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AKA William Harrison H Hipple born in Bedford, PA 3-10-1819 (10 Mar 1819), died at his home near Ansonia, Ohio,(Darke Co Ohio Oct 17th.at age 74-7-7, (17 Oct 1893) He came to Ohio at an early age (abt 1830 in a wagon from PA with a wooden cabinet) (may have been in Montg. Co Ohio before moving to Miami Co) and settled at North Clayton, Miami Co, (His brother Joseph HIPPLE, b 1816, PA d 6 Jun 1885 and wife Sarah b ca 31 Nov 1822 PA d 6 Jul 1873 lived in this area) and moved to Darke Co, Ohio about 25 years ago (after abt 1867). In March 1854 he married Julia Foy. 10 children to this reunion; wife and 3 children deceased. Funeral service at Teegarden Christian Church near Ansonia, Oct 19th. By Rev. Hoeffer; leaves 5 sons, and 2 daughters. ********************************* .Obit. This was removed from book "Newspaper; Death Records. Darke County, Ohio." 1892-1898; Inclusive. Volume IV. .Transcribed by: JohnW Cramer -- JWCramer-HillTopUSA jcramer@gcfn.org Also John.Cramer@das.State.OH.US To a genealogist, everything is relative. URL is: http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/jwcramer/ Ohio & PA ancestors: CRAMER, SCHMITT, SMITH, HIPPLE, TRICK, BULCHER, FLOYD, LOY, MARTIN, PEQUIGNOT, WASHINGTON. Also Fisher, Riddle, Snyder, Wampler, Wantz/Wants Roots are from Darke Co. Ohio. ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:29:08 EST From: CrowSH@aol.com Subject: Only Murderer Legally Executed in Erie County A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio by Hewson L. Peeke, Vol. 1, pg. 422 The Only Murderer Ever Legally Executed in Erie County John Ritter (father of Miss Mina Ritter, for many years stamp clerk in the Sandusky postoffice) before 1914 lived in a small house near the west end of the present West House. Edward Evans worked in a tailor shop next to a grocery and saloon kept by Ritter on an alley running from West Washington Row north to Water Street, which was a continuation of the present alley west of the Sloane House. Evans was a one-legged man and hobbled in May 5, 1840, and demanded a drink, and on being refused, stabbed Ritter to the heart. Evans was tried and executed for the murder September 30, 1840. His trial took place in the old courthouse. Parish & Sadler were special prosecutors, and L.S.Beecher and George Reber defended Evans. He was hung in an old mile race track that then existed about 15 rods south of the brick house, No. 324, on the south side of Jefferson Street, the third house east of the southeast corner of Jefferson and Franklin streets and east of the railroad, according to the testimony of John Holland, who saw him hung on the gallows erected for that purpose. Evans was tried under the old practice before three judges - Moors Farwell, Nathan Strong and Harvey Fowler - and a jury of the following men: James Belden, Samuel H. Smith, Nathaniel Byington, David Barber, James Cleveland, Joseph Stansbery, Moses I. Morsman, Royal P. Lock, Andrew Prout, Harvey Wood, William D. Lindsley and William Smith. There was not much delay in the law in those days. The record begins on page 474 of volume 1 of the court record, and the whole record does not cover four pages, including the bill of exceptions which error was never prosecuted. But the hanging seems as complete as if it had all the modern improvements. Zalmuna Phillips was the sheriff who hung him, and the confession of the murderer is preserved in the Carnegie Library. The Register of December 3, 1885, contains a summary of the Evans case, and states: "The execution took place south of Jefferson street and east of the present B. & O. track, in the presence of a large crowd. The murderer's body was buried near the track, and probably later carried off by body snatchers. Evans had no relatives or friends in this section. Then the city had two thousand population and the county 12,599." ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:29:10 EST From: CrowSH@aol.com Subject: Frank Liles Bio. A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio by Hewson L. Peeke, vol. 1, pg. 623 Frank Liles. The first concrete bridges constructed in Erie County were built by the well known contractor Frank Liles in Groton Township. In addition to his distinction as the pioneer bridge builder of concrete material in the county Mr Liles has developed a large and extensive business as a contractor and builder in concrete work, and has a record of fifteen years in which he has used his facilities, equipment and service in the construction of many bridges, culverts, sidewalks and also in road contracting, which in later years has become his primary specialty. Mr Liles resides at Sand Hill in Groton Township, where he owns a commodious and attractive residence, and enjoys the honor and respect of the people among whom he has spent practically all the years of his life. Born in Groton Township August 5, 1872, he is a son of the late John W. and Celia (Mitchell) Liles. His mother is now lliving near Sand Hill in Groton Township. The late John W. Liles was born in England, came to America in early life and after residing at several different localities in Erie County finally settled permanently in Groton township, where he followed farming until his death in teh early '70s. He was a well known citizen there, but died before accomplishing all the work of which he was capable. Frank Liles was only a child when his father died and he grew up under the direction of his widowed mother, living both in Oxford and Groton townships and gaining his education from the public schools of those localities. He has been a hard worker all his life, and after some varied experience in other lines finally took up the business of contracting in concrete work in 1900. Thus he has for fifteen years operated as a builder in that now familiar material, but when he began he was among the first in Northern Ohio to apply concrete successfully to such constructions as bridges. There are three bridges along the Smith Road in Groton Township which represent his pioneer effort and are said to be the first of that material constructed in Erie County. On March 2, 1897, Mr Liles married Miss Jessie Waldock of Perkins Township. They have two children: Anna G. and Francis. Mr Liles and family enjoy the social regard of the community in Groton Township, and as a business man he is exceptionally enterprising and successful. ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:29:02 EST From: CrowSH@aol.com Subject: Lewis House Obit. Sandusky, Ohio Star Journal, Wednesday, November 1, 1949, pg. 18 col. 3 Lewis House Rites Set For Saturday Lewis W. House, 90, died Wednesday morning at his home on the Mason rd. in Berlin twp. A life-long resident of Erie Co, he formerly lived in the area covered by the Plum Brook ordnance works. Mr House was born on Mach 23, 1859 in Perkins twp. on the farm his grandfather and father established on Taylor rd. He lived there for 82 years until the government took over the property. Surviving are one son, Byron, Cleveland, and six daughters, Mrs Claude J. Minor and Mrs Harold Groves, both Sandusky; Mrs William Dousler (correction: Doster), Norwalk; Mrs Gus Crebley (correction: Criblez), Cleveland; Mrs (Rev) Herbert Thompson, Akron and Mrs D. D. Woolson, Berlin Heights. The body is at the Hinman Funeral Home in Berlin Heights where friends may call Friday and where services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, the Rev. W. H. Mitchell of the Methodist Church officiating. Burial is to be in the Bogart Cemetery. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #128 *******************************************