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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 520 Today's Topics: #1 HATCH FAMILY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 THE SHUTE FAMILY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 46 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:57:53, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907210357.XAA11980@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HATCH FAMILY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families April-June 1963 Volume IV No. II Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT THE HATCH FAMILY Contributed by LeRoy L. Shutes, Bloomington, IL AARON HATCH born 1747 in England (proof lacking he is ancestor of Aaron Hatch next.) Aaron Hatch born 1778-9, Bangor, Maine; died 7 Aug. 1858 Marion Co., Ohio in his 79th year (from tombstone). He married 8 Jan. 1804 in Bangor, Maine to Betsy Wilkins, daughter of Edward Wilkins. She was born 1780-81, in Sudbury, Mass.; died 3 April 1856 in her 75th year (tombstone record). Both are buried in Union Cemetery, Bigisland Township, Marion Co., Ohio. Edward Wilkins, the father of Betsy had service in the Continental Army. He married in Sudbury, Mass. 26 Feb. 1778 to Bridget Farrar (or Fararr) and both died in Maine and are buried there. Hiram Shute and his brother-in-law Gardner Hatch and Moses Dudley were among the first settlers in Bowling Green Twp., Marion Co., Ohio. They came in 1829 from Big Island Twp. Aaron Hatch helped to organize the Free Will Baptist Churches from 1820-185? and was one of their first ministers in Big Island Twp., Paw Paw, Green Camp and in Montgomery Township. Aaron and Betsy had: 1. Elsie J. b. Bangor, Maine 25 Aug. 1807; d. 24 May 1893, Marion Co., Ohio; buried Price Cemetery, Union Co., Ohio. She was married in Marion Co., Ohio to Hiram G. Shute. 2. Gardner F. b. Bangor, Maine 20 Sept. 1808; d. 18 Oct. 1880, Hardin Co., Ohio. He married 1st 25 Nov. 1830 to Harriet Dudley. He married 2nd 12 Apr. 1854, Hardin Co., Ohio to Lydia Clements b. 24 Mar. 1804; d. 24 Sept. 1885; both buried Ridgeway, Ohio. Have no records of their children. Dates from tombstones. 3. Ella b. in Maine; married a Mr. Parker 4. William P. b. Bangor, Maine 15 June 1812; d. 15 May 1877, buried Ridgeway, Ohio. GAR-Ohio, Co. K 4th Reg. O.V.I.; single, invalid from war service. 5. Emily b. 15 March 1816 in Bangor, Maine; d. 28 Dec. 1884; married 5 Oct. 1843 Marion Co., Ohio to Rufus S. Mainard b. 20 Sept. 1808; d. 18 Oct. 1880; had daughter, Emily. 6. Cynthia b. in Maine 7. Charles b. 1818 in Marion Co., Ohio d. 1898; single; buried Marion Co., Ohio. 8. Nancy Ann b. 28 Feb. 1819, Marion Co., Ohio died 26 June 1888, Wade Co., Missouri. She married 1st, 8 Feb. 1837 Marion Co., Ohio to Hiram Scribner; married 2nd, 1 Oct. 1845, Marion Co., Ohio to Francis Clark Jr.; buried Wade Co., Missouri. Francis Clark Jr. b. 1 Nov. 1823 in N.M.?; d. 2 June 1900. Records from Concord and Sudbury, Mass. records, Sudbury, Mass. Vital records Vol. 17, p. 371; Bangor, Maine. Historical Magazine Vol. I page 39; Marion Co., Ohio records; Marion Co. History; Marion Co. Historical Society records. The service record of Edward Wilkins can be obtained from General Services Admr., Washington, D.C. and Mass. Soldiers & Sailors, Vol. 17, page 371. Edward Wilkins b. ca 1753; d. 9 Feb. 1831 in Howland, Maine. His wife Bridget Fararr was b. 1757, Sudbury, Mass.; d. 26 Feb. 1837, Exeter, Maine. They had: Betsy, who married Aaron Hatch; John; Nancy, who married John Osgood. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:57:59, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907210357.XAA05588@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: THE SHUTE FAMILY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families April-June 1963 Volume IV No. II Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT THE SHUTE FAMILY (SHUTES) Contributed by LeRoy L. Shutes, Bloomington, IL HIRAM G. SHUTE born-unknown; died July 1845, E. Ind.; married 13 April 1828, Marion Co., Ohio to Elsie J. Hatch. They had: 1. Gerathmil Hiram b. 23 Jan. 1829, Marion Co., Ohio; d. Feb. 27, 1911 in Clarion, Iowa. He married 1st, 3 Sept. 1848, Marion Co., Ohio to Nancy J. McElvy b. 18 Nov. 1825; d. 25 Feb. 1854, buried Union Cemetery, Marion Co., Ohio. They had: a. Mary Alice b. 1849 married 1867 Sac Co., Iowa, E. Mallory. b. Charles Hiram b. 1851 d. 1867 Carroll Co., Iowa. He married 2nd 28 Dec. 1855 Marion Co., Ohio to Ann Poscar Drown, b. 13 Jan. 1833, Marion Co., Ohio daughter of Gilbert Drown. Hiram and Ann buried Liberty Cemetery, Sheridan Twp. Carroll Co., Iowa. They had: -Archie G. -William H. -Elvira E. -Cora C. -Agartha E. -James W. -Izora -Martha -Robert -Elsie 2. Elizabeth Ann b. 1 Jan. 1832, Washington Co., Ohio; d. 12 Mar. 1925 Logan Co., Ohio; married 20 March 1854 to David Hayes Keech b. 12 Apr. 1829, Adams Co., Pa.; died 10 Nov. 1920, Logan Co., Ohio; buried Rushsylvania, Ohio. Had: -Margaret J. -Henry Forseman -Elsie Edith 3. William Gardner b. 20 Oct. 1838, Marion Co., Ohio; d. 13 May 1920, Marion Co., Ohio; married 24 Apr. 1862 Union Co., Ohio to Mary E. Carrier b. 1 Sept. 1836; d. 10 Mar. 1916. Buried Ohio. They had: -Rollin S. -George Hiram -Maud Elizabeth -Roma 4. Nancy Ann b. 3 Nov. 1840; d. 2 May 1878, Marion Co., Ohio. She married 6 Aug. 1862 Marion Co., Ohio to James W. Knapp who died 1 Jan. 1864 (army service). Both buried Price Cemetery, Union County, Ohio. No children. 5. Lydia Alverta b. 9 May 1843, Marion Co., Ohio, d. 16 June 1871; married 24 Dec. 1866, Marion Co., Ohio to James Sifritt b. 27 Jan 1833 d. 27 Oct. 1875. Both buried Price Cemetery, Union Co., Ohio. Had: -Frank b. 14 Oct. 1867, m. Grace Parlett -Alverta b. 5 Mar. 1870 m. 1st Jess Bell; m. 2nd John Harriman. 6. Louise Marie b. 13 Apr. 1845, E. Ind.; d. 27 Sept. 1918, Marion Co., Ohio, married 7 Sept. 1865 Marion Co., Ohio to Milton Marsh born 1 Jan. 1835 , Tiffin, Ohio; d. 27 Sept. 1915, Marion, Ohio. Had: -Miral Gill b. 29 Dec. 1869 m. Stella Burgeon -Nancy Jamison b. 30 June 1881 m. Walter C. Bave -Nora Bell b. 27 May 1876 m. Byron Wallin Brady -Sterling Peter b. 21 Nov. 1878 Hardin Co., Ohio single -Lydia Gertrude Archibald G. ( son of Gerathmil Hiram above) was b. 26 Oct. 1856; d. 17 May 1948, Sherburn, Minn.; married Carroll Co., Iowa 1882 to Jennie Byerly. Had 6 children. William H. (son of Gerathmil Hiram above) b. 1858; d. 1840 Zortman, Montana; married 1880 in Iowa, Hattie Coder b. 1860; d. 1906, Minot N.D. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:57:50, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907210357.XAA11194@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY PART 46 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 46 JOHN CLEVES SYMMES was born on Long Island in 1742. Removed to New Jersey, and was prominent during the Revolution as colonel of a militia regiment in active field service. He was one year Lieutenant-Governor of New Jersey; six years a member of the Council; two years a member of the Continental Congress, and twelve years a judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. In August 1787, Judge Symmes, encouraged by the success of the Ohio Company, obtained from Congress a grant for a purchase of a tract of land fronting on the Ohio river between the two Miamis, and extending north to the tenth township. Having been unable to pay for the whole, after much negotiation, he closed a contract, in 1792, for 1,000,000 acres. The continued rise in government securities made it impossible to pay for this, and in 1794 a patent was granted him for between 300,000 and 400,000 acres, including the front on the Ohio river and extending back to the third township. He was appointed one of the judges of the Northwest Territory, 1788. He died, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1814. Judge Symmes was three times married. He left two daughters -one, Maria, married Major Peyton Short; one, Anna, became the wife of William Henry Harrison, afterward President of the United States (See "McBride's Pioneer Biography.") The name T. BUCHANAN READ is identified with the war period at Cincinnati. He was born in Chester county. Pa., March 12, 1822. His mother, then a widow, apprenticed him to a tailor, but he ran away to Philadelphia, learned to make cigars, and at fifteen years of age came to Cincinnati, found here a home with the sculptor Clevenger, painted signs, and at intervals went to school. Through the liberality of Nicholas Longworth he was enabled to open a studio and painted portraits. Not finding many sitters, after a while he led a wandering life, by turns painting portraits, painting signs and making cigars. At nineteen he went East to New York and Boston, and at the age of twenty-one published several lyric poems. In 1843 he first visited Europe and again in 1853, where he passed five years as a painter in Florence. He afterwards passed much time in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, but in the last years of his life made Rome his principal residence; but he regarded Cincinnati as more especially his home, where he is pleasantly remembered as a gentleman, small in person, delicate and refined in aspect. During the civil war he gave public readings for the benefit of the soldiers, and recited his war songs. The most famous of these was "Sheridan's Ride," which was written in Cincinnati; the details of its production are given under the head of Perry county. He died in New York city, May 11, 1872, aged fifty years. His "Complete Poetical Works" were published in Boston in 1860. Later he wrote his "Wagoner of the Alleghenies," and in 1865-1867 were issued at Philadelphia a quite full edition of his poetical works in three volumes. "His paintings, most of which deal with allegorical and mythological subjects are full of poetic and graceful fancies, but the technical treatment betrays his lack of early training. He possessed a much more thorough mastery in the art of poetry than in painting. His poems express fervent patriotism and artistic power, with a delicate fancy for the scenes of nature." Nothing can be more pathetically sweet than these lines: THE WAYSIDE SPRING Fair dweller by the dusty way, Bright saint within a mossy shrine, The tribute of a heart to-day, Weary and worn, is thine. The earliest blossoms of the year, The sweetbrier and the violet, The pious hand of spring has here Upon thy altar set. And not to thee alone is given The homage of the pilgrim's knee; But oft the sweetest birds of heaven Glide down and sing to thee. Here daily from his beechen cell The hermit squirrel steals to drink; And flocks, which cluster to their bell, Recline along thy brink. And here the wagoner blocks his wheels, To quaff the cool and generous boon: Here, from the sultry harvest fields, The reapers rest at noon. And oft the beggar masked with tan, In rusty garments gray with dust, Here sips and dips his little can, And breaks his scanty crust. And lulled beside thy whispering stream, Oft drops to slumber unawares, And sees the angels of his dream Upon celestial stairs. Dear dweller by the dusty way, Thou saint within a mossy shrine, The tribute of a heart to-day, Weary and worn, is thine. A prominent and most useful man to Cincinnati and the State in the war-period was Col. LEONARD A. HARRIS, who was born there in 1824 and died there in July, 1890. He was a captain at the first battle of Bull Run, and later was Colonel of the Second Ohio Infantry. At Perrysville he commanded a division, and behaved with singular bravery and skill. Breaking down from disease he was obliged to resign and returned to Cincinnati. The year 1863 had troublous times, and the office of mayor required a firm and cool head; the public eye was fixed upon Col. Harris as just the man; and he was elected. In the fall came on Vallandigham campaign, and there were several outbreaks of the riotous elements in the city, which he squelched with an iron hand. His great distinguishing work was in drafting the famous "hundred day-men" law, Governor Brough having taken him into his counsel for that purpose. By this law Ohio sent 43,000 men, National Guard, into the field as her quota; and these, uniting with the avalanche from other States under Lincoln's call, led to the overwhelming of the exhausted South. In 1865 he was re-elected mayor by 8,000 majority, his personal popularity having been great. He was the principal founder of the famed Cuvier Club, and for years, by appointment from Congress, one of the managers of the Soldiers' Homes. His qualities were kindliness, generosity, modesty, courage, power of intellect and executive capacity. Rarely has any public man in the city been so personally popular. HENRY VAN-NESS BOYNTON - soldier, journalist and author - was born in West Stockbridge, Mass., 22d July, 1835. He removed with his father, a distinguished minister, to Ohio, when quite young, and graduated at the Woodward High School, Cincinnati, in June, 1855. Wishing to become a civil engineer he entered the Kentucky Military School, and received through its training and instruction all that could have been given him at West Point. When the late civil war broke out he volunteered, and was elected and commissioned Major of the Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry, 27th July, 1861. He was promoted Lieut. Colonel 19th July, 1863, and commanded the regiment during the Tennessee campaigns, and was brevetted Brigadier for gallant conduct at the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. At the last named fight he fell, badly wounded, as he led his regiment up that famous height. General Boynton was regarded by his men, brother and superior officers, as the bravest of the brave. To this courage he added a soldierly turn of mind that would have made him invaluable in an independent command where such quality is called for. As it is, his fine mind and vast stores of information make him a great critic on war matters. His comments on W.T. Sherman's "Memoirs" created a wide excitement and interest in war circles. Of like sort is his valuable contribution to history in his famous papers on the Chickamauga campaign and battle. On leaving the army at the end of the war, General Boynton entered journalism, and almost immediately became the Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette. His keen, incisive efforts in that line gave his journal a national reputation. He was soon put at the head of the Washington bureau, in which a syndicate of several leading papers was formed, and to-day he is regarded as the front in his profession; one of the most noted, loved, feared and respected of journalists, General Boynton's great quality in the army was his high courage, that was animated by the purest and deepest patriotism. His distinguished characteristic as a journalist is his sterling integrity, inspired by a sense of justice, that can be appealed to at all times. He is feared by knaves of all sorts, for his singularly incisive style, backed by his courage, makes him terrible in his assaults on wrong. He has driven some of the worst lobbyists from Washington, and is feared as no other man ever was by the entire lobby. General Boynton's largest achievement was the selection and dedication of the Chickamauga battle-field as a public park. He was greatly assisted in this by General Henry M. Cist, of Cincinnati; but General Cist, with the frankness of a true soldier, gives General Boynton full credit for this great work. The post-office nearest the battle-field has been called Boynton, and ere long a bronze bust will mark the place where he so gallantly fought, in token of the affectionate feelings and admiration of his brother soldiers. -continued in part 47 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #520 *******************************************