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My wife and I have been working on a journal for about 3 years. Please let me know what you think! Regards, Victor Roth vwroth@hotmail.com -------------------------------------- A brief history The name "Roth" is of German origin,possibly from rote-(red),or from roodt(farmer). The translation of rote or roodt to Roth is a matter of conjecture. Patriarch,Christian Roth SR of German descent,came with his family to Ohio in the year 1821 from Northhampton Co., PA. He was accompanied by his first wife, Elizabeth Musselman and seven children,George,Christian jr.,John,Sarah,Anna, Polly and Elizabeth. Of the seven children listed we have information concerning only two - Anna & Christian jr. Anna married Dr. Enoch G. Wolf. Born in Oldtown Valley, Ohio on April 11, 1827, he was the youngest son of William & Catharine Wolf who emigrated from Washington County, PA to Tuscarawas County, Oh. This union was blessed with four children; Joseph F.,Mary, John and Finley.(at the time of this writing, aprox. March 15, 1852, John & Finley were deceased.) Dr. Wolf owned 200 acres of fine land, and practiced medicine in this vicinity for twenty-five years. He laid out Wolf's Station in April, 1874; He took an active part in the Marietta Railroad; donated right of way and gave $200.00; built the station at his own expense; got up the post office free of charge; served as Postmaster for the last eight years. He was a Mason, and himself and wife were members of the Methodist ! Protestant Church. Dr. Wolf was instrumental in building the Methodist Episcopal Church here, and built the Methodist Protestant Church of this place all at his own expense, in 1882, costing about $2,500.00 . Christian Roth JR became head of the present Roth families after the death of his eldest brother, George. Christian JR was born in Northhampton County, PA, September 12, 1813. He was eight years old when his family traveled by covered wagon to Ohio from an unknown location near Nazareth, Northhampton County, PA. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were farmers, the latter of whom was scalped by the Indians, and the grandfather was a Commodore in the navy, a native of Pennsylvania. The family settled in Trenton, OH (now Tuscarawas) in 1821. His education was derived from the subscription schools held in log schoolhouses, and he was reared to farming. His family farmed for several years on rented land near Trenton. In 1827 or 1828, his father purchased a piece of woodland 3 & 1/2 miles west of Trenton (now the village of Tuscarawas) that at the time of this writing was owned by Mr. Ben Metzger. He and his sons built log buildings a few hundred yards East of the present buildings and began to clear the land for farming. The family was poor, the father and oldest son, George, were not strong. Those two and the mother, Elizabeth, did most of the farm work and the second son, Christian, who was then 15 but large and strong for his age, went to work for a contractor, who was building a section of the Ohio canal. The wages were 50 cents per day and board, the work hard, hours long and the board extremely plain. He worked steadily at this job for two years. The hard work of founding a home in the new country brought the mother to an early grave. Her strength and determination had been the main factor in clearing the land and paying for the new home. An incident Christian JR often related to the family helps to show the nature of his mother. " On the morning they were leaving the old home in PA the relatives and friends came in to help pack and to say good bye, someone said to mother " now we will see you cry once". She said nothing but when the wagon was loaded and they were ready to start, she could not be found, a mile or so along the route she was waiting for the wagon. She had slipped away and avoided the farewells rather than breakdown and have it said that she "had cried" ". At her death she left a family of seven children. Christian the second son was the originator of the brand of the family forming the larger part of this history. John, Sarah, Anna, Polly and Elizabeth were the others. Christian Sr. Roth was again married to a Mrs Burroway, there were no children to this un! ion. Christian Sr.died about Nov. 1849. Christian JR grew to manhood strong of build and of character. A man of high morals, he was a respected citizen in his community. He purchased the home farm which grew to 184 acres of well-cultivated land. He farmed and raised stock for many years and lived there until his death of dropsy at age 76 . NOTE: The author or authors of the above compiled information are unknown as well as some sources. The story of Elizabeth (Musselman) Roth was preserved for us by Fletcher Eugene Roth, a grandchild of Christian JR. Some of the other information can be found in a book titled "History of Tuscarawas County" published by Warren Beers Co. 1884 and reproduced by Unigraphic, Inc. 1973 Reference page numbers: 673, 916, 674, 677, 979 Written in 1998 Victor W. Roth, Dover, Ohio e-mail: vwroth@hotmail.com ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:12:57 -0600 From: "gayle" Subject: FAIRFIELD & PICKAWAY CO - Suiter/Hamilton-Julian wedding 1902 From the Wamego KS TIMES , April 4, 1902 as forwarded from Fairfield-Pickaway News STOUTSVILLE POSTMASTER RAN OFF MONDAY, and got Married. MARRIED--- Mr. John Suiter p.m. of Stoutsville, and Mrs. Mary J. Julian of Wamego, Kans. Our postmaster, John Suiter, took a sneak on the boys, Monday, and went off and got married. He took the morning train for Lancaster, his bride being aboard the train, having come from Wamego, Kansas, to meet her intended husband. They had known each other in their younger days. Her maiden name was Hamilton, and she was raised near Tarlton. She was married to a Mr. Julian, and moved to Kansas. Mr. Suiter, after securing the license in Lancaster, returned with his to be bride to Circleville, where they were married at 8oclock, p.m. by Rev. Bullard. They remained at the American hotel, in Circleville, until Tuesday afternoon, when they returned to Stoutsville and are now at home to their friends. The Fairfield-Pickaway News is responsible for the match, to a certain extent. Last December Mrs. Julian wrote to the Postmaster at Stoutsville, for a sample copy of a paper, if there was one here, having the Tarlton news in it. A copy was sent, a correspondence began between the parties who soon found out that they had known each other in former days. Notwithstanding John had set up the cigars, the boys and girls gave them an old fashioned belling, and John set em up to the girls. Gayle gayle1@wheatstate.com ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 22:46:51 EST From: DustiGen@aol.com Subject: HOOVER - ROSELLE - ADAMS - IDDINGS - JACKSON - KNOX WILLIAM M HOOVER Though a resident of Indiana since infancy, William M. Hoover was born in Ross County, Ohio, August 27, 1844, a son of Alford and Margaret (Roselle) Hoover, his father a native of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and his mother of Ohio. In 1846 the family moved from Ohio to Warren County, Indiana, and in 1854 joined the early pioneer settlers of Jasper County, locating on a tract of wild land in Section 12 of Marion Township. It was in that locality that Alford Hoover spent his declining years. He was a cooper by trade, but followed farming after his removal to Indiana. The mother of William M. Hoover died February 6, 1904, in very advanced age. Eighteen months of age when brought to Indiana, William M. Hoover was reared partly in Warren and partly in Jasper County, attended such common schools as were in existence at that time, and had reached the age of seventeen when he responded to the call for volunteers at one of the critical times of the Civil war. He enlisted August 11, 1862, in Company A of the Eighty- seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Hoover married, on the 14th of February, 1867, Miss Nancy J. Adams, who was born in Miami County, Indiana, August 4, 1848, a daughter of Isaac and Anne (Iddings) Adams, and she was reared and educated in her native county. Three sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hoover. Alford A., a resident of Marion Township, where he is engaged in agricultural pursuits, was liberally educated. He married Miss Evaline Jackson. William I., a residents of Rensselaer, is mentioned elsewhere in this work. Frank I., resides with his parents on the farm. He graduated in the Rensselaer High School, and then matriculated in the state university at Bloomington. He married Miss Leo Knox and they are members of the Christian Church. From: The Standard History of Jasper and Newton Counties, The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1916 ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 22:51:48 EST From: DustiGen@aol.com Subject: Fwd: BURTON - STEWART - KISLER - WALLEY/WOOLEY VAN S. BURTON is a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, is one of the ten children of John and Catharine (Stewart) Burton, and was born February 20, 1825. John Burton, a native of Maryland, moved to Fairfield County in about 1810, and was there married. He settled on eighty acres of wild land which his father had entered, built a cabin and cleared up a farm. He served all through the war of 1812, and in 1838 he moved to Carroll County, Ind., where he died September, 1839. His widow then moved with her children to Cass County, and settled on some land her deceased husband had entered, and there died in September, 1845, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Van S. Burton remained at home until after his mother=92s death, and then farmed on shares for five years; he then bought a farm of forty acres in Cass County, worked it until the fall of 1854 and then came to this township, where he farmed on shares, until 1859, when he bought 200 acres of unimproved land, on which he has ever since resided, having increased it to 300 acres and placed it all under cultivation. Mr. Burton was first married to Nancy Kisler, a native of Cass County, Ind., who became the mother of one son - John L., and died February 21, 1852. In September, 1853, he married Abigail Walley, a native of Marion County, Ohio. Mrs. Abigail Burton died January 1, 1874, the mother of four children, two of whom are still living - Mary A., now Mrs. John R. Corner, and Hannah, now Mrs. George Compton. In politics, Mr. Burton affiliates with the Greenback party. From: Counties of White and Pulaski Counties, Indiana - Indian Creek Township, by F.A. Battey & Co., published in 1883 ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 22:53:28 EST From: DustiGen@aol.com Subject: Fwd: KING - FLOOD - SLAGLE JOHN KING, ex-sheriff of Fulton County and a familiar figure in democratic politics, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, Oct. 16, 1840. He grew up in the village of Lockville and secured a meager education. He selected mechanics as a livelihood and when twenty years old began learning the carpenter's trade under an older brother, Henry King. Zoom after completing his term of service he came to Fulton County and became a resident of New Castle township. He spent the succeeding twenty-five years in that township, doing largely the building and general improving on uperstructure done during that period. His best residences were those of John Kesler, Sol. Wagner, Henry Heimbaugh, George Perschbaugher, Lawrence McArter, John Heimbaugh, Charles King and others to a grand total of 168 residences. He has built upward of sixty barns, five elevators and the shoe factory in Rochester. Mr. King became a citizen of Rochester late in the fall of 1892. He came as the sheriff elect and was inducted in to office Nov. 24 of that year. His majority was over 200. He demonstrated his capacity as a peace officer, and his efficiency as a public servant, but all this counted for naught so far as it affected the result at the next election. Democracy seemed to be doomed in 1894 and whoever happened to be its standard bearer went down with it. The landslide came along and Mr. King being his party's candidate for re-election went out of office just two years after he went in. The past two years Mr. King has had no business beyond supervising work on his farm and doing an occasional turn with saw and plane. Sept. 12, 1863, Mr. King was married in Fairfield County, Ohio, to Susan A., daughter of Washington Flood, born in Virginia; came to Ohio early and engaged in the confectionery business. He died about the year 1850. Mr. and Mrs. King's children are: Frances, twenty-nine, wife of George N. Clymer, of Rochester; Milo O., M.D., twenty-seven, graduated from Rush medical college, Chicago, May 28, 1896; Leander, twenty-four, a professional bookkeeper, graduated from Grand Rapids commercial college 1893; Annetta, twenty-one; Stella, eighteen; Albert, fifteen, and Emma, thirteen. Mr. King's first child, Sarah Jane, died at two years. John King is a son of Michael King, who married Susan, daughter of Mr. Slagle, of German birth. Michael King was born in Berks County, Pa., 1808. He moved to Ohio about 1836. He was a farmer. His death occurred in this county 1868. His wife died four years later, aged sixty- three. Their family consisted of: Anna, Mary, wife of David Boyer, of Franklin County, Ind.; Sarah, wife of Conrad Heimbaugh, of New Castle township, Fulton County; Michael, Fairfield County, Ohio; John George, New Castle township, and Susan, now Mrs. Amos Selby, Rochester. John King is a Mason and a K. of P. His reputation is that of an honest, square upright citizen. He is a useful member of society, useful to his family and useful to the public. From: Pictorial History of America, The Fulton County Edition [Fulton County, Indiana], by Elia Peattie, published in 1896 ------------------------------ End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #4 *****************************************