Ohio, which subsequently became the Twenty-first Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. He served in the campaigns of Perryville, Stone River, Tullahoma, Chattanooga and Chickamauga with the Western armies and in General Grant's campaign with the Army of the Potomac, from the battle of the Wilderness to the crossing of James river. He was commissioned a captain and aide-de-camp of the United States Volunteers in September, 1863, and was brevetted major of volunteers for gallant and meritorious services in action at Shady Grove, Virginia, where he was severely and dangerously wounded. He was afterward made lieutenant-colonel and colonel for gallant and meritorious services. Colonel McCook still survives, and is a lawyer engaged in active practice in New York city. * Continued in part 6 with THE JOHN MCCOOK BRANCH* ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:45:45, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: MARRIAGE INDEX-PART 6-CARROLL COUNTY OHIO The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families July-September 1964 Vol. V III Published by Esther Weygandt Powell -NO COPYRIGHT LISTED CARROLL COUNTY, OHIO MARRIAGE INDEX 1833-1840 CONTINUED Page 3 Piles, George Henry & Temperance Hendricks 3 Patterson, Thos. & Ann Abbott 10 Pugh, George & Betsy Barr 13 Plass or Paff, John & Hannah Regelmosey 16 Paff or Pass, Henry & Margaret Flickinger 17 Pale?, John & Ann Stern 21 Palmer, John & Catherine Pugh 22 Price, John & Mary Ann Moore 33 Pillars, N. Benj. & Sarah Ann Rice 34 Penock, Caleb & Margaret Camble 35 Price, Parker, & Agnes Ayers 37 Patton, James & Nancy Spears 48 Phillips, Alex. & Cath. Deveal 48 Parker, James & Hannah Cable 50 Pugh, John & Catherine Leslie 52 Pugh, Wm. & Margaret Palmer 53 Porter, James & Ann Rosanna Stoneman 55 Patterson, Wm. & Esther Abbott 62 Polton, Josiah & Betema A. Camble 65 Powell, Silas & Sarah West 65 Plotts, Alex. & Isabell Duncan 66 Pottorf, Andrew & Mary Hersh 76 Peppinger, John & Julian Burchfield 82 Pugh, Isaac & Ruth Davis 83 Phillips, Henry R. & Jane Smart 84 People, Robert & Jane Rittenhosue 90 Pearce, John & Elizabeth Patton 93 Parker, Jos. & Susana Slemmons 95 Palfreeman, Jas. & Nancy Cameron 103 Pardee, John & Mary McBride 104 Pugh, Davis & Jane M. Carrell 112 Puttorff, Jacob & Hannah Gilmore 119 Patterson, Jacob & Eliz. Huston 121 Potts, Silas & Maria Pennocks 121 Pearch, George & Hannah West 123 Pearch, Joseph & Eliz. West 130 Preckman, Jos. & Sarah Hudson 136 Post, Henry & Sarah Anderson 138 Puttorff, John H. & Eve Umbaugh 1 Richards, Otha & Rachel Little 4 Rarick, Jacob & Mary Barnhouse 9 Robey, John & Jemima Newton 20 Rickey, Sam'l & Amanda Albough 22 Rutan, Alwx. & Sarah Workman 32 Rogers, Jas. & Rebecca Samples? 34 Rood, Ithaman & M. Jane Dear 37 Robertson, John & Abigail Henderson 38 Russell, Robert & Mary Croy 39 Rouley, Robt. & Eliz. Motinger 51 Ricketts, Samuel & Jane Skeels 54 Ross, Isaac N. & Nancy Hewitt 58 Rigby, Daniel & Mary Rigester 59 Rainsbargh, Geo. & Catherine Myers 59 Rutledge, John H. & Mary Forbes 60 Rouse, Benj. & Frances Clark 60 Redman, Robt. & Eliz. Kirby 61 Rice, Perry & nancy WElls 62 Roder. Wm. & Elizabeth Hawk 65 Robertson, Samuel & Mary Jane Semple 76 Rothacker, Samuel & Anna Best 79 Robey, George & Ann Christy 79 Robertson, Alex. & Mary Arbuckle 80 Rutledge, Robt. & Jane Brooks 86 Robinett, Jas. & Anne Hoffman 87 Richards, Thos. A. & Eliz. Baker 89 Rice, Fred'k & Eliza A. Watkins 91 Rainsberger, Abraham & Elizabeth Jennings 93 Roberts, Lewis & Maray Weir 96 Register, Wm. & Eliza Foreman 97 Robertson, Alex. & Susanna Elliott 98 Rankin, Wm. & Sarah Strain 100 Russell, James & Mary Russell 102 Robinson, Brooks & Sarah Miller 103 Robinson, Thomas & Lydia Miller 105 Rider, John & Eliz. Isenogle 106 Russell, Joseph & Sarah Rogack 108 Renaker, Jesse & Eliz. Yenna 116 Renaker, John & Lydia Haron 117 Roby, John K. & Eleanor Crawford 122 Ramleo, Wm. A. & Jane Peterson 127 Rizer, Hugh & Jane Johnston 128 Reading, David & Catherine Hall 133 Ryon, James & Mary Skylar, 135 Roberts, John & Ann Mahon 136 Runness, ?Levi & Martha James 146 Richards, Sam'l & Mary Mahon 150 Rees, Hugh & Mary Ann Justus * continued in part 7 with names beginning with "S" ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:46:16, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: WESLEY I.B. WASS - CARROLL COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 548-549 WESLEY I.B. WASS, farmer, section 5, Union Township, came to this county in March, 1865, and purchased the farm entered by William P. Rice. He was accompanied by his wife and two children. Mr. Wass was born in Carroll County, Ohio, March 18, 1837. He grew to manhood in his native county, his education being limited to the common schools of his father's district. His father, Samuel Wass, was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1790. He was reared and married in England, and in 1818 came to America with wife and two children,s settling in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They lived there a short time, then removed to Stark County, Ohio, thence to Carroll County, where the father entered land from the Government. He was a wheelwright by trade, and also rode the Methodist circuit for many years. The parents come to this county with their son Wesley, and the farm was purchased by both. They lived here until the mother's death, then the father went to live with other members of the family. He died in 1876, lamented by all who knew him. The mother, Phebe (Ward) Wass, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1792, and died in Decatur, this county. Both are buried in the Monroeville cemetery. The mother was the first school-teacher in Carroll County, Ohio, and organized the first Sunday-school in Brown Township. She taught school free of charge, from purely philanthropic motives. Our subject was married May 2, 1861, to Miss Elizabeth D. Pottorf, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1842, where she was reared and married. Her parents are Jacob S. and Hannah (Gillmore) Pottorf, the father born in Pennsylvania, and the latter in Ohio; they are not living in Carroll County. Mrs. Wass died March 6, 1875, aged about thirty-four years, and is buried Union Bethel cemetery. There were eight children in the family -Luella A., born February 26, 1862, wife of R.K. Erwin; Lucy L., born March 30, 1863, became the wife of John A. Barkley; Emory D., born April 12, 1866; Mary O., born November 24, 1868; Alice S., born May 1, 1871; Charles, born March 2, 1875. Mr. Wass married for a second wife, Caroline Wagner, who was born in Germany, and came to America with her parents, who settled in Ohio. She died July 12, 1881, leaving two children -Daisy D and Maude E. Politically Mr.Wass is a Republican, and has served as township trustee. His paternal grandparents died in England. The grandfather of his wife, Andrew Pottorf, was of German descent, and died in Carroll County, Ohio. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #229 *******************************************