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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 462 Today's Topics: #1 GALLIA COUNTY PIONEER FAMILES [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 37 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:33:28, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907070133.VAA12834@mime2.prodigy.com> Subject: GALLIA COUNTY PIONEER FAMILES Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII GALLIA COUNTY, OHIO PIONEER FAMILIES PARKINS, Franklin - Born November 4, 1857, this county, son of William J. and Rebecca (Wickline) Parkins who settled here in 1839. Franklin married December 25, 1879 to Anise Pease, daughter of James B. and Rebecca (Shelton) Pease. Franklin and Anise had: William born 1880 and Lester 1882. POOL, John J. - Born January 24, 1834 in Belmont Co., Ohio. He married May 27, 1856 Isabel Jeffers in Belmont co., Ohio, daughter of Francis and Margaret (Fulton) Jeffers. Came to this county 1856. ROSE, James - Born April 8, 1840, Monroe Co., Va., son of Jackson and Ruth (Cole) Rose. Jackson born December 17, 1815, native of Allegheny Co., Va. died in Civil war, prisoner in Salisbury, N.C. December 5, 1862. James married August 11, 1857 Elvira Newman in Uniontown, Monroe Co., Va., daughter of Wm. H. and Elizabeth (Arthur) Newman. They had son Wm. Newman who died 1863 in prison camp in Civil war. Joseph Rose, brother of James in Civil war. James and Elvira had: William, James, Viola, Marion and Everette. RIDGWAY, William - Born June 1, 1800, near Indian Nation, Georgia, son of David and Elizabeth (Wagoner) Ridgway who came to this county 1803. William married here November 7, 1825 to Jane Dougherty born June 8, 1801 Monroe Co., W.Va., daughter of John and Hadasie (Alder) Dougherty who settled in this county in 1818. William and Jane had: David 1828-1853, Augustus born 1830, John J. born 1832, Edward N. born 1833 (lived Fayette Co., Ohio), Junius N. born 1835, Wm born 1837, Permelia born 1838 deceased, and Mary born 1840 deceased. Jane had married 1st August 11, 1821, here to Nehemiah Wood Jr., son of Nehemiah Wood Sr., born Shenandoah Co., Va. 1770 and died 1824, leaving wife and 2 children: Nancy born 1822 and Magnitia born 1824, died 1873. RICKABAUGH, Henry - Born Shenandoah Co., Va., December 13, 1786, son of John and Elizabeth (Griffith) Rickabaugh, who came to this county in 1800 among first settlers. Henry was soldier of War of 1812. He died here April 1, 1869. Henry married in this county, September 20, 1828 to Elizabeth (Moyer) Danner, who settled here in 1819. Henry and Elizabeth had: John born 1829, David born 1832, Henry born 1834, Elizabeth 1835-1845, Margaret 1844-1862, Julia (Edwards) born 1846, and Wesley born 1850. RUSSELL, Reuben A. - Born 1840 in Jackson Co., Ohio, son of Randal and Martha (Graham) Russell. Reuben married here October 1, 1871 to Elizabeth Wilcox born here 1843 daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Butler) Wilcox who were married July 4, 1840. ROACH, Calvin Edward - Born June 25, 1855, Jefferson City, Mo., son of Jacob and Mary (Shelenbarger) Roach. Calvin married here March 12, 1875 to Elizabeth Halley born here December 17, 1856, daughter of Henry and Ann (Sheets) Halley, who settled in this county in 1826. REED, Reuben - Born October 13, 1830, Washington Co., Ohio, son of William R. and Pemelia (McAtee) Reed. William born October 19, 1801, died June 16, 1864 and wife Pemelia still living ca 1879. Reuben married April 7, 1853 to Elizabeth Mauck born December 9, 1833, Meigs Co., Ohio, daughter of John and Mary (Knopp) Mauck who came to this county in 1818. John Mauck came from Va. Reuben Reed had 2 brothers, James and Park in Civil war. David Reed, the grandfather of Reuben was War of 1812 soldier. Reuben and Elizabeth had: John A. born 1854, Virginia deceased, Charles 1857-1878, Silas born 1860, Emma born 1863 and Walter born 1870. Silas born 1860, married Hannah McElhinny July 16, 1880 in Meigs Co., Ohio Hannah born July 17, 1856 in Washington Co., Ohio daughter of Robert and Sarah (Calhoun) McElhinny. RIFE, Dr. Charles A. - Born here November 26, 1858, son of Jonathan and Rosetta (Rowley) Rife, both born and raised in this county. Dr. Charles had 4 half-brothers in Civil war: Edward S., A.H. Shuler, Jonathan and Stephen Rife. Dr. Charles married here April 24, 1880 to Lydia Matthews, daughter of Charles W. and Taphena (Holcomb) Matthews, both born in this county. ROUSH, Admiral Rodney - Born here January 25, 1836, son of Gideon and Sarah (Roush) Roush. Gideon was son of George Roush, a Rev. War. Soldier. Admiral Rodney married 1st Rosella Scott and had son John H. born 1864. He married 2nd Amanda J. Jenkins born here December 25, 1838, daughter of W.S. and Cynthia Jenkins. Admiral Rodney in Civil war. ROTHGEB, David - Born April 11, 1809 in Shenandoah Co., Va., son of Jacob and Barbara (Wideth) Rothgeb, who came to this county in 1810. Barbara was German by birth. David married here July 8, 1836 to Elizabeth Scott born here January 8, 1810, daughter of Charles and Mary (Darst) Scott. Charles Scott, son of Charles Scott of the Indian Wars. David and Elizabeth had Mary born May 26, 1837. RANKIN, Hiram - Born November 15, 1818, Lawrence Co., Ohio to this county 1840. He was son of Armstrong Rankin born May 23, 1797, died July 18, 1849 and his wife Hannah (Dilley) Rankin born March 27, 1797 and died July 18, 1849. Hiram married here December 12, 1839 to Susan Drummond born here July 10, 1823, daughter of Thornton and Lucy (Stover) Drummond, who settled here in 1823. Armstrong and Hannah Rankin had: Mary born 1813; Hiram born 1818; John born 1821; Penina born 1823; Sarah born 18??; William born 1827; Asberenna born 1829; Matilda born 1831; Mahala born 1834; Tompson born 1836; Barnett born 1837; Diananah born 1839; James born 1834. Hiram and Susan had: Alamander 1841-1849; Vinton born 1843; Clarinda 1845-1846; Mary born 1847; Hiram 1849-1852; John 1851-1853; Matilda (Steber) 1853-1878; Tacy born 1856 and Asberna 1859-1866. RIGGS, Jacob - Born January 23, 1824, Monroe Co., Ohio, son of James and Mary (Bare) Riggs. James died July 14, 1870. Jacob married here March 28, 1848 to Elizabeth Mary Guthrie born August 24, 188, Washington Co., Ohio, daughter of Truman and Hannah (Knowles) Guthrie who came here 1834. James and Mary Riggs came here in 1832. Jacob and Elizabeth had: Laura, Edward, Mary, Rose, James, Jessie, Celia and Ernest. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:32:36, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907070132.VAA25414@mime2.prodigy.com> Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY PART 37 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 37 HUGH PETERS was born in Hebron, Conn., in 1807, and being educated for the law, came to Cincinnati to practice, and was drowned in the Ohio river at the early age of twenty-four years, it was supposed by suicide. He was a young man of high moral qualities, the finest promise as a writer of both prose and verse, and was greatly lamented. One of his poems, "My Native Land," is one of the best of its character. We annex a few of its patriotic verses. It was written while sailing from the shore of his native State, Connecticut, at the moment when it had shrunk in his vision to one "blue line between the sky and sea." MY NATIVE LAND. The boat swings from the pebbled shore, And proudly drives her prow; The crested waves roll up before: Yon dark gray land, I see no more- How sweet it seemeth now! Thou dark gray land, my native land, Thou land of rock and pine. I'm speeding from thy golden sand: But can I wave a farewell land To such a shore as thine? But now you've shrunk to yon blue line Between the sky and sea, I feel, sweet home, that thou art mine, I feel my bosom cling to thee. I see thee blended with the wave. As children see the earth Close up a sainted mother's grave; They weep for her they cannot save, And feel her holy worth. And I have left thee, home, alone, A pilgrim from thy shore: The wind goes by with hollow moan I hear it sigh a warning tone, "Ye see your home no more." I'm cast upon the world's wide sea, Torn like an ocean weed: I'm cast away, far, far from thee, I feel a thing I cannot be, A bruised and broken reed. Farewell, my native land, farewell! That wave has hid thee now- My heart is bowed as with a spell. This rending pang! -would I could tell What ails my throbbing brow! One look upon that fading streak Which bounds you eastern sky: One tear to cool my burning cheek; And then a word I cannot speak- "My Native Land - Good-bye." On April 6, 1879, there died at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, PROFESSOR DANIEL VAUGHAN. His friend, the late William M. Corry, in his eulogy said: "He was the only man among the hundreds of thousands of our people whose name will survive the next century." He was born of wealthy parents near Cork, Ireland, came to America at the age of sixteen, became a teacher of boys in Bourbon county, Kentucky, but soon moved to Cincinnati, where he passed the remainder of his days. He was drawn thither by his desire for its library privileges - to study the grand topics of science. For his support he lectured on science and gave private lessons in mathematics, astronomy and the languages. He thus managed to eke out a miserable existence and in almost abject poverty. He lived in a room, cheap, inaccessible and cheerless. A chair, and a bedstead with a pile of rags, a worn out stove, and an old coffee pot, with a few musty shelves of books covered with soot, were all his furniture. An autopsy revealed the wreck of his vital system and proved that the long and dreadful process of freezing and starving the previous winter had dried up the sources of life. It was his intense absorption in science that had thus made him a martyr. For that he had overlooked the wants of his body, and suffered. The European scientists through his contributions to scientific journals by correspondence with him had learned of his extraordinary attainments in the most profound topics of human thought. And, whenever a stranger from Cincinnati appeared among them, the first question was their first knowledge of such an existence. He treated with great originality such topics as "The Doctrine of Gravitation," "The Cause and Effects of the Tides," "The Light and Heat of the Sun," "The Remote Planets," "The Geography of Disease," "Origin of Mountains," "The Theory of Probabilities in the Detection of Crime," etc. It was a bleak, cold, cheerless day on January 13, 1808, in a neat frame on the snow-clad banks of the Connecticut river, in the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, that was born SALMON P. CHASE. His father, Ithaman Chase, was a farmer of English and his mother was of Scotch descent. His father died when he was yet a boy, and the family left in straitened circumstances. Salmon was a studious lad, so when his uncle, Rev. Philander Chase, the earliest Episcopal Bishop, came to Ohio, he sent for him to come and live with him, and for a couple of years he studied with his uncle at Worthington, near Columbus, and then one year with him at Cincinnati. Then his uncle went to England for a visit and Salmon entered Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1826, paying for his college expenses by school teaching. He then went to Washington, where he taught a classical school and studied law with William Wirt. Having been admitted to the bar in 1830, he settled in Cincinnati to practice his profession, his age 22 years. Finding but little business he occupied about two years of his leisure in compiling the Statues of Ohio, preceded by an outline history of the State. The work, known as "Chase's Statutes," which proved of great service to the profession, was regarded of extraordinary merit. From his Puritan training he had early learned to view all questions in their moral aspects, and so from the very beginning of his career he was the friend of the slave, being when in Washington active in procuring signatures to a petition to Congress for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. In politics he did not then identify himself with either of the parties. When in 1836 a mob destroyed the Philanthropist, the anti-slavery newspaper, he was engaged by Mr. Birney, the editor, to bring the offenders to justice. About this time miscreants, in and about Cincinnati, not only made it a business to hunt and capture runaway slaves for the sake of reward, but to kidnap free-blacks, carry them across the Ohio and sell them into slavery. In 1837, in what was known as the Matilda case, where a master brought a slave girl to the city and afterwards endeavored to take her back into slavery. Mr. Chase, appeared in her behalf, as he frequently did in similar cases without expectation of precuniary reward. After the case had been closed a gentleman of note who was present said, "There goes a promising young lawyer who has ruined himself," he feeling how unpopular in those days was the defence of the enslaved and defenceless. None but a man of the highest moral courage and humanity would have been willing to endure the obloquy. Governor Hoadley said of him: "What helped him - yes, what made him, was this. He walked with God. The predominant element of his life, that which gave tone and color to his thoughts and determined the direction and color of all he did, was his striving after righteousness....Behind the dusky face of every black man he saw his Savior, the divine man also scourged, also in prison, at last crucified. This is what made him what he was. To this habit of referring to divine guidance every act of his life we owe, the closing words of the Proclamation of Emancipation, which Mr. Lincoln added from Mr. Chase's pen as follows: 'And upon this act, sincerely believed to an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the favorable judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.' He had dainty tastes, disliked the unclean in word or person; but he put his pleasure under his feet when duty led him to the rescue of the lowly. He had a large frame and mighty passions, but they were under absolute control." When the Liberty party was organized in Ohio, in 1841, Mr. Chase was foremost and wrote the address which gave the issues which were finally settled only by a bloody war. In this he said the Constitution found slavery and left it a State institution - the creature and dependent of State law - wholly local in its existence and character. It did not make it a national institution....Why then, fellow-citizens, are we now appealing to you?....It is is because slavery has overleaped its prescribed limits and usurped the control of the national government....and that the honor, the welfare, the safety of our county imperiously require the absolute and unqualified divorce of the government from slavery. Mr. Chase defended so many blacks who were claimed as fugitives from slavery that the Kentuckians called him the "attorney-general for negroes," and the colored people of Cincinnati presented him a silver pitcher "for his various public services in behalf of the oppressed." Mr. Chase brought his great legal learning and a powerful mind to the task of convincing men that the Fugitive Slave law could and should be resisted as unconstitutional, because though the Constitution embraced a provision for the return of fugitives, it added no grant of legislative power to Congress over that subject, and, therefore, left to the States alone the power to devise proper legislature. -continued in part 38 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #462 *******************************************