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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 594 Today's Topics: #1 JOHN BOYD - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 DAVID LOWER - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 3 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 PHILIP WESLEY SMITH - TUSCARAWAS C [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 WILLIAM KLINE - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #6 TUSCARAWAS/HAMILTON ERROR [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:56:12, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908070156.VAA14030@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JOHN BOYD - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 JOHN BOYD, son of James and Catherine (Engle) Boyd, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, June 24, 1838. His parents were natives of Somerset County, Penn. The subject from the time he was twenty, worked on a salary until in August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was in the battle of Perryville, Ky., and served with his regiment until discharged for disability. After his marriage, March 2, 1865, at Albion, he farmed two years in Noble County, then came to where he is now living, in this township. He farmed two years, then worked at carpentering until 1875, when he took a contract of improving 700 acres of land in the northeast part of the township, returning to his farm in the spring of 1880. Mr. Boyd is one of the inventors of a patent buggy-top adjuster, and also invented a patent hay rack. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are members of the German Baptist Church, and parents of seven children, viz., Estella, Alma, Dayton, Canton, Ann E., Clarence and Bessie E. Mrs. Amanda Boyd is the daughter of Michael and Mary (Colt) Landis, natives of Ohio, and parents of three children. She was born in Eden Township, this county, on the 15th of September, 1846. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:56:14, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908070156.VAA09694@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: DAVID LOWER - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 DAVID LOWER was born in Northumberland County, Penn., September 12, 1816, the son of Conrad and Hannah (Cramer) Lower, of German descent and natives of Pennsylvania, whose grandfathers served in the Revolutionary war. Conrad Lower served under Gen. Jackson in the war of 1812. He came to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1829, where he died in 1860. David Lower's first vote was cast for Gen. Harrison, and he has since been a strong party man. Previous to his marriage, in 1843, September 28, to Annie M. Showalter, daughter of John Showalter, he spent about three years in the Southern States. In 1853, they settled in Paulding County, Ohio. They had six children -John, Isaac and Hannah, and three deceased -Ephraim, Conrad and William. After his wife's death, April 29, 1856, Mr. Lower came to this township. His present wife was Mrs. Catharine Menely, daughter of Melchoir Fordney, of French descent. She was first married to Alexander Menely, December 3, 1835, by whom she had five children -two living. Mr. Lower owns 125 acres of land, well improved. In 1860, he erected a barn at the cost of about $2,000. He is prominent in the township and always assists in beneficial enterprises. His annual income is about $1,000. Mr. and Mrs. Lower are both active members of the Church of God. John Lower, eldest son of the subject, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, October 11, 1844. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Company D, in the fall of 1861. During the battle of Shiloh he was absent on sick leave, but joined the regiment at the siege of Corinth, and was foremost in the fight at the battles of Stone River and Mission Ridge. He served as teamster three months during the autumn of the battle of Lookout Mountain; then returned to his company and followed them closely until he was discharged, in October, 1865, receiving two flesh wounds during his service. March 11, 1866, he was married to Rebecca M. Martin. She was born January 4, 1843. They have three children; two are living -John D. and William I. John owns ninety-four acres of good land and has been a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 380. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:56:10, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908070156.VAA12230@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY PART 3 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 3 PREMEDITATED MURDER. -A council was then held to determine how the Moravian Indians should be disposed of. This self-constituted military court embraced both officers and privates. The late Dr. Doddridge, in his published notes on Indian wars, etc., says: "Col. Williamson put the question, whether the Moravian Indians should be taken prisoners to Fort Pitt, or put to death?" requesting those who were in favor of saving their lives to step out and form a second rank. Only eighteen out of the whole number stepped forth as advocates of mercy. In these feelings of humanity were not extinct. In the majority, which was large, no sympathy was manifested. They resolved to murder (for no other word can express the act) the whole of the Christian Indians in their custody. Among these were several who had contributed to aid the missionaries in the work of conversion and civilization -two of whom emigrated from New Jersey after the death of their spiritual pastor, the Rev. David Brainard. One woman, who could speak good English, knelt before the commander and begged his protection. Her supplications was unavailing. They were ordered to prepare for death. But the warning had been anticipated. Their firm belief in their new creed was shown forth in the sad hour of their tribulation, by religious exercises of preparation. The orisons of these devoted people were already ascending the throne of the Most High! -the sound of the Christian's hymn and the Christian's prayer found an echo in the surrounding wood, but no responsive feeling in the bosoms of their executioners. PREPARING FOR DEATH. -George Henry Loskiel, who, from 1802, was for nine years a presiding Bishop of the American Moravian Church, and wrote the "History of the Moravian Mission among the North American Indians," says: "It may easily be conceived how great their terror was at hearing a sentence so unexpected. However, they soon recollected themselves, and patiently suffered the murderers to lead them into two houses, in one of which the brethren, and in the other the sisters and children, were confined like sheep ready for slaughter. They declared to the murders that though they could call God to witness that they were perfectly innocent, yet they were prepared and willing to suffer death; but as they had, at their conversion and baptism, made a solemn promise to the Lord Jesus Christ that they would live unto Him, and endeavor to please Him alone in this world, they knew that they had been deficient in many respects, and therefore wished to have some time granted to pour out their hearts before Him in prayer and to crave his mercy and pardon. CHRISTIAN RESIGNATION. -This request being complied with they spent their last night here below in prayer and in exhorting each other to remain faithful unto the end. One brother, named Abraham, who for some time past had been in lukewarm state of heart, seeing his end approaching, made the following public confession before his brethren: "Dear brethren, it seems as if we should all soon, depart unto our Saviour, for our sentence is fixed. You know that I have been an untoward child, and have grieved the Lord and our brethren by my disobedience, not walking as I ought to have done; but still I will cleave to my Saviour, with my last breath, and hold Him fast, though I am so great a sinner. I know assuredly that He will forgive me all my sins, and not cast me out." "The brethren assured him of their love and forgiveness, and both they and the sisters spent the latter part, of the night in singing praises to God their Saviour, in the joyful hope that they would soon be able to praise Him without sin." HELLISH SELF-PRAISE. -The Tuscarawas county history gives the following account of Abraham's death: "Abraham, whose long, flowing hair had the day before attracted notice and elicited the remark that it would 'make a fine scalp,' was the first victim. One of the party, seizing a cooper's mallet, exclaimed. 'How exactly this will answer for the business!' Beginning with Abraham, he felled fourteen to the ground, then handed the instrument to another, saying, 'My arm fails me; go on in the same way. I think I have done pretty well.'" THE SLAUGHTER. -With gun, and spear, and tomahawk, and scalping-knife, the work of death progressed in these slaughter-houses, till not a sigh or a moan was heard to proclaim the existence of human life within -all, save two -two Indian boys escaped, as if by a miracle, to be witnesses in after times of the savage cruelty of the white man towards their unfortunate race. Thus were upwards of ninety human beings hurried to an untimely grave by those who should have been their legitimate protectors. After committing the barbarous act, Williamson and his men set fire to the houses containing the dead, and then marched off for Shoenbrun, the upper Indian town. But here the news of their atrocious deeds had preceded them. The inhabitants had all fled, and with them fled for a time the hopes of Christian Indians on the Tuscarawas. The fruits of ten years' labor in the cause of civilization were apparently lost. SYMPATHY OF CONGRESS. -The hospitable and friendly character of the Moravian Indians had extended beyond their white brethren on the Ohio. The American people looked upon the act of Williamson and his men as an outrage on humanity. The American Congress felt the influence of public sympathy for their fate, and on the 3d of September, 1788, passed an ordinance for the encouragement of the Moravian missionaries in the work of civilizing the Indians. A remnant of the scattered flock was brought back, and two friendly chiefs and their followers became the recipients of public favor. The names of these chiefs were Killbuck and White Eyes. Two sons of the former, after having assumed the name of Henry, out of respect to the celebrated Patrick Henry, of Virginia, were taken to Princeton College to be educated. White Eyes was shot by a lad, some years afterwards, on the waters of Yellow creek, Columbiana County. Three tracts of land, containing four thousand acres each, were appropriated by Congress to the Moravian Society, or rather to the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen, which is nearly synonymous. These tracts embrace the three Indian towns already described, and by the provisions of the patent, which was issued 1798, the society was constituted trustees for the Christian Indians thereon settled. Extraordinary efforts were now made by the society in the good work of civilization. Considerable sums of money were expended in making roads, erecting temporary mills, and constructing houses. The Indians were collected near the site of the upper town, Shoenbrun, which had been burned at the time of the Williamson expedition, and a new village, called Goshen, erected for their habitations. It was here, while engaged in the laudable work of educating the Indian in the arts of civilized life, and inculcating the principles of Christian morality, that two of the missionaries, Edwards and Zeisberger, terminated their earthly pilgrimage. Their graves are yet to be seen, with plain tombstones, in the Goshen burying ground, three miles south of New Philadelphia. ASSOCIATION WITH WHITES. -The habits and character of the Indians changed for the worse, in proportion as the whites settled in their neighborhood. If the extension of the white settlements west tended to improve the country, it had a disastrous effect upon the poor Indian. In addition to the contempt in which they were held by the whites, the war of 1812, revived former prejudices. An occasional intercourse with the Sandusky Indians had been kept up by some of those at Goshen. A portion of the former were supposed to be hostile to the Americans, and the murder of some whites on the Mohican, near Richland, by unknown Indians, tended to confirm the suspicion. The Indian settlement remained under the care of Rev. Abram Luckenback, until the year 1823. It was found impossible to preserve their morals free from contamination. Their intercourse with the white population in the neighborhood was gradually sinking them into deeper degradation. Though the legislature of Ohio passed an act prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors to Indians, under a heavy penalty, yet the law was either evaded or disregarded. Drunken Indians were occasionally seen at the county-seat, or at their village at Goshen. Though a large portion of the lands appropriated for their benefit had been leased out, the society derived very little profit from the tenants. The entire expenses of the Moravian mission, and not unfrequently the support of sick, infirm or destitute Indians devolved on their spiritual guardians. Upon representation of these facts, Congress was induced to adopt such measures as would tend to the removal of the Indians, and enable the society to divest itself of the trusteeship in the land. -continued in part 4 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:56:21, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908070156.VAA12262@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: PHILIP WESLEY SMITH - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 PHILIP WESLEY SMITH, a member of the Adams County Lumber Company, at Decatur, Indiana, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, near Massillon, in 1851. His parents, Henry and Catherine (Leppla) Smith, were natives of Bavaria, Germany, where they were married, and in 1834 they came to the United States and settled in Ohio. In 1854 they removed to Whitley County, Indiana, and located near the line of Allen County, where the father died in September, 1885, at the age of nearly eighty-five years. The mother is still living at Churunbusco, Whitley County. They were the parents of eight children, two of whom died in infancy. Philip W. Smith was reared in Whitley County, and was given the benefits of the common schools. He remained with his parents until his majority, and then was variously employed for two years, when he became associated with Jacob Colter, and engaged in lumbering at Arcola, Indiana, under the firm name of Colter & Co. They manufactured lumber in Arcola eight years, and then enlarged their field of operations, and now have five mills, three in Allen County and two in Adams County. Their mill at Decatur is conducted under the name of the Adams County Lumber Company, Mr. Smith having charge of the business at that place, as well as Monmouth and Williams mills. They carry on an extensive business, their sales being mostly to the railroad companies. Mr. Smith is a practical business man, and thus far through life has been a successful one. In addition to his large lumber interests he is the vice president of the Decatur National Bank, in which he has a large interest. He is an honorable, upright man, and a worthy member of the Christian church, of which he is a liberal supporter. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order, Harmony Lodge, No. 19, and Harmony Encampment, No. 12, at Fort Wayne. Mr. Smith was married October 30, 1883, at Decatur, to Miss Katie Beery, a native of Adams County, a daughter of Abraham J. and Betsey (Welty) Beery, pioneers of this county. They have two children -Erman Clyde and Florence Irene. Mr. Smith is one of the hearty supporters of all enterprises of Decatur, such as the building of churches and improvements of all kinds that have a tendency for the good of mankind generally. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:56:24, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908070156.VAA09710@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: WILLIAM KLINE - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORDS OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 WILLIAM KLINE, farmer, section 7, Union Township, owns 120 acres of land. He was born March 25, 1840, in Root Township, this county, where he was reared, and educated in the common schools of his father's district. His parents were Jacob and Barbara Kline. He was married August 5, 1860, to Miss Nancy E. Mumma, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, June 23, 1840. When she was thirteen years of age she came with her parents and three other children to Adams County, the family settling in Root Township, where the father died October 16, 1878, and is buried at Pleasant Valley cemetery. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1810, and when a boy removed with his parents to Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The mother was born in Maryland March 25, 1810, and when a girl removed with her parents to Tuscarawas County. She is still living. Both parents were members of the United Brethren church. Mr. and Mrs. Kline have five children -Louisa J., born May 23, 1861, now the wife of John Nidelinger; Emma F., born September 6, 1863; Franklin E., born September 4, 1866; Elmer A., born April 13, 1872; Bertha A., born September 22, 1881. Mrs. Kline's grandfather, John Mumma, died in Union Township, this county; her grandmother, Magdalena Mumma, also died in Union Township, and both are buried at Pleasant Valley cemetery. Her parents were John and Catherine (Snyder) Mumma. Her grandmother, Catherine Snyder, died in Root Township, and is buried in Pleasant Valley cemetery. Mr. Kline joined the army September 22, 1864, rendezvoused at Wabash, then went to Indianapolis, where he and his comrades were distributed among different regiments. Mr. Kline was assigned to Company I, Fifty-first Indiana Infantry, and joined his company at Bridgeport, Alabama. His first skirmish was at Columbia, Tennessee; then followed the battles of Franklin, Duck River, and two days' fight at Nashville, where the regiment suffered great loss. He was under fire thirty-three days. He was discharged June 17, 1865, and returned home and engaged in farming. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:09:24, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908070209.WAA08354@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: TUSCARAWAS/HAMILTON ERROR Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I just sent Hamilton County Part 3....it should read Tuscarawas County Part 3. I will resend to avoid any confusion. Gina -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #594 *******************************************