OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 626 Today's Topics: #2 JOHN ANSHUTZ -BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 WILL LOOK UP IN PUBLICATIONS [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 DANIEL F. LEMMON - BIOGRAPHICAL SK [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 OTTAWA COUNTY PART 2 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:13:19, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908191813.OAA11806@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JOHN ANSHUTZ -BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR For the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. Chicago Printing Co., 1889 JOHN ANSHUTZ was born in Saxony, Germany, April 6, 1830, and is a son of Henry and Margaret Anshutz, who came to the United States and located in Kentucky. The former died in Harrison county, Ind., in 1876; the latter still survives, a hearty and hale old lady. John, the subject of this sketch was brought up in Louisville, and when the war broke out he enlisted Co. D, Twenty-eighth Ohio Infantry, in which he served for three years, being mustered out June 13, 1864, and returned to Louisville, his former home. His service was long and severe. He took part in all the engagements and marches and hardships of this regiment. After he left the army he married Miss Doar Sipp, November 1, 1864. She was the daughter of Conrad Sipp, a native of Germany. Mr. Anshutz, after several removals, located near Buena Vista, in this county, on a farm of 160 acres, which he purchased and has highly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Anshutz have two children, viz: Maggie, born July 27, 1865, and Anele born June 27, 1867. Mr. Anshutz stands well among his neighbors, and is an excellent citizen. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:13:20, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908191813.OAA12838@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: WILL LOOK UP IN PUBLICATIONS Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I recently purchased the following publications and will do look-ups. The publications are: MUSKINGUM COUNTY GRAVES REGISTRATION INDEX (list of graves of Muskingum County Veterans). Information available is name, date of death, interment and company served. MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO MARRIAGES - Book IV 1848-1865 (there is an index for both males and females). GREENWOOD CEMETERY INTERMENTS 1895-1984 Zanesville, Ohio -Volume I A-L and Volume II L-Z. (information if known will be name, interment #, age, sex and date of death.) Gina ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:30:21, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908191830.OAA14096@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: DANIEL F. LEMMON - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana Chicago Printing Company, 1889 DANIEL F. LEMMON was born July 18, 1844, in Franklin township, Harrison county, Ind. His father, John Lemmon, a native of Spencer county, Ky., was born in 1804, and emigrated to Harrison county, Ind., in 1884. He was four times elected as a member of the Indiana Legislature in 1852, 1854, 1862 and 1864, serving his county with ability; he also served as a county commissioner, was a man of great public spirit and identified with all enterprises that had in view the advancement of the material interests of Harrison county. He died in September, 1881. Mr. Lemmon's mother, Elizabeth Johnson, was a native of Jefferson county, Ky., and both his grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary war that gave this country independence of England, and were natives of Virginia. Daniel F. Lemmon is the eighth of ten children, was reared on a farm, and educated in the schools of Harrison county and the city of Louisville, Ky. He was county superintendent of schools from June, 1873 to November, 1884, when he resigned to accept the office of county clerk, to which he was elected in 1884. He was married in 1863 to Lucinda J. Sharp, daughter of Wm. D.M. Sharp, of Harrison county. Six children have born to the marriage: Cora A., Lizzie, John W., Emma, Caddie and Brandt. Mr. Lemmon is an active member of the I.O.O. F. at Corydon. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:04:45, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908200304.XAA12792@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: OTTAWA COUNTY PART 2 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO, By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 OTTAWA COUNTY PART 2 AWFUL SILENCE. - He then formed the line of battle, and bore up for the enemy, who at the same time hauled his courses and prepared for action. the lightness of the wind occasioned the hostile squadrons to approach each other but slowly, and prolonged for two hours the solemn interval of suspense and anxiety which precedes a battle. The order and regularity of naval discipline heightened the dreadful quiet of the moment. No noise, no bustle prevailed to distract the mind, except at intervals the shrill pipings of the boatswain's whistle, or a murmuring whisper among the men who stood around their guns with lighted matches, narrowly watching the movements of the foe, and sometimes stealing a glance at the countenances of their commanders. In this manner the hostile fleets gradually neared each other in awful silence. At fifteen minutes after 11 a bugle was sounded on board the enemy's headmost ship, Detroit, loud cheers burst from all their crews, and a tremendous fire opened upon the Lawrence from the British long guns, which, from the shortness of the Lawrence's, she was obliged to sustain for forty minutes without being able to return a shot. THE LAWRENCE OPENS FIRE. -Commodore Perry, without waiting for the other ships, kept on his course in such gallant and determined style that the enemy supposed he meant immediately to board. At five minutes before 12, having gained a nearer position, the Lawrence opened her fire, but the long guns of the British still gave them greatly the advantage, and the Lawrence was exceedingly cut up without being able to do but very little damage in return. Their shot pierced her sides in all directions, killing the men in the berth-deck and steerage, where the wounded had been carried to be dressed. One shot had nearly produced a fatal explosion. Passing through the light room it knocked the snuff of the candle into the magazine. Fortunately, the gunner saw it, and had the presence of mind immediately to extinguish it. It appeared to be the enemy's plan at all events to destroy the commodore's ship. Their heaviest fire was directed against the Lawrence, and blazed incessantly from all their largest vessels. Commodore Perry, finding the hazard of his situation, made all sail, and directed the other vessels to follow, for the purpose of closing with the enemy. The tremendous fire, however, to which he was exposed soon cut away every brace and bowline of the Lawrence, and she became unmanageable. The other vessels were unable to get up, and in this disastrous situation she sustained the main force of the enemy's fire for upwards of two hours, within canister distance, though a considerable part of the time not more than two or three of her guns could be brought to bear on her antagonist. The utmost order and regularity prevailed during this scene of horror. As fast as the men at the guns were wounded they were carried below, and others stepped into their places. The dead remained where they fell until after the action. At this juncture the enemy believed the battle to be won. THE LAWRENCE A MERE WRECK. -The Lawrence was reduced to a mere wreck; her deck was streaming with blood and covered with the mangled limbs and bodies of the slain. Nearly the whole of her crew were either killed or wounded; her guns were dismounted and the commodore and his officers helped to work the last that was capable of service. At two Capt. Elliott was enabled, by the aid of a fresh breeze to bring his ship into close action in gallant style, and the commodore immediately determined to shift his flag on board that ship; and giving his own in charge to Lieut. Yarnell, he hauled down his Union Jack and, taking it under his arm, ordered a boat to put him on board the Niagara. Broadsides were levelled at his boat and a shower of musketry from three of the enemy's ships. He arrived safe and hoisted his Union Jack, with its animating motto, on board the Niagara. Capt. Elliott, by direction of the commodore, immediately put off in a boat to bring up the schooners which had been kept back by the lightness of the wind. At this moment the flag of the Lawrence was hauled down. She had sustained the principal force of the enemy's fire for two hours and was rendered incapable of defence. Any further show of resistance would have been a useless sacrifice of the relics of her brave and mangled crew. The enemy were at the same time so crippled that they were unable to take possession of her, and circumstances soon enabled her crew again to hoist her flag. CLOSING IN ON THE ENEMY. -Commodore Perry now gave the signal to all the vessels for close action. The small vessels, under the command of Capt. Elliott, got out their sweeps and made all sail. Finding the Niagara but little injured the commander determined upon the bold and desperate expedient of breaking the enemy's line; he accordingly bore up and passed the head of the two ships and brig, giving them a raking fire from his starboard guns, and also a raking fire upon a large schooner and sloop from his larboard quarter at half pistol shot. Having gotten the whole squadron into action he luffed and laid his ship alongside of the British commodore. The small vessels having now got up within good grape and canister distance on the other quarter, enclosed the enemy between them and the Niagara, and in this position kept up a most destructive fire on both quarters of the British until every ship struck her colors. "WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE OURS." -The engagement lasted about three hours and never was victory more decisive and complete. More prisoners were taken than there were men on board the American squadron at the close of the action. The principal loss in killed and wounded was on board the Lawrence, before the other vessels were brought into action. Of her crew, twenty-two were killed and sixty wounded. When her flag was struck but twenty men remained on deck fit for duty. The loss on board of all the other vessels was only five killed and thirty-six wounded. The British loss must have been much more considerable. Commodore Barclay was dangerously wounded. He had lost one arm in the battle of Trafalgar. The other was now rendered useless by the loss of a part of his shoulder-blade; he received also a severe wound in the hip. Commodore Perry, in his official despatch, speaks in the highest terms of respect and commiseration for his wounded antagonist and asks leave to grant him an immediate parole. Of Captain Elliott, his second in command, he says: "That he is already so well-known to the government that it would be almost superflous to speak. In this action he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment, and since the close of it has given me the most able and essential assistance." The bold and desperate measure of pressing forward into action with the Lawrence alone and exposing her to the whole fire of the enemy's fleet for two hours, before the other ships could be got up, has been censured as rash and not warranted by the rules of naval war; but there are many seasons when the commander must rely more on the daring promptness of his measures than on nice calculations of comparative strength. Neither Bonaparte nor Nelson ever stopped to measure accurately the strength of the respective combatants. The result is the acknowledged and generally the best criterion of merit; and it should not detract from the eclat of the successful commander that his measures were bold and decisive. COWARDLY INDIANS. -Two days after the battle two Indian chiefs who had bene selected for their skill as marksmen, and stationed in the tops of the Detroit for the purpose of picking off the American officers, were found snugly stowed away in the hold of the Detroit. These savages, who had been accustomed to ships of no greater magnitude than what they could sling on their backs, when the action became warm were so panic-struck at the terrors of the scene and the strange perils that surrounded them, that looking at each other with amazement, they vociferated, their significant "quonh" and precipitately descended to the hold. In their British uniforms hanging in bags upon their famished bodies, they were brought before Commodore Perry, fed and discharged, no further parole being necessary to prevent their afterwards engaging in the contest. BURIAL OF FALLEN HEROES. -The slain of the crews of both squadrons were committed to the lake immediately after the action. The next day the funeral obsequies of the American and British officers who had fallen were performed at an opening on the margin of the bay in an appropriate and affecting manner. The crews of both fleets united in the ceremony. The stillness of the weather, the procession of boats, the music -the slow and regular motion of the oars striking in exact time with the notes of the solemn dirge -the mournful waving of the flags, the sound of the minute-guns from all the ships, the wild and solitary aspect of the place, gave to these funeral rites a most impressive influence and formed an affecting contrast with the terrible conflict of the preceding day. Then the people of the two squadrons were engaged in the deadly strife of arms; now they were associated as brothers to pay the last tribute of respect to the slain of both nations. Two American officers, Lieutenant Brooks and Midshipman Laub, of the Lawrence, and three British, Captain Finnis and Lieutenant Stoke, of the Charlotte, and Lieutenant Garland, of the Detroit lie interred by the side of each other in this lonely place on the margin of the lake, a few paces from the beach. This interesting battle was fought midway of the lake between the two hostile armies, who lay on the opposite shore waiting in anxious expectation its result. The allied British and Indian forces, to the amount of four thousand five hundred, under Proctor and Tecumseh, were at Malden ready, in case of a successful issue, to renew their ravages on the American borders. -continued in part 3 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #626 *******************************************