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 591 Today's Topics: #1 VAN WERT COUNTY HISTORY #7 ["Maggie Stewart" ] #4 OBIT: JAMES, 1944 [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] #5 ROBERT NIBLICK - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #6 DANIEL N. STOUGH - TUSCARAWAS COUN [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #7 ROBERT KLINE - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #8 SAMUEL OLMSTED - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:23:31 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <002d01bedf6f$9f3272c0$cd4f5f18@columbus.rr.com> Subject: VAN WERT COUNTY HISTORY #7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Lily" <1whitedove@home.com> WAYNE'S SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN Gen. Anthony Wayne was then placed in command and on the 7th of October started on the march. An account as given by John M. Scott will be interesting, as showing the difference between general Wayne and the two former commanders: "October 7th. Our first day's march, was great considering that the army had not got properly into their gears. I think it was about 10 miles. Our second, the 8th , was greater; it reache Fort Hamilton. Many of the men were exceedingly fatigued, and it was pretty generally believed hard marching, though the General though otherwise, and it must be so. 9th. Our third day's march was to the five-mile spring. advance of Hamilton, observe we fortified our camp every night, and were very vigilant. or ought to be so. 10th Our fourth day's march we camped about the seventeen-mile tree, and nothing extraordinary happened. excepting that our line of march extended for five miles. owing to the rapidity of the marching and the badness of the roads for our transportations, superaddding the straggling soldiers, worn down with ftigue and sickness, brought up by the rear guard, whom they retarded considerably. 11th. We proceeded on the twenty-nine mile tree, fortified as usual and occupied a find commanding ground. And nothing of consequence happened here. 12th. The roads were very bad and some of our wagons broke down, but as the General's orders declared there should be no interstices the line of march was not impeded and we mad say 10 miles this day. 13th We advanced by tolerably quick movements until we camped within a mile or so of Fort Jefferson and this day furnished a good deal of sport for as the devil would have it Colonel Hamtramck was maneuvering his troops and had a sham fight, which was construed by the whole army as an attack upon our advance guard or flankers. It really frightened a good many, but we all said "let them come" or "we are ready for them". We had marched hard this day and I think were not so well prepared. However, it was at length discovered to be a sham fight, and everybody knew it then. Oh, it was Hamtramck's usual practice, they say. But it was all in my eye; they never thought of Hamtramck. 14th We marched past Fort Jefferson without even desiring to look at it, indeed some of us turned our heads the other way with disdain and it has been threatened (as report says) to be demolished entirely. This day's march brought us to where I am now sitting writing to my friends. We fortified our encampment very strong and feel secure. 15th The wagons were sent back to Fort St. Clair for stores, provisions & c.. with an escort of two subalterns and between eighty and ninety men, and nothing happened extra this day. 16th The devil to pay! Colonel Blue with near twenty of the cavalry went out to graze the horses of the troops and after some time Blue discovered something crawling in the grass, which he at first though was turkeys but immediately found them to be two Indians, and ordered a charge, himself , tow sergeants and a private charged the rest ran away, the consequence the two Indians killed the two sergeants, Blue and the private escaped. The leader the rascal who behaved so cowardly, was immediately tried and condemned, but pardoned the next day. 17th Lieutenant Lowery and Ensign (formerly Dr.) Boyd, with the escort of ninety men guarding the wagons, were attacked by a pair of thirty or forty Indians, who rushed on with savage fury and yell, which panic struck the whole party( excepting the two officers and fifteen or twenty men, who fell a sacrifice to savage barbarity) and they all fled and have been coming into Fort. St Clair, by two and threes ever since. The Indians plundered the wagons and carried off with them sixty-four of the best wagon horses in the army, killing six horses at the wagons in the defeat. Colonel Adair pursued the Indians and found several horses dead, which he supposed had been tired and they killed them a proof that their flight was very rapid. " In this attack we lost two promising, worthy and brave officer, and about twenty men, mostly of Captain Shaylor's company, for his and Captain Prior's formed the escort and are both ow rather in disgrace. Late in October, General Wayne established his winter headquarters about six miles north of Fort Jefferson and there erected Fort Greenville, the present site of the county seat of Darke County. On Christmas Day a detachment reoccupied the ground where General St. Clair had been defeated three years before and called it Fort Recovery. A reward was offered for every human skull, and 600 were gathered and buried beneath one of the blockhouses. During the early months of 1794, General Wayne kept himself well posted by the services of numerous spies, and was aware that he was surrounded by a powerful enemy in the surrounding country. The government had already sent five different commissions to offer generous terms to the Indians, but to no avail. The Indians, urged on by the promise of assistance by the British and French, and elated by their former victories, would not listen to the pleading and promises of the commissioners. In June 1794 a detachment, which had acted as escort of provisions from Fort Recovery, fell into an ambush of Indians about a mile from the fort and were driven back with great loss, the victors following the fugitives to the gates of the fort and attempting to enter the fort with them. The siege lasted two days and General Wayne states that there were a number of white men, speaking the English language in the rear urging the Indians on to the assault.they had their faces blackened And there were a number of ounce balls and buckshot lodged in the fort, these being suited to the British arms. It was evident that during the siege they were looking for the artillery abandoned by St. Clair and hidden by the Indians in the fallen timber, but this had been recovered by the soldiers, and was being used in defending the fort. On July 26th reinforcements of 1,600 mounted troops, from Kentucky joined Wayne and he started on the 28th to follow the line of retreat of the Indians. He halted at Girty's lone enough to build Fort Adams on the bank of the St. Mary's from here he was able to arrive unobserved almost in sight of Auglaize the headquarters of the Indians, of which he took possession without opposition. The Indians abandoned their villages in great haste having been informed by Newman the deserter of the strength of Wayne's army . The treachery of the deserter Newman enabled the Indians to escape punishment, but at the expense of all their property, with extensive, cultivated fields and gardens. Here General Wayne took possession and erected a strong fort with four blockhouses at the junction of the Auglaize and Maumee and called it "Fort Defiance." This fort might well be called "Defiance" from its construction. Outside of the fort and blockhouses there was a wall of earth , eight feet thick, and sloping upwards and outwards, supported by a log wall on the side of the ditch, which was 15 feet wide and eight feet deep, surrounding the whole fort, except on the side towards the Auglaize. What a difference between this precaution and that observed by Harmar and St. Clair. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:18:10 -0700 From: "Elizabeth Corethers" To: Message-ID: <010a01bedf88$063908e0$691866ce@elizabeth> Subject: CUYAHOGA/GEAUGA COS., WORTHY CLARK OBITUARY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >From the Chardon, Geauga County, newspaper, unknown name. DEATH CALLS WORTHY CLARK, NOTED OIL MAN. [born 4 Feb 1846, died 3 Jan 1914] Worthy Clark, aged 68, died at his home, 10411 Somerset Avenue, Cleveland, early Saturday morning after an illness of seven months. He was the first refiner of petroleum in Cleveland, and a former resident [of] Chardon. When Worthy Clark took a position with the pioneer oil form of Clark, Payne & Co. in 1859, he was 19 years old, but had discovered a secret process for making "burning oil," as the illuminant was called in those days. The members of that firm were Col. Oliv! er Payne, of New York, whose wealth is estimated at $100,000,000; James W. Clark and Harry W. Payne, both dead. When the Standard bought out its oil rival, the Star Oil Col. was organized by James H. Clark, Oscar Childs, Worthy Clark and William E. Clark, the plant being located on Kinsman Hills. In an oil explosion, Worthy Clark was so badly burned that his life was despaired of for three months. The Star was later absorbed by the Standard, with an airtight agreement made by the attorneys of John D. Rockefeller that the Clarks were not to again engage in the refining of oil. One of the stipulations was to the effect that Worthy Clark was to have a l! arge salary, said to be $3,600 a year, for 10 years for doing nothing, but that he must personally call at the cashier's office once a month "to draw his pay." For 10 years he has cared for the estate of his brother, the late James H. Clark. Clark is survived by a widow and seven children--Mrs. Joseph Spear, Painesville; Mrs. George Herrick, Parma; Mrs. Case Hall, Charles G., Harry W., Ernest E. and Ralph Clark, of Cleveland; and two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Miller, Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. Fanny A. ! Reynolds, 8520 Carnegie Avenue, and a brother, former State Senator W. T. Clark. Worthy Clark was born in Malesbury (sic), England, in 1846, coming to Cleveland in 1859. The funeral was held Tuesday at 1 p.m., from his late residence. The burial will be in Chardon cemetery. Mr. Clark retired from the oil business about 20 years ago, and settled on a farm west of Walters' Corners in Munson, now owned by Grove Lampman. After a short residence there, Mr. Clark disposed of the farm and purchased the residence now owned by Mrs. Cor! a Fisher on the Claridon road, just east of South Street. The family resided here sev- (at this point the bottom of the clipping was torn off) Mr. Clark was held in high esteem in Chardon, and his regard for the town is reflected by the fact that he is to be buried here. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:53:14 -0400 From: Joan Byman To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <37AA15DA.6DB76D00@gte.net> Subject: Franklin Co., Stallsmith, Civil War Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Searching for information on William STALLSMITH. I was told that he was in the Civil War and on the Union side. Joan ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 19:12:14 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <199908051920_MC2-7FF0-EFB7@compuserve.com> Subject: OBIT: JAMES, 1944 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline From: Julia CHINORED@aol.com Independence Daily Reporter, Independence, Kansas, 19 Aug 1944: Harvy Kiah James, son of Joseph Lee and Martha A. James, was born in Ohio County, Kentucky, Sept. 11, 1858. He came with his family to Kansas July 5, 1870 and settled on a homestead near Wayside, Kansas. He taught school in this county for 31 consecutive years. On Sept. 1, 1887, he was united in marriage to Lyda Kelly and to this union five children were born, two sons and three daughters. The wife, two sons and one daughter, Mrs. Opal Kishpaugh preceded him in death. The deceased became a member of the Church of Christ in early manhood. Other survivors are three grandchildren and four great grandchildren, besides a brother, J. B. JAMES of Wichita, Kansas, a sister, Mrs. Dora Hudson, Coffeyville, Kansas and Mrs. Alice Robards, Vici, Okla. He departed this life Aug. 5, 1944 at Mercy Hospital. Funeral services were held at the Potts Chapel Aug. 9, 1944, conducted by Rev. O. M. Davis, of Parsons, Kansas. Burial in Harrisonville Cemetery. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:22:22, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908060122.VAA11172@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: ROBERT NIBLICK - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 ROBERT NIBLICK, a prominent farmer of Kirkland Township, Adams County, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, February 10, 1824, a son of James Niblick. He was reared to the avocation of a farmer, receiving such education as could be obtained in the schools of that day. He was brought to Adams County, Indiana, when eleven years old, but after the death of his mother returned to Ohio. He was married in Kirkland Township, Adams County, April 19, 1849, to Catherine H. Hartman, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1830, her parents, Philip and Susannah (Hess) Hartman, being natives of Pennsylvania. They immigrated to Adams County, Indiana, in 1840, and settled in Kirkland Township, where they lived till their death. Mr. Hartman was twice married and had three children by his first marriage. By his marriage with Susannah Hess he had eight children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hartman are members of the Dunkard church. Immediately after his marriage Mr. Niblick settled on his present farm in Kirkland Township, which at that time was in a wild state, heavily covered with timber. Their first house was a log cabin, built in the most primitive style, greased paper being a substitute for windows, and in the humble cabin the family lived eleven years, when the fine brick residence which they now occupy was erected, the brick and lime used in the building of the house being burned on their farm. After giving land to his children Mr. Niblick still has 265 acres where he resides, and is considered one of the prosperous farmers of his township. He was a member of Company E, Twelfth Indiana Infantry, enlisting in the service of his country in 1865. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and participated in the grand review at Washington. He now draws a pension for disability, contracted while in the service. He is a comrade of Post No. 69, G.A.R., at Decatur. Mr. Niblick has held several local offices. His wife is at present postmistress at Gath, the office being kept at their residence. For many years after coming to Adams County Mr. Niblick was the only Republican in his township, and at Lincoln's last election only five votes were cast in the township. To Mr. and Mrs. Niblick have been born ten children -James T., Susannah, Mary E. (deceased), Charles B., Margaret F., George W., William J. (deceased), Jennie, Harvey P. and Anna Bell. Mrs. Niblick is a member of the United Brethren church. Mr. Niblick is a member of the Odd Fellows order, belonging to the St. Mary's Lodge at Decatur. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:22:07, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908060122.VAA12388@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: DANIEL N. STOUGH - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 DANIEL N. STOUGH, a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., was born July 5, 1837, the son of Daniel and Catherine (Hoenshell) Stough, both natives of Pennsylvania. They had a family of nine, eight now living. In 1852, Daniel Stough moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he died in 1874, at the age of seventy-four. His wife died in the same county in 1872, aged seventy-two years. Daniel N. Stough went with his parents to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where, September 30, 1860, he was married to Susanna Showalter, a native of that county, born January 23, 1843. She was one of eight children in the family of Peter F. and Mary (Neff) Showalter, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio. While in the latter State, Mr. Stough followed farming and teaching. In August, 1864, he came to this township, having bought land the preceding spring. His farm is one of the best improved in the township. For some time past, Mr. Stough has taken a great interest in stock raising, and deals in that branch quite extensively. He has the distinction of being the statistical correspondent for the agricultural department at Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Stough are prominent members of the Lutheran Church and have a family of eight children, viz.: James A., John F., Alvin N., Mary S., Peter W., Dora B., Daniel F. and Elsie M. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:22:27, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908060122.VAA12468@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: ROBERT KLINE - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 ROBERT KLINE, farmer, resides on section 14, Root Township, where he owns 120 acres of land. He was born February 20, 1836, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and in the fall of 1838 was brought to this county by his parents, who settled upon the farm now owned and occupied by himself. His father resides with him. No improvements had been made upon the place. A log cabin had been erected, in the usual primitive style, puncheon floors and doors, clapboard roof, etc. In this cabin the father lived about two years, when he built a hewed log house, which is still standing and is used as a summer kitchen. The Piqua road and the Wayne trail were all the roads in the neighborhood. Robert was only two and a half years old when brought to this county, and here he has been reared to manhood, and here he was married. His father, Jacob Kline, was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1809, and when he was eleven years of age his parents removed to Wayne Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he was reared to manhood. In 1833 he went to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he married Barbara Robinson, who was born in that county in 1807. Mrs. Kline died in Adams County, this State, June 30, 1873, and is buried in Alpha cemetery. She was a noble Christian woman, and in her death the community suffered a great loss. Her kind and affectionate disposition won for her the love and esteem of all who were so fortunate as to make her acquaintance. There were seven children in the father's family, five of whom are living. Two daughters died in childhood. The father is living on the old homestead. He says the first winter he came here he could not lose sight of his cabin without getting lost. The second year he killed a good many deer and wild game. The family were never without corn bread, but they had no wheat bread until the second year, when he raised six acres of wheat. The father entered 120 acres of land from the Government, but he had only money enough to pay for eighty acres; Joseph Lewis, an old neighbor, lent him money to pay for the additional forty. Although the Piqua Road was the only road in the county at that time, it was so cut by ruts as to be almost impassable. Mr. Kline, Sr., helped to cut most of the roads in the vicinity. The family endured all the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life, and have witnessed all the changes that have taken place in this now prosperous country. The children were -Catherine, who died at an early age; Robert, John, William, George, Jonas and Sarah, twins; Sarah died when but a few weeks old. March 9, 1856, Robert was united in marriage with Miss Eliza J. Mumma, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, October 4, 1835, and came to this county with her parents, John and Catherine (Snyder) Mumma, after she reached maturity. Her father was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and died in Adams County in 1878, at the age of sixty-eight years, eight months and nine days. He is buried in Pleasant Valley cemetery. The mother still survives, at the age of seventy-six years, and lives with her son, Solomon Mumma. Mr. and Mrs. Kline have two children. The eldest died at a very early age. Sarah Ellen, born June 10, 1859, is now the wife of Franklin Brokaw, and has one child -Vesta Albert, born December 26, 1884. They are living with Mr. Kline. Mr. Kline's grandfather, Jonas Kline, was born in Pennsylvania, and was nearly one hundred years old at his death. He was a solider in the Revolutionary war. His grandmother Kline weighed over 300 pounds, and died at the age of one hundred years. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:22:05, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908060122.VAA12380@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: SAMUEL OLMSTED - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 SAMUEL OLMSTED is a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and came to this county November 15, 1865, settling in Bloomfield Township, where he lived until October, 1875, when he removed with his family to Clay Township, where he now resides. During the ten years of his residence in Bloomfield Township, he was occupied in running an old-fashioned water-power saw-mill, and put in more hours per day during four months of the year than any other man in the township. He was married to Miss Mary Showalter, November 30, 1865, and has two children -Forest Foster and Allie Alma, aged respectively seven years and eight months. Mr. Olmsted owns a fine farm, consisting of eighty acres of enriched land. Mr. Olmsted is now fulfilling his duties as Township Trustee, to which office he was elected April 5, 1880. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #591 *******************************************