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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 599 Today's Topics: #1 TUSCARAWAS COUNTY - PART 2 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 BUTLER COUNTY OBIT: STORCK , CATRO [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] #3 Muskingum Co marriage rolls 1835-1 [Evelyn Kimbrell Subject: TUSCARAWAS COUNTY - PART 2 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF OHIO By Henry Howe., LL.D., 1888 TUSCARAWAS COUNTY PART 2 Several years previous to the settlement of Ohio, the Moravians had a missionary establishment in the present limits of this county, which was for a time broken up by the cruel massacre of ninety-six of the Indians at Gnadenhutten, March 8, 1782. The Moravian Indians were not in ignorance of a probable expedition against their villages, and were warned to flee to a place of safety, but knowing themselves to be free from any offence against the whites, they did not believe they would be molested. Heckewelder says: "Four Sandusky warriors, who, on their return from the Ohio settlements, had encamped on a run some distance from Gnadenhutten, gave them notice where they had killed and impaled on the side of the Ohio river, and supposing that the white people, in consequence of what they had done, might make up a party and pursue them, they advised them to be on their guard and make off with themselves as soon as possible." THE MORAVIAN MISSION. The following history of the Moravian Mission was written for our original edition by Hon. James Patrick, of New Philadelphia. His account we precede with a personal notice, on the general principle of perpetuating the memories of those, so far as we are able, who assisted us in that olden time. JAMES PATRICK was born in Belfast, Ireland, August 6, 1792, of Scotch-Irish parents. At the age of twenty-four he emigrated to American, and, having learned the printer's trade, engaged in journalism with the Aurora, in Philadelphia. In 1819 he established the Tuscarawas Chronicle, the first newspaper in the county. His paper had a wide influence and large circulation. He held many public offices: was County Recorder, County Auditor, U.S. Land Agent, and served seven years as Judge of Common Pleas. In 1846 he retired to private life. He died January 23, 1883. Three sons and three daughters survived him. HATRED OF INDIANS. -The first white inhabitants of Tuscarawas county were the Moravian missionaries and their families. The Rev. Frederick Post and Rev. John Heckewelder had penetrated thus far into the wilderness previous to the commencement of the revolutionary war. Their first visits west of the Ohio date as early as the years 1761 and 1762. Other missionary auxiliaries were sent out by that society for the purpose of propagating the Christian religion among the Indians. Among these was the Rev. David Zeisberger, a man whose devotion to the cause was attested by the hardships he endured and the dangers he encountered. Had the same pacific policy which governed the Society of Friends in their first settlement of easter Pennsylvania been adopted by the white settlers of the West, the efforts of the Moravian missionaries in Ohio would have been more successful. But our western pioneers were not, either by by profession or practice, friends of peace. They had an instinctive hatred to the aborigines, and were only deterred, by their inability, from exterminating the race. Perhaps the acts of cruelty practiced by certain Indian tribes on prisoners taken in previous contests with the whites might have aided to produce this feeling on the part of the latter. Be that as it may, the effects of this deep-rooted prejudice greatly retarded the efforts of the missionaries. THE MORAVIAN VILLAGES. -They had three stations on the river Tuscarawas, or rather three Indian villages, viz.: Shoenbrun, Gnadenhutten, and Salem. The site of the first is about two miles south of New Philadelphia; seven miles farther south was Gnadenhutten, in the immediate vicinity of the present village of that name; and about five miles below that was Salem, a short distance from the village of Port Washington. The first and last mentioned were on the west side of the Tuscarawas, now near the margin of the Ohio canal. Gnadenhutten is on the east side of the river. It was here that a massacre took place on the 8th of March, 1782, which for cool barbarity is perhaps unequalled in the history of the Indian wars. The Moravian villages on the Tuscarawas were situated about midway between the white settlements near the Ohio, and some warlike tribes of Wyandots and Delawares on the Sandusky. These latter were chiefly in the service of England, or at least opposed to the colonists, with whom she was then at war. There was a British station at Detroit, and an American one at Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh), which were regarded as the nucleus of western operations by each of the contending parties. The Moravian villages of friendly Indians on the Tuscarawas were situated, as the saying is, between two fires. As Christian converts and friends of peace, both policy and inclination led them to adopt neutral grounds. FORCED REMOVAL. -With much difficulty they sustained this position, partially unmolested, until the autumn of 1781. In the month of August, in that year, an English officer named Elliott, from Detroit, attended by two Delaware chiefs, Pimoacan and Pipe, with three hundred warriors, visited Gnadenhutten. They urged the necessity of the speedy removal of the Christian Indians farther west, as a measure of safety. Seeing the latter were not inclined to take their advice, they resorted to threats and in some instances to violence. They at last succeeded in their object. The Christian Indians were forced to leave their crops of corn, potatoes, and garden vegetables, and remove, with their unwelcome visitors, to the country bordering on the Sandusky. The missionaries were taken prisoners to Detroit. After suffering severely from hunger and cold during the winter, a portion of the Indians were permitted to return to their settlements on the Tuscarawas, for the purpose of gathering i n the corn left on the stalk the preceding fall. RETURN TO HARVEST CROPS. -About one hundred and fifty Moravian Indians, including women and children, arrived on the Tuscarawas in the latter part of February, and divided into three parties, so as to work at the three towns in the corn fields. Satisfied that they had escaped from the thraldom of their less civilized brethren west, they little expected that a storm was gathering among the white settlers east, which was to burst over their peaceful habitations with such direful consequences. WILLIAMSON'S EXPEDITION. Several depredations had been committed by hostile Indians about this time on the frontier inhabitants of western Pennsylvania and Virginia, who determined to retaliate. A company of one hundred men was raised and placed under the command of Col. Williamson, as a crops of volunteer militia. They set out for the Moravian towns on the Tuscarawas, and arrived within a mile of Gnadenhutten on the night of the 5th of March. On the morning of the 6th, finding the Indians were employed in their corn-field, on the west side of the river, sixteen of Williamson's men crossed, two at a time, over in a large sap-trough, or vessel used for retaining sugar-water, taking their rifles with them. The remainder went into the village, where they found a man and a woman, both of whom they killed. The sixteen on the west side, on approaching the Indians in the field, found them more numerous than they expected. They had their arms with them, which was usual on such occasions both for purposes of protection and for killing game. The whites accosted them kindly, told them they had come to take them to a place where they would be in future protected, and advised them to quit work and return with them to the neighborhood of Fort Pitt. Some of the Indians had been taken to that place in the preceding year, had been well treated by the American governor of the fort, and been dismissed with tokens of warm friendship. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that the unsuspecting Moravian Indians readily surrendered their arms, and at once consented to be controlled by the advice of Col. Williamson and his men. An Indian messenger was despatched to Salem, to apprise the brethren there of the new arrangement, and both companies then returned to Gnadenhutten. On reaching the village a number of mounted militia started for the Salem settlement, but ere they reached it found that the Moravian Indians at that place had already left their corn-fields, by the advice of the messenger , and were on the road to join their brethren at Gnadenhutten. Measures had been adopted by the militia to secure the Indians whom they had at first decoyed into their power. They were bound, confined in two houses, and well guarded. On the arrival of the Indians from Salem (their arms having been previously secured without suspicions of any hostile intention), they were also fettered and divided between the two prison-houses, the males in one, the females in the other. The number thus confined in both, including men, women and children, have been estimated from ninety to ninety-six. -continued in part 3 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:13:55 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <199908081717_MC2-8015-FDBB@compuserve.com> Subject: BUTLER COUNTY OBIT: STORCK , CATRON Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline From: CCNAK@aol.com Martha A. Storck Mrs. Martha A. Storck, 75, of 1619 Dix Road, died in the emergency room at Middletown Hospital Saturday at 10:45p.m. after being taken there by the emergency squad. Mrs. Storck was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Prosser 367 Order of Eastern Star. She was the first president of the Middletown Chapter of the Demolay Mothers Club and a past president of the district organization. Mrs. Storck was a foster mother through the Butler County Welfare Department from 1956 to 1968, assisting over 50 youngsters until they were adopted. She was a member of the Middletown Hospital Auxiliary, volunteering over 3,000 hours as a receptionist. Mrs. Storck was also a volunteer aide for special education students at Amanda and Rosedale elementary schools five years. She was employed by The Journal for a time. She and her husband, Carl W. Storck, celebrated their 50th anniversary Feb. 13. Also surviving are a daughter Mrs. Carol Jean CATRON of Monticello, Kentucky, three sons, John H. of Lexington, Kentucky, Harold Wells STORCK of Germantown, Tenn., and Michael E. of Buffalo, NY, nine grandchildren and two great-grand children. A son David A. preceded her in death in 1956. Funeral services will be at Riggs Funeral Home Wednesday at 10:30 a..m. with the Rev. Dr. Irvin W. EMMONS officiating. Burial will be in Woodside Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 to 9p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 15:24:12 -0700 From: Evelyn Kimbrell To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <37AE038C.13B18F53@navicom.com> Subject: Muskingum Co marriage rolls 1835-1848/A's Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anderson, Henry to Harriet Howell (colored) Aug 16, 1819 by C Spangler JP Anderson, Henry H to Eliza Nichols Feb 14, 1833 by J H Parmele Anderson, Jacob to Lavina Gorsuch Mar 17, 1831 by Anthony Wilking JP Anderson, Joseph to Savina Peirson July 16, 1829 by Wm Hamilton Anderson, Robert J to Mary C Hains May 1, 1834 by Geo C Sedwick Anderson, Thomas to Hanna Russell Sept 17, 1829 by John Goshen, MG Anderson, Thornton to Artemecy Stolemire Dec 1, 1831 by Joseph M Trimble Anderson, Wm to Maria Riley May 13, 1831 by Thomas R Ruckle MG Andrews, Isaac to Elizabeth Ann Twiman Sept 17, 1835 by David Butt Ankehelin, John to Rosian Bastian Dec 1, 1831 by S Kaemmerer, EvLMins Annable, Wm to Sarah Scott Mar 24, 1825 by Albert Cole JP Annon, Chambers to Elizabeth Casey Mar 11, 1824 by Richard H Hogan JP Annon, Robert to Catharine Casey Sept 13, 1826 by Samuel Thompson JP Anthony, John to Eliza Pease Feb 17, 1820 by D Young Archer, Michael to Jane Stone Apr 8, 1827 by William Rees VDM Armstrong, George (Meigs Twp) to Margaret Pierce Mar 19, 1835 by John Thompson JP Armstrong, James to Margaret Moore Dec 21, 1826 by C Springer VDM Armstrong, John to Prudence Sweeny Oct 3, 1822 by Jacob Crooks JP Armstrong, Robert C to Elizabeth Meek Apr 2, 1825 by Martin Fale MG Armstrong, Samuel (Perry Twp) to Mary Morrison Sept 3, 1835 by Samuel Corben JP Armstrong, Thomas to Elizabeth Baley Apr 15, 1830 by Geo C Sedwick Armstrong, Thomas to Elizabeth Humpres June 3, 1833 by J W Gilbert MG Armstrong, Wm to Isabel Moore Feb 16, 1832 by John W Gilbert MG Armstrong, Wm to Susan Kelly Oct 8, 1832 by Richard P Miles Arnett, Joseph to Catherine Poland May 13, 1824 by S Thompson JP Arnold, Morgan to Hannah Flower May 27, 1833 by James Reeve JP Ash, John to Mary Brown July 3, 1828 by James Asbuthnot Asher, John to Jane Shoemaker June 9, 1825 by Moses Boggs JP Ashford, James to Martha Robinson May 29, 1835 by Henry Aderisson Ashley, Benj J to Catherine Weimer Jan 27, 1820 by Richard H Hagan JP Ashmore, Samuel to Nancy M Nemar Aug 5, 1821 by George C Sedwick VDM Atchinson, Joseph to Sarah Ann Deaver Feb 24, 1825 by John Goshen JP Atkins, Dunlap to Lucretia Bevans Oct 15, 1829 by Nathan Emery MG Atkinson, Allinson to Mary Johnson Nov 5, 1822 by Burroughs Westlake Atkinson, Frederick to Maria Bevis Sept 13, 1827 by John Wilson MG Atkinson, Samuel to Mary V Shaw Feb 13, 1831 by Nehemiah Dillon JP Atkinson, Thomas to Matilda Rankins Apr 15, 1827 by John Goshen MG Atkinson, Werts to Mary Shepperd Jan 11, 1827 by John Wilson MG Atkinson, Wm to Mary Ann Darner Oct 31, 1833 by A D Fox MG Atkison, John to Mary Swizer Dec 31, 1818 by John Goshen MG Atwood, Cornelius to Sophia Crawford Jan 27, 1830 by Thomas Flood JP Atwood, Harrison to Elizabeth Feaster (Union Twp) Apr 17, 1834 A D Fox Atwood, James to Hannah Haines Sept 29, 1825 by James Frey Atwood, Thomas (Blue Rock Twp) to Sarah Rober June 5, 1834 by L Peirce JP Atwood, Wm to Mary Florence Jan 24, 1830 by Amos Mix MG Auld, Wm to Mary Stevenson May 14, 1835 by Robert Wallace Ref Pres Ch Austin, Benson F to Sally Ross July 22, 1830 by Samuel Cabeen JP Austin, David to Mary Fleming Feb 5, 1829 by Albert Coal JP Austin, Halstead to Susan Carson Oct 20, 1833 by David Butt Axline, John to Matilda L Schofield Dec 27, 1832 by Charles Henkel MG Ayers, Moses to Elizabeth Flahartey Nov 22, 1818 by John Goshen MG Ayers, Nathaniel to Sarah Rupee July 31, 1828 by Levi Reeve Ayers, Nathanel to Sarah Faris Feb 24, 1829 by W H Moore JP Ayles, Stephen to Mary Ann Smith (Perry Twp) Dec 26, 1833 by S Kaemmerer Ayres, William to Mary Slack (Washington Twp) Apr 3, 1828 by Albert Cole JP Respectfully submitted: Evelyn Kimbrell evelynk@navicom.com ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 20:47:47 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001401bee200$cd624740$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Ashland County Ohio Earthworks Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Russ Shopbell To: Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 7:24 PM Subject: Ashland County Ohio Earthworks On section twenty-four, now in Wayne county, a short distance below the junction, upon the heights northeast of Tylertown, and east of the stream, is an ancient intrenchment. It overlooks the valley, which here is about one and a half miles wide, and gives an extended view,up and down the Mohican. The work is situated on an elevated spur of the ridge, on the lands of Benjamin Tyler ; is circular in form, and contains about three acres. When Mr. Tyler located in 1814, he found the work desitute of grown timber.The ridge, in and about the intrenchment, had the appearance of having been often burned over. He found the embankment about four feet high, and about ten feet in diameter, at the base, and completely covered with hazel-brush, about as high as his head. He states, that he stood in the center of the work, and could overlook the Mohican valley for many miles. The work is now covered by a growth of thrifty young white oak, ranging from fifty to seventy feet in height, and ten to fifteen inches in diameter. Unlike most of the earthworks of this county, there was no spring in its immediate vicinity. >From the center of the work, a grand view of the Mohican valley, for many miles dotted with fertile farms, may be had. The work was evidently one of defence, and was calculated to repel a large force, as access to it, from every side, was up a declivity. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:45:09 EDT From: Fldollfin@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Nelson School, Portage Co., Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I found this newsclip in my mother's bible. Carol (Dutter) Warren Tribune March 23, 1942 Dutter is Named Nelson Principal Gene Dutter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dutter, of Freedom, was promoted to the principalship of Nelson School, to succeed C. O. Gerren, at a meeting of the Nelson School Board held last Friday night. Mrs. Emory Tarr of Ravenna is substituting in the vacancy caused by Dutter's promotion. Dutter graduated from Freedom High School in 1936, entered Hiram College the same year; entered Kent State University in 1937 and graduated in 1940. He majored in mathematics and his minors were social science and journalism. While in college he was active in swimming and worked as a lifeguard at Twin Lakes during the summer, also worked three summers at an orphanage near Cleveland. Dutter commenced his teaching career at Nelson High School in 1940, and coached basketball this year. Dec. 31, 1940, he married Miss LaRue Malone of Ravenna. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:04:57, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908090304.XAA08406@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: ROBERT CLIFFORD PAUL - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 200 ROBERT CLIFFORD PAUL, M.D. While he was a successful teacher in the early years of his life, Doctor Paul for many years has rendered his chief service as a physician and surgeon, and particularly as an eye specialist. He is in practice at Wooster, and is one of the popular citizens of that college town. He was born on a farm in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, May 15, 1861, son of John M. and Harriet (Horn) Paul. His grandfather Paul, a native of Pennsylvania and of Welsh ancestry, was a miller by occupation. John M. Paul was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and followed the vocation of miller and farmer. He married in Ohio, his wife having been born in Maryland, but was reared in this state. In 1879 John M. Paul settled in Wayne County, Ohio, and he and his wife both died at Millbrook, this state. He was an abolitionist before the Civil war, always voted as a republican, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Church. They had four sons and one daughter; Morgan, who was killed in a railroad accident; John V., a retired miller at Big Prairie, Ohio; William A., who since 1890 has been clerk in the Federal Pension Bureau at Washington, D.C.; Robert C.; and Annie, wife of William H. Wright, of Kenmore, Ohio. Robert Clifford Paul after the early years of home life had to depend upon his own exertions and initiative to achieve the object of his ambition for a professional career. He attended common and select schools, and altogether he put in ten years as a teacher, using his earnings from this vocation to put him through medical college. He studied medicine at Wooster University, a medical school that is now the medical department of Western Reserve University. He was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1892, and for over thirty years has been engaged in practice. For the first twenty-one months he was located at Fostoria, Ohio, and for twenty years from 1894 to October, 1914, was in practice at Shreve, Ohio. For the past ten years his home has been at Wooster, where he has confined most of his attention to diseases of the eye as an oculist. He is secretary of the Wayne County Medical Society and a member of the Ohio state and American Medical Associations. Doctor Paul's chief hobby has been music, and he is a musician of wide experience and thorough grounding, and for twenty years has been director of choirs. He is a member of the Church of Christ, is a republican, is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias, the Moose, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal Neighbors of America and the Kiwanis Club. During the World war he acted as surgeon on the local draft board for Wayne County, and since 1916 has been a member of the board of examining surgeons of Wayne County for the Government pension division. Doctor Paul married, December 25, 1890, Miss Lila C. Moore, of Canton, Ohio. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:05:14, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908090305.XAA06686@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JOE C. HARTLINE - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 80 JOE C. HARTLINE is the active executive of the office and business of The City Loan & Savings company in the City of Mansfield, Richland County. This important corporation, which exercises most benignant functions in connection with civic and financial affairs, maintains offices and has substantial business in about twenty different Ohio cities, with home office in Lima, Ohio. The Mansfield branch has proved of distinct value to the community. The corporation bases its operations upon ample capital and effective executive control, and its reputation constitutes its best business asset. The Mansfield headquarters, in charge of Mr. Hartline, are in the Southern Hotel Building, on South Main street, and the concern constitutes a valuable addition to the financial institutions of this city. Mr. Hartline was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where his great-grandfather, Peter Hartline, settled in the early pioneer days, and his son Joseph, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, carried forward effectively the farm enterprise which had there been instituted by his father. Frank Hartline, father of Joe C., has long been a successful breeder and exhibitor of fine red polled cattle, is a charter member of the International Live Stock Show at Chicago, and served (1923) as mayor of Strasburg, Tuscarawas County. Joe C. Hartline was reared and educated in his native county, and at the age of twenty-one years found employment in connection with coal-mining operations. For a time thereafter he was engaged in mercantile business at Strasburg, and later he became a successful automobile dealer at Lima, where he was specially prominent in advocating and supporting the good roads movement. He is an active worker in all the ranks of the republican party, is a valued member of the Optimist Club of Mansfield, a director of the Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the United Commercial Travelers. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He has had charge of the business of the City Loan & Savings Company at Mansfield from the time this branch was established, and he is one of the substantial and progressive business men of this city. Mr. Hartline married, first, Miss Aurelia Blaser, of Winesburg, Ohio, who died leaving two children, Hazel Marguerite and Aurelia Loretta. He married for his second wife, Miss Flora Emma Styer, of Marietta, Ohio, she being a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of that section of the state. To this union two children were born, Bernice Naomi and Evelyn Gertrude. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #599 *******************************************